Category: The Podcast

Episode 170-You go Yugo, You go. This week we’re incredibly lucky to have Michael Ballaban, Deputy Editor at Jalopnik, on the show. This came about by way of an election night whiskey-tipsy Ian sliding into his DMs on Twitter, knowing full well that when it comes to cars, car culture, and politics in cars, that Michael’s a fantastic fit for… Read more →

Episode 169 – Nice It’s all planes, trains (spoiler alert: there are no trains), and automobiles in this episode. We start with salad and end up where we usually do. Ian shares Effington One facts with us and Dave ventures into Missouri only to once again survive the trip. Speaking of Dave’s horrible survival instinct, he somehow manages to survive… Read more →

Episode Hehe…Duty There’s a fantastic Sarah Silverman joke about our duties. She says that we all have them, and sometimes they’re big and stinky. She’s got a point. Ian is called upon to perform his duties comma civic and it just so happens to luck into a case that automotive knowledge is of use. We play some listener FMKCars, show… Read more →

Episode 167-It’s time to fix something. One hundred and sixty six episodes scattered across more than three years. That’s how long TeamClearCoat has been in this here podcast game and we’re just now FINALLY correcting a huge blind spot of ours, talking to people that daily drive hearses! WE KNOW! Man, this one really slapped us across the face and… Read more →

Episode 166-Peedah Look, George Lucas did everything wrong with Phantom Menace. Thems just the facts folks. We don’t need to know the backstory to why there are now some weird space tariffs on bleep blorps from planet Bloopatron or whatever, we just want Yoda, those glowy sword things, and wars of star. That said, finding out the backstory to something… Read more →

Episode 165-Wheels? Who needs ’em? Like the proverbial abyss, so much bleakness surrounds the blanket fort this week. Let’s go to our happy place, let’s visit our island. Let’s think about dusty BMWs in used car lots, let’s think of the Lexus GS-F (and we’ll continue to do so for the rest of our times in this mortal hellscape), let’s… Read more →

Episode 164-Really, he’s fine. But we’re not. Grief has several stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. Here at the TeamClearCoat podcast, we’ve pretty much perfected going though all of those, save for acceptance, so much so that it’s pretty routine at this point. Dusty Rusty, Ian’s oil pan(s), our general hopes and dreams, and so much more have… Read more →

Episode 163-Varsity Roadsters Joining us this week is Ted Parks, founder of Varsity Roadsters. Let’s get this out of the way right up front: we had an absolute BLAST talking to him about all things related to his car and it’s development. A huge thing that we love about doing this show is all of the elements of history and… Read more →

Episode 162-Blue shell. Questions. We has them. Can karting be had without thinking of Mario-esque power-ups? Can Subarus be had without ambient lingering vape? Can a rental Home Depot van be driven without overalls appearing on your body? Which came first, the dent or the depleted health meter? Is it better to hear Buffet or inflict Buffet upon passers-by? Answers.… Read more →

Episode 161-What’s that coming down from the sprinklers? The stuff that keeps you up at night. The source of the heartburn. No, we’re not talking about that certainly-too-old baked ziti that you panic ate out of the fridge at 3 AM, we’re talking about the world we live in. The stew. Picture the world as the stew and our goofy… Read more →