More Than Mom: Car Talk (Then, Now, Someday)

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Are we “car people”? Turns out, yes and no. After 25+ years of driving, Meagan and Sarah have many stories and a few opinions on what we want in our four-wheeled rides. From first cars to true lemons, minivans to post-divorce pre-mid-life-crisis splurges, this More Than Mom episode is an ode to our vehicles. We also chat about the process of procuring a new car, how much haggling at the dealer is a sport we do NOT enjoy, and what we hope for in our future cars. Join us!

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We last talked about our cars way back in Episode 97 from 2017 (reminder: old episodes may no longer show up in your podcast apps because they limit archives to 300 episodes, but you can always listen from our website!)
Meagan learned so much from this episode of This American Life, all about car dealership sales
Meagan is very happy with this after-market Bluetooth adapter for her pre-Bluetooth car

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hi everyone and welcome to the mom hour. I am Megan
0:26.2	Francis here with Sarah Powers. Hey, Sarah. Hey, Megan, how are you? Good. Have
0:31.6	you driven anywhere today? Yes, I drove Carpool this morning for school. Okay, so
0:38.3	I have not actually been in my car yet today, but I have a feeling that as
0:41.8	like I know as soon as we're done here, I'm gonna have to go get in my car and I
0:46.0	just have a feeling that what we're talking about is gonna be top of mind and I'm
0:49.0	gonna notice all kinds of things I hate about my car because today we are
0:51.8	talking about cars. And I think this is so funny because for most moms, the
0:57.3	car is just a big part of our lives. Like I know there's definitely probably
1:00.3	listeners who are are able to walk a lot because they live in a more dense urban
1:05.6	area or maybe they're really into using their bicycles or whatever. I think
1:08.7	that's all awesome. But for most of us, we spend a lot of time schlepping our
1:12.1	kids around and ourselves around and school pickup and all that stuff, right? So
1:17.0	our car is really important, but we have not done an episode of specifically
1:21.3	about our cars since 2017. And that was really more about family vehicles
1:26.2	and since it's Sunday, and this is a more than mom topic, we're really just
1:29.5	gonna kind of talk about, I don't know, our personal relationship with vehicles
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