The Ka-Chat

Listen - These horrible little creatures have gotta sleep sometime, right? And if we can just figure out where... well, then we're in business. Join John and Lucas as they explore the idea of housing in the Carsverse!

I think this should explain everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nmwSTPIeXk

Who doesn't love a buffet, ya know? A good old fashioned round up. Roughly 10 - 15 different Carsverse characters looked at in rapid succession. So that's what The Ka-Chat boys have brought for you today! Join us as we look into everything from mummies to monorails in this doozy of episode.

Oh, say can you hear? This podcast, that is. Well good! Cause we've released another episode of it, this time exploring... various America themed things, I guess? Yeah, that'll work.

Hey, have y'all heard about this Zelda guy? Why are there so many legends about him? And why is he apparently crying in his new game? That's right folks, the inclusion of the ability to (sort of) build cars in the The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has given us just enough of an excuse to talk about it for this week's episode! Which is good, because it's pretty much all either of us has been doing or thinking about for.... a while now.

Why write a description when it all fits in the title?

***The following description was written by ChatGPT based on the prompt "Write an episode description for an episode of The Ka-Chat about using ChatGPT for ideas" and is better than anything Lucas has ever written for this***   In this episode of "The Ka-Chat", John and Lucas are feeling a bit stuck on ideas for their podcast, so they decide to turn to an unlikely source for inspiration - ChatGPT, the AI language model. They ask ChatGPT to provide them with some prompts and ideas for future episodes, and hilarity ensues as they riff on ChatGPT's suggestions. From ridiculous fan theories to the most bizarre Cars movie merchandise, John and Lucas have a blast using ChatGPT's ideas as a jumping off point for their comedy gold. Along the way, they also discuss the pros and cons of using AI for creative inspiration, and whether or not ChatGPT could ever truly replace human creativity. So join us for a hilarious and thought-provoking episode of "The Ka-Chat", where we explore the intersection of comedy, creativity, and artificial intelligence!

It finally happened. After 148 episodes, John and Lucas finally decided to talk about something they are at least a little bit knowledgable about. And all it took was The Pokémon Company releasing a Pokémon that is quite literally a living car engine for them to do it.

Listen, I don't know a lot about the subject of convergent evolution, but from my limited understanding, it states that we will eventually all become crabs. So this episode is like that but Cars.

We've talked a lot about normal sized vehicles. We've explored the world of giant vehicles pretty extensively. We've even discussed tiny vehicles at length. But today? It's time we finally break down the exciting world of slightly smaller Cars that are not forklifts. Try not to get too excited, y'all.

Listen, we've gotten pretty good at predicting these movies over the past several years. So why would we waste our time pitching Cars 5-7 when we can skip all the way to the most interesting entry of the series, Cars 8? If only there was another long running series we could base this that has to do with cars and racing and above all else... F A M I L Y. That sure would be helpful for us, let us know if you think of one!

Hey.... maybe we should be writing some of this down? This week, we do just that, enshrining some of The Ka-Chat's biggest theories and observations in a living document, while leaving room for many, many more to be added. The Ka-Channon: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12m9vbUNNdQESXoUSscbuTAWPH-paFKpy4ZKU_jAqK3c/edit?usp=sharing 

Babies. What are they? We just don't know. And we know even less about the theoretical car versions of these tiny creatures that come from... somewhere? John won't tell me where he got Rory. It's starting to piss me off. Anyway, this one is about car babies.

Alright, straight up? This one isn't about Cars. We just got through Cars on the Road, we've been waiting for this day for a year and a half, we deserve a reward, alright??? So with that in mind and inspired by the many "Best of 2022" lists coming out right now, John and Lucas decided to just go through some shows, movies, games, and more that they really dug this year.

Well folks... 3 months ago, we hit the highway, a couple of friends. There were new adventures round every bend. And whether racing fast, or getting towed... we were ever together. Cars on the  Road

You'd think that an episode focused on basically Mad Max happening in the Carsverse would be one of our favorites, right? Well, we thought that too....

As a disclaimer - This is not an episode about the amazing Dreamworks film of the same name. That may come at some point, but it is not this episode.  There's some lore here, but our intrepid Cars-casters are scraping the bottom of the barrel to find it. Why did they do the episodes where Mater died and there were ghosts and dinosaurs and credible evidence of aliens first? It makes the rest seems a lot less... exciting, I guess?

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I spent a while trying to come up with a "Pagliacci the Clown" joke for the description, but being honest, I finished editing this one at 1:40 AM and just wanna go to sleep, so you're just gonna have to use your imagination for this one, guys. This is the clown one. It's not very good. (If you're curious: "But doctor, we ARE the only podcast brave enough to ask the question 'Hey what's up with Cars?'!" was as far as I got)

Alright, so the last few episodes have spoiled us a little bit. There are no dinosaurs in this one, no ghosts, no embodiments of the concept of death. BUT there is some wild body horror! And a fake alien abduction! And you KNOW Lucas and John make it weird and sexual, so that's sort of a Ka-Chat classic.

Hey, straight up? In this one? Mater dies. And like, he ends up being fine. But Mater does die in this one, and it's so important you know that. The Car Grim Reaper comes down and reaps his Car soul (Kia Soul?). Other stuff happens. I would go so far to say other pretty wild stuff involving Cars body horror. But the one important thing is definitely that Mater dies in this, the third episode of Cars on the Road entitled "Salt Fever".

Listen, y'all better hold onto your hats. Cause it's gonna get real spooky this week. Join the Ka-Chat boys as they dissect the second episode of Cars on the Road and it's many, many actual, canonical ghosts. (And one demon named Wraith Rod.) It's gets pretty wild, so be sure to buckle in!

Welcome.... to Carassic Park. We have spared no expense to bring you this episode exploring the premiere episode of Cars on the Road. Why are there dinosaurs? Why don't they look like Cars? What does this imply about all our theories of the Carsverse evolving from our own universe? And most importantly.... How does Lucas feel about his brand new, adult sized Lightning McQueen Crocs.

What is there to be said? It's here.

Hey, ya know how there are big mountains and plateaus and stuff shaped like cars and planes and trains and stuff all over the Carsverse? Well, Lucas finally convinced John that talking about that deserved an episode! Are these giant stone cars naturally occurring? Did someone carve them? Or, perhaps most concerningly, were these cars always made of stone? 

I'm going to be 100 with y'all - We didn't have an idea for this episode. So, we decided to take ideas from a site that gives out ideas! For free! So join us for the first (and hopefully last) edition of Lightning (McQueen) Round, where a random word is thrust upon us and we have to figure out how it relates to Cars as quickly as possible.

Folks, we suddenly have no time left. We only have a month until Cars on the Road arrives??? We used to joke like we had all the time in the world. Oh, how we long those simpler days.... Anyway, there was a new trailer for the Cars show! Seems pretty wild. Listen to us as we describe exactly how wild and in what specific ways!

Y'all ever hear of this funky purple car? Well, we just did and we're clamoring for as much info as he can give us. Why can only some of the animals talk? Why will none of the adults help Putt-Putt with his various and deadly tasks? And of course, how can we connect him to the Carsverse?

Ka-Chow? More like Cha-Ching!   That was the only idea I had for this description. Uh... We talk about the stock market. Mostly because it reminded of us of stock cars. That's... That's really it, I guess.

Hey why do these Cars wear hats and glasses and stuff sometimes? And are their paint jobs clothes or skin? Or both? And why didn't they make more adult sized Lightning McQueen crocs? And what is the central ethos under which The Ka-Chat operates? Somehow, we do answer all these questions in this episode. I dunno how really, but... it's a pretty good one!

I really wanted to title this episode Scents and Sensibility, but the episode has nothing to do with Jane Austen or her novels, and the title had nothing to do with Cars. So altogether, a pretty bad title. Anyway - This week, we've got a pretty gross episode for ya! Join us as we discuss what cars smell like, what smells they like and wouldn't like, and most importantly - How do they smell in the first place?

Listen, we didn't plan for this one to get a little wild. We never thought it could! But quite frankly, we spend most of the episode debating what could even be a rat in this world, and our top candidates are the concept of filth, a beyblade, and a human man. So. All pretty good jumping off points, and let me tell ya, we jump off of all of them.

Y'all seen the new Marvel joint? It's pretty good, but it (along with the other 5-10 multiverse centered movies that have come out recently) has thinking... What if there was a Cars Multiverse? And how can we work Mad Max into it, since it fits for the title pun so well? Are we looking at more of Crisis on Infinite Earths, or a Space Jam situation? All of those questions and more, answered in this episode! (Spoilers for the new Dr Strange movie are present in this episode, we make it clear when they are about to start though, and they end at 17:41!)

Y'all. This movie is not very good. If you like it, more power to ya, but we don't care for it that much. That being in mind, we do a pretty bad job explaining what actually happens in the movie and kind of reference everything as if you also watched this bad spin-off of an okay kids movie. So I imagine you might be a bit lost for this one. You can always listen to our first episode on this movie (Episode 20) if you want more context, or you can just ride it out. It probably won't make much more sense anyway.

An episode posted on time, two weeks in a row? What is this, a podcast or something? Anyway, this week, John and Lucas have had enough, and they're taking a stand. If gas prices are this high in our world, what must they be like in the Carsverse, and what horrible effects would that have on a society even more dependent on fuel than ours? Also, we make a bunch of jokes and whatnot about farts, but we get it all out of our system at the beginning of the episode out of respect for your time.

Ya know, Pixar has a lot on their plate. With all the animation they have to be doing for the upcoming Cars on the Road series, we thought it might be a good idea to take a weight off their shoulders and pitch some ideas for them. Nothing crazy - Just a crossover with Gilmore Girls, a out of control spell wreaking havoc on Mia and Tia, and a visit to a local prison. I mean, according to the concept art, they're literally traveling through time and meeting dinosaurs, so....

Listen. Lucas screwed up something on the backend and didn't realize that episodes weren't publishing for the past few weeks. So uh. It's been a minute, and Lucas is sorry about that. But we're coming back with what we think is a pretty dang good one. You ever pay much attention to all the little sponsors and brand names in the background of these movies? Well, it's about time we started to, cause man. There are some crazy companies, products, and stores in our favorite Carsverse. (Also we spend 15-20 minutes talking about Cars 2 Monopoly, a board game Lucas's friend Natalie got him. You've got to sort of expect stuff like that by now, right?)

Could we have done an episode about both the summer and winter olympics all at once? Yeah, for sure, but listen man. We're in the 100's now. We gotta do every possible thing we can to stretch this thing out and reach Cars: On the Road. Ends up working out anyway, as we do spend 15 minutes talking about the bios of 2 pretty minor characters that have almost nothing to do with the Olympics.

Look... Pixar invented a country. They looked at the list of countries in the world and said: "These are great and we want them to be featured in the series of movies about talking Cars we're making. But what if there was one more?" And then they just made it happen. I dunno man. it's not even a plot point? It's revealed in the supplementary bio of a Car who doesn't even have any lines from Cars 2? And I know these descriptions are supposed to be concise and not really take up too much space, but we didn't really talk about this in the episode. WHY did they make Rip Clutchgoneski from the Republic of New Rearendia? Why not an existing country? What did that add to the world/movie/story? And even if we don't discount the addition to the world, if they wanted that bit of world building, why hide it in a bio that only a few people read? I guess the colors of the car don't line up to existing countries like the others do, so it's not completely hidden. And it's not like it's the only time they've had an entire character's story be contained in their bio. I dunno. Just seems weird. Anyway, hope you enjoy the episode!

Welcome to the family Madrigal! Or, at least, welcome to two guys talking about the family Madrigal. And Cars, and how it the two relate to one another. You may think: "This one seems like a stretch. Are you guys just doing this episode because you like Encanto and also to catch the latest pop culture wave?" And well... You'd be right! But you should listen anyway, because I think we do a pretty good job breaking it down.

Listen folks. We really don't care for this one. We know it's children's movie about talking Planes, but it just has a horrible message, annoying characters, bad writing, and it makes no sense. We definitely do some theorizing and whatnot, but I'll be honest with ya, this is mostly us complaining about this movie that I gotta assume most of you haven't seen. So. I hope you like that!

Alright, two things right off the bat you should know about this episode: It contains NO spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home It DOES contain some descriptions of real spiders, if you want to avoid that. That being said, now that we think about it, how would a spider work in the Carsverse, let alone a Spider-Man? Could a car swing from building to building? How would they protect their secret identity? And are all the cars already symbiotes?

Oh you KNOW your boys love making new mini-series, so we done did it again. This time we are finally making some choices. If anyone is qualified to make these choices, wouldn't it be us? So join us as we both come in with our chosen champions, debate them, and finally come to a consensus. Some choices may shock you. Some may anger you. But they will be made, either way.

Alright, we've had enough. What is the name of the kooky tow truck sidekick from these movies? Is it Mater or Tow Mater? It seems like even the wiki is confused, it's got two separate entries for the two names! Wait... Unless.... What if Mater and Tow Mater aren't even the same person? What if there are two separate entities named Mater and Tow Mater? And even worse... what if there are more?  

Listen, the Cars on the Road news and Thanksgiving may have thrown us off a couple weeks, but nothing can stop us from doing our grim work. (Note: In this context, "Our grim work" refers to rewatching the movie Cars 3  in order to generate content for our Cars-centric Podcast) How did like our journey back to the most serious entry in the Cars canon? Well, honestly folks, we were pretty harsh on it this time around. Maybe we just got through most of the wacky shenanigans the first time round, so this time we were free to give notes on characters, writing, and plot points? But don't you worry, fine listeners, we still have plenty of Cars based wacky shenanigans to get into.

Listen folks, we were going to stick to our schedule and rewatch Cars 3 this week, but hey, they don't put out concept art and release an official name for Cars on the Road every week, ya know? Join us as we stare deeply into these pieces of concept art and they stare deeply right back at us, cause folks, it looks like we may be returning to Mater's Tall Tales levels of buck wild-ness.

So they dropped a trailer for Lightyear, right? But like.... how does it fit in with Toy Story? Is it a movie from within the Toy Story movies? Is it all taking place within a child's imagination? Or was there a real, human man who existed within the Toy Story Universe named Buzz Lightyear who went to space and they made a bunch of toys about? Join us as we travel beyond infinity in search of answers!

Folks, it is spook season once again! And this year, we found a movie that is pretty much what it says on the tin. Like, you're not supposed to judge things by their covers, but honestly, you can pretty effectively do that this time. It's a doozy folks. Vulgar, gross, gory, and very British, so if any of those things sound like they aren't up your alley, maybe just listen to us describe this one instead of checking it out on your own. It is a pretty fun one though!

Alternate titles for this episode include: "SUVNL", "SNLUV", and "SNL is coming for our jobs". Anyway, SNL did a sketch entitled "Cars 4" last week. And folks, they got the man himself to participate. That's right, with the inclusion of Owen Wilson, it is officially close enough to canonical that we can do a whole episode of our podcast about it. How do we manage to do an entire podcast about a 5 minute comedy sketch? Well, we have to go some places with it, folks. We only hope you're willing to follow us to them. (Also sorry this is a day late, Future Lucas literally just forgot to edit and post the episode. Pobody's Nerfect!)

Oh, a new Marvel show? People are into it? It has an easily replicable formula that can be applied to other franchises? Interesting.... Anyway, uh, we have a new mini series! In this one, we put on our speculating hats, and take a look at the Carsverse if things had gone differently. For the first episode, we look at a seemingly simple question: What if Lightning's tires hadn't blown in the first race in Cars? You wouldn't think that this would result in an early death for McQueen and the decimation of Radiator Springs, but let me tell ya: We think it does.

We did it folks. We managed to put off watching Cars 2 for a second time for 100 episodes! To celebrate we decided to... watch Cars 2? Aw dang. We really messed this whole thing up. That's right folks, the Ka-Chat boys are at it again, this time going over this movie with a fine toothed comb. Did Mater almost kill Luigi once? Do we feel any differently about the portrayal of the Lemons? And do Sally and Flo have some sort of... wheel fetish?