Would you consider buying a new or used vehicle online, without driving it first? Carvana’s partnership with Plaid enables instant ACH payments and 24/7 buying—reducing friction, accelerating verification, and reducing failed transactions. Convenience is real, but so are the risks of skipping a test drive or a third-party inspection. We offer a practical checklist to protect your wallet: get preapproved, define your must-haves, compare total cost of ownership, and take possession of the vehicle before funds leave your account.

In this episode, we confront the quiet crisis many households face: managing rising healthcare costs, tight housing, expensive groceries, and the pressure to keep a vehicle on the road. There is a hidden economic crisis that is happening right now in America, but you won’t find it in the headlines. It’s leading to many uncomfortable conversations at the kitchen table about how to move forward and how to handle bills and life priorities.

This episode will introduce you to the Jeep Wagoneer S, an all-electric SUV with a storied badge and a new identity. We trace the nameplate’s history, explain how the Wagoneer S rides on Stellantis’s STLA truck platform, and explore the high-density NMC battery that delivers serious power and solid efficiency. On the road, it’s quick, refined, and thoughtfully packaged, but towing is limited, there’s no spare, and the design language drifts from classic Jeep. With pricing in the mid-to-high 60s and incentives already in play, we ask the question buyers are asking: Is this truly a Jeep, or a luxury EV wearing a famous name?

What if a $10 part could swing millions, and a single extra truck per hour could add a quarter billion in revenue? We open with the hard math behind Ford’s production ramp-up, showing how small cost changes and modest line-speed gains compound into outsized financial results. It’s a revealing look at why automakers obsess over pennies, manage thousands of suppliers, and make capacity moves that ripple through jobs, community investment, and market share.

In this episode, we examine AI’s accelerating role in insurance. Think underwriting powered by decades of climate and claims data, faster, more empathetic claims workflows, and the hard truth that some regions may become too risky to insure without policy changes or public backstops. Reinsurance pressures, state regulators, and model transparency collide here, and the outcomes will shape premiums, availability, and fairness.

Consumer protection from Big Data moves to the forefront in California. Privacy protections receive equal billing under California’s new data-broker deletion law. For the first time in the U.S., residents can require hundreds of brokers to delete personal data and keep it deleted, shifting the burden from individuals to the industry. We cover the limits, the daily fines that give the policy teeth, and why recurring deletion is essential in a constantly refreshed data market. It’s an absolute path to regaining control without spending hours on cryptic opt-outs.

This episode uncovers a shocker many didn’t expect: congestion pricing is working in New York. One year after launch, Lower Manhattan saw millions fewer car trips, faster tunnels and bridges, cleaner air, and quicker buses—without the feared spillover traffic into surrounding neighborhoods. We break down the toll structure, the equity of allocating investment revenue to New York City's public transportation system, and how escalating fees can keep traffic from creeping back. If you care about urban mobility, transit funding, and livable streets, these numbers matter.

It's a tough goodbye as we chart Bollinger Motors’ rise, pivot, and fall. We have followed the company's progress from an elegant, fixable EV truck vision to an ambitious medium-duty chassis play that ran headlong into the realities of capital, volume, and time. We walk through the funding twists, the move from contract manufacturing to a dedicated plant, and why selling only a handful of vehicles can doom even smart engineering. It’s a candid look at what it really takes to build hardware in a deeply capital-intensive industry.