March 2, 2025

New and Grooves March 5

New and Grooves March 5
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A mix of humor and insight drives this episode as we explore the often absurd experiences on the road. Join us for a lively conversation filled with personal anecdotes that resonate with anyone who has ever driven.

• Introduction to the themes of driving and humor 
• Funny stories about merging and unexpected situations 
• The irony of parking tickets and societal perceptions of drivers 
• Exploring parallel parking tips with comedic flair 
• Reflecting on the evolution of the automobile industry 
• Discussing the concept of 'brain rot' and its implications 

Call to action: Don't forget to subscribe and share this episode with your fellow drivers!


Chapters

00:00 - Introduction to Driving Oddities

27:22 - Funny Driving Stories and Observations

59:16 - The Art of Parallel Parking

01:30:03 - Notes from the Road: Compliments and Complaints

03:30:19 - The Evolution of the Automobile Industry

11:41:03 - Brain Rot: The New Social Standard

Transcript

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You're listening to the News and Grooves podcast.

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I'm Jim Murray.

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Thanks for coming in.

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Let's start.

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I thought we would start out today with some oddities of driving.

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Never get into a lane, merging game of chicken with a person who has a garbage bag for a car door window.

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If anyone catches me singing in my car, my reaction is to stare at them until it's awkward for both of us.

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How is it that a parking spot gets paid more per hour than I do?

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The worst thing about parallel parking is witnesses.

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Somebody actually complimented my driving today.

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They left a little note on the windshield that said parking fine, dodge round.

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The irony of being hit by a dodge.

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When I see someone driving the same car I'm driving, I always peer in to make sure it's not me from another dimension.

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Know when to quit.

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How to parallel park Step 1.

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Park somewhere else UN happy medium.

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Un happy medium.

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Ever notice that when you're driving, anyone going slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster than you is a maniac, and that my friends are my driving tips for the day.

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Happy motoring exclusive original music regularly featured on the News and Grooves podcast.

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Long nights ahead, broken strings and worn out threads.

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Crowd screaming, feel the burn.

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Another city, another turn.

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Hotel rooms, cold and bare, fading laughter everywhere, whiskey bottles, empty souls chasing dreams, digging holes.

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Living loud, fading fast, never know how long it'll last.

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Burning roads, heart on fire, rock and roll born for desire.

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Sleepless nights, haunted dreams, spotlight shines, but no one sees Broken hearts left behind Tours of grind.

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Peace to find Highs and lows, pain and fame, it's a hard-won, wicked game.

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Lonely nights, endless days Burning bright in the haze, concrete floors, aching bones, city lights, streets unknown, out on stage pouring soul.

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Living life fading fast, never know how long it lasts.

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Burning rose, heart on fire, rock and roll born for desire.

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Living loud, fading fast, never know how long it lasts.

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Burning rose, heart on fire, rock and roll born for desire, born for desire, born for desire.

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Elwood Haynes came to the Apperson brothers and employed them to build or assemble a horseless carriage that he had designed.

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The brothers were paid 40 cents an hour to work on the vehicle.

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The Haynes Horseless Carriage made its successful trial run on July 4, 1894, southeast of Kokomo, indiana, on the Pumpkin Vine Pike.

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After a few years of experimenting and building automobiles, mr Haynes and the AP Person brothers decided that they could build automobiles in quantity.

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Haynes and the AP Person brothers decided that they could build automobiles in quantity.

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On May 24, 1898, the Haynes-Apperson Company was incorporated.

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The capital stock of this corporation was $25,000 and the object of the corporation was to manufacture motor carriages, gasoline motors and gearing of motor vehicles.

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Elwood Haynes, elmer Apperson, gw Charles, jw Polly and WH Reed were the directors of the corporation.

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One of their first printed catalogs came out in 1898, and it showed pictures of their cars built in 1896 and told of their proven dependability and value.

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The terms for purchase of a Haynes-Apperson automobile were one-half cash with the order and the balance on delivery.

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In October of 1901 Elmer Apperson withdrew from the Haynes-Apperson company.

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He and his brother Edgar then formed their own company, the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company.

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Elmer Apperson was president and general manager and Edgar Apperson was secretary-treasurer and experimental engineer.

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In the spring of 1902 the company built their first Apperson automobile, priced at $3,500.

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They built one of the first side-door touring cars shown in this country in 1904.

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The name Jack Rabbit was selected in 1906 because of Elmer A Peeperson's love for speed and the open spaces.

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A G Cyberlund was hired in 1907 to have full charge except for sales and engineering.

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The main object for his employment was to increase production.

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At that time the Apperson Brothers Automobile Company's pro-perti inventory at around $150,000, which include finished cars at selling price.

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We sip our drinks and start to swim In conversations, soft, like velvet flow, with laughter that's gentle, like a breeze that blows.

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Your eyes are twinkling Like stars, so bright.

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We dance to the rhythm Deep into the night, our hearts synchronizing In perfect time In this jazz-filled haven, oh so sublime.

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Whispering, sweet nothings, cheek to cheek, in a serenade of silence.

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Words don't speak, our souls intertwining to the beat of the tune, beneath the silver light of a crescent, of a crescent moon, in this smoky room where time stands still, we share a tender moment, our hearts to fill With melodies, soft and notes.

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So sweet.

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Our romance kindles in the syncopated heat.

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The trumpets, the sax, the piano's tender keys Guide our steps through love's gentle breeze.

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Every chord they strike A love letter pen.

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In this jazz-kissed moment when we transcend Whispering, sweet nothings, cheek to cheek In a serenade of silence.

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Words don't speak.

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Our souls intertwine.

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The words don't speak.

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Our souls intertwine to the beat of the tune.

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The silver light of a crescent.

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Here's Rick Rocket with our music story of the day.

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This legendary American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist is renowned for his emotive vocal style and expressive guitar playing that earned him the nickname the King of the Blues.

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Throughout his six-decade-long career he released numerous iconic albums that showcase his ability to convey raw emotion through soulful melodies and poignant lyrics.

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Plasting influence on countless musicians across genres solidifies his place as one of the most important diggers in modern music history.

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Many of us have felt it, and now it's official Brain rot is the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year.

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Oxford defines brain rot as the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material now particularly online content considered to be trivial or unchallenging.

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The word of the year is intended to be a word or expression that reflects a defining theme from the past 12 months.

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Brain rot was chosen by a combination of public vote and language analysis by Oxford lexicographers.

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It beat five other finalists demure, slop, dynamic pricing, romanticism and law.

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While it may seem a modern phenomenon, the first recorded use of brain rot was by Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 Ode to the Natural World Walden.

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Oxford Language's President Caspar Grathwaugh said that in its modern sense, brain rot speaks to one of the perceived dangers of virtual life and how we are using our free time.

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It feels like a rightful next chapter in the cultural conversation about humanity and technology.

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It's not surprising that so many voters embraced the term, endorsing it as our choice this year.

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Shadows whisper tales of old Memories in the grip of cold, back then, in a jungle's fight, brothers fell into the night, into the night.

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Time has marked this weary face.

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Endless battles can't erase night so dark, but hope so strong's call.

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It won't be long.

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In the skies where eagles soar, we'll be whole forevermore.

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Hands will hold where hearts belong, up above it won't be long.

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Letters from a distant time, echoes of a young man's pride, dreams of farms and distant stars, fading scars and battle cards, whispers of the brother's song Guiding me where I belong.

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Close my eyes and hear their call.

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It won't be long till I stand tall In the skies where eagles soar.

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We'll be home forevermore.

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Hands will hold where hearts belong, up above it won't be long.

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Ooh Ooh, the ultimate list of the greatest 100 films of all time In no particular order.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood Starring Errol Flynn, olivia de Havilland, basil Rathbone, claude Rains, melville Cooper, ian Hunter, director Michael Curtiz, william Keithley.

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This 1938 swashbuckling costume epic features Errol Flynn in what is considered one of his most remarkable performances as the iconic Prince of Thieves.

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This classic adventure film presents a grand spectacle depicting the legendary outlaw and his noble band of followers from Sherwood Forest who dedicated themselves to taking from the wealthy to aid the less fortunate.

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He gave to the poor.

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The charming Robin Hood Flynn fights for justice against the evil, sir Guy of Gisborne Rathbone, the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham Cooper and the scheming Prince John Reigns, while striving to win the hand of the beautiful maid Marion de Havilland and to save the English throne for King Richard Hunter.

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This good-natured, extravagant adventure epic still packs romance, comedy, great sword play, action, music, colorful characters and storybook fantasy.

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One of the earliest films to be shot in three-color technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Brothers had produced.

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William Keithley started directing the film, but Curt Eyes finished the filming.

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Academy Award nominations 4, including Best Picture.

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Academy Awards 3, including Best Interior Decoration, best Original Score, best Film.

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Editing.

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San Mateo, california Police arrested a Kentucky man early on the morning of January 12th for a suspected hit-and-run incident.

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Frank Falcone, 62, told officers that he was driving northbound on Pacific Boulevard when a southbound car came toward him with its high beams on.

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The lights disturbed Falcone because of the brightness and potential radiation.

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He said so he rammed the other car.

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When it stopped he allegedly rammed it two more times.

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Falcone fled the scene and told officers he evaded them because people impersonate cops.

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He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

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When the world feels cold and bitter, dear, and the night is long and full of fear, lift your eyes and you will see.

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God is the answer.

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Always near, god is the answer.

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Hear the sound in the silence all around.

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When you're lost and feeling down, he lifts you up to higher ground.

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Through the storm and through the pain, through the joy and through the rain.

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Hold His hand and you will find Peace and love.

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Always remain.

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God is the answer.

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Hear the sound In the silence all around.

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When you're lost and feeling down, he lifts you up to higher ground.

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So sing it loud and sing it clear In every heart.

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He's always here.

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Feel the light within your soul.

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Together we are whole, whole.

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God is the answer.

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Hear the sound In the silence all around.

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When you're lost and feeling down, he lifts you up to higher ground.

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Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.

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Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh.