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The SileightyMania Podcast - Drifting Interviews with OGs and Pioneers

Benson Hsu and Nadine Hsu interview guests who changed USA drifting culture. Listen as we attempt to document their stories in American drifting history. Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/sileightymania Follow us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thesileightymaniapodcast

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01:48:35

Nikolay Konstantinov - My Tribute 180sx and Trip to...

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2023/05/02

Nikolay Konstantinov started drifting in the early 2000s and even competed in Formula D. He built a tribute car paying homage to his hero Yoshinori Koguchi. He explains the challenges of building a green s13 hatch inspired by a car that no longer exists in that form. He also recounts a recent magical trip to Japan where he got to hang out with Drift Zamurai and The Emperor Koguchi. He even got to see and sit in 189sx that inspired his build. Follow Nikolay on IG:

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01:29:30

Lindsay Ross - Pink Godzira, my Fake Drift Team |...

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2023/04/03

Lindsay Ross is an OG US drifter, starting in the early 2000s. He has always been big on Japanese drifting style and Japanese drift car styling. One day he met up with Aaron Suarez aka Dousan and the two of them decided to form a drift team called Pink Godzira. The two were one of the earliest US drift teams to properly color coordinate the way drift teams do in Japan and they did it with style. Take a listen as Lindsay tells us about the origins of Pink Godzira drift team, his experiences as a

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00:53:08

Benson Hsu - The 1st Falken Drift Showoff in 2003 |...

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2023/03/02

Benson Hsu won 1st place at Falken Drift Showoff in Irwindale Speedway on March 02, 2003. It was the first time we'd ever seen a pro drifter on US soil doing drifting demos. Yoshinori Koguchi, Seigo Yamamoto, Fumiaki Komatsu and Kazuya Bai, very famous and influential drivers from Japan, flew in with their cars for demos and judging. It was a day that introduced so many to drifting and inspired a generation of future drifters. Host Nadine Hsu interviews Benson about the day, asking

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01:15:38

Mark Arcenal - Hellaflush, Fuji Speedway with 400+...

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2022/12/05

Mark Arcenal, from the Bay Area in California, is an artist and a trailblazer in fashion and car culture. He is a major reason for what is widely known today as "stanced cars". We talk about his love for both industries and how they influenced his journey to create his website Fatlace and Illest brand. He is an inspirational person to many and this interview will show you why. For this episode of Storytime, Mark takes us through his ambitious plan to hold a Hellaflush event in the place

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00:47:27

Nadine Hsu - My First Children's Book About Drifting...

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2022/10/31

Nadine wrote a kid's drifting book! You may know our beloved co-host Nadine Hsu as one of the first female drifters in the USA, or as one of the first women to compete in Formula Drift. Maybe you know her as the co-founder of Drifting Pretty, the first all female drifting program and eventually all female drifting team in the USA. She is now a children's drifting book author! She's here to announce that she's now a children's book author! Her book Sachiko Goes Racing is inspired

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01:16:13

Javier Paramo - 2nd Place Drifting at Option Ikaten |...

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2022/10/05

Javier Paramo has experienced 15 minutes of fame many times. You might know him from his beautiful white MA60 Celica Supra or appearance on Wheeler Dealers, Netflix's Fastest Car, his cameo in Fast and the Furious 1, his annual hosting of Supras in Vegas, or his features in Import Tuner and MotorMavens. What you might not know is that there's a good chance he was the very first Mexican drifter. Javier is Benson's old friend, and they spent a lot of time together in the junkyards, wrenching on their

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00:56:30

Cole Chalmers - I Met My Wife During a Disaster Trip...

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2022/09/07

Cole Chalmers was your typical car boy who didn't want anything in life but to drift all day, everyday. After a breakup, he told himself, "no girls." He chose the lonely driver life, but did the lonely driver life choose him? Listen in as Cole discusses early drift life in Kamloops, British Columbia, his snow drifting adventures on logging roads, and how drifting changed his life in many ways, but mostly through finding love during a disastrous road trip all the way to All-Star Bash in Southern

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01:20:04

Lance Feliciano - '96 Option Ikaten When I Was 8...

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2022/08/03

Lance Feliciano is the son of a professional rally driver. His father introduced him to cars and motorsports at a very young age, and as a child he would rather watch Option Video instead of cartoons. At the age of 8, he got to experience something very special - he attended Option Video's very first Ikaten ever held on American soil. He was in the presence of drifting icons Drift King Keiichi Tsuchiya and Nomuken, got a ride-a-long and it forever changed his life. You can follow Lance on IG:

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01:09:37

Ryoshei Takahashi: Why You Should Know About...

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2022/07/06

Ryohei Takahashi from Team Lowbrain, Japan joins us to tell us about Sportsland Yamanashi (SLY), why it's important for Japanese drifting history and what his experience has been like hosting events there and dealing with its unique track owner. Make sure to follow us on IG because Ryohei sent me a bunch of Team Lowbrain stuff and we're giving it away! Announcement will happen on 7/18 on @sileightymania Ryohei on IG: @lowbrain_yohey --- Send in a voice message:

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00:53:35

Adam Goodman: When I Drove a D1 Driver's Car in Japan...

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2022/06/01

Adam Goodman, aka Understeerking, has a very popular IG account and YouTube account where he posts all the Japanese car nostalgia that your heart desires. For this Storytime episode, he tells us about his early years with drifting in Atlanta to his trips to Japan. During one of his trips, he gets to meet D1 Driver Kaneko Naoya, who offers Adam to drive his 380hp competition car! For more on Adam, find him on Youtube and Instagram! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:46:51

Chob: When I Accidentally Entered a Drifting...

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2022/05/04

It's our very first Storytime episode! Chob, a member of Team ProceeD and owner/pilot of a Lexus GS300, joins me for a little small talk and then gets into the story about when he accidentally entered a drifting competition at Nikko Circuit, Japan. If you are a good storyteller and have a good drifting story to tell, please go to the following link to submit an application: https://podcast.sileightymania.com/storytime-interview-application/ Have you purchased your Sileighty Podcast merch yet? There

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01:28:53

Season 1 is a Wrap. Time to Celebrate! (S1E12)

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2022/04/06

Season 1 has been a journey from all of us at the SileightyMania Podcast. Our graphic designer Steven Nakamura is an OG in his own right, and you get to hear from him because he finally joins us in the studio. Bring your own beverage for this one, because we're poppin' bottles to celebrate our 1 year anniversary and a job well done! We also spend some time to pull back the curtains to give you some insight on what it was like making the podcast and we talk about what the near and distant future

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02:30:25

Steve Oliberos, Stanford Lau, Michael Kitchens: OGs...

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2022/03/02

In Part 2 of our Hawaii series brought to you by In4mation, our old friend Jason Ryan from Grip Video tells us to hold on to our okoles as he tells us about the early days of Grip Video and his observations of early drifting in Oahu and the mainland. In this episode, 2 OG drifting pioneers in the USA and Hawaii graced our podcast with their stories and experiences in the early days of drifting on the track and on the street. Steve Oliberos AKA Steevo is well known for his charismatic personality

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02:37:43

Royce Fujimoto, Justin Kikkawa & Barry Wong: OG...

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2022/02/09

In Part 1 of our Hawaii series brought to you by In4mation, our good friend Layton Takaesu gives us one propah kine podcast intro, teaches us some Pidgin and then recounts some of his memories seeing early drifting on Oahu when he was a kid. Our 3 guests in episode 10 are all pioneers of drifting in the USA in the early 2000s. Not all of them drove competitions, but what they were doing was noticed across the Pacific Ocean on the mainland and in Japan. Royce Fujimoto, known for his blue and then

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02:13:14

Alex Pfeiffer: RS-R S2000 Pilot & America's First...

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2022/01/05

Alex Pfeiffer started drifting in the early 90s on the island of Oahu, HI. Back then he was already an avid fan of Option Video and Japanese drifting and would emulate what he watched on the now infamous mountain road Tantalus in Hawaii. In this episode we try to figure out if Alex Pfeiffer is the very first American to drift. We talk about his roots and what it was like growing up in Hawaii, his big move to the mainland and how it helped him improve his drifting skill, what it was like drifting the

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01:29:48

Tommy Chen: Host of USA's 1st Option Ikaten in '96 &...

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2021/12/01

Tommy Chen founded SpeedTrial USA, a group that hosted road racing events in the 90s. With his friends, he was able to get Option Video with Keiichi Tsuchiya, Nomuken, and Daijiro Inada to come host the very first drifting competition on US soil in 1996. In '99, Tommy hosted the first sanctioned US drifting event under the guise of "car control" run groups. In 2002, Tommy made history again when he hosted an event with icons of the AE86 drift world Hiroshi Takahashi and Shinji Minowa. Thank you

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01:09:25

Toshiki Yoshioka: Japanese AE86 Drifting Legend and...

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2021/11/03

Toshiki Yoshioka started drifting in 1996 when he discovered it at touge as a young boy in Japan. In this episode of the Sileighty Mania Podcast, he talks about how he got started with drifting and became a member of Team Bross Running Crazies. Listen as he takes us behind the scenes of early drifting in Japan, spills the tea on fellow D1GP drivers, and what he thinks of the difference between drifting in the USA and Japan. We're so honored to have Yoshi on the podcast, somebody who worked hard as

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01:56:20

Toshi Hayama: Host of JDM Insider, Founder of Apex'i...

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2021/09/01

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. With Apex'i, he was able to broaden Apex Japan's product offering to include tuning parts for the ever popular Honda market in the USA. He brought over from Japan the Apex R33 GT-R for drag racing and ultimately the infamous FD3S driven by Yoichi Imamura for D1 Grand

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02:15:21

Brian Harte aka BH: Drift Style Authority (S1E5)

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2021/08/04

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 car style and the ever important sticker placement. Listen in as we swap funny stories, and special guest Rhys Millen joins us for the interview. Have you left us a voicemail or text message on our hotline? Listen in, as we play and read some of your

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01:37:40

Moto Miwa: AE86 OG and Founder of Club4AG (S1E4)

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2021/07/07

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 infamous website for all things toyota - Club4AG.com. Moto talks about co-founding Drift Association and hosting possibly the earliest legally sanctioned drift events on US soil, allowing early US drift competitions to exist such as Falken Drift Showoff, RS-R Drift

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