Interview: Joe Weber on Speed
Donut Media's podcast guru on life in the fast lane.
Welcome to Three Quora Questions, our series of interviews in which a guest expert joins me to field strange and interesting questions posed on Quora.com (the internet’s oddest knowledge repository).
I’ve been friends with Joe Weber for many years. That means I can say I knew him back before he became the co-host of TWO extremely popular car podcasts, Past Gas and The Big Three. It also makes him the #1 Gearhead of my Heart—and the perfect person to ask about speed.
What is the highest speed you have ever driven in a car?
JOE: The highest speed I have driven as a driver is 142 MPH in a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS. I can't say where, but it rhymes with “Glenbale.”
The fastest I've driven in a car when I wasn't the driver was 160 MPH in a Mercedes AMG GT. I was dressed as a demon for an ad shoot, and it was a convertible, so it was very conspicuous. I got red body paint all over the interior of a $350,000 car.
What's the best way to escape the police in a high-speed car chase?
JOE: We did a video on this a few years ago. No question, the best way to get away from the police is a high-displacement sports bike. We're talking Ducatis, Hayabusas, Aprilias. It helps if you paint it matte black and know the neighborhood streets well.
If you're in LA, head downtown and use the Santa Fe St. river access near the 6th St. bridge to get into the canal, then rip it. The tricky part is getting away from the helicopter, but if you know your vehicle and the area well, it's possible.
What is the internet speed at NASA?
JOE: The internet speed at NASA is 91 gigabits per second. They primarily use all that bandwidth to look at Martian tiddies. We're talking stout, caked-up Martians with 3-7 tiddies each. It takes a lot of bandwidth to beam hi-res areola JPGs all the way from Olympus Mons.
I won an award (and it’s hilarious)
I mentioned last week that my short film, Please Give Me An Oscar Please, was screening as part of the Los Angeles Animation Festival. The festival was a great experience, which was capped off when I won the perfect award.
Well, I guess the perfect award would be an Oscar. But this is pretty good. If you haven’t seen it, check out the film for free right here:
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