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Dodge Aris
The Dodge Aries is a small car that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. It was known for being a good choice for families because it was affordable and easy to drive.
Car
Plymouth Junker
The Plymouth Junker is a car from 1986 that was designed to be affordable and practical. It has a boxy shape that was common in cars from that era.
Car
Plymouth Valiant
The Plymouth Valiant is a compact car that was made by Plymouth. It was popular in the 1960s and 1970s for being reliable and affordable.
Car
Nash Rambler
The Nash Rambler is a small car that was made in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was one of the first compact cars and had a unique design for its time.
Term
Cadillac fin
Cadillac fins are the pointed tail designs that were popular on Cadillac cars in the 1950s and 1960s. They were meant to look stylish and made the cars stand out.
Brand
Mopar
Mopar is a brand that provides parts and services for cars made by Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep. They also make performance parts for these vehicles.
Brand
DeSoto
DeSoto was another car brand in the U.S. that made cars from 1928 until 1961 before it was stopped because not enough people were buying them.
Concept
K car
K cars were small cars made by Chrysler in the 1980s. They were important because they helped the company stay in business during tough times.
Car
Ford F-250
The Ford F-250 is a strong pickup truck that can carry heavy loads. The 1974 version is one of the older models in a long line of F-Series trucks.
Term
big block
A big block is a type of engine that is larger and usually more powerful than smaller engines. They are often found in trucks and performance cars.
Part
axles
Axles are the parts of a car that help the wheels turn. When someone puts bigger tires on a vehicle, they might need stronger axles to handle the extra weight and power.
Part
engine
The engine is what makes the car go. If someone puts in a bigger engine, it means they're trying to make the car more powerful so it can handle bigger parts.
Term
cubic inch
Cubic inches tell you how big an engine is. A bigger number usually means the engine can produce more power.
Car
Plymouth Junkerola
The Plymouth Junkerola is not a real car model but a funny way to refer to a very old or broken-down car. It's like saying 'that old clunker' that nobody wants to drive anymore.
Car
Ford F
The Ford F-100 is an older model of a pickup truck that many people love for its classic style. It was built to be tough and is often seen as a symbol of American trucks.
Concept
monster truck
A monster truck is a big, powerful vehicle with huge tires that can drive over cars and do tricks. They're often seen in shows and competitions.
Car
Chevrolet Silverado
The Chevrolet Silverado is a big truck that many people use for work or to carry things. It's known for being strong and reliable, making it a favorite for those who need a vehicle that can handle tough jobs.
Term
48 inch tires
48 inch tires are very large tires that help a vehicle go over rough terrain. They are often used on trucks and modified vehicles to make them look more impressive and to help them drive better off-road.
Car
Ford Aerostar
The Ford Aerostar is a type of minivan made by Ford. It was popular in the late 1980s and 1990s and is known for its boxy shape and spacious interior.
Term
lifted
When a vehicle is 'lifted', it means the body is raised higher off the ground. This helps the vehicle go over obstacles more easily and can make it look more rugged.
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Happy Friday, happy Friday, it's the Brain Buster.
Brain Buster, Brain Buster, was that a gross sound though?
No, I thought of it like maybe something jumping out of the water.
I wanted it to be an explosion sound.
No, I'm thinking like creature from the brain lagoon.
Okay, perfect.
Yeah, perfect.
Yeah, creature from the brain lagoon.
Mm-hmm.
Well, yeah, we have a question and you, some of you had answers.
Yeah, some of you got an answer.
Mm-hmm.
Some of you wise guys and gals out there knew what to say.
Debatable.
Some way off topic.
Yeah, some didn't get it, but that's okay.
Like some did.
They tried.
Yeah, some don't even know the topic.
Mm-hmm.
That's okay.
At least they gave it the old college try.
Yeah, well, you know, that's all you do in college.
You just try.
You just get questions and you try them.
We did have a rolling death, we blew their minds.
Yeah, really?
Yeah, we got a whole.
Mind blown.
Yeah, we got a whole.
Really?
Yeah, total.
Wow.
We've got, we can, we're gonna read it.
Oh, I wouldn't expect anything less.
Okay, good.
I mean, you know, blow it wide open.
This is, I mean, this is, you know, this show is about customer service.
Mm-hmm.
You know, this is you write in, we read it.
We give you what you want.
Just right to the airwaves.
It's your 15 seconds of fame.
That's right.
Here it is.
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You can hear it broadcast live radio.
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Cranking out 15 watts of power, all the power you need all day, every day a.m.
89 three.
What was your question last week?
My question, my question is, what's the name of Homer's car?
And then that got some people going on the car Homer designed with his brother.
That's not what we're talking about.
It's not the same thing.
Way off topic.
It's not the question.
That's way back season two.
Yep.
The answer to this actually happens much, much later.
I will say, however, like if you Google eyes this, I know you didn't think that you thought
I knew what it your googly was, but that we're supposed to ask a friend.
Well, I'm just saying, are we allowed to Google things?
I guess so.
Very late answer from AI, but I'm fairly certain that Homer also says it in an earlier episode.
Like he says it to March, but it, I believe in some of these bizarre Simpson twists of
canonical fate that it is repeated again all the way up in season 21.
Now, one person guessed Dodge Ari's.
That was a manic, fanatic, not correct.
Very sorry.
Aries.
I mean, I said Aries, but Aries.
Thanks for clearing that up.
I was over here, flabbergasted, didn't know what you were talking about.
Gas could be flabbered a little bit there.
You know, yeah, the wrong, you know, I'm fastest on the wrong syllable.
The other person that guessed really didn't submit a guess.
This was a T.
Sains, Tracy just said they do look like those caddy tail lights from like the 80s and early 90s.
And I totally agree.
They do.
Maybe, maybe not even that year range, maybe somewhere near there, but they do look like
caddy tail lights.
Hmm.
Uh, I don't know.
That's really a gas, but I think that's where I think that's where that's like a dip your
toe in the water.
Yeah.
It's a suggestion.
Yeah.
And you know, the tail lights themselves are a suggestion and it is misleading.
I've occasionally seen people bend up the antenna like homers with the special king.
It's a good look.
Yeah, that's pretty funny.
I like it.
So, uh, classic long roof came in with the correct answer fired off pretty quickly into
my inbox directly, 1986 Plymouth, Junker, Rola ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
It's supposedly designed after a Plymouth valiant and an amalgamation of some other
things.
I see a little bit of like Nash Rambler in there for sure.
Like it's got the super square roof line.
I mean, it has.
Yeah.
It's very square.
It has some Cadillac fin and tail light for sure.
And the pink is very light Cadillac, but the roof line feels sort of linking continental
Nash Rambler to me.
And the front end, I haven't put a lot of thought into it does sort of speak.
I guess it speaks a little more Plymouth than it does like Oldsmobile.
Just the way they would do the centerline on the hood and stuff and the way it's drawn.
Um, it's, I could see it being, you know, a Plymouth.
Oh, what do you think air quotes?
What do you vote?
Sure.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to be 100% honest with you and I'm going to say that I don't be dishonest.
I won't.
I would never.
Oh my God.
Unless I had to.
Oh my God.
Emily, stop it.
I wouldn't.
I didn't look at it because sorry, should I?
No, that's, that's quite okay.
So I can't give an in-depth analysis of it.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I guess I dropped the ball there.
Uh, you don't even know what Homer's car looks like.
Yeah, it's pink.
Oh, it's got that twisted that antenna.
That's all it's got that zigzag.
Um, no, I knew that you're going to bring up the Cadillac tail lights before I did.
Actually, I looked it up to see if it was the right cause Jared G also gave the proper
answer.
Oh, really?
Um, yeah.
The Plymouth.
He didn't give the year though.
Hmm.
Well, we didn't ask for the year.
We didn't.
Yeah.
Long roof just went above and beyond.
We asked for the name and the make.
That is the A plus ass kissing student right there.
So Jared got it?
Yeah.
The Plymouth.
What was it called?
Plymouth.
Junkerola.
Junkerola.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I really a stab on Plymouth there.
Yeah.
I wonder if any executives were mad about that or they just had a good nature about it.
They're probably like, we had a good run.
It's over.
Yeah.
Is Plymouth still around?
Probably still make a minivan.
Is Plymouth still around?
Oh, it seems so.
Okay.
I don't, I don't know.
I'm assuming the Plymouth.
Didn't one of those companies go down?
What is, what is, uh, well, yeah.
Didn't one of the Mopar companies go down?
Oh.
Uh, you mean DeSoto?
Yes.
DeSoto did.
No, like in modern times.
I hate to break it to you.
Yes.
DeSoto.
In modern times.
DeSoto is out of business.
In modern times.
It's not Dodge Brothers anymore.
It's just Dodge.
Okay.
Interesting.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, I guess I stand corrected.
Fargo.
Yeah.
I thought Dodge brand went out of, I thought of Dodge brand went out of business like,
like not that long ago.
Which one?
Late nineties, 2000.
I thought it was Plymouth.
You think Plymouth is gone?
Huh?
Well, clearly it's not.
If you think it's not.
I mean, it's up for debate.
Okay.
Next week's question is Plymouth still in business.
Plymouth around.
I'm not going to Google it right now, but I will as soon as we're done.
Please, you tell us, you tell us.
Plymouth still in business.
Who knows?
I could have sworn it was like early 2000s or something.
The same, around the same time that Pontiac.
I'll tell you who knows shareholders.
Hmm.
They do.
Do you think we have any shareholders?
They're the only people that matter in this country.
So what's the deal?
What do you mean?
What's the deal?
The deal is we should read the rolling death debacle.
Yeah.
You got a little, little dialogue.
Yeah.
Do you want to read it or do you want me to read it?
You can read it.
Okay.
It's your bet.
Oh, well, I mean, it's your question.
Why don't you read it?
Okay.
Gina asked, this is the rolling death group chat, which I have been authorized to read.
So I'm not, I'm not, this is, this has been declassified.
Yeah.
It's declassified.
That's a relief.
Fan club group chat.
That's a relief.
Yeah.
So nobody's going to come at us with chains or anything from Gina.
And she asked Steve, Emily and Alex, because those are probably the three, I think those
are the three big Simpsons nerds.
What is the accurate name and make of Homer's car?
It was called something in an episode.
It's the car crash brain buster.
Steve, the Homer.
Alex, the Homer mobile.
Steve, oh wait, the one he designed or his daily driver, Gina, did they say make your
model?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You did.
Yeah.
Very specifically.
Yeah.
Gina.
Uh, and then she says, I think the daily driver, we aren't supposed to Google, but asking
a friend is okay.
Gina, I really appreciate you.
We both appreciate you sticking to the rules.
I've done Simpsons trivia with Steve.
Steve should like, Steve went full deep cut season two.
Well, here goes Emily though.
Can you guess what Emily did?
What?
I Googled because I didn't know and would not have known Emily.
Oh my goodness.
Emily.
But you know what?
You just tore the whole thing to shreds.
It's all coming down.
It's all, you know what?
It's the end.
Shut the website down.
Just forget it all.
It's all over.
This thing's underwater.
We'll never get our money back now.
That's it.
People start Googling.
That's how the whole thing falls apart.
The whole thing.
The whole thing.
It's all over.
You gotta ask your friends.
Well, I don't know if Emily knows the rules.
Emily.
Well, maybe she does now.
Probably not though.
We said that you can ask your husband if you want to.
Only your husband.
Only.
She goes on to say, this says the car isn't actually named
until an episode in 2017.
So it's way past Watchable Simpsons.
Ooh.
Dig.
I mean, that's not, not even a dig.
I mean, uh, like, I mean, geez, people debate whether like
season 10 is acceptable, which it's sort of not halfway through.
It just goes off the rails.
I do like the one with Alec Baldwin and Ron Howard and Kim
Basinger.
Oh yeah.
I like that one too.
Dish upon a star.
That's what it is.
I like that.
But after that season 10 just goes off the rails.
That one's good.
And some people don't include, they don't like to include one.
I don't really include one.
It's like, I think two is good.
Mm-hmm.
Simpson and Delilah is a favorite episode.
I don't know.
Sam Simpson and Delilah.
That's when he gets, gets the hair growth and he becomes an
executive and he gets the key to the executive washroom.
Oh.
No, I can't remember.
I sort of remember that.
He puts the hair growth toxin on his insurance because he
becomes an executive.
It's, you know, yeah.
Sounds fun.
It's not.
I don't know.
I don't have the Simpson's knowledge that you do.
That's okay.
Yeah.
Is it okay though?
No, but you know, what are we going to do about it?
Except for still being my friend.
You know, like, at the hour of the night, what are we going
to do about it?
It's all over.
It's 549 p.m. on a Tuesday.
Well, since you put it that way, yeah.
Well, I tell you what, get some popcorn.
Gina goes on to say, I know it's based on a K car.
It has to be.
A K car.
Is a valiant a K car?
Because if she, if so, then she is.
I would appreciate that deep cut.
Is a valiant a K car?
No, the original Plymouth valiant was not a K car.
Okay.
Well, Gina, I'm sorry to say.
So the valiant's not a K car.
That's incorrect.
You did not get the answer right.
But you know what?
We love you anyway.
Emily got out her red pin.
Her red.
I did no such thing.
I'm reading this off an iPad.
No, she got out the red pin and marked it out.
Marked your name out.
Brutal takedown.
Well, Emily had one more thing to say and she said it's an
actual make and it's a fictional model.
Yeah.
So she kind of, she, but she Googled so it doesn't count.
You're out.
Dishonored.
Dishonored will discharge.
Yeah.
Whoa.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just totally disrespectful to the rules of the
game.
You're grounded.
Do not pass.
Go stern.
Straight to jail.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Straight.
Straight to the next question.
This is actually pretty funny.
My question was what was the first monster truck?
Okay.
Sounds amazing.
Yeah.
I love monster trucks, but I don't know the answer to this.
Well, what's funny is of the three monster trucks I could name,
I think actually only named two.
What were the three you named last time?
I can't remember.
Bigfoot, Gravedigger.
I don't remember any of those.
Those are the key points.
Yeah.
Bigfoot is known as the first one.
Okay.
I kind of thought it was Bigfoot and I've researched Bigfoot a
little bit in the past, but it has been a while ago.
Yeah.
I thought it was funny when I looked it up.
I was like, oh, that's the one that I know.
So my mom and the Hort are from Cleaves, Ohio,
where there's a thing called gravel Rama.
And it's this big gravel hill that Jeepsters and stuff try to climb.
You know, Jeep people and just people into that sort of thing and off road.
And Bigfoot showed up in the 80s and just like climbed it like it was nothing.
And then just like drives back down and just goes back up and does it again.
Yeah.
And just like does it in a loop.
So cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But it was blowing people's minds.
It's a pretty amazing video.
It was such a new, I mean, there wasn't, and now monster trucks,
there's some like multi-billion dollar industry.
Yeah.
It's huge.
I used to watch Monster Jam on ESPN when I was a kid, like at my grandparents.
I loved it.
I was always stoked when I could see that on TV and I've been to it once when I was 10.
It was awesome.
I was reading something where it was saying that they were selling out or they were performing
in 84,000 seat stadiums, which is pretty insane.
I couldn't sell like six seats.
That's pretty crazy for a motorsport.
I don't know if they were selling all that out or, but I think that was in the Hay Day.
So Bigfoot is a 1974, the original one, Ford F-250.
Awesome.
It was owned and built by Bob Chandler.
Is it a 390?
I can't, I don't know what was in the.
Is it a big block Chevy?
Actually, no.
Hold on.
You didn't come with engine details?
He says, I never had the thought to build a monster truck.
I kept putting bigger tires on it.
Then I broke axles.
So I put bigger axles on it.
Then it didn't have enough power.
So I put a bigger engine in.
It was a vicious circle for three and a half years and it ended up with four foot tall
tires, two and a half ton axles from military top loader, 640 cubic inch Merlin.
There's the Merlin again.
Whoa.
Merlin.
Yeah, and Bigfoot could perform crab walks and tilt its front clip.
You're saying that it's got a Merlin engine?
The first one.
No way.
That's what, according to Hagerty.
That's bananas.
Yeah, the first one.
I am shocked.
I think he needed a lot of horsepower to get up over all that crazy shit.
I mean, that's the, what I, I don't think this was like a third or fourth one.
I got to look that up.
Okay, look it up.
That's, that's crazy.
So it's debatable.
If it's a Merlin, now we found out or if it's a Ford.
Yeah, he said Merlin.
Maybe we just don't understand what type of Merlin.
According to Hagerty, it was a Merlin.
According to these people that are rebuilding it, they call it a Ford.
Yeah, I just mean that I don't know that it's a Merlin airplane engine.
Like Merlin could be a builder, I guess.
We should, we should look that up before we just like air it like we don't know.
Well, this is where we get the news wrong.
True story.
True story.
How he started out was he was a carpenter by trade.
Okay.
And then he bought, he, him and his wife were into off-roading.
Yeah.
And he was frustrated by what was on the market that he couldn't get parts.
It was hard.
And so him and his wife and a guy named Jim Kramer opened up and off-road.
Store.
Called.
What was that called?
Midwest four-wheel drive.
And then his truck became the catalog for it.
That's so cool.
I saw that picture in the video of the truck originally with the logo on the side of it.
Yeah.
And he was like, yeah, we used to go camping in it.
Yeah, yeah.
It was their camping.
They would go off-road camping.
How cool is that?
It's so cool.
The story about it's cool because he inadvertently started this whole huge crazy sport that has
captured the imagination of many a child and adult life.
And I mean, it's the whole things.
Cuckoo bananas.
It's totally cuckoo.
Cocoa for cocoa puffs.
It is.
It is.
It's cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
So his truck became the catalog.
And then obviously when he broke apart, he would always replace it with something bigger
and better.
And he would go to off-road competitions, probably to show off the truck and to dominate support.
Yeah.
And he became known as Bigfoot because he was such an aggressive driver.
Whoa.
And he would like clean up at these things.
He would kill it.
And this is before Bigfoot was a monster truck.
But this is Jim Kramer driving.
No, this is Bob Chandler.
Bob Chandler.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't think Jim Kramer ever drove.
They just said in that video that he was their longtime driver.
Oh, okay.
Well, in the beginning, Bob, according to Haggerty, again, they could be lying.
No.
Haggerty, I believe, is a reputable source.
Sure.
I guess.
I suppose.
It is a kind of classic car insurance that I have.
Hard to tell and not knowing.
Yeah, exactly.
So he knew his truck after he built it and it became the monster when it was the big,
when it was like officially a monster truck.
I don't even know if maybe they called it a monster truck yet.
Maybe it was just his big ass truck.
He thought it could drive over anything.
And so he decided to drive over two cars.
So in 1981.
His neighbors.
Yeah, his neighbors, two cars.
Yeah.
So because you know why they were always parked in his spot.
Take that.
He was mad about it.
Yeah.
So him and Jim Kramer went out to a field, one of his friends farm fields and ran over.
A Plymouth Junkerola.
A Plymouth Junkerola.
Two of them.
They were able to get two somehow.
And they took a video of it and there was a kid laughing in the background too.
They must have had a kid out there with them.
That's an important part of the story.
Yeah.
So then they played that video at their store and a promoter came in and he was like.
A wrestling promoter.
A wrestling promoter came in.
Yeah.
Oddly enough.
Really?
A wrestling promoter came in and he was like.
I just guessed that.
But it sounds like the kind of thing that a wrestling promoter would do.
He was like, look, I promote at the county fairground and I promote tractor poles.
Okay.
And he said, can you come do this?
Well, that explains why we would see tractor poles with Monster Jam.
Yeah.
That's how it started is promoter came in and said, Hey, will you come to the fairgrounds
and perform that trick that you have on this video?
And at first Bob was like, I don't think so.
And because he was worried.
Oh, come on.
He was worried that it was going to solely the truck's name.
Even though he'd already done it, it was on video.
I don't know why he thought it would slide the truck's name, but finally.
Don't crush that car.
Bob, don't do it.
No.
Oh, I can't support this big foot anymore.
It's a car cruncher.
Get your big foot off of me.
No more big foot.
That's exactly what happened.
But anyway, the show went off without a hitch and people were fucking minds were blown.
I was going to say they had to be throwing their panties at Bob Chandler.
Oh, they were definitely panties, bras, tidy white Marlboro's, Paul malls.
Everything.
Virginia Slims.
Yeah.
Evan Williams, Kentucky Tavern.
The truck was burying this guy in paraphernalia from the crowd.
Just take whatever we have the belt.
Everything.
My boots.
Here's my spurs.
Bolo tie.
Yeah.
They were really pumped obviously.
Sleeveless shirt.
They'd never seen anything like it.
Headband.
Fanny pack.
A watch.
Fanny pack, hot pants.
Stiletto heels.
It's the 80s.
Yeah.
Mind you.
Yeah.
Maybe a fur coat if it's cold.
What?
Fur coat at the first ever.
Smash them up.
I don't know if you're dressing in hot pants.
Fur coats go great with a hot pants.
I was just thinking of the 80s.
Yeah.
I'm just saying a fur coat goes great with a hot pant.
Okay.
In the 80s.
Okay.
Sure.
Fur coat goes great with a hot pant.
It does.
In the 80s.
It really does.
It sounds like the lines of a hit song.
It really does.
That is basically, yeah.
How, as we know it, the sporting of monster trucks.
The sporting.
The sporting event.
The sporting monster trucks.
Yeah.
How they, how that came to be.
And of course it was just like, it was a hit right from the start.
And people, um, like it traveled by word of mouth and by media.
And it was just a huge, everything is set the world on truck.
Crush his car.
Set the world on fire.
Basically.
Fire.
But there is a little bit of a controversy.
Oh, controversy.
I am kind of sad because Hagerty did not.
I thought they were going to base this all on one article.
I just only read the.
I love it.
That's great.
Is that lame?
No, no, no, no.
Far bit from me.
Yeah.
I didn't have time to do a deep to ask you.
Hey, this is where I get the news wrong.
So yeah, I read one article.
My bad.
I just got the answer.
Anyway, there was a controversy.
That Jeff Dain, who built King Kong.
Um, which is a diesel Ford F 250.
He said he was the first one.
To run over cars or to build a monster truck.
Both both.
Hang on.
Like Dragway.
He was he the first to run over cars or was he the first?
The first to build a monster truck.
Oh yeah.
So he is a point of contention.
And what Haggerty said was.
It did depended on who you asked any fan, like some, yes, 10 people.
They're like, you'll get 10 different answers.
And then they didn't go further into it.
They just went into Bob Chandler.
So I did Google more about that because I was like, oh, I want to know about this.
This bad that controversy here and everything that I read was saying that big foot.
It was only the Haggerty article that mentioned the other.
Yeah, I hear King Kong.
It's all big foot.
Yeah.
Big foot is the reigning champion.
I mean Bob Chandler.
Yeah.
Heavy metal is a good one.
Yeah.
Heavy metal is awesome.
Samson.
I always liked Samson's a good one.
The one that was like the bull with the horns.
I thought was really good.
Oh yeah.
That one's cool.
I forget what that's called, but I do like that one.
And there was the one that was the skull.
I can't remember the name of it, but I remember the body.
I don't think I've seen that.
Yeah.
I like those.
Samson has the arms.
Yeah.
I remember you telling me that.
I didn't.
There was like a USA one truck that was good.
It's the white Silverado.
Oh yeah.
I think I've read about that.
I think that was in here.
Yeah.
In this article, something that I thought that you would like is they have because
I think big foot as a company has a T like a few different trucks.
Yeah.
And they have the big foot.
Six.
Video.
So they had six because this was a different.
This is not a big foot truck.
Oh, but it's called the big foot shuffle.
It's a lifted arrow star minivan with 48 inch tires.
The shuffle, the shuffle, the big foot shuffle.
I thought that big foot had an arrow star.
I thought they had one that was on tank treads too, but maybe the big foot tank.
Yeah, I didn't look that up either.
I thought I thought they had an arrow star and tank treads.
There was an arrow star on tank treads outside of Louisville that we used to drive past on
71 all the time.
So cool.
It was cool.
I like something on tank treads.
It's kind of fun.
It's fun.
This is fun.
Yeah.
Of course there's the boogie van.
The boogie van is great.
Female driver, really sick truck.
I didn't, it's got, it's like all windows.
But I think that, yeah, it's a fish bowl, but I think arrow star, I think the big foot
has an arrow star.
Or is that the big foot shuffle?
The shuffle, it said it was a lifted arrow star.
But it's not a part of the big foot team?
I think it's part of their thing because it's called the big foot shuffle.
Okay.
Yeah.
I didn't go into like how does this team situation work?
How does a big foot get made?
How does a big foot get made?
How is it christened?
Well, how it got made was he just kept breaking parts and putting bigger and bad or shit on it.
For six trucks now?
Did he have a six?
I think I read up to three.
There's six on the team and then there's a big foot 24 was like the last number that
we read.
Wow.
Yeah.
A lot of trucks.
I'm guessing.
A lot of trucks.
So that's, that's the answer.
And you know what?
Disappointingly, nobody, nobody even guessed your question.
Nobody even tried to guess.
Oh my gosh.
But you know what?
Also, I didn't post the question on Instagram.
I forgot.
OMG, Emily.
Yeah.
I mean, listen, people are not necessarily participating just by listening.
They see it on Instagram and write us on our Instagram.
We do read those.
Yes.
Of course.
That's all we were reading.
We're happy to read those.
Yeah.
I mean, like, and gosh, everybody does Chevy citation responses.
Oh my gosh.
Well, we'll talk about that.
They were so good.
Yeah.
We'll talk about that.
Citation really struck a chord.
Big foot on the other hand, nobody gives a fuck.
Nobody cared about big foot.
Nobody cares about it.
He gave a shit about monster trucks.
Nobody cares about the history behind it.
Well, what do you got for a brain buster next week?
It is.
Lady.
What is the difference between a highway and a freeway?
A highway and a frickin' freeway.
And I would define a freeway as an interstate road, like a freeway.
That's my understanding of what a freeway is.
Okay.
Like I5205.
So the difference between interstate and a highway.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
I think that it's right in the names there.
Yeah.
But there might be a little bit more of the story.
It's a pretty light lift.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's, yeah.
Okay.
So you're going like municipal on this one.
Going what?
You're going for, you're going like municipal zoning rules here.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Okay.
Exactly.
Rose, what's your question for next week?
My question for next week is why, what do you call a, what do you get when you, why,
why, why, what do you, what is the name?
Uh-huh.
Why was Ed Roth's show car, the outlaw named such?
Oh.
Why?
Oh.
Yeah.
Why, why is the show car the outlaw?
Again, you can ask your friends, you can ask somebody that you work with, you can ask
somebody at the bus stop, you can ask somebody to get their meat sliced at the grocery store.
You can ask somebody changing their tire on the side of the road.
You can ask somebody while they're eating their breakfast, when they're trying to get
ready for work, you can ask somebody while they're having to clean the cat box or whatever
you've got to do.
Maybe they're wiring an electric motor for you or something like that, or maybe they're
like tying their shoes or it's somebody that's like delivering the mail.
That's somebody great.
You don't know what they know.
They might know it.
They might not know what they know.
Yep.
And then they've got the answer.
Or just like ask somebody that looks like they're wearing like a Von Dutch shirt or
something.
But no Googling.
Don't, don't Google it.
That's so not cool, Emily.
Emily.
That's so not cool.
OMG.
Anyway, I love that question.
Oh, thanks so much.
I wrote it myself.
I could tell.
Yeah, it's a good one.
We delivered it.
Yeah, it's a good one.
Spectacular.
Oh, thank you.
Well, it's like the shipping jokes.
It's all about the delivery.
The what jokes?
Shipping.
I thought you said shipping, but I was like, what the hell is that?
Wow.
Wow.
That was so bad that you had to deconstruct it right in front of my face like that.
The shipping jokes?
Yeah, they're all about the delivery.
Oh my God.
Not giving me much to work with here.
Oh my God.
I'm so sorry.
Help me out.
Hook me up.
Let's do a show.
Have your people call my people.
Okay.
Wow.
Ask your friends.
Get your brain busted.
We'll talk to you next time.
That's right.
Bye.
Bye.
About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds around a trivia question about Homer's car from The Simpsons, leading to humorous guesses and debates about the show's history. The hosts explore the origins of monster trucks, particularly Bigfoot, sharing anecdotes and details about its creator, Bob Chandler. They delve into the evolution of the monster truck phenomenon, touching on controversies and the cultural impact of these vehicles. The episode wraps up with new trivia questions, encouraging listener participation and light-hearted banter.
Original notes
This week we explore the first monster truck and Homer's car.
Recorded @iapdx
Recorded & mixed by Emdognightmare & Queen of the Vans
Editor: Emdognightmare
Production & research Queen of the Vans & Emdognightmare
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