James May

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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James May has done a lot and we try to cover as much as we can. Topics include: how Top Gear evolved; the BBC's influence on it vs Amazon's on The Grand Tour; scripting versus improvised; abandoning friends when their cars break down; his car and bike collection; things he collects; why he created a travel show; the hard parts of filming epic drives; where his missing car is; how he's just like every Ferrari owner; why and how he created James Gin; and more. Recorded August 12, 2024 https://us.jamesgin.com/?country=US Today get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://www.Joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ https://www.noduswatches.com/design-lab-shop/p/canyon-by-matt-farah-night-sky Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TSTPOD for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Tweet at us! https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

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1:27.0	Folks, it's a big one today. We are very much honored by the presence
1:32.0	of one of the Holy Trinity themselves James May of top gear of the grand tour and now the purveyor of the very delicious James Jin. He's on he's on the Gin pitch tour doing all
1:46.2	the LA shows and he sat down with us and we talked about production. We talked
1:51.0	about some of our favorite top gear moments. We talked about the writing process. We talked about
1:56.6	gin. We talked about British pubs. We talked about collecting random tools and all kinds of things.
2:04.0	Let me tell you something folks, James May does not disappoint as being James May.
2:10.0	He is exactly the James May that you want and we got him in studio. Let's go. It's the smoking tire podcast. This James May
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