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Ship With\nSure Thing Logistics: https://www.surethinglogistics.net\nMORE BIGGER Turbo T-Shirts: \nhttps://www.minnoxide.com/products/more-bigger-t-shirt\n00:00 Intro\n00:17 Meet Tanner & Matt of Smeedia\n02:19 Quitting the 9-5\n06:54 Selling the House, Live Streams & Growing Smeedia\n11:40 Building Cars You Love vs. Chasing Views\n20:27 Starting the Shop\n25:58 Building EJs Right and High-HP Reliability\n29:42 Tuning Horror Stories & Customers\n33:36 If You Could Only Keep One Car\n39:20 The Maserati Story\n41:50 Which Subaru To Buy, Black Box Data and Getting Caught\n45:16 Warranty Claims, Goodwill & Modifying Before/After Warranty\n53:04 Subaru Power Tiers, Oil Intervals & Head Gasket Talk\n1:00:50 About the EJ33, swap, and what's next\n1:16:22 Donut Media Collab\n1:19:36 Full vs. \"Poor Man's\" Six-Speed Swap\n"},"annotations":[{"id":482778,"startTime":35.48,"endTime":39.88,"type":"car","title":"Toyota GR Corolla","url":"/cars/toyota/gr-corolla","image":"/images/cars/toyota-gr-corolla-press.jpg","quote":"We've done Rotaries, Evo's, Subaru's mainly. 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