Credit where credit's due. When I told our ME Frank Williams we needed a second podcast to cover the blog posts that Justin and I missed, he suggested we have a rotating guest commentator. (Not literally, of course.) While other TTAC writers and industry celebs will get their turn to share their dulcet tones and intellectual perspective on the day's news, I thought I'd start with ex-Chrysler PR flack Jason Vines. When Vines was spinning for ChryCo, he had well-earned reputation for a confrontational style and, uh, that's about it. (What more do you need anyway?) Now that the ailing automaker has put PR under HR (that's Human Relations for our non-cubicle-dwelling audience) and Vines has moved on to Compuware, I wanted to find out if he'd mellowed. You be the judge.
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
The mp3 player flash file is missing (big red X)..can’t listen in.
Vines is a good choice for the TTAC podcast and I’d like to hear him again sometime soon. More stories of bribery?
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.
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.
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.
“That’s not what I’d want under my Christmas tree.”
Ouch.