Car Selling Secrets

The all over the map episode. Peter Borne returns to talk about a charity run by a bunch of guys named Mike who are having "Mikes Giving" on Peter's boat. We also compare colonoscopy stories and the dangers of 60's Volkswagens. Ron calls in to relay the story of his brand new Chevrolet truck that had apparently been painted three different colors from the factory. Finally, Mike Gelfand mourns the loss of a ceramic greyhound he won on Wheel of Fortune. No show next week as I'll be working the digital dealer automotive convention. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A listener calls in to tell the tale of the worst car buying and owning experience he's ever had. Sadly, it centered around the old Walser Buick site in Richfield.  Mike Gelfand also joins in with tales of self destructive Chevrolets and driving while blind to donate cars to charity. Doug relays his most recent experience fending of Craig's List scammers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Carter, joins us from Canada to talk about the future of the automobile from Electrics to hydrogen and autonomous vehicles. After a long career with Toyota, he founded Vision Mobility and provides consulting to businesses worldwide about how these products will change the world.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amanda Valdez joins us in studio to talk about a rare disease that affects her son and nephew. If you recall the movie 'Lorenzo's Oil it deals with something called ALD. There is a virtual 5K to raise money for research. For more info, go to xoutald.org.  Along the way we find out that Amanda's son and Tom's grandson are bitter soccer rivals on the mean streets of West Bloomington. We also discover that Amanda works as a parole officer which leads us on a tour of 70's strip clubs in St. Paul, racketeering and the unfortunate end of some of Tom's uncles. Never a dull moment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are joined by Attorney Michael Bryant and auto assembly plant worker Joe from Louisville as we wander through the events of the day including Bronco roof recall and the back log civil cases due to covid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Reverend Dana Strande makes her second appearance on car selling secrets. We talk about God and discover that Mellissa was a theology major. Some great conversations that are well worth a listen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another rare episode where all we talk about is cars. We discuss Biden's pending announcement of toughened CAFE standards, the rush to domestic battery plant building and the change that theTrump administration's China tariffs may have on US construction and a re-alignment of inventory chains. We also note that the NYC auto show is cancelled due to increases in Covid numbers and howthe 4th wave may or may not affect us. Tire Carver calls in to discuss the environmental impact of Lion battery disposal. All and all a pretty serious episode.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Minnesota State Representative Ryan Winkler makes his 3rd appearance and gets us caught up on the recently ended state legislative session, changes in marijuana laws and why the best presidential run in America was FDR through Kennedy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Borne joins us in studio to talk about building the only mobile floating recording studio in the world, the halcyon days of working at KQ, recording commercials with Mick Sterling (who also happens to be in studio).  It's a rollicking conversation that covers boating, music, the importance of faith, and KQRS. He also happens to mention recreating famous cars from the 60's such as the bat mobile. The show flies by and we are already making plans for a live broadcast with an audience on the boat. Bring gas money and a towel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are joined in studio with Walser's Recruiting Director Ryan Moffitt and General Managers Bret Juedes and Andy Swanson. The whole show really is about selling in the Walser system, what's great about it and why you should join the team. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professional comedian Costaki Economopoulos joins us in studio. He's in town doing a week at acme and he stops by to discuss late 70's automotive lovers and what it's like doing live standup after a 15 month hiatus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What do you do when your guest cancels at the last minute? Snag Tom's guest from the first hour. Brian Leighton, local rock legend and leader of the G.B. Leighton band joins us. We briefly talk about the world's slowest car, oddly named a Rabbit and then the talk quickly turns to music because, let's face it, music is the only thing cooler than cars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tal Maizels, VP of R&D for Fuse Autotech, joins us from Tel Aviv. We talk about what life in Israel is like, the iron dome missile defense system and why Israel is a hot bed for technology and software development. We also talk about Fuse Autotech's plan to upend the automotive purchase experience in the United States. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South St Paul Mayor Jimmy Francis returns. The city is the home of the Beautiful Wayl car and the Scooby-Doo Mystery mobile. The discussion turns to politics and the value of centrists. We decide that retired radio star Dave Lee would make the perfect gubernatorial candidate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scott Lambert calls in from the highly successful Twin Cities Auto show at the state fairground. Joe calls in with the latest shutdown news and we discuss day's supply of inventory and the stunning new F-150 Lightning. Oddly, we discuss cars during the entire podcast........it rarely happens. We will not broadcast next week in order to make room for the Tom Barnard Podcast's 2,000th episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dan Murphy, founder of Soul Asylum and Golden Smog joins us in studio to talk rock music. The discussion turns to local music venues during the 80's and a particular monitor engineer called 'Feed Back Frank'. Turns out Frank is Joe from Loisville's dad. Dan and Doug were step-brothers for a few years in the early 70's and Dan embarasses Doug with stories of being a tall skinny hippy drenched in Patchouli oil. Finally, Dan talks about what it's like to have Prince cover one of his songs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Veline, head of the Twin Cities Auto show joins us to talk about the auto show at the state fair. With a 10,000 daily attendance limit, ride and drives and state fair food and extended hours, this could be the best ever auto show. We also talk about Mary's famous father-in-law, Bobby V. Somehow the conversation turns to Covid vaccine and Doug books Tom an appointment for tomorrow during the show. You never know what's going to happen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk about the chip shortage, skyrocketing used car prices and the dominance of one price dealers in the used car world in the US. GM announces the connection of 60,000 charging stations across the US. Joe calls in to talk about factory shutdowns and product shortages and Officer Dave tries to sell Tom an electric Mustang. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Alan Krutsch joins us in studio. Alan was the Marketing Director at Walser many years ago and really is responsible for the start of the live KQ radio spots. He regales us with tales of advertising, drinking expensive wine on Tom's dime and high end audio sales in Bozeman Montana.  Oddly, Alan is the first guest who can't remember exactly what his first car was. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Baseball time and our friend Mike Veeck from the St. Paul Saints joins us to talk about his return to MLB along with the classic story about how he was forced out over 45 years ago. For those not in the know, the Saints are now part of the Twins farm system so expect to see a lot of major league talent at the gorgeous CHS field in downtown St. Paul. We mention cars exactly zero times in this episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.