1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: Wow, cool ride bill, Shame it's on fire. It's one 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: more thing. 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 2: I'm strong, and one more thing. 4 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Before we get to. 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 2: This interesting car fire story. Got a mini scandal that's 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 2: existed in my family for forty years. 7 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:20,880 Speaker 1: Wow. 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: Practically I don't know it's a scandal or not, but. 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: Wow, this sounds like its own podcast. I mean, like 10 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: hodcasts series with like mood setting music and a double narrative. 11 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: Well, we're about to talk about some cars out there 12 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 2: that can catch on fire. A recall that'll keep you 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:40,599 Speaker 2: tuned around because you'd like to know. Do you think 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: your car is about to catch on fire? Stay tuned? 15 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 2: My brother had a cool Mustang in high school and 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 2: the last days he went into the Army straight out 17 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: of high school, and I don't remember how many days 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 2: he had between graduation and then, but anyway, is the 19 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: last day he was out with his friends uh as 20 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 2: a young eighteen year old, and his car burnt to 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 2: the ground out in a field in the middle of nowhere, 22 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 2: on the cornfield. And I've always sworn there has to 23 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 2: be something to that story. They had to be doing something. 24 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 2: Is him and a bunch of guys he's partying it 25 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: up before he goes off to the army. Yeah, and 26 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 2: his car ends up burning the ground. He's like, I 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 2: don't know, he's just always been I don't know, it just. 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: Caught. 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 2: He just never believed that there isn't something more to 30 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 2: that story. 31 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a piece missage. 32 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: I know there's got to be. Yeah, but after all 33 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: these years, you would think, yeah, we were confessed we 34 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: were hammered drunk and setting off fireworks or something. Well, 35 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: unless the story is, you know, we got into a 36 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: fight with some guys, we killed them, and we burnt 37 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: their bodies inside my car, because that's the first thing 38 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: I thought. Unless it's something like that, well he'd fess 39 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: up to you, wouldn't he. 40 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 2: Right, Or I was running a meth lab all through 41 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: high school. Finally caught up with me. 42 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: Even then, your parents should probably be pretty disappointed in him. 43 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: But possibly he was so drunk he doesn't remember. 44 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 2: Oh very but I mean it was I remember driving 45 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: out to see it and it was just just the like, 46 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 2: well you've seen this sort of thing before from the 47 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 2: Palisades fire or whatever. Windows gone, the windows melted off, 48 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: the thing. I mean, it was just the skeleton of 49 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 2: the car. I still don't know what happened? 50 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, I've even brought it up. 51 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 2: I brought it up one time when we were drunk, 52 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 2: like twenty years after the fact, that you gotta tell 53 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: me what happened with your car? 54 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: I don't know. 55 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: Oh, come on, you have to have some idea. 56 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: When you went to see it. Were there any bones 57 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: in it? Any human bone? Right? Really? Even one is 58 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 1: too many. So it's a there's a big recall of 59 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: some of these super high performing corvettes going on right 60 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: now because there have been a rash of cases where 61 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: they burst into flames while getting filled up with gas. 62 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: Did I hear that they're going to stop making the Corvette? 63 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,080 Speaker 2: I don't somebody google that? Because they corvettes are the 64 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 2: coolest they've ever been. They're really cool, and they're also 65 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 2: really expensive. I mean you get like the top one, 66 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: it's like one hundred and fifty dollars or something like that. 67 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, oh yeah. In fact, I got the data 68 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: on that. It's it's pretty amazing. And they're just ridiculously powerful. Yeah. 69 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: Because there's two models that are affected, this Z six 70 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: and the ZR one, it. 71 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: Don't look like a Corvette anymore. They look like a Lamborghini. 72 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: And let's see, the ZR one can hit two hundred 73 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: and thirty three miles per hour. That's fast enough, which 74 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: is plenty you know, if you need to shoot a gap, 75 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: that's nice to have, yes, Katie. 76 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not discontinuing the Corvette. It's getting undergoing a 77 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 4: major update for the twenty twenty six model, and they're 78 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 4: also going to release an electric model and a. 79 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 3: Hybrid electric which is flame ye, so hybrid Corvette. 80 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll maybe I'll finish the facts and we can discuss. 81 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: So what they figured out is probably happening is these 82 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: cars have a fan that continues to run to cool 83 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: the engine even after you after you turn the car off. 84 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,159 Speaker 2: So I'm there at the gas station with my mustache 85 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 2: because you have to have a mustache if you drive 86 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 2: a Corvette. Clearly and my two young for me girlfriend. 87 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: Okay, see, now you're getting into the top of guy's 88 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 1: going to get into. Do you look at Corvettes and 89 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: assume the guy driving it. 90 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 2: Is a bit of a dB I don't with the 91 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: new ones. You don't know, No, I don't, Katie, I 92 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,159 Speaker 2: don't know why. I've got like no reasoning behind this. 93 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 2: With the newer models. I don't, but I have most 94 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 2: of my life. 95 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 3: It totally depends to me on how they're driving it. M. 96 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: You don't you have you ever dated a Corvette guy? 97 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: No, it tends to be these days. 98 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 3: Well no, I just I just haven't. 99 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 4: But you know, if I see a guy driving a Corvette, 100 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, nice car. Then if he cuts me off, 101 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, you're a douchebag with a nice car. 102 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 2: I don't know, and I like, like, like American made car. 103 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 2: So I just I don't know. I've always had an 104 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,159 Speaker 2: attitude about the Corvette guy. 105 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 1: So I drove a Porsche for a couple of years, 106 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: and yes, I pronounced it Porsche because I studied German 107 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,599 Speaker 1: for years and years and I just can't bring myself 108 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: to mispronounce it. On the other hand, my brother, who 109 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 1: studied German for years and years, Yeah, that's his fixed, 110 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: pronounces the coffee machine the Koi rig because that is 111 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: the proper German and I don't even go that far. 112 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 2: So you draw a line. 113 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: Anyway, There's there's a joke, what's the difference between a 114 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: porcupine and a Porsche? And the difference is with a 115 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: porcupine a pricks are on the outside, meaning there's a 116 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:05,680 Speaker 1: high dB ratio among people who drive that particular automobile. 117 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 2: Reminds me a girl in high school. They always used 118 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: to say, I won't use her name because she's probably 119 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 2: a very nice, upstanding mom at this point, her grandma maybe, 120 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: But I remember, you know what the difference between Oh, 121 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 2: I don't even want to make up a name, because 122 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 2: there might be somebody with that name. 123 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:20,479 Speaker 1: Yeah. 124 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: Do you know what the difference between so and so 125 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 2: and a Mercedes is not everyone's been in a Mercedes? 126 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: No boy, oh boy. 127 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:29,799 Speaker 3: So you're saying she's a whore. 128 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 1: She was loose, she's loose sexually speaking, generally, the sort of. 129 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 2: Joke that high school boys make about some girl that 130 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: they wish they could be with, but they haven't been 131 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: near one hundred percent ratio. 132 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: Yes, oh so, yeah, pretending to reject that which has 133 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: rejected you. Right, Yeah, I don't think she's hot at all. 134 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 1: Don't say that guy's ever. Don't just don't trust anyway. 135 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:00,560 Speaker 1: I just think there could be a higher ratio of 136 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 1: dbishness among the drivers of certain cars, but it's nowhere 137 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: near one hundred percent. I've known some wonderful of course. 138 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: Of course, of course you are enthusiasts of cars that 139 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: tend to attract, like, look at me, how cool I 140 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: am DB's But one must not stereos of course. All right. 141 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 2: My brother, same brother, he had a Corvette for a while. Yeah, 142 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 2: and I like my brother. Yeah, and I continue to 143 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 2: make those jokes. I don't know why I continue to 144 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,119 Speaker 2: make those jokes. 145 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: It's your bad person. 146 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: So anyway, a guy who gets flipped off for what 147 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 2: he drives almost every day of my life. Ah right, 148 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 2: driving a cyber truck, right right. Kind of got a 149 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 2: big one the other day from a street person. I 150 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 2: want to say, you live on the street. 151 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: Wait. 152 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 4: Even though he's not really worth with the administration anymore, 153 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 4: people are still. 154 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 2: Oh, keeping you off. 155 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: Interesting. 156 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. 157 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: You're a junkie loser, and you're giving me the finger 158 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: for driving this truck. Ye live in the bushes? 159 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 2: How can you flip me off because of what I 160 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 2: choose to drive? 161 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: Yeh Wow, you're looked down upon by people who live 162 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: in shrubs. 163 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 2: My son was so confused about that, and he was 164 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 2: really close to our car, so it was kind of 165 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 2: st bearded and crazy brown teeth, flipping me off with 166 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 2: both barrels. 167 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: Wow, this psychology of that is so interesting. But so 168 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,679 Speaker 1: what happens with these cars evidently is if the gas 169 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:37,200 Speaker 1: pump malfunctions and spills gas, the fan can blow it 170 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 1: onto the hot engine in rare you know incidents. But 171 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 1: you've got to have a defective pump. 172 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: But then you come out in your cool corvette is 173 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: with your too young for your girlfriend. It's burnt to 174 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 2: the ground. She's standing there looking at the smoldering. 175 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: Chassis right, looks at you with your mustache, and says, 176 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: what do we do now? 177 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 2: She decides to walk over. She watched, So I just 178 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 2: walk over and find another paunched, bald, older man to 179 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 2: get with. 180 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: The mustached exactly. Well, I hope your car doesn't burn 181 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: to the ground. 182 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 2: Yeah that's a drag, yep. But so they're not discontuning that, 183 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 2: they're going to redo it. 184 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: Yeah. 185 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:25,600 Speaker 2: The only thing is I mean, I really I think 186 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 2: the new Corvettes are really cool, but they don't look 187 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 2: like a Corvette. Every time I see one from far away, 188 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 2: I think, is that a Ferrari? Is that a Lamborghini? 189 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 2: Oh no, it's one of the new Corvettes. They went 190 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 2: with a really euro look to it, which always had 191 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 2: just that very They all look like corvettes over the years. 192 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: You know, I've got another speedy car right now, but 193 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: it's netsuv. Actually it's ridiculous. But if you really want 194 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: a rocket sledge, you gotta go electric. 195 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:55,199 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no comparison between electric and anything else. 196 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 2: But it doesn't have this cool sound though, right, You 197 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 2: really miss that? 198 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I do have a pretty cool exhaust. No chicks, 199 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: digg it? I think I wouldn't know, because don't. I 200 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 1: don't talk to any women, but they're not very hot anyway. 201 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 1: Probably a lesbian who. 202 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 2: Else flipped me off the other day had to this weekend. 203 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 2: He was a college age woman. Shocking, but I was 204 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,679 Speaker 2: thinking about this after the Charlie Kirk assassination. Let's not 205 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: get dark here on the podcast. But the guy, the 206 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 2: angriest person who ever flipped me off. I'm pulling into 207 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 2: the grocery store, this guy pulling out in like a 208 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: nine hundred dollars bondoed car. Yeah, just both hands done. 209 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 2: Any's screaming, fuck you, fuck you. I mean he was 210 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 2: just so angry, like he wanted to fight me. And 211 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 2: I thought this is insane. 212 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 4: Ye while he has that Coexist bumper sticker on the 213 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:51,200 Speaker 4: back of his car right right. 214 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 2: I mean your body language and bright red face would 215 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: indicate you want me to suffer physical harm. It's murderous rage. Yeah, 216 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 2: certainly violent rage over the car I choose to drive 217 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 2: because you associated to some politics. That's crazy. 218 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, you really are unhinged. 219 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 2: Yeah we need we need less of that. Has there 220 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 2: ever been a car that's had that kind of anger 221 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 2: at it? No, there's never anything even close. Not even close. 222 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so. 223 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 2: I mean, I might mock a pt cruiser, but I'm 224 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: not gonna scream you. 225 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 3: I had so much fun mocking piece. 226 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: It's a fine retro looking vehicle. 227 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: Try to get any action in one of those. You 228 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 2: let me know how that go. 229 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck. 230 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,199 Speaker 1: Well, I guess that's it.