Because a TV show host being able to actually give a whole audience of people cars was, and still is, a crazy stunt that had been ramping up over time. It also cannot be stated how big Oprah was at the time at the apex of the daytime talk show and before entertainment became generally balkanized. 

“Even the ones that said he was ‘creepy’ laughed, because they were obviously not trying to tick him off or anything. So they’re just fake laughing, awkwardly laughing.”

I have heard some truly harrowing stories along those lines — people removing blown airbags and filling the space with crumpled newspaper so the steering wheel looked factory, that kind of thing.

Yup, completely blew my mind when just for gits and shiggles I ran the Carfax on my beloved 2019 yellow Jeep Renegade (honest i loved that thing) It died heroically keeping me safe while I launched it 8 feet in the air, hit a tree, and landed on the passenger side on an icy road. The whole Jeep was demolished and was…

as a professional journalist, I’m certain my first few rookie attempts at getting someone to agree to an interview were way worse than the tow truck driver’s. it is not a natural thing to request!

This. They go to Texas and then dealers from Georgia buy them and it’s all of a sudden a clean title again.

It’s impressive but not the biggest:

Ran when docked. We know what we’ve got !

There’s a vocal minority. “An EV doesn’t fit my use case.” It isn’t going to fit 100% of use cases for some time. That’s fine, so long as it fits the majority of use cases. Or maybe they just hate change.

The price of EVs is the real issue, but until they can get demand down and supply up, I don’t know that that…

Yes but keep in mind, foul language like that will not be tolerated in the party. Racism, peddling conspiracy theories, placing corporate profits over human lives, etc. though... well, that’s all fair game.

Beat me to it. Karano and Herschel Walker are leading the growing Murder-Suicide wing of the GQP. 

The other part of this is his stubborn insistence to continue a career that puts him at great risk of grave injury and/or death. Short-term AND long-term! To ask your spouse to continue to not pursue her career which is FAR safer and predictable so you can go out and risk life and limb is so selfish. Sure, they have…

So, abortion bad, murdering literal children after they’re born good?

Farley: Lyriq isn’t different enough, oh and look at the Lincoln Zephr in from China. It’s so different it’ll knock your socks off. It’s totally not a re-badged Mondeo

If they are going to recast the DJ character with anyone from Scrubs, the obvious choice is Sarah Chalke.

They mis-cast his daughter. She doesn’t look mixed. As a mixed person, representation matters. Just one more of Sara Gilbert’s failures as a producer.

Maybe Michael Fishman has a skeleton in his closet that is about to come out, but this is probably just a creative decision. DJ is barely even on the show anyway, and they still barely find time to give good plots to everyone. Dropping his appearances per season from four to zero just isn’t that big of a deal.

He was hardly on the show as it was. And when he was.. he was 🥴. Not a great actor at all and added nothing to the story or dynamic. He piqued before puberty on the original show.

“propelling me toward another aspect of my career that comes with endless possibilities.”

Like the  original run, the writers never focused on DJ.  He had more to do in the first couple of seasons of The Connors, but the last two he has been hardly on and given nothing to do. The show seems to focused on Darlene and Becky these days.