#25 John Clay Wolfe Show 03/12/16 Hour 3

Summary

Podcast Summary: The John Clay Wolfe Show – Episode #25 (Hour 3) – February 12, 2026

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Main Theme & Purpose

This lively hour of The John Clay Wolfe Show, powered by GiveMeTheVIN.com, delivers a classic blend of unscripted banter, quick-witted humor, listener interaction, and pop culture riffing. The episode covers everything from classic rock lyrics and car sales tactics, to dating in rural America, the millennial car buying evolution, and current events—peppered with plenty of jabs, insight, and laughs between John and his co-hosts Rosie and Ralph. The show’s playful, irreverent approach makes even practical discussions about buying and selling cars entertaining, building camaraderie with listeners through storytelling and call-ins.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Decoding Rock Lyrics

(00:05–03:55)

• The crew humorously attempts to interpret the lyrics of Pearl Jam’s “Dissident,” debating the song’s meaning and poking fun at the vagueness of rock lyrics.
  • Ralph explains (01:58): “It’s about a woman who takes in someone… sought after by the authorities for political reasons… She turns him in and she has to live with the guilt.”
  • John cracks jokes about the phrase “a dissident is here” not being proper English, leading to the repeated, tongue-in-cheek “dancing bear” motif.
• Brief analysis of The Black Keys’ “I Got Mine” (04:21–05:41), deciphering that the song is essentially about “getting famous,” again with riffing about rock lyric ambiguity.

2. Johnny Manziel, Rock Bottom, and Comebacks

(03:02–04:15)

• Discussion about Johnny Manziel’s football career downfall and tabloid troubles.
  • Rosie notes “They want to see him hit rock bottom…” (03:18).
  • Ralph draws a parallel to Robert Downey Jr.’s comeback, highlighting possibilities for recovery if Manziel seeks real help.

3. Modern Dating for Country Folk and Urbanites

(06:01–07:20)

• Lampooning dating services like FarmersOnly.com and JustLunch.com.
  • Rosie on Bobo’s supposed absence: “He’s found the love of a large corn-fed…” (06:10).
  • The crew discusses traditional vs. modern dating, touching on speed dating and online matching as reflections of the “instantaneous” digital age.

4. Millennial Car Buying Trends

(07:40–09:33)

• Ralph presents new data on millennials shifting towards car ownership, noting that while older millennials (late 20s to late 30s) are buying, younger millennials prefer ridesharing/Uber.
  • Rosie reflects: “The freedom of just getting in your car…” (08:48).
  • John and Ralph debate whether cost and convenience will permanently deter younger generations from car ownership.

5. Used Car Market & Listener Call-In

(11:12–19:26)

• Caller Tony shares a personal testimonial about a positive experience selling through GiveMeTheVIN.
  • “You promised him a certain amount of money and he got all of that plus another thousand…” (11:18).
• Tony also discusses meeting his wife via ChristianMingle.com, reinforcing the show’s theme of genuine connections in commerce and life.
• Tony, a New York transplant, volunteers as the show’s “Yankee spokesman” for their soon-to-be Northeast syndication, affirming the importance of trust in markets plagued by dealer “hustle.”
  • “Whoever’s out there listening, it’s a bunch of nonsense what these dealers are doing to you… I sold cars for five years, okay?” (16:05)
  • He offers cultural insight on Northeast listeners: “They are constantly… in a constant area of getting screwed.” (14:39)
• The call delves into regional culture clash, the legacy of Howard Stern, and Tony’s family history in Brooklyn, serving both as show color and evidence of audience familiarity.

6. Airline Pilot News & Mental Health in Aviation

(19:30–21:20)

• Ralph details JetBlue’s new in-house pilot training program and the rigors of pilot certification.
• Discussion shifts to a news item about an Italian pilot stopped from flying after making threats during a breakup, leading to brief but somber reflection on pilot mental health and public safety.

7. Trump, Political Marketing & Media

(21:53–23:59)

• Quick sweep of political news: the Trump rally incidents, speculation about campaign strategies, and why Trump dominates media coverage.
  • “He knows marketing. If he knows nothing else, he knows marketing. That’s all really getting elected is. Obama did it beautifully.” (22:25 – Ralph)
  • Commentary on primary chaos, Republican infighting, and parallels to past elections.

8. Show Branding, URL Mishaps & Sign-Off

(24:01–25:41)

• John laments the frequent mispronunciation and misspelling of GiveMeTheVIN.com and reveals he’s secured dozens of forwarder URLs.
• Playful “jingle” banter wraps up the segment (“Give me the VIN…so easy you can do it in your underwear!”), a recurring inside joke.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Dissident is here. That’s not proper English.” – John Clay Wolfe (01:32)
• “She folded. That’s the tragedy of the song.” – Ralph (02:31)
• “Rock solid. So you can turn it around. The question is, will Johnny?” – Ralph (03:56), on possible redemption stories.
• “You just get in with that… make him your driver…” – Rosie (09:14), about Uber hacks.
• “My friend John… he got all of that plus another thousand when the car got there. So you are for real and you guys do great work.” – Caller Tony (11:18)
• “I've got 50 URLs that automatically forward to GiveMeTheVIN…” – John Clay Wolfe (24:14)
• “Finally, finally something’s working.” – John Clay Wolfe (25:39)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 00:05–03:55| Decoding rock lyrics (“Dissident,” dancing bear jokes) | | 03:02–04:15| Johnny Manziel’s fall and recovery discussion | | 06:01–07:20| FarmersOnly.com, dating services, and rural romance | | 07:40–09:33| Millennial car ownership debate, Uber economics | | 11:12–19:26| Caller Tony: Selling with GIVEMETHEVIN, dating success, cultural insights | | 19:30–21:20| JetBlue’s pilot program & pilot mental health story | | 21:53–23:59| Trump, media, and the GOP primary circus | | 24:01–25:41| Website branding, recurring jingle, end banter |

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Original Tone & Language

The conversational style brims with good-natured ribbing, pop culture tangents, and an everyman perspective on everything from car sales to personal redemption. John, Rosie, Ralph, and their callers keep things authentic, relatable, and often hilarious—never shying from a riff or a rash truth. The show’s signature blend of automotive expertise, rock radio sensibility, and approachable weirdness continues to win over fans across regions, as they prep for new listeners in the Northeast.

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Transcript

[John Clay Wolf]

Now back to the John Clay Wolf Show.

[Caller Tony]

Hit him up right now.

[John Clay Wolf]

1-800-800-Rode. This is the John Clay Wolf Show. What's he saying? I can't understand a word he says.

[Co-host Rosie]

Dissident.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm just a dissident. I'm just a dancing bear. I'm just a what? I'm dissident. I'm dissident. Something. I have no idea. Do you?

[Co-host Rosie]

A dissident. Like, I don't know where you.

[John Clay Wolf]

What do you party?

[Co-host Rosie]

The word dissident?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, the part where the chorus.

[Co-host Ralph]

What is the song called?

[John Clay Wolf]

Dissident. I'm dissident. I'm dissident. Who sings Bear? Pearl Jam. Hang on, we'll get there.

[Co-host Ralph]

I'm gonna give you the lyrics.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, Bring it up here. Here's. You break this down.

[Co-host Ralph]

When she couldn'. Hold on, he folded. A dissident is here.

[John Clay Wolf]

A dissident is here.

[Co-host Ralph]

Dissident is here. Escape is never the safest path. Oh, a dissident. A dissident is here.

[John Clay Wolf]

What is a dissident is here?

[Co-host Ralph]

Dissident is someone who's dissonant.

[Co-host Rosie]

Dissonant, you know?

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that where the word dis came from? No, he dissed you, dog.

[Co-host Rosie]

I think John just wanted to do that just to make his bear dancing bear joke. That was the whole point of it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Co-host Ralph]

We went a long way for the dancing bear.

[Co-host Rosie]

Dissident is here.

[John Clay Wolf]

A dissident is here. That's not proper English. No, it's not.

[Co-host Ralph]

It's a song.

[Co-host Rosie]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's not supposed to be. A dissident is here.

[Co-host Ralph]

Rama lama ding dong. It's not proper English.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is a dissident a noun?

[Co-host Rosie]

I guess, in this case.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hang on.

[Co-host Ralph]

Dissident is a song by the American rock band Pearl Jam. We'll see here.

[Co-host Rosie]

Now all I'm hearing is disavears.

[Co-host Ralph]

I'm actually talking about a woman who takes in someone who's being sought after by the authorities for political reasons. He's on the run and she offers him refuge. He's here, but she just can't handle the responsibility. She turns him in and then she has to live with the guilt and the realization that she has betrayed the one thing that gave her life meaning.

[John Clay Wolf]

Was she the dissident or was he the dissident?

[Co-host Ralph]

He was.

[Co-host Rosie]

Yeah, he. She's sheltering somebody.

[John Clay Wolf]

So he's an ex con on the.

[Co-host Ralph]

Run and made her life difficult.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's a dissonance.

[Co-host Ralph]

It made her life hell, but it gave her a reason to be. But she couldn't hold on. She folded. That's the tragedy of the song.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, was he banging her?

[Co-host Ralph]

Apparently.

[Co-host Rosie]

The dancing bear is here.

[Co-host Ralph]

What would I do without Wikipedia?

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800. 7, 2.

[Co-host Rosie]

The dancing bear is here.

[Co-host Ralph]

The dancing bear is here.

[John Clay Wolf]

See, she was getting banged by an ex con boyfriend found out and he turned him in and she took the blame.

[Co-host Ralph]

A dancing bear that will not be coming to Dallas is Johnny Manziel. According to the. This just. They said the Dallas Forward Club. Dallas club has now said no thank you to Johnny, who's now out of Cleveland too. Who would pick him up right now? What's the upside of picking him up? Nothing.

[Co-host Rosie]

They want to see him hit rock bottom, which John thinks is death. Yeah, mine's prison. Yours is car wreck.

[Co-host Ralph]

He's gonna hurt somebody or hurt himself in a car accident.

[Co-host Rosie]

That's bottom. Then when he turns it around, then.

[Co-host Ralph]

They'Ll be Robert Downey Jr. Which, you know, Robert Downey Junior's life, it was a mess. He was in prison and he's bounced back to be, you know, Iron man and make an amazing comeback, an amazing career and. Yeah, probably one of the most bankable. Probably for a while. Here's a good example. For a while. Nobody would even insure him. When they do movies, they ensure the stars. People know that. Some people know that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Some people don't.

[Co-host Ralph]

Because a movie and you're not there when it ends cost a lot of money. Cost a lot of money. So they insert. He was uninsurable. Now he's the most bankable star in Hollywood. Rock solid. So you can turn it around. Question is, will Johnny.

[Co-host Rosie]

He needs a. What is it? Sober coach or sobriety coach or.

[Co-host Ralph]

No, he needs recovery. He needs to get in a recovery program. Sobriety coach is a joke. Babysitter.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm actually excited about what you just taught me. I'll enjoy that song more now.

[Co-host Ralph]

Oh, okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

But now this one. I like this one.

[Co-host Ralph]

What is this one? You want me. Look at that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Black keys. I got mine. What did he get? I mean, I know he got his, but what was it that he got? I can't understand what he's saying.

[Co-host Ralph]

Let me see here. Like he's. I got money.

[John Clay Wolf]

I got mine. I got mine.

[Co-host Ralph]

This is I got money.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you tell me what he got back in 2008.

[Co-host Ralph]

The song is called I Got Mine. Yeah. All right, hold on. All right, there it is. Let's see if there's a Wikipedia for it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hang on.

[Co-host Rosie]

Deciphering music.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah, why not?

[John Clay Wolf]

I just want to know what they got.

[Co-host Ralph]

Oh, there's just tabs and such for it.

[Co-host Rosie]

Huh? He just got his, he got mine. Here's the.

[Co-host Ralph]

Here's the lyrics. The lyrics are, I was a moving man in my younger days But I've grown out of my rambling ways I left that road so far behind Now I know oh, baby I got mine I got mine I got mine oh, baby I got mine Made it so baby when I rolled I rolled deep so much so I didn't get much sleep Rock and roll hustle all the time and now I know oh, baby I got mine I got mine, I.

[John Clay Wolf]

Got mine okay, he got famous.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, turn it up.

[Caller Tony]

He got famous.

[John Clay Wolf]

Congrats. Good for him.

[Co-host Ralph]

Any other songs we could decipher?

[John Clay Wolf]

No.

[Co-host Ralph]

Hotel California. You want that one?

[John Clay Wolf]

Stairway to Heaven. Yeah, that'll take a minute. 8008-0072-3480-0800, 7234. 800-800-radio is the call number. Givemetheven.com is the website. You know, Babo, when he was drunk the other night, he was telling me that he's been fielding heifers off of Farmers Only Dot com.

[Co-host Ralph]

Get out of here. He's really doing that.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I bet that's why. I bet he's found the love of a large corn fed and that's why he's not here today.

[Co-host Ralph]

Hooked up with a heifer.

[Co-host Rosie]

He's caught up in the barn.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Co-host Rosie]

Woke up like, oh, hell, I gotta get to work. Ain't gonna make it.

[John Clay Wolf]

And she's so warm and cuddly and soft. I'll just stay here and pet her nose.

[Co-host Rosie]

Real website.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yes. Farmers only. Oh, yeah. There's TV commercials. Yeah, they. The farmersonly.com. it's a. It's a dating website for farmers. Yeah, absolutely. Go look it up before the real.

[John Clay Wolf]

Before the dot coms. Back when you were a player, did you ever use those dating services that you like, meet? I had a friend of mine, like the professional ones where they go to lunch. It's just lunch.

[Co-host Ralph]

Just lunch. That's another one. Just lunch.com. but there's a. Oh, yeah, that's a. That's a dating service, justlunch.com, where you meet people over lunch. And then there's speed dating, which you have.

[John Clay Wolf]

You went to a deal with like a bunch of lunch tables and they all spend 10 minutes speed dating and they just bounce from table.

[Co-host Ralph]

That's speed dating. Yeah. And that's.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you ever do that?

[Co-host Ralph]

Never did it, but I did a story on it. Okay. And basically it's just that everybody meets in a room, you kind of look around and you spent. No matter what you think of the person, you spend five minutes with them.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just hand them a hotel key if you like them.

[Co-host Ralph]

No, I guess I never, I never did it. I watched it. It's just five minutes. I mean, really, I mean, you can get the, you can get the general gist out of the way in five minutes, but whatever, it's, it's like, it's like an extended Tinder. I like you. I don't like it. Swipe left, swipe right.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know, what's this world come to?

[Co-host Ralph]

It is going to. Everything's going to be instantaneous. Everything's got to happen now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Get your car picked up.

[Co-host Ralph]

We were talking about this last week. Millennials were once dubbed the go nowhere generation. They were getting. They were not getting their driver's license, much less buying cars. A new data suggests at least some of that worry has been misplaced. Millennials, especially the older ones. The problem is the millennial.

[John Clay Wolf]

What is an older millennial?

[Co-host Ralph]

It's somebody in there that would be a 16 year old, 38 year old. From 21 to 38 year olds are called millennials.

[Co-host Rosie]

So I'm just out of it?

[Co-host Ralph]

You're just out of it. Millennials shared the new car market jump jumped recently to 28. But that's mostly those 30 year olds. Still, the 21 year olds aren't buying. They're ubering. They're not. But my son is 27 and he Ubers everywhere. He moved up to Minnesota and didn't buy a car. It's not. But it's cheaper than owning a car.

[Co-host Rosie]

It's convenient.

[Co-host Ralph]

It's very convenient. And by the time.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is he an alcoholic?

[Co-host Ralph]

No. And by the time you add up. By the time you add up, first of all, he's up in Minnesota where they have a very good public. Public transportation system. But when he wants to Uber, he adds. He added up the money. He did the math. And it's cheaper for him to Uber in a month than it is to own a car. And taxes and license and gas and oil and tires.

[Co-host Rosie]

The freedom of just getting in your car, though, that's.

[Co-host Ralph]

That's you and me speaking.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's if you don't shut up. I'm leaving. Hang on. Let me call a cab.

[Co-host Ralph]

But no, but you can call an Uber. Guess what? Uber, you know, wait, guess what? Uber will be there in eight minutes. They're amazing. Have you ever taken an Uber?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[Co-host Ralph]

I just did it for the first time over Christmas.

[John Clay Wolf]

We got. We Went on a big night out not long ago, about six months ago, and Ubered all around town. At the end of the night it was like, oh, look what we spent. It was a lot.

[Co-host Rosie]

Well, you know what though? You got to get in with that. We did in San Antonio. You got to get in with the guy and make him your driver.

[Co-host Ralph]

Right, right.

[Co-host Rosie]

And it's a lot cheaper. That's what I did in San Antonio. It was great. Just call him up.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right.

[Co-host Rosie]

Hey, we're ready to go to next place that driver comes up.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yep. They get paid and you're tipping them. So anyway, that's just the, the fact is now the car sales are coming back.

[John Clay Wolf]

Car sales are coming back because Everybody got broke in 08 and got scared and they stopped. And that's why cash for clunkers came on. And this pent up demand was very well forecasted. And these big sar. Saw the annual sales reports in the 17 millions was very well forecasted. And right now car dealerships are trading at a high premium. And, and you need to. It'll. It'll. I don't know. I disagree with all that crap.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah, well, clearly, you know, you've been doing this opinion. If you're spring breaking, there's some good news. Experts at triple A say gas prices and bad news rather. Excuse me. Have jumped about 25% in the last month alone. Fuel price hike is of course rebounding.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oil.

[Co-host Ralph]

Oil's coming back up. So gas prices are going back up. Still, I mean, still. Honestly, it's less than two bucks a gallon. Shut up. I mean it's so cheap and it's so cheap here. We got a break.

[John Clay Wolf]

You shut up.

[Co-host Ralph]

You shot first.

[John Clay Wolf]

You shove it up your butt.

[Co-host Ralph]

You shot up more.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800. 7, 2, 3, 4, mark. An 01 Explorer with 190,000 miles is worth $200. It's just not me that ain't me, babe no, no, no, no that ain't me, babe I ain't the one you're looking for, babe Be back. 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 is hard not to sing along to. Probably shouldn't have played this because I'm the country boy. Music. Come out, Tony.

[Co-host Rosie]

Good morning.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're on the air.

[Caller Tony]

Hey, how are you, sir?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm good. 08 commander with 85.

[Caller Tony]

You guys are great. You guys are great. I. I want to tell you something. The way I found out about you was. And you were Talking about promotions, you bought a diesel off my friend John and you promised him a certain amount of money and he got all of that plus another thousand when the car got there. So you are for real and you guys do great work. So I just wanted everybody out there to know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, thanks, man. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Word of mouth goes a long, long time.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

Let's talk about yours.

[Caller Tony]

Just so you know, it's mint 2008, six cylinder, doesn't have the leather.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller Tony]

But it has Sirius in it and all that. And the stadium seating and it has 85,668 on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Cloth sport, six cylinder, two wheel drive or four?

[Caller Tony]

I'm sorry?

[John Clay Wolf]

Two wheel drive or four wheel drive?

[Caller Tony]

Two wheel.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Seven grand.

[Caller Tony]

That's a pretty good number.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, that's my.

[Caller Tony]

That's a really good number actually.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's the number.

[Caller Tony]

And just so you guys know, I'm. And just get off subject a minute because you guys were talking about it, but I met my wife on Christian Mingle and ChristianMingle.com and I dated two girls first and then found my wife. She was a 94% match to me. And April 21st we'll be celebrating our fourth year of marriage.

[John Clay Wolf]

There you go.

[Co-host Ralph]

Awesome.

[Caller Tony]

It does work, you know.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah.

[Caller Tony]

On the good ones. All the girls were real that I dated. They all looked like they're pictures and all that stuff.

[John Clay Wolf]

So did you try, did you, did you try farmers only just for fun?

[Caller Tony]

Definitely not.

[John Clay Wolf]

So this accent.

[Caller Tony]

I'm not. I ain't going for the goats.

[John Clay Wolf]

This, this accent is. Is Philadelphia, isn't it?

[Caller Tony]

No. New York.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. I'm close.

[Co-host Rosie]

Go Yankees.

[Caller Tony]

New York.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm close.

[Caller Tony]

You know, northeast. I grew up there 37 years and now I'm 48. So I've been in Texas for 11 and everybody seems to think I just got here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Where did you live in New York?

[Caller Tony]

Massachusetts. Park in Long Island. I grew up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so. So you. I'm glad, I'm glad you called because you're familiar with us through your friend and you listen to the show. So we're fixing to go on the air in. On a station between Philly and New York City on a classic rocker. And I'm worried.

[Caller Tony]

I love that, by the way.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm worried.

[Caller Tony]

I love that because it's fixing. You're fixing to go on. Cracks me up about that. Just go on the air. Don't fix to go on the air.

[John Clay Wolf]

So what's going to happen in that environment with us? Is everybody going to. Everybody's rougher up there. Everybody gets screwed up there. People aren't as friendly. There's plenty of good people. My mother lived in Connecticut for years. She's buried up there. I'm familiar with the territory somewhat. And there's those areas like, say, between Princeton, New Jersey, and New York City, where all the money is. That's kind of a different bubble there. But when you get outside of that, go ahead.

[Caller Tony]

You have to think about that. Okay, you got that right. They think differently, but there's still people, and they are constantly, you got to remember, constant area of getting screwed.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller Tony]

So, you know, it's a matter of people like me calling in and stuff like that. And when you go on the air in those areas, I will call in and say it's a fair deal. And where I grew up, I have a long history there. My great grandfather was Anthony Peranova, and that was Terranova Bread in Brooklyn. And Junior's Bakery, he owned half of. So you know, the cheesecake there. And then parents were born in Flatbush, and I was born in Bethpage. So my great grandfather's Anthony James, and then my father's father's James Vincent. My father's James Vincent Ustica. I'm Anthony James. My son's Anthony James Jr.

[John Clay Wolf]

So we've got a Yankee spokesman already. Apparently, we're ready to roll with some roots.

[Caller Tony]

I'm ready to roll, bro. You guys are the best. I've never seen anybody give. The last guy I spoke to said 5,500. And so whoever's out there listening, it's a bunch of nonsense what these dealers are doing to you. And don't go, I sold cars for five years, okay?

[John Clay Wolf]

So you know the hustle.

[Caller Tony]

I know about the back end. I know about the trade in. What they try to do is they'll tell you, okay, we'll give you 10 when your trade ins worth 12. So they hold two on the trade.

[John Clay Wolf]

Add it to the gross, work the.

[Caller Tony]

Back end and the whole deal. So.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right, cool. Well, you get it.

[Caller Tony]

They do mess you up.

[Co-host Rosie]

Hold on. One question for him. So what are they going to think of John when he's talking about fixing to and all that? They can just think he's just a dumb redneck or.

[John Clay Wolf]

Actually, listen, here's something, Tony. Here's something that. Because I've got friends up there and they listen to the show and he said, john, everybody here grew up on Howard Stern. And your flow in the way that y' all present it is in that genre enough that they're gonna Hook into you because of that. Do you agree or disagree?

[Caller Tony]

Look, they grew up on Howard Stern. I'm 48. I know you just said you were 43, right? But I went to Burner High School in Massapequa park and next to that was Amityville and all that. But I grew up with the Balden brothers, the Brian set from the stray cats deep, Schneider, Howard Stern, all those guys live by me. And Howard shoots great no matter what anybody thinks. I still listen to him today and I have serious and all that. But he's, you know, it's a matter of just hearing enough people say that go to the bin.com is really good and that they'll help you and maybe from people like me who grew up with them saying this stuff and, and hopefully they listen.

[John Clay Wolf]

There you go. We'll give it a whirl. We went to Canada and got thrown out of Canada. They're way too.

[Co-host Ralph]

Didn't work. Yeah, they're way too stiff.

[Caller Tony]

Johnny, Dan, Johnny Mansell, this kid. Look, I'm 23 years sober and this kid just doesn't get it. And I'm unfortunately scared that you might be right and death might be his bottom. And he just doesn't get it. And he thinks who he is, but he hasn't done anything to prove himself in the NFL and to. To do anything responsible. And that's a pussy. When you go to bed at night, can you look at yourself in the mirror and say, I bettered somebody's life today or I helped somebody today or something to that effect? I don't see that out of him because he just, you know, it's got that money.

[John Clay Wolf]

I gotta keep cruising. Go to givemetheven.com. say, Wolf, hit me at seven grand on the car. When can you come get it?

[Caller Tony]

You got it. Thank you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you so much. 8008-0072-3480-0800 rare. Yeah, I love the accent. My father's father was the Cheesecake man on 27th and 18th, you know, down there in the boroughs. Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's real.

[Co-host Ralph]

We're going to do well in the northeast. All right. You want some more news?

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure.

[Co-host Ralph]

Jet Blue Airways, you like them? Well, they are taking applications now for 24 slots in a new program. They're going to train novice pilots to fly passenger jets.

[Co-host Rosie]

What?

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Co-host Ralph]

The airline said Monday the program, the first of its kind in a large US airline, will cost about $125,000 to take the four year program. Okay, now here's the. Here's the catch. Which is you've got to pay for that. They're not just getting guys off the street and going, you on the fly jet.

[Co-host Rosie]

Who's going to want to fly when.

[Co-host Ralph]

Well, that's about what it costs. I mean, when you're talking about, like for me right now to get all the ratings, I mean, I'm a private pilot with less than 500 hours. John's got how many hours you got? How many thousand?

[John Clay Wolf]

Two.

[Co-host Ralph]

2,000 hours. So he could, with the number of hours John has, he literally could bid to the airlines if he had the ratings for him right now.

[Co-host Rosie]

But I don't want to be a passenger for some rookie assigned there, like.

[Co-host Ralph]

But these guys are trained the same way. They still have to go through the FAA. They didn't just grab him out of the 711 and go, hey, you want to fly? Get off the Slurpee machine. You want to fly an airplane? They're still going to have to go through all this FAA training. But it's just funny the way they're, the way they're pitching that. And in a related sort of thing, an Italian pilot, this is kind of serious. Told his wife he would crash a passenger jet if she dumped him. He was stopped from taking the controls, and moments before the flight took off, if the cops had not intervened, basically she was saying, I want to break up. He was just about to get on a plane. So as a moment of desperation and drama, he said, if you leave me, I'll crash this airplane. Well, guess who went to prison. Ever released? Jail.

[Co-host Rosie]

Well, she shouldn't have been telling bad news before she gets on.

[John Clay Wolf]

He gets on a plane she needed to save.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah. There's your timing. But the fact is, as an airline pilot, is that really what you want to say out loud?

[Co-host Rosie]

Probably not.

[Co-host Ralph]

No. Probably not.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now that's interesting. I'm not saying they should have scooped him, but. So that would be a terroristic threat against public threat.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah. And as an airline pilot, it shows mental instability.

[John Clay Wolf]

No doubt.

[Co-host Ralph]

That actually happened in a German airliner a year or two ago. Yeah, the guy crashed the whole plane and killed everybody. So you don't say that kind of stuff. And if you do, you're mentally unstable and there's very, very few of those pilots out there. And really, that's about all the news we have for today. I'm sorry. We had a lot today, though. You realize this time last week we were really tired. Now we're still energized and we're just.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now at a show.

[Co-host Rosie]

Yeah, we're almost Done here for the day.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ralph.

[Co-host Rosie]

Wrap it up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ralph and Rosie. Why do I have that on my run sheet?

[Caller Tony]

I don't know.

[Co-host Ralph]

Who's Ralph and Rosie?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, now I remember.

[Co-host Ralph]

It was this, by this time next week. Go ahead.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sorry, now I go. You go.

[Co-host Ralph]

I'm just saying by this next week there, there will have been. Everybody in the world will have either taken credit for what happened in Chicago with Trump or Trump will have come out and started pointing fingers. And I'm telling you it was organ orchestrated. It's just too slick. It was just too slick.

[Co-host Rosie]

Especially it's coincidence that Trump just all of a sudden now he's firing up his base again with it.

[Co-host Ralph]

Oh yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Wouldn't it be awesome if Megan Fox was behind it? Oh my God, that'd be weird. But she's a Trump hater.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah, but, but the problem is it's not, it's not turning people against him. It's a reunite. It's almost like Charlie said earlier, maybe Trump's behind it. He knows, he knows marketing. If he knows nothing else, he knows marketing. That's all really getting elected is. It's marketing. Obama did it beautifully.

[Co-host Rosie]

No, it's true.

[Co-host Ralph]

Trump is learning from Obama just on the opposite end of the scale. That's all it is. He's stirring up people that saying, are you tired of this? Let me be the guy. What makes me wonder is why do the Republicans hate him so much? Because they do. I mean they, they tried it out, they were. Well, they, but they, they already look foolish, but they trotted out Mitt Romney. Huh.

[John Clay Wolf]

Look at what the guy's done though. I mean, so we, we have done. Really. If you think about how much Trump time we have given this guy on this radio program in the past six months, I, I say he gets, he's gotten a full hour of our content.

[Co-host Ralph]

Oh, totally. Everyone's everyone. Yeah, you're right.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's pulled it off.

[Co-host Ralph]

He's pulled it off and he will continue to. I don't see, do you see anybody stopping him? Rubio's out. Cruise.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is hanging in there a little better than I thought he would.

[Co-host Ralph]

Well, they're all gonna goes to the convention.

[Co-host Rosie]

It'll be interesting.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yeah, they realize Cruz is their only hope, so now they gotta, they gotta a line behind Cruz.

[Co-host Rosie]

Really? They should have done that from the get go. It's just like when Clinton was running in the first, his first time. When Perot got in there, it screwed everybody up.

[Co-host Ralph]

The Republicans threw a wheel, threw it.

[Co-host Rosie]

Out of bounds and that Three. There's a three or four. Now the Republican side, well, that's helping Trump because he's only getting 30%. Sure. But that's enough. It doesn't matter.

[Co-host Ralph]

That matters. It's number one's number one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. 800-800-7234 is the calling number. We've got two and a half minutes left. You can get me real quick or just go to get. Give me the vin. You notice that everybody screws up the.

[Co-host Rosie]

Go to the VIN.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I wrote that down.

[Co-host Ralph]

Give me the VIN.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've got 50 URLs that automatically forward to give me the VIN, but that are like that. Go to the VIN. Send me the VIN. Text us the VIN. But everybody screws it up.

[Co-host Rosie]

I mean, it's pretty simple. I mean, look, listen, listen to the song.

[Co-host Ralph]

Yes.

[Caller Tony]

Sing it.

[Co-host Ralph]

Sell us your car.

[John Clay Wolf]

So easy.

[Co-host Ralph]

You can do it in your underwear.

[Co-host Rosie]

Go to that underwear site, that one.

[John Clay Wolf]

The underwear guys. The jockey shorts boy.

[Co-host Ralph]

Give me your shorts, Doc. Give me the vin. Vi N. Like the VIN number. Give me the vin dot com.

[Co-host Rosie]

Give me your shorts.

[John Clay Wolf]

And we, we will the. The buyers downstairs will be here till day till 4 o'. Clock. So if you submit after 4 o', clock, you won't. You might get help tomorrow because we work a little bit on Sunday. But. But if you don't hear until Monday morning get your offer letter, then that's why. So pour in the request today. GiveMeTheEven.com and they will be sending off offer letters until 4 o' clock this afternoon. I've got to give these guys a break. I mean they're working six and a half hell of almost seven days a week. And then there's one guy that floats around on Sundays and answers some of them. But we've got so many people coming in the system, there's a lot to do. I'm fixing to hire, fixing fix to hire some more buyers too. Because when we had these markets, we're getting overloaded and we're adding more office space and it's working, man.

[Co-host Ralph]

Finally part of the holy gro.

[John Clay Wolf]

Finally, finally something's working.

[Co-host Ralph]

Good for you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Finally.

[Co-host Ralph]

It's awesome.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, it's always worked, but it's just always. I've always had bigger hopes than what I could put together. And I'm starting to see this thing come together. 800, 800 radio. Well, you don't need that. The podcast. The podcast will be up on itunes.

[Co-host Rosie]

Yep, just John Clay Wolf show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, you gotta do or on your iPhone put podcast search. John Clee Wolf show. It's right there. There's, like, 25 episodes so far. And there's something else. Oh, our Facebook page. John Cleveland Wolf show. And we have. We didn't ever get to s. Founding cars today. We've got 18 seconds left. So I don't think we can get it. No. Well, you can go to the John Cleveland show and see that. All right, guys. Appreciate your attention this morning. Bobbo will hopefully not be hungover next Saturday and join us.

[Co-host Ralph]

Maybe not.

[John Clay Wolf]

We always miss his humor.

[Co-host Rosie]

It'll be an interesting story. That's your second.

[Co-host Ralph]

Beth, do you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you ever find that Terry Gibbs one?

[Co-host Rosie]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't play it on the way out, or is it too late?

[Co-host Rosie]

No, it's way too long.

[John Clay Wolf]

Too late. Yeah. Okay. We'll do it next week. See you guys later. I'm out.

[Co-host Ralph]

$16,000. Ladies, gentlemen, that wraps this little show up. Y' all move right over. Buy you some Bibles or go back down the lane and buy you whatever you want. Sell us your car so easy you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Can do it in your underwear.

[Co-host Ralph]

Sam.