K&F Show #320: Super Bowl 2025 Food Fails and Bernie’s In Charge; Movie Review: “GroundHog Day”

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2025 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2025!

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Make sure that you visit Holley.com to place your speed parts orders – and THANK THEM for continuing on as the Title Sponsor of the KF Show!

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Classic Car Movie Review with Mike Finnegan: Groundhog Day

NOTE: This movie review was originally published in Episode 58 of the K&F show. We know that. You know that. It’s like we’re living the same day over and over, right?

K&F Show Summary:

It’s February, the Super Bowl and the Daytona 500 are right around the corner, Valentine’s Day is upon is, and once again Groundhog Day has come and gone. It’s 6 more weeks of winter….again! This seemed like a perfect excuse to re-run our classic review of the movie of the same name.

What can we say that you don’t know already about the movie Groundhog Day? As it turns out…plenty, but mostly because it amused us to do so. This is the epic fable of the blessing – or curse – of repeating a day over and over and over again. Bill Murray stars as the Phil the weatherman from Philly, sent to cover Phil the Groundhog from Punxsutawney give his annual weather prognostication. Only for Phil the weatherman, Phil the Groundhog causes him to re-live his day in Punxsutawney over, and over, and over again. He tries to eat, drink, and kill himself every day…but it fails. Only when he starts doing acts of service and kindness do things improve. Then he finds love and gets out of the cycle, conveniently about when the movie is ready to end. It’s fantastic. There’s a Chevy C-20 that bites it at one point too. And an Eldorado drives on train tracks. 10-out-of-10 Corndogs.

Legit Movie Info:

Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell
Written by Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin
Directed by Harold Ramus
Original Release Date: 2/12/1993

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Welcome to the High Performance Expo!

We are pleased to announce that the all new High Performance Expo has joined us to share their inaugural event, the exclusive business and enthusiast show of the North Carolina Motorsports Association (NCMA), will be held from June 3-5, 2025, at the Charlotte Convention Center, followed by area-wide enthusiast activities. The event will bring together all segments of the racing, aftermarket, restoration, and performance community for the first time in the heart of the auto racing industry. We’ll be bringing you more details until the show starts! Visit https://thehpx.com for details.

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K&F Show #319: Inauguration Day 2025 – Classic Dukes Review: S3E14 “My Son Bo Hogg”

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2025! 

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Make sure that you visit Holley.com to place your speed parts orders – and THANK THEM for continuing on as the Title Sponsor of the KF Show! Their Ford Small Block Giveaway is running now through February 1, 2025. Visit here to enter: https://www.holley.com/win/fordsmallblockgiveaway

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K&F Show Summary:
Every four years in the United States we swear in a Presidential administration and this year is no different. Donald Trump has become just the second person in U.S. history to serve in non-consecutive terms. We dug into that and other fun-filled Wikipedia facts about Presidential stuff. Also covered: Bernie on the News, January Celebrity Automotive Birthdays, and a review of the second episode of Tim Allen’s new ABC car-themed sitcom: Shifting Gears. 

Dukes of Hazzard Episode Review:
This episode has everything. Small pushbar Generals, egregious use of the concept of amnesia, Voice impersonation as good – or better than – AI, and a clearly directed passenger side entry of the General by Daisy that doesn’t seem helpful in any way…..other than for where the camera was placed if you get by gist. Bo gets amnesia by hitting his head on a rock. In turn Boss convinces him that he is his loving father, and that be needs Bo to be a good son and drive a load of moonshine through Chickasaw county. What’s unbeknownst to Bo but knownst to us that Sheriff Little is there waiting for him….because he hates moonshiners.  This is a fun episode where there’s no point, there’s no lesson, and there’s no dramatic acting – in any way; it’s just just pure automotive escapism.

K&F Rating: 9 Corndogs

Legit Episode Info:
Season 3, Episode 14
“My Son, Bo Hogg”
Written by Si Rose
Directed by Rod Amateau
Original Airdate: 1/30/1981

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Welcome to the High Performance Expo!

We are pleased to announce that the all new High Performance Expo has joined us to share their inaugural event, the exclusive business and enthusiast show of the North Carolina Motorsports Association (NCMA), will be held from June 3-5, 2025, at the Charlotte Convention Center, followed by area-wide enthusiast activities. The event will bring together all segments of the racing, aftermarket, restoration, and performance community for the first time in the heart of the auto racing industry. We’ll be bringing you more details until the show starts! Visit https://thehpx.com for details. 

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K&F Show #315: Our Toys For Tots 2024 Campaign! Dukes Review: S3E09 “The Great Santa Clause Chase”

KF Patreon Peeps, as announced as many places as we could we are going FULL BORE for our annual Toys for Tots Christmas donation! Last year thanks to YOU we donated over $5,000.  This year we would love to hit $5,000…so if you have not yet joined us on Patreon, we’re asking – nay – begging you to do so this moth.  If you’re a Patreon member already, could you up your donation – even if it’s just for this month? We are planning to do our donation at the end of the day on Dec 16. Whatever we have in the kitty goes to the kids!

If you prefer, you can send one-time contributions to:

PayPal: https://paypal.me/TheMuscleCarPlace?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

VENMO: https://www.venmo.com/u/themusclecarplace

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2024! 

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Visit https://www.holley.com and tell them we sent you!

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Christmas Dukes Review: S3E9 “The Great Santa Claus Chase”

K&F Show Summary:

Merry Christmas! Were pleased to bring you our favorite review on the only Dukes of Hazzard Christmas episode, S3E9 title the Great Santa Claus Chase. This review originally aired in KF Show #247 in 2022. 

Christmas Dukes Review: Somehow, an episode that has next to no General Lee in it…..is so endearing and charming it must be due to Christmas magic! In this episode they choose to re-enact the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. This is the tale of “Scrooge Hogg” stealing Christmas trees from Hazzard citizens and the Duke boys and Crazy Cooter stealing them back to deliver them in Santa Claus suits. Not good enough? In a nod to childlike happiness, the three bad guys in the episode also wear Santa Claus suits….meaning there are 6 Santas onscreen at one time. When the bad guys in Santa suits get caught, Cletus calls them “Merry Men!” The Boars Nest is decorated, proving that Christmas decorations at dive bars make them extra cheery. Better yet, there are carols, hot chocolate, and this episode ends on a message of what Christmas is all about; unconditional forgiveness…..topped off by some jingle bells flying overhead by (possibly) a certain jolly old Elf.

Rating: 10 Little Debbie Christmas Cakes!

Legit Show Info:

Season 3, Episode 9
“The Great Santa Claus Chase”
Written by Martin Roth
Directed by Denver Pyle
Original Airdate: 12/19/1980

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Kibbe, Corndog, and the Bern!

National Parts Depot Presents: Bernie on the News! https://www.npdlink.com.K&F Show #314: Happy Thanksgiving 2024!; Movie Review “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”

K&F Show #313: The End of RoadKill and Motor Trend Productions; Thanksgiving Movie Review “Tower Heist”

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2024 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have joined in for the extra content that is only for Patreon supporters. To get in on the action and support the show with a minor financial contribution just click the link below to sign up.

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2024! 

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Visit https://www.holley.com and tell them we sent you!

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Roadkill – Finale

As you have heard already the rumors circulating the closing of Motor Trend Productions are all true. Unfortunately the shows housed and produced by Motor Trend are no more. This does include “Roadkill,” its flagship and genre changing show. It’s a bi-product of being owned by a large conglomerate as well as being a niche of a niche of entertainment media. All episodes filmed not yet released will be aired over the winter of 2025/2025 but no further will be created.

We discussed the news of it all and and some point we’ll have Mike Finnegan our friend (and Kibbe and Finnegan show co-founder) on to chat about it. No matter what spin you put on it the reality of Roadkill both creating and changing the automotive space are complexly undeniable. David Frieburger and Mike Finnegan made a team that were the best of the best in automotive tom-foolery entertainment. We loved them too!

David Freiburger has given a good explanation the situation along with what’s next for the full band of Motor Trend characters (visit TheDrive.com for more on that). While none of us know whether Roadkill will ever return on a different platform, it does seem like the sun has set on it and this last piece of legacy automotive media is officially over. In the short term we know that everyone has moved on to YouTube (if they hadn’t already) and we can continue to have them in our lives there!

Thanks, boys. It was magical!

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Thanksgiving Movie Review: “Tower Heist”

K&F Movie Summary: Tower Heist is the automotive Thanksgiving movie classic you didn’t know you were missing until now, especially if you’re Corndog! This movie stars a MASSIVE cadre os actors including Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Casey Afflect, Tea Leoni, Mechael Pena, and Matthew Broderick. This is the tale of a group of not quite as cool as Oceans 11 people that get taken by a Ponzi scheme by Hawkeye from MASH. And then – to get their money back – they steal Steve McQueen’s Ferrari from the top of Trump Tower during the Thanksgiving Parade, all using a handy roof crane. You will laugh, you will squirm, and you will probably be looking up during the Thanksgiving Day Parade from here on out…..so you don’t get squished by a Ferrari made of gold. This movie is a forgotten gem that has everything going for it.

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K&F Show #312: SEMA 2024 Turns a Page on Media; Classic Dukes Review S2E11 “The People’s Choice”

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2024 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have joined in for the extra content that is only for Patreon supporters. To get in on the action and support the show with a minor financial contribution just click the link below to sign up.

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2024! 

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Visit https://www.holley.com and tell them we sent you!

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2024 Election Dukes Review Re-Review: S2E11 “The People’s Choice”

From Rob: We just got from SEMA 2024….and then Kibbe left again to head to an undisclosed location for an undisclosed reason. Listen in for this episode, direct from a hotel room! Good news: we had the episode. Bad news: with this setup there was no way to have a birthday game and we had to recycle a Dukes review. Bern and CD were (not) crushed. Enjoy!

K&F Show Summary: This is the Dukes of Hazzard episode that shows in America, democracy still works.. until the next episode when democracy will be forgotten, because in Season 2 long-lasting consequences only last exactly one episode. Smoke-show married mom “TC Rodgers” returns to Hazzard to run for county supervisor, a job held by Boss Hogg that has a number of privileges, including being the probation officer for Bo and Luke Duke. Bo and Luke help the smoke-show mom because 1) it’s the right thing to do, 2) they think she’s a smoke show, and 3) they do not know she’s a married mom. In helping her win an election they also commit several FCC violations and perform electronic miracles by communicating via CB radio to people on telephones! And you know in the Blue Brothers with they put a loudspeaker on the Bluesmobile?  Well that bit came from this episode too. Anyway, the Smokeshow wins the election, her husband and kid show up, and in a week we’ll never hear from her again….just like most political candidates that promised you everything before Nov 5, 2024. 

K& Rating: 8 CornDogs

Original Review: Episode 284 of K&F

Legit Episode Info
Season 2 – Episode 11
Written by: Bruce Howard
Directed by: Allen Baron
Original Airdate: 11/30/1979

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K&F Show #309: Politics, Hurricanes, and Musicals: Classic Dukes Review – S3E7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2024 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

Thank you SO MUCH to those of you who have joined in for the extra content that is only for Patreon supporters. To get in on the action and support the show with a minor financial contribution just click the link below to sign up.

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2024! 

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Fall is here and the Holley Horsepower Harvest is now in full swing. Visit Holley.com to find killer deals on many items you’ve been waiting for…..but know that ALL SALES ARE FINAL. There are full 3″ stainless steel Detroit Speed exhaust kits for 1st Gen F-Bodies going for half price right now! Visit https://www.holley.com/products/deals/clearance_parts and tell them we sent you!

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Classic Dukes Re-Review: S3E7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”

K&F Show Summary: Since we are just a few weeks from the 2024 Presidential election I thought we’d focus on the most presidential episode of the Dukes ever.  This is the one with Abe Lincoln of the United States of America and Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America. Of course both are the twin brothers Hogg, the good guy dresses in black and the bad guy dresses in white, and both are played by Sorrell Booke, sometimes who is the same character faking being the other character. The same Cadillac plays both roles too, black and white just like the relative suits. And just like we’ve seen before and will see again, Abe Lincoln Hogg is a character that we’ve never seen before and never will again, but I’m here to tell you that this episode is one of the golden age of television. It’s an age when characters were explained away in half a sentence, the Bible was put in a good light but still taken completely wrong and out of context, and high heels are swapped out for sneakers for jiggling running scenes that end in on screen lady mud wresting. This pre-dates the Ronald Regan presidency and reality in plots, and we may be dumber for watching it. But it’s silly, and fun, and childish, and wonderful. 9 Dogs.

Original Review: Episode 46 of K&F

Legit Episode Info
Season 3 – Episode 7 “Baa Baa White Sheep”
Written by William Raynor and Myles Wilder
Directed by Dick Moder
Airdate: 12/5/1980

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Kibbe, Corndog, and the Bern!

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K&F Show #307: MOPARTY 2024: We Mopar’d, We Party’d, and We Interviewed Catherine Bach!

MOPARTY 2024: We Mopar’d, We Party’d, and We Interviewed Catherine Bach!
K&F Show Summary: Live from MOPARTY 2024, and what a trip!

At long last the KF Show gang – each and every last one of us – hit the road for Bowling Green Kentucky. “Kibbe Lee” the General Lee came too! There we conducted two days of interview interviews from the field, but featured the best for last with Catherine Bach herself! We were lucky enough to get an entire sit down with her, in fact. Thanks to Kevin Shaw at MOPAR Connection Magazine and Jason and Eddy at Auto Metal Direct we were able to secure a full location from which to create a mobile studio. Catherine signed autographs for fans for an hour and then sat down with us for at least another 30 minutes!

Along the way we had several fun guest on the show including Jimi Day from FM3 Performance Marketing (the company behind MOPARTY), Cody Young (@CodyCrafted ), Garrett Daniels (RnDFabworks.com), Nathan Warren (@warren_customs_llc ), Corndog, Bernie, TMCP Show writer Scott Staff, and myself. We did it all too including the Drag Racing, Autocross, Swap meet and the amazing show cars. We got so much content that we put it into two shows, in fact! Listen in to TMCP #587 to hear a fascinating interview Raymond Kohn from the Northeast Ohio Dukes, YouTuber Dylan McCool, and Blake Andermann of Sublime Technologies (super cool DIY Gen 3 Hemi swap kits).

Best of all though, the KF Patreon show fans turned out and we had a fantastic time hanging out together, laughing, and generally enjoying the fact that for at least 2 days…none of us had any real problems to deal with. And bacon. We ate a lot of bacon too.

Only 365 Days until Next Year!

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TMCP #584: RoadKill Nights 2024 – LIVE Coverage and new Charger! – Dodge Execs on for Product, Interior, and Exterior Design; Hot Rod/ Motor Trend Network; Morgan Evans Wins the Grudge Race with the new T6 Inline Six Engine

TMCP #584: RoadKill Nights 2024 – LIVE Coverage and new Charger! – Dodge Execs on for Product, Interior, and Exterior Design; Hot Rod/ Motor Trend Network; Morgan Evans Wins the Grudge Race with the new T6 Inline Six Engine

Kevin Hellman – Senior Vice President Head of Dodge//SRT Brand Product
Scott Krugger – VP Head of Exterior Design for Dodge
Jeff Gale – Chief Interior Designer for Dodge
Mike Galimi – HOT ROD Network Director
Morgan Evans – Torque and Tungsten YouTube Automotive Influencer, Metal Artist

K&F Show #291: Facebook Marketplace English Lessons; Dukes Review: S3E5 “The Late J. D. Hogg”

As most of you know, our Patreon audience has the INSIDE access to the KF Show. The year 2024 will be an important one for Patreon specifically and if you’d consider jumping up to the $5 level it would sure help. The $10 level will remain and we now have a brand new $20 level as well! All members who join at that level will receive a sticker swag pack in the mail, you’ll be IMMEDIATELY entered in the monthly prize grab, and you’ll receive a phone call from one (or all) of us to chat up whatever you want for 30 minutes!

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Presented with Holley – Back for 2024!

Phase 3 of Kibbe and Friends is officially here, and Holley is back for more fun, foolishness, and flying orange Chargers! Once again we’re proud to be associated with the historic name that has made cars fast for years and years, and their innovations continue forward (as always)!

Now that Spring is officially here Holley is cleaning out the cupboards and the warehouse. The Holley Spring Cleaning sale is in full effect – with deals up to 60% off. Just visit Holley.com to take advantage of the savings. Better hurry….before Corndog buys them all out!

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K&F Show Summary:

Two bad guys steal Mr. Belding’s (from Saved be the Bell) car and then heist a U.S. Mail truck full of little-old-ladies Social Security checks. But that’s not important right now, because this is the episode were we discuss the eternal question: if you believe in heaven, can you buy or earn your way in? Well Boss believes in heaven…and when he mistakenly is told he’s dying, but tries to right all of his wrongs by doing good deeds to earn his salvation. And when he finds out he isn’t dying later, he takes all of his good deeds back. There aren’t a lot of stunts in this episode…..but there’s a LOT to discuss. This may be the most morality questioning episode of the Dukes that’s ever been made!

9 Corndogs.

Legit Episode Info

Season 3 – Episode 5 “The Late J. D. Hogg”
Written by Martin Roth
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse
Airdate: 11/21/1980

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