Apex Adjacent

Episode 154-Sweaty

You know, after a long sweaty day at the go kart track, what could be more refreshing than sitting in a blanket fort with absolutely zero ventilation? Well, just about anything other than that. Given that we're prone to making bad decisions, we tough it out in the blanket fort and get down to brass tacks.

In better news, automotive manufactures have once again decided to give us some cars. We discuss what we'll be driving at the Rocky Mountain Driving Event this year, and would love to hear from you as to which cars we should focus on.

Episode One Five Three

We're still puzzled as to why someone would put a put a 3.7L badge on a Ford Mustang. What we're not puzzled about is what WRX drivers adorn their cars with, especially when it's such an OBVIOUS CLICHÉ that you're walking into! We're not mad, we're really not. Ultimately, we're just disappointed. It's almost like the person is being given a test, and the results determine whether or not we'd ever be friends with that person.

You know what Dave's not disappointed by? Ian. He's not! He's proud! Specifically, he's proud of his ideas about how someone looks at cars when they bolt on junk you find at Pep Boys. Any time someone looks at their car with the perspective of it being something more than an appliance to get from point A to B, then we love it, and it is our duty to encourage it!

Andrew, one of our listeners, rightly called the TCC Crisis Line when he happens across a cluster of Polaris vehicles, which leads us to coining a term for a group of them: A Dockers of Slingshots. A pair of pleated Dad pants, a Ryobi power drill, and a folding chair that gets turned around so that one can "rap" with the kids all combined into the primordial ooze that birthed that vehicle.

Episode 152-Royals!

Humility. Denial. When it comes to Ian's karting abilities, our resident racer (the better and less-sunburned of the two at least) seems to be in a Schrodinger-esque superstate composed of the two where he is both humble and in a state of denial about his talent. Well guess who comes crashing through the cat box to boldly declare that Ian is a good driver? Dave. Dave does that. We all know he does that. He does. He did.

While Ian may not like discussing his victories, Dave certainly likes discussing his failures, and in this week's show the tales of Viggen ownership start to stack up.

Oh, and guess what? We land on the absolute best analogy for our cars. Water-filled heads and all. 14 times!!!

Episode 151-The taste of victory

Ah the refreshing flavor of victory. Dave doesn't get to taste it often, or seemingly care to, but when he gets his pasty ginger lips on the sweet chalice of triumph, he certainly doesn't hesitate to gloat about it.

While Dave's victory is technically not impressive, or impressive at all, we are truly impressed by a VW Jetta. Numbers don't lie, and when we ran the math on how much this car travels, the magnitude of what we were truly witnessing came into focus. Thank you Chris, please NEVER STOP SENDING US PICTURES.

Lastly, we round out the episode by looking and listening to the things you sent us! Please never stop sending us things!

Episode 150-Wow!

When is a DonK not a donk? When is an effort to save humans turned awful? When will Dave stop obsessing over Isuzu? Well, answers in order: when it's a website, when Elon gets involved, and probably never.

Speaking of Mr. Musky, we discuss being able to separate the person from the brand or the artist from the art, all while Ian TAKES IT TO THE MAX!

Episode 149-Kimspiracy Theories

This week gets deep. Whether it's a deep dive into the dark deep F1 state plot for Kimi to understeer into Lewis, or Dave finally learning how to spell Isuzu, the depths, we explore them.

Episode 148-Don't do as we say. Or do.

It is never too late or too early to apologize. If there was ever one word that could sum up the show, "sorry" may not be it, but it's in the top, I'm going to say, three. Look, we're the last folks that you should look to as role models. Don't be envious of Dave's instant ability to get sunburned when he's around any lightbulb brighter than a candle, as well as you shouldn't be jealous of all of the constant manscaping that Ian gets to do.

Blisters and body hair aside, there are a few things that we have to offer the automotive enthusiast landscape, namely perspective and the removal of pre-existing biases. In this episode we discuss vanilla-boxing cars to see what their base whitelabel appeal would be.

Lastly, take peace in knowing that everything is right in the world once again, well, not really, not in any way shape or form. But the little bit of entropy that fell into line was Ian resuming his rightful position above Dave in the Fantasy Effington Oneries.

Episode 147-Help is almost a call away.

Sometimes we hear what we want to hear, versus what someone is actually saying. In this instance of "Ginger Hears What A Ginger Wants To Hear", Dave takes the opportunity to make his own terms for the ultimatum laid out by sweet, innocent Ian. Needless to say, it's easier to score points in a goal you yourself draw, and now Ian, very much being a good sport about all of this, has to listen to both PLEEPS and PLOOPS for the course of a (non-business) week.

During this episode, we take a forked detour: one path leads to a hotline caller that is very much broken at the sight of a Chevy. Thankfully, the other path leads to a place WHERE WE JUST THINK ABOUT NICE THINGS FOR A CHANGE.

NO, YOU'RE SHOUTING.

Episode 146-KRYPTO

We have a hotline and we encourage you to call or text whenever you see something. This week, something is a broken down Peugeot (is there any other kind in the US?) and a new X6 to hate even more than regular X6s, which is already breaking the needle off of the hate gauge.

Speaking of seeing things, Dave's MOTHER came to visit, and while driving through Denver, they happened across a donk. Seizing the opportunity, Dave imparted his donk wisdom upon MOTHER, in addition to discussing the unfair criticism and veiled hate that such a lovely form of automotive expression brings.

Speaking of the donk, MOTHER was along for a ride in the Viggen at the time, and in addition to being a bit frightened, she was thoroughly entertained. Dave also discusses his thoughts around the big blue meanie, and reveals some fear of his own.

Episode 145-Zoom and enhance and regret instantly

At first glance, a brown, angular, petite car careening down the highway seems a bit odd. Dave, arguably the Lotus Europa Special of this show, comes to the realization that what is weird at a distance compounds oddly upon closer inspection. When we look into the brown body panels of an old Lotus, the old Lotus looks back at us.

Now then, Ian gets a treat, something we rabid car enthusiasts don't get very often. He gets the gift of finding out about a new car he's never heard of by stumbling on one randomly, getting a glimpse of its captivating lines, and THUS THE GOOGLING AND PICTURE TAKING BEGINS! Game on old chap for said game is afoot!

Hm…What else…Not much, besides Dave rubbing oils and lotions into his old man. Sedan. Rubbing his old man sedan. That's not getting any better, shut it down!