Show overview
Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 131 episodes. That works out to roughly 90 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 2 min and 1h 13m — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 29 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 72 episodes published. Published by Tired Podcast (Free Feed).
From the publisher
Want all the episodes? Subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/TiredPod to get the good stuff. One free episode every week, and an extra weekly episode for subscribers! What's the pod about? Look, cars are terrible. On a macro scale, their impact has been catastrophic, directly killing millions of people, contributing to a climate emergency that will kill millions more, and irrevocably reshaping our physical landscape in ways that have only made us more alienated from and hostile towards one another. On an individual level, their effects are equally ruinous, luring us with their promise of freedom into 84-month notes on blinged-out depreciating assets (if you're like other people), or driveways and garages full of shitbox beaters and doomed projects (if you're like us). Terrible! And yet we love them. They fascinate us. It's enough to make a person… TIRED. Peter Hughes, Rory Carroll, and Matthew Riley attempt to map out the contours of this paradox, with lots of detours along the way. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tiredpod
Latest Episodes
View all 131 episodesTired Podcast Episode 130 Teaser: Falling Off The Rocket-Jumping Turnip Truck (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 129: Vivid, Provocative, and Ragingly...
Episode 128 Teaser: Getting Our Bearings (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 127: Car Situationists
Episode 126 Teaser: 299 Percent APR in Der Raketen-Stadt (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 125: A Finite Quantity of Weekends
Episode 124: Kinds Of Fun You Can Have
Episode 123 Teaser: Mouse Podcasting (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 122: Are They Still Having Fun Out There?
Episode 121: Why Am I The Guy On The Roof?
Episode 120: Radio On!
Episode 119: The Cool Chair Zone
Episode 118 Teaser: ''I Can't Pay No Doctor Bill...'' (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 117: Pepsi Energy Fields, Mr. President
Episode 116: Skywalker Ranchero
Episode 115 Teaser: The East Wind (Patreon-Only Episode)
Episode 114: Before-Times Podcasting
EBoulders, Fuzzbusters, and more. Rory reports in from the New York Auto Show and furthers his theory of A Man Should Drive A Car. Peter offers some predictions, and finally (!) tells one of his top 2 stories of childhood high-speed stupidity. You can support what Rory's doing at Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Read Rory's excellent Thought: A Man Should Drive A Car post here: https://alloymag.com/thought-a-man-should-drive-a-car/ Get Peter's 2025 record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues Your producer pal Matty had to edit this episode in short stints due to house/petsitting on his spring break from industrial maintenance school, and QA it on different headphones than usual, so enjoy a more Pod Verité experience.
Episode 113 Teaser: You're Only In Trouble If You Think You Are (Patreon-Only Episode)
EPATREON.COM/TIREDPOD PETERPETERHUGHES.BANDCAMP.COM ALLOYMAG.COM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THE SHOW!!
Episode 112: A Heavily-Redacted Sebring Report
EPeter returns from Florida to give his report from Sebring on homemade scaffolding, night race vibes, and the DRAMA. Also, all three of your hosts went on some kind of tangent that had to be cut from the episode, and not just for time! You can hear the secret removed bits on our Patreon-only episode 113. You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Get Peter's 2025 record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖
Episode 111: The Contradictions Inherent to Honda
EWhile Peter drives south to Sebring, enjoy Rory's read on Honda's decision to walk back their EVs, including the Honda 0. But can any automaker in the U.S., functioning as yet another monad within capitalism, make informed decisions? Or is the whole system... bad? You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ and read Rory's piece about the Honda 0 series here: https://alloymag.com/zero-sum/ AND don't forget to send this one to friends who might be interested in what Alloy is up to: https://alloymag.com/heres-what-alloy-is-doing-by-the-way/ Keep up with Peter's music here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except this Patreon page you're already on. Support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖