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The Saving Saturn Demonstration

Save Saturn

GHIT 0237:  Breaking News With Eric Rood – On the Saving Saturn Protest and Other Lemons Rally News

As part of our journalistic responsibility, we caught up with Eric Rood from the 24 Hours of Lemons to discuss the recent protest at General Motors HQ that was aimed at resurrecting the legendary Saturn brand.  The rally was respectful but filled with lots of deep, deep emotion.  We also took the time to cover some of the other news from the recent rally.  You are welcome.   

If you would like to help the podcast,

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy.  If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast. There you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review. 

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1  

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Please don’t forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don’t forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.  Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order.  They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

The Jalopnik articles is found at:  https://jalopnik.com/sign-toting-evangelists-show-up-to-gm-headquarters-dema-1847357485 

GHIT 0232: Breaking News With Eric Rood – On the Saving Saturn Protest and Other Lemons Rally News

The Suicide Squad

And Comparing the MCU and DCEU

And Then the Battle Royale Broke Out

Face off

WOOT Stands for Way Off Our (normal) Topic so this is NOT a driving or racing episode. What began as a simple review of James Gunn’s new movie The Suicide Squad quickly became a debate of the DC Extended Universe and the MCU from Marvel.  Benny and Alex return to their WOOT origin and feel Bill is biased against the DCEU.  So we rank all the DCEU and the MCU movies to date and discuss the upcoming movies in both series.  We also had a short discussion of the first three Marvel tv shows on Disney+.

If you would like to help the podcast,

You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy.  If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast. There you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review. 

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1  

We hope you enjoy this episode!

PS  Please don’t forget that if you are looking to add an Apex Pro to your driving telemetry system, don’t forget to use our discount code for all Apex Pro systems you will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.  Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order.  They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc.  The recently released second generation systems and app increases the capability of the system greatly.

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

WOOT 0229: The Suicide Squad and Comparing the MCU and DCEU

Battle Royale over the MCU vs the DCEU and The Suicide Squad

Loki, Black Widow, Falcon & the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

WOOT 0212: Our Thoughts on Loki, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

It has been several months since we did a WOOT episode where we go Way Off Our Topic of racing and go into another are of our lives, our fandom of virtually all things superheroes.  In this episode , we go over our thoughts about the three recent Disney+ MCU related shows:  WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, as well as the most recent Black Widow movie.  This recording was prior to the season finale of Loki, so our predictions may prove accurate, insightful, or down right stupid, still TBD, lol.  

We tried to cover a lot during a single episode, but if you want more details, let us know. There is easily a ton more detail one every single one of these shows.

We hope you enjoy this bonus WOOT episode!!! We are Garage Heroes In Training after all. 

Thankfully we are not training in the Red Room.

If you make it to the end, we cover the HPDE planning for both of our teams at the upcoming PittRace event hosted by NASA Great Lakes.

Link to this episode:  https://tinyurl.com/WOOT2021July 

PS please don’t forget our discount code for all ApexPro’s. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40.  Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order.  They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc.  The recently released second generation systems and app update increases the capability of the system greatly. Especially if you have a team or friends that race.

WOOT 0212: Our Thoughts on Loki, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

WOOT 0153: The Mandalorian

and Recent Announcements from Disney, Disney+, HBO Max, and Warner Brothers, as well as the current state of movie theaters during the COVID 19 pandemic

The Mandalorian Season 2 poster

On this Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we overdo our review of The Mandalorian prior to the season 2 finale and predictions for what we think and/or want to happen in the finale.  We then move into the recent announcements of upcoming movies and television series.  Since we haven’t had a WOOT episode in a long while, we went really long with this one.  Our hosts for this episode are Jeff, Josh, Benny, Vicki, and Bill.  

We hope you enjoy the episode!

  • Ahsoka
  • Grogu
  • Mando and Ahsoka
  • The Mandalorian Season 2 poster
The Mandalorian and all rights are the property of Disney and Disney+

WOOT 0153: The Mandalorian and Recent Announcements

WOOT 0128: Christian James Hand Breaks Down Music on his Show “The Session”

  • Christian James Hand
  • The Session
Christian James Hand about “The Session”

For anyone over 18 and who has any interest or especially if you love music, here is our first episode with an Explicit tag and not for the kiddies, but it just flowed naturally that we are releasing it as is (We are running it live).  If there are kids in the car with you, you may want to listen to this episode later.

CJH with a fan

In a long overdue Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we are joined by a special guest Christian James Hand who has a tremendous way to break down music into its component tracks (also called Stems) during his shows to demonstrate the individual components that are combined into the finished song.  Our description does not do justice to his amazing style and presentation that he puts together.  If you are even the slightest bit interested in music or ever were, we would hope that you would listen to one of his live shows on Instagram or to one of the podcasts he has and allow Christian to give you one of the greatest gifts that we know of.  Christian’s “The Session” breakdowns give you the ability to hear a song for the first time all over again!

  • Christian James Hand at a Live Session
  • Headphones always make it better
Christian’s Live Sessions are cannot miss. If at home, Headphones always make it better

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

Highlights from the episode include:

1)  A short bit about touring with PM Dawn Peter Gabriel, The Grave Diggers and RZA and an acapella rendition of “Jam On It” by Newcleus on stage in front of tens of thousands live and broadcast over Swedish radio

2)  Business tips, including do not buy a company blimp

3)  Working on music videos including “Hey Ya” by the Outkast and several Def Leppard videos as well as Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn’s “Dodgeball: An Underdog Story” movie.

4)  An upcoming podcast where he breaks down music with the cooperation of and with Universal Music

5)  Benny cannot seem to count to six, lol.

6)  Another special guest appearance by his Funko Pop “Odd Job”

7)  How music is made and how it has progressed to where it is now

8)  How Christian approaches music and how the song creation process in incorporated into his live song breakdown shows.

9)  The incredible opportunity Christian has when being able to unpainting a painting when he dissects the song to its original moments and components and stories.

10)  How sometimes the simplest songs are often some of the most complex tapestries to weave.

11)  Incredible music recording history and stories

12)  How digital processing, Pro Tools, and over-processing has impacted modern music and removed much of the humanity of current recordings.

13)  What is groove and what is pocket?

14)  The Gadd-Weckl-Colaiuta Drum Showdown is found at: https://youtu.be/K7h6hOs_ySw

15)  Some of the fantastic songs to breakdown that came to mind during our discussion and are well worth listening to again, for the first time, especially for the songs that have almost become musical “wall paper” or have faded into the status of background music.

16)  Christian’s rock band member breakdown is hilarious, every single time.

17)  I think Christian nearly broke Vicki when he discussed his inability to listen to music while “occupied”

18)  Some highlighted drum tracks, bass tracks, and guitar tracks that came to mind and are some of the cannot miss episodes.

19)  His thoughts on concerts in general and the Counting Crows performing Mr. Jones in specific.

20)   What Christian feels are the root masterpieces for rock music after the Beatles catalogue.

You can hear Christian James Hand break down songs at a variety of places online including:

At “The Sessions On Air” on Instagram at 11 AM Pacific or 2 PM Eastern on Instagram @thesessiononair

Podcasts such as:

The Session

Heide and Frank Show weekly on Mondays

And try to catch him at a live show once they are able to resume.  Details will be provided on his website at:  https://thesessiononair.com/

Audioslave’s Cochise music video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDMvN45sjo4 and yes, it is mind blowing!

Budget music systems suggestions:

Sony MDR-7506 headphones at ~$90

Better:  Audeze headphones at around $400 use Christian’s discount code PS Audio Sprout system ~$600 Rega Planar 2 turntable for ~$200 Sumiko Needle Polk Audio  or Klipsch or JBL Speakers of your choice (don’t need powered set Total system around $1,000 max

WOOT 0128: Christian James Hand Breaks Down Music on his Show “The Session”

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