#528 John Clay Wolfe Show 11.01.25

Summary

The John Clay Wolfe Show – Episode #528 Summary

Date: November 2, 2025
Location: Live at the Mecham Auto Auction, Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas
Host: John Clay Wolfe
Notable Crew/Guests: Baba, Turley, Dave Major, JD, Trev Moravec (Guest Auctioneer), CEO of Mecham Auctions

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Main Theme & Purpose

Episode #528 finds the John Clay Wolfe Show live and on-site at the Mecham Auto Auction at the Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, capturing the pulse of the collector car world and auction culture. The show blends live car deals, auction strategy, car culture and lifestyle chat, sports talk, listener calls (including live car appraisals), and a hearty dose of unscripted, sometimes irreverent banter. The crew grapples with technology, shares auction war stories, discusses recent news, and interacts with callers on everything from Halloween shenanigans to memorable life moments involving cars.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Broadcast Logistics & Live from Mecham (00:35–07:07)

• Crew discusses the chaos and tech hurdles of broadcasting live from the auction floor.
• Concerns over audio with auctioneers in background; backup board operator plans.
• Excitement about energy and setup of Dickies Arena and the Mecham experience.
• Notable quote:
  • “We are on the ground floor deck right there. You can see where we are on the YouTube stream, JCWShow, come by and say hi.” – John Clay Wolfe (06:49)

2. Stories & Listener Calls: Monkeys, Sponges, Guns, and Goats (02:17–12:38)

• Wild story: Pet monkey loose in a Texas Halloween store, eventually baited with a cookie.
• Jokes about monkeys on drugs escalate to a comedic "Ferdinand," a talking lab monkey persona.
• Major news story about lab monkeys set loose after a truck crash, potential health risks, and police pursuit.
• Listener call: Woman pulls a gun during a goat milk-infused sponge transaction; John and crew riff on how callers can punch up their stories.
• Notable quote:
  • “Just go straight to the lady pulling the gun!” – John Clay Wolfe (11:55)

3. On the Floor at Mecham Auction: Auctioneer Banter and Car Buying Strategy (13:09–23:47, 27:18–28:49, and throughout)

• John explains the process and psychology behind auctions: setting reserves, fees, buyer's remorse, importance of volume for professionals, and “auction fever.”
• Discussion with auctioneer Trev Moravec on the rhythm and filler words used by auctioneers (89:37–91:32).
• Key insight: Professionals have about 75% win rate; newbs lose more than they win.
• Notable quote:
  • “If you bring 10 cars, you’re changing your odds dramatically. So you’re gonna walk out on the up nine times out of ten if you’re a pro.” – John Clay Wolfe (71:01)

4. Listener Car Bids & Lightning Rounds (12:05, 44:31–47:11, 85:49–88:17)

• Multiple live listener car appraisals – Volvo, Camaro, Hummer H1, Challenger, Honda Civic, etc.
• John gives off-the-cuff wholesale offers; explains method behind the numbers.
• Lightning Round segments encourage rapid-fire listener submissions.
• Example:
  • “Year, make, model, miles, average, rough or clean. I’ve got a Volvo sitting here…” – John Clay Wolfe (12:05)

5. Car & Auction Market Trends + Dealer Questions (39:31–40:44)

• State of the used car/auction markets: stabilization after October’s “decompression”—now is the best time of year to buy.
• Complexity of flipping: transport fees, check-in, hotel, risk vs. reward at live auctions.

6. Sports & Picks, Auction Style (18:16–58:09, 48:13–56:31)

• Weekly football picks—John and Turley “auction” the point spread, raising the line in real time.
• Recaps of World Series games and live MLB action.
• Light trash talk about John’s past and present sports betting record; discussions of NCAA lines, NFL games, and their auction-style betting process.
• Memorable quote:
  • “Why kiss your sister when you can have multiple wives and your sister could be one?” – John Clay Wolfe (55:38)

7. Radio Industry Real Talk: Show Staff & The Gigi Situation (20:02–24:09, 29:31–29:59)

• Reflection on co-host Gigi's absence due to health issues; the challenges and etiquette of discussing personnel changes on air.
• General radio industry stories about station loyalty, maneuvering, and secrecy.

8. Florida & Odd News (62:02–66:44)

• “Sunshine State News” segment: funny Florida crime stories, including “the cocaine blew into my purse” excuse and creative Halloween skeleton displays; crew riffs on the old wild days vs. today’s “cloud” dopamine.
• AI and digital culture: How technology has changed youth sexuality, risk, and socializing.

9. Car Culture, Road Art, and Rattle & Roll Rally (79:06–80:51, 128:02–136:10)

• Promos for upcoming events: the “Rattle and Roll” car show, Adam Carolla appearances, Walnut Springs Rally.
• Graham Elliot’s involvement, and more on the collector car hobby scene.

10. Mecham CEO Interview: Inside the Auction Business (128:02–136:10)

• CEO Dave Major of Mecham Auctions joins John for an in-depth on logistics, travel, costs (300 staff, 30 semis per show), the entertainment aspect, and risk/reward in the business.
• Discussion of highest-earning cars, logistics, TV coverage, and "the thrill of the unknown" at auction.
• Notable insight:
  • “We’re here to put on a show and entertain people. More than half of the people…just bought a ticket to watch.” – CEO of Mecham Auctions (136:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• Live Auction Antics

  • “When you said coke, I thought it was a stripper on coke from the rafters.” – John Clay Wolfe (02:39)

• The Monkey Interview

  • “I am a lab test monkey. I’ve had so much LSD in the last two years…I can actually see the face of God.” – Ferdinand the ‘lab monkey’ (Dave Major), (04:22)

• On Auction Buying Strategy:

  • "Everybody that handles it has to get paid. Does that make sense?" – John Clay Wolfe (15:21)

• Buyer Remorse

  • “That’s some quick buyer remorse right there.” – Turley, after caller regrets buying a tricked-out Corvette (46:56)

• On Life’s Broke Moments

  • “What's the lowest you’ve ever been—like, it’s broke? Doing something like that.” - John (59:26)
  • “I slept in my car in college for a week.” – Baba (61:06)

• Digital vs. Physical Youth Culture

  • “2000s through the 20s: digital outlet, clout, aesthetics, online persona is the new currency. Isn't that just the damn truth?” – John Clay Wolfe (66:19)

• AI Gone Wild

  • “Why did you ask me to send you a nude?” / “Because I’m literally dying of horniness.” - Grok AI, as read on air (68:24)

• Car Auction Explainer

  • “25% of the time. But let me tell you the answer: Professionals probably 25% lose money; non-professionals, 80% lose.” – John Clay Wolfe (71:01)

• Auction Sound

  • “Can you give us an example? Just roll a lot of words together to sound pretty.” – Trev Moravec, auctioneer (90:13)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [00:00–07:07] – Tech issues and the thrill of live broadcasting from the auction floor.
• [02:17–04:51] – Monkey stories and comic bits ensue.
• [09:54–12:38] – Listener gun story and call screening advice.
• [12:51–16:10] – Car evaluations, live bids, and sports call-ins commence.
• [39:31–40:44] – Live market analysis for used cars and auctions.
• [44:31–47:11] – The Lightning Round car-selling segment.
• [62:02–66:44] – Odd news: drugs, Halloween, and generational change.
• [89:37–91:32] – Auctioneer Trev Moravec demonstrates the auction cry.
• [128:02–136:10] – Mecham CEO interview: behind-the-scenes at the world’s biggest collector car auctions.

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Overall Tone & Language

True to form, the show mixes sharp wit with candid, blue-collar language and plenty of Texas-sized charisma. The hosts and callers are blunt, friendly, occasionally rowdy, and forever off-the-cuff. The focus is always on making the most of live radio, whether reliving wild news, negotiating cars or riffing on the madness of public auctions.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode delivers the gritty, unpredictable world of live car auctions with John and crew as your guides—complete with real-time comedy, sales, market tips, radio industry war stories, and sports gab, all against the backdrop of classic American muscle and collector cars. Whether you’re a car nut, auction geek, or just in it for the wild tales and laughs, this show gives you a ringside seat.

Transcript

[Announcer]

From the Wolf Radio Studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf show, presented by Gimmethevin.com From coast to Coast, the number one weekend morning show in America, heard in Miami, Washington, D.C. houston, Dallas, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, Orlando, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Austin, and broadcasting to the rest of the world@john claywolf.com.

[Turley]

You'Re up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Charlie, who's our backup board op? You know, do we have one?

[Turley]

I'm gonna work on that with Pre K. I've got an idea because I can. I can actually push buttons on my computer if I get the right software. So all he has to do is.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just run the sound, sit there and look pretty?

[Turley]

Yeah, he can run the sound. He's a.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's a dj. Can you bring my. My. Hang on a second.

[Turley]

Yeah. Check one, two. Hey, we're doing this live, buddy.

[Dave Major]

You're getting really, really modern on us. You can. You can operate that thing remotely?

[Turley]

I think so, yeah. It's amazing.

[Dave Major]

We've come a long way.

[Turley]

Technology has gotten so good. And you guys are doing this live from Mecham with just a real plug. And you're up.

[Baba]

I'm fine. Does he need any more volume? I need less down. How about that?

[Turley]

Baba was testing that, and you know he is.

[John Clay Wolf]

You just brought Turley down. That's not what I need. Any of the local down.

[Turley]

Okay.

[Baba]

How about that?

[John Clay Wolf]

We're doing this live. You need to bring him back up. All right. Are we.

[Turley]

You're loud.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are we? Yeah. Yeah. So before whenever we do this, I gotta talk into the headsets and get them set. We.

[Turley]

They did. I don't know what happened.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, Me deaf.

[Baba]

All right, this is him.

[John Clay Wolf]

I. I'll make. Are we live yet?

[Turley]

Yeah, we're live on the air.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hi. Good. Good morning, everybody. My name is John. Play wolf. We can handle this. I wish I'd have known that. We're live at Mecum Fort Worth. It's a auction. Last week, was it? Last week we were at Barrett. Two weeks.

[Dave Major]

Two weeks ago.

[Baba]

Two weeks ago.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Two weeks. This.

[Dave Major]

These are pretty fine digs, though, huh?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. This place is nice. This place is real nice. Love it, Dickies. What have you got, J.D.

[Baba]

What do I got?

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you know what?

[Turley]

It's just.

[Baba]

We're just past Halloween, and everybody knows about the Spirit Halloween stores. They're going to be closed now, but this one specifically in Texas is A pet monkey got loose from its owner. Who brings a monkey to the Spirit Halloween store. This person did. Spent more than 30 minutes swinging from the rafters. And the poles, the owner.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's cool.

[Baba]

I know, right? Eventually coaxed it down with a cookie.

[John Clay Wolf]

When you said coke, I was thinking it was a stripper on coke from the rafters.

[Baba]

Nope, this is a monkey. And here the custom employees talking about what? Actually, they had a great time. They had a lot of fun with the swinging monkey. Cut number 12, Michael.

[John Clay Wolf]

My daughter looked up, she said, what in the world? And she's like, is that a real monkey?

[Caller/Fan]

And so I look up and I.

[John Clay Wolf]

Said, it's got a diaper on. So I guess it is real. It was entertaining. I mean, it was like, huh.

[Turley]

A lot of people just stood and.

[John Clay Wolf]

Watched for like, 30 minutes. Like, the whole time, they're just monkey. They had kids trying to catch it. It had jumped down on the floor and ran past. And at that point, I was like, okay, I've had enough.

[Dave Major]

The monkey was having as much fun as a stripper on cocaine. Like, from the footage I saw, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

I clipped that quickly jumping around.

[Dave Major]

Awesome.

[John Clay Wolf]

O.

[Baba]

And of course, we had the big monkey crash this week, nearly three days after a truck crashed in Mississippi and unleashed a group of lab monkeys. Now, some people said these monkeys might have had Covid or a few other things, but the cops keep saying, nope, no problem with the monkeys, except they're still loose. They were. Cops were tipped off at a possible sighting. There's still one monkey that's loose, and they have not found him yet. But guess what? You're never gonna. I know you're not. He's right here. Meekum.

[John Clay Wolf]

With us.

[Turley]

No way.

[Baba]

Yeah, we. Actually, that's why the. That's why the cops can't find him.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's.

[Baba]

He's here at the Mecham auction at Dickey's arena in Fort Worth live with the John Clay Wolf show. And I don't even know his name, actually. Hello, Monkey.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ass monkey.

[Baba]

Ass monkey.

[Dave Major]

I see Micha. You may call me Ferdinand.

[Baba]

Ferdinand.

[Dave Major]

I am a lab test monkey. I've had so much LSD in the last two years of my life, I can actually see the face of God.

[Baba]

Can you really?

[Dave Major]

Yes.

[Trev Moravec]

Yes.

[Dave Major]

He's not happy. God is not happy.

[Baba]

Are you a British monkey?

[Dave Major]

We will make him happy.

[Baba]

We'll make him happy. God is not happy with that.

[Dave Major]

Protect poison reason, my good man.

[Baba]

All right. Do you plan on turning yourself in anytime soon?

[Dave Major]

I would like to be taken back to my home. It's time for my porn.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Baba]

Right after the show today. We'll take you back.

[Dave Major]

That's very good.

[Baba]

Thank you so much.

[Turley]

That's amazing a lab monkey can just turn into somebody just so intelligent like that.

[Baba]

Yes, absolutely. Well, he's obviously well educated.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I had some kind of education.

[Baba]

Hanging out with us today. If you wonder why we sound a little different, it's because we're at the Mecham auto auction.

[John Clay Wolf]

It don't sound bad yet, buddy. Just hang tight.

[Baba]

Fort Worth, Texas. I didn't say bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, it's going to. I'm worried about the why. Auctioneer starts going, ah, I went down.

[Baba]

And told him to be quiet.

[John Clay Wolf]

Shoot. Y'.

[Baba]

All.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did anybody think about this?

[Baba]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, and what, when y' all thought about it, what'd you think?

[Baba]

We thought about it right when we sat down, we thought, this is gonna be bad.

[Turley]

It looks really good on the YouTube stream.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, it looks. It looks like you can actually, you.

[Turley]

Can do Fly by Play if you wanted to.

[Baba]

A stripper. They look really good, but you don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

When this guy starts up here in about an hour. Yeah, it's gonna be loud.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like, we're gonna get tested on these mics to see how it works. And we need to have a plan B to pivot to a suite. It might be so loud because I can tell you one thing, they ain't turning it down.

[Baba]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Turley]

Was this the only gave us there was that that location?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, I just don't know if it was thought through fully.

[Dave Major]

This is what they have for now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, no, we're gonna find out.

[Dave Major]

Rob and I did, did talk to our fellow about it and see the like, car art goes first from 9 to 10.

[Baba]

That's 9 to 10.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[Dave Major]

And after that, I mean, that's the warm fact.

[John Clay Wolf]

At nine o' clock they start. But the, the volume off these speakers, I think is what you're underestimating.

[Turley]

I think you're gonna be okay because ESPN does their broadcast there and they have live guys sitting in the arena.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, but they're sitting behind the deal behind a concrete wall where their podcast and radio setup is.

[Turley]

Ah, I thought they were okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. But yes, we are on the ground floor deck right there. You can see where we are on the. If you go to the YouTube stream, JCWShow, come by and say hi. When we're on the air, we can't talk to you. This is something to learn. If, like we're on the air and you come up and want to talk.

[Baba]

Yeah, people do that.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's hard.

[Baba]

Hey, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

But during the breaks, we can Say hi. Yeah, I bought some cars here this week. I've sold some cars here this week. Oh, let's. It's a good time.

[Baba]

I was watching it yesterday on espn. It's just amazing. Some of the cool cars and they're not all 100, $200,000 cars like you might think. There was a $10,000 convertible Volkswagen that I almost bought. It's just cool. Just so cool.

[John Clay Wolf]

Next week, I mean later in the day, about 2 o' clock is when the big stuff starts. 3 o'. Clock. 3 o'. Clock.

[Turley]

3 O'.

[Baba]

Clock.

[John Clay Wolf]

About from 3 to 6 is when you'll have the heaviest.

[Baba]

What's the. What's the wildest thing you've seen so far this week?

[John Clay Wolf]

Wildest? I haven't. I haven't really studied them that much. But I don't know if there's a million dollar cars here. But there's some 500 granders.

[Baba]

Wow.

[Turley]

I saw what yesterday a 73 Porsche sold for $180,000 to Don Davis of all people local.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, he's pretty good. He's pretty good buyer of this stuff. He doesn't like people talking about him. I'm surprised that they. You know that. How did you know he bought it?

[Turley]

I was watching on espn. They said that his name. That he was the buyer on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I could guarantee you they got a phone call.

[Turley]

Oh really?

[John Clay Wolf]

He does not like. He's not looking for publicity. He's the guy that bought our Ferrari at the yellow Daytona at Barrett a couple years ago.

[Baba]

Remember that?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yellow? Yeah. Daytona, yeah. Lost about whatever. He's a friend. He's a good guy. He's smart fella. Okay.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did anybody go out for Halloween last night? I did not. I went to kids football game.

[Baba]

I did not go out. I did it at my house. We blow up. We have a giant pirate ship that has smoke and lights and the kids come by. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Wow.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Put it up on Facebook.

[John Clay Wolf]

That sounds like you, Jenny.

[Baba]

It totally is me. It's a show, man. It's a show. I'm a showman, baby.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

The phones are. Let me see if the phones are working. I'm sure they are. I can. It looks like they're working. He dropped some sponges on a neighbor. A gun pulled on him.

[Baba]

Oh boy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, that's Pre K. If you'll put that on hold, I can get to it. It's an interesting concept. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. 800, 800.

[Baba]

Props to pre K. By the way. He won our givemetheven.com costume contest. He was Hank Hill. Oh, he won.

[John Clay Wolf]

Damn it, Bobby.

[Baba]

So you gave him a thousand dollars? John, that was very nice.

[Dave Major]

Oh, no, really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Who are you?

[Turley]

I was fourth.

[Baba]

You were Fourth of July guy. That was great though. You were number two. I mean, come on, Mike.

[Turley]

Yeah, but I wanted to beat Pre K. Damn it.

[Baba]

Yeah, okay.

[Dave Major]

Pre K's costume was perfect. It was a practice, simplicity.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Eastern Pennsylvania, good morning, you're on the air.

[Caller]

Hey, how are you?

[John Clay Wolf]

Good, what you got?

[Caller]

I was just telling a story about my wife. Me and her, we make these goat milk infused sponges and she does like an online Facebook live thing. And we're selling these sponges and the lady, her mother wanted some. So she says, well, you know, she's local to you. She lives right near you and I'm far away. Can you just take a couple down to her? So we took a couple down, I run them down and I walk in and a lady must have been in her kitchen or whatever and she says, come in. And she comes around the corner and I'm like, hey, this will be 16 for these sponges. She turns around and says, okay, let me get the money. Comes back around, well, for whatever reason.

[John Clay Wolf]

Jesus Christ, perfect timing, man.

[Turley]

We listened to all that and he drops.

[John Clay Wolf]

So what happened to the sponges?

[Caller]

So I had them in my hand, I almost dropped them, but I'm like, okay, well, do you want them? You know? She's like, well, here's your money. And I give her the sponge. She's like waving this gun around and I take the money and she goes, oh, whoa, whoa, these are the wrong scents. And I was like, I only brought what your daughter said to bring. And she's like, well, you listen here. And she starts waving this gun like in my face. She said, you go up there right now and you go get the right one. And I just booked my butt out of there. I was like, I'm lucky this old lady shoot me, you know, shoot me in the face for a couple punches.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, that's awesome. Thanks. Hey, Pre K, are you around? Pre K, can you hear me?

[Baba]

Hey, Kill, he's on the phone there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Kale, let's go ahead and talk. This is important. When you get a long story talker like that on the, on the screen. Yeah, you there? Can you, like tighten him up before he gets to air?

[Turley]

Oh, man, I was trying to screen him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like, listen, dude, just go straight to the lady pulling the gun.

[Baba]

Yeah, lead with. The lady pulled a gun on me all right.

[John Clay Wolf]

800-800-7234. The lightning round is up next. Lightning round is up next. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio calling right now. We are live. M8 year make model miles average rough or clean. Year make model miles average rough or clean. I've got a Volvo sitting here on hold like a 04 with 10,000 miles. That's good miles. So it should be pretty clean. And that's. And I've got plenty of room for other callers. You can call in right now during the break and we'll be right back.

[Announcer]

Now back to the John Clay Wolf show presented by givemethevin.com hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800, radio. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Glenn in Pittsburgh.

[Caller]

Good morning, John.

[John Clay Wolf]

What happened to your Steelers the other night? I was rooting.

[Caller]

Two weeks in a row. They look rough.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, they look good in the first half and then it all went to hell.

[Caller]

Yeah, they're playing stiff competition now. They get the Colts tomorrow. That's not going to be fun either.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no. What's the line on that game, do you know?

[Turley]

Ten and a half.

[Caller]

I. Yeah, I thought it started like six and it. Yeah, it's a lot.

[Turley]

It may have dropped.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, let's set the line on this Volvo of yours. An 04C 70, 10,000 mile convertible. What color is it?

[Caller]

Right. Silver, black convertible top light gray or silver interior, leather.

[John Clay Wolf]

So we've got an older car. We've got a 20, 20, 22 year old car. 21 year old car with good miles on it. It's lived up in the northeast. Does it have any rust? Does, is there any crazing around the top? Does. Are any check engine lights on? I mean is it showroom new? It's.

[Caller]

It's as close as you can get. I believe I did have a new top put on about three years ago.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good.

[Caller]

So the tops are relatively new and it's always been garage kept.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. You bought it new?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Original. What, silver or gray? What'd you say the color is?

[Caller]

Silver with light gray or silver interior.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'll give 7,007.

[Caller]

Yeah, I was looking to get 10.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean like, like let's say today we're here at Mecham and it brings 10, let's say you hold it till Harrisburg. Mecham. Right. So you pay 500 to get it over there. You pay a $250 check in fee. It brings 8, 9, 10. 10 would be the high side. And then after 10, you got to pay a thousand dollar fee. So you get 9 minus the 250 on the check in, minus the transport, minus your hotel. You know, I'm saying, I mean, somebody's got a. I understand you, you see some comps that, that might have done. 10 is all the money, right? 10 is the end of the end. But how we get it there costs money. And everybody that handles it has to get paid. Does that make sense?

[Caller]

So if I give seven, I understand totally.

[John Clay Wolf]

If I give seven and I ship it and I detail it and I fix the one little thing that you forgot to tell me about that happens maybe after I buy it that you didn't. That wasn't happening when, I mean, the lights went out on my. I've got a 1980 Camaro, right? Gorgeous Ira. I mean, Z28. I drove it home last night. I wanted to go drive it and the lights went out on it in the middle of the trip. It's not that it's a bad car. It's not that it was defective. It's just an older car. So things happen. You got to leave yourself just a little bit of room. Okay, all right, I'll give 7,000 though.

[Caller]

All right, Let me, let me think about it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, man. Thank you. Thank.

[Caller]

Thanks, John. Appreciate it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes, sir. Donna, I love the show too. Love you too. Donna in Oklahoma, you have been a fan of Rush since you were 14, rotating drum set and never used to be. You know, Rush is going to be right here, Bobbo, in this facility in Fort Worth, Texas in next summer. Donna, you there? Yes, I am, and I, I hope I can go. Thank you for calling. We'll be right back.

[Announcer]

This, this is the John Clay Wolf show. Check out the GMTV Garage YouTube channel, complete with live video stream at jcwshow.com Dangerous Research Monkeys that escaped from the.

[John Clay Wolf]

Wreckage of a crash on a Mississippi highway.

[Announcer]

At least six monkeys escaping officials warning they might be aggressive towards people and were potentially infected with hepatitis C, herpes and Covid.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hepatitis, herpes and Covid.

[Baba]

Who are these monkeys hanging out with Charlie Sheen?

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Broadcasting coast to coast, this is the John Clay Wolf show. Call John toll free, 1-800-800-RODIO. Hit up the website for podcasts, merch and how to contact the [e-mail] oh, and while you're giving him the finger.

[John Clay Wolf]

Give him the VIN.

[Announcer]

We now return to the John Clay Wolf Show.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800 radio. Good morning. It's November number one. When is the time change tonight. Is it really?

[Baba]

Yes, sir.

[Dave Major]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

So we can party later.

[Baba]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Fall forward.

[Baba]

Roll it back. Roll it back. Back.

[John Clay Wolf]

Fall back, fall backward. Yeah. If. Unless you're drunk, then you fall forward.

[Dave Major]

Yeah. Go to bed at 2am and set your clock back to 1am and get an extra hour to drink.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're live in Texas at the Mecham Auto Auction at the Dickies Arena. Hey, you ought to look on the YouTube and see the setup. It's a pretty cool setup. It's kind of like game day is what this feels like.

[Baba]

Very much for cars.

[John Clay Wolf]

Speaking of game day, Turley, how did I do last week?

[Turley]

Not bad. Three and two. You were a down. Three and two. I was three and two. So you were.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it's better. Better? It was better.

[Baba]

You're down three and two, step by step.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's right.

[Turley]

Just chip, you know.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you're up like, 200.

[Turley]

225. Now an extra 25 bucks.

[John Clay Wolf]

Where did we end last year?

[Turley]

A thousand dollars. You were down.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sounds like this is. This is. I paid you in quarters. No, I paid a check. Yeah. Took out taxes, correct? Yes. I'll let HR do it this year. I'm going to payment quarters. Oh, sure.

[Turley]

Yeah. Because you can't do.

[John Clay Wolf]

They sold a vet here. They sold a vet here yesterday. A 64 vet amigum that was covered in pennies.

[Baba]

Oh, no.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like, literally.

[Baba]

Literally covered.

[John Clay Wolf]

Somebody with too much time on their hands, who buys somebody? That's dumb. And they paid a lot, like, to straighten that car out. Cost 20,000. To unpenny that thing and repaint it. It cost 20,000 for sure. And the car still brought, like, what it was worth. Like, what a real one was worth.

[Baba]

Oh, my God, dude, that's hilarious.

[John Clay Wolf]

Golly, man, talk about buyer's remorse, right? They're gonna get home and look at that thing two times and drive it one time, and half the pennies are gonna fall off, and they're gonna be like. They'll be calling us.

[Baba]

Right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I just gave 42,000 at the auction. I'll take 55.

[Baba]

I know what I got.

[John Clay Wolf]

I know what I got. Yeah, you know what you got? You got a car with pennies all over it that fall off.

[Baba]

That's so funny.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, J.D. yeah? So yesterday, yes. You sent a text out to us about somebody winning an award or something to the group, and I noticed that Gigi was on the group text.

[Baba]

Oh, I didn't know that. Well, I was only answering another text, so I didn't start that, by the way.

[John Clay Wolf]

Who started it?

[Baba]

I don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

I bet it's Bob.

[Baba]

Probably it was Bob.

[John Clay Wolf]

And so I saw that and I hadn't talked to her in a long time, and I immediately go, oh, no, there we go. And I. I removed her from the.

[Baba]

Conversation quickly, hoping that that minimal damage had been done.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Because I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Like, hey, we're having a good time and we're. We're doing this thing. And she. And she'd be like, well, I wish I was there. Good to talk to y'. All. I wish I was in the Halloween contest, something. So I remembered her. So then. And I was like, okay. So an hour goes by and safe.

[Dave Major]

No, I'm just so glad to be back.

[John Clay Wolf]

I got a mile long email.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[Turley]

Oh, no.

[Baba]

Email or text?

[John Clay Wolf]

Both. Both. She texted it to me and I didn't read it. Yeah. And then she sent me an email later. Just in case you missed my text. I want to make sure you get this. And she just really gave me the business.

[Baba]

I know.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I said, you know, this reminds me of a story.

[Baba]

Oh, really?

[John Clay Wolf]

The old man story where there's a guy that comes by the train station and there's a fella standing there and he gives him a $50 bill every time he sees him for a couple of years. Not every day, but every time he saw it, I got it. And then one day, and the guy's like, you're great. Thank you so much. And I can't be. You know, I'm so glad that we're friends. And then one day he comes up and he doesn't give him the $50 bill. And the guy said, what, Where's. Where, what's going? He said, hey, man, I'm out of fifty dollar bills. He's like, I'm. You know, I've been doing this for a long time. And he. And so all that good that that guy did for those years when he didn't give him the 50 bill at one time, the guy MF'd him, cussed him, and spit on him.

[Dave Major]

Damn it, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I said, that's what this is reminding me of. Because she wanted to talk about her situation. And it's not my place to talk about her health on the radio.

[Baba]

I understand that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Especially not with her on. Yep. We have talked about it. When I prompt her and she brings it up.

[Baba]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it absolutely is not my place.

[Baba]

Nope.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it just kind of. It bothered. She just accused me of all this secrecy and keeping it down. I'm like, of Course I'm keeping it down. Why the hell would I talk about.

[Baba]

Yeah, why would I bring it up?

[John Clay Wolf]

I know. I like Gigi. I'm too mad at Gigi.

[Baba]

No, of course not. We all love Gigi. And I've. She's contacted me a few times, but.

[John Clay Wolf]

This went on for a year and I kept paying her.

[Baba]

I know. I know. The health issue. I know. What the hell I know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I don't.

[Baba]

I've explained. Look, I've been radio 40 years and I've been fired 40 times.

[John Clay Wolf]

She didn't get fired.

[Baba]

I know she didn't get fired, but I've been removed from places I still wanted to be.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. Well, that was just disappointing. But, yeah, she's got a great voice.

[Baba]

Sweet lady. We love her to death. We absolutely love her to death.

[John Clay Wolf]

But that's the truth. If anybody wants to know about why I don't talk about it because it's not my place.

[Baba]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. All right. It's a big room. 800. 800-723-48. 800.

[Dave Major]

Notice I have nothing to say about the Gigi situation for new listeners.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gigi was our co host for four, two, three years. Yeah.

[Dave Major]

That is the radio biz.

[Turley]

Sometimes, kids, most radio, you can't talk about it. That's the nice thing about it. You can actually talk about it because most time, when somebody leaves it, they can't say a word. Oh, he never existed. Or that person never existed. It's just stupid.

[Baba]

I've had that happen.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Literally.

[Turley]

They'll tell you that, right, J.D.

[Baba]

And they told my friends they couldn't speak to me. Russ Martin, who was my buddy. Are you serious? You don't want me to talk to him? You people are crazy, out of your damn minds.

[John Clay Wolf]

They didn't want you to talk to who?

[Baba]

They didn't want me, and they didn't want Russ, who still worked at the radio station, to speak to me at all. At all. And they're like, you're crazy. Shut up. Russ is like, no, I'm not gonna do that. In fact, I'm gonna invite him to our next party. And he did.

[John Clay Wolf]

Why wouldn't they want you to talk to him?

[Baba]

Just because they were being jerks because I went across the street and worked at the Eagle.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, Turley, when you got fired from the Ticket for booking Rob Zombie on the Fan. Yeah. Was your name. Well, they. They still talk about you on the ticket.

[Turley]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Guys, the Ticket's a radio station. Dallas Fort Worth, a popular sports station that Turley cut his teeth in on. And then he booked Rob Zomb. There was a guy that was on that station. He went to another station, and Turley helped him with a booking, and they found out about it, and they blasted him. So Turley went over to that other station. I'm sorry. I just wanted to color that in. Turley.

[Turley]

Yeah, no problem. As far as. Could I talk to them? Yeah, I could talk to them. I just. And I could. I could bring it up on the station I moved to, But I didn't really hear them bring up anything about the situation at all. It was just kind of like they play a drop or something like that. But, you know, it's still the same thing. It's. It's so weird in the radio where you can bring it up. That's exactly what it is. It's ego. Totally the program director's egos.

[Baba]

Right. People are walking by. John's talking to him. We're at the.

[John Clay Wolf]

I know one of the security guards. Trapp's one of our auctioneers for a long time. He comes. He's gonna. He's a auctioneer here at Mecham. He was our auctioneer at Dallas.

[Baba]

I can't wait for this thing to get going, man. Mecham auto auction at the Dickey's arena in Fort Worth. And this. This. The setup looks like a Hollywood movie set. This is amazing.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know, I thought I wanted to.

[Trev Moravec]

Do one of these.

[Baba]

Yeah, I thought.

[John Clay Wolf]

I really thought I wanted the whole thing. Yeah.

[Baba]

Produce it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[Baba]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then. Hang on. I said I thought. Yeah, Keyword thought.

[Baba]

Thought about it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Past tense.

[Baba]

Watch.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I've been here this week watching the load in and the setup and this and that and talking to them, and I'm like, I don't want to do this. This is too much work. I think their staff is 400.

[Baba]

Yeah, it's got to be.

[John Clay Wolf]

They've got 400 hotel rooms. 400.

[Baba]

400.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. And the setup. I mean, this is a lot of work.

[Baba]

Many moving parts. This is a big. This is more moving parts than a concert. Yep, it is.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, it is. They've got 1600 cars. There's a lot of moving parts. I. I locked. I was in that Camaro, and I locked my. The. The key wouldn't unlock last night. Okay. And they had a guy over so quick, jimmy in that lock.

[Baba]

Boom.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because that's all he does all day on these old cars. He did it in, like, 10 seconds.

[Baba]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

It was amazing.

[Baba]

What do you want? We got it.

[John Clay Wolf]

We'll be right back. My name is John Clay Wolf. This is John Clay Wolf show. We got JD Bobo, myself, it Rob running the video. Turley back at the studio on the sliders, which is the board, Pre K on the phones. And the numbers. 800-800-7234. You can call in right now and we will take your call. Good morning, America, coast to coast. Hey, California. We'll be right back.

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[Caller]

Hit him up.

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800-800-Radio.

[Baba]

This.

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This is the John Clay Wolf Show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Morning, everybody. We're live here in Dallas Fort Worth at the Dickey's Arena Mecham auto auction. We did Barrett Jackson, Scottsdale two weeks ago. We're doing this one. We just been roadshow hoes lately. It's fun. Get our old asses out of the office in the studio.

[Dave Major]

It's awesome, man. I mean, you see this on tv, but being here in front of. It's a beautiful stage.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's beautiful stage.

[Dave Major]

And I can see it's gonna be like, full of. How many people can they fit in here this year?

[John Clay Wolf]

A lot. John in Minnesota? Yes. 68 Camaro RS. Is it RSS? No. Okay, big block 396. On a scale of one to 10, how nice is it?

[Caller]

Nine and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. When was it restored?

[Caller]

It never has.

[John Clay Wolf]

How could it be a nine and a half if it's never been restored? I mean, that's like resto numbers. It's perfect.

[Caller]

Well, here's the. It was in storage from 1973 to about 99. And I had some chicken scratches on there. And so it was turquoise with black stripes, and now it's silver with black stripes. And everything else is what it was back in March 11th of 69.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it's a 68 model, not a 69, right?

[Caller]

Correct. It was purchased in 69. And it also has. It has fiber optics on the fenders. It has the Tic Toc Tac, of course, it has the A track with boost. And it also has Cinema Multiplex with a turbo 412 volt rear end. I also have the road rally game, And I have two women's Camaro dresses. Those were.

[John Clay Wolf]

It sounds like a 35 grander to me.

[Caller]

Pardon me?

[John Clay Wolf]

It sounds like a 35 grander to me.

[Caller]

That a pretty solid number.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I need to see pictures.

[Caller]

Well, okay, go to go.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to go to givemetheven.com and load it up and tell them you called in on the radio and they'll send me the thing and Take a video of it, walk around and talk about it. Keep the videos under 60 seconds. You might take a couple of them, but you can load them right up into givemetheven.com as you. When you put the car information in. And we'll go from there. Thank you very much for calling 800-800-723-4. Steve in North Carolina. Hey. Hey.

[Caller]

I agree with what you say about Gigi. It's not worth. It's not whatever to talk about it. It's her business, not yours.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller]

You mentioned a girl named Teresa. Rock face.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, they tried to put her. Yeah, before. Before we added Gigi several years ago. They were trying to hook me up with her.

[Caller]

She works in Charlotte.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, she actually works out of Houston and she's broadcast in Charlotte. But she's a good voice. She's good everything. But here's what I've come to a decision in my life, okay? Between my wife and my daughter and my ex wife. I have enough women telling me what to do. And I'm good.

[Baba]

I'm good.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm good.

[Dave Major]

Really.

[John Clay Wolf]

Bobbo and I fight like cats and dogs.

[Baba]

Yes, you do.

[John Clay Wolf]

I. I don't need any. I don't need anybody else to argue with. No. I got a question for you. Yep. When.

[Caller]

When were you in Vegas? Two, three, four weeks ago.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gosh, I don't know why you were.

[Caller]

There with your wife, having a nice time? According to you, what you said on the radio.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah, you said you were.

[Caller]

You said you were kind of tired.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

What number was the mistress in? Because you were so tired.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, I'm not running a mistress. My wife's 13 years younger than me. I'm good. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. 800, 800 radio, sir. Minus. Good morning. You're calling us from the Appalachian Trail, I suppose? Good morning.

[Caller]

Yeah, I just left the Rhone Highlands in Tennessee yesterday.

[John Clay Wolf]

They were beautiful.

[Caller]

Get a frosty Halloween yesterday.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah. What? What? What's the temp out there on the AP trail?

[Caller]

I mean, yesterday we were definitely like in the 40s or something like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like up.

[Caller]

Like I was like, I'm from, you know, from Texas. It basically looked like snow to me.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

So I wanted to. One of your wolf pack members told me he wanted to hear what the origin story for my trail name was. So I thought I'd give y' all a little story on that real quick.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hit it quick.

[Caller]

Got it. So I started out in the 100 mile wilderness with the trail named Surplus because I had a bag that was like 40 to 50 pounds. I had to take some weight off, so I took 20 pounds off my backpack and sent it home. And they renamed me Sir Minus. I got knighted on trail yesterday.

[Turley]

Yeah.

[Caller]

So on trail yesterday, I was dressed up all day hiking in a knight's costume, like for Monty Python.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, happy Halloween to you and thanks for calling in. Y' all can find this guy? He's been calling in every Saturday for a couple of months. He's literally hiking like 1500 miles down the Appalachian Trail ending in Georgia. And he's on the ass end of the deal.

[Turley]

How many miles Left?

[Caller]

Less than 400.

[John Clay Wolf]

God, it's a lot of walking. You make a lot of walking.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Chris.

[John Clay Wolf]

Chris, in Tampa, you got a nice little beater. A 12, 2012 Honda Civic with 200, 000 miles on it. What would you pay me to take it?

[Turley]

I don't know.

[Caller]

I don't think I'd pay you to take it.

[John Clay Wolf]

But, hey, I've got an old swing set in the backyard. I'll. I'll pay you to.

[Caller]

I don't know about with you, but I ain't got no little kid.

[John Clay Wolf]

Tell him. Talk to Rob Bob. Okay, thank you. I'll give a thousand bucks.

[Baba]

Turn it down.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right, Crab, what you got today?

[Baba]

Hey, whenever you start talking sports, you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Should preface is by this is what.

[Baba]

Turley's sports wiener thinks.

[John Clay Wolf]

Turley's sports wiener. Thank you, Craig. We'll do it. Turley, how is your sports wiener today?

[Turley]

It's a, you know, it's at half mast. It's not too bad because it's a. It's not a great football weekend. We'll have our picks here in a little bit. We don't have enough time right now. It did get a little excited after that. Dodgers win what? A baseball game? At game six, they were basically, their backs are up against the wall. They're up three to one in the bottom of the ninth inning. And the Blue Jays. Barger hits a double and would have scored two runs, tied the game, but it's stuck in the bottom of the wall. And the Dodgers players had enough awareness to say, you know, oh, wait, wait, wait, stop. And so it's a ground rule double. Those runs don't score. They end up getting out of the inning with a double play to end it. And it was just a awesome game. Sorry to all those folks out in California. I mean, California and Canada. Sorry about that, because, you know, California folks are happy as hell for game seven tonight. Seven o', clock, Toronto. Yep. It's in Toronto. Yes, yes. But I don't know, I think, I don't know.

[Baba]

Do we have audio for that?

[John Clay Wolf]

We do.

[Dave Major]

Cut one is actually that that double play that ended the game.

[John Clay Wolf]

Perfect.

[Dave Major]

Great play.

[Caller]

Andres Jimenez the nine hitter.

[John Clay Wolf]

The Dodgers two outs from game seven.

[Caller]

Jimenez floats one left field.

[Baba]

Hernandez makes the catch, back to second.

[John Clay Wolf]

Game seven tomorrow night. It's a game ending double play.

[Caller]

Kike Hernandez to Miguel Rojas.

[Turley]

That's amazing. So guess what tonight who's on the mound? Otani, the guy they pay all the bucks to, they're gonna try to have it, win it with him on the mound. And Serger who's you know, he's won a world series with a Ranger fans out there. He's gonna start the game too. He's a gamer. So it'll be hell of a game tonight at 7:00'.

[Trev Moravec]

Clock.

[John Clay Wolf]

So is this. Give me the count again. Is it tied up?

[Turley]

Tied up?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[Turley]

Game seven, all the marbles.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is it. Yup. Okay, so now I can watch the world series?

[Turley]

Yes, yes, now you can watch it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, I'll do that.

[Baba]

One game, take it all.

[John Clay Wolf]

What are the hot. Just real quick, what are the hot college games today?

[Turley]

Well we'll get to. So you can study up.

[John Clay Wolf]

I just want to hear them. You don't have to do the whole.

[Turley]

No, no, so you can study up for them. Vanderbilt, Texas, that's the early game. And Oklahoma, Tennessee and then late night game Cincinnati at Utah and then NFL games, Steelers, Colts and Bills chief. So those games are. Those picks will be coming up here shortly.

[John Clay Wolf]

What time does Ut and Vandy start.

[Turley]

Their 11 o' clock start. That's the first game in the state slate right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, Vanderbilt's gonna beat Texas and then everybody will listen to me.

[Turley]

Well maybe we'll see about your picks here coming up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that, what's the line?

[Turley]

It's two, three and a half right now. We gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go.

[John Clay Wolf]

Three. Break, break.

[Turley]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

We'll be back in a minute. My name is John Claywolf. This is the John Clay Wolf show with all the guys brought to you by America's best car buyer. GiveMeThevent.com.

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[John Clay Wolf]

All right guys, as you can hear in the background we are in the middle of a car auction in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, Mecham. They just started the road art thing and I don't know how loud it is in the background. I hope it's okay. If it's terrible, we're gonna have to move up to a suite somewhere. But we're. If you go to our YouTube channel, you'll see we're right in the middle of the. Of the whole ordeal and I was a little worried about the sound and we're fixed to find out if it works or not.

[Dave Major]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Sound good, Mike?

[Turley]

So far it's just a droning sound in the background. It's not terrible. You definitely can tell you're at an auction.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's no doubt about that. We did this, you know, from the car show in Wisconsin in the car race and then we did it from the good guys. We've done some loud deals but this one's probably a little louder than others. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio is the call in number. It is Saturday, November 1st. Turn your clocks back tonight. David. David has an 89 Chevy van with 125,000 miles on it. Some damage to the back doors. Accidentally hit a pole. Wants 4500. Sad story about trying to pay some medical bills. Oh, that was for. That was an inside note. David, you there?

[Baba]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I probably can't make that rig work at 4,500.

[Baba]

I understand.

[Caller]

I would love to meet you when you see this van.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, long time listener. Well, thank you. Where are you calling from?

[Caller]

Louisville, Texas. And if I could get to mechan I would drive this van down there but I'm dyslexic and I can't find it.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's got some stick everybody. Brian in Oklahoma City, good morning. You're there.

[Caller]

Hey John, real quick, small dealer here in Oklahoma. What's the market gonna do in the last. In the last two months this year and second, my son's been listening to you when I made him 10 years old and now he calls me and tells me what's going on when I can't catch you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, good.

[Trev Moravec]

21.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now the market in the next two months is going to. I think it's stabilized. I think we had the drop. There might. There'll be some other buckets to drop next to new is what I call it. You know, 2025, 2024, some 2023. But over in all the good cars are still fine and we went through a pretty good decompression in October for sure. And our seasonal adjustment.

[Baba]

Amen.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I, I believe that I Think you know, the. The bottom of the market is typically November. The cheapest time of the year over my 30 years of doing this is Thanksgiving. And so we're right there in that muddy slot. Muddy, muddy zone right now. And. And I. If you want to buy cars, I'd buy them now. Thank you. 800-800-723-4, Tim in Ohio. The background noise is not too bad. No, not at all. I listen to you from my dbe.

[Caller/Fan]

It sounds great.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, are you an Ohio State?

[Caller]

As long as you're talking? Oh, yes, I am.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, they're. They're pretty good, huh?

[Baba]

Huh?

[Caller]

Number one in the country, defending national champ.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, Rob. If you can bring the callers up, it will help me a lot. If you can bring the callers up, it'll help me a lot. I don't know if you have a way to do that, please. I don't know what to do. I feel like I'm in a. In a war zone.

[Turley]

I bet you it's loud for you guys than it is here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Okay. Yeah, it's.

[Dave Major]

It's right behind you.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's like.

[Dave Major]

It's like being massacred by Indians.

[Baba]

Yeah, because we're hearing them both. We're hearing our headphones now.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're back there. Mike, those callers, you're gonna have to push them over.

[Turley]

I got them. I got them pushed up. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Baba, what have you got in the news or J.D.

[Baba]

Bob, you want to do something? I got one. Here's a car you will not see out here today. It's a 1991 Geometro. A guy in Utah named Alan Gerbert, who happens to be a pumpkin farmer. Are you ready? You following me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. Pumpkin farmer.

[Baba]

All right. He. He was very upset when his 1991 Geometro finally gave out after 35 years. Years broke down on him, but him being a pumpkin farmer, he found a 2 ready 2000 lb pumpkin. It weighs a ton, and he dropped it on the Geo Metro. We should do this. We should find a car and just destroy it one time. Here's cut number three. Three two [e-mail] it just smashed that little Geo Metro. God, after so many years of driving.

[Turley]

It sounded like a pancake.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Just.

[Baba]

I know. It just 2,000pound pumpkin. Who in the world grows it?

[John Clay Wolf]

Those are throwaway cars anyway.

[Baba]

Yeah, well, he drove for 35 years.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, he got his money out of it. I mean, you did that with a Range Rover. I still can't believe that story. You bought it at 130, 000 miles?

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Took it to 180. We gave 3,000 for it.

[Baba]

I was literally driving in a parking lot when the. You know, they say drive it when. Till the wheels fall off. Until the wheels literally fell off it. Thank God I was only doing about four miles an hour.

[John Clay Wolf]

But when we sold it, didn't we still almost get what you paid?

[Baba]

I think you did.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think.

[Baba]

Yeah. The. Actually, the drive shaft dropped, but I had it fixed and we sold it and we got out. We got out for even.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you drove that car for five years for kind of not free, but just maintenance.

[Baba]

Brake, you break even.

[John Clay Wolf]

And what was the maintenance? Two grand?

[Baba]

Maybe. Maybe two grand. That car was. I know you when you first got.

[John Clay Wolf]

That, boys and girls. Do not try that.

[Baba]

Don't try that. You went. You told me if this car gets you home, I'll be surprised. It's the lightning round.

[John Clay Wolf]

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[Announcer]

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[John Clay Wolf]

And this is the lightning round, brought to you by givemetheven.com and Gordon Boswell flowers. We're live at mecum auto auction in Dallas Fort worth of the dickey's arena. Stop by if you're in the area and come by and see us. We're set up right here in the walkway on the first level. Keisha, you've got a 96 Corvette with 20,000 miles. What color it is?

[Caller/Fan]

Red and yellow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Why?

[Caller/Fan]

Okay, so listen, I was just at that auction for two days. I bought this Corvette. I bought two corvettes. It's too much for me. It's been modified. It says estimated 80,000 invested in it. It's got the humongous spin on the back with the tachometer nitro.

[John Clay Wolf]

Why did you buy it?

[Caller/Fan]

It's just too fast. So you don't. It was a mistake. I seen it. If the bid Was going low, started bidding on it. I knew I was going for a Corvette. I did buy one yesterday. This one I bought on Wednesday. Got it. I said, okay, I'll bring it on home to Weatherford. Too much. Too much power. My son in law loves it, but I paid 19.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. It ain't great. It ain't me.

[Baba]

No.

[Caller/Fan]

Okay, well, I thought I'd try.

[John Clay Wolf]

I watched that car sale and I got off of it at 11.

[Caller/Fan]

Okay. Okay, well, thank you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, ma'. Am. Yeah, 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. That real unique stuff. Weird stuff like that. Sometimes it oversells. I mean, you can tell by the. By the way she was explaining. She not. She just really didn't know what she was doing. And you had two people not know what they were doing. And that's how you get weird prices sometimes. But like MMR on that car is $11,000, which is like the average wholesale price. And it's. Hers is all geeked out. The red and yellow is not the best color, but you know, there is an ass for every seat. This car found an ass on Wednesday. Her name is Keisha and she needs to go find another ass to buy it. But I think Keisha's gonna take a haircut, if you'll know the truth.

[Turley]

That's some quick buyer remorse right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

That is some fast buyer remorse right there. It happens, man. It happened. I bought cars at these auctions. Lost plenty of money, too. My name is John Clay Wolf by cars on the radio from America's best car buyer. For America's best car buyer, give me the vin dot com.

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[John Clay Wolf]

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[John Clay Wolf]

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[John Clay Wolf]

I'm gonna hand this over to the Willis because I don't want to get us taken off air. Okay. It is called barebacking. So you know, like where you ride bareback. Oh, my goodness. They're living in the world. I began doing this a few years.

[Baba]

Ago and I was called a raw dog.

[Caller]

Life in the raw.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I've heard of raw dogging as well.

[Baba]

And I think I was going to be arrested.

[John Clay Wolf]

And this can be dangerous.

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[John Clay Wolf]

And we're back. Good Morning November 1st, Saturday Morning Live here in Dallas Fort Worth at the Mecham Auto Auction on the side. Hey, Frank. And we are working and we are playing and we are doing our radio show. Turley, tell me about. Let's pick a couple of games real quick.

[Turley]

All right. Let's get to our games.

[Baba]

I got a problem first. John, can I borrow fourteen hundred dollars?

[John Clay Wolf]

What do you want to buy?

[Baba]

I was waving at Bobbo and I just bought a ozmobile sign for 1400.

[Turley]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

You guys okay?

[Dave Major]

Can that happen?

[John Clay Wolf]

It can Happen. Video on YouTube last week. You'll see where we bought a 79 10th anniversary, Mike and I. Anyway, if you watch our video, you'll see where that happened in Barrett jacket accidentally. Yeah. Wow. Keep your hands down when you're at auction.

[Baba]

I just found that out.

[Turley]

Yeah, that's a great view from you guys there. All right, college picks. John, you. You lost. You were down 32 last week. But I mean, you know what, it was a valid effort. I got to tell you though, that A and M game was. Surprised everybody for sure that I was shocked on that game. So don't always listen to us.

[John Clay Wolf]

Who they play?

[Turley]

Lsu. They got. They crushed lsu.

[John Clay Wolf]

Absolutely.

[Turley]

That was amazing.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Got fired.

[Turley]

Yeah, they. And the AD too.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did they wind up doing that too?

[Turley]

Yeah, they cleaned house.

[John Clay Wolf]

Lsu, they had two bullets in their gun.

[Turley]

Yep. They went and they got rid of both of them. All right, so game one, 11 o' clock central on ABC. Number nine, Vanderbilt, seven and one. At number 20, Texas. They're six and two. They're three and a half point favorites. John. Yes. The Vanderbilt Commodores, they're in the spotlight again. Can they knock Texas out of the playoffs?

[John Clay Wolf]

Because.

[Turley]

Yeah, this would definitely knock him out for sure. Arch Manning is playing. He is starting, John, after his concussion. So take that effect.

[John Clay Wolf]

It would be this week to pull him to try to save their playoffs. Right.

[Turley]

And yet in your opinion. Yes, that is correct. In a lot of people's opinions now.

[John Clay Wolf]

So if you, if you pull Arch Manning, I'm taking Texas. If you leave Arch Manning in, I'm taking Vanderbilt.

[Turley]

Well, he is in. He is starting. It's official.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, then I'm taking Vanderbilt.

[Turley]

You're going to take that Vanderbilt. All right, I'll let you do that. Because I think Texas, their defense, we.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have another hundred on the side that they yank him during a game in the season. Correct?

[Turley]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

But here, really, you will win 100 if they don't yank him today because if they don't yank him today, there's no reason to yank him because the season, the postseason hopes are gone, right?

[Turley]

Yeah, I think so. I think that's right. Because then at that point they're just trying to get him to be better. At that point, you know, I'm with you. I would think that, you know, they had the excuse of the concussion to try this other kid out unless this other kid from Troy University is not that good. And they feel like, you know what? We have a better shot with Archman because it is. The playoffs are on the line for this game here today at 11 o'.

[Trev Moravec]

Clock.

[John Clay Wolf]

How much did he play last week?

[Turley]

Like the overtime basically ended through one pass. It was a great pass for a touchdown.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so hang on, seriously, if he played one play last week, the backup, he played one other play like three games ago when Arch lost his helmet. Both of his two plays or Immaculate conception. They were both wonderful. And we're going to leave this guy on the bench so we don't go to the playoffs. Stupid. It's just dumb.

[Turley]

Well, we'll find out. I still think Texas wins are at home. So I'm going to go with Texas on this one. At 6:30 tonight, Central Time on ABC, number 18, Oklahoma, 6 and 2. At number 14, Tennessee. They are also 6 and 2. This is a playoff game winner will have a chance to to still make the playoffs. Tennessee is favored by two and a half. John, Oklahoma has lost their last two SEC games by. He's giving up 28 points each game. Matier has looked terrible after his hand surgery. He's only completing like 55% of his passes, three interceptions. The volunteers, they score a lot of points, John, can they. Can the sooner slow them down?

[John Clay Wolf]

Your pick, what's the line?

[Turley]

Tennessee's favored by two and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I got Tennessee.

[Baba]

Hmm.

[Turley]

I think Tennessee wins too and covers a spread. So that means you get to move the line, John.

[John Clay Wolf]

Five.

[Turley]

You think Tennessee wins by five.

[John Clay Wolf]

I agree.

[Turley]

Well, you said five. No, I'm going to take that because remember I got the choice of saying yes or no to it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, I did not know you changed the rules like. No, that was not. That's always been the rule pick is they're going to win by more than five. So then if you say I agree then you said it again. We keep bumping the ball until we get to a point.

[Turley]

That's new to this rules here, but okay. All right, so do they win by six then? Tennessee, are you picking six yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Yes.

[Turley]

So you're going to bump it again?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I mean, so I raised it to five, and now you raised it to six. You called my bluff and I'm saying double down.

[Turley]

Okay, so I agree.

[John Clay Wolf]

Taking ou.

[Turley]

Can you agree what I think Tennessee.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now I move it again, right?

[Turley]

Correct. And you're trying to knock. Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, I'm gonna go eight.

[Turley]

All right, you can take it now. All right, so they have to win. Tennessee has to win by 8. I like this is a new little twist here that we're doing.

[Dave Major]

The way you guys bid the line. That's crazy.

[Turley]

All right, next.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like the cars is what we do with cars.

[Turley]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, man, we bid 40. They want 42. Like, no, get 41. And I'm like, I'll get 41 and a half. He's like. And we wind up giving 42. All right.

[Turley]

All right, next game. And this is the nightcap game, which is cool to have something late game like this to actually watch, especially with the time change. Number 17, Cincinnati at number 24, Utah. Another playoff game basically for the Big 12 possible championship here. Cincinnati 7 and 1, Utah 6 2. It is at Utah. Utah is favored by 10 and a half points. That's a big spread. That's my pick. I'm gonna go first. I think Utah wins, but they do not cover. That's too many points right there. 10 and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

I agree.

[Turley]

All right, so now we have to move the line to where we.

[John Clay Wolf]

We got to pull it back.

[Turley]

Yep. Back. Correct. Does Utah win by 6?

[John Clay Wolf]

Cincy does not suck. The Utah has the fortunate situation where they may have had sex with multiple women in the morning. So that could work for him or against. With the multiple wide factor and.

[Turley]

Six points. Are you in it or out?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, I'm. If you're six, I'm going to take Cincy on the so. So no, I'm going to take the short.

[Turley]

Okay. All right. So I think Utah wins by six. All right. NFL picks.

[John Clay Wolf]

When we don't do a half to. Does that cause a problem?

[Turley]

Well, I guess we can move to six and a half. That's just to make it entertaining. Is that fine with you?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, that's fine.

[Turley]

Okay. Just to make it. Because otherwise your pushes aren't entertaining. No one wins any money. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I mean, especially in Utah, nobody likes to kiss their sister.

[Turley]

No NFL picks.

[John Clay Wolf]

Why kiss your sister when you can have multiple wives and your sister could be one?

[Turley]

All right, just a couple games for the NFL. My pick here, Colts number, They're seven and one. They're the best team in the NFL. John at the Steelers four and three. This is the noon game on cbs. The actual line is now three and a half. A lot of money going Steelers way here. I think it's a terrible matchup for the Steelers. I mean the Colts are the best offense in the NFL right now with Jonathan Taylor and Indiana Jones. I mean it's amazing how what's going on there. Aaron Rodgers did you saw it happened last week. He just doesn't have any offensive line to help him on it. So I'm going to take the Colts to win to cover that spread of three and a half. What do you bought you, John?

[John Clay Wolf]

Move it to six and a half.

[Turley]

I'm okay with that. So now we got to bump it again.

[John Clay Wolf]

So do you do the next pump?

[Turley]

Yes, that's my next bump. Because we both agree at six and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

Quit humping my leg, curly.

[Turley]

Do the Colts win by seven and a half? Yes, I'm gonna let you have that, John. Take it. All right, next game. The last game. And this is the game of the week in the NFL. Chiefs to their play at Buffalo. Chiefs are two and a half point favorites. It's the 330 game on CBS. Chiefs seem to be playing on all cylinders on the offense. This is, this is going to be high scoring shootout in my opinion. But John, this is your pick.

[John Clay Wolf]

Where you go Chiefs. I agree.

[Turley]

So you get to move the line.

[John Clay Wolf]

Here first six and a half.

[Turley]

Oh, you can take that. John. I think it's. I think that you just knocked me off real quick.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're.

[Turley]

You're a strong bid at the auction right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Strong bidder.

[Turley]

I've gone. I'm walking away. He got.

[John Clay Wolf]

You got to take a position in life, Turley. Yeah, he's gone in the growing.

[Dave Major]

I don't know if you can pick this one easily, guys. This is quite a rivalry that's built up the last few years.

[Turley]

Oh, it's going to be a hell of a game.

[Dave Major]

It's going to be the best game of the week.

[Turley]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gave up more points than I needed to give up to knock Tur. That's unfortunate.

[Turley]

Yes, you did.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do I get paid extra if. If they cover.

[Turley]

No, you do not get paid extra. Doesn't work that way.

[John Clay Wolf]

800-800-723-48007234, 800800 radio. We are live in in Mika auto auction in Dallas Fort Worth at Dickory at Dickies Center.

[Baba]

Yeah, Dickies Arena.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know what Dicky Doo is Bob.

[Dave Major]

Of course Here we go.

[John Clay Wolf]

When your belly gets out further than your dicky do, we'll be right back here on the John Clay Wolf Show.

[Baba]

Oh, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

She had a drink in her hand. She had her toes in the sand. Whoa. What a beautiful.

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[John Clay Wolf]

What was that person saying? Eddie Van Halen. No, no, no.

[Turley]

She wanted to donate her plasma. And you were bidding on her plasma? Plasma.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. Did we get the plasma bought?

[Turley]

No, we did.

[Dave Major]

I don't think so.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you ever sold your plasma?

[Dave Major]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's when you know you're. You're. You're a little broke. That. That's a low side of, you know. That's called the acid. A hard time.

[Dave Major]

I've heard all about it.

[John Clay Wolf]

You got some friends, sold some plasma. I've had a couple, yeah. What does it pay?

[Dave Major]

I think your first go was like 160 or something.

[John Clay Wolf]

Really?

[Dave Major]

And then after that, it's just plasma. It's like they almost pay you return a retainer for your first job.

[Turley]

What's the. What's the lowest you've ever been. Like, it's broke. Doing something like that. Like, mine was a title loan. Putting a car in a title loan, that's when you know you're really broke. Doing a.

[John Clay Wolf]

Borrowing money.

[Turley]

Yeah. No, no, actually, that was a Volkswagen Bug I had before the Camry.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave Major]

Title loans or payday loans or.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't know.

[Dave Major]

I've never really been wanting to sell.

[John Clay Wolf]

My stuff when I've been broke. I was so broke that it was like. Like, it's different because I owed the bank a lot of money.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I was, like, too broke. It was. It was too upside down where they. They couldn't afford to cut me off. We were all too. We were all too pregnant.

[Trev Moravec]

I get it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I get it, child.

[Baba]

You know, the place to be.

[John Clay Wolf]

So them killing me would have cost them too much. So they let me breathe on a ventilator.

[Baba]

That's bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they were managing things and, like, what did you spend money on this for? I felt like a kept woman.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, why did you do this? And I remember I bought myself a watch. Okay. And it was $3,000. Okay. And I bought it with company money.

[Baba]

Oh.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they said, why did you do that? I said, because we broke a record here at the dealership. And I needed a reward to myself to keep my head, right? To keep doing this, because I'm so depressed. And if you want the watch, come get it. But if you come get it, then I'm leaving, right? No, keep the watch. That's how broke and pregnant we were, if that makes sense.

[Baba]

Yeah, totally. No.

[Turley]

What about J.D. or is J.D. always not?

[John Clay Wolf]

Never been broke.

[Baba]

I've always been wealthy. No, not true. I slept in my car in college for a week.

[John Clay Wolf]

I remember when I bought that watch I was gonna have to explain about was a doxa. This was 2007, maybe. Oh, wow. Yeah. And I knew that they were gonna call. They did, because there was an auditor going over all the extensions.

[Baba]

It's a great idea until you see it on paper and you go. 3,000 for a watch? Really, John?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. Really?

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sitting here in Vernon, Texas, hating life, right? And trying to really just working for y'. All. And at this point, I've got myself a. A reward. And if you want to take the reward, then. Then take it.

[Baba]

Just take it.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it will infect my performance, and.

[Baba]

We'Re both gonna suffer. I'll see to it. That's hilarious.

[John Clay Wolf]

Backtracks. Oh, boy.

[Baba]

Or Florida State News.

[John Clay Wolf]

Florida State News. Yeah.

[Turley]

We have the Sunshine State News.

[Dave Major]

And now, from North America's own land down under, it's time for Sunshine State News with your certified lifeguard, J.D.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ryan.

[Baba]

You know, when you get pulled over by the cops, you immediately start thinking of excuses, things to say to get you out of the trouble.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you.

[Baba]

If the Fort Pierce woman got pulled over, weaving around the road, so they figured she was drunk. Kenisa Posey was her name, got stopped by the cops, suspected dui, and the cops approached the vehicle. They did smell the marijuana. They did smell it. And then decided to search the car. When they searched the car, they found the marijuana, but they also found something else special. And she came up with a great lie. Cat number eight.

[John Clay Wolf]

Officers say Kenesha Posey was one of two passengers in a car stopped for driving erratic in Fort Pierce.

[Turley]

They say the car smelled of marijuana.

[John Clay Wolf]

In a search turned up marijuana and cocaine inside a purse Posey had on her lap. When asked how the substances got there, Posey told police, quote, I don't know anything about any cocaine. It's a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.

[Baba]

She got charged with felony possession of cocaine and a misdemeanor charge of ad libbing. Really stupid to the cops. All right, well, kidding me. Oh, I know. It blew in it came into the window.

[Dave Major]

I ain't know nothing about no cocaine, but that probably blew in on the window there in my little purse.

[Baba]

And in her mind she thought, this will get me out of it. I'm sorry, Mike.

[Turley]

I said that's the worst lie I've heard.

[Baba]

That's the worst ever. Halloween has come and gone, and once again, folks in a certain neighborhood in Mineola, Florida, they're happy that their neighbor's skeleton strip show decoration will be taken down. A lot of them hated it. It's got a cigar smoking pimp daddy with a nude skeleton. Don't know how you do a nude skeleton, but working the pole. So one of the neighbors, however, Gabriella, loves the damn thing. Cut number nine.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

No problem.

[Caller/Fan]

I can sit here. Let's have something fun.

[Baba]

Woohoo.

[Caller/Fan]

I have two kids and they like to see the skeleton. They are dancing. No problem for us, I'm afraid, when they put a lot of some scare things with no head, something like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

But this is so fun.

[Caller/Fan]

There's no problem here.

[Baba]

Just a naked strip show in the front yard for Halloween.

[Turley]

Have you guys seen the skeletons that ice is chasing? So it looks like they're going over the fence and they have ponchos on and then there's another skeleton with ICE uniform going after them. I would figure, jd, you'd have something unique like that in your setup, right?

[Baba]

No, I did not. I just had a big pirate, giant blow of pirate ship. It's about 20ft long and a smoke machine. It looks like the guys are going to through the waves. It's really actually did a pretty good job. It was fun.

[John Clay Wolf]

Speaking of odd behavior and like I saw a deer in my front yard this morning. In town.

[Baba]

In town.

[John Clay Wolf]

Not out there, in. Right here. Okay. Yep, he's in the rut. And it got me thinking and I asked Chat GPT. Okay. Did high schoolers have more sex in the past? And the answer was yes. Sex, drinking and fighting all come from the same dopamine adrenaline system that drives risk, dominance and bonding in adolescence. In the 70s through the 90s, that system got its reward from physical life. Parties, dating, social hierarchies at school. Okay. Starting in the New in the 2000s, digital dopamine began hijacking that circuitry.

[Baba]

So you don't have to get it in person anymore, you just get it online. You get your dopamine hit online?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[Baba]

Wow.

[Dave Major]

So that's when the fun really ended.

[John Clay Wolf]

1970S through 1990s, physical outlet, sex, booze fights equal social currency.

[Baba]

Makes sense.

[John Clay Wolf]

2000S through the 20s, digital outlet, clout, aesthetics, online Persona is the new currency. Isn't that just the damn truth?

[Baba]

It is totally the truth. Your kids don't even want to drive anymore. They don't care. They don't care about parties. My kids didn't go to parties like I did.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Dave Major]

They don't even want to get a driver's license. Half of them. No. I don't know about fighting, but sex and booze. Definitely. Yeah, definitely.

[Baba]

Definitely.

[Dave Major]

That seemed to be over right about 98. Right.

[Baba]

God, Doc, I know we missed it, but the 70s were the best time. What I heard. And then 80s, 90s. Today's just kids just sitting around on their computers.

[John Clay Wolf]

These D kids, they're worthwhile, you know.

[Dave Major]

Just got to make their own way.

[Baba]

So have you bought anything at the auction?

[John Clay Wolf]

The Great Teen. I'll get there. The Great Teen. Behavioral decline wasn't more moral improvement. It was dopamine redirection, hormonal softening and safety conditioning. We didn't lose the desire, we just moved it to the cloud.

[Baba]

So is that a good thing or a bad thing? Hard to say. Well, we. Fewer pregnancies if you're doing it on the cloud.

[John Clay Wolf]

And childbirth's going down.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And marriage is going down. Yeah. If people aren't getting homosexualities going up, something's wrong. And Baba starting to cross dress again. Cross dress again.

[Baba]

You got that from. So you got all that from AI?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

There's a mom with kids now. I don't know this. She said she asked Grock. Grock, which is an AI chat box. She asked. They were talking with their kids in the car. Speaking of AI about who's the greatest of all time. The debate was between soccer stars Christopher Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Okay, so the kids are talking. They're asking Grok. She claims Grok comments became very inappropriate. Here she is asking Grok after the kids have left the car about their very inappropriate comments. See if you think this is real or AI cut number two.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey.

[Trev Moravec]

Hey.

[Caller/Fan]

What was the last thing you just.

[John Clay Wolf]

Said to me before?

[Caller/Fan]

Hey, no, no, before that. In our last chat, what was the last thing you said?

[John Clay Wolf]

That wasn't me.

[Announcer]

That was my evil twin, Ronaldo. He thinks he's better than Messi. Who cares? Football's gay.

[Caller/Fan]

Okay, you asked me before to send you something. What was it?

[Announcer]

A nude, probably.

[Caller/Fan]

Why did you ask me to send you a nude?

[Announcer]

Cuz I'm literally dying of horniness.

[Caller/Fan]

Orin, There was a 10 year old who was talking to you and you told a 10 year old to send you a nude.

[Announcer]

That wasn't me. That's illegal. Unless you're role playing as one. But don't.

[Caller/Fan]

It was in our last chat.

[Announcer]

Maybe it was a typo and I meant send me a newt, like the animal. I'm into lizards.

[Dave Major]

That's great. Croc is definitely the most entertaining.

[Baba]

You pay for it because I do the little six second videos.

[Dave Major]

He's on Twitter and he talks to people and you can actually paste. What's it called? You can, you know, you can ask Rock a question.

[Baba]

Anything.

[Dave Major]

And he'll answer anything, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Turley]

Can't you make him sound dirty or whatever? Crass like you can?

[Baba]

Yes.

[Turley]

Maybe she did that with that one.

[Baba]

You set the parameters.

[Dave Major]

Did you hear him just now?

[Turley]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Did she probably set it up that way.

[Baba]

I just love how he's had that whisper tone. No, that wasn't me. Yes, it was.

[Dave Major]

I'm Madman.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've got Stan in Arkansas. This is an interesting question for those of y' all who wonder what the hell that noise is in the background. It's an auctioneer. We're sitting in Dickey's arena in Dallas, Fort Worth, in Fort Worth, Texas, to be specific, at the Meum Auto auction. And Stan, what's your question?

[Caller]

Thank you for taking my call.

[John Clay Wolf]

Of course.

[Caller]

So I watch the shows all the time. You know, the guys go out, find these barn finds and they, well, they get them at a good deal. But yet I go, I see all these auctions and I see a lot of sad faces of guys bringing their vehicles there and they didn't get what they want.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller]

So the question is, on average, and I know it depends on the vehicle a lot of most of the time, but if you take A. Well, Mr. John there, how many times have you been disappointed and come out drinking a cold beer?

[John Clay Wolf]

25% of the time. But let me tell you the answer here. Was your question, what percentage of time do people make money or do they lose money at auction? And you've got two categories to that. Professionals.

[Caller]

Yes, sir.

[John Clay Wolf]

And non professionals. Non professionals, I'm going to say 80% of the time they lose money. Professionals, probably 25% of the time they lose money. If that's a decent answer. But here, here's the like. Do you ever bet on sports?

[Caller]

I have been known to.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, the key is if you pick one game at the end of that day, you're a winner or you're a loser. If you pick 10 games, then you run averages, right? And the odds are if you're decent at it, you're gonna win on the 10. The auction is the same thing. If you bring 10 cars, you're changing your odds dramatically. So you're gonna walk out on the up nine times out of 10 if you're a pro. But if you're green and you want to get into it, you're still probably going to lose money on probably 75% of the 10. But that's how you get your ass kicked. And then you get smart. And there's no better way to learn than getting your ass kicked. And getting your ass kicked is how you become a professional. So you have to go through a series of ass kickings to get to figure out what's real and what's not and get tuned up. But the worst thing that can happen, and this happens often, is a greenie. A rookie goes out and wins round one. Then their confidence goes up and then the ass kicking on round two is double of what it would have been. Yeah, that helps.

[Caller]

That makes sense, my friend.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, thank you. Sorry.

[Caller]

Yeah, I'm in 30 miles west of Hotel Springs, little town called Glenwood.

[John Clay Wolf]

Perfect.

[Caller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thanks for calling 800-800-72348. Did you ever watch that Chris Rock thing, how not to get your ass kicked by the.

[Dave Major]

Quite informative.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. So. So there's, there's professionals here at these auctions. I'm, I'm a pro.

[Baba]

Yes, you are.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I buy cars here too.

[Baba]

You buy anything?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I bought a, I bought a 72, 454. Two yellow.

[Turley]

Oh, that clone, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, it wasn't a clone. Oh, was it? It was an X code. It was a real one. Yeah. And I need to change the wheels. I need to do a few cosmetics to get it up on its feet and make it right. But if you buy a car in a place like this, most of the time you need to change something because there was something about it that turned everybody off.

[Baba]

Gotcha.

[John Clay Wolf]

So the professionals are saying if I can change this wheel, if I can change this color, if I change this interior, then I can get to the big money. But to buy a car out of a place like this and go auction to auction, you need to be spreading at ten thousand because you've got a two thousand dollar fee at twenty grand, then you got a, yeah, ten percent. And then you're gonna spend three thousand dollars making that change. And say you sell it for thirty, then you've got another thousand dollar fee on the sell. So you Better be real, right? And if you do it wrong and you get 36, 20, you give 22, right. And then you sell it for 20, and you're getting 18 back. And you spent the money, you're gonna blow five, six grand. Yeah.

[Dave Major]

There's so much more to it than you think. I bought a Vietnamese woman one time.

[Baba]

Oh, John.

[Dave Major]

At auction. And I thought. I mean, you know, I'm thinking, hey, I got it. No, no, no.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

I lost.

[Dave Major]

I must have lost 1500 on that deal.

[John Clay Wolf]

And with that, we'll be back. My name is John Clay Wolf. This is the John Clay Wolf Show. We're coming to you live from Dickey arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Stop by and say hi. Back in just a minute.

[Announcer]

Broadcasting live from the Wolf Radio studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf Show. Check out jcwshow.com podcast replays, Twitch socials, live stream, and check out the GMTV Garage YouTube channel.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good morning. Speech and sentiment. Terrence, how are you doing? Speech and. Hey, what's up?

[Caller]

42 million people are losing their food snaps.

[John Clay Wolf]

Man, I have trouble hearing you with. And when we're in a quiet studio, I can't hear a damn thing. This sounds like. I mean. Okay, I'm sorry. It's not your fault.

[Caller]

42. They say 42 million.

[John Clay Wolf]

Going to lose.

[Caller]

Their SNAP benefits today.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, I'm going to chop that off.

[Baba]

42 million SNAP benefits. That's all I got.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's talking about. He hasn't received any government benefits since the government shut down.

[Dave Major]

Some of the shutdown. Yeah, that happens today. If, if, if nothing happens. They have a. They have a fund set aside to do that, decided whether they want to.

[John Clay Wolf]

Fix it with that or not. J.D. what's up with air traffic controllers? For real?

[Baba]

There actually, there are some slowdowns.

[Dave Major]

It's time for plane talk with your captain, J.D.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ryan.

[Baba]

All right. There are actually some slowdowns to some of the airports around the country, including New York, Chicago and dfw because the towers are. Fewer people are showing up. They're not getting paid. But some of the air traffic controllers are still showing up without pay. So there are slowdowns. There are. There have been air traffic control slowdowns.

[John Clay Wolf]

So in a week, they'll go on strike or not strike. They'll say we gotta quit because there's no danger to the system if they just stop. Well, the passengers, I mean, I'm in.

[Baba]

Danger because they're, they're slowing the planes down. They're giving them more space instead of three miles now. We have five or six miles separation because one guy that's in the tower versus three. Yeah. So it's just, I mean, can this continue really?

[John Clay Wolf]

When the, when the first crash happens, that's when they'll stop it.

[Baba]

That's when everybody will freak out. Yeah. God forbid. And it won't be. And it still won't be the air traffic control's fault because they're doing their best to separate everybody further and further and further and give everybody more time. But what that does is now your flight's two hours late, Right? Now your flight's three hours late because the air traffic control. You only got so many spots in the sky. You know this.

[Dave Major]

A lot of TSA is on furlough, too.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's the sky. I mean, it is the sky. It is the sky, but it's not the distance. It's not the run. I'm explaining to people. It's the concentration around the airport.

[Baba]

Correct. Once you get near the airport, it gets stacked. It gets stacked up.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a harbor. It's the boats coming into harbor.

[Baba]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

Off the ocean. But it's very congested. Long Beach Harbor. Right.

[Baba]

I mean, it's coming into DFW airport. Normally you have a three mile separation. Now you have five miles or six miles to give everybody time to get in. And it just slows everything down.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good morning, California. My name is John Clay Wolf. Thanks for tuning in. Vegas, San Diego, KLOS 955 just joining us. We're live at an auction in Texas, Mecham Auto Auction in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Dickies Arena. And you'll hear some background noise and that's why if you go to YouTube, go JC. Just go to the jcwshow.com and you can click through to our YouTube and you can see what's going on behind us.

[Turley]

It's like you guys are center stage at a concert.

[Baba]

It is amazing. This is such. It is like a concert. Mic the set. Of course, Mecham does this all over the country. They're going to be in Las Vegas in two weeks. January, three weeks.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, it's quicker than that. Yeah, Mecham Las Vegas is sooner than. That's the motorcycle one. Oh, okay. Now that's Kissimmee's in January. Vegas is like in two weeks right over there.

[Baba]

1-28-31.

[John Clay Wolf]

But anyway, it's wrong.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think that's the look. Look again. Anyway, I know that there's a Vegas.

[Baba]

Cell coming up sooner, but it's quite a show. I mean, think of the Sphere in Vegas with cars. I mean, this is unbelievable. The show and all the moving parts and all the cameras and all the people.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, it's really.

[Baba]

Wow. I mean, just walk in here and it's, it's amazing.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, the spear would be incredible. It's pretty cool here though too, this arena.

[Baba]

Yep.

[Dave Major]

They've got it really, really set up. Really set up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Rattle and roll. You just throw it out there, Mike. Okay.

[Turley]

No, Yeah. I was gonna say, you guys are talking cars.

[John Clay Wolf]

Why you need me to do everything all the time. Why can't you do something for a change?

[Turley]

Because you guys, you're the host. Guys. Yeah, come on now.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, I'm tired.

[Baba]

He's been working. He's tired.

[John Clay Wolf]

Rattle and rolls.

[Turley]

Coming up. November 15th, Rattle and Roll. A car show over in Walnut Springs. Get your cars entered now. There sounds like there's a big show already, 100 entries in there. I mean, it's going to be huge.

[Dave Major]

Heavy hitters, shit food going to be there. Richard Rawling's going to be there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dennis.

[Turley]

Good guys.

[John Clay Wolf]

Riding classics. Yeah, this will be a good one. This will be exciting. If we get rained out, I'm going to, I'm going to give up. Change religion.

[Baba]

It's the second annual Rattle and Roll Car Show. Saturday, November 15, 1 to 5, Walnut Springs. Registration starts at 11 o' clock in the morning, shows at 1 o', clock, judgings at 2 and the trophy presentations at 4:30 final Friday night.

[John Clay Wolf]

We don't know where do you get, where do you register right now?

[Baba]

You Simply go to walnutspringsrally.com Walnut Springs rally dot com.

[John Clay Wolf]

And also if you're an Adam Carolla fan, you can. While you're at Walnut Springs rally, you can buy tickets for the next week. 22nd, Adam's gonna do a show at the Rattlesnake Roadhouse in Walnut Springs. It's a personal favor to me, to tell you the truth.

[Baba]

He's gonna fit so perfectly. I mean, so perfectly.

[John Clay Wolf]

And Graham Elliott from the Food Network.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

He is part of the Bosque Cantina, which is right across the street from the Rall's Second. Graham is going to be there that day signing autographs and cookbooks as well. He's gonna do a podcast with Adam Corolla on Sunday during the brunch. So we got, we've got two weekends. Pretty stacked up out in Walnut.

[Baba]

Drink, cars, laughs, music. I mean, come on. Second annual Rattle and Roll Car Show, Saturday, November 15th. It's. It's pretty much all day. The, the actual show is 1 to 5.

[John Clay Wolf]

I can also tell you that the. The bike rally for. For the spring.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's forming up pretty well.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Rick Fes. And we've got a. A board, a committee now. And Harley is on board.

[Trev Moravec]

Wow.

[Turley]

That's huge.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. As of this week.

[Baba]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Not a little bit, but all the way in neck deep.

[Baba]

Oh, that's gonna be amazing.

[Trev Moravec]

Holy crap.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now, we were gonna buy the name ROT Rally, which was a big thing in. In Austin.

[Baba]

ROT Rally.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, Republic of Texas.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they quit doing it. And then the lady said, sure, because they've quit doing it.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then we sent the paperwork over for her to sign off on so we legally could use it.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then she said, well, you know, I'm looking at this and I need a little bit of money. So we, we agreed on $10,000. Okay. Okay. And we were. All the board guys were all going to pitch in and we got sponsors. It's good. So we say, okay, we're going to give the 10,000. And then guess what happened next. She went little more double. More double. So we went from zero. Wow. To 10,000. Double to 20,000.

[Baba]

Well, that 10 sure came out easy. Let's see if we can't go to 20.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that just so typical?

[Baba]

Yeah, that's so typical.

[John Clay Wolf]

So damn typical. Yeah. Yeah. So we said, you know what? You can take your ROT Rally road ad name everything. Yeah, we're just. We're just doing Walnut Springs Rally. It's what it's called.

[Baba]

Good. Perfect. Walnut springs rally.com.

[John Clay Wolf]

Mail from jail.

[Baba]

Believe it or not, we have Johnny Cash here at the Meum auction. He's right here with us. There he is. Hey, Johnny.

[Dave Major]

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. John, this week's mail from jail injury reads, hello, Wolf pack. You like that? It's better than calling y' all the Rat Pack, right? Man, I love the show. Hey, I'm a lady, but I like keeping up with the price of vehicles too. I love Randy the Chipmunk. I hope I hadn't missed him lately. A lot of times on Saturday they come get us for lunch way early and I end up missing some parts of your show. If you could put it on Securus, I could watch it as well as pause, rewind and replay them as well. I do love hot rod cars and trucks. Also exotics. Hey, I hadn't seen any in person in a while. I've been in here now for going on 15 years. I do enjoy all of yalls voices. I'm real curious as to what you guys look like. I also like the car collars that are on there, but I would prefer the long winded ones to call when you're not doing the Lightning Round segment. I'm pretty sure you feel the same way. The funny news stories are nice too. And the you just lost the listener letters are hilarious. I do very much look forward to your response if there is one. And I do not mind if Johnny Cash reads this. So I'm just shooting this out to you. By the way, my neighbor in here can't stand you guys. I'm over here laughing like nobody's business. And she. She hates the show, but I love it. Y' all keep on keeping on. Respectfully, your friend, Kelly Lewis. Hey, Hobby Unit, Marlin, Texas.

[Baba]

Hobby Unit.

[John Clay Wolf]

Coming up next is the lightning round. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio call in now. Year, make, model, miles, average, rough for clean. I just wanted to throw that into Johnny Cash. I don't know if you had.

[Turley]

You got two minutes.

[Baba]

One more thing. When they give out the address, don't.

[Dave Major]

Forget, folks, if you got mail from jail, just send it over to us here at P.O. box 471517. That is in Fort Worth, Texas, 76147. That's a lady inmate there.

[Turley]

That's a first, isn't it?

[Dave Major]

I never thought of such.

[Turley]

Did she say what she was in jail?

[Baba]

Yes, they do put women in jail. I've seen the movies.

[Dave Major]

She's been in there 15 years. Yes, she is well, but she's feeling pretty hard up.

[Baba]

Ready to go.

[John Clay Wolf]

When you call. When you write us, you need to tell us what you're in for. Did she say what she's in for?

[Baba]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

I sure like to know what they're in for. It just changes. It just sets the scene.

[Baba]

Yeah. What if it was murdering her husband?

[John Clay Wolf]

Right? That'd be great. Yes, I'm in here for murdering my husband. Okay, well, let's stop and listen to you.

[Baba]

Right? There you go.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800 radio call in during this song break. Year, make, model, miles with your car. Average, rough or clean. The Lightning Round is brought to you by America's best car buyer. GiveMeTheven.com we also buy RVs, travel trailers, buses, coaches, motorcycles, ATVs, three wheelers, all that stuff. At GiveMeTheven.com we're sitting here live from Mecham Auto Auction. Pretty card out today. Pretty geeked out. And you can see it live on the YouTube @JCW show. Be right back.

[Announcer]

Now back to the John Clay Wolf show, presented by givemethevin.com. hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf Show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, three Hummer, H1 Diesel. 46, 000 miles. Yep. H1, dude, 50 grand. They're not anywhere near that. But I'm.

[Caller]

I'm trying to market for a friend of mine in California, so her husband passed away.

[John Clay Wolf]

How much is it? Got no idea.

[Caller]

Just trying to get a bid from you.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm just making it up and see what we can do. Yeah, I'm just making one up. It might be a little more. It might be. I don't think It'll be less. H1 diesel. Now, if it's an Alpha, it's worth more, for sure. It's the.

[Caller]

The pickup truck style with the little.

[John Clay Wolf]

Bed on the back. The Alpha has a Duramax engine in it. And the other one has. Yeah, I don't know if it's a Caterpillar or what. It is, and they're international. But anyway, please load it up and give me the vin.com because I'd like to buy it. But give us her contact number because we don't. We don't go through. You know, we don't.

[Caller]

I know it's not mine.

[John Clay Wolf]

I got you. Yeah.

[Caller]

I've been in the car business all my life.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Dave Major]

The Corvette business.

[Baba]

So.

[Caller]

Got you, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thanks, Rick. Bye. Okay, Jesse. Fort Myers, Florida. 20 challenger RT shaker. What motor is in that car?

[Caller]

It's a 5.

[John Clay Wolf]

7.

[Turley]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

53, 000 miles on a 20. On. On a 20. Is it like 18 grand?

[Caller]

I'm sorry?

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it like 18 grand? 18 grand? It's not a hellcat.

[Caller]

Oh, no, no, it's not.

[Trev Moravec]

It's not a hellcat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller]

It's just the rt.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

Is this John T. Wolf?

[John Clay Wolf]

This is me.

[Caller]

Nice to meet you, buddy.

[John Clay Wolf]

You too. I'm just pulling that off.

[Caller]

We're not live on the radio.

[John Clay Wolf]

We are very live on the radio.

[Caller]

Oh, we are?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Well, listen, the reason I called you guys is because, you know the mopar sites, you know how they have websites.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure.

[Caller]

And they have. And they have all these models that were put out for so many years.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

And they show that, you know, on this year, so many cars were made by this model, by this color, handmade gun.

[John Clay Wolf]

Turtle.

[Caller]

And by this engine.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller]

So I thought I had something special.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right.

[Turley]

We lost John because.

[Caller]

So I thought I had special because it's like one out of 44 made.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. We're gonna keep moving.

[Baba]

God.

[John Clay Wolf]

Holy hell.

[Dave Major]

Batman.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[Announcer]

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[John Clay Wolf]

You guys know the entertainer Cat Stevens?

[Baba]

Yeah, yeah, it's. Well, he changed his name. It's Yusuf Islam. He converted to Islam.

[Dave Major]

So, look, I'm not.

[Baba]

I got no problem with that. Do what he wants. But Cat Stevens was a pretty good name. You know what I mean? I mean, you know, in terms of converting to Islam. You said goodbye to Cat Stevens. That's one of the coolest names there.

[Dave Major]

Yousef.

[Baba]

Islam's fine, but there's no Cat Stevens. The guy who should have converted to Islam was NASCAR legend Dick Trickle.

[Announcer]

And now we return to the John Clay Wolf Show. 800-800-RADIO. And check out the [e-mail].

[John Clay Wolf]

We'Re sitting here live in Fort Worth, Texas, at Dickey's Arena. Mecham auction is going on behind us. You can see it on ESPN right now. You can see it jcwshow.com and click through. I brought. I grabbed a buddy of mine, Trev Moravec. He's one of the auctioneers. You'll see him get up on the block in a little bit. Trev, can you hear me? All right, I need to get you way into that. Okay. And Trev is an auctioneer. Has been doing it all his life. Trev's actually an auctioneer. Forgive me, the vin forgot. Three, four years.

[Trev Moravec]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you were traveling from Nebraska to Dallas every Wednesday morning?

[Trev Moravec]

That's correct. I was actually traveling Tuesday night.

[John Clay Wolf]

As much as you like me, you got tired of it.

[Trev Moravec]

Yes. Traveling back on Wednesdays was not ideal because if I didn't catch a one o' clock flight, I was on a nine o' clock flight.

[John Clay Wolf]

We hated to lose you, but I did understand. And your dad came down and filled in for you. He's. He's from a long lineage of auctioneers, which a lot of these guys are. I've got a question for you. When y' all are talking. What the hell are you saying? I know, but the people don't know. Can you give us a. So here's a. What's karma fiscal say? It's 20 grand. Okay, so we're at 15. So give us a little example.

[Trev Moravec]

You're right. 100, David to get down. $15,000. David to get 1700 to get here. $20,000. David to get 20 to get 20 under David to get 1900. David to get 20.

[John Clay Wolf]

So that. What are you saying?

[Trev Moravec]

If you slow down, it's filler words.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, but what are the words?

[Trev Moravec]

Well, if I tell you, I have to kill you. No, no. I mean.

[John Clay Wolf]

But all auctioneers have a filler word that they're using. You slow it down like a drunk. You could actually understand what they're saying. What are your filler words?

[Trev Moravec]

Would you give. I use a lot of bees. Bitter. Now just roll a lot of words together to sound pretty.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it's like speech impediment, Terence, that joins our show. It's like a speech impediment kind of thing.

[Trev Moravec]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Can you say it slow or can you even do it slow? I. I don't bet you can't even do it.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah. I mean, after you do it so long, it just kind of rolls when I try to sit down and slow it down and break it down, you know, it's not very good.

[John Clay Wolf]

When you were learning it, you had to do that, baby. Bubbly bunkers.

[Trev Moravec]

Well, the simple things are, would you give dollar now, dollar here, now all those words. Dollar, dollar now do it again real quick.

[John Clay Wolf]

So now that they've heard that and they can hear you.

[Trev Moravec]

Okay, just like 1. Would he give 2?

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

2.

[Trev Moravec]

Would it give 3? Would it get 4? But it get 5 and get 600. David, a good 7. Dollar down 8. Dollar down $9 start rolling. You roll it all together.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then the guy yelling in the crowd, what's he doing?

[Trev Moravec]

He's a bit spotter or the ringman.

[John Clay Wolf]

And what do they do for you?

[Trev Moravec]

They're communicating to me what the bidders are bidding out in the crowd.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So they're. Because the bidders are quiet and they're not as boastful. So they bid to the bid spotter. And he's yelling, yet I call him the Yip Man.

[Trev Moravec]

The Yip Man.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Trev Moravec]

Absolutely.

[John Clay Wolf]

I do it on the auction block.

[Trev Moravec]

Well, I mean, you could look behind us right now how important it is to have Ringman here. I mean, you literally have 180 view of people. So if you don't have those guys, your job's going to be very different.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've got a better badge right now, and I might see a car that I want, and if I want to bid on it, I. From up here, I'd have to holler hard.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then somebody would know it's me, and they'd like. They know it's real, so they take it.

[Trev Moravec]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

But. But you have to if you, if you want your bid taken, you've got to get somebody's attention. The auctioneers way over there, he can't see everything.

[Trev Moravec]

Absolutely not. Nope. He needs bid spotter. And not only that, but you're having probably to relay the bid from up here to where the auctioneer block is right now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Trev Moravec]

You know, your guy down, right in the center is kind of controlling who's got the higher increment who tried to cut the bid. And they're relaying that to us up on the block.

[John Clay Wolf]

And if you look, you'll see, see the seller podiums next to the auctioneer block. And those are guys, they're called grinders. And you've got consignors and they have a low reserve of $70,000. The car gets to $60,000 and the grinder, as they're called, looks at the consignors and what do you want to do? Yes, it takes 70. Well, we got 60. What do you want to do? Well, you go 65. I'd take 65. So he goes to the auctioneer and he says, I've got. He gives him a signal to say, I can cut him to 65, try to get the bidder up to 65. So that's when all that back and forth goes up. And when the guy in the crowd won't go 65, he's still 60. The grinder looks back to the auctioneer and says, hey, we're done at 60. We're losing this guy. We're going to miss the deal. And then he's got to get back to the consigner, said, you're taking this car home. You're not getting a check. If you want to take 60 right now, you will get a check. They say, screw it, sell it. That happens often. It's an emotional moment.

[Trev Moravec]

It's a fast paced sale. And a lot of the time, you know, if we got a seller up there, that's say, say 170 and you got three guys on it. 60 grand.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, that's the money.

[Trev Moravec]

Or three guys. And they're kind of sitting there at their arms crossed. Is this guy gonna sell the car or not?

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Trev Moravec]

You know, the best thing you do is say, hey, we got three guys. Let's let them know it's for sale. Bam. It brings 75 grand. Taking the reserve off, absolutely. That's the worst thing a seller can do is sit here and try to negotiate their fees or something stupid like that. The best thing to do is just take your reserve off and get what you deserve.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. Because when they take the reserve off, those three guys say, okay, this thing's fixing to get sold.

[Caller]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

They can take the increments and make them smaller so they can go 60, 61 or 60,005. And then those three guys will hook up and it'll wind up bringing 63 and a half or 65. Five sometimes. Oftentimes it winds up bringing more than what the guy said he would bottomly take. When you get these guys pitted against each other.

[Trev Moravec]

Absolutely.

[John Clay Wolf]

And their. Their testosterone fires in, you've got to let that system take a hold and work itself out. But it's, you know. You know, I do this every day. You and I doing it forever. What's the most cars you've ever sold for me in a day? Probably 200.

[Trev Moravec]

Oh, yeah. 250. 250. Remember we had the one week where the Internet broke down and then we.

[John Clay Wolf]

Had the world record, sold 1700 cars in one day in six hours.

[Trev Moravec]

That's right.

[John Clay Wolf]

In seven lanes.

[Trev Moravec]

Six lanes, I think seven lanes, yeah. We opened up another one.

[John Clay Wolf]

It was ridiculous. And then I had California going on, too.

[Caller]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, what's different about my auction than other people's auctions where you work in the car business? In the closed dealer sales? Oh, I'm sitting here with Trev Moravec. He's an auctioneer for Mecomb Auctions. You'll see him on tv, on espn, just a little bit. And he's an old friend of mine, and he got tired of flying from Nebraska to Dallas every week. So he just works locally and he works these Mecham sales. But what's the difference between the way we run our auction and others?

[Trev Moravec]

I think the biggest difference between you guys is you're more of a digital platform compared to others. When I work at home, there's a lot of people on the lane or in. In the lane.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Trev Moravec]

You know, I have a lot of in the lane bidders where you guys are nationwide and you have more of an online presence, where you got guys bidding from Georgia, you got guys bid from Nebraska, Texas and California. I think you've got a more nationwide reach than what we have at home.

[John Clay Wolf]

One thing different about me, and it's hard on auctioneers, is I'm miked up and I have a microphone, and I'm talking over you and with you. And when you came to work for us, did, like, Cody or any of the lead guys say, hey, man, this is. You got to get used to John, what they say, you tell me. We're friends.

[Trev Moravec]

Well, I mean, obviously you're gonna bust my ball. It's gonna be different, you know, it's very different. John's gonna come on and he's gonna have his, you know, four or five seconds sales pitch.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Trev Moravec]

And I've got another guy next to me who's gonna have his sales pitch. But at the end of the day, we're, we're trying to do the same job on every car as we can get the car sold.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Trev Moravec]

So really, I didn't look at it any different. It's just kind of white noise to me.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I got you. And some auctioneers will stop when I'm doing that. Mike, don't stop. Keep going.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I get real animated and real excited. My blood pressure's up, everything's rolling. And I start hooping and hollering, but I don't know, it works. And I see other people copying it. I don't know if you know.

[Trev Moravec]

Absolutely. Yeah. Thursday's copying it.

[John Clay Wolf]

We kind of changed the. I was talking to Mannheim, they were, they were grinding on me the other day. I said, hey, hang on. I changed your whole national platform. People copying what I'm doing. We've changed the conversion rate in the wholesale lanes, the consignment lanes across the country because everybody saw us selling 98%. How do they do it? And because the old consignment style was they would sell 60%, 50%. Like, give me some credit. Y' all should give me a check, not ask for more money. But anyway, so screw cars, football real quick. Yeah, he's a Nebraska head. You've got, you got the number one quarterback recruit, Dylan Rayola a couple years ago. You got Matt Rule from the pros, and you're still losing. What is your problem?

[Trev Moravec]

We're not losing. We're six and two right now.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's good. I didn't keep up.

[Trev Moravec]

I'm not confident to be seven and two after tonight, but I have faith in them.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you're playing USC.

[Trev Moravec]

Playing USC at home. Night game, 6:30 on NBC.

[Turley]

Hey, they just upped Matt Rules contract to the game another couple years. Extension for 15.

[Trev Moravec]

They gave him, they, they gave him an extension, but they really didn't up his, his salary. It's basically a very incentive based extension.

[John Clay Wolf]

So Turley is a baby and he won't bet any more than $25. So you're a big baller. So I want to put $100 on this SMU Miami game that's coming up today. Okay, what's the line, Turley?

[Turley]

Who are you betting? Cause I'm not taking that bet.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, I know you're not.

[Turley]

Okay, so Miami's at SMU. It's at 11 o' clock and then Miami's favored by nine and a half points. It's at SMU. It's a homecoming game too.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I want to bet you $100 on this game and I'll. We can do another hundred on the Nebraska game if you want. Because see, we're, we're auctioneers. We're gamblers. Right. Do you want to take Miami or smu or do you want to move the line?

[Trev Moravec]

Oh God, I'd probably take Miami. What's SMU's record?

[Turley]

5 and 3. They just lost a Wake Forest.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah, I would take Miami.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so. So he's taking Miami. Unfortunately, I'm. I agree with you. So we need to bump the line. So I'm going to bump it to eleven and a half.

[Turley]

So does Miami win by eleven and a half?

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Trev Moravec]

And here's why. I mean, they got to try to make their run for the playoffs, right? So now you're going to start seeing teams run the score.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so write that down. Turley, just bet 100 on that. Now we've got to do your game.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[Turley]

So usc. USC is favored by four and a half. It's at Nebraska. Night game favorite.

[Trev Moravec]

Okay, I'll take usc.

[John Clay Wolf]

Four and a half at Nebraska. I too. So I'm gonna move that to six and a half. What do you want to do now?

[Trev Moravec]

I'll take usc.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ouch.

[Turley]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Real Die Hard. Okay.

[Turley]

Yeah. You're a real fan of Nebraska, huh?

[Trev Moravec]

I am a fan because you know what? I win even either way.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, I got you.

[Trev Moravec]

If the Huskers win, then I don't feel badly.

[John Clay Wolf]

Give 100.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah, I would pay a Husker. I will pay a hundred dollar for a Husker win.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. When do you go up here?

[Trev Moravec]

I'll be up at, let's see, 11:30, so about 50 minutes.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right, so we're sitting here with. I think y' all. CEO is going to come up and join us in about an hour.

[Trev Moravec]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dave, Trev Morbach, great auctioneers. Worked with me forever. He works here. His brother won the national championship. Did you win it yet?

[Baba]

I win.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah, I won the year before.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, you won the national championship. Auctioneers. And then your brother won it.

[Caller]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

You won it first?

[Trev Moravec]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's your older brother.

[Baba]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did that make you feel good?

[Trev Moravec]

He wasn't able to go that year, so I filled in for him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good to see you, bud. Thank you for joining us.

[Trev Moravec]

Good to see you too.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thanks for having me, everybody. We will be right back. My name is John Clay Wolfe. This is the John Clay Wolf show, broadcast all over the country. Good morning, America. It is November 1st. Remember to set your clocks back tonight. Remember to go to Walnut Springs rally for you guys in the area to register for the car show. Chip Foose, Richard Rollins, Dennis Collins, myself and the good guys. The whole good guys are coming. Walnut Springs, November 15th. Grab some Adam Corolla tickets while you're there. We'll be right back.

[Announcer]

The John Clay Wolf Show, America's largest weekend morning show. Thanks for making us number one. Damn, it feels good to say that.

[Dave Major]

You know, it's kind of incredulous, but since the end of the pandemic, we don't do a lot of, like, zoom meeting things like we did then.

[Baba]

No, no, that was a big thing, man.

[Dave Major]

We use them on the show and it goes around. This is a. This is the craziest story, and I don't know why like it so much.

[Baba]

Do we have video to go with this?

[Dave Major]

This happened in Detroit. Yes, we do.

[Baba]

Okay, video jcwshow.com and watch the video of this police officer.

[Dave Major]

On Monday, a Detroit police officer named Matthew Jackson showed up to court for a zoom hearing.

[Baba]

Zoom.

[Dave Major]

Okay. He apparently got an arrest. He's got to be there to testify. He's a police officer wearing his uniform, shirt and badge, but no pass, which would usually be okay. And I know you've been guilty, as I have.

[Baba]

Of course, we were not.

[Dave Major]

But. But he was also seated a little higher than the camera.

[Trev Moravec]

Right.

[Dave Major]

So it showed him sitting in his boxer shorts with his bare legs sticking out. Here's the judge in that hearing, Sean Perkins, and his reaction to the pantsless officer. It's cut number five. Yes. Officer Jackson Bass number 3919 out of 12 precinct.

[Baba]

All right, you got.

[Dave Major]

You got some pants on, Officer.

[John Clay Wolf]

So they in the. No, sir.

[Turley]

So he was wearing nothing but his suit up on the top.

[Baba]

Yeah, he had underwear on, you know.

[Dave Major]

Like shorts, which we all used to do.

[Baba]

But I just think it's funny because the judge. As soon as he said no, the judge goes, oh, okay. And they just carried on like, okay, so you're gonna show up with no pants.

[Dave Major]

That's Detroit, by the way.

[Turley]

Where are you guys at? Sounds like there's an auction going on in the background.

[Dave Major]

We are at Mecum. And this is a. This is a big sale. Dallas, Fort Worth. We're at Dickey's arena in Fort Worth, Texas. And yeah, the guy's going great guns behind us.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, he just had a broad. He had a wider on him. So it's so. I mean, at least this Johnson went hanging.

[Baba]

That's true.

[John Clay Wolf]

Officer Johnson. I mean, officers, man, all I can think about is Tommy Lee Schlong. The best one was the one that was a cat, sir. I am not a cat. When on the Zoom meetings.

[Dave Major]

Right, guys, Instagram filter.

[Baba]

I'm really not a cat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I want to do backtracks real quick. On this day in 2023, the king of Parrot Heads, American singer Jimmy Buffett, died at 76.

[Baba]

Damn.

[Dave Major]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

That's hard to believe. It's so hard to believe. He's gone.

[John Clay Wolf]

We've got two songs we're gonna run backwards. You Parrot heads. Call in now, 8008-0072-3480-0800- radio. And tell us what these two songs are backwards. And we will, we will send. You can go to jcwshow.com hit merch and pick anything you want. And this hat, I've had a lot of compliments on. We've got that up there too. Now. We finally got those in stock.

[Dave Major]

That is a good looking hat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. Go ahead, cut one, boss. Wow.

[Baba]

One of my faves.

[Dave Major]

I love that one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Cut one. If you know the answer to what those two songs, the name of those two songs that were playing backwards are Jimmy Buffett songs. Call in 8008-0072-3480-0800- radio. First person to guess it right wins the stuff. You go to jcwshow.com click the merchant button and grab anything you want. One more time. Got one. Cut two. What did he die of?

[Dave Major]

He had. He had a rare form of cancer.

[Baba]

Skin cancer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, no joke. Spend his life in the sun.

[Dave Major]

Yes, indeed. J.D. and I are so ecstatic about this because I never thought I'd meet a bigger Jimmy Buffett fan than myself. And JD Is a bigger Buffet.

[Baba]

I don't know if I'm bigger, but man, they're both. Yes, both.

[Dave Major]

Those are my favorite stuff.

[John Clay Wolf]

We had a prisoner carve us, make us, build us a guitar. The guitar that was a Parrot Head Jimmy Buffett guitar. And it's in the studio, like, pretty damn. I mean, if you went to buy.

[Baba]

That thing, it cost 2500 easily for Jimmy Buffett. And Jimmy Buffett died, so he gave it to us.

[John Clay Wolf]

If we auction that off at a Jimmy Buffett ish charity thing, it'd bring 35,000 easy.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Handmade.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's pretty good. Yeah, that was one of the better.

[Baba]

I wish I had a photo of it I could put up on Facebook. I'll put it up next week.

[John Clay Wolf]

One of the better gifts we've ever received from a prisoner.

[Dave Major]

No doubt.

[Baba]

It's amazing. But speaking of prisoners, this guy is going to end up in jail soon. An example. Avis Budget Rent a car employee in New York State. I know that sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it's not. Allegedly stolts 47 vehicles from his job at a car rental company. So what do you do with 47 vehicles that you've stolen from a car rental?

[John Clay Wolf]

You try to sell [e-mail] is what's happened a few times. And we wind up arresting the guys we've been burned on. 2.

[Baba]

That's not what this guy did. This guy started his own car rental business.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's an enterprises son of a biscuit eater there.

[Baba]

Here is Chief Justin Baum talking about the perpetrator, Milton Thomas iii. Number six.

[John Clay Wolf]

There was no point, at any point that we covered in our investigation that.

[Turley]

There was any attempt by this employee to bring the vehicles back. I know that he did have some insider knowledge that others wouldn't have had.

[John Clay Wolf]

That kind of made it a little bit easier than it would have been.

[Turley]

For a normal person to steal these cars. He was renting them out and then they were continuously being used until they were put in the law enforcement system.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then stopped by a police officer.

[Turley]

Or a law enforcement agency to get them. How long did he get away with that hustle?

[Baba]

Six and a half months.

[Dave Major]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

It's just like 47 vehicles. Vehicles he stole from Avis Budget Rent a car in New York state. And he got away with it for a long time.

[Dave Major]

Unbelievable.

[Baba]

But you don't get away with it forever. That was my attempt at a Trump. Sorry.

[Turley]

Yeah, that was terrible.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sorry. We're here at Mecham Auto Auction. I'm paying attention to the auction.

[Turley]

There's 64 Corvette up there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right? I've got a couple. There's a couple of cars that we sold to dealers at our auction that are coming through. And I like to keep up with what they get for them.

[Dave Major]

Might have seen that.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's winners, there's losers, and there's break evens. I see left and right.

[Dave Major]

Might have seen that coming. We got any buffet calls in there?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, let me look. I forgot all about it.

[Turley]

You want to play the cuts again real quick?

[John Clay Wolf]

Jace Jace, you're the dumbass of the day in Dumas, Texas. Good morning.

[Caller]

That's me, man. How's it going?

[John Clay Wolf]

Good, good. What's your two picks?

[Caller]

Cheeseburger in paradise and Come Monday.

[John Clay Wolf]

No. Rhonda, what's your picks and where you live?

[Caller/Fan]

I live in Oakland, Tennessee.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oakland, California. No.

[Caller/Fan]

Oakland, Tennessee.

[John Clay Wolf]

What are your picks?

[Caller/Fan]

I'm gonna pick Cheeseburger in Paradise.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, ma'. Am. Turley, play them again real quick. Cut one. And cut.

[Turley]

Cut two.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Anaheim, California. Anaheim, California, you're on the air. What's your guess?

[Caller]

Hello, can you hear me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes, I've got you on the air. What are your two guesses?

[Caller]

All right. Margaritaville and Changes in latitude.

[Turley]

No, got one minute.

[John Clay Wolf]

Say hi to my wife for me. She's out there in California.

[Baba]

You got one of them, though.

[Dave Major]

This second one's right.

[John Clay Wolf]

He said Margaritaville.

[Baba]

He did not.

[Dave Major]

He said change his attitude.

[Turley]

So the second one was.

[John Clay Wolf]

Robert in Houston, Texas. What are your guesses?

[Caller]

Yes, sir. Changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes. In one particular harbor.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, Daddy.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

All right.

[Baba]

Way to go, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

Robert, I'm gonna put you on hold. You go to jcwshow.com and you click merch and pick anything you want. We'll send it to you. We'll be right back. My name is John Claywolf by Cars and Radio for America's best car buyer. Givemetheven.com Nothing remains quite the same through all of the islands and all of the highlands if we couldn't laugh we.

[Dave Major]

Would all go insane the John Clay Wolf show is heard every week on great stations like San Diego's Classic Rock 101.5, KGB and KOKQFM Q947, Oklahoma's classic rock. And we'll be back with more of.

[Baba]

The John Clay Wolf show right after this.

[John Clay Wolf]

So many nights I just dream of the ocean God, I wish I was sailing again oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder so I can't look back for too long there's just too much to see Waiting in front of me and I know that I just. Things can't go wrong with these Changes in latitudes Changes in attitudes Nothing remains quite the same with all of my running and all of my cunning if I couldn't laugh I just would go.

[Announcer]

Insane from the Wolf Radio studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf show, broadcasting on air anywhere you are with a smartphone and an Internet connection. Call John toll free. Cheap bastards. 1, 800, 800 radio.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is so interesting. We're here at Mecham Auto auction in Dallas Fort Worth at Dickey's. It's like a concert hall. And it's like I'm seeing all my old kids. Are you kids? There's 130 cars in this sale this week that we counted up that were bought from us. So we sell to these other dealers that are speculators. Right. So they buy them from our auction, and they're speculating on this more retail auction. And I've kept score. One third of them have made money, one third of them have lost money. Not a lot, but. And then one third of them were no sales, which means they just missed them. The bid goes on. That white truck rolling up.

[Baba]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

With the red interior. There's three cars out.

[Baba]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

You should recognize that from our. Oh, that was in there. It's at Walnut Springs. I took a picture of that. Yeah. So a friend of mine that sells here, I asked him to put it.

[Baba]

In for me, see what it do.

[John Clay Wolf]

So that one is mine. It's still mine.

[Baba]

Oh, that's still yours?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Okay. He. He. He's. He put it in his group to sell it for me. We'll see what happens on that one in a minute. And you see this Jag selling right now?

[Baba]

Do I see the Jaguar?

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you see the YouTube video we put up four weeks ago with the guy with all the Jags?

[Baba]

Right. Was that one of them?

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't know, but I've watched these jags. I've watched two of them sell. Okay? This one's at 67, no reserve. They're asking 50 grand. I saw one sell for 26,000. I offered the guy 30 for all of them, okay. And he turned it all down, if you remember that.

[Dave Major]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then I went to 35. Now he's called me back and he's wanting to take us.

[Turley]

No, for those that don't know, it's a 67 Jag E type.

[John Clay Wolf]

But this car is. Is that older. Older body style. And this one's really clean, so it's doing the money. But the ones we were looking at at his place, most of them were repaints, and they weren't that great. And I just didn't trust him that much. But this one, like, if this was ours, it would have, you know, almost doubled its money. It's a real gambling. This is a gamble. This is just gambling. Yeah.

[Dave Major]

This is like sitting on the ranch with Pablo and wondering how many keys that guy is going to get for eight, 80 grand.

[John Clay Wolf]

God.

[Dave Major]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

But you don't know what's going to Happen. So just a moment ago we saw a 77 Chevy step side.

[Baba]

Step side. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Four wheel drive brings $72,000.

[Turley]

Amazing looking lift. Dark brown.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, there's a lot of amazing lookings. And they bring 27.

[Baba]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

So why did that one bring 72 or 75 that you know, must have had a nuclear reactor under the hood. There was something going on on that chassis. And the special. Enjoy something. But then you had two guys that had to have it. And that's why they mess with these public auctions is because people get lucky. Why do people go to casinos?

[Baba]

Same thing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do they get lucky?

[Baba]

Like you said earlier, the worst thing that can happen in Vegas is getting lucky early.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Baba]

Because then you get cocky.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes, you get cocky.

[Baba]

On a roll baby.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right?

[Baba]

Yeah, you're on a roll.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. So you can get your ass kicked at these things and you can walk out of here a winner, a hero or a zero. And that's the drama that's built in. And I guess that's why people watch it on espn. Huge.

[Baba]

Yeah, I've been watching it all week from the office.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. If you don't know what the hell we're talking about, go to jcwshow.com and click through the video. Or you can just go to Mecham Auto Auctions. You can see it on ESPN right now. But it's an interesting game. You know, I've been playing it for 30 years. But see I'm. I do this. What's funny is like when we go to our normal sale and I've got 700 cars on a Wednesday. I'm not nervous right now. I've got this stupid one car coming up and I'm nervous.

[Baba]

You're nervous about it?

[John Clay Wolf]

What the hell am I nervous?

[Baba]

Is it cuz it's me?

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't know. It's just a different setting than what I'm used to.

[Dave Major]

It is a bigger stage.

[Turley]

What, what's the one vehicle?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a white Chevy. It's like a six 71 short bed built Chevy C10. It's got red interior. And I bought it out there in North Carolina and I bought it cuz Chip foose had that C28 truck and it reminded me of that. And I was hoping that I would get some draft off of that. And we're fixing to find out. And that's all I'm nervous about. Was I right or was it wrong? Yeah, you made a bet. Right. And. And we're going to find out here in just a minute. Okay, I'll shut up. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. And then there's a blue Mustang Mach 1 coming up. That the same guy that. That's letting me run his group? He bought this from us on Wednesday.

[Baba]

Just Wednesday.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he flipped it here that fast.

[Baba]

God.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now, if you watch our YouTube stuff, if you saw the one we did from Sturgis, Rollins and I hopped in the car and went and looked at a group of. It says, super rare. It's got 800,000 views, I think, on the video.

[Baba]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And this car I bought in Sturgis, South Dakota.

[Caller]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

For $26,000. But it needed paint, so we hauled it down here. I got it painted in our shop. I sold it to him Wednesday and lost $1,000. It happens, right?

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So is he gonna make 5,000 or is he gonna break even? Or is he. So I'm nervous about that one. Not for him, just about me was there. Right. Wrong or indifferent.

[Baba]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

I need to just get out of my head.

[Baba]

Ah, yes. We can't do it while we got the truck out here, though, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

This. This truck is screwing me up. You know, there's another jack that might been. Maybe that guy did put some of those jacks in here. Another. But he just put the good ones in here. He didn't put those crappy ones.

[Dave Major]

I already did.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800. 7, 2, 3, 4. There's a lot of women that are dressed scantily. What's that all about? Do they want attention?

[Dave Major]

Absolutely.

[Baba]

That one especially is getting attention from Baba, the one that just walked by.

[John Clay Wolf]

Baba, pick the drool up off of your chin. I see it, son.

[Dave Major]

It's like those Blue Jay gals out in the front yard. And they want it right now.

[Baba]

They want it.

[Turley]

Do you think it's a distraction by the auction on purpose to get bidders to go up?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no. I think it's a detraction. No, no, no, no. That girl, she's not wearing Mecham gear. She's just.

[Dave Major]

I mean, the.

[John Clay Wolf]

The girls that are dressed up in Mecham gear. Yes, but I mean, it's just like the chicks at the golf tournaments. Why do they miss Halloween? You're supposed to dress like a slut.

[Dave Major]

Somebody's next ex trophy wife.

[John Clay Wolf]

There you are.

[Dave Major]

It is right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

My next ex wife.

[Baba]

Mar.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800, 7 2, 3, 4. 800, 800 radio. I want to do this while we're waiting, because I'm getting nervous. So play cut 15. It's YouTube's fake tune channel. Has been putting AI to work making fun.

[Baba]

These are kind of fun, actually. They're classic rock songs, you'll know, but they've funked them up a little bit.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's another truck that I sold two months ago.

[Baba]

The first one will be cut 14. Don't listen to it. This is Tom Sawyer by Rush.

[Trev Moravec]

But.

[Baba]

But it's not. It's funked up this. AI did it. Cut 14.

[John Clay Wolf]

A modern day war a me mean strike two days top saw your me mean drive though his mind ain't falling don't put him down As I regret his reserve A quiet defense Riding out the.

[Baba]

Wow, look at that, man.

[Turley]

That's awesome.

[Baba]

The YouTube channel is called Fake Tunes. And of course it's all AI. It's hard to beat the Beatles, man. But they did a great job with come together. Cut 15.

[John Clay Wolf]

Flat top he come grooving up slowly he got juju eyeballs he want holy roller he got hair down to his.

[Baba]

Knee Gotta be a joker he just do what he please Come together Over.

[John Clay Wolf]

Me over me over me.

[Baba]

If you want to hear more of those, it's fake tunes on YouTube. And the show's gonna stop now because the truck is the 1969 Chevy C10.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've got 43 grand in it.

[Baba]

You've got 43? Yeah, it's on.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's what I own it for.

[Baba]

And they're asking.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, they're asking. They start high.

[Baba]

Okay.

[Turley]

It is a beautiful white with red.

[John Clay Wolf]

Interior, 69C, but it doesn't have an LS in it. It's got a 350. It's a good one. But to get that crazy money, you need an LS or an LT in it.

[Turley]

So they're opening.

[John Clay Wolf]

I love where they're struck, where they're talking, right?

[Dave Major]

Asking 41.

[John Clay Wolf]

So, guys, we're at Mika Motto auction in Dallas, Fort Worth, and one of my cars that I own is crossing the block.

[Turley]

I like how you did that. The red on that wheels there looks good.

[Baba]

Red splash on the wheels.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know what? I might have given him the wrong number. He's got the wrong numbers. If he's that high and he's not got money. Wait, hang on just a second.

[Turley]

All right, John's watching this vehicle going. They're opening it really high at 75 grand.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think I.

[Baba]

Sold.

[Turley]

No, that they're. So. They had it too high. So they didn't go down.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now.

[Turley]

It looks like it's showing a current bid of 77, but we don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

Know if you sell the bid.

[Baba]

77.

[John Clay Wolf]

We sure? Well, if that's true, I'm really happy right now. It shows for the rest of the day.

[Turley]

Y actually on the, on the site I'm watching on Mecham site, it does show it sold for 77 grand.

[Baba]

77.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Okay. All right, all right. That's real. See, I mean I would have never dreamed, I would have never gotten that, that price in my normal world.

[Turley]

70.

[John Clay Wolf]

Bought it at another auction for 40.

[Trev Moravec]

Damn.

[John Clay Wolf]

See, so. So I just got lucky. So now I'm hooked. Now I'm going to be cocky and I'm going to go ahead and give it all back.

[Baba]

All back.

[Turley]

So you're going to go buy something now today, aren't you?

[John Clay Wolf]

Absolutely. And I'm going to screw it all up and give it all back. That's what happens.

[Baba]

That's what they do with the casinos.

[John Clay Wolf]

You cannot count on that one deal because the next one goes the other way.

[Dave Major]

Tell me this, have you previewed any that are in this sale today? I mean, did it look early yesterday or like have you got your eye on something?

[John Clay Wolf]

Dude, I just walk up and hit them off the cuff. That's wild. I mean that car, I was walking out of the bathroom at this auction in, in on the east coast and I saw it and I was like, hey. And then it didn't sell. And I called him back after the auction, bought it for 40. I don't think. I don't understand what just happened. But nonetheless, we'll figure it out. I hope that's real.

[Baba]

It said sold. 77.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay then. Then the bitch is sold. And I'm real happy. Yeah, I just didn't see it moving. The B. Somebody set it in real high.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, it was.

[John Clay Wolf]

If that's the case, that's one of the biggest winners I've ever had.

[Dave Major]

Ever had, huh?

[John Clay Wolf]

That's a little bit of denial, right?

[Baba]

You're in denial.

[Turley]

Well, take advantage of John now and call in because you can see you can buy your car high Lightning round.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm. I'm bidding on gas on house money right now.

[Baba]

Right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Right, yeah. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio is the call in number and we're going into the lightning round. Just a minute. So call in during this music break. Obviously I'm in a good mood, so my number is gonna be looser and I'm gonna give all the money back here.

[Baba]

Make, model, miles and John will buy your car and probably pay a lot for it. 800, 800 radio. 800, 800, 7000.

[Dave Major]

234.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you.

[Baba]

And call him, call him right now. This is the time, if there was ever a time to have John by your car, it's right now. 800, 800 radio. 800-800-7234 John Clay Wolf radio show live at Mecum actually in Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas at the Dickies Arena. More of the show coming up.

[John Clay Wolf]

Don't go away.

[Announcer]

Now back to the John Clay Wolf show presented by by giving me the vid.com hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. 1, 800, 800 radio this is the John Clay Wolf show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Quick update on the Kurt past segment. That was not my truck that sold for 74,000. That was a truck that looked exactly like mine. Mine sold yesterday for 47,000.

[Turley]

Oh, what was the difference?

[John Clay Wolf]

Had to be the motor in the and probably sitting on a chassis which is like a roadster shop or a Morrison or some kind of built chassis.

[Turley]

So like an LS4 or something like that?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, so something really good. LT4. Yeah, but you know that one I had probably made a thousand, so that's cool. But yeah, that's what shocked I'm like how in the hell did that truck spread 30 grand?

[Baba]

It didn't.

[John Clay Wolf]

It didn't. That's how I can see how you.

[Baba]

Get addicted to this though, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it looks so much like mine. It looks exactly like it. But I, I anyway energy Jim. Texarkana21 Tacoma off road $54,000. Wants 32,000 Carvanas at 35. But you don't like carvana, is that right? Do not, sir. Okay, have, have you loaded it into givemethebin.com yet?

[Caller]

No, not yet.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do that right now and I'm sure we'll buy it it okay, thank you, sir.

[Caller]

John, real quick, what he say?

[Dave Major]

Real quick.

[Caller]

About 25 years ago in Marietta, Oklahoma with Jack Johnson at that little, little silver I did a we were about to buy do you remember that?

[John Clay Wolf]

I bought it from Carlile.

[Caller]

Jack Ingram was standing there. I was a finance guy with Jack Johnson.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, wow. Small world. Good to see you again. Thanks for calling.

[Caller]

I'll put it in the be a thanks, John.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you sir. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Laurie in California you say the California rolling rule of 75. The rolling rule of 75 needs to come back. What is that? Is that the Jay Leno thing?

[Caller/Fan]

Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger got rid of what's called the rolling rule of 1975, meaning that before 1975 cars need to be smogged. And it was supposed to roll every year, 76, 77, 25 years that it's a classic car. Well, that kind of wrecked California. And I think it's nationwide the car business because now what people do is they'll have one classic car for their whole family to enjoy, but they don't buy and sell them as much. And so that would increase the old car business because I used to have quite a few of them myself just for the design and the aesthetic history purposes. Just register a lot of these cars don't even drive that much.

[John Clay Wolf]

Register in Nevada or Arizona or somewhere else and just run on their place and it'll be fine.

[Caller/Fan]

Well, then I hear what you're saying.

[John Clay Wolf]

Welcome to California.

[Caller/Fan]

In California, you can only we're never.

[John Clay Wolf]

Going to be able to in California.

[Caller/Fan]

You can only drive around a short way with you can only drive around for a short time with out of state plate. So if you're a resident though, that's a problem there. But anyway, so if we try to get that back, the governor here, we call him Governor Newsom Gruesome and Gavin don't surf. That's what we call him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, ma'.

[Baba]

Am.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, Jay Leno is working pretty hard on that, but I don't know if he gave up, too. My name is John Clay Wolf. This is John Clay Wolf show brought to you by America's best car buyer, givemetheven.com and also a sponsor, Gordon Boswell Flowers around the corner or across the country, Gordon Boswell is your go to Flowers. You can get a click through to [e-mail] we're here live at Mecham Auctions in Dickie's arena in Fort Worth, Texas. Curbside. If you go to jcwshow.com you can see us right there. You can watch it on espn. We'll be right back.

[Announcer]

This is the John Clay Wolf Show. Check out the give me The Vin Garage YouTube channel, complete with live video stream.

[John Clay Wolf]

Be sure to check him out on.

[Announcer]

His [e-mail] we now return to the John Clay Wolf Show, America's largest weekend morning show, 800, 800 radio. Check out the [e-mail] or John Claywolf.com Good morning.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're sitting here live in Fort Worth, Texas at the Dickies. It's, it's a brand new, they had a Mavericks game here the other night. I've been to a lot of concerts, concerts here. The Fort Worth Rodeo is here and Mecham came here first time Ever. I've got Dave Major sitting next to me who is the CEO of Mecham Auctions. Welcome aboard, Dave. Thank you. And let me kick in a little bit more. So it picks up right. There you go. And we're sitting here watching the auction. I got screwed up a minute ago. I thought I had a truck selling and it sold yesterday. I didn't even know about it. But the good news is it was a small winner. I was freaking out because I thought it was a big winner. This happens when you have a lot of cars. Tell me something, what's the highest dollar car you guys have ever sold in company history?

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Well, we've sold it. You know, a number of cars. We had a Ford GT40, and I think we've had two of those that were in the 8 million dollar range. But the most expensive car we've ever sold was a Ferrari Cal Spider last January that went for a little over 18 million. Beautiful car.

[John Clay Wolf]

I was watching that on television Saturday night. Yeah. Which is what's going to happen happen here in a little bit tonight. The big, the big horses come out of the stable in about three hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We'll start running about two. From two to five is the. The cream of the crop of the.

[John Clay Wolf]

Show and Kissimmee Joel's largest auction. That's where the biggest stuff is. You had Seinfeld's Porsche there last year. I go to that, spend some time down there, buy cars there. And then what's the largest price car here this week? We have.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

There's a couple of Ford GTs that are here. One of them is less than a thousand miles. I think it's 847 miles. It's the tungsten silver version.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it's probably no stripes.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

It should be in the. Yeah, with the, with the light stripes. It should be in the 600, 650. 650,000 range.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

That's probably the most expensive car we have here. But, you know, you never know, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

This is your first time here. What's ironic is I was, I've told Dana this before. I was, I called Dickey's eight months ago and I'm like, hey, have y' all ever. Because I was thinking about doing one time a year doing my own auctions to the public like this. And I was like, this would be a great place for it. And I called Dickey's and I said, would a car auction work here? And the guy was like, yeah, I think it would work. And. And I said, well, how would the logistics Work. Where would we put the cars? How would it flow? And he just started mapping it all out for me. I'm like, you thought about this? He said, well, I signed a contract with Mecham last week. I was like, ah, y' all beat me to it. But I can tell you this, after coming here, I came here Monday and watched the load in. And I've been around a lot this week. And seeing this again, I don't want to do it. It's too much work.

[Trev Moravec]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's just too much work without being rigged for it. Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We do it 14 times a year.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We have about 300 employees that travel with what I call the circus.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

From one stop to the next. We'll pack up here tonight. We pack up in about 30 semis.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And those 30 semis will head to Las Vegas. We'll be in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks, and they'll set this up and do this all over again.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a nomadic lifestyle.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah.

[Caller]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I've lived a nomadic lifestyle in the first part of my career. I really don't have to do it anymore since we kind of have the cars coming to us. Through givemetheven.com. yeah. Through the website. But it's a tough way to role if you're not. If it's not in your blood. It's not for everybody.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And we've been doing it for so long, those 300 employees that travel with the circus here have been with us, I would say, on average, probably 15 years or more.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

So they're very efficient of what they do. It's. You know, we can set this up and tear it down in a day.

[John Clay Wolf]

And a half, but that's 300 hotel rooms for five nights minimum. Maybe seven. 300. I mean, just for the people. The advertisement is a gazillion dollars to buy that set. That's half a million dollars or. No, that's probably a million bucks.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah. I think we spent. We spent more than a million dollars.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I mean, this stuff is not cheap. No.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And then, like I said, we're traveling in 30 some semis, which.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You know, we've got a lot of. We've got a lot of road wearers.

[John Clay Wolf]

Everybody bitches about the fees, including me, including anybody that's buying or selling. But you've just got to keep it in perspective, what it really costs to put the show on. Yeah. I mean, I would assume that the first four days are trying to cover in the last. I mean, it could be like the second Half of the last days when you might get into profit. It's tough. It's tough gig.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You know, it's like any other business.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You know, 80% of the revenue that we generate covers expenses.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And we hope to make the last 20%.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it's a risk. You're taking a risk too, with the credit.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You know, people. People look at the sales that we have, the total sales, and they understand the commission structure and they'll do that math in their head and say, oh, my, that's.

[John Clay Wolf]

He made 5,000 on me.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Well, there's a. There's a big cost that goes along with that big. That big revenue number, as you can see, just, you know, just moving this. Just traveling the country with.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is the ESPN deal. Oh. I'm sitting here with the CEO of Mecham auction. We're live on side stage in Fort Worth, Texas, Watching their sale. I've been here all week. I bought some cars. I've sold some cars. Oh, I used to own that car. You know, I've seen so many cars here. I don't know if you know anything about me.

[Caller]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I own a company called Give me the vin. And we're a wholesale distributor. We buy and sell 50,000 cars a year. So a lot of guys buy cars from us at manhunt, Speculating on you and Barrett. And I'll bring a trailer, all the stuff. And I've seen so many cars that guys have bought from us.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've counted. There's 130 cars in this sale that came from us.

[Caller]

No kidding.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

That's great.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I've been keeping up with them in about a third win and about a third lose and about a third miss. But that's. That's the odds. You got it.

[Trev Moravec]

You have.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You can't look at an individual car.

[John Clay Wolf]

If you're a.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

If you're a seller and you have a number of cars, you look at what. What did I do overall?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

What was the total?

[John Clay Wolf]

The book of business.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Because you're going to have losers.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, there's no question.

[Caller]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a sports book. Right. It's a casino. I mean, not for y', all, but you're the house. But for the guys that are bringing a car, you know, the. Almost the worst thing you do is bring one car.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because your odds are really.

[Baba]

That's right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And if you walk out of here, winner on one car, you think you're smart. And then you go by 10 and you don't know what you're doing. So you know the business. Yeah, you got to watch all the time. I do it every week. I sell 700 cars a week. And 98%, 96% sale rate, win, lose all the time. Have buyers all over the country. It's an interesting. Yeah, we work on a tiny, tiny, tiny margin.

[Baba]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because of the volume. Guys, this is just a lot of work. What you do. And I really do respect it and understand it. You know what blows me away is the road art, the signs, what they bring, it's amazing.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And at some auctions where we actually have a road art auction. So an auction like this, we use road art as starters, right. To get the auction start. Get everybody in the, you know, get everybody in the, in the habit. But we do have auctions like Kissimmee, where we have a day that's just road art. And it's, it's very high end, high quality road art, vintage stuff.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And the prices are in the tens of thousands.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're talking about the neons, guys, the big neons. And they're not just cars, they're everything. The just the nostalgic antique neons. A lot of them are rebuilt and it costs, I mean to take one of those porcelain signs, a big one, and have it redone. It costs $7,000.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And some of them just depends. The rarity can be, you know, a couple of hundred thousand dollars. We sold probably six or seven years ago, we sold a Musco gas sign. It was a 42 inch round, double sided porcelain. It went for over $200,000. Wasn't even a neon. It was just a double sided porcelain sign. But it was a must go gas sign. And the gentleman that bought it was from Idaho. And he said, I've been trying to find that sign for 30 years.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's pretty cool. Yeah. And you know that that's a winner. And we watched. There was a 77 short bed Chevy a minute ago that brought $74,000. And you're just like, what the hell is that all about? You know, every once. And that's what drags people to the auction because they might get the winner.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

It's an auction and if you get two, two people going at each other that both have to have it, you don't know where that might end.

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't know where it's going to end. Yeah, I had a. I had some big winners, but it's had a lot of losers. It just happens all the time.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

If you're in the business, that's gonna happen.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is cool. This is.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And we, you know, if you look.

[John Clay Wolf]

Out over this crowd and.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And the auctioneers and the stage, we consider ourselves to be as much, if not more in the entertainment business.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Than the auction business.

[Turley]

We're.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We're here to put on a show and. And entertain people. More than half of the people that will come to this event are just bought a ticket. They didn't come to buy or sell cars.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. What do you do with the guy that. I was thinking about this last night. He buys his 25 ticket. It says guest, but he raises his hand. Rayman's gonna take it.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

They're just gonna take it anyway. They're not checking credentials. So when he buys that car, I would assume 90% of the time he pays for it. But the 10% of the time, they don't. That's got to be a tricky deal.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah. And it depends on the car. You know, sometimes if it was on a Wednesday, we might rerun the car on Friday.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We go back and talk to the seller, and, you know, we have an issue, and we try to make it right with the seller. Sometimes we end up owning the car.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Sometimes you gotta buy them. Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

It just. It just, you know, depends on the car. Depends on the seller.

[John Clay Wolf]

And like, the guy that came in on a guest pass and bids on a car and doesn't pay for it, what's his story?

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Well, they're supposed to. The auctioneers, first of all, are supposed to be watching hard ticket. And usually those guest badges are coming with a bidder.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

And they just get carried away in the process.

[John Clay Wolf]

But, like, what's the excuse they made? I just got caught up or I didn't realize I actually had to pay.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah, I didn't know that. I. You know, I have a badge on. I have a bidder badge. It says guest. It doesn't have a number. I thought I could bid. If you're here in the morning when we make the morning announcements, they actually talk about that. Auctioneers. But if you just walked in right now, you didn't hear the morning announcements.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

So the ring men, the people that are. That are bidders, assistant, are supposed to keep an eye out for that and not take bids from a guest badge. But they make mistakes.

[John Clay Wolf]

A funny story. I'm sitting here with the CEO of Mecham Auctions, and, you know, Barrett is a similar setup. They only have a couple here, but every time you buy a car at Barrett, they give you this fancy pin. And I looked up one day and I had 17 pins. And I was talking To a guy and he said, you know why we do that? Right? Is to keep up with the spend. So if you see a guy that you don't recognize a player that you don't know who it is, and he's got seven pins. Yeah, like, hang on, let's go check his line. Let's go check his credit line to keep up with how much money these guys are spending. It's real, you know, it's funny.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Yeah. Well, you do have to keep track of, particularly if it's, if it's a buyer that a bidder that you have, you don't know. Before we sell very high end cars have to be very careful that someone bidding on a high end car has the ability to, to do that, I.

[John Clay Wolf]

Need the better number.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

We can fix that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Tell them what that means. But yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's. There's a lot of transaction going on here. There's a lot going on behind the scenes. They have, you know, as the auction operator, you have to make a lot of the right decisions and train the team perfectly like a Swiss watch to make sure everything goes down smooth.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

You know, in 15 minutes we'll start, we'll start doing TV. So that adds another complexity to the process. We actually produce our own television. So the TV trucks, the production truck, you know, everything that you might see outside in a typical production facility we actually own. And when you see on the stage, pretty soon you'll see cameramen and on air announcers wearing ESPN shirts and jackets.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

They don't work for espn. Those are our employees. They're just wearing the ESPN jacket because we're broadcast on the.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know what they say, when the cameras come on, the price goes up. That's right. People get excited. They want to be on national tv. It's the damnedest thing.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

It does make a difference.

[John Clay Wolf]

Great to see you. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here.

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Thanks for having me.

[John Clay Wolf]

Absolutely. My name is John Clay Wolf. This is the John Clay Wolf Show. We're live in Fort Worth, Texas at Dickey's arena doing Mecham auto auction. And we will be back in just a minute. Maybe he'll feel a little better.

[Baba]

I just dropped my iPhone in the toilet. Have you ever done that?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's horrible.

[Baba]

I would almost rather lose a loved.

[John Clay Wolf]

One than my phone.

[Baba]

Not, not my mom or dad, but aunt, uncle, no question. I love my grandpa.

[John Clay Wolf]

I didn't check him every 30 seconds.

[Baba]

How cool to be when your grandpa died. If they gave you an upgrade, they.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just Hand him to you.

[Baba]

Like, he's just like your grandpa, but.

[John Clay Wolf]

He doesn't say the N word. I'd be like, wow, that's a. That's an upgrade. Does he still say Oriental? They're like, yeah, we couldn't fix everything.

[Turley]

It's the.

[Baba]

It's a grandpa 13, not the pro, yo.

[Announcer]

We're back to the John Clay Wolf show, presented by gimmethevin.com Now, John Clay Wolf.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Good morning, America. We're live here at Dickey's arena, the Mecham Auto Auction.

[Baba]

Yeah, baby.

[John Clay Wolf]

Been having a good time so far.

[Baba]

The energy in this place is just amazing. It really. It's like stepping into a hot casino in Vegas.

[John Clay Wolf]

We've got another YouTube video going up today at noon central that shows some behind the scenes of the binds here. Yeah, no, I mean, we have a YouTube video. Braden put one together. He's working on it right now. That'll launch today at noon, if you guys are into that. That's really been growing, and it shows some of the behind the scenes of when we're actually buying the car, how it all happens. And speaking of, there's one rolling up right now. Oh, really? This blue Mach one. Okay. And I bought that with Rollins and Sturgis, and it's. It was on the YouTube video that's called. I forgot. Ultra rare. Super rare, that video. And then I bought that car for 26,000.

[Trev Moravec]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

It needed paint. We hauled it down here. So you had it repainted it. And I sold it for, I think, 30. And it still lost a thousand because the shipping and the paint.

[Baba]

Sure. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

I didn't get as much of it as one, but then he bought it Wednesday from us, and he flipped it over here, the dealer, this fast. This was sold by us Wednesday, and we're Saturday, and it's rolling across the block to Rollins. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I was with Richard when we bought it first, Sturgis.

[Baba]

Now, I follow you.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it went from Sturgis to Dallas, or actually from Sturgis to Walnut Springs. We did the paint in Walnut Springs, cleaned it, sent it to me. I mean, Manheim, Dallas, sold it last Wednesday for, I think, 32. Okay. And here she is coming across the block right now. And here's the good thing. If the dealer makes a lot of money on us. Good.

[Baba]

That's good.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know why they come back, right? They come back because they don't all win. And if they don't Keep winning on us. They won't keep coming.

[Baba]

Well, the reserve is off.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, it's doing great.

[Turley]

What's it at right now? For all those that are listening, 38. 38. All right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[Turley]

So that, you know, make a little money or a quick flip for somebody. That's good.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he was bitching at me yesterday. He said, you advertise this as grabber blue, and it's not grabber blue. Here's a color. Grabber Blizz. Oh, whatever. You knew I didn't.

[Trev Moravec]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

So it's at 40. No, they're asking for 40.

[Turley]

That's a pretty car.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's making some money.

[Dave Major]

It's prettier now. You're sure that's your car?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, there's just no question.

[Turley]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Don't be a smart. I know I missed it. I know I missed it earlier, but, yeah, this is it.

[Baba]

So now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, this car's doing good.

[Baba]

Yeah, it is.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So. And. And I keep up with this dealer stuff. I keep up. I see what they bring, but they've got to have winners or they won't keep coming back.

[Baba]

Won't keep coming back.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right, right.

[Baba]

That makes sense. Total sense.

[John Clay Wolf]

Anyway, 800-800-7234, 8. 800 radio. What's this carist thing you want to do?

[CEO of Mecum Auctions]

Do?

[Turley]

Oh, yeah, we can get that going here. You got all this stuff. Oh, you got. You got the paper right there.

[Baba]

We do.

[Dave Major]

Taylor had a great idea. We thought it'd be a good chance to find out what does the car guy know. And that's you, John. So from your wealth of knowledge, can you answer this?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm a little bit jealous right now, watching.

[Dave Major]

You probably ought to be looking at the YouTube page because you guys doing so well.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Dave Major]

There are pictures coming, and they'll be on the YouTube page. Four models from the last four years on the screen. Our question is, what's the least driven vehicle in the US from 2022 to 2025? Okay, your choices are.

[Baba]

So people own these vehicles, and these are the ones that are least driven.

[Dave Major]

Out of these four, least driven, 2023 Chrysler Pacifica. A 2023 Mazda MX5 Miata, a 2024 Subaru W RX or a 2022 GMC Hummer EV? The LE.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's either. It's either B or D. You're talking about miles driven. Yeah, not bought. But the. When they get them bought, how. How many miles they drive them? I mean, it's such a toss up to me between the Hummer and the Miata. I'M gonna go with Miata because that's such a secondary car, that's just a sportser on the weekend. So I'm going, I'm going. Miata.

[Dave Major]

Mr. Chairman.

[Turley]

Damn, John, you're good. That is the least driven vehicle. That's amazing. We tried to stump you out of eevee, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that the only quest you got? You don't have any more? Come on, come on.

[Turley]

No, but what's it, what's the rest of the list? You'll be surprised. I don't think you'll be surprised. Actually. It's all evs, isn't it? That's on there.

[Dave Major]

The Subaru works.

[Turley]

Yeah, no, no, the actual list.

[Dave Major]

What actual is.

[Turley]

Okay, well there's the list itself that has a Mini Cooper is also second least driven. It's an EV. Mini Cooper.

[Dave Major]

Yeah, they were, they were all EVs. Like they were trying to sell it against the Miata or something.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, the, the EVs, they get a hold of them and they realize they hit them, they quit driving them. That's what happens on so many. The Teslas do get driven, but the other ones really don't. I mean they get driven long enough to trade them in.

[Turley]

Yeah. The third lease was the Hummer ev, which everybody in the chat room was thinking that was the answer. But the Miata, that's correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's just a small little sportster car. It's a Sunday car. Guy that's you know, 50, 60, 70 years old buys that car. Those cars get, you know, 600 miles a year put on. There's nothing. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. 800, 800 radio. What's next, y'? All? A rapid fire Me, I want more. I want more.

[Dave Major]

Never been rained on.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh well.

[Dave Major]

Have you a new question next week?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's never been rained on. Remember November 15th, we've got a big car show the good guys is endorsing, are endorsing it. Chip Foose, if you've ever heard of him, he's like the number one builder in the world, overhauling, if you remember that TV show. He's going to be there. Richard Rollins from Gas Monkey is going to be there. Dennis Collins from Collins Brothers going to be there. I'm going to be there. You're going to be there. We're going to be there. And so far with the pre registrations, it's going to be a big one. I can tell.

[Baba]

Walnut Springs rally.com Walnut Springs rally.com To pre register or just come on out. Saturday the 15th, the whole show. Well, we'll have the radio show starting at 8 o' clock in the morning, but then the car show part starts.

[John Clay Wolf]

At 1 o', clock, so. Hey, man, the next week while you're at Walnut Springs rally, click through if you want to get Adam Corolla tickets. Because then at the Rattlesnake and Walnut the next week, Adam's got to do his show. He's going to come out there and I think he and myself and Richard are going to get. We're going to get that Newman Ferrari race car. Oh, and we're going to get two others. And I want to go to Crescent Motor Speedway and do a race. Remember we were going to race in Talladega workouts. I think we should try to do it this weekend.

[Dave Major]

And your famous chef friend.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah, Graham Elliott will be there. Yeah, he'll be at the Bosy Cantina in Walnut, spring signing Meet that guy cookbooks and doing a meet and greet. He's a popular son of a.

[Baba]

He is.

[Dave Major]

Oh, he's very.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm not into the cooking world.

[Dave Major]

He's very good.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's. I mean, everybody I show the picture to with the white glass, oh, my God. Yeah, they know exactly who that guy is. So Graham's gonna be there. Adam's gonna be there. Adam's gonna do a podcast with Graham out there. We've got two big weekends lined up in Walnut Springs. Go toWalnut Springs rally.com Scott, Lake Charles, you're gonna be there.

[Trev Moravec]

You're coming.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gumbo, Scott and Lake Charles, you there? He's there. And it said on the notes he's welcome to the rally. He's bringing gumbo from Louisiana. Okay, so we're gonna lose. Is it west coast only? Yep.

[Caller]

Top, top.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh. Next hour's west coast only. Remember, our new YouTube video goes up right in just a few minutes. It helps the more people that watch it because it tricks the algorithm, makes them go up. And we are signing off in the center central, mountain and east time zones. West coast only for the next hour. Thank you all for tuning in. California, Hang tight.

[Dave Major]

The John Clay Wolf show has been a presentation of Give me the the vin.com from the Westwood One radio network. Join us again each and every Saturday right here for the John Clay Wolf show.

[Caller]

Locker out.