Podcast 132 - Industry gossip and the cars of the Black Adam movie
Added 2022-10-30 18:00:05 +0000 UTCRichard has seen something slightly interesting near a well-known car company HQ. Also in this episode, realising Gulliver wasn’t massive, scenes from a live-action model village, a brief rant about leaf blowers, a Corvette-style mobility scooter, a plumbing expert explains the Mira Sport shower, the intolerable stupidity of Scooby-Doo, an unexpected demographic for the podcast, helping a listener find a classic car, annoying things stuck in ISOFIX holes, the benefits of the Peugeot 1007, ex-Bond stars running a garage (featuring a spoiler about Judi Dench’s M), and various suggestions for Jonny’s next car.
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I laughed out loud at the comments on "to be fair", listening as usual while dog walking. I was introduced to a Canadian comedy show called Letterkenny a few years back, one of the funniest shows I have watched. In it, the characters have an almost OTSOT response to anyone saying "to be fair" which I have struggled hard not to do in front of people in work meetings and the like (barely anyone in the UK knows the show so I would look the proverbial veiny prong). Here is a little YouTube video with some of the instances on it. Very funny show, worth looking up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G19B7lTgwCE
Snowy
2022-11-06 13:34:51 +0000 UTCI’m assuming there’s a suspension kit you can get for this purpose?
Ed Storer
2022-11-01 08:27:33 +0000 UTCI did at one point think the showers had something to do with the MIRA testing facility
Ed Storer
2022-11-01 08:26:21 +0000 UTCYes, it was the ‘89 shape. Unfortunately I don’t remember a lot about it as I think I was still in pain from when I’d tried to get in an XJS they had there and caught the sill mounted handbrake on the back of my leg.
Stephen Archer
2022-11-01 06:24:54 +0000 UTCWhat year of Thunderbird was it out of curiosity, was it an 89? Those cars got a full redo for that model year with IRS and an SLA front end which was a big deal for a RWD North American car. I owned a 95 Thunderbird Super Coupe (pushrod 3.8 V6 with an Eaton blower, 330 lb.-ft. torque at 2500 rpm) with a manual wand ... that was a fun car for something that size, and a great highway cruiser.
Ed Nicholson
2022-11-01 01:52:23 +0000 UTCIt's turning a bit into work experience corner... I did my work experience in a boat yard. Naturally being a young lad they gave me the shitiest jobs possible. One of them was sanding the antifouling off the bottom of a boat. They did give me one of those paper dusk masks but it wasn't that effective. I didn't know what job I was going to be doing that day so wore a thankfully old t-shirt, that happened to be white, it didn't take long to turn red. A teacher came around that day to see how I was doing and take pictures, they said take the mask off and they will take a pic. They had the audacity to ask me to smile so there is a pic of me in the end of year school book covered in red crap with one to the least Duchenne smiles of all time. It got better though.. well not really... The guys in the yard kept on asking me has the owner of the boat talked to you yet? In that sneaky tone of voice that you know something is coming, but not exactly what. Turns out the owner was a massive god botherer, so at the end of the day when I just wanted to get home and have a shower got an hour long sermon on how god was great.
Stephen Voss
2022-10-31 22:53:53 +0000 UTCI did my work experience in a small independent camera shop. On my 2nd day, the owner shouted at me - full-on, red-faced, spittle-flecked shouting - because I accidentally knocked his half-eaten prawn mayonnaise sandwich on the floor. He died a few months later from a massive heart attack. This has nothing to do with cars, but whenever I hear of people having interesting and exciting work experiences, I always think of John flipping his shit over a bit of mayonnaise on the carpet. Poor John.
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2022-10-31 21:05:06 +0000 UTCAnother memory from those two weeks was a trip up to MIRA to take a V12 XJ40 prototype around the track to do brake testing. Front passenger seat taken up by computers so I’m sitting in the back sliding across the leather bench as we go round the banking followed by 0.5g stops from 100mph. Great fun for a car mad 14 year old.
Stephen Archer
2022-10-31 19:43:17 +0000 UTCSome time after that Jaguar bought a Honda S2000 to benchmark as par of the ill-fated X600 F-Type project. It was promptly binned so they bought another... which was also stuffed into the scenery almost immediately.
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-31 19:38:04 +0000 UTCI did my school work experience at Jaguar in ‘89 and got to have a look around a Ford Thunderbird they had in for bench marking. There was apparently also a Nissan 300ZX Turbo in which I remember being told would spin its wheels at pretty much any speed. A few days later I heard one of the engineers had completely totalled it after losing the back end on a roundabout…
Stephen Archer
2022-10-31 19:33:13 +0000 UTCDoes anyone know if Black Adam exists in the same cinematic universe as Purple Aki?
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2022-10-31 18:58:06 +0000 UTCI was sneakily listening while on a zoom call, I'll blame that if I misheard!
Steven Raith
2022-10-31 17:31:31 +0000 UTCI'm imagining Timothy Dalton skulking around in the background with a broom 'cos he's not allowed to get involved in spannering, just cleans up oil slicks
Mike Taylor
2022-10-31 15:43:21 +0000 UTCSecond only to the pressure washer when it comes to satisfying garden tools. Using the one my grandparents had when I was 10 is definitely the reason I have mild tinnitus.
Matt Tester
2022-10-31 15:33:48 +0000 UTCI'm now browsing garden vacuums. Great use of a Monday. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-31 14:57:33 +0000 UTCThey didn't. Sadly. Think it was a US-market thing once they realised customers wanted more power but a V6 wouldn't fit. Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-31 14:56:48 +0000 UTCAhem! I bloody said that! Richard
Smith and Sniff
2022-10-31 14:55:43 +0000 UTCI'm fairly sure the Marvel fans won't care about your Black Adam thoughts, as I think that's a DC property (as I recall one of the things people want is Black Adam Vs Superman)
Steven Raith
2022-10-31 13:25:39 +0000 UTCJust yesterday on the way back up the hill in coverack harbour in Cornwall, a captain hat wearing gentleman on medium powered mobility scooter had to do an emergency stop when a youth dressed in an inflatable dinosaur outfit skateboarded past. Fists were shaken and something with strong Cornish dialect was shouted. Perhaps this chap was really a captain and deserved his hat.
Rich
2022-10-31 11:15:09 +0000 UTCThere's no medium available in this reply section that can faithfully represent the level of (just for Jonny I'm using this term) lol that comment caused! 😂
Ant Brown
2022-10-31 08:35:35 +0000 UTCSorry, I disagree. There is NOTHING more annoying than having the passenger change the radio station without asking.
Adam
2022-10-31 08:31:39 +0000 UTCAnother one for correction corner I'm afraid. As relaxing as it would be, having someone firing an automatic weapon across you as you drove them to a drive-by shooting venue in a RHD Peugeot 1007, what might be more irksome than the noise could be the very, very hot brass cases showering your face from the ejection port. I'm no expert, but I believe this can be even more distracting than having a passenger change the radio station during a trip without permission. Not that this detracted from the 'cast overall, quite possibly top five episodes ever material this week chaps.
Ant Brown
2022-10-31 08:06:29 +0000 UTCMk1 Previas have just about been banger raced out of existence. They are extremely strong and the inboard engine is well protected which makes them virtually unstoppable.
John Hammond
2022-10-31 07:14:55 +0000 UTCI'm glad someone else agrees with me about the stupidity of leafblowers. Give my an original Flymo Garden Vac any day though. Still really enjoying my £1200 'damp rod' Freelander even though I don't fish, it just had its 20th birthday earlier this month. I wouldn't recommend buying one but Jonny hates SUVs anyway so that was never going to happen.
Matt Tester
2022-10-30 19:49:30 +0000 UTCNeed to find a supercharged version of the Previa ... did they sell those in the U.K.?
Ed Nicholson
2022-10-30 19:09:18 +0000 UTCMira Performante?
Damian Rigby
2022-10-30 18:25:53 +0000 UTCAfter a disappointing walk to Waitrose, just to discover it’s a Sunday and 6pm. At least there’s a new episode of SAS
William Gentry
2022-10-30 18:03:36 +0000 UTCDid you see Ian @HubNut put a video of one up this week :) As in a Pug 1007
Nigel Hancock
2022-10-30 18:02:57 +0000 UTC
