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00:07 >> Bob Talfa is really the only outsider in the piece.
00:12 He's a hot-rodder from out of town who comes into town
00:17 to test his mettle against the hot-rod
00:25 that Paul LeMat drives.
00:29 And so he's unknown to the kids who live in this town.
00:35 It created a nostalgia for the music that's featured in it
00:41 and the embrace of that particular period of time,
00:47 driving restaurants and the hot-rod culture
00:52 and small towns of California.
00:59 I think George is reflecting on the period of time
01:02 when he was growing up in a town very much like Petaluma
01:10 where we shot American Graffiti.
01:12 And I think George always felt a bit of an outsider.
01:17 And I think this is George's story in a way.
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