Tired: The Car Podcast For People Who Understand That Cars Are Bad

Boulders, 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.

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Peter 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 ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

While 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 ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

We're catching up on current events, but it's still the Tiredpod you know and love, as we return to several classic topics. Rory's Rivian misfortunes! Peter's close eye on the U.S.'s dwindling capacity to wage actual war! Matty's latest Handsome Guy Watch! Plus some F1 chat and a digression about going metric. Our episode about sportswashing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/123506128 You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Keep up with Peter's music here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

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Move fast, break things, enter the Room that grants your deepest desire! We're flooding the Zone, baby! Peter and Rory contemplate the Ferrari Luce, the U.S. aviation industry suffers new humiliations, and we check in on our longtime frenemies. Don't forget to keep up with Alloy, where you can read Peter's write-up about Bathurst here: https://alloymag.com/bathurst-12-hour-preview/ PRODUCTION NOTE: your producer pal Matty is back 2 school until May, so the upload schedule might be a little funny while routines re-settle. Thank you for listening to the show + supporting us! Another installment of Patreon Dunk Tank is coming soon!

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SHE'S BACK. Your usual hosts do some Daytona catch-up before welcoming back Victoria Scott to talk about her new podcast Tran Girlismo, U.S. American precarity, and the sensation that your automotive journalism career is a grenade & it's time to pull that pin. The rest of our conversation with Victoria is an HOUR LONG and it is PATREON ONLY! Tran Girlismo on Victoria's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1970867?view=condensed Victoria's Piece on the Rolls-Royce: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alright-which-147840663 Victoria's Piece on The Luxury SUV: https://www.patreon.com/posts/125140835 Rory's Bugatti Piece from 2022: https://www.jalopnik.com/i-drove-a-4m-2022-bugatti-chiron-pur-sport-and-i-dont-1846945591/ Don't forget to keep up with Alloy, where you can read Peter's Daytona recap here: https://alloymag.com/5521-2/

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Rory calls in from his drive to Daytona, Peter's still under the weather, and Matty cheerfully commits to a real Frankenstein of an edit. Enjoy our predictions on EVs of 2026, a few livery evaluations, rockabilly guys chat, and a Handsome Guys update. If you're not yet a member at Alloy: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ And please consider taking a look at our Patreon this year! We can tell from the state of our subscriptions that these have been tough times for people, but we hope a few more of our Free Feed listeners will sign up in 2026. Thank you for listening to Tired!

Rory reports in from his trip to CES, but ditches the showroom and hits the track instead. We also talk about what market forces and consumer preferences mean, and how we could start addressing the EV convenience issue from the ground-up, with a little help...

We recorded this on New Years Day to talk about vibe shifts, the semiotics of the ID. Buzz, who's doomed in 2026, Cheez-It v. Pop-Tart, and one In Memoriam. Plus: a twist ending and, at Matty & Rory's insistence, some new Peter tunes to play us out... You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Our outro music was from Peter's new one: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/track/happy-20xx-everybody And if you missed last year's Half-Staff Blues, it's always in season: 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 ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

We don't try to make episodes about new technology, it's just what life puts in our laps. Rory brings us the trials & travails of adventuring in not-quite the right vehicle, Peter identifies two very different kinds of lane-assist, and Matty hangs onto his Windows 10 machine for dear life. You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Get Peter's new 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 ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖ p.s. for our Patreon subscribers: this was half of one recording session, and you will get the rest very soon! (Matty is editing and trying not to get Flu A from everybody else in his house.)

Happy Honda Days! We've got Chery news, a text-based movie review from a friend of the pod, speculation on Bari Weiss's engagement metrics, and a follow-up from Peter on Drive My Car. You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Get Peter's new 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 ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

(An actual teaser again! Imagine.) You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ And read Peter's recent contribution to Alloy's Film Friday, where he explains his pick for the best car movie of all time. Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

Whatever happened to making stuff that just works? We talk about obsolescence, scratch the surface on CAFE regs, and wax poetic about the most beautiful form factor you can buy, if you're lucky. PLUS! A sort-of update on the Peugeot 505? Your producer pal Matty experienced some technical difficulties during recording, so enjoy the edit and some nice Rory and Peter back & forth this week. You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ And read Peter's recent contribution to Alloy's Film Friday here: https://alloymag.com/the-best-car-movie-of-all-time/ where he explains his pick for the best car movie of all time. Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

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A discussion of the NASCAR Playoffs leads us deep into the psyche of the average U.S. American sports enjoyer. Then Peter brings us a Wikipedia dive so sinister it needs the other music, and Rory takes us to TC Rock City. We recorded this right after our PATREON DUNK TANK #2 which will be uploaded soon. Subscribers, we can't thank you enough for your support while other projects have kept your hosts busy. You can support Rory's new venture Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ And read Peter's recent contribution to Alloy's Film Friday ( https://alloymag.com/film-friday-cannonball/ ), where he offers his take on forgotten 70's comedy Cannonball and the machinery on display. Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And check out the guys he made it with: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/album/trade-place-tape / https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/the-apartment ) As ever, our Peter Article Reading Music is "sarin gas" by Frugivore: https://frugivore.bandcamp.com/track/sarin-gas Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

Rory brings Fernando Pino back to the show to talk about the creative and financial ethos at Alloy Mag, now that the site is live. Enjoy a Pod Verite episode with bonus Tesla digressions, then head over to alloymag.com and get reading! You can support Alloy with a membership here: https://alloymag.com/sign-up/ Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And check out the guys he made it with: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/album/trade-place-tape / https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/the-apartment ) Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖ NEXT PATREON DUNK TANK EPISODE COMING SOON

Today on Tired, we offer our eulogies for the ID. Buzz and speculate about what went wrong. Peter also brings news of more (MORE) troubles ahead for the German automotive industry, and Rory reminds us all that no corporation is your friend, your ally, or really even capable of moral good at all due to the system in which it operates. As ever, our Peter Article Reading Music is "sarin gas" by Frugivore: https://frugivore.bandcamp.com/track/sarin-gas Look forward to the Alloy launch soon to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet! Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And check out the guys he made it with: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/album/trade-place-tape / https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/the-apartment ) Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖ BONUS BITS FROM THIS EPISODE coming in ep.95 for subscribers this week, because we had some very funny very long digressions. Apologies that these eps didn't both get out over the weekend due to technical difficulties, but look forward to ep. 95 and I hope you all enjoy ep. 94! Thank you for listening to the show!

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Rory brings news from the shop, we return to our frustrations with Car Technology, and Peter highlights some items of interest from the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung in Munich. Subscribe to the Alloy newsletter to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet: https://alloymag.com/ Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And check out the guys he made it with: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/album/trade-place-tape / https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/the-apartment ) Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug except of course, our Patreon paid tier where all our extra-fun episodes go. support my wonderful co-hosts ty ty ty ˖⁺‧₊˚ ♡ ˚₊‧⁺˖

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Rory reports back from Goodwood Revival, Peter and Matty end up NOT reporting in from Morocco, and we prep for more weekend motorsports coverage! PRODUCTION NOTE! We had a liiiiittle audio leak on the call this episode, and your producer pal Matty made an effort to edit around it. Sorry if there are little dropouts/bits of echo left, or if you get some fuzz leftover here and there. Your buddy on the 1s and 2s should have caught it in-process, mea culpa. Hope you enjoy the ep! USUAL PLUGS: Alloy launches in OCTOBER! Subscribe to the Alloy newsletter to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet: https://alloymag.com/ Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And look for a new record in October from Pop Filter, the guys he made it with!) Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug. Thanks for listening to the show!

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Motorsports shakeups! Rory's cool tire repair! Prince's Purple Plymouth Prowler! All this and more. Subscribe to the Alloy newsletter to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet: https://alloymag.com/ Get Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues (And check out the guys he made it with: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/album/ray-and-lorraines / https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/album/philharmonic ) Your producer pal Matty, who writes these, has nothing to plug. Thanks for listening to the show!

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Our long-promised song preview episode is that next one in the Patreon feed. This is kind of the first half, teeing up the subject of this pair of episodes! But before we get into the song itself, we've got updates on Rory's Porsche 911, a bunch of Corvette history, and our best guesses at what went on in peak Boomer TV. Subscribe to the Alloy newsletter to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet: https://alloymag.com/ Pre-order Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues

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Step briefly back in the timestream to before Monterey Car Week 2025. We caught Rory just before he left town, and if you want his report, you'll have to go pick up ep. 84 on the Patreon feed. Also: press F in chat for the SC63, remember that ICE agents are not people, and what's new with our #1 frenemy? Subscribe to the Alloy newsletter to keep up with Rory & Fernando, who are here to fix your internet: https://alloymag.com/ Pre-order Peter's new record Half-Staff Blues here: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues

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We've all been a little busy, but your pod boys are back! We've got project updates, Earle S. MacPherson's Very Cool Idea, and early misfortunes in indie rock tour bus life. For non-enthusiasts, a lesson in how suspension works! (P.S. we've got Rory's report from his Penske trip, that ep's coming this weekend. Promise!) The big news: Peter made a record while he was in Australia ca. Episode 37, called Half-Staff Blues, and you can pre-order it starting TODAY: https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues The vehicular music video we mentioned, for that first single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-9Dj-xtqY&ab_channel=PeterPeterHughes Don't forget to sign up for the Alloy newsletter: https://alloymag.com/ And of course, Sam Smith's article where the Tatra T87 hit the rotate tool on him: https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-profiles/the-death-eaters-chapter-1-tatra-t87/

Rory was traveling this week, so we've got a little Pod Verité chat straight from the Google Meet. Come get a preview of Rory's peek into Penske operations, some Corvette history, Dinosaur Jr. show demographics, and cool car cravings. Don't forget to sign up for the Alloy newsletter to see what's new from Rory and Fernando: https://alloymag.com And the YouTube really is more organized! Especially if you want to rec the pod to people. C'mon over: https://www.youtube.com/@staytiredpod

Mike Spinelli joins us as we talk about the earliest years of Jalopnik, impostor syndrome prevention, restaurant supply economics, and Wikipedia tyranny. Keep up with Mike's work at Motorsport Network: https://www.motorsportnetwork.com/#about-us And our good friends at InsideEVs https://insideevs.com/ and Motor 1 https://www.motor1.com/ Thanks for listening! IF YOU'RE NEW, and you're curious about what $5/mo here would get you, check out teasers for our Patreon episodes here: https://soundcloud.com/tired-podcast/sets/teasers

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After our focused recap of the 6 Hours Of The Glen (bonus content coming soon; Peter's on family vacay) we put in about 3 more hours of recording, and here's an idea: have you wondered what our Patreon episodes sound like? Are you new to the pod? Do you want to give a friend some idea of what your hosts are like? Awesome. How's an hour and 20 of goofing off sound to you? Your producer pal Matty pulled the funniest bits from a couple longer runs and stuck them together for everybody to enjoy. We do talk cars: Rodney Sandstorm at the Craftsman Truck Series, long haul driving joys and perils, how to get a Ferrari sticker in the early 90's, Tesla's latest boondoggle, and a little preview of our eventual ep about that new F1 movie. But also, you'll hear how everyone would approach trying to land a plane (or in Matty's case, solving the essential problem much faster), trivia about a cool vulture, a song from when anti-natalism was just a funny idea for edgy teens, airplane disaster movies, a 90's indie rock tour story, a truly classico-style Let's Introduce The Pod, cat infrastructure mishaps, and how the B-2 sucks. Also brief mentions of the Israeli Occupation Force's bombing of Iran. In case we haven't mentioned lately: Free Palestine. As ever, our Peter Article Reading Music is "sarin gas" by Frugivore: https://frugivore.bandcamp.com/track/sarin-gas Our Wikipedia reading music is once again ol' reliable "Bossa Antigua" by Kevin MacLeod: Bossa Antigua Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

We're back from 6 Hours Of The Glen with our recap, and we brought Rory's partner at Alloy Mag, Fernando Pino! Driver-spotting, cool sounds, weather reports, time in the Boot, posting Rare Wayne Taylors, and more! 80 minutes of recap for everybody! (All the OTHER cool stuff from WG will go to the Patreon feed...) Get the Alloy newsletter: https://alloymag.com/ Keep up with Alloy: https://www.instagram.com/alloy_mag/ Keep up with Fernando: https://www.instagram.com/heart.wrk/ And see what Fernando's been up to previously: https://fernandopinocreative.com/ Jordan Taylor Sportscar 4 Lyfe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsEqgB5-GRM

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It's that time! Recorded right before Rory left to go cover the 24 Heures du Mans for Alloy. Enjoy our little Le Mans history and some of our preview in Part 1 of 2.

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Donk it! Bip it! Put it on some PVC pipes and roll it away! It's a Rory Research Recap and he's got whole new Types Of Guy to show us. We've got Donk pedantry! VIPStyle! The J2000! Stance up and hop in! THAT'S RIGHT it's a LONG INFORMATIVE ONE on the FREE FEED. Sorry we only had the one ep for subscribers last week, we're democratizing this one. (Fear not, loyal subscribers: your ep for the first week of June is coming in a few mins and that's the one where we're laughing at Elon for an hour.)

Another Patreon-only episode?? Sorry, no free one this week, Peter's traveling and subscribers are guaranteed one ep every weekend! C'mon over to patreon.com/tiredpod to get all the good stuff.

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It's the big weekend! We talk Penske and attenuators, the surprise in pole position, misadventures in Indy glamping, and crust punk bartering tactics.

If you want this round of bonus bits, you'll have to come on over to patreon.com/tiredpod for 'em! Five bucks a month for everything in the back catalog of subscriber-only eps, too! Hop in!