Well There‘s Your Problem - Bonus Episode 43 PREVIEW: Communist Cars

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

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The next slide is my special interest. Go for it. Go off, Wayne. This is, okay, so again, this is kind of a, this one is, it is a communist car in the sense that like, it was, they started in a company that wasn't communist to begin with, and then, you know, World War Two happened, some things changed. This is a Tatra. It is the third oldest car company in existence. And it is genuinely communist in the way that these cars, their cars that they built absolutely fucking love to kill Nazis. It's probably the thing they're most famous for. The headlines just turned blood red.

Yeah, it was infamously good at killing Nazis. This is one of the first streamlined cars ever built, so this is a Tatra 77 right here. It came out in 1934. The Chrysler airflow came out around the same time, you know, it's modern it was people were starting to think about the possibility of aerodynamics because you could finally like shape sheet metal sheet metal beyond just like, we built you two boxes and tape them together. But nobody was really working with this car actually had like a point to

seven or something, the coefficient of drag Next slide, please. Oh So just it just to push drive this home really quick. This is what a Mercedes-Benz looked like in 1934 This is a this is oh, they're right. I take it back I was gonna say something, but I figured I'd let you stoop for a second. The fact that in the notes there's a quote from Hitler saying he likes Hitler. Wow. Wow.

It's fucking over. Can't believe both of you love Hitler. Turning the Hitler particle detector on myself. Oh my god. I finally got this podcast cancelled, I can't believe it. It took like, what, nine guest appearances? Yeah, and then you tricked two thirds of us into becoming Hitler. You tricked two people into becoming Hitler, yeah. We had two Hitlers on this podcast now.

All of the polls are pure of heart. Exactly. So in any case, this is what a Hitler car looked like in 1934, right? I'm booing. For comparison, you have this streamlined beautiful piece of art the Czechoslovakians have built, which is the Tatra T-77, and then you have this, you know, phallic, disgusting, fascist car. Of course, yes.

I hate it so much. Yes, yes, terrible. Hey guys, hey guys, what did the first Hitler say to the second Hitler? What? It's whatever you two are talking about right now. God fuck you! Oh, fuck you! Don't blink that. Leave it in.

All right. You were saying, Victoria, before Ross rudely interrupted you, not us. Well, yeah, you were having a Hitler conversation. So in any case, like this is the Nazi strategy to cars was kind of similar to like the American strategy to building cars, which was just more displacement, throw it at the problem, eventually the car will go faster. So you have these enormous hoods, these cars are not very like, like this, they aren't super refined yet. So when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia

in 1937, they freaked the fuck out at the Tatra. They were like, what is this thing? This is insane. Because even as early as 1934, T 77 is like it's like a modern car, right? Like it's like quiet on the freeway. You can drive it like it's on a freeway. It can do 55 miles an hour and it's fine, which is not something that cars in the 30s were very good at doing it. So strange the quote from Adolf Hitler to Ferdinand Porsche in 1937 says, that, referring to the Tatcha T77, is the car for my highways. ALICE Wait wait wait wait wait, so Hitler was talking about the first car?

RILEY Yes. ALICE So, you're Hitler? RILEY Yeah, not us. ALICE Wow. RILEY No, wait, no. ALICE Yes, no, you're Hitler. RILEY Yeah. No, wait. No. Yes. No, you're next slide. No, you're Hitler. Next slide, please. Oh, all right. We're going to finally figure out which of us is Hitler. It's you. Oh, my God just a picture of Milkshake.

This is the- god damn it. I think Milkshake's actually from 2013 or so. I don't know how old your Hitler cat is, I'm sorry. I actually don't know how old your head look at is, I'm sorry. I actually don't know either. I don't think my friend LJ, who actually is the owner of Milkshake, knows either. No, you're... No one knows. Milkshake doesn't have an owner, really.

Yeah. So this is the rear of the Tatra 87, which is a similar car that came out around the same time. Same design, it's an iteration over the 77. This one had a 2.9 liter air-cooled V8 that made 85 horsepower. Sitting behind the rear axle. Can I say this is beautiful without getting called Hitler? Yeah, this is beautiful.

Thank you. This is the car I want. So it could do a hundred miles an hour. So then you can be Hitler. I'm not Hitler. It's like the opposite of that game Secret Hitler, it's like extremely, like, latent Hitler. Not latent, the opposite of it. It's an Abbott and Costello bit, but instead of the...

Overt Hitler. Yeah, no, it's actually every player's named Hitler. Secret Hitler but everybody gets a Hitler card, is... yeah. See how long that takes to fuck everything. Dealing a bunch of Hitler cards into like, fucking, uh, like, apples to apples. Apples to Hitler is not my favourite game. Ad-offs to Ad-offs. Like apples to apples Murder mystery dinner party, but it turns out that actually everyone is Hitler Let me guess it was in the fewer bunker with a revolver. Yeah, sometimes less research is more, you know. This is the one I actually did all the research on.

Well, sometimes more research is more, I guess, and the rest of the podcast is gonna be fucked. In a world where everyone is Hitler, only one man can restore sanity. Yeah, the Hitler-Vest. Is it also Hitler? No, no, it stars Joseph Stalin. LIAM I was gonna say, better be Stalin, man. JUSTIN Slowly panning across the street, every man, woman, and child, little postage stamp mustache, even the babies.

There's a baby in a stroller with them. Oh, OK, got it together. Got it together. Delirium. I'm fine. I'm. I'm fine, I'm good. Are we recording this at midnight your time? Yes, yeah, yeah, this is like the third thing I've had to do today, and that's like three too many things for me on any given day. Can you believe this folks?

November thinks Adolf Hitler is funny. Oh, this is... Thank god this isn't going on the main feed. It's funny. Oh, thank God this is going up. They paid. It's fucking. OK, so anyway, pictured here is a Tatra 87. This is the one that's it's easier to find stats on because it's like a more modern car. It's a good thing it's 97 because it was a touch. I see it would be even more Hitler.

So I guess reach levels of Hitler previously unprecedented. Tried to warn us any time. They said anything about Ukraine. I believe myself. I came out and talked about cars. This is inevitable. The dealership disease is setting in Yeah, I I'm gonna get a black son tattoo and

Do you have any lease deals for me out of new Silverado? Yeah, I just said I have a black son Car dealership you not pay attention to any of your reading material? You guys heard of the plot of the Wolfenstein reboot from 2008? That's basically great. I think. Anyway, this car was really good. About the T-77, Willem Hynes, a motor journal in 1934 said it is a sensation when it comes to its construction, to its appearance and to its performance. However, it isn't a sensation that has just fallen from the skies, but it is a logical

extension of the roads themselves, which Hans Ledwinka made thirteen years ago. I remember I looked up who Hans Ledwinka was, for this specifically, and then I forgot. I'm gonna blame the medication. Or the two thirds of a beer. Winkle was, for this specifically, and then I forgot, I'm gonna blame the medication. Or the two thirds of a beer. I mean, two thirds of a beer hits different when you're recording a podcast. It also hits different when you're on a lot of medication. Also, yeah.

Also, when you're Hitler. Good day, Russ!