01-24-25 - Brady Went To Barrett Jackson And Met Sammy The Bull Sparking John's Curiosity On Him Being In Public - John's All For Elon Musk's Push To Get Rid Of The Penny And Possibly All Change

Summary

Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode Summary: January 24, 2025

Host and Crew:

• John Holmberg – Host
• Brady Bogen
• Bret Vesely
• Dick Toledo

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1. Barrett-Jackson Experience and Sammy the Bull Encounter

Barrett-Jackson Auction Overview (01:15 - 10:04): Brady and Dick Toledo share their experiences from attending the Barrett-Jackson car auction, Arizona’s premier automotive event. The discussion highlights notable moments, including the excitement of bidding on classic cars and interacting with fellow enthusiasts.

Meeting Sammy the Bull (02:20 - 07:24): A significant portion of the episode revolves around meeting Sammy the Bull, a figure with a notorious background. Brady expresses concern over Sammy's public presence, questioning his safety and the implications of his interactions.

• Brady (02:22): “Is Sammy the Bull just walking around in public alone?”
• Toledo (05:17): “The story’s incredible... Sammy the Bull gave up the game for the greater good.”

Security and Public Safety Concerns (06:34 - 07:24): The hosts delve into the potential risks of Sammy being out in public without proper protection, discussing the possibility of him being targeted or needing witness protection.

• Brady (07:07): “On a good day, because it's probably not a lot of people down there yet. And it's crowded, but not like it's going to be.”
• Toledo (07:14): “I think someday somebody will finally make that right for the family.”

2. Highlights from Barrett-Jackson

Classic Cars and Celebrity Spotting (10:04 - 22:25): The conversation shifts to the variety of cars showcased at the auction, including replicas from popular TV shows like Starsky and Hutch and The Dukes of Hazzard. The hosts recount personal anecdotes about attempting to purchase these cars and the challenges faced.

• Brady (19:12): “Buy a Cybertruck. They’re at least new and there’s a warranty.”
• Toledo (22:12): “He goes every year, but he never leaves with anything.”

Unique Automotive Features and Dealer Interactions (23:23 - 28:40): Brady shares stories about high-value cars, such as a Ferrari designed for Steve Jobs, and the often unwelcoming demeanor of car dealers towards enthusiasts.

• Brady (25:15): “When you come in dressed in a Benny Mardona shirt and a pair of Air Jordans...”
• Toledo (28:27): “They have ramps. They have two dirt ramps.”

3. Elon Musk’s Push to Eliminate Pennies and Change

Discussion on Eliminating Physical Currency (30:54 - 37:00): Brady passionately discusses Elon Musk’s initiative to remove pennies and gradually phase out all physical change. He argues that coins are unnecessary in a digital payment era and shares his disdain for handling change.

• Brady (30:54): “It's my dream... getting rid of change. Change was the worst idea ever. Hate change.”
• Toledo (34:24): “It was just one big jug. Then we would split it three ways.”

Anecdotes and Personal Opinions (37:00 - 40:36): The hosts provide personal stories and opinions supporting the elimination of coins, highlighting the inconvenience and uncleanliness associated with physical change.

• Brady (36:07): “It’s like, oh, where are those? Like, those disappear. We don’t have Coin Stars as much.”
• Toledo (40:35): “How many times you go there that sometimes I can’t break that. I don’t have the cash to.”

Implications for Society and Financial Practices (40:36 - 43:00): The discussion extends to the broader implications of moving away from physical money, including the convenience of digital transactions and the potential reduction in financial discrepancies.

• Brady (37:18): “You're using your phone and credit cards most of the time. They can say whatever number they want.”
• Toledo (39:08): “Venmo.”

4. Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Summarizing the Push for Change (43:00 - End): Brady wraps up the episode by reiterating his support for the move towards a cashless society, praising the efficiency and hygiene benefits it offers.

• Brady (40:36): “Nobody's fighting you on this. Unless you've got, you know, couple hundred thousand dollars of change discrepancy.”
• Brady (42:00): “I give you one big Elon salute for the change thing. Great job.”

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• Brady (02:22): “Is Sammy the Bull just walking around in public alone?”
• Toledo (05:17): “Sammy the Bull gave up the game for the greater good.”
• Brady (30:54): “Hate change.”
• Brady (36:07): “Coin Stars… they disappear.”
• Toledo (40:35): “I don’t have the cash to.”

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Conclusion: In this episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness, the hosts provide an engaging mix of personal anecdotes from the Barrett-Jackson auction and a spirited discussion on the future of physical currency. Brady's strong opinions on eliminating coins, supported by humorous and relatable stories, offer listeners a comprehensive look into his perspective on modern financial practices. Meanwhile, the encounter with Sammy the Bull adds an intriguing narrative about celebrity and security at public events.

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Transcript

[John Holmberg]

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[Brady]

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[Brett]

What the hell is wrong with you?

[Brady]

Good morning, everybody. Hello there. Welcome to Friday. It's 5:45. This is the morning sickness. My name's John. There's Brady, there's Brett, There's Toledo. Let's go do this thing that we do every single day until the weekend shows up and then we just disappear. That's a good thing. You should, too. Freddie was in a picture. You were at Barrett Jackson yesterday.

[Toledo]

I was.

[Brady]

Pretty cool day. Brady got Starsky and Hutch picture. Saw that you got. What was that motorcycle? The Batman motorcycle.

[Toledo]

Bat Cycle.

[Brady]

Was that a Batgirl or Batman?

[Toledo]

I don't. Well, it was signed by Burt Ward and.

[Brady]

And Adam west, so it was the original. They. I don't remember a white one, though.

[Unknown]

I don't either.

[Toledo]

I remember Batgirl. I remember Batgirl had the white one and.

[Brady]

But it didn't look like the background. They were.

[Toledo]

I. I do remember Robin in the sidecar of the girl one in the.

[Brady]

One that I took.

[Unknown]

Well, he wore tights.

[Brady]

We could say it now that we're not allowed. There's only two genders. What a twink. Yeah. But that was a cool. And then the best picture you got you and Sammy the Bull wandering around. You just saw Sammy the Bull.

[Toledo]

I. I went over to see the Lincoln exhibit and the guy that I knew from Sanderson. Lincoln's like, hey. And he shows me a picture. Who do you think that is? That's Sammy the Bull.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

Then I'm walking further down where the Bat cycle. There he is.

[Brady]

Pretty great.

[Toledo]

See the Joker car and the Joker. Yeah. The Joker car there. He had the ones I didn't. You know, you had Dracula. You had the monsters mobile.

[Brady]

All the TV cars are there again.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Doing on a good day. Because it's probably not a lot of people down there yet. And it's crowded, but not like it's going to be.

[Toledo]

It was. Yeah. I mean, in the timing that we got there, it was pretty good. Started load up. I will say there. I mean, looking at the auction.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

And talking to people. There were bargains.

[Brady]

No kidding. Because so much volumes you could get.

[Toledo]

For, like, you know, something that you think for 50 grand you could have gotten.

[Brady]

Is Sammy the Bull, like, just. He's walking around in public alone.

[Toledo]

Security. He's got this just pure Italian family walking with him.

[Brady]

So he's in a circle of people.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Okay. Because otherwise he's just like, you know.

[Toledo]

That'S what I was thinking. You stop for a photo, you're gonna get shot.

[Brady]

Yeah. You're gonna get well beyond that. I'm not even worried about getting in his inner circle. I'm worried about a stray somebody eventually. Right. Someday.

[Unknown]

I don't think so.

[Brady]

You don't? That probably would have happened by now.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I mean, you know, his story hasn't.

[Unknown]

Been hiding in the last couple years.

[Toledo]

And he taking the pictures. But the timing. I go in, I'm like, hey, we're on our way out. And I started leaving. I got all. I got to hit the restroom real quick. I go to the restroom. Look over the side. Holy crap. It's Sam and the boy.

[Brady]

Yeah. But I mean, he's getting more like. Brady can walk up to him, go. Can I have a picture? You don't know who anybody is. Eventually. Won't someone say rat, Right.

[Toledo]

I'm like, I think he's.

[Brady]

His guards down.

[Unknown]

I think that they.

[Brady]

I don't know.

[Unknown]

Personally, I don't know, but I think that they just. With Gotti running his mouth the way.

[Brady]

They did, they weren't too unhappy with Sammy.

[Unknown]

No.

[Brady]

Just kind of like.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Give him a pass. He was such a soldier, you know.

[Brady]

He was a soldier then he wasn't, but he did kind of.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Brady]

He gave up the game on God, if you know the story, Sammy the bully gave up the game on the guy.

[Unknown]

He was going to have him off.

[Brady]

At the Bergen fish and hunt Club. Right. They were up in that room, and they were renting that to that lady. They kept kicking out and didn't know that she had given up. That he got. Was it. He got Gotti up in that apartment upstairs, and he was the one who got it bugged. Oh, it's crazy. I don't know if that's the total accurate story, but I remember the Bergen fish and hunt club was their. Their hangout, their social club. And then the upstairs was an apartment, and Gotti used to go up there because he knew that the club was bugged. But he's like that apartment upstairs that old lady lives. They just bang. The ravenite. Oh, that's right. You're right.

[Unknown]

He originally had the Bergen.

[John Holmberg]

That's right.

[Brady]

That was the raven when he became the man. That's right.

[Unknown]

He went to little Italy and took over the raven.

[Brady]

That's right. And then they had that thing upstairs, and he went up to that lady. It's a cool story. The story's incredible. But how it got bugged upstairs was. I mean, there was a lot of tattling going on, and it's so just.

[Toledo]

But we thought about that the whole way home, driving like, man. I mean, one thinking man, it'd be so easy for anyone, just get nicked.

[Brady]

You could have. You could have been the bad guy.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

I mean, anybody that walks up and goes, hey, Sammy the bull. Yep. And he just is happy to take a picture within a foot of him.

[Toledo]

I took a picture, and he. That. He's pointing his fingers here. This is my guy.

[Brady]

Oh, did you get him? Did you tell him, hey, come on. The show?

[Toledo]

Kind of.

[Brady]

No, that's. That's a no.

[Toledo]

No, I couldn't ask him because the family was there.

[Brady]

Why take the whole family? Brett will know half of them. Hey, you know, we got a little show we'd like you to be part of, you know? Oh, come on. Callan interviews him every once in a while.

[Toledo]

I wonder if they're the. The grandkids like the family. But there's, you know, one had a fur on. I mean, it was completely sure. They're not. They're not hiding anything.

[Brady]

Well, no, that's what I'm Saying everybody.

[Unknown]

Knows where he's at.

[Brady]

Yeah. I mean, and eventually I'd be nervous about that. Eventually. That's just a person near him that somebody will finally. I don't want it to happen. I'm not saying I'm in on that. I'm just. You know, just in case Sammy's.

[Unknown]

Yeah, keep your mouth shut. What are you doing?

[Brady]

Just saying just seems logical in that world that eventually somebody just makes that right for the. For the family. I don't know. It just seems like some. And you're right. I think everybody's kind of. It's okay with the Gotti rat, but man, oh man. And he knows it. Or he wouldn't be out there.

[Unknown]

It wouldn't be just outed. Barrett Jackson by himself, taking pictures of Brady.

[Brady]

I know. And that's the thing. Like Brady's the perfect sniper or killer. Be like, can I have a picture? Sure. Harmless gentleman. And then the next thing you know.

[Toledo]

Big fan, sir. Big fan.

[Brady]

Jamming a shiv in his side and running away.

[Unknown]

He wouldn't run too far.

[Brady]

I wonder all the family around. Cuz you had to go through like security and probably metal detectors to get into Barrett Jackson and all that. Right? You probably don't even know you like when you walk in. There's security.

[Toledo]

Oh yeah, there's security.

[Brady]

Metal detects. You got to empty your pockets. They do it at Sun's gate.

[Toledo]

There is on the entrance. And then. And then you go through the main tent.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

And that's where all you're.

[Brady]

So once you're in, you go through the detectors. That's it.

[Toledo]

Yep.

[Brady]

I wonder if Sammy the Bull and his crew have some sort of special thing we don't know about through witness relocation and all that, where he can carry in those situations.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I don't want to know.

[Brady]

Not him, but somebody with it.

[Unknown]

Don't ask, don't tell.

[Brady]

I don't. Yeah, well, I know. I know. We're treading on tonight. I don't know what you're doing. You're very good as my consiglier. I don't know what you're going down this road for. It seems like a lot of talking.

[Unknown]

Let's take a right turn here.

[Brady]

Let's. Hey, they're getting rid of the penny. Did you hear that?

[Toledo]

But as I understand it, it's. That's no longer what in protection?

[Brady]

No, he. He eliminated. But I'm saying when you're in witness relocation and you're in the protection, you're in the program and you bail on It.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

There still has to be some sort of thing that says he signed the waiver, John. But for the greater good of the people, if you're going to be out there doing this, we're gonna supply you with a little security. So because we put you here, you decided to go rogue. We can't have bullets flying all over Scottsdale just because you've decided. I know. It's time has passed.

[Toledo]

Yeah, I mean, he's already been, you know, arrested again and still back out.

[Brady]

There's gotta be. There's gotta be. I mean, it crumbled. The entire mafia, essentially. I mean, he didn't do that. Gotti did that work, but. Oh, just. I mean, he was the one who. It's official.

[Toledo]

Maybe that was his. Gotti trumped him.

[Brady]

Yeah, but I don't know. That one seemed like. When I saw that picture with you, and I'm like, if I'm Sammy the Bull, I'm not. Not accepting, you know, innocuous little short trolls to come up to me and start asking for photos. Tall. I know. You were taller than him, which had to make you to feel great, and he'd still kick your ass, like, immediately. And he's 85 years old. I don't know. Interesting thought, though, to just wander around. Barrett Jackson. Sammy's there. I wonder. Was. Did he. Did you talk to him at all? Just get the picture just a little bit. Who'd you go with? Were you with an Italian? Was.

[Toledo]

Not who you with? No, but a guy that I was with. My Matt. Matt Dillard.

[Brady]

Oh, okay.

[Toledo]

My neighbor.

[Brady]

Okay. Is he one of the guys that.

[Toledo]

Kirby and his daughter? It was a daddy. Daughter.

[Brady]

You took Kirby out of school for that?

[Toledo]

Kirby got a picture with Sammy the Bull? Yeah.

[Brady]

Oh, man. So you bugged him for a little while? No. You did individual pictures?

[Toledo]

I took the picture. No, not individual.

[Brady]

Well, yours was individual.

[Toledo]

Mine was individual because I did a family shot. I got it done, and then all sudden, Matt was like, oh, huge. Will you go on a picture with him? There he is right there.

[Brady]

So you took individual pictures?

[Toledo]

I took a picture of Matt, his daughter, and Kirby with Sammy. Sammy actually said, come over here.

[Brady]

Yeah. So we don't do them all at once. Yes. He was not saying that because he's best friends. He's like, come on. If you all want one, we get in the same shot. I'm gonna do this all day. Yeah.

[Toledo]

And a couple other guys stopped.

[Brady]

That's crazy.

[Toledo]

He was like, yeah, come on in.

[Brady]

What was the highlight of the Barrett Jackson while you Were there. What was the car you saw? Because I. I have an opportunity to go today and I can't.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

And then tonight, and I told my buddy Jim, he wants to go and he's. Him and Livman wanted to go and. And I'm like, ah. It just doesn't seem like something I'm so interested in. I want to fight the crowd.

[Unknown]

That's a blast.

[Brady]

I know. It's cool. And you're a car guy. I like cars. Even Tripp and I were talking yesterday, and Tripp is a. He used to be a collector. Like, he used to get like a lot of cars. He was back and forth and he even said, it's just. It's just such a thing. Yeah. And he goes, I love the cars, but is it worth going in there? And I'm not a traffic and crowdfighter. Like, you know, if I don't have an apartment next to it to kind of rest in, I'm not going. But I'm curious. But I don't think I'm. I think I'm out. It just doesn't. It doesn't make. I'm not interested.

[Toledo]

Member berries that happen when you go through the TV cars and stuff. Because like. And then you see the one that I. One that I sent you, like the Fantasy island car.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

It's got the poster in the back.

[Brady]

Is it the cart?

[Toledo]

It's that red island car.

[Brady]

Yeah. With the canopy on it. I don't remember you sending that. I'll look at that.

[Toledo]

Oh, maybe I. I might not.

[Brady]

No, I think you did. There's a little picture.

[Toledo]

Guess what that went for.

[Brady]

Oh, it sold already. Yeah. Like 75 grand.

[Toledo]

30K.

[Brady]

That's lower than I thought.

[Toledo]

Six pasture. And then next to it, it had tattoos. Go Kart. Version of the same car that sold too.

[Brady]

That's kind of neat to own the Fantasy island six seater.

[Toledo]

We could just use it in this.

[Brady]

It's very Gilbert. It's very evil.

[Unknown]

He'd be driving to the next pie eating contest in his neighborhood.

[Brady]

Everybody get in except for you, you apple pie making bitch. Take your salt and pepper boring ass home. So, yeah, there's. But to me, that's neat right now.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

The other thing, once I'm there and I see the Fantasy island cart, I'm like, oh, yeah, it's a golf cart.

[Toledo]

But then there's a. I mean, there are so many other cars that would, you know, whether they're carbon fiber.

[Brady]

Oh, yeah.

[Toledo]

Custom cars.

[Unknown]

There's some of the stuff that Jose Mesa's buddy does out there is just insane.

[Brady]

I think it's neat. I just. I don't know if I have it in me to fight the crowd, Especially Friday night. Like, yesterday probably would have been the smart day to go. If you're gonna go. Probably.

[Toledo]

That's when I.

[Brady]

Pretty sparse.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Like tonight, I'm like. I don't know. This sounds crazy. And it's just the crowd. It has nothing to do with the product. Adam Ferrar is going to come in here later. He's the top gear. Oh, was he there? He. I'm. He's just head over heels in love with this stuff, as am I. But. And it makes. It's the S show. You're right. It's like, see how much it is.

[Unknown]

To get into that place?

[Brady]

How much is it? I didn't even see.

[Unknown]

81 bucks. 81 bucks for a ticket tonight just.

[Brady]

To walk around, man. And that's just the.

[Unknown]

I know Brady didn't pay that.

[Brady]

No, no. That's just the hoofing in and out. How did you steal tickets to this? Because I know you didn't pay 81 to go walk around cars.

[Toledo]

We have a friend that works there.

[Brady]

They got all of you in. Thanks for the offer, by the way.

[Unknown]

Yeah, no kidding.

[Brady]

This guy. Okay, never mind.

[Unknown]

The car guy over here.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah. Didn't even say. Hey, Brett, you want to tag along? No. There you are, Sammy the Bull. I mean, everything you love. Unbelievable. Brady won't even give you the. Give you the.

[Unknown]

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[Brady]

Allbirds. Morning sickness. Disgusting. They say things that are horrible.

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[Toledo]

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[Brady]

Holmberg's morning sickness.

[Toledo]

You know what? I. I would just be embarrassed to see what, you know, be seen with you guys.

[Brady]

No, I wouldn't have gone with you. There's no way. I'm just saying it would have been nice.

[Unknown]

We would have talked about it at the gate.

[Brady]

Absolutely. We're not, we're not walking behind those tiny little peg legs. We want to get through the rah.

[Toledo]

Rah room, you know?

[Brady]

No, you're not getting into that. No, no, no, no. You're right. I'm too good to be seen with you. You're right. That's true. You take your general admission stuff and wander around.

[Unknown]

We got treated like the boom boom room yesterday. We didn't get invited.

[Brady]

Exactly. Exactly. Anyway, well, it is definitely a thing. It's huge. And it's a, you know, everybody pays attention to it that wants to and it's become, you know, nobody likes golf this much. But the Phoenix Opens all about going to the event. Barrett Jackson has that same vibe. Now, what is sure does CNBC people Thing Sean wants to know, did they.

[Unknown]

Have any fire trucks there at osha?

[Toledo]

Sure did.

[Unknown]

There you go.

[Brady]

But. Yeah, but they're probably juiced up. Like, I want one of those police auction ones that. 12 grand, 15 grand, tops. I'm not going in there for. Look, JFK touched it. I don't care.

[Toledo]

I'm sure there were one or two of those that went through that you buy as is.

[Brady]

Yeah. Awesome.

[Toledo]

Because that's where you go through those other tents. I didn't.

[Unknown]

Yeah, the outside tents.

[Toledo]

Yeah. And you see stuff that's already gone through and stuff that's about ready to go through.

[Brady]

Yeah. I don't have.

[Unknown]

I want to go out there, but. Man, 81 bucks.

[Brady]

81 bucks. Maybe Brady knows a guy, but probably can't.

[Toledo]

I got a guy.

[Brady]

Can't hook you up at all. You'd loved it, Brad.

[Unknown]

I'm sure it's like, you're gonna put.

[Toledo]

Out some duckets, get some shillings in.

[Brady]

There and get yourself in that room. It's nice, but I don't have today. I had a freebie, and I'm just like. I got some stuff I'm gonna do. I could have canceled it. I don't want to cancel it. It's just Barrett Jackson. It's just too much. It's too much. And then I'm gonna get drunk and I'm gonna hang around all day out there, and then my whole day's gone. And I just.

[Unknown]

Sounds amazing to me.

[Brady]

That part sounds really good. But then you're with a crew of people. I gotta figure out how to get. I'm already. See what I'm doing. I'm already talking yourself. I'm talking myself out of it. Just to see Starsky and Hutch replica cars, which I've seen a hundred. And it always gets me every time. Even when I see the dumb General Lee at a. You know. And it's not the real one. I know the one. When I was. When Chapman Jeep used to be over here in McDowell and I got a jeep there. Iron Maiden Mike was the sales guy, and there's several of those. So if it's. If you call yourself Iron Maiden Mike, it wasn't you. The one that was at Chapman. Like, oh, my God, I'm Iron Maiden Mike. No, you're not. There's a hundred of you. But he was there, and he goes, dude, come down here, get your jeep serviced. I gotta show you something. I'm like, all right. And I had needed service, so I go drop it off, and there it is. The General Lee autographed. And he bought it because he had Internet powers at this place. And he found it online. We're selling this thing. Plopped it in the showroom. It was in mint condition and it had been signed by Katherine Bach, Daisy Duke. And then they clear coated over the signature so it can't be scrubbed away. So just, you know, probably some clear cry on. It wasn't even anything. And he's like, you want this? And at the time. Because when you're standing next to the General Lee for the first time and someone says, do you want to buy this? Your brain says, you do? You definitely want to buy this car? I'm like, yes. How much? And he said, 75,000. I'm like, no way. This is all. I already regret the idea that I would spend $75,000 on a 1978 Dodge.

[Unknown]

Buy a cyber truck.

[Brady]

They're at least new and there's a warranty. I don't even know what this is. This. There's nothing in that car. It's got an AM radio, for God's sakes. It's. There's nothing in it.

[Unknown]

We'll take you to Slang and sound, right?

[Brady]

For 75 grand, though, there better be some crap in there. So I'm like, no. And then I. And then I talked to him a few. And I'm like, hey, the General Lee still out. And you're like two months later, still out there. Yeah, man. Nobody. Nobody jumped on that. Like, I saw it catching some heat for it from the management. Like, hey, you bought a. It's a piece of crap. It's the paint job people are buying.

[Unknown]

Well, it's not the real car anyway.

[Brady]

No, but that wasn't exactly the most.

[Toledo]

I forget the number.

[Brady]

Reliable. But that car was the Gran Torino, too. Was the same thing with Starsky and Hutch. It wasn't like the most coveted car except for the paint job. Yep, Torinos were kind of middle of the road. Muscle car, nice, but not, you know, the big boys, the paint job. So I'm sitting. It was 55,000. Next time I talked to mine, still, you're like 25,000. You're too high. Because I can go buy one of these and paint it and have the exact same thing for like 15, but when you're sitting next to it. If I went to Barrett Jackson and saw that Starsky and Hutch car, something inside me would start going, do you want this? The Smoking a Bandit Trans Am. You look at, it's the 5.2 liter V8, but it's got like 190 horsepower. The things a dog. But it's the paint job and the nostalgia. And then you have that in your house. Like what am I gonna do with this?

[Unknown]

A couple years ago I got that big flag on your roof and stuff. You know what?

[Toledo]

You know that's Bubba Watson now it's okay generally. And he had up. I gotta spin this.

[Brady]

You gotta get rid of it. You got a Confederate flag in your.

[Toledo]

Right before the year. That it.

[Brady]

I got gay neighbors. You think parking the General Lee in the front yard is going to be a good idea when their friends come over?

[Unknown]

That would be so hilarious. At least do it once. Oh yeah.

[Brady]

Straight in the grass and just donut. Every once in a while with the Dixie horn. The twink's having a gathering. It's broken. Don't worry about it. I'll fix it later. Just look at the top. Yeah. You think it's a good idea until you got to move it to get your real car out so you can go somewhere. Will you move it? Stupid.

[Toledo]

Generally I've gotta go.

[Brady]

Yeah, yeah. Is it behind you? Yeah. It's a lot, but pretty neat. It's a neat event we got here and it brings out a lot of people. I was out in that area yesterday and just the private planes are floating in one after another over to Scottsdale Airport. Like, man, this thing is loading up. So you got that guy.

[Unknown]

Any other celeb spottings out there?

[Toledo]

No. Yeah, Steve Jones. Steve Jobs out there.

[Brady]

Did you know he was going? Did you meet him? Did he get the freebie too?

[Toledo]

No.

[Brady]

Okay.

[Toledo]

No, he.

[Brady]

He is a Britney's Private.

[Toledo]

He's a bidder every year.

[Brady]

A B, I, D, D, E, R. Yeah, he looks. Does he get him or he just puts his paddle up?

[Toledo]

He's done it before, but he, he likes it.

[Brady]

He goes every year, but he never leaves with anything.

[Toledo]

No, didn't in the last two years.

[Brady]

So he's a master bidder. He doesn't actually follow. He doesn't close the deal. He just kind of.

[Unknown]

He gets the good passes, satisfies himself.

[Brady]

Yeah, he gets the bidding pass. Pretends every once in a while knowing that this thing's gonna.

[Toledo]

Every once in a while he looks.

[Brady]

For a specific car, but he's never gonna get one. Jones. Jones is always talking about 10 grand. I was gonna say there's nothing about Jones that strikes me as a guy who's gonna throw two hundred grand. I got a two hundred thousand dollar car I bid on. Maybe he'll throw that seven thousand Dollar paddle up. Knowing the car is gonna go to.

[Unknown]

About eighteen, eight or ten grand maybe.

[Brady]

Right.

[Unknown]

I don't know what he's doing going, you know what.

[Brady]

You know what's Jackson is carvana. They'd come down that sneak gumball machine. Anyway, kind of cool. So, yeah. Enjoy the Barrett Jackson. I would. I. I'm just not. I just don't have it in me to fight that crowd for something that I'm moderately interested in. I went. When it first happened, years and years ago, and I also went to the steel roost. Steel Russo. Is that what that's called? Yeah, Russo Russo steel. I went to that one. I don't think that it used to be by the mall.

[Toledo]

Yeah, they used to be.

[Brady]

Yeah.

[Toledo]

One time. The same time.

[Brady]

Yeah. That somebody took me to that. And I'm like. And this was 2007.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Brady]

And he's. And he's like, this one is. This will go for about 330,000. I'm like, I don't even know what that thing is.

[Unknown]

For my. James Bond's original Carl. Yeah.

[Brady]

And I'm like, I don't even know what this is. And he goes, this is the one that was actually in the picture. This is. And I'm like, oh, no. This is the car that was in the trailer. I'm like, wow. And, yeah, that's the one where you start getting into. Steve McQueen drove it. And this, you know, this was the one from the French connection. And so you got all that stuff that. That thing was impressive because you are. I mean, you're way out of your league with some of that. It's a couple of them were a million or two million dollar sports cars stuff. I didn't even know it was Enzo. What's his name? Ferrari had one he made for his son before they invented what the one has named his son after the Dino. Dino. Yeah. But they were. He was giving it to him and Dean. And then that one kid that was just drawing cars when he was like three because it was in his blood. And they. So they had these cars that he was designing for his kids. And the first one he designed for his son was there. At least that's the story. I always was skeptical of all of it. And that thing was like 4 million bucks. And that was in 2007. It's probably like 7 or 8 now. I go up to that dealership, the Ferrari dealership in Scottsdale, because that's where one of my. One of my cheap cars gets serviced. And I walk around that thing and there's you know, you're out of your element when there's cars in the showroom and somebody comes up and just says, don't touch it. And you weren't. He tells you. He preemptively hits you with, keep your grubby little paws in your pocket. I'm like, I wasn't even. I wasn't close enough to touch it. Right? Keep it that way. Like, the salespeople aren't even nice to you. Don't touch that. I wasn't even near it. Don't. You were thinking about it, and I saw it. Don't. All right. Oh.

[Unknown]

When you come in dressed in a Benny Mardona shirt and a pair of.

[Brady]

Air Jordans, there's a good chance that's exactly what I had on, a great chance of it. But they tell you immediately. And then I'll go over and I'm a hands. I literally will listen to. Like, I'm in second grade, hands in my pocket, leaning over the car, and there was a black and gold Ferrari in there, and it was amazing. And I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna show this guy. Maybe if this thing's within range, I might start inquiring, poke my head in inside. Yeah, it was that thing where I'm like, all right. Really? It's like when you're at a dealership and the guy says something. My friend Mark was there, and he does well for himself, and he looked at a car, and Mark goes, it's a little steep. And then it was the best story I've heard of a car dealer winning. And he goes, it's a little steep, isn't it? And the sales guy goes, you know what? Let's go over here. Some. Some cars that might be a little bit more for you.

[Unknown]

Bargain bin.

[Brady]

And Mark turned. Mark said. I go, I'll take it. He bought the car he didn't want that was too expensive because the guy shamed his lifestyle.

[Toledo]

You know what?

[Brady]

All he said was a little hand. You know what, miss? So I did that with that Ferrari, poked my head, and I'm like, seats are black and gold. They were black with gold leather. And I'm like, this is my Steeler dream. And in my head, I'm like, the insurance has to be $2,000 a month for this thing. And I'm like, it's interesting. And the guy comes over, and he starts showing me the. It's got its own menu of, like, things that are in it, and it's a beautiful presentation. I'm like, that's Outstanding. Flipped to the last page thinking, eh, tell me not to touch it, you jerk. $9 million. It had been floated over here on some, you know, the back of Pegasus. I don't even know how it was handmade. The whole thing was hand stitched. And I'm like, oh, well, I shouldn't probably touch this.

[Unknown]

Then you turn back into the 12 year old. Okay, Hands in pocket.

[Brady]

Oh, hands. Right. You're right. I shouldn't even be. I shouldn't be breathing on this.

[Toledo]

Do you have a shammy?

[Brady]

I didn't know cars. I didn't even know cars did that. It was, yeah, it was some. It was some.

[Unknown]

One of one.

[Brady]

Some sultan's car that he had specially designed. And yeah, it was made just for him. I don't know why it was even there. But nobody bought that thing. And then the other ones, I started to think, what? And it was such a good scam because that thing in there, I'm like, wow. And then there was a brown one and I thought was actually ugly and it was 900 grand. And I'm like, that's pretty good deal. My brain changed. Like, hey, this one's under a million. I should consider, what am I doing here? I got to get out of here.

[Toledo]

I think one of the other cool things to do. And sometimes the line gets pretty long. But they have three car. I mean, you know, the Toyota Tacoma this year, all stock trucks. It's a 4x4 ride that they.

[Brady]

Oh, they'll let you do it. Yeah.

[Toledo]

And you get in the truck and they're like, nothing. This is right off the showroom. You buy this and you do a couple of jumps in it and you're doing power slides. You're going up. It's a 4x4.

[Brady]

You're jumping trucks. Yeah. Like off the ground.

[Toledo]

They have. They have ramps. They have two dirt ramps.

[Brady]

You go up. Yeah.

[Toledo]

You're probably doing about 15ft.

[Brady]

I'm not doing that.

[Toledo]

And I couldn't believe, you know, it was similar to the Robbie Gordon experience. Not you're not on two wheels, but you.

[Brady]

How about that?

[Toledo]

They're hitting it pretty heavy. And they're like, this is all stuck.

[Brady]

Not doing that. I'll wreck that.

[Toledo]

Then you can drift in a Toyota Supra or a Chart Dodge Charger and then do a.

[Brady]

That's the far east part of the tent. Well, it's outside saying, yeah, there's a lot of Asian guys out there. Just drifting sickness. They say things that are horrib.

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[Brady]

Morning sickness. I don't understand drifting. I know Mexicans love donuts in the middle of intersections.

[Unknown]

Well, let's get away from the cops.

[Brady]

I don't know. I don't know what it is that happens. Like they'll just all get out and.

[Toledo]

Then the drifting bowling that we get video.

[Brady]

Well, that's what I'm saying. That's a. That's very. It's heavy. Hispanic and then Asians just love the slide racing just wrecks tires. I'll never understand drift racing. The first time I saw it, it was just loud. It's neat. And then I'm like, I don't think I ever want to watch this again. This is dumb Mustang dark horse.

[Toledo]

You can take a ride in that.

[Brady]

That's kind of cool. I don't know. Not much on this thing. Save the ticket for somebody who's like really into it because I would, I'd be. I'd get mall legs. I think I better stay away from it. It's pretty neat. The other thing I did mention a second ago, it's happening. The one I don't care where you are with politics. It's my dream and has been since. I don't know, it's probably about 20 years old. Working at a restaurant even earlier than that. Getting rid of change. The biggest, it costs 2.93 cents to make a penny. But you know what the crazy part, it's gone up. It's only $200 million a year to make the pennies. That's a lot of pennies. But just kill it. It's three sentence. So they're so Elon Musk in his salute. Maybe getting rid of the penny. And I don't care. He can have some Nazi ways if he gets rid of change. Change was the worst idea ever. Hate change.

[Toledo]

Nobody wants it.

[Brady]

Nobody's ever been happy when they're handed coins. Nobody wants It. And I mean, last night I watched five minutes of Gutfeld and Jim Norton was on there and that's why I was watching. And he's brought up a point. He goes, nobody ever talks about. Like, everybody's all worried about COVID and germs and stuff. Nobody thinks about how filthy. Where have these things been in people's butts, stomachs, mouths, babies touch them. There's gunk on pennies. And I hate change so much. So there's a good chance that in the next four years we're done with change. Nobody uses it. If you have it and you're trying to break it out, you're a jerk.

[Unknown]

There's nothing worse than walking past the line at the Coin Star machine.

[Brady]

It's like, oh, where are those? Like, those disappear. We don't have Coin stars as much. They used to be everywhere. And it used to be something you just try to get rid of your still Walmart. Oh, are they really? I haven't seen.

[Unknown]

I just buy some packing tape the other day and I was like, oh.

[Toledo]

Yeah, most grocery stores still have.

[Brady]

I don't know. I've not been a grocery store in two years. I have it. Nobody's delivering my Coin Stars. Once they started delivering groceries, I was like, I never have to go there again. Yeah, but change has got to be stopped. And if that's the first thing they cut out, like even a nickel, you can't make anyone happy flicking them a nickel. It's an insult. You give me a nickel for anything. It's an insult.

[Unknown]

Nobody wants old people at restaurants throwing down. They have their coffee and bagel and it's like 75 cents tip. It's like really round you cheap up.

[Brady]

Quarters are meh. Round up.

[Toledo]

Well. And I think a lot of that happens, though. Like if you buy something and there's like 47 cents change, either put it in the plastic donation box, I say, keep it. Or just. That's what I'm saying.

[Brady]

Yeah, I just leave it. Leave it. Yeah. I don't reach into that bin of grubby booger poop hands and scratch out my 17 cents in that machine that rolls out, no, that's yours. And nobody's like, I'm not going after that stuff. I use paper money.

[Toledo]

Before I check out, I comb all of them.

[Brady]

Here's proof. Here's proof. I have friends that do that. Here's proof that change doesn't matter. I have friends who start their year and they walk, they always walk looking down. And they go on a lot of trips in like all over the United States. And they pick up every coin they see and it's kind of a game they play, like off the ground and stuff. And one year they got close to like $2,000. Chicago and cities are in there like before the end of the year. They're like, people just throw it on the ground and if you don't pay attention. And they're looking for it now, it's like it's everywhere. And they got this huge money and they took a trip. I do.

[Toledo]

It's definitely. You don't have changes often, but I had a big jar and you know, by the end of the year that would always fill up.

[Brady]

It's probably, yeah, $43. Oh, my dad used to do that. He had this snoopy bank and it would full of change. And he's like, you kids want to roll this and take it to the bank? You can have it. And so we'd crack that dog open and we'd shake out all that change. And my sister and I would split like 28 bucks. The thing was 60 pounds of pennies, nothing in it.

[Unknown]

But back then, I mean, change was everywhere.

[Brady]

I was, Yeah, I was four years old. 23 bucks meant something to me. It was also 1976 when $4 actually got you stuff. Change has to go. And that is.

[Toledo]

Look, it used to be in the Easter eggs when we'd do the hunt.

[Brady]

The worst Easter eggs you found, the ones would change. And what was the one you wanted? The dollar.

[Toledo]

So then my dad then made it a treasure hunt.

[Brady]

Right.

[Toledo]

It was just one big jug. Then we would split it three ways.

[Brady]

Garbage. You wanted the paper money. Split it three ways to change one.

[Unknown]

I'd let them go search for it. Splitting it anyway. At the end of the day.

[Brady]

We did that at the. At the Swedish Festival.

[Toledo]

Oh, no, you pinched out.

[Brady]

Ye. There was the Swedish Festival and the Holmberg family reunion in Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania. And they had a hay. Big piles of hay. And all the kids could get in there and you'd dig out these prizes and people would shake them. Change. And just chuck them aside because there was a ten dollar bill in one of them. So. And that was, oh, my God, one of us is gonna walk out of here with a sawbuck. This is gonna be the great. Throw it out. And then some other kid in the back, like the, the one industrious Holmberg would be like, I'm taking all the ones they don't want. And he probably made more than 10 bucks. Half dollar. Oh, you were like, king of the world, you walked out with a half dollar. But now it's dumb. Change has to go.

[Unknown]

The worst was, remember, remember you get the old people at Halloween and they'd have the bucket of pennies that they would just throw in your bag.

[Toledo]

You know what?

[Brady]

The old lady that would take the time to go to, like, you know, Michael's and buy a little mesh bag and put a bow around it and wrap up like 11 pennies. And the only thing that happened to her is her passenger windows got broken out by the older kids that chuck pennies at her car. No more change. And if you're a person who was, well, I like change, then you're a cheap son of a bitch. Nobody wants change. And if you ever even reach in your pocket and go, here, I got the rest of this.

[Unknown]

Oh, there's nothing worse than being at the store. The old guy pulls out his little change purse, a little rubber change purse.

[Brady]

75 cents, round down or round up and get rid of it. But that's going to be huge. And if they get rid of coins, you will see no one happier than me. I hate change. Hate it. It's the dumbest thing ever. And it's pointless. Especially now with our phone.

[Toledo]

It even bums you out when you go through it. You're like, man, once you get the quarters, then the rest, you're like someone else. Count that.

[Brady]

Yeah. Somebody brought up the argument when I was reading about it yesterday because I'm like, this is great. They're like, well, how will we. Everything will be charged to the dollar then. Like, no, it won't. You're using your phone and credit cards most of the time. They can say whatever number they want. You're not actually paying with any currency. You're giving them the I'll pay you later card or your phone. And they can charge 47 cents for something. Still, it doesn't mean we need to actually tangibly have 47 cents for the French Revolution.

[Toledo]

Still charging for that a few years.

[Brady]

Exactly. And for your phones in the 1890s, the Spanish American War, 1812 tax, they had a, you know. Yeah. And even if irs, if I few years ago, I'm down to the penny on all my stuff on taxes, and my tax guy's like, what are you doing? Just make it even.

[Toledo]

Round it up.

[Brady]

Zeros. Put zeros on there. Yeah. Figure this out, it'll balance itself. Nobody's fighting you on this. Unless you've got, you know, couple hundred thousand dollars of change discrepancy. And you're not gonna Change sucks. So. Yeah, I'm so happy about that. That was, like, such a joyful thing. This guy says. Gonna sound disgusting, but when I did closing shift at the car wash, we'd empty out the vacuum collectors onto a tarp and pick out all the change we'd sucked up. One of our managers made 4,000 after sifting it four or five nights a week. It only takes an hour of your time by the end of the day. Kefir, four or five grand.

[Unknown]

That's kind of heavy.

[Brady]

It's heavy, but you got to go through all that. That's a lot of sucking hair and glop and God knows what's been shooting through that vacuum just to get some dirty change. Now, four grand. If you can promise me at the end, I'm gonna get four grand. And that's a lot of four or five an hour a day. Four or five days a week. For how long before you get to a thousand? Probably five. Four or five months. That's. Yeah, it's too much. My time's more valuable than that.

[Unknown]

A Jew that hates change, he just wants it rounded up.

[Brady]

Typical. I'm a Jew who likes it. The old stuff, the old way. Starting about 1950. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not interested in any of that. I'd say get rid of the dollar. I say get rid of paper money. Just end it. If it costs them that much to print it and make it, just end it. We don't need it anymore. What about the people in the poorer areas? They can't afford. Well, that's not my problem. They should probably step it up, get a job. There's homeless people with QR codes. There's a dude down on 7th Street's got a sign with a QR code. Any bit helps. You set up a QR code.

[Toledo]

Venmo.

[Brady]

It's Venmo. They have a. They have. I did. That was it 15 years ago. Maybe even longer than that. When Larry and I made that joke when the. When those things you plug in your phone, the sliders. Yeah, you can plug in and charge people. And we had Charlie, and we were gonna have Charlie. Yeah, the squares do the whole bit where he stood outside and begged for money. I'm like, all I have is a card. And you go, I have a cube. And so he did it, and it got canceled. And then he has to call on your phone, your credit card. So we're gonna do this big, long bit. Somebody's done it since, but it was Larry. And I had that thing all mapped Out. Charlie was not as good an actor as you'd have thought.

[Unknown]

No.

[Brady]

Get up in your brain. It worked outside of it. It was just like you gotta drive around with Charlie for a while. That had to be 20 years ago. Get rid of it all. I love the credit card. I love the idea of the phone. This is the best thing in the world. Tapping your credit card or your phone up against a box and having to go. And it's done. Glorious. And with this entire group of people that have been elected in being so crypto heavy, the next thing to go are credit cards. Eventually it's not. It's going to be a while because they're so. But that's it. We don't need any of this stuff anymore. I can't get credit cards. My credit's terrible. I have to do cash only. Well, that's going to be the new edt. If you break out cash it's going to be like, oh, you're not one of us. You can get a debit card.

[Toledo]

How many times you go there that sometimes I can't break that. I don't have the cash to.

[Brady]

Good.

[Toledo]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Who's breaking one? I like. I actually I got. I was tired of it for a while and then now I love it when places are like we're a cash free environment. The only place cash needs to happen and it really doesn't is Vegas. Load up a card for me. I'm fine with that. The problem with that is you lose one card and it's worth. But it's traceable. That's glorious to Elon and you can't see me do it. I give you one big Elon salute for the change thing. Great job. He didn't do himself any favors with his explanation of the salute. He's been. He won't shut up about it. And he's. He started to do some like Nazi quotes as a joke online for it. I'm like this Asperger's thing. You better lean pretty heavy on that because this is not. You are not doing yourself favors. And it's making everybody crazy. But he gets rid of change and I'll give him a couple more Nazi salutes because that's a great move. Let's get a wake up song, shall we? This Friday continues on 585-9800. A good one. We'll scream it together. It's 98K UPD. Wake up Arizona's most powerful powerful rock radio station, UPD.