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Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Larry Massett and Joe Frank talk about the supremacy of their cars. It's like debate club except without facts.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Rumble Strip, Vermont. Today a show from Larry Masst about cars and honor.

0:16.0

Larry owns two Portia's and he talks about them a lot.

0:19.0

In fact, it's almost all he ever talks about.

0:22.0

His friend, Joe Frank, who... It's almost all he ever talks about.

0:22.9

His friend, Joe Frank, who, in addition to being one of the greatest radio producers of all time,

0:29.2

is a BMW man.

0:31.7

Which is the Superior car, the Porsche, the BMW? Well, Joe and Larry have agreed to

0:38.0

race and this race will decide things. But in the meantime, they're just going to go on and on and on about

0:47.0

their cars. Welcome. Are you still driving that shitty old BMW? Isn't that what you got? Well I find it remarkable that you

1:04.9

would use a term like that to describe the finest automobile in the world the

1:11.3

BMW. Back when you were first going to buy that car, which I have seen one time, it's a huge

1:18.0

hulking, I think it's dark blue four-door sedan and you were saying, I really want to buy this car but I don't want people

1:26.4

to think I'm the kind of person who would drive one? I never said that. I never

1:32.4

said that. said that you're

1:33.7

said it over and over you're misrepresenting going through agonies of indecision and I

1:39.0

didn't at the time know what kind of people would actually drive one of those things but now I

1:44.6

I understand you are the kind of person who would drive one of those things.

1:48.0

Well you know I don't understand why you disparage the BMW it It is such a superior car to the Porsche Correira. The

1:56.1

Porsche Correira is a vehicle that it is a midlife crisis cliche. What's the fastest that you've ever driven that

2:05.5

hulking sedan? A hundred and forty miles an hour and that was on a bumpy

2:11.2

farm yard road.

2:14.3

It was, I was driving past cattle and sheep.

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