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I'm Tom. I'm Paul. And this is the everyday driver car debate.

This is podcast six seven three, which means we are two away next Thursday's podcast one week from today.

We're doing a live podcast. It's for six seventy five. It'll be an all car questions podcast live streaming on on YouTube next Thursday.

And that will be on the test drive videos channel. But this is an actual like normal podcast where you're hanging on audio only and we're doing.

Yes, that's February 10th, 2022, but on February 5th Saturday, part two of our West Coast road trip air. So that is tomorrow if you're listening on the Motor Trend cable channel.

And the entire season 10 is now available on Amazon Prime. Who knew go there and see the entire season. Vimeo for all of our patrons.

But also the season is going to be coming to YouTube sooner than you think. So if you don't have any access of all of that, but you do have the internet.

That's it. Is that the whole worldwide web? Maybe when we were all typing that. When did that stop? But are we very, very glad? Yeah, no, we're all wearing on our W keys. Thank God that's done. No kidding. So that is the cars in the past. And this is the first road trip.

We got three more in 2022 to drive with these cars. And they're currently running. So good news. There's are there any oil leaks on yours so far at the moment. I have no leaks. Thank you, sir. Okay. My leaks are cured for the moment.

Things are not leaking. Things are running. I have to put too big of a stake in the ground, but at least I have a phantom battery drain problem that reads its head like every like 12th start. It's like all of a sudden the battery's dead. And then for the next 12, it runs great.

Which is fine. It's your clock. It's probably is that club. I have to on the next road trip. I have to tell the story of the 300 ZX clock because it is much maligned because it is terrible to the point that they're aftermarket fixes for the clock in the dash of 300.

It's terrible. Well, not the one in the aftermarket stereo, but the one that actually came with the comes with the car horrific and it's a no problem. I'll have to tell the whole story on the next. Well, that's interesting because we're going to Texas at the end of February. If you haven't heard this yet, go to our adventures tab every day driver dot com. Go to the adventures tab. It's already been updated for the first half of the year. Now now all the details are there. But we've got stakes in the ground because we're going to Texas at the end of February. We're going to be there for redwood in Austin at Coda of all places. Oh, yeah. Circuit of the Americas. I've always wanted to go. Redwood is happening there.

So we are making our next trip, which is our south trip of our four points of the compass trip. We're going south to Texas. We're going to do some cool shooting around there, but we're also going to redwood. If you want to go right now to our website under the adventures tab, you can actually be a part of the meetup dinner that we're having the night before redwood at an artist's facility that is a follower of the show. Thank you, Andrew. Color cartel is going to be hosting us. And then he's going to be painting a car at redwood. It's like a whole insider deal going on. We'd love to have you with us. Well, shoot, I got to dive into my members only jacket collection to select.

Which one? I think you're going to be more like grunge on the grunge. I don't know what I'm going to wear. I'm going to figure out right 91. But I'm definitely in the day glow or, you know, something members only. You're right. I need to go full grunge. Yeah. Yeah, because I was early 90s. You're a funnel. You're right. Lots of flannel. Do you have music? No, of course not. I have nothing from the 80s or 90s that I could wear with the politics exception of my weird hair. That's really the only thing that is even close to period. So we'll see. Yeah, want some day glow something. Anyway, we got to go shopping.

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Carparts.com slash everyday driver for 10% off of $100 or more on select brands. Get the right parts right now at carparts.com. Flavio from Boston sent us one of the longest emails I think we've ever seen. Yes, it almost came with chapters. I was scrolling and I was reading and I thought I'm almost done and then I started a whole new section. I thought I was like reaching the end of the email. No, no, no, now we're starting again. Yeah. Flavio, we're teasing you, but thank you for writing. We really

appreciate listening and I'm glad you've been able to start discovering and through this gigantic long email. Start to weed out what you like and what you don't like. Yeah, for sure. But let's start off with the summary. Yep. Up top. Flavio asks, how can you have the most fun out of mundane daily drives, such as going for groceries and driving the kids around while seeking spicier compliments like getting into the world of autocross, taking racing lessons and paying an eventual visit to the Porsche Experian Center. I like it. That's great.

Great thoughts. Great thoughts. Flavio is Brazilian born. He's 46 years old. He grew up in Brazil, lived about four years in Switzerland in his late 20s and early 30s and has now settled in a suburb of Boston for the last five years. He's married. He says his woman, his minister of finance has many wonderful qualities, but one major flaw. She's not at all a car enthusiast. She is car tolerant. That is okay. Yeah, that is for sure. Absolutely. He's a father of two teens, the youngest is a freshman at high school and he believes he was born with a disease which hit him early. He was watching

Formula One with his dad and following Nelson P.K. in his first world championship. Wow. Cool. Of course, he followed F1 and Indy Carr for years, waking up three game for the Australian Grand Prix. His dream car is a three or four year old was a remote controlled car. And he says a lot of his car video consumption is around cars, but frequent visits to marketplaces having absolutely no intention to trade cars or by cars. Well, that makes it official. We all do that. We just I was looking to this morning.

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