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Accidental Tech Podcast

246: I Just Want My Stories

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 142 minutes

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0:00.0

Oh god, I can't imagine I have to put a key in a steering column. Oh, gross.

0:04.4

Like an animal. It's fun. Twisting the key is fun. Yeah.

0:08.5

Oh, John, how do you live, man?

0:10.6

Get in, foot down on the clutch foot on the brake. Twist the key. That motion is still, you know, it's a thing.

0:16.3

You know, it's even better than that. Get in, push the gas.

0:19.3

Yeah, I'm sure, Jeff loves it when you just get out of her car and leave it rolling down the driveway.

0:23.7

I'm with the engine running. Running and unlocked.

0:27.6

Yeah, running and unlocked. All the windows open air conditioning on radio blaring.

0:34.4

Where the sick thing is, you're probably serious. I've had this as often at least once.

0:37.7

I have not left it like in gear rolling, but I have left his car running and unlocked.

0:44.1

Good God. Oh, man, you're so spoiled.

0:50.0

All right, so let's start the show and we'll start with some neutral follow-up.

0:56.2

Apparently people pay attention to racing cars and people pay attention to Formula One. I'm not

1:01.8

really clear why. And apparently, please, please, right, Marco. Apparently, pretty much every

1:09.6

racing car has its paddles on the wheel. I was lamenting last week that the Alfa Romeo had its

1:15.7

paddles on the column, which I've heard other like car reviewers and people like that say,

1:21.7

oh, it always has to be on the column. But I don't really understand why because I didn't like it

1:26.0

that way. And I had at the same time a BMW loner and F30 loner. And that had the paddles on the

1:33.2

wheel. And I much preferred that. So anyway, so a lot of people wrote in to say pretty much every

1:39.2

racing car has the paddles on the wheel. You were right. That's where it should be. And somebody,

1:44.4

and I don't remember who this was. I apologize, but somebody said to me, and this is just a theory,

1:49.2

but I mean, it makes sense to me. Maybe it's less of a big deal for race car drivers because

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