Trust in the Machine

Happy holidays y'all! This week we have a gift for everyone: Charlie Martin - race car driver, extreme athlete, and queer car community legend - is joining us to talk about hillclimb in French cars, how to mentally prepare yourself for an amount of downforce that will snap your neck, why proving haters wrong is the world's best motivational tool, and the best way to run 24 hours of wheel-to-wheel at the world's hardest race track. Thank you to our Trustees (we still using that?) for putting up with us in 2020, and we can't wait to talk your ear off in '21. 

Folks we tried another episode without any detailed notes and it, uh, folks it went places. Please join us for a healthy conversation as we decompress a bit headed into A December to Remember.

On this episode, the team has a friendly knock-down-drag-out on the new Hummer EV by GMC by General Motors. The Beyond Meat Duramax sets expectations for both General Motors and their buyers, which is A Whole Thing.  

On this episode of the podcast, the team provides some critical advice on how to best construct your automotive portfolio and definitely doesn't yell for an hour about low-mileage Bring a Trailer sales. Probably. Also, even less yelling about the "built not bought" philosophy. 

Full disclosure, Trustees (we're trying that out this week, please bear with us): on occasion, we don't do the required reading. So, if you want to know what sixty-four minutes sounds like with three hosts who each did exactly zero homework in the moments leading up to recording, well, here is your opportunity. We covered all the relevant topics, everything from Fun Uncle Australia to which presidential candidate is likely to conduct diplomacy via a third-gear bias-ply burnout in front of a Dairy Queen.

Folks: here is Part II of our inaugural Q&A episode. Do things get further off the rails? Do we completely lose track of where we are? Do the last 10 questions take a solid hour to get through? The answer to all of these questions lies behind that little triangle shaped Play button somewhere on your screen. Go on. Double dare you,

Also: This was an absolute riot and we can't wait to do it again. We're also going to give Monday uploads a shot, y'all let us know what you think!

Folks, against better judgement and increasingly under the influence of confidence-inspiring libations, we got through what I think are 100% of the questions y'all threw our way. Frankly y'all did a remarkable job asking questions, and we very much look forward to making this a regular deal. Stay tuned for a Part II in the next few days.

0007 - Collecting Cars

What happens when three hosts find the single free hour late on a Thursday night during an otherwise absurd week to pontificate on the cultural and psychological factors that drive otherwise ordinary people to collect two-ton marvels of modern mass production? Personally, I have no idea, but I reckon we're gonna find out.

Folks: we made it through an hour without a single "Pony" reference and only one nod to Megan thee Stallion, our apologies for the lack of effort on both fronts. It's an episode about pony cars, so naturally we talk about the new BMW 7 Series, hockey dads, and how to disappoint Kentuckian cultural institutions.

On this episode, once the team moves past some unnecessary Bronco slander, they get into a discussion about what makes a half-decent, occasionally non-stationary daily driver.  It's Thursday, internet friends - let's talk about The Cars.

On this episode of the podcast, the team discusses garage space. Come for the familiar reminiscing of apartment parking lot maladies, stick around for the sovereign declaration of a Utopian garage-based commune in rural Colorado.

On the inaugural episode of the podcast, Toni purchases a $700 Honda CRX approximately one minute prior to us hitting record, so we take some time to unpack both the purchase and the unmitigated brilliance of Bubble Era Hondas. This is somehow not sponsored content from Honda North America, although, you know, call us. Let's talk. Just to chat.

Anyway, folks we've got a podcast now.