Can You Build A Killer Ride On A Tight Budget?

Welcome And Guest Tease

SPEAKER_04 0:04

Welcome.

Don Armstrong 0:06

From the Dual City Studios in Texas, USA, it's the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show. Just ahead, Jennifer Jordan on the hot rod build-off. All right. Jeff will have the cruise in an events calendar. Mr. Mars is going to get to his hiking in Houston driving destinations segment. And I'll bring you stories making automotive news this week. Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeke, master studio, and transmitter engineer David Ainsley. I'm Don Armstrong. So glad that you could join us on this Saturday. If you're listening on a podcast, thank you very much. We appreciate that as well. All right, let's get to our first guest, and that is Jennifer Jordan, partner in the Mother Cluckers store in Victoria, and troublemaker with the Hellions Car Club. Jennifer, I mean, the list goes on and on. You're you've got your fingers in the pie and lots of stuff here. It's a bad girl.

SPEAKER_04 1:03

That's right, that's right.

Don Armstrong 1:06

Well, it's it's great to have you uh with us this morning. And uh so let's talk about your background and uh car club, uh Hellion's hot rod riot and and the this hot rod build-off that you've got going on. Uh let's talk about that. That's coming up in November, but um I understand that June 1st is when the build-off starts. Am I correct?

Mike Marrs 1:30

Yes, you are correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:33

Yes.

Don Armstrong 1:36

Okay, and and and who and who is that who is that hairy man sitting next to you?

SPEAKER_04 1:46

Victoria.

Don Armstrong 1:48

Mr. Mars, we're we're losing. Yeah, but we have a problem receiving your signal off of your cell phone, so you guys are gonna need to go outside or something. So, Mr. Mars, we'll let you handle that uh while uh uh while we uh uh move on with this and and actually uh tell you a little bit about Jennifer. She's a mother of four, uh two girls, two boys, also a grandmother to four wonderful kiddos, uh originally from Victoria, Texas. Trey and uh she uh own Jordan Speed Shop, where they say that they'll do anything from minor repairs to frame off restorations. That's always a scary thing that they'll do anything. Yeah, I like it. Frame off. Uh Bestie uh uh and uh her bestie owns a retail store in downtown Victoria that she's uh cloned as mother cluckers downtown. I like the name. So uh very busy woman. Um she's also the Victoria chapter president of the Hellions, which is a car club. Um, and uh I'm not exactly sure. And when we get her back online here, we'll talk to her about this. Jimmy and his wife Marcel own affordable towing out of Victoria, Texas. They're huge supporters of the local car club scene down there. So uh interesting uh to have her on there with us. Um so a little bit about this build-off that they've got uh in the 2026 riot uh show that they're gonna have. It's uh five months to build this thing with a$4,000 limit. Yep. I can't even imagine that. Um do you have what it takes? Think you can build the baddest ride on a budget? Uh now's your chance to prove it according to the flyer that they sent us here. And uh so five months to build, four thousand dollar total budget, no excuses, no shortcuts, uh just raw creativity. And um the all I can think of is there's a guy that's on the uh hot rod tour, uh, which we weren't there this year. This past year, right? Yeah, but uh the smoking yeah, they're uh their diesel club.

Jeff Dziekan 3:56

Diesel club out on the rolling smoke or rolling coal or something, black black smoke babies, something like that.

Don Armstrong 4:01

Yeah, and uh so they took an old pickup truck uh with an old body, put it on a decent frame that could handle all the torque of a diesel engine, and then they just kept working on it and working massaging it, yeah, and all that sort of stuff. And it looks like hell. But I don't know how else to put it.

Jeff Dziekan 4:20

You know, but that's part of the look. Five months to do it. Now, five that's a good time. That's a good time frame. Four grand hours is that four thousand dollars that you're putting into an existing vehicle? That's your limit, or that's the total with the car and the build. We'll find out. They're back on. Here we go.

Don Armstrong 4:37

All right, Mr. Mars. Uh let's questions. Yeah, we we hope hopefully got you got better signaled now. So there you go. We we've read through the entire flyer that you sent us, and we appreciate that. And we gave everybody a rundown about who you are, Jennifer. So um you're in trouble now.

unknown 4:57

Okay.

Don Armstrong 4:58

Still having problems with that. Um anyway, so continue on with what you were saying.

Jeff Dziekan 5:02

Well, yeah, because if it's just the money that you're allowed to put into it, so you got an existing car. There's a Corvette in the garage back here. Corvette in that thing. No, put a diesel in that, tub it out.

Don Armstrong 5:13

Yeah, no. Yeah. But I'm thinking, you know, some uh weak need old Corvette that the engine's been blown up. There's one in the garage. There's that. Yeah, there's that as well. So um I I don't know. I I just think that uh it'd be a lot of fun, especially if you got a car club of your own and have a car club actual job to do. This would be the job. And somebody's gonna have to give up the garage uh four or five months, and uh the guys come over on the weekend, you know, work uh eight hours on a Saturday and maybe a couple hours on Sunday, and whenever you can get to it.

Jeff Dziekan 5:49

That's where you need to know somebody with like a pull apart or a junkyard area that you can salvage an intake or maybe get a set of shocks or a uh rear axle or something like that. Yes. That that would be the buddy up system there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It uh make your four grand go a long way.

Don Armstrong 6:12

Okay. Well, we'll just let them uh there they are. There they are.

Jeff Dziekan 6:16

We lost Mike, but we got them. That's that's a good trade.

Don Armstrong 6:18

Okay, Jennifer. So we're gonna try this one more time. Third time, and you're out now if you did if this doesn't work.

Mike Marrs 6:25

Hello.

unknown 6:27

No, nothing. Great.

Don Armstrong 6:30

Okay. Well, at any rate, um, we're gonna have to bypass that, uh, unfortunately. But I think that I gave you the the the whole idea behind this thing. Um I'm not exactly sure of the website because they don't so we got this on Facebook. Uh Facebook.com slash South Texas Performance, I think will get you uh into where you need to go if you're interested in something like that.

Jeff Dziekan 6:52

See more on that page. Yeah, absolutely.

Don Armstrong 6:54

Yeah, so um anyway, judged by the public at the hot rod riot. Uh the hot rod riot is going to be November 6th and 7th at Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas.

Jeff Dziekan 7:06

I'm sure they got food and all kinds of things.

Don Armstrong 7:10

I'll bet you who's gonna be there. Mr.

Jeff Dziekan 7:11

Sparkman in his entourage.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

His entourage, yeah. Yeah. He kind of heads up all of the hot rod stuff down there at Victoria. World leader of Victoria.

Jeff Dziekan 7:20

He's Mr. Victoria. Mr. Mr. Vic, Mr. V. We'll call him Mr. V. Mr. V Sparksman. Exactly. Sparkman.

Signal Trouble And Event Details

Don Armstrong 7:26

So anyway, um, that that looks like a fun time. Sorry we couldn't get them on the air. Don't know what the problem was, but we may have seen them at one of the tours, too.

Jeff Dziekan 7:35

They're involved in that. I'm sure that they are from Victoria.

Don Armstrong 7:38

So you know the funny thing about Victoria is, and I've mentioned this before, it's not that far from Houston.

Jeff Dziekan 7:44

Oh no. That's a neat little drive. The construction sucks, but that's gonna be over with in another 20 years.

Don Armstrong 7:50

Well, I don't know which way you went, but I didn't run into too much construction.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 7:56

Just yeah, just uh uh skipping the sections that were think that it was a half hour and twenty minutes or something. Yeah, something like that.

Jeff Dziekan 8:04

Well, if you stop at Bucky's, then you're looking at an hour two hours, because you gotta stop at Bucky's.

Don Armstrong 8:08

Yeah. So you have to.

Jeff Dziekan 8:10

That's you can't travel to Texas without stopping at Buckey's.

Don Armstrong 8:13

In fact, I posted something on my personal Facebook page. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Yeah. Um and uh if you who passes by a Bucky's nobody. Uh everybody stops at Bucky's, whether you need gas or not. Gas is just an excuse because uh that's a whole shopping spree in itself. Exactly. Um we have some I have uh my cousins that live in Wisconsin.

Texas Road Stops And Buc-ees Ritual

Jeff Dziekan 8:36

They don't have a Bucky's up in the whole outfit from shoes to your your foundation or your delegates, and then you can buy you know a nice bucky shirt. Yeah. Belt, bucky belt.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 8:47

Hey, um I uh had a uh epiphany.

Jeff Dziekan 8:53

Uh you're gonna say seizure.

Don Armstrong 8:55

Well that goes without saying um there is a story that I really wanted to uh bring to your attention. And that is um a I gotta I gotta dig through here. Oh I think I found it.

Jeff Dziekan 9:12

We got Mike back. Yeah, hello Mike. Michael, are we good? There he is.

Don Armstrong 9:18

Okay. He and he has it has no microphone either, apparently. So he can't speak.

Mike Marrs 9:24

He just uh forgot to unmute his mute.

unknown 9:26

Okay.

Don Armstrong 9:27

Uh one of America's most popular cars is going electric. No. Uh sparking preschoolers' imaginations from the horror of a$5 a gallon gasoline. Little Tykes. Yeah. Remember Little Tykes?

Jeff Dziekan 9:42

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 9:42

Little Tykes has introduced the cozy e-charging station, a$33 accessory that converts its timeless cozy coupe toy to run on theoretical battery power. Now you know what I'm talking about, that little plastic thing that you bought all the grandkids.

Mike Marrs 10:01

I know that it was red with a yellow top on it.

Don Armstrong 10:04

That's it's the same one.

Mike Marrs 10:05

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 10:06

The charger has lights and sounds, and it plugs seamlessly uh into the car's existing fuel door. Now I did not realize that the thing had a fuel door, but maybe they've uh newer models. Newer models have the fuel door. No adapter or re-engineering required, though it does need three AAA batteries, which aren't included. Um according to the Little Tykes website, whether they're running errands around the playroom or cruising through the backyard, this charging station makes every trip more memorable. Children, ages 18 months to five years. In practice, of course, the plastic-bodied single-seater continues to run solely on the power of its driver's own feet, Fred Flintstone style. Uh Little Tykes has long offered a cozy pumper for make-believe trips to the gas station. Cozy Coop has been ruling toy-strewn driveways and suburban sidewalks for nearly half a century now. Logging sales of up to 500,000 of them a year in the 1990s. Its$65 suggested retail price easily makes it the cheapest EV around, though ill-suited for trips outside the neighborhood. I think we bought both both of our girls.

Mike Marrs 11:21

Oh, yeah, I think everybody had one. All of us bought it for our kids.

Jeff Dziekan 11:25

Little Tyques is owned by a company, AllPlay, and I actually am the account rep for AllPlay for shirts.

Don Armstrong 11:31

Seriously. Yep. Well, you know what? We ought to get them to send us uh uh the toy, uh the little the little electric charging station along with the thing. And what we'll do, what we'll do is we'll donate it to the Toys for Tots when it comes time uh in at Christmas. I think they are tailpipes and talking toys for tots wrapped up.

Jeff Dziekan 11:52

But I'll find out. But yeah, I do the shirts for him. Yeah. We'll do John Cole. John Cole is the All right, John.

Don Armstrong 11:58

If you're listening to the show.

Jeff Dziekan 11:59

He does a lot of traveling. That guy's hard to get a hold of, but we'll find out. I can see it now.

Don Armstrong 12:03

In a in a tiny tyke. Electric one. Electric one.

Mike Marrs 12:07

Yeah, I can see it now, 20 years from now. All these little kids that have grown up and they're going to be going to the therapist and they're gonna be saying, What's the earliest memory you have? Oh, I had a little tiny tyke and I was on the driveway and hit a puddle.

Don Armstrong 12:19

And I got electrocutor uh with those batteries that are not included in the set.

Jeff Dziekan 12:25

That's three AAA's.

Toyota Texas Plant Expansion Talk

Don Armstrong 12:27

Well, there's something for you, so there you go. I'm sure you can order the thing online. And if you've already got one and you need an electric charging station or a gas station as well, apparently battery station. Yeah, you you can order it and uh get one delivered to your front door within moments. Um, there's a big news story this week. I think it's big news. They're all big news. Big, big Toyota, North America, may build a two billion dollar assembly plant adjacent to its current Texas truck plant with construct construction starting as early as this year, according to documents filed with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Um, if the project is approved, it would become the automaker's sixth U.S. assembly plant when output begins in 2030. Wow. Now they haven't said what they're gonna build there, but knowing Toyota, it's not going to be a singular place, a singular output assembly plan.

Mike Marrs 13:29

But what's in the first paragraph?

Jeff Dziekan 13:30

First line.

Mike Marrs 13:31

Yeah, one of the stories I read is that it was gonna be the Tacoma.

Don Armstrong 13:35

Well, the Tacoma is currently running off the tundra plan. Well, the whatever line.

Jeff Dziekan 13:41

Yeah, but it says maybe high-end tundra.

Don Armstrong 13:43

Well, I know it says maybe because nobody's willing to show their hands. Commit, yeah. But I can tell you that this is gonna happen with confidence. But don't ask me why I got the confidence, but what else can turn on? Listen, they wouldn't they wouldn't be touting this news. Yeah, it's called Project Orca.

Jeff Dziekan 14:01

Oh um submarines, they could be building submarines.

Mike Marrs 14:05

Yeah, in San Antonio, yeah. Perfect.

Jeff Dziekan 14:08

And launch them in the Riverwalk. I doubt that. And when they had that big rain, you we just had the big rain coming through there, evidently. Was it you telling me that all those restaurants got flooded on the Riverwalk or most of them?

Don Armstrong 14:19

Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 14:20

Amazing.

Don Armstrong 14:21

Yeah. Um with the big rain that went through there. Texas weather is weird, especially in the spring. We you know you never know. In the fall, it's usually hurricanes, but uh in the spring, it's these monstrous weather systems that roll through and stay stagnant over the area and dump feet of rain. Yeah. We're familiar with that here.

Jeff Dziekan 14:42

I want to tell you that this this season the you get a little bit of rain, you get a little bit of heat off you know every few days, which is perfect. My my yard, the flowers, the veggies, everything is awesome. So keep that cycle going. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 14:56

Okay.

Jeff Dziekan 14:56

If you're out there listening.

Waymo Robotaxis And Flooded Roads

Don Armstrong 14:58

Um I don't know whether you saw the news, but I saw it actually this morning, uh, the story. And I've seen it online as well. Waymo recalling thousands of robo taxis to fix a software issue that could cause the autonomous vehicles to drive on flooded roads, speaking of flooding. The recall effects, thirty seven hundred and ninety-one vehicles equipped with the company's fifth and sixth generation automated driving system, like we would know what that is. That's according to documents posted on NITS's website. The robotaxi business is working on a final remedy to address the problem, according to the agency. The decision stems from an April 20th incident in San Antonio, where an occupied Waymo robotaxi encountered an untraversable. I didn't even know that that was a word, an untersable flooded section of a roadway, according to the documents. Rather than avoid the potentially dangerous street, the vehicle proceeded into the floodwater at a reduced speed. Waymo temporarily suspended robotaxi operations in the city after the incident. The company said it has resumed autonomous operations there, but has not yet restarted rides for customers. The story that I saw was that apparently there were many Waymo's roaming this particular one neighborhood.

Jeff Dziekan 16:13

Calde sac. In the cul-de-sac, I think.

Don Armstrong 16:15

They all got caught up in there.

Jeff Dziekan 16:16

Anyway, did that say it had a passenger in it trying to not untraverse it or not traverse?

Don Armstrong 16:20

I I didn't say. Although no one was injured and the recall is relatively small, the incident highlights the challenges for driverless vehicles to adapt to unpredictable weather and other unexpected roadway conditions without a human driver's judgment. Waymo's been rolling out its robotaxi service in cities across the U.S. in a growing competition with the likes of Tesla. NHSA has two separate investigations into Waymo self-driving vehicles. One is probing an incident in which a robotaxi struck a child near a school in Santa Monica, California in January, while the other was opened after the company's cars repeatedly failed to fully slow or stop for school buses last year.

Mike Marrs 17:00

So so the taxi knew enough to slow down before trying to traverse the untraversable water.

Don Armstrong 17:09

Apparently so.

Mike Marrs 17:10

But it didn't know enough to stop and don't go through. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Don Armstrong 17:14

So they're working on that. We've heard those stories before that.

Mike Marrs 17:18

Well, but out there in San Antonio, when we lived out there, you could have a flash flood in two hours and and you'd have more flooded streets and there would be signs up, there'd be barricades up, all kinds of things. But if the car can't read the dang sign, then it ain't going to stop.

Jeff Dziekan 17:34

Well, those are the Conestoga days back then.

Don Armstrong 17:38

That's right, Mars. The Conestoga days. I think you were putting cell phones with long cords in cars back then, weren't you?

Mike Marrs 17:45

Yeah, we that's when we developed the the the corded the circular one, the spring action so it could stretch a little bit.

unknown 17:52

There you go.

Don Armstrong 17:53

You were probably at the beginning of that. Hey, we need to get his segment in.

Jeff Dziekan 17:56

We need to get his stuff done.

Hidden Houston Hiking Destinations

Don Armstrong 17:57

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Mike Marrs 20:01

Yes, sir. I think we should. So we're where is it? It's two down. Go ahead.

Don Armstrong 20:07

Go ahead and go out.

Mike Marrs 20:08

One of the things that you know, if if you want to go out hiking, if you're an outdoors person, sometimes you want to go out hiking just to get out into nature. A lot of people go to the Grand Canyon things, but if you can't go that far and you want to look for a place around Houston, you could go to the usual Buffalo Bayou or Memorial Park Loop that you all mentioned earlier. But there are other places that might be of more interest. For example, Terry Hershey Park. Now, this is when you go there, you're gonna see the main paved hike and bike trails along Buffalo Bio. But what you want to do is get away from that and get into the informal dirt spurs that kind of go along the waterline, especially west of Beltway 8. Now, the side paths kind of dip down into narrow tree tunnels. There's root-covered banks that you've got to be a little careful on when you're walking on them. There's a lot of bends that slow down to the almost swamp-like pools that you're gonna see that you won't see from the regular uh Buffalo Bile tracks and trails that you're going on. Now, you can also, after it rains though, you gotta watch out because parts of it's gonna feel more like East Texas than Houston. And in the mornings, if you go in the early mornings, you're gonna see some herons and turtles. You might even see some deer tracks along some of the muddy edges that actually track up. Again, you gotta be careful. Don't want to slip and fall out in the middle of nowhere. Now, the second place you might look at is the Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary. Now, this is kind of hidden in the city of West. It's a morrow on the west side of Houston. It's not real big, but it's got a lot of trees that make it feel much larger when you're walking on foot. It's got boardwalk sections that kind of go through the shaded creek corridors. You get a little bit of sunlight coming through, it kind of gives you a real remote feeling to it. It's very quiet. For Houston in particular, you don't hear the traffic. You can hear the birds, and you can actually hear the winds through the pine and oak trees. The loop is kind of short, so it's not something that's going to take you all day, but you can be a nice, take you a nice slow. Wander on a hike and uh go through it, particularly a light rain, you're gonna get some ground smells that actually will make you think you're in a forest someplace besides in Houston.

Don Armstrong 22:09

Ground smells, ground smells.

Mike Marrs 22:12

It's better than your cat smells out of your checkbox. Anyway, so the third place you might want to look at is the Willow Waterhole Green Space. Now, this is a larger place. It's in uh southwest Houston, and it's really got its own, it's big enough to have its own ecosystem. And it's go on the trails, they wind through the retention ponds. There's several of them. You got a lot of tall grasses, open water edges that reflect the sky at the sunset. You can get some really nice colors in there. But unlike most manicured parks, it's intentionally not manicured. It's very unfussy. It's got curved paths and branches without any sort of feeling. You're kind of more wandering through, literally. Got a lot of bird activity, and on windy days, the tall grasses, you can actually see it wave like you see uh like in the Midwest, out in the middle of nowhere. Number four would be Spring Creek Greenway. Now, this is Houston's uh almost wilderness corridor that you might call it. It's the closest thing to a continuous nature walking corridor in Houston proper. Now that stretches for miles along Spring Creek. You've got some nice sandy soil underfoot, thick hardwood forest, and you got long stretches that where you're not interrupted with any sort of buildings or anything. It's not like a city park, because this one has real distance. You can actually get a few hours deep. And I'm talking hours walking without looping back quickly. The forest changes as you move through it from this dense oaks to pine pockets. You also have some low wetland sections that you can find, and you get to where you want to go to a scale of nature that really feels really out there. You can see some great focks, and and to be honest, this thing is listed supposedly as the longest trailing uh hiking area in the nation. It's 40 miles actually long that you can walk out through this thing. So if you get lost out there, don't do it. Uh the fifth one that I would bring up is Buffalo Bayou, of course, lost lost banks and side cut trails. Now, this is an underrated loop iter walk, as they call it. Now, most people stick to the Buffalo Bio trails near downtown, but you get out away from that to the side banks and the feeder paths between downtown and Shepherd. There are some connections that drop you closer to the water. You get underneath the bridges. You can also get into some sun-shaded concrete and forest corridors where the city feels layered on top of itself. You know you're in the city, but you're not feeling like you're in the city. They got drainage channels, of course, there's a few graffiti walls. There's a few places you can actually go fishing and uh find some openings in the skyline that let the sunshine in to where you do again feel like you're out in nature. So it's more of a pure nature hike, but it's really not out of town that far. So that's just a few of the huge, few hidden places in Houston that I was not aware of. If you're a hiker, that you can go hiking. Uh, a couple of them are around town, you're gonna have to drive to get to them, but they're there.

Don Armstrong 25:06

Uh very nice. I like that. Yeah, that was a very informative. I I didn't know about all of that.

Jeff Dziekan 25:11

Yeah, the second one that you had when you with the had the uh the bridge with the trees around it. Do you hear any like I don't know where it's at, but I'm just imagining there's probably traffic, car traffic, maybe highway traffic around that that you could probably see.

Mike Marrs 25:24

The second one was the Edith L. Moore nature thing. And supposedly they say, which I haven't been there, but they say that you're far enough out that you do not hear all that traffic.

Jeff Dziekan 25:32

Okay, that's sort of my concern was.

Cruise-Ins And Texas Car Show Calendar

Don Armstrong 25:34

Okay, cool. Thank you very much, sir. Now on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, it's time for cruise in and events calendars.

Jeff Dziekan 25:42

Alrighty, here we go. So this is next Saturday, May 23rd. It's the Masonic Lodge District 78 car show. Excuse me, it said 210 Avenger Field Road in Sweetwater, Texas. It is at the Wasp Museum.

Don Armstrong 25:56

Wasp Museum.

Jeff Dziekan 25:57

Wasp Museum. Wasp Museum? The Wasp Museum. It's the Wasp Museum in Sweetwater.

Don Armstrong 26:01

I got one there out there in the back patio. They're swarming around that thing right now.

Jeff Dziekan 26:06

Big old thorax. Uh we'll be given the best in show, best interior, best paint, best engine in the top 25. And then we've got, again, on the 23rd, Don's gonna like this. My car is hotter than yours, car show. This is uh actually in McLean.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

My car is red hot. Your car ain't doodly squat.

Jeff Dziekan 26:26

It's at the cactus inn in McLean, Texas, 101 North Pine Street. If you don't know where McLean, Texas is, it's east of Amarillo. So it's a it's a boogie drive out there. That's a way. That's a way to be able to do it. Yeah, that's a cruise. That's a cruise. It's an hour and 54 minutes by airplane.

Mike Marrs 26:40

Yeah, but 15 hours to the Amarillo.

Jeff Dziekan 26:42

Yeah, yeah. It's in the it's in the Cactus Inn in downtown McLean. This two-day event will feature live music, food, vendors, spectator entry is free. Well, if you want to enter your car, it's a$10 donation for that. And then we've got uh the 24th, which is the Sunday. We've got the Memorial Weekend Bash. It's at the Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas, another Victoria staple, 407 Memorial Drive. Participants can't compete in hydraulic competition featuring multiple categories. The event includes a$5,000 in payouts, over 100 awards will be distributed. So go check that out. It goes from noon to 5 30 in Victoria at the Riverside Park. And then uh Sunday, next Sunday, it's at the Autism Car Awareness Show. It uh goes from 3 p.m. goes starts at 3 p.m. It is at 2509 Hendrick Street in Gladewater, Texas, which is in East Texas, Mike. You know that area.

SPEAKER_04 27:36

Yes, sir.

GM Executive Estate Sale Story

Jeff Dziekan 27:36

Alrighty. Uh$25. You have to say that with a little accent. That's OR and East Texas. That's over there in East Texas anymore. Over there. Martha? Uh begins at 3 p.m. and includes a$25 registration fee that covers a free meal. Okay. You can get those in prison too. Uh attendees can't participate in a 50-50 drawing. People's choice awards voting will close at 5 p.m. You got live music provided by DJ Scolo, DTV. I don't have any of his albums. Uh at the 2509 Hendrix Street Gladewater. Be there, check it out.

Don Armstrong 28:12

Oh my god. Well ran across this interesting story. Former General Motors Vice Chairman Harry Pierce had such a keen interest in astronomy that he had a seven-foot fiberglass observatory built upon uh his home in Detroit's northern suburbs, fully automated astro haven clamshell dome, and Pierce's collection of astronomy grade telescopes are among the hundreds of items up for grabs during a three-day estate sale that starts uh today. The sale is May 15th through the 17th. Wait, this is the 16th, so this is day two. The Pierce's 10,000 square foot home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The observatory is to be removed after the sale, according to Antiques on Maine, which is handling the event. Pierce, who retired from GM in 2001, died in October at the age of eighty-three, perhaps best remembered for exposing the NBC's dateline program, falsely rigged pickups, to warn of their fire safety risk, if you remember that story. His blockbuster two-hour rebuke on live TV prompted NBC to issue an extraordinary on-air apology and to pay all the costs GM had incurred in probing the false broadcast. It earned Pierce, then GM's general counsel, a promotion to vice chairman in 1996. 2025, an estate sale for another former Detroit 3 executive, Donald Peterson, who ran Ford Motor Company from 85 to 90, drew so many people that its final day was postponed because traffic overwhelmed the neighborhood.

Jeff Dziekan 29:44

So you take a whistleblower.

Don Armstrong 29:45

Yes.

Jeff Dziekan 29:46

The first whistleblower.

unknown 29:47

That guy.

Don Armstrong 29:49

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