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    JEFF STERNS CONNECTED THROUGH CARS

    A show for your entertainment -recorded conversations with car people that I know. The General Motors exec that built the plant in Russia, Derek Bell (LeMans and Suntrust (Rolex) 24), an Emmy Award winning NASCAR/ Michelin TV man who did the Audrain Concour d'Elegance car culture feature film, a supercar restorer, Ferrari VP, Lotus and Bentley execs, Rolls-Royce USA General Manager (and St Michaels Concour founder, past automotive salespeople, car museum curator, dealers, interesting/famous clients....and their stories!
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    Episodes (100)

    2023 DETROIT | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW | PRESS DAYS REPORT | INDUSTRY FORCASTER REPORTS!!

    2023 DETROIT | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW | PRESS DAYS REPORT | INDUSTRY FORCASTER REPORTS!!

    A FORMER GENERAL MOTORS SENIOR EXECUTIVE WHO RAN OPERATIONS IN BRASIL, POLAND AND GERMANY. LATER SCOUTED LOCATION, NEGOTIATED WITH RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, UNIONS AND CUSTOMS TO FINALLY MANAGE THE BUILD OFBTHE RUSSIAN GM PLANT. WARREN BROWNE IS CEO AND FOUNDER OF RFQ INSIGHTS AND R.P. BROWNE CONSULTING. 

     

    WARREN WALKED THE NAIAS FLOOR DURING PRESS DAYS AND GAVE HIS REPORT...

    WRECKED NEW FERRARI | NAKED |RAN POLICE BARRICADES | MUSHROOM SHROOM TRIP!

    WRECKED NEW FERRARI | NAKED |RAN POLICE BARRICADES | MUSHROOM SHROOM TRIP!

    I love Tony Shea- and I love this story not only because it's extremely interesting and entertaining but it is just the beginning prior to his hitting bottom as an addict and as a result getting sober and turning his life over to God make sure to listen or watch the next piece. Man possibly high and probably naked charged with dui and leaving the scene of crash. (0:00) A heroic dose of mushrooms. (2:02) Driving into Delray Beach. (3:35) Driving through a park that was closed. (7:02) The car that was totaled. (8:49)

    MAN HIGH AND NAKED RUNS POLICE BARRICADES WRECKS NEW FERRARI | GREAT ENDING! | OY VEY IT'S TONY SHEA

    MAN HIGH AND NAKED RUNS POLICE BARRICADES WRECKS NEW FERRARI | GREAT ENDING! | OY VEY IT'S TONY SHEA

    0:00 Man possibly high and probably naked, charged with DUI and leaving scene of crash involving property damage.
    2:08 "A heroic dose"   
    5:07 Cops  
    7:00 blockade  
    7:22 ran over a couple of the stop signs  
    8:47 they asked me to get out of the car over the loudspeaker.  
    9:12 I've got no clothes 
    9:48 Ferrari was completely totaled.  
    9:48 peeking while I was in jail. 
    12:33 it was not good. My daughters heard it from their classmates.  
    14:08 homeless,  
    15:06 picking up a crack pipe  
    15:58 driving around with 500 grand worth of gold Krugerrands in the trunk of my car
    16:54 a woman came up to me and handed me a $20 bill. She said "you'll know what to do with this".  I signed myself into a detox  
    19:19 Gaurdian Angels 
    20:56 I was almost murdered in a hotel room. I was hogtied.  
    23:46 I was writing the book   
    25:51  I literally drove right through the arm of the guard gate. 
     
     25:51  jumped in the lake and I swam away, came out of the blackout, kneeling on the side of a car naked  
    29:41 Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale. 
    31:00 Call to the alter   

    Steve Shelton Jr! The Shelton racing and dealership Ferrari Land Rover and Porsche family!

    Steve Shelton Jr! The Shelton racing and dealership Ferrari Land Rover and Porsche family!

    "...we had several locations. The Ferrari store was acquired by an existing dealer in '82. And then we moved across the state open the Jaguar Porsche Land Rover store in Naples..."
     
    5:04 Million dollar Lemon Law on an F40 
    10:40 Ferrari to Molly Maid!  
    12:11 Selling or servicing exotics or helping you with your home, Steve loves the interaction with clients! I
    14:52 Family racing friction      
    19:00 Testarossa engine-out service problem!   
    25:40 pulled over doing 150+ MPH!  
    32:40 The first Porsche Carerra GT sale  $448,300!
    40:00 Rols-Royce and Bentley branded goods
    43:27 High volume exotic car clients! 
    46:13 Steve was hired by BBC Top Gear.

    Jim Ziegler | Founder Ziegler Supersystems | Automotive Training Legend | War stories, state of the industry, police chase?!?

    Jim Ziegler | Founder Ziegler Supersystems | Automotive Training Legend | War stories, state of the industry, police chase?!?

    2:57 THE POLICE CHASE 

    9:13 THE FERRARI EFFECT / state of the car business

    12:41 Ziegler Super Systems  

    16:50 sales skills are not necessary right now 

    23:51 "Every time we train a generation of factory people, they retire, we have to train another generation they all think they can run dealerships, they all think they're smarter than we are. And they all they all crawl back us on Bloody knees asking us to bail him out after they make mistakes."

    20:47 salesman's Samsonite 

    32:20 introduced verde to NADA 

    21:47   in literally 1000s of dealerships -every state except Alaska...caught ups, done f&i, desked, interacted with customers 

    26:24 predictions

     

     

     

    JIM CANTRELL | CEO PHANTOM SPACE

    JIM CANTRELL | CEO PHANTOM SPACE

    3:11 chasing balloons around the desert. Was this a peyote thing? 

    7:50 Mars like terrain 

    10:02 Is the Earth really flat?

    13:08 people thought I was a traitor, because I'd worked with the Soviets so nobody would hire me 

    15:39 the only thing I've really ever known for sure I wanted to do in life was race cars.   

    17:02 spying on American citizens 

    19:51 SpaceX and Elon Musk 

    29:44  What the fuck do you think that idiot savant is up to? 

    41:09 New space

    49:53 Phantom space

    55:02  "...45km is going to come back within five years... 800 km... you're talking about  100 year lifetime

    56:50 reentering and crashing

    58:10 Space tourism 

    1:00:38 I want to get into TransAm

     

    ELON MUSK- IDIOT SAVANT OR GENIUS?!?

    ELON MUSK- IDIOT SAVANT OR GENIUS?!?

    0:35 SpaceX and Elon Musk

    1:02 the US government...ICBMs to not carry nuclear weapons, but instead carry satellites into orbit. S Unknown Speaker

    2:45 went into my study in called Elon back 

    5:28 there was a guy named Bob Zubrin who had started the Mars society.

    7:33 they had designed a plant growth chamber for Mars that NASA wasn't willing to take the risk

    7:49 we went over to Russia to buy the rockets 9:36 we started SpaceX

    13:09 He [Elon] called me on Friday night and wanted to be there Saturday morning with a private jet.

    14:28 the Google founders wrote him personally a check for several 100 million dollars.

    BLUE ORIGIN EXPLAINED BY JIM CANTRELL CEO / FORMERLY WITH ELON MUSK-SPACEX

    BLUE ORIGIN EXPLAINED BY JIM CANTRELL CEO / FORMERLY WITH ELON MUSK-SPACEX

    0:00 Blue Origin.... that relates... to SpaceX

    2:45 SpaceX had like 7000 satellites

    6:00 Now, they want to launch closer to the earth. The reason you launch them higher, is not because of the performance, generally, the performance degrades, because the physics is such that the further we away from the Earth, that you know, the lower the signal, the less resolution your cameras have all that stuff.  

    7:00 titanium valves and things like really dense stuff sometimes make it to the surface, stainless steel tanks 

    7:12 when you get a satellite operator license through US government, if your commercial, they go through debris analysis of your of your satellite to make sure that stuff won't survive, you know, it's like circuit boards, and that there's this thing called the ballistic coefficient. So they just kind of float like paper, because they've got a very high ballistic coefficient, but, you know, rocks and chunks of metals tend to survive.

    7:45 is it just gonna be raining this shit? 

    8:09 What about space tourism? Is it going to be like the Schwarzenegger movie?  Total Recall?

     

    JUSTIN BELL | LeMans | VIPER | F BOMBS on TV! | LIFE AND HISTORY

    JUSTIN BELL | LeMans | VIPER | F BOMBS on TV! | LIFE AND HISTORY

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    Justin is the son of his loving and proud father as well as legendary racer Derek Bell! Quite an accomplished racer and person on his own!

    0:28 LeMans in the rain  
    5:30 you don't know if it's 300 feet in front or 100 feet 
    8:43 Justin's son was a child actor and now he's he's gone into a big military college at The Citadel. He's going to be an Army Ranger.
    15:21 I won the first championship for Chrysler, which, which is great. And the next year, we won the mine. And just basically five years of domination that I wish everyone could experience, because it was just, it just couldn't have been better.

    16:48 I don't think it was a nunnery. But the girls were not allowed to have visitors...
    20:39 Could be the first time that this story...
    23:16 How I never said fuck on TV
    24:00 act British, think Yiddish.
    43:37 We are recording life and history  

    VICTOR YOUNG | CAR DEALER | CHOPPER PILOT | DISTILLER | FULL EPISODE

    VICTOR YOUNG | CAR DEALER | CHOPPER PILOT | DISTILLER | FULL EPISODE

    07:51 A helicopter for guys that will get flying a helicopter is got to be one of the most brain-sharpening exercises you can do. 08:37 auto rotation is this: fear is the number one enemy of success, lack of fear allows you to fly. Helicopters. 10:15 fear stops people every day. 14:37 here's the thing if you can't immerse yourself at your primary and be amazing at it, don't take on a second thing. 17:23 Dunamis Premium Sprits 18:21 Metropolis Corp, global 24:58 Jeff drinking with clients 28:56 growing up, my family had a lawn service and a landscaping company. And I worked every single day after school 32:07 power is an interesting thing. 34:09 What animal do you relate to? 35:29 Jeff's time in Africa 36:59 Regarding the cheetah 48:55 Discrimination in business 1:03:09 Everyone has the opportunity to be successful, rich, poor, black, white, Hispanic... 1:06:36 What is money to Jeff? 1:11:59 Great parent

    VINCE BARABBA | WHAT MAKES GOOD DECISIONS?? | GM | ON STAR | KODAK | US CENSUS | Xerox | AUTHOR

    VINCE BARABBA | WHAT MAKES GOOD DECISIONS?? | GM | ON STAR  | KODAK | US CENSUS | Xerox | AUTHOR

    5:26 General Motors is in a position in the market that if they made a minor mistake, they really wouldn't show up too bad. 6:06 Xerox, Kodak, General Motors. And a little agency known as US Census Bureau 9:38 Ronald Reagan, we got deeply involved in that and got to know him and his family. [He didn't want to say what he was going to be helpful to him. He wanted to say, what he knew to be true. And what he wanted to do. That was a that was a really important insight to me.] 14:04 OnStar was really quite an undertaking. 17:51 Issues at Kodak 21:40 the key element in improving the decision making process is to record the process. 23:00 assumption 24:49 a good decision takes into consideration what the expected outcome is, and then lists the assumptions that have to be made, to create that outcome, and then to measure as best you can, with the extent to which those assumptions are true. 26:38 Following World War ll, GMs factories are making you military equipment. And so therefore, after the war, since there were no new cars during the war, there was an incredible increase in demand for vehicles. 30:00 automotive companies have always had what's called decision friction between engineering push, and consumer pull 37:44 inputs that research provided for OnStar 38:39 Kodak: digital versus silver halide 41:24 Vince's latest book, A SYSTEMS THINKING DECISION MAKING PROCESS. ...key takeaways for automotive professionals making decisions? 43:15 Avoid Burnt Toast. 46:21 When the shuttle exploded...it was time to prepare the president's speech 52:57 GE was a very engineering push firm.

    DEREK BELL & JEFF have an informal video-call to discuss their 1st (and Jeff's 1st) podcast together

    DEREK BELL & JEFF have an informal video-call to discuss their 1st (and Jeff's 1st) podcast together

    1:20 I stayed with Mr. Ferrari when I first joined Ferrari and he would come and have dinner with us
    13:13 I've just got a shitty car
    15:11 Nobody ever wrote about my first win
    24:20 They were just looking for people that look natural

    26:58 the Ronald Reagan ski classic at Beaver Creek. Franz Klammer joins up with us
    21:09 2001 Vegas Speedway Arnage driving event (is where Derek and Jeff met)
    41:47 I was 100% convinced that his head fell on my lap. I thought he got decapitated
    46:45 my fastest speed was 246 mph
    48:09 I didn't realize that Ford wants to buy Ferrari
    51:09 the Steve McQueen movie I was flat out
    53:10 About Paul Newman

    Cannonball Run | FIREBALL RUN | Alec Baldwin Movie Ranch | UFOs | Astronauts | S.E. Turquoise

    Cannonball Run | FIREBALL RUN | Alec Baldwin Movie Ranch | UFOs | Astronauts | S.E. Turquoise

    4:09 visual effects industry
    4:15 global advertising and PR company
    4:23 film industry, television producer
    4:26 created the FIREBALL RUN television series
    5:33 we bought a movie ranch SCARAMANGA. I was friends with Sir Roger Moore.
    7:00 One Lap of America
    8:05 private CANNONBALL RUN screening party....with the stars and crew
    13:27 How FIREBALL RUN got its name
    17:13 Dave Sterns promoted MEET THE BEATLES
    23:41 J's grandfather was a POW in Japan. Pretended to be dead to escape.
    26:08 The real deterrent to war
    28:46 USA military weaponry: "So advanced it's ridiculous"
    30:15 Tech borrowed from aliens?
    31:37 a quantifiable group of friends who are astronauts
    34:58 1956, you saw black diamond fly through the sky
    35:54 astronauts not allowed to talk about UFOs
    36:13 RUST Baldwin Bonanza Creek (adjacent to Sanchez' Movie Ranch) stuff
    54:03 what % must be GLBT to have a vote??
    58:51 DESANTIS
    59:31 regarding turquoise
    1:00:29 Florida life
    1:03:59 daily driver was a 76 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith ll
    1:08:15 My dad was a typical Hispanic dad, you know, the sparks are flying... not gonna kill you!