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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake up with a bang.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Hey, wake up! Anele and the club.
- 0:06Speaker 3: On 947.
- 0:06Speaker 2: You guys are not traumatizing your kids enough.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Why do you say that?
- 0:11Speaker 4: I read a question yesterday and I was just like,
- 0:14Speaker 4: why is this even a question and why must parents
- 0:16Speaker 4: ever even answer it? If your child is embarrassed by
- 0:18Speaker 4: the family car.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Do you change the car?
- 0:21Speaker 1: Oh, this is a sensitive topic in my life.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Oh, why now, friend?
- 0:25Speaker 5: Because my sister and I were embarrassed for our family
- 0:27Speaker 5: cars across our whole childhood.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Did your parents just not ever know how to pick.
- 0:32Speaker 2: The right car?
- 0:33Speaker 5: No, they just never bought a new car. But not
- 0:36Speaker 5: even a decent old car. It was just old, old.
- 0:40Speaker 5: Like we had a family car that existed since I
- 0:42Speaker 5: was born. That's basically what we grew up with.
- 0:46Speaker 4: Oh, so your mom got a push present and then
- 0:47Speaker 4: you and your sister looked down on it.
- 0:50Speaker 1: I think my dad called it that in 1981. I suppose.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Based on how many times you had to push it. Yes,
- 0:57Speaker 1: it was.
- 1:00Speaker 5: We kick-started that thing down the street so many times.
- 1:03Speaker 1: So many times. There we go.
- 1:07Speaker 6: Not pushing out a baby, but definitely pushing out the carpet.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Oh, the visuals. It's the visuals. It's the visuals that
- 1:15Speaker 2: take me.
- 1:16Speaker 6: 011-8838-947.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Did you grow up with a car that embarrassed you guys?
- 1:23Speaker 4: But you know what I feel?
- 1:24Speaker 2: I feel like the nature of kids is that.
- 1:27Speaker 4: Whatever car you guys have, unless you guys are like
- 1:30Speaker 4: outrageously wealthy, you're just going to always be embarrassed by
- 1:32Speaker 4: your parents dropping you off or the car or the
- 1:35Speaker 4: way they drive or the way they dress when they
- 1:37Speaker 4: drop you off. There's just something as a child, especially
- 1:39Speaker 4: a teenage child, that you're going to find that's like.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Oh, mom, oh, dad.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Embarrassing me.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Not the Sentra.
- 1:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:45Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? But the Sentra was
- 1:47Speaker 2: a good car.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we know that it's parents' second job
- 1:52Speaker 5: to embarrass children.
- 1:53Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:53Speaker 5: That's our jobs, right? Everyone has that. But especially with cars,
- 1:56Speaker 5: I don't think you can... I think every kid is
- 1:58Speaker 5: embarrassed by their mom and dad's car.
- 2:00Speaker 4: My mom, like, in hindsight, it was a good car.
- 2:02Speaker 4: But the reason it was embarrassing then was because it
- 2:05Speaker 4: was the car that cops used. So now, like, you know,
- 2:09Speaker 4: I had, like, a policewoman of a mom... And it
- 2:11Speaker 4: was yellow. And remember, the police cars used to be yellow.
- 2:13Speaker 1: That's right.
- 2:15Speaker 7: So she got it, she bought it in the police color.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Yes. It was that little.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Mellow yellow.
- 2:20Speaker 2: Like a little Corolla, a box Corolla.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Like a Sprinter.
- 2:23Speaker 2: It was a Toyota Corolla Sprinter. My mom had the
- 2:25Speaker 2: same one. What color was your mom's?
- 2:26Speaker 8: White.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Company car. Do you know what I'm saying? I'm just like,
- 2:31Speaker 2: didn't they have red?
- 2:33Speaker 4: And you see, that's the thing. That was a spiffy car, right?
- 2:36Speaker 4: But because you're a child, you find a reason.
- 2:38Speaker 2: To be embarrassed by it.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going to find a reason.
- 2:40Speaker 2: You're just going to find a reason all the time.
- 2:42Speaker 7: That's fine. The alternative is you walk, eh?
- 2:45Speaker 6: There we go.
- 2:45Speaker 2: There's the mom coming out.
- 2:46Speaker 5: 011-8838-947.
- 2:47Speaker 2: You're sending us a voice call 084-0000-947. If your child,
- 2:55Speaker 2: has your child ever expressed being embarrassed by the family car?
- 2:59Speaker 1: Yep.
- 3:00Speaker 2: Let's start there.
- 3:01Speaker 4: And when they do, like, what do they think is
- 3:03Speaker 4: meant to happen? Like, now you're just going to go to, like,
- 3:05Speaker 4: the nearest, you know, showroom and.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Be like, hey, guys, my child doesn't like that car.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Can I have the Lamborghini Urus, please? There's something we
- 3:11Speaker 2: need to sort out at the house.
- 3:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a lot of kids probably are in
- 3:15Speaker 5: the car right now saying, yo, mom, when can we
- 3:17Speaker 5: get a new car?
- 3:18Speaker 1: You know, we want a new car.
- 3:19Speaker 7: Because those grow on trees.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 3:22Speaker 7: I mean, we can just, you know, pick one.
- 3:23Speaker 2: Oh, Frankie, this is a can of worms.
- 3:25Speaker 7: Like, why don't you get a job and buy the
- 3:26Speaker 7: family a new car?
- 3:28Speaker 2: Okay, then. Are you a child?
- 3:32Speaker 4: Have you been hinting to your parents that it's time
- 3:35Speaker 4: for a new car?
- 3:36Speaker 2: We want to talk to you.
- 3:38Speaker 4: Let us know what car you're in that offends you
- 3:41Speaker 4: so much and which one have you eyed.
- 3:43Speaker 2: For the family.
- 3:44Speaker 5: And on the opposite side as well, if you're a parent,
- 3:47Speaker 5: which car are you currently offending your children with? You
- 3:50Speaker 5: worked hard for that thing. You're proud of it. Every
- 3:53Speaker 5: day your kids get in and go.
- 3:55Speaker 6: There's a station wagon in my complex.
- 3:57Speaker 1: I see those kids.
- 3:59Speaker 6: They literally hide their heads in shame every day.
- 4:01Speaker 4: I don't blame them. Guys, why do they still make
- 4:04Speaker 4: station wagons?
- 4:05Speaker 2: Station wagons is where I draw the line.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Very functional. Those are very functional.
- 4:09Speaker 7: Men love a station wagon. I mean, I know this
- 4:11Speaker 7: is not the conversation.
- 4:13Speaker 9: Yes.
- 4:13Speaker 2: No, Cindy, make it the conversation.
- 4:15Speaker 1: I don't get it.
- 4:15Speaker 7: And my husband's like... You need a station wagon. I said,
- 4:17Speaker 7: you can bring home a station wagon.
- 4:18Speaker 1: I can tell you things.
- 4:19Speaker 7: I'm going to write that thing off in the first week.
- 4:21Speaker 7: I hate a station wagon.
- 4:22Speaker 2: It's those old Volvos. You know the ones that have
- 4:24Speaker 2: a net? Oh, it's a Volvo as well.
- 4:26Speaker 6: And like at the back, there's like this net that
- 4:28Speaker 6: separates the back seats from whatever is at the back.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Guys, a station wagon is like... One bronchitis infection from
- 4:35Speaker 4: a hearse.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Like, stop it.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Well, multi-purpose. They didn't say reuse.
- 4:41Speaker 5: I think they're very functional. And I can see why
- 4:43Speaker 5: dads want them. Because, I mean, there's enough space for everything.
- 4:45Speaker 5: And then in the back, there's enough of a boot.
- 4:47Speaker 5: We don't have to take a trailer when we go
- 4:49Speaker 5: on holiday.
- 4:50Speaker 4: I know I told you kids to be grateful for
- 4:51Speaker 4: whatever car your parents have.
- 4:52Speaker 2: But if they have a station wagon, I get you, kid.
- 4:55Speaker 3: I was very embarrassed with my dad's car. It was
- 4:58Speaker 3: an old blue Cressida. I went to a school called
- 5:01Speaker 3: Clarendon Girls High School.
- 5:03Speaker 2: In East London?
- 5:03Speaker 3: And right near, it was one block down, there was
- 5:06Speaker 3: a place called Freer Hospital. I used to make my
- 5:08Speaker 3: dad park at that hospital and I used to walk
- 5:11Speaker 3: a block down to get in that car. My mom
- 5:15Speaker 3: had a yellow Hyundai Elantra.
- 5:18Speaker 7: The color's name was Funny Lemon, so you can imagine.
- 5:22Speaker 3: My son is constantly and always asking me, And my partner,
- 5:26Speaker 3: when are you guys buying a new car?
- 5:28Speaker 2: When are we getting a new car?
- 5:29Speaker 4: And then he'll point at a car that is so
- 5:31Speaker 4: exuberant and I'm thinking, can I even afford that, sir?
- 5:35Speaker 6: My dad had a BMW and I was so proud
- 5:38Speaker 6: to get dropped off at school.
- 5:40Speaker 4: Well, if you're going to use words like exuberant, this
- 5:42Speaker 4: is why your child thinks that you guys have got
- 5:43Speaker 4: the money for new.
- 5:46Speaker 2: So exuberant. Juan, you're in Pretoria. Good morning.
- 5:50Speaker 9: Morning.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Morning, sir.
- 5:51Speaker 9: How are you?
- 5:53Speaker 10: Fine and you?
- 5:54Speaker 2: We're fine.
- 5:54Speaker 4: Are you the one who's embarrassed by your dad's car?
- 5:57Speaker 4: Or is it your kids that are embarrassed by your car?
- 5:59Speaker 10: No, I was embarrassed by my dad's car.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Okay, what did your dad drive?
- 6:05Speaker 10: We had a Toyota Cressida. A blue one with an
- 6:09Speaker 10: aerial longer than any other car possibly. And every time
- 6:12Speaker 10: we would go to town, I would slip on the
- 6:15Speaker 10: back seat, under the seat, just to make sure nobody
- 6:18Speaker 10: saw me in the car. It was the most uncomfortable,
- 6:21Speaker 10: unpleasant town trips I've ever had.
- 6:23Speaker 4: And can I tell you something? If there was one
- 6:26Speaker 4: thing the Cressida had, it was a backseat.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Big.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Dude, that thing was a double bed. Yes. It was huge.
- 6:34Speaker 4: But Cressidas were quite like prestigious vehicles.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Why were you embarrassed by it?
- 6:39Speaker 1: You know what?
- 6:40Speaker 10: It was just a whole look. And I just didn't
- 6:42Speaker 10: like it at all. And I'm telling you, the best
- 6:44Speaker 10: of all is, My father left it one night outside
- 6:47Speaker 10: the house and they stole it. And I felt blessed.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Because it wasn't demand. Dude, every taxi owner had a Cressida.
- 6:56Speaker 1: That thing was fancy, John. Dude, it was huge.
- 6:59Speaker 6: Final question for you. Did you conveniently forget to lock
- 7:02Speaker 6: the gate on the night it was taken?
- 7:06Speaker 11: Well.
- 7:07Speaker 10: I sort of left the car down in open because
- 7:09Speaker 10: you had to push one button and then it would
- 7:10Speaker 10: lock all. But sometimes you forget the one button and
- 7:13Speaker 10: it left it open.
- 7:14Speaker 7: It was, I think I remember it being like, apart
- 7:17Speaker 7: from like the BMWs, it was like one of the
- 7:19Speaker 7: first cars that everything was electric. Oh my gosh. And
- 7:23Speaker 7: I can tell you something now. Somewhere, that Toyota Cressida
- 7:26Speaker 7: is still going.
- 7:27Speaker 2: It's still going.
- 7:29Speaker 4: Guys, the first time I saw electric windows. Now you
- 7:32Speaker 4: must imagine, you must imagine that I don't even know
- 7:34Speaker 4: that things like electric windows exist.
- 7:36Speaker 2: Like, it's just, it's not that I know they exist.
- 7:38Speaker 2: It's just that I haven't seen them.
- 7:40Speaker 11: All right.
- 7:40Speaker 2: I just, I'm looking at a.
- 7:42Speaker 4: Cressida and there was a man dressed in a member's
- 7:44Speaker 4: only leather jacket.
- 7:45Speaker 6: Right?
- 7:46Speaker 2: And he just pressed and this thing went, I said,
- 7:50Speaker 2: I promised you, I thought it was witchcraft. I was like, what?
- 7:54Speaker 4: And now you're looking around for other people to explain
- 7:57Speaker 4: to you. It's like, what's going on there? Why are
- 8:00Speaker 4: those windows moving for themselves? And the Crescida, the windows
- 8:03Speaker 4: would move at the same time. There was a button
- 8:05Speaker 4: where everything comes up at the same time.
- 8:08Speaker 7: Right now there's a child going, so how did they
- 8:10Speaker 7: close their windows if you weren't pushing a button? Well, kids,
- 8:13Speaker 7: we used to use a handle.
- 8:15Speaker 1: That thing was super fancy. Super. That thing was extreme.
- 8:18Speaker 1: But maybe that's part of the reason why.
- 8:20Speaker 5: Because that's the equivalent of the flashiest, you know, the
- 8:23Speaker 5: flashy cars you see now.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It was long.
- 8:25Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 8:26Speaker 2: I remember there was one in our neighborhood.
- 8:28Speaker 4: It was like a deep navy, like a royal navy.
- 8:33Speaker 4: And then the leather seats were tan.
- 8:36Speaker 1: They always had these rich colors. Picture it.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Just picture it.
- 8:41Speaker 4: And this man just reminded us that, guys, we used to.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Have aerials, hey, on our cars.
- 8:45Speaker 1: Pick up signals from space.
- 8:47Speaker 4: Like, if you did not put your aerial up, you
- 8:49Speaker 4: couldn't pick up Radio.
- 8:50Speaker 2: 702, hey?
- 8:52Speaker 1: My dad used to repossess cars. And he would come
- 8:56Speaker 1: in these old skidong cars.
- 8:58Speaker 7: And bet your bottom dollar he would be the first
- 9:00Speaker 7: car park right outside the gates in high school.
- 9:03Speaker 4: And I would stall so that I would walk slow
- 9:06Speaker 4: so that.
- 9:07Speaker 1: By the time I got to the gate, most of
- 9:08Speaker 1: my friends were gone home already.
- 9:10Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no.
- 9:11Speaker 4: We are not not going to like a station wagon.
- 9:14Speaker 2: My parents had five kids and it wasn't.
- 9:17Speaker 7: Just a station wagon.
- 9:18Speaker 3: It was a gold Cressida station wagon.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Ew. I love a station wagon.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Absolute ew. Absolute ew.
- 9:27Speaker 9: Ew.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Guys, stop it. Do they still make station wagons?
- 9:30Speaker 1: Yes.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Really?
- 9:32Speaker 1: Yes. I think Merc makes a great one.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Stop them.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Stop it.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Good morning. Is it Lizay?
- 9:38Speaker 8: It's Liza.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Liza, good morning. Welcome to Anele and the Club.
- 9:43Speaker 10: Morning, Anele and the team.
- 9:44Speaker 8: It's first time on the radio.
- 9:46Speaker 4: First time on the radio.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Give her a bop, bop, bop.
- 9:51Speaker 9: Oh, thank you.
- 9:52Speaker 4: Liza, which car got you to pick up your phone
- 9:55Speaker 4: and said, I'm going to call the radio today?
- 9:57Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
- 9:58Speaker 8: So my grandfather used to pick me up from school
- 10:00Speaker 8: in an old Cressida Bucky. It's very, I think, 60s, 70s, maybe.
- 10:07Speaker 11: A Cressida Bucky?
- 10:09Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
- 10:10Speaker 11: Cressida Bucky.
- 10:11Speaker 10: Peugeot Bucky.
- 10:11Speaker 9: Sorry.
- 10:12Speaker 1: Oh, Peugeot.
- 10:12Speaker 2: You see, Cressida's top of your mind.
- 10:14Speaker 9: A Peugeot Bucky.
- 10:15Speaker 11: Sorry, I had Cressida at the previous corner, yeah.
- 10:18Speaker 2: A Peugeot Bucky.
- 10:19Speaker 11: And, um, Yes, the Peugeot Bucky.
- 10:23Speaker 1: Parents made interesting choices. Sorry? No, your parents made interesting choices.
- 10:28Speaker 1: And then he what?
- 10:29Speaker 8: Well, you had a mannequin doll of a man in
- 10:33Speaker 8: a front seat.
- 10:34Speaker 11: On the left as a passenger with a decoration in
- 10:36Speaker 11: his mouth.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Yeah, because no one else would sit there.
- 10:39Speaker 8: So I was going to be saw every day in
- 10:42Speaker 8: a Peugeot mannequin.
- 10:44Speaker 4: Yes, because that is the only company you would get
- 10:46Speaker 4: to sit in the Peugeot Bucky.
- 10:47Speaker 9: I just want to.
- 10:49Speaker 4: Was it like a heavy-duty bike or did he like it?
- 10:52Speaker 2: Like, confusing.
- 10:53Speaker 11: I think it was more for work, yes.
- 10:56Speaker 1: We're talking an old one, right?
- 10:58Speaker 5: It's old, yeah.
- 11:00Speaker 11: It's not even a shirt that's the same as today.
- 11:02Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
- 11:03Speaker 2: It's an old shirt.
- 11:04Speaker 1: It's an old, old, the old, old ones. I remember them.
- 11:07Speaker 1: Because the new ones are, whoa, they're up there.
- 11:11Speaker 11: You can't even say it's a Peugeot, yes. Yes.
- 11:14Speaker 2: Okay, a Peugeot.
- 11:15Speaker 1: A Peugeot, yes.
- 11:16Speaker 2: That's how I need to.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Which decade was this, Lisa?
- 11:20Speaker 8: I was in high school in the 90s, so around
- 11:25Speaker 8: about there, but then it was already old.
- 11:27Speaker 1: It was already old, yes?
- 11:28Speaker 2: Okay, where do we go?
- 11:30Speaker 1: I don't think you'll find it. Can you find it?
- 11:32Speaker 2: There isn't even a picture.
- 11:33Speaker 1: This is old, old. I know exactly.
- 11:36Speaker 4: Because even the internet said no thanks.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Bring that here.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Bring that here, Ryan.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Oh, my word.
- 11:43Speaker 1: Okay.
- 11:44Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't look bad.
- 11:45Speaker 1: But this is classic car stuff now.
- 11:47Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord. He looks like he trolls towns to
- 11:52Speaker 2: beat up people. Okay, yeah, I know.
- 11:56Speaker 1: I see.
- 11:56Speaker 2: And it had an extra length at the back, right?
- 12:00Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
- 12:01Speaker 8: It was quite big.
- 12:03Speaker 11: At the back.
- 12:04Speaker 1: This is a small... Remember the Datsun Bucky? This was
- 12:08Speaker 1: the competitor of the.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Little Datsun Bucky.
- 12:11Speaker 4: But then later in life, the Peugeot Bucky became quite
- 12:14Speaker 4: a stylish thing to have.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Isn't that the Lumina?
- 12:16Speaker 1: Well, now it's a beast.
- 12:20Speaker 2: Oh, the Lumina is the Chevrolet. Sorry, Lisa. Still sucks.
- 12:22Speaker 11: Thanks. Bye.
- 12:24Speaker 9: Thank you.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Wow.
- 12:25Speaker 2: Cherry, Lirata, you're in Pretoria.
- 12:27Speaker 4: How did your parents embarrass you with their vehicle choice?
- 12:31Speaker 9: Morning, Annalena. How are you guys?
- 12:34Speaker 2: Morning, Lirata.
- 12:35Speaker 9: Best time on radio.
- 12:39Speaker 2: Welcome, madam.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Okay, so are you currently embarrassing your kids?
- 12:44Speaker 9: I am currently embarrassing my daughter, but she's slowly getting there.
- 12:50Speaker 9: So in March, I started doing e-hailing, right? And she
- 12:54Speaker 9: just started her high school. She's in grade eight.
- 12:57Speaker 4: So does she have to request you to come pick
- 12:58Speaker 4: her up?
- 13:00Speaker 9: No, she doesn't have to request me. I need to
- 13:03Speaker 9: go pick her up. So when I started doing this thing,
- 13:06Speaker 9: I would come with this small car that is branded bold.
- 13:10Speaker 9: You know them, you see them on the road, right?
- 13:12Speaker 7: Yes, yes.
- 13:14Speaker 9: And then she says to me, but mama, why do
- 13:16Speaker 9: you come with this car? Why don't you go home
- 13:18Speaker 9: and change the car? You come with your car. I
- 13:20Speaker 9: drive a Polo. So now she says to me, I
- 13:24Speaker 9: don't want you to come and pick me with this car.
- 13:26Speaker 9: It's embarrassing me. And you know what she would do?
- 13:29Speaker 9: She would get in the car and hide, like literally hide.
- 13:34Speaker 2: No, but she's silly. Is she listening right now? She's silly.
- 13:37Speaker 4: She should get in the back because then she looks
- 13:40Speaker 4: like she requested a bald.
- 13:42Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 13:43Speaker 9: But now, because now she's warming up to it, she
- 13:46Speaker 9: will ask me, Mama, can you please drop my friend? Like,
- 13:49Speaker 9: can we just drop my friend? She's now getting used
- 13:53Speaker 9: to it. So the embarrassment is slowly fading away because
- 13:56Speaker 9: I don't know why. And you know what I will
- 13:59Speaker 9: tell her? Other kids are walking from home to school.
- 14:03Speaker 9: You must be grateful because at least I'm coming with
- 14:05Speaker 9: a car.
- 14:07Speaker 5: As soon as her embarrassment around the Bolt car subsides,
- 14:10Speaker 5: then when you take her and her friend to go
- 14:12Speaker 5: drop the friend off, as you're dropping the friend off,
- 14:14Speaker 5: just turn around and say, that'll be 120, right, please?
- 14:17Speaker 9: I'll definitely do that, thank you.
- 14:21Speaker 4: Can you imagine when they get home, the daughter says, Mom,
- 14:24Speaker 4: five stars.