The Ka-Chat

Once upon a time, there were two young men who were simply obsessed with a series of movies fully intended and marketed towards children. One day, they decided to explore the world of fantasy and fairy tales within this magical universe. Around this time, the one writing the description for the episode got tired of this gimmick and sort of gave up on it. So... yeah! We talk about different fantasy races and creatures in the Carsverse, how fairy tales would have played out, and I feel bad for abandoning my theme for this description, so uh.... We all live happily ever after, I guess.

It's an awful big universe out there, and I'd say it's about time we explored a bit more of it. That's right folks, this week we are boldly going and exploring the cosmos! Join us as we take a close look at rockets and satellites in the Carsverse, what space exploration would look like for a species of sentient vehicles, and of course, close encounters of the third gear. (Honestly, if we ever circle back and do a full devoted episode to aliens in the Carsverse, I'm defo gonna use that as the title. So if you actually read these, pretend like you are reading that for the first time if/when that happens.)

You know, we've wanted to get into war in the Carsverse for a while, but honestly, it's such a big thing, we had to break it up into a few parts. So uh.... new miniseries, expect a few more in the Cars of Duty series coming your way in the future! Anyway, this time we get into the physical methods of fighting and combat in the Carsverse, which, for the record, does canonically confirm the existence of war, like, way too many times. So we are get into weaponry, tanks and warships, and just get kinda bummed about from thinking about war so much.

So, listen. There's a scene in the first Cars movie in which Lightning McQueen is brought into a court with no jury and without ever being offered bail, assigned Mater as his lawyer without ever being able to contact his real legal team, sentenced to "community service" (a sentence in which he is held indefinitely while completing incredibly grueling labour and being starved of fuel), and then court is adjourned. From start to finish, this takes around 4 minutes. So uh.... that's pretty messed up, right? You should listen to us talk about that.

You know how we did an episode on Planes: Fire & Rescue, like, four episodes ago? Well, we couldn't stop thinking about the fire fighting team from it, so we decided to go back to Piston Peak and do a whole episode on them! Interested in Maru's incredibly advanced medical techniques? Maybe you wanna hear about Cabbie's military service, or Lil' Dipper's strange obsession with Dusty? Well.... Good! We talk about all of that. That's why I listed all of it. It was intentional.

Light a candle or two, put on some music, and pour yourself a little oil, cause this week, Lucas and John are getting a bit romantic. Join us as we explore all the different ways Cars live with and around each other in this crazy little world they inhabit. We cover all the bases, from friendship to puppy love to weddings and marriage. We also attempt and pretty immediately fail to avoid talking about how Car sex works, as well as discuss whether Lightning lives in Mack all the time, or just some of the time. So that's something. 

Listen. I don't want to freak you out. But be forewarned. We have a doozy of Halloween Spooktacluar here for you all. We watched all 13 episodes of 1997's best show about teens that are also cars that are also vampires, and man. I want you to imagine how bad you think a show called Van-pires from the late 90's that was cancelled after 13 episodes and leans heavily on early CGI animation would be. Well, go ahead and triple it. Also, we figure out how it's linked to Cars, cause, I dunno. We gotta?

Time to... rev it up? Get on that ole iron steed? Ride... a motorcycle? Listen. John is the one who knows things about motorcycles, and I (Lucas) am writing this at like 1 a.m. when I've got to go to work in the morning, so like... forgive me if I'm a little thin on the fun motorcycle stuff to interject into this description. Anyway, this is our motorcycle episode! Despite no motorcycles actually appearing in these movies at any point, we do go on to decide that motorcycles are H.G. Wells style, underground dwelling monsters, (Morlocks to be exact. Sexy, sexy morlocks.)

Listen. Yes, we have now watched all the feature length films in the Carsverse. That's great. A momentous occasion. But I have to gloss over that fact, because we did a pretty big goof. As a matter of fact, we did a lot of tiny goofs over the course of the past several months, in that we did not actually know the name of this movie until the day we recorded this episode. It... kind of throws us for a loop. We can't really get focused on, ya know, talking about the movie for a while because of it. But, anyway, here's our Planes: Fire & Rescue episode, I guess.

Hey uh, Hollywood? Just wanted to let you know, you might want to make some room. Cause your two favorite Carscasters are coming crashing right in. That's right folks. We decided that the fame and fortune that The Ka-Chat provides wasn't quite enough, and so we're grabbing a new golden goose. So come peek in on our brainstorming session for our pitch for a new Carsverse spin-off: Boats: The Search for McQueen.