Suzy Shuster Rails on the Rogue Rental Car That Didn’t Like Her Driving Style

The car started it. That is Suzy Shuster's position and she is not moving off it.

The setup, for anyone who missed the original YouTube evidence, is a rental car with driver-attention monitoring, a stretch of Route 1 in New England, and a husband in the passenger seat who insists he was not editorializing.

"I wasn't sitting here saying you're driving erratically, slow down, or be careful," Rich said.

Shuster's rebuttal came with a timestamp. "The second time the light came on and there was the coffee emoji, you said to me like, Suzy, you want me to take over for you?"

Rich conceded the timing, sort of. "Well, I did say that after you basically cursed at the car."

"The car had some nerve," Shuster said.

That is the heart of it. She had been complimentary about this vehicle. Smooth. Luxurious. Great pickup. She said so out loud, more than once, and gave Rich credit for picking it.

"And the car turned on me."

What follows is a genuinely well-argued defense of her driving, which she does not deny is more aggressive than his. She acknowledged moving at what she called a healthy clip down 95 past Ogunquit. Somebody at the desk supplied the number. Eighty-five miles per hour.

Her point stands anyway.

"People were still passing, but I was not weaving. I was not weaving. There's no lane adjustment stuff."

And then the shot she had been setting up the whole time.

"Also, I don't pass in the right lane. I was passing in the correct lane."

TJ translated for the audience, noting he is fluent in Shuster and that this was aimed squarely at Rich, who passes on the right constantly. Rich did not deny it. He defended it, which went about as well as you would expect.

This is apparently a foundational issue in the marriage. Shuster remembered one of their first fights, on a drive from Connecticut to New York, over exactly this.

"I said, I don't think I can be with somebody who passes on the right."

Rich's response, delivered decades later: "Oh, is that why it took 3 years? I had no idea."

The segment also produced the single greatest live-read pivot of the season. Mid-argument, Rich announced he had to do a spot for Hyundai, delivered the whole thing about the Getaway Sales Event and the Santa Fe and the Ioniq lineup, and then, on the copy point about tech that might tell you that you're driving drowsy, stopped cold.

"Wait, what?"

Shuster caught it immediately. "Did you just ad-lib for Hyundai?"

"I used a read to try and poke fun at you," Rich admitted. "But that's what love is all about."

There is also the matter of the disputed phone. Shuster relayed that TJ believed Rich was on his phone during the drive. TJ confirmed he assumed as much. Rich insists he was not, that they were chatting, that he was trying to keep her awake. The car, for what it is worth, never accused him of anything, though Shuster notes he had turned the vehicle off to fill the tank in Saugus, which reset the system.

What she genuinely appreciated was the audience.

"I want to thank all of you who saw me and felt supported by all of you out there," Shuster said, after cousin Janna texted her about the whole narcoleptic business and the YouTube comments came in on her side.

One commenter, as Shuster relayed it: "It is totally shocking that at 1 hour since this posting, I have not yet heard of the passing of one Rich."

Rich called it fun at her expense. Shuster called it raging at technology. Either way, the lesson is filed.

Do not taunt Suzy Shuster about her driving.