Why California Pays A Weather Tax On Gas And Cars

Welcome And Guest Intro

Don Armstrong 0:08

Well, thank you very much for the applause and welcome to the In Real Time Car Talk Show. Auto personality and journalist Jack Nierad joins us from the left coast to talk about the price of gas out there. Yeah. Gotta go fund me for him. And um is I drove this jealousy segment along with California politics. We're gonna talk about all of it. He doesn't know any of this yet, but we're gonna talk to him about it. In Jeff's car culture, tires that glow. And Mars Mother's Day Texas weekend getaway to drop her off. Happy mother-in-law. Howdy, along with Mike out of this world Mars. We always need more Jeff Zeken, Chief Engineer David Ainsley. I'm Don Armstrong. Glad that you could join us on this Saturday morning for our live gift to America. We certainly appreciate it. I'm full of it this morning, aren't I? Yeah, your eyes are brown. Up to here, your eyes are brown. I got it all razzed up this morning. He is razzed up. He's been razzed since I've been here. So uh do we have Jack with us yet?

SPEAKER_01 1:13

Yes, sir. Okay. Patiently standing in the green room.

Don Armstrong 1:16

Let's let's just there he is. Ladies and gentlemen, the famous, the one, the only, Jack Knee Red. The man, the man, the myth, the legend, the guy that is going to get into the governor's race in California here away.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

I don't want to foul that up. I think we got a shot here.

Don Armstrong 1:34

So and guess whose show he's on? Our show. Yeah. The next governor of the state of California, Jack Knee Red. Jack, how are you, buddy?

SPEAKER_03 1:44

I am terrific. I am terrific. I'm so glad to talk to you guys. It's always a pleasure.

Don Armstrong 1:48

Well, it's it's a it's a it's a brief moment to get out of all of that mess that you guys have got going on out there. My God.

SPEAKER_03 1:56

It is crazy. Yeah, it is.

Don Armstrong 1:59

And you can and you continue to live there. I'm thinking that if you stay there long enough, the price of your house is going to go down to nothing.

SPEAKER_03 2:08

Well, you know, oddly, the uh housing prices keep going up and up and up, and you know, my house has been a pretty good investment, so that's good. But you know, we pay a gigantic weather tax here. That's the way I look at it.

Don Armstrong 2:20

Uh a weather tax.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

Yeah. We have great weather and uh we pay for it with everything else. All the crazy.

Don Armstrong 2:28

I will tell you this uh uh there's something I don't know what it is that draws me to California. I've always loved California, haven't spent tons of time in LA, but uh San Diego has a special place in my heart, and so does San Francisco. Every time I've been there, it's been wonderful. Yeah, yeah.

California Gas Prices And Oil Talk

SPEAKER_03 2:45

So beautiful place, beautiful place. We drove up the coast last weekend to visit my daughter, uh, who lives in San Luis Obispo. So we got to see the uh southern coast, the central coast. It's it's a gorgeous state. There's no doubt about that. It's a great place to visit.

Don Armstrong 3:00

Well, let's talk about cars. Uh anything uh new on the agenda? Well, I'm gonna back up. First of all, how much are you paying for a regular tank of gas out there? Let's go buy the gallon.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

It's about$650, something like that.

Jeff Dziekan 3:15

You know, it's so if you want to contribute to Jack's GoFundMe page, here's the address.

Don Armstrong 3:21

Oh my god,$650. Well, I thought it was a good one. Yeah, I was gonna say, well, it's uh$350 here. Just uh not to make you jealous or anything, but you know, and the funny thing about it is is that you guys make gasoline out there.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Yeah. Well, we haven't, but we and there is so much oil off the coast you just can't stand it, but nobody is willing to touch that. Nobody even even talks about that anymore.

Jeff Dziekan 3:50

Well, your your politicians are pretty oily and greasy out there.

SPEAKER_03 3:53

So you know, there you go.

Volvo Wagon Love And EV Buzz

Don Armstrong 3:54

That's it. All right, well, so what are you driving this week?

SPEAKER_03 3:59

I am driving a Volvo V60 cross country, which is a terrific vehicle. I mean, it is so fun to drive. Uh, I got into this thing about four or five days ago. I actually attended a Volvo event where they were showing the EX60, uh, which is gonna going to be their latest uh electric vehicle. I think that was uh a little earlier or this past week. Drove it up there to see that, and I just love this vehicle. It's it's just terrific. And I don't know, you guys probably have that journalistic disease of loving station wagons.

Don Armstrong 4:35

Oh, yeah. I do Jeff especially in my life.

SPEAKER_03 4:38

Yeah, I do, and uh one of my first cars was a station wagon, actually. And and uh, you know, this is just a terrific, fun-to-drive little station wagon.

Don Armstrong 4:47

So did that third row did it look out the back window?

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Uh the station wagon I had was uh you guys might remember it, the uh AMC Hornet Sport About Wagon.

Don Armstrong 5:00

I'm sorry. Close relationship.

SPEAKER_03 5:04

Yeah, yeah, you know, all of the bubble top.

Don Armstrong 5:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's that's that's good to know, Jack. But something's fitting about that. I don't know. Are you an AMC and a station wagon? It works. No, I don't see it. No, okay. It's just me again.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Yeah, 22 years old and driving that thing.

Don Armstrong 5:20

So nice. What you know, it's funny because uh I don't get any Volvos. I used to get Volvos, I don't know whether they're not in the press fleet or they don't like me or whatever, but I'll be both that it could be. Um, so what is it that you have gone on a junket, car junket somewhere, or that you've had in the press fleet that really impresses you besides the Volvo?

SPEAKER_03 5:45

This is going to sound weird, maybe, but uh, you know, I was on a uh Toyota event recently driving the new all-electric Toyota CHR. Yes. And it is cool. I mean, it is so cool. I wondered why they called it CHR. Uh, because I uh you guys probably had the same opinion about the previous CHR that we did on America on the Road. It's kind of okay car, but certainly nothing special. This is kind of special in its own way. I don't know who buys performance electrics. I I still think that's kind of a mythical unicorn kind of market, but uh this was a fun-to-drive vehicle. It was terrific.

Don Armstrong 6:26

What what size is it?

SPEAKER_03 6:28

Uh it's the same size as the previous CHR, which is uh, you know, they call it a small SUV. I would call it more like a hot hatch kind of vehicle. Subcompact is too small or it's probably compact, uh, you know, close to compact adjacent anyway. It might be subcompact, uh, but uh pretty roomy because you know, electrics are roomy inside, and uh generally uh fun to drive, more fun to drive than you would guess. Plenty of horsepower, tons of horsepower.

Don Armstrong 6:56

Well, I I recently drove the uh the brand new Subaru. What was that thing? I don't remember. It's it's the new Subaru all electric. It's small, and I was thoroughly impressed with it. Uh and it it's funny because you know, we get we get kind of cantankerous and snooty about the cars that we drive. Ah, it's just another car. But every once in a while there is that one car that comes along and goes, that this is cool. And uh from Subaru of all places.

Jeff Dziekan 7:32

That's the one we were I I sat in last was it last week or the week before the transmission tunnel, which is no transmission tunnel, but it was raised up. It re kind of when I sat in it, it fitted like a Hummer because it's got the high uh center console, is what it reminded me of, sitting deep into the car.

SPEAKER_03 7:51

That's what that are we talking about the Soltera? Is that what you were driving?

Don Armstrong 7:55

No looking at it. You know, it it's uncharted. The uncharted the uncharted Subaru.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

I like that.

Don Armstrong 8:03

Yeah, have have you not you have not driven it yet?

SPEAKER_03 8:06

I have not.

Don Armstrong 8:08

I'm I'm truly surprised. It's not on his chart, yeah. Exactly. Subaru Uncharted. And uh this is a brand new thing from from Subaru. It's very small, uh, but um it is fun. You don't even think that you're driving an EV. And man, I'm telling you, you mash that accelerator pedal, it's gonna throw you back in the seat from a Subaru.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

There you go. Yeah, I it might be a close cousin of the CHR because Subaru and Toyota uh cooperate on their EVs. So we might be talking about darn near the same vehicle, yeah. Probably.

Don Armstrong 8:44

And probably so. Well, um, so besides the politics, Jack, um, have you been any place that's fun? Uh car companies get to fly Jack all over the United States, and uh and you know, he he gets to visit the cool places most of the time.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

Some of the cool places. Uh, most of the uh the car trips I've been on recently have been local uh that I've driven to as opposed to flown to. And to tell you the truth, I prefer that. Uh, you know, because I can zip in when I want to and zip out when I want to. I'm not at the at the mercy of airplane schedules and stuff like that. Uh on on Monday, however, I'm flying across the country to Savannah uh to uh spend some time with Hyundai looking at uh their giant EV factory, which will now build things beyond EVs. I think it's probably doing that before, outside uh Savannah there, and uh, you know, generally have a good time driving electric vehicles, seeing how they work.

Don Armstrong 9:45

Yeah, and and do you get thrown into a car with somebody that you don't know? And when you get out of the car after driving with them, you go, you know, I I could probably have done better on my own.

SPEAKER_03 9:57

Yeah, I I frequently like to do those on my own. Typically, we have a driving partner. A lot of times I will look at the guest list or you know, kind of survey the the And then you see a Don Armstrong on you going, Oh no. And I I'm always looking for the person who won't kill me, right? I mean, that's that's kind of job one.

Don Armstrong 10:19

And you know, it's funny, it's funny because journalists today, so many of them influencers, really have never experienced any of this. They don't have any kind of etiquette when it comes to a partner in the front car. Let's see how fast we can go around the corner or slam on the brakes or do crazy things, and we don't do that as journalists typically.

Jeff Dziekan 10:39

Yeah.

Don Armstrong 10:39

Do you experience it that way too?

SPEAKER_03 10:41

I've seen that. I, you know, luckily I have survived all of this. There were there were some times uh back in my motor trend days, uh, really hair-raising kind of times when we were driving across Europe and I'd be with a driving partner who thought he was a Formula One driver and wanted to show it and you know, treated everything like the Nerber ring. Um it uh happily I have not run into that so much lately. Uh I probably young people who want to go really fast don't want to drive with an old guy like me.

Don Armstrong 11:10

Well, you know that's that that's that's funny because uh I have been on some junkets that uh you know the actual professional driver that is uh given to me in the car, and I'm sure that you've been on those, um they're they're saying to me, uh punch it. You know, go into the corner faster than you're going. Hey, look, man, I've done that and gone right off the road. Well, why didn't you turn it? Why did you let you No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're the professional here.

Jeff Dziekan 11:40

You're the passenger.

Don Armstrong 11:41

Yeah, and I'm basically the passenger that's driving the car. Yeah, no, I it it can be harrowing to say the least, and you just don't know where to say, you know, I'm not going to go that fast in the corner. I'll leave it to somebody else.

Jeff Dziekan 11:57

So what you do, you stop and you say, get out.

The Disappearing Car TV Channel

Don Armstrong 12:00

Yeah. You hope to. So, you know, you brought up television. Jack, let me ask you something. And uh, you know, as car guys, we tend to go toward uh broadcast television or cable television or satellite television to find a car channel that has all sorts of different programs on it. And we don't have that anymore. Have I just missed out? What happened to all of our car channels?

SPEAKER_03 12:27

Yeah, it's really kind of strange, isn't it? Because uh pretty much everything is a a channel. You know, I can't believe the number of cooking shows there are out there. I mean, I guess everybody cooks, but kind of everybody drives too. So you would think that there would be more automotive programming. I and I was the first host of Motor Trend TV uh back in the early 90s or something like that. I and I think I've told you guys I was in the TV business before I was in the car business. So uh I always thought that cars were perfect for television because they move and television loves stuff that moves, right? I mean, uh the typical car show uh the typical drama show used to end with a car chase pretty much every week anyway. So um I'm I'm surprised. I'm I'm like you. I'm I'm not sure why this is, but uh it is is.

Jeff Dziekan 13:16

Well, you brought up cooking and there's a lot of remodeled the house shows, all of that. And uh you you bring that up, Don, but I've kind of been watching the stuff back in the old motor trend channels and things. They're they're all reruns, but you might every now and then catch an episode, well, you know, I didn't know that, or that's a cool thing about that car. Uh occasionally I'll see it, but I think it's all how they marketed it. I they they ruined it for themselves, I think.

Don Armstrong 13:41

Well, I you know, the bottom line is that everything has a price. And uh these television shows for cars, they price themselves out of the market by high production costs. Well you gotta have three cameras and you don't have to have all of that. I don't believe that you have to have all of that. You have to have, you know, two producers on the scene, the both of them arguing about how they're going to shoot the next shot. How about just put an uh instacam in there and just record that? Because it seems to make no difference so that you've got, you know, a five-camera shoot with two producers or whatever. Uh I I don't understand it. I will tell you that uh I am hooked on a thing called Vice Grip Garage with Derek Berry. I don't know whether you've seen that. Yeah, you might want to look that up. It he does this thing on Facebook as well.

Jeff Dziekan 14:32

Okay, it's not on it's not on the regular channel.

NASCAR Ratings And The Format Problem

Don Armstrong 14:33

It's a well it used to be, but it's not any longer because the channel went away. Gotcha. But uh he's he does very well and uh old carbureted cars that he pulls out of barns and fields and that sort of stuff. And the whole idea is to get it running. And he does. He always manages to get these things running. And uh those are the kind of things that interest me. Um I don't know what's happening with NASCAR, Jack, but apparently the ratings continue to tank and they can't get a handle on it. They don't understand why. There's nobody in the stands anymore. Well, do you think it may be perhaps this format thing that they're doing changing everything? That yeah, and you know what happened to the Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison fight in the infield, they don't let that happen anymore. Well, they do. I say let them go for it.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I think there's a few things going on there. One, uh, I think a lot of us don't understand the format or see what's going on there, you know, when they divide races into little bitty races, and then there's a you know, all that seems odd. Also, stock car racing isn't stock car racing, right? I mean, it's hard to recognize one of the brands from the other out there. Yeah, so I think most people with uh the least bit of sophistication know that the uh virtually all the cars are the same.

Don Armstrong 15:49

Uh and I I don't know that that that's they all yeah, they all have the same chassis. Really, the only thing that's changed is the nose and the tail on the car, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Yeah, yeah, which is practically decals, right? I mean it's pretty much, yeah, yeah.

Don Armstrong 16:04

Yeah, yeah. It's it's a shame that it's gone that way. Hopefully, one of these days a television business will iron itself out and we'll have a channel of all of the channels out there that you would think there would be a car channel, but whatever. Maybe that's an idea for our retirement years, Jack. Yeah, you and I could get back into television again. Yeah.

Jeff Dziekan 16:23

And uh when we reach those retirement years, it would be super late, late, late, late night. Yeah, it would be, but that's okay.

Jack Signs Off And Break

Don Armstrong 16:31

At least it'd be on after after hours. Yeah. Well, Jack, it's always great to talk to you. And we don't we don't we don't we don't talk to you often enough, but uh we'll put in a request for that from the going forward.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

I love that. I love that. Always love to talk to all of you guys.

Don Armstrong 16:47

America on the road. It's Jack Nierad from sunny Southern California. Jack, God bless, take care, say hello to the family for us, and we'll talk to you again soon.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

I'll do that. Thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate it. You bet.

Don Armstrong 16:58

Thank you, sir. Hey, just ahead, Jeff's Car Culture, glowing tires. And Mars has driving destinations for Mother's Day in Texas. That's after this break on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show. Stay with us. The Texas Max dining experience is defined by Lupi Tortilla, your destination for Texas's best beef fajitas and frozen margaritas. Since 1983, Lupi Tortilla has served authentic and time-tested recipes made with the freshest ingredients. Atmosphere is part of the award-winning experience at Lupi Tortilla, all developed in a little house near Highway 6 and I-10 in Houston. Visit any of the Loopy Tortillas and you'll see the same attention to detail in each and every location. Start your loopy experience with queso flamingato and guacamole, along with a classic frozen margarita. Dine on famous loopy beef and chicken fajitas or pepper shrimp brochette, or a fish or vegetarian entree, and finish with a scrumptious flan for dessert. Find loopy tortilla in Houston, College Station, Beaumont, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas, Fort Worth. There's a Texas location near you. The recipes are authentic and time-tested. The ingredients always fresh. Loopy tortilla is pretty good. Apple or Android In Wheel Time Podcasts can be found everywhere, on the stream and through downloads. Whether you're on the road or at home and searching for a fun car talk show, give In Wheel Time a try. Honest new car reviews, fun informative interviews with real car people, weekly automotive news, features like Jeff's car culture, Mike's driving destinations, all on In Wheel Time. Check us out on Sirius XM Podcasts, iHeartRadio, or while you're shopping on Amazon through Amazon Music. Inwheel Time.com has a list, so check us out. Hey, Inwheel Time invite you to join us 10 to noon Central Time every Saturday for a live show about all things automotive. We hope you'll join us. And we thank you for being with us today. Um I had Jeff's Car Culture glowing tires. Are you good with that?

Jeff Dziekan 19:12

Yeah, I'm good with that. I got it right here. I just had the uh the pages didn't match from yours to the uh other rundowns, so I just want to make sure.

Don Armstrong 19:20

Okay. Yeah, we're good. Well, um maybe perhaps it's the fact that this is this and you've got the other one. Yeah. And you've got that one. Yeah. So we're on this hour.

Jeff Dziekan 19:31

Okay. Well, I want to be on I I want to be on whatever.

Don Armstrong 19:34

You're on every hour. I'm on every hour. But this is kind of a rundown of what we do on every hour.

Jeff Dziekan 19:39

Oh, is that what that is?

Don Armstrong 19:43

It's this, just in case you're wondering. It's what I get to go by. I have to have something to go by because I'm gonna go bye-bye. That's it. All right. Glowing tires.

Jeff Dziekan 19:55

All right, let me fire this up and then you're gonna have to change these because uh uh uh yeah, here we go.

Don Armstrong 20:00

All right. Let me let me get up top there.

Jeff’s Car Culture Glowing Tires

Jeff Dziekan 20:03

All right, thank you. All right. Uh so Goodyear tires, bright idea. Back in the late 50s and 60s, Goodyear engineers were feeling enlightened. Their tires actually were. The glow unfortunately didn't last. More than five decades ago, and what the Ohio tire manufacturer called one of the most dramatic tire developments in the history of the industry, Goodyear unveiled a custom car accessory unlike no other, illuminated tires.

Don Armstrong 20:28

Can you imagine that today?

Jeff Dziekan 20:31

You know what? That's Martha. You know, we always talk about Martha. That's Martha right there. So Goodyear's translucent tire can be produced in any color to match the car or hose the wife's new outfit. Some someday a wife may tell a husband, Charlie, can you go out and change the tires? I'm wearing my blue dress tonight. And that's what that's all about. Regardless of what you might think uh about the marketing strategy, Goodyear's illuminated tires offer offered custom car enthusiasts plenty of exciting possibilities. This was the creation of Goodyear chemist William Larson and the and co-worker Anthony Fennelli. The tires were made of neothane, a synthetic polyurethane rubber that combined the hardness of plastic and the resilience uh resilience of rubber. To create the new Fangled tires, the neothane was poured into molds baked at 250 degrees, a temperature much lower much lower than required to make a standard tire. Goodyear uh then added dye to create a rainbow of different colors, and eighteen small lights were mounted in the rims inside of each tire to create a glow that was particularly brilliant at night. Now people still do that to this day, putting lights in their fender wells and things. The invention caused quite a stir when Goodyear put a set of red illuminated tires on a Dodge Polera and drove it around Miami. It did the same for a Chrysler Silver 300, just the same thing, driving around the New York City area. Although the tires went into production, one set made it into To the hands of a person by the name of Jim Sakanis who poured seventy-five thousand dollars or about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in today's money in creating the tripped out of Golden Sahara II in the early sixties. The second erratic uh the second version of this was a George Barris custom that started with a 1953 Lincoln Capri called the Golden Sahara II. It wore gold paint mixed with pulverized fish scales that was adorned with gold plate and ornamental work. Yeah, I like it. Uh those new Fang Dangle Goodyear tires were referred to as glass. They were a cherry on a Sunday. In 2018, this vehicle sold at auction unrestored for$385,000. Ugly. Yeah. And the tires were were not their the tires were solid. They weren't filled with air. Filled with air a little bit, but they were mainly solid. Now Goodyear held tight on the idea of a sineothane tires would one day become a common, as common as the black rubber counterparts, but didn't happen. After 10 years of work, engineers threw in the towel. Keith Buckley, senior engineer of Goodyear entire rubber company, said in a brief phone interview with the promise of a longer conversation that would ever materialize, the new Fang Dangle tires were doomed for several reasons. Low melting point for the tires uh in the manufacturing process uh made it susceptible to melting while they were actually on the road. So they would just deteriorate and disintegrate. And then the cost would be one thing. Uh made them more dangerous in rainy conditions, and it would take longer uh before they were even covered by road grime, which negated the illumination to begin with. So there you go. Uh illuminated tires. Yeah.

Don Armstrong 23:42

Well, they've kind of got that today, uh, with like you said, the lights in the fender wells. Uh I you know, I I'm not of that age group anymore. But I think back in the day, uh, had I had a big jacked-up truck or something with a lot of room in there with the wheel wells and some fancy rims, I'd probably do that.

Jeff Dziekan 24:03

And you can make their uh Hancook has red letter tires, blue letter tires. You can get the lettering different, but that's a different process.

Don Armstrong 24:10

Well, I was gonna say that wait, I mean, you can get letters to anything that you want and they stick them on there.

Jeff Dziekan 24:15

Yeah, you can. Yeah, well, that's that's a different process so far as the manufacturing of the color in the tire. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, yeah.

Don Armstrong 24:22

And we had remember we went through the red stripe era. Yep, yep. Then we went to the raised white letters.

Jeff Dziekan 24:27

Yep, yep, exactly. And uh growing up back in the mid-70s, you know, in high school, and everybody's running around Telegraph Road and all that. Uh particular gentleman, young guy, had a white Camaro, Z, uh split bumpers, and he put white his car was white, so he put white light bulbs in his fenders as he raced and up and down the street. We used to call him Fenderwells. That was his nickname. Fenderwells.

Don Armstrong 24:51

Really? Because he's in Detroit.

What’s Next And Wrap Up

Jeff Dziekan 24:53

Yeah, because he didn't get arrested? No, because he only did it at certain times when he was running racing. But anyways, make a crazy story. Anyways, welcome back, Mike.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Howdy, howdy had to change some channels.

Don Armstrong 25:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

All right.

Don Armstrong 25:08

Change some channels. Well, he didn't have to change his underwear. He's doing another segment.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Well, I I thought I was gonna have to, uh I was beginning to panic a little bit.

Don Armstrong 25:17

Were you? Well, uh, we've moved your driving destinations to another segment because uh we were padding the time waiting for you to come back, but it was gonna be Tuesday. Tuesday is before there is that. Um so before we get uh too far out of the way here, um I get to review today a uh new car that you may be interested in. And that is going to be one moment, please. TikTok, TikTok.

Jeff Dziekan 25:51

I know. We're on B2, you know, not one A. We're on this one, not this one.

Don Armstrong 25:58

B one or B two, depending on where you are. Uh bingo. Um we've got coming up uh recalls. Uh we're gonna get to Mars driving destinations, and we um also are going to have our fun little thing that we play, and that is with um our sold car roundup and uh what's sold on hemmings.com. So that that is coming up as well. That's in the next hour. So we hope that you'll stay with us. Mr. Mars, are you ready to take a break here?

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Yes, sir. I'm I'm a good. I need a break. Have you got anything else to do in there?

Jeff Dziekan 26:34

We're on around 2-4, Mike. We're on two four.

Don Armstrong 26:38

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