We Like the Cars...the Cars that Go Boom!

John and John sit and talk about car stereos, something that they have both been interested in since the 90's. John A. tells about the Nike warranty. There is a little discussion about the Redneck Brawl.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:35

And this is the gentleman.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Gentlemen's station. Well, it's been a while since we got to record, and really we don't have too much of an idea what we're going to talk about. There's been a lot of people. That's true. I don't believe we have. Um when was what was the last one anyway? Um testimonies. That's right. We did our testimonies. John thought he was going to get kicked out of church. Yeah, my keys taken.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

I just think they haven't listened to it yet. Give it time.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

It does kind of make me wonder how many people are listening. If you're out there, give us a response. We do have a Facebook page, and uh we've asked multiple times for people to give us ideas to talk about. I mean, we're from Southeast Kentucky. Um the London area that's about probably 40 minutes from Tennessee, would you say? Maybe 30 minutes. Depends on how you drive. Yeah, just straight up 75. So anything that might go along with that area or whatever, maybe shout us out a topic that we could talk about. If you're interested in being a guest. Yeah, that'd be nice too. Have some new guests. We're gonna have some in the near future, but we just didn't have one for today. Anyway, we've had some things going on. Um John has started a business. You want to tell us a little more about that business?

SPEAKER_03 2:16

It's business.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

What is it?

SPEAKER_03 2:18

What are you doing? No, we we've opened up another shop doing tinting and wraps, um, which I've done for thirty years now. And uh we're still doing real estate and stuff like that, but we're just uh trying to get all over the place with anything we can do, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Okay. So if you need some tent work done in this area, go ahead and give them a shout out. It's Pro Touch tenting. I guess right now it's part of the Pro Touch dentless.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Yeah, we do paintless dent repair, window tint, um dent wraps, yeah, dentless paint repair.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

Um yeah, I'm doing some dentless dent repair. If you don't have any dents, bring it to me, I'll fix it right up.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Put them right in there. I won't charge you too much. I got one I call the Elbow Lean. Yeah. That's popular, whether you want it or not.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

So um the one suggestion that we had talked about, well, one thing I wanted to say was uh I got my final payout for my house from the tornado.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

And that just happened yesterday. So I guess the guy fixing the house is very close to finishing up. And uh I think all he's got left to do right now are the screens on the windows, and then he'll be finished up. So I guess we'll be getting a gigantic bill right after that.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

Yeah, you've been getting some spiffy paintwork done too, though.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Yeah, but that's different. We're paying paying for that ourselves.

SPEAKER_03 3:54

But it's still in front of it.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

It's really changed the looks of the house.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

It has. Oddly enough, like when I say we did paint work recently, that means my wife and them, because I don't paint. I I don't do it. It's terrible when I do it. It it's awful. But oddly enough, like our color is about the exact same as your living room now. And I just thought that was weird that they chose that color. Did they do that? We chose we chose it. No, I meant at my house. Did did my wife subconsciously see it at your house? And I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

They may have gone to the same place. Uh it was a Lowe's trip. Oh, we didn't go to Lowe's, we went to Proudly Sponsored. I can't even remember that. What is that place down on 25?

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Um, not Sherwin Williams.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Um the hardware store, Ace Hardware, that's where we went.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Yeah, and Brunt's.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

Yeah, they had a little place set up there with all next to Jones Barbecue and Foot Massage.

SPEAKER_03 4:56

Hi.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

It was right there, right next to um all right in a section there with the paint, and it was a certain name, and we just all the paint we picked came from that certain name. Yeah. Like, they kind of all match. But we also had our ceilings painted for the first time ever, and man, it makes a total difference in your house.

SPEAKER_03 5:22

Yeah. You don't realize that like your ceilings were even yellow smokers or not. It's just even if you consistently change like filters in your furnace and all that, like it's just the heat, the burn-off, the ever you know, you know, every after every summer you go into winter, you turn that heat on, you smell that burning smell where all the dust and stuff is in your heating elements and all that. And I think that's probably what causes it. And your your ceilings will yellow and kind of brown just over time. It's like anything else, paint, it's got a shelf life.

SPEAKER_01 5:53

I mean, matter of fact, when we've seen all the the results of the rooms that they have done, uh Katie was coming through there in the living room, which we're not having done, and looked around at the walls and was like, you know. And I'm like, no, no. No, you don't know, stop. Actually, I was like, well, we probably could get it painted, I guess. It would look better.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

It still looks really good though. That paint does. It's held up.

SPEAKER_01 6:19

Yeah, it's pretty good. I don't care to paint. I just um she wanted so much done, and the ceilings, I didn't know I've never done the ceilings, and I didn't know if I even wanted to attempt it.

SPEAKER_03 6:31

If you have popcorn or any kind of texture or anything in the ceiling, it's I mean, you know, all those guys that do it, well, you just use the good rollers or whatever. I don't care if I still use a good roller, it looks like butt. It's just terrible when I do it. It's not my thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

Well, uh another thing I wanted to kind of tell you was remember my Nike shoes that I had. They were they were the ones that had like the air bubbles on the bottom. Yeah. Well, this is actually the third time I've done this, but Nike has a two-year warranty on all their products. And we're not sponsored by Nike.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

I just But we'd like to be.

SPEAKER_01 7:16

I just yeah, I just want people, and I just want people to know that you can do this because it comes in so handy, especially when you buy those shoes that have the air pockets in the bottom. Yeah, like the Air Max and Air Max or whatever. But um I had the ones with the bubbles all the way across the bottom this time.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

The cans or something like that?

SPEAKER_01 7:37

I can't remember what the name of them are, but um, they were the green ones, and one of them popped. So every time I would walk, the one foot would be fine, and the next foot would go all the way to the floor, and it would make a weird sound. And so this has happened before when I tried those Air Max 360s and stuff. When I had those, I'd always have one pop, and I that's when I actually found out they had this warranty. All you do is go to Nike.com, fill out a warranty claim, yeah, and uh you send your shoes in. It does cost about $13 to ship them.

SPEAKER_04 8:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

But I sent my shoes in and they inspect them, and if they agree with your claim, they send you uh a value card. Yeah, either you get you know the full amount or uh what they deem. What they're selling for now to replace them, you know. But if you look at the tongue of your shoe or where the size is, there's a date written there. And if you're within two years of that date, they'll give you money. And I actually got the full price back on those, $190. And I'd had them since not two years. July or August.

SPEAKER_03 8:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

You know, I get a new pair about every six months because I wear them every day and I wear them out, but Me too.

SPEAKER_03 9:03

And I and I started on the Air Max line because being fat, like it was one of the only shoes that just didn't hurt your back and to stand on concrete all day. And I threw away a lot of pairs that blew an air pocket because I had no idea that they had the me too.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

And I tell you where I found out, I went in, I hadn't had these Air Max 360s very long. I can't remember. They were just black, Air Max 360. You know the one that has the solid air pocket all the way across the bottom? Yeah, that's what they were. So one of them busted, of course, and I took them in to where I bought them. Yeah, the ones you're showing me right now are sort of like it. Um, but I went in, took them to uh Hibbits Sporting Goods here in London, and was telling him what was going on and that uh that it busted and everything, and wondered if I could trade them or anything. And he's like, well, it's too late now. Uh as far as in-store and through Hibbits, but Nike actually stands by their products. And so I tested that theory out, and sure enough, they sent me money to buy me a new pair.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

It would be nice if they advertised that, but I understand why they don't.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

Yeah. But it is uh nice to see a large company like that actually stand by their word and their products and you know help you out when whenever they can.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Especially in today's side of society, because you just don't get that.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Right. Um I wanted to talk a little bit today about car stereos. I've been into car stereos ever since I was a teenager back in the 90s. That was the thing, you know, back in the 90s.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

Yeah, back before TV.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

And uh I know that you were in it too. We've talked about it, how we might have crossed paths back in the 90s. I'm sure of it.

SPEAKER_03 11:10

I know we at least saw each other from across the parking lot. It had to happen. Same parking lot.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Um nowadays around here, they they do park in the Walmart parking lot and hangout.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

Kids do, but some of them even have brawls.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Not B R A, but B R A W.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

The Redneck Brawl. This whole redneck brawl thing, I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

I love it though. It's awful and it's it's it's a train wreck, and you don't want to watch it, but you can't you see those videos come across social media, it's like, I don't want to see oh goodness. Next thing you know, if you watched it, it's like, what happened?

SPEAKER_01 11:55

I just wish they would learn to shoot a promo.

SPEAKER_03 11:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

You don't have to cuss every two seconds to be effective.

SPEAKER_03 12:04

That's literally the only thing, and and I get it, it's the whole redneck. But that's the only thing that really bothers me about it. Um as an adult scrolling through an app, if I hear it, I can just swing past it. You know, if I don't I don't have to listen to it. I wind up listening to it because it's just awful and you can't walk away from it. But the thing that gets me is just there's so many kids that if they pop up, they're not gonna they're gonna think it's funny or something and keep listening to it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

And well, you know, I'm okay with the fights. I love MMA, things like that. Yeah. Okay, I'm I'm a big fight person. I'm alright with that. I'm alright with shooting the promos. But I don't know, be a little more specific because it seemed to me when you watch one of those, every single person says the exact same thing with the exact same cuss words. Yeah. And it's 30 minutes. 30 minutes of the same thing, and it just it kind of gets on your nerves. It's kind of embarrassing, really.

SPEAKER_03 13:13

Well, and I mean, and we we both know people that have gone and done those fights, you know, and it's it's kind of honestly what probably got me stopping on the videos when I seen them pop up because wait a minute, I know them, you know. Um again, I think a lot of it's hilarious. Um, and there's nothing funnier than seeing a bunch of idiots fighting the Walmart park lot.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Well, that's got them in some trouble right now.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 13:48

We were thinking about doing an MMA uh episode episode sometime in the near future, but maybe we should do a redneck bra episode instead. Yeah. Billy, Billy, you listen to Billy Hubbard's.

SPEAKER_01 13:59

Really have to use this one button right here. Not that one.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

But every two seconds you'd have to hit that. And it'd be like right now, I can't even find the button, so we'd be in trouble. There it is. Found it.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

Stop looking, I found it. But you know, it's it's it's every state. Tennessee, Virginia, like it's it's it's getting to be a big thing with the redneck brawls, man. They're getting popular. It was bum fights when we were in the 90s. You remember bum fight videos like bums fighting and people putting it on YouTube?

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Well, it's turned out to be a real thing, and uh it's not trained people.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

No, no, it's straight up just load up and leave the holler and let's go.

SPEAKER_01 14:55

And it's funny to think of like the people I know, you know. I've known two people. I know I know one that's already done it, and I I don't know the other one, but I know like relatives of the other one getting ready to do it.

SPEAKER_06 15:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

So I don't know. We'll just have to see what comes about from all this.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

But I I'm not gonna plug anybody or mention them by name, but I'd be glad to have them as a guest if they could control the language a little bit, you know what I mean? Yeah. We got some young listeners too, so right.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Well, that's my fault. I guess I'm an elementary teacher. And uh so if they found out I have this, they could be listening to it, you know, and things like that. So I do try to keep it controlled with what I what we bring on, you know, with who's talking and everything and what we talk about.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

But sometimes, you know, we're not we're not trying to be say be a saint. I mean, it's just let's keep it just keep it decent, you know, just a little little respectful, that's all.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

I just uh anyway, back to car stereos.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

Yeah, how's your mom and them? He told me he was gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

I told him I was gonna ignore it.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

So anyway, car stereos.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

You know what that reminds me of? What? I mean, that's been around for years, but Duck Dynasty, those guys did that for the longest time.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Yeah, didn't they name a dodgeball team or something like that? Your mom and him? Your mom and him, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Something like that. How's your mom and them? Anyway. So what, if you can remember back that far, what was your first car stereo system and can you remember how much it was?

SPEAKER_03 16:49

Um, somewhat. So I've been pondering on this, and I'm going back to my very first. The very first time I messed with radio. It wasn't even a big system, but it was huge to me at that time. So I had a 83 GMC Sierra, and I'm gonna take you back here. I went to Roses, right? And I bought a Roadmaster cassette player.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

And where was that Roses? Corbin. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Roses and Corbin where JC Penny's where JC Penny's is now. That was Roses.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

Uh I actually worked at Roses in Somerset.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

They had a layaway. So I went to Roses. I bought a Roadmaster cassette tape. And uh, I believe it was a Audio Vox um equalizer. Because back then we had equalizers, you know, that's you could adjust your base and it kind of worked like a crossover, but not exactly. And you could get like three watts out of one of them suckers, you know, you wanted that alpine though, I wanted that alpine bat. I actually wound up with that alpine later on, but I wanted it bad. Um, so I had the uh had the radio, the Roadmaster radio, and I swear I think it was $35. The radio was back then. Um the Audio Vox equalizer, which was like $40 or something like that. Because that was that was a big popular thing then. And I horse traded around with a friend of mine who was always trading on something. You know, that guy that shows up and he's always got something to trade on. And I got Krako FX95s. Do you remember them? It was like the square box, and it had like a six and a half, and it had an eight, and it had a tweeter. And they were great if you had like a screaming rock and roll system, but if you wanted bass, but that was my very first that I ever messed with. And I probably had because it it sounds ridiculous now that I put a $35 radio and a $40 equalizer in layaway to get it, but also at the time I was like 15. You know what I mean? Right. So that was it. That was for my first one, and I'm literally, I mean, I guess I might have had $75 and all of it. But and it was bumping then, man.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Before I tell you mine, I worked at Rose's there and you mentioned layaway. I actually used layaway to uh buy Christmas presents for the first time that I actually bought them from my mom and my dad and things like that.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

I remember going to Kmart and you'd shop and early, put them in layaway. That way you can have them paid out by Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 19:34

I put all kinds of stuff in layaway and then made payments on it. And that's for those of you younger than us that don't even know what layaway is, that's what it is. Stores used to have a place where you could that would set stuff back in the back for you, and you would make payments on it, and eventually, when you paid it off, you got to take it with you.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Like at Kmart, you'd shop, load your buggy up the stuff you wanted. Kmart and Corbin, by the way. And you would go to the back of the store. And it was like the service counter up front, but it was it clearly marked on the wall, layoff. And they would go back there and they would ring all your stuff up and be like, all right, it's $196 today. You pay $13. Um, you'll be a monthly payment of this. I think it's weekly. Weekly payment. Whatever, yeah, whatever it was, weekly, monthly, whatever, but uh you'll have it paid out by this date. You have this date to have it paid out by. And everybody, that's how I mean for years that's how Christmas was done by everybody, man. That you left there, you left the layaway counter and you went over to the Olin Mills portrait studio.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

You remember them? Yeah. Nobody had credit cards back then. But anyway, do you remember them credit card swipers? Yeah, they did come out.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

The paper and the sh shoved one of those at Roses and a couple other places I worked.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

Well, my first stereo, uh, as far as like putting subs in, which my first car was a Plymouth Sundance 88 Plymouth Sundance, red four-door. And I can't remember the actual tape deck I put in there, but I got one of those. You'll remember these that you had a handle on it, and you could pull the whole thing out.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

Yeah, pulled out radios to keep people from stealing it, pulled out.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

Yeah, so you can take it in the house with you.

SPEAKER_03 21:20

I had a bunch of those, man.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Then they moved on to the ones you just took the face off, you know.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

But anyway, I had bought me one of those, and um I bought it from Thunder Electronics in Somerset, which is not open anymore. It was a little uh cheap. It was just all cheap stuff.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

So like my first stereo system cost me $300. I got two 12 inch subs, a box, and an amp for $300. Yeah. And that's ridiculous to even think about.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Those were the days.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

But they were uh pyramid for. The clear ones. And uh they did the job for a while. I mean, they weren't the greatest, but it really made an improvement on what I had, you know.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

And so I thought I was really something there, but eventually I started trading up. I went down to a pawn shop, found some earthquakes.

unknown 22:25

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

Remember that earthquakes and crunches.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

I said, What do you would y'all trade for these earthquakes? And she was like, Yeah, I'll take those and you give me so much to boot. And so I was like, All right. Well, I pulled my subs out and brought them in, and she thought I was giving her the box and the subs and all. And I was like, Lord, I wouldn't have anything to put these in if I gave you that. Anyway, she went for it. And uh, so I had the earthquakes for a while, and then uh what was your second ones?

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Did you my first set of subs, and I remember them clearly. They um I don't know if you knew Dwayne Morgan, but Dwayne's still around, but he had places like he'd set up in the flea market and stuff, and he would sell subs, amps, um, like vinyl stickers, stuff like that. Yeah, I think he's actually still around doing stuff like that. But I bought I can't remember who made them, but they were the Hotshot series. And they were pink. The subs were pink, 10-inch uh hotshot pink subs. And I had them on an old, it was an old Alpine, man. I don't even remember what the amp was. Dude, I had them in the back of like an 86 Camaro, third gen Camaro. I thought I was big time then, dude.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

What about those old um California amps? You remember those? I wonder whatever happened to those.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

I don't know. Um those were popular back then. Uh it was California.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

It was they had the Malibu, you know, and uh can't remember what some of the other ones were called.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

I'm trying to remember, um, and don't hold me to this, but I almost want to think that company was bought out by like Memphis. That was like the early Memphis series.

SPEAKER_06 24:18

If I'm not mistaken, I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_03 24:25

I could be wrong on that. I've been wrong before. But my first real set of subs. Um and I don't know if you remember them or not, but the Pioneer IMPPs.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

I don't remember that series.

SPEAKER_03 24:42

I mean, I obviously I know what Pioneer is, but the Pioneer IMPPs, they were like the granddads, man. That was the one, that was the the everybody wanted the IMPPs. And then that phased out probably two years into the IMPP series, but that's when Orion came on the scene. Yeah. And Orion was big then, man.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Well, for me, in my day, Orion was the top dog.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:11

So like I ended up starting to work for a guy over there. Um his name slipped in my mind right now, but I'll think of it in a minute, but he he owned the Radio Shack over there, but it was it was also a Audio One was the name he had above that. So he had like Radio Shack stuff in there as far as little parts for electronics, which we still need that.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Oh, dude, I'm gonna do that. I don't know why. Amazon. I mean Amazon and eBay killed stuff like that, but it it and it it got to be to where you'd have Amazon warehouses and they would literally they stock so much stuff that they get it so cheap, like a mom and pop store like Radio Shack, just they can't buy it cheap enough to sell it. You know, something that you can order on Amazon for six dollars and get two right now, if you remember that was $25 at Radio Shack. But in the same sense, just like the headphone situation, needing a good adapter for a headphone set, you gotta order online and hope it works.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

Yeah, um after those earthquakes, I ended up selling those and I bought a set of those uh Orion cobalts. Those were pretty good. Yeah. That was the low-end Orion. And I always wanted them big beast amps, though. I never I never could afford one of those. But I always wanted one of those, or even any of the red HCCA amps. I never could afford one of those. But um, I did have a Alpine amp at one point. It's kind of funny how I acquired it. Now that I think about it, it was probably stolen.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

Statute of limitations.

SPEAKER_01 27:16

But I was uh sitting out working on my, I was at my cousin's house, and to park at his house, you had to park on the street. So I was out in the road in the trunk, and you know, when you're in the trunk doing stuff like that, people knows what you're doing. Well, this car stops. He says, Hey man, I'll sell you an amp. You need an amp? I was like, what have you got?

SPEAKER_03 27:38

That was stolen as can be, boy. I can already take.

SPEAKER_01 27:41

I was like, what have you got? He's like, I got this alpine right here, it's a pretty good one. He said, I'll take uh 50 bucks for it.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

I was like, just got it.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

I'll take it. And so, you know, when you think of back in that day, Alpine was a big name. And uh I thought, you know, that was probably stolen.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

My first real amp was an alpine, uh, the V12 Expert, the 1505, the big one. I had to run dual fans on that thing, dude. It would get so hot, but that thing was a beast.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

I also had a Sherwood, remember those? Oh yeah. Sherwood amp. Um PI bag. Newer stuff. I've had Memphis, and right now I'm running that DS8 DS-18. Right now, my biggest problem is a box. I need a box. The box I have is not very big. It's for a RAM quad cab, which makes it even worse.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

But it's for the quad cab with the toolbox under the seat, which kills the storage or the airspace, and yours doesn't have the but finding a company that makes a box that doesn't have the toolbox.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

It's been very difficult. But I did find one on eBay, and I'm not gonna tell. Well, I just told them. I hope she's not listening. Oh no, I'm just hoping nobody gets on there and buys it. But unless they're sending it to me, if you're a listener and sending it to me, that'd be awesome. Send that in care of. But it it's a ported one and it's got about double the airspace as what I have right now. Anyway, I've had my stuff in different vehicles, you know, that Plymouth Sundance, and then I traded it for a 1987 Rally Sport, Chevy Rally Sport. That was probably the first car that I was kind of proud of. I mean, I was proud of the Sundance because it was my first car, but this this one looked like a sports car almost. Yeah, so I was a little more uh into that one, I guess. And uh I had it for a while and then I saw this mini truck. Yeah, it was a Nissan, it was only an 80, 88, 87, something like that. I think it was an 88 Nissan, had ground effects on it already, bed cover. It was nice, and so I ended up trading that car for that truck and uh started pimping it out, that's what we call it back then, anyway. And uh I was the first one in town that had a gear shift that lit up.

SPEAKER_03 30:25

It was neon shift, a neon shifter, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Yeah, oh yeah. Um anyway, started driving it around and everything, and I was building a box, getting a box built for the back end, because back then we would port those beds. You probably you take a sawzall and you just cut you a big hole in the bed and then cut you a big hole in the cab. Yeah, I made this rubber gasket piece that went between.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

Yeah, a blow through is what they yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

But man, those boxes they can make any sub sound good. Oh yeah. I worked over at the flea market there in Somerset and sold junk, like it was through Audio One, but it was junk. And so XS Force was one of my bigger sales. It was cheap. Those speakers, when you looked in the catalogs to buy them, were like three dollars a piece.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Back in the Crutchfield days.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Yeah. And uh, well, this wasn't Crutchfield, this was more of a JC Whitney. Sort of like a JC Whitney, but it's it's four businesses, so you're getting it at a at cost. And so I actually ended up buying stuff through that, through another lady that I became friends with at the flea market. She would give me her tax ID number and let me order stuff from there.

SPEAKER_06 31:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

But anyway, um, XS Force was the kind. It had a magnet probably two and a half inch round. It was little, it was junk. And I'm talking about a 12.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:06

Maybe a hundred watts. But I had a guy put these in one of those boxes and he drove it up to that place I was telling you about that radio shack, which was all glass on the front. And he turned that on and it was vibrating that glass. Spencer, that's his name, the owner. And pure junk. Spencer was like, Man, he's gonna break the glass. Tell him to turn that down. And I said, Hey, all he's running is XS Force. He thought I was lying.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Ain't no way.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

He's like, There's no way that's what that is. And I ran out and took him out there, and sure enough, that's what he was running, was those XS force. Now he blew them doing that. Oh, yeah. But uh that box could really tear it up. You don't see that much anymore, unless you're just really into car stereo.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

Oh man, they've got a setup. I'm trying to think of what they call it now. Anyway, I've went blank. Let me think on this for a second. Go on with your story.

SPEAKER_01 33:07

You know, I while working at that flea market, I don't know where they came from, but he brought this set of six by nines in. Sometimes they have them in the doors now. Usually my truck has all four doors. If they're a bigger truck. But these six by nines had a magnet as big around as the actual speaker. Maybe a little bigger. Because I think I actually had to like lean them to get them into the box. I built two six by nine boxes for those and set them behind my truck seat. That's what I had in that truck before I was able to get any subs. And they rocked. And I can't remember what brand they were, but they were really good ones. I wish I still had them, to be honest with you. Um, I'd put them in my truck right now, but they rocked. I looked that company up, by the way, the California Amplifier.

SPEAKER_04 34:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:16

It says that in uh 2004 it became CalAMP, which I didn't even know it was still around at that time because I hadn't seen any. And then in 2016, uh it acquired Lojak.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

Like the anti-theft Lojak.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:39

That's a big purchase.

SPEAKER_01 34:41

It's to bolster their uh connected car services. And then we they turned into CalAmp Ion and eventually went bankrupt in 2024. But I really wanted to know more about the the amps. Like, where did the amps go? You remember they were white. Yeah. They were so sweet looking.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

So this is kind of the thing. It's called a stunt wall. And it's you see a lot of the kids at the truck shows, they'll have listen to me talking like I'm a grandfather. They'll have the stunt walls, and it's gonna have beds. I am a grandfather. Yeah. I'm not 92, but yeah, the stunt wall is the big thing now.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

I've actually seen that picture before.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

I don't know where, but I mean it looks like something that should be on a stage, you know what I mean? Yeah. That's the thing, though.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

I don't know. I still enjoy it. I enjoy listening to music that way. Um, Rayleigh likes it.

SPEAKER_03 35:39

My wife hates it.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

My wife hates it.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

You it's too loud, you're too old.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

Turn that down. I don't see how you stand it. You think the neighbors want to hear that? I don't care if the neighbors want to hear it or not. Yours is really bassy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:54

So that it's it's all base. We like the cars that go boom. And mine, mine was a little more difficult to navigate because it had yours is a RAM too. It didn't have the the special stereo system that the premium sound did it.

SPEAKER_03 36:13

Mine didn't have the premium sound.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Yeah, mine did. So I had to buy a special adapter.

SPEAKER_03 36:19

I got the EBT version.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

Now, do you have the head unit? Is it factory or did you put one in? No, that's factory. How did you wire yours?

SPEAKER_03 36:29

Um we tied into the uh back speaker wires with a um I didn't went blank on what they're called.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

I just call them an RCA adapter. I don't know what they are either. Yeah, that. Uh I had to mine had to go in back behind this actual low-level head converter or something. It's some kind of a converter. It was expensive. Yeah. It was over a hundred dollars. Um, but it came with that, and it came with another piece that you put in to block the listeners on the premium sound stuff or whatever. I don't know. It's yeah. At first I thought that's what was holding me back on mine.

SPEAKER_03 37:12

Well, it's like back in the day, if you had a Bose system, but you wanted to put a system in or change your doors, like none of it would work. You would have to run all new wires and everything because of the Bose system, the amps. It was just a nightmare. Yeah. And the infinity, I think, like the Jeeps that had infinity, I think they were the same way. Like you could just change it out.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

It's still the same. That's what I'm talking about, those premium sound systems, because it said, I did a lot of research before I did all this, and they were like, you can't put one in your truck because it has, or if it has the infinity sound, you can't do it. Or if it has the I don't even remember what RAM uses. My last one might have been Bose or something.

SPEAKER_03 37:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

I don't know. Whatever RAM has. I have the EBT RAM.

unknown 38:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

It said, uh, you know, if you've got this, you can't run it. And I'm like, you have to be able to run.

SPEAKER_03 38:07

Yeah, somebody's figured it out. You know that into a truck.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

That makes no sense at all. I like mine. Uh I'm not getting near what I should. I'm running two uh DS-18s 10-inch on a 3,000 quatt DS-18 amp.

SPEAKER_03 38:28

I really like that amp.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

Uh I didn't think I was ever gonna get it working right. My first one actually burned up, but they replaced it. Yeah. Um because I didn't run enough power to it.

unknown 38:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

He said, it's not. He said, are you old school? I said, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

He said, you about 40 20 years too late, bro.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

40 something years old. I said, yeah. And he said, uh, well, it's not like running those. He said, you gotta have more power running to it to run it.

unknown 38:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

If it's pushing 3,000 watts, you need to really be pushing it.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

You're gonna have to have a capacitor or something.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

I had to buy a capacitor. I bought a big one, and it seems to work. But my box is just holding me back on it.

SPEAKER_03 39:17

And we know that's it because we put mine in your truck and it was absolutely unreal. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:25

I may think about going ahead and buying that one, but we need to see what this payoff is on the house first.

SPEAKER_03 39:31

Think about it, somebody else is gonna buy it. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Well, again, I have the EBT ram. Um, I don't have luxury system or whatever it's called. I just got the old cheap bighorn, but my stuff is all scar in mine. Um subs an amp. I love the subs, love the box. I'm not the biggest fan of the ramps. Like an idiot, I've bought three of them. But that uh 2000.1, that monoblock amp, I I mean it's great, but it just to me the clarity's not there that I want. It's just you don't the old school amps that had to me they had a way better, you were talking old school, but they had a way better um like a low pass filter and stuff in them, crossover it.

SPEAKER_01 40:23

You know, I have thought about hooking the old one up in the garage to see what it sounds like on those. Yeah. But then I the ohm load, I don't think it could handle it.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

YOLO.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

It'd only been once because it would blow it up.

SPEAKER_03 40:38

Yeah. But then of course, there's always been stuff that's better than others. My my kid recently, man, he's just got back into stereo stuff. He's put one twelve in his truck in a ported box that just you couldn't hear my truck sitting next to it. You hear how loud mine is. Blows my mind. But his is like the competition, yada yada, yada. I'm not a big 12 fan, but it it made me want to upgrade.

SPEAKER_01 41:03

I wish I'd gone with 12s instead of tens.

SPEAKER_03 41:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

I've always had twelves. I've had a lot of both. Well, I say that, but I had some tens too.

SPEAKER_03 41:14

I've had a lot of both, but to me, I just like the sound of tens better. I I feel like you might get more out of a 12, but tens have more of a tight sort of lows. Not the store, but like low base that I like better. That they're cheaper.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Probably the most disappointed I've ever been. Um was when I went to the car stereo shop. I ain't gonna say the name of the shop or nothing. And had them install it and tune it up and everything, and I left. And I was like, I swear it is not working. And sure enough, it wasn't. It was not working. It was my factory sub that I still left hooked up that was doing everything. That's why I was like, it sounds no different than what I had before.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

You know my story on that.

SPEAKER_01 42:08

Yeah, and it's the same thing, it just wasn't turned up enough. Um, and that could have been right when I found out that amp was going bad and cutting out.

SPEAKER_06 42:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

I don't remember. And actually, I actually think it was. So it probably had a lot to do with that too. But I left thinking it was gonna like blow the doors off, and I was like, it's the same as before. It doesn't sound any different.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Well, these dudes tune with a voltmeter now. You know? It's like back in my day, we had ears for that. You know what I mean? No, we didn't hook it to something to tell wad edge and adjust it. Because that's great. I mean, you're probably tuning it to a safe frequency that I'm not gonna blow anything, but I spent all this money, I want to hear it. If I blow it, I'll buy another one. I came to tear some stuff up.

SPEAKER_01 43:00

It's funny too. I'm at the point now where like I do like listening to it, I do like having it loud sometimes. But there are times that I just want to sit in peace and quiet where I'm getting old, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 43:17

What are you space knobs for?

SPEAKER_01 43:18

I just want it to be quiet, and then Rayleigh wants to crank it.

SPEAKER_03 43:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

So like it's 7:30 in the morning or something, and we're on the way to school, or earlier than that, because I have to be there by 7:30. But uh it's seven something in the morning, and we're on the way to school, and she's wanting to crank that up as loud as she can. And I'm like, just let me think.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

She wants to get her wo-vicky on.

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Well, um one other thing, I guess we had talked about Orion. I did end up with a set of those at one point. I got them with my Employee discount. Um, I could kick myself for what I did, to be honest. But I bought those the red ones, the DVCs, XTR, and I didn't have an amp. But I'd spent every dime I had on those two speakers.

SPEAKER_03 44:20

You get the subs, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:23

Instead of waiting, saving up a couple more weeks or maybe another month or whatever. Impatient. I got impatient. Somebody offered me a trade for two hot setups made by O'Rion.

unknown 44:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

And an amp. And I thought, you know, this is an upgrade from what I've had.

SPEAKER_03 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:45

And I can't afford what I want. Two Orion made subs with an amp. So I made that trade. And that's one trade I wish I'd never made.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

He knew what he was doing.

SPEAKER_01 44:58

And the funny thing is, is that was to a kid, he was as spoiled as could be. He uh got anything he wanted from his grandma. She lived over here in London, actually. And everything he bought came from that Sound Garden or whatever that was over here. Yeah, Mike Moody. And she bought every bit of it. And he's the one that talked me into that trade.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

They sold a lot of uh volcano stuff back then too. You remember Volcano? Yeah. They sold a lot of that there. They used to be in Corbin too, and then they wound up up here in London.

SPEAKER_01 45:35

I can remember where it was. It's right over there close to the North Arrow, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 45:40

Yeah, where the van house by the where the van house was over there. They used to be down. Oh, didn't they? Yep. They started off, Mike started off downtown Corbin in a little shop.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Well, um. You have anything else you wanted to add about it?

SPEAKER_03 46:03

Not that I can think of off the top of my head.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Well, um for some future shows, uh, I think we have discussed this.

SPEAKER_03 46:14

We're gonna talk about marketplace and how we don't like people.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

We can talk about marketplace right now if you want to. Um that's a whole episode, I think, because of the way you're you've traded and bartered and things like that on there, but I can't ever get anything to sell on there.

SPEAKER_03 46:35

It's 50-50, dude. I either make out so good or I get the I posted a set of uh stock golf cart wheels the other day. And I put it was the stock golf cart wheels, tires are decent, new hubcaps, you know, the eight-inch factory wheels I'd hook off because I swapped, I traded around and got those new ones. Instantly I get a guy start messaging me. He's like, Man, I'll take it, I'll take it, I'll take it. And I was like, okay. They're yours. Man, that's a good deal, $100 for a golf cart. No, back up and read. Oh, my bad. I don't need the wheels. Lord. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna sell you a.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

Well, if you get any of them hundred dollar golf carts in, I'll take one.

SPEAKER_03 47:22

I'm gonna buy everyone I can get my hands on, son.

SPEAKER_01 47:25

I'll give them out at Christmas. Anyway, we had discussed, I'll just go ahead and tell anybody that's listening. One day, my daughter sat down here and was just playing one night, and she hit the record button and started recording an episode. Now it turned out where she just started out the episode about 50 times. Every time there was a noise that interrupted her, she restarted.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

It was a good start though.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

But it sounded pretty good, and I got an idea of hey, maybe we let her and her two or three of her friends do an episode get on here and do an episode. And I thought, uh surely they could come up with enough stuff to talk about. I don't know. I think it'd be kind of neat. We could advertise it as what it is, you know. If you want to listen, you listen. If you don't, you don't. The kidversation. But she's really wanting to do it, and so probably around this summertime or whatever, uh I'll have them do that.

SPEAKER_03 48:30

But I think we should do a live on location episode at camp.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

I think we will.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

We can have multiple.

SPEAKER_01 48:38

I actually had planned on doing that. Taking this stuff, set it down. We could we'll probably record two or three while we're down there, to be honest. Um so I I think we're gonna have Gary back on.

SPEAKER_03 48:52

Yeah. Um and we are still playing the Sasquatch Hunt. Still playing Sasquatch Hunt.

SPEAKER_01 48:59

Gary Bryant, I think, is gonna come back on, talk about his um books and upcoming book, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

His um Tornado interviews.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

The tornado interviews, and he's also doing a couple plays right now, and um his his own podcast, which is basically just it's a dramatic reading of his first book. So if you didn't want to buy it and read it, you can just go on there on his podcast and listen to it for free.

SPEAKER_02 49:31

Yeah. Sorry, Gary.

SPEAKER_01 49:33

Um, I'm sure he'd rather you buy it, but you can at least get the book out and follow along while you're doing that. And I've done that before, by the way. Yeah, I'm a big listener and not much of a reader.

SPEAKER_04 49:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:46

Uh I have been reading recently where I've gone to Clear Creek and things like that, and they give me articles, but for some reason I'm just interested in that stuff. It's weird.

SPEAKER_04 49:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

Uh, and I I really never have enjoyed reading.

SPEAKER_03 50:02

Um depends on the subject for me. Some things I get really into, and then some I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:07

Well, it's funny. I started I kept thinking podcasts. Who wants to listen to people sit around and talk and ramble? Yeah. Well, I started listening to one, and I think what got me started was um the one about the the constables over in Somerset.

SPEAKER_06 50:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

That's where I'm from, and all the corruption they had done and everything over there. It was so interesting.

SPEAKER_03 50:32

Mini truck podcast that got me into them.

SPEAKER_01 50:34

Well, then I started another podcast, and I was like, that's pretty good. And I thought, even though I'm gonna try to listen to a book. And I can't remember what the first book I got, but I got me a book and listened to it, and I was like, that was good. It's like watching a movie in my head. And I have literally been addicted to you remember like books on tape. Yeah, and I never got into that. But I have literally been addicted to uh audiobooks ever since. Even like if I get a if I get a book in school that I have to read, I always look to see if I can find the audiobook to go along with it.

SPEAKER_03 51:17

Yeah. Um I just wait for the movie to come out.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

And I know the Bible app. The Bible app has it. I don't use it, but where I have um Audible, I think, I've actually downloaded the ESV version read by um Scottish lady. It's really cool to listen to. I can't remember her name, is why I said a Scottish lady.

SPEAKER_03 51:43

I just pictured the red-headed green kilt.

SPEAKER_01 51:47

She's the one with the that does the singing and the choir stuff, um, the hymns. She's got the new sing hymnal out. It's her, her and her husband. Anyway, uh, but she's one that reads that one, and then I've got an NIV version that's dramatized, so it's like watching a movie.

SPEAKER_03 52:06

See, that would probably be cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 52:09

And uh I use it all the time. Of course, I get those books.

SPEAKER_03 52:14

I'm a big fan of uh uh different like crime books and yeah, the true crime podcast and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 52:24

Yeah, it's it's just it's been really good. I've I don't know, I've just really got into it. But anyway, we'll have Gary on here and talk about his books. I'll talk about mine a little bit. And he can uh what I was gonna tell you is he can talk about the uh book signing that's coming up soon here in uh southern Kentucky, his first one in this area. And it seems like he's had a lot of attention on that Facebook ever since he started that up, so it could turn out to be a good one.

SPEAKER_03 52:54

I finished my first book. I'm gonna read another one.

SPEAKER_01 52:57

Did you? Uh I think I'm gonna set up at that book signing, see if I can't sell some of mine.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

Elemento.

SPEAKER_01 53:05

Yeah. Anyway, uh if you could think of any topics out there and you're listening and you want to let us know, here's something I'd like to hear y'all talk about. Whether it's, you know, it can be religious from the Bible. Uh, it can be anything in our area. Um there are there are some things I really don't want to talk about because it's being run into the ground and I won't mention their names or nothing.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

Or the politics.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

But there's things going on in this area that's just talked about so much you get tired of hearing it. I mean, there's nothing you can do about it.

SPEAKER_03 53:46

Yeah. I mean, it's beating a dead horse, but anyway, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

I ain't gonna say nothing because people around here may be listening, and I don't want them saying we were talking about people. You know, I'm not trying to make anybody mad. I just but we did the cartels that one time, but yeah, that's about it.

SPEAKER_03 54:09

Air Force One. That was pretty funny. That was pretty funny. Also, something I'd be interested in, um I'd be interested in getting some feedback on is going live during an episode, whether it be TikTok live, whether it be Facebook Live, is that something people would be interested in? I got the face for radio, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't do video. You know what I mean? Just saying, you get some feedback. If that's something people are interested in, let us know somehow. Reach out to us on Facebook, The John Versation.

SPEAKER_01 54:42

Um You mean you think people would want to see my daughter Rayleigh trying on donated coats?

SPEAKER_03 54:49

I think that would be hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 54:51

Because that's exactly what she's doing right now.

SPEAKER_03 54:54

They could have almost seen her shoot her face in the face with uh compressed whipped cream while ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:00

She made her a dirty soda. She's tried to be as loud as she can be during this to try to get on here.

SPEAKER_03 55:09

But can you reach um can you not email through like Buzz Sprout and stuff like that? You can.

SPEAKER_01 55:13

You can email through Buzz Sprout. Uh I'm pretty sure. Well, no, I think that might have been a sponsorist thing they tagged to all of our shows. I don't think I can tag the email. I'll have to look and see. It may be on there. I don't know. Yeah. Actually, I do think it says contact us or something on it.

SPEAKER_03 55:33

Yeah. If not next episode, maybe we can hand out the email or something.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

And it'd probably be good if you put in the info line, you know, or the what is it? The title line. What's it called? Title. Yeah, C C. Whatever that line is before the message, put in there the John Versation, so we'll at least know what we're looking at because I do delete a lot of emails every day.

SPEAKER_03 55:59

Well, I mean, and with any email, you're gonna get bots and stuff like that. So Right.

SPEAKER_01 56:06

Well, I guess it's time to wrap it up. This has been the John Versaation. Podcast.

SPEAKER_04 56:16

Kicking the door. Turn off the top, turn off the station. Real stories all the time.