Car Krush Nov 26, 2025

133. The Pile Up EP21: The Beast of Science

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4.3

The 4.3 is a type of engine that is 4.3 liters in size. It's a V6 engine, meaning it has six cylinders arranged in a V shape, which helps it produce a good amount of power while still being efficient.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. The more horsepower an engine has, the faster and stronger it can make a vehicle go.

Term

camshaft

The camshaft is a part of the engine that helps control when the valves open and close. This is important for how well the engine runs and how much power it can produce.

Part

throttle body

The throttle body is a part of the engine that controls how much air goes in. It helps the engine run better by adjusting the air flow when you press the gas pedal.

Term

OBD I

OBD I is an early version of a system that helps cars check their own performance and emissions. It’s mostly found in older cars and gives basic information about how the car is running.

Part

exhaust manifold

The exhaust manifold is a part of the car that collects gases from the engine and sends them out through the exhaust. It helps the engine run smoothly and efficiently.

Part

ratchet

A ratchet is a tool that helps you turn bolts and nuts without having to take it off each time. It makes it easier to work on cars, especially in tight spots.

Term

accessory drive

The accessory drive is a part of the engine that helps run things like the air conditioning and the alternator. It makes sure these parts work properly.

Term

serpentine belt

A serpentine belt is a long belt that connects different parts of the engine to help them work together. It makes it easier to run things like the air conditioning and the alternator.

Term

v-belt

A v-belt is a type of belt shaped like a 'V' that helps connect different parts of the engine. It helps power things like the air conditioning.

Part

air compressor

An air compressor is a device that pushes air into a system. In cars, it can be used for things like the air conditioning to help cool the inside of the car.

Part

smog pump

A smog pump is a part of a car's system that helps clean up the exhaust gases to make them less harmful to the environment. It adds air to the exhaust to help burn off more pollutants.

Part

pulley

A pulley is a round wheel that helps move belts in a car's engine. It can help turn other parts of the engine, like the alternator or water pump, to keep everything working smoothly.

Term

four-rib belts

Four-rib belts are a type of belt used in cars that have four grooves on the inside. These grooves help the belt stay in place and work better with the engine parts it connects to.

Car

Delorean DMC-12

The DeLorean is a unique car known for its shiny body and doors that open upwards like wings. It's famous from the movies where it travels through time.

Car

Hyundai Accent

The Hyundai Accent is a small, budget-friendly car that is great for getting around town. It's known for being easy to drive and saving money on gas, making it a good choice for many people.

Car

Chevrolet Corvair

The Chevrolet Corvair is a small car made by Chevrolet in the 1960s. It had a different engine setup than most cars, which made it special and unique.

Term

burnout

A burnout is when a car's tires spin while the car is not moving, making a lot of smoke. People do this to show off the power of their car, and it's common at car events.

Term

350

The 350 is a type of engine made by Chevrolet that is known for being powerful and used in many cars, especially performance ones.

Term

383

The 383 is a type of engine that is bigger than the standard ones and gives a lot more power. It's often used in modified cars to make them faster.

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Hi, it's Wednesday supposedly mm-hmm all day all day today depending on who you talk to

And if they say it's not they're lying it's it's untrue the it's an untrue fact

mm-hmm it's time for our podcast pile up yeah that's right so I'm gonna get

piled up pile up I'm Doug nightmare I am the Queen of the Vans sorry if it's a

little loud for your ears oh yeah we should say we're here at the industrial

arts tool library with a hot recording crackling fire yeah we have a hot crackling

fire so if you hear some pops that's what it is we're in the ski lodge yeah

just nowhere it's great yeah having a good time yeah having a good time and

what else have we been doing today Rose we have been focused on my 1988 Chevrolet

mm-hmm and we've been dismantling the absolutely filthy device oh it's so dirty

it's Kate the propulsion device has a absolutely filthy unit slathered in a

whale oh my god it's like how thick do you think it is one big carbon chain the

whole thing yeah it's true um I would say it's easily an eighth inch that I was

gonna say an eighth inch maybe easily yeah yeah I hit it it's just cake remember

when we cleaned off Kirsten's 318 for the class and like got it ready and we

had to go to the car wash and like you know whatever we could to get scraped by

hand and wire wheel it took so long a yeah yeah I took it how long did that take

it's like a week or two it took a lot because we didn't have any advanced

devices we didn't have any steam cleaners we didn't have a steam genny to roll out

yeah we could do is go to the car wash yeah we went to the car wash and then we

did a lot of grinding mm-hmm or I mean wire wheeling we didn't know which works

it works you know but yeah it was a lot of work yeah looks good though now yeah

yeah and we don't have to do that on the return side because we have another 88

4.3 mm-hmm it's already 40 over the that was the engine that was in my 67 before

and it's ready to go back into an act that you don't know about it oh I know

about it yeah what are you saying I gave you Emily and I put Emily and I so the

engine that's in my 67 is the fourth engine in that van and this swap was not

because the motor was dead but it was because I had a 94 4 3 and they make

about 200 horse and the 88 makes 160 better be zippier people it's got better

heads and more lift on the camshaft and I put the throttle body intake on it and

the throttle body is from a 5.7 so 350 oh so more air and fuel and it needs it

like I found this on this website like Harris tuning calm I think and he was

talking about like mistakes to not make with the 4.3 and so I tried to follow

his advice which he was just like if you're gonna do a 4.3 just start with

the other one that already makes more power it'd go from there yeah he had a

list of cams and stuff that would work but I was not I'm not going you know I'm

not going there those computers just are not they can't do it yeah you have to

prom a chip and stuff and it's not oh god you have to do what to a chip prom what

the hell does that mean or program up does anybody know what that means program

yeah flash it oh okay the prom chips okay I've never heard I've never heard of

that but mm-hmm OBD one OBD one you're my only hope OBD one I had the pleasure

of taking off some of the exhaust manifold bolts and one of them there was

one that really took me a long time and Rose kept saying just give up I tried so

hard to convince her to give up and I just I was like cleaning the shit off of

it and I was trying to there's these tabs that hold them in place and I was

trying to find the tabs I couldn't find any tabs on it and I couldn't get the

socket on it and Rose comes in and first try I just zips it right off that's

true and I had been working on it for like 20 minutes probably right it was a

while it was really embarrassing I guess I had an ideal setup I had a long

handle snap on quarter drive ratchet and a 916 snap on quarter drive socket and

it just was like they were made it all went together it just went there was a

lot of oil on it and I had to like push it on to get it off of get the oil off

layer off of it wasn't that the one I mean when you went inside to get a tool I

had it on there and I thought I was gonna break I was like oh I'm gonna break it

and she's gonna come out and I'll be like I got it and then it slipped off yeah I

couldn't keep it on the bolt I couldn't keep the socket on the bolt well anyway

I didn't give up asshole that bad I called you an asshole on the air I mean

hey you know it's like what Mitch Hedberg said about satellite radio he can

scream in the woods too it's gonna call you a meanie saying I gave up I was

heckling I was being a heckler she was she's wanted me to give up it was it was

just some classic bluegrass vanners wrenching it's just like we would always

find ourselves in the middle of winter outside doing something like this like

doing an engine so hop outdoors in the middle of winter yeah it was cold yeah

it was pretty cool but we're getting it done yeah it was good yeah it was good

wrenching for sure I had a good time I was on the front side getting the

accessory drive off it was cool it's just messy and the it had dealer add-on

air so it's a four-rib serpentine system with a v-belt for the sand and air

compressor which we would put those on the street rods and they're good to mount

they're easy to mount but like they did it in the way that I dislike they didn't

use like a long bolt through it they like it's a bolt it had four bolts on it

to attach it to this other bracket I just want to take in the whole bracket off

yeah it was huge well I mean I was pretty surprised I was gonna be a big

gaping hole over there because the smog pump used to be there and the air

compressor you know and you're taking both those out right yeah I think I'm

gonna put a pulley where the smog pump was why don't go back and just change the

belt back to that way oh I think that the belt became really hard to find I

can't remember I mean the four-rib belts are hard to get oh you need something

that's easy to get I guess yeah I guess what I'm gonna do and this is what I've

been thinking about doing on the 67 because the belt length I run on the

67 is weird and I'm like gonna redesign the add like a pulley somewhere to run

a slightly longer belt that's more common mm-hmm oh that's a good idea yeah I

like that it's nice to be able to like get a belt when you need one I carry one

usually because you just don't want to get caught out you know no without one

you carry a lot of stuff I do I try to carry two of everything you made a whole

God oh shit oh no I lost your microphone okay time out in this tea time and we're

back we're back Emily dropped her microphone she keeps fondling her

microphone well because it wasn't in the right spot I'm just I'm worried she's on

stage I'm worried that it's gonna be dancing queen do do do do do do do do

we had some write-in so didn't we yeah we did Nick vivid wrote in let me pull up

the massage you're getting a massage no there's no way Nick vivid wrote in and

said been listening really enjoying it really well done yeah I like to hear that

it's well done that's so kind mm-hmm yeah thank you very much Nick vivid sounds

like a rockstar yeah I Nick makes music and I like Nick's music quite a bit okay

if that makes sense maybe you see me wear my Nick vivid shirt I think I have

actually ricochet one of my favorite songs I'm like that Nick vivid name

sounds kind of sounds kind of he he performed in the van mm-hmm and I like

his music quite a bit listen to it quite a bit after that nationals on the way

home how to check it out like I said ricochet is one of my favorite songs okay

now Dusty Gilpin also wrote and Dusty said the podcast is great hadn't listened

to it yet but did just listen to the DeLorean one and enjoyed it a lot we'll

follow good job thank you oh wow thank you thank you so much thanks to

everybody for listening mm-hmm we appreciate all of you and thank you for

comments and for writing in and I mean grateful for positive comments but yeah

you know we don't really have shitty comments no but if you have some

criticism like you can go that our way to yeah you can say yeah you can say what

you want it's fine maybe there's something we need to do different oh and

then Josh I think Tunnel Hill maybe on Instagram wrote in and said that he is a

listener and that he likes van and stories and van national stories sweet

we wanted to hear some of that I said okay fine we should find fine we'll do

more of that then a story that I that I think of right off the top is we're at

Ohio we were at um it's where Coop liked to host quite a bit where we had

burning fan Mansfield okay and I was with it was with bluegrass and it was a

pretty early one for me I guess I mean yeah it could have been 2011 maybe I

don't know I'd have to look at my coat to see the patch anyway we ran into

somebody and they had brownies and they gave us a heap in helping and I looked

at punch and I was like how much is a dose and he goes the whole thing and so I

ate the whole thing and it was huge and I think they were pot and mushroom brownies

oh my goodness pot and mushrooms yeah and rooms yeah we were riding they had

this tram well I think it was called the nuts bus nationals urban transit bus

okay it was a tractor with like a wagon that the fairgrounds had loaned to us

okay it moved pretty slow but we were on this like downhill we were on this

downhill climb me and punch were on the wagon I don't know if I saw somebody or

somebody told me to so I don't know like somebody wanted my attention or I

just like maybe it just got to me and I was like I gotta get off here I just

remember I jumped off of the trailer but because it was going downhill I had to

start running and all I could hear in the background was punch going where are

just like you know just our heavy Kentucky accent yeah where did you go I

don't know but it affected us greatly and we retired to the vans early I think

that the year that John Jackson gave me a ride in his Corvair to the van oh you

know what I think I got stuck in the bleachers at some point there was a

Pink Floyd cover van playing animals in like its entirety and I was just like

went way up in the bleachers and was just like just like it was really nice

but then they like somebody came up and helped me down and then they just like

got me in John's van John delivered us off to the back to the club and then I

was retired for the night you know I think it took me a long time to get

used to being like okay at some point your legs are gonna become rubber yeah

and you can't you know you got to really exert some willpower to use them right

yeah that takes them take some knowledge there make some experience crawling

back to your camp yeah yeah good thing you had good friends though yeah myself

and Scott and punch for a while were like the three musketeers I think of

another time because I used to hang out punch quite a bit he's it for you know

I guess most people don't know punch he's in he's in bluegrass vanners and we

used to live fairly near each other and I would I'd drop in on him quite a bit

during one part and then eventually he moved out and I moved into that house

it was birdie's house who's also in our club has been in our club for a long time

so we were going to we were going to Midwest and punches van punch had this

conversion van and it had been pretty nice but I don't he told me he'd never

changed the oil in it he just said that he just said that he added oil I mean

that's a lot of people's routines I mean he bought it from Judy's father I think

mm-hmm and it seemed like it was nice at some point and I think it had a 305 mm

and we're going to the event it just wasn't running good so we like we wound

up on the side of the road I think punch and I'd gotten my van drove back to an

O'Reilly's and got like a fuel filter and some other stuff and it was just running

bad and eventually we were like you know what we were in the last like 30 or 40

miles okay I was like fuck it dude let's it was getting late like it was like

nine o'clock or something 839 and we were close to the truck in I was like

let's just do it let's drive 25 miles an hour so wait what happened to it again it

just was running terribly okay all right and we we couldn't figure out why and

we were like well it's probably serious cuz none of the easy shit worked so we

drove it really slow and we got there and we partied like we got there and we

punch and I got into beer pong and we advanced way up into beer pong like that

I think the the drain of being on the road and he and I teamed up for beer

pong for years after that three years in a row we were pretty mm-hmm pretty

competitive team hmm so you're saying that's your secret one talent yes beer

pong all right we would get there late I remember a year and this might have been

the same year but we got there really late and I had a beer I think it was

called Leviathan and it was like a Imperial stout or something like that

and I like it was 10% and I like drank that and then we played beer pong and I

like went to the Porta John to pee and then I like came out and was just like

projectile vomiting so that year I think we lost because I went and laid my van

after the vomiting yeah I would imagine a little vomiter yeah we should have

vomit in the Porta potty yeah I mean well we're just bad etiquette yeah well

just to have to bend over the oh don't even yeah well I just did wow how dare

you you're the one talking about it first those were at Midwest was always

really good the trading card for Spencer's van is a huge burnout that he

did at Midwest on the the county road that runs along the event mm-hmm and it

was a it was a big smoky burnout we just I think Sabrina got a good photo of it

or it was a good photo either way and I think Sabrina took it his wife oh awesome

made for a great card and then we one year I won the loudest exhaust contest

there I had headers and then purple hornies that bolted up to the headers

mm-hmm and had a rebuilt 350 and the five speed behind it and I don't know it

was just purple hornies they're like glass packs they're just purple okay and

that set just had flanges that they could bolt right to the headers so that

it all just echoed off the bottom of the van okay yeah I bet it sounded mean yeah

I think everybody thought Courtney Bentley was gonna win because she had a

mid with side pipes and everybody thought the side pipes were gonna rip and I

think they're a little turbo e they're a little look kind of have that like gonna

sound to him oh I won I thought one too because he had exhaust cutouts on his

383 but maybe Taz judged it maybe it was Taz's thing hmm I thought you wanted but

anyway I won good job thanks you have the trophy still a helmer maybe but I

don't know it being one of those tubs that we moved you know I don't remember

seeing it but yeah it would have been up up in the front of the building so maybe

there were a couple trophies up there still or is the one that's like a

pumpkin and a moon I think that was the Hovak Havoc one maybe what was that for

my first year I went to eight truckins my first two years so the seventh one I'd

gone to I was like oh that's my last one and then I want a raffle to go over to

Iowa for Hovak's Havoc and at the time I lived in Kentucky so it's a pretty good

hall and I had no money so I like went over there and like I was meeting

friends there and they were like drive faster and I was like I really can't

afford to I have to drive 55 it's all because I had 373 rear gears and the

gas gauge was just like a backwards clock it was so sad oh boy and gas was

four dollars a gallon yeah I remember my first nationals oh wait gas was four

dollars again ouch it hurt it really hurt that was bush I'm trying to think of

one more van and story yeah I know you've got a thousand pick one more do it

for the people rose I think a fun one is having a conversation to somebody like

while I'm underneath somebody else's van like I was under Frank Costa's number

nine at Ohio I think that was the year it came out like he had teased it and had

brought it to New York and maybe somewhere else on a trailer unfinished okay

but anyway it was done and so I was underneath that scope and the whole

thing out and I like I was under there for a while so people were like coming by

to talk to me while I'm under the van just having little conversations yeah

looks like that's pretty fun that's really fun I think I think people were

like what's it like under there you know I mean Frank had mirrors out but it was

nice yeah yeah it was super nice that was good that was rabbit barn nationals

that sounded like a fun one yeah from your stories yeah there were some vans

that showed up that was like ace of spades this mid-ford and there was a

early aconoline on a chassis mm-hmm it was sad a little high because it was on

a chassis but it was pretty cool what does that mean it's on the chassis well

mine's unibody oh so it means that they put a separate chassis under the unibody

structure oh okay all right I didn't realize that the I didn't realize they

were unibodies I think it was a ranger chassis yeah yeah it doesn't have a

chassis it's all together interesting axles mounted to a box didn't know that

sometimes I forget that unibodies came along a lot earlier than I think that's

cheap way to build a car and then you spot weld everything and you don't you

know use any welding wire right aren't they like is there something for

accidents to or like structural integrity or yeah they design crumple

zones and stuff but yeah the windshield like you know the gluten windshield now

becomes part of the structure the same thing with the glass like the glass

becomes part of the structure interesting it's I mean well design for sure

unibodies are great on a chassis unibody on a chassis unibody on a chassis moving

on you have got some big old fancy pants car to talk about oh I do indeed I do

indeed I'm glad you asked me about that well I'm glad to have asked about it I

feel privileged to hear about well a car thank you so much I feel honored to

bring this car to you I have been waiting all day I've been waiting all week to

tell you about it hmm what we're gonna talk about is a 27 liter that's 1650

cubic inches v12 spitfire excuse me how many cubic inches Stanley Kubrick inches

1650 1650 cubic inches oh my god 27 liter that's a lot is that math right I mean

I'm gonna have to take their word for it okay yeah just listen just take my word

for it it actually is your math from last time we tried to record this oh it's

like I converted the lead yeah cats out of the bag we already recorded this like

I took I did I got I think that you did a did it on like a app or something or

like a website I didn't look at Wikipedia maybe you looked at Wikipedia or

something okay but that came from you so I think it's true anyway it's a v12

spitfire powered hot rod called the beast the beast the beast not the bees the

beast beast you thought I said bees I sounded like bees I have a cold I thought

you'd be excited about this because I know you're in the airplanes yeah I mean

what's the car well first I wanted to talk about the Spitfire plane oh you do

yeah of what this Spitfire is okay this is a pretty incredible plane okay it had

1500 horsepower and it went up to four miles per hour it was nimble and quick

predator in the sky it's powered by a Rolls-Royce 27 liter v12 Merlin engine

it defeated German air attacks and won the Battle of Britain I'm pretty sure

that the quote is that when Goebbels saw the Spitfire over Berlin they knew it

was over mm-hmm I could be wrong but I think that the plane that they were

like are we're fucked we can't do it weren't you saying that it could go up

higher than any that yeah because it's supercharged the supercharged Merlin

changed the whole thing because like I was explaining last time that we talked

about this and pretend we didn't the imaginary time that we talked about this

so in a dogfight you imagine like loops on a roller coaster one plane is

chasing the other and they have a stall height and so at some point the

airplane is gonna run out of oxygen for the fuel air mixture it's gonna stall

out shut off and then they're gonna fall back down restart the plane and then

the chase continues right right so the pilots know what the stall height is for

each plane that they're like chasing and the Mitsubishi zeros were serious

shit and then all of a sudden they're chasing this Merlin and they stall out

and it's still going so they're still climbing and then they do a loop and

while the other plane is stalling out they're looping back around and now he's

got him in his crosshairs yeah for a shot pretty deadly yeah yeah that's

that's that's the significance of having a supercharger is that it can take

thinner air continue compressing it and that allows it to fly at a higher

altitude yeah I mean it gives it more power but it also allows it to achieve

performance at a higher altitude yeah that changed everything yeah so very

cool it's a symbolic piece for sure yeah symbolic piece I was reading that

more spitfires were built than any other British airplanes I'll have to take your

word for it cuz yeah I remember just just take my word for it well combat

aircraft not like their commercial line okay since or yeah I said before or

since World War two you know it also said when I looked it up it also said

the mosquito had the Merlin engine remember I'm surprised me because the

mosquitoes like a plywood plane and they call in that because again they were

like they were so lightweight and they had they had all these woodworkers in

the country that they were like well how can we put them to work so they built

these plywood planes also you know metals you know like wood was an easier

thing to be spending on building airplanes yeah so that havelin mosquito

was a worthy foe because it was so quiet and we creep in at low altitudes like

they would run they had Merlin engines but they would shut them off and glide I

think it's whoa what like like the people that were piloting these planes were

so like so 18 years old but also total badass is like just you know no fear and

just going into a situation where chances are they're gonna die I think about

that all the time though like we're gonna put you in a deep pressurized

airplane give you a bomber jacket and might see you later and a parachute

well guns too yeah and some guns yeah it's pretty crazy the pilots were so

skilled and so talented yeah I mean it's insane it is really that what a time

there was 20,314 planes built that's a whole lot spitfire so you got a car oh

yeah so okay so that engine this guy I think it was in the 70s judging by the

hair that I found engineer Paul Jameson decided to that that engine should go

into a car only an engineer would make such a mistake he was doing the car

rated version too yeah yeah put in the 12 cylinder fighter jet engine and then

the supercharger was too much that was too much instead he put you what you just

said he put the 12 cylinder tank engine which was the same engine but different

ratios with the pistons and stuff so different torque because the tank's

really heavy and he got the engine jesse and the steering figured out but he

couldn't figure out what kind of transmission to like for this monster

engine find what eventually went in it I didn't find what transmission went in

it he just sold the project to a transmission specialist I'm assuming it

got an Allison I mean that's John Dodd I'm assuming it was something that was

customized yeah maybe I don't know I'm just assuming it probably an Allison

world transmission I don't know but do you think something that was just built

for a car could withstand well those are both like fire trucks what was it for

like fire trucks and buses and stuff dump trucks semi trucks okay so maybe so

yeah okay maybe that's what I didn't come up come across what it was what

transmission it was but it's trivial it's trivial in the scope of the whole

thing I am curious though I'm gonna be 100% honest I didn't look that hard for

trying to find out the description again it's just trivial but we do trivia so

yeah we do trivia sometimes John Dodd was able to figure out what kind of

transmission can handle the destructive tank engine and everything else because

he made it run right because he kept it well yeah he kept it and he had an

English fiberglass company do the body on it and it kind of looked like like the

back sort of had this it was reminiscent to me I just saw it like a

quarter view of it and it looked like the back of like late 60s Camaro just it

had that little like duck tail on it sort of yeah and then the front was a big

ass huge front because that v12 was long Rolls Royce 70s Rolls Royce front and

it's a coupe it's a two-door it's like that car that Peter Griffin has yes he

says when you put your car in the garage does it say is it in yet exactly like

this this is a long long long car it's 228 inches long okay what's what was the

Cadillac with the long Cadillac 177 or something I don't remember well we're

gonna say 177 a long wheelbase Chevy Vans 126 and 127 inches okay well 228

inches is really long that's pretty big are we gonna agree on that yeah oh yeah

totally I mean again think about a long wheelbase Chevy van 126 or 127 it gets

two miles per gallon gas and it has straight pipes and it's crazy loud and

then you two miles per gallon two miles per gallon yep straight according to

this video that's straight pipes for some reason I mean yeah I don't know I guess

2.5 tons I don't know why it has straight pipes but it does Rolls Royce was not

psyched yeah so he made some enemies on this or what well they were mad about it

but then it didn't matter because of fire destroyed everything but the chassis

oh my god so it was over anyway and then Dodd rebuilt the beast and this time

with non supercharged true Spitfire Merlin engine and then he changed the

pistons to the tank pistons so that it would have the right ratio so this is

interesting because this guy was the second owner yeah he's the one that made

it run obviously passionately devoted to the he loves it he's in love with it

passionately devoted as the second owner he believes fully in this oh yeah he's

like he's in love he's in love for sure now the car to me looks like a gremlin

the back looks like a gremlin is still a two-door and then it has the another

front of the Rolls Royce and then here's where things really get interesting so

Rolls Royce comes around again and they accuse him of copyright infringement

John Dodd is like so English of them it's so English of them to be like stop

having a good time chap yeah they're gonna really take the piss on him because he

had like a Rolls Royce emblem on it and everything I mean it when I first saw it

I thought it was a Rolls Royce I was like what is this Rolls Royce if American car

companies did that to customizers people would shit on them oh yeah for sure I

know it's hard to imagine the public not being pissed about this but I could see

it's not like here where we're like look at that crazy-ass car that rules yeah I

don't know maybe it's just a different yeah I don't I mean I don't know why

they got so mad about it but they were maybe because they're so like supposed

to be so classy maybe the yeah maybe the Queen didn't like it maybe the Queen

didn't like it yeah I could have been it I definitely could have been it anyway

John Dodd didn't give a crap what Rolls Royce thought and he would stage public

appearances and get in the newspapers and stuff so he would do all of this like

go-to-car shows I think and then also just go out into the public and get into

get articles written about him and get in magazines and stuff why is that a bad

thing because Rolls Royce is getting madder and madder and then he would

also he would call up Rolls Royce and be like I saw this car in a magazine and

like explain it to him what he saw and be like how do I buy one or he would be

like I saw this car driving down the road how do I buy one you know he was

calling them non-stop do you think they knew it was him maybe not maybe not do

you think they're like you get John Dodd on the phone humor him until we can

record the line where's the call coming from yeah I don't know maybe he had his

friends also he's probably not a dumb guy if he might have had his friends also

calling I mean that's how evil Knievel set up the Caesar's Palace Fountain

Jump oh yeah didn't he kept calling and be like aren't you gonna have that evil

Knievel guy and Lincoln called like one of the highest up guys there and the

guy was like yeah I guess see it smart yeah so he just kept calling him and

calling him finally Rolls sued and they went to court they're such losers came

down on this dude that had this car anyway the entire time they were in court

John made a show of parking right in front with the car in fact so much that

his lawyer right at the end of the trial his lawyer dumped him and his lawyer was

like please do not show up on the last day of court with that car because you're

being so disrespectful to the magistrate in like the highest court of the country

right but anyway don't show up with the car and so the last day of court he shows

up on a horse okay right neighborly I just love that I think he's I love this

John Dodd guy yeah he's my new hero he lost no kidding yeah he got fined he

refused to pay it and then as one does it as one does and they put out a warrant

for his arrest okay and he left and took the car and went to Spain live there

till he died with the car I I'm with John yep he kept it yeah he kept his

Rolls Royce V12 I mean it's absurd but obviously it must drive okay well we'll

get into that oh really listen to this so after John died it was sold to this

Englishman named Martin and he's gonna restore it and he was just this guy is

as I saw this in the video they went to this guy's house who owns it and he's

lives in this like huge mansion and he's got sort of to his ears long hair full

sleeves but doesn't really talk like I feel like he's somebody in the music

industry maybe or something because he looks like a total rocker but he's

living in well he's what is he Ozzy Oz when he's living in a huge mansion yeah

anyway and he didn't give his last name or anything but it has no power steering

and a giant hood and these dudes that drove it were so freaked out it was just

I think it's really hard to drive because of the turning radius and you'd

have to start turning a block early yeah I would never make I would hit every

single curve it would hit all the curves I would hit everybody already do I do

it's true simile's website curb finder.com

not sure if your curb still there or not send Emily out to check it yep I'll

find it yeah then the steering wheel in the video the steering wheel was just

bouncing around the whole time and they were both just like I mean it seems cool

it would be cool to drive it would be interesting just to feel what you know

that much power feels like in a chassis yeah this car yeah you know and I think

that Dodd I think he took it out and opened it up a few times a quite a few

times probably and he drove it a lot it was a pretty windy roads over there

yeah it is an insane looking car and I'll put a link to it in the show notes

obviously yeah those show notes I've seen it before it's sick yeah it is pretty

sick and I remember to you know I looked at the photo and you kind of gave me a

little teaser mm-hmm it's good it's almost show rod type yeah it's wacky I

mean yeah it's definitely a shark a co-shark definitely wacky a co-shark a

loan shark co-shark a loan shark it's a co-shark he's definitely a loan shark

co-shark co-star it's definitely a car show type car is what I was trying to get

out before I went kosher you going kosher yep okay well I've got some salt

for you thanks yep bringing it down some terrible news in the last week with the

murder of Amber check by a co-worker twice her age she was 20 years old mm-hmm

and she worked at advanced process technologies a welding shop and brutally

murdered by her co-worker he said he didn't like her and had been pre

planning the attack yeah and a lot of people something I heard was that because

she gave him a bad look yeah I did I did also read that yeah and I what is a bad

look yeah I mean yeah well yeah I mean that's a reality right is it like yeah men

become I don't know I guess I guess angry with women or don't like women in the

workplace or something you know you know there's some kind of hate rage that like

this is such a outright rage and full of hatred like just pure hatred towards this

woman yeah and it's I mean again 20 years old like yeah just so uncalled for coming

into the world yeah just starting a career and someone that really is like

someone that we would have loved to have had an industry and I'm sure she would

have made an impact because she would like go back and help you said she would

help teach her high school yep she volunteered our high school yeah giving

back to other people in her community and a lot of trade groups and a lot of

women's trade groups have taken a chance to speak out because you know this kind

of behavior is pervasive in the industry it's like in the trades like yeah it's

it's a tough it's you know to put it lightly it's a tough break for women and

because there are lots of women that want to work with their hands and do that

kind of work and there are trades and industries that are not friendly to women

yeah and people in general right you don't like it yeah and it's too bad

because these are talented worker like and I'm sure it stops a lot of women

from getting into that line of work yeah I think so I mean we heard from

somebody at one of our classes about how they had become basically had FAA

certification and we're like I'm getting out because the shop environment is so

bad yeah after spending five years to get certified yeah which is just like

it's heartbreaking it's I mean it's absurd and she was so excited about her

job like she just bought a new truck that she saved up with her new job money

and just loved welding and like apparently was like witty and quick and everybody has

really good things to say about her that I read I mean 20 years old yeah it's

just uncalled for it's so uncalled for but obviously the person who did this is

just twisted I mean yeah and not all men are like this no wearing generalizations

don't work yeah but this one in particular the thing that sucks is there

are other ones out there like this guy I mean I got out of I got out of working

in hot rod shops because of that you know because yeah you can be put in a

position where like people are acting out against you because you're not like

accepting invitations to dinner or something like that and like you know in

my case like people were saying things to me to belittle me and things like

saying things about my family and when I told somebody about it they were like

oh that's just joking that's just joke talk like I shouldn't hear comments

about my mom or my family ever at work right you know and that's what I had to

say I'm like you're the person who writes my checks you know like I'm trying to

have a roof over my head and food on my plate it works hard enough as it is like

I shouldn't you know you shouldn't be hearing that kind of stuff yeah and like

that for me that was a first I had never worked in a hostile work environment

like that and then I realized like that's what that is and it's a pretty

terrible feeling because again I was in a spot I mean you knew yeah like I was

in a place where I was needing to earn money you know I owed back rent on my

old shop and like I was in a spot where these people knew that I needed the work

yet they were putting me through you know they're messing with me yeah and saying

things like that and again it's like was it retaliation for not accepting a

dinner invitation or something like that and seeing that pattern throughout the

shop it wasn't just me even yeah you know and it's it's hard so personally

I eventually I just didn't I just couldn't go back and I was like you know I

don't want to I don't want to do this anymore and have changed trades

completely yeah so you know that's that's my own personal experience and I

haven't really talked about it because it's hard to talk about and again because

like I told somebody that is pretty close to me and they excused the person

and I just was like well okay you know I don't know I don't know how to put you

in my position so you can understand what it feels like yeah no you know sounds

like they can't couldn't see it from your position yeah and and for a lot of

people it's worse and that's that thing you know you get somebody that's trapped

and then people mess with you you know because they know that you need work and

it especially in this job market it's hard to get a job it as it is and so it's

like people find themselves that like they need to earn money for their

families and to eat and then they work for somebody that you know toys with

them or whatever or they might work with somebody that's mean to them just for

being there it's hard to imagine but it's yeah it's super real yeah I mean I

have co-workers in the trades that have told me about you know when they were

apprenticing and people making them cry and just like the constant just bullshit

and I don't know it's sad and it's pathetic yeah simply pathetic I think that

it was a obviously very graphic crime yeah and I think that the writing about

it did its best to describe that it's I think it's important to understand how

horrific it is the amount of violence and anger that he showed towards her with

the way that he killed her is just like premeditated killing entered the

building put gloves on grabbed a sledgehammer from her workspace and then

it mentioned that it included blows from above down onto her yeah like like five

like five blows and that the call was that you know they had a female with

significant head trauma like she's not even there at that point five blows with

a sledgehammer it's so sad and it's so terrifying oh I know that's the thing I

was reading some stuff about it online and some of the comments and I was like

okay that's enough internet for today because there was you know there were

people that were like y'all only care because it's a woman you wouldn't care

if it was a guy then there were other people like I read this thing this other

person was calling this guy out was like well you said in another comment you'd

kill a woman given the chance I went to like look at the guy's page and I had

already blocked the guy right yeah some other time but people I know follow him

I mean they say they're saying like you wouldn't care if it was a guy but this

isn't happening to men yeah I mean and yes people would care if it was a guy

but like that's not I mean people don't hardly killed in the workplace this is

not the only workplace death for sure for sure in general there's way more men

that kill women than women that kill men not that it's unheard of that a woman

will kill a man that definitely happens but like I think yeah I mean get killed

much more yeah yeah I think that can be the thing it's sort of like the like if

somebody starts to engage you in public you know and you like you know I heard

this thing where this woman was talking about like you know if a guy says

something to you and then you have to be like like somebody starts talking to you

and you're thinking God I wish you would just never talk to me again but you have

to be like oh huh oh I think thanks you know thanks a lot like like you have to

be nice to not risk being put into violence right like you don't know like

to be put into danger yeah so I think that the you know there's I mean women

women know what we're talking about but it's I think some people just don't

believe what women have to say about these things and about the feelings of

safety yeah I mean that's what I felt that's how I felt I didn't feel safe I

started to worry that if I continued to put myself in that environment that it

wasn't gonna be okay for me yeah you know that was what I worried about it's

like for real yeah no I remember I haven't talked about it because I don't I

still worry about you know like retaliation or something like that

scares me you know yeah it's frightening yeah it's scary yeah it is but you know

it's like I said it's hard because there's so many people that need work

that are stuck in hostile work environments you know it's such a real

thing in so many different ways all kinds of different ways yeah I mean

there's just it's all over the place I know guy who's boss yells and he's like

it's all the guys like I don't you know I'm not gonna stay here like I don't know

what this is I don't know why he yell you know like there's just all kinds of

that I don't know work work shouldn't be an environment like that no it shouldn't

be a scary environment or hostile or any and most importantly in the trades they

constantly talk about that you should go home every night yeah she should have

gone home that night yep she should have had a great Thanksgiving with her

family she should have like had probably a four-day weekend like yeah you know

she should have been enjoying her awesome truck yeah they get to see a

photo of it but I kind of wish I could have yeah like we talked about like

everything that we've read about her is just she just sounds like the raddest

chick yeah she sounds like she would have been friends with us we would have

been friends we would have wanted to be friends with her for sure yeah

definitely yeah again 20 years old this is so it's clearly uncalled for I'm

gonna say it anyway but it's I think it's obvious like I mean god damn just a

baby that's yeah that's it you know but like on the right path and on the path

that she wanted to be on and somebody didn't like that she didn't even get to

get first-degree murder charges yeah I read some stuff where they are I was yeah

I was gonna bring it up I'm surprised as it had second-degree manslaughter but I

guess that was the most they could do without a grand jury review to start yeah

and that would keep him in jail yeah it's a million-dollar bond yeah he's not

getting on a jail ever prior prior fifth degree assault I don't know what fifth

degree assault is oh wow prior yeah and then his family released a statement that

they said they had distanced themselves from him for their safety years ago and

that they were grieving for her family and that's how they you know had no

further comment and yeah yeah he sounds like a real piece of work it's I mean

it's barbaric yeah first of all it's hard to believe it's so disgusting but you

know women women should be allowed to work in whatever trade they want you

know mm-hmm and people should be able to you know go to work and go home to their

family and to their friends yeah partners and all that and you know yeah

agreed rest in peace amber check yeah rest in peace I've been reading a science

book I bought it five years ago when I visited up here I think about it at

pals it's called the disappearing spoon by Sam Keen and it's about the periodic

table and the people who help discover various elements and pieces mm-hmm and

it's good I know I've read some of these stories or different pieces of them in

other things you know there's books and stuff but something that really stood

out to me Dimitri Mendelev who we sort of credit with coming up with the first

periodic table mm-hmm even though there were about five people at the same time

that developed it and they sort of give it to him because he predicted some

empty spaces but when he was 13 his father died his mom had been running a

glass factory whoa and it had burned down what year was this 1847 day this is

way back when at the age of 13 she bundled him up and they rode from

Siberia to Moscow on horseback 1200 miles from Siberia to Moscow to get him

into college he was rejected because he wasn't local so they rode another 400

miles to St. Petersburg where his father had gone his mother saw him enrolled and

then died shortly after 13 and whatever she died from being on the horse for so

long sounds like it like pneumonia or something sounds like it wow that is so

he was the youngest so far yeah I think he was the youngest of nine whoa mm-hmm

wonder what his other siblings ended up doing I don't know he also was he got

into the guy discovered gallium because he was like well if you did you have the

weight wrong and the guy retracted his information because it was it turned out

that Mendelez prediction was correct and people shit themselves you're like wow

how do they find out weights we're talking about atomic weight right yeah

atomic weight is based on I guess based on the way that the rest of the table was

laid out there's a pattern for him to follow and allowed him to suggest but I

don't know what that specific logic was that wasn't in the this story mm-hmm you

know later there was a section that talked about someone who you know

discovered that you know the number of protons was the same but you could have

more neutrons or more electrons and so then that would be an isotope or an

ion so that's a physicist that then sort of chemists didn't believe and so they

you know sort of like somebody came to embarrass him and brought him these

samples of rare earth and it was stuff that had taken this guy a long time to

sort out and he brings it to this embarrassing I'm so embarrassed yeah

and so what what this particular physicist was doing was using an electron

beam and came back to the guy within an hour and was like here's what they are

and the guy was less like so while he was trying to embarrass him it went the

other way this wasn't Mendeleva I can't remember who this was off the top of my

head right now but it's just fun it's cool it's it's been good I mean there

was definitely some low points this morning I read for two or three hours

this morning oh wow that's a long time yeah just wake up so early you were up

six now what do I do yeah six on Saturday so I was reading about Fritz

Haber who helped develop chemical warfare for the Nazis and well for Germany

really in World War one and then he was actually because he was Jewish and

converted to Lutheran he was exiled when the Nazis took over so that part was not

a high point no that sounds like a low point yeah it was not cool it was not

cool and then I'm on to the section that's about the atomic bomb and I've

read that and watched quite a few videos on it says like not my favorite I'm not

like there's some things that I didn't know about but it's not my favorite story

yeah so hopefully the next ones will be better but it's yeah the atomic bombs are

really wild really wild story yeah it did have it had some pieces about how

they determined how much of a radioactive element to use to create a neutron

chain reaction so that an atom will absorb another neutron but then expel

a neutron and it keeps getting these neutrons moving and creates this

excitement that doesn't stop and that's sort of what the neutron bomb is

basically endless excitement in a shell that cannot escape so it's

interesting that they had they basically were sort of like picking random

numbers and they were like if we did this for this long and this you know then

they would have a big basically like the wives the scientists do the computations

and so they were considered computers what the waves yeah they would do these

random they would do the math they were like board at Los Alamos so they gave

them something to do and they were to give them these basically put together

because they they didn't know rather than doing an experiment trying to figure

out what ratios and like what time frames would create a neutron you know

chain reaction mm-hmm you just picked random amounts and then they did the

computations and simulated what would happen so they basically had like the

shotgun they called it the Monte Carlo approach I guess the what their Monte

Carlo method whoa that's crazy I know how would they simulate it I don't know

they were it made it sound like they were picking random numbers and then they

would have the women do these computations and then they would just like

figure out if that random assortment of ingredients of time and what how much

plutonium or whatever they were using or uranium yeah if that would create a

chain reaction so it was like this weird random simulation that they would

basically run these simulations by having them do the computations so they

would do it for real with the plutonium or the uranium if it if it's like this

would create a chain reaction and that was something for them to try rather

than specifically doing it as an experiment yeah okay I read a book

about it once I mean I read part of a book because I couldn't finish it but

they talked about piles about having these piles what are those do you know

what you know I'm talking about piles of plutonium yeah well I think that's how

they gosh there was a story there was something I read this morning about when

one of them was sifting through a pile of spent plutonium yeah I just picture

like a bunch of like whatever that stuff is in a pile like a literal pile yeah

I don't know huh I'm not totally sure what like bricks of whatever it was or

something like a pile of bricks yeah I can't speak to what the specimen would

be okay physically without telling a fake answer oh I love fake answers don't

get me lying don't get me lying don't make you a lion right

meow well listen it's been nice it's been great but it hasn't been great nice

it's been great and nice nice great it's been grace thank you for listening done

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