The Ka-Chat

Grab your Floo Powder, folks. We're going on a quick trip to the Potterverse. This week, we're knocking out all things Harry Potter, what it's like as a story in the Carsverse, what magic would be like, and we even throw a mini Or-Engine in there, just as a treat! So get your fill of chocolate frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans from the trolley, cause this time, Lucas and John solemnly sw...

My God. It finally happened. After almost two years of doing this podcast (not to mention the almost two years before that of talking about doing this podcast) Pixar has deemed fit to give us fresh, new Cars content. Of course... What they gave us were two shorts whose combined runtime totals at less than four minutes and are completely without dialogue. So we're really gonna have to reach for thi...

Oops! We made another mini-series. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯    We didn't even mean to this time, though! We set out to discuss the Car-ified versions of other Pixar movies that are shown in the end credits of Cars, and had so much to say about Toy Car Story that we decided to revisit the others in a later episode. And BOY is there a lot to say about the Toy Car Story series, even if we only see two,

Get the Delorian ready everybody, cause we taking another trip back in time! That's right - the award-winning* mini series Moments in Hearse-tory is back for it's third installment, and we are tackling some big ones today. How did spoken language come to be, and much more importantly, how did written language happen period? In the Great Emu War, what were the Emu's? And last but not least.... what...

Look out folks, we're coming at you from 2021! To celebrate the need to buy a new calendar, we decided to both go through how we feel the Cars would celebrate the New Year, as well as setting a few New Cars Revolutions ourselves. (Like resolutions. This pun was a bit of a stretch.) And you'd be surprised, by the end of the episode, we've already accomplished one of the goals we set for ourselves....

You know, it seems like in this show, we're always looking towards the past. What happened in these old movies, what prequels can we make, even our sequel pitches are stuck in reverse. So this time, we're shifting into a new gear, and looking far into the future, and shaking it up even further by pitching a video game instead of a movie. (Please disregard the fact that we don't decide it's actuall...

Okay, right up front, this one isn't about Cars. Like, at all. Lucas just watched a bunch of different Christmas movies on Netflix with his girlfriend, and let me tell ya folks, they freaked him out pretty good. Turns out there's an entire interconnected universe full of time travel, curses, questionable Christmas magic, and 4 distinct Vanessa Hudgenses. So with the promise that we'll return to Ra...

Oh man, folks. It's happening. That's right, the folks over at Disney and Pixar have looked down from their ivory tower and decided to show pity and mercy on us by giving us new content to base this podcast on. Now, they are making us wait 2 years to actually see the new Disney+ series about Lightning and Mater's cross country road trip, but hey, we can persevere. In the mean time, we gots to do s...

Well, we did it. Something I thought we would never have to do, something that I would go so far to say we had previously made a choice to never do. We watched the finale to Supernatural. And I mean, it's a good thing that we did. The Impala ascends to heaven, and that, along with multiple instances of it being possessed, transformed, or chosen by God himself over this shows 15 year run, is a pret...

Happy Holidays, y'all! We are starting this socially responsible holiday season with a weird one - the Carsverse version of Thanksgiving! There's very little info on this one as it was a one off event in a Cars game that has been defunct since 2013, but that doesn't stop us from crafting our own narrative on how these folks celebrate. What DOES stop us is misremembering the plot to Hercules, being...

Oops, Lucas screwed up the uploading on time! But better late than never. And speaking of LATE.... the Cars die. We know this all too well. But then what happens? Not to their immortal souls, but to their acutely mortal bodies. That's what this one is about. Really, we just did this one to talk about a hearse who is in the background for about .75 seconds in Cars 3. But you get it, right? There's...

We made it. We've finally taken a good step forward, but there are more steps yet to take. For instance, we have to look to the future of the presidency. And, of course, the natural successor to the Biden administration is Tow Mater. For some reason. Join as we discuss different legal issues he might face in his candidacy, his running mate selection (and cybernetic conversion) process, and also De...

Listen, somehow we made to ANOTHER Halloween??? Absolutely bonkers, who would have guessed it? Anyway, for this year's spooktacular, we decided to consult with the King of Horror himself and dive into the murder-car infested worlds of both Christine and Maximum Overdrive. That's right, folks, this week, you're getting two for the price of one as we explore the works of Stephen King.

Hey, did you know that when you have a podcast, you can just do the numbering conventions however you want? Pretty cool, right? ANYWAY, we went as long as we could without doing an episode in honor of the funny number, and we decided that we couldn't just leave y'all hanging about it. And for such an auspicious number, we thought we'd go ahead and get into one of the biggest (and most frequently a...

Oops, it looks like someone accidentally made the Batmobile and several other Bat-vehicles sentient and now they're making a preschool show about them called Batwheels. :/ And even though this show is at the earliest stage of production possible, with a single promo image and one press release available to go off of, them Ka-Chat boys find a way to make an episode about it. (Note: That way is by s...

Hey, so uh.... Cars had it's own version of Club Penguin called World of Cars Online from 2010-2012? And this week, your favorite Cars-casters have put on their cool hats and busted out the bull whips to try and reconstruct as much as they can about this ancient society. Why are there zombie Cars? What are the implications of tens of thousands of Cars moving to Radiator Springs? And WHY can't my R...

The Ka-Chat boys are taking you back to history class once again with another installment in Moments in Hearse-tory! This time, they're diving deep into the books for some new queries, like... did Joan of Arc blow up when she was burned at the stake? Did the Salem Witch Trials actual manage to locate some real Car witches? And how did the Donner Party... ya know... do Donner Party stuff to their m...

Hollywood's darlings have returned with yet another hit on their hands. This time, they decide to cash in on the summer energy that has already left this year, and make a summer flick. Being the professionals they are, they do some heavy market research on the most on the nose film in this genre they know, Teen Beach Movie. Now I already hear you asking: "Guys, do you spend most of this episode ma...

Listen, we already did a superheroes episode. We know this. But the thing is... we really like superheroes and comics and stuff and it's our podcast so here is another episode about superheroes. ALSO, we did the "Rust-ice" title pun, like 4 episodes ago, but I wanted to be a good counterpart to the "A-Van-gers" title pun.  Anyway, we're talking about superpowers/heroes in the Carsverse again! Also...

Alright, drop and give me 20! Miles, that is. Because this week, those wacky Ka-Chat boys are talking about how Cars keep healthy in the Carsverse! Do they pump iron to get swole? What exactly would a swole car look like? They are (probably) made of iron, so is that, I dunno, weird for them? These are not the exact questions we ask during the episode, but you KNOW they're the general vibe we were...

Ha ha, nice, looks like John and Lucas finally decided to do cool episode of their podcast. That's right everybody, this week it's all 420 and keggers as those Ka-Chat fellas discuss the world of recreational drugs in the Carsverse. And by "all 420 and keggers", I do mean stark discussions about addiction and alcoholism, realizing the latest craze in mobile bars would be grotesque monsters, and th...

Well, we didn't shrink the Cars. There are just, like, tiny vehicles that we want to talk about. Ya know, like, Hot Wheels, model cars and planes, toy planes, roombas, etc. It may not sound like a lot, but it turns out that Roombas are a biomechanical military experiments who are programmed to hate and destroy dirt. That's literally canon within the Carsverse, so imagine the nonsense we come up wi...

Over the year or so, we've been doing this podcast, we've said a few different times: "Oh, this is the one you should share with your friends" or "This is the most important episode we've done so far." But that title is now permanently taken. This week, we might just save some lives as we analyze the matchup between humans and Cars, both at a one-on-one level and an all out war. We won't sugarcoat...

In the podcast The Ka-Chat, why do the two guys try to connect any movie they can to the Cars franchise? No reason. (Except that the reason is that it's the concept of the show we do and we just kinda like it and it's fun for us and kinda easy with this weeks movie, Rubber) That's right, this week we are taking a closer look at America's favorite killer tire in Rubber. Honestly, this one is tailor...

Listen, long story short, yes, we made another series. We like them, ok? This one is all about reimagining specific moments of human history in the Carsverse. This week, we start off with some heavy hitters. Did the Wright Brothers invent.... people? What is the existential horror of being a living Titanic sinking into the icy Atlantic Ocean? How did the rise of moving pictures work in this univer...