Understanding Hoonigan. I’ve known about Hoonigan Racing, Ken Block’s motorsport team that competes in FIA World Rallycross as a Ford factory backed team. I even saw them compete at Lydden Hill last month. But I never really understood just Hoonigan, which is separate from Ken and Ford and is based out of Long Beach, California. I assumed that Hoonigan was a T- shirt company for Ken Block and the drifters. Every time I see cars destroying their tires, there are people wearing Hoonigan shirts.

It made sense.(Editors note: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special bout of insanity from friend of the site and crapcan racer hero, Bill Caswell, who is taking over for us this weekend.) You would think I might know more about Hoonigan as I went to their launch party back in 2. It was incredible. Hoonigan throws the best parties in the automotive world. The second year we partied at the Global Rallycross Track complete with drifting, burnouts and kegs of PBR: So you could see how I thought Hoonigan just threw parties and sold apparel.

Plus I wasn’t really into drifting. I have huge respect for drift, but I never identified with past Hoonigan drivers like Chris Forsberg and Ryan Teurck. They’re outstanding drivers, but I don’t wear skinny jeans, black hats, and my cars aren’t powered by Ferrari. I love it all, I just never identified with their racers other than Block. Then I got a text from Brian Scotto asking if I wanted to come by and work on a car at their shop. I was confused. Hoonigan is building cars? Naturally I said yes.

· Sitcoms Online Message Boards - Forums > General Sitcoms Questions and Discussion: MeTV Summer of Me 2017 schedule (includes ALF, return of My Three Sons, Rhoda, etc). I’ve known about Hoonigan Racing, Ken Block’s motorsport team that competes in FIA World Rallycross as a Ford factory backed team. I even saw them compete at.

If they’re going to build cars, I want to be a part of it. I really had no idea all this was going on at Hoonigan.

If you’re like me and skip directions, just start watching below. Be careful though.

They’ve uploaded a video every day since March and they have their regular series like The Unprofessionals (my personal favorite), Field Trip, and A Beer With as well. It’s only been 5 months and they have put more content online than seasons of traditional car shows.

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You need to start watching Hoonigan. So here’s me and the Sh! A $3. 50 E3. 6 that never leaves the parking lot. Just watch and it will make more sense. Here’s part 2. They left me alone with a camera for few hours and I managed to capture some of my weirdness as I build things. Like talking to my steel.

You have to talk to it before you cut it. That’s Darnell with the Donut Garage hat below. He’s awesome and a proper mechanic/ fabricator. Darnell’s hands are dirty.

He’s worked on tons of different race cars including desert racing trucks and we immediately became friends. He’s also the reason why a lot their cars run. Except Scotto. His cars never run. So now that you’ve seen the Hoonigan garage, what do you think? I was blown away. I had no idea that a majority of their space was set up for car projects, building, and shooting video.

Now let’s walk through the rest of the garage or video series. Daily Transmission. This covers all the unusual stuff around the shop every day. People stop by with 1,0. There are mini drag races. This is the series I was a part of with the $3. Sh! t Car. Occasionally they play Dukes of Hazard with a Miata: The Unprofessionals.

This is Hert and Rob’s personal little fun house. It’s my favorite series of the group but I think Im just a huge fan of Hert and Rob, Aka Chairslayer. Watch the first 3. It opens with a crash! Field Trip. This video series is cool because the Hoonigan’s spend so much time in their garage.

I could care less about the Jay Leno tour episodes, but the last one was about the guys hitting Laguna Seca for a track day. My kind of fun. A Beer With. This is a great concept. Have your friends over to drink beers and tell stories. I had a beer or seven with Hoonigan as well, just waiting on the edit which might take a while because I drank a lot and told a lot of stories. The camera ran out of battery I told so many stories. See what I mean? Hoonigan isn’t whatever I thought it was.

Look at the gasser on the lift behind Farah. Look at the lift! You don’t need that for T shirts.

Something has changed at Hoonigan and its now my favorite You. Tube channel. I occasionally find myself watching the latest episode a few minutes after it comes out. I also bought a Hoonigan t- shirt last month, so maybe the whole things really does work. Their hands are dirty and they’re having fun with their friends while playing with cars. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

Things Turning 3. If you were born in 1. Here's our annual list celebrating 3. TIME NAMES "MACHINE OF THE YEAR": THE PERSONAL COMPUTEREach year, TIME Magazine names one person who has been most influential in the news. For 1. 98. 2, TIME picked the personal computer.

It was the first time the magazine chose a non- human subject for the award, and it was a prescient pick. At the time, "personal computers" included a broad array of machines from the Commodore 6. IBM PC to the Apple II. TIME wrote (emphasis added): "It is easy enough to look at the world around us and conclude that the computer has not changed things all that drastically. But one can conclude from similar observations that the earth is flat, and that the sun circles it every 2.

Although everything seems much the same from one day to the next, changes under the surface of life's routines are actually occurring at almost unimaginable speed."Thirty- five years later, it's clear that TIME's pick was spot on. MICHAEL JACKSON'S THRILLERThriller defined pop music in the 1.

U. S. history. It came at a crucial time for pop music, spawning seven Hot 1. The one to rule them all was the eponymous "Thriller," and its video (above) debuted late in 1. In 1. 98. 2, it was not at all clear that a black artist could become the King of Pop. As Billboard reported: "A seemingly impenetrable wall had been erected between the black listening audience and its white counterpart; for the most part, neither black kids nor white kids had any idea what the other was listening to. And just as it seemed things couldn't get more difficult for a black artist hoping for across the board appeal, something new and scary appeared on the scene: MTV."Michael Jackson's Thriller is the record that bridged the divide. Released on November 3.

Billboard chart released on December 2. MTV initially refused to air videos from Thriller, but as the single "Billie Jean" gained radio popularity, MTV gave in and showed the video (and then "Beat It" and then "Thriller").

The rest is music history. For more, check out 2. Thrilling Facts About Michael Jackson's Thriller. LAWNCHAIR LARRY'S FLIGHT. On July 2, truck driver Larry Walters tied 4.

Sears lawn chair, plopped his butt down in it, and took to the skies of California. He was armed with a pellet gun, an altimeter, and some snacks.

He also brought a CB radio, but his glasses slipped off his face as he ascended in the chair dubbed Inspiration I. Walters had wanted to be a pilot, but poor eyesight prevented him from achieving that pursuit. That didn't stop him from taking flight on his own. When his chair ascended, it went farther than he expected, soaring to 1. Walters was packing heat in order to descend. He popped the balloons using the pellet gun, and the falling debris tangled with power lines, disrupting power to a neighborhood in Long Beach. He was arrested by the LAPD upon landing, fined $1.

FAA, and appeared on both The Tonight Show and Late Night With David Letterman, which also premiered in 1. Lawnchair Larry" Walters flew from San Pedro, California, all the way to Long Beach. He told the Los Angeles Times: "I had this dream for 2.

I hadn't done it, I would have ended up in the funny farm."4. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.

On May 6, 1. 98. 3, a little musical debuted off- off- Broadway at the WPA Theater. It was called Little Shop of Horrors. By July the show moved to Orpheum Theater (off- Broadway), where it played 2. The show was quickly adapted in a 1. The duo behind the songs—Alan Menken and Howard Ashman—went on to write songs for Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. Lest we forget how far back this goes, the stage production was itself loosely based on Roger Corman's 1.

The Little Shop of Horrors, which is delightfully available for free viewing on Wikipedia. NEWMAN'S OWN. Actor Paul Newman had a recipe for salad dressing that spawned a philanthropic food empire. Newman and his writer friend A. E. Hotchner started by filling empty wine bottles with the salad dressing in 1.

The homemade dressing was so popular among friends that it was launched as a retail product in 1. Presented with a $3. Newman decided to give all proceeds to charity, and the Newman's Own brand has continued to do that ever since.

In 1. 98. 3, they launched their first pasta sauce, and eventually moved on to make popcorn, salsa, and lemonade in the early years. Within its first decade of sales, Newman's Own had given more than $5. For more on the history of Newman's Own, check out Eddie Deezen's write- up at Neatorama.

E. T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL (BOTH THE MOVIE AND THE GAME). Steven Spielberg's E. T. the Extra- Terrestrial was released on June 1. Star Wars, making it the highest- grossing film of all time (until Jurassic Park came along, anyway). It is the ultimate film about childhood alienation, and was inspired in part by Spielberg's feelings after his parents' divorce.

Another important E. T. development in 1. Atari game, released just before Christmas. Its development was rushed in order to meet the holiday deadline, and the resulting game was a disappointment to many fans. Surplus E. T. cartridges (along with other Atari games) were infamously dumped in a New Mexico landfill and later partially excavated. If digging a copy out of the trash isn't your idea of fun, you can play the game online.

For more on the movie, check out 2. Things You Might Not Know About E. T. the Extra- Terrestrial. For the game, we've got both The Legend of the Lost Atari E. T. Games and The Story Behind Atari's Infamous E.

T. Video Game. 7. DAVID LETTERMAN ON LATE NIGHT. David Letterman made his late- night debut on Monday, February 1. NBC's Late Night With David Letterman was his first evening show, and his first guest was Bill Murray. While Letterman famously moved around among the big networks, his 3. The first face to appear onscreen in Letterman's Late Night debut (and later Late Show) was Calvert De. Forest, who played Larry "Bud" Melman.

Letterman debuted his first Top Ten List on September of 1. An early review by AP TV writer Fred Rothenberg included this very perceptive bit: "The comic genius of Letterman is finding humor in the mundane and incongruous. On Tuesday night, he brought out Dr. Norman Hoffman for 'Limited Perspective,' a dentist’s view of the movie 'Reds.'Dr. Hoffman said the actors’ teeth were not convincing as pre- Russian Revolution dentures. Pretty much ruined the film for you, huh?' wondered Letterman."For more on Letterman's late night career, check out Top 1. Facts About The Early Days of Late Night With David Letterman, 1.

Bill Murray's Greatest Letterman Appearances, The David Letterman Show No One Watched, and 2. Things That David Letterman Invented. DIET COKE. The Coca- Cola Company avoided mixing its Coke brand with non- sugar- sweetened drinks for decades. Watch Ola Tha Pane Kala Vioz. Although Tab and Diet Pepsi were released in the early 1. July 9, 1. 98. 2 that Diet Coke was introduced to test markets. It rolled out nationwide in 1. Diet Coke was a complex drink, relying on an entirely new formula sweetened with aspartame.

It bore little relationship (chemically, at least) with regular Coke, which was a risk. But it paid off, as Diet Coke became the best- selling low- calorie soft drink in the U. S. by the end of 1. By 1. 98. 4, Diet Coke was the third overall soft drink, behind only Coca- Cola and Pepsi. It stayed that way until 2. Pepsi in the #2 spot. Diet Coke's launch slogan?

Just for the taste of it."9. CHEERS. On September 3. NBC welcomed TV viewers into a Boston bar "Where everybody knows your name." That line, of course, came from the show's iconic theme song by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo. The first season of Cheers was a ratings disaster, with the show ranking 7. Nielsen. But NBC liked the show and renewed it—which was a smart move, because it became a smash hit in later years.

By the end of its 1. Cheers was a major influence for TV writers, helping inspire writers who created everything from Scrubs to Parks and Recreation.