#24 John Clay Wolfe Show 03/12/16 Hour 2

Summary

The John Clay Wolfe Show – Episode #24 (Hour 2)

Date: February 11, 2026
Host: John Clay Wolfe
Co-hosts: Casey, Bobbo

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Episode Overview

This hour of The John Clay Wolfe Show delivers the show’s trademark mix of car talk, irreverent humor, market insights, and unfiltered commentary on current events and pop culture. The hosts discuss car deals and industry backstories, lampoon the ongoing Trump political circus, share personal milestones and stories, and riff on everything from music to wild news headlines. With a strong Texas flair, the team keeps the show lively, unpredictable, and hilarious while offering listeners practical buying/selling car advice.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. The Pressure of Syndication & Loosening Up (00:19–01:19)

• John opens by reflecting on feeling tight while broadcasting, especially after efforts to tailor the show for syndication.
• Casey compares overthinking on air to a golfer losing his swing under pressure:
  • “You're overthinking it, that’s all. It’s like a golf shot... they lose the edge.” (01:07)

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2. Trump Rally Satire and Polls (01:20–01:39; 08:08–09:44; 32:32–34:13)

• The team reads a Trump tweet about protestors and jokes about Trump’s polling success.
• Casey debuts the “Top 10 Things Heard at a Trump Rally” with cheeky jabs at Trump’s persona, campaign, and supporters.
  • Example: “As Ronald Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall and build it in Mexico.” (08:13)
• Segment revisited later for more playful conspiracy theories and satirical speculation about Trump’s campaign stunts fueling his support.

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3. Real Car Deals On-Air

A. G-Wagon Negotiations (01:45–07:30)

• Caller Sheldon has a 2003 Mercedes G55 AMG with low miles.
• John offers $34,000; Sheldon wants $36,500. John sticks to his guns, citing comparable sales and market data:
  • “I think I’m all over it like a cheap suit, to be honest with you. I don’t think shopping’s going to help you.” (06:25)
• John walks through professional maintenance history and proves transparent about market values and negotiation strategy.

B. Other Notable Car Deals (17:47–30:03, 62:12–64:14)

• Valuations for VW sedan, high-mile Silverados, and an 05 Tahoe.
• John emphasizes fast, no-hassle offers with “GiveMeTheVIN.com – it’s so easy you can do it in your underwear!” (07:39)
• Caller Ben shares his story of being upside-down on a Mercedes C-Class due to negative equity rolled into financing, leading to a discussion of predatory practices at dealerships (22:15–25:49).

C. Inside the Wholesale Market (48:31–61:58)

• John pulls back the curtain on the dirty secrets of the dealership wholesale trade, including:
  • “Bid sales” and how insiders manipulate outcomes.
  • Tales of bribes, side deals, and the “old boy network.”
  • John’s goal: use technology and transparency to cut the crooks and dealers out of car buying/selling and directly benefit the public.
  • “I want to build a system to fix this... I’ve set up a system where I can be your friend, your agent, your right-hand, your brother-in-law that’s in the used car business. And it’s a click away. That’s what this whole thing is about.” (57:11)

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4. Personal Moments and Stories

A. Casey Inherits a Windfall (12:04–14:39)

• Casey shares being unexpectedly left over $100k by a close friend who recently passed away.
  • “He’s part of the reason I’m sober today... we were very close.” (13:03)
  • John asks if he’ll quit radio: “If I see you rolling in a new Jaguar...”
• Discussion about taxes on inheritance, loyalty, and the nature of friendships.

B. Past Adventures & Radio Days (16:08–16:56)

• Hilarious confessions about wild days promoting shows at “Billy Bob’s,” discussing how many partners Casey had, and sharing radio industry war stories.

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5. Music, Road Trips, and Spring Break (30:14–32:02)

• Bobbo and Casey debate the best driving music for spring break; AC/DC comes out on top.
• Lively banter about hard vs. pop rock and the nostalgia of mixtapes vs. Pandora playlists.

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6. Pop Culture & Absurd News Roundup (40:36–46:55)

• The team runs through odd and wild news:
  • Johnny Manziel’s ongoing downward spiral and a morbid “death watch” bet on his future.
  • Chumley from “Pawn Stars” arrested.
  • Naked woman dancing on an 18-wheeler cab, and a story about a man molesting a coworker’s dog.
  • Audience laughs at cases of breaking and entering that only result in “gifts” left in backyards.
  • Discussion of massive St. Patrick’s Day beer sales: “$245 million just in St. Patrick’s Day sales!” (45:08)
  • PSA: Don’t drink and drive during spring break.

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7. Political and Social Commentary (32:35–40:14)

• Extended debate over the rising tensions at Trump rallies, the possibility of orchestrated protests, and how history will remember these moments.
• John voices concern:
  • “The racism in the south has been in the closet for a long time… [Trump’s campaign is] fixing to give them an excuse to start acting badly.” (37:13)
• Conversation on the disconnect between different cultural backgrounds and how the political climate might fuel conflict.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• John Clay Wolfe: “I think I’m all over it like a cheap suit, to be honest with you. I don’t think shopping’s going to help you because... I’m hitting it hard.” (G-Wagon segment, 06:25)
• Casey: “As Ronald Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall and build it in Mexico.” (08:13 - Trump Rally Top 10)
• John Clay Wolfe: “I want to build a system to fix this... I’ve set up a system where I can be your friend, your agent, your right-hand, your brother-in-law that’s in the used car business. And it’s a click away.” (57:11)
• Caller Ben: “So I’ve spent almost a decade active duty, barely getting by, trying to keep my credit in order, and I don’t want to take a hit on it, you know.” (25:11)
• Bobbo: “If you got a Supra Turbo, an old one, I want to buy it.” (27:31)
• Casey: “I see an island coming soon.” (14:19, after Casey reveals his inheritance)
• John Clay Wolfe: “I never liked this business when I got in it. They’re kingpin dope dealers… And I fought ‘em. When I broke through, it was bad… There were times I got shook down.” (58:20, on rough wholesale business)
• John Clay Wolfe: “You’re kind of Donald Trump.” (61:58, jokingly after John declares he wants to tear down industry 'walls' with a new system)

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Key Timestamps by Segment

• 00:19–01:19 – Wolfe opens up about show pressure and overthinking
• 01:20–01:39, 08:08–09:44, 32:32–34:13 – Trump tweets, rally coverage, and Top 10 jokes
• 01:45–07:30 – G-Wagon negotiation (Sheldon)
• 12:04–14:39 – Casey inherits $100k+ from old friend
• 17:47–19:49 – VW valuation, caller gets offer
• 22:15–25:49 – Caller Ben stuck with negative equity on his C-Class
• 30:14–32:02 – Road trip music debate (AC/DC madness)
• 32:35–40:14 – Racial tensions, Trump rally aftermath, political rumination
• 40:36–46:55 – Absurd news roundup (naked dancer, dog molester, St. Patrick’s Day stats)
• 48:31–61:58 – John’s insider exposé: bid sales, bribes, and his mission to clean up the car business
• 62:12–64:14 – Tahoe negotiation, John lays out the seamless online selling process

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Tone & Style

The episode is fast-paced, deeply conversational, and carries John’s semi-ferocious, sardonic Texas humor. It veers easily from belly laughs to serious critique, practical car advice, and wild personal stories—everything buoyed by the rapport between the hosts, their knowledge, and a healthy dose of irreverence.

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For New Listeners

If you’ve never heard The John Clay Wolfe Show: imagine a Saturday morning hot-rod hangout, part comedy club, part car auction floor, blended with discussions on country, culture, and politics—all run by a guy who knows the car industry inside and out and isn’t afraid to call out its BS. If you want to sell your car, laugh at the news, or hear what happens at the seamy edges of the car business (and society), you’ll feel right at home.

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Transcript

[John Clay Wolf]

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[Bobbo]

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[John Clay Wolf]

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[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And that's my hometown. Why am I tied in? I don't know. You're.

[Casey]

Well, cuz, you know. I know, I know.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm being critical.

[Casey]

You're being critical?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm being watched.

[Casey]

Yeah, you're being critiqued is the word.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, because we're. They're. They're developing the show to be syndicated and I'm worried that I'm going to say something wrong.

[Casey]

Yeah, so you're.

[John Clay Wolf]

But that's what makes us.

[Casey]

You're overthinking it, that's all. It's like a golf shot, you know, the greatest golfers in the world, when they start thinking it through, right, they lose it. They lose the edge. Same talent, same ability. Next day, they can't hit the ball. It's all in their head.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's true.

[Casey]

By the way, here's the latest Trump tweet. Are you ready?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[Casey]

The organized group of people, many of them thugs who shut down our first amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America. And ladies and gentlemen, according to this poll in CNN, he's up 10 points this morning. Oh, my God.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I've got a cool car on line three. I want to get. I hope it. I hope she wrote it down right. Is it a G wagon, Sheldon?

[Caller]

Yes, sir.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good. O3G wagon. G55 with the big engine, 54,000 miles. I'm sure it's black, silver or white. Probably black.

[Caller]

Dark gray.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dark gray. Well, I missed it. That's fine. Kim Kardashian rig.

[Casey]

What does that mean?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, you know, they drive those on Keeping up with the Kardashians. Okay, this is the boxy bins Vanny looking suv.

[Casey]

Okay, gotcha.

[John Clay Wolf]

It looks like the European import, because that's what it is. Did they quit them over here? I think.

[Caller]

What's that?

[John Clay Wolf]

The. The new ones aren't available over here anymore, are they?

[Caller]

I think they always say they're gonna. They're gonna cancel, but I think the new One is the G63.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

I think it's like 145.

[John Clay Wolf]

How long have you owned this car?

[Caller]

A couple, three years. I bought from a lady in Manhattan.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller]

And it only had 20000 miles on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

So where do you live?

[Caller]

Dallas, north of Dallas. Bartonville. Small little town by argo.

[Casey]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

Does 32 grand buy it.

[Caller]

32,000. I was thinking it was more mid-30s.

[John Clay Wolf]

Mid-30s, he says. JD okay. Well, we do have an older car. I'm not beating on your car, but I'm. I'm sure I gotta explain why I need to leave myself a little bit of what we call leg. So since it is of age, it's old enough to drink almost. Does it have any, any issues at all, Mechanically, electronically? A blight, a sensor, a bearing and anything? What?

[Caller]

No, it has a tail light hour.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, when was the last. Who's been doing the maintenance on it for the past three years?

[Caller]

Park Place, Mercedes.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's good. This is a good thing. So are the books stamped up and have you done the registered maintenances and all that stuff?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so it is or something. It's been professionally maintained. Are you up against. I forgot the mileage caps because they. They get into mild deals. Has the XYZ service been done and I don't know them, I don't have them memorized.

[Caller]

I think the B service. 50,000, which is what I just did.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, what did that cost? Just for fun, just to make it. Just to make everybody laugh.

[Caller]

Couple grand.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, that's not as bad as I thought it'd be. They must be a pretty nice one because I figured you were gonna say eight. They'll dig in on these cars and not quit. These damn Ben's houses. Okay, so do you have a title?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

There is no payoff?

[Caller]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you're ready to part with her? All right.

[Caller]

I'm considering it, yes. I'd like to buy another car.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So are you in a position that I can buy this from you? Now, were you calling for advice or we calling to do business? I'm not being a smart ass. I'm trying to put you on the spot. But there is a difference. If we're just advice. Okay. Low 30s. We're good. Great. Okay. See you later. If you want to sell me the car and get a check for it on Monday morning, I'm in that position as well.

[Caller]

Yes, sir, I understand that. I've always had luxury sedans like 7 Series or Lexus 460. So this car is just not so. It's not so good as an everyday car just because it's such a stiff suspension. So I've been considering trading it off. I paid 43 or something thousand for it and you know, was wanting to recoup as much of my investment as possible.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, if I offered you 34,000, would I buy the car?

[Caller]

I would have to sleep on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

I think that like 36, 5 would buy it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I can't make it work at 36. 5 and if I could, I wouldn't have. Looking at a chart here and I'm looking at some transactions and I'm two grand over the average market debt on this thing.

[Caller]

Yeah, it's just real low miles. I know it's hard to call.

[Bobbo]

It is.

[John Clay Wolf]

But here's One that brought 34. Two that had 52 on it last. The, the most recent sale was in Miami, Florida.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And 34. Two with 52 and, and it's gray.

[Caller]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then here's a, here's a 33 with 61. So I've got two pretty good comps, but that one, but that One was from 2014 summer in, in Florida St. Petersburg. So anyway, I, I, I'm, I think I'm all over it like a cheap suit, to be honest with you. I think I'm, I, I don't think shopping's going to help you because I, I, from, from a, from a high, high, high wholesale point of view. I'm all over it. I'm hitting it hard.

[Caller]

Yes, sir. Well, I appreciate taking the time to talk to me about it. Let me consider your $34,000 offer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to, give me the VIN, give me the VI N.com and load the VIN number and push a couple of pictures and we will send you an offer letter that backs up what I'm saying. So you have it in your hand and if it's got a bad carfax, then I can't give that.

[Caller]

I did put the 20 inch wheels on it that are from the like a oat or like a 2012 or something.

[John Clay Wolf]

That might help me, that might help me with the, with the last thousand. If I love this car and I'm slobbering on it, I'm gonna come back at 35 grand and I'm gonna give you like it's not gonna be a seven day offer. It's gonna be like, do you want to do it now? Because if I'm stretching out that damn far, I want to do business.

[Caller]

Fair enough. Okay, thank you very much.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to give me the VIN. Sheldon, you called the right guy.

[Caller]

Thank you, buddy.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. If he gave four car.

[Casey]

Give me the VIN.com so easy you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Can do it in your underwear. If he gave 34, I mean 43, for a 03G wagon four years ago, I'm hitting that. I mean, he's not losing much.

[Casey]

No, he's not mad at all.

[John Clay Wolf]

The Nissan guys are in much worse shape. And the Charger guy that owes 29 grand.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, no kidding.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you just go buy a G wagon, an old one. You'll be in better shape. Casey.

[Casey]

Buy a G wagon, dog. Casey loves the G wagons.

[John Clay Wolf]

Casey. Casey.

[Casey]

How you guys doing?

[John Clay Wolf]

We're great. We've just been having fun this morning.

[Casey]

Happy Saturday morning. Hey, you know what? It's time for our top 10 of 10, the top 10 things heard at a Trump rally. Now, of course, this is considering Ben Carson is now on the Trump bandwagon and a lot of things have happened this Week with Mr. Trump. Here's number 10. This is actually a quote. As Ronald Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, Jeff, tear down this wall and build it in Mexico. Number nine, Trump. Making sucker punches great again. Number eight, Trump. Trump, he's our man. If he can't do it, well, hell, almost anybody else can. Number seven, Trump. He actually might win this thing. Remember, these are the top 10 things heard besides hitting and scrunching and people throwing punches. The top 10 things heard at a Trump rally. Number six. Geez, why couldn't he just suck at making vodka and steaks and let it go. Number five, making his. Maybe the slogan is a misprint. It's making America great. G R A T E again. Number four, Trump. A chicken in every pot and a tanning bed in every home. That's a throwback, Charlie doesn't get. Number three. Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask how you can punk your country. Casey still thinks he's punk in the world. He thinks he's going to get right up to the edge and bail out. And then number two, when he got Carson's endorsement, he thought it was Johnny. Number one. The number one things. Top ten things heard at Trump rally. We have nothing to fear but Trump getting elected.

[Caller]

There you go.

[Casey]

The top 10 things heard this week at a Trump rally. Keep your feet in the ground and keep reaching for that voting lever.

[Bobbo]

There's not a lever anymore, Casey. You're so old now.

[Casey]

Well, Casey's been dead for a while. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800. 7. 2 3, 4, 800.

[Casey]

See you guys next week.

[John Clay Wolf]

Radio. Thank you. Casey. Bobbo, his old POS broke down on the way the studio day needed to get towed, so he tried to call.

[Bobbo]

Him, see if he's all right.

[John Clay Wolf]

We could, but, I mean, that takes a minute.

[Casey]

You guys ever smell formaldehyde after Casey leaves? It's got that weird smell in here.

[John Clay Wolf]

He wasn't answering the phone this morning. We were looking for him. Which sounds like a typical stone.

[Casey]

Just gonna say, if my car breaks down, I got my phone with me.

[John Clay Wolf]

I call the people I'm calling him right now.

[Casey]

I call the people that are expecting me and I tell them where I am.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, it's kind of wise, right?

[Casey]

Yeah, that's what you do when you break down somewhere. You call somebody.

[John Clay Wolf]

See? Yeah. And not answering the phone is kind of sketchy.

[Casey]

You think?

[John Clay Wolf]

Very. I mean, you're supposed to be on the air and you don't answer the phone. But you can call the tow truck and come up with this great story.

[Casey]

It's a good story. And he's gone back to sleep, and.

[John Clay Wolf]

He'S still not answering the phone. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

[Bobbo]

This is kind of weird.

[Caller]

You have reached the voice.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm calling B.S. let's call him at his house. I've got his house number.

[Casey]

Yeah, how do you have all these numbers?

[John Clay Wolf]

Bob's easy.

[Casey]

I don't know. Miss house number, I miss cell.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've known him too long, I guess.

[Bobbo]

So, yeah, I. I'm the one to get a sketchy text saying sketchy.

[John Clay Wolf]

What?

[Bobbo]

What?

[John Clay Wolf]

What's the text say?

[Bobbo]

Major transport problem. This AM to me back to buoy. Sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

Take a picture and prove it. Tell them that.

[Casey]

Right. Transportation.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, send a picture.

[Casey]

I couldn't transform it.

[Caller]

Hi, you've reached Bob.

[Casey]

Oh, Billy and Bree.

[Caller]

Sorry we missed you.

[Casey]

Leave your number and we'll call you back.

[Caller]

Thanks.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Hey, Bob, we think you're lying. We think you're hungover. And we want a photo of the tow truck with your car on it to prove it. 800-800-723-4.

[Casey]

Transport problem. I couldn't transport myself out of bed.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, that's the transport problem.

[Casey]

So now that's not a lie.

[Bobbo]

I'm telling you, he got a hold that Maui Wowie and got some wine.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he'll drink that box wine like it's Skatorade. Oh, yeah.

[Casey]

There was a time when I did that. Man, oh, man, I love black box. Black box wine. Man. That was. That was the end of my. That was the End of my drinking days. Yeah, I was down to black box wine.

[John Clay Wolf]

So. Hang on. So you told me a minute ago during the break that you were left in the will by a friend that's your age that recently passed away, Right?

[Bobbo]

Well, a friend.

[John Clay Wolf]

A friend.

[Casey]

Very dear friend.

[John Clay Wolf]

A good friend.

[Casey]

Well, yeah. Yes, yes, I was left in as well.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is this off air? Is this bad?

[Casey]

No, I don't want to say his name. Okay, how about that?

[John Clay Wolf]

So what did he leave you and were you at the will reading? Were the kids around? Did he have children?

[Casey]

We didn't do a will reading. I was contacted by his lawyer this week and said, can I get your legal. Your legal name and all the doc. Because my legal name is slightly different than my air name and can I get where you live and all this stuff? And I said, why? He goes, well, you're in the will. I said, what does he have? Nobody left me as a joke. And no, he's quite a bit of money actually.

[John Clay Wolf]

Does he have children?

[Casey]

He has no children. He's been married twice. And both of those wives have gone away. Actually, the first ex wife is also in the will.

[John Clay Wolf]

The first ex wife. What about the second?

[Casey]

She is not.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you get more than the first ex wife?

[Casey]

I got more, yes.

[Bobbo]

You're kidding.

[John Clay Wolf]

Were you all gay or something?

[Casey]

No. So we were very close. I helped him out. He's helped me out. He's part of the reason I'm sober today. He got me into recovery. We're very close.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you quitting? Did you win the lottery?

[Casey]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's like, it's.

[John Clay Wolf]

If I see rolling in a new.

[Casey]

Jaguar, it's less than 200,000, but it's still good money.

[Bobbo]

Wow. Less than 200,000?

[Casey]

Yeah. It's not a million bucks.

[John Clay Wolf]

More than 100.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you telling me the truth?

[Casey]

Absolutely.

[John Clay Wolf]

J. I mean, that's. That's serious. This guy left you over 100 grand?

[Casey]

Yeah. Holy. His estate was worth 2.2 million.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's still.

[Bobbo]

That's a big chunk of it.

[Casey]

You could left me more. I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I'm killing being a good friend. I mean, obviously you had no idea.

[Casey]

No idea. None.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's interesting. That's a feel good story. Yes. Here's a hunt. Here's 100 and a half. I'm just gonna round into the figures that you're throwing around for my old dear friend jd. Do you have to pay taxes on that?

[Casey]

No. I found out you don't because it's. No. If it's less than I want to say, the numbers, it's high. It's like a million something. Then you have to pay taxes. But it's a state. It's the state money. So now there's no taxes. It's just bizarre.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now you're really not getting married.

[Casey]

What does marriage have to do with it?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm rich. I'm gone.

[Casey]

That's not rich.

[Bobbo]

I see an island coming soon.

[John Clay Wolf]

Buck and a half is legitimate. I mean, that. It's not. It's not ten grand. No, that's good. It's.

[Casey]

It's. It's livable for a while.

[John Clay Wolf]

You were livable for a while anyway.

[Casey]

Yeah, I was. Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

What are you gonna do with it?

[Casey]

Put it in the bank and sit on it. I'm in the radio. I'm in radio, man. Anything can happen.

[John Clay Wolf]

I had on my dashboard a sticky buy. And I said this three weeks ago. Buy oil futures, buy puts. And I get. I need to get a broker, which I don't have, or get an Ameritrade account, and I didn't do it. And it went up 10 points in the past 10.

[Casey]

And it will. It'll continue. I mean, everybody says that they're going up. That. That. That is going up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Everybody says if I just bought $10,000 worth of option, I don't know what it made it have been a lot. God, I'm stupid.

[Casey]

You're not. It could have gone either way.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I should just be nicer to people than they'll leave me money?

[Casey]

No, that's not the case. That's not the case.

[Bobbo]

How long. How long were you friends with them?

[Casey]

30 years.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, wow. So what's 150 divided by 30? How much an hour was that? How many hours?

[Casey]

You're killing me.

[John Clay Wolf]

How much time a week we all spend on the phone? I just wonder.

[Casey]

What, there's no investment? Nah, that's just. He's a dear friend, and, you know, he didn't have any kids.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think he's better than minimum wage. Okay.

[Casey]

I don't know. I didn't count it.

[Bobbo]

Is he older than you?

[Casey]

Younger.

[Bobbo]

He was younger.

[John Clay Wolf]

Mm.

[Bobbo]

Wow. So you were like his dad, huh?

[Casey]

No, he's only two years younger. We're just buddies. We're just very close, and we went through a lot together.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did y' all ever used to chase jail together?

[Casey]

No, we never really went through that phase. At the same time, he was either married or I was.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh. Cause you told me these stories about back when you used to bring all the bands on it. Billy Bob.

[Casey]

Some great times.

[John Clay Wolf]

The guy at Billy Bob's told JD that he was gonna have to change the couch out in the backstage cuz JD had slaughtered so many lambs in the back.

[Casey]

A little much. That's a true story.

[John Clay Wolf]

How many women do you think you've had sex with?

[Casey]

Oh, Lord. I mean, not a zillion. I'm not some kiss at, you know, Wilt Chamberlain. No, not at all. I'm not saying names less than 50.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sh. I don't believe that that's true. I think that's from listening to your stories.

[Casey]

That's about an accurate number. But remember, I was married for 10 years and I was in another relationship for 10 years, so there's 20 years of it right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

But you tell these stories that you went out on the weekends.

[Casey]

Yeah, but that was. Those were very concentrated four and five year chunks where I was on the loose and having a great. And I was in radio and you know, blah blah, blah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And were. Were you betting different women weekly? Well, that's 52 weeks in one year. Yeah, but it was, you know, he's lost track. That's what happened. You're not good at math.

[Casey]

I don't. I'm not good at math, but I think it's less. It's less than 50. I'm. I'm being conservative and honest. I don't think it's more than that. That's a lot.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you ever. Did you ever get the pookie leg?

[Casey]

Nope, not getting anything.

[John Clay Wolf]

The pookie size Dr. Roy calls it.

[Casey]

No, I don't even know what that is.

[Bobbo]

I'm on a group text.

[John Clay Wolf]

Bobbo just sent a picture of his car being towed and it is not his car.

[Bobbo]

Isn't that great?

[John Clay Wolf]

He's not. He's not being honest.

[Casey]

It's not his car.

[Bobbo]

Car. And it's being towed by a pickup truck.

[John Clay Wolf]

See it?

[Casey]

God, I see it.

[Bobbo]

You got it?

[Casey]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So he can't answer the phone, but he has time to be funny. I'm calling Bull across the. Across the way on this. Across the board. Well, he did make it here for how many weeks in a row?

[Casey]

Four.

[John Clay Wolf]

Three or four? Was it three whole weeks in a row? We got here on time. Good for him.

[Bobbo]

Oh, that was actually John's son.

[Casey]

My son didn't sent that. Actually.

[Bobbo]

J.D. son. I'm sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

800-800-7234. Yes.

[Bobbo]

That's funny though.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800 radio. Kirk, good morning.

[Caller]

You're on the air Hello.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey. Hey. What you got?

[Caller]

I got a 2012 VW Volkswagen.

[John Clay Wolf]

And is it leather or cloth?

[Caller]

It's whatever folder is they have, not cloth.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it a four cylinder, five cylinder or six cylinder?

[Caller]

Five.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it's not a diesel or does. Which one's the diesel? I forgot.

[Caller]

Is the tdi. It's not. I don't have a tdi. It's a gas se.

[John Clay Wolf]

What color?

[Casey]

Black.

[John Clay Wolf]

Does it have a sunroof?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

What color? Black. Black. Okay, 64 on the clock. Do you have a payoff on it?

[Caller]

Yes. You know what? No sunroof. I'm looking at it right now. I got so many cars. No sunroof, black interior, gray.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're not gonna. You're not gonna like my offer on this car because the VW market's been cratered with all this bad news. And with 60,000 miles. And if you have a payoff, I'm gonna bet your payoffs 12. Do you know what it is?

[Caller]

My payoff is 8.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, then you're.

[Casey]

We're good.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's exactly my number. Eight. Eight's my number here. I mean, I'm looking at him. I'm looking at a market for 62,000 miles in Darlington, North Carolina, last week brought 8, 364,000 miles. In Dallas brought 8, 765,000 miles. In Florida brought 8, 400 something. 885 is the money. And yours doesn't have a center, so it's not going to oversell. So 880. I put me down for 8,250.

[Caller]

Yeah, mine is super clean too.

[John Clay Wolf]

I hear you. But I mean, everybody's is. I mean, the ones on here, that were way low. I mean, here's a 68,000 mile one that brought 5,700. I mean, that one's a dog or it would have brought more, I'm. I'm guessing. So put me down for 8250.

[Caller]

8250.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I'll write a check on the spot. I'll go pay off that payoff and send you your 250 equity and get her picked up and be done.

[Caller]

All right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to give. Give me the vi. Givemethe vin.com 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. You know, I noticed. What are we out of time? Yeah, horse people. Arabian show horses. Yeah, Caution, you know why Arabian show horses. You know, I thought, oh, that's like.

[Casey]

The baby on board thing. Like, oh, I was.

[John Clay Wolf]

I was a homosexual English teacher with heavy debt Load is what it should say.

[Casey]

What? What?

[John Clay Wolf]

Just the Arabian crowd, I mean they're.

[Casey]

Just all, I love that. It's like, oh, I was just about to run into you. But if you have Arabians. Yeah, dude, I'm gonna stop.

[John Clay Wolf]

Horse people, man, they spend so much money.

[Casey]

Sure. And they. Because they have it other wouldn't be in the business.

[John Clay Wolf]

But the Arabians people.

[Casey]

How much is an Arabian horse nowadays? I mean, what is it? Who knows? You have no idea. Who cares? Well, I just think it's interesting cutting.

[John Clay Wolf]

Horse people what they spend on their horses.

[Casey]

Crazy, crazy, crazy. We'll be right back.

[John Clay Wolf]

I got the perfect st. Clean love.

[Casey]

When the D feel alright.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I was rolling down the road.

[Casey]

In some cold blue steel I had a blues man on the back Any beautician held the wheel.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're going downtown in the middle of the night. Now back to the John Clay Wolf show. Hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf show. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. We're Texas wide, we're not nationwide in Louisiana. Hell, Louisiana is our step. Stepbrother. The reason is we can get the damn cars picked up in Louisiana, get them back to Dallas, we can't go too far, you can't get them home. Ben, good morning, you're on the air.

[Caller]

Hey, how you doing, Mr. Wolf?

[John Clay Wolf]

Good, good, what you got?

[Caller]

Hey, so real quick story on this car. I've got a 07 Mercedes C230 that I bought from the dealer I was stationed at Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, El Paso. I bought from this dealership over there. And at the time I felt like it was a good price. When I looked it up, you know, and the handshake agreement he gave me on what he was going to give me for my trade, he ended up giving me about half of that. And I didn't notice because the payment was right. And so he kind of burned me big time. He wrote about five grand worth of negative equity into the loan and I didn't even, I didn't notice until like a month later.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I've seen, I've seen that before, by the way, but go ahead. I, I saw one so bad. I saw one so bad one time and this guy was a doctor. They jumped his trade and it was a twenty thousand dollar jeep jump. The trade means cleared it, got it for free. And the guy came back a week later when he really realized what had happened and he was just like in tears and they like tough.

[Casey]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, it's a new car.

[Caller]

Story that's like what happened to me, you know, the price of the car was fair at the time. And we said, all right, this is what he's gonna give me. I said, this is the payment I'm looking for. He ended up getting me, you know, right at the ballpark there. And I was like, okay, great. And I noticed a month later, I looked at the paperwork, I financed like 22,000 on this car. Now I've been paying on it for what, four years almost now, and I'm still upside down.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, of course you are. I mean, you always will be. What's the payoff on how many miles are on it?

[Caller]

It's got one. Oh, it's just a little over 100,000.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so average MMR, which, what we use. Mannheim market report the auction data here. I've got the car pulled about 07C230 with 102 on it. Average MMR is 4825. 4825. So that's what you're going to get on trade in four grand. Five grand. 4,500 right around there. I'll give five grand for it if it's nice, but didn't even matter. And you still owe 20. So.

[Caller]

What, man? I owe. No, I owe. I owe like, 13. I ended up financing over 20, you know, when I should only finance like 15 or something like that. Well, so I'm badly upside down, and I. And it's just time to trade her car in.

[John Clay Wolf]

And so, I mean, your only option. Your only option is the repo and let it go, and then you. You bang your credit all up for that.

[Caller]

So, yeah, that's the problem, man. I mean, I've spent. I spent almost a decade active duty, barely getting by, trying to keep my credit in order, and I, you know, I don't want to take a hit on it, you know, I understand.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's no there. There's no good out of this story. I mean, there's no, you know, if it accidentally got flooded, that would suck. But then the insurance. But actually, the insurance is only going to pay about six grand, and then you're still going to owe the difference. Unless you have gap insurance.

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I have no words of wisdom for you.

[Caller]

All right?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sorry, but you're just going to have to eat it.

[Caller]

Did the value of this car just completely tank body style?

[John Clay Wolf]

Body style change? Two of them now. Three of them now. It looks. It looks old is why it tanked.

[Caller]

Yeah. Okay, well, that makes sense.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sorry, dude. I wish I Could help.

[Caller]

All right, man. Well, I appreciate this. Your show every weekend, so.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, thanks for calling in, Ben, and thanks for. Thank you for your service, sir.

[Caller]

Thank you, sir.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800-7234. 800-800-Radio is the call in number. Charlie, I took you off of something when that guy called in. Do you remember what it was?

[Bobbo]

Oh, we were talking about the biggest spread ever seen in an auction on a car.

[Casey]

What does that mean?

[Bobbo]

Like, it's value. What it's what everybody thinks it's worth and what it actually brings.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, we had one yesterday that I. Turley was on top of cars. He was at a sale buying cars.

[Casey]

And.

[John Clay Wolf]

And we talked about this.

[Bobbo]

It was a SS Trailblazer 2005.

[John Clay Wolf]

How many miles?

[Bobbo]

40,000 miles.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it's a better than a good car. It's like an impossible. It's a rare car. And I've seen him sell in the. In the mid teens, but I've never seen one get. I thought we were being aggressive at 16 grand.

[Bobbo]

Everybody says it's, you know, average. The experts say it was 13 grand.

[John Clay Wolf]

Then I told Turley to go to 16 grand, which is three grand over.

[Casey]

That's real aggressive.

[John Clay Wolf]

And Charlie watched it sell for what, 19, five.

[Casey]

Wow.

[Bobbo]

Yeah. Whoa. It was amazing. It was online and went over that point.

[Casey]

You don't feel like you're. You're behind the curve. You just say, you know, that one's just had it.

[Bobbo]

I mean, I don't know where they're at that point.

[John Clay Wolf]

No.

[Bobbo]

Well, 19 5, that would be the highest retailed one that I've ever seen.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is a dealer sale. Yeah. If you have a Supra Turbo, an old one, I want to buy it.

[Casey]

Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I've got a. I've got a. I've got a market for that car.

[Casey]

Okay. So you know where to. You know where to take it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I could pay a lot of money for a 88 to 90, whatever. Supra turbo 88. Yep. Supra turbo 98.

[Bobbo]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

If you've got a nice one, I've got a check for you and. And I'll pay for it.

[Bobbo]

You know, we'll come pick it up.

[John Clay Wolf]

15 grand.

[Casey]

88.

[John Clay Wolf]

10 grand. I mean, it all depends on what it is, the miles. Yeah. If you got a nice one, I'll give between 8 and 20 grand for it. 800. 800. 7, 2, 3, 4. And you ought to look through the rags and look online, too, Turley, and dig around and see if you can find some because I know where to go with them. Oh, wait. Silverado with 177, 000 miles. Four wheel drive, extended cab, man. Big miles. I mean, we'll buy them. The fleet's miley, man.

[Casey]

Well, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

The fleet of cars out there. Sure it is miley. And in Texas. We're worse than anybody in the South. We drive so much. How many years?

[Casey]

Oh, my God. I don't even know. Too many.

[John Clay Wolf]

30.

[Casey]

30.

[John Clay Wolf]

30?

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

30, 000 miles.

[Casey]

I know. That's crazy. I know. I drive way too much.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dale, Dale, Dale. How many. How many miles a year do you drive?

[Caller]

Are you talking to me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes, sir.

[Bobbo]

You talking to me?

[Caller]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're good. How many miles a year do you drive?

[Caller]

Oh, I go to deer. Lease back and forth. And that's probably about 400 miles. Do that at least once a month. And then other than that, it's just to work. Which is just around the corner and back home.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you started with a high mile truck on this one?

[Caller]

I did not. Actually. I started. I started with only about 800 miles on this truck when I bought it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, you bought it new?

[Casey]

Okay.

[Caller]

No, it was a trade in that. Somebody had that bought and they didn't want it. And so I turned around and bought it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. It's got 177 on it now.

[Caller]

177, 115.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it a 5, 3 or 4, 8 engine?

[Caller]

It's the. It's the larger one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it a leather or cloth truck?

[Caller]

It's cloth.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it is an extended cab. Not a crew, right?

[Caller]

That is correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Average rough or clean?

[Caller]

I'm gonna say it's clean.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm gonna say it's eight grand.

[Caller]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

With 177. It's a nice truck. I'll give that go to. Give me the VI N. Give me the VIN.com. push us the VIN number, a couple pictures and we'll wrap it up.

[Caller]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, sir. 8008-0072-3480-0800-7234, 800-800 radio. What are you talking about? Road trip music this morning?

[Bobbo]

Oh, it just came to me because this song, we played it earlier in the show. Offspring Bad Habit. Just a. It's a road rage kind of song. But it's a great. Just on the road.

[Casey]

You're driving spring break.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, Spring break is coming up.

[Casey]

A lot of people are on spring break this week.

[Bobbo]

So I was asking J.D. it's like. So you know, what's your favorite rock band or something. He's like, I don't really like rock, but if I'm driving, I'll listen to acdc.

[Casey]

I said, I don't like hard rock, but ACDC is not really their pop hard rock.

[Bobbo]

I think it's. That's kind of. I mean, it's. That's hard rock.

[Casey]

Is it?

[Bobbo]

Yeah. Would you say?

[Casey]

Sure, but they're pop.

[John Clay Wolf]

But that's pop.

[Casey]

It's pop hard rock. It's not like Pantera and that kind.

[Bobbo]

Of stuff, but it's metal. But that's something that I was like, AC dc. That's good.

[Casey]

If I can sing along with it, I'm considered hard rod.

[Bobbo]

There's like just one of those songs, like, is there a song for you?

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you wanting to make me a mixtape? Is that what this is?

[Bobbo]

No, I'm not gonna make you a mixtape. Hell no. Memories, actually, that's what Pandora is for, really.

[John Clay Wolf]

Trying to go on the road. He put me together. Mixtape.

[Casey]

Yeah. Really? I love it.

[Bobbo]

John's.

[Casey]

What are you.

[Bobbo]

John's road trip.

[John Clay Wolf]

Will you make me a mixtape for my wife? I can give to her and put my name on it.

[Bobbo]

I just take all the artists that I listen to and check them on Pandora and let it play and it comes up. Pandora doesn't let me down. Yeah, he knows me.

[John Clay Wolf]

They play commercials now, right?

[Bobbo]

Well, you can get away from that by paying for it.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

How much is paying?

[Casey]

I don't even know.

[Bobbo]

It's like 10 bucks. For years or so a month. I mean, something like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sure the operators of the stations were on love.

[Bobbo]

I love to hear that. Don't they?

[Casey]

Music stations, they're like, shut up.

[Bobbo]

But when I'm not listening to talk radio, of course, a rock and roll.

[John Clay Wolf]

Our sports.

[Casey]

Oh, this is. Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're talking Austin. Hey, how's this gonna work in Austin and San Antonio, right? Being on country stations, just fine.

[Bobbo]

It's like, how's it working on a sports station?

[Casey]

In a rock station, it's like any other show. It's just a. People, people. This goes back to the mentality of you can only be funny or entertaining in the morning, because that's when people. People want to be entertained all the time. And no matter what, no matter what that entertainment is, whether it's country music around it or rock music around it or no music around it, it's the same entertainment. When humans are talking, we're communicating and being entertaining. We're talking about Donald Trump, by the way, we talked earlier about the Donald Trump.

[John Clay Wolf]

I Think we'll like the cars off the country station?

[Casey]

Absolutely.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I think we'll get a lot of nice trucks.

[Casey]

Nice. Really nice trucks. Bernie Sanders has come out this morning talking about the Trump rally and the big mess they had yesterday in Chicago. He says in a tweet, remember, the Trump rally wasn't just luck. This is from Bernie Sanders. It took organizers from dozens of organizations and thousands of people to pull it off. Great work.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, does he think Trump did it?

[Casey]

He thinks so. That he did it.

[Bobbo]

So he's saying. He thinks it's a. He's following along with you, huh?

[Casey]

He thinks it's an inside deal.

[Bobbo]

It's an inside deal.

[Casey]

See, that's good. So it has to be. It has to be. They're saying, moveon.org people were involved. The Black Lives Matter people were involved. Everybody's getting involved in this.

[Bobbo]

And maybe, maybe, you know what? Maybe Trump's behind it, too, because this is great. This is great publicity for him.

[Casey]

Oh, yeah, actually, actually, did you say that? And his numbers went up this morning because of that.

[Bobbo]

He knows how to fire up his base.

[Casey]

I never thought of that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Bobbo]

Now I'm following along with it here.

[Casey]

Oh, wait a minute. I never thought that Trump could have done that.

[Bobbo]

Think about it. That's what he's. This is all. Big promotion for the brand. The other day, he had his stakes and everything.

[John Clay Wolf]

Listen to the liberal. Listen to the liberal. Listen.

[Bobbo]

No, it's true, though.

[Casey]

Go ahead. No, you're right.

[John Clay Wolf]

He.

[Bobbo]

I mean, that's what.

[John Clay Wolf]

He didn't do this. It's too busy. He didn't need to do it.

[Casey]

What's the best.

[Bobbo]

I mean, what's the lose?

[Casey]

What's the best way to make somebody want something? Take it away from them? So you.

[Bobbo]

Have you read his Art of the Deal? That's part of what it is. Take away.

[Casey]

This is brilliant. These people kept me from talking to you in Chicago. These people. Oh, my God. That's brilliant. Oh, my God. It's even. That's even more diabolical than I thought.

[John Clay Wolf]

You think it was an inside job?

[Casey]

I think it's an inside job from all of them now. I think Trump was involved. God, it's bad. Brilliant.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Holy man. And Rubio's telling his people in Ohio to vote for Cage, not him.

[Bobbo]

And what. Oh, Kasich.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Casey]

Why is that?

[Bobbo]

Because he knows he's done. Yeah, he doesn't want to lose Florida, but he doesn't. Yeah, but if they can take. If he can get the state, it's Going to just split up the vote.

[John Clay Wolf]

His supporters, so to speak. I mean, it is the Internet, but I think it was on legit news I read are saying that they're going to yank. Yank him before. Yeah, Florida.

[Casey]

It's time.

[John Clay Wolf]

Before Florida. Because there's no reason. You're right.

[Bobbo]

I don't think that's gonna happen.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's time. Well, he's got a future. Wow.

[Casey]

My mind. The Trump. I've been telling.

[Bobbo]

Have you ever watched Idiocracy, the movie?

[Casey]

No.

[Bobbo]

Watch it.

[Casey]

Okay. Will it tell you? It's like. Well, I have seen Wag the Dog. Have you seen that?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[Casey]

Same deal.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you seen House of Cards? I've just.

[Casey]

Oh, sure.

[Bobbo]

I've got to catch up. I haven't started yet. I love the show.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've been watching the last season that got posted March 1st. Oh, it's so good.

[Bobbo]

I love that show. Yeah, I'll be binging probably this weekend.

[Casey]

There's a way to know the real workings of all the stuff we see on tv because, you know, it's, it's not accidental that these people showed up. These people wouldn't get up to go to a job interview. They didn't accidentally show up at this place. Hey, I got nothing else to do. I'm just high on dope. Let's go. Let's go downtown, pay to park, get out of our comfort zone. Get out of our pizza delivery area and go down and protest. It's just not these people.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's funny is when our kids are reading the history books in class their junior year. Hell, our grandkids.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Their junior year of high school, these snippets are gonna be in history books.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, that's kind of.

[John Clay Wolf]

They will, but it'll be like we talked about the 60s and I'm 43. So looking back in school, the 60s were all these clips just like what we're seeing now. But that wasn't all of the 60s. But that's what it's presented as.

[Casey]

Kent State in those things or what you remember because that's what's the photographs.

[Bobbo]

So those made a big impact and change. This isn't.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, this is going worse. Dude. I really.

[Casey]

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think we're fixing to get into rally mode and it's going to get weird.

[Casey]

What's rally mode?

[John Clay Wolf]

Just violent mode.

[Casey]

Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I do. I, I, I have a lot of. I have a lot of redneck in me that I hide it so well. I don't know if I hide it so well. Or not, but I was raised in the. I had private school. Hang on, let me finish the bubble. So I lived that life with mom.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then I lived country life with dad.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I got a big dose of both sides, so I can completely relate to both sides. And they are so different. Oh, sure. Even my friends today that are grown still don't comprende.

[Casey]

The other side, the redneck side, the.

[John Clay Wolf]

Real guy, the normal person on the street.

[Casey]

So you've done both. Yeah, you're right. You went to SMU and you grew up in kind of a private school. But. But on the other hand, you live and work in the real world and you kind of grew up.

[John Clay Wolf]

But I went from fifth grade to, to junior year, I went to Country Public.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it.

[Casey]

And that's who the majority of the people out there are.

[John Clay Wolf]

And, and these guys, when this starts getting weird, the, the, the racism in the south has been, has been in the closet for a long time. And this Obama thing, they're. They want to. They want to. They want to. He's fixing to give him an excuse to start acting badly. Trying to say, you think.

[Casey]

No, who is Trump, Trump, Trump. Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't think that's what his plan was, but that's what's going to happen.

[Casey]

That's sad.

[John Clay Wolf]

I will see. But, you know, we always do this. And you, three weeks from now, you're right. If you remember what you said, what you said, I think we're fixing to start seeing people act up.

[Bobbo]

No, I agree. Because the voters for him are from that.

[John Clay Wolf]

They're priming that deal. Last night was.

[Casey]

Okay, you always.

[Bobbo]

Because he needs that base. He needs those people fired up.

[Casey]

Okay.

[Bobbo]

The problem is when he gets them fired up, real things actually happen.

[Casey]

Yeah. Okay. You can't stop it. Okay. You started. You started a backfire and it got out of control.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Bobbo]

And that's what, that's, that's. I agree with John on that. I mean, the real reactions is like that single guy knocking the black guy down. That's a real.

[Casey]

That was reaction. I think that was real.

[Bobbo]

The other stuff is like, okay, all right, this is firing up her base. Let's keep it going. Well, that's what they saw that happen.

[Casey]

And they went, hey, here's an idea. That's exactly what happened.

[Bobbo]

But it's going to get nasty because there's people out there in rural areas.

[John Clay Wolf]

They don't know now.

[Casey]

They can't stop.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it's been on the warmer for the past 24 months with Michael Brown in Missouri.

[Casey]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

That. That hasn't come. That. That fire is still smoldering in that whole thing.

[Casey]

So let's be the radio show that creates harmony and peace and love.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think this thing's got a. I think it's got to work out eventually.

[Casey]

It will.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, I think it's got to finish off. I don't think that you, the. Anybody can be the one. I don't know. Maybe I'm just too much of a doomsayer. But I, I'm telling you, J.D. and I mean this, but I, I'm. I'm. My real thought is worse than what I'm telling you right now. Really?

[Casey]

Yeah, really.

[John Clay Wolf]

I really hope you are wrong.

[Casey]

You've been right on some very things that I. That everybody thought. Oh, John. And a couple of weeks later, you're right. But let's hope you're wrong.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now, I did also believe that Obama would be assassinated quickly. And I know that sounds terrible to say that's terrible.

[Casey]

And you're not.

[John Clay Wolf]

I was wrong.

[Casey]

You're wrong.

[John Clay Wolf]

But talking to friends that are friends of Secret Service.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

They said it has been unreal, that first round of close calls.

[Casey]

Yeah. I don't even know what.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't either.

[Casey]

Yeah, I don't have a comment on that. I'm gonna have to stay away. So I totally, totally agree. Thank God he's safe.

[John Clay Wolf]

But Trump is starting this racial war and he doesn't like.

[Bobbo]

Oh, he knows it.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a bad. But I think it's going to get out of control.

[Casey]

I think it's.

[Bobbo]

I think you know your base, you know who your voters are.

[Casey]

Yeah, but you do. But does he have.

[John Clay Wolf]

He doesn't know.

[Casey]

Does he have a concept of how bad it can get?

[Bobbo]

Oh, yeah.

[Casey]

Here we are talking politics. Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

He doesn't. He doesn't know.

[Casey]

Hey, Johnny Manziel's out.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Are we out of time?

[Bobbo]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, we're out of time. We'll be right back.

[Casey]

All right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now back to the John Clay Wolf Show. Hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf Show. Hey, now. Is this crazy?

[Bobbo]

Yes, it is.

[John Clay Wolf]

If you play this, women go crazy with this song. Who is it? Buck Cherry?

[Bobbo]

Yep.

[Casey]

You want me?

[John Clay Wolf]

J.D. you've got all your papers over there.

[Casey]

I got crazy news. Well, you're playing a crazy story. I'm looking for the crazy news. We have the normal stuff, like the Johnny Menzel stuff. We also have. He's crazy five, five days in a row. He's seen in bars in Miami. Party and just drinking, partying, having a good time. The Browns, of course, dropped him on Friday. So who's gonna pick him up? Who would pick him up? Who possibly that's.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, that's police. Or the guys in white shirts from the rehab center.

[Casey]

Thank you.

[Bobbo]

Remember we have that $20 bet. Or is it 25? $25 bet going the bottom. What's the bottom for? Johnny, man. So he's been cut. He's getting closer. I'm saying jail.

[Casey]

You're saying jail? John said death. And I was car wreck.

[Bobbo]

Yes.

[Casey]

I was somewhere in the middle.

[John Clay Wolf]

And if he dies in a. Correct. Then we split. Yep.

[Bobbo]

So bad. Johnny watch a death watch.

[Casey]

Basically death watch. Then we got Chumley from Pawn Stars getting picked up. Or felony weapon and drug charges. That. Is that a shock to anybody though. Really. Did you ever watch that show?

[Bobbo]

Yeah, he's pretty messed up looking.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, he's just a little white trash fat boy.

[Casey]

Since we're in the crazy world, how about a Wisconsin man being charged after he allegedly broke into his co worker's home? Not too bad, right? But he molested the man's dog.

[John Clay Wolf]

What? Do you have a picture of the dog?

[Casey]

No, I don't. But what does that matter? 44 year old.

[John Clay Wolf]

Must have been a pretty one.

[Casey]

Was found straddling the co worker's dog in the basement of the home. All right, we'll move on. Let me see here. What is this one? No, we don't want to read that one. That's too bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

Here, hand it to me.

[Casey]

Yeah, it's about a guy who. Who broke into a house and he. He didn't steal anything. But he left them something in his backyard. He left them.

[John Clay Wolf]

I pooped on him.

[Casey]

There you go.

[John Clay Wolf]

He left him a package.

[Casey]

Everybody in Houston saw this.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did he leave it in a brown paper bag on fire? Did you ever do that as a child?

[Casey]

No, I never did that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you ever do it?

[Bobbo]

No, I had a friend that did it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did he.

[Bobbo]

Really nasty.

[Casey]

Anyway, guy broke in and pooped in their yard. In Houston, everyone saw this. A naked woman dancing on top of the cab of an 18 wheeler. Slow traffic in Houston for about two hours. She was finally coaxed off the truck. Why do hot women never do this?

[John Clay Wolf]

Why it's always gotta be so where. What was the meth blood count.

[Casey]

But we didn't. It didn't say. But I like that part. It says.

[Bobbo]

I think it's in the song Crazy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Casey]

Alcohol was considered to be a photo. You Think really it was.

[John Clay Wolf]

Anyway, I think it's methamphetamine.

[Casey]

Crystal methamphetamine. That was funny. Let's see here. And then it happened again in Dallas in Deep Ellum. Local Facebook feeds were a flutter Saturday night with a video of a naked woman riding on top of the hood of a car headed the wrong direction.

[John Clay Wolf]

Was she attracted? I think she was.

[Bobbo]

It was kind of hard to tell.

[Casey]

They blurred it, so it was hard to tell. She started stripping down in front of a popular live music venue called Three Links. And she got naked and got on a car. The car then backed down the street with her on board.

[John Clay Wolf]

There you go. I mean, that's just party and rock and roll Texas style, baby. What's wrong with that?

[Casey]

Nothing.

[Bobbo]

I think she was mad, though. I don't think it was her partying. Because that car sped off backwards.

[Casey]

Yes.

[Bobbo]

The wrong way.

[John Clay Wolf]

That turns into an eight second ride. Yeah. You know, rodeo sex is.

[Casey]

What's that?

[John Clay Wolf]

When you behind them and you say you're almost as good as your sister.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you hang on.

[Casey]

In Bethesda, Maryland, Animal House lives. Two American university students headed up following an off. This sounds like something you would do, John. An off campus fraternity party. Big deal. A lot of drunk people.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm 43. I don't hang out at the old.

[Casey]

In the old days. In the old days, they said the house was packed with people. 50 to 75 people huddled in the garage. I mean, it was looked.

[John Clay Wolf]

Was it chicken foot?

[Casey]

It was. No, they were all just passed out drunk. In fact, here you go. Alcohol was so abundant. A preliminary breath. When the cops do your breathalyzer, they have to redress register first. The ambient air. The ambient air registered.09ambient air at this party.

[Bobbo]

How drunk? I mean, it was oozing out their pores, their breathing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Holy air.

[Casey]

That was in Bethesda, Maryland. Okay.

[Bobbo]

That's a party.

[Casey]

And St Patrick's Day, speaking of partying, is just around the corner.

[John Clay Wolf]

Better than Ezra was.

[Casey]

Lots of beer. You have any idea how much money. Justin. Justin. On St. Patrick's Day sales last year, they estimated beer $245 million just in St. Patrick's Day sales. That means 1% of all the annual U.S. beer sales came from one day.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good Lord. Almost as good as Cinco de Mayo.

[Casey]

And the sales of Irish whiskey goes up by 400% just on that day. So that being said, there are a lot of people behind the wheel that weekend that are probably shouldn't be. Please be very, very careful.

[John Clay Wolf]

When is St. Patty's Day.

[Bobbo]

It's coming up next week. Next Thursday.

[Casey]

Next Thursday. So next Thursday, Friday, Saturday. People, you know, they drag it out into the weekend and there's a lot of people doing them today. There's a lot of people doing St Patrick's Day parades and such today. When. When it lands in the middle of the week.

[John Clay Wolf]

What an excuse to get drunk. Who cares about Irish holidays?

[Casey]

A lot of people do. 245 million in beer.

[John Clay Wolf]

A lot of people want to get drunk.

[Bobbo]

I want to pass the Dallas parade sp.

[John Clay Wolf]

I didn't give a damn.

[Bobbo]

Just wanted to drink. That was it.

[Casey]

Exactly. And of course, tonight's the night we roll the clocks forward and they're saying the National Highway. Spence. We talk about cars. The safety administration says, actually they report about 100,000 police reported crashes that they say is according to driver fatigue, because people. For that one hour, people are screwed up on their sleep cycles.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do you. Have you seen the little meme rolling around online of the little kid from Garland or wherever that did the bomb in the school? And it's. It's a picture of him by his bomb and he's looking at the camera. It says, remember to roll your bombs back one hour this evening or put your bombs forward one hour this evening.

[Bobbo]

He made a clock, not a bomb.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, was it not a bomb?

[Bobbo]

No, he made a clock everybody thought was a bomb.

[Casey]

It looked like a bomb. It was designed to look like a bomb.

[John Clay Wolf]

Shame on him.

[Casey]

Are we done with that or you want to go?

[John Clay Wolf]

We got to go. I hate going.

[Casey]

I hate when that happens.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right, we'll be back. 800, 800 radio. Just go to. Give me the VI N. Give me the VIN. The VIN number. Givemetheven.com, load your car in there. We'll send you an offer letter. We'll just email it to you. Hard money, come to your house, pick it up, bada bing, bada boom. No sweat. Well, thank you very much, everybody. Blackpool and all that. It's lovely to be here. We'd like to carry on now in a sec with a song, which is our record before. Record before. You know, this one's called Tickets A Ride. Now back to the John Clay Wolf Show. Hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf Show. This dealership that we buy cars at, they do a bid sale. Yes. And a bid sale is where you go to the auction or to their. To their dealership and they have a list or two pages of cars that they want to wholesale. And all the dealers put down 22, 2, 23 or odd numbers.

[Bobbo]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because you turn in your bids in, the highest bid wins.

[Casey]

So, like, the price is right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. If you put in 12,500, you could lose it to the guy that gave 12,501.

[Casey]

This is the price is right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Drives you crazy.

[Bobbo]

That's frustrating.

[Casey]

Yeah. Why did they do that? That doesn't seem like a very.

[John Clay Wolf]

To keep the used car managers from taking payoff money from the wholesalers.

[Bobbo]

But what you have to hope for is that no one's coming in over the top.

[John Clay Wolf]

They do. And.

[Bobbo]

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm hoping this, this doesn't happen here, but who knows?

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I mean, you know, I, I don't think.

[Bobbo]

But you know what I'm talking about.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure do. I know what you're talking about.

[Casey]

He created it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I, I, you can find record of me knowing what I'm talking about. We had a deal with a store, and they changed the used car. I bought a lot of the trades. Big, big store, you know, thousand car a month. Deal. Okay. Chevy store. All right. And I bought a lot of the cars trade ins from there.

[Bobbo]

Okay.

[Casey]

And, and so you had a deal.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. No, I didn't have a deal.

[Casey]

No, but you had an understanding.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Casey]

Business arrangements.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. But it was all clean business for years.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then they switched used car managers and they moved this prick to the used car manager. And all of a sudden, this other guy's getting the cars, and then the dealership's like, something's up. We're gonna go to a bid sale. Yeah. So actually, hang on, the other guy didn't. So I went out there and they had five pages of bid sale cards, like a hundred. And I wrote down one point, you know, I did them all, and I just wrote, I turned my bid in at one point, 375 million. Boop.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I just did them all. And I outbid the whole thing by, like, 32 grand.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they sold them all to me. I was trying to screw up their bid sale.

[Casey]

Gotcha.

[John Clay Wolf]

So that all the dealers that were out there working were like, they're still selling them all to Wolf. Forget it. It's not a good bid sale. So the next time I went out there, they said, you can't. I turned in my bed, they said, you can't do that.

[Casey]

Why?

[John Clay Wolf]

I was like, why? Well, they said, it's screwing everybody up and this and that. I'm like, just take the money and then allocate it to the cars you want. I don't care. Money is money. They said, we'll let you do one page at a time, but you can't do one big number. So I did one page at a time and I got like three out of five pages. Okay. And it slowly trickled down. And then I quit it because I hate bid sales because they drive me crazy. They, I. I sit there and go insane. Do I go 12, 2, 21 or 12, 227 or 12, 3, 71? I'm like, it makes me crazy.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

So. Because you can't negotiate. No. And I'm. I'm a negotiator.

[Casey]

Right? That's what you do.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. So this other guy was getting a lot of cars out of the bid sale, and I quit it. This other good wholesaler and a guy that drafted on me that I floor plan said, hey, there's a rig at the bid sale out there. This guy's got a deal. And he gets last look at the end of the night. So all bids must be turned in by 5 o'. Clock. And then at 7 o', clock, they'd have a phone call and they'd go over the bids. And if this other fella wanted to bump any of the bids off, he had a chance. And it was. What?

[Casey]

What was the point of that?

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't understand.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[Bobbo]

What's the point of it?

[Casey]

What's the point of him being there?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, because the wholesaler was paying the used car manager.

[Bobbo]

Exactly.

[Casey]

There we go.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right.

[Casey]

There's the piece I was missing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

So they take him something that was clean and straight and turned it into something dirty. Trying to be clean and straight. Just so typical. So he goes, he said, we can get that same treatment. I have such a good relationship with him.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I said, I can't know about this, but do what you want to do.

[Casey]

I see nothing. I know, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I. So the call comes at the end. So he said, I need you to go out and bid these cars with me.

[Caller]

Me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Because I can't do that many of my own. So what we did. I mean, I'm. This is terrible. I can't believe you're confessing.

[Casey]

What?

[John Clay Wolf]

I was gonna say I was mad because the guy that was getting the cars.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Was it enemy of mine?

[Casey]

Oh, there we go. Ego got involved.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes, I see. And I had this hole sewn up for decade, and he screwed it all up.

[Casey]

It was your honey hole screwed it all up. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I'm like, okay, I'll do it. If I get to look after Mr. X is done looking.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So we go out there to the bid sale, and we turn in a dummy bid. We walk all the cars, we write them down. We had two lists. We had our list that we were really making notes on. And then the other list, all the cars we did not want, we wrote low bids on, and we turned in a bid sheet, but we left blanks on all the ones we did want. So when the call came that night, then we went over the ones with blanks, and then he filled it in.

[Bobbo]

And on your other sheet, you knew what your numbers were anyway.

[Casey]

Okay.

[Caller]

All right.

[Bobbo]

It's pretty smart.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's pretty. Sorry.

[Bobbo]

It's pretty. Yes. Sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I go, so. So this used car manager, that's a crook, years later, he becomes the general manager of the whole thing.

[Casey]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he got fired when they realized that he was a sorry bastard.

[Casey]

And.

[John Clay Wolf]

He sued them for defamation. Character in 10 years had passed. Literally.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Eight years had passed. And I went to the dealer and I said, hey, I got. The dealer was losing this battle in court and spending a lot of money. And I said, you got proof? I want to tell you a story. Sit down.

[Casey]

Let me tell you a story.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he's like, will you say that in court? I'm like, yep.

[Casey]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

And so all this is on record.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I did my deposition. I went in court and testified against the guy and told him exactly what we did and how we did it. And the guy won $2.7 million. Really? Defamation. Character really didn't believe a word I was saying.

[Casey]

Holy.

[Bobbo]

I can't. I don't think you can make any of that up. That's all I know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. So the other side.

[Casey]

2.7 million.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. The other side said that me. My testimony was brought in there as a fake to. For later favor so that I'd get the cars after this was all over. Wow. And at that point, I realized. And looking in that jury box and seeing who was in there, good old boy network. I just. No, I just realized that you can't trust core system. You never know what's gonna happen.

[Casey]

You never know what's gonna happen.

[John Clay Wolf]

This guy is a crook, and that's why all this crooked stuff happened.

[Casey]

Yeah. Yeah, clearly.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then he sues. He wins $2.7 million.

[Casey]

He was on the front page of.

[John Clay Wolf]

Star Telegram two years ago.

[Casey]

Jesus.

[John Clay Wolf]

Unbelievable. And your boy that ran you through the ropes last week, Turley. That's the guy.

[Bobbo]

Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. So.

[Casey]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

I. I didn't tell you that part of the story. Oh. And and he came to me about six months ago and said, hey, because we've been fighting out on the street at these dealerships. And he was like, let's make a peace offering. Let's quit bidding against each other. Let's just go each other's way. I had no idea that he was out there. So he got into a bidding war with Turley. And Turley didn't know that. This guy's a pro poker player.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

He got the best. Turley. That's fine. I mean, it wasn't any big deal. But there's a lot of this trade that we're in. Is the real wholesale business. On the backside is heavy duty big billion and billion dollar industry that the public does not see.

[Casey]

Sure, Paul, the money and it's.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, the rate. This radio show that we do right. Is fun and I enjoy it. It's my reliever.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Give me the VIN is fun, but our big business is way bigger than this. Yeah. But what I have always envisioned since day one is to get rid of that crap and take it to the public.

[Casey]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

And get them in on the real money. Why does the dealer get to give them six grand? We give the dealer 6,500 and then we sell it to the next dealer for seven. Why can't we give the public the 6500?

[Casey]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then still sell it to the next guy for seven, but cut that other one out and get the public their money. Or the more expensive, the bigger the spread. Dealer shows you 20 grand on trade. He traded. And they sell it to me for 21 and I sell it to the next guy for 22. Okay. So there's two grand of meat on the bone on that deal. Why can't I give the public 21 3, 50.

[Casey]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

Or 215 and still get my deal done.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[Bobbo]

And that.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then I don't have to go play all these dealer bull this. But in this Sopranos organized. It's a rough deal is what I'm trying to tell. But it's straightening out. And technology's made it available. So whenever you think, hey, there's just some radio guy with a website.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's got to be a hoax. It's got to be some stupid ass dot com startup. Nobody knows what they're doing. Trust me, guys, we know exactly what we're doing. And a lot of the people that we compete against, that you hear about, we buy their cars too. True. I'm not. Very true.

[Casey]

Love it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I will never. I bought 10,000 cars from CarMax God, really? Yeah, maybe more. I mean I. Anyway, you're. If you go to givemetheven.com and you tell your friends I can be. I've set up a system where I can be your friend, your agent, your right hand, your brother in law that is in the used car business. And it's a click away. And that's what this whole thing is about. And it's finally, finally starting to come to fruition. We're finally getting traction. I mean we're always doing it. Yeah, but, but I see where it's really. And, and I know what the big vision is on it. And I think I've got something here. And I'm getting excited and I'm ready to get rolling because I hate that story. I told you, it sucks.

[Bobbo]

Cuz like for somebody like me it's like, okay, what the hell's the point?

[John Clay Wolf]

I never exactly. I never liked it. I never liked this business when I got in it. They're kingpin dope dealers. They're wholesale kingpins. And they tried to run me off, keep you down. They got the power. And I fought him.

[Casey]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I, When I broke through, it was. I mean it was bad. I mean there were times I got shook down. Do you remember that? Three years ago.

[Bobbo]

Oh yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Shook down.

[Casey]

What does that mean?

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't shut your mouth, you're gonna get hurt.

[Casey]

Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Bobbo]

Pulling up to the car type deal.

[John Clay Wolf]

And the security guards started coming all.

[Casey]

The time about what you said on the radio or.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no, no, no, no. Well, just.

[Casey]

What?

[John Clay Wolf]

I was just a deal that, that, that thing. I was just telling you about that deal. Yeah. And I was, I was telling this guy that I was helping. If I need 24 hour security at my house, you're going to pay for it. And he said deal.

[Casey]

Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. And I wasn't that far from thinking. I did. Really. And 15 years ago it was the same thing. When you start screwing with these big guys. Big, big money now I'm the big guy now, but I don't play like that. We're not, we're not the Sopranos, right? In this whole technology thing. Because back before now in the KBBS and the, all the websites and all the carmaxes, it was, it was worse, you know. Big guy number 1, 2 and 3 in each market got all the cars. They had everybody wired, they had everybody smeared, they had everybody greased. When I say grease, I mean they had people. I know a guy that had a complete junk business of Mexico cars.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

That he didn't make any money on. And he'd sell him 100 cars a week of cash. Cars so that he could run the cash through his system to have the cash to tell his runners to go to the dealerships and give him their bags. Wow.

[Casey]

I swear to God, this is deep.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying names.

[Casey]

Yeah, I got a good idea.

[John Clay Wolf]

But that's. But I was like, I want to build a system to fix this.

[Casey]

Fix it. Yeah. So you're sort of. You were sort of the Southwest airlines in the 70s. You sort of. You came in, you changed the rules, and American Airlines tried to kill them and squash them everywhere they could. And the Southwest Airlines still kind of came around and rebuilt the airline.

[John Clay Wolf]

But now.

[Casey]

But now Southwest is better.

[John Clay Wolf]

But now we've got some traction that you can't stop. The big guys can't stop.

[Casey]

That's what I'm saying. That's what Southwest Airlines did. Now they got traction. Nobody can stop.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Casey]

Good. Herb Kelleher.

[John Clay Wolf]

But I had to get my hands dirty to get there.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I didn't. I didn't have anybody whacked. No, I mean, it's not like that.

[Caller]

Allegedly.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I got threatened.

[Casey]

God, dude, that's amazing.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's weird. Remember, Charlie, the other day, what I said to you about three weeks ago? I don't know if you. Because I say a lot of things that you probably. Yeah. It's just. Johnny just talks.

[Casey]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I said, there's a lot of stuff in this whole deal that I've kept you out of that I've kept.

[Bobbo]

Oh, no, no, no. You did. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I remember it because when you got into the buying side, I'm like, man, there's a. I've kept you as my. I kept. I didn't tell. I. I didn't want to.

[Bobbo]

The dirty side.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobbo]

Oh, I see it.

[John Clay Wolf]

But. But it's straightening out.

[Bobbo]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Slowly. And the corporations have bought the big dealerships, and the whole thing's straightening out, so it's turning into more of a true commodity game. And a lot of that backwoods stuff is going away. The country stores. Yeah. Still. But anyway, it's givemetheven.com. i'm giving you some backwards color on how all this happened and that we're not some idiot radio guys that are fun Saturdays and don't know what we're doing. We know exactly what we're doing. And most people that know what I know and do what I do would never get on the air and do what I Do? Yeah, because their empire is too precious. And I think I can put a bigger empire together by bringing it to the people and knocking down the walls.

[Casey]

You're kind of Donald Trump.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sorry.

[Casey]

I took it, okay? I took it to one step. I'll go back to her. Yeah, you do. You do. I don't know. You're talking about rebuilding things in walls. I don't know, man.

[Bobbo]

Well, he's talking about breaking them down.

[Casey]

I'll go back to Herb. Killer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hang on just a second, Johnny. Is this Tahoe nice?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it a. Is it a leather 05 Tahoe LT with a 1 in 25 on it?

[Caller]

Yes, it's fully leather all the way from.

[John Clay Wolf]

From the back.

[Caller]

Dual Ace, dual ac, sunroof, everything.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's six grand by it. I mean, what else can I do? It's a 05 Tahoe with 125,000, offering a $6,000 check.

[Caller]

I'm more around 65 for it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, 65. Buy the car right now, period. We're done.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. And then it's done. So. So if you want to believe me that I'm not some idiot on the radio just talking, trying to be cool, go to givemetheven.com, put in the VIN number, push the pictures. If it doesn't have a bad title, it doesn't have major problems. If it's a real car like you're saying, you're gonna get a check Monday for 6,500. Do you have a title?

[Caller]

Yeah.

[Casey]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're gonna get a check for 6,500. And when you get that, I want you to call in next Saturday and say, this guy's right. He's real.

[Caller]

You know what? I've been listening to you for about.

[John Clay Wolf]

A year now, man.

[Caller]

I've always enjoyed the show. I've always believed in everything that y' all guys talk about, man. So I appreciate a problem with you whatsoever.

[John Clay Wolf]

I just need more people. We do so much business. They never. Only people review things when they're mad. Nobody ever wants to say anything good. Call in and say, hey, John, you told me 6,500, I'd have a check if my car is what I said it was, and I'm looking at a check, and here it is, and I'm impressed. I'd appreciate that, but I'm buying the car. It's mine. I'm not going to charge you any rental over the weekend, but we'll pick it up Monday.

[Caller]

What I got to do now?

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to. Give me the V I N. Give me the vin.com put the VIN number in two pictures. Say John bought this from me for $6,500 on the radio. Please send me the checklist so I can get it ready to be picked up and then in my gals and my staff will grab it and handle it and it'll all be boom, boom, boom.

[Caller]

All right, sounds good.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. 8008-0072-3480-0800- radio. My name is John Clay Wolf and I buy cars in the air.

[Casey]

Cool.

[Bobbo]

I I I I I I I.

[John Clay Wolf]

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[Bobbo]

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