General Tire
Manufacturing companywww.generaltire.com
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Sep 9, 2026
Chris CarterHOST
We'd all need-
Russ EvansHOST
Gen- General Tire brought us to Canada once
Chris CarterHOST
... we'd all need new socks.
Chris CarterHOST
[laughs]
Jack BennyHOST
I've had enough trouble around here.
Jack BennyHOST
Take a letter to Bill O'Neill, President, General Tire and Rubber Company, Springfield, I mean Akron, Ohio.
Jack BennyHOST
Dear Bill, my constituents are conspicuously conspiring to cause verbal consternation by employing multi-syllabic conglomerations in this studio.
Mary LivingstonePANELIST
Jack, how do you say studio? Never
11 MINS LATER
Don WilsonHOST
With the extra hot weather and faster-driving foot-on tires, be certain you are really safe.
Don WilsonHOST
Put on a set of General, the genuine blowout-proof tires.
Don WilsonHOST
You like doing business with the General tires because it's the best in the world.
Don WilsonHOST
He has built his own personal, intelligent, and interested service.
Jack BennyHOST
Go ahead.
Don WilsonHOST
The General Tire drives with a non-skid movement of the silent safety tread.
Mary LivingstonePANELIST
How does the
Don WilsonHOST
air go? It runs on 40% less air than any other tire and gives your car a perfect rhythm.
Jack BennyHOST
Uh,
Don WilsonHOST
let's see, Jack.
Jack BennyHOST
General Tires, I think.
Jack BennyHOST
That was my fault, folks.
Jack BennyHOST
I've had enough trouble around here.
Jack BennyHOST
Take a letter to Bill O'Neill, President, General Tire and Rubber Company, Springfield, I mean Akron, Ohio.
Jack BennyHOST
Dear Bill, my constituents are conspicuously conspiring to cause verbal consternation by employing multi-syllabic conglomerations in this studio.
Mary LivingstonePANELIST
Jack, how do you say studio?
11 MINS LATER
Frank ParkerPANELIST
After driving foot-on tires, be certain you are really safe.
Frank ParkerPANELIST
Put on a set of General, the genuine blowout-proof tires.
Frank ParkerPANELIST
You like doing business with the General tires.
Frank ParkerPANELIST
He's a successful person.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
David Giffels, English professor and co-author of Wheels of Fortune, the story of rubber in Akron, We're talking next to a brick wall of what used to be Bridgestone Tire's world headquarters in the center of that city.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
Bridgestone, Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, General Tire, all here, producing dreadful air quality but good union jobs.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
That is until...
David GiffelsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In our book, there's a Firestone executive who just says flatly, the radial tire is the reason that rubber left Akron.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
David Giffels, English professor and co-author of Wheels of Fortune, the story of rubber in Akron, We're talking next to a brick wall of what used to be Bridgestone Tire's world headquarters in the center of that city.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
Bridgestone, Firestone, Goodyear, Goodrich, General Tire, all here, producing dreadful air quality but good union jobs.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
That is until...
David GiffelsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In our book, there's a Firestone executive who just says flatly, the radial tire is the reason that rubber left Akron.
Matt ScottHOST
Yeah.
Matt ScottHOST
I mean, I just think they're a good general tire-
Scott BradyHOST
Yeah
Matt ScottHOST
... you know? Um-
Dave LieberthSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a two-week period in the early '80s when Firestone laid off eleven thousand men and women in the Akron area.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
The dominant employers here in Akron, names you know, Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear, General Tire, were crushed by globalization, competition from non-union factories, and relevant to our artificial intelligence discussion here, the coming of fresh technology It was the steel-belted radial tire out of Europe.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
The factories here in Akron were customized to make the other kind, balloon-like bias-ply tires.
Dave LieberthSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There were a lot of reasons to believe the radial tire was superior.
Dave LieberthSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There was a two-week period in the early '80s when Firestone laid off eleven thousand men and women in the Akron area.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
The dominant employers here in Akron, names you know, Firestone, Goodrich, Goodyear, General Tire, were crushed by globalization, competition from non-union factories, and relevant to our artificial intelligence discussion here, the coming of fresh technology.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
It was the steel-belted radial tire out of Europe.
David BrancaccioCORRESPONDENT
The factories here in Akron were customized to make the other kind, balloon-like bias-ply tires.
Jack BennyHOST
Say, uh, fella, what program is this?
Don WilsonHOST
Uh, General Tire.
Jack BennyHOST
Well, here I am.
Jack BennyHOST
Doesn't that mean anything? Jack Benny is my name.
Jack BennyHOST
Oh, it looks like [laughs] gonna have plenty of trouble here, too.
Jack BennyHOST
Well, tell me, Mr. Wilson, what's your racket? I mean, what do you, what do you do on this program?
Don WilsonHOST
I sell General Tires.
Jack BennyHOST
No kidding.
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