Car Selling Secrets

Tom and Doug are joined in studio by Eddie Spadino. Eddie is an over the road truck driver with more than two million miles under his belt. We discuss costs, accidents, road hazards and how truck drivers are paid. Eddie also talks about pet peeves. Pro tip, don’t try to cut off something that weighs over 40 tons and also, don’t drive a pickup truck into a semi that’s stopped.

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Scott Lambert, President of Minnesota Auto Dealer's Association, join Tom and Doug in studio to talk about the Twin Cities Auto Show. We discuss the new Corvette, Mustang and give away some free tickets to the show. Scott explains what auto dealer lobbyists do and why this work is important. To Scott's mortification, Tom admits to Tesla ownership.

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This week’s Car Selling Secrets recaps a week of technical difficulties and tardy guests. First, we interview MSNBC’s Chris Matthews who is on to promote his podcast.

Doug completely ignores the purpose and asks Chris about his days speech writing during the Carter administration and being Tip O’neill’s Chief of Staff. Next up we visit with the tardy local music legend Mick Sterling who talks about the charity he started, 30-days foundation, to help Minnesota families in need.

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The show is called Car Selling Secrets, but nobody ever said we can't talk about other kinds of secrets.  Eating disorders, for example, are often kept a secret.  Some secrets are worth keeping; that one isn't.  And speaking of confessions, there are almost as many denominations of Christianity as there are people on earth.  Several of those denominations are represented in this room.

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You've heard Tom call himself a centrist.  Now hear another Tom call himself a centrist.  This one has proof, because he ran as an independent, and somehow got more than .01% of the vote.  Probably because this was before The Great Fracturing, as we assuming future historians will call what happened to US politics in the past several years.

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People often make poor decisions that seem like a good idea at the time, whether they be that first drink leading to 30 years of alcoholism or letting your 16 year old anywhere near a vehicle.  Not to diminish one or the other.  Fewer and fewer 16 year olds are driving anyway, and if you're a parent your immediate reaction is probably "thank god".  Besides, with self-driving cars just around the corner, soon you'll be able to rest easy knowing your teenager got to and from church and nowhere else.

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In keeping with tradition, today's Car Selling Secrets is mostly about anything except cars.  We've got comedy, parenting, the evolution of the cell phone.  We even touch on electric cars only to instead delve into the politics thereof rather than the car itself.  We do talk about cars somewhat.  Especially old cars with some very questionable design choices.

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It's a million below freezing, and you know what that means: your tires are low.  Don't make the mistake of filling them up over and over, only to have to let air out when it warms up.  There's a space-age gas called nitrogen that Walser can hook you up with that'll take care of that.  It'll even reduce wear on your tires should you decide to go over a hundred miles per hour.  Disclaimer: Walser does not approve of going over a hundred miles per hour.

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Almost everyone had a first car, at least in America where 50 miles away is "close".  And almost everyone north of the equator who ever had a car has skidded on ice.  It's a lesson you have to learn by doing, but there are some things you can keep in mind to make your first (or thirtieth) skid slightly less damaging.  Doug knows all of them.  He majored in it.  Maybe.

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The age old battle in the upper midwest is police vs Minneapolis.  Literally Minneapolis, not the people living there.  Word on the street is that the tangled mess of bureaucracy that runs it might not be the most efficient or benevolent.  What does this have to do with cars, you ask?  We have no answer.

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