Introducing: Car Show! with Eddie Alterman

Coming soon from Pushkin Industries: a show about why we drive what we drive. Hosted by Eddie Alterman, longtime editor of Car and Driver. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. Hi. I'm Eddie Alterman. I'm an automotive journalist from
Detroit and the former editor in chief of Car and
Driver in New York. It's what you wear, right, It's
your clothing, it's your fashion. In the middle of the country,
it's your car. But let's be honest, I'm really just

(00:37):
a car freak. I love cars, even the bad ones.
Listen to that. Okay, that's ninety, let's not do that. Sorry.
Car sit of the intersection of everything design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, energy, infrastructure.

(00:57):
But when you get right down to it, the most
fascinating thing about cars is what they say about us,
what they say about our culture. Cars are rolling anthropology.
I guess there's a kind of some for every kind
of car. People love talking about their jeeps. I think
the minivan in some ways also projected that you know,
I am committed. You know I'm a committed parent. It's

(01:21):
like I always picture like a Miami Vice type person
in one of these cars. Each week on my new podcast,
Car Show, I'll tell the stories of some pretty epic cars,
the ones that have changed how we drive and live,
whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower or miles
per gallasses, just blues with the back of my head,

(01:42):
no doubt. That's so good that this card there is
a little hint of danger. I feel like you're living
on your own. You know, they send you off and
they say, you know, be well, my son. I struggle
with my personality while I'm driving it, you know, like
you know, you get out at the gas pump like

(02:03):
like you have like identity problems. I feel like at
least I do. I'm like, I like, like am I yeah, yeah,
thank you. Yeah. Listen to kar Show coming May eighteenth
from Pushkin Industries. I mean, it is unmistakable. Nothing else
sounds like this. You don't want to have the radio on.

(02:27):
You need to be able to listen to that into