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Well, welcome back to another fabulous episode to get out and drive podcast tonight
It's gonna be kind of wacky. I think our topic is kind of stupid
Well, I would have to agree with you because when you presented it to me, yeah, I was like
John has fallen and bumped his head. I
Did I did now?
I'm sure everybody that even remotely has ever seen a car knows what
Mad Max is, you know, I
Post-apocalyptic wasteland, you know, everybody's chasing gasoline all that rust and fire and
Garbage and people dying and guts and everything
Wouldn't that be fun?
No
Why you wouldn't want to swing off the front of a giant tankers playing a guitar
Look in the game of survival
Uh-huh this temple was not built for survival
I'm just saying
Well, all right now
so I I
Like traditional hot rods. I
Like the way they're put together. I like patina
Don't yank the hubcaps off your 76 El Dorado and tell me it's a rat rod. Okay now I
Like rat rods
Kind of but when you start making a saw for a steering wheel and you have an old barn door for a roof and all that
Stop it. It hurts my eyes. I don't want to see it anymore. Now
pull a handbrake
What if we could mix
Rat rods and the terribleness that is the rat rod stuff with Mad Max
Would you go interested or is that
It's still terrible. You you have fallen and bumped your head. Ha ha
Well, let me bring you into the world of
Wasteland
Now you did not know maybe you did maybe you didn't there is a whole entire genre of people that
Like rat rides they like
Horsepower they like Mad Max. They like all that stuff and they cosplay they get dressed up
They put their face on all that stuff the girls are wearing some kind of steel bikini with hubcap rods and all craziness
and they run around
For real like they're in the Mad Max movie
like
For real they like they dress up real they it is a full-on cosplay thing. So this isn't
This isn't Star Trek
World of Warcraft cosplay. This is like
automotive
Nerdism is that what you're saying? It is 100%
Automotive nerdism
That's a word by the way looking up. It is it is now
automotive nerdism
because I
Am not a rat rod fan
patina fan. Yep
Do I want a 41 Plymouth on a 4x4 chassis with a saw blade sticking out of the back of it?
Maybe
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Come on I
Don't want to like this and and I think my in my my love of it it comes from the
terrifyingness of the new
Mad Max movies Paul and I and and my wife and several other people we went saw Mad Max and
It was the most intense thing. I was I was ready for it to be stupid, you know, like new Herbie
Herbie fully loaded stupid, but it blew me away
Cadillacs stacked on top of each other cars flying all over the place people killing each other all sorts
And that was the first three minutes of the movie
it it it was just
Crazy and I did not know that there was a real full-scale
Cosplay weekend and people take this just
Out just it's outlandish
How how well people make this happen outlandish is is it sounds pretty accurate for what you're talking about
yeah, no because I started learning about it because of hot wheel collecting and
There's a tabletop game called gas lands
and
People take hot wheels and they stick all kinds of crap to them barbed wire and and fins and
anchors and all sorts of crap they patina them all up and they make them all dirty and they they
Play like a tabletop game like you would
Dungeons and Dragons. Oh my god with hot wheels. Yes, we're nerds
So now I looked at that and I'm like, oh man, that's cool. I wonder if anybody's building Mad Max type
post-apocalyptic cars
And I started looking it up
Now I'm in love with it and I want to build one
Have you seen any of that? I mean past you've seen Mad Max, right the new ones. No, no
No
No, no, look, I remember being
10 years old
Okay, and seeing
Not the original I think the original came out like in the 70s, but like one of the
Carry-on
You're more in the Turner Mad Max beyond Thunderdome. Yep back in like 85
I remember seeing that as a kid. Yeah, and guess what? I probably haven't seen it since. Oh
shame shame shame
Look you and I have had conversations before about
like these epic
car movies
Mm-hmm are like the best of all time and you you've shamed me for never seeing them I
Didn't grow up watching movies as a kid. Wow. So like when Tulane blacktop
never seen it
The original
Gone in 60 seconds. I did go back and watch that you did twist my arm. I did not regret watching that
right, but like those type of movies and
Like those cars get beat
Now you're throwing in end of world post apocalyptic. Yep. Gasoline is more valuable than gold. Yep
and
These people are making cars and I get the whole thing people they're making their cars not necessarily for just simple transportation
But survival
Well as a war rig as a war rig so basically, you know, if you if someone's coming at you you need to withstand
Getting hit by somebody else because the toughest the toughest car survives
Right. There's a reason why you have chicken wire or stretch metal for a windshield
But you know what what I enjoy my cup holders for my coffee
none of that
none of that
Even rat rods I
Well done rat rod. I can appreciate I can appreciate the work that that goes into those and making certain things look a certain way
right
war rigs
I don't know man. I think I think that's pushing the limit
Now you would you would you drive a
Lifted crown Vic. I've owned a lifted crown Vic. I've lifted a crown. There you go. You're already on the way
To owning a war rig. All you have to do is knock all the windows out of it
and and then and then
Put wire screen
You know, just think think daily driver
demolition derby car
So when that fella cuts you off
Yes, on the on the on the traffic circle you just
mm-hmm rammed them off the road
correct
That I could get on board with
Now you're on board now you're on board. No, I mean have you seen have you played the video game called twisted metal?
I can't I can't say that
Paul are you there? Have we put in a new uh ad for another for a co-host
Who knows something about Karen knows anything about cars who's seen a car? I'm sorry. That's above my station
All right, well, I'll do my best with this one
David it's so popular twisted metal
Video game is so it's a first person driver video game and you get out of your car and you shoot all the clowns and
Clowns chasing with an ice cream truck with a rocket launcher on top
You know all that crap, you know, because that happens to you daily, right? You get chased by a clown
Oh, I mean up here in eastern Canada. Yeah, the ice cream trucks are on every corner
With a rocket launcher on it, but it's so popular. They've made it into a full-on
television show
On peacock
It's it's it's the most hilarious thing you've ever seen. It's awesome. Hey Siri cancel my peacock subscription, please
Oh, okay, let's make believe that you were on board with with with building a war rig
Let's just make believe you were on bill on board
What do you think you would build any any idea what you would build?
Do you care?
Or we would be out first to take you out. Let's do let's do it this way
Let's ask me that question at the end of the episode
Oh after you try and sell me
Okay on this ridiculousness
Oh, it's pretty stupid. Oh, I agree, but
The floor is yours. Mr. Mayor. All right. No problem
Paul
hit it
What do you got for photos if people are watching this? What do you got for photos for war rig stuff or
Wasteland weekend
Throw that up there
Now look
Right there right in front of you
That's exactly what I was just talking about 41 Plymouth
Four door on a on a four-wheel drive truck chassis
They do this
Yeah, five days and it's something like the eastern side of california in the desert
Even more of a excuse not to go
Well, you are kind of far away and that's one of the reasons it's because it's the weekend
Falls National Drive Day
Okay
All right, I'm I'm I'm 10 of the way. Yeah. Yeah
so
like
You you've got a car that you think you have nothing to do with you do you have a a car that's a decent four door
uh
Something it's like the bull 50s four door car whatever
Do you do you donate it's a demolition derby do you smash it up?
Do you restore it and put $50,000 in it? It's only going to be worth 1200 bucks
No, I do I do own I do own several crown vets. I understand. I mean there's a corvette
I mean those a disco corvette that looks like an 82
And there's a there's a terreno
Oh, no, okay. No trunk and it's got a gun in the back of it
What a doom buggy french toast is
That's a duly
It's like a duly doom buggy. Oh my dear with a rocket on it. That's fantastic
What is this? I'm like a 70 f1
tow truck that was a half of these vehicles you probably have by your house
Look at that. They look like an 80s caprice with a jeep from in some sort of murder cycle
There's girls. I mean I have to tell you
If look look at that you it's mean
It is bang
You could do that that could be you jason
That really it already looks like you're wearing uh a c-pap
A c-pap horns a bloody scarf. Yes
Yes
Yes, now you're with me
No, I'm not I mean I'm I'm I'm okay with that
Well, yeah, that's girls
See as you're there you go
There's like a geometry with no doors on it and 15 people hanging out of the roof
How could that not be fun?
So wait, could we take your burned out trains planes and automobiles car?
We could we could we could put like a big swinging thing on top of it with a bunch of chain
I mean you've got cars that you don't have anything you want to do with
What would be better than taking a black and white crown vic?
And making it all patina and crazy and taking it to this thing and and just
Having an ex-police car
Shredded
Okay. Well, this is fantastic. I'm five percent more there
But you're still not on board that is I mean there's a there's a like a mad max
Style I can't see the back of it looks like maybe a a terino or a or some sort of intercept interceptor falcon
You know australian falcon, but
This just brings out the destructive horsepower
Hot rod
In me
It did you have
You have lost it. I have
Paul, we are officially looking for a co-host
I've just been handed this
I can't read it. Okay. This says support building a war rig says plus 10 percent for jason
So that's joann's donation
In joann's handwriting. Yeah way to go joann in joann's handwriting
It says that she supports building a war rig and she puts in extra 10 percent of interest
So you're at like 15 percent now
Well, we're at 25 actually, but hey, oh wow. Okay. All right. We're who's counting
Who's counting? I mean better if the thing spouts fire out of the exhaust
Well, like the whole thing
Like seeing these cars like there's a cat that's a that's a cattle guard on a what is that a
60 looks like a 67 feral lane
Okay, so 68 feral lane
I like I could picture a crown vic with a cattle guard on it. Oh now you're getting there
There you go and it has to be dirty beat the hell black and white. Well, see the
The white one that I've got now
Okay, like I could totally like strip the paint off that. Oh, yeah
right and then do like a
A vinegar and salt water wash
uh-huh
To get the to get the rusty dried out desert look right or I could just drive it through one winter season here
In New Brunswick, Canada. That's true. You could take a perfectly good car and make it look like it fit in there
Hey, yeah in six months. It would be look it would look just like that. Yes. Yes
Yeah, you have to think of this as as like
I don't know. I guess it's burning man for cars
Well, I was just gonna say you had you had some guy playing music
Uh-huh. So they've got music
right
They've got scandaly
Dressed women. Okay. So far there's two of my things. I like
They've got cars clearly. Okay three
It's not in the snow
four
Might be a little hot there, but I don't care
I I like showering every day. Can we shower every day at least? No, there's no showering
Oh, damn it
Minus five percent. No, see, I mean there's goth girls that are there
There's there goth. What no whoa back up your girls
goth girls the goth girls. What what are goth girls doing at a
Apocalypse ending world they would fit in they just came icp concert
Yeah, and you got to think this is like like take goth girls and icp
uh
What the hell are they called uh the juggalettes
Steampunk and I think it's this is what you get
Go back that one slide there paul to the cards
Does that not remind you of the Shriners for peace? It is. That's exactly right
Post apocalyptic Shriners the Shriners events are still around. Yes
With shrunken heads
This is the and and we've been to custom car shows. We've been to shiny car shows
We've been to all sorts of different stuff this out in left
field
of crazy
So take pebble beach
Yes, and go to the absolute opposite end of the scale
That is correct. You've seen on the east coast the race of gentlemen
Where they get all dressed up and they're all hoi toidi looking in perfect looking 1941, you know
pre-war post-war little hot rods and they're all cute little
things
This but mad max steampunk is kind of appealing. I've always thought that that was
I like I like punk stuff
So this this is just one event that takes place
Basically labor day weekend after labor day weekend
Please tell me there's not more of these events around the globe
Oh, I haven't looked yet, but I'm guessing that Europeans are involved in this pretty heavy
If anybody I don't know they can tell us about other events that are like this you you have to tell us
Who likes cars? Yeah
In their patina form in their shiny paint form in their classic
hot rotted form
In their in in their meticulous
Concourse form. I love all vehicles
I'm really really having a hard time. I'm struggling with this
on the level of
Dressing up
Oh, you're okay. So you're down with it all except for the cosplay part
I maybe I could get I'm look
Hypothetically if you could get me on board with the cars
I'm not sure you would get me
In a pair of leather assless chaps
With
Dane get up on my face. I just oh, I don't know I can't
I can't get past the make believe
so you just want the
Chapless ass covers
Could you stitch us could you stitch a pair up for me? I could I could
It's actually like two. It looks like it looks like two eye patches
I don't know like I said I
Hypothetically
If I could get on board with the
Making the car look like those
with the cattle guards and
Oh rust and the roll cages and the lights and the this and of that
I don't
I never used to dress up for halloween. Okay. I just I don't think I could do this on purpose to dress up looking like
a fool
Wow
We could even change our logo for the week says get out and die
We wouldn't have to change the logo much
Ah
I don't know
Maybe we start start them on 164 scale
There we go
We could do that. We could do that. You'd have to build some hot wheels first
I could build some build some gas land
Have you even looked at these times before you jump in and even they say there you go
I got an old looks like an old Pontiac of something. I could probably
Yeah, right like we'll we'll we'll scrap that one up. There you go
I mean we're we're gonna have to play, uh
I guess we're gonna have to play gas lands. We get me and paul together and play on zoom or across
Across the the united states all the way up to canada. We can play that together
You can get your tiny little hot wheels we can play gas lands. I mean that's a cool looking car right there
It's like half of a
Half of a stomper
Well, see I've got I've got this one here. This is bigger than 164
Okay, but like that's what we took the second if we took the wheels
And the do the duels off that. Oh, yeah. Yeah, see grafted them on to the bonnyville. There you go
Okay, I'm now you're
Now you're thinking you now, you know, you might be on to something
I mean, it's all about creativity
And you don't have to build it pretty and you don't have to build it according to somebody else's and what they feel is cool
Well, what I want to know demolish some some uh four door cars that aren't cool
So I guess what I want to know is the mindset behind this. Is this something that
People are just a they're just simply doing it for fun as a throwback to
the mad max style
Uh of of movies just like just like trekkies will dress up in their
Cling on and they're this or they're that type uniform and this like make sure
If that's what it is. Yes
That's one thing. Yes, but if in their mind
At some point in time, they're absolutely thinking end of the world
Doomsday prepper
I'm gonna build a car that can withstand
The whole e what is it called emf?
Oh, yeah, emf. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, like
That's just I mean to me that's a little out there
I don't I just I just
That's what I think
Well, considering the the level playing field that the current
US station is giving us that everything is going to go to hell
And and one percent of the people are going to own everything and everybody else gets to pick up the scraps
We may be going to this
Maybe that's what people are maybe that's what people are prepping for
There's just one step being a quote unquote hillbilly prepper
One step off the line and all of a sudden you're a wasteland persistent
What when we first started when you first
Approached me with this idea. I I absolutely thought you were crazy
But like we talk about it and all joking aside, I think that the whole
You know to some of these cars there there is just as much effort and creativity that goes into building some of these full-size
You know real running driving cars
right as some
Show stoppers
Most certainly right and I like I said I can I can appreciate the effort and the creativity and the artistic value that goes into that stuff
It certainly is not me
Um, I just I I don't think that you would ever
catch me
Building a car like that dressing up in cosplay now. I just I'm just not that
big of a nerd
So but but you're okay. You're better with the c10 cause of of uh having a c10 and having a beard and and uh
some plan
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Sensor that one out pull
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Look, you can't not can't tell me that that's not cosplay every single one of you c10 guys looks the same
Paul are you a part of the conversation?
That one time I shaved my beard and and I was threatened that if I ever did it again that I was gonna be fired
Get out and drive for you part of the conversation. You remember that I remember that very well
Come on
Now encourage me to never shave my beard again that I did I did 100 but see
You have to look and go look right now. Anybody wants to look right now
flat bill hat
beard
plaid
c10
Do you see a flat bill hat here?
Not today. Do you see plaid? Look, I'll even undo my sweater. Do you see plaid?
I think I struck a chord
And mr. Robbie purser out there, I may have struck a chord with him as well
Rick cheeseman
And several of our friends in the c10 community. I still love you all
All joking aside, I do believe that this is a pretty it's a pretty cool adaptation of
Of what they're trying to pull off with the whole mad max
end of the world type thing
um
I do I think it's very creative
There's there's certainly you're going to certainly be in a position where there's no two cars ever identical
Right. Um, you know, I I love the creative thought and taste that goes into these things
Again, is it my look at the the blood on the blade like that's just crazy. Oh, yeah
Is it my thing? Absolutely not neither is hot or neither is um rat rod
But there are some that are more tastefully done than others
Yeah, right. There's rat rods out there that shouldn't even be on the road. They're so
distastefully done
There's some that are purpose built
To be safe. Yeah
Like I don't know if you follow village customs or not like they're building some quality stuff over there, right?
But some of this backyard stuff that people just throw license plates and coat hangers on right?
Anyways, I I get it. I I do I get it. Um, you know, put me at a passing grade of about 60 percent there on this whole topic because
Um, could I ever see myself building a car like sure? I think I could do that. I think I could make something
Uh, look the part
You would never catch me doing the whole cosplay thing on anything. It's just that's just not me. Okay
Wow, call me cosplaying the c10 guy all you want. You're not going to catch me cosplaying
Uh end of the world. Uh, I'd be interested in hearing from some of the people who who listen to us
Whether you're actually watching this on youtube or you're listening to us in the form of a podcast
It's it's always neat to see a different side of hot rotting, which is exactly what this is
Um, you know, it involves, you know, it involves cars involves bikes and involves
Even tractor trailers to some degree. It involves off-road atv style vehicles. There's there's a lot that you can do
with this and uh, you know to uh, to everyone's credit
Kudos because it takes a lot of work a lot of evenings a lot of weekends a lot of time away from your family doing
Uh, this sort of thing whether it's a shiny
Uh concourse build or whether it's patina build or whether it's rat rod or
post-apocalyptic wasteland build
I
You know, there's there's creativity there and you know, some have more of it than others certainly more than me
Um, you know, I I'm certainly not a shiny paint guy. Although I have a shiny paint car
I'm just I like seeing things in their true weathered form
Um, you know
No rusted holes and stuff like that, but at the end of the day if it's drivable and you're having fun
That's the key to this whole hobby whether it is any of those things or not
Is if you're having fun doing what you're doing even if it is
dressing up
like
Power to you do do your thing have fun
Because uh, that's what it's all about. There are certainly worse things in life. You could be wasting your money on
And if you're doing this together either with friends or with uh with your spouse or whatever it happens to be
You know it kudos on you. It's it's uh, it's doing something fun and different
Doesn't matter what you do make sure you get out and drive. That's all we care about
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About this episode
Exploring the wild world of Wasteland Weekend, this episode dives into the unique blend of automotive creativity and cosplay inspired by Mad Max. Hosts John and Jason debate the merits of building 'war rigs'—post-apocalyptic vehicles that combine rat rod aesthetics with survival functionality. They discuss the culture surrounding these builds, the thrill of cosplay, and the community that embraces this eccentric automotive art form. With humor and skepticism, they navigate the boundaries of creativity in car culture, making for an entertaining and thought-provoking conversation.
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