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be good to go. So this is one of those shows where one of
those episodes I guess where I crack the microphone and I just honestly like,
I don't know what to say. I don't feel initially out of the gate
super compelled to say much of anything because of the modern events, the current
events happening around when I record the show. As I record the show right
now, the Middle East is in turmoil again, and I don't want to
be just one of the these voices that comes on the radio that has not
experienced it firsthand and has it pretends to be an expert on the on all
the nuances of thousands of years of conflict and and parameters and everything that goes
into what's happening in that part of the world. I don't know enough about
it to to give some sort of commentary on it. It's not my place
to give that sort of commentary on a very very sensitive, very sensitive topic.
All I will say is that I hope everyone can say as safe as
possible. One of my friends, a soft listener of the show, lives
in Israelism Tel Aviv, and you know, when everything started happening, I
was talking to him on on X, you know, messaging through through old
Twitter, and he's like, yeah, there's rockets going off around me.
So I just hope and pray and that he's still okay, a soft.
I'll check in with you, you know, after the podcast or you know,
feel free to hit me up. But the point is, you know,
I see him active. I saw if I see you active on on
X, you know, saying something so talking about F one, which F
one, you know, F one racing. That's something that I've kind of
wanted to broach on this show about having an expert on Geek Therapy Radio to
talk about F one racing, because I don't know, maybe there was a
while back, you know, Austin Duncan Austin Evans. Sorry Austin Evans,
he had a podcast for a while. Sorry to be so tangential, but
it's all related. He had a he had a podcast, and then you
know, for his for his YouTube channel and or adjacent to his YouTube channel,
and then he switched all to F one. I haven't like he stopped
his normal kind of tech podcast to do just an F one podcast. I'm
not sure if he's still doing the F one podcast or any podcast. But
when Austin Evans, who have had on geek Therapy radio way back when I
first started, uh, he jumped over to on this F one. I
don't want to call it a bandwagon because for a lot more people in the
world, it's not a bandwagon. It's it's a legit, you know,
following, just like Americans follow American football or baseball around the world and in
Europe, in South America and different places around the world, people fallow F
one very passionately. So it was kind of I was kind of scratching my
head when the F one craze hit the United States. Seemingly a bunch of
tech YouTubers and people in the tech sphere, we're getting goggone crazy over Formula
one racing seemingly overnight, and I was thinking, is this this is great
if people are genuinely interested in it? But is this I've never known like
Americans care about soccer during the World Cup, and even then it's not.
It's just more than usual. It's not like every single American really cares the
men's team, women's team. It doesn't matter if the United States is in
the World Cup. Maybe maybe ten percent more people in the United States are
aware of what we're doing in international soccer. So I was like, you
know, is F one really this thing that's going to take over and be
popular among the hearts and minds of American you know, tech influencers, And
why is it just tech influencers? I know F one is is extremely high
tech sport, for sure, extremely nuanced sport. It's very I understand the
appeal of it. But I couldn't say, is this gonna be a flash
in the pan? Is this just gonna be some sort of hype for a
little while and then burn away? Like I don't know, does Austin Evans
still have his F one podcast? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.
That shows you how much I personally am interested in F one versus you know,
above and beyond playing it in Grand Tarismo or racing simulators are playing at
one, two thousand and two whatever on Steam. I like and appreciate F
one. I think the technology of F one cars is amazing, but I
don't follow every single race. That's kind of like my interest in F one
is, I don't follow every single race. Every single race. I'm not
gonna get up here and do a podcast on who overtook who, and who
who lost rank, who gained a rank, what's going on with sponsorships,
Ferrari and McLaren and all sorts of what you know behind the scenes stuff,
because I don't know. I don't know all that intricacy of behind the scenes
of F one. I think it's just really cool, and when it's on
TV, I do like when it's on TV in the United States, I
do like to watch it for a little while F one. I'm recording this
in Houston, Texas. My show is based in Houston, Texas. F
one comes through Texas all the time. F one comes through Houston regularly,
and when they do come through Houston, you can hear the roar of those
engines all throughout the city, all through the Inner Loop within six' ten.
You can hear them roaring over at Reliant, over at Reliance or NRG
Stadium. You can hear them sometimes when they do have part of the circuit
going through downtown. It's really really cool. I'm just not super hyped on
it. That all brought me background to because asof who I was talking about
earlier, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, He's in F one and
you know, the last I talked to him, you know, he said
he could hear rockets exploding in his vicinity. And I'm just and it's one
of those things that makes me as an American living in Houston, Texas.
It's just kind of I go outside and look up in the sky and just
like, what are we aware of what privilege we have here not to watch
the Iron Dome do its thing on a daily basis. I know, I
need to go pick up eggs, I need to go get some groceries,
I need to go buy a video game or something like that. I don't
have to look up in the sky and see trails of rockets in little pops
in the sky of the Iron Dome blocking rock most rockets from hitting cities like
I don't have to fear from my son when we go to the park that
rockets are gonna be going off as if. I hope you're okay, brother,
I'll talk to you soon, all right, Morkie theapy radio coming up,
don't go anywhere. Welcome back to geek their py Radio. You got
your mental curator, Johnny Hemburger. Geek thearepurradio dot com for more information.
If you're listening to this on the am radio broadcast. This is of course
a podcast. Also, it's the year. It's the twenty first century.
It's the year twenty twenty three as of recording. So podcasts are a thing.
So you can grab their Geek their per Radio podcast in your favorite podcast
app. Just type in you know Geek their Paradio podcast into Apple Podcasts and
a Google podcast and a spreaker into the iHeartRadio app wherever you listen to podcasts,
Geek their Paradio podcast red white and black color scheme. And that's how
you know you've got me A few years ago, a few years ago.
And I'll say this again, and I'll take whatever lump that I need to
take from it. But speaking of twenty twenty three in podcast being a thing.
I remember on one episode I said, welcome to the broadcast, which
in twenty which in the twenty first century is really just promotion for the podcast.
And it's true statement is true to a certain degree. For sure,
a radio broadcast is really promotion for the podcast, which you can listen to
on demand whatever you want. And the program director at the time, justin
King. He texts me or emails me, He's like, hey, man,
I get it, but don't be going on the radio say that the
radio is just promotion for digital streaming. It's like, well, part of
it is, well, part of it is radio. So here's the other
thing about radio. Just to kind of even things out a little bit,
because the sentiment was, Hey, obviously I understand this. Don't get on
a radio station that is hosting your show, that's putting your show on the
air, and then say that the radio station is just exists to promote podcasts,
to promote the digital side of things. I understand that completely. You
want people listening to the radio because we want people going and shopping at the
sponsors that you hear in the commercial breaks, which I personally do or do
not necessarily endorse like, I don't know what's going to blame my commercial break.
I don't see a dime of that revenue anyways. But the point is
you want radio listeners to keep stay tuned and hear and hear the sponsors and
visit the great sponsors that we have sponsoring these radio programs. So of course
I get that one hundred and ten percent. That is absolutely true. So
to to kind of narrow it down or to kind of simplify it or patronize
it a little bit by saying, yeah, broadcast is just promotion for a
podcast, I understand and that totally. I totally get that. So you
know what, I need to turn on the volume on my phone because of
course when I hit record, that's when all the notifications start coming through.
Uh, radio's not going anywhere. And for the reality of how the how
technology has progressed and where we are in the current state of the art of
things, and yeah, a lot of people listening to podcasts. There's still
a lot of people listening to the radio. It's gotten to the point though
where you'll hear sometimes of legislation going through Congress or the Senate or whatever,
people deciding FCC deciding what to do with with radio and in particular with in
vehicle manufacturing. I heard, basically, long story short is that apparently automative
auto manufacturers don't want to put AM radio in cars anymore. And I was
like, what, that's not that's never gonna happen. I mean, that's
just that is egregious anyways, because whether you agree or disagree with a lot
of sentiment that comes out of you know, AM talk radio, let's not
beat around the bush. Most of it is conservative, and it's sensational conservatism
designed not to inform you but to keep you entertained to the ad break.
Let's not beat around the bush here. But they have every right to exist,
and that is absolutely an infringement on free speech. If auto manufacturers or
lobbyists want to say we don't want AM radio in the car, that's a
sly underhanded way of saying we don't want those voices being heard anymore. Since
most people listen to the radio in the car, we don't want those voices
on the radio being heard anymore, which is an egregious infringement, infringement upon
free speech. It's that's that is extremely Unamerican, but it's not gonna happen.
I don't predict that it's ever gonna happen. And nor is the complete
dismantle of AM radio where we're not just not gonna have any AM radio anymore.
Oh, there's no room for am radio because podcasts exists, and that's
where it's going. No emergency services for one thing. In a hurricane,
when you know the crap hits the fan and people need emergency information, they
still listen to the radio. It's not going anywhere. And to suggest or
even want to push for some sort of legislation that would get rid of AM
radio is is I almost use the word evil. It's just it's very misguided,
it's nefarious. The only reason why somebody would want to get rid of
AM radio is because they want to get rid of the voices with different opinions
than theirs. That's the root of it. Also, I heard the case
somebody who it was a while back, and every once in a while keeps
coming back. It's this kind of mentality, not mentality, but this The
argument is that electric cars interfere with the AM radio signal, that electric car
owners can't listen to AM radio anyways, because all the electronics and battery and
stuff interferes with the AM radio broadcast. And when you turn it on,
you know, nine to fifty AM or k tier seven forty or seven ninety
listen to some sports stuff, you can't hear it in an electric car because
of all the interferers. That's ridiculous, that's not true. Ask me how
I know my daily driver is an electric car. In our minivan is a
plug in hybrid electric car. You know what comes through loud and clear,
crystal clear KPRC nine fifty AM and every tesla I've been in, and my
daily driver electric car, which is a twenty seventeen Chevy Bolt. AM radio
works perfectly fine in electric cars. Matter of fact, you can hear it
better because there's no drone of an engine going on in the background part of
the noise floor. You can hear a radio perfectly in electric cars. So
this kind of argument that we want to get rid of AM radio and electric
cars anyways because people can hear that's nonsense. Are you telling me? I
just have never experienced that phenomenon in my entire life. The only way that
I get an AM radio station to go away in my electric car is if
I drive too far away from the reach of that AM radio station, or
I drive into some sort of congested area where the radio signal can't beam through.
So when I go visit my mom in Kingwood, the Liveabool forest,
lots of pine trees, the signal can kind of come in and out because
there's just lots of density of pine trees. There's a lot of interference with
the signal. Has nothing to do with the car. That phenomenon happens in
my DeLorean, in my twenty ten OUDS five V eight. It happens in
my EV, my twenty seventeen Bolt EV. The signal will drop because of
interference and because you're too far away away from the antenna. But I've never
just been cruising around Houston or the Inner Loop or around even Missouri City here
and had had any issue with my electric vehicle interfering with the AM radio signal.
Asinine, It's just asinine. I don't know where you might have heard
this, you know, on sister stations or other hosts on the show,
even saying I don't know when the last time they've said it, but just
that you can't get AM radio and electric cars, which I'm just thinking of
every electric car owner driving around right now listening to that voice saying you can't
hear my voice in your electric car, but I'm listening to your voice in
my electric car. It doesn't make any technological sense. It's the year twenty
twenty three. We have advanced technology. If there was any interference with the
AM broadcast bands generated by the electronics of a car, whether it's an ice
and a combustion vehicle or an electric vehicle, they figure that out. RF
shielding to interfere with the radio broadcast is every once in a while you do.
Sometimes you're driving around and you hear that word with the engine revs going
through your radio. That's a grounding fault. That's a grounding fault all day
long. Something is actually interfering emitting electromagnetic ways into the radio receiver. That's
a wiring fault. That is not inherent truth about all vehicles, especially electric
vehicles, that you can't hear AM radio broadcast. It just doesn't make any
technological sense anyways more. Geek Therapy Radio coming up. Don't go anywhere,
Welcome back to Geek Therapy Radio. You've got your mental curator Johnny Hemburger in
the last segment, I was talking about this idea that you can't hear AM
radio broadcasts in electric cars, which is stupid because I've had an electric car
for three years and I listened to my own radio station KPRC nine to fifty
Am all the time in it perfectly. So I don't know where this idea
came from that we should just get rid of AM radio and vehicles because you
can't hear am radio and electric cars. Anyways. I don't know where that
started. I was confounded when I heard that being spoken upon on the you
can't hear am radio and electric cars anyways? What anyways? But that reminded
me for some reason. I was thinking back to like my first car.
And here's where I'm gonna ask for a little interaction from the audience. Here,
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Y at geek theapy radio dot com talking about car radios reminded me of my
first car. So that's the first question I have for you. What was
your first car? It's a two parter here that I'm gonna get into.
What was your first car? And what are some of the stupid modifications that
you made to your cars over the years, you know, in your youth,
maybe not necessarily your first car. What's you know, mods and bumper
stickers and racing stripes and gotten in rims and what in audio systems and whatever?
What are what are some of the mods that you've done to your cars
over the years in your youth before you kind of realized this is really stupid
or I'm just not into this anymore. Some of them were just really stupid
mods. Some are really cool mods that there still might be somebody listening to
this right now. Who's thirties, forties, fifties, sixties years old who's
done modified you know, probably more tasteful, more knowledgeable modifications to their car.
But I'm talking like high school. What is the kind of stuff you
did to your first car, your second car, or when you were under
twenty years old, when you were before twenty two, like before the end
of college, your college years or whatever. So what was your first car
and what are some of the stupid modifications that you've done to your cars in
your youth. So I'll start, because I'm looking around, I'm the only
one with a microphone at the moment. My first car was a nineteen seventy
four Volkswagen Beetle, and I love that thing and my dad. The quick
story behind that, because I think I've told that on geeked their period before,
is that it used to be my brother's back in Austin. This was
like nineteen late nineteen nineties. My dad bought it off my brother for like
nine hundred dollars, then drove it home from Austin. The bug burst into
flames at the end of our street in Kingwood, and my dad ran the
neighbor's yard and grabbed a hose and extinguished the flames and then just turned it
back on again and drove it the rest of the way up the hill home.
That car, it caught on fire and it burned up the back,
you know, tail, the engine lid because angels in the back of Volkswagen
Beetles. If you for some reason, I don't know that already air cooled,
four cylinder rear engined vehicle. The back was all burnt up at this
point at silver paint. It had been painted several times. And you can
look at these old cars, especially Beetles, which used to be Dime a
dozen, and just kind of look through the layers of paint and to see
how many times, how many owners it's been through, and how many coats
of paint that has been changed. I think that nineteen seventy four Beetles started
its life baby blue, and by the time it got to me it was
silver and not probably not the best paint. Silver. It's like, you
drove it to Maco, what's your cheapest paint job. We just kind of
aim up, you know, aim the air sprayers at it, and you
just kind of drive through like a car wash. Oh do you tape or
mask anything not, it's just all going to be silver. It wasn't really
that bad, but it was still a cheap nothing against Maco, but it
was like their cheapest option for a paint shob back then. Silver except for
the back of the car at this point, which was all charred in black
and in brown from the kiss of flames and that's how I drove it around
for a while. For a couple of years. It was my only car,
nineteen seventy four Beetle. I asked my dad why nineteen seventy four Beetle.
Nothing against it, it's cool, it was one of his first cars,
to a sixties or earlier Beetle. He said, because this car is
going to break down a lot, and it's going to teach you how to
fix it. It's going to teach you how to be self sufficient. What
you learn from this car breaking down and it will will help you keep any
vehicle you own on the road. It'll just decrease your odds of being stranded
and at the mercy of other people. Anything that can go wrong with the
vehicle will go wrong with this nineteen seventy four Beetle, and you're going to
learn how to fix it. And by golly, he was one hundred percent
correct. Everything that could possibly go wrong with a vehicle went wrong with that
nineteen seventy four bug. The only thing that I couldn't It wasn't like major
things to where you needed to remove the engine. You can remove a Beatle
engine with four bolts. And people are so good at rebuilding Beetle engines now
that are air cool Volkswagen engines now that they can do a blindfolded I couldn't
rebuild a Beatle engine, but I could, you know, prime the carburetor,
clean the jets a little bit. I could learn take break drums,
and just all the little odds and ends of a car that would Most people
have no freaking clue if they can even access those things in modern vehicles anymore.
And if you're driving a modern vehicle for that matter, with drum brakes,
you need to send it back to the non American country that it came
from. It's not safe to have some. I know that some cheap like
pickup trucks are cheaper, very very cheap vehicles might have rear drum brakes,
which find and whatever. But if you're rocking four wheel drum brakes like an
old Volkswagen Beetle, that's uh. On a modern car, that's questionable,
that's red flags. Old cars drum brakes are the norm, even on the
front, But old car Beetle there are like a new car with drum brakes
whatever, I'm not sure they exist. I'll get off that tangent. I
learned how to do a lot of stuff maintenance on vehicles, because that nineteen
seventy four beetle put me through the ringer. The thing about that beetle is
that it would fall apart literally or break, or the engine would would flood
ors, it would stall whatever. Just kind of a normal driving like a
normal forty mile per hour top speed kind of to driving around town a little
bit, it would that's one of all the problems would happen. But we
used to take that thing mudding. Remember it's a rear wheel drive engine over
the rear wheels, so it was pretty Beetles are pretty good in the snow
and in adverse terrain. They're they're they're they're lightweight, so they kind of
stay on top. But the center of gravity is the mass is over those
rear driven wheels with the engine back there. So it's actually good in the
mud and in the snow. So we used to take that thing mudding,
that old seventy four beetle mudding, which sounds ridiculous, but it was as
it sounds ridiculous, it was an equal amount awesome. The more y'all know,
come on, man, we're from South Texas here, the more stupid
something sounds the funner it is, we all know that. So taking an
old nineteen seven unmodified not even a Baja bug, just an unmodified nineteen seventy
four beetle with halfway ball tires, mudding through East Texas piney woods with some
of the best times in my life just getting that thing covered in mud and
rolling it home and my dad saying, don't you dare park that thing on
the driveway, or don't you dare clean it on the driveway. You need
to take it down to the to the car wash where you can manually spray
it down. Whatever, even though those car washes say no, you know,
don't take your trucks here after money, whatever, whatever. We took
that thing mudding, and it was a beast at mudding. It wouldn't fall
apart while you're while we're hooning it and throwing it around corners and doing power
slides and like bouncing the rear end off of trees and stumps and all sorts
of stuff. It would be fine, nothing would happen. But then when
you just kind of cruise it around forty miles an hour around Kingwood between Kingwood
High School and McDonald's or whatever, Oh, a bolt goes ding dangling down
the street. A bolt fell out of somewhere. God knows where that bolt
came from or how important it was, but I imagine it should have stayed
on the car. Or you come out to the driveway and find that bumper
had just had fallen halfway down overnight. It wouldn't fall apart while you were
being rough with it and mudding it, for God's sake, it would fall
apart while I was just sitting there resting, or just kind of cruising,
you know, after school, got out to Wendy's or something that used to
be there on Lake Houston Parkway. Ah memories. So that was my first
car. The second car, as the segment wraps up here, well,
I'm darn sure going to continue this into the four segment. Second car was
my dad's hand me down nineteen ninety four Volkswagen Passat. It goes without saying
that both of these vehicles were manual transmission. The Beetle was a four speed
mano transmission. In the nineteen ninety four Pissot VR six Awesome was a five
speed manual transmission with one of the best shifters I've ever still in any car
that I've ever although the Audi's is pretty good. Volkswagen shifters, in my
opinion, have been pretty good. Volkswagen electronics have been historically the worst I've
ever encountered in my entire life, especially up until at least two thousand and
nine twenty ten. Volkswagen electronics in the plastics they use is like, what
are you Germans thinking? This is whereiculous you? They obviously do not design
cars for Southeast Texas. They freaking disintegrated, or at least they used to.
Maybe Audis and Volkswagens have gotten better since, but like this nineteen ninety
four Pissot, go to an auto trader for a nineteen ninety four Paissot.
They don't exist anymore. They rusted to the ground. More geek their peridio
don't go anywhere, but anyway, welcome back to geek Therapy Radio Gotrmental curator
Johnny Hamburger. That second car, my second car of my life, was
that nineteen ninety four Volkswagen Passat VR six five speed manual transmission. I remember
it had one hundred and seventy four horsepower and like one hundred and seventy two
foot pounds a tour which nineteen ninety four in a sedan was pretty good.
And when you're in high school and you're kind of, you know, flexing
to your friends because you know guys in high school and their cars and whatever,
it was like I thought I was. I thought it was pretty cool.
In my red nineteen ninety four Paisat VR six. The VR six engine
itself is still one of the best engines ever created by mankind. It was
in the PASAT at this time nineteen ninety four was a two point eight leader.
I think they went all the way up to three point two leaders and
subsequent years, but it was a two point eight leader in the PASAD.
One of my bucket list cars is still VR six Corrado Like I would love
a nineteen ninety four, nineteen ninety three, maybe black, maybe red Volkswagen
Corrado VR six. Uh I don't. I'm sure s Chikrodo's still every once
in a while. And bring a trailer like I followed, bring a trailer
on on Instagram. It'll say, oh, a new listing, you know,
nineteen ninety four Volkswagen Corrado VR six or the SLC which was I think
it was a turbo supercharge four cylinder the SLC if I if I'm remembering right,
but the Volkswagen Krado from the nineties, not the Scoraco, which a
lot of you might be thinking of from the seventies eighties, and Europe had
of Scoraco again until the late twenty tens, I think, which the United
States never got the modern Scoraco, which was a shame because the I remember
when I was in Europe in two thousand and nine and I saw a Volkswagen
Scoraco twenty nineteen Volkswagen Scorago. I was like, this is the best looking
hatchback I have ever seen in my life. This thing is freaking beautiful.
I can't wait till they come to the United States. Never did, never
happened. But anyways, back to my second car, because my second car
that nineteen ninety four Volkswagen Pasot, which, like I mentioned, if you
go an auto trader or whatever, you can't find you cannot find mid nineties
Volkswagen Passots. They were outter garbage. The engine was great when it worked,
when the electronics allowed it to work, the engine was an absolute peach,
and the transmission was an absolute peach. But your air conditioning was going
out within the first month after you bought the car. In South Texas,
the air conditioner, the compressors is done after a month, and it was.
I cruised round into all my years with that car, through high school
in a little bit beyond, with no air conditioning. Matter of facts,
Sorr, I'm getting over bronchitis. Matter of fact, I didn't have a
vehicle with air conditioning with let me caveat that. I didn't have a vehicle
with working air conditioning until probably two thousand and eleven or twenty twelve, when
I got my second Dodge Dakota. It was a two thousand and two Dodge
Dakota. Actually, no, I take that back. I had working air
conditioning in my nineteen ninety nine Dodge Dakota. I had a red nineteen ninety
nine Dodge Dakota when I graduated high school, that's right, my senior year,
I had a red nineteen ninety eight actually Dodge Dakota, and it had
working air conditioning. Dodge Dakota's you still You'll go on to eBay right now
or auto Trader. You'll find nineteen ninety eight Dodge Dakota's all day long Dodge
Dakota's. Now you got me going, We're just the perfect truck. I
not the facelifted on was like the two thousand and sevens or whatever, two
thousand and four. Like whenever they face lift the Dodge Dakotas, I thought
they made them look boxing and whatever, they look way worse. It's the
pre facelift Dodge Dakota's. Those late nineties Dodge Dakota's early two thousands Dodge Dakota's
were just perfect. I've loved my two pickup trucks. I had the ninety
eight before I went to California, moved back and got out old Swag and
GTI. After the GTI, I got another Dodge Dakota. I went nineteen
ninety eight Dodge Dakota, two thousand and two GTI, and then two thousand
and two Dodge Dakota again. Because I remembered, man, that ninety eight
Dodge Dakota. I should have never let that go. That thing was just
reliable as heck, super useful. It was big enough to do what you
needed it to do, as far as like hauling things around on the occasion
you'd like moving apartments or you're helping people move or you got to put an
arcade machine in there. Whatever. It was the perfect size for doing real
things with it. But it was also just small enough to make sense living
in the city, which I did live in the city. I lived in
Montrose, and I see these like F two fifties and stuff rolling around,
even if one fifties are a massive and like, what do you how do
you live with that thing in a mitropolitan settings? It's insane. I've driven,
But when I worked for Sean Williams, I drove an F two fifty
round all the time making paint deliveries loaded down with thousands of gallons of paint.
And I could drive that thing around like a surgeon through Montrose, in
through downtown and in these tight little old areas of Houston. But it was
still a pain in the butt, like it was. So it's I've always
preferred in all the different vehicles and sizes of vehicles I've driven, like all
right, my daily drivers, I like quick, sporty, nimble and get
in and out. And even right now as a father, anecdotally, last
night, you know, we have this twenty eighteen Chrysler pacifica plug in hybrid,
which is just the that's the coolest car I've ever owned in my life,
most luxurious, just coolest geek out car ever. And it's black.
It's it's a good for a minivan. It's a good look at minivan.
I would I would drive that minivan single, like if I was single in
you know, no kids and I never met Sarah like I would. I
would cruise that black minivan black twenty seventeen Chrystl the PACIFICA up to a club
in a heartbeat like it's it's just a I have. I am not embarrassed
to drive it at all. It's it's an awesome car. So we have
that, and we have the h that twenty seventeen Bolt, which is a
very small car. And last night Give I said, let's let's take the
Bolt because we're just going to the restaurant. It might be kind of busy,
we're going to get some Mexican food. Let's just take the small car
because it's way easier to get a spot, waysier to maneuver around and do.
It turns out we got a nice spot up front because that we wouldn't
have we were driving the big minivan around. So I've always kind of preferred
you know, if I had to pick, was smaller, more nimble,
sporty, fun cars to drive rather than these big beefy trucks. But that
Dodge Dakota, my nineteen ninety eight DoD Dakota, and then my nineteen or
my two thousand and two Dodge Dakota, which is the same body style,
same everything, same engine, same all of that was just the perfect truck.
It was a it was known as like a medium sized truck. It
was somewhere between like an F one fifty in a Ranger. So yeah,
the Ram fifteen hundreds and then you didn't really have a small small Dodge truck
at the time. I wish they would bring back. I love that Ford
made the Maverick. The Maverick is as a unibody truck, kind of just
like the the Honda Ridge Line. But it's a small truck. It's got
a bet on it. It's the size of a car. Really, it's
like a ute that they're used to in Australia, perfect small size, but
you got a bet on it, and it's just it's just a perfect little
truck. And I have no need for it right now, but I'm glad
that they exist and I can't wait for Dodge to introduce a smaller truck into
the equation, people said, because people are very locked into their opinions and
not reason or ration or logic. Before when the Mavericks announced big truck boys,
We're like, this is stupid. No one's gonna want to rink a
dinky truck. What is Ford doing? Da da da? They cannot keep
Mavericks on the dealership. Turns out people have been screaming for small trucks for
a very long time. Back in the sixties, seventies, eighties, there
used to be small trucks. Volkswagen used to make small trucks. Toyota would
make like the Tacomas and stuff, small trucks. What are the T one
thousands and things like that. Small trucks very popular, And then all of
a sudden they just got the trucks got huge. It was the smallest truck
you could pretty much get. Was it like an F one to fifty or
even the tacomas had gotten pretty big? Like there just wasn't any small trucks
anymore. Where did all the small trucks go? Kind of like there weren't
any station wagons anymore? Where all the wagons, got all these SUVs and
stupid crossovers, which crossovers are useless. By the way, if you like
crossovers, I envy whatever is happening in your brain that makes you like crossovers.
But nobody, nobody who actually likes cars likes crossovers. If you want
a crossover, just get a sedan, and if you want an SEV,
just get an suv. But really the actual answer to both of those questions
is station wagon fit the bill perfectly on all runs. Stupid things I've done
to my cars, a lot of neon, a lot of crazy fire hazard
audio, audio mods and subwolfers mismatch to inappropriate amplifiers. But what were your
things get at me? Uh? You are worthy of love, You're worthy
of giving love, receiving love, and you're worthy of your own self respect.
Thank you for listening to geek Diipyr Radio. Talk to you next time.
On the way out here, I just wanted to give a few quick
pro bono shout outs because I wanted to highlight more local businesses and not just
send people to Amazon all the time. Atomic Hobby Shop on thirteen five,
twenty nine, Skinner Road in Cypress, Texas, seven seven, four two
nine. Just a locally owned brick and mortar hobby shop that I highly recommend.
Also replay games at twenty one oh six Yl Street, Houston, Texas.
Seven to seven zer zero eight vintage and used video games. It is
just a wonderful place that's replay games and atomic hobby shop.