there are many ways to express your individuality you can create a work of art you can live in
a packing crate and make exotic jewelry or for twenty five dollars you can order a personalized
license plate we thought we'd meet some of those wonderful folks behind the plates [Laughter]
some fun there in the studio well here we are in a bluff overlooking the beautiful
San Fernando Valley and what we're going to do now is take a look get
to know some of those folks behind the wacky Southern California license plates
Joe what's your last name sure Joe Shaw where are you from Joe I'm from Chicago and living now in
La obviously obviously what do you do for a living sir I'm a computer operator and what
kind of car do you have here Joe oh 75 Monte Carlo and uh you've had it since 75 right nice ride yes
it is and your license plate Joe is a cool 75. a cool 75 does that pertain in any regard to you um
I guess you can say it does in one way because I am pretty cool consider yourself to be a fool and
how would you demonstrate that coolness are you being cool now uh not really I'm pretty nervous
right now really you don't act nervous at all well that's part of the coolness in me [Applause]
you say better than a cool 65 yes it would be this is a Rob mucha and your license plate
Rob is a cool 65. a cool 65 and oh okay so now a cool 65 refers to the car the car is a what 1965
Mustang man you know Rob I don't want to burst your balloon but we had a man here earlier Whose
license plate was a cool 75 and I said to him what would your opinion be of of a cool 65 and
he wasn't all that impressed with the cool 65. he's not a native of California then that's all
I have to say because well that's true he was from Chicago as it turns out no doubt so you're
saying a local cool 65 is much better than a transplanted cool 75. of course How Could You
Cruise in a 1970 car right sorry no you do a lot of cruising of course and what kind of reaction
do you get from other drivers on the freeways here a little bit of you know hey pretty cool you know
and you acknowledge those are you just try and be a little more
very nice hi Deborah how are you hi I'm fine what is your last name Ochsner Ochsner what do you do
for a living Deborah I work for an insurance company we want to talk a little bit about
your license plate I hot are you too and this is some sort of equation relating to thermal dynamics
you're sort of asking a question here in this little license plate do you
get do you get responses from people I get followed home a lot
generally nice people follow you home or dead Beach um deadbeats I guess I don't you I don't go
home I pretend I'm going home and like they just kind of watch and then I when they live at it and
how is that for your mileage I didn't go that far away from him this gentleman is Dan Rays Dan tell
us what you do for a living do I have a gasoline tanker for Union 76 you drive huge quantities of
flammable liquid that's right and your license plate says crazy Dan at a boy uh how come you're
known as crazy Dan uh how it came about was uh when I initially got divorced I moved into a
condominium in Corona where I live now we threw a Halloween party about a year and a half ago and uh
we had people dressed up as anything from flashers to jail you know uh jail or fugitives
whatever you want to call them so let me get this straight you threw a Halloween party and
people came in costumes that's right oh my God what will this guy think of next
this woman is hurta Parsons and hereta your license plate says what I'm hip I'm hip and my
initials imhof Parson oh I see my initial so this is this really is a personalized license plate for
it now do you get a lot of people contacting you that have seen you on the freeway because
they are looking for somebody who really is a hip person no teenagers when they see my
email I heard it let me just invite you as long as we're going to be in Southern
California here anytime you want to come and sit in with our band you're more than welcome
these people are the Kleins Marion and Aggie and uh and you are
too damn hip I guess way too damn hip actually as a matter of fact we grew up in Indiana and
all my friends at that time said I was too damn hip for Indiana so we had to come to California
now that you're in California are you still too damn hip for California
absolutely what else I'm sure is Jess Gonzalez Jess Gonzalez and you are fat boy right [Applause]
do you find that on the freeways people tend to stay away from a guy driving a car with a license
plate that says fat boy or are they attracted to that they go by there and then you see yeah he
is fat you know that must give you an extra sense of Pride when you're out there on the
highway just go like that to him I said yeah so what you know don't bother me and you are a fat
guy Mike have you been driving around Southern California have you ever seen any other fat
license plates no I haven't no none whatsoever none whatsoever as far as you know you may be
the only fat license plate in LA in Las okay we have a surprise for you Jess back it on in here
Mike McGarvey fat guy Jess Gonzalez fat boy
there were no stars over there these people checked their egos at the door
and you're saying to yourself what do they have in common I'll tell you what these people have
in common out of the Endless list of people in Southern California have having goofy license
plates these were the people who agreed to show up and I think that's pretty dark [Music]
we'll be right back with stupid pet tricks