The automotive world is stuffed 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 automotive lovers, 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 like?
It will look quite a bit like “Tran Girlismo,” the brand new podcast from on-and-off Jalopnik author Victoria Scott and good friend of the location Jordan Hofstetter. The pair are each lifelong automotive lovers 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, at the very least in its preliminary episode, goals to deal with one easy query: Why?
Why does automotive tradition really feel so out of attain?
Listening to Scott and Hofstetter speak about how automotive tradition has grown increasingly more financially out of attain currently rings very true to me. Lovers vehicles just like the Supras and S2000s the pair of hosts respectively owned years in the past, have since skyrocketed in worth, whereas wages have remained the identical, which means they most likely would not be capable of afford the identical vehicles right this moment. I’ve additionally owned loads of efficiency autos prior to now that I could not afford to purchase now. They even get into how that lack of entry to efficiency autos impacts race tracks, who can now not depend on a gradual stream of earnings from lovers scraping collectively change from the sofa to go racing.
“Tran Girlismo” is, at the very least in its first episode, an automotive podcast that talks concerning the unlucky realities of being an fanatic within the yr 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 long run, like sim racing, which might allow us to all expertise observe driving even once we’re priced out of the true factor. And sometime, optimistically, I am going to bully my manner on to the podcast and promote them on a budget pace of motorcycling. The podcast is about to launch weekly on Victoria Scott’s Patreon, and can be discovered on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
