What did we talk about this week on The Slade and Mayson Show?
This week, we start with cars — specifically how expensive they’ve become, and how buying a new one now feels closer to purchasing a small house than a vehicle. With average new car prices pushing toward the $50,000–$60,000 range, we talk about how disconnected the math has become. Ford’s announcement that it plans to release five vehicles under $40,000 somehow doesn’t feel comforting — because $40,000 is still a lot of money.
That discussion takes a turn when we dig up an old recording from The Slade and Mayson Show archives, revisiting the time JD’s car was repossessed. The irony is impossible to ignore: JD used to sell cars for a living, yet somehow still ended up on the wrong side of the math. The car didn’t last long before it was taken back, and the story still holds up as both painful and funny.
That leads into a comparison of car philosophies. Dan admits to being perfectly happy driving cheap “beater” cars and would rather replace a transmission than buy a new vehicle — because even major repairs are still cheaper than a monthly car payment.
From there, the episode wanders into animal chaos. We talk about Dolly the runaway donkey giving Michigan locals a hard time, snakes that can swallow entire animals whole, and the strange effort underway to bring the Tasmanian devil back from extinction.
Chris goes on a short rant about people oversharing on Facebook — especially when it involves family and children — and how easy it is to forget that once something is posted, it’s permanent.
AI shows up in small but telling ways. We talk about a glitch that caused AI to miscount the number of “R”s in the word strawberry (now reportedly fixed), Wall Street losing roughly $400 billion in AI-related stocks, and Google’s Gemini “Genie” project that can generate game environments — but only for 60 seconds, and only at a steep monthly cost.
The absurdity continues with a Florida driver who hit 107 mph trying to reach Little Caesars before closing time.
Dan adds another technology gripe: email platforms like Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail need to stop moving buttons and changing interfaces. JD adds that Facebook has quietly moved or removed the birthdays and anniversaries calendar, meaning he’s officially done trying to keep track.
We also pause for a serious moment, marking the anniversary of JD losing his leg. On February 8, 2014, he went into the hospital after struggling for hours just to drink a cup of coffee — knowing something was very wrong.
We close by noting the passing of another rock icon and quietly wondering how Keith Richards and Mick Jagger continue to defy time.
Expensive cars, bad math, runaway animals, AI confusion, oversharing online, and technology that won’t sit still.
All that and more on Episode 451 of The Slade and Mayson Show.
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