The David Spisak Show

The David Spisak Show is hosted by David Spisak where he discusses a variety of topics impacting retail automotive, entrepreneurs, investors, and the market.

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Brian Ankney: AI Found Your Customer First

We talk about why 30–40% of car buyers are already finding dealerships through AI search — and why your SEO budget is becoming irrelevant. Why your empty service drive at 2am is actually a revenue opportunity sitting right on your lot. And why the dealers who figure out the mobility dollar shift now are going to look like geniuses in five years.

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Jim Fitzpatrick: The FTC Trap Dealers Are Walking Into

Jim Fitzpatrick sits down with David Spisak, CEO of Disruptive Growth Solutions, and they don't soften it. Sixteen categories of violations. Salespeople's Instagram posts counted as advertising. Third-party listings you don't control triggering fines you can't afford. Vendors with zero legal exposure leaving dealers to absorb every hit alone.

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Paul Faletti: The Silent Killer of Dealer Growth

Paul Faletti has led NCM Associates for 17 years — the company that invented the automotive 20 Group. He came into NCM in 2009 with an outsider's eye and an operator's instincts. And instead of riding a 78-year winning formula into slow decline, he started dismantling what was working before anyone told him he had to.

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Matt Ober: Data, AI, and What's Actually Coming Next

In this episode Matt Ober Shares what the world's smartest investors figured out about data that most businesses are only now waking up to. The decision separating winners from everyone else over the next five years. Why EQ is overtaking IQ in the age of AI. And the one thing most companies are doing right now they'll deeply regret.

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The Trade-In Con Costing Dealers Thousands Per Deal with Frederick Grimm

Every day, dealerships across the country are writing checks they don't know they owe, buying trade-ins with hidden mechanical problems, guessing at reconditioning costs, and unknowingly rewarding the customers who know exactly how to game the system. One group scanned over 2,000 vehicles last month and discovered the average reconditioning cost was double what they'd been accounting for. Double.

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Why Dealers Are Paying for Their Own Data?

In this episode I'm pulling back the curtain on something I call the Hidden Data War, who's behind it, why it's been allowed to go on this long, and what it's actually costing your dealership every single day in lost productivity, blocked innovation, and a customer experience that should be far better than it is.

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The 2026 Dealer Reality Check with Inga Maurer (NADA26)

Live from NADA at the Encore in Las Vegas, I sat down with Inga Maurer of McKinsey & Company to cut through the noise and talk about what’s really shaping the automotive market right now. Flat volume. Rising costs. Affordability pressures that 0% financing can’t solve. And an AI gold rush that could either sharpen your strategy — or make you look exactly like everyone else.

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