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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and with Kate Richie podcast, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about one of the most famous episodes on Oprah's

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Speaker 1: TV show. We will all remember this moment. All right,

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Speaker 1: open your boxes. I'll be like a white, so great

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Speaker 1: famous body gets a car. Not many people know, but

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Speaker 1: it was just a toy Yoda. That yeah, the new car,

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Speaker 1: wasn't it. Well that was that radio competition. Remember, given

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Speaker 1: a white, We're giving away a toy Yoda. Someone thought

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Speaker 1: they'd run a car, but it was just a toy yoda.

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Speaker 1: Awesome gear and they were sued. Well done on that day.

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Speaker 1: If you get a car, you get a car. You

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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy six audience members. Could you imagine

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Speaker 1: being in the room in that moment where you got

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Speaker 1: a car. The Pontiac, one of the great cars, obviously

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Speaker 1: came on as a sponsor for the show. They've spoken

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Speaker 1: to some of the competition winners afterwards. They have it

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Speaker 1: bit of sour juice in the mouth here just because

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Speaker 1: there was a new podcast which is called Making Oprah,

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Speaker 1: which is getting around at the moment and it's about

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Speaker 1: what this episode and the idea was introduced to the

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Speaker 1: show and Oprah over a couple of drinks by her

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Speaker 1: best friend Gail King, who said, imagine, hey, Oprah, imagine

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Speaker 1: if you'll give everybody a Pontiac and that this is

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Speaker 1: peak Oprah. Right, Oprah could mask every she wanted. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: imagine the phone call from Oprah to headquarters of Pontiac.

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Speaker 1: They had the skidmaster, I think, and you were able

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Speaker 1: to say, we need two hundred and seventy six cars.

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Speaker 1: Here's where it went wrong because apparently the purchase price

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Speaker 1: for all the cars was seven point seven million dollars.

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Speaker 1: And what happened although you got a car and they

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Speaker 1: all opened the little box and they had the carges

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Speaker 1: and side kits, little did they know at the time

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Speaker 1: you received the car. Great news, but unfortunately you had

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Speaker 1: to pay the new car tax on the car. How

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Speaker 1: much was that around about around about on average for

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Speaker 1: each audience member seven thousand dollars. But it's a brand

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Speaker 1: new car. Oh no, but see, not everyone can afford

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Speaker 1: not forward seven grand. Not everybody has seven thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: just to say, oh, no worries, thanks very much. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but but also could you get the money and then

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Speaker 1: on sell it with you're still making Yeah, you would have,

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Speaker 1: but you still had to find the seven thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: didn't you? So so many people were upset, crack the poos.

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Speaker 1: The letters of complaints. There were seventy five letters of

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Speaker 1: complaints out of two hundred and sixty seven people saying

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Speaker 1: this is a disgrass on them. What's your TV show again?

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Speaker 1: You can keep your stinker Pontiac. I wonder if I

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Speaker 1: prad to go back to Gale and say it didn't

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Speaker 1: go very well. Go I wonder how many accepted it though,

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Speaker 1: and how many didn't and said I can't I can't

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Speaker 1: get seven grand off anyone. I reckon it would have

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Speaker 1: dropped the value of Pontiac because there would have been

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Speaker 1: so many for sale after that, as seen on over

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, who's driving a Pontiac? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it is big over there. You gotta fine, you

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Speaker 1: gotta fine, you gotta fight. Everybody gets a tax bill.

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Speaker 1: You've got debt, You've got debt, you've got death. Fits

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