Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Cripescast. This is the podcast where we talk to people

for and or from the Midwest. We are brought to you by Joey Gensota. And here's today's episode.

Hey, folks. Welcome to the Cripescast. This week we are talking about electric cars in rural America.

It's kind of an interesting thing watching the entire auto industry move over to electric yet,

you know, all of up north in Wisconsin is not quite there. And sort of looking at how we can make

this thing that is becoming a reality in the rest of America reality in places that may not necessarily

be receptive to it or have the resources to handle it. And so my guest is Mary Jo Wheeler. She is the

owner of Wheeler's Family Auto Group. And it is really an interesting conversation that we had.

I don't think this was a conversation. Colleen, Maraca, EP of the Cripescast joins me in the

studio. Obviously, how you doing, Colleen? Good, how are you? What would you say? I was going to say,

I don't think this is a, you know, a podcast. I'm kind of like, you know, the guy in the

relationship. If there's a problem, I'm like, all right, well, let's find a solution. You know,

I'm not much for listening to. That's like most guys, but yeah, I know. But I kind of sort of

always feel that way with like environmental issues, like kind of like, let's find a solution

with like jumping to try and find a solution in my brain, you know, without like fully understanding

the problem. So I tried to kind of work against that, you know, because just because something

isn't getting done doesn't necessarily mean, you know, there's a bad guy in that that situation.

Sometimes there is. Usually they're called lobbyists, but you know, see, there I go again,

I just can't help myself. Also too, I think after listening to this in review, it sounds like

there's a lot of pieces to the puzzle that like, there isn't just one simple fix. So that's

what it seemed like it was like, well, this problem isn't being fixed because of this, this,

and this. Like, it's not just a simple like pointing a finger to one source. Yeah, there's not

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