Travel and Car Drama – MDW-383

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Mike Dell's world number 3
83 for September 21st, 2022.

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Well let's hope not anyway.

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Yeah.

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I've been using that to
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Uh, I forget how long ago I recorded that.

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I think I wanna say probably 10 years ago.

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maybe not quite that long ago, but it
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down in the old studio in the basement
back before I knew what I was doing.

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But it turned out.

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All right.

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Anyway, this is Mike, and, uh,
welcome to Mike Dell's world 3 83.

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If you're keeping track and it's been
about a month, actually exactly a

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month since I put out an episode, I.

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I do mean to, uh, do this a little more
often, but man times are times are busy.

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Let's see.

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Since the last time we talked, I've been
to Dallas or, well, I don't remember now.

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I've been doing some traveling anyway.

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I've been to, uh, Columbus in Dallas.

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I think.

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Let's see.

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When was the company meeting?

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Eh, it's been a while.

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Oh, I guess the company meeting
was before the last episode.

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Uh, where was it?

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No, it wasn't.

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Yes, it was okay.

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All right.

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I'm I'm screwed up.

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So yeah, I was at Columbus before
the last episode, and then I went

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to Dallas right after the episode.

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And that was a fun trip sort of, of
course, Dallas was getting torrential

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rains during the, my flight.

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So I didn't make it there on the day
I was supposed to, I ended up getting

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stuck in Chicago, which wasn't too bad.

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Cuz the airport Sheridan, it was
the same hotel chain that I was

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scheduled to be in, in Dallas.

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So I just traded one night in Dallas
for the night in Chicago and flew out

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the next morning and all was well.

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So it wasn't bad.

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And I got my fix of, uh, Chicago hot dogs.

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So that was okay.

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Uh, Uber eats is a, is a wonderful thing.

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Uh, when you don't have wheels and don't
feel like paying to ride somewhere to eat.

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So, uh, I just had, 'em deliver
me a couple of hot dogs in a

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six pack and I was styling.

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I.

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That trip from up here
down to Chicago was unique.

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I think, or least unique to me.

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I flew down on a little tiny
airline called Cape air and.

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It reminded me.

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I flew from Manistee, Michigan, which was
a Tinky little airport and it reminded

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me very much of the old NBC show wings.

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And when I mentioned that to somebody,
in fact, I mentioned it to the pilot on

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the way home, since I was sitting a foot
and a half from him, uh, I said, uh, this

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reminds me of that old TV show wings.

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And he says, well, you know, uh, We do,
uh, service that island, whatever it

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was, I think, well, I don't remember what
island it was, but Massachusetts there

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anyway, they said, well, we service that
island and that TV show was based on Cape

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air, so ironic, but it was kind of cool.

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Got to fly down on.

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I don't know some Italian airplane,
uh, ISER that had like eight, nine

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seats, something like that, a little
twin, uh, piston engine airplane.

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And on the way back, I flew
back in a Cessna 4 0 4.

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I never even knew what those were.

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Just a Cessna twin twin.

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And.

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I sat literally right behind the
co-pilot seat, which was empty.

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It was just one pilot and, uh,
got to chit chat with a pilot,

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uh, and all that good stuff.

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And he even joked with me.

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He says, well, maybe I'll give
you the landing in Manistee . But

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anyway, that was on eventful.

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And then I flew, you know, to Dallas
and back on American airlines.

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Uh, Yeah, whatever.

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They're okay.

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And had a good time in Dallas
had a little controversy.

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I'm not sure you probably heard about
it, but you might have, uh, with Ben

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Shapiro showing up at the conference
and, uh, some people freaked out, uh,

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Because, uh, they didn't like Ben Shapiro.

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Uh, I won't go into much more than that,
other than it was a definite shit show.

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And as far as the publicity for podcast
movement was, but I think they've, you

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know, they've apologized and, uh, I
do believe daily wire, which is Ben's,

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uh, network has, uh, Accepted that
apology or at least, uh, I think so.

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So we'll see.

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And maybe they learned a little lesson who
knows, yield, saying, go woke, go broke.

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I think that might apply.

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Hopefully not, you know, I like, I
like podcast movement and I'm friends

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with the owners of it and it wasn't
the owners of podcast movement that.

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Put out the apology for Ben showing up.

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And then it was the owners of podcast
movement that put out the apology

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to Ben for freaking out on him.

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But, uh, like I said, if you wanna
know more about that, uh, check

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out, uh, the daily wire, uh, It's
one of their backstage, not this

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last one, but the one before.

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So check out the recording of
backstage at did daily wire.

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And, uh, they can go into that
whole thing right at the beginning.

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And it was, uh, really quite.

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Uh, shocking was the word that I, that
we used while we were at the show.

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It kinda sucked the energy
out of the, the one day there.

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But, uh, it recovered, but,
uh, yeah, stuff happens.

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People all have opinions and, uh,
you know, half of 'em are wrong.

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what half I'll let you decide.

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But anyway, so yeah, I've been busy
with, with travel and work stuff.

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And, uh, we've been putting out
a lot of stuff at blueberry.

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That's new.

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If you've been to Mike Dell's world
lately, actually this episode, hopefully

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I'm trying out a new thing called script
to, uh, edit and transcribe my show.

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So if it all works as planned, you're
gonna see a CC button on the player at,

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at blueberry and you can, uh, hit play
and then hit that CC button and it'll

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show the transcript and it'll highlight.

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As I'm talking everything I'm saying,
so kind of like closed captioning.

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Well, it is closed captioning
and we're the, uh, first audio

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company that's done that.

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So, uh, it's unique.

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I, I, I'm trying to get out of the
habit of saying things like very

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unique or, you know, cause there is no
variable of unique, unique is unique.

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So not that, uh, I speak
perfect English all the time.

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But I try.

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Let's see, what else has been going on
having a little bit of vehicle drama?

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Uh, no, not anything huge.

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Believe me, but it's, uh, worked
out a little bit strangely this

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week, uh, because I have to travel
down to grand Haven for a funeral.

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A friend of mine's mother
passed away last week and the

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funeral is tomorrow on Thursday.

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So this is Wednesday.

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Evening, my wife's already down
there, uh, helping plan the, the

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party and Memorial and all that stuff.

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So she's down there probably cooking,
I'm guessing, but my pickup truck,

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uh, you know, the typical Northern
Michigan vehicle, that's a little

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bit of rust, but that's just the
way they are when they get older.

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This one's not that old, so 2013, but.

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I mean close to 10 years old, I guess.

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So, depending on when it was built,
I'd already be 10, 10 years old.

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I didn't look at the manufactured
date, but anyway, uh, what

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happens with these, these things
is, uh, snow ice, salt and crap.

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Get packed all over underside
over all over the underside of

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the car and or truck in this case.

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And.

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The.

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What is it fuel pump?

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Uh, it has a, a steel plate that locks
into the plastic gas tank and then

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all the lines and electrical stuff
and the fuel pump all go through

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that hole with that plate on the top.

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And what's happened with my truck is
that plate has rusted out to the point

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where now it's leaking and it's leak.

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Enough that, uh, I have to get it fixed.

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And so can't drive the
truck and he couldn't get me

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into the shop until Monday.

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So I still got over the weekend
and I've gotta travel down to

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grand Haven as I mentioned.

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And so I borrowed my folks convertible.

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They have a convertible
Volkswagen beetle and.

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I drive it home.

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And you know, my wife dropped me
off out there and I drove it home.

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And as I was, uh, driving at home, it was,
you know, spit in sputter once in a while.

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I was like, I didn't think much of it.

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It didn't get driven
a lot this, this year.

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So, you know, who knows might just need
to get the cobwebs worked out of it.

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So I didn't think much of it.

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And then, uh, on Tuesday I
did that on Monday on Tuesday.

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I, uh, went up to the store
and, you know, pick up some

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groceries and stuff in the beetle.

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And I put the top down figuring why not?

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It's a nice day.

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So I put the top down,
I go go to the store.

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I come back from the store and I
park it and I haul the groceries in.

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And then I thought, oh, I'd
better put the top back up, cuz.

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You know, we got acorns falling
out of the trees and stuff, and

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I went the car full of acorns.

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So I go out there and I start, try
to start the car cuz you, you know,

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I like to run the, the, uh, roof when
it's running so that it doesn't run

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the battery out, but I tried to start
it and the operative word there.

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Try it didn't work.

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So I fiddle farted around with it.

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I plugged in my scan tool and, and it
gave a code for speed sensor, no signal.

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And some other thing it had to do with
the catalytic converter, which you,

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those are normal, cuz that thing had its
lights on any or the check engine light.

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Anyway, cuz you know, it's an old car and.

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That's just happens.

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So anyway, I clear the codes.

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I try to start it again.

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Won't start, won't start.

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Won't start.

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Won't start.

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All right.

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So I call my dad and say, Hey,
uh, Beatles's not starting.

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And here's what I found and told
him the code and all that stuff.

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And.

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He says, well, thing ran perfectly
last time, you know, whatever.

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He typical dad response and they
happened to be over at Costco.

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It's about a mile away.

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So they come over, mom, dad, and he
tried it and looked at it and, oh, well,

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so he called the, uh, tow truck and had
it towed to the shop that he goes to.

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And in the meantime, Carless because my
wife had already left for grand Haven.

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And at this moment we
don't have our a third car.

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I had to, I had to trash my old van.

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I went to the junkyard.

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I drove it there, but it wasn't, uh,
it, it had needed some stuff that, uh,

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I just didn't wanna spend the money on.

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And then it was, it was a rust bucket.

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So time to get rid of it.

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And we hadn't got around to replacing our.

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Spare car.

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It's always like to have a spare
cuz you know, I, I drive older

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cars and I do, I do that because
I don't want huge car payments.

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And part of owning older cars is
to have at least a spare available

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because you know, once in a while, one
of 'em is gonna break and it's a lot

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cheaper than car payments to fix cars.

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Most of the time.

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So here I am carless, no big deal.

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And, uh, I didn't have to go
anywhere until, uh, Later today.

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And my mom and sister
were going downstate.

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So my sister drops her car off
let's, you know, for me to, to, uh,

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use and that's all fine and dandy.

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So, uh, tomorrow I'll drive my sister's
car down to grand Haven for the funeral.

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And that'll be that.

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And I, and a and another,
uh, related note.

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Uh, my sister's son, my nephew,
Zach, uh, picked up a winner

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beater, cuz he he's got a oh one of
those, an older Lexus hot rod car.

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I don't know, LS.

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300 or ES 300, whatever, the, the
hot rod, one with the six cylinder

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and the manual transmission.

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And he didn't want to drive it in the
winter cuz it's in pretty good shape.

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And so he bought a, a winter beater,
oh 99 Corolla manual transmission.

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It, uh, needs a little bit
needs, some struts and door

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handles and you know, typical.

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Corolla things, but it
was in decent shape.

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And then my uncle passed away
a couple weeks ago and my.

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Called Zach and asked if he
wanted, uh, his old car it's

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so rather nice Chrysler 300

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So he, he jumped at that and got it
for a cheap price and it's a nice

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car and he got a hell of a deal.

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So now he is, got this
Corolla that he doesn't need.

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And you know, he's a mechanic
at the Toyota dealer, so he's,

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he was gonna fix it up, sell it
well, I found out about that.

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I went and checked it out and, uh,
I agreed to buy it from him, but I

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still gotta wait till he gets the
struts and the door handles and

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whatever else he wanted to do to it.

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He bought all the parts.

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He just has to get time to do it.

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So in the next couple weeks,
I will have my spare car.

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And as a bonus, I'll have one
with a manul transmission.

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Which I will enjoy thoroughly, cuz I
haven't really driven many manuals lately.

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Uh, of course I drove Zach's Lexus
home, uh, when we went to pick

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it up or part of the way anyway.

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And uh, so I got to drive that, that
was that's the only time I've driven

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a stick shift in quite some time.

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I think the time before that I
got to drove a drive, a focus.

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St.

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I think it was down at
the Ford test track.

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Um, when I was, uh, writing for geek
news central, I got a, got to go on a

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junk at, for Ford down at the test track.

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And that was a lot of fun.

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Got to drive just about
everything Ford made at the time.

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I wanna say that was 2015 maybe
or 2014, something like that.

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But it was fun.

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We got to drive a whole bunch of cars
and even they even had some Nissans and

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Toyotas and stuff for, uh, what they
call comparative drives around the track.

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And, and, uh, they set up an auto cross
track and an offroad track for the truck.

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So got to drive a Raptor
on the offroad track.

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And yeah, it was just,
it was a lot of fun.

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Uh, but, uh, the only stick
shift that I'd driven down there.

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Uh, that focus SST or RT or RS or whatever
the fancy one, the fancy focus was.

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And, uh, so hadn't really driven
a lot of stick shift lately when

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I was a kid, it's all we had.

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That's all anybody had that
I knew for the most part.

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I mean, my uncle had an old
van that had, uh, uh, automatic

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transmission, but I didn't know
very many people that had automatics

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and this was in the early eighties.

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And.

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So it was just, you know, pretty much
everything was a stick shift, unless

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it was, you know, some, you know, full
size truck or some beast of a car.

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But for the most part, everything
I drove, I mean, I learned on a 64

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Volkswagen beetle, which was old at the
time, come on, 20 something years old.

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And then, uh, my first vehicle
was a Chevy pickup that had

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a six cylinder and no power.

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Anything.

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I mean, no power steering, no power
brakes, no air conditioning, no power

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windows, no cruise control am radio.

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Uh, you know, it was a truck
and had a three speed column

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shift, uh, manual transmission.

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And, you know, so I, you know, up until
I think the first automatic that I owned.

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That's when I lived out in Idaho, I
bought a cut list, uh, for my then

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wife, my first wife, and every once
in a while, I would drive that.

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And then later on, we had a Camaro
that had a automatic, but everything

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else I had was stick until I
think until I got the Imperial.

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Yeah, that, uh, that big old 1970
Imperial I had as a toy car, of course,

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that was, uh, automatic, but I also had
a manual Corolla and a, uh, and a Mazda

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pickup that was manual at the time.

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Uh, So, uh, you know, then, you know,
the next vehicle after the Mazda was

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a Ford truck, it was just automatic.

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And, you know, we've had
all automatic since then.

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So it'll be interesting to have a
somewhat daily driver stick shift.

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I have to get used to that again, but
it'll be fun even though it's a Corolla.

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I mean, they're kind of the most
vanilla boring cars on the planet.

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Stick shift.

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It's a little bit better and
things in pretty decent shape.

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It's a little rusty, but you know,
what do you expect for 23 year old

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car in Northern Michigan, but they're
solidly built and the, you know, the

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chassis is good and the, the most
of the body panels are good too.

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It's just a little bit around the edges.

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It's got some rust on it, but it's not
nearly as rusty as that old van was.

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And interior's nice that needs a
door panel on one side and all the

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door handles interior and exterior.

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That's a typical Toyota problem.

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My Camry that I had had that same problem,
the exterior door handle, uh, broke.

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And the way I fix is I took a peach piece
of, uh, strapping and that wide cloth.

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Strapping and made a loop and screwed
it into the mechanism on the outside.

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So I had just had a, a loop and I
just grabbed that loop and , she'd

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write open right up, no problem.

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And then come to find out, uh, that's
what Porsche does on the Boxter.

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At least they did back.

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And then, you know, when they
first came out, the interior door

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handle is just a loop of cloth.

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So , it's kind of funny.

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I put Porsche door handles
on the, uh, Camry, but.

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Anyway, I'm getting far
afield on vehicular pursuits.

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Still plan on doing the, the auto.

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History podcast, but being as
busy as I've been, uh, haven't

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had a chance to launch it.

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I've got a couple of good interviews in
the can and got a couple more scheduled.

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So, uh, we'll get that going.

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Uh, definitely wanna do that and,
and explore some automotive history.

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I think maybe the Corolla would be a good
one cuz they've been around a long time.

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I think since 1970.

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I wanna say in the us, I don't know,
overseas might be more, but, uh,

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they're by far the best selling car
in the world now, uh, overall they've

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made, I wanna say over 30 million
of them with a Corolla named plate.

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So , it's pretty impressive.

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When the Volkswagen, I
think, got to 20 million.

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Or something like, or 15 million,
20 million, something like that.

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And the Ford model T
made it to 15 million.

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So, uh, yeah, we'll see, uh, how much
longer they keep making the Corollas.

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So of course they're nothing like they
used to be too many whiz bang stuff.

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That's another reason I like
buying older cars is not as

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much computer controlled crap.

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That 2013, Chevy's got an off.

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I mean, I like the truck don't
get me wrong, but, uh, I could do

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without a lot of the computery stuff.

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Although I do love my sister's car.

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Hers is a Toyota newer one, uh,
RAV4, which is a little less

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SUV, but it has radar cruise.

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Oh man.

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Do I love that?

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I wish I could add that
to a car, you know?

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After market, but I don't think that's
possible, but the radar cruise is awesome.

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You set the cruise and you
just, uh, follow along and

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you just keep up with traffic.

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It's, it's pretty slick.

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I rented a, a Ford one time to go down
to Columbus that had that, and it also

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had the lane keeping and all that.

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So basically you didn't have to do
anything, uh, to keep it in the.

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And even if you, if you, uh, just
hit the turn signal, you know,

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to change lanes, just tap it.

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And it would blink three times.

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And then if it was clear, it
would, it would merge left, pass,

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whatever slow vehicle was in front
of you, you hit the turn signal,

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it would merge right on its own.

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And, uh, I drove all away from
grayling, Michigan to, uh, the state

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line or, well, exit five down south
of grand or south of, uh, Ann Arbor.

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Without touching the gas or
the throttle on that car.

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Uh, cuz they just stayed on the
freeway and it slowed down, even

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went into a traffic jam and the
car comes to a complete stop.

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And then when the car in front of
you takes off, it takes off again

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and it's uh, really quite something.

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So that is one fancy whizbang thing
I wish I could get, but I'm not

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paying $50,000 for a new vehicle.

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Just not gonna happen
unless say hit the lottery.

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There's just no way in hell I'll
ever have a $50,000 new vehicle.

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You know, I'll wait till the, some of
the newness wears off and buy one later.

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. That's usually the better way to go.

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Cuz again, maintenance
and repairs on vehicles.

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Most of the time are
cheaper than car payments.

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Now, you know, if I blow an engine
on a car that I've got paid off and

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it's not worth putting an engine in,
I just junk it and get another one.

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It may not be the best way to
do it, but it's the way I do it.

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Let's see.

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Yeah.

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Other than that, uh, it's
been a pretty nice summer.

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Uh, getting a lot of stuff
done around the house here.

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00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,710
Uh, you know, mainly just sort
of spring cleaning things that

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got the fence up in the backyard.

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Uh, So that now I have a little
privacy again, uh, since they

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built those houses behind us.

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And so I put up a six foot privacy fence
and that keeps the dogs from barking at

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the neighbors back there and all that.

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So that's a good thing.

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And again, I have some privacy in the
backyard, so when I don't feel like going

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all the way into the house, well, I can
just use a tree next to my office here.

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But, and I'm not gonna get
into the politicy stuff.

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There is just a lot of that going on.

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00:26:55,245 --> 00:26:57,435
I don't, I don't know.

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It's, uh, I, I think we're living in clown
world, you know, watching some of the

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00:27:02,775 --> 00:27:08,355
headlines and I still don't watch the news
on TV except for every once in a while.

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I'll turn on the local news.

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If I know something's going
on, but for the most part, I

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get my news from a couple of.

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Daily podcasts and, uh, and you know,
some online sources and, you know, if

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anything big happens, I hear about it,
but, uh, I'm not going to look for it.

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00:27:25,905 --> 00:27:30,705
And I don't wanna sit through all
the drug ads and all that stuff.

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00:27:30,764 --> 00:27:33,254
Uh, it's just a waste of
time and actually, you know,

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00:27:33,260 --> 00:27:34,514
find, I have a lot more time.

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00:27:34,514 --> 00:27:40,095
I'm not watching a lot of traditional
TV anyway, especially not the news.

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But anyway.

446
00:27:44,910 --> 00:27:47,790
All right, well, I'm gonna just
call this a quickie update and.

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Let you guys get on with the next
podcast, but I do, uh, want you to go

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check out Mike, check out Mike Dell's
world.com on this episode and, uh,

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check out that closed captioning thing.

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Uh, let's see if it works on this episode.

451
00:28:05,495 --> 00:28:09,754
But it should be the latest episode if
you're listening to this, uh, anytime

452
00:28:09,754 --> 00:28:15,004
in September or October, although I hope
to have another episode before then.

453
00:28:15,004 --> 00:28:15,455
Come on.

454
00:28:15,455 --> 00:28:19,115
I got some, I got some
things, uh, to talk about.

455
00:28:19,235 --> 00:28:23,075
So anyway, we'll catch you next time.

456
00:28:23,075 --> 00:28:29,315
And again, check out Mike dell.com
for any updates I might have that

457
00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:31,504
don't include a podcast episode.

458
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It's me later.