Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad
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Updated 8 days agoWant all the episodes? Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/TiredPod to get the good stuff. One free episode every week, and an extra weekly episode for subscribers! What's the pod about? Look, cars are terrible. On a macro scale, their impact has been catastrophic, directly killing millions of people, contributing to a climate emergency that will kill millions more, and irrevocably reshaping our physical landscape in ways that have only made us more alienated from and hostile towards one another. On an individual level, their effects are equally ruinous, luring us with their promise of freedom into 84-month notes on blinged-out depreciating assets (if you're like other people), or driveways and garages full of shitbox beaters and doomed projects (if you're like us). Terrible! And yet we love them. They fascinate us. It's enough to make a person… TIRED. Peter Hughes, Rory Carroll, and Matthew Riley attempt to map out the contours of this paradox, with lots of detours along the way. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tiredpod
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Episodes (119)
Episode 68: Indy 500 Preview!
It's the big weekend! We talk Penske and attenuators, the surprise in pole position, misadventures in Indy glamping, and crust punk bartering tactics.
Episode 67 Teaser: The Final Boss of Digressions (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 66: Auto Shanghai Scene Report! (with guest Kevin Williams)
That's right: he's back! Kevin Williams of InsideEVs returns to tell us what he drove, saw, and heard in Shanghai. Who might consolidate? Who's got more road feel? How are the trains? Let's get magnetorheological!
Episode 65 Teaser: Kettled! At The Red Lobster (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 64: Headlight PVP Zone
Blinded by that SUV? Rearview straight-up irradiated by that lifted truck behind you? Welcome to the U.S.A. where, once again, your vehicle is regulated as an isolated entity. Plus: headlight design history, and an Evil Seville.
Episode 63 Teaser: Personal Luxury Cope (2-Doors Part 2) (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 62: Cutting Out The Coupe (2-Doors Part 1)
What happened to 2-door cars, anyway? Peter and Rory work on taxonomic criteria and remember some extinct species in the 2-door genus, to point out just how common two-door models once were. We're talking B-pillars and roof lines! It's Car Professor time!
Episode 61 Teaser: It Will Not Actually Be Fine (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 60: Gas-Powered Phone Charger
And other tales of human ingenuity. Rory reports in from another jam-packed exciting auto show, Teal Team Six gets back on the road, we pull a little international news from Shanghai and Stuttgart and ask what's stronger than the 80's, and Peter goes electric. Additional Music Credits: Return of the fav, "sarin gas" by Frugivore, used with permission: https://frugivore.bandcamp.com/track/sarin-gas And the old standard, "Bossa Antigua" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Episode 59 Teaser: It'll Be Fine (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 58: Truck, Truck, Goose
Slate truck! Cybertruck! Q1 bestselling truck! GET READY FOR ALLOY. Plus Penske at the White House, memories of the UC Irvine copy shop, our true and real love for Robert Wickens, and a little more derangement than the public feed usually gets.
Episode 57 Teaser: Coast-to-Coast Carspotting (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 56: We Can Do This (w/ guest ED NIEDERMEYER)
Ed Niedermeyer (author of Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story Of Tesla Motors) sat down with us to talk about the Tesla Takedown protests, vulnerabilities in the Elon Empire, and what he's learned from a decade of studying Tesla Motors as a company. Tesla Takedown - The Strategy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Imw_s1aaI&ab_channel=EdwardNiedermeyer Get your copy of Ludicrous (back in print!) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ludicrous/Edward-Niedermeyer/9781950665655 Ed on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/niedermeyer.online
Episode 55 Teaser: Mr. Market Hits The Wall (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 54: Warm-Up Laps
After our producer's cross-country move, we're back with some chit-chat. Carspotting! Someone got pulled over! Politics in El Salvador! And a mailbag question about when to fix it, and when to junk it.
Episode 53: Under New Management
After over 50 episodes of RPMPod teaching you how to go faster, be more alpha, and reject all attempts at control by the state and its admiralty courts, we'd like to thank our new private equity partners in setting a new edgier tone for the RPMPod brand going forward.
Episode 52 Teaser: All Cars Are Bad (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 51 Teaser: Educational Programming (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 50: Mercury In Scorpio
We take a look at a Looney Tunes style Tesla test, return to the Jungle and refresh ourselves on the Gloss, and Rory and Peter roll back the clock to the Malaise Era for a guessing game.
Episode 49 Teaser: Pod Hund (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 48: Podquest For Death (1983) with guest Andy Wendler!
Andy Wendler (of 80's Maumee hardcore outfit Necros) stops by the pod to talk fixing your own tour van and touring with the Misfits. Rory tells a Danzig story, a tiger gets loose in the old Packard plant, and Peter and Matty pick up the road atlas and point out the window.
Episode 47 Teaser: Cybertruck Shaming And You (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 46: Dymaxion Wedgie
Peter has a WEC recap, Rory tries to figure out what's going on with Neil Young's LincVolt, Matty brings the mail in, and everybody agrees we would bully Buckminster Fuller. Mailbag questions today: what's your car-sona? What's in your center console? What's going on with 3-wheeled cars? PRODUCTION NOTE: your producer pal Matty is moving this month and will be here, there, & everywhere handling that, so the upload schedule may be a little weird for a couple weeks. We'll still have 2 episodes every week, one free and one Patreon-only! But they might pop up on unusual days. Thanks for listening, and stay tired!
Episode 45 Teaser: Unenforceable Guidelines (Patreon-Only Episode)
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Episode 44: Going Boat Mode
We've got a real cozy guestpisode on deck, as Peter's fellow Rochesterian and car enthusiast Justin Schmidt joins us to talk about his current automotive stable. We've got stories about Great Lakes boating, junkyards-turned-brownfields, autojourno mishaps, and a trip down memory lane for anyone w ho remembers rubbing compound. Justin's radio show on WAYO 104.3FM: https://wayofm.org/shows/obsolete-transmissions