Stay ConnectedNoBraking creator James sits down and talks cars and bikes with automotive legends, icons, drivers, builders and some great friends. New weekly episodes go live every Wednesday morning and the occasional bonus episodes can be found on a Monday.
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Randall Smock is the project leader for exterior design at Honda R&D Americas, Inc. (HRA), and is responsible for design concept direction and product development. Smock led the exterior design of the 2019 Acura RDX, the inaugural vehicle to mark the new design language direction for the Acura brand.
Smock has made many contributions to Acura design since joining HRA in 2001, such as being the lead designer on the 2008 Acura TSX, 2012 Acura RDX and 2014 Acura RLX.
Smock earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Transportation Design from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. He currently teaches at the ArtCenter sattelite studio at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
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Rod Emory takes perfectly good Porsches and makes them even better by making them safer and faster than they were when they rolled out of the factory. His company Emory Motorsports makes two kinds of cars: those that look stock but are not, and those that don’t look stock. The former are called Outlaws and the latter are called Emory Specials.
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Lyn Woodward is a super talented writer and on-camera personality who is currently working for Kelly Blue Book. She's done work for Motor1, Automobile, The Drive and others and she rips around LA in a gorgeous white Datsun roadster. She's pretty much the coolest lady we know and we're thrilled that she decided to sit down and talk about her career, her love of Porsche 356s and the problem with YouTube commenters.
Lucky number 13! Who'd have thought we'd get this far? Just kidding. We can't be stopped.
Anyway, this week James and Kyle trek to Torrance, Calif. to chat with Jackie Birdsall. Jackie is a brilliant senior engineer at Toyota and is one of the evil geniuses behind the development of Toyota's fuel cell vehicle technologies aka the Mirai (but not the design, so calm down). She's a dyed-in-the-wool car weirdo and a generally excellent conversationalist.
Donnie Callaway is a guy who's had a lot of jobs, a lot of adventures and who has restored and driven some of the best Ferraris in the world. He's got a million and a half stories and he stopped by James' house to tell some of them. This one is a fun one and we hope he'll come back again soon with that gorgeous white 308 of his!
Chris Cantle is the editor-in-chief of Motorcyclist Magazine, the world's oldest motorcycle publication. He's a talented writer, photographer, raconteur, bon vivant and general rabble rouser and he's one of Kyle and James' favorite people to talk to. This time around, Chris talks about trying to change the face of motorcycle journalism, racing jetskis, turgid money, Los Angeles' third steepest street and childbirth. Sit down, grab a beer and let's get weird together.
Julia LaPalme is a ridiculously talented photographer and one of the nicest people that James and Kyle know. Her work, both photographic and written has been featured in the pages of Motor Trend and Motorcyclist Magazine. She's shot for a host of other publications and done work for advertising for several auto manufacturers. She's currently working as a freelancer and generally living her best life. She also has cooler motorcycles than you.
Jonathan Ward is a guy who continuously operating on more levels at once than most people do in a lifetime. He is a fascinating guy to talk to, always buzzing with energy, a brilliant designer, a man of taste, and he swears a lot more than you'd maybe expect. His work with Icon has been lauded in just about every form of media we have these days, whether they focus on the FJ and BR trucks that serve as the bread and butter of the company, the exquisitely restored Redeemers or the beautifully beat Derelicts.
Oh and he just launched his first watch. It's called the Duesey and it's as gorgeous as you'd expect.
Jonathan is now officially one of our favorite people and we sincerely hope we can have him on again.
This week, Kyle and James sit down at Meguiar's headquarters in Irvine, California to have a chat with Jon Sibal and RJ DeVera, both excellent and hilarious humans.
Jon is a multi-talented artist with a gift for rendering out some truly amazing versions of your favorite cars, he also worked as an artist in the comic book industry on titles like the Uncanny X-Men and the Avengers. He's also instrumental in bringing Rauh-Welt Begriff (RWB) to the United States. Basically, in short, Jon Sibal is the man.
RJ DeVera is known for tons of things such as being terrible at Gran Turismo and telling us how fast Dom Toretto is in the opening street race of the Fast and the Furious, being the guy behind RO_JA wheels, writing for publications like Super Street and for generally being one of the great ambassadors of the Southern California import car scene for the past 20 years. He's a legend.
Most people know Bisi Ezerioha from his outlandishly powerful cars, built in his Ontario shop that he calls Bisimoto. Others know him from his days drag racing Hondas in the 90's and 2000's and others still know him as someone who is a genuinely passionate ambassador for the automotive community. But here's the thing, Bisi wouldn't be Bisimoto without his incredible wife Hedi who pushes him to continually do things bigger, better and different than everyone else.
Bisi and Hedi were kind enough to invite Kyle and James out to their shop so that they could sit down, have a chat and tell their story in a way that people might not have heard before. This is a good one, enjoy!
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