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Hello! On this episode, the girls are joined by their friend Cora Goodwin (who you can find nowadays on Instagram), who basically invented half the car culture the two of them grew up with. (You might remember Cora from the Zero Fucks Given RX-7 or the Turbo Trolls-Royce builds if you liked Matt Farah as a teenager and you're about the girls' ages). The girls had written notes but rapidly threw them out the window as the conversation took on a life of its own.

(Victoria's Note: For the geopolitics sickos, next week's episode will be a return to form.)

The discussion (roughly) covers the Focus ST, Civic Si, VICTORIA'S FIRST CAR IN YEARS, HER NEW JEEP [air horn sounds dot wav], being transgender and figuring out your deal, the Morgan Aero 8, hydrogen-powered cars, and how to help your community. It was meandering.

Anyway, check out these sick-ass pics of Vicki and her new Jeep taken by Friend Of The Show and photographer Sula Griggs:

(Victoria's Note: Thank you all for your support, this Jeep is pretty much possible because of this Patreon. I will be relentlessly talking about what I'm going to do with and to it in the near future on the show and I promise I will use having a vehicle to do as much good as I can!)

As always, our opening theme is off Horse Tranquilizer Simulator by Stella Spazzatura and our editor is the fantastic Alex/Harmful Park, who you should hire to edit your show, too!

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Josh J

Yay I was wondering if you’d be able to get Cora on!

alexcheetah79

Are you in your Sarah Conner era?

Crobisaur

The XJ looks so good omg. Congrats on beautiful ride Victoria!

faelyn

I only know of blanqui because in Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Lenin's centralism "organisational questions of the Russian social democracy" she calls him a blanquist basically. And in the culture of the social democrats of the second international that's a great insult.

AnarCaylee

Woo early upload today!! <3

Erik Steb

“We’re not gonna talk for 3 hours” - proceeds to drop a 2.5 hour episode let’s go

Jim

I also had a nice ‘92 XJ! :wave: Good car; before the grand Cherokee / could get nicer seats, but keep manual windows / no power options; you don’t want / trust those American car knuckleheads doing power options with wire nuts and god knows what!! ‘92+ 4.0 HO have Siemens / VDO Fuel injection / good system Chrysler sourced and fucked with minimally (which is the long production run / virtue of those and light weight enough of unibody SUVs to be reasonably fuel Efficient and off road capable and they hold up pretty good in a wreck?) Took me a while to find a later TUPY head and later no-crack exhaust manifold. Fun fact; Ellen Pompeo is featured driving an XJ in Grays Anatomy (I don’t watch the show / it’s stupid, but cars in movies or broadly watched shows that take place in Seattle?) Took me forever to find & piece together the rare-bear XJ-specific D44 towing rear end, ABS tone rings and rear discs from a Chrysler 360 powered grand Cherokee R/T, heavier towing package springs etc? I kept mine stock height / good on-road manners and didn’t mind the vacuum disconnect front axle despite the annoying vac lines? There’s mint / looks brand new ‘94 White garaged 4x4 4.0 XJ driven by a 75 year old lady OG owner in the nice pnw Suburbs with an original period correct plate I keep chasing? I don’t want airbags and electrical. Also, you don’t want a 2 door XJ either; the door hinge pins are shitty and loose / wear out prematurely enough with the shorter doors on the 4 door XJ hahahhahahaha Mine did have Bosch ABS brakes (I do want that to avoid the potential wreck?) and I deleted the power windows and Chrysler auto climate control (don’t want that!). Some guys convert to coil on plug, I never got that far, but quality caps and rotors were still available when I had mine in 2007-2008 or so? I thought amc made the bodies for pre facelift XJ in Kenosha, WI? High point for Honda is probably the later ITR w/ the double a-arms still? My ex girlfriends mostly had lovely little blue Honda civics that burned just enough oil that I never had to change! Disnt burn so much oil that it fouled cats, plugs &/or 02 sensors as a quintessential lazy straight guy / don’t wanna do anything. The later ‘02 Civic wasn’t quite as good as the 96 civic VX fuel sipper and ‘92 EG civic SI each previous ex had, respectively? She got an ‘03 civic SI that isn’t quite as good as the ‘92 / shoulda put a 40k mile front cut integra GSR B engine in the ‘92 and bought a Del/Sol VTEC for a clean B-series full conversion and added a/c to it that’s easy to add / dealer Option and crosses the ‘94 R134a federal mandate in the last of the EGs. I like Hondas and friends have them and I might get an Element (much as I’m not a crossover SUV kinda guy / always had station wagons and trucks?), but I had an AE86 1-owner Corolla and Tercel 4wd, but uncle had a Gen 1 civic wago-van and it may be the American market architectural digest most considerate of pedestrians lovely practical car ever made, tho, the double a-arm suspension facelift wago-vans are mechanically superior, but you can’t see the hood and I like sealed beam headlights and the vertical tail lights of the Gen 1 and push button 4wd (I don’t like permanent mechanical AWD?$. Cheers from a broken down PNW middle aged divorced pre-arthritic federal fleet mechanic…

Dog of Randall the jeweller

Something is objectively wrong with Cora's audio, but it tickles my brain and sounds like she's speaking from inside my skull.(positive)

Jennifer

Oh wow it's nice to hear from Cora, I haven't seen anything from her since drive! This one's going to go looooong<3 Gl with the jeep!

Tommie

This episode is truly peak. Thanks for making this podcast y'all.

HELP NEEDED: Editor to get my bits under 50 charac

As a younger man, I developed a deep hatred of the XJ that I never got over. But that has more to do with helping SO MANY friends fix theirs, and having to deal with crysler's terrible hardware and what winters in the northeast do to them. I'm happy for Victoria, and hope her water pump holds up.

Camoose the Uncrackable Egg

Fantastic episode, I laughed so hard. XD I'm pretty new to the pod, but it's been interesting as a non-driver and the world's most uncrackable Egg.

Camoose the Uncrackable Egg

I had an Oldsmobile 88 as my first car after post grad school. I only drove it for about a half year before losing my job and having to sell it for scrap to get my belongings out after it was towed. Haven't driven since, over 10 years ago. Luckily I live in a fairly small city with a good bus system before getting an Ebike 4 years ago. Been using that ever since .

arlen sauer

I'd be down for 3 hours every episode! Keep it running ladies, cause I'm here for it as the kids say

A sherpa chat

So good to hear the gals loving things. This SLAPS

Big Analog

I worked on a Chrysler Concorde for my local MA group, they mounted the intake on the V6 BACKWARDS so that the hood could taper that low. Everything in the engine bay was engineered towards that goal. And funnily enough the motor had top spec conpression!

An impromptu concert from Bosco Hogan

Victoria, I'm stoked beyond measure for you! I had an XJ about 25 years ago. It was great. The best part of it was that by folding down the back seats, and stealing a futon mattress I had something truly rare: an affordable studio apartment in Boulder, Colorado.

Paul Natsuo Kishimoto

Also if "mogged" is ultimately a contraction of "alpha Male Of the Group", maybe Jordan's HS buddy's mom with the Aston Martin was the "alpha Mom Of the Suburbs" and thus "mossing" the others.

Jessica Paulson

Fffffuuuuuucccccckkkkk, Vicky. The feels, the feels… I had a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo that my dad gave me as a loaner for 12 years. Best goddamn 4x4 I ever drove. Sadly, it was an automatic, and would have been so much better with a 5-speed, but it was still ssssoooooooo good. Unfortunately, Minnesota winters and road salt took its toll on the body, and even though the 242 (4.0) had about 125k on the clock, it went to the crusher. So, yeah, sad girl remembering great Jeep. And I would absolutely get another Char Gold III, ‘98 ZJ. The ‘16 Compass that grenaded its camshaft? Not so much. But, but that’s a story for another time. Congratulations, and welcome to the Jeep family. I hope you have an absolute blast with it for a long time. I am still going to duck you for pangs of loss of my ZJ. (And if you’re not familiar with Jeeps and getting ducked, Google it. It’s a Jeep thing.)

Jessica Paulson

Tara, qualifies as Car-ma, doesn’t it? 😜

Jessica Paulson

Oh, and practice your “Jeep wave.” I no longer drive a Jeep (Honda, currently), but I still give the Jeep wave to Jeeps.

Ashley F

Americans don't have the humble meal deal? Once more I ask, how do you live like this?

Jessica Paulson

“Hello, and welcome to ‘Tran Girlismo,’ it’s an automotive enthusiast podcast, without slides…” 😜 So here for 3 hours of trans girl, automotive excellence.

The *suspiciously* woman-shaped Biomech MAD-3R

Okay so I gotta say, the thing you say when you're glad you aren't British is you don't ever have to talk about a Television License, or throwing random o's and a's onto an e in a word to make it say the exact same thing, or Libel Laws.

The *suspiciously* woman-shaped Biomech MAD-3R

I loved McDonalds until I worked there for four years, and now they're "eh" at best for me, and their prices now are genuinely radicalizing even before you remember their food is made by enslaved prisoners.

T M

Banger episode, nearly unhinged and very sweet :) I think this really may be the "most tgirl" episode you've done so far, love it.

Daz Clyde

Caterhams have sidepipes too!

Daz Clyde

I HAD an 06 Civic LX that puked its coolant on City Park Avenue in New Orleans just past Canal Street like...very early in owning it from new. That engine was okay tho once it was fixed. The R18A1 wasn't a hi-performance lump but with bushings and a full-replacement short shifter you could hang out with an FA5 Si if the guy was shit at clutchwork. (i modded that thing too much tbh, ahahaha). It sounded AMAZING with an Injen CAI and Vibrant Streetpower exhaust.

DrShockMaster

I have an 02 Grand Cherokee with the 4.0 and the drive train is soild. Holy Shit the electronics windows and power seats are trash. However it still cranks up and drives no problem.

Kyle Clark

The AMC Eagle fucks so hard. I've never understood the slander of AMC. It's just Saab (American) but they do cool shit on the side. It's so spiritually Upper Midwest that you should only get two distinctive two-tone options. One is purple and gold (SKOL Vikings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and the other should be the vomit colors from Green Bay. And the AMX is just the cutest thing ever. AMC should have gone with the prototype Rambler backseat, so you could slap your general purpose machine gun of choice on the roof and thus create the TranGirlismo Technical. -a cishet guy (not a chaser, also not an egg) from Northeast Ohio.

Kyle Clark

That's what we're here for lol. What if WTYP but for cars?

Kyle Clark

Also, with those photos, Vicky, you're giving transfemme Pierce Brosnan in Dante's Peak. You're going to save Linda Hamilton from the volcano, and what you two do afterwards is up to the perverts lol

Great Joe

One thing I think that separates the Trabant and the many Jeeps is that the Trabant is a certified piece of shit and every single owner of it knows that. They love how bad it is, it's the definition of a car with character. Which is why everyone knows how to maintain them. Growing up I was neighbours with a guy who owned 6, because that's how many donor cars he needed to have one. He took the good one to rallies, it was like a shitpost on wheels.

Justin Ryan

Hell yeah for having Cora on. Her RX7 is one of those cars that changed what I wanted from a project.

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As one of your Cis Guy ® listeners, I don't feel alienated. Quite the contrary: it helps me understand my trans daughter, (which I'll love unconditionally) making my life easier. Thank you. Also, the conversation reminded me of this image I saw recently.

Donovan Burns

Yeah I'm always fine with a long conversational podcast because unlike most other media 1) I can easily pause it 2) it usually fills up a work day (Six hours would be my limit)

Donovan Burns

I don't know what she looks like, so I'm picturing her as an ethereal floating spark

Donovan Burns

Yes! If you see a Speed Racer dvd in a thrift shop, pick it up. If you already own a Speed Racer dvd then still get it and find sometime who needs a Speed Racer dvd.

Donovan Burns

Our gas station premade sandwiches are both dogshit and very uncreative. The standard is a rubbery and entirely too large hoagie roll, lettuce, maaaybe tomato, 'cheese-product' slices, beef/ham/turkey, and mayo/mustard packets if you're lucky. If you don't like that there's a slim possibility of a regular sandwich bread egg/tuna/chicken that's either horrifically dry or a sopping wet mess.

Great Joe

There's a UHD release out

Jack Swansey

Cora waits until the very end to drop that she’s a GM-era Saab sicko too?!?! (I do not mind the long runtime at all, this podcast got me halfway from LA to Oakland)

Tran Girlismo (& Victoria Scott)

This genuinely makes me so happy, I’m so glad we can help a little and that your daughter has support from you!! 💜💜💜

Ashley F

And you don't even get a drink and a snack for a reduced price over all? Truly a terrible place

heffa

Yass Cora is the awesomeness 💜 ...even if she is Canceled for putting a piston engine 🤮 in an RX7 😁

Jessica Paulson

And, apparently, I need to read up on Morgans, because I saw pictures of Cora’s little runabout and thought it odd it had four wheels. If we’re talking Morgan, the first thing I imagine is the three-wheeler. As a British car enthusiast, I shall hang my head in shame! Although, we all know the Zenith of British motoring excellence is the Triumph TR7!

Jessica Paulson

A pre-transition me with “Sadie,” still sporting barn dust…

Kevin

Hard agree that Chrysler peaked in the mid-90s. In addition to the good points made in the pod: their bands had coherent identities; the early Neon and Cloud cars were more sophisticated (OHC, wishbone suspension) than competing domestic cars; DSM cars were still good; and the Ram was legitimately competitive with Chevy/Ford after years of being an also-ran. Really the only weak point was the lack of a muscle car.