A Volkswagen Podcast with two VW enthusiasts from the Midwest. Prescott Phillips is the author of VW Air-cooled Engine: How to Rebuild, long time drag racer with Underdog racing, and performance engines and transmission builder. Sean Smith is a long time mechanic and rescuer of all things rusty. Together the two discuss the culture and history surrounding Volkswagen. They will have weekly guest come on the show to share their stories about racing, driving, and rebuilding Volkswagens throughout the years.
The podcast Brew City Bug Talk is created by Sean Smith and Prescott Phillips. The podcast and the artwork on this page are embedded on this page using the public podcast feed (RSS).
On this episode we talk with Clint Cox and Jason Poynter, these two are the masterminds behind what has become one of the Biggest Volkswagen Events in the US called Texas vs The World. We talk all about how the event came into existence and what is to come this year.
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Sick Week 2025 Day One Recap with Sean and Prescott.
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On this episode we sit down with Prescott and Chuck Fryer to get a quick day zero recap.
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This is the audio from our video we made for our Youtube channel, in this episode we go over the VW Beetle manual transmissions throughout the years. How to identify what version of transmission you have, Swing Axle or IRS, what is the best way to identify what gears you may have in your transmission and we touch a little bit on what to steps to take when making a performance transmission.
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Happy New Year, We are back for our second year!!
On this episode we talk Shawn Wiedenhoeft, who is a retired Marine Corps pilot that builds experimental aircraft powered by VW engine.
We get hear about all his ups and downs with his home built planes.
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Sean and Prescott sit down and reminisce over the last year. We take a look at our first year doing the podcast and we talk about what's next in 2025 for Brew City Bug Talk. Check out the Video for this show on YouTube at www.youtube.com/@BrewCityBugTalk
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Today we talk with Mr. Pat Downs, this man is a living legend in the VW world. He worked at CB Performance helping to develop some of the coolest and most innovative products on the market, he holds the world record for the fastest quarter mile in a Pro Stock VW, and he now has has his own company where he continues to develop and innovate VW air-cooled parts.
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Party Time!!
Dan Leadbetter from VW Trends Magazine made the trip up to see Adam & Tanner from Seward Speed Shop, so naturally we made the trip down, it was awesome!!
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We talk with Vic Frazzell, our oldest guest to date. He has been involved with Volkswagens since 1965 and still actively road races his own 1968 Beetle race car. He takes on his wild adventures throughout the years, come hear his story.
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We talk with one of the original founding members of the Corn Panzers VW Group Mr. David Conklin. He has been building and racing VW's for year, we talk about his time with the web site Cal-Look.com and everything Volkswagen.
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On todays episode we are talking with another long time VW enthusiast David Ward. He grew up and lived in Anaheim California eventually moved to the mid-west and now calls home near the frozen tundra of Wisconsin. He has been building, racing, and enjoying Volkswagens for over 40 years. Come with us and enjoy his story.
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The second part of this two part series with Seward Speed Shop. We get into the competition, The EMPi Engine Battle!! We talk about how everything went from the time they left Rockford to the moment they were crowned World Champs.
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In this episode we travel to Rockford IL to meet with the guys from Seward Speed Shop, Adam and Tanner are the winners of the Empi Engine Battle. In the first episode of this two part series, we meet the guys and find out all about the concept and process of the engine they built. Next episode we get their perspective of the competition and how it went.
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Today we are on location at the first annual VW Collective of Milwaukee car clubs' Picnic/Car Show. We sat down with the President of the club Mark C and the Social Media/Marketing director Mindy B. to get the history and future plans for the best VW Club in Milwaukee.
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This week we talk to owner and operator of Old Volks Home Wes Pichler, a long time running and popular Volkswagen shop in the Milwaukee area. Wes has been working on and building Volkswagens for year, come join us as he shares some great stories.
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All the way from South Carolina, long time Volkswagen enthusiast, racer, and organizer of some of the coolest Volkswagen racing events in South Carolina, Mr. Scott Sain.
Every year he puts on two great events VW Drag Night and Germanaire Drag Day. Lots of fast Volkswagen's, big cash payouts, and awesome raffle cars. Come join us as we talk about it all.
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On this episode we take a few minutes and talk about some of the Volkswagen related events that happened in the Mid-West over the weekend.
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Sick Summer Day #5 Recap.
Today was the last day of our adventure, We got the band back together!
We were back at Byron Race track to close out the Sick Summer Drag Week.
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Sick Summer Day#4 Recap
The End is Near!! We are in Wisconsin our Home track Great Lakes Dragaway for day 4 of racing.
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Sick Summer Day #3 Recap.
Roughest day of week so far.. Two down one left standing
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Sick Summer Day #2 recap. Wild day on and off the track.
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Sick Summer Drag a Drive Event Day #1 Recap. Come join us as we butcher Clint's last name again....
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Day #0 of Sick the Mag's Sick Summer Drag and Drive Event. This is tech day or check in day for the week long racing event, we will be giving short daily updates from the event, So back and enjoy the ride.
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On today's episode we talk with Randy Henning founder of Mofoco, creator of Bugfest, and current owner of the longest running drag strip in the US, Great Lakes Dragaway.
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Today we are talking with Bill Alexander he is the general manager of Driven Racing Oil, a long time Volkswagen owner, and an enthusiast. Without getting too nerdy we talk about modern oils and how Driven racing oil might be the best oil for your everyday Volkswagen.
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This weeks episode will feature the owner and operator of The Dub Shop, Mario Velotta Jr. He specializes in Fuel Injection Kits for Classic VW's, Crank Triggers for Distributorless engines, and all things electrical.
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Today we have Dave Zemla in the studio, he is a writer for VW Trends Magazine and a fine connoisseur of things Volkswagen. He's been writing the article "Garage Built" for VW Trends Magazine for a couple of years, and building badass Volkswagens since he was a teenager living in SoCal.
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We have Chuck Fryer from Air Fryer Racing in the studio today. He is part of the CornPanzers club, a long time drag racer, and the only I know that guy I know who has finished the quarter mile spinning like a top. We get into all that excitement and more as we talk about the his fun history with Volkswagens.
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Today we are talking with old school VW'er Peter K. He has been doing the Volkswagen thing for ages and he's done just about everything you can to these Vehicles. We talk about his days off road racing all the way to his days chopping up Sean's dream car, like I said this guy has done it all.
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On the show today we talk with Josh Andersen about how he turn it his passion for Volkswagens into a successful business call MrBusCo. We also discuss how he found an awesome fire suppression system called Blaze Cut. He was so impressed by how well it worked on his Volkswagens that he created Blaze Cut USA and become the North American distributor.
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Editor-in-Chief of VW Trends Magazine Mr. DG Leadbetter will join us to tell the awesome story of how he brought this cool magazine back to life. We also discuss his early life and how he got into writing for VW Trends Magazine, some of the ups and downs throughout the years that made him who is he is.
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On this episode we talk to Co-host/author Prescott Phillips about his awardless but awesome book, VW Air-cooled Engine: How to Rebuild. We do a deep dive into how this opportunity came to him and what the process was that he took to write this cool book.
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On this episode we are talking with guest Mike Karlman, about what it was like to grow up in Milwaukee during the highlight of the Volkswagen era. We discuss some of the biggest events during the 90s' and how you had fun with your Volkswagen during the winter months.
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On this episode we talk about everything Volkswagen, who we are, and all the cool things we have done that have brought us to this point.
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