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Episode 27 | Monday Night Rewind | MARFC | Andy Bozell Racing | Randy Maggio Jr. · Top Row Racing Media Monday Night Rewind

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  Oh, I forgot my. What's?
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  Up, guys. Oh.
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  Come on into the Monday Night Rewind live on Top of Racing
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  Media presented by Federated Auto Parts and Elh Detailing as
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  you can see your host Buju's and Lewis Knox from top of Racing
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  Media on your Monday night interview show.
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  The Number one interview show in Michiana on Monday nights.
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  Another packed show tonight at 7:05.
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  We have the Michigan Auto racing Fan club talking about all kinds
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  of cool all Oh, excuse me. So Lewis told me my my face off
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  the jump threw me off Michigan auto racing fan club.
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  We're gonna call all the cool stuff and all the cool benefits
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  that you can get when you check out their fan club.
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  And then at 7:35 we got a whole mess of Bozells joining the show
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  to talk the Clash coming up this week and some more big races
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  still left in the year, as well as obviously a long history of
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  racing in the Bozell family. So very excited about that at
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  7:40. And yeah, as I said, as always,
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  joined by the man in the top row, Louis Noakes.
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  So how are we doing tonight, Louis?
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  Good I threw us off because we were doing the video check and I
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  forgot to click back on our main graphic.
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  But hey, it's fine. We we I got the banner going
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  right away. So we got we got to win somehow.
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  You know, we usually the banner is like 710 when I'm like, oh,
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  that's not scrolling yet, so. Yeah, I've never been so shocked
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  to see myself. Well, I know it's kind of like
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  all of a sudden I saw some like deer in the head like, you know,
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  it's like, hey, wait, that's that's not right.
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  That's not usually. But in 27 episodes, that's the
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  first time that has happened. So we'll you know, usually it's
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  the banner that comes like last. It's like, oh, hey, that's not
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  running yet. So we better get that going.
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  So as I say, you know, I like to say, you know, shoot first, same
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  second. So.
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  Live TV baby. Yeah.
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  Hey, you know what, at some point, I mean, did you, I, I
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  don't know if you saw going around and I and it was true.
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  So on ESPN for the summer slam commercial breaks, they spelled
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  commercial wrong. That's ESPN.
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  So it I it was like chimerical or something like that.
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  It was really spelled weird and and I thought at first someone
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  was doing like an AI whatever, right.
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  So when I watched, I'm like, Oh no, that's spelled wrong.
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  So ESPN spelled something wrong. So if ESPN can spell something
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  wrong, I think we're OK. They've got a few more people on
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  staff. Yeah, yeah.
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  And so that's, that's my excuse for now.
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  That's what I'm going to go with.
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  I don't know if it works or not, but that's what I'm selling so.
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  Just keep a print out of it in your pocket so.
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  I took a picture of it on the TV.
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  You know, Netflix is really good about going back and editing
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  things. If they do something wrong, even
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  though it's weird, they'll cut out stuff on programming.
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  But then you watch like some of the other shows on Netflix,
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  you're like, but that's OK. Like it doesn't make sense,
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  right? But but again, you know,
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  newspapers have always had misprints and all that.
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  So I'm like, you know, we don't have too many of them.
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  I'll I'll take the wins we when we can get them, but but I know,
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  you know, the next couple weeks are loaded.
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  I, I lined up a lot of guests for us when I was at the
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  Corrigan Oil Speedway this past Friday for the tri-state sprints
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  were there, as well as the Michigan events racers.
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  So we'll have John Boy and Sean Sprague and Andrew Bogus and a
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  couple others coming up over the next couple weeks.
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  And then I know tonight we have Bozell's.
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  I'm so excited for that. They were on my to schedule a
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  list and and we had an opening. So I'm like, well, they're my
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  first stop because I was going to talk to them on Wednesday and
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  I'm like they may they can make it work.
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  So I'm so excited for them because one way or another we
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  are going to have bozos eventually.
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  But I know they're busy. So they're taking, they got four
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  cars this Wednesday. So it's not just one or two or
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  three. Now they have 4:00.
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  So I appreciate them taking time out of their busy schedule for
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  tonight. So it's a nice weekend.
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  You know, Saturday, not so much. But I want to give a big shout
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  out and credit to New Paris for giving it a shot on on Sunday.
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  You know the it's definitely not their level of night destruction
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  in terms of crowd size. And I and that's they knew, they
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  knew that switching to Sunday too.
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  So I mean, that's a them for running the show at that point.
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  Yep. They wanted to give everyone a
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  chance and so and it was entertaining.
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  You know, still a lot of cars, a lot of people came in kind of
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  like it was a trickle. You almost like when you turn on
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  a water foster, you just let it drip.
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  So it's a little bit of a trickle for them.
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  But it filled in right at at 4:00.
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  It was looking a little sparse, but you know, people filled in
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  and filled in and filled in. Their next one is September
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  12th, so they'll look to get back on the the right track for
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  that. All their nods this year have
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  had bad weather. I mean, they've not had any
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  luck. And then Corgan Oil had a great
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  race on Friday and they were packed too.
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  That was their biggest crowd. And I know John was there who
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  were bringing in. And of course, we have President
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  Gary who's going to be joining us too, past President John,
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  who's current vice president with Marf.
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  But you know, I know John was there just as a fan.
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  And I mean we have people always sitting towards the top of the
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  bleachers at Corgan Oil, which on Sundays we haven't seen that.
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  And it's like I keep telling people you need to get out
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  there, it's a fun track. And so I know this Friday is
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  their championship. I plan to be back at Corrigan
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  this Friday. So because Kalamazoo is off
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  obviously this Friday again with the Clash on Wednesday, so I'll
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  be there. Then we got championship on
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  Saturday at New Paris and then we have championship on Sunday
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  at the Mini Wedges. So busy week for championships,
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  so a lot going on. Yeah, I'm back at M40 this week,
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  finally. I was intended to be at M40 this
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  week, but again, rained out. This was a trackless weekend for
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  me, a very rare occurrence in my life.
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  But yeah, I didn't make it out anywhere this week.
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  I I well, I do. I do.
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  I went to the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo.
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  I went to Kalamazoo for a different reason.
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  That was pretty fun. I enjoyed that.
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  Have you ever been there? Oh, yeah, a lot of times.
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  In fact, that was one of that was a school trip at one time
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  too that we have, you know, home turf, right?
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  And you know, so that they have a lot.
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  And in fact, one of the museum directors there is a friend of
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  mine who I used to work at Western Michigan University and
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  the writing center there. So when I was working in the
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  writing center at Western, she helped schedule and do all these
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  things. So she's always posting amazing
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  things that they're getting at the Air Zoo.
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  So I haven't been there though in a really, really long time.
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  So that's something I should probably get up there.
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  Like I said, I see all her pictures and things that they're
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  bringing in historical stuff. And then I'm like, man, I should
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  go. And then I just, I'm kind of one
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  of those like with race fans, like you should go, oh, you
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  know, I same thing with their zoo, like, oh, I have this or I
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  have that. I had a blast.
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  Yeah, I I'm a kid in the candy store with that kind of stuff.
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  Anyway, I like history almost as much as I like race cars.
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  So it was pretty. It was pretty cool to check out.
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  Did you climb into the big bomber that they have?
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  There I did. And the line was too long.
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  And we were, we were, we were moving, man.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's, I mean, it's incredible when you get into
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  some of those planes, like you could get into planes and.
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  Just have even they had a few smaller displays that we were
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  really good and even that's cool.
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  Just being able to sit in it and feel it is it's, it's an
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  interesting experience. Yep, and it's and it's like
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  you're they're also standing in history, you know, and so it's
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  it's a pretty they do a really nice job up there.
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  So definitely if you've never been to the Ayers zoo, I know
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  this is a race podcast, but we're all about everything and
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  you know, get up there. And so that's why it's also
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  perfect too, because tonight we're going to be promoting a
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  lot of tracks at one time when we bring on John and Gary,
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  because with the Michigan auto fan racing, our auto auto racing
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  fan club switch that they for $20, you can sign up and I'll
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  have them give all the details. I have a graphic made-up, but I
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  have their website queued up as well for $20 a single person,
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  you sign up and you can go to any of their events.
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  So like this weekend, they have Winston Speedway.
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  If you've not been there, they you know, they've done
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  incredible work at Winston. Then they also have authors.
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  So it's not just author Raceway, which I didn't even know what
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  that was until I went to the banquet.
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  And they have like a lot of carts, cart racing and all that
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  kind of deal. So, so you can get to a lot of
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  tracks for free on their nights. So and other things going on.
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  So I'm not going to steal their Thunder.
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  I'm going to let them talk all about it.
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  But you know, when you make these trips to other tracks,
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  maybe you can explore the towns at the same time and just see
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  what's kind of there to offer while you're waiting to get to
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  the racetrack, as I could tune for one.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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  But nothing's nothing's better than going to the racetrack for
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  free. No, so, so that's where if
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  you're ready, we could bring on Gary.
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  Yeah, Gary has the video working now.
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  So that gave him some time to get that going.
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  So again, let's go ahead and let's bring on President Gary
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  Engel and then Vice President John Jackson from the Michigan
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  Auto Racing Fan Club. Hello again tonight, guys.
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  How are you doing? Good, good.
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  Doing terrific. Well, and I know John, like I
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  said, you were at Corrigan this past Friday, but I know your fan
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  club nights were at Hartford and it was supposed to be at M40,
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  but obviously M40 got cancelled out.
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  So I I looked at John, I went, you're not at the racetrack
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  tonight for Marc because I knew they were at Hartford and he was
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  just there as a fan. So so it was great to catch up
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  with John and and Gary, that's how we got you to even be able
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  to come on tonight and and talk. And I know you're just a few
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  months into your presidency over here at the Michigan Auto fan
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  auto racing fan club. I always want to put fan first
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  for some reason. I don't know why, but but with
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  that, I always like to start with, I call it the softball
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  question. And Gary will start with you
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  since you're the new president. And this is a chance to
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  introduce your face to a lot of people who may not know you,
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  right? Because they know John a lot
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  from seeing him at events. But you just took over that
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  position while John is now in the vice president role.
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  So Gary, I want to give a little bit about like your background
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  and how you got into the Michigan Auto Racing fan club.
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  And then we'll head over to John and John will do that same
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  background because you are helped really resurrect this
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  back to where it is today. And then we'll get into member
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  benefits and how to join up and everything else.
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  I I've been in auto racing pretty much my whole life.
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  I grew up around racing. Everybody in the family raced
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  and then I went to work at Auto City Speedway and worked there
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  for many years doing everything that you can imagine at the
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  track. I've done flagging, I've been in
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  the tower, I've been in the pit. So I've done it all.
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  But the Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club, I've been a part of that
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  with the bowling and seen him, known him for years, seeing
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  everybody around New Wild Bill and Dave D Ham and John.
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  And it's really the last few years I really got more involved
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  with it. And it's, it's something that's,
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  it's a passion and you have to have the passion because it's a
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  lot of work. And I'm trying to, trying to
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  live up to what I thought it was.
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  And it is a lot more work than what I ever imagined in my life.
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  So, but it's, it's very fulfilling too.
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  Well, I know that's John. I mean, that's where you did.
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  I mean you've done so much work to bring this back kind of where
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  it was in a whole group. It's not just you, like you're
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  the first to say it's not just me, it's all of us.
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  And so I know Gary's and you know, inheriting a Michigan auto
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  fan racing fan club that is healthier than what you arrived
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  to John. So if you want to talk a little
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  bit about your background and some of the work that you've
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  done to bring it to where it is today so that Gary has all the
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  pressure on him to continue it. Well, I got involved with racing
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  back in the late 60s when a friend of mine working an
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  Oldsmobile said, hey, have you ever been to a stock car race?
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  I said, yeah, he's why don't you come with me?
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  I've got a car tonight. At that time, Lansing Speedway
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  or Spartan, I think it was not even a Spartan at that time.
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  So we went out there and and fell in love with it right away,
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  sitting in the pits and one of the guys said hey, you want to I
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  need my car letter that I said and I said I had no idea about
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  it. I said oh I can do that.
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  So that was the back of the days before wrapped we had foxtail
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  paintbrushes and stuff. I went out and bought some of
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  those and practiced and started lettering cars out for people.
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  They didn't look that great, but they had numbers out.
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  Well, I I thought they looked OK.
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  But then anyway, we did that and then moved to Minnesota, got
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  involved out there with Elko Track, Elko Raceway, went down
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  to South Dakota, down to Lucid Speedway, used to travel all
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  around Minnesota. Then moved to Connecticut and
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  and travelled all the tracks in the in New England.
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  And then came back to Michigan and started going around to find
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  out about the fan club. And it made me fan out of the
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  year in 2016. And I didn't realize what that
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  was. That was a way to fish me in.
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  And how would you like to be on the board?
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  And I thought, sure, how would you like to handle some fan club
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  nights? And so we started doing that.
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  I took over from Dave B Ham was the vice president while Bill
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  was the president. While Bill had it for many
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  years. He did a wonderful job.
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  And he, they both of them helped me make the transition.
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  And I was fortunate enough to get a lot of people to be on the
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  board like you say it. I guess the term is it takes a
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  village, you know, you have to have a lot of people.
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  And then Gary came along and, and I said thank you very much,
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  boy, he's been a godsend. And I've had a lot of number of
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  people. I don't want to start naming
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  names because I'll, I'll forget somebody, but there was a lot of
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  them. So that's how I got involved.
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  And I just absolutely love it. And I'm going to carry on just
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  for a second, then I'm going to turn it back over.
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  But it's kind of a funny story is that we were going to fit.
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  I, when I started out, I was, I remember the first few tracks, I
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  was the only one at the fan club table.
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  And sometimes I'd have somebody else and well, then I got, so I
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  was doing it all and then I got some good people to come in to
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  start handling the table and I was starting micromanaging them.
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  And they said, hey, don't you have something to do?
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  Why don't you go down the pits and talk to drivers?
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  So they kicked me out and went down.
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  And that's been what I we do now.
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  Gary does that when he goes to the track.
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  I do that to the track. It's been wonderful.
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  The relationships we build with all the all the racers and it's
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  just can't say enough about it. Well, that's one thing that like
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  you, even you and I were talking on Friday, right, is that it's
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  building those relationships. And you'd said, you know, we've
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  done a lot on the driver's side to really build those.
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  And obviously at the banquet you guys host each year that I know
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  just takes a lot of work into that.
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  You, you honor all the Champions from the tracks, especially
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  member tracks. And, and you do that and you
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  get, you know, plaques for them. You have other awards that you
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  hand out, you know, then you even mention like, hey, now that
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  we got like the drivers, it's probably time to kind of swing
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  the pendulum back, you know, where, you know, getting to know
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  the fans more again. And so because I've said
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  sometimes it might be just easy to walk right by the tent,
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  right? You know, it's there, but a lot
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  of people may not know like what you do or what that is.
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  And so that's why I'm like, let's bring you on that way.
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  We could just help promote that because again, for, you know,
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  for a single person, like let's say I wanted to Sign up today
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  and I know you have a 2027 deal going on that I'll let you guys
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  talk about. But you know, if you go to the
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  website like today, it's 20 bucks for a single member and
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  it's like that's one racetrack entrance.
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  You know, if I went to one event that I would save money on
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  almost, you know, if it's $15 or $18.00 on your nights and you
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  have a calendar on there that shows all your nights.
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  So, and it's all over Michigan that you can take advantage of.
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  So, so I don't know Gary or John, which one of you wants to
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  talk about those benefits and how that works, but I'll let one
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  of you take the floor on like what, what is Michigan Auto
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  Racing Fan Club? Like, what do you guys do?
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  How do you do it and how can people help you a part of this
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  mission? Gary, I'll.
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  Start out, fill in whatever it is.
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  The best deal in auto racing is what it is.
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  We are trying to get the fans into the stands and so they can
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  watch auto racing and go to love it like we do.
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  So for us it's just bringing attention to the short track
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  auto racing, whether it be the dirt track, the asphalt track or
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  the little go Kart track. We just want to bring the fans
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  into the stands. So, yeah, for 20 bucks, you
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  can't get into hardly anywhere for 20 bucks.
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  So you get a membership, you know, for $20 and a family, You
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  know, I enjoy being at the tent and explaining to people what
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  they get. And so I tell them, you know,
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  you can't get yourself and your wife into a race for 25 bucks
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  most places. So now, you know, you get a
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  membership, you get into all these races at different tracks
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  and that's what I love to do is sit there and talk to the people
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  and talk to the the families and let them know.
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  And you can see racing all over the state of Michigan.
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  You want to have a vacation every weekend, Let's go to a new
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  track. You know, this weekend John and
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  some of the other members are going to be at Winston.
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  I unfortunately have to work this Friday, so I can't, but I
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  will be at Arthur on Saturday. You know, it's two totally
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  different tracks that you get to see.
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  So it's it's amazing, you know, and I was looking forward to
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  M40I was at Hartford on Friday and we had a great race there
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  and I was looking forward to M40 and whether Mother Nature took a
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  bite out again. Louis.
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  Louis, I have something. Yeah.
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  Thank you. It's a nice graphic you have,
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  but we've changed that since it was really put out about family
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  membership. It's not.
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  It's not two children. You can have You can have all
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  children under the age of 15 living in the same household are
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  included in the family membership.
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  OK, OK, so. We signed up a family this
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  weekend that had four kids that are all under 15 and they're all
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  going to be able to come in and watch race.
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  We're for $25. You couldn't get the whole
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  family in one race. Yeah, not, I mean, again, that's
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  while you guys are talk about it.
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  I'm going to bring up your website.
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  So like this where people can find where all this is.
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  But that's something that again, for 25 bucks for a family,
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  right? That gives, that puts money in
• 20:40
  their pocket that they can go spend on a concession stand or
• 20:43
  they can go spend on a souvenir or they can save for another
• 20:48
  race, right? And, and that's why I, I have
• 20:51
  it. I just have to click on the
• 20:53
  share screen here to bring that tab up.
• 20:57
  But that's where, you know, with the membership, you can fill it
• 21:00
  out online. And I want to make sure that you
• 21:02
  guys could see it. Yep, it's there.
• 21:03
  But if you go to thatmarf.org, let me go home.
• 21:08
  This is their landing page where you can get here and you can
• 21:11
  see, you know, who's in the history, which also includes
• 21:14
  board members at the bottom. So you can see who the board
• 21:17
  members are, what role they play within this organization and
• 21:22
  their meetings and how you can join the fan club.
• 21:26
  But then and here, oh, I just passed it, you know, single
• 21:30
  member couples up to two you. But you said you'd change that,
• 21:35
  right? Yes.
• 21:37
  Yeah. That's been changed now.
• 21:38
  Yeah. So this one's changed So.
• 21:41
  So as I just said. But you can sign up there and
• 21:45
  then if you want to know their member tracks, you can see here
• 21:48
  and go. I wonder if my racetrack is a
• 21:50
  part of that. Maybe you could talk to your
• 21:52
  racetrack, be like, hey, I was on this website and I saw that
• 21:55
  you guys weren't part of this. How can we get them part of it?
• 21:58
  But you know, you were just at Hartford.
• 22:00
  You said obviously you've been in a wasso you're at Kalamazoo,
• 22:03
  you're going to go to Russell's on Saturday.
• 22:06
  But Ken Ross all the way in the UPI know you guys made that
• 22:09
  trip. Spring Port's coming back, even
• 22:11
  got the new logo on there. You know, all these tracks that
• 22:15
  you can be a part of to go. And when you have your
• 22:19
  membership dates, which are here, you can go to their
• 22:22
  monthly calendar and you can see it coming up.
• 22:25
  You know, this is their 21st fan night scheduled, you know,
• 22:29
  Winston and you can see, you know where they're going, what
• 22:33
  they're doing. And when they have their
• 22:35
  membership nights, you get in for free.
• 22:37
  So it's not that, you know, if you go to Kalamazoo every week
• 22:39
  and you're like, I'm a member that you get in for free the
• 22:42
  week, you know, every week at Kalamazoo, but on their fan
• 22:44
  nights. And so I mean, if you just did
• 22:46
  the math here, let's say that each of these tracks was 20
• 22:49
  bucks, 24681012, you know, like that's a lot of money that you
• 22:55
  paid 20 bucks or 25 bucks for all of that.
• 23:00
  So again, it's it's not a bad deal at all.
• 23:04
  And Lewis, you think about the cost of gasoline now we're
• 23:07
  trying that kind of offsets the cost of going to these different
• 23:10
  tracks in a way, yeah. Oh, absolutely.
• 23:14
  I mean, and, and gas, I mean, this year has impacted everyone.
• 23:17
  But that's where you can fill out memberships online.
• 23:19
  You can fill out memberships at their tents when they're at a
• 23:21
  racetrack, if you want to do that.
• 23:24
  Like I said, the this junior membership is at under 15, but,
• 23:29
  you know, and if you have questions, you can even contact
• 23:32
  them, right, You know, and certainly follow them on
• 23:34
  Facebook too. That way you could see all their
• 23:37
  updates and all the things that are that are going on.
• 23:39
  So when you think about that, just in the month of August, if
• 23:43
  I had signed up and I wasn't attached to certain tracks, I
• 23:47
  could go to all those events with you guys and it cost me
• 23:50
  $20.00 for the membership. Yeah.
• 23:54
  You know, Louis, I'd like to point out one thing, Louis US
• 23:56
  showed the website there and you'll see there's a scroll on
• 24:01
  the bottom with a bunch of businesses and stuff.
• 24:03
  They don't give us. They don't give us money.
• 24:05
  I mean, we're not sponsors and stuff, but they give us a lot of
• 24:10
  giveaway items, T-shirts, hats and and other things for our
• 24:14
  banquet and for our fan club nights.
• 24:16
  So there's a lot of supporters there so you can see who they
• 24:19
  who those are that help us too. Yeah, and I know Benny Miller's
• 24:25
  on here. I received a gear bag from these
• 24:27
  guys at Corrigan Speedway a few years ago, and that's a memory
• 24:29
  I'll never forget. So do you want to talk a little
• 24:31
  bit about the gear bag that you guys do in each event that you
• 24:34
  go to? You present somebody with a bag
• 24:37
  that has items in it and you recognize you?
• 24:40
  You know I don't. Every track may pick different
• 24:44
  on how they decide how that person's picked, but do you want
• 24:46
  to talk a little bit a little bit about what that award is and
• 24:50
  then what's what that bag comes with?
• 24:53
  Well, what what it is, it's a it's a helmet bag that is been
• 24:58
  going around for years. I mean, they've been giving them
• 25:01
  out for quite a few years, but it's a helmet bag that has our
• 25:06
  emblem and stuff right on the front of it.
• 25:08
  And we usually throw a hat and AT shirt in there from Michigan
• 25:12
  artists mangled and the track decides we we leave it up to the
• 25:16
  track to decide who they want to recognize.
• 25:20
  And it doesn't have to be a driver.
• 25:22
  We've had track employees, we've had promoters that, you know,
• 25:28
  sponsors that they want to give it to.
• 25:31
  And to see the look on some people's faces when they get
• 25:36
  that bag is amazing because they cherish that and it's something
• 25:42
  that they'll never forget. And that bag means a lot to a
• 25:46
  lot of people. So.
• 25:48
  I know George Zalmer, I believe received it at Hartford this
• 25:51
  past weekend and I know he made a nice post about that.
• 25:54
  And then Skeeter at Kalamazoo recognized for his long years of
• 25:58
  service. I know Taylor Sexton received it
• 26:00
  last year at Kalamazoo. So you know, there's a track
• 26:03
  worker and there's two drivers. And as you said, I, I think a
• 26:07
  promoter at Kalamazoo. I was, I thought Gary might have
• 26:11
  received one. I could be wrong there, but but
• 26:13
  obviously you guys are recognizing individuals who do a
• 26:16
  lot of contribution to auto racing in Michigan.
• 26:21
  Yeah, Lewis, I don't know if you heard him say that.
• 26:23
  Waldo Risky junior, who was driving a.
• 26:26
  Sprint, he says. Hey, John, I still got my bag
• 26:30
  from about five years ago. It's still over there keeping it
• 26:33
  nice and clean and and carrying my stuff that so that was that
• 26:36
  was nice to hear. Well, and again, that just shows
• 26:39
  the work that you guys are doing and the meaning, you know,
• 26:42
  behind that, that you're intentional, you know, with that
• 26:45
  kind of stuff. It's not all this is just a
• 26:47
  check mark on our thing that we come to each event.
• 26:49
  And here you go like that. You guys are, you know, putting
• 26:52
  that work into it and, and doing that presentation on the front
• 26:56
  stretch so that fans can see this and they can also help
• 27:00
  recognize that person who's being recognized by you guys.
• 27:03
  And so again, that I, you know, I think that's why that means so
• 27:06
  much is because it's not just a little thing, right?
• 27:08
  Like it's a purposeful intentional thing that you guys
• 27:11
  are doing. It's not something that, you
• 27:14
  know, we do, you know, back at the drivers meeting or wherever.
• 27:18
  It's something we want the fans to recognize and see that this
• 27:23
  person is being recognized and for whatever they've done in the
• 27:26
  sport. And I think that's the best part
• 27:28
  about is we're doing it in front of everybody so the fans get to
• 27:32
  recognize them too, not just us. Yep.
• 27:36
  Well, and that's emphasis on fan club, right?
• 27:39
  Because it takes, as you said, it takes a village.
• 27:41
  It's all of us together to help this.
• 27:44
  So one question I have, since Boujou is an Indiana resident, I
• 27:47
  had someone ask me at New Paris this question.
• 27:50
  So I'll let you guys answer it. They live close enough to the
• 27:53
  border that they're like, well, I go to more Michigan tracks and
• 27:56
  I go to Indiana tracks. And so can someone from Indiana
• 28:00
  sign up for the Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club and join you
• 28:03
  guys at race tracks? Or is that just if you know
• 28:05
  Michigan resident only? Absolutely.
• 28:08
  I I don't see any reason why they can't.
• 28:11
  But you know, Louis, to let you know, we have members from
• 28:16
  Florida, North Carolina. Ohio.
• 28:20
  Indiana and Alabama and, and they, and they, you know, they
• 28:26
  come to Michigan and once in a while and when they're up there,
• 28:28
  they go to the, the, the tracks where they use their membership.
• 28:32
  So there's probably some other states, but those are the ones I
• 28:35
  know off the top of my head. So there you go.
• 28:38
  So I, I said I will pass that question on.
• 28:41
  I mean, when I went to your forum, it said just state it and
• 28:44
  say only Michigan residents or whatever.
• 28:46
  But I thought, well, I will, I will ask that because I'm sure
• 28:50
  if they're thinking it, someone else might have already thought
• 28:52
  it 'cause I know Indiana has their own fan club too that will
• 28:55
  travel around to different tracks to do different things.
• 28:57
  I don't know if they're at the same level of what you guys are
• 28:59
  doing, but but they're like, I go to more Michigan tracks than
• 29:03
  I do Indiana tracks. And so I thought I will pass
• 29:05
  that on and we'll ask on the show.
• 29:07
  So so thank you guys for answering that because you just
• 29:10
  never know, right? Especially for those of us close
• 29:12
  to the border. We probably go both, you know,
• 29:15
  to each side of the state line a couple times a year.
• 29:18
  So now with that, oh, oh, Joel, yeah.
• 29:22
  I I mean, Ohio people have a chance to, they, they may, they
• 29:26
  have a special version, But one of the things to that someone
• 29:33
  was wondering, because this is a big conversation in Indiana
• 29:37
  going on right now at, you know, at their level with PRI is
• 29:41
  there, you know, they were having a conversation.
• 29:45
  You know what, what are the challenges that like the
• 29:47
  Michigan Auto racing fan club has in getting fans to the
• 29:51
  stands or even like new members? Like what are some challenges
• 29:54
  that you guys see as you continue to build a not only a
• 29:57
  solid foundation, but build the house with it?
• 30:01
  Well, it's, it's right now just the economy and you see it
• 30:05
  everywhere is, you know, getting people to join.
• 30:10
  We do a push every, you know, all year long trying to get new
• 30:15
  members and we're on the same pace as last year.
• 30:19
  But you know, I want to keep just growing and keep it going
• 30:24
  and bringing as many fans as I can.
• 30:26
  You know, when I took this over, you know, John has done an
• 30:30
  amazing job growing the fan club.
• 30:33
  And I said I got some huge shoes to step into when I was doing
• 30:37
  this. And so I want to keep it up and
• 30:40
  keep things growing. And something that you you think
• 30:45
  about being on the board is how can we grow this?
• 30:50
  And it's something that's on my mind all the time, and thinking
• 30:53
  outside the box and trying to find some different ways is what
• 30:57
  we're going to do. And, you know, just want to keep
• 31:00
  growing and keep everybody you know coming to the racetrack.
• 31:05
  You know, Louis, one of the things that you know, I said I
• 31:11
  jumped into the deep end of the pool when I got got on the
• 31:13
  board. But we've we've put together a
• 31:18
  it's rather informal, but you get a title it Marfac, an
• 31:21
  ambassador. And these are people that if
• 31:24
  hey, I want to try this out, sit at the table, talk to people and
• 31:27
  help out. And you can go to 123 or 4 as
• 31:33
  many tracks as you want to just come to there and help out.
• 31:36
  And you know, if somebody wants to find out more about that,
• 31:39
  they can send Gary President at marfac.org e-mail and we'll give
• 31:46
  that to them. But it's a wonderful way to get
• 31:48
  involved, see if you like it. And then the other challenge we
• 31:52
  have is that there's a chance there's 2 tracks for sure, I
• 31:57
  think that are going to want to become member tracks again next
• 32:00
  year. And there's a third one that's
• 32:03
  kind of on the outside of this talking.
• 32:05
  And so if you start figuring we have 23 now and we go to 26 and
• 32:10
  we have to go to all those we, if people want to get more
• 32:15
  involved with that, to help out with that, that would be
• 32:17
  wonderful. You know, just send us a note,
• 32:20
  say, hey, how can I get involved because we're growing still so.
• 32:26
  Now, Boojie, I feel like I've left you out a little bit, so
• 32:28
  definitely I'm going to let you jump in because I I'm like, I
• 32:32
  want to remember these questions I got from new pairs too.
• 32:36
  I was enjoying, I was enjoying learning about the fan club and
• 32:39
  it's something I'm definitely signing up for after the show is
• 32:42
  over. But on the lighter side of
• 32:44
  things, I want to take it. Yeah, a little more personal
• 32:47
  issue. You 2.
• 32:48
  Outside of Michigan, because I don't want to, I don't want to
• 32:50
  bring any bias in here, but favorite race tracks.
• 32:52
  If you each had to pick a favorite race track and we'll go
• 32:54
  outside of the state of Michigan to keep it fair, if you each had
• 32:57
  to choose, what would it be for you 2.
• 32:59
  Mine is Winchester by far. Been there many times with CRA
• 33:06
  and other factions and it just my favorite track.
• 33:13
  I've I've been to almost every NASCAR track and Winchester or
• 33:22
  Bristol so. Side of the state of Michigan.
• 33:27
  My favorite track is who's at Speedway in South Dakota just
• 33:31
  outside of Sioux Falls. My brother's been there a couple
• 33:36
  times and it looks fun. It's crazy out there.
• 33:43
  And then another question that I always like to ask my guest when
• 33:46
  I get the chance, before I throw it back to Lewis here.
• 33:48
  If you could go back and watch one, watch a race at one track
• 33:51
  with one person, where would you go?
• 33:53
  What are you watching and who are you watching it with?
• 33:59
  I would probably say Sprint cars at Eldora.
• 34:07
  Where's my dad? I would say Daytona was my
• 34:16
  brother. We went back about 20 years ago
• 34:19
  and we had a great time. I'd like to do that again.
• 34:23
  I like it. Great answers boys.
• 34:25
  Like I said, I'm looking forward to signing up to the fan club.
• 34:27
  I I didn't quite realize the benefits myself.
• 34:29
  So as as someone who was very like I'm literally 5 minutes the
• 34:33
  borders that way, 5 minutes. I will definitely be using the
• 34:35
  benefits this year. Well, can I jump in one more
• 34:39
  time? That's not just the race tracks.
• 34:41
  We have offseason meets. I know Gary's planning some
• 34:44
  events for this year and I want to go back and we're I think
• 34:48
  we're going to do this again. We had a season launch party in
• 34:52
  April. It was Easter weekend, believe
• 34:54
  it or not, Saturday before Easter.
• 34:56
  Everybody said it wasn't going to happen.
• 34:58
  Then it rained came. But thank goodness for Rex
• 35:01
  Wheeler at a watts of Speedway. He gave a great big tech barn
• 35:06
  and we had it. We had probably a dozen race
• 35:10
  cars, Sprint cars, CRA cars. We even had a go Kart and a hot,
• 35:15
  really a hot rod go Kart. It was really.
• 35:20
  And they gave rides around the the track in there, Sweeper
• 35:24
  Lightning, McLean, and they had the buses there.
• 35:28
  The people could go in the school buses and see what it was
• 35:30
  like in there that they raced and the double deckers, all that
• 35:33
  stuff. But we had about 250 people
• 35:36
  there and we had racers that were there that did interviews,
• 35:40
  CRE racers, modified racers. Want to thank Dave McManus,
• 35:44
  Jimmy, Jimmy Tucker and and a bunch of other folks that came
• 35:48
  up there and and talked. It was really.
• 35:51
  So we do offseason things too, so that you can come to.
• 35:54
  There's no cost for those. You can come.
• 35:56
  And we always give away prizes too.
• 35:59
  We're going to have one here this fall at the Go Kart track
• 36:05
  in Clio. I don't have that exact date
• 36:08
  right now, but we are going to have one there and they're going
• 36:10
  to allow us to go out and race after we're done with the
• 36:16
  meeting. Oh, look at that.
• 36:19
  Well, and I'll show the graphic one more time.
• 36:21
  Just know that this the family was recently changed.
• 36:25
  So where that can be anyone, right, John?
• 36:29
  Anyone under the age of 15. Yep, Yep.
• 36:33
  And or I should say Gary too. John was the one who filled in
• 36:37
  that information and said that's not quite right yet, but that
• 36:40
  was just changing. So again, a single membership,
• 36:42
  $20. You can sign up online or you
• 36:45
  can sign up in person at any of their events. 2 adult
• 36:49
  membership, $25. Again, this the two children.
• 36:53
  That's not that's not a thing anymore.
• 36:55
  That could be multiple children under age of 15 for $25 and two
• 36:58
  adults. And then like we said, that
• 37:00
  junior membership for someone who's 15 or under is free.
• 37:04
  So again, I mean, we did the math.
• 37:07
  You add up 20 bucks across, you know, if there were 20, I mean a
• 37:10
  lot of tracks like 15, but you include gas and that right, you
• 37:14
  include concession, you include price.
• 37:16
  You know, if you're spending $4060 a night at a racetrack,
• 37:18
  you might be able to save, you know, $20 and, and just stay,
• 37:23
  you know, spending on concession or save it from the next track.
• 37:26
  So again, it's well worth its value if you use it and travel
• 37:30
  around and follow the Michigan Auto Racing fan club, even on a
• 37:34
  double weekend. Like you could have gone to
• 37:36
  Hartford on Friday. And if Saturday had happened
• 37:38
  Saturday at Russell's, like an hour apart, you could have got
• 37:42
  in for free at both tracks. So.
• 37:45
  Louis, one thing I want to put down there, you mentioned it
• 37:47
  briefly, but I want to emphasize this.
• 37:50
  We still have Winston, Arthur, Northern and Silver Bullet.
• 37:57
  Also. It's good that was a rain out
• 37:59
  that's rescheduled. Those are four.
• 38:01
  We got 4 tracks left. If you sign up now, you get all
• 38:04
  of those for the rest of this year and all of next year for
• 38:07
  that same price. Yeah.
• 38:09
  So I mean, you add up that money, right?
• 38:11
  I mean just until next year because that that doesn't
• 38:14
  include whether tracks raise their admission price or not,
• 38:17
  right. You're already locked in as a
• 38:18
  member for those member nights. And so again, that's something
• 38:22
  to, I mean you sign up now you get all of 2027, there you go,
• 38:28
  you already. That's deal in auto racing.
• 38:32
  Especially for families, that's pretty.
• 38:34
  Remarkable actually. Well, and you guys, I mean you,
• 38:37
  you'd really balance your schedule too, where you're like
• 38:40
  you had Great Lakes super sprints this past Friday at
• 38:42
  Hartford, which is usually a higher ticket because it's
• 38:45
  Sprint cars. And so they got to see Crown
• 38:47
  Vics and cyber socks off the same time with that race.
• 38:50
  And so that's, that's the savings right there already,
• 38:53
  because usually I think Sprint car nights at Hartford are 18 to
• 38:57
  $20 somewhere in there. I don't remember the exact price
• 39:00
  on the flyer. But if you took a family and
• 39:02
  you, you know, had a couple people, you saved money at
• 39:05
  Hartford on Friday. And you know, for people who may
• 39:09
  not get to travel to these other tracks, that may be a way to go.
• 39:12
  I have a reason now, right? I have a membership.
• 39:15
  Let me go take advantage of that and try a track I've never tried
• 39:18
  before. And maybe they're, they become a
• 39:20
  fan and go back right, Which is the goal too is not just one
• 39:24
  trip, you know, go back and give it a second or third or fourth,
• 39:27
  third, 10th or 100th time. Yeah, we have reveal the hammer.
• 39:33
  Yeah, we have super modifies CRA and and like I said, it's a full
• 39:42
  range of them. It's it's it's not it's not demo
• 39:47
  derbies that you're going to for like you have an affair.
• 39:50
  These are front top rate shows that we get so.
• 39:54
  The vintage racing at at Waterford Hills was amazing.
• 39:58
  Yeah. One thing I want to say too is
• 40:02
  that all we are very closely associated with the Michigan
• 40:07
  Speedway Promoters Association, you know, and that the tracks we
• 40:10
  go to are associated with that and and they couldn't be more
• 40:15
  cooperative to make it work. So that help we help them and
• 40:19
  they help us. So just want to want to give
• 40:21
  them credit for what they do. Yeah, and I just joined it as an
• 40:25
  associate member this year of the Promoters Association.
• 40:28
  So that's something that, you know, that was my first meeting
• 40:31
  where we were all together in March or whenever that was.
• 40:34
  And so that was pretty cool. Cool to be a part of that and
• 40:37
  get to experience that. And and I know you did a
• 40:39
  presentation there, you know about what what's going on, you
• 40:43
  know, the state of the club. So again, if if you haven't
• 40:47
  joined or have thought about joining, you get the rest of
• 40:51
  2026 in all of 2027 for the 1 low price of $20 or for a family
• 40:58
  or two adults $25. And so again to sign up online
• 41:01
  or sign up in person. So if you're going to Winston
• 41:04
  this Friday or Arthur Speedway this Saturday, you can see him
• 41:09
  write in person and do all that. So again, that's where I I'm
• 41:12
  just so appreciative of John, not only as I've gotten to know
• 41:16
  you over the last couple of years and doing this.
• 41:19
  And Gary, I know you and I had a great conversation at the
• 41:22
  banquet this past February. No.
• 41:25
  When was it? February, Something like that in
• 41:28
  January. Yeah.
• 41:29
  Yeah. I all those winter months run
• 41:31
  together sometimes, but but I know we had an awesome
• 41:34
  conversation there, but I got to know you a little bit.
• 41:35
  So I'm excited for the the task ahead of you and and John, you
• 41:40
  know, thank you for again your years of service to the Michigan
• 41:44
  Auto Racing Fan Club. Thank you, Louis.
• 41:49
  Thank you Buju too. Thank.
• 41:51
  You for having us. Oh, no, absolutely.
• 41:53
  And and like I said, we'll have to, especially as we get closer
• 41:56
  to the banquet, we'll have to bring, you know, one or both of
• 41:59
  you on that way. We can, you know, promote what
• 42:01
  all that is about and, and how drivers can be a part of that
• 42:05
  because I know obviously they work with the race tracks to do
• 42:07
  that. But sometimes you still run into
• 42:09
  someone who's like, I didn't know that was a thing and I won
• 42:11
  a track championship. So it's like, oh, well, you
• 42:14
  know, here you go. Like here's how you can do that.
• 42:16
  So because you guys will start promoting that on Facebook here
• 42:20
  in a couple weeks. I mean, it's usually in the fall
• 42:22
  that you start pushing that. Absolutely.
• 42:24
  So it's hard to believe, right? We're already at the end of the
• 42:27
  season and, you know, I know some tracks have already crowned
• 42:29
  champions and some tracks over the next two to three weeks will
• 42:32
  be crowning their champion. So it's one way to celebrate
• 42:34
  your championship is to go and and be in front of hundreds of
• 42:38
  people to receive your kudos for a season.
• 42:42
  Well done. So, and I know they're already
• 42:44
  in the staging area, but with Bozells, I mean, Andy, you know,
• 42:48
  was awarded this. Was it this past banquet or
• 42:52
  banquet before? Previous one.
• 42:54
  Previous one, Yep. But I know Bryce, you know, was
• 42:56
  awarded there and also recognized for his championship.
• 42:59
  So, you know, I know the Bozells have been a part of that.
• 43:02
  They go each year so pretty exciting.
• 43:06
  They're. Great.
• 43:07
  Wonderful. Family.
• 43:08
  Absolutely. Well, again, now we get to talk
• 43:12
  all about Clash and Sizzlers. So that's where I just cannot
• 43:15
  thank you guys enough for coming on tonight and being part of
• 43:18
  this. And and hopefully those
• 43:19
  memberships start coming in for not only renewal for 2027, but
• 43:24
  hopefully new members too. They'll get on Buju and be like,
• 43:27
  did you do that yet? Did you do that yet and be like
• 43:30
  Stewie and Family Guy going mom, mom, mom, Buju, Buju, Buju.
• 43:35
  But again, thank you, John and Gary for coming on tonight to
• 43:38
  the Monday Night Rewind. Hey, thanks.
• 43:40
  We'll see you soon, I'm sure. Absolutely.
• 43:43
  See you guys soon. Again, head on over to the
• 43:45
  Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club to get registered.
• 43:49
  Not only for the rest of this year.
• 43:50
  We can take advantage of that, but then you can obviously go
• 43:53
  into 2027 for the 1 low cost of $20.00 for a single person or
• 43:58
  $25 for two adults or for a family.
• 44:01
  Again, just think of the savings there.
• 44:03
  One scheduling note that I do want to pass along Long, I was
• 44:06
  waiting to confirm because he has a new job out in Ohio.
• 44:09
  But we do have Randy Maggio Junior who will be joining us at
• 44:12
  8:10 from Lorraine Raceway Park. They are revite, revitalizing
• 44:17
  Lorraine. It was closed.
• 44:19
  It has been closed all year, but they just had a huge event a few
• 44:22
  weeks ago. And they also have Trident and
• 44:24
  Jackpot that will be coming up. And of course, Randy's also
• 44:27
  behind the Great Lakes Truck Tour that will be at Flat Rock
• 44:29
  Speedway this coming weekend. So excited to have Randy Maggio
• 44:33
  Junior on. If you haven't met him yet, he's
• 44:35
  done a lot for the racing community and he'll be on at
• 44:39
  8:10. I just wanted, I know he has his
• 44:41
  new job so I wanted to confirm with him first before we
• 44:43
  advertise him. But he will be on at 8:10 from
• 44:46
  Lorraine Raceway Park over in Ohio.
• 44:49
  But the crew of the hour, we're going to have Andy Bozell Racing
• 44:55
  joining us. And so we're going to see who's
• 44:57
  with us on the other side of the screen as we bring in the team
• 45:01
  representing Andy Bozell Racing. So I see you got race and Mason
• 45:05
  got Phil. Oh, we're on.
• 45:08
  There we go. So how are you guys doing
• 45:10
  tonight? Good yourself.
• 45:13
  Hey, we're hey, it's it's Monday and it's actually sunny.
• 45:16
  It's usually storming when we're on.
• 45:17
  So this is probably the first Monday in a long time that it's
• 45:20
  not been raining or storming. So I'm not complaining.
• 45:25
  Yeah, it's pretty nice without the humidity too.
• 45:27
  It's going to be a nice week. Yes, it was so sticky yesterday
• 45:31
  that at New Paris I'm like who ordered this?
• 45:33
  So. It was.
• 45:35
  It's not a fan but but that's where I appreciate you guys
• 45:39
  coming on tonight because I know we had an opening and I reached
• 45:42
  out to you because you're already on my to reach out list
• 45:44
  anyway. So I'm so appreciative of you
• 45:45
  guys being able to come on tonight and I know you have a
• 45:48
  huge race coming up this Wednesday and then obviously in
• 45:52
  a couple weeks again for the summer Sizzler.
• 45:54
  So it's really cool, Mason, you get to make your debut and
• 45:59
  you're leading the points now at Kalamazoo in the late models.
• 46:02
  So and this is what, your second like full season in the late
• 46:05
  model too, right, If I remember right, second full season.
• 46:08
  So yeah. This is my second season in a
• 46:10
  late model. So just crazy.
• 46:12
  And obviously Phil, you're a winner at the Clash and so and
• 46:16
  and your dad, Andy obviously just knows everything about the
• 46:20
  clash and has participated in each one.
• 46:22
  So what are you? What are you guys?
• 46:26
  What do you have in store for the Clash this Wednesday?
• 46:29
  Well, pretty cool that we're going to bring all four cars
• 46:32
  with Dad. Obviously he's going to drive my
• 46:34
  other car, the second Tony Leclair car.
• 46:36
  I'm going to drive my normal #8 Mason will be in the white 83
• 46:40
  and Bryce will be driving the RC sales and leasing O4 car.
• 46:43
  It's just pretty cool. Do we get to all four bring out?
• 46:46
  I can't thank everybody for putting this together and
• 46:48
  helping us. We're in the shop thrashing
• 46:50
  right now. It's a it's a hard test bringing
• 46:53
  one to the track, let alone four and Oh yeah, last last week and
• 46:57
  we're pretty excited for it and we're looking forward to the
• 46:59
  race. Well, that's where we definitely
• 47:01
  won't keep you too long because I like I said, I know it's
• 47:03
  already a last minute reach out and and you guys have a lot to
• 47:06
  get ready for this weekend. So that's where I do have a
• 47:11
  little bit of a graphic to show what we're talking.
• 47:13
  You know, just to talk about the Bozell clash history again, It's
• 47:16
  this is the, the 34th version is coming up this Wednesday back on
• 47:20
  a Wednesday, August 19th. But it was on August 18th and
• 47:24
  1993 that Andy Bozell won the first one.
• 47:28
  I know Kalamazoo put a cool little story online about that
• 47:31
  and how that all came to be. But Andy has four of them, Phil
• 47:35
  you have two of them. And then if you think of just
• 47:38
  runner up finishes, Andy has 4 runner up finishes and then Phil
• 47:42
  you have 1. So it's not just winning.
• 47:44
  You guys are always in contention to make noise as part
• 47:48
  of this clash. And so when you have something
• 47:51
  like that, Phil, is there ever pressure going into a race like
• 47:56
  this where you know, like not only is there the history there
• 47:59
  of the Bozells, but now I mean, this is this is like your big
• 48:04
  stage for outlaw super late model racing.
• 48:07
  Yeah, this, this race is on our calendar every year.
• 48:11
  We, we put a lot of effort into this and I don't know about
• 48:14
  pressure, but we always want to run good there and we we make
• 48:16
  sure everything's right for going to this race and just
• 48:20
  always seem to fit our style and work good for us.
• 48:22
  Like you said, dad's won a lot. I've won a couple, I've won a
• 48:24
  couple of the sportsmen or the CRA clashes.
• 48:27
  Also. It just this is one of our
• 48:30
  favorite races of the year and it's close to home.
• 48:32
  Looks like we got a great field of cars.
• 48:34
  The weather's going to be phenomenal.
• 48:36
  I think it's going to be an awesome show.
• 48:38
  So Mason, you're making your debut, obviously you've won at
• 48:42
  Kalamazoo this year, your first ever win in the Late Model, and
• 48:46
  now you're leading the point. So for you going into this race,
• 48:49
  what are you looking to do? Because you've been in the
• 48:52
  Outlaw Late Model only a couple Times Now to this point?
• 48:57
  I'm just hoping to get probably a top ten finish, get some laps
• 49:00
  and keep leading the Rookie of the Year points and reveal the
• 49:04
  Hammer series. Yeah.
• 49:06
  Do you want to talk a little bit about that?
• 49:07
  Because I know we're talking about Clash, but obviously you
• 49:10
  have the Summer Sizzler coming up at New Paris on August 29th,
• 49:13
  rescheduled from the 1st. And I know you were there for a
• 49:17
  couple nights or for a night to get some laps in.
• 49:19
  So you got some laps in at New Paris, brought home, I think a
• 49:22
  what, 4th place or 5th place? So, you know, for your first
• 49:26
  time out there, that's not bad at New Paris whatsoever.
• 49:29
  So what? What has it been like for you,
• 49:31
  Mason, to get into the Reveal the Hammer series?
• 49:35
  The Rio, the Hammer series, it's really fun.
• 49:37
  I love travelling, going to different places and we go to
• 49:42
  normally close places around here so we can go test like in
• 49:46
  the limited late models and stuff.
• 49:49
  And again, I mean, you've just been doing so well this year.
• 49:51
  It's really incredible just to continue to watch your rise and
• 49:54
  the late models and from where you were years ago to now.
• 49:57
  It's I hope you recognize how special talented you are behind
• 50:02
  the wheel. And I mean, you've overcome some
• 50:05
  big challenges too, to continue that.
• 50:06
  So just continue to be you because your your growth.
• 50:10
  If you watch it on video, it's easy to see it's it's really
• 50:13
  impressive. So, but you also have so much
• 50:16
  legendary status standing in that garage with you right now.
• 50:19
  So Phil, obviously you talked about what this race means to
• 50:23
  you guys, but even for you and all your success of Outlaw Super
• 50:27
  Late Model racing, what class stands out to you that is your
• 50:31
  favorite? Whether that be a win of yours,
• 50:33
  your dad's win, or just a race where you walked away and maybe
• 50:36
  none of you won, but you're like, Dang, that was a really
• 50:38
  good race. For me personally, I'll have to
• 50:42
  say the last one I won just because the way it was
• 50:47
  happening, we had COVID there for a while and then Tony
• 50:49
  Leclair couldn't come over and then he's always wanted to win
• 50:52
  to comes who clashes a car owner.
• 50:53
  And for me be able to do that for him and get that drive him
• 50:56
  to Victory Lane and spend the night with them guys drinking
• 50:58
  some beer after the races, That one was special for me
• 51:01
  personally. All of them are special really
• 51:04
  because it's just a historic race.
• 51:06
  I mean, if you win the Clash, your name's on that trophy.
• 51:09
  Fortunately for me, working at sweeping in the future and I get
• 51:11
  to look at that trophy every day when I walk in and see all those
• 51:13
  great names on it, It's just it's a testament to history and
• 51:16
  the the people that have raced accounts just be with you see
• 51:18
  all those names on that trophy. It's just a phenomenal race.
• 51:20
  And hopefully they continue it for many years to come.
• 51:24
  Well, and I know there's a it hasn't, I don't think it's been
• 51:26
  announced publicly yet, but there's definitely a big name
• 51:28
  that's coming back to race at Kalamazoo this year for the
• 51:31
  Clash. And so I've been told that I'm
• 51:34
  sworn to secrecy that I can't say it, but I'm promise you it's
• 51:38
  a really huge name and there's going to be a lot of history on
• 51:40
  that track this coming Wednesday.
• 51:43
  So Bryce, I know you just joined, you've been working
• 51:45
  behind the scenes there. So for you, you're coming into
• 51:48
  your second Clash. So for you, what are what did
• 51:52
  you learn last year and how are you going to play that this
• 51:54
  year? Just the size of the race, we're
• 51:58
  going to have a really good field of cars.
• 52:00
  It's a long race, so it's going to be hard to finish.
• 52:04
  If you're going to finish, you're going to have a good
• 52:06
  finish, so. Just.
• 52:08
  Try to keep your car in one piece and you'll have a good car
• 52:11
  with you. Well, 125 laps.
• 52:14
  So I can't start with Phil because you're the Super veteran
• 52:18
  of the race. You know, how do you, how do you
• 52:20
  manage 125 laps? Because as you know, the last
• 52:24
  couple clashes, like we've had one that's just been bonkers
• 52:26
  where it's like green, green, green, green, green, green.
• 52:29
  But then we've had a couple where you know you're sitting in
• 52:32
  a car for a while, including one a few years ago where there's a
• 52:34
  fuel stop just because it was kind of like stop, go, stop, go,
• 52:37
  stop, go. So how do you manage as a driver
• 52:40
  125 laps knowing you're probably not winning on lap one?
• 52:45
  Yeah, you just got to keep your tires under you.
• 52:47
  That's the big part. If you can have tires at the end
• 52:49
  of the race, you'll be in a good position.
• 52:51
  Keep hydrated. Being comfortable is the biggest
• 52:54
  thing. If you can be comfortable,
• 52:56
  you'll be fast. Comfort, I don't comfort in AI
• 53:02
  mean that's just sitting in that outlaw right going at those
• 53:06
  speeds. I don't know I I watch those
• 53:08
  onboard cameras and I'm like I get nervous, you know, just
• 53:11
  because I I'm nervous for you guys in there.
• 53:13
  I'm like, man, they're just book in it and and I don't think
• 53:16
  sometimes fans, I mean we obviously see it and you're
• 53:19
  going in circles, you're doing like quick laps and everything,
• 53:21
  but to actually experience it from an on board, you're like,
• 53:24
  that's what they really go through in a race like this.
• 53:26
  And I know Phil, you kind of talked about the first time I
• 53:28
  had a camera with you, you're like, I always laid my head, you
• 53:31
  know, and you mentioned that you're you're always leaning in
• 53:33
  your head. But one thing that always in the
• 53:38
  picture is the name of the car. So which car name are you
• 53:42
  bringing this week, Phil to Wednesday because you've had I'm
• 53:45
  bringing. I'm bringing my old girl cello
• 53:48
  again. That's like, OK, so like my
• 53:50
  favorite girlfriend, that won't go away.
• 53:51
  It's been a good car ever since. We've got it done our own thing
• 53:56
  to it, did a little work to it and that car's won a lot of
• 53:59
  races. We switched that car last year,
• 54:01
  had at the big track car over Owosso and this winter we
• 54:03
  switched it back to put the smaller motor in it and rented
• 54:06
  out the smaller tracks. We were going to plan on running
• 54:08
  Sophia at the bigger tracks but had some motor issues.
• 54:13
  So where do the name? Back in that motor, back in
• 54:15
  that. So my dad's going to run Sophia
• 54:17
  and I'm going to bring Stella. Oh, all right, so Sophia will
• 54:21
  still be there, but you'll be behind Stella.
• 54:25
  So where do the names come from? We've always had a thing.
• 54:29
  We've always wanted to name all our race cars, and mine have
• 54:32
  always started with an S and they were girls names.
• 54:34
  We've got some other ones. My dad's car that Mason's
• 54:36
  driving that's called Jackpot, Bryce's car.
• 54:39
  We named that one Ruby just because of the color red and
• 54:41
  white. All of our cars got names.
• 54:44
  Some of them got different meanings, some of them come from
• 54:46
  different places, but they all got to have a name.
• 54:49
  Well, and I know that's someone asked for like they can tell
• 54:53
  it's it's your car, even if I didn't put Phil Bozell on there
• 54:57
  because they're like, oh, the name's right there on the dash
• 55:00
  so you can see Stella or Sophia. I think I've been in Sophia too.
• 55:04
  So that's something that I, I had someone ask me before and I
• 55:08
  went, I don't remember where the names come from, but I'll ask.
• 55:11
  And then I just keep forgetting to ask.
• 55:12
  But I'm like, I remember because we were just talking about all
• 55:14
  the cars. And I'm like, oh, asked if
• 55:16
  someone asked me before. But but that's where you know, I
• 55:20
  mean, I know you said before every car must have a name.
• 55:23
  So, so with that, Mason, what are you hoping to to do this
• 55:30
  Wednesday? Like obviously you said top ten
• 55:32
  and everything, but for 125 laps this is probably what your
• 55:35
  longest race they've raced so far to this point.
• 55:39
  I'm hoping just to say my tires just a little bit, hopefully
• 55:42
  finish I all I'm trying to do is just get some laps in honestly.
• 55:48
  Oh yeah, well, you'll get 125 of them it sounds like, right.
• 55:51
  So I mean, that's again, I want to make sure because I saw some
• 55:54
  comments coming and I want to make sure that it wasn't like a
• 55:56
  question or anything. Oh no, they're just talking
• 55:58
  about like, add their name to the list and all that.
• 56:01
  I want to make sure I wasn't missing anyone's question.
• 56:04
  But again, I, I know we're getting close here because you
• 56:07
  guys are thrashing away, so I don't want to keep you any too
• 56:10
  much longer. But I see Andy's coming into the
• 56:12
  picture So. And he's standing today.
• 56:15
  I don't know, Bougie, did I tell you that a few weeks ago at New
• 56:17
  Paris, Andy was sitting and I went over to him.
• 56:19
  I'm like, are you OK? Like I've never seen him sit
• 56:23
  before. So.
• 56:24
  Yeah, I didn't know that what happened.
• 56:26
  So I so that turned into like a fun little thing because he's
• 56:30
  like, I'm just relaxing. I'm chilling.
• 56:31
  So I'm like, I just I've never seen you sitting.
• 56:34
  So Andy, obviously you've been a part of history with the Clash.
• 56:40
  You've been at every single one. You're coming back for the 34th.
• 56:43
  So for you having your name not only etched in history of the
• 56:46
  Clash, what are the what are the big goals that you have coming
• 56:50
  into this Wednesday's 34th version?
• 56:54
  You know, the main goal is to go out and have fun.
• 56:56
  You know, I mean that that's what we do every time we go to
• 56:58
  race. And it's going to be fun to
• 57:01
  participate with the grandsons, you know, and, and with Phil and
• 57:04
  just, you know, add to the memories of the Clash.
• 57:08
  You know, I go way back to the first Clash.
• 57:11
  I mean, there's been some good racers.
• 57:13
  You know, Mick Schuler, the announcer back then, he promoted
• 57:15
  a lot of big races. We've had Tim Steele, we've had
• 57:18
  Matt Kenseth, we've had Bob Seneker, we've had Butch Miller,
• 57:21
  we've had, I mean, just the, the, the, the name Gary St.
• 57:25
  Aman, Mike Yetty. So you go, you go through the
• 57:28
  people that have raced in a clash and literally it's it's a
• 57:32
  history on on short track racing in the Midwest, to be honest
• 57:35
  with you. Well, and that's the first
• 57:38
  winner of this and you've won it four times.
• 57:40
  And we were showing a graphic where you've been runner up a
• 57:42
  couple times too, including a famous runner up on the last lap
• 57:45
  past for you what one of those or maybe all of them?
• 57:51
  But is there one that stands out the most You like when you think
• 57:54
  back about your career and being literally the fastest man you
• 57:58
  know on earth with your record at Kalamazoo lap and all these
• 58:01
  other things like all this history that you have with you.
• 58:03
  Out of those those clash wins, which one stands out to you or
• 58:08
  which ones? Well, there's a there's a couple
• 58:11
  of them. The the first one obvious was
• 58:13
  pretty cool. It was, you know, promoted
• 58:15
  really well and it was it was, you know, a a pretty well
• 58:20
  promoted event and it was the first one of its kind.
• 58:22
  It was Wednesday night show and, you know, the place was packed
• 58:25
  and had a lot of racers. I think there was 67 cars at the
• 58:28
  first class. So being able to win that was a
• 58:32
  really good memory. The second one would be the last
• 58:36
  one that I won. You know, we LED LED 197 to 200
• 58:40
  laps in that race. So it was, it was, you know,
• 58:43
  they threw the green flag and we qualified for. 200 times.
• 58:48
  Race with Freddie Campbell, had some great races with Chris or
• 58:51
  Mike. Ben Speerintack, you know,
• 58:54
  probably gave away a couple of these things by being a
• 58:56
  respectful racer with some guys that I had a lot of respect for.
• 58:59
  But but nevertheless, it's been a great race for me.
• 59:03
  Well, and that's probably why, though, that you have so much
• 59:05
  respect from people, right, because you're not going to go
• 59:07
  out there and trash people to get a win, right, like you're
• 59:11
  going to and and that's true for everyone standing in this
• 59:14
  picture, right, Like, or maybe I missed something that you guys
• 59:18
  did at a time. But anytime I watch you erase,
• 59:20
  right is there's a lot of respect behind that wheel and
• 59:22
  you can hear it when Mason and Bryce talk to you know, so
• 59:27
  obviously everyone is getting that same lesson.
• 59:29
  The what was it AI intelligent or AI Andy intelligence, as we
• 59:34
  called it, that accounts you a few weeks ago.
• 59:37
  So you know with that is this may be the first time that three
• 59:42
  generations of Bozell's will be or any family 3 generations will
• 59:46
  be all on the track one time and then you throw in Mason 4th
• 59:49
  generation. Yeah, well, you know, we're,
• 59:53
  we're 4th generation with the grandsons.
• 59:55
  You know, my my dad started racing in 1955.
• 59:57
  So goes back quite a ways. You know, a long, long history
• 1:00:02
  here in Michigan with, with our family my sister Katie raised.
• 1:00:06
  You know, quite often when she was a teenager when, when
• 1:00:10
  really, you know, girls weren't even allowed in the pits at that
• 1:00:13
  point in time, so. So you know.
• 1:00:15
  A lot of interesting changes has took place in the short track
• 1:00:17
  racing industry. It's just it's just kind of
• 1:00:20
  really nice to reminisce about our activities and our
• 1:00:23
  belongings and short track racing and and continue to make
• 1:00:26
  those memories. Now before we let you guys go, I
• 1:00:29
  know Bougie's been quiet. I keep, you know, just go into
• 1:00:33
  the questions as I'm thinking, Babuju, what do you have for the
• 1:00:36
  guys? I was just curious how special
• 1:00:38
  it is for Andy and Phil, for Andy especially, to get to race
• 1:00:40
  with your grandkids at this stage of your career.
• 1:00:42
  I mean, all you've accomplished in your career and now at this
• 1:00:44
  point, like you said, you get to go out and have fun and race
• 1:00:46
  with your grandkids and your son all at the same time.
• 1:00:49
  So that has to be pretty cool at this stage of your career, no?
• 1:00:51
  Yeah, it's, it's pretty cool. You know, we've been, we've had
• 1:00:53
  an opportunity to do it a couple of times.
• 1:00:55
  We've done it at Corrigan Oil Speedway a couple of times and
• 1:00:58
  but as far as in the Super Late Models, which is, you know, the
• 1:01:01
  pinnacle these race cars around here, being able to race with
• 1:01:04
  them in in the Super Late Models and at the Clash is going to
• 1:01:08
  going to be pretty cool for me. That's where you find the time
• 1:01:12
  to take it all in, right? You know, always keep those
• 1:01:14
  memories because it just doesn't happen all that often.
• 1:01:18
  We have so many generations of one family on one track at the
• 1:01:21
  same time who are all equally talented individually and as a
• 1:01:26
  collective whole. I mean, there's there's a lot of
• 1:01:29
  race families in area, but certainly the Bozo crew has a
• 1:01:33
  lot of legacy, you know, behind the name and just with the Clash
• 1:01:36
  itself. So again, just I'm excited to
• 1:01:40
  watch this opportunity happen for you guys.
• 1:01:44
  Yeah, there, there's going to be a, there's going to be a pile of
• 1:01:46
  history at this clash. I mean, you got, you know, some
• 1:01:49
  some champ pass champions and the Rorgs.
• 1:01:51
  I mean, the Rorg family has got a great history going all the
• 1:01:54
  way back to Dave Rorg back in the Super modified days many,
• 1:01:57
  many moons ago. And you know, just Bobby Blunt's
• 1:02:00
  going to have a car there. You know, his family's got, you
• 1:02:03
  know, great history and racing. So just just it'll be cool.
• 1:02:08
  I've got some I got some checkered flags of the three
• 1:02:10
  clashes that I've won. It's got most all the signatures
• 1:02:13
  of all the drivers on them. I'm, I'm going to try to bring
• 1:02:15
  them out and display them this Wednesday just to kind of let
• 1:02:17
  people see, you know, just Joe Shear, he breaks the clash.
• 1:02:22
  I mean, just just the, the, the, the, the raw talent and the
• 1:02:26
  history that the drivers that have participated in the clash
• 1:02:28
  is just, it's amazing really for, for a small little short
• 1:02:31
  track. I mean, you know, there, there's
• 1:02:32
  a lot of great short tracks in the United States have great big
• 1:02:35
  races. And I think Calum Zoo's clash
• 1:02:37
  ranked right up there with all of them.
• 1:02:40
  Yeah, and you're, and if I remember correctly too, you've
• 1:02:42
  also won like the new pair of Sizzler.
• 1:02:44
  And I think Phil did you? I'm trying to remember the
• 1:02:46
  graphic, but did you win the Sizzler too?
• 1:02:48
  Like so? I mean, when you even think in
• 1:02:50
  this area itself, right? I mean, winning the big ones,
• 1:02:54
  you guys always seem to show up on the biggest stage for them
• 1:02:56
  all and do so well at it. Yep, yeah, Mommy and Phil both
• 1:03:00
  won the Sizzler. I won the second one, I believe.
• 1:03:03
  And I don't remember what your Phil wanted, but we participated
• 1:03:05
  in that race quite a bit. So another great little short
• 1:03:09
  track race in New Paris is a great little bull ring.
• 1:03:11
  It's just so much fun race in there.
• 1:03:12
  So hopefully, hopefully they can continue these traditions and
• 1:03:16
  keep these races alive for a long time.
• 1:03:19
  Again this Wednesday, Kalamazoo clashed the 34th edition and
• 1:03:23
  it's I mean, wouldn't it be cool Buju that August 18th was the
• 1:03:28
  first one and if someone in this picture on August 19th and it's
• 1:03:32
  returned to Wednesday is able to take this home.
• 1:03:35
  So you just never know, right? Anything can happen on any given
• 1:03:38
  day and it's 125 laps and definitely a marathon out there.
• 1:03:42
  So before I forget if if any one of you wants to shout out who's
• 1:03:47
  helping to bring us all together with your sponsors.
• 1:03:49
  I know you guys are always incredible with your social
• 1:03:51
  media shouting out the sponsors. So I figured let's definitely
• 1:03:53
  take this time and then I'm going to let you guys get going
• 1:03:56
  because like I said, I know you're working hard and you made
• 1:03:58
  time for us tonight. So I don't I want to keep you
• 1:04:01
  any longer. So who are the sponsors?
• 1:04:03
  We we got we got a lot of great marketing partners, you know,
• 1:04:07
  DNL Transport, Diamond Auto Sales, Elaine Automotive, Amsoil
• 1:04:13
  by Dan Nim's next generation lawn care, All Star performance,
• 1:04:16
  just FK rod insurance, just the the number of of people that
• 1:04:19
  that helps our racing program out.
• 1:04:22
  You know, it takes a village. You know, this is not easy to
• 1:04:24
  field as many cars. So the sponsors are a big thing.
• 1:04:27
  We got some great, great crew members.
• 1:04:31
  Ron Finkbinder, Todd Wilcox, you know, Bubba Brooks, you, you
• 1:04:35
  take, you take the people that are leading these youngsters out
• 1:04:38
  here in these cars right now. And we've got well over 100
• 1:04:40
  years combined experience. So it's pretty cool.
• 1:04:43
  It's pretty cool to be able to guide them along with that much
• 1:04:46
  experience. And the mentorship is a big
• 1:04:48
  deal. And that's what's going to make
• 1:04:51
  the younger racers come up in the up in the ranks and and be
• 1:04:53
  good racers. Oh yeah, like I said, just
• 1:04:57
  anytime you guys are on the track and that's when I saw that
• 1:05:00
  you, Andy, were coming to race to your 34th edition.
• 1:05:02
  I'm like, oh boy, this, this has just picked up.
• 1:05:05
  So you know, it's pretty exciting anytime you get behind
• 1:05:07
  the wheel, you know, cuz you're you're again, you're the
• 1:05:11
  fastest. You helped put Kalamazoo on the
• 1:05:13
  map and you know, with the record speed and watching that
• 1:05:17
  camera do its thing as you're zooming around there.
• 1:05:20
  I mean, just so much history, you know, right now.
• 1:05:22
  And like I said, Mason and Bryce, I mean, if there's any
• 1:05:26
  conversations with them, you can definitely tell they're being
• 1:05:28
  mentored the right way and and learning the way to do things to
• 1:05:32
  be successful. So huge kudos to not only you,
• 1:05:35
  Andy, but obviously Phil and your and your entire crew.
• 1:05:37
  Again, 100 years plus of experience.
• 1:05:40
  Not a lot of pit areas have that, but it's it's definitely
• 1:05:42
  paying off. Yes it is.
• 1:05:45
  Yes, it is. Well, again, like I said, I know
• 1:05:48
  you guys are working on those cars and you made time for us so
• 1:05:50
  I don't want to keep you any longer cuz I, I know one more
• 1:05:53
  minute on camera is one more minute that car is not getting
• 1:05:55
  worked on. So again, it's it's Monday and
• 1:05:59
  you got to be there Wednesday. So I'll let you guys get going,
• 1:06:01
  but again, I'll see you definitely for sure this
• 1:06:04
  Wednesday at Kalamazoo. But if I don't get a chance to
• 1:06:08
  say it when I'm walking around, good luck to everybody because
• 1:06:11
  this, I mean, it's a clash. There's nothing more you need to
• 1:06:13
  say about it. It's Kalamazoo Clash and it's
• 1:06:15
  back on a Wednesday for the first time in a long time.
• 1:06:17
  So almost time to turn left and go fast.
• 1:06:21
  Yeah, it's go time. Time to go back to work.
• 1:06:23
  Yep. All right.
• 1:06:24
  Well, again, thank you to everyone joining us tonight and
• 1:06:27
  we will definitely see you guys on Wednesday.
• 1:06:29
  Sounds good fellas. Thanks for having us.
• 1:06:31
  Yep. Oh.
• 1:06:32
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 1:06:33
  No thank you. So again, just to show the
• 1:06:35
  history of the Bozell crew, Andy has four wins and then Phil has
• 1:06:41
  two wins and Andy also has 4 runner UPS and Phil has 1 runner
• 1:06:45
  up. So there's a lot of history that
• 1:06:47
  was just on camera with us and I appreciate them taking time out
• 1:06:50
  of their day and night to join us.
• 1:06:52
  And so that's where I no one in their shop.
• 1:06:54
  It's like Buju, I don't want to keep them any longer.
• 1:06:57
  You know, definitely have to bring them back on just to talk
• 1:06:59
  about their history in itself. I do want to do one more quick
• 1:07:03
  shout out that Randy will be joining us soon.
• 1:07:06
  I was checking messages to just to make sure everybody said he's
• 1:07:10
  coming on at 8:10, but Randy Maggio from Lorraine Raceway
• 1:07:13
  Park. So if you're thinking about
• 1:07:14
  possibly going to the Trident or the jackpot, that's a huge race
• 1:07:18
  for them at Lorraine with the Modifieds, Crown Vics, front
• 1:07:22
  wheel drives and St. Stocks.
• 1:07:23
  So he'll be coming on. Talk about that.
• 1:07:25
  But they also have the Great Lakes Tour that he's a part of
• 1:07:27
  and they have a race at Flat Rock and then they have
• 1:07:30
  Cavalcade at the end of the year.
• 1:07:32
  So they're bringing a revival and then it's to my
• 1:07:35
  understanding, it's going to be full time back in 2027.
• 1:07:38
  So we'll definitely see what details we can get from Randy
• 1:07:42
  when he joins us here shortly. Step back to that Bozell
• 1:07:47
  interview. We've had some great guests on
• 1:07:48
  this show or some big guests on this show, including Kenny
• 1:07:50
  Wallace, who is a NASCAR. I've never been as nervous as I
• 1:07:53
  watched when Andy Bozell walked up instead of camera, I don't
• 1:07:56
  know if I was visible. I was sweating.
• 1:07:58
  I was sweating. Can't tell you're sweating but.
• 1:08:01
  Legend. Of all legends right there dude.
• 1:08:03
  The fastest man of all time You. Know what I'm saying?
• 1:08:06
  And that's where, you know, again, for this is our 27th
• 1:08:09
  episode, right? It's, you know, we don't have
• 1:08:11
  years and years and years of doing this.
• 1:08:13
  This is their 27th episode. And in 27 episodes, just think
• 1:08:19
  of who we've been able to bring on.
• 1:08:21
  Oh, I know, right. And you know, we brought in
• 1:08:25
  series from Wisconsin. We're getting ready to go out to
• 1:08:28
  Ohio. We've had Illinois on, we've had
• 1:08:32
  obviously Kenny Wallace on, we've had drivers from around
• 1:08:36
  the area. We had a 2 hour discussion about
• 1:08:38
  a night of destruction that did 6000 views.
• 1:08:42
  Two hours just talking night of destruction and that had over
• 1:08:46
  6000 views. And we let DJ Mccotter on here.
• 1:08:50
  Who? Else is going to do that.
• 1:08:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, it's one of those
• 1:08:53
  that, you know, I'm really proud and excited for what we've been
• 1:08:58
  able to build not only 27 episodes, but I mean, think of
• 1:09:01
  the number of times that we've had Hartford on and, and I
• 1:09:05
  almost brought on Leah, but I know they're they're, they're
• 1:09:08
  really hurt. They I'm not going to go into
• 1:09:11
  detail on the driver because I'm not going to call him out, but
• 1:09:15
  it's a driver who decided to screen record entire races from
• 1:09:18
  my YouTube and post them to their page.
• 1:09:20
  And I let it go. But after reading their Facebook
• 1:09:23
  posts and everything, I went and I did copyright claims against
• 1:09:25
  their page. So I'm like, oh, you're going to
• 1:09:28
  trash talk Hartford and I'm aligned very closely with
• 1:09:31
  Hartford. So now enjoy the copyright
• 1:09:33
  strikes on your page. You're very welcome.
• 1:09:35
  Thank you. Come again and because I'm not
• 1:09:38
  going to deal with that the the post and then the comments that
• 1:09:41
  I read, I'm not going to go into details that people know they
• 1:09:43
  know, but I'm not going to rehash it any further.
• 1:09:45
  I was so hurt for Hartford and I know they're, you know, they're
• 1:09:48
  not doing well this year. No, most race tracks are not
• 1:09:52
  doing well this year financially.
• 1:09:53
  And and for some reason you see people talk about night
• 1:09:56
  instructions. Well, they make so much money.
• 1:09:59
  So Buju, let's do some math. And you don't need Common Core
• 1:10:01
  math to do this. This is just addition and
• 1:10:04
  subtraction. No.
• 1:10:06
  And take it from someone who's taught Common Core math, yeah,
• 1:10:09
  this is just basic 3rd grade math, 4th grade math because
• 1:10:12
  it's it's multi digits. So when you do whole digit, you
• 1:10:17
  know, 4 digit plus whole numbers, that's 4th grade math.
• 1:10:19
  And the state of Michigan and I think Indiana too.
• 1:10:22
  But let's say at a night of destruction, they profited
• 1:10:25
  $20,000. But the three previous show,
• 1:10:28
  they've lost anywhere from 8000 to $10,000 each show.
• 1:10:32
  So that $20,000 is going to do a Dang thing because they've lost
• 1:10:36
  up to this point, right? So I just don't think people
• 1:10:39
  understand and it's so easy. And, and I know having Randy on,
• 1:10:43
  he just joined, I'm going to let him get set up.
• 1:10:45
  But obviously they dealt with issues like this at Lorraine and
• 1:10:47
  Painesville, where, you know, they bust their butt and
• 1:10:50
  Painesville is being leased this year with a different group.
• 1:10:53
  But Maggio's, to my understanding, still own it.
• 1:10:55
  He could correct me if I'm wrong, but that's something
• 1:10:58
  that, you know, they've dealt with social media blowback on
• 1:11:00
  some things that like literally Randy's sitting on the ground
• 1:11:04
  cutting wire for timing and scoring and you know, people RIP
• 1:11:08
  them apart. It's like, you know, just go
• 1:11:09
  have a conversation. You don't need to RIP them apart
• 1:11:12
  on Facebook. It's so easy to oh, that race
• 1:11:15
  tractor. I hate that race tractor.
• 1:11:16
  I'm going to go to Facebook and type about it.
• 1:11:18
  You're hurting. There's in Wisconsin.
• 1:11:21
  I so I typed a really long post today that I didn't post but it
• 1:11:26
  felt good to type because I just needed to type it.
• 1:11:29
  And but there's a this happened in Wisconsin.
• 1:11:32
  There is a team that they almost lost his sponsor, a $25,000
• 1:11:37
  sponsor who funds their team. They were going to that sponsor
• 1:11:40
  is going to pull $25,000 from them because of what a racer and
• 1:11:45
  a fan posted about that team. Well it turns out what that
• 1:11:48
  racer and what that fan posted and that racer was bragging
• 1:11:52
  415,000 people have seen this post and all these things.
• 1:11:56
  Not only did the racetrack come out with video footage and
• 1:11:59
  photos, but then other whitenesses said this is not
• 1:12:03
  even anything that happened. So that racer who posted this
• 1:12:06
  was just plain victim for something they did.
• 1:12:09
  Didn't think they got caught doing it, but they went and
• 1:12:11
  bashed and did all the things. The sponsor saw that and said if
• 1:12:14
  that's my the reputation of that my team that I sponsor, I'm
• 1:12:17
  going to pull my funding. So A-Team lost almost $25,000
• 1:12:21
  because a competitor essentially lied about an incident that
• 1:12:25
  happened on the race track. Yeah, just think about that.
• 1:12:29
  Yeah, that's we talk about thinking before you post and
• 1:12:34
  using your head when it comes to social media all the time.
• 1:12:37
  And unfortunately, I don't think it's getting better, Louis.
• 1:12:40
  No, and it feels like I think. We're screaming into the void at
• 1:12:43
  this point. I just.
• 1:12:44
  What? I think that's a thing, and this
• 1:12:46
  is part of what I was typing, that I didn't post.
• 1:12:48
  Supporters do it in silence. Supporters aren't the ones that
• 1:12:52
  are all over Facebook doing all the things.
• 1:12:54
  They do it in silence. It's the critics, or as Donny
• 1:12:57
  Ritter calls them, critters. It's the critters who are on
• 1:13:01
  Facebook, trolls who are on Facebook.
• 1:13:04
  And they seem like the majority. But in real reality, they're,
• 1:13:09
  they're the blip. It's like if there's a heart
• 1:13:11
  monitor, they're like the little doodad that didn't do anything.
• 1:13:15
  But they're exhausting. And that's the thing that, you
• 1:13:18
  know, that's why I wanted to give kudos to Hartford.
• 1:13:22
  You know, again, I feel for Tim and Leah because they pour their
• 1:13:24
  heart and souls into that racetrack.
• 1:13:26
  And they could have, they could have made it a dispensary a few
• 1:13:29
  years ago. They could have sold that left
• 1:13:31
  away with a nice fat check. And oh, maybe not a fat check,
• 1:13:35
  but it would have been a nice check.
• 1:13:37
  And, you know, and they probably still wouldn't have even got
• 1:13:40
  their investment back, but they would have been out and they
• 1:13:42
  wouldn't have to deal with the social media backlash or
• 1:13:44
  anything like that, that people always seem to have.
• 1:13:46
  And it's people who never volunteer themselves to go to
• 1:13:48
  the track. It's people who, you know, can't
• 1:13:51
  even afford a pit pass sometimes and they're begging people for a
• 1:13:53
  pit pass, but they'll be they'll want to track to lose $10,000.
• 1:13:57
  So it's so frustrating. And that's why even doing the
• 1:14:01
  live at New Paris on Sunday, the first, the first thing I did is
• 1:14:05
  parts is when I saw all those cars in the pit area, I got out
• 1:14:07
  and I'm like, all right, for all the people who said they only
• 1:14:10
  have 10 cars or 20 cars, here's your proof.
• 1:14:13
  They have more than that. I wish we had more fans, but you
• 1:14:15
  know, filled in nicely and there's a lot of tracks who take
• 1:14:17
  that number of fans for normal shows.
• 1:14:19
  So it's like, you know, come on people.
• 1:14:22
  But I know it's now 813. I went on a little bit of a
• 1:14:25
  soapbox, but I know Randy Mazzio Junior has dealt with us over at
• 1:14:28
  Lorraine and certainly had one way to end the Trident last year
• 1:14:33
  in excitement. And so, you know, that was
• 1:14:34
  really exhausting for them. And watching all that unfold for
• 1:14:38
  a track that was doing everything they could, I just
• 1:14:40
  felt bad. It's like, man, you know,
• 1:14:42
  Randy's out here pouring his heart and soul, like I said the
• 1:14:44
  year before, the jackpot literally sitting on the ground
• 1:14:47
  fixing timing and scoring because if it could go wrong,
• 1:14:50
  everything went wrong for them that day.
• 1:14:52
  And they found out Matt Dimmitt hit a turtle, so they buried the
• 1:14:55
  turtle because it's not good to hit a turtle.
• 1:14:57
  And so anyways, let's go ahead because I see he's set up and
• 1:15:01
  everything. Don't mind the Cleveland Browns
• 1:15:03
  stuff behind him. We won't judge him on air.
• 1:15:06
  We'll wait until off air. But.
• 1:15:07
  Again, how did that go the other day?
• 1:15:10
  So let's bring on Randy Maggio, junior from Lorraine Raceway
• 1:15:13
  Park. I'm going to make sure I hit the
• 1:15:14
  right graphic. Got the right graphic, Randy.
• 1:15:16
  So welcome to the Monday Night Rewind.
• 1:15:19
  What's up guys? How are you?
• 1:15:21
  Hey, good. How about you?
• 1:15:23
  I mean you. You're busy.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah, yeah, life's life's looking a little different
• 1:15:28
  lately, but it's still staying busy, still kind of sun up
• 1:15:32
  sundown, just in a different way, but.
• 1:15:35
  Well, that's where you just got married not too long ago, right?
• 1:15:38
  Getting married in October. Married in October.
• 1:15:40
  Yeah, close. That's reverse.
• 1:15:42
  But but you cuz I thought cuz I know one time you were at like a
• 1:15:48
  bachelor party or whatever that. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:51
  So I think I had it reversed. But yeah, getting married soon,
• 1:15:54
  but also bringing back Lorraine Raceway Park.
• 1:15:57
  Obviously with Painesville this year it's leased out where you
• 1:16:00
  guys did that agreement over the winter.
• 1:16:02
  But with Lorraine last year, you were very honest with everyone
• 1:16:05
  that, hey, you know, things aren't things aren't going well
• 1:16:08
  and we're race by race and got to see what we can do.
• 1:16:12
  But obviously it's been sitting for most of the year.
• 1:16:15
  You brought it back and holy smokes.
• 1:16:18
  Yeah, it go ahead. No, no.
• 1:16:20
  So we it was definitely different like you said,
• 1:16:25
  Painzel's were releasing Painzel out for my dog's trying to get
• 1:16:29
  in this, but we back back. So we we leased out Painzel for
• 1:16:36
  three years. It's a three-year contract and
• 1:16:38
  stuff. And Scott Skufka, local racer,
• 1:16:41
  local St. Stack racer actually won the B
• 1:16:43
  main at Trident last year. So that was actually pretty
• 1:16:45
  cool. And that's that weekend was
• 1:16:47
  honestly when we started talking about that.
• 1:16:49
  So we were like, oh, well, he just went out winning kind of
• 1:16:52
  thing. So he they, him and his family
• 1:16:56
  took over. They're doing a great job.
• 1:16:59
  They just had a memorial night for a younger guy, Zach
• 1:17:04
  Broncola, that actually passed away a few years ago that we
• 1:17:07
  started the tradition of a memorial race.
• 1:17:09
  They kept they kept it going. So see my dad, a good car count,
• 1:17:12
  good crowd. So I was very, very happy for
• 1:17:14
  that. But so they're doing great out
• 1:17:17
  there. They had a destruction night,
• 1:17:18
  had some local radio people come on or come out and the place was
• 1:17:24
  absolutely packed. Like and it seems like I to a
• 1:17:30
  fault, I hate destruction nights.
• 1:17:32
  I'm more of a race fan. So I'm my, I was never able to
• 1:17:37
  promote them well enough and I just, I don't know, I would kind
• 1:17:41
  of try to forget about it honestly.
• 1:17:42
  But even though it would make us the most money probably or close
• 1:17:46
  to it, but it just, I, I didn't like them so, but they promoted
• 1:17:50
  it great. They had, like I said, radio ads
• 1:17:52
  and stuff like that. It was standing room only pretty
• 1:17:54
  much. But yeah.
• 1:17:55
  So we Lorraine's back for three races this year.
• 1:18:00
  I'm actually finishing up like our, I guess you can say card or
• 1:18:04
  whatever you want to call it, all the information and stuff
• 1:18:07
  like that. For our next one, September
• 1:18:08
  26th, it's going to be the Trident and the Jackpot
• 1:18:11
  combined. So normally those events would
• 1:18:14
  bring me bad luck. So we'll see if we put two of
• 1:18:16
  them together, hopefully it's going to be good luck.
• 1:18:18
  So, but yeah, we're really excited.
• 1:18:20
  We have really good people behind us that kind of joined
• 1:18:23
  us. They're the Wittenbergers.
• 1:18:26
  They are from Hook and Hall Towing out in Litchfield.
• 1:18:28
  OH and they wanted to see the track come back.
• 1:18:31
  They just kind of seem like they enjoyed what we used to do and
• 1:18:35
  stuff like that. They had a lot of fresh ideas.
• 1:18:36
  So we started talking to them and they just wanted to
• 1:18:39
  basically partner up for this year and see kind of where it
• 1:18:42
  leads us. So they're everyone was pumped
• 1:18:44
  up about it last, I guess it was last weekend, 2 weekends ago
• 1:18:49
  now. It was a huge turn out car wise
• 1:18:52
  and fan wise. So I think it really got the
• 1:18:56
  pump. I got the flood, flood flowing
• 1:18:58
  again and pumping. So I think it it brought life
• 1:19:01
  back to that small race track. So we're very excited.
• 1:19:04
  Well, that's something with, you know, the jackpot and and the
• 1:19:08
  Trident. You know, two of your babies
• 1:19:10
  that you came out and you had some different formats for them,
• 1:19:13
  right. You ran a format, then you try
• 1:19:14
  to like the two day version and that kind of deal.
• 1:19:17
  So now you're bringing them back together as one, you know, we
• 1:19:21
  can kind of blow out in a way. And So what can people expect
• 1:19:24
  from this version of the Trident and the Jackpot?
• 1:19:27
  Yeah, so I, I think what really made both of the races was the
• 1:19:33
  format. It's different.
• 1:19:35
  You know, you would heat races normally around us don't mean
• 1:19:38
  anything. So we kind of went like how dirt
• 1:19:40
  is to an extent and made it mean something, made qualifying mean
• 1:19:44
  something. So it it's going to be the same
• 1:19:48
  thing. We're going to do the cool
• 1:19:49
  format and everything for both modifieds and streestocks, but
• 1:19:53
  everyone else we're just running features only.
• 1:19:55
  So my toxic trait is, well, two of them.
• 1:19:59
  I always say that I'm a whore for car count.
• 1:20:01
  So I want to, so I want to make sure.
• 1:20:04
  So I want to make sure that like the rules are a certain way that
• 1:20:07
  anyone can race and you know, if we have to add weight, whatever
• 1:20:09
  we have to do. So I've always said that, but
• 1:20:12
  then also the other one is that I can't say no.
• 1:20:15
  So especially when people want to race and they, you know, like
• 1:20:19
  like compacts or so like support divisions, they're only going to
• 1:20:22
  be running features only. And I think it's going to it's
• 1:20:25
  going to be a decent purse for them and everything like that.
• 1:20:28
  So, but it's going to be in front of us, probably sold out
• 1:20:30
  crowd, if I had to guess. So it's, it's one of those
• 1:20:34
  things where like, hey, I'm going to give you guys extra
• 1:20:36
  laps and for the feature, but I'm also going to give you like
• 1:20:39
  all you guys are coming back for cavalcade at the end in October.
• 1:20:41
  So it's going to be like a, you know, I, I wish I could have
• 1:20:45
  said no to some divisions, but I think we're only going to have,
• 1:20:48
  I think 5 or five. I think it's supposed to be 4.
• 1:20:51
  We'll have 5 or it's supposed to be 5.
• 1:20:52
  We're going to have six. I'm it's not going to be that
• 1:20:54
  bad. But what I've found lately is
• 1:20:56
  that one day shows are kind of where it's at.
• 1:20:58
  You know, you're going to have practice on Friday, get everyone
• 1:21:00
  loaded in and stuff like that. But yes, the pit pass money for
• 1:21:05
  two days might be better from a financial standpoint.
• 1:21:07
  But like I was at Owosso's big modified race with my buddy
• 1:21:12
  Brandon but two months ago or something like that and it was,
• 1:21:17
  they do an awesome job there. Obviously the facility is
• 1:21:20
  amazing. It just seemed like it was so
• 1:21:23
  drawn out. I guess you can say.
• 1:21:25
  I mean, I think part of that too is that they're expecting a lot
• 1:21:27
  more cars. So I think that that kind of
• 1:21:29
  made it seem that way. But I but we had we had a lot of
• 1:21:35
  I guess like so we for both those try to in jackpot.
• 1:21:38
  We had the first races that we ever had with them.
• 1:21:42
  It was path. It was like a lot of cars and
• 1:21:44
  everything. Then I don't want to say I got
• 1:21:46
  greedy, but I was like hey, OK, in order to afford this big
• 1:21:48
  purse, we need to maybe make it a 2 day show.
• 1:21:51
  And then the car con dwindled. So I think it's gonna, it's
• 1:21:55
  gonna be a one day show. We're just gonna push the
• 1:21:57
  absolute hell of it. No intermission, just boom,
• 1:21:59
  boom, boom. So I think we'll be fine,
• 1:22:02
  especially at the racers help me out a little bit and races
• 1:22:05
  Queens. I did last time, but yeah, so
• 1:22:07
  we're excited. Format's going to stay the same
• 1:22:09
  with try and jackpot, the cool heat races meaning something,
• 1:22:13
  everything like that. And then features only we're
• 1:22:15
  going to have legend cars, ace racing league compacts, and I'm
• 1:22:19
  probably missing one more, but but yeah, so it's a oh, the
• 1:22:24
  Great Lakes Truck Tour. So so we're going to have six
• 1:22:27
  divisions, but features only for a few of them.
• 1:22:29
  So I think it'll it's going to be a good show.
• 1:22:32
  I'm really excited to see what the croccon's going to be too.
• 1:22:34
  When you can't say no to yourself, right?
• 1:22:37
  And that's part of the the Great Lakes Truck Tour, which is the
• 1:22:39
  one you forgot to mention. So you're like, Oh yeah, that
• 1:22:42
  one that I also do. So obviously I know you're
• 1:22:44
  coming to Flat Rock. So to kind of put a pin for a
• 1:22:48
  moment and and try it in and jackpot.
• 1:22:50
  If you want to talk a little bit about, you know, how you have
• 1:22:53
  stayed busy with the Truck Tour, just to kind of segue a little
• 1:22:56
  bit and then what kind of come back since you said it, I'm
• 1:22:58
  like, oh, that's kind of like perfect.
• 1:22:59
  Let's bring that up because you might not be at a race check
• 1:23:02
  every week, but you've definitely got the Tour going.
• 1:23:05
  So yeah, you want to talk about that?
• 1:23:06
  Yeah. So we've obviously this year
• 1:23:09
  you've seen a lot of traveling series kind of, I don't want to
• 1:23:12
  say struggle, but definitely lacked a few cars here and
• 1:23:14
  there. So a lot of our truck guys are
• 1:23:17
  very low budget. It seems like they're kind of
• 1:23:20
  mixed. Half of them really want to
• 1:23:21
  travel, go to like places like Winchester and like they've
• 1:23:25
  been, they like when there was ARCA trucks, they went like
• 1:23:28
  Iowa, Rockingham, like big tracks like that.
• 1:23:31
  But then you have a lot of, I would say the majority of them
• 1:23:33
  just want to stay local. So we had two shows so far that
• 1:23:37
  was at Painesville, had both races.
• 1:23:40
  We had ONA got cancelled I believe due to rain.
• 1:23:44
  I believe there's, we had like 3 or 4 shows cancelled, 2 because
• 1:23:48
  of rain, 2 because truthfully, like we just didn't have enough
• 1:23:51
  trucks. You know, we maybe had five or
• 1:23:54
  six travelling. But to me, I don't want to, as a
• 1:23:58
  track promoter as well, I don't want to be that guy that says,
• 1:24:01
  oh, I got 12 and then show up with five or six and then
• 1:24:04
  they're going to be pissed off at us and it's going to be like
• 1:24:06
  leave a bad taste in the mouth. So I've had people do that to
• 1:24:10
  me. So I don't want to do that to
• 1:24:11
  them. So I'm very honest with them.
• 1:24:13
  I'll message them a few weeks prior and go like, hey, looking
• 1:24:16
  good. Hey, not looking good.
• 1:24:18
  Like me and Brandon Hamby from Flat Ride, we talked I'd say
• 1:24:21
  probably 2 weeks ago or something like that.
• 1:24:22
  And I said I was like, hey, I know you know, we haven't raced
• 1:24:25
  that much, but there is like everyone's pumped about Flat
• 1:24:28
  Rock. So I think I think we should
• 1:24:30
  probably have a dozen there, but it'll be really cool next year.
• 1:24:34
  I think we're planning on staying pretty local.
• 1:24:37
  I think I don't know the full plans of what we're doing with
• 1:24:40
  Lorraine yet, but but I think that we're going to have we're
• 1:24:44
  going to have a decent amount of races there.
• 1:24:46
  And then Painesville selfishly, I put in that they had to have
• 1:24:50
  us a few times a year and Scott was obviously OK with it.
• 1:24:54
  So so we'll be there a few times too.
• 1:24:56
  But obviously I'm sure we'll still travel.
• 1:24:58
  But a lot of those guys are diehard racers too.
• 1:25:00
  So but some of them have you know, like Jeff Faye junior, he
• 1:25:04
  won is actually emotional race this past weekend.
• 1:25:07
  His father died, who's his name is also Jeff Fay, but we all
• 1:25:11
  call him Smokey. He was a race director back in
• 1:25:14
  the day at Lorraine. He was actually a tech guy at
• 1:25:17
  Painesville when we first started and stuff like that and
• 1:25:20
  super good guy. He passed away a year ago
• 1:25:22
  Saturday. So Jeff absolutely whacks the
• 1:25:25
  field 9 second lead on 1/5 mile track.
• 1:25:28
  So he was moving. So that was an emotional win too
• 1:25:32
  for him. So that was really cool to see.
• 1:25:34
  But guys like Jeff, he he races a modified two owns a tree
• 1:25:38
  stock. So he some of these guys have
• 1:25:41
  different cars or trucks that they race and stuff.
• 1:25:43
  So it kind of it's kind of tough.
• 1:25:45
  But but yeah, we're the truck tour is really fun.
• 1:25:48
  That's obviously really cool. Like we have some of our, our
• 1:25:52
  safety crew guys, stuff like that, that are actually, I would
• 1:25:56
  say only family that I mean, we're, it's kind of funny.
• 1:26:00
  I run my service department and my full time job now, just like
• 1:26:04
  how I run the race tracks, like family atmosphere, stuff like
• 1:26:06
  that. And we actually we're going
• 1:26:09
  packing up the camper, going out there, me and my dad and a few
• 1:26:12
  other guys and girls. We're going out there this
• 1:26:14
  weekend. We're going to camp, hang out.
• 1:26:17
  So we're really excited. That's kind of what that what we
• 1:26:19
  wanted that to be so. Well, and that's one thing that
• 1:26:23
  I mean, you've mentioned some of your history and talked about
• 1:26:25
  this and we didn't start with my softball question that I always
• 1:26:28
  like to start off with. But but that's because we were
• 1:26:32
  talking about the social media stuff.
• 1:26:33
  And I know obviously you're someone who's had to deal a lot
• 1:26:36
  with that. And and you know in your also
• 1:26:39
  that young promoter, right, you're someone who jumped in
• 1:26:41
  very early and your family started at Painesville, but you
• 1:26:45
  started your racing journey. If I remember correctly, wasn't
• 1:26:48
  it Sandusky that you raced your first race or was it Lorraine?
• 1:26:50
  It was Lorraine. My my family grew up at
• 1:26:52
  Sandusky, but then we kind of transferred to Lorraine.
• 1:26:54
  Yeah. So, so for those who don't know,
• 1:26:56
  you used to race and the what would be like a front wheel
• 1:26:59
  drive Hornet style car compact. And then you know, you got your
• 1:27:04
  family bought Painesville and you started helping them and
• 1:27:07
  promoting at Painesville. And then the county was
• 1:27:09
  struggling and I think it was what it wasn't.
• 1:27:11
  It called the county at that time, or was.
• 1:27:13
  It it was Lorraine County. Lorraine County, Yep.
• 1:27:16
  And so then obviously you guys took that over.
• 1:27:18
  So for you obviously being a young promoter and now doing
• 1:27:23
  this truck tour, what are some of the lessons that, you know,
• 1:27:25
  we'd like? We just had Andy Bozell on not
• 1:27:27
  too long before you came on. And so obviously a legend and
• 1:27:30
  like the Outlaw World, obviously your family has legacy in the
• 1:27:34
  racing world. What are some of the lessons
• 1:27:36
  that you've learned where now you've been away for a little
• 1:27:39
  bit from the day-to-day track operations now kind of getting
• 1:27:43
  back into it a little bit. You know, what are some things
• 1:27:45
  that you've learned then that you're going to start applying
• 1:27:48
  like now, other than your tax or trade if you can't say no and
• 1:27:53
  you're this is maybe the quote of the night whore for car
• 1:27:57
  counts. So.
• 1:27:59
  So what have you learned that now you get to apply in the
• 1:28:02
  revival? Yeah.
• 1:28:04
  So we I don't know, I would like to, I was always told like, hey,
• 1:28:09
  don't read social media, whatever they say, like don't
• 1:28:12
  believe it, blah, blah, But that's just not who I am.
• 1:28:15
  I wear my, what was it emotions on your sleeve.
• 1:28:18
  I always have a chip on my shoulder.
• 1:28:19
  So I grew up like that and especially getting into racing
• 1:28:24
  when I was well, at least for like promoting wise, I was 17
• 1:28:28
  years old, you know, so I was I, I walked into it thinking I knew
• 1:28:32
  everything and obviously that was quick that I did not.
• 1:28:35
  But a lot of the people that, you know, some people don't like
• 1:28:38
  me still because of that attitude, but I definitely
• 1:28:40
  changed. But I think a lot of people
• 1:28:42
  realize like after a year or two and they're like, OK, this kid's
• 1:28:45
  actually busting his ass. And he also realized that he was
• 1:28:48
  wrong. You know what I mean?
• 1:28:49
  And I, I'll admit that I think that like lessons that I've
• 1:28:54
  learned is just to, you know, I obviously got burnt out a lot.
• 1:28:58
  And I think it's easy to do. I was working a full time job.
• 1:29:02
  You know, I'm trying to, I don't want to say to our family, but
• 1:29:04
  like, I'm, you know, I'm obviously homeowner now, like in
• 1:29:08
  my fiance, we're getting married in October, like stuff like
• 1:29:10
  that, like, and I just never knew what life was like outside
• 1:29:14
  of racing. So a lot of people, I guess,
• 1:29:17
  like, you know, they might, they might have, I don't know how to
• 1:29:21
  put this, but like they start promoting at, you know, age of
• 1:29:24
  40 or something like that. I don't really, I've never
• 1:29:27
  really met anyone that was race tracking, promoting and kind of
• 1:29:30
  doing what I was doing. I wasn't race tracking at first,
• 1:29:34
  but 17 years old, you know. So I think like I hang out with
• 1:29:39
  my friends now and they're like, Oh yeah, I remember in college
• 1:29:41
  when we did this and this, this, and I was like, no, I was at the
• 1:29:44
  racetrack, dude. I don't remember that at all,
• 1:29:46
  you know, So I feel like a part of me resented racing a little
• 1:29:50
  bit because it's like, you know, I, I missed out on my childhood,
• 1:29:52
  so to speak. I don't regret it at all because
• 1:29:55
  I think that I think it's made me who I am today, you know,
• 1:29:59
  like we got promoted very fast at my like, my, my job and stuff
• 1:30:03
  like that. So it just made me made like,
• 1:30:05
  like my drive and stuff like that.
• 1:30:07
  But that's definitely a lesson that I learned is that like I, I
• 1:30:11
  feel like I just had something to prove and I was trying to
• 1:30:13
  prove it to the wrong people maybe.
• 1:30:15
  And it didn't really matter at the end of the day, you know,
• 1:30:18
  try to make everyone happy and it just obviously that's never
• 1:30:21
  going to happen. But like you said during your
• 1:30:24
  rant, which was you're 110% spot on that, you know, it, it yes,
• 1:30:31
  it's like it's hard because you know, you, you want to make
• 1:30:35
  everyone happy and you, you can lose sponsors like that and
• 1:30:37
  everything like that, but people's opinion doesn't matter.
• 1:30:41
  At the end of the day, though. Everyone has a voice when they
• 1:30:44
  used to not, you know what I mean?
• 1:30:45
  So that's kind of hard too, but you know, I, I've, I've, I've
• 1:30:51
  been posting less like type of thing, like I haven't been on
• 1:30:53
  social media as much. Like I think that really helped
• 1:30:56
  me kind of rejuvenate. And then, you know, after this
• 1:30:59
  past weekend, like I was talking to a few people and I'm like, I
• 1:31:04
  was like, man, like it's really cool just to be not focused
• 1:31:07
  maybe on not having to focus on like fan count and stuff like
• 1:31:12
  that and money wise of the track and stuff like that.
• 1:31:14
  If I can just focus on the racing aspect.
• 1:31:15
  Like, and I think it, I think it probably proved it too.
• 1:31:18
  Like we ran a very clean, efficient show.
• 1:31:21
  We were all, and it could have just been because we've been
• 1:31:25
  like maybe beginner's luck or something like that.
• 1:31:27
  But I don't think it is. But you know, we didn't run, run
• 1:31:30
  a race since last September. So it's been what it would have
• 1:31:33
  been 11 months, maybe maybe like 10 months, but but it's like,
• 1:31:38
  OK, maybe you know, we we just missed it so much that it's like
• 1:31:42
  first day, like going back, we're all going to be messing
• 1:31:45
  around. Then next time we're going to be
• 1:31:46
  at each other's throats. But we we ran it like I always
• 1:31:50
  boast about my team and everything like that.
• 1:31:52
  And they we busted ass. So like it was really cool.
• 1:31:54
  Like we cleanups weren't like we were on it.
• 1:31:57
  We were focused. So it was really cool.
• 1:32:00
  And I think that has to do with it me just up in the tower, 100%
• 1:32:05
  focus on the race, not about, oh, what's going on in the
• 1:32:07
  concession, Oh, what's going on here?
• 1:32:09
  You know what I mean? So having those partners that we
• 1:32:11
  do now, like it was it was perfect, you know, and like
• 1:32:13
  we've been had a lot of talks about that and everything like
• 1:32:15
  that. So definitely, definitely has
• 1:32:20
  got that spark back. I think like I think but but it
• 1:32:23
  was, it was cool to now kind of build off of it, you know?
• 1:32:28
  Well, again, I saw a lot of pictures coming out of Lorraine
• 1:32:31
  because I follow a lot of the same racers, right?
• 1:32:33
  I mean that I Buju knows we've set it on here that that's such
• 1:32:36
  a beautiful facility that you have at Lorraine.
• 1:32:39
  And it's like, man, it just stunk seeing it kind of sit
• 1:32:43
  there. But it's also like you can't
• 1:32:45
  lose money every single weekend. And I think that's that's the
• 1:32:48
  thing, right, Is that, that it's so easy to go on and criticize
• 1:32:52
  and judge. And I know when you guys first
• 1:32:53
  made the announcement, obviously you had a lot of people who had
• 1:32:57
  a lot of thoughts and some positive, some understanding and
• 1:33:01
  others not so much where it's, well, if you did this and you
• 1:33:04
  did that and say, OK, well, at the end of the night, if I'm
• 1:33:08
  losing $10,000 last week and $10,000 this week and $10,000
• 1:33:12
  next week, when at what point do you want me to open the gate
• 1:33:15
  again? If I'm, you know, in the hole,
• 1:33:17
  money just doesn't come off trees.
• 1:33:18
  Otherwise everyone would grow them instead of tearing them
• 1:33:20
  down. So like, right, we went to chop
• 1:33:22
  them down. We would make sure they are
• 1:33:24
  pristine and perfect. And I think that's the thing
• 1:33:27
  that in getting to know you and you even set it on here, you
• 1:33:31
  know, the emotions on your sleeve.
• 1:33:32
  I literally watch you sit on the ground at Lorraine at the I
• 1:33:36
  thought, I want to say it's a jackpot that year where it's
• 1:33:39
  like, man, you know, we had electric power go, you know,
• 1:33:44
  catch on fire. We had our light pole catch on
• 1:33:47
  fire. We had timing and scoring.
• 1:33:49
  But one thing, and if you want to shout out your team and we
• 1:33:52
  won't judge if you forget some names, but your team just
• 1:33:55
  literally jumped into whatever the next thing was.
• 1:33:58
  It's like you guys always had a plan.
• 1:34:00
  Oh, we're going to do impromptu autograph session starting meow,
• 1:34:03
  you know, like get everybody out here and oh, by the way, now
• 1:34:06
  we're going to do this and you know, and then when the you
• 1:34:10
  know, you try to get lights out there, you try to do everything
• 1:34:12
  you could. I mean, the only thing you got
• 1:34:15
  to do is bury a turtle, apparently, right.
• 1:34:16
  But but that's something that again, watching your team get in
• 1:34:20
  action and I've gotten to know like Amanda and others and what
• 1:34:23
  they do, Brandon and all them like you have a really solid
• 1:34:26
  team there. And so did most of them come
• 1:34:29
  back to like, I think I saw like Sebastian and others like, so if
• 1:34:34
  you want to give them shout outs because watching them,
• 1:34:36
  especially in the big races, like you had a really strong
• 1:34:38
  team. Yeah, so we we argue like we're
• 1:34:42
  all like siblings, it feels like.
• 1:34:43
  But yeah, I made a list of every single employee and kind of, you
• 1:34:49
  know, gave it to Scott and Scott contacted who he wanted to or
• 1:34:52
  whatever happened. But a lot of them are like, all
• 1:34:55
  right, Randy, what are we doing? And I was like, OK, well, you
• 1:34:58
  guys can go like they're like, what are we doing?
• 1:35:01
  I'm like, OK, like whatever. Um, so obviously some people
• 1:35:05
  stayed like our scorer Robbie D He's, he's not race directing at
• 1:35:09
  Painsville, which he's doing a great job at.
• 1:35:12
  There's Brayden. He, he stayed at Painesville
• 1:35:16
  too. He's pretty much like the head
• 1:35:17
  honcho over there now. He'll tell you all about it too.
• 1:35:20
  But, but he's a good kid. He was a, he was a ticket taker
• 1:35:24
  back when we started in 20. I think it was maybe 2018 when
• 1:35:28
  he probably started. But so he's moved up.
• 1:35:31
  He's learned a lot from all of us too.
• 1:35:33
  So that's cool to see. But but yeah, like Jeremy,
• 1:35:37
  Mandy, Sebastian, Isaiah, Zack, Ray, Ray, our flagman, we had
• 1:35:43
  Jarrett. He's actually from Sandusky.
• 1:35:46
  He was, he was scoring this past time.
• 1:35:49
  Mark and Wayne in the tech garage.
• 1:35:52
  We have William. He's a new announcer.
• 1:35:54
  He's coming from the dirt world. So he he announced and he was
• 1:35:57
  doing a great job too. So we, I don't know, it was
• 1:36:02
  just, it makes me emotional too because like you said, everyone
• 1:36:04
  just like it seemed like everyone knew what they were
• 1:36:06
  doing, you know, like, so I would call him and be like, hey,
• 1:36:09
  like we were, we didn't have, I don't want to say we had scoring
• 1:36:13
  issues this past time, but we kind of did we.
• 1:36:17
  So we had a Sunday practice the week prior.
• 1:36:19
  And Nicholas Grukas, he his dad's been a fixture at Lorraine
• 1:36:24
  for years, but he actually is a scorer scoring official for
• 1:36:29
  NASCAR. So he travels with the Cup
• 1:36:31
  series and stuff like that. But for, I'd say a year or two,
• 1:36:35
  he was full time with us. He was at ARCA before then he
• 1:36:39
  stopped doing that and he was with us.
• 1:36:41
  And then, but he, he was there with Ray and they were were
• 1:36:44
  looking at the timing system and we, I was like, hey, just test
• 1:36:48
  it. Like he was going to be in.
• 1:36:50
  I don't know where they were on the eighth.
• 1:36:51
  I think it was in Iowa. I don't know where they were,
• 1:36:54
  but they were like, they just tested for me.
• 1:36:57
  He's alright. So he got there and it was like
• 1:36:59
  a wire was ripped and he's like, yeah, I'm gonna have to replace
• 1:37:02
  it. I love Nicholas to death with
• 1:37:04
  them. I don't know, I, I won't swear,
• 1:37:06
  but that MF, he uh, he was like, I'll be there on Monday, like I
• 1:37:10
  can't stay today. Or we were practicing and we
• 1:37:12
  were trying to beat the rain for some of the guys that were
• 1:37:14
  there. So he's like, I won't do it
• 1:37:15
  today. I'll do it Monday.
• 1:37:17
  OK, didn't come Monday, didn't come Tuesday, didn't come
• 1:37:20
  Wednesday like you supposed to. Then he had to leave early for
• 1:37:22
  his NASCAR race. So I'm like you, mother.
• 1:37:24
  And then so on Thursday we were there.
• 1:37:27
  We had practice on Friday, Me, Sebastian, Zach, Isaiah, and
• 1:37:31
  then actually Zach's new girlfriend.
• 1:37:33
  She was getting dirty with us and like getting everything
• 1:37:36
  ready with us too, which was cool.
• 1:37:38
  They were, we were trying to replace the transplant line.
• 1:37:41
  We got all the old one all out we go.
• 1:37:43
  We're like starting to caulk the new one in and it starts pouring
• 1:37:47
  on us. I'm like, this is, I was like,
• 1:37:48
  welcome back, you know, But so we ended up finishing it on
• 1:37:54
  Friday and I mean, hell, even finishing on Saturday, honestly.
• 1:37:59
  We hooked it up, hooked up on Saturday and it was like Jared,
• 1:38:04
  the score was like, man, dude, these hits suck like all
• 1:38:06
  practice. And I'm like, Oh my God, here we
• 1:38:08
  go. So I'm like, all right, well,
• 1:38:10
  like I was texting all of them in the group chat.
• 1:38:12
  Well, and our radios weren't working right either.
• 1:38:14
  Like which OK, first day of school like that, that might
• 1:38:17
  happen because we haven't done it in 11 months.
• 1:38:20
  But so we had a little adversity and I was like, I was telling
• 1:38:25
  all of them like to communicate during during the first round of
• 1:38:28
  practice when our radios were getting fixed.
• 1:38:30
  We have a new kid. He was not having a new kid.
• 1:38:32
  His name is Brandon, and he actually helped us fix the
• 1:38:35
  scoreboard at Painesville a few years ago.
• 1:38:38
  And then actually the one at Lorraine too.
• 1:38:39
  And so he was there to work the scoreboard.
• 1:38:43
  Turns out I got hit by lightning a few weeks prior.
• 1:38:46
  So he's like, yeah, some of these things are fried, dude.
• 1:38:48
  Like I'm like, well, and he's like, what do you need me to do?
• 1:38:51
  I'll stay. I'm like, whatever you want,
• 1:38:54
  dude. So he was running around giving
• 1:38:56
  the safety crew guys water all the all night.
• 1:38:58
  He was actually, he was helping me up in the tower a little bit.
• 1:39:05
  He was, he fixed all of our radios, but normally Jeremy's
• 1:39:10
  the one that would do like like the radio thing and everything,
• 1:39:13
  but he has he's in the, I'm going to get it wrong.
• 1:39:16
  I think Army reserves or something.
• 1:39:18
  And so he was, he had drill that weekend and he was leaving
• 1:39:22
  around like 1, I think. And this dude hauls ass like
• 1:39:25
  he'll show up in his uniform and just get right to work.
• 1:39:29
  So he so he on the way there, I'm like, I'm texting all of
• 1:39:33
  them. I'm like, hey, this is what I'm
• 1:39:34
  going to post on Facebook, just so you guys know, because
• 1:39:36
  everyone's going to be asking you.
• 1:39:37
  We're just going to go dirt style.
• 1:39:38
  I was like, I we can't rely on this scoring system.
• 1:39:42
  We'll just pull pills for the heats and then finishing order
• 1:39:44
  for the heats will just be the features like we'll just run it
• 1:39:46
  like that. And, and Jeremy's like, like
• 1:39:51
  when do you plan on making that announcement?
• 1:39:52
  I'm like probably after the second set of high laps, he's
• 1:39:55
  like, what time do you think that will be?
• 1:39:57
  And I told him and he's like, OK, my ETA is 10 minutes before
• 1:40:01
  that. So wait.
• 1:40:02
  I said OK. And he cleaned a few, cleaned up
• 1:40:05
  a few connections, so like that. And he goes, the connections
• 1:40:08
  were really dirty. He was like, that might be it.
• 1:40:10
  And sure it was. And so I'm like, wow, OK, sweet.
• 1:40:13
  So we were rolling. But stuff like that.
• 1:40:15
  I mean, it just everyone has a plan, you know what I mean?
• 1:40:18
  Like we like that autograph session at Jackpot.
• 1:40:21
  US turning on the lights, us making decisions, just go Sunday
• 1:40:24
  racing for the jackpot that one year.
• 1:40:27
  You know, we're all human, so obviously nothing's ever going
• 1:40:30
  to be perfect. But I think the true testament
• 1:40:34
  of like a team and a person honestly is when you're faced
• 1:40:37
  with adversity, what do you do? So I think that like just the
• 1:40:42
  mental capacity of OK, like relax, let's figure it out type
• 1:40:46
  of thing. That's what I think.
• 1:40:48
  I've like, people at work will come up to me like this
• 1:40:51
  customer's screaming blah, blah, blah.
• 1:40:52
  And I'm a service manager, so of course we break everyone's cars.
• 1:40:56
  So I'm like, all right, like relax.
• 1:41:00
  Like I'll talk to them, answer the phone.
• 1:41:01
  They're screaming at me. I'm like, I'll crack a joke.
• 1:41:04
  And they're like, what? I'm like, yeah, I was like, you
• 1:41:06
  know, it's not my fault. I'm, I'm here to help you, you
• 1:41:08
  know, like so, but stuff like that, like if just how you
• 1:41:12
  handle adversity, I think just proved what kind of person you
• 1:41:15
  are. So our team's great.
• 1:41:17
  Like I mean, Isaiah, he's my fiance's little cousin.
• 1:41:21
  He's been with us since I think he was 12.
• 1:41:24
  And I was like, you keep your ass in the truck type of thing,
• 1:41:27
  but you want to be on safety crew.
• 1:41:30
  Seb's been with us. Sebastian's been with us for I
• 1:41:32
  think 4 years now probably. He's like a brother to me,
• 1:41:36
  annoys the hell out of me, but we bicker back and forth.
• 1:41:39
  But he's, he's a little hot head.
• 1:41:41
  We're working on that. He was a little better.
• 1:41:44
  Zach, he's new. He's two years.
• 1:41:47
  Ray's been with us. Ray's been with us since I think
• 1:41:51
  2019 maybe. I mean, he's our flag man.
• 1:41:54
  So he he's actually a pit steward at Mansfield now too.
• 1:41:59
  So so we're kind of having right.
• 1:42:01
  We were messing with them that we have shared custody.
• 1:42:04
  But he but he's a great guy. He's great to have around.
• 1:42:07
  Found him knowledge. Mark and Wayne are tech guys and
• 1:42:11
  they've been with us probably since 2019 as well.
• 1:42:14
  Those guys, if you say I'm going to go jump off a bridge, are
• 1:42:17
  going to jump off with you. Mandy and Jeremy, same deal.
• 1:42:21
  They're like basically like siblings to me.
• 1:42:24
  They're all like that. They're all just amazing, you
• 1:42:28
  know, like in which I it's always weird that, you know,
• 1:42:34
  like it's not weird, but I'm always the one that goes on
• 1:42:37
  these things like that, But I always, I always tell them like,
• 1:42:40
  look, it's not it's not me, it's you guys, you know, so it's or
• 1:42:43
  it's us. So you know, whether it's it's
• 1:42:47
  great. Like we, I remember we a few
• 1:42:49
  years ago, we had a bad, a bad show, I think it was with race
• 1:42:54
  of champions modifies tour type mods.
• 1:42:56
  I thought it was going to be a freaking home run like it was.
• 1:42:59
  Yeah, Matt Hirshman was there, Paulie Hartwig, like all like
• 1:43:03
  the name guys where Andy Jane Kodiak was there.
• 1:43:06
  So it was a big thing. Like I thought we were going to
• 1:43:08
  be golden. Well, I went through the IT was
• 1:43:11
  a it was a good event for everyone from PA in New York
• 1:43:14
  because of everyone. Like I went through the parking
• 1:43:16
  lot and my my four Wheeler and that's all the plates I saw.
• 1:43:19
  I didn't see any Ohio plates. I'm like, I like seriously, like
• 1:43:22
  this is like a badass card. Like we had, I think we had like
• 1:43:25
  30 some modifieds, like our modifieds, we had I think 22 of
• 1:43:29
  them, which was a great show. And so it was kind of rough, but
• 1:43:33
  you know, they took me putting the next day.
• 1:43:35
  They were like, all right, come on, we're going to go hang out
• 1:43:37
  like, and then so, but having a team like that and backing like
• 1:43:40
  my family and everyone there, my fiance is great.
• 1:43:43
  So stuff like that. They're just, she just walked
• 1:43:46
  by. So that's why I, that's not why
• 1:43:48
  I did it. But but, but we it's great, you
• 1:43:53
  know, So, but yeah, I'll, I'll get off my that's my soapbox.
• 1:43:56
  You're gonna talk about, you know, the drama on Facebook and
• 1:44:00
  stuff like that. And I was on a podcast, the
• 1:44:02
  Buckeyes P podcast with those guys, funny dudes there.
• 1:44:06
  We're allowed to swear on that one.
• 1:44:07
  So I'm a little peachy on this one, But but we were talking and
• 1:44:11
  like they got me completely negative the one day and I was
• 1:44:15
  like, yeah, I was like, I'm over these fucking people.
• 1:44:19
  And so but like, I don't know, after Lorraine and I kind of got
• 1:44:24
  that fire back in me. So I'm I, I'm all positive now.
• 1:44:28
  So we're good. Well, and you shout it out to
• 1:44:31
  fiance and that's also a good thing because I actually we had
• 1:44:34
  the Michigan auto fan racing club on earlier.
• 1:44:37
  I did it again, auto racing fan club.
• 1:44:40
  I always put fan and racing in reverse.
• 1:44:42
  I don't know why it's just and I don't have like the sexy or
• 1:44:44
  anything. I just can't say it.
• 1:44:45
  Like I have to say it wrong to say it right kind of deal.
• 1:44:48
  But that's something that there was a a champion who did a whole
• 1:44:53
  speech thing because I recorded it for them.
• 1:44:57
  He came back like a few minutes later.
• 1:44:58
  I forgot to mention my wife. And so you're just getting in
• 1:45:02
  the habit now of you're always going to have to remember,
• 1:45:06
  right? Like she's happy, you're happy,
• 1:45:08
  so. You know, yeah.
• 1:45:09
  And that's the, that's the biggest part too, is like a lot
• 1:45:12
  of people don't realize like, like, you know, you're away,
• 1:45:15
  like especially, I mean, racers too, racers, workers, stuff like
• 1:45:19
  that. But there's birthday parties
• 1:45:21
  that I've missed. There's, you know, like there.
• 1:45:24
  That's why I like, I was saying like to everyone too.
• 1:45:26
  I was like, I'd like to be involved in racing, but I don't
• 1:45:29
  wanna do it every single week just because I, I know that how
• 1:45:33
  much stuff I've missed, you know, like this past, like this
• 1:45:36
  summer, we've gone camping with my, like my family, my cousins
• 1:45:39
  and stuff. We've been to cookouts and stuff
• 1:45:41
  like that where before I wasn't able to go to, She would always
• 1:45:45
  go and you know, take the dog or whatever and have fun, but I
• 1:45:49
  wasn't able to. So like it'd be granted.
• 1:45:52
  I wasn't not going to lie, I wasn't really thinking about it
• 1:45:55
  at the time because you know, I'm so like focused on racing
• 1:45:58
  and like what I'm doing right then.
• 1:46:00
  But looking back like it sucks, you know, so you see the
• 1:46:03
  pictures and everything and like family vacations that, you know,
• 1:46:07
  I was not, I was present, but I was mentally, I was at the
• 1:46:12
  racetrack, you know, so, but being able to take a step back
• 1:46:16
  and realize there's more to life than racing, which I think some
• 1:46:19
  people might you have to do it in order, like Craig Brackman, I
• 1:46:23
  don't know if you guys know that name.
• 1:46:24
  He's a Painsville Speedway. He's a historian there and great
• 1:46:28
  dude. He actually just won his first
• 1:46:30
  feature there. And I think, I think he won
• 1:46:33
  features before, back before he took his like hiatus for like 10
• 1:46:36
  years or something. But he's back in a compact won
• 1:46:39
  his first feature a few weeks ago, which was really cool.
• 1:46:41
  But he, he took like a 510 year break, I think, and then
• 1:46:46
  actually came back when we, we bought, came back and bought the
• 1:46:50
  track and, and great guy. And he's like, yeah, he's like,
• 1:46:54
  I just, I needed a break like I was doing every single week.
• 1:46:56
  He bought a camper with his wife, you know, they were
• 1:46:58
  hanging out. But now he's like, now he's back
• 1:47:02
  and he's like, sometimes you need that break.
• 1:47:04
  And I'm like, yeah, well, my break was a little shorter than
• 1:47:06
  yours, but he a lot of people like that.
• 1:47:11
  Like you said, the supporters will be quiet or they or they
• 1:47:14
  message you on like there is and you find out who your real
• 1:47:18
  friends are too. Like so there is people that you
• 1:47:21
  know, only in it to get a free pic pass are only in it to go
• 1:47:24
  like, you know, but say that they're friends with the
• 1:47:27
  promoter and this and that. But you know, there's some
• 1:47:29
  people that you know, during like, I mean, I was like, I was
• 1:47:33
  ghost on Facebook, like I, I mean, I actually I got hacked,
• 1:47:36
  but so I made a new Facebook, which was kind of kind of
• 1:47:38
  awesome because I have to deal with people that ain't fake
• 1:47:41
  people, I guess you can say, but there's racers that are
• 1:47:45
  messaging me like, hey buddy, hope you're doing OK like this
• 1:47:47
  and that whatever, which is cool because you know, those are
• 1:47:50
  actual genuine, genuine people. And like in a business like this
• 1:47:54
  where, you know, I'm, I was probably more open than most,
• 1:47:58
  which it could be a bad thing, but also I feel like is a good
• 1:48:01
  thing because it gave people perspective.
• 1:48:03
  And I feel like since I opened up about hardships and about
• 1:48:07
  like what was going on behind the scenes, like it feels like a
• 1:48:10
  lot more people started to a lot more promoters and owners have.
• 1:48:15
  And I feel like it gives them a voice to be, you know, that
• 1:48:18
  you're human too. But I think that, you know,
• 1:48:23
  taking a lot of people need to take that break and whether
• 1:48:25
  that's obviously racing needs as many people as they need to or
• 1:48:29
  as a as we can get. But like, I had a good talk with
• 1:48:32
  a racer a few weeks ago and I was like, look, dude, like one,
• 1:48:35
  if you're not happy, if it's constant drama, it's like that,
• 1:48:38
  like you'll, you'll be back if you're maxing out credit cards
• 1:48:42
  and stuff like that. Like, dude, you have a life.
• 1:48:45
  Like don't, you know, don't ruin your life just to go out and you
• 1:48:48
  know, when and then complain about the purse or something or
• 1:48:50
  win a trophy, you know what I mean?
• 1:48:52
  Stuff like that. But stuff like that.
• 1:48:55
  I mean, it's you, you got to, there's more life to racing and
• 1:48:59
  you know, you don't want to, you don't want to regret anything,
• 1:49:02
  you know. So like then some people can do
• 1:49:04
  both. Like I know people that have a
• 1:49:06
  full time job and can race and don't never get burnt out and
• 1:49:09
  they never run out of money. Like God bless you, you know,
• 1:49:12
  but sometimes some people just don't.
• 1:49:15
  They need to take that step back and it helped, obviously.
• 1:49:18
  Yeah. Well, and then probably seen
• 1:49:20
  again that full crowd. I mean, that paid place was just
• 1:49:23
  absolutely packed. That definitely helped.
• 1:49:26
  And, and, and the social media, I mean, I already follow
• 1:49:29
  Lorraine and I've never unfollowed Lorraine.
• 1:49:30
  Like, so I, I see the updates when they are coming through,
• 1:49:33
  but I had other people commenting because they
• 1:49:36
  remembered that I've been to Lorraine.
• 1:49:37
  They're like, Hey, do you know anything about this Lorraine?
• 1:49:39
  Because they saw like, this is the best seat and this is the
• 1:49:42
  best seat. And this is, you know, like it
• 1:49:44
  was a very creative social media campaign that they also did with
• 1:49:47
  this revival. And it's like, you know, social
• 1:49:50
  media isn't the 100% only way to like promote things and do
• 1:49:53
  things, but it's like people showed up and they came.
• 1:49:55
  And so that probably, I mean, I would imagine that had to feel
• 1:49:59
  good to see that you say maybe beginner's luck, but now, right,
• 1:50:03
  that pressure is not maybe not pressure, but that, hey, we got
• 1:50:06
  a, you know, we have Jackpot and Lorraine, which are staples that
• 1:50:10
  we've built here. We need to hit this out of the
• 1:50:12
  park. So that's why I'm like, I didn't
• 1:50:15
  realize that you had a new Facebook until because one day I
• 1:50:17
  went to messaging like, well, I don't think I made him mad.
• 1:50:20
  I don't think I did anything. I think he would have told me to
• 1:50:23
  F off if anything first before he deleted me or blocked me.
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  But so I'm like, I've never said anything bad about Lorraine or
• 1:50:29
  Painesville. But then I learned that you got
• 1:50:32
  a new one and I just keep forgetting to re add you.
• 1:50:35
  Of course, you don't have to accept by the way, but you know,
• 1:50:36
  I keep forgetting. And that's when I messaged him
• 1:50:39
  like, OK, you're reviving, you're coming back.
• 1:50:41
  I double checked him like is Randy the one behind it?
• 1:50:44
  Because so you weren't really on the social media campaign for
• 1:50:47
  most of them. So that's from that's why I
• 1:50:49
  message you like, Hey, why don't we get on here?
• 1:50:52
  You know, I have this new podcast and I have it last time
• 1:50:54
  we talked, but you know, why don't we bring you on here?
• 1:50:56
  That way you can, you know, say what's going on at Lorraine
• 1:51:00
  update people because obviously people from this area,
• 1:51:02
  especially with that being a September show, might be
• 1:51:04
  interested and might, you know, head on over because we've had
• 1:51:08
  people from Kalamazoo and Galesburg and all and M40 head
• 1:51:11
  over there to race and enjoyed their time at Lorraine.
• 1:51:14
  So it's like, why don't we bring you on here and, you know, and
• 1:51:17
  let's talk a little bit about Lorraine and where we're where
• 1:51:19
  we're at right now and maybe where you're going with it.
• 1:51:21
  And obviously when you mentioned Truck Tour, it's like, Oh yeah,
• 1:51:23
  let's talk about that too. Yeah, definitely a lot
• 1:51:27
  happening. Definitely really excited.
• 1:51:30
  One thing that's going to be kind of a downer is, you know,
• 1:51:32
  we, so we had I want to say we had thirty, 3032 maybe 3 stocks
• 1:51:38
  at this at the opening deal. We aren't going to open up the
• 1:51:42
  rules like we have in the past or tried it just because I feel
• 1:51:45
  like I don't want to. There's a lot of it's going to
• 1:51:49
  be a one day show. I don't want to.
• 1:51:51
  It's not going to pay as much either as like the previous
• 1:51:53
  ones. It's still going to be a good
• 1:51:55
  payday, but it's not going to be a $7500 to win type of deal.
• 1:51:59
  So I didn't want to. I don't want to say I don't want
• 1:52:02
  to make it as big, but I don't want to make it into who can
• 1:52:08
  spend the most money type of deal.
• 1:52:09
  I don't want to make it an impound race, stuff like that.
• 1:52:12
  So it's going to be a different feel.
• 1:52:13
  But obviously those guys are more than welcome to come down.
• 1:52:16
  But some of them might not be legal.
• 1:52:18
  As long as they're legal for the Wheel Man series, they'll be
• 1:52:21
  good. But I know some people have to
• 1:52:24
  tweak some things here and there.
• 1:52:25
  But yeah, yeah. But yeah, so that's kind of what
• 1:52:28
  we're doing with it. But like guys like Maynard's,
• 1:52:31
  they're awesome people to have with us.
• 1:52:33
  Chucky Barnes, Troy Phillips, all those guys.
• 1:52:36
  So Jeremy Young, Ricky Laduke has come down.
• 1:52:40
  Those guys are all awesome. Ricky.
• 1:52:42
  Actually, there's Trident. I don't know if it was the first
• 1:52:47
  year. I think Ricky and Jeremy came
• 1:52:50
  with us to B Dubs after practice night.
• 1:52:54
  I don't know if it if it rained or we only got something, I
• 1:52:58
  don't know. But I know I was making a new
• 1:53:00
  schedule on my, I don't know, napkin.
• 1:53:04
  And they're like, what are you doing?
• 1:53:05
  And I was like, this is what I have to do.
• 1:53:07
  Like we have to change stuff. But that was a cool perspective
• 1:53:11
  for them too, to go like, wow, OK.
• 1:53:13
  Like he's a normal person. He goes to beat UPS with his
• 1:53:17
  guys and hanging out and stuff like that and drinking a beer.
• 1:53:19
  But then at the same point, like he's bringing down a schedule on
• 1:53:22
  a piece of napkin, you know, So that was cool too.
• 1:53:25
  But that's kind of how we are. We're just we're all human.
• 1:53:27
  So, you know, if you know, we'll like like I think it was Ron
• 1:53:34
  Sager's was there too. I don't know if you guys know
• 1:53:35
  that name with the compact guys, he was over there too.
• 1:53:38
  Stuff like that. They just you know, everyone,
• 1:53:42
  everyone's my friend when it comes to racing, you know, until
• 1:53:44
  you until you obviously screw me over, which I haven't been
• 1:53:47
  screwed over a lot. But stuff like that, you know,
• 1:53:50
  like it was just so we are. Yeah.
• 1:53:53
  Well, and again, I, you know, I know with Lorraine, if, if
• 1:53:56
  anybody watching or who watches this, you know, we have a lot of
• 1:53:59
  even off off time viewers who'll go back and listen to it at work
• 1:54:03
  or whatever. Like get out to Lorraine.
• 1:54:05
  Even Painesville means it's a 5 hour drive, you know, from where
• 1:54:08
  I am. So kind of base that on along
• 1:54:10
  Lake MI to the other side of Cleveland.
• 1:54:13
  But you know, Painesville, I was, that's a fun track too.
• 1:54:17
  And, and obviously I still follow them.
• 1:54:19
  I still follow a lot of the drivers.
• 1:54:20
  But get out to Lorraine, check it out.
• 1:54:23
  It's about 4 1/2 hours from maybe 4, probably closer to 4
• 1:54:27
  from Lake, MI to that part on the other on the what, West side
• 1:54:32
  of Cleveland? Because plain sales east side.
• 1:54:35
  But you know that track, I mean, watching the modifieds on that
• 1:54:37
  track alone, standing along that backstretch and watching along
• 1:54:40
  that backstretch, I'm like, oh, this is going to be fun.
• 1:54:43
  So, So again, it's a beautiful facility out there.
• 1:54:47
  I gotta get out there yeah, one that has not been on my list yet
• 1:54:51
  and y'all, y'all are selling me tonight so.
• 1:54:53
  You know, it's worth it. And so again, you know, huge
• 1:54:57
  shout out and kudos to your team.
• 1:54:59
  Anytime I was here there, I was respectful and I always watched
• 1:55:02
  liked watching them because like I said earlier, like there's
• 1:55:06
  I've seen moments of I wouldn't say crisis, but like, uh oh,
• 1:55:09
  things hit the fan. Plan B, plan C, plan C, plan E
• 1:55:13
  and it's just they roll with it, right?
• 1:55:15
  And and you don't always find teams who can just roll with it.
• 1:55:19
  And it's like they rolled with it.
• 1:55:20
  They did their part, they knew what to do, they jumped in.
• 1:55:23
  They even problem solved and help problem solve.
• 1:55:25
  And, and I think it says a lot when the promoter's literally
• 1:55:28
  sitting on the ground fixing things with staff rather than
• 1:55:31
  standing over and, you know, directing reminds me of lot of
• 1:55:35
  like Donnie Ritter has done this too, right?
• 1:55:38
  Where he just jumps in and you're like, he's towing a car
• 1:55:40
  or he's in there and the car's literally on fire and he's not
• 1:55:44
  in the fire suit or anything like that, but he's helping,
• 1:55:46
  right? He's in the he's in the moment.
• 1:55:48
  And sometimes you don't, you don't see that with like
• 1:55:50
  promoters where they're very much above and beyond the
• 1:55:53
  action, right? They, they'll watch from the
• 1:55:55
  wherever they are and their comforts of their whatever
• 1:55:58
  friendly confines that are in and they'll direct from there,
• 1:56:01
  but they won't get always get involved.
• 1:56:03
  So. That's a good shout out.
• 1:56:05
  Yeah, they're and I think starting young too.
• 1:56:07
  I never really we had race directors up until 2022, I think
• 1:56:12
  2023. So like I was, I was always with
• 1:56:14
  states crew. If we were shorthanded in the
• 1:56:16
  kitchen, I had a there's a picture of me somewhere.
• 1:56:18
  I was growing up my hair for cancer till I realized that it
• 1:56:21
  had to be super, super long and I was like, I can't do it.
• 1:56:25
  But but we I have a hair net on flipping burgers and stuff like
• 1:56:29
  that. Just, you know, it's kind of my
• 1:56:32
  family's always have the mentality of whatever it takes
• 1:56:34
  type of thing. So we did that.
• 1:56:37
  But you'll actually like this. Sebastian, Zach and Isaiah had a
• 1:56:41
  grand idea to get like these vests.
• 1:56:44
  And actually I'm pretty sure they took it out of your
• 1:56:45
  playbook or Kalamazoo's playbook, and they're doing
• 1:56:49
  videos now of like what they're doing.
• 1:56:50
  It's like that, yeah. They tested it this past one and
• 1:56:55
  like Seb had his strap like in the way and stuff like that.
• 1:56:58
  But they're like, dude, this is awesome.
• 1:57:01
  Like you can tell they can hear them like on the radio talk to
• 1:57:04
  me. They're going to put probably
• 1:57:05
  not going to be a good thing, but they're going to put a radio
• 1:57:08
  next to it with a microphone. So this way they can hear like
• 1:57:11
  the communication back and forth.
• 1:57:12
  I'm like it's. Probably.
• 1:57:13
  It's probably not going to be good, but but but yeah.
• 1:57:17
  So they're, I figured I wanted to mention that too, because
• 1:57:20
  like there's a few videos and they're like, like it was, it
• 1:57:23
  was really cool. So the stuff like that that
• 1:57:25
  Kalamazoo does and, and what you do, like I mean, obviously like
• 1:57:30
  you, you'd have a whole operation what you're doing.
• 1:57:33
  So which is awesome. I think it's really cool to
• 1:57:35
  follow. So I definitely appreciate what
• 1:57:38
  you do and a lot, I know a lot of people do.
• 1:57:40
  So everyone, everyone's like, when's that top, top row media
• 1:57:44
  guy coming? When's that like they want, they
• 1:57:45
  want you to come. I'm like guys like it's 4 hours
• 1:57:48
  away, five hours away from them. Like it might be a little hard.
• 1:57:50
  And they're like, no, no, that's cool.
• 1:57:52
  Like let's like we want them to, we want them to come back.
• 1:57:54
  I'm like, all right, but but yeah, definitely.
• 1:57:56
  And I think that's the cool part too about these races.
• 1:58:00
  I think that it's weird because weather changes so much.
• 1:58:04
  I didn't want to run as late in October like we are.
• 1:58:08
  It's October 23rd to the 25th. I think probably second week of
• 1:58:13
  October is probably as latest as I'd like to go.
• 1:58:15
  But of course that's when I'm getting married.
• 1:58:17
  So like I was like, all right, well, the week before she'd kill
• 1:58:20
  me the week of the wedding. Can't do that.
• 1:58:23
  Week after is a honeymoon. So like my dad's like seriously,
• 1:58:26
  the end of October, I'm like dad, like there's nothing else I
• 1:58:29
  can do. Like what do I go into like
• 1:58:31
  November? But but I think that too with
• 1:58:35
  being South of the lake, I think like weather's like so I
• 1:58:39
  remember like April's were warm for a while and then it would
• 1:58:44
  start getting colder in September.
• 1:58:46
  But now it seems like it's getting nicer.
• 1:58:48
  It's still staying cold in April, then getting nicer at the
• 1:58:51
  back end of it. So it's like pushing back.
• 1:58:53
  So I'm hoping that, you know, even if I don't want to say that
• 1:58:59
  I'm not worried about car count because that always seems to
• 1:59:02
  take care of itself with like what we do and the product that
• 1:59:05
  we get put on the track and like our rules and stuff like that.
• 1:59:10
  But I think that like, even like people coming down to watch, you
• 1:59:14
  know, like, I think Lorraine is probably one of the raciest
• 1:59:17
  tracks I've ever seen. Like you said, the the
• 1:59:20
  modifieds, we had 26 of them, maybe 25 of them this past race.
• 1:59:26
  And you know, we had the wave lap and everything like that.
• 1:59:30
  And like we were all on the radio like yeah, goosebumps or
• 1:59:32
  like like, wow, like I'm still like messing around and stuff
• 1:59:36
  like that. But they're like, but we're like
• 1:59:38
  wow, like this is amazing. And like stuff like that.
• 1:59:41
  Like that's just get your blood pumping and stuff like that.
• 1:59:44
  It's like it's like dirt vision when they go 4 wide and stuff
• 1:59:47
  like like we have that feeling at Lorraine.
• 1:59:49
  So I think it's the same with the three stacks.
• 1:59:51
  They were like, I know the big thing is always some people on
• 1:59:57
  here might not know them, but like Joshua and Earl Goldie,
• 1:59:59
  they're two very big icons of Streestock racing around us.
• 2:00:05
  They race with the wheel man Series 2 and this and that, but
• 2:00:09
  they always seem to fight each other, always seem to wreck each
• 2:00:11
  other. They were.
• 2:00:14
  They were battling as a three-way battle with Parker
• 2:00:17
  Ennis, who's a. His family's a staple at
• 2:00:20
  Lorraine and he was leading and Earl and Josh got up to him and
• 2:00:25
  they were three-way battle with like 3 laps to go and people
• 2:00:28
  were on their feet. Like it was, it was insane.
• 2:00:30
  Joshua and Earl Goldie never touched and it was they both
• 2:00:33
  actually sing each other's praises afterwards.
• 2:00:36
  So it was really cool. They're like, yeah, like it was
• 2:00:38
  respectful like blah, blah, blah.
• 2:00:40
  Like you want those rivalries, like, but at the same point,
• 2:00:43
  like the drivers need to realize like why they're doing it and
• 2:00:47
  like, you know, like, so OK, like we can hype it up.
• 2:00:49
  Like, all right, who's going to, you know, who's going to beat
• 2:00:51
  them this week, like blah, blah, blah.
• 2:00:53
  But at the same point, like they have to not flip that switch and
• 2:00:56
  be like, OK, it's it's for promotion.
• 2:00:58
  You know this isn't Bowman Gray. You know stuff.
• 2:01:00
  Like that so. But that stuff like that, I mean
• 2:01:04
  Lorraine just insane racing like Tom.
• 2:01:08
  It's it's good for legend cars. We had the hook and hall people.
• 2:01:13
  They, they loved legend cars and they're like, man, you think
• 2:01:17
  Legend cars are coming? I'm like, we can try it.
• 2:01:20
  Like I've, I've only had them once and like, you know, we, we
• 2:01:22
  can try it. And 11 showed up and these guys
• 2:01:26
  are, there's a group of them going to Anderson this weekend
• 2:01:30
  and they're like, Hey, give us Flyers.
• 2:01:31
  Like we're going to go there and promote the hell out of it.
• 2:01:33
  And we're going to try to get like 20 for September 20 for
• 2:01:36
  October on my alright, sweet. So so that legend cars are I
• 2:01:41
  think going to be a staple at Lorraine too for years to come.
• 2:01:43
  So I think it'll be really cool to you know, these next two
• 2:01:47
  shows are going to be awesome. So September 26th, 25th is going
• 2:01:51
  to be practice the Friday, but September 26th we'll have three
• 2:01:55
  stocks, modifieds, Great Lakes truck tour, legends, ace racing
• 2:01:59
  league and Compaqs. And then October 24th, 25th,
• 2:02:05
  we'll, we'll have, I don't know what the divisions are going to
• 2:02:09
  be yet because there's going to be so many of them.
• 2:02:11
  There's going to be modified tree stacks, of course, all the
• 2:02:14
  same divisions I had mentioned. So six of those we'll probably
• 2:02:17
  have late models, Outlaw late models because their season will
• 2:02:20
  be done at Midvale Speedway. And I believe we might have the
• 2:02:24
  outlaw 350 super sprints. So that'd be cool too.
• 2:02:29
  So we, we're going to, you know, we had.
• 2:02:31
  Our. Our previous record of
• 2:02:34
  Cavalcade, which like it's kind of like a spring ports, what
• 2:02:38
  they call it, the Mid Mission Cup, Mission Cup and then the
• 2:02:42
  Kalamazoo's. Super Shoe.
• 2:02:45
  Super Sue. So Cavalcade's like ours.
• 2:02:47
  It's a Halloween festival. Speed, I guess you can call it,
• 2:02:50
  but our record I think was 206 cars and we only have we only
• 2:02:55
  have 99 pads. So I was parking people like in
• 2:02:58
  the woods like it was insane. But that's honestly the goal for
• 2:03:01
  this year. So I think we'll, I think we I
• 2:03:03
  think we'll be able to get there.
• 2:03:05
  A lot of people are excited to come back and everything like
• 2:03:07
  that. So we're excited.
• 2:03:09
  Well, again, if you haven't been out to and it's an Amherst, if I
• 2:03:12
  remember right, in Ohio, but I I hear I put Lorraine because
• 2:03:16
  people would know Lorraine Raceway Park.
• 2:03:17
  They may not know it as like it's an Amherst technically, but
• 2:03:21
  but yeah, it's a get out there. Check it out.
• 2:03:26
  I know super shoes that weekend. So, but October, I'm thinking,
• 2:03:30
  do I have anything and maybe I can come on out because again,
• 2:03:32
  your team always was so respectful and, and I know it
• 2:03:35
  helps you guys too. You know, I had someone come
• 2:03:39
  from Sturgis, MI because I went to Painesville.
• 2:03:42
  They followed me to Painesville and I'm like, hey, I'll take
• 2:03:45
  that, right? I, it wasn't 100 people, but at
• 2:03:48
  least one person made this almost the same drive that I
• 2:03:50
  did. And you know, and it's like, and
• 2:03:53
  they enjoyed that track too. And so that was for your Figure
• 2:03:55
  8 nationals, which I said this will be more than worth it.
• 2:03:58
  And but again, that's where, you know, I hope they definitely
• 2:04:02
  continue to have fun with that. But what I'll try to bring you
• 2:04:04
  on. I'm going to put it on my sticky
• 2:04:06
  note as we get closer to Cavalcade, especially since
• 2:04:11
  that's end of October. We won't definitely interfere
• 2:04:12
  with your wedding or anything because I'm not going to make
• 2:04:15
  your almost new wife mad at that point.
• 2:04:17
  But she's Beyoncé right now. But fiance is you can kind of
• 2:04:20
  make mad, but once they become the wives, you don't make them
• 2:04:22
  mad, right? So definitely won't want to make
• 2:04:24
  her mad, but bring it on, you know, bring you back on.
• 2:04:27
  Just to remind everybody, hey, here's this thing, here's the
• 2:04:30
  rules because you'll definitely be promoting it by then.
• 2:04:32
  So, so again, that's where I know you've worked all day as a
• 2:04:35
  service manager at the dealer because it's dealership, right?
• 2:04:38
  That you're the service. Yep, Yep.
• 2:04:41
  So I know you had a long day because your day starts early
• 2:04:44
  and now it's 9:00. And I mean, I know you're used
• 2:04:47
  to like no sleep because I don't know that you ever did sleep
• 2:04:49
  when you're promoting 2 tracks and then you brought on the
• 2:04:52
  series and all that. But I definitely appreciate you,
• 2:04:54
  Randy, you know, coming on tonight to talk about what's
• 2:04:57
  going on in the Lorraine and and I'm definitely rooting for your
• 2:05:00
  success over there because like I said that seeing it said, it's
• 2:05:03
  like, man, that's tough because man, that's such a that's such a
• 2:05:06
  fun track. And so Buju, you would fall in
• 2:05:08
  love with it day one, just like I did first time there.
• 2:05:12
  Even with all the chaos, it's like I could go back home, but
• 2:05:15
  got a hotel stayed, you know, enjoy the racing there and it's
• 2:05:20
  like used to you want to root for those teams.
• 2:05:22
  So you're like, they're all in on this.
• 2:05:23
  So and when you don't give up and you could have like 10
• 2:05:27
  times, you know, you push through.
• 2:05:30
  And for anyone who didn't come back on Sunday, shame on them
• 2:05:33
  because I know not everyone can. But like we were done early and
• 2:05:37
  then it was great racing. So, so again, check out Lorraine
• 2:05:40
  Raceway Park out in Amherst, OH, just straight shot down the Ohio
• 2:05:45
  toll road. Literally once you get on the
• 2:05:47
  Ohio toll road or Indiana Toll road to to Ohio, once you get
• 2:05:51
  on, you're not off until that exit and then you turn and you
• 2:05:56
  go through a stoplight and then it comes up pretty quickly.
• 2:05:59
  It's almost like a, how do I want to say it?
• 2:06:02
  What track is similar to it where it's like if you didn't
• 2:06:05
  know what you were looking for, you pass the sign.
• 2:06:08
  You can't see the track from the road, but the signs right there.
• 2:06:10
  So once you get past that light, tread lightly as you go and
• 2:06:14
  you'll see the sign and then you'll turn.
• 2:06:16
  But if you don't know what you're looking for, you'll pass
• 2:06:19
  it and you'll have to turn around.
• 2:06:20
  But it you go down the little bit dirt driveway and pit, pit
• 2:06:24
  access is right there or pit access is right there and then
• 2:06:27
  you curve around and almost like it looks like a ball field was
• 2:06:29
  there at one point the way it's set up.
• 2:06:30
  But you curve around the corner and parking the general
• 2:06:33
  admissions right there. It's metal bleachers, I guess is
• 2:06:36
  how you would describe it. So definitely can bring seat
• 2:06:38
  backs, but you guys also have backs, no?
• 2:06:42
  Yeah, there's there's a part of it that has back seats.
• 2:06:44
  That's the metal bleachers. And there's wooden bleachers,
• 2:06:47
  too. Wooden.
• 2:06:47
  Bleachers on the sides and all that.
• 2:06:49
  The concessions are great. They took cards.
• 2:06:51
  You still take card for your concessions.
• 2:06:53
  So I mean, that's that's what I loved too.
• 2:06:54
  I could just in my card and walked out with huge chicken
• 2:06:59
  strips. I mean, they're like, I think
• 2:07:01
  they went to the school of Lee and Dibble with chicken strips
• 2:07:03
  there, but huge chicken strips. But again, without support, very
• 2:07:08
  affordable pricing. So again, Lorraine Raceway Park
• 2:07:11
  and we've been talking with the promoter, Randy Maggio Junior
• 2:07:14
  all about it. So again, I know you've had a
• 2:07:17
  long day. So I'm we don't want to keep you
• 2:07:19
  any longer because your day starts at what, 7:00 probably.
• 2:07:22
  Yeah, we start. We start at 7:00.
• 2:07:23
  I get up about 5:50. I won't be up usually I'm still
• 2:07:29
  up editing at that point, but all my editing is done for the
• 2:07:33
  week. I just got to get ready for
• 2:07:34
  Clash. So I won't be up that still at
• 2:07:37
  that time when you're getting ready for work, I'm like I
• 2:07:39
  that's the time I'm slowing down.
• 2:07:40
  So. But again, Randy, thank you so
• 2:07:42
  much for joining us tonight. And yeah.
• 2:07:45
  Thank you guys. Cannot sing your praises enough.
• 2:07:47
  I've seen you and your team work super hard overcoming things, so
• 2:07:51
  just keep up the good work. Awesome.
• 2:07:53
  I appreciate you guys. Thank you.
• 2:07:54
  Again, thank you. And we've again we've been
• 2:07:56
  talking with Randy Maggio, junior at Lorraine Raceway Park
• 2:08:00
  and his family still also owns Painesville, but it as he said
• 2:08:04
  it is on a three-year lease right now.
• 2:08:06
  And if you've missed the earlier conversation, we did talk with
• 2:08:09
  Andy Bozell Racing, which included all four racers, Mason,
• 2:08:14
  Andy, Phil and Bryce. So they were about 7:43.
• 2:08:18
  We were three minutes behind with them, but pretty close on
• 2:08:21
  timing right. And and then we started the show
• 2:08:24
  tonight with Michigan Auto fan club.
• 2:08:26
  So one more time before we get off of here because it's nine O
• 2:08:28
  7. So it's about when we use your
• 2:08:31
  ending. Join today the family just to
• 2:08:34
  remind everyone the family is not correct.
• 2:08:36
  They just changed that. So it is a different.
• 2:08:39
  Unlimited kids. Load all your kids in there.
• 2:08:41
  Yep, that are 15 or under $25. So that did change.
• 2:08:48
  Obviously I'm going to show I can't change your graphic now,
• 2:08:50
  but but two adults $25 and single membership go to
• 2:08:53
  mark.org/join or you can join in person and if you go to
• 2:08:57
  mark.org, you can see all their events, their member tracks
• 2:08:59
  where they go. We counted what 120 bucks that
• 2:09:02
  you can save just in the month of just in the month of August
• 2:09:06
  if you went to all their different events.
• 2:09:08
  But other than that, booze, you, I, oh, I almost forgot this.
• 2:09:14
  We didn't do it earlier, but no show this Thursday.
• 2:09:16
  I will be editing the clash because I, I have Corgan oil on
• 2:09:22
  Friday and I won't get home till like 2 in the morning.
• 2:09:24
  If it's anything like this past Tuesday or Tuesday, Friday I
• 2:09:30
  won't be on and then I won't be back till 2:00 AM And then I got
• 2:09:34
  to get to new pairs by noon the next day and then I'll be at
• 2:09:38
  calendar with you on Sunday. So I'm editing the clash
• 2:09:41
  probably as soon as I get home because I won't have time after
• 2:09:43
  that or it'll be way into way late into the week and not going
• 2:09:47
  to do it. I'm bored, won't be edited.
• 2:09:49
  I I will promise that that won't happen, but I'm not staying up
• 2:09:53
  literally all night. But I'll have Thursday to edit
• 2:09:56
  things while stuff for downloading.
• 2:09:57
  But I will start the class when I get home that night because we
• 2:10:01
  have two classes. Rappers rumble and it's getting
• 2:10:02
  dark. That's where I'm like my light,
• 2:10:04
  my clackers not working tonight. It's like I'm going to fade into
• 2:10:06
  the darkness here and the raccoons are getting super mad
• 2:10:10
  that they can't come up yet. Yeah, but.
• 2:10:12
  But So, yeah, no Thursday show just because I will be buried
• 2:10:16
  deep in editing. It gives Buju a night off too.
• 2:10:19
  And then I also see that Jace foist he's been on.
• 2:10:24
  And so he says that he has a car for M40.
• 2:10:28
  So pretty exciting to see Jace. I know he was in Jason's car,
• 2:10:32
  his dad practicing with it, so. Oh, absolutely.
• 2:10:38
  And he's passionate about racing too.
• 2:10:40
  And I met, I went to his name's Bodie.
• 2:10:43
  So at the night of destruction yesterday, I got to keep
• 2:10:46
  reminding myself it was yesterday.
• 2:10:47
  Then we'll go. I'll just tell the story,
• 2:10:48
  really. Quick.
• 2:10:51
  So yesterday I'm walking over by the Hapner's Aaron Hapner, the
• 2:10:55
  shark we've had on here before too.
• 2:10:57
  I walk over and they're, they start talking with me, his, they
• 2:11:02
  start and Bodie, Oh, I don't know his age, but young, you
• 2:11:08
  know, and he's like, that's all they were telling me.
• 2:11:13
  That's all he could talk about is do you know the top row guy?
• 2:11:15
  I love top row and he and he and they're like, and he was telling
• 2:11:20
  us that you have 4000 followers on YouTube, that he's watched
• 2:11:24
  everything on YouTube and he looks forward to it.
• 2:11:28
  And so I made sure that he got some stickers and everything,
• 2:11:30
  but it was a great, it was a great, absolutely.
• 2:11:33
  It's a great reminder, you know, because just like with Randy
• 2:11:38
  Naggio, just with like Lee and Tim going through it, Drew Jacks
• 2:11:40
  had it. Obviously Randy is added.
• 2:11:42
  Donnie's had it. You know, Donnie's the one who
• 2:11:44
  told me about the critters. You heard that flagger boy
• 2:11:47
  drivers get booed. Like, I get it, it's social
• 2:11:49
  media and you're not supposed to let it bother you.
• 2:11:51
  You're supposed to let it roll off.
• 2:11:53
  But they're just times I'm tired of it where it's like, you know.
• 2:11:55
  All human. Yeah, I lose too much money
• 2:11:58
  doing this. I don't have to do this.
• 2:12:00
  I can sell everything. I, it would hurt because I enjoy
• 2:12:04
  doing it, but at the end of the day, it's like, I don't know, I,
• 2:12:07
  this is not making money at all. People think it is, but it's
• 2:12:11
  like they're uneducated because they just, it's simple math.
• 2:12:14
  Again, simple math, but people don't want to do simple math.
• 2:12:17
  They take what someone says and runs with it.
• 2:12:19
  And because if it's on Facebook, it just must be 100% true.
• 2:12:23
  And it's like, no, you know what?
• 2:12:24
  I have so much invested in this, but there are times where it's
• 2:12:28
  like, I could, I could give up on this.
• 2:12:30
  It's fine. I can walk away from it.
• 2:12:32
  I can go back to the sitting in the bleachers eating my chicken
• 2:12:35
  strips and drink my Pepsi or Coke.
• 2:12:37
  If I have to settle for Coke and be back to that, not have to
• 2:12:41
  worry about running around and cameras working and getting
• 2:12:45
  things set up and all and running social media every
• 2:12:47
  single day. It's like, you know, this isn't
• 2:12:50
  if it's not fun anymore, it's time to get out of it.
• 2:12:52
  And some people are making it not fun anymore.
• 2:12:54
  But then you got someone like Bodie or Ronnie Plumbers
• 2:12:59
  daughter and and others who Jason Foy's kid Jace, who come
• 2:13:04
  around and they're big fans and they can't wait to tell you all
• 2:13:07
  the things they like watching and how you do it.
• 2:13:10
  Dylan Cassidy, you know, up at Corrigan and.
• 2:13:13
  Greg Gasco's daughter I know is a big.
• 2:13:15
  Fan Yeah. Oh, yeah.
• 2:13:16
  So it's like that's a reminder that sometimes, yeah, the adults
• 2:13:18
  suck. And I wish I could say a lot
• 2:13:20
  more back to them than what I can because I do try to be
• 2:13:22
  professional. But at the same time, it's like
• 2:13:25
  you get the kids, you know, like, OK, that's the reminder,
• 2:13:28
  right? That's the reminder that you
• 2:13:29
  needed that, you know, there. And it's the silent reminder,
• 2:13:34
  you know, like David Howe, John Boy, Hotch kiss, John Jackson,
• 2:13:40
  Gary Angle, you know, a bunch of others, you know, night
• 2:13:43
  destruction scene, Tabitha and Ralph and a whole bunch of
• 2:13:46
  drivers there. You know, who are the reminders?
• 2:13:49
  Like, you know, they're the silent supporters, right?
• 2:13:52
  Like, you know, they support. They don't need the accolade.
• 2:13:54
  They don't need to shine it brighten, you know, like a neon
• 2:13:57
  sign. But sometimes you just read
• 2:13:59
  comments. You see, see things.
• 2:14:01
  It's like, and if only people knew.
• 2:14:02
  But it's like, you know, I don't I don't have to do this.
• 2:14:05
  No photographer does, videographer does.
• 2:14:07
  I mean, think of James Dimmitt, think of Bass Racing productions
• 2:14:09
  who sat as, as Randy said, sacrificing weekends to do
• 2:14:14
  stuff, missing out on things to do stuff that it's like, you
• 2:14:17
  know, sometimes I don't blame the racetrack if they put the
• 2:14:20
  first sale sign on because I'm like, yeah, look at your social
• 2:14:22
  media people ripping you apart and look at Lorraine, all these
• 2:14:26
  people, MF them and everything else.
• 2:14:28
  They opened up the gates, sold out crowd.
• 2:14:30
  It's like you missed it, didn't you?
• 2:14:32
  You're on social media about 11 months ago, moaning and
• 2:14:37
  complaining, but you all came back, you know, So it's like,
• 2:14:42
  you know, it's just funny, but but I'm excited for Jace, you
• 2:14:46
  know, because of his passion for racing.
• 2:14:48
  And it's like, you know, the passion keeps you going, but
• 2:14:50
  sometimes even passion isn't enough.
• 2:14:52
  But but I, I'm, you know, meeting Modi yesterday and his
• 2:14:57
  excitement and I'm like, you probably knew about the 4000
• 2:14:59
  before I did, you know, because I, I'm like face or YouTube just
• 2:15:03
  literally told me on Thursday before we came on the show.
• 2:15:06
  I got the e-mail. And but again, that's where I
• 2:15:09
  definitely appreciate all the supporters.
• 2:15:13
  Obviously, Boozoo, you're before day one.
• 2:15:15
  So I appreciate that you get to come on.
• 2:15:16
  I'm excited for the platform that you keep building and how
• 2:15:19
  now I can help that. But then how everyone who's
• 2:15:22
  getting to know you behind the scenes now, you know, can help
• 2:15:24
  with that because you have such a passion for it.
• 2:15:27
  So hopefully, you know, as you get bigger, I keep warning you,
• 2:15:30
  as you get bigger, you're going to start getting a lot of those
• 2:15:32
  comments coming your way too. It's coming and you're just
• 2:15:36
  going to, you're going to have to just get past it, but it's
• 2:15:39
  not going to be easy. It's going to suck sometimes.
• 2:15:41
  But other than that, it's 9:15 again, another packed episode.
• 2:15:45
  Like I said, coming up, we're going to have over the next
• 2:15:48
  couple weeks, we're going to have tri-state sprints joining
• 2:15:50
  us with John Boyd Hotchkiss, Sean Sprague as our next
• 2:15:53
  announcer to come on and talk about that.
• 2:15:56
  Andrew Bogus who races Oh John Boy's on look at that.
• 2:16:01
  Thanks for the plug and and again and I'm writing an article
• 2:16:04
  for them. I just I, as I said, I had a
• 2:16:06
  headache and everything, but I do want to, I mean, their show,
• 2:16:10
  if you've not, and I know it's dark, but if you have not seen
• 2:16:12
  the tri-state sprints, once again, they deliver and it's a
• 2:16:16
  it wasn't a sold out crowd, but that was the largest Friday
• 2:16:19
  crowd that Corgan's had in a long time.
• 2:16:22
  And that's where I feel for like gym leisure because it's such a
• 2:16:26
  nice facility there. The bleachers are amazing, but
• 2:16:29
  with Tri-state sprints, they had such, they had a good battle up
• 2:16:33
  front there. It's on YouTube, you can watch
• 2:16:36
  it. Cheap plug time.
• 2:16:37
  We didn't do a cheap plug tonight, cheap plug time.
• 2:16:39
  But that race was so competitive.
• 2:16:42
  AJ Laseki ended up winning with the Super Modified.
• 2:16:45
  So he swept the series at Corrigan.
• 2:16:47
  He's the card that my camera motherboard burned on.
• 2:16:50
  But at least we got most of the race minus like 5 laps.
• 2:16:53
  But but AJ got out there. But you know, when you have 410
• 2:17:00
  sprints, 360 sprints and supermodified all have the same
• 2:17:03
  track and it's a competitive show.
• 2:17:06
  They packed the house or just as they did at Kalamazoo.
• 2:17:09
  They're I I'm going to try to convince Chris and Tracy to
• 2:17:13
  maybe think about it and give the Tri states a shot because I
• 2:17:17
  know in this area, obviously you have 500 Sprint car tour that
• 2:17:20
  people think about and you had must see, although must see is
• 2:17:22
  kind of falling off the earth here a little bit.
• 2:17:25
  But but that tri-state group and they have such an amazing again,
• 2:17:29
  John Boy behind that David Howe as a big supporter of beacon
• 2:17:32
  sales and service who joined me and and helped replace those two
• 2:17:36
  onboard cameras that died because he said you can't be
• 2:17:38
  without cameras. So buy them and I'm paying for
• 2:17:41
  them. And again, someone like him to
• 2:17:42
  stop out Dora, his wife and family.
• 2:17:47
  And then you got Sean Sprague. You just have a whole bunch who
• 2:17:49
  are part of that group where they definitely they they have
• 2:17:54
  no more races for this year, but definitely check for their
• 2:17:56
  twenty 762027 schedule when that comes out, because if you've not
• 2:18:00
  seen their show, you need to that they did.
• 2:18:02
  They say the most competitive sprints on on asphalt.
• 2:18:06
  And I know people will always roll their eyes when tracks are
• 2:18:08
  serious, say things like that, but it's like go watch.
• 2:18:11
  I promise you, you'll walk away thinking it.
• 2:18:13
  So I just it's huge kudos to them.
• 2:18:17
  So they'll be coming on here over the next couple weeks.
• 2:18:21
  I'm going to get them scheduled that way.
• 2:18:22
  We kind of have like a whole night dedicated to them to talk
• 2:18:27
  about the series. And then like I said, I have a
• 2:18:31
  couple other people starting to get lined up.
• 2:18:34
  So and then Craig Johnson, who I know is on here.
• 2:18:36
  His team reach. Yep, Hambone, his team reach
• 2:18:38
  out. How can we get him on?
• 2:18:39
  I'm like I'm scheduling, let me get ahead and but obviously I
• 2:18:43
  want to bring Craig on. I want to try to do a champions
• 2:18:46
  series where I'm going to open it up to if the champion wants
• 2:18:48
  to come on for 10 minutes and try to do a marathon like every
• 2:18:52
  10 minutes as a new champion. But give champions a chance to
• 2:18:55
  come on out and shout out their sponsor, shout out their season,
• 2:18:58
  shout out who helped them, whether that be at Plymouth,
• 2:19:01
  whether that be at New Paris or Kalamazoo or M40, wherever.
• 2:19:04
  I want to open it up to all the tracks and you know my feelings
• 2:19:08
  sometimes about a place that certainly dislikes me.
• 2:19:11
  But the Champions obviously deserve their opportunity and
• 2:19:14
  moment. And you know, you got Cameron
• 2:19:16
  Mccrudden who is just such a phenomenal young driver, bright
• 2:19:20
  future head. Obviously they deserve their
• 2:19:22
  opportunity and moment to shine. So I want to open that up.
• 2:19:26
  So once Kalamazoo and M40 and all them have their champions
• 2:19:30
  crime, that's when I'll probably make a post like hey champions,
• 2:19:33
  I'm going to open it up. You tell me every 10 minutes
• 2:19:35
  starting at seven O 5 to, you know, then about 7/15/16, then
• 2:19:39
  seven, you know, I want to try to just cycle through or you
• 2:19:44
  know, spread them out maybe by track, you know, have 4
• 2:19:47
  segments, 4 champions, whatever it looks like.
• 2:19:49
  But that's coming up. So obviously tri-state strength
• 2:19:54
  will be a part of that because they just crowned their champion
• 2:19:56
  who's from South Africa. So yeah, he's from South Africa.
• 2:20:02
  I know they do, yeah. The, I remember the I don't want
• 2:20:04
  to talk, I don't want to name the series, but I remember
• 2:20:06
  another series from around here going to South Africa at one
• 2:20:08
  point. That's interesting that they're
• 2:20:09
  championing. Yeah, Yep.
• 2:20:11
  And, and they have some drivers who will go over to South Africa
• 2:20:14
  I believe this year or somewhere they'll go race over there
• 2:20:17
  during the winter. I think the Roar went over there
• 2:20:20
  one time and did some racing over there.
• 2:20:21
  I think that happened. That could be crazy.
• 2:20:24
  Yeah, well, and he's coming to the class this weekend, so I'm
• 2:20:28
  excited for that. And if you haven't, I'm
• 2:20:29
  promising you. I can't say the name.
• 2:20:31
  I've been told I'm not allowed to.
• 2:20:33
  But it's a big name and it might even be on social media by the
• 2:20:36
  time we get off. But if it's not, I'm still not
• 2:20:38
  allowed to say it until it's out there.
• 2:20:39
  But I promise you, this name will be well known coming to
• 2:20:45
  race. And no, just to spoil everyone,
• 2:20:48
  it's not Carson Hosavar. Sorry.
• 2:20:51
  It is not Carson. I can say that it but it is it
• 2:20:56
  is a big name, so significant name, especially in Clash
• 2:21:01
  history. So there's your again.
• 2:21:05
  Yeah, not a man that's still wide open.
• 2:21:08
  Yeah. No, it's pretty wide.
• 2:21:09
  Yeah, I'm just, it's pretty wide open.
• 2:21:10
  I'm just saying that's all you're getting.
• 2:21:12
  You had some NASCAR drivers come race to clash.
• 2:21:15
  You had, I mean, you've had a mix.
• 2:21:16
  So I still didn't give it away but.
• 2:21:17
  No, no. That's a lot of options, but
• 2:21:19
  that's what we're. Getting out of here.
• 2:21:21
  Yeah, I I don't know the answer so.
• 2:21:23
  Yeah, Nope. I'm excited.
• 2:21:25
  So again, clashes this Wednesday.
• 2:21:27
  Hopefully the weather holds off it sounds like.
• 2:21:29
  I hope, hope everybody has fun up there.
• 2:21:31
  I'm bummed. I'm gonna miss it, but
• 2:21:32
  unfortunately I do have to pay the bills.
• 2:21:34
  So I go to work on Thursday morning.
• 2:21:36
  But I'm very jealous. Looking forward to it on top of
• 2:21:38
  racing media. But obviously, everybody should
• 2:21:40
  go to Kalamazoo Wednesday, if you can, and watch.
• 2:21:42
  I mean, I mean arguably the marquee race in the area.
• 2:21:46
  Especially when for the. LA models.
• 2:21:47
  So yeah, definitely get up there.
• 2:21:49
  And you know I love me some St. Socks, the ravers.
• 2:21:51
  Rumble. Oh yeah, ravers rumble as.
• 2:21:52
  Well. 43 or is it 4643 or 46? It's one of them that's.
• 2:21:58
  Insane on a Wednesday that's. Crazy on a Wednesday So I mean
• 2:22:02
  there's no excuse to not come out so but I know like I said my
• 2:22:06
  light on is not working and before it looks like we're low
• 2:22:08
  budget operation which. Yeah.
• 2:22:13
  Yeah, oh, their eyes are already glowing over there, so I know
• 2:22:16
  they're they're they're wanting their popcorn.
• 2:22:17
  But but anyways, oh, John boy, I've been to South South America
• 2:22:22
  racing twice or South Africa. Excuse me, not South America,
• 2:22:25
  South Africa racing twice. 2000, 2006 Finished.
• 2:22:28
  Definitely got to talk about that.
• 2:22:29
  So that's something to look forward to when he's.
• 2:22:31
  On very soon. Oh yeah, he, I mean, he's
• 2:22:33
  raised, he's done his thing and obviously he's doing an
• 2:22:35
  incredible job with this series. So other than that, let me do
• 2:22:38
  this right, because now I hear Dalton in my head now.
• 2:22:41
  So all right, Buju, it's almost time to turn left and go fast
• 2:22:44
  because. We'll see you at the races.
• 2:22:46
  See everyone?