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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the car wash I mean podcast,

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Speaker 2: I mean pod wash. This is Josh and there's Chuck

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Speaker 2: and Jerry's here too, and this is stuff you should wash.

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Speaker 1: No, put your car in neutral. Think your foot off

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Speaker 1: the gas, foot off the break well gas? Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, I guess, but yeah, break.

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Speaker 1: See, I'm fired. That's why you get promoted.

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Speaker 2: Right, you're you know, I keep you on. You're a

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Speaker 2: great guy. You keep morale up with the other employee.

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Speaker 1: So I've kept a lot of jobs that way.

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Speaker 2: I'll betman, I'll bet I've lost a lot of jobs

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Speaker 2: because of the opposite, Because your photos on the brake,

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Speaker 2: because I purposely kept my foot on the brake.

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Speaker 1: Question, what what's your deal? How do you How do

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Speaker 1: you get your cars clean? I walk me through that.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I guess, really, we get them cleaned. We have

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Speaker 2: a guy who details sometimes he's really reasonable and good.

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Speaker 1: Like at your house. Yeah that's still never done that.

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Speaker 2: But well it can get really pricey. We just happened

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Speaker 2: upon this guy who was good and very inexpensive comparatively.

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Speaker 2: I mean some of those are.

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Speaker 1: Like four or five A pop that's too much money to.

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Speaker 2: Get, yes, and so we stumbled upon this guy. So

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Speaker 2: even even though we still use them kind of sparingly. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: most of the time, we'll take them through an automated

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Speaker 2: car wash, a friction type, no less, and that's what

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Speaker 2: we do. And then we vacuument ourselves afterward, and we

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Speaker 2: get all sweaty and we start giggling and laughing and

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Speaker 2: we go get a slushy.

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Speaker 1: Nice Scott is that is a slushy thing a tradition

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Speaker 1: for real?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I just made that up. It seemed like

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Speaker 2: a nice ending.

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Speaker 1: You get me again, but that one was too normy.

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Speaker 2: And believe no, I know, I wasn't trying to get you.

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Speaker 2: I was just trying to put a pleasant spin on

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Speaker 2: sweaty vacuuming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got you. Okay, slushy sounds like a nice ritual,

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Speaker 1: think about it.

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Speaker 2: I could go for a slushie right now. A blue raspberry,

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Speaker 2: that's my favorite.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I like a little coca cola and cherry mixed.

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Speaker 1: If we're talking traditional.

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Speaker 2: Icies, well that's a frozen coke right, Yeah, those are

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Speaker 2: good too. I grew up on those. Yeah, you remember

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Speaker 2: the straws that had like the cutout at the bottom

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Speaker 2: which made it kind of like a little spoon too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, good stuff.

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Speaker 2: How about you? How do you get your car washed?

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Speaker 2: Or do you not? Because I read that sixteen percent

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Speaker 2: of people don't.

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Speaker 1: Don't watch their cars at all.

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Speaker 2: Ever, like apparently theyn't own a car and never wash

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Speaker 2: it for the entire time they own it, you know.

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Speaker 1: I see those occasionally and I'm wondering, do you even

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Speaker 1: ever wash your car? And maybe not?

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Speaker 2: Do you even know what people say about you behind

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Speaker 2: your back?

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Speaker 1: They right washed me on your car right on rules.

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Speaker 1: I go through the The corporation is called Swifty, but

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Speaker 1: I've always called it the Shifty, I think because of

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Speaker 1: that old Internet cartoon from years and years ago, So

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Speaker 1: I called the Shifty. And so I go through the

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Speaker 1: Shifty about about once a month or so. And there

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Speaker 1: you vacuum beforehand, and even though you're not supposed to,

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Speaker 1: I do like my armor rawling and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: my sort of lazy detail. And then I drive through

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Speaker 1: the Shifty, usually with Ruby, she loves the car wash.

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Speaker 1: And now because of the great TV show High Maintenance,

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Speaker 1: I got it from Ben Sinclair and High Maintenance, I

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Speaker 1: crank up the song Plantasia that you know well, but

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Speaker 1: that served as our opening song to our Biosphere two tour,

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Speaker 1: so he did that in of course he was getting

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Speaker 1: like super high in slow motion listening to plant Asia.

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Speaker 1: So Ruby and I aren't doing that part. But that's

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Speaker 1: the tradition, she says, put on the song, we put

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Speaker 1: on the song. We go through this fifty and that's

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Speaker 1: how I get my car clean, except maybe once a

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Speaker 1: year I will take it and drop it off for

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Speaker 1: like a good non lazy chuck detail. I got you,

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Speaker 1: but I never had anyone come to the house man.

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Speaker 1: That's the that's the dream.

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Speaker 2: One day chuck there to dream.

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Speaker 1: I know. Just Emily doesn't do any washing. She's always

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Speaker 1: just like, can you please take my car to get detailed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, and I'll just make that happen.

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Speaker 2: And yes, that's one way you can clean a cart.

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Speaker 2: You can have a detailed You can go to one

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Speaker 2: of those like open brick bays that have a high

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Speaker 2: pressure washer hose.

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Speaker 1: I used to do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not talking about those, we're talking about a

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Speaker 2: specific kind of car wash, typically the automated car wash,

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Speaker 2: where you you do what you just described you just

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Speaker 2: go through a wild ride and your car gets cleaned

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Speaker 2: as you move through a tunnel and come out the

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Speaker 2: other side. And there's a bunch of other types, but

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Speaker 2: there's like a long, storied history. And what I took

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Speaker 2: from this research, Chuck, is that that history is all American.

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Speaker 1: It really is, because since the car started being a thing.

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Speaker 1: I believe the first vehicle washer patent was given out

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Speaker 1: in nineteen oh one to scare it Hanley of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, American.

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Speaker 1: And when the Model T came out, you had your

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Speaker 1: first what was known as an automobile laundry. But these

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Speaker 1: were all on the West coast. They were like Portland,

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Speaker 2: San Francis as count is America.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. But then that thing you sent me was wild

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Speaker 1: and I'm literally as like I'm fifty three years old

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Speaker 1: when I learned of that car bowl that people drove around,

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Speaker 1: and what were those called?

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Speaker 2: I think they called it an auto bowl?

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Speaker 1: An auto bowl? Can you describe that?

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Speaker 2: It's like a concave. It's almost like a giant bird

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Speaker 2: bath that multiple cars can drive around in a circle.

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Speaker 2: And apparently the bottom is purposely ridged in concrete to

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Speaker 2: make the whole ride very bumpy, and you're driving through

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Speaker 2: water that comes up to the undercarriage of your car. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: old timey car by the ways the twenties. And while

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Speaker 2: you're doing this, it gets all the mud and muck

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Speaker 2: off of your car from all the unpaved roads.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a little splash pad and you just

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Speaker 1: do donuts and everyone else is doing donuts and splashing

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Speaker 1: each other, and it just it looked like a really

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Speaker 2: It did. But then think about that water man and

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Speaker 2: the stuff shutting off of the bottom of their cars.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to be first in line each day.

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Speaker 2: For sure, like for grand opening, and then never come back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, those were super cool, though not what we

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Speaker 1: were talking about with the automobile laundry. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: first automobile laundry, you'd have to go to Detroit, where

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Speaker 1: Frank McCormick and JW. Hinkle opened up an automobile laundry

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Speaker 1: in nineteen thirteen, charging a dollar fifty, which is close

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Speaker 2: Forty five bucks. I saw which is I mean, this

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Speaker 2: is essentially detailing, though, is what they were doing. Like

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Speaker 2: you would bring your car in, you would get out

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Speaker 2: your car inside and out. So yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 2: pretty good for a detail today, even if they did

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was in nineteen thirteen. That hey, that's

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Speaker 1: fifty it's sort of clean as well. You know what

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Speaker 2: Is that the one that's at the corner of Ponce and.

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Speaker 1: No, that's Cactus.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. I used to go there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now that's a detailing place, okay. And that's where

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Speaker 1: I would go when we were recording at Pont City Market.

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Speaker 1: I think that's one reason I don't detail as much anymore,

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Speaker 1: because I could just drop it off there and then

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Speaker 1: walk over to work. Yeah, and we don't do that

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Speaker 2: Has it really pun out market?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Wow, I didn't realize we were

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Speaker 1: No, it emotionally is demolished for me. But over the

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Speaker 1: teen years, there were various patents awarded a lot of

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Speaker 1: different like apparatus, like you know, maybe a better sprayer

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Speaker 1: the nineteen twenties we got our conveyor belt car washes,

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Speaker 1: but still not automated because they had like forty people

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but this was so this is the first gleaming

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Speaker 2: of the automated car wash that we know and love today.

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Speaker 2: Cunningham's Automobile Laundry was debuted in Chicago in nineteen twenty two,

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Speaker 2: and like you said, there was a bunch of people

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Speaker 2: along and as it was passing, people would do whatever

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Speaker 2: charge of cleaning off the headlights. This guy picked you know,

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Speaker 2: quite sure that the workers were like, we love this

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, they don't have to push a car around,

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Speaker 2: Who wants to do that?

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Speaker 1: They're not like these light things these days. Right pre

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Speaker 1: World War Two, that was mostly those laundries. After the war,

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Speaker 1: Nineteen forty six was a big year. There's one guy

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Speaker 1: named Thomas Simpson who was credited as creating the first

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Speaker 1: semi automatic system. It also had a conveyor. You hooked

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Speaker 1: but you still got out of the car. And there

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Speaker 1: were still people involved. That same year, in nineteen forty six,

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Speaker 1: a guy named Leo Russo. And I've seen different stories

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Speaker 1: about this guy. I saw that he had this idea

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Speaker 1: before the war, but then World War two comes along

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Speaker 1: and they take his steel foundry business the government and

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Speaker 1: basically says, hey, you got to start making military parts

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Speaker 1: for us. So he kind of refined his Minutemann it

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Speaker 1: system during the war and then pivoted and started kind

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Speaker 1: of making this system. He built the actual equipment as

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Speaker 1: a system and said, hey, you can buy this Minuteman system.

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Speaker 2: And that's pretty much the standard today. If you want

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Speaker 2: to open a car wash. There's plenty of companies that

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Speaker 2: manufacture entire car wash systems. You just need to build

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Speaker 2: the building and then buy their parts and install them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and someone will build your building too.

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Speaker 2: Right, you don't have to do it yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, a lot of money get this done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope you know how to la bricks.

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Speaker 1: The Minuteman would cost about two hundred and seventy grand today.

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Speaker 1: He sold it to people for sixteen thousand.

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Speaker 2: Right, And so this was a huge breakthrough as far

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Speaker 1: Now, you know, I will say at my shifty and

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Speaker 1: It sure does. There are quite a few people that

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Speaker 2: There's one we go to and that is the only

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that's when you go to open up

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Speaker 1: I will also say this, boy, I'm really selling shifty

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But

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Speaker 1: Make a pointing finger, make a pointy finger.

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Speaker 2: Kind of off putting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's but get inside, take your foot off the brake,

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Speaker 1: That's right. You put your car in between those rails.

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Speaker 1: Put it in drive.

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Speaker 2: Now, what's wrong with you?

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Speaker 1: Man? While you're going through there, you're going to get

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Speaker 2: Right, and they I think of a more like Grimace

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Speaker 1: Is there anything better than that when you get your

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Speaker 2: No? Not really that with like a hot towel and

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Speaker 1: Like now, I know, I aw the kings and queens

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Speaker 2: Sure, our detailed guy does that too, right there in

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Speaker 1: gonna be slapping the side of your car, plantages playing.

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00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:19,640
Speaker 1: You and your daughter are laughing. Your car gets medium

438
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: i'd say low, low high to medium high clean. Okay,

439
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 1: when you get through it, it doesn't you know, this

440
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: is a lazy way to do it, and it costs

441
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 1: like five or six bucks. So that's why I do it.

442
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 1: I'm not fooling myself into thinking that this is a

443
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: great wash and then it doesn't maybe scratch up my

444
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: car a little bit here and there.

445
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not supposed to them. We'll we'll talk about

446
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: why in a second, but it's it's not supposed to.

447
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 2: It totally does the if you get wax, you'll get

448
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,359
Speaker 2: wax after that rent in the second mitter curtain and

449
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 2: then you'll get dried off. They have one now called

450
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,400
Speaker 2: the laser wash three sixty which is a amazing and

451
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 2: in a ten second pass it can remove eighty percent

452
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:05,480
Speaker 2: of the water on your car.

453
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: Right, But see that one is totally touchless, right the

454
00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: laser wash, Yeah.

455
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,320
Speaker 2: Yes, but it still has a drier function.

456
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

457
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just too good of a stat not

458
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 2: to share. I had to find a place to put

459
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:18,959
Speaker 2: it in.

460
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,840
Speaker 1: No, I love it. I also love that rain shower

461
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 1: at the end this article that Day Prepared for Us

462
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: talks about the high pressure jets to remove everything. Mine

463
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: does a very heavy rain shower type of thing, which

464
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: I really enjoy.

465
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

466
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: And then that dryer that what do they say they

467
00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:41,240
Speaker 1: get about eighty percent off or is that just the

468
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: laser watch.

469
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 2: Well, the laser wash three sixties website boasted that, so

470
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 2: I'm guessing that's higher than the industry standard.

471
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. That feels about right because when you come out,

472
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: it blows some of the water off. But again I'm

473
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 1: not I don't have the kind of car that I'm

474
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: precious about water spots and all that stuff. I don't

475
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: get the wax, I don't you know. I just want

476
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 1: to get it pretty clean.

477
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's plenty of car washes, like at an

478
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:11,000
Speaker 2: express exterior model, Like, you're done, go get out of here.

479
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 2: Maybe you can go use the vacuums if you haven't

480
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 2: used them beforehand, Right, there are some that there'll be

481
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 2: like a team of people whose job it is to

482
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 2: wipe down the water spots that the dryers didn't get off. Yeah,

483
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: and I was reading on a detailer's website like that

484
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 2: apparently is really bad for your car. Depending on where

485
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 2: you live, those water spots will dry up and the

486
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 2: minerals inside stick around and just basically eat through your

487
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 2: paint job and can go into the body of your

488
00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 2: car to where you're talking about body work. Again, this

489
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 2: was a detailer's website, but I did see that that's

490
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,959
Speaker 2: still considered a problem even with the touchless car wash,

491
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760
Speaker 2: that there's as long as there's water spots that can

492
00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: that can stick around, the car wash is conceivably harmful

493
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 2: to your car.

494
00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: Wow, it's like the blood of the what was the creature?

495
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: An alien? That's a name, I can't think, Yeah, dripping

496
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: through all the different levels.

497
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. What a great

498
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: movie was that.

499
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: An Alien's Alien? The very first alien has that sort

500
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,479
Speaker 1: of iconic moment where it's dripping down through all the levels,

501
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: the one.

502
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 2: With Thanry McBride.

503
00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:23,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's one thing I am going to take

504
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: issue with, and I'm basically going to ask you what

505
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: you think the CPCH rate, which is cars per hour

506
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: is how is a setting like it's how fast that

507
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: conveyor moves your car through the car wash? And apparently

508
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: at a car wash, like you make money by how

509
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,239
Speaker 1: many cars you can wash in an hour, and you

510
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: want to get that rate just right because if you

511
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 1: send people in through fast to squeeze more cars in,

512
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: it's not going to get washed as much, and people

513
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 1: may want to go through again or complain. So you

514
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: want to strike that perfect balance. But I just don't

515
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: you figure that people are going to come and get

516
00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: their car wash no matter what, or are there literally

517
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: people that pull in and they're like, oh, this line's

518
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: too long and they just leave.

519
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 2: I think the greater risk is somebody who gets their

520
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 2: car washed and notices that there's like still grime on

521
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 2: like the quarter panels of their car, and they're like, well,

522
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm not going back to this place. I'm gonna go

523
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: to the one that's two doors down. That's just as

524
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 2: convenient for me. And see how their washes are. Like,

525
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,439
Speaker 2: I think there's plenty of people who would do that,

526
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 2: who'd be like, that's not okay, and rather than go

527
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 2: complain and try to get their five bucks back, they

528
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: just go to a competitor. That's how competitive the industry

529
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 2: is right now, that you have to get it right essentially,

530
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: even though plenty of them don't get it right. Ideally

531
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 2: you would get this right. And that calculation of how

532
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 2: many cars to send through their per hour is extremely

533
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: oh maybe extremely, it's not the word. It's a lot

534
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 2: more detailed than you would think, because it's not just like, okay,

535
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 2: if I put X number of cars through per hour,

536
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 2: can make X number of dollars, and we'll just set

537
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 2: it to that. You have to take into account the

538
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 2: quality of your water, like the hardness of your water,

539
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: the softness of your water, how much of your water

540
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: you're recycling, the quality of the detergent you're using, would

541
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 2: make a big difference. Like all these things that in

542
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: and of themselves give you a good result or a

543
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 2: poor result are all going to factor or they're all change.

544
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,719
Speaker 2: They're variables of this larger cars per hour calculation that

545
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 2: you have to make and these these the machinery gets

546
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 2: kind of slow or gunked up or whatever on a

547
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: daily basis, So you essentially have to stay on top

548
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: of this every day at a good car wash.

549
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 1: From what I was reading, yeah, okay, I guess I'm

550
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: not explaining myself, because here's what I don't get. What

551
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: is the benefit of being like, oh, I'm gonna set

552
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: it just a little bit faster, Like, I don't think

553
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: setting it a little bit faster would I mean, it

554
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: might get they're quicker, but I don't know if that

555
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,239
Speaker 1: would get more cars through in a day unless at

556
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: the end of the day they're like we're closed, all

557
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: you ten people go home. You know what I'm saying.

558
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: I don't know.

559
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you. This is the answer like volume,

560
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 2: like if you have cars backed up and yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,

561
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 2: I think it's exactly what you're saying. You're saying if

562
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 2: the line's too long, somebody will turn around and go

563
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: to a different car wash. Totally totally. Like some of

564
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 2: those car washes, they'll have lines like out into the

565
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: parking lot outside or out into the road outside sometimes

566
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 2: and definitely people will go and either come back later

567
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: or go to another one, and at times like that,

568
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 2: your cars per hour really matters, but you don't want

569
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 2: to juice it up too much because again, all those

570
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 2: people that you just got money from might not come

571
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: back because you didn't do a very good job of

572
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: cleaning their car.

573
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: Okay, that makes a little bit of sense to me,

574
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: I guess, and people are probably like, choke, why don't

575
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: you just get it? Maybe I'm from my own personal experience,

576
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: because it's fifty you vacuum first, so you're already in

577
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: there and vacuuming and cleaning your car. Like if the

578
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 1: line's long, you're just in that line. You're not like

579
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: you can't just leave.

580
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: Oh really, that's terrible. That sounds illegal.

581
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: No, Like, once you go in there and get that

582
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: pre pre vacuum, you have committed to the service of

583
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,720
Speaker 1: getting your car wash.

584
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 2: Huh. The one we go to has or one of

585
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 2: the ones we go to has a free vacuum first,

586
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: and it used to be afterward, but then they redid

587
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 2: the curbing and all that stuff, so now it's first.

588
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: You could leave.

589
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, you just drive right right through.

590
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: I bet people do that.

591
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 2: I'm sure some people do, for sure, But I think

592
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: also wouldn't you just be like, well, I might as

593
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: well get a car wash while I'm here too.

594
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: I mean, I am here and it's right there.

595
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 2: Exactly all right. Moving on, Okay, So before we take

596
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,760
Speaker 2: a break, let's talk about touchless technology, because we were

597
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 2: talking about a specific kind of car wash that gives

598
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: you that exterior express thing that we just walked everybody through.

599
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 2: That is a in tunnel friction automatic car wash checks

600
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 2: all those boxes. This is very important. Everybody, like you

601
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,880
Speaker 2: can't go through the rest of your life not knowing

602
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: this terminology. There's another kind that says that friction thing

603
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 2: I don't know about that we should go with something

604
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 2: that doesn't use brushes, that nothing actually contacts your car

605
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 2: except water, chemicals, air, and well that's it.

606
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's it. I can safely say I've

607
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: never been through one of these, and I guess I'm

608
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: a big dummy because I've never really seen these. I

609
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: haven't either, but I watched a video of it, and

610
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: it is one of the big differences. It's a single bay,

611
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: so you pull your car in and just it's sitting there.

612
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: It's not only conveyor belt that doesn't have a car

613
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: behind you and in front of you while they're in line,

614
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: of course, But yeah, I watched this thing and it's

615
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: nothing such in your car, just spraining the heck out

616
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: of it and blowing things and water and chemicals and

617
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: the whole deal that you described. And I'm sure they

618
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: have them in Atlanta. I just don't know where they are.

619
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: But in the late eighties it was a guy named

620
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: red Lewis, William red Lewis, and he owned a car wash,

621
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: I think more than one, and he was tired of

622
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: paying people for you know, damage mirrors or if they

623
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: break the antenna or you know, anything that can happen

624
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 1: scratching up your car really bad. So he thought about

625
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: this system. It's the laser wash four thousand is the

626
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: most prominent technology. Now there's the laser wash three sixty

627
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: that you talked a little bit about, but it was

628
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:44,959
Speaker 1: it sold a lot. I think he sold about eight

629
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: thousand of these. And if you have like a super fancy,

630
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: nice car and you don't want to pay for the

631
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: detailing every time, then I think a lot of people

632
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: like that use these.

633
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, And even in Audi's user manual it says it

634
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 2: is best to use a car wash without revolving bristles

635
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: if possible, essentially like use a either a hand wash

636
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 2: or a touchless car wash, which again that's different than

637
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 2: no touch. Touchless again just means there's just water chemicals,

638
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: there's nothing physically touching your car. Right, So, yes, it

639
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 2: is endorsed. The nicer the car you have, the likelier

640
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 2: it is you're going to use a laser washer or

641
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: some sort of touchless But yeah, I've never seen one

642
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: before either, and I don't know where to find one.

643
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 2: But I'm sure they're all over the place too, I

644
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: guess because they's so much smaller than the tunnels. The

645
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 2: tunnel version, you just drive right past them and don't

646
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 2: even notice.

647
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: Well, they're not doing their job if they don't have

648
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: one of those spaghetti arm blow up thingies right well, and.

649
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: We should say also, yeah, totally. We should say also though,

650
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: that the reason those brushes are so like hated among

651
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 2: car wash officionados is not because the brushes themselves are

652
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: the problem. Make them with like microfiber today, like they're

653
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 2: really soft, like you would at a slow enough f

654
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 2: rpm you probably enjoy like just being having those spin

655
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 2: around your naked body, right, But like rocks grime, dirt,

656
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 2: all that stuff can get stuck to the ends of

657
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 2: these things just a little bit, tiny, tiny, tiny little bit,

658
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: and when that thing starts spinning at one hundred or

659
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 2: two hundred rotations per minute, it's going to like tear

660
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: up the finish on your car. It certainly can. And

661
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: so they have to clean brushes constantly all the time,

662
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: every day, or a good car wash will or else

663
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: you're gonna have customers complaining that you just scratch the

664
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 2: finish on their car. And so people who are into

665
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,600
Speaker 2: touchless are like, let's just avoid the whole thing and

666
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 2: don't use bristles at all.

667
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I do understand mine is not the only perspective.

668
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: And just because I don't get all bent out of

669
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 1: shape about a scratch or two on my car, I

670
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: know that people there are people that are really, really,

671
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,760
Speaker 1: really really into their cars and don't want any anything

672
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: like that to ever happen to their little baby.

673
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 2: Yes, for sure, Can we take a break, I think so.

674
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be right back and we'll finish up

675
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: with more car wash fitness. All right, So most of

676
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: the car washes we've been talking about, or you know,

677
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: the fully automated kind you get in, you go, you

678
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: sometimes you stand. I mean I stay in my car

679
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 1: because that's what kind of car wash. Sometimes you will

680
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: get out though still in your car will just be

681
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: ghost driven. And I mentioned those little windows they started

682
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: putting windows in. We're like, hey, some people like to

683
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: follow Kids certainly love to walk along see their car washed.

684
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: People that love their cars like their own children might

685
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 1: want to follow along and watch their car get washed.

686
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: They brought a certain internesting value, a certain entertainment value

687
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: to it by opening up those windows and keeping people

688
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: occupied with the ones you have to sit in. They

689
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: started putting in, you know, flashy lights and things like that,

690
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: Like that has nothing to do with getting your car

691
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: clean or operating that computer system. It's like, hey, you're

692
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: in your car. You may have claustrophobia, you may want

693
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,760
Speaker 1: to freak out, so here's some fun things to distract.

694
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 2: You, right, And apparently that doesn't really work for people

695
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: with like severe claustrophobia who's spiled for some reason take

696
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 2: their cars through the car wash. And I was reading

697
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: like an industry website blog post on customers with claustrophobia.

698
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 2: It was very heartwarming. They were like, no matter what like,

699
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,279
Speaker 2: be patient with these people they're experiencing, like essentially a

700
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 2: mental breakdown right now if they're panic. But it can

701
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 2: be a problem at car washes when people panic in

702
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 2: their car because they become close to claustrophobic in the

703
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: tunnel and they try to get out. People have died

704
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: getting pinned, not necessarily from claustrophobia, but for misadventure, essentially

705
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: getting pinned between their car and the machinery, and like

706
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 2: it's dangerous to do that. You do not want to

707
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 2: get out. It's not just a matter of getting wet,

708
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 2: Like you can die in a car wash and if

709
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 2: you get out at the wrong place. So they were

710
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: basically saying, like, if a customer ever comes up to

711
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 2: you and they're acting anxious or nervous and they ask

712
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: you or one of your employees to drive their car

713
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 2: through the car wash for them, just say yes, say sure,

714
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 2: of course, and do it for him, because they probably

715
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: have claustrophobia and they might freak out, like in the tunnel.

716
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 2: And they also started opening tunnels up a lot of

717
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:55,840
Speaker 2: the machinery has like stuff that's kind of on the

718
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 2: sides or up higher a little more out of sight.

719
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 2: But it's really open. They'll put in windows to let

720
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 2: an outside light into the tunnel. They've tried a bunch

721
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 2: of stuff, but apparently it still happens.

722
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 1: I definitely remember when I was a kid, car washes

723
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:18,720
Speaker 1: were much more claustrophobic feeling. I remember they were darker,

724
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: and I remember those they were the big roller brushes

725
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: that would basically like all come at you at once,

726
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: and it's just not like that now. So I definitely

727
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: can remember the difference. I did mention car wash subscriptions

728
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: being where all the dough is and I've never bought

729
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 1: one because I'm one of those people. It's like it sounds,

730
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to sucker me into something. If

731
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: you get your car washed. More like if you go

732
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: through those things like once a week, then you're making money,

733
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: not making money, but you know what I mean. Like

734
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: I think you have to go through like three times

735
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: in a month to break even or maybe even get

736
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: ahead a little bit on most of these services. So

737
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good deal. Actually, I don't know if

738
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: I'm still going to do it, because I don't know

739
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: if I would commit to going once a week. Probably not.

740
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: But that's just like Dave said in the article, you

741
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: can basically print money if you have a healthy subscription

742
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: service at your franchise.

743
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, because, like, let's say somebody does come through. Let's

744
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 2: say you sell subscriptions for twenty five bucks and you

745
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 2: sell regular car washes for ten bucks to try to

746
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 2: encourage people to go with the subscription. Right, yep, somebody

747
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 2: washes their car three times, they've actually come out ahead.

748
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 2: But there's plenty of people like you who get it

749
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 2: and just do it that one time and don't find

750
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 2: time to come back in that month, And you're subsidizing

751
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 2: or offsetting all the people who make sure they come

752
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: back like five times that month. And even still what

753
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: the car washes used to cost, which is like five

754
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 2: bucks or something before the subscription model, you're still making

755
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 2: way more than you were selling individual car washes from

756
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 2: the subscription. And it's apparently very easy to talk somebody

757
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 2: into it. You just have to say, come on like

758
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:03,399
Speaker 2: a bunch, right, and they cave every time. And this

759
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: subscription model is so lucrative that it has created a

760
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 2: boom in the car wash industry in the United States

761
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 2: and abroad. I take it.

762
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, because equity firms are like oh wait, you can

763
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: put in this much money and make that much that quickly.

764
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,760
Speaker 1: There are more than sixty thousand car washes in America

765
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: according to Bloomberg News, that is going to be double.

766
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: Like they're talking up to one hundred and twenty thousand

767
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: car washes in the next eight years. Wait, what year

768
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: is it? Six years? Yeah, by twenty thirty. And they've

769
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: found out this little stat. More car washes have been

770
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: built in the last decade than since nineteen forty six

771
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: when they started doing this to begin with. Yeah, combined

772
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 1: and that nuts, that is nuts. But you know, they're

773
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: basically like a you can make like a million and

774
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 1: a half bucks in revenue if you have a pretty

775
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: average subscription based car service. And twenty I think the

776
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: most recent stat da've had was twenty twenty one. Only

777
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: twenty one percent of people probably even less now are

778
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: washing their own car, compared to fifty percent in the

779
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: mid nineties. So like, people are using these things and

780
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: they're making a ton of money.

781
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. So these things are proliferating so much

782
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 2: that some towns are actually putting moratoriums on their construction.

783
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 2: They're like, we got enough, we got five we don't

784
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 2: need anymore. There's only five thousand people in the whole town,

785
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 2: and these companies are pushing back. In some cases they're

786
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 2: suing the towns or whatever, which seems shoddy, like the

787
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: towns should be able to say no, we don't want

788
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: you in there. But the thing that the towns are

789
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: worried about is number one, these things employ almost no one, right,

790
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 2: so maybe they bring two three jobs to town that

791
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: weren't there before. They pay very little in taxes. I'm

792
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 2: not sure how, but they figured out the tax based stuff.

793
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 2: They're just not paying a lot in taxes, and they're

794
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 2: not giving back to local economy. They're sucking money out

795
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: of the local economy into the corporations and equity funds

796
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 2: that own these car washes, and they're enriching they're investors.

797
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 2: They're not having any positive impact on the economy there.

798
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 2: And then on top of that, it's getting so close

799
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: to oversaturation or has reached that in some places that

800
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 2: very soon these things are going to start being abandoned

801
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: and it's going to end up just like malls, where

802
00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 2: you've overbuilt and now all of a sudden you have

803
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 2: these big, hulking buildings that you can't figure out what

804
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 2: to do with the same thing's going to happen with

805
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 2: a car wash. What do you do with an abandoned

806
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 2: car wash building, aside from demolishing it and starting over.

807
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're not. You're gonna be shooting Chuck

808
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: Norris movies and zombie movies in a car wash like

809
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: you can an abandoned all.

810
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 2: Right, exactly? Oh, yeah, that was good stuff. Invasion USA, right,

811
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 2: Invasion USA? And was that Day of the Dead in

812
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: the mall?

813
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, I'll just sort of do that

814
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: in there. I'm sure. I mean, not of the comment

815
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: had a mall sequence. There's been plenty of Yeah, So

816
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: as far as you know, people washing their car at

817
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: home down to probably less than twenty percent. Now, that's

818
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: what I grew up doing. The old routine in the

819
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies and eighties when the environment was a complete afterthought,

820
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: when you would just turn on the hose. You didn't

821
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: even have the sprayer. You would just throw the hose

822
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: down on the ground and it would just run water

823
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: all over the driveway and you would get out your

824
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: bucket and just wash your car and rinse it. I

825
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: did that like every other dumb kid in the nineteen eighties.

826
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: But boy, that's a waste of water. Even if you're

827
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: using and I don't have the exact percentage of sprayer

828
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: versus none. Obviously the sprayer is going to make sure

829
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: water's not moving unless you're pulling that trigger. But you're

830
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: using more water by a large margin, I believe sixty

831
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: percent more than a car washed does to wash your car,

832
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: and then all of that water, all of that grime

833
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: and the you know, engine residue and oils and exhaust

834
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: and just you know, your washing car stuff off of

835
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: your car that's going down into the storm sewer that

836
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: isn't treated, that's just put right in the waterways. Your

837
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: car wash doesn't do that. They have to take care

838
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 1: of their water. They can't put it down. A lot

839
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: of them reuse it, like at least a few times,

840
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, they clean it and use that gray water.

841
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 1: I think in California they have to recycle sixty percent

842
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: of their wash in rinse water. But all of them

843
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: have to put it. They can't put it down a

844
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: storm drain. They have to put it in a sewer

845
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 1: drain where it's treated.

846
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so those requirements like California's laws have kind

847
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 2: of driven the industry to invent like more and more

848
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 2: efficient systems. They use less and less water and are

849
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 2: able to reclaim more and more water for reuse. Right,

850
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 2: so they've got it down to like a really good

851
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: car wash can use something like I think eight to

852
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: seventy gallons per car.

853
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: That's a lot of water.

854
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 2: Still yeah, but still though I looked at to twenty

855
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,600
Speaker 2: eleven How Stuff Works article and they said three hundred

856
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: to four hundred gallons per ye.

857
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I mean it's a huge improvement. But

858
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: also and then Dave makes a good point here, like also,

859
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: just be wary of any kind of weird advertising that

860
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: you see in terms of being eco friendly, because these

861
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: days you can pretty much say what you want. So

862
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: if you see a car wash advertising, you know, ask

863
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: him about it. Maybe. But I'm not saying it's all fraudulent,

864
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:29,200
Speaker 1: but you will see a lot of car washes that

865
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: throw words like, you know, eco friendly or you know,

866
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 1: there's just a lot of greenwashing no pun intended, that's

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Speaker 1: going on, right with what they're using to wash your

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Speaker 2: And I should say, I get your point, Like if

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Speaker 2: we're about to start fighting resource conflicts over water, we

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Speaker 2: should probably stop using it to wash our cars at

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Speaker 2: car washes.

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Speaker 1: Eventually we'll just have dirty car I mean, look what

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Speaker 1: I guess in Mad Max it was gasoline. But any

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Speaker 1: water shortage movie, all the cars are dirty, right, So

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Speaker 1: are an ax under pain movie.

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Speaker 2: So one of the is that like one of his things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he didn't, and he's like, every car is clean

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Speaker 1: and every street is wet, and he's like, not in

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Speaker 1: my movies. I got dry streets and dirty cars.

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Speaker 2: Nice. So you mentioned sales gimmicks. That's the same with

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Speaker 2: add ons to consumer reports said, the wax, the ceilings,

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Speaker 2: the wheel cleaning, undercarriage cleaning. Unless you have like salt

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Speaker 2: crusted on your undercarriage, it's not worth us. It's not

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Speaker 2: worth the.

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Speaker 1: Money I always just had. I think both of us

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Speaker 1: are a little bit like uh uh huh, yeah, no thanks, right,

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Speaker 1: So I've never gotten that stuff, and it always seemed

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Speaker 1: like a bit of a sucker seal. But yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: any kind of upsell. I'm always a little side eyed

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Speaker 1: at what's your angle, pal, Yeah, more money for you,

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Speaker 1: cleaner car for me, I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: Yep, this is it for the episode. But we cannot

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Speaker 2: go through this episode without mentioning the great movie car Wash,

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Speaker 2: which that's it for me. I mean we can just

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Speaker 2: mention it and then also breaking bad to car Washed,

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Speaker 2: two very famous car washes. Oh yeah, okay, here we

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Speaker 2: did it. If you want to know more about car washes,

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Speaker 2: go get your car washed and see what you think.

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Speaker 2: And since I said that it's time for listener mail.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this first thing I just looked at

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Speaker 1: when I picked up my phone. Hey guys, longtime UK listener,

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Speaker 1: Wanting to add a fact that you mess. In your

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Speaker 1: dopamine episode. You mentioned the role of genetics and addiction,

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Speaker 1: which can often be taken as denoting an addictive personality.

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Speaker 1: Whilst people's personalities may make them more susceptible to peer pressure, etc.

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Speaker 1: Personality has no genetic influence in addiction, as it isn't

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Speaker 1: biologically inherited. If someone is genetically susceptible to addiction, this

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Speaker 1: can mean they have more receptors in their synaptic clefts

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Speaker 1: or less enzymes, breaking down access in transmitters, leading to

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Speaker 1: heightened effects of substances, leading to more dopamine released. I

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Speaker 1: thought you guys might find this interesting, always happy to

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Speaker 1: have done random knowledge on and suspecting victims at any opportunity.

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Speaker 1: That is from Steve Guercio.

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Speaker 2: Great name, Steve, We're gonna call him Steve G.

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Speaker 1: Steve G.

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Speaker 2: If you want to be like Steve G and throw

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Speaker 2: out some information that we walked right past or maybe

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Speaker 2: even got wrong. We love hearing that kind of stuff.

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