Garage Heroes In Training

Vicki and Bill go over what goes on at a high performance driving event, how to prepare for the event, and what to bring etc. Our season kicks off with a weekend of HPDE at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville New Jersey this weekend. We took a page from our friends at Everyone Racers podcast and "ran it live". We will likely have an update episode from the track this weekend. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We would love to hear from you.

We hope Alan comes back to us soon.

Spoiler filled and unedited podcast post everyone seeing the Captain Marvel movie at least once this weekend. It turns out that Benny was the closest in his prediction on our preview podcast last week. It turns out we all really liked it, even more than we had hoped and predicted on our show.

In this episode we discussed:

Our initial rating of the movie

Listener feedback from Jason H and El Jeffe and our thoughts of their opinions

Bill gets tremendous bonus points for calling out the Right Stuff movie reference in the movie. It's almost like Babe Ruth calling his homerun shot. Well, not really, lol.

Vicki is on the hunt for a Fonzie lunchbox to be used as us at the track first aid kit

Captain Marvel's Movie vs comic book history

Cats vs Flerken's

Ben Mendelson's acting and his role

Soundtrack, nineties flashback and Vicki's continued girl crush on Gwen Stefanie

Stan Lee tributes and train cameo and Bill's eye leakage

Our traditional the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly segment, scenes and actors/characters

Benny stays true to his brand and gives his 6' 7" 13-year-old girl perspective on the movie

Torrie Wilson WWE Hall of Fame election shout out and congratulations to her

Vicki loves Carol's FLEX towards Ronan the Accuser

Benny seems to hate the Kree and continues his rant against Marvel's movie villains

Bill fights his base humor instincts to make a pun about the Kree city of Halla

Benny and Bill and Vicki disagree about the Skrull portrayal in the movie, but it isn't a Mandarin level issue

Vicki and Bill disagree about the portrayals of Annette Benning – roles redacted to minimize spoilers in description

Bill is concerned over a potential block in the path to a future Secret Wars saga. Benny walks him back from the cliff a bit

Captain Marvel's powers and mixing into the MCU, especially relative to Thanos

Avengers Endgame speculation

Marvel's MCU de-aging machine and its use of the time stone

Samuel L Jackson and Nick Fury in the movie

Bill wants a huge director cut with more Carol Danvers, Benny wants at least 15-20 minutes

The end credit scenes and predictions for Avengers End Game

Phase 4 speculation

Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman comparisons, logically

Avengers post End Game speculation

Vicki changes her tune on Brie Larson and her portrayal of Captain Marvel

Bill provides useless trivia on Brie Larson's training partner for the movie

Benny is now looking at getting back into GLOW

We all agree, go see the movie for yourself. Don't let the reviews from reviewers with agendas keep you from a very solid entry in the Marvel MCU

And finally, the discussion you always wanted: Flerkens!!!

In the end, we all want a time stone to get to Avengers End Game ASAP. Can it come out early, please!!!!

PS Mr. Feige, we would accept any invitations to a critic screening.

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NON SPOILER FOR THE MOVIE: One this episode, Vicki, Benny, and Bill began with a deep dive into the history of Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers in preparation for the upcoming Movie this week. As usual, we discussed a whole lot more and we hope you enjoy it. We will cover the movie later this weekend. Benny is expecting a 9.5 out of 10, Vicki a 7, and Bill an 8. We all hope Benny is right!

We are very happy to welcome the Hydrocephalus Racing Team to our podcast this week. They are a great team of friends and family that we first initially met at their first ever Lemons race in Thompson CT. Unfortunately, Vicki and Bill apparently recorded in the Tube of Mockery we borrowed from Mental, so it sounds like we are huddled up in a cave somewhere.

If you are interested in supporting research in the area of Hydrocephalus, please go to their website to learn more about it and what we can do to support their efforts at: http://hydrocephalusracingteam.com/ for all kinds of information and links.

• When and how to use the term "Scrutineer"
• How (and Why) to race a prepped minivan in Lemons
• The art of "subtle" racing in a minivan
• How not to prep for your first time racing
• We begin to hatch a plan to get their team CFO onto the track
• Vicki can't keep a secret to save her life (about the GHiT posters)
• How to learn about cars when growing up and working in a local junkyard
• Our Race Truck Progress – Its ready for Pitt Race
• Math and racing sometimes don't apply to radiator leaks
• Two or three potential lemons car stashes in the upper Midwest and Alaska, one with hang time experience
• Effectiveness of our roll cages and safety equipment in an accident
• Fog is not your friend on the track, especially on your windshield
• Gentlemen driver documentary on Netflix right now
• and eventually listen to them ponder why they can't hear through their microphone, hint, it's not a speaker, lol.

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On this episode, we interrupted our Autocross month for a quick update on a recent roll cage installation weekend we attended that was hosted by the Three Pedal Mafia and focused on their new to them Nissan 300Z. We also cover other work that was done during the Cage Party.

We also reviewed our progress on resuscitating the 1974 Capri and getting it back onto the track this season with a new drive train and how our progress goes towards replacing/repairing/upgrading the entire drive train from stock 1974 2.8 liter Capri engine to a more modern Chevy/Buick 3.8 liter design.

Finally, we also touch on preparation for an upcoming welding course that Bill is taking.