1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: When what you bite sized. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: There's something very funny about bad personalized license plates. 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 3: It really gets me going. 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 4: Uh. 5 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: And there was a woman, a North Carolina woman, a 6 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: woman called Coralie Sindy of Ashville, and she applied for 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 2: a license plate which read fat. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: You said personalized nice and plates were bad? That is 9 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: good geart and she. 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: Was pleasantly surprised it actually got approved by No, he 11 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 2: got approved, got approved by the DMV, and then there 12 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 2: are all these complaints that started coming in. 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,160 Speaker 3: Oh seriously, don't believe. Why would you have an issue 14 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 3: with a personalized down the plate? Like who cares anyway? 15 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 2: So so she so she then created a group with 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: friends and family called Friends of Ashville Recreation Trails, which 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: of course FAT is an. 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 3: Acronym for And they've had their first meeting. 19 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: Fifteen people showed up to me and she's hoping she 20 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 2: can hold onto the number plate. 21 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 3: So what I want to do up next? 22 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: Because there is something very funny about some of these 23 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 2: license plates exist. I'm looking at I'm actually looking online 24 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 2: at some of them that have been banned before, and like, 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: some of them are outrageous that they did previously exist. 26 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:32,279 Speaker 2: There was a license plate n y Nob which only 27 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,280 Speaker 2: got banned recently. 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 3: There are some shaka ones that are out there. 29 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 2: So what I want to do because a lot of 30 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: these cars get traded in, or a lot of the 31 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: regros get traded in, and then they have to Well, 32 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: if the registration exists on the car, you're kind of 33 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 2: sitting on a free registration. So what I want to 34 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: do right up next is Missus Doubtfire, our producer. She 35 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: and her partner Meg have just bought a car, right, 36 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: So what I want to do up next? Correct me 37 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 2: for I'm wrong, Missus doubt Fire, but you've just bought 38 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 2: the car. Will she accept an offer if I call 39 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: her up as the car dealership and offer her twelve 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 2: months free rego if she accepts one of these license plates? 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 1: She absolutely loves a free beat. 42 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:20,399 Speaker 3: She's the right person to dangle the bait in front. 43 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 2: Of, absolutely and she is. 44 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: She is neck deep in cars and extras and things 45 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: we can get for free. 46 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 3: Now's the time to strike. 47 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: So what I write down some of the worst license 48 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: plates I can possibly think, and then I'll show them 49 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: to you as you make the phone call. So I 50 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: would call her, I would love that, and you say, 51 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: will you take this license plate. So you're going to 52 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: find out the license plate as we. 53 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, this is the job for 54 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 3: you as well to keep it together. 55 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Okay, you're coming up with the license plate, 56 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 2: calling Missus Doubtfire's partner, and I'm saying, if you accept 57 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 2: one of these, you get twelve months free regio. 58 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 3: All right, Booby Man could be one working on it. 59 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 3: We'll do it. 60 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 2: We're about to make a call. So I'm going to 61 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: be calling Missus Doubtfire. One of our producers are going 62 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: to be calling her partner Meg. They've just bought a car, 63 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: and I'm going to be offering her three twelve months 64 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 2: registration on that car if she accepts one of the 65 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 2: personalized number plates that we have here at the at 66 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 2: the dealership. 67 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, and I reckon. 68 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: You can say to her, these are like undesirable license. 69 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: Yes, and that's why I'm that's why we're trying to 70 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 3: get rid of them. Yeah, it's fair enough to say 71 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 3: that I just saw them in the bin. 72 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: Actually, you know, in the real world probably probably, but 73 00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: in our world we keep. 74 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 2: It someone's traded in a car with an awful personal 75 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: line number plate. We've still got the one plate, it's 76 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 2: got free rego on it if you accept the red. 77 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 3: If you set the other plate. 78 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: You get free REGI and I've written down you're going 79 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,119 Speaker 2: to write them down, eight awful license plates. 80 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 3: You're going to show them to me as we go. Yes, right, 81 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: and I and I've decided to keep a straight face. 82 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: I'm going to call up as somebody who sounds like 83 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: from a car dealership. 84 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, what are we thinking? 85 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: I was thinking of calling up with Kevin Walters? 86 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hello, keV. 87 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 4: Probably breathe pretty heavily, pig of a man. He's gone 88 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 4: fish sandwich in one hand. He's calling up and offering 89 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 4: her free red Joe. 90 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:20,720 Speaker 3: Very sweet, keV. 91 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: All right, do we have a number. 92 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,479 Speaker 3: Struggling in this year minute at the moment, keV. 93 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 4: It's mad. It's Megan game here. You're going, oh yeah, 94 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 4: Megan speaking. This is Kevin Walters calling from one thagging 95 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 4: me to bitchy. Georgia told me that she spoke to 96 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 4: your wife and a little bit earlier. But she and 97 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,279 Speaker 4: you've sent your pace lips. You sent your pacelips through? 98 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 3: Is that right? 99 00:04:58,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? 100 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 3: That's right? Ma, perfect? 101 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 4: All right, So did did she explain that the deal 102 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 4: with the under with the under the new plates in 103 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 4: the regio. 104 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 3: Not really, she said, you know, she works. 105 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 4: Out all the figures at the end of it, but sorry, 106 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 4: I didn't catch everything. That's all right. Basically, we've got 107 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 4: an absolute truckload of undesirable plates. So these are number 108 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 4: of plates that some cars that get traded in with us, 109 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 4: and so basically we're trying to get rid of these 110 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 4: things and we're trying to make it, you know, something 111 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 4: that other people would obviously take off us. But what 112 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 4: we do it is we do it in return for 113 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 4: six months or twelve months free registration. Because obviously I'm 114 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 4: going to be honest with your Megan, like these are 115 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 4: these are these are undesirable plates. You might not want them, 116 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,760 Speaker 4: and I mean that quite honestly, Like you're going to 117 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 4: hear some of these and you'll think they're ridiculous as 118 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 4: they are. But that's the whole point. That's why we 119 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 4: give the twelve months regio. So do you want to 120 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 4: hear them? Do you want to have a quick listen? Yeah, sure, 121 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 4: I may as well get yourself a free redo. Okay, 122 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 4: So the first one's the first one's COVID nineteen. Someone 123 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 4: obviously thought that was a bit of fun. Is that 124 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 4: up your alley at all? Imagine? 125 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: Not? 126 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 4: That's fair enough. The next one I've got is it's vibe. 127 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 4: The first word vibe, yeah, and then and then it's 128 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 4: this one's a bit naughty but ah, and then the 129 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 4: number eight and then the number and then the letter R. 130 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 3: Are right, So not for you? 131 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 2: Prob be a normal one, mate. 132 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 4: No, I told you these they're ridiculous. The next one 133 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 4: is so L one L and then D one K. 134 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 4: So you know if you spelled that out it would 135 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 4: say little dick, right. 136 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 3: So that's the next one. 137 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 4: Not for you, I imagine enough all right? So next 138 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 4: one T I T A y five so that would 139 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 4: mean tays. 140 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: So that one always gets me going of It makes 141 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 3: you there, she's disgusted. 142 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 2: T is really. 143 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 3: You couldn't give us? How would you? How would you 144 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 3: feel bad? 145 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 4: You feel? 146 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 3: I don't want to free him. 147 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 4: More of the boys on the full podcast just scroll up.