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"Wellness Wednesday", FBQ on digital clutter, another "swatting" hoax, "reciprocal" tariffs and "Little Irish" hmself - Stephen Donahue! · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: this well because I did a little bit of research
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Speaker 1: about it this morning. That's all. Remember the bookmobiles. Does
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Speaker 1: anyone out there remember the bookmobiles?
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, They've been around for a long time, over one
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Speaker 1: hundred years, and I know there's some some some pretty
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Speaker 1: cool speaking of books, some fundraisers going on over at
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Speaker 1: Berry City Elementary School posted it up this morning, so
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Speaker 1: We're looking at the cloudy and cold day today. Heard
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Speaker 1: so much bitchin and moanin yesterday about the weather. I
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Speaker 1: share that with you. I share that frustration with you.
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Speaker 1: I'm done with the cold in the wind, ready for
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Speaker 1: some warm weather. Looks like it's coming soon though, and
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Speaker 1: the R word rain is in the forecast. Ice today
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Speaker 1: in the Are you ready for this? Lower to mid
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Speaker 1: clouds for the afternoon Tomorrow forty five. We're going to
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Speaker 1: rebound here very slowly. Friday. We're looking at clouds, some
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Speaker 1: morning flurries. Lower fifties by Friday, which will be a
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Speaker 1: nice bit of relief. Weekend not too bad, a little
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Speaker 1: milder on Saturday, cloudy skies, a little bit of wet
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Speaker 1: snow and some rain mixing in. How much don't hold
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Speaker 1: me to this? Don't say? JD told me one to
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Speaker 1: three I heard it on the aired out podcast one
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Speaker 1: to three inches. Because it depends on where you are.
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Speaker 1: You could get a dusting, you could get three inches,
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Speaker 1: especially if you have you know Sheffield Heights, be careful
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Speaker 1: driving up there. And then Sunday cloudy start, some late
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Speaker 1: afternoon sunshine and fifty five degrees. I'll tell you why
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Speaker 1: today's a great day, even though it's freezing out there.
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Speaker 1: Wellness Wednesday with Wells Based Building twenty three Summer Street
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Speaker 1: right here in the Granite City. It is hosted by
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Speaker 1: Washington County Mental Health. It is free, it is open
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Speaker 1: to the public. They've been doing this the first three
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Speaker 1: Wednesdays of every month. It's from four thirty to seven.
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Speaker 1: If you haven't been yet, you want to try out
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Speaker 1: a Swedish massage, maybe some reiki, some sound healing. Heather
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Speaker 1: and I were talking about this at great lengths the
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Speaker 1: other morning, Monday morning. As a matter of fact, it's
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Speaker 1: over in her office over at well Space. It is
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Speaker 1: the place to go on a Wednesday. Just trust me
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Speaker 1: on this. Four seven nine, four zero, five to five.
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Speaker 1: You can leave your wallet at home, but that's the
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Speaker 1: number to call to set up a you know, kind
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Speaker 1: of a time slot reservation. That's what I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: say for a massage, chair, massage, table, massage, you name it.
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Speaker 1: Walkin's always welcome for the acupuncture and acupressure, a little
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Speaker 1: bit of mindfulness meditation. Who doesn't need that? Everyone does? Again,
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Speaker 1: everything free. Make plians now. It is this aufternoon, starting
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Speaker 1: at four thirty. And yes, as we wrote this morning
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Speaker 1: on our Facebook page, you deserve this, so take advantage
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Speaker 1: of it. Fore Casted washouts push the Northeast Classic to
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Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, April eighteenth and nineteenth. That's the headline
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Speaker 1: that I got, along with so many others yesterday. And
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Speaker 1: Stephen Donahue is going to be joining us shortly this
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Speaker 1: morning to talk about that Facebook question of the day.
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Speaker 1: This new survey out on digital clutter, and I found
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Speaker 1: it very interesting that the average American has just over
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Speaker 1: one thousand unread emails, one thousand and forty four to
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Speaker 1: be exacting, I'm I'm one of those Americans. I don't
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Speaker 1: even I've got well over that, and I know it's
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Speaker 1: very sad. Twelve unread text messages. This is the average
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Speaker 1: of unread text messages. I've got more than that, seventeen
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Speaker 1: unread social media notifications don't have that one. But still
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Speaker 1: that's all. This is the average American. And to be clear,
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Speaker 1: that is those were unread emails and texts, not unanswered,
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Speaker 1: just totally unread, which is different kind of but either way,
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Speaker 1: it's obviously clearly something that many of us have little
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Speaker 1: time or energy for. So and I'm asking you this morning,
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Speaker 1: if he had a full day to do nothing but read, delete,
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Speaker 1: and or respond to emails and texts, would you take
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to catch up. Would it depend on how
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Speaker 1: the weather is? If it was a crappy day, you
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Speaker 1: could stay inside and do that all day. Would you
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Speaker 1: do it even if it was sunny and beautiful out?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. On the ice last night, Bruins Gate
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Speaker 1: past the Double seven into Too Celtic Squeet by the
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Speaker 1: Knicks one nineteen to one seventeen. The final NASCAR heads
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Speaker 1: to Bristol this weekend. There's a lot of stuff going
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Speaker 1: on Vermont News. Here we go. Buckle up for mont Day.
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Speaker 1: Police say they are continuing to investigate after a hoax
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Speaker 1: threat that targeted about a dozen schools across the state. Yesterday.
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Speaker 1: For Mont Date, police said they were notified that an
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Speaker 1: unknown person had called the Department of Defense self helpline
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Speaker 1: chat function to make threats against twelve middle end high
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Speaker 1: schools across the state. Investigator said the call exhibited the
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Speaker 1: same threatening characteristics of previous hoax and swatting campaigns. All
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Speaker 1: threats made against the schools were determined to be unfounded.
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Speaker 1: Great news, but what a scary yesterday and a lot
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Speaker 1: of police presidents around many of these schools. The Vermont
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Speaker 1: House is rap up work on their education reform plan,
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Speaker 1: with most details finalized ahead of the full House vote
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Speaker 1: later this week. The proposed legislation includes a foundation formula
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Speaker 1: for education funding, a study to consider redrawing district lines,
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Speaker 1: and updates to Vermont's property tax structure. Colchester police have
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Speaker 1: arrested a man after reports of an armed chase outside
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Speaker 1: of that daycare center on Prim Road Monday afternoon. I
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Speaker 1: was talking about this a little bit yesterday. Officers were
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Speaker 1: told that this guy was chasing a woman with a
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Speaker 1: gun in the parking lot of a daycare center, Little
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Speaker 1: Lakers Academy is what it's called. Twenty two year old
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Speaker 1: Robert Jenst taken into custody, charged with aggravated domestic assault,
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Speaker 1: weapons possession while committing a felony, criminal threatening and disorderly conduct.
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Speaker 1: I could probably think of a few more that we
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Speaker 1: could add to that list, but then again, we're in
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Speaker 1: Vermont national headlines the US, and I know my blood
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Speaker 1: pressure is going up right alongside yours. US is set
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Speaker 1: to impose one hundred and four percent tariffs on Chinese
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Speaker 1: goods starting when today. US is also going to begin
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Speaker 1: collecting new country specific tariffs from eighty five other trading
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Speaker 1: partners today. Watch out, fifteen percent of our food supply
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Speaker 1: here in America is imported. Fifteen percent doesn't sound like
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Speaker 1: a big number. Watch what happens in the grocery stores.
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Speaker 1: Watch what happens with electronics, clothing. The list goes on,
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Speaker 1: And that's just China. The new reciprocal tariffs took place
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Speaker 1: at midnight last night, so we are preparing for price
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Speaker 1: increases on a wide range of goods far beyond those
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Speaker 1: items that I just mentioned. Watch what happens to produce
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Speaker 1: seafood technology. Rising tariffs on building materials also going to
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Speaker 1: be creating significant challenges for local construction companies and nonprofit
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Speaker 1: organizations working to address Vermont's ongoing housing crisis. You bet
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Speaker 1: Barslow Construction and I are going to be talking about
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Speaker 1: this on Friday morning. Materials like lumber, steel, glass are
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Speaker 1: the concern, making it more difficult to build future projects. Apple,
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Speaker 1: did you hear about this this morning? Apple is considering
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Speaker 1: shifting its iPhone production to India to offset tariff costs.
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Speaker 1: So if you love your Apple iPhone, you might be
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Speaker 1: thinking about getting a new one. You might have to
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Speaker 1: dip into your life savings, what's left of it, or
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Speaker 1: your four h one k if it hasn't been cashed
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Speaker 1: out yet already Supreme Court on Tuesday yesterday blocking in
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Speaker 1: order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands
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Speaker 1: of federal employees who were let go in mass firings
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Speaker 1: aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government. The Justice is
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Speaker 1: acted in the administration's emergency appeal of a ruling by
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Speaker 1: a federal judge in California ordering that sixteen thousand probationary
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Speaker 1: employees be reinstated while a lawsuit plays out because their
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Speaker 1: firings didn't follow federal law. The effect of the High courts,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to keep employees in six federal agencies on
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Speaker 1: paid administrative leave for now. Wow, there is there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff that's going on a lot. It was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be a huge opening weekend for the American
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Speaker 1: Canadian Tour this weekend at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The
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Speaker 1: press release yesterday reads, and I got this along with
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Speaker 1: the rest of you. After weather already rereaked havoc on
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Speaker 1: Thompson Speedway's Icebreaker, rain has continued to pester the American
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Speaker 1: Canadian Tour and Pro All Stars Series partnership this time
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Speaker 1: with the fifth annual Northeast Classic at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
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Speaker 1: Anticipated rain showers and cold temperatures have forced officials to
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Speaker 1: take advantage of the pre planned rain dates, with practice
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Speaker 1: day now scheduled for Friday, April eighteenth, and it looks
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Speaker 1: like Saturday the nineteenth will be the green flag for
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Speaker 1: the Northeast Classic, fifth annual. By the way, so you know, frustrating,
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Speaker 1: absolutely no question about it. And one driver who was
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Speaker 1: looking to redeem last year's finish and now is not
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Speaker 1: going to be able to get the chain chance to
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Speaker 1: do that is none other than Little Irish himself. Granted,
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Speaker 1: Phil Stephen Donahue, Good morning, buddy.
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Speaker 2: How the hell are you going? Doing pretty good?
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Speaker 1: What was your what was your your take yesterday when
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Speaker 1: you got that news?
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Speaker 3: Definitely a bummer, but I mean, watching the weather, obviously
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Speaker 3: we all kind of knew that it was a good
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Speaker 3: possibility it was going to happen. Yeah, obviously ACT can't
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Speaker 3: control the weather, and it sucks that they had to
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Speaker 3: move it, but that's all all part of the game.
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Speaker 1: What happened last year at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for you, well.
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Speaker 3: We had a good car and we took off and
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Speaker 3: we're battling for the lead and then into that batling
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Speaker 3: for second. And as a driver and I were running
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Speaker 3: hard and I went into the corner on the bottom
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Speaker 3: like I would normally go in after you ran me
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Speaker 3: down to the road course down the back straight, and
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Speaker 3: he just tearing down in the corner like I wasn't
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Speaker 3: even there, and he went around, and I went around,
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Speaker 3: and he went into the wall, and I stayed in
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Speaker 3: the gas to keep it out of the wall, and
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Speaker 3: fortunately another car behind us followed me right down to
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Speaker 3: the grass and drove into our door, but nowhere to go. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: just kind of ended a good run there and ended
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Speaker 3: up taking the car home and fixing the little bit
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Speaker 3: of tin on the bottom of the car and got
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Speaker 3: it ready for the next race. That's the one nice
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Speaker 3: thing about that guy being old and heavy. It takes
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Speaker 3: a beating.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you're anxious to get back over there,
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Speaker 1: but you've got to refocus things here. On April nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: the Claremont opening, which of course you're you're very excited about.
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Speaker 1: It had been looking forward to for a long time.
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Speaker 1: Are you excited, I'm guessing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm definitely excited.
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Speaker 3: The plan was obviously to go over there with Norm
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Speaker 3: and the two car, but unfortunately with him passing away
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Speaker 3: that those plans obviously didn't come to flourishing.
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Speaker 2: Right. Uncle Bill was planning on going down there with
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Speaker 2: us with his care.
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Speaker 3: And he was like, well, you guys are planning on
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Speaker 3: doing it, just I'll go down all in the car
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Speaker 3: and you drive my car down there trying to have fun,
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Speaker 3: which makes it a little bit easier with it not
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Speaker 3: being every week to have that little time in between
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Speaker 3: to where we can still really focus on our thunder
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Speaker 3: Road but still go down there and have some fun.
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Speaker 1: Sure, tell us about last season at thunder Road for you, Steven.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely was not the season we were hoping
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Speaker 3: for after winning the championship in twenty three.
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Speaker 2: But we struggled in the beginning.
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Speaker 3: And we changed some new parts on our car, new
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Speaker 3: spindles and stuff because they got bent, and by mid
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Speaker 3: season we had changed everything back and it still wasn't working.
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Speaker 3: So we started really changing setup stuff and by the
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Speaker 3: second half of the year we started to running a
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Speaker 3: lot better than we did, but it was just a
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Speaker 3: little a little too late to make up the point
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Speaker 3: deficit that we made going into the begetting prout of
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Speaker 3: the year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was. There were a couple of of of
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Speaker 1: rough rough days for you, and you know, Bussy Fisher,
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Speaker 1: you could capture in your eye a little bit of
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Speaker 1: frustration at times.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a lot of that this past year.
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Speaker 3: And what we did the year before we figured would
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Speaker 3: work again, and it just with what with the tires
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Speaker 3: being different and things that just the setup didn't work
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Speaker 3: like it did and it was hard to fill the
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Speaker 3: swallow to get me to want to change things when
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Speaker 3: the guy was so good the year before.
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Speaker 2: And finally when I opened up to it, it.
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Speaker 3: Was we sided to make some headway, which I wish
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Speaker 3: I would have just done right off and not been
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Speaker 3: so hard headed in the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 1: Well you're irish, buddy, I mean, come on, what what
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Speaker 1: did Uncle Bill and John say to you last season
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Speaker 1: when you had a couple of rough rough days.
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Speaker 2: I just said, it's it's part of it, which I
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Speaker 2: know what you've got.
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Speaker 3: You're gonna when you're gonna lose a lot more races
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Speaker 3: than you win, and you're gonna have good years and
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Speaker 3: bad years. It was just keep keep working on, keep
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Speaker 3: going through the cat try and find something, and every
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Speaker 3: time we found something that was a little different, we
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Speaker 3: change it. It just wouldn't make up all the difference. And
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Speaker 3: they just said, we'll get it eventually. We just gotta
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Speaker 3: keep working on, don't. Don't just give up more or less.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you listen. I know you've got some real exciting
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Speaker 1: news to share. We've all seen it on Facebook about
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Speaker 1: a new sponsor. But before we go there, you you
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Speaker 1: were just talking a little bit ago about twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about October first, twenty twenty three. Your dream
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Speaker 1: became reality of sharing a milky, wet kiss with a cow,
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Speaker 1: and you got your name etched into.
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Speaker 3: Granted, Yeah, that was definitely the icing on the cake
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Speaker 3: for how the year went. And get king in the
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Speaker 3: road was cool. But I always said that I'd always
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Speaker 3: rather have the Milk Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Than its championship. But then to go to the Milk
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Speaker 2: Bowl like we.
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Speaker 3: Did and have a really good car and win, it
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Speaker 3: was just a dream come true for sure. And I
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Speaker 3: just still hard to believe we got the milk can
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Speaker 3: up at the house and sitting there. But it's still
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Speaker 3: hard to really fathom that I finally got to do
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Speaker 3: what I've always wanted to do at thunder Road.
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Speaker 1: Man, you had a shit eating grint on your face
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Speaker 1: a mile wide Stephen, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was amazing. And then to have my uncle there
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Speaker 3: and my dad and my papa all be able to
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Speaker 3: be there and witness it and tried taking it was
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Speaker 3: It wasn't incredible. It was just a perfect ending of
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Speaker 3: the year for what for what we actually kind of
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Speaker 3: expected going into the year.
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Speaker 2: We didn't really expect to be as.
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Speaker 3: Good as we were, and we just never really fell
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Speaker 3: off all year. It was the cat stayed consistent and
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Speaker 3: it was just it was a lot of fun. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: when you're running good, it's always fun. But yeah, what
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Speaker 3: made last year so difficult?
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Speaker 1: I remember asking you what would be that that that
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Speaker 1: big race that you have a one yet that you
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Speaker 1: you got to just win, And I remember you obviously
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Speaker 1: saying the Milk Bowl and be prepared because I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: ask you that question again this morning. But interesting that
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Speaker 1: that that was sticking to the bone a little bit
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Speaker 1: more than becoming King of the Road. That's that's fascinating.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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Speaker 3: I mean I got the King of the Road, which Dad,
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Speaker 3: unfortunately was never able to get, so that was cool
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Speaker 3: to get that, but just the with the prestige of
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Speaker 3: the Milk Bowl and how Ken and Tom really made
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Speaker 3: that the big race of the whole season. Even back
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Speaker 3: when like lay Maul still did the ultrad to fifty,
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Speaker 3: the Milk Bowl was just always something a little different.
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Speaker 3: But it being basically three weekly races and one day
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Speaker 3: and the pushing the carriers out and everyone going on
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Speaker 3: the front stretch and the Tom trials, they just it's
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Speaker 3: such a different race than we get to do all year.
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Speaker 3: And for Pat and Chris to keep that alive, which
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Speaker 3: is really really cool, just makes that race just so
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Speaker 3: much more different for me personally.
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Speaker 2: That's why I just mean so much more.
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Speaker 1: All right here it comes that that questions, what's that
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Speaker 1: race in twenty twenty five that you just have to
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Speaker 1: have checkers?
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Speaker 2: Definitely.
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Speaker 3: Now, obviously I won't win the Mike Bowl again, but
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Speaker 3: the Labor Day Classic, the two hundred lapper is definitely
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Speaker 3: one that I got marked specifically that I really want
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Speaker 3: to put a ton of effort into to try and
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Speaker 3: go and win that one. That way, I got all
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Speaker 3: three granteds out on top with my name on it.
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Speaker 2: I have that two flap race.
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Speaker 3: That'll check that race off and it'll give me my
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Speaker 3: first Points Act win, which would be really good.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Sixty sixth season is right in front of us Sunday,
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Speaker 1: May fourth, the twenty seventh Annual Community Bank and a
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Speaker 1: one fifty.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing you're gonna be there for that.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we'll be there.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have our thunder Road car h the one
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Speaker 3: will run all year, but that one's gonna be there
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Speaker 3: for the car show, and we're gonna practice it a
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Speaker 3: little bit, shake it down because we got to another
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Speaker 3: motor in that car for this year, just to try
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Speaker 3: and make sure we got no bugs for the first
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Speaker 3: race Memorial Day.
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Speaker 2: But we're gonna run our our.
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Speaker 3: Old heavy Care that we've done some changing to for
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Speaker 3: the actual race, and hopefully we'll be able to come
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Speaker 3: out of the gate strong for sure in that race
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Speaker 3: and ride that momentum through the whole season.
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Speaker 1: I think pretty much all of Central Fromad is gonna
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Speaker 1: be up at that car show on May third from
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Speaker 1: nine to two and nine till noon, and then you're
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Speaker 1: gonna be, like you said, You're gonna be running practice
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Speaker 1: laps until like what five o'clock or so that night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be uh.
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Speaker 3: I haven't really looked at the schedule yet for the
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Speaker 3: race day, but I'm assuming that we'll probably have about
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Speaker 3: four hours of practice.
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Speaker 2: Between all the divisions, and Saturday obviously is going to
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Speaker 2: be just a.
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Speaker 3: Big make sure nothing comes a power, everything's tight, no
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Speaker 3: leaks anywhere, so Sunday we'll be able to come out
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Speaker 3: scrup the race tires and then get right into qualifying.
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Speaker 1: Throw some love, if you would add those that have
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Speaker 1: been turning wrenches for you, your your crew as well.
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Speaker 1: They've been working so hard to try to get this
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Speaker 1: car ready for this weekend, which is not gonna happen
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Speaker 1: because of the weather over at Loudon, But yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: give give them some some big props if you can.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. My father, he's been putting a lot.
25:47
Speaker 3: Of time into the cars this this winner. And Justin
25:52
Speaker 3: Johnson who has been up a lot this winter working
25:56
Speaker 3: a lot on the cars, Jordan's Blaze, Brian Tellergreeney, my
25:59
Speaker 3: girl Fernanda has been on touching him up, helping change
26:02
Speaker 3: body panels and going through all the bearings. Sean Lampson
26:07
Speaker 3: has been up a lot Rowley Park has been at
26:09
Speaker 3: the shop with my dad helping anyway he can. Mark
26:14
Speaker 3: Lampey has been helping us, not so much working on
26:17
Speaker 3: the car, but he's been helping us a lot with
26:18
Speaker 3: knowledge on what to do and what to possibly change
26:22
Speaker 3: to try and get a little bit better this year.
26:26
Speaker 3: And it's just been definitely been a busy winner. We
26:29
Speaker 3: got most of the body parts done on all the
26:31
Speaker 3: other caves, but then we kind of got behind on
26:34
Speaker 3: our loud and cast. So last week has been really
26:37
Speaker 3: all hands on deck until obviously the news yesterday, which
26:41
Speaker 3: and now we focused on getting that car ready for
26:43
Speaker 3: thunder Road.
26:44
Speaker 1: Sure, Sure and April nineteenth at the at Clairemont, the
26:50
Speaker 1: the Claremont opening. That's gonna be. That's gonna be tremendous.
26:53
Speaker 1: And I know, I know you're you're worked up about that,
26:55
Speaker 1: but listen, sponsor wise, you have there are so many
27:01
Speaker 1: businesses that just love you. And I think they love
27:07
Speaker 1: you off the track just as much as they love
27:10
Speaker 1: you on the track, because you're just a You're just
27:13
Speaker 1: a good guy. You're a humble dude. But one Credit
27:17
Speaker 1: Union just wrote you a very nice check, Steven.
27:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, they them coming on board this year is big
27:28
Speaker 3: with they're really really excited for and it's I'm really
27:34
Speaker 3: excited for it. We're gonna have a little a little
27:36
Speaker 3: different looking cat than we've had the past two years
27:39
Speaker 3: with it, but I'm really excited to see what we
27:42
Speaker 3: can do with them, and they're excited and all on
27:45
Speaker 3: board and hoping we can continue to build on this
27:49
Speaker 3: for the next few years, possibly do the tour and
27:52
Speaker 3: and continue to branch.
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Speaker 2: Out with it.
27:55
Speaker 1: And your other sponsors.
27:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, with one Credit Union coming on there the main sponsor.
28:01
Speaker 3: They're they're the big one down the hood in the quarters.
28:05
Speaker 3: And we got Prime Salon and day Spa and Stone
28:08
Speaker 3: Service Station and McCarthy family.
28:11
Speaker 2: Maple Lowry's Auto Sales, a J.
28:14
Speaker 3: Recycling, ab excavation and Stonework aired out. Obviously, We've got
28:20
Speaker 3: Precious Paws, eight or two pause c Burnaby Trucking, four seasons,
28:27
Speaker 3: h VAC cliffhangers, we.
28:31
Speaker 2: Got Summer Street Tavern.
28:34
Speaker 3: And the Den sponsored us with doing our Calcutta things.
28:39
Speaker 2: And uh then.
28:41
Speaker 3: I got some more great sponsors for the Claremont Ride,
28:44
Speaker 3: which is also one Credit Union because they got a
28:47
Speaker 3: branch down there, which is very cool. Rutland Dodge Ram
28:53
Speaker 3: KMV Designs Kitchen and Counters LLC. And then we got
29:00
Speaker 3: Rickland fram Trucking, which is my business that I do
29:03
Speaker 3: all summer long haul and material and construction things. And
29:08
Speaker 3: we got Rutledge Construction that came on board this year,
29:11
Speaker 3: which is really cool. They've a big race fan but
29:15
Speaker 3: never been on a CARR, so he's excited. So hopefully
29:19
Speaker 3: it's going to be a good year at both tracks
29:22
Speaker 3: and as well as doing some of our act races
29:25
Speaker 3: that will do over our White Mountain stuff.
29:28
Speaker 1: What a list. That's impressive, brother.
29:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's great to have people that sponsor, help help.
29:39
Speaker 2: Get a car of the track and help with tires.
29:41
Speaker 3: And fuel, and it's obviously a very expensive sport and
29:45
Speaker 3: the fact that they believe in me that they want
29:47
Speaker 3: to promote their business on my car is just really
29:51
Speaker 3: really an honor because it's hard to get sponsors nowadays,
29:55
Speaker 3: and when you get one, you obviously want to do
30:00
Speaker 3: the best you can to promote their business.
30:02
Speaker 2: So it's definitely definitely really humbling. For sure.
30:07
Speaker 1: Are you going to be able to keep it on
30:09
Speaker 1: all fours in twenty twenty five?
30:13
Speaker 3: I'm hoping, So I'm hoping there's no more on my
30:16
Speaker 3: roof or on fire or anything.
30:19
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping the cow stay nice looking all year.
30:23
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's part of your legacy. There's nothing
30:25
Speaker 1: you can do about it. Brother. Everybody's going to remember
30:28
Speaker 1: that that crash, and there's even several that remember you
30:35
Speaker 1: being on aired out with me shortly before that crash
30:39
Speaker 1: saying that the worst fear that you could have would
30:42
Speaker 1: be being in a car that's on fire. I mean
30:45
Speaker 1: some people would say in a car underwater, but you
30:50
Speaker 1: said in a car that's on fire, And right after
30:54
Speaker 1: you were on the air with me that happened.
30:57
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely not a not a good thing and open
31:02
Speaker 3: to not not have a repeat, that's for sure.
31:05
Speaker 1: I love the fact that you you you went up
31:07
Speaker 1: to the hospital with some some burns and and a
31:12
Speaker 1: banged up, very banged up a wrist I think it was,
31:17
Speaker 1: And I think they didn't they wanted to put you
31:19
Speaker 1: in a cast or something, and and you you got
31:23
Speaker 1: back in the car right after that.
31:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, they that night they put me in a splint
31:28
Speaker 3: and wrapped it all up. So the next day we
31:32
Speaker 3: had to figure out how to get a suit that
31:35
Speaker 3: my that the splint would go through. So I could
31:37
Speaker 3: get to the track to growth tend to win a
31:40
Speaker 3: championship for Norm and ended.
31:42
Speaker 2: Up having to put ave on my hand.
31:44
Speaker 3: That way it had some protection in case something did
31:47
Speaker 3: happen again and.
31:49
Speaker 1: You won that championship.
31:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
31:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ended up winning the race and the championship,
31:54
Speaker 3: and it was that was really cool to go over there.
31:57
Speaker 3: Just all we had to do was start, but driving
32:00
Speaker 3: all the way over there and everyone that worked on
32:03
Speaker 3: the current at the time and to get it ready.
32:05
Speaker 3: I definitely wasn't just gonna start in park. I wanted
32:08
Speaker 3: to do what I could and the car was just
32:10
Speaker 3: really really fast, so made it a little bit easier
32:13
Speaker 3: for me to drive and ease the pain a little
32:17
Speaker 3: bit in my hand.
32:19
Speaker 1: And you were in pain. You you did that race,
32:23
Speaker 1: You won that race, in that championship with a bum wrist.
32:28
Speaker 1: You're a tough dude, man, I just you're You're a
32:32
Speaker 1: tough guy.
32:34
Speaker 2: Kind of this tough and stupid, but it's definitely something.
32:40
Speaker 1: Man, we so many of us watching listening this morning,
32:47
Speaker 1: wish you and the rest of your family a great
32:53
Speaker 1: season I had and hopefully a little bit better than
32:59
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four or which was a little bit of
33:03
Speaker 1: an off season for you. But man, it's like we're
33:06
Speaker 1: just gunning for you. Brother. You are so well loved
33:09
Speaker 1: and respected in this community and far beyond.
33:15
Speaker 3: It's open, open to definitely be a little bit better
33:18
Speaker 3: season and hopefully make everybody proud to be wearing a
33:23
Speaker 3: Donnie shirt and support me for sure.
33:26
Speaker 1: Brother, Thank you ever so much. You know, I know
33:31
Speaker 1: I say this to you every year, but I would
33:34
Speaker 1: love to, if possible, try to connect with you mid season.
33:40
Speaker 1: I know it's it's just pure insanity for you. I'll
33:44
Speaker 1: reach out, I'll give you a little poke, and if possible,
33:49
Speaker 1: I'll come to you. I'll come to your garage, uh
33:51
Speaker 1: if if if that's uh, that's welcome. But I I'd
33:54
Speaker 1: love to have you back on mid season if we
33:57
Speaker 1: possibly can do that.
33:59
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely definitely sounds like be fun and we'll just
34:03
Speaker 3: have to figure out a date that'll work.
34:07
Speaker 1: All right, dude, listen, get back to work. We know
34:10
Speaker 1: that we're taking some precious time from you and we
34:13
Speaker 1: appreciate it so much. On behalf of everyone. Thank you
34:16
Speaker 1: Steven so much.
34:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem, Thank you very much.
34:20
Speaker 1: Have a good one, all right, buddy, Stephen Donahue right
34:22
Speaker 1: there on aired Out Don't Forget Tomorrow, Ge is back
34:29
Speaker 1: in the saddle here with me in the studio, and
34:33
Speaker 1: one can only wonder what we're gonna be talking about.
34:37
Speaker 1: I don't even know what we're gonna be talking about.
34:39
Speaker 1: I've got a few ideas, but I can't wait to
34:42
Speaker 1: have him on tomorrow morning, nine o'clock. Right here on
34:46
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34:51
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34:58
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35:07
Speaker 1: I can get a word in, maybe some of the
35:11
Speaker 1: construction industry impacts from the tariffs and so much more.
35:17
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35:20
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36:09
Speaker 1: gonna warm up very slowly. Thursday Friday. I'm keeping an
36:14
Speaker 1: eye on it. I'll let you know what's happening. Man.
36:18
Speaker 1: It was like windy as hell last night, at least
36:20
Speaker 1: at my place. I don't know about yours. It was crazy.
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Speaker 1: So done with the cold. Be well everyone, God bless
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