Episode 04 Transcript Weird Cars Pt 02
The International Race of Hammpions Episode 04 - Weird Cars, Pt. 2
Caleb [00:00]: Good morning and welcome to the International Race of Hammpions, coming to you live from where you get your podcast. I’m Caleb. I’m joined here with Justin tonight. And this is Weird Cars part two. Take it away. Justin.
Justin [00:17]: Did you just say good morning and.
Caleb [00:19]: Tonight, morning is a relative term.
Justin [00:23]: You know, if it averages out, it averages. It averages out to afternoon, and that is what time it is. So we’re gonna go. We’re gonna roll with it.
Caleb [00:32]: Yep. And I figure, you know, our podcast goes live at midnight, which is night for some people and morning for others, so.
Justin [00:40]: Yeah, yeah, you know what? That does work. So this week we. We don’t have any specific stories, really. I mean, so I am on a sabbatical, kind of. I needed to get away from all the stress and nonsense that I was dealing with up in Ohio, so came down to Tennessee. It’s been nice down here. The stagia did absolutely fantastic on the road trip. It is big and comfy and just eats up the miles. Even without cruise control. It’s fine. It just eats up the miles. It made it just fine. It got like, at best, like 22 miles a gallon. Woo.
Caleb [01:25]: Now, question is, how much of that 22 miles a gallon, how much of that was how heavy your right foot is and how much of it was.
Justin [01:36]: I had it in snow mode, which absolutely destroys the throttle response, and it makes the transmission, like, not want to shift. So I was baby in it. I was grandma in it. And that’s 22 is the best I’ve ever seen out of it.
Caleb [01:56]: Oof. Yeah, no, but I’m just over here.
Justin [02:01]: Yeah, yeah, no, I was just gonna say. But I mean, it was fan. Other than that’s the only complaint I ever have with the car. It’s. It’s pretty fantastic.
Caleb [02:11]: So since we are. Since on this show, we talk a lot about, you know, average cars and the law of averages for car ownership. I think you need a Honda Insight as a daily to balance out the stagia.
Justin [02:27]: Yeah, maybe, maybe eventually. But for right now, I can only afford the Stagia. Like, and, I mean, I can’t. I can’t really afford it, but you know what I’m saying, because of that’s all I can have.
Caleb [02:41]: Yeah, it’s. You know me, I will always advocate for the OG Honda Insight.
Justin [02:47]: An Insight would be cool. I mean, like, I wouldn’t be against that. But yeah, if I. If I come into some money, I might give me a. Might give me an Insight. Yeah, that’d be a fun daily to have. Probably not. Probably not. What I would go for really good gas mileage. I’m trying to think what I would go for really good gas mileage. Honestly, I might get a. Well, an Insights manual and a hybrid. Could get an old diesel, but diesel’s real expensive right now, so I mean, I don’t know, I could get some sort of old EV like a Nissan Leaf if I didn’t have to drive too far.
Caleb [03:31]: Could get a Leaf. Just speaking from my inside experience, as I said, if Honda still built the first gen Insight, they could pretty easily hire me to do propaganda. But even when the.
Justin [03:46]: No, sorry, you can. I was just, I was just gonna say I wonder if you could manual swap a Prius.
Caleb [03:52]: I do not know. I, I don’t think so. Because of how the Toyota system works. The hybrid synergy drive.
Justin [04:00]: It’s a shame.
Caleb [04:01]: It is. Now. My Insight was a. I loved it. I thought it was a blast. But I had a. Back during Pandemi back it began Pandemic bought it for 1800 bucks. A friend of mine out in Sacramento went and picked it up for me, drove it out because I was in KC at the time, but went and picked it up, drove it out to Missouri for me and I drove it for a couple years. But oh Lord, I probably put 40, 45,000 on it in two years. It was great, man. And it was the perfect Pandemic car because it used almost no gas and you did not have to stop and the fuel tank was big enough to be useful.
Justin [04:53]: Yeah, yeah. I, I thought that my sort of like stop gap, sort of like good gas mileage, like economy car was going to be an 07 rabbit that I got. But it didn’t. I mean it did get okay gas mileage, but I didn’t end up liking it all that much. Even with the cool five cylinder and everything. I only had it for a little while, maybe a year and yeah, I didn’t like it all that much. I just, I, I wanted, I don’t know, I, I missed my GTI probably just too much. Like if I were to have it. Yeah, as a second car or something, I might like it a little more. Especially if I had some money to do some more stuff to it.
Justin [05:34]: But it’s like, you know, put an exhaust on it, put an intake on it, give it some suspension, give it a short shifter. That would be, that would, that’d be a fun little car. But I didn’t have the money. I didn’t have really the money to do all that. So instead I spent significantly more money that I didn’t have on a Nissan Stagia for some reason. But I’m not. You know what? It’s fine. It’s. It’s too great. I. It was too fantastic to pass up. I don’t.
Caleb [06:05]: It is a beautiful car.
Justin [06:06]: I don’t. I don’t. I don’t really regret it. I am in pain financially, but I don’t regret it. It’s a fantastic.
Caleb [06:13]: No, no.
Justin [06:14]: So out here at the. Out here at the lake there’s a few vehicles that I’ve. I’ve encountered out here. We got. So my dad has a 1999 Ford Expedition. It’s an. It’s. Geez. Hold up. Excuse me. It’s a XLT. So that’s got the 4 6. It’s not Nettie Bauer with the 5 4. Luckily the Air suspension. So it’s a basic one.
Caleb [06:42]: It.
Justin [06:42]: It’s just a truck and therefore it still trucking. It’s pretty reliable. You kind of gotta. You gotta beat on it for it to stay reliable. It hates sitting and it hates being babied. If you beat the piss out of it’s very happy. It stays happy if you baby it. It gets very upset and starts like misfiring and having carbon buildup issue. Egr. EGR issues.
Caleb [07:10]: Just.
Justin [07:10]: It doesn’t like it if you just send it everywhere. It’s stays nice and peachy. Just like it loves an Italian tune up. So that’s. That’s what I ended up doing to it. Because it hadn’t been driven in a while. It been started every once in a while but like not ran all that long and not even long enough to charge the battery up. So it was dead as a doornail. Oof. So I had to jump it with the stagia and like jumping it straight onto the battery. It didn’t like because the battery was just sucking up all the. The juice. So I had to like move the jumper cables to the more down the cable a little bit to some other exposed part that was a little bit off the battery. And it sent more juice straight through the cables to the.
Justin [08:00]: To the starter and everything. And that got the truck started. I had to use starting fluid because I. I was cranking it for a while and was just cranking real slow. Probably not even enough juice to get spark going. I guess maybe the fuel pump something. But it was just cranking real so slow for so long. I think I like flooded it. And then once I Got the. Once I got it really cranking after moving the jumper cables, it didn’t want to start, and I was like, oh. So I threw some starter fluid in it in the intake and cranked right up, and then I beat the piss out of it. I. I took it. So it. It’s not. It’s not properly read. It’s not. I mean, I made sure all the fluids were good and everything, but it’s.
Justin [08:43]: It’s out of registration right now. But I did take it on the back roads out here in the mountain, where there’s nobody out here, there’s no cops, there’s nobody. So it’s. Who cares? As long as I stayed out of town. And so I was sending around, sending it everywhere out in the back roads for a while, and then there’s this, like, public land recreational area out here. And I even took it a little off road, and then I sent it back. I probably drove it for, I don’t know, an hour or something, had it running, like, flooring it constantly, like, absolutely yeeting it down the back roads, run it. It freaking. You can feel the sidewall bend. You just geat that thing around the corner. Oh, it’s fantastic. She takes. She takes it. She loves it. So I did that, and then.
Justin [09:36]: And then the battery ended up actually somehow surviving and holding a charge overnight and starting right back up. I don’t know how I, I. I managed to get the battery to hold charge from running it long enough and really pounding it, so the alternator was spinning fast. So. So that thing’s fun. It’s a truck. Does truck shit?
Caleb [09:59]: Yep.
Justin [10:00]: Yep. Just needs to. I’m. It’s blocked in now. We have a neighbor who were letting me use the building that the truck’s parked in, and he parked his freaking Durango in front of it, and he’s, like, gone for the weekend. And I’m like, damn, I can’t get the truck out now. Then the. There’s that Porsche 944 that’s in the woods up there. I. That’s, that’s. That’s a. I got the keys for it, which means I’m gonna mess with it at some point. I’m gonna. I’m gonna probably vacuum it out, maybe move it because it’s not technically on our land right now. Maybe throw a battery in it and see what happens.
Caleb [10:51]: Yeah. So if you would like to send us money to get this 944 and bring it back from the dead, please send us an email to mailbagiropodcast.com.
Justin [11:07]: Yeah, we need a, a podcast project. 944. It needs to be completely stripped out. Like the, in like it’s all the interior is infested with bugs and rats and mold, and the windows have been cracked like a quarter of the way for like this whole time. It had a cover on it for maybe a year until the COVID completely just disintegrated. Yeah.
Caleb [11:35]: So it’s not the Hantavirus 944.
Justin [11:40]: Yeah, the Hantavirus 944 dot it needs to be completely stripped for sure. It’s race car at this point. It is not, it is not race car. And I was correct on what’s wrong with it, which is it has a, the reason it was parked, which it ran when it was parked. It ran and drove, technically.
Caleb [12:00]: But.
Justin [12:03]: You couldn’t come to a complete stop because the clutch slave cylinder is busted and the clutch slave cylinder is in the rear transaxle and you, so you have to take the whole transaxle out in order to replace it. Pain in the ass. Which is why it was parked in the first place. It drove into the spot it’s in. It got bump started and then just drove, turned around, drove it up the hill and killed it. You know, stalled it right in the spot. So, but yeah, it, so it technically ran when parked, but.
Caleb [12:41]: You do have that expedition to drag it down the hill.
Justin [12:45]: Yeah, I, I, I, I am very curious. I, I want to see if it cranks over. It’s got ancient gas. I want to see if it’ll like, spark or if it’ll kick over with some starting fluid maybe. So I’m gonna, yeah.
Caleb [13:01]: Yeah.
Justin [13:02]: While I’m up here, mess with it just for fun.
Caleb [13:05]: Yeah, yeah. You know, dump half can of ether in the intake hose and just let her rip.
Justin [13:10]: Yeah. And yeah, once it stops raining, I’ll start messing with it more. But it’s been, it’s gonna be. Or it’s been raining. It’s gonna keep raining. I mean, it’s not raining right now, so. But nonetheless, anyway. Oh, also so seeing Chris, speaking of Chris, he has a freaking E550. Like a 2010 12, something like that E550 coupe. It’s brown on brown. It’s very brown.
Caleb [13:44]: Very Japan. Very opposite lock.
Justin [13:46]: Yes, yes. But not a wagon. But nonetheless.
Caleb [13:51]: And not manual.
Justin [13:52]: And it was. Yes, not manual. Yes, manual. Because it was swapped. It’s, it was so because the E550 or the E class Coupe of that generation is basically just a C class, like underneath the. And then also the V8 that’s in the E550 is basically just the same V6 that came in the C class, that came with a manual, but just with two extra cylinders. So it’s very, very ridiculously easy to put a manual transmission on the back of that M. Whatever. I forget the code. But the. On the back of that V8 in the E class coupe because, yeah, it is just basically a C class. And the engine is basically the same. All the mounting points are the same. Everything’s the same. It just bolts up. So somebody did it. Some crazy. Some mad lad did it. Chris found it at a.
Caleb [14:56]: You.
Justin [14:56]: At a used dealership after it got auctioned. Like, somebody brought it to car to, like a dealer as a dealer trade or as a. I don’t know, to CarMax or something, and they sent it to auction and it’s like, who would take it there, like, after swapping it? That’s absolutely ridiculous. They’re just gonna give them like auction value for it because they can’t because it’s been messed with. Like, it’s ridiculous. Anyway, apparently it ended up at some, like, used car dealership. He went and bought it. He’s had title issues with it the whole time, unfortunately, so he can’t get it titled right yet. But yeah, I got to drive it around the neighborhood and it’s hilarious. It is so much torque. That engine is so responsive. It’s too responsive. It needs to be.
Justin [15:42]: It needs to be like throttle response needs to be coated down. It has like some rev hang. It’s not perfect, but good Lord, it’s good. It’s really good. It just. I iron out some little bugs and it is a perfect vehicle. Oh, my goodness. It drives so wonderfully and the torque is ridiculous and it has so much power. It just feels almost like an amg, but it’s squishier. This is. Rips your face off. It’s so fast. It’s great. I haven’t. I haven’t driven anything like fast in a while, like, with that much torque. I haven’t driven really manual V8 thing in forever. And I was like, oh, my God. Oh, yeah. So it was fantastic. It’s wonderful. It just needs a few little bugs ironed out and needs to be registered. And it’s. That’s daily. Like perfect. Absolutely minty daily right there.
Caleb [16:36]: Yeah.
Justin [16:37]: I also got to drive his frickin.
Caleb [16:38]: I guess.
Justin [16:39]: No, no, you go ahead.
Caleb [16:40]: I am guessing the Title issues are just typical sleazy East Tennessee used car dealer stuff.
Justin [16:48]: Gave the loan place what they thought was the title and ended up not actually being the title. And then Carmack or whoever has the title has the. Whoever had the Lean has the title. And they are taking forever to get a duplicate title made, apparently. I think it just needs a duplicate title and it’s just being. Just taking three and a half milli millennium to get it duplicated for some reason.
Caleb [17:18]: So it’s just typical bank BS.
Justin [17:20]: Yeah. He also has an E30 E9 M5 because of course he does. His wife’s got a damn RX350 which is perfectly cromulent.
Caleb [17:34]: Indeed.
Justin [17:35]: I’m sure it’s comfortable. He’s got a. He has a freaking. He has a freaking X7. I got to drive an X7. I didn’t think I would get to drive an X7 anytime soon, but I got to drive an X7. How was it?
Caleb [17:55]: How was the X7?
Justin [17:58]: In some ways it felt like a BMW still. In a lot of ways it didn’t. It was good. It’s pretty quick. It’s got launch control, which is hilarious. It’s got really nice transmission. The engine’s great. It’s like B58 or something. Whatever. The whatever straight six turbo thing it is. Yeah, it’s pretty. It’s base model engine, but still pretty powerful. It doesn’t feel as big as it is, but yeah, the steering’s a little. The steering’s super direct, super nice, but it’s just a little numb. It doesn’t feel as weighty as a BMW should be, really. It just doesn’t. It’s not communicating through the steering wheel that it is a BMW to you. It feels like a great car, but it doesn’t feel like a BMW.
Caleb [18:48]: Now does it communicate that it’s a BMW through the Christmas tree?
Justin [18:56]: No, actually. Surprising. Surprisingly, nothing was wrong with it, you know. Surprisingly, yeah.
Caleb [19:02]: It’s not a real BMW.
Justin [19:03]: It felt. I would say it felt like a BMW in certain ways. With like, the interior didn’t even feel all that BMW E. I mean, it felt a little cheap, honestly, the price, the. I mean, the way it’s designed. Yeah, it looks like a BMW still, but it just doesn’t. Some may, some ain’t there.
Caleb [19:23]: Yeah. So the BMW X7, it is BMW flavored Lacroix. You have a hint of BMW.
Justin [19:34]: No, it’s like a whole jug of it. Because it’s thick.
Caleb [19:39]: Yeah. But you get like one drop of BMW on the whole jug.
Justin [19:43]: Yeah, they you can, they waft it, you can smell it. But it’s. It only if, like, only if you have cleansed your palate beforehand and you’re looking for it.
Caleb [19:55]: Yeah. See, this is why I try to avoid modern Mercedes or BMW.
Justin [20:02]: And oh my goodness, don’t get me started that much. Don’t get me started on Mercedes. Modern Mercedes do not drive like a Mercedes should. They don’t drive bad. Once again, they, then they’re like weightier than a BMW steering. They like feel chunkier. Like my dad’s GLE 53AMG coupe feels chunkier than that freaking X7. Even though it’s a smaller car. But the steering doesn’t feel like old Mercedes. Old Mercedes steering was not communicative. But it had this really, really extremely unique feel to it that no other car had. And new ones don’t have that like at all. And it sucks. They just, they have, they’re, they have weight and it feels like you’re stirring it through some mud, some smooth mud, but still like, but like it’s not bad. It’s just not a Mercedes.
Justin [21:02]: And it’s kind of how the BMWs are, but I would say better. The Mercedes has lost all character. BMWs at least, like I said, it’s Lacroix.
Caleb [21:11]: Okay. I’ll say probably the last, really decent, like the last to mercedes that felt Mercedes, I would argue is probably the 211 series E class.
Justin [21:23]: Was that like mid, late 2000s? Okay, yeah, no, I would say the 204 C class. The 211 E class, barely. Okay. The, the, the S class of the 2000 and tens. The S class of the 2010 still felt like a Mercedes. And I think also the E class did to an extent. But it was losing it, of course, especially in the interior, like, quality and design. It was starting to lose it. But I think it still drove pretty well. If I remember correctly, that was back when I worked at a Mercedes dealer and I think I noticed, I’m like, it’s, they’re starting to lose it. But I, some of the bigger cars still had it like the Gls or I guess maybe it was just the GL at the time. Yeah, they still felt Mercedes because they were thick.
Caleb [22:11]: Yeah. So I’ve had a couple of Mercs. I haven’t had many. Like literally a couple. I had a 211 Series E wagon, 06 model E500. It was a good car. But I would argue that even by the 211 series. The interiors were losing it.
Justin [22:34]: Definitely.
Caleb [22:35]: The rest of the car did not follow too far behind. Yeah, that was a good. Well, it was a good car till it wasn’t.
Justin [22:43]: Wait, so a 211 would be like an 09, 2010, 2008, that sort of era?
Caleb [22:50]: Yeah, it was like 04 through 11 or 12. I think it’s the one with the.
Justin [22:55]: Sort of pointy nose. Like, it’s. It’s not the round one.
Caleb [22:58]: The 211. It had the. It had the round headlights.
Justin [23:03]: Okay, what’s the. What’s the pointier one after that? Is that 212?
Caleb [23:07]: Oh, I can’t remember. Maybe not a 212. I can’t remember.
Justin [23:10]: That’s the one Chris has. That’s the coupe.
Caleb [23:12]: Yeah, I had the one before the pointy.
Justin [23:16]: Yeah, I think the one Chris has still feels like a Mercedes a thousand percent. Like, the interior kind of sucks.
Caleb [23:23]: But yeah, I liked my 211 till it broke in a hilarious way in front of my Uncle Bob’s house in Savannah, Tennessee. And that was. It was a good car. Till it wasn’t.
Justin [23:41]: But aren’t they all.
Caleb [23:43]: I will say that M30, that M113 V8 of that 5 liter V8 they had, that is a good sounding motor.
Justin [23:54]: Yeah, no, that. It’s weird. I don’t know. I think it’s like a 1M173 or something. Whatever is in Chris’s car.
Caleb [24:04]: But that was. Yeah, it.
Justin [24:06]: It sounded like.
Caleb [24:08]: Should be.
Justin [24:09]: Yeah, it sounded like ass at idle because, like, the exhaust has some weird. Like the valves are stuck closed or something’s. Something’s whack. Sounded broken at idle. I was like, oh, that sounds like ass. And then he revved it a bit and it sounds like a freaking amg. It sounds throaty like. And I’m like, oh, my God. Okay. Nope, that sounds great. It’s just some. Something is broken, but it. The. The engine one. When it revved up, I was like, damn. Okay. That’s throaty. Sounds great. I love. I love those engines. I Love deep Mercedes V8s.
Caleb [24:42]: They sound awesome. And you know, a Sawzall will do a lot to fix that idle issue. You know, go down to the hazard fraud, spend you about 30 bucks on the knockoff Sawzall. Oh, that’s out in the parking lot.
Justin [25:00]: Didn’t we do that? Didn’t we do that? Didn’t we do that to Carson’s Mr. 2 or something?
Caleb [25:05]: Oh, I don’t remember. I don’t know.
Justin [25:07]: I think I remember sawzalling an exhaust one of Carson’s cars late at night in his. At the apartment.
Caleb [25:14]: Yeah, I don’t think you were there. That sounds like. That sounds about right. That sounds like something he would do. My Mazda 3 had a. I took the rear muffler off of it and had my buddy of a muffler shop basically cut the factory tip off the original muffler and took the original muffler off, cut the flange off and basically just put the original flange on a piece of pipe. Then welded the original tip to it and made it all look factory and stuff. And it sounded pretty good because it still had the resonators and cats and all that.
Justin [25:56]: Nice, nice. Yeah, I think I remember that.
Caleb [26:00]: But the, my E Wagon though, a buddy of mine in Rohnert Park, California, back when I lived out in the Bay Area. It’s right after I bought it and I was like, you know, this thing needs a little more. Needs to sound a little bit better. We, you know, one night I drove over my buddy’s house, got the welder out Sawzall. Spent a couple hours improving the exhaust flow.
Justin [26:29]: Yes.
Caleb [26:30]: For efficiency on this E Wagon. And it actually did help. No joke. Cutting the mufflers off that car got me three miles a gallon.
Justin [26:42]: Hey, I believe it is. That is something that can happen. I’ve seen it before.
Caleb [26:47]: Yeah. And my must have three.
Justin [26:51]: I got about five I encountered since being here. Yeah. All I got’s the Expedition, the 944, my Stagia X7 annual E550. I haven’t really like. I mean, Chris’s E39 M5 I saw, but I didn’t really like do anything with. When AD’s got a boat with a 383 stroker. Sounds hilarious. Probably should sell that because it’s just sitting.
Caleb [27:19]: Yeah. Well, you know what they say about boats though. Two best days of boat ownership. The day you buy it and the day you sell it.
Justin [27:26]: You know, with the stagia. If anybody knows anything about the Attesa ETS all wheel drive system. Can you mix Dextron 3 ATF with the gold attesa fluid? Because I’m starting to run low on fluid. It’s leaking a little bit. I saw on the Internet that people just replace it with Dextron 3 ATF, but I don’t know if you can mix it. Probably it’s just hydraulic fluid doing hydraulic fluid shit.
Caleb [27:56]: But if you can run dex3 in it, I would think they’re compatible because there’s no way you’re going to get all of the attachment.
Justin [28:07]: Fluid because you’d have to even draining it, there’d still be some in the lines and.
Caleb [28:13]: Yeah, exactly. Like if you just. If switching over is a drain and fill, I’d think they are compatible.
Justin [28:19]: I’m going to do a little more research, but I got some dex 3 that I can throw in it and that’ll be nice because it is running a little low at this point and I’m starting to get. I was just kind of not worrying about it until I had to and now I kind of have to.
Caleb [28:32]: Man, I have got to get up there and drive that car.
Justin [28:36]: At some point something feels loose. And then also I know something’s loose because going around a corner and putting power on, like turning and like hitting a bump at the same time while putting power on, like making a tight turn, like coming from a stop sign or something. It’ll. It’ll like. It’ll like wobble. It’ll like death wobble. You gotta let off power and then it’ll stop. So some’s. Some may, right? Yeah, yeah.
Caleb [28:59]: Got a little Weeble wobble in it, but.
Justin [29:01]: And then, you know, I’ve been worried about the. The timing belt. But you know, I’m gonna continue to just pretend it’s not a problem because it’s fine so far.
Caleb [29:11]: So now here’s an alternative because you’re in.
Justin [29:15]: Yeah. There’s actually people here who could look at it.
Caleb [29:18]: Otherwise known as the. It’s like you’ve got enough friends with enough tools. You could get the timing belt and get belt intention. You just do the swap and you’d be fine. Not scared timing up. Just go. No, your cam belts are marked. Your crank, you know, your crank is marked. Just line everything up with the timing marks. You’ll be fine. I’m sure there’s a proper way to lock the tan.
Justin [29:45]: And I also, I. I do think it was. I do think it was done in 2024. But nonetheless, not being certain on it is I never good. So I probably should just replace it for safety purposes. Just nonetheless.
Caleb [30:01]: I mean what you could do is pop the upper timing cover off and just take what I was gonna do.
Justin [30:08]: But I’m worried there’s a. There’s like a phaser like a cam position thing or something that I would have to make sure.
Caleb [30:15]: But you’re not gonna mess with that. You’re not gonna hurt that.
Justin [30:20]: No, it attaches to the outside of the COVID So you have to take it off in order to take the upper timing cover off. And you do have to get it in the right position. You have to mark it, make sure it’s in the right position. And there’s little gasket that looks like it’s cracked. And I’m worried that, like, I’m gonna. I’m gonna take it off and the gasket’s gonna disintegrate. And it’s a gasket that I’m actually gonna need. Yeah, I mean, I should. I should do it. It’s just. I don’t know, I’m chickening out.
Caleb [30:49]: Yeah. Whereas my attitude is one of a little. And this is where my redneck’s coming out, you know, a little bit. I mean, you got rtv, you got. I’m sure you can get, you know, those plain white paint pen markers, you know, for. To mark everything as it comes apart. Just give it a little dab of the paint pen to mark where it is. It’ll be fine.
Justin [31:13]: Just. It’s.
Caleb [31:15]: It’s not. It’s not rocket surgery. It ain’t rocket surgery. It’s a machine.
Justin [31:21]: I just am slowly getting over, like, I’m slowly getting over treating this thing as fragile, you know, sort of been sending in on the back roads and that’s been making me go like, oh, yeah, I can take it. Never mind. I don’t need it. I don’t need to treat this. I don’t need to.
Caleb [31:38]: It is a bubble era Japanese car. It is a. It is a bubble era Japanese car. Babying it is.
Justin [31:46]: Yeah, like the expedition.
Caleb [31:48]: Exactly like the Expedition. It’s the same old story, same old song, and sometimes you just gotta sing it.
Justin [31:57]: It’s. It’s definitely enjoyed being sent. I’ll have to see if it clears up with the. The issue after. It likes to. After idling for like half an hour, it likes to start misfiring. And you just gotta rev it out, clear it up. But I wonder if sending it for a while will fix that. Maybe it just has a little carbon buildup or something.
Caleb [32:22]: Yeah, it might. I mean, just even speaking from my magic spinny Dorito experience, Rotaries are fantastic if you drive the piss out of them. If you drive the piss out of your RX7 or RX8 every single time you get in it and don’t let it get below about five grand, it will be the most reliable car you will ever experience in your life. The moment you start babying and doing stop and go bullshit and taking it easy, trying to eek fuel economy out of will become the biggest nightmare you will ever live. To tell the story about rotaries only have two modes on like full send and off. There is no in between. Is either parked or you are driving at 11:10.
Justin [33:20]: Well, I don’t. I don’t think my. My RB is quite that temperamental, but still, it probably does like getting woken up a little bit. I should. I should. I should go. I should go drive. Yeah, I should go on a drive. It’s. It’s drying up. I should go send it. I mean I already. I went on a little bit of a drive earlier but I didn’t send it because it was wet. So should. I should go send it a little bit now?
Caleb [33:42]: My real question is, are you gonna get rid of those ugly ass Ohio plates and put plates from a real estate.
Justin [33:49]: Yeah, I have state move back down here, which I think I’m going to, but it’s just gonna be a little while.
Caleb [33:54]: I mean there’s. Yeah, I have my opinions on the state of Tennessee and many things about my home state. I will also say that if the good Lord deems it that I should move back there, I won’t really cry. Yeah, I won’t cry about it. It’s.
Justin [34:14]: It’s. It’s home.
Caleb [34:15]: It’s still home for me. And there are a lot of things wrong with that state and I could go on for days about them, but.
Justin [34:22]: Just why I left in the first place. But, you know, sometimes, you know, you got to just. It’s still home, so you got to deal with it. And you know what? Ohio is not exactly much better, so fuck Ohio. I’m getting out of that. Getting out of there.
Caleb [34:39]: No. Yeah. Gonna hold down Allstate Viz, you know, ground on both ends.
Justin [34:44]: Hold down the fort here or, you know, come back to Tennessee, start holding the fort back down and try and make things better in Tennessee.
Caleb [34:52]: Yeah, I mean, Lord knows state needs it. And I don’t want to get political, but I’m about to get political for about 10 seconds. But for the love of all that is good and holy in this world, do not let my former House representative, that asshole Senator Marsha Blackburn, become governor. She has already done enough damage to our state.
Justin [35:21]: I would. I. It’s gonna happen, unfortunately, because it’s just gonna happen and I’m going to watch it happen in slow motion and be crying the whole time. Just knowing the future is just not. Being clairvoyant is just not it.
Caleb [35:38]: If anyone out there.
Justin [35:39]: It’s not fun.
Caleb [35:40]: Yeah. If anyone out there is a registered voter in the state of Tennessee, like I still am. For the love of God, do whatever it takes so she does not get the Republican nomination. Like, keep her from getting nominated, much less getting to a general election. And, you know, heaven forbid she makes it to a general vote. Anyone else? Literally anyone else. That is my. That is my political discussion, which we’re not a politics podcast. We don’t want to be a politics podcast.
Justin [36:16]: Not a fan of Marcia. This podcast does not endorse Marcia.
Caleb [36:20]: This podcast. Absolutely. 110% Does not endorse former house. My former house representative. I’m sorry. Senior senator. My home state. I’m also sorry. And hopefully not Governor Marcia.
Justin [36:38]: Ms. Ms. Blackburn. Bless her heart.
Caleb [36:41]: Bless her heart.
Justin [36:43]: Derogatory. I’m trying to think. I’m trying to think who. Who should primary her? Who would be the best, like, meme candidate to write in to primary her.
Caleb [36:55]: I think move back to Tennessee. You should primary her.
Justin [36:59]: John Cena. I’ll write in John Cena for the. For the Republican primary. Yeah, he’s got a shot. I. I don’t know if he has anything to do with Tennessee, but he’s got a shot.
Caleb [37:11]: Yeah.
Justin [37:12]: Yeah.
Caleb [37:13]: Jesse Ventura.
Justin [37:14]: Yeah. Round two. He didn’t tap out.
Caleb [37:20]: I’m saying is, he was a.
Justin [37:22]: He didn’t.
Caleb [37:22]: Damn good governor in Minnesota.
Justin [37:24]: Time for Jesse again. He’s back.
Caleb [37:28]: Jesse the Body Ventura.
Justin [37:30]: Absolutely. Governor of Tennessee or Marsha. I’m going Jesse all day, every day. You know, but the problem is it’s not. Not. Not all wrestlers because Kane is the mayor of Knox county and he’s not good.
Caleb [37:45]: Wrap me in for go.
Justin [37:46]: Yeah, I might as well.
Caleb [37:47]: I can’t do any worse than.
Justin [37:48]: You’ll have to. You’ll. You’ll win and you’ll have to be like, oh, now I gotta fly into Nashville, not bna.
Caleb [37:54]: I mean, it could be worse, you know, DNA ain’t that bad.
Justin [37:59]: It’s. Yeah.
Caleb [37:59]: It ain’t great.
Justin [38:01]: It’s middling that bad.
Caleb [38:03]: It’s cromulent.
Justin [38:05]: It’s all right. Let’s end it. This was fun hanging out. I’m gonna go get. Maybe get some Taco Bell. I’m going to enjoy the fact that it’s actually not raining and the sun looks like it came out.
Caleb [38:16]: Folks, don’t check your test of fluid.
Justin [38:19]: Yeah, it’s probably. Don’t forget to check your oil and don’t forget to check your transmission fluid and don’t to get. To check your rate, your coolant, but mostly your blinker fluid. That’s the most important these days.
Caleb [38:32]: Absolutely.
Justin [38:33]: Bye, everybody.
Caleb [38:34]: All right, y’ all take care. We’ll see y’ all next week.