About Talking About Cars

What is the “Talking About Cars” Podcast?

Talking About Cars with Randy Kerdoon. Randy and co-host "Hot Rod" Bob Beck take you on a journey into the world of Cars & Stars. The duo are joined by celebrities and car "personalities" from all over the world. On this podcast, Randy and Bob get the answers to the questions you always wanted to ask them! Stories you haven't heard about, what’s in their garage, what was their first car, or maybe what’s on their "I want that someday" list! Make sure you watch the new series because “Everybody Has a Car Story!" 

Randy Kerdoon 

Growing up in the car capital of the world, Southern California, native Randy Kerdoon couldn’t miss the shiny cool cars on LA’s freeways and side streets!  After spending over 40 years as a multi-award-winning sportscaster, he also found a way to develop a love of cars from a certain era! While manning the mic in Los Angeles, he also reported on the classic car community over KNX 1070 Newsradi. Randy won awards with stories from SEMA, the Barrett-Jackson auctions, and about future plans to bring the 

DeLorean back as an EV. In 2014, Randy began a classic car podcast called “Talking About Cars with Randy Kerdoon” which continued until 2021, gathering awards of its own along the way. Randy has also MC’d many Southern California car shows including the “Chrysler Performance West” “Spring Fling” in Van Nuys, CA., VTAC, LAPD show in Woodland Hills, CA, the Huntington Beach, CA “Concours de Elegance”, and many others with his podcast co-host Bob Beck.    

Now “TAC” is back and a part of the “POWERtube TV” line-up! Randy and his co-host “Hot Rod” Bob Beck talk with Celebrities, Car Personalities, Social Media stars, and regular car fans because “Everybody has a car story!”      

Top nonautomotive factoids: Randy produced “Weird Al Yankovic”s first music video “My Bologna” which was a final exam in a TV production course in 1979. He was the voice of the minor league Salt Lake Trappers baseball team who won 29 games in a row in 1987.

“Hot Rod” Bob Beck

Bob Beck has been a lifelong automotive enthusiast. He has built vehicles that gained prominence in automotive magazines and books such as Petersen’s Complete Book of Fords, Complete Book of Vans and Pick-ups, Complete Book of Paint and Body, and Complete Book of Engine Swaps. Ray Miller’s Nifty Fifty Fords, Legendary Ford Magazine, and others. Bob has also been involved in activities as a driver/builder in Sports car/ Sedan racing ( SCCA & FCCA, Champion C/Prod. FCCA) and Drag racing in M/Stock Datsun in AHRA competition.

Bob was a co-host of Speed Scene Live TV for over 5 years, hosted GAAS (Great American Auto Scene) on the Kaleidoscope network and as a standalone podcast for a number of years winning a DotCom award for automotive podcasts in 2022.  

Bob has also announced automotive events such as: SCCA, FCCA sports and sedans, NHRA, VRA, NDRA, ANRA, AHRA Drag Racing, and local circle track racing (Announcer/Advertising), IKF Kart racing (Sprint kart, Shifter Karts, and more), AMSA off-road racing, USAC Sprints & Midgets as well as Stock cars. At tracks like Ascot Park, Irwindale Drag Strip and Speedway, Pomona Raceway, Bakersfield Speedway, Famoso Drag Strip, LACR, Sears Point, Infineon, Gateway Int'l, and more.   Bob is more than just a pretty voice, his cars have won him trophies at car shows and driving events including the Sweepstakes award at the R.G. Canning Championship Car Shows Import Division. 

Bob also writes about cars! He’s a regularly featured contributor to RODDING USA Magazine and has contributed to various other magazines such as Old Skool Rods and Car Kulture DeLuxe and once had a regular automotive column with the Antelope Valley Press.

The Future of  Talking About Cars

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