1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Hello friends, this is your Friendly neighborhood podcast or Chuck 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:09,480 Speaker 1: Bryant here How Limousines Work from November. There's more to 3 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: it than you think. It's not just a big long car. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: Oh what kind of is? But there's more to it 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:20,759 Speaker 1: than that. Check it out How Limousines Work. Welcome to 6 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, 7 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark with Charles W. 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: Chuck Bright, and Jerome Jerry Do we say your last 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: name these days? Now? We've never said it? Okay, She's like, 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: keep it that way, yeah, Jerome Jerry Blank, Jerry Blank. 11 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: That's a real person, right. No. She was on Strangers 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: and TV. Yeah, yeah, okay. I was like, man, I 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: know that name. Yeah, that name that was the character, 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: right yeah. Yeah. She really cleaned herself up and went 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: on to become a spokesperson for Dawney Any Sadarius Jay Blake, 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah they're one and the same. Yeah. I love 17 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:09,480 Speaker 1: any Saderus like the Siderius is. Some people, don't, aren't 18 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: they fighting? Oh, Amy and David like a lot of 19 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,600 Speaker 1: David and everybody else. I think he wrote like some 20 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 1: New Yorker article about his dead sister. There's sister who 21 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: I think I can't remember what happened, but she wrote 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 1: like a memoir about her, and I think the New 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: Yorker I got mad and the rest of his family 24 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: like called him out on like the inconsistencies and errors 25 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: and in fact, and maybe they were tired of it 26 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: because all he's done is right about his family. Yeah. 27 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: I guess they're like, that's it, David. Yeah, no more, 28 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: we're done. Cut us in or we're gonna cause big 29 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: trouble for you. I was about to do my David 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: Sedaris and then I realized, like, I don't do a 31 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 1: David Saderis in person. So I could, but yeah, I'm 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: not going to go there. So limos, Yeah, at least 33 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: some of the siderius is ride around in limit zines. 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: I bet they have, uh, And I can guarantee they 35 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: have because Chuck. It turns out the definition of a 36 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: limousine is way broader you would think, Yeah, it's it 37 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean some super stretch, no, but it can. Basically, 38 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: a limousine technically is any car with a roomier back 39 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: seat than the average car. And if you throw in 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: a driver, you're you're there's nobody who's going to say 41 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 1: that's not a limo. You can be like, yes it is, 42 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: yeah and be right. Yeah. Like, technically, if you want 43 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: to get a hire a town car to take you 44 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: to the airport, technically that's a limousine. Yeah, you know 45 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: the car services in New York, those are limos. That's right. 46 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: They have me in Atlanta too, Do they have a 47 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: car service here in Atlanta? Yeah? Are you getting me? 48 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: All I see are just the worst? Oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, 49 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 1: because there's a special tag. Yeah. Did you know that 50 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: Atlanta taxi drivers are the worst taxi drivers on the planet? Um? 51 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: Have you noticed from experience that it's pretty bad? But 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: I just uber it. Now, that's different. That's different than 53 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: the taxis. Oh no, that's what I'm saying. That's why 54 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: I uber it, because they're different than the taxis. Yeah. Seriously, 55 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: anybody who comes to Atlanta, if you make it out 56 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: of Hartsfield, look around at the taxis and how they drive, 57 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: your mind will be scrambled. It's crazy. I think cabbies 58 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,959 Speaker 1: are kind of like that everywhere. No, no, like, very 59 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: frequently they are the best drivers in the entire city. 60 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: They know where they're going. They don't just meander, they 61 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: don't like drift into lanes, they don't drive super slow. 62 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 1: I've had the opposite experience most most cabs that I've 63 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: been in, the driver was pretty great. Usually when I'm 64 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: in a cab in New York City, I wonder, is 65 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: this the ride where we hit somebody or some other car. Yes, 66 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: but you don't, and they're going really fast. In Atlanta, 67 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: they drive ten miles an hour and hit everything. They 68 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: just sideswipe everything. Slow and lousy come to Atlanta. So anyway, 69 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,839 Speaker 1: we're talking limousines. Man, let's get back on track. Yeah, 70 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 1: I should say to I hate limousines like I love 71 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: a good town car ride to or from an airport, 72 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: but as far as a stretch limousine, I just hate 73 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: that whole thing, just a little kind of hey look 74 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: at me. It's just dumb. It's longer, and it's got 75 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 1: a bar. It's just I don't know, I think the 76 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: whole thing is stupid and like just part of that 77 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: whole narcissistic culture that I despise. You know, I've got money, 78 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 1: so I wanted to be in a longer car with 79 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: a TV in it. Well, for a very long time. 80 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: If you wanted a TV in your car or a phone, Yeah, 81 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: your car better be double the size of the normal 82 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: version of it. All right, I just had to get 83 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: on my soapbox, like if it's for prom and you're 84 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: all going in, like I get like a fun thing 85 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: like that, but or a fur bus, the fur bus 86 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: for your niece's birthday, like we did that was fun? 87 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: What you never done that? No? I thought you were 88 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: saying we rented it for my niece's birthday. No, my 89 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: niece's birthday. You weren't a part of it. This is 90 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: my family and it wasn't invited. Scott invited me. This 91 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: is before I knew you, my friend. Um. Anyway, I 92 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 1: can see the fun of occasionally, but just as a 93 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: means of transportation, I think it's pretty obnoxious, especially those huge, 94 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: huge like hammer stretches. I just wanted, like to de 95 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 1: materialize those with my eyes. I wish I could shoot 96 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: laser beam indeed me and expose the people within just 97 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: all all of a sudden they're on the street with 98 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,080 Speaker 1: their bourbon and coke on what happened to my super 99 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: stretched summer. I wonder how you'd have to do that. So, 100 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 1: like your your laser b my eyes would have to 101 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: just just kill people fiberglass, like destroy fiberglass and steel 102 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,280 Speaker 1: and upholstery and rubber. Yeah, there you go. So uh, 103 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 1: I think, as we've stayed in, a limousine doesn't necessarily 104 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,080 Speaker 1: have to be what you hate. It can all to 105 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: be just a car that's driven by somebody where you 106 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: got a roomy back seat for the passenger, my big trunk. 107 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: But even before that, even if you want to say, wow, 108 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: it's a broad definition of limousine, man, let's go even 109 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: further back and include clothing as a limousine in the 110 00:06:16,839 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: definition of limousines. That's right, because I learned, as I 111 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: imagine you did, the word limousine comes from a town 112 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: in France called Limousine. Limousine. We'd like to introduce our 113 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: new principal, Skinner principal. See we're skinner that that is 114 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: one of the all time greats. Um. Yes, it was 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: limousine without the E on the end. And like you said, 116 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: the original limousine wasn't a car. It was a kind 117 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: of like a little hooded raincoat that protected you. Yeah, 118 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: like little red riding hood wore a limousine. Yeah it was. Yeah, 119 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: a hooded cloak. And it was invented in limousin France, 120 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: and it became synonymous with limousine France because they called 121 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: it a limousine. That's right. Uh. So as people started 122 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: um building coaches that protected the rider the passenger from 123 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: the elements, they're like, wow, that's kind of like a 124 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: hooded cloak in a really weird way, a little bit 125 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 1: of a stretch. Let's start calling these limousines. Yeah, even 126 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: if it was a horse carriage. Um, the idea that 127 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: you were not driving this carriage and you had a 128 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: nice little comfy seat that's covered in the back, they 129 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,040 Speaker 1: called it a limous scene and very frequently, probably all 130 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:35,240 Speaker 1: the time is a better way to put it. Um, 131 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: The driver himself wasn't covered, like there was just the 132 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: passengers that were covered. Now you'll get reined on and 133 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,040 Speaker 1: like it exactly if you complain, we'll put you on 134 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: the rack, that's right. Uh. And this continued until the 135 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: they started building regular as I think Jonathan Strickland wrote 136 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 1: this what he calls horseless carriages very cheekily a k a. 137 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: The automobile. Uh. And they called those limousines. And they 138 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: started like very early on in New York City they 139 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: started someone started a limousine service, I think in the twenties. Yeah, 140 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: is not too bad. Um. And these cars, the first early, 141 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: the earliest limousines were basically built from the ground up. 142 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: Like you, you built a car with the intention of 143 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: building a like a stretch, longer car, a limousine as 144 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: we understand it today. Um. And it might not be 145 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: like a stretch sedan. Some of the early limousines, um 146 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: looked a lot like station wagons or like an old 147 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 1: model T station wagon, you know what I'm saying. Um. 148 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: But very quickly these companies figured out that it would 149 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: be vastly easier to take an already manufactured car and 150 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: stretch it, basically do a conversion. And that became the 151 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 1: tradition for a very long time, thinks, starting in the twenties. Yeah. 152 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: And luxury cars obviously from the beginning were the prime 153 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: targets because this is what rich people were used to 154 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: having their fannies sit upon while they were being driven around. 155 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: So Mercedes, Benz and Cadillacs and Fleetwoods and LeBaron's, we're 156 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,719 Speaker 1: all prime candidates. Even the famed Bentley had a limousine. 157 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: The ar Arnage that they made only twenty of Did 158 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 1: you look at that? It's pretty sweet? Yeah, I gotta admit, Yeah, 159 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: for a non limousine guy, I was like, that's kind 160 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,719 Speaker 1: of nice. That's a very nice car. Uh. You ever 161 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: written in a Bentley for a new reason? I haven't either. 162 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: Now you can get a Chrysler that looks like a Bentley. 163 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 1: Was that the three hundred, I don't know. I call 164 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: I think it is the three Call him Fentley's for 165 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: some reason. Um. John Varvatos had a three hundred edition edition. 166 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,600 Speaker 1: He's a clothing designer, and in the ad for his 167 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: edition of the Chrysler three hundred, it's him and Iggy Pop. 168 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 1: Just randomly. Iggy Pop is in the ad with him. 169 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: I guess they were getting wasted together that day that 170 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: he had to film. Did he have a shirt off? 171 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,079 Speaker 1: I probably, I can't remember. Yeah, you don't seem with 172 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,679 Speaker 1: a shirt that much. Uh. He's very proud of his wiry, 173 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: muscular body. I don't blame him. All right, I think 174 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: we've wasted enough time, So let's right after this break 175 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: talk about that limo conversion, because to me, that's about 176 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:37,040 Speaker 1: the most interesting part of limousines. All Right, we're back, 177 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: and we were talking about limo conversion. Like you said, 178 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: early on they used to build a limo to be 179 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: a limo. Yeah, like just some guy would build a 180 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 1: car from the ground up and he would build an 181 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 1: extra long and that's where the early limousines came from. Yeah, 182 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,840 Speaker 1: it was a company called arm Brewster in n Were 183 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: they Arkansas? It was, I think they're American. I don't 184 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 1: they are American. I don't remember if it's in Arkansas 185 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: or not, but it was actually I found in a 186 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: right up on the company from seven. It says three 187 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 1: is when they built their first limousine, and that by 188 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: at least six they were doing conversions. Because there's a 189 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: picture of an early stretched Buick that they made, and 190 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: they realized that conversions was where it was at. Right, 191 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: Let's take an existing car, cut it in half and 192 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: stick something in the middle of those two pieces, right, 193 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: because somebody else is going to the trouble of building 194 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 1: the engine, of designing, like the dynamics of figuring out 195 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: how to put the tires where and all that. Why 196 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: do all that? Like, Yeah, when you can just cut 197 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: a car in half, add more car, and yeah, add 198 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: more car than obam you have a stretched limousine. I 199 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: had no idea they did it this way. No. When 200 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: I read it the first time, I was like, surely 201 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: he just made a he has made a horseless carriage joke. 202 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: I know this must be a joke as well. Now 203 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: that's how a lot of limousines are made. And it's 204 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: funny you bring up the three hundred Chrysler three said, 205 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: the one that looks like a Bentley. Um, because I 206 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:06,200 Speaker 1: saw um. I guess a test of one of them. 207 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: That was, like, Chrysler builds these three hundred stretch limousines. 208 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: How they do? Yeah, So if you see it Chrysler limousine, 209 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: it was built by Chrysler most likely, which is very 210 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: unique these days. Right, Yes, because for the most part, 211 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 1: like you're saying, the industry standard is some company will 212 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: get ahold of a Cadillac or a Lincoln town Car 213 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,760 Speaker 1: cut in half like you say, and then add to 214 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: it and there's a stretched limousine. Yeah. The process goes 215 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: a little something like this. Uh. They stripped that sound 216 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: like I was gonna sing it, and they strip all 217 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: the interior out. They protect everything that's in there, obviously. Uh. 218 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: Strickland says, they use fire resistant paper on everything. Yeah, which, okay, sure, 219 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 1: why not? I guess you don't want it to catch 220 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: on fire. We're doing it. Um, you're going to mount 221 00:12:56,559 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: it on a set of rails that can be adjusted 222 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,880 Speaker 1: to get your car off the ground. Keep it all 223 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: aligned properly because when you're adding more car you have 224 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: to have it super aligned. And then they cut the 225 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,839 Speaker 1: thing in two pieces. Yeah, and not lengthwise, No, No, 226 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: that'd be weird. I guess you can make it a 227 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,319 Speaker 1: lot wider, but you're you're looking for length, and maybe 228 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: that's the new limousine just wide. Um. Apparently the industry 229 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: agrees that you typically can't go more than double the 230 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: size the original size of the car. Um. Other than 231 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,719 Speaker 1: after that, it's just probably not going to pass any 232 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: safety tests, which we'll talk about a minute. But once 233 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: the car is cut in half, hopefully you remember to 234 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 1: put the car on these rails that elevate it, and 235 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: that some of the rails are attached to a dolly, 236 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: so you can separate the car to the length you want. 237 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: If not, you have to basically throw it away and 238 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: started over. But so if you you pull one, usually 239 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: the rear back from the front and then you go 240 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:04,040 Speaker 1: and add um ray basically the extenders that that are 241 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,240 Speaker 1: going to lengthen the car. That's right. Uh, And like 242 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: I said, your car is is temporarily braced to keep 243 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,240 Speaker 1: it from twisting or moving around because you want it 244 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: like to be super exact. Obviously, because if the front 245 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 1: of your car is a half inch to the right 246 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: from the rear of your car, because it's bad, you're 247 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: in um you then you're gonna add what's called the 248 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: floor plan or floor pan. Sorry, And it's basically the 249 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: floor of the lima, which will later on become carpeted 250 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:33,680 Speaker 1: and upholstered and everything, but for the time being, it's 251 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: just a piece of metal that is the floor of 252 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: your new addition. Yeah, and that is after you have 253 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: done all the other boring stuff like extending the drive 254 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: line and making sure you have because you know you're 255 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: wiring is not long enough. Nothing is long enough and 256 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: you just have to know because you just cut in half. Yeah, 257 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: like he's a huge gap. You literally just have to 258 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,880 Speaker 1: extend all those parts. Uh, you know, the brake line, 259 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: all that boring stuff. You have to just extend all 260 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: that stuff. Yeah, I excited about the floor pan and 261 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 1: you stick in your floor pan. And then you well, 262 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: hold on, I want to say something about the floor 263 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: pan and the drive line. So you've extended the power train, right, 264 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: the thing that that big thing that like powers the 265 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: back wheels, that no one knows what it is, right, 266 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: but you've extended that thing. Yeah, you just hear like 267 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: powertrain WARRANTINAM. People are always like, that's like the steering 268 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: and the axles and the thing that that spins around 269 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: and spins your rear axle and all that. That's your 270 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: power train. It's true. So you have to add to 271 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: that because you've just cut through it again. And then 272 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: you add the floor pan, which is the floor of 273 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: the limousine. Um. And do you remember that limousine fire 274 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 1: from I think last year a couple of years ago 275 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: killed the bride to be on the San Mateo Bridge. Um. 276 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 1: Apparently they the California Highway Patrol investigated and ruled in 277 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: an accident. But it was because the floor pan of 278 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: the limousine that had been added later was up against 279 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: the drive train and the friction created enough heat and 280 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: spark that apparently there's a crack in the floor pan 281 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: and that heat came up and caught the upholstery on fire, 282 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: and that's where the fire came from, was from this 283 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: modification that had taken place years before. Well, which is 284 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: one reason why uh, Cadillac doesn't want their name on 285 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: that limo, let's say, because it has been modified by 286 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,920 Speaker 1: someone other than Cadillac. Right, but Cadillac's name is still 287 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: on the limo as far as the US government is concerned. 288 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: Once you cut a car in half and extend it, 289 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: you're the new manufacturer. Cadillac says, well, that's great. We've 290 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: got a bunch of yahoo's running around cutting our cars 291 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: in half, making them longer. But if somebody sees it 292 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: on the road, or somebody sees a photo of it 293 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 1: with the trunk burned out, they see the Cadillac. So 294 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: Cadillac and other companies like Ford have programs to basically 295 00:16:55,440 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 1: certify train and go back and um investigate uh the 296 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: people who are doing these conversions. Yeah, because we didn't mention. 297 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 1: But when you make a car uh substantially longer and heavier, 298 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: you might have to modify the brakes some you might 299 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: have to modify how it turns. You might have to 300 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 1: reinforce the suspension or the frame itself. Because You can't 301 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: just make a car twelve feet longer and expect it 302 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: to behave the same way right, exactly like the original 303 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: stopping power was for the twelve ft car at the 304 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: four car. So you do have to do some modifications. Yeah, 305 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 1: but those companies are super smart to have official programs, 306 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: I think, because every car, even if it is UH 307 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: modified later, has to to be roadworthy, has to pass 308 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,160 Speaker 1: the federal Motor Vehicle Safety standards. That's right. Cadillacs program 309 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 1: is called the Cadillac Master Coach Builder Program. It's pretty awesome. Yeah. 310 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: Ford has something called the Qualified Vehicle Modifier Program, And 311 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 1: so basically they're saying, hey, if you're going to be 312 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 1: doing this, and you can really do this, we're going 313 00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:24,959 Speaker 1: to make sure you do it right. That's right, all right. 314 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: So we mentioned that the limo generally speaking, even though 315 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: they've gotten ridiculous these days, shouldn't be more than twice 316 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: as long as it originally was. UH. And since you 317 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: can't get that much longer, what you can do is 318 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: if you want to impress UH people and get their 319 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:45,960 Speaker 1: business is trick it out on the interior as much 320 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: as possible. Yes, with you name it man and they've 321 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:56,120 Speaker 1: got it. Yeah, plasma TVs and hot tubs and bars 322 00:18:56,160 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 1: and sound systems and like anything you can of. It's 323 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: it's a it's littered with neon and tacky things hit. 324 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 1: My opinion, tachy's the right word. I think, not for me. 325 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: Did you see um? If you go to the Ripley's 326 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: Believe it or Not Museum in Branson? Have you been there? 327 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,919 Speaker 1: I saw a picture. I want to go to Branson 328 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: some day before Smirnov has his own place. Yeah, I'm going. Sure, 329 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,720 Speaker 1: Humi's gonna take me surprise. That hasn't happened. I'm kind 330 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: of We've been going other places, but um, in Branson 331 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: there's a thirty ft pink Cadillac Stretch limousine that has 332 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: a heart shaped hot tub in the trunk area that 333 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: also has Josh's forty birthday written all over. Ye maybe 334 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:53,959 Speaker 1: forty birthday present would be the limo itself. I like 335 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: to own it. Yeah. Yeah, just drive around Atlanta, that'd 336 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: be awesome. Drive around anywhere you can drive around Ransom, 337 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,119 Speaker 1: it'd be fine. You've got like a hot tub in 338 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,439 Speaker 1: your car. Uh. I love how Strickland also points out 339 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: I don't know when this was written. Muslims also have 340 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: telephones installed in case all fourteen of your cell phones 341 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: are broken. I made note of that as well. All right, 342 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 1: there's some other considerations if you want to drive a limo, 343 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,280 Speaker 1: because you can be a private person and drive a 344 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 1: limo just like hire yourself out or go work for 345 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: some rich person. I thought you meant like the kind 346 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 1: of person who keeps to himself for herself. No, no, no no, 347 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: I mean you don't have to necessarily work for a 348 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: limousine company. You can just buy your limo and say 349 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: I'm I'm Chuck the limo driver, you know, or I 350 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: want to long as you have the proper hat. That's right, 351 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:47,439 Speaker 1: You're fine and call yourself betterman. Um Licensing it depends 352 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: on what states you're in. Uh, it depends wildly. Some 353 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 1: states you can don't need any kind of special license. 354 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: Some states to say, fill out this form, probably give 355 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,879 Speaker 1: us fifty bucks. Some say bring your limo, and although, 356 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: how would you do that if you're not licensed? I 357 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 1: guess tow truck. Yeah, get your limo here and take 358 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: this test in your limo to make sure you can 359 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 1: drive that behemoth blindfolded. Blindfolded part of the test, so 360 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,320 Speaker 1: it all depends on what states you live in. Um, 361 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: safety standards are the same for any other car. Like 362 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 1: we said, yeah, and and the car that you bought 363 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: to convert already before you ever bought it went through 364 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:29,399 Speaker 1: the the safety tests, but now that you've converted it, 365 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,840 Speaker 1: it has to go through safety tests again. So they 366 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: include things like crash tests. And if you're interested in that, 367 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:40,239 Speaker 1: there's Limo crash tests on YouTube. Does it show rich 368 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 1: people inside, like with their drinks flying around? Man? But 369 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: you you, uh, you're you're not down with the one percent, 370 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: are you? No? I just think a crash test dummy 371 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: and an eating gown might look funny. That's a funny 372 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: you say that because one of the ones, Um, I 373 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: guess it's some It is Australian Fifth Gear. Maybe it 374 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:06,399 Speaker 1: seemed like it was pretty cheeky. They were clearly drunk 375 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: in the on the show. But it was like, um, 376 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,920 Speaker 1: it was a Limo crash test and uh, they put 377 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: their clothes, their evening gown and tucks on crash test dummies. 378 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, you have to look up fifth 379 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: Gear Limo. Um, I guess Limo crash test is what 380 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,640 Speaker 1: would bring it up. And yeah, they're clearly drunk because 381 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 1: they spend the first like three minutes drinking and then 382 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: mooning people out of the limo. And I'm like, what 383 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: where is this thing from? And I saw as Australian o, 384 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:42,040 Speaker 1: those wacky ausies. But it's pretty cool crash test because 385 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: they have some great cameras set up in like they 386 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: don't put seatbelts on the on the dummies. Fund Yeah, 387 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: it's pretty neat crash test. I do need to see 388 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: that because that's exactly what I was describing. And there's 389 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: another crash test too, it's way more boring. It's just 390 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,280 Speaker 1: basically a series of still photos, which I guess you 391 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: can make the case like that's what all videos are, 392 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:08,199 Speaker 1: but sure this is like really slow still photos. And hey, listen, 393 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: I don't want to We always say do what you 394 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: want to do. I'm not gonna poopoo. If you want 395 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: to go out and higher limo and with your friends 396 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: and drive around and get drunk and go to a 397 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,919 Speaker 1: bunch of bars, it's fine, you know, it's just not 398 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: don't expect me to get in the car. Although I 399 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:27,159 Speaker 1: would say the Wine Country limo is not a bad idea, 400 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,600 Speaker 1: oh sure. Yeah. In fact, I think people in Wine 401 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,440 Speaker 1: Country aren't too happy about them, you know, Oh, because 402 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: it's like a party bus kind of thing. Yeah. Basically like, well, 403 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: hey man, if you like have wine tastings every five feet, 404 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 1: what do you expect. Everybody there seems very cool because 405 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: you don't want to drink and drive. We went when 406 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: it was it was the off seasons all but everybody 407 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: was a little like more mellow. Yeah, because there weren't 408 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of tourists around. Oh yeah, no, but you're right. 409 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: The people that live in Wine Country northern California, they're 410 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,240 Speaker 1: a nicely back a lot. They are fairly laid back. 411 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: I think it is a good way to put because 412 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: they have the best job in the world. Um, we 413 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: have the best job in the world. That's right, if 414 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 1: we only made wine. Um, gas's got some going in 415 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: the toilet, some pruno. Gas mileage is a big consideration 416 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: because you're not going to get good gas mileage at all, 417 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: and you may as a company or an individual, I 418 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: have to pay an extra gas guzzler tax on each 419 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: vehicle in your fleet. On top of that, it's basically 420 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 1: like you know how you pay a lot of money 421 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,239 Speaker 1: for gas, Well, now you have to pay even more 422 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: money because your thing uses up so much gas. Although 423 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: Strickland mentions a thirty two ft stretch Hummer limo that 424 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 1: a guy named Sean Murphy he misspelled his own name 425 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 1: on the cool Fuel road trip he used. He drove 426 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: Hummer limousine that ran on um a bunch of different 427 00:24:54,119 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 1: alternative fuels like biodiesel, methane, ethanol, vegetable oil, sugar. Wow. 428 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:04,439 Speaker 1: It could also use geothermal, solar and wind energy. And 429 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: he got the limo up to seventy five an hour, 430 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 1: which sounds illegal to me. Yeah, you should not be 431 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:14,680 Speaker 1: driving a thirty two ft anything sent I agree. Uh, 432 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: If you are interested in owning your own limousine to 433 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: be your own private little driver, it depends on what 434 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: kinds you get. Of course, you ma can get one 435 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: like a Lincoln Stretch for thirty to forty grand, or 436 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: you may pay three thousand if you want that super 437 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 1: stretch Hummer with the hot tub. I have the impression 438 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: that that the thirty grand Lincoln stretched like the hub 439 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: caps come off when you take corners and stuff like that. Yeah, 440 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: and I also bet that the one of twenty Bentley's 441 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 1: yeah go for way more than three k each. Do 442 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: you ever see someone driving around in an old limo 443 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: it's clear it's just their car. Then it's like a nine. 444 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: It's pretty sweet. It is sweet, but at the same time, 445 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 1: it's like, that's a really poor choice, especially if like 446 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: you're you're on a tight budget, right live in the 447 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: city with tight streets. How much money do you spend 448 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: on gas? Yeah, that's true? Should shout to him out 449 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 1: the window? Should we talk about presidential limousines a little bit? 450 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,160 Speaker 1: Because I think those are kind of interesting. Um. They 451 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: call it the Secret seven and this great uh was 452 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: it popular mechanics article? Um in ninety nine and the 453 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 1: Sunshine Special. And up until this point, I think standard 454 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 1: automobiles had been used to drive presidents around and shuttle them. 455 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 1: But in nine this is we need something for the 456 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: secret Service. And we have a president uh in a 457 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: wheelchair that his name is Roosevelt, and he has certain 458 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: considerations right, plus at least one attempt has been made 459 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 1: on his life already, so we might want to think 460 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: about adding a little more security to these cars. And 461 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: that's exactly what they did. It was armored. The body 462 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: was armored. Was built by UH Coach Builders in Buffalo, 463 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 1: New York had oversize hinged doors, I guess to account 464 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: for that enormous wheelchair that they had back then, and UM, 465 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: lots of armor plating and even bulletproof glass UM, which 466 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 1: is kind of impressive. It looks like al Capone's car 467 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 1: if you ask me, it's pretty sweet. Uh. Then there's 468 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: the Lincoln Cosmopolitan. This was awesome. It was a Truman 469 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: Presidential Um limousine UM and it was basically for every 470 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: with every new limousine that came along, UM, there were 471 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: new innovations. It became heavier and more armor plated and 472 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: just safer. And this one came with a bubble top 473 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: UM because it was a convertible. But Truman realized that 474 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: like if he had the top up when it was 475 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: super safe, no one could see him. So he had 476 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: the bubble top installed, kind of like the Popemobile. Yeah, 477 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 1: that's what I was gonna say. Is that what it's like? 478 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:04,719 Speaker 1: I think? All right? Um, And that one UM was 479 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: retired to the Henry Ford Museum, as was the Sunshine 480 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 1: Special in Dearborn, Michigan. So if you've ever been there, 481 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: you've probably seen a few of these on display. Kennedy's 482 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: famous car that he was in in November nineteen when 483 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: he was assassinated. Was a nineteen sixty one Lincoln Continental convertible. Obviously, 484 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: but it was still safe. Um. Not with the top 485 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:36,280 Speaker 1: down obviously, but they had certain safety features built in. Um. 486 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: They had a rear seat that was well, this wasn't 487 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: a safety feature, but that had a rear seat that 488 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: could be raised and lowered to give people a better view. 489 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: They had a metal hoop behind the driver, behind the 490 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: driver's seat so when the president's standing up they can 491 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: hold onto something. But it was armored after his assassination 492 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: with a permanent bulletproof hardtop and then aft in the fleet, 493 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: which really surprised me. Yeah. I would have thought they 494 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,040 Speaker 1: would have completely retired that car or just given it 495 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 1: to a museum or destroyed it or something. But yeah, 496 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: leaving in the fleet. That's Penny pension. Yeah, and that 497 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,480 Speaker 1: is in the Henry Ford Museum now as well. Oh 498 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: bet the Lincoln Continental that President Ford and Reagan, the 499 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: same car that they were both shuttled into after assassination attempts. Famously, 500 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 1: this this this is the limousine that reminds me of 501 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: like Old Times Square in New York, like where like 502 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: basket Case was set, you know like this. I never 503 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: saw that. It's worth seeing at least once just to 504 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: say you saw a basket case Old City Times Square. Yeah, 505 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: I got ad just a taste of that when I 506 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: first started going to New York in the in the nineties. 507 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,719 Speaker 1: There were there were still some peep shows and stuff around, 508 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: and it was just starting to be like Disney Fight. 509 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 1: As it said, I missed it entirely. He did miss much, 510 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: but man alive. You can go to Red Lobster there. Now. 511 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: I know. It's funny how people pine like remember when 512 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 1: it was crappy and those crime and drugs. I mean, 513 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: I can understand being like, yes, this corporate stuff is 514 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: just dumb or whatever, but people are very nostalgic for 515 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:24,719 Speaker 1: for old crappy Time Square. Yeah. Uh. The nine eight 516 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: three Cadillac Fleetwood was used in the early nineteen eighties, 517 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: and that one one of those, there was a pair 518 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 1: of him was used in the movie In the Line 519 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 1: of Fire with Clint Eastwood. Yeah, pretty neat. Remember he 520 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: played the the guy who didn't get to Kennedy in 521 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: time when he was assassinated. It haunted him. Oh was 522 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: that his backstory? Yeah? And John Malkovitch was like a 523 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: total weirdo. Sure he was right, who used a wooden gun? 524 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 1: I don't remember a lot about that movie for some reason. 525 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 1: It's a lot of detail, Josh. Then there's the Bush era. Yeah, 526 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: Cadillac Deville, which is I mean I associate that with 527 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: Bush down I'm looking at it. Yeah, it was a 528 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: g m oh, I'm sorry. It was a Cadillac Devil, 529 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: of course. But it was built on the frame of 530 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: a GM SUV. Supposedly smart. Yeah. Um, five inch thick 531 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: armor doors, bulletproof glass so thick it blocks out parts 532 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 1: of the light spectrum apparently, so everything looks blue maybe 533 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,920 Speaker 1: from the inside, and you go insane. Uh. And it 534 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: was rumored to feature a what they called the self 535 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 1: contained passenger compartment with its own secure air supply. So 536 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 1: I guess, just like a chamber to hide someone in 537 00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 1: inside there. Crazy. And then lastly, check the most recent one. 538 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: Um came out in two thousand nine, and it's a 539 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: Cadillac too. Um. And it came out I guess just 540 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: in time for Obama's inauguration. Yeah. And this one they 541 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: started to be a lot more secretive about um, like 542 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: how they're made. Yeah, exactly, Um, but they have pretty 543 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: speculation that you know, it's armor plated underneath all around. Um, 544 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: they think it's diesel powered, but they don't know for sure. 545 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: And uh, good luck, Like this thing is like a 546 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: tank on wheels. Good luck penetrating that Cadillac. Yes, you know. 547 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,400 Speaker 1: So there's one other thing I want to point out 548 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: if you are into limos, especially extreme limos. There's another 549 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: popular mechanics um article called stretched out ten extreme limos 550 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,480 Speaker 1: that you sent like Lamborghinis and stuff. Yeah, Lamborghini's monster 551 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: trucks and I looked it up. Apparently there's a lot 552 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: of monster chuck limos. Yeah. I also found online DeLorean limo. 553 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, I'd like to see that. Yeah, it's 554 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: worth looking at. Um there's a semi limo. Yeah. That 555 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: one is basically like a large apartment on wheels, like 556 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: you can have a party for fifty people. There's multiple bars. 557 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: Did you see inside It looks like an Applebe's on wheels. 558 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: Is it a fern bar? Yeah. There's a lot of like, um, 559 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: polished brass railings and like the carpeting and the poulster. 560 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: It looks like an apple Bee's. It's very strange. Well, 561 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: you can't account for good taste. It looks pretty sweet though. Yeah, 562 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure that anybody who there's through like three three 563 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:20,280 Speaker 1: different lounges in there, wow. Three. And then a Mexican 564 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: company converted us I think a seven forty seven O 565 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:28,720 Speaker 1: seven into um a limo. It took the wings off. 566 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: There are TV shows out there that you can view 567 00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: all these things, uh extreme everything. Oh, I'm sure. I'm 568 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: sure there's also TV shows about the people who repo 569 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: them to. So if you want to know more about limos, 570 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,640 Speaker 1: you can start by typing that word in the search 571 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: bart how stuff works dot com. And since I said that, 572 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: it's time for a listener, male, I'm gonna call this 573 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: funny homeless story, if there is such a thing. Uh 574 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: this um April has been working in New York City, 575 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: but I gather that she is in Atlanta and she's 576 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,600 Speaker 1: just there for work for a period of time. You're 577 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: Josh and Chuck, I missed the Old Times Square. She 578 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:14,120 Speaker 1: she did say that, now I'm kidding. Um. She talks 579 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: about how she listens to us on the train there 580 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: in her community, New York City, and she feels really 581 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,840 Speaker 1: bad for homeless people, but especially when she sees a 582 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: homeless person with a dog. Um, She says, after passing 583 00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: several homeless people in New York people dog combos this weekend, 584 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,879 Speaker 1: my grand plan is to stop at a pet store, 585 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 1: get some dog food and treats, and have cash available 586 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,520 Speaker 1: for the next homeless pair so I could help out 587 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 1: and hopefully you have a conversation with him to make 588 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: them feel human for a little bit. This is April, 589 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,840 Speaker 1: You're awesome, by the way, UM, I bought my supplies, 590 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,040 Speaker 1: and two blocks from the store, I see a homeless 591 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,920 Speaker 1: man with a husky, and I think perfect. One of 592 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: my dogs is a husky, so I'm partial to them. 593 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 1: After having a five minute conversation with Michael petting his dog, 594 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: giving him dog food and some money for a nice meal, 595 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: I get ready to leave, and as I'm about to 596 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: walk away, he said, thanks for the dog food, but 597 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,359 Speaker 1: it's not my dog. I'm just watching it for someone 598 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: in the building. Awkward, I ultimately asked if the dog 599 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: had a home and food. He said yes, so I 600 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: asked if I could take the dog food back so 601 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: I could give it to a dog in need. He agreed, 602 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 1: and hopefully he was able to get a nice meal 603 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 1: himself and appreciated my conversation and didn't think I was 604 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: too crazy, and then went on to walk thirty blocks 605 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,479 Speaker 1: to my hotel with a relatively heavy bag of dog 606 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,040 Speaker 1: food without seeing another almost bet good thing because it 607 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 1: didn't have any more cash with the person and it 608 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: probably would have been weird to give a person dog 609 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: food but nothing to help him or her. Um Me 610 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 1: and my bag of food will be walking around various 611 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,160 Speaker 1: New York City neighborhoods this weekend, though, because now it 612 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,239 Speaker 1: is my mission to help someone out. It's been a 613 00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: good little reminder for me to be thankful for what 614 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,040 Speaker 1: to have, especially as we approach winter up here. And 615 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: that is from April Cummings. That's very nice of your April. 616 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: Very cool. I hope you find a homeless dog in 617 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,319 Speaker 1: person that you can help out. If you want to 618 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,520 Speaker 1: share a story about you how you're making the world 619 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: a better place, we want to hear about it. You 620 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 1: can tweet it to us at s y SK podcast. 621 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,200 Speaker 1: You can join us on Facebook dot com slash stuff 622 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: you Should Know. You can send us an email to 623 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,720 Speaker 1: Stuff Podcast at how Stuff Works dot com, and as always, 624 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 1: join us at our home on the web Stuff you 625 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,560 Speaker 1: Should Know dot com Stuff you Should Know is a 626 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 1: production of I heart Radio. For more podcasts my heart Radio, 627 00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: visit the i heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 628 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:34,640 Speaker 1: you listen to your favorite shows.