Reload EP148 - Podcast Christmas Party 6.0

Hi, folks, welcome back to the episode of Reload Podcast. My name is Connor McCann and joining

me as always are.

Thank you, Maxwell.

Nigel Lamont and Jake Logue.

There we go.

Here we are. It's a Christmas battle.

It is indeed. So Christmas party episode, which means the rules are suspended as usual.

Drinks are flowing. Editorial standards are slipping worse and we'll go worse as they

go on. Tonight, we're talking, we're drinking, we're talking cars with probably what is,

oh, there's the bottle pop.

Very nice.

Widely and appropriate confidence. Lee has a quiz for us that will probably cause an

argument and we'll be answering some listening questions that probably shouldn't have encouraged

you to send in. But here we are. So if you're here for facts, good luck. If you're here

for cars, chaos.

That's an actual large champagne flute you've got there, Lee.

This is my special West Coast cooler prosecco drinking glass.

It's my drinking cup.

That's the drinking goblet.

It looks like a float, but it holds a lot of drink.

So basically what we're saying is, lower your expectations.

Just pour half a bottle into a cup.

Yes, sir.

There is a reason why I ask Colin McCann, why don't they make a Jack Daniels pint glass?

And it probably is for a reason.

You just make your own.

Yeah.

Well, there we go.

I would like to say at the very height of this that a shout out and also you can send

your complaints to him if the alcohol has in some way fucked up this podcast.

But S 14 OCP Simon has sent us into the by me a beer system.

So he sent us in.

So thank you very much, Simon.

This one's for you.

Cheers.

Chin chin.

Um, we'll just go on at the start though as usual with our normal.

So guys, what's new you?

It's Christmas.

Go start singing Lee.

I'll be honest with you.

I'll probably do you actually.

I have done fuck all the cars.

Let me just go first.

Don't you get that like run up to Christmas or work and it's just like you're just trying

to push and push and do as much as you can so you're not brought in over Christmas.

That was me.

Yeah.

But out of office is on officially since last night.

I am love and life.

I've seen the Instagram post yet.

I work for two weeks.

Um, what actually have I done?

I haven't done very much.

I went and met Jake last Saturday for breakfast and my car was that dirty.

He washed it for me.

Just fell in love with it for you.

Yeah.

That car, um, there's a new level of dirt that your cars get to and it's the neglected

I haven't been washed in many, many moons.

The Bora experience that two weeks before that, Jake, he actually said to me, we were

up recording Nigel.

Nigel walked out when there's a new who's done in Guilford.

Yeah.

It was tough.

I mean, I've cleaned your board for you at one stage.

You're paid for that one.

Yeah.

That was as a proper service.

The TT was I owe you a few and, you know, that was one of them kind of ticked off.

Actually, when we're on the topic of the TT, you might have noticed this in your washing

it.

There's no front plate on it.

A flood stole my plate.

So there was a bit of bad weather there a couple of weeks ago.

Last two months.

Oh, well, yeah.

And at the end of the road, it was flooded and there was a sprinter van went through

in front of me.

So I just followed it knew in the van because you get the work and I was like, right, that's

not as bad.

My car's two centimetres off the ground.

There's no reason I can't go through that puddle.

100%.

Yeah.

I got to the house and looked and went, oh, shit, I have no front plate.

So that's gone.

Didn't go hooking through the puddle.

Well, we did go down.

Now it was about four or five days later.

Once the floods had receded and we were driving down and I says, come on, let's look for

the number plate.

And it's in bits.

I got out and went to look and the whole road was just like downtown Bay route of number

plates, waddle trims, under trays, splitters, just like strewn everywhere in the muck.

It looked like you were going to a six car pile up.

I don't know.

Security.

I think you like that.

Like scene kid, no front plate look.

So it's good excuse from the police pillar.

Oh, sorry, officer.

There's a flood.

Rep my number plate off.

I seen the time.

I racked the file out immediately because I'm a good law abiding citizen.

I seen the time I would have deleted a car with new front plate.

I just can't be fucked with the hassle now.

But also I couldn't be fucked with the hassle of getting a front plate until I remember

that James crew couldn't make them.

Yeah.

So I get my text prestige.

Yep.

And I get my text and he was like, I have one acrylic here and I was like, well, I only

need one.

So that's good.

So delivered to the door.

Happy days.

That's right.

Have I felt it?

No.

No, yes.

I'm still sitting in the living room.

Yes.

Does he look better without it?

Yes.

And I have the not with all the double sided tape stock on the front.

Oh, yeah.

Lazy.

No, I have the infill plate.

Like you can pop on that as well.

So I'll probably just pop on it.

The cops are never around over Christmas.

Never stopping on the ramp.

You like that scene kid.

Look, you missed the no front plate danger.

The cops would never stop a man on the way home from recording the Christmas episode

of the podcast and do them for window tents.

They had like, you know, the next destination to flag you through.

Was it window tents?

Ten to play it.

It's a combination of the two.

Yeah.

Got breathalyzed as well.

At least that was fine.

Young whippersnapper out in their modified cars.

My son got breathalyzed last Saturday.

He'd bring me home from work today.

Was that the first he's ever had it?

Aye.

It is.

It's a weird thing because you have to breathe in it for ages.

Yeah.

I don't have the lung capacity for that.

It's like doing the breath testing on work when they get you to the lung capacity thing

and you're just like, you think you're going to throw up into it?

It gave me throwbacks to the last time I was pulled over by the police and my son was

in beside me.

It was when I had the mark 5, 10 and 30 pulled in.

Remember the coffee morning and put it down?

That was the last day my mark 3 was on the road.

I just nearly lost my license.

Jack was like, do you want a suite?

Do you want a suite?

You're actually quite lucky you didn't go to jail.

I was doing many three digit numbers.

Well, allegedly, but luckily it was the end of the shift of a certain officer and he

was feeling.

It was the fact as well that Jack offered him suites and kind of made him laugh.

It was just like, this worked very nicely.

It could have taken the other way.

That's your son driving like that.

And the best part is it was just a wee blip.

That car was pretty quick.

That was the problem.

Blips were too easy.

Gray edition 30.

Yeah.

Gray edition 30 was 360 or something like that.

So yeah, that was that was a moment.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's pretty much the same track there, didn't it?

What did I talk about?

What's new?

Not much.

I don't know.

It did I.

So what's new you guys on?

Fitted the carbon brace, I got the R line one to the club sport.

Very good.

So I still haven't fitted my Scorpion exhaust.

Is that the one that runs between the backstop tires?

Yeah.

That's like an X brace, basically.

Nice quality stuff.

The enemy of my bank account that is my son's car is continued to punch me in the bollocks.

Right in the mouth of Christmas.

Dad, there's a strange noise coming from my car and I took it out for a drive.

When he came back from Belfast, no noise, no noise.

And he described the noises to me and I says, right, where's it coming from?

The rear of the car.

I look underneath it, didn't really notice something.

And I says, drive away.

I on the phone.

And then I'll text.

Normally Jack would talk to me face to face, but when he phones me, I usually trouble.

Yeah, there's something wrong.

And so he's only says, yeah, such and such.

I made a big bang and now the back end was lower.

So that was the spring just gone.

So I jacked up and right off the top end of the spring broke.

The big tail.

Yep.

So I have a spring order there and 15 months fits.

So they're easy in them things like Peter Matrix still have to fit it.

Part of that.

Have you put a spring yet?

You're bound to done springs the back of a mark five slash six slash seven.

Yeah.

What way do you do the back spring?

The back spring.

Aye.

What ball do you take out?

Do you take the other one or the rear one or the outer one?

You take the other one.

You do take the other one?

Take the other one out and eat the whole that just hinges down in one hit.

You're not fucking about around the hub.

Yeah.

Staff were talking about this the other day and it was like just pop.

Yeah.

No, we're that's the quickest way to do them.

I was doing refresher, but it was more than work.

I don't know the time.

There's three different ways you can do it.

Aye.

So if you went to one bolt and it's fucked, you could go to another one.

Yeah.

But they are there handy to work on a few days were the Christmas,

not over Christmas, but.

Yes, you get it done over there.

How do you do this?

No, it's good.

Apart from that, very little new.

The wall taken ahead.

If it so started to pass me off to be honest with you.

Aye, I feel that.

So I have a question.

Go for it.

Who's this guy?

Yeah, right now, if we just sort of went to X here.

Well, it was kind of thinking if Lee did hers,

then we could bounce on the jack and explain who he is.

Dude, I don't have anything.

So let's go to Jake.

Yeah, I mean, where do I start?

Well, he's a man who's drinking lemon beer for a start.

It was that, I'm not going to lie to you.

I'm glad you took the beer.

Not really much different really.

As a young person, like myself, I can't drink like I used to, you know?

I'm not as hardcore on the jack Daniels.

What's your Instagram name?

Jake2ease and Loog2ease.

That would make sense.

Yeah.

So if anybody's listening to this and you will have heard you actually

mention it and then what's your favorite biscuit?

What's your favorite biscuit?

Yeah, it really tells me guys since we get sent.

Yeah, that's me.

And that'll be the theme of the night, I'm sure.

100%.

Bit of background.

Jake has been part of the Dub shed team for a good few years now.

But before that, he was sort of part of it.

Not about the shed crew.

Yeah, he's run about us for quite a while.

And then come on board with Dub shed and GTNI and just sort of morphed into us.

And somehow you've become the face of Dub shed for the social media.

Yeah, I don't know how this happened.

Because he's the youngest member of the crew and he knows how to work a phone.

He's the new one.

I don't want to get off.

47 year old with an arthritic hip.

It's like you're young.

You'll be more sleep.

Yeah, again, I don't know how it happened.

And I know how I kind of fell into this life was all this life.

What are you a gangster?

Yeah, it's like part of the mafia.

But when I was younger and you never leave, like my first word was car.

I've always been interested in cars.

I grew up with a skateboarding and then to be a Max and the motocross

and then in the cars.

So it was that natural progression.

Are you northerners Adam LZ?

I think I could be.

I think it is a very natural regression for a lot of people to make.

And you can see that in the styles of the cars to build as well.

It's the same kind of almost a bit emo.

You kind of rock punk kind of vibes of people.

But I think then I was working in Thompson's aerosetting for a couple of weeks.

And a young Connor came in as a new start and fairly early on across the workshop floor.

He was beautiful.

Just, you know, there's one thing his eyes.

Tell me he's not taken his his eyes met my dub shed.

Leonard, it was all right.

I had a dub shed.

Leonard's like, oh, so is that what it was?

You like the car friends?

I was like, yeah, that's cool.

You know, it was it was the coolest thing I've ever seen.

He was like, you're old.

I bet you've never been.

I've met you.

You've got lanyards.

Yeah, you just started to like show me your cars and and that was it.

I just became obsessed with you ever since and this can't be everything you do

because you're my hero.

That's not creepy at all, but I'll move.

My time's my taxi.

He's called me a sort of years of stuck new Connor.

It is.

Yeah, like he's like a young ditty.

I have to actually before saying I'm outside your house.

We'd hear this windspin.

I'm not and I've got baby one.

Yeah, he has sent me pictures of our videos doing burnout outside the house.

Yeah, it's like the time I followed you in the asda farm that morning.

I woke up to go to work very early in the morning and drove out through the gates

and looked up on the top of the hill, like some sort of demon in a movie,

like the outline on the top of this hill of this asda van.

And you only get a weird feeling.

You're like, I forgot you used to work for asda.

You know, why is there an asda van at the top of the hill?

Turn up one year, dub shed and ask the uniform or something.

It was some like I was like the meat or something.

Like covert times.

I just kind of like needed a job.

But it was like as a delivery driver and was like the standard job.

I was like, yeah, I can do that.

That's like driving's fun, sweet.

And like my favorite thing to do was to take the asda van to Tesco.

Because I just drive my own.

Like parking outside to go and get in my little, you know, full uniform.

You know, that was very you have to say.

One of the greatest achievements was overtaking a Sainsbury's van.

Like these big spots are limited to 56.

You know, it was like two very slow vans and at the upper hand.

But if you had to hit that van, imagine what the picture would

have been like in the papers. Yeah, every day helps.

So you've probably seen Jake at our shows and he also takes

a large part in tech talk last year as well.

I didn't see more of them for the oncoming dub shed as well.

I actually had to download tech talk for that.

Yeah, for that.

It's like, yes, I've jumped on the camera before.

Like, I don't know what it is.

I just left the camera and start talking to it.

I was always born to be a star.

But and you now are a star on YouTube.

So what's your channel called?

Jake, to his look to his same thing.

I was actually thinking about this weirdly earlier on.

How do I describe my YouTube?

And I think it's the, you know, when you wake up the next morning

from a heavy night out and you check your Instagram stories and go, oh, God,

that's my YouTube.

It's just I left the camera.

I've actually really appealed a lot of people there.

Well, so yeah, don't watch it.

I have a, I'm messing about with the car.

It's only so much help.

You can give something like that.

I just I left the camera when I'm talking about with the cars.

But the problem is it's like YouTube soap as a piece.

Now there's so much happening.

Like, you know, someone at the start of the video be them buying a car.

But at the end of the video, it's fully modified.

Whether there's no, like in between, like fix and we small bits and then you have

the exact opposite of that, which is stance works.

Yeah.

Who takes project banky?

That's just taking the piss out of that, the banky thing.

But yeah, you're he's right when he said 99% of it is for short attempts

and spans where there's a start, middle and end on a video where I like I like

a bit of that, but I do like a good in-depth one.

Like, as you say, I think my arm strong has just had a sweet spot.

It's not too technical to put off newbies.

And there is the technical bits that sort of keep the more advanced person happy.

Yeah, like I enjoy doing it.

I just left the camera, like it's free content.

It's just a creative outlet for you as well.

Yeah, like, as I say, like it's it's just a longer form of a of a rail.

You know, it's it's a bit more information.

It's a bit more relaxed.

It's more fun to edit to with a rail.

You're trying to be so snappy and so upbeat.

I and you're trying to keep everything into like a very set space of time.

Yeah, well, if you're doing a YouTube,

I suppose it could be five minutes, could be 10 minutes.

It doesn't really matter to you.

Yeah, like I've never, honestly, I've never put much detail or, you know,

thought into it.

I've just stuck it on the background and I'll make something of it at the end.

If it works, it works.

I mean, I have made videos that I thought that really is bad.

You know, I've not posted them, but it was that thing about I stopped

doing it for a couple of weeks under three or four people said to me,

oh, you haven't released a video.

And I was like, I never do anyone actually I just watch them.

You know, I was for a weird bit like that with this three people.

I was like, I'll buy you something from the shop or, you know, I'll make them

just for you, you know, it was it was nice to hear, you know, good.

It's a it's a weird word, YouTube, like, you know, and there's a vast difference

between you'll see there's a guy follow.

I can't remember what his channel is.

He's a guy maybe in his 40s and basically he works a certain job or whatever.

He kind of alluded to it recently, but he works a certain job

and he's been let off in like a year and a half or two years.

And he's been trying to make YouTube work in that space of time

that he could build it up, that he could then step back from his job

when the time comes and it's not happening.

And you can see like he has some really good content in the channel

and he has some terrible stuff.

And he's just trying to like, you know, throw out there and see what sticks

kind of thing, but it's a weird one.

And I think a lot of it is down to luck as well, what the algorithm

picks up and pushes or if you get one, the prime example app, which

remember was Dan Chambers done the Mark one golf blew up.

He done caddies and Mark one golfs blew up.

Once he had the golf done, he moved on to about five or six different projects

and nothing really did as well.

And he was constantly kind of chasing that.

There has to be a series to keep people do it.

Like when some of the bigger channels do stuff, they'll do a big long one

or they'll do a three-parter.

Yeah.

That's the way they sort of do it.

If there is more depth stuff to do it, like I spread it out a little bit.

We got to retire any time soon.

I think it's my inner ADHD.

Honestly, I just jumped between a thing to thing to thing.

I think yourself actually has said to me like, oh, you haven't posted a YouTube

video in a while and I was like, oh, yeah, I'm bored of that now.

You know, like I've done it for more than three weeks.

And then you picked it back up again.

But it's just you run out of content so quickly, especially when you're

having a week behind you to do that sort of thing.

That is the main stopper.

Like you need such a bank account.

Well, I think I mentioned to you about six months ago, right?

You need that bank account.

But you know, it's free.

Calling the people's houses that build cars on Chapman.

Yeah, that's something I do want to kind of fall into as well.

I think Connor actually said to you in a video, like I want to come around

and do that sort of interview.

And it's just the same thing of I don't want it to be planned.

I don't want you to have to, you know, clean up the garage

and to get all the fancy cars and just come in and pick up from what you're doing.

People are interested in that.

It doesn't have to be the flashy look at me, you know, big fancy thumbnail.

Let's just make a video of your life as a vlog, you know, like that's

vlogs, right? The windows nowadays, no one's interested.

Like, you know, they don't have that attention span.

I agree with you.

And it's the same thing.

I think you watch like Jimmy Oaks's channel and everybody gives off.

He's built in the same as chassis over and over and over.

And then as soon as he goes to do something different,

like he goes to the drift day, his numbers fall off and nobody wants it.

And then he puts a set of wheels on an S14 and everybody's back watching it again.

But they're all complaining that he's doing the same thing over and over.

He must be releasing some of my stuff every like every time I walk into the living room,

you're watching Jimmy Oaks.

And I'm like, how can this be another video crisis on or off?

I mean, it depends on what time I walk in on.

That's right. You've got a they call them

restriction orders from Mandela Park.

Not allowed to.

The.

Yeah, the money, as you say,

I think is is the big thing for YouTube.

Like it's a constant turnover of cars to keep it fresh.

Yeah. I mean, slowly building a car.

So do a bit by bit.

You know, you buy the car.

That's what you do in the middle of the Beatles.

It's the it's the 2006 TDI Beatles.

So I bought that car.

It was a bit of a thing.

A video I've done there was buying the car and getting on the road for under

three hundred under thirteen hundred pound like that.

That's an achievement.

Like there's been questions put in this podcast about,

you know, I can't bag a car for under two thousand pound.

And the argument's always, well, you can, but you just need to do the work to.

I didn't even do the work to mine.

You know, it's like I outsourced, you know.

So I got Fogel from Mark Cartel to do the welding.

I got Stefan to do the mechanical work.

I didn't do any of that, but I still was able to lift the camera and make a video about it.

So you can do it.

It's just finding the right car.

You know, a Beetle is an undesirable car, to say the least.

But because it's that Mark for platform, it's just very good platform.

Yes, easy to modify and putting Land Rover wheels on it now.

That was difficult.

And again, that's off the back of Connor and me finding him the coolest person in the world that I.

I wanted to be his like weird younger brother with like the.

Yeah, the Beetle with the Land Rover wheels.

But I have a Mark two Land Rover wheels.

Now you've a Mark four Land Rover wheels.

Yes, like we're we're twinning, but when I'm, you know, the funny thing is

the Land Rover wheels he bought, they're off.

Is it a Discovery three?

I am yet to actually know exactly what car I have a free Land Rover wheels.

Minor Freelander, so no minor Freelanders and they're quite square

and it suits the square lines of the Mark two.

And the ones he he's bought are a teams and they're kind of bubbly,

which suits the bubbly lines of the Beetle part number on them.

I'm getting Freelander or Discovery two, like there's no sort of set answer,

even trying to find an image with the wheels on a car.

I hunted a lot.

Yeah, you can find six teams on Freelanders, but these are actually bought

unicorn wheels, right? Yeah, I just so even when I was buying

like the wheel adapters and the on the wheel bolts, I had no idea, you know,

I was just kind of looking at photos and trying to find any information that I could.

And you can really tap this one.

Oh, you bet specials.

You bet. All right.

You know, and the the bolts, sorry, the the nuts.

So my car, the Land Rover wheels or the Freelander wheels are

chap fitment and they run a bolt or his or lug centric.

So they run like, you know, it was like then you see them on like bigger

pickups and stuff, they've got the nut, but it's like a sleeve inside.

Oh, I haven't seen an adapter like that.

Oh, have you?

I think so, yeah.

Yes, it's like a hub, the stud.

Oh, I'll get a picture of him, Sam, too.

If they're Land Rover ones, probably would have done him perfectly.

Oh, they're weird looking or anything.

Aye, but these these work and I seem to have no issues with them.

I've been driving the car for a couple of weeks now.

So you must have a couple of hundred miles on it.

Yeah, like I have.

I ideally drive the car and it does look a wee bit silly

because it's it's a very high setting car with Land Rover wheels.

So it doesn't look like a like people are just sort of gone.

What is this? It needs dropped on its ass.

It needs dropped so bad.

And I know it does.

I've run out of.

First man to do a lifted

battle on Land Rover chunky tires.

Well, ironically, it came with the lift kit.

Yeah, so the overlander battle, let's go.

This car came like five minutes away from your house.

I remember you saying, yeah, like I was looking for Beatles.

It was it was off the back of Dub shed one year.

There was a wee small model car.

Our cartel bought a polo a mile from my house, too.

He never told me where it was.

I don't know if it bargained.

He did. Yeah.

This is a thing like Cumber.

Are you seeing a mass room someday?

Because I likely know who it is.

It's because no one wants to drive in Cumber.

Your roads are terrible.

They are.

So it's a window, Jake.

That's why no one's out driving the cars and just want to sell them.

You know, it's probably I was driving up there tonight.

And I've got the B.C.'s in the car there now.

I was just driving down and I was going, I miserable.

It's just getting beat up out here.

Just bang, bang, bang.

Aye. The road from Cardiff to Lisbon.

Shit, you're on the motorway.

And then Moira to Waringstown.

Yeah, shit.

The one what do you call it, Marlin?

Yeah, it's like a four by four track.

So when we.

And then there's Potholes the whole way from

Largon down to here.

When we go to record with you, it's the same thing.

And you're in the standard suspension and the angle drive

with the motorway home, super home.

That's we usually go.

We go the motorway and then up, but you still have the fucking.

Well, you're going to go to Belfast.

Yeah. I know we cut across country, but then still nightmare,

which were imperfect for your left of the suspension.

Yeah. So when I bought the car,

it's just kind of vision in my head.

Jake has a mullet and a checked shirt on.

He hasn't lifted.

Good Dixon shirt.

And he drives in the dump shed.

So an overlander lifted beetle.

Going yee-ha. Where's the bitches?

It's needs lowered.

It needs absolutely slammed.

Do you know what my problem is?

And I'm going to say it on the podcast now.

So I feel like I should try and do it.

I have to catch the catchphrase for YouTube now.

Yee-ha. Where's the bitches?

Like this is.

Yee-ha.

I wanted this beetle ready for a dump shed.

So at the very least, I want it lowered and painted, you know,

the wheels, refirmed and stuff like that.

But I do want a roof rack

because a while ago, I had this very stupid idea

that I was going to buy a 40 euro moped.

Oh, that's right. That was the first year.

And I brought this moped home

and took a grinder to it and cut the springs out,

sort of cut a bit of the body out to body drop the scooter.

And I'm wondering, can I get it on the roof rack,

on the roofless beetle?

And the go-pad, the moped became the what?

Low-pad. The low-pad.

Round of the Mark VI Golf just coming up.

She had a scrambler strapped to the roof.

That's what my real name is.

Yes, I remember.

Sparked out the front when you could park

out the front of the outcome.

Mm-hmm.

So I had actually seen that.

Funny, I thought of you the other day,

Facebook Marketplace, Death Scroll, whatever it's called.

And you know what came up?

A house clearance of motability scooters.

All sorts of shapes and sizes.

I don't know, there must have been a death or something.

But there were three motability scooters.

And I just thought, that's like something Jake would build.

Just a death.

I mean, I've lowered a little tax car.

I've lowered a moped.

I've lowered cars.

I lowered a chair.

So there was an Instagram really that I made of two chairs

being really hot for the back garden.

And I was just lowering everything out there.

I remember that.

It was like, it's like a wee egg shaped chair.

And do you like the way you sort of push a button,

like you open them and click into place?

Mm-hmm.

I was like, this chair sits really weird.

I could lower it.

It's all those drill-to-holes in it.

I said, you've done this, man Connor.

Lower the levels.

Just lower the world.

That brings better lower.

I lowered this chair and see the comfort.

But you came.

Riley was going mad at me.

She was like, no, don't.

Don't you're going to ruin this chair.

Hard of the handle.

Oh, it's stuck all the way out.

Far better.

But I lowered mine.

And she was like, well, can you do mine too?

Yeah, this is great.

And I was like, yeah, see, lowered is better.

Safer.

There we go.

That's the way it is.

Well, as much as I agree with you, you're lowering the town.

Yeah.

We'll get into the news.

Yes, sorry, my bad.

Actually, ever since this podcast was brought to me,

it's going to go downhill.

Oh, don't worry.

It's Christmas.

It's going to go downhill.

Anyway.

Um, will I kick off or do anybody have any prepared?

You kick off.

First one I have here is a bit of a backwards headline

for the car industry.

Japan's biggest car maker prepares to sell cars

built in the United States to Japan.

Something to do with Donald Trump as tariffs.

No, I think it's more to do with, well, there's a wee bit of that,

but basically Japan's buying habits now because they're so small.

So Ted was confirmed that after 2026 vehicles built in North America

will be exported back to Japan in a complete reversal

of global car trade and how it usually works.

So they're going to US built models like the Camry,

the Highlander and possibly even the Tundra,

which is their bigger one ton cheaper thing it is.

So historically Japanese factories supply all around the world.

Now it's how we're using American plants,

not just to serve the US market, but domestic ones as well.

And it isn't symbolic.

It's actually strategic.

Jack asked me why.

Why?

I'm glad you asked.

So there's three main drivers behind it.

Cost first.

So basically the yen is incredibly weak at the minute.

And even like global costs for some vehicles

just means it's easier to build what's already been built in America

and then just ship it around.

Second one, as you said,

there was the production streamline.

Exactly.

Tariffs as well.

So producing cars across multiple regions

helps to out ahead.

So bets against tariffs, political risks

and sudden policy changes.

And then the third one is Japan's change in market.

So Japan's population is shrinking.

And their birth rate,

basically they're going to be wiped out in 30 years.

Yeah.

And the demand is flat.

So that's why they're like, well,

why are we building them here when the demand isn't here?

But it is.

It's a weird one because the big question is like,

is the thing of Japanese bill quality because it's built in Japan

where Toyota have always been really not against that

but out to prove that it's not,

that Japanese bill quality is a philosophy

that they carry around the world.

The big problem you get into though is when something goes wrong.

So like consumers,

everyone says all consumers don't care where their cars are built,

what's happening,

quality is global, standards are global.

You know,

Toyota is a Toyota.

But when something goes wrong and there's a recall,

there's a battery fire or there's break faults,

nobody's going, a Toyota is a Toyota.

They suddenly look and go, what's different?

Where's this built?

And it's always the same in the States.

A lot of the Volkswagen's are built in Mexico.

And the Golf Rs are built.

I think the GTIs are built in Mexico

and the Golf Rs are built in Germany.

And everybody we talk to over there,

they'll tell you that the Golf Rs are better built car,

even though it's still a Volkswagen plant,

a Volkswagen plant.

So that's, you know, you imagine the headlines

as soon as a big huge recall,

it'll be, oh, US-built Toyota's did this,

you know, and suddenly they're not fighting

the cost of a recall.

They're fighting basically their entire philosophy

is down the drain because of what they've done.

So it could backfire on them,

but it's probably not going to

because Toyota are pretty good.

Except the time.

They have pretty good decisions.

Like they have not give up completely in part

all their one-on-one to sort of know

what's your fellow aggregates in the future,

hybrids of future.

And look where that has went.

It's played into their favor nicely.

Sense and reason seems to be their ethos.

It is a weird one.

As I say, like Japan have exported cars

all over the world for years.

So the fact that they're doing that,

but it's the same thing.

Like if you bought your Q5,

what do you have a Q5?

Five.

If your Q5 was built in China or Taiwan or Thailand,

would there be a thing in the back of your head

if something went wrong with it?

Go on.

That's because it was built there.

You know, it's it's public perception

of what they're looking at.

You know, you know,

it's just like a Swiss watch.

People buy Swiss watches because of the name.

You know, the quality is sort of there.

I think my belt was built in Mexico

and the Z4 is built in like USA Carolina

or something.

Z4 is built in America.

Yeah.

Didn't realize that.

That was the biggest markup.

Ah, yeah.

Very strange.

I just think most of the car buying public

don't know where their cars are built.

Like if you buy a Volkswagen,

you know, most people probably assume

it's a German brand.

It must be built in Germany.

It's built in Berlin.

But you know,

the newspapers won't report that though.

You know, that's where you'll get it.

And the tanks are reputed.

But I think people are starting to move on

people more and more become

because of the nature of a car now.

That's more become more like a domestic product.

People don't really give a shit as much anymore

like they used to.

Yeah.

Trader then move on.

Yeah.

But the people being built in Mexico,

the carbon is good on the list.

No cheaper talks.

So it begins.

Ah, there we go.

Christmas cracker jokes.

I'm the dad here.

I do the dad jokes.

Oh, oh no.

Jekyll and dad.

I love a good terrible joke.

Anybody else?

Well, I have two sort of stories that involve this noise.

And that's basically car manufacturers

and authorities making backtracks

and reversing decisions.

Ah.

So I'm sure you've heard this decision

about the EU and the electric.

Yep.

So they're watering down plans to end

new petrol and diesel sales by 2035.

Who could have foreseen this?

Yeah.

So this has been rumbling on for a decade now,

basically, and car manufacturers just went,

this is impossible.

This is impossible.

Infrastructure, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So now they've watered down,

but it's not a big water down,

although the headlights says otherwise.

So instead of 100%, they're allowing 90%

of new cars to be sold.

And in the years time, it'll be 80%.

Yes.

This screams like 10 or 15 years ago

when this was brought in, a government

who thought we'll not be empowered to enact this

thought we'll score points with a certain demographic

and say, we're going to do this.

Then you put the wheels in motion.

And then when it fucking comes to the time

or closer to the time, everybody's like,

this shit doesn't work.

But fear not, people of the UK,

because the UK government has doubled down

assisting, they won't be changing their plans

to ban the sale of pure petrol and diesel cars

by 2030 and all non-zero emission models

by 2035.

So let's hold on for a statement for that.

Housing power at the minute.

Labour.

How long have they got?

How long have they got revved?

Well, they've done a year and a half

and nearly completely crippled the whole economy

several times.

So they have two years, which is 23 years,

say 2029, which is still before that.

They'll get tossed out.

The next ones come in, reverse that,

it'll be all good.

Yeah.

So all was away.

The government just want to see us drive

in EV cars long enough until you can see

this Star Wars credits in the sky.

That's just the...

That'll be cool.

You know what I mean?

And the other second part of that sort of

two-tier news is basically about the Jaguar thing.

So they had sort of retired the CEO,

Adrian Mordell, remember that news?

Yes.

After the whole thing.

Now the actual designer.

What do you call him, McGovern?

What's his name?

I don't know, what is his name?

You tell me.

Jerry McGovern.

So he was reportedly fired.

But the company later released a statement

saying it was untrue.

There's rumours of it being escorted

off the premises.

So all is not well in the electric community.

If Jerry McGovern is not from here,

I don't know about...

Like that is a from here name.

It does sound.

Must do a bit of research on Jerry.

That on the back of the whole EV mileage

charge that the government are talking about bringing in?

I think that's good.

Is that...

We talked about this on the last one

because they were talking about

how they held you enforce it

when there's no MOT for the first three or four years.

Yeah.

Well, you have to go to an MOT centre, apparently,

and just...

Just clock your car before you go in.

It is clock your car.

Get a remap.

Get our money back.

Get our money back this year, sir.

And tell me it's going to happen.

Yeah.

What about you, Lee?

No, I just had the EU thing, so I'm good.

Same.

I actually do have two small things of news.

One is Liberty Walk, the Japanese body kit car builder.

I was walking around their stand at Gravity.

It was some stand.

I would say so.

Insane.

They're just well known for taking out of the box cars

and going mental.

And just going mental.

And high, high-end cars, too.

But what they've actually done is a custom made

Formula E Gen 3 EVO.

So what looks like a Formula One car,

they have done what we would do to a Volkswagen,

which is...

Slam it.

And put totally wheels on it.

Let me see this.

I'll just show you a photo.

That is cool.

Isn't it cool?

The stretch times.

That is pretty cool.

You know, and I just thought that was...

That is weariness.

That is...

It's very, very cool.

It took them seven months to produce

and they revealed it in LA.

It must have been at some event

that they were running for the Formula E cars.

But it was just pretty cool.

The other one...

What if KZ had anything to do with that?

I'm just thinking, can you imagine like

all the actual like race engineers

walking around that thing going,

why the fuck is that set up like that?

Yeah.

It's bound to upset a few people.

The TESM and the engineering department

would be the director.

Engineering is riddled with it

in every sector that I've ever worked in.

But it's cool.

You know, it's nice to see that.

Like coming into the world of

Tilty Wheeled Volkswagen kind of kids.

Like it's definitely interesting.

It would surprise you the amount

of Tilty Wheeled Volkswagen kids

that work on F1.

Yeah.

I mean, that's some of them less than this.

Some of them less than some of them don't.

Yeah.

The other one I had was...

Did anyone see the Aussie Jim Garner?

Yes.

That's my YouTubes, yeah.

I have on the YouTubes as well.

The Travis Pastrani.

That's very good.

Sandwich Man.

We'll talk about it now.

Because it's fucking nice.

So that glides us perfectly

if there's no more news to it.

I don't have to.

No, that was me.

Yeah.

Just laying in the YouTubes.

There we go.

I will kick off with the masterpiece

that was Aussie Shred.

So good.

That was cracking.

I believe it's the last one planned with Pastrani.

And Scotto was directing?

Yes.

So I actually said to Lee,

he won't watch it at the end,

where it ends, where he pulls up in the car,

jumps into the hut,

and then takes off on the bike.

I was like, is that like his exit from this?

You know, sort of symbolizing that.

I'm done.

Yeah, go back to where I started.

And I went on a full autism deep dive

with like interviews and stuff about Jim Canna

and just background stuff.

And it was just in the one today.

And they actually said that that was the plan.

It was Scotto was launched his podcast finally,

and he was talking with the other director about it.

And they were saying that that was kind of

to symbolize his exit.

But he was kicking himself

because he was supposed to leave the front door of the house open,

as if the door was open for someone else to take over.

And he didn't record it.

He's fucking kicking himself.

But like there's loads of little like

Australian Easter eggs heading through it.

Do you have Mighty Car Mods?

Yeah, I've seen that yet.

Is it the Interceptor from Mad Max?

And that's the thing that we're talking about in that podcast, too,

is like they don't linger on all these.

Sometimes a lot of things you can be like,

oh, there's Mighty Car Mods,

and they'll be in it for like far too long.

Were this?

Yeah, to be like, look, look, look who it is.

Look, like Dakar writer Toby Price is in it.

Toby Price is in it, but you never see him.

Because he's a helmet on the whole time.

He's the guy doing the stoppie on the bike.

Yeah, that's cool.

But you don't know what's him.

You just, if you know, you know.

Who are the two guys in the back

when they're doing donuts and sending over?

Mighty Car Mods.

Is it?

I'm pretty sure.

No, in the back at the very, very end.

Aye.

No, that's not Mighty Car Mods.

Is there a Thursday Thursday?

Is there two Monster Athletes or something?

It's like, yeah, it's two of like Travis is quite close to the friend group.

So Mighty Car Mods were in,

there's like a scene where they go round and round about.

Mighty Car Mods actually done a video as well.

And it was like the build up of kind of like the end is like standing about

and like doing a couple of takes.

Oh, like in the back, like behind the scenes.

Yeah, like a behind the scenes.

I was like, oh, it was interesting.

I think he did put the car into a wall at one stage,

broke an indicator and they were giving a bit of plastic from it.

So that's the thing.

I think I said, Uli, when you're doing a lease stunts and stunt driving

with a one-off vehicle, if you smack that thing, like

it puts your production on like.

And there's two shots on it or?

He's tight.

Yeah.

So I think I watched this with Uli off.

Pastrana was doing an interview about it.

Was this the?

The Hoonigan one.

The previous video where it was the behind the scenes making it.

Yes.

I enjoyed it more than the.

Well, it was as enjoyable.

As interesting.

And he talked about the reverse entry shot that he does.

So he comes down the street and reverse entry slides

around like the sort of tight hairpin.

And he had to do that twice because

he's the response to it by some sort of sunglasses.

A camera.

Heat wave.

And for the in-car shots, he hadn't got the glasses on.

He had to do it again.

And he was shitting himself, he said,

because he built himself up to do it.

And then.

Scott, I was like, oh, you need to do that again for the in-car.

He's like, oh, fuck.

Wasn't that Pit Fibers?

Pit Fibers was before.

No, I'll take it.

Pit Fibers was the original.

Aye, Pit Fibers has done the one with Pastrana land at the end of it.

Yes, I love the bit.

We're, it's all good stuff.

I love the way he's coming down the dirt track

and then he comes on to the track at Bathgate.

And the noise in the cars alongside is just all real.

It's so cool.

And even like the, like the colorway on the car,

it suits where they are.

Just everything just works really, really well.

Just so cool.

So it was like a, and it was very part of the country they're in.

So it brought us basically like a ute.

Yes.

Australian ute.

And just wee things.

Just, it was all very, very well shot.

But the behind the scenes sort of talk more about the actual brat

and the building of it and how the,

didn't want to sound like the previous two Suburbs

because everything's done by, or it's Subaru back now.

Aye, it's from on sports cars.

From on sports cars build it like, and like you see the

CAD designs of the, the frame and all,

like it's not just thrown together.

No.

And the crazy thing.

But the hux are still better.

You like the huxer?

The, the first imprets of the had the black, the all black one.

It's got a funny name.

What was that called?

I can't remember.

They were talking about it.

They were.

I loved it because it just looked evil.

Yeah.

That jump where he hits is like 140 hits down, down the main road.

I remember listening to that thing as well.

Scott, I was talking about they had an air ambulance on standby

and they'd rung the local hospital to be like,

there's a good chance someone's coming in here kind of thing.

Because of that, you're doing 140 on a road and surrounded by trees.

Yeah, it's not really.

There's a good chance he's going to fucking die.

It's like when Ken was down them and he did the original one

of dropping the wheel off the side of the, like the pier.

Yeah.

And they had divers in the water.

They had an air tank, like a scuba tank in the door of the car.

In case the car went into the water that he was ready to,

to take the oxygen.

I'm sure the behind the scenes when they went across the water,

there was a boat on a diver.

Yeah.

Then the guy in the estate.

I straight into it.

I can't remember who that was.

I've done work at it.

I knew who it was at the time, but I can't think now.

But it's an absolute masterpiece.

Like it does so well off the back of that.

Then I found out Pastrana has his own channel.

Okay.

Called channel 199.

Yeah.

It is unbelievable.

Yeah.

I, as I was saying, like,

Just subscribing as you speak.

As being that Instagram,

I've been the Instagram kind of,

what I'm talking about Instagram, I'm YouTube.

Other than what I'm talking about here.

Going up with YouTube followers.

And then we're crossing like growing up watching him

and Nitro Circus was a big thing for me.

We used to, I guess,

my email address is JLUG199.

It is indeed.

And that is because of Travis Pastrana.

Like growing up, he was just so cool to me.

Like, and you know, that's why I only came across.

Is your email now JLUConor McCann?

I've called McCann.

No, but it could be.

I will change it.

You can give it a time.

Give it a time.

The, yeah, like I grew up with bikes

and motocross and things out when I was younger.

And there was like Pastrana and Ricky Carmichael

and all those big names.

And the video we watched was,

it was basically a walk around Pastrana's garage

on his channel.

Yes.

And it's not like anything fancy.

It's big, yes.

But it's like, it looks like any garage

that we've went into and our friends

and be like, this obviously could choose.

It's rough. It's ready.

It's dirty.

There's bikes laying around.

They obviously work on things.

You know, it just looks like somewhere that gets used.

And there's no hours or graces about him.

He's just very down to earth.

I'd actually watched a small video as well,

but him like doing a tour of his whole kind of like area.

And the outside, but he was walking around and going,

where's this going?

What's happened here?

Like it changes and chops and changes so much

between like building tracks, building ramps, changing.

Like it's just, I think there's a lot of them

share their property and they kind of just keep doing things.

Yeah.

And shout out to Travis when he's doing an Amstance,

then car facial pictures.

Aww.

His face is so funny.

It's like, enjoyed, but excited, but scared.

Yeah.

He has all the emotions.

Yeah.

Looks like he's sitting in the passenger seat

is the big one that.

Yeah.

He looks like he's the driver and the passenger.

Yeah.

And all the one we watched was X Hoonigan as well, Vinny.

Vin on your score trial was fixing his price.

He's done a serious regular video, isn't he?

Oh, he really has.

Yeah.

Is he out once every week now?

He don't want their fixing the 360 all the problems with.

Did you watch it?

It was good.

It's just dope.

Yeah.

I really like that.

And then.

The Blue Reels are better.

The Speed Lens.

The Split Speed Lens are class.

Yeah.

They look nice.

The Blue.

They're just nice.

Everybody goes mad for T37s.

And I like them as a wheel.

I don't get the huge hype behind them.

I don't get the hype behind them.

But the fact that he painted them body color

is just so perfect.

They're so much better.

And then I went on his Instagram after we watched the video

where he was saying like half the comments I get are

those which are awful, blah, blah, blah.

And I'm like, who are these half people?

Because they're idiots.

And he had a vote, like a poll.

And it was, it was like 60% preferred the Silver Wheels.

Like 27% or something preferred the Blue.

And then the rest was like the gold LMs that he had

when it was Peer and I had beige.

I like that look as well though.

It was nice, but.

That's modest.

60% of them people are wrong.

I know, right?

I like it, Jake.

I like it.

And then the last channel I have is Laurie Chen.

So he did as usual.

They're sort of going around SEMA and interviewing

a few different builders.

And two that stood out to me was a guy with a white E36

with a LS swap.

He's a aerospace engineer and has done 99% of the work

on the car himself.

And the other one was a blue AE86 Corolla.

And it was like a Resto mod type thing

with white body and carbon bits.

Just a really, really nice build to two of them.

So they're Daffy worth checking out.

If you something.

No.

I do actually.

Jake Luke.

Yeah, oh yeah, Jake Luke.

YouTube, check it out.

Like, subscribe, comment, all that fun stuff.

Hit the bell, hit the bell.

Yeah, like hit some bells and stuff.

You'd actually mentioned before Nigel was Joshua,

you know, Josh Grasswell.

Yeah, yeah.

I would watch his channel on DropWorks is another one.

DropWorks.

He says it says.

Yeah, I raise a note of DropWorks.

Yeah.

Grasswells is kind of that, like just takes weird cars,

slams them, puts cold wheels on them.

And he's a damn fine fabricator.

Yeah, like he does make cool stuff.

It's just nice to stick on the Friday night,

a bit of background noise.

He's your Jimmy Oaks, isn't he?

Yeah, yep.

I just, I think he does.

It's cool, like, you know what I mean?

Like I personally would invite him to dub shed

and I want to see him there.

So there you go.

I have done that.

That's your goal.

You see if he brings something over for it.

Yeah, I mean, I've asked them.

Well, of course not.

And I don't know, but we'll find out.

Cool.

So that's your man crush.

Yours is obviously Jimmy.

Yours was Chris Harris for a long time.

Is that still the?

I've probably gone off a bit, but yeah, still probably.

He's not tall enough for you.

No, just this.

Don't know how you're getting a bit arrogant or something.

I don't know.

You'd work like a backpack.

Huh?

You'd work like a backpack.

Alvin Glove.

You wouldn't look as Yoda on his back.

Alvin Glove was the term the camp friend.

I wasn't going that way, I was going to say.

Like a pop-up.

Well, I'm all like a stretchy CV boot.

In the gutter.

You started it.

The large YouTube I have is basically Matt Armstrong

and there's an E-92 saga.

Or no, it wasn't an E-92.

What do you call it in New York?

Yeah, but I forgot the numbers.

F something.

F, E-90.

Fuck, I'm not good with New York BMs.

Is it like the four door M3 shape?

Yeah.

I have something.

I don't know a lot, the double check here.

It's like, I know what my BM is.

I don't know what any other BM is.

I.

Chris Arn is listening to this going,

you're all fucking morons.

Yes.

Please call me that because this is embarrassing.

I didn't do that.

It's the same with Stefan when he talks about

Merck part numbers and model numbers.

I know the Mercks that Stefan has.

And outside of that, I haven't a clue.

I mean, like I would easily remember

the size of the paper.

Exactly.

You know, when it comes to like 85, C220,

like just stop putting that.

There's numbers together.

It's confusing.

Call them mark one, mark two, mark three.

That's how you do it.

We're cool names.

Yeah, four door turbo one.

Aye, the turbo M3.

I love those.

Yeah.

F80, I think that is in.

Possibly.

That one.

F something.

Yeah.

Basically a bit of scandal with it.

He bought it.

It was a channel two project, basically.

So he does these big projects.

So he has filler projects almost in the second channel.

Uh-huh.

And he bought a co-part M3 in some Reno blues.

I love it.

Yeah.

And the engine was going on it.

And they thought, cheap car, let's fix the engine in it.

So the more they look around the car,

it's meant to be like 30,000 miles or something like this.

The more they look around the car, the more it did not add up.

I think I've seen something about this online.

Yeah.

And took the engine out and basically needed a new engine or whatever.

And then I was exposed by a YouTuber called DJL Drives.

That it's a clone car and I've been stolen and blah, blah, blah.

Now, at that point, if you're a very honest man, you go, hey, please.

I have a stolen car.

Aye.

But Matt knew better and fair play to him.

A phone car co-partners, we suspect this car stolen.

And you sold it to us.

But we're not completely convinced.

So he got it returned to co-part.

And they took the head off.

And then the police came in the day after they left it back.

So the police took that off him.

He would have lost some money.

Got nothing.

Yeah, it's different if it's a stolen engine or something.

I'm not one to speculate, but it was, he came out and smelled the roses,

basically, because he got shot after the big, yeah.

Is he not a partner with co-part or something,

or is he not tied in with him or was?

He doesn't advertise them.

But a lot of stuff he get is from co-part.

What I'm thinking is, if he has that much reach,

does it look bad on them?

I think he showed a lot of the emails.

Like, I don't think there was any.

Any issue.

No, they had to probably look into it and all the rest of it.

Aye.

But yeah, just shows you the cloning that can go on.

Because when they plugged it in, it showed, oh, yes, this is only 30,000 miles.

But you can clock that or such.

That's the thing.

They talk about all the cars that have ever been logged into the iDrive system

and whatever else other manufacturers use, and you can't change it.

People can change anything.

People who are good with computers can run the world.

I forget the exact details, but I'm sure there's people that watched this

and watched it a couple of weeks ago.

It's something to do a Cypress car and using its identity to use on this car or something like that there.

Aye.

That's like, you think of like engine swaps and there's people will tell you,

that'll never work in that car.

And Volkswagen can't do anything to make it work in older cars and blah, blah, blah.

But there's guys out there who are persistent and they'll work it out.

Yeah.

And if they're doing that in an honest way to make engine swaps viable to sell their parts.

Yeah.

You tell me thieves can't do that on a much bigger scale to sell modern cars.

The story I talked about the last time was Hyundai and their two grand a year subscription.

So you can change break pads.

Yeah.

Something to hack that.

Oh, 100%.

Yeah.

They always do.

Just ask AI.

It's as easy as that.

Just ask AI.

Because like you look at all like if you were looking for information about your mark

free golf weird niche break pod or something you need.

Oh, can't we know that off the top of his head because he's a fucking nerd.

Yeah.

Nerd.

Probably the part number.

But like that would have been in the form.

You would have to go back and search for that form.

You ask AI.

It's just it'll turn out who's to go to that form.

But make sure you say please and thank you.

I do.

I always say please and thank you to the robot on my phone.

Yeah.

It was kind of that will come for you.

Correct.

I've been like when the robot uprising happens.

I want them to remember.

I was nice.

Well Smith, I robot.

Have you never seen them lately?

I just hear Connors lawnmower going.

I hear you, I hear you.

It's not like a prince.

We almost fine.

He's in the garage now for winter.

So he's in with a big car.

He's in with a hedgehog.

I don't know why.

It's certainly not.

Very good.

He's going to be our last line of defense when the robots come for us.

I will tap your feet very violently as you attack my house.

He's our C3PO.

An RTD2 here sitting on the corner.

Yep.

Print a McPrince face.

They call the gold one the camp one.

C3PO.

Yep.

Mm-hmm.

That's Anthony Daniels.

Yep.

Oh nerd.

All the time.

When you guys were talking about cameos earlier, I was like,

go on, don't start vomiting things about Star Wars cameos.

Don't be that guy.

I was going to say, do you like the way I question that?

Is that Anthony Daniels?

That is if I don't know.

No, I wouldn't know that at all.

It's if it's not my episode one pod racer game up there on top of that thing behind you.

I was looking at that earlier on.

I wonder what it was.

Yeah.

Is that us for YouTube then?

Will we jump into your quiz?

What I think we should do first is a quick recap of 2025.

Excellent.

I haven't got anything prepared.

I'm hoping you guys are going to jump in with stuff.

So earliest thing back at the start of the year, I can think of

me and Connor were so sick for so long.

Oh, January.

Oh, God.

We all had that flu.

I flicked through the episodes just because I

didn't have time.

But I was just sort of thinking, would we do this year?

And I think the first episode was called I knew years ago.

Were we all dying or something?

We're bringing the new year with illness.

Yep.

The first thing I was thinking of was dub shed.

And we had the American invasion.

We had the three tanks special.

Tanks very much.

We had the tanks.

Tanks very much.

You love that.

You love the good tank one.

Nerd.

Before that as well, we actually had the cars and coffee at storm,

didn't we?

That was pre dub shed, wasn't it?

We had the cars and coffee at Blackline and the cars and coffee at Storm in February.

Yeah.

And there was a very unfortunate Ford Focus driver who

didn't go away with all the parts of his car that he came with.

The dangerous dip accident storm.

That's it.

We had the American invasion at dub shed.

We had Heather and Earl and their little girl,

Danny and Erica and their little boy.

And Corey and Casey all came from the States to visit us at dub shed,

which was awesome.

Because he didn't come.

He right, didn't come.

He's not as good a friend, I've told him.

That's probably right.

Yeah, I agree.

But it was so cold.

Because we only get to hang out with those guys like once or twice a year when we were over there.

And it was so weird because they were here and like at our house.

I remember you like telling the stories.

It was freaking.

Like the stories about them, like coming over here and like saying how like smaller

fridges were because not everything's so processed.

And like the roads are so small and scary and like, yeah.

Absolutely mind blown by the roads.

Yeah.

Because I remember Paul Barney was falling outside to remember back and he was like.

Oh, and Paul?

Yeah.

Sorry, Paul.

I didn't realise you didn't say Paul.

Paul was part of the team for the whole week.

Yeah, he was.

Yeah.

And I remember I was driving the Mark II out to the house that we're standing

and Paul was lagging behind.

When I sat down when I got out to the house, I was like,

were you okay?

What?

And he was like, well, that was fast enough and there was roads.

And I was like, those are 60 mile an hour roads.

And then we go to America and you're in like in the wooded areas,

but they're still me and roads and they're like corners are down to like 25 miles an hour.

And I'm like, what?

I spoiled all the fun.

Hi.

It just, it doesn't seem right.

Like actually before that, what happened?

Notable events that happened in 2025.

I bought my dream car.

You did.

That's a very good point.

My unicorn, my white wheel, my Mark IV R32.

And a very nice car that it is.

I must say, I do like it very much.

It's a good Mark IV platform.

Connor misses it.

I know he does.

I still have one, but I do miss one.

I'm in the Audi version.

I'm in the wish.com version.

Then we went.

Sorry, it keeps corpse engines old ones land just in case.

You never know.

Then we went to the States.

How long?

Rise Nation.

You went to Rise Nation.

We did.

Paulingland stag do.

Oh, yeah.

That was many bells and bears were sampled.

That was a great weekend.

9% sour mash beer.

Yep.

Aye, fuck.

That was lovely, wasn't it?

That was great.

It was actually really good.

I had fun memories of that.

Yeah.

I thought that stag do was going to be absolutely wild with them boys.

Our hotel was like a four star.

It was really nice.

Our room, you could play football.

It was huge and smelled like farts and chicken.

Did.

We threw each other about.

Then we went to the States.

We did.

Nigel joined us this year.

I popped my chair at ABF and I have to say,

unreal, get to it.

Freaking class.

That was a great trip.

And then.

And then I went back.

You went back to the States.

Me and Shane.

Just for a wee part run.

Yeah, part run that weekend and then come back and kill Deborah on the way home.

Deborah RIP.

That's when the low, the low point of my year.

I was just looking.

We sort of fell out or a fortnightly pattern, just with various things.

I went off with busy.

You were very broke up at one stage.

Like it was a couple of years on and a couple of years off.

I think I was from September.

It was very you were away a couple of times,

weren't you, for your anniversary and things.

Just the way it is, I'm afraid.

What else have we done this year?

We did a rundown to the veggie show.

We went to veggie.

We went to old school, new school first.

We did.

And had a hotel fire.

Yep.

DB and the key.

I don't have a phone in from Northwest with Pete and Guy.

You did.

Remember that?

I have had quite a few shoes this year.

Yeah.

And we've had four weddings.

And then our own shoes without Euro trapping.

Euro trapping, yeah.

We didn't have Titanic doves because weather sucks.

Stefan, I went to Roots.

Yes.

On a good time.

I had a lot of fucking, I had a lot of ice cream.

He and I had just a lot in general.

A lot of, yeah.

Just everything.

Going to interview the DCI.

I think our only interview this year was Gethan.

Was it?

Well, that's per.

I think so.

When Stefan dropped in, Brian, Brian was in in March.

I don't even count Brian because Brian's like just part of the crew.

And Stefan.

Because he just keeps coming in.

Yeah, well, there you go.

Well, we're interviewing Jake today.

There you go.

Yeah.

Okay.

And this will be the last time I'd imagine.

Because half of us were like, yeah, that was great, Jake.

And then just saying, I don't know, we're like, why did we do this?

We thought this was a good idea.

I have a list of ones to do.

What do you think doing this nearly six years?

Yes.

I know it's crazy.

That is mental.

That's creepy.

A Connors and I, a PPW writer.

Correct.

That's a good point.

Actually, yeah.

I forgot about that.

Very good.

My hand on the Bible here.

It's one on my hand.

NVDubs we trust.

I got a dub shed tattoo.

You did?

That's right.

You're actually doing this shit, have you?

Hi, we're changing the logo this year as well.

It's like, please, can we never break up?

This next one's my name, my signature.

It's one of us.

It's actually, it's going to be Rayload podcast.

You know, I was once on a Rayload podcast.

Then we'll just quit.

I love the Rayload logo.

I think it's cool.

I like it.

And so do I.

I've also got a weird story.

I've got a spark plug on my arm as well,

which was me in your living room one time.

And there's a motorbike book just laying in the corner.

And that was a book that I bought in Georgia in a thrift store.

Yeah.

There you go.

So he's just flicking through.

Ah, thrift stores.

That's right.

I've seen this spark plug and I was like, that's the one.

I got a Rosalind Pulitzer for a pound.

Awesome class.

I've got to put that actually, yeah.

Yeah, it's been a very busy year.

It has.

It's been a great year.

There's lots coming up in a couple of weeks with a few events.

Well, with an event.

Paul Glennon's motor effects.

Yes, I actually had that menu.

You just forgot about it.

I've missed it.

3rd January.

Motorfix, cars and coffee.

Motorfix.

West Dublin, that would be another ring mirrorless,

more or less mirrorless.

Junction.

It's called a meerkat.

Goofwood Lake.

Just off the N50 at Klondaken.

There you go.

Every time I drove past that, I read that in Lee's voice.

And then every time there'll be a GTI cars and coffee announcement.

Very soon.

Just can't confirm right now.

We should also say.

The date for the car.

Possibly three weeks.

Possibly in the Lisburne area.

Intent.

Who knows.

The date for dub shed has been officially announced.

Yes.

And the entries have opened.

Yes, tickets are live.

Entries are live.

Everything's live.

Can I just please public service announcement?

And I know it's not going to be most of our listeners

because they're sensible, but just in case.

It's not first come first served.

If your car is not ready,

you don't have to enter it right now.

You can wait till February.

It's fine.

Please.

Don't submit your standard Fiesta and write

plenty more mods to come before the show.

Lee, the person that you're talking to.

Doesn't this not our podcast?

No, I've talked to that glass of champagne.

But please.

It's an emotional roller coaster going through it

because there's some, there's actually really a lot of,

our local guys, the big players and guys who've been doing it for years.

As Lee says, no, not to do it now.

Well, that's your car sitting ready to go.

They know the crack with it,

but we have a shit ton of Scottish and English entries in this year.

Because we are the new season opener because Ultimate Dubs has gone.

A lot more than usual, even.

Excellent.

And the standard of those cars is incredible.

Like, really.

I think the fact that Clean Fest was cancelled is a big part of that.

See, I wondered that about the Scottish thing as well.

Because you've no Clean Fest, you've no Ultimate Dubs.

A local Clean Fest was obviously in the end of the year,

but then are those people just going to look at what's next?

It's a big blow for the Scottish that losing that show.

Oh, because it's fucking brilliant.

So, yeah, it's good to see.

Is the plan still phase releases?

Phase releases, yeah.

Excellent, that's good.

And then outdoor will be pre-registration.

Excellent.

Pre-registered selection, sorry.

Badge moved their dates, didn't they?

Badge have moved to June now?

June.

Yes, that's right.

If I was smart, I would have that date, but I don't.

Yes, but just generally moved.

Generally moved.

Check them out their socials.

And your travel will be the first Saturday in July.

Ah, there we go.

As usual.

That's good.

Perfect.

I could look at my PVW calendar next month and see.

Yes, check it out.

Check it out.

Check it out your writing.

No, I'm not writing it.

Oh, fully, just write.

You'll be the whole PVW.

Take it over.

Yeah, it's been a busy year.

And as you guys said, next year is probably lined up to be the same.

I feel like this year, I don't like talking about things that I'm involved in

because it always sounds really big headed.

But I really do think this year,

Dobshed took a massive step up.

The quality was really good.

Wasn't the same.

And I really hope it.

I'd love to see it do the same again.

Just that bounce up again.

Hopefully the more Scottish coming over,

that'll maybe push more people to come over.

That's it.

Yeah.

And I'm far from saying it needs those cars here

to be a higher standard because it doesn't.

Because our guys can build some amazing cars as well.

But I like to see a variety.

I like to see new things.

And it does.

It pushes everybody.

It's that bit of competition or friendly competition between everybody to build

better and better, which I enjoy.

Absolutely.

That's always that thing of, we're so used to these cars

and we're seeing them every year.

And as you said, like the American guys came over and were mind blown

by the quality of our cars.

Because it's something they're not seeing.

Because it's something they don't see all the time.

Ryan and Danny were talking about on their last podcast is like,

it must be like here.

They say they joke that they're the traveling circus because you go to this state

and all your friends are there at this show.

And then you go to this state and it's all the same people.

And he said like his kids are like, we're in like Georgia.

How do you know all these people?

And he's like, because it's the same people that go to all the shows.

I picked up on that one as well, the traveling circus.

I'm like, yeah, I'd really fucking it's like, it's the same people that all move around.

You just, you go to a show, you have the same conversations.

You come back in two weeks later, it's the same show or a different show.

You go to cork.

It's all the, it's all our ones who go down.

It's the cork boys who come to us.

It's, you know, we just do it in a different town.

The thing is, if you didn't do it, you're not going to see those people.

What blew me away was the commitment of driving for 12 hours for a car show.

Yeah, at least that's tough.

When we left, Danny and Ryan drove home to northeast Pennsylvania from Georgia.

And I walked to your golf and I pick up to want a smaller pickup.

That's insane.

You've, I think the white four door bagged RS4, did you see it?

No.

Ben Hobson, big tank of a guy, he's built like Thor.

He, I think he drives.

They come from Kansas, don't they?

Six, 17 hours each way.

So like, it's absolutely nuts.

What's that?

Like three times, like top of Ireland down to the bottom,

up again, down again.

Three shifts.

Yeah.

And that's one way.

Do you want to say that's, oh, you could drive that.

Yeah.

Hold the Ireland.

What three times?

Pretty much.

Yeah.

Fuck that.

Boys are complaining when there's a show an hour away.

Maybe I could stop that bottle.

That's the, that's the last of it now.

There you go.

Ready for the quiz?

Ready for the quiz.

Take a short break, grab another drink and I'll get set up for the quiz.

It sounds good.

All right.

So after that short break, we are back with the quiz.

Lee has her sparkly jacket on.

Sparkly jacket is back.

It's brighter than my future.

Sparkle, sparkle.

See what the green sequence on it.

It kind of looks when the lights hit, doesn't it?

It looked a bit like the matrix.

Good.

That's what I was going for.

There you go.

So what's happening?

Let me just grab my Prosecco.

Yes.

So I've done us a little quiz again.

I think this is like the third time we've done the quiz now.

I think so.

Yeah.

I don't remember a game show with a host pest in Prosecco.

Do you call it?

No.

Let you know what.

I was going to say not openly.

That's true.

So with a couple of rounds, four rounds in fact,

and it'll test your general knowledge of cars,

reload episodes from 2025.

Got a little bit of fun thrown in.

I can see Jake smiling.

He's going to know the reload episodes.

The stalker will live.

Yeah.

My mind will go blank.

And this is my favorite thing to listen to ever.

So I record the episodes, obviously.

Then I edit them.

You would think I would know.

So you should know them inside out.

But I fucking don't.

I record, walk away and go, la, la, la, la.

What are we talking about?

Somebody shouts an engine.

I went, who's that?

Well, that's me.

The worst one to record, although it won't be as bad this year,

was the first year we did the quiz.

And I was absolutely hammered.

Oh, that was a rough night.

And I had to edit.

But there was like so many of us,

and we were all swapping mics.

That was a nightmare.

I was teamed up with Stefan.

There was Paul.

There was you.

Richie.

I had to edit it.

And there was so much that I couldn't remember.

And I was like, oh, my God, did I say that?

And there was like, I woke up the next day and went,

shit, we didn't do the listener questions.

And then I listened back and we did.

I just couldn't remember them.

Not very good.

So it was pretty bad.

So I'm on my second pint of Jack Daniels.

So we're not as bad as normal.

Hi, lemon.

Let's just check our buzzers here.

Go ahead.

So the buzzers are back.

So hold your buzzer up to the mic.

And you can give us your sound.

Nigel, you go first.

If you know me, that's correct.

Jake.

I'm a child.

And Connor.

Which makes me sad because that's the Bora.

It doesn't exist anymore.

So the first round, we're not going to use the buzzers.

OK.

But you're going to write down your answers.

Listeners, if you're playing along at home,

I will give the answers at the end of the round.

Six questions in each round.

And we'll go through the answers and the scores

at the end of each round.

So first round, I've just called general.

OK.

I'll start you off with an easy one.

I think it's easy.

Question one, what does ABS stand for?

Question two, can you name two of the rookies

on the Formula One grid this year?

There were five.

Name two.

I can think of one.

Why can't I think?

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I have no idea.

Can just be a surname.

No, first name surname.

It has to be a first name and a surname.

Yes.

Oh, no way.

You've got five to choose from.

I can only think of two, and I can only think of one

on this whole name.

Well, you can think of it while I'm reading you

the next question, because it's quite long.

OK.

That's also what she said.

So have a listen to this description, written by AI.

A compact four-door saloon from the late 90s.

Finished most famously in deep metallic red.

It stands this purposeful rather than flashy,

sitting low on multi-spoke white alloys.

The bodywork is mostly restrained,

but there's a vented bonnet along with subtly flared arches,

a deep front splitter,

and a tall rear wing that looks functional

rather than decorative.

Under the bonnet is a turbocharged

two-liter four-cylinder engine

with an iron block and a reputation

for being almost indestructible.

I already know what this is.

It uses a larger, quick-spooling turbo than the standard version,

and paired with revised engine management

and a more efficient intercooler setup,

the result is power delivery that feels urgent and aggressive,

with noticeable boost arriving in the mid-range

and pulling strongly to the red line.

It's mated to a close-ratio manual gearbox

and permanent four-wheel drive system

that prioritizes traction and stability on loose surfaces.

Only a relatively small number were produced

as it was a limited-run special edition

created to celebrate a hugely successful world rally driver

who began his career with a national plowing championship

before turning to rallying.

My question is...

Man loves a better plan.

Name the rally driver.

That developed into a different answer, Conor.

It did, I.

Did you write down an answer and then have to cross out?

But I kept seeing through the corner of my eye.

Jake continued writing, and I'm going,

what's he doing?

Is he writing a book?

He's making a list for tomorrow.

He's going shopping.

I'm trying to look like I had a spell.

That's my name.

I figured if you got the car, you would get the driver.

Question four.

I know somebody who won one of those cars

in a place, day, and competition.

What cars?

That's if you got the right answer.

That's what we were talking about.

Question four.

In which decade were the first Porsche 911s produced?

Decade.

Which decade?

Okay.

I don't know how you spell five.

I am so stupid.

Did I take this quiz for you to realize that?

I mean, no.

That's pretty real.

Turns out there's only five questions in this round.

I've miscalculated.

Well, there's how many questions?

Jake, you're in good company because Lee's stupid too.

I guess the Perseco color.

And this question is posed by a special guest.

Oh, excellent.

So you guys will be able to hear this in the room.

I'm hoping that Michael will pack it up as well.

That's a VR.

What's up?

My favorite Ireland crew.

This is Mark.

What a seat.

One of your Canadian listeners.

I'm probably the only fabricator out there

with a private account.

Most people know me as No Book No Love,

which is an IG handle that I really hate.

Before we crack on, I got a beverage right here

from a neighboring country.

I'm not going to do like a freaking Guinness like everyone else.

But hey,

Iron Brew.

Close enough.

Cheers, you freaks.

It's pretty delicious, by the way.

Before we crack on.

So just to say, he has asked two questions.

The first one is one for the end of the show

when we do listeners' questions.

And the second one is the one for the quiz.

Ah, okay.

Just so you know.

So you're going to cut it off before?

Or are you going to let it play through?

I'm going to let it play through.

And we'll answer the question at the end.

The first question.

I got two questions for you guys.

My number one question is,

what is a car show that's still on your bucket list

that you haven't been yet?

Like anywhere in the world?

I know you guys have been to several shows in the States and Europe,

but what's the last one that you think you would like to go?

For me?

Dubshed.

One day.

Good one.

Cracked altar.

Second question.

If you guys fly to this corrupted country,

and for your autocracy, for example,

and you're driving from the airport to the show,

and you come across a sign on the road that says,

what do you guys do?

Thanks for listening, guys.

Thanks for asking me to ask the question.

Have a blast out there.

That was funny.

I talked to Mark most days.

I've never heard his voice.

Cheers, Mark.

So what does this sign say?

Arrette.

Arrette?

Arrette.

Ah, crazy French bastards.

Mark, apologies for my terrible French accent.

I don't know.

I've never been there.

Well, it's French.

Canada, there's a lot of them speak French,

so you're a bit closer to France.

Did you friends in school?

I mean, I never listened.

No, neither did I, but I can take a guess.

Take a guess, think of the road signs you know and apply one.

Okay, so that was round one.

Are you ready for the answers?

My mind's worth so black.

Are you ready for the answers?

We'll have the self-certified.

I think you'll just have to keep your own scores,

because I'm not organized enough to do it this year.

Okay, please be honest.

So question one was, what does ABS stand for?

Jake, anti-breaking system.

Anti-breaking system?

I have no idea.

You're putting the brake and it just pushes back.

Yeah, accelerates.

I was like, what do you call my anti again?

Anti-locking braking system.

Yeah, anti-lock braking system.

Anti-lock braking system.

I was just doing a short.

Give me a half point for that.

Half a point for Jake.

And that's the only point I'll score this round.

Question two,

name two of the rookies on the Formula One grid.

Connor, what did you have?

Kimmy, Aunt Nelly and Gabrielle Bortletto.

Correct.

And I finally come back to me.

I wrote Stefan and Brian.

Okay.

Not correct, but good guess.

Nigel.

Colin McCray and Birdie Fisher.

Have you not been watching this year?

No.

Oh, God.

I don't know.

I was just highlighting.

No idea.

Ah, okay.

But not detailed highlights?

Like three minutes.

I, you just see the results.

So I'll give you my answer, which was you could have had-

I thought you were going to say,

give Nigel half a point there.

You could have had Gabrielle Bortletto,

Kimmy, Aunt Nelly, Isaac Hadjar,

Ollie Bergman, Liam Lawson, or Jack Dunne.

Oh, yeah.

You could also-

What does Jack do?

Fuck all, he got the sack.

Jack's working on the bar, the minute I think.

I would also have accepted Franco Colopinto,

because he replaced Dunne.

You're just making these up now.

It was technically his rookie season,

even though he did make a partial debut for Williams.

At the end of the year.

See the first three years?

I thought she was naming an AC Milan team.

I wouldn't know this.

Yeah, I don't know any of these guys.

The car that I described to you,

which AI gave me the description for-

Equal five.

Was of course, a Mitsubishi Lancer EVO.

Five.

Tommy Mackinen.

And the Raleigh driver was Tommy Mackinen.

Without the Y.

Is that a-

Is that a one point for that one?

One point for Tommy Mackinen.

Yep, that was two points for the drivers.

Or one for the-

One for two.

Okay, yep.

In which decade were the first Porsche 911s produced?

First Porsche 911s were produced in the 1960s.

Yes.

The car was first unveiled as the Porsche 901 prototype

at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1963

and production began in September 1964.

The name was changed to 911 for commercial release

due to a trademark dispute with Peugeot,

who had exclusive rights to the used three digit car model names

with a zero in the middle.

The first models were delivered to customers in 1965.

And just to show how stubborn Germans are,

the engine is still in the boot.

Oh, why?

Just because they look the same.

It's still a Beetle.

Spicy Beetle, exactly.

And for the final question,

I'm going to let Mark, a.k.a. No Poke No Love,

give you the answer.

And the answer is, you just stop.

It's a stop sign.

Oh, fucker.

And in those areas like Montreal and Quebec,

most of the signs are either in French and English

or just French.

So Merry Christmas, homies.

Thank you again later.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

No, I wrote slow because I didn't listen in French class.

You were looking at you when you were thinking about...

Slow.

Did you take one?

I wrote ahead.

I don't know.

I had no idea.

Well, you scored the same out of points as I did in that one.

Yeah.

Big glance here.

How did we do?

One, two, three, four.

Four for Connor.

I got seven.

It's like golf.

The more you get, the worse you are.

I got one and a half.

I'm proud of that.

That's pretty good.

I very please say I got four.

Well done.

Okay.

So the next round...

When's the WRC questions?

An honor of our special guest

is called Beatles and Biscuits.

Oh, God.

Wow.

You really shot yourself there now, dick.

You're making the best of questions.

I'll give you the worst person here too.

How many questions?

Five, six?

Six.

So question one,

Herbie is a very famous Beatle,

but what is his racing number?

The child of me wants to write a certain number.

Sixty-nine.

Nice.

The kids are all saying six-seven these days, so...

I don't even know what that is.

I'm young.

For me.

Question two,

what links Biscoff and a British car manufacturer?

What?

Biscoff.

Oh, I'd really don't know that.

A British car manufacturer.

They both crumble under pressure.

It's not the answer I have here, but...

Biscoff and British car manufacturer.

Cars, right?

Oh, right, okay.

Question three,

yeah.

What was the original name of the Volkswagen Beatle?

Oh, oh my God.

Why do...

There's a couple of answers here.

I'll accept a couple of different answers.

Question four, this is a little bit of an obscure one.

This could be a cheese or a Cooper.

Or a what?

A Cooper.

Oh, it's...

Write down your answer.

I, the John Cooper cheese.

Yeah, that's what it is.

Question five, in the original Transformers, Bumble Bee was a Beatle.

Yes.

But what car did he transform into in the Michael Bay live action films?

I know that one, at least.

And question six, again, it's a little bit obscure.

This could be a Nissan or a fruit filled biscuit.

Oh, I know that one.

I don't think we're three, four, five, and six.

I don't think I have an answer.

Three and four, I am stumped on.

So what lengths of British manufacturer and Biscoff?

Yes.

I actually think I have that one.

Two might have that one.

Okay.

And what lengths?

Cheese and a Cooper.

And to be honest, we had the one before that as well.

Oh, no.

The last one.

Oh, no, the the thing.

Don't give them the answer.

What's the last one?

It could be a Nissan or a fruit filled biscuit.

I can't get two, three and four.

Well, you should get three.

The original name for the bill.

I'm sure you obviously know.

I talked about it on the tanks episode, so I'm just saying.

The one I'm thinking of, I'm pretty sure is the German name for the thing.

Write it down anyway.

It might be right.

Okay.

You ready for the answers?

Well, it's a bad round for me.

Yeah.

It's a very bad round for me.

Not good for me either.

So I said her.

We was a famous battle.

But what was his number?

His number is 53.

Oh, I'm a fucking idiot.

I wrote 63.

69.

What do you write?

63.

Maybe who has the battle and everyone tells me.

Oh, put 53.

We're a big car guys.

I grew up watching those films too.

Question two.

Rotlings, Biscoff and a British car manufacturer, Jake.

Lotus.

Lotus is correct.

Yes.

I don't have any answers for 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Check your score more than I am in this round.

So I will be in.

You got 5.

Have you not?

No.

Number three.

What was the name?

The original name of the battle?

Anybody have an answer?

Kugelwagen.

K.

Sorry.

Kugelwagen.

No.

It starts with K.

I don't know what.

It does start with a K.

No.

Somewhere German.

KDF wagon.

Yes.

I would also have accepted type one.

That would make fucking sense.

Yeah.

Or Porsche type 60.

I wouldn't have got that one.

Which was the designation for the early prototypes

designed by Fred Mannporsch.

I'm writing the right answers in here because I'm so studious.

Oh, the look.

Back.

Question four.

You get to scoring this round by the way.

Me too.

Could be cheese or a Cooper.

Mini Cheddar's.

What?

Mini is a car.

All right.

Mini Cheddar's.

It's a biscuit.

Play on words.

It's like a crop times.

Newspaper, a cryptic.

It is indeed.

Listen, I had to come up with a round called

Beatles and Biscuits.

What do you want from me?

Yep.

I'm not early.

Yep.

And that's from me.

That's your fault.

That's my fault.

And I, yeah.

In the original Transformers Bumblebee was a Beatle

but in the later films he was a.

Camaro.

Oh yeah.

He was a Chevy Camaro.

I put a Mustang.

Oh, you get it.

Well, that's me done.

Yeah.

And final question.

Could be a Nissan.

Could be a fruit filled biscuit.

It's a fig.

I need a bit more than that.

Figaro.

A figaro or a figaro.

I always got to write Nissan fig roll as a joke

because it's the only one I can think of.

I wrote fig.

I'll give you half a point for fig.

To be fair, I haven't been honest.

I wrote fig as well.

Well, half a point for you as well then.

Did you write fig because I said fig?

Yeah.

You said, as soon as I said it I went, oh fuck.

You went, I just went, ah.

I was thinking of putting it around.

I was thinking Nissan leaf for a moment.

So the joke is there's a car called a Nissan figaro.

Which sounds a bit like fig roll.

Fig roll.

That was a very cryptic round.

Yes, apologies.

Half round there.

That was half.

What do you score on that?

One.

You scored more than me.

I scored one and a half.

So what are the scores on the doors?

One and a half for that round.

One.

Half.

I'm proud of that half.

We're going well.

That's a shit joke.

Okay, are you ready for round three?

So what way does this work?

Is it like whoever buzzes in gets the point?

Not for this one, for the next one.

Okay.

Round three is another right down.

Okay.

I was going to do a buzz around for the last round,

but I'm glad it didn't because I don't even knew the fucking answers.

What did you expect of me?

Okay, round three.

This is reload 2025.

Oh, brilliant.

I can't remember my own name, but I'll give it a go.

Question one.

What was the make and model of the car of the show at Dubshed this year?

Hint.

It's on the flyer for next year.

In a different color.

I liked Dougie that owns that car, commented on the Dubshed post saying

something like I never thought I'd see my car in green because obviously it's his car that has been

edited.

Question two, on episode 141 I talked about the return of the Fire and Ice trim level

for Volkswagen.

It was based on the special edition Mark II from the 90s,

but what model are they putting on now?

Give you a clue.

Jack is electric.

Electric.

Boo Fire and Ice.

Question three, I appeared on another podcast this year where I was an absolute ray of sunshine.

Just your face didn't join in.

Name that podcast.

I listened to that and it was very good.

Yeah, obviously I didn't watch it.

I did watch it and I know why you're saying I didn't watch it.

Lee looks like something in Stabber Dog.

That's not true.

I was delighted.

You're like, that's not true, I don't have a dog.

I also don't have a dog.

Question four, on episode 144, we discussed the new fastest production car.

Name the car.

Oh, God, that was my bit of news.

It was.

Oh, why am I such an idiot?

I ask myself that every day.

I haven't no idea either.

It's electric.

It is electric.

It is.

Yeah, it is electric.

It's a weird name.

That helps.

I'll definitely look at them.

We thought it was humorous.

The Ford Deleu.

Pretty much.

It's a Chinese car.

You all didn't think this big rule was hilarious, so you obviously have a sense of humor.

I just can't remember which one.

Question five, on episode 130, I talked about an unusual car that was going to be competing

in the 24 hours of Nurburgring next year.

Two part question, what was the car and a bonus point if you can remember what engine

I said was going to be in it.

The engine had to come from the same manufacturer, if that helps.

So you would expect 24 in Nurburgring, it's Porsches, this kind of thing.

This is a bit unusual.

Okay.

Is there six in this round?

There are six.

Oh, no.

One wasn't enough.

I don't know.

This is the year Ratie should have been here, because he and I are all too competitive for

this.

I am not doing well.

They do better than I am, which is bad.

That's why I'm going to climb up.

If I get one in this round.

And the final question again is from another special guest.

Excellent.

I enjoy these.

All these camels.

Can we eat a Star Wars Camel?

It's a little hint as to who the guest might be.

Oh, I know who it is.

Yeah.

Michelle.

Oh.

Hey, folks, it's Michael Skolin here from the Lambda Slip Differences podcast.

Happy Christmas.

Hope you're all enjoying the Christmas party.

If it's going well, good.

If it's not going well, drink a bit more.

It's not going well.

Anyway, I have a question.

And my question to you guys is, if you may remember earlier this year, the team at LSD

done the run from my farm to the Achio Van Itseli's day in Edamari Curie Cancer Cure.

So how many counties do we travel through on our journey from my farm to your end destination?

Because the answer surprised me as well.

That's a tough one.

That is a tough one.

So he's, I've got the map on my arm and I don't even know.

I was about to say, have a look at Dx's arm and count.

No, quite literally.

I'm a little surprised.

I'll draw the line and then I'm missing.

So that was Michael from Lambda Slip Differences.

They did the charity run earlier in the year.

Some of you will remember us talking about it.

In the tractors, the longest draw in Edamari Curie.

How many Irish counties did they pass through on the way to their destination?

I'm currently trying to read Jack's arm from a distance here.

Why am I saying the answer?

That's right.

Yeah.

Don't say the answer.

Yeah.

You going for that, Jack?

I just guessed.

I don't know.

Definitely not looking at your sheet, by the way.

There we go.

That's a very good point.

And I'll still score less than you.

You ready for the answers?

Absolutely.

Yeah, please.

This is tough.

So question one, the core of the show at Dub shed this year was our Mercedes W108.

I wrote S class.

I wrote Mercedes.

Do you get half a point for Mercedes?

Half a point for Mercedes.

Right, well I got half for that because I can't remember the model number.

I wrote Mercedes brackets.

Can I call a friend?

Brackets.

Stefan.

Stefan would have known.

Question two was about the fire and ice and which new model it's being applied to.

The answer is an ID3 GTX.

I wrote ID4.

I wrote ID4, yeah.

Well, obviously Nigel wrote that because I wrote it.

Got me.

The other podcast that I appeared on this year where I was a delight and smiled the whole

way through.

In your head.

She drives.

My face just didn't appear to know that I was smiling.

It was called She Drives.

Yeah, I got that one.

She is now working for a raffle competition.

Yeah.

Oh, is she?

Yeah.

Is it McKenney?

McKenney, yeah.

McKenney.

Is it McKenney?

It's also presents for you on five as well or not?

Ah, she's always on radio.

Is it you 105?

Key radio.

Until I don't listen to radio.

I have a question.

Apart from the top town town.

Yes.

You have a question?

My question is always about radio listeners.

Oh, you sent a question to a podcast you're on.

I forgot.

You forgot you were going to be appearing on this podcast.

Yes, I do.

Yeah, I like this.

That's good.

You can answer it.

It's more of a statement than a question.

No, that's good.

You don't have to answer it then.

Excellent.

That's why I'll be cancelled from this podcast.

Answer for question four, the new fastest production car in the world.

The Yang Wang U9 Extreme.

That was a podcast episode.

It was live.

Yeah, show us your Wang, get your Wang out.

No, I wrote BYD.

I took a chance and it was Chinese.

I just, yeah, I have no idea.

That's right.

Tell me what this Nurburgring thing is.

The car was a Renault Twango.

And the engine was a Clio 172.

That's right.

Yeah, I wrote four cars.

I jokingly wrote Nissan S Cargo with an SR20.

But I forgot that it literally was something like that.

I wrote Hyundai Pony.

Well, close.

You're not far off.

What do you have, Jake?

A transit.

Well, yeah.

I mean, it's been done before.

It could have been.

Five cylinder RS.

10 out of 10 for effort.

Thank you.

And for the last question, I'll let Michael give us the answer.

Please be on your 10.

Hold on.

Before we do, can we just give a point to whoever's closest?

Does that help out?

If nobody gets the right answer, whoever's closest can have it.

Okay.

That seems fair.

I think I'm too short.

I know that.

Okay.

Because I didn't know the answer till I looked it up as well.

The answer is 10.

We started off in Derry, London.

Derry because I'm saying both because we're having no fallouts in this house.

Is that what you're saying?

You said it?

You went from Derry to Monahou?

Still can.

Then, of course.

So, the answer is 10.

You went into Derry, Trun.

On the end.

Derry?

Sorry.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Michael.

Oh, let's just turn that down.

What did you get?

So I wrote 12. I wrote 12. I wrote 9. Oh, there you go.

Nice. That's the closest he gets a point. So how do we do for points on that one?

Two and a half.

One and a half. I am also one and a half.

The comeback's on.

That sounded wrong when I said that.

It did, yeah. It's Michael's bad influence on you.

Okay, the final round.

Once again, fair play to Michael and team doing that trip.

Absolutely.

Sack full of money raised for charity. Brilliant.

This is the last round.

We're going to use the buzzers for this round.

So let's build the tension here.

What's our totals here, Connor?

Because you're very competitive.

I have a total of seven.

I have no idea. I'm in counting.

Hold on. Can you count? No.

One and a half.

You only need 17 fingers to count this.

One and a half.

That is two and a half.

Have you not been totally down each round?

No, I have not.

You're like me now to the right.

Three and a half.

Me, Goody, two shoes.

I've got five so far.

Okay, respectable.

What's that? Seven.

That's unbelievable.

Now watch me feel miserably.

Watch me get competitive.

Two and a half, three, six, seven, eight.

Yeah, I just sat up in my chair and I don't know why.

This is where you have to get every question right here.

My reaction time will be faster.

News are.

So get your buzzers up to the mic.

It'll be better for the listeners.

Yes, I'm thinking of the listeners.

So this round.

What happens if Connor goes blah, blah, blah

and says the wrong answer?

Does it have to be the right answer?

Do you get points deducted or is it just passed on to the next person?

Oh, the risk.

Oh, that's what I mean.

Like if you give the wrong answer, you lose a point.

If someone gives the wrong answer, I'll throw it to the other two.

So there's no jabbering?

Okay.

You don't lose a point for a wrong answer?

No.

So I won't be minus three points by the end of this?

No.

So have a guess if you think you might know.

Okay.

This round is anagrams.

Okay.

The answer each time is a car, make and model.

Anagram.

Let's clarify what anagrams is.

Jumbled up letters.

Yes.

Have that checked?

Yeah.

I was just thinking of you there.

I was thinking about what that is.

So I will have the anagram on my screen, which I will turn around to show you.

Okay.

But I will read it out for the benefit of the listeners as well.

Okay.

So the first one.

This is a make and model of a car.

Make and model of a car.

It's modern food.

Connor's bust.

Fort Mondeo.

That's correct.

Yeah.

Fuck yeah.

It's as easy when you know the answer, isn't it Jake?

What?

Don't you turn into Richard Bryan accusing me of knowing the answers?

I was just about to say it and you went, were you close?

No, that was just to warm up though.

Were you close or did you?

I was trying to walk out the system of how we do this, but I'm fully, I'm ready for it

and I guys don't want it.

Can you see the screen?

There's the answer.

You can see it.

How did you get Rachel to do that for you?

Not for everyone as well.

Because I'm a ledge.

Oh, I did that.

That's class.

A meme generator did it.

Because I'm old.

A meme.

The next one is large neat menu.

Just three type of words.

It's a car making model.

I'm so lost here.

This one.

Large.

Something you're going to buzz.

No.

Nigel is buzzed.

Rano.

I should have waited.

I'm going to time you out.

Who else wants to buzz?

Connor.

Well, they're going to incorrect.

Jake, you want to have a try?

No.

Neat menu.

I'm mad.

Connor's buzzed again.

Rano McGahn.

Correct.

Thank you, Nigel.

How did you get McGahn?

Because I was looking, going, there's a G in it.

Rano McGahn.

You're welcome, Connor.

Thank you, Nigel.

Give that one.

That was a group effort.

Actually, give him half a point.

Half a point for Rano.

Oh, thanks for having us.

There's a half there.

There we go.

See, I am fur.

You're an absolute star of a man.

I hate when I'm by any sort of lead.

I want a bit of competition.

You're not going to get that with me.

I wouldn't really worry.

Me, I can see you.

You're very honest.

Question three is an untidy cache.

Connor.

Oh, no.

No.

You're right.

Anybody else want to have a go?

Is somebody a caddy?

No, I'll start the timer again.

I can't believe I'm learning well why aren't these letters on it?

I know the make.

Hyundai.

Nigel has gone for Hyundai?

Anybody else want to try?

Jake.

Nissan Cache guy.

Incorrect.

Connor.

Hyundai Accent.

Correct.

Half a point H for you and Nigel.

I'll take them half points.

I get nothing.

Hyundai Accent was the answer.

Well done, Nigel.

I think we're ganging up.

It's a brilliant work sometimes.

What you can't see is how clueless I look right now.

It's like a wee boy with his toy.

Might be a little bit before your time, Jake, to be fair.

An Accent?

They're pretty old.

Jake is a baby.

My nanny had a yellow.

There you go.

Then you definitely should have got it.

No excuse.

Next one is Too Loyal Actor.

I know the make.

I think Nigel was first.

Toyota Corolla.

Yes, that's correct.

Well done.

I've never seen Nigel move as fast in my life.

See if it works.

Toyota Corolla.

I'm so proud of that.

I'm a dumbass and I'm proud of that.

He jumped on it.

You see the bozzard near when I threw the window there?

It was like, I actually know what I'm doing.

I found my weakness.

Is there one more?

One more.

Come on, I can redeem myself.

And this one is Sex or Action?

Connor is buzzed.

And he's taken too long.

Citroen Saxo.

Correct.

Very good.

Well done.

Citroen Saxo.

How do we have a buzzer on my hand?

I don't even need mine as it goes.

And the final question of the quiz is not an anagram.

But comes from another special guest.

You can make it as interesting by doing double points,

seeing when all he's going to win.

Just a comment.

Go on, go for double points.

Yeah, not me.

Okay, I'll go double points on this one

and I'll also say whoever,

it's another numbers answer.

So if nobody gets the right answer,

the closest person will get.

It's not a buzzer though.

It's not a buzzer.

So you write down your answer for this one.

Yeah.

Oh, there we go.

What's going on?

This is Danny Mercado.

Just take a second for the sexiest voice.

I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year.

And I've got a little tribute for you.

I'm well known for smashing beer in my car,

the Deer Slayer,

which is the Black Passat Wagon.

But can you tell me how many I have hit A in the Deer Slayer

and B in total?

Oh God.

So two part question.

How many deer has Danny hit in the Deer Slayer,

which is the Black Passat Wagon?

And B, how many deer has he hit in total?

Can I just say that the last deer hit that he had,

well actually shout out to Danny previously for the deer hit he had before,

where he hit the deer and it exploded

and shit went up the side of the car on his way to work.

And then the most recent one,

he was listening to a really little podcast on his way to work when he hit that deer.

My first message, are you okay?

Because it looked bad and he was like, hey, I'm all good.

And I was like, second of all, were you listening to the podcast?

And he was like, yes.

Finally.

Yeah, screw your car.

At least you're listening to us.

So Deer Slayer equals, I mean, total.

Yeah.

So two answers for this one.

Oh, that man's been hitting deer for a long time.

He has.

Oh dear.

Not for total.

Oh dear.

Get a dart from through the dartboard, Jake.

Yeah.

That's just a random number.

I have no idea.

Okay.

So we had the anagrams, which I gave the answers throughout.

How many points did everybody get for those?

Oh, the anagrams?

Yeah.

Two for Nigel.

Three for Connor.

Zero for Jake.

I'm shocked.

Yeah.

So how are the total scores looking so far?

10.

10 for Connor.

Nine.

Oh.

And still five.

Still five.

Right.

This is worth 10 points.

So that's five more then?

Zero.

I'm doing it.

Okay.

You're doing well.

Excuse me.

I'm just playing Donnie's podcast or Donnie's twice.

Shout out to the people's podcast, by the way.

Yes, indeed.

So I'll let Donnie give you the final answer for the quiz.

I just stopped myself.

Connor's not Lloyd Pans.

No, it was a knife.

Is that the one I told you to take off?

Maybe because I would do the exact same thing.

Can you set the knife down, please?

In case you don't win.

Goodbye.

And the answer is six.

In the deer slayer.

Holy fuck.

And 16 in total.

What?

But who's counting?

I hit deer so you don't have to.

You didn't have it in a deer park?

And with that being said, Merry Christmas to all.

And to all good night.

Thanks for having me on.

Merry Christmas, Donnie.

Thanks for doing that.

But Jeepers, I was 16.

There's some months where he's hit two.

So Donnie has hit deer.

Put a claim in with his insurance.

And before the car was fixed, he had another deer.

In the same car.

Stop driving at the years.

So he drives to work at like two in the morning.

So they're out and around.

And when we went to stay at his house last year, last September.

Yeah.

Like in broad daylight.

We did see a lot of deer around to be fair.

It's fucking nuts.

But here's the thing.

Rand Veilman does a podcast with him.

Lives 10 minutes away.

Doesn't hit here.

Do you not think that deer would learn to avoid all to four?

Yeah.

Talk among themselves and go here.

This fuckers.

He kills a lot of us.

Yeah, at least at the eleventh time.

The Assisted Series program just never done.

What?

You think the easy of tears.

You're welcome.

So what did everybody guess?

I wrote three and five.

It has to be all because it's a thing.

It has to be more than two.

I wrote four.

I know of two.

I wrote four for the day or slayer.

And total.

12 for the total.

And.

That was it.

Four.

Just four.

Yeah, five.

I love two.

So I think you're the closest then.

So we.

You win.

You share a point for four.

Why?

Because we're closest to six.

We both guess four for the day or slayer for that car.

But then you get the point for closest to 16.

So we're going to get a half point and then a point.

11 and a half.

Sure.

You can still give me three points and it doesn't put a dent in this.

So I tried to make a quiz that Connor wouldn't win and Connor still won.

I apologize to everyone.

And his face equally looks a smug.

I am smug.

I am underfated.

That's the thing, right?

Where's the trophy?

Richie.

Oh, I have a prize.

Hang on.

I'll be back.

I'm going to make one.

Reload.

Richie still claims two or three years ago when he was on for the quiz that it was a

fix because I won.

There you go.

Reload winner.

Yep.

I will also say that ceremony that was, thank you very much.

That was Nigel and Stefan on a team.

Richie and Paul on a team versus me hammered and I still won.

The prize is a packet of the undisputed best biscuits in the world.

Okay.

Caramel chocolate digestive.

Do you know what?

I can't even argue with that.

Because Connor won them.

It means they're in my house and I'm going to eat them.

Pretend to get them too in there.

Do the handover.

Big smile.

Look at the camera.

That's fantastic photographer.

There we go.

Lee, your face, you look absolutely professional.

Do I?

Do I though?

I think absolutely drunk is what you meant.

And Connor looks, how did I win?

I'm sitting here thinking, how did I lose?

But you know, that's an easier answer.

Lee, the quiz was a credit to you.

Thank you very much.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

And you look stunning as always in your jacket.

Thank you.

Thanks to the guys for messing in as well.

Yes, absolutely.

That was awesome.

Three different countries again.

It was.

International baby.

I like it.

Will we take another short break while I go for a pee?

And reload.

Yes, well.

While you do that, we'll talk about our sponsor.

You do that and turn the mics off so that you can't hear me peeing in the background.

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Is this the Patreon episode we're going into now?

That was a good crack.

And we're back.

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So, shall we bounce into the questions?

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Do you know what?

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That's where I found my jumper.

They're very, what do you call, on trend.

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The latest one with Pete.

Oh, there's a guy boy here.

What do you call Yellowstone?

Yeah.

Yeah, I said that was brilliant.

I'm too tired for your shit.

Or something like that.

It's just like, it looks like good crack.

It's just one of those places.

And Pete loves it.

Let's face it.

Aye.

Pete's a good lad.

So questions then.

Well, jump straight in.

First one is Gary Heasley,

who is Mr. Bushy Evil 2.

It doesn't say his actual Instagram name,

but I know it's him.

He used to have a really long name

that you made fun of him and then he changed his name.

It is.

It's Mr. Bushy Evil 2.

There we go.

He says,

Merry Christmas and thanks for another year of entertainment.

Don't know that the evil is going to make dub shed 2026,

but I put one piece back on the car.

So the buildup has finally started,

which is happy days.

The best feeling.

It is.

It's like you get over the brow of the hill

and there's still stuff to do,

but you're on the downhill slope

and you start putting stuff back on

instead of taking stuff off.

I remember painting your engine bed in the Jetta.

Yeah.

And the first thing you put back in

was the break bar across the back.

And it just went from this sea of red

to a wee bit of contrast with the black

and you're like,

Oh yeah, it's starting now.

Yeah.

Because you've such a fucking slog of welding filler

and everything he's been going through with the evil.

All the boring jobs.

So he says,

Can't believe it's been three years

since you guys called me.

That's crazy.

It's three years ago.

We're so old.

We are so old.

Well, we do Mark's question now.

No pug, no love.

So he asked it during the quiz.

So what show that you haven't been to yet,

still on your bucket list?

He named it.

I would actually quite like to do.

Herocracy.

There's Altrace or whatever it's called now.

That's Altrace.

Yeah.

The Altrace.

Not racism.

Yeah.

Do you know what?

I'm going to say something quite embarrassing here.

I've never been to a show in England.

Not once.

I had tickets booked and all the flights and stuff booked

to go to Philadelphia one year and COVID stopped it.

And ever since that,

I just have never really had any.

I get back into it again.

Reason to go.

I would say if you're going to go to England,

should go to Roald Hard.

Yeah.

Roald Hard.

What's the good one?

Players Classic.

That seems to be the.

Or just go to Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Yeah.

I think Festival of Speed is my answer for that.

It's bucket list.

My one is actually to say what he has said is Herocracy.

I'd love to go to York City.

The cars that come out of Canada is insane.

Some of them have been at Roots.

All of them have been at Roots.

Oh my goodness.

Do you remember Unix Performance

built the minty green coloured Mark 1?

Mark 1, yeah.

And then it went pink.

Like a salmon colour.

Yeah.

It was at Roots 2024.

Yeah.

And that was a car that like lived up to.

And that was built like 10 plus years ago.

But like Antoine's Jetta.

Antoine's Jetta.

Beautiful.

That really, really dark green Mark 1.

Yes.

That looks black.

Louis XIII though.

I can't remember that fellow's name.

Was it Pascal or something?

No.

It's another Frenchy sound and surname.

Baguette.

Schniels.

Puget.

Racism.

But yeah.

French.

The French.

The Canadians do some great cars.

I actually would really like to do this.

Good cars, eh?

Just.

But just to go to Canada in general.

It looks gorgeous.

So it's funny.

Mark actually understands us really well.

Yes.

Because he worked with a bunch of Irish guys.

Bunch of new fees.

Not even.

Boys from here.

Who use the same slang and words that we use and he understands us perfectly.

Which is quite funny to me.

But a lot of Newfoundland people.

There's a lot of colloquial Irish, Ulster Scots.

They were the lazy Irish.

They hit the.

The first bit they got too.

They were like, this will do us here.

I think they're kind of their own thing as well within Canada.

The Canadians kind of look at them and go.

Where Canadians use their new fees.

That's right.

Yeah.

Probably your accuracy for me.

What are your thoughts?

A show that I think.

Obviously.

Altres.

But in.

Apart from.

I've been to ABF.

Great show.

Go to it.

It is absolutely awesome.

The way they take over the town.

Stuff like that.

But it's about a show I've never been to.

So.

Lift Cult.

It's a Porsche show.

The Porsche one.

It's in the back lots of Warner Studios.

Oh, that's the one.

They change location every year.

The Netflix Studios.

Yeah.

They just put more over.

I think this past year they were in like an old tobacco factory.

Is that the one that Chris Cleol says?

Yeah.

The guys on Overcrash talk about it.

It sounds really good.

Just some really unique old Porsches.

I should really book a holiday with the family and sort of.

Tired.

Just while we're here.

A closer to home one actually as well was one that.

Marty her sponsor went to.

Got the drop.

In England.

It looked good.

It looked really, really good.

It was the same weekend.

I went to Gravity I think wasn't it?

Yes.

On Holiday weekend.

Funny everybody that went to England that weekend from here was going to Gravity.

And Marty put up his wee picture of himself on the boat.

And he was the only one not heading to gravity.

But then I seen the pictures from the different.

Got the drop and just went.

Oh yeah.

That looks like a decent 30 yet from 10 years ago.

Allow me to drop in that I read from PBW.

But that's actually.

Plugs.

When I was doing the interview for.

You guy Adam who's the mark three in this.

Month's issue.

He was that got the drop and was actually talking to Marty.

He mentioned he was a guy.

I was talking to a guy with a mark six and I was like.

It was a big telecon.

You're like.

Yeah.

Sorry for that Marty.

And he was raving about it like he was really like he said.

He was like you should come over for it as well worth it.

So it's probably.

Northampton is it?

No.

Yeah.

So basically this isn't 30 a territory.

It's in Northampton University.

Marty says.

I don't think it's a massive show but it's real collection of high quality.

I think it's the sort of things we're into.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

So another one then we have is Michael.

Hi guys.

Loving the podcast currently in episode 120.

I only started listening late this year.

That's good occasion.

Also listened to any new uploads as well.

I'm in episode 118.

It was a bit roll hard.

I normally go to ultimate dubs but now that it's gone.

I'm looking for other shows and considerations in the UK.

Don't say dub shed as I always go to that.

There's dub shed as a spectator.

My car isn't good enough even for outside and they can see what you have.

Keep up the on rail show.

Hope you have a happy Christmas and year.

Thanks Michael.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Happy Christmas.

I think we've sort of answered this question there for UK shows.

We got the drop or roll hard.

We'll be the two.

Roll hard.

Great.

It's it is a she him.

I know we talked about on the last episode and I kind of laughed about ultimate dubs.

But it is a shame that it's gone.

Addition is gone.

Fed it is gone.

So much going away.

It's like it is sad.

And it's that thing of you don't support it.

And then when it all goes the way you go with the scene.

Shit.

Sort of.

It's like printed prices fell away.

Yeah.

It's like because nobody bought it.

Nobody bought it.

My generation sucks.

Yeah.

You do.

All your fault.

Scrolling us all you're good for.

It's all my fault.

I'm sorry guys.

With your ticking and you're talking.

With your tickety talk.

Oh God.

Keith.

He says.

I had of the year was seeing Connors pvw debut issue.

Standing proud beside the new d-mags.

And my Hermitian fill in station.

Lovely.

Which Nigel responded since superb.

It's where he belongs as he's a certified pervert.

And I stand by those words.

And he responded saying.

You know him better than I do.

So I won't argue.

Don't you like that comment Connor?

Yeah.

I can't argue with him.

Declan Murray Murray dot d91 says.

Hey guys.

I've missed the box.

That's what she said.

She said.

Happy Christmas.

I'm looking forward to seeing you guys in the new year.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Happy Christmas.

My Christmas.

What else have we got.

So Ram McElmill says.

Anyone else not an ounce of Christmas spirit.

But buzzing for dub shed hype that's starting.

Yes.

Oh I've had a Christmas part.

I don't this year.

I think we're carol singing tomorrow night.

You aren't.

That was a secret.

I went to school carol service in Saddam's cathedral Belfast.

I've seen that.

Yeah.

It was fantastic.

Do you know what.

Proper hundred day choir.

I'm going to say.

I love a carol service.

I was in choirs and stuff at school.

And I just I love music.

So any music well done to me.

If you've a good choir or a good orchestra or something.

I'm I'm there.

I want to go to candlelight concerts with Hans Zimmer at Saddam's.

That'll be so good.

I mean if I can lay I think of a Muppets Christmas carol.

I mean.

Like the lamp not the rat but.

It's so good.

Declan again.

Shout out to Connor Lone Ranger into a couple of episodes back.

That was weird.

So.

Yeah.

We were talking earlier before we actually started recording.

They call and get us local comedian.

And a lot of times he does go on and just talks himself for what.

An hour.

Yeah.

He used to.

He doesn't really.

He doesn't do general band anymore.

But he's been doing podcasts since 2012.

And to me that's so weird because I just done like five minutes of.

Tramp.

Trading it.

Less than two months.

You can't do it.

I need someone to bounce off.

You do.

You need to be very funny.

It's very difficult.

I struggle.

YouTube sometimes just no one what to say.

Because there's long gaps of me just messing about.

You could be more entertaining.

I want to do it with your hands.

Yeah.

It's like Ricky Bobby.

And I'm just breaking stuff on a Volkswagen Beetle with my hands.

So that's not the hard part.

Welcome to another episode of break shit with Jake.

Yeah.

Another waste of your time.

C.M.

Auto detailing says looking forward to guests coming on.

Always interesting here to talk about.

Yeah.

We're just talking like we need to get more guests.

I do.

I generally have a list of people lined up that agree to do it.

Just when we look through that.

So we don't realize we've only really.

This year has just been hectic.

And gethans one actually got really good feedback.

Like people really enjoyed it.

Yeah.

Sometimes you.

Doesn't.

Yeah.

There's a lot of times.

I don't know what what heads and what doesn't.

If you ask people if you ask 10 people.

What they like about the podcast.

They'll get to tell you 10 different things.

Some of them will say I love the ones where the three of you just talk shit.

And some of it somebody will say.

I like the interviews and somebody will say I like the topics and stuff.

You.

It's weird.

We're trying to do a little bit of everything.

But.

It's hard.

I never think it's a format.

It's just what you're talking about.

It's not about a crack.

Yeah.

It's never the layout or having a guest or just.

Chatting on the mountains.

Yeah.

We'll have very long meetings before we record sometimes.

We just go.

We'll talk a bit.

Let's see what happens.

We'll just wing it.

The funny thing is we try not to talk to each other.

When we see each other in person.

Until we actually record because you just get it all out.

We have had days where either Nigel has turned up here.

Or we've turned up at his house and we're talking and we're like.

No, don't talk.

Save it for the podcast.

Folding Pat Holden.

My Irish brother says.

Happy.

I can really read.

Happy Christmas, guys.

Happy Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Pat.

I had his father message me the other day.

So shout out to Henry.

Very good.

Henry's a good lad.

Well, change it up a bit, Nigel.

You put out a statement on saying about Christmas presents.

Yeah.

It was just.

Just with Christmas coming up and different things.

I just started to think about cars and what you used to get as a child and started me to

think about ask for a skill actress one year.

I got an 18 van one year.

Just stuff like that.

We didn't do our episode or like gifts episode this year.

Yeah.

No.

So what was your question?

Was it what did you get?

Yeah.

What was your favorite childhood toy automotive related basically?

Oak Green with Envy says had a Tonka dumper and shovel.

The proper metal ones.

Not the plastic shit that we get today.

Derek Tershard.

Oak Green.

Lee G. Farrell says a part of early mark two doors under the tree was definitely a memorable

one later in life.

Sound is good.

Yep.

Definitely the old school Mario Kart RC car I got when I was five.

Who's that?

That was Lee as well.

Lee.

And then Danny.

Maven 80G60 says a metal Tonka truck.

Very nice.

It's funny.

There's two guys 4,000 mile apart wanting the same thing.

This car guy things.

I think one of my favorite ones really early ones was I think in the old school Fisher

price knew they're like a two deck garage.

You could do the lift up and down.

Yeah.

One of the best car toys ever.

Yeah.

Pick it up the left and then you got to the top and it went all the way down to the bottom

again.

Like Hot Wheels was like my era of that which was like just followed like sharks, cool stuff

and jumps and you know they just started making it too much but it was still cool.

That sort of stuff that feeds a child's imagination.

Yeah.

Last Christmas I got my little nephew the Hot Wheels.

It's like a T-Rex but it's a car transporter but it transforms into a T-Rex and then he

like shoots the cars out of his mouth and I was like I want this.

Never mind him.

Yeah.

You got Michael Bay on the phone.

Yeah.

Mr. Bushey Evo 2, Jay Rice 2, 3 and well there's a lot of numbers in there too.

R30T underscore S3 all said Skeletrics.

Absolutely.

It's a popular one.

Lorkin Martin Mark 2 says Hot Wheels criss-cross crash.

Do you remember that?

Yes.

Were they like across the road?

Is that where they shot across each other?

Yeah.

Just talking about Skeletrics.

I remember how frustrating it was with the contact wires.

Yes.

How you keep them rubbing on the track.

Or if you went too fast it flew off.

Yeah.

I actually had to like properly back off in the corners.

I think I didn't get a massive track or whatever.

I couldn't afford it or whatever.

No.

But I remember going to Friends House and the massive tracks and the addicts and all

and you're just going like I'm definitely poor.

Yeah.

You go to your mates house you're like oh.

You guys had an addict?

In the house.

Beats of basement.

Original Euro says Taiko RC hovercraft.

What happened?

I've never seen it before.

That would be pretty cool.

What else do we have?

No poke no love.

Mark says Hot Wheels every year I would get a bunch of them.

I still buy Hot Wheels.

I bought one this morning.

Yeah, me too.

I literally bought one this morning.

You're already shopping.

Probably sneak into the Hot Wheels.

What's going on here and are we special edition nukes?

Oh, another one from Dachlan as well.

Murray dot d91 says my brother got a Skeletrics one year and he got a black and gold Thunderbird

and a Super Touring.

Class.

J Avers.

Sounded good.

And then Jack Logue.

I know what mine is.

So I remember years ago I got this like remote control car and I think it was like an S15

can I see it?

Sylvia or 1413?

I don't know what it was.

Wow.

But it had like an interchangeable body kit.

So you could like, you could like change the skirts.

You could change bumpers.

You could change the spoilers.

I would love, I was searching the web to try and find it.

I just could not find it.

It's probably some random toy manufacturer sold in some shop that doesn't exist anymore.

That was so cool back in days.

I'm going to go get mine.

Hang on.

And then lastly, we have Joshua Waltz of Vagifame and he says Christmas 98.

Josh probably has that in a spreadsheet somewhere because he's spreadsheet mad.

Josh sent me a thing the other day.

I was in Instagram.

I'm a guy building cars and he had like spreadsheets of everything he was putting on the cars.

He's like, this is my hero.

Do you know what he's mine to Christmas 98 bad storm.

I remember that actually leveled a tree on the driveway.

I remember Father pulling it away with the Defender 90 and Pitch Black.

Well, I had it inside to play F198 on the Jordan F, Jordan F1 wheeling pedals.

The game was shite though.

The defender pulled it out.

No bother.

It was a massive evergreen tree and it was Christmas night.

I would have been what two months old.

I missed her too.

Look at this old guy.

MR2 remote control car.

And look, there's a wee switch and the lights come up.

Oh, pop up headlights over here.

That's what it is for years.

I didn't know the headlights popped up.

It's a red over black Toyota MR2.

It's kind of not allowed to touch that.

That's class.

So you can see here on the back, it used to have a big aerial.

It was remote controlled and I've lost the remote.

But I remember the remote.

It was like this huge big chunky remote that had like forward, back and side to side.

But it's so cool.

And I don't remember if it was Christmas present or what.

I would just remember it always being around.

How you had it.

Yeah.

Then the last one we have actually here is Terry Quinn,

who's Instagram name I can't remember because it doesn't show it.

Extra little small.

Says, she wanted a micro machines super.

Micro machines.

Flip.

This is PS.

I wanted it, but Santa got off my brother instead.

So I had to play with it in secret when he was out.

That's fine.

Give me it back.

See those toys.

The thing that kids are deprived of now is seeing adverts for toys with like

absolutely class soundtracks.

Because like in the 90s, it was all like 80s power metal.

And you're like the Power Rangers theme tune.

Yeah.

Set that to whatever you're selling.

That's what kids were like just laughing up.

Did any of you have the remote control car like with the big chunky

tires and stuff and it flipped over and kept going?

I had one of those.

I had that.

Rebound four before.

Yeah.

They were so cool.

One question.

Next year.

Because my dad's mate bought it for himself one Christmas.

Of course he did.

I didn't have it.

A sad story.

One Christmas day.

Young Nigel got a decent remote control car.

And it was like a what would you call it?

Like a dune buggy sort of thing.

And it was probably three, well two o'clock on a Christmas day.

And I was having great fun with it.

And it was the days where you had a bit rechargeable batteries in the night.

Blah, blah, blah.

And I'd got it on second charge, maybe third charge of the day.

And I drove it straight on the wall and broke the chassis in half.

It just snapped in half.

And took it, it was out of the model shop.

In the model shop you see me belt fast.

And they wouldn't give her money back.

She went through small claims, got the money back.

Nice.

Perfect.

Nice.

Fuck Santa.

Yeah.

What a bad guy.

Oh, I've actually missed one.

McGrath, Paul.

Oh, by the way, Santa's real.

Sorry, I took it back to the North Pole.

Yeah, sorry.

Sorry.

A Hayden.

Paul says crash test dummies.

Yeah.

What was that?

That was probably late 80s.

Paul's a wee bit older than I am, but not what it's like.

Weren't they a Canadian band?

Yes, they were as well.

I think they named themselves after the toy.

So what was the toy?

Basically what they were.

And you crashed them into things in the car and they fell apart.

Oh, something rings a bell.

I see.

I think that's what it was.

It's a distant memory.

It's a very distant memory.

Okay, back to the question.

A bit morbid when you think about it.

It is.

Well, I mean, the industry I work in is entirely built around that.

Yeah.

It was shipped here all the way.

S underscore Doug.

Sheen says, happy Christmas to you all.

Thanks for the entertainment and laughs throughout the year.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Sheen.

S14.

Oh, CP.

Thank you for the beers.

Thank you very much.

Oh, wow.

That's the crash test on me's car.

Let me see.

Let's see.

Oh, yeah.

I actually do remember that.

Yeah.

That's definitely a World 12 or something.

Simon says, did you ever tell any lies as a kid that you saw Santa?

Merry Christmas, you felt the animals.

Merry Christmas.

You like my mom probably thinks I'm a twat.

I probably did.

What was the question again, sir?

Did you ever tell lies that you saw Santa?

Tell lies?

Yeah.

Like as a kid, you've always seen Santa.

I probably did.

Probably did.

All kids are liars.

We fuckers.

Fucked.

How did you find out that Santa is real, but how did you find it?

That he was real.

When I was 12 years old or 11 or something around that age.

And Santa's helper had to go get a present in the shopping center.

And Santa's helper turned around to me and just went,

can you do the way Santa is real?

And I was like, uh, yeah.

And she was like, take your brother over there.

I was like, okay.

I was like, that's not what I was talking about.

I don't really remember.

I definitely hung in there for the presents.

I remember waking it up and Santa was coming in at one o'clock in the morning to deliver

the presents.

Yep.

I went, why is my mom holding a big bag of presents?

I just sort of closed my eyes and went, oh, Santa's real.

I think I was just like an older friend.

Group was always the, yeah.

The natural.

What do you mean?

Jackson Hanrahan says, battle of the long roofs, van or wagon?

Wagon.

I would say wagon.

Wagon.

Yeah.

Yep.

That's an easy one.

Wagon or wagon.

A state.

Avant.

I was going to say, already boy there at the end of the table, he'd say avant.

Avant of the Kings.

BM's only started to copy what we're going to see.

They did actually.

Took them long enough to do.

Lizards.

Jeremy smallpop underscore hypothesis says, and so 2025 goals become 2026 goals.

Happy holidays.

Happy holidays, Jeremy.

That's correct.

Jeremy grabbed me at the field today.

I recognized you by the t-shirt.

It's weird.

You go to like a different country and people recognize you, but your voice, it's happens.

And then the turner and go, oh, I heard your voice.

All right.

And then you realize you're the only person that sounds like that.

Yeah.

And probably like a thousand mile radius.

I still think my favorite one was listening to relo podcast in my work van and seeing you

putting fuel in your car thinking this was class turning it up.

Turn it up full whack and then just pulling into the battle station.

I say, how do you think I felt filling up the car and hear it myself?

The thoughts are getting out.

Oh, that Jack Daniels is lovely.

Nom, nom, nom.

Arn underscore Hughes underscore Eddie.

No question.

Just thanks for all the great episodes.

Merry Christmas and happy new year.

Thank you very much, Arn.

Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Arn.

Keep the three spokes alive.

Yes, three spokes for the win, actually.

Yeah.

Same from Owen, Owen Rafferty, Owen dot Rafferty.

Is that the same Arn I'm thinking of?

Or three spokes?

No, that's a different Arn.

I'm thinking Arn Kelly.

You are?

Yes.

Apologies.

Owen says, happy Christmas, guys.

Loving the podcast.

So keep doing what you're doing.

Thank you very much.

Happy Christmas.

I haven't seen Owen actually in quite a while now.

Original Euro again says, just want to say,

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all.

Looking forward to seeing you in 2026.

Yeah, he's out in the West Coast.

So hopefully he makes it over to the East Coast again this year.

Thank you very much.

People's Car Podcast says, and I can guess who this is,

going by the question.

Okay.

It's definitely not Danny.

If Richie had to murder Connor to save Leigh and Nigel,

which way would he do it?

I would say Richie's thought about it many times.

I would say Richie would engineer that situation

just to get murder on me,

because there's times that that pervaster

comes down to watch F1.

Are we going to end the debate about something?

And how many times has he said, and I quote,

can you not just fucking accept that things are things

and you have to question everything?

And I'm like, I'm an engineer, Richard.

I have to question everything.

I want to know.

I don't know.

I don't want to know the answer to something.

I want to know why the answer is something.

And it drives him fucking bananas.

I know that quiz was, you know,

I genuinely think he would just snap and beat me to death.

I think he would put you in the slurry tank.

Possibly something farm on the beach.

Oh no, an accident.

A farm, workplace accident.

Look over here, Connor.

There's a mark three around the corner here.

Watch that slurry pit.

Connor's involved in a workplace accident,

even though he works at home and he died 40 miles from us.

He wouldn't put you in his slurry tank.

He's not going to put me in my slurry tank.

That'd be too much paperwork.

Somebody else's slurry tank.

He will kill me someday, definitely.

100%.

Right, we're on the home stretch then.

No poke, no love again.

Says, I feel like this year flew by.

Cheers to another year.

This year it wasn't seenly fast.

Wasn't it?

Unbelievable for me.

Calvin underscore IS 400 says,

how's Connor getting home with the doggone?

Connor tells more.

Many car parks have been at this month.

I don't have as many excuses now

because I don't really drive for work.

I'm not driving to and from work.

So they come here now?

Yeah, I pretty much.

Skiddle here to the house.

Mark underscore mark one says,

what are you guys, car plans over the festivities

slash winter?

I need to finish sorting out the garage.

Get into the R32.

I need to start stripping the R32.

That is my plan.

I need to just get stuck into the mark three in general.

I think I just need to sort my life out in general.

You put the head in the mark one.

Yeah, do that.

Yes, please.

That's the, that's the probably the simplest one for you.

Well, it's also to fit in the clothes board.

Oh, well, I'll die.

Yeah.

That sounds like a problem.

I've just realized that I have a set of coilovers

about all Johnny Kern in the boot of the mark one,

not yet fitted.

So if a set of AP coilovers,

another AP coilovers, what do you call that?

That's right.

You bought them off him.

FQ.

I bought FKs off him, but the ones that are in mine,

what are they?

They're busy done about 2000 miles.

That's a real top bounce as well.

Yep.

That's a simple win.

Get your bag into, you know, get them fed in.

Simple wins.

That's what I'm out for.

Just, just,

Difficult wins or crap.

Small wins.

Is that the same thing?

We don't do this because it's easy.

We do this because we thought it would be easy.

Yeah.

What else do we have?

Michael Skull in the game says, do we generally think

Volkswagen only has two years left if they don't pull

something out of the bag?

The government will beat them.

Yeah.

I don't think so.

They're too big to feel.

Yeah.

That and I don't think they would, if they had,

they would come out and announce it because all their.

I've just realized I have a good conspiracy corner

for next episode.

Oh, I like it.

Write it down.

Write it down because you'll forget it.

Because I was watching a thing about EV cars in

China.

Ah, there we go.

The conspiracy is that Connor McCann now writes for PVW

and with the hype around that Volkswagen simply

cannot close.

Can't close.

I've waited too long.

Yeah.

They're like the shareholders and stuff would all be

all.

Yeah.

If they had generally two years to fucking, they're all

going to start pulling out.

And you know what to say.

Never pull out.

Remind me of an episode.

You just put your finger on my foot.

You're going to say exactly.

Be careful, kids.

I'm not kids.

Oh, he's out of himself.

Edit, edit.

Peter.

I'm getting the word nonsense.

Oh, dude.

Sometimes it's very badly.

Good night.

God bless.

See you next year.

This is on a scale of one.

The Jack Daniels.

How, how, how Connor is drunk going to be.

I think he's on the.

I know when I go when I go for a drink, I'm going to

imagine the podcast.

I'll tell you what, I'm not drunk enough to have

myself as a Peter.

I just won't sleep tonight.

Uh, Jack local.

Right here.

I'm going to tell you something.

See people who drive EV cars

or the seeing people that think cool FM

is good crack.

That's what I'm worried about.

I love just saying paid if I was the laudiest.

Yep.

They love peach noddle.

The only thing good about cool FM.

It's the top ten of ten.

Top ten of ten.

Yeah.

That's right.

Because I'm old.

Why I'm saying this.

I am in a new job.

And this new job.

We listen to the radio.

And it's radio one.

And it's driving me mental.

Radio one is pure dung.

Oh, radio two.

Remember the days when radio one used to have

Mark and Lord and Chris Moyles on.

I hear a Chris Moyles.

Oh, no.

Mark and Lord.

No, I'm not old enough for that.

Oh, right.

I don't even know who they are.

I'll shut up now.

Was that before miles?

Yeah.

Well, there was sort of a Hanover Hanover,

but like three or four years when they're still on.

Chris Moyles was like the first one I remember

on the breakfast show on radio one.

Yeah.

So either.

Do you remember the old radio?

Get rid of them.

No.

Radio two.

That's what you want to listen to.

What was the Scottish one that we listened to?

That was quite good.

I'm surprised you don't listen to radio Wax.

PJ and Jim on one of the Dublin radio.

I can't remember what it was.

Hey, I was always Spotify, podcast, audio books.

Like I kind of, I kind of missed that now.

You know, when I'm listening to the radio podcast,

I have to listen to it in 15 minute and 30 minute increments.

I drive six minutes to work.

Because you don't have the long drive anymore.

Connors texting.

Maxi, Maxi Dex and Jack's girlfriend

will let him know that he's all right

because she's asking me, okay.

Because I was saying, you haven't,

oh, you're an airplane.

I put my phone in airplane mode.

Seems like I can't be the new guy.

Just like has his phone ringing all the time.

I'm on airplane mode,

but it's connected to the Wi-Fi.

That's what's on there.

All right.

Thanks for listening to this.

And your girlfriend, Riley,

will both be glad to know we're nearly there

because we're with the last question.

Excellent.

The last one come from D underscore tails 19 says,

I know you're meant to a quote,

respect all bills, et cetera.

But come on.

What's the worst you've seen?

Land Rover free spokes on the middle.

I thought I was going to say a mark to you.

That's the stabby.

Worst one I've seen.

Some of the most atrocious things I've seen was in America

in 2010, I want to say.

Lee and I ended up in Brooklyn.

In the hood.

Literally in the hood.

Fast and furious in the hood.

We're like all the car club guys.

We're running about dressed like bikers with like.

Backpatches.

Backpatches and other Westcoats.

And like,

looked like they were going to stab each other.

Excellent.

And the cars was like,

there was an Integra, like a DC two shape Integra.

With the bonnet cut up the center and like a zigzag portion.

Like.

Opened like this.

There's a clip from the fast and furious one.

Where's the car?

Does that with a 9 11 montage or burst onto the bonnet?

Not the Porsche.

The terrorist attack.

Yeah.

Oh, it would have been less weird if it was a Porsche.

And again, I think we've talked to this before.

Was it at Werthersee one year?

There was an S3 or an A3.

A3.

That was trimmed in leather.

Outside.

Yep.

Like a burgundy red and a mustardy yellow.

Kind of iron man-ish.

Fully trimmed leather.

The whole car.

The outside of the car.

It was kind of weird.

Yeah.

It would hide.

Stayin' local.

Anybody remember the A3 back in the day from Bangor?

Dustin's one.

Who?

Was it Dustin?

The black one?

With the teeth in the front of it?

The teeth and the rear badge on the back was like the exhaust or something.

It was 15 exhaust pipes out the back.

Do you think it was Dustin?

No.

Was that the end of the Max Parrier or that thing?

Yeah.

I remember the car.

It had the braid wheels on it.

Like the braid machined wheels.

And he was in what he called the Southern Magazine.

You were showing me there.

Either the first force or modified force.

Yeah.

And he'd done fast cars and stuff like that.

But more than a general notice it was the year of JK Otis Bear's body kit.

And there were some awfully fitted kits.

That's the thing.

You could go back and build a car that looks like we were looking earlier at my course

over the body kit.

And Stefan looked at that magazine and the first thing he said was, fuck me, that's

terribly.

I was like, yeah.

Because when I was 17, the only coilovers that were available were Spax RSX and they

were 700 quid, which is equivalent of 1400 quid now when I was 17.

It was mental only.

And it just wasn't going to happen.

You could have cut springs.

I just wasn't for doing it.

You know, I've never cut springs.

Always do it right.

But that was, you would nearly get away.

I'm not saying because like taste change and that sort of things out of fashion now.

But you would get away with it more if a car was bagged and it sat nicely on a nice set

of wheels, that extreme body kit.

It doesn't look as dated.

If you can kind of take three or four steps and kind of modernize it with more modern

wheels and tire fitment and you are tire sizes and wheeled arch fitment.

But there is, as you say now, it's like back in the day.

That wasn't a thing.

You've had a set of 40 models.

There are kids who are very good money for what they were.

There's someone who fit it awful and wheel combos and arch gaps and just.

It just, it wasn't what you were looking at back then.

It wasn't bolt on.

You know, there was there's work that you had to do when you went home.

It wasn't just like, I'm going to buy a body kit.

I'm going to put it on the car.

You had to have the skill to be able to adjust, move, cut, you know, put it back together.

Some of the cars were just like.

Cover your car and glue and try driving in the Halfords style modifications.

But that's making a research in England.

I was going to say it.

It's, it's coming back because you see some, you see some of the WNN.

Started with the Neons.

That's the.

Yeah.

I want Neons.

The other thing was.

When you look at.

Nineties body kits for Mark threes met a big comeback for a while.

But.

What's the right way to say this?

There was certain things in the nineties for Mark threes that work really, really well.

And they still work really well.

And there was certain things in the nineties that were cheap and cheerful that nobody liked.

Back then.

But now people are digging anything out and thinking this is cool because it's nineties.

Because it's unique.

And you're like, no, it's not.

That wasn't cool the first time around.

So it's not cool this time.

And my go to unique doesn't mean better is the headlight masks.

No, the stick on plastic covers that when you couldn't afford to set a hella twin headlights

or morets with the actual twins, you put the mask on over it.

They looked like it was.

And back in the nineties and 2000s, that wasn't cool.

Everyone knew it was a cheap knockoff.

Yeah, it wasn't what you were supposed to be doing.

But it was an option.

But now you guys are going mad for them because they're like, this is what people did back

then.

I'm like, yeah, if you were fucking poor, you know, like, that's not what you're meant to

be.

And I like a bit of that.

It's not my thing to do, but I see some cars and go with that actually works really well

in that style.

Yeah.

But just because you take everything and go full kit wanker and fuck it on the car doesn't

mean that it works.

No.

You know, that's the thing.

Less is more sometimes.

For me.

Everybody's different.

Yeah.

But the key word are being different, you know, different body kits.

What's the worst modified car you've seen?

I'm supposed to say felt back as a whole.

End of, you know, cut springs, the rear rakey, you know, almost a crack with a light bar.

Stop with light bars in your car.

Just stop it.

It's like pedophilia.

Yeah.

Understood.

Nigel, you would just.

You understood it to be as bad.

There's a coming back on this now.

The best thing you can do is not invite Jack back on.

Yeah.

That's true.

Remove him from your life.

Wait.

Hold on.

Just to clarify, did Nigel invite me as the young boy on the podcast?

Oh, yeah.

Here's been fun.

Go to.

My real podcast is over.

Wait or tired of the hills.

As always, folks, thank you very much for all the questions.

Yes.

Thank you.

I was a good crack.

We're about two hour, two and a half hours into this.

Two hours and half an hour.

Two hours and half.

Half past midnight.

The famous man once said that in a bar at Ultimate Dobs.

A very drunken bar.

Yeah.

Half past midnight.

Folks, have a lovely Christmas.

This will be going out just for Christmas.

Yes.

Next couple of days.

And enjoy your time off.

If you get it over Christmas, enjoy your cars.

Enjoy your family.

Have a good one.

Happy new year.

And thanks again for listening and supporting the podcast.

See you on the other side.

Can I say on behalf of the listeners before we all go to thank you.

You guys for doing this every time.

I know the work you put into it and the quality of your podcast is amazing.

Well, now you actually know the work we put into it.

Literally.

So we surprised how little we've put into it.

On behalf of all listeners guys.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Christmas.

Bye bye.

Merry Christmas.

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