A lively discussion unfolds as hosts Ian and Dave dive into the quirky world of ski jumping, sparked by some eyebrow-raising news involving athletes and unconventional methods. The conversation takes humorous turns, touching on personal experiences with ski jumping, the absurdity of Olympic Village antics, and the challenges of competition regulations. With a blend of nostalgia and wit, the hosts explore the intersection of sports and automotive controversies, making for an entertaining listen that balances lighthearted banter with unexpected insights.
This week Ian shares his history of flying (and bouncing) through the air, some...ahem...piston enhancing efforts, and our continued appreciation of cars with bonkers proportions. We love you!
"...I had rented the Mustang and drove from Oklahoma city to Minneapolis. Yes."
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"F1 piston thermal expansion. Oh, I've heard about this one."
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"F1 piston thermal expansion. Oh, I've heard about this one. Okay. So Mercedes and one other maker, I can't remember which one it is, figured out that if they 3D print the pistons."
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"Getting around the FIA's testing of where of the compression. The compression ratio specifically."
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"the more horsepower you can get out of the exact same displacement. Yeah."
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"...this is like a Subaru wagon that somebody's like lifted and it looks like a stomper, a real life stomper."
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"...like an older lifted thing, like an AMC Eagle, a Subaru like this, the old monster Camaro..."
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"...like an older lifted thing, like an AMC Eagle, a Subaru like this, the old monster Camaro..."
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"...the old monster Camaro that was a landmark in Georgetown, you know, stuff like that for sure..."
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"Those are continental. What are those? Those are like extreme contact or sport contacts probably."
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"Keeping the original like Chevy center cap on the wheel is such an awesome move."
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"So up top, we've got a white Ram. Is this a 2500 maybe? I don't know. I think so. Yeah. I think it's a 2500 with the Cummins extended cab..."
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"I think it's a 2500 with the Cummins extended cab..."
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"...with a big old red thingy on the back. D-ring."
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"...that seems right. And then I am going to say 666 Ram on the black one. Okay."
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No.
Dave.
Ian, when you say Dave, it hits the beat in the theme song.
And when you throw two syllables in there and screws me up, but that's okay.
We're going to keep it.
We're going to get you in there somewhere close to the beat.
So all of these episodes were like 538.
I've said Dave in a specific way to the point where it's synced with the theme song.
I sync it with the theme song.
So I sync, you know, our boom, boom, boom.
So I've said Dave the same way for 537 times basically.
Just about.
Sometimes you come in with a sigh or something like that.
That's why I always say Ian, you know.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm learning things.
You don't listen to the show.
It's okay.
I don't.
I don't.
It's okay.
But yes, I try to, I try as best as I can.
We can Zoom call.
What are you talking about?
Oh, I've been recording these sweetie.
You've said some stuff on the internet that you might not be aware of.
It might explain some hate mail you've gotten.
I'm going to need to get a PR team going.
Okay.
Well, do you ever, have you ever had the experience of having something that you, that's dear to
your heart or maybe something from, you know, your kind of your life that not everybody
shares show up in the news.
Oh.
And you're like, at first you're like, Oh my God, everybody's going to be learning about
this thing.
And then almost immediately you're like, Oh no.
I've had the first part of that, but I haven't had the second because like when Apex twin
came back from his 13 year hiatus, it's like, Oh fuck, there's a giant Apex blimp over London.
Right.
You know, like.
Okay.
That's.
This is my thing.
Right.
But like, okay, the, but the emotion that I'm kind of having is similar to remember
when the, the crowd strike thing happened last year.
Yes.
And I told you the whole story about how I almost got caught up in that.
Like I got real close, but I had rented the Mustang and drove from Oklahoma city to Minneapolis.
Yes.
And I only learned about it because I woke up bleary eyed in bed next to my wife and she
was holding her phone and I saw the crowd strike logo on her on the news story she was
reading.
And my first thought was, well, that's not good.
Right.
The fact that like it's on her phone and she's showing you.
Yeah.
That was all I, that was all I knew was that she was reading a story about crowd strike.
And I was like, well, that's bad.
Yes.
Well, it's the winter Olympics.
The winter Olympics has started.
Oh yes.
Uh huh.
And not everybody, maybe not everybody.
I don't know if I've mentioned this on the show before, but I at one time was a ski jumper,
a very terrible, terrible ski jumper.
You think your plumage would help elevate you?
It turns out I'm the exact wrong shape for ski jumping.
Okay.
Teapots don't fly.
I think that was an after dark screensaver.
Teapots just shatter on impact.
Okay.
Running episode title so far.
Teapots don't fly Dave.
Okay.
Uh huh.
Well, I, uh, I regret to inform you that ski jumping is in the news.
Okay.
Um, and whenever ski jumping is in the news, it is never good.
And this time is especially, uh, bad's not the word.
Um, you're just going to have to click the link.
Uh, so I think I may have become aware of some ski jumping news.
I want to see if this is the thing that broke.
I mean, I'm surely this is it.
Broke through and made it to me.
Okay.
Here we go.
Yup.
This is it.
How penis injections became a winter Olympic talking point.
That's the article that Ian sent me on the BBC.
Yup.
Now, let me just put everything like as those are going to be one could like be
given my buildup and everything else.
Um, you know, with my history being a ski jumper, obviously, yes, of course,
I've had penis injections.
So many of them.
I would, in fact, just, I would do it at the top of the jump.
It was real cold.
Right.
Yeah.
You're turtling up there, buddy.
Yeah.
Also, the fact that it's on BBC's website, BBC penis injections is probably
the better name of the episode.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're going to get removed from YouTube for that one.
So quickly.
Let me just, this story is nonsense.
This makes no sense.
Right.
And also, so the, the, the theory here is that during the, so there is a thing
with the suits.
The suits have become like a big thing in recent years in ski jumping.
And so they get body scanned when you get to a certain level, you get body
scanned with like a skin tight thing on.
Right.
And then your suit can only be like however many millimeters off of
your scan.
Cause the more kind of like surface area you have on the suit, the better,
but you want to be super light.
So you want like a baggy suit.
Right.
Like essentially trying to make as much of a squirrel suit as you can,
like those like crazy skydivers, right?
Yes.
There was recently another scandal in the ski jumping world where some
coaches for the Norwegian team got caught altering jumpers suits in the
cross area to like add extra fabric without the jumpers knowing about it
allegedly.
So, so there, this has been a thing for a while.
Sure.
And so this story alleges that jumpers were getting penis injections to up
their girth when they were getting skidded.
Yes.
So then that way once the injections wore off, they would have a baggy suit.
Now there's a couple of problems.
First of all, I feel like whatever injection you get is going to be like
plus or minus however cold it is in that room or whatever else is going on that
day for anyone who doesn't own a penis.
It's anybody's guess.
What's going to happen?
Well, you don't know.
They're actually doubling it with C. Alice.
Right.
Well, so this is funny too.
So I don't know.
So on Seth Meyers like a few years ago, I think about this all the time,
Colin Jost and Michael Chey were on talking about things that were rejected
from SNL.
Oh, okay.
And one of their things that they had pitched that got rejected that I think
about all the time is they had pitched a commercial for Viagra al dente.
You don't want to get all the way.
You just want to not be a grower.
You want to be a show or for a minute.
It's just like you have a doctor's appointment.
They said like you have a doctor's appointment or like you have to pee at a stadium.
I think about that all the time.
That's perfect.
That's what they needed.
They needed Viagra al dente.
It would fly off the shelves.
Go into a rock concert where the urinals are smashed together.
Yeah.
Viagra al dente.
I wanted to say Viagra like fancy it up.
Anyway, the other problem with this plan is I don't know if anyone has done any
reading on what goes on at the Olympic Village.
But for this to work, you would want it to wear off by the time of the Olympics.
Correct.
And that is going to be unfortunate timing for the Olympic Village.
For what goes down on the cardboard beds in the Olympic Village.
Yes.
I mean, the Olympic Village is second only to like the villages in Florida for sexual activity.
Yes.
Well, maybe not this year because I think they're getting hit with the norovirus or whatever.
Oh, really?
Yes.
I think everybody's just busy shitting themselves.
You're right.
Yes, it is historically just, yeah, you know, people in incredible shape come.
Yeah.
A lot.
I thought you were planning on a different route for that sentence, but I like that you didn't.
You know, a game time decision.
Okay.
So we're an automotive podcast.
Oh, I have no link to cars here.
I got nothing.
I will say when I went to the Junior Olympics, which was really just like North American Junior Nationals or whatever, but we call the Junior Olympics.
When I went there in Alaska, our coaches were like 24 years old and I was like 16 or 17.
Okay.
And they rented two passenger, big 15 passenger vans, like Ford Econoline vans and drove around Anchorage in them and would just crash into each other willy-nilly.
They would like push each other through intersections and stuff.
That's the only link I have to cars really.
Okay.
It was quite funny.
That sounds amazing.
Also, I would love to just talk to a 16 year old Ian right before he goes off the ski jump and right after.
Oh, I was a fucking mess.
I'm sure you were.
So I had a good, a dear friend who I jumped with who was also not the best, but he was better than me, which was everybody.
And he once told me that the thing that I should do to help my ski jumping career is smoke some weed and stop thinking.
That's what he told me.
He was like, that's the thing that would help you the most.
I mean, I think that that life is, that advice is probably carried through a lot of your life.
Probably.
Could have used it.
Could have used that, taking them up on that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I would sit at the top and think like, well, this is really stupid.
Right.
Right.
Like I'm winging myself off of this thing at 60 miles an hour.
This doesn't seem smart.
You're a land man, Ian.
You're a land man.
I had so, it was so much fun.
It's fun.
Yeah, sure.
But also fucking terrifying.
Would you ever do the thing where you were so nervous you would throw up before jumps or meets or anything?
No, I don't think so.
I definitely was like stomach upset.
Yeah, sure.
But I don't think I ever actually threw up except one time when I fell and definitely gave myself a concussion.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
At one time I jumped a hill that was new.
And like I was jumping at a time where they were kind of the sport was in transition.
So they were moving to, you know, the V style that you.
Ah, yes.
That was fairly, still fairly new when I was jumping because I'm a million years old.
And they were changing the profiles of the hill.
So it used to be that you was just like ballistic, right?
Yeah.
You would fly like between you and the hill would be like 20 feet.
Right, right.
And then they started changing that to where like now if you look, they never really get that high up off the ground at any one point.
Right.
It's a lot lower flying because they're actually actually becoming an airfoil and flying.
Right.
Which again, I never experienced.
And I wrote a hill that was built sort of in this transition period that like they when they first built it, it was too low flying.
Oh, even the good jumpers were like scraping the backs of their skis on the what they call the knoll the top of the hill.
Okay.
And then pulling away from it.
Yeah.
And I missed the takeoff completely.
Just like jumped into thin air.
No.
So late, just jumped into thin air and I plowed into the top of the hill and fucking bounced.
Yeah, that sucked.
Oh my God.
And it was embarrassingly one of the longer the after the bounce was one of the longer airborne trips I've ever had.
It was, it might have been my personal best from the point where I bounced to when I landed.
Probably because of the flailing through the air.
It hurt so bad and it was so embarrassing.
I cannot imagine you.
Oh my God.
Well, this is your technique now.
Yeah.
We call it the Peterson bounce.
The old bouncing flail.
Like the what's the high jump one, the Flossberry flop or something like that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I think I can correlate this a bit to cars roughly.
Okay.
Okay.
The penis injections I'm talking about you balancing.
That's you're just on your own.
But I think that it is a fine example of when when in competition you regulate a thing, there is an unending desire to figure out how to circumvent the thing.
Right.
Yes.
Whether it's through penis circum.
Right.
Conference.
Conference.
Right.
Right.
Decilgate.
Exactly.
Right.
There's a cheating.
There's actually a cheating actually or sort of related controversy in F1 right now now that you bring this up.
Oh really?
Okay.
Also to do with thermal expansion, which is kind of related.
What would I need to Google besides BBC penis injections to pull this article?
F1 piston thermal expansion.
Oh, I've heard about this one.
Okay.
So Mercedes and one other maker, I can't remember which one it is, figured out that if they 3D print the pistons.
Yes.
They can manufacture chambers that will allow for more thermal expansion.
Right.
Getting around the FIA's testing of where of the compression.
The compression ratio specifically.
Yes.
So they test the compression ratio at a specific temperature.
So basically from the start, from like cold.
Once it runs and heats up, they figured out how to game the expansion of the cylinder head,
of the pistons themselves to get a higher compression ratio at operating temperature.
Right.
And the higher your compression ratio, the more horsepower you can get out of the exact same displacement.
Yeah.
I mean not exact same because there is a change, otherwise it wouldn't be.
It's ingenious.
Right.
It's going to be very interesting to see how reliable these engines are.
Right.
If they like start, you know, pistons start exploding.
Right.
They're not going to seem so smart, but right now it sounds pretty cool.
Yeah.
I think the most insane thing about it is that they are, the way that they're 3D printing
them, they're designing it to only expand in like that, like along the travel axes.
Right.
Because if they expand out, like all things expand thermally, right?
Right.
Like if they expand out, then this engine is just going to seize, right?
But the fact that they have designed them to expand just in one or two directions really,
right?
Then along one axis.
Along one axis.
Thank you.
That's crazy engineering.
Yeah.
It's pretty cool.
I'm very excited to see if it actually works for them or, you know, if it becomes unreliable.
Also, like what happens in like Malaysia where it's like crazy hot.
Right.
You know, like what's going to happen when cooling becomes an issue for these engines.
Yeah.
It's going to be interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nuts.
Yeah.
People, like you make a rule, people will figure out the, like spend the rest of their life
trying to figure out how to circumvent it.
Yeah.
Everyone will try to figure out a way to make their piston bigger.
They will.
That is.
Yeah.
You just explained men.
Uh-huh.
You did, Ian.
How big should we make this piston?
Well, thank you for bringing sports to the show.
You're welcome.
Ian, by way of penis injections.
And thank you for tying it back to cars.
Well done.
I had no plans for that, but you're right.
I mean, it's both, it's, it's two sports making, making their pistons bigger.
It is.
To gain an advantage.
It is.
Right.
Yeah.
That's really funny.
Dave, what, what, what else are we going to talk about today besides wishing our pistons were bigger?
I, you know, I have a few listener my eyes.
I made a license plate game for you that I really hope is not as hard as the one that
I made for you and Victoria on our last show.
I still feel bad about that.
That's so funny.
Um, if anybody missed our show with Victoria Scott last week, you definitely need to check
that out and train girlies mode, best podcast name in the universe.
Yeah.
Um, but yeah.
So, you know, you have an album of the week.
I got some listener my eyes.
We can do this.
Let's do it.
Okay.
All right, buddy.
This doesn't have anything to do with size.
Oh wait, it does.
Our buddy Mark sent us a Subaru like a stomper car.
Like we were talking about a couple of shows ago, like the little battery powered stomper
cars, like in real life.
This is like a Subaru wagon that somebody's like lifted and it looks like a stomper, a
real life stomper.
Yeah.
My parents, I think had one of these.
Oh really?
Okay.
I think I may have asked my dad changed the transmission on one of these ones when I was
a kid.
Really?
You were yelled at while, while the transmission was changed?
Yes.
Yes.
I did not hold the flashlight steady while the transmission was being changed on one
of these.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These things are unstoppable and with a lift, that's gotta be so much fun.
I cannot even imagine the sheer amount of like zero fucks given you would have when
driving one of these.
Yeah.
Like you would run over.
Like the fact that it stopped in front of like a parking cement block, you would just
run over grocery carts.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
So thank you Mark for sending that in.
Yeah.
So good.
That's a great apocalypse mobile.
Oh, I love it.
Yeah.
Anytime you see like an older lifted thing, like an AMC Eagle, a Subaru like this, the
old monster Camaro that was a landmark in Georgetown, you know, stuff like that for
sure, absolutely send us all the lifted things.
And then our buddy Ben in Iowa sent us this.
He said he saw a rad station wagon in front of a Hivee, which stands for Haydn Viedenberg,
which were the two guys that started the Hivee grocery chain and I know that because I worked
them one as a kid.
Didn't I know that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're welcome.
Midwest.
But yeah, look at this wagon because it is rad.
It's on incredible like white with steel center cap wheels.
Those are cool.
Yeah.
It's got the wood grain, the windows part way down and then Ian icing on the cake and
thank you, Ben, for snagging this dog in the driver's seat waiting for the owner.
Oh man, this thing looks awesome.
Right?
And it looks like maybe there's not, it is not stock under the hood.
No, it does not look like it is.
I mean, lower.
Mm hmm.
Big meaty meats.
Yeah.
Those are continental.
What are those?
Those are like extreme contact or sport contacts probably.
Yeah.
That looks cool.
Keeping the original like Chevy center cap on the wheel is such an awesome move.
Yeah.
I like that.
That works for me.
Right?
Yeah.
Anytime there is a dog sitting in the driver's seat of a car in a parking lot, it makes my
day.
That's great.
You know, like they're looking forward like just the steering wheels in front of them.
Happy.
Just instant happiness to me.
You know?
Yeah.
So thank you, Ben, for sending us that.
Yes.
Love it.
Good spot.
Yeah.
What do you think?
License play game?
Absolutely, buddy.
Okay.
Ian, this one is called Ram.
Ooh.
Okay.
Here we go.
Where did I put it?
It's in the done folder.
This is where I'm putting them now.
Here we go.
Boom.
Oh boy.
Okay.
So up top, we've got a white Ram.
Is this a 2500 maybe?
I don't know.
I think so.
Yeah.
I think it's a 2500 with the Cummins extended cab with a big old red thingy on the back.
Yeah.
D-ring.
Okay.
Not much else to go on there.
It's like when you don't go for truck nuts, you want to like hang a giant like those giant
comically giant D-rings on the back.
And we think that that is or is not functional.
I don't think they're, I think that those are show no go.
You think so?
I mean.
I can't tell if that's like salt because it looks like there's snow and stuff.
Yeah.
So I can't tell if that's just like muck or if it's like scuffed up.
I think with something like this, to show that it was used, it would be scuffed on the
inside.
Yeah, you're right.
Just like all of us.
Damn it, Dave.
That was really good.
Thank you.
That was really funny.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
And the inside is quite shiny.
It is.
It's very shiny.
Oh my gosh.
Shiny and unused.
I want to be in the room when you first heard R.E.M. song, Shiny Happy People, you know?
Yeah.
Because I'm sure you like this song.
I think even as a kid, I was like, this is bullshit.
I like this band, but this song is not correct.
Well, they're clearly singing about everyone but me.
Right.
Okay.
Okay.
And then we've got a R.E.M. Lariat duly in black, quite shiny.
Yeah.
With a big ol' hitch on it.
Yep.
Not one of the multi-balls.
Adjustable height.
Serious business.
Yes.
Yes.
Multi-ball adjustable height.
Can you say?
Am I seeing like a weird wear pattern on the tires there too?
No, it's like the reflection of window vents in the air.
Oh, I see.
Yep.
Through the windshield.
Okay.
And then we've got a silver, I think just kind of more standard, limited 1500.
This is a duly.
Oh, it is a duly.
It's hard to tell from this angle, but it is a duly.
Oh, it is a duly.
Okay.
So you can kind of see that kick out there and it's got those big wheel.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
Okay.
So this is another big boy R.E.M.
It is.
Huh.
Okay.
Okay.
And then, and then the, the, the license plate's 666 Ram.
L Diablo.
Okay.
And this one's clever.
8 TB Ram, 8 terabits of Ram.
Yeah.
That's pretty hilarious.
Uh-huh.
I like that you got a terabits when I'd say terabytes.
Yeah.
Oh, because of the network.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You network me storage.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Uh, and then tin can.
Yeah.
Oh man.
This is going to be tough.
This is going to be a tough one, but when you get three Ram pictures, you make a Ram Jam.
Yeah.
So, okay.
So 8 terabytes.
Uh-huh.
Ram.
What?
Which one of these is most likely to be owned by an IT person?
Uh-huh.
Because that's the only person who would really think to make this joke, I think.
Right.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
Let's.
Maybe, maybe a gamer, but probably, probably not.
Yeah.
And then the 666 Ram.
So, right now, I'm trying to figure out that comically large d-ring thing.
Is that someone who would make, who would be like, I'm edgy and the antichrist, Mark
of the Beast, or is that an IT person?
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
And then tin can makes me think it's the silver one, because it looks like a tin can.
Sure.
Dave, what am I missing?
You want a little bit of zoomies?
Yeah, let's do some zoomies.
Maybe there'll be something to clean here.
Some, uh, you know, kind of dirty.
It's got like the bumper sensors for backing up, I guess.
Yeah.
I guess that was the thing.
It's got the, uh, the toe hookup electrical outlets on the top one here.
Mm-hmm.
You know what?
It's got a toe package on it.
Yeah.
It looks pretty beefy, right?
But not a lot to go on.
Yeah.
No stickers really.
We got the, got the black one here, the black dually.
Yeah.
You know, very, very clean.
Illinois plates.
Yep.
Yep.
I know who took this.
Based on the car and the reflection.
Based on the car and the reflection.
Yep.
That's funny.
And then we have, then we have this one here.
Mm-hmm.
And I feel like the only context clue that I can glean is this up here.
I don't know if you can see this over the share.
They, they peeled off like the dealer vinyl that the dealer put up there,
like CO dodge or something like that.
Dot com.
Like, so they, they wanted the dealer's advertisement off of the car,
but they, they obviously kept all the rest of the badges and stuff like that.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh, and, and Ram has moved the bumper, the reverse sensors down into the plastics
in the bottom.
Okay.
All right.
I see what you're doing, Ram.
So drilling through chrome.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Okay.
All right.
Well, I think I'm going to stay.
I think an IT person would have done a better job removing the sticker.
Okay.
So I don't think eight terabytes is on the silver one.
I will say you are an IT person and you are one of the worst sticker
suppliers and removers in the universe.
That's true, but I am a terrible IT person.
Wrong.
Um, most of the IT people, I will, let me remind most of the IT people,
IT people I know are quite anal about stickers in particular,
putting them on their laptops, taking them off of things,
putting labeling straight.
Yeah.
Cable labeling and all that sort of shit.
Yep.
Um, I've always been real lax today to go with my sticker application.
And your cable labeling Ian.
Yeah.
And my cabling.
Uh-huh.
Um, okay.
So I'm going to stick with tin can on the silver one.
I just think that seems right.
And then I am going to say 666 Ram on the black one.
Okay.
Cause it does look like that's a, that's a big old truck.
It looks mean.
Yeah.
And, um, and that hitch looks like it means business.
Like it's, that's a serious part of their life.
Is that trailer hitch?
Yes.
And I think that eight terabytes fits more with the silliness of that D ring.
Okay.
And they're parking this at their IT job and walking in in their khakis every day.
Okay.
All right.
That's what I think is happening.
So let me, let me pose this to you just to see if it changes anything.
Okay.
Okay.
How many IT people do you know that also have horse ownership in their, like their circle?
I know of, of a few, you know, more successful IT people than I do.
No, I know, I thought about that too.
But a serious horse person would have a goose neck too and not this.
Yes.
So this I think is usually for like towing.
Pleasure craft.
Pleasure craft.
Right.
And I do have known some IT people with boats.
That's, that's a thing.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I don't, I don't want to be clear and I, if it was a horse thing, I would not
have put 666 on it because I think if I thought it was being used to tow horses.
Yes.
I, they are normally not given to blasphemy as much.
Correct.
Right.
I see what you're saying.
Right.
Yeah.
Unless there's four horses back there.
That's right.
There you go.
Um, but yeah, no, I'm, I'm sticking with my answer.
Okay.
I think it's eight terabytes 666 tin can.
Okay.
Okay.
All right, buddy.
I have a good news for you.
Okay.
You got one.
Oh boy.
You got the LD oblo.
Yup.
Eight terabit on the silver clean bottom one.
And then tin can, I think on the most kind of like besides the D ring, just the most
generic tin can truck.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Um, why, what, what is this IT person doing that they need a duly Ram?
That's what I want to know.
How many IT people do you know that want to get the fuck out of the city?
Right.
Yeah.
That's been diagram has a lot of overlap.
Um, yeah.
I saw eight terabit of Ram, eight terabytes of Ram.
I sent that to Mark, our buddy Mark, and he instantly sent back the tin can Ram.
Oh, that's hilarious.
And then our buddy Eric sent us a 666 Ram.
And this is his previous car in the reflection.
The, the beloved Accord that blew its transmission that we poured one out for show us your cars
before he got his Iotic.
So that's great.
Right.
Nice.
That was a good, that was tough.
That was a tough one.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I like it.
Yeah.
I like, uh, eight terabytes of Ram is very clever.
Right.
And I'm annoyed that I like it.
Yeah.
Four terabits, four terabytes too small.
Right.
Right.
Why is it eight?
And it's not 16 because then you couldn't have the space.
Right.
Right.
That's funny.
Yup.
Well, and now, I mean, now that, like even just the license plate talking about that
much Ram is worth a ton of money.
Yes.
It's so much money.
You could buy for that, for eight terabytes of Ram, you could buy that Ram.
You could.
That's how much Ram has gone up.
I have looked through my, my virtual couch cushions for Ram to even.
Yeah.
Well, that's what I told our, our friend Sal's like, you got to be rain some of the, your
because you got so much here.
Right.
Yup.
Yup.
Okay.
Well, that was a very good one, Dave.
Thank you for that.
Of course.
Yeah.
Should we wrap it up?
We're going to keep it a tight show tonight.
Yeah.
You want to wrap it up with an album of the week?
Yeah.
Let's, let's see what you got for me this week.
Okay.
So I went to the new ish venue that Dazzle Denver Dazzle has.
So Dazzle is a long time jazz club in Denver.
Okay.
They used to be at like ninth and Lincoln and then they moved someplace else that I
actually never went to that other venue.
And now they have a new venue by the performing arts center on 14th street.
Okay.
Right there.
And it's awesome.
Like it's a really, it's a legitimately like really cool room.
It's a very like old school jazz sort of room where they have like table service and
like, you know, but it's like laid out.
Great.
So there's not like a bad seat anywhere.
Nice, very intimate, very cool.
Good menu.
The whole thing.
Okay.
I went and saw Venetius Cantoria.
He is a very famous, he's now quite old, but he is a very famous Brazilian Bossa Nova
artist.
Okay.
And it was him and another guitarist.
And it was amazing.
There was like 25 people there.
And he's like one of the most famous Brazilian artists of all time sort of.
Okay.
It was super cool.
And we're going to, I'm going to recommend, I've been listening to his latest record,
Vertical Cities.
Okay.
Which is like Bossa Nova, but there's like a lot of electronic happening in it.
He puts the guitar on it.
Very cool.
So I've been listening to that for the last couple of days.
Okay.
And yeah, go see live jazz.
It's delightful.
And most cities have a great jazz venue that you should go patronize.
Okay.
Nice.
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah.
Never heard of this guy.
Yeah.
I'm learning, I'm starting to try to get into Brazilian Bossa Nova stuff because like
and Samba and all that.
But like, I think I only knew it.
I was telling my friend this on the way home from the show that like, I think it's kind
of like Brussels sprouts that like as a kid, I only had them prepared terribly.
And when you hear, when you have like the real thing, you're like, Oh, this is why they're
popular.
Right.
I think I had only ever heard like Lawrence Welk Bossa Nova music.
Sure.
And so I didn't know that it could be good.
But yeah, there's like a whole world of fantastic music from Brazil that you should check out.
That's amazing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, links will be in the show notes in YouTube, in the description YouTube, Apple Music,
the official artist page, Spotify.
But yeah, I'm going to check this out.
I like how on this on this album, all of the song names are cities.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
Yeah.
It's a theme album.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a really cool record.
I think you'll, I think you'll dig it.
It's a very like doing other things.
Okay.
Okay.
You know, maybe like driving or like multitasking music.
Doing some dishes.
Okay.
That sort of thing doing some chores.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Short punchy songs.
Yeah.
I was going to say the songs are very like punk song lengths.
Yeah.
Getting penis injections.
Right.
Expanding your pistons, whatever you're going to do.
By the way, expanding pistons, talking about a great album title.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yep.
I was trying to work it into like a lemon's team name, but then no.
Oh yeah.
Yep.
Don't want to do it.
Well, Dave, I think we done did a car show.
Yeah, buddy.
Yeah.
And also a penis injection show.
We did.
We did talk about penises a lot more than usual.
Yeah.
Be sure to use our link for the penis injection stuff because we get a little taste on that.
Is that really the word we want to land on there?
I mean, I'm fine with it if you are.
Use the code Apex Jason.
Yeah, hymns.com is going to have like 14 people try that.
And that's how we get spots.
There's people just put it in.
You know what?
Actually, this is a good, I'm going to put this out as a call to action for people.
The next time you are checking out any website, I don't care what it is.
Especially if it's something embarrassing.
Use the code Apex Jason and we're just going to will us into a sponsorship deal.
And I want to just see, hey, I want to get like an email from a brand saying like, hey,
we've had like a couple dozen people put in the code Apex Jason.
And as far as we can tell, you two are the only idiots who have that name.
What's happening?
What's going on here?
Yes.
Yeah.
We want to trick someone into sponsoring us by their curiosity.
Oh my God.
This is an amazing idea.
I love it.
You're just going to be bouncing off your VPN from all kinds of different sites.
I think it's a great idea.
Next time I order an espresso, I'll just type that right on in buddy.
Yeah.
And it's not going to work just to be clear.
It will not work on any website in the world.
It doesn't even work on ours.
Yeah.
But I want you to do it anyway.
Okay.
All right, Ian.
Listen to Brazilian bossa nova.
And when you're looking for a discount on your penis pumps before you try the real
code that you found.
What, hemorrhoid medicine?
It doesn't matter.
Whatever it is you do on the internet.
Sure.
I typically like to buy that in person.
I like to hold the hemorrhoids.
With intense eye contact.
That's how you know you're getting the good stuff.
I bought hemorrhoid medicine in my life.
So yes, that's what you should do.
That is what you should do.
Thank you, Ian.
No, no problem.
Also, 705151391 apexization of Gmail.
I'm on the blue sky.
It's my last remaining social media platform.
Yep.
We just send the occasional meme to each other on Instagram now and that's about it.
Pretty much.
Everybody, thank you.
We love you.
Goodbye.
Fuck ice.
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