Podcast 180 - Seinfeld's bass butler
Added 2023-10-08 18:04:55 +0000 UTCJonny and Richard are in a hotel room in California which they should have left an hour ago. Topics covered include big American coffees, a real-life ghetto Boxster sighting, taking the Porsche methadone, seeing a sweet, sweet Prelude, the front licence plate laws of US states, nocturnal pressure washing, not liking gulls, American legal driving ages, the glories of a Porsche paint to sample swatch pack, Jonny’s sudden need for OTSOT man, central locking shenanigans, an ill-fated Top Gear reasonably priced car, the Mazda CX-90 and Kia Seltos, the price of second hand cars in Britain, Thierry Boutsen’s flag haul and a real life sighting of Jerry Seinfeld.
Special thanks to audio engineer and friend of the show Ian Deeley for sorting out the sound on this one.
Comments
Since you guys seem to love Miami (Vice and all 😂), definitely an OTSOT live show here would be great - and it’s hours less on the plane to get here. I’ll volunteer to help you get a venue!
Stanley Elder
2023-11-08 18:19:58 +0000 UTCWorking fine now Richard, apologies for the late reply
Snowy
2023-10-18 11:48:56 +0000 UTCBrilliant story! Don't know what's going on with the show notes. Patreon has had a facelift and everything has gone to cock with the controls. I've adjusted something, let us know if they're showing as unlocked for you now. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-10-13 17:33:02 +0000 UTCAlso have a story to share, so excuse the double-post. My wife (who also enjoys the 'casts) is a nurse. She decided to take some time for a spot of lunch in their staff room but took her laptop in so she could clear some work at the same time. Engrossed as she was, she didn't look up as she heard some folks come into the staff room, chatting to one another as they did so. "I got caught short driving home the other day" one says, "So I pulled over to the side of the country road I was on for a leak. It was an absolutely spectacular view, I really enjoyed it." Still without looking up, my wife auto-responded with "Oh, that's called a Piss-vista" before her brain kicked in and she looked up from her work. The two chaps chatting were both consultants, with the vista-pisser of the pair being renowned for not having a sense of humour. Both stopped dead and stared at her. Thankfully the humourless pisser broke out into a big grin and said what a brilliant phrase! Mr Smith, you have much to answer for, although thankfully most of it is creative additions to the lexicon...
Snowy
2023-10-13 17:27:28 +0000 UTCAny idea why the show notes are showing as locked? Says I need to upgrade to see them, but I am already a sub.
Snowy
2023-10-13 17:19:40 +0000 UTCI think it was a sample (or layers of samples). There's a vid on YouTube of the bloke recording new stings to picture and he's using some generic controller keyboard, I think. Could be controlling a TX802 or something I suppose, but I'm pretty sure he's said it was sample-based. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2023-10-12 07:40:13 +0000 UTCOn the subject of the Jerry Seinfeld’s Bass Butler, I must alert you to the fact that the theme song to his eponymous TV series was actually the work of an FM synthesiser and therefor I believe the Bass Butler would most likely be in command of a Yamaha DX7.
Samuel Cotterall
2023-10-11 21:49:31 +0000 UTClistener in la here...would love a live show...try the peterson as a venue
Karl Moltrecht
2023-10-11 01:30:09 +0000 UTCI had visions of Jonny walking out of the hotel, saying to the waiting housekeeping staff "we've just finished recording" - then Richard, have been for a quick slash, shuffles out of the room zipping up his trousers. Cue Jonny back pedalling to make it clear it's not what it looks like!
Stephen Hollingsworth
2023-10-10 19:30:07 +0000 UTCAny show notes or photos this week?
Alan
2023-10-10 16:13:58 +0000 UTCOTSOT Central Florida would be good. Really great car scene over here. Worlds largest Porsche Dealer (at the time of construction, #1 Ferrari dealer, worlds largest Mac dealer being built) and a fantastic basic enthusiast scene. It will be worth coming just so you can film a Smith and Sniff walk through of Dezerland. Google it, and thank me later.
P S
2023-10-10 01:49:34 +0000 UTCAnother belter. With you Porter on your antipathy towards Gulls. The aviary equivalent of a shaven headed yobbo. Strutting around UK seafront towns generally being dicks
AL Dickens
2023-10-09 21:07:39 +0000 UTCI do West Coast for sure.
david marden
2023-10-09 18:11:10 +0000 UTCShow notes? :-)
Robin Johnsen
2023-10-09 17:34:53 +0000 UTCWould go to a OTSOT Live in here LA with maximum certainty.
Gabriel M
2023-10-09 16:57:32 +0000 UTCI thought it was just my papa who left bottles of water in his garden. He did it when I was wee and I’m fairly certain there are pictures of me featuring the bottles in the background somewhere, thought it was a thing of the past!
Martin McKenna
2023-10-09 16:49:49 +0000 UTC(The combine harvester from Cars)
Adam
2023-10-09 16:38:03 +0000 UTCFRANK!
Adam
2023-10-09 16:37:29 +0000 UTCOr St.Ives… dive bombing gulls on a chip stealing mission
Adam
2023-10-09 16:37:15 +0000 UTCI was thinking about the plates thing, in some states they don’t even issue a front one. I’ve just tweeted a pic of my£700 mini but in the shot is my late fathers Eurovan and it never wore a front plate in California but I’ve got the front plate in its envelope somewhere
Peter Flint-Murray
2023-10-09 14:05:45 +0000 UTCRichard needs to head to Whitby to see the 100% chip-fed Airbus A380-spec mega gulls struggling to get airborne.
David H
2023-10-09 12:29:25 +0000 UTCThe Jerry Seinfeld theme and incidental music was played on a keyboard, rather than an actual Bass guitar.
TD
2023-10-09 11:53:49 +0000 UTCRe the price of the Kia Soul in the US - don’t forget the list price doesn’t always include sales tax / VAT. Best to move to Oregon before you buy an expensive car
Ed Storer
2023-10-09 09:48:04 +0000 UTCThat’s probably due to Brexit making the supply of UK RHD cars to Ireland more expensive. Cursory check show 2014 Polos with 50k miles cost €10k in Ireland and $7k (€8k) in the UK. Adding import duty and import VAT to the UK price actually makes it more expensive than €10k…
Stephan Kippe
2023-10-09 08:21:22 +0000 UTCYou say that but in ireland we’re also RHD but a 2014 Vw is about 12000 euros compared to 5000 in the uk. Ireland is honestly the most batshit car prices in the world.
Tim Murphy
2023-10-09 08:02:41 +0000 UTCUK used car prices are lower because due to RHD the market is limited to the UK itself. A used German car is likely to go to Eastern Europe at some point, which are all LHD markets. The fact that Brexit has added additional cost to exporting UK cars to the EU doesn’t help either.
Stephan Kippe
2023-10-09 05:49:28 +0000 UTCRenault 5 Le Car and pigeons. Haha My fist car, aged 17 in 1990, was a Renault 5 Le Car 2. It was absolute bobbins. This was back in the day when a 5 year old car felt like it was 15 years old at least. Some magical adventures were had in it, this was our chariot of choice to get us to the raves around East Anglia. It never let us down getting to a rave, but did let us down getting home again the next morning on numerous occasions. In fact my mates used to sing… “LeCar, LeCar you take us far, But never get us back again!” So many tales but one of the best was after we had been to Proper Stuff rave in Cambridge, a lovely, lovely evening of fine music, doves and red and black caps. The evening was ended early when the police raided the Carpet Warehouse unit we had borrowed for the evening. We left the car park a few hours later when we thought the copious amount of ecstasy had worn off. It was a laugh filled drive back to Norwich, giggling as we drove round Cambridge for the 8th time, lost, and as we eventually got onto the A14 realised the 2ft tall pigeons I had stopped for in the road were not actually there. But the roads were empty so we decided it was probably safe to continue homeward bound. As I pulled into my mates village to drop him off we suddenly hit some really thick fog as we went down the hill, I hit the brakes and they had gone completely, or so I thought, I was actually on ice! I realised it was ice as I smashed into the kerb, hit a grass verge and landed in someone’s front garden, arse of the car in the air. Screams of “You daft c**t!” from the backseat as the Mordaunt Short hifi speakers which sat loose on the parcel shelf along with the plastic tape holder and the 48 mixtapes smashed into the back of my mates heads. We sat there for what seemed like ages until we worked out what had happened. I managed to open the drivers door dragging it through someones lawn and got out a bit dazed, as I looked up the owner of the house was stood no more than 6 foot away from me with a garden rake in his hand and mouth wide open. Completely shocked I babbled out “I reckon it will come out nice later.” His silent response panicked me into then saying “What the fuck are you doing gardening at 7am on a Sunday in the fog anyway?” I jumped back in the car and shut the door, quickly locked it and sat there completely silent. He came over to the car and knocked on the window. I still remember pissing myself laughing at my mate screaming “Don’t open it, he’s tooled up!” Bless his heart, the old boy he then helped us get the car out of his front garden and waved us on our way. The bumper was cracked, the nearside wing was crunched and the headlight pushed back under the now bent bonnet. She could take it. A couple of Fridays later we were out and about driving round, going nowhere, as we all did back then, and my mate Rob was desperate for a pee. He could not hold on any longer, so I pulled over on some back road. He got out and stood using the passenger door as a bit of cover in case any cars came along, and pee’d up against the verge. This called for a bit of a giggle, so I quietly put the car in reverse and started to slowly move backwards, I could feel I was pushing him. Rob started screaming “Stop! Stop! Stop you idiot!” The other 4 of us were in hysterics, the thought of him being pushed over by the car door while trying to pee was just comedy perfection. However, that smile was soon wiped off my face. I was not getting him with the door, the corner of the door was caught in the f**king verge! He got back in the car, closed the door and it just bounced open again. We had bent the bloody hinge. We had to spend the rest of the evening with Rob holding the door closed as we now had a 3” gap between the door and the door frame. That was the end of Le Car 2. It had taken us on many adventures, we drove down the embankment of a dual carriageway, that was under construction, that seemed like a good idea at the time (genuinely thought we were going to die as we picked up serious speed with zero control), we also slept in a turning point in the middle of a dual carriageway on the A47 after the fuel line was ripped apart, and every time a lorry came passed we thought it was going to turn into us and crush us to death. First car, some amazing memories and reminds me of that age where everything in life if about going out with your mates getting “Amazon” as we used to call it and living for the weekend. Out of the 5 of us 2 are sadly no longer with us, but man we all had some amazing times in Le Car 2.
GuyMiddletons
2023-10-08 23:12:29 +0000 UTCOwning your second car for the rest of your life....Jonny will approve of mine... Hillman Avenger 1500 GL !
Steve Morton
2023-10-08 21:03:15 +0000 UTCI’d drive to LA from Chicago for a live show. Do it!
Paul Brown
2023-10-08 20:26:58 +0000 UTCWait… you WALKED somewhere in ‚‘merica?!?? Surely you were arrested for being a nuisance!!! :)
Andy Pinchock
2023-10-08 19:28:25 +0000 UTCGood memory, Sir! https://share.icloud.com/photos/0bf16lfwZL0wPYZ8939PARpDg
Richard Fitton-Perkins
2023-10-08 19:05:34 +0000 UTCPerfect for that ‘murdered out’ look.
Richard Fitton-Perkins
2023-10-08 19:02:56 +0000 UTCDidn't Amy have a "Le Car" on The A-Team.
Tom Lanigan
2023-10-08 18:56:30 +0000 UTCOne of the other oddities in USA is the rules on the tinting of side windows and windscreens ahead of the B pillar. Some are the same as UK/Europe others allow you to go full gang spec full blacked out on all windows!
Steve Morton
2023-10-08 18:33:58 +0000 UTCYes please do a live show in LA!!! At the Petersen museum!
Dino
2023-10-08 18:29:16 +0000 UTCJet Laaaaaaaagggggggggg
Vincent McDonnell
2023-10-08 18:11:37 +0000 UTCAbout bloody time! Atlantic timing!
Paul Fargher
2023-10-08 18:07:57 +0000 UTC
