Here, "accessibility" means how easy it is for regular people to connect with a car brand. They’re saying Porsche can feel too expensive or too “high status” for many fans, unless you know what to buy or you already like the brand.
Porsche is a famous German sports-car brand. The hosts are talking about how Porsche videos don’t always do as well because the brand can seem out of reach for many people.
A CPO program means “certified pre-owned.” It’s when a carmaker sells used cars that have been checked and usually come with extra coverage compared to buying a random used car.
PDK is Porsche’s special automatic-style gearbox. It shifts very fast by using two clutches, so the car feels quicker and more responsive than many older automatics.
“Analog cars” is a car-enthusiast way of saying the car feels more connected to the driver. Less computer-managed “stuff,” more direct steering and feedback.
The Lamborghini Diablo is a very expensive, high-performance supercar made by Lamborghini. It’s known for its loud, dramatic design and strong performance. The podcast mentions it because it was a famous car people admired when they were kids.
The Toyota Supra is a sports car from Toyota. It’s designed to be fast and fun to drive. The podcast talks about one on a street because it’s a recognizable, eye-catching car—even if it looks beat up.
A “do-it-yourself-modulated flooring system” refers to interlocking or panel-based garage floor tiles designed to be installed by the owner. “Modulated” implies the floor is built from repeatable modules rather than one poured surface.
McGuire’s is a car-care product brand. The host is talking about their bundled “quick solution kits” that include the right cleaners for specific tasks, plus a brush attachment to speed up scrubbing.
“Etching” is when certain chemicals eat into or damage the paint surface. If something acidic sits on the car, it can leave marks that aren’t just easy to wash off.
Car
Datsun 300ZX, Z31 Gen
This is the Datsun/Nissan 300ZX, a classic 1980s sports car. It’s special because it was made during the time when the brand name changed from Datsun to Nissan in the US, so you can see both badges on the car.
The Nissan 300 ZX is a sports car made by Nissan. It’s part of the Z-car line, which is known for being sporty and stylish. The podcast mentions a specific early version and talks about what it’s called and which generation it is.
In the US, the company changed the name from Datsun to Nissan. Cars from that time can have branding that reflects both names, which is why the badges can look confusing.
Term
NA
“NA” means the engine is naturally aspirated, so it doesn’t use a turbo or supercharger. It’s the opposite of a turbocharged setup.
“Back fees” means money that wasn’t paid for the car’s paperwork before. If those aren’t handled, you may not be able to register the car in your name.
Concept
registration transfer
A registration transfer is the paperwork step that makes the car officially belong to you in the eyes of the DMV. If it wasn’t done, you may have to fix the paperwork before you can fully sort out the car.
Term
DMV service
DMV services help with car paperwork—things like registration and title transfers. It’s basically someone handling the government forms for you.
Enkei is a company that makes wheels. “Comps” is a particular classic wheel style, and it’s often chosen because it looks right for the car’s era and can improve handling when matched with the right tires.
Coilovers are suspension parts that let you change how high or low the car sits. They’re adjustable, so you can dial in the ride and handling instead of being stuck with the factory setup.
A performance exhaust is a different exhaust system than stock. It’s usually meant to let the engine breathe better and often makes the car sound more aggressive.
The DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car made by DeLorean. It’s famous for its unusual stainless-steel look and for appearing in popular movies. The podcast mentions it because their cameraman is using something from the DeLorean, like the steering wheel.
Autocross is a timed driving competition on a closed course with cones. You drive through the course as fast and smoothly as you can to show how well the car handles.
The MAF sensor tells the car how much air is getting into the engine. If it’s not connected, the car may run badly because it can’t adjust fuel correctly.
“High low” is a challenge where they build two similar cars—one with cheap parts and one with expensive parts. Then they compare what the difference really is.
Overlanding is traveling long distances with your vehicle set up for camping and rough roads. It usually means adding gear and upgrades so you can handle dirt trails and stay out longer.
A Toyota Tacoma is a popular pickup truck, especially for people who drive off-road or add lots of gear. Here, they’re talking about their Tacoma and how the front bumper got damaged because the truck was pulling with a lot of force.
A bumper is the part at the front of a car meant to take impacts. In this story, the Tacoma’s bumper got bent because the truck was pulling very hard with a winch.
A winch is like a heavy-duty pulling tool with a cable, used to recover a stuck vehicle or pull something out. Here, the winch force was strong enough to bend the Tacoma’s bumper.
“Overloaded” means they put a lot more weight and gear on the truck than it normally carries. More weight can make the suspension and tires work harder and can stress parts like the bumper.
Bilstein makes suspension shocks/struts that help the car control bumps better. They’re saying their Tacoma has an upgraded suspension from Bilstein, which helps it handle the heavy setup and bigger tires.
“33-inch tires” means the tires are bigger than stock. Bigger tires can sometimes hit or rub against parts of the truck when you turn or when the suspension moves.
“Rubbing” means the tire is touching something it shouldn’t. That usually happens when the tires are too big or the truck isn’t set up with enough clearance.
The Bronco is Ford’s rugged SUV meant for off-road driving. They’re talking about using it because it handles rougher conditions better than a lower car.
Welding is how you join metal pieces together so they become one solid piece. The host is surprised because it looks simple, but it’s easy to mess up if you’re not used to it.
Rectangle tube stock is basically a hollow steel bar with a rectangular shape. It’s used because it’s strong and works like a frame for parts like bumpers.
Spot welds are small, localized weld points that join two metal pieces together. Car makers use them a lot because they’re quick and don’t overheat the whole panel.
“Warp” here means the metal gets bent out of shape. If you weld too long in one spot, that area heats up more than the rest and can pull the panel crooked.
The Honda Civic Si is a more performance-focused version of the regular Civic. It’s the “enthusiast” trim, and they’re saying they built two of those cars from the late-2000s Civic generation.
This sounds like a tire brand name mentioned in the sponsor banter. The key point is the host is joking about which tire brand they’re allowed to talk up.
The Tesla Model Y is an electric SUV. The host is talking about changing its tires to reduce noise and fix a problem where the tires were slowly losing air.
A slow leak means the tire isn’t fully punctured, but it’s losing air little by little. You might not notice right away, but the tire pressure drops over time.
Lucid makes electric cars. Here they’re talking about using a phone app to control the car—like opening the trunk—and how the car asks you to confirm before doing it.
“Open Trunk” is a phone-app button that lets you open the car’s trunk remotely. In this case, the app makes you confirm first so you don’t trigger it by accident.
Vredestein makes tires. The host is saying the brand is getting popular in America and that they’re known for performance-oriented tires with a European feel.
Dimension constraints are size rules for the build—basically limits on how big the vehicle can be. They’re used to keep things fair and safe for the event.
A weight constraint is a rule about how heavy the vehicle is allowed to be. It helps keep competition fair and can also affect how the vehicle performs and handles.
No practice runs means they don’t get to try the track ahead of time. So the first time they drive it, they’re learning the bumps and jumps on the spot.
Roll bars are metal bars inside a car that help keep the cabin from collapsing in a crash or rollover. They’re common on off-road and track cars because they add safety when the car flips.
Place
405
“405” is a big freeway in the Los Angeles area. Saying they were doing it on the 405 means it wasn’t on a racetrack—it was on a public road.
A junior dragster is a smaller drag-racing car made for kids/young drivers. It’s built for quick acceleration down a straight track, not regular street driving.
Disc brakes are a braking system where pads squeeze a metal disc to slow the car down. They’re known for good stopping power and staying consistent when you brake more than once.
Concept
two-frame chassis
Some race cars use more than one main frame to hold everything together. It can make the car stronger, but it can also make it heavier, so builders sometimes cut weight by removing parts.
3D-printed components are parts made by adding material layer-by-layer from a digital model. In custom chassis/vehicle builds, they’re often used for brackets, mounts, and prototypes, but they can be heavy or require redesign if weight targets are strict.
They used adhesive to hold a part on. Glue can be strong in the right situation, but it can also fail if the part gets stressed by vibration or impacts.
Concept
directive
They’re talking about a rule or instruction that limited what they were allowed to do. Racing rules exist so one team can’t gain an unfair advantage by pushing too far.
The Chevrolet Camaro is a sports car made by Chevrolet. It’s built for performance and comes in many different versions. The podcast mentions it because they were comparing it to a Mustang for a drag-car project and talking about mileage.
The Ford Mustang is a sports car made by Ford. It’s known for being fast and for having lots of different versions. The podcast mentions it while talking about a drag-car build and trying to figure out which car setup gets better mileage.
A Roots blower is a device that forces extra air into the engine so it can make more power. It’s a specific style of supercharger, not just “a turbo” or “a generic boost system.”
Whipple is a company that makes superchargers for performance cars. A “Whipple” setup usually means a specific kind of aftermarket boost system designed to add a lot of power.
The Challenger is a muscle car made by Dodge. It’s designed to be powerful and has a classic, bold look. The podcast mentions it because they were deciding what kind of performance version to start from for their modifications.
They’re saying one of the easiest ways to save gas is to drive at the speed limit. Going faster usually makes the car burn more fuel, so slower driving helps a lot.
The contact patch is the part of the tire that touches the road. If tire pressure is off, that touching area changes, and it can make the car harder to move and less efficient.
Car makers list a recommended tire pressure for each vehicle. Using that number helps the car roll efficiently and keeps the ride and tire wear in a good range.
Car
2002 Lexus LS430
The 2002 Lexus LS430 is a big, comfortable luxury car. Here it’s mentioned as an example of how setting the tire pressure correctly can make the ride feel better.
That means making sure your tires are inflated to the right level. If they’re too low or too high, the car won’t handle as well and the tires can wear out faster—especially in wet weather.
They’re asking to talk about memory—basically how memories and impressions stick. Then they start sharing what they remember about cars and what they didn’t understand at the time.
“Manual” here means the driver shifts gears themselves using a clutch and a stick. The host wants to know how that feels compared to other ways cars shift gears.
The Porsche 911 is a famous sports car from Porsche. It’s known for its distinctive shape and rear-engine layout. Here, they’re talking about people modifying or cutting one up and why that can feel controversial.
Wider tires touch the road over a larger area. That usually helps the car grip better, but you also need enough clearance so the tire can spin without hitting the fender.
Wider fenders are the outer panels that stick out farther to make room for bigger wheels and tires. They help keep the tire from rubbing and allow the car to fit the setup safely.
RWB is a Japanese company that customizes Porsche 911s. They’re especially known for making “widebody” versions with wider tires and fenders.
Term
electric Ferrari backlash
They’re talking about people being upset about Ferrari making an electric car. Some fans feel electric doesn’t match what Ferrari is known for, while others think it’s fine.
Horsepower is how much power the car’s engine or electric motors can make. Saying “1000 horsepower” means it’s an extremely powerful car, usually associated with very fast acceleration.
A “badge” is the logo/emblem that shows the car’s brand. They’re saying the Ferrari logo on the car is part of what makes the design feel off to some people.
This is referring to the idea that Ferrari ownership can be a gatekeeping or qualification factor—where buyers may need to already own a Ferrari to access certain cars or allocations. The hosts are questioning whether a similar situation could happen with the Nissan they’re discussing.
They’re using “iPhone” as a metaphor for Apple-style design and priorities. The point is that the designer’s mindset leaned toward consumer tech instead of car-focused priorities.
Car
Ferrari
Ferrari is a famous Italian brand that makes high-performance cars. In this conversation it’s mostly being used as the comparison point for speed and design choices.
The Porsche Taycan is an electric car made by Porsche. It’s built to be fast and handle well, not just to be efficient. The podcast mentions it as an example in their conversation.
The Porsche Cayenne is Porsche’s big luxury SUV. Here they’re talking about a new electric version and how insanely fast it is compared with other cars in the conversation.
The Tesla Cybertruck is an electric pickup truck. It looks very unusual compared to most trucks. The podcast mentions it in terms of the kind of people who choose to buy one.
The Dodge Charger is a popular American muscle car. Here, they’re talking about how its front-end design—especially the nose shape—looks similar to what another car is doing.
Jason Fenske is a car reviewer on YouTube. The host is saying he reviewed the Porsche Cayenne and thought it was really good.
LIVE
Welcome to Spikes Car Radio. Here we are with the collab. No one asked for, but it's happening
anyways. We asked for it. They It's the Donut Media Spikes Car Radio collaboration.
I'm here with Nolan Sykes and Joe Weber. Gentlemen. Hello. Thanks for having us. Nice to meet you
both. Very nice to meet you, man. Yeah. So tell tell me why why was it important that we met?
What's the impetus behind this collaboration? Oh, I don't know. We're just in the same space and
we're very close. You guys are huge. I mean, Donut Media is a giant thing. Oh, I see it.
Like your car podcast is like the one to aspire to. Wow. This is working out pretty well.
Except their whole, your whole situation was sold by venture capital at one point,
which means it has to have been super profitable and super profitable for founders. But yeah,
that was like, that was 2021. So five years ago. But you guys are established car,
you know, legacy media at this point. Yeah. It's weird to think of us that way because we
did not start out like that at all. I mean, yeah, we have a channel called Donut Media. We have a
podcast on our Donut podcast channel. But Donut very much, you know, we thought of ourselves as like,
I wouldn't say fighting, but definitely competing with the legacy media at the time. You know,
like Motor Trend was really big at that time. The drive, you know, when it was still under the
control of Matt and what else was that? Smoking tires. Matt Farah and Zach. Zach, yes, but his
partner. I forget. But, you know, who were part of the drive, the original drive. The original
drive. Yeah. So, you know, like we kind of came in and we're like, this stuff's too, a little too
bottomed up, felt a little full of itself sometimes just, and that's not those two channels. I'm just
saying like the existing car media at the time was a very, like the petrolicious vibe of like
super pretty shots and beautiful million dollar cars. And we were like the scrappy underdog.
You say legacy now, it's like, oh yeah, it has been 10 years. We are much bigger than we were
back then. And yeah, it's got like, how do you, how do you keep bringing your original attitude in a
in a time when you're not the new kids on the road? Right, right. Well, it starts, you guys are
first on my radar when our friend James Pumphrey was out in front of all the videos and then he
leaves to start his own channel, Speed, which is doing really well and hands off the reins to
you guys, essentially, right? Essentially, yes. Did you work with James? Did you have a chance to
work with him before he left? I knew James from comedy from like 2010 on. There he is. Yeah. Oh,
that's James. Yeah. I started doing comedy with James or actually the first improv show I ever
went to James was hosting it and I went on stage to do some sort of like they asked me about my
life so they could use that in the improv. And I remember James like asking me questions and
laughing and being like, and he said, I want to hang out with this dude. I don't want to do this
show. And I from that point on, I was like, I got to do comedy. I got to hang out with this guy.
And then we ended up doing a bunch of like sketch shows together, becoming friends. And then
there's a funny story. I don't know if you want me to get into it right now. Is it the email story?
The text story? Yeah, the text story. Yeah. How do you know about that? I do my research.
Go ahead. Tell the text story. So I this is how you were hired. Yeah. This is a crazy story. I was a
chef for like a decade and I was trying to get out of what kind of chef? I started at like my
cousin's restaurant. You kind of look like a chef. I know. I look like the dude from Ratatouille. Yeah.
So I was trying desperately to get out of cooking. But you didn't say what kind of chef you were.
Oh, I was I started with Sicilian food. My family's Sicilian worked my way up and
eventually just needed like a regular, I needed health care basically. So I started.
Did you train to be a chef? No, professionally. You just learned. And so where did you cook in
restaurants? I cooked in Sicilian restaurants, Moroccan restaurant. I ended up in an old folks
home because I needed health care. And I became a sous chef there. Were you a resident? Is that how
you get health care? The best part about working in an old folks home is they don't eat past six
o'clock. And so I could do comedy and I could get health care. And but after, you know, five years
of that, I got to get out and I saw that my friends who are actors were getting unemployment.
And I was like, I only get paid to do nothing. So yeah, I tried forever to transition out and I
became a commercial actor and started working at NFL media. And they lay you off every year.
And so this was my dream. I was like, yeah, get unemployment. I have work waiting for me when
I, you know, the season starts back up again. And the first time it happened, it wasn't even like
two weeks before my girlfriend at the time was like, you got to get a job. And I was like, no,
this is what I'm getting paid. Don't you understand? Yeah. And we got it.
This is like listening to George Costanza come to life. Another generation of Costanzas is sitting
here. Yeah, we're all Costanzas. Everything you're saying is in a pitch in the Seinfeld room, but
continue. I mean, your girlfriend puts the pressure on, she says, you got to get a job.
And it turned into an argument. And it was the 4th of July. And I was like,
you really want me to do this on the 4th of July. And she was like, just go send one text. And so
I packed up my laptop, went to a coffee shop and was like,
in line waiting for coffee. And I saw the donut had just hit 1000000 subscribers.
And I was like, oh, man, they're doing really good. So I texted James. I was like, James,
love, are you doing a donut? Let me know if you need any writers or anything. And like,
before I got my coffee, he was like, yeah, come in on Monday. I had to put my laptop away. I had
to go home and I couldn't be mad at my girlfriend, but I was still like, I didn't want to give her
the satisfaction. I mean, you were right. All I had to do is send one text. Why just give her
that she was right. I did give it to her. You did. You might get sex out of that. That's an amazing
story. So James is pumped for you right away, just goes, come on in. Yeah, he was like,
basically you're hired just, but he had known you from the previous. Yeah, we had, we had done a
sketch show. He was like, right. He was like a sketch show called Revolver at UCB. Yeah.
And I was just a guest writer on it. Yes, we were like, fantastic. Yeah. And what about you?
How do you, where do you come from when it comes to donut media? How did they find you?
I mean, I kind of just cold emailed as well. This is much earlier on when the channel was
like 50,000 subscribers. Let's see. I was in college at the time. I needed an internship
to graduate. I went to school up in the valley, Northridge. Shout out the TV production department
up there. But yeah, you know, to graduate there at that time, at least I needed an internship. So
I hit up a bunch of, or not a bunch of, I say a bunch of every time I say the story, it was
donut and like motor trend or like hot rod, which is under motor trend. I just like sent cold emails
because I knew that they were all based in SoCal. And who did you send them to? Were you just
finding random email addresses? Just info at donut.media. And that went, the company was so
small at that time that the info just went straight to the CEO's inbox, Matt Levin. So Matt, our
future boss, like CEO of donut for a long time, like directly answered me back. And yeah, so
just eventually got in there. My interview was with James and Jesse Wood and Levan Davis
in our old conference room, our old office. It used to be like three blocks away. No way.
But when you reached out to them, and I'm saying this because there was a lot of young folks,
my kids are going to be looking for jobs soon. I'm just amazed that emails got you jobs like this,
random texts got you jobs. What did you say about yourself in it? Or did you show a video? Or did
you give them anything? Or did you just say, Hey, man, I want to work for you? I think it was a
little mix of both. I didn't have any credentials at the time. Like I was working for the CSUNS
sports network, doing camera work for the first basketball games. That's cool. That was really
fun. It was just a footage of him operating in front of me. Yeah. No auto focus. These are my shots.
Watch this. These are my shots. And I had a little bit of writing experience, I guess,
for student productions. Just stuff like that. I also was really focused on doing sound at the
time. Like I really wanted to do sound. What do you mean by sound? Just like called a boom?
Yeah. You wanted to hold a boom? No, like do the mix. Like boom guy. Or have the mix. Yeah,
you got the little fine sound. I learned how to do like drum sets and stuff like concert sound as
well. I do not remember how to do any of that anymore. This is what I studied at Berkeley
College of Music, Music Production and Engineering, setting up mics and the rest of it. I didn't
want to music production. You did. Yeah. And now look at us. Yeah. Yeah. There's no job
in Berkeley College of Music or Music Production other than local school teacher for music.
A podcast like program now at Berkeley. Do you think they do that?
Berkeley doesn't even acknowledge that I went. Okay. And I have a resentment against them because
you know, when I was there, it was like, if you're going to be a successful person,
you're going to leave before the four years is up. Right? Right. You're going to go there and
it's going to say, yeah, he spent a couple years there. Right. And that's exactly what I ended
up doing. Not intentionally, but I left after three years, but I would love to have my honorary
degree in Berkeley College of Music. I have tangentially band involved in music, but it
worked out okay. I think it did. So maybe, you know, if it weren't for the head of
my program at MP&E who let me do an NBC internship and gave me a fake, we'll give him college credit
letter. We're not going to, but I'll submit that for you. I wouldn't have done all the things that
I did. So it's pretty amazing though. It's a good story, guys. How does it clear up some stuff for
me? Sure. Sure. Donate media. Because I was just trying to do my research and it's just,
it's a giant, it's a YouTube channel. It's a collection of podcasts as well. Yeah. You got,
and you guys also seem to hold like production titles as well, like writers and producers.
So how does it work? Like, you two, what are you a part of and not a part of? He's editor-in-chief.
He is a big dog. Okay. Unofficial big dog. So that means in production meetings,
you're going, yeah, no, we're not going to do that and looking at cuts and noting cuts.
Like I'm trying, exactly. I'm trying to make sure that like what we're doing is like
cool for the most. We're not like aesthetically cool necessarily, but like making sure that it's
like, you know, it is people are getting education from it. Sure. People are getting, being entertained.
People are having a laugh. Like we have core tenants and we have a voice and Nolan is like
the guru on that. I see. He wants to make sure. What are the core tenants? Lots of nudity.
What helps? Too much. Every seven words. That's male nudity to the content.
But let us know in the comments if you want some more male nudity. So I mean, the tenants are,
it is, you know, education, entertainment, humor. And I mean, those are the three
reverence, fun, fun cars. Yeah. Accessibility. Accessibility is a big one.
Accessibility, I think is like a, it's a term I think that gets thrown around. Maybe not accessibility.
Relatability. Relatability or affordability. We want, so a lot of our audience skews younger.
So we have a lot of teenage fans that can't afford anything more than $4,000, $5,000 cars.
And so we want to deliver stuff that is available to them. And we want to show that you don't have
to be a millionaire to like enjoy racing. Exactly. Or for example, we've tried a few times now to
make Porsche centric videos because I think they are, they're very interesting company. Yeah. And,
you know, the cars are awesome and the engineering is really cool. But for whatever reason,
like Porsche content typically doesn't do very well for us just because like Porsche still has that
air about it where it is, I mean, it's at that next level. It's not exactly accessible for most
people. Yeah. Unless you a, know what cheap Porsches to buy or be like, I don't know, just
appreciate the company for what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Like that's an example of the accessibility.
No, I, you know, it's weird. I've talked about it before. I really hated those cars growing up.
Same. Couldn't, couldn't stand them. Didn't like them, but it was all based on my impressions
from movies, the type of character that drove them. Exactly. Like it's not the case anymore,
but like when I was, when we were younger, I think, like the people you see driving Porsches
were guys in like polo shirts. Like there's this guy's in polo shirts now, at least in LA. It's
like a couple of face tattoo guys. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Rolled up beanie creative guys. Yeah.
Big t-shirt guys. Yeah. Like it's different now, I think, but that might be just LA in general,
but yeah, it wasn't until we did like, we, the first time I drove a 911, we were doing a commercial,
a branded spot as we call them internally, but like we're doing a commercial and add
for one of our videos where we had some pre-owned Porsches that Porsche dropped off.
And you know, it was an ad for their CPO program. Oh, right. Right. And I got to drive like a used
911. I was like, Oh, that's what happens. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. This is what, this is what it is.
It was like black. It had a cool, like gold stripe on the bottom. It had, it was like the,
remind me of like one of those old Lotus John player special F1 cars with the paint scheme is
really cool. And even though it had the PDK and even then, like it just so responsive,
like faster than any automatic I'd ever driven. I was like, okay, like I see why the guys
happen to me too. Yeah. Drive these. My argument was with David Letterman. I'm just like,
I can't drive that. He goes, why not? And I said, but I said to you guys, and he said,
now you got it completely wrong. He goes, these are very analog cars. Sometimes I don't even have
radios in it. They don't have air conditioning and the driving experience is focused on you.
It's like a go cart. I went, okay. He goes here, drive this. And I went, oh, yeah. Wow. You're
right. I can't, and I was depressed. I was legitimately depressed that I was a Porsche guy.
And I was like, I don't know, you know, it's, it's a horrible thing to discover about yourself.
And then it works out. But again, that was a time where I think my first car
cost $6,000. It was a $74,911 in a brown. I think at this point you have the GT3 RS and kids are
now finally like, oh, that looks like a hypercar or supercar. But back when I was a kid, like the
purple Lamborghini Diablo, that was the poster on my wall. If I was looking at like a hypercar,
supercar, I didn't have hypercars back then, but supercars back then, that was my North Star.
And so Porsche seemed like a step down from there. I don't know why, you know, I had never driven one.
You know, it's just kind of that way. My kids and their friends are all about BMWs,
except there's a goofball on my street who's got a purple Supra with big white wheels,
and it looks beat up like your cars, which we're going to look at in a second. So he's obviously
tracking it, this kid. That's fun though. Yeah. He goes, you're a car guy. Every once in a while,
I'll see this kid. He goes, you're a car guy, aren't you? I see you driving some stuff. I'm like,
yeah, I'm a car guy. That's it. He seems like that's a YouTube.
Let's talk about Racetech. Racetech was invented in 1997 by car enthusiasts for car enthusiasts.
Racetech is a cost-effective, durable, truly do-it-yourself-modulated flooring system
engineered for the garage. They're currently working on the Spike Ferris and Home Garage. We're
very excited about it. You know, and I'm a little disappointed because I think I'm picking the same
floor as I have in Santa Monica. Oh, don't show the turtle face guy. No, he's going to do it.
This is a terrible picture of your car, but yeah. Oh, there you are. Hello. This was for a No Woman
magazine photo shoot. It's not a bad photo. Look, it's got an ST in it. It's got my lovely 9146GT
poster off to the side, but no, it's a terrible picture of me. I look like some weird California
like miner. You started the gold mine. It's like a Bitcoin miner. Yeah, it's weird. It's just weird.
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people tend not to skip through them. Yeah. So we can do a couple things. We can go through your
videos right now or we can look at the, you have two cars. Let's look at a car first. Sure.
All right. Let's do that. So you seem to have brought us a Datsun or an Nissan?
It's both actually. It's 1984. Datsun 300ZX, Z31 Gen. And is this car featured in one of your
shows? It is. This was a video I think called We Forced Our Friend to Work on His Project Car,
which was me. So this is Joe's car. Yeah. This was a car that I bought for $800 from a music video
production company that just needed to get rid of it. And they had spent about $4,000 getting
it running and cleaned up. Can I just ask where do they have it advertised? It was a friend of a
friend. Oh, okay. Yeah. It was a friend who was a cameraman on the shoot, I think. Do you know what
music videos it's featured in? I didn't look into that. Sabrina Carpenter. Sure. We'll just go with
that. I could see Charlie XCX like having one of those videos for sure. But this is a 84. So this
was the year that it went from Datsun to Nissan in the US. And so it has both the badges on the
back. Really? Yeah. Oh, let's see that. It's an NA. That's confusing. Right? Wow. You're right. Look
at that. Yeah. Whoa. So this was the year that Datsun became Nissan or so? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. In the
US. And they decided let's do both badges as a commemorative thing? I guess so. Yeah. I think
it was so people didn't get confused. And Zexpert not too far from here. If we drive down. Yeah.
I meant to put my other license plate right there. I know that place. I have a license plate that
my friend got me that says bought with daddy's money. I'm daddy. I haven't put it on yet. So what
is it that's special about this car? It's so you bought it for next to nothing next to nothing.
I it was just sitting in my yard forever just getting dusty. And everyone was like what are you
going to do with this? What are you going to do? It has a bunch of back fees on it. So I didn't
register it. I was like do I just you know back fees from the previous or from previous owner.
And what does that mean? So you bought a car that had leans on it or it how is that your problem? It
just was never registered as nono. I see. And so just kept a crew in free fee. It's like a couple
times during the transfer. They didn't say well that's not your problem. They said it is your
problem. You have to pay this. Well there's never been a transfer. So it's just we got some registration
guys. We got some yeah. This is a perfect job for the Hungarian. We have a guy that works for us
called the Hungarian. Yeah. Who handles things things. Figure out how he sounds like. If you went
to the Hungarian and said could you take care of this? He would take care of this. That'd be
awesome. Yeah. I could use his services. He's he has a DMV service that also my kid was kidnapped.
Can you find her? The Hungarian may have done it. So anyways, we worked on it for about a week.
We got it running pretty good. It's got 220,000 miles on the original VG30. V6. We actually
just did a Nissan V6 day at Bob's Big Boy. So shout out to Nissan V6. You put new wheels on it.
Yeah. It's got enky comps on it, which are just a classic period correct wheel. And we
lowered it. Correct. Do we what we have? We have tame coilovers on it, which are kind of
the cheaper ones, but they're a budget option. They're pretty decent and they're adjustable.
Do we do exhaust? There is a performance exhaust that's sitting in my basement right now. We
had the boxes. We didn't get around to it. We ran out of time. If we could go to the
driver compartment, the steering wheel there. No, that's not also not on because not on.
I forgot what it looked like. Yeah. It's weird. It's not bad. That kind of reminds me of cars
growing up. It's very French. Isn't it like a Porsche steering wheel similar to that where it
comes up from the bottom or no? Where did I just see this steering wheel on a car? Oh, God, we
were at Graham Ray Hall's place and it was that big, weird, rectangular. Yes. Purple Lasha, was it?
Or he's got some weird car there. I'm going to look it up, but it was the same. That also looks
like the DeLorean steering wheel. But our cameraman is using it for a production vehicle
right now, so all of his stuff is in the back. It did, you guys did give me a really cool steering
wheel from a company that has very little... What's this? Why is there a baseball bat in the bag?
He's also on my baseball team. You guys play baseball? We have a Sam Lott baseball team called
The Sliders, but it's baseball. Baseball, fast pitch. Oh, that's great. But it's comedians,
musicians, people who can't throw over 72 miles per hour. That's the threshold. Wooden bat league,
so the competition is fierce. The lore behind this league is insane. No, I used to play... When I
first moved to LA, the first thing I did is I signed up for baseball and I played in over 30 league
and you were with guys that were playing semi-pro. So every once in a while, you'd get a guy just
throwing heaters like at 95 to 100 and you're like, what the fuck am I a part of? Then I saw a
lawyer at shortstop take a ball to the teeth and cry as he went to his car holding his teeth
and bloody and I went, you know, maybe I should just stick with Seinfeld writing. I just had that
moment this season. I was like, I have two kids under two. And so this year I was like, maybe
I'm not going to play. I played my first... What position do you play? I pitch, but I also play
second base and left field. I mean, he looks like a catcher. Thanks. I would never have guessed
that you were a baseball player. I don't... I look like a 40 conalign, but I run like a 901.
Really? I'm the fastest one on my team and I don't look it. Come on. But because of that,
I am the fastest one. I always beat out grounders to first, but I hadn't trained at all and I have
two little kids and the first game that I played, I got tendonitis in my Achilles and I ate shit
running to first and I did the old guy move of just like my upper body slowly tipping over
until I just did a roll and I still tried to get up and run to first because it was like
someone not great at shortstop throwing it. But I was like, maybe I should take the season off.
So that's my baseball story. What do we have going on there in the dash where the radio is?
That piece of... It's very slow. Yeah, what is that? Oh, is that a removable face plate?
It does have a face plate. It has a removable stereo. It's so funny because I remember we
worked a lot on this car over there, but we can't really tell from that.
No. So what's the money you put into it? Maybe $2,000. Not even that. $2,000.
And original purse, your price was $600? $800. And then I had to buy a battery, so we're inching
up on $1,000. And what do you do with this? We set up an autocross course at the balcony
at Willow Springs and we tested it and it did great. It ran. It's really fun. We kind of beat
the shit out of it and it didn't get hot. The V6 really wanted to be revved out. It's a fun little
car. But then immediately afterwards, I'm like, I'm going to use this car. And so I bought a K&N
performance air filter on it and I looked and the MAF sensor was not even connected.
And so as soon as I connected the air filter, it ran 200% better. That's so fun. Amazing.
It's a fun little beater. We need to get that registration figured out, buddy.
Well, the thing is, we're going to buy a Sienna and I looked up the towing capacity of a Sienna
and it's exactly, give or take a couple hundred pounds. This car. Yeah. And so I think I'm just
going to like rattlekin some fun shapes on it and make it a track car. And that's it.
And there it is. And then you're done. So that becomes a video. Can you write all that off?
Does Donut give you the money to do this or is this your personal?
I have no idea how we handle our taxes. All the parts were on Donut. I had to buy the car.
I see. But yeah, we had the car. But you can keep the car. So that's a pretty good deal. You buy
the car, they supply the parts. You guys make the video and now you've got a nice thing to drive
around and goof around in. And then we brought another car. Do we want to talk about that right
away or do we? We can. Sure. That's not a car though. So this is our, it's called, we call it
low truck. Okay. It was built during our high low season a few years ago where we built two
overlanding Tacomas. Tell everybody what high low is in case they don't. Yeah. Sorry. So high low is
our show where we build two cars, one with cheap parts and one with expensive parts.
They're identical cars though. Yeah. Identical starting platforms and usually like the category
of mods are the same per episode. So like, you know, cheap expense, cheap versus expensive
suspension and wheels or bumpers. So you get two of these pickup trucks. Yeah. Which was,
you buy us the set of all of the expensive parts and then the cheap parts. Yeah. So this is our
cheap truck right here. And what do you, what's the question you'll answer? Are the cheap parts
as good as the expensive parts? Is more, does more expensive mean more better?
Okay. Is the question. In general, what happens on that show? You don't know, you won't know or?
No. So it's interesting, especially in the case of this season with the Tacomas,
you'll notice real quick, I want to address the bumper there. It's been bent downwards. It's not
supposed to look like that. We were shooting another season of high low where we used both
of our Tacomas to try to pull apart a racing seat for a Honda Civic. Okay. And the force on the
Brit, the, the Brit brand seats, that it was so high because the seats are really good that it
actually started pulling the bumper, the winch started pulling the bumper down. So unfortunately,
it's not supposed to look like that. It looks pretty jank, but now it has more down for us.
Amazing. So sorry, in the case of the Tacoma season, what we found was actually really
interesting. We completely overloaded the high truck with all the expensive parts. We made it
so it was a very heavy truck with tons of armor on the bottom, a lot like a big tent on top,
huge rack in the bed and everything like that. And, you know, these motors, they're very reliable,
these Toyota V6s, but they're only making like 170 horsepower or something like that.
Yeah, neither, almost 30. So what was replaced on this car?
So unfortunately, we don't have all the overlanding stuff on it right now because we,
we use it for production. We use it to haul all of our camera gear and stuff.
No one made that bumper. Well, I made the front one too. The front one is more impressive.
But the suspension we've done on, so it's got Bilstein, like a $700 set of Bilsteins,
which are just awesome. It's running, I think, 33-inch tires right now. Normally,
we set it up for 31s. It's got, it's kind of big right now. It kind of rubs sometimes with that.
That was a clerical error. We ordered the wrong tires.
I have 35s on my bronzer. 35.
All right. My mom, I picked her up to the airport. She goes,
why is this car bouncing up? I'm like, we got 35s.
That's a brutal car. Is that safe, Michael?
That's a brutal car to pick your mom up and she's got to step up.
Without all of the tops on it. It did not work out. I just, I had a Lucid that I was driving
and Lucid goes, we need to pick it up in the morning. I go, I got to pick my mom up at the
airport and he go, Nat, our problem. And I went, all right. And I opened up my hangar doors and
there's the Bronco. I went, oh, this will be fun. But she did well. The 405 terrifies her.
And 405 and a Bronco. It was nice. I enjoyed it. It was a good time.
So we had, in the series, we did an episode where we built bumpers from scratch. The bumper
that's on it right now is a different one that we built last year.
So you're doing all that metal work yourself.
Yeah. We had to build those completely.
Did you know how to do that?
I didn't know how to do that.
A teammate, this guy, Aaron Parker, one of my good friends, he is experienced in welding
and fabrication. So he handled most of that. I did the rear one, which is honestly,
looks pretty good.
I took the stock brackets that were holding the stock bumper on and I just welded a piece of
rectangle tube stock on top of it, but it's held up very well. And it looks good. It looks
straight. It is technically a high clearance bumper. Thank you. Yeah.
Is that, it looks like it could just be a piece of two by four.
It's not spray painted silver, but that's real metal.
What surprised you about welding? I've never welded anything. Like it looks easy.
I remember in second grade, like the teacher's going, don't look at the welders.
Right next door, they were building a place like.
In my experience, welding is, it's very easy to get caught off guard by how like,
it's not a violent thing that's happening, but like there's a lot of noise.
Yeah.
Sparks are going everywhere. There's a lot of smoke.
Like there's a lot happening at once and it's easy to get overwhelmed by that.
But what was really cool on the front bumper was last year,
we ordered like a kit with all the plate metal is all cut out and it has instructions and then
you put it together. Oh, I see.
And that's, you know, I got to like practice welding and like, I think it came out pretty good.
It's a welding, just like a sparky flame, flamey glue gun.
Maybe like you're just dotting it like that.
You put it together. Yeah. I mean, you'll put it together with spot welds where you're just going
but like, you know, the really long welds are, you get in like a flow state.
It's really fun. Like just, you know, knowing that you're going to do like a one foot long section
and you just kind of get in the zone and do this whole line and it's really cool.
And then, you know, because the heat will, if you focus too much, concentrate too much heat
in one area from doing long welds like that, you got to like actually,
you have to go around the bumper and do all different places.
Otherwise, warp. Yeah. Yeah.
And it's like high stakes cocky. Yes.
Is there, is there some drama going on with Tyler?
Was there something there is some drama going on?
Yeah. So for our recent season, our newest season that I just mentioned with the Civic Seats,
we built two Civic SIs.
Yeah. Civic SIs, eighth gen, so probably like late 2000s.
EK? No, no. I forget what the designation is.
Me neither. But so drama there was we released it on Tubi instead of YouTube.
Tubi funded the whole thing.
Right. Let's back up a little bit. So last year, late last year,
we knew we wanted to make another season of Hilo. We had taken a year off of doing
the Hilo show in favor of a show we called the Big Trip where we did a cross country road trip.
And it's like, okay, next year let's do, let's do Hilo. But we had two concepts,
one of them with the Civics and another one, which will premiere later this year.
It's a really good one.
But two concepts and luckily two sponsors approached us. One of them are longtime
sponsor Allstate Insurance and then Tubi. And it's like, okay, we know we're going to do
the Allstate one. They have a bigger budget. We're going to do this bigger concept with them.
And then our thinking was, hey, the fans are going to be stoked that they get a little bonus
Hilo on Tubi. Unfortunately for us, I think I'm maybe a little naive on us to kind of like
not predict what happened. People were not happy that the show was on a different platform,
even though it was.
Yeah, they're used to watching it in one place.
But it's still free. But we didn't, I didn't know that Tubi was not available in other countries.
I didn't know that either.
And that's the big sticking point is everyone's like, oh great, I can't watch this.
But what countries were upset?
A lot of them. South America, European fans. But you could use a VPN.
Yeah, we're not saying you can't use a VPN. That's a very viable option.
So there was some global complaining here.
There was some global complaining here.
Slovenia was really pissed.
From the global audience, I definitely, that was not our intention to exclude.
They don't know that we had this other thing cooking.
So we have another Hilo season coming on YouTube.
So you're clearing that up.
Yeah. And also this will be on YouTube.
Eventually.
Eventually.
Eventually it comes there.
So I'm, it's unfortunate, but I think.
This is just you guys being successful. This is what happens.
It's what happens.
Right. When you're on Amazon, guess what they're going to say.
Yeah, we're not.
People are just always complaining.
Yeah.
They're always complaining.
I, we love our fans, but we do all this for free.
And we have to keep the lights on.
And I want to say, like, we would not have gone to a platform if it wasn't free.
Like you don't even need an account on to be to watch the show.
And that was really important to us in the early stages of like, okay,
we're going to do this on TV.
You know, you just log on.
And at the time, you know what they have, like,
can you go to their main page?
To be has like a crazy lineup of movies.
They're kind of famous.
Raft of the time.
Where else are you going to watch Hilo and also.
And the equalizer and the equalizer with Denzel.
I don't know.
Anyway, I believe every movie is everywhere on every platform now.
So over saturation of everything.
Well, boss, baby.
It's actually good.
Have you ever seen it?
No, we put it on as a joke when we were at a bachelor party
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I got, I'm loving these live reads, dude.
We got to think about this.
It really, it's immersive and it takes you.
I was listening to every word, man.
Well, when we first started getting advertisers years ago, I, as a consumer podcast,
when everybody fast forward, including myself, you know, why don't you let us say
anything we want instead of giving us a long do not list.
And if you have a sense of humor about yourselves,
yeah, that's the primary qualification for advertisers.
If you don't, we tell them, no, don't come on the show.
Yeah.
Not because of you guys, but Zuckerman will say something horrible.
And then we would get fired all the time.
The best ads are like the ones that you can tell hosts are allowed to, I think,
just do whatever they want.
Like, yeah, I hate when I, my, this is very inside, inside podcast baseball here.
But like, there's companies now that it used to be, they have writers that would send you
scripts, right?
There's a company that does landscaping for men and they send the worst copy in the world.
But what I'm talking about is like, a lot of brands now,
they do, but Bluetooth does too.
But as long as you can read it ironically and go, who wrote this?
I mean, didn't we, we did that with one shake sponsor.
Right.
He will sign.
What is it?
He will.
He will.
Yeah.
Oh, that story.
And then Seinfeld, Seinfeld's reading the ad and we're laughing.
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And put that picture with that shake, right?
It was really funny.
But at the end of the day, it was Jerry Seinfeld, right?
And then, you know, the company, Huul North America was like, this is the greatest thing.
He puts it on LinkedIn.
The Huul Global guy says, they're fired.
They're done.
What?
They're done.
He doesn't have a certain number.
You got Jerry Seinfeld reading your ad for like 10 bucks.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Anyway, yeah, they disappeared.
But great, you know, happily so.
And we went through that same thing with our friends at Bluetooth.
And, and then people started making their own homemade ads of our reads.
Oh, these guys, frequently it's the PR firm that gets in the way.
That's the, and not the company.
Exactly.
The agency is in the firms.
The agency.
They don't nervous.
They don't, you know, let's, let's talk about some of your videos here.
And then I want to get into some other stuff.
Let's pull up their YouTube channel because I've been watching yourself.
First of all, this new video here.
We built a Red Bull soapbox car.
I love these videos on Instagram watching.
I get hooked into them every time these reels of like what's going to fly or what's going to
make it down the course.
What's the gig here?
You guys signed up.
We signed up in a year ago.
A year ago.
And you, and the idea is you build a little soapbox movie.
Are there any specifications that you have to hit?
Yes.
So there's dimension constraints and also weight constraint.
Okay.
175 pounds.
I didn't really realize that they let you build like tube frame stuff.
I thought, initially, I thought it was going to be like wood.
Yeah.
I thought it was more centered around like traditional soapbox stuff.
But it's, and then, and then they don't give you any materials whatsoever.
And do they tell you ahead of time what the course is going to be?
It's going to have jumps.
It's going to be, I don't know if they tell you the course.
Okay.
And Jimmy, this was the first time that Jimmy had ever driven down that course.
So there's no practice runs.
That's Jimmy in the front there.
Yeah.
And that's in the back.
That's Vin Diesel.
3D printed Vin Diesel.
A 3D printed Vin Diesel with two Vin Diesel workers off to the side there.
That's the other thing too.
It's like very well conceived.
Thank you.
I like this.
Everybody, the teams need to have a theme.
That's kind of part of what was your theme.
Vin Diesel or family.
Vin Diesel.
Like we knew we wanted to do something.
Wait, wait, wait.
What?
Family.
Family.
Okay.
We did a gag years ago.
We did like a live stream to show our new merch line.
Yep.
And it ended with 10 Vin Diesel saying family a hundred times.
And we didn't put any branding on it.
There's no way to trace it back to Donut,
but it got clipped and turned into a TikTok and a GIF or whatever.
And everyone was sharing it.
We're like, we got to put more Donut stuff on our shirts.
That's fantastic.
We obviously branded up this with a very thin, sharpie marker Donut logo.
So how many cars are entered?
At least 30.
Oh, more than that.
I think, right?
Yeah.
So was it like a four hour event?
Yeah.
They were sending people down every probably two minutes.
And you guys won.
We did.
I did.
Is your running here?
Can we?
Yeah.
So will we be able to see it?
Yeah, it's in here.
That looks like a brutal crash.
That was great.
Yeah.
Let's see this crash.
Go back.
Go back.
Let's look at this.
There's one guy who you can see his neck.
Well, that's what I always wonder is like, do people get hurt?
Yeah.
You have their headphones right down there if you want.
Yeah, cool.
So there's, that's Gary from Hoonigan.
And he had the worst one of the day.
Oh, stop, stop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, so you know that guy.
That looks like he broke his neck.
It looks pretty, I'm surprised he didn't
because that was a pretty gnarly fall there.
But were there people that were hurt
and carried off in stretchers?
Oh, I don't think so.
God, that's nuts.
Yeah.
And he's okay.
He's all right.
He's a trooper.
Yeah.
So that's why we need roll bars.
And also you'll notice it's a white Bronco.
And they were doing that down the 405.
Oh, and he's dressed as juice.
I get it now.
Is that what that was?
Is that their theme?
Yeah.
Hilarious.
All right, keep going.
Let's get to their run.
That's incredible.
Okay, here's another Vin Diesel team, actually.
They built their cart to look like the Dodge Charger
that he drives in the film.
And there's a moment in the video
where our two teams meet up and pretty funny there.
But yeah, I mean.
Were you depressed when you saw another Vin Diesel team?
No, we had them beat on every front.
Okay, go ahead.
These guys look like they didn't make it.
They fell apart.
Oh, God.
Did she get road rash?
I would imagine so, dude.
Wow.
They have to.
And it, okay, now stop.
Is the judging at all real in these things or?
Yeah, it's style, though.
So it's not quantifiable.
Okay.
Like they timed the event.
Like they timed your run,
but they also had,
there's a judge's score, which you saw there.
That looks like fun.
And where is the event?
Where?
This was downtown L.A.
This was like Bunker Hill.
I don't even know about this.
Bunker Hill.
I want to buy that Walt Disney.
Okay, go ahead.
Play.
Oh, my God.
He's doing a Shoei.
Am I nervous?
Yes.
This is something new I've never tried.
I haven't done a practice.
Put a lot of effort into that bald cap
and that muscle outfit.
Believe it or not, those are not real muscles.
The dream come true to be here.
Jimmy's like 112 pounds soaking wet.
Let's do this thing.
This is good.
Let's bring up.
I'm nervous now.
Oh, my goodness.
Am I seeing?
What is this?
123456 Vin Diesel.
This is very much like the excitement at the Indy 500.
This is the same level.
We have a lot of commitment here.
I'm feeling slightly intimidated.
That's pretty good.
It's crazy.
The Vin Diesel is really good.
Yeah, yeah.
You 3D printed him, huh?
3D printed and then it was painted by...
It was like 40 hours of printing.
Yeah, it looks like it.
Should well that shit.
So it is a timed thing.
Oh, you guys can jam.
All right, here we go.
Here's the run.
That was a good push.
I like it.
Some excellent commentary there from the sportscasters.
That was a good push.
The walk of fame there with the stars.
All right, we get down.
Wow.
Yeah, this handles really well.
What are these wheels from a stroller?
They're from a junior dragster.
Junior dragster.
The head.
No, our 3D printed head.
Oh, you must have been so happy.
He almost caught it too.
Was that engineered to happen or not?
No, no.
That's excellent.
Yeah, it was kind of perfect because...
This is a dream run.
Oh, this is bad.
Look at the brakes.
Yeah, it's got disc brakes.
Brakes for great.
And mountain bike suspension shocks for the...
Can you only beat it by a second?
Not even a second.
Seven tenths, I think.
Oh my god.
Way more exciting than the Indy 500.
They had nothing on this.
I don't know.
I was pretty excited.
That finish at the Indy was great.
That looks like a lot of fun.
Now, will you do this again?
I hope.
I mean, that looks like so much fun.
Yeah, it was really cool.
And you obviously put a lot of work into designing that car.
Yeah, so the co-driver, Soupy, is from Hoonigan.
He's got his own shop now and stuff.
What's the dude who helped build it?
What's his name?
Brian?
Anyways.
Grim.
Grim?
His name's Grim.
His last name is Grim.
They built this amazing chassis, this two-frame chassis.
I think it ended up being like 214 pounds with Vindiesel on it,
so they had to go and do like a tooth kind of scrape out everything.
They had to scrape out all Vindiesel.
Originally, there was a rod holding his neck to the head,
but because we had to scrape out all that 3D printed stuff to get the weight down,
that's why it popped off.
Because it was only held on with a little bit of glue there.
Yeah, it was pretty cool.
Plus the weight of the two guys, right?
Yeah, so they ended up shortening the car by about a foot or so.
The drivers are not counted though.
I think it's just the car itself.
But still, that is a lot of weight on it, a little thing, like a little wagon.
And what did you say the wheels were again?
Junior dragster wheels.
Junior dragster.
Wow, so something real.
There was a little bit of controversy because,
I don't know what the actual directive was,
but there was a certain amount that you could push.
And apparently we went over and some guy was trying to call us on the comments,
and it turned out that guy got second or third or something.
So he was like,
He's just jealous that no, his guys couldn't push that hard.
If the announcer was like, that was a good push, I'm going off of his.
Got to race the rulebook.
It's not a real race, dude.
It's just fun.
My complaint would have been,
Donut Media has a way bigger budget than the rest of us.
Are these other corporations that you're racing with?
It's a mix.
You'll see some of the.
There's race services in there.
Hoonigan was in there.
Right, right.
You'll see there.
And then there was, what was it?
There was a category of car where it was like featured partner or something.
So it was like, there was like AMPM and Corvana, I think,
built a car and they had pre-sophisticated cars as well.
I wouldn't say, yeah, budget plays into it too,
but like Supe's engineering on this.
Like, I mean, he's a guy who builds race cars himself.
His shop is full of really sick cars.
Like him and his team, I mean, all credit really goes to them.
They did amazing work.
Did you guys ask to enter or did they ask you to enter?
We entered without even contacting them.
And then I think someone on our sales team.
How do you do that?
You just walk up with a car?
There's just a form.
Oh, there's an online form.
Again, with the online emails.
Just send an email.
They just ask and it all works out.
Exactly.
That's fantastic.
You got to reach out.
The first step is asking.
Okay.
I watched this other video,
which I really liked about 100 miles per gallon in a gas guzzler.
This is really fun.
Yeah, that's...
You guys are driving this back and forth
and you're doing different experiments with tire pressure,
gas, windows open, windows closed,
trying to get the best mileage from what was it?
Was it a Mustang or a Camaro?
It's a drag car that we built a couple of years ago
with a Roots blower on it or Whipple,
sorry, excuse me, a Whipple style supercharger on it.
Originally, the idea, we wanted to do like a Hellcat,
but we were like, okay, the mods we want to do to it,
you know, we're going to mess up this Hellcat.
Yeah.
And this video has been in the works for like four years.
Yeah, yeah.
Our creative director, Max Maddox,
has been pitching this every meeting for four years.
We really wanted to do a while.
Well, here, you know, without having to go through it,
what was interesting for me was to see how much
of an effect it really has on mileage,
these little tiny things that you hear about
and you go, really, my air pressure.
Just talk about that for a second.
Like what had the most effects effect on mileage
that everybody can do in their cars?
One thing anybody can do without making any changes
to their car to save more gas is just drive the speed limit.
Really?
Yeah.
Just drive the speed limit.
That's the biggest impact.
Gas is very expensive right now.
These are simple things you can do to fix that.
I drive a big, not big, but I drive like,
my daily is a regular cab Dodge truck.
And I just drive, that thing's not a speed demon.
Constant.
Constant speed limit.
Anything past 45 miles per hour,
you're getting more wind resistance.
So what about windows open, windows closed?
Windows closed.
That did, yeah, windows closed.
That did have a little bit of an effect.
What about AC, though?
If windows up, do you need AC on?
I think on modern cars, AC is negligible,
because also a lot of modern cars have fuel saving built in.
Like my truck has cylinder deactivation.
So like, I'm a big sweaty guy.
I think the parasitic gloss would maybe make
like one MPG difference.
That's it.
Not even, I doubt that.
Yes, nothing.
I bet it.
So windows up, AC on is fine.
I think AC on is fine.
What about your tires?
Tires, definitely, if you have low air pressure,
yeah, it's going to affect your mileage.
Explain that.
You know, you have a bigger contact patch with the ground
that's more friction that your car,
your engine needs to overcome
as you're moving down the road.
So having your tires at a proper air pressure
to honestly manufacture specifications,
none of that, your comfort level is going to be different too.
Like my wife, she has an old,
we have like a 2002 Lexus LS430.
And I was trying to save gas
by having those tire pressures like pretty jacked up.
And I was like, one of those days
where you're doing maintenance on your car,
you're like, I'm going to treat this thing
exactly how it wants to be treated.
Oil change, all that kind of stuff.
And then, you know what?
I'll even set the air pressure to what Lexus says.
I get back in the car to drive home way comfier.
Yeah, yeah.
Way better.
I'm like, oh, okay, you know what?
These guys, these teams with billions of dollars
of engineering and centuries of experience between them.
Yeah, they know what they're doing.
So, proper air pressure is pretty important,
also for safety too.
Like if it starts raining.
Also, driving through red lights.
God stop for red lights.
Don't.
But speed limit is definitely the biggest one.
Just keep going.
And then the last video I wanted to chat about
was this car changed my mind about RWB.
Here we go.
The RWB Porsches.
Yes, there it is.
And without having to go through the whole video, you know,
there's a lot of conflicting opinions.
I want to know what you're doing.
RWB, what's that?
What's your view on RWB?
I haven't spent a lot of time on them.
And I don't, I think I've only driven one.
And I drove it on the road and I went, I don't get this.
It looks super cool, but it drives just like a regular 911.
So what is it about this car that makes it special
other than the clothing?
That guy.
That's not special.
But you, you arrived at a very different conclusion.
And what was that?
And why?
So especially with this car in particular that we drove,
this was Akira Nakai's personal car.
So Akira Nakai is the guy behind RWB.
He's the guy who's, you know, I would say one of the
principal figures behind like wide bodies being even popular
in like tuning culture.
But this was his personal car over in Tokyo.
And as such, it was an automatic and with very little mods
made to the engine.
Actually, I don't think any mods.
So it's a Tiptronic or something?
It was the four speed auto that it was before PDK.
So Tiptronic maybe?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So not, not great.
Not great, not great, not responsive, not the PD,
like the snappy auto that Porsches are known for now.
And, you know, driving around, it was cool.
Like same with your experience, it felt very cool,
but because very little mods were made to the motor
and that really lazy transmission, it was just.
Didn't drive like it looked.
This car in particular did not drive how it looked at all.
And I was very underwhelmed by it.
And couldn't really understand why he didn't just daily
something else rather than something that looks.
That's right.
But by the end of the video, you're like, I get this now.
What happened?
What changed?
It was racing culture.
Yeah.
Going through that tunnel.
That's not you in the video, is it?
That's the other guy.
No, that's me.
I'm honestly.
Did you make this video?
I'm drawing a blank.
Go to the end of the video.
Please, please talk about memory.
Please talk about memory.
So I can expand on this and not sound like an idiot.
Here, let's listen.
Okay.
I want to know so badly now what a manual in this car feels like
and what it's like to really hammer on a car that's been given the RWB treatment
because I feel like I'm just getting a little teaser,
a little taste, a little like an appetizer.
I want the whole meal now.
We're coming up on a tunnel here.
I want to hear this thing.
That sounds nice.
Now move forward to the racetrack.
His summation is coming up, I think.
I remember when Brian Scato built his 964, the Hoonigan,
I remember seeing Nikai in need for speed.
I also remember not really getting it.
Look, I'm a recovering know-it-all.
When I was 20, I thought because I read a bunch of car magazines and knew every top gear by heart
that I knew the car scene inside and out.
There were definitely times when I thought chopping up a 911 was stupid
because Stupgart already created a masterpiece.
But I was wrong because I was coming at it from an angle that was ignorant
as to why Nikai was cutting those fenders in the first place.
Without wider fenders, you came on wider tires on your car.
And for people who actually track their RWB 9-11, that is a very important feature.
Back in Japan, RWB hosts events where their customers bring out the
This is why you changed your mind.
That's pretty cool.
See, when I watched that, I went, all right, I can wrap my head around that idea.
How old is this video that you forgot it?
Should we get you tested?
A couple of months ago.
Our production schedule is insane.
I had a podcast and I'm trying to book these guys
as they're doing these cross-country trips.
I'm going crazy, they're exhausted coming back.
Are you guys also the past gas podcast?
Yes, no one is podcast you host each.
We do three podcasts.
We don't host all of them, but I host my own podcast,
Talk Talk Nation, which is our talk show.
You will be on.
Yeah, good.
He hosts past gas solely right now.
It might change in the future, but we had to do stuff for scheduling
just because it was driving everyone crazy,
trying to get everyone in the same room every week.
But yeah, we're experimenting with formats now
to try to figure out the best way to do everything.
How many people are at Doughnut?
About 26 people.
It's based right here in Santa Monica, right?
It used to be.
It's by SoFi.
Now we're over in Inglewood, our new building.
So what happened was during COVID, when that started up,
in the weeks, actually, the month or so leading up to COVID,
our CEO, Matt, or CEO at the time, Matt,
he was keeping an eye on it and reading news from foreign countries
and being like, this might be a thing that happens.
Yeah, yeah.
We might have to shut down.
So he hits up our head of production at the time,
Zach Redpath, and he's like, hey, what do we need to do?
If we needed to go remote, what would that look like?
So we got a bunch of small cameras like that one across from me right now,
a lot of hard drives, green screens.
We bought a bunch of green screens and small lights for all the hosts
so they could shoot at their house.
And once COVID started, a lot of businesses were impacted pretty negatively,
but we kept on rolling.
There was no stop in production from shooting in our office five minutes
from here to going remote.
That's pretty in retrospect.
We grew like crazy.
Yeah, yeah.
Everybody's inside watching YouTube all the time.
Really, I think we had 2000000 subscribers when we started,
when COVID started.
We had just celebrated the 2000000
Yeah.
We went go-karting and it was like the week before and James was like,
kind of scared about COVID.
I'm going to stay home and we all went go-karting.
I was like, I don't care.
It's worse getting COVID to go go-karting and not knowing what it was.
That's a good quote for you.
And then after we came out, after the COVID restrictions were pretty much lifted
and people were going out again, the channel had doubled in size.
And we found out that we were more famous now.
A lot more people started recognizing us on the street,
which was a really weird feeling.
The COVID boost.
Well, hopefully soon you'll have an Ebola boost.
Oh boy.
Ebola, have you ever read The Hot Zone?
It's about Ebola.
Yeah, okay.
So you know, Ebola, not good.
It's legit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Any of those bleeding diseases, those eye-bleeding diseases?
That's where the term crash out comes from, by the way.
What?
Yeah.
Like from people, Ebola, when it's in you.
And you just liquefy?
Yeah, it literally does liquefy.
It liquefies.
It's not the only one.
It wasn't there in another one in that book, Marburg disease.
Marburg, yeah.
But I used to be terrified of all this shit.
So I would read about exclusively about viruses and serial killers.
How are we doing at Honto right now?
What's that?
Is Honto still going on?
Honto is never really a contender.
Okay, really?
It's too hard to get Honto virus.
Okay.
That's the case with Ebola, too.
Like, it kills you too fast, right?
No, it just doesn't move quickly.
But this one is probably nothing.
Okay.
I know.
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Most of us would die.
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What do you guys think about this electric Ferrari backlash?
Oh, God.
Jump in.
Oh, the backlash.
I think it's.
Warranted or not?
Warranted.
Why?
$640,000 for that is crazy.
Yeah.
I think the price is what like if it were $120,000, I'd be like,
OK, if 1000 horsepower is pretty fun, I could overlook how it actually looks.
But like $640,000 for an Apple car is crazy.
I will say I actually do like the interior on this.
Me too.
Because I think they like tease this interior a little while ago, right?
Yeah, yeah, they did.
And that was around the time that we had just shot a video with the old Mondial.
And I loved like how I like how this looks like a vintage Ferrari of that era.
I think it's pretty cool.
But I do think like the problem is that it has that Ferrari badge on it.
If Nissan came out with this concept, people would be like,
this is the coolest Nissan they've made in years.
Like, I don't know about that.
But like they wouldn't get the backlash that Ferrari is facing right now.
You know, it's really interesting.
I think right up until this moment, first of all,
I think the car is going to be very successful for them,
just because I think they probably don't have to sell a lot.
And the majority of their lineup is cool stuff.
And that guy's, you know, we all know these guys.
It's like, I have seven Ferraris and I have that too.
They're just going to get it and it's going to be fine.
Is it going to be the same situation where you have to own a Ferrari,
be able to have this?
I have no idea.
But I did talk to Ferrari about it and they were surprised by,
they knew there would be a backlash.
They were a little surprised by how intense it felt.
Is it a two door?
But they are, Ferrari is fine.
They're happy.
They're confident.
According to a lot of it opens.
Oh, okay.
I was like, no, okay.
But Ferrari is feeling good.
I feel good and they're taking orders.
But here, you know, you just said something.
There is something really interesting about this decision where you go,
all right, let's hire the iPhone guy,
which I think is a smart idea for someone.
It's just not a smart idea for Ferrari because he designed something that
tilts towards an iPhone instead of towards a Ferrari, right?
Exactly.
You know, like the Taycan.
And then the Utopian made a good point too.
They were saying, well, you know, sure,
you can charge whatever you want for your cars,
but what am I getting that no one else has for 700,000?
That's a great point.
And, you know, when you have cars like this,
put up this new Porsche Cayenne that they just brought out right here.
Look at this guy.
This is the new electric Porsche Cayenne,
which is now the most powerful car that Porsche makes, 1156 horsepower.
An absolute monster, 0 to 62 times 2.5 seconds, right?
So that's faster than our little Apple Watch Ferrari,
or as I call it, the Ferrari Fredo.
And, you know, a legitimate deal that's probably going to be what?
$120,000, $150,000, you know?
I think that's more in the realm of what the luce should be, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
But again, it's going to be fine.
I think the reaction was ridiculous because it was just like,
this is not all they're making.
Yeah, no, you're right.
It's just one of these.
It's not like they're throwing away everything else and just being like,
this is the only car now.
They're not, right.
For the people like the real Ferrari nerds,
or like the driving enthusiast, or whoever, like...
Don't buy the other stuff.
Exactly.
I'm not buying electric McCons.
But I'm not doing that.
It's feeding into their confirmation bias because they're already pissed off
that they don't have the older designs.
They're pissed off that Panine Farina's not designing Ferraris anymore,
and so they're looking for a reason to hate on Ferrari.
Right.
And I think the people that are going to buy that car are the people that bought the Cybertruck,
that are like...
When you see this car, are you going to walk over and look at it?
Yeah.
When you see one in real life?
100%.
Why?
I want to like...
Can I get inside it?
You're going to want to play with that tactile.
You're going to want to do all this stuff.
You know, again, I don't have...
Somebody accused me of having Ferrari allocations.
That's the reason why...
No, I don't have zero.
I don't even own a Ferrari right now.
That's really funny.
But I'm not going to declare it a disaster when it's not going to be.
It's just not something I'm interested in, and I get you're not interested in it.
I'm glad they made it.
I'm glad they made it because everybody else bailed.
Has been mentioned, they use like the shark nose like air flow kind of nose
that Dodge did for the charger too.
Yeah, that's good.
The lights are...
They're doing Dodge design.
And it almost kind of looks like a charger.
On the subject of the Cayenne though, I watched Jason Fenske's review of it,
and he said it was amazing.
And I think...
Yeah, that looks...
It's what you would expect from Porsche to create an...
Even though it's an EV, it still acts like a Porsche.
It still drives very well.
One thing I do not like about these Cayennes though,
can we find an angle of the front?
Is that possible?
I've seen, I think, like a brand new Cayenne that has similar styling to this.
See, that looks like a Keanero to me.
See, the front is just weird.
The problem is, I think a lot of the Chinese EVs are using this sort of styling as well.
And now it's like a chicken and the egg kind of face off.
And now I see this, I'm like, this is boring to me.
But you want it to not look like an internal combustion car.
I've given up on all electric car design.
It's not a single one that I go, oh, wow.
I just, to me, this is the boring car I drive when I don't want to pollute the air.
And I just want to be comfortable, you know what I mean?
But when I saw this, I went, you know, I might trade my Bronco in for that
and drive that around.
Because again, the specific type of driving I want to do.
Yeah, look at that.
That's sick.
That's cool.
See, that's speaking of our gas mileage video.
That's exactly what, that's cool, that these little fins come out and make
like that faring for improved mileage.
That's, I like that.
I like that.
See, that's where my tennis bag, this is where Spike puts his tennis bag.
How long have you been playing tennis?
How long have you been doing tennis?
Well, the gas prices stayed.
Four years, five years.
Four years, okay.
I played with a kid yesterday who's turning pro.
It was not pretty.
Wow, just good.
Demolishing.
He's pretty good.
He was pretty good.
I held my own a little bit.
Anyway, here's one last video I want to get your opinion on.
Yesterday, a woman somehow drove her car onto Seattle's
elevated light rail tracks at Mount Baker Station.
Here's the video on Wednesday.
That's sick.
Evening.
Hell yeah.
Bringing train service to a halt.
When does it say the driver told people she was following GPS?
On the Michael Scott, the Apple Maps.
After ending up on the tracks and driving a significant distance
before getting stuck, the vehicle had to be removed from the
guideway causing major delays.
Look at this woman.
Can we, let's hear what she's saying.
Go, let's roll back and let's listen to this.
Good, play it.
Why stop now?
Just let her, you can't go there.
Let's listen.
Why is she drunk?
Why is she drunk?
Maybe she has dementia.
Oh, you think so?
You know what's nice about this lady's comments?
This is the first video where something, we're.
First video where somebody's not going, oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
She's actually.
She's making some jokes.
She's trying.
She's trying to figure out what led this woman.
What happens at the end of it?
At the end of the video.
You can't park here.
On the train tracks.
How dumb do you have to be to do this?
How does this happen, man?
This guy's so psyched too.
It's his first official business that he's got to handle,
other than step away from the yellow line there.
You're too close.
I love Seattle.
I was just there like a month ago, great city.
This is your life.
No, we have a Lexus as we established earlier.
She blamed the GPS too.
Like what does that mean?
Is she talking about ways?
Something I've noticed.
I just think there's a lot of people drive that have to drive,
you know, to function in society these days that don't like driving at all.
Get easily scared behind the wheel.
And I think that's how mistakes like this happen.
Like how are you not in the moment,
recognizing that you're driving onto a train track?
Maybe it's like a track that goes over a street or something.
Your GPS says turn left.
So you turn left and you're on the track and you keep following it.
Where's that presence of mine to be like?
Oh, this isn't right.
I'm on a fucking train track.
Well, she's on an elevated train track.
That means that she was crossing the tracks and had to take a left onto the tracks.
But like people are so scared of their own cars.
See, that's what happened.
You're exactly right.
The little she was in like a dead zone and the line wasn't lined up and it said take a left here.
I think it's kind of different.
Like when I use Waze or anything or even any of the self-driving Tesla or anything,
you have to kind of battle turning off your critical thinking.
You want to relax.
So you let the car do everything.
You let the app do everything.
And if you're not smart like this woman,
you don't realize, oh, that's a really dangerous idea when I get into his own,
where there's not good Wi-Fi or GPS or whatever the hell it is.
I'm constantly antagonistic to my GPS.
I feel like I have a better way.
You've got to doubt it.
Otherwise this is going to happen.
Yes, exactly.
But can you imagine if Ferrari sent the Luce onto elevated light rail tracks?
That'd be a good promotion for them.
That'd be a great promotion.
They need help selling these things, apparently.
Also props to the CX-5 for making it up that.
You mean the Pure Sangui?
Well, no.
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't realize.
Well, gentlemen, that's our show.
I want to thank you for coming on and suggesting this collaboration.
It's been fun so far.
It's been fun.
No one likes Joe Weber right here.
I'm going to go do your show now.
Yeah, we got to stand up.
And what's that show?
It's called Talk Talk Nation.
You can check out every two weeks.
We just have conversations with people in the industry
and outside of the industry.
We might have Kesha on later this year.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
That's a good promo.
We might have Kesha on.
The she answers my texts.
Text her and she'll come on the show.
And are we lining up these?
This is going to air Wednesday, next Wednesday.
Three weeks from now.
Okay, there we go.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
And then also, Pass Gas, our automotive history.
We just finished season two, which is on season one was 319 episodes.
Yes.
So season two is only 12 episodes.
Our second iteration of the show where we do more.
We have got like a soundscape and music cues and all that kind of stuff.
As Joe mentioned, we might be tweaking the format a little bit.
We may have gone too far in one direction, but it's been really fun.
This season has been all about the golden age
of the Japanese auto industry and like, you know, all the cars we know and love.
That's been incredibly interesting and a lot of fun.
And we got a really cool season three coming up on muscle cars.
So check it out.
And if you're graduating college, class of 26, and you need a job.
Yeah.
My personal phone numbers are.
Just message these guys because they want to pass along
the favors that were done to them.
That's right.
To you.
Before we go, Palisades Motor Classic is June 13th, Saturday.
And they filled up thanks to us, Cameron.
This is the big first car show that the Pacific Palisades has had.
They've got room for a few more vehicles if you guys want to sign up.
They're also they've got a big VIP tent.
I guess it's going to be full of VIPs and politicians and all sorts of folks.
Spencer Pratt.
They're shooting wide.
I think it is folks like that, knowing some of these Palisades people.
The big VIP tent will be right in the front of the old historic business at Sunset and Swarthmore.
Register today to get your bracelet to get in there.
If you just want to bring a car, you just want to come.
The kids like cars.
They're shooting wide this year.
There's going to be everything from singers to somebody's old garage, hot rod,
Ford that grandpa has in the Palisades left.
It didn't burn.
It's going to be wild.
You guys are invited too.
If you want to bring a car, bring anything you want.
I'll give you the guys the organizer's name.
And what's nice is, you know, if we can lock down a concor here on the west side,
we'll have an event of our own.
That'd be amazing.
We're meeting, we're going to have this one and then we're all going to meet in August
and do, you know, we've got a recap.
We're going to go, what went right?
Yeah.
What went wrong?
What should this be?
Should it be the quail or should it be, you know, more of a Peterson parking lot deal?
What's up with the rodeo drive one?
That's a father's day show.
Okay.
That's usually just father's day.
I actually won it one year with that.
I don't know if the orange RS is back there, but that was surprising.
Wow.
But one of the judges was the guy that sold me the car.
That's our show.
We'll see you next week, Spikes Car Radio.
About this episode
The conversation kicks off with the “It’s the Donut Media Spikes Car Radio collaboration” framing—newer, scrappy car-media energy meeting legacy giants like “Motor Trend was really big at that time.” Nolan Sykes and Joe Weber then trade career origin stories, from cold texting and emailing to landing interviews. The hosts pivot through builds and driving lessons: “And so as soon as I connected the air filter, it ran 200% better,” plus practical fuel-economy tips like “just drive the speed limit.” Later, they talk Porsche accessibility, analog feel, and a wide range of garage and event chaos.
Spike sits down with Nolan and Joe from Donut Media to talk about building one of the biggest car channels on the internet, why Porsche content flops with younger audiences, and whether spending more money actually makes your car faster. Plus, someone drives onto elevated train tracks because their GPS told them to.
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In this episode, the crew breaks down Donut's core philosophy: keep it educational, keep it entertaining, and make sure it's accessible to people who aren't already rich. That last part is why Porsche content historically tanks on their channel.
They get into the nuts and bolts of Donut's hit series HiLow (does more expensive actually mean more better?) plus the Low Truck Tacoma build, the Red Bull Soapbox race where a hollow 3D-printed Vin Diesel lost his head mid-run, and a fuel economy experiment in a supercharged Mustang. Nolan also walks back his take on RWB wide-body Porsches once the functional logic behind them clicks.
On the controversy side: the latest HiLow season landing on Tubi upset fans, but Nolan explains the business reality of keeping the lights on while promising a YouTube return. And Spike tells the full story of how Jerry Seinfeld's brutally honest Huel live read got the show dropped from their ad roster.
They close out with the electric Ferrari Luce debate, the Porsche Macan EV that actually drives like a Porsche, and a clueless driver who ended up on Seattle's elevated light rail tracks because she trusted her GPS.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introducing Nolan and Joe
03:46 - How to get hired at Donut
12:39 - The prestige of Porsche
19:43 - 1984 Nissan 300ZX showcase
28:21 - HiLow modified Toyota Tacoma showcase
33:44 - The HiLow drama
43:29 - How to win a soapbox derby
52:27 - How to get 100MPG in a gas guzzler
59:48 - What it's like to work at Donut
1:06:01 - Why the Ferrari Luce is so controversial
1:12:23 - The worst drivers in the world
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