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William Byron On Going From SIM Racing To Driving The #24 Car For Hendrick Motorsports | Racin' · Bussin' With The Boys

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  Speaker 2: Byron on guy everyone's talking about quiet guy keeps to himself.
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  Speaker 2: with the Boys. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode,
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  Speaker 2: the second episode of Racing with the Boys. Very special
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  Speaker 2: guest with us today. This man drives for Hendrick Motorsports.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very unique way. He came up through the
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  Speaker 2: sim game. Willie sees on vacation with this family. So
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  Speaker 2: our beautiful black Delandy Walker, he's hanging out with us today.
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  Speaker 2: It's summertime. We got tans going on. Let's give a
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  Speaker 2: big round of a boss for William iron Man. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you got me electro stack ahead. You dude, I know so
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  Speaker 2: you we were sitting here before. You were looking at
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  Speaker 2: the bus. You're so excited. You're like, this is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get all on into that. But you asked me,
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  Speaker 2: how was the racist past weekend? And dude, we've done
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  Speaker 2: Nashville three times now. This was our third time we went. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the access that y'all give, like being able to walk
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  Speaker 2: up to you hang out because like from a football
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  Speaker 2: standpoint on game day on our Sundays. Yeah, if someone
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  Speaker 2: were to be like, hey, you had to meet these people,
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  Speaker 2: talk to these people before the game, I would I
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  Speaker 2: would literally be like, there's no shots. Yeah, I would
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  Speaker 2: be able to do this. And the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: guys take the time, come out of your trailers, get
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  Speaker 2: out of that zen mode and come over and say
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  Speaker 2: what's up to the boys and hang out was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: The people were great.
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  Speaker 2: It was It was the coolest thing to me, dude,
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  Speaker 2: was these pit crew guys because I see you, I
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  Speaker 2: see you crazy athletes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they just to jump over the wall
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  Speaker 3: when the car's going fifty miles an hour. Yea, Like,
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  Speaker 3: no one would do that in the right mind.
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  Speaker 2: No, especially due that's like in the front. Yeah, one
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  Speaker 2: guy who's pretending to be brave, he feels the court out. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the other guys are running into the front line. Go yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just go and get it out of there. How have
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  Speaker 2: you ever you ever accidently smoked one of your born.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I have. I'm I am sure I have.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't remember. I mean, sometimes you lose breaks
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  Speaker 3: and you think, man, like the pedals getting long. You're like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure if I'm gonna get slowed down here
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  Speaker 3: but you just don't look at them like they coach
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  Speaker 3: you to, Like you look at the sign, so you're
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  Speaker 3: you're judging your depth perception off that sign, but you're
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  Speaker 3: not even looking at the guys. They're just floating around.
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  Speaker 2: There, ripping around, and they kind of have their own
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  Speaker 2: little thing the way they go. Yeah, how often do
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  Speaker 2: you guys practice that's our door cracking right there? For
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  Speaker 2: the any of you wondering listening on audio, how do
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  Speaker 2: you guys practice them getting in and out?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Do you guys practice pits like during the week? So
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  Speaker 2: what's going to look?
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  Speaker 3: So I don't because I feel like it's not it's
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  Speaker 3: not realistic for me because I'm we can't have a
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  Speaker 3: big enough runway to have like to meet for me
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  Speaker 3: to go fifty miles an hour into the pit box.
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  Speaker 3: So like for me, I just need to look at
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  Speaker 3: tape and film and just study, like, Okay, at this place,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going fifty miles an hour, So how do I
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  Speaker 3: get slowed down? And there's actually we get clocked on that,
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  Speaker 3: so there's data for us to look at if we're
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  Speaker 3: not doing a good job.
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  Speaker 1: So what's the margin of error though missing that spot?
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  Speaker 1: How often does that happen pretty often.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those guys will get on you right, they're like,
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  Speaker 3: just stop on the rail you know, we have like
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  Speaker 3: two train tracks they call them. So it's just like
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  Speaker 3: it's just like you know, a plane or whatever, Like
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  Speaker 3: you're just trying to get on the mark. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're just trying to get those two railroad tracks, like
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  Speaker 3: both sides of the tires.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a penalty if you don't get on inside the.
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  Speaker 3: Mark only if you're only if you're right front tires
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  Speaker 3: outside the pit box. So yeah, there's like a white line. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I know you'd have to be pretty off for that.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're coming around another car, like sometimes you
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  Speaker 3: can be outside the box and like they'll get really
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  Speaker 3: pissed at you cause they're like you'll be parked in
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  Speaker 3: front of them and they can't get out of It's
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  Speaker 3: like parallel parking.
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  Speaker 2: It's similar, dude, speaking of penalties, I know Hamlin he
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  Speaker 2: took home the checker flag this past weekend, but there
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  Speaker 2: was a bit of a scuffle, a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: snaffoo that took place about I don't know if it
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  Speaker 2: was him Starting early, I don't pretend to know everything
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  Speaker 2: about NASCAR, but I know a couple of people I
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  Speaker 2: think I don't know if it was the start of
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  Speaker 2: the race or it was like in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the race, but he started early between these lines, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, one thing I learned more than anything
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  Speaker 2: else at being at NASCAR this weekend was the amount
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  Speaker 2: of rules that take place. You go in that tent.
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  Speaker 2: People are like, we're sitting here as people that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the Grand Marshal, and then I'm sitting next to
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  Speaker 2: ray Lann who's doing the national anthem, and they got
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  Speaker 2: a whole thing like, drivers, here are the rules if
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  Speaker 2: your vision's impeded or you lose something like get off
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  Speaker 2: the track, like all the things of dos and do nots.
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  Speaker 2: But they talk about the line of when you can
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  Speaker 2: go and when not, and Denny, am I saying that correctly? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he goes and it apparently starts early, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are feeling pretty tired about that. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know that's happening during the race. Are they telling you, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this son of a bitch started a little early, we
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  Speaker 2: need to get his ass, or like, what is the
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  Speaker 2: game plan? Then?
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  Speaker 3: So I think I came on the radio when he
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  Speaker 3: pulled off for to serve as penalty, like you have
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  Speaker 3: to pit under green and do a pass through. So
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  Speaker 3: when he peeled off, I was like, didn't he go early?
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  Speaker 4: Like it?
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  Speaker 3: Because I started eighth and I was like, not like
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  Speaker 3: I was sleeping. I was like, oh, he went, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: here we go. So it was, uh, yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: he just I think he was excited, I guess, and
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  Speaker 3: got going early.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you is there any like type of like
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  Speaker 2: you say anything to him? Not you No, Like for.
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  Speaker 3: Me, it didn't affect me because I'm like, I was
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  Speaker 3: an eighth I'm like, well, as soon as he peeled
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  Speaker 3: off for his penalty, I gained a spot, so I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: perfect other one one. So but yeah, for me, I
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  Speaker 3: was just like kind of surprised because when he took off,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, it did seem it did seem early,
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  Speaker 3: like no one was ready for it. So there's not
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  Speaker 3: really I guess there is a rule, which is what
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  Speaker 3: we found out, and they've got it listed here. But
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  Speaker 3: I guess you got to start in the restart zone.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that either. I probably would have done
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  Speaker 3: what he did at some point in my career, just
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  Speaker 3: because you think at the start of the race the flag,
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  Speaker 3: guy waves the green and you go. So you're just
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  Speaker 3: kind of guessing.
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  Speaker 1: So how many times do y'all go over the rules?
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  Speaker 1: Because like in the NFL, we had that same problem too.
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  Speaker 1: It's so many rules. We really don't know the rules
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  Speaker 1: until like someone tells us the rules.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll be honest, I tune out most of that
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  Speaker 3: driver's meeting because I should know the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Like we're gonna cut that, we're get out of there.
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  Speaker 2: Then we're not going to have that on the show.
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  Speaker 3: We're sitting in our seats and they introduce you know,
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  Speaker 3: all the all the guests and everything, and as soon
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  Speaker 3: as that video comes on, I'm like start yawning. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Just a video.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a video, And yeah, that's kind of when
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  Speaker 3: I go into my zin, I'm like, get my little
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  Speaker 3: mini nap in before the ras place. But if I
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  Speaker 3: don't know the rules that by that point I probably don't.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's like new rules they always add, like
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  Speaker 1: because we know the basics, right, we know the basics, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we know. Something else comes in and they'd be like
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  Speaker 1: you knew that rule, right, I'm like yeah, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't you know I'm like, definitely did not know that
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  Speaker 1: rule for sure. Yeah, came out of the left field.
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  Speaker 2: But you do all because for us, it's like every
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  Speaker 2: week we would go over like what the stadium is? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what is is it? Ground? Is a turf? These referees,
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  Speaker 2: this is what they like to call this what to
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  Speaker 2: let you kind of get away with right understanding the
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  Speaker 2: rules and using to their advantage, where the coaches would
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  Speaker 2: harp on.
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  Speaker 1: It quite a bit.
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  Speaker 2: Are there different rules per track, because I know every
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  Speaker 2: track is different, Like I think Michigan is one of
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  Speaker 2: the fastest tracks and all of Nascara, which we're playing,
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  Speaker 2: we were playing driving in this weekend, and so is
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  Speaker 2: there are there different rules from Michigan as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: let this past weekend in Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: Not so much between Nashville and Michigan, but between Michigan
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  Speaker 3: and like Daytona. So at Daytona you can't pass someone
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  Speaker 3: under the yellow line. So there's a there's a line
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  Speaker 3: all the way around the track, and if you go
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  Speaker 3: under that, it's dangerous, I guess so, like because the
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  Speaker 3: track's not as paved down there, so it could cause
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  Speaker 3: a big crash. So like in Michigan, we can go anywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Like if if somebody blocks you all the way down
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  Speaker 3: to the bottom, like you just keep going lower to
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  Speaker 3: get under it.
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  Speaker 1: You just keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just like if they keep blocking you, you're
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  Speaker 3: just like, I'm I'm just taking the real estate. So
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  Speaker 3: in Daytona you'd have to stop with.
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  Speaker 1: That yellow line. Is that where all the gravel is
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  Speaker 1: being kicked to.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty exactly all the debris and so like if you
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  Speaker 3: like at Daytona, if you go low down the back stretch,
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  Speaker 3: that the part of that track is like super bumpy.
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  Speaker 3: It's like car could.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying you're not getting as much grip too
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  Speaker 1: as when you're trying to come back, because it's like
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  Speaker 1: almost like a sling shot, right you go in and
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  Speaker 1: swing back up. Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you were like if you went under
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  Speaker 3: the yellow line at Daytona and then tried to get
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  Speaker 3: back up for the corner, like it could cause a big,
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  Speaker 3: a big crash. So that's that's a big reason for
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  Speaker 3: that rule.
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  Speaker 2: He said, when you said slingshot, it remind me of
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  Speaker 2: none other than the great one of the greatest movies
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  Speaker 2: of all time, which is Talladega Knights. We had two
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  Speaker 2: individuals on this buster last week Ryan Blaney and Bubba Wallace.
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: Ryan Blaney was like, yeah, you know, solid movie. Whatever,
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  Speaker 2: Bubble Wallace disgrace to the game. He called it disgrace
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  Speaker 2: to the game. I want to just know your opinion
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  Speaker 2: on Talladega Knights because I watched that and I'm like
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  Speaker 2: that favorite part is the end of the movie.
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  Speaker 3: As a purist, yeah, the end of the movie gets
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  Speaker 3: a little off. It's kind of like the second Happy
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  Speaker 3: Go More. It kind of just goes all at the end.
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  Speaker 3: But uh so, I don't know. I feel like as
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  Speaker 3: a purist, I feel like it's not the best representation
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  Speaker 3: of the sport. But I will say when you go
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  Speaker 3: to Talladega, which we go there twice a year, it's
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  Speaker 3: not that different, like like the boulevard, like there's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's like all kinds of stuff on the.
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  Speaker 2: Just please be eighteen head right right there. So I was,
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  Speaker 2: how was like Daytona so different? Like I guess the
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  Speaker 2: difference is like that's clearly the mecca you guys race
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of the year, and then Nashville, Like
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  Speaker 2: I thought the environment was awesome when we got there.
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  Speaker 2: Your boy was able to get on the mic we
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  Speaker 2: had fun. We heard some cheers in the bag like.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how was that? By the way, I was so
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear you guys like that question. We had
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  Speaker 3: the ear muff soon. But I'm seeing the screen and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, like, man, they're they're getting into it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you guys had the American flag and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Just trying to do the best we can for them,
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful patriots out there. Man, sitting and watching laps
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  Speaker 2: go by.
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  Speaker 1: Dude.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, one of the most nervous I've ever been in
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  Speaker 2: my life because it's basically like, hey, you guys have
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  Speaker 2: four words to say, and you're sharing it with your boy.
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  Speaker 2: So in my brain it's like you obviously go to
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  Speaker 2: Kevin James. Right, gentlemen, I got three words to say.
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  Speaker 2: You know, God, bless our troops, God bless our God,
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  Speaker 2: bless America, and gentleman, start your engines. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: sitting there like when when Klumpy comes over to me
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, I got cool news for you. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to be the Grand Marshal in at Nationale super Speedway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, juice to the gills. First excitement you go
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  Speaker 2: to bed for one night. Now anxiety starts to hit
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  Speaker 2: the hell yeah, dude, And we did a dry run.
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  Speaker 2: My dry one was nice, dude. My dry run was
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  Speaker 2: like he lets it. He lets his boy shine when
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  Speaker 2: he needs to shine a little bit, right, But then
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  Speaker 2: he gets into this thing like crazy. So to answer
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  Speaker 2: your question, like that was as nervous as you get
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  Speaker 2: for a football game. But I was, yo, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: was talking to you before and I'm like, hey, what
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  Speaker 2: are your nerves like? And you're talking like, hey, the
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  Speaker 2: first five to ten laps, you're kind of feeling out
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  Speaker 2: how how competitive you are, which was such a unique
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  Speaker 2: thought process to me because in my brain and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure and Delaney like, as a football player, you think
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be the guy that changes the outcome of
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  Speaker 2: whether or not we like you think you're the man
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: like main character syndrome is so relevant in football. And
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  Speaker 2: you're sitting there like, yeah, ten to fifteen laps, I'll
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  Speaker 2: figure out how competitive I am. You're starting an eighth
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  Speaker 2: Like the whole thing like where do when does the
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  Speaker 2: anxiety or the competitive nature takeover? Or like any of
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: those like butterfly type of feelings happened before, during, or
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  Speaker 2: after a race.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say like an hour before the race,
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  Speaker 3: you're kind of thinking about You're starting to get that
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  Speaker 3: anxious feeling of what's going to happen today. I just
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  Speaker 3: feel like in our sport, there's so much you do
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  Speaker 3: for four hours of that's in your control that it's
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  Speaker 3: like it's almost not worth thinking about, like the nerves
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  Speaker 3: of it, because you're like, man, the quicker, I can
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  Speaker 3: get into a rhythm. The quicker, I'm going to make
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  Speaker 3: better decisions. So it's like, you know, I used to
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  Speaker 3: get really nervous about like the first lap or things
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  Speaker 3: like that, but it's you know, you just know that
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  Speaker 3: you have so many decisions over four hundred miles that
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  Speaker 3: you're like, there's no sense in really getting two worked
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  Speaker 3: up about the first one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So and you're saying that with the four
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles, does it really matter where you're placed when
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  Speaker 1: the race starts.
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  Speaker 3: Then you want to have a good start, but no,
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  Speaker 3: like it doesn't like look at Denny this week. You
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  Speaker 3: know he got a penalty the first lap, and I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you'd like to start the race as good as possible though,
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  Speaker 3: because you have stage points and there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: points on the line early in the race. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but it's just I think I look at it as
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  Speaker 3: like there's so many decisions that you just want to
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  Speaker 3: try to find your kind of comfortable space and just
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  Speaker 3: get into his own dude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Blaney and Wallace were kind of breaking down for us,
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  Speaker 2: how a third or third to third, like there's kind
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  Speaker 2: of three points in the race where you can grab points. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and is there do you do you have an understanding
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  Speaker 2: of when those laps are and if you're in a
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  Speaker 2: I guess the eleventh spot. I'm assuming it goes like
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  Speaker 2: one to ten, you get a certain amount of points
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  Speaker 2: ten to twenty and so on and so forth. Is
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  Speaker 2: there like a level in the in that race that
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  Speaker 2: you're pressing in that first third that's second third, and
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  Speaker 2: of course like they'd be end of the race, Like
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  Speaker 2: I got to make sure I can get up for
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  Speaker 2: these points.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so the top ten get points, so like, okay,
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: it's only the only top ten, So like every time
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: you cross it's three times.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: This racer was like on the ninety first.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: Left, yeah, and then like one and then three hundred.
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: But I look at it. I don't know how all
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: guys look at it, but I look at every stage
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: is kind of a race end. It's kind of like
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: a practice race end. So you're you're if you're in
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: the top ten, like you're racing your heart out to
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: try to get stage points. And then if you're behind that,
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: you're kind of like, Okay, I have a chance to
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: work on it, adjust and get better. But I look
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: at every every third as kind of like a race end. Yeah, is.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Between the race ending on Sunday and now it is
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Wednesday when we're filming this, how many legos have you
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: put together between them and.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: The man not in a while? Really back in the
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Lego zen mode, I feel like I was. I feel
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: like I was really into it. I've been golfing a lot.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: I play a lot of golf, so I go the
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: range of hit balls. It's kind of my it's kind
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: of my space, my comfort space. But yeah, I need to.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: I need to.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: I gotta be honest. That kind of breaks my heart
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: a little bit because we were watching a video yeah,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: yesterday and this morning, and then this Titanic got popped
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: up here. I'm in Park City, Utah with my two
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: kids and my wife, and I see this at a
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Lego store in the airport, and I get this like
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: rose Kate Winslet, like that was the first time in
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: my life. I'm like, I know what side of the
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: fence I'm on on this whole thing. One of the
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: best movies I've personally ever seen. And to this day
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: I'll be like, Yo, Titanic rips and for you to
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: build that thing incredible.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: I used to the tips of my fingers were destroyed
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: and it took three weeks and like I would stop
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: for a day or so like reflect. But I mean
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: that's a three part thing. So you build the back
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: in the middle and it was it was nine thousand pieces.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: You just do it was destroyed.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: You just get in a flow state mode. Yeah, you know,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: three weeks you're just ripping that thing up.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Like nothing, nothing touches you. Like you're in this You're
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: buried in the book and you're like there's stuff going
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: on around you. You don't even you don't even know.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: You don't kids, do you know?
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I don't like I got three weeks to do that.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: It's been three years.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I still haven't finish mine. I get back on that
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: thing because I think that I think that's sick.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a little bit of lego fatigue after
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: that one. But I think I'm gonna I think I'm
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: gonna build something else.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Can you see in the inside is any way
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: that it's like structure in the inside as well as.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: The engines, like the engine compartments are all built in
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: that back third, so there's like there's actual like and
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: there's bedrooms and stuff. And I saw a guy on
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Amazon or they sell him on Amazon, you could buy
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: lights for the outside, so that I never got into
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that part, but maybe one guy had him lit up
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: and he had it in his bathtub. I was like, bro,
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: that's a little.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Really taking your claim a little bit on that.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Floating and it was like a simulation. I was like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, maybe I should do that. Yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: I think there it is. See that one kind of middle.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Go down down, you go to the right right there.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's in a bathtub.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Well that one's not, but I think, yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: You can hear the all those guys in the violins
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: playing that song down just by looking at that photo.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, no, the.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Little ships to what are the little dingy boats on?
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: They had the dings on there too.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: So you're thinking about getting back into it. What is
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: what's your grail? What's your lego grail?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Man, I just I think building like the Colosseum would
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: be cool. They came out with that a little a
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: little bit ago, but I don't know. Yeah, they got
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the Eiffel Tower. Look at this guy. He yeah, this
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: guy's he did a great job.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: It's crazy like you, he did a great job. It's
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: like there's literally it shows you every single piece to
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: put all super This one goes right here, next page, Taylor,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're gonna miss some pieces. Poster site. People
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: like you didn'tet him, Like if you only knew about
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the sixteen pieces. Yeah, the ad D takes over. Dude,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: we are you familiar with football at all? It's okay, Yeah,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: football Orgon Ducks, Dan Landing the head coach.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: We went he's a little psycho.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: He is a little psycho. A little psycho is nuts
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: right there. I love that though, because he is a psycho.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: We went to his.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: House and one of his kids was literally working on
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: a different script from Minecraft because he didn't the movie
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: wasn't good enough for him, so he was writing a
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: different script for kids like ten years old.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And he you look over in the corner and he
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: had a full setup of Hogwarts like through legos and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: it was completely built out.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It was like the the building up on the hill, right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Building on the hill, the towers that we beat Willow.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: It was do we can we pull that up real quick?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Because I thought when I saw that, I was like,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: this kid's special.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: He had a little background taking care of it and
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: everything too. Yeah, how was that?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Did he build it hisself or did he pay they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: pay somebody to building?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Okay rich.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Some people, you know, some people say I built it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. He's just like, yeah, but get it done
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: for me. Oh dude, I see you're rocking the uh
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: the Hurricanes tough loss watching you scored twenty five seconds
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: into the game.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Nikishin had a shot at the end of the game
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: that that was going in back in that Yeah, six
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: seconds left they put him in for that shot. Yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: and he shoots a laser and uh, what's his name?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Mitch Martin blocks it with his shin, which had to hurt,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: no doubt. You see, he was walking off. He's like,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: have you seen You've.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Seen some of those YouTube videos these guys that like
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: lay in front of pucks the skatal break and they'll
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: just keep like limping out there and using their he
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: as a rag doll.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Where is that crazy?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Because to me, like my dad, he grew up in Minnesota,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I grew up in Arizona. Yeah, so he was always
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: like putting us on hockey and we would go to
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of Coyotes games. And I was always thinking
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to myself, like, this is like the most fun sport
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to watch live. Football there's a lot of breaks that
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: take place. Nascar is also another one you can watch
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: live and a little enjoy. But like, is hockey for
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: you like the number one sport you enjoy ingesting?
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I think so. I think so because so the backstory
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: when it's like my dad and I would go up
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: there when I was six years old, so like twenty
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: years ago. We have some pictures of when we went
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: up there, and I think I just I played the
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: NHL games on PlayStation and I love this and I
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: was like, you could like pass the puck around and
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and I think I just got hooked on it. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: just started watching it. It's definitely a sport in person,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: you know, is way better than on TV because it's
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: hard to follow on TV, but in person, like it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: cold in there. It's like, you know, it's just nice, like.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Nice, like he come like the flowing yeah, beers getting
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: getting after it a little bit.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Everyone's like got chance, like they hate the refs, like
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: people bring in the eye charts like refuse suck and
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: all these things. So it's just I don't know, it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: exciting in person.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I think, have you been to one of our matches
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: here against your team Predators.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I've been in a couple of games.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I love you called it a match. I do the
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: same thing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they have the catfish out there, which is for
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: someone to like like bring that in? Is do you
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: did that?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I've done that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yes, did you bring that in?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Like on your Yeah, I'm really about theatrix.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: This is he took a bear out of it.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, catfish lose. You didn't come out of its mouth.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: But definitely come on.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know if.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: This is no, but you it's kind of like one
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: of those you're letting it wash all over your face.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: You're not really trying to put as much in you.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: That's a different one, but dude, yeah hard the Preds
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: go hard, and I love how the South is just
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: like embrace, like a northern sport. Because the Detroit wed
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Wings they were the first ones. They did the Octopus.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: That's when they would make it to the playoffs. The
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: octopus so far. So the Predators was was an expansion
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: team like the late nineties, early two thousands is right
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: around the when the Titans came in and uh they
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: took the Catfish and it's awesome, dude, like they just
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: they launched those boys. Peta has an absolute ship fit
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: every single time the Pedators make the playoffs. It's nuts. Man.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Did you ever you play NHL hits?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: No? That was before. Was that kind of like blitz
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: and it was hockey?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I think the debate.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: This is it right here. Yeah, this is me. That's
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that's big boy Taylor right there. I'm not the guy that.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Could not have tasted.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: I have a newborn child too during this time, so
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: you see where my priorities are at in that situation.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Not not the best in the world, but yeah, it's
• 22:54
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• 23:22
  Speaker 1: You talk about gaming, and you know, we know that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you was a Sam guy. Yeah, how did that go
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: about you being a Sam guy, not really being in
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: racing and then getting into this world just off Sam.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was definitely a lot of like I heard
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: you say, imposter syndrome. I had a lot of that
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: growing up because I like I grew up in a
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: totally different way than my peers. So yeah, I was
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: just a huge fan of racing, like watched cars go around.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: You loved like collecting little die cast cars, and eventually
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: that led to SEM racing because it was like I mean,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: first it started just racing video games, like racing the
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: NASCAR video games, and then you know, then it was
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: like man sim racing. Like I heard I heard Dale
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Junior at the time talk about it and he was
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: like the sim racing is getting like really accurate. So
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: as a fan, I was like, well, I want to
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: get on that and see see what that's like. So
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that's how it started, honestly, and then just just got
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: really into it started, you know, winning races on there
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: and and doing well and that's kind of what set
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: up my career.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: What was your first rig, like the first first one.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I know you probably got a crazy rig right now,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: but what was your first rig?
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Like, Yeah, I just had a little desk setup. So
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I had a little HP laptop and like literally just
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: a wheel and pedals.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: That was it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: My sister would be yelling at me in the background,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: like I'm trying to watch TV. Get was locked down.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: You used to have it loud so you can't actually
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: get the feel of like you getting into turn, of breaking,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: hearing the cars come up on side of you and
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: stuff like that.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Like I had a very small, like very small setup,
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: but I could feel everything through the wheel and I
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: don't know it just like one thing after another. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: would just raise on there every afternoon, like all summer.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: That's all that's all I did. Like I was just racing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: When you're when you're doing that, how long until you
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: get like one of the most I think, the greatest
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: sports team, best NASCAR team. Hendricks like, yeah, this might
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: be our guy. Yeah, he's pretty good on this simulatory
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: it's not too bad. Let's see he does in a realm.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I want to I'm trying like it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: If you were a NASCAR driver, that'd be sick.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: So that little setup there looks like that girl is driving.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: If you zoom out a little bit, uh chef, that's
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: basically what I had down. Like it was even smaller
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: than that, but that's basically what I was doing.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: No way. Yeah, and you look at this and you're like, wow,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going pretty fast. You don't feel any of those things.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you just feel everything through the wheel,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and then your eyes track everything, so your eyes get
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: used to like tracking like where the grip is, and like, yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: it's just different. I mean it. Yeah, it's kind of
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: wild to think about. But you win pro off that
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: seven years later, yeah, seven or eight.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Seven only seven years yeah, seven or eight years. You
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: had to be murking cast yes on the scene.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I mean it was the sim was really the start
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: of it. And then I started to win races like
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: in legend cars. I won thirty three races my first
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: year in Legend cars and then I mean mister Hendrick
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: didn't call me until I was eighteen and a half.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: You know, it was July of my yeah year in
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: truck Series, so it was twenty sixteen, and he he
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: called me and was like, but that was a totally
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: that was unexpected. Like I just had to do a
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: lot of racing to get to that point.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: And so how did they get you in the door?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Like what was how was? How did that look? Like?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So you sim racing you at the top top ten,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: how do they get you in the door to do
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a test run to even see if you're capable to
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: drive a real car? Yeah, at that speed.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: So that's where like growing up in Charlotte was a
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: big deal. So I was really fortunate that I grew up.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: You know, we're kind of racing as the capital for
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: in Charlotte. So I went up to Concord Speedway and
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: did like a test drive in a legend car, and
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: like that was it. Like literally went up there testro
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: of a legend car, got to know a couple of
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the crew chiefs that were working on them, and like
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: started to race a couple of times, but that was
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: the start of it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Did you run a good heat? They put them there
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: up there on your practice run?
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Was there had?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: So there was a There was a couple guys that
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: were racing dirt at the time, like dirt go carts,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and I got in the legend car and I was
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: like the I think the lap time to beat was
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: like nineteen seventy and I ran a seventeen seventy and
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: they were there and they were like, I mean the
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: pro guy, the guy who raced legend cars was running
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: sixteen eighties. But I was like, only like a few
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: tenths off.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Being honest, how many times have you ran that track
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: on sealm?
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Never?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Never?
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: It was just we're talking like a fifth mile like
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: behind behind a dirt road like behind the racetrack, wow, yeah,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: or on a dirt road behind the racetrack, like it
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: was just a paved fifth mile track. And got out
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: there and.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Y'all using like Yamaha motors like basically zookies and stuff.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, like twelve fifties.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: It was a legend like, yeah, that was right there.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: They us like street bike motors or something like that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Does he find the stuff? Yeah, there's me on the pole.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: This was I was probably I crashed in this race,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: actually crashed the second place guy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: But you crushed him or you crushed both, y'alls.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: It was a little bit of both.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That's okay.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: He kind of held me tight and I kind of
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: washed up. But this is us racing for the lead.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I was fifteen. Yep, yeah, you was fifteen years old
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: right here.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I a license, he didn't have a permit yet. And
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: there's let him rip around.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: So did you do a dirt racing two with the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: big tire little tire?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I didn't, only asphalt. I wish I had done some dirt,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: but yeah, this is us race, race on for the win.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: That was That was crazy.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: These are the fun ones right here. Would like yeah,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: you would like that.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you honestly, like I've only been in this
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: game for a week or so and just knowing about
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the go carts this now being at the racing, how
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: fast everything goes. We did a lap in one of
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: those Mustangs, the pace car, and I got I got
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: myself off the one fife. I love it a little bit,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: so I felt very comfortable in the driver's seat. But
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: with Will drove, I was shitting myself. I was so
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I was so incredibly nervous.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I don't know, oh there's oh wait, there's
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: that's yeah. So so yeah, we we came together and
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I spawn and he yeah, he flipped over. That was
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: a bad night. But he was Yeah, they.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Roll cage and everything and those things, so so he
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: probably he was fine.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, we actually like we raced really well together
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: and he uh, it was just one of those racing deals.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: So what was it like the first time you went
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: from SIM you go to these legend trucks and like
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you're going like you're going I don't want to say
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: fake fast, but you're virtually going fast to going actually
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: fast where you can feel the energy, you actually feel
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: the car moving, you feel everything actually moving moving around.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: He kind of got up on your tire and just flip.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: How how was that? Like, were there any nerves there
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: or you feel like you've already done this a million times,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like this is this is? This is it?
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: The So you feel so much more in the car
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: than you do on the SIM obviously, but you like
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: feel it in the seat of your pants. So it's
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: like it's just the sensations you get are just massive
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: compared to the sim So it is honestly like exhilarating,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: like you're getting so much sensory overload from driving a
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: car that I mean, the first couple of years I raced,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: it was just like just sensory overload.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Lot of juices me up when you get the call
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: to NASCAR and you have like Bubba was talking about
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the way he came up, Ryan his he was in
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: his family. Yeah, and so they kind of all grew
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: up racing. What is the perception of you to some
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: of these more traditionalist type of drivers, Like did you
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: you talk about impossibly? We kind of bounced that word
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: back and forth a little bit, like were they kind
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: of like scoffing at you, maybe a nose up and
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: in a little bit of way.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: At first it was a lot of like man like
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: did he earn his way here? Like how did he
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: get here? You know? Who is this kid? So I
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: got a lot of that for a while, and and
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: like I'm I feel like I'm a pretty easy going dude.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: So like I wasn't trying to like ruffle a lot
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: of feathers coming in, So I was just like trying
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: to sort of find my place in the sport, But uh,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: there was definitely a lot of that growing up. I
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: think as soon as I got to the cup level
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: there was a lot less of that because I think
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: everyone has that mutual respect in the cup level that's like, hey,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: everyone's gotten here in their own way, but they're all
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: they're all deserving. So once that, once I got to
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: that level, it kind of it changed. But I would
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: say going up through the ranks, it was definitely some
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: of that.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Did you feel like, was there ever in the beginning,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: some dude that tested you you had to buck up
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: to a little bit, let him know who's.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Who in the zoo?
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: I mean definitely there There are a lot of sitting there.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I just imagine an old dusty tavern hanging out. Yeah,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: sip of a sprite because you're not old enough to
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: drink yet, and something that walks up and goes you
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: think you can race?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is that exact thing.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Can we drop names.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: We can't drop that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I mean I don't want to drop names because I
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: don't even remember exactly. But there's a lot of like
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: intimidation at the late model track where you're like the kid,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: the little kid, and they're like forty years old, like hey, dude,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: like you gotta, you know, work on this thing. You
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: got to figure out like how you're gonna get to
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: this level. So there's a lot of that intimidation going on.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I'd be pretty intimidated if there was a sixteen year
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: old young buck and I was forty something still trying
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: to keep the dream alive. I mean here, there'll probably
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: be a little bit of a like, ah shit, this
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: kid's the truth and I'm out here still doing this.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: There's definitely some tension, but it I mean, you just
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: earn respect by just racing hard and you know, doing
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: the right thing, like that's the only way you Our
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: sport is like that. It's it's kind of like what
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: have you done for me lately? And it's it's like
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: how are you on the track? That's how you're judged.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: But it's a very good parallel to football. Yeah really,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: oh absolutely. I mean NFL we all say in the
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: sense we're not for long. Yeah, It's like if you
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: had a good game this week, it's great, everyone's gonna
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: patch you on the ass. Yeah, you a bad one
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: next week, They're okay, you shit in our hand, Like
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: you need to be better. Everyone forgets twenty four hours
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: after a game, how you played unless you played bad,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: and they want to bring it up unless it was him.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they bring it in for me.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what this dude association this guy really.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, they'll come to me before to me and
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're gonna just talk about that one
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: drop you had. I'm like, yeah, sure, go for it.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: What I think is fascinating about y'all is like you
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: guys like shake hands, wap up after the after the game,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: like and there's that respect, But you guys are going
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: at it super hard during the game and like, but
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: I guess, like there's just that respect. I have a
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: hard time understanding that as an outsider, Like you guys
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: are all like trading jerseys and stuff after.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Well, it's different. Like it'll be some guys we clash with,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: we're not gonna shake their hand, We're probably not gonna
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: talk to them. But when we trade jerseys, it's either
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: someone we trained with, we know, we went to school
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: with him. Like because at the end of the day,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: y'all not hearing everything we say. I mean, this guy
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: he stopped talking after a while, but he was crazy,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Like it's some players like they may not like Taylor
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: ever just because he talked, and it is it's like
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like you, I don't say much. I just show
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna do my job and I'm not
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: gonna talk much and just you know, let them do
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: all the talking because at the end of the day,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: it is a respect level, I think. But we are
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: going were playing against each other, like I may not
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: like you right now, but at the end of the game, like, dude,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's a game.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: It's a game.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: It's a game. Like I almost shake your hand, you
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: can take pictures. I may be on your team next year.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Like let's be cool, you know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I find that cool. I find that I wish we
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: had a little bit more of that in Nascar.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Why y'all don't though I don't get it jump over
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: on coms, dude, I think I think everyone's kind of
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: like got their teams right, Like you feel like you're
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: these little armies of like people.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: You're like, well, I gotta I gotta look, you know,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: good for my team. I gotta like represent and there's
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: no there's less of that like fraternity afterwards, where it's like, hey,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: that was that was fun, Like joyed racing with you
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: or whatever is there.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Is there more of an expectation being with Hendrick Motorsports
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: of like how to dress, how to act like a
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: little more pr because Mitch is telling me like this,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: you guys are essentially like the New England Patriots of
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the sports or it's like yeah, yeah, yous are massive.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: I think in a good way, like and I mean
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: that like I think I think in a way that
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: like there's a respect from that starts with mister Hendrick,
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: and it's kind of like this is the this is
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: the standard and you want to uphold that that standard
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: from him. So but I've never been like they've never
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: told me like, hey, chill out, like you're doing too much,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Like you're you're being too much of a which I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: not really. That guy probably said you're such.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: A well individuals strictly a nice guy.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I appreciate it.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: You go to Michigan this weekend and you're like, call
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: some dude to pussy over the column, are you?
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Closest is like me and Joey got into in twenty
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: twenty two and and you know they caught some audio
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: of being Jeff talking after the race and I was like,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you know, I said some choice things, but yeah, never
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: no one ever told me like chill out. I mean,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I think they they kind of welcome our passion for
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: the sport. But but yeah, I think within the drivers
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: there's definitely I think it's a little bit of ego
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: of like, hey, you know, I don't want to like
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: show all my cards, you know, after the race, Whereas
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's cool you guys like are just like, hey,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: we just played our asses off and let's kind of,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: you know, shake it out.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I think it's like a rule though in the NFL,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: it's just like, yeah, we went out there trying to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: knock your block off, but let's shake hands and you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, let's let's try.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: To keep the Peace's a gentleman aspect.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, at the end, at the end, we're all kind.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Of playing characters for sixty minutes and then you finish,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: and it's like, at least that's how in my brain
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: it was like I need to get this individual across
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: from me to make them only solely focus on me
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: and be mad at me so they don't think about
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: him or our quarterback or these types of things.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So to me, it was.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Like like a mental game of like I was always
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: considered I always consider myself like a high conditioned person
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: from being able to run for a long time. So
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I would use my mouth to kind of like people's.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Minds like, yeah, you're already your heart rates not up,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: so you don't need Like.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I don't need the Yeah, I wasn't think I needed
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: a rest, how to get a water catch my breath.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I was always like willing to go a little extra mile,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: especially in conditioning because I was I'm tall, yeah, and
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I'm I was a bigger guy. I was at three
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: h nine, But like there is dudes that were, you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: three fifteen, three twenty three thirty that I would play
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: against sometimes. So it would be like by the fourth quarter,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: you're going to be way more tired than I am,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to make sure that you know X
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Y and zah. Meanwhile, Delaney's got a grill in a
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: sick chain and he's he looks Lanne looks cool as shit.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, this.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Guy's the fucking man, you know.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Look at that dude.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was, and this dude I love, Yeah, Willie,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: let me tell you this buddy, Like he says, I
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: didn't talk very much. That's a bunch of bullshit, dude.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: We would get in, we would get into locker rooms
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: and guys would would be drafted guys every single year
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: and there'd be an undrafted like a crew of like
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: fifteen people, and they would come over and just like
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: you're saying, mister Henx, we're going to figure his first
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: name in a little bit. But they would go up
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: to mister Walker over here, but it's pleasure to meet you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: This man played over a decade in the league. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: they would go to shake his hand and Delenda would
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: just look up at them and be like, get out.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: You know. He'd be like, get out, Like I don't.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I'll learn your name when you make the team.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: He would tell guys that they suck to their faces.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's a hundred, it's a hundred of us.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: You want me to learn your name? You may not
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: be here tomorrow, so good hey play hard?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like come on my respect? Yeah yeah if you like?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Do you like? Okay? I hate losing. Now if I
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: got to do it, I feel like it's not helping
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: this team. Why is he out? You got to get
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: him out? Yeah? We burn the grass to find the snakes. Yeah,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: he legit.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: I wore a choker and you're about to tell that
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: reporter that.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Oh no, because we just beat the Browns and they
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: everyone said they was going to the super Bowl that year.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: We blew their ass out first game of the season.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: And I was like, I literally hit him with the
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: cors like commercial, crown him. If you want to crown them,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: you still got to play football. That is so good.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: That is the hell of it.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are who we thought they were. Yeah, who
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: they are who we thought they were.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: My first interaction with Delaney ye walking through the locker
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: about to go out to the to the outdoor for
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: like a Friday Is it the first time like the
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: rookies and the bets I came together. And I started
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: walking by, and I'm like aware of Delaney because we're
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: on a team that we don't have a lot of names,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: so but I know, like of the three names we
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: have football players. So then he goes, oh, you that
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: first round pick we got?
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh yeah, he goes, man, you seem a
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: lot bigger on TV you got I walked out, dude.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I was so insecure. I was like, oh dude, I'm
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: not gonna make it here.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: This sucks.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Hey that boy came out, he came out. It was
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: our only look at that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Yeah, I got you were, I got
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to you were.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: You're a big Michigan guy. Yeah yeah yeah, Michigan Race
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: coming up, Michigan Race. The team actually we staying in arbor,
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: so lot.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll tell you what, that's a cool photo.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Trader started coming to That's what I was like, no, no, no,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: hopefully they'll get a photo. So I got this guy,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: still have a scar to the stay a little crack
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: in my helmet and would like kind of like puncture
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: it like a scab. And then every game it would
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: like repuncture. It would open up. So at the first quarter,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I look like a mad man.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I was like, I ain't gonna cat That was scared me.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I look at I want to get hit by him,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and because he's gonna spit that blood on you when
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: he gets when they tackle you, like y'all don't see
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: what happens in the pals is just.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: So you guys played alongside on offense.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, man, him only I can only do certain
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: calls with him because we had another guy gonna say
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: his name, but we can't say all the calls like
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: man had dummy calls because we man it was a good,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: good defensive end.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he would say some crazy stuff. He'd be like,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: if I say Chance, it's fake, it's dummy. Hey, don't
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: don't bite on it. So he'll be like, hey, chip
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: chip Chance, Chip chip Chip. Due will be looking at me.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Come over there, we get it. He'd be like, hey,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: we're gonna keep that up. We read red. We'll say
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: like all type of crazy.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: D lady and I once I got past this first
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: insult of me, like we went out delan I kind of.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: We were in the streets a little bit. I'm twenty
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: one years old. The lady's like thirty two, but like
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: just a well forties. I'm with a vent right now.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: There's got it was ship we had. We had a
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: lot of fun.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Speaking of vets though. You driving number twenty four, Jeff Bordon,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: how is that? How is that on you?
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Like? Dude? I mean he's my boss, dude, so yeah,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: that's gotta be terrible. It was at first. I mean
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: he definitely kind of I remember my first conversation with
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Jeff to drive it Indrick. He pulled me into his
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: bus at Pocono and he was like, he's like, yeah,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I get you.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: You know, you're.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Driving these trucks like you're winning some races, but like
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: this cup car isn't a truck, so like you better
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: figure out how to drive stuff with like lower down
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: force and you know. So he was he was pretty
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: tough on me at first, and I think we have
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: a great relationship now where it's like like I've had
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: some success, so he's been able to see that and
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: like and be there for that and kind of mentor me.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: So it's been awesome.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Was how was the process of getting the number twenty four?
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Was it just given to you right away or did
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you have to like ask permission for that? Like how
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: did that all?
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: So I kind of got put into that place because
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: my teammate Chase wanted to go to the nine car
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: and that was his dad's number, and so I was
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: coming in as a rookie and they were like, hey,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: you know, we want to keep the twenty four going,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Like do you do you want to drive that number?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: And I was like sure, absolutely, d just like that.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: I mean it was a lot of presser, sure, but
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: I'm like, take it. You don't say no to that.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: You don't You're like, man, like you're I was nineteen
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: at the time. I'm like, I'll handle it. We got
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: it now. It was a rough couple first couple of years,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: but a rough first year, but I mean once you
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: get past that. But but yeah, it was cool.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: How do you you talk about a rough couple of years, Like,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: clearly you're rocking the twenty four, Jeff Gordon's now your boss,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: your your other boss. Mister Hendrix, he's I'm sure just
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: the way you tell you said his name, it seems
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: like he's a very dominating presence. And then rough couple
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: of years when you first start out in the NASCAR series. Yeah,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: how is it like trying to block out all of
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: the noise from like fans and the negativity that takes
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: place sometimes when you're going in racing and race out
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: and essentially fulfilling a dream of yours.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the first couple of years are you know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: there's a big learning curve. I'm sure, like just like
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: any sport, there's just a big there's a big jump
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: between the second series, which is O'Reilly to the Cup Series.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: So I don't. I feel like I wasn't immune to that.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I just kind of went through those rookie struggles and
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: just had to kind of learn those things that I
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: needed to do better and focus on as a as
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: a race car driver. But yeah, I think the biggest
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: thing was that, you know, Rick Hendrick, he just kind
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: of never questioned me, like he was like he just
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: stuck by me the whole time, and he was like
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: it was really that that first year and a half,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: I think was was when it was the toughest, and
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: then we started to kind of get it rolling after that.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Do you ever do you ever play the search bar
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: game on Twitter?
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I try not to try not to, but hey you do? Yeah,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: you do here? And then the way the algorithm is
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: now like sometimes they mention you and you don't even
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: want it.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. I remember like finishing games, I mean
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: like kind of killed it this game. I'm going to
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: go juice myself a little bit more and I type
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: in Taylor Lauwan in the search bar and I look
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: at him like ten comments, this dude the dog, He's this, X, Y,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: and Z, and then be one guy, be like this
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: guy got fucking ran over all day.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: He sucks and you see what he did on Lap
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: thirty nine.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: In my heart would like I'd have like nine great
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: comments and then it'd be like one and that's the one.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, yeah, I'll never make it. Yeah, while
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: it's a sixty year in the league, Like, yeah, you're
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: still doing your thing.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: I recently got some advice where it's like, don't read
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: the comments.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: How much harror is that not to do? Though, Like
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: it's so much easier said than done. It is because
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta think of my brain where it's
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: like I want to know the information, Like if someone
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: knows something that I don't know, I kind of want
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: to whatever, so I feel fully informed. Agree, but like, yeah,
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: the best thing for your mental is just kind of
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: stay away because there's always gonna be the supporters, Like
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: you're always gonna have your those top tier fans are
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: gonna love you no matter what. But there's there's people
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: that want to see the world burn. You just might
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: be their subject that day.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: I agree, And so it's just tough. It's hard when
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: somebody calls you out on something that you feel like
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: is accurate, like you're you're like you know, like you're like,
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: I might have made that mistake and then they see
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: it and you're like, ah, yep, got me, Like and
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: that's that's a tough kind of thing to get over.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I think it's just yeah,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: try to try to keep your head down and keep
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: I always feel like the closer I can be with
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: my team, the more I'm like less susceptible to to
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: kind of hearing those things.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Do you get the guys who bet and they're like,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: you cost me money? Like everything.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Even people close to me, like buddies of mine, are like, bro,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: is it gonna be a good weekend this weekend? And
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know. I'm not answering that, so
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you. I'm like, are you asking for are
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: you asking as a friend? Are you asking like because
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: you want to know? But yeah, I don't know. I
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: try to stay away from that, but it's it's definitely
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: like I feel like, yeah, people people always have interests,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Like they're always like or they'll be like, you know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: my dad's a big fan. So then they're like, oh,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: you got to win for my dad. I'm trying, bro,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: you're trying.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: I was actually lacking motivation today out of your dad's
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: a fan of definitely.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Now you told me like it's a big weekend.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have you.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Ever like dude being there this weekend? Like there was
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: actually a hilarious clip of some dude from it was
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: the Prime broadcast that took place, and there was a
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: dude in a like he had a tied ice shirt
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: on and you can just tell he was in zombie mode,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: like he was out there. You've seen him, right, And
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: have you ever had like the sun was really bright?
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was the walking Dead out was hilarious.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: He probably was. He was like, yeah, and he's just
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: any interview he interviewed people.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: No, bro, he doesn't live broadcast in the on the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: it's like the Prime broadcast.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: He was behind me and there's a dude back there
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: that truly.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Is like two am on Broadway type of Have you like,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: what's the most interesting or probably uncomfortable interaction you've had
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: with a fan? Just a hammered guy at the end
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: after a big dub think the team.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: So we have this is a good one. I'm gonna
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: say it's it's a positive one. But we have this
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: fan at Phoenix. He stands So the giry in Phoenix
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: you have like fans can stand right behind the car.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: So when I get to the car, I'm walking in
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: the garage, I'm like head down, kind of think about practice,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: and this guy at the top of his lungs just
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: is like, let's go Byron Like he just yells and
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: he's like he's excited.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Man, no stop like a chant.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, like and he's into it. Like his energy.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: I try to match his energy because it's impressive.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: Get up shirt off next time.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how old is he?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: I think? I don't know. I think he's like probably
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: in his thirties or forties. But he has like all
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: of our gear and yeah, usually suit, but he has
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: like the picture of my face on it or the
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: shirt of my face on it, stuff like that.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: You gotta get him a suit. We look him up.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he gets fired up.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Do we had When we had Bubba and Ryan on
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: last week, we talked about gifts that we do for
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: our team and they kind of like, yeah, we do dinners.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: We want to get to know everybody I am is
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: my personal goal to get drivers to start giving out
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: gifts to their pit crew guys.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Have we given up gifts like like the.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Chris for example, the year like going to championships. You know,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you give them some winning championship.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: As an offensive lineman, like our quarterback every year would
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: get us a gift marks, a nice pair of boots,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: he has a suit, jacket, watches. Russell Wilson got his
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: boys stock in Amazon, like ten thousand dollars in stock
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: at Amazon.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: I saw when they gifted all the like cars and stuff.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: We do all that, you know what sneaky?
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Give sponsorship that's not sto that.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shouts of this stuff for free. Yeah, they gave
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: most of this stuff free.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: I think we should. I mean, honestly, we do a
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: lot of like we do bonuses and stuff. But I
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: think get creative with it and maybe do something that
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: people would people would like.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: But you should get everybody to coliseum, like the first
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: person to finish this, Like the first person to finish
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: this is gonna get this watch or something like that.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Just tear them out. Yeah, yeah, I get all your
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: boys to go use these big brilly men trying to
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: figure out this little time.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Usually. Oh you know, I ain't trying to give away
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the secret. But if you got a sponsorship, you know
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, hey, I'm trying to do something with that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Your supply yeah, you know, like yeah your supply yeah
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Jim Jim stuff from form Energy. Yeah that could be good. Yeah, dude,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: want to do that.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: One thing I read that was super cool is you
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: obviously went to Liberty University. Yeah, and on your car
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: sometimes Liberty University is like your hood sponsor. Like how
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: does that feel knowing that, like your alma mater is
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: investig in you like that.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of wild because when I went there
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: on campus, which was you know, a little bit short
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: lived because I started racing, you know, around the country
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: every weekend, but I would come I would go there
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: and all my friends there would be like, oh, you
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: know how the race go, And it was just a
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: cool sort of interaction. So yeah, they've done a lot
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: for my career. I mean, I'm super thankful that they've
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: been a supporter of mine for for years, and yeah,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: I think that it's just it's cool, like we've done
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of stuff with the football team coach Chadwell
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: and they've been doing a good job over there too,
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: How does it feel like switching from cars to cars?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I know, you drove the eighty eight car and automle parts. Yeah,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: like yeah, so how how does it transfer over?
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't transfer over, Like they're they're so different,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: not good. It's like driving a van versus a sports car.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Like honestly, it's that different. Like the the cup car
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: is like very stuck to the road. You know, it's
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: got a really like tight, you know, kind of y'all moment,
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: so it's like got to really you know, it's basically
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: the tire feels like your Corvette, Like yeah, it's just
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: like that that finnicky and and then the the Riley
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: cars like driving a bus, it's like you can just
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: kind of like hanging out. Yeah, you can just hang
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: it out and like nothing really bad happens. So really
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: it's a lot different. But you learn the track, which
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: is a big thing.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: What's the g's don't those cars? Like getting into a turn?
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: How many can you probably pol like two and a
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: half three g's lap? Yeah, so you're just like yeah,
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: you're just you're stuck over there. Yeah, you got everything
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: padded up so you just don't have to move, but
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: like your head rest is like there, so you're just like, wait,
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: so how much how much you're like, yeah, it's bumpy, so.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: How much turn can you get with the helmets?
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: Nothing? Nothing. We're locked in, which is for safety too, right,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: like when we take an impact, like like I crashed
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: this last weekend and like I fly through the front
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: of it like if I wasn't locked in. Yeah, So
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: like you're your helmet and everything is like as tight
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: as you can get.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I always wonder, like what's a view? Like,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: so you just you can only see like from right here.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: You just like move your eyes, you move. Yeah, you
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: can see like out the left side better than you
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: can see out the right.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Really.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So when you're in this like this jam packed
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: caution like just comes comes over. You guys are all
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: kind of condensed back together, and you got guys on
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: all angles of you.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: M h.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: You're just kind of winging it.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: You can see him up until like they get like
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: forty five, Like if they get here, you can't you
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: can't really see him.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: And are you relying on comms to be like hey,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: you're good to pass, you're good to move.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Like you're it's like your peripheral like you feel it.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: So you're like you kind of like feel that guy
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: next to you, Like I don't know if it was
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: like that in football, like side to side, whether you
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: like feel someone next to you, but you you can
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: see them out of your peripheral but you're mostly just
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: like feeling for where they are with the air.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Because I don't have to like know that Taylor's right there,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: like if I'm doing we doing like a double or
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Tripp block. Yeah, I'm not looking at him. I just
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: know he's supposed to be there, so and you kind
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: of feel him.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: That's how we are. Like you you you expect that
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: guy to be like in a certain spot, yeah, okay,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: and you can you can see, you know, from here
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: to here, but you can't obviously see.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: What about the noise? What is what's happening in the car?
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Can you hear? Are you just hearing your car? Do
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: you hear a car coming up?
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: You hear like changes in tone? So, like we have
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of noise canceling stuff, So like the sound
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: inside the car is probably like ninety decibels something like that.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: It's still pretty loud, but it's not like to the
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: point where you're like your ears are irritated, but like
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: you can hear changes in tones, so like if the
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: exhaust comes next to you, like someone's getting close to you,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: you can hear that, so you kind of like you
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: hear that noise buffer differently and you're like, all right,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: he must be he must be trying to make a
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: pass or you know, you kind of gauge off of that.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Is it is it a down shift that you can
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: kind of tell that he probably about to try to.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Well and restarts. That's the big game is like you
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: can hear them, but you can't necessarily like you're looking
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: at them, but you can't necessarily like just be staring
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: at their car, like you have to kind of be
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: looking out at other things, like whatever it is. You
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: might be looking at the guy behind you, but you're
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: listening for for q's to know when to go.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: After the race, how long does it take you to
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: kind of calm down and get to sit Like this
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: race ended. I know you didn't finish the race, but
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: this race ended at one am. Yeah, Like I know,
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: if we ever played a night game and I get
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: back at one am after an away game, I'm up
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: till four am. I'm still playing the game in my head,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: and all that is the same.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: For you yeah, same for us. Yeah, like it takes
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: probably I would say three four hours and the adrenaline
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: finally kind of wears down. So for us, an ideal
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: scenario would be like to end at seven, because if
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: you end at seven, you're like by eleven, you're like,
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: all right, I can go to that. But until then,
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: like you know, if you had a bad day, you
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: might you know, pop a slide or something. You might
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: like just kind of try to decompress, but you still
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: are like, yeah, you're still in the zone and like
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: your head's kind of still buzzing from the race. So
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: adrenaline and like that all that build up for sure.
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: How does it go about though? Because I know you
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: guys are teammates, but we're striving to win a championship.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: I am striving to win a championship. How do you
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: guys go about sharing data information knowing that I still
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: got to beat my partner, yeah, to be champion, but
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: this still he's still part of my team. How does
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: that look to you guys?
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like one one guy winning helps
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: us all. Like it's kind of like high tide raises
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: all ships, Like you're just trying to get everyone on
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: the same playing field so that you can battle it
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: out between like we saw with Gibbs this past weekend,
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: like they're all battling for the win. Like that's what
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: you want. You want to battle between your teammates because
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: you feel like, Okay, now I have a chance to
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: win as well, so you're you're happy for them, but
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: you're trying to like constantly raise your team's level so
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: that you guys can all kind of build to that.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: So if you're winning, do I bring So if I'm winning,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: say I'm in this league and I'm bringing my team
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: with me because I'm winning, or how does that work? Yeah?
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: You try to like I mean no, like everyone's results
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: are independent of each other, but you're trying to like
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: share enough so that you guys can all kind of
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: improve at the same the same rate. So because I
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: feel like if you have someone as a teammate, it's
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: better or it's easier to share information with them and
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: know how it works then than it is a competitor
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: that's not an Hendrick.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as the driver, I understand, but what about the
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: crew chiefs? Do they feel the same way?
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: They share everything they're up there actually during the race,
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: like talking to each other each other, yeah, like they'll
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: be like, you know, the nine team will be like
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: talking to the twenty four like, hey, do you think
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: you're gonna pit here? That way they cover each other and.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Cover each other yecause they're not keep going.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because if one guy's like, no, I'm gonna pit,
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: and now you don't have any any coverage, Like now
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: the other guys are gonna queue off of that guy
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: and now you're by yourself. So the teams try to
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: like a lot of times, you know, work together to
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: to pit.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: This might be a very unique situation. But if you
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: guys are like you said, Gibbs is all kind of
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: racing for the win this past weekend, if Hendricks is
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: in a similar situation and one guy needs more points
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: to make it in the playoffs or somebody, do you
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: guys kind of have that in your head, like just
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: take you for instance, like hey, Willy Willie boy, he
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: needs a couple extra points again, maybe we give him
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: the dub today if I'm racing one, two and three,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: or is that just when it comes to the checker flag.
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: It's very war it is. It's like it's it's definitely
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: like subjective, like you have to make someone. You have
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: to be fast enough for someone to help you, Like
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: is how I always look at it, Like you have
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: to be up front leading, like for them to cut
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: your break, I think. And until then you can't. You
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: can't expect him to.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: You can't be sitting there too, being like let me
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: get this one.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: You can't be like in tenth like, hey, buddy, can
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: you slow down up there?
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, this point, dumb question? All good.
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: It's like Cal, Notton and and Ricky.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Cal's like, hey, can I can I win a couple?
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: And He's like, well, you gotta if you won, And
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: how that makes sense?
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: So you do like the movie?
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: Fires me up, fires me up.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: We're gonna get you out of here in just a second,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: but I want to play a quick little game you okay,
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: And this this game is nothing more than we're going
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: to show you a photo and you shoun give me
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: one word to describe that photo to you how it
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: feels in your heart.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, So.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: We'll start with the first photo.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Oh my teammates. Oh we're going over teammates here, Kyle,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: word one word funny?
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, Kyle's funny.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Northern Californian guy. Right there.
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: I would say Chase. I would say, uh, cerebral wow, balance,
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: big word, okay, Alex, I would I would say, he's
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: a he's a dog guy.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Dog got hyphenated?
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Love dogs, and I love dogs. We talked about usually
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: talk about that.
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: What's his dog?
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Ah, he's he has mini dogs?
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: Mini dogs? N okay, he's yeah, yeah, the big boys.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Are you a small dog guy? Medium sized dog guy? Man?
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: I have a soft spot for small dogs.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Talk to me.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a frenchy.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: I don't have any dogs, but if I if I did,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: I think i'd have like one that's like fifteen to
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: twenty five pounds, so small.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: To medium, but also get around.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: Exactly, like a mini husky or something.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, but I have to tell you I
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: got two huskies. You don't want to you don't want
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: right now? My wife, yeah, my wife loves animals. I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: loved animals, but I have so many animals. I don't
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: know if I love animals anymore. Really, it's a lot
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: of responsibility. You got a real zoolander, dude, I got yeah, exactly,
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: all right? Next photo? Please?
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Oh? Uh, I would say one. Mm hmm chaotic?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Oh is he that chaotic?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: So I have not met Carson. I am a fan
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: of car because of yours and Ryan's and Bubba's response.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I've heard the word ass while be thrown around. I've
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: heard chaotic. This guy just doesn't give a ship, does he.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: I mean it's for me. It's like it's sensitive because
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: he caused the crash I was in this week, so.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Really, but you come over those calms on him a
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: We'll see. It didn't driving like that. I didn't see
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: it until after. But he's gonna have to I don't know.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: People are gonna have to get after that one a
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: little bit.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: He's a tall boy, right, tall Like he's Slenderman type, right,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: you got to check his ass ad Michigan, dude, come on,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: be like, we fucking let me tell you.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: Something, right, We'll see, We'll see.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: But that'd be a fun little game. You and Carson,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: just a little rivalry.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know about rivalry. I think a lot of
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: people might have a rivalry with him right now.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: And is he Do you think he's just unfazed by
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: the idea of people maybe not liking him the most?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: It seems like it seems like it. Yeah, so we'll
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: see all right, fair enough? Yeah, yeah, it was a
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: tough one.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you running here at this time? Like
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: what we were not?
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: We weren't great. We had to come from the back.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: So I think we were like I want to say,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: like fifteen.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: But now was that when you watched that film back?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Did that feel intentional?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I didn't see it, Like, I didn't
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: see it until I kind of watched it back and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: then I.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Was like, all right, so what's he bumping up on
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: me before?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: When they when they threw me the phone in the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: garage as I'm sitting on jack stands, I'm like, I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: was a little pissy about that one.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can I commentate? Can you commentate what you see?
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Because I don't see it. I just see a lot
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: of bumping and then.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: Feels to me listen as a guy watching it, feels
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: to me like Carson feels a little bit of pressure
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: on his back right and kind of bumps him up
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: a little bit. Oh buddy, you want to you want
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: to play this game. You're not gonna pat boom hit
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: him into the wall a little bit.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: I feel like they was scrubbing that like Everyoneinitely was,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: It definitely was.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: There was a lot going on, but I think just
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: kind of late move into the corner and then and
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: then washed up. You know, if you hold the bottom there,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: you don't you don't wash up and crash everyone else.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Is there a point when you get hit like
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: that and there's a bunch of people coming, You're like,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: if I'm gonna be out, so is everybody else? Kind
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: of slow down, kind of tangle everybody like just that.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: I feel like that would be that would hurt, like sacrifice, Yeah,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: sacrifice myself just just crashing enough.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: For two un dumb questions. Let's get let's get the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: next head shot up?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: I would say Ross, I would say blue collar. Yeah,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: he works, he works hard at it, and he's aggressive,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: but I think you know he uh, there's definitely respect
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: there because I feel like he he works hard at it.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: All right, blue collar, but there's respect there because he
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: works hard at it. All hyphenated a lot of quote
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: graphic on that, all right.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: Last one, Oh man, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say iconic.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah right there, savage.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen the movie?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: What is that movie?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: Is it air? Bud air Bud. Have you seen the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: movie of the air Bud where the the dog. You've
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: seen that movie.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: I have seen that.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: Movie, okay, And at the end of the movie, and
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: then in the movie, there's the bad guy who has
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: the newspaper and he's doing this, and then there's the
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: kid who's like, come on, buddy, come on, get over here,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: and the dog's essentially choosing which side he's gonna go on.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: If Jeff Gordon was on one side and Jimmy Johnson
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: was on the other, which way you're going. I mean,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: that's a hell of a question. Remember where your boss
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: and an icon versus your favorite driver.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: Of all time before? Yeah, I was gonna say before
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Hendrick like I was a big Jimmy Johnson fan. I
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: still am. Not that Jimmy Johnson an I e No,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: Jimmy's the man. I mean, I gotta I'm a little biased.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: He he was my Yeah, he was my idol grown up.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: So I love both of them, though I was a big,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: big Hendrick fan. So it's closed, no doubts.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I will say this. You didn't answer the question. You're
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: gonna sit down. You're gonna sit down and be like, yeah,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: you guys are both the best.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, all right, don't take it sid dude.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming on, taking the time flying in here.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: It's absolutely incredible. It's been so awesome here first in
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: the NASCAR world.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: De lady.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: I know we'll talk about after, but I thought you
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: were incredible during this interview. You did an amazing job
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: as well. We we asked Bubba and Ryan this at
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: the end, and truly this is up to you. How
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: do I feel some type of way about those individuals? Yes,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: but I asked him at the end of the interview.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: There's a show that comes out called Radioactive, and we
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: watched it. We were watching the show now, Mitch watched it,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: and we asked Ryan and Bubba to say, shoutout racing
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: with the boys somewhere on the com and see if
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: we would make it on Radioactive. They did not do that.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: They didn't do it.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: They didn't do it. So here's an opportunity for because
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm sweet.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: Win, I'm showing you guys.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Were coming in energy.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: They absolutely ripley. How about racing with the boys?
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