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Opening Segment 8/4/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now Curtius Leewa and Larry Minty in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: seven ten war the voice of New York Mummy, and
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  Speaker 1: I was just reflecting after being with my youngest son
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday and my other sons at different points that
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  Speaker 1: this was the time of year that I learned to drive.
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  Speaker 1: And back in the sixties it was very common that
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  Speaker 1: you would learn to drive with a stick shift. Stick shift,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was on the driving wheel itself was many
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  Speaker 1: of us had it right on the floorboard, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then you had all of a sudden negotiate Larry
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  Speaker 1: and Natalie.
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  Speaker 2: You had three pedals.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid you hit the wrong pedal car, so you
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  Speaker 1: had the clutch, and then you had the gas, and
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  Speaker 1: then you had to break. It was difficult enough just
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  Speaker 1: to drive the first time, but I can remember how
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  Speaker 1: many times I get in. And I had a Corvet van.
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  Speaker 1: I remember this was the vehicle that at the time
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Nato had written a whole book about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: unsafe at any speed. It was about the Corvet, but
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  Speaker 1: it was really the car, not the van. But I
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  Speaker 1: gotta tell you, I was back and forth. I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to learn to drive in a parking lot with
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  Speaker 1: that steak shift.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I bring it out of the way.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just I've just looked up the corvet van.
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  Speaker 3: Take a look at this, Natalie. That's the ugliest vehicle
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  Speaker 3: I had ever seen in my life.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't even heard of it. It was the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: also in a used car lot. Nobody wanted it.
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  Speaker 3: And the colors it's just like horrific pastels of it's green,
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  Speaker 3: but it's not really green. It's sort of like a
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  Speaker 3: vomit green. It's uh, it's I've never seen what of these.
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  Speaker 1: It had all the it had all the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: a VW wagon at the time, which was very hip
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  Speaker 1: with the hippies. You know, everybody had to have a
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  Speaker 1: VW bug, and not the bug alone, but also the van.
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  Speaker 2: They're big too. They're really big.
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  Speaker 1: Air cooled so it could be forty degrees below zero
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  Speaker 1: when we used to have those kind of winters because
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  Speaker 1: there's no water going into any radiator.
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  Speaker 4: Can I get the red one with the yellow strip.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you too. Look at look at the
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  Speaker 3: front like you get no accident, You're dead.
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  Speaker 4: You're dead as anything. This is the this is the
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  Speaker 4: most nineties.
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  Speaker 2: Well I think that vehicle ever. You know, I think
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  Speaker 2: that was part of Ralph Nada.
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  Speaker 1: When I met him one time, I actually mentioned that
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  Speaker 1: he goes and you didn't get hurt, you didn't die,
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  Speaker 1: said no, Ralph. Ralph is still alive, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: You kissed ninety two. And actually a lot of people, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're the spoiler because UA ended up with Bush forty
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  Speaker 1: three or not Gore.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got to live with that. But he's
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  Speaker 2: still alive, still kicking.
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  Speaker 1: But I remember that that book man caused a national
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  Speaker 1: traffic and motor vehicles say he active be passed in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. They hated him in Detroit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all the major car companies, and that's the reason was
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  Speaker 1: so cheap to buy a Corvet vanity. I think you
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  Speaker 1: know what I paid for it, twenty seven dollars. What
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  Speaker 1: nobody wanted it. It was considered a death trap.
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  Speaker 5: I can't even get a half a take for twenty
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  Speaker 5: seven dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Now it isn't I just looked it up.
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  Speaker 3: The Chevy Corvet has a reputation as one of the
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  Speaker 3: most dangerous vehicles ever created.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven dollars. And remember the other benefit is we
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  Speaker 1: were going in and out of gas crisis as that time,
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  Speaker 1: because you know the Middle East were OPAQ was withholding
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  Speaker 1: oil because of our support for Israel, and so sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to go on a odd numbered or even
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  Speaker 1: number day or based on the alphabet.
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  Speaker 2: So when you had a stick shift, you didn't use.
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  Speaker 1: Up as much gas as the automatic train admission cars.
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  Speaker 6: No doubt you were trained to drive in that yep,
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  Speaker 6: I was. But now they're talking about the death of
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  Speaker 6: the stick shift. Apparently there are less than one percent
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  Speaker 6: of the vehicles on the road that are a stick
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  Speaker 6: shift you know cars. Uh, And they don't appear to
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  Speaker 6: be making any more stick shift cars. And so now
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  Speaker 6: that I gotta train my sons to drive, even though
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  Speaker 6: I don't have a license.
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  Speaker 1: So we gotta find a nice big parking lot. Are
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  Speaker 1: you don't allowed to.
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  Speaker 2: Drive in a parking lot a license?
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. I don't worry about it. Technicalities, technicalities.
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  Speaker 5: Why do they want to get taught to drive by
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  Speaker 5: a person who doesn't drive.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question, hey, because this is where you
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  Speaker 2: bond with your sons, right, there's a bonding experience. It's
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  Speaker 2: a frightening experience.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely imagine how frightening dad, do you have a license?
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  Speaker 2: No, oh, he's gonna be the one frightening. You're actually
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  Speaker 2: gonna switch.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, my kids were petrified when my husband had to
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  Speaker 5: get in the car because he was he was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: pretty stern. You gotta do this, gotta do that. They
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  Speaker 5: definitely liked when I was in the car better. I
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  Speaker 5: was a little calmer.
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  Speaker 3: See, I didn't want to freak them out, but I
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  Speaker 3: was scared to death. I'm surprised I didn't put a
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  Speaker 3: hole as I tried to hit the uh invisible break
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  Speaker 3: on the passenger side, constantly trying to get them to stop.
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  Speaker 3: I was scared out of my head. I had to
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  Speaker 3: have teached four Oh my.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, I only had to teach too, And honestly, it
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  Speaker 5: was frightening because they went to high school, like a
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  Speaker 5: county high school, so they had to get on two,
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  Speaker 5: eighty seven and eighty to get to high school. And
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  Speaker 5: I was like, how are they going to do this?
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  Speaker 5: I have to teach them to go on like major
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  Speaker 5: interstate highways, right, this is insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 3: I had one girl and three boys, and the girl
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  Speaker 3: was the best one. To teach, because she was as
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  Speaker 3: scared as I was, and so the both of us
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  Speaker 3: were like, you want to just go into a restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: Can I go back though to the corvet. Did you
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  Speaker 4: have the turbocharged spider model? No, because that sounded amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I had the no frills, low budget twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: dollars at a used car lot and a shady guy
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  Speaker 1: on Avenue D which used to be where all the
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  Speaker 1: chop shops were. I think this was ready to go
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  Speaker 1: into a chop shop to actually be turned into a
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  Speaker 1: block of steel somewhere in America.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody was gonna buy this. Nobody.
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  Speaker 3: They had amazing nineteen sixties pastel colors like this pastel green.
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  Speaker 3: What color was yours?
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  Speaker 2: That's it? Pastel green. That was it?
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  Speaker 1: And I remember, because remember I remember crashing into this
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  Speaker 1: mobster's red El Dorado, you know every wise guy, an
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  Speaker 1: organized crime one and a red El Dorado, and it
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  Speaker 1: was in a junkyard area, and I remember I missed
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  Speaker 1: the clutch and I hit the gas pedal instead of
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  Speaker 1: the brake pedal right into his brand new red Elder. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: wise guy out there, if you're still alive, that was
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  Speaker 1: me because I got the hell out of it.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't think I was gonna wait around for the
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  Speaker 2: cop he was parked. He wasn't in the car he
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  Speaker 2: was parked.
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  Speaker 1: He was inside doing business in the junkyard. I was
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  Speaker 1: not gonna wait around because those guys would have ended
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  Speaker 1: up bisecting me and dissecting me.
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  Speaker 2: And I would have been crunched up in one of
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  Speaker 2: the cars.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, guys, there's a forty four year family owned nineteen
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  Speaker 5: sixty one Corvan Corvan four speed, my favorite colors, red
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  Speaker 5: with the yellow stripe, for ninety seven hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I'm bidding right now.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we contact Ralph Nadu, who's still very cogent,
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  Speaker 1: still very lucid in ninety two, and let's see if
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  Speaker 1: he would recommend that to you, because I'm telling you, man,
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  Speaker 1: he said to me when I told him what my
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  Speaker 1: first vehicle was after that was a rocket eighty eight
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  Speaker 1: olds totally different. I mean that was like you just
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  Speaker 1: put your foot on the gas and you I'm surprised
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't part of SpaceX at that time. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go to the moon, but I'm telling you, I think
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  Speaker 1: you should. I think you should call Ralph Nader first, Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: don't get all, don't get off for touch.
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  Speaker 3: Here's how much Ralph Nader was against the Chevrolet Corvet.
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  Speaker 3: When you google Chevrolet Corvet, Ralph Nader's picture comes up.
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  Speaker 3: That's he wrote a book about it, apparently called Unsafe
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  Speaker 3: at Any Speed exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, this car is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I would be so interested to hear on our talk
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  Speaker 1: back anybody whoever drove a Corvet. You may not have
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  Speaker 1: owned it. You may have been your friends. Because remember,
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  Speaker 1: if you couldn't afford the v W you know, the
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  Speaker 1: hippie van, the Volkswagen van, the Corvet was the low
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  Speaker 1: budget hippie van. And again air cooled. You didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about putting water in, you know, for uh
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  Speaker 1: for winter times when then you had to have anti
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  Speaker 1: freeze for the radiator.
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  Speaker 2: It's great, except the strong gust of wind would blow
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  Speaker 2: you off. What car are you going to use to
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  Speaker 2: teach your son how to drive? That's interesting. I might
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  Speaker 2: have to hot wire one in the parking lot. You
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  Speaker 2: can't rent one. I know how to hot wire, but.
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  Speaker 4: That's two illegal actions going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's all within a self contained parking lot that's closed.
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  Speaker 1: It has a fence on a Sunday, so nobody can
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  Speaker 1: get in, nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Can get out.
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  Speaker 3: So what you're saying is you're gonna hot wire there
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  Speaker 3: because you're not gonna get caught there exactly.
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  Speaker 1: And also I get a chance to look at the
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  Speaker 1: making model that I think because everything's automatic transmission now,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if it's an electric vehicle, you know,
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  Speaker 1: way is the hand eye coordination that used to have.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the clutch to break the gas and if you're
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  Speaker 1: pressed it on the gas when you should have put
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  Speaker 1: the break of the clutch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you, you were screwed. So I had a yellow
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  Speaker 3: barracoutera convertible. Oh my god, my dad got me because
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  Speaker 3: I didn't want to live away at school Plymouth. Paracouda
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  Speaker 3: was amazing, the best car.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it. That's my favorite car ever. Still not
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  Speaker 2: quite a muscle car, not quite, but on the causse
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter to me. It was. It was wonderful. I
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  Speaker 2: was so proud of that car. I loved it so much.
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  Speaker 3: And then one day one day my dad needed some
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  Speaker 3: money and I went out and it works my car.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he bought it. He was actually his car. He
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  Speaker 2: was on loan to you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, this is the memories, man.
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  Speaker 5: I think this two tone van is bringing back memories
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  Speaker 5: because I learned to drive in a boat. It was
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  Speaker 5: a Riviera. It was a two tone black and cream
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  Speaker 5: rivi Era. I might as well have been, you know,
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  Speaker 5: driving a bus.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you can drive that, you can drive anything.
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  Speaker 4: That thing was huge. Parallel parking, you know New York City.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I always failed. Four times I failed the
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  Speaker 1: driving test. I couldn't parallel park times. Plus I had
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  Speaker 1: long hair. The guy hated hip piece. My cousin said,
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  Speaker 1: cut your hair, or just give him a bride, give
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  Speaker 1: him a passion.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the parallel parking. It had to be the
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  Speaker 3: long hair, not that he couldn't parallel. He made a
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  Speaker 3: very parent He goes, are you a hippie? I said, no,
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  Speaker 3: I just have long hair. I hate hippiech He made
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  Speaker 3: a very parent I appreciated that. My cousins wanted me
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  Speaker 3: to put twenty dollars down, you know, because he'd be bribed.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. So I
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  Speaker 1: never got a legal driver's its only learnerspartment.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, still have it.
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  Speaker 6: Uh no, but again, I have fired right now, I
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  Speaker 6: have the something.
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  Speaker 1: I have the produciary responsibility to teach my sons how
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  Speaker 1: to drive.
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  Speaker 3: What the hell I'm gonna do that I don't know? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we'd love to get a talk back from me again.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot to talk about. The first car you
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  Speaker 3: ever had, the car you remember that you love from
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  Speaker 3: your youth, driving a stick shift. A whole lot of
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