Most people today recognize Toshi Hayama for his heavy involvement with the Fast and the Furious franchise movies. However, Toshi’s influence on US import culture goes all the way back to the mid 90s when he started Apex’I USA...
Brian Harte aka BH, aka BH World, aka Brad Harte aka BH2 joins us in-studio. Brian became quite popular in the mid-2000s as a member of the drift team Pink Godzira with his website BH World. He talks about his still-relevant philosophy about drift...
Moto Miwa likely could’ve been the next Japanese noodle king of the United States, but his heart and passion was into cars and racing instead. In the early 90s, he built his first ae86 coupe with a supercharged 4agze and founded the now...
Nick Fousekis wasn’t always the Director of Advertising and Promotions at Falken Tires. He was a street racer and import car enthusiast from San Diego who had a job opportunity and an idea. After acquiring an entry level position at Falken...
Ken Gushi is on his 17th year in his career as a Formula Drift professional athlete, a stunt driver, and a level 40 Pokemon Master on Pokemon Go. He is well accomplished celebrity, and rightfully so – he is on the Toyota website! But when we...
Mark Hutchinson and Dave Scholz met in the late 90s and became America’s first drift team known as Slide Squad. In this episode, hear about their adventures both in Japan and the USA with infamous people like Nobushige Kumakubo, Hideo Hiraoka...
I came up with the idea of my podcast on August 9, 2020. It was an "aha" moment where many things in my life all pointed me the realization that the world needs this podcast. I was excited for several weeks and then I let the self-doubt creep in.