Episode 31: Tran Girlismo Is An Anagram For Grim Oil Rants

Hey Victoria, i wonder if you would be tempeted to update the Patreon banner image? I would be cool to see you recreate it with the Jeep this time.

Need For Speed was early car culture for me too, but I'm older so it's the first five games that I'm fond of. 1, 3 and 5 most of all. 6 was kinda average and then it was Underground and the huge shift in focus for the series.

Dutch is just drunk German

Smoking a lucky strike right now, fucking love em

They do that coloured agricultural diesel thing here in Ireland too. Back when I was in university, I remember some guy telling me that they had to change the formulation of the dye they used because some genius figured out that if you threw a loaf of bread into the diesel, it would wick the colour out of the fuel and you could use it in your car, sell it on, etc. with impunity 🤣

This is my first episode ❤️❤️❤️

Also, Vicki, I hope to see you on the 10th. You'll know me by the Mamiya Press Super 23 I'll be carrying. Easily one of the weirdest and most trans medium format cameras I've ever come across. Of course I had to have it immediately.

Jordan, wait until you've developed with Cafenol. That's some deeply weird stuff to pour into a film development tank. Pitch black and kinda soupy, but it develops nearly as well as the XTOL I've been using forever, using stuff you can get at the grocery store. Chemistry is wild.

Really nice to see someone else singing the praises of NFS Unbound. Genuinely enjoyed it a lot, and it's especially a great game for someone who NEEDS to make her own cool liveries for every car. I simply can't keep up with all the damn cars horizon games throw at you.

Can't remember if its this or the last diesel downer episode, but as someone whose about to buy a gas car because i couldnt find an affordable EV I deserve whats coming to me.

Late-night beer-fueled RockAuto bulk-buying and overcommitting to DIY repairs lets GOOOOOOO

I want to recommend a video by a content creator named Noodle called "Need for Speed a brief history"

In 1972 my dad traded some carpentry for a 1960 Mercedes 190D which was probably the only diesel car in our whole timber-based county. A couple years later OPEC did the embargo and we kids in the back seat all laughed merrily as we cruised past the looong lines at the gas pumps to the lonely 3¢ a gallon diesel pump.

I am fairly certain it is a mispelled "dutch german left comms are the best breakfast food"

Y'know, it's never too late to decide to stop referring to the US government as "we". edit: 🥳CYGNET MENTIONED🥳

Shouldn’t the federal gas tax be based on weight and speed rating of the tires ‘how big & douchey is your footprint’ / the thing actually touching the road regardless of drivetrain type to preferentially punish all these giant cop / hell cat trucks and incentivize reasonably sized cars & lower single occupancy and unnecessary speed-weight-miles on rubber tires (not that we have nationalized electrified rail and non-car & truck centric urban planning to shift things to / invest in viable alternatives? No finicky invasive tracking devices nor flat EV surcharges on smug coastal elite states (of which I live in the lesser pnw major city). No need for SE asisns (such as there was a material / non-ideological interest in the Vietnam’/ French Indo-China it was Michelin rubber?) to starve to make giant Tesla and SUV tires for us? Better they grow food? It’d have to be top down and federal to work (good luck these days?), and unlikable as mayor Pete is, it’s the kind of policy he actually agrees with? ‘Pay to play / more ‘user-fee’ like to use public roads? Maybe we could get some durable more standardized size tires more like we used to have and incentivize some re-treading & better behavior with reasonably sized cars with pedestrian safety ratings that affect insurance rates? I guarantee you spike strip some monied bro dozer suburbanite invading our cities proper and it’s $10k for new tires and maybe behavior will change? Car won’t move, but pay to play / you’ll have new tires, no traffic ticket or points or relying on the police? And in communist utopia parody in Minecraft some public shaming or bicycle gangs would be maybe a bit more ‘eliminationist’ when it comes to car-centric affluent suburbia… Some Dutch style Continuous grade sidewalks that act as the speed bump from side streets and calm traffic and some neighborhood spike strips for bro dozers instead of police harassment in neighborhoods of durable brick Baltimore, Pittsburgh , Philly, Boston, SF proper (not brick in SF so much / tall redwoods to build houses out of there?) and NY row houses with deep private back yards, alleys and shop garages and mother in law apartments? Less policing required, talk to your neighbors, walk and take transit or E-thing to get around, use less energy and get the best of both a house and apartment and be low maintenance and still have plenty in common with a farmstead? They discontinued the Prius V that can roll on 195-65-15 mk4 VW full size spares / modern day skinny durable pizza cutters that ride well in a modest midsize station wagon that I’ve been venturing for the last quarter century for the ‘71 Volvo 145 (easy to advocate for a tax you’ll never pay / have a.m tire machine in your trashy back yard, but doing the right thing and recycling low mileage premium toxic rubber pre date code more durable Michelin defenders w/honest 1/2” tread @ good quality control ( the best of the old pre date code after the ford Firestone rollovers and corporate tire chain lobby for their crappy slave SE Asia tires / low tar cigarettes race to the bottom on quality auto parts unlike the old pre date code Michelins that used to take no weight on the fine balancer with NOS straight hub-centric wheels) never offered the Prius V in a plug-in with the new 210hp updated drivetrain and basically only sold them in the PNW, so accordingly Toyota cancelled it / this is why we can’t have nice things! I hate living here, but idk what the alternative is, but at least partially plugged into Norway oil $ in the days of auto recycling, so? But the ex is Norwegian with an advanced degree / my advice was to maybe make plans to get out in early covid / been revealed that ‘there is no valid social contract’ here? Idk what the viable path forward or responsibility living in the imperial core is at this point?

The first time I developed was C-41 in my kitchen. It's not that hard, you just need to babysit it and make sure your chemicals are at the correct temperature.

Transsexual Schadenfreude Simulator 2026

Dutch is just English with a distortion pedal.

Victoria: gleefully spitting out “Steve1989MRE!” like The Manchurian Candidate hearing their trigger phrase. Jordan: Baffled, bamboozled, and a little concerned.

The video game talk makes me miss the passion I had for playing, I just live vicariously through the old Need For Speed talk. I don't even remember what edition it was? 2002ish?

Iduno if it's any comfort or scratches the same itch, but the studio making the star wars racing game coming out next week is formed by former Criterion devs and has the same director as NFS Unbound

Omg i *played* Black and was *awful* at it.

idk anything about cars or oil tbh but i’m happy to be here 😀🥳

There's actually a third MOOG that's a defense contractor

Shout out to finding an old video game soundtrack and realizing that's where a good chunk of your music taste came from. Thank you Dave Mirra BMX 🤣

Shout out to NFS Unbound's canonically transgender Justicia (voiced by Sena Bryer) :)

my girlfriend, who used to work for nhtsa (but took the buyout the current admin offered), would agree that the agency is currently evil and captured

I am fascinated by like, AAA titles in the 00s left massive cultural legacies meanwhile modern AAA games leave nothing and you end up with a ps1 looking horror game made by two German homosexuals having the same cultural impact as like silent hill, resident evil, abd dead space (signalis is good and rules and one of my favorite games but it's wild enough this is the case it feels surreal)

I got my car on a Rock Auto magnet. You submit a story and a photo and if they pick you, it gets published in their newsletter https://www.rockauto.com/Newsletter/archives/5-4-17.html . They also sent me a stack of magnets. I believe the contact is still flamur@rockauto.com . You might get some extra sway

Wait wait wait... black by criterion, isnt that just the plot call of duty black ops used? 😵‍💫

Looking forward to Victoria and wife making a automotive repair series complete with pneumatic impact wrench sound effects to censor swear words. Hope they have a banjo intro theme like Car Talk.

My Ford ranger is keeping me from being completely fucked with gas prices but only barely

I know y'all said nobodys should want the global economy to crash, but... maybe it should? 😅 Hear me out, communist uprising.. 😅

892 pages of bullshit I'm dead

This is my news show now.

It sucks wanting to believe in material factors of history, and instead living through the Great Dipshit Theory of history instead

The thing I heard was "You may decide when to start screwing a gorilla, but the gorilla decides when you're done"

Americans need to embrace latin naming convention. My brothers middlename is Guadalupe and got a cousin named Raphinha after the footballer

You can't get unfiltered luckies anymore. Or at least not here in florida

We do not do the ducks but very occasionally a well meaning mall crawler wrangler will give you one cause you've got mud on your doors

Victoria being the same kind of communist I am is really funny, because im an anarchist

Let's go steve1989 mentioned 🥳

Hi. I bought a golf TDI in December. Help

Honored that you used that bit; I enthusiastically bequeath it :D

Incredible photo for the episode 😭