Episode Twenty-Six

Ravi and Sonia read from the DriveTime Windshield before unveiling a new segment: Beard or No Beard. Aided and abetted by viewer comments, Ravi ponders his bearded ways. For good measure, Ravi and Sonia check in with some "Friends & Family" for their perspective.

And the end result?

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Production Update

Episode 26 will be posted later this afternoon.

I'd like to thank everyone who chimed in on the "Beard or No Beard" issue. Your thoughts and comments are duly noted and accounted for!

Beard or No Beard

Here's a chance for YOU -- the DriveTime audience -- to voice your opinion. Hot on the heels of this week's TGIF shoot, we'll be shooting a segment this afternoon that I'm calling "Beard Or No Beard."



We're going to weigh the pros and cons of my beard-dom, so chime in today if you'd like your vote to matter.

And if anyone has Howie Mandel's contact info, please pass along!

Episode Twenty-Five

It's a TGIF commute as Ravi and Sonia welcome the co-host to the venerable New England television news magazine Chronicle, Mary Richardson (as well as a trailing camera crew.) Plus, the first instance of road rage on DriveTime and an impromptu trek to the zoo.

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DriveTime Tax Holiday!

There is no new episode of DriveTime this week due to the April 17th tax deadline, which I think is actually April 18th for Massachusetts in lieu of the fact that there will be redcoats and minutemen battling at the crack o' dawn on Monday and thousands of human gazelles moving en masse from Hopkinton to Boylston Street.

Think of it as our simple gift for you -- instead of the 10 minutes spent watching DriveTime, you can crank out a 1040EZ!

Episode Twenty-Four

Ravi and Sonia usher in a one-two combo of colossal DriveTime events: the debut of sleek Studio-V and a new feature called Backseat Driver, an over-the-shoulder POV of the harrowing DriveTime route. Plus DriveTime Cultural Critic Peter Bebergal stops by to deliver a "mysterious package":

• Karl Blau's Beneath the Waves
  
• Destroyer's Rubies by Destroyer
  
• Kathryn Davis' The Thin Place

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