Mike Spinelli

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Mike Spinelli is a long-time journalist, TV producer/host, and one of our funniest and wisest friends. He was the founder of Jalopnik, helped build /DRIVE (Now The/DRIVE). He's currently producing "American Tuned with Rob Dahm" for Top Gear's YouTube channel and the new docu-series "Win the Weekend" for IMSA. We talk about this year's IMSA stories (and drama), sucker-fan cars, witnessing McMurtry's science project, HAAS's Russian troubles, Mike's Jaguar daily, sweaters, teal Mustangs, and plenty of other funny stories. Recorded March 16, 2023 Win the Weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EwMOgliqc Head to https://www.GrooveLife.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE for 20% off ALL Groove Life products! Make sure you don’t miss out on the awesome road course racing action and tune in to the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday, March 26th at 3:30 PM Eastern on FOX. Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to http://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

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0:00.0	Yesterday, they got accused of violating sanctions and doing deals with a Russian arms industry.
0:06.1	Hosted?
0:06.3	Wow. Check please.
0:07.5	Sweet.
0:08.5	Right.
0:09.5	No, but the HRE is, God, they're awesome.
0:12.5	I love those wheels.
0:13.5	I mean, they're cool.
0:14.5	But they have mad Haas automation happening down there.
0:16.5	You know, at off hours, they spin the machine around and prints a gun out the back.
0:23.0	They sell them to the Russians.
0:24.2	Gene, I got some.
0:25.8	We were trying to make a splitter and we got a gun.
0:28.9	Gene, we put it into file and we got an AK-47.
0:32.4	I know what is this?
0:35.8	I guess we could take the trophy with this, finally. Jesus.
0:36.7	I think this is extreme, Gene.
0:38.1	I don't know.
0:39.9	It's a bit too American for me, Gene.
0:42.0	It's a bit too American.
0:43.7	And really, and now that we're sort of looking back, and it's like, oh, during qualifying,
0:49.4	Blumquist jumped in on cold tires and set a, you know, got to pole, like a reddable lap.
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