car bad
we talked about it
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Look upon my Edsel, ye mighty, and despair
well that explains why you never see cars from this era around anymore, they all fucking evaporated into rust particles
Rocz was on a heater in this episode. So many one liners.
My first car was a 1966 Ford LTD that I was able to get running, was a fun car to drive but I kind of got in over my head trying to update the brakes and was never able to get them to not leak so I ended up trading it for a 95 Cadillac.
"Hurricane Accipiter" is fanfuckingtastic.
Is the there a price on a polycule of lesbians? I'd like to buy into that.
Cya WTYP, Liam's condescension of the audience around the Genesis made me reconsider my very recent subscription. Real life is bad enough; i do not need it everywhere i go.
they're pretty upfront about being the podcast that hates you back
I just saw an Edsel out in the wild here in Roanoke VA
I very nearly pissed myself at "YOU EVER WANTED TO FUCK A HEADLIGHT HOUSING??" What a delightful listen for my first bonus!
I was listening as I worked, and my had whipped around when I heard "Edsel Citation." What a name for a car! Also Liam making an Edsel voice 34:28 just about killed me.
On the topic of too many car brands: I was recently thoroughly mocked by my friends after confidently asserting that surely there can't be more than like *counts on fingers* 12 car companies in the world.
"I may not know much about car brands, but at least I've got all 12 of my fingers!"
Piston Liberation Front won the Index of Effluency at the Smells Like AMC Spirit 24 Hours of Lemons in a Edsel Pacer just earlier in the fall
I crave a crossover with Brian and Roman from Regular Car Reviews
The episode is just Philidelphia Squared
i am a nobody but if you need a guest to justify an advertising bonus episode i will put aside my hatred of my voice for it and volunteer,,,, please i just Need to hear you all rip them all a new one
I'm just going to say keep it up guys, and fuck the haters.. Luvs y'all!
I do not understand the mastodon shade theyve started throwing ever episode... Some weird misunderstanding about mods or whatnot, which makes no sense given how mastodon works. Sure you might not reach people who dont want to see what you have to say if you arent following whatever rules they or their instance have but that seems good???
I think it's because weird small shitty mastodon instances can disaffiliate from each other and etc, but the thing is, tiny servers full of backbiting types who will go wild on you for not doing CW:food or whatever disaffiliating from you is good? Mastodon on a big main server is a very solidly twitter-like experience I think without the viciousness that the algorithmic exposure engenders
Seriously you people bonus content on the patreon RSS feed make it happen you have real producer types in your little podcast collective who know how to do these things
Agreed, why do I have to come to patreon for these... Just put them in the RSS feed please...
Liam sez "Shuttup, you know the bonus episode comes out at the end of the month" - reality - two weeks into the next month... Liam - " I wonder what car I'll get next..." Alice : " Well, maybe we'll try to take the Patreon-bucks seriously -" reality - ' Wait a second, I'm not a professional cat-wrangler, I'm only semi-pro....' :)
For guest Victoria https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823653/women-at-the-wheel/
lol, this is the card I based the mech game I made in college around
this is a great old man bonding episode
cars YEA!
Building all new tooling and then throwing it away a year later was kind of the point of these styling changes. The costs of retooling every year are pocket change if you're GM and it's split between a few million cars. If you're Nash or Hudson or whatever you can either go broke throwing away perfectly good tooling every year or you can stick with what works and try to sell cars with "outdated" styling.
Liam is such an Edsel now and again.
I know this episode isn't about trains, but this is the only social media I do. Can I give a plug for signalstodanger a podcast about UK rail disasters, historical-now. Good mix of narrative and technical from a rail engineer. If you like the Gareth WTYP episodes you'll love this. Content warning: host is British (and Yorkshire) so sarcasm and irony may be involved.
Does it have slides? y/n
Apparently 1946 was peak coffee in america with an average per person consumption of 40-50 gallons per year. Assuming an 8oz diner style mug that's 2.5 cups every day, about tracks with those E-Day numbers
Was it horrible coffee? Like diner sitting on a hot plate for hours coffee?
I am once again asking for your help to at least bleep tr***y when Alice says it. I don't know what gendered insult you bleeped out, but if you're doing that, could ya at least remove the t slur? Shit sucks to hear.
I REALLY need the full list of Marian Moore's Edsel names. Google is not being helpful.
I’ve never heard of a Genesis brand car. Huh. Fuck cars, I refuse to learn about new kinds.
Stanley Steamer and Nash Rambler just sound like two things to never search for on urban dictionary
Good call. Stanley Steamer's pretty good, but nothing for Nash Rambler. I guess you can't rule 34 them all, or at least not immediately.
Car Bad, This Particular Car Worse
Liam [rustles Skittle wrappers on mic] Rocz: "So help me God Liam, I will turn this car around and go straight back to Winnipeg, and no-one will get to go to HemisFair '68!"
use PURPLE TENTACLE on EDSEL
I want it on the record I was listening to this in a supermarket and when I heard "that car has a PUSSY on its face!" I laughed hard enough to get weird looks from other shoppers. Excellent work as always 👏
Rocz, I really appreciate you stanning Arby's. I like John Stewart but fuck him for that. Arby's rules.
In Sweden I was desperate on my Mini Cooper to not get the Brexit (Union Flag) Tail lights, but they said if I wanted a lease deal they were compulsory. The agent did find it funny though when I suggested that if I went next door and ordered a 3 Series, would they make me have Swastikas on the rear lights.
FWIW, the FE series V8 motor, designed for the Edsel, had a long and succesful career.
Only WTYP tells you the truth about how the Pussymobile (derogatory) almost bankrupted the Racism Car Company. Thank you, you podcasting goons
we need some kind of russian infosec boatcar topic so we can get Victoria, Tom, Wartakes and Milo all in the same episode
A WTYP episode where Alice, Justin, and Liam do not appear, and the guests don't acknowledge it
Do you guys have a full playlist of the bonus episodes somewhere? Would like to go back and listen to some of the old ones but it's a pain in the ass to navigate patreon's archives
They have one on Youtube but it's unlisted afaik
would love to host victoria and/or the pod if they want to come as press to the Canadian International Auto Show. I'm not affiliated, I just know how to/have gotten press for myself and know they could get in no problem, and I have a studio full of rode booms and Re20s/AT20s/MK4s
no group of podcasters generate so much bullshit complaining about doing their job, its like me at my job where i get paid minimum wage. they just like me fr
The flaw in this episode is that in the 50s no one knew what a pussy looked like.
Or the stem of a cock. They all just appeared floating out of a pube mist.
9:07 so the Simpsons episode where homer buys the lady camrenaro https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA. See also https://youtu.be/ne78JdyYgoQ
Monday-Thursday patch gang
The interesting thing Ford did in this era was to go full bore ass luxury and make the Mark II Continental. which was meant to be a step above Lincoln. It was a handbuilt car which lost Ford thousands per car. Over three years they only made 3,005 of them. They sold for about $10,000 in fifties money. Ford built a whole new factory to build them, this later became the Edsel plant. I will say, having driven one, yea it's really a cool car. Work of art.
Marianne Moore fun fact: the living room of her New York apartment is open to the public on Delancey St in Philadelphia.
Time to edit Alfred P Sloan (proud sponsor if NPR) Wikipedia page.
Normally: Yay, Liam. Today: Boo, Liam. The Peugeot PX10 is a legendary bike. https://gyroscopethattakesyouplaces.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/my-mid-life-crisis-rides-an-old-french-bike/
When do I get to scream, MAKE IT A FIXIE??!
car indeed bad
Loved the "they've rebadged it you fool" section
I too wish to drive a chromed whale carcass down the road - steering and acc/dec are for pinko commies
The edsil episode, it's for the executive on his way up
was Mr.Regular consulted about coming on as guest??
oh god, no we can't handle that level of memes + literary theory + BROWN.
We barely made it 30 seconds in before Liam told us all to fuck off LMAO
I appreciate the bravado of shamebombing your patrons with the introduction.
Car bad. Goat good.
I live in a 1950's house. As far as I can figure, it was meant to be a showcase house for other houses of the same design. It's foundation is stone, and all the sheathing is in tongue and groove pine. I also has no access to the basement from upstairs, floods every time it rains, and over time has sunk into a hog back because the framing, though nicely done (presumably because it was visible from said basement) is woefully inadequate. Make America grate again (that's not a typo).
Well yes - form over function rocks, obviously
I have always wanted one of these! So happy to see you 4 talk about it!
Car never changes.
Volvo 850R the agendered civilian sleeper tank hot rod
Justin's on a heater for this one
I'm so hyped for this one
How many times does Liam scream "93 Octane Golf" in this episode?
Needs more molasses?
car bad but my 1980 Puch Maxi moped is good
"...as well as Victoria" yesssss, the best guest returns (sorry Gareth) (But for real, all the guests are always great)
is there an audio feed for patreon?
Seriously Liam get on this, we need an RSS feed with full bonus episodes
Ohh, an Edselent podcast!
but yeah I totally put Henry Ford at the top of my list of Historical Billionaires Who Would Be Extremely Online To Their Own Detriment
This should be fun to listen to while I drive my car at work
Car bad
Can't listen now but desperately looking forward to this!
BUT do they discuss Horse: Chaotic Neutral?
Car Bad, Train Good. Finally!
What about the Twingo?
I'm from the motor city this is blasphemy. i hope Henry Ford's corpse rots
car bad
... train good?
car bad
I work in the industry and yeah :( car bad
If only there was something good to counter cars being bad
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