Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad Aug 27, 2025

Episode 86 Teaser: With The Engine! In The Middle! (Patreon-Only Episode)

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Yeah, and kind of by the time I got home, I had written kind of a lot of that song.

You had, because you had a demo ready by the time we drove to the hill climb.

The kind of semantic value of a Corvette.

Like what does Gary think about his sort of social position as like Corvette?

How does he think about being a guy with a Corvette?

You get that, Peter, like where they're like at car shows, they're always pretty insular, like talking to each other.

But is that like the remorse of conscience kicking in on that?

Yeah, right.

It's different.

No, it's more like, damn, I wish I had invested in Apple.

Right, yeah.

I could be even more well-off.

Generally speaking, I am ashamed to be American.

That doesn't require any special specific event to trigger that feeling for me.

But actually, I think it's just as good a car as the other, you know, it's like, yeah, no, I know it is.

You don't have to explain it to me.

This is like the, what's the corollary to the necroheliopsy thing of like we never should have gone to the moon

because by standing on the moon we made it an object.

Like we all went crazy because we went to the moon.

And I'm just like looking at it and I'm just like overcome with this sense of like dread of just like,

what if this was a mistake?

Like I kind of started spinning out a little bit in my mind.

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