The automotive world is filled with podcasts, and these podcasts are overwhelmingly simply two or three dudes sitting round Shure SM7B microphones to speak concerning the newest and biggest in top-dollar automotive innovation. However, for many automobile fanatics, that is not precisely relatable — most individuals won’t ever be fortunate sufficient to hoon a McLaren, Ferrari, or Porsche on the ragged edge. So what would a podcast for the remainder of the automotive world appear to be?
It will look quite a bit like “Tran Girlismo,” the brand new podcast from on-and-off Jalopnik author Victoria Scott and pal of the positioning Jordan Hofstetter. The pair are each lifelong automobile fanatics with deep ties to Jalopnik — they even reference items like Scott’s evaluate of the Dodge Challenger and former EIC Rory Carroll’s evaluate of the Bugatti Chiron from our hallowed pages within the debut episode — who’ve discovered their love of all issues on 4 wheels waning in recent times. The podcast, not less than in its preliminary episode, goals to deal with one easy query: Why?
Why does automobile tradition really feel so out of attain?
Listening to Scott and Hofstetter discuss how automobile tradition has grown increasingly more financially out of attain these days rings very true to me. Fanatics vehicles just like the Supras and S2000s the pair of hosts respectively owned years in the past, have since skyrocketed in value, whereas wages have remained the identical, which means they most likely would not be capable to afford the identical vehicles right this moment. I’ve additionally owned loads of efficiency automobiles up to now that I could not afford to purchase now. They even get into how that lack of entry to efficiency automobiles impacts race tracks, who can now not depend on a gentle stream of revenue from fanatics scraping collectively change from the sofa to go racing.
“Tran Girlismo” is, not less than in its first episode, an automotive podcast that talks concerning the unlucky realities of being an fanatic within the 12 months of our lord 2026, and features up trigger and impact to elucidate how issues obtained so unhealthy. The hosts additionally provide hopeful avenues for the longer term, like sim racing, which may allow us to all expertise observe driving even after we’re priced out of the true factor. And sometime, with a bit of luck, I will bully my means on to the podcast and promote them on a budget velocity of motorcycling. The podcast is ready to launch weekly on Victoria Scott’s Patreon, and can be discovered on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.