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Past the edges of the maps were mountains that killed ten men at Christmas. A bridge in New York where a man became someone else every night for thirteen years. And an Arctic camp where twenty five soldiers were abandoned by their own government and left to eat whatever was left. These are the stories nobody tells anymore. Not because they aren't worth telling, but because the men at the center of them have faded into memory, replaced by time.Support this show: https://www.patreon.com/c/overcrest

Betim Berisha is the founder of BBi Autosport in Huntington Beach, California. Porsche tuner. Engine builder. Pikes Peak veteran. He and his team at BBi built the Hoonipigasus for Ken Block, developed the new Project Evo, launched Type 99 as a coach-built 911 program, and have taken cars up the mountain for over a decade alongside drivers like Jeff Zwart and Loni Unser.

This is his second time on Overcrest. The first episode is the origin story. These two belong together. Start there if you haven't heard it.

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At one point, all the maps had foggyedges. Past those edges, nothing. No roads, no forts, no names for anything. Just grass and sky and silence stretching until it hit mountains that were further away than they looked. The men who walked into it were broke, forgotten, and had nothing behind them worth staying for. Most of them died young. Most of them died alone.

A few of them came back with stories that should have been famous a long time ago.

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Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.

This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history.

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Vin Anatra is a former Hoonigan SVP turned independent creator who spent nearly a decade helping build one of the most influential brands in automotive media before walking away to start Driver Era — a YouTube channel and small car operation built around buying, experiencing, and selling special cars one at a time. He's a lifelong car obsessive who came up through the Volkswagen forum scene, built his way into dream-level cars he had no business owning, and is now figuring out in real time what it means to do the thing you love for a living when doing it for a living is slowly changing how you feel about the thing you love.

Kris and Jake on the Grand Tour's new hosts, the death of start-stop, China banning flush door handles and steering yokes, Lamborghini killing its EV, the RS5 outweighing an F-150, BMW ending the manual and rear-drive M car era, and a billion-dollar fraud.
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0:00 Intro

0:30 Open

2:24 The Grand Tour Returns

12:40 The Death of Start-Stop

18:24 China Bans Flush Door Handles, Yokes & Touchscreens

23:45 Porsche 718 EV in Development Hell

29:50 Lamborghini Kills Its EV

42:06 StopTech Fraud & Shutdown

50:20 The E30 M3 Turns 40

52:33 BMW Kills the Manual & RWD M Car

1:01:08 The Audi RS5 Weighs More Than an F-150

1:13:00 TPMS Tracking

1:16:16 Your Car Thinks You're Asleep

Harrison Schoen is a Navy veteran, content creator, and full-time vehicle dweller. He's lived in a Porsche Cayenne, built out a 1985 Mercedes Unimog, and appeared on MrBeast's Beast Games as Player 251. This is his second time on the podcast.

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Brian Scotto is the co-founder of Hoonigan, the creative force behind the 400 million view Gymkhana films with Ken Block, and one of the most influential voices in automotive media over the last 15 years. Before Hoonigan, he was the editor-in-chief of Zero to 60 and Rides magazines, shaping car culture through print well before YouTube existed.

He's a filmmaker, a Volkswagen kid who grew up in the scene before it was a scene, a dad with 26 project cars, and someone who walked away from the empire he built to figure out what actually matters. Now he produces films as 321 ACTION ACTION and hosts the VERY VEHICULAR podcast.
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We talked to Dr. Eric Wachsman to get the real story on solid state batteries. California wants to tax you by the mile and track your car to do it. The House voted to keep the federal kill switch mandate alive. We break down how the tech works and why the architecture already exists.

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