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2018 Haters' Guide to the Top 25

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4.8535 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Nick Martin joins Drew and Roth to preview the most corrupt sport on earth. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

We're back. We're back. We're back. It's a dead cat. I'm Drew. That's brought. Broth. Bras back from vacation. Brought. Did you have a nice vacation? It was good. The vacation part was good. The car part was depressing and stressful. But the vacation part was excellent. What happened to your car? It died, Drew. Thank you for asking. It died an untimely... Well, kind of a... It probably had another 200,000 miles in it, given that it was like a Honda accord from when they used to make them to go 350,000 miles, but it's dead now. Oh, it's all the way dead? It's all the way. It had a blown head gasket, so it's one of those deals that would have been like a $3,000 fix for a $500 car, and this was just the best way to handle it. but yeah, I didn't do anything. It also was in, you know, like it needed to be painted. It had a lot of things wrong with it, but you spent a lot of money fixing things that weren't the head gasket before somebody identified it as the thing that was fucked up, though. So that was pretty tight. I have owned every variation of Japanese Volvo, and they're all built essentially to last 300,000 miles,

1:13.7

but there's always something. Yeah. Like it's selling a Jaguar that's always in the shop. It's

1:18.4

just you'll be cruising along for like 50,000 miles and then it's like, well, it needs a turning

1:23.8

belt. So that's $900,000. Yeah, building that's, that was like the real innovation.

1:28.0

That was like before Steve Jobs had invented the idea of your computer just stopping working every 36 months or whatever. This was like, they were like, well, there's a belt in it. And it doesn't need to be there, but every two years, that belt is going to explode. So wherever you are, you're going to get real upset. And then you'll just get a new belt. That's fine. And the car will live forever as long as you keep replacing the belt every two years.

1:46.8

Yeah, we bought minivan and the minivan So wherever you are, you're going to get real upset, and then you'll just get a new belt. That's fine. And the car will live forever as long as you keep replacing the belt every two years.

1:46.8

Yeah, we bought a minivan.

1:47.9

And the minivan, they were like, there's no timing belts.

1:49.8

We're past timing belts now.

1:50.9

You don't have to get the timing belt replaced for like $2,000 if it breaks. And then like a year later it was like, well, the grooming basket change.

1:57.9

I was going to say, it's like, it's a chip now.

2:00.2

So like it just won't turn on.

2:01.4

But we even, you know, we got rid of the belts.

2:03.2

Those were clumsy.

2:04.0

That was very 1.0. the grooming basket change. I was going to say, it's like, it's a chip now. So like it just won't turn on.

2:01.4

But we even,

2:01.8

you know,

2:02.3

we got rid of the belts.

2:03.2

Those were clumsy.

2:04.0

That was very 1.0. By the way, the deep baritone laughter you hear in the background is our own college football expert and disgusting Duke graduate. Nick Martin. Say a load of Nick everybody. Hey, look, it's pepperoni Nick.

2:16.1

What's going on, guys?

2:17.5

You can't see me on doing the Kermit collapse.

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