andrewpcollins
Andrew P. Collins
andrewpcollins
Jalopnik Staffer from 2013 to 2020, now Editor-In-Chief at Car Bibles

What an incredibly brave and honest story. All participants are talented story-tellers, especially Andrew and Sydney. Their in-depth, often painful details were so moving. I commend both of you for your commitment to each other, experiencing the “in sickness and in health” part of your vows before you even spoke them. Read more

Wow, this brings back a lot of memories from my own ordeal. The thoughts and feelings are all so real. I’m writing this as I am listening and man it is hard.  Andrew, just know that with a lot of therapy you will get better.  I had only been married for 6 months when this happened to me (Harbor Freight grinding wheel Read more

Even closer than you think! Here’s a shot of techs at the University of Utah using a scanner to create data that was later used to 3D-print me my first cast. That hospital is incredible, by the way.

I know, shoulda asked the wife to throw some tummy tea on that stretcher so I could get paaaid Read more

Andrew,

I’m interested to hear the podcast and I’ve been thinking about you a lot over the last year. I’m always glad to see your work pop-up, but every time you do I think about your accident and how I hope you are healing well and figured you’d talk to us about it when you could. I think you got married just a Read more

Andrew—the first time I really heard your story was back a year (?) ago when you were on TST—I knew something had happened, but hearing it come from you gave my wife and I straight chills. The bag of sand reference...YIKES. Read more

People seem to always forget that their life can change in the blink of an eye and not always for the good. Read more

Obviously, Tempest is a labor of love for me and every episode has a very special place in my heart. That said, this episode may go down as the most emotionally powerful one I’ve ever worked on. I cried many times cutting it. I can’t begin to tell you all what it felt like to have this story entrusted to me. I hope Read more

I look forward to listening later tonight. I have to say just this line (below) kicked me in the gut a little as I recollect on why I don’t ride a motorcycle anymore, despite loving it intensely - “so you can hear how an accident at the most inopportune moment feels for the person who fucks up, and the person who has Read more

Maybe I’m the only person on Earth in the middle of the Venn diagram bubbles for “extremely cheap and lazy” and “extremely particular” Read more

But without all that fast food grease and skin flakes how will the wheel stay lubricated? /s
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Really good pictures! I never get tired of seeing this car - its a classic and i think ill still find it beautiful in 20 years.  Read more

My brothers and I made our own stop action videos called “Action League THEN!” The characters were: Read more

I was a fan of ‘Prometheus and Bob’ as well as ‘Action League Now!’.