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Rocket Bunny

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Lexus Alex van concept

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Chrysler New Yorker

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Dodge Magnum

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Toyota RAV4

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tire pressure

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Toyota GSF

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Oh, boy, Dave. Ian.

Apex adjacent.

Doesn't so car show.

It has been a week and we can get into it.

But I wanted to just start sometimes, you know, when the when the week is rough

and we have more of those than not now.

Yeah, when the week is especially run, sometimes it's good to just start

with a cleanse, just a mental cleanse.

Right. And Dave, I I don't know if you've seen this going around,

but you in particular, this is going to blow your fucking mind.

You're going to love this so much.

OK. And this, I honestly

I I retweeted this or read, skied it or whatever it was

on Blue Sky a few times or once.

And then I but I just kept going back to it because it was such a shit week for the news.

OK, awful, awful, awful, bullshit.

Yep.

But I I genuinely genuinely pulled these pictures up

several times this week just to feel something different.

I know exactly what you're talking about.

I like I have actually listened to that 2023 Coachella closing set

three times within the last eight or so days.

That tells you that, like, I need something.

I just need that cleanse.

I need something good. Right.

Yeah. So I I'm there.

I I understand. Yes. OK.

Well, you are going to be here for this.

OK. OK. Yeah.

I don't full disclosure.

I do not know what Ian is going to show me.

I know I know a little bit about what this is.

Yeah. Yeah.

Eagle Eye listeners can see that I've been looking at other

sales brochures for Lexus models in my search history here.

OK, so here we go.

Pasting in the link from Blue Sky.

OK, this is from our friend Team Radar Love,

Midnight Drift Dorifto.

Mm hmm. Yes.

On Beast Guide Social.

Oh, Ian. Mm hmm.

Yes.

Peter sent me this and I haven't responded to it yet.

I'm going to tonight.

I have seen this.

This is the Rocket Bunny Nissan R33 GTR Mini car.

It's a K car.

It's a Suzuki K car that someone has done up with like Sonoco livery

and, yeah, like a GTR racing livery.

And it looks like a chunky little GTR and it is fucking perfect.

Yes. I want to put it in my pocket.

Oh, my God, I love it so much.

There's I think I don't know if it's this Instagram link,

but it's been going on Instagram too.

And there are there's video of it like rolling down the road.

Yes. Yes.

So I know that Rocket Bunny, the folks that make a lot of body kits

are behind this.

Yes. Yeah.

It's for a show, I think it's for an auto show that they were they were doing it for.

But it's it's goddamn perfect.

It's perfect.

And I love it.

It's so nice.

Right. Yes.

Yeah. No, you're exactly right.

Yes. This is this is the kind of pallet cleanser that you need in your life

on a real bad on a real bad week.

Yeah. I also like, you know, they did the thing where they go to the gas station

to get the top down lighting and everything.

But it also serves as like banana for scale.

Right. Yes. A gas pump.

Like we all know like about how tall a thing is when we see it as a gas pump.

You're that's a great point.

I didn't think about that.

And it makes it so much better.

If it was just like in a field, you'd be like something's off with that GTR.

Right. You see it in the world.

You're like, oh, I know exactly how small that is.

Yes. It's adorable.

There was a game that I played that I was into for a little bit.

I think it was called a mini motor.

What was it? Mini motor?

I don't think it was racing.

Many maybe. Oh, yeah.

Mini motor racing X. Mm hmm.

It was on steam.

And I think that that car has like the proportions of the cars in this game.

Yes. And there's also a guy on.

I know what you're talking about that does the animations.

There's a guy on Blue Sky who

who does these who does these like

like chunky little guys. Yes.

And I know I've seen it.

I can't remember his name now.

Yeah. And they like sell.

It's iconic legends.

Is it is it this? No, it's not not that.

Yeah. I mean, it's like the exact proportions.

Oh, Will Pierce. Yeah.

Yeah. OK. Let me find.

Yes. OK. So if you go down his

I'm putting it in the OK.

It's going in our notes. OK.

Oh, did you find it?

I don't know if I did or not. You too. Yeah.

Not quite the same.

But it's very it's very close.

He does these like drawings. OK.

And if you just go down his media, his media tab, you'll see one.

Yes. OK. Yes.

He does like these style like the chunky drawing.

But it's like the same proportions.

Yes. That is the Rocket Bunny.

And I love it. Right.

Yes. Yes. This is Will Pierce.

Will W I L L Pierce P I E R C E on Blue Sky.

And he does these on commission, I believe.

So I think you can ask him.

Oh, OK. Oh, look at the silk cut one.

Yeah. He does it where you can like ask him

to draw you one and he'll do it. Oh, nice.

OK. I think. OK.

That's amazing. Yeah.

Talented artist. Yeah.

Oh, man. OK. Yeah.

And like, oh, yeah, there's like the Ferrari

wagon thingy, the Mazda hatchback. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Look at that. Right.

Oh, so cool. Oh, yeah.

A little like chunky guys.

Yes. The Lexus Alex van concept was insane.

Yeah. There's like a little like Porsche guy that he did.

Yes. I'm here for all of these.

All of these animations.

I'm trying to think of another one that I've seen that it looks almost

almost Wallace and Gromity, but it's not.

And it kind of looks like this that I showed you here.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

I can't remember.

Who this is.

I don't think it's this Michael gaming person.

Oh, maybe iconic legends is the game

that this person like is working on or has some affiliation with.

But yeah, there we'll have to find it because there's

and like the people's heads kind of bob along.

You've probably come across it.

Yeah. And they have like shirts and stuff, but they are constantly sold out.

Yeah. Yeah.

But anyway, that's my long story to tell you about a thing

that I didn't give you an answer to.

But yes, when you have like something of this, you see the scale.

It's so delightful, man.

It's so freaking cute.

You and me in that little thing.

Oh, my God. Just making a little video of us.

Just it would just be us constantly giggling.

Yeah, you can only giggle on that.

Yeah. And I do like that.

It's so small that your elbows would basically be so restrained.

You couldn't hit a shit ton of buttons.

You would find you would Jurassic Park it and find a way Ian finds a way.

But but I think that your button pressing would be pretty limited.

It's true. Yeah.

Only emotional ones available. Yes. Yes.

Well, thank you for that, Ian.

That's that is the palette cleanser we all need and we all deserve during these

during these times. Yeah. Or sure, man.

Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.

So, you know, like and folks, you know, like,

you know, like I I pretty cut off of the news for mental health purposes, right?

Obviously, I still am, you know, going to vote and, you know, like I'm not

like I'm not inactive, you know, as a human being

and I'm not oblivious as to what's going on.

But stuff just breaks through in crazy ways sometimes.

And this was one of those weeks where I was listening to a podcast from,

I don't know, a couple months ago.

I like that podcast one song with the yellow riddle and luxury

and they like break down like the skins and all that stuff.

And they'll do like they did they had little John on for

turned down for what? Oh, that's amazing.

And he's such a nice dude.

Yeah. And like, yeah.

So nothing like what you would think if you don't know anything about little John.

If you just like, you know, just think he's a stereotype.

Yeah, no, right? Yeah.

You just assume he is what you see in his songs.

But yeah, but he's that and a very, very nice human being apparently.

But like at the end of the fucking podcast on like the mid role ads or whatever

that, you know, like whatever podcast aggregate network they're on or whatever,

they had a fucking ad on there to join ice.

Oh, are you listening?

Are you listening on Spotify?

No, I listen on Apple podcasts.

Oh, really? Yeah.

And I don't know if they just like if they put like, say they just like snag

the Spotify feed, because I think that they do the show

like it is sponsored by Spotify or it's one of Spotify's.

But then there's also, I think it's some like Kevin Hart has a podcast network.

Right. Yeah.

And so whatever that is, but there was a fucking join ice ad at the end of it.

There was news about that this week, Spotify was getting a lot of obviously

a lot of shit. Yeah.

So they were that podcast network was

was airing ads for ice recruitment.

Yeah. After the events of this last week,

they did they finally succumb to pressure and and said that they were going to drop

those so that those are should no longer be appearing.

But Jesus Christ, man.

Yeah, the fuck ice and fuck those ads, man.

It's a little late fuck ice. Jesus, dude.

Yeah. Our our brave hot take is that the government shouldn't

murder its citizens for disagreeing with it.

Yeah. And that whole organization is useless.

You know, I was thinking earlier today that about like I'm to the age now

where I have had.

The luxury or the frustration or whatever of having opinions for 25 years.

Oh, yeah. OK.

Constant now, you know, like, and that's a weird weird thing to think about.

Right. Like I've held a single opinion for 25 years.

I've not wavered off of it.

Right. Now I can add to the list because now it's 2026 that

that the Department of Homeland Security should not exist as a thing.

Oh, man. Yeah.

You know, and I've been I was.

Pretty outspoken on that when it happened.

Yeah. And I'm I am I was not wrong.

Right. Correct.

Right. Fuck that whole department.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, man, it has been a rough fucking week.

Even even no matter how much you've tried to isolate yourself,

the shit that gets through because like maybe your favorite comedian

is signal boosting some shit that should be signal boosted, you know, stuff like that.

Right. Like, you know, like those kinds of things.

Like this was this was one of those breakthrough news event weeks.

And it's it's rough and I'm I'm really, really sorry.

If if you've been trying to isolate yourself,

if if that stuff broke through, if you're having a hard time,

let alone somebody that's impacted by it, like.

I don't know, man, like my my wife and I took a trip down to Texas

to go. She surprised me with tickets to Austin to go to a legendary barbecue spot.

Snow's Barbecue is such a great gift for you.

Right. Birthday present.

Best birthday ever.

And I have to say a couple of things.

While we were in Texas, I didn't see a single fucking Trump thing at all,

which is surprising. But you're in Austin, though.

Well, but so if you know where Snow's is, it is in rural ass, Texas.

Like it is rural with the jurors.

It is rural.

Well, yeah, so it's an hour and change outside of Austin.

And and you know, like just like when you go to, say, like Portland or something

like that or Northern California, that that distance,

that geographic distance between like the liberal island

and the like fucking militia territory is pretty.

It's a pretty quick switch, right?

Yeah, there's a there's a joke in.

There's a joke in like Maryland, right, where like you once you,

you know, going across the Beltway, you know, it's only a few miles,

but it's a few centuries as well. Gotcha.

OK, yes. Yeah, right.

Pardon me, there's a lot of areas like that.

But I think that so first of all, the like the the trip was amazing.

My wife is incredible.

I'm so thankful for her getting us like making this trip happen,

getting us the tickets, because we wanted to see that this legendary pitmaster.

Her name is Tutsi and she's a delight.

She was she was there.

She sat down and talked to us for just a minute.

We got pictures with her like we were able to like she's 90 or 91 years old.

And she's still like at the barbecue at snows, you know.

And it was amazing.

It was everything I wanted it to be.

But when you're in that part of the country

and you're eating the kind of food that we like to eat.

You you can't help but to think that like no matter

what cultural intersections have happened,

like good things come out of it, right?

Like whether it's it's Mexican,

you know, American, it is, you know, like all of the whenever

these cultures come together, like the whole like

Irish and Jewish and like all of these food cultures, all of these music cultures,

all of these like these.

I saw an Instagram reel from a from a black dude that was talking about

like he was a black New Yorker, you know, a few generations old,

talking about like all the Yiddish influences and the Romanian flu,

the Hungarian like and just this like incredible

this incredible like tapestry that we have as people that we can have

if we open ourselves to it, if we embrace it, you know.

And like going on that trip and thinking about those kinds of things,

traversing Texas and eating food that was birthed from

poor people making the best of what they had.

Right. All best food is. Yeah. Right.

Exactly. And cultural influences like

like, you know, you can't help but to reflect like how fucking horrible

the things are that are happening like at a human level.

And the downstream effects like

leave an incredible crater of culture, of mental health needs.

I'm sorry, of cultural deficiencies, of mental health needs, of.

Like interpersonal connections, it's it's tough, man. It's tough.

Yeah. And I think that I agree with you

in in a lot of ways because you're, you know,

you're seeing something with the fresh set of eyes or whatever

that other people might take right where you can see like,

oh, this is these two things put smashed together.

And, you know, there's a little of this sprinkled in there or whatever.

And I remember I remember Jen and I were in

in England in 2017, like not long.

It was like right when Brexit was. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Opening, right? It was like right.

I was right after, you know, Trump took office first term

and Brexit happened like it was all kind of happening right then.

And I remember like really specifically like walking around London

and just looking at because London is like an incredibly cosmopolitan city.

Right. There's like there's people you can go down three blocks

in here, like nine different languages. Right. Right.

Everybody is smashed together there.

And it's and it's fucking great.

You know, food is great. The culture is great.

It's awesome.

And I just remember like being kind of flabbergasted,

like walking around there and looking at the cosmopolitan sort of like.

Thing that everyone promised is happening.

Right. We're just being like, we're saying no thanks to this now.

Right. Like we're like now we're good.

Like, yeah, no, it doesn't make any sense.

Right. Give that up.

Right. I don't.

It doesn't. There's no rhyme or reason to it other than maybe greed and or racism.

I don't know. Yes. Yes.

Those are primary motivators. Yeah.

But it's fucking silly.

Yeah. It doesn't make any fucking sense.

Yeah. No, you're exactly right.

It doesn't. It doesn't.

And yeah, the most interesting things happen when two things get smushed together

and that's true for food, it's true for music, it's true for all the movies that we like.

Like that's always the case.

Yeah. Right.

But no, you know, like.

I need to see the rocket bunny again.

We need to see. Yeah.

OK, here we go, buddy.

Here we go, buddy. Here we go.

You're exactly right.

OK, thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, let's go get a sushi burrito and like one hell of a curry.

And I can just cry on each other's shoulders, man.

Yeah. Yeah, buddy, I appreciate you sending this.

And yeah, and I know that you are you are piped into the news.

You are very active, you know, on on Blue Sky and in the news.

And I appreciate all of your the energy that you put into it.

And I admire your endurance.

Yeah, yeah, I maybe endurance is the right word.

Fortitude is the word I'm looking for.

No, I think it was the right word.

Yeah, oh, buddy.

Man, you know, fuck, it's crazy.

It's crazy. I also just want to say also, so I have family and friends

in the Twin Cities. Yeah.

And, man, fuck all those people.

With every rusty implement imaginable.

This shit is awful.

We'll say one slight bright spot of the week was all the videos of ice agents

getting stuck in the snow spinning out on the ice or just falling over

on the ice themselves. Nice.

Nice. Off forever.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Jingle Amiga, for sure.

Rocket Bunny, neither Rocket Bunny.

Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's here for you when you need it.

OK, thank you.

Yeah, the and also the fact that that is a sheet metal object

that can move under its own power, that it is rolling.

Oh, that's a whole other thing.

I don't know if it's worth searching on Instagram for it, but there are videos

of it rolling down the highway.

And it's got to be delightful.

I forgot that that link wasn't the link to the video, but it's the it exists.

Yeah, that's that's OK. Yeah, it's it's so.

Oh, my God. Right.

It's so it's so cute.

It is. It is.

Oh, yeah, I like I grew up playing with Stompers and like stuff like that.

Like, you know, Stompers.

Stompers were like just a battery powered car

Stomper toy and like they kind of had some of the proportion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they would just go to straight line, you know.

But yeah, Stompers were great.

That's $75. Jesus Christ.

I'm going to have to get some of mine out if I go home.

Yeah, I didn't know I didn't know that there was a freaking dodge.

What was that? That's not the Magnum.

What was this Dodge?

I can't remember Conquest, maybe. Oh, yeah.

Or the Conquest might have been the truck model, the little baby El Camino.

I can't remember.

Anyway. Yeah, very.

Yeah, no, that that aesthetic like speaks to us so much.

We've had we've had video games like that.

We've had toys like that.

And then we see that thing in real life.

And it's like, oh, no, everything's in its right place.

Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm sort of a chunky sized human.

It's sort of the my proportions.

I I I don't think you're quite that amplified, buddy.

It's like a fucking teapot.

Maybe about, I don't know, within the last month,

I thought about when you and I had like the jesting sticks

and it just popped you in the face because I knew if I didn't get you quick.

First, it was going to be a real bad for me.

And it was, it was.

I didn't fall down when you gave me the face because, again,

built like a teapot.

You did not.

Yep. Yep.

And every tall person is secretly afraid of a shorter person,

no matter what.

Yeah, no matter what.

Yeah, I really wish, honestly,

that we had thought to video that we could put it up

because it was pretty hilarious.

Like because I know if

listeners know, but Dana, six, four, right?

I am five, eight things, all the like, I am short and squat.

I mean, we're basically the Blues Brothers.

Like if you see us standing next to each other.

Oh, then so we got we went to like my it was like my kid's birthday party.

Yeah, like the trampoline park, right?

He was like, yeah, one of those trampoline parks.

And they had like a foam pit, but like a jousting thing that you could do.

Yes, they have the two columns in the middle.

And then you could, you know,

American gladiator joust with each other.

And for whatever reason, we decided to be a great idea for us

to grown men at a five year old's birthday party to do that.

And so we get up there and Dave immediately popped me straight in the face.

I had no choice.

And on top of that, like there's rules up, like, you know,

and like not hitting in the face is like rule number one.

And you know, I'm the rule follower out of the two of us.

And you, your first reaction when I didn't fall over was to go, oh, no.

Because I knew it was over for me.

I knew it was over for me.

I lost the one advantage that I had.

My one idea, one I had only idea other than curl up in a ball

and beg for mercy.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, it was funny.

Right.

And then I knocked your ass off.

Yeah, you did.

This is like when I was finally so right, like I when I was finally taller

than my father, who was a police officer for 29 years, right?

And absolutely would respect and understand when I say, fuck the police,

right, because he would understand and endorse my stance.

When, when I was finally taller than him, when I was like maybe 17 and he like,

and we never had the kind of relationship where it was like,

like a physical, you know, dominance that we never had that kind of relationship.

Right. And like, I was finally taller than him.

And he just looked at me and was like, so you think he can take me

like a little joking, a little serious, you know, and I was like, no.

Oh, my God.

The highest pitch.

No, you're like, you could destroy me with one thumb.

Like tall doesn't equal good in any of this.

Yeah. Yeah.

So I knew I had one shot and you saw the tear in my eyes.

It's so funny.

I all look so different in my head, but yeah.

Yep. Yep.

Memories, buddy.

I was just looking to see if I could find the picture of just you and I standing

next to each other for anything, you know, but yeah, you know, I can't find one.

No.

So yeah.

Well, Dave, I have a question.

Did you, when you went on your barbecue sojourn, your, your, your meat,

when it was a yes, you rent a car.

We did.

And yeah, and I could probably show a picture.

I don't have a picture of the car.

I could probably just share a picture that I took at snows while we were waiting.

Let's see if I can just show this real quick.

Yes, we did rent a car.

I don't want to Google search my own image.

Google it dingus.

Yeah, there we go.

There's snows.

This is at 345 in the morning.

And you weren't the first ones in line.

No, we were we were 15, 16 in line.

Yeah, so that's crazy.

Yeah, I mean, it's it Texas barbecue is a real thing.

Southern hospitality is a real thing.

And it was now are these locals who are showing up at 345 in the morning?

Some locals, some from out of state, there was a there were two other kids

from Colorado from Loveland, just like what?

Like five or 10 miles north of us that were there at the same time.

Yeah, yeah.

And that's what Tussi was talking to us about.

She's telling us about when, like, some folks from Pennsylvania

had their orders mixed up and it turned out that both of those

like couples lived a block and a half apart or something like that.

Just right.

Yeah, but yeah, so we did rent a car.

It was a bone stock Toyota RAV4.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Toyota RAV4 in rental spec.

The thing that I knew it was going to be OK when we got it was that.

Oh, I do have the I have my walk around video from, you know, like to right.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

But.

That the very first thing that came up was the tire pressure

in the center of the dash in the gauges, and it was all thirty sixes.

Oh, I know, right?

Yeah.

My favorite is when it's three thirty sixes and one fifty eight.

Yeah.

So, you know, it it's a fine car.

The it a couple of good things about it and some bad

good things about it are that like the power is fine at sea level.

You know, you don't really care.

And there is a big button to disable the auto stop start

like right when you like, yeah, it's really easy.

It's like down to your like where a seat heater button or something would be.

It still had the brake hold the Toyota brake hold.

That not even my GSF has, you know.

So that was nice because there's some long ass stop lights in Texas, man.

Holy shit.

And the ride height was good because we were on some of the worst roads

I have ever driven on in my entire life.

Ian, like it was there were sections of some rural roads

that were like just about to fall off like those long seams

that kind of go along the road from like erosion

and, you know, soil dropping out from underneath it.

Like there were times where the speed limit on some of these back roads

was 65 miles an hour.

And we did not in a in a RAV four, we didn't dare to go over 50.

Oh, wow. Yeah.

I pulled over to what locals go by whenever they got behind me.

Like because there was no like it was better to drive at night

so you could see the dark spots where the road was dipping

because the headlights wouldn't hit it, right?

And you just knew to brace yourself for shit when you got those dark parts

got to you like shame scars like vehicle scraping

like just on the road in the middle of the road

just because of how bad the roads were. Geez.

Yeah, the highways were fine.

But like if if you take an optimized

ways route ways route through like some two lane blacktop

fucking buckle up, buddy, because I was a WRC driver, dude.

Like Kelly and I kept just being like,

we cannot believe how bad this is.

I in my entire like the worst Missouri roads

I've driven through some rough parts of Mississippi and Alabama

and Missouri never anything this bad.

Yeah. Well, and that's the thing, too, that people don't appreciate.

It's like, you know, dirt roads are one thing, but like an a

an unattended black blacktop road is the fucking worst.

Yes, it would have been tolerable if it was dirt.

Right. Right.

Washboard, like you have to figure it out.

But like if the road is falling apart, yeah, that's way worse.

Dude, yeah, it was like driving through a skate park like.

Yeah, yeah. Bad stuff about the RAV4.

It's loud, man, like lots of wind noise and and like.

Engine is like the least appealing noise.

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. And and you're managing it like you're driving a Jeep Wrangler,

you know, like it wants to move around a lot.

But, you know, I've always not liked them, unless it's like the nicest.

Right. Nice crime.

Yeah. I'm sure the nicer trim with the better engine is great.

But, man, that just like completely stock model on those roads was rough, dude.

I bet. Yeah.

So gross. The seats were fine.

Yeah, the heater was good because at some point it was it was so cold

it snows that we we were taking shifts warming up in the car.

I wondered. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah, 50 degrees and 75 percent humidity doesn't fuck around, man.

Yeah, that's you.

Right. Yeah.

So, yeah.

But yeah, at least it didn't rain on us.

And I do have a picture of some of the barbecue if you want.

If you want to see that because, of course, you do. Yeah.

Uh-huh. Yeah.

It's real nice.

Yep. Fatty, lean brisket, fatty and lean brisket.

I saw a jalapeno in regular sausage, half chicken, which was mind blowing

and pork shoulder steak.

Oh, interesting.

What was the best?

The pork shoulder steak, for sure, because like that

their sauce was very neutral, like kind of runny.

So it was just like it just very like you just do like a little dip

that the pork shoulder steak and like just maybe like like a half inch

of that raw onion on some on like a bite of white bread.

Probably like I'd say like top three bites of barbecue I've ever had in my life.

Wow. Yeah. Yeah.

Crazy good.

And that little styrofoam buddy there.

Best banana pudding I've ever had in my life.

Oh, banana pudding. Nice.

OK. Right.

Nilla wafers and everything. Yeah. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Right.

I love it. So yeah.

But anyway, it was an amazing trip and amazing things happen

when cultures get together and they learn about they want to learn about each other

and they're allowed to get together and they're allowed to be together.

Yeah. So fuck ice.

Fuck ice. Right. Yeah.

All right. What else should we do?

Looks like we got lights or some my eyes.

Yes, we do. Speaking of things international,

our buddy Eric in a returning segment called Eric Internationale

that I've named and didn't ask for his approval on.

But I'm sure he's fine with it.

He said, Eric's travel, Eric travels a fair amount

and he was in, let's see here, Grand Cayman, I think.

And he said that he can confirm that the new Kia truck

is just as ugly as it is in the pictures.

Oh, yeah. I haven't seen one of these things yet.

I didn't know Kia was doing a truck.

I saw like press photos of it.

And I also wondered like these like.

Real. Right. Right. Yeah.

Yeah. It looks like it's like a like a movie, like a theatrical car.

Like they made it for like a weird villain in a movie, right?

Yeah. I mean, it looks like someone crashed a Nissan Cube into a Hummer H2.

Yes. Yeah. And like Judge Dredd would drive it.

Right. Yeah. Real weird. Right.

So, Eric, thank you for sending that and confirming

because this, yeah, this is a face, not even a mother's like.

Why are you the purpose of the little bit?

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you could go into radio.

But he did send us this, Ian, and this has a vanity plate

that I'm going to spoil for you just because you just need to see it.

OK. Ian, it's a Mitsubishi Pajero.

How do you say it? Pajero, Pajero, Jero, I don't know.

With a body kit and a bunch of chrome and one Fendermere apparently.

Yeah, hell yeah, it does.

And it all fucking works, buddy.

Oh, yeah. Right.

Yeah, it has a vanity plate, Iron Man.

Two-tone paint job.

Yes. Big fucking spoiler.

And here's the thing is that I am constantly, whenever I see Pajeros,

I'm always like, well, look at this silly aftermarket thing.

And it turns out it's just the trim level.

Yes. That you can get.

Right. It was an OEM option.

Yeah, they're almost, that's almost always the answer.

And I'm all I'm surprised every time.

Right. Yes.

So this time, that's probably all stock.

It could be. It could be.

Who knows? This Fendermere is wild.

Right. Yeah.

Is it Fendermere?

I don't know.

Fendermere Blinker flowerpot.

I don't know what it is.

Is it? Oh, it is a right hand drive.

Yeah. Yeah.

Extra blind spot for a right hand drive.

I don't know. It's weird.

Yeah.

But so I like that it has the vanity play Iron Man,

and I don't think it's Iron Man, like it's the triathlons.

I think it is like a low budget Iron Man movie knockoff

that like gets released overseas.

Like there was like the whole Mexican spider

or was it Italian Spider-Man?

What was the Spider-Man one that was huge forever ago?

Like a crazy meme.

I think it might have been Italian Spider-Man.

We're like, he just like punches a woman and smokes a cigar.

And yeah, I'm like, well, that sounds Italian.

It's how you Spider-Man.

Yes, this is it.

But like the the Tony Stark version of this.

Yeah. Here we go.

And it was made by like guys that like, you know, knew that

they were like making a mock B movie kind of thing.

Yeah. But like, like Spider-Man has a shotgun for some reason in this.

Yeah.

But Google Italian Spider-Man trailer

because that's absolutely that sounds delicious.

Time well spent.

I love it. But I picture like that

version of Iron Man driving the Pajero.

OK. Yeah.

So, you know, OK, I love that.

Yeah.

These things are always bonkers

and I love seeing them every time I want to drive one.

I've never. Yeah.

If you could somehow get a hold of like that rally art one.

Mm hmm. Oh.

Yeah.

I would be a constantly vomiting,

but delightfully giddy passenger for you in that car.

Yeah. I imagine it's so floppy.

Right. Oh, yeah.

And I saw a video of like crazy, like it was this crazy parking lot

that like, I don't know, like a sinkhole or earthquake or something.

And like parking lot was nuts.

But people were like these dudes are showing off like they're insane off

road suspension, like, you know, like stadium truck kind of suspension

across this every time I see one of those videos,

I just watch it like 30 times because watching a car move like that

with that kind of suspension is so rad.

It is really cool. Oh, yeah.

Let's see here.

So we got a couple more my eyes.

We have our buddy, Ben, Ben B sent in speaking of K things and adorable things.

Yes. This is a little K van truck thingy.

Yeah. And I feel like I know that little.

OK, it's a high jet. OK. Yes.

It is a high jet. Yes.

The Hatsu high jet.

I have seen those before because I recognize the little door cutout thing.

Yes. Down here, which I think is a fuel filler, maybe.

I think so.

I think the mighty car, mighty car mounts guys had one of these.

OK. Projects.

But yeah, that is delightful.

I love the color.

That's like a mixture color.

Yes. Right.

Yeah. Super cool.

Like mint green sort of thing.

Yeah. Amazing.

And like just the little black four lug wheels and looks great.

It looks amazing.

And like, no, you go ahead.

You go. I was going to say, I love whenever like a mod

that like on a Jeep or a Dodge Ram or something

would look like you're trying to be tough.

Yes. Same mod on a K car.

And it's fucking great.

Yes. And cute.

Yes. Yes. Absolutely.

Yeah. I love like the back end thing.

I don't know, like the chop on the back end or whatever, like

whatever happened to make it like a little baby truck.

I'm here. I'm here for it.

And to kind of like spring off of that,

our buddy Ben in Iowa said in a few things,

one is the only way to improve a PT cruiser, in my opinion, and his.

Make it a PT cruiser. You. Yep. Exactly. Right.

That is some workmanship.

But I mean, would you rather have this like, let's say,

power and all that stuff was not a factor.

It like they both these things that I'm going to present to you had the same

engines. You know what I'm going to say. I keep seeing things.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You do.

You do like the welds and yeah.

Uh-huh. I will say that an effort was made.

You know, it was.

This almost looks like when people try to take panorama photos of their dogs

and it turns out you see those, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh.

It does look like that.

Yeah. Panoramic photo of dogs.

Yeah.

Yeah. This is like, this is like the Rocket Bunny car almost, right? Uh-huh. Yeah.

I thought for a second that the PT cruiser was like legitimately like a Google

street view got wrong, right? But I think it is a real thing.

I mean, it has the welds and stuff, but, um, oh, where did it go?

I lost it, but here I can pull it back up.

But if you had the PT cruiser versus like a, um, versus like a Chevy,

what was the Chevy SSR that's like it, there's one in my neighborhood that

you've seen. I know, right? Yeah.

If you had this PT cruiser or the Chevy SSR, you know,

what would you take this one? No, you get this one or an, is it an SSR?

The SSR. Yeah. It's like the pickup version of the HHR.

Yes. You get an SSR in similar condition.

Okay. Uh-huh. Same powertrains.

Okay. Well, SSR here, this is a real drive, isn't it?

It is. It is.

I mean, Dave, I know you're trying to, you really want to love this thing.

I mean, what's the, what's happening with the spoiler?

I don't understand what's happening with the spoiler.

No one knows. They don't even know.

It's just tacked on to the back in some weird fashion.

I also love that it was clearly on fire at one point over here on the side door.

It was. Yeah.

They had to burn through it with the arc.

Well, that, yeah, that the arc welder burnt through it

when they were tacking something in from the other side.

I mean, I'll say I also don't know how to weld.

So, you know, I get it.

Right. Right.

It's amazing. It is. I like the wheels.

But also Ben, Ben said in this and this

are dearly to our previous car, Ian.

Oh, OK.

Luther, my Lexus LS.

I think we found Luther's wife.

Oh, I would like Ben.

Luzina. Yeah.

Well, close.

Ben would like to introduce us to Large Marge, Ian.

Oh, Large Marge. Oh, Marge, Marge one.

Oh, man, that's great.

And I have to say, there is so much

like, first of all, all of the dents on this LS,

the lessons hanging by one screw, there is so much to be said

for a Lexus LS that has a that has a nice interior

that you don't give a shit about the outside

because that like that is your airport car.

You park that thing anywhere.

It's so nice to get into when you're done doing whatever you're doing.

You know, I am going to put

because, you know, we have some experience in this field.

We do of forming a story about somebody.

OK, from their car.

And I'm just going to point out

that the side of the car looks very clean.

I think the side of the car looks pretty good

from where we're sitting.

Maybe they're in a handicapped spot.

Uh huh. This person's name is Marge.

They're driving a large LS and the back of the car

specifically is dent stuff.

It's just fucked.

I think maybe Marge.

Maybe Marge's driver's license

renewal was a little

a little pencil whipped.

Yeah, until that past few years.

And maybe it's time to hang up the driving gloves.

So I'm we're parked outside.

We're at a handicapped spot outside of pharmacy.

Yep, we are.

We are. And there's a whole bunch of marks

on the rear bumper from the walker

getting dragged in and out of that.

Oh, that's exactly what it is.

Yep. Uh huh.

Yeah. Yeah.

And when you say, like, oh, I got an old lady car.

Well, this is what maybe this is Luther's

Nana and this is Luther's me ma. Yeah.

Yeah.

So Marge, thank you, Ben.

Thank you, Ben, that sent in the K truck.

Thank you, Ben, for sending in the PT cruiser

and large Marge here.

Marge, listen to your grandkids about politics, please.

Yeah, about politics and you folks,

your your grandkids are going to hide your key fobs

and they're going to find the other one,

the one that you keep moving.

So, you know, they're going to air tag your car.

Marge Marge get a vision test.

Yes, please.

Yeah. So, um, Dave, would you like a license plate game?

Absolutely. I would love one.

OK, let me refresh my memory as to what I call

this, even though I made this 20 minutes ago.

Oh, yeah, that's right.

This one's also.

We're going to call this, you know, it's like it's,

you know, kind of like me opening the show

with the adorable car.

It's another exercise in forced frivolity.

OK, called.

Look, everyone, I have a lampshade on my head.

Gotcha. OK. All right.

Hmm. A little I'm the main character

syndrome, maybe it's like it's like

performatively having fun.

Gotcha. OK. You know what I mean?

Yes.

Trying a little too hard to let everyone know

what a good time you're having.

Gotcha. OK.

We're having fun, right?

We're having fun, aren't we?

OK. All right.

I'm I'm I'm as you're going through,

I'm going to pull up one of these pictures

because it it transferred over kind of

crappily and I want to make sure that I can help you with the zoomies.

Gotcha. OK. Gotcha.

OK, so up top we have a red Ford F 150.

Looks like the extended cab, maybe a short bed.

And we have a BMW convertible three series in the middle here.

This is like what, like a 2010, 2015, something like that.

Yeah, I think it's a little newer than that.

But yeah, it's the three or four series, whatever.

And it's like the XI.

OK, gotcha.

And then we have my nemesis in the lower portion here,

a Toyota Highlander in white,

because that's the kind of car that rear end to Dusty Rusty back in the day.

Oh, I was like, I don't I think I'm not familiar with your Highlander.

Hey, OK, that makes sense.

Yeah, that's the one that popped Dusty Rusty and two girls because there can only be one.

I think you're right.

Yeah. And then two high school girls going to homecoming

in their homecoming dresses.

Got about that detail.

My wife said I want to give them fifty dollars.

And I said, for what?

She said so they can buy the rest of their dresses.

I love my wife so much.

She's the best.

So, OK, and then the plates are antics, A-N-T-I-C-S.

Was that the title of a Interpol album?

What is the second Interpol album?

Yeah, I can always tell if I'm not doing well in relationships in my life.

By the amount of time I listen to Interpol.

OK, I haven't listened to Interpol for a long time yet.

Oh, really? Well, I think it holds up.

The first two records, especially hold up very well.

Oh, I know they're great. Yeah.

But just for you, that's where your head has to be at to listen to them.

I don't want to hear those lyrics, dude.

Yeah. Yeah.

So antics, reckless and run amuck are the plates.

OK.

Hmm. All right.

We have a Kansas plate on the pick them up truck

and a chrome plate from a chrome plate frame from the dealer.

Got a trailer hitch.

With the ball.

That's about it. No, no, ten.

But it's Kansas, you know.

Um, they're just more concerned about working AC than they are.

Right. Yeah. OK.

We've got the BMW convertible.

And not much is on here.

The green picture. Oh, yeah, no problem.

No problem. Unlike you, it is a middle age to,

you know, like 60s, 60 to 70 year old man

in a ball cap driving us. Gotcha.

OK. Sunglasses on maybe, maybe not.

And it's a California plate. OK.

All right. Three series in California.

And then we have the Highlander.

Oh, some tape on the taillight.

No plate frame.

You know, this this is this is like the one that hit me

because like it's was obviously a hand me down car.

You know. Mm hmm.

Yeah, this thing's seen a few things. Yeah.

OK. Maybe Marge backed into it.

Could be.

Oh, boy, antics reckless run a muck.

Oh.

What do you think?

Anything jumping out at you?

I think antics is kind of hitting with the BMW for some reason.

OK.

Because I think the only other way that I would interpret antics

is somebody just like like you said in the in the spirit of this game.

Like I am I am a little kooky.

You never know what I'm up to. Right.

That kind of uncle vibe. Mm hmm.

You know, I ended up with a three series convertible in California,

which is like the most like, of course, thing ever.

Yes. That's like their version of a Subaru here in Colorado.

Kind of. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

And yes. And like Black Lexus is in Florida.

OK. So I don't know.

That seems antics to me.

Run a muck.

Huh. And reckless.

Reckless, I kind of want to put on the Ford truck.

OK. And run a muck on the Highlander.

But I don't really have a I don't know.

I'm not feeling too good about that one.

OK. Not not the same way that I kind of feel about antics.

But if I reverse it or kind of like run through another version, I don't.

I don't know.

What why do you think reckless with the with the truck?

I just I picture somebody like having like a towing company or like,

I don't know, like it just seems like

I think we're dealing with like a 10% fit versus like an 8% fit. OK.

You know, versus run a muck.

Maybe maybe maybe it could be run a muck if they have like ATVs and stuff.

And that's what they're towing with the trailer hitch.

That's what I'm going to change it to. OK.

OK. And then I'm going to put reckless on the Toyota Highlander,

which is obviously not true for that car.

So, yeah, that's that's all I can really think of.

OK. So you want to lock it in?

I'll lock it in, buddy.

I'm not happy about it, but I'm going to lock it in.

OK, I feel a little bad because I feel like I maybe

talks you out of the right answer.

Did you really? OK. OK.

Um, let's take a look.

OK, we got reckless on the truck, antics and run a muck.

Oh, it's run a muck. They're like an ultramarathoner.

And that could be that's their car that they just throw all kinds of gear in

and it doesn't matter. It's seen a billion trailheads and it was a branch.

That broke the the tail light.

I can tell you right now.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think that was a hard one.

And I think you did pretty well.

Thank you. Thank you. Antics, man.

I think both you and I would have honed in on that one.

We know that guy.

Well, and you're a nicer person than me, because I would have been like,

I don't think people in Kansas know what a muck means.

Ian, I that would have gotten you the right answer.

So you tell me if it was nice or not.

That would have gotten you the right answer.

The people that we know in Kansas would know that.

Right. Yeah.

But the people that we know are different than most Kansas.

Yeah. Well, I know where this picture was taken.

And I am fairly confident.

OK, gotcha.

OK, all right.

Well, well done. That was a hard one.

Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

And yeah, and you got all these pictures.

No credits. Oh, yeah.

These were all I saw all these. Wow. OK. OK.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's right.

When you were in California, you had to take a billion vanity plate pictures

because California is gold mine for vanity plates.

You know, you would think when I was most of the time I was driving

the 2002, so I was busy.

Yeah, you were. You were.

Yeah. OK.

So, yeah, I didn't I didn't get that many, but I got a couple.

We got a couple of really good ones. Nice. OK.

I I want you to give me an album of the week,

but I would like to report that I did listen to the previous album of the week.

And I did really enjoy it.

It was what's the name of it?

It was SMJ one or SML one.

SML. Yeah.

How you how you been?

Yeah, you've been. Yeah, that's right.

Yes, I did listen to the entire album.

I did enjoy it.

I think, like, for me, it is a cross of tortoise.

Hmm. Battles.

Yeah, there was definitely some battle stuff in there, right?

And like maybe Forte.

Yeah, I think like it like that, like hits in kind of that that area.

A little like flying lotus.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah. Yeah. No, so thank you for that.

That was a good that was a great album. Yeah.

Yeah, I really dug that.

Sure. A lot.

Like it reminded me a little bit like the common is coming

where some of those like kind of of aren't

are jazz, electronic records.

Sure. I really like.

But yeah, that was I like that a lot.

Yeah, so thank you for that.

Well, this one is actually a Dave album of the week,

because this is one that you recommended to me

and I got around to listening to.

Really? I enjoy it.

Yes, it's the I love my computer.

Need a jirachi.

Yes, yeah.

I finally got a chance to sit down with that.

And it was not what I was expecting at all.

Right. I did enjoy it.

Yeah.

But yeah, it was much more.

There was a little bit more, you know,

like like aggressive pop music vibes.

That's a hyper pop.

Yeah, there was more hyper pop in it than I was expecting.

But no, I've really dug it.

It was really fun.

Yeah, she has incredible production.

Oh, man, like I saw the video for her song,

iPod Touch on Instagram.

I looked like it was five in the morning.

I was having my coffee before anybody else in the house was up.

It's just scrolling reels.

Saw that video started fucking crying.

Oh, really?

Like legit tears rolling down my face,

because apparently that somehow hooks into some deep nostalgia of mine.

Dude, that song, I love it so much.

Holy shit.

That's awesome.

Yeah, such a good album.

Yeah, I'm thank you for listening to that.

Yeah, yeah, I really liked it.

It was fun.

I actually listened to it back to back with.

I listened to it the other week on the airplane

and I listened to it back to back with the S.M.L.

Yeah, in this.

So yeah, that's fun.

That's an awesome duality because like, I don't know,

like I was telling you a while ago, like I'm just listening to just like

electronic music that just like it's not trying to do anything insane.

It's not trying to impart like deep philosophical shit.

I just want to have some fun, right?

And God damn, this album is so good.

Yeah, yeah, the song.

I want to fuck my computer.

Oh, my God, it's so good.

Yeah, yeah, opening to close solid album.

So I agree.

Yeah, the intergeraci links on band camp,

Apple Music and Spotify.

It's in my library.

It should absolutely be in yours for sure.

So yeah, I have not stuck to an album like that for for a while.

Yeah, I've listened to it many times through.

Yeah, yeah, right on.

OK, nice. Nice.

Thank you. Thank you, Ian, for the album of the week.

Thank you.

Um, I think we done did a car show.

We did. We did.

Yeah, we talked about meats and we talked about horrible things

and we talked about some things that we really like.

So yeah, there you go.

Seven zero five one five one three nine one.

Send us cute things.

Send us license plate pictures, whatever, thus and so.

Apex adjacent Gmail.

Thank you. We love you.

Fuck ice. Goodbye.

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