17 Burst results for "James Pumphrey"
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Do you want to start Lois to start low, yeah. Jeremiah, you've read two deaths. Which is a lot. Even on one time before or two, two, I think. Yeah, I'll take it. Joe, you've read a 186 deaths. Wow. That's also a surprising because I feel like I've only read been a reader two or three times. Oh, it says mentioned death. Oh, yeah. Nolan, you got the first two this. He's at 898 and James, me has 1253 death mentions in this show. Thank you guys. If you took the time to read all of this and I will also send a follow-up email to each episode 200 where I've decided I will finally stop counting. Focusing on all the deaths in past days. Yes, please stop. I will also include episode ideas that I have that I won't include in this email because it's already pretty long. Love from Brazil, Indiana. Drake. Drake, I am at a loss. That's a lot of work. That's a lot of work, man. I feel like we should send you like 75 bucks. You should get a degree. Yeah. You should get some. You're the honorary hobby. Statistician of past gas. You should get a college credits. Yes. We're sending you one college credit. One college credit, donut university. Thank you guys for listening this episode. Follow the boys at Jeremiah Burton at Joji Weber follow me at James pumphrey. We have a YouTube channel called donut media. We also sell a bunch of shirts and stuff, donut media dot com. Yeah. Bye.
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Best guess podcast is the course it's not about porch. Proper illumination sounds tight. Proper illumination. Yeah, sounds like the name of creative agency. Yes, yeah. From proper illumination. There we go. It's a concrete floor. There's a bunch of succulents everywhere. Everywhere there's a slide that there's a slide that goes up only. They're like, how they afford that. It costs like $50,000 a month to run the pneumatic system as an up slide. But we just landed Adidas, so. Welcome to past gas everybody. My name is Nolan Sykes. I'm joined by my two co hosts. We got James pumphrey. Well, would you look at the mug on that one? And Joe Weber, what's up with nation no snappy intro for me this week? No, you're just playing with a set of calipers that have been left on the table for whatever reason. The measuring kind of breaking kind. I was measuring stuff for the tiny V8. Oh, nice. The guys are putting together the world's smallest V8 and we're putting it into an RC car. And it's taking longer than building a real-time. It's harder to build something smaller than bigger. It's the tiniest V8. But the biggest headache. Okay. Yeah, talking about Roger Penske, a name you've probably heard a lot if you're into motor sport. Or if you're moving. Trucks. It's the same guy. I have. Yeah, I'm on my 18th place in Los Angeles. I've helped James move, I think. Four or 5 times in the last two years. I've seen still can't stand still. Anyway, yeah, so let's get into it. Roger Penske, I don't really know too much about him, to be honest. I listened to like a business podcast with him. I thought it was gonna be more racing. Look, you don't have a million different racing teams without making a ton of money. I would like to hear some business tips from Roger Penske and go seek that out. He's got some really good quotes. He's just seems like well rounded, not jerk. Wow, that's surprising from a racing team. Yeah. His dad helped him out in the beginning. But he was like, couldn't really afford it. And he was like, his dad was like, he was retired. He was $50,000 of his retirement fund to help start the racing team. And he was like, okay, so his dad. Yeah. Cool. And it was funny. When you said not jerk, producer Christina was over in the back laughing and shaking her head, so I'm sure we're gonna get into it. We're gonna learn more about Roger Penske and maybe that's what we try to learn today. Jerk and he just like bamboozled me. Well, we're gonna find out. Well, his dad was like, if it doesn't work out, I gotta go back to work, you know? Jesus. And so that was his motivation for really succeeding. That is pretty fun motivation is like, all right, I can run this race to you. Or my dad's gonna be a Walmart greeter. And that Walmart greeter job would fund the racing team. Yeah. Oh, just some business before we get into the story here. We won a signal award for best road trip podcast, but I would like to thank everybody. We are a signal award winning podcast. And we swept the ciggies this year. I'd really like to thank you seriously though. Thank you to everybody who voted for us. Yeah, thank you. Thanks to everyone who's reached out over the years and subscribed and all that jazz. Jazz, it's about the notes you don't play. Let's talk about Roger Penske. Roger Penske was born in shaker heights, Ohio in 1937 to Jay and Martha Penske. J Penske was an engineer turned executive in a towering figure in young Rogers life. He was just really tall. Really taught. And roger, at one point, was a baby. His father instilled in roger in unstoppable work ethic that inspired Rogers lifelong motto effort equals results. He's not macho man Randy Savage. That's how he talks. That was recording of him. We played as always. Jay Penske also gave roger his greatest gift. A love of racing. When he was 14, roger went to an IndyCar race with his dad, where young Penske caught the driving bug. That might have been the turning point for me. Roger said, Indy car race. And just going fast. Cars became an obsession for roger. He wanted to be around them in any way he could. Shortly after the fateful IndyCar race with his dad, roger began working at a gas station. And later, at a foreign car dealership. Working at the dealership allowed him to take the cars out for test drives. Even though he didn't have a license. And we all know, letting young mechanics drive test drive fast cars great idea. Did you see that mark four Supra that had just gotten tuned in the mechanic was taking it out on a drive and just flipped it 7 times? It got thrown from the car was fine, was uninjured. Yeah, it landed on railroad tracks. Pretty crazy. Wow. But roger never did like working for someone else. He started buying junk cars, fixing them up and selling them for profit out of family garage. J Penske encouraged these interests, emotionally, and financially. Oh, cool. Rogers said of his father. He and I always had this pack. If I needed ten or $20, my dad said, you were in half and I'll support you with the balance. As naturally happens when you're building cars. As it naturally happens, like it was like a 401k of cash. As it naturally happens when you're building cars, you want to start racing them too. Rogers started out drag racing at the Akron drag strip. Back in the mid 50s, I took my dad's Buick there and wore out the transmission. Roger said. I remember he went to drive it to work on Monday and he couldn't get it out of the garage. So yeah, young guy his parents helping him out substantially with buying and racing cars. Going pro became more of a reality once young Penske left the house. In college, he bought a 57 Corvette out of a GMAC payment book and used it as his competitor. And used it as his competition for hill races. However, Penske's name would really be made with his infamous Xerox special. The story of this car cemented Penske's commitment to winning and let's say ingenuity when it came to following the rules. He's a cheater. Which I like. In the 1960 one, Formula One, U.S. Grand Prix, Walt Hanks and crashed his Cooper T 53 on lap 14 and was forced to retire from the race. His team owner Briggs Cunningham then sold that wrecked mess to none other than a young Roger Penske. Side note Briggs Cunningham, the guy who invented racing stripes. Really? Wow. That was like the first Wheelhouse, right? One of the first ones. Penske replaced the body on the red car, swapped out the engine for a 2.75 liter Coventry climax. Added basic headlights and a horn and installed a hidden second seat in the left side of the car. When you hear that straight four, fire up, boy. By definition, Penske had turned a formula one rec into a street car. Penske drove the number 6 cherry red xeric special all the way to the 1962 USAC road racing championship title. The USAC road racing championship series folded in 1963, but Rogers love for the xeric special state strong. He brought it to the SCCA national sports car championship where he drove it to two quick victories. Roger entered the car in several other races but eventually outgrew the special. Not to say that it wasn't still special. It was later bought by another legend, a guy we like to call Bruce McLaren, who went on to his own victories behind its wheel. That's they're all just hanging out at the same bar. You know what I mean? Just eating chicken wings. Yep. Oh, they got garlic Parmesan now. How are they, Bruce? I don't know, I think I'd stay with, I'll get buffalo next time.
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Most people who have strong opinions about how to change the sport they love for the better. Bernie ecclestone had both the resources and the power. Bernie ecclestone, a name more commonly spit out than spoken. How did the son of a fisherman born into poverty? Come to be a billionaire. How does a man go from living in the northern English countryside to jet setting with a string of new wives over the course of his entire life? What kind of person could have such an incredible hero's journey only to end up the villain in the eyes of the public? Well, today on past gas, we're going to tell you the story of the notorious and controversial. James pumphrey. Bernie ecclestone. I'm next week, right? Yeah. That's very similar to my story. Yeah. How are all your new wives doing? We'll talk about it after. Welcome to past gas, everybody. It's a little bit more than I could chew with all these wives. All these new lives clogging up my house. Welcome to back to the show. My name is Nolan Sykes. I'm joined by my co hosts. Two of my best Friends in the world. James pumphrey how are you doing? I'm one of your best friends. I think so. Yeah. You say that like every other week. I know. You guys are two of my best Friends. I'm distracted. I got some credit on my pants. Brought in your pants? No, not in. That would be a different. Okay. Just a little bit. I think it's toothpaste. Yeah, I had a strong coffee. My new thing is I ordered the strongest coffee possible in the smallest cup available. It's pretty cool. Which is a quad espresso shot. This is four shots of espresso. With two dollops of and this is what I say to them. Yeah. And I dress well. And I smell good, and I drive an expensive cars, and they can see it from the window. So here's what I say I say. I want four shots of espresso with a couple of dollops of the driest foam that you can manage. Stiff peaks. Wow. And I got to say, there's two guys, one, if anybody had a love coffee shop at listening, I love all of you guys. But one guy, the guy with the long hair. Yeah. That guy can make some dry foam. He makes the driest foam there. Dries from there, stiff his peaks, the other guy. I think he's a little bit newer. He actually said today he's like, I'm really working on my phone. He's working on it. Yeah. Yeah. He knows you have discerning taste. He wants to give you those peaks. It's a little velveteen for sure. It's latte ish. Yeah. And I don't know if you guys have gathered yet. I used to be a barista. Did you really? Yeah. And so I want to tell him how to do it better. Okay. I was like, you need more pressure. Well, we'll just slam it on the counter a couple of times, and also don't pour it scoop it. You charming guy. Yeah. Do you want to hear my impression of the coffee boy? Is Joe Weber? Wow. Pretty good, right? That was a pretty good thank you. Joe, how are you doing? How's your caffeine situation? I'm great. I don't like to make more waste in the world, but courage, all we got in the office. So drinking some Caribou coffee, taking me back to Minnesota, which I love now. I love Minnesota. Don't believe him. All right. My name is Nolan Sykes. And today we're going to be talking about Bernie ecclestone. What do you guys know about Bernie ecclestone? Does that name sleazy dude? People don't like him very much. I knew Elaine Prost used his connection with Bernie to make things go his way. If you want to win the game, you got to play the game. That's why they call him the professor, the professor, that's right. And I know that he got totally screwed on Super Tuesday 2016. Right? Different guy, different guy. He wears mittens and he looks kind of grumpy, but he's just trying to stay warm, right? The same guy. Okay, so let's get into Bernie ecclestone. Bernie ecclestone's outsized influence on Formula One spanned over 40 years, and while Bernie was and still is a great source of fodder for the tabloid media thanks to his unfortunate and unpopular opinions on any number of controversial topics. Meaning, it's kind of a shit. Many are totally unaware of just how far the man has come in his lifetime. Bernie ecclestone is born on October 28th, 1930, in Saint Peter, south elm, a British Hamlet with a current population of about 40 people. Oh man. That's like moot Wyoming. Sorry. We need California. The son of a fisherman and his wife, obviously. Bernie was born firmly into the poor working class, if not abject poverty. The family had very little as far as economic means, and so his parents had incredibly strict rules about excessive spending. Bernie's father was required to hand over his paycheck to his mother every payday to ensure that no money went unaccounted for. The strict oversight of the family's finances had a lasting effect on the young Bernie. He became adept at bartering and negotiating and got what he needed via means other than cash he didn't have. For example, as a child, Bernie would deliver messages from nearby station GIs to their local girlfriends in exchange for king. He should have asked for money. You can buy candy with money, but you can also buy other stuff. You can. If your boss is like, hey, okay. I'll tell you in candy. It might sound sweet, pun intended, but money's better. Bernie naturally gravitated towards work at a young age, delivering newspapers and vegetables and generally taking any work that was available. He was a terrible student, except in one subject, math, and later quit school at 16 to work as an assistant in a chemical lab at the local gas works, testing gas purity. I love back in the day how you could drop out of high school to go be a scientist. Despite not officially graduating, he did go on to briefly study physics and chemistry at woolwich polytechnic, the now named university of Greenwich. Was he painting candy there? Or fish, no skiing. Fish and vegetables. But Bernie knew he wasn't built for the academic world. His instincts to hustle and grind were well established by then, and he even had a new love to focus on. Motorcycles. While working for the gas company, he had spent his free time looking through the classifieds for motorcycles and motorcycle parts he could buy and resell, and eventually developed a reputation as a reputable dealer. Dude, this guy's Jeremiah. Scientist, motorcycle guy. Yeah. Due to his proximity to bran's hatch, a famous racing circuit, Bernie also began to develop an interest in motor sport. In 1949, when he was 19, he raced for the first time in the 500 CC formula three series, and two years later, in 1951 at age 21, he purchased a 500 CC Cooper Mark 5 as his car of choice for the series. And as you might expect, he placed in a few races and crashed in a few as well. I can relate. In one of these races, Bernie's crash ejected him from the cockpit and landed him in the parking lot. Shut up, no way. No way. I mean, I
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"In previous seasons, their car does not do well in hot weather, the brakes have a tendency to overheat, and it doesn't do well when it's behind other cars. That used to be probably another car. How gangster is it to design a car? To be in front. Like you're like, I know this car is so bad that we don't even account for it being behind other cars. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Yeah, what do we get? What if we just avoid that? If I was like an F one designer, I would simply design a car to not be in the back. From that point on, what had started as a can't lose season turned into a war of attrition with button and Barrichello often fighting in the middle of the pack trying to score enough points to maintain their lead over the other drivers. The lack of funding for the team was starting to expose the cracks in the organization's game plan. Buttons car especially was not performing at the same level as the first half of the season. But the technical team was stumped as to what was causing the drop off. The British driver's low point came in Belgium at spa, which is my personal favorite F one track where he got into a four car accident in the first lap that ended his day early. Although button was still in first, despite his first retirement of the season, feeling everyone catching out must have caused its own set of an anxiety. Yeah, I can't really imagine that. Meanwhile, his Brazilian teammate, Barrichello, was getting into the zone just as button was leaving it, recording winds in Spain at the European Grand Prix, as well as the Italian Grand Prix. The season would come down to the second to last race held in Brazil at interlagos, button had a chance to finally seal the world championship title that he had been limping towards and Bron GP could secure the constructor's cup. Button held on to place 5th in the race, enough to secure both titles as he sang we are the champions over the team radio as he took a victory lap. bronn had indeed paid their dues and despite some sand kicked in their faces, had kept fighting till the end. A team that hadn't existed months earlier was now Formula One champions in their very first season. The 2009 season would also turn out to be the only season for Bron GP. Mercedes would indeed buy the team, purchasing a 75% stake for a rumored price of around a £110 million. It was an incredible return on the investment of just one pound that had been paid for the team a year earlier. Braun remained on as a team principal for another three seasons, but the team would no longer share his surname. It was rebranded as Mercedes GP. Button was not hired back. As world champion, he was asking for a premium salary, but the team leadership was not convinced that his driving put him in the top tier. Still, whatever tier he was in, he was now world champion for life, an incredible achievement regardless. It was only after Braun left that the team truly hit its stride, going on to win 6 world championships in a row as AMG petronas. By the time you hear this podcast, Lewis Hamilton may have already clinched a 7th. Brawn GP's legacy, at Mercedes, actually illustrates what a fairytale bronze 2009 season truly was. Before and after, the biggest $1 billion teams have employed the fastest drivers and built the fastest cars and dominated the sport. Like in so many races, it was a crash that fully changed the landscape. No one would ever wish a financial disaster like the Great Recession of 2008 upon anyone. I'm over it, obviously, but it was exactly those economic conditions that kept bronze pitch for a management buyout from Honda from being laughed out of the room. Even if the story had ended with the team's formation, it would have still been remarkable. But with button at the helm, the team went on to win in 2009, beating out those billionaires and showing that even in the mega corporate era and world of modern F one, miracles were still possible. For anyone who's disheartened by Mercedes nearly decade long domination of Formula One, keep one thing in mind. Without Goliath, there is no David. Without the recession, there would have been no brawn GP. Humans have a way of rising to me any challenge in incredibly surprising and inspiring ways. We can certainly think of some challenges we're facing right now in need of a scrappy underdog to take them on. And who knows? Maybe one day, that underdog will be you. I mean, I'm sure Honda was involved in the negotiation, but can you imagine buying ceremonially buying like a team for a $100 or a dollar then selling it for a 110 million pounds? Yeah. That's pretty amazing. And not paying Honda and Han is just like, what? So yeah, so after Braun, he went to drive from McLaren, they did a little switcheroo, Mercedes went over to brawn and Jensen went from brawn over to McLaren. He stayed with them for 7 years. So after his championship, his career was a little meddling, you know, a little mid tier, he did finish second in the championship in 2011 at McLaren Mercedes. But then he was kind of like a midfield fighter, and then of course in 2015 and 16, that's when McLaren really started to fall off hard. He finished 15th and 16th, pretty bad. And now he's racing in sports cars. He did win the super GT championship over in Japan in 2018. And he's just doing it, man. He's living his best life as a world champion F one driver. Very cool guy. And I think, you know, it sucks that they didn't think his driving actually got him the championship, but I think to come back from that, like we said, he came from 18th to world champion in one year. I think that deserves some credit. Yeah, so thank you for listening to the past gas I always love to in Formula One stories. There's a lot more of them out there for us to get into. And on that note, thank you so much. This has been past gas. I'm James pumphrey follow me on Instagram at James pumphrey follow Nolan at Nolan J Sykes, follow Joe at Joji Weber. Follow donut at donut media. If you don't know, we have a YouTube channel, donut media, YouTube's dot TV slash donut media. And we also have that. We don't have that. What his ours? Let me read it to you. We could just go to YouTube
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Very quickly and work you to the bone. These days, you'd be hard pressed to go a week without hearing about some supply chain issue, inflation, or worker shortages on the news. But it's important to note that when it comes to worker shortages, it's not because people don't want to work, it's because the industry doesn't provide a sustainable wage for its workers. It can not be overstated how integral the trucking industry is to our daily lives as Americans, and these drivers should be treated fairly. Yeah, there's a reason that you're able to get shampoo tomorrow. You can get it today. At the store, I'm talking about are you overnight in shampoo? Don't count my money. Are you pocket watching Joe? The federal highway act truly was America's greatest investment. I think the children were. We don't invest very much in them. Federal highway act truly was one of America's greatest investments. Financially, it's a success. For every dollar spent building the roads that it's made $6 back. A mold of the America we know today. It created car culture and influenced culture beyond the road. It created drive-throughs, huh? You don't have to get out of your car anymore. Created road trips created rest stops, roadside attractions, hotels, motels, Holiday Inn. It created a toilet in your car. On your seat, it created seed toilets. Yeah, if it weren't for interstates, we wouldn't even need seat toilet. And where would we be? Then where would we be? He created new jobs, new industries, like the seat toilet industry. So the next time you eat a juicy orange or let kale rot in your fridge, think about how it got to you. The decades of planning, the dedicated folks who laid the concrete and the truckers who spend long days out on the road to keep society running. It's true. Think about it. Thank you. Eat that orange. I love getting just a big thing of chard. Charged Swiss chard and letting it wilt? No, just eating it raw. You eat Swiss chard raw. Not even with dressing. I don't think you can do this. You got to cook it down. It's very tough. Nice tomato sauce. That's great. Yeah, subject line Joe has angered the great Roman Empire. What did I do? Here's some context. Joe said ancient Romans come at me in our leaded gas episode and you got a response. So Joe. But they were nice enough to translate our pipes. I want to hear you say it in Latin first though. Fistulae, nostril, septi, Iran, I feel like if I finish this, a ghost is great. So I was going to cut to the translation. Our pipes were sealed with poison to make them safe. We were not mad as what? No, I want to own up to if I made a mistake. I'll own up to it. I'll read it. So this curse on me reads, our pipes were sealed with poison to make them safe. We were not mad as a leader, but we collapsed because of the greatness of our great empire. It is very insulting and insulting to describe us Romans as insane, and you will hear from my lord. And that's from Jack. Thank you. You sound like a real Roman. If you'd like to get in contact with the show, hit us up at pass gas at donut media dot com. We love getting your emails, especially if they're in Latin. Especially if they're in London. Interim ones are insane, they had vomitorium. Which actually sounds pretty sweet. I eat so much food, you pukey, you go eat more. I heard that that's a myth that they, the vomitorium is where they threw up, oh, well, that's cool. Anyway, I got a wheelchair throw open a urinal. Yeah, he did. Hey, follow the boys at James pumphrey at Joji Weber follow me at Nolan J Sykes. If you'd like, big thank you to our producers as always, Christina felski, and Gavin kinsel. And our writer Jacob was sake. What's up? What's up? Chucking them disks, boy? We also have another podcast called the donut racing show. We talk about Formula One. I'm on the show. The lovely Alanis king and Elizabeth Blackstock are on the show. They're very smart and funny. If you like Formula One smarter than you. They're definitely way more qualified to be on the show than I am. I'm just the guy that talks. I
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Because he killed my grandpa. All right, follow the guys on all social media, follow James at James pumphrey, follow Joe at Joji Weber follow me at Nolan J Sykes. Big thank you to our producers this week. Every week, Kristina felski and Gavin kinsel. And our writer, Kristen Egan. This was a really good one. Yeah. Tell a friend about the show. See you next time.
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Kicked off his first Indy 500 weekend with an impressive 5th place during qualifying. But now, it was time to race with the big boys. The Rookie driver passed legends, roger ward, Eddie Sachs, and Jim raffman, in the same lap to take the lead in the legendary race. To make those kinds of moves in your first indie, that's the stuff of legends. But that chance at first place was interrupted by a small piece of metal. After leading an impressive 27 laps, a metal scrap struck parnelli just above his eye, the driver had no choice but to slow down as his goggles filled up with blood, blocking his view of the track. And just what matters couldn't seem to get any worse. His car lost the cylinder. Despite the strong start by the end of the race, parnelli Jones finished his first Indy 500 in a disappointing 12th. Another newcomer might have been disheartened by his highs turning so quickly into Lowe's. But parnelli Jones? Not so much. He would return to Indy the following year, and the year after that. And the year after that, how did parnelli achieve his status as an indie legend? What kind of impact did you have on the world of racing, including the cards themselves? And what kind of legacy does the parnelli Jones name carry on and off the track? We'll find out. On today's episode of past gas, it's parnelli Jones. Podcast is the course it's not about sports. Are you guys excited about that new album? Little piece of metal by goggles of blood? Yeah. Everyone pretends like they hate goggles of blood, but like goggles and blood is pretty good. Yeah. I think it's a name. It's like you don't want to say that. You're not going to wear a goggles of blood T-shirt to work. Yeah, definitely not. It's kind of like slipknot. Like maybe in like ten years to be like, oh, dude, that's sick. A goggles of blood. Shirt. Yeah. I remember liking them a lot in high school. Yeah, with that one song. And then it kicks in and they go. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to past gas. Unfortunately, this is not a metal show. Unfortunately, we keep let us know if you want us to do a metal podcast. My name is Nolan Sykes, here to introduce my co hosts, which I forget to do on a semi weekly basis. We've got James pumphrey across three little piece of metal songs. Let's see. Well, there's narrows, which I think is like a pretty good opening track and it sets a ton for the album. Let's have fourth track call. 7 sweet 7s. 7 sweet 7s. Yeah, kind of a weird title for them. That in parentheses 49. And then the closing track, why is algebra so hard? That's a Jimmy Buffett cover. And Joe Weber, what's up? What up? Ignition. How are we doing guys? I'm great. Honestly. I feel pretty good. I have allergy headache right now. Really? Yeah. Fun. Yeah, mixed in with everything else. This week. That's awesome. It's super fun, Joe. Thanks for bringing it up. It's really centralized. When you play through the pain, man. And yeah, we're going to talk about parnelli Jones. A figure that seems to show up every now and then in our other stories. So I'm glad that we're going to focus on him and get to know him. Two last names. It's rare. Yeah, a lot of people have two first names. Mike Jeff. Linebacker Mike Jeff. Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's. Dave Thomas Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews. Follow the money. That's a little strange. Blackwater, man. Oh yeah, that's what he shot out of his van over the people. Chicago. Yeah, the biggest thing we've learned on this podcast is don't empty your RV's latrine over the Chicago river. Just don't dump poop on people ever. Did it hit people? No. I thought it was just like into the river and it's like a point of pride. But literally that's another great little piece of metal song. It was something like a thousand gallons or something. They had an emptied it the whole tour. A tour. And that's a tour bus. Yeah, and there's also a tourist boat until you're like, oh, Chicago. We'll spend half of our day on this boat looking at river stuff. Oh my God, I'm covered in shit. Oh, no, thank you. Rufus Parnell Jones was born on August 12th, 1933 in Texarkana Arkansas. That's our first mention of Texarkana, I think, on this entire show. Shout. Shout out. Great REM song. They're from Savannah, Georgia. They are. In regards to his namesake, parnelli has said, quote, my mother named me after a judge, the most successful person she knew. Due to the crushing effects of The Great Depression and a damaging drought, Parnell's family was forced to leave behind their 52 acre farmland and move out west to California when he was only two years old. Parnell's father spent some time working on farms north of San Diego to support his family. 5 years later, they moved to Torrance, California, to be closer to family during the height of World War II. His father traded farming for the sea when he began working in nearby shipyards that help support the war effort. Speaking of naming your kid after successful people, I was named after two my dad's bosses. Oh, wow. Yeah, James duggan and Edward deegan. My name's James Edward Humphrey. And my dad was like 26 when I was born. And he named me after two of his bosses. As like a bet to get a race. Oh my God. I love that. Nice piece of trivia. That's Dave pumphrey. Man, your life would have been so much different if you went by your middle name. Edward Ed pumphrey. It sucks. Ed pumphrey. Ed pumphrey, nice to meet you. Big Ed pumphrey. When he was 15, Parnell's parents divorced. As the oldest of three children, parnelli had to enter the workplace to support his splintered family. Parnelli found a job at a nearby stable, which is what spawned his interest in his first love, horses. Why are you looking? I don't know. You like horses too? Huh? You like horses? I like horses, ironically. I don't like them. I'm really scared of them. And I think it's weird how people talk about them. You're like, that Doug is cute. That cat is cute. Yeah. That raccoon is cute. People are like, that horse is beautiful. I know. That horse is majestic. It's like, all right. Weirdo. Yeah. My sister is like super into horses. And now she works with them. And I imagine it's like at a law firm. Hey, Billy, you got those. Ignorant I am of office. Crap. What's the thing offices have? Memos. Build a horse. Yeah, but anyway, her whole life, she's been so into them, and it's just like, I've never really understood the horse. Do you have enough land in a task editor? That was the thing. She always wanted a horse and it's like we don't we have like half, it's like a quarter acre or backyard or something. It was tiny. Quarter acre sounds huge. For a horse. You got to have a lot of land for it. It's not big for even a human. Really? Yeah. I want to know how big my apartment is in acres now. Did you ever go to my house in palos verdes? Yeah.
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Let's pump the brakes on a little bit. There's only so many positions. Follow the boys at James pumphrey follow Joe at Joji Weber follow me at Nolan J Sykes, very big thank you to our producers this week, Gavin kinsel, and Christina felski, they kill it every time, man. And our writer, Griffin winsler. He had Griffin winsler. And if anyone knows what kind of magic would cause toys to come alive in how you could reverse that magic or harness it or yeah, we got a harness it. Or like lock them out of my room. They are little, then climb under the door. Wow, that's creepy as hell. That's pretty rough. And the weird thing is when you stuff
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"Zanardi. Passed us podcast is the course it's not about sports. Zanardi ring. Zanardi ring, you did it, Joe. You cracked the code. We can go home with that pun. You know, he's got a special edition NSX. I did not know that. It looks like you're looking at it right now. It's one of 51, one just sold for $277,000. Dang. I don't know if I want, but I would very much like to drive one of the new NSX's, which is going out of production pretty soon. I want to drive anything. Get me out of my forerunner, please. You don't like your former anymore? Dude, these gas prices are killing me. I think most of anything that you want to drive in a fun way is going to have bad gas mileage. Not a push or take on a Porsche taycan. Which we discussed last week. You guys are converts now, huh? Until Porsche gives me a car. Listen, Portia, I'm already on the line with haribo gummy bears. Dude, you should get them to make clear jelly seats for your car. I should. That's a great idea. So if you want to Portia, haribo, James pumphrey edition taycan, we could sell it for a lot of money. What if they just sent you the sugar free ones that make you shoot your pants? I don't know, Joe. Yes, I shit my pants because I can't resist those delicious haribo gummies. Well, welcome to the show, everybody. I'm your host Nolan Sykes. Joined this week. And every week on this show, my two co hosts, we've got Joe Weber next to me. What's up? Let me hear you too too. I kind of still do. I got a new one. Okay. And that's James pumphrey over there. I've never seen this man before in my life. What's up, guys? Hey. I've never seen this man before in my life. It's catchy. That's a pretty good one. I feel good. Maybe I don't. But physically, I'm very tired, 'cause yesterday we shot, we shot a lot with the height low cars. We went to the track yesterday and shot for about a million probably 14 hours, 15 hours. We were there for like 11 hours. 11 hours. And in the heat drifting, we had some car trouble, had a lot of fun. It was fun. We really grew closer to each other along the way. Yeah. So make sure you watch our videos this summer to see some hot hot boys hot tan guy. That's not the only thing on the burner for now. We actually have a new podcast coming out later this month, the donut racing show. That's right. It's a podcast about F one. Oh, the donut racing show is what DRS stands for? Yeah. I thought it was doctors. That's a weird name. Doctors. We should call it doctors. You guys read it wrong. Oh, crap. Yeah. Yeah, we made it to a different show. The hosts are myself, and we also have mehmet Oz no. No, we do not. We do not have him. We have Elena's king and Elizabeth Blackstock. If you read a lot of online automotive journalism, you've definitely read their stuff. Alanis is over at Business Insider and Elizabeth is over at Jalopnik. They know a lot more about racing than I do. They are and they're very fun. And doctors, they're not doctors. Just want to make that clear, everybody. Nobody on the podcast. Apparently, is a doctor. Doctors, you're going to have a bad time. Yeah, but we've been wanting to do a Formula One podcast here at donut, probably since I've started working here. Since you started donuts, since I started donut, since I started working here, I've been like, we got to do one. And now we're finally doing it. James, before we start, I have a present for you. For you from my dad. Oh, really? A present from Joe's dad. Wow. It's cactus. It's a prickly pear. I was going to say prickly pear, but then I didn't want to look like an idiot. But it says prickly pear on the bottom. All right. Dude. Thank you. So your dad made that joke? Yeah, he does like wood prince. That's cool. Dude, this rules. It's like a black and white prickly pear. I was a big fan of Joe's dad's work, and he gave me this. What's Joe's dad's name? James H Weber, James, thank you for the gift. It's not your gift. I know, but it's whatever. I'm giving him a shout out. One James to another. Thank you. Sir. All right, I would get in the story of Alex Zanardi. Let's go. Let's go, let us get into it. All right, born in Bologna, Italy, in October of 1966. Alex Zanardi was the mischievous second child of dino and Anna's anarchy. Young Alex's early years were somewhat aimless as he struggled to find a sport or hobby that he enjoyed. But the one thing that did consistently grab his attention was Formula One racing. Alex and his father would watch the circuit on television and eventually visited a local track. He and his father would watch the races on television, and eventually they visited a local track where the boy was thrilled, albeit terrified by the experience. This cars are loud. When I went to go see Star Wars for the first time, when they did the rerelease of the first one in 96 or whatever. Scott techy. Scott did take me, and it was so loud that I had to cover my ears the whole time when the tie fighters were flying around because the lasers and all that. Oh, Nolan? Nolan and I, like we said, we're at the track yesterday. And there was like this 5 year old who hung out with us all day. What? He was like, so this is kind of a not rundown nuts coming. How would you describe Apple Valley? Grassroots, very grassroots track, and it's run by one guy, this older gentleman. And I guess his grandson was in town from Vegas. Yeah. And just like this little kid with no shirt on riding a dirt bike, 5 years old. Riding a dirt bike around. Started following us around a stray dog early in the morning and then all day. It was all day. From 9 a.m. till he left, I left at 8. It's pretty cute. He started as very cute and kind of funny and cool. Like the beginning of a movie and then he would save us, he'd be like, hey, quick, this way. But towards the end, he was asking everybody a lot of questions. Yeah, questions he didn't want the answers to. Yeah. Like, how'd you afford that house? Anyway, it was like really weird to me that we're just like a big group of men with a huge van. And this guy was just like, yeah, go hang out with them. And cameras. The star is weird.
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"And I never get that vibe from him, even though we did have an indoor cart track at his house. Even though that's an insane thing to have. That's an incentive. Yeah, but you know, like you said, you just seems like a solid dude. You just get a good feeling from. So I want to see Carlos do well. One of the reasons I'm a tifosi this year. No, all right. All right, should I read this? We have a letter from Trevor. All right. Hi guys, got passed by a golf on the highway today with a Tiger vanity plate that said lasagna. Maybe you think maybe laugh and think of you guys in the video game episode. Love the podcast, sign Trevor. Thank you. Thanks, Trevor. That's a dope ass family plate. I love it. Combo. Love it. Love it. I can already see no one is jealous of it, wants to get the one that says la saga. My lasagna, what does that mean? There's a meme about someone dropped the lasagna on the floor and then never. In a video game episode, Nolan brought up. There's a Garfield racing game that I think, yeah, while we were recording Nolan was buying it was gaming PC. And then maybe played it twice and was like, this game sucks. Yeah, it did suck. But Nolan is a huge lasagna cat fan. I'm a big fan, dude. Yeah. I'm a garf head. Big time. All right. Well, if you'd like to, if you'd like to hit us up about whatever, get in contact with us. Yeah, it's past gas at Dunham media dot com. Is the email. Send us whatever. Don't send anything alive. If you want to correct us on anything, I know we talk out of our butts, a lot of the time. I mean, everything in the script is researched, I talk out of my butt a lot. So if you want to correct me on anything, do it, do it. Follow Joe at Joji Weber follow me at Nolan J Sykes. James did not join us today, but you can still follow him at James pumphrey. Follow donut media on all social media at donut media, a big thank you to our producers this week. Thomas willette and Gavin can sell and our writer this week. Josh Simpson. And if you like Simpson. If you like this podcast, we have a couple new podcasts coming out. One is called the long way where James and Jeremiah interview people about their cars that they've had in the past and stuff like that. It's fun. And also an F one podcast if you like F one, enjoyed this episode. Yep, keep an ear out for that one. Title is. Not decided on yet. Not decided on, but it's common down the pipe, so stay tuned. All right, thank you, bye,.
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"I do. Correction. Hit us up. Follow the boys at Joji Weber at James pumphrey. And me, at Nolan J Sykes, if you'd like, big thanks to our producers this week, Thomas willette and Gavin kinsel, and thanks to our writer. Greg nix. And yeah, thank you for listening. And thank you for listening..
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"This is the show where we go deep. We get weird, and we search for the meaning of life along the way. We'll ask life's biggest questions and together with experts we may even find some of the answers we've all been looking for. Yeah, like have you ever wondered, are we alone in the universe? Why do we dream? What is this mystery of consciousness? Why do we even ask questions? So follow rate and review metaphysical milkshake on Apple podcasts or wherever you like to listen to podcasts. And you can also subscribe to the metaphysical milkshake YouTube channel. You can check out the video releases each week. In case you want to look at us while you listen to us and you really should we are actually two very handsome men. We really are. So see you there. Come on along, America. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. What does that make you think of? If you said giant vehicles crushing rows upon rows of junker cars and a massive dirt filled arena packed to the gills with screaming fans of all ages, then you'd be right. Flashback to 1988. After a grueling months long season in the first professional racing series in monster truck history, it had all come down to one final race. This was it. Big vert. Big vert. This was it. Big fruit. All right. This was it. Bigfoot versus USA one, two of the most well-known trucks ever. Waited at the starting line to determine who would become the first champion in the history of the sport. Would it be bob Chandler, the living legend and de facto inventor of the monster truck, with his Ford built Bigfoot, or would it be Everett jasmer, a lifelong friend of bob's whose Chevy built USA one always seemed to play second fiddle to the foot of big? The stage was set for an epic showdown, a decade in the making. But this nationally televised event was miles away from where it all started. When bob Chandler started souping up his Ford F two 50 in 1974 to promote his auto shop, he had no idea that his hobby would spawn a $1 billion industry, enjoyed by over 4 million global spectators every year. So buckle up, put on your safety harness, slap on that helmet. And let's talk about the Bigfoot in the room. Monster trucks. Best guess podcast is the course it's not about sports. Monster truck. Bigfoot, Bigfoot. Big food. Shoot a beer for their shoulder. If you say it, right? Murmur, your nerve kisser, bring for. Welcome to past guest. What's up, everybody? Welcome to past gas. Today we're talking about monster trucks. I'm your host, Nolan Sykes. Joined. As always, by my co hosts, we got Joe Weber, we got Joe Webber over there. Hey, fans. Truly fired up to be here. And James pumphrey. I'm calling it early this year. Happy summer, everybody. Happy summer. It's here. Definitely. It's hot as hell already. It's going to be 97 today, and then it's going to be 70 on Saturday. Which is going to be great. That's going to be very lovely. Yeah, man. So I've decided I'm going to get really, really good at making salads this summer. Okay. That's a good plan. Just off the dome. Just like creative salads you wouldn't think of. Yeah. Like what? Well, last night I had a salad with strawberries and I toasted some walnuts. Nice. A little bit of goat cheese. In there for crunch. Yeah, that sounds good. It's really nice. Strawberry vinegarette. Dang. Wow. Yeah, dude. It was phenomenal. It was so good. It was like dessert. But salad before I worked at donut, I was gonna start a little quick chop, stop, where I have salad stuff. I have like 5 pre made salads that you can just toss right there. For like 12 bucks, that'll sell in LA. So like a sweet green mixed with one of those guys with the fruit cart. Yes. Exactly. That's pretty cool. I would stop there. Yeah, I feel like a lot of times I'm like, oh, I'm so sick of eating fried chicken or smash burgers. That's all I have in my neighborhood, so I would love to if there was just a little stand that had a salad. It'd be great. And if you did that, then I could be the delivery person. And then we'd get a T-shirt gun. And for a dollar 50 extra, we could just shoot the salad right now. I don't have time for this. Give me the good. You run up to the driver's window of a car. Boom. If you don't want to mess, bring a small trash bag. Or we put on one of those cones that dogs wear when they get stitches. Yeah. Oh, so it's like just jumping in there. It's like a shit. And it catches it, yeah. And then it forces it into their mouth. We better get used to the normal life because we're about to be billionaires. Another $1 billion idea was monster trucks. That's right, guys. Oh, I wanted to ask you before we started. What would you call your monster truck? Probably it's something to do with a cobra. The Kentucky cobra. Kentucky's carb, that's good. What's the gimmick? Okay, so it looks like a cobra. Okay. Like, you know, like the el Torah? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's got like cobra head kind of deal. Yeah. And it would start as the Kentucky cobra, but then as I got bigger, like the second truck I built is still like the cobra, but then it's called global cobra. Wow, global cobra. Yeah, global cobra. And maybe like the fans off the head, like the wings of the head of the cobra of the snake. Maybe those actually help you get more air because they act as wings. So you kind of flow in the air for a little longer. Yeah, and I'd have a fire hose on the roof. Oh, that's cool. So I can spit venom. Wait, how does that fit in with the theme though? Spit venom. It's a fire hose though. Cobra spit venom. Yeah, but the hose will be in the cobra's mouth. Okay, so it's not a fire hose in the traditional sense. It's just a vehicle for the venom. I was letting you behind the curtain a bit. That's how we did it. Maybe you fill it with faygo too. And like the crowd's like, shower me with purple. And then you shoot faygo. Yeah. That'd be cool. Joe, what about you, man? Global cobra, global cobra. I've been thinking about my idea for about 25 seconds now. And I think I'm going to go with the body of the truck is a big juice box, and the smokestack is a straw. You.
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"It. Have you heard the name Adrian newey? Even if you don't know the man, you know his accomplishments. His role in Formula One was out of the spotlight, but he's as big a star as they come. Consider to be one of the best engineers designers and technical directors in history. Adrian newey cars and the copycats he inspired, dominated racing for over two decades, winning a stunning number of Grand Prix and championship titles in the process. 6 drivers have won the driver's championship behind the wheel of his cars. How did Nui's designs get them there? How did his designs revolutionize F one as a whole? Today on past gas, he's the Calvin Klein of the racing line, the Chanel of the chicanes, the Versace of room. When it comes to F one designers, there's no other name. Besides Adrian Nui. Pastas podcast is the course it's not about ports. Adrian newey. His name was Adrian newey. In life, we have no name, but in death, his name was Adrian newey. Versace of Rome. The Chanel of Chicago. The margiela of mugello. Oh, nice, dude. Oh, that's the only other highfalutin designer I know. The fendi of Formula One. Oh, nice. I can't think of anything right now. The Michael cores of the Corsa. Oh. Michael Corsa. The good fellow. Good wood. Good job. That's all I wear. Sorry. The root 66. Oh, rouge. The Sonoma of Sonoma. Welcome to pass gas, everybody. This is a fashion show now. We're just going to talk about brands and how much we love brands. America's number 57th streetwear podcast, number two automotive podcast. Number 7 in leisure. That's right. There's no leisure here. We're trying our hardest. I swear to God. No, this is strictly business. My name is Nolan Sykes. I'm joined as always by my other co host. We got James pumphrey. Oh, that's good three point shot. And Joe Webber. What's up? Big nation. It's been a while. It has. It has. How's everybody doing this week? I'm feeling pretty good. I'm good. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm shooting my pilot today. You're shooting a pilot in the head today? No, don't even start that rumor, dude. I love pilot. Joe is currently on a private flight. And he's shooting my pilot today. It's a biplane, like one of those ones where they just sit front to back and the guys like. Showed shooting a pilot for a new donut show, we're very excited. Hopefully he doesn't. Get up. I brought back the wink wink nation thing because there is a wink wink reference that came organically. I did not force it. I'm already developing my IP for shirts. Hell yeah, dude. Just on record, I love pilots. I would never shoot pilots. I trust them with my life. Very overworked profession. Absolutely. All right, so let's get into the script. Let's talk about Adrian newey. Let's talk about Formula One. Let's talk about Adrian newey. Let's talk about Formula One. Let's do it. It needs to be discussed. Born in Stratford upon Avon, England, in 1958, Adrian newey had an immediate attraction to automobiles and not in a sexual way. Well, we don't know that. It is best song autobiography how to build a car knew he says, quote, by the age of 6, I decided my future lay in motor sport. I was 12 when I knew I wanted to design race cars. Adrian's dad, Richard, was a successful veterinarian who also had a passion for tinkering. I love the idea of an unsuccessful veterinarian. So his dad was a successful veterinarian who also had a passion for tinkering. He and young Adrian can be found in the family's garage, where the boy spent countless hours assembling small models. It was during this time that Nui became enamored with individual car parts and their role in the greater machine. Like many creative kids, he quickly got bored with what already existed and thus began creating in designing his own hypothetical vehicles. Like most kids who are fascinated by auto racing, Adrian initially wanted to be a driver. At the age of 14, he bought a go kart to compete at his local track, but soon realized that not only was his car too slow, he just didn't have the natural instincts of a great driver. While his mind could race a mile a minute, that didn't really translate in the physical skill. Despite the disappointment, this setback led Adrian back to the thing that truly fascinated him about the automotive experience. How to make a car go faster. Nui doubled down on his engineering knowledge. He researched and sketched incessantly, and even took a welding course despite it being offered three hours away from home. When you're a teenager, nothing is better than discovering something you're passionate about and applying yourself to it. But like many teens, real life obligations got in the way of Adrian's dream. I don't think I discovered what I was passionate about until I was like 24. When you started working at donut, yeah. You kind of set the groundwork though, like you worked on cars. You went to broadcast school? Yeah, you did theater? Yeah. You were orbiting around it. To be fair, what we do is kind of made up. That's true. That is true. But I remember reading as a teen just being like, I don't know what I want to do. It's hard, man. In high school, I wasn't a very competitive guy at all. I feel like now I'm very competitive. You are very competitive. Yeah. Very. Scares me sometimes. Maybe not that competitive. Don't gaslight me. I'm scared. Sometimes. Good. I don't know. So that's cool that he found his spark that early on. Anyway, let's continue. Like many brilliant ambitious personalities, newy found himself restless and bored with academia. I think all of us can relate. All of us were really bad at school. Yeah. Now I make more than a doctor. Like PhD, not MD. He attended the very traditional all boys school repton public. Oh, that's cool. Where he was a constant prankster and smart ass. Until his hijinks were breaking point at the age of 16. Repton public home with a raptors go rep and raptors. I can't think of a British school having a dinosaur as a mascot. During a rock concert set in a revered 19th century repton building, a boozed up Adrian snuck into the sound boost and pushed the volume to the max. Within seconds, the entire building reverberated with prog rock. Hell yeah, dude. The headmaster presumably intervened in the concert was swiftly shut down. The headmaster of the concert, the headmaster of repton of ripped in public. Okay. Are we like Jeremy.
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"Thank you very much. I love reading your mail on the air here. We're going to take you back on the drive. This is 95 5 the drive. Followed my co host at James pumphrey at Joji Weber followed me at Nolan Sykes. Those are all the same names across all social media platforms. Me and James are going by penis in the skunk now. Welcome back to penis in the skunk. That's a big old pile of hot piss. Wow, you're just ready for that. Province..
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"Horsepower. Saudi lecomte climbed into news airborne muscle plane and flew right into the history books. Soaring over the Brown fields just south of war torn Paris, he not only pushed the plane to 200 mph, but he sustained that speed for more than 62 miles. A plane is one thing. But what about a car? Was it even possible for a land based vehicle to reach 200 mph? And if it was, could it be mass produced? What companies joined in on the cutthroat race to shatter the 200 mph barrier? Who are the Mad Men that actually made it happen? And did yet another grudge match with Enzo Ferrari lead to another milestone in automotive history? Today on fast gas, it's a sprint and a marathon. We're going inside the decades long quest to build a production car that could hit 200 mph. Podcast is of course it's not about. De la court. Newport they plan the less averse error report. That was a rough one to get through. Yeah. You did it though. You did a good job. I'm proud of you. I had to run up to each of them, you know? Yeah. Like a big ledge. The diction, the diction champ of donut is what your new name is. Yeah, doctor Dixon. What's up, everybody? I'm doctor Dixon. Welcome to the past. I'm your host, Nolan Sykes, joined by my other hosts. We got Joe Weber. What's up with Greg nation? And James pumphrey. I'll give you a high 5 for a dollar. Yeah, this week we're talking 200 mph. The elusive barrier that hid from engineers for decades after the invention of the automobile. What's the fastest you guys ever gone in a car? One 68, one 68, when what? In the demon. Oh, that's cool. That's not electronically limited. I don't know. It might be. Now, I mean, it has drag tires on it. And those things are made to withstand high speed. And that's near the top speed of the demon because it's geared so short for the drag strip. Like the hellcat, I think, as a top speed of two O 5, the demon, I think is like one 86 or something like that. Because of the game. I drove one 68 on a closed course. That's fun, man. On the way back from the airport. I'm a relative milk toast in this department. I've only gone one 20 in my dad's, was it 5th gen eclipse, 5th, Jen? It has the lines on the side. Of the door, is 2001. Third, okay. The one that tyrese had in too fast. Okay. Yeah, tyrese is my dad. Okay. Sweet. I went in the high one 30s when I went out to Vegas with the bumper to bumper team and we went to Vegas speedway in drove those little IndyCar deals. Oh, that's fun. Yeah, that was fun. Was it terrifying? No. It was really fun. I just can't imagine the real Indy cars, like the full modern cars going over 200, like flat out on that course the whole time. Because those guys is next must be just insanely strong. My neck was like dying after like 20 laps. Yeah, they work their necks all the time. Yeah, we can do that at the office if you want a stronger neck. I'll get those resistance bands and you just go like this. Yeah, no, and I'm gonna go in later if you want to meet me and work on your neck. I don't want neck lessons. No, let's see some network, bro I don't want to do network, right? We'll both do it. Let's get big next this year. Women love thick necks. Thick necks. Yell at my neck to be thicker than my head. And that's the only weird thing about your body. Yeah, I don't work out anything else. I just got. My shirts are so expensive custom made all the. Time it back to this podcast we're doing. I know how they measure speed on land with cars and stuff. But how are they measuring speed way back in the day with planes? Probably a windmill. What does that even mean? I don't know. Planes, I think their speed is measured in knots, I believe. And they probably had speedometers in planes back then. But I also think they might have also timed the transit speed between the two distances. Between one point and the other, they tie me than they do math. Yeah, then they do math. And then when radar then when radar was invented, they probably used that. Yeah. I watched this real quick tangent. I watched this history of the fastball. And they used to measure pitch speed by having was paved. Dude, I love that. Whatever happens. That sounds amazing. Our producer, Tommy, we used to be in a cover band. We covered that song all the time. The way by fastball. But anyways, this cop would drive on a motorcycle 85 mph. And when he would hit this line that pitcher would pitch and then they would have a screen made of paper. And when the ball would go through the paper, they would measure it with a slo-mo camera based on where the cop on the motorcycle was in relation to the paper. They'd be like, yeah, it's about 85 mph. You ever seen a mouse on a motorcycle? You read that book? No. It's a great book. You should check it out. Is it like a something I could knock out in an afternoon?.
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"Come on, it's only $600. And it's always broken and it looks like not a car. I don't know how to use it, and I'm obviously sad about it. No, I mean, he's kinda good at it. He's pretty good. Yeah. That's a thing though. It's like relative to real cars, RC stuff is so much more affordable. It's crazy. Yeah. But if you weren't like, if I wasn't, if you didn't want to have multiple cars or a project car, an RC car is just so much more viable. And there's so much fun. And I see the appeal. I know I was kind of like ribbon in a little bit, but I was mostly just mostly just giving crap. I think RC cars are fun and cool. All right, well we got a letter this week. Zachary writes, hey guys, I just saw a video on Facebook of the world record for changing a tire on a spinning car. The old chap makes it look like a breeze with a seemingly specifically modified car to assist his record. Regardless, it made me think that you could fill an episode or two of the podcasts with Guinness World Records done with cars. Did any automakers try to cash in on the publicity of a world record? Maybe we'll find out one day. Hopefully today, if no one is reading this right now on past gas, no, 100% that's a lot of them are just PR stunts. Yeah. We'll invite you to our next topic selection meeting. Thank you for the suggestion. If you'd like to hit us up, email us at past gas at donut media dot com. Definitely do that. I love reading your letters, especially if they're nice. That's our show today. Thank you so much for listening. I love RC stuff and now I'm gonna work on my crawler soon, hopefully, kind of stalled on that. What a surprise. Do it today. I need a battery and you get a lipo battery. Follow James at James pumphrey, follow Joe at Joji Weber follow me at Nolan J Sykes if you'd like big thank you to our producers this week yet again. We got Gavin cancel and Thomas willett and our writer this week, Christina felski, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you know follow us on whatever place you listen to this, leave a review and if you like this and you have a friend that you think might like it too, tell them about it because really podcasts, the best way.
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"james pumphrey" Discussed on Past Gas
"Ryan. Thank you, Ryan. I think I answer your question. I don't know if we can do it, we're gonna do, I don't know, maybe we will. But I think it's very cool. I think one of my favorite things from sema this year was the Ford electric crate engine. And then roadster shop made a Ford F 100 chassis to put it under. I would love to build one of those for a shop truck, and I think that'd be dope. You know, electric motors are fast. And if you can put one in a cool looking old car and make it handle pretty deceased, I think that is a very, very, very cool thing. I actually got to drive an electric resto motto moving on. Shot like two years ago. What did you drive with Ferrari? With the manual transmission though, really strange experience because you don't have to really worry about lugging the engine with the clutch. And yeah, you don't have a clutch right? No, that was a clutch. But you didn't have to use it really. Except between gears. Yeah, very interesting. Did you get enough like audio feedback to be like, I don't know, keep the rest of the surprise about how quick they are. And that's what really replaces that sound feeling. It's just like put back in your seat. You're like, oh man, I'm already over here. Yeah, yeah. Well, I can't believe I drove a whole block. It's pretty cool. Jackson writes, hey guys, my name is Jackson. I'm coming to you all the way from Vermont. Yeah, that's redirect. You've been very far. We just read one from England. Jackson. Nice try. I just bought a Subaru outback with the hopes of turning it into an off road machine. And I was wondering what I should modify first to get off on the right foot. Seeing as you guys made some dope off roading trucks, I'm a big fan and your channel is a big reason I'm into the cars today. Thank you for the content you guys put out. It makes my job more bearable. Nice. Oh yeah, thanks Jackson. Jackson, I would say tires and gas is the first thing you should buy, just get yourself some good tires and get on out there, pal. Yeah. There is a bit of an aftermarket hole you could go into with your outback. There's a lot of companies that make aftermarket parts. But definitely subscription would be a good idea too. Yeah, but expensive. Potentially. And then see what your limits are and then make your car meet your limits. I think if you want to just go ahead and throw a bunch of crap on there, but I think get off road and then figure out, oh man, I could have used a little bit more ground clearance over here. I could have used a little bit more traction. You are gonna need like a trunk that's also a slow cooker so you can make chili when you're in the Woods. You wanna make sure that you definitely gotta get that slow cooker trunk. I'd say get that before tires even. Yeah, get some alternative tires. The canda clevers that we have on low truck are very good and affordable. I think you should go with those. If you'd like to email us at the show, hit us up at past gas at donut media dot com. Again, that's past gas at donut media dot com. We love reading your stuff. And dispensing advice like we just did. That was nice. I felt very qualified. Those were good, yeah. Specific products suggestions. Awesome. Anyway, remember to follow the boys at James pumphrey at Joji Webber and me and Nolan J Sykes. Big thank you to our producers. Again this week, Thomas willett, Gavin can sell and are writer this week. Mister Luke, clumping. Luke clamping, good stuff. And definitely go watch bullet. Yeah, or don't. Or not, sure. What a fun endorsement. Goodbye..