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Speaker 1: Ron an Anian. I was watching Doctor Phil the other

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Speaker 1: I do, differential diagnosis. He's looking for the difference of

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Speaker 2: To me, that's.

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Speaker 1: The car Doctor. If somebody says, well, I think it's this,

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Speaker 1: or I think it's that, thinking isn't diagnosing. Thinking is

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the radio home of ron Ananian, the Car

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Speaker 3: Doctor since nineteen ninety one. This is where car owners

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Speaker 3: the world overturned to for their definitive opinion on automotive repair.

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Speaker 3: If your mechanics giving you a busy signal, pick up.

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Speaker 1: The phone and call in. The garage doors are open,

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Speaker 3: Ronnie.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Car Doctor listeners, and thanks for being here this

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Speaker 1: weekend RUnni meaning in the Car Doctor. Of course, special guests.

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Speaker 1: This hour needs no introduction. Let's get right into it

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Speaker 1: because I want to welcome aboard Rob Wolf. He is

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Speaker 1: the host of the History Channels American Pickers, and he's

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Speaker 1: just coming off of a recent car show out in Bettendorf.

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Speaker 1: Is it Bettendorf, Iowa? Rob Let's bring in here yep?

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Speaker 2: Or a file right on the Mississippi River, Okay.

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's just so much I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: you know, to tell the listeners. You know who you are.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know you as Rob Wolf. I watch

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Speaker 1: American Pickers, everybody does History Channel. But you're a car

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Speaker 1: guy at heart. But you're also you know, you're a recycler.

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Speaker 1: Is that a better description? And you know, can you

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Speaker 2: You know, you know people say recycler. That's kind of

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Speaker 2: You know, we take that out of there and we

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Speaker 2: That actually get it back out into the general public.

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Speaker 2: So that's like a big passion of mine when it

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Speaker 2: comes to anything to do with automotive, anything with an

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Speaker 2: My wife said to me the other day, she thinks

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Speaker 2: I've probably owned four thousand cars since we met, which

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Speaker 2: Right now? I currently have probably fifteen. I've kind of

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Speaker 2: I had about sixty at one time. Yeah, and they

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Speaker 2: like anything, they're your babies, you think you're going to

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Speaker 2: these projects. Well I'm fifty eight and I knew I

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Speaker 2: And that's the problem is time. And I've got five

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Speaker 1: Yeah, young and dumb, right, We're you know, we're we're indestructible. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oh god, I got some. I've got very interesting cars.

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Speaker 1: Why Rob Roy? What what's so unique about that? What

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Speaker 2: Well, because the front of it, they call it the

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Speaker 2: Every time I get in that, I just the happiest

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Speaker 2: you just don't understand the history of what's going on here.

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Speaker 1: Well, you look at the cars of the brass era.

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Speaker 2: I was reading a report the other day about the

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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty seven inspectors to inspect a car before

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Speaker 2: it got put out to the customer. Wow, every single

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Speaker 2: to the transmission to everything on it. But imagine having

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Speaker 1: We've been saying, yeah, we'd never get a car.

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Speaker 2: No, you'd never get a car. They'd be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, Rob, let me let me pull over. Take

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Speaker 2: But you know they'd be respectful. There are definitely those

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Speaker 2: but it has a three point fifty Chevy sitting in it.

436
00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 2: So I'm digging around. We get all the stuff off

437
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 2: the car, off the truck, and in the back of

438
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 2: it was the original nineteen fifty two Ultimobil rocket motor.

439
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:54,160
Speaker 1: Wow.

440
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 2: So we yanked that out of the barn. I took

441
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 2: it home. I had it for about nine years. We

442
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 2: resurrected every piece of that car, putting it back on

443
00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,360
Speaker 2: the road, and I drove it. But I'm six foot one,

444
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 2: and if you know anything about thirty two, Yeah, the

445
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 2: choppin channel was like, yeah, my knees were always up

446
00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,439
Speaker 2: in the steering wheel on.

447
00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 4: Yeah.

448
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 2: So I enjoyed. I enjoyed it when I drove it.

449
00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,120
Speaker 2: I did drive it one time to a car show

450
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 2: that was about three and a half hours from here.

451
00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: That about killed me. So it wasn't getting used enough.

452
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaker 2: And I eventually ended up selling it to a museum

453
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: that went over to Germany, and it's still over there

454
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 2: in that museum. It's driven about six times a year.

455
00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:40,199
Speaker 2: The guy sent me awesome photos of it, but just

456
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,359
Speaker 2: to find an original paint, you know, the guy. I

457
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 2: had pictures of the guy taking it to car shows.

458
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 2: I had pictures of it, of him in front of

459
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Speaker 2: his pizza place. That was just a different time in America,

460
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 2: you know. And you think about that, the guy that

461
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 2: was his daily driver, he built this car or this

462
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:59,160
Speaker 2: you know, I would say it was a show car

463
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 2: back then. It was his daily driver. He drove it

464
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 2: every day. You know. There's like the guys that used

465
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 2: to drive to the racetrack right right, run your car

466
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 2: at the racetrack. Same thing.

467
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you ever watched you ever watch an

468
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Speaker 1: old TV show from the seventies or you know, even

469
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: the early eighties, but like Kojak, Go watch, go watch

470
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,359
Speaker 1: Kojak and the Cars. There's a couple of scenes there

471
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,679
Speaker 1: where they're pulling and there's like this sixty eight Chevelle that.

472
00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 1: You know, SS that's just sitting there with Craiger's on it,

473
00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:28,880
Speaker 1: jacked up in the back, and you go, my god,

474
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 1: it's just parked on the street and it's no storm like,

475
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:36,119
Speaker 1: it's nothing like. We didn't care, and you know, we

476
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:40,160
Speaker 1: didn't realize what that was. That was a great era

477
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,560
Speaker 1: to be a life. That's probably the equivalent of those

478
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,639
Speaker 1: that lived through the Brass era and you know, the twenties,

479
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: the thirties, the forties cars of that generation. That's probably

480
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,880
Speaker 1: what that means to that generation, what it means to us,

481
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,959
Speaker 1: you know, at our as our age group, and you know,

482
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Speaker 1: I see that a lot. You know, I had no clue,

483
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,920
Speaker 1: you know where where's the next round of collectibles?

484
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 2: Rob God, that's a hard one. That's a hard one

485
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,719
Speaker 2: to put another put. You know, I always tell people that,

486
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 2: you know, my brother and irow big motorcycle guys. People

487
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 2: always ask me about motorcycles. I'm like, if you can

488
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,159
Speaker 2: buy anything from like sixty eight to seventy two and

489
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: Harley Davidson and you'll still find these in original paint,

490
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 2: those are the ones you buy and you stick away,

491
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 2: right because thirty years from now, that's the stuff everybody's

492
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 2: going to be looking for what about?

493
00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 4: What about?

494
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 1: What about cars? You know, it's it's are there are there? Like,

495
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,919
Speaker 1: you know, are hell cats gonna be worth anything in

496
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: thirty years?

497
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 2: Well? You know these cars that they're producing, they're not

498
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,680
Speaker 2: like mass producing them out there. So that's one thing.

499
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 2: You know, if you pay attention to the auction scene,

500
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: you're definitely seeing the numbers on those climbing. If it

501
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 2: was me and I was looking at cars right now,

502
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of people will be like, Wow,

503
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,200
Speaker 2: why are you saying that Japanese stuff that was from

504
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: the late seventies into the eighties is hot right now?

505
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 2: It's been hot for a long time. So I mean,

506
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 2: I just, I just I had a two forty Z

507
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: that was in my shop. That was a time machine.

508
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 2: It had twenty two thousand original miles on it. It

509
00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: was a nineteen seventy two. I mean, those things are

510
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 2: saying here people are those are selling for thirty five

511
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:12,959
Speaker 2: thousand dollars now right.

512
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Speaker 1: I have a buddy he had an eighty six Toyota stick.

513
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,400
Speaker 4: What was it?

514
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 2: Was it?

515
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:23,359
Speaker 1: A Tursell no rear wheel drive. He just got twelve

516
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: He just got twelve grand for it.

517
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, starting to climb. Yeah, and I was,

518
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 2: you know, here's I'll tell you one thing. I got

519
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 2: a buddy of mine and he pushes this in my

520
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: face all the time. He's like, start buying four doors,

521
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I've always stayed away from anything that's

522
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 2: four doors unless it's a station wagon. But honestly, I've

523
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 2: been paying attention to that market a little bit more.

524
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 2: And you're seeing a ton of four doors from the

525
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,120
Speaker 2: sixties that had big block motors in them and seventies

526
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 2: that have their numbers are rising bigtime because why because

527
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 2: family needs to go with them. It's not it's not

528
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 2: just they're turning it into a family affair, and that's

529
00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: what it's all about.

530
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:08,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Well, and you're also you're also seeing, like

531
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Speaker 1: for fifty five, six and sevens, they're converting the four

532
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Speaker 1: doors into two doors because there's no there's no there's

533
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: no two doors left anymore. I saw a video on

534
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: Facebook the other day some fella is converting a sixty

535
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: six four door Chevy and Palla into a two door,

536
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: you know, and he's done. It's a lot of work.

537
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: I watched the whole video. It's crazy, a lot of

538
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,840
Speaker 1: work and it was gorgeous. The guy was super talented.

539
00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 4: You know.

540
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:33,959
Speaker 2: Well, it's no different than have you seen the videos

541
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 2: of the guys doing all the they're doing the Chevyes

542
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 2: and the Fords, and they're turning them into short beds.

543
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,240
Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen that, but I can only imagine.

544
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh that's they're they're taking every long bed and

545
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 2: shop and that. Actually, now there's even a company out there.

546
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 2: A guy sent me a link to a company the

547
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: other day that's producing a short bed, producing the whole thing,

548
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 2: so you can actually take your fung bed off, chop

549
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 2: your frame, put a whole bed on there and you're done.

550
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 4: Wow. Crazy, Yeah, so crazy.

551
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm just glad. I'm just glad they're using the

552
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 2: technology that they're doing that these guys are doing something

553
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 2: versus you know, putting on their hands.

554
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: Right, because that's and you know, let's pull over, take

555
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: a pus because I want to come back. I want

556
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: to talk about getting kids to not sit on their hands,

557
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: and I want to talk a little bit about the

558
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: Bettendorf Foundation before we have to say goodbye. So sit tight.

559
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: I'm here with I'm here with Rob Wolf of American

560
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: Pickers in the History Channel. I'm running any in the

561
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: Car Doctor. I'm so excited, almost forgot who I was.

562
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: I'll we'll both be packed, right, We'll both be pack

563
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: right after this. Don't go away. Welcome back, Running Indian

564
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: the Car Doctor here with Rob Wolf of American Pickers

565
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: the History Channel. Rob. You know, let's let's let's dedicate

566
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 1: our last segment here. I want to talk about the

567
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: Bettendorf Foundation and what you know. The car show was

568
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: there obviously as a car show, entertainment and all that

569
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: was there, But you know, the foundation is something you've

570
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: started and been banging the drummer bell a lot lately.

571
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: You know, what are you trying to achieve? What's this

572
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: all about?

573
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, for me, it's about giving these kids an

574
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 2: opportunity to get secondary education, not necessarily in the college setting,

575
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: but maybe to be you know, a plumber or something

576
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: to do with a pipe, or a welder or a

577
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 2: drywall or you know, anything to do with any type

578
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 2: of trades, right. You know it funny is I went

579
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 2: to college for three years. When I got out of college,

580
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 2: I literally in eighty for if it was around ninety

581
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 2: ish is when I literally figured out, Wow, no one

582
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 2: was getting a job, and I'm going to spend a

583
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 2: whole nother year there. I literally left college and went, oh,

584
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: I'm my own business. What I'm going to do. I

585
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: opened my own business. I had my own business for

586
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 2: thirty five years. You know. It was something that I

587
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 2: learned on my own. But these kids need more of opportunities,

588
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 2: and they need to be given the opportunities in the

589
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 2: in the high school setting from their freshman year all

590
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 2: the way to their senior years. They need to be

591
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 2: given opportunities. I don't even care if they went into

592
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: the trades. Really, what I care about is that we're

593
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 2: getting functioning kids out of a high school that come

594
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 2: out of there knowing something besides the cell phone, right,

595
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 2: because that's that's really what the foundation set up for.

596
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: And and you know, what's what sort of programs that

597
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: have you been able to create?

598
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: It?

599
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: Where does it stand now? If someone wants to get

600
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: involved and help the foundation other than just coming out

601
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: to bettendor Fiow in next year, you know.

602
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 2: So the foundation, the foundation setup is a non for profit.

603
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 2: We will be handing out the very first scholarships. It

604
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 2: will be at the end of well the school's just

605
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: starting this year, so it would be end up next

606
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 2: year will be the very first scholarships we hand out.

607
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 2: You can apply, you can go to bendorf Americana. If

608
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: you want to give, you can go to bendor for

609
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 2: Americana and give to the foundation. If you need more

610
00:29:55,200 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 2: information about me, you can look me up. I'm RJ. Willicker.

611
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 2: You can just look that up on the internet. I'm

612
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 2: sure a bunch of information will come up. Half don't

613
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 2: believe everything on the.

614
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: Internet, right right.

615
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 2: You know that? But yeah, I mean that's basically you know,

616
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: Mike Rose got a foundation out there. I mean he's

617
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: he raised one, he gave away this year one point

618
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 2: seven million dollars and you know, and that's what kids

619
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 2: need to know is that there's other avenues that are

620
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: out there, and we're trying to just create another avenue

621
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 2: for people. I'd love to see him get into antique

622
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 2: restoring antique carsl or not. There is a four year

623
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 2: college out there just for that.

624
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's not how can I say this,

625
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: It's it's not just about learn how to restore a

626
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: car for the sake of restoring a car. It's the

627
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: confidence it gives you it's the sense of worth that

628
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: it gives you. It's the sense of purpose that it

629
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: gives you. Because nothing makes you thump your chest and

630
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: have an internal pride by saying I took this rusty

631
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: relic and made it look like this, you know, And

632
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: and that's what's missing. And in the world today, the

633
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 1: kids need some sort of I want to say, hope,

634
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of positive movement forward.

635
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: You know.

636
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: For me, Listen, it was like that for me, right,

637
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: my listeners know this. You know, my dad passed early

638
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: in life. My dad was lead mechanic American Airlines Second

639
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 1: World War. I was that little kid sitting on the

640
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: fender of the car. You know, Ronnie, get me the

641
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: nine sixteen's, Ronnie, get me the half inch, Ronnie, get

642
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: me this, Ronnie, get me that. By the time I

643
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: was eight, I knew my fractions. I knew I knew

644
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: what wrenches were. I knew what screwdrivers were.

645
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 4: You know it, you know.

646
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,440
Speaker 1: And it's a long jump off the fender of a

647
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: sixty three Lincoln to get anything, you know, But you

648
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: learn procedure, uh you know, and those Yeah, it's you

649
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: can't teach. You can't teach someone how to solve every problem,

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Speaker 1: but you can teach them how to think and work

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Speaker 1: the problem. And that's what shop classes do, and that's

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Speaker 1: what that's that's how we're going to build our next

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Speaker 1: generation of trades people.

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Speaker 2: You know, well again, I don't you know. I look

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Speaker 2: at some of these They don't necessarily have to go

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Speaker 2: into the trades, but just to have a kid that

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Speaker 2: comes out of high school knowing what it is to

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Speaker 2: work with his hands, like you said, having the confidence

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Speaker 2: to go on to the next level. I don't care

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Speaker 2: if you're going to be an electrical engineer, but if

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Speaker 2: you take a shop class on how to weld, you

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Speaker 2: have confidence in that welding ability. You have the confidence

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Speaker 2: to be able to pull your tire off your vehicle

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Speaker 2: and fix it. These are the things that that aren't learned.

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Speaker 2: The trust me, I have five kids, get I get

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Speaker 2: really passionate about it because I taught every one of

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Speaker 2: my kids the same thing. They didn't have it in

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Speaker 2: shop class, but they have it now because I taught

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Speaker 2: them that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's just it's just so so critical. Hey, Rob,

671
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Speaker 1: the clock's going to grab us again?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 1: Bettendorfamericana dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Correct or RJ. Wolfpicker, either one. You can find me

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Speaker 2: out there. I appreciate you having me and thank you

676
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Speaker 2: so much for your time and and it's always good

677
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Speaker 2: to talk to another car guy.

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Speaker 1: You're very welcome, sir, with my honor, and we'll have

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Speaker 1: you again real soon. I'm running any of the Car

680
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Speaker 1: Doctor will be back right after this. Don't away, Hey,

681
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Speaker 1: we're back just to kind of wrapping up this hour

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Speaker 1: of the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 4: Boy, that went quick. Huh.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a guy I could sit and talk to

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Speaker 1: Rob Wolf all day long. There's an awful lot going

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Speaker 1: on inside that man's head, and you could see it.

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine the joy it's got to be ten

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Speaker 1: times that of a little kid on Christmas opening up

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Speaker 1: the barn doors and finding some of these cars that

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Speaker 1: he would find. And you know, I really appreciated his

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Speaker 1: candor and in talking about the programs that are going

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Speaker 1: to help the kids of today, because he's absolutely right,

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Speaker 1: you know, the bettendor Foundation, and he touched real quick

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Speaker 1: on the work that Mike Roade does. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's very important, h you know, to to create a

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Speaker 1: generation of trades people, because there are none. We've we've

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Speaker 1: skipped one or two generations as I as I had said,

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Speaker 1: and you know, the sad part is that we're going

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Speaker 1: to really need them at some point. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's that people aren't smart enough. We haven't nurtured it.

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Speaker 1: We haven't we haven't created it. And you know, again,

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Speaker 1: as Rob said, he pointed out that you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of the kids today, it's just it's what's on

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Speaker 1: their cell phone.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he said it on air, we were

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Speaker 1: talking off air, but he explained to me that the

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Speaker 1: high school, I think it's Garrett High School out in Iowa.

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Speaker 1: We're talking and or I'm saying he was saying that

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Speaker 1: we were talking and he was saying that the high

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Speaker 1: school takes the students' cell phones when they're in school

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Speaker 1: during the day.

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Speaker 4: Can you imagine that?

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Speaker 1: But I think it's got to be done. I think

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Speaker 1: I think the cell phones are our distraction. Anyway, again,

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Speaker 1: thank you to Mike. If you're looking for more information

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Speaker 1: about who he is and what he does, it's Bettendorf

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Speaker 1: Bettendorfamericana dot com that talks about the foundation and all

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Speaker 1: that's going on there. Or you can just I believe

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Speaker 1: he said it was R. J. Wolfe at America Pickers

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Speaker 1: or r. J. Woolford American Pickers. If you just Google

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Speaker 1: search that you'll find it all and be able to

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Speaker 1: find out more about the Indoor Foundation, the car show,

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Speaker 1: the foundation, and everything else. I'm ronnin aiding in the

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Speaker 1: Car Doctor, reminding you the mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless.

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Speaker 1: See