{
  "record_id": "fbc-lost-linda-leary-taylor-dirtwerx",
  "collection": "Fireside BMX Chat",
  "subseries": null,
  "episode_number": null,
  "dossier_type": "Interview Dossier",
  "recording_type": [
    "recovered conversation",
    "interview",
    "company history",
    "artifact provenance"
  ],
  "title": "Lost Fireside BMX Chat: Linda Leary Taylor and the DIRTWERX Era",
  "published_title": "Lost Fireside BMX Chat - Linda Leary Taylor shares about Harry Leary's DIRTWERX era and more",
  "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdP6kqSLUUs",
  "host": "Kyle A. Huffman",
  "guests": [
    "Linda Leary Taylor"
  ],
  "participants": [
    "Kyle A. Huffman",
    "Linda Leary Taylor"
  ],
  "duration": "30:28",
  "recording_date": null,
  "publication_date": null,
  "location": "Remote conversation; exact locations not supplied",
  "language": "en",
  "summary": "Linda and Kyle discuss Harry Leary’s DIRTWERX era, Livermore Boss frame production, family financial support, a newly acquired NOS DIRTWERX frame, and the provenance of a complete DIRTWERX bike that traveled from Harry to Linda’s son Chaz, back to Harry, through Kyle’s preservation work, and finally back to Linda.",
  "historical_significance": "The recording joins company history to a detailed artifact custody chain and documents a conservation choice to retain the complete bike’s wear and history rather than cosmetically restore it. It also records plans for Linda or another family member to ride the bike at Dirtyfest 4.",
  "subjects": [
    "Linda Leary Taylor",
    "Harry Leary",
    "DIRTWERX",
    "Livermore Boss",
    "Justin Dumas",
    "NOS frame",
    "family investment",
    "Chaz",
    "artifact provenance",
    "Rob at U-Haul",
    "conservation",
    "Operation DIRTWERX",
    "Dirtyfest 4",
    "family reconnection"
  ],
  "transcript_status": "raw machine transcript captured; timestamp-normalized working transcript created; speaker and fidelity verification pending",
  "preservation_status": [
    "source-captured",
    "dossier-compiled",
    "transcript-verification-pending",
    "documentation-gap-recorded"
  ],
  "rights": "All rights reserved unless separately documented.",
  "compiled_date": "2026-07-20",
  "notes": [
    "No supporting documentation was submitted beyond the current URL, title, public description, and timestamped machine transcript.",
    "Linda explicitly distinguishes direct knowledge from speculation regarding investors, management, and the company’s failure. The descriptive record preserves that distinction.",
    "The $10,000 contribution is recorded as Linda’s direct statement about Beverly’s support and is not independently verified in this package.",
    "The exact serial number and complete manufacturing history of the NOS frame were not available at the time of the conversation."
  ]
}