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Screen to Speed No.28: Tasha, Founder of Transmission Motorsport and Advocate for Women in Sim Racing · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to Screen to Speed powered by Ennit Esports.
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  In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals
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  making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real.
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  From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore
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  the passion, Dedication and innovation that drives the world of motorsports.
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  We'll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories,
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  insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and
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  creating pathways into motorsports.
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  So buckle up screen.
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  The speed starts now.
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  Welcome everyone.
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  Welcome.
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  Welcome.
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  Happy to see you on talks today.
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  Welcome, everybody.
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  Uh, please welcome Tasha.
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  She's a sim racer, streamer, and YouTuber.
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  And as I know, she's racing in Gran Turismo 7, and is
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  at the Corsa Competizione.
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  So that means we're going to have a really fun interview today,
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  um, with talking a lot about sim racing, racing, and motorsports.
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  Welcome, Tasha.
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  Hi, hi.
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  Thanks for having me.
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  Yeah.
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  I love what you guys are doing with the NA eSports and Screen to Speed.
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  It's so awesome to be a part of it all.
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  Thank you.
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  So I feel like sim racing is such a game changer for so many people.
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  So can you tell me How did you get into sim racing?
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  How you started your way?
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  Um, my very first foray into sim racing was I was probably five years
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  old on a Commodore 64 playing test drive with the keyboard and the little
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  dot on the steering wheel, telling you where the ceiling steering wheel
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  is pointed and graphics that look pretty much like Minecraft these days.
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  So, wow.
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  I started out many, many years ago.
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  I'm 44 in a couple of days.
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  So that's 39 years I've been playing on sim games.
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  That's really cool.
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  So I also, I played in test drive.
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  There was a second one Unlimited.
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  It was really fun to play.
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  I really love it What was your first simulator in the first actual simulator?
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  so we went out and bought a ps4 for the family and While we were
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  there doing it, it was Christmas.
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  It was gonna be a present I saw Gran Turismo Sports for like five
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  or ten dollars sitting on the thing.
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  I was like, oh yeah, I'll just grab this, you know, it's cheap.
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  And I've always played racing games and loved them.
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  Like Project Gotham Racing was super fun with motorcycles and cars mixed together.
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  And um, that's the first place where I ever saw the Nordschleife.
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  I think they called it, uh, oh, I can't remember what they called
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  it, but I always mispronounced the Nordschleife because of it.
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  Um, but we got home.
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  And Christmas comes around, we get everything set up, and the kids play
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  on it, and the kids go to bed, and the next thing you know, I plug in
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  Gran Turismo, and I'm like, oh my god, this is like, this is really cool, I
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  remember Gran Turismo 1, and I was so excited, but Sport is like, game changer.
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  So, I played on it with um, I've played around with like, Race
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  Asylum and a couple other leagues.
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  And everybody was super, um, supportive and like, this is how you get better.
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  And they're talking to me about how to drive with a wheel.
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  And I'm like, I'm sitting here on a controller.
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  I'm like, this is not nearly as much fun as it could be.
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  So I went out and bought myself a T 150 and the pedals broke.
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  So I went to load cell TLCM pedals.
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  And then that broke and I was like, okay, this is it.
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  I'm done messing around with these cheap wheels.
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  Started searching around and I got myself a Fanatec CSL Elite from my
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  nephew and he sold it to me for 400.
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  Porsche 918 RSR replica wheel, um, load cell, uh, V2 pedals.
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  And I got the rig set up in my room.
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  And my, my daughter moved out, so I actually finally got
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  room for an actual racing rig.
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  And I got it set up in here and it's non stop ever since.
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  Every chance I get, I'm sitting in here.
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  That's awesome.
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  I really started in the same way.
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  So step by step, um, also improving my equipment, uh, back in the days
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  I started with a G27, uh, and, uh, then switched to TLCM pedals, uh, the
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  same way as you did, um, So now with the T818, Direct Drive wheel and the
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  same TLCM pedals and a better rig.
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  Triple, uh, started with a single screen.
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  That was an absolute game changer to change to the triple screen, uh, for
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  myself because you actually see more.
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  Uh, it's really cool.
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  Absolutely, I can't wait to go triples and get a PC that'll run the higher end games.
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  Um, right now I'm working off of a laptop that's, uh, Eight years old I think
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  and I mean it was a high end gaming laptop when I got it, but not today
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  So, um as soon as I get a chance I need about 12 1300 for all I need is the box
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  I have everything else and Then I can start working into, uh, PC sim racing
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  and go for triples and stuff like that.
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  I'm super excited.
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  I was warned about drugs when I was a kid, everyone's like, Oh, don't do drugs.
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  You know what?
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  I did the whole, we're in high school, we're in college and give it a shot.
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  And it's not worth your time.
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  Right.
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  But then I started sim racing and this is, this is what they should
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  have warned me about because this is where all my money goes.
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  Yeah, that's a thing which you actually can start but you never can stop to
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  like improve your rig, improve your gaming room and everything and you
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  just spend a lot of money on this.
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  Yeah, there's always something else to buy.
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  My wife wanted me to give her a list for my birthday this year and I've
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  got neon signs on there, I've got um, like the Nordschleife wire track,
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  Lamborghini wire model to put on the wall.
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  Everything that I have on there is like to improve my streaming
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  space and she's like you don't want anything else I'm like I have makeup.
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  I have clothes.
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  I have shoes um I've got a Dodge Charger, that one's pretty okay.
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  No, I need stuff for sim racing.
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  Yeah, that's cool.
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  My whole life.
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  You got the whole list with your wishes for the gaming room.
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  That's awesome.
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  Speaking about upgrades, what do you want to upgrade next in your
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  gaming room and your sim rig?
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  So the gaming room is already getting upgrades because my wife is excited
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  about all the presents she bought me So i'm good on that one for right now
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  What I really need is either the profile rig or a pc that'll run iRacing and
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  ACC with higher settings and triples.
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  That's my next.
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  Let's go.
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  That sounds good.
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  So you want to get into iRacing and I'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy it.
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  And with your experience in ACC already and Gran Turismo,
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  you'll get used to it quite fast.
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  Absolutely.
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  No, I was so Gran Turismo was like my gig for a long time because
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  I was on PS4 and like I tried doing ACC on PS4 and it's just.
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  Like it's almost there, but I couldn't get the feel for it.
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  I didn't like it.
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  And when I finally was able to upgrade it onto PS5, I loaded up
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  ACC and I played Gran Turismo.
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  When, uh, DTR, some friends of mine, when they do their series, I do it for
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  the Scaly Punk Charity Racing series because it's fun to hang out with all of
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  my friends, and we're raising money for charities and good stuff, but for the most
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  part, if I'm simracing now, I'm on ACC until the I get a PC and I can move on.
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  Mm hmm.
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  Yeah, I understand this.
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  It's really good that we got opportunity like people can race on consoles
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  and they can race on PC as well and can choose Uh, like different
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  simulators to jump into some racing.
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  That's a great opportunity.
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  Definitely Um, this is where I really like because you know So many people
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  coming to my stream also asking me like can I start from console?
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  Can I like play ACC there or something like this?
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  You So, yeah, and then the next step when you, um, like upgrading to PC,
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  you're getting into a racing, into, um, higher quality ACC, it's awesome.
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  Yeah, I can't wait.
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  Like, I'm like dying to put a custom livery on my car on ACC now.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Can you tell me more?
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  You just mentioned the SkellyPong charity raising.
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  What kind of charities did you do already?
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  And I know that you've raised kind of a lot of money for this and that's great.
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  That's a really good thing which you're doing.
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  So that was a friend of mine that actually started it.
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  And when it was, when it first began, it was called, um, pleb charity racing
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  series, and it went on for a while.
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  He raised quite a bit of money on it.
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  And then he switched the name up to skelly punk around the same time as
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  my team name changed from a blackout racing to transmission motorsport.
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  And that's been about a year and a half.
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  We've raised about 1, 200 or so.
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  Through a series and a couple of endurance special events.
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  And then we get together, we've got two different lobbies.
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  We've got pro am for the fast drivers and we've got pro for the very fast drivers.
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  And, um, last season was amazing.
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  We had a lot of fun doing it.
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  Phil did his first stint doing comms.
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  It was really fun watching him get into it.
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  And I do comms for the pro lobby because I wasn't fast enough to get into that one.
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  So Um, that's how I found out that I love doing comms.
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  It's awesome.
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  Um, but um, we've raised money for mind charity rain um equality, texas Cerebral
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  palsy alliance and basically Our next one I think is going to be for breast
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  cancer research, but we just look for the most reputable You Charities that we
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  can and find them on Tiltify and support them all through the through the season
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  This is uh, this is great that we got, you know, I I know a lot of great events
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  for charity in sim racing and Um some of them in gaming also, but it's really
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  cool that community supportive for these charities and also we're getting
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  a lot of people to jump into this races.
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  Um, that's great.
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  And there's a lot of fun too, because especially when we've got a couple of
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  guys that make custom decals for it.
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  So we've always got a range of custom decals that people can put on
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  their cars with their requirements.
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  And Every season we've got, what, 20 30 cars that have different
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  liveries on them that they put so much work into and it looks so great.
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  Yeah, custom liveries, uh, that's a good thing in sim racing also.
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  I can't make the custom liveries, I always ask other people to
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  do it for me because Mm hmm.
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  I'm a driver.
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  I can drive and I can talk.
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  Don't ask me to do art.
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  Awesome.
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  Yeah, my husband's taking this from me, so he's also making liveries
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  for me and emotes for my channel.
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  So I'm doing driving and talking a lot.
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  Nice!
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  I tried to get my wife to help me with some things in it, but
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  she's just No, she plays Sims 4.
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  That's her simulator.
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  She plays Sims 4.
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  Well, at least she We've got our own Sim addiction.
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  It's just that they're completely different.
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  Well, she's investing in your wish list for your gaming room.
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  That's good.
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  Absolutely!
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  I've invested about 1, 500 in her Sims game.
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  Oh,
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  that's nice.
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  And I made myself, um, my first rig was.
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  I took a piece of countertop off of a job and some plywood,
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  a couple of two by fours.
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  And then I threw a, um, eight by eight in there because it was just
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  too light and it was sliding around.
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  And I built myself something that slides in front of the couch with the
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  pedals locked in and the steering wheel on it and mounted a monitor to it.
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  And that was my rig for nearly a year.
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  And every time I got it out to plan, she's like, well, where's mine?
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  I'm like, what do you need a rig for?
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  You're playing sense.
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  So her birthday rolls around and I went out we had an old table and I cut
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  it up and Murdered it and put it back together into a really nice looking thing
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  where it's got her keyboard, her laptop and mounted a monitor on it for her.
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  Now she's got her own little rig for Sims 4.
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  Really cool that you're making stuff by yourself.
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  Um, because when we started sim racing, so there was a during pandemic
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  for me, uh, and we, like, I had to.
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  Oh, the same for you, that's really cool.
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  Um, so I had G27 and when we switched to triple screen, uh, unfortunately
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  didn't have opportunity to just buy the, uh, the stand for triple.
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  Uh, so we made it out the plywood with my husband and it's still alive.
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  It's, uh, on the second rig.
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  It's really cool when you, you know, making, uh, things by yourself and, um,
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  I think people just shouldn't be afraid to build something by themselves, uh,
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  because, you know, someone, um, like, plywood is, uh, hard enough to, like,
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  to have a really good triple stand, for example, or the rig as well, so
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  at least you can start from something.
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  Exactly, I mean, anything that you can do to get into it, and if you
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  can't afford a wheel and you can't afford pedals, Play on the controller.
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  There are people that are three, four seconds faster than me on controller.
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  Like I, anybody can do anything.
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  That's my favorite thing about sim racing in the world is it's so accessible.
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  Yeah.
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  I can't afford to go and buy a real car to race with.
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  I can't afford to take my real car on a racetrack and destroy
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  it because somebody hit me.
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  So.
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  I can do it on the game anytime I want to.
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  Oh, it's midnight and I want to go hit a racetrack.
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  Ah, here it is, right here.
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  Turn everything on and I'm there.
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  And the main thing, the crashes are free in SimRacing.
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  And the crashes are free.
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  Yeah.
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  I remember when I did, uh, that was Forza Motorsport, a championship, which I did.
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  I did it on my wheel.
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  And, uh, everybody We're driving with the wheels, uh, but on the
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  one event, they, uh, invite really fast drivers and controllers.
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  And as you said, they were faster, like by three, four seconds than,
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  uh, the fastest driver on the wheel.
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  It was really, really cool.
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  I don't know how they do it, like, I, and, there's a couple of things,
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  okay, so on controller I don't get it because there's like, it's so hard to
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  be consistent with every turn, it's like, oh, I need to turn the wheel this
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  much, but on the controller it's like, I need to move my thumb this much.
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  I can't stop moving!
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  It's like, how are you hitting your marks like that?
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  Like, I don't get it.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm in the same boat with you, I just, uh, I got no idea how to drive this
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  controller, like, I can't control the car with a stick in the way I'm,
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  how I'm doing this on the wheel.
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  Uh, right, and then the other thing that gets me is, like, I get it, the kids that
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  are younger, jumping into a racing rig and being like, Just being able to Basically
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  break the rules of physics because you know in the sim racing you can do
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  things you can't do in real life, right?
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  so they find the exploits and they're able to Correct oversteer or save these
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  wrecks and I just don't get it because like when i'm sitting here I don't feel
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  the G slide me over in my real car.
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  Um, I hope there aren't any cops watching my real car, of course, too fast.
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  Sometimes I want to start to understeer.
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  I know exactly what to do and how to handle it.
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  I've come around blind corners and had semi trucks in my lane.
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  And I've had to go into a shoulder that it's not wide enough for my car.
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  And I've been able to skim past them and not get hit.
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  Right.
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  But on the sim racing, it's like, I can't, there's not the feeling.
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  I can't quite get them.
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  Get the speeds that they can, but I'm never gonna give up, give up.
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  I'm working on it and constantly improving.
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  So that's the main thing, uh, to go step by step or as, uh, the same
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  way as you doing with equipment.
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  You doing the same way with your driving.
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  You just, uh, step by step improving.
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  Um, so speaking about your car, do you ever think maybe to take your
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  car and do the test day or something like track day on the real track?
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  Um, and, um, what do you think?
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  Will it be possible for you to ever jump into real life racing?
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  I will promise you I am relentless and stubborn.
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  One day I will be in a fast car on a real track, like it is going to happen.
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  So my car, no, it's, I've got a lowly V6 2010 Dodge Charger.
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  I mean, it's, it can be fun if you've got like a 25 mile an hour corner and
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  you're going around it at like 35 or 40.
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  Great, but um, other than that it's just a daily driver.
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  I need to get something like even a little Mazda MX 5 or something.
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  I don't care, I'll take anything to a track.
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  But I'm going to be working on getting a car I can take on track.
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  That's really nice.
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  Uh, do you have any racing tracks, uh, where you're living?
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  Um, Portland International.
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  Awesome.
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  Um, you guys had Ms.
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  KB Anderson on here and I friended her up and got onto her Instagram like
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  instantly and we've been chatting and I've actually been invited to go and
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  hang out with her on some of the days because she works on the crew in the pits.
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  It's my earliest opportunity that she's going to be there.
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  I'm going to go hang out with her and get into the pits and see how everything
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  is really done and meet some drivers.
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  And, um, hopefully by then I can get a racing license and I kind of goots
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  my way into somebody's car somehow.
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  Yeah, that's good.
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  Um, I'm Do you see that we're getting more women into motorsports
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  and in sim racing as well?
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  And how do you feel by yourself to be a woman in the, um, you know,
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  of course, the male dominated sim racing and racing as well?
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  Um, my experience has been an interesting one.
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  I expected not only for it to be like the bro scene where everybody is rude to
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  women or you don't belong here and that kind of thing and I haven't had that at
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  all and I I've met so many amazing people.
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  It's a great it's a great place for getting support like um when I met or
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  not when I met because I heard of Sophie and Yvonne both from race asylum many
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  many years ago three or four But when I actually started getting to know them
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  I don't like six months to a year ago.
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  I found out about the, in the e sports and screen to speed and the
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  whole community of the, the number of women that want to be involved in it.
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  It's just amazing.
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  And I love that they've got this welcoming place for us all to go
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  come and join and, um, talk, give each other tips and find new series
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  to waste against each other with.
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  And I love it.
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  I, I think more little girls would be into it if they had the opportunity.
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  Yeah, definitely.
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  And I just love seeing it grow.
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  Women in motorsports is nice.
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  Young girls, they're going to see like more streamers, more sim
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  racers, more girls in racing also.
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  They will have a dream also to get into sim racing one day or
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  into real life racing as well.
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  So that's great, which in it.
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  eSports doing for us and, um, overall community in sim
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  racing are really friendly.
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  I noticed that also, you know, I've been, um, in, in real life racing
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  and it's a more toxic community compared to what we got in sim racing.
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  And, uh, to be honest, I'm so happy that I'm in sim racing right now.
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  And, uh, Twitch community pretty, uh, pretty and, uh, supportive as well.
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  Um, what do you think about Gran Turismo 7 community?
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  So we just, uh, been talking with, uh, other guests about F1 community.
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  Uh, from my side, I was talking about a racing community.
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  So I would like to know, um, how do you feel in, uh, Gran Turismo 7?
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  The Gran Turismo community was Great for it being accessible and teaching
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  me the basics and finding people to surround myself with and Like feel
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  supported and a part of something um, I really wish they would do a little bit
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  more listening to their fan base and you know, maybe some upgrades tracks
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  cars that kind of thing, but it's
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  It's not my favorite anymore.
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  I loved Gran Turismo until I got ACC on PS5.
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  Now Gran Turismo is like, I'm gonna relax and play with my friends.
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  ACC is like, I must get faster.
• 23:09
  Understand this.
• 23:10
  We all got that kind of games which we play, uh, like occasionally with friends.
• 23:17
  Um, and then simulator where you really hard racing with everybody.
• 23:22
  Um, can you tell me what is your favorite, uh, track in the set?
• 23:25
  Of course, competes you on the, and the favorite car as well.
• 23:30
  Um, I don't really know for sure about a favorite car yet.
• 23:34
  I've only really driven the 992.
• 23:36
  I think it's the 23992 Porsche and the Lambo Evo two.
• 23:43
  So I'm sure there are two totally different cars to drive.
• 23:48
  Um, and Gran Turismo 7, when I first started, the Lambo just wanted to
• 23:52
  kill you, the Group 3 Lamborghini.
• 23:55
  And the Porsche was super easy to drive.
• 23:58
  And as the updates came through, the Lambo got nerfed, and now they
• 24:03
  almost drive the same, but the Porsche drives nicer than Lamborghini does.
• 24:08
  And then, on ACC, it's like, the Lamborghini is so much easier
• 24:13
  to drive than the Porsche.
• 24:14
  The Porsche just wants to murder you everywhere you go.
• 24:18
  But I like both of them, they're both a different kind of challenge
• 24:23
  to get your times down on the track.
• 24:27
  Um, as far as track is concerned, um, I really like Imola now that
• 24:32
  I've had a chance to drive it.
• 24:33
  Silverstone's a lot of fun, but I really just love the Nordschleife all,
• 24:42
  every different way you can do it.
• 24:43
  The N24, the Nurburgring GP, that's, it's where you go to
• 24:48
  relax and drive way too fast.
• 24:54
  One day I'm hoping to make my way over to Germany and at least visit
• 24:58
  it, but I'd love to move there.
• 25:03
  Yeah, I think that many people will be jealous for those people who's
• 25:08
  living next to the Nordschleife and got opportunity to like near everyday
• 25:13
  race here and have a track day.
• 25:17
  Oh, I know the jealousy of it.
• 25:18
  I know a person who lives there and actually works there.
• 25:23
  And like I saw a video of them repaving part of the track.
• 25:28
  And so, the first thing I did was message her on Discord and be like, What's this?
• 25:33
  And she's like, Oh yeah, I started yesterday and this is what they're
• 25:36
  doing and they're ruining this corner by adding a curb that's taller.
• 25:39
  I'm like, Thanks.
• 25:42
  You want to sponsor somebody to move down there?
• 25:44
  Like, I can help you pay rent.
• 25:49
  I'll drive you to work.
• 25:52
  Anything I can do, just get me to Germany.
• 25:54
  I think that Germany is a really nice country to live in.
• 26:01
  Um, so I hope you're going to have this opportunity in the future
• 26:04
  to move into your dream country and be close to Nordschleife.
• 26:10
  You know what's funny too is like living where I do in the United States.
• 26:14
  I feel like if I did go to Germany, it would be like the same, but they speak
• 26:22
  a different language from everybody that I've talked to over there.
• 26:26
  I've got so many German friends.
• 26:28
  It's it's almost like the same as the state that I live in.
• 26:32
  The trees look the same.
• 26:34
  The weather looks the same.
• 26:35
  Everything looks the same.
• 26:36
  And I'm just like, see, I'm, I'm in the right climate.
• 26:39
  I'm in the right place.
• 26:41
  geographical kind of location.
• 26:44
  I'm just not in the right part of the world.
• 26:49
  All right, um, talking about your streams, how do you enjoy them?
• 26:53
  And do you find hard to drive and talk at the same time?
• 27:00
  Sometimes driving and talking at the same time is just not my thing.
• 27:05
  Um, I do my best, but there are times that I'm Like in the middle
• 27:11
  of a race, I'm trying to go as fast as I can and push it to the limits.
• 27:14
  And I see a little chat message pop up over here and I'm
• 27:17
  like, Oh, who's that crash?
• 27:20
  So, uh, it's been a lot of work trying to find that happy medium of where can I look
• 27:26
  at my chats and how can I pay attention to my viewers and still not destroy my race?
• 27:32
  Um, I started streaming just for like prosperity sake, you know,
• 27:37
  like, Oh, there was an incident I can go back on my stream.
• 27:40
  I don't have to search through a replay or.
• 27:42
  And my friends could come and watch my laps and stuff like that.
• 27:46
  It was mostly just to keep track of things and my progress as I was getting better.
• 27:51
  And then I started getting a couple of followers.
• 27:55
  I still don't have many, but I started getting a couple of
• 27:57
  followers that I didn't know.
• 27:59
  And I'm like, Oh, this is, this is kind of fun.
• 28:01
  I like talking to people.
• 28:02
  And then we had a Commentary person drop out for one of
• 28:07
  the scaly punk charity races.
• 28:08
  And I was like, I'll do it.
• 28:11
  And I found myself running my mouth for two and a half hours, maybe three.
• 28:16
  And I was like, this is kind of fun.
• 28:18
  I like judging other people's driving and talking about it and
• 28:21
  laughing with the people on chats.
• 28:24
  So I was like, okay, I'm going to make this like a side gig.
• 28:27
  It's a good thing for racers to do when they are sim racers to do when
• 28:30
  they don't feel like sim racing.
• 28:32
  Or just to engage with the fanbase.
• 28:35
  So, that's when I got into commentary, but I really love it.
• 28:40
  I'm starting to find my, um, oh, my groove so that I can stream, manage talking with
• 28:49
  chat, and not completely destroy my race.
• 28:52
  Um, early on I had anger and temper issues because I just
• 28:59
  didn't have the consistency, you know, going around the track.
• 29:03
  Besides the fact that I'm streaming, I wasn't that great anyway.
• 29:07
  And so I would get upset and the rest of my race would get ruined.
• 29:10
  So over the last, probably eight months to a year, I've been tempering that down.
• 29:16
  So that it's like, okay, this happened.
• 29:19
  I missed my breaking point and slid into the grass.
• 29:22
  I didn't destroy my car.
• 29:23
  I'm still in the race and I'm going to keep going until it's over.
• 29:26
  And I'm just not going to be mad because what happens when you get mad?
• 29:30
  You start making mistakes you You're trying to push over drive the car and the
• 29:35
  next thing, you know, it's like oh I can get closer to that sausage No, I can't
• 29:41
  There is no closer to the sausage than I was driving before now my
• 29:44
  car is Balancing off into the wall on the other side of the track.
• 29:46
  So, um, Staying calm keeping cool.
• 29:51
  Just keeping everything smooth.
• 29:53
  That's the whole goal of it and And just getting better every
• 29:57
  day Well, I hope it's every day.
• 30:02
  Well, it's really hard sometimes to find this focus, uh, on
• 30:06
  track instead of focus on chat.
• 30:08
  Uh, so I'm struggling as well with this, uh, but it just get
• 30:12
  better with some practice, uh, because you just like, if you.
• 30:16
  Okay, I'm going to be focused on the track instead of, uh, focusing on chat.
• 30:23
  Uh, so just let, let know viewers and, uh, everything's fine.
• 30:28
  So everybody really.
• 30:30
  Understandable in this and it's really cool because sometimes you can just be
• 30:34
  in a really hard fight on track and not talk for like, I don't know, 10 minutes
• 30:40
  or something like this and everybody going to be silent with you watching your race.
• 30:45
  It's really cool.
• 30:47
  Right.
• 30:48
  I always expect it's like, okay, I'm, I'm struggling right now.
• 30:51
  I need to focus and catch up or find my markers again and just
• 30:56
  like get back into the zone.
• 30:57
  And I'm always like, okay, well, by the time I'm done being silent,
• 31:01
  doing my thing, I'm going to look over and it's going to be empty.
• 31:04
  And it's not like, they're not here just to talk to you.
• 31:08
  Like they're here to watch.
• 31:10
  How you're racing, the lines you're taking, they're here to learn
• 31:13
  from your mistakes, too, because even the aliens make mistakes.
• 31:17
  I know, um, one of the guys that he hasn't streamed much, but he just
• 31:22
  started streaming, um, I met him trying to get into my first ACC league, and I
• 31:30
  was like, I'm not really very good, but I would love to try this driver swap
• 31:35
  series thing that they've got going on.
• 31:37
  I And I found out you can do driver swaps, like, really real driver swaps
• 31:43
  on ACC, and I'm like, yeah, let's do it!
• 31:46
  And he's like, oh no, it's cool, just please don't try to go too fast, don't
• 31:51
  run into people, and stay smooth.
• 31:55
  If you can just stay smooth and focus, I don't care how things end
• 31:59
  up, I just want to see you improve.
• 32:02
  And that's been like, everybody's attitude that I've talked to so far.
• 32:06
  And I've gone from 10 seconds behind the pace on ACC to I'm a good mid pack to
• 32:14
  tail end of, well above that, tail end of the good drivers and mid pack driver now.
• 32:21
  And it's only been two months since I've been playing ACC.
• 32:24
  So Gran Turismo did teach me a lot.
• 32:27
  I'm pretty sure that I'm not gonna know Gran Turismo too much.
• 32:30
  Mm hmm Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Gran Turismo gave you a good base for sim
• 32:36
  racing and to drive in ACC and in racing in the future as well Um, it's really cool
• 32:43
  that you, you got this experience and, uh, right now you making good improvements.
• 32:50
  Yeah, and you know, I've, people laugh a lot when I say this, but I'm like, I've
• 32:54
  been doing this for a couple of years now.
• 32:57
  And there's been instances where I'm driving on a real road and
• 33:01
  it's wet and it's early morning.
• 33:06
  And I live near this highway that, it's like the most dangerous
• 33:10
  highway in the state where I live.
• 33:11
  Yeah.
• 33:12
  And I've seen literally an accident every other day for
• 33:18
  a year before on this highway.
• 33:20
  And one day I'm driving down the highway and I look up, I don't look up, I'm
• 33:26
  just like come around the corner and the next thing you know all I can see
• 33:29
  are these headlights that are about the same height as the roof of my car.
• 33:33
  And I didn't freak out, I wasn't scared, I was just like oh I need to go around him.
• 33:40
  And when I was done I was I was like, okay, so I didn't hit the
• 33:46
  guardrail on the right side.
• 33:49
  I didn't break my mirror on the semi truck.
• 33:51
  That was 100 percent in my lane coming around this corner.
• 33:56
  I can't attribute my calmness or my reactions to anything
• 34:00
  other than sim racing.
• 34:02
  That's like the reaction times and being so used to being like stressing yourself
• 34:08
  out over how you're driving or how you're going to take this corner or how you're
• 34:11
  going to handle your car in real life.
• 34:13
  You're doing a quarter of the speed half the time or less.
• 34:17
  And so when something dangerous does happen, there's no thinking involved.
• 34:22
  You can react and you know that it's safe to do this because your
• 34:26
  car's not even close to the limit.
• 34:27
  So why can't you just like whip it over real quick?
• 34:31
  Yeah, in my opinion, uh, people who driving on the road, they should
• 34:35
  jump into whatever, sim racing or maybe some, uh, like extreme driving
• 34:41
  to just, uh, teach this reactions.
• 34:43
  Yeah.
• 34:44
  As you said, and it's really helped me.
• 34:46
  It's like, it saved me, um, you know, a couple of times on the
• 34:49
  road when I was driving the car.
• 34:51
  Um, and that's a good thing, which you notice, uh, that sim racing help you
• 34:56
  in the driving in real life as well.
• 35:00
  Yeah, just knowing the feel of the car, it's like
• 35:06
  the first time I ever got understeer in a car that I was driving in real life.
• 35:10
  I had never like driven with a simulator, like the wheel and everything.
• 35:15
  And even if I had, it would have been what, 40 years ago before they had such
• 35:21
  a thing as force feedback or pedals.
• 35:24
  It like actually had real, you know, Load cell field to them or anything like that.
• 35:29
  And when my car started understeering, it was like pure panic moment.
• 35:33
  And it's like, okay, what do I do?
• 35:36
  Oh, hit the brakes.
• 35:37
  Oh, that's not helping let off the brakes.
• 35:38
  Some I'll try the gas.
• 35:40
  Um, let's try steering less.
• 35:42
  No, that's not going to help.
• 35:43
  And you just don't know what to do when you get into that situation.
• 35:47
  And so you've like really been there.
• 35:49
  And what, when you practice it every day, something happens and there's no question.
• 35:55
  There's no thought.
• 35:56
  There's, oh, this is how I handle that situation.
• 36:00
  Yeah, my opinion.
• 36:00
  So yeah, why don't they, why don't they make simulators, like, part of courses for
• 36:05
  driving, getting your driver's license?
• 36:08
  Yeah, exactly.
• 36:09
  I think that should be a part of it, uh, because you're getting really good
• 36:14
  skills, uh, which can save your car, your life on the road, and it's, it's great.
• 36:20
  And yeah.
• 36:20
  Thank you.
• 36:21
  In my opinion, a lot of accidents which happening on the roads, uh, that just
• 36:26
  because, you know, people panic and they don't know what to do in this situation.
• 36:31
  And that's it.
• 36:31
  As you said, like, uh, you was panic a little bit when you had
• 36:36
  understeer with your car in real life.
• 36:37
  Yeah.
• 36:38
  And, uh, this is exactly what happening with people and no wonder because
• 36:42
  they, uh, absolutely got no, uh, experience in such a sort of situations.
• 36:49
  Right, so you don't know what to do, the first thing you're going
• 36:52
  to do is panic and wreck your car.
• 36:53
  Yeah.
• 36:54
  Hahaha.
• 36:57
  So the only real, real life wreck that I've ever been in that,
• 37:02
  uh, we're not going to count the one that was half on purpose.
• 37:07
  I was, I was on that dangerous highway that I was telling you
• 37:10
  about, this other one, right?
• 37:11
  Same highway, and they were doing road work on there, and I pulled up
• 37:16
  behind this semi, it's a flagger.
• 37:19
  And I'm like, I hate this highway, I'm going to give myself one.
• 37:23
  A semi length between me and the truck.
• 37:26
  Someone's gonna come by and hit me, I just know it.
• 37:29
  And three days in a row I'm stopping at this flagger.
• 37:32
  And finally, the third day, I stop, I hit the flashers, I check the mirror.
• 37:37
  Okay, there's somebody stopped behind me, I'm safe now.
• 37:41
  See what time it is, click the phone.
• 37:43
  As soon as I started reaching towards my phone, I hear this.
• 37:46
  And I was like, okay, number one, he was speeding number
• 37:49
  two, we're all going to get hit.
• 37:53
  So I was like, all right, I need to be able to control my car.
• 37:57
  So I don't want to have the brakes on too tight.
• 38:00
  So I put the car in gear.
• 38:02
  I let off three quarters of my brakes so that they were just
• 38:05
  barely holding me in place.
• 38:07
  And he, he dodged the car behind me.
• 38:10
  This is awesome because he's in this giant Toyota Tundra, right?
• 38:14
  You got this much space and his truck is this big He bounces off the guardrail
• 38:21
  completely misses the car behind me Smashes in the tail of my car and if I had
• 38:27
  reacted any differently I probably would have ended up in the oncoming traffic.
• 38:31
  That was right flying by like nothing's happening But instead I was able
• 38:36
  to control my car and it was like, okay Kept it inside my lane and I
• 38:40
  didn't hit the truck because I gave myself space So More things that I'm
• 38:45
  learning, I'm applying things that I've learned to simracing to situations you
• 38:49
  don't even experience in simracing.
• 38:52
  Because if you hold your brakes too much, how much control
• 38:54
  do you have over your car?
• 38:57
  And if you're spending all of your, um, traction braking, you can't turn.
• 39:03
  And so, the second I knew something was wrong, Those are the thoughts that went
• 39:07
  through my mind and it was just like, okay, this is how I'm not gonna die
• 39:15
  Returning back to some racing a little bit Um, I want to ask you how
• 39:20
  do you prepare for your races and what races do you do usually in acc?
• 39:25
  Maybe that's some kind of leak which you can suggest to people
• 39:28
  who's starring in acc or like that.
• 39:31
  Just a multiplayer races As far as lazy concerned, um Uh, Dream Team
• 39:39
  Racing has some great GT7 leagues, an awesome guy, he, the people who
• 39:46
  started it, one of them is German, one of them is, uh, uh, uh, uh, Irish.
• 39:51
  Some of my best friends now, they run usually one season a year, and depending
• 39:56
  on the number of int the amount of interest they get, they'll have, uh,
• 40:01
  three lobbies going sometimes, four.
• 40:05
  And so we've got skill levels from I just got this game and I'm learning how
• 40:09
  to drive on it to I'm, not even gonna bother trying to race this person because
• 40:14
  they're so freaking fast They lapped me in three laps and like this is just I
• 40:19
  will learn from them I will watch them, but i'm not gonna compete with them.
• 40:24
  Um, so dream team racing is really cool.
• 40:26
  Uh Scaly punk charity racing is also really cool because we
• 40:31
  do the same thing We, uh, split up the lobbies by skill level.
• 40:37
  And it's usually 40 minute races.
• 40:39
  It's pretty much the go to on GT seven.
• 40:41
  Um, since I started ACC.
• 40:44
  My first series that I started, I, it was supposed to be like a two
• 40:50
  hour, two or three hour driver swap thing where it's like, Oh, I'm going
• 40:54
  to drive for an hour out of this.
• 40:56
  And it turns out that that one got canceled because
• 40:59
  there wasn't enough interest.
• 41:01
  And then I saw they had another one and it costs a little bit of money to join, but
• 41:05
  once you pay money, they can't cancel it.
• 41:07
  So I started a four and a half hour driver swap series.
• 41:10
  And so I'm doing that with Phil Hooligan.
• 41:13
  And I've got my friend Neil DeCiel, Neil Wright.
• 41:18
  Um, he's part of Infinity Racing League, IRL.
• 41:22
  Uh, they've got a Discord server also.
• 41:25
  And they are partnered up with ACC Consoles.
• 41:29
  Um, I, I'm sure if, if you've ever played ACC and you look up the online lobby
• 41:35
  list, ACC Consoles is like all over it.
• 41:38
  They've got tons of lobbies on there.
• 41:40
  They do a time trial.
• 41:41
  Where they set up the track for the month and anybody can go and join on it.
• 41:47
  There's no password and you can see how you stack up against
• 41:51
  however many people enter it.
• 41:53
  I was, I think I was 43rd out of 115 the last time.
• 41:59
  Last one I was able to take time and do so that's not bad.
• 42:01
  I'm like I said, I'm mid to Little bit better than that base um, so
• 42:09
  those are really good leagues and then There's another one coming up.
• 42:13
  It's going to be an imsa foreign It's imsa endurance racing and it's going to be a
• 42:20
  mixed class that's run by acc consoles as well And so i've got I want to have an all
• 42:28
  female team for this one So I asked Yvonne to join me on that one And anybody else
• 42:34
  who is interested, we can take, I think we can have up to three or four drivers.
• 42:38
  So any other ladies out there want to get in on this, let me know.
• 42:43
  Yeah, so you can message Tasha.
• 42:46
  Oh right, it is on PS5 though, it's not, it's not PC, unfortunately.
• 42:52
  But yeah, no, I'm basically, I want to get as good as I can, so
• 42:57
  I drive everything that I can.
• 43:00
  I'm not very, I wasn't very good at ACC when I first started it.
• 43:03
  But I'm not going to be like, Oh, I'm not going to join this series because I suck.
• 43:08
  I'm going to be like, I'm going to go join this series and see how well I do
• 43:11
  and see how much I can learn from them.
• 43:13
  I didn't progress from.
• 43:16
  A pleb to where I'm at now, a better pleb by Sitting on the sidelines
• 43:23
  and not participating jump in Everybody is going to help you out.
• 43:28
  If you have questions ask in a discord server ask on the racing server And
• 43:34
  guaranteed you're going to make friends and someone who is alien pace is going
• 43:38
  to be like here Let me help you i'll teach you a couple of things about
• 43:41
  this and you'll be faster And then the other part of it is giving up.
• 43:48
  I'm never going to give up, right?
• 43:50
  Every now and then I get into this position where I start feeling
• 43:55
  content being like, I'm not going to improve any more than this.
• 43:57
  This is just going to be my pace.
• 44:00
  And that's usually about the time that I gain a second on my laps.
• 44:04
  It's like, okay, now that I'm content, all of a sudden, poof, I'm faster.
• 44:07
  I'm like, whoa.
• 44:09
  Okay.
• 44:09
  So maybe we need to relax while we're doing this too.
• 44:11
  This isn't about stressing yourself out and gripping as tight as you can.
• 44:16
  This is about.
• 44:18
  You want to be smooth and learn from everybody.
• 44:22
  That's what we do.
• 44:25
  Yeah, I'm absolutely agree with you.
• 44:28
  Uh, so good thing, which you said that you, when you relax, you're like boom
• 44:32
  gaining one second and it's, it's really working because you just stop to push
• 44:37
  yourself too hard and stop to, um, Like focus too hard on things which you're
• 44:42
  doing with driving and you just relax and let your brain to do all things on
• 44:48
  track and it's, it's really working.
• 44:50
  Um, do you like endurance racing more compared to sprint racing?
• 44:55
  And if yes, what do you like the most about endurance racing or
• 45:00
  sprint racing if you prefer this one?
• 45:03
  Favorite?
• 45:04
  Yeah, I really do love the endurance racing, especially the driver swap
• 45:08
  endurance racing, because you're working together with someone else.
• 45:13
  So you're not going to set the car up for you.
• 45:17
  They're not going to set the car up for them.
• 45:19
  You have to work together and find a setup for the car because you can't swap it,
• 45:23
  swap the setup when you get to the pits.
• 45:25
  Um, the pit stops themselves and trying to communicate with the other driver,
• 45:31
  set up tire pressures for the swap and stuff like that makes it more interesting.
• 45:36
  Um, just being there, having a teammate in your ear.
• 45:39
  Um, they're, they can watch you the whole time on ACC, especially in like,
• 45:44
  if there's something you're doing every lap that you're not catching,
• 45:47
  they can give you advice on it.
• 45:50
  You know, I really love the AI on ACC where it tells you, it's like, Oh, car
• 45:55
  on the right, Oh, clear on the right.
• 45:58
  Don't ever trust that thing.
• 45:59
  Cause half the time, all I did was move over two inches to
• 46:02
  the right and it's still there.
• 46:03
  So you still gotta be careful, but when you have somebody with you, they can
• 46:08
  spot those cars or, or you don't have to watch your mirror because they can
• 46:11
  tell you someone's coming up behind you.
• 46:12
  You don't have to watch the time so much in the bottom corner, trying
• 46:16
  to see what the deltas are because.
• 46:18
  You've got someone to do that for you.
• 46:20
  You can focus and drive.
• 46:23
  And then my other favorite thing about the endurance races is they last longer.
• 46:27
  I don't want to jump in my rig and compete for 40 minutes.
• 46:31
  I want to like push myself.
• 46:33
  I want to be going, I want to be driving.
• 46:34
  I want to drive for an hour, two hours, three hours, four hours.
• 46:38
  If I had my way, I would do it for a job and I would probably drive four or
• 46:41
  six hours a day, but I'm not there yet.
• 46:49
  Do you like the part of endurance racing where you're counting fuel and
• 46:53
  do some management with the schedule?
• 46:55
  Are you doing this by yourself or are you more?
• 46:58
  Uh, like dedicate this to your teammates.
• 47:02
  I'm just starting in it.
• 47:04
  Like I've only done,
• 47:08
  I can't remember if we've done one or two.
• 47:09
  I think we've only gotten one done so far.
• 47:12
  Like I said, I've only been doing this for two months and the
• 47:14
  endurance races run once a month.
• 47:16
  So the next one is coming up this Saturday.
• 47:18
  It'll be streamed on my YouTube and it's a spa and I've got decent times there.
• 47:23
  So this should be a good one to watch, but Phil and I are working together on a setup
• 47:29
  and actually I've got Neil Wright coming.
• 47:31
  To drive this one with me another awesome guy but we work together to
• 47:36
  find a setup that we can all drive and then When it comes to fuel calculation,
• 47:41
  it's you gotta I I enjoy doing it.
• 47:44
  I'm a math person like I went up to uh math 350 or something like
• 47:51
  that when I was in college and the only reason I stopped doing it is
• 47:54
  because My baby was born too early.
• 47:57
  And so I had to drop a class lost financial aid and No more school for
• 48:02
  me But, I love math, I love physics, I love thinking, so now I'll look at, um,
• 48:09
  liters per lap, and how much time is left, and what my lap times are, and do
• 48:14
  the math in my head as quickly as I can.
• 48:16
  Usually, right now, I'm doing it all on the fly.
• 48:20
  I'm hoping that, like, not this coming race, but the race after and
• 48:23
  the one after that, I've got a better grasp on how it works in ACC, and
• 48:28
  I can actually plan driver stints.
• 48:31
  Thanks.
• 48:31
  And okay, this is, we're starting with 70 percent fuel, 70 liters, fuel, whatever.
• 48:37
  And then we're, this is how much we're going to fuel each time we come in.
• 48:40
  And I like to strategize.
• 48:42
  It's a lot of fun.
• 48:43
  I don't like to do it by myself because I'm not racing alone.
• 48:47
  When you've got a team of people racing, everybody needs to have input, right?
• 48:52
  It's like anything else.
• 48:54
  But no, I really, that's another one of the things that I really love
• 48:58
  about endurance racing is like all the strategies and, um, balancing
• 49:02
  ideas off with somebody else, practicing with them and just fine
• 49:05
  tuning how you're driving together.
• 49:09
  Sprint races are fun, um, as far as preparing goes.
• 49:14
  Um, I used to practice two hours a day every day before the race,
• 49:22
  trying to get ready for that race.
• 49:25
  And I went through about a month where I didn't have time to practice at all.
• 49:32
  And I did better.
• 49:35
  I was like, from now on, my practice is going to be doing
• 49:38
  whatever I want, wherever I want.
• 49:41
  And then on the day of the race, For the sprint race, I'm just going to
• 49:45
  jump in, do five laps and wing it.
• 49:49
  And it's worked for me.
• 49:50
  I'm, I'm doing better on GT seven, doing it that way, but I'm also
• 49:54
  putting in more time on ACC.
• 49:56
  I think the better you do on ACC, the less you need to try on GT seven.
• 50:01
  Right.
• 50:03
  And so I'm getting a lot better at that one.
• 50:05
  Um, ACC preparation.
• 50:08
  I work at that.
• 50:11
  I've got this, uh, I started a one hour series with TJC Gaming, also
• 50:18
  another great guy, super inclusive.
• 50:20
  Um, you can join his races while he's streaming.
• 50:23
  It's a lot of fun, but I started joining his one hour races and it's like, I'll,
• 50:29
  you know, I'll practice for like two hours throughout the week, come up with
• 50:33
  some kind of a setup and then not worry about it until the day of the race.
• 50:38
  And then the four and a half hour races, I'm like fine tuning a setup
• 50:42
  and working with my team probably once a week ish for a month until it
• 50:48
  comes up and it's time for the race.
• 50:49
  And it's like, okay, Within three days before the race I do about an hour drive
• 50:54
  just so I can see what the tires are going to do See what the temperatures are going
• 50:58
  to do try um different weather settings because It's not like gt7 where they tell
• 51:05
  you the weather settings Usually these guys are like what are the real what's
• 51:08
  the real world weather and you don't even know till The day of half of the time.
• 51:13
  I mean you can get a guess I looked up the weather last time and it
• 51:16
  was like, oh sunny Yeah Nah, it was cloudy and nearly raining, so
• 51:20
  that's what our lobby looked like.
• 51:23
  So, um, ACC I put in a little bit more preparation.
• 51:27
  Gran Turismo 7 now, like I said, it's, I just don't worry about it anymore.
• 51:31
  It's for fun, so I don't prepare at all.
• 51:34
  I jump in the day of and it's like, okay, this is how we're doing it.
• 51:40
  Yeah, sometimes it's really good to have just jump into the race, have
• 51:44
  fun and not think about anything about practice or, uh, something like this.
• 51:50
  I can suggest you a little thing about practice, it's working for me.
• 51:54
  Uh, I don't know, you can try it for yourself as well.
• 51:57
  Um, so usually I'm practicing, uh, like I know one hour, two hours,
• 52:02
  uh, and, uh, I'm going to have like another one day before the race.
• 52:07
  So I'm not doing the practice, um, on that day.
• 52:11
  And I know during the night, my brain, like, uh, collects all the info.
• 52:15
  And, uh, the next day when I'm doing, uh, like short practice,
• 52:19
  maybe 40 minutes or something like this, I'm just getting faster.
• 52:22
  And it's really cool.
• 52:24
  Um, trying to not do.
• 52:27
  Not to do a lot of practice during the race day as I'm, you
• 52:30
  know, feeling tired, especially when we're doing endurance races.
• 52:34
  Uh, you really need this energy and, um, you need a lot of energy for your
• 52:39
  scenes because sometimes you do, um, in a racing, we're doing double scenes.
• 52:44
  Uh, so you like one hour plus driving in the car, two hours sometimes.
• 52:48
  Uh, so yeah, you can try, uh, like, do.
• 52:52
  Uh, practice, then relax, and then take, like, little practice to just, uh, settle
• 52:57
  down things, uh, in your, in your mind, and then jump to the race next day.
• 53:02
  Something like this.
• 53:04
  Absolutely.
• 53:04
  Actually, that, uh, it's funny that you say that, because, um, the ACC console
• 53:08
  server, uh, I think it was, um, Kyalami that they had, the time trial going on?
• 53:15
  And that was also going to be the first endurance race that I was doing.
• 53:20
  And I'm still brand new with the game.
• 53:23
  I hadn't really practiced anything else.
• 53:25
  So one night I was like, I'm going to get better in this time trial.
• 53:29
  I'm going to get my name into the top 50.
• 53:31
  Right.
• 53:32
  And so I spent that night doing laps and laps and laps and laps.
• 53:37
  And, uh, it's like, okay, I've got a good feel for the flow of it and
• 53:42
  how I'm gonna go, and this is great.
• 53:45
  Went to bed, and I, like, my eyes shot open at about 6.
• 53:49
  30 in the morning, and I had this dream that I had gotten, whatever
• 53:53
  time, two seconds faster than what I was doing the night before.
• 53:57
  And I was like, let's
• 54:01
  go get this a shot.
• 54:03
  Get out of bed at 6 30 in the morning, come turn the rig on.
• 54:05
  I jumped on and like within two laps, I had, I nailed that two seconds faster lap.
• 54:13
  And it was just a processing of, okay, this corner complex I'm coming into.
• 54:18
  It's, um, I need to stop worrying about hitting the apex on the way through.
• 54:23
  I need to stay wide there so that it's easier to hit the next left hand corner.
• 54:28
  And it came to me in a dream.
• 54:32
  As ridiculous as it is.
• 54:33
  Yes, I was dreaming and I figured out how to drive faster in my sleep.
• 54:38
  That's amazing.
• 54:39
  And you know, it's a lot better to just, when you're stuck on the, on
• 54:44
  your lap time, uh, you just go relaxed and then like everything, everything
• 54:49
  will come to you in the morning and you'll do like two seconds faster, one
• 54:53
  second faster, or something like this.
• 54:56
  It's working all the time.
• 54:57
  And the other thing, one of the other things that I use is, so do 300 laps at
• 55:04
  Kyalami trying to get your time right.
• 55:06
  And all you're doing is frustrating yourself because it's not, all
• 55:10
  you're doing is overdriving the car.
• 55:11
  You're not learning anything.
• 55:13
  You're not doing any better.
• 55:15
  What's a track that you are good at?
• 55:17
  Go play somewhere else for a little while.
• 55:19
  Like, I was like, Oh, I haven't tried the Nürburgring on, or,
• 55:23
  uh, the Nordschleife on ACC yet.
• 55:26
  Let's go see what that one's like.
• 55:28
  Oh, it is not the same as it is on GT7, but I still really love it.
• 55:34
  And so I go play on the Nordschleife for a little while
• 55:37
  and go back to the other track.
• 55:38
  And it's Oh, oh, this corner looks completely different now.
• 55:43
  I'm like, all right, I can break another four meters later here.
• 55:47
  Let's do this.
• 55:50
  Yeah.
• 55:51
  Sometimes yeah.
• 55:51
  Clear the brain.
• 55:52
  It's a, it's like when you're out tasting wine or tequila in my case, you taste
• 55:58
  one, you have a little cleanser and then you taste the other one, right?
• 56:04
  Switch it up a little bit.
• 56:05
  It helps you learn.
• 56:06
  Yeah, sometimes you just need some fresh air to get in and then you just
• 56:10
  jump with a, um, better energy to the track and you're like, Oh, yes, I
• 56:15
  can do this corner a lot better now.
• 56:17
  And yeah, it's working all the time as well.
• 56:21
  Yeah, sometimes the good break is what it takes.
• 56:23
  Um, the whole not practicing until the day of, like I said, it came
• 56:28
  about from a month where I just didn't have time to practice.
• 56:32
  And both of the races that came up for that series, it was like,
• 56:35
  Man, I don't care if I lose.
• 56:37
  I got on, I did like three laps for practice and then qualification started.
• 56:41
  And I was like, yeah, let's see how it goes.
• 56:43
  And you know, they didn't practice at all.
• 56:46
  So I qualified mid pack and like, uh, yep, it's all right.
• 56:50
  And just don't hit anybody and try and have clean race and do your best.
• 56:54
  Who cares what happens?
• 56:56
  And the next thing, you know, you're.
• 56:58
  second place or leading the race and it's like, um, wow, I should relax more often.
• 57:08
  Some good advices for people who are jumping into sim
• 57:12
  racing for the first time.
• 57:14
  That's nice.
• 57:15
  Thank you.
• 57:16
  Um, and the other and along with that is like, if you're just getting into
• 57:22
  sim racing, don't get on and start trying to go as fast as you can.
• 57:29
  There's no reason to you're not, all you're going to do is.
• 57:32
  Overdrive your car and frustrate yourself.
• 57:34
  What you want to do is go out and drive it like you're learning a new neighborhood.
• 57:40
  Go around it a few times at a safe speed where you know you can make
• 57:44
  the corners and start getting a flow for how you want to drive it.
• 57:48
  And as you're doing this, you're going to slowly speed up and you're going
• 57:52
  to start remembering where you're at.
• 57:54
  Nordschleife took me six months to stop botching three of the corners because
• 58:00
  I I was like, Oh, I'm at this corner.
• 58:03
  Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
• 58:04
  That corner isn't flat on the track, but you just want to get the lay of it.
• 58:10
  And as you're doing this, and as you're slowly learning the track,
• 58:15
  you're going to start going faster and faster, and you're not going to
• 58:17
  be pushing or overdriving your car, it's just your comfort level is going
• 58:21
  to grow and you're going to be smooth.
• 58:24
  And you're going to be faster by starting out going slower.
• 58:27
  That's one piece of advice that everybody tells you.
• 58:31
  You never want to believe it, but slow is faster.
• 58:38
  Slow in, fast out, hit your apex, hit your markers, and relax.
• 58:43
  Exactly, this is what you have to do.
• 58:47
  Also a good thing to just look at replay and see how wide you go in if you're
• 58:52
  using the whole track and if you got opportunity to watch on the telemetry
• 58:57
  and analyze with Someone who's faster.
• 59:00
  Maybe you got to mate or someone like this that's also a really good
• 59:04
  thing to do because you can compare with someone and you see where
• 59:08
  you Um, maybe doing differently.
• 59:11
  Uh, some corners you might do better than your teammate, for example.
• 59:15
  Uh, some corners you can, um, learn from your teammate.
• 59:18
  And it's, uh, it's a great thing as well about simracing
• 59:22
  that we got open telemetry.
• 59:25
  And we got a lot of opportunities to watch other people replays.
• 59:29
  Uh, this is not what happened in real life in many series, uh, unfortunately.
• 59:34
  But we, we just have to use these, uh, tools which we got in sim racing.
• 59:40
  Absolutely.
• 59:40
  That.
• 59:41
  One of the things I love about sim racing is just the accessibility
• 59:44
  to all of the information.
• 59:47
  Um, you're struggling on a track and you're, you've got a league
• 59:52
  race coming up and you just don't know why you can't get any faster.
• 59:56
  Pull up YouTube.
• 59:57
  Find somebody who's faster.
• 1:00:00
  There's a lot of good youtubers out there that you can watch their lap times.
• 1:00:04
  You can Um figure out their breaking points.
• 1:00:07
  You can figure out what gear they're in for each corner Um,
• 1:00:10
  that's a big recommendation.
• 1:00:12
  I know automatic is easier to Work when you first start sim racing just figure
• 1:00:21
  out a way to get a manual in there.
• 1:00:24
  Um, when I was on controller, I used like X and square for shifting
• 1:00:28
  and the triggers were gas and brake and steering was the left stick.
• 1:00:33
  Uh, now that I got the wheel, of course I got the paddle
• 1:00:36
  shifters on it, so that's nice.
• 1:00:38
  But the automatic, you just don't have the options for gear changes in corners.
• 1:00:43
  Sometimes it'll have you on third gear when really you need second
• 1:00:46
  to get the rotation for the car.
• 1:00:48
  But that's another thing you can learn is, uh, what gear
• 1:00:52
  they're using through corners.
• 1:00:53
  What, What are you doing to get rotation from the car and what are
• 1:00:58
  you doing to stop the rotation and get on the power on the way out?
• 1:01:02
  And sometimes you want a lower gear to get into the corner and you want
• 1:01:08
  to shift up when you hit the apex so you can get on the power right
• 1:01:10
  away and it doesn't spin you out.
• 1:01:12
  It gives you a little bit of understeer and pushes you out to the curb.
• 1:01:18
  See, that's why I love simracing, there's so much to talk about.
• 1:01:20
  Yeah.
• 1:01:21
  There's so much nuance in it.
• 1:01:23
  That's true.
• 1:01:24
  Um, speaking of We can pick it apart all day long.
• 1:01:28
  Yeah, speaking of We can talk about seating position.
• 1:01:31
  Sorry.
• 1:01:34
  No, I'm I was half kidding, but it's like, you want to talk about seating
• 1:01:37
  position, I you want to be able to like, set your wrist on fully extended out,
• 1:01:42
  and then when you grab your wheel, you want your arms to be about 90 degrees.
• 1:01:45
  Please?
• 1:01:46
  You don't want to be stretched out like this trying to drive, and
• 1:01:48
  you don't want to be all like this where you don't have any movement.
• 1:01:52
  Every little thing about this means something.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah, especially driving position is a really good thing.
• 1:01:59
  You know, I was struggling with the trail braking.
• 1:02:02
  I was losing a little bit, like, a little bit everywhere to the
• 1:02:06
  fastest drivers in the racing.
• 1:02:08
  And the one thing which I did, I just, um, Did my, uh, move my seat
• 1:02:14
  backwards by one click and I fixed completely this trail breaking and you
• 1:02:19
  know I'm going faster right now and that's exactly crazy about sim racing
• 1:02:24
  like every little things accounting to your better, better lap times on
• 1:02:30
  track So I agree with you in this.
• 1:02:34
  It's like every stupid little thing affects it like okay, so GT7 I when
• 1:02:40
  I was driving I was driving bumper cam because it just makes the most
• 1:02:44
  sense really for GT7 Um the way that I have everything set up.
• 1:02:49
  I basically have the whole dashboard So my steering wheel is here
• 1:02:53
  and then I use the This is where the homemade rig comes in again.
• 1:02:57
  So I have an actual rig, but I took a different piece of that same countertop
• 1:03:04
  and I attached it to my monitor brackets and then I attached it to the wheel mount
• 1:03:09
  so that I could adjust my wheel farther back to get my legs farther away from the
• 1:03:13
  pedals and be able to adjust my seat more.
• 1:03:16
  And so it's just another aspect of adjustability there.
• 1:03:19
  It's um, I had this issue though getting into ACC I really
• 1:03:25
  wanted to drive cockpit view.
• 1:03:26
  I always have it makes more sense.
• 1:03:29
  It's immersion, right?
• 1:03:30
  Like you have more reference points in my car I know that if the right hand
• 1:03:37
  side of my windshield wiper the little knobby Is touching the white line on
• 1:03:41
  the right hand side that my tires are on the white line on the right side I
• 1:03:45
  know exactly where my car is on gg7.
• 1:03:48
  It's like oh it's about right here on the screen And as long as I have
• 1:03:52
  this thing mapped up there that spot is where the edge of it is but when
• 1:03:56
  you cockpit view it's like It's always there you have all of your reference
• 1:04:02
  marks for the car You can figure out exactly where everything is on it.
• 1:04:06
  So With the new seat i'm raised up a little bit more and i've got a 55 inch
• 1:04:12
  screen that like it goes up to Way too tall so I was I wasn't able to get
• 1:04:18
  into Any other view besides bumper cam on acc even because I would have been
• 1:04:22
  looking like this while I was trying to drive And you don't want that.
• 1:04:26
  You want to be looking straight ahead.
• 1:04:29
  Everything matters in sim racing, racing, everything matters.
• 1:04:33
  So now that I've got a comfortable seat that I feel like is hugging me, I love it,
• 1:04:39
  I'm raised up just a little bit higher.
• 1:04:41
  I was able to get my settings and now I'm racing in cockpit view.
• 1:04:46
  And you know how your lap times always suffer when you first
• 1:04:49
  switch views, because you're not used to the braking markers.
• 1:04:53
  Took me one lap to beat my previous time.
• 1:04:56
  Wow.
• 1:04:59
  I did one lap and I was like, okay, I see where everything is.
• 1:05:02
  I did another lap and I was like, all right, two seconds.
• 1:05:04
  I got this.
• 1:05:07
  Yeah, that's always two seconds with me too.
• 1:05:10
  I don't beat it by a half second, I beat it by two seconds.
• 1:05:13
  That's what a right driving position is about.
• 1:05:17
  So you just get in a comfortable position, you're like, Wow, I can be faster, you
• 1:05:22
  know, because you, uh, actually just, You got more confidence in your break
• 1:05:28
  in, you got more confidence when you're going on throttle back, and overall
• 1:05:33
  you're just feeling comfortable in Eureka, and it's, it's really important.
• 1:05:39
  Yeah, one of the next things I gotta, so, this is a huge mess of an organizational
• 1:05:47
  thing right here, right now.
• 1:05:50
  But one of the next things I gotta do is figure out what to do with this.
• 1:05:54
  I mean, when I'm driving, it's
• 1:06:01
  But if I have it over here, then nobody can hear me.
• 1:06:04
  If I have it over here, it's my arms hitting it.
• 1:06:07
  So, you know,
• 1:06:10
  it's a work in progress.
• 1:06:11
  Now, you gotta see this, though.
• 1:06:12
  And it's okay if you laugh.
• 1:06:14
  I laugh all the time.
• 1:06:19
  So that's the desktop that I use.
• 1:06:21
  To extend everything.
• 1:06:25
  Oh, that's nice.
• 1:06:26
  This is about my view of the screen when I'm driving.
• 1:06:30
  It's like craning your head way up to see that.
• 1:06:32
  So this is my eye level.
• 1:06:36
  And this is my streaming setup over here.
• 1:06:39
  It's a mess of a jumble of wires because I have to use way too many devices
• 1:06:44
  tethered together to make everything work.
• 1:06:46
  So my 10 year old laptop, I use the, uh, Tablet down here for voice chat.
• 1:06:54
  Mm hmm on this side I was donated a couple of pieces of the 80 20 80
• 1:07:01
  40 rig whatever With the keyboard mount, but they don't mount on this.
• 1:07:06
  So I had to
• 1:07:09
  See all the weirdness I got going on down here.
• 1:07:11
  I found a way to attach weirdness To my tube whatever rig because you know,
• 1:07:19
  I just you can do anything you want.
• 1:07:22
  All you need is To want it start working on it.
• 1:07:29
  There's always a solution.
• 1:07:30
  I have a problem.
• 1:07:31
  I will find a solution This stupid thing is in my way Don't worry about it.
• 1:07:35
  Give me a couple of weeks.
• 1:07:36
  It's gonna be mounted probably over on my keyboard stand.
• 1:07:41
  . Yeah.
• 1:07:42
  That, that's, uh, that'd be nice if it could sit somewhere, you know, or
• 1:07:46
  it was like in front of me, but yeah, no, that ain't gonna work either.
• 1:07:52
  No.
• 1:07:52
  While we talking, my, my mouse just stopped to work.
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  , I think I can figure it out.
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  Yeah.
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  Just, uh, not responding.
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  I know why . Oh, I love it when that happens.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, uh, it's really funny when you.
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  You got everything ready, like, you check everything and you're starting stream.
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  And here's something going wrong all the time.
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  I used to prepare everything for my stream the night before, right when
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  I was getting ready to go to bed.
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  Okay, sound check, mic check, screen check, stream, stream labs check.
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  Everything just set up perfectly.
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  And then the next day I would go to stream and none of it would be working.
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  Okay.
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  So, I've given up on getting things set up the day before, now
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  I'm just like, okay, whatever.
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  Um, I can wing this in ten minutes, I got it.
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  Heh heh heh.
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  Yeah, um, I just, I'm so curious, uh, you got this beautiful black, uh,
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  Jackson guitar on your background, uh, so can you tell me a little bit about
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  it and, uh, you're playing some music and what kind of music do you play?
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  I have been a metalhead since the day I was born.
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  Um, at, at first you, it wasn't the same kind of metal because it was the 80s
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  and you know, it just wasn't the same.
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  Um, But I always wanted to learn how to play guitar.
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  I learned about I don't know when I was 12 years old I think I started actually
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  learning how to play and Been playing on and off ever since i'm not great But my
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  kid decided he wanted to learn how to play bass guitar And what better to motivate
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  him than sitting and jamming with him?
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  So I went Borrowed a guitar the air quotes aren't because I stole it.
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  It's because my You This person, uh, decided that he was going to loan it to
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  me, but he didn't care how long I have it.
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  So basically he gave me this guitar.
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  It's a Jackson with the Floyd Rose.
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  And when I looked it up and figured out how much this thing costs,
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  it's between seven and 1, 200.
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  So 900 bucks worth is just about right, but pick around on it a little bit.
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  And what I'm thinking about doing is.
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  I don't want copyright strikes.
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  I can't find a way to get good music for intro videos and stuff like that
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  without paying let's see, I want it in this moment because number one, she's
• 1:10:33
  a goddess number two, she's amazing, she has an amazing voice and I love
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  her music and the uh, What's it called?
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  Uh, the messages behind what she's singing.
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  It's like super strong woman powerful Just amazing.
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  So listen to in this moment if you like metal and i'm struggling to
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  find that So my next going to be an audio input so that I can go from
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  guitar direct into my computer, record some riffs along with a video.
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  And now I can make my own intro video with metal sounds that aren't copyright.
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  And I don't have to search for years and years and years to find something that is.
• 1:11:17
  That's, that's great.
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  Uh, really, uh, cool to see.
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  I actually noticed that people who's in sim racing, they, uh, also
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  in some other hobbies, like maybe in flight simulators, in music.
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  Um, yeah.
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  And it's really cool to know you from different side.
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  Um, there's lots of different things I'm interested in, but mostly I
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  just want to sim race and find my way into the real racing world.
• 1:11:47
  Um, I recently.
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  Recently, a year ago, I got injured.
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  I've been in construction my whole life.
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  So you want to know how to build something?
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  You need something built.
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  I can basically do anything.
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  I work with, um, CAD software.
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  I, I can engineer a house.
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  I can engineer a deck.
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  I've built everything from running heavy equipment all the way through finishing
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  touches on a house when the homeowner was moving in, I can do it all, but
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  I want to be the best at everything.
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  And I want to be.
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  the fastest at everything and I want to just be amazing at everything.
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  So I worked myself to death.
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  I now have a back injury.
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  I walk with a cane and my doctor's telling me that they want me
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  to start walking with a walker.
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  So that is gone.
• 1:12:38
  No more construction for me.
• 1:12:40
  And I'm currently in trying to change careers.
• 1:12:43
  I'm trying to change careers.
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  transitional period.
• 1:12:47
  So, um, finding a way to get into something to do with sim racing, doing
• 1:12:54
  commentary, uh, not really promotions for somebody because I'm not so
• 1:13:02
  great with the artwork kind of thing, but working behind the scenes for
• 1:13:07
  something to grow women in sim racing.
• 1:13:10
  Um, people with different, uh, uh, differently abled people getting into sim
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  racing, because I just have this passion.
• 1:13:21
  If somebody wants to do something, they should be able to.
• 1:13:24
  So I'm looking at all these different things that I can try and start
• 1:13:27
  doing as a career change and find a way to make money off of it.
• 1:13:32
  But um, I forgot why I started saying that.
• 1:13:38
  What was that?
• 1:13:38
  What were we talking about right before that?
• 1:13:41
  Oh, we were talking about uh, the um about your guitar music and
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  then you uh, yeah Yeah interest.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah So yeah, i've got all these interests and Nowhere to put them now.
• 1:13:58
  So I'm spending a lot of time trying to find my, like scoosh my way
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  into a new career somehow, um, with something that I love and probably
• 1:14:10
  going to be spending a lot more time.
• 1:14:13
  Luckily, my mother in law lives in Portland and I know most people
• 1:14:16
  wouldn't say, Oh, I'll go visit.
• 1:14:18
  But I'm like, number one, she's not that bad.
• 1:14:21
  Number two.
• 1:14:23
  She lives in the same place as Portland International Raceway, which, if I spend
• 1:14:27
  enough time there, you know, I might be able to find my way onto a team, you know?
• 1:14:32
  Even if it's not racing, I could sit behind a TV screen and relay information.
• 1:14:39
  I'm really good at talking.
• 1:14:42
  Yeah, we can see this.
• 1:14:43
  You're awesome in this.
• 1:14:47
  I'm trying to tell, is that an insult or a compliment?
• 1:14:54
  All right, and before we wrap up, the last question for you will be,
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  do you have any big plans for your YouTube channel and for streaming?
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  Are you planning maybe to expand and stream on Twitch as
• 1:15:06
  well alongside with YouTube?
• 1:15:09
  Um, my goal right now is to get monetized to the point where I can
• 1:15:13
  afford To not have to put money into things like dual streaming Um, if my
• 1:15:19
  streaming was paying for it paying for things like a dual stream Through
• 1:15:24
  stream labs, then I would already be going on to twitch So i'm working
• 1:15:29
  towards it paying for itself to grow.
• 1:15:33
  It hasn't happened yet, but it will um besides that most of my streams right
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