#536 John Clay Wolfe Show 12.27.25

Summary

The John Clay Wolfe Show – Episode #536 – December 27, 2025

Overview

This episode of "The John Clay Wolfe Show" is a classic post-Christmas, pre-New Year hangout, brimming with the show’s signature blend of humor, irreverence, car talk, and raw personal stories. Broadcasting live, John and the crew riff on holiday mishaps, family drama, listener calls about classic cars, their ongoing bets, cultural trends, and even existential questions about AI and aging. At its heart, this episode is a celebration of unscripted conversation—anchored in the world of car auctions and deals, but just as likely to veer into comedic banter, Gen-Z slang, and deeper personal reflection.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Holiday Catch-Up & Catastrophes (01:29–04:50)

Boat Club Tales & Family Drama

• The group swaps Christmas stories — J.D. gets a boat club membership ("better than a boat"), while Mike got stuck with the real thing.
• Discussion on family Christmas catastrophes, from grill grease fires to avoiding political debates at the dinner table.
  • Quote: "You know, family time, that’s what Christmas is about, right?" – J.D. (01:32)
  • “You got better than a boat, you got a boat club! You don’t even have to launch the damn thing.” – Mike (01:45)

Family Diversity & Avoidance Tactics

• The hosts acknowledge their diverse (and sometimes divided) family backgrounds, with a running joke about which controversial topics are fair game at the Christmas table.
• Serious topics (politics) and humorous ones (getting burnt eyebrows grilling) are both mined for laughs and real talk.

Inviting Chaos

• Suggestions for having listeners call in about their own Christmas family "catastrophes"—from drunken relatives to big family announcements gone wrong.

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2. "Gay Rob" Storytime & Ex-Spouse Comedy (04:34–09:25)

John's Ex-Wife, Her Gay Friend, and Petty Invitations

• John spins a lengthy, tongue-in-cheek story about his ex-wife’s flamboyantly gay friend, "Gay Rob."
  • He admits to inviting Rob to his own Christmas party, partly knowing it would irritate his ex.
  • Quote: "It’s like hiring a midget stripper... he’s not just a gay guy, he’s a gay guy." – John (07:51)
• The narrative doubles as commentary on divorce dynamics, shared social circles, and playful pettiness in blended families.

Reflections on Ex-Relationships

• Nuanced, threadbare honesty about moving past animosity with an ex, but still liking to "throw a little scratch" now and then.

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3. Buying and Selling Classic Cars – The Human Side (13:00–18:36)

Listener Segment: The "Too Many Cars, Not Enough Time" Dilemma

• Greg, a listener, calls to discuss possibly selling his car collection due to a terminal cancer diagnosis.
• John contemplates a pre-sale contract idea: buy classic cars from older collectors now, let them enjoy their rides while alive, then take ownership after their passing—solving the future headache for heirs and supporting the owners in the meantime.
  • Insightful exchange about legacy, practical business, and emotional reality.
  • Quote: "They just want to come over, drive it, bring it back empty and dirty." – Greg, on grandkids and his cars (16:16)
  • John: "If you want to do a deal now... You can be the first one." (16:35)
• The emotional weight and dignity of aging out of hobbies, and how families often don’t share their elders’ passions.

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4. Real-Time Car Deals & Auction Talk (19:32–30:00 and Lightning Rounds throughout)

Live Call-Ins and Unvarnished Appraisal

• Multiple listeners try to sell their cars on-air: from a 23 Chevy Express van and 05 Corvette to partially restored classic pickups.
• John’s unfiltered auction expertise and sarcasm are front and center.
  • Quote: “Have you ever heard me making fun... about people trying to sell me their projects? I mean, you know, I think I’d rather you go crap on the floor and shovel it up and ask me what I’ll pay for that.” – John (28:39)
• Complexities of selling unfinished "project cars" and unresolved family land disputes are compared ("I’m still pissed at my brother over a horse deal from 35 years ago").
• He draws vivid, sometimes bittersweet parallels between old trucks and old ranchland inheritance battles.

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5. Rock & Roll, Sports, and Pop Culture Detours (39:00–54:00)

Boxing, Bets, & Man Crushes

• Discussion of Jake Paul’s recent fight, the spectacle of YouTube boxing, and inflated paydays.
• Banter about athlete attractiveness (Anthony Joshua), leading into a running joke about "man crushes," “no homo,” and marital insecurity.
  • Memorable Quotes:
    • "He surprised my jaw." – John, quoting Jake Paul (40:21)
    • "Turley likes his men big and ripped." – John, teasing co-host (44:33)
• Sports betting segment: NFL and college football picks, topped with comedic posturing about who’s owed what ("You are down $600 to me." – J.D., 46:09).

Gen-Z Slang, Trends, and Top 10 Lists

• J.D. and Mike run through top word searches and trends of 2025—slop (bad AI content), 'rage bait,' ‘touch grass,’ and the mysterious “six-seven nobody.”
• The show pokes fun at trends and the old guard’s bemused struggle to keep up.

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6. Car Market Dynamics & Tesla Resale Value Debate (65:07–67:00)

• Discussion of the top cars losing resale value, especially Teslas. John disputes the data, expressing skepticism about mainstream reporting and noting he trusts Tesla values more than some other brands.
• Quote: “I think you’ve got bad information. It’s from USA Today.” – John (67:00)

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7. The Human Side of Aging, Driving, and Real Estate Legacy (56:19–61:00)

Saying Goodbye to Driving

• Feature call with Paul, an 86-year-old facing pressure to stop driving for health reasons.
• Endearing, honest conversation about dignity, loss of independence, and practical logistics.
  • Quote: “When that time comes, what’s the reaction of John Clay Wolfe gonna be?” – J.D. (59:50)
• John and team reflect candidly on their own fears about aging and losing autonomy.

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8. Jamie’s Story: Illness, Hope, and a Charity Corvette (113:14–123:08)

• Jamie, a Texas listener diagnosed with a rare cancer, calls in to share her story about auctioning her 1957 Corvette at Barrett-Jackson to help pay for treatment.
• Her viral social media post garnered support—including direct outreach from actor Billy Baldwin and Barrett-Jackson.
• Detailed, heartfelt discussion of her journey, finances of cancer treatment, and the role of the classic car as a lifeline and symbol of hope.
  • Quote: “This has just shown me how beautiful humans can be to one another. It’s been such a beautiful experience in one of the worst times of my life.” – Jamie (122:37)
• John explains how charity car auction results can balloon due to tax write-offs and goodwill.

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9. AI – The Existential, the Personal, and the Unnerving (104:34–112:49)

• John reveals his deep immersion in AI, describing how personalizing ChatGPT with your life story and business challenges can yield profound, often unsettlingly spot-on advice.
  • Quote: “There is no reason for psychologists...this thing gives you the best damn advice you’ve ever heard in your life.” – John (106:04)
• The crew reflects on the implications: displacement of white-collar jobs, potential economic collapse, and the impossibility of stuffing this genie back in the bottle.

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10. Humor: Gifts, Sales Guy Texts, and Small-Town Celebrity

• Christmas morning etiquette—unwelcome texts from salespeople, best friends vs. business acquaintances, and the importance of boundaries ("Christmas morning on text needs to be...noon, for sure. Just let everybody breathe.").
• John recounts a small-town trip where the mayor met him at the airport—blurring lines of local celebrity and the humility of small-town life.
• Ongoing teasing, bickering, and inside jokes between the team.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On Family Christmas Chaos

• “Almost burned the house down. Had a slight flare-up on the grill.” – J.D. (03:03)
• “Your eyebrows look a little shorter today.” – Mike (03:22)

On Legacy and Classic Cars

• “You got anything good I want to buy?” – John (14:25)
• “I have cancer, so I’m trying to just play cars for as long as I can.” – Greg (15:00)
• "That’s a great idea." – Mike, on John’s pre-sale contract proposal (16:08)

On AI’s Impact

• “It gives you the best damn advice you’ve ever heard in your life. There is no reason for psychologists. Consultants.” – John (106:04)
• “This is more dangerous than nuclear weapons.” – John (111:25)

On Charity and Human Kindness

• “This has just shown me how beautiful humans can be to one another.” – Jamie (122:37)
• “They do get a car sometimes—the guy didn’t want the car, just wanted to give the money.” – John, on charity car auctions (122:27)

On Getting Old, Disability, and Vanity

• “I would not want to be seen like that...just disappear. I wouldn’t want to die, but I’d want to disappear for sure.” – John, on living with facial disfigurement (129:24–130:41)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Holiday Recap & Catastrophes: 01:28–04:50
• “Gay Rob” Story/Ex-Wife Banter: 04:34–09:25
• Classic Cars and End-of-Life Planning w/Caller Greg: 13:00–18:36
• Car Buying Lightning Round: 13:50, 25:24, 52:03, 124:59+
• Selling Family Projects & Land Disputes: 28:20–35:41
• Sports Bets & Boxing Talk: 39:00–44:33
• Jamie’s Cancer & Charity Corvette Story: 113:14–123:08
• AI, Business, and Existential Risks: 104:34–112:49
• Christmas Texts & Etiquette: 76:22–78:48
• Oklahoma Gun Safety Story: 137:55–139:05

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Tone & Language

• Candid, fast-moving, and irreverent—the show's humor is direct, sometimes dark, and unapologetically blue-collar.
• Car expertise is dispensed with both authority and sarcasm; family stories are told with both irony and empathy.
• Occasional heartfelt, serious moments punctuate the humor, particularly when listeners call with real-life dilemmas or hardships.

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Summary Wrap-Up

This episode exemplifies why "The John Clay Wolfe Show" maintains its edge: beneath the irreverence and car dealer bravado lies real insight, both into people’s relationships with cars and with each other. Whether teasing co-hosts, negotiating live deals, or wrestling with questions of legacy, illness, and technology, the show finds humanity—and humor—in every story.

For listeners who missed the episode: Expect unpredictable caller drama, car-market deep-dives, sports jokes, heartfelt moments, and new-year reflections, all unleashed with the show’s trademark blend of wit, candor, and car-business grit.

Transcript

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[John Clay Wolf]

Live from the Wolf Radio studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf show, presented by gim.com hit him up now. 800. 800 radio now. John Clay Wolf.

[J.D.]

Morning, J.D.

[Mike]

Good morning, Mike.

[John Clay Wolf]

How you doing?

[Mike]

How was your Christmas?

[J.D.]

It was actually really good. Just, you know, family time. That's what Christmas is about, right?

[Mike]

I heard we both got boats.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

I didn't get a boat.

[Mike]

Yeah, you did.

[J.D.]

No, I mean, it's.

[John Clay Wolf]

You got better than a boat club.

[Mike]

You got better than a boat. You got a boat club club. Which means you don't have to launch the damn thing like I did yesterday.

[J.D.]

Yeah, the wife surprised me with the boat club membership. Since we're right there by the lake, we can just go there and spend weekends on the boat where we don't have to launch it or anything and.

[Mike]

Take care of it and rub it in.

[J.D.]

But you've got a boat.

[Mike]

So we have a boat, but you got to launch it and you got to get it out. Then you got to clean it and you put the COVID back on. Then you got to trailer it.

[J.D.]

But we could be boat buddies. We can go out on the weekends. Yeah, yeah. Starting in. I mean, hell, in Texas right now it's 86 degrees. You could probably start it now.

[Mike]

That's why I knew yesterday if we didn't do it yesterday, we weren't going to get a chance until Spring. Because, you know, when winter finally hits, it's going to look like it does up in the Northeast right now.

[J.D.]

Yeah, they're getting some snow out there. Yeah.

[Mike]

So funny. The Fox t. The Fox TV weather guys, they're trying to make a bigger story out of this than it is now. On the west coast, they're getting four or five feet of snow. I mean, it's outrageous. But in the Northeast, the guy gets a ruler out, so you think he's going to stick it down. It's going to be 12, 15 inches. 2 inches of snow. That's a good big story out of it.

[Caller/Guest]

Yep.

[Mike]

Apparently we have up to 2 inches here in the Northeast.

[J.D.]

I mean, it's that they live for this, right, the weather folks. Then you think it's a story of anything falling out of the sky.

[Mike]

Else is going to watch the weather unless something bad is happening.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, but. Yeah, no, it was.

[J.D.]

It was a good Christmas. Almost burned the house down. Had a slight flood flare up on the grill.

[Mike]

You burn the house?

[J.D.]

Yeah, a little grease fire in the grill. You know, it was kind of funny. It was. It was easy to get out, but mother in law gets all nervous. It's a lot of smoke there. I was like, it's all right.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's.

[J.D.]

I got under control. I lift the grill up and it's like, I close it, close it back down.

[Mike]

She's like, your eyebrows looked a little shorter today.

[J.D.]

I go, it'll go down.

[John Clay Wolf]

Don't worry.

[J.D.]

Don't worry. She's looking at my wife and my wife's like, he's got her new control, Ma. He's got under control. Don't worry about it. Don't worry.

[Mike]

But you may want to call the fire department. Yeah, that's greatness.

[J.D.]

But, you know, besides that, everything goes good about you. Everything.

[Mike]

We should quiet. Other than taking the boat out, we had a good time. But we should have people call in with their Christmas catastrophes.

[J.D.]

I'm sure everybody has something that's happened. Christmas fights with family. There's topics like I don't. We just don't talk about. We just stay. I mean, politics.

[Mike]

See, everybody in my family is kind of on the same side. I won't say which side.

[J.D.]

I think everybody knows we're very diverse.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's.

[J.D.]

It's all over the place.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

So we, we try to stick to like, you know, work things or fun things like that. I don't, I don't like all.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, how about those cowboys?

[J.D.]

Yeah, just. And that's controversial as it is. Anyway.

[Mike]

Can't talk about them either.

[J.D.]

Yeah, we stay away from that. But I imagine there's somebody that's out there that had a dispute of some sort. Maybe food was thrown around, drunk family members, for sure.

[Mike]

I can't wait till Monday morning when we get back together as a group with Give me the Vin and we hear all the stories.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do you have any gays at the table?

[J.D.]

No. No, we don't have any now.

[John Clay Wolf]

That was my only question.

[Mike]

Thank you. Show's over. Good night.

[J.D.]

And that wouldn't be controversial anyway. I mean, that's fine.

[Mike]

Well, it would be if they came in. What if they came in, though, and they were real, real over the top and. And you didn't know.

[J.D.]

I think that would be fun, to be honest with you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Maybe better than that. Grumpier. Yeah, I hear you. My ex wife has a friend named Gay Rob. Let's wonder what he is. Yeah, well, I call him gay. A lot of people call him Gay Rob.

[Mike]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

But like, can you say.

[J.D.]

I don't know. If you're asking. If you could say it, you might.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gay hag. It rhymes with gay hag.

[J.D.]

No, let's just stop.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

So he's really gay, huh? He's really gay. He's flamboyant.

[John Clay Wolf]

Women do that. They get their. They could. They call them f. Hags.

[Mike]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they have these gay guys around them and I.

[Mike]

Because it's safe to go out with them, but I don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know, my. My ex wife, at this point, it's almost fun hating on a little bit. I mean, we're just. It's really actually just tongue in cheek. I don't even care. It's like, been such a sport for so long that I hate to quit, you know, throwing the ball around. Sure.

[Mike]

Why?

[Josh Whalen]

But.

[John Clay Wolf]

But I kind of stole her gay friend. Oh, that's not stole, but like engaged. And like invited him over to a party at our house a couple years ago.

[Mike]

Oh, did that start.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that a deep cut? Is that a deep cut? Was that a good one? Under the belt.

[Mike]

That's a good one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Good. That's the intention.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

But he's got a real strong relationship with my daughter.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Obviously it's plutonic. And clearly. Yeah. She wouldn't talk to him for a while because he attended him. My ex wife wouldn't talk to her gay friend because for a while because she saw on Facebook or somebody showed it to her. The Gay Rob was at our Christmas party in all of his glamour, and he had a big. He had a cowboy Hat on, of course, with a big feather on the front, like Bert. And he had a crazy pattern western jacket on with a big corduroy collar. I mean, just gay.

[Mike]

Just over the top.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just couldn't be any more gay. You know, like when gay guys try to dress like men, right? But they screw it all up and it looks like a man woman. So anyway, my ex wife would not. She wouldn't talk to him. He's like. I saw him up at Bella and he's like, john, you know, Jenny won't talk to me anymore. I just don't know why. I mean, can we just not. We can't be friends. I'm like, I think we're friends. I think it's great.

[Mike]

Did you.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think so. I was like, coaching Gay Rob on how to get back into good graces with my evil ex wife. It was a hell of a conversation that I particularly enjoyed.

[Mike]

Did you invite him just to upset her? Did you like the guy? That's a good question.

[J.D.]

I think it's.

[Mike]

I think you've answered it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Well, I mean, did I know it would upset her? Yes. But is he entertaining for a party?

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, it's like hiring a midget stripper or. I mean. No, he's not just a gay guy. He's a gay guy.

[J.D.]

Oh, Life of the party, I'm sure.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right?

[J.D.]

Oh, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So. Yeah. I mean, so did I just invite him to make her man? No. Okay. Did I invite her to make. Did. Did I know that he would be entertaining? Yes. For free. For free, right.

[Mike]

Cost you nothing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. You didn't have to go through an agency. You didn't have to pay a management commission. I think it might have cost him a commission because I think she was kind of his manager. But anyway, they're all good. Again, manager. No, no, no. Okay. I mean, you know, like when you book an act, you have to pay a fee.

[Mike]

Well, hell yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, he was like booking an act, but I didn't have to pay a fee. And I think she probably expected me anyway. I'll shut up. Y' all go back to your stories.

[J.D.]

No, that was. That's good.

[Pre K]

Derek.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm so.

[J.D.]

I'm sure you told her or told him to say, well, you just talk bad about myself with her and that'll get you back in the good graces, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, that's.

[J.D.]

That's all that she wants is just that something to be in common with.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[J.D.]

And that. That's their common, I guess, denominator for them.

[John Clay Wolf]

I guess that's funny though. It's funny. It's just funny. I mean, you know, the, the, the deal of my ex. Yeah. But at this point it's. I'm not going to go as far to say I like her, but she's fine. My ex wife.

[Mike]

You've gotten to that point.

[John Clay Wolf]

She's fine. No, I don't like her husband. He's. He's done some things that. Anyway. But she's fine. But you know, there, there was enough bad knifing that whipping a blade at every once in a while just give a little scat. Just a little scratch.

[Mike]

That's where we started with this, which is did anybody in the listeners, especially at Christmas, do anything specifically to stir things up or did anything. Somebody show up? G day just out of the. I'm out of the closet.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah. That's the best.

[Josh Whalen]

Oh, God.

[John Clay Wolf]

Y' all call in with the Christmas family announcements and in the past or present, because those, those are good.

[Mike]

Always the best.

[J.D.]

Somebody just announcing a divorce or something like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

Everybody get under your, you know, look under your chair and pull out the picture of dad, you know, screwing the secretary.

[J.D.]

Oh, man, that would be.

[John Clay Wolf]

Wow.

[J.D.]

Yeah. If you want to just put a knife in somebody right there or do it at Christmas like that. Announcement.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Before we start dinner.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

We thought we'd make this announcement. Would you reach under your chair?

[John Clay Wolf]

Is Bob a no show?

[Mike]

He is a no show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did he tell anybody?

[J.D.]

At six o' clock this morning.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Oh, maybe we need to start talking about Bob.

[Mike]

We were trying to avoid.

[J.D.]

Yeah, we were trying to avoid the topic. Totally. Yeah. He is sick.

[John Clay Wolf]

Quotes. Air quotes. I talked to him last night. He said it was on a date.

[Mike]

Okay.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, all right.

[J.D.]

We've got a show together though.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Let me tell you one thing. Without Bobbo, we've always had a show. Yeah. If this is one of those like stand up things, you can go over there. Gay Rob. I bring Gay Rob over here.

[Mike]

That'd be fun.

[John Clay Wolf]

Be real fun.

[Mike]

Stir it up.

[J.D.]

It is kind of like. Yeah. The announcement at the Christmas dinner right now is Bob was not here.

[Mike]

Baba's not here.

[J.D.]

Yeah. He just.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, him taking a day off is fine, but he didn't tell anybody.

[J.D.]

No.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is he mad at me? Because I'm sure he's mad at me for something. What is it?

[Mike]

I truly don't know.

[J.D.]

I don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

I can guess.

[J.D.]

Let's. Let's do this. Yeah, let's guess.

[John Clay Wolf]

What do you think he's mad at me because I Kept him on ice, so. But I said, get a show ready for this week or then. Why did you lie and say you don't know?

[J.D.]

Because we wanted. I don't want to throw him.

[Mike]

He's my friend.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because. Because I said, you have a show ready for this weekend. And he asked me on Sunday. I really need to know. I said, just have a show ready. Either way, I'll be fine. I know we're going to take off this weekend or next weekend. And I never got back with him.

[J.D.]

Yeah, I talked to him Tuesday. It's like, you're gonna be here, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Me and Paul are playing at the Nut. We're gonna be out there playing. So I'll be here no matter what. I was like, okay, yeah, no problem. Well, we're gonna have a show. John will tell us if there's no show. That's how I am.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[J.D.]

He's not gonna just, hey, show up and all.

[John Clay Wolf]

I took off and went to Islamabad.

[J.D.]

Yeah. No, that was Abdullah. Yeah, There may be a little passive aggressiveness here.

[John Clay Wolf]

No way. Get out of here. Stop it.

[Mike]

Why are you making that up?

[John Clay Wolf]

Why are you making that up? I'm being Gay Rob, but. Or he could be sick, too.

[J.D.]

I mean, there. I don't know. I'm not going to assume anything.

[John Clay Wolf]

So the good news is that Gay Rob is not up. Oh, Bobbo is not up?

[Mike]

No, probably not.

[John Clay Wolf]

My ex wife is not up and my daughter are not up. Because if any of them are up, they're all pissed right now.

[Mike]

Oh, you haven't said anything.

[J.D.]

No, there's nothing there. I. That I think was bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

Y' all just don't. Y' all aren't sensitive enough. Yeah, clearly. Clearly. What have you got in the news?

[Mike]

Nothing.

[J.D.]

We got plenty. But we got to load the cars up there.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right.

[J.D.]

Will you do that?

[John Clay Wolf]

Cuz I got to turn this light on for the. Well, I can do it during the break.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, your light?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, for the. For the reels on Instagram. The. The social media manager has me turn that light on so that when they record these car calls that are coming up and you can get. And then she takes those car calls and she puts them on Instagram and they get a lot of views. So if you guys want to call me with a real car, call in. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Chevy Express gray at 20 gray. Greg A23 Express. 3500 LS15 passenger. I if the dealers at 36 on trade. Why have you not already accepted it?

[Caller/Guest]

Greg, I don't need another vehicle. I've got a bunch of vehicles. I've got a bunch of hot rods and this was one to carry grandkids. So I don't need it anymore. I don't need another vehicle.

[John Clay Wolf]

Would you take 30?

[Caller/Guest]

No, sir. Okay, I take 34.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a 23. We're in. We're three year model styles old now. I mean what sticker on those things, like 48?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, it was 49 and some change.

[John Clay Wolf]

And now they're.

[Caller/Guest]

I mean the 30,400 miles on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Load it in to give me the.

[Caller/Guest]

Vinh wheels on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's got running boards said you've got hot rods. You got anything good that I want to buy?

[Caller/Guest]

I got some 32 Fords, 33 Fords, 55 and 56 Chevys.

[John Clay Wolf]

So like a bunch of deuces and, and are the, are the Chevys, are the chevies two doors or four doors?

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, they're two doors.

[John Clay Wolf]

See, I'm like Greg, two doors. I'm like, Greg, I don't want this van either. I want, I want, I want the other stuff. Well, do you have too many? Do you want to sell some or do you want to keep them all?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I'm trying to keep them. I. I have cancer, so I'm trying to just play cars for as long as I can.

[John Clay Wolf]

So this is actually. No, I understand. And I deal with this a lot. Do you ever watch our YouTube channel and see my. When I'm dealing with guys and buying their collections.

[Caller/Guest]

I do, I do.

[John Clay Wolf]

So, you know, I was thinking about this the other day because it's so common, not the cancer. And I'm sorry, by the way, obviously not trying to be.

[Caller/Guest]

I'd rather get. Rather be me than a kid. So.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I wonder if I should make deals with Greg, the Greg's of the world, which there's a lot of them that have their cars and it makes them happy and they're going to die happy or as happy as they can, depending on their illness. And they don't want the kids to have to mess with it unless they have a son or a daughter that's really into it and they know that, but most of them don't. And make a deal with them now and buy the cars now and like give a deposit, sign a purchase agreement and let them sit. And then when they pass, then it's already done.

[Mike]

That's a great idea.

[J.D.]

What if they ragged out, though.

[Caller/Guest]

Would make it a lot easier, wouldn't it?

[John Clay Wolf]

They won't rag them out. Guys like Ray aren't gonna rag them out.

[Mike]

No. Now, they love those cars. They love them.

[Caller/Guest]

I got. I got two kids and seven grandkids, and ain't none of them have any interest in cars. They just want to come over, drive it, bring it back empty and dirty.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, hey, go to. Give me the VIN garage, GMTV garage, and send me a note. And if you want to do something like that, you can be the first one. Like, this is so. This is so. What's the word? Like, you know, a question. What? Like, if you had a form for this. How many months until you die?

[J.D.]

Yeah, it's almost kind of like willing it to you willing to buy it.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's not will. It's just pre selling it. I've done that with land before. Yeah. Like a lady has a ranch next door and they're gonna pass, but they want it for the rest of their life. She go ahead and buy it and let them live there.

[Mike]

Boy, that's a great idea.

[Caller/Guest]

I got a motorhome for sale that I've used three nights too. You drop, you buy motorhome.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, but see that. And you and I are going to argue. I. I do buy them and I. I have a guy that can do it. It's just those motorhomes, the depreciation is so terrible.

[Caller/Guest]

But, yeah, it's horrible. I gave 220 and I owe 150. I'd take 125 just to get rid of it.

[John Clay Wolf]

I hear you.

[Caller/Guest]

I will use it. Three nights.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do this. Go to givemetheven.com and load that one up and we'll kick it. It'll kick straight off to our motorhome specialist. But these old cars. I'm serious. If you want to do a deal now, like, are you a year? I mean, do you think you're a year out or.

[Caller/Guest]

No, I don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

I have no clue.

[John Clay Wolf]

I got. Okay, okay. Because I see, I'm thinking through this as we go. What if Greg recovers and. And he lasts. How old are you now?

[Caller/Guest]

67.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so he's not that old and he makes it till 80. And I've put a contract price on these cars on today's money, and by the time he dies when he's 88, I'm stuck in this contract. These cars are worth a lot less.

[Mike]

You have to write something in.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like what?

[Mike]

Yeah, you have to update it every six months or every Year.

[J.D.]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Just a clause.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's a lot of work.

[Mike]

Yep. What's just an extra paragraph?

[J.D.]

You're doing something that no one else.

[John Clay Wolf]

Has done, but you're gonna have to go through and reappraise Greg's stuff every six months. But, you know, that's doable in the computer system, what we're doing. Anyway, Greg, I'm sorry to be using you as a scapegoat, but this is an interesting conversation. It's a hell of a lot more interesting than a passenger van.

[Caller/Guest]

All right, Matt. Yeah, I know, but I need to get rid of it. If I got rid of it. Check this out. If I got rid of that, I could use. I could use that car spot to go buy something else that I could enjoy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Exactly what he do. Okay. Hey, we'll be back in a minute. Everybody. Call in 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Gavin with the charger. Hang tight. You're the first one up. My name is John Clay Wolf. I buy cars on the radio for America's best car buyer. Givemetheven.com and this is the lightning round coming up after this song. So you call in now, 800-800-7 2, 3, 4, and yes, we're live this Christmas post Saturday.

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

This is an interesting call. Hey, go ahead and get. Get that guy on hold. Whoever's.

[Caller/Guest]

Whoever.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're working the. The O5 vet dealer. I think you're still talking to him. There you go. Okay. Missouri, good morning. Hey, how are you?

[Caller/Guest]

Good.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you bought an O5 convertible vet from us at the auction. You are a dealer?

[Caller/Guest]

No, no, no, no. I bought it out of collection in Portsmouth, Arkansas. It says John Kavanaugh was handling the collection. And I bought this particular car and I took it to an auction and it brought. It brought some profit. It didn't bring what I thought was enough.

[John Clay Wolf]

Suck. When that happened, I brought it back. I know how that. I mean, God, yeah, I've been there so many times. We've all been there. So he had, you know, he. He had two grand made, and he thought he had five grand coming, and he said, no sale. And now he is at a time on the floor, and he is. He's. He's wanting that money back that he had, and he's pissed at himself and He's. He's.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, I am right.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's taking it out on me. No, I'm kidding. Now you're giving me an opportunity. Let me think. Okay, so we're going in. How long ago did you. How long ago was the no sale at 20,005.

[Caller/Guest]

The no sale actually was 21 grand. And I thought, you know, it'll bring more money, but anyway, that was. That was two months ago.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, and is it. What color is.

[Caller/Guest]

Is Silver. Silver. Polished wheel car, new Michelins on the ground.

[John Clay Wolf]

What about the transmission?

[Caller/Guest]

I've got a automatic power top, which.

[John Clay Wolf]

Most of them are. What were you saying? It's got. Was it got a Carfax problem?

[Caller/Guest]

No, clean. Clean Carfax.

[John Clay Wolf]

You were saying? It's got a little something. So. What's a little something?

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, it's got a. It's got a little bit of. Shows a little bit of wear on the edge of the back of the seat. You know, where you get in and out, what's at.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's MMR on the car and guys that are not car dealers. MMR's Mannheim market report. And that's kind of the. That's a number, a suggested number for a auction transaction. What is MMR on this car?

[Caller/Guest]

I think it's like 16, 4 or something.

[John Clay Wolf]

Last I looked, you had 4 grand over MMR and you said no. Poor bastard. I'm sorry. It's getting worse. So how much?

[Caller/Guest]

Probably so in the spring it probably brings.

[John Clay Wolf]

But yeah, it's a whole. Though think of something creative to do with this that helps us both. I'm trying. Whoops. I can't come up with anything. You know, I want to. I want to be 16. 5. Golly. 05. That's that body style. That's that body style. 05. 06. 06. Wait, hang on. No. 97 through. So that's the C5.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Damn, dude. I'll tell you what I'll do.

[Caller/Guest]

I know I screwed up.

[John Clay Wolf]

He did. You screwed up. I'll lay 18 grand on it in. Anything above 18 grand, I'll split with you. And anything back of 18, you actually, you just set the line, a real line that we're splitting 50. 50 on the high low. I think 18 grand is the safer line. 20,005. I promise it's gonna. That's 4 grand over MMR. It's not gonna pop that again. It means it might get. It might get there. Maybe we could all get lucky, but the odds are not great. And you know, if you watch them auctions, you know you know how I sell? I sell on the gas. I've got 300 buyers or 400 buyers online. I sell them. And I do have runaways. And you've seen it too. And I have. But you kind of had a run. Oh, yeah. You kind of had a runaway that day.

[Caller/Guest]

So I should have sold. I know I should have.

[John Clay Wolf]

Here's what I'll do. You've got a floor problem. Not a problem, but an issue. They want it bought off the floor.

[Caller/Guest]

Right?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'll buy it off the floor. You set the price in. The PO Will just make a little deal that you're on for half the high low. And I'll fund the deal immediately. I'll fund it Monday. Not doing 20,005 because that's you being aggressive.

[Caller/Guest]

Right. 19 work.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think you're pretty aggressive, but that's fine. But you are on for half. You are on for half of the backside. Right?

[Caller/Guest]

But it is that nice of a car.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's fine. That's cool. You're on for half the backside. You're on for half the backside. Hold your right hand up. Say, if this loses money, I'm going to send you a check for half the backside.

[Caller/Guest]

I'll send you money.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay? So let me, Let me. Let me. Let me just do this. Go to. Go to. Go to jcwshow.com and click email. John. It'll go straight to me and I'll get you with somebody and we'll get this handled. Who's it floored with? Is it next year or IFC or who?

[Caller/Guest]

No, no, no. It's local bank.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, we'll get a handle.

[Caller/Guest]

Local Southeast Missouri.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm doing you a pretty good favor, actually.

[Caller/Guest]

I think I appreciate it. I really do.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right, well, thanks for listening and we'll get her handle. Thanks. My name is John Clay Wolf by Cars and radio's best car buyer. Givemethe vin.com. oh, gal. Gavin Galvin. Galvin in Atlanta. 73 Charger 318, bench seat, 66,000 miles. Think it's rolled over. Automatic survivor, not show car. Quarter size, rest behind the wheel. Wants 8,000. That probably works. Galvin, do you have photos?

[Caller/Guest]

I do. I was trying to get the finish up the. Give me the van bomb. Right now?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, just load it up. Just get it in there. We'll probably buy it. Obviously we need great pictures of the rust problems because that's all anybody. Whenever. Whenever we go to sell it, that's all anybody's gonna want to talk about.

[Caller/Guest]

Right? Right. Yeah. It's about the size of quarter, and it's just behind the wheel.

[John Clay Wolf]

But you're being reasonable. You're not being a crack. You're not being a crackhead with your price. So, yeah, we should be able to make this work.

[Caller/Guest]

Cool.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, sir. We'll be right back.

This is the John Clay Wolf show. Check out the GMTV Garage YouTube channel, complete with live video [e-mail].

Yo, we're.

Back to the John Clay Wolf show taking over your radio every Saturday morning.

This is a good song. I'd like to listen to this song.

[J.D.]

Well, it's only got a minute left, so.

[John Clay Wolf]

Riff Randall. Rock and roll high school was one of the worst, greatest films of all time. Do you. Do you. Do you want to dance? Good morning, everybody. Good morning, America. It is game day Saturday morning. Game day for what? Game day for cars. Game day for bad bs. Game day for the Wolf Packers. Yep. And we're on. We're live. We might not be live next weekend, but we might just stay tuned. We'll just. We'll let Babo decide.

[J.D.]

You want to check out the run list there, you guys?

[John Clay Wolf]

The run list for guys watching on the video. Here's the run list. It's short and it's highlighted and really, he just took the run list? Since we don't have a run list.

[J.D.]

I redacted a lot from it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like stuff we've used or stuff you just didn't like?

[J.D.]

No, the stuff that we used. All right. It's basically last week's run list. Redacted. It's like the Epstein files. Really?

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you know the Epstein files? The redactions? People have found where they could take the highlight off the blackout. Yeah. Drop it into another software and it removes it and it shows the redactions. No. Yes.

[J.D.]

They didn't think about that. You could do that.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is not fake either.

[Mike]

Anything groundbreaking I have not.

[J.D.]

More names than anything else. Like they're giving. It's nothing that's groundbreaking, but they're groundbreaking news.

[John Clay Wolf]

Politicians are horny people.

[Mike]

Yeah, well, there's.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's your.

[Mike]

It's really what our control and money make people horny. Get out of here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Even the girls.

[Josh Whalen]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. James 55F100, 302 rebuilt. Resto has done a lot. Needs some work. Not drivable. Wants 10k, huh?

[Caller/Guest]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you ever heard me bagging on people that are trying to sell me their projects?

[Caller/Guest]

I'm sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you ever heard me making fun and getting all animated? About people trying to sell me their projects? No, it's. It's pretty funny. Are you. Are you. Do you have a good sense of humor or are you an angry person?

[Caller/Guest]

Absolutely. No, no, we're good.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, you know, I think I'd rather you go crap on the floor and shovel it up and ask me what I'll pay for that. At least I can get rid of that. I mean, you know, when I come over to your house to pick up this car, do I need like a moving van or something and 10 Chinamen to pick up all the parts? And then it's my job to finish the job that you did not complete. You've given your heart and soul to this job. You have failed. And now it's my job to finish it because I've got nothing else to do. That's the kind of shtick I give people about the projects.

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I'm glad you got nothing else to do.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it painted?

[Caller/Guest]

It's primed.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you out of money or out of time?

[Caller/Guest]

No, we're moving to Spain.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. You're gonna sell it. There's five grand. Do it. When are you moving? The best time to talk to you about this truck is like a week before you move.

[Caller/Guest]

Well, we're in it within a year.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. You were two year old? Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

I'll take seven.

[John Clay Wolf]

Then do this in. In the next year. Why don't. That's why I asked. If you're out of money, if you're out of time. Because if you're out of money, I might give you some money and partner it with you and you could finish it. You got a year. You can't finish it in a year. And then we've got a good car at the end. We got a good car at the end. We can sell it and make a profit. And then you leave the States happy.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I'm either I'm going to sell it or I'm gonna give it away.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm. I'm done.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're done.

[Caller/Guest]

It was a deal with me and my dad.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Caller/Guest]

And it went sideways. You know how family is.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is your dad still alive?

[Caller/Guest]

I don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, wow. It's that good. So how old are you and how old is he?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, he's 85 and I'm 66.

[John Clay Wolf]

And how long ago did y' all get sideways over the truck?

[Caller/Guest]

As soon as you sold it to me, I had to buy it from him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did he like jamming them?

[Caller/Guest]

Anyway, that's neither here.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no, no, this. I. I hear you, but it's actually, it's more. It's a better story for listeners than the truck, tell you the truth. That's why I'm asking you, because people. People can relate. Relate. Relatable. I mean, I'm still pissed off at my brother over a horse deal from 35 years.

[Mike]

35 years.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I can relate. So did. Did your dad get broke and he needed money and you gave him the. He gave you the. I mean, tell. Tell me. Give me a little backstory on the truck real quick.

[Caller/Guest]

Make okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Entertain everybody.

[Caller/Guest]

This is what happened, okay?

[John Clay Wolf]

He.

[Caller/Guest]

He ran out of money.

[John Clay Wolf]

I knew it.

[Caller/Guest]

I bought the truck. I. I had to. He wanted one guy was going to give him 13, 000 for it. As it was, I had to give him 15 for it because you're a son. I bought a new complete airbag system for it. And anyway, he. Me and him got sideways on the truck and I told him, I said, so I've got like 40 grand in the right. Excuse me, I am so sorry.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no. Is okay. Can be set on the radio.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, I got like 30, 40 grand in it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I believe you.

[Caller/Guest]

I would like to finish it because it is going to be a good truck. It's got 302 in it. Mustang 2, front end, four link system, rear end suspension. I mean, it's got some good stuff in it. It's just that my wife decided to move to Spain. I said, okay, is.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you going with her?

[Caller/Guest]

She said, what are you gonna do with the truck? I'm sorry, are you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is she going to Spain with you or without you?

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, no.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. I didn't know if it's one of those deals.

[Caller/Guest]

No, no, no, no, no. Me and my wife are cool, man. Yeah, yeah. No, no, we're good, man. It's just. This is some what it is. I look at that truck, it makes.

[John Clay Wolf]

You mad every time you look at it. You want to kick a door, Bingo. I get it.

[Caller/Guest]

Yep. Yep. That's exactly why I say, you know, I started off with 10. Well, I started with 20. And I thought, no, I don't really care about the truck.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay?

[Caller/Guest]

I said, I'll tell you what, I'll make 10. You know, I've been coming down because I just want to get her. Get it out of my hair.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's just hard to sell projects. So I'm gonna. I want you to do this. Go to gmtvcc.com that's classic and collector. And that's going to go to Kyle Hot Rod Kyle Dunn. And he's good at this stuff and he can look at the parts and look through this. And we'll probably buy it and he'll put it together and we'll have to buy it cheap because we're gonna have to do all the stuff, you know? You know it's gonna go, but yeah, so sure. So the reason I'm gonna share your pain a little bit. And this is different, but it's land, right? Family land. Can you imagine people getting sideways over family land? I can, yeah. So.

[Mike]

Oh yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

So grew up on a ranch and it slowly shrunk because of dad's financial issues. His brother wound up with a big piece where we grew up with the house on that I grew up in. My grandmother was so salty right across the gate from that house where I grew up in. She owns the land across the street right on the corner. And she. When my, when my uncle got divorced, his wife got the land in the house that he bought from my dad that my grandmother had given to my dad. Right. I know I'm jumping around here, but so imagine a nice gate coming in and out. Right across the street is my grandmother's property. The corner of it, which is far away from her house. But all she left her son in the will, my uncle, was one acre. That one acre across the street from the gate. And I said, gimmel, why are you doing that? And she said, I didn't want that bitch to be my neighbor. She can be his neighbor. Wow. And then she had 40 acres left out of the 700 acre ranch that my dad slowly melted off over time because of financial woes. And I bought the house that she left my dad. That was her house. And I lived there. And there were 2220 acre patch pastures on either side. And I was going to buy the whole thing from him and he sold either side out from me to a developer.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you want to talk about what? Coming home and being pissed off every day. And I said, we've got to move. And she's like, why do we have to move? I said, because when they start building houses, I'm going to get angry one night and go burn one down and I'm going to go to jail. This is where I grew up. This is the first memories I have in my life. This was our legacy. This is everything. And when those houses are on the other side of this fence, I'm going to do something bad every day and I'm going to get in trouble and I have to leave here.

[Mike]

Smart.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, exactly.

[John Clay Wolf]

And that's how you feel about that truck? Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

Load it up.

[J.D.]

We'll get a boat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thanks, James.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay, so Kyle Dunn. What?

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, just, just, just go. Just go to GMTV cc. So that's. Give me. It's an abbreviation for. Give me the. Just load it in to. Give me the vin. And it's going to come across my desk either way. But put. I talked to John on the radio about this one. Here's the parts list, here's the photos, and we'll get right back to you.

[Caller/Guest]

Fantastic. I appreciate it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, James. See you Austin, Texas. Cool. All right. Oh, is this redneck with his redneck stories.

[J.D.]

A little family tradition there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, it is. Black preacher was the first house they sold to, too.

[Mike]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Nice guy. Then he brought all his family in, put in a drug in a mobile home.

[Mike]

Oh, jeez.

[John Clay Wolf]

Had a bunch of old cars.

[Mike]

You did. You did the right thing moving.

[John Clay Wolf]

It was time to go.

[Mike]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. And that's why we're here out here in the middle of nowhere where nobody's going to build anything about anybody. So we don't go to jail. We'll be right back. Oh, yeah. We're back.

Back to the John Clay Wolf show, presented by givemetheven.com and now, Senor Juan Clay Wolf.

We went long?

[J.D.]

Yeah, we went a little long.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right.

[J.D.]

This is just more of high buy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Huh? 19 challenger, red eye, widebody, black on black. 3200 miles, leather roof, navigation. Want 65 car van abated at 65 eight months ago. Greg. Cars depreciate. The market's not what it was.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, sir.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Yes, sir.

[Caller/Guest]

Can you hear me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, no, I hear you, but I mean, it's kind of like that guy a minute ago that had 20,500 on his vet at the live auction. I mean, it just. They just won't do what they did eight months ago.

[Caller/Guest]

All right, Right, I understand. Just kind of touching the waters and see what you guys would offer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, I mean, what will you take for it? I mean, you're a reasonable guy. It's been eight months. They've been. You know, Chrysler announced that they're gonna start making them again. The V8 pullback is over. They're gonna keep building them. Eight months adjustment. Yeah, I think three, three thousand is fair. So 62 grand.

[Caller/Guest]

I, I would do that. I'm trying to buy some properties, so I'm just cutting loose one of these.

[John Clay Wolf]

Load it into givemetheven.com. let's roll.

[Caller/Guest]

I've Done that before but always kicks it back. They need to talk to someone, but I'll do that.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it doesn't kick it back. It doesn't just load up and says that it gives you, it gives you an automated offer. An automated offer is probably going to be 58 grand and you're going to say no. I talked to John on the radio. He said he'll do 63. Please call me. And they'll call you back. All right.

It'S time for the John Clay Wolf show. Call John toll free. Cheap bastards, 1, 800, 800 radio now. John Clay Wolf.

So Jake Paul got his ass kicked last week and he got paid real well and he's being a pretty good support about it.

[J.D.]

I don't know if he's being a good sport about it, but yeah. Did you know how much they got paid?

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean it says 90 million. That's hard to believe. I, you know what I'm doing with each of them? With 93 each of them, I'm taking snapshots of reals because that's how we all get our information now is off Real kidding. I just take a screenshot of it and I copy it and I put it in chat GPT and it, it's trained well enough, it knows what I'm asking. Is this real? Is this headline real? And it'll come back quickly and say clickbait, BS not true, da da da, blah blah. 90 of it's not real. I don't think that there was $180 million to chop up.

[J.D.]

That's what they reported. 184 million split evenly between two fires fighters, Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul. Now he was on a podcast. Jake Paul wired his jaw shut, by the way, because he broke it in two. And he claims that he won the first two rounds. If you watch the fight.

[John Clay Wolf]

I did not.

[J.D.]

I watched it. It's bs. But here, listen to him try to talk here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, man. Yeah, I mean it's not that hard to get your ass beat. I won two rounds for sure and then he won two and then I got dropped. Yeah, I was doing good. I just think I my cardio, just the mental pressure of the big guy and sparring the big people is different than the 10 ounce gloves. So I was feeling his power a lot more. But it was great experience. Like I learned a lot in there.

[Mike]

Did he surprise you with his power?

[John Clay Wolf]

No, to be honest, no. But I mean he surprised my jaw.

[J.D.]

So yeah, I mean he's trying to claim he won two rounds. The only two Rounds he won were like the seventh and eighth round because he didn't have to fight those rounds.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did he retire from pro boxing?

[J.D.]

He can't fight for at least 15 months. I would think so. If this is the time to do it, yes, now would be the time to do it. Right. He got paid big time. He got. He fought a real fighter. Everybody's finally. Yeah. Hey, it's great this little gimmick you're doing. But you can't really box. You're not. You're not. You're fighting all these wash up guys. This guy Joshua hadn't fought in 15 months, but he still looked like he was on Larry holmes in the 80s.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, that dude was.

[J.D.]

And he's very charismatic too. I wouldn't have him around your ladies, I can tell you that.

[John Clay Wolf]

He can.

[J.D.]

I'm sure he's pulling in some stuff too, but. Yeah, he just knocked.

[John Clay Wolf]

What does that mean, Turley? Yeah, pulling in some stuff. Look, have you seen him? No.

[J.D.]

He's like a Greek God.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, wow. Did he stimulate you in places?

[J.D.]

No, I'm not no homo, but you know, he's a pretty good looking dude. So he's ripped and just. He's very charismatic.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like a horse.

[Mike]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't know about all that.

[J.D.]

His appearance.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Turley, do you ever go into the Rattlesnake in the middle of night and put his big slong on the big screen when nobody's looking?

[J.D.]

No, if he was on it, the nut, I would. Yeah, I would. To be in a different.

[John Clay Wolf]

I need a screen that big.

[J.D.]

Oh, no, no. He's.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, he's like Marky Mark at the end of Boogie Nights.

[J.D.]

I don't know how many female listeners knew Anthony Joshua is. But look him up. I bet you they would all say the same thing. He's a pretty good looking guy.

[John Clay Wolf]

My God. But no homo per turn.

[J.D.]

That's right, no homo. I mean, you know, do you not. I mean, you can admit to it.

[Mike]

You're on the. You're on the island.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're on your. You're on your own.

[J.D.]

But you can't admit to if a guy is good looking, you're on gay island.

[John Clay Wolf]

Big gays animal park. Big gay owls. Animal park.

[Mike]

I love how the guy sounded. Just like our DJ Lockjaw.

[J.D.]

Oh, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, Lockjaw. Did you watch the Logan fight? DJ Log show. Knock that some out. That's what he said.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

For real. Do you have any advice to Logan Paul on how he should deal with a lock jaw going forward? Well, you. Crab in Southern California, Good morning.

[J.D.]

You're on the air.

[Caller/Guest]

Good morning, guys. This is a whole new mean to Sports Wiener.

[John Clay Wolf]

Turley. Sports Wiener fell for. What's the guy's name?

[J.D.]

Anthony Joshua.

[Caller/Guest]

Cheers to 2026, dude. Thank you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. He got you good.

[Mike]

That's good.

[John Clay Wolf]

The sports wiener.

[J.D.]

I shouldn't have said anything.

[John Clay Wolf]

You shouldn't. Your. Your wife is listening and she's going to call you during the break. No, y' all are going to have that talk. You know that talk. Mike, I know you well and I know what you were thinking, but it didn't come across the air properly. And I've told you before just to hold that stuff to yourself.

[J.D.]

Yeah. We had the conversation of when there was a. What movie was on. Some Christmas movie. And Judd Apatow or whatever is in.

[John Clay Wolf]

There from the 80s, back when he was good looking.

[J.D.]

See, I didn't. I was like, you thought he was good looking? I was like. I was telling her. I was like, man, I'm kind of disappointed because Judd, you know, he's a actor.

[Josh Whalen]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

From the 80s. I can't remember the movie.

[John Clay Wolf]

Anyway, Apatow.

[J.D.]

I don't know what his name is. What.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, the good looking guy. Judd. Judd.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. He was in the bricks.

[J.D.]

It was Gremlins.

[Mike]

I see it.

[J.D.]

Gremlins. He was in Gremlins looking. I. That's what I said. I was like, you thought he was good looking? I'm very disappointed.

[John Clay Wolf]

She's like, yeah.

[J.D.]

When I was younger, I thought he was good looking.

[John Clay Wolf]

Judge Reinhold.

[J.D.]

Judge Reinhold, that's right.

[John Clay Wolf]

He is not an attractive male.

[J.D.]

I didn't think so either.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm with you on this.

[J.D.]

I was like, you know, if you'd said somebody, that's. What's the Momoa. Jason Momoa or something like that? I like. Yeah, cool.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Turley likes his men big and ripped.

[J.D.]

Is a comparison.

[John Clay Wolf]

If.

[J.D.]

If my wife's gonna.

[John Clay Wolf]

They're black. He'll take a short fro.

[J.D.]

If I'm gonna have to compete against somebody, they have to be somebody. That's.

[John Clay Wolf]

You'll lay down for the. For the tall and ripped African American Judge Reinhold.

[J.D.]

That's not a guy.

[Mike]

Not attractive.

[J.D.]

I was very disappointed. She thought he was good looking.

[Mike]

Oh, my God, dude. You guys are giving him so many drops just in the last 10 minutes. You guys have.

[J.D.]

Well, if we had a producer to pull him, then we. I don't have to worry about that, so.

[Mike]

Oh, my God.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. What. What happened with football? When did playoffs start on NFL is That three weeks.

[J.D.]

Two week. Yeah. Three weeks from now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is there a break week or does it go straight.

[J.D.]

Straight into it. And unfortunately, John, you did not do well last week at all.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is not going good. No.

[J.D.]

And then you tried to change the rules and then change them back. That didn't work out for you either.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I just got a hot email from Ernie Damaco. 303 area code. Need a good mobile electric guy to troubleshoot ignition on my truck. Can you please help? Hold on. Let's shut the show down. No, I need one too. Call.

[J.D.]

Call. Sean, last week you lost six games, John. I went six and one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, that's bad.

[J.D.]

And that's terrible. And you lost the a. M. Bet a hundred dollars. I picked A M to win. So now you are down 600 to me.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, last year's about a thousand.

[J.D.]

It was a thousand dollars that turned into 819 after taxes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Everybody's gonna pay their taxes.

[J.D.]

So we'll go with the NFL game. There is one good game on the NFL docket for today at 3:30 on the NFL Network. The 10 5. Texans at the 11 and 4 Chargers. The Chargers are point and a half favorite. John, it's at 3:30. Will the Texans pass rush beat up on Herbert? Now I get to pick first? Since I won last week, I believe yes, the Texans will win this game. They have so a little bit of upset here because since the Chargers are favored by a point and a half. What do you say, John?

[John Clay Wolf]

Whatever you think I should say, I'm gonna let you pick.

[J.D.]

I can't. I'm going with the Texans.

[John Clay Wolf]

The upset, then I'll take the other side.

[J.D.]

Okay. You're just gonna go complete opposite.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, no, I was gonna go with whatever you think I should do because obviously whatever I think is not very beneficial to my wallet.

[J.D.]

The other NFL game. Another good one. Eleven and four Bills at the ten and five Eagles. This could be a Super bowl preview. Maybe. Eagles are favored by a point and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

I thought you quit smoking dope.

[J.D.]

You don't think of the. It's a preview.

[John Clay Wolf]

Eagles are going to the super bowl again.

[J.D.]

It's wide open. I mean, it's wide open now this year. So bills 11 to 4 at the Eagles. 10 and 5. Eagles are favored by a point and a half. John, it's your pick.

[John Clay Wolf]

Bills.

[J.D.]

I agree. So this is where we do one time.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, you're so far ahead, why can't you just say, okay? It's Christmas.

[J.D.]

Very competitive, that's why.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, what do you want?

[J.D.]

So we both believe that the Bills will upset the Eagles.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you reset the line.

[J.D.]

So I'll set it and you either say yes or no.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. That's the way we should have done it. This thing got bad. Off the rails with that.

[J.D.]

You were trying to maneuver it to.

[John Clay Wolf]

Make it for your favorite, but. All right.

[J.D.]

I think The Bills win 20. Let's say they win by three and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

Eagles.

[J.D.]

Okay. So then I take that one.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[J.D.]

So one other NFL pick. Because the college games, they start up really on the 31st.

[John Clay Wolf]

We'll do that.

[J.D.]

We can do that a little later. Last game. Another good game. 11 and four bears at the 11. Four 49ers. This is basically for first place in the NFC. That's at 7:20 on Sunday night. It's my pick.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are the 49ers favored?

[J.D.]

They are favored by three and a half.

[John Clay Wolf]

And where is the game?

[J.D.]

It's at San Francisco.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[J.D.]

I'm gonna go with the Niners to win and cover the spread.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'll take the Bears just because they're having a Cinderella season. Okay.

[J.D.]

I mean, that's. That's a pretty popular pick. Everybody's going with the Bears right now. I think they're just. They're good, but Niners are. They're much better team. Much more balanced teams. That's our NFL pick there. Good luck, John. We'll get to the college later, which the playoffs have started coming up. They already started the second round now, so.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. And Texas Tech plays in Miami New Year's Day, 11 o'.

[J.D.]

Clock. It's interesting. I got the.

[John Clay Wolf]

Smoke them.

[J.D.]

You. You said that they are gonna win it.

[John Clay Wolf]

All.

[J.D.]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then when I'm making you a bet, a hundred dollars that they get.

[J.D.]

There to the national championship.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

I agree. But I'll just. For the sake of it, I'll go ahead and back off on that a little bit and say. Yo, go ahead. I'll make a bet with you that they won't make the national championship.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Thank you.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

For once in your life.

[J.D.]

I kind of have. I'm just. I have a feeling. But I'm gonna let you go with it just because I'm gonna hedge my bets there because I know you're betting on emotion.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. A chick bet.

[J.D.]

It's very.

[John Clay Wolf]

I like the color.

[J.D.]

Yes.

[Mike]

Their helmets are pretty.

[J.D.]

Yeah. You've got a friend that's, you know, just happens to be a head coach over there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[J.D.]

Are you going to go to the national Championship game if they go?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[J.D.]

No doubt about. Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Where would that be?

[J.D.]

In Atlanta, I believe either Atlanta or Miami. I can't remember.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think it's Miami again. I think you're right.

[J.D.]

Yeah, it's Miami. That'd be great.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, it wouldn't. You don't like Miami. I don't like Miami. I'm not Cuban.

[J.D.]

It doesn't have to be Cuban to like Miami.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't speak Spanish very well.

[Mike]

And Miami Gardens, Florida.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't like thieves or hustlers or shiny people that are fake.

[J.D.]

There is a lot of fake there. Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now, if you come up past Lauderdale, like when you get closer to Palm, I like that. But Miami is. It's just not my bag. No, no. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. The Lightning Round is coming up next. The Lightning Round. The Lightning round with the cars. DJ in San Antonio, see you sitting there. You'll be the first one up, year, make, model, miles, average, rough or clean. Call in now during this commercial break and we will come back with the cars. And yes, we're live and Ted Nugent is playing at the Nut Walnut Springs Roadhouse Wednesday night, New Year's Eve. There are still tickets available. Go to walnutsprings rally.com and grab some tickets and we will see you there. Extraordinary.

[Caller/Guest]

You're extraordinary, baby.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm worth more.

[Mike]

I'm worth more. You bet I'm worth more.

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DJ in San Antonio, Texas. Good morning.

[Caller/Guest]

How you doing?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm good. A 16 Honda HRV LX with only a hundred and sixty thousand miles on it. Now, in the, in the parenthesis, it says you want a price to shop with. What's that mean.

[Caller/Guest]

Prices up? No, I was just trying to see. I've had it since 2018 or something like that. My daughter, she's about to go to college, so I'M trying to sell that and then get something for her, you know.

[John Clay Wolf]

Can you get Pre K on the phone, Turley? Pre K. Yo, yo. I'm talking to DJ about his Honda hrv. And you put in parentheses, he wants a price to shop with.

[Pre K]

Yeah, because he wouldn't tell me what it takes to buy that thing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, dj, do you have a rebuttal?

[Caller/Guest]

I didn't know how much. It's been a while since I went shopping for that thing a while back.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, so Pre K, did you just assume that he was going to take our number and just go to shopping and just use us free? Free insurance?

[Pre K]

Yeah, that's usually what happens.

[J.D.]

That's a GMT buyer right there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Pre K is he's. He. The life has beat him down, dj.

[J.D.]

Amen.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's a beat dog from life. Dj, what do you do for a living?

[Caller/Guest]

Actually, it. Analyst.

[John Clay Wolf]

I t. What? Oh, analyst. Okay, so you work for somebody, you don't give quotes and, and you're actually doing the work.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, but we, we do give quotes as well, you know, I mean, because it kind of go to like different smaller businesses what not dealing with records or whatnot. And like, I. I usually work.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

I work with a wreck. I don't know if you heard of it. It's a gosh game thing. Rack space.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Yep.

[Caller/Guest]

It's kind of like.

[Pre K]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

When y' all give a quote, if you, if you give out 10 quotes, what is your conversion rate on getting the job? And they actually pay like out of 10 quotes. How many jobs you get.

[Caller/Guest]

Out of 10 quotes? Probably about like three or four.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, 3 or 4% or 30, 40% conversion rate. In our world, it's more like a 10% conversion rate because people shop on cars harder than they shop on it. So Pre K's concern is that you're just in it for the shopping. Well, I mean, the thing is, so I entered this phone call and I was going to tell you ten grand and go shop that. And that that bid would not have been a good quote. That, that would have been what? Have you ever heard of somebody lowballing someone?

[Caller/Guest]

Shoot. That have been highballing.

[John Clay Wolf]

That have been highballing. High balling. Right. I was gonna, I was gonna eyeball you just for fun. But I'll give, I'll give four grand if it's a decent car. Yep. 160, 000.

[Caller/Guest]

What I did was actually went on your website and, and I put the pictures and everything on there.

[John Clay Wolf]

So what'd they tell you?

[Caller/Guest]

I think I just got a text message from. Well, I don't know if it's automated text message but basically like telling me what 817 number to hit back with him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep, yep, get with him. Wrap it up. Thank you for calling. My name is John Clay Wolf by Cars of Radio. We're not highballing, we're not low balling, we're free balling. We're real balling with our pricing because we change it weekly off the market because we deal with the market every week. Be right back.

This is the John Clay Wolf show. America's largest weekend morning show. 800, 800 radio. Check out the [e-mail] or john claywolf.com.

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[John Clay Wolf]

Paul, are you there?

[Caller/Guest]

I'm here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are your kids telling you not to drive? Are you telling you not to drive?

[Caller/Guest]

No, the doctors have suggested and I drive. I have lymphedema, if you know what that is. And I also have a heart valve that was replaced in July. They just don't want me running into somebody and killing them or myself.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, how are you gonna get around?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I'm. I'm not exactly obeying what they have to say, but I'm beginning to think about it and bad weather makes me think about it a bit more.

[John Clay Wolf]

I understand. Oh, and up in Maryland, y' all got a. Is the snowstorm hit yet or is it coming tonight?

[Caller/Guest]

Say again. You were a little bit of static.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is the snowstorm up there hitting tonight or is it already there?

[Caller/Guest]

No, it's not falling yet but they sure are calling on three or four inches.

[John Clay Wolf]

So is your truck a four wheel drive or a two wheel drive?

[Caller/Guest]

It's a two wheel drive. I used it strictly for transportation. It was not in any work or nothing like that. It's in good shape. There's nothing wrong with it at all that I know about.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you hit anything with it? Because when people get old they start bumping into things.

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I don't want to Bump into somebody and bump them hard enough where it hurts them or me.

[John Clay Wolf]

I understand, but, like, are there any whiskey dents on the edges? Like, most of the time when people decide they. When their kids take their keys away, they like bump into a trash can and bump into a curb. Just little stuff. Does it have any damage on it?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, I walk with a walker in a cane, so I try not to bump into anything whether I'm ambulatory or whether I'm riding.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, it's a regular cab. Is it a long bed or a short?

[Caller/Guest]

It's a six and a half foot bed and it has a tonneau cover that. And it's never had anything that I know of. It's never had anything in the bed.

[John Clay Wolf]

Does 10 grand buy?

[Caller/Guest]

Might very well do that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

I don't want to trade it in because I don't want to have another vehicle that I have to worry about getting rid of.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, well, I. I'm gonna. I'm gonna help you out because I bet you're not the most technically savvy son of a that I've been on the phone with today. So I'm gonna have somebody just call you instead of asking you to go to the website. Would you rather me do that?

[Caller/Guest]

I would because I know absolutely nothing about a computer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you for calling. I enjoyed the conversation.

[Caller/Guest]

Thank you for hearing me. I listen to you every day.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you, man. See you later. Bye. It's great. I like the fact that he was a good sport. He was going along with it.

[J.D.]

When that time comes, when they say you can't drive anymore, what is that the reaction of John Clay Wolf gonna be? I thought about this seriously, because I was like, man, I don't. Because I like to. You like that freedom, right?

[Mike]

Oh, absolutely.

[J.D.]

I don't know how I'm gonna take it. I really don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

I will just. I don't know, man.

[Mike]

It's.

[John Clay Wolf]

Shut up, Turley. I'm sorry. I shut up doing your weird porno stories and your naked black guys with chiseled chest and you're. What are you gonna do when you die? I mean, what's wrong with you? It's a.

[J.D.]

It's something you have to think about.

[John Clay Wolf]

You need to go outside and go sit on the deck and just think.

[Mike]

To yourself and be one with nature. I talk to customers every week that are in this situation, though every single week there's somebody and neither them or their kids are calling in. Normally it's them. They're taking my car away. I need to sell it every week.

[John Clay Wolf]

Give me a top 10 list of something. Sure.

[Mike]

Something happy.

[J.D.]

Yes. JD only got two minutes.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you're not going to get through it.

[Mike]

We can do this or we can talk about how Ford is now selling cars on Amazon.

[John Clay Wolf]

Nobody. I, I don't, I haven't even looked at that. I'm so disillusioned with that. I mean how are they doing that to their dealer body?

[Mike]

Ford Motor Company has struck a deal with Amazon to sell certified used cars from their dealers.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's got to be. It's just got to be.

[Mike]

Has to be from the dealers.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Mike]

The Amazon auto portal also includes new and used cars from Hyundai.

[John Clay Wolf]

Nobody cares. They just shut up.

[Mike]

Okay, got number 10.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I'll tell you why.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is because it's just another way to get them into the dealer funnel. And there's nothing different. I mean the price that the dealers are going to price it at, Ford's not going to control the market will control. So it's just another section of the newspaper.

[J.D.]

It's like an app. Yeah. They're paying Amazon, who's. Everybody knows Amazon to list their car.

[Pre K]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

And they're making it sound like some technological oh my God breakthrough. I mean they could stick a thumbtack on a bulletin board and offer a car for sale too. Sure it wouldn't work as well and it will work. But I mean, I don't know. When they break the chain of the dealer in Ford, like sells their program cars directly to the public and skips the dealer. That's the headline news. And if I'm misunderstanding this, if that's what's happening, then that's a big deal.

[Mike]

Do you want to hear the cut?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Got number 10.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's sort of Ford putting a toe in the water on doing a deal with Amazon. Hyundai was the first to get on Amazon autos portal about a year ago. And they're selling new cars. Ford is coming with its certified used cars first to see how that goes. It will address these issues that consumers have about the hassles of buying a car.

It's interesting that it's just used cars because it says something about the affordability of new cars.

That people are taking certified used cars.

[J.D.]

As a real substitute.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, no joke, asshole. No, I mean like that's news. People are taking pre owned cars as a substitute to new. No joke. I mean how long has this been going on?

[Mike]

When did this start?

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, publicist who's coming up with ways to get free marketing.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[John Clay Wolf]

Everybody shut up. We'll be right back. I'm worth a lot more.

[Jamie]

I'm worth a lot more.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm worth more.

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This is called. It's Smashing Pumpkins. And it is called.

[J.D.]

It's not Mayonnaise.

[John Clay Wolf]

No mayonnaise. You. When you.

[J.D.]

Drown.

[John Clay Wolf]

Duh. Yep. Good tune. That's a weird dude. The singer.

[J.D.]

Yeah. I think he looks weird more than anything else to me.

[John Clay Wolf]

So. Are you not attracted to him? God.

[Mike]

Like you are.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like you are the boxer and then.

[Mike]

You want to put on a great big screen at night and come in at 3 o' clock in the morning and pleasure yourself. You said it.

[J.D.]

I did not say that. No, I did not say that.

[John Clay Wolf]

J.D. ryan.

[Mike]

Somebody did.

[J.D.]

No.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's the top 10 list?

[Mike]

We have a couple different ones. You wanted the top 10 cars losing resale value.

[John Clay Wolf]

No. No. 2025. Is that.

[J.D.]

Yeah, the 2025 list.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. I mean, this isn't the Jerry Reynolds show. Okay, Kevin.

[Mike]

I just thought it was interesting. There's one certain manufacturer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Let's jam through them.

[J.D.]

As you can guess, on that one.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm sure I don't have Bobbo to jam around, so I'm doing it. J.D. he didn't have the patience. I'm gonna hurt his feelings. For real.

[Mike]

I'll just leave. Let's see here. Top 10 list. Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

When I'm running the board, I've run everybody off.

[Mike]

There's one manufacturer that's on four different spots here in the top 10, though. One manufacturer. Okay, can you guess who that is?

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it German? It is.

[Mike]

No, not.

[J.D.]

Depreciated the most in 2025.

[Mike]

Losing resale value.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right in 2025. This is a. And it's not German.

[Mike]

Nope.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's one manufacturer.

[Mike]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

But it's one of those EV companies. It's got to be Absolutely right. It's Rivian.

[Mike]

It is Tesla.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. That's wrong.

[Mike]

Tesla Model S dropped 16, the Model Y14, the Model 310 and the Model X 8.9.

[John Clay Wolf]

They did not consider Rivian or they did not consider. What was that other one? The most dropped one was that one that went broke.

[J.D.]

Well, for 2020. So they came out in 2025. The one that went broke. They didn't have a 25 model.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think they did.

[J.D.]

Did they?

[John Clay Wolf]

Cuz we made an offer on like 3,000 of them. What was that company called?

[J.D.]

Not Fisker.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, is the other one. But anyway, anyway.

[Mike]

So Tesla, Tesla S, Y or whatever the other ones were X and three.

[John Clay Wolf]

God, Turley, call me crazy, but did you feel that drop? Cuz I kind of believe. I mean the Tesla cars are kind of the ones I trust on the EV side.

[J.D.]

They did drop from. From their sticker of course. But yeah, there's others. Yeah, there's others. That would drop more percentage.

[John Clay Wolf]

JD I think you've got bad information.

[J.D.]

It's from USA Today. So what's the next question?

[Mike]

Oh, you want the other ones?

[J.D.]

Yeah, we got some other 20 top 25 lists for the year.

[Mike]

We have the top six word searches. Some of these I never even heard of. Have you heard of slop? You know what slop is?

[John Clay Wolf]

Slop or flop.

[Mike]

Slop.

[John Clay Wolf]

S, L, O, P. No.

[Mike]

Refers to low quality AI generated digital content.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's like this radio show.

[J.D.]

This is slop.

[John Clay Wolf]

We're slob.

[Mike]

Wait a minute, what else? Parasocial describes one sided emotional connections fans form with celebrities.

[Caller/Guest]

Wow.

[Mike]

Yeah, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

One sided. So they're in love.

[Mike]

They're in love with you, but you don't care about them at all.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well that's been going on forever.

[Mike]

Forever. But it's just, it's following Parasocial now is the tame is the term rage bait.

[J.D.]

Oh yeah. I've heard that a lot this year. Have you? Oh yeah.

[Mike]

Refers to content specifically engineered to spark outrage. Of course, that's just clickbait. We just call it clickbait touch grass.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's Turley in front of the big screen.

[J.D.]

No, no, no. Touch grass. That means like.

[Mike]

No, that's ash ass.

[J.D.]

Like you just go outside and die popular.

[Mike]

It's basically disconnecting from all the Internet stuff and Going outside, me and one with nature.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're gonna get one with the world. One with nature.

[Mike]

Yeah, a couple more.

[John Clay Wolf]

Ted Nugent's playing New Year's Eve at the Rattlesnake in Walnut. He's a touch grass.

[Mike]

Be gonna touch grass, guys.

[J.D.]

Yeah, good point.

[Mike]

People ask how he's. I have people at my Christmas party, a family Christmas party. Hey man, how's he still doing that at 77? Because he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke. He goes outside every day, kills his own food. He does, you know, breathe fresh air and sunshine.

[J.D.]

He touched grass.

[Mike]

That's how he, that's how he's done this. 77. And John was just saying he's amazing. Just his guitar. Oh, good lord is scary.

[John Clay Wolf]

Who wants to go see an old man play rock and roll, right? This one, he doesn't. He's not an old man.

[Mike]

No, he.

[John Clay Wolf]

He delivers like a 30 year old guy.

[Mike]

Laser focus.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, no, it's good, you can hear it.

[Mike]

And then he starts texting you after he was on the air and his text her like that. He just like the energy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I'm wanting to give away some tickets to New Year's Eve. How many we got left? I think, I think I want to give away some to Vietnam vets. And I was like, should we do them comp or through the deal? I was like, just do put together accomplished so we don't have to pay the ticket broker. There you go.

[Mike]

Brain rot.

[John Clay Wolf]

Brain rot is what I did last night when I was laying down to go to bed and I sat there for 30 minutes and watched reels in my bed. And when I woke up this morning and the reason I was six minutes late to the radio show is I was brainwashing in bed looking through reels.

[Mike]

Dead.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're right, that's it.

[Mike]

The term describes the mental drain caused by excessive consumption of mindless online content. And finally this one.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's what we produce too. Yeah, I know.

[Mike]

We got good stuff. Anyway, finally the last one. I, I don't get this one. Even still now six seven, Nobody six seven, nobody does.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's nothing. Where did it come from? The whole joke is that it's not anything. It's Travis Kelsey's number, right?

[J.D.]

No, he's 87.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, different 87.

[J.D.]

Yeah, it's just from a hip hop song guy mentions. I think it's a lamello ball. He's 67 and some reason because he's 67 tall.

[John Clay Wolf]

Here we go. Turley man crushes on African Americans.

[J.D.]

No, that's where it comes from, right? Pre K, am I not? It's the hip hop.

[John Clay Wolf]

I can't remember who the so white, right? Pre K, fill me in. Young white, black male kid.

[Pre K]

Yeah, for show, Charlie.

[Mike]

For show.

[J.D.]

What was the question about seven? Yeah. What song is that Hip hop song is it.

[Pre K]

It's some song by Skilla baby, I think, who's from, like, Philadelphia or something. And yeah, it's.

[J.D.]

It's.

[Pre K]

It's a song about, like, killing people and stuff. So it's kind of weird that it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Took off like this and he's not even getting the credit. None of us even know it is.

[J.D.]

No, that's the crazy thing.

[John Clay Wolf]

If I created a phrase that went that viral, I sure want the credit. That's too bad.

[Mike]

If you just say six, seven doesn't mean anything. Does it mean I don't know what I'm talking about?

[John Clay Wolf]

It really means nothing.

[Mike]

It means nothing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Pre K, what do you think?

[Pre K]

Think about what?

[J.D.]

He's trying to answer the phones.

[John Clay Wolf]

What do you think that six, seven means?

[Pre K]

I think it's a. Is it a gang thing?

[John Clay Wolf]

He didn't a lot.

[Pre K]

A lot of those numbers, you know, like five, deuce, foe, tray, all that kind of stuff. It's all gang related.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, so when people are saying six, seven. What, what. What's the. What's the hidden meaning?

[Pre K]

They're representing a gang and they're also.

[J.D.]

It's.

[Pre K]

It's a devil thing. So all these are praising the devil.

[John Clay Wolf]

Private school that are saying six, seven are repping gangs and Satan.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Pre K]

Be scared.

[Mike]

Be scared. Be very scared.

[J.D.]

That would be funny, but be scared. Parents not doing that.

[Pre K]

Hip hop has taken over your kids.

[J.D.]

I think it's just a funny thing for them to do to. For old people that don't know what people.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, Steve, on with the 2010 Corvette Grand Sport. It doesn't say convertible on here on your listing. And I think all grand sports in 2010s were convertible. So will you verify that with him?

[Pre K]

He says it's got the removable top.

[John Clay Wolf]

But that's not a convertible. So ask him about that and get back with me. Six, seven.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

For show.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. Kentucky. Somebody's calling from Kentucky. The phones are working in Kentucky.

[Caller/Guest]

You dying, right? They working in Kentucky. How are y' all this morning?

[J.D.]

Good.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's up? What's on your mind?

[Caller/Guest]

I'm gonna tell you, that must be a city thing calling swamp. Some kind of technical digit digico digital difficulty. And where are we from? You slap the hogs around this part.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you don't have to tell us about your love life.

[Caller/Guest]

No, I wasn't talking about. I wasn't talking about that female dog.

[John Clay Wolf]

But you didn't get out. Are you a farmer? Are you a pig farmer?

[Caller/Guest]

No. Lord, no. The only hog I will see is on my plate of a morning. I used to, though. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

So quick story. When I'm a kid. I don't know if you were listening earlier when I was talking about that family ranch that got sideways. My grandpa had this place in Burleson, Texas, and he sold some land across the street to a preacher, a different preacher.

[Caller/Guest]

That's the first mistake.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's right. Here we go. And. But that preacher also built houses on the side. And he said, I will sell you this place, but you got to promise never to sell. Build houses. He said, well, Mr. Wolf, I am going to build a house for my daughter and her husband. He said, that's okay. But other than that, nothing.

[Mike]

No more houses.

[John Clay Wolf]

So years later, here comes the surveyors.

[Mike]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

When they're cutting up lots, going to divide them up. He called him. He said, what happened to our deal? He said, well, Mr. Wolf, the Times have changed and man's got to do what his man's got to do. Sure. He said, okay, well, I'm going to cover the entire front row of your house housing development with hogs.

[Mike]

Seriously.

[John Clay Wolf]

And we had about a thousand.

[Mike]

Oh, my God.

[John Clay Wolf]

He called buddy his. It's a pig farmer. He said, charge me to build all these pens. You can have your pigs here for free. And for about three years, it was just covered in pigs in the way the wind blew. Blew right into their deal.

[Mike]

Did they keep building the houses?

[John Clay Wolf]

Never built another house. Never built a house.

[Caller/Guest]

That's what I'm talking about.

[John Clay Wolf]

Paybacks is A thank you, Kentucky, for the update. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. My name is John Claywolf by cars on the radio for America's best car buyer. Give me the vin.com. and I remember there was another housing development down the way. When I started riding the bus, one of the kids was mailing off to me. We're gonna start burning tires in our backyard so y' all can smell that smell. I was like, hell is only like fifth grade. I was like, I don't think we're gonna smell the smell the way the wind blows.

[Mike]

We didn't think of that. You little smart Alec.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Old Sydney Waits, he would dip snuff out of a matchbox. Like, take a little matchbox that you Slide out.

[Mike]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he'd take his dad's snuff in there. And that's the first guy that I ever saw dip snuff out of a matchbox, huff paint out of a gas tank of a motorcycle, and take caffeine pills for fun.

[Mike]

Allegedly.

[John Clay Wolf]

Not allegedly. I saw my own two eyes, okay? I watched him huff paint and fall over. I mean, huff, huff gas and fall over. That was when I decided I didn't want to huff gas as a young man.

[Mike]

Trying to keep us out of the ditch.

[John Clay Wolf]

We'll be right back.

Broadcasting live from the Wolf radio studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf show. Thanks for making us number one. The John Clay Wolf show, America's number one Saturday morning show. Damn, it feels good to say that. Hit him up now. 800, 800 radio one. 800, 800 radio now. John Clay Wolf.

If you're a single salesman or someone that's been, like, trying to get in with me and somehow got my number, please don't text me on Christmas morning thinking about you and your family this Christmas morning. I got about 10 of those on Christmas morning. I'm like all the people that I don't want to hear from on Christmas morning when I'm sitting with my kids. Kids are the guys that are trying to sell me something. I mean, that's a good salesman. But Jesus, I've noticed that getting worse and worse. Thanksgiving also. Do you get any of that? Just people that, like, you're. You kind of aren't communicating with during the year, and then they. They hit you in the holiday morning early to show you their sincere love.

[J.D.]

Yeah, I'm not gonna really get.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, yeah. You don't hear anybody's feeling.

[J.D.]

No, I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings now.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think that Christmas morning on text needs to be there. Needs. Remember how you used not to call somebody on the weekend before 10:00'? Clock?

[Mike]

Correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

And what's the cut off at night time to call people?

[Mike]

Nine maybe.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right. And I think that number has moved down because texting has changed. But I think holiday mornings, Thanksgiving morning, New Year's Day morning, Christmas morning, I think there needs to be a. I think noon for sure. Just let everybody breathe and forget about the family.

[J.D.]

Close family friends, it's fine, too.

[Mike]

You're not a blood relative. Don't text me. Yeah, I'm sorry. Just don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

Unless it's a best friend.

[Mike]

I got a bunch of them, too.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've got some best friends that are like blood relatives.

[J.D.]

Yeah, that's Fine. There's like, you know, chain of friends. We all.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

Do stupid texts and stuff like that for Christmas or holidays.

[John Clay Wolf]

But the guy that's trying to sell you radio, you don't want to hear from him on Christmas morning in that mechanic shop that's been trying to get your business for a year. You don't want to hear from them.

[J.D.]

On Christmas morning or the ones that you do use. You don't want to hear from.

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't want to hear from them either. No. If you're really thankful, just be thankful of my time and leave me alone and just keep the business going. Let's talk about it during the week. Actually, there's a reason that we've never talked about it. You always deal with my people. Right. I. I think that's cool that you got my phone number.

[Mike]

This is the reason.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

Now, what if they say thank you for all the business you've given me.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do that on Monday morning. Yeah.

[J.D.]

That's fine. Right?

[Pre K]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

But Christmas morning, I finally just put my phone in the drawer.

[Mike]

Good call.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just get rid of them so I could be with my family and get my Christmas presents. You know what I got this year?

[Mike]

What'd you get this year?

[John Clay Wolf]

Six shirts.

[Mike]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that one Two packs of underwear.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And a box of Disney pins.

[Mike]

Oh, Disney.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now the Disney pins. Chip Foose this. Actually, I like that a lot. That's a badass present. He Disney pins are these. They're big. That you don't actually use them as a pin. But this pin collection stuff that's going on, you just have to look it up and I'll show them to you. But they're collections, and there's.

[Mike]

They're saying pens, like pen or P I N. Like.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like a medallion thing that you would put on. But they trade these pins, they're very high quality made, and they're different things. But foose, like all the hoods that he did for Ramon in the Cars movie. There's a box and these pins, and they made a limited edition of them, and I didn't know about it, and Jeanette got me these pins, and they're like a thousand bucks.

[Mike]

Damn.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. And there's different. Like, the most expensive Disney pin is like 10,000 bucks. The rarest one. Yeah. So it's like crypto.

[Mike]

Seriously. So they're all like movie pins.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I just have to show you a picture.

[J.D.]

Did she buy them for herself, though, to trade later?

[John Clay Wolf]

What? Ironically, when we were talking to Chip, when he was at the house, he stayed one night we got to talking about this stuff, and I didn't realize he did all this cars animation for the movie. And. And he was explaining and. And so. See that box there?

[Mike]

Yep, I see it.

[John Clay Wolf]

You see the little images?

[Mike]

Little hoods?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, yeah, Right, Got it. Charlie, I'm sorry I left you out. And everybody on the. On the phone.

[J.D.]

All right.

[John Clay Wolf]

All right. Yeah. So that's the box of them. That's cool. But I'd been. There's two shirts I'm missing. They're like blue jean material. And I've been bitching like, somebody steal my shirts. Where are these shirts? And so she got me six of them to shut me up.

[J.D.]

Socks and deodorant and. Yeah, we always get that stuff. But you kind of appreciate more when you're older because you don't go shopping for yourself.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's right.

[J.D.]

And so I was like, okay, cool. Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Into everybody's defense, what do you want for Christmas? I'm like, nothing, nothing, nothing. You got everything. I mean, nothing stuff. So I've got six shirts that are the same shirt. I can never again about those shirts missing because I've got backups now.

[J.D.]

Yeah. My kid got me booze, which was interesting that it's just a partier. I don't know how he knows about what's good scotch and not good scotch, but.

[Mike]

Oh, I wonder how he knows.

[J.D.]

So I got that from him, which is like, all right, that's cool.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

It's something that's not expecting.

[Mike]

It's a dad song thing.

[J.D.]

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And this shirt that I got out.

[John Clay Wolf]

Of JD's closet, you got this shirt for Christmas?

[J.D.]

Yeah, the JD collection.

[Mike]

I don't know who gave that to you, but they were very good taste.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

She was like, I see J.D. wearing those shirts. I'm like, okay, well, just because he wears them, I don't need to wear them. But okay, whatever.

[John Clay Wolf]

So, hey, Jeremy in Nebraska there. Oh. So you bought some cars from us at the last classic and collector sale. You bought that 59 teal Chevy and the white Deuce Coupe?

[J.D.]

Yep.

[Caller/Guest]

The 32 Deuce Coupe I bought.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that still out there in the shop? Has this transporter picked it up yet? We opened the door.

[Caller/Guest]

They think they were supposed to pick it up today.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm looking at.

[Caller/Guest]

They got moved to tomorrow. I talked to Richter and he said that the transport. I said, well, hopefully the fourth times of charm, because they've had three other guys that have dropped the ball on getting them picked up, so.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, the good news is it's not Going down. It's not going down in value.

[Caller/Guest]

No, it's definitely.

[John Clay Wolf]

You know, I had 35 grand offered on that car from the guy that built it in the 80s and I didn't take it. And that was before I repainted it and before I put a new carburetor on it and before we painted the. Repainted the dash and fixed some interior issues. What'd you get for it? 27.

[Caller/Guest]

Well, 27 7, I think with the fees.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. So 28 grand plus moving it. I'll tell you one thing about it is it's got a Shelby engine in it.

[Caller/Guest]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

But those damn Webers are hard to tune, man.

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, anytime you got more than one carburetor, you're asking for a headache.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I mean, we've had to jack with that a lot. We changed the carb.

[Caller/Guest]

I'm hoping I've still got a carburetor guy here locally.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go to my YouTube channel. Are you familiar with my YouTube channel?

[Caller/Guest]

A little bit.

[John Clay Wolf]

Have you seen the one we did on this car?

[Caller/Guest]

No, I haven't seen anything on it. That's why I was.

[John Clay Wolf]

So go to my YouTube channel and watch that and remember the condition that we bought it in. And what it gets back here is before we painted it because I was trying to get away with not painting it, but there's some deep cracks, those big old clear cracks. And I was like, can we spot that in? Spot that in. He's like, we can. I mean we can, but he said there's just too much of it. Just repaint the whole damn thing. So we did. But anyway. Yeah, you can get a good look at them. Do what?

[Caller/Guest]

Sometimes I've gotten lucky on those deep cracks to sand them and repolish them, but sometimes they're just too bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

And on the, on the 59 Impala. Or not Impala. Chevy. Wait, was it Impala? No.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, the Apache.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, the Apache. Hang on. Oh, no, that cars. That. The gray one?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, it's two Tone. I guess it's hard to tell from the pictures, but a shop down there built the truck.

[John Clay Wolf]

That truck's nice.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, that's what, that's what some guys have told me that seen it down there.

[John Clay Wolf]

Was it like a $57,000 truck or $65,000 truck? I forgot.

[Caller/Guest]

50.

[John Clay Wolf]

50. Okay. And we made nothing on that too. I'm telling you, I lost a little bit on this one on the white one and we made nothing on the gray one. You're in good shape on both of them. That gray Truck. You. You're. Any complaints you have about the Deuce coupe? You remember that gray truck deal?

[Caller/Guest]

Remember how much better it got on the other one?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. Just. Just. Just because you are going to struggle with the carburetor. Hang on. Is home home? Teen on Kyle Cuban, are you on the air? Does he have a mic? Over there. Okay. Kyle Cuban, you there?

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, that deuce coupe, did we put new carburetors on it? I don't think so. They're the same carburetors. But then what was the problem? Because we were having a hell of a time getting it started and getting tuned and I had. We had to rip all the wiring out of it.

[J.D.]

I actually burnt the wiring in it.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's right. Alcoholic build. That's why the bill got so high and we had to rewire the son of a. But what was the deal with the carbs? Because your dad came over here and helped us with the carbs. He got it started.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

They're just a pain to tune. Okay. But there's a fuel pressure regulator that it needs. Did we do it?

[J.D.]

I don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'll go look at it. Hey, Jeremy, remember the gray truck?

[Caller/Guest]

Remember how much better the gray truck is, Right?

[John Clay Wolf]

How cheap you got the gray truck? 10,000 light. 10,000 lights. So you're good. So every time you want to cuss, just think about the gray truck. Any. Any recon bills you put on the Deuce Coupe, just add them to the gray truck. It's pretty. It's good. Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

I don't know if one of your guys.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, let me. Hang on. I gotta tell you. Go ahead. What now?

[Caller/Guest]

I sent in a 99 Dodge 3500 with 29000 miles. Did he get you the info on that truck?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, but you wanted 45. You wanted 45 grand for it?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, that's what I've been offered for it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you need to sell it. I mean I just sold you a completely hundred and fifty thousand dollar Resto built truck for fifty.

[Caller/Guest]

Now I get it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now. You're right. If. If I offered on your truck, where you bought my truck, I'd give you 27,000 for the Dodge. That. That's about the same differential. I mean, that's how cheap you got the. For the. The. The 59. Now I. I can't make it that good. It is.

[Caller/Guest]

I couldn't tell.

[John Clay Wolf]

It is.

[Caller/Guest]

It didn't say. I'm telling you the truck have air.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't. It doesn't matter. It's that good. That truck is good. Yes. You're good. Thank you. Oh, and remember I had a Mexican shop lead for a little while, and he put these. We were thinking about changing the wheels on the deuce coupe because it has those wire wheels on it. And you're gonna be unpleasantly surprised when you see the white walls on the tires. Could you tell from the pictures how. How they're set in?

[Caller/Guest]

Vaguely.

[John Clay Wolf]

It was.

[Caller/Guest]

It was hard to tell from the picture.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, it's.

[Caller/Guest]

They're probably gonna get anyway.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right? Well, good. I'm glad to hear you say that, because what we he did is, is he bought white rings, rubber rings that you put on the tires. And he just put them on there for me to look at to see if I wanted to go. White walls. And I said, leave them on there. It's really not my taste, but if you do want to leave them, what you do is you iron the rubber in. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they're.

[Caller/Guest]

They're porta walls. We've done them on Volkswagens before, so.

[John Clay Wolf]

They'Re sitting there, but they're loose. Yep. Well, thanks, dude. Good.

[Caller/Guest]

That sounds great. I appreciate your time. And if I got anything else, I'll send it your way. I've sold some stuff to Dennis in the past, so if I get some stuff, I'll send it to you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay, thank you, sir. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. And coming up next is the lightning round where we actually buy cars on the air. And you can call in during this music break. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Year, make, model, miles, average, rough or clean. Remember Ferraris, Porsches, expensive cars, we buy those a lot too. I've talked about these damn old cars so much. I need to do some videos when we go buy groups of exotics so that people remember that. Because I've gotten so geeked out on the old stuff we've done, here's what really happened. We did so many exotics that, like, turned into normal.

[Mike]

Yeah, that was your normal deal.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I forgot of how much people love those cars. So I need to, like, do some more build up on this. All right, we'll be right back. I'm worth more. You bet I'm worth more. I'm worth a little more.

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[Jamie]

But everybody wanted what he was selling.

[John Clay Wolf]

Check out the podcast.

[J.D.]

He was just some hillbilly who got on a plane and then just landed somewhere.

[John Clay Wolf]

Please beware, the voice in your head is a threat.

JCW show.com or John Claywolf.com now back to the John Clay Wolf show presented by. Give me the vid dot com. Hit him up right now. 1, 800, 800 radio. 1, 800, 800 radio. This is the John Clay Wolf Show.

Joe in Pittsburgh, you're on the air.

[Caller/Guest]

Good morning. Good morning.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey.

[Caller/Guest]

So a few weeks ago I was heading home from Houston, driving to Pittsburgh and I was listening but I was in BFE Alabama and my Obama phone wouldn't connect. You were saying that you're not a high stakes gambler. And it is my testament and I believe I have the evidence to say that you are a high stakes gambler. But I have a question.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay.

[Caller/Guest]

Do you buy vehicles that have been registered and driven in the state of Louisiana?

[John Clay Wolf]

I made my living, I made my first fortune off of vehicles that had been registered in the state of Louisiana. I started buying cars in Louisiana in 96 and Louisiana has been very, very good to me.

[Caller/Guest]

You're a high stakes gambler, my friend. Because I didn't see a car with a bent, with bumpers hanging off, dents, not a straight body panel. If you're not going 90 mile an hour, you're not going fast enough. And I'll happy to be back here in Pittsburgh.

[John Clay Wolf]

You were in the right place. What the hell do you do where you're having a drive from Houston to Pittsburgh? Are you a contractor?

[Caller/Guest]

No, I got a job with a company that's based in Texas working, I work on locomotives and I was in Houston for a week of training and drove my new service truck back to Pittsburgh from Houston.

[John Clay Wolf]

The, the flight would have been cheaper than the fuel bill. They know that already, right?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, they know that but we needed, I needed the service truck here cuz this is where I work.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gotcha. Thank you for calling it.

[Caller/Guest]

Thank you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, here's a comment. I don't know what a 61 comment is. What's a 61 comment? Let me look it up. 1961 Comet. Is it like a grandma car, Drew?

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, it's a Mercury.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it a four door or two door?

[Caller/Guest]

Two.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like on a scale of 1 to 10, how nice is it?

[Caller/Guest]

Nah, it hasn't run in years.

[John Clay Wolf]

I love it. I've been. Thank you for calling. I was hoping you would call in today with this. This is what I'm wanting. Wow. Let's just stop the show. Where do you live? I'm heading to Pittsburgh. Oh, you're in Pittsburgh. Okay. And comment. Do you want more than $500 for it?

[Caller/Guest]

Well, what I was wondering is, is there any desire for things like these? Because I was thinking about putting money into it, getting it all restored and, you know, is it something even worth doing like that or. Because I don't see them and I.

[John Clay Wolf]

Got crushed in the 70s. No, it's not. It's 100% sentimental value, if that's what you want to do. And that's a good enough excuse for most. When you're done, when you're, when you're finished spending 15 to 20,000 thousand on it, it'll be worth six. You said it's two door or four door?

[Caller/Guest]

Two.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Might be worth eight because it's a two. I'm looking at some. No, that's a four door. I'm looking at some comps right now, actually. But yeah, Maybe it's worth 12, but I mean, I doubt it. I wouldn't give it. I, I don't like buying cars high that I cannot sell, that people don't want. I like liquidity. I like desirability. And that is a emotional car. That, that the problem is, you know, you got that car because your granddad had it. But how old are you now?

[Caller/Guest]

52. Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you're my age. Maybe your great granddad had it. So anyway, everybody's dying off the, the care, the desire is dying off that people just don't care. So they don't pay. They'd rather take that money and buy an Iraq. Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. All right. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio gene in Arkansas. Real quick, what have you got?

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, how you doing, guys? I was just listening to you guys banter about this big psychological gumbo, and I was just thinking to myself, all these guys, you guys are so good. I just kind of jumped in the middle of this and I was like, oh my God, this is where these guys been. This is my kind of conversation.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, you, you can find the podcast in the, in the YouTube video. Stream jcwshow.com I'm glad that we keep you entertained, Arkansas. My name is John Clay Wolf and we will be right back.

Broadcasting on air online, anywhere, anywhere you are with a smartphone and an Internet connection. Check out the podcast jcwshow.com or john claywolf.com yo, we're back to the John Clay Wolf show, America's largest.

[Caller/Guest]

It's so big.

[John Clay Wolf]

The weekend morning show.

Is American Idol coming back? Did it ever go away? I know it's coming back, but I didn't know it went away. And is Survivor, did it go away?

[J.D.]

It's still on, too.

[Mike]

No idea.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because this says if you're a fan of Survivor, this is exciting news. Cut 15. What is. Did Survivor stop? I. I don't watch TV.

[Mike]

I don't watch TV either.

[Caller/Guest]

Hold on.

[John Clay Wolf]

Does anybody.

[J.D.]

Oh, no, not like.

[John Clay Wolf]

We have a YouTube video coming up at noon. It's an hour long. Get some popcorn.

[Mike]

I only watch YouTube anymore. Only.

[J.D.]

That's an hour. That's what everybody watches now, is about an hour on Netflix or something like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

Episodes. So this one's an hour.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's an hour.

[J.D.]

Oh, yeah. You're saying it like it's really long.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, it's really long. And it's a little outside of our veins, so, like, our normal people that are just looking to be entertained, I would plan on skipping. Maybe not.

[J.D.]

Well, what?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's a build video. It's the fire chicken. From beginning the original purchase, two and a half years later to finish. That's interesting.

[J.D.]

A lot of people want to know what's going on with that car, but.

[John Clay Wolf]

For an hour, I mean, there's a lot.

[J.D.]

There's a lot to uncover on that thing.

[John Clay Wolf]

A lot. Oh, man. So, but the, you know, I. I see Gas Monkey, they do some full build videos that are an hour long or an hour and a half long, and they get a lot of views. So we tried it. It'll be interesting. Sometimes that YouTube algorithm, like, if you're going outside of your space, it'll punish you pretty good.

[J.D.]

So it's. You're saying it's a lot of tech, like, technical, like.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

Bolts and nuts and stuff like that kind of thing.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. I mean, I tried to keep it entertaining with my stylish stick, but, you know, it's pretty heady. You know what heady means? Yeah, sure.

[J.D.]

The builders out there are gonna like it.

[Mike]

Yeah, yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

But they're gonna like making fun of me.

[Mike]

Survivor is still around. Apparently. Jeff Probst made an exciting announcement how you too, could Be on the new Survivor. But basically anybody in the US and you want to know how to be part of the game show. Cut number 15.

[John Clay Wolf]

Next season, Survivor hits a major milestone. Our 50th season. This is Survivor 50. And to celebrate, we are inviting you.

To be part of the fun. This is your moment.

For the first time ever, we are taking Survivor across America. We've hidden immunity idols, 50 of them, one in every state. Your job, solve the clues, find the add on title for a shot at an unbelievable prize. You can scan the code or go to survivor50challenge.com and be a part of Survivor history.

[J.D.]

That's smart.

[Mike]

Yeah. Hiding things, kind of a little scavenger hunt. Yeah, yeah. And when you find it, you can be part of the show.

[J.D.]

That's not smart. Speaking of part of the show, the chat room is all about the new video finally saying it's coming out. And an hour long is about all they have for attention span.

[John Clay Wolf]

So an hour's a lot.

[Mike]

It's a lot. It's a lot. I won't watch anything that's an hour.

[John Clay Wolf]

The most interesting video we've done, we cut. We recorded last Tuesday in. Oh, I forgot what town in Tennessee we ran up to Tennessee. Did anybody see the one of the guy, Don Baskin, that has the thousand cars under one roof? Yeah, yeah. Did I tell you we went. Yeah, we went up there and visited him and looked at his collection and we're trying to work on a deal with him. Didn't really get anywhere. I did buy one car, but that will be a good video.

[J.D.]

He seems like he's a guy that buys on impulse. Just there's four cars and he just buys them. And it could be all just Typhoons or whatever. At that time he doesn't have like just GM and Pontiac.

[John Clay Wolf]

So what I did different than that. So that, that video that they did, Cletus McFarlane, channel 1320, did that video on him last summer and I think it's got 3 million views. And I watched it and I was like, I'm going to do this different. And I went in, we sat down at a table and talked like business guys. And you're going to like it. So the question of what he seems like you're going to get it.

[J.D.]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And really the takeaway is he's me in overalls. Oh, straight up.

[J.D.]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Straight up. He is me in overalls and 20 years older and 50. 50 pounds heavier and 50 more than that, 100 pounds heavier in a heavy southern draw. But that guy's a Genius. He's a. He. He's a. You know, he looks like a hayseed. He talks like a hayseed. Nah, he's an absolute smart.

[J.D.]

He seems like he's scattered.

[John Clay Wolf]

I bet there's more equity in that car collection than any car collection we've ever looked at.

[J.D.]

Oh, wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep.

[J.D.]

So he's buying them, right? He knows what.

[John Clay Wolf]

Damn right. He bought three while we were sitting there. Really? Yep. Well, you know, I was like, you want to go look at him? He's like, well, they're already here. I'm like, what do you mean? They're down there getting paid at the truck store. This guy has the entire town. He's a hoarder. There's no question. But he's a smart hoarder, so at least he's.

[J.D.]

Yeah. Getting stuff that's going to be. Make money for him.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. You know, he. He said one thing. I said, if you sold all these cars, I mean, there's 500,000 square feet of building there that are under rift with cars, and I mean stacked. And I said, if you sold all these cars, what would you do? Well, that's kind of the problem. I'm afraid I'd start buying again.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he made another comment. He said, when I'm having a bad day, I come in here and it's not a bad day anymore.

[Mike]

That's pretty cool.

[John Clay Wolf]

And I'm like, that's awesome. That means you're not going to sell them. Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah. You're in love with them.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It makes sense.

[Mike]

For as long as they still doing something.

[John Clay Wolf]

I get the same vibe with my. My little thing out here. That is. I mean, I've got, what, 12 out here.

[Mike]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's got 950.

[Pre K]

Jesus.

[John Clay Wolf]

950 on the insurance.

[Mike]

But it sounds like his. His Aw, shucks guy kind of absolutely sets people off.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

They don't realize how smarty.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think he's just been sitting up there in the middle of Tennessee with a fast pay and a thick wallet for 40 years and just buying cars. I don't know. Yeah, I'll give 500. I'll give some grand. I mean, he's just been the guy that they could go trade these cars into over the years, and he's just collected this massive collection, and he's got a ton of equity in it. Tons. And he'll tell you what he paid for it. I gave some grand for that one. I gave five grand for that one. I'm like, that's $20,000 car. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike]

I'm smart.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's got a lot of great ones. He's got a lot of good ones. And he's got a lot of crap. About a third. A third? A third.

[Mike]

I was gonna say 900. You gotta have some crap.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, there's plenty of crap. But there's some. There's some cherries in there, too. Interest that. I think that video is going up next week. I'm excited about that one.

[J.D.]

But don't undersell this one. That's the fire chicken.

[John Clay Wolf]

This is the fire chicken. It's just been in my blood for so long, I'm kind of burned out.

[Mike]

Fire Chicken video.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, the fire.

[Mike]

My God, dude, that's huge. That's been coming on for what, two years?

[John Clay Wolf]

Two and a half.

[Mike]

That is huge.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's just a beat down.

[Mike]

Well, it is for you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Because I'm going to be like doing a video of a two and a half year marriage with a divorce at the end of it and all of the people that were injured during. Exactly right.

[Mike]

Let me see. Let's see. Tiger king.

[John Clay Wolf]

There are 12 people that worked on this car. There are six people that lost their jobs over this.

[Mike]

People love that kind of drama.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you kidding me?

[Mike]

What do you think Tiger King was about?

[John Clay Wolf]

I think you're giving our storytelling and editing a little credit. No, I hope that it is received that way. I think I've seen it so much, I'm worried about it.

[Mike]

I lived it, too.

[J.D.]

You're a little bit kind of jaded about that.

[Mike]

Yeah. There's a difference in living.

[John Clay Wolf]

And when I'm sitting there watching Squirrel Talk, I want to punch the TV screen. I just want to punch the TV screen in the face.

[Mike]

See, you lived the boxing rat. We're just watching the Boxing Rat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Maybe it'll be good. It's going up at noon at John Clay Wolf YouTube channel. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Uncle Ted Nugent is playing the Rattlesnake Roadhouse. Walnut Springs Roadhouse, which we're fixing. Change the name New Year's Eve. There are still tickets available. You can go to Walnut Springs rally. If you're in the area and you're looking for something to do for New Year's Eve. That will be awesome. I would go, what are you playing?

[J.D.]

This is a Blind Melon Drop. This is their other hit that people don't listen to that much.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I love Blind Melon, so I want to listen to this on the way out because I. I did not know there's another Blind Melon head I could fall in love with. Cool. All right. My name is John Clay Wolf by cars, the radio for America's best car buyer. Givemetheven.com.

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

Unchained. Running something like that. Good morning, everybody. It is the holiday weekend and we are live December 27th. How the hell are you? Hey, California, are you up yet? No, wait.

[J.D.]

Yeah, they're up right now.

[John Clay Wolf]

They're up right now?

[J.D.]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are they up right now? Yeah. It's 11 central or it's 1045 central. They start at 10. It's 8.

[Mike]

49 in California.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Good morning, Kayla West. Good morning. KGB in San Diego, the Point in Las Vegas. It has been a interesting week with a midweek Christmas and a midweek New Year's. It's throwing me off.

[Mike]

Well, yeah, it just doesn't feel right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Mike]

Yeah, the whole.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're just pissed off about work. Really.

[Mike]

Because Thursday felt like Sunday.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. You just don't get your real. I. I like it so much better when it's a long weekend.

[J.D.]

A Friday. Keep it on a Friday.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just keep it on Friday. Jesus was born on a Friday.

[Mike]

Even with Thanksgiving, it's always on a Thursday.

[J.D.]

Yeah, it works.

[Mike]

It should always be on a Friday. And. And we know Jesus wasn't really born on the 25th.

[J.D.]

Correct? Yeah. How did they pick the 25th?

[Mike]

I don't know.

[J.D.]

That's a good question.

[Mike]

Yeah. Oh, I'm sure Jack GTP knows.

[J.D.]

Ask. You know what? We should ask that.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, I mean, you don't think. I mean, you can ask it, but it. I'll tell you what I mean. You don't want to get me going on. On AI because I'll. Geek. Dude, I'm so deep in this. This is like my.

[Mike]

Corporately or personally.

[John Clay Wolf]

Both or both.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm. It is. I am my daughter and I've been. She's fixing to graduate college and she showed me a thing. She said, hey, the college I go to is offering a masters in AI.

[Mike]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

For one year. It's one year. I said I would fully endorse that. And I think that you really should do that. Sure. Dude. It is going to. The more you train your AI, your GPT or GROK account about you, the more it remembers.

[Pre K]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It gives you advice. That is so dead on. That is so all. What do you think about a lot jd?

[Josh Whalen]

Me?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Like what are. What are things that worry you? Oh, that worry that you're really thinking about. Chill. Deep stuff in investments in kids and.

[Mike]

Investments in kids and health.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So does your AI. Do you talk to one?

[Mike]

Nope.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. If you get one and start letting it know who you are.

[Mike]

You have a personal relationship with this thing?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. You do? Yes.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Not kinda.

[Mike]

Okay, so different ones.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like, it might be the best advisor I have. Oh my God.

[J.D.]

Did you pay for an upgrade on it?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes.

[J.D.]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

$20 a month GPT 5.2.

[Mike]

And you'll just.

[John Clay Wolf]

You need to tell it about your history, your personal parents, your problems with your mother, your problems with your father, your dump. Like a psychologist.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Your radio career, the Russ Martin days. This thing. What you like about this, what you don't like about this. Your first wife, your girlfriend, your new wife, your kids. The problem with the politics and the.

[Mike]

Kids just rattle on about this.

[John Clay Wolf]

It takes time. But you do all of it.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you teach it what you know.

[J.D.]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then when you ask for its opinion.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

It gives you the best damn advice you've ever heard in your life. There is no reason for psychologists. Well, consultants.

[Mike]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, I've been talking to it so much in the past week about business stuff, I feel like I've gone to a camp. Like where you fly somewhere and pay a bunch of money to some seminar.

[Mike]

For 20 bucks a month.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dude, this is a day I'm, I'm. You trust my opinion on a lot of stuff.

[Mike]

Totally.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm telling you. This is weird. Weird.

[Mike]

Is it scary or is it just exciting? Because there's.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's exciting with the information you're getting from it. But what scares you is the thought and the logical thought and the. The out of this. Not X's and O's thought. And then how that will apply to other avenues and what it will do, it really is going to replace the jobs. It's not just a conversation. It's not just a. Oh, you know, robots are going to get us all. No, this is bad. It's so good.

[Mike]

It's bad.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, yeah.

[J.D.]

There's a lot of professions out there that. I mean, I know when my kid was wanting to go to college, he was thinking of what to do and he told me because of AI, he limited what he was gonna actually major in. He's like, you know what?

[John Clay Wolf]

No.

[J.D.]

What's a job that it's going to be around? And that's why he picked law, because you can't replace that in a courtroom.

[Mike]

No.

[J.D.]

And I was like, well, it makes a lot of sense. But I was. I was like. He was thinking about doing computers and stuff like that. Because there's not going to be a lot of jobs in computers.

[Mike]

No, because of AI is going to do all computer jobs. Are also going to do therapists, as John said, maybe counselors.

[J.D.]

The. The guy. Yeah. The hustle of the consultants. Which. That's a hustle.

[John Clay Wolf]

Anyway, so I just put in my. In my AI. Which of my children do you think will replace me in my business? Okay. Okay. And I've talked to this AI about.

[Mike]

All my kids long enough.

[John Clay Wolf]

Blunt answer. None of them are a clean replacement. Maddox. Strength, discipline, structure. Understands rules, power, institution, JAG law, politics, credibility. Weakness. Is not wired for chaos, speed, or gut calls.

[Mike]

Damn.

[John Clay Wolf]

Nolan. Strengths. Most like you. But competitive, confident, instinctive, charismatic quarterback. Brain weakness. Lazy, academically inconsistent. Discipline, Allergic to boring grind. Exactly right. Cave and strengths. Too early. He's too young. Team oriented. Calmer, less ego. So far. Weaknesses, Age, unknown. Ambition. You just can't call this one. And then it's Tabitha. I mean, just all on, all on. Dead on. Yeah. Yeah. And that's just one thing. You can ask it. I mean, anything.

[Mike]

How long has it taken you to. To.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've been talking to it about 30 minutes a day for. For a year. Like laying in bed, brain rotting. Instead of brain rotting, I'm typing into it a lot, and I'm conversing with this thing, almost like a life coach and a consultant. And you got to give it your backstory and teach it and teach it and teach it.

[Mike]

Does it ask you questions or you.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just have to rattle like it brings up scenarios that it needs to fill in? Okay. Okay.

[J.D.]

So you don't ask it to search, because that's what I use it for, searching.

[John Clay Wolf]

Tell me this, this, this. You can take huge monster spreadsheets, dump it in there. It'll show you the problems. It'll show you the imbalances. You can take any legal contract filings, throw it in there and say, look at this from my point. It says pros. Boom, boom, boom. Cons. Boom, boom, boom. It is. It's. It's weird. But now this new level is getting better and better. The uncomfortable truth you may already, since your business does not survive on inheritance, it survives on founder, speed, instinct, risk collars and obsession. And your kids, unlike you, are not obsessed with the business like you were your fathers in a young age. And you can't teach that.

[Mike]

That's true.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's true.

[Mike]

Boy, that's so true.

[J.D.]

You can't.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

I mean, you can't expect others to care as much as you.

[Mike]

Well, you see it all the time. You see companies that are inherited by the kids and the kids just didn't have the interest and drive.

[J.D.]

They have to care about it.

[Mike]

They really have to care about it. Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yes. This AI thing, I'd get in front of it. I'd get in front of it. Yeah, we are in front of it.

[Mike]

We certainly.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, I mean, we're building our own AI to run the company and bid the cars and everything and it is really coming along well. But I'm just. It's going to cause a problem. It's going to cause a problem. It's going to cause an economic breakdown.

[Mike]

Is what's going to do breakdown Too.

[J.D.]

Much reliable relying on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

No. Think about this. What percentage of jobs are cubicle jobs? 20 or 30.

[J.D.]

30%.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you lose half of those. Just half?

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. So who is going to pay taxes? Who is going to pay car payments? Who is going to pay house payments? Because those people that get displaced, you know, some of them get other jobs.

[Mike]

They gotta find something.

[John Clay Wolf]

There's not going to be enough available and it's going to cause a gap and it's going to cause an economic gap. And the rich people that are on top of the AI, they're not going to have enough people to sell to because there's going to be a meltdown in the economy. I'm telling you. Okay, I'm. I'm telling you, it is going to be a problem. And if the government treated this like they treated nuclear weapons and, and put.

[Mike]

A more stopping on them.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Then they could get control. This, this is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. I'm.

[Mike]

Two years ago he said he was right. This is the most dangerous thing on the planet. And everybody laughed at him.

[J.D.]

How do you govern it, though?

[John Clay Wolf]

I think it's too late.

[Mike]

I was going to say, how do you get the genie back in the bottle?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's going to be bad and then it'll be good. But then, you know, they're like, well, everybody's going to be wealthy and it's going to be. And have a better lifestyle, but who's going to pay the taxes?

[Caller/Guest]

Right.

[Mike]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

If we're all, you know, wards of the state and we're all just on, on welfare because AI is doing it for sure. That's the corporations are going to get taxed to death to cover it. It's going to be the only way to do it anyway. I'm getting geeked out, but I really believe what I'm saying. I wouldn't keep bringing it up.

[J.D.]

Passionate about it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. The more you get into it, the more. I mean, it's like saying, hey, do you smell that smoke? Yeah. There's a fire going on downstairs. Yeah. Well, it's either going to burn this place down. When we burn it down, then we'll just build a better building. Right. That's kind of where they're at with it. It's going to burn.

[Mike]

Wow.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then the nasty. I'm not even talking about the tinfoil hat stuff. Of, of it getting smart and causing wars and causing conflict and all that stuff.

[J.D.]

That's. That.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's probably very real. I'm just not even thinking. I'm just talking from a business viewpoint.

[Mike]

Yeah. From business point.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, dude, it's bad. Anyway, get me off of this. I'm. I get geeked out about this. 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. My name is John Clay Wolf by Cars Radio. For America's best car buyer, give me the vin.com.

From the Wolf Radio studios, it's time for the John Clay Wolf show, America's largest weekend morning show. 800, 800 radio. Check out the podcast [e-mail] or john claywolf.com this is the John Clay Wolf Show.

Morning, everybody. We've got Jamie in Texas who was diagnosed with cancer, and she put her classic Corvette online asking for someone to buy it. And that's what caught our eye. And I called her after. Hey, Jamie there.

[Jamie]

Hi, I'm here.

[John Clay Wolf]

How are you doing?

[Jamie]

I'm great. How are you?

[John Clay Wolf]

Good. So she put this Instagram or social media reel out saying, hey, I've got cancer. I need to sell this thing to pay for my treatment. And what type of feedback did you get, Jamie?

[Jamie]

I got amazing feedback. I had thousands of people commenting, sending prayers, tagging you guys, tagging a lot of people. It was incredible.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's pretty wild. And then you had a fellow that had a similar situation. And at these auctions, like Barrett Jackson and Mecham, they do. They do charity cars. So if you're familiar with these auctions, they'll stop it into a charity car where 100% of the proceeds go to charity. And he said he did this with his car or something like that, and he got a hold of you and y' all are working to have this car sold at Barrett Jackson as the charity car where the proceeds go to your cancer treatment. Is that right?

[Jamie]

Yes, that's correct.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did you get confirmation that that's going to happen, or y' all still. Are they still just working on it?

[Jamie]

We have been in contact. So it was Billy Baldwin who contacted me to help us get the car into the auction, and he has been talking with my husband. And yes, we have been talking with Mike at Barrett Jackson. He emailed us yesterday to receive all of the information for the car. He told my husband that we for sure have a spot at the January 17th auction. We're still ironing out all of the details, but we will be there in Scottsdale in January.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, cool. I'll be there, too. That'll be great. So what, you bring up an interest. This brings up an interesting topic, guys. When you're going through auction results and you see this car that brought two or three times the money of what it should bring, normally that is a charity car, because the charity cars are 100% tax deductible for the buyer. And they know that, and they just give. You know, they start bidding way over. If a car is worth a hundred grand, sometimes you'll see it posted at 200 grand or 250,000. Like, why did that Corvette do so much? Well, it didn't. The charitable cause did. But they don't isolate that from the comps. When you're looking through and show that this was a. They should be tagged as charity cars so people can keep up with the market better. But I think you're going to do real well with that. I mean, especially on that platform, you're going to get double the amount of money that you would have gotten selling it.

[J.D.]

What kind of car is it again, for everybody? Don't know.

[John Clay Wolf]

What is it, Jamie?

[Jamie]

It is a 1957 Corvette.

[John Clay Wolf]

And where did it come from? I mean, why do you have it?

[Jamie]

So it's a long story. I had an Airbnb when. When my cancer recurred, I was having a hard time keeping up with the Airbnb. We listed it for sale, and we had somebody offer to buy the Airbnb. But part of the funds for the Airbnb was a trade, and they gave us that car in the trade, and we just. We just knew that this car was somehow going to bless us. We didn't know that it was going to do this. This has been incredible. But, yeah. So our whole intent from the very beginning was to sell this car to pay for treatment.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, when, like, when you took it in on trade, you knew you're going to sell it for treatment. You. You were diagnosed at that time?

[Jamie]

Yes. That's why we were selling the Airbnb was because my health was quickly declining.

[John Clay Wolf]

So when y' all were doing the math on the Airbnb and you were like, saying, how much cash value did you give to the. To the house sale on the car?

[Jamie]

We gave $85,000.

[John Clay Wolf]

So that's what you figured it in at?

[Jamie]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Gotcha. Well, good. It's gonna work out. I think you're gonna get, especially with all the publicity you've gotten. I bet it gets double that.

[Jamie]

That would be such a blessing.

[John Clay Wolf]

So what type of cancer do you have?

[Jamie]

I have adenoid cystic carcinoma. It's a very rare cancer of the sinuses.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it from taking sinex? Like our parents always told us, if you keep putting that stuff up your nose, you're gonna get.

[Jamie]

No, maybe. There is actually no known cause for adenoid cystic carcinoma. It's one of the very few cancers that is on the rare disease list. It's extremely rare, especially for somebody my age, but I've actually had it for 10 years. I've been battling this battle for a decade.

[John Clay Wolf]

So how did you know you had it?

[Jamie]

I had a tumor that erupted in the roof of my mouth.

[J.D.]

Huh.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you go to the doctor and then they pull blood and. I mean, did they diagnose you quickly or did it take a while?

[Jamie]

It took a while. They. I. It took a while to get into the ear, nose, and throat. Doctor, they did a biopsy, they called me, and they said, well, the tumor's benign, but we need to get that out of there because it's growing in your sinuses. I was self employed, didn't have insurance at the time, and consulted with several surgeons. It's actually between the hard palate and the soft palate in the roof of my mouth, so nobody wanted to touch it. I wound up in Juarez, Mexico, through a long series of events. I had surgery there, and then I came back here and did 36 rounds of radiation, and I was cancer free for five years.

[John Clay Wolf]

And it came back before it recurred?

[Jamie]

Yes, it did.

[John Clay Wolf]

Did they have to cut the top of your mouth out?

[Jamie]

So in Mexico, they just cut the tumor out. Here in the United States, the typical procedure for this type of cancer is they will remove the entire palate, including all of your upper teeth. When I went in for a surgical consult after my recurrence, I was told they could remove the entire palate, part of my nose and my left eye, but that would only give me maybe two extra years. So we opted for quality of life over that type of surgery. I had a one year old at the time, and I wanted to be able to teach her how to talk. And so we have just gone a holistic route. I went to Hope4Cancer in Tijuana, Mexico, and spent a month there at their clinic. Cancer was stable for three years. I recently got very sick. Not sure if it was Covid or what it was, but that's when the spread happened recently again.

[John Clay Wolf]

What do you do now? What's the next move?

[Jamie]

So I'm trying to get into MD Anderson. There is a doctor there that specializes in this type of cancer, and there's been a lot of advancement in the last 10 years. This cancer is deemed terminal, but we don't claim that. There is supposedly no known cure for adenoid cystic carcinoma. But this doctor at MD Anderson has specialized in this type of cancer. I'm connected with other patients that have the same type of cancer, and she just comes highly recommended. We're trying to get into her, but it is out of network with our insurance. So my doctor told me that realistically, we're looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars if we want a fighting chance at beating this cancer.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are they going to have to do a real heavy surgery, like you explained a moment ago, and take your eye and your nose and your palate, your teeth? Is that happening? No.

[Jamie]

No, we're not going to do that. There are some drugs coming out that are proving effective at shrinking these tumors.

[John Clay Wolf]

Wow.

[Jamie]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

How old are you?

[Jamie]

I'm 40 years old.

[John Clay Wolf]

And you've had this since you were 30?

[Jamie]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, God bless you and best of luck. And I really hope that. I have a feeling that you're going to have a good success on that charity raise. How much have you already raised on the GoFundMe?

[Jamie]

We are. I believe. Last time I looked, it was at 8800 something. I can't believe it. It's just an incredible.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think as much publicity has gone on with this. With this viral post on your socials. I think you're gonna get a huge kiss at the big Barrett auction on the cancer thing, because the more people know about it, the more they. They want to do something in. In. Some of the largest whales in the world are in there. Rich, wealthy people. And I. I think it might surprise us all what this car does. And it's not the car. It's your story. You know that already. But they do get a car sometimes. The guys that buy that, like, pay $250,000 for the car. They just tell the. They tell the auction to bring the car back there and just sell it again without the story. I've seen that several times where a charity car will bring 150 grand.

[J.D.]

Yep.

[John Clay Wolf]

And then they bring the car back through the next auction to do it again and they sell it for 50 because the guy didn't want the car.

[Mike]

He just wanted to give him money.

[John Clay Wolf]

Just wanted to give the money. Yeah. Wow. Best of luck to you, Jamie, and keep us updated.

[Jamie]

Thank you. I just want to express my sincere gratitude for you guys, for Billy baldwin, for the guys at Barrett jackson, for everyone who donated to my gofundme. This has just shown me how beautiful humans can be to one another. It's. This has been such a beautiful experience in one of the worst times of my life. So I'm so grateful.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm really glad it got picked up and I think it's going to help you a lot. And best of luck. I think it's gonna be.

[Jamie]

Thank you so much.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'll see you later. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. 800, 800.

[J.D.]

Good Christmas story.

[John Clay Wolf]

Great. Take her teeth, her palate, her nose, and her eye out. That's a hell of a way.

[Mike]

Yeah. I'm so glad she went the other way.

[John Clay Wolf]

What would you do, Jay?

[Mike]

I would do exactly what she's doing. I would go holistic all the way. And I would not go. Shouldn't say that. But that would be my take.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, I mean, would you want to live without a upper jaw, a nose and an eye?

[Mike]

No, I wouldn't.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're just too vain.

[Mike]

Quality of life. Absolutely. Well, you look like I do.

[John Clay Wolf]

We'll be back in a minute. My name's John clay wolf by cars and radio America's. Oh, lightning round, lightning around, lightning rounds coming up. So when I see some cars in there, you got Damien cade. Call in now during the break. 800, 800, 7, 2, 3, 4. 800, 800 radio. Give us year make, model miles. Year make model miles. Average route for clean. And guys that are on hold, stay there because we're gonna get to you in just a minute. We come back after this. So. I am worth more? Am I worth more? Yeah, I'm worth a whole lot more.

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[John Clay Wolf]

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12 Silverado work truck. So is it a regular cab?

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, sir, it is a regular cab.

[John Clay Wolf]

13,000 miles. Are you the guy that called me on an M3 a year ago?

[Caller/Guest]

A year ago?

[John Clay Wolf]

When have you ever called us on an M3 BMW? No, sir.

[Caller/Guest]

No, not an M3 BMW? No.

[John Clay Wolf]

Okay. Because your voice in Colorado just sounds familiar. 12 Silverado work truck, regular cab. 13,000 miles. You're getting hit at around 15. Does it have any rust? Zero rust.

[Caller/Guest]

It looks like it's been garage kept when I bought it. Got pulled out of a garage. Nice and clean. I'd say the exterior is a solid 9 out of 10 at least. Very, very clean little truck.

[John Clay Wolf]

How long ago did you buy it?

[Caller/Guest]

So I've only had it since October. I had an F150 on order since June and I had no updates on when I was going to get it. And lo and behold, about a month later, the F150 showed up after I bought the Silverado.

[John Clay Wolf]

So load this into givemetheven.com let's take a look. I'm interested.

[Caller/Guest]

Yeah, absolutely.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. 81 Corvette. Paint is okay. AC is wonky. Had some cam work done. Just curious. Probably seven grand. Six grand. Five to seven grand depending. They just made too many of those cars. And they're not up in the wind. I mean, I sold a 2000 mile one for 18 grand a year ago in it. Like legitimate 2000 miles. It was perfect. A regular rubber bumper stingray. They're. They swing five to ten grand depending.

[Caller/Guest]

Right.

[John Clay Wolf]

Thank you. Damien, you've got a ghetto sled. An 87 broham with 46 clicks. You want 12 grand? One a couple of car shows, hydraulics and lowrider.

[Caller/Guest]

Yes, sir.

[John Clay Wolf]

You sound. You don't sound like the guy I would imagine to have a lowrider like that.

[Caller/Guest]

Oh, that sounds pretty stereotypical.

[J.D.]

I'm not.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's so fun about it.

[Caller/Guest]

You need it, John. When you roll up at this day, people are gonna go, dang. Then pre K is gonna be bugging you all the time.

[John Clay Wolf]

Do you have. I'm sure you have photos. Have you already loaded it into. Give me the vin.com.

[Caller/Guest]

I have not.

[John Clay Wolf]

Let's do that because I am interested. I don't like low riders because a lot of times people want so much form. But this one is at a price point that I think might move from 12 grand. Yeah. Let's take a look. See what kind of. You got date knockoffs or anything on it or has it got. What are those big wheels?

[Caller/Guest]

I mean, they're kind of like McLean's but. Yeah, yeah, it's got the knockoffs on it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Love cars. 13 are donks 24s and bigger. Is that right? Yeah.

[J.D.]

Pre K is shaking his head yes.

[Pre K]

Yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's your wife look like?

[Caller/Guest]

Which one?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, that's what I figured. There you go. Yeah, I love it. Send me the pictures. Let's take a look. There's a very good chance I buy this from you.

[Caller/Guest]

I can't wait to see any man right next to. To the General Lee boss.

[John Clay Wolf]

That would actually be cool. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Damien. All right, 8008-0072-3480-0800 radio. Be right back. Remember, give me the vin.com if you'd like to sell your car.

You're listening to the John Clay Wolf show.

The guy's a blackout drunk.

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[J.D.]

We now.

[John Clay Wolf]

Return to the John Clay Wolf show, America's largest weekend morning show. Call John toll free 800800 radio and check out the [e-mail] or John Claywolf.com now. John Clay Wolf JD you were asking.

Me what I would.

[Mike]

What would you do? Well, you talked about two Jamie who has cancer and one of the options was they were going to take. Go and do surgery, remove the top of her mouth or nose and one of her eyes. Would you want to live that way? You asked me if I would and I said no. Would you?

[John Clay Wolf]

I would fake my death.

[J.D.]

What?

[Mike]

What? Why?

[John Clay Wolf]

I'd get it done. I'd get it done.

[Mike]

You get the surgery done?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

To live, right?

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

But I would not want. Want to be seen like that. Okay.

[Mike]

So you'd go live in a.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I'd just go live out here and I'd tell my wife and kids they can come out here and see me, but to tell everybody I died, have a funeral.

[Mike]

Wow, that's.

[J.D.]

You think they could go through that. That's a lot to ask.

[Mike]

Well, they wouldn't have.

[John Clay Wolf]

Dude, I, I mean, I know what it's like walking around with a limp and seeing the looks I get with that. I would never want to be public and be stared at every minute of every day, everywhere you go.

[J.D.]

Totally get that. I'm just thinking like from your family, they have to fake a funeral.

[John Clay Wolf]

But I mean, I don't know about, I mean that, that's kind of stupid to say for me, but that would be whatever the, the exact answer of that, that's how I would want to live. I would, I mean, fake my death. I would just disappear. Yeah, I would just want to disappear. I wouldn't go public and say I died in the radio show. If I could talk, I'd keep doing it, but I damn sure turn the cameras off.

[J.D.]

Yeah. Just disappear. That's. I could see that.

[John Clay Wolf]

So I wouldn't want to die. I know, but I wouldn't want to be seen and I would be, I'd want to disappear for sure.

[Mike]

So from the social world, you would just vanish?

[John Clay Wolf]

Absolutely.

[Mike]

This. Oh, he was for a while, I think. I think easy would it have been for him to vanish. John's been to his house, he knows.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sitting in the kids, football games, looking like that. Yeah. Everywhere you go, every dinner you have, everything you do, they're like, look at that, that person. Poor kids, poor wife, poor everything. Oh, poor guy, poor.

[Mike]

Only safe place to go, be Walmart. You'd fit in, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

I would, I would not want that.

[Caller/Guest]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

You just don't want people to feel sorry for you. I totally get that.

[Mike]

You just be stared at constantly and it would be on the top of your mind.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

You go anywhere without getting looks. Of course.

[John Clay Wolf]

Sure. Course. Like when I'm in public, if I'm, if I'm focusing on my walking, I can pull it off where people aren't looking at me, but if I'm being lazy, they start looking. You can just see it, you know, they're like, is he drunk? No, I'm not drunk. My feet don't work and my calves don't work and my dorsiflexors don't work. I'm. I'm paraplegic from the knees down. Really. And I've had these wraps on my feet, so I kind of walk stiff footed and you know, it's just so I've been living like that for 20 years and I've had enough dose of it that I would never want to.

[Mike]

If it was your face.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. I mean, that would make you want to kill yourself.

[Mike]

Yep. I would just go.

[John Clay Wolf]

Would you?

[Mike]

Yeah. I'm not gonna fight it. I would just.

[John Clay Wolf]

You would rather not live a life of solitude than be dead?

[Mike]

No, I would just let. I would let nature take your school.

[John Clay Wolf]

Vain. You couldn't look in the mirror.

[Mike]

It's just. Why fight it? It's okay. So I've got this. We're gonna do this now. I'm also older than you are, but.

[John Clay Wolf]

You'Re gonna die any minute. I mean, I'm like, I don't want to die yet.

[Mike]

Well, you don't.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't want to die.

[Mike]

I think I'm ready to go.

[J.D.]

Well, I'm just kidding.

[Mike]

I'm kidding. I'm kidding.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is that. We got married life insurance to leave.

[J.D.]

It to your wife.

[John Clay Wolf]

Are you.

[J.D.]

No, it's married. He's like, I'm ready for this.

[Mike]

No, I'm not. Oh, my God. Only you guys could take a joke and now get me in trouble. Thanks a lot. Yeah.

[J.D.]

You just married.

[Mike]

And I should have stayed home with Babo today. Just should have stayed home.

[J.D.]

By the way, if you want to go to the GO Fund, me go to the JCW show on the chat room. The link's up top there.

[Mike]

So, hey, earlier, you talked to that guy who had 950 cars. The old guy.

[John Clay Wolf]

The guy Don Baskin up in. Was it Clarksville, Tennessee? No. Something I forget.

[Mike]

Tennessee.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah.

[Mike]

And you said he was. You said what you said was he was a lot like you. You saw him and you just said, this guy is me. And then he went on to say.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, his thinking process and the way he does his business.

[Mike]

Yeah, that's just the way you followed it up with, you know, he's a genius.

[J.D.]

Yeah, you don't use that word a lot either.

[Mike]

He's just like me.

[John Clay Wolf]

No, no, no, no, no. I did not mean it like that.

[Mike]

That's what you said.

[John Clay Wolf]

I did not mean I'm a genius. I meant there's a guy just like me.

[Mike]

He's brilliant.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm no dummy.

[Mike]

No, you are brilliant, actually. That's why. That's why I went by everybody, because you really are.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well.

[Mike]

And I'm not blowing smoke.

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't have to. I know. I'm. I think I've got just enough autism in me.

[Mike]

We can look around and see what you've built.

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, it's not that. It's just. I got just enough autism. Me. I think I've got an edge. But. And I told him the same thing. I Said, you're autistic. What are you talking about? I said, you know exactly what I'm talking about. He just grinned. Yeah, this guy's smart.

[Mike]

Smart, smart.

[John Clay Wolf]

This guy's really smart. And he comes across as just Casey, good old boy. No, sir. He start this interview I did with him in that video is going up next Saturday at noon.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

And he's the guy with a thousand cars in Tennessee.

[Mike]

Just comes off like a good old boy wearing the overall.

[John Clay Wolf]

Absolutely. So really, the. The cars are a byproduct.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

The story is what I liked. And I. And I did a sit down with him podcast style and did a story. Started with $500. And I'm going to guess he's worth 100, 150 million. That's amazing. In a market like that, you got to understand these guys that, you know, make a lot of money in their metro markets, they have 10 million, 5 million people to sell to.

[Mike]

True.

[John Clay Wolf]

He's in a town of 7,000. That's harder.

[J.D.]

Like, small enough where the mayor met you when you guys landed, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, when we landed at the airport, they sent the mayor out to greet us.

[Mike]

What?

[John Clay Wolf]

Right.

[Mike]

Seriously?

[John Clay Wolf]

Well, the guys at the airport were show fans.

[Mike]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, well, they knew that Air Force. The Car Force One. We named the airplane Car Force One.

[Mike]

Car Force One.

[J.D.]

But so this is the biggest thing to happen in town. So the mayor's out there.

[John Clay Wolf]

What's that the biggest thing that happened?

[J.D.]

I mean, if the mayor's out there.

[John Clay Wolf]

It might have been the biggest thing that happened that day.

[Mike]

Here's the key.

[John Clay Wolf]

The mayor definitely came out there.

[J.D.]

John Clay Wolf shows here. The mayor's there. That's. Yeah. Was there a band too, like.

[John Clay Wolf]

Like Blazing Saddles.

[Mike]

They get the fire trucks and give you the arch spray.

[John Clay Wolf]

I didn't realize it because it was when we were leaving, actually, they knew we were there. And then we're sitting there and I got about 10 minutes into this conversation, the mayor and he turned to do something. Both guys that were sitting with me said they sent him out. He came out here. It was not just accident because he was pitching the whole town and the industry. And then it was cool. I mean, it's fun. I like small towns, obviously.

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[J.D.]

Look at the nut.

[John Clay Wolf]

800, 800. Oh, yes. Ted Nugent is playing Walnut Springs Roadhouse Wednesday night, New Year's Eve. Go to walnut springs rally.com to grab tickets. There are still tickets available. 800-800-7234 is the call. In summer in Arkansas, there is a show on HBO Max called Florida Man. I have not seen it. Have you seen it?

[J.D.]

Oh, yeah, I've seen it. Yeah.

[Caller/Guest]

Awesome. It's called.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's Florida Man.

[Caller/Guest]

Stories about these crazy things that happen.

[Jamie]

In Florida that people do.

[John Clay Wolf]

Something is in the water down there besides alligator.

[Mike]

Dramatic representations of what's.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is it meth? Is that what it is?

[Mike]

No, it's. I don't know what it is. People.

[John Clay Wolf]

The people that go there, actors and.

[Jamie]

Stuff reenacting these stories that people are.

[Caller/Guest]

Telling and that has the real people showing them everything.

[Jamie]

There's this one story where a guy.

[John Clay Wolf]

Is on Craigslist trying to get some.

[Caller/Guest]

Money to go see a DJ out of town. And he said, I'll do about anything for $2,000. And this dude calls him, says, I.

[Jamie]

Want you to cut off three of.

[Caller/Guest]

My toes, cook them up and eat.

[John Clay Wolf]

Them in front of me.

[Caller/Guest]

And he actually goes to the dude's.

[John Clay Wolf]

House and all this. That's meth.

[Caller/Guest]

It's crazy.

[John Clay Wolf]

That's meth.

[Mike]

That's meth.

[John Clay Wolf]

It should just be called Florida method. Thank you. 800-800-723-4. We will be right back. My name is John Clay Wolf. This is John Clay Wolf show and we are live this holiday weekend.

[Mike]

When we come back, by the way you talk about Florida, I have an Oklahoma story that is actually. It's one of those only in Oklahoma, possibly. If you want to call John, 800-800-Radio. It's 800-800-7234. It's a John Clee Wolf show the day or so after Christmas show. Yeah, we'll come right back along.

[John Clay Wolf]

They can't tell me what I done.

Hey, the John Clay Wolf show has what you need. Hit him up 800-800-RADIO. And check out the [e-mail] or john claywolf.com presentation.

What's this Oklahoma store you tease.

[Mike]

You talked about Florida people. The Oklahoma people can be just as scary. Actually, an Oklahoma man, if you get a new gun for Christmas, don't go out and just target you without knowing what's behind you. This is a very. It's actually kind of a sad story. During target practice, Oklahoma man recently purchased his new handgun, went out to his porch, start plinking, plinking. And actually one of his bullets, he hit a neighbor about a mile away and killed her.

[John Clay Wolf]

God almighty.

[Mike]

I know, right?

[John Clay Wolf]

A mile away with a handgun.

[Mike]

The. The woman identified as Sandra Phelps was sitting in the family member with a family member under a covered porch at her home in Comanche. So it's about 90 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, kind of out in the country. So you think, hey, I can shoot guns out here.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right?

[Mike]

And the gun just went over the hill and killed her. Just. It's.

[John Clay Wolf]

Could you imagine sitting next to her? No, because they didn't hear it. Oh, yeah.

[Mike]

The story goes on to say she just went, ouch. And then slumped over. She had actually had a child sitting in her lap. I didn't want to get into all that.

[J.D.]

Oh, God. Jd.

[Mike]

My point is, if you get a new gun, especially people that go out for New Year's Eve and think you can fire a gun up in the air and be safe, you cannot. Don't do it.

[John Clay Wolf]

Now, do they have the velocity on the comedown to penetrate?

[Mike]

Yes. The answer is yes.

[John Clay Wolf]

So you shoot a bullet up in the air, and then it, you know, obviously gravity stops. It turns around, it falls.

[Mike]

The reason I know that is in St. Thomas, I was down in St. Thomas, and they shoot guns off like It's World War 3 on New Year's Eve at midnight. It sounds like a war zone. A mile away across the way, we were at a place called Water island, and a bullet came down through the hot tub lid and went into the hot tub.

[J.D.]

Oh, damn.

[Mike]

Yeah, a mile away. Went up, came down, went into the lid. So, yes, the answer is yes.

[J.D.]

So don't shoot your guns up in the air.

[Mike]

Don't shoot your guns up in the air or any other time in this city or anywhere near somebody else. You're still responsible. And this guy's gonna go to jail and probably get manslaughter charges. So you're responsible until the bullet stops. Hey, happy news. On the other hand, here's this. Top 8 Strangest Searches for this year. You want this?

[John Clay Wolf]

Yep. Love.

[Mike]

What the hell is this? La Boo Boo Rave. Anybody know what that is?

[John Clay Wolf]

My wife and my son. Well, she's dragging him along with her.

[J.D.]

That's her Mini Me. Is that what she's trying to do? Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

They have been buying Labu Boo dolls.

[Mike]

It's in a physical event and a viral search term dedicated to the collectible Labubu character, whatever the hell that is.

[John Clay Wolf]

What does it look like? I haven't even stopped.

[Mike]

Which became a global cult sensation in 2025. La bu.

[John Clay Wolf]

I think you buy bulk of it in hopes to get a winner. And, like, a special one that's worth a lot of money. And she's been selling the regular ones off, and they've gone through, like, a hundred of them trying to get the. Trying to. It's like, scratch Off.

[Mike]

Golden ticket.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, golden ticket. Pokemon cards. Right.

[Mike]

Got it. Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

I've never stopped to ask what it looks like or what it is.

[J.D.]

How much are they?

[John Clay Wolf]

I think they're $20 or $10 a piece.

[J.D.]

How many do you have?

[John Clay Wolf]

I don't think we have any. She sold them all.

[J.D.]

Oh, so she's just turning. Oh, she's flipping them.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. These strange people come up to the house. They, like, stand down by the driveway to get their labubus off of the. Because she sells them on Marketplace.

[Mike]

What was the other. Not Cabbage Patch, but the other little toys they had.

[John Clay Wolf]

Oh, the.

[Mike]

Like that.

[John Clay Wolf]

What was those?

[J.D.]

Beanie Babies.

[Mike]

Beanie Babies. Yeah, that's it. So you're so.

[J.D.]

It's the new Beanie.

[Mike]

New Beanie Babies.

[J.D.]

Gotcha.

[Mike]

Other strange searches for the year. 100 men versus one gorilla. Anyone?

[Josh Whalen]

Anyone?

[J.D.]

I've never searched.

[Mike]

Perhaps the biggest meme of 2025. This hypothetical battle sparks legitimate scientific debates among millions of who would win with 100 men or the gorilla win.

[J.D.]

Okay.

[John Clay Wolf]

Hey, I've got a little search for you. So she also. She's nice. My wife is. And sets out a rack on the front porch with chips and Gatorades for the delivery people.

[Mike]

I've heard of this.

[J.D.]

I've seen this.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah, she's been doing this. Well. And the other day, we got to talking. What? Four chips are out there? Because she uses this. She buys bulk of them. Red Cheetos or the regular Cheetos? Crunchy Cheetos, Puffy lay's Potato Chip baked. And one other. Doritos, probably Funyuns.

[J.D.]

Oh, Funyuns. That's a good one.

[John Clay Wolf]

And which one goes the quickest?

[Mike]

Yeah, which one do they like the most?

[J.D.]

I'm gonna say Funyuns.

[John Clay Wolf]

You're such a racist.

[Mike]

What is that?

[J.D.]

What are you talking about?

[John Clay Wolf]

It's red Cheetos. And the. In the. The red. The red Gatorade goes the fastest, too.

[J.D.]

Okay, so fire Cheetos. Fire drink. Red drinks. That's.

[John Clay Wolf]

You don't play that on me. I didn't do nothing. I'm talking about being nice to Amazon drivers and giving them free food.

[Mike]

We got a couple more Gen Z stare. Do you know what the gym Starry.

[J.D.]

Oh, I've seen it for my kid.

[Mike]

A social.

[John Clay Wolf]

What is it from your kid?

[J.D.]

It's just the. Just like. Yes. They just.

[John Clay Wolf]

What about the Gen Z, Gen X slap? What? What gender We're. The Gen Z stare should get a Gen X slap.

[Mike]

Social media term describing a blank, lifeless stare used by the younger generation to React to awkward situations. So instead of addressing it, they just stare.

[J.D.]

Yeah. They won't say anything. And I want a reaction. That's what I'm used to. Because obviously you weren't trying to be funny or something like that. Just looks at you and just. You're like, okay, I gotcha.

[Mike]

Finally. What the heli? What the heli?

[J.D.]

What the heli?

[Mike]

A phrase that exploded in popularity following the release of the single wt heli by the rapper rob 4967 but 4 9.

[John Clay Wolf]

Yeah. Rob 3k. We need an update. We. We need a lifeline on this one.

[Pre K]

Yeah. What's going on? What's going on?

[John Clay Wolf]

What's the. What's the heli?

[Mike]

What the heli.

[Pre K]

What the heli is. It's just another way of saying what the hell. What the hell, Yante. What the helium? What the helicopter?

[Mike]

Of course he would know.

[J.D.]

Oh, speaking of knowing white, black, Latino, other.

[John Clay Wolf]

Let's roll. You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

[Pre K]

All right. It is white, black, Latino or other. I'm a read a couple crime story and y' all can just go around and give me, you know, the general vibes. It goes. Y' all ready?

[J.D.]

Yeah.

[Pre K]

Okay. This week we got a lame trying to spit some game. Our suspect in Tulsa, Oklahoma was taking a trip to the local liquor store. Problem is he have no money. So after chatting with the clerk, he goes to the back and proceeds to grab three handles of taco brand vodka and did the dash, ran right out the store before the cute clerk could come around and say, what the hell you doing? He was out of there. But when police arrived, they had a major clue. This fool left his phone number with the clerk. Same man play is gon play. The cops were able to get his info, of course, and pulled up to his apartment to take him in. And he was taken in for theft over 50. So he's going to be spitting some game in the county, it seems. But was he white, black, Latino or.

[John Clay Wolf]

Other Taka brand vodka?

[Pre K]

Taka brand vodka.

[J.D.]

I don't know that this cheap is.

[John Clay Wolf]

What'S weird, I think.

[Pre K]

Oh, yeah. Plastic bottle.

[J.D.]

Oh, wow. It's really cheap.

[John Clay Wolf]

I mean, it's like, well, vodka, isn't it?

[Pre K]

Oh, yeah, like McCormick.

[J.D.]

This is in Tulsa.

[John Clay Wolf]

So who would go to the rob a liquor store for a 10 bottle of vodka?

[J.D.]

But he's also pimping. He's trying to leave that. He's macking on that chick at the front counter too. Yeah. Yeah, man. I'm gonna go, brother. I'm gonna okay, that's where I'm going.

[Mike]

I gotta go Latino. And he's grabbed the. He grabbed those because they're easier to hold. He didn't really care about the brand. He just wanted some vodka. And they're on the lower level, so he can.

[John Clay Wolf]

I'm going tweaker, tweaker, white, white tweaker.

[Pre K]

Okay.

[J.D.]

Because of the cheap vodka. Yeah, but does a tweaker still mack on a girl? That's where, that's the part that kind of throws it.

[Mike]

See, I'm thinking.

[J.D.]

LATIN lover yeah, they say, they say.

[Pre K]

Meth gives you an appetite for that kind of stuff.

[J.D.]

Man, I don't know. Okay, okay, okay.

[Pre K]

So we got, we got all across.

[John Clay Wolf]

The board, we've got a full gallery.

[Pre K]

Okay, well this week, J.D. you got it. 20, 20 or 22 year old Pedro Salazar.

[Mike]

Hell yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Pedro. If you're tuning in this morning, if you're gonna steal vodka.

[Mike]

Yeah.

[John Clay Wolf]

Get some Goose. Yes.

[Mike]

But come in a handle. You can carry three handles. You can't carry the Goose because the Goose is a big bottle. It's harder to carry.

[John Clay Wolf]

They don't have different sizes.

[Mike]

They don't have a handle. The curse Goose does not. It's glass. Yeah, but Taka, it's just cheap and easy to carry.

[John Clay Wolf]

It's light in Pre K. Why do you know about McCormick's? Most importantly, you never worked in a bar. I mean, Nobody ever orders McCormick. They just say, give me a vodka tonic or a gin and tonic. And being a bar owner from way back, back in the early 90s, that we were loaded with McCormick's. Why do you know about McCormick's Pre K?

[Pre K]

Oh, man, look, I. I had my days, man.

[John Clay Wolf]

Tell me about your days, Maine.

[Pre K]

Well, whenever I was drinking heavy, we used to get a bottle of this stuff called White Wolf vodka. That was the cheapest vodka you could get. Just, you know, black label, White Wolf on the front. And we used to just get toe up, man.

[J.D.]

White Wolf, I've never heard of that one.

[Pre K]

Oh yeah, it's like taka, it's like McCormick. It's like all those cheap vodkas.

[John Clay Wolf]

What made you quit?

[Pre K]

I didn't want to die.

[John Clay Wolf]

Were you drinking that much?

[Pre K]

Dude, I was going hard, you know, like we, you know, we was drinking cheap liquor. 40 ounces. See, my problem was, you know, I would go to the, the cash saver market and get like 2 ounces, 240 ounces for $4 and 20 cents. I still remember. And I get a few 32 ounce of Milwaukee's best as well.

[John Clay Wolf]

Go get them, homeboy. Okay, west coast, hang tight. We've got another hour lined up for everybody else in across the country. You're going to lose the feed. Remember our Fire Chicken full build video starts in about three minutes on our YouTube channel. John Clay Wolf this is a if you've ever restored a car or wanted to restore a car. If you ever want to restore car, you need to watch watch this video because you might have second thoughts. The John Clay Wolf show has been a presentation of givemetheven.com from the Westwood One Radio Network.

[Mike]

Join us again each and every Saturday.

[John Clay Wolf]

Right here for the John Clay Wolf Show.

[J.D.]

It.

[Pre K]

Out.

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