Hello and welcome to episode 110 of the Thinking Elsap podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox.

With me in Washington, D Ben Olson and Ben. What's the latest?

I got a manual transmission car. Wow. What a cool dude you are. Yeah, I started driving on a stick shift

when I was a kid. Oh, you did really? Yeah, cool. And I drove a stick shift for about 15 years and then I don't know what happened, stopped, and I just was itching to get back to a manual transmission and it's pretty fun.

So I have a manual transmission on my motorcycle since most motorcycles have a manual

transmission but yeah I haven't had a stick shift in a car for forever.

What type of car did you get?

It's a BMW 3 series.

It's 2009, so it's used.

I do not want to get a new car I was just you're too sensible for that

Yeah, well plus I have kids so like you know they throw rocks at cars sometimes and then you ask them why and they don't know

they don't know why they're just like they shrug their shoulders hey you know what

you should be looking for the positive at least they're throwing rocks at your car in the driveway

instead of throwing rocks at your car in the driveway instead of throwing rocks at cars

passing by or from the overpass like onto the freeway. Yeah. Yeah, they I know this is pretty fun to drive.

It's like, because it's a manual transmission and,

you know, it's an older car, but it's still pretty powerful.

And so it accelerates fast and it's small so it's it's been it's

been cool I'm actually thinking about getting some personalized plates you

know in Virginia it's kind of a big thing. I heard somewhere that Virginia has the most

personalized plates per capita than any other state. I don't know if that's actually true.

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