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GHIT 0030 Hooked On Driving Track Day at NJMP Mar 26, 2019

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Greetings from the track. We reported in from NJMP while we are at our High Performance Driving Education (HPDE) event and review our impressions, things we learned, and things we are still working on. We hope you enjoy this episode. Most of it was recorded inside a car at the track with other cars in the area so in some spots the audio quality may vary.

GHiT 0029: What to Expect at a Track Day Mar 21, 2019

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Vicki and Bill go over what goes on at a high performance driving event, how to prepare for the event, and what to bring etc. Our season kicks off with a weekend of HPDE at New Jersey Motorsports Park (NJMP) in Millville New Jersey this weekend. We took a page from our friends at Everyone Racers podcast and "ran it live". We will likely have an update episode from the track this weekend. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We would love to hear from you.

We hope Alan comes back to us soon.

WOOT 0028 Captain Marvel Review with Spoilers Mar 12, 2019

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Spoiler filled and unedited podcast post everyone seeing the Captain Marvel movie at least once this weekend. It turns out that Benny was the closest in his prediction on our preview podcast last week. It turns out we all really liked it, even more than we had hoped and predicted on our show.

In this episode we discussed:

Our initial rating of the movie

Listener feedback from Jason H and El Jeffe and our thoughts of their opinions

Bill gets tremendous bonus points for calling out the Right Stuff movie reference in the movie. It's almost like Babe Ruth calling his homerun shot. Well, not really, lol.

Vicki is on the hunt for a Fonzie lunchbox to be used as us at the track first aid kit

Captain Marvel's Movie vs comic book history

Cats vs Flerken's

Ben Mendelson's acting and his role

Soundtrack, nineties flashback and Vicki's continued girl crush on Gwen Stefanie

Stan Lee tributes and train cameo and Bill's eye leakage

Our traditional the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly segment, scenes and actors/characters

Benny stays true to his brand and gives his 6' 7" 13-year-old girl perspective on the movie

Torrie Wilson WWE Hall of Fame election shout out and congratulations to her

Vicki loves Carol's FLEX towards Ronan the Accuser

Benny seems to hate the Kree and continues his rant against Marvel's movie villains

Bill fights his base humor instincts to make a pun about the Kree city of Halla

Benny and Bill and Vicki disagree about the Skrull portrayal in the movie, but it isn't a Mandarin level issue

Vicki and Bill disagree about the portrayals of Annette Benning – roles redacted to minimize spoilers in description

Bill is concerned over a potential block in the path to a future Secret Wars saga. Benny walks him back from the cliff a bit

Captain Marvel's powers and mixing into the MCU, especially relative to Thanos

Avengers Endgame speculation

Marvel's MCU de-aging machine and its use of the time stone

Samuel L Jackson and Nick Fury in the movie

Bill wants a huge director cut with more Carol Danvers, Benny wants at least 15-20 minutes

The end credit scenes and predictions for Avengers End Game

Phase 4 speculation

Captain Marvel and Wonder Woman comparisons, logically

Avengers post End Game speculation

Vicki changes her tune on Brie Larson and her portrayal of Captain Marvel

Bill provides useless trivia on Brie Larson's training partner for the movie

Benny is now looking at getting back into GLOW

We all agree, go see the movie for yourself. Don't let the reviews from reviewers with agendas keep you from a very solid entry in the Marvel MCU

And finally, the discussion you always wanted: Flerkens!!!

In the end, we all want a time stone to get to Avengers End Game ASAP. Can it come out early, please!!!!

PS Mr. Feige, we would accept any invitations to a critic screening.

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WOOT 0027: Captain Marvel Preview Mar 07, 2019

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NON SPOILER FOR THE MOVIE: One this episode, Vicki, Benny, and Bill began with a deep dive into the history of Captain Marvel and Carol Danvers in preparation for the upcoming Movie this week. As usual, we discussed a whole lot more and we hope you enjoy it. We will cover the movie later this weekend. Benny is expecting a 9.5 out of 10, Vicki a 7, and Bill an 8. We all hope Benny is right!

GHiT 0026: Hydrocephalus Racing Team Mar 03, 2019

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We are very happy to welcome the Hydrocephalus Racing Team to our podcast this week. They are a great team of friends and family that we first initially met at their first ever Lemons race in Thompson CT. Unfortunately, Vicki and Bill apparently recorded in the Tube of Mockery we borrowed from Mental, so it sounds like we are huddled up in a cave somewhere.

If you are interested in supporting research in the area of Hydrocephalus, please go to their website to learn more about it and what we can do to support their efforts at: http://hydrocephalusracingteam.com/ for all kinds of information and links.

When and how to use the term "Scrutineer"
How (and Why) to race a prepped minivan in Lemons
The art of "subtle" racing in a minivan
How not to prep for your first time racing
We begin to hatch a plan to get their team CFO onto the track
Vicki can't keep a secret to save her life (about the GHiT posters)
How to learn about cars when growing up and working in a local junkyard
Our Race Truck Progress – Its ready for Pitt Race
Math and racing sometimes don't apply to radiator leaks
Two or three potential lemons car stashes in the upper Midwest and Alaska, one with hang time experience
Effectiveness of our roll cages and safety equipment in an accident
Fog is not your friend on the track, especially on your windshield
Gentlemen driver documentary on Netflix right now
and eventually listen to them ponder why they can't hear through their microphone, hint, it's not a speaker, lol.

We hope you enjoy the episode and please subscribe to our podcast using your podcast network provider of choice, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Music, etc.

GHiT 0025: Cage Party and Capri Resuscitation part 1 Feb 21, 2019

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On this episode, we interrupted our Autocross month for a quick update on a recent roll cage installation weekend we attended that was hosted by the Three Pedal Mafia and focused on their new to them Nissan 300Z. We also cover other work that was done during the Cage Party.

We also reviewed our progress on resuscitating the 1974 Capri and getting it back onto the track this season with a new drive train and how our progress goes towards replacing/repairing/upgrading the entire drive train from stock 1974 2.8 liter Capri engine to a more modern Chevy/Buick 3.8 liter design.

Finally, we also touch on preparation for an upcoming welding course that Bill is taking.

EP 0024 - Jason Hopkins of the Citrus Racers Lounge Feb 17, 2019

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Please excuse a few spots where we lost internet recording. On this episode, Bill has the worst intro of any podcast in history, Vicki stages a coup d'état of the hosting duties, Alan shows up late, and we have recording issues galore so our episode for this week is posting late. Despite this, Jason Hopkins who is the founder of the Citrus Racers Lounge was an awesome guest and we hope you enjoy this week's episode.

Things we covered:

Last week's Facebook conference in Menlo Park CA
How many Smokey and the Bandit Movies exist
Differences between thinking you are ready to race and being ready to race
Other ways to contribute to a racing team, even if you never drive
Bill makes several bad jokes about Massachusetts drivers and driving
Jason shared a ton of great guests we need to have on soon
Bill begs for all members of the lounge to subscribe to the podcast in vain
Alan practices juggling bottles in the background several times, I hope I edited them all out
Lesser know great driving/mountain roads in New Hampshire
Happy Birthday to Mental (and his hair)
Dream Lemons builds
Alan: Mechanic and Referee

EP 0023 Chris Kamery Special Guest Racing Driver Feb 08, 2019

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This week, we welcomed Chris Kamery to the podcast to continue our discussion on Autocross this month. Chris is an avid and accomplished driver mostly in the upstate New York and neighboring areas. We cover a wide range of topics related to start racing in autocross and what to do and what not to do. We also attempt to drag him into the dark side of endurance racing. We hope to see him out at the track soon.

Topics covered included:

Car requirements and preferences
Track design and review
Typical struggles of new and first time drivers at an autocross event
Several places to look for local autocross and other driving events

We may even have been helpful again this week. We cannot promise this to continue, lol.

EP 0022 - Autocross Overview with Sam Strano Jan 29, 2019

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On this episode, Vicki and Bill welcomed Sam Strano to our show to discuss another form of racing called autocross. This involved timed racing laps of a course that is usually artificially defined by a series of cones in a parking lot, air strip or other paved area. Sam is a multiple time national champion in autocross and we are now signed up for at least one race and one training session and knowing us there will be more to follow.

Please stop in or visit Sam's company at: http://www.stranoparts.com/

EP 0021: Chris Abbott - Special Guest Driver Jan 25, 2019

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On our latest episode, we had Chris Abbott of the Three Pedal Mafia and the Everyone Racers podcast as our special guest. Chris is one of the nicest people we have met at lemons and has probably passed us more times than any other driver in the series, sometimes even in our own car.

On this episode, we talked about a wide variety of topics including:

Our wish you were sponsoring us, Alpine Stars
Alan does his Dalek impersonation
New car race prep strategy
Giraffes and racing

Also as a special surprise to those of you who listen to the Everyone Racers podcast, we made special accommodations and you can actually hear Chris speaking on this episode, lol.

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