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Monday Nighy Rewind | Episode 17 | Chris & Tracy New Paris Speedway | Ivanovko Racing · Top Row Racing Media Monday Night Rewind

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All right, Happy Monday to everyone joining us on the
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Monday Night Rewind. This is Lewis here with Top Row
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Racing Media. Joining me just shortly on the
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other side will be Buju. And then we already have Kristen
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Tracy in the staging area. So you might notice that we are
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also live tonight on the New Paris Speedway Facebook page.
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So as long as Kristen Tracy are with us, you'll see us live on
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the new Paris and then when they leave, it'll probably the show
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will leave with them. So certainly if you're watching
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us on New Paris Speedway, come over to top our racing media and
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finish watching the show with us.
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We'll have Wichter, Jeremy Templeton and Phillip with us
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talking about the Hartford night of destruction.
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So definitely feel free to come back if you are seeing us on the
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New Paris page. But other than that, we have big
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news coming out of New Paris and that's why Chris and Tracy are
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joining us tonight on the Monday night Rewind.
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So again, they will be coming up at seven O 5 and then at 7:40,
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as mentioned, Wichter and friends will be joining.
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They were at the new Paris night of destruction a few weeks ago
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and put on a quite the show with the wings car there that caught
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a lot of attention. As a reminder, last Thursday we
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did take off. There's something I wanted to do
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and Thursday's worked best for us.
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So on Thursday, that's what I was doing last week.
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But this Thursday we're back on schedule and we'll have the
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Buju and how are we doing on this Monday afternoon evening?
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Pretty good. Little little swampy outside
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today, but other than that pretty good.
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A very good race weekend. I know I had fun this weekend.
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Yeah, well, you got to be an announcer again, so you got to
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do that. And so what'd you think?
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That was now your second time on.
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The I think much smoother overall this time less voice
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cracks. That's good.
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That obviously obviously still some stuff to work on, still
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getting better at it, but I was more I didn't I don't really
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didn't really get nervous this time and yeah, I thought I went
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much smoother overall so. All right, Well, I think because
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I touched my laptop, we were lagging just for a little bit.
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That's my fault. I touched it.
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So anyways, I'm just going to stay in one spot.
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About. That, like I said, the last time
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I sat outside and did a, a video, anything was during COVID
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so that, you know, that's when all schools were shut down.
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And so we were doing learning at home and I'm like, well, it's
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nice outside. Let's go sit outside and do it.
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So it's 2020, you know, that's a long time anyways, but that's
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where again, you know, I thought you did a fantastic job on the
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mic. And that's something that even
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you're beginning, you know, when you started going 'cause
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sometimes, you know, I record the national anthem, but with
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copyrights and all that. Sometimes it's hard to post the
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national anthems unless you have like a singer and even sometimes
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singers dinged and I'm like, it's a singer, like a lesbian.
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Kalamazoo has been dinged as copyright and I'm like, it's her
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like this is original audio. But Facebook is really tricky on
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some things. And so so I've recorded and then
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sometimes I'll, you know, hit pause and then you kept going.
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So I'm like, OK, I better keep recording because he's something
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that he has that he's ready to go like a declaration.
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So that's why I kept going. And then I know you're going to
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use that for notes and all that. So so again, I thought you did a
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fantastic job. I thought you did a nice little
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setting and it made me think of like, we needed golf music, you
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know, you know, like when you think of the Masters, you know,
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you know, it's kind of one of those that I kept thinking like,
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man, you just need soft golf music playing as that's coming
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on and I need to find more big fluffy clouds and all the other
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things. So but no, again, you did an
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incredible job. And so that's where I'm excited
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for today because again, we have Chris and Tracy who I'm bringing
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on about a minute here that are going to go over some things
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that they're going to be doing. So again, I'll just warn
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everyone, I'm sitting outside and with storms in the area, if
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I start lagging, someone's going to go full screen because I'm
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going to run inside to make sure we don't lose the string because
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that would be crappy. But just as a reminder, if
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you're on the New Paris three-way Facebook page, like I
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see Ralph Reese, that's where he's commenting from it, it'll
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show a link. Buju and the commenting from New
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Paris, we're live on the New Paris page because this is a
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program that's going to be at New Paris that Chris and Tracy
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are going to be talking about. So we felt let's hit two birds
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with one stone. And then if you're watching on
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the New Paris page, when Chris and Tracy log off, the New Paris
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page will log off with them. So about 7:35.
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If you're watching on their page and you're interested in the
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show and want to hear from Witcher and friends about what
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they're doing this coming up weekend, you know, definitely
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hop on over to top row Racing Media's Facebook page and
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continue watching the show with them.
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But other than that booze you if you're ready, we can bring them
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on. I oh, let's see there.
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It was a pleasure meeting Chris for the first time.
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New Pairs has great staff again. That's where, you know, while
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we're on the new Paris page, I guess I can say this too.
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And Chris and Tracy can fire me afterwards if they want to.
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But. And I'm not going to bring them
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on because they don't give. They don't give themselves
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enough kudos and credit. But Buju, you've been there a
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couple Times Now and you've gotten to see it.
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There's a couple drivers who are coming and they've gotten to see
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it. It's not like the days in the
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past, right? And so that's where, you know,
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no matter what track it is, no matter where it is, you know,
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all tracks are having different struggles and different things.
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Car counts are not in the hundreds, you know, at anywhere,
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not even at Kalamazoo. Edie.
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Yeah, it's good. But you know, it's still, it's
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not 100. Back in my day we had 100 cars.
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And we had to park till 4. In the morning.
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Yeah, right. Yeah, It's just not going to
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happen anymore, people. And if you're going to come on
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my page and track bash, remember you're voluntarily doing that,
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which means. Same with mine.
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Yep, I'm going to voluntarily give you a maybe not Wendy's
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roast 'cause you know Wendy's social media is really good.
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But you know I'm going to give you a little fair shot and if
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you want to continue engaging, I as the owner of the page have
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the absolute right to go block and I will do that.
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I have no issue. I have 43,000 some odd people
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missing. One person is not going to hurt
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me anyone bit so. And I don't say that to be an
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ass or anything. And you know, I don't curse too
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often, but it's just I'm done with it.
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I'm not going to do it anymore. And that's why I'm the new Paris
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page dropping, you know, words and everything.
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So I'll let them fire me if they want, but I'm just done with it.
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You know, it's get over it. It's 2026.
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It's just like the half mile. Hartford's not coming back.
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Stop talking about it. So you know, like it's just not
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happening. It's already buried.
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It's done. It's over with.
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Have to get a shovel digger to find it.
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So like stop. Yep.
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You're if you have constructive criticism, go for it.
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I'm OK with that. I want discourse, I want
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conversation. But if you're just going to
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bash, not doing it so. I also I also don't want to see
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your criticism if you haven't been there for 15 years either.
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If you're forming your opinion on a clip on Facebook, that's on
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you, brother. Get out to the racetrack and
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figure it out for yourself. Yeah, no, we're, I'm just kind
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of done with it, right. And it's.
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Like 100%. And that's where, you know, I
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tell you sometimes boos, you enjoy being small right now.
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And I don't mean that, you know, I don't mean that isn't the
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bigger you get, the more you attract, the more you attract,
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the more right. And so because I'm not a
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government page, I can block people.
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If I were a politician, you're not allowed to by law.
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You're not allowed to block people.
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You have to leave their comments and all that, unless it's like
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threats or bullying. But I'm not running for politics
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anytime soon. I don't think you are.
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So, so we can do that. We can block people and they
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can't do a damn thing about it. So anyways, that's my little
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soapbox rant for the day because I'm just done with it.
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But let's go on a positive note because I'm so excited for what
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Chris and Tracy are going to be doing.
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And that's why, again, when Chris was talking about, hey,
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you know, there's no better platform than your platform to
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announce this. And I said, well, what if we did
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it on both my page and the new pair Speedway page?
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So again, that's why we're live there.
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This isn't an every Monday thing.
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Don't mind the pouring rain, by the way.
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But let's bring on Chris and Tracy and I'll do full screen so
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we can see them first. I know I'm a little bit above
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the banner but that's OK. I'll just and you can see the
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rain behind me, but how you guys doing tonight?
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Real good, real good. Yeah, Chris says you're going to
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be rowed up now. Hey.
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I'll go, but I had a little ditty for you on that one since
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I was on Capitol Hill last week in DC and this actually came up
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and keyboard warriors, and this time we're now in, they are
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sociopaths. So I'm just going to put on it,
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we now know who you are. We know you're your problem. 9%
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of the US population. Those keyboard warriors are true
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sociopaths. So there you go.
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Yeah, just we're going to seek help from now on and.
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That's you. You need some.
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Help. Oh yeah, yeah.
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And it's just. You know, everyone's trying,
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right? And that's where it's just one
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of those things that, you know, we're we are where we are with
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where we are doing things. And it's going to take all of
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us, you know, Jay Free one time told me in 2023, the one time
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that I was at South Bend that year, he had said, you know, I
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thanked him again for all the support and help because there's
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a lot of things that he supported and helped me with.
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And I said, or he had said, you know, well, we're all in this
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together alone. And I've kind of converted that
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into individually, we have to do our parts for the collective
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whole, you know, that we're all in this together.
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If we all love short track racing, we're all passionate.
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We can be angry, we can be frustrated.
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We can do these things like that's life.
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You know, you're not going to get rid of those emotions, but
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it's how you manage them. It's how you control them.
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It's how you use them. And as I always tell people, and
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I did this in the classroom, I always came with solutions.
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If I had a problem or whatever, my principal, the janitor,
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whomever, they knew I was coming to them.
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Here's what I have. Here's a solution that I think I
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can come up with in the time being.
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What do you think about that? And if it was crap, they would
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tell me that and they'd say what about this and it.
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But it's because I was willing to come with a solution, not
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just here's my problem now you fix it.
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We all got to help each other. That's what I always said, you
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know, we'll we'll always listen. You know, if you have a problem.
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Great. I'm here for you.
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What's what's your solution? So let's sit down and talk about
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what angle you're coming at. You can see what angle we're
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coming at. We'll get it together.
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It's the only way you make it better to come with a solution.
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Yeah. Yeah, and, and, and it may and
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it may not work, right and you'll have the reasons and and
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you guys have been in the ownership now a while where, you
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know, like there are things that work, there are things that
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haven't worked or there are things that they might work for
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Galesburg, but they don't work for New Paris or they might work
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for New Paris, but they're not going to work for Indianapolis
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Speed Drum, right? Like, you know every.
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We've had some good ideas come at us and some good things that
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we've implemented so. Yeah, one of.
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Them I think we're going to talk about a little bit tonight and
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then we we added to it. So Oh yeah.
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Well, go ahead, Chris. That's the.
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Thing too, it's it's, you know, you got to step in the, you
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know, baseball reference here, you got to step in the batter's
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box and you know, you're not going to get hit, you're not
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going to hit a home run every time.
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But if you continue to try and implement and try different
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things, you know, I mean, and this, this we've seen, you know,
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with brainstorming on some new races for like the NOD side of
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things, you know, at the moment, sometimes it seems like the
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greatest thing ever. And then when, then when you put
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it, put it live, you know, during an, during an event, it's
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like, OK, we're not going to do it.
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I have one of those. What was the?
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There was one that the 8. Ball one that I came up with a.
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Couple of that was. Scary.
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Yeah, there was. There was something that had to
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do with going two different directions, Figure 8.
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And boy, over in three and four. I got a little scary at the
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times and we're like, we're never doing this again.
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He has loved it but we went ow. Yeah, well, it was great on.
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Paper. Right, insurance is watching
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that, right? You know, we know insurance
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watches all these track pages and everything and I.
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Was in that I was like, oh, something's good.
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Oh no, that's not good. Sorry, I shipped it a.
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Little bit because I'm getting rained on right now, so I'm like
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I'm in, I'm in a cover and it's raining sideways, of course,
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going in the direction I'm sitting, not any other
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direction, but but you know, and that's where again, you guys
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have been so creative with a lot of different things too.
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So so you want to talk a little bit about, you know, some
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programs that you guys before we get to what you want to do,
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because I do congratulate that I'm going to run upstairs while
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we're talking. So I'm going to put you guys
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full screen. So if you give me like a minute
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of talking for me to get up, all right.
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Well, I, I actually, before we get started on on the latest,
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the latest brainstorm that kind of had a bit of a trial run last
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last Saturday night, but, and that's what we'll be announcing
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tonight. And we're, we're pretty excited
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about it. This was, this was Tracy's idea.
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So she can explain the details for the most part.
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But you know, before we get into that, I do want to express, you
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know, from all of us at the new Paris Speedway, the, the entire
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family, you know, Louis, we, we appreciate all that you do for
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short track racing. And you know, it's, it's clearly
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obvious that, you know, you're definitely, you're definitely
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not in it to fund your retirement.
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That's for that's for sure. But also we, you know, we're,
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we're extremely blessed with the, with the men behind the
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mic. And you know, Jeremy, you just
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can't say enough about him. And and you know, whether it's
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regular racing or nights of destruction.
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He's really coming to his own. He is really coming to his own,
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you know, we've had to tone him back a few times here.
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And there but. That hasn't been that hasn't
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been for a while, but Buju, you know, we definitely want you to
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when you get a chance. You don't have to do it now.
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Pat yourself on the back because just even the first night, which
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I thought was exceptionally good, you know, last Saturday
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you really fine-tuned your program and, and like you said,
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it went smoother. I'm sure you are more
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comfortable at it. But you know, just, you know, a
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quick capsule comment here is is we feel extremely blessed for
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the two gentlemen that we have behind the mic here at New Paris
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Speedway. I've had so many people go Who's
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announcing tonight? This guy's good.
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Who is this guy? He's our mystery man.
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Leave him alone. Yeah, I get that.
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I do really appreciate it guys. And you guys do make it easy.
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It is it's you have a very welcoming environment to step
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into and that makes it easy for somebody who didn't, I mean
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doesn't didn't know anybody on the staff going into it.
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So yeah, you guys make me comfortable.
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That makes it easy. But I do very much appreciate,
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appreciate it very much just. Just remember what goes on in
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the tower stays in the tower. Sir, Yes, Sir.
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We do tend to have a We do tend to have a little bit of fun,
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yeah. It's it's a good time up there
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for sure. But that's why we were talking
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like at the beginning, because obviously I'm sure you guys saw
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some of the comments too. And it's like, you know, I'm
17:25
just not doing it right. Like we're just not going to do
17:27
it anymore. And if it's constructive, you
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know what, I'll allow it because, you know, while I may
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not agree with what they say, it's constructive.
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And there, there are fans on there who put really awesome,
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great ideas, right? And it's like, you know what,
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someone might see that and maybe go with it.
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But it's like, you know, this year, right?
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I mean, the with not many fans in the stands on many nights
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like last this past Saturday, right?
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It's super hot out for a lot of people with the rain.
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We. Haven't had good weather yet.
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I don't know about the. Major race tracks.
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But it's been a rough spring coming through.
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I mean, a lot of cancellations, you know, start out in Michigan
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and then get down to Indiana and then all all over there's, it's
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been a little cold, a little rainy, a lot rainy.
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We haven't. We, we haven't, we haven't found
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the Utopian race race night yet this year.
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We we have been fortunate we have not had to have a weather
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cancellation this year so. Sticking it out, but I don't
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think that's good or bad. I hope, I hope, I hope we're not
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going to jinx ourselves with that car, with my car.
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But. Please don't.
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Well, you can. Pretty lucky though the last
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couple years where you know, by the time Saturday rolls around
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it seems like it's out of its system.
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You just. It's in the morning and we can
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still get it in or, or hurry up guys, you've got to get done by
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10:00 because it's going to storm.
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You know, we had one of those too.
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So, you know, and, and thanks to the racers and understanding
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that and being ready and rolling with the program and, you know,
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to keep it going to get it in because I remember leaving and
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it wasn't 5 minutes after the last race, checkered flag
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dropped. Boom, there came the rain.
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I'm like, oh. We got it in bug last.
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Year when he won the trifecta championship, it rained on his
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parade. So like literally.
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That's right, he had to do with his interview with his trailer.
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Didn't. He no, they still did the
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interview out front because I was still recording on my
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pictures and yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh yeah, pictures there.
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But it's, it's like literally he we, if we would have had one
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more caution and there wasn't that many that night.
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I mean, it's a fairly clean program.
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But if we had had a caution or some kind of big cleanup, we
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would have been in trouble that probably would not have
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finished. And you had already overcome A
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brief rain shower because you pulled the strain into the
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infield. So, but I mean, you guys got it
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in. And that's again, you know, when
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you see fans talk about, I wish they would give it a shot.
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And you know, back in my day in 1942, they put tires on the back
19:50
of horses and ran them around and, and you guys do that.
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I mean, you'll sit there and you'll drive your trucks around
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in circles and everything and you do give it a shot.
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And so then, you know, there just gets to a point though
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where the literally the track is not going to get dry.
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You know, and, and luckily it was so hot on Saturday, had you
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been in one of those bursts of rain showers, it probably would
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have dried up fairly quickly. But you know, few weeks ago when
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it's 40° and all these other things, it's just not going to
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do it right, so. Well, we got big.
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Orange can come out too. Yeah, yeah, I called.
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It big red because from the top it literally looked red but I
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was I. Was going to ask you, I was
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going to ask you if you were colorblind, but.
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No, from up top and then the camera it looked red so that's
20:32
what I went with but I'll change it next time.
20:33
Like I said, I'll call it Carrot Top next time so you know and
20:37
cuz if it's orange, it might as well be Carrot Top.
20:40
If it's not, if it's nothing else, then I don't know why I
20:42
might protest that, but. Oh gosh.
20:47
But but again, I know before we get into the fan program, if you
20:50
guys want to talk a little bit about some of your big shows
20:52
that are coming up just to kind of since we are live on the new
20:56
pairs Facebook page. It's as Mankind would say in the
20:59
old WWE days, you know, cheap pop time, you know, if you want
21:02
to give you yourselves a cheap pop, you know, you have
21:05
obviously a night of destruction coming up July 3rd with
21:09
fireworks, Fireworks, you know, that's your biggest.
21:13
We have regular racing for the next couple of weeks and then we
21:16
go into the July 3rd night instruction.
21:17
Ours is always July 3rd unless it's gonna hit a Sunday or
21:20
something, but we always stick with July 3rd.
21:22
It's always nice for the schedule.
21:24
It helps other tracks to kind of schedule around with the
21:26
holidays being in there. And then the end of July we have
21:29
our kids night with pack of backpacks that we always do.
21:32
We're adding some other things with that this year as I'm
21:34
thinking as a mom, you know, what else do you need going back
21:37
to school? And we're adding some other
21:38
things. And they're not just backpacks
21:39
and supplies this year that, you know, we always try to do bike
21:42
races and things like that, but we're also doing some other
21:44
giveaways that night. I.
21:46
Think we had a We got a truckload of uncrustables
21:48
coming. Oh, OK.
21:51
No worries getting those since I ordered it now.
21:53
Yeah, half of them. I'm keeping half of them.
21:56
I may negotiate. I may negotiate dog Slinger
21:59
trades. Oh, there you go.
22:01
Hey, I I told them that you love that.
22:04
I said they loved it so. So, yeah.
22:08
And then after that we we follow up that one with the the
22:11
Sizzler, the 25th Sizzler this year, which is reveal the hammer
22:15
again. And then after that's our
22:19
flagger boy twin 50s the week to follow that.
22:22
And yeah, yeah, thumbs up on those two big nights
22:25
back-to-back, two big weekends there.
22:28
Trifectas also fall in with those.
22:30
So depending on which class that you're in, which one of those
22:33
trifectas that you'll be in and then followed it up with an NOD
22:36
and then championship, another night instruction, the trifecta
22:41
championships and then our our last trunk or treat NOD.
22:44
So that's kind of our rolling schedule through the year and
22:47
pop in regular racing in between those.
22:49
So you know, also, you know, that's a little further down,
22:53
down down the road with the with our calendar.
22:56
But you know, coming up this weekend, we do have four class
23:00
racing, which which could be called, you know, weekly racing,
23:06
whatever you want to call it. But we've got four class racing
23:09
coming up this weekend. But we are also fortunate to
23:12
have the Michiana vintage racers coming in.
23:16
So and that is that is headed up by Mr. Pat York.
23:20
So, you know, people really enjoy seeing those old timers
23:24
and those old cars out there. And and you know, we enjoy it
23:28
too. I mean, there was some creative
23:30
stuff back in the day. And you know, these these guys
23:33
come out, they make themselves extremely available up top in
23:39
the parking area. We leave an area for them where
23:42
you don't have to have a pit pass to go look at their cars or
23:45
sit down and and talk with them or so forth.
23:48
And then in July, we have VROA mods are coming back and I
23:57
believe the date on that is the 12th, if I'm not mistaken.
24:01
But you know, glad to welcome, welcome that group back with.
24:06
I always mispronounced Mike's last name, but Mike O, let's
24:10
just call him Mike O. It's like it's like Jeremy
24:13
trying to pronounce Van Bleracom or or Cecil, if you're
24:17
listening. We'll get him fixed.
24:21
One and then one thing that we forgot you have that unless I I
24:25
think. Oh Enduro 180.
24:26
Oh. The Survivor.
24:27
Survivor. Next, see, you knew exactly
24:30
where I was going with that. You know that we've talked a
24:33
little bit about that at Lane Automotive at the beginning of
24:36
the year when they had that. Showroom, you know.
24:40
Showcase sort of deal. So do you guys again, we're live
24:43
on your page. So this is like a double dip,
24:45
right? Do you want to talk a little bit
24:46
about what that Survivor Enduro is?
24:48
That way people can, you know, if they're night of destruction
24:51
people, they can build a car. If they're racing people, they
24:53
can build the car, they can know what to do or what that looks
24:55
like. Yeah, that car fits into a
24:57
Hornet rule situation as well as it fits into Anod rule
25:00
situation. So either one of those, it's
25:02
more of a, you know, gut and go car and you come out to a three
25:06
team person event where each driver has to drive and log at
25:11
least 30 minutes in the car. We keep track of that in the
25:14
pits and we have people that do that.
25:16
So it's 180 minutes. That's your that's your money.
25:21
It's three hours. Last year we went 365 laps.
25:24
So that that's a lot of yeah, that was the last.
25:29
Kidney bean, right or whatever we.
25:31
Ran it in a wrench it up style. Yep, we ran it and wrench it up.
25:33
So you can forget setting up one way or another way because
25:37
you're going every way, which is really fun.
25:40
And you know, first like, oh, how's this?
25:42
How's this going to be? But I personally loved it
25:44
because we didn't realize. Again, you come up these ideas
25:48
and you play it out and then wow, it changed or I didn't
25:51
think about that. It took me back to the old
25:53
NASCAR days, you know, before these competition caution where
25:57
you had to figure out what your feel was.
25:59
We had to figure out your tires. You know, we had people that
26:01
were like, oh, we could see the sparks fly and they're going to,
26:04
there goes the cords and the tires where they're going to
26:05
change tires. People weren't thinking about
26:07
that. They were borrowing gasoline
26:08
from or racing fuel, whatever gas they would have been using
26:12
from, you know, other pits and going I didn't realize that'd
26:15
bring more fuel, you know, so really it brought that old style
26:18
back in which I loved, you know, So it was it was fun and it and
26:22
it came down to, you know, a couple teams out there that were
26:25
the last 10 laps. We were all in the tower going
26:27
who's going to get this one? Who's we're looking at the
26:30
times, you know, that they were putting down going, OK, if we
26:32
had five more laps, this one's going to will they get there and
26:35
overtake at the same time? You know, are they losing their
26:37
tires or not? And how much fuel do they have?
26:38
So it was actually. Fine, not to interrupt, but I
26:43
want to talk more about that enduro.
26:44
So put a small pin just because Benny Miller, who's from the
26:48
Springport at he's at Springport Speedway, which obviously is
26:51
still closed this year until Michigan cut.
26:53
But this might be something that you got.
26:56
I'm not going to tell you to do it.
26:58
I'll let you decide. Obviously off air, but they run
27:02
the Motörhead Miller 1000 and so that's for like a B feature
27:06
winner would get like $1000 and C feature.
27:09
Benny certainly contact Chris and Tracy, but it's been such a
27:12
huge hit at Corrigan Oil Speedway where they've been
27:14
doing it the last couple years and it was first at Springport
27:17
and it was a huge hit. So it, it gives the, the, the
27:21
guys who usually, you know, cuz usually at a lot of tracks, a
27:23
features they're getting, you know, pretty good money.
27:26
And so this is for the B feature and, and sometimes I think they
27:30
did the C feature too, if there's enough for AC feature.
27:33
But if you know, I know you guys have the trifecta obviously for
27:36
the big cars, but if you're looking to sprinkle something in
27:38
there for your Hornets and you have a such a dedicated group
27:41
and the four cylinders, Benny Miller, they do ABC up there,
27:45
which you guys pretty much ABC now.
27:46
You just don't call it that, but you literally have a feature
27:49
which is your 4 cylinder B feature would be your Hornet A
27:53
and then C feature would be your Hornet B.
27:55
So I mean, it's like the same thing that maybe Benny Miller,
27:59
you guys can, you know, touch base because I can vouch for
28:03
him. He's he's a credible guy.
28:05
He'll have the money. He'll have all this.
28:07
It won't be it won't be a show up.
28:09
And hey, can I borrow some dollars from you?
28:11
They do a lot for front wheel drive racing.
28:13
And if he's willing to bring it to Indiana and you guys are
28:16
willing to, you know, work with him on that, I can vouch for
28:19
him. He's a good guy and they'll
28:21
bring me. Cars.
28:22
Yeah, Benny, if you're still listening, certainly reach out
28:25
to us through, you know, you can e-mail us or you can reach out
28:30
through Messenger. We're certainly opening to open
28:33
to listening and and talking about it and maybe something
28:36
like that'll work out. Yeah, I I can vouch for him.
28:40
So that's where and they'll bring, I mean, they have,
28:43
they've talked about coming down a couple times because I
28:45
obviously brag about new pairs up there.
28:47
And I mean, just in their stable alone, they have 6 cars that
28:51
they can bring and, and if they bring their six, someone else
28:54
will bring their four. And before you know it, you have
28:56
an A feature right there. So you know, like, so they do,
28:59
they do an incredible job with that.
29:00
Motörhead Miller. I know they're going to be
29:03
working with tri-state Sprints this year.
29:04
I don't know, you know, if maybe that oh 'cause Auto City still
29:07
close with the fire they had. So they probably lost that race
29:11
and that kind of deal. So I didn't want to interrupt
29:13
your thought, Tracy, but I'm like, wait, this is.
29:15
Important. You know this, you know, it'd
29:17
give your front wheel drive racers, you know, a show for
29:20
themselves too. Since I know you guys don't do
29:23
the 4 cylinder classic or whatever you guys used to call
29:27
that. I forget what it's called.
29:30
Oh yeah. What?
29:30
Yeah. I couldn't remember what you
29:32
called it, but but they would be they bring the money too.
29:35
So they I can promise you you won't have to dig into your bank
29:38
account. He'll have it in his SO anyways,
29:42
again with the right and that always helps, right?
29:45
If someone brings the money, it's like, hey, you know what,
29:47
we can, we can talk, you know, we could talk presidents here.
29:50
But again, for the survivor enduro, I know we have some
29:53
Galesburg people who are on here watching Galesburg drivers who
29:56
Zach Denton's one of them sometimes races it in 40.
29:59
It's like, hey, bring, bring cars, bring teams.
30:01
Again, it's a 3 hour event. Each driver has to log at least
30:05
30 minutes within that 180 minutes.
30:07
So if you get a team together, you know, come on down to New
30:10
Paris. I'll post the date.
30:13
Or. Buju, do you have my race pass
30:15
near you or do you one of you have my race pass like?
30:17
I can pull it up. Yep, just to look really quick
30:20
so we can get that date on 12th. Yeah, three of us are.
30:24
Three of us are pulling it up. Yeah.
30:27
It's July. Who's faster?
30:28
Buju. Who's?
30:31
Who's younger? Who's more tech savvy?
30:33
We usually have it right on top of my head.
30:36
Well, I can, I can, I can tell you and, and being, being, you
30:40
know, open and honest. You know, when the when the day
30:43
came for that first Survivor 180, we were like, OK, this will
30:47
be the first year, you know, we weren't expecting a lot of teams
30:53
and, and quite honestly, you know, I. 18 There we go.
30:57
I had it, but I was. I didn't want to know.
31:01
I thought 3 hours this is going to be like like some sort of
31:04
snooze fest. But from my perspective, and
31:09
this can carry over to the fans perspective, it was pretty much
31:14
an edgier seat kind of kind of deal, especially once the try to
31:18
strategy started playing in. Yeah, I, I, I mean, I can tell
31:24
you as a Hornet driver, that sounds cool, very cool to me.
31:26
That's not something we've always wanted to do with some
31:28
kind of team thing. So that's something we'd be
31:30
interested in for one. And I as a fan, I don't.
31:33
I mean, I don't want to trash enduros, but enduros are a
31:36
little boring to watch as a fan. They'll twist on it, makes it a
31:38
little more fun. So yeah, I like this idea.
31:42
Yeah. So again, go ahead.
31:45
Public service announcement for I'm looking at my phone and
31:48
seeing a bunch of messages to Speedway popping up.
31:51
Once we're done here, we will get to those, so be patient for
31:54
a few minutes please. Oh yeah, and that's again, we're
31:57
we're live on the new Paris page because what we're talking about
32:00
and we can go there next is that, you know, we thought let's
32:03
hit two birds with one stone, not only get it live on top row,
32:06
but then get it live over on New Paris.
32:08
So if you are watching on new Paris Speedway and you want to
32:11
continue watching the show, just knowing Chris and Tracy log off
32:14
here in about 10 minutes, the show will go with it.
32:17
So come over to top row racing media or come over shortly
32:20
before about 7:40 because we do have Wichter and Jeremiah Jeremy
32:24
Templeton. They're all in the staging area
32:27
right now. I see them getting set up and
32:29
all that and Phillips with them. So, so definitely, you know,
32:33
make sure to switch over if you want to hear from them.
32:35
But if we want to talk about what you want to do, because
32:39
we've talked about your schedule, what's coming up.
32:41
We've talked about some big things that are happening, some
32:43
of the things you've done in the past.
32:45
Kudos to everybody. You know, now it's what what can
32:49
fans start to look forward to as part of your Saturday show?
32:54
You know four class showdown. Nope, I'll go, I'll go ahead
32:58
and, and introduce the title of it.
33:00
And then since it was Tracy's brainstorm, then we'll, we'll
33:04
let, we'll let her explain the details.
33:06
But like I said, we kind of did a soft opening quietly last
33:12
week, quietly last week of a program we're going to going to
33:18
start during all race nights and that's going to be the showcase
33:21
class of the week. Really excited about this.
33:26
Those that we had some great participation last week from the
33:29
Street Stock class. We had fans that were extremely
33:34
excited for that to happen and even a couple of our drivers, I
33:39
believe, dug into the the gallows of their trailers and
33:43
and pulled out some some hero cards and signed some
33:46
autographs. So I'll let Tracy explain the
33:49
program to you, and for two seconds here, I'll shut my
33:52
mouth. I haven't seen this yet.
33:55
This is great WWE actually. So last year I wanted to
33:59
implement this Steven, our race director like city out of car
34:03
introductions which we had done early on I think when we couple.
34:06
Years ago. 1st on the track and then, you know, he got busy and
34:09
kind of kind of do away and just, you know, dropped and then
34:13
he brought it back. And I love that because the fan
34:16
entered, you know, interaction with that getting the next
34:19
generation involved in seeing that driver, right.
34:21
They don't get to know what they look like or when they're inside
34:25
of the vehicle when it's going around the track, you can't
34:27
really see who that driver is. You may know the name, but what
34:30
do they look like? So when you see it out and
34:31
about, do you you really know know who they are Do.
34:35
You know what Richie Bowl looks like?
34:36
Exactly, you know, so sorry. Rich last.
34:40
Year I went OK, so I want to take that class every week and
34:44
bring them up, you know, let's in the intermission in between,
34:47
you know, heats and features, we're going to bring them up
34:51
then also, so they get out of car introductions, then we bring
34:54
them up, you know, and announcers interview them.
34:56
The fans can talk to them, ask them questions, interact, get
34:59
their autographs, you know, get the fans more into what's going
35:05
on. Knowing drivers and rooting for
35:06
the drivers. I know when I was growing up, I
35:08
had my NASCAR driver didn't yell.
35:10
You know, it was like, you're always rooting for them, right?
35:12
You had their T-shirts, you had their numbers in back of your
35:15
vehicle. You know, you'd go to school or
35:17
go to work and go, oh, did you see that race this weekend?
35:19
And your driver was crud, He took mine out or look at that.
35:21
That was great, you know, and trying to get more of the
35:24
interaction going on it. It's fine when you do that.
35:28
I think so we're going to bring them up.
35:30
We have a pavilion we can use. It's great, right.
35:33
So as long as that's not in use. If not, we'll have our picnic
35:35
tables out there and we'll bring them up there and let everybody
35:38
meet and greet them and. It's going to be, it's going to
35:40
be a work in progress. And Louis, you and I talked on
35:41
the phone last night that you know, it's, you know, as as with
35:45
anything, you know, it's, it's a work in progress and you and you
35:49
learn, you know, from your first few times of, of implementing a
35:53
program like this, little bit of tweaks and stuff.
35:57
So you know, the third class of the night will be the your
36:02
showcase class. So whoever's third in line to
36:04
run this week coming up, it's going to be the Hornets.
36:08
So the audience will know or if you're.
36:09
Going to Hornet drivers out there, if you got hero cards,
36:12
bring them. If not, we've got you know,
36:17
we'll have some permanent markers for drivers to to sign
36:21
some things for folks whether they go get a flag at the.
36:25
Bring their own, do whatever they're.
36:26
Bring their own, get a flag at the souvenir stand, get AT shirt
36:29
to souvenir stand or, or they brought their own.
36:33
But so the third class of the week, which will give that class
36:37
plenty of time during intermission after their heat
36:39
races to participate in this, you know, enjoy it as much as
36:44
the fans are and they're not going to feel crunched for time
36:49
to to, you know, oh gosh, I got to get back and get working on
36:52
my car or. And that's kind of that's, you
36:54
know, and thank you to the Street Stock guys and gals this
36:58
past weekend because it got thrown in your lap.
37:01
So I was in the office before we started got lapse with Steven
37:06
and Jeremiah and talking about this one.
37:08
Look, I wanted to implement this all last year and it never got
37:11
done. OK, we'll do it next week.
37:13
I'm like, let's just do it tonight.
37:14
Let's just throw it out there. So we grabbed the schedule on my
37:17
desk in the office, went OK, which one fits in where?
37:19
And it just happened to be that they were that one that night.
37:22
And yeah, thanks to all of them that came out up there and
37:26
supported and talked and Buju for interviewing and, you know,
37:30
the Freezing Bowl, the Bulls talked.
37:32
I know the ham bone was up there and.
37:37
I think we get everybody I know for my part of it, for my part
37:40
of it, I was in the tower and Chris just goes, hey Steve, tell
37:43
Buju about the new thing we're doing this week.
37:45
So we. Didn't even.
37:47
Know it first. I'll show it one more.
37:50
We're doing this. Again, as you guys are talking,
37:53
because I see like Anthony Dual, who's a Kalamazoo racer,
37:56
Galesburg racer, you know, he's come.
37:58
He came down for trifecta races and all that.
38:01
He's on here. So again, we have quite an
38:03
audience, not only your new Paris page, but even, you know,
38:06
people, you know, drivers and fans watching from Kalamazoo,
38:09
Galesburg, all that. We're not.
38:11
And by the way, we're not on here to steal drivers, by the
38:13
way, we're just promoting, you know, a showcase classic week.
38:16
So if you come down on a week and you want to participate and
38:19
then, you know, you're not racing in another track, you
38:21
know, come and enjoy this. Again, this is something that
38:25
Chris and Tracy know. Tracy, you wanted to.
38:27
Do it the week. Before, but Chris said, well,
38:29
you know, maybe next week and I I saw your look and I'm like,
38:32
it's going to happen sooner always next week and and you
38:37
know, I know some people, some drivers already had their
38:40
autographed cards already. So this is a perfect time to
38:42
reach out to your photographers. This is A and give them time
38:45
like we don't. You know the photographers.
38:47
Can't just produce overnight and I know with AI and all these
38:50
things, it's very tempting to produce overnight, but.
38:53
You know, reach out to whomever that you use for, you know, hero
38:57
cards. I know my race pass.
38:58
You can order driver swag like hero cards from my race pass.
39:03
So again, that showcase class of the week, whatever the third
39:05
feature is of that week for their week, for their four class
39:11
showdown, you will be. That showcase class of the week.
39:14
That means your feature will be juiced up with some extra fun.
39:19
That means you'll get to go out and meet with the fans.
39:22
Fans, you'll get to meet the drivers.
39:23
And this isn't WWE where they're charging you $15,000 to talk to
39:26
Cody Rhodes for one minute. This is already part of your $15
39:30
ticket that you paid at the front to park on the property.
39:33
So you get to come in. They'll announce some plenty
39:35
ahead of time where drivers will be.
39:38
Go meet the drivers again. That's one thing that I've told
39:40
Drew Jack this many times and I've said it to others.
39:42
You know, I used to be the dumb race fan and thought this and
39:45
thought that and thought different things of drivers.
39:48
And one thing that I've been able to do on the media side is
39:51
being in the pits and seeing drivers as they are and who they
39:54
are and go, wow, I actually like you.
39:56
And you know, you get to know them.
39:57
So if you know, you might have someone who you Boo all the
40:00
time, but you get to know them. That is mean you still.
40:02
Can't Boo them because you know, bingo board purposes, but but
40:06
you know, you might get to see like they're actually a person
40:08
behind the helmet and behind the car, you know, working and
40:11
racing just trying to keep a sport alive and you might gain
40:14
some respect for them even if you.
40:17
You can still. Dislike them as a driver, but at
40:18
least that respect factor we go you know what I I can tolerate
40:22
you, but I'm not still going to support you right like boom on
40:24
the track, but shake their hands in the pit because again,
40:27
they're helping to keep this track alive.
40:29
So it's not additional cost. It's a meet and greet at
40:32
intermission, which is usually 1520 minutes at New Paris.
40:34
Plenty of time. I even think it was 20 minutes
40:37
this last week. You know, plenty of time to get
40:39
there to see the drivers. You know, if you have AT shirt,
40:43
go to Walmart, buy a white T-shirt and bring it to the
40:45
track and drivers will have markers.
40:47
I know I talked with Chris yesterday about getting
40:50
checkered flags and all that ready and having drivers sign
40:53
that. Plenty of white spaces on there
40:55
on the checkered flag. They'll do out of car
40:57
introductions. So you'll see them on the front
40:59
stretch where they'll pull up. They'll, you know, park the
41:02
cars, they'll get out of their car and then, you know, Buju did
41:06
it. I know Jeremy will do it where
41:07
they'll find somebody to also help start those engines.
41:10
So again, it's a specialty moment for each and every class,
41:14
whether you're the A feature or the B feature, you'll have your
41:17
moment to shine and get just a little extra, you know, at new
41:23
pair. So again, I'm really excited for
41:24
that and just to see where it goes.
41:27
And and, and certainly, you know, as you said, Chris, you
41:31
and I talked about this yesterday.
41:32
One of the things that I always loved about the writing process
41:34
is letting people know the rough draft is supposed to be shitty,
41:37
you know? So it's yeah, it.
41:39
Is all right, you know, but you know the I buju this.
41:45
Actually might be the most I've cursed on this show ever, but I
41:48
think so. Episodes in but I got fired up
41:51
at the beginning. But anyways, we're glad.
41:53
We can be part of that. We bring out the.
41:58
Buzz. But but that's where I'm excited
42:01
for this and for you guys to do this in the sea.
42:04
So, you know, this is one way fan said it.
42:06
You don't have to wait just for an autograph night, which
42:09
happens once or twice a year if it doesn't rain, right, This is
42:12
your chance. And I even talked about, you
42:14
know, with Chris, like, oh, you know, since the street socks
42:16
were kind of like, hey, let's try this year at Guinea pig for
42:19
a moment. You know, there's plenty of
42:20
races in the schedule to bring it back and rotate through
42:23
again. So if you missed this night,
42:24
maybe you can get it next night. I talked about having graphics
42:27
ready to go that I'll be working on.
42:29
If you need to feel free to use them.
42:30
If not, don't, but but like this is a showcase class of the week.
42:34
So you know, come on out and you know, you get a chance to meet
42:38
all the drivers this way and you don't have to.
42:41
I mean, it'd be nice if you bought a pit pass, but if you
42:43
don't or you can't afford to this this way, drivers are going
42:45
to be coming to you. So, you know, definitely take
42:47
advantage of it and and come on out and and also just see the
42:51
racing. It's been really awesome this
42:52
year. I mean, the, the races have been
42:54
tight, you know, the battles have been fierce, but most cars
42:58
are going to put on the trailer at the end of the night in one
43:00
piece. So you're going to be
43:02
entertained. And I don't want to hear that it
43:04
doesn't go till 4:00 AM in the morning because that's just not
43:06
reality anymore, you know? Don't, don't jinx us, but yeah,
43:09
we've a shout out to all the participants this year so far
43:13
we've we've had some relatively clean racing.
43:17
The show overall seems to click and move along.
43:22
You know, we're trying to trying to avoid that dead air stuff,
43:25
you know, and, and we get the comments on comments on
43:28
Facebook. And this is one thing that
43:30
really gets the hair on the back of my neck up is when somebody
43:33
starts messaging the Speedway or commenting on Facebook about how
43:37
long it took to clean up, you know, an accident or a mess.
43:41
Bottom line is these people work really hard for their money and
43:44
they have a lot of money in their cars.
43:46
And our safety crew does their best to do the best cleanup
43:50
possible to make sure it's safe. And in fact, when we finished
43:53
the cleanups, we get the cars rolling around the track again
43:57
and Steven up in the tower. And Jeremiah asks the driver,
44:01
thumbs up, thumbs down. Do you like the track?
44:03
Do not like the track. They don't like the track.
44:05
Safety goes right back to work cleaning.
44:07
We aren't cutting that short for you.
44:09
Sorry people. That's safety first.
44:11
That's a we're keeping that race surface raceable.
44:14
Well, and I won't say what track, but there's a track that
44:17
has NASCAR level equipment that takes way longer than your crew
44:22
that doesn't have that equipment to clean up simple things.
44:25
So again, if people, I have footage.
44:28
So if people and it's not Kalamazoo, obviously because
44:31
they they have great equipment, but even they sometimes have
44:35
things that just takes a little bit to clean up, you know, it's
44:37
a mess and. A lot of times you don't
44:39
understand or see what's out there, you know that you're
44:42
seeing, that the safety crews see.
44:43
And so just, you know, bear with that and understand that, you
44:45
know, we want to make sure that, you know, everybody's safe,
44:48
First off, and it's a good show. So we're doing, you know, what
44:51
we're doing for those reasons, so.
44:53
You know, just like the other night, you know, going a little
44:56
bit above and beyond and and getting big orange Carrot Top
44:59
out, you know, to to get that get the streak of mud off, you
45:04
know, coming out of four and and down the front stretch.
45:08
You know, it was just, I could see from my vantage point
45:12
because I was, I actually took the time I, I went up in the pit
45:15
grandstands and was up there on the wall watching when this
45:18
happened. And, and I could see what safety
45:19
was going through just between 3:00 and 4:00 to get, you know,
45:23
get their stuff cleaned up in that area.
45:26
And I'm like, Hey, you guys want the tractor.
45:28
I can make this real quick, you know, over in that, that area
45:30
and take care of it. And, you know, trying to go a
45:35
little bit above and beyond and, and, but with the ultimate
45:38
thought in mind of of, you know, we want to, we want to stay free
45:42
strike so. Well, and and again, I saw the
45:46
puddle before and I was taking bets in the so that's partly my
45:49
fault. I'll accept complete blame for
45:51
this because I we. Know.
45:52
It was my fault. So that's strike three, right?
45:54
But I took bets. I said some what class do we
45:56
think is going to find that puddle because it was like one
45:58
of the only puddles. To be honest around which was.
46:01
Good. And we took a lot of rain on.
46:04
Oh yeah, I mean, lot of. Rain, so I have one puddle was
46:07
the drainage that we put in and thank you for raver dirt works
46:10
and helping out on that one a couple years ago, you know and
46:13
redoing that infield and the drainage that went in on that.
46:15
That's not bad. But yeah, it was, it was, it was
46:20
just something that you know it. It went quick and easy.
46:24
And I've received several invites from a street stock
46:28
driver. I won't name him or his daughter
46:32
inviting inviting me to come to Plymouth and wash their mud off
46:36
their car, but there was even a little Facebook banter on there.
46:41
Yeah, between the two of us about.
46:43
You know, there's there's a lot of pavement up there.
46:45
What are you doing now in the mud anyway?
46:47
It. Was invited.
46:48
You a paved track now? It was.
46:50
It was. All in good fun.
46:51
So all in good. Fun.
46:53
I do want to remind because I know it's 7:45, so I don't want
46:56
to keep you guys too much longer because I also know you have
46:59
messages. But I do want to remind everyone
47:01
one more time. You know the big news out of New
47:03
Paris and all in good fun that you can have starting this
47:06
Saturday at the New Paris Speedway for their four class
47:08
showdown. Again, their showcase class of
47:11
the week will be the Hornet A feature if I remember right,
47:13
because the next week would probably be the B feature.
47:17
It'll. Be it'll be A and.
47:19
B baby Jesus, there you go. All right, so you'll have about
47:23
25 drivers. You know that you get to go meet
47:26
and greet maybe even more because the Hornet class,
47:29
they're they're really strong. They do have a really strong
47:31
Hornet group, which is not unusual for Northwest Indiana,
47:35
but showcase class of the week. So you'll get to meet the
47:37
Hornets. So it's no additional cost again
47:40
or your ticket, just show up at intermission.
47:42
Buju, he's announcing this week, he'll say the meet and greet is
47:45
coming up. Shortly after this heat race,
47:47
you'll see the Hornets will start to come up.
47:49
They'll swarm to the front and you'll have a meet and greet at
47:53
intermission. It'll be about 1520 minutes.
47:55
They'll sign autographs, bring a white T-shirt, bring whatever if
47:59
you have sports memorabilia from the new Paris Speedway, whatever
48:02
it may be. Or go to the souvenir stand and
48:04
spend some hard earned human monies over there.
48:06
Or Dan Housen might curse you. You can go and get that and then
48:11
they'll have out of car driver introductions for their features
48:14
on the front stretch. And then Buju will find somebody
48:18
lucky enough in the stands to be able to announce the most famous
48:21
words in Motorsports of start your engine.
48:23
So again, take advantage of that.
48:26
It's it's there to do a chance to see the drivers, the cars and
48:30
the stars of the new Paris Speedway.
48:33
And so again, Chris and Tracy, I definitely, you know, appreciate
48:37
you taking time out of your evening not only to talk about
48:41
that, but then obviously allowing us to double dip and,
48:45
you know, get this out on your New Paris page so that everyone
48:47
can see it there, too. So if you've been watching on
48:49
New Paris, this is kind of your warning.
48:51
When Chris and Tracy sign off, the stream will sign off with
48:54
them. So if you want to continue
48:55
watching and seeing Wichter and friends, they're already sitting
48:58
in the staging area ready to go. Wichter might have his voice
49:00
back. We'll find out in about two
49:02
minutes here. He's shaking his head, so it's a
49:04
little shaky. The Soviet spy may not sound so
49:08
Soviet tonight, but well, hi guys, you got you.
49:12
Got those three gangsters up next so we we better exit before
49:16
we take them off and. Yeah.
49:19
Oh, but no, I just again, I wanted to just say thank you
49:21
guys again for all that you do. I know I won't be there this
49:24
Saturday. It's my only four class showdown
49:26
that I won't be at. But I appreciate you
49:28
understanding. It's the Rodney Russell Memorial
49:30
of Galesburg, and he was such a loving guy that, you know, I, I
49:35
hate missing New Paris, but I know for years that they've been
49:37
asking me to come up and do this and, and so it's like, it is
49:41
time, you know, I, it's like, man, you know, but.
49:45
So I appreciate. You understanding that just to
49:47
do that for the front wheel drives up there, I'll have about
49:50
60 of them. So maybe I could, you know,
49:52
maybe some can send down that way.
49:53
I'll be like, hey, I, I could bring you 60 front wheel drives
49:56
next time. You know, I don't know where
49:58
we'll park them at New Paris, but we'll find a way.
50:00
Yeah, room for that. But Tom, thanks guys, as always,
50:05
appreciate it and everything you do.
50:06
Thank you for. Everything you do and you know,
50:09
no matter where you go or no matter where you watch, you
50:11
know, continue the sports short track racing.
50:15
Absolutely. And again, Benny Miller, please
50:17
do message Chris and Tracy. They are friends with me on
50:20
Facebook by choice. They made that choice, you know,
50:23
so you can find them, Chris Mandel, Christopher Mandel on
50:27
Facebook. So just go to my friends list
50:29
and find them. If not, message the new pairs
50:31
Facebook page Benny and maybe we can bring that Motörhead Miller
50:34
Mafia $1000 win race down to new Paris and you'll get front wheel
50:38
drives that night. I promise you that.
50:40
So your your Hornets might go Where did all these other
50:44
Hornets come from? So but pretty good.
50:48
Thank you guys so much. And then we will see you next
50:52
week. And all right, so I'm going to.
50:56
So again, if you're a new pair, so you have about 30 seconds to
50:58
switch over to Top Row because I'm going to hide them in the
51:01
staging area. And as they exit, it will bump
51:03
the stream off on their page. So do feel free to come over to
51:07
Top Row Racing Media. But right now we're going to
51:09
have Wichter and friends joining us.
51:11
So I know I bring that to Jeremy, Phillip and Wichter.
51:16
I think we're all on. Can we see all each other?
51:18
Yes, we can. Let's see that.
51:20
Layup through the camera. How do we look?
51:24
Well, there's Frank Gasco. I don't know about that.
51:30
I have I, I have a little bit of voice, not not the greatest.
51:34
So they will they will be, they have me in quarantine.
51:36
I am in the race car right now. I I'm.
51:40
I'm sitting here and I'm going, wait a minute.
51:42
They're all in the same spot, but they're on two different
51:44
screens. So OK, you know, I know I'm back
51:48
there. So that's incredible.
51:50
You all are just too entertaining and you don't even
51:52
realize how entertaining you are.
51:54
But. We do as we can.
51:56
But but so, yeah, you have Frank back there.
51:59
And that's maybe that's why someone was asking, where's
52:01
Frank Gasco? Well, we found him.
52:04
And. And then we have Jeremy, you
52:07
know, joining us. And we have Philip, who won.
52:09
He's the undefeated racer for the team.
52:12
And then we have Wichter, who may sound some some Soviet, may
52:16
sound American tonight. He's.
52:18
Been recovering from just nastiness, right?
52:21
So how are you? I don't.
52:23
I don't even know what it was. It just wasn't fun though.
52:28
Was it though? No.
52:29
No, it was not a good time. So if you hear some American
52:34
come out of him, he's not fully converting yet.
52:36
He's just a little American, a little assimilating to the
52:40
country, you know, because we assimilate in America.
52:42
But anyway. It's it's so close to July 4th,
52:45
I thought maybe I could let it it.
52:47
It will be fine. It will be fine.
52:50
Well, but so. Again, if you guys want to talk
52:53
a little bit about what you're doing.
52:55
Oh, it didn't take New Paris off, so it's supposed to.
52:58
Well. Sorry, New Paris didn't, it's
53:01
supposed to go with you. But anyways, go ahead, keep
53:03
talking. I just realized that we're still
53:04
on New Paris, but I'll I'll owe them later because I thought
53:08
that was supposed to take them with them.
53:09
But if you want to talk a little bit about what you're doing this
53:13
Saturday over at Hartford Speedway.
53:17
Well, we are. We are attempting to take the
53:20
Nodmod on tour. I would say we are.
53:24
We are going to dominate the Hartford Knight of Destruction
53:28
much as we dominated the the new Paris Knights of Destruction and
53:31
and it will be filled once again showing everyone what the Nodmod
53:36
is all about. So when you debuted this Philip
53:40
at and and team, but you debuted this at New Paris.
53:43
So what was it like? Because obviously all of you, I
53:46
mean Witcher, I know you're getting fresh into that scene
53:48
and you've been around a little bit, but you know, the three
53:50
sitting there with what last minute mafia?
53:53
Obviously they have a lot of laps over at new Paris, a lot of
53:56
things they've done at new Paris.
53:57
So for Phillip, you know, you did your your reveal there when
54:01
you learn what you know you're going to be having for a baby,
54:04
not not you, your wife, but you know, do you want to talk a
54:08
little bit about what it was like to bring the non mod out to
54:10
new Paris and debut it there? Well, First off, we're like
54:16
pretty usual. But that didn't not get a few
54:23
minutes here and there. It was, it was just like
54:28
throwing up with anything else I've brought, which it brought a
54:31
lot more fencing down to our pit stall.
54:33
Everybody wanted to come look at it and who knows, maybe we're
54:38
going to have more wings come out out of brook codes and shell
54:44
and shell. Yeah, 'cause you and oh, is that
54:48
Paint 2 or No, those are monsters.
54:50
But anyways, how many? Oh hey, monster.
55:00
Oops. Oops.
55:03
I'm like, what's going on over there?
55:05
But anyway. I do not condone this.
55:08
They're getting pretty publicity on my I should contact the
55:12
monster. I need some money now.
55:13
But anyways, yes, we. Did for $25,000.
55:18
We'll put anybody on the way. Well, we can negotiate that
55:23
price too it. Is it is prime real estate?
55:28
Well, do you want to talk a little bit about because I know
55:31
you know for, for. Fans and drivers and everyone
55:33
watching again, we're still live on the new Paris page.
55:36
It was supposed to leave with Chris and Tracy, so I don't know
55:38
what happened there, but hey, we're still live.
55:40
And obviously this is where you did be that new Paris.
55:43
And so anyone watching you guys, if they go to your page, work
55:46
there. You did like behind the scenes
55:48
stuff with Jeremy, you know, Frank and Phillip.
55:51
Do you want to talk about like how you built?
55:54
You don't have to give all the specifics so people don't steal
55:55
your design, but do you want to talk a little bit about what
55:57
went into like, how did you, how the heck did you even come up
56:01
with this? And then you know from there.
56:07
So how did we come up with the the overall design for the Nod
56:12
mug? Yeah, yeah.
56:16
We had to cover a sunroof. We, we had to cover a sunroof
56:22
and we had a little less than 17 hours to cover sunroof.
56:26
And while we were doing that, we said, hey, you know what?
56:30
Why don't we just take this hood and not only will we cover the,
56:36
the, the sunroof hole, but we will have downforce.
56:39
And unfortunately, I told Jeremy, Phillip and Frank this
56:45
and instead of taking it as joke, we we put it on the roof
56:49
of the of the car. And yeah, it worked.
56:57
Yeah, it definitely, definitely worked.
57:00
So as far as like thought process and planning, we didn't
57:04
have any of that. We just had a hood and some
57:07
steel and some time and that's, that's, that's how we came up
57:11
with it. All right, so and then why is
57:15
this like Sprint looking wing? Like why?
57:19
You know why that specifically, you know, with the sun
57:23
recovering, like what made you go that route?
57:25
You noticed it, right? Yeah.
57:27
Oh yeah. Exactly, exactly.
57:32
Now, the fact that it was was was effective without force was
57:37
a surprisingly added benefit. But you noticed it, right?
57:42
Oh yeah, yeah. Exactly.
57:45
Well, and it and now it's kind of one of those things like when
57:48
you brought that out, right? I mean, I waited 40 minutes for
57:51
y'all, but very understandable reason.
57:53
Obviously, Philip, because we talked about that, but I'm like,
57:56
they're someone said they're coming and I'm waiting, waiting
57:59
because I'm like, I got to see this when you first pull in
58:01
because again, it just, it just stood out, right.
58:07
And then I thought with the King of the wings that we kind of
58:11
came up with, you know, for that, I thought that was pretty
58:13
cool that, you know, Aaron Hamner got in on that, that
58:19
Jacob Kelly, which kind of started the war, you know, got
58:22
into that and and a couple others, right?
58:24
So so. Yeah, they stole my, stole my
58:27
wing off the back of my car. So we had to had to win.
58:33
Well, and, and so when you're in there, Phillip, does the wing
58:37
help at all? Yes.
58:39
Anything. Yeah.
58:40
Yes, you can feel it. It sets the whole car down it
58:43
really. Does now if.
58:46
That helps me drive it or not. I can tell you it doesn't
58:49
because until we started bending front end components I couldn't
58:53
drive it to save my life. And then downforce also helped
58:57
to bend the components because when you go in the corner and
59:00
just when the car sets, man, it was just maybe a little too
59:04
much. Might have to adjust dust a
59:07
little bit here, but we're going to work on it.
59:10
Stick to turn on the steering wheel.
59:12
I don't think there's any science to that, but there could
59:14
be I. Don't think there's any
59:16
engineering injuries in that room, huh?
59:20
100% level not be hard, but I apologize, but yes.
59:27
You could definitely tell the difference with it.
59:31
So then, Frank, you didn't get to watch it race because you
59:34
know, you chose to be somewhere else, but obviously you have.
59:40
I. Also have other jobs other
59:43
places. I would love to be, but now, now
59:45
continue your question, Sir. You know, I got to give you a
59:49
hard time. You know, it's always coming
59:51
around. But but you know, you've been a
59:53
part of this journey too. You got in with Victor, right?
59:56
We've kind of talked about this when we had you guys on a few
59:58
weeks ago where we talked about like you all finding each other.
1:00:02
You know, Jeremy had an incredible way of putting it.
1:00:04
So what has it been like for you?
1:00:07
To kind of watch all this come together and watch this
1:00:09
commodity come together. I mean, again, you guys are
1:00:12
maybe not at the exact point of finishing each other's sentences
1:00:15
yet, but you're finishing thoughts and you're having a lot
1:00:18
of fun doing this. So, Frank, for you, especially
1:00:21
as a legend that you are what, what has it been like to do
1:00:24
something different, you know, in this night of destruction
1:00:27
world for someone who's done a lot?
1:00:30
Well, I don't, I, I would never, you know, consider myself a
1:00:33
legend or anything like that. I would consider myself as
1:00:37
somebody who is grateful enough to have people who helped me
1:00:43
achieve some awesome trophies, some great memories.
1:00:48
And these guys right here with me, you know, Jeremy, my kids be
1:00:56
fair with me. A lot of folks helped us do what
1:01:00
we did it. It was never about what Frank
1:01:03
Gatsby did. It was about what the people
1:01:06
around Frank Gatsby would help them to do.
1:01:09
When I started this I, I. Take some credit.
1:01:12
Man be. OK, it's OK.
1:01:16
I agree with that. That, you know, I guess I can
1:01:20
drive, but it goes back for like David Hunter, you know, in the
1:01:24
movie, Tom Cruise knew shit about cars, knew nothing about
1:01:30
how to drive or this or that. Well, he knew nothing about the
1:01:33
vehicle, but he could drive. And it was my friends that
1:01:37
helped me do what I did for so many years.
1:01:40
And and without the friends that I've had, the pit crews and
1:01:46
Jerry Broom, Jeff Broom, Derrick, Jeremy, you know,
1:01:51
there's been so many times that we've won races that we
1:01:55
shouldn't have been able to win. And it was just a great time.
1:01:59
So, yeah, it's not AI guess it's not the elephant in the room
1:02:08
that I don't I don't know how to wear it.
1:02:11
I guess we've kind of gotten out of it for the last couple of
1:02:15
years. Just kind of life's gotten in a
1:02:17
way. This match we met Wichter Wicker
1:02:23
has become a great friend of us and just a phenomenal guy.
1:02:27
And I think that Wicker has brought AI guess refreshing vibe
1:02:33
to what we used to do. And I think sometimes you need
1:02:40
that actually. We we, we all take time off.
1:02:47
We all take time for our family and all this and that, which is
1:02:49
what you should. But sometimes, you know, the
1:02:53
passion that you used to have meet breed now, and I think that
1:02:58
winter has helped us a lot with that.
1:03:02
I'm not able to participate as much as everybody else here in
1:03:05
this video. I wish I could, but I I just
1:03:08
can't. So I don't want to take the
1:03:11
credit away from these guys for what they've done for Moe's
1:03:13
truck and all that. But I want to say I appreciate
1:03:17
the fact that I've been included and I want to say I appreciate
1:03:21
the fact that we're fucking water racing at Hartford next
1:03:24
weekend, man. And I've got something,
1:03:26
something out there this coming weekend.
1:03:29
I've got something sitting out there that I'm super excited
1:03:31
about. And we're we're going to take a
1:03:34
couple of cars up there this weekend and and we're going to
1:03:37
do some band big shout out Jason Selter going to take over for me
1:03:41
this weekend. This weekend we have Wilson and
1:03:44
Voice Speedway. I've not been standing not
1:03:48
instruction for a long time. These guys.
1:03:51
Hey, hey, got to do it. We've got to do it.
1:03:53
We've got something off as it runs and a little bit different
1:03:57
than I'm used to. Get a little bit more speed and
1:04:01
maybe I might catch my first rollover out, I don't know.
1:04:07
Right. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
1:04:10
Hold, hold, hold on, hold on this.
1:04:12
This guy's alleges he's coming out.
1:04:14
You know, we're on the side here.
1:04:16
Frank, Frank we we said we had something we didn't we didn't
1:04:21
say it ran run runs is a relative term.
1:04:25
Just want to let you know that we.
1:04:27
Know how it goes sometimes? Yeah, we don't.
1:04:28
Want to put the car before the Lords, but if we hit the turn
1:04:31
over, the Lords put it there, but we can make it run.
1:04:36
Looking forward to seeing Hartford Speedway this weekend.
1:04:39
And to go back to your question to see something like this come
1:04:44
back together to bring a lot of us friends back to like this
1:04:50
man, you, you couldn't ask for more really.
1:04:53
There's a lot of friends that are kind of ventured off and
1:04:56
life gets in the way. And you know, me and Jeremy,
1:05:01
prime example man, just his daughter is graduated high
1:05:05
school, by the way. So yeah, good.
1:05:08
Job on that. Just graduated high school and
1:05:12
we kind of lost lives sometimes and already get back to it.
1:05:18
I'd like, I'd like to put a few more races there in my belt
1:05:20
before I say we're done. You know, I and I'd love to do
1:05:25
it with the, the group friends that we have right now, so.
1:05:28
I just started a race team. We can't be done.
1:05:33
Looking forward to it man, I I can't wait.
1:05:36
Well, and that's again just for everyone to know.
1:05:38
And I did remove New Paris from here because I, I, I would feel
1:05:42
we're talking about Hartford and their event on Saturday on New
1:05:45
Paris's page after we just promoted Saturday there.
1:05:48
So I'm like, why didn't it leave with them?
1:05:51
It was supposed to leave with them, so I removed.
1:05:53
It but the. Post is still on New Paris.
1:05:55
It's just not live. So if someone clicks in and then
1:05:58
watches it won't be live. At least showing live.
1:06:01
So, so that's where that's why it's kind of doing some texting
1:06:04
and like, I'm trying to get this off and, you know, just for
1:06:07
respect out of them. And then obviously respect for
1:06:09
Hartford too. But for for those who don't
1:06:12
know, Hartford has their first of two, No 32.
1:06:16
I think it's two this year. Night of destructions.
1:06:18
No, I'm pretty sure it's 3. 03 No, yeah, you're right.
1:06:21
Three night of destructions because they added the October 1
1:06:24
permanently. That one used to be a rain date,
1:06:26
but they'll add they added that one.
1:06:27
So the second one is usually during Super Shoe weekend at
1:06:30
Kalamazoo. So I always miss one or two of
1:06:32
them, but I always have time for October.
1:06:34
So. So again, for those watching,
1:06:38
Hartford has their night of destruction.
1:06:39
It's one of the only tracks in the area in region that does a
1:06:44
night of destruction on dirt. So it's pretty cool.
1:06:47
And to see this car out there, I, I know I'm going to miss it.
1:06:50
I'm going to be at Galesburg, but I definitely want to see
1:06:52
photos and videos just to see what you guys are doing on the
1:06:55
dirt there. Wick, you're obviously going to
1:06:57
say something again real quick. Yeah.
1:07:02
So in the coming year or so, my son's sitting here, you know, he
1:07:09
just turned 15 years old, looking to get into the seat.
1:07:15
It was brought up by Jeremy's daughter.
1:07:16
So we'd like to come up in the seat.
1:07:20
And my daughter, Elena, everyone knows Atlanta Gasco.
1:07:24
She helps me all the time. She's always with the race cars
1:07:27
and she's she does this, does that, runs the chain on a
1:07:30
trailer on buying that car with manager, things like that where
1:07:33
she can help with. So we are literally about the
1:07:38
chain of generations for a night of destruction.
1:07:41
And for us to add like that's insane.
1:07:45
You know, all my daughter talked about is, hey, when's the next
1:07:48
night of destruction? Is that new Paris?
1:07:50
Like she's stuck on new Paris. Like she loves new Paris and
1:07:54
that's where she grew up at and my son as well, you know, not
1:08:00
taken away from anybody else. Just just do us new parents at
1:08:05
home, you know, And obviously I work at imported Speedo.
1:08:09
We've got kid cast not of reckoning as well.
1:08:13
Kalamazoo can't take us away from any of these tracks that
1:08:15
we've done an instruction, but looking forward to kind of
1:08:21
putting some very fresh acids in the seats and seeing what they
1:08:26
can do with, with their dads and their friends uncles, you know,
1:08:33
they're all uncles now and and making it happen.
1:08:36
It's going to be fucking incredible.
1:08:38
I'm really looking forward to it.
1:08:41
Well, and and again, that's why. You know, just with your.
1:08:44
Resume, right that you've been able to put out there?
1:08:47
You know, for. Night of destructions.
1:08:48
I mean, you are, whether you want to take the credit or not,
1:08:51
you are a legend in this area. And legend doesn't mean your
1:08:53
time's done. Legend just means you've earned
1:08:56
the credibility, you've earned the fan appreciation and, and
1:09:02
you've put it out there. I mean, years and years and
1:09:04
years of wear and tear and abuse on your body to put on a show
1:09:07
for fans. That in itself makes you legend.
1:09:10
So whether you want that title or not, you've earned it, you
1:09:14
know, and and that's something that again, to have you and your
1:09:17
experience. And obviously you've taken that
1:09:18
to M40 where you're helping with their day of reckoning and
1:09:22
helping them resurrect night of destructions there and building
1:09:25
that. And and by the way, Frank, I
1:09:27
don't know if you saw a Slinger superspeedway.
1:09:29
They posted your trailer event from last year.
1:09:34
They're doing that. It's smoking the Bandit is what
1:09:36
they're calling it. So that's not 4 tracks that have
1:09:41
stolen your trailer idea, hey? Dude, hey, let me tell you
1:09:47
something, imitation is the best for flattery.
1:09:50
Yeah, copycats and. I have nothing else to say that
1:09:54
my God hope I I hope they do well with that, because what an
1:09:58
awesome concept. You know, me and Johnny were
1:10:02
also going with the night record because we're all, you know, 80s
1:10:05
TV show fans between Dukes and Hazzard and Knight Rider and all
1:10:08
this and that. And if you're familiar with
1:10:11
Knight Rider and Sherlock, the folks watching are kit used to
1:10:15
drive up in the back of the truck to talk to the crew and
1:10:19
like, what's our next mention of this?
1:10:21
And that kit would sit in the truck And and that would be our
1:10:25
goal for that was you have to drive up in the trailer because
1:10:29
the concept of that for a long time, many, many years was,
1:10:33
well, you can't do that without destroying your transmission
1:10:35
once it hits them right now. Now it it just it could tear the
1:10:40
shit out of it, but we don't have to pay for it.
1:10:43
It's just all junk yourself, man.
1:10:46
So we had a lot of fun with that.
1:10:47
That was really, really cool. And and then also seeing, seeing
1:10:53
speed Evan jump up into the camper.
1:10:57
That was something that we were not very keen on working, but we
1:11:03
knew that we would have somebody there that was on through the
1:11:08
back of that trailer and Steve Evans wound up being the one and
1:11:14
just awesome, man, Just super cool.
1:11:18
Just to remind people what you're talking about.
1:11:20
That's why there's some noise there.
1:11:21
For a moment, we are. Still terrifying.
1:11:24
I pulled that up again just so. You know it's.
1:11:27
Tough one, I've missed it. You know, I'll back it up one
1:11:31
more time. So as you're talking about that,
1:11:32
right, so you took what you did last year with Knight Rider and
1:11:35
I know I'm blocking my own face with the graphic.
1:11:37
It's OK. I don't think people like
1:11:38
watching my face anyways. But we got Buju, he's the
1:11:42
announcer, official announcer. Now we just need to see him and
1:11:44
you guys, they don't need to see me.
1:11:45
But but again, you know, you took your Knight Rider and you
1:11:49
put a camper in its place this time.
1:11:51
And it was like, man, is someone going to get on there?
1:11:53
Is someone going to do this? What's this going to look like?
1:11:55
So. And so, so point of view from
1:11:58
this right here, honestly, Wicker was driving the truck
1:12:02
that this phone is tagged me right on the bed.
1:12:05
I think about this point right here.
1:12:07
I was crying also about if you actually pipe in the audio you
1:12:13
can hear me cry like a child. So I'm kind of I'm literally
1:12:18
sitting in the back seat of the truck and I'm looking out.
1:12:22
I said, Hey, Steve Evans is going hey, Steve O it's about to
1:12:25
be in the camper. And then we felt the truck
1:12:27
yelling. I was like, Steve O is the
1:12:29
camper. And then we realized that how do
1:12:33
we get Stevo out of the truck inside?
1:12:37
And we keep driving like almost. And Steve O was, I'm screaming,
1:12:47
dude, that window, are you OK? Are you kidding?
1:12:50
This is just about verbatim. Am I good?
1:12:54
Did I fucking win? If this is all I hear is
1:12:58
screaming from inside of the hammer and the safety.
1:13:03
By this time the safety crew starts busting up windows of the
1:13:06
hammer and I just hear he's good, he's good.
1:13:09
And I get a thumbs up and Steve is just screaming with
1:13:15
excitement because he just drove that Chevy inside that camera.
1:13:21
I'm like, I mean, man, my goodness, just I can't imagine
1:13:27
the adrenaline rush from him. I I know my adrenal rush.
1:13:31
Jesus Christ, I'm going to do drive to this all bitten truck,
1:13:35
but just awful dude, these night destructions.
1:13:40
We live for this thing, man, And and.
1:13:44
And now we're going to dominate the whole other track with the
1:13:47
with the Nodmod. We're going to.
1:13:49
Talk. And Leah's on here now, so like
1:13:51
I told in the post earlier, she might need some extra security
1:13:54
with you around because you just never know which or what you're
1:13:56
going to be up to. But.
1:13:58
I listen, I have an employee shirt.
1:14:01
You have no idea what I'm going to do at Hartford because I can
1:14:04
go anywhere I want to as long as they don't know that I'm there.
1:14:10
So it's going to be a great time.
1:14:13
Especially. If I get my hands on the hot
1:14:15
dogs. Well, do you want to talk a
1:14:18
little bit about what you were able to do last time?
1:14:20
Again, you do such an incredible job with your social media.
1:14:24
I, I mean, obviously you've built a following that would
1:14:26
make a lot of people jealous like me and where I'm like
1:14:29
800,000 plus people like just, that's crazy, right?
1:14:33
And so, but you, you get there because of the quality of
1:14:38
content that you do. You get there because of the
1:14:39
quality of of a product that you're putting out for people to
1:14:43
enjoy joy and and obviously now you're using that platform, that
1:14:47
power to promote short track racing, which we all right,
1:14:50
every track needs that right now.
1:14:52
They need, you know, that that help and you're and you have
1:14:56
again, a wide range of people who you're able to, you know,
1:15:00
tap into and showcase all your antics that you're up to.
1:15:02
So do you want to talk a little bit for those who may have
1:15:04
missed it, what you were able to do last time at Hartford and how
1:15:07
you want to build on that? So, I mean, it's very hard for
1:15:15
me to speak after you have to bear with me.
1:15:18
The voice wants to come and go. Is, is, is it pleases.
1:15:21
But I mean, really it was last year I went to, to have fun with
1:15:26
a friend of mine with, with David Gales and, and I got the
1:15:30
hold of mattress in the mattress race as we, as we drove around
1:15:34
and I was hooked. I, so I, I reached out to them
1:15:37
and, and to Leah Dibble and I was like, look, if you will have
1:15:40
me, I would love to, to, to do what I can to shoot videos and
1:15:44
to promote. And, and she was like,
1:15:46
absolutely come on down. And the rest is kind of history.
1:15:50
It's just like, I go out there and I, I film what goes on and
1:15:54
I, I put a funny spin to it and I kind of take advantage of that
1:15:59
and steal hot dogs. That's that's pretty much what I
1:16:02
do now. Well, and again, you were able
1:16:06
to, I mean Leah has had a lot of fun, you know, I know having you
1:16:10
around and that you and I got to meet last October.
1:16:12
That's first time you and I got to meet and so so again, that's
1:16:16
where I've just been able to I as an outsider, right, I've
1:16:19
gotten to watch, you know, the impact that you've started to
1:16:22
make on this area, obviously raising funds for the ball
1:16:25
field, you know, doing that, bringing, you know, these guys
1:16:29
together, you know, as part of the group.
1:16:31
And, and you know, again, you can't have more phenomenal
1:16:33
people as part of this team who are then sitting right in front
1:16:37
of you. Feel free to honk your horn if
1:16:39
you want to get Frank to have a little boot scooting boogie.
1:16:42
But I can't. They they ensured that I would
1:16:45
not do that. During during the podcast.
1:16:48
Hold on. I've been you.
1:16:50
Can hold my mattress Dad, I've been misjudged.
1:16:53
I'd rather than watermelon for all but.
1:16:55
I could give you. But but again, but watching what
1:17:00
you've been able to do, you know, and and I know with your
1:17:03
voice, that's why I've kind of not gone your your direction too
1:17:06
many. Times I appreciate it.
1:17:07
You know, because I don't want you to strain.
1:17:09
I mean, you got to get rid of by Saturday, right?
1:17:11
But I just appreciate you. Feeling.
1:17:13
Kind of getting on. So again, you're at Hartford,
1:17:18
you're taking how many total cars?
1:17:21
At this point we are going to take 2. 2.
1:17:25
The not mod and something else that this secret.
1:17:29
He's been holding a piece of pizza the whole time.
1:17:31
I just noticed that. Oh boy.
1:17:35
Terrible. So rumor has it mark Skulls
1:17:40
coming up to Harper, and rumor also has it the new pair of
1:17:44
short car might be making on appearance out there.
1:17:47
Oh, that would. Be some breaking news on air.
1:17:50
So we just want to pipe on Wow, it's been slipping for a while.
1:17:58
But so new pair of shark maybe and I don't, I can't remember if
1:18:01
he's been to Hartford or not or if he's been to Hartford, OK.
1:18:05
He has not. Because I didn't think that was
1:18:07
one of his tracks that he's been to that would be and I have
1:18:11
talked with him about coming up to Hartford a couple times.
1:18:13
And so so that that again, I'm going to miss it, right?
1:18:17
I'm going to have to watch all this video though, because
1:18:19
watching the shark out there that that'll be fun, especially
1:18:23
on the dirt. You know it'll be a wet track.
1:18:25
So he'll be kind of in his natural element as a shark,
1:18:27
right. You know, he might get more
1:18:28
people that way, But so you're bringing the cars, you're
1:18:31
obviously bringing the non mod and then do you what other car
1:18:35
do you guys plan to bring up there that you might showcase?
1:18:37
Is that still secret? That's.
1:18:39
Still secret. That was going to be a little
1:18:41
bit of a oh, OK. All right, open trailer or close
1:18:47
trailer. So will people be able to follow
1:18:49
you to Hartford? All of them are going to be open
1:18:52
for it. So when you're going down 131 up
1:18:55
to or 31, excuse me, up to up to, we may not.
1:18:58
Be taking 131. Whatever.
1:19:10
Then the law enforcement watching Frank has no
1:19:13
association with us as of tonight.
1:19:15
We don't know what he's talking about and everything is legal.
1:19:20
When police are not around, everything is legal.
1:19:25
So find Frank Dashiell maybe 7.7 classic rock.
1:19:30
The trip too hard for the car is going to look a little
1:19:32
different. We may or may not have done some
1:19:36
damage to the wings and ranked it up race when the bolts come
1:19:41
loose and then it's shaking up there pretty hard.
1:19:44
So the wing is going to come off for the trip up there, but you
1:19:47
can't miss the pink glass mafia on the side.
1:19:51
No, no. It's supposed to be red, but on
1:19:53
that fades. Yeah, when they checked it out.
1:19:58
So again, for Hartford fans. Oh, I see.
1:20:01
Wichter's ready. So careful, Frank, he he might
1:20:05
target you with it, but he might.
1:20:07
There's a windshield between them and I'd prefer they're not
1:20:10
be frightening on it now. Well, Frank did already break
1:20:13
most of the windshield earlier tonight.
1:20:15
I was trying to go with you and I was like.
1:20:17
Well. That's that's a true story.
1:20:20
I need an adult. Now Boo you, you kind of been
1:20:26
quiet tonight. Do you have do you have any
1:20:27
questions for for them? Because you got, you got to meet
1:20:31
Victor and and and Jeremy and all that a couple weeks ago on
1:20:34
here on here. Oh yeah, I was going to say, did
1:20:37
I? You know, you know, so did you
1:20:41
since then, I know you kind of gotten into them a little bit.
1:20:44
Do you have any questions before they go to Hartford?
1:20:47
So it seems like we have a little bit of a tour of chaos
1:20:49
going on. Gentlemen, I guess my my
1:20:51
question would be maybe what's next?
1:20:52
What are some other plans that may be in the works?
1:20:56
Maybe a hint that one? I don't want you to give away
1:20:57
the whole idea, obviously. Our tour always depends on
1:21:02
surviving the next event. So.
1:21:05
We we really have not put thought in beyond Hartford
1:21:08
because we don't know if we will survive Hartford.
1:21:10
So if we survive Hartford, then we will come up with other
1:21:13
plans. New Paris, we will be there on
1:21:17
the third, whether it put them on or we have to find something
1:21:20
else, we will be there on the 3rd.
1:21:22
I have another. Well, the trailer race SUV is
1:21:27
going to be back at New Paris and hopefully Chris and Bracy
1:21:31
will allow me to do that. That was a blast.
1:21:36
Well, while you're talking, it may make some noise here
1:21:39
momentarily for people watching. I forget.
1:21:42
What did I label it? I think I called it Pac-Man
1:21:45
trailer. But I'm trying to think of what
1:21:49
I put it on when I saved it because I did the full race and
1:21:52
I don't remember. But if you want to talk a little
1:21:55
bit while I'm looking for it, because it was, that was pretty
1:21:58
fun the way that they did it. And oh, here we go.
1:22:02
This should be, yeah, Pac-Man trailer.
1:22:03
So it's gonna make noise for like a second.
1:22:05
You guys ready to go training Rice in?
1:22:08
Well, yes, we're ready to go. So.
1:22:11
For those who don't. Why are you yelling at me?
1:22:14
This is Phil. Oh, I'm using my pointer like
1:22:16
I'm a freaking meteorologist. You can't see that I'm pointing
1:22:19
my mouse. But anyways, in the middle is
1:22:22
Phillip. Everybody else here has a
1:22:24
trailer. His job is to remove those
1:22:28
trailers, them as best as possible and knock them out of
1:22:31
the race. So Phillip, do you want to talk
1:22:33
a little bit about that and how this came to be?
1:22:36
Because I, you know, knew Paris was very forthcoming in that.
1:22:39
You know what? We know our trailer races have
1:22:41
been boring, you know. So do you want to talk a little
1:22:45
bit about what it was like for you to be here chasing them
1:22:47
down, being the reason maybe they didn't finish the race?
1:22:50
So we showed up to Nick Paris with intentions of I was going
1:22:54
to drive this. My buddy Alehandra bought that
1:22:57
he it acquired a Saturn Saturday at 2:00 in the afternoon or 1:30
1:23:03
in the afternoon showed up to Derek and said, hey, this is
1:23:07
yours for the night if you want it.
1:23:09
And he should have just brought it to the track for me and I was
1:23:13
just going to run it in the cowboy Catalan truck and and
1:23:16
during the drivers meeting they were people have bought the
1:23:21
trailer races. It all started with boats,
1:23:24
campers, fun stuff to watch it float on the track.
1:23:28
And it's really gotten away from that, really gotten away from
1:23:31
contact. Everybody's racing for the money
1:23:34
and I raised my hand in both Chris and Gracie and Steven.
1:23:38
I was like, hey, I got a car down here that I'm drunk in the
1:23:41
night. If it's arrived to the trailer
1:23:43
race, I will go out and I will take every attempt to take every
1:23:46
trailer off. And I did a halfway decent job.
1:23:51
I would say it was a lot of fun. It was nerve wracking at first
1:23:56
because you never know what the trailer did when you hit it and
1:24:01
it all worked out. We got all but one.
1:24:06
Well, that's where fans. Really enjoyed this, right,
1:24:08
because it took something Pac-Man and then, you know, take
1:24:13
took the trailer race and it really juiced it up.
1:24:15
And I remember talking with Chris, I think it was the next
1:24:18
day. We talked about this race quite
1:24:20
a bit. And I and we're talking, you
1:24:22
know, he's talking about well, what do you name it?
1:24:24
Or you know, should we keep the name?
1:24:25
Should we call it something different like that?
1:24:27
But for fans, they know Pac-Man and they know new Paris is
1:24:31
synonymous with the Pac-Man race.
1:24:33
And so I said you're taking a well known race and elements of
1:24:36
that race and merging it with the trailer race.
1:24:39
I said, so I would just call it the Pac-Man trailer race because
1:24:41
they know what a trailer race is and they know what Pac-Man is.
1:24:45
And so it adds that excitement to it.
1:24:47
And this is where then you kind of it was this moment here with
1:24:49
the Rum runners that you started a little bit of a rivalry in
1:24:52
this race. Yeah, yeah, he he bumped me
1:24:56
pretty good there. And I bumped my head off the B
1:24:59
pillar and I was a little frustrated.
1:25:02
And then I got into his trailer. We'll see it here in a minute, a
1:25:05
couple hours later and I could not get it off.
1:25:08
Yeah, it it was, it was good time from there.
1:25:11
That, that right there is what what really pushed him over the
1:25:14
edge. I just, I couldn't get his
1:25:18
trailer off. Out of all of them, that's the
1:25:20
only one I couldn't get off. When I know they talked about
1:25:23
they're supposed to be someone who is going to also be with you
1:25:26
because that was some comments online.
1:25:28
There should be two of them. And it's like, well, that was
1:25:29
the plan. But remember, this is the that
1:25:32
was. Never the point.
1:25:34
Oh, OK, I thought someone that they're going to have.
1:25:36
Somebody made a comment about it and then when we're done talking
1:25:38
to Tracy right after to make sure she was good with it, they
1:25:43
they never showed up to talk with Tracy and that come down to
1:25:46
me. And then I mean, we had a 5
1:25:48
minute wait there waiting for Tracy and Chris to OK it when I
1:25:51
pulled out on the track. I don't think we need to out
1:25:54
there to be honest with you. I mean, if we had 4050 cars out
1:26:01
there for the trailer, sure, maybe.
1:26:03
But trailer race guys like to take each other's trailers off
1:26:07
anyway. This is just this is just
1:26:10
helping. Yeah.
1:26:12
And that's where, again, you just, you can kind of see the
1:26:16
fans in the background as I, you know, I get some of them in the
1:26:20
shot and they're just, they're loving everything that you're
1:26:22
doing. They ate this up.
1:26:24
Because it was. Fun, I mean, I was sports
1:26:25
entertained, you know, watching this, and that's where the you
1:26:29
know, I would tell people, I think I've had the conversation
1:26:31
with you guys that, you know, the the news pairs trailer race.
1:26:34
I probably wouldn't put up, you know, there at that time, right,
1:26:36
like it was like phenomenal, right, whereas obviously Pac-Man
1:26:43
is phenomenal. And and so it's like, what can
1:26:46
you do to spice it up? And obviously this spice it up
1:26:49
and and you're maneuvering and pacing them down and the fact
1:26:52
that they didn't really know that you're going to be purpose
1:26:54
out there taking stuff out, like some knew some didn't, but I
1:26:57
mean, you going all over the place.
1:26:59
This is what I love about New Paris is that it, there's no
1:27:02
obstacles, like literally you can go everywhere.
1:27:04
And so that makes it so much easier to chase and get those
1:27:07
like edge moments where like, oh, he almost got it right.
1:27:10
Like, and that's what the fans love is the, you know, sometimes
1:27:13
they think they love the almost got, it's more than they got,
1:27:15
you know, love the got it and you know, 'cause it's like, is
1:27:18
he going to do it this time? He didn't, right?
1:27:20
You keep them engaged the whole time.
1:27:23
And so I think when you have races like that, it just makes
1:27:26
it so much fun because there's not a chance to be bored.
1:27:29
There's not a chance to check your phone.
1:27:31
There's not a chance to, you know, go, OK, I can go to the
1:27:35
bathroom. Like you're sitting here going,
1:27:36
did he get it this time? Did he get it this time?
1:27:38
And so again, you made this super fun out there.
1:27:43
I I totally spaced out up watching the video on the.
1:27:45
Screen. Shiny toys.
1:27:50
So we need something in a room of shiny objects, right?
1:27:53
You know, no. No, no, no, no.
1:27:57
We've plenty of that going around here.
1:28:00
Well, and I know again, it's you know, I know you guys have a lot
1:28:04
of work ahead of you to get to Hartford on Friday.
1:28:06
So definitely appreciate you, you know, coming on to to talk
1:28:10
about what you're doing again, I know Wichter with you not
1:28:12
feeling well, it's like I appreciate you jumping on, even
1:28:15
though I've been trying to avoid you just because I know with
1:28:17
your voice, you know, are you? Good.
1:28:22
Are you making the time to come on So again, the Hartford night
1:28:26
of destruction Buju and I will obviously talk about it on
1:28:28
Thursday with the Thursday night throttle.
1:28:30
But you anybody watching or still watching you'll have these
1:28:34
cool cats all there at the Hartford Speedway, you know
1:28:37
putting on a show with and and Witcher.
1:28:40
You've seen the Hartford obviously, Jeremy you have I
1:28:42
mean they they put on a pretty good night.
1:28:44
They. Put on a hell of a night of
1:28:46
destruction. So, and they're going to have
1:28:48
fireworks and boozer. You'll feel the fireworks boom
1:28:51
in a new Paris. I promise you.
1:28:52
If they, especially if it's the same group who usually does it,
1:28:55
there's going to be big fireballs at the end of the
1:28:57
night. And that's just going to light
1:28:59
up the sky pretty, pretty good. Boy.
1:29:05
You're going to show at Hartford on Saturday night, not Friday
1:29:09
night. Oh, did I say Friday?
1:29:11
I meant Saturday. Yeah, it's Saturday.
1:29:14
The 13th this Saturday, the 13th at Hartford.
1:29:18
And so this is not the race of Doom 1.
1:29:20
So I know everyone asked when the Race of Doom is.
1:29:22
The race of Doom will be in October.
1:29:24
But they'll have, you know, about 8 to 9 events, 7 to 9
1:29:27
events. It's a pretty quick show.
1:29:29
They like to start on time. They like to be done by about
1:29:32
10/10/30, you know, so they'll water down the track, they'll do
1:29:37
some different things. I think monster trucks will be
1:29:39
there. They're usually there.
1:29:40
So Yep. And so they always put on a good
1:29:44
show. And so again, that's where if
1:29:47
you have nothing to do on Saturday in Southwest Michigan
1:29:49
and you want to head to night at.
1:29:50
I will literally be everywhere. You will you will see Wichter
1:29:55
and he may or may not have hot dogs that he's throwing at you
1:29:57
or asking to sell to you or whatever it may be.
1:30:00
So definitely see Wichter you know by then.
1:30:03
Hopefully your voice is fully back it.
1:30:06
Better be. If it's not, I'm going to be
1:30:07
thoroughly disappointed. We should get lipstick and a wig
1:30:12
and a dress and. Oh my gosh.
1:30:17
I need an adult. Well, there's nobody who's
1:30:20
volunteered in the chat. There's a couple who said, well,
1:30:22
that takes us out too. So, so finding an adult's might,
1:30:26
you know, might be a little bit of a challenge right now.
1:30:28
But again, the weather is supposed to be, if I saw right,
1:30:31
it's supposed to be nice. I haven't seen if it's changed
1:30:33
yet or not because I I. Plan on staring off into the
1:30:36
into the to the weather like this.
1:30:39
Yeah, yeah, I have for. The next 5 days so it will be
1:30:41
fine by Saturday. So so again, if you want to
1:30:46
follow Wichter and the crew, obviously they will be over at
1:30:49
at Hartford this Saturday and it sounds like July.
1:30:53
If you can't see it, see them at Hartford in that face, then July
1:30:57
3rd you'll see them at the new Paris night destruction, which
1:31:00
is new Paris's biggest and best night of destruction of the
1:31:03
year. So definitely get out there.
1:31:05
It'll be standing room only. I promise you that because that
1:31:08
that place packs on the July Night of destruction, and it
1:31:14
sounds like you're going to have Frank with you too, on that
1:31:16
Friday, Saturday. Saturday.
1:31:21
Saturday. At Hartford, Frank will be with
1:31:24
us. Are you coming to Nuclear on the
1:31:25
3rd? Maybe I can't.
1:31:30
Count that high. It depends on if the surprise
1:31:33
that we have. OK.
1:31:35
Can me? Because I know that's your goal
1:31:38
this year. You were saying that you want to
1:31:40
get you want to race at least one time this year, new pair.
1:31:43
So maybe July 3rd, maybe not. We'll have to see if the
1:31:45
Mexibility makes a return to new Paris in a car.
1:31:50
But other than that, I know you guys have tons of stuff that you
1:31:53
need to get down. So I don't want to keep you any
1:31:54
longer. I know.
1:31:56
What you're talking about waiting?
1:31:58
To race right now. Oh.
1:32:05
It doesn't have to tie rod, no. I think we can go racing like
1:32:13
this. It's good to be backstanding.
1:32:17
Everything. We'll be good. 70% of Ivanoff go
1:32:21
racing is, is, is is wrangling cats.
1:32:27
It's wrangling cats. It's what it is.
1:32:31
But if it makes it fun, as Jeremy said in a message when
1:32:34
and I were talking, he said it's back, right?
1:32:37
Now you just. For everything that they've done
1:32:40
and racing right to have this new challenge.
1:32:42
But you have this, like I said, commodity, right?
1:32:45
It just it makes it fun because you can tell you guys are
1:32:47
obviously enjoying each other, so you can find people who you
1:32:51
can enjoy yourselves around. Then you're already winning.
1:32:54
Except how about Frank? But but Frank knows I'm a big
1:32:59
fan of his, so I got to give him crap anytime I get a chance to
1:33:02
see him because I don't get to see him as much.
1:33:03
But Dave Reckoning will probably be our next time we cross paths
1:33:07
at over at M40. But but again, I definitely just
1:33:11
you know, good luck to you guys and I definitely appreciate you
1:33:14
being willing to come on again before this next night of
1:33:17
destruction. I'll say what you're going to be
1:33:20
doing to show the car because some people may not have seen it
1:33:23
yet. So especially for those who are
1:33:26
are at Hartford who maybe missed the new pair of stuff.
1:33:28
So there's the car behind you. I promise you when it comes on
1:33:32
the track it's it won't be a great like super Sprint but it
1:33:35
might look like 1. Thank.
1:33:37
You. I don't.
1:33:38
Know, but you know, before you go, man, you know, I always say
1:33:41
this to you. We just, I think I speak for all
1:33:45
of us when I say this man, for what you and and now who's you
1:33:49
also, this goes for you too, man.
1:33:52
The kind of things that you do for short track racing and the
1:33:56
media, the time spent, the money spent both of you, it's just
1:34:03
incredibly appreciated. There's a lot of folks out there
1:34:08
that wouldn't see what's offered in the Midwest without what you
1:34:12
guys do booze. You of course, with your bull
1:34:15
ring and and things like that. TikTok, Instagram, be sure to go
1:34:20
follow this guy as well. Just look for Buju bull ring.
1:34:24
Is that correct? Yes, Sir.
1:34:27
Instagram, TikTok, my daughter actually sent me the thing about
1:34:32
new parents last night. She'd never seen it before on
1:34:34
TikTok, so she sent that to me from her aunt's phone.
1:34:36
I felt that I was pretty cool that she kind of sewed up on
1:34:40
that on on TikTok. And you know, Lewis, you are
1:34:46
just a gem to what we all do, man.
1:34:50
From that destruction to regular racing, my God, you, you have
1:34:54
devoted your life to this shit and it, it cannot be appreciated
1:35:00
or not. So to have us, just our little
1:35:03
crew on it means the world to us.
1:35:07
I mean, you've got a worldwide platform, man.
1:35:10
And we we sure do appreciate it. So as, as we talked about with
1:35:14
Chris and Tracy, it takes all of us together, right?
1:35:17
You know, and, and we need butts and seats and you guys are doing
1:35:20
your part to put on the show and and.
1:35:24
I mean, yeah, let me go back to Frank with that one.
1:35:26
What you guys are doing with this stuff.
1:35:27
And I mean, I it's not a secret to anybody who watches this
1:35:30
show. I'm not the biggest night of
1:35:31
destruction guys, so I'm kind of in the dark a little bit on this
1:35:33
stuff. But it's cool that you guys are
1:35:36
bringing another audience. I mean, Victor has obviously
1:35:38
built the following and that's very cool and he's bringing that
1:35:41
following to the racetrack. And if it brings 100 new people
1:35:44
doing night destruction and one of those people decides to come
1:35:47
watch racing in circles the next week, that means a lot to me.
1:35:50
So I appreciate what you guys are doing just as.
1:35:52
Well, you guys give them back your ass out for one, and just
1:35:56
coming out in our pit for the night, just kind of walk around,
1:36:00
indulge. And I'm telling you, man, the
1:36:04
Night Destruction realm, it's two different worlds.
1:36:07
Yeah, for sure. I did though.
1:36:09
I want, I chased points for I think 2 1/2 years and I just
1:36:15
couldn't like get on board with that.
1:36:17
I loved it. Don't get me wrong.
1:36:19
I, I, dude, me and Ryan, me and Ryan Engelmeyer put on one hell
1:36:24
of a race between me and Ryan Engelmeyer.
1:36:27
Kurt Drug Special Warrior was the one who coached me.
1:36:31
I jumped. I almost jumped my shit the
1:36:33
first time I ever had a car out. He was like you.
1:36:37
What the hell are you doing? You need to do this, this, this
1:36:40
and this. We went back out, set fast time,
1:36:43
and we won the first night out in that farm.
1:36:49
Huge for me. You know, I was just a nice
1:36:51
instruction guy, too. We had a lot of fun with that
1:36:54
while we did it, but I really enjoyed the camaraderie.
1:36:58
I enjoyed the fan conclusion. I enjoyed like this, shit like
1:37:04
this. This is ridiculous.
1:37:07
It is not ridiculous, it is 100% functional, but but it.
1:37:11
Works but and we didn't not you were shut.
1:37:14
To the wrong guy you were shut down, but this kind of shit is
1:37:19
what I'm here for. Like the ridiculousness, the the
1:37:22
foolishness and if the robbery after racism.
1:37:26
Functional and effective. Anybody who fights after a night
1:37:30
destruction. I'm going to fight you,
1:37:32
probably. Sometimes somewhat.
1:37:35
It's not like a rebury site. I mean we're we're all put on
1:37:39
one Helen show. We come out there to entertain.
1:37:42
We come out there to do what we do and we want to give the fan
1:37:46
their seeds work. You know, that's that's all
1:37:49
we're there to do. That's not.
1:37:51
True, I'm there to steal hot dogs.
1:37:56
And he was negotiating with race control to get a win over at New
1:37:59
Paris, too. We all watch what he's doing.
1:38:01
He was throwing out like pennies.
1:38:04
Those are worth a lot of money now.
1:38:05
So you know I. Don't negotiate.
1:38:07
I would have threatened with weaponry that that that never
1:38:09
happened. I just got over a bonus.
1:38:12
I, I, you know, I said. Somebody $20.
1:38:16
Whoever takes J Kelly's wings off, yeah, it's just an
1:38:21
incentive. That's that's not trying to fire
1:38:23
a win. Well, his wing survived that.
1:38:27
I was shocked because they fell apart the last time out there
1:38:30
and then, and I know he's been sending me pictures of his new
1:38:33
creation, but his wing survived that night.
1:38:35
I was a little bit shocked on that.
1:38:36
They survived until the trip home.
1:38:40
He won't share that, but they fell off going down 70.
1:38:43
Oh no, He stopped and grabbed them.
1:38:45
But they can't. Oh boy, well, they survived the
1:38:50
night and last year or last year when he had those, they fell
1:38:54
apart like race three. They didn't make it very far
1:38:56
during that night. But but again, you know, that's
1:39:00
where you guys just do an incredible job.
1:39:02
And so again, just keep it up because you're you're you're
1:39:05
bringing a change in the area, you know, in your own way, where
1:39:09
you get to make an impact doing something different and fun and
1:39:12
and kind of investing that this is supposed to be fun, right?
1:39:16
And I don't know wichter sometimes you might feel like,
1:39:20
what did you get yourself into? But again, you know, you able to
1:39:23
use your platform, you know, to promote short track racing and
1:39:27
do it in a healthy way. That's really important because
1:39:29
there are a lot of people who have those kind of platforms and
1:39:32
they're not doing that. I mean, I I just go out to have
1:39:36
fun and and it it kind of all works out so.
1:39:39
Yeah, but it's working because you can tell.
1:39:42
I mean, even at the track, you know, you interacted with people
1:39:45
even as they came up to you. And I know sometimes, right,
1:39:48
being a celebrity, you know, that's not always easy because
1:39:51
obviously you're there to also do stuff too, right.
1:39:54
And so, you know, put on, you know, work on a car, turn a
1:39:58
wrench, yell at the car, kick the car, whatever.
1:40:01
Maybe, but but you definitely, you know, you're engaging with
1:40:04
everyone, not standoffish. And and so I think that's.
1:40:08
As long as you don't approach me when I am standing at the
1:40:10
urinal, I will 9 times out to 10 be cordial.
1:40:15
If you. If you if you come up to me
1:40:17
while I am restroom I will have problem.
1:40:19
Yeah, that. I hope nobody does that but.
1:40:23
It it? Yeah.
1:40:24
Shout out to the One Time at Newpairs.
1:40:28
They have a through by the way. Very awkward.
1:40:31
Yep. Well, not not to go there, but
1:40:34
if you go in the one corner, there's usually a spider there
1:40:37
that you can also target practice with.
1:40:40
You know who you are and it wasn't cool.
1:40:43
That's where we'll leave it. Oh my gosh.
1:40:46
All right. That's yeah, weird.
1:40:49
But anyways, sorry that you had to deal with that.
1:40:51
But anyways, no, it's. Fine, now you know the rules.
1:40:55
It was Frank. Oh OK.
1:41:02
But anyways, guys, like I said, I know you have some wrenching
1:41:06
to do, some paint I. Need to take care of this into
1:41:08
the bathroom with. You, I'll tell the towels out.
1:41:11
Oh, it's those. Who's your sponsor?
1:41:19
Really great by the way, Vic. What was that?
1:41:22
These tub towels work really great.
1:41:24
They're fantastic, yes. They're great.
1:41:27
Isn't that what you were handing out in the little packets?
1:41:29
Are those the wipes that you're handing out?
1:41:31
Oh. Yeah, the tub of towels.
1:41:33
Yeah, someone just said that they, Jason Seltzer made a post
1:41:36
like last week or something that he used it and he said these are
1:41:39
actually pretty amazing, so. Hey, hey, can.
1:41:42
I I always say, say what you want about them, but if you say
1:41:45
they don't work, you're a liar. Yeah, I didn't even know it was
1:41:48
a thing until I got one from you.
1:41:50
Oh yeah, they. They really don't.
1:42:00
Adulthood. It worked.
1:42:01
Pretty well I guess these these are the ones that are are a bit
1:42:07
pretty. It's getting off.
1:42:12
Well, oh boy, Frank, he needs a babysitter.
1:42:20
Hire a babysitter just for him. But but again, guys, like I
1:42:27
said, I know you have stuff to do and I've already taken an
1:42:29
hour of your time tonight, but good luck.
1:42:31
Be safe, have fun, enjoy the Hartford crowd.
1:42:34
They're going to come out and eat it up alive.
1:42:36
And when they do the glow stuff at night, whoever's announcing,
1:42:40
they usually have them do some kind of glow stuff.
1:42:42
That's pretty cool to see too, if you've not seen that.
1:42:44
So if you're do, again, for anyone watching, if you're not
1:42:47
doing anything this Saturday night in Southwest Michigan,
1:42:50
head on out to Hartford Speedway where they will be putting on
1:42:53
their one or their first of three night of destructions.
1:42:56
And obviously 2. I forgot to say this at the top
1:42:59
of the hour, but share out the podcast.
1:43:01
We've had incredible audiences the last couple weeks where we
1:43:05
have just record after record Leah almost the record that
1:43:09
Mason and and them set. And I know Mason just, you know,
1:43:12
passed you guys with 9000 something, but Leah brought it
1:43:16
up last. She's at 8.5 when you told her
1:43:18
all the pages. So she got close.
1:43:20
So you know, so definitely share this out there.
1:43:23
Get it out. Not only did we have a lot of
1:43:25
conversation with Chris and Tracy about their new program at
1:43:28
a new Paris Speedway, that was the first 45 minutes or so of
1:43:31
the program, but last hour has been talking with Frank, Jeremy,
1:43:35
Phillip and Wichter kind of talking to Wichter.
1:43:38
Like I said, I'm respecting your voice and and I appreciate it.
1:43:42
You know, don't want you to strain it, but I again, I
1:43:44
appreciate you making the time to come on.
1:43:45
So again, follow here on social media.
1:43:51
His page was tagged a couple times today.
1:43:53
So head over, follow him, see all his antics, all his YouTube
1:43:56
videos and reels and all that that he posts because some of
1:44:00
your reaction videos too are just funny to watch too.
1:44:02
I think you're not watching and I'll just doom scroll and watch
1:44:05
each one and just laugh. So and you where you find some
1:44:07
of these things? I'm like.
1:44:08
Where do you? Even find that kind of stuff,
1:44:10
but you seem to find it and make it really fun.
1:44:12
So again, follow, follow him. You can listen to Frank Gasco on
1:44:17
Rock One O 7 or classic rock. Sorry, Rock One O 7 is Michigan
1:44:21
Classic Rock 97.7 on the radio. Jeremy, where can people follow
1:44:27
you on social media? TikTok, Greasy's Garage on
1:44:33
Instagram, I've been posting a lot of stuff there.
1:44:36
And my personal page, Jeremy Templeton.
1:44:40
Thanks. You see me in a lot of Richter's
1:44:43
comments. And then, Phillip, where can
1:44:47
people find you and what you're doing, especially since you are
1:44:50
one of those classic, you know, Knight of Knight of Destruction
1:44:54
competitors? It's just all praying on all
1:44:58
platforms. Maybe not.
1:45:00
I don't know what TikTok is. TikTok.
1:45:05
Hold on, I'll pull it up. I think.
1:45:09
Hey, but it's not spelled frame like you think.
1:45:11
Yeah, it's KR. It's Phill 2L's IP space KREHN
1:45:20
TikTok is hold on, it's loading big under score country 22308.
1:45:31
I spanked his ass and they come out with mama's womb and I still
1:45:33
didn't understand how to say his last name so I just got to
1:45:36
clarify on you. Listen, my mom's watching and
1:45:40
she'll show up here. That's OK.
1:45:44
Mom's coming. Need an adult anyway.
1:45:50
Well, again, you guys all have fun, Victor, definitely get
1:45:53
better because like I said, you know, I that's not fun what
1:45:55
you're what you're going through.
1:45:57
But hopefully by by Saturday you'll be ready to go.
1:46:00
And if not, you'll still have fun because that's just who you
1:46:03
are as a person. So absolutely follow all their
1:46:06
antics on social media. So again, we will see you guys.
1:46:11
Well, I probably won't see you for a couple weeks now because I
1:46:15
won't be at the July 3rd one. I'll be at Kalamazoo that night.
1:46:17
So I'll miss out that night and obviously I'm missing Hartford,
1:46:20
but we'll see you. Oh, absolutely.
1:46:25
Because I I enjoy watching them and seeing what you guys are
1:46:27
doing. So again, good luck this
1:46:28
Saturday and you all have fun. I'll try to get Jeremy to charge
1:46:32
his GoPro. We'll put it in the well, we can
1:46:35
run it in this and we can put it in the the Saturn for the
1:46:40
trailer racing. Yeah, that'll be fine.
1:46:42
Well. Christ.
1:46:45
And a big shout out to Stevie Smith hiding over in the corner.
1:46:49
He definitely helped keep this thing on the track the last time
1:46:54
there would be a new Paris. And Austin Richardson, huge
1:46:57
shout out to him. I mean, he owns the car
1:46:59
technically. He gave us to do what we do with
1:47:02
it. And it's going to be a one and
1:47:03
done And for my gender reveal. And then Victor come around to
1:47:07
help us get there ready for that.
1:47:09
And yeah, it's going to, it's going to be around for a while,
1:47:12
from the sounds of it. Oh good.
1:47:14
Well, and Austin does a really, you know, he does a lot of
1:47:17
things for the night of destruction too, and sometimes
1:47:19
doesn't. He'll be on actually the last
1:47:20
week, the last Monday just before their night of
1:47:23
destruction, July 3rd. Him and Megan are going to be on
1:47:26
the the podcast here to talk about the night of destruction
1:47:29
coming up. So I'm excited to have Austin on
1:47:32
and that way he can kind of talk about what what he's done in the
1:47:35
night of destruction world too. So so they'll be on that lat
1:47:38
just before that night of destruction at New Paris and
1:47:42
maybe we can get you guys up to the Kalamazoo one.
1:47:44
It does not go head to head with New Paris.
1:47:46
It's the Saturday before on June 28th.
1:47:49
I'm going to say it is at Kalamazoo Speedway.
1:47:51
If it survives hard for the next one the non model will be
1:47:54
participating in, it'll be July 3rd but I might have a little
1:47:58
surprise. I want to be able to get up
1:48:00
there. OK.
1:48:01
Well, definitely check for the schedule of Kalamazoo because
1:48:04
just to give it a shot, we'll have we're still building it.
1:48:07
Can he have this behind it? So he he's organizing it this
1:48:10
year. I know they're doing bus
1:48:12
demolition Derby. So I'm excited for that because
1:48:15
you know, who doesn't love a bus demolition Derby And it's not
1:48:17
just circling. They're actually going to like
1:48:19
demo them. So I'm excited to see them crash
1:48:22
them up. So, so again, maybe we'll see
1:48:25
you then. But if not, you know, it'll be a
1:48:27
couple night of instructions from now where I'll probably
1:48:29
borrow our password pride cross again.
1:48:31
So definitely be safe this week and have fun.
1:48:33
We will. We're going to be up at M40 too,
1:48:35
so I'm sure we'll see. You.
1:48:36
Oh yeah. I'll be at M40I have all their
1:48:38
Sunday scrolls on my schedule to make out there.
1:48:41
So because that's the day that works for me and Saturdays I'm
1:48:44
usually elsewhere. So.
1:48:46
So again, tear it up on the dirt and and get those fans to love
1:48:50
that non mob just as much. Oh yeah. 4 minutes.
1:48:55
All right, Thank you. Thank you, boys.
1:48:56
Have fun. Yeah.
1:48:57
Having a good day. Yeah, you too.
1:49:00
So again, we've been talking with Wipter and friends.
1:49:03
They are heading up to the Hartford Motor Speedway.
1:49:06
This oh, Hartford Motor Speedway, man, that's a way
1:49:08
throwback Hartford Speedway this Saturday night for the night of
1:49:12
destruction. And don't forget earlier we were
1:49:15
also live on the new Paris page where we talked to Chris and
1:49:17
Tracy about their program that they will be doing this Saturday
1:49:21
officially starting on the showcase class of the week where
1:49:25
it's no additional cost. So my joke was this isn't WWE
1:49:28
where to talk to Cody Rhodes for like 1 minute, you get $15,000.
1:49:32
You have to pay Buju, you know, for one Cody Rhodes time.
1:49:36
So it's a mean and greet at intermission.
1:49:38
It'll be about 1520 minutes. Drivers will sign autographs and
1:49:41
they'll get to talk with fans too.
1:49:42
And they will also do auto car introductions.
1:49:45
And Buju, who will be announcing this Saturday once again at the
1:49:48
hottest quarter mile in the Midwest, will ask somebody to
1:49:51
help start the engines. And so with that Buju, wrong
1:49:55
graphic there. And let me get us back here.
1:49:58
Any closing thoughts on the the weekend that you wanted to
1:50:01
share? Like I said, no.
1:50:02
We kind of started with a small little rant at the beginning.
1:50:05
Tired of it. Anything from your side?
1:50:09
I mean, I guess it's kind of going back to what we talked
1:50:12
about at the beginning, but just give race tracks a break.
1:50:14
We had a little bit of in the comments during the show and I
1:50:16
was kind of going back and forth a little bit.
1:50:18
So don't you realize that it's tough everywhere?
1:50:20
We got somebody calling out the track that we had on earlier and
1:50:23
it's like, are you looking at car counts everywhere else?
1:50:25
Did you not see the forecast all week?
1:50:28
I don't know. It's I just like it's circling
1:50:30
back to the beginning. So I don't want to dwell on it
1:50:32
too much. But yeah, it's frustrating.
1:50:34
But I think that's the that is the thing that how do I want to
1:50:39
say this? And, and at the same time, I
1:50:40
don't want to act like the race tracks are perfect either.
1:50:42
I mean race tracks, race tracks across the board.
1:50:45
And I'm not picking any specifics.
1:50:47
And I'm not necessarily saying it, yeah, anyone specific, but
1:50:50
right, the race tracks can do better too.
1:50:51
Then there's things and like New Paris, whereas on the night
1:50:53
they're trying something different, they're trying
1:50:55
something new. Give them a I almost cursed for
1:50:59
the first time on the show. Give them a break.
1:51:02
Why? And I think that's the thing.
1:51:03
It's understanding that, you know, when people get on
1:51:06
Facebook, which I've equated Facebook, I've equated to the
1:51:09
Internet wrestling community. And anyone who's a part of the
1:51:11
Internet wrestling community knows what that means.
1:51:14
And if you're not a part of it, you're just go to CNN, Fox,
1:51:17
whatever. Like their comments?
1:51:19
Yeah, it's the same idea. You know, The thing is, is that,
1:51:23
you know, tracks are trying, and I promise you, there's not one
1:51:27
night this year that Chris and Tracy have walked out ahead.
1:51:30
Yeah, and it's like when I see those comments, it's like, do
1:51:32
you think the the track owner sitting in the tower going oh,
1:51:35
we're getting one over on them. We only got 8 St. stocks
1:51:37
tonight. No, they want they want 40 St.
1:51:39
stocks too. They want on 2000 people in the
1:51:42
grandstands. You think they're happy about
1:51:44
this? No, they're not trying to get
1:51:45
one over on you. They're trying their best too.
1:51:47
They want great show also and. Then and then and that's the
1:51:51
thing that again, you know, I always see it and sometimes
1:51:55
you'll see it when Outlaw super late models come around.
1:51:58
Well, back in the day there used to be 60 and we'd have AD
1:52:00
feature. Yeah, 60 don't exist anymore.
1:52:03
Yeah. So I mean you figured reveal the
1:52:05
hammers had what 35 Max I think out of show.
1:52:09
Maybe. Maybe if you pulled the ones
1:52:11
from Canada and whatever version of Outlaws are running down in
1:52:14
Florida now, maybe if you pulled them all together you get 70.
1:52:17
Maybe. Right.
1:52:18
But it's just right. The economy's impacting
1:52:20
everybody, right? You know, I mean, I can look at
1:52:23
my expenses. I had someone boozoo, you'll
1:52:25
appreciate this. I had someone because I put my
1:52:27
sponsor graphics at the beginning of each program to now
1:52:30
and shut them off. But I also put there like, if
1:52:32
you want to sponsor top row and help top row out, like here's
1:52:35
the cost for a camera. And I had someone say a comment
1:52:39
where they said, oh, you know, you're just making all this
1:52:41
money. And I'm like, do you want to see
1:52:43
my bank account? Because I'm, you know, over
1:52:46
$19,000 in the hole right now that I have lost since 2024
1:52:51
doing this. So three years, two seasons now
1:52:55
19,000 in the hole. So those sponsors are not making
1:53:02
any money, you know, like they're supporting.
1:53:04
And I'm able to use that to try to not go broke this year, you
1:53:09
know, but I've been broke the last two years.
1:53:11
So I'm trying to overcome 2 years of deficit spending, you
1:53:15
know. So it's like, do you not realize
1:53:17
like sponsor monies, they don't actually go very far?
1:53:21
I mean, look at the cars that have sponsors.
1:53:23
The very few who do that, you know, tires $700.00 get tires if
1:53:28
that sponsor is only $200 that didn't pay, you know, for those
1:53:33
tires that didn't pay for their pit passes.
1:53:35
And I think, you know, there there's groups of people who
1:53:38
understand, but then there's those groups who don't
1:53:41
understand. And some of the people who are
1:53:42
commenting that this past weekend don't even live in the
1:53:45
area. And and it's like, do not.
1:53:50
I've almost been halfway tempted to go through my race pass to
1:53:52
every track in the area, not by names, just put ABCD.
1:53:55
So you can't you can't figure out which say, OK, how many
1:54:00
classes do they have and how many cars do they have divided
1:54:02
by classes and then divide by that may be like $15 divided by
1:54:06
that. How much are you paying per car?
1:54:08
And see like what's the value? And you know, and go, OK, yeah,
1:54:12
you say, well, this this track had a hundred classes or 100
1:54:16
cars. Well, they had eight classes.
1:54:18
So, you know, you start breaking that down and you go, OK, they
1:54:21
had 10 in this one. They had five in that one.
1:54:23
They had seven in that one. Like, you know, yes, it's 100,
1:54:27
but it took eight. But you know what credit to
1:54:29
them. Like fans complain 8 is too
1:54:30
many. OK, Well, you, you know, like if
1:54:34
they only had three, you'd complain.
1:54:36
You know, it's just to. That to that point, I mean, I'm
1:54:39
not going to name the tracks, but there's 2 tracks within very
1:54:42
short distance of each other in our area here.
1:54:44
They're both race Saturday. One track had about 25 more cars
1:54:49
than the other one did, but they also had two more classes.
1:54:51
Yep. So are you going to look at the
1:54:53
entries? And I don't know.
1:54:54
It's all so frustrating. It's all so frustrating.
1:54:57
Yeah. And that's where, you know, and
1:54:59
sometimes, like, there's a fan last year at a track who went up
1:55:02
to a race director and said, I'm so tired of this.
1:55:06
They said different words. I'm so tired of this.
1:55:08
You know I paid 15 bucks to get in here and racing is done by.
1:55:12
It was 11:00 that night. Racing is done by 11:00.
1:55:15
I remember way back when racing would go till 2-3 in the
1:55:18
morning. I'm not getting my money's
1:55:19
worth. I never come back to this place
1:55:21
again. So it has to go until 2:00 in
1:55:26
the morning for you to get money's worth and how many fans
1:55:31
are left in the morning? The average race tickets
1:55:35
probably about 15 bucks to get in around right for the week for
1:55:37
a weekly show if you go to a movie.
1:55:39
If you go to a movie, how much does that cost you these days?
1:55:42
12 bucks. That's probably right in the
1:55:44
range of 15 for a single ticket these anymore right?
1:55:47
That's a That's an hour and a half, two hours.
1:55:49
Yep, Yep. And how much is the popcorn at
1:55:52
the movie theaters? Is it the?
1:55:54
Racetrack, if you go to Celebration Cinema, you're
1:55:57
paying premium pricing. If you go to like Wonderland
1:55:59
Theatre, you're not paying premium pricing.
1:56:01
You're kind of getting what you get at Wonderland and not but
1:56:04
like there's a couple all over. But yeah, I mean, just think if
1:56:07
you went to a Notre Dame football game.
1:56:10
Oh yeah, you're paying. Commercials.
1:56:14
I get bored. I'm like, this is a time where I
1:56:16
flip the channel and I can't flip the channel right now.
1:56:19
You know, you go to the South Bend Cubs game, right?
1:56:21
You go to their concessions. You're paying $12.00 for a, you
1:56:24
know, or $5 for a hot dog, I think, or $6 for a hot dog, you
1:56:29
know, hamburgers, $8 with cheese is $9.
1:56:32
So I mean, you're paying that in that new pair.
1:56:34
So you got a freaking jumbo hot dog for 4:50, you know, like you
1:56:37
didn't get that hot dog size at South Bend Cups.
1:56:39
I know that. I've seen their pictures.
1:56:41
You didn't get that for that price.
1:56:43
And so again, that's just where, you know, I, I let people
1:56:48
comment and all that, but that's where I, you know, and I know
1:56:50
the people who commented aren't watching.
1:56:52
And if they are, I hope they understand.
1:56:53
Like I, you know, as a, you know, the freedom of speech does
1:56:58
not extend to Facebook in different ways.
1:57:01
I have developed a short trigger on my page.
1:57:03
If you, if you're coming in bashing racing, there's a 5050
1:57:06
shot, you're getting booted immediately, you know?
1:57:08
There's, there's plenty of people out there, you know, to
1:57:11
support it. And if you say it on your
1:57:12
personal page, it's on your personal page in.
1:57:16
Fact share the posts and say what you got to say.
1:57:18
You know you have to throw the rub and then do that, but you
1:57:21
know to do it on the to do it in the comments section.
1:57:23
I'm just not going to not going to go with it anymore.
1:57:26
There. It just, it doesn't.
1:57:28
It's not healthy. And and as you said earlier, if
1:57:30
they weren't complaining about the car count, they'd be
1:57:32
complaining about something. There's too many cars.
1:57:34
We're here too late. Yep, Yep, I have to get.
1:57:36
Up in the morning. Oh, Oh yeah.
1:57:38
Well. There is a track.
1:57:40
We're not going to say the track, but you know, there's a
1:57:41
track that had a weekday show that.
1:57:44
Yeah. Yeah.
1:57:45
People said that they watched at that show and that racing was
1:57:50
done well before and, and you know, there's a couple media
1:57:53
outlets have decided to do. Pieces of writing on it in the
1:57:57
area and I'm like, I just, you know, fine to them because they
1:58:02
know that that's a hit piece and they know that they're going to
1:58:04
get engagement on it. And that's the only reason why
1:58:06
they wrote those articles is because they needed to boost
1:58:08
their numbers. But I'm not going to do that to
1:58:11
that track because that's not fair.
1:58:12
And and there's something that Drew Jack, there's a track in
1:58:15
the area that had struggles that drew Jack gave me all the heads
1:58:18
up. I had all the heads up on
1:58:19
things. And he said you could post it.
1:58:21
And I went, I'm not posting it. Top row does not do that.
1:58:24
Top row has not done that. And I'm not going to do that to
1:58:28
any track. And so you won't see negative
1:58:31
things like that where you know, that track, you know, they, they
1:58:36
came out and said, hey, we understand.
1:58:38
And I know the owner is going to do his best to fix that.
1:58:40
But then for some media outlets to do special pieces on that to
1:58:46
extend the conversation even more.
1:58:48
It's like they already got beat up online.
1:58:50
Night off. They're already getting
1:58:52
annihilated the next day by some people.
1:58:54
You making article just to get hundreds of likes and hundreds
1:58:57
of comments. You're just doing that to boost
1:58:58
your numbers. You're dude not doing it for
1:59:00
anything else, any other purpose and you serve no purpose like
1:59:03
those articles did nothing for that.
1:59:06
Let the track figure it outlet the track, make a post and let
1:59:08
it be done instead of keeping the conversation going on
1:59:11
because then it just festers and and I told people, you know
1:59:15
those kind of things. I'm not going to, I'm not going
1:59:17
to post on top row because I'm not going to sit there and let
1:59:20
it, you know, let tracks get MF and and everything else like
1:59:25
that. That was frustrating too.
1:59:26
It's like they've already lived it.
1:59:28
Why are you writing about it more?
1:59:30
It's dumb, quite honestly, but that's the world that we live
1:59:34
in, right? You know, people, you know likes
1:59:36
clicks and shares and people will go out of the way to get
1:59:38
that and. And there's some money, yeah.
1:59:43
I had to do it but but think about this Buju, how many times
1:59:47
this year have? How could I have posted
1:59:49
something? And I didn't.
1:59:53
Yeah. That's the thing that some
1:59:54
people don't give me that credit, unfortunately, because
1:59:56
they're not smart. But it's one of the things that,
1:59:59
you know, like think of the modified race at Trifecta.
2:00:04
I could have posted and I didn't because I already knew.
2:00:10
The call it at Kalamazoo with the late model.
2:00:14
I originally was not going to post it, but unfortunately some
2:00:17
other people posted it and it's like, well, if anyone's going to
2:00:19
post it, it should come from the official media outlet of the
2:00:22
racetrack, not side people who are just copy paste versions of
2:00:26
me. And and that's who it should
2:00:29
come from, you know, but I turned comments off, but I
2:00:31
wasn't going to post it at first because it's like that's just
2:00:34
not that's that doesn't help, right?
2:00:36
You know, but they fixed the decision and, and afterwards, I
2:00:39
know my video helped because they used it as it helped them
2:00:42
from other angles that they had and they made the right call and
2:00:45
they fixed it. And so I was able, I posted
2:00:47
their, I reposted it with the new stuff.
2:00:50
But it's like, you know, when you have things like that and a
2:00:52
race ends like that, you don't, don't post it until you know for
2:00:56
sure because those results were not solidified.
2:00:59
We had the show. So they made an announcement,
2:01:02
but behind the scenes they were still doing their investigating
2:01:05
and, and they can't do that in 2 minutes.
2:01:08
They had many different camera angles because Kalamazoo has
2:01:11
cameras all over that track. They had cameras that they had
2:01:14
to put together and see. And then they had my angle.
2:01:17
And my angle didn't solve everything, but it solved a lot
2:01:20
of things. And you know, but it's like at
2:01:23
first I wasn't going to post that because it's like, I
2:01:25
already know what this is going to look like on social media.
2:01:28
I already knew. And, and that's why I turned
2:01:30
comments off because then people were doing that on another
2:01:33
video. They were saying they're,
2:01:35
they're P's and Q's, IS&T's. And it's like, that's not even
2:01:39
the race and you're commenting on that, you know, and it's and
2:01:42
I get competition, but it's like we got to do media, whoever.
2:01:47
We just have to do better on some things, but we also have to
2:01:50
come to go together as a community.
2:01:52
And you know, you're going to comment on crowd size and car
2:01:55
counts, all this. Do it on your page.
2:01:57
Don't do it on the other pages. See to, to me when what we do,
2:02:02
and I'm, I mean, you have obviously built a much bigger
2:02:04
following than me and I'm much newer at all this stuff.
2:02:06
But to me, our job in this role is to make racing look cool in
2:02:11
whatever, in whatever way we see that to be.
2:02:13
Our job is to make racing look cool.
2:02:16
And if you're going the opposite way and you're pulling the rope
2:02:18
in the opposite direction and yanking those people out of
2:02:21
those grand sands and sending those cars somewhere else, are
2:02:25
you helping the cause or are you just happy to be part of the
2:02:28
game? You know what I mean, right?
2:02:30
I don't know. This isn't me bashing anybody
2:02:33
either. It's like I said, we all have
2:02:34
our own philosophies, I guess. But to me it's we should all be
2:02:39
trying to get people in the stands, cars in the pits.
2:02:42
If you get one new person on the racetrack, like I said earlier
2:02:44
with Wichter, and then if you get one new person in the
2:02:46
stands, man, that's a win because we desperately need them
2:02:49
everywhere. Every single racetrack needs
2:02:51
them. Well, new pairs.
2:02:52
There's someone who commented on the one.
2:02:54
They came from Ohio and they had a great time, you know, and just
2:02:58
so it's one of those that I, I keep telling people, especially
2:03:00
drivers, and I've said this to a couple at new pairs especially
2:03:04
who have said how much they're enjoying it this year, how much
2:03:06
they're liking it this year. I said, you need to post that
2:03:09
anywhere and everywhere. You know, I said, obviously, you
2:03:13
know, we don't want to hurt other tracks when we do that,
2:03:16
right. And so I'm always careful to
2:03:18
where like, you know, when I talk with with people, you know,
2:03:22
on messenger, whatever, not on race day.
2:03:25
Race day is race day. That track is that track.
2:03:27
But Monday through Thursday, it's fair game.
2:03:29
And you know, you say, Hey, I know that you have an off
2:03:32
weekend at this track or your class is off this weekend.
2:03:35
Why don't you come try this track out?
2:03:37
Just try it once And and that's something that you know, do it
2:03:41
on an off night. So then I'm not pulling you from
2:03:44
your home. You know, I don't want, you
2:03:46
know, I don't want someone that's think, oh, you're just
2:03:48
pulling them away from me. No, not at all.
2:03:50
If they have an off night, I'm certainly going to encourage
2:03:52
them to go someplace because they're already off.
2:03:55
So they're not impacting that. Their home track, we'll call it,
2:04:00
and it's like cry somewhere else, you know, I think of
2:04:02
Anthony Duel who was in here, you know, one of his goals this
2:04:05
year racing Sonic, the Street Stock is to bounce around to try
2:04:08
different tracks as he can and I.
2:04:10
OK, that's OK. I just put together who that
2:04:12
was, OK. And I think sometimes that is
2:04:15
that more fun or you know, does that give you more skill?
2:04:18
You know, because I mean, obviously he's a Kalamazoo
2:04:21
racer. So just shoot stock Kalamazoo in
2:04:24
itself, right? Is there takes a lot of skill to
2:04:28
be in that class at that track because we all, I mean, I think
2:04:32
a majority of people would agree that you're not going to find
2:04:36
much better St. Stock racing anywhere else.
2:04:38
And that doesn't mean there's not close seconds, but just the
2:04:42
amount of talent in 24 cars that you can have a one track at one
2:04:45
time. Like come on, you know, like
2:04:48
that. It's just incredible racing
2:04:50
there. But we're all so lucky in this
2:04:51
whole region with street stock racing.
2:04:54
Yeah, absolutely. That is at M40, whether that is
2:04:57
at Galesburg, whether that is down at at New Paris and others
2:05:01
that. Yeah.
2:05:02
Like we're very lucky. Just my personally from Owosso
2:05:05
to Anderson, I mean we've got great St. stocks just at least
2:05:09
and that's the range I cover, you know?
2:05:10
Yeah. And so I think it's like, right,
2:05:12
let's appreciate that whether there's eight of them on the
2:05:14
track or 24 of them on the track, because just think of how
2:05:18
many years ago it was, if I remember the history, right,
2:05:20
that Street stocks were the class that was struggling.
2:05:23
To stay. Alive not long ago at all, yeah.
2:05:26
And now it's one of the most elite classes that we have in
2:05:29
the area. So it's like it wasn't that long
2:05:32
ago that Street Stocks were on the chopping block possibly and
2:05:34
unfortunately, Corgan, they are on the chopping block.
2:05:36
They won't be racing St. Stocks for the rest of the year.
2:05:39
But they can't. I mean ran a program on 4.
2:05:42
I don't think it's any secret to anybody who's paid attention to
2:05:44
this show or my pages that street socks are the main event
2:05:46
of the area right now to me. I mean, don't get me wrong, I
2:05:49
still enjoy late models and templates and sportsmen and
2:05:52
whatever else. But man, and we talk about it
2:05:55
all the time. But the depth of talent in the
2:05:57
street stocks, like you said, in the whole area is so insane.
2:05:59
It's like I go to these these big dirt races.
2:06:03
I went to Eldora Friday for the late model dream and it's like
2:06:06
that. These street soccer races remind
2:06:08
me of that, where you have 60 cars in one class and 35 guys
2:06:13
can, you know, have a shot at winning it.
2:06:15
It's crazy. And that's the Street Stocks
2:06:17
right now. And I feel like a lot of fans
2:06:20
are missing out because I think they feel like they need late
2:06:22
model on the poster to show up to a racetrack.
2:06:24
And I St. Stocks, to me, are putting on
2:06:26
better racing these days, much better racing in my opinion.
2:06:29
That's just my personal opinion. Well, and that's where that
2:06:32
limited class is finally building up.
2:06:34
We're getting enough cars of them in the area.
2:06:36
You've got some people who have switched.
2:06:38
I am a fan the the limited class is such yeah, we've I've talked
2:06:42
about that this sorry I have figured out a microphone for me
2:06:45
now but yeah, the limited class is such a great idea.
2:06:47
It's the it's to me it's kind of the bridge to that old school
2:06:51
ingenuity and finding something new and not yeah, not on a
2:06:56
monster budget. Hopefully I'm not looking at
2:06:58
these guys checkbooks but. But that's where again, you, you
2:07:01
know that class is coming. So that class could be, you
2:07:04
know, the future where we're having the.
2:07:05
Same. Conversation.
2:07:06
I hope so. But you know, but that's where
2:07:08
like rising tides, right? And so it's again, you know, if
2:07:12
you have something negative to say, just scroll by, right?
2:07:18
You know, just because the comment section is there doesn't
2:07:20
actually mean you have to comment.
2:07:21
You do have the you do have the privilege to and it is a
2:07:24
privilege. That's not a right, but you do
2:07:27
have a privilege to comment on these pages, but just know that
2:07:30
these pages has the privilege to be able to use some tools at
2:07:35
their discretion. If if you're not, you know, they
2:07:38
just doesn't mean they have to agree with your opinion.
2:07:40
But if you're going to bash, bash your driver, bash your
2:07:43
track, bash anything, not offer solutions, then like on my page,
2:07:47
I'm just not going to tolerate it, right?
2:07:48
Like I'm just not going to put up with it because you know, I'm
2:07:52
not someone else is going to see that.
2:07:54
And sometimes even when I know someone's being sarcastic,
2:07:58
sometimes I'll still give them the response because I want
2:08:01
others to see it's not going to be tolerated.
2:08:03
Even though if I know that person is is being sarcastic,
2:08:08
what I'll say is you might be being sarcastic, but someone
2:08:12
else is not going to be. And and that's the thing, right?
2:08:15
Like I know what your intention was, but I definitely know
2:08:19
there's someone waiting in the wings who's not the same
2:08:21
intention. And so we're just, we're not
2:08:24
going to put up with it. And so, you know, whether it's
2:08:27
40 cars or 60 cars or 100 cars, you know, go enjoy a race, go
2:08:33
out. You know, if it's done by 10,
2:08:34
then guess what? You're not getting home at 2:00
2:08:36
in the morning, right? And that's OK.
2:08:38
It's OK. I actually got home before
2:08:41
midnight from a racetrack for the first time in a really long
2:08:43
time and it was OK. I lived to tell about it, you
2:08:47
know, and, and that's fine. But I've also been at the track
2:08:51
at 3:00 in the morning, so I get it.
2:08:52
And I would have been that fan like you, we would stay until
2:08:55
the end. But families right now, I can
2:08:58
tell you, I see families all the time.
2:09:00
And I as being a former teacher trying to get families to a
2:09:03
racetrack, the number one thing I would hear from them, they
2:09:06
just go long, right? They don't, you know, and I
2:09:10
remember not too long ago there was a really big late model St.
2:09:14
stock and template race in this area where there was like 90 or
2:09:18
there was like 40-50 minutes between events.
2:09:21
And that the outlaw super late model race with Kenny Wallace
2:09:25
and Kenny Schrader didn't take the track until 12 O one in the
2:09:28
morning. And how many people paid a
2:09:30
ticket, which was higher, right, because it's special show.
2:09:34
How many paid a ticket to watch those two racers who didn't get
2:09:36
to watch those two racers? So the constructive criticism
2:09:41
from that would be, you know, yeah, there are a lot of fans
2:09:44
who walked quite disappointed because they didn't get to watch
2:09:46
that. But that doesn't also mean that
2:09:48
we have to drag this out and remind the track over and over
2:09:51
and over again. Like they said, whoops, you
2:09:54
know, that was our fault. We should have done better.
2:09:56
And they made changes the following year.
2:09:59
So it wasn't like that, right? But, you know, be constructive.
2:10:02
Don't just go on and bash, right?
2:10:05
And I, you know, they removed the driver intros the way they
2:10:07
were. They were trying to make it like
2:10:08
NASCAR with the trucks going around.
2:10:10
And it was cool. It just took too long and, and
2:10:14
so right, be constructive. But if you're just bashing and I
2:10:19
sense that it's just bashing, I'm going to give you one
2:10:22
warning. Sometimes 2.
2:10:23
There's one guy on there who's got like 10, but he's been
2:10:27
better this year. He's actually been really good.
2:10:30
You know, like I will give people chances.
2:10:33
I don't want to just be the delete and block right away.
2:10:36
But I'm also if you're just going to keep engaging and
2:10:39
double down, you're probably going to be on my block list and
2:10:41
you're going to all the bots that are on there.
2:10:43
So because that's mostly what my block list is.
2:10:46
It's very anti block. It's mostly the people where I'm
2:10:49
like, I don't even know what language that is.
2:10:50
So that's definitely a block because I definitely know your
2:10:53
country does not have access to my page.
2:10:55
I've made it that way. So that's where all the spam
2:10:59
bots come from. So block, block, block.
2:11:01
Maybe you're a real person. I'm sorry, but block right, like
2:11:04
I'm not, I'm not chancing that, you know, so there's not many
2:11:08
people on that block list, but I have no issue putting someone
2:11:10
there if they deserve it. So, but be the as I may, I know
2:11:14
this Thursday, I want to remind everyone again this Thursday
2:11:17
about the Thursday night throttle definitely will come
2:11:19
back to your final thoughts. I just Oh, you're good that I
2:11:23
get this. And then also reminder tonight
2:11:26
through next Monday. If you go to the store, the
2:11:29
brand new store, 40% off automatically.
2:11:32
You don't have to put a discount account code or anything in
2:11:34
there. There's tie dye T-shirts,
2:11:36
there's T-shirts, there's key chains and stickers, indoor and
2:11:41
outdoor, tons of different things on the store.
2:11:45
Definitely check it out. 40% off on all orders through next
2:11:49
Monday at 11:59 PM. And then the discount code will
2:11:54
expire and I'm sure I'll add something new to there.
2:11:57
But but again, just want to remind for Thursday night
2:12:01
throttle. But other than that, Nope.
2:12:05
We already did that graphic so I don't want to mess it up.
2:12:07
But anything else good for the group?
2:12:10
That way we don't end on a sour note.
2:12:12
But but I felt like the conversation was important to
2:12:16
have, especially after this weekend.
2:12:18
No, yeah, I agree. I agree with you 100%.
2:12:20
I did have a shout out that I wanted to give earlier and it's
2:12:23
stuck in the back of my brain. First off, I want to shout out
2:12:25
dirty D Andrew Devries. He's got a bad ass fat St. stock
2:12:27
this year and it's it's going to be fun trying to watch anybody
2:12:30
trying to run him down for the rest of the year.
2:12:31
So, well, shout out. Rich Bolden.
2:12:34
Let's talk about Rich Bold for a moment because you know, he came
2:12:37
out and now, right? He was right there.
2:12:42
And this is the second week in a row I feel like his St. stock
2:12:45
has been on point. Yeah, where he just, he seems
2:12:48
comfortable. You figure the week before, I
2:12:51
know not as many shoot stacks were there, but you could put a
2:12:53
blanket on the top 4 right there.
2:12:55
And then, you know, obviously Dirty D, you know, he's just
2:12:58
been incredible behind that shoot stock.
2:13:02
Haley, that's who I wanted, that's who I originally wanted
2:13:04
to shout out was Haley Haley's done such a good job.
2:13:06
It's, I told her on Facebook, but I feel like it's so obvious
2:13:11
how comfortable she's gotten so quickly in the street stock.
2:13:14
I, I feel like she's more comfortable in the street stock
2:13:16
than she was in two years or whatever in the Hornets.
2:13:18
So shout out to Hayley Bull. I know that that's a big jump
2:13:21
and 1 I don't think I would be able to do so.
2:13:23
She's doing really good in that street stock so far.
2:13:25
So shout out to Hayley Bull. Well, that's an example there,
2:13:27
right? I could have, I could have
2:13:29
posted her taking Splish splash, you know?
2:13:31
And said the only thing. She's missing is rubber dock or
2:13:34
trying to make it, you know, kind of fun.
2:13:36
It's not stressful or anything, but you know, I didn't, you
2:13:39
know, didn't do that because I also know that she's working on
2:13:42
confidence in that car. And the last thing she needs to
2:13:44
see on Facebook is you know her, which she had help by the way
2:13:48
she did. Not it wasn't on her, yeah.
2:13:49
Definitely Sage Hannah's onboard camera will show exactly what
2:13:52
happened because Sage was there. Sage was not the one who did it.
2:13:56
There was a sage fault either. Sage's fault, but Sage was right
2:13:59
there and you can see the exact bump that happened that put
2:14:02
Haley in the mud, you know, but I didn't post that because I
2:14:06
didn't want her to go back in the pit area, get on Facebook
2:14:08
and see that and go, you know, she's already, you know, she's
2:14:12
working on that confidence in the car.
2:14:13
And then to see that it's like, Nope, not posting.
2:14:16
I could have posted it could have had a couple 1000 views
2:14:18
there and you know, likes and all that.
2:14:20
But it's like not worth it because I, I need Haley to know
2:14:24
that she's a bad ass and I can know that she's getting this
2:14:28
whole street stock thing and that she is doing really well
2:14:32
for such a short time. And so you know.
2:14:36
Beat her dad and he raced this week.
2:14:38
Sorry about that at intermission.
2:14:40
Right at the line I mean and I'm in and but that's something that
2:14:44
again you know she was racing out there with Charlie Hannah,
2:14:48
you know and and and getting ahead of him and and obviously
2:14:51
Charlie's really really good behind the wheel has lots of to
2:14:54
his resume. So that's why again there that I
2:14:58
could post that I've done it and I have no plans to post that
2:15:02
because I need I don't need Haley to sit there and second
2:15:05
guess herself, even though she had help on that to then feel
2:15:08
defeated because she found the the mud puddle in turn 3.
2:15:12
It's like, no, you know, like I said that that would have been
2:15:15
at least three thousand 4000 views worth because of how that
2:15:19
splash was. Then post it.
2:15:21
You now it's part of the race on YouTube, because it's literally
2:15:24
part of the race and you can't just make it disappear like
2:15:27
thing happened here. Keep moving on, but I can make
2:15:31
the choice on whether it's on Facebook and highlight it or
2:15:33
not. And I didn't because I I need
2:15:35
her to just keep growing that confidence and not use that as
2:15:38
like man and a Hornet. It was easier man and a Hornet.
2:15:41
I didn't do that or whatever. Like go out 'cause she's gonna
2:15:45
get AI. Don't know, maybe this year
2:15:48
she'll get a future win. But if she's right there
2:15:49
knocking on the door and gets one, I wouldn't also be sucked,
2:15:53
no. Yeah, she's that.
2:15:54
Yeah, she's at. She's already at the point where
2:15:56
she can win 1. Yes.
2:15:58
And so that's where it's like, let's keep her moving in that
2:16:00
direction there because she's gonna she's gonna do some if
2:16:05
it's not this year, it'll be next year for sure.
2:16:07
But but I if it, like I said, if it happens this year, I will not
2:16:11
be one surprised at all. And it's I.
2:16:14
Mean yeah. And it's, it's only, it's June
2:16:16
8th and look how much comfortable she's got in.
2:16:18
Her race, yeah, 4 races, I think, totals in the Street
2:16:21
Stock. I don't know if she's raced at
2:16:22
other tracks in the Street Stock, but at least I want new
2:16:24
pairs, you know, I think. At least once.
2:16:27
Race at least once, you know, so she's out there doing it with
2:16:31
them. So so again, kudos to her, kudos
2:16:35
to Rich. He seems really comfortable in
2:16:36
that Street stock. Now I know they were biting,
2:16:39
biting, fighting some gremlins at the beginning of the year,
2:16:41
but you know, it's two races in a row that he's really been
2:16:45
upfront in a factory. With that and a win at South
2:16:48
Bend earlier this year, so win. At South Bend, you know, which
2:16:50
could be the final St. Stock race there, you know, no
2:16:53
one knows. So again, you know, just to have
2:16:56
that. So really that's probably like 3
2:16:58
or 4 weeks strong runs out of that talk for him.
2:17:00
So, so again, you know, just go somewhere, you know, if you only
2:17:04
pay attention to the car count. I once told someone this, it was
2:17:07
a a fan who's been around for a while.
2:17:10
I said, well, I'm going to put it this way.
2:17:13
I've never been about quantity, I've been about quality.
2:17:18
And I always give the example at Springport, at Springport, our
2:17:23
template lane model class, we weren't knocking them out with
2:17:27
10/12/15 cars. We had eight cars.
2:17:30
We had seven cars, sometimes 5 cars.
2:17:33
And someone might look at that and go, well, anybody could win
2:17:36
at Springport when there's only 5 cars.
2:17:38
And I would go, well, Jerry Pearman just beat them at
2:17:40
Kalamazoo. Yeah, all the heavy dogs, John
2:17:44
Trudeau just hung with all of them at at Kalamazoo and almost
2:17:48
won. And you say anybody can win at
2:17:50
Spring Court, but they just proved that those anybody's can
2:17:53
go race at Kalamazoo. So it's not all about quantity.
2:17:57
Yeah, you could put 15 cars out there that are broke and then
2:18:02
you're going to have a race that's caution filled and oil
2:18:05
dry and all this stuff. Or I've even said before, take
2:18:09
two, take two, Anybody you want, Brock's, Alex Sextons, whatever.
2:18:14
Put them in a drag race for five laps and you'll be more
2:18:16
entertained than a race. You might have 20 there.
2:18:19
Yeah, I've legitimately seen great two car races in my life.
2:18:22
Yeah, so it's like, you know a lot of people because size
2:18:25
matters apparently to some people.
2:18:27
And it's like, you know what you're.
2:18:29
I get it to an extent. Like I like I said earlier, we
2:18:31
all want to see 150 cars, but it's just not reality anymore.
2:18:35
Unless you're paying 100 grand to win or something, you're not
2:18:37
going to get that much. Well, just think that there are
2:18:40
races that have paid really good money.
2:18:44
And. Nobody showed up right now,
2:18:48
something that was promoter based, you know, 'cause the
2:18:50
people who did show up still didn't get paid.
2:18:52
But we don't have to vote on, you know, that's XR rated.
2:18:56
But anyways, that's. That's for the courts to decide
2:18:59
now. Like I said, XR rated but but
2:19:03
it's one of those things that again, you know, you could put a
2:19:06
$5000 to win race. That doesn't mean you're going
2:19:08
to get 40. Calls.
2:19:11
You know, it depends on the tire and what's the tire?
2:19:14
And it's an American racer or a Hoosier.
2:19:15
And I never raced American racer.
2:19:18
I never raced on Cobra. Well, you know what?
2:19:21
My family can't bring in a cooler so we ain't coming.
2:19:26
Another trigger, but yeah, yeah, they're all another topic.
2:19:31
But but that's one of those things, right?
2:19:33
Like I can't go to the South Bend Cubs game and bring in my
2:19:36
cooler with all my own drinks and food and all that, but
2:19:38
whatever. But anyways, it's just it's one
2:19:42
of those that right, just go support somewhere.
2:19:45
It may, I mean, even think of M40, their night of
2:19:48
destructions. They had 20 cars last year and
2:19:50
13 cars this year. And those races were probably
2:19:54
just as entertaining as cars when I've seen 70 on the track.
2:19:59
So it's like and those are. Sundays too, so that's, I mean,
2:20:01
no, no excuse not to get out to one of those.
2:20:03
You know, and it's going to take time for them to build that.
2:20:05
They know that. Yeah, for sure.
2:20:07
But it's one of those I. Gotta go.
2:20:08
I gotta go to the next one. I have to go to the next one.
2:20:11
Yes, Oh no, you need to. It's definitely well worth it
2:20:14
and it's a Sunday and it's at the racetrack.
2:20:15
But but it's one of those that again, you can enjoy even if
2:20:19
there's not 100 cars, I promise you, you know, the cars that at
2:20:23
these tracks that you know, they might only have 8 out there,
2:20:26
they're those drivers pay the same pit pass and they're out to
2:20:29
put on a show as a division that brought 40, you know, So just go
2:20:33
enjoy it. And if you have something
2:20:35
negative say about it, you know what tracks will take
2:20:38
sponsorships like the Hornet class at new pairs is not
2:20:41
sponsored. Tracks are really looking to
2:20:42
help for help too. Yeah, everybody needs tech
2:20:45
officials and people helping out in this for security and
2:20:49
whatever else you need to do. You know, everybody's got big
2:20:51
opinions. Let's let's help out.
2:20:52
I'm helping out. I'm trying to help out.
2:20:54
Are you guys? Well, for 20 or I think is it
2:20:58
1314115100, something like that, for $1500 you could be the
2:21:02
sponsor of the Hornets at at New Paris and guess what, that $1500
2:21:06
isn't going to pay the purse. For the whole.
2:21:07
Season that mostly pays for the insurance and everything at the
2:21:11
front of the season. You know, 'cause it's really
2:21:14
it's, it's expensive, but not super expensive to be a class
2:21:18
sponsor. But I promise you it doesn't pay
2:21:21
the whole season. Yeah, I can't speak for every
2:21:23
week, but if you do want to be a class sponsor of new pairs,
2:21:25
those names get in a lot. They're locked in here.
2:21:30
So again, I know we've after having a couple short shows,
2:21:33
we've had a little bit, but we've this not this has been a
2:21:35
nice conversation, right? It isn't, you know, I'm just
2:21:37
going fast because it, you know, the conversation isn't dragging,
2:21:40
but not that others have dragged.
2:21:41
But it's like, you know, we're just in that point of the season
2:21:44
where it's like, you know, we we have tracks that are closing.
2:21:47
We have tracks that are for sale.
2:21:48
We have tracks that are announcing every single day that
2:21:51
they're closing the doors. You know, if you just have
2:21:55
something negative to say, say it on your own page.
2:21:57
Don't go to all these other pages to say it, because it's
2:22:00
just. Sleep on it, take an hour walk,
2:22:02
walk away from your phone. It's like, does the does this
2:22:04
comment add to the world? Yeah.
2:22:06
Is this necessary? Yeah, you know, just do the do
2:22:10
the sound bite check. Is it is it worth it's worth it,
2:22:13
you know, and I can say like you're probably no, you're not
2:22:16
too young. You might remember way back when
2:22:19
cell phones were first a big thing and everyone got AIM,
2:22:21
Messenger, AOL I. Remember, aim looks.
2:22:24
Like you to have an AOL account and sign in for $0.25 a day?
2:22:28
You could use AIM as much as you want it.
2:22:31
When text messages were $0.25 to send, right?
2:22:33
You got an AIM. Everybody had AIM.
2:22:35
You got an AIM and you heard someone, you know, you heard the
2:22:38
little Ding. And sometimes I said, you know
2:22:41
what, on social media, people should be charged to be able to
2:22:45
comment for the day, then you know what, you spend $0.25, you
2:22:49
can say as much as you want on that page.
2:22:52
You know, you pay each page. So if you want to go to WSBT and
2:22:55
tell them how they're biased and all these other things or Fox
2:22:58
News or NBC or whatever, wherever, NASCAR, you know, like
2:23:03
$0.25 and if it's worth it to, you'll pay it.
2:23:06
Right. So, you know, and if it's not
2:23:08
worth it to you and you say, well, that's too much money,
2:23:09
then your opinion, it's not worth it.
2:23:11
You know, you have your opinion, it's OK, but you're, you already
2:23:14
just declared it's not worth the money.
2:23:16
So if it's not worth the money, meaning if it's not, if you
2:23:19
don't think it's going to help, don't do it.
2:23:22
Because that age, wherever it is, has every right, not even
2:23:25
right. It's a privilege.
2:23:26
They have the privilege to remove the comment, hide the
2:23:29
comment block like there's no Court of Appeals for that.
2:23:33
There's no protesting like you've earned, you know, you've
2:23:36
earned the privilege of being blocked.
2:23:38
So, so again, just, you know, think how can I help?
2:23:43
Or if I have this thing I need to say, like, man, I just
2:23:46
remember when there's 40 cars in this class, what, what can I do
2:23:50
to help bring more cars? Offer solution.
2:23:54
You'll get a really, you'll get a lot further with people than
2:23:56
if you just moan and complain, and that's in anything.
2:24:01
I, I guess then we're on more of a positive note.
2:24:04
I was looking in the chat a little bit here.
2:24:05
Thank you to everybody who has said nice things about my
2:24:08
announcing. I very much appreciate it.
2:24:10
I'm not very good at taking compliments so I Chris and Tracy
2:24:13
were very nice when they were on thank you everybody.
2:24:15
It is very much appreciated if. It makes you feel better.
2:24:18
I thought you did a crappy job. Hey, we can average it out you.
2:24:24
Already know what I thought? I already said that and and.
2:24:27
I appreciate it. But again, and also, you know,
2:24:29
huge kudos to everyone in the comments who's been engaging I.
2:24:32
Yeah, a very, very full channel. Yeah, I hope Benny and new pairs
2:24:37
can come to an agreement because I've been talking with Benny and
2:24:39
I'm about coming down the Amish country.
2:24:42
They'll they'd be making the drive all the way from Battle
2:24:44
Creek and, you know, towards Lansing area.
2:24:46
So that would be quite a haul for them.
2:24:48
But it's they'll bring four or five cars and then if they bring
2:24:51
some cars, they'll have other people bring cars.
2:24:53
And so that would be, you know, that'd be a fun race.
2:24:58
You know, these fall, most of them would fall on the 4
2:24:59
cylinder group. So, you know, I don't know what
2:25:01
to feel about going against many stocks, but some of them race
2:25:04
with Drew's group and Drew has many stocks.
2:25:05
So like Sheldon Lindlag proved that, you know, you can be with
2:25:09
front wheel drive. You know, it just even if they
2:25:13
had a lot of ponies behind them. But but other than that, you
2:25:16
know, so I hope with that, but you know, I share it out.
2:25:20
You know, this what I've been doing is I've not been posting
2:25:23
this podcast on other platforms until 10 the next morning.
2:25:26
So it's kind of like if you want to watch it, like our views go
2:25:29
up afterwards, you know, because I think you get other people
2:25:32
watching across some of the other states or some people are
2:25:35
working, you know, whatever it may be that or, or they might be
2:25:38
watching something else on TV and come watch us.
2:25:40
But again, we were on the new Paris page.
2:25:43
Although I did, I think I ended it correctly.
2:25:46
I couldn't believe I it was supposed to leave with them.
2:25:48
So I felt that it's like, I don't want to talk about how I
2:25:51
know we're off because that's not fair to them.
2:25:53
And plus you're for allowing us to be on their page, but at
2:25:56
least live someone can still go see the post.
2:25:59
But it wasn't live. And I think that, you know, that
2:26:01
was a little different. So because it did end on their
2:26:05
screen perfectly on their graphic for the showcase.
2:26:09
So I'm like, oh, that was perfect too.
2:26:10
I don't know if Facebook did that.
2:26:12
I mean, Facebook did that. I didn't do it.
2:26:13
So like, thank you for Facebook, right, you know, right
2:26:16
thumbnail. But other than that, so this
2:26:18
will be on all the other platforms tomorrow.
2:26:21
But definitely, you know, the more you guys help share it out,
2:26:23
the more you help all that. I mean, we've had 9000 views,
2:26:26
8000 views, 6000 views, all I mean, just absolutely
2:26:30
incredible. So that's helping us.
2:26:33
That helps our drivers, that helps new pairs.
2:26:35
And I don't I don't know who I have next week.
2:26:38
I actually forgot I need to look at my schedule, but you know,
2:26:41
there's definitely room on our schedule to get some more people
2:26:43
in. I know Ralph has talked about
2:26:45
being on here. I'm trying to put our night of
2:26:47
destruction people closer to the night of destruction in Paris.
2:26:50
That way it's kind of, you know, it's all there.
2:26:54
But definitely, you know, late. Oh, Colin Bozell was who I was
2:26:56
talking with. So trying to get Colin on here
2:27:00
and then a couple others that I have in mind that I want to get
2:27:02
on here. I'm going to get some Galesburg
2:27:04
drivers on here. So I'm going to try to see
2:27:06
whoever wins maybe this Saturday, the Rodney Russell
2:27:09
memorial, see if we can get them on to kind of talk about that.
2:27:12
And you know, because we got to get some Galesburg on here.
2:27:15
We haven't done that yet. So so I'm like we need that,
2:27:20
right. So we've had count do, we've had
2:27:22
new Paris, we've had South Bend, Plymouth, we've had Hartford.
2:27:27
We got to get Galesburg. So so other than that Buju,
2:27:31
anything final for good of the group?
2:27:34
And I think we covered everything tonight.
2:27:36
All right. Well, again, Buju, as always,
2:27:38
thank you for an awesome show. And just in a couple days from
2:27:41
now, it'll be time to turn left and go fast because.
2:27:44
We'll see you at the races. We'll see everybody at the
2:27:47
races.