How this Playboy Smuggler became Racing’s Greatest CHEATER - Past Gas #07

[@doctortwilight]

-Recording before Halloween -Acting like this will be uploaded near Thanksgiving -Upload it after New Year

[@DonutPodcasts]

YES YES :D the audio-only versions on Apple, spotify, etc are ahead/up to date. There's a link in bio if you want to get ahead. Took us a while to set up this new channel so these are a bit behind until we catch up. Thanks for your patience with us!

[@doctortwilight]

I understand that the podcasts actually come (or came) out earlier, just thought pointing that out would be a little funny

[@christophercherry1706]

@@DonutPodcastspoll

[@rissu8573]

But he was too late, thus it was foretold by the scrolls thus a fatal disaster called “Corona” made him lose all hope in humanity. Specifically America.

[@maxie9506]

If james wasnt into cars he could definitely pursue a career as a voiceover actor because i crack up every time her does an impression.

[@robbiekazandjian8004]

Yeah I used to direct voice overs and I agree. But really that's what he IS doing for his job.. And very well!

[@danielbarta2287]

he used to be an actor

[@andranisterling2935]

“Then this other chick showed up..” 😭😭

[@CloudyShinobi]

He was an actor before donut

[@nickpavloff8977]

I really wish there were more people like this. He’s got the attitude we all need to get good at

[@KingGhost231]

We need an up to speed episode on the Pumphrey 502. 🤣

[@troubletrouble1900]

And how do we get on a waiting list to purchase a Pumphrey 502

[@shelbyessig17]

Did I listen to the podcast months ago, when it premiered? yes. Am I going to watch it purely to see Nolan and James? yes

[@vondeal1219]

I swear I saw this a long time ago 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@alleyoop4465]

"If the rule book don't say you can't do it, it ain't cheating."

[@adrianinglis5922]

Awesome comment but don't use that line on your future ex wife.

[@HPAcustomriflesandcerakote]

​@@adrianinglis5922 your comment was stupid

[@DiGiacomo321]

His Chevelle was unbelievable... I didn’t realize til now that’s the same Chevelle Ricky Bobby drives !

[@46felipes]

when Nolan said Felipe and almost pointed at the camera i was like: what the hell...

[@redstone-kg3ne]

Lol

[@carsonyoder6294]

"He didn't fly a f-18 today" those guys are legendary .

[@danh8302]

He did have two f-18s do a fly over for him though...

[@paulblades3143]

needs a movie done about him

[@stlchucko]

23:20 “He didn’t fly an F18 today.” Fighter pilots act all high and mighty... Until a Blackbird pilot enters the chat. Then they suddenly get quiet.

[@DonutPodcasts]

Every time that SR71 Blackbird post comes up on Reddit, I read the whole thing - Nolan

[@curtisward8764]

@@DonutPodcasts I have to listen to the pilot tell that story everytime. You guys are gonna be awesome as olds dudes making great shows like Past Gas and Up to Speed.

[@danh8302]

LA speed story, epic.

[@jordanjoestar8839]

A10 pilot*

[@d.perezduarte]

@@jordanjoestar8839 blackbird is more impressive A10 just has a big gun

[@psykoklown874]

Marfa TX is home of the "Marfa Mystery Lights" at the old air base. I saw them back in the '90s. This guy sure had a huge pair for a "Yunick"!

[@NNfullsend]

i love how jame's lappy got that "D E L L" tape

[@diaperriflez9391]

I love that you guys are just carpet bombing us with content👌🏽🔥

[@captainautismo5452]

James is a completely different person in the podcasts and I love it.

[@donfronterhouse4759]

I like all the guys,but James is what kept me coming back in the beginning. He really made me laugh. After that,I recognized.him from some movies. He was semi famous before Donut🙃🤫😆

[@stlchucko]

Smokey Yunick is the reason many rules were written in motorsports. The rules he didn’t break, he bent like they were doing yoga. It’s not cheating if you don’t get caught. Lol

[@TheDaltonmichaels]

its not cheating if its not explicitly written in a rule book that you can not do it.

[@enricoromanoblasi7980]

If it's not explicitly forbidden, it's allowed

[@retrobuttercup]

Love these podcasts. Now that everyone has to stay home I have a bunch of time to catch up. Thank you for the informative/educational entertainment.

[@pchriss420]

I listened to this podcast on Spotify, I haven’t laughed that hard in a while🤣, I totally agree with you guys, he is definitely the coolest person you guys have ever covered on past gas👌

[@antifascistskater]

"Unless your job is something messed up. Like ICE agent " Fucking 10/10 wholesomeness thank you boys

[@dantbrooks72]

I was going to motorcycle mechanics school in Daytona in the early 90’s and the instructors were all classic old crusty tuners and mechanics. They all new Smokey and when they told stories about him,which they had a lot of, they would get this little spark in their eyes and smirk on their face. I got the impression that he really was quite the character. Thanks for bringing back old memories

[@jasonmajere2165]

Thank you, James, sometimes you just need to hear that you should be proud of what you have done. So easily get wrapped up in being better.

[@carlemarcil7781]

Been watching so many Donuts , all of them. Love the same cars you guys love. Can't believe I didn't know about your podcast. Its amazing guy's. Love your voices love your opinions. From a Canadian friend , thanks for all your hard work. Im gonna go true all of the episodes

[@robmcbride4576]

The podcast is great, I have been recommending it to everyone.... and stories don't get much better than this one haha!

[@1976carpideim]

These podcasts are really great to listen to when I'm out in the garage working on projects. Keep up the good work guys!

[@KristopherDubya]

I absolutely love listening to y'all dig up history like this. I love donut and y'all's respective shows and this is absolute podcast gold. I don't even usually like podcasts. Hell. Yes. 👏

[@hughstewart547]

Guys you should do one of these on eddy rickenbacker. He was one of the earliest racing pioneers and even helped start the indianapolis 500 and even owned the speedway for awhile.

[@nick_beasley]

absolutely loving the podcast guys! speaking of cheating! Motorsports cheating is so insane and interesting. Do one about rally in the 90's and how Toyota did the most brilliant cheat I've ever heard of in all motorsports... maybe ever.

[@sebastianchinchillab]

This is actually so fun to listen to since both Nolan and James just talk about like things that aren't related but still intresting

[@709mash]

Love the format! Hearing great stories, learning history and having some laughs. I still lose it at the Henry Ford II impression from the Ford vs Ferrari episodes lol.

[@DreyCore]

Thank you for providing long form content like this.

[@tejass2599]

This podcast is the best thing to listen to driving, continue as long as u guys can

[@Magic-Conk]

I love these! Great to listen to while I'm driving around!

[@stephenf8335]

Pppp pop pppppp

[@dikkodikko6262]

I like when they get carried away lmao

[@logankellogg188]

lmao if this was before Halloween then imagine their backlog of regular videos

[@georgiabassaddicts5616]

ToeFugger i

[@yarenestrada8253]

I love their chemistry!! They vibe so well. It’s organic and I ducking love it!!

[@adamwiggins9865]

Oh wait.... I love the cartoons you guys do with James and Nolan’s faces... you gotta take segments of these podcasts and animate the historical moments with a funny twist...

[@billbliss8996]

Love you guys!!! I watch all the Donut Media stuff. Your personalities and the content makes it the most entertaining thing on the internet or TV!

[@BryanThatcher]

Damn $140k would be $2,591,010 in 2020 dollars!

[@Kyrpptic]

I’ve come back to watch this episode again and seems like James was enjoying it more then than now

[@mar.c1]

Dope periphery shirt man 🤟 didn’t know you’re a fan.

[@xaviercorr9013]

These podcasts are so informative and fun to listen to AND watch !!!!! Please keep them going boys !

[@johnchristopher3032]

During the Depression, workers were 'frozen' on the job. You had to get permission or be formally fired if you wanted to change jobs. While not strictly enforced, you could even be arrested for leaving a job. My grandfather had a hilarious story about this policy. Basically, he went to war with his boss, who refused to release him, and ended up dividing the whole town. Crazy times.

[@mikkabrightheart2268]

"Smokey's blunt..." 😏😎

[@mikkabrightheart2268]

Marfa is actually lit as fuck and really pretty... There are these disembodied lights and shit...

[@vondeal1219]

Did someone say BLUNT

[@corneliusflake2103]

Mikka Brightheart I’m not sure who Martha is

[@One_Stone61]

@@corneliusflake2103 the place he was training to be a bomber pilot. Also its marfa not martha

[@astrum_nauta]

@@One_Stone61 maybe they were being sarcastic. maybe they're serious. We may never know...

[@1sleet460]

Proud of all at donut

[@kylekalmbach]

22:53 can confirm. Imagine being raised by an Alaskan homesteader pilot. With a lake named after him. Who died in a plane crash in Canada at 76 in 2005. he was born in 1929.

[@6122pah]

Keep up the hard work guys I am a huge fan of Donut Media and all of you content!

[@donfronterhouse4759]

It is likely he had to ask permission to go in the military because he was working in an essential industry for the war. So his boss could have said he was too important to their industry to let go. Thus asking permission from the boss.

[@jimmymuniz8623]

James cracks me up 😂 Keep up with the good work. Great content guys. 🏎️💨

[@julianprice9042]

I love that James and Nolan both have multiple Periphery shirts, as i do, theyre my 2nd favorite band of all time. (Pantera being #1;)

[@philiprowney]

Autogyros are safer than helicopters, because they glide straight on the top rotor and you land rolling. You use the 'push' engine to start the top rotor spinning, but, then engage to the rear rotor and take off like a 'plane. sic: Little Nellie, James Bond: You only live twice. Considered a VSTOL airframe. [ very short take-off or landing ] Loving the chat, formal channels suck!

[@justgauth]

I know you have the next episode, please, I NEED IT!!!

[@lucaslac124]

Donut Media, in your podcast, "Machines of Antarctica Pt.1 - Die Like Gentlemen," I think that you went a little hard on Ernest Shackleton. Everything you said was true for the most part, but you only explained one side of the guy. He was more than just a man willing to do anything for money, as the reading and researching of journals from his voyages (not to mention Endurance, though the book is decidedly biased) will tell you. He was as tough as nails, and survived conditions (sadly of his own doing) for several months out in the frozen Arctic waters, able to bring himself and his crew back to civilization with none dead. I really shouldn't care, but the guy is really not as bad as you make him out to be, and for a podcast that focuses on crazy and ridiculous achievements on the parts of many in history, I really think that you should stop trying to judge all books by their covers. It just isn't a good way to think, and I know that you've been proven wrong in your assumptions of both good and evil in your previous entries. P.S., I know that your podcast is meant to be lighthearted (for the most part), as well as interesting, and that you pick on historical figures for comedic effect. Not that this comment will affect anyone in any way, but please continue, and maybe try to dig deeper before ridicule if time allows, though most are deserving. -Lucas Lac124

[@toyotacamrysedan5741]

Love this podcast so much. Keep up the good work

[@tylerwood67]

One of my favorite automotive podcasts! Keep up the good work guys! We want to hear more!

[@Eduardo_Espinoza]

plot twice: it's his dad... 28:30 😮 extra 11:11

[@shanebanx9631]

Thank God for Donut Podcasts.. wish I wasn't so late to the show but I'm here damnit

[@rbdesignsnh]

i love that both Nolan and James listen to Periphery. thats cool.

[@jamescathey1251]

“Turkey Birdie” - James Pumphery

[@DoritosGoBrap]

I miss the Full video podcasts🔥🔥 I’m back to viewing again from day 1 #PastGas

[@joshmartin3783]

I had a friend growing up that had a nervous twitch. He would always take the lower heemed end of his sleeve of his t-shirt and with two fingers, and his thumb, he would roll the same spot over and over untill the sleeve was stretched half the distance to his elbow.

[@lucirmarvrasrockurd2029]

Dude, I know this is an old video, but I seriously respect the Periphery drip👌🤘

[@aprilkurtz1589]

My dad was in WWll. They did fill the bombay with empty bottles, and drop them over Japanese villages. When the inhabitants came out to see what was causing the noise, bad things happened.

[@DamianVega00]

These are the best on the planet, NEVER IN YOUR EXISTENCE STOP THIS

[@martinsorg8815]

Dude, how good is your jingle!!! Short and cool, the best.

[@elementalblaze79]

Pilots messing with the locals!? Sounds like what they did in Quantico Va back in 96 when my father was in the marines! The pilots who flew the tank transports found it fun to fly those beast just a foot or two just over the tree line over housing at 5 in the morning every Saturday! Lol, it woke everyone up! I got use to it after a month but everyone else at my house didn't! Sometimes there would be a few of them doing this & I wondered if they where trying to see who could get the closest to the trees without damaging their planes! One actually hit the tops of the trees but it didn't look as if they damaged their plane! The trees however, lmao weren't that lucky!

[@haydentmartin]

The podcast are great please don’t stop making them

[@andrewparker4519]

so autogyros are actually really safe as far as aviation is concerned. the upper rotor is not powered and depends on airflow to rotate, sounds sketchy but its not. basically if youre moving and its rotating, youre flying. but they can typically handle higher winds than a similarly sized airplane, land and take off in much shorter distances at much lower speeds, and can still cruise pretty quick, as long as you dont need to haul anything they are actually kind of the ideal aircraft.

[@donpepe8440]

thanks so much for this it keeps me company on late night gaming sessions

[@PilotGaming1036]

This is awesome! Don’t stop passed gas

[@davidbouey4022]

you guys need to show example pics of the thing you’re mentioning pleaseeee!!

[@reeseraymond2016]

i have a smokey yunick "speed secrets" book, and i was wondering about the strange rear suspention setups mentioned in the book. this clears it up.

[@xxGwoodxx]

My favorite episode so far! 🤣🤣 late start on this channel but y’all are cracking me up

[@CGoody564]

The way he said Neshaminy (town next to mine, went to Neshaminy high) almost made it so I didn't recognize the town name.

[@grahamc87]

I laughed. Nesh-uh-meeny, Pennsylvania. It’s Neh-sham-in-E with more of a nuh then a neh when you say it quickly. James is Native American, he should know better

[@chillindude5471]

keep making these i love um

[@brucefisher4025]

Smokey cheated, agreed, but that Chevelle PALES by comparison to Roger Penske's 1967 Matk Donahue-driven Trans Am Camaro. A car SO outlaw that after the 1967 Daytone race, Roger was told to NEVER bring anything so illegal to a race ever again..!! So what did he do..?? He built a legal 68 Camaro the next year, ran it through tech TWICE and got the SAME, 2200-pound outlaw 67 Camaro into the race. It was over 10 seconds a lap faster than the legal car. So, being the ever efficient seeker of that unfair advantage, he ran the illegal car TWICE in qualifying to get both cars into the race using a vinyl top to hide the acid-dipped body and numbers the could be changed from 15 to 16 with a single piece of tape, ol' Rog pulled off one of the greatest deceptions ever.... (up until he got Mercedes to build in-block cam, two valve V8s for his 1-2-3 Indy win later) It's the greatest racing story you've never heard before....😏

[@gcrav]

30:20 Wasn't that phrase also used as a refrain in a Talking Heads tune?

[@eymanbaird5847]

Following simple phrases indicate the meaning of the lights: WHITE on WHITE - “Check your height” (or “You’re gonna fly all night”) (too high) RED on WHITE - “You’re all right” RED on RED - “You’re dead” (too low) PAPI is not only a term in parenting; it is also a crucial instrument for landing an aircraft. PAPI stands for Precision Approach Path Indicator and is located at the beginning of a runway on one or both sides. However, as a passenger you most likely never notice them, as they are located, so that the flight crew notices them and gets the needed information up to a distance of 32 km. The function of PAPI lights is defined in the ICAO Annex 14.

[@bobbysims9903]

Glad I bought Smokey's book in 2007. Bummer it's out of print now.

[@WastelandWanderer1216]

There's going to have to be an episode one day on Junior Johnson. He was responsible for as many rules as Smokey Yunick.

[@rbslammed6163]

Yeah this book seems super reliable and totally not just one man’s ode to his own ego

[@slamrahovart9024]

This book, even a beat up paperback, is selling for $175+. That just makes me want it even more!

[@k.v.b.1865]

I didn't know donut did a podcast!?!?!?!?!? This is going to be sweet for at work

[@mrnobody8540]

He never cheated - he just invented better ways to beat the shit out of the sheep

[@usa_ham1337]

Can deny that a womb broom is the groinage hair. A womb broom is a mustache. You'll understand if you just think about it.

[@kouki_kat]

I love that James listens to Periphery 🤘

[@jfuston33]

The laughter when they talk about Philipe! LOLOL

[@Hanhistoliitto]

13:23 my favorite part

[@tbituner]

Did anyone else think this podcast would have more examples of the greatest cheater ever, you know, cheating? It was an awesome story nonetheless though I'm loving this channel.

[@anoncanon1100]

donut after dark! the midnight nut Mmmm lol 44:26 an epic moment of "wait what did you say?" XD

[@brytonbrown519]

I looked up Marfa Texas just to see how small a town it was... Turns out, its still twice as big as where I live...

[@thestinkycheeseman2208]

This one kinda bummed me out. You can tell by the comments, few even care who he is, and you guys dont really seem to take him seriously. Dude is a hero to a lot of people who grew up in mechanic families.

[@stephenslusser2895]

I always loved Smokey and might have enjoyed the book, but this is much more fun !

[@mgbchuck6527]

YOU REALLY NEED TO READ HIS BOOK (Best Dam Garage in Town)

[@michaelvecera8394]

Smokey released a biography and it’s fantastic! Read it twice a few years ago and not is it a phenomenal read it’s hilarious! I would have loved to have met the man.

[@hjuugoo4416]

About autogyros, their rotor was spun by the oncoming air, not an engine, so they operated a bit like airplanes

[@rei01205]

Fuck, I've listened to every past gas episode on spotify so far and am listening/watching them rn on KZbin and holy crap thanks god for this shit

[@SubaruONLY]

7:26 what you want to hear starts.

[@thomasredden4263]

The amount of Bleeps that were half a second late fuckin got me, “Ass****” 😂😂

[@rude1802]

49:00 never thought of hearing the words Dumdum, Calcutta in donut, 😍 listenin from the same place

[@DalesDubs]

31:33 I'm glad James acknowledged how fucked up that was.

[@joseluiscampos7662]

Where do we start a pledge to get them again on camera, the dynamic was completely different