Podcast Doug and car guy Doug is way way better than used car salesman Doug.
I know this sub has cooled on him and Matt is well Matt but honestly this was one of the best car related listens for me this year.
I also love it when throttle house goes on smoking tire podcast.
This was a great cast. Now on to the No.1 car podcast, Smith and Sniff!
Completely agree - this was one of the best podcasts to just zone out to. Awesome convo. Favorite part was the discussion of the Sultan of Brunei’s collection.
Doug Shmug, I’ll skip it.
I can’t watch Doug on the podcast, his car preferences are too niche lol
Matt’s an clown yall say he’s a hard worker you’re confusing his need for attention with actual work ethic. Let’s hear some more about how he built the greatest parking garage ever wow so cool
For those who don’t know the background, every time Doug goes on TST he eats some junk food for the whole show. One time he housed a box of brownies. This time it was white chocolate Reese’s.
I like Doug’s voice on here much better than in his videos.
Matt has become kinda insufferable over the last few years. I don’t know what happened but it’s hard to listen to him talk for more than a few minutes.
I miss the TST doing One Takes on viewer cars and press cars
YouTube has changed over the years and I’m sure the garage is more stable to maintain and live off of… but it’s just not the same.
The One Take era was absolute peak content.
I remember the one where a guy brought a 2nd gen Camaro with basically no brakes, and I think that was close to the end of when Matt was doing viewer cars. Hard to blame him.
It had three “functioning” brakes and the guy only told Matt like halfway into the video. You could tell he was pissed but he handled it pretty cool.
Tst is my favorite podcast and the Doug episodes are always the best - always funny to see what candy snacks Doug brings lol
Guy knows dick about automobiles. Or machinery in general. Embarrassing watching him fumble for simple terms and concepts. Maybe he should try comedy, he has the face for it.
I’ve really gone downhill on Farah, unfortunately. I feel like he’s become more pretentious every year.
Agreed. Hard for me to put my finger on what changed but it’s made him more annoying.
Yeah, he’s super insecure and a massive hypocrite, makes me cringe every time he opens his mouth
Really? He seems incredibly honest and often talks about the mental health demons he deals with. For a guy that grew up in a wealthy household, he clearly busts his ass and seems like a decent dude.
With that type of financing from my nearly billionaire father I could open a fancy parking garage too.
He might be a nepo baby but at the end of the day he isn’t some fucking bum. Running a business rich or poor isn’t an easy thing to do.
I honestly disagree. Farrah to me has always been a “no bullshit, straight to the point” car guy who is also rich, and has no issues casually speaking on his wealth when the time is appropriate. I don’t know about his political views, but in terms of purely speaking on cars and what makes them tick, he and Zach are two of the best people to listen to imo.
Yeah I’m with you (and a lot of the other comments on this thread looks like), I’d way rather someone be direct and straightforward about the face that they’re privileged vs the obviously fakey “I came from nothing and now I got my Ferrari etc etc” that I feel like car social media leans on so often.
I’ve listened to him a lot and honestly his political views are very down to earth. He regularly acknowledges that the situation for a lot of people right now is tough, and way too much money is in the hands of very few people.
It can get tough to listen to people casually talk about throwing around 10s of thousands of dollars but thats the car hobby I guess. Matt though takes every opportunity to point out inequality without being too much of a downer imo
He has very hypocritical stances when it comes to money, privilege etc.
In what way has he been hypocritical?
One example is he was bragging to Doug in an earlier podcast how he should fly private and how great it is etc. but then complained about others doing so for environmental reasons, he’s extremely wealthy (from a trust fund/parents) but constantly complains about the “wealthy” while doing many of the things he complains about. In the recent podcast he took a jab at people who buy new cars due to environmental impact even though he special ordered a car and had it shipped over that literally burned in the middle of the ocean and had to order another. I think he’s just out of touch and tries to pander
without being too much of a downer
I think this tends to grate on a lot of Reddit-like audiences. A lot of people seem weirdly hostile to anybody who expresses optimism in political topics.
It’s not hard to connect the dots when people bring up his political views. Usually they use the excuse of “I listen to this podcast to escape politics”. And like to shout about his hypocrisy. Cause you know he’s a rich car guy who cares about the environment and complains about tax codes benefitting the wealthy.
Usually they use the excuse of “I listen to this podcast to escape politics”.
Terrible take. No, this is not why people don’t like listening to his political views.
I really enjoy his podcasts and videos, but whenever politics comes up it’s by far the worst part about his entire platform and extremely insufferable for two reasons. Note that this is coming from someone who agrees with the majority of his political views too.
- His content is not political content so he should stay in his lane unless he puts effort in. If he wants to not do that and talk about politics, honestly that’s not even a problem, but then he should be setting up the stage to actually talk politics. He doesn’t set up the stage for an actual discussion or his viewpoint to be challenged. He just makes strong statements and either has people on who already agree or kind of strong-arms them into not saying anything by being combative with his statements.
- Whenever politics comes up, he often has the insufferable attitude that is prevalent on the internet, where he will take the opposing argument in bad faith, and present it as “I’m a good person for having this viewpoint - you’re a bad person if you have the other viewpoint.” It comes across as insecure and also contributes to the current social disaster of radical tribalism due to social media, which is just ironic in of itself to call others bad people while being a person with influence contributing to damaging the fabric of society.
That’s just like, your opinion man. Stay in your lane bro.
I mean if you want to cherry pick a specific phrasing I used instead of addressing the main point, then you should reconsider what your point even is or if you’re just having an emotional moment and felt the need to have a Redditor take and make a flippant gotcha comment to feel good about yourself.
I don’t like it when Matt has self-righteous and judgmental moments where he attacks people who hold the opposing belief, and not the argument itself, that don’t agree with his stance on certain political topics. It’s disrespectful, and yelling it out in spaces where no one will rebut is cowardly.
Saying “I agree with doing A over B” is respectful to people who believe the opposite and then moving on to his cars topic is fine. Saying “We should do A and people who want to do B are terrible people” is not respectful. It’s his platform and he can say the latter if he wants, but it’s just very obviously distasteful to simultaneously be so adamant and assertive in your stance that you dehumanize others with a different opinion, yet never open himself up for said views to be challenged respectfully as a topic. Simply put, “don’t dish it out if you can’t take it”.
It’s especially unpalatable given that a lot of the time for how judgmental he comes off you can find examples of him being a hypocrite to his own stances, as other people in this topic have given.
If you think this type of behaviour is acceptable just because the stances he’s taking are ones you agree with, then you need to go touch grass and get off social media echo chambers.
Stick to cars car monkey!!!1! God it’s so tired. Cars are (very) political and unfortunately politics are important and relevant to car culture.
I mean if you want to cherry pick a specific phrasing I used instead of addressing the main point, then you should reconsider what your point even is or if you’re just having an emotional moment and felt the need to have a Redditor take and make a flippant gotcha comment to feel good about yourself.
I don’t like it when Matt has self-righteous and judgmental moments where he attacks people who hold the opposing belief, and not the argument itself, that don’t agree with his stance on certain political topics. It’s disrespectful, and yelling it out in spaces where no one will rebut is cowardly.
Saying “I agree with doing A over B” is respectful to people who believe the opposite and then moving on to his cars topic is fine. Saying “We should do A and people who want to do B are terrible people” is not respectful. It’s his platform and he can say the latter if he wants, but it’s just very obviously distasteful to simultaneously be so adamant and assertive in your stance that you dehumanize others with a different opinion, yet never open himself up for said views to be challenged respectfully as a topic. Simply put, “don’t dish it out if you can’t take it”.
It’s especially unpalatable given that a lot of the time for how judgmental he comes off you can find examples of him being a hypocrite to his own stances, as other people in this topic have given.
If you think this type of behaviour is acceptable just because the stances he’s taking are ones you agree with, then you need to go touch grass and get off social media echo chambers.
Totally agreed. Yes he is super privileged and comes from big money but at least he acknowledges it. He’s not one of these insanely loaded out of touch pricks who has no concept of struggle or having to work for money.
His niche is definitely expensive performance and luxury cars so maybe that makes his target audience wealthier than most, but I think he still has a good sense for quality and value for money at lower price points.
Would much rather watch his opinions on a luxury car than any other reviewer
Him and Zack are genuinely lovely people.
Yes, Farah is a pretty wealthy guy, but he isn’t out of touch and totally acknowledges how lucky he is.
I did that NZ road trip with them and they were such great folks to work with even though we were on a very tight budget, and they still make time to hang out with me if I’m ever in LA.
Really have not noticed this at all. Very self deprecating and aware of his place of privilege. Do you actually listen to TST?
Matt is also incredibly nice in person. Very kind person and will always take time to say hi.
he keeps talking over his guests and its infuriating
His review of his thanksgiving in Tennessee is exactly what bugs me about him. He gets more condescending the older he gets.
You guys talk about these people like they aren’t actually people. They’re just normal guys who make content. Both Matt and Doug post on this sub. Don’t be an asshole
Matt is a complete ass hole. He’s rude and condescending.
He’s always been. He’s a nepo baby. One of his first reviews that went viral was a Datsun kit car that resembled a Ferrari 250. Matt told the audience that it was a real Ferrari. He told people that he saw the engine and it’s a v12. Viewers said no it clearly sounds like a 6 cylinder Datsun. Matt said that’s because rhe camera in the exhaust clip was on one side of the car so you’re only hearing 6 of the cylinders. People continued to rip him saying he’s clueless and drove a Datsun with a 6 cylinder. Matt eventually admitted he was misled and lied to everyone about seeing the engine. Then he did a dirty delete and wiped the video from the internet
I stopped listening to Doug years ago for the fact he got so many obvious things wrong and passed them off as fact. Has that changed?
As someone who is a dozen or so years older than Doug, it cracks me up when he goes on about some quirk or feature that an “old” car has and says something like “I have never seen this” when it is just a normal '80s car thing.
No. Same reason I can hardly watch him nowadays.
That, and watching him drive in heavy traffic and pretend to objectively review a sports car’s handling or acceleration. He’d be going in a straight line on the freeway and move the wheel a little, or take a right turn from zero as he talked about it lmao.
Obviously a lot of people like his content but I didn’t think it was aimed at car enthusiasts.
IMO his interior review/how he goes over it is the most informative and useful part of his videos.
I love his interior reviews for sure. I don’t care about anything beyond that. But I’ve watched every single Doug video since his Ferrari days. It’s really comfortable listening.
Clearly he drives it else where and is summing up his thoughts on a onetake highway jaunt
I don’t see him as some overly skilled driver but he has addressed that he often does his spirited driving off camera and the driving segments are just a stage to talk about the impressions. I believe it’s something Matt Farah has addressed as well, some audiences don’t take well to pushing a car hard on the road especially as it often involves unsafe driving. Plus with Doug it’s kinda hard to convey fast driving in his format as well.
I think that part is realistic though, it’s important how cars feel on normal roads too.
Like what?
What things did he get wrong? I’ve only watched his videos of cars I find interesting so I pass on a lot of his content.
I’m not the OP but in his latest video he remarked the outgoing Tacoma had a 4 liter V6. It doesn’t, it has a 3.5.
So car nerd type stuff.
I don’t really care for Doug’s reviews anymore either but he’s still a great car nerd. This is the ideal setting for him. I prefer him on podcasts over his videos.
Nope. Still gets things wrong while simultaneously chastising the manufacturer for “not including this” while it is included, he/the writers just never read the manual or sat in the car for longer than 10 minutes.
I dislike the way he talks and his repetition.
In the last few years Doug has started making videos on the car market in general. Those are gold and he gets it right in a way I don’t see anyone else even attempting. Videos like what is the collector car market cap. Any of the videos discussing Ford’s decision to drop cars. There’s a playlist on the channel called garage talk. That’s where the talent is.
The talent is not in his reviews. They’ve always been bad, shallow, inconsistent and worst of all he doesn’t know how to drive. I think he’s gotten big because children are YouTube’s largest audience and they love his channel. Luckily he’s continued to grow and capitalize on this success
TST podcast is basically all I’ve listened in my home gym for the last three years. The crew shows with Matt & Zach are my favorites but Doug/Cammisa are my favorite guests. I find the Lieberman episodes to be the absolute worst.
Anxiously awaiting both of the Goosemen to be on together one day.
if you put in a extra workout check out the behindtheglass podcast. it is the seenthroughglass guy and tony who is a old school guy who owns a dealership trading used cars… they work really well together.
Check out Carmudgeon
Cammisa is a gift from God. Had dinner with him at a pizza joint in Scottsdale in early 19’ during car week. The dude is a literal encyclopedia of car knowledge and is a fucking RIOT to hang with.
I break out the popcorn every time Johnny is on.
What don’t you like about when Jonny is on?
“New money Doug”
That was irritating as hell. Matt comes across as so bitter and jealous about Doug’s YouTube success every time they have a conversation. Hey Matt, be less condescending sometimes. Listening to his review of the people he had to be around in Tennessee during thanksgiving wasn’t necessary.
Man with Carrera GT: “man I can’t stand these rich people!”