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The Smoking Tire

Ryan ZumMallen of Trucks.com

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2017

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we are joined by automotive journalist Ryan ZumMallen, staff writer at Trucks.com, as well as a contributor for Road &Track, Car and Driver, and Autobytel. Ryan and Matt talk about the new, 700 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, the Honda Civic Type R, and the legend that is the Lexus LFA. We also get into collectible sneakers, Ryan's personal vice, talk about how to test ski and bike racks in extreme conditions, racing Honda Odyssey's, and the 80's most garish supercars. This show is available as a video!https://youtu.be/pTH1IqYq7dEFollow Ryan on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/zoomy575mRead Ryan's work at Trucks.com here: https://www.trucks.com/author/ryanzummallen/

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0:00.0

Music

0:20.0

Good morning, oh shit, it's the slowest entire podcast.

0:24.0

Timmy with another one of his surprise starts, Har Har.

0:28.0

I'm a fucking Ryan Zumallin.

0:30.0

What's up, that's right.

0:32.0

It's written weird when you spell it, but make it normal quick.

0:36.0

Of trucks.com, as well as our car and driver road track,

0:40.0

seemingly from where I sit, pretty experienced automotive journalist.

0:44.0

Yeah, welcome, sir. Thank you very much.

0:46.0

From Long Beach? Yes, sir. From Long Beach?

0:48.0

I've been there almost 15 years now. Where'd you go up?

0:51.0

Santa Clarita. Oh, so not far.

0:53.0

No, Santa Clarita is nice.

0:55.0

I'm not a better place than here.

0:57.0

Yeah, but Lake Hughes Road.

0:59.0

Yeah, there's some really great roads out to,

1:01.0

and all the Vasquez rocks is out there.

1:03.0

Yeah, it was really cool if you needed to take pictures and stuff.

1:05.0

They had the giant sinkhole?

1:07.0

Yeah, they messed up sand and cranks and you know it.

1:11.0

Yeah, there's like a 50 foot section of road just fell off.

1:15.0

Yeah, it was fucked for a while.

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