Andy Swanson and Hassan Ghondour - #2283 | Car Selling Secrets #154
It's Hyundai day. Andy Swanson and Hassan Ghandour join us live in studio. They are both General Managers for Walser Hyundai in Brooklyn Park and their soon to be opened brand new dealership in Coon Rapids. Hassan grew up in Beirut, moved to Minnesota 18 years ago and got into the car business. And…
Ray Erick - #2279 | Car Selling Secrets #153
Former KQRS on air personality Ray Erick joins us in studio and we oddly spend an hour talking about cars; the hunt for a '79 Biarritz, the 5-window coupe that almost killed him, the 1955 190 SL that he tried to steal from a collector and his current stable of Pontiacs. Along the way, we veer into…
Jay Ernest - #2273 | Car Selling Secrets #152
We start the year off with an interview with Jay Ernest. Jay is a professional musician who has toured all over the world and sounds suspiciously like Dan Akroyd. Jay and his partner wrote a musical around Johnny Cash's famous 1968 concert in Folsom called "Folsom Prison Experience." Along the way…
Long Live the Queen - #2269 | Car Selling Secrets #2269
They're multiplying. Doug leaves, and now we have two Walser employees to take his place. Tevin and Jerry join us to talk about car-centric topics such as the slow death of Dairy Queen and how much unemployment you can rake in in Massachusetts. Just think of it as garage talk. There, now it's r…
Tire Carver - #2263 | Car Selling Secrets #150
It's a veritable cornucopia of talent today, special for the holiday season. Regulars aside, you also have Howard, better known to listeners as Tire Carver, as well as Pat Ebertz of KQ fame. And get this: we actually talk about cars for a whole half hour. Specifically, race cars. Maybe Doug sho…
Tiffany Norton - #2260 | Car Selling Secrets #149
Long time fans of the KQ morning show probably remember some of the more classic bits. Cash call, for example - although that technically wasn't a bit. It turns out Tiffany is as big a fan as anyone and grew up listening to the same audio as the rest of us. It also turns out she has some big new…
My Type of Car - #2256 | Car Selling #148
Mike McVay opens the show with the tale of his Corvair Spyder, which sets the tone of the show: things from the 60s. Remember typewriters? The kind that required you to have fingers strong enough to bend steel? It's no wonder so many people opted to just stick with pen and paper for so long. Or…
Jason Buck - #2253 | Car Selling Secrets #147
Jason, GM of Walser Nissan Coon Rapids, comes in to talk cars. What he didn't know is that we can't stay on topic for more than about five minutes. To our credit, we did manage to talk about the new Ariya. Also nitrogen. It's a car thing, I swear.
Mike Evans - #2249 | Car Selling Secrets #146
Legendary Hollywood reporter Mike Evans joins us and we talk about how he and Tom launched their radio carriers as teenagers. We move on to Billy Graham, Heroin addiction, Mental health and every thing else in between.
Landon Moyer and Kim Dahlke - #2247 | Car Selling Secrets #145
What do car stories and electroshock have in common? Seriously, we're asking you. And no, "this podcast" doesn't count. How about this one: what do Landon and Kim have in common? This time, "this podcast" does count. As does KQ. Now if they had both been treated for schizophrenia in the 1950s…