Comments on: Daily Podcast Pt. 2: Jason Vines Edition

By: lewissalem

lewissalem — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:35:36 +0000

“That’s not what I’d want under my Christmas tree.”

Ouch.

By: GS650G

GS650G — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:48:07 +0000

I don’t believe his story about bribing the customs agents at the airport. I lived and worked there for years and find this highly dubious.

By: radimus

radimus — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:26:25 +0000

Old habits die hard. Just like the old timers that got laid off from IBM back when the dress code was a blue suit and red tie. Some of those guys would still wake up in the morning and put on the blue suit and red tie for months or years to come.

By: Lichtronamo

Lichtronamo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:03:30 +0000

Talk about starting with low credibility! You’d think if the guy just got canned from Chrysler he’d drive something better than a Caliber! If you “need” all wheel drive, there are lots of better choices: A WRX or an EVO? An Audi Quattro? A BMW 328xi? Infiniti G35x?

Dr. Z could have even hooked him up with a nice C-Class 4Matic.

By: starlightmica (Richard Chen)

starlightmica (Richard Chen) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:09:23 +0000

Vines is a good choice for the TTAC podcast and I’d like to hear him again sometime soon. More stories of bribery?

By: Kurt B

Kurt B — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:57:57 +0000

The mp3 player flash file is missing (big red X)..can’t listen in.

By: bipsieboy

bipsieboy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:36:15 +0000

second podcast is a great idea. if you are able to get mr. vines on again ask him to give us the real story on “boot em” bob and the saga going on at chrysler. glad to hear he’s driving a awd caliber.

By: holydonut

holydonut — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:52:36 +0000

Wait, I thought Mexico allowed new car sales of any model year. They help the new car sales by getting rid of semi-new cars, and they also prevent jalopies from entering the country. Vines sounded like he was upset they banned all vehicle sales other than 1998.

Of course, they’ll probably build a seventy mile wall to keep all those evil 2001 Chevy trucks out of the country.

By: Robert Farago

Robert Farago — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:13:49 +0000

ajla :

However, unless you can regularly get “name” people to do the “Pt. 2 podcasts”, I’d just as well enjoy you running the Berkowitz podcasts longer if you can’t cover all the news in the original 11 minutes.

The problem is that we now do both AM and PM (thank you left coasters) blog posts, and I want to get the (first?) Daily Podcast on the site before I run out of energy.

We’ll see how this pans out. Meanwhile, your feedback is most appreciated.

By: Dinu Uscatu

Dinu Uscatu — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:11:02 +0000

Please leave the Podcasts on iTunes longer than 1 day. I listen to all of them, but some days there simp,y is no time to turn on the computer when I get home (late) to download therm.

And yes, longer Podcasts are a great idea!

By: N85523

N85523 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:05:28 +0000

Good stuff. It’s interesting to hear views from the inside. I think that Mr Vines or anybody also would not be able to be as candid as he was were he presently working for Chrysler. I second the Max. Bob recommendation. Send him an invitation letter every day til he gives in, though it may take years. Allow a 20 minute podcast.

By: ajla

ajla — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:51:09 +0000

When will the Bob Lutz Edition Podcast be running?

Anyway, as an avid TTAC podcast listener, I thought Mr. Vines did alright with this (after a kind of weird start). However, unless you can regularly get “name” people to do the “Pt. 2 podcasts”, I’d just as well enjoy you running the Berkowitz podcasts longer if you can’t cover all the news in the original 11 minutes.