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 == Synopsis ==
+Joe buys a '1948 Hudson Club Coup&eacute; in its original metallic
+gold color with a huge 300 cubic inch flathead 6 engine.'<ref>This is
+a large car, aimed at 'respectable' families, not people who want fast
+cars.  Hudson, owner of Detroit's largest department store, funded its
+founding.  It made less-expensive cars.  Minneapolis's Dayton
+department stores acquired Hudson's, becoming Dayton-Hudson, which
+started Target.  Hudson Autos ended up part of American Motors, which
+Chrysler absorbed later.</ref> The following evening, a parked car
+whose brakes failed collided with it.  It was never the same again.  6
+years later, unused, he had it towed to a friend's, where it sat for a
+couple more years, when the friend's wife told him it had to go.  Joe
+took it to his mechanic friend, Howard, made a deal that, after Howard
+fixed it up, Joe would sell it and split the proceeds with him.
+Driving it around the weekend after Howard had finished, a fellow,
+Billy, runs after him, wants to buy it, says he'll look just like
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dean James Dean].<ref>Dean never
+drove a Hudson in the movies, drove Porsches as his personal cars.
+Hudson made sports cars, but the Club Coup&eacute; wasn't one of
+them.</ref> First Billy takes it to the service manager at the
+dealership at which he works, who points out all the rust on the
+undercarriage.  Billy goes crazy with disappointment, damages the car.
+The check Billy writes for the damages bounces and he disappears.  Joe
+sells the car to a junk dealer for $200.
+:00: Joe, now working as a salesman at a used-car dealership, buys a
+-year-old Honda from a guy, Brooks, who comes to sell it to the
+dealer, for $5,000.  A week later, driving on Macarthur
+Boulevard<ref>a street in Washington DC and Maryland</ref>, cops
+arrest him because the car is stolen.  Someone at the DMV had forged a
+title.  Joe has no car and is out $5,000.
+:10: A few days later Joe sees Brooks on the street, calls the cops,
+who do nothing.  He confronts Brooks, who brushes him off.
+:30: Joe sees Brooks again the next day.  He's parked a late-model
+Peugeot, gone into a diner.  He left the keys in the car so Joe steals
+it, parks it in a garage a mile away, calls the diner, talks to
+Brooks, who tells him it's stolen: he can keep it.
+:40: Joe, driving a car his boss had lent him, sees Brooks on the
+Friday before Halloween with a new Lexus.  They end up on a chase out
+Route 50 into Maryland.  On an off-ramp they get into a fight.
+Exhausted, they make friends.<ref>Joe chases Brooks 'west on 16th
+street' - 16th is a north-south street (all numbered streets in DC
+are; lettered streets are east-west; streets named after states are
+diagonal).  South makes the most sense of the subsequent route.
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_NW 16th NW in Wikipedia]</ref>
+:40: Some months later, Joe is waiting at a bus stop, where he's
+supposed to meet Brooks, who was selling his beat-up '68 Cadillac,
+still owed him $500.<ref>Joe says the bus stop is 'at the corner of
+Marshall and Fifth', which is in northwest.  The Native American
+mentions waiting for someone to push him to the VA to pick up his
+check.  The VA is at Irving & North Capitol, roughly a half-mile east
+a half-mile south of Marshall & Fifth.</ref> A homeless Native
+American in a wheelchair asks Joe to buy him some Wild Irish
+Rose<ref>a cheap, fortified, sweetened, 'wine', 'Richards Wild Irish
+Rose was introduced in 1954 and at its height sold about two million
+cases annually.  The brand is available in 13.9% and 18% alcohol by
+volume and comes in both "red" and "white" varieties.  The red is
+described as tasting like "cheap cherry hard candy" and the white like
+"crunchy milk and fake vanilla".' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavored_fortified_wine Flavored fortified wines at Wikipedia]
+That the store had sold out of quarts
+and had only a single pint left could be a conscious commentary on the
+popularity of cheap, sweetened, fortified wines on skid row.  The
+comment about the red 'flavor' reminds me of the line in The Kinks's
+'Lola' about 'champagne' that tastes like cherry cola.</ref> In the
+store around the corner Joe has to wait while a guy tries to pay with
+a check (not allowed) and a panhandler (also a shoplifter) converts
+his change into bills.  Joe gets angry at the delay, worries that he's
+missed Brooks.  When the Native American can't find $2 to pay for the
+'wine' Joe tips his wheelchair over, dumping him on the sidewalk,
+spilling his wine.  Joe gets on a bus.  As it leaves, he sees Brooks
+pull up in the green Cadillac.
+<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; overflow:auto;">
+<div style="font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;">Legacy Synopsis</div>
+<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
+Perhaps I'd make friends with Brooks, but I wouldn't give him
+a car - just me?
 Joe buys a classic car and tries to sell it years later.  Joe working as a used car salesman buys a stolen car and then chases the guy who sold it to him.  Joe buys whiskey for an Indian in a wheelchair.
+</div></div>
 == Music ==
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 The original broadcast credits state: "[C]reated in collaboration with Jack Cheeseborough. Recorded and mixed by Jerry Summers. Special thanks to [[Farley Ziegler]] and Jennifer Ferro."
+==Commentary==
+Perhaps I'd make friends with Brooks, but I wouldn't give him
+a car - just me?[[User:Arthur Peabody|Arthur Peabody]] ([[User talk:Arthur Peabody|talk]]) 16:23, 7 March 2022 (EST)
+==Footnotes==
 [[Category:Serious_Monologue]]