Waymo Problems; We're Giving Away a Car!

The Smoking Tire

Zack Klapman, Matt Farah

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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We reveal our 2026 giveaway car! ; hilarious Farah family planning; Waymo power way-mo problems; Porsche's funny resto program; and more! Patreon questions include: What happened with the F40 tribute? Best stories from our time renting supercars Give What's up with that Devel Sixteen? Do slowing EV sales represent the end of an era? Our AeroPress coffee recipe CA vs Tesla situation The tragic Ferrari crash on Angeles Forest When "Declared Value Insurance" works, and when it doesn't The uncomfortable thing about Paul Walker and Jerry Seinfeld Cars with RBF and more! Recorded December 22, 2025 DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to www.joindeleteme.com/TIRE and use promo code TIRE at checkout. TrueWerk Get 15% off your first order at https://www.TRUEWERK.com with CODE: TIRE Aura Frames For a limited time, visit https://www.AuraFrames.com and get $45 off Aura’s best-selling Carver Mat frames - named #1 by Wirecutter - by using promo code TIRE at checkout. New merch! Grab a shirt or hoodie and support us! https://thesmokingtireshop.com/ Want your question answered? To listen to the episode the day it's recorded? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! For a 10% discount on your first case go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TST #cars #comedy #podcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtire https://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman Click here for the most honest car reviews out there: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtire

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0:00.0	What up everybody? Welcome to the Smoking Tire podcast.
0:02.9	Today's episode is brought to you as always by Off the Record.
0:06.0	We love Off the Record here at the Smoking Tire podcast because they are looking out for you 24-7-365.
0:13.2	If you get a ticket, any moving violation, big or small, what do you do?
0:19.2	You get off the record.
0:20.3	You don't plead guilty. You go to off the record.com slash tST. Input some basic information about what happened, where, and why. They will fight that ticket for you all the way up and get those points off of your record. And if they don't, you don't pay. Again, off the record.com
0:40.0	slash TST. Don't let friends plead guilty. Make sure you and them get off the record.
0:47.5	And if you, man, every month, every month, every week, somebody hits me up and says off the record,
0:53.7	saved my backside. They've saved my backside, a whole bunch. They're going to keep you out there on the road. Offerrecord.com slash TST. Let's get it going. Yeah. I don't know this. I talked to Spike. I did his show to whore out the NSX. He's like, can you come to a show? I was like, if I can spend 20 minutes talking about how nice my own car is, then I will.
1:17.3	But he said he had it right before me, the three-week chest congestion that just doesn't go away.
1:25.7	Wow.
1:26.2	That's what it is.
1:27.2	Well, I'm now two weeks. Two weeks in a day. You're two-thirds of the way. Wow. That's what it is. Well, I'm now at two weeks.
1:29.3	Two weeks. You're two-thirds of the way through it. So I'll be fine in six to seven days.
1:33.5	January. Yeah. New year. New year, new non-having a chest congestion. I hope so. That's a long time.
1:40.6	You tend to have a very resilient immune system. You do. I don't get sick very often at all.
1:45.7	Yeah, no, it's weird.
1:47.1	That's a new one for me.
1:48.9	But hi, everybody.
1:50.0	Welcome to the program.
1:51.2	I hope everyone's having a nice day, whatever the fuck day it is today.
1:55.7	Actually, I mean that in the sense that I don't know what day this episode will go up.
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