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Episode 118 Teaser: ''I Can't Pay No Doctor Bill...'' (Patreon-Only Episode)

Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad May 29, 2026 1 min

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Patreon bonus chatter from the Tired crew stitches together the leftover audio from their long 117 recording session, bouncing from a tech worker shooting in Florida to Richard Dawkins updates, an Oh Henry story, and a surprisingly heated detour into Brandy Melville and Wikipedia. Rory adds a story about the blood infection he picked up at the Daytona 500 and goes deep into a long boat-mode anecdote, while the title nods to Gil Scott-Heron’s “Whitey on the Moon.”

Topics: patreon bonus content florida shooting richard dawkins brandy melville wikipedia detour bicentennial daytona 500 blood infection boat story gil scott-heron

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Hey there, tired, pod-free feedlistener, it's your producer, pal Maddy again, he's back.

It's me again, and we've got a Patreon episode for number 118 for you, which is all the rest

of the audio from our long recording session for 117.

We've got some tech worker shot in Florida at the top, we've got some fun updates about

Richard Dawkins, we've got Rory talking about an Oh Henry story, and then our sensibilities

all being offended by the fast fashion retailer Brandy Melville, we've got a little Wikipedia

detour there, we talk about the Bicentennial, which Peter barely remembers, any older listeners

are invited to chime in if they recall, we've got a, oh Rory touches on that blood infection

he got at the Daytona 500 that he mentioned in 117, and we've got Rory going boat mode,

nice long story, good fun stuff.

So to hear all of our fun little goofing off and extra chit chat, come on over to the

Patreon at patreon.com slash tired pod t-i-r-e-d-p-o-d.

This episode 118 also takes its title from the Gil Scott-Harran classic, Whitey on the

Moon, the punchline of which will come about three quarters of the way through the episode,

I think.

Anyway, shout outs to Gil Scott-Harran, who's a piece of classical Afrofuturism I misremember

the name of during the episode, I'm sorry about that Mr.Harran.

So come on over to patreon.com slash tired pod, do you hear this one, oh wait, are we

running out of time?

Oh no, okay, bye, thank you for listening, we love you, bye!

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