The Ka-Chat

Oh thank god, finally a subject we know something about! That's right folks, this week we're diving right into cyberspace to explore what the internet and computers would be like in the Carsverse. (Fun fact: The internet is where The Ka-Chat lives.) So you KNOW we're talking about how they browse with no hands, whether these computers are built into them, and if they are, what the implications are...

Ya know, after our success pitching, producing, and starring in the critically acclaimed, and massively successful movie "Boats: The Search for McQueen," we figured that it was time again to milk this cash cow. Therefore, please sit back and enjoy our pitch for "Cars 4: A Cars Story," a more intimate and small scale look at the every day life of the citizens of Radiator Springs and the impact that...

Alternate titles for this episode: "The Tow-mi-Mater" and "Nothing Matters, Mater can Time Travel." That's right folks, we are heading back to the land of Mater's stories for the final entry in his book: "Time Travel Mater." Mater can, in fact, travel through time. Which is... challenging, to say the least. Join as we discuss the founding of Radiator Springs, how Cars would golf (I promise it is r...

Probably not, right? BUT we can probably title it the nonsense we did title it! Probably. Maybe. We aren't really basing that anything. We, uh.... don't know the law. Please don't sue us, Honda. This is probably good publicity? Well, anyway, this is our Holiday Special! We talk about the elusive Santa Car, the fact that Cars is basically a Hallmark movie, and because we can't go just ONE episode w...

Ok, so.... the thing is.... Listen, I don't know how to make a fun little description about this one. There's just so much that happens in this one, folks. Mater is a doctor. Mater is a plane. Mater is a wrestler. Mater can fly. Mater is a fire truck. Mater is a detective. Mater is a rock star. Mater is part alien, maybe? Mater is all-knowing and all-seeing. Mater is, well, everything. Mater was h...

Once upon a time, there were two young men who were simply obsessed with a series of movies fully intended and marketed towards children. One day, they decided to explore the world of fantasy and fairy tales within this magical universe. Around this time, the one writing the description for the episode got tired of this gimmick and sort of gave up on it. So... yeah! We talk about different fantasy...

It's an awful big universe out there, and I'd say it's about time we explored a bit more of it. That's right folks, this week we are boldly going and exploring the cosmos! Join us as we take a close look at rockets and satellites in the Carsverse, what space exploration would look like for a species of sentient vehicles, and of course, close encounters of the third gear. (Honestly, if we ever circ...

You know, we've wanted to get into war in the Carsverse for a while, but honestly, it's such a big thing, we had to break it up into a few parts. So uh.... new miniseries, expect a few more in the Cars of Duty series coming your way in the future! Anyway, this time we get into the physical methods of fighting and combat in the Carsverse, which, for the record, does canonically confirm the existenc...

So, listen. There's a scene in the first Cars movie in which Lightning McQueen is brought into a court with no jury and without ever being offered bail, assigned Mater as his lawyer without ever being able to contact his real legal team, sentenced to "community service" (a sentence in which he is held indefinitely while completing incredibly grueling labour and being starved of fuel), and then cou...

You know how we did an episode on Planes: Fire & Rescue, like, four episodes ago? Well, we couldn't stop thinking about the fire fighting team from it, so we decided to go back to Piston Peak and do a whole episode on them! Interested in Maru's incredibly advanced medical techniques? Maybe you wanna hear about Cabbie's military service, or Lil' Dipper's strange obsession with Dusty? Well.... Good!...

Light a candle or two, put on some music, and pour yourself a little oil, cause this week, Lucas and John are getting a bit romantic. Join us as we explore all the different ways Cars live with and around each other in this crazy little world they inhabit. We cover all the bases, from friendship to puppy love to weddings and marriage. We also attempt and pretty immediately fail to avoid talking ab...

Listen. I don't want to freak you out. But be forewarned. We have a doozy of Halloween Spooktacluar here for you all. We watched all 13 episodes of 1997's best show about teens that are also cars that are also vampires, and man. I want you to imagine how bad you think a show called Van-pires from the late 90's that was cancelled after 13 episodes and leans heavily on early CGI animation would be....

Time to... rev it up? Get on that ole iron steed? Ride... a motorcycle? Listen. John is the one who knows things about motorcycles, and I (Lucas) am writing this at like 1 a.m. when I've got to go to work in the morning, so like... forgive me if I'm a little thin on the fun motorcycle stuff to interject into this description. Anyway, this is our motorcycle episode! Despite no motorcycles actually...

Listen. Yes, we have now watched all the feature length films in the Carsverse. That's great. A momentous occasion. But I have to gloss over that fact, because we did a pretty big goof. As a matter of fact, we did a lot of tiny goofs over the course of the past several months, in that we did not actually know the name of this movie until the day we recorded this episode. It... kind of throws us fo...

Hey uh, Hollywood? Just wanted to let you know, you might want to make some room. Cause your two favorite Carscasters are coming crashing right in. That's right folks. We decided that the fame and fortune that The Ka-Chat provides wasn't quite enough, and so we're grabbing a new golden goose. So come peek in on our brainstorming session for our pitch for a new Carsverse spin-off: Boats: The Search...

So no one TOLD you life was gonna be this waaaaaay. (honk honk honk honk) You got it folks, this week we're diving into all the different ways the denizens of the Carsverse find to entertain themselves, from video games, to movies and TV, to as much discussion of porn in the Carsverse as we can physically handle. So... not much. We also talk about Friends for a while (see beginning of this descrip...

Alright. I'll be the first to admit. This one has more than a few reaches. John talks about a theory so nonsensical that I am currently breaking my rule to keep it vague who is writing these. But we cover some ground! I think. Honestly, I can't remember. We do talk about the movies The Country Bears and Tommorowland for a little bit. So if you're into obscure movies based of off features of the Di...

Oh shoot! We're dropping a new type of episode on y'all! (If we ever, ya know, do this again, that is.) Welcome to the first of our series of deep dives into individual characters, Auto-Biographies. (Listen, Lucas is going to refer to it as "Profiles in Car-age" during the episode, because that was the name he first came up with, and while he stands by that name, like two days after we recorded th...

Hello everyone, this is you captain speaking. Please return your seats to their full, upright position, as we are making our final descent to The Ka-Chat. On your left you will see a couple of young men examining a strange little movie, Planes, a spin-off to the main Cars movies. If you look closely you may notice some odd details, including a plane/car hybrid, a nonsensical plane racing system, a...

PLAY BALL! This week, we are diving into the exciting world of the sports of the Carsverse. It's uh.... mostly racing. Almost entirely racing. Really, it's just racing and one demolition derby that is also sort of a race. But that doesn't stop our intrepid hosts from finding an hours worth of content for you lovely folks! Even if a lot it is talking about Batman and debating who would win in a fig...

Ok, so usually we record these weeks in advance to create a buffer, but this one is urgent, so we recorded this last week. I don't really know how to say this, but it's happening. Jaguar has decided to slap some eyes on a self driving car, without considering the terrible consequences their actions will incur. So we have to do it. And despite spending approximately 13% of the episode talking about...

This week, we're finally giving everyone what they've been clamoring for. That's right, we're talking about the fashion of the Carsverse. What are the latest trends in paint jobs? Who is the hottest name in tires? And what's coming up for windshield wipers? Well, we answer.... almost none of those questions. Honestly, we establish pretty early on that we have no idea what we're talking about, and...

Folks, I'll be honest, this one is a little all over the place. At one point, John brings up a subreddit about dragons having sex with cars without in any way connecting it to what we're talking about, and Lucas doesn't even question it. And it gets weirder from there. Join us as we explore organized religion within the Carsverse, from Car circumcision to WALL-E as an almighty being, and everythin...

Oh, shoot! We've finally watched all the Cars movies! That's probably good, it was getting harder to justify, ya know, making a podcast about them without doing that. And I mean, we still have the Planes movies, but we'll burn that bridge when we come to it. Anyway, this time we do a deep dive into the third and most recent installment to the Cars series! Honestly, I think we make some pretty dece...

If a single one of you tweets or emails us or something to tell us there is a typo in the title, I'll know you didn't actually listen to the episode first. Which, I guess has no real consequences? But.... still don't do it. Anyway, this week, we decided to take a pretty hard left turn, and just do a deep dive into one user profile on the Pixar wiki. He's passionate, he has some bold ideas for the...