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Episode 25: We Gotta Give The Government Acronym Guys A Raise (Patreon)

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Hello! In this episode of Tran Girlismo, Victoria goes Wonk Mode, as it is her natural response to environmental stressors such as wildfire smoke and extreme heat that was gripping the state of Washington last week. First: What's The Deal With The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, amirite folks? No but seriously we're running out of oil to pull from it, it turns out, and the impact on the oil market will be... almost certainly not good.

Next, Victoria explains that if you do nothing but deplete war materiel for four straight years, you eventually run out of war materiel. Then you gotta buy more. It turns out that every American car company (but especially GM), fresh out of ideas about how to make cars, wants to get in on that sweet, sweet gravy train, probably at the expense of any of us ever being able to afford a car again. (Victoria apologizes for making this episode a little TrashFuture-y but she just guested and she had a lot of fun so it felt like a good way to take it.)

Finally, and by far the most fun, JORDAN. ANNOUNCES. HER. NEW. FUN. CAR. It is not exactly congruent with the material conditions of America but hey a girl's gotta have a little hope, right?

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TRAN GIRLISMO SHIRTS OR STICKERS: store.trangirlismo.com is open again until August 31st!

As always, our opening theme is off Horse Tranquilizer Simulator by Stella Spazzatura and our editor is Alex, aka Harmful Park!

Referenced Stories:Strategic Petroleum Reserve Quick Facts @US DOEMarch 11th Chris Wright Announcement @US DOECurrent Crude Stocks In SPR @US EIACongress and DOE Need a Unified Plan to Align Priorities and Investments for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve @US Government Accountability OfficeSPR Under Stress @CNBCOperational Floor of the SPR @BloombergUS Refinery Capacity Utilization + Chris Wright Comments @EnergyNowUS Average Gas Gallon Cost @AAABob McNally Interview @EnergyNowCENTCOM Claims/Ghost Shipping Estimates @BloombergGlobal Reserves Exhaustion Estimates @US EIAChevron Profit Quadruples @CNBCMike Stone Defense Industry Feature @ReutersSpending On Ukrainian Defense @Council on Foreign RelationsHegseth Budget @The GuardianCastelion Blackbeard Contract @CastelionPentagon Approaches Automakers For Weapons @WSJGeneral Motors To Build Ventilators (2020 Reporting By Victoria) @JalopnikBarra Expects Billion Dollar Chevy Colorado Contract [by Summer Ballentine] @DetroitNewsThe M130 Infantry Squad Vehicle @WikipediaMad Max's Pickup Truck [Victoria's ZR2 First Drive] @Motor1ICE Gives $2.5 Million No-Bid Contract To Rick Hendrick @ZeteoTrump Pardons Hendrick Nephew @Daytona Beach News-JournalFY2021 Annual Report @Director Of Operational Test & EvaluationGM Profit Soars [by Summer Ballentine] @Detroit News

Comments

Jes

HELLO! I love you both & want a little circle sticker but it costs 25 WHOLE CANADIAN DOLLARS to ship it. Of course this is not the fault of either of you wonderful ladies but is there a chance it's possible to stick that bad boy in an envelope with a couple stamps on it? If figuring that out with the online store or something is in any way a problem don't worry about it. Just thought I'd ask. Love you both bye.

Tran Girlismo (& Victoria Scott)

Hi Jes! I might be able to get one too you for cheaper; the $25 CAD is because it usually works out to ~$15 USD for a flat 8.5x11 cardboard mailer, which is the smallest size I have on hand. I’ll see if there’s a way I can make it cheaper, even if it’s just an envelope!

Paul Natsuo Kishimoto

Here's offering to reship merch within Europe/from Vienna for whoever wants it. Please LMK before like Saturday 29 August.

Cole Carpenter

“Dog” has been my a part of vernacular for almost 20 years now. Picked it up when I was like 10 on the playground and never let it go

AutoFox

If Military Industrial Complex ghouls become the reason that I can't afford (non Palmer Luckey) FPGA-based emulator consoles, I swear to THE ENTIRETY OF FUCK I WILL (heavily redacted)

Lain of the Wired

Im a janitor over by Pike place and I had to wear a respirator all last week and starting again yesterday cuz of this stupid smoke

Rachel K

A flurry of diplomacy can be powerful, but you have to spend a ki point to do it as a bonus action

Lain of the Wired

Oh yeah that infantry squad vehicle has a life span of like .01 microseconds in battlefield 6 like those fuckers are not armored like at all

Chibigodzilla

Weird that this podcast allegedly about cars has made me consider the pros/cons of FPGA vs ASIC usage in weapons systems.

MaidenlessBrewer

As soon as I hear Ortolan songbird I think of Astrogoblin, and then Jordan reveals that we indeed have the same brain disease.

Goblinfluencer

Awesome, love a good wonk mode Victoria episode

Maxwell Smith

I can physically hear everybody correcting Jordan that the Sagrada familia is in fact located in Barcelona , not Italy

Tommie

My weekly depression binge was finally playing XCOM 2 out of my steam library after having it in there for years until 4 in the morning after taking a sick day. Game's pretty good.

Maxwell Smith

the Colorado ISV looks like something that should be nowhere near combat lol there isn't even a windshield

T M

Hell yeag coming in hot after the week off, love to see it 💖 And Victoria you were lamenting on bsky how you "used to be a half-decent journalist" but you are an all-the-way good journalist, the research and analysis you put into these episodes is legit impressive.

Goblinfluencer

This is probably where I admit that a not insignificant portion of the car talk goes straight over my head

Casey O. Jones

I went joker mode the other day when I heard this god-forsaken country I live in has atrophied its industrial base so much that we can no longer mass-produce ammunition.

Big Analog

Yup I'm going right now to order tires for my bicycle. I guess at least when there's no more gas there won't be any lifted trucks around to flatten me whilst riding around.

Cassandra foretells the doom of Troy, NY

Speaking of cars only trans women drive. To the owner of the red 300zx with the Regular Car Reviews and Jeff Rosenstock sticker in Emeryville: what's up girl? You hang out at the stork?

Big Analog

Adenda: can't wait for the future WTYP episode on the M1301 ISV

heffa

Avoid getting mods for it. Once you start modding it will consume every hour of your life until eternity. But hopefully it helps to raise you from the darkness pit *hugs*

heffa

Whenever you mention Going To The Shapes Place I start singing "I push my fingers into my eyeeeees / Its the only thing that slowly stops the ache.... "

jgminto

I think it's also worth considering that the US backing Ukraine in the war was primarily to push US & NATO interests in the region with further arms agreements and US control of bases, which probably doesn't sell as well after we've seen all those US-affiliated bases get decimated in countries neighbouring Iran.

Tommie

I don't really mod my games, so that's not a danger I'm in 😅

Kyle Clark

Jordan's Dog tic made me realize how many times I use Dude as a neutral pronoun, to the point that I have to rectify that when I'm talking with T-girlies and En-Bees. And then, I'm immediately reminded that I'm an Ohioan, and we all do that.

Tobi

Hell yeah the jorvette!!!

JDagger

This was such an incredible episode. I work in auto lending and the way I laughed at Jordan having to explain to a bank that she’s a podcaster… if only I could’ve been that underwriter LMAO. Also the whole FRED thing… yeah. Yeah from inside the consumer lending industry uh. It’s bad. It’s so bad. We’re currently going through an insane sub prime crisis with auto loans that I’ve just started calling The Big Short but it’s Chuds On Wheels instead. I’m waiting for the bottom to fall out because we’re having to drop 96 mo loans on $89k purchase price F150s that will retain zero value when gas is $10 a gallon. It’s. Haha yeah.

Josh J

It’s like Attorneys General 😁

Great Joe

Always a good episode when the many failures of elected officials are used to excuse a hypothetical collective punishment of tens of millions of people.

Slugfarm

THANK YOU STELLA!!!

Jes

I use dude so fucking often. Friends, family, customers I don't like, customers I do. I distinctly remember calling a long ago boyfriend dude over ten years ago & him having a fit. No one is safe. (I'm an Ontarian. Your across the border twin?)

Josiah Thorne

OK so it's time to look into total ethanol conversion for older cars...

Kyle Clark

Welcome to Ohio: "Ontario's Ascot" lol.

Kyle Clark

I really do want to go to Canada, if for any reason to be the one cishet man at a Minnesota Frost- Hamilton Name Coming Soon game, and eat some real poutine.

Laura's always wanted a 2CV 😭

Jordan, I got the Miata in March, right when gas prices started to go bonkers. I feel you on the "oh shit, this is terrible timing" thing. Congrats on the C6. ☺️

Stephen Chu

Re that one shoutout: C.H.U.D. originally stood for “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller” and was a movie title before it became shorthand for a type of guy.

Stephen Chu

Same! “Dude” has always been a gender neutral method of address for me but I joined a fanfiction discord server a few years ago that has a large trans population and I’ve been doing my best to fully replace it with “Friendo” in such sentences as: “You can’t be saying things like that friendo, you’ll get the discord subpoenaed.” And “Friendo, we’ve reached the point where kids who were survivors of school shootings as grade schoolers are having to put that bullet dodging experience to use as college freshmen. America is not OK.”

Kyle Clark

Friendo is nice, but because I'm such a language nerd, I would get strung up with 'boyo', and reflexively go with 'girlie'. Same with laddie and lassie. Some version of Comrade works informally, but even then, you might be accused of being a Tankie.

Wardog Blaze

On games that don't suck, I absolutely don't regret picking up Big Walk (from the goose game devs), lovely little co-op communication based game

deLux

Just a heads up, the description text for the photo prints references a shipping date of June 12, 2023. I presume the actual shipping date will be a little bit later than that.

Jessica Paulson

Wait, wait, wait… Stella does what now? She plays “The Wheelie Feets Game?” (As a friend of mine calls it)? What team? I’m just a “skater tot” learning how to play. I belong to Minnesota Roller Derby in St. Paul and Mississippi Valley Mayhem in LaCrosse, WI.

virginia

I am in Tacoma and I will go to the live show!!!

cavira cavidura

And not quiiite done done yet. But they managed to put the 100 ton heavy cross on the highest point before gaudis 100th death anniversary and reached it's final height. So yey Spain.