Begin to prepare to rev your engines for GEARHORN
HELLO DEAR FRIENDS HELLO!
It is me, your friendly Airhorn co-producer Zach Mandeville!
I am sure you were expecting this email. It's a near synchronicity. You were out and (potentially) about on this gorgeous Friday morning when you felt a shiver on the back of your neck, a burning in your ears that shifted into a soft, distant horn and you knew, at that moment, AIRHORN IS COMING. And then you checked your email and here we are!
AIRHORN IS COMING. AUGUST 7th. AND IT GONNA BE A GEARHORN.
That's right, our entirely Top Gear themed Airhorn is less than a month away. Why are we doing an entirely Top Gear themed show? We don't know! It was your decision!
Quick recap: At the end of last Airhorn(FORGHORN) we unveiled a show theme randomizer, An Airhorn for every letter of the alphabet. We started it spinning and when the audience yelled stop we'd stop it and do whatever show the randomizer landed on. You yelled stop, we got Gearhorn. A lot of you did not like it. A few of you said "please go again, any other show". But we cannot do that! It would be disrepectful to the fans and, to be honest, to fate. You do not disrepect fate!
And, as fate would have it, this is shaping up to be one of our funnest and strangest shows. For the last several weeks the Airhorn team has been meeting up to watch episode after episode of peak Top Gear, absorbing the amiable antics of those rascally boys Jeremy, Richard, and James, and coming to terms with our complex feelings of the show. Some of the crew had never seen it. Others grew up with it, others still watch it to this very day. Together we've been trying to figure out if we like it, loathe it, love it, or some quantum superposition of all three simultaneously. And as we filled our eyes, our ears, our air with all things automobile we found, shimmering right there in the room, the thing all comedians are looking for...the Funny. And this particular funny well, it looked a bit strange.
I cannot say more without giving away the whole show and, as a co-producer, that is not smart to do. We want you to see it live, we don't want you to hear it described in a manic and overly alliterative email for you to go, "ah, I get the gist". I can safely say that there is no way to write it down for you to get "the gist" of this show. It started with Top Gear, it'll end with Top Gear, and in the middle, amid all the top gear, a new shape will form--a rough and funny beast slouching its way toward Chadlington.