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Accidental Tech Podcast

363: The Floor is Lava

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You've had the car for several years now, right? Yes, the 2014 car were 30,000 miles

0:05.0

My kids complain that it still smells like a new car. They complain that's the best smell in the world

0:09.8

That's what I say. They're like, I don't like it. What does it smell? I mean does it actually smell like a new car to smell like shampoo

0:15.1

Like that sense it like a new car smell. It's not the inside has never been shampooed

0:20.0

It's just mild new car smell

0:22.7

Because I don't let the kids destroy it so it doesn't smell like they're spilled chocolate milk and other things

0:28.3

They wedged into the seat and other gross stuff like it's a car mostly used by an adult who doesn't make a mess

0:34.5

You I'm surprised

0:36.5

I will say I so we successfully made it through I think the majority of the

0:42.9

Snacking in the car age that that our child went through

0:47.8

Without ever allowing him to snack in the car and so none of our cars ever smelled like Cheerios or you know

0:54.0

Things that like little kid slash baby cars usually smell like because we just we just said no

0:58.5

We're not allowed to eat in the car and like will you when we get there or whatever had every and we stuck to that like on even on long trips

1:04.2

And it was surprisingly easy. It was just like no you can't eat

1:08.5

Okay, and then we you know we when we got there and as a result my car never smelled like

1:14.6

Cheerios. Yeah, Aaron's car. It is relatively straightforward to clean out all the detritus that is everywhere

1:20.5

But it is chock full of detritus and you know periodically I will clean out the inside and get it all out of there but

1:26.9

It's it's real bad and she's better about it than me because you know

1:30.2

She's fully aware that that is the family car and that that's what happens to the family car and so on and so forth

1:35.6

But I look at it and I'm just like oh

1:37.8

God what has happened in here? Well, let me assure you it is optional

1:41.4

You can you can say this is not gonna be a snack car and it doesn't have to be a snack car

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