In this episode Mike and Pete discuss the Joe Rogan Podcast episode 1171 with Nick Yarris. This emotional podcast is hard to described but in a few words it's touching, depressing and inspirational.
After discussing the JRE Podcast, Mike and Pete touch on Pete's new BMW X3 and what he likes most about it. Mike makes mention of his recent trip to Boca Raton, Florida where he got a glimpse of the all-new 2021 BMW M3, M4, iNext, MNext, iX3 and much more.
Pete eludes to a new segment idea for episode 3 that he calls what's aged worst in automotive.
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#autoish #autoishpodcast #mikeandpete #nickyarris #joerogan #bmw
In this episode Mike and Pete discuss the Joe Rogan Podcast episode 1171 with Nick Yarris. This emotional podcast is hard to described but in a few words it's touching, depressing and inspirational.
After discussing the JRE Podcast, Mike and Pete touch on Pete's new BMW X3 and what he likes most about it. Mike makes mention of his recent trip to Boca Raton, Florida where he got a glimpse of the all-new 2021 BMW M3, M4, iNext, MNext, iX3 and much more.
Pete eludes to a new segment idea for episode 3 that he calls what's aged worst in automotive.
Please like and subscribe and as always... Thanks for listening
#autoish #autoishpodcast #mikeandpete #nickyarris #joerogan #bmw
spk_0: 0:06
Welcome to the auto ish podcast. I'm Pete and that's Mike. Today we're gonna be talking about a few different topics, but we'll start out going over our first podcast and just make a a minor correction and we'll start out podcast with that last week. We're talking about swordsman lead Smith. Mike, tell us a little about that.
spk_1: 0:30
Yeah, um, just wanted Teoh make a little correction on last week. And before I start that I just want to say, um, tell everybody how much fun I had making Episode one. It really was fun experience, and I'm looking forward to many more episodes and, ah, I wasn't really sure what to expect. But I have to say I really enjoyed it, So I hope you all did a swell. So the correction of Pete's referring to is in Episode one I'd refer to an episode on Tim Ferriss, and at the time I didn't know the episode number and kind of misquoted the whole thing. So I wanted to just go over that real quick for all of you that wanna check it out. It's Tim Farriss is Episode 2 36 So it goes back a ways and the, uh, the guy's name is Carter Murray, and he's 1/17 century blade. Smith and I said seventh generation Swart Smith or something crazy like that. But, you know, you get the gist, but I just want to make that correction because it's a really great episode. Um, and I think anyone who's interested in that stuff should go back and give it a listen. So Episode 2 36 Tim Phares and I now have a pop filter, so I feel like a program.
spk_0: 1:48
So it looks good. You got the arm going.
spk_1: 1:51
Oh, yeah, I'm all set.
spk_0: 1:55
So this week we're gonna talk a little bit about one of the more interesting podcast that Joe Rogan's, and he's done a whole bunch of really fascinating interviews. He's very engaged listener. He finds very unique guests, whether it be comedians to politicians and, you know, sometimes these lesser known guys So you know Nick Yorish. Really interesting story. Mike brought this to my attention, uh, listening to it in the car and I'm not gonna lie. I had to pull over there for a few minutes and just kind of regroup at a wipe some tears away it was. It was a tough
spk_1: 2:38
definitely. It's a tough interview, and, you know, I hadn't heard anything about this. You know, As I told the story about listening to the podcast, I found other people were aware of this story and I had never heard of it, though, Um, and just so everyone knows, it's Joe Rogan's podcast. Episode 11 71 Um, and Nick was convicted of murder, rape and abduction. Um, I believe it was in the eighties, like mid late 80 something like that, and, uh, in an effort to try and get out of a lesser charge. He I believe he pled guilty or was kind of coerced into admitting some guilt in this in this case and after 22 years on death row was finally acquitted with DNA evidence. And it's a pretty amazing story. And you know what? What had kind of moved me aboutthe story and you know why I told Pete I thought he should listen to it and the rest of you out there as well. He spent a lot of time, obviously, in solitude. He spent a lot of time reading books. He read over 9000 books and, um, at the age of seven. Had head trauma and had a speech impediment as a result and worked very diligently the trying to work on his on his speech and was very eloquent, very well spoken and just a very depressing story. But I think a really empowering stories. Well, in some ways,
spk_0: 4:12
yeah. Yeah. I mean, you have been through so many different trauma start his life in that first prison that he was in was so before the rape and murder accusation. You know, he had been in jail for for a stolen car. And that particular prison No talking. Yeah. You
spk_1: 4:37
weren't allowed to have a conversation of many kinds. Not with anybody or yourself.
spk_0: 4:41
So he's for two years, which is crazy to think about, um, especially, you know, as he describes himself. He was kind of, Ah, rambunctious, energetic, kind of. He says it himself. I kind of like a stupid kid. Yeah, uh, you
spk_1: 4:57
know, a know it all brat,
spk_0: 4:58
right? I think he actually said at one point he got in trouble because he's seeing himself. Happy birthday, right? Yeah. And he said he took a beating for it. Um, you know, really interesting thing I found most compelling in that you had mentioned that the speech impediment and overcoming yet and how he did it. And he said he ran over 9000 books and, you know, he wanted to be able to speak eloquently at his execution, which just the thought of that is, you know, heartbreaking. Uh, a cz an innocent man. But in the podcast, he's crying. Oh, yes, he's overcome. And But he says something like, I don't want to cry anymore. And he stops. Yeah, And you know that mental ability to kind of overcome that and then Jos? Like what? Like what? What? It's okay. You don't have to cry. But why? Yeah,
spk_1: 6:00
Yeah, He said, Yeah, go ahead, cry. It's all right. I mean, you know, go on Death row for 22 years. Okay? Yeah, you can cry.
spk_0: 6:07
And he says to Joe, like I'm feeling emotional because I can see in your eyes how it's affecting you. That's why I feel like he's such an engaged listen, Erdogan is, and you know he could see that that that was a kn interesting observation that here's this guy talking about these horrible things that have happened in his life, like just over and over again. And his concern was, you know, he's putting Joe through.
spk_1: 6:35
Yeah, he was. Yeah, absolutely. He would. He wanted to stop crying because he wanted to stop. You know, bringing Joe down basically what he's getting right, which is really kind of Ah, an amazing level of empathy.
spk_0: 6:50
Yeah. And then the, uh, I haven't watched as you watch the Netflix. He said there was something. 13. I know that
spk_1: 6:59
I didn't. And I do remember mentioning something. I think somebody was doing a documentary which I think Nick had an issue with or something, but, you know, But I haven't really That's the first exposure I had to. Nick and I haven't watched anything else yet. Right. But I probably will.
spk_0: 7:19
Yeah, there was something else sees saying that there might be a major motion picture kind of, you know, acting out his story, which I you know, I haven't seen that come out yet. Um, but certainly an interesting character would be intrigued to see how they bring him to life, whether it be in a documentary or in a kind of more dramatic sized version of it. I don't know how you make his story more dramatic than it already is.
spk_1: 7:43
Yeah, it would be hard to be that. It's pretty amazing. And I think, um, you know the one part of the story, which was amazing to me as well. He talks about how they stopped at this rest area between transferred from one prison to another prison. There were two guards. They're in a in a police car and they stop it a rest area because Nick had to use the restroom and he goes to the bathroom. The cop is blocking the door, and when Nick's done, the cop goes, You know, I I got to go next. So he so Nick walks out of the restroom, headed back to the car, and the cop who's in the car waiting for the the officer who's in the bathroom thinks that Nick must have overpowered him and, you know, figures His partner's down, jumps out of his car and fires a shot at Nick, which, you know, thankfully misses him. But he freaks out and runs and it goes on the run and hide IEDs in the grass, gets away, gets down to Florida and he's like, You know, what the hell am I doing right now? I mean, he turned himself in, but I mean, he was almost shot in the face. You just There's just so many things in his in his story that there's so many incidents like that are just really amazing.
spk_0: 9:05
Yeah, it's a series of extraordinarily unlucky things and unfortunate circumstances and then also a series of lucky things. It's, you know, this this copy has a point blank shot, misses and then he doesn't even run far away. The way he described his running was interesting, too, because it's like I could feel the cop chasing me. And he decided to to run in the direction of a diner, right? Because he knew that the copy and take a shot with so many pedestrians in front of him and innocent people from cities like I ran towards the innocent people could write, the cop wouldn't shoot. And But when he gets around the diner, he ends up just falling in the grass, laying out in the grass until they leave. And he can actually over here, the two cops blaming each other. This is your fault. And I think, guys, Look, I
spk_1: 10:00
think he said he was in the grass behind the copy. Ended up behind the cop car, not far in the grass, and they never found him. And they took off and left,
spk_0: 10:10
right? He got away. He ran for four hours straight. It was just crazy, like, you know, I just you know, like I said, extraordinarily unlucky events, and then some just really unbelievable things. And, you know, it makes you think about my life like, well, what I did today when I do this week, Okay? I
spk_1: 10:27
worked. Right. Pizza? Yeah, Well, e mean, you're saying lucky and unlucky, and I'm thinking about the DNA part. Oh, well, so you know, he finds out he's in, he's on death row. He finds out about DNA evidence, I believe, from the O. J. Simpson trial.
spk_0: 10:43
It was a lawyer.
spk_1: 10:44
Yeah, and he said, You know what? This is my way out of this. There's there's a weight now, like technology's caught up to this and I'll be able to get out of here with this technology and the way he tells the story that the original DNA sample from Pennsylvania is sent to California to be tested. The box falls over and the sample spills out, and it's contaminated and dashes his hopes of being acquitted due to DNA evidence. And five years later, they find more DNA evidence. Or there's another way to test it. Right where they can determine that. Yes. In fact, you know, it was somebody else, and he had nothing to do with it. And he truly is acquitted, right? It wasn't him.
spk_0: 11:31
Yeah, And it was the judge who So what sparked him to even have the DNA tested again, wasn't it Nick himself? It was the judge. And because Nick wrote the letter to the judge, basically just said I wanna be executed.
spk_1: 11:49
Yeah, he's like I'm done.
spk_0: 11:50
Yeah. So I'm on death row, like, just let's do this. And the judge then reopens this case, looks out and goes well. But now that we can test this d n a, test it deaf and you know, he gets the phone call, and he's like, it wasn't even, like, necessarily Happy day. You know, his own lawyer was like we used to make funny behind your back, and he's like, Yeah, about your jerk like Okay, like, you know? Yeah.
spk_1: 12:13
Yeah. He was very emotional about that part as well. You know, there there's the whether it was a public defender. His lawyer, whoever was who's supposed to have faith in him and believe in him says, you know, we just we just figured you did it, all right? Yeah. Yeah, they were. Their heart really wasn't in it.
spk_0: 12:31
And the other thing I was thinking about waas. It's related to this, but it's a little bit of it. Separation is the amazing ability that we have in our current age to hear this guy's story because, you know, you go back. How would we have ever known about these kinds of stories you maybe would read about in a book? Maybe there'd be a newspaper article, but here we are. We can hear it firsthand from the individual in, you know, from his perspective, it's it's so fascinating. We have this opportunity to learn from it, to feel the emotions of it. We can put ourselves into it, and, like, I
spk_1: 13:10
think it speaks to podcast to Yeah, I mean, you're looking at a format where I mean, that episode was it had to be over an hour, Julia. And there's this open forum where, um, you know, on a podcaster in that environment, you're not restricted by commercials and hard ends and hard outs and and, you know, sticking within these guardrails that that, you know, the traditional media has. And he could just tell a story.
spk_0: 13:37
Yeah, yeah, it's There's a writer that I always enjoyed the name Studs Turbo. He would interview like working folk, just normal people get. And he had a way of asking questions that elicited the person to maybe be a little more introspective in their own life than they normally would be. And I It feels weird to say it because Studs Turkel is more of an academic kind of study on the American culture in life. But you have Joe Rogan's kind of our modern day version of it. He's telling different stories, but in this case, he's really asking this person's, you know, just perspective on life and how. How interesting is how you prove. You
spk_1: 14:29
know, I think there's a reason that Joe Rogan's one of the top podcast out, and it's got interview. Yeah, he's great Interview of people. Um, I think if we ever get to the point where it episode 1435 will probably pretty good
spk_0: 14:44
attitude. I think so.
spk_1: 14:47
But let's hope we get to that point. Yeah, um, but he does ask really great questions and And generally has really good people on because he is good at the top of the field. Yeah, I think it's really easy for him to get. Guess
spk_0: 15:03
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, people fight over that shirt that show for sure. Um, switching gears. We're gonna test out a new segment. So are our new segment. I just knew things were into That's it because you get a nice theme song for new things. Where into?
spk_1: 15:22
Yeah, we can come up with a whole team's only
spk_0: 15:23
19 fifties like Esso commercial. Uh,
spk_1: 15:29
50 soap. The funny thing is, I can actually kind of picture that I got the sound of
spk_0: 15:35
my head. I believe that. Um, So the new thing that I'm into is my new car. Um, so I was driving a 2000 and two Lexus I s and it waas pretty beat 150,000 miles, ate many lunches in their shares, build many cups of coffee. And they're
spk_1: 16:03
very reliable car, though
spk_0: 16:04
reliable, although those tires with those rims I probably went through three tires a year by, like, just on flats, like just parroting a bump. Not just the normal wear and tear. We're just We're talking Hit a silent bump and blew it out. So hard drive, but a fun drive. Little quirky car, but quick and traffic could move around around Yeah,
spk_1: 16:29
I mean a good all around vehicle. Yes. Good. Good. Commuter car. Um, I don't think that car does any one particular job extremely well. It covers a lot of ground is just a good all around car, reliable, Relatively good on gas. Gets the job done. Not gonna draw a lot of attention.
spk_0: 16:49
Yeah. Yeah. Um, but it was time to retire that vehicle. And so we've moved on to my first BMW and man the difference. So it's ah, BMW x three. It's a 2016. And so, obviously the cars are night and day from a body style standpoint. All that kind of stuff. Technology, Whatever.
spk_1: 17:12
Yeah. Welcome to the club.
spk_0: 17:14
Handing out. Thank you. Thank you. The most striking thing about it is What a quiet driving this. It's
spk_1: 17:23
absolutely They're they're all like that most of the models in the lineup or like
spk_0: 17:28
that. Yeah, yeah, you know, in New Jersey were constantly surrounded by traffic and cars and this and that Whatever. I want a quiet quiet It's places in my life is now my car which was never the case.
spk_1: 17:40
Yeah, yeah, they're They're very known for that. And that's you know, and I'm sure you'll mention this as well, but people have a tendency to drive faster in them. They really don't realize how fast they're going, not just because the car's handled so well. But there are quieter. And you know that that reference, that famous frame of reference that you would typically have in a car that wind noise is just not there,
spk_0: 18:02
right? Uh, 100% I, my brother in law and I were driving to the Chip Giant game a few weeks back and through in sport mode through the manual we hauled and it just went It just went is great. Um, I mean, the other thing that really stands out is the breaking for such a such a size increase in car. I would've thought I would have lost something in terms of a break, not the case. And all the corn stops on time.
spk_1: 18:33
Yeah, every every BMWs made with breaks that are essentially oversized. They're larger than the car would require by wait, Um, and that's, you know, that's the design Characters ticket's a performance characteristic, of course. Um, but it leads to their safety, and I don't think a lot of consumers put BMW in that safety category. They generally put us in the performance category. You know, it's the sporty car, but it's always been a very safe car, and it starts with the brakes. It starts with that active safety stuff. First, avoid the accident first, right? You know if the car can stop 20 feet shorter because got larger breaks that 20 feet might be the difference in rear ending. That card money you are, we're hitting that deer or whatever. The case may be right. We have a lot of the orange jerseys crazy. That's somebody who's originally from Vermont. I've seen more deer in Jersey than you did in the old screen. My whole upbringing, um, a lot dear on side of the road to Yes, they're sleeping. Yeah, that's what my wife says. It's just they're just having a little nap. Um, yeah. I mean, the brakes or something. That most people It's one of those things that they that they notice right away. Brakes are a little sensitive there, You know, the car stops really well. Really good feedback in the brake pedal. Um, but that's one of those safety frontline safety things that you can't explain to people. You know. You just have to feel
spk_0: 20:03
Yeah, a CZ. We get into this segment and doom or versions of it, I'm sure that things will were into will get a little quirky, weird and sometimes Oh, no doubt. But I think we'll always come back to talking about BMW at the end of the day. And that will be always a new thing that we talked about. So,
spk_1: 20:22
yeah, you know, I've got a pretty deep knowledge of the brands have been with BMW for over 20 years at this point, so yeah, yeah, I know a couple things about BMWs.
spk_0: 20:33
Absolutely. While that'll be our teaser for Episode three, because I think running into some good stuff there, so stay tuned for That is everything you'd like to add as we wrap.
spk_1: 20:45
Yeah, you know, I could talk about BMWs for, like, the next six hours, But in the event that I don't mention this in one of the future episodes, as we're talking about BMWs, maybe on and because I just told this story this weekend and, uh and as I mentioned to you earlier, and I'll tell the audience as well, I just came back from Boca. I was down in Florida in a BMW event, Um, and it was Thea America's brand summit, So BMW introduced. Basically, let us see all the upcoming product of future cars that the public won't see for in some cases, another year from now. They took our phones. We had to go through security. They you know, they had wands and it was nuts. But they wanted to make absolutely sure there were no cameras, no spy glasses, no phones. There's no way to get pictures of these cars, but I did see the new M three. The New M for had a chance to see the new to Siri's grand coupe, which is coming up very soon, actually have that in another month. Um, that that will be out in February of 2020. So we're looking forward to that. I saw the new M next, which is basically the I ate replacement. So same thing, Um, pivoting, going style doors. Very. Lamborghini is very cool car they're talking about north of 600 horsepower, so it will be a true supercar. Now, that was pretty cool. The eye next is an all electric SUV. Essentially
spk_0: 22:17
division. Did you see the news today on Homer? No. So they're gonna bring a Hummer out again, but electric and 1000 horsepower?
spk_1: 22:30
Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. I mean, ah, electric motors are capable of of a tremendous amount of horsepower, primarily torque. I mean, they're they're capable of instantaneous just gobs of torque,
spk_0: 22:42
but just surprising, like a car that's gonna be that big toe. Beef it up that much, and then it's like 0 to 60 in, like, three, whatever. Three seconds to point.
spk_1: 22:54
Well, I mean, it's the same things. That task list they're capable of just crazy saying blistering 0 to 60
spk_0: 23:01
times. Yeah. Yeah, Well, I wanna hear more about the The cards are being Debbie. Let's save that for Episode three. Cool. Um, we'll take from there. This has been the auto ish podcast with Pete and Mike. Thank you for listening, and we'll see you next time.