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Spike's Car Radio

James Pumphrey on Nissan's slow death and totaling WRXs

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Automotive, Leisure

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

James Pumphrey from Speeed returns to the garage to discuss everything from saving Nissan to totaling sportscars. Highlights include James' controversial proposal for testing male enhancement products and a heated debate about a questionable Porsche dealership promotion involving Pilates models. ______________________________________________ BUY SCR MERCH! https://spikescarradio.com JOIN THE SCR PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/spikescarradio 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE356 https://RaceDeck.com 🔵 BlueChew - Get Bricked Up Get your first month free with code SPIKE911 https://BlueChew.com 📅 Odoo - Modern Management Made Simple All your business on one platform. Try it at https://www.odoo.com ______________________________________________ James and Spike celebrate one year of Speeed, revealing insider tips on creating compelling videos and the creative process. The conversation takes serious turns discussing the addictive nature of social media, with both hosts advocating for digital detoxes. Car enthusiasts will enjoy James' expert breakdown on the best beginner drift cars, why Nissan deserves saving, and their analysis of BMW's misunderstood logo. The guys break down the surprising Diesel Brothers arrest, the most regretted college majors, and products from 1975 vs 2025. The episode closes with fashion advice for car guys and an intriguing discussion about AI's impact on content creation. _____________________________________________ 📧 To advertise with Spike’s Car Radio, contact Neon Tiger Media: contact@neontiger.media 🌐 or visit: https://scrpod.com/sponsor Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

James. Good to see you, man. Good to see you too, man. Great to be back. You know,

0:09.7

you know, everybody's like, why does James come on the show so much? I go, he lives nearby.

0:14.4

Yeah, I live right down the street. Not to docks myself, but I am. It's it. You know,

0:19.2

the car folks, they don't get grabby. They donby. They're not a troublesome group. No. So James was like when he was on the show, it was really the guys, Jake and Austin and Cameron and these guys were like, you're going to get James Pumphrey on, you know, forget you old guys. Yeah. And we reached out to James. He was like, sure, man. And he said, it's good. I live in the neighborhood.

0:38.2

Just call me anytime.

0:39.1

I'm like, all right. Here I am. It's hard enough. Yeah, hopefully people aren't like complaining that I'm on it. They're not. Well, people complain. Yeah, yeah. I start every show by talking about the complaints. Okay, good. They just like to complain. Yeah. You must be used to that on YouTube at this point.

0:54.2

Oh, for sure. Yeah.

0:55.3

Do you think that's a good thing, though? Don't you think it's because people are kind of taking ownership of the show and enjoying it? Yeah, totally. People are invested in what we got going on. Well, we did, you know, we, we, we, uh, finally, I thought, if you really want to complain, join Patreon and pay me to complain. And then we have like this

1:15.8

tier that's called the producer's circle. And, you know, there's a private thread there where

1:20.8

we can actually talk about stuff. And it's small enough now where it's not really a problem.

1:24.8

And people can give their notes and well listen i mean at that point

1:28.0

they're your employer they are paying yes so like sure they have notes on your performance and we

1:33.1

give them a little credit at the end oh nice they're their credit tiers i believe there's producer

1:37.6

co-producer uh rufus wrangler johnny leberman's beard groomers. Oh, fun. Spike's blue chew guy. You know, there's, you know, they get there at the end of the show, they get a little credit roll. Yeah, I want to, I pitched a video for speed the other day that I don't think we're going to make, but I wanted to test Viagra versus Hems versus blue Choo. Oh, wow. Blue Rhino, which is the gas station

2:04.2

wiener pill. Yeah. And I just, I don't think it would fly on YouTube. I think we'd probably get

2:10.2

demonetized or at least age restricted. Yeah. That's funny you said that because I was in the,

2:14.8

I was at the Audrene Concord and I got in late and I went to the Cumberland Farms and I also forgot all my stuff. I always forget one thing on every trip. This time it was the dop kit full of guy stuff. So I was buying it at a Cumberland Farms, which is like a 7-Eleven in New England. By the way, they don't have hair jail. Just so you know. Come on.

2:37.3

But while we were looking for stuff, I was looking at gas station pills.

2:38.1

Yeah.

2:42.5

And there's this TikToker who's a pharmacist who I follow.

2:45.0

And he did a whole thing about gas station. Gas station weiner pills.

2:46.3

Not just weiner pills.

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