Emelia Hartford on Custom Cars, Losing her Father, and Big Dreams
Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen
Headgum
4.7 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Content Warning: Suicide
Emelia Hartford [Gran Turismo] talks with Rachel and Olivia about losing her father to suicide at 15, and working through that trauma by building custom cars. They also discuss kids and mental health, silver linings, and the time Rachel flew a plane?!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Hey, I just wanted to give a trigger warning because on today's episode, we touch on the subject of suicide and other sensitive topics. |
| 0:16.0 | So we wanted to give our listeners and viewers a little warning in advance that some of the stuff |
| 0:23.8 | is sensitive to listen to. Thanks. Welcome to broad ideas. Thanks. You were so welcome. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Amelia Hartford is here with us today. She's an actor, a race car driver, a custom car builder, too. I'm sorry, I think that's so badass. Like when she got here, Olivia... You had her look at your car, you had her do some tune-ups, you had her fix some piping. No, she did help. I had a fly in my kitchen bathroom and she did help me |
| 0:54.9 | with the outside water system. I'm not going to lie. But Olivia came in here when she got here and was like, |
| 1:00.6 | dude, she just backed her car in to the spot. And I was like, uh-huh. But like she's like, no. But like |
| 1:09.2 | the way she did it, Olivia does not back in cars for what it's worth. I don't. But I can imagine the way she did it was impressive. I would be impressed by it too. But just the fact that Olivia was like, she fucking backed her car in. She fucking backed her car in. It was impressive because she pulls up and then you can hear the car coming and you're just like, |
| 1:28.8 | okay. And then she like zooms in and is just like, wham, you know, like backs it up in a way that |
| 1:34.7 | you're like, that was super swaggy. Yeah. No, I totally. I've never done anything like that in my life. |
| 1:39.9 | I've never backed a car up. I think you've ever backed a car up or in. |
| 2:17.7 | Shouldn't even be driving? Let me ask you. Are you a backer in her or a head in her? I'm backed in right now. I like to back in sometimes. Yeah, it's easier to get out of your driveway. There's certain driveways that I back in. You're a masculine driver. I know we're not supposed to use sexes because that's sexist, but you're a masculine driver. You drive like a dude. Is that a compliment? Or is that scary? I'm attracted to that. So, when you drive, let me tell you. Should we welcome her? Yeah, but she's waiting outside. She's bringing her in. She's back in the car. All right. |
| 2:18.8 | Welcome Amelia. |
| 2:24.6 | Sometimes when the world feels insane, |
| 2:31.3 | you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little brain. |
| 2:37.0 | All these thoughts are swirling, round and round inside. To join us on this journey as we take a little ride. |
| 2:43.0 | We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. |
| 2:46.0 | We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. |
| 2:49.0 | We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. We'll talk about boys that'll make you cry. |
| 2:53.1 | We'll talk about death because people die. |
| 2:57.7 | So I, you know, I walked into you guys already talking. |
| 3:01.9 | And I'd like you to continue because I feel like it's a conversation. |
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