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Episode 104-Coast to a stop.

As car enthusiasts, we have a certain number of shared experiences.

We've all ended up spending more money in the name of saving money. We've all used the car someone drives to complete the picture of them in our head. And, at some point, we've all been disparaged on an Internet Superhighway Forum Post.

Oh, and at some point robots will replace us based on what swear words we all use.

Episode 103-Inner Van Man

The best thing about becoming Legitimate Automotive Journalists is meeting awesome people like this week's guest, Andrew Ganz.

Andrew writes for The Car Connection, Motor Authority, and Green Car Reports. On top of that, he's a great guy with stories about driving a Trabant in Budapest, Saab ownership, and that one time he didn't talk to Bobby Rahal.

Also, please don't call him at home. Thanks for coming on the show Andrew, you're welcome back in the blanket fort anytime!

Episode 102-This one gets weird...

Well, we tried. We really did. We were totally just going to talk about cars this time. And we did okay - garage updates, autonomous car legislation, and our fantasy transcontinental drives are all decidedly "car topics."

But we just couldn't stay away from the magnetic draw of The Mooch and his gloriously inauspicious career in the White House.

Also, Dave tells some really horrendous dad jokes.

Episode 101

It's not really an easy sell to get someone to agree to spend the evening with us in the blanket fort. Thankfully, our friends Katie and Lauren looked past the fact that they probably had better things to do and joined us for this week's show.

We discuss what it's been like to be subjected to Ian's friendship and therefore his car buying advice, what you should and shouldn't use for bubble baths, tossed salad and scrambled eggs, and their reaction to joining us during an outing at the kart track.

Thank you Katie and Lauren for joining us on the show. We'd certainly have you back any time.

Episode 100-Part 2

For the second part of our 100th episode celebration, we're joined in the blanket fort by the always-delightful Nathan Adlen. In between teasing Ian about his license plate placement and wondering how Dave didn't burst into flames during a recent off-roading adventure, he played FMKcars, asked us listener questions and explained exactly what an Oldsmobile is.

Along the way, we also covered the Picard v Kirk debate, extinct car brands, and the curious new phenomena of fun Kias. Thank you/sorry to everyone who has stuck with us for 100 episodes.

We love you.

Episode 100-Part 1

In the year since we last talked to Doug DeMuro, his popularity has exploded, and we, well, we are still doing the podcast.

For some reason, he agreed to come back and talk about why styling doesn't matter as much as us enthusiasts think it does, the pitfalls of Internet stardom, and the fantasy of demanding answers from car owners.

Make sure you read everything Doug writes over at Autotrader's Oversteer page, and watch all of his great YouTube videos! Thanks Doug!

Episode 99-I'm Lane, this is Deviant...

Somewhere between willfully endangering Ian's life with a Takata airbag and creeping everyone out with a song about a cookie, Dave made some bold statements.

He says the Subaru SVX should be considered the Delorean of the 90s, that the Infinity QX50 is not very good, and there's something called "lane deviance."

After Ian located the exit (creepy cookie song still ringing in his ears), he made the not-so-bold claim that the new Golf R doesn't look exciting enough, and that the Nissan Altima is not an especially interesting car.

Episode 98-We held hands the whole time.

When it gets late in the blanket fort, things get punchy quick. Sometimes we just devolve into an endless stream of non-sequiturs.

Since that's definitely what happened this week, here's what you can look forward to: a Buick Enclave that was customized and/or vandalized, driving in a car with some wood, a deep dive of gas station squeegee etiquette, and, uhh rounded mounds. So supplement your balanced pie-diet with some TeamClearCoat randomness. We love you.

*Please submit questions for our 100th episode!*

Episode 97-In Loving Memory: Hey Y'all watch this!

Like most other people, our judgement is usually awful. Like when Dave takes pictures of the new Kia Stinger while driving, or when Dave parks next to huge trucks, or when Dave goes down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos beginning with the phrase, "Hey Y'all!"

But of all the bad judgements Dave has made, obviously the worst was leaving the writing of these episode descriptions totally up to Ian.

Episode 96-We get it!

Professional automotive journalists update: we got invited to a press event at a race track! And an offroading facility! No, we don't know why either.

But we do know that a Kia surprised the hell out of us, we "get" offroading now, and Ian's going to need a minute after driving the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio.

It's all just so romantic!