Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.100 | Dan Garcia Returns for Our 100th Episode!

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

Good News York: Celebrating 100 Episodes with Dan Garcia In this milestone 100th episode of 'Good News York,' hosts Matt Masur and Mike celebrate the show’s centennial milestone with returning guest Dan Garcia. The trio shares laughs over past troll comments and discuss the growth of their viral video content. They delve into detailed car advice, debating the pros and cons of leasing vs. buying, routine vehicle maintenance, and features of modern vehicles such as lane assist and 360 cameras. Dan offers invaluable insights into the car market, including the importance of regular maintenance like engine flushes. The conversation takes amusing turns as Dan names the Toyota Sienna minivan as the most practical, long-lasting vehicle, surprising both hosts. The episode is a blend of humor, heartfelt gratitude to their team, and solid automotive advice. 00:00 Introduction and Special Episode Announcement 00:35 Dealing with Trolls and Eye Bags 02:04 Celebrating the 100th Episode 02:19 Viral Video Success and Guest Introduction 06:31 Understanding Social Media Algorithms 08:29 Podcasting: A Slow Burn to Success 15:12 Car Market Insights and Leasing Advice 17:55 Modern Car Features and Self-Driving Technology 24:03 Maintenance Tips and Engine Flushes 29:27 Electric Vehicles: Pros and Cons 31:14 The Appeal of Hybrids 31:46 The Diesel Dilemma 32:33 The Volkswagen Scandal 33:35 Biofuel and Alternative Fuels 35:02 The Future of Electric Vehicles 38:04 The Importance of Quality Wipers 41:57 Chevy vs. Ford Debate 45:14 The Reliability of Japanese Cars 51:22 The Versatility of Minivans 55:57 Closing Remarks and Announcements

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and Unirold's 50th anniversary summer specials. Hey, everybody. Yes. I'm Matt Major from Growth Mode content. Welcome to Good News, York. It is a very special episode. You know it's a very special episode because Danny counted us in. I don't know if he's ever actually done that.

Danny's fired out of a canad. I feel like we're suddenly like legit. Yeah. This was the episode. Yeah. It's a big episode, as you can see behind us. Matt is turning 100 years old today. It's true.

I'm so, you look great. I do. Oil of Oleg. Bags and everything. Oh, the bags. What's going on, man? The trolls? I don't, I don't, we're old and we look like shit, Mike.

I know. No, I know that, but what I'm saying is the trolls are seeing in on our eyebags, on yours and mine, and I don't know if that's good because it's. So here's the thing. You had a couple people pointed out to you, and I sort of broke your chops about it. Yeah, yeah. As you should. And as karma happens to,

last night at an event, somebody made a joke about it to my face. Oh, shit. And then, um... Did they really? Yeah. Yeah, I was like, oh, that's funny. Ha-ha.

Who does that? Yeah. One of my friends. It was funny. Oh, boy. Real funny. Hilarious. And then, uh, we actually had a troll comment on one of our videos that, that has gone

crazy. And I'll be honest. I was expecting a lot more because I have that video that opens up right in my face and get to be all horrible. they are. And so far, I only have one. But like I said,

it's karma because I was harassing you. But here's the thing. First of all, you look beautiful. So don't listen to the trolls. The second of all, I want to make it clear.

Look, first of all, we work very hard. That's why we have eyebags and we're old. You do too, okay? But also the lighting. We're working on the lighting. The lighting doesn't do us any favors.

I'm not making excuses. But I know I have eyebags, but man, there's some days I watch clips and I'm like, Jesus Christ, I look like a zombie. bro, no amount of light is going to fix these Samsonites

We're carrying around, all right? Samsonite, you are way up Listen, I love you. Who cares about the trolls? It's our 100th episode. It is. Dude, literally 100 episodes. And we have a guest.

We do. But not just any guest. We got a returning champion. He is a, you know what? That's a great way to put it. He is our returning champion. You need a belt. I didn't get a belt.

Damn. Ladies and gentlemen, it is fitting that for our 100th episode, we have the man that gave us our most Our first 100,000 view video. Yeah. And it is the man, Dan Garcia, from The Garage. Welcome, at 3100. At 3,100.

But no, thank you. Thank you for being here, but thank you for giving us our most viral clip. We were talking about this off the air. It was one of those things where, you know, we're constantly putting clips out, and we don't monitor the views every second. But that was the first time where we're like, hey. So this is, for what we're talking about. talking about is the, I simply asked him, and this was a throwaway question.

Yeah. It was the end of the interview. I just went, hey, is it a myth? You know, do you need to get an oil change every 3,000 miles? Holy shit, man. What a topic because people were fighting in the comments. What's wild to me is the number of people that, nuts. That didn't fight, but had to chime in.

Yeah. And it's like every dad on the internet just had to share with you. I do it at 3,000. I do it at 8,000. I do it at 5. It's, and nobody even argues with that. There was a lot of what I loved about it. There was a lot of positive.

But it was just, it was very interesting to me that everybody just happened to have to share their particular routine. You guys are stupid. I do it every 10,000. Read your owner's manual. All right. Okay. But it was, it was not only highly debated, but it just seemed like it was something that people

were chomping at the bits. It was awesome. So we're going to definitely have some more questions. And so we're going to whore you out. I don't want to throw any shade to our man. Okay. He is absolutely in the all-time Hall of Fame because he was the first to hit a viral video, but it is no longer our most viral video.

Oh, sorry, buddy. You've been dethroned. You've got to break it then. So here's the thing that's also... There it is. Come see me. There it is. Do engine swaps every 5,000.

You're just going to come out every five days and just go, engine, 5,000, change your oil. He's going to have a pile of motors packed up behind the shop. It's going to be awesome. Great. fitting today we hit for the first time ever on Facebook

1 million views in the past 28 days Are you Whoa whoa We need more zeros here I'm not acting I'm just finding this out When you sent that last night

I thought you meant one million views Since we started No in the last 28 days Bro That's that's in Just on all our videos Facebook On specifically

Just on Facebook Just Facebook. Wow. Wow, dude. Yeah. Yeah. So that's led primarily by my video from The Wild. It's got close to half a million views.

Here's a thing. Because of me. Here's a thing. I'm going to be completely transparent. That video we posted a little over three weeks ago. It's got, it may have hit a half a million. It was at like 497 earlier this morning. But two days ago,

Danny posted his video from the wild. It has only been there for two days. It's already got over 65,000 views. So I think there's a real good chance. As much as I want to brag, I think Danny's video is probably going to eclipse mine. And if we're being completely honest, his video is better than mine.

I liked it. It's a nicer video. It was a great video. The Joe's out of clipping there. Yeah. It was a great video. That's why you can see the difference between me and the guy that I hired to be the actual professional video guy.

Meanwhile, mine has, oh, wow, a whopping 242. Now, listen, here's what's wild. Wild. The puns just make themselves. That video that's gotten a half a million views on Facebook, got 156, not 1,000, 156 views on TikTok. Okay, okay, I see what you're saying. Danny's, one that's doing well on Facebook as well. is doing phenomenal on TikTok.

It's got tens of thousands of views already again in just a couple of days. So it's very, it's just that whole world is still very interesting to me. I wish there was a guy we could call like Joe algorithm. And we're just like, hey, Joe, can you just tell us like what? How do we figure you out? I will say that as we're, you know, deepening into this world, we are figuring out more and more. and I will say that TikTok might be the closest to transparent about some of those things. So they've got some new tools that Danny started playing with where you can upload a video

and it'll immediately tell you if it's got some sort of issue to give you a little bit of information. And they do try to be a little, I feel like, more forthcoming with the things you shouldn't, shouldn't do. That being said, there's still so much of it's an absolute mystery. And they're about to get bought by Oracle, so it's all going to be fucked. Yes. Let me ask you this, actually. all over again. I'm starting to see more and more videos of, I don't know, just random content

creators in my feed that'll say, here's the reason why you're not getting views, and this is what you have to do with the algorithm. And I'll admit, I... The reason you're seeing that is because I have that too. Unfortunately, it's pissing me off because that's now exclusively my feed. Oh, yikes. Because you know, we're in that business and I'm looking at those sorts of

things, but that's not all I want. I still want to see the funny videos. Yeah. And my algorithms, every video. Here's how you do this. Here's how you do this. I think body cam, footage and puppies. You got to buy the course. Yeah. Yeah. But here's my question.

Do I scroll past them because it annoys it. I feel like it's a sleazy ad. Or do you think there's some value in what some of them are saying? No, I mean, they're genuine creators. And here's the whole thing, just like anybody else. That's the niche that they've created. They get views on videos telling people how to get views. You know what I mean?

And that's cool. Like I said, there's a niche for everybody. It's just. Is there a machine somewhere in like some underground bunker that is the algorithm? That's how I picture it. It's just software. Yeah. Lines of code.

Lines of Coke? Oh, lines of code. I was like, damn. Probably some of them involved in the creation of some of these systems. That's good. Now it's going to be cocaine everywhere. Cocagna. We've got these stats that I've sort of talked about a number of times since we began.

Yeah, yeah. In terms of how many podcasts, just as podcasts, make it. And the reality is the vast majority don't make it anywhere, right? Sure. And this is the thing that we have told our content clients from the beginning, podcasting in this level of organic content creation, it's a slow burn. It is a slow burn. It's not like an advertisement that the second you put it up, somebody is going to go and buy that thing.

You know, it's kind of building a reputation. It's building an audience. It's cultivating a community. And we live in a very instant gratification world. Yes. So I can't tell you how many guys, and it's not just guys, but I'm going to say, though, how many guys start a podcast, put it out there and go, I'm not Joe Rogan in a week.

What the hell? So they just don't do it anymore. I think that's honestly part of the reason why a lot of people don't succeed is because they create, they curate their content and they post their content in a way that makes, in a way that they think that that's, that's what's going to happen. They're going to post it and it's going to go viral. Instead of just creating quality content consistently. Right.

And I'm noticing it. You told me that I'm the most impatient person in the world. I'll just start getting random messages from meta or TikTok like, hey, we've upped your distribution because you've been posting good content consistently. So, you know, it's like going to the gym. It's like anything. You just chip away at it. It takes time. It takes time.

So to that effect, I just want to share some stats. And I have the official stats. I've spoken off the cuff a few times. Luckily, what I've said seems to be accurate. I'm going to crunch the numbers here. So podcast episode milestones. And what this is giving us is how many episodes in and the chance of people reaching that many episodes.

Where are you seeing this? What is this? Podmatch.com. Oh, I thought you meant it was tailored to us specifically. No, no, no. Gotcha, got you. Podcasts in general. So 36% of podcasters make it to episode 8.

36%. So, like, just over a third. Hmm. They're the only ones to make it to episode 8. To make it to 50 episodes, it is just a hair over 10%. 100 episodes, 5.65%. So we're in the 5.6%. We are in the 5.65%.

So I'm going to give you because this is pretty cool. Usually that's where it stops. We've got some more. So this will give us something to look forward to. 200 episodes, it goes down to 3%. And 300 episodes is under 2%. That's what, and I was doing math on the way here, ironically, or coincidentally, I get those mixed up, that our 200th episode should land if we stay consistent with how we've been doing around April, end of April May, I think. Which is not that far when you think.

They give us a couple more stats that I just think are kind of interesting. They say approximately 655 podcasters quit every single day, which is just a wild stat. But you've got to start to quit. And the last thing they give you is just the likelihood of success, 5.65% hitting 100 episodes. We are the likelihood of success. The chances of failure in podcasting are 94.35%. That's unbelievable.

Two things. One of my favorite quotes, which ironically, now I'm using it right, I don't remember exactly the quote, but I'm paraphrasing, but Jerry Seinfeld basically said once. He goes, I was never the funniest comedian. Who are these people? I was never the funniest comedian. That's the truest thing.

But he's like, I was never the funniest, but all the people that I was coming up with gave up, and I just stuck around. I mean, that's persistence. Right. And number two, here's my question, though. Those numbers are amazing, but in this world that we live in, in podcasting,

it's a do-it-yourself thing, right? So I don't understand when it says people don't make it past the fifth or eighth episode, right? That blows my mind because they're not getting fired, that means they're themselves just giving up. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's so easy to make it past the eighth episode if you just keep doing it. Right.

It's, you're doing it to yourself. Like I said, it's an instant gratification thing. And don't get me wrong, I've been there. I've been a part of podcast that didn't make it more than eight episodes. You were on the fucking forefront, my friend. I've been in other ones that have lasted this many. So in any case, that's our celebration. Happy 100th episode.

Congratulations. to you. This is your brainchild, man. I will, we were thinking about a balloon drop, but then Danny was going to have to clean it all up. It was going to be a whole thing. Quickly, I want to just give a couple of shoutouts. So, you know, obviously, Mike and I on the show, you've seen probably Danny behind the scenes. We've also got Amanda, who is our kick-ass, everything. To our Ghostbusters.

She does the incredible still photography you see all over the place. She does our guest booking, just an all-around spectacular person. and I wish I could clone her. My son Malachi, who is here. He is our editor on the show. He is the one that makes this available for you to see every day. He's one of the most important people in this operation, and he's the one that's the farthest away.

And he's here today, which was so great to see him and give him a big hug. And I forgot how large he was. My God, tall, tall man. Tall, man. But thank you to the whole team for making this happen. Man, this is all, when I saw it, when we talked in December of 24, and you had this whole idea, I didn't quite grasp it, I got the concept. You have come. It's a gentle cruising.

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You're a great businessman and you treat your employees like gold, man. And you want to talk about karma. You know, I think the 100th episode is just scratching the surface for you. Not for me. For you, man. You deserve it. I appreciate that. I mean it.

But now, as you said, let's get to our guest. Yeah. Now I feel like I'm neglecting the poor guy. I know. Dan is the car man. Car man with good karma. So we talk about the garage. we also don't talk about quite as much.

He's got a car lot, so you can go purchase a vehicle. This is the guy. And I would love, if you don't mind, buddy, to sort of start there for a minute. And honestly, I'm going to be a little selfish. I need some car advice. Yes. So I've got a month left on my lease, ready to give the car back, have no idea what I want to drive going forward. I like the idea of a lease because, A, there's some business benefits for me, right?

But also, as I'm kind of shopping around and I'm looking, I'm seeing some of these places have the purchase prices the same, if not less than the least price, which is a little mind-blowing to me. Obviously, you still get some of the business benefits, but also it was nice that you got, you know, considerably cheaper price than to buy a vehicle. I'm sure tariffs are going to play a part here pretty soon. Yeah. So, Dan, I just love your advice on where the car market's at. Should I consider buying pre-owned? it would have to be newer pre-owned. You know what I mean?

And what's your thoughts on that? Well, my professional opinion is never buy out your lease. Yeah. I don't want to do that. It's ready to go back. I hear a lot of people that'll ask me the same question. They're a question. Well, I think I should just buy it out because I'm just going to buy another used car.

And I'm like, don't buy out your lease. You already paid the depreciation. They're going to sell it to you with more depreciation still. Oh, good. Usually buy the same car. It happens. The market right now, we're not seeing really inflation. on the new stuff.

Used. It's come down some. It's not like it was. But honestly, most value right now, just buy new. If you can afford it, buy new. If you can't afford new, then obviously to use would be the option. But my best advice is, if you like the lease prices and the benefits for you at least, keep leasing.

A lot of good lease deals, especially towards the end of the year right now. Sure. everybody has a lot of stuff that they need to move because all the 26es have been rolling in. I got you. They have 25s they want to move. So I would, for you, I'd look there. On the used market side, things have been about the same. Yeah.

The past probably five months. You're not seeing much drastic drop like you were for a little while, but you're also not seeing like a consistent rise. Yeah. It could change towards the end of the year where if the tariffs hit. You know, we had that tariff scare, I think, around the last time I was here. And it was like, whoa. And now it's more like, yeah, you don't really have to do much. You just watch the prices.

Find the best deal. Sure. A lot of the times you might have to shop around to the different dealers to find the better release deals. But they're out there. Another thing I wanted to ask you is, so a couple of things that I have really gotten spoiled with in these brand new cars are a couple of these, what I think are real modern features, right? like the automatic cruise, the radar cruise, there's the specific name, I'm blanking on it for it, lane assist. Lane assist, yeah.

And then my car currently has the 360 camera. Yes. I don't want anything without these features anymore. If I were to consider used, how far back could I go and still get those? Are they only the last few years? No, it depends on the trim, usually, and depends on the make and the model. A lot of like the Toyotas and the Hondas and the Lexuses. I mean, they've been doing the 360 stuff probably since 2016.

Okay. But you've got to go high trim. Sure. They're great features. Yeah. The lane keep assist, that's more like 23 and up. Gotcha. Another great feature.

I love it. Yeah. This is the safety that's involved. Right. It keeps you in the lane. You get distracted for 10 seconds, but it's still kind of keeping you there. But yeah, the 360 is definitely a big one. I'll tell you what, I, I've got the Audi and my wife's got Toyota.

Yeah. And she just got the newest Toyota. That one, I feel like the lane assist and everything is just so much better, which sort of blows my mind because it's a really good job. Yeah, Toyota did a really good job for that. Yeah. But that one has even the brake assist when you don't have cruise on. You can be just traveling in traffic. And if it thinks you're getting too close, it'll automatically slow you down.

Yeah. Which seems a little weird. It sounds like something that would probably annoy me. In all honesty, it's not bad. I turned lane assist off because I'm such a bad driver. It was telling me you need to pull over immediately arrest. Well, I mean, that's fair. But also what I think was neat about the Toyota is I feel like her lane assist when you turn that on.

It keeps you centered in the lane like you'd want to be. My Audi is like it's just like an emergency thing. It doesn't wait for you to veer. And then it'll freak out and like jerk you. I hate that. Like, what the fuck? I feel like Patrick Swayze from Ghost is in my car, and he just takes my wheel. The Toyota, so from experience, my one Nissan Rogue that is a rental, it has the 360 lane assist,

and I delivered to a customer yesterday, and I don't drive it much because it's usually out, and it was on. And I'm like, same thing. It was like throwing me. It was shaking my butt, telling me, you know, pay attention essentially. And I'm like, oh, I forgot this thing has all these features. And it's a 23, you know what I mean? It's not a high trim package. either, but it's the safety that's involved in the way.

The Toyota one is great. We had a Sienna, the newer one, and it centers you versus, like, like you said, ping pongs. Yeah. The ping ponging is not fun. Have you heard anything about these new Fords that have this, it almost sounds like on the highway it'll drive for you feature?

The self-drive. Man. Yeah. I haven't heard much about it. Yeah. I think it's newer that they're putting out. Yeah. But a lot of the cars are going with like a self-drive option

or like a, you know, super cruise option where it's like, essentially you just have to have your finger on the wheel. We're real close to it driving for it. Yeah. I feel like with all the tech and them, a lot of them have the capability. They don't have the legal behind it yet. Sure. And like the, you know, I mean, to my knowledge,

the only full self-drive that you don't have to have your hand on the wheel and you can kind of do whatever you want is the Tesla's. Yeah. And then my Cadillac, but you have to essentially, pay it you have to look forward it has like an eye monitor oh wow so it monitors your eyes so you can't be looking down at your phone oh wow somebody over here shit it'll like beep beep beep like gives you a couple warnings and if you pass the warnings it yeah then it essentially tells you no more what's i don't love the idea of these self-driving cars too driving cabs in in a couple of vagus and things

where they're testing them yeah but here's the thing it's very scary to me right now but i think in a future world and this is something that they've talked about. Eventually vehicles will be able to communicate with each other. Yeah. So as they're doing that, you can be on a highway and they can know that there's an accident half a mile ahead and it'll communicate to the cars back so that you have less accidents and less, you know, proper flow of traffic. That day, I think, will be pretty cool.

But I think there's going to be a ways between here and there that is not super cool. I mean, the GPS has already know that. Like if you're on Google Maps, it'll tell you like, I travel a lot. So I'll be in, you know, like Maryland or something. It has me getting off an exit, going to the light, and then getting back on the exit, just to cut 50 people off. And I'm like, oh, my God, Google, you're a business. I love to be driven. I don't like to drive.

I like to. Sure. You know, who doesn't like to be driven, right? Yeah. But I, this is way too soon for me. Just like when you get a new, with a new iPhone comes out, right, I wait until all the bugs are worked out. Yeah. And all the kink.

Because guess what? Bugs and kinks with a self-driving. driving car means accidents and death. And I don't want to be that guinea pig. People have said that, you know, in the IT world, we've always said that about different technologies and things. People have always said that I feel about about new vehicles, especially a brand new on the market by the second model year.

That's not a myth. Yeah. X that one. That's not a bet. You definitely want to wait. Yeah. She liked dropping and back off at the dealer after like 500 miles. Yeah.

I love the idea, but I'm just like, no. See, that's the thing. That's the reason that I really look for the. these brand new cars. First and foremost is because I don't want to have to do anything other than very basic maintenance. Sure. You know, and the idea, that's the worst part is having to fix cars. You know, on the positive side, when you do have to fix cars, having somebody like Dan is the best thing you could ever have in the whole world. Because that is an inevitability no matter what you drive.

There's something for your pros and- once a year for an inspection, you've got to come see. Yeah. But for your pros and cons list of leasing or buying? Yeah. There's another checkmark for leasing, less maintenance, right? because you're getting something newer. Well, yeah, that's absolutely the case.

So that's another... Anything with a warranty and that sort of thing. But, Dan, when folks come into the shop, what is, I guess, your most common sort of repair you're doing? Or is it inspections in those things? We do a lot of inspections, a lot of just general maintenance. Yeah. But what you're seeing a lot of on these newer cars

that they are pushing the oil change regimen so far out is a lot of, like, engine sludge. Oh. Yeah. And it's big in, like I said, I have the Nissan rental. So we do engine flushes on that because it's a very common thing on that model year where they, because of their 10,000 mile oil changes and the engines are getting sludged up. We see them go through the auction announcement, engine sludge, void factory warranty.

Oh, wow. Lack of proper maintenance. Just because the manufacturer said, oh, you're going to wait until 10,000. You shouldn't wait till 10,000. Oh, wow. Then you get an engine sludge. So it's funny you say that because I can. This has not been on my radar until recently.

I keep hearing about engine flushes now. This is a, yeah. I thought that was something that was like a very rare thing that, you know, mechanics did when it was absolutely neat. Is this a thing that needs to be done? Yeah, it should be added in as, as, you know, maintenance, essentially. They're not, they're not super expensive. We do them for, like, 189 with a full synthetic oil change.

And it just, it helps cut down. It cleans all the ports out. It takes a little bit longer. It's not, you can't do it at Valvalline. It doesn't take five minutes. You have to let the car idle for about 15 to 20 minutes, get it nice and warm, get all that chemical deposits. It breaks down everything inside the engine, and then we drain it out and put fresh oil in. How long does that take?

That oil change usually takes. We like a lot an hour, just because we want to make sure that then we get all of it drained. So you're essentially going to change the oil as well. Yep. I mean, right. And we actually drain it where a lot of the quick loop places now are sucking it out. Okay. So it's not coming out of the bottom of the pan.

They're actually just sucking it out of the engine. And how often should you do? So they're not even pulling the drain plug? Nope. They're doing everything from the top? Yep. That's wild. That is wild, man.

Yeah. And I didn't know that. One of my customers told me, and I was like, yeah, we won't go to Vaville anymore. They're sucking the oil out now. And I said, and they know a little bit about cars. And you want it drained because the sediment sits at the bottom. Right. How are you getting it out of the bottom?

I mean, you've drank out of a straw out of a problem. Sure. You're not getting everything out, but you poke a hole in the bottom of it. It's going to all come up. I'm out at the bottom, right? Well, that's so ridiculous. A lot of vehicles still have the filters still right there. You've got to get underneath.

They'll do that underneath, yeah. But I'm just saying, like, if you could avoid going underneath maybe, but you can't. They hire, you know, you don't know what they're doing. They strip the drain plugs. They crack the, oh, I'm sure. And so there's risk involved. Don't tighten them in their franchise places. It's not.

So for them, it's like if we can avoid having to be a oil pan job and we can suck it out, they don't, they're not, they don't really care about your maintenance. Yeah. How often should you do an engine for? flush. Here we go. Yeah. Those, it depends on the mileage of your vehicle, right?

So, like, if you buy a brand new car, you don't have to do it for, I would recommend maybe 30,000 miles. Okay. Right. But, like, if you have a car with 100,000 miles, I recommend them every, like, 20,000 miles. Okay. Wow.

Some people will want to get them done every oil change. We use a product. It's a liquid mile, and it's a great product they've been around for a long time. and it just So you basically do it Is it almost like an oil change for you? So you just fill up the engine with this product? We pour it in the oil where the oil goes

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Because they're telling you $10,000 because on paper that looks great for cost of ownership. So if I, you know, that's all they care about is what the numbers break down when they say, oh, this is an affordable car to own because you only have to get the oil change every 10,000 miles. The same thing friends with electric cars will fight with me about. Well, I don't have to get oil changes or gas.

Okay, but your battery is going to go bad in 10 years. Yeah. Or a fully gas car is going to run as long as you can, maintain it. That's the thing. I can't bring myself to a fully electric vehicle just yet. And I wish I could, but I just feel like it's not there. And it's a shame because they're giving them away.

I mean, we talk about lease prices. Ford's got a beautiful fully electric truck. And you can lease it for like 200 bucks or something. Like it's stupid cheap. But it's still, it's like I still just, I can't bring myself to do it. Do you find that you're seeing people coming with a lot of problems with a lot of problems with electric vehicles? So we don't, we're not certified to repair them. We can do maintenance on them. We can do like tires and brakes. That's about it. I mean, everything else they, and that's

the other thing. Like the electric car companies have made it so that you don't, you can't repair it yourself. Independent shop can't repair it. It's got to go to them. So in reality, what they're doing is they're building, they're giving these cars away now, knowing that they're going to go back out after somebody leases them and they're going to have to come in for repairs. Yeah. They've cornered. I mean, I have, like I said, I have friends with the electric cars and they take. tell me what their dealership bills are. And I'm like, huh? Like a friend just had to get a seal on his window replace.

It was like $280 for a rubber seat. That's crazy, man. What was real wild is, if you remember, when that Tesla specifically started, they didn't think about repair parts. There was an afterthought until they had sold all these cars and people go, I got to do this and that. And there was no, they built no market, no ecosystem to, for the repairs and maintenance. I was like, guys, come on, you know. But I met a guy a while ago

who drive one loves it, but talked about doing every bit of maintenance himself and, you know, having to get the things and in that. So I guess if you're real handy, that's cool, but it's just it's not for me yet. I don't know. They'll get there, maybe. Or hybrid. I don't know why we skipped over hybrids. Nobody can explain this to me. I love the hybrids. It was a great idea. Yeah. Half gas, half electric non-plug-in. Yeah. Is golden.

You know, they have great range, and they're, you know, they're actually repairable. Yeah. That was where guys had to just get trained on the electrical system. Sure. Not a whole car, you know. Yep. And if the battery started to go poorly on those, you could still drive it. Right.

Where if this full electric car, the battery starts to go bad, it's done. It's on the side of the road. You're not going anywhere. Yeah. You know. What happens a while back now, I would say a decade ago, probably at this point. My wife and I bought a VWTDI or we leased it.

TDI, I don't know what that stands for. You probably do, but basically... Herbo-diesel. It was... Yeah, I think that's it. We... So it was diesel gas. And I was like, this is a...

How many times you fuck that up? No. Believe it or not, none. It was very, very close. There was a lot of like, I'm going to take this nozzle up. But the thing was, I remember thinking, well, we're going to pay so much more for diesel.

dude, we drove like six hours to Delaware and it took a half a take. Yeah. Amazing. Why, where are TDI? What happened? Why are there no more TDIs? I don't see TDIs anymore. That feels like that should have been the next phase of the future.

You don't remember the whole scandal? No, I don't. It was a whole thing where Volkswagen's essentially they... Oh, they lied about the mileage, right? They tuned the computers to make them pass admissions. Oh. So they had them all set up so that they would pass a, admissions, but really the numbers, they weren't the real numbers.

They had the car telling the computer, you are passing admissions. But they were not as equal-friendly as they said. There it is. But it's also, we're in America where every one of those TDIs that had to get bought back by a Volkswagen, I think they put them on containers and shipped them everywhere that uses diesel over gas. Sure. Because they do get better mileage.

It's just not something that, because we're an eco-friendly country. Okay. You know, as much as we can be, I would say. You can still get some classic diesel Volkswagen. Oh, yeah. Some buses. Knockin when you started. Yeah.

Yeah. I just felt like that concept, you know, even after the scandal, that concept, what was kind of caught on, but what do I know? Well, that was also the way. Out of the German car. You know, everybody started making the biofuel and the French fry gas and all that stuff. Those were exclusively diesel engines. I got to wonder if part of, you know, giving people less options.

I used to work at a restaurant. This dude would come in like once every couple weeks. And genuinely, we would allow him to take the grease in the trap for his car or his truck. Yeah. And then he'd pull away and it reeked like, like he just like a burger joint coming here. There was, I don't know what the status is, but there were legitimate businesses that were collection companies. And they had what looked like a fuel oil truck that would go to all the restaurants to recycle the oil. And, you know, the restaurants, it's waste.

They're more than happy to give it to you. Yeah. But it's, you know, there was a lot of refining and all that. And then at one point, see, today where gas is kind of high, it might make sense. I think one of the areas it lost out is when it started getting traction, the price of gas dipped. Right. And it started to stop really making sense. Yeah, I think that's as.

We really are back up. We are. Because I feel like, I feel like it was around like $2 and change what they could make it for. Oh, what they could make the biodies for. Yeah. It was. But I don't know. It's always kind of blown my mind that that's not more of a thing.

But what are you going to do? I think the easy answer to all of it is capitalism. You know, this stuff is better for the consumer, but it's not going to make the companies enough money. That's it, really. A couple of the manufacturers essentially have stopped their EV lines. They're like, we're not doing it. Yeah.

Profitable. I think I want to say Honda was one of them that said, like, we're not doing full EVs anymore. That's great. They're doing half gas. half electric and some plug-in. But that model is the way to go is half-gas, half-electric. Yeah. 100%.

It's self-charging the car. It's essentially running a generator. I don't think we have the infrastructure to run full electric. If everybody in the country had a full electric car, we'd have no power. We'd be sitting here in the dark. Yeah, I wouldn't even want to roll the dice with a full electric. The reality is, like, having a backup. We'll build up to that.

You know what I mean? But at the same time, we've got to progress a little bit more in this battery technology. Right. Like, we got to get more bank for our buck. I just bought stock in lithium battery mining companies because that is... Well, that's... I mean, you're not going to lose them with that, but, you know, it's... We've had promises of different things, but we need, you know...

Some people predict the idea of a battery, basically the size of your cell phone that your whole car can run on and you pull up to a gas station, and you basically swap it out and plug it in and it's just like a refill and you're good to go. It's wild. You know, if we get to some... kind of world like that, then hell yeah. You know, bring on the all electric cars.

Sure, sure. I agree. I agree. That's a great point. The hybrid bridge seems like the logical. Yeah. It's like a hard switch. Let's like cut some emissions,

cut some gas. But also know that we can make it. It's like posting content. A slow burn. There you go. You got to build it up. He brings it full circle. Dan,

the garage at 3100 in downtown Syracuse. If you need any sort of vehicle, anything he is the guy to talk to him. One of the only honest guys. I don't want to say the only honest guys, but they're rare in that business. You get not a lot of honest guys. A lot of bad stigma. Or guys that you just, because of the stigma, you've got to spend some time to figure it out. I'm giving you a shortcut. This guy's good. Dan, I want to ask you a couple, Mike's got some couple like rapid fire questions. But before we do that, let's just grab your plugs and website, stuff like that. Yeah, absolutely. It's the garage.

at 3100.com. That's our website. You can do booking requests. You can see our services. Awesome. Specials, all that stuff on that. And then the dealership side of things is cash cars, c&Y.com. You see all our inventory on there.

We can do vehicle finder. If we don't have it, we can find it for you. And we are also purchasing those relics that are sitting in people's driveways to get them out before winter. Nice. That's great. Those two things. Like I said, anything automotive. And then as well as the rental vehicles.

no website for that that we use Turo for the bookings on that but check me out on Turrow as well cool that's great cool Mike what do you what do you got for our buddy here? Listen we talked about this at the beginning of the show that he gave us our most viral clip

I don't want you to think we're hoaring you out I mean these are actual questions that I have and if they go they do well they do well I just recently and by recently I mean like a week ago I was changing my wiper blades which if you ever want to feel like less of a man

change wiper blades and struggle with them and have to watch a goddamn YouTube video I'm laughing because I know how this story learned it's a wiper blade I can handle this dear I cracked my windshield like an idiot yeah I which ironically in the YouTube video

was like make sure you put a piece of cloth so you don't crack your windshield I'm like what idiot's going to do that this guy you really should disconnect the negative battery cable before anything you do well I melted a friend's battery battery cable that's a whole other story but I will say shout out to Safe Flight, who that was the most unbelievable process.

So the windshield cracks, I call. Not only did they handle the insurance claim, but they're like, hey, listen, we can't come and do it in your driveway because you have a sensor on your windshield. We got to replace the whole thing. And I'm thinking this is going to be a fucking, I took it to like the next day. It was done in an hour. So shout out to them. Wow.

I was very surprised. But with that being said, the reason I'm doing that is because I'm driving more. I live in Ithaca, so I drive to Syracuse. And so I looked up. It was actually after you were on the show. I looked up, when should I change oil, spark plugs? And I noticed it said wipers. And I don't remember how often, but I'm at about every three months.

I'm noticing that they're not doing their job. So here's the question, Dan, the man. How often should you change your windshield wipers? Well, it's not how often. It's by a better quality wiper. So it's when the extra money get a good quality wiper. A lot of the time, they should last at least the summer. Okay.

There's ways to clean them with like an alcohol pad as well if you get a good wiper. If you're buying, you know, $5 wipers, you're going to go through them every three months. Just like if you bought cheap shoes, you know, you're just going to wear them down. But a nice wiper with a good flex in it, you know, with a good quality blade. You know, I don't have any brand preference. You could usually tell by the quality. What do you think about the winter blades? Yeah.

Yeah. They have a little bit more protection. so like the ice doesn't get in the channels. And then you got like these chunk wiper blades with ice, you know, on. Yeah. But a lot of like the newer stuff has like the heating element at where the wiper will sit on the, you know, cal near the windshield. So you don't really need them. And those flex wipers have similar to what a winter wiper would.

You ever notice like the winter wiper is usually like really puffy? Yeah. And that's just to keep the ice from getting in, you know, the blade itself. That makes sense. So what is, I probably missed it. What's the verdict? Like how often should you change the light break? You know, your winter's coming, so change it, you know, next month.

Yeah. And then probably again in the spring. So by season. Yeah, usually. Yeah. Okay. I mean, if you have a really hot summer in the car is baking all the time, they're going to melt on the windshield at some point. But also do change them.

Yeah. There's nothing that drives me more crazy than being in a car. You don't change them. Yeah, well, yeah. I'm done. You come see me. Go to a professional. That's very nice of you.

but I am not going to roll into your fucking garage and be like, I'm here for him to change my wipers. Like, I've got to be able to be. Make it a part of another service. You know, just, you know what? Rolling out. Oh, hey, hey, while you're at. I'm not doing that.

And wiper blade service at the same time. It's like, also, Dan, can you come wipe me? I have to go to the bathroom. Like, it's, it's very, I'm not a manly man, Matt. That's true. You know, I try. We know. I know.

I mean, listen, I wouldn't try to do you. I wouldn't go on the stage and try to do stand-up, so let me come do your wipers. Yeah, I guess. It's fair. Should have brought a set. You got to change your stand-up every time. How to do it would probably what we do. I've got a great question.

Go for it. This is, and now this is so subjective. So, but I, when I was growing up in the 90s, right, and in high school, I went, I was in a rural town, Herkimer, New York. I swear to God, there was a turf war going on between Chevy kids and Ford kids. And I don't know if this still goes on. But, I mean, and there was always like that one of him ran, what about dogs? and they'd be like, shut up. Yeah.

But I don't know if it still goes on, but, you know, I looked it up, and, of course, my computer rebooted on what Ford and Chevy are known for. But people get really mad. I guess the question is Chevy versus Ford. What is Ford great at? What is Chevy great at? And if you have a winner, who is it? That's tough.

It's a tough one. I know. Well, because I am a GM guy personally. I like my Ford. I mean, I like my Ford's for, like, the heavy products, right? Okay. Like, I will show up with my Ford F550 rollback tow truck to pick you up on the side of the road.

But I'm not driving at home. Gotcha. Because somebody might have to come pick me up at some point. But I love my GM products. My Chevy and my, you know, GMCs. They're... So GMC, Chevy, Cadillac. So your team Chevy.

Yeah. But if you're running like a, you know, a tow truck or something, absolutely get a Ford. But I've seen too many fords on the back of a Ford tow truck. Yeah. And not so many Chevys. What about in the car realm? It's a gentle cruising.

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Liquiddeath.com. Like if you did Chevy or mini SUV, Chevy Ford, same thing? Absolutely. Shave. Take a Tahoe before I take, you know, an expedition any day. Hmm. Yeah. That's going to cause.

Right now the comments are blowing. I missed the 95 Ford Taurus. Dude, I had a Ford Z. Well, that's the other thing. Now, I will take a Ford Economy sedan before I'll take. take a Chevy economy sedan. Oh boy. Interesting.

Because Ford kept making them, and Chevy was like, Matt, we're only doing trucks and SUVs and stuff that is real expensive. Where Ford, I think this year they're ending the focus. Oh, wow. I have two fiestas in my rental fleet. They're reliable cars, but they're cheap. And they show how cheap they are.

Like everything is like, everything gets a scratch. You can breathe on it. And it's just, it's a cheap quality car. but they're still quality there. Now the Chevy, I think the cruises, all of them were blown up. They put turbos in there. They're all just, you know, at the repair shop, we see more Chevy cruises than anything. Wow.

We have a guy that comes in after hours and he does, you know, he can rebuild the whole Chevy engine with the turbo in like, you know, six hours. Damn. He's good at it. You said Chevy over Ford and then you just said you saw more Chevys in your shop. Different model. See, different models. Saddamis to dance.

Okay. Big Chevy truck guy. All right. You know what's funny is, Mike is not exaggerating. I didn't go to Herkimer? He went to I mean. That was like two miles away.

People and we didn't have this quite this dramatically. But Herkimer was known for kids having fist fights over Ford Chevy in the parking lot. Really? Like that was a known thing. Good. Thank you. You're making me look like I was not lying at all. You guys were slightly more country than, you know, well, you got East Herkimer.

So that was. Dude, that's where we partied. Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and a case of old mill bar bottles and then a Chevy or Ford. But yeah, no, they were real fights. I can taste the warm beer. This one's a good one.

This one's a good one. Okay. What country makes the overall best cars? I'm going to get this guy killed, I think. Nah. I think I know what he's going to say, and I think it's going to be the popular. I think I know.

And I think, I'll guess. I think you want to say Japan. I love... the Japanese cars for the affordability and the reliability. I love my GM products because I'm just, I'm a fan boy. Yeah. We would have been fighting.

I was the same. Yeah. But, yeah, as far as like cost reliability and it's proven reliability, I think Toyota or Honda, they all advertise on a regular basis. Like, we have more cars still on the road from 25 years ago. I mean, right now on the dealership lot, I have an O2 Honda Civic. Dude. No rust on it with 130,000 miles on it.

Think purrs like a kitten. I swear. Don't tell my son in the other room. No, I'm telling. For me, when people... Oh, yeah. He'll drive it back to Florida. When people ask me, like, we're talking about cars that last forever,

the two that always come up are Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla. And I have a buddy that drove a Honda Civic until it was like 200. No, no, no. It was like 310,000 fucking miles on that thing, man. And it was good, you know, it was. It was fine. But we're programming to think we have to get rid of them at 100K. Yeah.

That's the number, right? And you're hiding, you're like, oh, God, I'm getting towards 100. What are we going to do? Right. You drive a lot more now, but it's maintenance, right? That same Honda, if you don't change the oil, it's going to struggle, but it'll still keep running. It'll run like crap. It'll lose its mileage.

But it'll still keep running. Yep. So you're saying 100K, because you're so right, actually. On the way here, I was looking down and I'm going, oh, man, I'm up to 56 already. Like, you know, and I'm thinking I'm almost at 100. And for some reason, that in my mind, that's like, once you get to 100, it just turns off and never turns on again. So that, you think it could go, it could go to. We're just a program for that.

200, 300. I mean, that Volkswagen of yours, it's not any Honda, but it'll do, it'll do well, too. Yeah, I love it. There's a, there's a courier company in Utica that I don't know if they still do, but at the time they ran nothing but a fleet of Volkswagen Golfs. And they had on-staff mechanics. So they got very regular maintenance. they're all five-speed sticks and with the exception of the occasional person

who lied about being able to drive stick and would burn up clutches like there was cars that they would retire at half a million miles and it's still running just like all right it's probably time to let it go yeah yeah you know but that's wild man it was incredible man

and ran and they were hey you know those little hatchback cars they take back seats out of them and you had nothing but a big cargo area and ran them until they didn't run no more. They put four studded snow tires on them in the wintertime. They'd go like snowmobiles. Yeah.

And it works. But it all goes back to maintenance. Again, the biggest key there was that they had an on-site garage, on-site mechanics that honestly kept an eye on the vehicles on a daily basis, but really did maintenance on a very regular basis. You know what I hate those fucking people that drive those cars that are the size of this table, they look like they're driving in a little roller skate. Yeah.

And they're just like a grown man with a beard who's like, what are the, do you work on those cars? Have you worked on the smart cars? I don't even, are they smart cars? Yeah, that's what they call. I don't look smart. I mean, it looks very uncomfortable. Yeah. It looks uncomfortable and I would never would.

But it makes me want to ram them. Yeah. And like. Ion made one at one point two. Yep. It just blows my mind that you would drive that around in upstate New York in the winter. I couldn't think of a more, like imagine driving in a roller skate on a one? Dan, correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the type of thing that is very popular in other parts of

the world, right? Absolutely. Like these Ford and Chevy make tiny things. A lot of the European countries, small. Like, the Chevy Spark is huge in Europe. Yeah. Nobody wants to spark here. My son was watching a YouTube video the other week where this guy takes, I want to say the country is India where they, you know those very small trucks?

The very small, like flatbed trucks. Yeah. I have one. You do. Yeah. And they get him so cheap and they have them shipped over to the U.S. Yeah. And they run like tops.

And he gets it for like two. thousand dollars dude it's wild i'm telling you dan i think there's a whole business in those i have one coolest i love it gets attention i pull up to a car beat and people are like love this thing i mean mine's all redone i have way too much money to it i'll never get my money back out of it typical car guy thing but you know don't ask you know my girl how much i have in there's there's one on the internet that a guy turned into uh yeah yeah exactly it's just the cheapest car we got right there's a guy on the internet that has it all decked out as a milwaukee tool truck one of those little things.

And it just, it is the coolest looking thing ever. It's awesome. I just, I don't know. I want them. Somebody put a jet engine in the back of the bed of one. Oh, shit. That was pretty interesting. So I saw, and one day, we'll need to genuinely do this.

I really would love to get our hands on one of those. So there's one guy that I discovered that a YouTuber who found one of these. It was like $2,500 in change shipped, gets it, pops it open. You got a bolt on the mirrors, you know, it's completely, right? A Kia car. But the dude did a follow-up video a year. later and he goes, let's see how it is. Still running, driving, handy as

hell, you know, it's as basic as you could possibly get. But he's like, man, I'm pretty impressed honestly. Yeah. I would love to do that. I think we, dude, if I could get one of those if I could get a stock of those, I'd buy them for everybody. We'd all have just a

company fleet of $2,500 cars. I don't know if he's making it in the winter and won. No. I ain't driving here in that fucking if you could pick one like money's no option. Put skis on it. Money is no option. What is the most superior car as far as like, like, forget money because that's always the driving force. I'm just saying money's not an option.

Safety will last forever. You know, parts are for it. What is? So not necessarily a show car, but your best daily driver. It's going to give you the best bang. So like something if you had to own for 30 years. There you go. Yeah.

Toyota Siana minivan. Really? What? He busted out minivets. What? Because I love it. Versatile, right? If you were telling me I can only have one vehicle for 30 years, right?

Yes. And I need it for everything. I don't know where I'm, I don't know if I'm going to have kids in 30 years. This is brilliant. So it's like the most perfect vehicle. If you were starting a life right now, right, at, you know, whatever, and you needed to, you wanted to keep something for 30 years, you're going to pay it off and, you know, six. Then you own it outright for the next 30 years.

It can be a cargo van. It can be a friend hauler. It can be a family hauler. It can be a kid hauler. It can be a Home Depot runner. He's so right. My wife made us get a mini... Go ahead.

It'll run for up. It'll run for up. My wife made us get a minivan and I was mortified when we first had our first kid. And then I realized at the time I had a band. And it doubled as our family car and then our band van. And we traveled the country in this little minivan. And at that point, I said, I said, I'm done making fun of minivans. And now you've just solidified it.

It's not sexy. It's not. argue with it. Some of the newer minivans, I mean, the newer minivans are not like when we were teenagers. I mean, I'm going to run you like 70 grand because it's decked out. Yeah. One car for 30 years. Yeah, you're keeping it forever.

You might get the most loaded package. Yep. That is the self-driving, you know. If you gave me 30 options on what you were going to say, the Toyota Sienna minivan. You would have never gotten there. Never. But that's awesome. And you're saying that I'm not practical person.

So this is for opinion. Yeah, this is great. I'm not practical. I'm still buying a $100,000 escalate B. None of us are going to buy it, but wow. That's great. It's awesome.

That's why we love you. I think we should make him officially our GNY automobile, like, I think we've already specialist. I think we've sort of already done that. Well, but like he could come on more.

We'll bring people on, they can argue and we'll just sit here and watch. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With like an electric car person. Yeah. There you go. Or a Chevyverse Ford. You know what I mean?

Well, actually, we get 48,000 pounds of torque. The only thing that bothers me about people that know cars, not you, but they're so, they expect that you're supposed to know. Like, they're condescending where I'm like, hey, how often should I get my all changed? I do it every 3,000. They're like, 3,000. Sorry, that's why I'm asking you. I'm sorry I don't know all these things. Like they act like we're all, you know, you're born with a penis.

You're supposed to know everything about cars. or trucks. You don't know how to do a break job? You can try it. When you mess it up, let me go. I had a buddy teach me. I'll pick it up with the Ford tow truck, and then we'll fix it for you. You will always be on speed dial.

I did learn, I had a friend that taught me how to do an oil change and a break. I can change a tire. He taught me how to change brakes. I will admit, it is a lot simpler than I thought when you watch. Yeah. But then to actually do it. Oh, 100%. I don't know if I'm trying to.

Yeah, do they always make it look so easy. All the videos are always of a rust-free. car though. Yeah. Exactly. When the calipers and the everything's rusted out. Like it was just built yesterday. That's the other thing. I used to hear back in the day that when you would get your brakes changed, sometimes you would just change the pads or the shoes, whatever. And now I'm noticing is it true that you pretty much when you're going to do breaks now, you're going to

change the rotors and everything now? Unless you have a high performance brake system, usually at this point. You used to get the rotors resurfaced. Right. It's not cost-effective time-wise. It's going to cost the same to just replace the rotors now. That's why it's changed. Yeah. That's all. And we're in the Northeast, so your breaks in, you know, two years from the rusts and, you know, they're already pitted, so you can't grind it out.

That's the other thing. You want me to change the most important feature in a fucking car? Like, because if that goes wrong, guess what that means? It's fair. All of us are getting hurt. It's fair. Or killed. So, yeah, no, I don't want that responsibility.

I had a wheel fly off while driving after doing a break job when a time. Are you serious? Yeah, I didn't torque them enough. When you're driving down the road and your back tire passes you, you know there's a problem. Listen, many years ago, a friend of mine did breaks on my car before I learned any of this stuff. And I remember we got like two miles down the road. I pulled over, I go, my front end's shaking real bad.

He goes, oh, stay right here. I'll be back. He didn't tighten the lug nuts all the way. Oh, man. He's trying to kill me. That's wild. Could have been rich. Could have been very rich.

We could do this all day, which is why we will have Dan back many times. Our resident automobile specialist. Thank you, buddy, for joining us. You are. The doctor of auto. Celebrating our hundreds. Yes, sponsored by ads on the go. Get ads on the go.

We love you, Zach. You were not our sponsor in the beginning, but you are sponsored now. Yeah, he's been here. We don't have a full calendar. He's been here for at least half this journey. I would say so. Big shout out to Zach. Congratulations, buddy.

Yeah. I wouldn't want to be doing it with anyone else, man. Oh, thanks, buddy. I was talking to Dan. I know. And with that, it's time to go. We'll be back tomorrow. Will we?

No, we won't. We'll be back next week. Yep. We'll back next week. GNY Sports, my first episode's coming out today. I'm very excited. I was very not excited. I didn't think I could do it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, no, we already shot it. We already shot it. But it's coming out today and it's something Matt wanted me to do. I didn't, I wasn't sure if I could do it. He's been working on it. Let's just say when we started this project, Joe Namath was still throwing ball. Yeah, I dragged my feet a little bit.

That was the oldest sports name I could think. That was perfect. No, that was a great reference. I'm assuming the person is still old. Do you ever see the video where he was hammered and hit on the reporter on the sideline? I don't even know who that is. I genuinely couldn't pick him out of a lineup. I just grab the name.

It's absolutely fair. Oh, dude, you're the guy. Regular sports, don't answer. Dan Garcia. I'm a NASCAR fan. Go fast, turn left. And with that, peace out. It's a gentle cruising.

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