ICYMI: Buying A Car on YouTube

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Candice Lim is joined by NPR producer J.C. Howard to walk through his personal experience of buying a car. The heyday of Toyotathon and Happy Honda Days are being replaced by car reviewers who have become influencers (and dealers) for major brands. From CarTok to CarTube, vloggers like EverydayChris and Gjeebs are not only upending the dealership model, but also creating parasocial relationships between cars and their consumers. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were liars.
0:07.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:09.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Will Liars. New series, Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:50.5	And today, it is just me.
0:52.8	Because Rachel, she's off buying me some candles.
0:56.9	Yes, that's right.
0:57.8	I have converted Rachel to a bath and body head.
1:00.7	So pray for her guys, because these sales, oh, these sales, they make the girls go crazy.
1:07.1	I am the girls.
1:13.3	But if you're not, listeners, because today I want to talk about cars.
1:18.3	Yes, the movie, but also the vehicle, because I think the auto industry has had a really interesting year.
1:25.8	One strike that we haven't really talked about on the show is the
1:28.8	United Auto Workers Strike, which started on September 15th and lasted about six weeks.
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