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At one point, all the maps had foggyedges. Past those edges, nothing. No roads, no forts, no names for anything. Just grass and sky and silence stretching until it hit mountains that were further away than they looked. The men who walked into it were broke, forgotten, and had nothing behind them worth staying for. Most of them died young. Most of them died alone.
A few of them came back with stories that should have been famous a long time ago.

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Chris Ashton is the founder of Ruffian Cars, one of the freshest and most innovative custom car shops in the country. What you may not know is he also co-founded the game development studio that worked on Counter-Strike and built the legendary Left 4 Dead. Thirty years building worlds you can't touch, and then he decided to build ones you could.

This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history.
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Vin Anatra is a former Hoonigan SVP turned independent creator who spent nearly a decade helping build one of the most influential brands in automotive media before walking away to start Driver Era — a YouTube channel and small car operation built around buying, experiencing, and selling special cars one at a time. He's a lifelong car obsessive who came up through the Volkswagen forum scene, built his way into dream-level cars he had no business owning, and is now figuring out in real time what it means to do the thing you love for a living when doing it for a living is slowly changing how you feel about the thing you love.

Kris and Jake on the Grand Tour's new hosts, the death of start-stop, China banning flush door handles and steering yokes, Lamborghini killing its EV, the RS5 outweighing an F-150, BMW ending the manual and rear-drive M car era, and a billion-dollar fraud.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Open
2:24 The Grand Tour Returns
12:40 The Death of Start-Stop
18:24 China Bans Flush Door Handles, Yokes & Touchscreens
23:45 Porsche 718 EV in Development Hell
29:50 Lamborghini Kills Its EV
42:06 StopTech Fraud & Shutdown
50:20 The E30 M3 Turns 40
52:33 BMW Kills the Manual & RWD M Car
1:01:08 The Audi RS5 Weighs More Than an F-150
1:13:00 TPMS Tracking
1:16:16 Your Car Thinks You're Asleep