Tank! feat. Victoria Scott
Once again, it seems like tariffs are going to slice the North American auto industry into ribbons while it simultaneously tries to make buying some of the only good cars in the world illegal. Victoria Scott from Tran Girlismo takes us through the decline of the American auto industry (for non freaks) and the rise of the American auto industry (for freaks) augurs the wheels coming off the broader American project. Also November’s back and we look at some of the early days of living in Greatest Manchester.
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Hey everyone, Riley was on the news here in Europe: https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/der-tag-in-berlin-und-brandenburg/mr-berlin-party-strassenstar-am-alexanderplatz/rbb/Y3JpZDovL3JiYl85OGI5ZTM4YS0xOTBiLTRmYTQtYTk1My0yYmQ2ZjkyZjkzNjBfcHVibGljYXRpb24 Every time he steps through Berlin Brandenburg Airport, this is what he looks like. And when he leaves, he re-shapes into the form you mostly know him as. It's a very curious phenomena of either hyper-localized distortion or dimensional gating, or both. The SCP Foundation has officially classified it as "benign enough to not require immediate containment".
Fun Tesla fact, until about a year or so ago, anybody could walk up to any Tesla, use the app to unlock the car, and drive off. Nothing was done about it until the SF Chronicle reported it. Some guy walked out of a store, and his Tesla was gone, so he called Tesla. They connected him with the car, and they convinced the guy driving the car that he was in the wrong one basically by describing what was in the glove compartment. The guy in the Tesla drove back to the store, handed over the car, found where he had left his same color and model Tesla in the parking lot, said "Whoops," and left in the correct car. Per the SF Chronicle, Tesla wasn't bothering to fix the issue because they figured there weren't enough of their cars on the road for the above to ever happen. They forgot how many people own their cars in the SF Bay Area. Hey, as far as I know, you can still walk up to any Tesla and use the app to drive off in it. Oh another fun fact from the SF Chronicle, the SF Police know that Teslas record everything around them all the time, so if they figure out there was a Tesla near the scene of a crime or accident, they will impound the car indefinitely. You have to go to court to get the police to release the car; even though, all they need is the USB memory stick out of the glove compartment with the video history. The police simply find it easier to impound the entire car on the off chance they might need the footage someday rather than ask the owner for the USB stick.
Hey I got banned from the discord because I got hacked can I get unbanned?
Listening to this while I'm in China. I haven't seen a non electric car or bus for at least a week, the cities are littered with closed down petrol stations. Last week I travelled over 2000 miles by train for 120 quid at 300km/h.
It’s pronounced Lay-Gos Riley. Not LAH-GOSE. It’s LAY-GOS. Signed- someone who lives in Lagos and lives 10 minutes from an auto shop with a bulletproof cars section.
i HAVE been shopping for a car where if I get momentarily boxed in by a critical mass I can ram my way out leaving a trail of blood and bodies 15 kilometer long
Every new vehicle today is the SWAT van from Terminator 2 where Sara Conner is firing an automatic rifle out the back under a pile of armored vests, ope now your kid is ready for pickup
'I've got two functional legs, why is the NHS spending money on wheelchairs?' mentality
"My son is young and fuckable. I don't want people to fuck my son. So I bought this car." People are fine out there.
This woman rolling up in her Rezvani Tank, bumping into the drive-through railing and getting caught in the concrete overhang over and over until a manager has to get out and go: "Ma'am...Ma'am! Ma'am, it's not.. it's not built for that... Ma'am! Ma'am, if you just park to the side we will come to you. Ma'am!" But she can't hear anything through the mobile führerbunker.
They may have bulletproof cars, but what's the likelihood they have a double v hull 🤔🤔🤔
Elon is touting the 9mm stat when clearly he should be more concerned about 8mm Mauser. But 9>8 so I’m sure it’s fine.
CNN is running an article right now that's like "Did britain just elect a COOL guy?". I haven't read the article, but the main thing seems to be "yo, this dude drank a beer in public", which really is severe case of "the straights are not ok". But sure, I can answer that question CNN. No, they did not. I don't know anything about this guy, and I refuse to learn anything about him. My only knowledge is and will remain the slander communicated from this podcast. But even then, the answer is no. I hope that clears things up, CNN. That will be 900 dollars after tax. I don't know if that's what commentariats charge for an expert-opinion, but I'm fine with this sum. That's two months of rent, and some groceries; two things I enjoy.
17.10+ is a fantastic crash out thank you Nova
the cheapest, most reliable, and least trackable form of transportation is the bicycle.
Buses benefit people that don't take them because every car on the road is an impediment to every other car on the road. I got a buddy that commutes from Jersey to Connecticut by car not through the city and he _loves_ congestion pricing because all the people now on NJT and Metronorth cut like 30 min off his ride
literally the one reason Trump didn't touch it yet
Chinese eagles: Welcome to the Chinese California
I look forward to the blue bucket movement but American style
In my city of Brisbane they slashed public transport from like $2 - 4 AUD to 50 cents flat rate and ridership went through the fucking roof overnight. They even had to pull out the older buses for some routes to deal with the extra-capacity, like the Russians pulling out the T-55s to be chewed up by Ukraine. Because the network is barely a passing grade, in that somebody like me who doesn't drive can generally get around the city but there will always be delays and cancelled services and it can sometimes take me two hours and three transfers to get into work from the outer suburbs to the CBD, but at least it's cheap and I am getting what I pay for, which is good enough for most people to make the change from private to public commute. Making public transport good after decades of car-centricity is hard; requiring the hiring and retention of drivers, the expansion of the fleet, and the building of infrastructure like bus lanes taking years of focused investment and political will that few mainstream parties have the stomache or inclination for. But making it cheap, could be done overnight with the stroke of a pen by a desperate Labor government attempting to cling on to power by actually doing something for the working class. And the result was less traffic for the car-brained areseholes who insist on driving to their job in the CBD and paying $30 a day for parking as it made econmic sense for the more rationale people to leave their owns cars at home. TLDR; Nova's righteous outrage at these idiots is on fucking point and I would be yelling alongside her if I wasn't on the bus right now and expressing solidarity through courtesy to my fellow passengers. Where the hell is that fish smell coming from...
Oh sorry I left my fish sauce on the bus. Seriously though, the past 5 years of politics have genuinely turned me into one of these idiots that thinks scientific planners should be in charge of everything. Behead the party, and put the people educated in the art of making things actually function in charge.
real quick sorry Cumming Hard Riding Your Super Long Erect Rod sorry
I laughed so hard listening to this at the gym, I looked a little nuts.
Behind the bastards covers “elite panic” the phenomenon yall are talking about at the end of the episode. It might be my favorite episode of his show of all time. Ps the grocery store fire in the btb episode should be a wtyp episode https://youtu.be/_j9L2ppuANc?is=5vYAuJxAnagg6IAY
*** triggered cough *** The Supermarine Spitfire Combat Record achieved an estimated overall win-loss ratio of about 3.5:1 to忻2:1, reflecting roughly 5,000 to 7,000 credited aerial victories against 1,200 to 2,500 air-to-air losses across all global theaters
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Was legitimately jumpscared by them saying the city I'm currently in. Come to Ogden, Utah! We've got... skiing and the IRS. Also the dirty sodas thing is because Mormons don't drink (allegedly) and apparently try to avoid caffeine? but then they decided sodas don't count. They're good though, I've never understood the hate (edit: the sodas I mean, some of the people are nuts) Everything else you said about Mormons though is accurate. I've seen 3-4 Cybertrucks around town and it's hard to park anywhere near the stupid gigantic pickup trucks that don't fit in parking spaces.
I was also shocked to be able to get a train in the UK even if I got left on a platform in the dark for 3 hours. I live in city with a beautiful restored historic train station that is now a massive call center and ZERO passenger trains. Really sums up the American ExperienceTM if you're not on the coasts.
So nice to have the talented Ms. Scott on a podcast with professional audio editing. (Sorry TG's editor.)
beep beep was trying her best
Enlisting in the international brigade of the Zack Polanski dare to die corps
“The barista lives in the coffee shop and goes to sleep in the bathroom” has big shirt potential imo
As a resident of the People’s Republic of Ann Arbor (aka the only place in metro Detroit with functional public transit), this was both the best and worst episode I have listened to in a long time.
I dream of the day I'm elected Transit Stalin and I get to rip up Washtenaw and US12 to implement the Ypsi-Arbor-Saline People's Trolley and Cog Railway.
Oh a Chrysler? Cum harder Riley you slutty little edged Riley.
If you feel like a t-rex while driving you should probably move the seat forward
As an American who never learned how to drive or get a drivers license, and who has been telling myself I should really try to get a license now that I’m 30… boy this really demotivates me. Back on the bus, then!
wasn't expecting a Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of reference today but I'll cheefully take it
I was gonna say...mad props for the Mountain Goats
COWBOY BEBO?
Can You Be Extremely Realistic? Transitioning Really Upsets Current Kleptocrats.
Siri, play "King Car" by the Three Johns, please.
Alexa play "Cars" by Gary Numan right next, thx
I see the UK has the vox pop skinwalkers from I Love Boosters as well
nova losing it is really really relatable and also great now that we have missed milo losing it for so long
It honestly helps to ground my sanity to see other people lose their shit. Makes me realize I'm not the only one. Like during covid, it really helped talking to my doctor. Not so much for medical advice, but more for just to hear another person, a professional no less, say "everything is so messed up."
Which episode was the original homophobic truck memes opener? Now I want to relisten lol
I think that came over from the WTYP ep about.... the Pinto I think?
Cybertruck is difficult but you could always do TESLA - Testicles, Everyday Some Licking Action
periodddd
"I don't want public services because I don't use them" is such an inherently selfish mindset that it actually baffles me. How can you just not see the benefit it causes because it doesn't benefit exclusively you
I was about to say well then we're gonna defund the roads which now to be fair the UK *has* been doing
Welcome back Nova! Loving the energy and remarks. " New Amsterdam"? Is a ball knower one
Vicky cackling in the background while the TF crew do bits with each other is the most relatable things I've heard in ages.
Well, there's your trans girls.
There's an aspect of this where, for the right wing, rather than ever bother to even try to operate in reality it seems that they are all living in like fantasy or scifi scenarios when if they look out their window they can see things are still not really all that different? Like if you're a conspiracy guy who choose as to whether you're in world if darkness or deus ex while everything around you is still mundane and boring, if you're a tech guy you act like you're the family from accelerando while the singularity isn't happening, and it seems like if youre a rich guy you act like you're in cyberpunk 2020 while things continue to still be fairly normal in day to day life
Just want to say that the rezvani tank is also in snowrunner and its quite literally one of the worst vehicles in the game and also the only scout (alongside the rezvani hercules) to be sold as a seperate very overpriced dlc. Also rezvani makes a bunch over cars for chuds with names like "Fortress", "Dune" and my favourite "Beast™".
Also the website has a bunch of spelling mistakes. And the description of the "Fortress" reads "built to dominate", please reply to this comment if you too, are built to dominate :).
One must imagine the giant v8 truck owner hauling rocks happy
car lady, wooo!
Missed opportunity to talk about the batmobile at the hour mark, its evolution is a pretty good microcosm of the militarization of the car
So like, why do conservatives think society is going to collapse? I thought they were like "utopia now please" when trump first got elected? Like serious question, I guess I assume they think like the great replacement type shit where non cishet white people are like zombies but like, idk it just feels like this phenomenon I've seen of like , knowing in the back of their heads about climate change and that what they're doing is insane but are unable to accept it cuz it benefits in the short term? Idk
Oh it's just elite panic over antifa ok
The people of America are speaking with one voice and they all say "ohhhhh dont step on my nasty dick and shoot my tiny pathetic balls off. Nooooo id haaaaate that soooo much" an entire nation reduced to one of those humiliation fetish subreddits from boonta vista. tragic.
i mean it seems to me that the intent of putting miliband in the foreign office is to make him fuck off on diplomatic trips so he's not a bother. even if he's the diplomacy guy the dominant opinion of the broader cabinet surely matters far more
Number 10 is haunted. It needs exorcizing
oh my god i want someone to hit trump on the head in the precise way that he turns into a WEF guy so bad
So of the podcasts/YouTube videos I engage with: Cars: now about the collapse of empire and evils of capitalism. Video games: now about the collapse of empire and evils of capitalism. Table top roleplaying: now about the collapse of empire and evils of capitalism. Fishing: now about the collapse of empire and evils of capitalism. Well, I think we're fucked.
how is capitalism destroying fishing do tell
Seeing Victoria’s name then putting on my hard hat and safety vest for this episode of Well There’s Your Trash Future.
[picture of the Cybertruck on fire in the Trump casino valet lane] "So what you see here is an American truck. It's, uhh.... it's not supposed to look like that."
3-2-1 let's jam. Those "That thing got a Hemi?" ads were the most classist weird shit. The two rednecks getting mogged by some office guy because he has a truck with a giant engine, pure "purchase masculinity, it is the only way to obtain it."
The fact that you didn't replace the opening song with Tank! is great disappointing to me.
TF sadly can only be so cool, and that song would push them dangerously over safety limits.
Tran Girlismo is so good
