{"id":360,"date":"2017-03-27T21:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/?p=360"},"modified":"2017-04-01T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T18:00:56","slug":"matts-rant-senseless-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/matts-rant-senseless-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt&#8217;s Rant: Senseless Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mondays are rough, they mark the start of the work week for many of us, but mostly they mark the end of our sweet wonderful weekend. This Monday morning in particular I was feeling salty. I have a lot of problems people, and now you\u2019re going to hear about it!<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s got me all wound up this morning is what I am going to generously refer to as an \u201cAuto-enthusiast sub culture\u201d of the wanton and totally tasteless destruction of automobiles. I was watching youtube this morning and was greeted with \u201c2017 $500 Car Challenge \u2013 Part 1\u201d from superspeedersRob.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VymFidhYPis?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Rob Ferretti is the COO of Gotham Dream Cars, which is like Hertz but with Ferraris and other exotics. Ostensibly I don\u2019t have any problem with Rob or his business; what I have a problem with is Rob and his other youtube buddies do an annual cheap car challenge where they buy three different cars and participate in a series of \u201cchallenges\u201d. It sounds interesting enough based on that description, it isn\u2019t a new concept; Top Gear has done this many times. Cletus McFarland, who\u2019s known for sticking things in his tailpipe, and \u201cThat Dude in Blue\u201d David Patterson an auto-vlogger\/reviewer are playing the role of the two buddies for this year\u2019s adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Watching these three is painful; honestly, I had a hard time getting through it. There seems to be no plan, they just move haplessly from one task to another. There is an overlying goal to take these cars 500 miles, but the challenges themselves seem like no real planning is done. Maybe they just work with a general outline and expect to ad-lib through it, I don\u2019t know. It seems like these three don\u2019t even know each other well enough to have any kind of on-screen chemistry. The first \u201cchallenge\u201d if you can even call it that was to smash the cars a bit. They simply parked in someone\u2019s yard and wrecked the cars using various tools. This is what drives me nuts, why not set challenges and then \u201cmodify\u201d the cars to meet the challenge. Watching three guys smash windows using hammers and cut cars using saws is not entertaining to me, it\u2019s just pointless destruction. Also worth noting is an absolutely reckless attitude towards safety which left two of the three injured, which is surprisingly low considering the amount of cringe worthy moments. It\u2019s just plain bad.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2, yeah I watched it, had the group go to \u201cThe Firm\u201d in Florida, which looks like an awesome place. They seem like they are going to do some timed laps and actual testing but no. They start doing a timed lap where one was constantly pit-maneuvering the other throughout the lap. I don\u2019t think they finished the lap. Then they sort of just screw around playing demo derby until one of the cars is totally destroyed and the other two are seriously damaged. Another car dies later on the highway, and the other blows a tire which was worn through the belts.<\/p>\n<p>I know I am singling out these guys, and there are many more like them, they just happen to be relatively well known. I just can\u2019t stand this vein of automotive entertainment. Pointless destruction is pointless! Give me some method and plot to the madness. I know the average youtuber doesn\u2019t have a Top Gear budget, but making a plan costs nothing! Get a little bit of paper, have a few emails with the other two guys and come up with some legitimate ideas. There were no actual challenges, no points, and no winner. The whole thing is like watching Golf, it\u2019s actually not that entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t usually rant, I just really hate watching people needlessly vandalizing and destroying cars. I suppose it must be interesting to someone, the two videos have a combined viewing of 230,000. Do you agree or is it just me? Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments or on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondays are rough, they mark the start of the work week for many of us, but mostly they mark the end of our sweet wonderful weekend. This Monday morning in particular I was feeling salty. I have a lot of problems people, and now you\u2019re going to hear about it! What\u2019s got me all wound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[60,59,57,56,58],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-auto-enthusiast","tag-cars","tag-destruction","tag-rant","tag-senseless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/57384664.jpg?fit=400%2C400","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8in4L-5O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gtconcepts.ca\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}