Some states add “points” to your driver’s license when you get tickets. More points can mean higher insurance prices and sometimes can hurt jobs that require a clean driving record.
They’re talking about the “CHiPs” TV show remake. It’s about two California Highway Patrol officers who ride motorcycles, and it’s played as action-comedy.
Stunt driving means doing the dramatic driving tricks you see in movies. It’s planned and practiced so it looks intense on camera but is still controlled and safe.
Concept
post Travis Pastrana era
They’re referencing a time period after Travis Pastrana helped popularize extreme stunts. The idea is that the movie’s action feels like it’s built on that newer stunt culture.
A GoPro mounted shot means putting a small camera on the car (or driver) so you see the chase from a more “in the action” viewpoint. It makes the scene feel faster and more intense.
An ice race is a car event held on frozen ground. Since the surface is slippery, drivers have to be careful and the tires and handling setup matter a lot. It’s a different kind of driving than normal road racing.
Solid-state batteries are a type of EV battery that uses a solid material inside instead of a liquid. The goal is to store more energy and be safer. The challenge is making them reliably and cheaply enough for everyday cars.
Valuation is basically how much people think a company is worth. If a company is working on something important for cars—like new battery tech—its value can change quickly as it proves it can deliver results. It’s about business value, not vehicle performance.
“E46” is BMW’s code name for a specific generation of the 3 Series. Car people say it like shorthand because it instantly tells them which era of car they mean.
They’re talking about how to arrange a show: play the popular songs at the beginning and end, and put the newer material in the middle. The goal is to keep people happy the whole time.
They’re describing living in dome-shaped shelters that aren’t protected from the sun’s UV rays. Without UV protection, the shelter materials and the people inside would be in trouble over time.
UV tint is a film you put on windows to block the sun’s UV rays. People use it to help keep things from fading and to make the space feel more comfortable.
Infrared is another type of sunlight energy that tends to feel like heat. The transcript is comparing UV (more about damage/fading) versus infrared (more about warming).
An angle grinder is a power tool with a spinning disc that can cut or grind metal. They’re basically describing a busy workshop scene where tools are being used.
Herman Miller makes high-end office chairs. The hosts are joking that the shop setup is so nice they even bring in a premium chair for the guy working there.
HEPA filters are high-efficiency air filters designed to capture very fine particles, including smoke particulates. In the transcript, they’re discussing using HEPA filtration to keep an indoor “show” from being ruined by smoke-related air quality and residue.
They’re joking that if you’re really good at what you do, people stop enforcing the usual rules. It’s not a technical car idea—more of a social joke about status.
“Drive with Jim Farley” is a podcast where Ford’s CEO talks about cars and what inspires people. It’s car-focused, so it’s interesting even if you’re not into business talk.
Formula One is the highest level of race car competition. It’s where drivers and teams build and race very high-tech cars.
Car
RWB Manila
RWB is a company that customizes certain Porsches with big, dramatic bodywork. “RWB Manila” just means they were doing that work in Manila, Philippines.
A body shop is where they do the car’s outer sheet metal work—things like panels and body shape. In this conversation, they’re saying some shops make the body changes the main “show” of the car.
They’re just using the Chevrolet Impala as a reference point for what the badge looks like—like it belongs on an older car. It’s a visual joke about size and style, not something actually related to the Impala.
Wheel size is basically how big the rims are. If you go up a size or two, the tires and clearance have to be matched so everything still fits correctly.
“Plus one” means upgrading to the next bigger wheel size. People do it to change the look, but they try to keep the tire size matched so the car doesn’t rub or look/drive weird.
“Plus two” means going up two wheel sizes instead of one. That can make fitment harder—tires may rub, and the ride can get harsher if the setup isn’t chosen carefully.
Term
17
“17” means the wheel is 17 inches across. When you change wheel size, you usually have to adjust the tire size too so the car still fits and drives normally.
Term
18
“18” means the wheel is 18 inches. It’s often a common upgrade size, and the tire has to be chosen so it still clears and doesn’t mess up the car’s overall dimensions.
Term
20
“20” means 20-inch wheels. Bigger wheels usually come with shorter, stiffer tires, which can look great but may ride rougher and need careful fitment.
They’re talking about the Dodge Charger and how it still has a real gear shifter. Newer cars often remove that center shifter, so your right hand has fewer natural places to rest.
A pistol grip shifter is a gear lever you hold like a grip, not a long stick. The host’s point is that the shape can make it easier (or harder) to rest your hand comfortably.
Lane departure systems watch the road lines and help if you start to drift out of your lane. The host’s point is that when the car does more of the work, your body position and steering habits can feel different.
Follow distance is about keeping a safe gap from the car in front automatically. The host is saying that when these systems handle more of the driving, it can change how you sit and where your arms naturally go.
They’re talking about how newer cars use technology to help you drive with less effort. But if the car is doing more, your body may not feel as comfortable because your hands and posture aren’t used to it.
They’re referencing the Ford Crown Victoria to make a comfort point. If the seat doesn’t hold you in place well, you may lean and that can mess up your back over time.
They’re saying that after long drives, resting your elbows on the armrest can cause bruising. It’s a reminder that comfort details like armrest shape and height affect how you feel later.
They’re talking about the large screens in the dashboard. Their point is that newer cars focus on screens a lot, which changes how the whole cabin feels.
They’re talking about the Mercedes-Benz EQS and how its cabin uses very bright screens and lots of colorful lighting. The complaint is that it can feel like too much and may strain your eyes.
They mention the Mercedes-Benz EQE as another electric Mercedes with a big, bright digital setup inside. Their point is that the screens and lighting can feel like “too much” for some people.
Mood lighting is the colored ambient light inside the car that sets the vibe. Some cars make it react to music or change colors, which can be cool but also distracting.
Eye fatigue is the strain your eyes feel after staring at intense or constantly changing light sources. The hosts connect it to aggressive interior displays and animated ambient lighting, arguing that too much brightness and motion can be tiring during longer drives.
A windshield screen would put information right on the glass in front of you. The hosts think self-driving tech could make this kind of display more realistic in the future.
Waymo is a self-driving car company. The idea is that if cars can drive themselves, the dashboard and windshield could become “screens” for information and entertainment instead of things you need to watch while driving.
Insurance is what determines who pays if there’s an accident. For self-driving cars, it’s complicated to figure out who’s responsible, so insurance rules can slow down how widely they’re allowed to operate.
Self-driving cars can’t just show up everywhere—they need permission from local laws. The hosts point out that states have to approve autonomous vehicles before they can operate.
Self-insurance means the company covers its own losses instead of paying an outside insurance company. The hosts imply that this helps Waymo deal with the insurance problem.
Google is the company behind Waymo. In this discussion, they mention that Waymo can insure itself rather than relying on a traditional outside insurer.
“Full self-driving” is a Tesla software feature that helps the car drive more on its own. But you usually still have to pay attention and be ready to take over, and the rules can differ by country.
This describes a common requirement in advanced driver-assistance systems: the system may allow hands-off or semi-automated driving, but it periodically demands driver interaction (like placing hands on the wheel) to confirm supervision. It’s a safety/regulatory control to reduce the risk of driver inattention.
Concept
EV market is like 1950s NBA
It’s a joke-metaphor: the hosts are saying the EV market feels early and chaotic, like a league in its early days. They’re implying BYD is moving very fast and shaking things up.
The BYD Seagull is a budget BYD electric car. The point here is that even after added costs like tariffs, it’s still expected to be one of the cheaper EVs.
A tariff is an extra tax on imported products. Here it’s being used to explain why an imported cheap EV might cost more, but could still remain relatively inexpensive.
High-voltage chargers are EV chargers that use higher electrical voltage. That helps the car add energy faster during charging.
Term
500 kilowatt hour
They’re talking about fast charging. The key idea is that some chargers can deliver a lot of power so the battery can recharge quickly, even though the exact unit they said sounds off.
“Price of progress” is a framing idea: the benefits of new technology (cheaper, more efficient EV production) come with tradeoffs and costs. The host mentions factors like labor, integration, and control of the battery supply chain as part of that tradeoff.
They’re mentioning that EV batteries and charging can, in rare cases, lead to fires. The point is that even with modern safety improvements, battery tech is still something people watch closely.
EVs are cars that run on electricity instead of gas. The speaker is saying that in their area, EVs are already very common and they expect that trend to keep growing.
The Genesis GV60 is an all-electric Genesis SUV/crossover. The host is saying that after driving a gas car for a week, switching back to the GV60 feels dramatically better for daily use.
All-wheel drive (AWD) sends power to all four wheels, improving traction in low-grip conditions like rain, snow, or uneven surfaces. The hosts are discussing a specific AWD setup on the car they’re reviewing.
The Genesis G90 Black Prestige is a flagship luxury sedan from Genesis, and the hosts are excited about its features and comfort. They also connect it to the idea of being chauffeured, emphasizing the rear-seat experience and convenience features like power door operation.
Air suspension uses air-filled bags instead of traditional steel springs, allowing the car to adjust ride height and damping for comfort. It’s commonly used on luxury sedans to smooth out bumps and maintain a consistent ride feel.
The Flying Spur is a luxury sedan made by Bentley. It’s designed to be very comfortable and feel upscale, especially for long drives. The podcast mentions it as a “budget” version, meaning a less expensive take on the Flying Spur idea.
They’re talking about how the “top” luxury sedans look over the years. The idea is that some generations look timeless, while newer ones can feel weird or overly angular.
They’re describing the car’s shape as getting more boxy and sharp-edged. Some people like that aggressive look, but they’re saying it doesn’t work for them.
Sequential shifting means the gear changes happen in a set order—usually one step at a time—rather than choosing gears like in an H-pattern. It often feels more like a race car because the shifts are more direct.
Plus/minus shifting is when you use controls marked “+” and “−” to change gears up or down. It’s often used with paddle shifters and makes shifting feel more like a race car.
They’re talking about the BMW X5 and how newer versions moved from traditional analog gauges to digital screens. Some people miss the physical needles and dials because they feel more connected to the car.
Analog dials are the classic gauge cluster with needles you can see moving. The host likes them because they’re easy to read at a glance and feel more “real” than digital screens.
A digital instrument cluster is the dashboard screen that shows your speed and other info. Some people don’t like it as much because it doesn’t have the moving needles and physical gauges.
That’s just the gauge on the dashboard that shows speed. When it “goes to 550,” it means the car’s instrument cluster is designed to show extremely high speeds.
A Corvette is Chevrolet’s famous sports car. The host is remembering seeing one parked somewhere and noticing how “serious” the speedometer looked.
Concept
speedometer markings vs real-world speed
Car speedometers can be labeled with huge numbers, even if you’d never drive that fast. The point here is that the gauge is part of the car’s “performance image,” not a promise you’ll actually hit those speeds.
The Bugatti Veyron is a super-expensive, ultra-fast hypercar. The joke here is that its dashboard speedometer was marked for very high speeds, so it looked “wild” even when you weren’t actually driving that fast.
Brand
German
They’re talking about Germany, which is known for a lot of car brands. The joke is about how German cars/people are perceived.
Car
Pontiac Aztec
The Pontiac Aztec is a Pontiac car that looks really weird and memorable. People joke about it because the design is so unusual that it stands out even decades later.
A two-stroke engine is a type of engine that works in a simpler cycle than most modern engines. It can smell different and often feels a bit more “old-school,” which is why the speaker thinks that’s what’s causing the odor.
“Press cars” are cars given to reviewers so they can test them and write about them. The speaker is saying it can be hard to stay objective when people already have strong opinions about the brand.
The Nissan Armada is a big family SUV with three rows. The speaker is saying that when they get press cars like this, people immediately react to Nissan—so it’s harder to review it completely objectively.
They meant Stellantis, a big company that owns multiple car brands. They’re talking about how that ownership history affects how people react to Nissan.
The speaker says their first car was a Nissan Sentra, then mentions “a billion problems,” using it to explain why people criticize Nissan. This is personal anecdote rather than a detailed reliability breakdown.
CVT means “continuously variable transmission.” Instead of fixed gears, it smoothly changes the ratio so the engine can stay in a good range. Some people hate the feel because it can sound and feel weird compared to normal gear shifts.
They’re talking about the Porsche 911. It’s a famous sports car, and the point here is that people are buying it more like a collectible/investment than just for driving.
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movie, the remake of the TV show Chips. Did you ever know that show? It was about a minute before my
time. Oh, it definitely was before your fucking time. But it's your kind of show. It's about
two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers. Love it. And it's like action comedy. Yeah. And it
was in the 70s and 80s. It was a comedy TV show. But Dax's version. Dax remade it as a movie with
what the fuck is that? Who's the dude's name? Michael Pena. Michael Pena. Oh, yeah. And they
really, it's a buddy comedy, but he really, he directed it. Oh, shit. I'm assistant entirely.
So Dax also directed a movie called Hit and Run before that. Yeah. Which like was a little bit
of a hokey movie. Was it Mid 2000s? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I saw that. But he just wanted to do
all his own stunt driving. And there's like six car chases in this movie. That's hilarious. Very little
happens in the movie, but like a bunch of car chases. He's like Tarantino riding in all his own
stunts. And he also, when he did chips, it was the same thing. And so like it's like it's got
enormous cred. Yeah. For me as like a gearhead movie. Yeah. Because the car shit's all really
accurate. The filming. He's doing all the driving. He's doing all his own stunts and his own driving.
And I was like, he's like a like a redneck Tom Cruise. I don't know. Yeah. It's like doing unnecessary
stunts. We got a big chase coming up. You could probably just drive in this scene. What if he drifts
in? Because chips, the show, it would be like, it was two motorcycle cops and the big stunt would
be like, they went around a balloon that had fallen in an alley and it was like they went around a
car and he was like, they're like, he's riding downstairs and stuff. He's like, what if we,
you know, level us up for 2020 post Travis Pastrana era? And he came on our podcast to talk about it.
And like other, you know, whatever the view are asking him, you know, what it's like with Michael
Payne. And we're like shot for you. Yeah. Mounted shot. Yeah. Had it on the arm. Was it all like
GoPro? And then he had his own podcast suspiciously soon after that. He had a great time. Yeah.
Yeah. It's a good idea. Dude, you're a natural. You said that Rogan thing. You're natural. You
got to start doing this. Make a living doing this. He sold us like a hundred million dollars.
Yeah. To Spotify. And he's still on. Oh, he like sold it. But then you probably have an agreement
to be on a DAX or Rogan. Oh, sorry. DAX. Okay. Oh, so he did that. That thing too. He did the
that thing. Gotcha. Oh, man. I have some big money out here, boys. I'm the most depressing one. I
and not that I don't think, you know, those guys with huge numbers shouldn't be worth some huge amount
of money. Yeah. I met a dude who was a nice enough dude whose name I'm not going to use,
but he was a nice enough dude. Can we connect the dots? He had a podcast. You might not because
I don't think this is Bobo. This is a completely different young person that I met that I met
at the ice race. Okay. Cool. Okay. In Montana. And he has a podcast. Yeah. It's a tech podcast.
Yeah. And they do it five days a week. Okay. Like hours a day. Okay. It's it seems like a lot of
work. Yeah. And the numbers are like not as much as the numbers of like this show,
but it's like episode to episode episodic numbers, the raw numbers are good. Yes. And he apparently,
you know, makes made has quite a lot of like concurrent views on live stream because people
put it on as like a news program. Yeah. Yeah. In the background while they're working, whatever.
Good for this dude. I just found out that he sold this fucking podcast for like 200 million dollars
with it. And he isn't Joe Rogan and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shepard or Will Arnett or Amy Poehler.
It's a it's a tech, a tech dude. It's just a tech dude with, you know, that's crazy to you know,
immediate with medium numbers who see who I'm happy that this person now has instant generational
wealth. This show is actually going to be all about solid state batteries today. That's why
you guys brought in, you're trying to increase the value. Welcome to the Smokingsons entrepreneurship
hour. Yeah. You guys brought me in. What's your rising grind routine? To spike your numbers,
try to increase the valuation uphill battle that we do. You're trying to create a stand-up career
based entirely on automotive material, which is, which is a tough fucking needle. It's not entirely.
I will say that. It's not entirely. It's not entirely. Well, people come out, sit, think in that.
So it's like, dude, you know, you throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks, right? And then just
my love of cars come somehow surface like the, you know, the cream always rises type stuff. Yeah.
So it's like, I'm doing all this funny stuff online, just doing standup every night. And then
when I talk about cars, it does exponentially better because I'm bringing something different to it.
Sure. So then I was like, you're in the room. I'm talking about online, online, online. So then
what happens is I get all these car people. This is like to really start at two, three years ago.
I think this is why I think car people see someone finally talking about cars.
Correct. Share that. They go, Oh my God, these guys finally talking about cars.
I'm going to send it to my car friend. So then for it started with me just doing my an hour.
And then people be like, bro, I got literally came up to me one show two years ago goes,
bro, great show, but do more car stuff. And I was like, Oh, okay, what do you drive?
He goes, Oh, I don't have a car. I was like, go figure out your life, bro.
What do you get back on the bus and figure your life out? But, but that's the moment I realized,
Oh, a lot of these. So then now it's like a good third of the show is car inspired. And I do it
right off the top because all the us are autistic car guys are like, otherwise, but then they play
it. Yeah. You know, but, but then all of their significant others, all these women,
there's a moment of the show where it's kind of like, what is kind of do a joke like this is
the whole show, by the way. And then I'll switch gears into like, you know, life and it's not
100%. And even us, you even 20 minutes into being like E 46. And like that guy works out,
you know, you know, that guy's at whatever Jiffy loop or you're going to be like, okay,
talk about your cat or like, you know, that's literally this show. Yeah. This show,
we can't talk about cars for 90 minutes. Yeah, exactly. Even you start itching. Yeah. Okay.
It's like, Hey, yeah, this leads me to a, let's take a quick poll though. You go to see a band
or an artist perform live. Okay. And it's someone you're casually into. Maybe you know, like one
or two of their songs, like the hits. Yeah. Do you want them to play the hits up front?
Spread, you know, in the, or do you want, do you want them to close out with the hits?
Me personally, I want it, I want their new thing to be sandwiched in between hits. I want them to
open middle and close with hits. You want the compliment sandwich. It's not the same with comedy
because I can't keep reading it, but exactly. Exactly. I want the, you see the Eagles, you want
them to open with a hotel California or new kid in town or whatever. And then you want them to kind
of close with the same thing and put the new thing in the middle. It's like a one-hit-wondery
kind of band. Maybe that's opening for the Eagles or whatever. They got to do their thing six times.
Seriously, those guys. When, uh, not like us, remember Kendrick two years ago, was that last
year? Yeah. It was like a year of not like us. Yeah. Apparently he did it like six times or like
eight times. That is like LA show or something like that. Yeah. I believe that because it was just
twice in a row open with it. That was the famous thing like Kanye and Jay-Z when they went to,
but they went to Paris and they did that song and they, they said like a record. Say it, say it, say it,
say it. Let's get the numbers up. Let's get, let's sell this. Let's drop controversy. It looks like
you want to retire. The Rogan line, like I'm just saying the name of the song, but they did it like
six times in a row and it was, it was like the marketing everyone around the world was talking
about it. So yeah. No, I know what you mean. It's like so funny. You know the thing where they're
in France together? They're speaking about a trip to France in this song. It was just a couple,
I think it was a couple of pals in Paris. Is that what it was? Pals in Paris? They achieved
financial success. They're traveling through Paris. Let's listen now. No buds in Paris.
That's awesome. I was hanging out with my buddy Christian Hand and he was talking about,
we were joking about this and I think, I think I'd want to probably hear the band
close with a hit if there was just the one, but Christian said he saw a couple of artists
throughout the late 80s and 90s do open, middle and close with the one hit. Oh, you, you have to.
Yeah. You have to. I think it was, was it, I think it was blue oyster cult. Is that fear,
the, don't fear the Reaper? He said they played don't fear the Reaper three times. Yeah. And he
said, I think it was John, uh, John, uh, John, I think is a 90s singer. He was a radio DJ,
so he had to go see a Hawaiian superstar. He said he did the hit three times and then closed
with doing it in Spanish. He's gotta give it new for himself. Dude, if I was in that audience and
you're a one hit wonder or even any of these like iconic people and they close on a new song, you
know, it's not the real close. You know, they're going to come back on stage, right? It's just
basic stagecraft. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, this isn't, they're going to leave out and we're all
going to be like, my wife hates an encore. No, she hates an encore. She gets mad. And I'm like,
they got to pee, have a little beverage before. Thank God for you though. That puts the brick in.
This guy is, that takes the stress out of your life. Oh, God bless your life. Hey, she hates an
encore. I'm going to slide the blue chew add in right here. Blue chew gold. He's like, I'm not
done yet. And she's like, you better be done. You better be done. When your wife insists.
Good night, Springfield. There will be no encore. This is Cleveland. What?
Matt, just play the hit up front, please.
Oh, and on my anniversary. Is it your anniversary? It was, 420 was my anniversary. It was. 427 for me.
Is it 427? Well, yeah. So 7, we, we, you almost screwed it up. You almost got that right wedding
date. Screwed up the time and bro. I'll tell you what, if your, if your wedding is 420,
your, your friends will remember to wish you a happy anniversary. Years later. Yeah, even when all
others have forgotten. Yeah, yeah. This is funny. I'm a, I'm a, I'm like, I smoke weed a lot, you
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Oh, someone's birthday. None of it. I'm like, Oh, it's a project. No, it's, it's 420. Oh, yeah.
You're buying costumes on Halloween for a different, like a party. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly. Hey, what's going on with all these people in like grill outfits and stuff going on here?
And you're buying a grill outfit. Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. I'm just an
alcoholic man. I don't even excuse to be this drunk. So all green alcohol. Up the road from here.
And, uh, uh, you know, is the, uh, the Snoop Dogg store is just right here.
Dude, everyone's got a dispensary out here. Yeah. But I mean, if you're going to go to
someone's, I mean, Snoop Dogg's, there's, you could do worse than Snoop Dogg's dispensary.
I think Jeter, Derek Jeter or one of the, did they have because I just, in that dispensary,
it had a big little like a standup from being like Jeter. No, there's a brand of weed called Jeter.
It is not associated with him. I do not think it is associated with Derek Jeter.
The marketing was so strong. And Derek is J.E. Correct. It's J.E.E. T.E.R.
But it was such strong branding. I'm like, that's him for sure. Well, the weed industry,
I mean, retirement, the packaging in the weed industry is so innovative and awesome.
Dude, especially the edibles, but also like the trademark infringement that goes on in the
weed industry. Oh, it's the Wild West. I was in the weed store. I went to the Snoop Dogg store
on 420. It was a shit show, by the way. There was parking lot vendors, like it was nuts.
There was a huge line. It was fun though, 50% off. And there was a weed brand called Elon Musk.
That actually just is hilarious. Yeah, there was like Ford Bronco, Indica.
Yeah, it makes you autistic. There was just like, there was the amount of trademark infringement.
You just start firing employees. You start naming people X4, 3, 2, Pi. Yeah, yeah.
I love you, X4. Well, you have my baby. And your own hair. I love you, game of Batman symbol.
You are my favorite of the 27. Yeah. Which one are you? Which one are you? Oh, man.
He's not really a car company anymore, that Tesla. He pretty much is giving up on cars.
No, no, he's in the future. I've been saying this for like 10 years.
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Dylan, no, no, he's in the future. I've been saying this for like 10 years. Okay, so you own all the
cars, you own the space travel stuff. You're going to like have all the home stuff and it's all
going to be integrated in a way where it's like, okay, if the governments turn on him and you know,
he's like suggesting to pay for like TSA. It's just like a lot of like tentacles into government
that you're like, yo, he's only in his 40s. Is he even in his 50s yet? Yeah, he's in his 50s.
He's not going to die at 100. He's going past. He's going to be like 150 on a spider stand.
But it's he, have you seen Total Recall? Of course. Total Recall is like one of his favorite
movies and he doesn't either doesn't or even more scarily does. He's co-hagan. He's literally,
him and Bezos, they're like dibs on space essentially. Yeah, he keeps all the trans
weird people and the freaks quote in this one corner and is threatening to kill them by cutting
off their air if they don't do what he wants. He's going to be president of Mars. He's going
to be worshipped on Mars. Like 100 years from now, Mars will have people on it and he will be
like the guy that will be his cult. It'll be his prairie rage or something like that. People did
it with yoga in the earth. Imagine leaving the earth setting up life in another planet. They're
going to worship you, dude, for like a thousand years. We'll be gone. And if you don't, we have
Mars, Moscone and I'll praise be to the name of the planet. But he'll use cheap domes that don't
have UV resistance, which will turn the people into mutant freaks. Of course. And then he'll go
ew mutant freaks and banish them to the corner. Like Venus is where we're going. Where have I
heard this story? Well, they'll get tanned and he'll be really upset about it. Yeah. So he'll be
like, oh, that's literally the plot of total. You got to pay the monthly premium for the UV
protection. Yes. Like look, we know it was free at the beginning. You want to upgrade your dome,
right? We need recurring revenue, you guys. You seen these three titties over here? You like,
you want to have two titties, not three, right? We're getting gamma rays next week. So I would
upgrade if I were you. Sunburst coming. Yeah. You should really upgrade. Highly recommend it.
I'm just saying. I think I'm going to put UV tint on the windows of my house. Oh, yeah. I mean,
do that. And I kind of regret it. That guy does it. The guy that tinted my car, he mostly does
residential now. Yeah, we got to do that. He's like, I don't like to do cars. Buildings are
easier and I would get paid more. Windows are flat. I guess you save your couch from like sun.
Dude, it damages. Well, what do you save? Well, cooling your house, certainly in the summer.
The UV, but UV doesn't do too much heating like infrared. Like the lower end of the spectrum
does more of the heating. The UV, they'll do more of like biological damage or like
degrade, you know, paint finishes. Not the primary source of felt heat, but yeah. Yeah.
It damages people and things more. Science. I don't want to fucking fade my wood. Yeah. Okay.
You got some nice wood at the crib. Okay, wood. Yeah, we've got some smoky tires.
200 million dollar podcast. Yes, it was me. That was me. Dude, I haven't told Zach yet.
We got to talk, brother. Yeah, no, my wood is I watch those YouTube channels of people that
literally this. This is literally it. Now I'm looking at it again. I watch the stuff. They put
the epoxy resin, they fill it, they sand it down to like 1000 grit. Yeah. And then this is like
an $8,000 table, isn't it? Matt, how much is this table? No, it was a shout out to my homie,
Mickey Iwasaki, who made us this table. Is that the guy that does fat fenders on 9-Elevens?
No, this guy, this guy smokes cigarettes and then cuts up trees and just makes tables.
Yeah, he's just sitting on a chair. Yeah, he's like, what if I pour plastic in the table?
You know what it is, really? Have you ever met that guy?
Nikai. Is that what his name? The rear wheel. Yeah, R.B. Nikai. Yeah, I've not, I've not met him.
What a legend, though. Yeah. His rider is amazing. I wonder, I need like, I need Marlboro,
Chocobacola, two cartons of Marlboro Reds, and somewhere I could smoke indoors while I use an
angle grinder. Yeah. And they bring him a nice chair, too. They bring him a nice chair, like,
and they put it right in the middle of the shop, and he's got sandals on, and he kind of crosses
his, it's such a vibe. They're like, Steve, get up, Steve, give him your chair, Steve.
But this is a Herman Miller boss, give him your fucking chair, Steve. And bring the ottoman.
He needs a camera. My buddy owns a Porsche dealership, and they were having him come to a
build as a display. Yeah. Yeah. And fucking, he calls me and he goes, Matt, he wants to smoke
while he works. I go, yeah. Of course. And he goes, but we were going to do this in the show
room. I go, well, you got to make a decision. Get some filter, HEPA filters in, because you got
a show. If he doesn't smoke, you're going to ruin it. Like, this is not going to be a good show
for you. This is no grit, no work. Exactly. I mean, that's like a church booking bad religion
by accident. Like, they're a popular band we hear. Not sure. What's with the shirts?
He's the Dave Chappelle of this car stuff, huh? He is? Yeah. Because he gets to smoke.
If you hit a certain level of artistry in whatever you do, indoor smoking rules no longer apply
to you. Sure. That's a crime for poor people. Yeah, exactly. Sean Penn. Who is that? Is that
Sean Penn? No, no. Sean Penn smoked at the Oscars all night, and they said he got worn
six times, which is like, all right, he had six cigarettes then. And he looks like he smokes
every day because he does. I love that. The security guy being told, you have to ask him to
leave now. Yeah. He's going, he's about to win. He just played like a psychotic army guy.
His role is great in that. The way he walks, he nailed that walk. He nailed that walk. Those
like ex-veteran guys, like face to the army. Dude, he nailed that walk. His face looks like
the Dutch bread we eat crinkled up. I would definitely let him have grits in the studio.
Guys, taking a break from the action because support is coming in fast, like Jim Farley,
the CEO of Ford, who's now got a podcast. And you're always asking me what I'm listening to
when not recording this show. And right now it's this, the new season of Drive with Jim Farley.
In it, the Ford CEO talks to some of his favorite people about what they're driving
and what drives them to succeed. Like Formula One driver Daniel Ricardo. Listen,
there's a well-worn trope about racing drivers not being interesting to listen to.
But if there is one that is interesting to listen to, it is Daniel Ricardo. I think this
guy's takes on stuff and life are great. And look, Jim is a racing driver also. I personally
raced against him like two months ago. And for me, a CEO that drives race cars on the weekends
is about the pinnacle of CEOdom when it comes to car companies. So the two of them together
obviously have a lot of things to discuss on Drive with Jim Farley, which you can get on your
podcast app. Very easy to find. Drive with Jim Farley. Check it out.
That is a nice privilege of, you know, being that successful. If you like smoking, which
listeners of this show. You have a big, not a big, probably a big vaping audience, huh?
Still think about it. Cigarettes every day. Oh yeah. Every day. Love them. Every day. That's
what I was thinking about. Whenever we talk about cigarettes, he romances it and I'm still
He's out of a flashback right now. I get it. I get it. It's so gross. People shouldn't smoke,
but also, you get it. That I enjoy. Look, when you flip through the photos,
it's always him sitting. Nikai's like wearing uncle Rico pants. Just cutting. He's also a
style icon. If you actually pay attention to what he's wearing and like, he's always got like
some next look, it's like a high top sandal he's wearing right now. It's like he's like a height
beast, wearing cigarettes, smoking. He's pretty much as cool as it gets. To be Japanese and not
give a fuck is as high and a style icon as it exists. It looks like he should have a fragrance,
doesn't he? Yeah. Doesn't he look like he should? He should have like a rap album, a fragrance. Yeah.
Like doesn't necessarily look like a guy who does body work. No, not at all. He looks like a music
producer. Yeah, exactly. He looks like the Japanese Rick Rubin. Dude, what a legend. I'd love to meet
this guy. His mashup with Skrillex was awesome. Yeah, we have friends that are good friends of
this dude and say really great things, but just as a character that exists in the universe,
there should be a, wow. See, that looks like a good place to smoke cigarettes and cut up fenders.
Outdoor pavilion. That's took that wall out in preparation for him, huh?
Yeah, we're gonna have to take that north face and wall out. It appears that this is RWB Manila. So
they have probably built a outdoor like stadium in the Philippines for him to come build cars.
And he is an icon because have we talked about any other body shop work? I mean,
ring brothers, they do amazing work, but we don't go look at the picture of them building the thing.
Right. It's where, yeah, where it's a performance. Yeah. Exactly. That's why the cigarette is so
necessary. Yes. Because what he's smoking indoors, just immediately that it has that
atmosphere. That's already iconic a little bit like in cigarette inside is like, whoa, it's like
1965 or like, well, by the way, he's also saw zalling a 993 and flip flops. Yeah, exactly. Would
like a perfect line by hand. Yeah, I think he's wearing crocs. Great forearms. What a legend,
man. What else do you want? Yeah, I see those crocs and he's got flair on him too. Oh yeah,
he's dressed like Bobby Lee a little bit. He's dressed like Bobby Lee. And it's not even the
nation, the Asian thing. Hey, I'm just, if you're looking, Lee, that's so yeah. Have you seen that
movie Bus Boys yet? Uh-uh. Is it good? I haven't seen it. I want to go watch it. He kind of dressed
like Carl also. Oh yeah, a lot of chefs just dressed like this because they need comfy feet and
that doesn't really matter what they look like from like, I don't know, the nipples down pretty
much. What's it was? Chefs and tattoos. When did that become? Chefs and tattoos.
Chefs and tattoos. I don't know. Artistry. Probably all the same time, right? The aesthetic
of being a chef versus, I mean, I don't know. I think chefs are always like pirates. Do you
think chefs and tattoos preceded like tattoos popularity and everything else? Because they
weren't that popular when I was like 20. And then all of a sudden it was like, everyone's getting
sleeves, everyone's getting, everyone's getting, and baristas have sleeves and it's not tough anymore.
Yeah. 10 years ago, I worked like some event with a celebrity chef. I was just like literally a
bus boy and, or like clearing tables and stuff. And the celebrity chef just, he would keep coming
out to take photos with people because they'll pay a bunch to eat there. Yeah. And so they'd be like,
I can we say, I forget his name is some French guy. But he's just like, you know,
there's such an aesthetic the way those cocktail bartenders, I get there like
custom leather, that has like, it's like, I don't know what the string is. It's like
chain link on one side and hemp on the other side. Yeah. Yeah. And it's tight and fitted
in the white shirt and just sleeves. And he's like, got, you know, like, off their glasses.
Ludo Lefebbe. All right, that is the guy, the Petitois guy, Tormac and Petitois. He's a TV chef.
They're all the TV. It's great. It's all an aesthetic. I mean, for sure. If you're a chef
on TV, that's a different story because you're going to Hollywood yourself up or
magazine magazine. Yeah, sure. Because they all do picture things. Yeah. Except my boy Carl,
who gave no wonder. It's also like a way you can individualize yourself because everyone,
all the chefs are wearing the same uniform essentially, but you can do forums. So you go,
well, here's who I am. Yeah, here's the bit you'll see that in a beard. But even these
high level ones, the uniform goes down to the wrist. So it's like, Carl used to say that,
you know, back in the day, they would wear a tokes, the hat, the hats and the different
the height of the toke was how much power you had in the kitchen. So if you were a dishwasher,
it was real low. And then that's hilarious. And they don't do that anymore. Now the guy
with the AP in the kitchen, that's the chef. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Just listening. It's
got a Rolex on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The G shock is doing the soup. Yeah. And yeah. So that's what
you do. Dude, I was watching the news the other day, and there was like some fire or something
in Philadelphia, and they had the Philadelphia fire inspector on the news. And like, bro,
the helmet he was wearing, the badge that was on it, it was it looked like a Saturday night
live parody for firefighters. Like the size of the badge. That's his crown. The funniest thing
I've ever seen. And I think his said like, holy shit. Yeah, you find a photo of it? Yeah, I think
so. It was hilarious, bro. They're all just standing there being very serious. The badge
looked like it should be mounted in the rear window of an Impala. I mean, this is an old one.
It was all gold. This one is like a fabric. Holy shit. It's like take a police badge and
buy scale eight times and just put it on a firefighter helmet. It's giant and hilarious.
And they're like, yeah, you know, at the scene, it was like, it's a very serious. And I'm like,
is this a joke? Let's see if I'm a Mel Brooks movie. It looks like Lord Helmets helmet. It looks
like aliens like pretending to be humans. Wow. I mean, even just the visual that Zach has provided
with this photo, I can see the scale. And that's very hilarious. Was it a ceremonial? No.
They were like, oh, it just. Oh, boo. What are these? It sent me the wrong link.
All right. If you're facing this person, people listen, you would not be able to see their head.
And the chief, I think it is bigger. Okay, look, so once you take the assistant off, they increase
the 30% in size. For the record, red lives matter or whatever. I'm not laughing at firefighters,
but firefighters. That's crazy. This helmet, not even the helmet, just the back. The shield
eclipses the helmet when viewed from the front. It looks cartoony, doesn't it? The shield is
like a bit cartoony. It looks like a costume. And the one I was watching, it had this one
actually sits directly over the helmet. There's was sitting like it was over it. It was like,
it had two, three inch gap over. It was sitting way above. I was like, what?
I wonder if this is a game they're all playing. How do you put that away? It's on high risers, too.
Wow. That one looks badass. This one fits in. It's all part of it. Like, these ones were sticking
proud. That's like, this is right here is where you've gone plus one on your wheel size here,
but you don't want to go plus two. Oh, right. Yeah. It just gets crazy. This is like a 17.
No, it's like an 18. That's an 18. Go back to that guy. This is a 20. That's dub deuces right
It looks like this is how they identify quickly, you know, the hierarchy. I guess out in the
field. Keep going. This is mechanics. Keep going. Are they all have them? They all have the big
shield. That's about as far right there. Well, these are all photos of them fighting an actual
fire. For sure. But and the one of the first one, if you go back to the really big one, it had like
a manti fin up at the top connecting it to the helmet. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You need accessories
just to keep that. Firefighters are listening. First of all, we appreciate you. So explain why
this is this a new thing. No, I haven't seen that in any other department in New York. It's not
like that by any means. Canada's not like that. Philly is a funny place in that way.
That's like a Philly firefighters. Like that's as American as it gets. You're a hard one.
Philly firefighter. You eat only cheesesteaks and only from gyms. Yeah.
And you're still alive. And you throw batteries at the Eagles when they're losing. Yeah. Oh,
it's definitely a Philly thing. Here's another one. You know what they do in Philly? They grease
the light poles before big games. What? Because people go and celebrate. Win or loss, they climb
light poles. They climb the street lamps. So like they literally walk around greasing these things.
Spraying. Because Philly is like a little gas fire. If the Eagles win, they set the
fucking building on fire. If the Eagles lose, they set the building on fire and roll the cop
cars. Like it's crazy. The crazy town. And grease budget for the poles. That's crazy.
I love Philadelphia. I owe them a visit. I went to college there. So I spent a lot of time there.
It was the best for college. It's the best town. It's like a little mini-manageable New York.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it does really feel like that. But with people that are like
even funnier than New York people. Yeah, it feels more like Detroit there. Because I lived in
like Detroit for some years. It's more walkable. Alex, are we excited for Spaceballs too?
Spaceballs. I think Spaceballs for me was like before. That's all the SNL guys, right?
Spaceballs? Yeah. No, it's Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks. And Robert Moranis.
And John Candy and Bill Polk. John Candy. And Daphne Zuniga. That's a crazy name.
When is that movie happening? I don't know. They're like making it now. Spaceballs too.
When was the first one? They just announced it. The first one was AD. Yeah, something.
Something, 85, 86, something. But it's not the search. It's Spaceballs, the new one.
I watched it so long ago. You really should watch it again.
I'd say it doesn't exactly hold up. But it's funny. No. No, they have it. Yeah. But it is funny.
It's like the comedy pacing is different, which is a thing. But Monty Python still holds up.
It does. It holds up better. And it's older. Yeah. I think. Something about the dry humor
Britishness, maybe. Lives through time better. Something about dry humor age is better.
Maybe it's because it's like the subject matter is real older. Yeah. I mean, I don't want to say
Spaceballs doesn't hold up. Some of the jokes are still very funny. I think I rewatched it
four years ago. And some of them are like, and then the pacing of it is just so different from
comedy now that it just feels slow. Yeah. Who's the guy that was in airplane?
He was in, I guess, before that was a movie, was a show, right? That show I watched. And I never
watched the show. I just saw a clip of a shoe shine that they would give. Did you see this clip?
Funniest fucking thing I've ever seen. But I rewatched airplane like two months ago. It was
the series that I came after before. I'm not sure. But the shoe shine, everybody keeps going
to him. Leslie Nielsen shoe shine. Yeah, Johnny, the walking shoe shine, Johnny. So good. That first
one. This is a isn't the show police squad? It's not like that. It's a police squad, right? That was
before naked gun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Before there you go. Yeah. He's a recurring guy, but
this actor who plays the shoe shiner is in a ton of like 80s comedies playing like the weird
old Steve Buscemi. He's the old Steve Buscemi. Yeah, effectively. Yeah. Sorry, everybody. If you
Yeah, we've been back for a second. We had our app totally freeze the program that records
our podcast. Who responses you guys? No, we pay fucking retail to use. Come on.
And then the other club I saw then a doctor comes up to him. He goes, he goes,
he goes, I got a patient. He's got a mild melanoma. This he goes, I don't know. Maybe this or that.
He puts the money and he goes, you got to cut in from the vessel.
That's pretty good. That's a good bit. Did you give him four milligrams of
Samadhi? He's like, of course, he's like, you want to operate on that? That's funny,
but that's basically chat GPT now. Yeah, no, it fully is. Dude, on a plane, everyone around
you is just like just doing the queries and like reading and just asking for the secrets.
I was sitting next to a teenage late teenager college kid, maybe
on a flight like last week and he was coming from wherever to wear to LA and he was a sailing
in some kind of a race and I was that he was wearing a sailing team, whatever, just like
and I sail. So I was kind of interested and I just couldn't help myself. I glanced over
and he had the rule book for the upcoming race on his phone. He had opened on his phone. It was
some document and he just looked at it for like two seconds, quick scroll, close it, opens chat
GPT, drops this in and just goes summarize this for me and it and you know, he starts reading
the summary and then he just starts copying and pasting things back and forth and he's essentially
just using chat GPT to summarize every single thing in his life and I'm like the one hand,
I'm incredibly impressed at the speed at which he is doing this on his phone, like really fucking
fast. I'm clearly not optimizing what is possible with my phone and I don't think my hands can move
that fast anyway, but I was also like, oh man, this is like there's like a dependency. Oh yes,
yes, yes, yes. And just assuming what the answer was right, you know, it was not, not, you know,
further search was not ever done. So I was like, I was impressed, but also nervous.
Dude, am I, remember spark notes back in the day? Oh yeah. Spark notes.
You had to learn to write around them a little bit so the teacher didn't notice.
Yeah, exactly. Everyone had the same, the themes. What are the themes of catching the ride?
And teenage angst, whatever. If it, if the website was down, you're like, damn it,
I got to read the book. You know what I mean? I gotta do this for real. But now people like
they're outsourcing critical think. Yeah. So it, you know what I mean? On all fronts. So,
and obviously they're gonna, the AI stuff is going to be prevalent everywhere, everywhere,
but when it does go down for whatever reason, there's like, you know,
processing center outages, shoes or something. It's going to be like, it's not just like,
I got to read the book. It's like, people are not going to realize like, especially the new gen
that never, you know, had to raw dog, just troubleshooting. Dude, when there's like a
cell phone outage somewhere for everybody, people kind of, you know, bug out a little bit.
Because people ask like fully, it's like, you know, used to call a parent or advice an older
person be like, yo, you know, I've got a bump and I don't have the insurance. And they would lie to
you. That's all AI now. So, so people are just going to be like, people, I think people are
literally going to like fall apart. Well, I saw a news story today that some law firm got in trouble
legally because they were using AI to like just to write, you know, some of their briefs. Yeah.
And it was full of like crazy typos, but they didn't prove it because like, like this kid,
they just shipped it. And then in court, they got in trouble and they called out by the judge and
they had to call it AI hallucinations. They're like, sorry, our AI hallucinated a little bit.
It's like, no, no, no, you didn't proofread. And then they found like in the firms, like terms
and conditions, it says, trust, do not trust everything. We have to verify it, which they
didn't. There was a lawyer that submitted a full AI written thing that cited case law that wasn't
real. Like it was a year or two ago, it was sort of in a little more in the beginning of
in the famous case of Neptune versus Venus. It was clear that the just totally non-existent
case law. And they're like, uh, he was like, well, Oz versus Dorothy says, sorry about the
hallucinations. You are not doing your job. It was trippy. You just get in the liaison.
And I'd be like, you hire a lawyer to do something. They just type in the inquiry.
And then they just export PDF and email it to you. You're like, what are you doing?
Like I'm a lawyer, not a middleman. Yeah, exactly. What are you crazy? So get good lawyers, people.
Get good lawyers. Don't don't get. Yeah. Anyway, I got the, I got a tick one right now from
Volkswagen and driving these new cars, everything, bro, everything. No one has something to
rest your right hand on anymore. Have you noticed that? There's nothing. They used to be a shifter.
They've all consolidated it to hear or a wheel. So it's, and the screens are all bigger driving
new cars. They all feel like driving a living room because you're leaning, you're leaning now on
the middle thing. Cause you got nothing for the right arm. You got a big screen and a road. It
just feels like I'm driving my living room. I think there's that's intentional, man. I was just
had the new charger and it has a shifter and it's actually like a quote pistol grip shifter.
That's just like marketing name. It's more like a mollusk grip or some kind of sex toy grip
that it is an actual pistol, but rubbery, but it is you, you can rest your hand on the shifter.
I did like that. Dude, what, I just, my body feels so imbalanced on a quality. We'll put
your hands 10 and two, but it's like all of the, all of the cars have lane departure, follow
distance. They, they optimized and they're so set up for you to have very little input. Yeah.
And then so your, your arms naturally leave the steering wheel. Always, you know, one will be on
it for me, the left. And I go, that's like me comfortable. But now it's like, okay, your arm is
here. I just, I just feel uncomfortable. It's like you only have one place to put it. Yeah. And over
time you, you want more lean, you're leaning. And then it's like, this is just my, I feel like
I'm sitting on my couch driving on the highway. I did that. I drove a Crown Vic for two, three years
and it, no bolstering or anything. And I leaned and it fucked my back up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Big time. The lean's not great. I actually get sometimes cause I have to do really long drives.
I actually get bruises on my elbows from resting them on either the arm rest or whatever. I
And like sun on, on the sun, on the sun cause I was doing a lot of miles of school, everything.
Just, whoa. This would always be darker in the summer. My left time, you're like, yeah, I'm a car
guy or a trucker. That's why I got a tint. The big, the big wide screen is the new thing. Have you
seen the new Mercedes? Yeah. We talked about it last show. What do you think? That's a lot of screen.
You're like, no, no, no. They tell you when you have a young kid, they're like, no screens before
two. They're fucked in a car. Yeah, dude. You know what I mean? That I close your eye. You're
going to have to put a blindfold on your child. The new Lincoln's full, full screen. But it's
like thinner though. And it's, and it's past the dash. It's at the end, which is interesting. Yeah.
It's an interesting choice. The new like BMW does that too. They have it past it. Whereas the BMW
or the Mercedes is, it's here. It is upfront. Everything. The dash. Yeah. Yeah. It's like
clouds. I thought after the last, the EQs and whatever that they would maybe dial back the
screen a little bit, but they doubled it. They doubled it. Yeah. I was really surprised after
because no one had good things to say about that. That EQS or EQE that I drove was like driving
around like a fucking Coachella tent. But it was too bright. Put off that interior. The screen is
is aggressive. And also like the, the like the disco lights across the whole, it was, it was so
much. Yeah. This is the mood lighting or whatever. Yeah. Oh, is this it? That's the EQS. That's what
you drove. Yeah. It's fucking disco. That's too much. It's a lot. That's like, that's, that's what
concepts in 20, like that's every future concept. And also like the, you know, the blue lighting
that halos around the, the dash. And there's just so much eye fatigue. Yes. Absolutely. It pulses
different colors. Like not, not like you can change it to different colors. Like it will,
on its own, do this like to match music or something. Tripping shit. Yeah. I mean, you can,
you can turn this off, but it's, and you, although if you have all, if all these screens are on,
it might actually be nicer on your eyes to have light coming from other sources. Otherwise,
you're just looking out at, you know, darkness. They have to do it for that. It's so much light.
When do you think you think we're going to have like the windshield screen thing? I think if
with Waymo and self driving, I think they'll have it in like 10 to 20 years. Oh, we're looking at the
windshield is just stuff. Nothing is 10 to 20 years away, honestly, at this space. Actually,
I had no idea you guys have Waymo's like this. Yeah. Have you tried one yet? No, I haven't. You
should. Why is it? Because they're fun. It's amazing. Is there a camera inside for what you're
doing? Waymo's just a bang on like, I wanted the same thing. Think about it. They said they don't
check unless there's like a 30 minute drive real quick. Yeah. I people probably are fucking, but
there is a cabin camera. Yes. And do they like being like you terms and conditions say no banging
in cabin? I've never tried to fucking a Waymo. It's not something that I would find out there.
Here's the funny thing about your wife's car. Do you think that people who are
fucking in like limos and cabs and stuff already are the people who would be fucking in Waymo's?
And they really want that driver. Yes, absolutely. They prefer that. Yeah. I don't mean to like infer
everyone's peculiarities, but like, what's it called when you like people watching?
I mean, I think people probably are fucking. That's so good to know. I got a show on Friday.
But also like, I think I rarely get in a dirty Waymo. The worst I've ever seen there was a beer
can rolling around on the floor of a Waymo I got in once. That's the worst I've ever seen.
So do they have, are they constantly going to a depot or is someone right here? It's around the
corner. They just kind of quickly clean them up and get them back out. No, no, no. I think they
clean them each day or they at least check them, you know, and clean them ish each day. And when
they charge them, they do like whatever, like a 12 hour shift over there at eight a.m. They like
fucking ants marching out altogether. It's like interesting. It's being in New York, you don't
see it and we don't have them in Toronto. So I'm like coming out here seeing this and San Francisco.
I'm like seeing it like the way they're dispatched out here. I'm like, oh my God, these guys are
going to replace everybody in the whole country. So Boston's fighting against Waymo really aggressively
because like cab drivers, it's a job. It's a career like they're really trying to fight for the people
which they should. My head, they're always like some weird outlier little thing in San Francisco.
You see three of them. I did not know they were on the road the way they are. They are everywhere.
I was like, oh, yeah, this is a takeover right here. It won't be ubiquitous soon. It won't be
ubiquitous until someone figures out the insurance. Oh, yeah. That's probably why it's in a lot of
these states. It's just like a liability nightmare. Well, the state has to allow it, right? You have
to explicitly allow autonomous vehicles. Yeah. And then it's, well, who's going to insure them?
Waymo's self insured. They're owned by Google. So they don't need, they can insure themselves.
They can start an insurance company. They can afford it, right? But if it's your car,
if you buy a whatever and you use this mode, yeah, well, either to send it out or to use the
mode while you're in the car and it has a crash or hurt somebody who is responsible, no OEM
will take responsibility of it. But I heard Tesla's on full self-driving Europe right now.
They finally allowed in Europe what they've had here for the last whatever. They don't have something
better. They said for self-driving. No, it's something else. It's still the one here where it's
like, put your hand back on steering wheel. It's the same. Got you. You were not allowed to use that
at all in Europe until now. Oh, so they just unlocked, they just allowed them to use it now.
Yeah, yeah. Europe, it doesn't have something. Look at Europe, you're not ahead on this one,
huh? I thought they'd be more ahead on this. They're ahead on safety. Yeah. They are not ahead
on this. This is not safer. I'm just saying it's not. So have you written any of these BYDs yet
yourself? No, have you? No, I have not. They only sell them in Canada though, right? They're about
to let them in. They're going to take over. I do a joke. I'm like, the EV market is like 1950s NBA
and BYD is like black guys. BYD stands for big yellow dick. That's a good point. That's a really
invasive species, you know what I mean? Because they're freaking doing their EV on a way faster
pace of development. Yeah, they skip Dover's gas cars for the most part. They really did. So it's
like, what are they going to do? They're going to eventually, they're going to make their way in.
So what are they going to be like? You have to manufacture them in America? Or how do they,
because they're going to make their way in sooner or later. How do you get? They could
tear off the shit out of them and make them, you know, too expensive to be worth buying. That's
it is right now. 100% or whatever. They probably just keep doing that. But apparently that's
Seagull, that BYD Seagull is like 11. That's like the cheap BYD cars, like 11 grand. So even
out of 100% tariff, it's like 20 grand. It would still be one of the cheapest cars. Yeah, it would
still be really cheap. I mean, we do have like a eight grand. They say we have in this country,
like a lack of affordable new cars and people who only have $10,000 to $20,000 to spend on a car
are forced to buy something with higher mileage and more wear that's going to have more mechanical
problems as opposed to a small and basic, but new car that will run for 10 years without giving
anyone any bullshit. It looks like a Honda fit, doesn't it? Yeah, it looks like a sad
Honda fit. Yeah, I'm not out here being like, yeah, bring it in ASAP. But like,
they have like five minute charging, like they're there on like batteries, battery
chemistries that are like, just charge fast. Well, they have high, they have very high voltage
chargers. Yeah, it'll be like 500 kilowatt hour or five kilowatts. Yeah. Yes. And there, you know,
there's fires, et cetera. But yeah, yeah. Price of progress, right? You know,
there's a few things. There's the cheap labor. There's the integration. They own like the battery,
the debt of everything, everything. You know, the government sort of organizing all of it,
you know, to where they have control, which we would not probably want here, but it does like
create a system that cranks out cars cheaper and more efficiently. So I mean, and it's six
dollars a gallon out here. So it's six dollars a gallon out here. Yeah. And, but here, there's
half the cars on the road seem to be electric, 33%. A lot. Tesla's like crazy,
tight cans, every third car's a tight can. In LA, the percentage of EVs is very high.
It's huge. Yeah. And I, dude, as someone who lives in this town, like I will never drive a gas car
again. Are you pure electric? No, no, no. For fun. Yeah. For weekends. Yes. For that kind of stuff.
Yeah, absolutely. But for my every day, dude, I was just thinking about this because I just spent
a week in a gas car, a brand new one. And I got back and I just got into this new Genesis GV60
right now. Magma. Driving downstairs. And I'm just going, dude, after a week of driving a gas car,
getting into an electric car is such a fucking revelation. Dude, just how nice it is. Listen,
they're going to win. It's going to win. Yeah, we all know it's going to win, right?
We all know it's going to win when I'm driving. Dude, this thing, I may write about this for
road and track this month. I was hoping the new charger would be the budget Bentley GT.
It's a big GT. Yeah. You know, I thought it would be. It's got a lot of power.
I, it was not. I got back, I get in this. This is the budget Bentley GT. This has the closest
interior to a Bentley GT that you could do for under a hundred K. They're not playing that shit.
The quilting, the seat, somebody sat in a Bentley GT and said, you copy this seat. I'm telling you
the shape, structure of the seat. They got as close as they could get with the, they got the
quilting. All that silver is real metal. It gets cold. It's like nice and cold in the morning.
The, um, they, somebody benchmarked the Bentley GT for this car. There's a lot of similarities.
Plus you have a really low dashboard, which I love. You've got great, great visibility. It's
got a small footprint, great turning radius. It's like the size of a Q three. Yeah. Yeah.
For most people, I think, oh, you know, Dennis is not playing around.
I have this exact one and it's 73,000 because it's the performance, you know, one yet the magma one.
I don't, it's not magma yet. This is just called performance all wheel drive. I think magma is
going to be next year. Got it. Yeah. What is that? Uh, that, uh, when you power it on, it
spins over and it's the shifter. Oh, God. It's kind of cool. Oh, so it's like glass.
But there's, there's hard, those buttons are all metal. There's a, there's a scrolly knob for
your stations and stuff. Scrolly knobs for, this is well done. They, the controls are on the steering
wheel are super similar to Bentley's controls. Somebody, somebody went, let's knock off a Bentley
here and they did it in a way that I can totally fucking relate to Korean Bentley right there.
I'm getting the G 90 black prestige. That's gonna be dope from Genesis. It's a bummer because I'm
like in British Columbia for three, four days for shows alone. Yeah. I'm like, there's a car you
want to be in the back seat of this is like long wheelbase. Yeah. That back seat is on some s-class
shit. So my uncle Phil has one of these. The wife of the guy who gave me the Mercedes,
he's got one of these in G 90. It's fine. Bad ass, has a button to open and close the door.
Yeah. You're gonna be driven in this. Yeah, exactly. That's why I feel like kind of like, what the?
This is the budget flying spur for sure. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I think it's got air suspension
or at the very least very nice adaptive shocks. And everybody here was excellent.
And better looking than the new seven series. Yeah. Oh, dude. Oh my God. Refresh. Oh my God,
dude. Seven series and s-class used to be like this, bro. As far as luxury flagship sedan go,
s-class is just so far. Every time I see a seven series, I'm like, what the fuck happened? Yeah,
I don't know. What is it? It's like a giant rectangular prism. It's not great. And I haven't
liked the seven series in, I gotta say, 20 years. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's what I'm saying. Like,
it gets more of a rectangular prism every time. It just doesn't, it just doesn't do it for me.
I don't really know what we're doing here, but I hope they're happy. It looks like a concept
like Judge Dredd III. Like, it just, it's very angular and brash. A 90s, 740. Yeah. Those are,
look at that compared to this. I bet if somebody made a sporty shortie, if you, if you, someone
would pay 200 grand, if, if a singer-like outfit made a sporty shortie with, you know,
there's not a lot of cars you could singer eyes, but this would be a good choice. That is beautiful.
Best looking sedan of all time. This right, how beautiful is that? The best. How beautiful is
that? Every time I see that, you see these in New York a lot and, you know, they're a little rusted,
but you're like, damn, that was beautiful car. They nailed it right there.
When I was growing up in New York and these came out, all the rich people got them. They,
all these were so popular. And they still like, you have all the newest, everything evolved past
them and they're parking all around them. This is the best design wise. It's just kind of like
Pete there. And I don't, I don't exactly even know why. Like I look at it, there's nothing
specifically remarkable about any part of it, but just it as a whole, when it was boxing in a
perfect way, just the proportions kept getting highest, remain the boxy, but grabbed it, pulled
it higher. Oh, like a foot higher. They clicked the button. Yeah. The one side. Yeah. This and the
Audi S eight from that period work. Oh, the Audi, bro. The 2002 Audi, the one that Scotto has
that, you know, God help you if you own one of these and have to keep it running. Oh, keeping
them running. Oh, the top. Yeah, beautiful. God damn, they look nice. Yeah. Like that old flagship
sedan look beautiful. I think you want to think about it. That is the year 2001 in the year
thing about the year 2001 for like flagship, you know, merced flagship sedans, you're the
Bentley Arnaz. You have this, you have the said this, the seven series that with the one we just
looked at those little Mercedes compressors that were driving around. Okay, compressor.
Right. These were the 39 m five. The key with this car is you have to do the s. So that was
the steering wheel I had in my s four that made me want to vomit. I you needed to get the it
looks like a dodge intrepid. Oh, it's terrible. You had to get the three spoke optional steering
wheel that the four spoke below. I call that the beluga whale steering wheel. It's ugly. Yeah.
That bro would fucks. That is like a guitar. The plus minus shifting that when I saw that as a
valet, I was like, whoa, yeah, dude. Exactly. It's like a sequential box forward and down.
Oh, back then when you put back that I thought that was right second before it shifted.
Especially what I loved about this car. Look at the gauges, the double thick white needle.
Oh, dude, I know. Regular a eight and s a four and a the a's and a thin orange needle.
This is the autism, by the way. The s is got this fat, white, bright, white, fat needle. I
thought that was the coolest fucking shit. Dude, I was looking at x fives and like 2020 or 2019
is the final year they had they stopped having analog dials. Yeah. And they just switched to just
that digital. What and everything is that now. Yeah. I'm like, man, it's such a bummer. Something
about digital. Something about just the analog. Yeah. A neat, a gate, a needle. Something about it.
Sure. I don't know what it is, but you know how you get out of the world. You need to spend more
money. If you if you are not looking at an x five and instead we're looking at a Bugatti. Yeah,
they're all of course. You have fucking, of course, you'd be able to look at the gears. The clock,
the clock is like AP. Everything is visible. It's called the Torbjorn. It's named. Look,
it's named after one of the crazy steering wheel that like floats. Look, the speedometers and
should have gears that you can like. That's what I'm talking about. See, that's I'm going to start
saying if you got a Pagani, you could have some like real gears and that's my problem. Yeah,
you're not focused on the wrong cars, boss. I need to get a tech fuck. You gotta go. You're
at the wrong dealership. So go down the street to the Bugatti and the speedometer goes to 550.
Yeah, kilometers, kilometers. I mean, I think I think of kilometers as a Canadian,
you know, and most of the world, I'm putting that out there. What do most cars speedos stop at,
you know, in Canada? In Canada? Yeah, like, 220. Yeah, 220. 220. That's the most great good cars.
And yeah, yeah, it's pretty wild. It goes to five. I remember when I was a kid, I freaking looked,
there was a badass Corvette parked outside of McDonald's. I looked inside and they had
the speedometer up to 300. I was like, just remember, like, what? Yeah. 300, like, what?
It was a big deal when the when Bugatti came out with the Veyron. Because it was like 320 in real
life. The speedometer was for 300 miles and miles and miles and miles. And the car didn't
really have screens. Yeah. But when you turned it off and walked, even if you looked in the window
from the they wanted to make sure that all we showed in from the window, you you could clearly
see a speedometer that goes to 300 like that, which is a pretty baller move. That's crazy.
Yeah, that's what I always do when I was a kid, just like, look to see what the final number is.
Yeah, kilometers. It's 420. It's really funny. When when you smoke weed as an adult and 99%
of that weed smoking is like by yourself. The idea of weed culture is so dumb. I know. I know.
That's where I'm at. Where I was like, why did why a free joint? Yeah, right. Well, I like a deal.
Yeah. Yeah. Now when I go to the weed store, it used to be like, what's the strongest shit you
got now? You can't ask that. Now it's what's on sale. Yeah, bro. I am always in there like,
honestly, they'll be like, we have a 30. I don't I don't even want that. Honestly, I'm like, give me
a 25% indica infused. No, no, no, no. It's what they soak the weed in hash oil. You don't smoke
up. Not really. You don't keep. Yeah. They'll they'll like, they'll like wet it and roll it and
keep it inside. I don't even know what they're doing. They just increase in potency 10 20 30%.
That's a beer with vodka in it. Exactly. Exactly. You just kind of like you stop getting verbal. You
go fully non-verbal eye contact that makes you at this point. But it's like you play piano so well.
Activate music a little bit and just kind of have this. That's why I'm smoking a little bit,
right? Sure. That's what I'm going for. I'm just trying to not want to murder everybody. I see.
baseline. To me, I'm just like, yeah, no, too much. I don't do I was when I go to the store,
I'm like, give me what would have been amazing in 2004. You know what I mean? Before you all
learned most of this science you're doing. Yeah, exactly. You know what I mean? Like,
oh, gee, good. Yes. You're like, I'll take it. Yeah. And I like, I get the smalls. That's the
secret. No, no, no. Like instead of like, if you want to buy an ounce, I buy an ounce.
Instead of like flowers. Yeah. And that's like my life or whatever. Wouldn't money bags here?
This shit is so cheap. I know it's like 100 bucks. I would I would retail in 2004 an ounce
for $400. That's crazy. Now I'm going to the fucking Snoop Dogg store and swiping my credit card
for an ounce for maybe 125 bucks. That's what I'm saying. Maybe 25 years of inflation later.
This is so cheap. It's crazy. The only thing the only example is the only health care getting
cheaper. And it used to be Canada's weed was always half the price used to always be like in Canada
was 10 bucks a gram and in America is 20 bucks a gram. And now is it now now it's pretty much
it's all kind of converged on it's a $10 pre roll. And like everywhere you go, it's a $10
pre roll or you can get a three pack a half grams for 15 bucks. Like it's like all kind of the same
shit. Yeah. But the smalls, it's the it's I buy an ounce of the little small popcorn nuggets,
not the big show offy nuggets. They sell them for cheaper. It's the same weed. It just doesn't
display as well. And then you have to break it up. And I'm throwing that shit in a grinder. I don't
want full. Yeah, I'll grind it myself. But like it's the same shit. And it's you're going to
shred it out for 75 bucks, 70 bucks. But it's like exposed like it's shredded. You got to smoke it
in 18 hours. It is exposed to air. Yeah, it's 11 a week party. Yeah, exactly. That's what's good
about the nugs. They stay moist for longer. Right. You get because they just kind of top
aware going to our new collab. I bet you got all the last top away. No, we had a weed sponsor
though for a while and it became problematic that Jackie Childs. Dude, it no, he's the last time
that's that you smoked me up with that. I did. He's not any of that stuff. Yeah. But no, we were
sponsored by tradecraft farms. Shout out to him. And I got a QP a month, which is a problematic
amount of weed to have. Speaking of things that are problematic, sending you like Xanax.
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April, Zephyr Theater, LA 24th, San Francisco. Yes, sir. And then on the way home back to New
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And then I'm out in British Columbia next week and Seattle on May 3rd. More dates after that.
Just go on bossbob.com. We'll put the link in the show. Captain live show. Zach, will you flip
it back to the other page and make the words? Are you German? No. Yeah. I'm a Jew. It's kind of
the opposite. Can you notice? Natural enemy of the German. Still to this day. They're nice now.
We imported all their bags. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know what it is. We find some, they work fast.
You keep doing that. Yeah, exactly. Even when they came in, they're like, I'm stairs now.
A lot of German cars. Yeah. Can you notice these nuts? What is that? What is the funniest car?
What's the funniest car? The funniest car. You know what? Every time I see a Pontiac
Aztec, it kind of makes me laugh a little bit. It makes me kind of smile a little bit.
Funniest car. I mean, an Aztec is pretty funny to me. I mean, is there a perfect answer for
this? You guys are all, what's the, what's, how would you answer that question? What's the funniest
car? When I see the SSR, the Chevy pickup truck, I just go, oh, that was taken out of an animated
movie. I think it's even worse than the PD Cruiser. It just looks so round. It should show up with
clowns in it from the dealership and a birthday cake. And the cabin looks tiny on it too. So it's
like, it's a tiny two-seater. With huge fenders. It's weird. Tiny truck bed. I do like how many
people I've seen. A K truck is a pretty funny little vehicle. A K truck. Like a tiny little
Japanese pickup truck, like that people are buying now for like 7,000 bucks. Oh dude, these. Oh my
God, bro. I love these things. They're awesome, but they are pretty funny. They are funny.
To me, that's less funny, more just like pure utility. Tiny. You could carry stuff with it,
fit in a tiny parking spot. That just makes total sense to me. About half the ones I see driven
are being used for utility. The other half are being used for pure style. That's why it's funny.
Oh no, he's just burning oil because I think the sambar was like a two-stroke or something.
Oh, that's what all that smells like. They're adorable. Yeah, I love it. Let's see. Uli Konkels
Autobahn. What group of car enthusiasts have the worst sense of humor? Got to be Porsche people,
right? I don't think Porsche people have the worst sense. Do you get any pushback on your,
could you cover every OEM, every like facet of cars? Well, the funniest thing is now I get
press cars. So I got a Nissan Armada recently and right when you say Nissan, they come. They come.
And it's like you're getting these press guys. You're trying to come in objectively and check it
out and stuff. But you know, obviously, Stalantis didn't do a lot of good for the PR of Nissan. So
people right away attack Nissan. Wait, Stalantis? What do you mean? Oh, sorry, not Stalantis. Who's
the owner group of just Nissan? No, who owns Nissan? I mean, Nissan and Renault have a partnership,
but they don't have a parent company. Stalantis is Dodge Chrysler and shit.
I thought it was a parent company. Either way, the Carlos Ghosn era and after the fact,
you know, my first car was a Nissan Sentra. So there's a billion problems. But Nissan is what
people come at nowadays. Let's just say that. That's because the ultimate meme. The CVT kind of
fucks you up for them. The worst sense of humor. I mean, I think the 911 people are kind of like
not that 911 is kind of becoming used to be like, that's the car to get to work hard, get that.
Now it's kind of like they're all 200 grand for like a base 911. And it's all like collectors
want the air cooled ones. And it's just kind of like tech bro money people. It's not really about
like, I love cars. I want that one. It's all that car will appreciate 10% a year. It's like a portfolio
piece now. Ferrari people really take themselves very seriously. Dude, you know, a friend of mine
got a Ferrari Aroma, not even like he's got like crypto made crypto money. And just out of
he showed me the Ferrari and then I'm looking at the rims. I'm like, Oh man, these are like
sick. And I don't know what this says. He goes, the thing is about Lamborghinis is Lamborghinis
is new money and Ferrari is old money. And then I go, bro, you just got money. He goes, I know.
It's already ruining him. It's already, it goes into your brain like a frickin.
Did he roll an ass, Scott? As he said that money, bro, if you have money, you had a Ferrari before
you had to buy a Roma to get into it. We're looking at the rim. It just, you see the, it just
a shot at lambels for no reason. Amazing. That's so funny. He already thinks he's too good for
a piece of shit live in front of my eyes. He is. Duffel Shuffle Retirement Club favorite road
trip snack that's not a black coffee and Marlboro Red 100s. I mean, there isn't a better one.
Jerky. Jerky. That sweet, that sweet one. Yeah. I like roasted, dry roasted nuts.
Do you say D's nuts? Not specifically that brand, but dry roasted, dry roasted peanut is my road
then you need too much water, like too much liquid. There's just too, too much sodium going on.
True. You're just like, you just got to get dry roasted. I play that game for hours. I'll do the
Popcorners Big Bag and like a Gatorade and just ping pong back and forth. So you're getting
electrolytes here. Yeah. Sodium and electrolytes and then I've got a pee, but all right, whatever.
I find, I find standing up for a little bit every hour and a half is good for me anyway.
Like in your seat, like one of these are getting out of the car. It's good for my back.
It's good for my bladder. Yeah. It's good for my brain. You know.
Oh, I can't, I can't, I haven't fact checked this claim, but don't judge an engine by its cover.
Saza, as of 2025, the Subaru BRZ has taken the WRX's spot as the most ticketed car in the US.
Do you see this more as an increase in the enthusiasm surrounding the BRZ or the fall
of the popularity of the WRX? Both? Yeah, probably both. You know, the, the BRZ people are, they like
the, the pure rear wheel drive. Yeah. We're going to drift this thing. So they're probably doing
more stunt stuff than the WRX people. The WRX and the STA used to be like, I'll work hard,
I'll make some money. They're just vaping hard, right? They're not even doing anything crazy.
No one's going off road with the WRX, but I imagine BRZ people are doing stupid as shit.
I think that's true. I also think they've, they kind of, they stopped making the, the STI while
ago. It's like the S version or whatever. The WRX is softer and not really as like
tuner friendly now. It does, but like the, the, there's just more used BRZs and shit around
for kids to buy and drive stupid. It's the cheapest you can get into a rear wheel drive car.
Pretty much. Right? Yeah, pretty much. That's a manual rear wheel drive car. And it has
source that in Miata. Yeah. Exactly. So that is going to lead to shenanigans, shenanigans,
young people in a rear wheel drive car doing shenanigans.
We'll save the watch question for next time. Maki, Maki of Ellie. That's pretty good.
Dream city venue. You wish to perform at dream city venue.
Ah, this is not really a dream city. I'd love to do a big venue in my hometown. I grew up in London,
Ontario, Canada. Shout out London, Ontario. So we have, now it's called the Canada Life Place.
That's the biggest venue in, so growing up, it was called the John LeBat Center. Then it was
called the Budweiser Gardens. You know, these centers keep getting, but here you guys got
crypto and whatever the, so now it's called. We've always had stupid names for stuff and
next is going to be called the Amazon Prime recreation center. But now it's called Canada
Life Place. I love to play just the biggest venue in my hometown, just to be like, you know,
that's like what Kevin Hart played like 10 years ago, to just feel like. Yeah. By then it'll be
the fucking blue, true gold arena. It'll be called the Waymo Love. The Palantir Palace.
Yeah. The Kalshee fucking gamble on everything. Yeah. The Saudi Arabia fun place. Thank you
to our Saudi Arabian owners. We'd like to thank them and enjoy you. Get a homeless hot dog. It's
basically like the Qatar embassy now. Yeah. You have to show a passport to get in there.
Uh, Dre from Houston. What is an unreliable car you would all buy even though you know better?
Well, you know, he's going on about Range Rover at Range Rover. Dude, my good friend,
Juarez, general manager at London, Ontario, Range Rover. So every time I go there and I
shit talk Range Rovers all the time, that's another one where we can all shit talk them
and it will not affect sales one bit. Very true. Range Rover is like they just took,
even in LA, it's like the aesthetic. They nailed the aesthetic and they even at one point,
apparently we're doing, putting money into increasing reliability and stuff like that
and like kind of doing a push to reduce claims, etc. And it had no effect on sales. They noticed
like, it's just the aesthetic and the name that sells this car. And they're very comfortable.
And extremely, dude, they glide down the road. They're really nicely made and they're really
nice to drive. They feel great. So for sure, Range Rover Sport, SVR, baby all day.
I buy a full size Range Rover. Yeah. Yeah. Because you don't have any evidence that the new ones
are, you could, I would buy the cheapest full size Range Rover, which I got one as a press car.
Yeah. It was 105,000 bucks. Yeah. Still a lot of money, but for a full size Range Rover.
Great. And it had like pretty much everything. A lot of features. Yeah, it was great.
Very comfortable. Very comfortable. Queershifting gears says, at our recent
Lemons race in mid Ohio, our transmission got stuck in fourth gear in a 1996 Maxima.
Everyone on the team ended up running faster lap times by three to six seconds compared
to their first day. Have you ended up with similar issues that ended up for the better?
I've never ended up faster with a car stuck in fourth gear.
How does that make sense? That doesn't make sense though.
I mean, a couple of things could happen. One is they got faster because they just got better at
the track. Their lap times are probably just going to be better on day two than they would be on day
one. Correct. Second is, but not third. We're not saying third. We're saying fourth.
I know. Yeah. I agree. And I'm looking at the corners. So there's a lot of straightaways that
that's, I guess. No, this is the track. It looks like there's a lot of.
Run this track in fourth gear. And I'll tell you why the straightaway, the entry onto the straightaway
is going to be probably the boggiest bit, but that, that hairpin, which this course
clockwise is downhill. So that you're going downhill on that hairpin onto the front straight.
So you got a little assist. The front straight is slightly downhill. The whole roller coaster bit
at the top of the north end of the thing is mostly downhill. This bit where Zach is on the east
side is back uphill, but it's fast. Yeah. And you kind of got some inertia. You can stay at a higher
speed like above like 60, 70 miles an hour the whole time. Yeah. And the bits that are slower,
you have a downhill assist. Got it. And you always keep in speed. I think it's interesting. Maybe
your drivers kind of crazy though. Maybe your drivers were just better when they could focus on
their line and weren't shifting. Maybe they weren't blowing the tires off lower gears.
Maybe they were just smoother. Yeah. All of those things. Yeah. How interesting. I've never had a
car that broke and then we went faster. They probably focus on maintain momentum. If you said
that like third gear, I bet. Yeah. Okay. I can see that. I don't know about that. You know,
top up pretty early. But third, yeah, I can see that. Fourth, you're like, what? Fourth. Very
interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe you were fifth gear. We like what? Maybe they weren't over driving
the tires and the tires were holding up better. How interesting. Christian says, can you explain
how all car companies have to use smaller gas engines for emissions and global standards,
but Ferrari will put a V12 in their SUV and Hummer said they're going back to gas and hybrid. Well,
so the Hummer is ditching their electric comer? Well,
or they're given a range. They're probably going to have an electric one and a hybrid one.
Oh, but like there, but here's the thing with the super small volume players,
I don't think they have to do EPA the same or emissions. The super small ones like Ferrari
kind of do. Ferrari is special because they're under another parent company Fiat. So Fiat does
gets all of their numbers from the mass and then they let them have an allotment of like
anything goes. Yeah, but also they do still have hybrid product. They're the 296 is hybrid,
the new 849 Testerosa, which replaces the SF90 is hybrid, the F80 is hybrid,
there's going to be a hybrid version of the performance though, right? But it still gets
the credit. Still gets them the credit. It doesn't matter why you do it if you do it. Okay. So yeah,
so Ferrari's math says, well, we can still put a V12 in the 12 C and we can put a V12
in the Pure Songway if we do these other things to balance it out. I mean, fucking dude, it's not
all car company. GM is still making a manual black wing where it gets eight miles of fucking gallon.
You know, not the CT4 or whatever. The CT5 is done. That's the only one left, right?
Is the only manual V8. They took out the small ones at the 4. The CT4? Black wing is done.
Well, they're canceling the 4 and the 5 after 2026. I didn't know the 5 too. But the 5 black wing,
but the CT5 will come back. Yeah, according to car and driver. Yes.
That's a badass car right there. Oh, it's awesome. Yeah. I mean, so it used to be like M5 in that,
right? And then M5 went full hybrid, 5,000 pounds. So now it's actually in a special
place that nobody else is. For sure. Yeah. Fantastic. And companies that want to sell in
different markets to different type of customers have different global regulations. So like the
M5 hybrid, for instance, they really need to sell to people in like the UK. Yes. Where those
plug-in hybrids are very advantageous to the standards that those things have.
Anything that comes out now, that's not a hybrid. I'm actually like surprised. Like I'm shocked.
I think you get through. Yeah, just from like, from a mass point of view, fuel economy. Yeah.
And from a performance point of view, performance. You know what I mean? They get those little
charges. They put little electric motors. So now it shaves like a third of a second off.
It adds weight, but or they'll try to put the motor in there to like smooth, you know,
gear shifts and whatever they like. If you don't have the resources to do it properly,
you can make a car real shitty by trying to do a hybrid. Like you got to have the resources to
make the integration very smooth and really good. And so there's some people that don't have like
Nissan. Dude, you don't want an Nissan hybrid. Stalantis, obviously, they just shut down
their hybrid division, not because they didn't think hybrids were worth investing it,
because they were so shitty. Yeah. They were, they had so many problems. Like,
you know, so a great hybrid is great. But like a bad one is like a huge red flag.
It's just that technology is so ubiquitous now that it's like you think they would just benchmark
and take a, take a canry, take a Prius, rip it apart, figure out what they did. Yeah.
Every rap for only comes hybrid now. Yeah. Because if you look 99% of the road are hybrid,
they're like, you know, what are we doing? Yeah. Darian Lux says you're allowed to make
any one race car from history, street legal, what's your pick and why?
What street legal race car would I like to drive that is not currently street?
Was the CRK GTR street legal? There was a street version of it. Yeah.
But there was, you could, one could, could argue that the racing version was the back flippy one.
Having, yeah. Having had that poster, I'll have to go at the CLK. And I always just love seeing
CLK GTR. So many letters. Yeah, exactly. I would like to, to have the plate put on that
T1 Raptor thing that Zach and I got to have a go in, which is Ford's Carbon Tum Dakar
race vehicle. It's a truck. It's called Raptor, but it's not a Raptor. I think I saw it.
It's like a psychotic buggy. Is it, it's got like a giant winch or something in the back?
What's it got in there? No, no, no, this is a, it's this. Oh, this I have never seen. That looks
like a Mars rover. That's incredible. That's sexy as hell. Yeah. So it has a, it has a coyote.
We got to ride in it. We got to ride in it with their pro. How was it?
Did you do a jump? Did you guys do a jump? We did some small ones. Some small ones.
We did a little jump. There was air for sure, but there wasn't like a big table. It was like,
it looks like some Ken Block shit right there. But it's the, the, the, the speed that you could
carry over whoops was, you could carry a hundred miles an hour over whoops. It's got a Mustang
engine effectively in the middle and then it's carbon fiber. Yeah. And so, you know, the wheels
can. What's this thing called? Raptor T1 Raptor T1 Plus. I've never even heard of this.
And it's a eight into one exhaust, which makes it sound like a Formula One car.
Dude, it sounds amazing. Real crazy. Like eight headers or like, yeah. Like all eight
headers go into one pipe. Well, it's just high pitched. Very cool. Super cool.
Would you, would you drive a race car on the street? Do you have a choice for this question?
Didn't I say I see that? Oh, you did. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. No, I just brain damage.
Uh-huh. We got five minutes. And so don't break for the kink says, do you think we'll
ever see aftermarket ADAS tuning? I'd love a tailgate mode for left lane campers. I don't
think you'd have a, I don't, honestly, I don't even know what that's saying. ADAS. So, I mean,
so like ADAS is like lane keep assist, all the safety assists that can get very intrusive and
annoying. Oh yeah. So I think that in the future, there will be people like Cobb tuning and APR
and these companies will have, just like they can tune for horsepower, they'll be able to tune so
that when the car turns on, all the ADAS systems are not on by default. So you don't have to turn
them shits off every time. Awesome. What don't break for the kink is saying a custom programmable
ADAS that would, for instance, tailgate people. I don't know any programmer that would responsibly
put that in a car. No, but I bet programmers for left lane campers will. Got it. Okay. I think
you just have to do it manually. You're gonna have to do it manually. I truly think like people
will always find a way to metal with cars in some way because there's too many people. Someone will
eventually sell a program that will make it like if every car is autonomous, they'll go, well, here's
a little spicy version, you know, and they'll do that. Yeah. The problem is tailgating. So if you
like, you know, you want to tailgate somebody for a left lane camper, right? So it's like,
you want to get an asshole out of the way, right? But then if you're not doing it to somebody who's
left lane camping, you're being an asshole. So it's an asshole boat, right? Are you the asshole
or are you trying to stop an asshole? Yeah, you have to do it manually. You just have to do it
flashing works better than tailgate. Yeah, even day. I'm leading these events across entire
states and I have to be flashing people to move over all the time. And I have a pretty high success
rate. America is pretty bad about that where it's most of the world at Canada too. Yeah, where it's
like, most of the world's like, Oh, I need to get out of the way. But here, people are like,
fuck you. I'll do what I want. Like there's a little bit of that. Hey, I'm here. Like there's not,
it's not really a left lane passing lane mentally for a lot of people. I just want to not drive behind
other people. Yeah. And I'm going for over and that's as fast as anybody should ever be going.
So yeah, you run into that a lot here when they're like, and they're like proud that they're not
moving, right? And then you pass them, they just won't move their neck. You're like, some states
are better than others. Yeah, Vada is really good. Yeah. Yeah, Texas is pretty good. Texas is good.
Yeah. I like driving in Texas. Dallas is a little annoying sometimes. But I'm just specifically
in there in their etiquette of pulling out of the way. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, thanks for coming by.
Last minute. Good show. Thank you for having me. Go check out those tour dates at a bosswaob.com or
on the socials. Yeah, catch them in LA. If you're getting this show when it goes up,
he's in LA on the 23rd. That's today. So definitely give them a follow on Instagram,
Tik Tok. Your reels are very funny. Thank you, man. I appreciate you. Thanks for having me.
And a very high percentage of your comedy is about cars. Yeah, if you're in this show,
you'll probably like your comedy. Thanks, dude. And thanks to our patrons for asking such good
questions. We appreciate you guys. Zach and I are going racing. So we'll see you from the other side
of that race next week. Peace out.
About this episode
Abbas Wahab and the hosts riff on how car culture shapes his stand-up, with his material landing especially well among gearheads who finally hear someone joke about cars the way they talk about them. The conversation veers into Dax Shepard’s car-heavy movie work, stunt driving, and the weird economics of podcasting, including massive sales and generational-wealth deals. They also debate live-show setlists, encore etiquette, and how comedians and musicians balance crowd favorites with new material.
Abbas Wahab is a standup comedian most known for his hilarious, accurate comedy reels that make fun of the car industry and various enthusiasts communities.
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