Apex Adjacent

Episode 78-Near Miss

Whether you're living in the city, driving in the mountains, or trying to troubleshoot some irritating audio problems, there are going to be some near-misses.

And near-misses are familiar to the makers of the Dodge Caliber SRT4, the Ferrari marketing department, and the gentleman who vomited just outside his car.

Episode 77a-Deep state.

Despite being set in the decidedly pointless TeamClearCoat after-show, this week's conversation has an actual point.

We discuss why process is sometimes the most important thing. Whether it's why you've decided to go rogue and join the deep state, how you've arrived at a great piece of art, or just what you do before sitting on your couch, process drives everything.

Oh, and Ian recommends a band he can't pronounce.

Episode 77-It means teeth. Yeah. That's for later in the show.

It's all about happy places this time around on TeamClearCoat.

It turns out the Prius forums are the happiest places on the Internet, the Focus RS is our happy place, and being more stubborn than a thing is hard will make even a bystander happy.

Episode 76-There's no other way to explain that thing.

Once in a while, when you just start talking without preparing beforehand, hard-and-fast truths come tumbling out.

And so it is with this week's episode; with no preparation whatsoever, we determined that karting is actually a valid mental health treatment, that the 2011 Saab 9-5 is still stunning, and that the Plymouth Prowler is the Human Centipede of cars.

Also, Ian rants about Baby Boomers. They can't all be winners, folks.

Episode 75a-And Dave's were asking the whereabouts of taffy.

Should you ask the TeamClearCoat idiots to play musical instruments? Just when did Ian develop his trademark sigh? And should we be worried about Richard Simmons? All of this plus some music talk in this week's after-show.

Episode 75-FMKIRL

After more than a year of doing the show, we've accumulated a whole stack of ignored, discarded or otherwise forgotten about ideas. And since we're now Legitimate Automotive Journalists, we're allowed to dive into our drafts folder and discover cars of the 90s, take very long tangents on multiverse theory, and reiterate Dave's old-man-ness.

Episode 74-Just don't

Unfortunately, we all live in the era of the Hot Take, so it was inevitable that we'd produce an entire episode of them.

How's this for a hot take: we should lower everyone's car so they have to dodge potholes instead of text. And that's before we go off the deep end and discuss personal responsibility vs regulation and Lawrence Ulrich's fantastic article on The Drive about how cars are inseparable from politics.

Finally, during the Old Man Hour, we discuss an old man in England whose car was defaced by tourists and our resident old man, Ian, complains about youths at concerts.

Episode 73-We neeeeeeeeed them.

Not sure if we've ever mentioned it before, but both of us are IT guys. I know - it's a shock! But for us, the worst case scenario is a live demo that fails. So of course we had to talk about the Faraday Future launch at CES.

We also discussed several other worst-case scenarios, like when you don't do a walk-around of your rental car, when you witness an accident waiting to happen, or when you get the chance of a lifetime and can't take advantage.

But it's alright, because we can still obsess over beat-up Subaru Brats, Dave FINALLY doing a burnout, or just playing with your child's Hot Wheels.

Episode 72a - I keep saying it in that VH1 Behind The Music guy's voice.

Is it good, or is it interesting? Not only does that apply to our show, but sometimes to the first few listens of an album.

For this after show, we discussed some things that we can difinitively say are great: Dave's new favorite EDM track, played by a giant printer, Twitter wolves, and Dave's "hey y'all" rule.

Episode 72-We're back, and better than ever! Well, we're back at least.

Come, join us on our mental health island! It's full of cars - broken Saabs, beautiful Volvos, and exciting new Kias.

We can even start a Werther's Original liveried racing tea... Wait. Is that spray-tanned jerk on the jet ski back? FINE. We'll talk about the stupid wall!

Also, in what we can only assume is an ill-advised and poorly thought out attempt, we're now on YouTube! Follow along and see the cars we talk about and more. Just click the link below and waste all the time you'd like. Thanks!