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About this episode
A lighthearted discussion unfolds as Ian humorously declares himself the 'Jane Goodall of Dodge Chargers driven by people without talent.' The hosts share amusing anecdotes about a Charger mishap in their neighborhood, explore neighborhood association politics, and dive into car culture with segments on Hondas and a license plate game. They also prepare for an upcoming 24-hour race, sharing tech updates and strategies for the event. The episode is filled with laughter, camaraderie, and a unique blend of automotive insights and personal stories.
Topics:
dodge chargers
neighborhood associations
car culture
honda appreciation
24-hour race prep
license plate game
automotive anecdotes
Cars:
Aston Martin Vanquish
Audi Quattro
Dodge Charger
Ford Mustang
Honda Accord
Honda Civic
Honda Crosstour
Honda CRX
This week Ian discusses his difficult duties and Dave debuts yet ANOTHER segment - Hondas We're Here For! You know who else we're here for? YOU! We love you!
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Dave.
Ian.
I'd like to announce a new career for me.
This is Apex, Jason Carr Show.
We talk about music sometimes.
But today, we're going to talk about me as a nature observer.
A nature observer?
Oh, OK.
I thought you were like maybe doing a massive shift in your career, like professional baker.
We're going to be on Great British Bake Off or something like that.
No, I'm taking a harder shift, harder left turn.
I'm going to be the Jane Goodall of a specific species.
But it's not going to be animals.
It's going to be, I'm going to be the Jane Goodall of Dodge Chargers driven by people
without talent.
Oh, OK.
Yes.
Yes.
OK.
All right.
So, I'm already pretty good at identifying their droppings.
OK.
You're not like integrating yourself yet within their society and their hierarchical structure.
No, I've observed some behavior, I've observed some behavior, and I was able to correlate
that with some droppings that were left after said behavior.
OK.
If you want to show the people, I took a picture of it for educational purposes.
OK.
Because, you know, that's as a scientist, that's part of your job is to mandate, is to share
your knowledge with the people.
Yes, document.
OK.
I assume this is the one in the folder called Charger droppings.
Oh, no, it's the other one.
No, it's this one.
Folks, we don't rehearse.
OK.
All right.
This is Charger droppings.
OK.
I, oh boy.
I don't know if I've been so apprehensive about a JPEG hovering over the browser before.
Here we go.
Oh, and plastic under tray.
Plastic under tray, torn, a stunder.
Left on the side of your house.
Somebody else's house, but in my neighborhood, this gentleman, so I walked out, I was walking
out to take one of my children to one of their many activities the other day.
Yes.
And Niko was out ahead of me, and he came running back in.
I heard tire squealing, which is the mating call of this species.
Yes, yes, the siren call, yes.
And Niko comes running back in, there's a car on the sidewalk, and I was like, what?
So I ran outside, and it was a block away, but I could see from my house that it was
a Dodge Charger facing me on the sidewalk.
Oh, no.
And so I walked right over there.
I was like, Niko, you stay here because God knows who knows what's happening.
Yes, yes.
So I walked right over there.
Everybody was fine.
Let me start with that.
Everybody's OK.
OK.
Apparently, this person was driving like northbound.
OK.
This is this wall faces south.
OK.
And it's on the corner.
Uh-huh.
And so this car was driving northbound and somebody pulled out and he tried to go around them.
And then in his words, the car just wouldn't stop.
And he ended up facing west.
Uh-huh.
And on the sidewalk.
OK.
And you could see the tire marks.
So clearly what happened was he panicked.
Yes, hit the accelerator.
Yes.
And then hit the hit the brake and slid all the way around.
Yes, unintentional drift.
Yes.
And I was like, yes, it was the car's fault.
Sure.
Right.
And so I walked back to my house and Jenny was like, what happened?
And I was like, skill issue.
100% get good.
Also, I'm really sure that if you were traveling at the speed limit,
a car hopping in front of you at 25 miles an hour because you live in a dense neighborhood.
I do.
I do 25 to 28 in your neighborhood.
Yeah.
Right.
There's children playing stuff like that.
Like it could be dangerous.
Right.
Yeah.
I am a well known skeptic of speed limits in many settings.
My neighborhood, not one of them.
The speed limit on that street is 30 miles an hour.
It should be like 20 because it's like super dense.
The whole thing should be a school zone.
Also, if you get from the street to the sidewalk, you're lucky that there were no street
parked cars in the middle.
Or pedestrians were on that sidewalk twice a day, at least, like this section of sidewalk.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Wow.
He just drove off.
I think he called his insurance company and then he drove off.
So did he make contact with anything?
No, he had no damage other than the plastic under trays.
Okay.
Somehow, I was like, I walked around because I was like, surely he's got at least
like a pinch flat or something because he went over the curb.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, he's in need of an alignment.
I bet that.
Sure.
And the chiropractor probably.
Yeah, no flat tires or anything like that.
He was definitely shaken up.
Sure.
But I was late for something and I was like, nobody's hurt.
Right.
I don't have time for this.
Nothing's on fire.
Nobody's going to be pulled out of the car.
He didn't hurt the house.
Okay.
You know, some grass got mangled.
That was it.
Sure.
But left the plastic under tray.
I'm surprised it didn't have the yellow things on it.
I know.
Well, there was a bunch of other.
Pieces that he took with them and I think he just out of those just didn't take that.
I don't know.
There was a lot of other little pieces that really.
Okay.
Just detris from the from the impact.
Okay.
Mm hmm.
Wow.
So, so how else do you plan to kind of like to integrate yourselves into their society?
Like what?
Yeah.
What's the future hold for Ian Goodall in this integration experience?
Yeah, I plan on getting like an evanescent CD that I'm going to like really blast at large
at loud volumes.
Uh huh.
Um, you know, maybe, maybe a limp biscuit t-shirt.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Um, because I think that all of the end sublime a sublime t-shirt because I think.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Right.
Uh huh.
Yeah.
Um, and yes, I know these are dated references, but that's so is the music taste of the
Dodge Charger Hemi.
Mm hmm.
Yeah, it was, it was a Hemi as well with the sort with the stripes.
Gotcha.
The stripes I think are to blend in to whatever yard you've you driven into.
That's what the stripes are actually for.
So when you wind up in a parking lot facing the wrong direction,
like it's just like that dazzle camouflage.
Well, yeah, when you're in like, uh, when you're in like a dense growth
forest because you've driven there on accident, then you can't be seen by the cops.
Yeah, that's not a lot to know about that.
The more you know, yeah, that's what they're there for.
Nice.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I look forward to future updates, Ian.
I look forward to, uh, I mean, it's going to be interesting.
Our, I think it's going to test our friendship.
If we go carting and you start driving like a charger driver.
True.
You know, yeah.
Yeah, especially as I start mowing down pedestrians with the go-karts.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You're not joining a Mustang clan.
That's true.
That's true.
But you know, I'll have to observe the warring that happens between the two.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
Right.
If somebody conquers somebody else's turf, yeah.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
They just start throwing feces at each other.
Like feces packed into Zinn containers.
Yeah, exactly.
Uh-huh.
Did you see the video that was going around about the, it was a Mustang that
crashed like just basically like in the middle of nowhere.
It looked like it was just on like kind of like a mountain canyon road.
It could have been in Colorado.
I don't know, but it was this Mustang just driving around like a big like horseshoe
turn and it wasn't even going that fast.
And I think that they were drifting a little bit into the oncoming lane and
there was another car coming and they like a panic and crashed.
And the person taking the video, like they're panning and keeping the Mustang
in the center of the frame, the Mustang crashes and they just keep panning off
into the woods.
We're just further down the road as if like it never happened.
I don't know why, but it's amazing.
It's the funniest shit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah.
Oh, buddy.
Okay.
All right.
Go to a parking lot and learn how to drive your car.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
You do it.
Yep.
This is, I, oh, I was going to tell you, I told Kelly about your, um,
church, uh, societal parking lot, uh, taxation proposal.
She is a thousand percent on board.
Yes.
You have a solid supporter in my life.
Yes.
Good.
Yeah.
And to catch everyone up, my proposal is basically if you don't pay taxes,
your parking lot is a park that we get to do whatever the fuck we want
and every other like six days a week.
Yes.
Yeah.
You get Sundays, morning and evening, Wednesday nights,
other than that, it's hours, bitches.
Yeah.
You want full user parking lot?
Pay your fucking taxes.
There you go.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yep.
Um, well, speaking of me being a agitator, what about us?
Let's just go to this one.
So I have, uh, infiltrated, infiltrated, it's not the right word.
Joins my neighborhood association.
Joins your neighborhood association.
Okay.
I have.
I am on the board by neighborhood association.
You have a board.
Okay.
All right.
No, this is not an HOA.
Is it?
No, it's not an HOA.
Right.
And this is not a neighborhood watch.
No, it's like a neighborhood, like residential, like residents association.
Okay.
Um, basically I went to a meeting, a neighborhood meeting a while back
and somebody spoke up in favor of parking minimums.
Now for anyone who's not familiar with parking minimums, this is an idea
from like city planning from a while from like a long time ago, like the 70s
basically where if you build a building or get zoned in a certain way, you
have to have the correct number of parking spaces to accommodate that.
Yes.
Which sounds like a common sense thing except for it basically makes it
so you can't build dense things, right?
You have to have a big parking lot and then like a big setback
for your building, even in a dense urban environment where you don't
want them, right?
Where people aren't necessarily going to drive to your business or to
your church or whatever.
Right.
And so like Denver, like a lot of cities is trying to get rid of these
things because they end up being really restrictive and making it
so you can't build density.
Right.
Um, so I was like, well, I guess I'm going to have to join
this neighborhood association.
So I did and and I've already started, already started agitating
because Denver has been installing again, like a lot of other cities
installing more biking infrastructure in around the town around the
city.
And one big issue is in central Denver, there's a lot of east-west
corridors for riding your bike, not a lot of north-south ones.
Right.
One of the north-south ones is going to go through our neighborhood
and we found out because they sketched out in the road.
I don't know if you've seen like on Seventh Avenue, they have
like the, the little, like the little mini roundabouts now.
No, I haven't.
So it's like a traffic calming thing where they put a little roundabout
in, in like the residential city streets like mine.
Okay.
Um, to like slow cars down and then like put big curb extensions
into like square up corners and stuff like that.
Okay.
And the old people on my neighborhood association are up in
arms because they're like, where, what about it?
Where's our parking?
Are we going to lose parking?
All of these motherfuckers have alley parking and garages.
Garages, yes.
And like, if you have multiple cars, you put one on the street,
but like it's not like, it's not like it is in other areas of
the city or a really dense city where you're circling the
block like for an hour and a half to find a parking spot.
At most you got to walk a half a block.
Okay.
Like it's not an issue.
Right.
Um, so that's the big drama right now.
And I've been like, I'm the listserv.
I'm on the listserv now.
So I can reply to all these old people and be like, you
know what your parking is a secondary concern to my 11 year
old being able to bike to school safely.
There you go.
You know, there you go.
So, um, yeah, that's, um, I like that an update.
So I'll let everybody know when I get kicked off.
I was going to say, yes, I look forward to your impeachment
hearings.
Let me know if I'm called as a character witness.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Wow.
All right.
I'm here for it.
I'm here for it, Ian.
Yes.
I really respect your views and I'm thankful that you
have somebody to, um, to yell at instead of you instead
of podcast.
Well, I it's you're preaching to the choir with me
because like you and I don't disagree about much, you
know, yeah, but, uh, I'm here for it.
I'm here for it.
I like that.
Okay.
Neighborhood agitator Ian.
Yeah.
Charger, uh, Charger Goodall neighborhood agitator.
Boy, you, you have been busy.
I wonder if this has it's like an hour of manifestation
of any anxiety that you're feeling like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See, that's what you do when you're really, really
stressed about stuff.
You just give yourself more things to do.
Exactly.
Yes.
Yeah.
When you're when you're at the golden corral and you
don't want any of the food, just keep piling more and
more, more food, more food.
Get another plate motherfucker.
Yeah.
Put the macaroni and cheese in the chocolate
fountain, then take the whole thing to your
table.
Exactly.
Uh-huh.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, I, I don't know what else to say.
My life seems pretty boring compared to what you've
been up to, man.
Well, no, because you have updates as well because
you've been a busy boy as well.
Yes.
I have been a busy boy.
I've been working on the lemon's car a bunch.
Um, yeah, making good progress.
So right now, besides a little bit of welding that
Chad needs to do, we are good for tech.
Sweet.
So here I have, I made us a new light up numbers.
I think you're going to like them because I got
green.
Oh man, that looks so great.
Yeah.
So like green, like window and headlight tint.
So the numbers are green.
Um, there they are lit up.
I made a plastic roof for the car.
Um, that roof looks so great.
Thank you.
Yes.
That's me with a heat gun bending, uh, ABS plastic
Chad, uh, cut all the, uh, U bolts to length.
So they won't stab us.
Um, I mean, we need to paint it to look like a turtle shell.
Yes.
Yes.
We do.
That's, that's a great idea.
Yes.
Let's bring some green spray paint.
Yeah.
I mean, once one of the numbers is on top of it.
So that's covering a fair amount, but yeah, let's
bring some gray spray paint and some, uh, I mean,
I have some leftover black vinyl we could just make
lines with.
Yeah.
Yeah.
For the turtle shell.
Let's do it.
Okay.
Great idea, Ian.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, I mean, we have a Google sheet spreadsheet.
I've been cracking through that.
I, when I put the brake caliper back on the driver
side front, when we were doing the brakes, I accidentally
twisted it around and there's enough slack in the
line and the brake line that you can put it back
on twisted.
Okay.
And so I was under the car just like checking
everything else out.
Looking at that O2 sensor wiring and I saw like the
brake line in a spiral and I was like, Oh, I'm, I'm
going to need to put that, make that right before
the race.
So dude, the lift makes that so easy.
I just rolled that saddle jack over, put it up.
It took less time to do, to do the whole thing
that it would have taken me to even get the car
of the ground before.
Yeah.
Dude, it's so clutch.
That's great.
Thanks man.
Yeah.
I'm, I am so lucky to have that.
So thankful.
Yeah, it is.
It's true.
I'm true.
Can I tell you what I'm excited about?
What's that?
Shade.
I'm excited to have shade in the car.
Yes.
Shade a little bit of wind buffering, hopefully.
Hopefully I didn't make it worse, right?
Well, that's what I was like, Oh, baby.
Who knows?
I tried to think about like where the air could
catch stuff and like folded the plastic accordingly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, it's always a mystery.
Maybe, hey, maybe we'll be way faster.
Maybe it'll be like, maybe it'll give us a couple
miles an hour.
Maybe it'll cause a whole bunch of dread.
Yeah.
Or it will be way slower.
Yeah, because I should say we don't have a cool,
cool shirt system.
No.
In the, in the car.
We did not.
So some shade will be pretty clutch.
Yes.
There's no shade out there.
Thankfully, the forecast is in the high 70s to low 80s
for the weekend that we're racing.
So yeah, it's gonna be good.
Yeah.
I think mid 70s.
Last time I looked and you and I've been out there
when it was like 70s degrees and it was actually cold.
We had full on coats on because the concrete just
sucks the heat out of you.
And the wind, the wind out there is so brutal.
Right?
So brutal.
Cause it's where the plates in the planes.
I know everyone thinks like Colorado and it's mountains,
but like the it's planes until you get to Appalachia.
Yeah.
Den from Denver to Missouri.
Yeah.
Plains.
Yeah.
That part of the state is more boring to drive through
than most of Kansas.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
The worst of when you're driving to Denver and you cross
the Colorado board and you're like, I'm almost home
and then you're like, oh, I have four hours to go.
That's right.
But it's right.
Yeah.
Like two and a half of the most boring hours.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like two and a half and then like a solid hour sitting
in traffic three miles around us.
Right.
Yeah.
Totally.
When you want to drive on the sidewalk like a charger.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I've been, I've been doing a bunch of stuff.
I, um, what else?
Yeah.
I've been getting the PC ready for the live streaming setup.
So we'll put all the links and stuff.
We'll put that on blue sky and we'll text it to our friends
and yeah.
Yeah.
So like look for, so this is coming out on Friday.
The race is tomorrow.
So it starts with noon.
Noon.
Um, Saturday, Saturday, uh, the 13th.
Yes.
Um, at noon mountain time, we will begin live streaming
on this very here YouTube channel.
So tune in and watch Dave's amazing live stream.
If nothing else, just for the graphics that he puts together
because it's great.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
I'm, I'm hoping that, uh, now that we are not in such a rush
that I will have more time to dial in the tech setup
over the next couple of days.
Um, and then I plan on like really digging in on Friday
and Saturday morning as well.
So thank you very much for lining up the RV.
Um, yeah.
We're, we're set.
I got my Cowabunga shirt on and, uh, yeah, I think we're
ready to go, man.
Everybody seems psyched.
So, yeah, me friends, for me friends.
Yes.
I am very excited to see my buddies drive the car.
I'm very excited to, uh, talk to you in the middle
of the night because I plan on, yeah.
So it's full 24 hour race, right?
Mm hmm.
I plan on like going to sleep.
So if we start the live stream at noon, we'll probably
started to touch before.
I think on YouTube you can only do eight hour chunks
for a solid live stream.
So then we'll need to restart the live stream.
I'll probably started like seven 45 or whatever.
Right.
Then I actually will probably go to bed and wake up
at like one or two in the morning, like early, early to
kind of like have some fresh, uh, energy for whoever's
like going through that real tough time of the night.
That is very smart because I will say that
like the like I've driven at night a couple of times.
Yeah.
At this race and the toughest stint is the one is like
the four a.m.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Like because before you see the little glimmers of
sunshine coming up, it is it's so quiet in the paddock.
Yes.
There's it and if you get into a spot in the race
where like you're there's no cars around because that
happened to me one time with the with the s 10 where
like it was like four a.m.
And there was no cars around me and I was like, I think
maybe everybody left.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have I actually gotten on to the road outside of the
track?
Right.
And I was like so tired and like, you know, you
you're steering towards corners that you think are
there.
Right.
Um, and it's a whole thing.
Yeah.
And your mind starts playing tricks on you.
At one point I radioed in and I was like, I think
somebody's playing music.
Oh, okay.
I think somebody has a loud speaker.
Yeah.
And I still to this day, do not know if I hallucinated
that or if somebody was did have a speaker on the
outside of the car, which is a thing that happens
in lemons too.
Sure.
Um, sure.
So yeah, I auditory hallucinations are a very,
very real thing.
I had one very recently where I could have sworn it
was raining heavily and I woke up in a panic because
I could have sworn I heard raining.
It like, yeah, like just rain pouring down.
No, like, and it like, it wasn't a dream, but like
I, it was absolutely like an auditory hallucination.
Yeah.
And as we get older, as our hearing gets worse,
those kinds of things happen more often when
you're in such a droney environment like that.
Yeah.
Um, so let's say, let's role play this.
I'm, I'm fresh.
You're like, let's say you managed to, you can, you
can nap.
You can, you can snag a nap.
You're a decent napper, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you, you've had a nap, but like you're on, right?
What kind of things do you want from me on the radio
to you?
Mm hmm.
Right.
Do you want cheesiness?
Do you want distract?
Like, do you want me to like ask you, like, give me
your, um, like mount album more of radio head albums?
Like the, like these kinds of questions that like
move your thoughts away from driving.
Like, yeah, help me.
I think it depends.
I think it depends what sort of race we're running.
Okay.
Right.
Yes.
As well.
Like if it's, if it's like a survival mode type
of thing, if we're doing a situation like last race
where we're in fourth year and we're nursing the car
for long stretches of time.
Okay.
Then yes, I want to be distracted because that
shit gets.
Sure.
Sure.
If, if it's, if we're in it, if we're racing and
competitive, yeah, and competitive, I just want
race updates.
Okay.
I want to know like, Hey, this car is how many
laps behind in France, whatever.
You want the news?
Here's your last lap.
Looking good.
Right.
Like that's okay.
Okay.
And then, yeah, and then, but, you know, with some
frivolity sprinkler because I like, I like to joke
on the radio.
Sure.
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
And we have a plan.
If somebody else is on our channel, right, we will
just nicely knowing.
Yes.
Just be annoying enough that they move away.
Right.
Yes.
Okay.
Now I will say so tired Dave.
Yes.
Is, is a gentleman that I am well acquainted with.
You are.
As is, as is my wife.
Yeah.
She has come to know sleepy Dave, sassy Dave very
well.
Yes.
And so I think what's going to happen is you're
going to get less sleep than you think you are.
Right.
And you're going to, you're going to show up on
the radio and I'm going to be able to picture
what your face looks like.
I want to know exactly just how sleepy you are.
I will whatever day I get on the radio, I will
have, I will make a graphic of my various sleepy
stages and presented on the tablet.
And you pick which one it's an interactive game
while I'm in the car.
What can go wrong?
Great idea.
The judges are going to love that.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
So then he looks at the pictures.
Oh, no, he's going 94 miles an hour.
Oh, no, he's going to do it in the corner.
Oh, and the tablet's on the passenger side.
He's got to reach.
Oh, the brightness is going to be way up.
Yeah.
Yes.
Uh-huh.
That's a thing that we should put on the list for
I know we're just doing race punch list now,
but I like that you're like, we should put this on
the list as Dave put this on the list.
Dave, please put this on the list.
Uh, Friday night set the stuff up in the car
and have someone drive around the paddock and
see how bright it is.
Exactly.
That's a great idea.
And I have already thought about how to manage
the tablets in that situation.
So I can set the brightness of the tablets
with a command line remotely.
Thank you.
Okay.
Very good.
Yep.
I did think of that.
Also tomorrow I have a tinted mirror that will
snap over our mirror.
Oh, so we can so it will not be just like high
beams in your eyes.
That's amazing.
No problem.
No problem.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because yeah, getting it having too much bright
light in your eyes when you're driving at night
is the fucking worst.
It is.
It is.
It some people even run their like they will have
like their like tighten up the visor so that you
can run it kind of half, right?
Like in have like your full sun visor and just
kind of like be able to cut it a little bit with
head position, you know, for if the mirrors
are are being a butt head and you could always
kind of modify the wing mirrors as well.
I know you can reach the driver side from where
you want.
Yeah.
And I'll put one of those grabbers in so you can
do the passenger side.
I mean, we've done that for defraud defraud defrosting
before like and I we did that when I raised my dad
in New Orleans and I lost it in the car and I
could hear it rattling and I was like, oh God,
where is it?
I did it.
I need a back.
You gotta like hit the brakes and make it fly
towards you and snag it.
That's how I got it.
I went around a corner and I was just waiting for it
to slide back towards me and grab it so I could
see where the fuck I was going.
I love this stuff that happens while driving like
Peter had his sunshade come up like out of the
back seat of his car and like blow up and around
like oh my God had to like wrestle his son sun visor
while he was like the whole windshield covering
thing had to like wrestle that to the ground
while he was driving.
Oh my God.
That's terrible.
Yep.
Yep.
So yeah, looking forward to it, buddy.
We're going to have a good time.
We're going to have a good time.
So we will have lots of updates next week.
Yes, we will.
Yeah, I'm taking Monday off because you had a
great point.
The after after our first like full race that
we did you had like you didn't drive but
you pinged me and you were like, hey, how are you
doing?
I, you know, because you know, like that day that
day after the race is just like such a huge
come down, you know, you don't think it would
be, but God my it was a struggle to remain
productive.
Yeah, back in the real world.
Yeah, yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, I and it was a similar feeling like honestly
when I was involved in the film festival.
Oh, yeah, after coming back like the first Monday
back at work after being in this like magical make
believe world that I was in for a full week.
Yeah, was awful.
It was the worst day of the year every single
year.
Yeah.
Um, and I think the day after race feels the
same way where it's just like, oh, I'm not
going.
I'm not Vroomy Vroomy.
No, I'm not like because you're saying
it's, you know, like we were talking about before
the show, you're like so locked in and so focused
on something that now you're back managing
six different things at once and getting no
reward for it.
You know, dopamine hit for it at all.
Right.
And and it's no fun.
Yeah.
No, I'm glad you I'm glad you pinged me
about that because taking the day off, I think
is going to be clutch.
And like it was, I mean, thankfully I learned
pretty early on that like if I'm taking a
vacation, it is worth shortening the vacation
a day to have a buffer day before like going
back to work, you know, stuff like that, like
making those kinds of choices, efforts or
you know, lying in time like that.
Oh, yeah, the buffer day, man.
So clutch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I recognize that as a great idea.
I don't do it, but I should.
Uh-huh.
I'm like, how much more stuff can we cram in?
But if I don't have to do the thing, then I
start thinking about my feelings again and I
need to do things.
Uh-huh.
I get it.
I get it.
Yeah.
So.
Okay.
What else do we got?
You know what?
I have I have some my eyes because I wanted
to bring a car stanza, I guess, to you?
Okay.
That I saw and then I have, I have listener
my eyes, just a very brief one and just a new
segment because I think this is kind of the
second in a series.
Okay.
So I want to kind of call this out.
We this is, we have segment creep on this
show.
We have a billion segments.
You're welcome.
I'm responsible for most.
I love it.
I love segment creep.
Okay.
So what do you want to see first?
Do you want to see the kind of car
stanza or do you want to see the new
segment stuff?
Let's do a new segment.
Okay.
So a new segment.
So remember previously, I think our buddy
Chris sent us that sweet slammed Honda Civic
that had like the license plate hood and the
church party sign integrated into it.
So there is just something special about like,
I'm not a huge Honda guy, but there are just
Hondas are so delightful in so many different
ways that I just want to call out that there
are just Hondas that we are here for.
We, we wouldn't like really like build these
things, but absolutely we love them.
Love them.
Like I loved that slammed Civic right with
the stolen church sign, you know, all that
stuff I'm here for.
So this is the segment is Hondas.
We are here for.
Okay.
Okay.
So I'm here.
I also, I'm here for most Hondas.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think I am more of a Honda person than you
are.
You're more of a Toyota person.
I probably yes, but I think when it comes
to like Civics and smaller Hondas.
Oh, a hundred percent.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
Um, yeah.
So our buddy Eric sent this in and let me
pull up the voice document.
He said so.
Remember our buddy Eric lost his accord because
the transmission went out, right?
Um, so RIP to a real one.
Uh, but he said the shop I had my dead accord
towed to had this rad old CRX in the lot.
Front mount, intercooler and meaty meats on
the front.
Yeah.
There you go Ian.
Yes.
Right.
Oh man.
Hondas we are here for man.
Yeah, CRX is in particular hold a special
place in my heart too.
Cause like I had, I have an uncle who's
who had, I mean, he has a civic SI now
and he had a CRX for as long as I can
remember like really to like when they
came out.
Oh, nice.
He had like every generation of CRX or
civic or small civic hatch.
Okay.
That was available.
Yeah.
So I love a CRX.
Right.
And then you just, you have a front mount
and you've got meaty meats, dude.
Oh, that looks great.
Right.
Yeah.
No, the hood doesn't fit right because
there's probably, it's probably hitting
a turbo housing.
I'm here for that.
I am a hundred percent here for that.
I'm a hundred percent here for the
front mount intercooler, a hundred
percent here for the zip tied vanity
plate that says true, true as 91 or
true as 91, right?
Yeah.
That front mount looks like a meat business.
I love it.
Yeah.
That is no shit intercooler plumbing.
That's so cool.
That is about the size of the
vegan intercooler from SOB, like the
stock vegan intercooler.
You know, so like if you, I just love
like all the memes you see about like
Honda's like, you know, like, you
like you hear somebody with a Honda
that has a fuel pump louder than
you're exhaust for rear facing GoPro cameras.
You know, you know, you're going
to get destroyed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You are not winning that highway
on ramp merge contest.
Totally.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
I saw a insane like drag Honda being
towed like, like, you know, towed
on a flatbed like to an event or something
like that.
Like it just looked like they had like a proper,
you know, trailer set up for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah.
When you're like, these are signs you need
to look for obviously front mount not
sleeper, right?
Mm hmm.
That's it.
That's nothing to mess with.
The hood does not close.
That is your biggest sign that that thing
is going to eat your fucking lunch
and your dinner.
Yeah.
Well, and the and the staggered set up
with the meats in the front is such
is so funny.
I love it.
Like, I know there's practically, I know
obviously there's practical good reasons
for it, but it always looks so off like
weird when you first see it.
Mm hmm.
But yeah, that thing looks like it means
business.
I love it.
That's good.
Yep.
So thank you, Eric.
Yeah.
So if you have a Honda or something
like that that you you dig
just send us anything you can for
Hondas we're here for because
love that we're here for a man.
We love him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So good segment.
Good segment.
Thank you.
I'm sure we'll do many more of them.
Okay.
Ian.
Mm hmm.
This I don't know what's going on
with this person, but I want to show
you this car stanza that I saw
that my wife and I saw when we were
driving around.
I this one's called mostly wrong
kind of right.
Okay.
There you go.
Ian.
Okay.
So this is a RAV four.
L L the long wheelbase Ian.
Mm hmm.
Right for L and it has
the quattro a quattro badge on the back.
Yeah.
Like the decal the quattro decal.
Yeah.
Just this is a very much like who
is this for moment.
Right.
Like, yes, you have all wheel drive ish,
but it's not quattro.
It is definitely not quattro.
Right.
Because first of all, quattro is
is longitudinal.
This is transverse engine.
Right.
So already we're off.
Yes.
And raw manufacturer obviously.
Right.
Are these
are these the stock tail lights?
Um, I think they are.
They do kind of look like Chevy
SS tail lights or something like that.
But I think like those Mercedes
tail lights.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They do.
Oh, yeah.
Like a little ML looking.
Yeah.
What do you think that is?
Like a 20
10.
See me.
Yeah.
At the newest, right?
It's at least that old.
Yeah.
Let's see images.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Let's look at RAV four.
Wikipedia.
Yeah.
This is what we do.
See.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm already because I'm I'm I'm wondering like
did they is are they slowly trying to turn this
into some sort of weird German car?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So that's the first gen.
It's not that.
I think is I like a first gen, especially that two door
version they had.
I am.
My hot take is that there are no good.
I don't like the RAV four or the CRV.
I don't like this segment of car.
I've never driven one that I've enjoyed.
I know they're wildly popular.
I have many friends who have them.
Yeah.
I hate all of them.
Yeah.
I mean, have you driven like the first gen two door
because you could get a manual in it?
I knew someone that had one.
I haven't.
I haven't.
I think the new it the oldest one I drove was
the second gen.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I think this is at least a third gen.
Yeah.
This is the this is the RAV.
Oh, that's the facelift first gen.
Yeah.
Second gen here.
Oh, yeah.
So it's the second gen.
It's the second gen.
Yes.
And those are the right taillights.
They are.
Yeah.
So that is a what is the second gen?
2000.
Oh, yeah.
2000.
So I was off.
So 2000 to 2004.
Yeah.
What did I say?
Did I say 2010?
You said 2010.
Okay.
Yeah.
Way off.
Seven o'clock.
Okay.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
There's the two door.
They look essentially the same.
They do.
Yes.
Right.
Same wheels.
The steel.
I think it's it may be the facelift one.
Mm hmm.
The 2003.
Yes.
So I think that's it.
Yes.
I think you are correct.
Yeah.
Yep.
So it's a 2003 or four probably.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Again, like anybody who knows what Quattro is knows that it's
and doesn't belong on that car.
So like why?
Right.
Yeah.
It doesn't make any sense.
I don't know.
And you're missing the weird little blinkers in the bumper.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
But I don't know.
Once again, and I knew that this would leave us with more
questions than we had answers for.
But yeah.
I know.
So there you go.
Disappearance.
Disappearance.
Thumbs down.
Yes.
Thumbs down.
Yes.
And just like the raccoon you showed last week on the tire cover
with the blue lives, you know, the blue line police BS, right?
Uh huh.
The raccoon throwing up the devil horns.
Yeah.
No idea.
Right.
Yeah.
We're confused by you people.
Mm hmm.
And yeah, I said you people.
Well, I was laughing.
Uh huh.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
Should we wrap it up with a license plate game?
Yes.
Yes, we should.
And then I need an album because I did listen to the Dijon album
and I did enjoy it.
Yes.
Very Frank Oceanie.
Very Princey.
Yes.
Very much.
Thank you for that.
Yes.
Yes.
Um, okay.
License plate game.
All right.
Yeah.
This one.
This one's just gonna.
I'm just icing you out on this one, Ian.
Oh, God.
I'm just telling you right now.
This was called that's cold.
Okay.
All right.
So we've got, we've got an Aston Martin.
Is this a.
Vanquish.
Vanquish S.
It's a vanquish S.
Oh my God.
I know, right?
And then we've got a Honda Accord Cross Tour.
Yep.
Good spot.
Covered in snow and you've nailed that.
Yes.
Covered in snow.
I mean, it's the face only a mother could love even, even
half covered with snow.
And then a Hyundai Tucson or Santa Fe.
Yeah.
A Hyundai, I believe the model is a Hyundai, whatever the
fuck.
Right.
A Hyundai, whatever the fuck with some questionable
wheel choices happening.
Let's start.
Oh, and then the license plates are chill 25.
Frosty and polar.
P O L A R.
Okay.
I'm here's, here's my hint for this one.
I have two.
One good luck.
Second, you're going to get them all.
All right.
Let's start up top.
Yes.
Okay.
It's Illinois.
Vanquish.
So pretty.
I think, I think this was at a cars and coffee event.
Okay.
The person had like info about the car on the dash.
I think that's the reflection that you see.
Okay.
We've got a Illinois.
Looks like maybe a firefighter special edition license
plates.
I think so.
Yes.
Yes.
It has a fireman's helmet on it.
Correct.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe that's relevant.
I don't know.
Okay.
All right.
And then we've got an Ohio plates on the cross tour.
A very maroon cross tour.
Yep.
Stock wheels looks like they did spring for the v6.
Mm hmm.
Nothing else to go on because it's covered in snow.
Right.
It's got a tinted license plate.
It does.
It does have a tinted license plate cover.
Yes.
No trailer hitch.
No trailer hitch.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
All right.
Next.
Yeah.
The Hyundai whatever the fuck and these wheels.
Oh boy.
Okay.
We've got.
Is this also an Illinois plate?
I think so.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then we've got some big like all terrain tires on
some pretty cheap looking wheels.
Yeah.
And like the all terrain tires but like they don't have much
sidewall like they're right bigger than what you would
typically do if you were off-roading this.
Yeah.
And it's got just an odd stance to it and then it's got
some cracked body work.
Mm hmm.
It almost looks like it has a lift.
It does but I don't know if it's just the wheels are bigger.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did they go too big with the wheels or does it have some
kind of like or did they just like slam those like spring
spacers in there?
Right.
Yeah.
There's just footballs in there.
Yeah.
It just it does look just off.
It does.
It doesn't look right.
No.
Okay.
We've got chill 25 frosty and polar polar is driving
me crazy.
Yeah.
The fuck does that mean?
Mm hmm.
Okay.
I think I need to start with frosty.
Okay.
And I'm going to put frosty on the vanquish because I feel
like that's like a maybe they've got like a first responder
thing going.
I think like stay frosty is a very like, uh, you know,
very like, uh, thing that like military people say to each
other, like pilots would say to each other.
Oh, yeah.
Is that where that comes from?
Cause I've heard stay frosty before.
Stay frosty is like a keep, you know, keep your wits
about you.
So.
Oh, okay.
All right.
I would be telling you that during the women's race on
the radio at four.
Right.
But I also, you know, I think maybe someone who
drives a vanquish, especially.
Okay.
Might think of themselves as like a James Bond sort
of situation.
So I'm going to say frosty on the vanquish.
I am way overthinking this.
And then I think chill 25 goes on the Hyundai, whatever
the fuck.
Okay.
Because I just feel like they just, they put in as
much thought into the vanity plate as they did
those fucking wheels.
Okay.
And then process of elimination, the Honda cross
tour polar.
Okay.
Okay.
No.
Hey, no, like I said, good luck and you're going to
get them all wrong.
And I got them all wrong.
You did.
Yeah.
So our buddy Eric sent in the Aston and the
Hyundai, whatever the fuck.
Okay.
And then Mark sent in the, the Honda cross tour.
So thank you, Mark.
Thank you.
It was polar on the vanquish chill 25 on the
Honda and frosty was the Hyundai, whatever the
fuck.
Yes.
And I think like polar express maybe for the
Aston like it's fast.
I don't know.
Maybe they have weird Tom Hanks CGI eyes and I
don't know.
You see that when you close your eyes at night
too, right?
Yeah, my, my kids went through like a one year
thing where they watched polar express a bunch
of times.
I'm just, you guys got to stop watching this movie.
So it's so creepy.
I, I can say I have never seen the movie.
I've only seen stills.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
It's just like, yeah.
Yeah.
It's a, it's an okay movie.
It's just creepy shit on candy Valley Man.
Yes.
Yeah.
So frosty on the Hyundai, whatever the fuck.
I think.
Yeah.
Maybe they are touting their favorite beverage from
Wendy's.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
What was the last time you had a frosty?
Oh, more recently than I would care to admit.
Oh, no, like I, I need to get one.
I think they have orange creamsicle now.
I haven't had one of those.
Oh, I've never had one of those.
We have chocolate, chocolate frosty and this house.
Yeah.
And you dip the fries in yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
We haven't had that in a long time actually.
It's been probably a year since I've had a frosty.
I haven't had one forever.
I need to get it.
No, it hasn't because we went, we went up to the
mountains and we tried to go, Jenny had this
whole thing.
We were going to go do like the sunset hike and
then we were going to go to this German place
in, um, in Dillon.
Okay.
Um, to get sausages.
And so we do the sunset.
That was how she got you on board for the hike.
Right.
We do the hike.
It was great.
We get down to Dillon.
The kids are breaking down on the way to the
restaurant because they're so, they're hungry
because it's late and then because it's like in
the middle of summer.
So it's late and then we get there and I get
the kids seated at a table and it's like you
go up to the counter in order.
And so we get everyone situated.
I go up to the counter.
There's a loud blues band starting as I'm getting
up to the counter.
So like it's extra chaotic and I get up to the
counter and they're like, oh, our kitchen closed
10 minutes ago.
No, and that information is nowhere other
website or anywhere else.
And we're like, oh, shit.
So then we're like panic.
We're doing the panic scroll like closed,
closed, closed, closed.
The only thing that was open was Wendy's.
And so we got Wendy's and ate by the lake at
night.
Yeah.
We were like, we're doing, we're doing a Wendy's
picnic tonight.
That is a hundred percent a legit move.
You're eating square burgers and you're dipping fries
and frosties.
And yeah, yeah.
And that is the, that is the right move.
Yeah.
So we did that this summer.
So that's the last time I had a frosty.
There's not a person that should fault you for
that.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah, the alternative was hungry children going
to bed at like 10 30 p.m.
No, that is not an option.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh,
Keeper day.
It's coming out.
See where I've, we're well past my bedtime.
This is when I would be asleep during the limits
race.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, all right, let's close it out with an album
of the week.
Yes.
We're going to go with a new release.
Okay.
Um, by an old man.
New release old man.
Uh, David Byrne, David Byrne's new album is
out.
Uh, it's called Who is the Sky?
Um, and it is delightful.
Okay.
It's very David Byrne.
Um, one would expect, but he's doing this like
upbeat thing lately.
Okay.
And, uh, and it's, it's a nice like kind of
reprieve from everything.
Everything else.
Ah, okay.
It feels very hopeful and energetic, which is
nice.
Okay.
Nice man.
Nice.
Something we could all use right now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Who is the sky?
Okay.
This is a very Michelle Gondry, like chemical
brothers.
Well, I was going to say, we're back.
There was this like, yeah, the album cover is
wild and it's like, there was this thing in the
like early 2000s where we were doing like really
horrendous album covers.
Yes.
Like really bad.
But like for great records, some of my favorite
records from that era have awful album covers.
My, the best example of this is yay Sayer.
Um, yay Sayer's first record.
Okay.
Yay Sayer.
Yeah.
It's that one.
Okay.
Um, it's, yeah, uh, Y.
E. A.
Yeah.
They're, no, no, no, that's just a picture of
them.
Oh, okay.
Um, it's all our symbols is the name of the
record.
Oh, okay.
Uh, all our symbols.
If you type that in.
Yeah.
Uh, yeah, symbols with a.
Oh, symbols like the instrument.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes.
Okay.
Like, oh, just a weird hairy person.
It's this.
Yeah.
Inexplicable awful album cover.
Uh-huh.
It's one of my favorite records of that era.
Sure.
Um, and there's, there's a bunch of other ones.
I mean, the, the, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Has always had terrible album covers.
Like their, their first records that album
cover sucks, you know.
Yeah.
And, but then they all got, they got better
for a long time as like vinyl came, became
more of a thing.
And then, uh, and now it seems like we're
back to it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Is this it master?
No, the fever to tell one, I think is like
the terrible record album cover to tell.
Which one is that one?
That's the first one.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it looks like a Basquiat.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah.
No shade on Basquiat.
Yeah.
But anyway.
Yeah.
But yeah, anyway, David Burns to album.
Okay.
It's fantastic.
I think, yeah, I think, yeah, I think
you would actually dig it.
I'm sure I would.
Yeah.
Who is this guy?
Okay.
I will check it out.
Yes.
I will, I will sing random lyrics to it
at you over, over the race radio.
Yeah.
I like it.
Okay.
Um, Dave, what should people do?
Oh yeah.
Text us.
Uh, how does it you're here for?
Uh, 720-515-1391.
Send us, we do have a, uh, shows your car submission.
So, uh, send us shows your cars.
Uh, yeah, if you want us to include pictures
of your car and, uh, you know, story
or whatever you have to say about your car.
In our year-end wrap up, um, send them
to apex adjacent at gmail.com.
Uh, that's better for images because like
if you're sending a bunch of images, uh, they
can get overly compressed, uh, on text messages.
But, um, yeah.
So if you can email them, if not text.
Um, yeah, that's about it.
Uh, tune into the live stream.
We'll put it on blue sky.
And if you're subscribed to the channel, you
should get a notification that we're going live.
Um, apologies for any interruptions or
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Yep.
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