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Today on Past Gas: We’re going back to the early 2000’s to give you the full history of Orange County Choppers! How did a gruff steel worker from the Catskills change motorcycles forever? How did he and his son become the biggest thing in reality TV? And why did he nearly lose that son in the process?

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00:00 Intro
00:44 What Really Happened At Orange County Choppers
02:29 Liquid I.V.
02:58 Reality TV as marketing
05:36 Where did our Pez go?
06:00 Host intros
06:40 Going back to the early 00's
08:51 Paul Teutul Sr.
13:15 Founding Orange County Choppers
25:42 Hankook
26:44 Allstate
27:25 Success of American Chopper
37:28 Paul Sr. vs. Paul Jr.
45:48 BetterHelp
46:45 Liquid I.V.
47:56 Recent years
51:58 Cultural impact of American Chopper
55:51 Outro

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