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big week huge week we didn't record it
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was before we got her it was a huge week
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for most of the neutral hosts for the
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majority oh man at and we went on a
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vacation together and did not kill each
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no this is good this was this is for
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both you and TIFF and I was our first
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couples vacation not only with each
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other but in general and I i think we
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survived and I know Aaron and I had
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really gosh darn good time and that and
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so I hope hope with the same can be said
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for you guys although I think we're
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about to find out the same can be said
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for you regardless of whether or not we
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were total turds
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so well in fact my wife as it has
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suggested that she misses you guys
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during breakfast every morning now see
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same thing you know we at least like you
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during breakfast now that was it though
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that was that was the only part every
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other time totally sucked i feel like i
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should have come just to show you what
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it would be like traveling with someone
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who does not make your time more fun
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you'll get a bad impression of you know
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like what it's like to all this is great
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couples vacations be going this all the
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time and you would have been in the
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middle seat which would have been even
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more funny because you wouldn't
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interpret that i would say for i lifted
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a tweet about this but it would have
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been so much more for me I can't be in I
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get motion sick very easily i can't be
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in a car while you're racing around like
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a maniac and well both of our lives both
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of our wives claim the same problem and
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yet it was a problem for neither of them
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when they were in the room where they
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were in the back seat belt if said that
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she was almost puked tweeting something
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once from the Nurburgring that's what
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I'm saying halloween everything ahead of
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ourselves that we get ahead of ourselves
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alright vomit ruins everything
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title I i tend to a groupie
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instead you've got a kid now you know
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well okay so we should probably explain
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what what the heck we did and I don't
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know if we if we adequately preface this
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in previous episodes but we did we did
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previously talked about how I had chosen
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for my next car after much deliberation
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chosen to go all out and be totally
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ridiculous and get my dream car
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the m5 and one of the reasons i was able
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to do this is because of bmw's european
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delivery discount and what most people I
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i wish i had known about this so so
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there's two things that you can do to
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save money on a new BMW besides just
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good negotiation which you should also
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be doing one of them which i still
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couldn't take advantage of is if you
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join the BMW car club of america it what
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Casey what is it costs like the 30 40
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bucks it was 48 I think something like
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that it was between 1450 so they have a
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rebate program through BMW and like BMW
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supports this car club of fans It's in a
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few little endorsement in different ways
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if you are a member of this thing for at
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least a year before you take delivery of
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a new BMW the police or to buy they will
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give you a credit and in the amount of
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the credit depends on which model you
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buy but like a 3-series credits $500
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5-series I think it's a thousand dollars
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so if you plan to buy a BMW at least one
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year from now you should really go join
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the BMW CCA you'll get a cool magazine
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every month etc so and then because you
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know you paid forty bucks and then you
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say like five hundred dollars when you
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buy the car so that's one way to save
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the other way to save is if you do
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european delivery on the higher-priced
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models you end up it ends up being such
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a savings that actually can pay for the
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trip and and so and and you know even if
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not you still get a very heavily
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discounted vacation out of it so
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basically european delivery shaves off
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about seven percent off the cost of the
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car if you negotiated equally with how
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you would have negotiated a regular
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purchase so you can go online you can
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find what the invoice prices are
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throughout the NW forms and everything
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you can find european delivery invoice
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prices regular voice prices and you can
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see the difference is usually about 7%
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and and a common myth is that this is
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because when the car is imported then
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it's used and instead of new and then
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the tariffs different from what I've
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around various wiki's that is actually a
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myth and the actual difference in tariff
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is negligible and that it's mainly
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cheaper because you're bypassing a lot
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of the dealer network anyway so european
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delivery is basically you fly over to
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the main factory / office / showroom
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world thing in munich germany and you
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pick up your car in Munich you drive it
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to any of a number of different ports or
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you can drive it right back into munich
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or just leave it there and and then they
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put on a boat for you and ship it back
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to the US and then you get your car like
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you know month and a half two months
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later so by doing that I saved seven
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percent which is and so I got a really
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great deal on this so i decided let's go
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all out and get the ridiculous m5 and so
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I was joking with casey about bringing
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him and his wife along on this trip
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probably for what two years something
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like that well we actually did it and it
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turned out great as you said we didn't
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kill each other in fact we still like
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each other quite a lot as far as i know
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and you
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yeah it was awesome so this this episode
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of neutral which we've we've declared to
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be the final episode at least for now
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possibly ever we don't know yet you know
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maybe there might be a season to someday
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but you know probably not no no there's
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no guarantees of that as I fair to say i
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think that's fair John yep so this might
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be the final episode at least the final
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one for a while and we decided this
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would be a great ender 22 basically
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recap this trip and and what it's like
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to take a european delivery vacation and
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and how the m5 is in various situations
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and and just what this was like and
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casey and i both profusely apologized to
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John in advance for how wonderful this
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is going to be for him it's a time I
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don't like to travel though so it's I
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every time you talk about travel I just
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think about how miserable I would be
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doing it but it would be so great to be
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there listening to you be miserable now
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you have you think that now
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but saying no I like the car though I
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count for something oh you don't even
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know John no didn't even know I'd like
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the color though black yeah what you've
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gotten is an attractive car I wouldn't
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affect black for it but you picked white
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I'd like kind of like that blue yeah
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yeah like that the one is another press
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shots that ya later tonight i don't i
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don't mind that I don't know if I would
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get in that color but i like that i
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think this is a very attractive car
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there's no reason to hide so having
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having seen having seen most of the
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colors available in person at some point
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for various things I i think the blue
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and the orange that comes in are
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actually tied for my favorite that arms
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are really well it yeah I like the black
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better than that it the orange looks
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really nice in person because it looks
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almost read and and so it's just a
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little bit towards orange you know from
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red and it's actually it again in person
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it's a very very nice color i would say
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it's just as good as that blue and if I
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were more of a showy flashy person I
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would have gotten one of those colors
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but i'm not and so I got it in black and
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i happen to like black a lot you know
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iĆve mentioned in the past how I don't
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think I could ever really drive around
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like a Porsche or Lamborghini or
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anything crazy like that you know even
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if money were no object just because i
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don't i don't want to be that
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conspicuous I don't think they'll let
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you buy it if you say porsche to so haha
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sorry everyone can please email john the
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proper pronunciation of that so you know
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I I don't like big flashy cars i like
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nice cars that happen to be really fast
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but you know to to the casual observer
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it looks like every other nice car like
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not not like a crazy sports car the
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casual observer is going to notice those
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wheels that's all I'm saying maybe well
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you know a lot of cars now getting
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bigger sport your wheels even even
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pretty far down market so you know i
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don't i don't know i think it's
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definitely still stand out I hadn't
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noticed the wheels that much until you
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started posting pictures of yours and my
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co well now now I'll know if I cm3 be
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there in five because those jump out at
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well you know it's even what's even
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crazier so it is still quite wintry over
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in Germany and and because they require
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snow tires in certain conditions through
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april fifteenth
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we had to vent snow tires for this and
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there's a great program that BMW
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officially authorizes and works with run
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by like one guy who just happens to love
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doing this stuff and from what I gather
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he doesn't really make much money on it
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but he just he does snow tire rental for
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European deliveries for cars that don't
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come with all-season tires so which is
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all take all the end models and some of
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them support packages on regular cars so
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anyway so what you saw is actually the
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snow tires and those who are only I
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believe 19-inch rims
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that's right and and the ones i'm the
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the regular summer tires our twenties
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and so the regular ones will be and
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there are similar design but but 2719 so
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they're even more outrageous even bigger
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even even more obvious and supported to
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everyone except past Marco as i
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mentioned in in previous shows i would
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never noticed wheels before about six
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months ago and the funny thing is when
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there was a time where we needed to know
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how fast we could go on the snow tires
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and we'll get to that in a minute
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and so I looked at the snow tires and
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they were freaking Pirellis they were
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pirelli snow tires and at that to me two
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strikes me saying they're 19-inch
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pirelli snow tires that that's absurd in
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every possible way
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why is that a curiosity because I'm I'm
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not enough of a tired to know why don't
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worry I'm not a big-tire nerd but
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probably is generally speaking are not
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cheap tires and and so here it is that
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you're not getting some like falken snow
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tire or something like that you know
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some crap brand its Pirellis noted John
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doesn't uh doesn't for use Pirellis
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water making that up but the competition
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among tire manufacturers to get like the
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you know the prestige appointments I i
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get the impression that each round for
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each new car each sort of prestige
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carmaker they just sick the tire makers
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reputation as a performance brand you
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alright sorry continue I think you did
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performance cars and italian performance
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performance tires and so when you think
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about are gonna put on the winter tires
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you think you're going to get a brand
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that does not have that receptor
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reputation of examine that makes all
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season tires are just like every man
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tires and like really what's the point
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high-performance high-speed great grip
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want to really be going that fast and i
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want that i want two different
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performance characteristics in terms of
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gripping onto snow and yeah i dunno they
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do make winter tires because
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occasionally I see them advertised or
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mentioned in car magazines and they're
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not cheap i mean for reference
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the rim entire sets and this is for for
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both for all four wheels a room entire
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set for this is nice big 19 inch rim and
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they're probably w 240 so 20 s tues
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total price is like 3200 those are
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staggered right so the rears are bigger
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than the front so I didn't even look
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calm I no actually I don't
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I don't believe so many so check you
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know know that there they are square
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normally the in on summer tires the car
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the the winter tires r square anyway so
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I i forgot we were even more in the
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store anyway we were in Germany driving
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fast so anyway the thing that that's
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cracks me up about this trip is that so
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Aaron and I drove from Richmond Virginia
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up to marketing tips house because we
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wanted to make sure that we're all going
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to be on the same transatlantic flight
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so if somebody gets doomed we're all
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doomed and we were going to fly up to
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JFK and just meet you guys in the
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airport but as it turns out it was about
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the same money for the two of us to go
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to JFK by plane as it was for one of us
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to go to Munich biplane and so we were
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like you know that the heck with it will
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just drive up
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well we arrived there in in I pack
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terribly and aaron is a lady so by
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definition she tends to pack a lot and I
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apparently milady as well email Marco so
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anyway so mark when I look at all of our
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luggage and realize this could be an
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issue and so what do to nerds do when
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they are posed with this sort of problem
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and they don't want to get some munich
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and realize oh crap we can't fit all the
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John wait John what would you have done
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this situation that's a good question
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thank you you might have too much
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luggage and you don't really know how
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much the car will hold when you get
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there what do you do I would have
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thought of this before packing i don't
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think i would be in a situation where I
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had completed packing and then started
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looking at this stuff and five hey wait
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a second we have to fit all this in the
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car and i would plan ahead i can still
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Aaron and I kind of did that picky but
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carry on market with what you and I
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concluded
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well we were you know for adults with
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four large square suitcases and we know
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the cars don't have infinite space and
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that would have been fairly
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uncomfortable for whoever was sitting in
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the back seat at the time which turned
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out to be a senior most of the time or
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almost all the time actually sorry but
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we would do wouldn't feel uncomfortable
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be sitting with somebody's giant
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rectangular suitcase in the back seat
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with you so we decided well we know that
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the car and picking up is a 5-series
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let's just go to a dealer with all of
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our luggage and put it in the trunk of a
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5-series and see if it's i would not
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have done that we did when he certainly
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did and the worst part is this is this
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is kind of to build on what you were
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saying John is that Aaron and I packed
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one suitcase each but they were
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reasonably large I don't remember a
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number off the top of my head but we
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knew enough to realize this could end up
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badly and so what we ended up doing was
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putting in the back of our car to
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smaller suitcases so if if desperation
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came we could swap the two small guys
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for one big guy
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thus leaving us with one large suitcase
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and two smaller suitcases instead of two
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large suitcases and she was not adjusted
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duffel bags that's what i would suggest
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it because they're squishing you can
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fill more of the trunk volume I did
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suggest that however you know at tate
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like packing a duffel bag it's like who
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who's gonna be the one to pack a duffel
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bag you know nobody wanted
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you can get like duffel bags that have
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like a kind of a stiffer bottom where
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your clothes won't be entirely it's not
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like you're just taking us not like a
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laundry bag we just jam your clothes in
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there can be done that I would have
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required somebody buying a whole new
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luggage just for the joy that you don't
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have either one of you guys have I have
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some beautiful bags
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I don't have sturdy ones i have some
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like college duffel bag somewhere right
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everybody has that but yeah so we ended
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up going to the BMW dealer this was
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friday afternoon Saturday morning
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Saturday morning we end up going to the
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local BMW dealer in going to then they
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actually had an m5 in the showroom in
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white one a white one I was very pleased
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but I and it's terrible it shut up
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sofas attendants we spent a solid half
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an hour playing tetris in the trunk and
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surprisingly none nobody at the dealer
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gave us any lip about it nor did we get
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that many cross looks or side eyes or
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anything like that which I was very
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happy about
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well it was like it was like nine in the
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morning they just opened
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that's true and I i had spent the better
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part of the entire week beforehand in
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that dealership doing paperwork and
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finance apps
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ok I think about that . they were very
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comfortable with me doing weird things
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in the dealership so yeah so we actually
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went and we we figure out how they fit
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and we took pictures of exactly how to
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do the arrangement so we would know when
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we got there and and it worked so we
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figured out we we got ourselves to
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Munich and it was snowing freezing it
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turns out this is like the the coldest
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marks they've ever had a record or
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something like that and it was it was
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pretty great so we get there we decided
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to kill we had to kill two days in
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Munich before we got the car because we
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were ready when you are so easy with him
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yeah so and and in Germany
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not only is Easter Sunday a holiday but
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the monday following it is also a
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holiday so we had to pick up the car on
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Tuesday and yes so sunday and monday we
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had all day to kill so we did the BMW
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Welt it's kind of like BMW world it's
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like disney world full of people use in
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a giant building and gift shop and
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and tours and everything and pretty cool
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in the museum across the street full of
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all the old BMWs engines motorcycles a
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couple of boat engine plane engines and
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all every classic BMW model you can
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think of all the animals of course the
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one after that the m1 rather and there
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was honor there was not a wanna but
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there was an m1 and you know that
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everybody's favorite am-5 now they did
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not they did not have any 39 m5 I was
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very sad about that they had the the
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original i believe was the original in
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five and i can't remember the model
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designation off the top of my head but
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it was from like 89 I think something
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like that or it may be earlier than that
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and usually three or that anyway so that
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was a blast
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highly recommended we we killed a whole
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day just at the Museum between them
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Welton museum yeah we killed the entire
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day and and I I can only speak for Aaron
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but Aaron had said that she had quite
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like the museum and not to say that
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Aaron doesn't like cars or that she's
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not amused by museums but I mean let's
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be honest the cars aren't your cup of
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tea if they don't rip your engine haha
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then that i could imagine that would be
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boring and I know Aaron really like 10
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tips certainly looked like she enjoyed
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it a lot as well yeah she was enjoying
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taking a ridiculous quantity of pictures
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of me looking at engines giving the
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exact same relatively blank expression
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in almost every picture and so that was
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spotted but yeah so the museum was a lot
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of fun it's extremely well-designed and
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and very cool very interesting even if
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you aren't total BMW nerds like us
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even John you might you might have maybe
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25 minutes of happiness in there and
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that's really sad I'm happy all the time
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I'm happy on the inside kind of clown
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haha and you hit so alright so after
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then sunday went to the deutsches museum
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which was awesome you know big like
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science tech museum and in Munich and
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that was fantastic we only saw like half
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of it i feel i mean monday and yeah oh
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yeah we we saw probably less than half
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because turns out it's ridiculously huge
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and there we saw even more engines and
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we explained we both went over to the
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torque converter hand exhibit and
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demonstrated to our wives separately
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demonstrate to our wives how automatics
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work and why is that
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yeah that was that was an excellent
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moment for me to be here and yeah so
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then tuesday morning we got to go pick
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up the car okay so we go and and really
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and so we went back to be to BMW Welt
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and we go to the premium lounge which is
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where everybody can when they have
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infinite free food and free coffee and
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everything and you can sit around there
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forever which we later made our wives
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actually do for a reason that I can't
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discuss in the show but regardless you
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go to be able to be lounge and me we
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weren't taking a dump or anything about
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something else but now I'm intrigued
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I'll tell you afterward and so so we go
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to this lounge and everything I mean so
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I i went with my in-laws to buy a lexus
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before and tiff has alexis i want i
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guess that's probably a better example
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buying most luxury cars they treat you
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pretty well the experience is pretty
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plush they did they give you here here's
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a pot of water and let you know let me
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make you comfortable
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you're the warning ladies to go up
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extract thousand the hospital
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situation but i'm saying that's what my
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very well like I you know I'm taking
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delivery of a car that you know I've
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already bought it
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they're trying to make it nice because
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they're trying to be nice but it's just
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yeah I mean usually usually agree with
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you like like it makes me it makes me
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uncomfortable or rather it makes me feel
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like I'm getting scammed whenever it's
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very obvious that whatever i'm about to
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buy has such a ridiculously large profit
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margin and even afford to do this to be
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don't really like really super
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over-the-top nice like yeah then I'm
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like okay well I i am paying for all
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this in a way and ghosts are more like
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it's worth it to them to put the money
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into that experience to distract you
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from how they're screwing us right
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exactly but yeah but this obviously
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already had already established the
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money and paid and you know establish
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the pricing so this is just picking it
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up and and every stage of the way and I
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deliveries including Casey was that one
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series you saw that was super super
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inexpensive well i think was a 120
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diesel if i'm not mistaken and it was so
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inexpensive and i don't mean this to
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sound disrespectful or snarky or
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anything but it was so inexpensive for
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BMW that actually a hub caps which I
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didn't think BMW did anymore right but
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now they have a hole low end of cars
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they just don't sell in the US but they
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saw a lot of them in Germany which by
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the way is a quick aside one thing that
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mark when i noticed that i thought was
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really incredible made me very jealous
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was that apparently the guy i would say
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the overwhelming majority of bmw's that
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we saw were not badge so they would say
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BMW of course but they would not say x
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54 m 5 or 3 35 or whatever the case may
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be there was no model designation on the
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trunk or boot depending on what country
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you live in
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and I thought that was really awesome
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and i'm kinda jealous that that's a
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no-cost option for them
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yeah and it wasn't just being w it just
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seemed like that seemed like that was
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just more normal they're like many cars
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just weren't badge or were minimally
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badge so we had to identify things by
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like you know the exhaust tips and
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things like that like that is that an
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option because you don't want people to
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know that you don't have the fanciest
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one is that the idea behind think it's I
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think it's because if you don't want
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that either extreme either you don't
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want people to know that you have the
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super flashy car or that you don't want
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people to know they have a 120 diesel
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that that for BMW was absurdly to get
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that seems so strange to me though
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because the only people who care car
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people and car we can tell anyway that's
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true well I just a little community
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could just be like a cultural thing like
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a cultural preference thing like you
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know here we we have pretty big
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divisions between smart people like us
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and people who let dealer badging be
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attached to their car forever
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yeah ? ground behind one of those people
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like boy I hope you got a lot of money
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off my car
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yeah the ones that have like not you
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know like you know my dealer gives me a
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license plate frame that's fine I can
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take it off but the ones that actually
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extends all their own logo like on the
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other side of the trunk lid opposite the
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real car look it has big baby quietly
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shiny plastic things that big blue on
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dear let it like that you know stick out
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yeah it's terrible but like but hey I i
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can be bought you know give me a couple
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thousand dollars off the carhop i'll put
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a permanent silver add-on you're on the
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back of my car and if it falls off on a
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year oops
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nice anyway so and and one thing to you
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know that seeing the cars over there
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gas is way more expensive over there
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shouldn't be news anybody really
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listening to this gas is so much more
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expensive that not only were diesel
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obviously a lot more common because
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diesel is generally cheaper but just
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overall the the engines of the cars we
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saw where we're mostly very small
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efficient engines we saw a lot of like
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you know in the BMW line if you have
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like the 320 the 520 that you know the
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318 118 like all like the small engines
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with those last two digits there
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I didn't see anything above a 30 so by
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BMWs parlance that's nothing above
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roughly a 3.8 liter v6 or i6 whatever it
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is and I don't even know what they use
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the thirties for exactly with the
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current model anyway they were very very
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few like large engine super-big high-end
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ones that we saw even even out on the
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roads or you know anywhere we saw very
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very few large engine car just because
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it's so it's so ridiculous over there to
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have one because the gas is so expensive
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like filling up filling up the m5 tank
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which is 21 gallons filling it up costs
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over a hundred euros and so its current
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rate something like a hundred and twenty
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dollars and so it's quite a bit of money
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anyway obviously I i think if i lived
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there that would if that would have more
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relevance on my decision to get one and
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that's why nobody does over there
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so anyway so we pick up the car and and
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so the luxury was was really quite
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something because this is there this is
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like their flagship place there the
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their flagship store in a way and its
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really good premium experience and the
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whole time I just kept thinking I can't
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believe that this cost me less money
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than picking it up in the states and
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everything that this is something that
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echoed throughout the entire BMW
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european delivery experience and i
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really i really do mean this at a very
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deep level everyone did their job right
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and everything worked and and that's
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really you know here in the US and I
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don't know how many other places but
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certainly in the u.s. you are accustomed
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to a lot of people just screwing things
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up routinely a lot of things not working
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the way they should and and so there's a
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lot of little details like like when
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they bring you to your car they bring
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you down the stairwell and you overlook
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your car and all the cars are on little
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spinning turntables and when you when
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you approach this overlook the salesman
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who's bringing you to the car
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it's not really a Salesman that's
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already been made anyway that the person
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bring you to the car website an ipad and
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use a custom a full of German I could
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understand to start a spotlight on your
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car and to start the turntable spinning
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as you approach and the best part about
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it to me was that I'd like you said it's
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on you you go down a level and on this
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landing while you're still on the
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stairwell you haven't you gone halfway
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down the stairwell
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that's when they turn on the spotlight
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and they engage the turntable and and i
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was listening to to the delivery
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specialist or whatever he calls himself
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and he was telling you about why the car
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was designed the way it was and what was
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even more interesting was it to me
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anyway I don't know what your impression
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was but to me it didn't sound like just
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bullcrap sales talk
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it sounded like he genuinely had
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researched have been taught or learned
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why event was placed there or why that
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you know this this line was done in this
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total and I it was very very interesting
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and very cool
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yeah and and so just you know every
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every part of it was very carefully
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designed very carefully orchestrated and
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everything worked its I've never been to
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disney world but from what I understand
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from what people have said about 20 it
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sounds like they have a lot of the same
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philosophies thereof like you know you
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shouldn't see any seams and everything
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should always work like it's like they
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really nailed that it is you know it you
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know if that if that was anywhere in
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America even at a BMW facility in
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America cannot likelihood you know that
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like if there be like one turntable that
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just didn't work and so like you know a
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tenth of the deliveries that day just
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wouldn't have the turntable working and
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have to explain how sorry
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normally it's been good don't know
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what's broken you know you know that
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would happen here
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yeah but that definitely is the ethos in
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disney world but it's a lot harder to
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hold that line in a gigantic theme park
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filled with screaming children and
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certain tourists than it is in the end
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in the environment that you're in
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of course but but you know it's it's
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that it's that work ethic and that
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attention to detail that this needs to
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work correctly
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did you notice that like in the rest of
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Germany like that this is not you know
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that the sort of Germany toasted the
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stereotype we have over here is that
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every part of their societies like that
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from the guy who serves your coffee at
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the coffee shop to like the street signs
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and traffic lights and you know
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everything
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it wasn't I mean it wasn't absolutely
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perfect everywhere obviously that that's
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probably impossible or at least
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unhealthy but it was surprisingly close
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it really like and we'll get into the
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drivers in a bit but it was it was
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surprisingly good just just in general
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think like people did their jobs right
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and things worked one was interesting to
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me as well i am i'm probably reading too
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much into this but again like John
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saying that the the American stereotype
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of a German is that they're very
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efficient very serious not mean or not
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bad tempered with serious and everything
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is very specific and and i don't know i
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just got such a laugh over the fact that
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your delivery time was nine ten
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it wasn't 909 it wasn't 911
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it was nine ten and I mean we walked out
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there i think nine ten on the nose and
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yeah i mean 'animal again it was just so
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case right well if we were even joking
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like eleven o'clock and they had said
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like you know what are serving lunch at
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somebody had walked out and was replayed
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misplacing sandwiches on on the buffet
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BAM lunch like me and you can case you
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that is so stereotypically chicken but
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it's truly get it
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that's a and again you know that John's
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magical BMW you know fairytale land but
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welcoming and I like that a lot like I i
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school jobs and everything like I've
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always gotten along well with German
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bosses I've always liked you know i'm
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i'm the kind of nerd where if somebody
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party from 6 to 9 i'm there at six and
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of course that's not what anybody means
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acceptable government's I'm told you're
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not supposed to do that I'm repeatedly
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told by my wife that we're not supposed
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to do right you're a nerd so you think
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the same way like well it's said to be
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there at six something I was a button
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simon doesn't make any sense
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exactly shoot the hell with you guys on
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their 555 @ don't want to be looking
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the songs are so we got at your grasp so
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we're halfway down the stairwell your
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car spinning and you're getting explain
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to you why the lines were drawn in such
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a way it exactly so yeah so anyway that
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I mean you know the whole thing
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normally when you when you buy a car and
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most most branded dealers they will take
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features to go over like here's how you
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do the climate control and and of course
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do more and more
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this process is taking longer to explain
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it but but you know this guy he came
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down there and so we go down to the car
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whole thing they checked our bags when
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we went down to the car they had all of
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our bags ready to go into the car right
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there next to it like on the best thing
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we'd have to ask
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yeah and it wasn't that they brought the
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bags nearby the car those bags were
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brought as physically close to the car
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as you would comfortably allow them to
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be handled by anyone other than you and
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again I mean that in a good way not in a
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bad way they brought them directly to
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the trunk and had them within six inches
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of the trunk so we wouldn't have to lift
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them any further if we didn't want to
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hear and the first thing they have you
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do is somebody is a photographer comes
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up and takes a picture of you in front
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of the car
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oh I'm way to pictures when we just
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meeting with me my wife and I and then a
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few seconds look at a few minutes later
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they give you not only the printouts of
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those pictures that they had like gone
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to the back to get they give you the
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printouts and they give you a USB key
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with those pictures on them
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july didn't know that yeah I I never
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notice on now the question roar jpg it
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doesn't matter they had a flash such a
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hey don't the Germans make amazing
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cameras
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why did they make amazing lenses i don't
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know if i don't know what cameras they
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make yeah I am
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which by the way I don't remember when
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it was in this process that the
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following happened but I also thought it
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very interesting and to build on what
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you're saying Marco about American vs
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German ways when we got to the call
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one of the first things that happened
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was Michael the delivery specialist open
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the hood and showed you know you anymore
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from some cabinet and the cabinet was
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delightfully a simple and very clean
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very clean lines and he gets this cable
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out and I noticed that there's jumper
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leads on one end and some sort of plug
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on the other and so he takes these
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jumper leads plug them into the jump
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location under the hood and then under
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the front of the car perfectly under the
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center of the front of the car
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there's this hidden little doorway where
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he plugs in the other end and I presume
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this was done so that the car was
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running off the building's power and
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while he was spending an hour explaining
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to you about I Drive and this and that
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the other thing you're not destroying
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this brand new bat yes that's it in fact
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he explained that he was doing it he
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explained that is what he was doing and
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why because he was about to launch into
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like this half-hour demo of the stuff
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and didn't want and didn't want me to
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have a partially drained battery left
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but it's so and so and so when they
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drive these cars onto these turntables
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they have to align them so that these
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things line up like it's just every
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little attention to detail at everything
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was was a was just pay attention to and
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was done correctly
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yeah by the way the people who drive
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them from the car elevator to the
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turntable are wearing white gloves it
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I mean I'm not Joe this thing with
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spotless and it had the the odometer
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read to when they first got it it so i
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overhead of driving this thing around to
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get it where it had to go so it's
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actually begs the question will Marco
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where do they store these cars until
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delivery right that's another thing so
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we found out late the night before
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picking it up somebody on a forum link
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to it somehow somebody a forum had
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gotten pictures and then they later
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confirmed we ask the people like kind of
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we have some kind of leading questions
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and they confirmed everything the form
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guy said that they store all these cars
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in a giant warehouse under where we were
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and in order to prevent or to reduce the
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damage of firewood cause you had a whole
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bunch of vehicles full of gasoline
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first of all they are only allowed to
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put four gallons of gas and each one
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which is kind of annoying when you leave
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you don't have a full tank but that's
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apparently some kind of regulation but
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they have to follow but they keep these
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is dropped down to only thirteen percent
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oxygen so that if there's a fire it
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like if you try to light a lighter won't
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even light at that at that concentration
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i keep thieves out other people still
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able to breathe
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it's like being on a high mountain I i
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forget the exact elevation he told us
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there's like I had some kind of
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elevation equivalent but like you know
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you'd survive but it can be done heading
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right for your car and actually had like
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a robotic forklift truck thing that goes
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holding bay to bring it over to where it
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needs to go when when a car's requested
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system and the guy was saying they do
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roughly a hundred 230 deliveries per day
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say case maybe like 10 turntables yet no
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more than 15 I think closer to 10 and
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they're only doing roughly 12 to a time
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on such relatively small inventory
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to be on this again was another
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delightfully german thing that I noticed
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the turntable we happen to be on had a
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sculpture nearby and it took me just a
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sculptures and exhaust manifold and so
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marble and i took a picture of the the
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inscription on that marble of what the
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an English translation right below and i
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beautiful form and again so awesome and
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sarcastic but I really mean this
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genuinely that just warms my heart so
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much that the again just so delightfully
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German so anyway so he's just plug the
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building and you're getting your lecture
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yet and it's you know it's great hehe
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sets everything up he pairs my phone to
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the bluetooth I mean
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you know it goes through everything just
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as well if not better than I've ever had
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a dealer do it you know really really
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good good intro to everything smoke
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great English that magazine excellent
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English that was never a problem and
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even like we were never given the
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paperwork you know that was a different
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person and she was explaining you know
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if you here's your insurance here's this
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this and this
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everything was like no deductible I mean
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it was really just a great set up
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everything we were very well prepared
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for everything
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everyone told us what was going to
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happen what to expect like you know with
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with the the road permits and the
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insurance and the paperwork and the
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drop-off you know everything we're very
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well prepared for and they just everyone
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just did their job right and i really i
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wish that was just something that we
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could assume of everybody all the time
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and it and it's so isn't and so it was
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really quite something
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so anyway I finished the tour we're all
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ready to go and and and again we and we
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have for people with us you know we had
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me know I've encasing his wife and that
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was never a problem that was never week
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they were they never made us feel like
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we were imposing because we had four
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people instead of two or 2 plus kid or
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whatever they do everything they just ok
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here's you here's for access car so the
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executor the premium lounge and and here
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and when we left they gave us free
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little bottles of water here's four
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bottles of water because it's for if you
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like it was everything was just
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incredibly delightful and you know
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people often now I got a lot of
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responses when I when I've mentioned BMW
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in the past I always get responses to
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the effect of why do so many apple fans
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like BMWs and and I think there is a
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connection there and and you know maybe
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that's maybe that's why BMW care so much
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about iphone and ipod integration and
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why they've been often first to it are
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done it best for a while I think there's
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a lot of overlap there and I think the
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reason why is because people who like
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delightful things and delightful design
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tend to really appreciate apple products
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because apple provides
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a lot of delight and I think BMW is is
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that same way in so many regards and so
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many respects and they aren't the only
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ones to do to be that way certainly I
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mean little delightful things little by
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for features are a lot of what makes
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luxury cars luxury cars and so pretty
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much all the luxury brands that even
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someone on larger brands do but they
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really do BWW really does nail that they
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really do provide so many opportunities
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for delight in their products in their
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service in these experiences that they
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that they offer you like there's so much
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of that I think that's why there's that
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overlap is because the same people who
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appreciate that and apple products if
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they are ever exposed to BWW will
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probably appreciate it there to my
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recognize that you know they cared about
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that they did that and and that's that
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makes me happy for the question why do
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you think they don't do this in America
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is kind of delivery experience her beer
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that you do that as far as I know they
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don't I think well talk about for BMW
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orgastic I mean I didn't love you
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they do a subset of it you know like
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they'll but you know they do the subset
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of that every luxury brand does where
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they'll have given away as we said
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earlier they'll give you the bottle of
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water or the glass of wine if you want
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and they'll make your experience at a
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dealership very helpful and very nice
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and and very comfortable but this whole
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setup of having like the car and
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turntable and everything I don't know I
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don't act is you just because that would
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put a lot of bourbon and a lot of costs
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on the individual dealers where I mad
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when I was thinking of like it just one
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place somewhere in the United States so
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that you know you would have to fly
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overseas for you know you like someone
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like somewhere near where they sell a
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lot of their cars or maybe it's like to
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drive to another state and do it but if
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you want to go to the big BMW back and
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then you can get that experience you
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know I don't they don't do this in
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Spartans is it Spartanburg's your
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ensberg smart hands berg don't matter is
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an astronaut but anyway I don't think
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they do this at Spartanburg do they I
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don't think so
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I i I'm not sure if they do this or not
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anywhere in the u.s I've still never
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heard about it if they have
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but i think the place to do it would
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probably be like New Jersey thick like
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that's New Jersey has lots of space lots
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of car people and it's close to a lot of
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people on the East Coast maybe probably
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have one on the west coast to it they
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did that but yeah I've never heard is
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isn't it
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yeah but yeah I've never heard of of
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that being done here and that's a good
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question i don't know why but the only
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thing I can say is I from what I recall
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a couple years ago
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I'm want to say was the zr1 maybe the
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new zr1 i think that there was some
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program that Chevy briefly did where you
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could actually go in to go to Kentucky
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and build the matter you would help
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assemble the end right right that's a
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different kind of experience for a
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different kind of customer it's the same
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thing like it what do you want you want
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to have this experience was like well if
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you're into if you're a gearhead and you
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want to it's like wow I got to help
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build you know the engine to my own car
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I'm sure they let you do whatever I
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think it's nearly impossible to screw up
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right what do you like Titan one nut or
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something anybody about it that you do
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you know the parts that are hard to
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screw up but you can participate in the
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process you push a button anyway so
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after picking up the car we did you eat
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you get to do like this little victory
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lap around the entire platform of all
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the turntables and where all the cars
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are and to be clear you know with Marco
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picked up this car on the second floor
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of a three-story building it ain't so
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you know next thing you know that I see
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the code well you signed something on an
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ipad i didn't see specifically what
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and that was the final thing I saw you
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sign yeah and then he hands you the keys
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for like you know here this is it we're
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done have fun and you're on the second
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story in your inside in the second story
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of a of a three-story building right and
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and of course I'm feeling very
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self-conscious that just started up a v8
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indoors
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i'm thinking like a carbon monoxide yet
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but I'm sure that everything's pretty
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big building with marisa different it is
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also a lot of cars being started up and
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it was I looking at these pictures i'm
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looking like that the video people
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getting delivery like the big white
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floor you know you could probably leave
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some really neat tire tracks along just
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the people out to black stripes as you
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leave the that's what I told him he
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should have done but I will
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there's no prob probably frowned upon .
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you not only not only was I little
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scared to be frowned upon but a this was
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a dct so I was little I was a little
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vague as to whether you're neutral or
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not like and now that I know what I I'd
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be able to do it comfortably but at the
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time i was i was not comforting to know
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like if I floor it for a second am I
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gonna actually go forward right now or
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not any of the other thing is it's a
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very very it's a relatively tight space
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you know when you're walking it's very
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spacious when you're driving a $YEAR 5
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series because a large vehicle you don't
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feel like you have a ton of space to get
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to go around like you know there's
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there's a wall there that overlooks of
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show room full of people up
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that's the United wasn't going to take
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any risks there anyway so you can lean
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on the horn at least at representing
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American some of noxious play haha go
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I'm serious i'm sure people do the head
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you do all of that custom horn that uh
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plays the pics added theme when you hit
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somebody please not corruption now
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Wow but anyway so we we do a victory lap
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we head out and then we just go
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immediately park and go back in because
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we were doing next was the factory tour
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and this this is pretty cool
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you can take any pictures on the factory
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tour they're very serious about that so
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I don't have any pictures of it but they
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actually walk you through the factory
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that's across the street that produces
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something like I think they said about
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903 series cars a day and I saw some x5
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shells as well if i'm not mistaken you
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are mistaken as are making it made in
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see that's what I thought but there were
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some sort of SUV I thought wasn't or
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maybe i'm thinking of the tour yet every
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just they were just the touring / wagon
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models of the 3c right i was just
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kidding i was testing you and you passed
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that's good but anyway just like when
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you when you failed to spot the the new
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4-series in the museum the new 4-series
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design mockup yes yes you're right
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anyway did so we did the factory tour
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you know if any listeners have the
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opportunity to go to the music factory
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tour I I would have
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recommend it it's really really great it
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was one of the highlights of the trip
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for sure and just society they tell you
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why they don't let you take pictures
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no it's probably for some kind of like
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legal trade secrets things similar to
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how like you know one of the reasons why
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Apple did the iOS developer n da back in
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the early days was because they were
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some kind of technicality where like if
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you if if something is unpublished
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officially then it afford you some like
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everyone was breaking the NDA constantly
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it was as long as it was officially
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gonna be like a massive trade secret or
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anything and they're going to show
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everyone the street that but by by
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saying this is secret and not letting
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you take pictures and everything there
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they get by that but i was asking
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because I'm looking at this this video I
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just paste in a you know european
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delivery or whatever and they do the
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factory tour too and they're taking
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video so one of these jokers get to do
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video you can you take pictures i just
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passed you're talking about the autoblog
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yeah thing
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oh yeah let me see how I'm kind of busy
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i would assume i'll assume attack was
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there its press and so press get
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affordances that we don't get it was
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probably a special deal but that's a
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good question like why why is that ok
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oh well I don't know anyway it was
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awesome at as you can see this video
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thanks for ruining it
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as you can see it's video the factory it
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not only is there a lot going on there
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it's pretty cool to see like all the
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crazy robots up up close and everything
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but it was impeccably clean oh I would
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have been a gourmet meal off the floor
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that factory and I say that only mildly
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sarcastically like yeah unbelievable it
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I the the floors in that factory are
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cleaner than the floors in my house by
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probably by a lot i mean.they it would
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like there wasn't even like like metal
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shavings or
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fine layer of dust from all this
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machining nothing like it was impeccably
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clean and and just everything about it
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was as stereotypically German like
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incredibly efficient clever reliable and
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and they you know these explanations
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were fantastic of everything and and we
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were just like walking on like you know
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one catwalk overlooking everything we
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will actually like any there was a bit
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of that we were actually walking like
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right through the factory floor and
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walking you know 10 feet away from the
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people who are building engines and
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everything I mean it was it was pretty
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cool and we really saw a lot of great
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stuff there and it was it was extremely
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worthwhile highly recommended
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yeah I couldn't agree more in a couple
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of highlights that I thought
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firstly the paint process which I guess
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this is covered in what show was it that
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you said you had watched you and tiff
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out on the Iron ya how it's made and I
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guess a lot of this is cut been covered
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in TV shows and documentaries and
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whatnot like how it's made
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but I thought it was incredible the way
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the painting process worked and so at
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one point were brought into a room where
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we see a hood it looked to me to be a
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3-series hood but it was a hold of some
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say wasn't f30 3-series ok
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or was it bonnet if you're British is
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that right anyway so we see this hood
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and it's shows like the seven different
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seven ish different stages of the
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painting process and so it shows you
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know the raw metal and then it's getting
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a getting that gets a base coat and this
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and that and the other thing than all
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the way through to the clear coat and
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another great example of people caring
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about their jobs like Marcos been been
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saying all along is that the woman who
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was the tour guide
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somebody asked her not me i don't
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remember how they phrase the question
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but basically hey for what is it Arctic
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I was grows along
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Thank You frozen for the frozen that
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coat jobs the matte colors
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what do you do is it not clear coated or
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is it did you just skip the clearcoat
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step what happens in immediately without
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a hesitation she said no no it's just a
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different clearcoat process what does it
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have silicon or something absolutely
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Angeles and and so it was just really
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rewarding to have a tour guide that
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clearly knew what the crap she was
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talking about writing was able to answer
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without having to be like Oh arm
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hmm let me think i've been told this
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once during my training program for and
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I we were never there was no one who
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ever said oh we can't tell you that
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like that's a secret like every question
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somebody asked they answered and maybe
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i'm sure there were questions we could
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have come up with they wouldn't answer
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but every like there was nothing that
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was like oh we can only tell you what's
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been approved for the store like what is
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the stereo mic engine noises that come
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up we'll talk about that well the
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5-series wasn't made in this plant this
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is a 3-series plant alright and the
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although the engine was the v8 is made
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in this plan so the other bit about the
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paint that i thought was incredible and
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again I guess this was old news to
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everyone but me but apparently and I'll
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get this backwards but the paint is
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positively charged in the chassis is
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negatively charged or perhaps vice versa
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so that when the paint is atomized and
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sprayed it's actually attracted to the
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body of the car which I just thought was
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so incredibly it like minimizes
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overspray and paint waste and everything
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right and then they had this likes this
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truth underneath the painting process
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that had running water beneath and
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apparently they can save like
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ninety-nine percent of the paint in that
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water that that's over spray it was
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really it was really ridiculous and then
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the other thing I thought was really
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incredible but the about the factory
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tour was we were able like Marco said a
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minute ago we were able to go see the
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engine building area engine room
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whatever you called it which i guess is
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not normal because I talked to a friend
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of mine who had just done it a few
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months ago and he said he didn't see
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that well anyway we got to go through
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and see some of these engines getting
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built and to be honest I mean it's
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exactly what you would expect about how
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an engine gets built but just seeing it
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live was extremely cool and I just
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geeked out on every moment of it I
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thought it was awesome it was
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interesting too late to hear so like
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takes that as part of the part of the
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tour they they told us what ratios they
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make these things and they were saying
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like everyday they make about a thousand
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of the new and 20 engines are the turbo
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four-cylinder the the 22 liter
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four-cylinder that are going into all of
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the x 28 models now and and they make it
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basically made like 1200 of those a day
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and then they don't they don't make the
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six cylinders in this plant but they
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made them in the four cylinders the
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eight and the giant 12 for the the 760
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and the rolls-royce's hit they said they
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make like 1200 of the of the
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four-cylinder i forgot i think it was
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like 200 or so of the eights and then
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like 30 of the to a house that's gonna
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give you some idea of why the the giant
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v12 engines cost so much
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it's because they're making like 30 of
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them a day in this giant Factory
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anyway that was awesome highly
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recommended and we're running a little
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long so I want to move on to the driving
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so we leave here and the first thing we
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do is drive through the apps and go to
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our next destination which was lucerne
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switzerland and so we get to drive the
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autobahn the first time you just drive
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through the Alps a little bit and oh my
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god this car is ridiculous I mean I i
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cannot say it enough so ridiculously app
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with this car and even just having it
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for the few days i had it so far
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oh my god so first of all the dct is
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exactly as I as I thought it was it was
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exactly as I remembered it from that
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track day it was
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it's just awesome it compared to a
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six-speed this is the first and they
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were like North mystic and I'm very very
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happy I made the choice to go with it I
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don't regret not having a stick
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even now coming back to my stick cars
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for the next month and a half or two I I
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don't regret making that choice at all
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i'm very very happy with that choice now
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to that end so at this point in our
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story i have not driven the m5 yet i'm
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only a passenger and I i firstly I one
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note is that I wouldn't i don't think i
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will ever forget when we cleared munich
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and all of a sudden the speed
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restrictions one away and you unwound
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that car and next thing you know we're
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doing 110 120 easy Kelly
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legally and and and i cannot say enough
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good things about the German drivers
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because in America as we complained and
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moaned in in the episode alternate which
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was like 46 or something like that it
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was six American drivers especially
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Virginia anyway they tend to think that
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the left lane is a perfectly permissible
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travel lane and in Germany that is not
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the case people stayed right or state to
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the middle and only got left if they had
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to and if he and i was watching from the
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backseat if marco was approaching
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quickly someone in front of him
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eighty to ninety percent of the time
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that person got the crap out of the way
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is quickly
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possible and it was really unbelievable
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to watch but the other thing i want to
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note is that about the dct again at this
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point I have not yet driven it but from
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the backseat
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it was surprisingly good and I was in
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I've talked about this before my friend
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dual-clutch gearbox and it was wonderful
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when you are driving hard but atrocious
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when you were just driving and it took
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Marco maybe a day to get to the point
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that he knew he understood the car well
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enough that you're driving around town
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it was like the world's best standard
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transmission driver and when you got on
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the gas
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it was the world's fastest standard
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transmission driver in from the back
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seat anyway it was really really nice
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and i remembers their full auto mode
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though as well
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yes mhm so i can use that around town as
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it just drive like you know and an
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automatic the only the only learning
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curve that I had that I had to do well
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there's to learn cause obviously there
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there's the break responsiveness
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learning curve which I I think whenever
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anybody gets into any different car it
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takes a moment you know a few minutes at
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least two to become smooth on the brakes
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especially when you have ridiculously
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the dct was when you go from zero to
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transmission car you can kind of ease
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off the clutch and gradually make you
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know gradually get into it so that you
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take off fairly smoothly and when you're
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learning how to drive stick
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learning how to do that smoothly is not
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easy and and with the dct you know the
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dct is normally optimized for quick gear
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changes and so you're going from 0 to
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first if you want to quickly do that
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it's not going to be smooth it's going
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to be rich connect jolt you forward to
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starting second that's an option
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actually but that might have had the
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same issue anyways it's over 500
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horsepower is that is here is it's not
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graceful what's going on it but it has
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like this some kind of special detection
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we like it if it detects that you're
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trying to be gentle on the gas pedal
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going from 0 to first
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it will engage it slowly so it does it
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like sense that that's good to like if
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you're parallel parking or something you
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can creep you know as you as you need to
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win when you're doing small maneuvers
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like that so it but so it took me to be
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a solid day and a half or two days to
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learn how to do that reliably it's just
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like a feel thing you know but anyway
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yeah like once you learn to do that it
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it really is an incredibly smooth ride
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and in fact my wife commented on that a
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lot too because she is often in the car
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with me driving stick and I'm not that
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great at it that I can be perfectly
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smooth all the time and and so so she
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even commented how much smoother by far
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the dct was compared to the way I
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usually drive a stick and I was just so
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blown away by how fast an awesome it was
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I didn't I didn't care about the loss of
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roughness it's anyway so driving this
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thing you know as cases at the autobahn
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is fantastic 11 also a little little
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note that i thought was just one of
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those little delightful things that's
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just commonly good this speedometer in
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in this new car does not have because
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the us-spec are normally the aspect cars
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will have both km/h and miles per hour
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markings on them
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this one didn't this one only had miles
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per hour because it tests for the US and
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I guess the new one just don't do both
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anymore so I thought oh crap all the
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speed limit signs are in km/h i'm going
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to have to memorize what all of these
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translate two miles per hour to be to be
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able to drive legally and place the dual
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speed limits which is most places and so
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i think i think i mentioned in the in
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the extras show that one of the features
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of this car is a speed limit in feature
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that you actually use a camera mounted
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on the rear view mirror it skin it looks
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forward on the road and finds speed
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limit signs it detects them just by
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image recognition and it tells you what
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the current speed limit is and then it
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matches up that data sometimes it will
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it will have it in the navigation
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systems little know what the speed limit
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isn't certain roads it'll match it up
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with navigation system if it doesn't
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have a sign of hasn't seen the sign in
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so anyway I this feature as we're
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driving you know that but here I am with
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a miles per hour meter seeing km/h signs
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it recognized the km/h signs and
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converted it for me two miles per hour
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rounded to the nearest five and so all
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the time i was driving
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whenever I saw speed limit sign about
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two seconds later it would pop up on the
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heads-up display and the speedometer
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little icon showing me what the current
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speed limit was in miles per hour
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that is awesome you got you clearly
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agree we had worked really well and well
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from what little i could tell from the
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backseat and the other thing I thought
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was really awesome is that they gave you
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and I mean I guess this isn't surprising
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but they gave you the maps for Europe
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because like you said this is a
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us-backed car doesn't usually come with
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European maps and the nav was perfectly
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from my perspective was perfectly easy
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to use granted every every Road in
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German is about 350 characters long for
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every road name is significant
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characters long but space to our
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extensive their spaces are very
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expensive and so two hours later when we
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finally wore through the eye dr and
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basically wore it down to a little
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numbing because we've been spinning it
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back and forth constantly entering all
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these 3 50 letters it actually worked
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really flawlessly and I thought that was
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awesome as well
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yeah and and reading speed limit thing
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like it there was never a time where
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things like I think twice it gets the
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wrong number or or interpret something
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that what that was supposed to interpret
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but like it's I mean it's even smart
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enough that a lot of the a lot of the
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roads there we'll have we'll have us a
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different speed limit if it's raining
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and and it's you know it's marked with a
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different sign will have like a speed
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limit sign and below a little rainy car
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sign it recognizes that and it checks in
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with the windshield wiper system and if
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the windshield wipers are on it will
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tell you that speed limit
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otherwise it'll keep the big speed limit
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i mean it's it's really crazy good
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so unexpectedly good anyway so it was
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really quite easy driving in foreign
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countries having both
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navigation system and the speed limit
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recognize her things so that there's
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rarely any doubt as to you know whether
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what I was doing was legal and what when
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where the heck we were going so that was
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that was quite nice technology certainly
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has made this kind of thing probably
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weighed easier LOL possibly less
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adventurous but but certainly way easier
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than it probably wasn't in the recent
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well into that and one of us asked you
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or maybe you just shared it up of your
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own accord
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you know hey if this was 5 10 years ago
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navigation wasn't a normal thing would
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you have done the european delivery and
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and I mean that the time you had said
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yeah probably not
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yeah I probably wouldn't have you know
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because I would have been too
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intimidated to the drive-in unknown
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foreign countries especially where I
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have you know extremely limited to no
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communication abilities because it's not
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my home country and you know if I if I
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don't have a cell phone either
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forget about it but anyway so it was
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just a ridiculously awesome drive it's a
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ridiculously awesome car the autobahn is
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is so great and so much fun and you know
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to some extent it's just a highway you
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know and and a highway in one country
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and highway in another country they're
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in there they're mostly the same but I
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the experience of of seeing both both
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the quality of the roads and the quality
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of the drivers real and people in
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Germany think that there's a bunch of
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idiots on the road but trust me you you
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don't know that's trusting didn't know
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you don't
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so I mean the funny thing is i did not
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see not one instance of an idiot driver
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i saw some instances of people getting
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the left lane when I didn't think it was
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really necessary but it wasn't like
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people getting in the left lane and
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slowing down to 20 miles an hour it was
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people getting the left lane trying to
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pass when I wish they hadn't gotten in
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front of you you know was nothing it was
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nothing egregious and nothing terribly
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bad and I didn't see not one instance of
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anything that could even be mildly
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construed as road annoyance let alone
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let alone road rage
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yeah i don't think i saw this i mean if
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I caused any I didn't notice
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no i did not even just with you I mean
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just in general a lot of times when I'm
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driving on
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on a long trip like say to and from your
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guys's house you know you'll see people
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getting pissed off at each other and
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tailgating and waving their arms and so
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on and so forth and I saw none of that
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yeah it was the drivers were
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unbelievable yeah it was fantastic and
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and the roads are all at least the ones
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we drove on were just in fantastic shape
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and so that and that's why you know we
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we pose the question to ourselves and
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then later Twitter you know why can't
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the u.s. do this why can't the US have
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higher or no speed limits on many of its
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highways and we got a lot of good
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answers and I think part of the answer
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is just you know our roads our are often
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not in this good of shape I'm various
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you know vegetarian priority reasons .
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that's why are guys so cheap right let's
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get all those taxes on gasoline and go
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to pay for make the roads nice to drive
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LOL but we do have quite a bit of that
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and built into our prices but obviously
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not as much as they do I don't know that
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actually but I don't think it's as much
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as they do but so you know part of its
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just you know the roads they're the ones
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we were on where we're very well paved
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they weren't full of massive potholes or
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rough areas you know that they were
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really good shape and and part of its
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also just that the Dave it's always been
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this way for them or at least it's been
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this way for long enough with them so
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they're used to it you know I feel like
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if you if you took a section of the US
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and took some section of like you know I
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80 going through Pennsylvania which is
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basically the MPS road in the universe
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until it gets to ohio when it gets even
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emptier yeah someone's I have some
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experience with take you know the
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massive segments of i-80 where there is
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very little traffic and just very long
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stretches of mostly nothingness in a
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straight line you can easily safely go
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90 miles an hour on those easily and you
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can probably go faster than that in many
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many sections without really any major
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safety changes and so obviously that
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there are places in the US where we
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could do that and in Germany it's not
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that there's it's not that the highways
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never have speed limits
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just you know large sections of them
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will have no splits somebody on Twitter
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told me that roughly seventy percent of
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them have speed limits and so I'm not
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really sure how accurate that is you
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know one person told me that but that
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certainly seem to match up to what we
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what's interesting though is that their
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speed limit most the most common people
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but I saw there when it was limited was
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130 km/h which is roughly 85 miles an
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I hope that's right that's what the
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speed limit in 41 ok so i told me 50 s
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it round up to the nearest fire will
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also consider that I don't know about
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your BMW is all three of them at this
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particular moment but I'm I one BMW my
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run about 45 miles an hour fast so 80
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miles an hour in my car as 80 miles an
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hour indicated is act is about seventy
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six ish actual that's good i mean that's
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that's that's the way that's the direct
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if it's going to be an error you want to
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be in that direction
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I wonder if the the snow tires affected
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your speedo accuracy
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actually that's a good point well
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because they are BMWs official rims and
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tires and they have like you know custom
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pressure sensors and everything I would
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imagine the car has some way that's how
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that also this car isn't stock it runs
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19 inch wheels and the 20-inch wheels
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are an option so it's possible that it
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detects which one you're running order
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some kind of setting somewhere i'm not
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really sure but it's AII it's obvious
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it's made to run both of those sizes and
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presumably even if the circumference
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azhar different between 1920 the gps is
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going to be accurate
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regardless that's true but the party is
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entitled anyway so you know I'm one
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thing I thought was interesting too is
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in the areas where there was no speed
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limit i was paying attention to see how
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fast do people choose to go but I think
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that's an interesting question like okay
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if it's totally unlimited and you're
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only limits are you know practicality
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safety and fuel economy
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how fast do people generally choose to
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go and and it seemed like what I what I
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mostly saw four people going between 80
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and 90 and it didn't really seem that
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fast it seemed normal
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everyone's going that same speed roughly
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and and and i mean that in miles of
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course and it just worked that was like
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that was like everyone's like kind of
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natural cruising speed on these roads
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they do that in Atlanta to but it
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doesn't feel so good
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well like you know here at you know most
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of the roads around here where the speed
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limit is 65 on the interstates I usually
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see people going about 75 to 80 that
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seems to be the average cruising speed
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on like the new york thruway and various
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large highways around here is roughly 75
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to 80 and so it seems like you know it
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seems like we're already going almost
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that speed and it were just breaking the
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law is there and it's usually legal to
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do that speed that's an income source
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like it whenever you take a long trip
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everyone is cruising around 75 80 85
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depending on the car but this is periods
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of time where everyone goes slow the way
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down and then you go past the cop and
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everyone's back up again writing sample
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dance that you do on your way to
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wherever you're going exactly what I
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also thought it was interesting because
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we were able to visit with a friend of
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Marco and tips and Marco ask this
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question to to his friend and she had
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said what did you say that she would do
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somewhere in the range of ninety to a
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hundred miles an hour is that right she
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said she would do up to about 180
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kilometers so what does that miles about
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hundred that's i don't know i had 110
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someone that anyway yeah so and yeah I
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think I think it's about 110 anyway
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regardless and and I found you know when
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I when I had no limit in this car that
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can very very easily do these speeds you
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know might the highest speed i reach
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that i noticed at least the highest-paid
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arias was about a hundred and forty-one
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speedometer thanks to its quick and it's
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a really good picture actually posted on
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Twitter few days ago so about a hundred
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forty-one with my highest i found that
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in the moment areas I
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is most comfortable going about 115 and
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a lot of that of course it was that was
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that the winter tires you know there was
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there's a good amount of vibration of
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those pieces that you can feel through
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the wheels i would imagine the summer
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tires would feel squishy here at those
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speeds and and therefore may be
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encouraged me to go even faster but you
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know there's it's not just you on the
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road there's all the other cars on the
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road and you know you don't want to you
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don't want to blow past somebody who's
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like at a stop in the next Lane you
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don't blow past them at 115 you know
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what if they cut out and go into your
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lane you want to leave yourself leave
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yourself good amount of safety overhead
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so I generally found it like you know
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with with all no limit stuff i would i
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would generally crews about 115 so you
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know we're not that far off from that
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here like you know it if we could if we
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could raise the speed limits here into
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the 85 range you know that that's that's
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not bad i don't want normal cars can't
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do that though like so many people Mars
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can't came 250 or shouldn't do anything
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they can they can hit that speed but it
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feels like the world's going to end well
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they should not be you shouldn't take
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your like none of my car that I own
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should I ever been going 215 and ever in
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any circumstance not because they can
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attain that speed but because it was
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like at that point that we will be
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shaking the steering will feel like it's
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disconnected from the road and like a
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fit any second . it's not I mean cars it
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that's the guy's a big problem i think
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the the at maybe it's I don't know the
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system status but every time I see
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pictures of Europe and stuff people seem
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to have not nicer cars not bigger cars
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not more powerful cars but like either
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better maintained or newer looking cars
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because I see lots of giant rusted-out
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hunk of junk cars around here that they
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shouldn't even be going 80 let alone
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hundred something do you have state
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inspections there and are they very true
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but it's not a scam i mean you know like
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anyway I i look at cars in the room like
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there's no way that that estimate but it
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. you know you just find the guy who
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will you know Brian inspection thing or
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you just just don't get inspected and
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just you know
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press your locking although the one
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thing i will say isn't this might all be
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in my head but especially when we were
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in the cities like with in Munich I feel
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like the the emissions regulations in
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must be considerably less strict than
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America because I felt like everywhere I
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went I smelled exhaust and I don't know
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Marco did you notice that as well but
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there was yeah it was more certainly
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more than I smell here
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right exactly where you'd like it isn't
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a diesel their diesel standards are not
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as crazy as our switches way you'll get
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away with driving diesel so some
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combination of lower standards for
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diesel admission and way way more
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diesels gives you you know exactly and
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that's also why a lot of the great
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diesel models can't make it over to the
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US because they don't pass our
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certifications and it's not worth the
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manufacturers you know doing what it
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takes to pass them for the for the few
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Americans who by diesels
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so anyway yeah I didn't decide and
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that's weird because you would expect
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Europe to have more strict standards and
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i was like i usually how it works with
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environmental stuff but but in this case
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they actually yeah it I i did notice
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that that was definitely odd but anyway
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so and and I i should say too if anyone
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is interested in this topic
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who knows if you are if you're not sorry
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driving 140 and at these speeds that
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high on a road that's made to be driven
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fairly fast I isn't really that it
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doesn't really feel that crazy it feels
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it feels intense to some degree like
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it's more it's more exhausting of your
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concentration and it's more mentally
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exhausting because you are going so much
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you know you're going so much faster you
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need to concentrate harder on keeping
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the car straight and steady cut and and
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making sure you don't hit anything or
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making sure you're minimizing your
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chances of hitting somebody else like i
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said earlier you know you gotta get a
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wonder like somebody if i'm passing
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somebody and I'm going 30 miles an hour
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faster than they are you know what
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happens if they decide to quickly change
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in my land they don't see how fashion
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coming up you know and what you know do
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i will have time to see that and slow
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down etc so those kind of considerations
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make it more stressful and more mentally
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draining but that's really the extent of
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it like if you're in a car
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made for that or at least if your car is
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not rattling and falling apart at those
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speeds that for me is what I find to be
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the biggest challenge was just just
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mentally keeping up with it and but
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otherwise it was it was quite awesome
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yeah and it was interesting to be in the
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backseat while this was going on because
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to be honest the difference between
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American highway speeds and unlimited
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autobahn speeds was that the wind was
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louder other than Nick there at it
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really didn't seem that different and in
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fact when we slowed down to American
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highway speeds
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I felt like we were doing like 30 miles
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an hour it felt so low it's crucial it
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was it was terrible from the backseat
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and I mean it let's be honest if I was
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going to choose a car to be in the
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backseat of it i would choose a car with
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rear heated seats with rear dual-zone
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climate with an engine that had infinite
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power from any RPM in any gear
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I mean it was it was it was a lovely
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place to be
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even in the backseat and I mean it's
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it's an incredible vehicle you know I
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don't want to hurt too much on it
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because i know we're gonna get ahold of
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people who think I'm a total for buy an
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expensive car and and that's that's
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warranted i am told and I apologize for
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being a total but oh well now i can't do
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anything about it now as well but so you
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know I don't hurt too much on the car
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but it is a ridiculously great car and
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it has totally ruined my 3 series by a
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long shot now coming back to a totally
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ruin that car and and i like that car a
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lot to have you driven the 1m since the
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I in fact I driver today for the first
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time and how was that you know it was
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interesting it was first of all it it
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was not ruined by the m5 I'm good
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I I still I still love driving it
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however it still is and i even thought
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briefly during the ride
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you know maybe I should try to keep it
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somehow and keep it with the m5 and keep
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having three cars but as much as I
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because it is it is an incredible
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american amount amount of power the m5
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has more power
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but the the 1m is an incredible amount
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of power in a very small nimble car and
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the m5 is many things but it is not
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small and and so I thought briefly you
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know I should really maybe consider this
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but then when I went over the other half
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incredibly rough and bumpy from the
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terrible roads here and the 1m is really
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really firm and so to go over rough you
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know rough potholes and stuff an old
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pavement it is pretty uncomfortable on
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the one hand and and going over that I
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realize you know what a I i think you
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know it it is a great car had so much
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fun with it but as i've mentioned in
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previous shows having three cars is
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greatly annoying to me or you know
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having two primaries myself is greatly
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annoying to me and it has many small and
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large annoyances every single day and
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it's just as great of cars it is it's
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not worth it to me if I if I have
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something as awesome as the m5 it's not
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worth it to me so I'm going to sell it
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anyway so I forget we also wanted to go
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with oh yes so the other place we went
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with the m5 so so we did we did we get
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our trip around Europe and it was a
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one of the places we stopped was to
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visit our friend in bond and bond is
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only about 45 minutes from newburgh and
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most people listen to the show have
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probably heard of a track in nĆ¼rnberg
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now whatever you think of the
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Nurburgring and of cars you know being
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made for it and being optimized for it
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and the kinds of people who drive the
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Nurburgring i would suggest if you ever
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have a chance to do it if you're ever in
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the area with a car that you can drive
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on or if you want to rent one that which
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they have services that you can rent
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cars to drive on the rink
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I cannot recommend it highly enough
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and so here the Nurburgring is not
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explained very well no it is not that we
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so we we went I went to the Nurburgring
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site and found its address and GPS
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coordinates and so I find a dress and
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touching the gps I had a great turns out
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that the Nurburgring I knew it was two
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tracks there's like the Grand Prix one
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and then I'm so sorry for the
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pronunciation the North she'll if I
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don't know that's when people refer to
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the Nurburgring they're usually
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referring to the north left which is
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like the the long 13-mile very twisty
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turny track i wasn't mean like North
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circuit or something like that or
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something like that yeah actually that
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makes it ok anyway so the place called
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nĆ¼rburgring on the GPS system was for
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the grand prix circuit it was like it
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was this giant like info building and
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like gift shop and bought this stuff for
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the grand prix rollercoaster yeah
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exactly what it was like a little mini
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theme park so we got week
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it took us a good 45 minutes to find the
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to find out how to get the little credit
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card thing that lets you onto the track
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and then define the entrance to the
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track we had like running and ask people
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it was it was a it was comical we we
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barely made it in time to get any laps
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in and they're only open for like two
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hours at night on weekdays for to the
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public the rest like the whole day
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they're booked by private people and
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they're open they're open to the public
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and the evenings and none of the posted
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times were accurate like the website so
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they were open from five to 530-730
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turns out they're open from 5 15 7 15
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and the and the ticket office closes at
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five like there's all sorts of little
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crazy crazy little like gotchas in the
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process and all you have to get you to
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get the ring card from this machine but
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that machine's broken or that mission is
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closed and then you get the ring card
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you put the money in the ring card but
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your credit card because the interface
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sucks and I knew he finally got the
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money on the credit card and you go try
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to pull up and get into the ring but you
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didn't get the money into laps you go to
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a different machine for the
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it was it was comical to John's point I
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think Johnny would ask early on when did
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things go wrong things went very wrong
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at the nĆ¼rburgring yeah and and not
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currently not in the collision sense but
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in the sense of just trying to find it
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and get on it was they were you trying
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to get on the the formula one short
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thing or the build a big thing the big
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liar and a long one and it was just it
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was impossibly poorly supplied named
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there was an assumption that you knew
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what you were doing before you even got
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there right
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it was just it was not well done which
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maybe is why they're bank robbers it
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isn't does not noob friendly at all no
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although I will say it was pretty it was
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a pretty good sign when we decided to
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fuel up before the Nurburgring which I
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know all the real racecar drivers like
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Jesus Christ why did you do that right
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before you went on the track but we
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wanted to make sure we have enough gas
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and so we pulled into this gas station
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and i think i tweeted a picture of like
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six or seven different Porsches a
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Ferrari of some flavor I john i'm sorry
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i don't recall what it was there was a 1
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series am like 22 spots down there must
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laminating east and now it was really
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really i didn't see I don't but it
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doesn't matter the point is that was
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like one or two million dollars with the
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cars at this like kind of junky gasps
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very small gas to hit I had like six
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pumps you know it's not exactly
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yeah so it was crazy but anyway so
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eventually Marco in in tiffin Darren and
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I figure out how to get onto the ring
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yeah and so Marco of course goes first
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yeah and and it was you know we were
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prepped early on by by lots of our
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various internet friends and i had
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actually I had purchased I think for
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staff or whatever xbox racing game has
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the Nurburgring in it and it's fairly
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recent I think it's 44 I don't know much
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about those those uh so sorry if I got
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it wrong but i purchased this game like
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three months ago knowing I was going to
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try to drive the Nurburgring just to try
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to train myself on a little bit just to
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familiarize myself with the track just
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to know you know what turns are coming
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up and and and I at the time i posted on
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Twitter first asking you know what game
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I should get to do this and then you
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know later on just seeing responses from
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people asking how it was going and
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by far the most common response i got
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after got through all the people
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fighting over whether granturismo or
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Forza was the better game to get because
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i have a ps3 and so I said okay I can do
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either of these systems you know what
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should i get oh my god don't don't ask
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about video game rivalries on Twitter it
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is so so unhelpful but it anyway
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the most common response i got besides
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that was don't even bother it won't help
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you at all because this track has like
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70-something turns you're not going to
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learn from the video game it people who
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drive it every day for years don't know
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it like it you know it don't even bother
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is it is what these people usually said
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and and overall I can say that was
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exactly correct that all my videogame
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training for this track was completely
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unhelpful in real life of course in real
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life it's way easier than a video game
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because you know you're controlling a
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real car just way easier than driving a
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videogame car of course the penalties
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are hired to hit the law but overall I
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it was awesome it would we were scared
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out of our minds and we didn't drive
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very fast i think we we didn't measure
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most Alaskans with another thing people
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said online was don't even bother time
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your laughs because then it will
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encourage you to go faster and you don't
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need that kind of encouragement your
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first time to bring in your own car and
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that was also very wise so we did not
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time our laps except for Casey stuck in
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a time of the last lap I wish that which
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was about 15 minutes and it felt we had
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passengers in the car for every lap
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obviously we're driving it feels
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different when you're a passenger that
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you can kind of get an idea for you know
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how how well you're doing and and it
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seemed like all the last week is roughly
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the same time ring so I think we all
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managed about 15-minute laps but what I
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was very happy with but so anyway 111
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problem we had was okay we got there and
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there was like an hour and a half left
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of time the track was open and we had
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four people and we knew we wanted to at
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least two laps at least me and casey and
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the wires were both kind of on the fence
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whether they wanted to do it or not they
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were a wait-and-see and so
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I did my lap it was ridiculous it was
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how it was so awesome and again you know
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we're doing like 15 minutes we weren't
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even going that fast
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you know I think most of the time we
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were going maybe 50 miles an hour
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through a lot of the terms and through a
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lot of the sections or or less you know
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I went faster on the Autobahn really
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like my top speed of the Nurburgring
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that big straight away at the end was
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like 120 you know I'd like I haven't
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passed on the Autobahn did on the
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Nurburgring by the the lap record for
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the long track is six minutes 11 seconds
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yeah to give you an idea of how fast the
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crazy fast people are going right and i
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think i think people in this exact car i
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think they've done it in like 7 55 or
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seven something in in the seven-minute
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range but regardless doesn't matter you
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know we were we were doing it to do it
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not to get a good time on it where there
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are other people on the track who were
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going really fast that you had to get
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out of the way of the that we lucked out
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though that it wasn't very crowded they
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were there weren't that many cars i
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would say for each 15-minute lap we were
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probably passed by it maybe 10 people at
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most i wasn't it wasn't a large number
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and there were a lot of people there
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did you see any super exotics I'm not
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really they were there were a lot of
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porsche 911 and out of them a few m
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threes and a couple of little hot
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hatches that I didn't recognize there
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was a Corvette yeah there's one Corvette
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I don't know why that is anyone but it
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was exotic 01 its kind of exotic to see
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what not only think it was a zr1 I
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didn't get a good look
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we were surprised to see in Germany and
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and there was one really decked out
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lexus is-f that was just being obviously
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being driven by somebody there either
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very good or very stupid i think
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probably just very good because that car
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passed us faster than any car we saw
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that it got there is a factory test
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no but I think I got a picture of it and
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it was actually a rental car so wow I
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don't like I believe i might be wrong
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about this it was an orange is f and it
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was our very last lap which is when
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Aaron was driving and it it was followed
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like Marco said
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far away in my opinion the quickest
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thing that passed us was that is f it
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blew our doors off and again like Marco
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I I can only speak for myself but I was
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driving it like five tenths because a
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it's a card never been in be I've never
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driven on a track before see it's still
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under break-in you know I don't win
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indeed it's on winter tires i mean it
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was it was a confluence of reasons not
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to drive like an idiot and in especially
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I don't want Marco to never talk to me
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again after i wrapped his m5 around a
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pole because I drove like a moron right
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so now I mean we were all driving like
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grandma's but it was still one of the
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coolest experiences I've ever had in my
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intent and what made it great to is it
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all four of us drove me and Casey drove
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and both our wives drove and and KN 0 KC
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case your wife is a pretty confident
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my wife is is medium confidence you know
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not not especially confident about
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driving but not you know not scared just
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right in the middle is which one of you
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felt the least inhibited you would think
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Marco at least interview sites his car
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you can do whatever you want to but on
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the other hand it's his card maybe baby
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it so I was thinking that uh before
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hearing that yeah tiff is kind of a
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timid driver that she would be the one
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most willing to flog it because hey it's
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not her car and if she breaks it was
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gonna do
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tiff actually had i measured are times i
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bet she did a faster lap than I did
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because she she took some of the terms
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faster than I was willing to because i
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had i did the first lap and and so when
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I was driving it we didn't know what to
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expect with things like other people
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being on the track things like track
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conditions like there's one part of the
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track that had snow on the shoulder
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because it was in the shade and you know
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anyway like there were no we don't know
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what the conditions would be we didn't
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know what it would be you know how it be
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in real life we didn't know if it would
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be full of crazy motorcyclists or
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anything we had no idea and so my lap
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was the very first lap so I was overly
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cautious i think and I'm very I'm
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perfectly fine having having done that
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like I lost grip for a split second on
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one turn and that was the only time I
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lost grip
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at all and I don't I didn't notice
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anyone i was in the car for all four
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laps i didn't notice anyone else losing
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me grip but that all the the electric
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nannies are on the right yes
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oh yeah i would not I i know that's
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probably tip terrible for purest I
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didn't even use the M dynamic mode that
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the M cars have to allow a little bit of
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sleep and then get back on track
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I didn't even turn that on because I
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knew like you know what this is because
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I we were also told by our friend and i
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think this is true that insurance
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doesn't really apply if something
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happens to you on the Nurburgring so and
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more than that if we bust the ring it's
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on us to fix it yet like they bill us to
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fix it you have you like if you hit the
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wall though the ability to repair the
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wall its oh but I mean obviously
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preparing your car's probably more money
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than that so you know we were we were
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nervous you know I was nervous because
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of unfamiliarity with this and not want
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to wreck my car and everyone else was
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nervous to not wrecked my car
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pickens oh very much so its eggs except
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for every tip well she was new it was
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funny because Aaron went last it was it
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was Marco than me then
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tifton Aaron and I actually feel to my
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to my butt dyno as they say I actually
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feel like erin was the one that drove
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hardest in I don't know if that's
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because i was in the front for that lap
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and so I could see it a little better
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whereas i thought i don't know i was
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looking for you were to confer tips left
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i wasn't in the car for I was not in the
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car for tips lap so i can't speak for
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how hard she was driving but i think
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both Tiffany and had the benefit of
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having been through at least one or two
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laps before your hands athlete and I
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think you would have driven a lot harder
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i don't know if i had the the cojones to
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drive any harder than i did and i drove
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like a grandmother i'll be the first to
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admit it but I there a couple times
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where I reached for my my break in the
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passenger seat when Aaron was driving
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and I don't undergo good way i mean i
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thought i was very proud of her i was
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very excited for how well she did their
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minds are reaching for a stick shift
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occasionally more pressing your left
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foot down
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I did not actually i think when i
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started the car i put my foot on the
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clutch exactly was not much but other
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than that I didn't
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and again I mean at this point now I'm I
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have driven the m5 and i would still
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personally love to have a clutch it's
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slower it's clunkier but it's just more
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involved with that said and I'm a
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butcher the simpsons quote you know it I
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for one welcome our future dct overlords
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I mean I i never thought i'd say this
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but if if the m5 transmission is where
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our future is I'll be sad but I'll be
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okay with it is really unbelievably
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incredibly awesomely great i cannot say
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enough good things about it and by all
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accounts the stick on the m5 is not a
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good stick correct by any standards let
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alone BMW standards well yeah I'm not
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really much of a choice there yet
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I mean I saw the reviews have all pretty
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much pan the m5 stick but they they seem
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to pan it in in relation to the dct I
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mean it is it isn't that it's a bad
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stick is that he seems like a good it
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seems like it's a bad stick like that
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you know it
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I especially when you're reading
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magazines that are enthusiastic
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magazines let's say look we know its
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lower whatever we find more trouble
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they're like we don't find it more fun
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to drive like so there's no reason to
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get this DVD is better and all these
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other ways and this isn't even more fun
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it's it's dino to chor beyond the on the
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prior m5 whose model designation I don't
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recall but the v10 m5 everything i read
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was that the standard transmission which
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by the way for both that car in Marcos
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f10 is only available in America
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everyone said on the prior general that
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the standard transmission was very
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poorly suited for the v10 engine and I
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never really looked into why that was
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and so I I couldn't even tell you but
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they said it was a bad combination i
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guess the gearing was bad as paired with
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that engine and I don't know if thats
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related for for the f10 like Marco has
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but I tell you what that that
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transmission was incredible in and
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driving the Nurburgring was just
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unbelievably awesome and I'm so thankful
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that that we're all late that any of us
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were able to do what I would've been
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happy if Marco did it and said to us you
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know what new we gotta go but thankfully
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he was dumb enough to hand me the keys
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figuratively speaking and then dumb
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enough to I can't speak for tiff but to
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hand Aaron the keys as well and that's
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not insulting her driving just I mean
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it's one thing to have your wife destroy
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your brand-new car it's another thing to
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friend or your friend's wife to strike
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and destroy your brand new car so I it
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was it was phenomenal and it was funny
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because to in market was starting to say
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this earlier but it was kinda like hmm i
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don't know if i want to go right and you
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and she actually so I want first thing
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case you want to prolong from my lap got
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very intimidated and set out for casey's
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lap and what made her get back in and
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decided she wanted to do it is that she
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saw the kind of car that we're getting
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on the track and it wasn't just all
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crazy racer nuts
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it was like families and people with
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like car seats in their car and I think
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really regular people just getting on to
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have some fun you know and not to drive
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crazily and she could also see like how
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relatively few cars are getting on the
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track and so it was it was not crowded
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committed very very friendly towards
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newbies and and even know when somebody
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crazy wants to pass you
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there's etiquette you could use signal
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right and you slowly and you stay to the
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right and that tells them
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ok I'm let you pass me and they pass you
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and I said it's really easy and and so
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like it's not really a problem that
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there's different skill levels and
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different speeds going on and at least
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we were there there was really nobody
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being like unsafely crazy i mean i know
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that happens but we saw in a state that
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it was extremely newbie friendly once
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you could figure out where the heck the
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entranceways people in the other nice
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thing was well we had all decided about
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a hundred yards into marcos lap that hey
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you know what we'll do is anyone who is
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not driving will at least periodically
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look behind us and start to let the
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driver know there's somebody approaching
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us 15 seconds ten seconds five seconds
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alright get right and that helped me i
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can't speak for anyone else but it
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helped me a lot a lot because because
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this way you don't have to worry about
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what's behind you all you care about is
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what's in front of you and just like
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Marco said the etiquette is you if
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you're going to get past you stay to the
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even if that's the inside line you
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signal to the right as an indicator to
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the person behind you I understand
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you're here and you're going to pass me
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and then the other thing i noticed which
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I hadn't heard advanced was a lot of
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times they would signal to the left as
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kind of a confirmation as a gon
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that they've seen you seeing them which
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is silly as that sounds was actually
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also really really helpful to see and
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know that everyone is in agreement
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you're about to get your doors blown off
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but you know if you stick to the right
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side of the track everyone will be ok
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right and and people who are who are
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good / crazy enough to go around the
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track really fast they're accustomed to
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passing people all the time because they
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have to you know because that's because
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there's always going to be you know that
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no matter what speed you go you're going
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to pass you will accept us i don't think
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we have to pass anybody entire time I
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don't think any of us did go out again I
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wasn't with tiff but i don't think i'm
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pretty sure we didn't press my stomach
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and there were a lot of really really
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comparatively crummy cars that passed us
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BMW which I recognize that's that's a
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big barrier but if you're if you're
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buying financing or leasing a new BMW
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that is produced in Europe which rules
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out i believe the x3 and x5 but
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regardless I you know if if you can do
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this i highly recommend that you do and
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your own what you almost did the ferris
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bueller quote almost will give you
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partial credit
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haha if you have the means i highly
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suggest that I mean it's fun it's really
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a no cost wise the higher-end car you
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buy the more money you saved as the
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percentage in many cases it can cover
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most or all of the cost of the trip just
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the savings alone so
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you so if you have the time and if
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you're willing to go out here and do
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this it's almost a no-brainer and
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certainly you know because this this
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cars gonna be a lease if I don't buy it
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at the end of the lease and I if I if I
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decide to leave something else if i'm
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still buy a BMW 3 years I would almost
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certainly do this again and it's really
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quite good and I think aaron and i will
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invite ourselves along whether or not
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we're welcome and it was funny because
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the so that we did the Nurburgring on
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to do is get to Munich and then saturday
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we drop the car off and left and i think
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doing the Nurburgring at the tail into
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the trip and doing it the way we did we
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were very lucky because you know the
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trip was already really fun and I and I
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can only speak friend and I but we were
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having a really good time but I feel
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like all four of us once we once we got
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out of the driver's seat of that car
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just were on this unbelievable high and
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it was such a wonderful incredible
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experience even without the Nurburgring
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i agree that European deliveries worth
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it's cool it's a once-in-a-lifetime
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opportunity but having done the
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Nurburgring especially even driving it
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like a ninety-year-old it was so
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phenomenally awesome and I felt like all
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of us were on such a high I'm still
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there you know it's been almost a week
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now later it was the most one of the
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most incredible things I've ever done
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and then after the Nurburgring we would
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we stayed at this wonderful
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bed-and-breakfast not far from there and
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then we went to this really nice hotel
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in Munich that was right near the
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airport and just kind of children and
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had some time with each other and it was
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it was really phenomenal and then I'm so
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glad that mark . if you're dumb enough
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to invite me along i'm sure they
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probably have invited aaron anyway but
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infidel enough to invite me along
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you ready for your life but not you yeah
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I wouldn't fault you never next one
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anyway but no okay i mean it would
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surely it was an unbelievable experience
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i'm a little sad that John you weren't
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there but as well but you know it is
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what it is i don't believe in vacations
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are traveling that I was really hoping
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that we that we would see John and his
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civic on the Nurburgring i was i was
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going to post a picture take a picture
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of my speedo when I was traveling on the
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the road
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that runs along the river on my way to
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work where the speed limit is 30 and
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there's a police officer there every
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single day
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that's what I think a picture me having
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it pinned at 30 which I can do like now
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you know without even looking at the
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speedometer as i slowly go down which
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would actually fun it would actually be
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a fun road to drive quickly and it's
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kind of windy it's just a little tiny
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strip but yeah that that's what i was
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doing keeping it exactly 30
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well if it makes you feel better we got
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to JFK got a taxi after leaving JFK and
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promptly did five miles an hour on
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I don't remember what road we were on
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but it was it was sobering yeah it does
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who's welcome back to the US and screw
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you that I was it was bad a couple of
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quick notes that i just want to share
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because i know we it i'm very pleased to
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say it seems like we have a decent
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amount of European listeners and
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oftentimes when they're not correcting
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us about how wrong we are about Europe
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which is pretty much all the time
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surely they hold and deservedly so yeah
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they've often asked you what you were
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certainly since we were there what do
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you think what did you joy what did you
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what did you think about everything I
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know that I was very stressed about
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whether or not people speak english and
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i think i speak for everyone saying that
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I found in my personal opinion that
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everywhere we went
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almost everyone spoke at least
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conversational English in my experience
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of usually people that apologize
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profusely for how bad their English was
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were effectively fluent in English it
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was hysterical that was the bells of I'm
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so sorry it was so bad after they've
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talked you know an entire paragraph in
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perfect flawless English yep better than
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mark over me or wives but it was better
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than many Americans yep everything was
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extremely clean with the exception of
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the exhaust that we talked about earlier
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and that wasn't a good that was a smell
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issue not a not a visual issue
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everything was unbelievably clean the
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hofbrau house in Munich it's one of the
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beer gardens probably most famous beer
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garden in munich even as a non beer
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drinker that was unbelievably fun and
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cool and Indian whose need to meet
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people from all different countries and
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in walks of life there i mean i really
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had an unbelievable time and I would
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absolutely go back and I can't agree
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more with Marco that if you have
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the means i highly suggest trying it is
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unbelievably fund and you know it's for
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an American as you said it's it's an
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easy place to go because English is so
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widely spoken and you can get along with
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knowing almost no German at all and you
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know you can you can learn you'll pick
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up a few phrases or a few words like
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from road signs and stuff but you know
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you can you can get around without it
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and and I mean the foot we we didn't
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have I don't think we had a single bad
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meal we were there and definitely that
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an inmate in a wide variety of like
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hotels and restaurants and and different
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the food is just really incredibly good
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today i bought a bag of pretzels and and
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I know it's because I'm I'm trying so
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hard to recreate one aspect of the food
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that I like so much their actions the
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breakfast pretzel chat which you can't
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find these in the u.s. that you just
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can't find a pretzel that good but like
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you know no one in the US ever is like
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Oh what kind of food you want tonight
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italian mexican how about German I know
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I never no one ever thinks of that is
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like one of the one of the common
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restaurant ethnicity targets 222 want if
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you're going out for dinner but but man
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it's really good and I think it's a
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shame that we don't have more german
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food coming over here and being served
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here because it is just so good and that
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was a yes so food is great that people
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were great everyone's in there so friend
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extracting the gentleman at the coffee
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shop the the four of us were theorizing
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about things to do i think this was our
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first stator sunday and there was a
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gentleman that was sitting seated at the
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table next to us who was and i would say
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eavesdropping by any stretch it's just
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we were within three feet of him so he
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couldn't have not listened and so we
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were talking about what you what should
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we do tomorrow when he took it upon
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possible to have like a 20-minute
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conversation with us about what we
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should do and oh this is going to be
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closed but this isn't and man I bet
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you'd really like this in my god it was
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so fantastic and everyone we met was
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like that they were all so nice and so
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helpful it was really great
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like it wasn't it none of these were
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isolated incidents like everybody was
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this good
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all the all the roads were this good all
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the drivers with this good all the food
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was this good
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all the hotels like I mean it was just a
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fantastic trip and again we can't
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recommend highly enough so Johnny coming
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next time maybe if you teleport me all
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the plane wasn't that bad i don't think
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i would mind being in Germany all the
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plane was a glowing recommendation he
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has don't think i would mind being there
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at the traveling there and the traveling
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back it was a what it was a direct
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flight it's no different than ella era
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this story about la it's no different
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than san francis and the way they're
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using long are you supposed to sleep the
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whole time I'm telling you John you can
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do it it's worth it
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what will argue will argue about it over
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the next three years until the lease is
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I guess we should probably wrap it up is
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that it think that's it I mean I don't
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you have any closing remarks
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John I don't think so unless you want to
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explain why were why this is the last
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episode for now
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well you know we we had started this out
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as we call it a podcast miniseries and
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you know we John had both recently done
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our respective shows a five-by-five and
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they had each gone for a while his 14
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exactly a hundred episodes moment for
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like a hundred and eight so we just got
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his long-running shows and one of the
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reasons why I stopped my show at five by
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getting too repetitive and I was running
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out of like original topics to talk
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about an original things to say and and
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I just needed a break from it and I
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didn't want to start up a car show that
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was going to go on for two years and be
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about just all the news of the day you
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know like I I didn't want to get myself
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for you guys into that and because it's
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just so it's just a very big commitment
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and we didn't want to be that kind of
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show we're just talking about news
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because none of us as has the the
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feedback emails and itunes reviews have
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often suggested none of us are experts
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enough to really have a car news show of
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much interest of people so we wanted to
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just like a general fun thing and we
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wanted to go into it from the beginning
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as like a a short like a limited-run
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concept of we aren't starting up to go
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indefinitely we start we're starting up
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to go X episodes and then you know we'll
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see what happens then we'll probably end
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it and so the original number we gave
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was eight and then roughly it like
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episode six or seven we decided you know
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what we still have a lot more to say
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let's bump it forward a little bit more
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but we could see like the end was in
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sight and so this is now episode 12 we
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decided back in episode 10 we decided
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roughly to end it here and I think this
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is good because I think we covered all
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of the major general purpose topics we
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wanted to cover is that is that fair to
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say i think so I mean I think it's funny
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because I was sort of kind of the
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self-appointed topic maven guru dictator
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guy and obviously we all contributed
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topics here and there but I've kept a
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list and i still have a list of topics
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to talk about but it's things that
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nobody wants to listen to like hey let's
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discuss what our favorite top gear
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episodes are in an equally boring things
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like that and materials dream I had
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yeah exactly and last two or three
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episodes I've why we've all gotten on
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skype together and i have not had any
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particular agenda or arc or anything to
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talk about and we've been walking off
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that between the three of us
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somebody's been able to come up with
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something worth talking about but just
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like you said market we don't know we
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want to beat the horse that may already
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have been dead before we even started
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the podcast exact we don't want we don't
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beat it any further in that I can only
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speak for myself but I've had a really
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wonderful time in the listeners by and
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large although they're there are many
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that point out how ignorant we are
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that's frankly pretty well we love them
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we love them too but all of the
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listeners I
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I know we really appreciated when and by
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and large we've gotten a lot of
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unbelievably positive and welcome
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feedback and and I think every single
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one of you for dealing dealing with me
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and everyone else for however many hours
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the shows run
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yeah I think maybe we weren't clear
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enough that it was going to be limited
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run because now that people are knowing
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this is ending we're getting the people
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coming out of the woodworks I know you
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don't stop the show is my favorite
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podcast over it you know like we said it
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but like i said in all the introductory
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blog post i always said a miniseries but
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they didn't know was never in the audio
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of the show that's where it had to be
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right people to I mean maybe it did we
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ever mentioned you want to I don't even
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know I don't think so
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it was so prominent all of our minds and
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I was on the website and everything that
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it just seems we just assumed everybody
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knew but clearly not so if you're
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finding out now surprise sorry
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yeah and that's it
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let's get a real career something that
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probably if you want to use naturally
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that we should God for such amateurs i
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love it that's the test it but I didn't
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see the review recently there was like
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it does no intro and no outro like this
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the car door
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why does no one hear the car there's a
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card or deafness bringing down podcast
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it's a car i thought that was so clever
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when I heard the Carpenters episode no
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one gets area they're completely
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inaudible to everyone else
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