S31E2: John DeLorean and Cristina Ferrare
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
America's business culture in the mid-century was decidedly drab: men in dark suits with close-cropped hair ruled the day, and in many ways were perfectly primed for disruption. So it was that the youngest division head ever to grace the C-suite at General Motors built a maverick reputation and, upon leaving (or being pushed! Accounts differ) set about to start a car company from scratch. John DeLorean's dream sports car did briefly become a reality, but the ephemera and shady dealings that put a few thousand of them on the road would lead to an epic downfall, and cost him his family as well.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.6 | My name is Alicia and Stacey, who's Zoomin you this week? |
| 0:11.9 | Hello, all Stacey here. This week I am finally, finally digging into a story that I've started a bunch of times over the years of this show. |
| 0:21.5 | The conflicted tale of car guy and probably fraudster John DeLorean. |
| 0:26.6 | If he'd made it work, I guess his attempt to start a car company from scratch and sell |
| 0:30.9 | a weird vehicle would be viewed as an active genius, but it didn't, and so it isn't. |
| 0:36.7 | But he did have three divorces. |
| 0:38.7 | Haza, beautiful for us. |
| 0:41.5 | This is going to be a good story. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm loving everything I'm hearing so far. |
| 0:45.8 | Before we get started today, |
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| 1:10.6 | Tots fair. |
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