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Drive Thru News #65 - Season 6 Finale Episode · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to Break Fixes, Drive-Through News, your monthly recap for
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  everything fast, fascinating, and usually four wheeled.
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  through the latest in the world of wheels with a side of entertainment
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  and just a dash of tire smoke.
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  Do we not need to read the intro anymore?
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  Do you just fit it in for, oh no, I guess I need to say drive
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  through episode number 65.
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  So you do listen to the show now because we edited that stuff out.
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  There's a whole new intro.
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  I do not listen to the show.
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  'cause I was just asking do I need to record it?
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  Well, yeah, we, we've been cutting you short, like the last, I don't
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  know, four or five episodes like it.
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  You just say it's then why have I, why have you been making me say it?
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  What the fuck?
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  'cause it's tradition.
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  Tradition.
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  No, Brad, you do not need to read the old intro anymore.
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  Tanya redid it.
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  It's great.
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  Welcome to drive through episode number 65.
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  This is our monthly recap where we put together a menu of automotive
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  motor sport, entertaining car.
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  Jason News.
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  Now let's pull up to the window number one four Automotive news, blah.
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  See, you could do it just because you want to speed reading to go
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  along with Tanya's speed skating.
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  There you go.
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  Ooh, speed skating.
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  If you were an Olympian in the Winter Olympics, what sport
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  would you do outside of hockey?
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  Okay, so you're hockey.
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  Can I just do the shooting part of the biathlon?
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  You know what they need to upgrade.
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  I still haven't seen s Schmo yet, but need, they need to upgrade that and
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  add the, the shooting in with that.
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  If I did s schmo, they'd rename it to slowmo.
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  Soon.
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  The Olympics will come to a close as well.
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  Oh, don't say things like that.
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  The juice has been spilled.
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  Okay.
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  I just, hockey fights all I think about.
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  I was conditioned.
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  Yes, I blame the deal.
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  That's terrible.
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  So terrible.
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  That's what I see in my head.
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  I think of hockey fights bigger is the Canadian controversy with curling.
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  That is like the hotness right now.
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  I need to dive a little deeper into that.
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  See what's going on there.
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  The push,
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  and then the Swedish team recorded them and the Canadians
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  are mad that they record.
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  That's like a whole thing.
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  It's hot, it's ridiculous.
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  But anyway, as the Olympics have concluded, by the time everybody
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  listens to this, there's a lot of other things that have concluded this season.
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  Super Bowl closing game of the football season, since we're talking about sports.
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  So let's talk about those Super Bowl commercials.
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  There were commercials.
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  We mentioned we were gonna talk about them this go round.
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  What have we got, Tanya?
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  I don't know how you put so many car related ones here.
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  'cause I didn't see any, it's 'cause I, that's all I paid attention to.
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  'cause the game was so boring.
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  I paid attention to, but there weren't any, like, there were sometimes a car in
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  a commercial, but it wasn't about cars.
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  But there was that.
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  Was it a square body or an old Ford During the commercial for Puerto Rico.
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  Right in the middle of the game.
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  Oh yes.
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  In the halftime show you mean?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Is that what that was?
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  Yeah.
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  I didn't understand.
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  So I. There were no subtitles.
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  You were lost like everybody else.
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  Well, no, I, I heard, I, I understood it.
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  It was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Is that how it goes?
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  I mean, that's your new number one single right there.
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  My, my tt.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  My Titi.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Novia.
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  My Titi.
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  Yeah.
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  So to Tanya's, to Tanya's point, there were car commercials
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  and I made note of them.
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  I, I almost felt like I was doing a Steve and Izzy, everything
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  I learned from movies review.
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  Oh, you're stretching hard.
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  I see the list now.
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  No, no.
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  Like a good neighbor.
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  State Farm is here, is car adjacent.
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  Okay.
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  That was car related.
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  There was a car and it, Bon Jovi was in it.
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  Yeah.
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  Danny McBride and Keenan Michael Key.
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  It was a car commercial.
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  It was about car insurance.
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  It was actually pretty good.
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  It was pretty funny actually.
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  It was kind of funny.
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  I feel like in the past we've never had to succumb to the flow.
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  Nationwide Commercials, progressive, I mean, or anything like that.
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  I was happy for a State Farm commercial that didn't have Jake
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  from State Farm for a change.
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  I thought it was good.
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  It was probably one of the better commercials of the Super Bowl.
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  Nobody knows who the female was.
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  No, I don't.
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  Who was it?
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  That was Haley Steinfeld.
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  Yeah.
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  Who's that?
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  Well, she's a singer, but also she was Hawk Girl.
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  Girl.
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  Oh, okay.
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  She was also in the, she was in Pitch Perfect.
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  Yes, she was in Pitch Perfect like three, but she was also in the, um,
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  one of those Bravo Duval movies.
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  I think we'll get to that.
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  Oh, rest, he rest in peace.
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  No, no, no.
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  It wasn't Rest in peace, but no, it was a true grit.
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  Sorry.
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  He was the one with the other dude.
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  Got it.
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  Oh, I, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Literally the dude.
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  The dude, he was the dude who's, because the commercials suck that much.
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  Continue, yes.
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  We're also overlooking the fact that Toyota was the title sponsor of
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  the Super Bowl and Honda in Acura, the title sponsors of the Olympics,
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  every commercials a car commercial.
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  So there were Toyota commercials, there had to be Toyota commercials
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  and there were two that were the most important ones.
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  So we had the not Jake from State Farm Commercial, and then we had
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  Toyota where Dreams Begin, which is that commercial that starts off
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  with Bubba Wallace from nascar.
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  Yes.
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  And the whole underlying message of childhood dreams shaping champions.
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  And that was very touchy feely.
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  I think that one doubles as an Olympic commercial.
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  'cause wasn't there the, uh, the Paralympic uh, athlete in there as well?
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  Correct?
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  Correct.
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  There was that nice little tie in there.
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  The next Toyota commercial.
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  I called it the twofer ad. Mm-hmm.
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  This is the one that starts with a 1997 RAV4 and ends with the
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  grandson driving a new RAV4.
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  And the underlying message there is family, nostalgia,
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  safety, family, family, family.
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  What do we think of the new RAV4?
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  Because this was sort of a, a debut of the new RAV4 as well
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  as part of this commercial.
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  There's a new RAV4.
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  I don't, I don't remember.
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  That was what was in the commercial.
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  I mean it looks like everything else.
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  Front end was pretty bad.
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  It has the weird cheese grater front end now.
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  Exactly.
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  So, yeah, it looks like a mini Hold on.
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  What does this look like?
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  It looks like something else and I can't think of what that other
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  car they're, they've got the Lexus.
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  It looks awful.
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  They're kind of taking the Lexus front end sorta.
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  It looks like a mini foreigner or Sequoia.
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  All right.
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  We had a VW commercial.
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  I thought we were gonna make it through the Super Bowl without
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  one, but we had one this year.
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  Yes.
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  It barely featured a Volkswagen.
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  It had an ID Buzz and a Tiguan, but it was like the fastest drive-bys
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  that if you weren't paying attention, you never, it was very much a
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  commercial about people, drivers.
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  Drivers wanted.
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  That was, they were going back to the eighties.
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  I also thought it funny because we're talking about things that are
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  closing, things that are ending the end of this is our season finale.
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  By the way, the ID buzz ironically, in this commercial, they're
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  advertising a card that they're not going to sell in America anymore.
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  What is the point of that?
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  They're not selling the ID buzz in America.
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  No, they canceled it because they didn't sell any.
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  That's why if you were watching the Super Bowl, you would've
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  seen how other countries were also watching the Super Bowl.
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  So maybe they just left it in there for them.
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  Whatever.
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  Maybe they did.
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  Maybe they, alright.
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  Nissan comes to the table with some car commercials.
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  There were two of them.
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  I must have had a different feed than you all.
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  No, I was glued to the Super Bowl 'cause I wanted to see I never left.
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  So during the Super Bowl, were there humans playing or were there
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  puppies because I think there were two different Super Bowls going on.
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  I've never watched the Puffy Bowl.
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  Thank you very much.
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  I was watching the abomination.
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  That was the Patriot's offense and yeah.
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  Oh my God.
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  Okay.
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  Because at least their defense tried.
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  So we were watching, we, we've established that we were watching the same game.
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  Okay.
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  That that works.
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  I was hyperfocused on the commercials because I was anticipating the
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  reveal of the Cadillac Formula One car, which we will talk about on
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  a different episode than this one.
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  I was so laser focused on every commercial 'cause I didn't wanna miss
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  the Cadillac reveal of the F1 car.
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  So that said, there are two.
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  Nissan commercials also been a week and a half, and I don't remember
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  Nissan Rogue, the dip seat ad. Right?
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  You have to protect the dip.
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  He's driving around, it's like, oh, with the guy from, um, the cooking show.
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  Yes.
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  It's sort of the same idea as initial D. Right?
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  Don't let the tofu get all upset in the back of the car when
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  you're drifting down Mount Aquina.
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  It's like the same idea, right?
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  I'm like, okay, cool.
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  I, I get it.
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  Then there was the other one where they took the Rogue and
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  they were just absolutely.
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  Punishing it off road, the water pressure thing, the Jet fighter backwash, like
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  they still show that commercial, you know, even through the Olympics and stuff.
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  You guys, you had to see that one.
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  Were these like the pre commercials be like before the Super Bowl even started?
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  No, these were during, I should have written the timestamps down.
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  They were during the, I'm literally watching the Dipsy
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  one and I never saw this one.
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  Oh God.
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  I saw all of these,
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  I'll say this, at least the car commercials weren't using AI like the
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  rest of the commercials were not only were their commercials about artificial
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  intelligence, like name your favorite, whether it's Claude or Gemini, or
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  Copilot or Chat, GPT, I mean just every other commercial is an AI commercial
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  or it was generated by ai and then we went down this path of massive aging
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  that Dunkin Donuts commercial what.
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  Was that?
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  I don't know.
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  Honestly, I didn't understand the point of it.
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  The people didn't make sense together because like Jael White
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  showed up Urkel and I'm like, what does Urkel have to do with friends?
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  Because I thought they were trying to do a friends thing and like the whole breakup.
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  We were on a break.
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  We on a break.
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  Yeah.
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  But then Carlton shows up and he is like doing his thing.
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  Right.
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  But I didn't get it.
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  It was like all the nineties sitcoms basically.
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  Yeah.
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  But I feel like, I don't know, I didn't get it.
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  I didn't think it was funny.
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  I thought it was actually kind of sad 'cause it was like really?
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  Oh, okay.
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  But the one that got me though, the de aging done right, that William Shatner
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  Raisin brand ambassador thing was.
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  Wow.
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  Mind blowing.
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  Wow.
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  And did, I don't know if you noticed, he was dressed like when he did
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  the Rocket Man music video thing.
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  It was just on so many levels of like inception.
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  It was amazing.
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  And I have to bring up William Shatner because we did that senior moment movie.
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  So it was like boom, car related.
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  There it is.
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  William Shatner.
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  Done.
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  We're gonna talk about Formula One later in the other episode of Formula Fanatics.
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  But there was a little Formula One cameo in there.
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  Did you guys catch the 30th anniversary Pokemon commercial
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  that had Charles Le Clare in it?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh yeah.
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  Uhhuh.
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  That was good stuff.
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  That was a good commercial.
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  What's his favorite Pokemon again?
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  Aines The Tiger.
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  They all flew by really fast at the end when they said which
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  ones they were their favorites.
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  Somebody likes Jiggly Puff.
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  I know that.
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  It's all good.
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  That was Lady Gaga.
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  That was hilarious though when she was singing the song, the
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  car commercials this year.
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  I agree.
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  They were not good.
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  So I'm gonna quiz you guys.
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  I did a little homework.
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  Do you know what's considered the top five car commercials
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  of all time for the Super Bowl?
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  Oh, no, I wouldn't.
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  I'm gonna guess.
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  One is gonna be imported from Detroit.
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  That's actually number two, so that's a really good guess.
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  So family feud,
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  fried chicken, that's number two.
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  Tanya, can you steal all time?
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  Like how far back are we going?
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  They actually only go back the last about 20 years.
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  Did the Eugene Levy one make it?
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  It did not.
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  Mm. Got a better guess.
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  Do you have any others that you really remember that are like super good
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  car commercials from the Super Bowls?
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  What was that one with the, the Nissan 300?
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  The three dx?
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  It wasn't as,
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  yeah, but I think that was older than three years.
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  The turbo years ago the turbo kicks in.
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  Yeah.
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  Wasn't that a Super Bowl commercial?
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  It was, and it is not considered one of the best.
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  All right.
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  Letterman style coming in at number five Jeep's Groundhog Day from 2020.
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  That's the one where Bill Murray returns to relive Groundhog
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  Day with the Jeep Gladiator.
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  So that's number five.
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  It's not gonna, it's not gonna be the singer dude, Bruce Springsteen.
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  No, no, no.
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  That okay?
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  Nah.
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  All right.
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  Number four.
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  If you remember from 2014, the Kia commercial with Morphy.
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  Lawrence Fishburne comes back as Morpheus from the Matrix and literally shatters
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  glass, blah, blah, blah, and it's all the Kia, you know, all the real matrix stuff.
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  That's number four.
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  Number three, the Kia mice.
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  I'm kidding.
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  No, they're not in there.
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  Number three from 2009, Audis the Chase.
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  That's the one where Jason Statham did that.
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  Like really cool movie preview.
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  It was like the transporter, but it was a commercial for Audi.
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  I remember that one.
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  It was really good.
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  It was super dark.
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  So dark.
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  You couldn't see the car pretty much.
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  Yes.
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  Number two was made in Detroit.
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  Yeah.
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  Number two was made in Detroit and number one coming in number one.
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  2011 Volkswagens the force.
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  Do you remember that?
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  Oh, oh, with the little boy?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  That's the number one car commercial of all time for the Super Bowl.
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  Hard doubt.
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  Do that.
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  Volkswagens on there three times.
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  Third one from last year was pretty good.
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  Had all the fields, if you remember, that's why I was surprised we, I went so
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  far into the Super Bowl and hadn't seen a Volkswagen commercial and then when
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  it showed up it was like, that's it.
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  Really continuing on this theme of things that are closing still an's dreams of
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  making it in the EV market are closing.
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  It's a 26 billion with a B dollar fail.
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  Who's getting fired?
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  Everybody's getting fired at Chrysler.
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  You are getting fired.
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  You are getting fired and you are getting fired.
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  This conversation actually came up at work.
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  It was really funny because somebody threw it out there and I immediately
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  was like, I mean I took the hook, I bit and I was like, ah, here we go.
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  Because I was thinking about the whole phrasing there, Chrysler's
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  EV entries, and I'm like, what do they really have in the EV market?
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  They had the Pacifica Hybrid, which is made in Canada, and we know why
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  it's not being made anymore because of whatever's going on in politics right now.
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  Then we had the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Wrangler four xe, which is
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  something that few people wanted.
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  I told you guys about the test drive of the Wrangler four xe.
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  It wasn't that impressed, but that's a plugin hybrid.
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  Both of those are, so is the Pacifica, so they, those aren't true EVs.
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  They're hybrids and then they came out with that charger ev.
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  I've seen one in the wild, so somebody bought one, but I brought up the point.
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  That's where they lost their way.
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  Like a lot of other car companies who wants to buy a muscle car
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  that doesn't have any muscle?
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  And it's not that the Charger EV was bad looking 'cause it actually
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  looks really nice and it's really menacing and aggressive and all that.
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  But it's just like when it sounds like a Hoover,
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  like what is that?
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  Well, the people that want the 9 billion horsepower, hell, cat,
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  demon, whatever, Satan reincarnated version, that doesn't go with ev.
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  Correct.
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  Like that's not your market audience.
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  I'm also discounting the rest of Stellantis portfolio that they
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  have overseas, like the 500 E and a bunch of other stuff that we don't
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  even really want to consider here in the States because where's the
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  last Fiat dealer closing in America?
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  Right?
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  Because they're all shutting their doors too right now.
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  So there's not a whole heck of a lot going on.
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  So.
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  Stateside.
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  So I'm, I'm very much focused just on stateside stuff, but we did
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  report a bunch of drive-throughs ago about that Chrysler airflow concept
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  that they were gonna build, which I thought was a pretty good looking.
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  I was actually kind of interested in that as well.
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  That never came to market.
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  They never made it, it never went anywhere other than the renderings we saw online.
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  Again, I say, is this really a loss for us here in the States that Stellantis
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  isn't doing anything with EVs?
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  Who cares?
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  I've seen mixed reviews on the four xe.
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  I think it's a cool concept in the Jeeps and everything, but they've
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  got all kinds of electrical problems.
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  Yeah.
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  Your Pacifica and I could gotta imagine other Pacifica has had
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  all kinds of electrical problems.
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  Yep.
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  And just, I don't want an all electric vehicle from a company that is notorious
• 17:26
  for having electrical problems.
• 17:28
  And the charger, ev correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they discontinue all
• 17:34
  other chargers and only release Yes.
• 17:36
  The charger ev for like five minutes?
• 17:38
  I feel like that was a mistake.
• 17:40
  Yes.
• 17:40
  Like I'm, I'm, I feel like had they taken the Ford F-150 route and kept some of
• 17:45
  the other models and just offered it as a separate or as in addition to the lineup,
• 17:51
  maybe it would've done a little better.
• 17:53
  But then again, the Ford F-150 Lightning doesn't sell very well either.
• 17:56
  So this would be a very different story if the political climate was different.
• 18:01
  I think you're a hundred percent right, but there is a little bit of hope for
• 18:05
  enthusiasts like ourselves out there because within the last time that we
• 18:08
  did a drive-through and now there's been some changes at the EPA, one of
• 18:14
  the big things that's changing amongst a bunch of different rules, specifically
• 18:17
  for auto manufacturers is all of the requirements that they were beholden
• 18:22
  to, you know, the hybrids and certain amount of this to offset the big V eights
• 18:26
  and these that and the other things.
• 18:27
  And even things like auto stop start, which most of us enthusiasts
• 18:31
  or otherwise cannot stand, right?
• 18:34
  And the dual electric system that all the extra stuff that goes along with, they
• 18:38
  basically said that like auto stop start.
• 18:40
  Let's just focus on that.
• 18:42
  Doesn't really do any good.
• 18:44
  It proved out that it doesn't save emissions.
• 18:47
  It doesn't really save anything.
• 18:48
  Motors are more efficient when they're run at constant than when they're on and off.
• 18:53
  And they always say, you know, startup enrichments, there's more
• 18:55
  fuel being used every time it restarts, all this kind of thing.
• 18:58
  And so they're doing away with that.
• 19:00
  They're doing away with a bunch of other stuff like that.
• 19:02
  And basically it's gonna open the doors now for auto manufacturers like
• 19:06
  Stellantis to come back to the table.
• 19:09
  With big honk and v eights and supercharged v sixes
• 19:12
  and a bunch of other stuff.
• 19:13
  So maybe we're going to see not necessarily proliferation of Big
• 19:18
  Motors again, because everything's been shrinking down to three cylinders.
• 19:21
  I'm surprised we didn't get down to two cylinder turbos by this
• 19:25
  point, you know, that kind of thing.
• 19:26
  But I think we're gonna see the reintroduction of six and a half liter
• 19:30
  Chrysler chargers and challengers and all that kind of stuff.
• 19:33
  And then the political climate's gonna change again.
• 19:36
  We're gonna get a swing the other way, and they're all gonna have to
• 19:39
  stop making all that bullshit again.
• 19:41
  The EPA is gonna double down on even stricter guidelines, and it's just
• 19:45
  gonna be a pendulum that swings back and forth every four to eight years.
• 19:49
  But see, that gives you an opportunity to buy some good cars, and then the
• 19:53
  crappy ones will come out and you can skip those and then buy good cars again.
• 19:56
  You see?
• 19:56
  You wanna buy a good car, buy anything pre 2020, or I just picked a random
• 20:02
  year, but buy something older.
• 20:03
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 20:04
  Hump the brakes.
• 20:05
  Did you all hear the news?
• 20:07
  What's going on?
• 20:08
  Stop Tech.
• 20:09
  They stopped.
• 20:10
  Stop Tech stopped no longer selling brakes, rotors, kits after
• 20:15
  27 years in the brake business.
• 20:17
  Wow.
• 20:17
  But it's not just them.
• 20:19
  Buy, buy raybestos really centric.
• 20:22
  Yes, because apparently all three are under the same parent company, which
• 20:25
  apparently also owns FRA filters, Michelin wiper blades, some Reese
• 20:31
  towing parts and auto light spark plugs.
• 20:33
  And those people are under federal fraud indictments.
• 20:39
  And filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and they tried to sell off Stop
• 20:43
  Tech, asbestos and Centric.
• 20:44
  Nobody bought them.
• 20:45
  So they basically said, done.
• 20:47
  Stop production.
• 20:48
  Stop spending money.
• 20:49
  Wow.
• 20:50
  So that leaves Brembo and Willwood for Big Break Kids.
• 20:54
  Yeah, for aftermarket, you can still get Hawk.
• 20:57
  You can still get Durast maybe?
• 20:59
  Oh no.
• 21:00
  You might not be able to because I read an article today saying the parent company of
• 21:04
  Napa and a bunch of other parts companies, they're divesting and some of them are
• 21:09
  on the chopping block and some of 'em have for sale signs in the front yard.
• 21:12
  So you might not be able to buy Durast because if you look at what AutoZone
• 21:16
  Pet Boys and all those places, they have a parent company too, right?
• 21:20
  Car Quest gets all mm-hmm.
• 21:21
  Jumbled up inside of that.
• 21:23
  So there's a lot of moving and shaking going on there.
• 21:25
  So I think Stop Tech might just be foreshadowing for more
• 21:30
  logistics supply chains of auto parts that are falling apart.
• 21:34
  So my question became, how long before the Shoe falls and Rock Auto
• 21:37
  starts falling apart, you know, places like that, are they too big to fail?
• 21:41
  Probably not in today's economy.
• 21:43
  How old do you think Raybestos is?
• 21:45
  I'm gonna go with 50 plus.
• 21:47
  Seventy seven, a hundred and twenty four years.
• 21:50
  What apparently Raybestos has been since 1902 rhymes with asbestos
• 21:57
  and we gotta get rid of it.
• 21:59
  That's probably what they were made from in 1902.
• 22:04
  They were made from wood in 1902 too.
• 22:07
  And I, I won't be sad if Duralast goes away.
• 22:10
  No.
• 22:10
  You know, here's a, here's a P. SA for you, for anybody that goes to the track.
• 22:14
  And if you use Duralast brake pads, they will last you approximately 20 minutes
• 22:21
  and then you'll need to replace them.
• 22:23
  Not gonna last.
• 22:24
  Duralast not gonna last Dur, last built to last.
• 22:29
  Where?
• 22:29
  Too fast.
• 22:30
  Dur last.
• 22:33
  That's great.
• 22:35
  Well, since again, we're talking about things that are coming to
• 22:38
  a close or closing or are dead.
• 22:40
  Adding to the dog pile of disappointing reviews on Honda's New Prelude.
• 22:46
  I think this thing is dead on arrival.
• 22:49
  So Doug DeMuro adds to the list of negative reviews to the new Honda Prelude.
• 22:54
  Well, I mean, people are basically saying it's slower,
• 22:58
  more expensive, terrible interior.
• 23:01
  Go buy a Civic pretty much.
• 23:03
  And at least you can get a Turbo and the Civic and they don't come in manual.
• 23:07
  The new prelude should have been rear wheel drive.
• 23:09
  It should have been out there to compete with the GT 86 and the Supra
• 23:13
  and everything else in that two door coop fast back kind of thing.
• 23:17
  They missed the mark because it looks like it should be one of those cars.
• 23:21
  Nah, it doesn't do it for me, but it's, they did with this.
• 23:24
  The same thing they did with the original prelude.
• 23:26
  Like the original prelude should have been rear wheel drive.
• 23:28
  Should have had, yeah, more power.
• 23:31
  It should have been a better car.
• 23:32
  And it wasn't.
• 23:33
  Sorry, Brian Shaw, it's just the way it is.
• 23:35
  He doesn't listen anyway.
• 23:38
  Tanya's not gonna be sad about these two cars going away.
• 23:42
  And well, like we said, we're not gonna talk about them
• 23:45
  unless we absolutely have to.
• 23:46
  But this one, I could not let it go by without saying, according to Motor
• 23:52
  one, Tesla's model S and Model X, quote unquote, two of Tesla's longest running
• 23:59
  models are being discontinued by April.
• 24:02
  Correct.
• 24:03
  Really?
• 24:04
  Tanya nods her head in enjoyment of that statement.
• 24:06
  I mean, I don't care.
• 24:08
  Those are the two, the bigger ones, right?
• 24:11
  The two flashes, the X is the SUV with the gall wings.
• 24:15
  And then the S is like the Model S sedan.
• 24:18
  The The original one.
• 24:19
  The original Tesla, yeah.
• 24:20
  Yeah.
• 24:20
  But that the X is the bigger one.
• 24:21
  The Y is the smaller one.
• 24:23
  Correct.
• 24:23
  Yeah.
• 24:24
  So they're gonna just make the Y and the cyber truck.
• 24:27
  That's it.
• 24:28
  They still make the three, they do
• 24:32
  the model two.
• 24:33
  Wasn't that the one that's supposed to be like $20,000 free?
• 24:36
  Basically?
• 24:36
  Yeah.
• 24:37
  No, that's never gonna happen.
• 24:38
  The model two is dead.
• 24:39
  That's stillborn.
• 24:40
  That's That's terrible.
• 24:41
  Wow.
• 24:43
  Hey, the cyber truck's still out there sitting on lots, undriven things.
• 24:47
  We thought we were dead and now are raising from it.
• 24:50
  Like Lazarus, the grand tour is coming back.
• 24:54
  Yay.
• 24:56
  I thought they were done 10 times ago.
• 24:58
  Yeah, right.
• 24:59
  It's like the Rolling Stones tour.
• 25:01
  Right.
• 25:02
  And all those guys, they just keep going forever and as long as you keep paying.
• 25:05
  We will keep touring.
• 25:07
  It's the final tour number 25.
• 25:10
  Yeah, exactly.
• 25:11
  It's ridiculous.
• 25:12
  So Jeremy Clarkson put something out on Instagram talking about, which
• 25:16
  I had already read this a while ago, like who they had chosen to
• 25:20
  supersede them and I don't know, because Clarkson's bit was okay.
• 25:25
  And I'm like, okay, who are these guys?
• 25:27
  Especially the third guy, the train spotting guy.
• 25:29
  But then I surfaced some of the throttle house videos, especially from their
• 25:33
  Instagram and I shared them with you guys and I wanted to see what you
• 25:36
  thought, like, is this what we're gonna expect in the new Grand tour?
• 25:40
  The new quote, unquote, let's call it Top Gear.
• 25:42
  I've seen a lot of the throttle house stuff on.
• 25:46
  YouTube and I thought it was pretty good for like a YouTube channel.
• 25:51
  I'm curious to see what they do with a infinite budget and maybe they do
• 25:54
  things that are more interesting, but it's an infinite budget on
• 25:57
  a platform that nobody watches.
• 26:00
  And, and I know I'm doing a gross generalization here, but what other
• 26:04
  compelling event or show or thing is on Amazon Prime that makes you
• 26:09
  go, Hey, I'm gonna jump over to Amazon Prime and watch their thing.
• 26:13
  They got tubi and freebie and all that other junk.
• 26:16
  You're really gonna waste your time on Amazon Prime when you could be
• 26:19
  watching the Olympics on Peacock.
• 26:21
  You know, that kind of thing.
• 26:22
  Like really?
• 26:23
  I don't think so.
• 26:24
  Well call patrol.
• 26:25
  This was not a paid advertisement.
• 26:26
  PAW Patrol, my God.
• 26:29
  But that's not even Amazon Prime.
• 26:30
  That's, that's Amazon Prime through, or that's Paramount
• 26:33
  Plus through Amazon Prime.
• 26:34
  Oh my God.
• 26:35
  Yeah, exactly.
• 26:37
  The clips I saw, I agree with what you said.
• 26:40
  I think it's good for YouTube.
• 26:42
  It's annoying these people pretending like they're caveman jumping around the car.
• 26:46
  Ooh, ooh.
• 26:47
  Did you see the second video?
• 26:49
  No.
• 26:49
  Where he's got the manual where all he does is shift things.
• 26:53
  If you put it in his hand, he shifts gears.
• 26:54
  It doesn't matter what he is doing.
• 26:56
  These videos aren't made for me.
• 26:58
  Right.
• 27:00
  I am not their target audience.
• 27:01
  The people are saying, oh, they're the natural progression for Hamlin Clarkson
• 27:05
  and May, and I'm like, I, I don't see it.
• 27:07
  Oh, here's my problem.
• 27:08
  So the Amazon Prime is one issue and you, you can take many
• 27:12
  different sides of that issue.
• 27:13
  How you feel about Amazon and all that.
• 27:15
  I'm not even worried about that.
• 27:16
  I'm just really focusing on if Andy Willman is just trying to reproduce
• 27:21
  top gear, there's a big mistake there because you're never going to find
• 27:26
  another Clarkson Hammond in May.
• 27:28
  They are who they are.
• 27:30
  And at that time we showed up for those guys and we watched and the car
• 27:34
  stuff and whatever, but the cars have changed and the people have changed.
• 27:38
  Reviewing cars hasn't changed.
• 27:40
  It's still the same thing.
• 27:41
  Like how fast does it go and what does it do and how does it, they've been doing
• 27:44
  another motor week for like a hundred years, you know, that kind of thing.
• 27:47
  It's never going to be the same.
• 27:48
  And if you're trying to replicate it, that's where you're gonna
• 27:51
  lose a huge amount of audience because I think what they should
• 27:54
  have done is taken throttle house.
• 27:56
  And made that the new brand name, it's a great name, and said Throttle
• 28:00
  house, coming to Amazon Prime.
• 28:01
  And then you sort of reintroduce the concept and people go, you
• 28:05
  know, this is really familiar.
• 28:07
  It has this like top gear kind of feel to it.
• 28:09
  But it's a whole new dynamic.
• 28:11
  And you can get on board with that, you can subscribe with that.
• 28:13
  But if you bring these guys to this table and say it's the new top gear, it's
• 28:17
  the new grand tour, whatever, there's a certain expectation that goes with that.
• 28:21
  Yeah.
• 28:21
  And I think we're all gonna be holding them to that level and they're never
• 28:25
  gonna be able to achieve the same thing.
• 28:27
  And it's gonna fail.
• 28:28
  It'll make it a year or two max.
• 28:30
  And then it'll be gone.
• 28:32
  And to that point, that's the same reason why the numerous, uh, iterations
• 28:36
  of American Top Gear, top Gear, USA, top Gear America, they all failed
• 28:41
  because they were all under the shadow.
• 28:45
  And the high expectations of the original top gear, like you were
• 28:49
  saying, you're never gonna get another Clarkson Hammond in May.
• 28:53
  You know, the only one that worked, the only spinoff that worked in that series
• 28:57
  is the one most people don't even realize existed, which is Top Gear Australia.
• 29:02
  'cause the Australians sort of just did whatever the heck
• 29:05
  they wanted and it was funny.
• 29:08
  And it was all about their stuff and their culture and their cars and it just worked.
• 29:12
  And then they did a cross, one of the best crossover episodes with
• 29:16
  Top Gear is the Ashes episode where the Australians come and they do the
• 29:19
  shootout, the the XJ two 20 powered van and the Maloo and all that stuff.
• 29:24
  The Australians did it.
• 29:25
  Right.
• 29:25
  And they didn't get enough credit.
• 29:27
  But to your point, the Americans and all the other spinoffs, because there even
• 29:30
  apparently was like a top gear Germany.
• 29:32
  Yeah.
• 29:32
  And they just never worked because they were trying to repeat the
• 29:36
  recipe and you can't do that.
• 29:38
  So I unfortunately feel like this is the same thing with the Grand
• 29:41
  tour and it's got a lot of cards stacked against it from day one.
• 29:46
  And I think a lot of that also comes from just the way
• 29:48
  Clarkson, Hammond and May worked.
• 29:50
  Like, not even just their chemistry on screen, but the work
• 29:54
  that they did behind the screen.
• 29:55
  I mean, I thought, you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I saw something
• 29:59
  about where Clarkson would spend hours writing and rewriting and retaking
• 30:04
  jokes and checking and like testing.
• 30:06
  It is like everything that he was meticulous Yes.
• 30:09
  With how they did and they, and they made it look so effortless and almost
• 30:12
  candid, but it was meticulously put together and thought out.
• 30:16
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:16
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:16
  And nobody else can replicate that.
• 30:18
  No.
• 30:19
  Well, speaking of things that can't be replicated, and on a very sad note,
• 30:24
  drag racing legend, ed Isky Arian, also known as the Cam father, passed away on
• 30:31
  February the fourth at 104 years old.
• 30:36
  Our condolences go out to the family and to break fix guest Cheyenne Kane.
• 30:41
  We were very fortunate to be able to have her on the show to Chronicle Isys life and
• 30:46
  to talk about the new documentary that she put together, which is also called Isy.
• 30:51
  And it's making its rounds in the indie film circuit right now and
• 30:54
  we're hoping that it gets picked up through a streaming service.
• 30:57
  But I believe she is bringing the film to the East coast.
• 31:00
  So we, we will be able to go to a showing and see the Isky film firsthand.
• 31:05
  But if you missed that, go back into our catalog Break Fix and check out
• 31:09
  the episode with Cheyenne Kane so you can get up to speed on all things.
• 31:13
  Ed Arian.
• 31:14
  In other tragic and sad news, we've lost a veteran legendary
• 31:20
  actor, James Vander Beak.
• 31:23
  That too.
• 31:26
  The greatest racing movie of all time Days of Thunder.
• 31:29
  We have lost Robert Dugal at age nine five.
• 31:32
  Now he can eat all the ice cream he wants.
• 31:36
  Robin's racing, baby.
• 31:37
  We need to revisit that movie.
• 31:39
  That's what we need to do next with Steven.
• 31:41
  Well, we said we've, we've said we were gonna do it, but now it's even
• 31:44
  Yeah, we gotta fast forward that.
• 31:46
  We gotta get that done.
• 31:47
  Let's watch it on the 27th.
• 31:49
  There you go.
• 31:49
  Get together with them that I think they're a good tribute.
• 31:52
  Robert Devo, I'm gonna bring out some, I'm gonna get you some ice cream.
• 31:55
  Come on down here.
• 31:56
  We'll, we'll go to the, the Moo or whatever up there by you and then go Yeah.
• 32:00
  And go watch these of thunder.
• 32:02
  Can I rub a little sweet and low packet on your leg too while we watch it or what?
• 32:12
  I'll be sure to wear my short shorts.
• 32:15
  Stop the car.
• 32:15
  Cole.
• 32:16
  Stop the.
• 32:21
  Well, I would say that we would move on to our regularly scheduled ranting and
• 32:25
  raving at this point, but this is like Monty Python, like, bring out you dead.
• 32:29
  Bring out you dead.
• 32:30
  And then next we're like, I'm not dead yet.
• 32:33
  Not dead yet.
• 32:35
  Speaking of not dead yet, I thought the boxer and the Cayman were gone.
• 32:40
  Like, I'm so confused what's going on at Porsche right now.
• 32:43
  But apparently they're back.
• 32:45
  Back in a weird way because there's the Ev Cayman and the EV boxer, but
• 32:50
  then they're talking about getting in bed with Toyota and doing this
• 32:54
  collaboration MR two boxer thing.
• 32:57
  And I'm like, what?
• 32:59
  Since when I, I'm just gonna say since when does Porsche need Toyota's
• 33:04
  help to build something like a boxer or a Cayman, which they've
• 33:07
  been making now since the nineties.
• 33:10
  Like, come on.
• 33:11
  Really just.
• 33:12
  Sell something.
• 33:14
  It doesn't cost over six figures.
• 33:16
  Even the Caymans cost six figures now.
• 33:19
  Well that's kind of the point of this is they're saying they're basically pushing
• 33:23
  out younger people that don't have the money to afford a Porsche anymore.
• 33:27
  Because where's the 9 44?
• 33:29
  That was like the poor man's Porsche to go buy and they only did that
• 33:33
  'cause Ferrari had the 3 0 8, so they had to compete in that space.
• 33:37
  Right.
• 33:37
  Also to get themselves outta bankruptcy.
• 33:39
  I mean, it is the card to save Porsche during the eighties,
• 33:41
  but yes to to that end.
• 33:43
  Where is the 9 44?
• 33:45
  Where is the 9 28?
• 33:46
  You could make the argument that the Panamera replaced the 9 28
• 33:50
  in some respects, but where's that front engine rear drive?
• 33:53
  Near perfect weight distribution, grand Tour or Sport Coupe?
• 33:57
  I guess that the 9 44 was, but yeah, I don't know.
• 34:00
  Is the idea to go to Toyota because lower costs?
• 34:03
  Yeah, because also, 'cause you've already had the Porsche.
• 34:05
  Volkswagen, you already had the Porsche Audi.
• 34:08
  Like why would you.
• 34:09
  Not just go revisit that pool.
• 34:11
  They're your same company.
• 34:13
  I don't get it.
• 34:14
  It makes no sense other than what are you saving with A GTI that's $60,000.
• 34:18
  So yeah, because 'cause neither of those companies are making
• 34:21
  cars that anybody wants.
• 34:23
  At least Toyota still is for now.
• 34:26
  For now.
• 34:27
  You can't tell me that Volkswagen can't build a boxer with a GTI
• 34:30
  engine in it and let's call it a day.
• 34:32
  I mean, why are we going to Toyota?
• 34:34
  I don't know.
• 34:35
  It doesn't make any sense.
• 34:36
  It's not like they produce anoth yet another boxer yet another Cayman.
• 34:40
  They're gonna outsource the chassis and all that to Toyota.
• 34:44
  That doesn't make, again, it doesn't make any sense.
• 34:46
  Toyota, a company which currently has three different front engine rear wheel
• 34:50
  drive based force cars on their three separate vehicle platforms, in addition
• 34:54
  to performance variants of the Corolla and Yaris, which again doesn't make any sense.
• 34:57
  So Volkswagen, Audi have plenty of front engine cars.
• 35:01
  Porsche, you know how to make a rear wheel drive car.
• 35:04
  You're telling me you can't put the two together on your own?
• 35:06
  No.
• 35:07
  No.
• 35:08
  Let's unpack that.
• 35:09
  Toyota has three, I don't know which those are front engine and
• 35:13
  three wheel drive sports cars.
• 35:15
  They've got the BRZ GT 86, the, yeah, the G 86.
• 35:18
  Now the GR 86, which they built with Subaru, and then the Supra,
• 35:22
  which they built with BMW.
• 35:23
  What's the other one?
• 35:24
  They, they don't make the super anymore.
• 35:25
  Well, I guess they knew how to, yeah, but they didn't though because they
• 35:29
  built it with another manufacturer.
• 35:31
  BMW.
• 35:32
  When's, yeah, when's the last time they built a rear wheel drive?
• 35:34
  A front engine, rear wheel drive car themself.
• 35:36
  The third one is a Lexus.
• 35:38
  That's the one you're missing?
• 35:39
  Mm. Okay, so then Porsche should go to Lexus.
• 35:42
  Well, why would Porsche not go to BMW or Mercedes?
• 35:46
  Why would you not stay German?
• 35:48
  That's verboten because fuck those guys.
• 35:50
  That's what I, I guarantee you it's a, it's a fuck those guys kind of thing.
• 35:54
  I can you imagine a A GR 86 with like a Porsche body on top of it.
• 35:59
  How pathetic is that gonna be?
• 36:02
  You can't tell me Volkswagen can't build this and put a freaking two liter turbo.
• 36:06
  GTI motor up front Volkswagen knows how to make rear engine cars too.
• 36:11
  The beetle.
• 36:12
  Yeah.
• 36:12
  A hundred years ago.
• 36:15
  I don't know.
• 36:16
  I almost wanna be like, this is a farce, but the news came from the Porsche
• 36:20
  Club directly, so I'm like, well, maybe there's some credibility to this.
• 36:23
  I just don't, I don't get it.
• 36:25
  It actually kind of infuriates me in a way, like, what the hell is Porsche doing?
• 36:29
  They just wanna sell nine elevens and that's it.
• 36:31
  They're like only interested in the m mr two that Toyota's
• 36:34
  allegedly coming back with.
• 36:36
  Okay.
• 36:36
  And you said something to me the other day, which is really important about
• 36:40
  this particular part of the conversation.
• 36:42
  Currently at the helm of Toyota, we have an enthusiast, right?
• 36:46
  All the Gazoo stuff that's going on, but what's about to happen at Toyota?
• 36:50
  But that's changing.
• 36:52
  They're putting a bean counter in charge.
• 36:54
  Yeah.
• 36:54
  So who's Porsche gonna get their m mr two sports Coop from?
• 36:59
  I mean, granted, this article, a guest came out before the Toyota announcement.
• 37:05
  Maybe Porsche didn't know and now they're gonna have to be like, nevermind.
• 37:10
  Scotty didn't know.
• 37:12
  Scotty didn't know.
• 37:13
  Scotty didn't know.
• 37:13
  Because at them two ain't happening with the bean counter in charge.
• 37:16
  No, it's not.
• 37:16
  It's not.
• 37:17
  That's gonna get canceled.
• 37:18
  That's probably one of the first things that's gonna get canceled.
• 37:20
  'cause they're gonna go back to making super boring corollas and CELs and stuff.
• 37:25
  Now that there's not an enthusiast in charge of Toyota, bring the Avalon back.
• 37:29
  Oh God no, please.
• 37:31
  I'm, I'm reading this.
• 37:32
  It seems like this is all pie in the sky and there's nothing going.
• 37:37
  This is just what this writer has said.
• 37:39
  You can't help but daydream about what a collaboration between Toyota and
• 37:43
  Porsche on an affordable, vintage, and sports car would look like.
• 37:46
  So this is all bullshit.
• 37:47
  We got clickbait.
• 37:48
  So that being said, how many Porsche club owners suddenly got out their
• 37:52
  torches and their pitchforks?
• 37:53
  'cause I'd be pissed off.
• 37:54
  Who's writing for PCA these days?
• 37:56
  'cause this isn't the first time we've come across articles
• 37:59
  where it's like, who wrote this?
• 38:01
  Well, first of all, it was written poorly.
• 38:02
  This is Brad.
• 38:03
  This is Bradley Iger.
• 38:07
  Must be a Brad thing.
• 38:09
  What?
• 38:09
  When was the last time I wrote an article?
• 38:11
  So speaking of things that, thank God they're dead.
• 38:14
  Did you know Audi was gonna enter the pickup truck market?
• 38:17
  Who?
• 38:18
  I'm gonna say that again.
• 38:19
  Audi pickup truck.
• 38:21
  They called it the active sphere concept.
• 38:23
  Active fear.
• 38:25
  Dude, look at this thing.
• 38:26
  But that's not a pickup truck.
• 38:27
  That just happens to be a like lift gate that you can stick your bike out the back.
• 38:31
  Tesla redefined what it is to be a pickup truck.
• 38:33
  That's a pickup truck.
• 38:34
  Now there's not a pickup truck.
• 38:36
  I would not, doesn't look like a cyber truck.
• 38:38
  Thank God it doesn't look like a cyber truck.
• 38:40
  But also it doesn't look like a pickup truck.
• 38:42
  It also has the same amount of trunk space as a cyber truck is pretty terrible.
• 38:45
  I mean, you can't even put the bike all the way in The fuck is that shit.
• 38:50
  I'm sorry.
• 38:52
  Just put a bike rack on the back.
• 38:54
  Why are you never?
• 38:55
  That is the dumbest.
• 38:57
  It looks so stupid, useless crap.
• 39:00
  What is that?
• 39:01
  I'm sorry.
• 39:01
  That's stupid.
• 39:02
  I just like the fact that it has like a reverse sunroof.
• 39:05
  Did you see how the trunk opens?
• 39:07
  I don't wanna see it anymore.
• 39:08
  This is Ong, like you just wasted any sort of cargo space
• 39:12
  to hang your bike halfway in.
• 39:14
  It's still halfway out.
• 39:15
  Leave the damn thing all the way out.
• 39:17
  It gets better.
• 39:18
  If you click on the other article about it, the Audi active seer
• 39:21
  concept a little further down.
• 39:23
  It'll take you to another article.
• 39:25
  There's a picture of it with golf clubs in the back and you can't close the
• 39:28
  boot with the golf clubs in the back.
• 39:30
  Oh, where?
• 39:31
  Where, how do I click that?
• 39:32
  Where do I click that?
• 39:33
  I don't see a link.
• 39:34
  Here's the best part of all that.
• 39:36
  All right.
• 39:36
  As you read this article, you realize this is Volkswagen Audi at its finest because
• 39:43
  they are competing with themselves because they can't leave well enough alone.
• 39:48
  All of this atmosphere.
• 39:50
  Comes from the fact that they're gonna make a pickup truck over at Scout,
• 39:54
  which is owned by Volkswagen because they can't just swim in one lane.
• 39:58
  So now we're going back to, well, if, if Scout has a pickup,
• 40:01
  then Volkswagen has to have one.
• 40:03
  An Audi has to have one.
• 40:04
  Next thing you know, there's gonna be a Porsche badged pickup
• 40:06
  truck, probably built by Toyota.
• 40:08
  It'll be a Tundra with a Porsche badge on it.
• 40:11
  But this is stupid.
• 40:12
  Why would you drive around with your golf clubs exposed?
• 40:16
  Aren't they really expensive of a good set?
• 40:20
  Yes, could be.
• 40:20
  Yeah.
• 40:21
  This is so stupid dumb.
• 40:25
  So you were asking earlier, why wouldn't Porsche just go to Volkswagen and Audi?
• 40:30
  This is why this is the bullshit that they're fucking making.
• 40:34
  Porsche is like, no, thank you.
• 40:36
  We'll, outsource Porsche is like, I want rear real drive, front engine,
• 40:40
  mid, mid-engine, super sports car for the people in in Volkswagen, I was
• 40:44
  like, here's about this pickup truck that doesn't actually fit a golf club.
• 40:48
  This is sad.
• 40:50
  Speaking of things that are bad and apparently still on the
• 40:53
  table, I'm gonna keep bringing this car up until it goes away.
• 40:56
  But unfortunately, it is, quote unquote, the new design language for Audi.
• 40:59
  Audi confirms the concept C project still on.
• 41:03
  Despite the rumors, this ugly heinous eyesore won't go away.
• 41:09
  What would you rather this AI generated?
• 41:12
  Crap.
• 41:13
  It's not even real.
• 41:14
  What would you rather this or the pickup truck?
• 41:16
  Am I allowed to burn it to the ground?
• 41:19
  It'll burn itself to the ground.
• 41:20
  It's electric.
• 41:20
  That's true.
• 41:21
  God, they're terrible.
• 41:22
  They're all terrible.
• 41:24
  Oh man.
• 41:25
  This is bad for some angles and the other one's bad from some angles.
• 41:29
  If we could maybe smash them into each other, we could
• 41:32
  have one decent looking car.
• 41:33
  'cause the front of the other one's not bad, but the, the
• 41:37
  back of this one's horrendous.
• 41:38
  God, I think you mean smash them into each other and destroy both of them.
• 41:42
  I think that's what you're meant to say.
• 41:44
  The end result.
• 41:45
  Yes.
• 41:45
  This, they're just terrible.
• 41:47
  I do like that one picture of this heinous AI car, and there's this black hole and
• 41:52
  it says, this is just the beginning.
• 41:54
  Yeah.
• 41:54
  Of the end.
• 41:55
  Pretty much like that is, that's the shoot where the poop goes.
• 41:59
  Open butt hole,
• 42:03
  inter, inter suppository.
• 42:05
  Again, there's certain car companies we say we're not gonna talk about, and then
• 42:10
  they just poof, come up with something else that we can't resist talking
• 42:15
  about and maybe this should be part of the showcase, which as you notice,
• 42:19
  there's a theme here we're continuing to extend throughout the episode.
• 42:24
  BMW's new M three.
• 42:27
  All I have to say is quad motor and not the petrol kind.
• 42:32
  Is this the nail in the coffin for the M three?
• 42:34
  Is this what's gonna kill it?
• 42:35
  Probably.
• 42:35
  It needs quad motors because it weighs 10 million pounds.
• 42:39
  Oh my God, it's so awful.
• 42:41
  5,000 pounds.
• 42:42
  You know what?
• 42:43
  Honestly, it's hard to tell what it's gonna look like since it's under
• 42:46
  total camo, this, that, and the other.
• 42:48
  The front, what you can see of it, is sort of reminiscent of a
• 42:51
  2002 in the grill style with the lights, which if done correctly.
• 42:58
  Might not even be a bad thing.
• 43:00
  Be better than those buck tooth, badger kidney grill things that
• 43:03
  have been going on recently.
• 43:05
  But I thought BM BMW was one of the ones that was all about the combustion.
• 43:10
  Yes.
• 43:10
  Until they're not when it suits them.
• 43:12
  Tell me that The back of that doesn't look like a Pontiac G eight from the one angle.
• 43:17
  Yes.
• 43:18
  Or Alexis.
• 43:19
  It's really big too.
• 43:21
  If you go a little further down, there's a link.
• 43:24
  It's the new electric M three lapping the berg ring.
• 43:29
  Oh yeah, I did see that.
• 43:30
  Uh oh yeah, I see that.
• 43:32
  I'm sorry.
• 43:33
  But to add insult to injury, and we didn't get to talk about this last
• 43:37
  time, so it fits right in here with this car's gonna be put together
• 43:41
  with that screw, that BMW made.
• 43:43
  That's impossible to screw unless you have their special.
• 43:45
  Have you seen this thing?
• 43:47
  Yes.
• 43:47
  The screw head is a round L. I mean, there's schwabing tools and
• 43:52
  then there's this kind of insanity.
• 43:54
  And when that strips, because it will, you're fucked.
• 43:57
  You just gonna have to get a new car.
• 44:00
  The whole car's gonna be put together with these.
• 44:04
  It's bad enough when they use torques, the six points like This is stupid.
• 44:09
  What happened to Right.
• 44:09
  To repair what?
• 44:11
  Yeah.
• 44:11
  They're gonna find a way to take that away from you without
• 44:14
  having to do it with the laws.
• 44:15
  They'll make everything some special, ridiculous tool.
• 44:18
  I think this is creating a whole new aftermarket for screws and people.
• 44:23
  BMW owners are just gonna buy a kit for like $1,500 to
• 44:27
  replace all of their screws.
• 44:31
  I didn't think about it that way, but that's, that's a good point.
• 44:33
  The new ECS tuning billet screw kit for your VW.
• 44:37
  Bag of screws.
• 44:39
  Bag of screws.
• 44:40
  Or you're gonna get a bunch of people that are gonna 3D print some sort
• 44:43
  of adapter wrench, screwdriver, or whatever the mechanism is.
• 44:47
  I don't know.
• 44:47
  Well, since we're talking about things that are closing, dying,
• 44:51
  going away, should remain dead.
• 44:53
  However you wanna phrase that.
• 44:55
  We don't have any new EVs or compec cars.
• 44:57
  We don't have any Asian stuff.
• 44:58
  We don't have any bikes.
• 44:59
  We don't have any lost and found.
• 45:00
  We don't have any uncool wall.
• 45:02
  This is a hell of a season closer.
• 45:04
  We got no Tesla news other than what we already talked about.
• 45:07
  Well, we had the JDM news with the Toyota CEO swap change thing,
• 45:12
  and then Mazda recently was just awarded, I don't know if awarded, but
• 45:17
  apparently they're now the safest car.
• 45:19
  They've outshined Volvo in their safety performance record.
• 45:24
  So look at that.
• 45:25
  Unexpected.
• 45:26
  That's awesome.
• 45:27
  That's because Volvo's also run by bean counters and can't build the
• 45:32
  safest car, but you make outta tinfoil.
• 45:35
  You know when they used to make Outta Iron Girders, the same ones that they
• 45:38
  built the Empire State Building out of?
• 45:40
  Yeah.
• 45:40
  Volvos were safe.
• 45:41
  That was available on the Volvo, two 40 wagons, iron Bridge
• 45:44
  girders, but not so much anymore.
• 45:46
  So moving right along as we fast forward to, seriously what could go wrong.
• 45:51
  Tanya, I'm gonna ask you this question until you get your Apple subscription.
• 45:54
  Nope.
• 45:54
  Did you watch the F1 movie?
• 45:56
  No.
• 45:56
  But apparently they're already in talks for another F1 movie.
• 46:00
  Are you gonna wait for the second one and watch 'em back to back?
• 46:02
  What would you call F1 the movie two.
• 46:06
  F two FU.
• 46:12
  We just went backwards from F1 to F two to F three.
• 46:17
  We're getting slower.
• 46:19
  God, it would be two F1.
• 46:23
  I have not seen it yet.
• 46:25
  Pose when the Apple subscription's unlocked, I suppose I will then
• 46:31
  Grace the movie with my eyeballs.
• 46:33
  We'll add it to the list.
• 46:35
  We'll watch it after Days of Thunder.
• 46:36
  There you go.
• 46:37
  I don't see what a sequel would bring to the table.
• 46:40
  Is Brad Pick gonna be in it again?
• 46:41
  No spoilers.
• 46:43
  I want all the spoil.
• 46:45
  Uh, all right.
• 46:47
  We started off this conversation talking a little bit about the Olympics
• 46:50
  and talking about the Super Bowl.
• 46:51
  So we have some winter sports and obviously, you know, we're
• 46:54
  gonna talk about Rolex here in a minute and stuff like that.
• 46:56
  So since we're in the midst of winter sports enthusiasm, I've been
• 47:01
  watching a lot of the ski jump.
• 47:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 47:03
  And I began to realize, you know, the old Audi commercial where he drove
• 47:07
  up the ski jump and how fun is that?
• 47:09
  And you know, how real was that?
• 47:10
  I guess it, apparently it was very real back in the eighties, but we haven't
• 47:14
  let that go in Germany of all places.
• 47:17
  They do car competitions in the snow up the mountain.
• 47:22
  Amazing.
• 47:23
  With all these whacked out all wheel drive cars and this video is just unreal.
• 47:29
  It's amazing.
• 47:30
  My favorite though.
• 47:31
  My favorite is that quantum station wagon.
• 47:34
  I wanna know what's in that.
• 47:36
  That thing was awesome.
• 47:37
  I mean it outdid the sport.
• 47:38
  Quatro Ballistically quick.
• 47:41
  And for those that don't know, the VW Quantum Station Wagon Synchro is
• 47:45
  actually an Audi 4,000 underneath.
• 47:46
  So it's all in the same family now.
• 47:49
  The Fox is the one that I was kind of scratching my head.
• 47:52
  'cause that shares a lot of 4,000 DNA, but that must have
• 47:55
  been swapped to all wheel drive.
• 47:57
  But that too was just a beast.
• 47:59
  I was like the two oldest cars there basically were like the fastest ones.
• 48:04
  It was, it was awesome.
• 48:05
  It had that powered weight ratio, that wagon, it's like a shot out of a gun.
• 48:10
  The RSS four wagon yellow one.
• 48:12
  Yeah.
• 48:13
  Yes.
• 48:13
  Yeah, it's awesome.
• 48:14
  It's a great, great thing.
• 48:16
  This is an amazing event.
• 48:17
  It's like, I wanna do this.
• 48:18
  I know.
• 48:19
  I love it.
• 48:19
  Peak.
• 48:19
  Peak.
• 48:20
  But it's snow.
• 48:21
  It's the slowmo instead of the schmo.
• 48:23
  See, they got to go up and they come across the top and
• 48:26
  then they come back down.
• 48:26
  Yeah.
• 48:26
  But like how stiff is that sport?
• 48:28
  Quatro?
• 48:28
  It's like a board.
• 48:30
  It just like, it doesn't wanna play ball at all.
• 48:33
  No, it just bounces air under the tires.
• 48:36
  No, like it's so stiff, but the sounds, can you imagine hearing all these fire
• 48:40
  breathing five cylinders just running up the mountain at like 9,000 rpm.
• 48:44
  It's amazing.
• 48:45
  We need to find out when this is going on.
• 48:47
  Next year.
• 48:48
  Yeah.
• 48:48
  Right.
• 48:49
  Is that black car?
• 48:49
  Is that a skyline?
• 48:51
  Yeah.
• 48:51
  Yeah.
• 48:52
  Holy shit.
• 48:53
  That's amazing.
• 48:54
  It's not just Audis.
• 48:55
  I'm pretty sure I saw A BMW earlier.
• 48:57
  Yeah.
• 48:57
  There was a BM BMW one series.
• 48:59
  Well, what's still the fastest up that hill, I think is the snowmobile.
• 49:04
  Oh my God.
• 49:05
  The skyline was doing donuts and then he hit the Yes.
• 49:08
  Did the snow baker?
• 49:08
  Yes he did.
• 49:09
  He did the snow machine.
• 49:10
  This is awesome.
• 49:11
  Yeah, it's good stuff.
• 49:13
  Last time we had asked time, you know, we're, we were, we started off
• 49:15
  talking about car commercials and we were supposed to find interesting car
• 49:18
  commercials for every drive through.
• 49:20
  You found something for us?
• 49:21
  No, no, no.
• 49:22
  So it's a deep fake.
• 49:23
  No.
• 49:24
  Is it really?
• 49:25
  It's clickbait.
• 49:26
  It's clickbait.
• 49:29
  So I was searching celebrity car commercials, right?
• 49:35
  And then go ahead.
• 49:36
  And what did I come up with?
• 49:42
  Make your move to Chevrolet's new celebrity.
• 49:47
  The Celebrity Chev.
• 49:49
  Oh no, I got Rick rolled.
• 49:53
  Watch the whole thing.
• 49:54
  'cause this is a 1984 baby, so we gotta shout out to the Olympics at the end.
• 49:58
  Oh yeah.
• 49:59
  Oh wow.
• 50:02
  Look at that styling.
• 50:04
  Hmm.
• 50:05
  $8,456. Did we convert that to today's dollars?
• 50:09
  What is 8,500 in 1984 In today's dollars, if it's for a Chevy, it's.
• 50:15
  500 lemons won't even take that car.
• 50:17
  $26,516 car.
• 50:21
  Damn.
• 50:21
  That's actually still pretty affordable for today's dollars.
• 50:23
  I wouldn't want it though for that price.
• 50:25
  Well, yeah.
• 50:27
  I'd rather have an Ultima.
• 50:28
  So I will warn that you can go down a rabbit hole on Celebrity
• 50:31
  Chevrolet or commercial that exists.
• 50:34
  Oh man.
• 50:35
  Ha ha.
• 50:35
  Again, seriously, what could go wrong?
• 50:37
  And then the celebrity Chevrolet car commercials lead to the Beretta
• 50:42
  Ooh Chevrolet car commercials.
• 50:44
  Ooh.
• 50:45
  And the Beretta was the Heartbeat Chevrolet.
• 50:47
  I drove a Beretta.
• 50:49
  I know somebody that owned a Beretta.
• 50:50
  I got her to buy a Volkswagen instead.
• 50:52
  It was a good move.
• 50:54
  But I have some leads on some actual celebrities in car commercials.
• 50:59
  I left this one in 'cause it Rick rolled me and then it had the Olympics tie in.
• 51:02
  So full circle moment.
• 51:04
  No book club this month 'cause I'm in the middle of reading a book.
• 51:07
  We will move on to rich people.
• 51:10
  Thanks.
• 51:14
  There's a Ferrari ev coming out.
• 51:17
  What a clever day.
• 51:19
  The lu chick, which means light and not 'cause it weighs little, no,
• 51:25
  it weighs as much as the Hummer.
• 51:26
  Evie co-designed by apple's.
• 51:29
  Johnny, ive Who Just kidding.
• 51:32
  I'm sure William will do a whole episode about this on the Ferrari marketplace.
• 51:36
  Let's just do our own little review of what we know about the
• 51:40
  Ferrari Luce and what everybody's raving about is its interior.
• 51:43
  The interior looks like a toy, right?
• 51:46
  Who made that toy when we were in our generation with kids and you
• 51:50
  had that little console of a car.
• 51:52
  Don't say it's the racing thing where it like moves around on the
• 51:55
  little black screen with the knobs.
• 51:57
  Not quite that, but there was the other one with the steering wheel and had like
• 52:00
  the little like yellow shifter thing.
• 52:02
  Oh, the Fisher pricey thing.
• 52:04
  Yay.
• 52:04
  I think it was the Fisher-Price thing.
• 52:05
  I'm not sure.
• 52:06
  I don't wanna offend Fisher-Price, but this reminds, gives me vibes
• 52:09
  of that Fisher Price store.
• 52:12
  I don't,
• 52:15
  Hey, this has the iconic three spoke studio.
• 52:20
  Hey, now.
• 52:22
  Oh, is that a speak and spell?
• 52:24
  What is that?
• 52:25
  The steering wheel thing.
• 52:26
  Oh, there, see, it's the modern version.
• 52:28
  This is the modern version.
• 52:30
  God, little yellow Ferrari on the center.
• 52:33
  You're good to go.
• 52:34
  Like I have mixed feelings about this.
• 52:37
  I really think despite the fact that the dash is like digital,
• 52:41
  I think it looks really cool.
• 52:42
  It's very like eighties Ferrari with the dials and the way they
• 52:46
  look, even though they're fake, but the rest of it is way too iPhone.
• 52:50
  Well, you said it was a dude from Apple.
• 52:52
  Yeah.
• 52:53
  It's just no.
• 52:54
  What do you think about it from the outside?
• 52:56
  You know, honestly, they've made uglier Ferraris, but it
• 52:59
  doesn't look like a Ferrari.
• 53:00
  If you painted this dark green and put some lateral aerodynamic roof rails on
• 53:06
  it, would this look like the Hyundai?
• 53:08
  Like if you took the emblems off of it, would you believe it was a genesis?
• 53:12
  Oh, I would believe this is a Japanese car.
• 53:13
  If it didn't have Ferrari badges on it.
• 53:15
  I like the AI Recolored yellow one that looks even.
• 53:19
  I don't know if this is actually the final version of it.
• 53:22
  So who knows what it'll actually look like.
• 53:25
  We all can't afford it, so there you go.
• 53:27
  Oh yeah, that'll be 350,000 to start for sure.
• 53:31
  This goes back to the Stellantis EV thing.
• 53:33
  Does Ferrari have to make an ev?
• 53:36
  This is where they lost $26 billion creating this thing that
• 53:39
  nobody wants, that nobody's, how well did the Pru Sangwe sell?
• 53:44
  If you can afford a Ferrari, I don't know why.
• 53:46
  You care about the price of fuel, right?
• 53:49
  And you probably, not all but percentage.
• 53:53
  You don't care about the environment either.
• 53:55
  Smoke, what are you saying?
• 53:58
  What are you, take that time.
• 53:59
  I'm just saying sometimes when you have too much money,
• 54:03
  you don't care about things.
• 54:04
  Well, that's rich people things.
• 54:05
  So, yeah, I'm sure William will do an episode about this in
• 54:09
  the future, but I also do want to give him a quick shout out.
• 54:13
  He got together with Chris Meley from Prancing Horse of Nashville to
• 54:16
  go behind the scenes and talk about the truth of the Bachman collection
• 54:21
  and the sale that happened in Mecu.
• 54:22
  A lot of people are still up in arms about why did they sell for so much, why this,
• 54:26
  why that, and blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 54:28
  So William called up Chris and said, Hey, you were the broker behind all this.
• 54:32
  Let's have a real candid conversation about what happened during the
• 54:35
  sale of the Bachman collection.
• 54:37
  So that episode is in our catalog.
• 54:39
  You can't get any closer to the source of truth than the guy
• 54:42
  that actually sold the cars.
• 54:43
  So check it out in our catalog and tune in for other Ferrari Marketplace
• 54:48
  episodes as we continue Rich people ths.
• 54:52
  Do we have an extra value meal this month, Tanya?
• 54:54
  I did not capture one this month.
• 54:56
  All right, well then we're gonna move right along to fan favorite.
• 55:00
  Are you faster than an interceptor?
• 55:17
  I swear we did this one already.
• 55:19
  'cause I remember a no, no, no.
• 55:21
  We talked about it, but we didn't do it.
• 55:23
  Is that what it is?
• 55:24
  Yes.
• 55:24
  So remember having the conversation of figuring out what it was.
• 55:27
  Correct, but we never talked about it on the drive through.
• 55:29
  Okay.
• 55:30
  I literally went and pulled up this last one, thinking we did it already then.
• 55:35
  So the first one is a Michigan MAN story, if I have that correct?
• 55:39
  Yes, you do.
• 55:40
  And apparently at the Detroit Metro Airport, McNamara Terminal.
• 55:46
  Someone decided that that was where the car park was and they
• 55:50
  blazed through, which is confusing.
• 55:53
  'cause then essentially they, the speed at which they were going,
• 55:57
  we all have been to an airport, the road and the airport terminal.
• 56:01
  They're parallel to each other.
• 56:03
  Like it's really diff it's not an intersection of some sort.
• 56:06
  Right.
• 56:06
  Like, so to carry that much speed and like enter perpendicularly into
• 56:11
  a building, it's quite impressive.
• 56:13
  And I wish there was like an outside camera.
• 56:15
  There is.
• 56:16
  I found it and then I lost the link.
• 56:18
  Ugh.
• 56:19
  He comes barreling down.
• 56:20
  He must like and hooks a hard right turn.
• 56:22
  Handbrake turn into the, into the thing.
• 56:24
  Yes.
• 56:25
  Which is a modern car.
• 56:26
  So there's no handbrake to pull on.
• 56:27
  But man, he must have just yanked all the steering wheel.
• 56:30
  You just cranked the wheel and then stood on it and we decided it was a Mercedes.
• 56:34
  Yes, it was a Mercedes.
• 56:35
  Maybe he, he had clear plus.
• 56:37
  Plus.
• 56:37
  That's the new perk.
• 56:38
  You could just drive straight into the airport.
• 56:40
  He thought TSA precheck would curse this.
• 56:43
  I love how they drag him out of there and he is wearing like a Detroit
• 56:46
  Lions jersey and he's just yelling like, wow, that guy went to jail.
• 56:51
  He did not pass, go.
• 56:53
  He did not collect $200.
• 56:55
  You think he missed his flight?
• 56:56
  You don't say, I think he's gonna miss many flights.
• 56:59
  You know how I've said before?
• 57:01
  Where's that guy trying to park?
• 57:03
  Is he trying to park in the store?
• 57:05
  Trying to park in the airport?
• 57:06
  He did.
• 57:06
  This guy did it.
• 57:07
  He's like, I can't get any closer than the Delta terminal counter.
• 57:10
  This reminds me of the, I don't know if you all have seen the videos of people
• 57:14
  doing this on Instagram when they drive past like an accident or something,
• 57:17
  or somebody does something stupid with their car as they're driving by, they're
• 57:21
  filming and they say, Hey, you can't park there at the most inopportune time.
• 57:26
  Well, it goes right along with this next one, which is same, same but different.
• 57:30
  Brad, this is in your great state of Virginia.
• 57:33
  I'll read the headline.
• 57:34
  Car on Metro TrackX shuts down traffic on I 66.
• 57:38
  That's impressive.
• 57:39
  Yeah.
• 57:39
  I don't consider Fairfax County part of Virginia.
• 57:41
  That's Maryland adjacent right there.
• 57:44
  Hey, it's below.
• 57:44
  It's on the other side of the river.
• 57:46
  That's yours and you can keep it.
• 57:48
  No, no, no, no.
• 57:50
  We'll, we'll take Tiger Woods.
• 57:52
  So if you look, I don't know exactly where this is on 66.
• 57:55
  I'm sure I've passed it at some point, but they're basically a ramp.
• 57:59
  So he must have like ramped shot over the fence and landed on the tracks.
• 58:04
  He went full Bo Duke.
• 58:07
  Yeah, this is Duke's a hazard right here.
• 58:09
  Honestly, at first I was like, how do you do that?
• 58:11
  But then seeing the ramp, you could a hundred percent jump that fence.
• 58:15
  And end up on the tracks.
• 58:17
  And what does that look like?
• 58:18
  A Honda?
• 58:19
  I'm trying to tell by the lights.
• 58:20
  I think it might be a Hyundai.
• 58:22
  Or It's a Honda.
• 58:23
  It's one or the, it's close.
• 58:24
  It's probably a Honda though.
• 58:26
  Can't tell.
• 58:26
  It's not an Ultima.
• 58:27
  Actually, if it had been an Ultima, he would've driven away from this.
• 58:30
  Yes.
• 58:30
  They would've caught him driving down the railroad tracks at like 80 miles an hour.
• 58:35
  Because it would've survived.
• 58:36
  Because as you said, the Altima is here for all of it.
• 58:40
  Yes.
• 58:40
  It's, I like how they say it's an unauthorized car.
• 58:45
  I, you know, excuse me, sir. You're unauthorized.
• 58:48
  You can't be here.
• 58:50
  I dare say that.
• 58:51
  Yes, that was unauthorized.
• 58:55
  It was not a car with the, uh, train wheels on it that was meant to be
• 59:00
  going down the tracks for service.
• 59:02
  Yeah.
• 59:03
  Well, Brad, you brought us this next one.
• 59:05
  I didn't actually read it,
• 59:09
  so let's all read it together.
• 59:12
  Florida man arrested after 13 hit and run crashes on Valentine's Day.
• 59:18
  Oh yeah.
• 59:19
  Over the course of like five hours.
• 59:22
  Five and a half hours.
• 59:23
  Police report.
• 59:24
  The 34-year-old is a Florida resident that lives at him as currently homeless.
• 59:29
  No, he lives in the jail.
• 59:30
  That's where he lives right now.
• 59:33
  He covered 80 miles smashing into cars and Chevy Colorado is in rough shape.
• 59:39
  No shit.
• 59:40
  Was this a whistling diesel?
• 59:42
  No, I'm just kidding.
• 59:43
  It kind of looks like that, doesn't it?
• 59:44
  You know, they don't talk much.
• 59:46
  The Florida men or what?
• 59:47
  We don't know anything.
• 59:48
  Like why was he drunk?
• 59:50
  Was he on drugs?
• 59:50
  Was there an alligator in the car with him?
• 59:52
  It's, it's none of that.
• 59:53
  We just, it's not a very well written Florida man story, but it
• 59:57
  was a Valentine's Day Florida man.
• 59:59
  Story.
• 59:59
  Story.
• 59:59
  It's important that we highlighted it.
• 1:00:01
  Vehicular nonsense.
• 1:00:02
  On Valentine's Day, man.
• 1:00:04
  This was in Virginia as well.
• 1:00:06
  Starting to see a pattern here.
• 1:00:07
  It was a Florida man in Virginia.
• 1:00:09
  Yeah.
• 1:00:09
  Yes.
• 1:00:10
  Oh, you're right.
• 1:00:11
  You are right.
• 1:00:12
  Sylvania County.
• 1:00:14
  Did he crash his way up from Florida?
• 1:00:19
  Yeah, these are just the Virginia cars.
• 1:00:21
  They're still, oh man.
• 1:00:22
  You know the Carolinas in Georgia down there.
• 1:00:25
  Oh man.
• 1:00:26
  This next one is like that song.
• 1:00:27
  What's that song?
• 1:00:28
  About how she slashes the seats of the car and the tires and
• 1:00:32
  like she vandalizes the jeep.
• 1:00:33
  What?
• 1:00:33
  How's that song?
• 1:00:34
  Louisville Slugger.
• 1:00:35
  That's how the song goes.
• 1:00:37
  The Louisville Slugger to his taillights.
• 1:00:39
  Some some something.
• 1:00:40
  Something something Something something.
• 1:00:42
  Something something.
• 1:00:43
  Keep Your Day Job.
• 1:00:45
  Oh, carry Underwood song.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:47
  That would, you can sing it for us, Brad.
• 1:00:49
  Yeah.
• 1:00:49
  Pancakes and sausage and stuff.
• 1:00:51
  Yeah.
• 1:00:52
  I, I came, yeah.
• 1:00:52
  I can't sing Gary Underwood.
• 1:00:53
  Sorry, I don't remember that song.
• 1:00:55
  It's like god knows how old now.
• 1:00:57
  2005. It's 20 years old.
• 1:01:01
  Play it on the radio.
• 1:01:02
  Like if it was just yesterday.
• 1:01:03
  'cause you're listening to the oldie station.
• 1:01:05
  Yeah.
• 1:01:06
  Right.
• 1:01:06
  What is going on here?
• 1:01:08
  Apparently this dude at the Publix, he mistook the SUV that was parked
• 1:01:15
  there thinking it was his ex. And so in a fit of rage of revenge and God
• 1:01:20
  knows what are the drugs they were on, basically, I think took a hammer.
• 1:01:24
  It started like beating on the car, except it was actually a Publix employee's car.
• 1:01:32
  It had nothing to do with this person.
• 1:01:35
  Oh wow.
• 1:01:36
  Can you imagine?
• 1:01:37
  Can you imagine coming outside and it's like your car is destroyed like this?
• 1:01:42
  Oh, that's terrible.
• 1:01:43
  What is in the water down there?
• 1:01:45
  That's what I wanna know.
• 1:01:46
  I dunno.
• 1:01:49
  Well, on that note, it's time we go behind the pit wall.
• 1:01:51
  Talk about,
• 1:01:55
  I don't even know what to say about this one.
• 1:01:56
  IJ maybe I should just read the headline.
• 1:01:58
  President Trump celebrates American greatness with the Freedom two
• 1:02:03
  50 Grand Prix of Washington DC sounds like a terrible idea.
• 1:02:08
  Indie cars in DC I mean, I guess, Hey, DC's finally gonna get paved the streets.
• 1:02:14
  No, there's no chance in hell.
• 1:02:16
  They didn't pave Baltimore when they ran the Grand Prix there.
• 1:02:20
  You think they're gonna pave dc?
• 1:02:22
  Yeah, right.
• 1:02:23
  What about the manhole cover?
• 1:02:24
  They're gonna have the same problem that F1 has in Vegas with manhole
• 1:02:27
  covers flying off everywhere.
• 1:02:29
  Well, we're not gonna make it one laugh of this race then.
• 1:02:31
  It's never gonna happen.
• 1:02:32
  It's gonna be terrible.
• 1:02:33
  Well, there's that.
• 1:02:33
  There's just gonna race in their dailies.
• 1:02:36
  Somebody asked what the ticket prices were gonna be for this.
• 1:02:39
  And I said, they're gonna be huge.
• 1:02:46
  They can pay me to stay away.
• 1:02:48
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 1:02:49
  That's the day I take a vacation on the other side of the country.
• 1:02:52
  Wait, were you guys aware that the Daytona 500 happened this weekend?
• 1:02:57
  I was aware we are not going to, we're not gonna mention the Daytona 500.
• 1:03:01
  We're not gonna mention the massive crass on the last lap that wiped out like
• 1:03:05
  half the field or something like that.
• 1:03:06
  Oh no, the, the, yeah, the, the complete insanity that was the last lap that
• 1:03:11
  basically handed, it didn't hand.
• 1:03:13
  Michael Jordan's team number 45.
• 1:03:16
  The win, I can't name three drivers in NASCAR right now.
• 1:03:20
  The only reason I know about it's 'cause I was at a bar watching the
• 1:03:22
  hockey game and then it ended and then there were like five laps left.
• 1:03:25
  So you saw the most important part of the race.
• 1:03:27
  Then of course it's the most important part of anything the last five minutes.
• 1:03:31
  And that's sad to say because it is NASCAR month and all of our coverage
• 1:03:34
  on the empty N is NASCAR related.
• 1:03:36
  But I, I haven't followed NASCAR in a while.
• 1:03:39
  Like I, I think I'm just stuck in the eighties with nascar like
• 1:03:42
  Rusty Wallace still out there.
• 1:03:43
  We got what days have done had I not been out already watching something
• 1:03:47
  else, I would not have known.
• 1:03:49
  You would've missed it all together.
• 1:03:50
  Yeah.
• 1:03:50
  I would, would've missed it all together.
• 1:03:51
  Yeah.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah.
• 1:03:52
  Um, but yeah, congratulations to Tyler Reddick and his number 45 car and
• 1:03:57
  the Michael Jordan team for finally getting that big win at Daytona
• 1:04:01
  and didn't Biffle pass or something recently too, like that was in the
• 1:04:04
  news as well as with respect to nascar.
• 1:04:06
  Um, by, you mean die in a plane crash?
• 1:04:09
  Yes.
• 1:04:10
  I was trying to be nice about it tragically with his family.
• 1:04:12
  Yes.
• 1:04:13
  Yeah.
• 1:04:13
  Yeah.
• 1:04:13
  That's the, uh, sad news there too.
• 1:04:17
  Hmm.
• 1:04:18
  Much like the Super Bowl this year's Rolex, the 60th anniversary race.
• 1:04:23
  Oh my God, was it boring?
• 1:04:25
  Why is everything on Peacock so boring?
• 1:04:27
  There were 900,000 Olympic commercials, which made the coverage
• 1:04:31
  just completely meh to go along with their meh commercial that they
• 1:04:34
  show all the time for YouTube tv.
• 1:04:36
  It was really hard to watch.
• 1:04:37
  I don't know what it was about this race.
• 1:04:39
  And then we had what that fog delay in the middle of the night.
• 1:04:42
  So if you went to sleep like I did, 'cause you're like, man,
• 1:04:44
  there's nothing to watch right now.
• 1:04:45
  You didn't miss anything when you got up in the morning.
• 1:04:47
  It was such a bad race.
• 1:04:49
  And then I don't understand Porsche, well, it's Penske, right,
• 1:04:53
  because Porsche retired the 9 63.
• 1:04:56
  But the 9 63 is still competing this year, but we're not gonna
• 1:04:58
  see it at Lamont unless Penske, you know, it's like a whole thing.
• 1:05:01
  Realistically, the most interesting thing about the whole race.
• 1:05:06
  Was that battle between the GT Amateur class, not even the pros.
• 1:05:10
  Everybody was so spread apart.
• 1:05:12
  It was the amateurs between the Mercedes and the Aston.
• 1:05:15
  And I was like, what are we watching?
• 1:05:18
  Yeah, I didn't get to watch much of the race.
• 1:05:19
  You didn't miss much, apparently.
• 1:05:21
  Well, since we're talking about Rolex, Tanya, you watched the race.
• 1:05:24
  I think the most exciting part was the new Reptile tire technology.
• 1:05:29
  Remember that?
• 1:05:29
  I didn't watch the race.
• 1:05:30
  We talked about the reptile tires.
• 1:05:33
  Remember they looked like crocodile print and how Michelin is all about
• 1:05:37
  sustainability and it's made from like 90% recycled materials and, but then
• 1:05:41
  they had all those issues when it got cold so the tires wouldn't stick so that
• 1:05:45
  everybody's like flying off the track.
• 1:05:47
  Now I remember.
• 1:05:48
  Only watched for like an hour.
• 1:05:49
  Well, you didn't miss much.
• 1:05:50
  So out of the other 23 that were there, it was like me.
• 1:05:54
  So anyway, there's some more news shaking up the endurance car world.
• 1:05:58
  The FIA is bringing about a new streaming service and they're combining it with wec.
• 1:06:04
  So they have FIA we plus streaming service because does this mean
• 1:06:07
  it's not gonna be on HBO anymore?
• 1:06:09
  It says here it's the goal is delivering a significantly improved
• 1:06:12
  streaming service with access to all FIA we content worldwide.
• 1:06:16
  So that should include the 24 hours of lamont.
• 1:06:18
  Did you ever watch any of the Super bike races on HBO?
• 1:06:21
  No, I didn't.
• 1:06:22
  Did you?
• 1:06:23
  I tried, but the color was weird.
• 1:06:25
  Like wasn't an HDR or It didn't, it wasn't compatible with my HDR tv, so
• 1:06:30
  it looked all gray and washed out.
• 1:06:32
  Oh wow.
• 1:06:33
  Which may me not wanna launch.
• 1:06:34
  Yeah.
• 1:06:35
  And it says we are pleased to confirm that all FIA WEC races will be
• 1:06:39
  available in the United States in Canada with no GEOBLOCKING restrictions.
• 1:06:44
  Most notably the 24 hours LAMA will be available live on FIA WEC
• 1:06:48
  streaming platform for the first time ever in the United States.
• 1:06:51
  Marketing in major milestone and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:06:53
  Marketing, marketing, marketing, marketing.
• 1:06:55
  I don't know what this means because isn't there a lot of shuffling going
• 1:06:59
  on at HBO because it's partnered with Warner Brothers and all that other
• 1:07:03
  stuff and maybe Netflix is buying it so that the FIA say, you know what, we're
• 1:07:07
  not here for this guy as we're just gonna go do our own streaming platform.
• 1:07:11
  Maybe.
• 1:07:12
  Maybe no hobo Max for WEC races anymore.
• 1:07:15
  So that was like a two year run, getting outta racing.
• 1:07:18
  All right.
• 1:07:18
  Well, a quick update on the virtual stuff I've mentioned in the past.
• 1:07:21
  You know, I've got some of the newer titles been trying 'em out.
• 1:07:24
  A SETO corset, Evo just got updated to version 0.5.
• 1:07:28
  We're not even a version 1.0.
• 1:07:30
  But 0.5 just got pushed the other day.
• 1:07:32
  Bunch of new cars.
• 1:07:33
  There's like seven of them and then there's two new tracks.
• 1:07:36
  Gotta say Watkins Glen is one of the new tracks and it is spot on.
• 1:07:42
  It's the new track, definitely laser scanned.
• 1:07:45
  It is really good.
• 1:07:47
  Just very well done.
• 1:07:48
  Now as far as the cars go, not gonna list all of 'em, you know,
• 1:07:51
  new nine 11 new, this new that they introduced the Audi Sport Quattro.
• 1:07:55
  It's an absolute beast.
• 1:08:14
  They brought the mark one GTI, and to keep with realism.
• 1:08:17
  It is slower than slow.
• 1:08:42
  It struggles to get to a hundred miles an hour.
• 1:08:44
  But it is an absolute riot when you're out there with 25 other ones
• 1:08:48
  just beating the doors and, and going bumper to bumper down the track.
• 1:08:52
  Now, the surprise of surprises because their little trailer video, which I
• 1:08:55
  shared with you guys, which I thought was super entertaining when they revealed
• 1:08:59
  version 0.5 at the very end, there's this whole kind of initial DA 86 and
• 1:09:04
  then they kind of forecast what's gonna come in the next release, which is
• 1:09:07
  gonna be Sebring and a bunch of stuff.
• 1:09:09
  So that a 86, I was like, you know, I'm gonna try that out.
• 1:09:12
  I mean, again, these cars are talking to me, they're all from the eighties.
• 1:09:16
  I'm loving it.
• 1:09:16
  And so I'm looking through the cars.
• 1:09:19
  There's a couple different versions of the original 80 86.
• 1:09:22
  There's the black and white, there's the all black, there's, you know, whatever.
• 1:09:26
  And then at the end there's the Fuji Tofu Shop, one from initial
• 1:09:30
  D, and I'm like, oh, that's cool.
• 1:09:31
  Well, they kind of did the skin and it's a little blurry so it doesn't look exactly
• 1:09:35
  like, you know, and they don't get any copyright infringement or whatever it is.
• 1:09:39
  I decided, you know, after doing a bunch of laps at Watkins Glen, I was
• 1:09:43
  like, oh, I'm gonna go to Laguna Seka instead, and I'll try the Toyota there.
• 1:09:46
  And it runs in the same class as the Audi and some of the other cars, you
• 1:09:50
  know, the BMWM three and the Mercedes 2.3 Evo and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:09:55
  I looked down at the dash and I'm like, does that say that?
• 1:09:59
  Does that doesn't say, no, it can't.
• 1:10:01
  It says 10 10.
• 1:10:03
  10 ISN in 10,000 RPM and I'm like, nah, that's, that's a joke.
• 1:10:07
  Light turns green.
• 1:10:08
  Drop the clutch.
• 1:10:27
  This sucker is like straight up race car.
• 1:10:30
  Like it sounds amazing and you bury the needle at 10 grand because just
• 1:10:36
  like the initial D 80, 86, it pulls to 11 and it's just all of awesome.
• 1:10:42
  So I'm like, okay, so it's the initial D car.
• 1:10:45
  Maybe they're all that way and they're just skins.
• 1:10:47
  Oh, no, no.
• 1:10:48
  This is like the jewel that they didn't tell you about in the promo videos.
• 1:10:53
  This is a special car.
• 1:10:54
  It's not just a skin.
• 1:10:56
  All the other regular 80, 80 sixes you get into.
• 1:11:15
  7,000 RPM.
• 1:11:16
  It's got that nice Toyota twin cam sound, but it doesn't sound like a
• 1:11:20
  formula car like the other one does.
• 1:11:23
  The driving experience is awesome.
• 1:11:25
  Like you can hang the ass out, you can drift it all over the
• 1:11:28
  place and it's just wicked quick.
• 1:11:31
  So I found that to be an awesome surprise and if you haven't done it and you haven't
• 1:11:35
  tried it yet, cannot recommend upgrading to version 0.5 just for the smile factor
• 1:11:42
  that comes from the initial DA 86.
• 1:11:46
  And by the way, they made the F 40 worse, so it's like impossible to drive.
• 1:11:49
  So I'm gonna be having fun driving the Toyota for sure.
• 1:11:52
  Kudos to the a Seto course of guys Speed.
• 1:11:55
  They might be slow rolling this thing, but it's, it's getting better with
• 1:11:58
  every release except for the F 40.
• 1:12:00
  In other racing news, I don't know really where to qualify the 12 hours of bathhurst
• 1:12:05
  because it's sort of endurance racing, but it's sort of just crazy Australian V eight
• 1:12:11
  supercar guys decide to drive something that isn't a muscle car for 12 hours.
• 1:12:15
  Bathhurst is a mess every year, and I know a lot of people watch it for the crashes.
• 1:12:20
  And the crashes are unfortunate.
• 1:12:22
  And this year.
• 1:12:23
  More so than ever.
• 1:12:24
  Mercedes a MG factory driver, Roth Aaron fractured his back in a very
• 1:12:29
  serious accident at Mount Panorama.
• 1:12:32
  And we have the link to the video and we have a link to the follow on article.
• 1:12:35
  I mean, I watched it and I was completely blown away.
• 1:12:39
  I was really surprised that the corner workers didn't flag earlier.
• 1:12:43
  It reminds me of the races at like, it's like Macau or whatever, where
• 1:12:47
  they go those super narrow roads where there's only room for one
• 1:12:50
  car and then they all pile up and the race is over by like lap three.
• 1:12:53
  'cause they're all, you know, I, I don't know what the racers are doing.
• 1:12:56
  They are, you're not situationally aware like what the hell is going on.
• 1:12:59
  It's really unfortunate what happened.
• 1:13:00
  Rough.
• 1:13:01
  And you know, we wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back behind
• 1:13:04
  the wheel of a Mercedes again soon.
• 1:13:06
  But it's stuff like that that really makes you question the safety of racing in 2026.
• 1:13:11
  I think it's amazing.
• 1:13:12
  I really do believe Bathurst is probably one of the most
• 1:13:15
  dangerous tracks that's out there.
• 1:13:16
  I love that track, but it's also super sketch.
• 1:13:19
  Oh yeah, for sure.
• 1:13:21
  But I, it's still amazing.
• 1:13:23
  So you missed a piece of Rally news.
• 1:13:27
  I thought we weren't talking about, I thought I wasn't
• 1:13:29
  allowed to talk about that.
• 1:13:30
  I never said that.
• 1:13:31
  No one listens, but you're allowed to talk about it.
• 1:13:33
  So what piece of Rally news did I miss?
• 1:13:35
  A US.
• 1:13:36
  Rally stage.
• 1:13:37
  Yes, you're right.
• 1:13:38
  I forgot.
• 1:13:39
  I I am following that as a matter of fact.
• 1:13:41
  So WRC is scouting out areas like around Tennessee to see if they can
• 1:13:46
  Kentucky, do a WRC America round.
• 1:13:49
  And I, and if that happens, I'm gonna go check it out.
• 1:13:51
  I think that's super awesome.
• 1:13:53
  There you go.
• 1:13:53
  Thank you for reminding me.
• 1:13:54
  I'll go with you.
• 1:13:55
  Let's go meet Terry Neville.
• 1:13:57
  Yes', be perfect.
• 1:13:58
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• 1:14:11
  Alright, well it's time for the GTM Trackside report, and as promised,
• 1:14:15
  we're gonna give you an update on our unfocused Performance Lemons project.
• 1:14:20
  It has stalled thanks to two feet of snow, which turned into permafrost and
• 1:14:25
  glaciers boxing the cars in the trailers, and so we haven't been able to get it
• 1:14:30
  out to our fabricator to put the cage in.
• 1:14:32
  But that is coming up quick.
• 1:14:33
  By the time we have the next drive through episode, hopefully it'll
• 1:14:36
  be off to get the wrap done and get all the styling stuff done.
• 1:14:40
  We do still have a way for you to contribute and be part of the team.
• 1:14:43
  We'll include that in the show notes.
• 1:14:44
  You know, we are looking to raise some money if you want to come and help out,
• 1:14:46
  hang out, all those kinds of things.
• 1:14:48
  The details are in the link in the show notes with this episode.
• 1:14:52
  But since we're taking on this new project and all of us are checking our
• 1:14:56
  safety gear, and there's been some public service announcements from various tracks
• 1:15:01
  around at least the East coast, talking about how if you're planning to come
• 1:15:06
  to the track this year, they've taken a year away from you that you normally
• 1:15:11
  have a grace year on your helmet.
• 1:15:13
  Expirations.
• 1:15:14
  You can correct me if I'm wrong, 'cause you've been in the
• 1:15:16
  sport a lot longer than I have.
• 1:15:17
  Was that.
• 1:15:18
  Extra year, that grace year kind of due to like supply chain issues
• 1:15:24
  with being able to get access.
• 1:15:25
  So maybe the supply chain issues aren't as much of a problem anymore.
• 1:15:29
  So you don't really have that excuse to lean on.
• 1:15:32
  You just need to stop being a cheap ass and upgrade your
• 1:15:34
  equipment when you need to.
• 1:15:36
  2020 was really the bad year because that was the COVID year.
• 1:15:40
  Yeah, but the grace period had always been there because to your point,
• 1:15:43
  when they say they're gonna make a 2025 helmet, they start making them
• 1:15:47
  in 2025 and then they have to have enough supply and it becomes an issue
• 1:15:52
  and it takes almost a full year before there's enough out there that people can
• 1:15:56
  actually get that year's helmet in hand.
• 1:15:58
  So you sort of lose a year, but you gain a year on the other side.
• 1:16:02
  But now the tracks are saying, Nope.
• 1:16:04
  We have said that even though the industry says 11 years is fine, it's gotta be
• 1:16:08
  10 and you have to buy a new helmet.
• 1:16:09
  So if you're going to places like New Jersey or a Lime Rock
• 1:16:13
  and you have a SA 2015 helmet.
• 1:16:16
  You cannot use it this year.
• 1:16:18
  They're checking helmets, they're being strict about it.
• 1:16:19
  You need to buy a new helmet.
• 1:16:21
  You do not get the grace year through 2026.
• 1:16:24
  So if you're looking to get a good deal on helmets, reach out
• 1:16:27
  to our friends at OG racing.
• 1:16:29
  Ask for Mark Francis at or mark@ogracing.com.
• 1:16:33
  Email him directly.
• 1:16:34
  Tell them the guys from Grand Tour Motorsport sent you.
• 1:16:37
  And same is true for Limerock.
• 1:16:39
  Like I said, NJMP and Limerock are strictly enforcing the role that you need.
• 1:16:43
  A new helmet 2020 or newer rated helmets, even if you're in New England and you have
• 1:16:49
  stable energies nearby, they're offering a 15% discount to Audi Club members
• 1:16:55
  if you're shopping for a new helmet.
• 1:16:57
  Also, they usually sell helmets at the track too.
• 1:17:01
  They've got the, the pro shops at each track where you can get
• 1:17:03
  a helmet if you're in a pinch.
• 1:17:04
  I don't know.
• 1:17:05
  I guess you could go either way.
• 1:17:06
  There's no financial gain in it for the racetracks because
• 1:17:09
  they're not selling the helmet.
• 1:17:11
  Right.
• 1:17:11
  And the pro shops a lot of times are independent of the racetrack.
• 1:17:14
  Like those people actually lease the space from the track and they're running their
• 1:17:17
  small business and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:17:19
  Like OG Racing has its shop at Summit Point as well as their
• 1:17:23
  main shop there in Sterling.
• 1:17:24
  You know, that doesn't benefit the track.
• 1:17:26
  They're just cracking down and saying, no, you gotta go buy a new helmet.
• 1:17:28
  Because they are safety conscious and they're safety cautious
• 1:17:31
  and we're litigious country.
• 1:17:32
  So it is.
• 1:17:33
  It is what it is, right?
• 1:17:34
  Yeah.
• 1:17:34
  So, but yeah, I mean, I'm still good on my helmet for a while.
• 1:17:38
  I know what I'm buying if I buy another one, you know, I'm pretty
• 1:17:40
  brand loyal and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:17:42
  But for those that haven't thought about it, as we're coming out of hibernation
• 1:17:46
  and looking to the track season and the schedules are starting to open up, now's
• 1:17:49
  the time to not only check your helmet.
• 1:17:51
  Check your shoes, check your gloves, check your Hans.
• 1:17:54
  If you have a Simpson, make sure all the straps are up to date.
• 1:17:57
  Like if you co-term all the dates of your stuff, they're all
• 1:18:00
  gonna be due at the same time.
• 1:18:01
  And that goes for your belts in your car.
• 1:18:04
  If you're using harnesses as well as your seats, you gotta check
• 1:18:07
  the organizations to make sure the seats are still valid too.
• 1:18:10
  How the seats expire, I don't know, has to do with the fire safety rating.
• 1:18:14
  Go back to our PMX episode with John Koffi.
• 1:18:16
  He kind of actually explains how all that works and the
• 1:18:19
  dates and and why and whatnot.
• 1:18:21
  But that's pretty far back in the catalog.
• 1:18:23
  But yeah, there is rhyme and reason to this whole thing, Brad.
• 1:18:25
  Yeah.
• 1:18:26
  And if you're not quite ready to hit the track, don't forget that you can
• 1:18:29
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• 1:18:32
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• 1:18:35
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• 1:18:38
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• 1:18:43
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• 1:18:46
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• 1:18:49
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• 1:18:53
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• 1:19:35
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• 1:19:39
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• 1:19:44
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• 1:19:48
  Okay?
• 1:19:52
  I have to go to the videotape.
• 1:19:53
  Let's see, 2026.
• 1:19:55
  Let's pull up the replay.
• 1:19:58
  Are you muting the Olympics?
• 1:20:01
  Yeah, man.
• 1:20:01
  What are you watching?
• 1:20:03
  I don't know, because I gotta turn it on.
• 1:20:04
  I don't know what's on Earlier.
• 1:20:06
  It was the big hill ski jump.
• 1:20:07
  Well, actually it was the Nordic combined, but they were only
• 1:20:10
  showing the ski jump part.
• 1:20:12
  That's good stuff.
• 1:20:14
  Oh, well obviously I could just turn the volume all the way
• 1:20:16
  down the old fashioned meat way.
• 1:20:20
  It's the first time she's said to go get a snack
• 1:20:25
  that we've seen
• 1:20:28
  and consider becoming, shoot.
• 1:20:32
  I actually don't see the outside pictures.
• 1:20:34
  I had to go to a car and driver article.
• 1:20:36
  I'll just Google it.
• 1:20:38
  I don't know why it went to Yahoo though.
• 1:20:40
  Yahoo.
• 1:20:40
  Fucking Yahoo.
• 1:20:42
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