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 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 lots like “Tran Girlismo,” the brand new podcast from on-and-off Jalopnik author Victoria Scott and good friend of the positioning 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 lately. The podcast, at the least in its preliminary episode, goals to handle one easy query: Why?
Why does automotive tradition really feel so out of attain?
Listening to Scott and Hofstetter discuss how automotive tradition has grown an increasing number of 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 have the ability to afford the identical vehicles at this time. I’ve additionally owned loads of efficiency automobiles previously 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 earnings from lovers scraping collectively change from the sofa to go racing.
“Tran Girlismo” is, at the 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 contours up trigger and impact to elucidate how issues obtained so unhealthy. The hosts additionally supply hopeful avenues for the longer term, like sim racing, which might allow us to all expertise observe driving even once we’re priced out of the actual factor. And sometime, optimistically, I will bully my method 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 may also be discovered on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
