Everyday Driver Car Debate Mar 25, 2025

982: Influential Car Movies, German Compound Words, Refresh The Corvette

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Car

Toyota GR86

The Toyota GR86 is a small sports car that is fun to drive. It's made for people who enjoy driving and want a car that handles well on the road.

Car

Toyota GT86

The Toyota GT86 is an earlier version of the GR86, also a small sports car that is designed for fun driving. It has a similar look and feel to the GR86.

Car

Porsche 944

The Porsche 944 Turbo S is a sports car that has a turbocharged engine, which means it gets extra power from a turbocharger. It's known for being fun to drive and has a sporty design.

Car

The Porsche 911 Turbo S is a really fast and fancy sports car that a lot of people dream about. It's designed to be super fun to drive and looks great, making it a popular choice for those who love cars.

Car

Porsche 928

The Porsche 928 is a sporty car made by Porsche that was popular in the late 70s to mid-90s. It has a powerful engine and is designed for both speed and comfort.

Concept

Motor Trend

Motor Trend is a popular magazine that talks about cars. It features reviews, news, and articles about different vehicles, making it a go-to source for car enthusiasts.

Concept

Road and Track

Road and Track is a magazine that specializes in sports cars and racing. It features articles and reviews about fast cars and motorsport events, appealing to car lovers.

Car

Ford Ranger

The Ford Ranger is a smaller truck that you can use for carrying things or going off-road. It's known for being tough and reliable, which makes it a good choice for people who need a vehicle for both work and fun.

Car

Volkswagen XL1

The Volkswagen XL1 is a special car that uses very little fuel and is designed to be super efficient. It's different from most cars because it focuses on being environmentally friendly while still being able to drive.

Car

Honda Fit

The Honda Fit is a small car that is great for city driving and has a lot of room inside for passengers and cargo. It's known for being easy to drive and economical.

Term

turbocharged

Turbocharging helps engines produce more power by pushing extra air into them. This means the engine can burn more fuel and go faster without needing to be bigger.

Car

Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette is a well-known American sports car that has been around for many years. It's famous for being fast and having a unique design.

Concept

scale ratios

Scale ratios help you understand how big or small a model car is compared to the real car. A smaller number means the model is bigger compared to the real thing, like a 1:18 model is larger than a 1:64 model.

Car

Genesis GV60

The Genesis GV60 is a luxury electric SUV made by Genesis, which is a brand of Hyundai. It's designed to be stylish and high-tech, similar to other luxury electric cars.

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podcast 750 750 750 and and this is one

of the scary ones because at the 50

intervals we do not only just questions

because all these live ones are

questions but we do nonar questions this

is a little yeah it is scary well before

we dive in we just released today's

video on our main YouTube channel which

is a comparison of the gr86 but we also

brought with us a very highly tuned GT86

the first generation and a Porche 944

Turbo S you had no fun at all was no fun

at all just released just wanted you to

know about it but let's dive in I say

grab some questions and do it we've got

a ton of them already I should say this

though as we start a couple things going

on Welcome to our time share discussion

no actually it's gonna be better than

that time presentation Christmas is

coming and you're going to ask us about

stuff for your car people in your life

we do have five feature films I have a

novel we have T-shirts and starting next

week a new t-shirt every week being

released on blipshift from us for the

next few weeks we're actually starting

with some new ones there's a there's a

cone that says I'd hit that for all you

autocrossers out there and then there's

other great ones coming up some of these

will be returning so if you're looking

for Christmas gifts for the car people

in your life this is as close to

Christmas as we'll actually do this so

we thought we'd mention that please note

that the other thing to note is you and

I are about to go to Austin yeah thanks

for bringing that up meet up yes thank

you we've got a planned meetup on

November 18th that's a Friday evening in

Austin 2022 and and you can find all the

details on our website so if you go to

Everyday driver.com the adventures tab

there there's an uh Eventbrite uh

information you can sign up there and uh

find all the details so we're coming in

at the tail end of our fourth cars of

the P trip so cool and this will be a

cater barbecue dinner and uh we want to

see everybody so if you're in the Austin

area if you're in Texas and you're

nearby and you're able to make it we'd

love to see you yeah we'll be just that

night keep in mind it's going to be kind

of a little bit more intimate setting

we're going to be at at Andrew's really

cool color cartel we've done a podcast

cbate form a while back get into his

Lotus so he's got a really cool uh

really cool studio and he does graffiti

all over town and like hired graffiti so

he's also doing a graffiti class if

you'd like to do that you can do just

dinner or the graffiti class I'm excited

about it you got to come we're gonna

it'll be the end of that trip let's do

things that are uh that are other things

Mandy is congratulating us on nice

shirts that because Mandy makes sure we

have nice shirt so I should acknowledge

that too yes yes I'm jumping in we've

got watch questions especially over on

Discord I'm so glad you saw that it was

a question with photos yes so now I'm

really going to zone out handy reference

I'm diving into R Diamond's question

here first off for me about design and R

Diamond says asymmetry in a person's F

facial features often makes them more

attractive is there a coraly in design

where some imperfection makes the hole

more attractive you know it's not

something that I ever really had time to

explore and especially coming from I'll

give give you an example Furniture

Design imperfections were never really I

I'd say emphasized and especially for

brand new products it's hard for

customers I mean think about the stuff

that you buy brand new you don't

necessarily want an imperfection you

would only tolerate that in an art piece

or in a gallery showing so if

you I suppose asymmetry is interesting

and you know in design school you always

say asym symmetry is overrated you

always strive for something different

asymmetry but we are starting see car

manufacturers do that but in product

design you don't really want

imperfections you want an excellent

design perfectly rendered a perfect copy

of that but imperfections even though

this is not a car

podcast imperfections it's G to happen

anyway getting it already is in terms of

uh character to a car and you know not

just dirt but uh time and wear on a car

makes it character in in paint or trim

and it just makes it have more vintage

feel so the cars that are over restored

they feel artificial it feels like a

movie set feels like a Hollywood movie

set they're amazing and perfect and they

look you know you don't want to drive it

but a car that is just slightly off it

feels like you say that as the owner of

an old 928 well got time worn it and

it's just got back from the shop tonight

and it's even better than ever picked it

up it's got new exhaust manifolds and

the suspension was raised there's so

much to come anyway Nick now is asking

he said that the Top Gear guys or Now

The Grand Tour guys are known as The

Lads what do we want to be referred to

as generally we get referred to as the

guys I think the guys at everyday driver

that just makes sense Todd and Paul

works well as well you know just so you

know but but either way that's all good

stuff agreed you've got uh well you've

got movie questions I have to I have to

do this question from walopus that was

posted on Discord and then it was posted

on Instagram or maybe it was Twitter I

forget but anyway thank you for that

waffleh is a fantastic Avatar and an

actual person and he helps keep our

Discord running and thank you thank you

for that man um okay he he said this

question has has Circ circulated on read

it I haven't seen it before but it's

great if I could take one movie and

replace every person but one with

Muppets what movie would it be so it

would be a movie current movie all

surrounded by Muppets with one person

that's human and in the reverse what's a

movie that would be all the current

actors but replace one of the actors

with a muppet I have both I have both

because I had to think in terms of

ensembles to get this to work the first

one is the all Muppet

movie Michael man's movie

Heat the tense Thriller oh my gosh Heist

movie everyone in heat now the movie

doesn't change it's still bloody and

gory and tense and all of these things C

chases everyone in it is a muppet except

for alpacino who is still being alpacino

oh my gosh and he's still chewing the

scenery and being as big as alucino has

ever been but everybody else is a muppet

so that's the all Muppet one the non-

Muppet one the one with one Muppet I had

to think about who's who's a star in a

movie that that's good everybody else

around but you could take the star and

move them with a muppet it's a totally

different movie okay and I really like

this movie but I also really like this

idea top gun Maverick everybody is the

current actors and Tom Cruz is Kermit

are you kidding imagine the felt face

under G lo you

know I just somebody's got to make this

Kermit doing top Maverick there's

there's my two uh Muppet questions this

is what I love about this podcast

because it's so bizarre yeah well D

Daniel Barn says which car magazine did

we first read regularly and how did we

come across it for Daniel it was Motor

Trend in his childhood Barber Shop it

was pretty much the usual usual suspects

it was certainly Motor Trend Road and

track I still have a lot of those and I

thought I'm a magazine super freak I

love magazines and it's really hard for

me to throw them out I admit that and so

I still have a lot of those because I

use for reference and when you're in

design school and art school you're

always taught to have good reference not

just for design but also for color

schemes so you like a particular ad or

you like an image and it gives you a

nice warm cool or a setting or a a

particular you know feel for the scenery

that's always a great reference to have

when you're creating your own art and so

I just kept all these magazines and it's

really cool to have them now I have 30y

old

magazines not a lot of those I've kept

some more recent ones but still I it's

nice to pull those out and then it just

takes me back to high school and I think

oh my gosh I I can't believe I still

have this you know the Creations from

sabaro the Italian Creator who did all

those crazy uh crazy designs and uh it's

it's fun to bring those back out but

yeah all The Usual Suspects all those

magazines and then of course I expanded

into the British magazines later on

Muppet heat I'm telling you uh aam wrote

in earlier and he said when we were

first starting the show did we in land

on everyday driver what else did we

consider seriously we actually seriously

considered daily driver yeah but the

problem get that wrong call it the

problem was twofold I didn't want people

to think we were putting out content

every day and also something to us about

daily felt like it's just the thing you

drive and don't enjoy and we wanted to

lean into the everyday part meaning

let's drive something fun every single

day so that's why we went with everyday

driver all right there's also questions

on so I let's just jump right into some

watch questions petrol head

2003 has one for me he debating between

an orus big Crown propilot big date I

know I'm speaking swah already yeah it's

just it's white noise to me at this 41

millimet with a fabric strap and a

longine spirit 42 millimeters with a

fabric strap he's going back and forth

but then he throws in the tutor the

tutor black Bay 41 and the tutor Ranger

I am partial to tutor I'm wearing a

tutor I like tutors I I like the

backstory When Hans will wilsdorf

created Rolex in

1905 I think 1905 1906 somewhere around

there he also wanted an excellent watch

that was still affordable but still the

same high quality but still kind of an

entrylevel watch even though they're

still way up there but still I really

like the tutor brand so if you were

asking me all three of those I would

choose tutor but I do like orus I mean

all three of these I believe all three

of these manufacturers build their own

movements and that's what you have to

start to decide are you buying style are

you buying movement are you buying both

and the manufacturers that do both and

for a really great price is orus I do

like the orus brand a lot I always feel

like they look like kind of field

watches some of them are very chunky and

I I do like a really nice piece of

stainless but tutor seems to be the the

right balance for me so I'm I'm prefer

I'm preferable to to tutor and the brand

and the backstory with with the creation

of Rolex and how Hans went through all

the different names of what what he was

going to name this second company and

how he still wanted these excellent high

standards even applied to the sort of

the the entry level beginning brand for

Rolex and tutor has become a huge

following it's has a huge following

themselves so I like tutor orus and then

Lin Lin's never really done it for me

but that's just me so the audio just

came back for me I don't know what

happened there but anyway it was just it

was faint for a while but now it's back

Jared's writing in Jared he he says he's

a new listener and Watcher our podcast

to become one of his favorites Jared

thank you man you're asking how we met

I'm not going to recover that but I'm

going to mention this to you go to

podcast number 52 it's a long way back

700 podcasts or so in fact go which is

crazy to say but when we got to 52 we

got a couple years in we got to that

first first one and we and we thought

all right we're going to do the whole

story of the show so you can go back and

listen to that and it is an entire

podcast dedicated to how we got from

when I met this crazy guy and vice versa

and all of that gets discussed in there

there's also a couple of questions about

my book there is also a podcast it's

actually labeled as an extra podcast I

think it's like XL1 or something or X1

that talks about the inception for the

book and all of the details of the book

I would love for you to listen to that

podcast as it goes farther in depth than

I will go here but the short version of

one of the questions the process of it

being from an idea to a full- length

novel I had the idea for this book when

uh my wife and I first got pregnant and

I was facing being a father and went

Gulp and I had the idea and I started

writing as a screenplay and I got

probably 20 or so pages in which is

probably the first I don't know 20 to 30

P not Le less than that of the novel and

I realized it was bigger than I wanted

for two hours so I was like I should put

it in novel form which I'd never done

I'd written a lot of screenplays and I

was like I'm gonna start over in novel

form you know why not so 10 years later

it was done so there you go it's pretty

awesome man it's still such a great read

I appreciate it very much it's awesome

if you haven't read it it truly is a

great book Jessica s just got Emanuel

Honda Fit last month and has missed

driving a stick shift so much I'm so

glad I'm so glad you love your car and

it doesn't have to be an expensive car

to love it I yeah fantastic

congratulations let's see Leo our

Diamond's back here he's talking about

his son being 13 what three movies from

my teenage years do I want to share with

bod so he understands my formative years

better well um here's a place where I

have made some questionable fatherhood

choices he's seen all those movies by

this point he's already seen them all uh

but let me think the movies that were

real formative to me that I have shown

him Ferris day off I watched that on a

repeat late Junior High through high

school I watched that on repeat I've

shown him day off it's really really fun

so I showed him that uh Terminator 2

which is actually early college for me

uh Terminator 2 was a huge one so I

remember shared that I'm trying to think

what a good third one would be from that

era that was majorly formative for me

but uh but those are the first two that

come to my mind so I'll just stop there

oh good glub racer 6 asks me how I've be

why have I never gotten into flying yes

my dad had an airplane he had actually

two airplanes when I was about 10 years

old he had a turbocharge 206 in the

mountains in Colorado and then that left

his life and he did other things and

went back to the aviation Insurance

business and got a Cessna 182 and it was

not turbocharged but he enjoyed flying

both and he just he loved the freedom

that flying had but it it just never it

never caught hold in me I really enjoyed

going with him I like I said I know all

the pilot jokes it was fun to fly with

him and have him turn control over to me

such a different feeling but I always

like the control of tires meeting the

asphalt I always love the shape of cars

I suppose it comes down to the design

and airplanes are cool and they're cool

looking I just love the shape of cars

they're so interesting I found them far

more interesting but yeah I've got some

fond memories of flying with my dad it

was so much fun we flew actually around

uh a lot of places in Colorado I never

flew with him in Alaska after he moved

to Alaska to uh to finish his Aviation

career and and uh where people own

$300,000 airplanes and live in a shack

but around Colorado we flew into

Centennial I think I flew into Jefferson

County Airport and we would go just look

at all the Jets and the airplanes and it

was really scary to land such a little

airplane on the huge wide commercial

Runway because you think you're Landing

you're still 50 ft in the air and the

stripes get really huge those numbers

are massive we've got to be down by now

yeah and then you just click down you

just little Screech and you're down it

was just it is a lot of freedom but uh

yeah I guess I just never got into it

like he did Tyler's asking guilty

pleasure TV shows past or present a one

that I watched that I always was like

should I be watching this partially

because I was a very young father at

that point but it was uh the Spartacus

TV show was awesome I really really like

that that was gorier than I would

normally pick but I really like that and

then they less guilty pleasure but I

have to say recent TV shows Westworld is

awesome

uh the further it goes the less awesome

but it starts off incredibly strong and

I'm watching that new one uh peripheral

on Amazon Prime from the people that

brought you Westworld now I'm a walking

it's actually pretty cool it's pretty

cool I'm enjoying it so far good to know

a track daily Crush that has nothing to

do with cars from Isaac readinger yard

work oh no home

repairs and meeting with or doing

accounting I am taking that on it's very

easy for me because I hate accounting I

yeah I really tried to go after math and

chemistry and I got those prerequisits

out of the way and I I'm not good at

math I'm okay I can operate my iPhone

but not good at math so accounting gets

crushed I can't stand I will hand the

dinner Bill to somebody else to figure

out the tip okay just fine I would

happily do home repairs I actually do

like building stuff and making things so

home repairs is first on my list that's

the daily

the once in a while track kind of thing

is yard work because I don't like yard

work I mowed lawn as a kid uh well as a

actually a senior in high school Junior

and senior a buddy of mine we just we

mowed lawns and we screwed up a lot of

sprinklers and

uh was that your tagline anyway we're

here to destroy your sprinklers it's

gonna be great exactly why did I hire

you two idiots so we did it for a Dental

Group they had like a dentist like you

know Business Park a lot of dentists and

so they'd all contribute and we were the

two high schoolers doing the yard work

funny okay and you know we' just sit in

the parking lot and hang out and listen

to music and screw off and then finally

go mow a piece of yard and it was it was

crazy I I dislike all of those things

mightily however I dislike yard work in

a very very special white hot way so

that would be crushed anybody anyone

else on the planet would be doing the

artwor I guess I would do the home

repair da even though I'm not handy at

all and and then the occasion will be

the accounting my wife and I have a

strange understanding where I can do

stuff on cars yeah and she just looks at

me when something breaks in the house

and goes I'll call someone because it's

just I'm just not good at it

yeah oh Hal Bullock says uh he's asking

if I still play music and when do we get

to see a music video Never is the answer

I could call it Paul Schmucker

jams well if you actually Google my name

there was another person named Paul

Schmucker who had a record and it's the

cheesiest looking oh my gosh oh you have

to find the old post look at Nate who

does our cycle report to repost the

album cover for you that was great yeah

yes I still play my grandfather's piano

yes I still love playing it it's just

it's a relaxation for me I really love

it so uh Steve Urban saying that Amazon

music has about 200 plus am everyday

driver episodes on the platform that's

actually news to me so we'll look into

that we'll see what the story is and how

those are connecting and if we can get

more up because that's pretty cool let's

see

uh so many El there's a ton on here uh

what do we pack for our road trips from

uh mile uh when we take our smaller

sports cars what do we pack for road

trips uh a lot of it is actually just

all the tools the roadside tools I take

oil I take coolant all that stuff uh

yeah roadside uh emergency air pump

other than that it's just t-shirts and

hoodies really well we have to get we

have to get the uniform it makes me

laugh the number of times that I now put

on a red t-shirt and khaki pants and

realize these are my work clothes that's

that's just that's that I'm in uniform

my wife goes oh you shooting something

uh moose is asking me what are my

thoughts on Lord of the Rings rings of

power that is

the billion dooll experience that Amazon

is having of shooting the simarillion so

it's the prequel stuff to the Lord of

the Rings movies I'm going to go real

geeky here real quick

okay um yeah so Jr tolkin was a linguist

and he created the Elish language I'm

not making this up he created the

language and then decided to essentially

build a world to put this madeup

language in and this is how we get The

Hobbit and then the Lord of the Rings

books Hobbit was his trial run Lord of

the Rings was his was his epic and then

he goes back because it's so successful

and writes the simarillion which is kind

of a s simultaneous appendices and

prequel and it's like lots of little

stories that get referenced in the

movies and other stuff and so Amazon has

got the rights to that now and they have

done this rings of power series and that

brings me back around to your question

moose which is I've watched it I've

enjoyed it and I think it struggles from

something that all prequels struggle

from Star Wars prequels are a great

example this is a great example when you

write something that has become iconic

in our entertainment Star Wars is a

great one and so is Lord of the Rings

you those all of those stories start at

a low point and the hero is going on the

hero's journey and and it doesn't always

have to follow the hero's journey which

is something that Hollywood gets in a

rut about but ultimately what you're

doing is the good guys win this is the

projection that we're doing we're going

from Darkness into the light the good

guys win Etc but the problem is when you

do prequel you have to do the

reverse you have to take the good guys

Into Darkness and we're all watching

knowing it's only going to get worse and

I find that most of the time Lord of the

Rings rings of powers another example

the Star Wars prequels are a great

example you're watching it and you just

get this impending sense of red because

you know even though there might be

little victories and some of the scenes

turn out okay and some of the people

survive you know overall we're just

arcing downward and so it's harder for

that to feel as triumphant and fun when

you're just headed toward first off a

known commodity and it's only going to

get

worse interesting by the way on all of

our cars the P trips it's fun to plan

out the route and then think of all the

fun things that we can shoot along the

way all the gags and it brings at movie

references and then we can we've got

ideas for the fourth one oh you're going

to laugh and the third one's funny the

third one hopefully is very funny we did

post that one uh still image for

Halloween and that will be explained but

yes I I never ever thought many things

about doing this show I never thought

would happen but one of the things I

never thought would happen is that we

would wind up on road trips with a bag

that is referred to as the costume

Department we now have a costume

Department it happens it's great pretty

cool let's see Andre s would never argue

imperfections in a face to find someone

for something they can't change and is

fundamentally part of them when you see

Beaver teth all you can Wonder is this

could have been different yes true

absolutely right it could have been

different well done Dan dppi asks me

what is the best era of American design

for example Dan Loves All Things Space

Age and Aerospace inspired from fountain

pens to

appliances yeah that is interesting I

feel like current design is very Hotel

likee it's

very uh appealing to most people and I

think the designs from 19 mid 1920s to

about the early 60s in every category

from architecture Frank Lloyd Wright

houses to all the the use of bake light

that was a a big material used in all

kinds of products from phones to

toasters to shift knobs and Volkswagens

all you know designers will play with

materials and figure out new shapes and

I I think that period of course I'm a

big fan of mid-century modern but I do

contemporary clean look I I do like some

of the hotel looks I'll be honest like

some of the higher-end hotels that just

have a clean aesthetic and it's very

inviting and you know the colors are

very sophisticated and toned down but uh

yeah that that era probably 20s to 60s

is my opinion for every kind of product

and that does kind of cover some of the

Space Age stuff that Dan likes you know

the first Corvette you know Rockets are

the theme yeah we set a rocket into

space must be on the card out fins on

the tail for sure I mean can you imagine

being a designer thinking Rockets let's

you know sculpt little you know airons

and fins on these things so ridiculous

Trenton is asking does it bother us when

people recognize us or ask for photos

Trenton honestly not at all I find it I

still find it incredibly surprising

everybody's like I I've seen you before

I watched your work and then when they

ask for a photo that's just cool I have

no problem with that it doesn't bother

me I will tell you the only time

bothered me is I was we were at one

event and there was somebody taking

photos with a long lens way over there

and they wouldn't get close enough to

have a conversation that was weird and

and that that for the first and only

time in my life because you know we're

not even You' got sealess celebrities

deal I'm not sure what where we are in

like alphab we're down there but but it

made me realize if you were a person who

was a celebrity that every time you go

outside some taking photos of you

especially with a long lens from way

over there making it impersonal I can

see how that would get really annoying

and you would start to get like

angry about it I could see why so I

actually eventually walked over to this

person and I went to them because I

thought the photos at a distance was

weird meeting somebody directly that the

fact that you want to say hey I think is

amazing so that's cool that is cool I

love there's flying questions on here

there's more airplane questions that's

cool but CB's garage first asks us the

best ski location around Salt Lake in

Park City area CB is making the trip out

in February I did see a bumper sticker

when I first moved to town and we Park

City I saw a bumper sticker that says

nobody cares you ski Alta I mean talk

about like because there's a lot of

other on like ala ala ala you're Thumb

in their nose Utah there's just you know

the ski towns are rivaling each other so

whatever I have never skied Alta I admit

I've heard it's great I am a ski snob

he's a ski snob yes we are we've tried

snowboarding snowboarding is very cool I

do enjoy it but there's many people who

aren't that good at it and they scrape

all the snow and leave it the runs icy

they're they're horrible and so Deer

Valley is a place where we like to ski

and ski only they it's only skiing and

the joke is they you know it's so

luxurious they practically ski for you

hahaa well the other joke is that it's a

series of gourmet restaurants connected

by ski runs de Valley is awesome it's

actually really good they actually we

had heard correct me if I'm wrong but we

had heard early on that they manage the

number of guests on the mountain by how

much food they estimate they can feed

everybody on the mountain for lunch

Resturant capacity versus capacity

that's what determines if the ski day is

sold out for the day it's not number of

skiers on the mountains if we have

enough food to feed

everybody I don't know if that's still

true I don't know if now change hands

it's still true but it is completely

ridiculous and nowhere feels quite as

opulent when you're skiing as Deer

Valley and it's not why we go there but

it is something that makes it very fun

actually that brings me into this

question uh I think it's ex exist on

explo it was this was posted originally

on Instagram how do we personally beat

the constant negativity being forced fed

from online spaces first off we try to

not be one of those yeah we this why

it's no religion no politics no yelling

and angry fights uh I mean Paul and I do

disagree but but even on the podcast I

mean we we're friends we're brothers so

I mean we keep it very cordial and we

want all of our commentary in YouTube

and Discord I mean we try to keep it

very nice this is inclusive community so

that's important to us but from a

personal perspective uh this is

something that in my uh late 30s early

40s I started to really struggle with

was like wake up every day and see all

the bad stuff yeah and I had to and and

it's an ongoing reality I had to make a

conscious decision forget the online

stuff for a second it was just the the

place my head was was at to recognize

and look at the things that are good in

life the things that are good in my life

and sometimes for Seasons I've done

gratitude journals um living in Park

City feeling very very blessed I will

designate myself to go outside and do

something because it's beautiful here

and we have a job that while we work

very hard I can work and edit when it's

dark outside and the snow's blowing but

the middle of the day when it's gorgeous

I should be out yeah so I I flop a lot

of that around but I I also I take in a

lot of the the online stuff because of

course we read the news and and we want

to be informed and we want to you know

speak from that place but I also try to

focus on the stuff that I can affect

where I can make a positive impact on

wherever I am because the minute we

start we all do this the minute we start

looking at the like like the larger

world and the stuff you can't control it

can be crushing so I try to stay closer

absolutely we love the community that is

part of the Discord and we're live

streaming now but those of you listening

to the podcast later we love this

community that that people are just

friendly I mean ultimately we just all

love cars and want to hang out and enjoy

this you know cool cars together so we

love that community on the Discord and

in especially in the comments on YouTube

even though there are people that pick

at us and it's just is what it is yeah

it's fine to have a a disagreement but I

like the the general approach and and

what that kind of attitude has caused I

mean it's a choice to see the beauty and

things and to wake up happy yeah so we'd

love that uh that people continue that

on the Discord let's see big tanker asks

me uh well he says Paul in an early

podcast I mentioned my dad was a bush

pilot in Alaska well he wasn't exactly a

bush pilot himself he had stories he

worked for an insurance agency that was

a small independent firm that then

insured all these Pilots around whether

they did tours or they were you know

pilots flying fuel to the remote

communities in Alaska I mean that is

just I mean they get paid but that just

seems like a thankless job but it it

just you know the families that live on

those outlying areas they they look

forward to the airplanes that bring in

fuel and food and all their supplies but

he did have a story his his uh the

person that owned the the insurance

agency was Mike kardanski and he and

Mike would go flying Mike was he had a

number of planes and they'd go you know

just hey we need to take off to this

remote mountain town and there's cars

there but they would have to fly cars in

that's how remote this town is so really

the only way to get there is by airplane

and over the course you know through

clouds dodging mountain tops and that

kind of thing because these small

airplanes in Alaska some of those

mountain tops are taller than you are

you're flying in between mountains get

as high as to over him yeah and my dad

told me the story he said he looked down

into a canyon and he saw the glittering

wreckage of a

plane and he said wow you know he's

thinking to my himself gosh you know how

horrible but nobody will ever go in

there and remove that wreckage true yeah

ever yeah there it's not costeffective

it's too hard to get to it's too uh it

risks the lives of The Rescuers and he

down and thought if if we go down I mean

that's that's it we're done wow but not

everywhere in Alaska is like that but

there are many places and it's weird to

think about because some guys on floats

will see a little Lake and they'll just

go land on it and they might have still

been the first person to land and get

out on the beach and walk around ever

Alaska is that big so it's it just crazy

to think about and uh so he had stories

like that but I was just like Dad I'm

glad you're back I'm glad you're okay

but you know he says we banked over a a

you know very deep Canyon oh man and I

spotted wreckage down there that will

always remain yikes Dan's writing in and

saying I'm loving the movie questions is

Awesome from Marvel's success so now

Marvel has become a phenomenon and they

have a guy in charge named Kevin feige

and he is a a one in a million kind of

producer guy because he's able to not

only drive all these Marvel movies but

kind of keep them all in check and keep

all the stories connected but that comes

back to Dan's question he said movies

have become more episodic and don't tell

singular stories because they have to

lead to or tie into the next movie or

the previous movie or they have to be

part of the whole larger universe okay

he said do we think this trend will

continue and should it uh Dan it will

continue sadly because in the early

2000s right around the time that kind of

the back end when I was in the movie

industry uh movie movie studios used to

make lots of movies like when I first

started working at new line we were

making a hundred no like 60 to 80 movies

a year and when I left we were making

about

26 okay because all of the middle-grade

movies the ones that are middle budgets

you got the really low budget stuff and

the really high budget the middle budget

stuff stopped making any money and it

still is very hard to get it like a know

this sounds insane a $50 million movie

almost impossible to get made a $5

million movie or a $500 million movie

those you can get made that's insane it

is ridiculous but anyway so uh but so

the whole thing is movie studios look at

Lord of the Rings look at Harry Potter

those are examples before Marvel becomes

a thing look at the Matrix movies the

universe is a key term in in movie

studios they want to make a universe and

they want to make a lot of products in

that universe and ideally we get the

soft drink and we get the spin-off TV

show and we get the uh the theme part of

ride it's it's look up the slug

commercial it's still really great it's

shockingly true still but anyway so so

that's the thing they want to do these

universes and that that's because it it

proves over the long-term cost effective

if the a connects to the universe and we

can do a bunch of movies we know they'll

keep coming back I I get the logic and

why it makes sense financially for

Studios to do that and I get the fact

that it allows you to do the thing that

TV scores at you take a TV show and you

invest so much because you get to take

so much time on Nuance of characters

that a two-hour movie can't but if the

two-hour movie is part of 20 hours worth

of movies you can do that Nuance now

again so that's the thing that works

storytelling wise but I want to bring

all this back to my biggest problem

with multi-series movies

okay and I I've met people that were

doing Independent films that were

thinking this way well you know we're

not actually going to make this movie

end because we're setting it up for a

sequel and my opinion is if you cannot

finish your current story you're not a

good Storyteller I understand you may

need to connect other things but make

your current story have a beginning

middle and an actual end of where we

currently are even if it's just a breath

it needs to end not stop there is a

fundamental difference and sometimes

when you're building a universe all the

movie The Story just it stops here

because we're going to do another one in

a year finish your current story so that

you've earned the ability for me to ask

you to tell me another story because I

know you can do a beginning middle and

end and novels do this and movies do

this like crazy finish the story we're

gonna keep the movie discussion going

because mundan n has a question for me

about which movie has the best art

design Todd asks you which is the best

designed object for being

filmed but as far as art design I have

two artists actually a handful from

design studiopress.com this started a

number years ago but a lot of

contributors started out doing fantasy

uh vehicles I really respect Star Wars

art Direction and design there's a

there's so much that goes into it I've

just never really been into those series

movies but nevertheless I do like some

fantasy and science fiction stuff that

isn't Star Wars and worlds that are just

completely conceived and different so I

do really appreciate and I like the work

of Daniel Simon there's another guy

named Harold belker who's a great

designer he's done the light cycles for

Tron he did uh yeah all kinds of uh yeah

just kind of fantasy vehicles but even

down to weapon design and particular

pieces of clothing or gear that that's

still just so many sketches are done and

so Design Studio press has a lot of

different books about you know all the

sketching and and uh movies that these

artists have worked on Scott Robertson

is another great designer he instructed

Art Center for a long time but he's got

great work and I think he did a lot of

art direction for various films but when

I was in school not sure if I've told

the story I did get to meet Sid me I

remember this yeah he is I mean he's

passed away now but I grew up with his

uh niece in Fort Collins Melissa me and

didn't know at the time didn't put the

connection together but her uncle was

Sid me and he was the Cornerstone of Art

Center design I think he worked for GM

in the late 50s but he also did uh Blade

Runner so he is best known for Blade

Runner yeah he actually did a lot of the

art Direction when Michael Jackson was

kind of being revived and getting his

entire

tour kind of going again he would work

with various celebrities to kind of get

their concerts and tours going again but

he did all the uh Gundam characters in

Japan so he was like yeah yeah when he

would travel to Japan it would be like

David Hasselhoff traveling to Germany or

something like that reference good

reference you kind of get it if you

don't know about Hasselhoff at Germany

it is it is Google it it is terrifying

how exciting so Sid would travel to

Japan and give lectures and show off

artwork and I got to go to his house and

see some art actually Daniel Simon was

sort of a protege of Sids and the the

Blade Runner stuff that he did and the

the massive amount of books but he

always broke it down it was so

interesting because he refrigerated all

of his gouache Paints in the fridge he

would custom make all these colors and

design the color scheme and then he

would make little like salsa cups of the

the color that he wanted to use for this

entire painting okay that could never

really be replicated again after the

painting was done and he you know threw

everything away it was like that was the

color scheme but he would mix all of his

paints and refrigerate it so we could

continue to work on things and come back

and keep the painting going heard that

wow but he would Block in all the the

shapes and if you look at Sid stuff and

a lot of sci-fi Vehicles they're really

simple shapes look at just blocking

things into your scene and creating the

perspective and the color scheme then

you go back in and detail things and you

paint on you know all kinds of details

and and buckles and straps on clothing

or you know keypads and and shut lines

and you know these large objects these

large vehicles have to be built so think

about this monolithic thing that's a

spaceship well it has to be built by

people so all these panels of different

materials and what does that do and this

pops out and so you just start with some

kind of random simple shape and then

design it from there and kind of flesh

out the details so I I learned all that

stuff from him and amazing I it was

amazing just to be able to ask him I I

thought do I do I ask about you know

Blade Runner stuff the early movie and

this was before the second Blade Runner

actually came out yeah yeah yeah and he

was very open to it he just like yeah he

made it sound so nonchalant like yeah

the director called and he just wanted

me to do some crazy stuff so I just kind

of invented this vehicle and that's what

it became it was he he a job to him he

it was but he almost took the glamour

out of it but on the other hand for

everybody working on films at that point

it's you still have a job to do as cool

as this is and cool as end result is

it's still a job you're still getting

paid you know feed your family and you

know you still want to do a good job but

it's still just it's work even though

you know people hold this up as this you

know lofty thing well but that see

that's on Reflections he when I have to

think that when he was doing it Ridley I

mean the fact that Ridley Scott called

is cool but but rley Scott called yeah

he would he would speak to it like that

like Michael would call him like Michael

Jackson like you talk to Michael Jackson

You discuss your scenery for your new

concert what but but certainly with

Blade Runner I mean they were designing

stuff that they had no idea that was

going to become iconic and they had no

idea that was going to become

revolutionary and also influential to

stuff beyond that you know he he's

designing the stuff for that movie but

then it becomes far beyond that but at

the time I I can't imagine you'd have to

have an enormous ego to be like everyone

is g to copy this I I can't imagine that

that was where it was he didn't come off

like ever he was just very matter of

fact you know here's the things we need

we want it to evoke a certain feeling

because that's what's in the script and

this is the you know we've got some

story boards but we just have this kind

of vague notion of what we want it to

look like can you visualize that and

that's what futurists do can you give us

a color scheme and give us this world

this environment and it's it's the

simplest shapes and then it's detailed

and it just you know when you see it

kind of halfway done it's just sort of

like it's not really impressive but then

the magic comes when you when the

thinking comes up the details mean this

you're not just indicating things you're

thinking about what is that little cool

thing you know from this from the script

it's fascinating two questions I'm gonna

answer real quick first off uh Steve

Urban is asking if there's gonna be an

audiobook version of paper father Yes I

say it tentatively because I've wanted

to do it and here we are a couple years

since I wrote it or since it came out

and and I haven't done it yet but I want

to do it is the key thing many many

people that have read the book and have

also listened to the podcast have asked

me and almost demanded that I do the

audio books I'm going to try to do the

audiobook with all of my extra time

which is why it hasn't happened yet but

it will happen at some point Jordan is

asking about great restaurants in the

Park City or Salt Lake City area I will

give you one that's actually in Midway

called mertile I have never had so good

I have never had a bad meal at mertile

now maybe I've just oversold it and

you'll go and be like that was terrible

but mertile in Midway is well worth the

trip I mean if you want to spend money

River horse on Maine is also sure yeah

but now you're City Park City throw down

for sure see uh what

else uh Dan ask again given how many

things have been designed and created

over the course of human history is any

design actually original anymore or is

all design an amalgamation of previous

ideas there's certainly that but it's

that old saying you know he who takes

the most ideas from the most sources is

most original right sort of okay but

everything around us influences the next

thing but I think using that and trying

to come up with something I mean this is

why a lot of designers turn to Nature

because anything in nature is of course

unique and interesting and very original

so using that as reference you can

always point back to that and saying you

know I drew directly from the leaf shape

or a particular animal or the way the

muscles on a hyena or you know whatever

that I like the speed of that and

pulling that out is

always for the most part an original

theme to be able to to do that so

Nature's always something big but I

suppose you know it it's always going to

continue I mean nothing original under

the sun right uh Dan is asking if we

would ever do an R-rated podcast he said

he remembers being shocked when he saw

Bob Saget in the movie The Aristocrats

saying things you never hear on Full

House Bob Saget was an interesting guy

because he was a filthy filthy comedian

really the general public only knew him

as the dad from Full House so he was

super squeaky clean you know so very

interesting um we we are often are rated

in person we we aren't we aren't on this

podcast we want you to be able to like

drive through the the drive-through

pickup line with with your kids and and

all that and so we we worry about it on

video If you ever go on one of our

adventures with us you'll find that we

can be R-rated and we do actually cuss

and we are humans so these things happen

we have joked about an R-rated podcast

but it feels like uh you can never get

the toothpaste back in the tube that's

the concern so that's the reason we

haven't done one age let's see T rogor

147 asks what we think of the general

decline of physical

media tends to love physical copies of

video games and Blu-rays but hasn't

bought music on CD in over a decade

what's a

CD isn't that an investment thing what

what's it's kind of strange because you

tend to associate physical media with

things like cable TV even though yeah

cable is really going nowhere I mean if

only somebody bu bundled Netflix and

Amazon and Paramount plus Disney and

Hulu all in one thing and called it like

cable or I don't only somebody thought

to do that it's gon it's gonna happen

I'm serious one bill for all the I

promise you that's coming we we cut the

cord now we have all of these Services

somebody's going to bundle the services

we're going to be back to it's gonna be

one stream we went from cable to

stream My Stream bill got really

expensive that's it yeah the stream Bill

anyway physical media I still love

magazines and I think periodicals will

still remain for a long time a lot of

the reasons is because of tooth on paper

and thickness and having that tangible

object and it sort of immortalizes that

of course books do that but as far as

newspapers I don't miss newspapers at

all I use an iPad I read everything

online I prefer it because there's links

to videos you can click links to other

referenced articles or you know research

or that kind of thing so I I prefer that

so it's a bit of a mix you know I think

it would just kind of depend on on each

one so many good things here uh people

are inventing new drinking games because

I always I always I'm an active listener

and so they're going to drink because

I'm an active listener I'm sorry about

that on on the physical media side I

think it's awesome but I heard somebody

observed one time thought this was

genius and great about our modern time

this the products that really succeed

are products that allow us to do less

the luxury of of relaxation and time and

I love Blu-ray and I I love physical

media very much but the ease of scroll

scroll oh search search oh I can watch

that right now I don't even have

sometimes this is the danger my son will

find something on I've done it too some

find something that'll be like no no no

no no we we own that it's right there on

dis because he was about to purchase

because you could just you could just

get it right here so it's it's the ease

of it that's such a hassle you have to

put the disc into this box I know what

on Earth but they love me when the

internet goes out I'm like we still have

movies you know so that happens too but

but that's that's never going back

because it is just that ease of use and

this is the thing that the grand uh

cloud and I love your joke the cloud is

just someone else's computer it but this

is the great thing about the cloud is

that we have instant access to

everything and you don't have to have I

don't have one of those players I don't

I don't have I used to have one of those

players and now I don't no just

boom MCC now MC mcow MCC now MCN yeah

asks if we've ever thought of pulling

stills from some of our 4K shots and

selling them or better yet a coffee

table book or how about like a

calendar yes but who's gonna do that

work is my question what a great idea

yes I don't know who actually curates

that and as far as

sales who knows who knows the photo

intern is showing up I would love to

think they would sell like crazy but it

would also be a little weird to go to

the grocery store and be like oh the

calendar with all our cool stuff is for

sale right there I guess I'll mark down

to 50 cents yeah get your coffee table

book it would be print on demand but

yeah I don't know how many people would

actually do that' be very funny yeah uh

there's a I'm sorry back into movies but

thank you Ray as he's asking me as a

screenwriter and Star Wars fan how do I

feel about Luke Skywalker's

characterization in the sequel

Trilogy um okay again

Trilogy does the whole Arc thing as well

and they had to struggle with that

there's a lot of baggage because of how

important Luke Skywalker is to the first

three movies the thing I was boggled by

and I read this multiple times you had

JJ Abrams but more importantly Kathleen

Kennedy who's been a great producer for

a long time since working as an

assistant for Spielberg with Raiders so

um she was in charge of lucasfilm she

was handpicked to take lucasfilm and the

DU the new series and they hired three

great filmmakers and ran Johnson doing

the second one second of the three new

films the Ray films and ran Johnson is

an amazing filmaker if you've not seen

the movie Looper with Bruce Willis

Joseph Gordon levit do yourself a favor

and watch it as soon as possible it's a

fantastic movie he's a great filmmaker

also did knives out but he gets hired to

do a Star Wars movie which I was very

excited about but apparently unlike

Marvel and Kevin feige and this is a

place where I think lucasfilm made a

mistake they didn't say this is the plot

line for these three movies they gave

these talented filmmakers and said we're

going this kind of Direction but you

pick your path so ran Johnson writes

what is a very

controversial progression spoiler alert

uh end of Luke Luke Skywalker and then

at the end of that movie so much of the

audience was disappointed that JJ Abrams

and there's other reasons why he came

back for the third one whole other M

mess he ends up having to kind of clean

it up by retreading so much stuff to

make the third one satisfy people I mean

this is the problem with with online uh

raging audience culture is that we we

kill creativity sometimes I think ran

Johnson did really cool things but I'm

surprised they allowed it because was

taking the the whole franchise in a

direction that was difficult for them to

recover from so I like him and his

choices but I think he probably should

have been told to not in some of this

the Luke Skywalker stuff in order to

progress it in a different

way let's switch subjects to

architecture got a question from Ryan

stamp asking me if I had the opportunity

to design my own home would I if so what

style would you go with yes I would I

would love to do this of course I don't

know with what money that I would

however I would love to I've actually

kind of dabbled before but there's

actually an architect and a builder in

Salt Lake city named Ezra Lee as a

matter of fact chance and I have had a

lot of discussions about furniture

pieces and design in general and he's a

big fan I think he actually brought Ezra

Lee to my attention but Ezra lee.com and

the architectural style in there is not

so modern that it's cold it's not so

modern and crisp that it's

unfriendly it's still warm and modern

and soft enough that I think it will be

timeless really like a lot of the the

mostly residential homes but a lot of

the houses from from the ezar Lee

portfolio is just amazing and I like

that kind of style you know it's it's

all very functional but still it's not

quirky quirky is the wrong word it's

just it's very unique but still that you

know offshoot is very functional and

great idea and kind of pushing

boundaries with material yes I

absolutely would but every time I talk

to somebody who has built a house okay

they sayi never do that again after

having to choose all the tile every

single person talk faets and the you

know they're like I'll never do that

again and then of course they build

their third house what do this is a Park

City disease but they still come out of

it like falling across the Finish Line

because it cost more and it was

frustrating and the number of questions

why would you do that to yourself but on

the other hand the opportunity to do

something like that but the problem is

is that a forever is that long term is

this like I'm going to die in this house

and I'll live here for 60 more years or

whatever or is this like you know I want

to design it to be sold and make some I

don't know I'm not a flipper but yes I

would design a house I just the problem

is I don't know how long I'd stay there

you go there you go there's so many

there's so much great stuff in here uh

there's um there's a lot of questions

that have been covered at other places

in other uh car debates back to episode

52 if you want to hear kind of where we

grew up in our origin story neither one

of us actually I grew up in Texas so no

fun roads around there uh people are

asking about uh okay here we go Superman

Batman Iron Man favorite method of

transportation oh actually you're no

you're asking a car question that

doesn't count I thought you were saying

which do we prefer oh I I'm throwing

that one out sorry about it we got close

anyway uh so that's that's a good one um

the professor uh said hello from New

Zealand uh really appreciate you

watching thanks for joining us let's see

our Diamond asks if you could buy an 80

inch 8K TV toew piece ofart or one good

painting what would you do what would we

choose I have it it's really interesting

it is a painting by John William godward

from 1895 called mischief and Repose the

original is actually hanging in the

Getty in Los Angeles okay and it's

fascinating because of all the different

materials that are rendered it's two

ladies laying there on some marble but

there's fur and marble and flesh with

linen over it and all these different

materials under the same lighting

conditions rendered with a single brush

and all the same paints and you can feel

the different textures you feel the cold

marble you feel the lint you feel the

animal fur and the Velvet drapes and

it's you know an 1895 style but the

composition is fairly interesting but I

love it because of the materials and the

artist was able to use just I mean not

one brush but still just all the same

paints yeah and they're so different

it's fascinating to look at so that

would be I I it's weird I I like

Contemporary Art but that would be the

one piece that I just i' really enjoy

Andre I'm gonna try to answer your

question quickly which is going to be

hard he said what makes a $50 million

movie harder to make than a $5 million

movie it comes down to the risk factor

and the marketing Factor your typical

$50 million movie is a romantic comedy

or for a drama that adults are going to

go to not

teenagers not little kids not people

looking for an action movie the 50

million doll movie is typically Talking

Heads it is Stars possibly stars with

big uh salary requirements talking to

each other having a drama but the

problem is that means that the people

that need to go to that movie are not

the people that binge watch anything

Titanic was Star Wars for 12-year-old

girls it was which is why that was so

successful Star Wars is Star Wars that's

12-year-old boys are watching it over

and over and over and over and over

that's what makes these things

successful okay you you want people I

hate to say it but people 40 years old

and older or retired folks to come to

your talking head movie that cost $50

million but the problem is $50 million

is just to get the movie made most

movies have at least again their budget

sometimes two or three times their

budget on a $50 million movie it's

probably going to be at least $100

million in marketing now you still blows

me away if you make a $300 million movie

it may only have $150 million in

marketing Which is less than the movie

cost but if $50 million movie just the

typical marketing program is probably

around $100 million worth of marketing

so now the movie cost $150 million will

enough adults show up once to make it

worthwhile and the answer sadly is

probably not you make a $5 million movie

you played it Sunday you made it for one

a studio will take a risk on that

they'll buy it for 10 they'll market it

for 20 million we have $30 million into

a total and it falls on its face and we

lost 30 million and we go who cares you

make a who thinks like this this is film

studios my friend you make a $250

million movie and you Market it to $250

million you spent $500 million on the

movie but if it makes a

billion and that's the thinking I mean

if we talked about cars in those kind of

terms people would say who are you

people what's wrong with you know this

is your typical day at a at a

development meeting on a film studio I

wish it was different but it's not I've

got a question from Liz mcennis and Leon

Leanne says she seconds that and Liz

question is that we're both the voices

and faces of everyday driver how many

employees are behind the scenes well

chance Hales is our he wears many hats

yes he is a primary photographer and

videographer and editor and assistant

editor and uh what else he wears he he's

on here so hey hey chance I need you to

do this for me that's Chance is at the

other end of that hard for color and

composition and photography and so he's

been with us a long time and really

appreciate his work a lot of the work

you see is is that and then we also have

writers on everyday driver.com so all of

our written articles we've got a really

talented team writers and there's all

kinds of different articles a lot of

different takes on the the automotive

world and how cars have affected these

guys so those so about what six or so

behind theen six guys I mean here's the

thing you have to also know Liz this

here's the part of it chance works with

us full-time Paul and I are fulltime

chance is fulltime everybody else that

helps us helps us in their free time or

for a little bit of compensation

depending upon what they're doing

occasionally we'll bring in an

additional editor or two for like we're

buried we need an an edit on this

project we'll hire somebody freelance uh

Mandy helps us like crazy with the

marketing and the t-shirts and all that

kind of stuff I want to talk about Mandy

because she sets up our events she she

does so much behind the scenes that Todd

and I don't even know about let's put it

that way I mean getting the t-shirts

done and the events handled and

everything coordinated stuff I'm

terrible at and she's really good at

spreadsheets that I I hate spreadsheets

you're right that's fair okay you hate

yard work with fiery white hot suns I

hate Excel I cannot stand it it's funny

because I excel doesn't bother me but I

know it really gets under your skin I

know it does can I draw you a little

chart I'll just sketch it out for you

and you'll get it right but then I can't

change it yeah anyway well but also then

then my wife handles some of the admin

and has always been the person behind

the scenes help helping us set up the

European pilgrimage so we have people

that have like a specialty for us but

Chance is the only full-time person and

he's awesome yeah

let's see

oh let's oh game bear ask me what's my

favorite Distillery and have I visited

before no I haven't been to any

distilleries if you can believe it

that's I I can't believe it to be honest

I uh Highland Park is my go to it's my

favorite there's some distilleries in

Japan that I would really like to go to

but I I brookly is actually probably my

favorite because of their variety from

Rocket Fuel to you know non PD drinkable

things so I I probably brookly but I

have not been there I need to

travel there man that we could almost do

an entire movie podcast I'm not going to

do it a couple of you have asked for

stories from my dad and his Corvette C6

and my dad's probably watching but I

will say here's the update on the C6 he

said to me recently he said I can't

believe I still own that car because

when he bought it so cool then there was

kind of the not the buyer regret but the

I really have this car I really spent

that money on it am I going to drive it

enough there was all those questions the

first six months what I think is the

best part about it now that I applaud my

dad and my mom for this but when my dad

bought it he specifically bought an

automatic because he decided he as much

as he knows how to drive stick and he

knew that I could teach my mom he was

like I don't want your mom to be the

least bit apprehensive to just get in

and drive it and now when they take it

somewhere she does about 75% of the

driving and she loves it and she wants

them to keep it I at some point they'll

probably get rid of it but but my dad I

think would be like all right I had my

Corvette thing but my mom's like we need

to take the Corvette out again and I'm G

to tell them I'm GNA shame them publicly

they need to take a road trip in the

Corvette anytime a road trip comes up

they're like no but we should take

something else I'm like road trip it's

got this cavernous back on it Go road

trip in the vet they said to me well I

don't know if the seats will be

comfortable my answer to that was so

stop so drive a 100 miles and stop for a

bit I mean you end up in the Corvette on

million dollar Highway and that's just

better just better it is it is I agree

Mark Cooper asks he says watches a do we

collect any knickknacks like ceramic

figurines wood carvings paper art

bobbleheads what do we

collect let's see tools I collect tools

and probably Matchbox cars Hot Wheels

all that kind of stuff I I love getting

that stuff and I I've got all the

different scale ratios and different

sizes it's not the biggest collection

ever but it's very curated and I I of

course it is various things but yeah

back to

cars um let's see we've got oh the

everyday driver Distillery tour of

Scotland that's funny actually Scotland

is one of those places I desperately

want to drive but now we're toward cars

so Todd collects backpacks I do

accidentally yes I collect bags yeah

just bags in general right this bag has

this really cool pocket that look at the

zipper you who car I've got we literally

we've got like the the the water heater

Closet in our house has hooks for

backpacks every open I'm like why do I

have this many yeah every time you open

it I ask why do you have that many yeah

which is an appropriate question

absolutely mhm yeah

we could do some camping I have the bag

yeah for sure there's some camping going

on now let's see apparently the Kentucky

Bourbon Trail is awesome Mandy can

second that she has done that I

believe uh 2th has asked me about Dune

um the short answer is uh Dennis Vu is

unbelievably good and when I heard he

was doing Dune I was like bring that on

now what I'm most surprised about is the

fact that there was a movie that stopped

and didn't finish because they told half

the story and I cannot believe that they

spent all the money and all the effort

to make half of the story without even

having a green light to do the second

part yet I just no part of my brain

makes that make sense thankfully they

are doing a second part but because they

had to like close down production and

ramp it's going to be a couple of years

before it comes out I thought it was the

version of Dune that probably should

have been done however the issue being

that since it was only half of it and

they kind of they they never really told

us this is half they just went the movie

Dune is coming and so I'm sitting there

kind of knowing the story line kind of

looking at my watch going um or in this

case my phone because I don't have a

watch I kept thinking this movie's been

really long and weal watch we aren't

very far into the story yet and we

should be getting there faster and I was

there with my son who was trying to hang

on uh so I really like it I think it's

amazing I just kind of wish they would

have planned both from the beginning so

we could have the full Arc Joe M asks

how many speeding tickets we we both

gotten but we cannot answer any car

questions on this podcast so save that

for the next one we'll we will talk

about that that's excellent I like it

we're doing all the uh the non-car

questions what else here did we cover

the stuff on social media and covered a

good number I did Cover the watch

questions on Discord so there's that

yeah I we have chance has misnamed it we

have the Wonder bag we have the Wonder

bag on shoots do we have to bring this

because it is a here's the thing it is a

heavyduty bag of nylon that is like the

carbon fiber equivalent of nylon for all

the sharp bits

and it's a bag that the sharp bits don't

poke through and I think that's amazing

that's why I call it the Wonder bag we

went through like three other bags that

stuff was in and it just perforated all

of them and I bought this bag and that

bag's like nope which is great the other

thing is charge Village it's all the

charge Village stuff that gets plugged

in after a day shoot in somebody's hotel

room yep and it's

like it's like the 12 or 15 slot the

meter on the back of the hotel turns

into a ceiling fan it's like they're

excited to see me leave yeah it's see

rev's up asks what would we do if the

show bought the winning ticket to

Powerball there would be quite a car

collection more exotic cars more of this

no actually I would I still wouldn't do

that I still can't to do that yeah I

we're we're answering car questions

talking about cars but you know what it

would be would be philanthropy I have a

strong desire for the show somehow to do

philanthropy and buy cars for people in

need I just don't know how to avoid

fraud and

misuse of something like that you know I

don't know how to identify with you know

I mean and people abusing that and I

want it to just be anonymous and no

credit here just helping people in need

and I'd love it if it were a car you

know because people can rarely afford

new cars you know and people in need and

so I would love the show to be able to

just I would love to do that too we've

actually we've actually talked about

this a little bit and one of the things

is we realized we could never put out a

you know so send us your submissions

because it would be we constantly

reading these cheerful stories how do

you decide the person that get we can't

possibly do that if you're right if

there was a way to do it anonymously

that would be very very cool granted

that would be after post winning the

lottery because that first but then yeah

that that there's that whole thing yeah

see chance is g to take a picture of

charge Village oh no it's just it's just

a sea of wires it's it's and and it ends

up in somebody's hotel room and you end

up tripping over in the middle of the

night it's awesome it's really good

stuff yeah uh let's

see heated or nonp whiskey also there

are great distilleries in Brooklyn there

are that's good to know I'm glad to hear

that I am a ped guy but I do like the

non-p Japanese whiskies I admit to that

so a little bit of both but I do lean

towards the light Pete so okay I'm back

to White Noise over here easy drinking

anyway somebody is actually asking me

because I don't drink alcohol and I and

I don't because I've just never enjoyed

it so what is my soda of choice Cherry

Coke I've been through many I had I had

a decade or so where Mountain Dew in

like fire hose amounts but that is

behind me and now when when I have soda

it's typically Cherry Coke if I can pick

exactly what I want it's that

see what else uh are we goingon to sell

the jackets again from sniper GT on

Discord we'd like to I'd like to do

another round of

hats nice yes and limited edition we

need to do those maybe we should do that

for Christmas time that might make some

sense yeah yeah the the the issue with

the jackets is the jackets are not

inexpensive and we have to make a pretty

limited run but I appreciate the request

and now would be the time so I do hear

you on that yeah for sure we're at the

top of the hour this is flown by I'm

looking for any last questions that we

haven't gotten to I'm scrolling back up

at the top here so um Liz is asking if

on any YouTube podcast we might actually

show the first everyday driver episode

and critique it Live Liz really it's

it's hopefully only gotten better since

must we actually walk through it must

must we take that pain and share it

anyway um and uh Ray is actually asking

about the Last of Us TV show on HBO am I

interested uh because the the game was

mentioned on the podcast discussing my

book I I did not play that game and I

had and I was concerned that people

would compare it to that and would also

compare it to cormack McCarthy's the

road and first couple people that read

it Nate specifically unbeknown to him

that these were my concerns called out

both of those in his review and I went

oh no you were sweating it I was really

sweating it but he felt like I I found

my own way even though it it had pieces

that that was reminiscent of those

things which makes me very intrigued by

The Last of Us I'm amazed that they are

taking that video game and making an HBO

quality serial show about it that's

fascinating I have had some vague

discussions about trying to get paper

father made into a TV show I think that

would be the best way to execute it who

knows if that'll happen but we'll see

okay last question for me here from Dale

evil tangents asking very much uh way

back up at the top here who suffers more

Todd having to eat vegetables or Paul

having to drink bad

booze life is too short to drink bad

booze I feel like but bad but good booze

doesn't have to be expensive you can

find you know good reasonable price but

I have seen Todd eat vegetables it it it

occurs yeah like rarely but witnessed

this I didn't film it but you crazy

things crazier things have occurred uh

Steve is saying after four road trips

and actually we're just about to do

South if not Park City where and to be

honest what I am amazed by and I feel

very blessed by the fact that we live

here I I can't believe that we get to go

to cool places and then we return to

Park City and go yeah I'm going back to

Park City which is unbelievable there

was a lot of stuff in Montana that I

love there was a lot of stuff in the

Pacific Northwest that I loved but I

also really like living here

it's pretty awesome pretty cool we we

have so much more coming guys thank you

for being with I cannot believe an

hour's just vanished thank you for being

with us on this I want to I want to

mention real quick that we have this

community on Discord that has a life of

its own and I love it it really does so

if you are a patron you get to be on the

Discord and and people have found great

friendships and taken road trips and of

course joined us on road trips as well

but there's a whole Community there that

is Way Beyond you and I and I love that

but it's also very just welcoming which

I think is really cool so that's going

on we will continue to to uh do the

patron calls because if you're at the

upper level Patron we do a call with

those folks every every month so that's

cool our what we call our board member

call there's no actual voting on what

we're doing we just share but uh that's

the board member call we have tons more

coming to YouTube on both our channels

remember it's this one test drive videos

and the original channel the original

channel is now becoming more curated to

our road trips our long-term ownership

cars and our TV show and then the test

drive is the stuff feels more like this

podcast which is why this is going there

us in a car together the single cars

that we're getting sent from all the

manufacturers thank you to those

manufacturers for sending us a constant

we have two cars in the drive right now

yeah and and the drives are snowing in

we're trying to figure out how we get

cars in I know this is a real Park City

problem so that's going on Genesis gv60

electric it's actually really cool

looking forward to driving that thank

you for your patronage thank you for

supporting this we' love what we do we'

love sharing it with you we look forward

to seeing you on an adventure keep in

mind just a last reminder here for that

uh February sorry November friday8 the

18th November 18th 2022 in Austin Texas

we've got the Meetup plan if you're in

the Texas area come on out come come see

us we'd love to see there and uh that'll

be the culmination of our fourth road

trip but as Todd has said we've got

plans formulating for next year for 2023

road trips and a last reminder that we

are this podcast happens technically

three times a week two of you and I we

record on Mondays for a Tuesday release

and Thursdays for a Friday release for

our typical car debate podcast we also

have a Wednesday relas which is audio

from test drive videos that happens as

well so if you are just discovering we

have a podcast hi they're not all live

they typically are all audio but every

25 we'll be right back here doing this

taking your questions which we love so

thank you guys for that and uh we will

see you soon actually you you won't see

us soon on the podcast but you'll hear

us soon Leanne listens to all the older

podcasts on long drives to San Francisco

from Napa that's cool Leanne really

appreciate it thank you guys yeah that's

fun we're

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Exploring the intersection of automotive culture and cinema, this episode dives into influential car movies, the quirks of German compound words, and the latest updates on the Corvette. The hosts engage with listeners through a lively Q&A, discussing everything from their favorite car magazines to unique movie concepts involving Muppets. With a mix of humor and insightful commentary, they also touch on personal stories, upcoming events, and the importance of community within the automotive space.

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