Welcome to the CNC auto show.
We are back with you for the whole second hour of the CNC auto show. And we are here with cohost, Jamie bridges, and we have a new guest here with us. And we have Jacob quarrels here with us. And, uh, Jacob also attended the Columbia County workforce competition.
And Jacob, welcome to the show. Hey, it's good to be here, man. We are glad that you here, uh, Jacob, we're going to be getting you to tell us a little bit about yourself and a little bit about what you did as far as competing.
But we do one thing here. Uh, we like to, uh, to answer automotive questions, and this is a question that has to do on the mechanical side. So I'm going to bring this person on board and all three of us will help this gentleman with his question. And so we will go over to, uh, let's see here.
Oh, he's gone. He was asking a question about the, uh, the 2001 Nissan that a previous caller had asked about. And I was going to put you on board to help answer, uh, his question on there.
So I'm gonna do one thing before we move forward. I'm gonna go ahead and mention, we did give an answer to the tech tip quiz on the previous hour. I'm going to give that answer one more time, just to make sure that everybody has that. And the question was Reeve owns a nice little sports car. He let his friend uses the car, uh, his friend let the battery go dead, but still put over 3000 miles on the car, even with a dead battery, how did his friend put over 3000 miles on the car with a dead battery?
And we did have to retire that tech tip quiz, Jamie shaking her head. And, uh, and the answer was Reeve's first name was Elon and Elon Reeve musk. Elon had a red roaster. He loaned to star man to drive in space. Starman left on February 6, 2018. The battery went dead and he went over 3000 miles.
He had actually went 234 million miles because it's closer to Mars. And, uh, that was the answer to today's tech tip quiz. So, uh, I'm going to go ahead and, uh, I'm going to go ahead and give the answer to today's tech tip quiz. So, so for clarification, cause I had to Google it. Cause I didn't know what was going on.
Star man is a mannequin in a space suit and he's in the Tesla roadster and he was launched as a counterweight or, uh, some kind of weight on the nose, the nose cone of this Elon Musk spacecraft. And so the roadster has floated all the way through our solar system. Yes. Okay. All right.
It makes sense that I still have mixed feelings about the question, but the answer makes sense now. So I can't remember what the song was that was playing. Maybe somebody will call and tell us if they know what song it was that was playing during that time.
Did he add on the radio? Yeah. I can't remember what that was. Okay. My best guess to what was, what the answer would be is they were flat tone it and wheels are turning. So the college was the only thing I could have thought of.
I wasn't thinking outer space. A lot of tries on that one. Yeah.
So what we have to do to all those that tried. Okay. All right, Jacob, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you did at the competition. Well, I'm David Quarles. I go to Harlem. Um, I've always liked cars. I always liked watching movies and shows about when it was about how I just started getting interested in them. And then about a year and a half ago, I bought my first truck as a 87 blazer.
That's really where I learned a lot of it. Just having to work on it. And then, but now I'm in the automotive program in Harlem, where we do the competitions.
So we just got done with the competition a few weeks ago where me and car are working together as a team in the advanced section, and we want it. Just trying to, cause they brought in a truck and it was acting like another shop had already worked on it, but they couldn't get it fixed. So we had to think about it in that regard, that somebody else could have messed it up, not like a part broke up by itself.
Yeah. And that's what makes the automotive industry. So, uh, so much fun is things are not always as they seem to be. For instance, a vehicle comes in and you might, a person has an issue.
And if somebody else has already worked on it, they may have changed something that shouldn't have been changed or move something in a way to where it shouldn't have been. So you two figured this out. We did.
We were the first team in the four years that they were doing it to actually figure it out in the hour and a half that they gave us to work on it. Heck yeah. That's awesome. So you have access to wiring diagrams and information on the car. Yes, sir. We had a computer with pro demand pulled up, which is a service that shows you all of the OEM diagrams. And you can also go on there and it shows real fixes and then you can search it by symptom and it'll show where other mechanics have the same symptom and their fix and how common that fix helped it was real helpful. Yeah. There's a lot of people out there that may not necessarily know that technicians have access to that type of information. On the heavy duty side for semi trucks, we have something similar. Well, you know, technician that this problem occurred, technician, aided this, beaded this, seated this, and it is similar.
Yeah. Yeah, and, uh, and, and we use a program, not necessarily pro demand, but that didn't fix and it's set up in a way to where, uh, technicians from all around the world, uh, it right in and say, yeah, this is what was wrong with it. And this is what repaired it. And technicians can use that to point them in the right direction, because of course you, uh, you, uh, that competition, you knew that speed is very important, uh, and many people would look at it and say, oh, speed shouldn't be a big issue as far as working with cars, but it is a big issue because when you're working on a vehicle, people want their cars fast. And not to mention your time's very valuable of what you're doing. So the faster you get to the problem and get the problem solved faster, the, uh, the customers back on the road and more money a technician makes, uh, actually because they they're able to repair cars faster.
So knowledge equates to dollars also and happy customers. A big part of the competition was mainly diagnostics. And that's a, that was a big part of it was just knowing how to track down the problem, going down the system to kind of pinpoint where the problem was. Like we had, um, a hard brake pedal, and then we looked at the codes on it. We looked at the live data on the, um, vacuum sensor, how much vacuum is going as a brake booster, brake booster. Well, eventually found that there was a plug in the vacuum line. Oh, I had to work backwards to find that one. That would be a little bit of a tricky issue because you don't run into that real often. So you found that it was lower and your first instinct was, if that reads lower, it must be a bad sister. But then you found that the sister was correct.
It was just, the vacuum was too low. Yeah. Well, that's amazing. And so you and call your work together on those type problems.
Yes, sir. We had, we were working on the same truck together. Now, was there any kind of event in your life that made you, uh, say, wow, this is, uh, this is what I really enjoy doing. I want to, um, uh, I want to work with cars. Um, there's been a lot of things, but I've always liked it is the thing. You just always enjoy working, working with cars.
Okay. Now, the, um, your view, uh, as far as has your view on cars changed in it, since you started working on the cars of how you actually just look at a car, how you look at a car, how you drive it, and do you kind of, you interested in a lot of the functions that it has now? That's definitely whenever you can look at a car and you can tell that the oil filters in a bad location or something like that, like there's some cars I would never buy just because the oil filter location is such a pain to get to doing simple stuff, just so much harder on some of these newer vehicles. Now that's, uh, what's, uh, what, what advice would you give to someone just starting to learn out, uh, learn or get into working on vehicles?
Honestly, if you already have the car that you're working on, the best thing to do is YouTube, in my opinion, because you can sit there and watch how they did it and watch a bunch of different stuff. Well, you, you picked out a good first equal in my, in my opinion, because it's a Chevy, but yeah, nothing simpler than a small boss. Oh my gosh.
No, there really isn't. That was, that was a great, that was a great first pick. Jacob. This is awesome. Hey, we're going to be right back with more of the CNC auto show. The CNC auto show is brought to you in part by Motorrad, a global leader in development of high quality and reliable thermal and engine management solutions for today's vehicles, as well as emerging technologies of the future. Learn more at motorrad.com and we are back with you with the CNC auto show.
I'm here with cohost, Jamie bridges, and we are here with Jacob quarrels. And Jacob was in a, uh, in the competition for the Columbia county education workforce competition. And, uh, he mentioned that they hid a few items, uh, on the cars. They put some bugs in the cars and they were able to go in there and diagnose these issues within an hour and a half, which I thought was awesome.
And that's a great thing for the industry. Uh, one of the next things that we have for you, Jacob, we have a caller and this caller is going to be asking a question and you will have the opportunity to talk with the caller about his vehicle. Welcome to the CNC auto show.
And what can we help with? I have no idea what the, what the problem is or what the solution is to your question, but I have a rev four and it has, I got, I put about 1,952 miles a year on it and I changed the oil at 5,000. So it takes me about two years, you know, to, uh, reach the oil change. Is that, do you think I should change it more frequently? Okay.
I'm going to let Jacob jump on this first. Yes, sir. I definitely would.
We, most of the time the recommended services about every six months or every 5,000 miles for an oil change in a basic just inspection of your car to look over everything and make sure everything's good. Yeah. Would you agree, Jamie? Yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I agree. Also, uh, one of the things that you run into on a vehicle is the crank case also builds up moisture inside there.
And, and because of that, uh, you need that part of the oil's job is to hold that moisture and then when it's changed, get it out of there. Now I will tell you that, uh, at one time I was always saying six months now. It's not uncommon for me to go. If I got a vehicle that I'm not driving much at all, I might go eight months, a little bit longer than that.
I never would go two years. Uh, but I would recommend somewhere between six months and one year, uh, going ahead and changing it, whether you have the miles on it or not. And I think that would be a great move. And with that, I would, uh, I would recommend going ahead with full synthetic oil also when you do it, it's got a little bit better protection. Um, uh, uh, for, um, mainly for thermal reasons, it was stands up hot, uh, temperatures, but that vehicle may even call for full synthetic anyway.
And the price difference is not that much. So yeah, I'd go ahead and change it somewhere, pick a time somewhere between six months and a year, but to have it on a routine, whatever you do, say at this time, I'm going to change it. And, uh, whether you have the miles on there or not, go ahead and do it. So the, uh, you don't, even with the synthetic oil, do you recommend the same frequency of change?
Yes. Uh, with full synthetic oil, I tell you what I do. I have a Z three BMW Z three, and I use full synthetic oil on it. And it's an older vehicle.
It's like an old one or something like that. And, uh, but I drive to pee out of that car. So I have to, it turns up high RPMs, but yes, I would go ahead and use the full synthetic and I would do it, uh, I do mine every 5,000 miles. And it's, uh, it's something that, uh, my car, I don't have trouble with cars. My, I drive my cars a long, long, long time. And so, yes, I would still do it at 5,000 miles, still full synthetic. And, uh, that, um, that's, that's what I recommend on most cars that you do get into some, uh, European vehicles and some in some large trucks and things that, that varies from that a lot. But on the average car, I normally say five months, 5,000 miles.
And that, that way you got a good routine. And if you add it up, sometimes people say, well, I'm gonna go longer and I'm all do this longer. You, you're talking about pennies compared to a car's life time. And I've seen cars that hadn't been driven very much that they only change their oil, like every two years. And what happens, they crank them up and you see this smoke coming out in the back and then they start leaking and using oil and all that. So it's just not worth it.
I'd put it on a good routine, five months, 5,000 miles. Boom. You don't have to worry.
I have one more question about that. Uh, if you're using synthetic, is it possible to switch back to a regular oil? Not recommended.
Probably wouldn't hurt anything, but I don't see a reason why. I mean, the full synthetic is, is not that much more expensive. Now own almost cars. Now you do get into some of the later model, like BMWs and the higher, the fluid capacity, of course, the more expensive it's going to be. Exactly. But the act like on that car, you're probably talking about $20 in oil change difference between full regular, uh, or synthetic oil, uh, full synthetic and semi-synthetic, so it's just, uh, there's not a reason to, I would just use full synthetic, but yeah, I wouldn't run synthetic then conventional and then go back to, I wouldn't go back and forth.
You to pick, pick one and stay with it. Now, if you ran synthetic oil and you were stuck somewhere and you had to drop a quart of conventional oil in it just to get home, I would do that. And then I would change the oil shortly after I wouldn't keep running them together, you're going to end up with foaming and it's going to do weird stuff.
So I would just go ahead and drain it. So in case of emergency, I was going to say, can you recommend a particular brand of synthetic oil? The, the biggest thing that differentiates one brand of oil from another brand of oil is going to be your additives and your detergents that are in the oil. So it's not necessarily that your store brand oil is not going to do what it needs to do.
They all have to meet or exceed a certain guidelines. So your store brand oil is still going to work, but you know, you go up in line, you get the high mileage additives, you get different detergents and wear inhibitors. So I would do a little research on your own and just kind of decide what you want out of that oil.
And then I would go and pick a brand name based off of that research. Well, alpha, what you want out of the oil, but there's, there's nothing wrong with running the auto zone and grabbing like house brand oil. It's not bad oil.
It's really not, cause I mean, I use store brand oil, so, I mean, there, there's nothing wrong with it. I mean, that's, you know, all the, they're pretty similar, all, all of these. And I will say I love Shell products, Shell, because if you go to an airport, you're going to see Aeroshell. If you go to a truck stop, you're going to see Shell Rotella. Uh, so I love products made by Shell.
Uh, our bulk oil is a Shell type oil, but, uh, yeah, I would, uh, I would say the main thing is just get a good name, brand oil, even if you want to go really to the top mobile one, something like that, but there's so many good brands now, uh, so I would just pick the oil and state like, like Jamie mentioned, is changing your oil, just change your oil. That's the number one. Hey, great question though. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Oh, we thank you. Have a great day.
Okay. We'll be right back with more of the CNC auto show. And we are back with you with the CNC auto show. I'm Aaron Clements here with co-host Jamie bridges, and we have Jacob Quarles here.
And Jacob, we, uh, I wanted to make sure I had the opportunity to tell you, thank you for being here and of course, congratulate you on all the things that you've done as far as the Columbia County workforce competition, uh, that is a great thing. What's the, what's next in line for that? Um, they'll do another competition next year. They do it once a year. So probably that is, we usually don't do any other competitions.
The one put on by Columbia County. I think you're going to be one of the ones that'll win two years in a row. Uh, that's the, that's the plan.
When all those nice prizes that everybody, everybody gives to you guys. It's crazy to see all the industry partners just donating all that stuff to mechanics and you want some stuff, didn't you? Oh yeah. Yeah.
Some nice stuff. Yeah. Now, uh, a bigger win for you though, did you happen to have any, uh, people that had companies that may have come to you and said, Hey, are you interested in talking about a position? I did not.
Um, at the job fair the night before most everybody was looking for 18 and up and looking for somebody that was about to graduate insurance purposes. Cause I was there. Yeah. Yeah. Looking for interns is what I was, I was there doing, but, uh, I mean, besides that, you know, the, the support that we all try to come together and support you guys because technicians are so important.
I mean, every, everybody drives or rides in some kind of vehicle, everything that you own at some point was transported by some kind of vehicle. I mean, technicians are so important. And that's why we all come together to support you guys and, you know, the tools hopefully would advance your career and, you know, if you stayed with it. So I was at an advisory meeting the other night at one of the high schools.
And I can tell you, I did see several different people with some larger companies said, what can I do to help? So I'm going to say this to everyone that is in the automotive industry that has businesses around the country, get involved with your local high schools and, and, and, and, and, and also have a method of letting the parents know that this can be a beautiful industry to be a part of it definitely is. And I mean, that we need to start sooner to get people interested in this field.
We need to start with our high school students to, to get that interest, you know, the, you know, Oh, shoot, the instant gratification that comes with being able to work with your hands and actively see that you're accomplishing something and the feeling of watching that car roll out the roll out the bay. Not to mention it, you can make a very nice living doing some of these, they, they make good money now, Jacob, I want to say thank you very much for you being here, Jacob Quarles and, and congratulations on all the things you've done. And we're going to be, uh, bringing Elizabeth back. So while you two are switching headsets and she's coming in, uh, we're going, I'm going to be taking a quick call, but thank you very much for being here. And I look forward to, if you don't mind, stay in touch with us and let us know how you're doing. Thank you for having me. Oh, thank you for being here. Okay. We will be going to the phone calls while we are waiting for Elizabeth to get all buckled in there and welcome to the CNC auto show.
How can we help? Hey, this is Jay. This is JT. Yes, sir. Calling on the tech, the tech quiz. Okay. Now, are you talking about the one having to do with the red roadster? Um, that the battery went down.
Okay. We had to retire that tech tip quiz. Nobody got an answer. We waited two weeks and we pulled it back out of the refrigerator last week. They had mold on it.
So we, uh, we, we were going to use it this week, but it was just not, uh, edible. Now when we pulled it out this week, so we had to retire it and we gave the answer to that tech tip quiz. You want to hear the answer real quick?
And I miss, yeah. Tell me the answer. All right, here we go. And it had to do with Reeve owning a sports car and let his friend use the car. His friend let, uh, let the battery go dead, but he still put 3000 miles on the car, even though the battery is dead, how did his friend put 3000 miles on the car with a dead battery? And the answer was Reeve's first name was Elon. That's Elon Reeve Musk. Elon had a red roadster that he loaned to star man to drive in space. Sharman left on February 6, 2018. The battery went dead and went over 3000 miles with it dead.
It's actually gone over 234 million miles and it's actually closer to Mars. And, uh, you could have been a winner and I'm holding your, what could have been your TTQWB, uh, water bottle, and that's in the, the prize package and, uh, I'm, uh, I'm going to give you this anyway. Oh man. I am so sorry. I deserve it. Very good. Okay.
We really appreciate your call. What I would have done is parked that sports car on a hill every time. Well, you can't do that in space. The thing was halfway to Mars or over halfway to Mars. There's no hill to park on.
Elizabeth, do you think he could have parked that red sports car on the hill? Not in outer space. No. Now see, there's, they got gravity. Yeah.
Maybe when he lands on Mars, he might be able to find a hill somewhere. All right, we do appreciate it. All right. Thank you. All right.
Okay. Welcome back a little with, Hey, we, uh, we talked last time you were here a little earlier, uh, we talked a little bit about the competition that you were in having to do with the, uh, with, with the, uh, painting and the things that you did, how well you did and all of those options. But there's something else you're involved in and this, this part, I'm trying to picture it, I can't quite picture this part, but you are into wrestling.
Yes, sir. So I actually, I started combat sports with my granddad when I was really, really young, probably five or six. And then from there, it just kept progressing. Like I started doing, I started doing, you know, MMA and kickboxing. And then the place that I was doing kickboxing at how to wrestling club, I was like, Oh, I want to wrestle.
Like that sounds so much fun. So then when I got to high school, I joined the wrestling team at my school. We actually did not have a girls team. I was the first, I was the only girl on the Evans high school team at that time. And then the next year we had a few more girls join. And then this year I can say that I have officially started the female wrestling team at Evans high school. Oh, wow. It's nice to say that I was able to be the start to something new. And then I actually just made history the other day.
I was the first female ever at Evans high school to sign a letter of intent to go and wrestle in college. Wow. Oh my gosh.
So not only can she paint your car, she could whoop your butt too. That is really impressive. That is just amazing.
Like the whole, everything you got going on from the Peyton body to the, to the wrestling and everything that you've achieved so far. I mean, it's, it's, it's been such an amazing experience. That's oh my gosh. I love, love everything about this. It's good. It's great.
I love seeing women in the industry and seeing all the things that you've achieved and just to see where you go in life, it's going to be great. You don't like this plate. Let's go outside. Oh gosh.
And so you get a scholarship in wrestling. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. Wow.
That is just absolutely amazing. It is. It is. It's great. It's oh my gosh. I'm so excited.
I imagine you are. Okay. We going to, uh, we need to pull over for just a minute or two and we will be back on the road very shortly with more of the CNC auto show, I just returned from our automotive technical colleges advisory board meeting. We discussed the recent technician workforce competition, current curriculum shop equipment for the schools and where students can go to get good information about the industry. This gave me a chance to tell the new people on the board about shop squad online.com.
Some didn't know that shop squad online.com is a site driven by NGK and NTK to advance the automotive repair industry, or that it's available to shop owner service advisors, parks, pros, technicians, industry professionals, and students. This site represents an opportunity to develop tools and solutions to support shops needs. I told him that their students could enroll and receive a host of benefits on demand training, digital newsletters, product launch information, and more.
Several instructors said that they would definitely be encouraging their students to sign up. And I told them that they could get a lot more information at shop squad online.com. It turned out to be a great meeting, and I really enjoy being around other people that like to move the automotive industry forward. And we are back with you with the CNC auto show. We're a little informal around here.
We're talking about cars during the breaks and nerf gun fights and all the other things that Jamie running back and getting her, getting her chair right before we get started back. And, uh, and we have co-host Jamie bridges here with us, and we have Elizabeth Stupak here back with us. Uh, and we are discussing, we talked a little bit about the competition that you were in. We talked a little bit about the wrestling that you have had a scholarship for, which is absolutely amazing. And you mentioned that you enjoy the mechanical side a little bit, uh, also, uh, on doing things and, uh, and, and Elizabeth, I'm gonna mention it to you. It's absolutely amazing to hear the things that you've accomplished and things that you're doing.
And I know that it's going to be a lot more. Thank you. Now, uh, we talked a little bit, you're going to come visit us when we have a, at the next coffee and cars or car show that we might be doing a remote at. You're gonna walk up and talk to us, right? Absolutely.
All right. Well, fantastic. Well, I want to say thank you very much for being here with us. Uh, we will be calling call your back in and he'll be sitting down with us because we want to have the opportunity to say hello to him, but Elizabeth, again, it has been wonderful.
And I received a text message from a good friend of mine. That was one of the, uh, people, uh, actually he was a judge at one event. He, he wrote well, this come from Carol Proctor, AC Proctor, paint and body. Um, that young lady is a rock star.
I judge skills USA for the auto body last weekend in Atlanta, ask her about being captain of the wrestling team, which we did that already before I read that, uh, part of it. Uh, but I want to say thank you very much for being here. We enjoyed it very much. Oh yes. And thank you for having me. Okay. And I'm gonna let you to swap, swap out on the headsets while I'm going to the caller and we will go over to the next caller and welcome to the CNC R and C auto show.
Hey, uh, good talk with you. I've got, uh, a, uh, late nineties, bottle G grand Cherokee. And, uh, I, uh, I'm noticing some leaks around the head gasket and, you know, eventually this thing has upwards getting near 300,000. The two's upper 200 something K, but just, uh, in general, if I plan to put a new engine in the vehicle, um, do I, would it be recommended that I've purchased the engine or brand myself of the maker? Cause there's different makers, you know, the engines, but, or let the mechanic choose.
And also do you install it CNC? And if you don't mind, I don't expect to go into detail by the way, I, you know, that's a lot involved there. That's a loaded question. I know, but, uh, can I take your, your answer response off air so I can, I can hear you better that way. So, uh, either way, I'll be fine.
Now you can, you're welcome to stay on. I could tell you real quickly, um, that, yeah, that I can hear you. Okay. Well, I'll be glad to answer that. Okay.
All right. So, uh, the question was, he, he's got a vehicle, it's got about 300,000 miles on it and it sounds like it's getting a little tired. And he wondered if we would replace an engine if he found the engine. Uh, so the, the, so you can always buy your own parts and show up to whichever repair facility you want to with the parts that you purchased and have them install those parts. Now, the problem with that is that if you show up with your own parts, that repair facility is not going to give you a warranty for those parts because they, they don't know where those parts came from. They didn't buy the parts themselves.
So you're, that you're doing that. You might save a few hundred bucks upfront, but in the long run you could potentially because costing yourself a lot more money because you're not, you don't have that warranty to fall back on if something does go wrong. Now, it's not common, but every so often you do get a faulty brand new part. So if it were me and depending on where the engine was coming from, I would probably just let the repair facility buy the engine and then install it themselves. That way you have the warranty to fall back on. Now, if I were going to install it myself, then I would just go pick whatever engine and hopefully there's nothing wrong with it. And then if there is something wrong with it, I'd be able to troubleshoot it and figure it out. But if you're, if you're going for the warranty, then you're not going to get the warranty if you buy your own parts.
Yeah. And you answered that perfectly well. And that is pretty much how we do. We, we, with a smile, I mean, on most parts now, if somebody was buying a part that we knew was not going to be good, we would say, no, we'd rather not install it. But in most cases, if somebody got their own parts and it was a good reputable part, we would put the part in for them.
But like you mentioned, no warranty on it. But the tater truth, there's not a huge markup in engines when you're putting them in anyway. And, and I will tell you, uh, this is a case that we, we, uh, we installed some used engines. Also got one out there right now that we ordered an engine for. It was a used engine and everything looked good on the engine. We got it in and it just didn't sound right.
We didn't feel comfortable with it. Yeah. So we'll be taking that engine back out, putting another one back in at no charge at all to the customer. Uh, and now that was a used one.
It's a little bit more unusual on a, uh, on, on a, uh, on a rebound or something like that. But like I said, it can't, I have seen it happen. Yeah. So yeah, I'd recommend on an engine. You're talking about over the lifetime of an engine.
You're talking about saving very, very little. Yeah. No, you're just, you're just better off to go with the warranty and let them, let them find the engine. Go ahead. Proceed that way. Would you agree with that? I do agree with that.
A hundred percent. All right. Fantastic. Okay.
Call your, we, uh, we want an opportunity to tell you also that we appreciated you being here and we wanted to have the opportunity to congratulate you on some of the things that you've done as far as in the competition. And, uh, you say you and Jacob together jumped on there and, uh, and found problems on these cars within an hour and a half, hour and a half. Wow.
Yeah. That is, that that's a beautiful thing, uh, to see that I'm going to have to make it a point to go to that competition. Now, what would you agree with what I mentioned is that, uh, automotive shops around the country, uh, that, uh, there may be some automotive people that are listening to this, um, that things like that can be really good for the students and exciting for them and let them know how important they are because they are the future of the automotive industry. And, and I think that, uh, if they would get involved, I'm a member of advisory boards, Jamie, I know you do a huge amount for, uh, probably even more than I do, as far as going to different places and helping, uh, the, the students and just helping the automotive industry in here, opportunity people get involved in, in this and let, uh, and let the, uh, the kids and their parents know that this is a great industry.
We talked about myths. The myth is, was that the automotive technician didn't earn a good living. And I can tell you that's absolutely not like it is at all.
No, no. It can be a very, very nice industry to be in, to be a part of. And I can tell you that I've been in a long, long time. So, um, car you're, I want to say, thank you very much for you being here with us during the show. Any last thing you want to mention about the, uh, about the competition or, uh, or even being on the show here? Not much.
I mean, I just appreciate y'all inviting us. And then Anthony Deckard and Nick Hayes did a great job putting on the competition. Okay. And who was that now? Anthony Deckard, he's the, I think he's over just actually like the mechanical side of it. And then Nick Hayes is over everything. I believe.
All right. Nick is an awesome, awesome guy. He was an educator for years. He's, uh, he's very invested in helping the kids and he's, he's just, he's a great guy. He's the one that came up with the idea in the first place. Yeah.
He, he, he's, we need to drag him onto the show one day. Yes, we will. Which I believe both Anthony and Nick were both students of Mr. Lewis's. Yeah. Yeah, well, I know Tim, Tim's an awesome technician and I've always enjoyed. And, and, and mentioned again, all of these technicians, we, we try to talk back and forth, even though it might seem like they're competitors, but in effect, we're all willing to help each other in a lot of different ways.
Everybody works together very closely. Okay. The time clock is on E and we do need to pull over for now, but we will be back on the road.
No time. I'm Avery Clements here with co-host Jamie bridges. And we want to say thank you very much. Call your for being on the show and, and we will see everybody again next week with more of the CNC auto show. And I'm sorry about that tech tip quiz. I got a feeling I'm going to hear from that. Have a, have a great day. The CNC auto show is brought to you in part by motor red, a global leader in development of high quality and reliable thermal and engine management solutions for today's vehicles, as well as emerging technologies of the future. Learn more at motor red.com.
