Apex Adjacent

There's a first time for everything, and this week Dave discloses his first warning light experience with his new to him GS F. Ian also has a light on his dash, and fire in his eyes. We love you!

Join us as we close out 2025 in our favorite way, by looking at your cars! Thank you everyone who sent their cars in for this year's show, we really appreciate you! Take care everyone and happy new year, we love you!

This week Ian reports in from the dairyland and increases the carbon footprint of our show by tenfold. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone, we love you!

This week Ian and Jenny tell us all about their 20th anniversary vacation! You'll hear all about he highs and lows of vintage car rental, how to fix a train cabin with a USB cable and more! Congrats on 20 years! We love you!

Some folks read an owner's manual as a cautionary tale while others take it as a challenge. I don't think you're going to have a hard time figuring out where each of our hosts land on this one. We love you!

Car things are happening this week! The GS F gets lined up and driven, the Abarth decides to give Dave the silent treatment, and Ian's VW Alltrack crackles oddly. Weird! We love you!!!

Dave's GS F has arrived! But he can't drive it just yet. UGH. WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART! We love you!

Paper bag, check. Breathing, check. Buckle up folks, this is happening, Dave is getting a new-to-him car and it's a biggie! We love you!

This week Dave discovers he won't be the only one owning his next car, and we're not talking about the bank. Think more hairy, more sassy, and with a big burnout predilection. Woah boy. We love you more than Ian loves doing donuts in rental cars (allegedly)!

Passenger Ian reports the highs and lows of his recent travels and Dave discloses his potentially pending automotive purchase. We love you!

Oh boy. Buckle up folks, this is the episode we've had on our minds since summertime. We're going to talk about it, the car that almost broke us, the Lexus LX 500h F Sport. Did we love it? You'll see, but rest assured, we love YOU.

This week Dave confesses his affection for an Ian recommendation and we dig into the psyche of Cybertruck owners groking themselves silly from inside their own cars. We love you!

This episode is almost "Oops all bleep bloops", but we find time to discuss the demise of Lexus LS, beginning our grieving process for one of the greatest sedans of ALL TIME. Pour one out for a real one everybody. We love you!

Our resident de-escalator gets a bit of publicity this week, advocating traffic calming measures in his own neighborhood. Join us as we talk about how to make streets safer for everyone. We love you!

This week we share some good news from the SCCA Autocross community and are amazed by a wild 'Murican Mali-Mino. We love you!

This week we talk about our Lemony race weekend and how your spouse's true crime obsession can help you in the garage, really! We love you!

This week Ian discusses his difficult duties and Dave debuts yet ANOTHER segment - Hondas We're Here For! You know who else we're here for? YOU! We love you!

Tinfinity! This week we briefly touch on our tenacious ten year run, talk more Mount Carmore, and find ourselves just as confused as a certain trash panda presented on a tire cover. It will mostly make sense, maybe. We love you!

Car ownership can inspire some wild journeys, and in this week's episode Ian and Dave discuss the voyage into the depths of the Lemons car dash, where hopefully OBD treasures await. We love you!

This week we continue our discussion to see if anyone or anything can dethrone the absolute blistering lineup that Toyota/Lexus brought circa 1998. We love you!

Ian's car needs to go to the shop and he gives us the deets on why. Dave talks about why Toyota/Lexus' 1998 lineup is living rent free in his head forever. We love you!

...The Dave will play. This week Dave dips his toe in the snap, crackle, and pop world of aftermarket tuning. Oh and Ian hates a Jeep. We love you!

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! We got to drive a heckin McLaren Artura Spider and we can't stop thinking about it! This whole episode is gonna be a gusher folks, we love the car and we love you!

In this episode Dave avoids financial ruin, at least in one form, but Ian might take the bait. Mattel may love your money, but we love YOU!

Covered in oil! This week we have our buddy Pat to thank for the wildly disruptive grenade he lobbed into Dave's day via Instagram. Let's get greasy and get into it! We love you!

You didn't know you had us to thank, but maybe you do? Who knows. It's late, we're getting silly, and we've got some goofy license plate games for you. We love you!

In this episode we continue our RMDE 2025 coverage with the absolutely delightful Hyundai IONIQ 9! If they only had the guts to make one...er...two changes, it would be PERFECT. We love you!

Hang on everyone, we finna do one journalism! This week we start with two cars from Stellantis, the 2024 Jeep Wagoneer S EV and the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona EV. We love you!

WHAT?!? Okay, so we did a Lemons race and it went WAY BETTER than expected! Tune in to keep this wild roller coaster ride going. We love you!

This week Ian hops in the passenger seat to ride along with Dave on his emotional roller coaster. We hint at some highs and wallow in the lows and bring you all along for the ride. We're sorry, and we love you.

This week we stare into the eyes of our most feared competitor and it turns out they're gosh darn handsome! Kidding aside, this week we dive deep into the influential and foundational elements of how we view competition and sportsmanship. We love you!

Holy turtle time, the Lemons car is finally running! We talk about what it took to get our turtle van running again and Dave brings a new segment to the show. Whether your tools are shiny, greasy, or anywhere in between, we love you!

And we're back! In our first post-500th episode Ian crafts an intriguing arc for a license plate game and baffles Dave with an automotive oddity. We love you!

We celebrated our 500th episode by throwing a party at Denver Racing Social, turning laps in their BANANAS full-motion racing sim setup, and subjecting everyone to a live recording of our show! We love you!

Ian graciously presents Dave with a tiny and adorable gift this week. Dave returns the favor by bringing a new segment to the show. We love you!

This week Ian gives us a multi-course meal of mostly motoring morsels. We love you!

Thanks for the episode title Peedah! This week Dave gets lifted and Ian has a boys night in and has a movie night with his firstborn. We love you!

Unfortunately there are tons of us that know the gut-rock feeling when righty-tighty turns to um...righty-loosey. Thankfully, we lucked out this time! We love you!

This week Ian has his own judgy gaze pointed right back at him and Dave unravels a mystery that was really only a mystery to him. We love you!

This week Ian is in his element as some very, VERY, dumb people have stepped into his wheelhouse. Take us away mobile ball pit, take us AWAY. We love you.

Whew! Despite a few technical difficulties, it's all computers after all, this episode felt like a return to form. Dave found Ian a new job, and Ian isn't too fond of Dave's F1 race watching method. We love you!

We had a few cords pulled on us in this episode! From Ian's kid taking him down a peg or two to Dave's literal cord getting pulled, we hung in there and kept this one from being a lost episode. We love you!

Those Swiss scamps are at it again gluing forged carbon nonsense to an already impossibly ugly car. And the poo cherry on this trash sundae? Our favorite karting place is closed for good. Ooof. RIP Unser. RIP Podium. We love you.

Just don't empty your tour bus poo tanks onto unsuspecting people below. This week Dave sees a weird and very slow thing happen, and Judge Ian discusses his moral failings. We love you!

This week Steve Edwards returns and joins us in person! We subject him to our recent Tropicathingy discovery and in exchange he gives us the skinny on Dakkar, overlanding, motorbikes and more! We love you!

This week us two old dogs learn a kind of new trick! We never knew these were a thing, and as usual, we're left with more questions than we have answers. We love you!

Heads up, fast-forward to 20:46 if you don't want to hear a bunch of current events/politics/news BS. In this show we start with a heavy topic, just wanted to let you know. Take care of yourselves everyone, we love you!

This week Ian talks us through his plastic surgery plans and Dave gets stung by the License Plate Game. We love you!

Sometimes you just want to be whisked away in a cloud of vapesmoke while being coddled in a mediocre compact sedan while the exhaust gently burbles behind you. Is that too much to ask? ENTER SKYDADI. We love you!

We're thrilled to have David Obuchowski back on the show this week! David is the creator and host of the amazing Tempest podcast, the author of intriguing and heartfelt essays and publications, and all-around fantastic person!

This week we see a Zillow listing that absolutely piques the interest of a very specific dumpster-driving demographic. Speaking of mistakes, we close the loop on the cars we missed for our 2024 Show Us Your Cars episode. We love you!

2025. Here we are. What's our first move? Well...talking about something we messed up. On hashtag brand baby! We love you!

It's that time of year, time to SHOW US YOUR CARS! Thank you everyone that submitted this year, we're so lucky to have all of you riding along with us. Take care everyone, happy holidays, we love you!

This week Dave gives Ian a rundown of the very real and technically almost kind of free Fiat 500e lease program. Ian comes in hot with an album that is VERY MUCH up Dave's alley. We love you!

Low angle. Fish-eye lens. Forced perspective. Sketchy lighting. A Lotus? Hmmm... This week we unpack the photographic techniques of an unquestionably interesting and possibly duplicitous realtor in the Pacific Northwest. We love you!

This week Ed Niedermeyer joins us in the virtual blanket fort! He's the author behind Ludicrus: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors and boy oh boy do we have some stuff to talk about! You'll love this conversation, we know we did! We love you!

This week we talk about coping, gratitude, and debut a new segment! We are so thankful for each and every one of you! We love you!

This week Ian lets us in on his very close and personal encounter with a BMW and Dave gives us the lowdown on what caused our most recent Lemons race to end early. We love you!

Sometimes you just need a friggin' win. In this episode Dave takes us through his recent home appliance repair and we talk about what comes next after Ian's R32. We love you!

Please take care of yourselves and each other. We love you.

We're a bit tense this week, and Ian's annual candy ration won't dent the mountain of anxiety we're dealing with. Please, get out and vote! We love you!

This week Ian hits us with a new twist on one of our favorite games and Dave brings a new term into our nerdy automotive lexicon. We love you!

In this week's episode we dig into the past, discussing how cars came into our lives at an early age, how they dovetailed into video games, and how cool it is to see things fresh through other's eyes. We love you!

In this week's episode we go well beyond Getting Wet With Ian, straight past Damp With Dave, and plunge headfirst into our place in the automotive journalism landscape. Sounds boring, but we're sure you'll dig the story. We love you!

In this week's show we do a deep dive into our recent joint autocross outing, pouring over a very nerdy video Dave made that shows our hilariously different approaches. We love you!

In this week's show Dave finally, with some help, figures out why his little Fiat lit up like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree at the last autocross event, just in time to mix it up for he and Ian's upcoming drive. We love you!

Dave gives us the download from the LeMons B.F.E. GP 2024 and Ian catches Dave up on some scary supply-chain news. We love you!

Do we ever endorse a bit of less than legal behavior on this show? We'll never say, because you know, LAWS...but on this week's show Ian is not holding back about his enjoyment of a recent crime that he, and millions of others, witnessed. We love you!

In this episode Ian talks about the sigh of relief and embarrassment by proxy he feels when something bad is someone else"s fault. Also, it"s been nine years since we started this goofy endeavor, we"re so thankful for all of you! We love you!

This week we find out what's been keeping Ian busy and how his car knowledge is enabling his new online quiz obsession. Also, Dave discovers more things that he doesn't know about his Abarth. We love you!

This week Dave tells us about reconnecting with someone from his past, gives us a Lemons car update, and manages to keep Ian awake the whole show. We love you!

This week we're honored to have Joel Migchelbrink in the virtual blanket fort! Besides being Dave's autocross nemesis, Joel has started up a Lemons team with his buddy Kris and suckered our resident ginger to join in. We love you!

Hey! It's a wild week on our side, so we're dusting off an interview we did with Brendan and Steve about a year ago. They produce SHIFT | Colorado, an amazing free online magazine. Seriously, just check out the mag, it's BRILLIANT! We love you!

In this week's episode Ian looks back fondly on the time his family literally lived in a van down by the river, and old man Severenuk talks about working on his Fiat with his grandson. We love you!

Woah. When thrown a literal worldwide IT issue last week, our resident rental guru steps up to the plate and crushes a home run. He's going to be talking about this for years folks, may as well get used to it now. We love you!

The Apex Adjacent crew is 2 for 2 solving mysteries this week. Dave gets to the bottom of his mystery package and Ian solves the case of the way-too-wet VW floor. Was it the meddling kids? Tune in to find out. We love you!

Apologies up front if you read that title in a Blink-182 voice. Ahem. This week Dave does all the car things and...oh hey, Ian is in town! In his home town. And he's in Dave's home! Okay. We love you!

Is it good or bad that Ian is the VERY FIRST driver of a brand spanking new car? It's a good question, unfortunately Dave doesn't have the CPU cycles to figure it out. We love you!

This week we talk about the all-new adorable little electric nugget from Stelantis, the fancy new FIAT 500e Product RED edition! Our resident RED-head got some stick time with this adorable auto and is here to tell us all about it. We love you!

What a freaking week. From Ian's cross-country summer relocation to Dave's emotional roller coaster, we're reeling from the few days before this episode. Have a seat, snag a drink of choice, and let's just hang for a bit. We love you.

In this week's episode we discuss Ian's hail near miss and Dave's Lemons team update. We love you!

While we may not be the best, we're almost kind of fairly certain that we're probably not the worst. Maybe. We love you!

This week we discuss Dave's recovery, albeit at the expense of not being able to join Ian on his recent concert-going journey, Ian's non-ideal day behind the wheel, and the sliding-doors versions of ourselves. We love you!

Our resident soft boy is in pain this week. Listen in to find out why Dave missed the first autocross event of the season and why Ian was able to see the Northern Lights. We love you!

Whew, what was a close one! Once we get past our beefy rap beef we dive deep into a WILD little car that could inspire us to stand up a higher Patreon tier. Let's all make bad decisions together! We love you!

Ian shares a hot take on the state of burble tunes, Dave is tired from an AMAZING three days of driving and killing ALL OF THE BUGS with his adorable little Italian meatball. We love you!

There's a lot to unpack in this episode...emotions, vocal ticks, an incredible Lamborghini, sweet memories tied to music and cars, and as usual WEIRDOS with vanity plates. We love you! Yeah! You!

Pain. As people with ridiculous car hobbies, we're well acquainted. In this episode we discuss our multi-faceted friend. We love you!

In this week's episode we start with a pair of uncomfortable encounters, take a detour past an Italian supercar with a bonus lurking German and wind up smack dab on idiocy. Life's a journey folks, just stay away from the Dodge kind. We love you!

In this week's episode the Sleepy Boizzz talk about Ian's exhaustive move, a new station wagon heading stateside, and huge marketing miss by Audi. Listeners, we're headed to bed. Ian's called big spoon. We love you.

This week Victoria Scott returns to the show! She's here to discuss her recent piece involving a much needed exodus via used Toyota Camry, the ongoing pedestrian safety crisis, and her upcoming book! Boom. Packed show. Amazing guest. We love you!

In dystopian tech news this week we discuss how automakers are collecting YOUR data on YOUR driving habits (with NO CONTEXT!!!), monetizing it, and how your insurance company ultimately weaponizes it to raise your rates. Yup. We love you.

There are certain moments in our lives where the insanity of our obsessions are reflected back upon us, and this is one of those times for Ian. In this episode we chat about Dave watching Ian's babies, bad Brabuses and more. We love you!

We don't know what Ian would serve at his restaurant when it comes to you know, food and whatnot, but we do know one thing: there would be PLATES and AMPLE TABLE SPACE. We love you!

In this hyper-nerdy episode some nerds (us) talk about other nerds (Tim Cook) in some lukewarm nerd-on-nerd um...action. As if that wasn't enough, Ian presents a license plate game full of plates too nerdy for even us. We love you!

This week's episode has EVERYTHING. Ian gets assaulted by a Blake Shelton song while also getting subjected to a Nissan Altima, Dave does very mobile mechanic Dave things, and we dig into a car wash conundrum. We love you!

This week we sit down with JP and Michael from Bid Nerds! Their show focuses on interesting car auctions and they use their expertise to make price predictions, share their experience and overall take on the car, all while tending to their Nerd Herd.

Should you listen to our financial advice? Buddy, we can't even say if you should listen to us to begin with so...it's up to you. In this episode we mint a new cryptocurrency and talk F1. Yeah, Dave talks F1! We love you!

What online marketplace vehicle post best represents your home state? Thanks to the ever-delightful Dana, we found Florida! Send us one that best represents your state's specific type of craziness and we'll add them to the chart! We love you!

With a title like that what do we even say here? No idea. Anyway, in this episode we go from cars to chlamydia and back again. We gotchoo you sexy unicorns. We love you!