The Muscle Car Place online podcast, episode number 598. This week, it's our 2025 New Year's show.

It's the first show of the year. Rick Schmidt is here to kick things off, and we're going to talk about all the fun things this year may bring.

Inflation, tariffs, more and more EVs, you know, the fun stuff. But we're also going to talk about the big January car auctions and cars to buy and to restore and to flip. And really how to grow in whatever you're

doing, be that a relationship, a new hobby, even a new business. All of those are good things,

but they can be bad things if you're not careful. Chasing growth for growth's sake is kind of a

tightrope, but preparing yourself for a better future is a nice, big, wide sidewalk.

Here's how Rick does it.

Growth is a luxury that you're only able to afford if you are successful with your core

business in which doing what you're currently doing right now very, very well.

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Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. Yes, indeed. I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast.

Well, happy New Year, everybody. Burn a little old Langs Eye in here, please. And burn, oh, burn, burn.

Fireworks, like good ones.

Like, not cheap ones burn. Don't do that. Go with the good one. All right. Well, I'm coming to you live in 2025 from Duluth, Minnesota.

That's a lie. I'm not doing any of that. I am not live, and it's not 2020. I'm recording this on December 30th, 2024.

We're trying to leave for a little Christmas vacation here.

Rick Schmidt is here for the first show of 2025, and it's a good one.

Every year for the first show of the year, I do like to kick things off on goals and dreams and changes.

And really, the entire month of January, I like to focus on that stuff. Rick isn't a goal setter in the traditional sense, but in the global

sense he is, and there's a lot to be learned here. For Rick, and really a lot of successful people,

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