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The Drivers Wanted team covers road trips, boom or bust tourist stops, and their favorite landmarks along the way. The team talks about E-bikes and the controversies and safety risks involved finish out our show. We also introduce two new segments:
1. Ask Doctor Todd where listeners can ask Todd questions about their medication or concerns regarding medication they are taking. Listeners can email questions too: askdoctortodd@gmail.com
2. Don’s Deep Dives, where Don takes a deep dive into a subject that has been plaguing his mind for days.
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You're listening to Driver's Wanted Radio. On this show, we cover some of the most amazing vehicles, from classic cars to the latest in automotive technology. We also take you on the road as we meet some of the amazing people who make this world better. So buckle up and enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to this edition of Drivers Wanted Radio. I'm Andre Sabolette with me in studio Todd Glynn and all the way from Virginia Beach, Don Manigley. How's it going, guys? Hi, Andre. Don, um, you know, it's such a pleasure to have you take a break from your beautiful vacation to be with us. Thank you.
SPEAKER_05I am I am happy to be here, Andre. I am staring at the beautiful ocean beach out my hotel window as we speak.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's nice. Yeah, I'm a little jealous. Uh I get to see skyscrapers from my window.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I'll take the skyline today. Uh it's better than it was last time with the smog. So yes. Much improved view. We couldn't even see the buildings last time with the uh uh haze from the uh wildfire. So it it is much better. It's not quite Virginia Beach, but it is nice. Um so I'd like to welcome uh everyone to the show today. Uh we're excited for another episode of Drivers Wanted. But today I would like to give a nice warm welcome to Philadelphia, to Mr. LeBron James. Welcome to Philly, King James.
SPEAKER_09Woo!
SPEAKER_08Yeah, very excited. And although we're not a sports show, I think it does have something pertaining to cars. I think the parking lots will be very full come NBA season.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I think uh congestion on uh I-95 and then 76 is going to increase on uh Sixers Game Day. Definitely gonna have an impact on the traffic.
SPEAKER_08They can guarantee sellouts for the next two seasons. It's a it's a wonderful thing. I'm very excited.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen. We're gonna leave it at that because we don't want to jinx it. But uh it's exciting. It's exciting times. Um so today we're gonna continue our conversation about road trips. Uh particularly, we're gonna go over our dream road trips, and uh we're also gonna touch a bit about health. We're gonna circle back to that with a segment on e-bikes with Todd. Um but we're also gonna introduce two recurring segments that uh we're looking forward to. So with that said, uh I think we're gonna get started with the road trips, right? What do you got, Todd?
SPEAKER_08Oh, okay. Well, I mean, I I thought about this one a lot when we started talking about it. And I'm not a coastal road trip kind of guy. I'd like to go through the mountains, probably New England, fall, see the leaves change. Although we get enough of it here, I don't think I can get enough of it. I'd like to head up probably through the White Mountains and then take a long drive probably all throughout New England. Probably would like to do it in a Wrangler with the top down, but bald head. I'm concerned about sunburn. That's where we're gonna go in the fall. But I will say, I I was living in a hotel for 11 months. I had a major house fire back in 2023. And while we were living at the hotel, there were two guys that showed up and they had BMW touring bikes, and they said they were gonna go on um a cross-country bike trip uh that they had dreamed about best friends forever. And I got to see them at the beginning of their trip and then at the end of their trip, and I was really jealous. That's something I never thought about doing in my life, but by the time they got back, I kept thinking, man, that's something that must be really cool to do in your life is take your best friend, go across the country, and just take your time and see everything you can. And I really left that experience thinking, hmm, that might be on my bucket list.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I definitely uh want to get a bike at some point and uh maybe two, and one of them might be um obviously like there's like your day-to-day bike, like something smaller, like a cafe. But if I'm gonna do a road trip, I want something comfortable, and one of the BMW uh T BMW has a good lineup of touring bikes, and also you know, Honda is pretty uh notorious for having uh some like the Honda Goldwing um is a great touring bike. And it's not it's not quite as heavy as like a Harley.
SPEAKER_08Th these were beautiful. I mean I hadn't not had a lot of experience seeing anything in BMW in the motorcycle realm, and uh they were beautiful, they were roomy for a motorcycle, plenty of room to pack enough for on your ride, and I mean I was jealous. Uh Don, what's your dream road trip?
SPEAKER_05Well, before we jump into mine, I do want to say, Todd, that if you ever do get to take that road trip up to New England, I highly recommend if you're a hiker, you need to hike Penobscot Mountain in Maine. It is amazing.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Uh I will say I'm not much of the outdoorsman these days because of some health issues, but I m would probably try some of the easier trails because I do like a good view.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, this is uh this is a bit of a uh I don't want to call it treacherous trail, but it's uh it'll make you sweat. Let's just say it.
SPEAKER_08It'll give you it'll give you a cardio workout. I don't like the word treacherous when it comes to anything. I think I'm past the treacherous point of my life in my 40s, but I appreciate the recommendation, and I'm sure somebody out there will appreciate that recommendation.
SPEAKER_07Todd will do the Todd will do the walk-up trail to the trail. It'll go from the parking lot to the trail, wave, and then um So Don, what's your dream road trip?
SPEAKER_05I had to think about this real really hard because uh because it's not a question I often ask myself.
SPEAKER_07Also, you drive a Batmobile, right? So it's gonna be hard.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. So I mean the Batmobile is built for uh every type of uh you know road that you could be on. Mountains, desert, everything.
SPEAKER_08Not the Batmobile you picked. Yeah, yeah, not the 89. Maybe the tumbler, but not the 89. That's that's a flat road Batmobile.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it's strictly a streetcar.
SPEAKER_05Very true. Um, but anyway, um speaking of my road trip, I would say first of all, I'd want to pick probably either a Land Rover or maybe a Hyundai Tucson as my vehicle. And I could see myself driving up to Niagara Falls, honestly, because I feel like, yeah, there's other ways to travel up to Niagara Falls, but if you're gonna go big, just go big or go home. I mean, get get in that get in that SUV, drive up to Niagara Falls, whether you go to the New York side or the Canadian side, just definitely go to the Canadian side. Enjoy the trip.
SPEAKER_08Enjoy the trip. I I've never been to the New York side. I've only been to the Canadian, and I was eight at the time, so I really can't remember too much of it.
SPEAKER_07I mean, remember getting soaked. The New York side is nice, but if you're gonna see like the uh Niagara Falls, the Canadian side I I'm pretty sure is the one that they recommend. Um also another great spot uh not too far from there uh in the area is the Thousand Islands in Canada. That's beautiful. Um You can see who the most traveled of us is. So I was only well, I was 17 when I when I drove through it and never stopped. Uh, but I would like to. Um so yeah, I think my dream road trip. If we're gonna talk Hyundai, Don, and you like the Tucson, why not the Santa Cruz? Because that's basically like a Tucson, but it's also like an adventure uh vehicle.
SPEAKER_05Um it's got the I the I I might have considered using the Santa Cruz in that case. Yeah, Tucson's just just the first one that kind of comes to mind because of its similarities to the Land Rover.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, look at the um the Santa Cruz. Yeah, do your research, Don. Yeah. Uh no, the Santa Cruz is nice. It's basically a Tucson with a truck bed in the back. It's a small truck bed, so it's not really like a pickup truck. It's more of like uh the uh Subaru, like whatever that was, Baja? Yeah I think the Baja. Um which I I don't understand why Subaru would ever discontinue that vehicle. It was successful and it looked great.
SPEAKER_08And it really fit with their adventure lifestyle of Subaru's. It was a perfect fit for that line.
SPEAKER_07As a whole, I feel like Subaru is just like making nothing but SUVs now. And even like their most successful vehicle, which was a wagon, is now an SUV.
SPEAKER_08Basically now it just a small SUV, which really hurt my heart a bit. Well, I think it hurt everyone very much.
SPEAKER_05More and more people are driving SUVs, I noticed. I mean, they're all I mean, they're all over the place.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, they they're literally everywhere. Um but I do think um Outback purists are not happy with it, and I have seen like kind of some negative feedback on that. So we'll who knows, maybe it'll it won't last long, but everything is uh an SUV now. But um yeah, bring back the Baja Hyundai, don't discontinue the Santa Cruz. Um and listen, Chevy, make an El Camino. Bring those back. Bring back the El Camino. That would sell like hockey.
SPEAKER_08I I guarantee you if they made an El Camino version of Like when Ford made the the remake of the Thunderbird and brought that back for a while. I think the El Camino might fall into that like retro.
SPEAKER_07You bring it back every few years. Yeah you don't make too many of them, you make them exclusive, and I think you can sell. So anyway, uh enough about me giving uh let's hear about your advice trip to giant automotive companies. Uh my bucket list. So I would love to do like a tour of like the Midwest, up through the Grand Tetons, and then into Canada, and then up and over uh down through like Montreal and then back through New England. Uh it would be a long road trip, needless to say. It is a long road trip. It would be like a month, but uh even more maybe. Um but I think that would just be great. And this is like obviously if like time and money wasn't a factor. Um and I think as much as time as money would not would have to not be a factor for that one. Yeah. Uh I would have to have disposable time and income. Um so uh definitely a dream road trip. Um or one that I would have to do in segments. Uh but I think for that, as much as I like sports cars and as much as I like uh being low to the ground, I feel like the length of the trip, the terrain and everything, I would need something more comfortable. And then depending on the time of year, I would definitely need something more uh man not maneuverable, but um utilitarian. Um you need something with four-wheel drive. Right, right. Especially if I'm gonna go do the trails that Don wants us all to do. Apparently. He wants us all climbing the mountains. Yeah. If I'm gonna go play Billy Gut with Don, I'm gonna need uh something to get me to those trails. So I'm thinking Land Rover Defender. That's what that would be me, uh my choice. Land Rover Defender with the like panoramic sunroof that I can open up and get that convertible feel, uh, but also close it up as needed. Um and then it's also like a good uh camping vehicle. Like the back you can turn into like a little sleeping area with like the tents and all that stuff. Yeah, I forgot about that. You can.
SPEAKER_08You pop it pops up like almost like a little pop-up.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you can have the um they actually have like a modular tent that you can put up on the top of the roof when it comes with like a little ladder. You can climb up and um Well, there you go. Sleep in that. I I also, you know, Jeep, we're still talking to you here. Uh the Wrangler would be great as well. Um uh the Wrangler doors off. Um so those are my two choices for that road trip. But then also if I'm gonna do a quick one, maybe uh up the Pacific Coast Highway through the Pacific Northwest into uh you know the Seattle area. And for that, I would have to go with my uh you know, Porsche 9-11 Targa. Always back to the 9-11. Yeah. It's uh, you know, it is a uh a car that that calls my name everyone.
SPEAKER_08At least your predictability falls with uh I mean luxury and consistency with the Porsche.
SPEAKER_07I am nothing but predictable. Yeah. Um so yeah, I mean I I love road trips. I I think the the coolest thing about road trips is um going to a place that you've never been to before and just not only just getting to your destination and enjoying that area, but all the things you see along the way. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Speaking of things seen along the way, I took a different route here today from Northeast PA, and it took me so far out of my normal path that Google Maps was showing nothing but green as far as I could see on the way here, which was nice, except for that looming wonder of if I was actually heading in the right direction. So I just had to trust the GPS and just enjoy the view of all the nice trees around me.
SPEAKER_07Fortunately, the GPS didn't take you through one of those uh closed highways that PA has. No, it it did take me out in an unusual way, but I got here. Um so, Todd, uh you have a segment for us.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I have a little bit of a let's call it a game show segment. Uh how do we all feel about tourist traps? Are you stopping at the world's largest thimble? World's largest rubber band ball.
SPEAKER_05Why not? You only live once. You've got to experience everything.
SPEAKER_07My rule is if it's ridiculous, I'm going. Okay.
SPEAKER_08So re ridiculousness is a factor. Yes.
SPEAKER_05The more ridiculous, the better, yes.
SPEAKER_07The more ridiculous, the better. Okay. Um I do have a photo standing under what I think is the world's largest carrot in New Zealand. Um it was made of metal. But it is a carrot, and uh I mean, we had to go see it.
SPEAKER_08Okay. So would it only take a sign to get you there? Or do you have to have like pre-knowledge of this? Like if you're going A to B, you see a nice sign.
SPEAKER_07I'm I'm doing I'm I'm I'm doing it in real time. I'm not looking up these road these tourist traps. I'm looking at the sign and I'm going, so you're pulling off as soon as you see this. I see the sign, I'm going.
SPEAKER_08Real-time decisions. Yes. Last minute pull-ups to these world's largest and world's only.
SPEAKER_05Um I I will say that when I was driving to Virginia Beach uh just the other day, we were passing by this uh this spot called Slaughter Beach. And I kind of looked at my girlfriend who was in the passenger seat and I said, Babe, do you want to stop at Slaughter Beach? It should be fun. She was just like, keep driving.
SPEAKER_07Well, at least they advertised. Yeah. Uh whether it's an advertising or a warning, um, you know, it's good to have a sign.
SPEAKER_08Well, we get back, we'll play our game. Let's go to our first break.
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SPEAKER_08Welcome back. Welcome back to Drivers Wanted Radio. We are gonna take the time now to play a game called Let's Go No Go. The game show where getting there was not part of the plan. Rules are simple. Getting there is optional. Getting there is definitely optional. I'll give you the name of a tour stop in the U.S. say let's go if you think it's real. No go if I made it up. I left out town or city names to make it even more difficult. Stop number one. The Haynes Shoe House.
SPEAKER_05I say no go.
SPEAKER_07Andre. I I don't think it's real. I say no go. Eric, what are your thoughts? Sounds real to me.
SPEAKER_08Eric gets the win located in York PA, 25 foot tall, whimsical shoe. Once advertised, was an advertisement for a company, now serves a vacation rental. You could stay and become the the old woman who lives in a shoe for the night. Nice. Nice. That might be something fun to do with the family. All right. Question number two. Let's go or no go, Pothole State Park.
SPEAKER_07Alright, I'm gonna go with this one because it sounds so ridiculous that it has to be real.
SPEAKER_05I'm also gonna say go.
SPEAKER_06I'm also gonna say go. This sounds like one of those like satirical places you go to.
SPEAKER_08It's actually Archibald Pothole State Park, and it is in located in Archibald PA, nearly 40 foot deep glacial pothole, thousands of years old, and Pendot shows no signs of filling it in. So they just it just formed on the road and then just became a park? No, it's it's a 40-foot-deep hole made by a glacier.
SPEAKER_07But was it like on a road? No. Oh, okay. Okay it's a state park. Well, no, I was thinking I was thinking that like this, it was like a cave in on like a road, and then they were like, let's just build a park around it.
SPEAKER_06I was starting to get concerned with the legality of calling it a state park because I feel like then you run into troubles of like, you know, the feds are gonna call it because you can't call it a state park if it's not a state park.
SPEAKER_08It's thousands of years old. It's been there before we built roads. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Stop number three, the bronze cheesesteak.
SPEAKER_06This has to be real. It it sounds too filly for me to not be real.
SPEAKER_07So I'm gonna think that it's somewhat real. Then the the color might be the the trap here. So I'm gonna go maybe.
SPEAKER_05I don't know if there's a maybe uh, I'm gonna go.
SPEAKER_07It's real, but it's not called the bronze cheesesteak.
SPEAKER_08Okay, we gotta let's go, a let's go. And what's Don say? I will also say let's go. Oh, I'm sorry. Although there's no dedicated statue to our favorite Philly food, I will be starting to go fundy, possibly to change that soon. We'll create the bronze cheesesteak right outside the studio. All right, number four, the banana split monument.
SPEAKER_06Now it depends if we're talking about the ice cream or we're talking about the mascot band, because I believe that the ice cream won't be real, but the banana splits statue is probably not real.
SPEAKER_07So I'm gonna go real. It's real. Okay. Food stuff, I feel like is real, except for obviously the cheesesteak thing.
SPEAKER_05Uh I'm gonna say go as well. Yeah, I I think it's real.
SPEAKER_08Oh, you guys are all right on this one. Out in La Tropie, not only known for their beer, is also the birthplace of the iconic Sunday. I did not know the Sunday was born in Pennsylvania. Apparently, so it was something that I learned new this week.
SPEAKER_07I I do big one for Pennsylvania. I do know that they were called Sundays because I think some of the shops only opened on Sundays, or something like there's something to do with like the day, but then they spelled it differently. Um but anyway, don't quote me on that. This is not an educational show.
SPEAKER_05You're holding me accountable for the history of the Sunday. See, we are not just known for soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, we are known for banana splits.
SPEAKER_07Um The fountain of youth is number six. Let's that's that's gotta be like a a it's not an actual fountain. It's like uh some sort of it's the fountain of youth, but it's like a play place. Let's go or no go.
SPEAKER_06I'm going to say let's go, but it's probably a tourist trap. I'm gonna I'm gonna say no go.
SPEAKER_05I'm also gonna say no-go.
SPEAKER_08All right, Eric again gets the only win here. Fountain of youth, located in Allegheny County's North Park, constructed in the 30s. It's one of the oldest roadside oddities in PA. It looks like a little train tunnel, actually, from the pictures I found. Is it actually a fountain? I could find no data to say whether there's a fountain inside.
SPEAKER_07The fountain of youth is a tunnel.
SPEAKER_06It's very tourist trappy.
SPEAKER_08Yes. It's one of the oldest, apparently. So, number six the Westinghouse Atom Smasher. Oh, that's gotta be real. I would say it's real.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I would say it was real.
SPEAKER_08Yep, it's not the newest professional wrestler. It's a large hot air balloon shaped structure, it was one of the first. Particle accelerators in the US gives off serious nuclear winter vibes. If you look at it, it looks right out of a nuclear winter video game.
SPEAKER_07Is it functional still?
SPEAKER_08No, no, it's laying on its side.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it definitely looks like nuclear winter. But so they do nothing to preserve it, they just encourage people to go see it.
SPEAKER_08It's just over the side. All right. The space acorn.
SPEAKER_06That's fake. Oh man, it sounds so Taurus trap, but I'm I'm gonna go against my regular here and I'm gonna say no-go.
SPEAKER_05I'm with those guys. I'm gonna also say no-go.
SPEAKER_08Wow, okay. We got three no-go's, and you're all wrong. I'm sorry. Let's go to the space acorn. It's a life-sized replica of a UFO that reportedly crashed in Kexburg in 1965. I'm a little less concerned about the aliens and more concerned about the squirrel that's that big enough to come and get that acorn.
SPEAKER_07Maybe the uh the aliens were squirrels.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Either way, very large acorn. Anthropomorphic rodents. There we go. Um stop number nine, little loch ness. That's real. That has to be real. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, that has to be real.
SPEAKER_08I'm sorry I made that one up. Wow. What? If you want to go see Nessie, you're gonna have to go to Scotland. Although we have our fair share fair share of lakes, definitely not one of them. That would have gotten me. I mean, well, it did. It did get me. It did get you. All right. The Museum of Land Deeds.
SPEAKER_06That is so specific that it has to be real.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm gonna say that's definitely real. There's definitely like a giant catalog of deeds somewhere.
SPEAKER_05I'm just gonna be the odd man on this one and say it's not real.
SPEAKER_08Well, I didn't feel I didn't fool Don, because that is definitely not real. A lot of our iconic documents are located in our state archives, historical societies, in various museums. There is no one dedicated museum. For land deeds. You're good at this. Apparently, I'm really good at making up fake ones. Plausible fake ones. Plausible fake ones, yes. All right, here's number 10, the last one. The Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_06It's probably like a name for a real life place. So I'm gonna say yes on the merit that it's probably like some ravine or cavern that's been nicknamed the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'm gonna say that too, and it's not as impressive.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna agree with that.
SPEAKER_08All right, you're all right. Also known as Pine Creek Gorge, it's 47 miles. Stunning views, outdoor activities, beautiful, just like it's Arizona Brethren brethren, without the scorching desert heat, though, and the barren landscape. How deep is it? Is it is it really is it? It's deep. Oh. It does vary along the 47 miles, but it is definitely worth the go.
SPEAKER_07Well, that is something awesome. That that's something that I wouldn't even consider a tourist trip. That's actually somewhere I would like to road trip to. That's where I why I ended it with that one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08It's definitely worthy of going.
SPEAKER_07Maybe I'll make my stop there on my way to the Grand Tetons. It's gonna be a long trip to the Grand Tetons if I'm taking all these deviations. He's never coming back.
SPEAKER_08We're just gonna have to zoom him in for every driver's wanted so far. Because he needs the sponsorship to cover all the tire costs.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Um, that was awesome. I like this game. Uh so I guess we'll be doing a lot more of this throughout uh you know, different episodes of the show, right?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, the I would love to do more of these. I really had fun making it, and I will gladly make up more game shows to fool you.
SPEAKER_07If you have suggestions for uh Go No Go locations, please uh visit our uh Facebook page, Drivers Wanted, on Facebook. Uh we're also on TikTok and soon to be Instagram. But yeah, just leave us a comment, tell us, hey, you know, check out. We won't we will not Google these locations. I think that's that's the trick, is we have to be on the fly and we have to be honest. So we'll figure that out. But yeah, send us your suggestions and we will add them to the list. Um, so we're gonna go on a break, and when we get back, Eric, I'm gonna ask you where your dream road trip is.
SPEAKER_06All right, sounds good.
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SPEAKER_07Welcome back to Drivers Wanted. Uh we are talking road trips today, and obviously, uh, you know, before you go on a road trip, you usually do cart mean, and so we're gonna get into that in a second with Don. But before we do that, Eric, what is your dream road trip?
SPEAKER_06I want to hit every capital city in the US and I want to hit every uh if I can hit at least like one landmark per state. So if I'm going through oh God, wherever Mount Rushmore is, I'm blanking right now. Whatever state in South Dakota. South Dakota, yeah. So I I think I think it's LaCroix, I think might be the the or Seattle Falls is probably the capital of South Dakota. Hit every capital city and hit at least one landmark per state cutting through it.
SPEAKER_07So Eric and I need sponsors for our road trips because we're not coming back in a couple weeks.
SPEAKER_08I think I'd hit every MLB stadium if I was gonna do a lot of people.
SPEAKER_07I have a friend who's actually uh that's what she's trying to do.
SPEAKER_08Oh, I'd love to do that.
SPEAKER_07I should have put that on my bucket list trips. Yeah, I I do like stadiums. I I think it's cool. I I'd like to watch um a game uh in other cities at some point. Well, I mean I have, but I'd like to actually like make it a point to like, hey, I want to catch a baseball game somewhere. Um so we're gonna go into our newest segment here called Don's Deep Dives. Well, on this segment of Don Deep's uh Don's Deep Dive, we're gonna talk about car maintenance because uh Don just went on a trip to Virginia Beach, and before he did that, he had to take his car in for maintenance. And Don, tell us more about it.
SPEAKER_05Well, thank you, Andre. Um first of all, first of all, happy to be hosting this new segment. And to get into my story about car maintenance. So, of course, recently I had to take my car in for an oil change. And uh and to make a long story short, after the oil change, it was discovered that my four tires on my Jeep Renegade had were starting to rot. So naturally, I have to bring it in for another appointment at the uh car dealership to get the tires replaced. So I went to my local Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram dealer that I've gone to for many, many years in in southwest Philadelphia. And you know, this was just one of those situations where, oh, uh, Mr. Managley, we need the key lock uh to get to get the locks uh off of your tires and such. And of course, I didn't have the actual key lock that they needed, so they had to actually physically break the locks and then replace the tires. And uh yeah, about eight hours later, the car was finally ready and uh and the tires were replaced, and I was able to get on the road the next day as planned. But um part of the reason I wanted to tell talk about my little story is that Todd and Andre both made me aware of the fact that currently there is a major uh sort of automotive uh uh bill out there called the Repair Act. Now, the Repair Act is actually short for the right to equitable and professional auto industry repair. It is basically it's currently working its way through the House of Representatives. It hasn't been fully passed yet, but it was introduced back in February. And some of the key provisions of this legislation include ensuring equal access to vehicle data and diagnostic information for owners and their designated repair providers, prohibiting technological or contractual barriers that would unfairly restrict independent repair shops from servicing modern vehicles, reinforcing consumer choice by allowing owners to designate who can access and use their vehicle information, and lastly, directing federal agencies to implement rules and provide oversight to protect against unfair or deceptive industry practices. So ultimately, what does it all mean? Uh first of all, I just want to get Andre, you and uh Todd, I want to get your thoughts on the Repair Act.
SPEAKER_07Well, I think it's important because, you know, I I I joke around and I say, like, you know, I bring up the Porsche all the time. But one of the things that's really bothering me about new Porsches is that at this point, if you own a new Porsche, you can only get your Porsche maintained at a certified Porsche uh technician or at the uh dealer. And it's gotten to the point where if you own a 9-11, you cannot open your engine compartment. Like it just does not open. There is no lever to open it up because you have to take it to the shop and they have to use proprietary um tools to be able to open up that thing. The only thing you can maybe do is open up the um partial hood to uh add some like washer fluid and uh small things like that. But you you literally changing your oil. No, you can't do anything unless you take it to a certified Porsche dealer. And as much as I like Porsches, I think um if I own the car, sure. Should I take it to a certified dealer to maintain the integrity of the car? But give me the option. If I know how to maintain a car, why can't I do it myself? And then two, you're taking away the ownership of owning that car. You're it's not really your car if you're essentially just leasing it from the automotive uh provider. And then it's rumored, and I have to look into this a little more. Some new vehicles are even coming with subscriptions for certain uh things in the vehicle. So things in your infotainment screen might only be available through a subscription, which at that point I'm just at that point I'm renting the car that I that I own, supposedly. So I definitely support a bill that would give more uh options and choice to car owners.
SPEAKER_08I I could see under certain circumstances how it benefits for resale when it comes to leases to have maintenance done in-house. But for ownership's sake and for autonomy over the vehicle you're paying for, you should be able to have access to across the board for maintenance. I mean, I went to local mechanics and local shops my whole life.
SPEAKER_05And yeah, agreed. And I mean, I'm I'm a hundred I also am 100% in favor of the passing of this uh act because from my own personal experience, one of the issues I run into is even though I've been going to the same dealership to get my car serviced for many, many years, um what's happening now is there are some parts that existed within the 2015 Jeep Renegade, which was iDrive, that they no longer manufacture, basically. So if you own a 2026 Jeep Renegade, many of the parts are different from what was in the 2015 Jeep Renegade.
SPEAKER_07Which I would assume the 2015 parts, even though they're no longer manufactured, they're probably parts that you can buy uh off uh what's that called? Um non-OEM parts that will that will work on that car. Whereas probably 2026 uh you know um or 2016 moving forward, you probably have only OEM parts that you have to buy, um, which is t difficult. I mean um to the point where like BMW I think has a proprietary screw with a a you know a screw head that is BMW only, and only BMW uh certified technicians have the bit to uh to you know to be able to uh unlock it. So I I think we're gonna reach a point where um this is gonna be necessary. It's almost like when uh government passed the bill that cell phones had to have a universal charger because every model had its own charger and suddenly um it was almost like a cash grab. Like you and now a lot of uh uh phone manufacturers were not even including it with the with the phone. You had to buy it. Um so yeah, I I do think this is necessary.
SPEAKER_08I think everybody I mean pushes at the limit until they hit that one spot and then the the government or someone steps in to regulate and that might be where we are right now, honestly. Uh this you know this hasn't made its way through Congress yet, but it has some traction. It kind of I mean backtracking now a bit, but it's definitely something that has to be talked about.
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SPEAKER_05Do do we ha do we happen to know, uh, just on a side note, do we know if this is a um piece of legislation that the Oval Office supports?
SPEAKER_08I am fairly sure they do. As of as of as of the least.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, the last thing we want is it to get this far and then get vetoed. Yeah. Um that's my point, yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's there's a lot of things that I think um this would be good for. And you know, it's already difficult for um small business owners like uh you know private mechanics to keep up with the fact that now cars have proprietary like computer systems and each one requires a different, you know, uh software to you know diagnostic. Um you have the influx of EVs coming in, and you know, in order to keep up with the times, they're gonna have to certify to be able to maintain some of those. Um the last thing you want is to make it so that now uh you can only touch this vehicle if you have a uh special certificate. It's uh essentially driving small business away.
SPEAKER_08And you know, I was discussing this with my brother, and he brought up a good point. Is when it comes to warranties, when are when are we gonna warranty the computer systems within the car like they're the drivetrain? Because essentially they're as vital as the drivetrain now, and uh they have the cost that's getting comparable.
SPEAKER_07Right. It's uh in a lot of these cars, like if your computer goes on some of these uh especially like with EVs, um that's everything. Um you look at a model three where your entire uh interior experience is run through the one center screen. If that goes, that's that's literally your entire car. You can't even uh adjust your mirrors or open your glove compartment. I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_08And when you told me that, I was blown away. I I I hope there is a change in that in the future.
SPEAKER_07To the point where if you if you drive a Model S, your gear selector is in that screen. You you slide it up or down depending on whether you want to go to reverse park, drive, and all that stuff.
SPEAKER_05I I just to I mean just to interject, I mean, i I I I agree with you, Todd. I hope it doesn't shift uh to that to that to that way in terms of uh in terms of the s the car software that you mentioned. But I feel like every industry, like not just the you know, car manufacturing, like every industry is making the switch from analog to digital. It's just like in an an inevitability, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_07And sometimes arbitrarily. I think there is there's such a push to use AI for everything that we're starting to see AI creep up in things that like don't even need it. Um and so that I do think it's gonna happen with like the dot-com bubble, where at some point we're gonna just it's just gonna burst.
SPEAKER_08Aaron Powell, that's a conversation that we can get into another day because that that has a lot of impact, I think, across the board in so many industries. But you're right, it does, it does pop up everywhere now. You can't seem to get away from it, and every industry seems to be finding a way to use it, whether it's necessary or not.
SPEAKER_07As a car guy, I actually want less tech in cars. Like I think we've gotten to the point where there's so much tech in cars that I'm not using 80% of the features in my infotainment screen. I'm using my radio, I'm using you know my you know, auxiliary if I'm uh plugging into, you know, Apple iPods to listen to drivers-wanted radio. Um but I'm not really going into the menu deep diving and playing games and doing all the things that are available in uh some of these menus. And I think we've gotten to the point where um I just I just want car uh manufacturers to go back to making cars and uh you know we'll see what happens, but it doesn't seem like it's gonna slow down anytime soon, but hopefully within the next few years.
SPEAKER_05Um so but but bottom line is let's uh let let's Congress let's let's put keep pushing the Repair Act through. We're 100% in support of it.
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SPEAKER_09I was talking about the game the other night. Yeah, you out there getting mad, acting like we're all out there making a million a game. Let me be real with you. This is the problem, it's good sports, and it's a game, it's an hour game, that's the team, that's a play.
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SPEAKER_07And we're back with Drivers Wanted Radio, and on this segment, we are going to uh introduce a topic later that I'm very excited about. But before we get into that, we're gonna talk e-bikes with Todd. Um you know, e-bikes are I mean, e-vehicles like you know, your e-scooters or e-bikes, uh, they're everywhere now, and uh they are a great form of mobility, especially if your car is in the shop and you bring your uh e-bike with you and uh you know get you from point A to point B while your car is in the shop. But there are some concerns with it.
SPEAKER_08So accessible, eco-friendly, you mean cost-effective. But it comes with some risks and some restrictions that I didn't necessarily realize were there. And upon researching for today's uh episode, I really learned um your your e-bikes actually have an age restriction, and that's 16 or older. And I didn't know that was there, and I've definitely seen a lot of kids younger than that riding them. And maybe there's a option uh maybe there's a enforcement uh issue there, but uh I feel like they definitely creep up on you because they're so silent, they're so fast, and in my area especially, they come in groups because there's multiple kids riding them. And I feel like there's uh danger there for those kids because they don't make a sound. Unlike the electric cars like I have that has that line now, these e-bikes don't make any noise whatsoever.
SPEAKER_07And the thing is, uh the problem with them is that because they're bikes, you know, they do have pedals a lot of the times. Um parents, I guess, see them and it's like, oh, it's just a bike, it's just an electric bike. Twenty miles per hour and idling or something. It's not a power wheel. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08And the e scooters, you mean, they have less restrictions, uh basically just a helmet under twelve years old. But I can also, you mean, they're moving pretty fast too, and through the city, moving in and out of out of pedestrians definitely. Something that we gotta be aware of, really, because it's it's easy to get hit if you're not paying attention to your surroundings.
SPEAKER_07I think the problem with e-bikes too is that one, and this is just a problem with like just bicycles in general, in the city uh specifically, uh, when you have uh bike messengers and uh food delivery using bicycles, um, is that a lot of times they don't respect uh traffic laws. Uh bicycles are supposed to uh adhere by you know traffic laws. If you are driving uh down the street, you'll see the bike lanes um and they flow in the same direction as traffic. And what I I mean, this goes back before e-bikes became prevalent. Uh what I was always peeved about or even concerned is you see uh cyclists going in the opposite direction just to cut time because hey, I'm just gonna go up this street, I'm on a bicycle. Um, but it is a it is a problem, and you are going in the opposite direction. Now add an electric motor to it and add 15 miles uh to your speed, and these guys are going up and down one-way streets and causing problems.
SPEAKER_08I don't want to come across as completely anti-e-bike or I guess they call it micromobility for the whole class. But it it's more about it's more about following the rules of the road and following the restrictions in order to keep it straight.
SPEAKER_05I always say the issue is never the vehicle itself, it's it's the person driving the vehicle.
SPEAKER_07Right. Yeah. Right. And I I I think micro I think micromobility is important. And I I'm a proponent for micromobility use, I'm a proponent for public transportation. I like the fact that with micro micromobility, you can do both. You can take your um your scooter, your bike, your e-bike to a train station, take the train into the city, and then ride your bicycle wherever you go uh the remainder of the way. You're saving time, you're saving money, you're actually more eco-friendly. But tons of pluses. Yes, there's a lot of pluses. I I uh I think um bike culture is great. I think there are some concerns though. And then there's also concerns, you know, if you're using an e-bike, I think for food delivery, or if you're a bike messenger, I think that's efficient. I think it's great because it's less wear and tear on your body. Um but and there's a purpose there. But if you were a child, one, I didn't know that uh there was an age limit, so that's concerning. But then two, if you're a child, the whole point, like you know, we want our kids to get exercise. We want them to go out there and uh you know, be active.
SPEAKER_08As a healthcare worker myself, you mean physical fitness is always something that we talk about for health, and an e-bike or a scooter, e-scooter kind of defeats that purpose.
SPEAKER_07It levels a playing field to a w to a sense. It's like, hey, you know, everybody can keep up at the same speed. But really, um yeah, I I I just think um I don't know, uh, for kids, I think it would be best to have a bicycle. They have attachments now that you can add to your bike to uh to power like the front wheel if you're going up a hill and things like that. I think those are cool. Um, but you know, it's not only uh a safety factor, but there's a health care factor too. Um so yeah, I uh I I definitely think it's important to to regulate it. I also think the fact that a lot of times these e-bikes are being ridden without a helmet.
SPEAKER_08Um and uh you're going so fast that it's just yeah, there's a there's because of the e-bikes and especially e-bikes, they have seen a 43-fold increase in head injury. And I believe it's uh 30% or 40% of those that are due to a a collision with the car.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because they're going really fast. They're going really fast, and the braking system is essentially a bicycle. So you're going faster than the brakes are intended to go. Um and then also it's not like a car where you have four brakes that are holding uh, you know, basically they're holding the stability of the car as it's stopping. Essentially you have two brakes, you have a front brake and a rear brake, and if you hit the wrong one at the wrong time, you're gonna go over those handlebars, um, especially if you're going too fast. But the other thing I and you can talk more about this, Todd, the concern with these e-bikes is the fact that because they're essentially a rudimentary motor, the charging system doesn't have a governor uh like a say EV or an e-motorcycle might, where the computer shuts it off.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, some municipalities are actually banning them because of the risk of fire uh when you don't have that automatic shutoff at full charge, people are leaving them in their garages charging, and there have been fires because of the batteries overcharging, overheating, and then catching fire.
SPEAKER_05So does that and just uh just as a side note, does that is that kind of similar to what was happening with those like um hoverboards that kids were using for a long time that were overheating?
SPEAKER_08Yes, absolutely, and that's that's what's going on. Are they around still the hoverboards? They are around. I don't think we're seeing. I saw one today, actually. I saw one the other day. I think the um the scooters and the e-bikes have taken over the majority of the micromobility market, but they're still there.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I mean, I like all these things. I think they're fun. Um the hoverboards um I think are and and and here we can get it to micromobility a little bit because I think the hoverboards are fine on like a sidewalk. They're not meant to go on the road. E-bikes are supposed to be road vehicles, yeah. And we see them on sidewalks, which is dangerous because they're way too fast, they're way too heavy, and they can cause so much injury if they hit a pedestrian. So, uh Todd, can you go through a quick list of what like micromobility is and you know where they're supposed to be used? Sure.
SPEAKER_08Okay, so we have our bicycles, that's your your people-powered uh bikes, and that's what we all know. Uh but our e-bikes, uh 16 years old, they can they're limited to a max speed of 20 miles per hour, and they are I believe no more than a hundred pounds, and they have a limited body. Yeah, they have a really a lot of strict and you have to know what classification you're on. So you better they say this keep the the manual so you know what all the all the specs on it. So then you have your pedal cycles, which actually have uh pedals that are functional, but it really they're classified as a motorcycle, essentially. So you have to actually that's what a moped would be. Yeah, essentially that's that's a moped, uh basically classified as a moped. And then your motor scooters, which are like your Vespas.
SPEAKER_07And then Which Vespas are technically motorcycles.
SPEAKER_08They're not exactly class M. And if it's over 50 CC's, under 50cc, it's a class C. So essentially you're you if you have a big enough Vespa, you're getting your my motorcycle license. Big enough Vespa, you can take it on the highway. Yeah. Exactly. Um and then you have your e-scooters uh which are I mean the least regulated and they're basically helmets under 12 years old, treat it like a a bicycle, as far as the law is concerned. But any motor on it makes you makes it possible for you to get a DUI. So Right. Yeah, so people I mean need to be aware of that.
SPEAKER_07If you want to ride uh inebriated, get a horse because uh Well actually DUI is also possible.
SPEAKER_05Don't ride inebriated.
SPEAKER_07No, I'm saying if you're gonna ride inebriated, get a horse because technically you can't get a DUI because the horse is a sentient creature and has its own mind. So it won't ride into someone if unless it wants to.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Um any of the probability and you can get a DUI. Absolutely. So yeah, these I mean, there's a lot of categories. There's a lot of laws that apply to them. And if you want to find information, you could certainly find it on Penn Dot's website.
SPEAKER_07We're gonna post these pictures on our social media uh so that anyone who's interested in uh seeing the different categories, and if you have an e-bike or uh an electric scooter, you can see where yours falls in. It's pretty interesting um the different types. Oh, I see the segues on there.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, segue actually are on there, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, segues are on there. I mean, segways are meant to be on the road as well. I see them in bike lanes. Yeah, segues they kind of categorize with hoverboards. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Andre, isn't it your dream to drive a um a segue with the uh drivers wanted uh logo on it?
SPEAKER_07Yes, just like uh a segue with I'll wear like a neon uh sandwich board. I have driven a segue in Epcot, which was a lot of fun. Nice. I I don't know if they still do them. They don't do it anymore, and I wish they did. They do the Segway tours here in Philly, or they did. I don't know if they still have them. We're gonna move on to our next topic here, and we're gonna introduce a segment to the show called Ask Dr. Todd. Todd, go ahead.
SPEAKER_08Thanks. As a PharmD and a healthcare worker, I wanted to take this opportunity to open some questions for our listeners. And we're gonna open up an email in the coming weeks where you can send in your questions or thoughts on topics such as your medication questions, caregiver questions, because I know there's plenty of caregivers out there that get overwhelmed by things you'd like to know, things you'd like to hear about, understanding maybe next steps for your care team and topics you'd like to cover or we'd like to hear us cover. I'll keep them within the scope of my practice. But uh, we want to hear from you and we want to try our best to cover things that you want to hear about and do our best to take on topics that will give us the best opportunity to help everyone.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Uh you know, the the point of the show, not only do we want to talk cars and adventure and have fun, but we also want to uh leave a positive impact, and that's whether it's through our interviews with our drivers, people who drive change, or segments like Ask Dr. Todd, where we can impact you directly by answering questions about your health care. Um, this is a show that is supposed to be fun, but it's also for making a positive difference. So thank you, Todd, and we look forward to your questions. We will be posting the email on our socials. Uh you can always comment a question if you would like. Um yeah, uh with that said, that brings us to the end of this episode of Drivers Wanted. We want to thank Eric Habernel for stepping in for TJ this week. We'll see you next time. Thank you for tuning in to Drivers Wanted Radio. This show was made possible by our operations manager Laura Lewis, our technical producer, TJ Gleason, original music by Justin Benson, with me in studio, Don Manigly and Todd Glenn. I'm Andre Tabolette. Thank you for listening, and as always, nice to get the same.