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Episode 22 | Monday Night Rewind | Taylor Sexton | Survivor 180 Enduro Information · Top Row Racing Media Monday Night Rewind

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  What's up race fans welcome into the Monday Night Rewind On top
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  of Racing media presented by ELH Detailing and Federated Auto
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  Parts. You'll look back at the weekend
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  and your interview show around Michiana Motorsports.
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  My name is Buju. Sometimes a race car driver,
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  sometimes an announcer. Host of the Monday Night Rewind,
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  host of the Thursday Night Throttle, host of the Bullring
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  Chronicles and joined as always on the Monday Night Rewind
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  tonight live on top of our racing media by Lewis Noakes.
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  How we doing, Lewis? Ask me later.
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  Or do you want the lie? Which one do you want?
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  How's the how's the on the show version of Louis doing?
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  So you want the lie? I'm doing great today.
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  How about you? Great and great.
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  Both versions are doing OK today.
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  Even for a Monday, we're doing all right.
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  Yeah, well, I'm excited for the show.
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  So, you know, I'm really excited because I'm a big fan of Taylor
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  and so having someone of her caliber on and everything that
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  she's done, getting her, you know, getting to watch her grow
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  over the last couple years and a lot of different roles, you
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  know, that's why I'm super excited for, you know, turning
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  off from the weekend because it's been a rough weekend like
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  everywhere. And I've not been on Facebook
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  much today. I'll just say that because it's
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  depressing, it's exhausting, and it makes me fun to say
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  everything's for sale. So, you know, it's one of those
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  things that, you know, I, I feel bad, you know, when you care
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  about stuff, and I know you're super passionate about racing,
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  right? And when you care about stuff,
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  you care about people, you care about the tracks, right?
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  It's just, you see it all and it's just.
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  Yeah, it's exhausting, right? And, and, but I got to make an
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  autism logo. We have an autism awareness
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  night at Kalamazoo. Jew Jack called me around 11
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  today and said, hey, can you make this?
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  I need to do this today. And I don't know if he saw the
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  look that I gave him because we were on the phone, but I'm kind
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  of thinking like, bro, I already have enough on my plate right
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  now between full, full programs and all the on boards.
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  But sure, why not? I'll do that for you.
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  And so I did it while we were on the phone.
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  We were talking and I was making a logo at the same time.
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  So 'cause if there you go, better do it now while I'm in
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  the program or talking. But, but other than that, I'm
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  excited for that. You know, we've done that a
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  couple years with autism awareness.
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  Lot of tracks do something for autism awareness.
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  And that's why I don't know if you saw it, but I used the
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  Infinity symbol because that's more representative.
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  The community went with that symbol a few years ago.
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  Old school, you can tell old school, it's the puzzle, right?
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  So who probably watched the Drew Carey Show and Mala's Family and
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  you know, that kind of deal probably use the puzzle pieces.
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  But infinity's more representative, although not
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  official symbol, but more representative of the messaging
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  between the, you know, behind the autism.
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  So I thought let's let's use the Infinity symbol to Figure 8 can
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  kind of make it look overly. Yeah, yeah, we, we participated
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  in the national Compact 2 Ring series Down syndrome program
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  that they ran at M40 last year. I know that's a little different
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  than the autism thing, but obviously, but just so it's a
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  it's such a cool program Do we had Zach with us for the
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  afternoon at M40 in it. That's just such a such a cool
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  thing that and Andy does a lot for the autism and the Down
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  syndrome awareness type events. And yeah, it's a lot of, it's
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  cool that a lot of tracks are joining in on that trend because
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  it is a very, it's a good opportunity to get a new
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  audience out to the racetrack and somebody's going to enjoy it
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  a lot. So yeah, it's pretty cool.
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  Well, and as someone who obviously worked for many years
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  with people with disabilities, right, it's one of those things
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  that, you know, it's one of my olds to, you know, advocate,
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  right, and also educate, you know, as I can, you know,
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  without, you know, making people feel like they don't know.
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  But you know, we just we live in a world where there, you know,
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  nobody's walking around, you know, on their forehead anywhere
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  with the stamp that says I have a disability, right?
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  You know, they're the sometimes you can kind of tell, right?
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  Witcher was funny yesterday because he was doing something.
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  So I said, how are you so creative?
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  Because he was in character, not a character, right.
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  So, you know, when we when it's just talking with, you know,
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  people, right, he's out of character and and I'm like, how
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  do you, how do you come up with all this?
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  And he's like, think some of it might be autism, you know, and
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  I'm like, I haven't picked up any that might suggest you have
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  that, but it possible, right? Because he's not, you know, no
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  one walks around with that. But but it's definitely
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  something that, you know, I appreciate when tracks do that.
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  They I wish sometimes and I know it's super difficult for them,
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  but like while you're doing this, like can we get community
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  organizations out like K reset kind of you know, to the track
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  and having something other programs are like when Bering
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  county, we have lighthouse Education Center, we have
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  blossom land Learning Center, like can we educate, you know,
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  because you know, Michigan actually, I know Michigan gets
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  crapped down a lot for a lot of different things, but you know,
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  but Michigan has one of the best special education program and
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  laws in the in the nation. We, you know, we do above and
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  beyond what the federal law requires, where some other
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  states go, like Florida goes below what the federal law
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  requires. And so it's like there are a lot
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  of services and a lot of things for parents and others in
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  Michigan, but a lot of times people don't know where to find
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  that. And so it's one of those things
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  that, you know, it's like, I know they maybe don't always
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  know where to look or where to go to, but I always start with,
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  well, what's your county RISA or ISD in Indiana, their Isds.
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  But you know, it's like, who's your county resource?
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  And from there you can branch out.
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  So and there's tons on the state of Michigan website too.
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  So I'm excited for that. So doing that, you know, got got
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  to do something different. But then I'm running behind on
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  editing everything. So I'm like, it'll be a long
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  night. But but yeah, I just don't go on
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  Facebook as you said though. Good show to know.
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  Yeah, we do have a good There you go.
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  There you go. That's that's a good reason to
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  be on Facebook. We do have a good show tonight,
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  though. I mean, like I said, I don't.
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  Yeah, go ahead. Seven O 5 Obviously we're I'm
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  about to bring on Taylor, so I hopefully she's a little more
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  relaxed now she's got the sunshine behind her.
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  So you know, I'm excited to bring her on and then I do and I
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  know Chris just popped into the chat area down below.
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  So he's kind of hanging out in the staging area.
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  And we're going to be talking about the new pair Speedway
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  survivor 180, which is a three hour enduro this Saturday.
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  So if you have a night of destruction car or got and go
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  car and you can find 3 racers or anybody is just need 3, you know
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  who wants to come out and race? It's they're going to they're
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  not using the Figure 8 track, but they're using it's like a
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  kidney bean or whatever you want to call it.
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  So they're going to be doing that for as many laps.
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  So whoever logs the most laps, whatever team logs the most laps
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  wins the race and and that three hour duration, not including red
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  flags or anything. So that'll be new pair Speedway.
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  So I asked Chris to come on and talk a little bit more about
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  that just in case people want to jump in the car.
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  It's $100 to register. We have all the details later
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  on. So definitely if if no one has
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  plans on Saturday and they want to do an enduro, there's not any
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  night instructions this week as far as I know.
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  Come on out to New Paris and do that.
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  So we'll talk about that. And then don't forget the
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  Thursday night throttle does return because I'm not at
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  Hartford like I was last Thursday when we would have had
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  the throttle. So definitely with the Thursday
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  night throttle gives a preview of the upcoming weekend.
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  We have a huge show at Kalamazoo on Friday night, kind of talked
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  about autism apart, but obviously the holiday models are
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  racing for 7500 wins. So that'll be a huge event.
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  And then I know at Russell's M40 Speedway, they have the Judgment
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  Day St. Stock race, and with New Paris
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  off and I think Angola's off and a couple others, that there's
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  got to be a lot of cars that are probably looking for a place to
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  race on Saturday. So definitely could be an option
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  to go to. But other than that, if you're
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  ready, we can bring on Taylor. Yes Sir, sorry, I fixed my
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  microphone here. There's technical difficulties
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  in the Boujee Studio. All right, so joining us will be
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  Taylor Sexton from Sexton Motorsports, who's also the race
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  director for the National Compact Touring Series Kalamazoo
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  Mini Wedges. And I feel like I'm forgetting
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  other things. Obviously does fast way
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  creations and amazing stuff. So we'll make sure she gets all
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  of her titles going on, but other than that, how are you
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  doing, Taylor? Good.
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  How are you? Oh hey, I mean, it's Monday and
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  it's sunny before the hot, so can't, I guess we can't really
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  complain about that. Maybe tomorrow we can.
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  Do you like the hot temperature? Are you kind of like a coolish?
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  I'm like fall weather. I don't like the hot.
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  Yeah, so starting tomorrow, you might feel the same way that I
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  do then that like, I mean, I don't want to be cold, but you
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  know, if I wanted to live in Florida, I'd move to Florida.
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  So, you know, and it's going to be like Florida and it's like,
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  no, that's not a that's not a thing for me.
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  So. But but other than that, I
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  definitely appreciate you coming on.
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  I know when I asked you on Friday, like, hey, you know,
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  like I've been thinking for a while about asking you and you
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  know, just because I, I know, you know, I'm a big fan of yours
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  and what you do. And, and so I'm really excited
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  to have you on because there's so much that you do and have
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  done that short track spotlights and driver spotlights just can't
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  capture it all in 2000 words. So now we have a platform that
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  we can, you know, expand on those.
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  And so for those who are watching who may not know who
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  Taylor Sexton is, we have a, we have an audience, you know, from
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  all over and, and get a lot of views.
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  I mean, we get a, we're almost at 100 Buju, did you know we're
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  almost at 100,000 total views in our in all of our episodes?
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  I didn't sounds good to me though.
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  That's about 50,000 more than others in the same time frame.
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  But anyways, not that anyone's doing the math like I am, but
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  Taylor, tell us who you are. So I guess we'll start off.
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  I'm a female race car driver. I race out mainly at Kalamazoo
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  Speedway. I traveled a little bit to
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  Springport. Then on top of that, I come from
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  a background in racing. My dad, my aunt and my brother,
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  my cousins, we all race. That's all we've really known
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  what to do. I guess you could say.
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  I also race direct with Drew Jack Series A little bit here
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  and there when I'm not busy with my mini wedge kids.
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  But my main priority is the Counselor Speedway Mini Wedges,
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  Family Fun mini wedges, race directing and trying to help get
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  that series going. Do you want to talk about how
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  you fell into race directing? You know, is that something you
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  always wanted to do? Is it something that you thought
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  about doing? Like let's kind of go there
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  because that's what you're doing now, right?
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  And I know, I think it was it at Drew Jack's show the like 2
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  years ago that I think you, that was like your first night, you
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  know, because there's an enduro at the end.
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  There's, I think we have modifieds or something like that
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  going on. I mean, there's a lot if I
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  remember that was your first night.
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  I could be wrong, but but how do you, how do you racetrack?
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  How do you find yourself doing that?
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  Yeah, so all started with the mini wedges, uh, when Ryan
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  Warning was, uh, here in Michigan still, he had asked me
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  and my mom to come out and kind of help just because we had the
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  background and the quarter Midget stuff a little bit.
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  I know they're two separate completely different things, but
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  it's mainly the kids and we kind of just had that background.
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  And then I was just like his assistant.
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  So I would listen to him talk to all the kids and this and that.
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  And then one day he was like, Yep, you're doing it.
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  So here you go. And that's how I basically got
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  started. And then it was just mini
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  wedges. And then one day Drew was like,
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  hey, I need you to come help me. And I was like, OK.
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  And then all the sudden I'm like, OK, what am I doing?
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  And he goes, yeah, you're race directing.
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  And I was out at Hartford and I was like, OK, here we go.
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  So that's how I got into it. And then it just keeps going so.
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  Because I mean, your family, there's a lot of legacy with the
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  Sexton family and especially in Southwest Michigan.
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  And so, you know, that's something, you know, when you
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  grow up around it and you're surrounded by it, right?
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  It probably feels maybe natural in a way.
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  But you know, what is it that you want to do in racing
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  ultimately? I mean, obviously you're a racer
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  and I know you said female racer, but you should say badass
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  racer because that's more what it's like right, in a late
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  model. I mean one of few boojoo.
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  That's the thing that always surprises me, right, is that,
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  you know, we have a lot of female representation like
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  Hornets and front wheel drives and and outlaws, whatever you
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  want to call them. But then as you move up, it just
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  it gets less and less and less. And so, you know, Taylor
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  certainly been a trailblazer leading the way up at Kalamazoo
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  is one of the V8 style, you know, female racers, but it
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  should be badass racer. But you know, so other than
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  that, I mean, what do you what do you want to do?
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  Like what's an ultimate goal of yours or dreams that you have in
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  racing? I would really love to make like
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  a career out of it, maybe one day, I'm not sure like what
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  avenue I want to go down or where I want to end up, but it's
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  definitely a dream to make a career out of racing just
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  because I've been around it my whole life and it's something
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  that I enjoy. I was born in November and that
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  April I was at the racetrack and I think we might have missed one
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  year when there was a tradition transition from when my dad was
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  done with the big cars and Alex getting into the quarter
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  midgets. There was just like one year
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  that we were not at a racetrack maybe.
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  I mean, we were still there almost every single weekend, but
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  there just wasn't a big card there at the racetrack.
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  What was it like watching your dad?
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  I asked him on Friday. I because Alex wasn't there yet,
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  right? And I went, man, it kind of
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  feels weird. There's only one car there
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  sometimes and it's like, and there's always 2, right?
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  So I, I asked your dad, I said, do you ever want to get back in
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  the car? And obviously that answer was
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  yes. And so, you know, and he would
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  like to do outlaw super late models again, right?
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  That's something he wants to do. And So what was it like watching
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  not only your dad, but then being coached, you know, by your
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  dad, because maybe that's two different versions of your dad,
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  or maybe it's the same. But what's it, what's it like
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  having someone who obviously was successful behind the wheel also
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  now in your corner, you know, watching you and coaching you
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  along the way as you go? Yeah.
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  So like as a kid, like when my dad was starting a race, we
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  always had the skybox and I would hide underneath the
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  paneling there under the windows, and I would barely ever
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  watch him restart a race. I don't know what it is, but
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  that's just something I always remember and maybe that's why
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  now I struggle so badly with my research because I never watched
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  him. But it's definitely cool because
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  my dad was one of the top guys, I guess you could say at the
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  time at Kalamazoo. And just being able to carry the
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  last name at the racetrack, that's pretty cool that people
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  still remember. I think like when we have our
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  autographs and stuff like that, people will come be like, Oh my
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  gosh, I remember when you were two years old and this and that.
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  So like it's cool that people are still there that were there
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  when my dad was racing at first. My dad has always, you know,
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  been in the late models and stuff like that.
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  So my mom's rule was going from quarter midgets to the big
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  track. We had to start in front of
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  drives for a year and I learned absolutely nothing.
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  I was walled my very first race ever and then I basically
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  totaled that same car out. But the car still running cuz
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  Scott Gates drives in now. So it's still out there.
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  So that's awesome. But after that year, my dad was
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  like, no more of this frontal Dr. stuff.
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  We're going up to big cars. And that's when I started my
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  street stocks and going into it, it was definitely a learning
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  curve, you know, for my dad and myself.
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  So like we kind of went as we were going and figuring it out
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  and my last year in the street socks, we we really figured that
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  one out. That was a car that we built
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  with Tim Bullis and it's actually the car that Alex still
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  drives and that was a really good piece.
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  I think it's it's a pretty good car.
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  And then they let Alex race or hot lap at M 41 day and then
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  come to find out we're racing against each other and we were
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  so close in times and this and that.
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  And, you know, every single time we'd have Akash and he'd pull up
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  right next to me like, yeah, good job, keep going.
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  They were same thing. And now it's like, OK, I'm done.
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  I don't want to race with Alex anymore just because, you know,
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  it's like, I'm sure he could say the same thing.
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  It's just the challenge between I have to be better than my
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  brother and I'm sure he's like, well, I can't let my sister beat
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  me either, you know. So then that's when I moved up
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  to the Late models and it's pretty cool 'cause like, I guess
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  you could say my attitude is more like my aunts, 'cause we're
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  feisty and we're ready to go, whereas Alex and my dad are so
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  laid back, they don't care what happens.
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  So it's like I'm fired up when something happens and my dad's
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  like, no, you did good like you, there's nothing that you did
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  wrong and stuff like that. So I definitely need my dad
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  there to keep me grounded because, you know, he's the one
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  that will work with me. He did.
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  He's taught me so much about the line and stuff like that.
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  And there's still times today where I'm like, I need you to go
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  in this corner because I feel like I'm not hitting my marks.
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  So I need you to watch me. And then he'll be like, OK,
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  well, I see you're doing this and you need to change it to
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  this. So I'm just really thankful that
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  I have his knowledge to back me up and stuff, but I'm also glad
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  that I can learn how to do stuff myself and not have to rely on
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  him if something is to happen. Now, Buju, I know I want, I want
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  to make sure you get questions in too.
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  So I will throw it to you. I know what my next question is
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  based on what what Taylor was just talking about.
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  But and there's already a question I had in my mind, so
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  I'm glad that you went that way. I was going to ask about like
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  Marks and all that, but. I'm I'm more curious about the
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  race directing side and you see I'm now holding my microphone
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  instead of it being on a stand. So that's where we're at over
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  here. But I'm curious about the race
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  directing side. So you race directed mini wedges
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  and you race directed big cars, quote UN quote.
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  So I'm on the mini wedge side. I feel like race director is as
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  much of A coach as it is race directing, right?
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  So what's that like stepping from that side where you're kind
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  of sort of an extra parent to all these kids?
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  It's where you get onto the side where now you're dealing with
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  adults with their own personalities and all that
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  stuff. What are those?
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  What's the challenges there, stepping from one end to the
• 20:51
  other? Yeah.
• 20:52
  So like with the kids, obviously, you know, you're kind
• 20:54
  of mentoring them, teaching them, whereas the big cars, you
• 20:58
  can be a little bit more forceful, you know, like you got
• 21:01
  one lagging back, like not going up to their spot.
• 21:04
  And you can be like, hey, listen, if you don't watch your
• 21:06
  spot, I'm going to fill the gap with the car behind you.
• 21:08
  Like get up there, get in your spot, fill the gap.
• 21:12
  We're coming to the green flag. You know, it's a lot more
• 21:16
  watching the big cars just because you don't have you have
• 21:22
  a bigger track. So you're constantly watching.
• 21:24
  And I think what a lot of people think when you're race directing
• 21:28
  is that, oh, you're just watching the race happen, but I
• 21:31
  can't tell you half the time what lap we're on, who's my
• 21:34
  leader? Like who's getting lapped?
• 21:37
  You know, that stuff that you really have to pay attention to
• 21:40
  because, you know, I'm not really telling the kids like,
• 21:43
  hey, hold your line leaders are coming.
• 21:45
  Whereas in the big track that's that's crucial.
• 21:47
  You need to pay attention, you know, because hey, you want to
• 21:52
  make sure that your lap cars aren't going to take out your
• 21:54
  leaders. Unfortunately that happens
• 21:55
  sometimes. So that's your job is to make
• 21:58
  sure that you are watching for that so that you can prevent
• 22:01
  stuff. Now the bigger question which
• 22:05
  Which side acts like the bigger kids?
• 22:07
  Is it the kids or is it the adults?
• 22:10
  Definitely the kids, they, those kids, they, they test your, your
• 22:16
  buttons sometimes. But when they're ready to race,
• 22:19
  they put on one heck of a show. And then my last question before
• 22:23
  I throw it back to Lewis, what do you think prepared you more
• 22:25
  for being a race director? Was it being a racer or being in
• 22:27
  a racing family like you are? I think being a racer, because
• 22:31
  you can use your knowledge to help other people and you know
• 22:36
  what to look for. I guess like when you know
• 22:40
  someone's pretty loose and they're about to lose it, you
• 22:43
  kind of know to just keep your eyes there.
• 22:45
  They might, they might get it on their own, but you got
• 22:48
  definitely have to watch. Well, and that was those were
• 22:52
  perfect questions. Booed you in a way.
• 22:53
  The segue from where I was already thinking of.
• 22:56
  You know, my question I wanted to ask is because I've gotten a
• 22:59
  chance to see you work with the mini wedges and you've talked
• 23:02
  about obviously how your dad can mentor you, but you can also
• 23:05
  learn it on your own. But now you get to mentor those
• 23:09
  mini wedge kids, right? And you also a few weeks ago,
• 23:12
  the mini wedges went over to the quarter Midget track and got a
• 23:15
  chance to like team together in that sense and and do some
• 23:19
  things together. So when you're at, you know,
• 23:21
  when you're talking with the kids about their racing or you
• 23:24
  see that a kid is like beating them self up because you know
• 23:28
  what that's like you've beat yourself up, right?
• 23:30
  So, you know, how do you go in and talk with them and approach
• 23:33
  them? Or even I know sometimes you
• 23:36
  guys have walked the track together right where you know,
• 23:38
  you're talking about your marks. So how do you how do you see you
• 23:42
  making your mark on this youth generation right now that
• 23:47
  eventually will be racing right next to you and challenging you
• 23:50
  for a spot on the track? Yeah, so I guess my biggest
• 23:53
  thing that I try to teach the kids when I'm working with them
• 23:56
  is respect. Respect goes a long way on the
• 23:59
  racetrack. And if you're just out there to
• 24:01
  hit fenders with people, you're not going to make it very far.
• 24:05
  So that's the biggest thing that I look for is the respect.
• 24:11
  So like recently we've had issues with passing zones and if
• 24:16
  some of my kids are watching, they all got after me for
• 24:19
  passing zones the other day. So it goes both ways.
• 24:22
  But you also have to have, you know, that relationship with all
• 24:25
  the kids. Like, you don't want them to be
• 24:27
  afraid to come up and tell you something like, hey, I don't
• 24:29
  appreciate you doing this or hey, can you help me with this
• 24:33
  better than you did this time? You know, So the biggest thing
• 24:38
  is like, I like to create a relationship with the kids to
• 24:41
  make sure that they know that it's that they are more than
• 24:45
  welcome to come tell me if I'm doing something they don't
• 24:47
  appreciate. And I think that just goes a
• 24:50
  long way too. But the respect and passing
• 24:54
  cleanly is the biggest thing. And you've been a part of the
• 25:00
  main wedges now for a couple years, especially at Kalamazoo
• 25:02
  under the leadership of Kenny Head.
• 25:04
  And so you've gotten a chance to, you know, be with someone
• 25:08
  who you watch race and got a chance to race against, got a
• 25:10
  chance to start next to at times to, you know, on the front row
• 25:14
  and everything. So what is the growth that
• 25:17
  you've seen in the many wedges and maybe even some drivers that
• 25:20
  come to your mind from the first time you stepped into that role
• 25:24
  with Kenny had to now like you know, what stands out to you in
• 25:30
  terms of the growth of the program, growth of some drivers,
• 25:33
  even growth from rookie drivers this year where you're like a
• 25:36
  few years ago we wouldn't be in this spot and now we are, you
• 25:39
  know what, what do you see? It changed.
• 25:42
  Yeah, so a lot of the kids that I started off with when I first
• 25:47
  started, you know, they were five or six years old at the
• 25:49
  time and they are now in the cage park champ part, whatever
• 25:55
  it is. So they're to the point where
• 25:58
  they're progressing. And I think that's my favorite
• 26:00
  thing is like, forgive me if I make like forget some of the
• 26:06
  kids, but like Elena Rutherford, Hunter Pyramid, there's just so
• 26:13
  many of them that, you know, they're also being coached by
• 26:17
  their parents that are also racing with me on Friday nights
• 26:21
  that I've raced door to door with.
• 26:23
  And just seeing where they've come from when they started to
• 26:27
  where they're at now. It's awesome.
• 26:29
  Just like another one. I've had a few kids that I've
• 26:34
  personally told Kenny like, hey, they're they need to be moved up
• 26:39
  because they're not at their full potential in this class.
• 26:42
  So they need to go to this class.
• 26:44
  Because to me, if you're just sitting in a class to win and
• 26:49
  you know, because, you know, you can go, go, go, go, go all the
• 26:52
  time. Like I don't necessarily see the
• 26:55
  good in that. Like, do you want to progress in
• 26:58
  your racing career? You know, like I've had so many
• 27:01
  people come up to me this year. They're like you've you've
• 27:05
  you've went really far this year, like from where you were
• 27:08
  at a few years ago to now like you've made a lot of progress
• 27:12
  and I really like to see that now with the program.
• 27:16
  When I first started, we were maybe averaging 10 to 15 cars
• 27:21
  for the juniors and the seniors. Kenny has put so much hard work
• 27:25
  into this program and we are now averaging 30 to 35 between
• 27:30
  Kalamazoo and Berlin every single time we're at the
• 27:33
  racetrack. And now that he doesn't have a
• 27:37
  race car in his shop to, you know, tinker with this, this
• 27:41
  program has become his thing. And he's really, he's really
• 27:46
  made this thing work. And it's really cool to see like
• 27:50
  all the kids like you with him too.
• 27:54
  Like he has his golf cart. And more than half the time
• 27:58
  you're going to see his golf cart filled with all the kids
• 28:01
  when we're not racing or they're always coming up and joking with
• 28:05
  Kenny and this and that. And it's just like being able as
• 28:10
  a club to like transition from, OK, we're ready to work to then
• 28:16
  in our breaks, we're all going along with the kids.
• 28:20
  And like, we have a few of our little boys from Indiana, they
• 28:27
  race at Plymouth and then they're coming up to Kalamazoo.
• 28:31
  And like our Kalamazoo guys, little boys and little girls are
• 28:35
  going down to Plymouth. And I'm so thankful because
• 28:39
  Plymouth decided to kind of work around with us too.
• 28:42
  Like if we're racing this weekend, well they're racing the
• 28:45
  next weekend so that everyone can like come together and we're
• 28:49
  not just stuck to one track, you know, like then on our
• 28:53
  Saturdays, all, all the kids, even Indiana kids are coming up
• 28:56
  to Berlin and that's like a 2-3 hour drive for them.
• 28:59
  And that's definitely saying something when they're coming
• 29:02
  all the way to Berlin to race with us from Indiana.
• 29:05
  Even Kalamazoo, it's still a drive and it's just amazing to
• 29:09
  see everybody come together for the kids.
• 29:12
  What I know they made, you know, the Kalamazoo Wedge program made
• 29:15
  quite the splash at the Rumble in Fort Wayne.
• 29:17
  That was one of the things that even hearing from staff that
• 29:21
  this group knows what they're doing.
• 29:23
  And so I think that's, you know, huge kudos not only to Kenny,
• 29:26
  but then to people like you who are part of that and get to be a
• 29:31
  part of steering, you know, a program into the future and, and
• 29:34
  making it a program, not just, hey, we kind of show up and we
• 29:37
  do stuff and then we leave, right?
• 29:39
  Like there's a lot of work behind the scenes that goes into
• 29:42
  it. So why don't we do?
• 29:44
  It's like I always call this the Mick Foley Mankind cheap plug
• 29:47
  time. So before I let you do a cheap
• 29:51
  plug, I do want to remind everyone that we are talk
• 29:54
  talking with Taylor Sexton. It's almost 7:30.
• 29:56
  So I'm like, oh, this is the time.
• 29:58
  It's you know. So we are talk talk with Taylor
• 30:00
  Sexton and she's about to do cheap plug time for Fast way
• 30:03
  Creations. But coming up at about 7:45,
• 30:08
  we're going to I see Chris was in the chat area talking
• 30:11
  Survivor 181 and Survivor 180 and Duro.
• 30:15
  But Taylor, you know, race tracking, late model racing, you
• 30:19
  know, work on the side, all these other things.
• 30:21
  And then you also have your fast way creations.
• 30:24
  And so why don't you talk a little bit about that?
• 30:27
  And then I do want to remind everyone watching, you're
• 30:29
  welcome to add in, you know, questions in the chat area that
• 30:32
  we can pull up on the screen and ask Taylor, you know, something
• 30:35
  you might be wondering, especially when it comes to late
• 30:38
  model racing and you know, template late model racing,
• 30:41
  which isn't not a lot of tracks are doing that anymore, right.
• 30:44
  So Kalamazoo is one of the last holdouts of template late model
• 30:48
  racing. But but why don't you talk a
• 30:50
  little bit about your fast way creations and and the one more
• 30:53
  thing that you fit onto your plate, you know, with everything
• 30:56
  that you do. Yeah, so I got a bright idea one
• 31:00
  day to buy an embroidery machine because why not add more to my
• 31:06
  plate? And not a lot of people were
• 31:08
  doing that around the area. I was going to get into the
• 31:12
  whole vinyl stuff, but there's just too many people in the area
• 31:16
  that were doing it. That's a good thing, you know,
• 31:19
  to have competition, just like racing.
• 31:21
  And so I got into embroidery, didn't do my research very well.
• 31:25
  So then I ended up buying another machine just because,
• 31:29
  you know, we have to do that. But that's definitely like at
• 31:34
  first I was just, you know, messing around with it, not
• 31:36
  promoting it. And then I got a really good
• 31:40
  offer with M40. So I started making all their
• 31:44
  hats over there and then I ventured out a little bit,
• 31:48
  started doing all the a lot of the drivers hats around here.
• 31:53
  I was thankful for Jen Rohrig to message me to do some hats for
• 31:58
  them. I've had some people from way
• 32:01
  out of town reach out to me to do racing hats for them.
• 32:05
  I think that's really cool. And I think the coolest thing
• 32:07
  for me being such a a small business type thing is when
• 32:11
  people are walking around the racetrack and you're like, Oh my
• 32:13
  gosh, that's my hat that I made. Like people are actually wearing
• 32:16
  my stuff. So my main focus is like
• 32:20
  embroidery, mainly hats. I do a lot of other things like
• 32:24
  shirts, jackets. I've been lucky enough to do the
• 32:29
  Kalamazoo Speedway Championship jackets.
• 32:32
  I've done Spring Ports championship jackets, sort of
• 32:36
  stuff like that. It's a lot of racing stuff and
• 32:40
  then I just decided recently to get into the DTF printing, like
• 32:45
  type screen printing stuff too, so I'm starting to get my feet
• 32:49
  wet with that and it's been pretty fun.
• 32:52
  Laser engraving, I'm doing that too.
• 32:55
  When I have time. A lot of this is like we'll work
• 33:00
  on the race car for a few hours, come back in, do that for a few
• 33:03
  hours. Some days it's like, OK, my race
• 33:06
  car is decently good. We're going to go work on this
• 33:08
  stuff for now. And then, you know, Wednesdays
• 33:10
  we're up at Berlin with the mini wedges.
• 33:13
  So it's just finding the time to, you know, fit all the
• 33:17
  embroidery in on top of the racing.
• 33:19
  And it's something I enjoy, something that I can, you know,
• 33:23
  a lot of us racers know when you get in your car, it's just a way
• 33:26
  to kind of shut your mind off and have some fun.
• 33:28
  And it's like that for embroidery too.
• 33:30
  You can get so lost in your projects and you're creating
• 33:33
  something really cool. Well, and that's why I wanted
• 33:37
  you to to, you know, while we're on here, right to, you know, say
• 33:41
  what you do, what you're doing, because I know I will be getting
• 33:43
  some stuff from you too, to support you because, you know,
• 33:46
  like I said, I'm a big fan of you and what you do.
• 33:48
  And that's where it's like, OK, what's one more way that we can
• 33:52
  showcase your talents and, and what you're able to do?
• 33:55
  So I know I have some things coming my way.
• 33:58
  I should get Buju to get some Buju Bullring stuff coming.
• 34:01
  The hats. The hats part has me interested.
• 34:03
  I am looking for some hats so I might be in touch.
• 34:07
  Embroidery, right? Not a lot of people in the area.
• 34:09
  Yeah, exactly. It's like the embroidery like
• 34:12
  that. And so, and my mom used to do
• 34:14
  embroidery for a long time and, but you know, she doesn't do
• 34:17
  that anymore. But when I was looking to get my
• 34:21
  stuff like done and I'm like, OK, where do I, where do I go?
• 34:25
  Because I was using Vistaprint at the start.
• 34:27
  It was what I could do and afford afford at the time.
• 34:30
  And I'm like, that wasn't like amazing.
• 34:33
  So, you know, but although I am wearing one of those that I
• 34:37
  decided, no, no, there's not a thing.
• 34:39
  But it is a throwback for the old logo.
• 34:41
  But, but, but yeah, so that's why I wanted you to also do
• 34:45
  that. Cheap plug time.
• 34:46
  That's what I call it. Usually on Monday at some point,
• 34:48
  we do a Mankind, Mick Foley cheap plug time.
• 34:50
  But Buju, what other questions do you have too, 'cause I know
• 34:54
  like I asked a couple, but I want to make sure that I'm
• 34:56
  getting you in here too. Well, First off, everything you
• 34:58
  mentioned that you do, and I want to know when you sleep,
• 35:00
  when you squeeze that part of your life in there.
• 35:04
  But yeah, I guess you mentioned that your main priority I guess
• 35:09
  is the the racetrack and the mini wedge stuff and deal and
• 35:15
  mentoring the kids and all that. So you mentioned that you would
• 35:19
  like a career in Motorsports. So if you had to choose and you,
• 35:23
  I mean you will have to choose a lane if you want to do that,
• 35:26
  what and which side would it be? Would it be on the driving side?
• 35:28
  Would it be on the race directing side or would it be
• 35:30
  maybe something else that you're looking at?
• 35:33
  That's why I'm torn right now because I'm not I'm not ready to
• 35:37
  give up my seat yet because that's obviously we all know
• 35:41
  being racers, the templates, they're they are dwindling down
• 35:48
  at a lot of places. I'm not sure what I'll end up
• 35:51
  doing with Springport, you know, coming back.
• 35:57
  We might look into that if they decide to raise templates, you
• 36:01
  know, and their schedules not exactly full time every single
• 36:05
  weekend type deal. I really do enjoy race
• 36:10
  directing. So if I, if I had the
• 36:14
  opportunity presented to me like, you know, hey, you can go
• 36:18
  race this track if I need you at this track, I'd probably jump on
• 36:22
  it pretty fast. Interesting.
• 36:27
  So you're obviously still very much interested in the driving
• 36:29
  side and I know you've you've been able to travel around a
• 36:31
  little bit racing tracks, but what are some on that are still
• 36:34
  on your bucket list that you get to get to before before you are,
• 36:37
  If you do decide to give up the driving side at some point, what
• 36:39
  are some tracks you want to do before you're done?
• 36:42
  I would definitely like to take the trip to Owosso with the
• 36:45
  template because I know that I could probably race up there.
• 36:49
  Berlin, even if I don't race Evelyn, just practicing would be
• 36:54
  amazing and awesome opportunity. And then Angola, my dad did
• 37:00
  pretty well down there and so it'd be fun.
• 37:04
  I've been able to go to New Paris a few times, M40 a few
• 37:08
  times. So just I guess the tracks that
• 37:13
  aren't super, super far away, Freedom Factory would probably
• 37:17
  be like at the very top of the list after being there.
• 37:20
  And now that they have, you know, late models there every so
• 37:23
  often. But yeah, definitely Owosso and
• 37:28
  Berlin is at the top of my list, just so you know, make a few
• 37:31
  laps around there someday. And then my last question with
• 37:35
  you being from such a racing family and you growing up at
• 37:38
  Kalamazoo and then moving on to race at Kalamazoo, who's
• 37:41
  somebody that you lined up next to for the first time and you're
• 37:43
  looking over at them and like, man, I can't believe I'm about
• 37:46
  to race blank. Kenny, Ed.
• 37:51
  Fair enough, it's a good answer. Well, and and I mean, there's
• 37:56
  you had a really good battle going with him there for a while
• 37:59
  and one of the races I know. And then, yeah, you know, that's
• 38:03
  something that this year watching even more, you've just
• 38:06
  been, I know a few weeks ago when I put a camera in her car,
• 38:09
  then it didn't go that way. I took full blame for that when
• 38:12
  I said this was my fault, but because she did well before that
• 38:16
  and did well after that. So I'm definitely taking the
• 38:18
  fault for it. But but I mean, there are nights
• 38:21
  where Mike Dang, look at I, you know, the caution or whatever.
• 38:24
  I look over at Raymond, Dang, look at Taylor going out there
• 38:26
  and and you know, because you've been on such a good run.
• 38:30
  And, and that's where I, I won't say all the details, but I know
• 38:33
  a few years ago I had many different conversations with
• 38:36
  you. And I don't know, you know, if
• 38:38
  they ever win anywhere with that.
• 38:39
  But it's like, man, like I just don't.
• 38:42
  I didn't like how it was going, right.
• 38:44
  You know, it's like, man, you're good.
• 38:46
  You just got to remember that, you know, crap happens
• 38:49
  sometimes, Yeah. You know, I definitely have to
• 38:51
  remind myself of that. I don't know.
• 38:53
  I guess, you know, being a female in the top sport, you're
• 38:58
  going to get pushed around a lot.
• 39:00
  And that's my issue is like, there's been a few times where
• 39:04
  maybe I haven't raced people with respect, but that's my
• 39:07
  biggest saying because Alex and I were taught literally in our
• 39:11
  street stocks when we were racing together, we were told
• 39:14
  the second we touch each other on the racetrack with our race
• 39:17
  cars, we were both parked and we were done racing.
• 39:20
  So that's how I treat racing, you know, like you have to give
• 39:24
  respect to earn respect. But the past few years, it's
• 39:29
  definitely changed. And even if you have respect,
• 39:34
  they're still just going to push you around the track.
• 39:36
  Like you're in the way all the time.
• 39:37
  And you just have to like, get that out of your head that
• 39:39
  you're not in the way. Just go, like, keep going, don't
• 39:45
  you know? You're in the race, too.
• 39:48
  Yeah, so. You're like, your template is
• 39:52
  just like any other template out there, right?
• 39:55
  It has four wheels and it can go fast.
• 39:58
  Before I asked Tina's question, that's going to lead me to my
• 40:01
  next part about just go. And you've brought up Alex a
• 40:03
  couple times. Obviously huge congratulations
• 40:05
  to him winning down at Plymouth this past Saturday and Abuja and
• 40:09
  I were down the road from that race.
• 40:11
  And but when I saw that, I thought that was pretty exciting
• 40:14
  because I know. Like he too, right?
• 40:17
  He had a bumpy Friday. You had the bumpy Friday a few
• 40:20
  weeks ago. He had a little bit of a bumpy
• 40:21
  Friday this past Friday at Kalamazoo.
• 40:23
  And so they kind of turn around and do that.
• 40:25
  I thought that was pretty cool. But before I ask Tina's.
• 40:29
  So let's go St. stock and then let's go template because I
• 40:32
  don't think Alex has raised a template yet, but let's pretend
• 40:35
  like he has because you both have done St. stocks.
• 40:38
  So 5 laps, one-on-one. Who wins the Street stock?
• 40:45
  Hi, Alex. He can, he can wheel a street
• 40:48
  stock pretty Dang good if like he can go out there and just lay
• 40:52
  a lap down and it's like what the heck.
• 40:55
  So. Template pretend Same scale,
• 40:59
  same car, same everything. You know what he can do in the
• 41:02
  street stock. He knows what you can do in the
• 41:03
  street Stock. Now let's go to template. 5
• 41:05
  laps. Who's winning?
• 41:09
  It would definitely be close. I think it'd come down to the
• 41:11
  line, but we'd be coming out of four and it's game on and I
• 41:15
  think I'd get him at the line. Now throw your dad in that
• 41:19
  equation. St. stock and template St. stock
• 41:23
  3 of you 3 tailors or three sections going at it.
• 41:26
  Who's winning that one? I'd still have to put my money
• 41:32
  on Alex. We, I don't know, I, I
• 41:36
  definitely have to put my money on it.
• 41:37
  Alex still in the street stock. Now template.
• 41:45
  I don't know, I think. I did outlaw racing, right for
• 41:49
  the most part, right? Like he mostly was an Outlaw
• 41:51
  Supers. But since you're in a template,
• 41:54
  you haven't raced an Outlaw Super yet.
• 41:55
  So that's where I thought, let's kind of keep it where you are.
• 41:58
  Before I ask Tina's question, I'm kind of edging Tina a little
• 42:00
  bit. I don't know, I think it'd be
• 42:03
  pretty close between me and my dad, but my dad might still get
• 42:06
  it because he's got lots and lots and lots of laps.
• 42:09
  So, so, yeah, we've asked that question a couple times each,
• 42:13
  you know, each week to some different drivers, like who's
• 42:16
  winning, who's the, you know, in the Drag Race, just because it's
• 42:18
  kind of fun to kind of imagine, right?
• 42:20
  Like who might win, like to kind of really think about that.
• 42:23
  But let's try to get you some sales too at the same time.
• 42:26
  So there's a question. So she wants to know, does
• 42:30
  Taylor have a Facebook page for her business for those
• 42:33
  interested in buying her products?
• 42:35
  Yeah, so it's under fast way creations 3 words.
• 42:40
  My profile picture is like black, blue and white kind of
• 42:45
  matches my race car. So I just mainly do Facebook at
• 42:51
  the moment. I just, I'd like to push that
• 42:54
  more. So I need to do better on my
• 42:56
  social media side of it, but I just right now I'm at the point
• 43:01
  where like I have enough to keep me busy, but I would definitely
• 43:04
  love to expand. Right.
• 43:07
  So again, what I'll do is I'll tag your page once we're off the
• 43:11
  live, I'll tag it that way people can see it there or if
• 43:15
  someone in the comments wants to help out and already follows it,
• 43:18
  you can tag to it won't let me on the on the platform we're on
• 43:22
  right now. It won't let me tag it, but so
• 43:24
  sometimes wait till after because my phone's over that
• 43:27
  way. So get that tagged because I
• 43:30
  know I'm excited to. I have a jacket coming from you
• 43:32
  and then we just talked about a polo on Friday.
• 43:37
  So definitely will be wearing that around and supporting you
• 43:41
  because I like I said, you just do so much for a lot of people.
• 43:43
  And so it's like how, you know, I always ask, you know, how can
• 43:47
  I continue to help others? So, so Tina just put it on there
• 43:52
  and then booze, you got it to do.
• 43:53
  There we go. So that's the creation.
• 43:55
  So click that and then Tina has it.
• 43:59
  There we go. Now they're flooding in heck.
• 44:02
  Yeah, drop. The options to Click to go
• 44:05
  there. So definitely check out because
• 44:07
  I know you do. You've done tumblers if I
• 44:09
  remember right. I've seen tumblers.
• 44:10
  I've seen people post wet bags too, like handbags or pursers or
• 44:15
  things like that. So I think I saw stuff
• 44:18
  glittered. Yeah, I just did some rhinestone
• 44:21
  hats. They're pretty fancy.
• 44:24
  Yeah, yeah, 'cause I saw them shiny.
• 44:28
  Yes, you. Can't lose that person,
• 44:30
  whoever's wearing it right? You won't be able to lose them
• 44:31
  in a crowd, so. Right.
• 44:33
  Yeah, they're pretty sparkly. So so again, you know,
• 44:37
  definitely go check out Fast way creations.
• 44:39
  That way you can support Taylor because again, I'm a big
• 44:43
  believer in supporting those who support short track racing.
• 44:46
  And you know, that's why like I have Matt, you know, do my
• 44:49
  graphics on the car and everything because he's on the
• 44:52
  track he's racing, right. So I definitely want to continue
• 44:55
  to support those who are who are especially who are racers and
• 45:00
  oh, and then from Hartford, we have Taylor does an amazing job
• 45:03
  on NCTS, Midwest and M40 stuff. Oh, it's Drew on Hartford's OK,
• 45:10
  threw me out there from Drew's on the Hartford page.
• 45:14
  But and then Bill Russell, see more shout outs are coming your
• 45:17
  way. She has done Russell's and 40
• 45:19
  hats and jackets quality work. So so again, you're just super
• 45:23
  talented in all the different ways.
• 45:25
  And so as a rate, you know, from the race track to type before I
• 45:28
  let you go, you may or may not get a phone call for this or for
• 45:33
  this Sunday at Slinger. So just warning you, Drew, I'm
• 45:35
  giving a oh, don't ask anyways. So who knows, you might be in
• 45:43
  Wisconsin if you want to be. I drew may or may not be calling
• 45:47
  you on that. But but I'm wondering, you know,
• 45:50
  as a race tractor on that side, what's a track that you know,
• 45:54
  you did it on a late model side. You talked about, you know,
• 45:56
  where you might race by this race director, like what's a
• 45:59
  what's your track that you just kind of think about?
• 46:01
  Man, it would be really fun to call a race there, wherever
• 46:03
  NASCAR, little Kalamazoo, wherever it might be.
• 46:11
  That's a good question. I really don't have an answer
• 46:13
  for that because I've had so many amazing opportunities
• 46:17
  already this year. I've been able to race direct
• 46:20
  out at Berlin. I was able to race direct out at
• 46:23
  Plymouth, Kalamazoo. I've race directed there a few
• 46:28
  times. Hartford.
• 46:32
  I never thought that, you know, I would ever be doing anything
• 46:36
  like that at a dirt track. And I was able to do that.
• 46:40
  And they run their format a little bit different, you know,
• 46:44
  than we do. And it's like, all right, here
• 46:46
  we go. And that's how I learned how to
• 46:48
  do it. So, you know, I definitely don't
• 46:53
  have like a track just because there's so many opportunities
• 46:57
  that I've already been able to do this year and it's it's quite
• 47:00
  awesome. Well, again, just keep doing you
• 47:03
  because you're doing, you're doing amazing with each stop in
• 47:06
  each way and it's fun to watch you grow into all these
• 47:08
  opportunities. So again, like I said three
• 47:11
  Times Now, big fan of yours and, and what you do.
• 47:13
  So just keep going because you're definitely trailblazing.
• 47:17
  You know, I think of down at South Bend, they had Lisa Harts
• 47:20
  who did a race director and she's one of the few female
• 47:25
  directors at the time. In fact, at South Bend, they had
• 47:27
  a full female tower like everyone in the tower, but we're
• 47:31
  all females running the running the race program at night other
• 47:34
  than Tony Eldridge was the promoter at the time.
• 47:36
  But but pretty much the tower was in their control other than
• 47:40
  the announcer, Chris Highball. But his wife was in there.
• 47:42
  So she had to be happy for him to be happy.
• 47:44
  But but and he does he does an awesome job too, but you know,
• 47:49
  just kind of think there's not. I mean, Sarah, you know, is
• 47:52
  doing it over at M40, but you know, there's there's not a lot
• 47:56
  of female race tractors out there.
• 47:57
  So you get a trail blazing where you never know what kid might be
• 48:02
  looking at you going. I want to be just like her,
• 48:04
  right? And you might not even be in
• 48:06
  your car at that moment in time. You might just be race tracting
• 48:09
  So and you're just never know who's watching.
• 48:11
  So just keep doing you because you're definitely a leader and
• 48:13
  mentor for a lot of people. Thank you.
• 48:16
  Oh, no. You're welcome, buddy.
• 48:18
  I appreciate you joining us tonight to remind everybody
• 48:21
  again, we have been talking with Taylor Sexton.
• 48:24
  You can see her on Friday nights in the template late model
• 48:29
  racing at Kalamazoo. But then you never know where
• 48:31
  you might see her after that again.
• 48:33
  At Berlin on Wednesdays with the family fun mini wedges when they
• 48:36
  go up there and then obviously at Kalamazoo Speedway on Sundays
• 48:40
  when they have their Sunday programs.
• 48:42
  But you might also see her with you Jack, wearing a national
• 48:44
  compact shirt or possibly Midwest or Midwest dirt compact
• 48:48
  shirt as she's race directing for Drew at their various
• 48:52
  events. So again, Taylor's doing tons
• 48:55
  going all over the place. So definitely thank you for all
• 48:59
  that you do. Thank you.
• 49:01
  Oh, no, you're welcome. All right.
• 49:03
  And we'll see you on. Well, no, you don't race Friday.
• 49:05
  Do. You actually, I do believe I am
• 49:08
  on the schedule this Friday, but don't quote me 'cause I never
• 49:11
  know when I'm on the schedule. When I'm not, I just look at the
• 49:14
  flyer and we're on the schedule. So I.
• 49:16
  Probably should actually know that since it's Monday but I'm
• 49:19
  still getting over this weekend so I'm like I have not even
• 49:24
  thought about this coming Friday, Saturday or Sunday yet
• 49:27
  but I'm like I'm still living on last Fridays.
• 49:30
  Right. So again, I mean, we'll
• 49:35
  definitely see you at the track, I'm sure.
• 49:36
  No, no matter what. But again, have a great rest of
• 49:39
  your night, Taylor. And thank you again so much for
• 49:41
  joining us. Yeah.
• 49:42
  Thank you. Yeah.
• 49:43
  Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
• 49:45
  All right. So again we've been talking
• 49:47
  about if you like Enduro's or you have a gut and go car or
• 49:52
  interest in building a gut and go car, you have a couple days
• 49:55
  because now we're going to talk new Paris Speedway Survivor 180
• 49:58
  Enduro if there if I remember correctly it's 19 or 20s, the
• 50:01
  number plus teams will be 2000 to win.
• 50:04
  Anything less than that will be 1000 to win.
• 50:06
  And so we're going to be bring Chris on now so that we can talk
• 50:10
  about that. So I gotta bring Chris on that
• 50:14
  would ask if I click the right button, usually this transition,
• 50:17
  there's no transition every night that I missed the wrong
• 50:19
  button there right button press. But again, Chris, thank you so
• 50:22
  much for joining us tonight. I know I kind of asked you last
• 50:25
  minute on Saturday, like when we're in the office, like, hey,
• 50:28
  you know, how are we? How are we feeling about it?
• 50:30
  Why don't we talk a little bit about it on Monday?
• 50:32
  So again, thank you for joining us.
• 50:34
  Well, once again, thanks for thanks for having us on.
• 50:38
  Tracy will probably pop in and out here, but for now you got
• 50:42
  you got me the the lesser good looking one, I suppose.
• 50:46
  But the first thing that I want to say is I think we need to
• 50:50
  spice up this whole backstage thing.
• 50:52
  Oh yeah. So I think we either rename it
• 50:56
  Lewis's Lounge, or we could call it Boojoo's Bunker.
• 51:01
  Oh. Maybe blue juice bunker that
• 51:03
  makes that's a little bit more clever, a little.
• 51:05
  Bit more. But.
• 51:06
  I do like Luis's Lounge, Yeah, I I mean both because it's a play
• 51:10
  on words. You get the BB or the LLLLBBI,
• 51:15
  don't know but. Anyways, I'll try to keep my
• 51:17
  laptop still. I know it's bouncing around a
• 51:19
  little bit, but anyways, once again, thanks for having me on.
• 51:23
  And yeah, we've got Saturday. Coming up will be our second
• 51:27
  annual Survivor 180. Yeah.
• 51:31
  Three hour enduro. It's something we've been
• 51:34
  talking about for years and we thought we'd give it a shot last
• 51:36
  year. And surprisingly enough, and
• 51:39
  this is kind of regurgitated from the last episode when we
• 51:42
  talked, you know, it turned out out to be way more entertaining
• 51:46
  than you know, what we what we anticipated.
• 51:50
  So for this year's second annual Survivor 180, we're going with a
• 51:55
  little different track configuration.
• 51:57
  Last year we ran what we call our wrench it up, which is a
• 52:00
  modified Figure 8. And if you looked at it from an
• 52:04
  aerial view, it kind of looks like a a double box end wrench.
• 52:09
  So this year, we're going to go with, I believe this, the term
• 52:13
  coined by NASCAR, the ROVL. Oh I messed it up and I kept
• 52:17
  thinking kidney bean in my head but but.
• 52:21
  Well, kidney bean, kidney bean could be could have been the
• 52:24
  wrench it up style. But so with the ROVL, what we're
• 52:28
  going to do is drivers will enter at turn 4 into the X or
• 52:38
  the infield part of the the Figure 8 track.
• 52:42
  They will exit that at turn 1 and then go through turn 2, the
• 52:48
  back stretch and turn 3 and then re enter the infield or the X in
• 52:56
  turn 4 again. So it's kind of a it's kind of a
• 52:59
  modified Oval that we're setting up for this and we're going to
• 53:04
  we're going to see how that goes.
• 53:06
  You know, someday I think we're going to run on the
• 53:08
  configuration. So try but you know, just
• 53:11
  something a little different than your traditional Oval
• 53:13
  enduro. Plus this will be easier on the
• 53:17
  drivers. Yeah, well, and that's where,
• 53:20
  you know, a lot of enduros are circle track, right?
• 53:23
  And Jujak has a lot of those enduros to do that.
• 53:25
  So in this case, you're offering a different style enduro and
• 53:28
  you're doing a team thing. And that's why, as you were
• 53:31
  talking about that, I put the graphic up and I'll do it again.
• 53:33
  As we're going through that is, you know, not only, you know, is
• 53:38
  it not just a circle track, but you know, this is a team aspect.
• 53:41
  So there's going to be a pit area where they're going to have
• 53:43
  to possibly change tires or they're possibly going to have
• 53:46
  to put fuel in the car. They're, you know, they're
• 53:48
  possibly going to have to do work on these cars and they also
• 53:52
  have to swap out drivers too. So, so if you want to talk a
• 53:56
  little bit about, you know, not only from the core standpoint,
• 53:59
  but where that pit area will be located, how that will how the
• 54:03
  exchange of drivers will take place, especially since each
• 54:06
  driver has to log at least minimal 30 minutes within this
• 54:11
  three hour enduro giving, you know, 90 minutes everybody races
• 54:15
  where maybe the last 90 minutes, it could look a little
• 54:18
  different. So if you want to kind of go
• 54:19
  through that aspect of things, especially because this, as
• 54:22
  Tracy likes to explain it, you know, it's technical, there's
• 54:24
  skills, there's like pit stop. So you get a little bit of
• 54:27
  NASCAR in there, you get a little, you know, different
• 54:29
  things that you have to do. OK, so given the track layout
• 54:35
  that I explained and just like last year with the wrench it up
• 54:38
  style track layout, when they go into the pits, the pits will be
• 54:42
  located in the northern half of our current pit area, which will
• 54:47
  be behind the turn 3, turn 4 grandstands.
• 54:50
  So they will exit the track and the traditional track exit and
• 54:53
  they will re enter on a traditional track entrance.
• 54:58
  But that entire area back there, we asked them to park their
• 55:01
  trucks and their trailers more towards the South there we'll
• 55:05
  have cones or some barriers or whatever put up right there.
• 55:10
  That way, depending on the number of teams, make sure it
• 55:14
  doesn't get too crowded nor anyone team is located too much
• 55:19
  farther away from the track entrance than any other team.
• 55:24
  So for instance, if someone's, if someone's going to choose
• 55:28
  their pit area, you know, midway between the north fence and the
• 55:34
  halfway point, which would be the ramp where you walk from the
• 55:37
  pits up to the grandstands. We don't want any teams having
• 55:43
  to pit any further South than that, which would give them a
• 55:47
  disadvantage. But you know, like, like Tracy
• 55:49
  explained, there you go. Like Tracy explained, you know
• 55:55
  so much strategies involved and it's it's just, it's almost as
• 55:59
  fun to go watch them in the pits as it is watch them on the track
• 56:03
  because you've got drivers crawling out, new driver
• 56:06
  crawling in, strapping in, buckling in tire changes going
• 56:13
  on fuel definitely during three hours being gut and go or NOD
• 56:20
  style cars. You know, there's there's no way
• 56:22
  even with a full tank of gas, you're going to make it so you
• 56:24
  are going to need fuel at sometime.
• 56:26
  We've seen some repairs go on, but it is a three hour time
• 56:30
  limit. Last year I think 300 and 365
• 56:36
  laps was the winning team. So three person teams, each
• 56:43
  team, each driver in the team must log at least 30 minutes.
• 56:47
  We'll have staff down there logging driver changes and times
• 56:50
  they got in, times they got out of the car.
• 56:53
  You know, some teams, they were confident enough in all three
• 56:57
  members where it was one hour, 1 hour, one hour.
• 57:00
  You know, some teams, I believe there was one team, if I'm not
• 57:04
  mistaken, went 30 minutes, thirty minutes and then one
• 57:07
  driver finished up two hours. But you know, I don't think any
• 57:11
  of them could feel their arms at the end of the at the, at the
• 57:14
  end of the deal last year. They're all like, Oh my gosh, I
• 57:17
  can't feel my arms. So but that was wrenched up
• 57:20
  style. So there was, there was more
• 57:21
  turns involved there. But yeah, it's just it's, it's
• 57:25
  one of those fun events. It's it's different than regular
• 57:30
  racing. It's different than Night of
• 57:31
  Destruction. You know, it's something, it's
• 57:36
  not you're running four points or anything like that.
• 57:39
  You know, we've got we've got a nice payout set up.
• 57:41
  We've got nice survivor trophies and that'll be first, second and
• 57:47
  third place will get trophies and they all will get their an
• 57:51
  identical trophy as a team. So yeah, it's just kind of a fun
• 57:56
  thing. And you know, as long as, as
• 58:00
  long as it's enjoyable for the drivers and the fans, you know,
• 58:02
  we'll, we'll keep maybe trying to throw in some different ideas
• 58:05
  or you know, who knows, You know, when you've got, when
• 58:09
  you've got a track where you do have a full Figure 8 that's been
• 58:12
  paved, you know, it gives you some options.
• 58:15
  Oh yeah. And that's something that again,
• 58:18
  I know obviously a lot of your nod competitors are looking
• 58:22
  forward to something like this. You know, the ladies, you
• 58:24
  there's quite a few of them. I think Coneheads was planning
• 58:27
  to have a car out there, might have a car out there.
• 58:30
  But then this can be for weekly racers too, you know, go get a
• 58:33
  gut and go car, you know, strip it, do all the things like you
• 58:37
  would for night destruction and go race.
• 58:40
  So or you can bring or a Hornet car.
• 58:42
  Oh yeah. Oh, so you will allow like
• 58:44
  Hornet cars with cages and all that too?
• 58:47
  Absolutely, Yep. So yeah, bring out your because
• 58:50
  I mean you're not going to hit in the Figure 8 like you're not
• 58:53
  going to hit in that X spot so that you know there's no driver
• 58:55
  door impact possibility. I mean, shouldn't say that
• 58:59
  anything could always happen, right?
• 59:01
  But more likely than not, there's not going to be like a
• 59:04
  true Figure 8 where like you're looking at a bone hit like I
• 59:09
  mean. Crap hit.
• 59:10
  Not a true, not a true Figure 8 Yeah.
• 59:12
  Not a true Figure 8. Yeah.
• 59:15
  So, I mean, even a Hornet car probably could survive something
• 59:18
  like this, you know. So if you want to bring a Hornet
• 59:20
  car, you know, out, you know, on Saturday too, to do this, it is.
• 59:24
  I'll put up the graphic again. It's $100 registration, which
• 59:28
  does not include the pit pass, but you can go on pit pay.
• 59:31
  And on pit pay it's $30.00 at the gate.
• 59:34
  It's what, $35? Correct, Correct.
• 59:36
  Just like all of our standard events.
• 59:39
  So definitely, you know, take advantage because you can sign
• 59:41
  all your waivers and everything on pit pay.
• 59:43
  So that's already done. When you get to the track, you
• 59:45
  scan the little QR code and you get to get in after you go
• 59:49
  through that process. But it you know, it's a gut and
• 59:52
  go sell not a car, but you know, Hornets would qualify for this
• 59:56
  too. Three team members.
• 59:57
  So again, that's important part to know.
• 59:59
  You need three team members and each one must log at least 30
• 1:00:03
  minutes. Chris already said that someone
• 1:00:04
  will be sitting there timing that.
• 1:00:06
  But after everyone has reached their minimal, then obviously as
• 1:00:09
  a team you can strategize. And if I remember Chris, it
• 1:00:13
  wasn't 19 or 20 plus teams, it was 2000 to win.
• 1:00:16
  And obviously whatever that number is, less than that would
• 1:00:18
  be like 1000 to win and I start money.
• 1:00:21
  So do you want to go, do you have the payout with you by
• 1:00:24
  chance? If not, I think I might be able
• 1:00:25
  to pull it up really quick. I would have to get off of my
• 1:00:28
  screen to do that. We would so let me let me go
• 1:00:33
  here really quick because I would I just pulled it up for
• 1:00:36
  somebody the other day. So it was it was already in your
• 1:00:41
  photos area. So it's easy to find.
• 1:00:44
  So survivor Enduro, so it's 20 plus teams is 2000 to win,
• 1:00:50
  second place is 1000 to win. Third place is 500, fourth place
• 1:00:54
  is 255th, place is 125. Sixth through 7th place would be
• 1:00:58
  $100, eighth through 10th is $75, and 11th on out is $50.
• 1:01:05
  If there's less than 20 teams, so 19 or less, that would be
• 1:01:09
  1000 First place, 2nd 503rd, 254th, 125 fifth, 100, 6th
• 1:01:17
  through 10th, 75 and 11th out 40 bucks.
• 1:01:20
  So just trimmed off a little bit from there.
• 1:01:23
  So but again, you know, that's a really good payout, especially
• 1:01:28
  if you get like a gut and go car that you'd go to a junkyard and
• 1:01:32
  you know, get it for 2-3 hundred 400 bucks, maybe maybe less than
• 1:01:36
  that and do what you need to do to get it ready and go race you.
• 1:01:40
  You might leave their $2000 or 1000 right?
• 1:01:43
  You might double your money like going to a casino.
• 1:01:47
  Who knows, we're we're pretty confident that that possibly you
• 1:01:53
  know that we will get that the 20 cars that's or more that
• 1:01:56
  would that would definitely be make for a little more exciting
• 1:02:00
  race. But you know, last year we had a
• 1:02:02
  pretty decent field. I think we had, we had 10 or 11,
• 1:02:05
  it was first year and it was a little bit last minute when we
• 1:02:07
  brought it on. So we were still satisfied with
• 1:02:11
  the results from last year and it was a learning curve And we
• 1:02:15
  explained that in drivers meeting.
• 1:02:16
  Hey, this is the first time thing for all of us here.
• 1:02:19
  Let's work together, let's put our heads together at the end of
• 1:02:22
  it, see how we can make some improvements, make it more
• 1:02:24
  entertaining if need be and so forth.
• 1:02:28
  But when it comes to registration also, I wanted to
• 1:02:31
  talk a little bit about that, if you don't mind.
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, no, that hey yours right now.
• 1:02:35
  The the rules, payouts, and a fillable PDF registration form
• 1:02:41
  were posted a couple weeks ago. I will post those again in the
• 1:02:43
  morning. I had a conversation last year
• 1:02:47
  with my race pass about, you know, trying to figure out how
• 1:02:50
  to enter a team and, and they're, you know, they're just
• 1:02:53
  format is not set up for team racing because there's not a lot
• 1:02:56
  of team racing out there. But I was messing around with a
• 1:03:00
  little bit today and I went on my race pass.
• 1:03:02
  I created a Survivor 180 active class so we can, we can have,
• 1:03:10
  you know, live results, live timing, etcetera, through my
• 1:03:13
  race pass, which is what we do normally at all events, racing
• 1:03:17
  events, not night of destruction.
• 1:03:19
  But what I was able to do was create a registration as if I
• 1:03:24
  were a team and there's that form.
• 1:03:31
  But I did just post this on Facebook.
• 1:03:33
  If the teams go on to my race pass, they can register for
• 1:03:37
  Survivor 180. Want to ask for your first name?
• 1:03:41
  Enter the word team and when it asks for your last name on my
• 1:03:47
  race pass, enter your team's name and then use one of the
• 1:03:50
  driver's address, phone number, e-mail, etcetera to complete
• 1:03:54
  your registration. And getting that done ahead of
• 1:03:57
  time is extremely important. What I will be able to do then
• 1:04:01
  is kind of pre assigned transponders try and you know
• 1:04:07
  keep the flow going through through the pit office when they
• 1:04:11
  first get there to check in and so forth.
• 1:04:12
  But we'll also need the team registration form as well as the
• 1:04:17
  registration fees in the pit office at that point too.
• 1:04:21
  Now, if a team's not able to, let's say they're not quite sure
• 1:04:24
  if they're going to make it yet, you do have a 717 deadline,
• 1:04:28
  which I think is Friday. Would someone still be able to
• 1:04:31
  come to the track on Saturday and do that?
• 1:04:34
  Or are you guys really not wanting like last minute entries
• 1:04:37
  like that? No, we have, we have absolutely
• 1:04:39
  no problem with last minute entries.
• 1:04:41
  But as we all are in life and and I've found over the last
• 1:04:46
  nine years, there's lots of procrastination that goes on.
• 1:04:50
  And so therefore therefore a deadline was was somewhat
• 1:04:53
  necessary. But now you know, I'm probably
• 1:04:57
  going to end up eating my words here.
• 1:04:58
  So don't everybody wait till Saturday to get your get your
• 1:05:01
  forms in and get registered on my race pass.
• 1:05:04
  But you know, getting in my race pass then you know when you're
• 1:05:08
  in the pits, you know your other team members can be on my race
• 1:05:12
  pass app, watching the live timing, etcetera, so forth.
• 1:05:16
  We'll be able to post results at the end of it, you know, for
• 1:05:18
  those that want to see the full, full result information,
• 1:05:24
  etcetera. So for those who are watching at
• 1:05:27
  newparisspeedway.com, that's where I went.
• 1:05:29
  If you go over here to driver info and you go down to forms,
• 1:05:34
  that's where you're able to find that form.
• 1:05:35
  So I didn't show that part, but then when you click on to it,
• 1:05:41
  then that this is what opens. So just to show that way if they
• 1:05:47
  are like, Hey, show me how to do that.
• 1:05:49
  So driver info is where you'll find that form.
• 1:05:52
  Obviously, as we just talked, because I think that was there's
• 1:05:55
  a question yesterday that someone asked me as well.
• 1:05:58
  I don't know if I'll have a car done in time.
• 1:06:00
  I, you know, what if I don't make the pre registry, you know,
• 1:06:02
  cause some tracks do shut that off, right?
• 1:06:04
  Hey, if you're not registered in time, you can't race right?
• 1:06:07
  Like there's a deadline for a reason, but not that you're
• 1:06:09
  advertising, okay, 40 teams show up on Saturday, you know, do
• 1:06:13
  this because. I told you I'm going to eat my
• 1:06:15
  words. Like, yeah, but you know that,
• 1:06:19
  you know, at the same time, like you can help yourselves if, you
• 1:06:22
  know, you're probably coming, at least get it filled out.
• 1:06:25
  Maybe you wait, you know, maybe say, hey, this is the car that
• 1:06:28
  we have, but it might be this car instead, right?
• 1:06:31
  Like that they could do that too.
• 1:06:32
  Like this is a car we're thinking, but it might be this.
• 1:06:36
  Either way, we're coming. At least you know they're
• 1:06:37
  coming, so. We want to, we want to try to be
• 1:06:42
  flexible and you know, a lot of the reason that we we got into
• 1:06:46
  my race pass, which I think we're on, I think we started in
• 1:06:50
  2020 with my race pass. It just it makes things easier.
• 1:06:55
  It makes making lineups easier, etcetera.
• 1:06:59
  And then when we were, I believe we were at PRI or maybe Tracy
• 1:07:04
  might have been at Daytona at RPM, but she got talking to the
• 1:07:07
  pit pay people. And you know, the fact that, you
• 1:07:11
  know, you buy your pit pass, pit pass on the pit pay app, you
• 1:07:16
  fill out your, your waiver right there within the app.
• 1:07:20
  Then when you get to the track that day, if you're on pit pay
• 1:07:23
  #1 and get you in into the pits 30 minutes earlier than than
• 1:07:26
  someone who isn't on pit pay, you know, you save $1.50 buck
• 1:07:31
  60, something like that. So it's, it's not a giant
• 1:07:33
  savings after pit pays fees, but when you get to the track every
• 1:07:40
  week, Tracy will be out when we let start letting cars in and
• 1:07:44
  she'll walk through the lineup of cars and scan people in and
• 1:07:48
  then she'll have someone with her that puts her wristband on.
• 1:07:50
  They're done. You don't have to go to the the
• 1:07:53
  ticket booth there in the pits and sign your waiver and print
• 1:07:56
  your name and, you know, say who you are and your blood type and
• 1:08:00
  lipstick color or whatever. We're, we're, we try to make it
• 1:08:05
  as efficient as possible. You know, it doesn't always work
• 1:08:09
  out, but for the most part it's worked very nice for us.
• 1:08:12
  What I know last year when you first introduced it, your United
• 1:08:18
  Destruction crew was the one that like went above and beyond
• 1:08:21
  probably expectations and almost all your competitors that would
• 1:08:24
  come to that, you know, they got on that pit pay right away and
• 1:08:27
  it was, you know, weekly racers. It took them a few weeks to get
• 1:08:30
  on to that, but you know, opening those gates a few
• 1:08:32
  minutes early, certain, you know, certainly helped cause
• 1:08:34
  people want to get that set up and if they, if 30 minutes, it's
• 1:08:37
  30 minutes, it's three more minutes that you, you know, you
• 1:08:39
  can spend on a car rather than waiting in line, so.
• 1:08:42
  Well, maybe it's it, it helps us get hot laps started during a
• 1:08:46
  regular race night, you know, on time and and there there's
• 1:08:50
  always, you know, there's always going to be late entries or
• 1:08:54
  latecomers or or so forth. And that's, you know, we just,
• 1:08:58
  we know that's going to happen and we and we plan for it.
• 1:09:01
  But typically I like to try and get all drivers checked in on a
• 1:09:05
  regular race night at 1:45. Then I can go up to the tower
• 1:09:10
  and sit with the scorer, start making lineups, etcetera, stuff
• 1:09:14
  like that. So how will lineups be
• 1:09:17
  determined for this driver 180? Because obviously they're
• 1:09:21
  probably not qualifying. So is that like, hey, you're
• 1:09:23
  first in the pit and you're 1st through tech so you're first in
• 1:09:26
  line or is it pill draw? Like how are you guys going to
• 1:09:29
  do lineups for this? You know, honestly, one thing we
• 1:09:34
  can confirm is we will get my hot lab session.
• 1:09:37
  We're kind of tracing our kind of back and forth and we want to
• 1:09:41
  get our race director involved as well as to are we going to
• 1:09:45
  are we going to do on track qualifying, we're going to do a
• 1:09:48
  pill draw, so forth. So we're still in the still in
• 1:09:54
  the all right, what are we going to do with that one stage?
• 1:09:55
  So I guess not 100% of everything's planned, but I
• 1:10:00
  guess let's call it a surprise. But we'll get the, we'll get the
• 1:10:04
  event schedule out here in the next day or so.
• 1:10:06
  So everybody knows what's going on.
• 1:10:07
  And that will that'll, that'll say directly what it's what it's
• 1:10:10
  gonna be. Yep.
• 1:10:12
  And it is Monday, right? So I mean there's things that
• 1:10:14
  you're still working out the kinks on and everything too.
• 1:10:16
  So that was just me thinking ahead that like, well, how will
• 1:10:20
  you do this, right? Because it's not like a normal
• 1:10:22
  race night where you go out and, you know, hot lap for, you know,
• 1:10:26
  16 laps and then go out and qualify for, you know, 2 laps.
• 1:10:29
  Like I figured like it'd be like other girls, you just show up,
• 1:10:33
  park and go. So that's why I was asking like,
• 1:10:36
  how will this work? So.
• 1:10:38
  We want to, we want to give the, you know, the hot, the hot laps
• 1:10:41
  thing, and I'm sorry I cut you off there, the hot laps, the hot
• 1:10:44
  laps thing is, you know, get the fans in the grandstands, get the
• 1:10:48
  drivers comfortable with the track layout and, you know, give
• 1:10:52
  them something to watch where, you know, the general admission
• 1:10:55
  gates and on pit passes. Those will open at 3:00.
• 1:10:59
  And so try to get something going on the track between 3:00
• 1:11:03
  and 5:00, which is when we'll start to start the race.
• 1:11:07
  Yeah, so yeah, that's why I was wondering because I as I was
• 1:11:10
  sitting here thinking about it and hearing you talk about it,
• 1:11:13
  like, wait, how are they going to do that?
• 1:11:16
  Because it is a different format.
• 1:11:18
  It's not just like a 200 lap enduro where right.
• 1:11:20
  Like it doesn't matter where you start because you might be dead
• 1:11:23
  last and everyone in front of you racks or crashes or spends
• 1:11:26
  out or whatever. But you know, it's still an
• 1:11:28
  enduro. So it's still a race.
• 1:11:29
  And, and again, the, the goal is the more laps you put on the
• 1:11:34
  track, you win if you have the most laps by the end of the
• 1:11:38
  night, right? Like in that time frame.
• 1:11:39
  So you might go lap down, but they might go lap down because
• 1:11:42
  everyone's going to, as you said, everyone's going to maybe
• 1:11:44
  change a tire at some point or everyone's going to have to get
• 1:11:47
  fuel at some point. Like there's going to and driver
• 1:11:50
  changes, right? You're going to have to change a
• 1:11:52
  driver at some point. And so that obviously when cars
• 1:11:57
  are sitting there idle, a lot of things can happen.
• 1:11:59
  So, so it's one of those like, you got to put a lot of strategy
• 1:12:03
  into this and probably have a game plan going in.
• 1:12:06
  But that's why I'm like, yeah, how are they going to do that?
• 1:12:09
  Yeah, there's, you know, there's lots to think about, but that
• 1:12:12
  that's really the final detail that we need to button up is is,
• 1:12:15
  you know, are we going to do qualifying?
• 1:12:17
  Are we going to do a pill draw? How are we, how are we going to
• 1:12:19
  line them up? But you know, there there's
• 1:12:21
  always the option. And we did this with the Vroa
• 1:12:24
  vintage mods over the weekend. They they're accustomed to the
• 1:12:28
  tracks they go to, just taking their best hot lap time.
• 1:12:30
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 1:12:32
  We have that, we have that option available.
• 1:12:34
  But you know, it's, it's not a small detail, it's not the most
• 1:12:39
  major details, but it is a detail.
• 1:12:41
  And you know, here in the next day or so, we'll have that
• 1:12:43
  ironed out. All right.
• 1:12:45
  Well, again, I know I'm excited. I missed it last year.
• 1:12:48
  This is one of my, I think I was in Ohio for it.
• 1:12:50
  And so I get to see it this year.
• 1:12:52
  And so that's where I'm excited just to see what you guys do and
• 1:12:57
  what the teams do. You know, I know Tracy always
• 1:12:59
  tells a story about the, the you know, the ladies team from last
• 1:13:03
  year and no power steering and all these other things that kind
• 1:13:07
  of went against them. But you know, I mean, again, 300
• 1:13:11
  laps or 300, you said 365 or whatever it was laps.
• 1:13:15
  I mean, that's, that's like all your features for a couple weeks
• 1:13:19
  combined with heat raising so that that's in 1/3 hour window.
• 1:13:24
  So it's not just turning left, you know, and not that that's
• 1:13:29
  wrong. There's nothing wrong with just
• 1:13:31
  turning left, but like you're going to have to do a lot of
• 1:13:33
  things on this race day. So again, if you do night of
• 1:13:37
  destructions, come on out. If you do weekly racing, come on
• 1:13:40
  out. If you've always just wanted to
• 1:13:41
  be on the racetrack, come on out, you know, like.
• 1:13:45
  And who know? You know who?
• 1:13:46
  Who knows where it goes from here?
• 1:13:48
  Yep, and we'll just see. Yeah, no, I'm, I'm excited for
• 1:13:53
  it. So.
• 1:13:54
  She is in the room, by the way. There she is.
• 1:14:00
  Well, are we forgetting anything I don't want?
• 1:14:03
  I want to make sure that we got it all covered.
• 1:14:05
  Nope, I, I think we got it all covered.
• 1:14:07
  When, you know, once again, I want to stress, you know, get
• 1:14:10
  your registration forms in, you know, e-mail them, bring them to
• 1:14:14
  the track, get on my race pass, get that taken care of.
• 1:14:18
  One of the biggest cogs in the wheel that we run into with,
• 1:14:20
  with new drivers on on race 9. And we're always very, very
• 1:14:24
  grateful to have, you know, a new driver show up the track.
• 1:14:27
  Even if someone that hasn't been there for a couple years, you
• 1:14:29
  know, if they don't do that, my race pass ahead of time, I'm the
• 1:14:32
  one down in the pit office. And if you've ever seen my
• 1:14:35
  fingers, these weren't made. These weren't made for typing,
• 1:14:38
  baby. Well, and that's at every track.
• 1:14:41
  They were made for dog Slinger. OH.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, Ibuju, I introduced Dog Slinger to Chris.
• 1:14:47
  Yeah. One day.
• 1:14:48
  He's got to get there. Like I really need it but.
• 1:14:53
  He's having a day and he said I just thought of dog Slinger and
• 1:14:55
  I got happy so. It's a little things in life.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah, yeah. Amen.
• 1:15:00
  That's. Sad for me too.
• 1:15:01
  I in fact, I probably Bob doesn't know this yet, although
• 1:15:05
  I know he's listening, so he'll find out at the same time as you
• 1:15:08
  guys. But I'm like, I don't know,
• 1:15:09
  after this past week and I might need some dog singer tomorrow.
• 1:15:11
  So I might be, you know, I think for lunch tomorrow, head and
• 1:15:14
  order dog singer and getting my Louis special.
• 1:15:16
  So I'm like I although it's going to be so damn hot.
• 1:15:19
  I don't know if I want to leave the house.
• 1:15:20
  So that's what I got to figure out.
• 1:15:22
  But you know, I'm feeling after I need my I need my Louis
• 1:15:25
  special from there. So if you don't know Dog singer
• 1:15:28
  and you're and you're watching. We DoorDash at Tracy wants an
• 1:15:33
  open Door Dash. Yeah, that would be man, if they
• 1:15:38
  DoorDash I'd be in so in trouble.
• 1:15:41
  I can ask cat when I'm when I'm there next.
• 1:15:43
  But yeah, downtown Stevensville. So if you've never had dog
• 1:15:46
  Slinger, it's a small little place.
• 1:15:48
  It does have outdoor seating in downtown Stevensville on Saint
• 1:15:50
  Joseph Ave. just by the corner of John Beers Rd.
• 1:15:55
  So if you are coming off of I-94 exit 22, if you're coming from
• 1:15:59
  Indiana, you just go down John Beers Rd. all the way until you
• 1:16:03
  get to downtown Stevensville. You'll pass a church at the top
• 1:16:07
  of the hill, turn to your right and it's right there.
• 1:16:10
  If you're coming from Kalamazoo, exit 23 and go by the Meijer and
• 1:16:14
  swoop around so. You might get a new sponsor out
• 1:16:17
  of that. Plug that.
• 1:16:18
  Was what I said. I think you, I think Luke can
• 1:16:20
  sniff out dog Slinger from anywhere in the surrounding
• 1:16:22
  counties. Yeah, I was actually about doing
• 1:16:25
  a, a camera and all that. I said, hey, a camera, you know,
• 1:16:28
  and and I talked about, you know, putting their logo on the
• 1:16:31
  car. Like we've had that conversation
• 1:16:33
  with with with the team there. So again, they I mean, I walk
• 1:16:37
  in. You might.
• 1:16:38
  Get a trade for like punch card for 75 Lewis specials or.
• 1:16:45
  Something yeah, I would when I was teaching and I know this is
• 1:16:49
  a sidebar, but that's OK because you know it it doesn't always
• 1:16:52
  have to be just question the answer.
• 1:16:54
  But you know, when I, when I was teaching that's I didn't, you
• 1:16:59
  know, I-94 was under construction.
• 1:17:01
  Red Arrow was basically blocked like Stevensville that you to
• 1:17:04
  get north to South, you had to go all these which ways.
• 1:17:07
  It's almost like The Simpsons where they put the Dome over a
• 1:17:10
  certain spot in Stevensville. And so there's no way across to
• 1:17:14
  like where McDonald's and Culver's and all the more unless
• 1:17:16
  you went all the way down and around.
• 1:17:18
  And you know, when you got a 30-40 minute lunch doing that,
• 1:17:22
  you, you're spending more time on the road than eating right.
• 1:17:24
  So you got to eat and drive at the same time.
• 1:17:26
  But with dog Slinger, so easy, 2 miles down, down the road from
• 1:17:29
  where I taught, 2 miles back, sat in the parking lot and ate
• 1:17:33
  it or went my principal. She'd be like chili cheese dog
• 1:17:37
  or you know, or whatever. Like she would message and say,
• 1:17:41
  because I'd just go to her office.
• 1:17:42
  It'd be one of those days. I'm like dog Slinger.
• 1:17:45
  Oh God, yes, you know, it's so, you know, I would bring her back
• 1:17:48
  dog Slinger too, because it always warmed our hearts.
• 1:17:51
  You know it always made. A That's two punch cards now.
• 1:17:55
  But yeah, so definitely, oh, Kenzie, you missed her.
• 1:17:59
  She's on at seven O 5. So once we're off, you'll be
• 1:18:02
  able to go back and watch that on YouTube.
• 1:18:04
  So thank you, Kenzie at being a mini wedge racer.
• 1:18:06
  Sorry, but but yeah, I've talked with Dog Singer about that
• 1:18:09
  'cause even when I walk in, I mean, the one day they had like
• 1:18:12
  a a special where they were giving hot wheel cars out and it
• 1:18:16
  was for like kids and all that. And they had some extra at the
• 1:18:18
  end 'cause I went there at the end.
• 1:18:20
  That's just the time I went. It wasn't on purpose or
• 1:18:23
  anything. That's just when I had time and
• 1:18:25
  they sent me home with a car. They're like, we know you love
• 1:18:27
  racing and you do all this and you know, but I pull in the
• 1:18:30
  parking lot and they already, if there's no one in line in front
• 1:18:32
  of me, they already have the order started to punch in.
• 1:18:34
  And then they'll go, is, is mom and Bob eating today?
• 1:18:38
  And then on Saturdays, they now know I'm getting food for New
• 1:18:40
  Paris. And so they're like, what, what
• 1:18:43
  would they like down at New Paris today?
• 1:18:44
  And so, Chris? Special.
• 1:18:47
  You know what they could do if they use square?
• 1:18:49
  Just program that right into their square and hit the Lewis
• 1:18:53
  quick button. Hit the Lewis button.
• 1:18:56
  They do. I mean, they do have online
• 1:18:57
  ordering and I have suggested that it is a special like we
• 1:18:59
  should do a Lewis special one time just because they do they
• 1:19:02
  have they're they're customers. They call fans hot dog fans.
• 1:19:06
  They're they're fans that will recommend like, hey, what if you
• 1:19:10
  did this? And so, you know, sometimes
• 1:19:12
  they'll say our, you know, our one of our loyal customers
• 1:19:14
  recommend it. Excuse me, you know, doing this
• 1:19:17
  hot dog. And so we're doing this for
• 1:19:19
  sausage or whatever. So yeah, I'm.
• 1:19:21
  I'm looking at the menu right now and the hair of the dog
• 1:19:24
  caught my eye, which is a bacon wrapped dog croissant.
• 1:19:28
  Bacon wrapped dog wrapped in a croissant topped with tater
• 1:19:30
  tots, beer cheese, a poached egg, sriracha and bacon
• 1:19:34
  crumbles. Yep.
• 1:19:36
  That does take the egg off I'm in.
• 1:19:38
  Well, and they have, and you are looking at their menu, right?
• 1:19:42
  And they, so they have a, they call it the worst of the week.
• 1:19:44
  Every Tuesday they post it or you know, they open at 10 and
• 1:19:48
  they're open until 7, so 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM or Tuesday through
• 1:19:52
  Saturday. They're closed Mondays and
• 1:19:54
  Sundays, but they'll have them their worst of the week.
• 1:19:57
  So lunch cards. But well, that's what I talked
• 1:20:02
  to them about. I said, what if I did a worst of
• 1:20:04
  the week every Tuesday on my page?
• 1:20:06
  I could do a worst of the week. And it doesn't have to be like a
• 1:20:09
  bad thing, right? Because in their case, their
• 1:20:11
  worst of the week is like, I mean, you had it a few weeks ago
• 1:20:14
  when we got that. Oh, what was it?
• 1:20:16
  But it's that like, loaded brat or whatever, loaded sausage, Big
• 1:20:19
  Daddy, right? You and I.
• 1:20:21
  I had the big No, I, yeah, I brought you the big daddy.
• 1:20:23
  You had that big daddy because I said Bob and I had it and it was
• 1:20:26
  really good. And I said you're going to need
• 1:20:28
  a fork and knife for this. And so I got I brought Chris a
• 1:20:31
  big Daddy and. And an angioplasty.
• 1:20:37
  But yeah, it was, and Chris loved it.
• 1:20:39
  It was good. No, I haven't.
• 1:20:42
  Had a lot saying I like spaghettis, but you know, but
• 1:20:47
  you have to have contacts. You have a picture of it saying
• 1:20:49
  this is what I'm talking about when I say that, but man, that
• 1:20:52
  was so good too. But.
• 1:20:55
  But yeah, they they have great stuff there.
• 1:20:57
  So again, downtown Stevensville. So if you're in Saint Joe and
• 1:21:00
  you want to go to the Bluff or you're going to Warren Dunes
• 1:21:03
  State Park over in Bridgeman, I know all these, Yeah.
• 1:21:06
  Org cards. We talked like 15 minutes dog
• 1:21:10
  fling around my money we had. Chris on to talk to Enduro and
• 1:21:13
  Hot dogs. Well, I do, I do want to make
• 1:21:16
  one other comment because it's, you know, there's different ways
• 1:21:19
  of using a race track, but for the last, I think three years
• 1:21:23
  now or 4 trace the the local high school.
• 1:21:29
  Oh yeah, Fairfield. In the new Paris area, which is
• 1:21:32
  the Fairfield Falcons, which is Tracy's, Tracy's alumnus there,
• 1:21:37
  they approached just a few years ago and asked on their final day
• 1:21:40
  of summer workouts if they could make that at the track.
• 1:21:46
  So this morning was this year's version of it.
• 1:21:49
  And we typically get there 430 quarter five in the morning, get
• 1:21:53
  all the lights turned on for them.
• 1:21:55
  So they got a full lit track and they run around the track, they
• 1:21:59
  bike around the track, they do stuff in the infield.
• 1:22:02
  And it's just, it's just really enjoyable watching.
• 1:22:05
  And what a great group of kids, just their parents hang around
• 1:22:09
  there to watch them. Some of the coaches bring their
• 1:22:13
  own little kids with them and they get to ride their bikes
• 1:22:15
  around the track. And, you know, just what a
• 1:22:17
  grateful bunch. They all thank you on the way
• 1:22:19
  out. Yeah, I was sitting, I was
• 1:22:22
  sitting there today behind the the main grandstands, you know,
• 1:22:25
  trying to stay out of sight, stay out of their way and out of
• 1:22:28
  out of my left eye, I see a red light and I'm like, well, that's
• 1:22:31
  the backstretched wall. Well, it was disappeared.
• 1:22:34
  And I thought I was imagining things are just not awake.
• 1:22:37
  Then I see a green light. Then I see a yellow light.
• 1:22:40
  Well, one of the coach's kids had climbed up into the flag
• 1:22:43
  stand upon the switches for the track lights.
• 1:22:45
  So it was like, you know, and his mom was underneath the flag
• 1:22:49
  stand, you know, making sure they didn't fall out of there.
• 1:22:51
  But creative little guys they were.
• 1:22:55
  Just not just so we don't get Fairfield in trouble here.
• 1:22:57
  This is not mandatory. It's not a full, you know,
• 1:23:01
  'cause they're not into practice season yet.
• 1:23:03
  It's conditioning. So it's not like the full teams
• 1:23:05
  out there. It's not all the full coaches
• 1:23:06
  out. Yeah, this is.
• 1:23:07
  It's just a fun kind of thing, so.
• 1:23:09
  And that's your public service announcement for the attorneys.
• 1:23:15
  Yeah, for the IHSA who might be listening and everything.
• 1:23:18
  No, right. Someone from the IHSA may be
• 1:23:20
  like, hey, I heard there's an organized practice going on.
• 1:23:22
  Yeah. Not an organized practice.
• 1:23:24
  Not a Nope. Although they're probably since
• 1:23:27
  Indiana starts, I mean, you guys got the Elkhart County Fair 2
• 1:23:30
  weeks. So I mean, they're football.
• 1:23:31
  They're they're probably almost near getting into two days and
• 1:23:34
  everything. I could look at my book.
• 1:23:36
  I'm actually an IHSA official, not football.
• 1:23:39
  So yeah, I think it's August. 1st but August that's OK yeah,
• 1:23:43
  but so again, one of those cool workouts I know up here the
• 1:23:46
  teams like to go to the dunes, they do a lot of the like
• 1:23:49
  Lakeshore and go down to the dunes.
• 1:23:52
  So go over to the bluff here like Saint Joe obviously goes to
• 1:23:57
  Silver Beach and do does all the and then Gene Clock Park, which
• 1:24:00
  is on the other side where the lighthouse is.
• 1:24:03
  You know the lighthouse Lighthouse.
• 1:24:04
  Not the pier light, but the real lighthouse.
• 1:24:07
  And how do you get to dog Slinger from there?
• 1:24:10
  So you you go down Saint Joe Ave. and no no right arrow
• 1:24:14
  highway. Make sure drive right arrow
• 1:24:16
  highway into punch. Cards my little burger.
• 1:24:20
  Place up there. Don't play.
• 1:24:21
  I can. Oh, you're talking red a Max,
• 1:24:23
  aren't you? The burger?
• 1:24:24
  No. No, no, no up there.
• 1:24:26
  Yeah or yeah. Main Main.
• 1:24:28
  Street. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:30
  But yeah, I call it Eau Claire when you guys call it Eau
• 1:24:33
  Claire, Mike, I know that's probably the correct way to say
• 1:24:36
  it, but most people in the area just call it Eau Claire.
• 1:24:39
  You know, there's just a bunch of Beavers over there, but.
• 1:24:42
  But yeah, so, you know, they. But, yeah, So being here along
• 1:24:46
  the dune, yeah. Irish.
• 1:24:53
  Yeah, yeah, Michigan. It's Wolverines instead of
• 1:24:55
  cheese beds you. Know at least, at least in in
• 1:24:57
  Wisconsin, it's Eau Claire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:25:00
  Around here you get people who call it both ways.
• 1:25:03
  You could tell those who aren't from the area, they say Eau
• 1:25:05
  Claire, and then those who are from the area say Eau Claire.
• 1:25:08
  So it's kind of one of those like even for Dwojak, you can
• 1:25:10
  tell when someone lives in Michigan or whatever or in this
• 1:25:13
  area, they know it's Dwajak and you can, I was making fun of
• 1:25:17
  Joel. He might still be watching, but
• 1:25:18
  he what what did he call it? The one day he mispronounced and
• 1:25:21
  I went, that's not how you say it.
• 1:25:23
  And I said, if you're a Lakeshore person, you say dog
• 1:25:25
  patch, but that's also not really PC correct anymore that
• 1:25:29
  the rivalry is not the same like it used to be in the 90s and
• 1:25:31
  early 2000s. But you know, so in Lakeshore
• 1:25:34
  you called it Dog Patch and and Dwojak had a lovely name for
• 1:25:38
  Lakeshore people and so which I we.
• 1:25:41
  Are so awesome. Yeah.
• 1:25:43
  But gosh. It if.
• 1:25:46
  You wanted but. But we got, you know, we got
• 1:25:49
  talking dog Slinger and so we're just going that way.
• 1:25:51
  But also how, you know, we don't have race tracking area, but how
• 1:25:54
  cool that you guys open your facility for a high school to do
• 1:25:57
  that, right? And so, you know, to have that
• 1:26:00
  and, and have that opportunity. And again, it's one way of how
• 1:26:03
  race tracks can be a part of the community, right?
• 1:26:06
  Like, you know, that's an opportunity that you never know,
• 1:26:09
  someone might come out there and go, man, I didn't know this was
• 1:26:11
  here. Well, we've been here for 78
• 1:26:13
  years and right, 'cause how many?
• 1:26:15
  I mean, there are people even in South Bend, they'll say, well, I
• 1:26:19
  didn't know racetrack was there. Yeah, like long time, you know,
• 1:26:23
  but, but obviously Kalamazoo, 76 years.
• 1:26:26
  Oh, there's a racetrack in Kalamazoo.
• 1:26:28
  Yeah, it's been going for a long time.
• 1:26:29
  It was, in fact, there's a dirt track at one time, right.
• 1:26:31
  So it's one of those things that, again, just how cool that
• 1:26:34
  you guys do that, allow the football team to come in and do
• 1:26:36
  workouts. And, and if they reached out to
• 1:26:39
  do that, I mean, some places probably would have said no, no,
• 1:26:41
  can't have that liabilities and all the things.
• 1:26:43
  And while things can happen, at least we're doing it in a safe
• 1:26:47
  spot. You know, they're walled in,
• 1:26:49
  they're on, you know, property. You can show them those super
• 1:26:52
  bright lights that I cannot wait for reveal the hammer to rate
• 1:26:54
  Thunder. I guess you.
• 1:26:58
  Know last year I only had to turn the front stretch on for
• 1:27:01
  the football team that was so bright.
• 1:27:03
  Oh yeah, yeah, those super bright lights now.
• 1:27:06
  I mean, I love those lights. They're they might be my we're.
• 1:27:08
  Getting we're getting back to racing now there.
• 1:27:11
  We go, we transition back into racing.
• 1:27:13
  Yeah, well, and. Oh, Kenzie, she's not listening.
• 1:27:18
  I. Interrupted you again, but quick
• 1:27:20
  plug and I'll shut up about the admission prices.
• 1:27:24
  Adult general admission is $10 this week.
• 1:27:28
  Oh, OK. So 10 dollars, $5 for kids, Kids
• 1:27:33
  5 and under are free. Just kind of a kind of normal in
• 1:27:37
  that aspect. But adult general admission is
• 1:27:40
  $10 and seems pleasure. Of course, concessions etcetera
• 1:27:45
  will be open. Yep so yeah $10 to get in and
• 1:27:49
  watch well over it's going to be well over 300 laps because red
• 1:27:52
  flags don't count as part of the time frame.
• 1:27:54
  So it's not like it's a running clock with red flags or anything
• 1:27:57
  like you're going to because that's the only time you'll stop
• 1:27:59
  the race right. You won't have like cautions or
• 1:28:01
  anything. It's going to be green or red
• 1:28:02
  like a like an enduro yes Yep. So if it's red flag time stops
• 1:28:06
  so and you're probably going to have over Oh well over 300 laps
• 1:28:10
  of of racing easily. I mean, if you guys had like 3
• 1:28:13
  whatever it was last year, I mean you're you're going to get
• 1:28:15
  there again. It might.
• 1:28:16
  Who knows, you might get a team who's just bonkers fast and
• 1:28:19
  might get close at 400 mark so. Well, there's there's a couple
• 1:28:23
  less, a couple less turns involved here and yeah,
• 1:28:26
  obviously a little bit less distance by changing to the Robo
• 1:28:31
  Robo layout. So, you know, maybe we hit the
• 1:28:33
  400 mark. It may be it's less, maybe less
• 1:28:36
  distance because by the time you go.
• 1:28:39
  Yeah, who knows? It runs it out.
• 1:28:41
  I I. Think it may be the other.
• 1:28:44
  Way, either way, it's just going to, it's just going to be a fun
• 1:28:46
  night. Oh, absolutely.
• 1:28:47
  So I'll do the I'll do the graphic one more time because it
• 1:28:51
  is almost 8:30. So you know, this is a good
• 1:28:53
  chance that the half hour mark survivor 180 information.
• 1:28:57
  So again, it's you one car got and go style, not car, but you
• 1:29:01
  can also bring a Hornet. So if you have a Hornet, three
• 1:29:04
  team members, so you do have to have three team members.
• 1:29:06
  It's $100 registration for the team.
• 1:29:08
  The registration form is on new pairspeedway.com.
• 1:29:11
  Under the tab Driver Info, click forms.
• 1:29:14
  This price does not include the pit pass, which is $30 on pit
• 1:29:18
  pay. Easy to do.
• 1:29:20
  You go in and go to pit, pay New Pairs Speedway, upload your
• 1:29:23
  driver's license, do the things and you sign the waiver form and
• 1:29:28
  you can do that and save some money or you can pay $35 at the
• 1:29:31
  gate on Saturday. Each driver on that team must
• 1:29:35
  log at least 30 minutes during the three hour enduro.
• 1:29:39
  So that's 90 minutes between the three team members and then the
• 1:29:42
  last 90 you can divvy up however you see fit and then 20 plus
• 1:29:45
  teams. There will be 2000 to win again
• 1:29:48
  the payout the if you go to photos on New Pair Speedway's
• 1:29:51
  Facebook page, go to Photos scrolled just a little bit.
• 1:29:54
  It's right there. It says at the very top 2006
• 1:29:58
  survivor Enduro 180 and that has all the information on there.
• 1:30:02
  And then if there is less teams, although it doesn't sound like
• 1:30:05
  it looks like we're we're trending up on the team count.
• 1:30:09
  But if there were to be less 10,000 women, which is still you
• 1:30:12
  know, go to junkyard by decent car, you know, for 23400 bucks
• 1:30:16
  you can still walk out a winner on the positive side there.
• 1:30:20
  So again, a chance to do something different, whether
• 1:30:23
  you're a non competitor or weekly racer or haven't raced
• 1:30:26
  before, want to come out to the racetrack and give it a shot.
• 1:30:29
  Might be a spectator, you know, racer or drifter and you want to
• 1:30:32
  do something different. Come on out.
• 1:30:34
  So again, racing starts at 5, gates open at you said 2.
• 1:30:39
  Pit gates open at 2:00. Spectator gates open at 3:00.
• 1:30:42
  Three. Yeah, and you'll have
• 1:30:43
  concessions. All that $10.
• 1:30:45
  What are kids 6 through 12? Are they 5 bucks or less?
• 1:30:48
  5 bucks? 5 bucks.
• 1:30:50
  So $10.00 for adults, kids 6 through 12 or $5 and kids 5 and
• 1:30:54
  under are free. And what's a kid pit pass?
• 1:30:59
  They're the same. Same.
• 1:31:00
  All right. So, so again, definitely take
• 1:31:03
  advantage of that. But other than like I said, I
• 1:31:06
  know I'm excited to to be there and see what you guys are going
• 1:31:08
  to do this year with that. Yeah, your ladder's still up.
• 1:31:11
  You didn't take down but. Yeah, that's my fault.
• 1:31:14
  We got, we got busy talking. I, I, hey, I was good for most
• 1:31:17
  of the season, but after that race.
• 1:31:19
  Would you hit his head on on the way out?
• 1:31:20
  But. Not Oh, we're doing just fine.
• 1:31:27
  Your microphone's the issues earlier.
• 1:31:28
  Yeah, I guess so. Actually.
• 1:31:31
  The puppy. Oh my Axel.
• 1:31:37
  But other than that, again, Chris, thank you.
• 1:31:40
  And Tracy, I know Tracy on the sidelines, but I know she's part
• 1:31:43
  of the conversation too. Thank you guys both for coming
• 1:31:45
  on again. And I know I asked pretty last
• 1:31:47
  minute. I sprung alive on Tracy.
• 1:31:49
  You know, she was on the side of me.
• 1:31:51
  And I'm like watching all this, but let's let's get some back
• 1:31:55
  story behind this. And so I had to find the victim.
• 1:31:58
  And she just happened to be the first victim that I saw.
• 1:32:00
  And then we tried to pass straws to see who would actually do it.
• 1:32:03
  And then I just turned and said, hey, Tracy, she was on the And
• 1:32:07
  it's like, now you can't. That was when I was hiding in
• 1:32:10
  the pit office. Yeah, well, yeah, you're you had
• 1:32:12
  a lot going on in the pit office.
• 1:32:14
  And again, you're you. Guys are.
• 1:32:16
  You know, you're short staffed on Saturday.
• 1:32:18
  So you know, that's, I mean, that's the thing like you work
• 1:32:20
  through all that and got stuff done.
• 1:32:21
  But you know that I mean, again, people got to give credit where
• 1:32:26
  credit is due. Like, you know, when tracks are
• 1:32:28
  short staffed, that means, you know, a lot of people have to
• 1:32:30
  take on extra, extra roles and tasks and all that.
• 1:32:33
  And so so I mean, you definitely, you know, everyone
• 1:32:37
  was kind of passing around what to do should jump in so big
• 1:32:40
  credit cuz there's some places that Steph be like, no, that's
• 1:32:44
  not what I'm paid to do. And they would just leave right.
• 1:32:46
  So. No, we got.
• 1:32:48
  We do a lot of cross training. We do a lot of cross training.
• 1:32:50
  We. Do a lot of we have a lot of
• 1:32:52
  utility people as I say, which is great, you know, and
• 1:32:55
  especially when this coli lettuce break out is going
• 1:32:57
  around and takes part of our people out.
• 1:33:00
  That's what was going on last minute.
• 1:33:01
  Yeah, our, our, our normal pit store, Jason, we got E coli
• 1:33:05
  poisoning or whatever. And so Josh, that normally works
• 1:33:09
  security with Eddie. He was Pitt steward for the
• 1:33:13
  night. So I kind of stayed down there
• 1:33:14
  and trained him at that. And you know, and he'll, you
• 1:33:17
  know, great people, they'll, they'll do what you ask.
• 1:33:21
  You know, a lot of our people, if if something happened at 2:00
• 1:33:23
  in the morning over the racetrack, we needed help fixing
• 1:33:25
  something. Or or maybe Chris shows up there
• 1:33:28
  last Friday morning to pick up a gas tank for Tracy's Hornet and
• 1:33:32
  finds a tree laying in front of the gate.
• 1:33:34
  Yeah, You know, that was that was a real joy.
• 1:33:36
  But. Well, and, and kudos to our
• 1:33:38
  safety crib because they end up becoming gate people when we
• 1:33:42
  opened and so we got our gate people normally they're normally
• 1:33:45
  there. So thank you to them.
• 1:33:47
  So yeah, no, everybody jumps in really well and they know a lot
• 1:33:50
  of different positions there, which is great.
• 1:33:52
  So, and thank you once again for having us on this.
• 1:33:56
  I think it's the third time we've been on.
• 1:33:57
  So we're extremely grateful for, you know, a being able to come
• 1:34:01
  on and being invited to come on and, and extremely grateful for,
• 1:34:05
  you know, the relationship and the friendship we've built with
• 1:34:07
  you guys. Oh, no.
• 1:34:09
  And like I said, this is you know, and I and I know Buj.
• 1:34:11
  And for dog Slinger? And and for dog Slinger, I mean,
• 1:34:14
  again, you know, like I so you know, for those who don't know,
• 1:34:17
  Buju has his own podcast on Sundays now that he's doing he
• 1:34:21
  was going to do live, but he was a little camera shy.
• 1:34:23
  So he's recording and but bleachers and features.
• 1:34:28
  And so you know, it was like what a 40 minute episode, 50
• 1:34:31
  minute episode, something like that that he did.
• 1:34:34
  But, you know, he does, you know, it was a laid back where
• 1:34:37
  just conversation. And I know sometimes him and I
• 1:34:39
  even talked about this that sometimes, you know, we really
• 1:34:41
  pack like and by we, you know, I sometimes don't think about the
• 1:34:45
  timing where I really pack an episode, you know, where there's
• 1:34:49
  not sometimes there's not room to breathe a little bit, right.
• 1:34:52
  And so we're Thursday, we purposely put in that, you know,
• 1:34:56
  room to breathe and and it's a little bit of a different
• 1:34:59
  format. But you know, sometimes after
• 1:35:02
  listening to his show too, it's like, yeah, it's always a good
• 1:35:04
  reminder that, yeah, this is a racing podcast, but it's OK to
• 1:35:09
  have other conversations and having a side conversation like
• 1:35:11
  we did, you know, about a really incredible small business,
• 1:35:14
  right, Small businesses supporting small business.
• 1:35:17
  So I think that's right. Yeah.
• 1:35:21
  You know, but hopefully people go and try it out because I
• 1:35:23
  mean, it's definitely worth the trip and it.
• 1:35:25
  Was a hell of an infomercial, I tell you what.
• 1:35:27
  Because now I'm hungry. While they're open tomorrow,
• 1:35:31
  although you work, but they're open.
• 1:35:32
  And you can seal the bottom of a boat.
• 1:35:34
  Go go fishing with it too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can go
• 1:35:37
  hang out at the beach and eat some dog Slinger.
• 1:35:41
  Just know it's double plate season though, so you just have
• 1:35:44
  to remember that we like to take over the beaches at this time of
• 1:35:47
  the year. But but yeah, that's something
• 1:35:49
  that, you know, it's kind of like, you know what, let's talk
• 1:35:52
  about dog singer. That's fine with me.
• 1:35:53
  That's something that, you know, it's a fun little thing and and
• 1:35:56
  it's and it peels the curtain back that it doesn't always have
• 1:35:59
  to be just racing, right. Like cool to just sometimes
• 1:36:03
  shoot the breeze. And so.
• 1:36:05
  So yeah. So that's where, yeah, you know,
• 1:36:07
  and talking about that, though, it's like, you know, it's
• 1:36:09
  always, that's something that Bouche and I've talked about is
• 1:36:11
  that, you know, bringing on, you know, those who we can, you
• 1:36:14
  know, to support them. And I knew with the Survivor
• 1:36:16
  180, you know, it's one of those let's let's get this out there
• 1:36:21
  more if we can, right, Because, you know, there's people who
• 1:36:24
  might not follow new pairs who may miss it.
• 1:36:26
  And I do plan to post a lot about it this week, you know,
• 1:36:29
  just to really get it out there. I have Slinger stuff that I have
• 1:36:32
  to balance that with. And then obviously Kalamazoo on
• 1:36:34
  Friday, but this enduro, it's like, you know, there, I have a
• 1:36:37
  lot of night of destruction connections that, you know, hey,
• 1:36:41
  you know, what are you doing Saturday that I've messaged on
• 1:36:43
  Facebook or whatever. So, you know, I I think it's
• 1:36:47
  cool, like let's get cars out there.
• 1:36:49
  Let's give it a shot, give it a try.
• 1:36:50
  If you haven't been a new person in a while, come give it a shot.
• 1:36:53
  You know, I know, obviously, I mean, if you get on Facebook on
• 1:36:57
  Sundays, you can see a lot of people seeing a lot of different
• 1:37:00
  things about all these tracks in the area or Saturday mornings.
• 1:37:02
  I mean, it's just whatever day it is, whatever the day after,
• 1:37:05
  right? And for years.
• 1:37:07
  And it's like, give it a shot, Come see yourself, you know,
• 1:37:09
  don't just based on what you know, Big Bird said, you know,
• 1:37:14
  I'm out, you know, because Cookie Monster may feel
• 1:37:16
  different. So, you know, they you just come
• 1:37:20
  get a shot. I mean, it is Sesame Street and
• 1:37:22
  sometimes people do need words of the day.
• 1:37:24
  So whatever work you might come up with, I'm sure we can
• 1:37:29
  brainstorm a few off air. But you know, a letter of the
• 1:37:34
  day, a number of the day could be the number one.
• 1:37:37
  But whatever way you display it is up to you.
• 1:37:39
  But you know, but that's something that again, it's like,
• 1:37:42
  how can we, you know, help get cars?
• 1:37:45
  How can we help get fans? How can we help get people?
• 1:37:47
  And so that's why with Leah, you know, we brought her a couple
• 1:37:50
  times, I've joked with her. I said it's like the Leah Dibble
• 1:37:52
  network. But you know, but it's, you
• 1:37:55
  know, it's like, what can we do, right?
• 1:37:56
  We have this opportunity on Mondays and Thursdays to to do
• 1:38:01
  that. So it's Monday.
• 1:38:03
  And if we waited until Thursday, it would be too late, probably.
• 1:38:06
  So where, you know, you could do a race car advertisement on
• 1:38:10
  Thursday, but for an enduro when you really have to do got and
• 1:38:13
  go, that might take a few days to build.
• 1:38:15
  So it's like Monday works better in that case.
• 1:38:18
  So again, thank you guys as always for making time to come
• 1:38:20
  on. Well, once again, we appreciate
• 1:38:24
  appreciate you having us and, you know, appreciate all the
• 1:38:27
  support and we do appreciate you, you know, jumping on the
• 1:38:31
  mic and sharing, sharing those duties with the with Jeremy this
• 1:38:34
  year. And I think we're going to coin
• 1:38:36
  a new phrase at the, you know, at the new Paris Speedway.
• 1:38:41
  Drive fast. Stay out of the grass.
• 1:38:43
  I. Like that I.
• 1:38:47
  Spent all day Sunday on the tractor with the sweeper on the
• 1:38:50
  back sweeping the track, Big Red as you call it.
• 1:38:53
  And then I was out there this morning again on that thing.
• 1:38:56
  So it's, yeah, stayed on the grass.
• 1:39:01
  Yep, yeah, I it looked red. I mean it from the roof it
• 1:39:05
  looked red. But once you said it was orange,
• 1:39:07
  I'm like, well, then call it Carrot Top.
• 1:39:08
  You know, I mean Carrot Top. Somebody educate Lewis on Kubota
• 1:39:14
  please. And I, and I should know because
• 1:39:18
  there's one in Stevensville right across from the high
• 1:39:20
  school. Like there's literally a whole
• 1:39:21
  dealer right there. So I should, I should know that.
• 1:39:24
  But I mean, unless it's a John Deere, it all looks the same to
• 1:39:27
  me. You know, just like I, I, I
• 1:39:30
  don't get on tractors, I don't drive tractors, I don't do
• 1:39:32
  anything with tractors, so. Yeah.
• 1:39:34
  Yeah. Remember the cross training?
• 1:39:37
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You may be on that Kubota
• 1:39:40
  someday. So haven't done it yet, but but
• 1:39:46
  yeah, I can bribe you with dog singer be like, I don't know, I
• 1:39:48
  don't know. Sometimes I want to get on the
• 1:39:49
  flag stand and just from the flag stand, but, you know, wave
• 1:39:54
  a flag or something. Do, you know, be like someone
• 1:39:56
  else can take over videography. There's a lot of people who
• 1:39:59
  think they can do it. So get up on the roof and do it.
• 1:40:01
  So, you know, show me how to do it.
• 1:40:02
  But but. That that falls the same for
• 1:40:05
  being a promoter, track owner. There's a lot of pros out there.
• 1:40:10
  Yep, Yep. Well, and that's I told someone
• 1:40:13
  the one day because they were just being downright rude.
• 1:40:16
  And so I know some Racing America people and I have some
• 1:40:20
  connections to the pricing. I'm like, OK, you know when they
• 1:40:23
  were saying something and then we'll and we'll not in there,
• 1:40:26
  we'll do something positive. But I'm like, OK.
• 1:40:28
  Racing America videographer gets $300.00 for a day.
• 1:40:32
  Their audio people get about 300 to 500 depending on experience.
• 1:40:36
  These are individual positions. Social media gets 150 for the
• 1:40:39
  day and then you have a broadcast manager who does all
• 1:40:42
  the editing and the producing and all the things with the
• 1:40:44
  graphics. They get about 405 hundred, some
• 1:40:47
  300 depending where they are, their experience.
• 1:40:49
  And I went, so Add all that up, that's about $950 to a little
• 1:40:53
  over $1100. Twelve, $100.
• 1:40:55
  And I went, I can tell you top row doesn't make that.
• 1:40:58
  And I do social media. I'm the videographer.
• 1:41:00
  I do all the graphics and the lineups and all the things and
• 1:41:03
  I'm editing and I'm publishing and I do my own audio.
• 1:41:06
  So I'm like, add up all those positions.
• 1:41:08
  I could tell you nowhere near that.
• 1:41:10
  So I said, if you're willing to go do that, go on the roof.
• 1:41:15
  Show me how. So I'm like, because I'm
• 1:41:18
  learning as I go, right? But it's like all those
• 1:41:20
  positions and one person. So it's like just remember that,
• 1:41:24
  you know, we're, you know, just like Buju when he's doing his
• 1:41:27
  stuff, he doesn't maybe get it as much yet, but he will as he
• 1:41:29
  gets bigger. And it's going to be like go do
• 1:41:32
  Buju stuff then you know, you don't like his podcast, go go do
• 1:41:36
  his podcast, then show him how to do it.
• 1:41:38
  So cuz there's a lot of people who think they could do podcast
• 1:41:40
  and I don't see him doing it yet.
• 1:41:41
  So it's like, you know, we're we're doing our part to promote
• 1:41:45
  the sport. So you know, I'm just until
• 1:41:48
  you've done it or walk those shoes, right.
• 1:41:49
  That's why I was Leah devils. Number one thing that I always
• 1:41:52
  remember is your savings account on the line.
• 1:41:55
  And if it's not, then I don't know.
• 1:41:58
  You know, probably don't have much to say about it then,
• 1:42:00
  right, because it's not your savings, it's not your future.
• 1:42:03
  So it's like, I don't know, people just need to appreciate,
• 1:42:06
  you know, like what you guys do having a track.
• 1:42:08
  I mean, look how many tracks in this area alone for sale or
• 1:42:12
  closed or bulldozed, you know, and Jesus took the wheel on one
• 1:42:16
  and dollar generals and data centers can take the wheels on
• 1:42:19
  the others, right? So it's like we need to remember
• 1:42:21
  that. Like, you know, we have these
• 1:42:23
  places. Let's be mindful of that.
• 1:42:25
  Let's be appreciative. That doesn't mean everything's
• 1:42:26
  hunky Dory, you know, but that also doesn't mean just
• 1:42:31
  adjudicate everything on Facebook, right?
• 1:42:33
  That's what's so exhausting is everything has to be on
• 1:42:35
  Facebook. It's like, come on, you know,
• 1:42:38
  like we can have adult conversations in person.
• 1:42:40
  So but also just remember like there's people who are willing
• 1:42:43
  to do this stuff and take all that.
• 1:42:45
  So it's like, you know, we could be like Rockford, we could be
• 1:42:50
  like Ileana, you know, like let's just remember that.
• 1:42:52
  So, so that's why I definitely appreciate you guys since like,
• 1:42:55
  let's get you on here to talk about this 180 enduro because
• 1:42:58
  it's one more thing that you guys are doing, an opportunity
• 1:43:00
  to go do something. We only have so many.
• 1:43:03
  It's going to snow soon. It may not feel like it's
• 1:43:05
  tomorrow, but it's July. That means we're not that many
• 1:43:08
  months away from snow and blizzards and -20 wind chill.
• 1:43:14
  It's coming. Sooner.
• 1:43:18
  I'm hurt. I don't know what to say.
• 1:43:20
  That's a. 4 letter word is all I'm going.
• 1:43:22
  To say, by the way, is dog Slinger seasonal or is that year
• 1:43:24
  round? It's no year round.
• 1:43:26
  Year round. You can always have dog Slinger.
• 1:43:29
  OK, bye. Just asking.
• 1:43:32
  No, we're all human beings. None of us are perfect.
• 1:43:35
  You know, as track owners, promoters, we've said it before,
• 1:43:39
  we'll say it again. You know, we make our mistakes.
• 1:43:41
  We probably make mistakes nightly.
• 1:43:43
  We try to, if we do, we try to own it the best we can.
• 1:43:46
  And, you know, it's just sometimes on social media, it's
• 1:43:50
  like Tracy Rye's been behind the wheel of the car.
• 1:43:53
  You know, we're not, we're not out there on the track, you
• 1:43:56
  know, and, and drivers make mistakes too.
• 1:43:58
  That's we're all human, you know, Let's not kill a sport.
• 1:44:01
  Let's have some fun. Yep, like pulling into the
• 1:44:04
  infield where it's flooded instead of going up top and
• 1:44:06
  pulling out the exit gate there. Mistakes happen.
• 1:44:13
  They do. We don't know anyone who did
• 1:44:15
  that. Though Nope, Nope, don't know
• 1:44:18
  nothing about it. I heard something about Buju and
• 1:44:21
  a Hornet but I haven't seen the car yet.
• 1:44:23
  And yeah. Technically I'm not new Parace
• 1:44:25
  legal if I read the rules right, so we'll have to have discussion
• 1:44:27
  on that, but. Oh, we will.
• 1:44:32
  And you may before the end of the year, see Tracy's Hornet
• 1:44:35
  out. So she's had that for, oh shoot,
• 1:44:38
  910 nine or ten years now. Oh, Billy.
• 1:44:40
  Still. Running strong as soon as soon
• 1:44:42
  as somebody gets back out of the barn and changes the gas.
• 1:44:45
  Tank. Brake lines and it's not time.
• 1:44:48
  But. Yep.
• 1:44:50
  Oh, I. Was going to say, I know you
• 1:44:52
  guys have been super busy, but Benny Miller, we talked about
• 1:44:55
  Motörhead Miller Mafia doing like the Motörhead Miller race.
• 1:44:58
  I know sometimes again, you guys are so busy that sometimes it's
• 1:45:01
  easy to forget. But for Benny Miller, I know he
• 1:45:04
  read or he said he's going to. That's a complete oversight.
• 1:45:07
  So here in front of God and everybody, Benny, I apologize.
• 1:45:11
  We will get ahold of you. So I, I just saw that come
• 1:45:14
  through and I'm like, oh, better remind you because I know he was
• 1:45:18
  talking about, I didn't know when he was contacting anybody
• 1:45:21
  knew he's contacting you guys. And so, but I, like I said, I
• 1:45:23
  know you guys are busy. I mean, Chris, you spent so many
• 1:45:25
  hours at the racetrack now that you're doing all these different
• 1:45:28
  things and then working on Tracy's Hornet so she can get in
• 1:45:31
  the Hornet and, you know, go race around and show them, show
• 1:45:35
  them how to do it right. So people forget that she raced
• 1:45:40
  A Hornet before. So, you know, she knows what
• 1:45:42
  she's doing. So I'll.
• 1:45:43
  Let. I'll let her respond to that.
• 1:45:47
  That's. Good anyways, but if it does
• 1:45:50
  make it out to the track this year, which I'm sure it will,
• 1:45:52
  it's it's it's all a fun thing. And so I, I think the moms race
• 1:45:59
  was talked about at nod for maybe starters, but we'll, we'll
• 1:46:02
  find out. Well, again, that'll be really
• 1:46:05
  exciting. GI Jane.
• 1:46:06
  By the way, you don't have to be a mom on our track.
• 1:46:08
  Oh, that's right, GI Jane. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:46:11
  I think she might challenge Ralph Reese too.
• 1:46:13
  I don't know. Well, she'll have to show
• 1:46:17
  nothing to have. Fun.
• 1:46:19
  She'll have to show the Pitbull in her right.
• 1:46:21
  You know he got, he has Pitbull racing.
• 1:46:23
  She'll have to say I'll show the Pitbull.
• 1:46:25
  You know who? We'll see who's more Pitbull
• 1:46:27
  after this, right? But.
• 1:46:28
  He was on here earlier. Yeah.
• 1:46:30
  Oh no, he's still on. That's why I said yesterday.
• 1:46:33
  And I know mom's listening to where, you know, you know, the
• 1:46:37
  when, when like, you know, Mom's short, right?
• 1:46:40
  So I'm like, if there's anyone I'm not going to make mad, it's
• 1:46:43
  mom. So, you know, 'cause she's
• 1:46:44
  short, she'll, she'll fight, you know, it doesn't matter, right?
• 1:46:47
  So, you know, Tracy kind of has that heightened advantage where
• 1:46:49
  it's like, I don't know, I'm not going to challenge Tracy if
• 1:46:51
  other people want to go for it, but I'm not going to.
• 1:46:53
  So like. Oh gosh.
• 1:46:56
  I'm not going to do that so if. You're going to do that.
• 1:46:59
  It's it's front stretch. We'll pay you 500.
• 1:47:03
  So, so seeing her out. Doing the pits, you're out.
• 1:47:05
  Yeah, yeah. But seeing her in the car would
• 1:47:08
  be really fun to watch. It's kind of like I talked
• 1:47:10
  about, you know, Donnie Ritter, I always heard stories of him
• 1:47:12
  racing and I got to see he did the Bad Santa Enduro.
• 1:47:15
  And I'm like, man, he's out there having a blast.
• 1:47:17
  And so sometimes, right, you just, you know, got to throw the
• 1:47:20
  hair back, right, and get out there on the track or do
• 1:47:22
  something if you can. And, and sometimes it's like
• 1:47:24
  just do something different, get different sceneries.
• 1:47:26
  So that'll be really exciting to see her out there soon.
• 1:47:33
  Soon. More to come.
• 1:47:35
  Soon I think I may have to head out there tonight and start
• 1:47:37
  working, you know. So anyways, thanks you guys.
• 1:47:42
  Yep, thank you again. Thank you guys.
• 1:47:44
  Remind everyone we have been talking about the survivor 180
• 1:47:47
  Enduro again. Once we're off string, you'll be
• 1:47:50
  able to go back and watch see all the things that started
• 1:47:52
  about seven 46747 into the show talking with Chris and Tracy.
• 1:48:00
  So I'll show the graphic one more time where Survivor 180
• 1:48:04
  information again gotten go style car minimum.
• 1:48:08
  But if you have a Hornet with the cage and all that, you're
• 1:48:10
  welcome to bring that out too. The registration deadline is
• 1:48:14
  7/17 by 5:00 PM. But they do, they will take you
• 1:48:19
  know, cards they have as well. Just be mindful that if you wait
• 1:48:23
  until last minute, it might take some time to get you registered
• 1:48:27
  and entered and all that. So do have patience in that
• 1:48:28
  case. But the $100 registration does
• 1:48:31
  not include your PIT pass. Again, you can get that on PITPA
• 1:48:34
  for $30 where you do all your pit waivers and everything and
• 1:48:37
  you can get in and 30 minutes before everybody else, or if you
• 1:48:40
  wait it's $35 at the gate. Each driver on this team must
• 1:48:44
  race at least 30 minutes during the three hour enduro.
• 1:48:47
  So the first or the at least 90 minutes of that time must be
• 1:48:51
  spread evenly between 3 drivers. After that you can divvy it up
• 1:48:54
  however you want and then 20 plus teams, 2000 to win.
• 1:48:59
  Anything less than that will be 1000 to win.
• 1:49:01
  So again, pretty good payout for the Survivor 180 and it's not
• 1:49:05
  the Oval. It will be a new Paris roll and
• 1:49:09
  Amish country. So you'll get you'll get the
• 1:49:13
  horse and buggy your way around the fastest or the hottest
• 1:49:17
  quarter mile. Excuse me, it's going to be fast
• 1:49:20
  too on Saturday, but hottest quarter mile in the Midwest.
• 1:49:24
  So again, we've been talking with Chris, owner of New Paris
• 1:49:27
  Tracy off screen, but also owner of New Paris.
• 1:49:30
  And again, appreciate you guys so much for coming on and being
• 1:49:33
  a part of this. And other than that, Buju,
• 1:49:36
  anything else good for the group?
• 1:49:38
  No, Sir. All right, well, I have a ton of
• 1:49:40
  editing that I get to go do so I'm going to go do that and
• 1:49:43
  dream of dog Slinger and when I get it tomorrow, Chris, I'll
• 1:49:46
  send a picture of it and just. We're up to 7.
• 1:49:49
  Yeah. But other than that for I guess
• 1:49:53
  on on Saturday, it's going to be turning left and right.
• 1:49:56
  But Buju, it's almost time to turn left and go fast because.
• 1:50:00
  We'll see you at the races. See everyone at the races.