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Welcome to Tormenting Tarmac. A podcast for automotive enthusiasts who enjoy discussing more than just the 0-100 times. It’s dedicated to the people that just enjoy the journey instead of worrying how quickly you’ll arrive at the destination. You’ll hear us discussing a wide variety of topics from our favorite types of cars, our appreciation of motorsport, our love of driving and much more. We welcome you to join us and torment the tarmac. Please enjoy!
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My Dad's Car

Andy Gregory and Jon Recknell

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A discussion with invited guests about their personal relationships with automotive nostalgia. Despite the title, it doesn't even matter if the topic of discussion is their Dad's car or not. It could be their Mums, their Grans, parents, guardians or even a neighbours. If it made an impression, we want to talk about it. Season 1 - February - May 2023 Season 2 - July - November 2023 Season 3 - November 2023 - March 2024 Season 4 - April 2024 - September 2024 Hosted by Andy Gregory and Jon Reck ...
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Like Psychology for the Soul in a Modern World ~ Blending Psychological & Ageless Eastern Wisdom. From the modern Western Psychological Sciences, personality and the body, heart, mind connection, to the Ageless Eastern Wisdom including authentic Tantra, Yoga, Buddhism and Esoteric mysteries of life, love, relationships & everything in between. Join me, Elise Carr M.A., Integrative Therapist, Conscious Relationship Expert & Eastern Wisdom Practitioner as I guide you along a Truer Path to Bett ...
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We talk to leaders of the world’s most disruptive companies about how they are jumping into the fire, crossing the chasm and blowing up the status quo. Leaders who’ve mastered the art of turning the impossible into the profitable.
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What is going everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, we have another awesome guest. I welcome Elisa Artioli on to Tormenting Tarmac. Elisa is the granddaughter of Romano Artioli, the former Chairman and owner of both Lotus and Bugatti back in the 90's. And even cooler as her name suggests, her grandfather named the all new then Lotus Elise aft…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by Ryan Kristoff. Ryan is a veteran amateur racer (his own words but he's better than that) who's been racing in Gridlife for over a decade plus. This is an old school of episode of TT which takes us back to our passion of grass-roots motorsports and we dive into what makes it…
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Join us for a quick chat 'off topic' on the subject of number plates. This came up when we spoke to Danny James, and this bonus episode was born out of the out-takes from that recording session, along with a more structured secondary discussion to fill in the gaps. We hope it keeps you mildly entertained! Stay tuned, Season 5 will be with you short…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I welcome old friends Ryan Bahrke and Dan Pilling to the pod as well as new friend and their co-host Lindsey Jesch. Collectively along with Allen Orchard, they make the dynamic quartet now known as the Road Show podcast. On this episode we discuss the new concept behind the podcast, Linds…
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What are you willing to compromise? Lina Polimeni is the Chief Corporate Brand Officer at Eli Lilly and Company. This is a business whose work is often the difference between life and death, where they are trying to cure cancer, and where the outcome is very personal. In the middle of that reality, your own leadership journey is fueled by a lot of …
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What are you willing to compromise? Lina Polimeni is the Chief Corporate Brand Officer at Eli Lilly and Company. This is a business whose work is often the difference between life and death, where they are trying to cure cancer, and where the outcome is very personal. In the middle of that reality,…
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Join us for a great chat with Sheridan from We Blog Any Car for a trip down memory lane. It starts with his Dad's Vauxhall Viva in bright metallic green (with the obligatory vinyl roof), and in juxtaposition, his colleagues and customers Audi 100s with their 5 cylinder engines. His Dad didn't drive fast (whilst listening to country music or Boney-M…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! Let's get straight into it, on this week's episode I welcome the incomparable Matt Farah. Founder and host of the Smoking Tire YouTube channel and podcast, Editor at Large of Road and Track, the owner and founder of Westside Collector Car Storage in LA. The king of the one takes himself sits down wi…
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Are you centered? Kerry Sulkowicz is the Past-President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Founder and Managing Principal of Boswell Group. They provide leadership advice to boards and CEOs. Kerry and I have been friends for a long time, and he has taught me much about the psychodynamic aspects of leadership. Whenever we talk, his …
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Are you centered? Kerry Sulkowicz is the Past-President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Founder and Managing Principal of Boswell Group. They provide leadership advice to boards and CEOs. Kerry and I have been friends for a long time, and he has taught me much about the psychody…
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What is your pain for? Taban Shoresh is the Founder of The Lotus Flower, a UK-based charity that supports women and girls that have been displaced by conflict, and helps them to build sustainable futures. Since 2016, the charity's projects have impacted more than 60,000 women, girls, and community members. Every now and then, you meet someone whose…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What is your pain for? Taban Shoresh is the Founder of The Lotus Flower, a UK-based charity that supports women and girls that have been displaced by conflict, and helps them to build sustainable futures. Since 2016, the charity's projects have impacted more than 60,000 women, girls, and community …
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, I am joined by good buddy to the pod Brenden Cabano. He was previously the owner of the e-commerce store German Muscle and now owns Baja brothers off-road, which focuses on making your F-150 Raptor even more gnarly! On this episode, we have a great time chatting about getting pulled over …
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We're joined for this episode by Andy's cousin Sally Alington. By day she is the Founder and CEO of Ethos Farm and high flying business woman, at the weekends she loves going for a drive in her Ford Mustang... A car that was not at all influenced by her parents choices, except perhaps for the fact they named her Sally! Expect stories of matresses i…
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Is that good? Heather Freeland is the Chief Brand Officer at Adobe, a business that, as Heather describes, is undergoing significant change to prepare itself for the future to come, and the one that is already here. In a company long known for providing powerful tools to creative people, the advent of Generative AI is both a threat and an opportuni…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Is that good? Heather Freeland is the Chief Brand Officer at Adobe, a business that, as Heather describes, is undergoing significant change to prepare itself for the future to come, and the one that is already here. In a company long known for providing powerful tools to creative people, the advent…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I am honored to welcome back Zack Klapman of the Smoking Tire back to the show. As many of you know, Zack is the co-host and producer of the Smoking Tire YouTube channel and podcast as well works in a variety of different projects across automotive media. On this episode, we chat about th…
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Why are you doing what you’re doing? Gabriel Schmitt has just celebrated his one year anniversary as the Global CCO of Grey. Grey’s proposition is that they have been coming up with famously effective ideas since 1917. Gabriel is somewhat younger than that, but over his career, has learned one of the most important leadership lessons that I think o…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Why are you doing what you’re doing? Gabriel Schmitt has just celebrated his one year anniversary as the Global CCO of Grey. Grey’s proposition is that they have been coming up with famously effective ideas since 1917. Gabriel is somewhat younger than that, but over his career, has learned one of t…
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Jamie Orr joins us for a chat about all things automotive from his younger years. Growing up in Scotland there were Minis, Metros and Ford Sierras. Later on, he moved down south and was taught to drive at the legendary TRL (home of GTI International). His Dad used to restore motorbikes in a high rise flat, had a manual lathe from a submarine, and b…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, we welcome back friend to the pod Jonny Lieberman. We discuss a variety of different things from some of the best looking ev trucks for sale, his recent press trips to Europe, what is going on at Mercedes and why they have both the SL and the GT63 available for purchase, updates on his GR…
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How well do you know yourself? Lisa Smith is the Global Executive Creative Director at JKR. Fast Company have called her a visionary designer, citing in particular her work for Burger King, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Chobani and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They described her work as unique because “it has consistently changed the v…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. How well do you know yourself? Lisa Smith is the Global Executive Creative Director at JKR. Fast Company have called her a visionary designer, citing in particular her work for Burger King, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Chobani and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They described her work a…
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Yep! You read that right, we will be appearing in the all new Podcast Lounge on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th November at the NEC Classic Motor Show. (Yes, this should have been a full episode this week, but this news needed to be shared!) We were over the moon to be asked to take part and we have been named alongside Auto Alex and Driven as podcast…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I am joined by friend to the pod Nyla Kramer. She recently just purchased a new to her 991.1 GT3 and in this episode we take it around North Scottsdale to go car spotting on a Saturday morning. We discuss her reasonings as to why she went with a 991 GT3 over a 993 which was her original c…
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Which direction are you going? Nils Leonard, one of the co-founders of Uncommon - the award winning global creative studio - has been a regular guest on this show since I started Fearless seven years ago. In all of that time, I’ve wondered abut his partnership with his two co-founders, Natalie Graeme and Lucy Jameson. Why did they decide to go into…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Which direction are you going? Nils Leonard, one of the co-founders of Uncommon - the award winning global creative studio - has been a regular guest on this show since I started Fearless seven years ago. In all of that time, I’ve wondered abut his partnership with his two co-founders, Natalie Grae…
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What is going on and welcome come back to TT! This week I welcome back my good buddy Kent. He's a car collector, amateur racing driver, and a huge Ford enthusiast. On this episode, we really dive deep into Ford and in particular why we believe the Mustang holds such an important place in car culture. In April of this past year, the Mustang celebrat…
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What lessons have you learned? This episode features the return visit of Jon Cook, the Global CEO of VML. I interviewed Jon for the first time a year ago, eight months after he had died while going for a run in his neighborhood. Today, he is the CEO of the world's largest advertising agency. We covered a lot of topics during our latest conversation…
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We are joined this week by Max Newman, a die hard car enthusiast and one third of the 9Werks Podcast team. Max tells us about Citroen Dyanes, White Mk1 Golf L which his Mum got a speeding ticket in, Mk2 Golf GTI's driving to get the Michael Jackson Bad album, Phil Collins No Jacket Required and Philip Bailey Chinese Wall on casette. There's plenty …
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What will be the impact of AI on the creative industries, and how can we meet this moment? This is the final episode of my series of interviews over the last few weeks leading up to and through the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. It offers a map for the future based on those conversations, and observations of the speed of change. If you haven’…
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Hi everyone and welcome to the 100th installment of Tormenting Tarmac. I cannot believe we are here. This journey started all the way back in January 2022 and if you want to get really technical, it started in September of 2021 when I recorded the first ever episode with Ron. Fast forward to now and I think this podcast is the perfect representatio…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week, my good buddy and yours AJ Shipitofsky joins me for a great chat! AJ is one of the premier photographers in the PHX metro area and that boy can indeed cook.This week we discuss how fast cars have gotten in the past 20 years, Michael Bay ruining the 303 freeway after it barely opened, and …
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Where does ideation end and production begin? This episode is part of a series of conversations I've been having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. Over the last few weeks, I've been focusing my study of leadership through a single lens, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. This final interview …
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Does your AI do what you need it to do? This episode is part of a series of conversations I've been having in partnership with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. Over the last few weeks, I've been focusing my study of leadership through a single lens, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. I'd planned on ending the …
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The first time we have done a full in person podcast, and it wasn't without its troubles... However, Danny James was a great guest, very accommodating in his workshop at home, and across two takes we managed to get all the audio and most of the video. Yep! There's an actual video of this conversation.. Check it out here. https://youtu.be/zMJByStJ_O…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT! This week we have a full house or conference room of guests. I am joined by my very good friends Alex Fis who is now the Director of Product with Formawerx, Chadd Randall who is an amazing photographer and huge Porsche enthusiasts and we are happy to welcome the owner/founder of Last Era clothing Er…
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Are you willing to dare? This episode is the last in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes and during Cannes, we focused our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. Are we moving fas…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. Are you willing to dare? This episode is the last in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes and during Cannes, we focused our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelli…
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This week on TT, I welcome Andy "Dray" Manaras. Many of you will probably recognize his IG page Drive with Dray. And boy oh boy is he awesome.On this episode, we discuss our love for mid 2000's supercars, why we both feel Mercedes fumbled it with the 4 cylinder C63, why he absolutely adores his BMW M Coupe, how he made a G87 M2 look fantastic but i…
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We're joined by Matt Godfrey, an artist who works under the 'Drawn by Matt' alias. We chat about old Fords, Metros, the embarrassment of his childhood friends seeing the cars his parents had, as he lived next to the school! We discuss the NEC Classic Car show, Goodwood Revival, and inadvertently start planning our own 'fancy dress' classic car even…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, I welcome Joemax Klipp. He is an amazing content and the DO for P1 Exotics on the east coast.We discuss his come up, his background in YouTube, his super funky cool mustang and many amazing stories that have made him the person he is today.Huge thanks to Joe for being an awesome guest. en…
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What is it? This episode is the seventh in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. Are we moving fast enough? Are we going f…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What is it? This episode is the seventh in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative In…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What is it? This episode is the seventh in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative In…
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What do the artists think? This episode is the sixth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. Are we moving fast enough? A…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What do the artists think? This episode is the sixth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on th…
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Edited highlights of our full length conversation. What do the artists think? This episode is the sixth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on th…
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What is going on everyone and welcome back to TT. This week, good friend to the pod Kolbi Napier is back. We chat about the brand new Ferrari 12 cylindri, the best cars to use for a rally, how she compares Miami car culture to So Cal car culture and so much more. It is always a treat to hang with Kolbi. You can find her on IG @thekolbae and her pho…
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What are you fed by? This episode is the fifth in a series of conversations that I'm having in partnership with the Cannes Lion Festival of Creativity. For the weeks leading up to Cannes, we're focusing our study of leadership through a single lens. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creative Industries. Are we moving fast enough? Are we …
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