The Thing About Cars
By Mickey Desai
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We're just people who really geek out on cars. We like to drive cars, fix them, and admire them. We're here to have as much fun as we legally can with other car enthusiasts. Come along for the ride.
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Rant and Rave With Jack From Number 27!
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Scary Sights on the Road
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Curating Car Culture: Inside the Peterson Automotive Museum with Autumn
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Dawn's New Hyundai Santa Fe, AAA Woes, and Trivia Fails
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Building Engineers, Not Just Diplomas: Kettering’s Revolution with Dr. Bob McMahan
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Bollards, Breakups, and the Battle for F1: Hamilton’s Ferrari Move & Andretti’s Snub
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Alison's Adventures in Motorsports
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Furby of Baked Beans & Formula 1 Firestorms: Racing, Rage, and Road Atlanta
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Hanging With Hot-Rod Granny Annie
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Hope for The Desoto
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Inside the Harley-Davidson Museum with David Kreidler
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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All Things AMC with Tom Glatch
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Livin' the Dream with Tom Glatch
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Riding in the Front Seat with Indy Saini
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Brian's Mazda and Misty's Wombat
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Don't eat the ham and cheese in France!
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Life's Too Short To Drive A Boring Car
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Talking EVs with Gaby Pierre at the Georgia Automotive Manufacturer's Association
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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We're Grinding Our Gears Again
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Racing Fun with Dystany Spurlock
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Gettin' Vintage with Paul D'Orleans
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Too Drunk To Shift Gears
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Formula SAE: Learn to Be Race Team Member
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Don't Ride Alabama Style with a Carolina Squat
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Viva Italiano!
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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Greg Hinze's MG Midget Adventure
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Cars give me cognitive issues!
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Please Steal Mickey's Car
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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I Kept The Car
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Drive Like a Gazelle
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Club Athena at Indy
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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24 Hours of Lemons with Mick Opalak
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mangling Bollards At An F1 Race
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Big News with With Loxley Brown
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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I Am No Longer Infected
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Lookin' at Corvettes with Richard Prince
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Can You Import a Car As An Individual?
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Undiscovered Classics
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Happy Dawnukkah with Dan Plan!
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Le Mans, Mazdas, HyperMilers, Mickey & Mayhem
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Road Trips with Derek
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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The Mistyry Box
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Please Don't Drool On The Maserati
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Let's Blame Misty for the Moist Peanut-Cheese
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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It's a One-Butt Kitchen
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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DHL Express and Club Athena Partner for “Girls at Track”
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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High on Vettiquette
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Misty's Miata Madness
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Formula SAE racing with Dean Case
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Playing with Hot Wheels with Mike Zarnock
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Peanut Butter and Tire Sammiches, Oh My!
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Good Wishes And Duct Tape
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Don't Deny The Fun!
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Shortest Episode Ever!
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Flying Cars and Wienermobiles, Oh My!
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Don't Take The BatMobile Through The Drive-Thru
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Sam Fiorani!
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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I'll Tell You In a Second - Roadtrip Edition
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Those Darn New Cars!
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Random Topics
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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THE Abby K
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Bob Hall, Part 2
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Bob Hall: Co-Designer of the Original Miata
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Roses & Birthday Cakes
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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A Tailgating Culinary Corner Short Stack
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Weird Dreams are Made of Cheese
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Gettin' Racy with Phil the Anthropomorphic Bollard
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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All Things Ambulance & Pornographic Licorice
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Gaffney's Butt On A Stick
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The Gear Grinding Special
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Deutsche Klassik 2021
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Riding in Cars With Cats
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Riding the world with Paolo
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Dave's Not Here, Man.
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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It's All Sixty Year-Old Ferrari Parts
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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We've Got a Thing That's Called Ranger Love
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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An Unintended Hiatus
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Spiders In A Sentra
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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The After Dark Special
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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The Ginger Lesbian Conundrum
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Just The Three Of Us
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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The Song About Cars
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Don't Put Avgas In Your Silverado
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Celebrating Pride with the Lambda Car Club
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Dean Case and the Miata
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Driving My Dream
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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All Things Hot Rod with Stephe Koontz
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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A Sunday Drive in Large Marge the Interstate Barge
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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Mary & Libby's Worst Car
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Czars, Cars, and Summer Camp with Loxley
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Having A Cocktail With Brian
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Amy's Worst Car
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May 25, 2021 |
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Stuckey In The Middle Again
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Cross-Country Elan
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May 04, 2021 |
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Headbanger's Cars with Riki Rachtman
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Fun with Ferraris, Part I
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Meet Mike from Meguiar's
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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No Nuns Were Harmed in Making this Episode
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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A Trip to the Garage Mahal!
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Adventure Calls!
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Autonomous Tiger Racing
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Looking For Signs of Life
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Athena Racing for the Win!
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Nuns on Bicycles
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Lav Luv's Power Up Tour
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Happy New Year from Howard and Marian! (And you thought they wouldn't remember.)
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Putting On The Iron
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Run-Away-Go in a Winnebago
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Bout the Bitchin' Camaro
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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An Ambulance Ride Back To The '80s
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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The Sign Says "NO"
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Racing, Bourbon and Random Pharmacology
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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Holiday Episode! The Thing About Car Gifts...
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Those Fabulous Thunderbirds
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Spawn of Mini
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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Dave Wears Leather Pants
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Three Girls, and A Guy In the Backseat
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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All The Fun You Can Have With Your Street Legal Car
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Autoberfest 2020
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Italian Car Day 2020 - On Site
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Book Giveaway at Italian Car Day
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Prepping For Italian Car Day
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Sounds Like Mr. Snuffleupagus’ Cousin
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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No Low-Balls, I Have A Sawzall
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Check Your Cans
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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If You Really, Really Want To Geek Out
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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It runs! It runs!
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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I Love That Poor, Stupid Car
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Nobody Loves Her Like Beka Does
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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It's A Mystery
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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A Psychedelic Witch Embedded In The Asphalt
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Beka Needs an Exorcist
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Class of 2021
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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This Is Why We Don't Do Musicals
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Rich, Corinthian Leather
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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I Could Have Had A V8
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Take Two!
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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This Sounds Like Baloney To Me
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Every Oil Leak, Even A Minor One, Is Potentially Serious
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Silent Is Not Sexy
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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You Like Us!
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May 26, 2020 |
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Move Over, Betty Ford
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May 19, 2020 |
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Who Signed Off On This?
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May 12, 2020 |
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The Dawn of the Internet
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May 06, 2020 |
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Mom's Been Drinking
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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That's A Universally Bad Idea
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Charles Phoenix And The Car-B-Que
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Ewoks Just Can't Reach The Pedals
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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What If You're An Acrtic Nudist?
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Negative or Positive Terminal First?
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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That’s The Way They Wanted It
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Would You Put That On Your Resume?
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Why No More Wankels?
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Mazda Man! What The Hell Happened to Honda?
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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There's Not Much In The Garage That Actually Functions
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Chris Duke Likes Pepperoni Pizza
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Motorbooks Giveaway
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Everything You Think You Know About Headlights Is Wrong
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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There Is No Replacement For Displacement
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Shade Tree Things Like This
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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I've Got A Car To Sell You!
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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The Thing About Motorcycles, Part 3
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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The Thing About Motorcycles, Part 2
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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The Thing About Motorcycles, Part 1
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Guess What?
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Johnny Was A Racecar Driver
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Quick Wit Is Your Best Weapon
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Nice And Sticky
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Hair Pulling
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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Red Light Creepers
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Italian Car Day 2019
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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Because Racecar
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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Brookhaven Cherry Festival 2019
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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A Real Surreal Experience
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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The Mitty - 2019
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Headroom
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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A Special Conversation with Warren Jobs
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Sweet Talker
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Down The Rabbit Hole
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Big Ol' No Go
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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Doin' It Hazzard Style
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May 28, 2019 |
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The "F" Word
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May 20, 2019 |
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Creeping Through The Woods
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May 13, 2019 |
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The Diner At The Edge Of The Solar System
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May 06, 2019 |
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They Sneak Up Behind You
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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The People Need To See This
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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We'll See You At The Mitty
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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PoBoys!
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Resistor Is Futile
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Do You Have A Semi?
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Cigar Smells Included
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Lego My Mustang!
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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Where The Roadkill Is
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Phantom Of The Porsche
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Now With Cleaner Floors!
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Technology, Take The Wheel
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Cats, Or Cats?
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Seeing Thru Racing
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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A Riveting, Racing Special Guest: Meet Lee Ann!
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Lee Ann's Roadster
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Rackets, Racing, Raciness & Range
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Deer Corn
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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What, With All This History?
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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Kombucha!
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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Brookhaven Festival Car Show
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Fantasies About Used Cars
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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You Didn't Screw It In Right
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Return Of The Rotating Dead
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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There Be Unicorns Here
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Finagling Science
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Pour Some Sugar On Me
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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McDonalds To Start Making Cars--Grimace Is Mad
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Make Cars Great Again
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Don't You Laugh If A Hearse Goes By
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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No Physics Puns Intended
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Call Me An Idiot
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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And Then It Fell Out Of My Head
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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There Are No Tatas In Cuba
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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Insurance Stuff, Part 2
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Insurance Stuff, Part 1
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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That's A Lot Of Spinnin'
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Don't Look Through My Wiring
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Covet Thy Car
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Driving Miss Crazy
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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End On A Happy Note
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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My Fairlady
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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One Of The Picky People
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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We Found Nemo
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Not The One That Blows Up
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Back Door Sneaker Guys
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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It Runs On Hopes And Dreams
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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The Government Screwed Up The Toaster Industry
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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There's Nothing Worse Than A Floppy Chassis
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May 28, 2018 |
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That's Not A Heat Problem... That's A Water Problem!
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May 25, 2018 |
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Eric? Where are you?
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May 07, 2018 |
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Mickey Fails Geography
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Squeaky Brakes (and the Mustang Chakra, oh my!)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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A Tribute-Edition Minivan
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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First-World Problems
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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It's A Conspiracy, Man!
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Smells Like Teen Engine
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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Nothing Clean Enough For Radio
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Systems Went Wonkie
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Dajiban!
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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More Powerful V4s
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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There Were Lubricants Involved In This Story
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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She's Gone From Suck To Blow
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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The Importance Of First Aid
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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Podcast Machine Of Choice
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Chop Top Minivans
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Jun 21, 2017 |
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Express Delivery
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Stircumstances
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May 23, 2017 |
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Rotten Bushings
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May 15, 2017 |
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Where's My Tuna?
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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Why Do Women Travel In Packs?
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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She Likes To Jump Off Other People
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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The Thing About Volvos
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Episode 1
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Mar 25, 2017 |