Let's Play HEAT: PEDAL TO THE METAL

**Let's Play HEAT: PEDAL TO THE METAL** is a video in the Board Game Club series.

"*That was horrible! That was exhilirating! Maybe Blair's right - maybe gambling* is *fun!*"
―Adam
## Notable moments

* The first rule of Board Game Club is "rubbing is racing".
* Who's *going to end up in pole position* and who's *going to be swivelling on this pole position*?
* We're mired in slightly piratey hellos. Adam's pirate name is *Schlong Adam*. We're starting with the dick jokes today, I suppose it's nice to get them out of the way early. It's the post-lunch madness slot, so expectations are pretty clear.
* Holly's providing sound effects.
* Adam's determined to beat Holly at this game for the first time: "Today's the day I throw a bucket of water on her heat..." - he has the good grace to look slightly ashamed of that one.
* Where is our Tower of Destiny? We demand answers.
* Laurie is so fast. Adam: "Laurie! Brake!" Holly goes for "elBrak-idor" FINE OF THE DAY!
* Blair has no heat - she's ice cold. Sullivan: "Just what you want your engine to be - freezing!"
* Everyone's doing a little bit of maths. This is *Pedal to the Abacus*. Looks quite exciting.
* Holly's not messing around: "Vroom vroom, motherfuckers!" She eats tension for breakfast. She can't shuffle though - not at all. Adam does hers for her.
* Blair: "It's more fun to gamble than do it safe!" Let's keep that to a very specific set of meanings, shall we? She shouts 'boring' at the others when they change down gear. It pays off nicely for her, though.
* Laurie: "If it's a 4, I'm fuuuuuuucked!" Ah. Whoopsie. He's the first one to spin out.
* Singalonga NRB: "Boring boring Blair!"
* Adam hasn't learned any lessons from Laurie.
* Holly starts to make concerned noises. She's made a terrible mess.
* Sullivan: "More like Cheat: Pedal to the Metal!" - that's our BURN OF THE DAY! Nobody's buying Adam's attempt to ride that joke.
* People who don't know anything about cars chat about cars.
* Adam: "Sullivan - cover your ears. [To Holly] What's the horsepower?". Because Sullivan [still, apparently] fucks horses. But Sullivan can hear through his hands, so it doesn't help.
* Adam has a little Mini. Holly: "Sullivan, can you just cover your ears? [To Adam] What's the horsepower?" Adam: "Really sexy horses..." Sullivan really does have quite a special superpower, it seems. Not massively useful but it tickles Adam and Teri (hi Teri!) calls him 'Earman'. That gets a round of applause, which is, in itself, deafening for Sullivan as we now understand.
* Adam's regressed to adolescence briefly.
* Blair is toad - very briefly!
* "Go fuck yourself, Holly Musgrave!"
* Adam practices his poker face. And he's back to stroppy teenager. He also has a hand bad enough to show the camera.
* Holly shows her hand - it's almost as bad.
* The gods of board games smile on Adam for once. Nobody else seems wildly happy about that.
* Shuffling for ever means we never have to play a card.
* Everyone's making random noises while Adam stares in desperation at his cards - yep, we've reached that point in the game.
* It's quite swingy this one, for most of the game - Sullivan goes from last to first and back again, everyone changes places on the straights, people get caught at the turn, some spin out, there are a couple of massive accelerations.
* In the end it's the absolute last move of the last turn that solely determines our winner - by a single point.

## Talking heads

Talking heads are available for this episode.

* 0:07:48 - Adam loses this game to Holly, usually
* 0:13:02 - Laurie knows how to make vehicles move
* 0:14:29 - Blair's off to a great start
* 0:18:33 - Sullivan's not an adrenaline junky and not impressed by the F1 safety record
* 0:25:02 - Holly is a daredevil
* 0:27:35 - Blair says gambling is the way
* 0:32:29 - Laurie's a bit cross about the card gods
* 0:33:44 - Sullivan says it's anyone's race... except for his
* 0:46:59 - Holly and Adam jockey for 1st place
* 0:52:00 - Laurie is also a daredevil
* 0:54:44 - Adam's not a daredevil, he's a bit delicate
* 0:56:49 - Adam's hand is fucking garbage
* 0:58:28 - Close escape for Adam
* 1:03:23 - Laurie's a little sarcastic, in a race commentator's voice
* 1:08:58 - Sullivan didn't have a lot of choice
* 1:14:16 - Triumph for the winner

## Trivia

* Game introduction and rules are presented by Adam.
* An extended version of this episode is available on the No Rolls Barred Patreon.
* The boost mechanic is not explained nor used, and it's a central part of the risk management of the game. You can boost your movement by paying one heat and drawing until a card with a speed icon appears, to add that movement to your play, almost identical as stress cards.
* It's not explained if Laurie got extra stress cards when his car spun out due to not having enough heat to pay when taking the curve, as per the rules manual.