S2E11 - Dry Lake Beds and Dropouts

In S2E11, we start off catching up while Robby is making the long drive from Texas to Oregon, talking trucks, tuners, dry lake beds, road fatigue, and the kind of random back-and-forth that comes naturally with us. Around the 10-minute mark, the audio has other plans, so the episode turns into a rougher, more one-sided ride than we intended. It’s a little glitchy, a little cut off, but still part of the fun of recording in real time while life is happening. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on everybody? I'm Ian. And this is Robbie, and we're both two assholes in a mic. Yeek. You said you were out in some dry lake beds?

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Yeah, there's a huge dry lake bed sitting right in front of me in front of the road. I'd love to just go haul an ass down it on a four-wheeler or in my truck. I just found out that this thing uh has a uh top speed. 107.

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Really? That's it?

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yep. It's governed obviously because there's still way more power. But it's governed at 107 because I was I was passing a truck and I was all right. And then nothing. It's just like regular, like all my power went away.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

So I'm wondering what that is.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

I don't know, but I'm already thinking about getting it damn you know removed.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Electronic colour.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Yeah, there's plenty of little um like tuners that you can just plug the little OBD2 port, just plug a little dongle up in there.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Yeah. Turn it sideways to see if I guess when you swap the camera to see the dry leak bit. I can't swap it. Yes, I can.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

That's alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Whatever.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Yeah, it's alright. Um, yeah, HP tuner was one that uh a lot of my buddies used for their Fords.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

For their Fords?

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Yeah, so like Mustang or uh um like Ranger uh yeah I mean they they even did um like Camaros and and other you know domestic vehicles, HP tuner, and it's uh yeah, it's a few hundred bucks, and all you do is upload it to your OBD2 port in the car, and I want to say it loads itself. It loads like a little extra tune where it gives you like a little bit more fuel, a little bit more uh you know, boost if you have a turbo in the car. It's turbo, yeah. Yeah, so I mean it would it would help out. It does like tiny tiny um improvements. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tiny improvements to kind of increase your throttle response and all that shit. So it's it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 2:37

This thing already gets it too, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Yeah, so it's easy.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

So it's really insane.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Yeah, because you just buy it and then plug it in and it it loads itself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

Yeah, my dad had something like that on one of his uh dualies, or no, on his um 01 uh diesel. Added like a stupid amount of power and torque. It was the twist one where you could like change the settings like as you go on the knob.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

Yeah.

unknown 3:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

Chance had that on his truck. I don't even know if what kind of truck he had, but it was very similar where it was Yeah. Nice. Where it was yeah, where it was just like I want to say it was just the twist of a knob, and it was I don't know, something stupid like 700 horsepower and a thousand pound feet of torque, and I was like, God damn, just with the twist of a fucking knob.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Yeah, one of them was called six gun, and it had six settings on it. And uh it went from like mild tune to burning the rubber off of your damn dually. You know what I mean? Like, that's insane. Putting down that kind of power on four tires.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:49

Heavy tires.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Fucking birdies.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I ain't coming this way again. I'm not coming this way coming back. There's fucking two lanes all through Nevada. Damn. I'm having to damn go around people and go down to 49 miles an hour sometimes because semi-trucks are coming down this two-lane road.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Like whereas 2026, why the fuck do we still have two-lane roads as highways?

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Well, because you're on the middle of fucking nowhere.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

And there should be no speed limit in this in this spot right here. It's just a straight line. I've been doing a straight line for a day and a half.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Yeah, it's the US US version of the Audubon.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Yeah, see, 50 51 minutes since I got gas last. So I've been going in a straight line basically for 52 minutes now. I've been driving for 18 hours and 36 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Hot damn.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

And that doesn't that doesn't count the first hour where I forgot to reset my shit. So roughly 19 hours. 19, 19 and a half hours I've been driving.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

I think I'm gonna make it.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Yeah, I think after a certain point you just get like a uh like a second wind almost.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Yeah, yeah, because I'm like, I still have 11 hours to get to Oregon. And I'm like, man, I've already done what 20? 19? Yeah, two-thirds of it? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Well, yeah, two-thirds of the trip. Yeah. But then I think what sucks is it's it's nice when the when the sun's out, but then when it starts to get dark, that's the I think that's the shitty, the shitty times for me. So when it's dark.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Yeah, I don't mind when it's dark. I feel like I can drive easier when it's dark because I can see cars coming from so much further away.

SPEAKER_00 5:46

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

I feel more comfortable driving at night than I do during the day. I feel like I see less.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

Yeah, and then they both got their ups and downs, I suppose. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Obviously, if a deer jumps out in the middle of the night, I'm not gonna see that motherfucker till it's last second. But I'm just like when it comes to other people and other humans, it's easier to see them at night on the way.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

So I guess if you guys haven't guessed by now, Robbie's driving. He's heading out to uh head yeah, heading out to see some family on the west coast.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Yeah, I'm going to Oregon from Texas, obviously. I mean uh Oklahoma, because that's where I live.

SPEAKER_00 6:23

Oklahoma. Yeah. We took I-40 through uh Oklahoma City and yep.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Yeah, Albuquerque and all that stuff. And now I'm on a fucking two-lane road behind the damn semi-truck doing 65.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

That's the gayness.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

I can pass, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

And you know what, I'd going back to the the the two-lane, it's probably it probably costs a lot to fucking to increase the width of that that road or that highway.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

Oh yeah, because it's two lanes, and then immediately it's like little offshoots, like uh almost like a little ramp of dirt until you get out to the desert, and then it then it's all just desert.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

But this truck tells me one more time to keep my hands on the steering wheel when I've got my hands on the fucking steering wheel. I'm gonna snap. Snap.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Do they at least have passing lanes?

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Yeah, I mean one right now, but there's three semi-trucks, and I don't want to pass three semi-trucks. Yeah. At least from the view that I can see, I don't wanna I don't want to pass that.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Did they have designated areas where they it goes like uh to two lanes, and that one of those is a passing lane, so you can run the slow people.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

Every once in a while. I haven't seen one since I've been stuck behind these guys. I run into them when I'm by myself. I go into those passing lanes when I'm by myself. That's what it seems like, anyways. Trying to see how many trucks I gotta pass. One two.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

It's two. Yeah, man, I guess if you're not in a hurry, just wait till you can see them cars coming.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

Yeah, this guy's going, so I might do the same. There's a car in front of me that would buy a semi truck. Tuck in between. I don't see nobody coming. Go back out and get the next one. Pass in. Bye. Bye. And back to the speed limit. Did you guys hear that power? That's what pisses me off, is like they can't even be doing. Can you hear it?

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yeah. No, it's letting you I heard it though the first time you passed the first truck you passed, you heard it. I was the one to yell out power.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

Or he's got no service.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

I got to the top of the hill.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

I said that in the whenever he got out, I was like, he either got a spam call or he got disconnected.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

And I was like, no! I was like, I need this distraction, Katie.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

I'm not sleeping yet, but I'm not even two hours later. Alright guys, I think I'll have to cut it short. Looks like Robbie got disconnected and he's out for the count. Take care, stay safe. Make your choices, and we'll catch you later. Bye.