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  Hello everyone, and welcome to the Kenny Wallace Show, brought
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  parts. Remember to go to jags.com.
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  You're probably wondering, Herman, where are you at now?
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  We are in St. Louis, MO at the beautiful Saint
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  Louis University. What's our what's our nickname?
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  Slew, Right, guys, we're going to do something really
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  interesting. By October 2024, I got an
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  invitation to come down here and watch the students put together
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  an electric race car. So I'm here.
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  I've donated a little bit of money to the project.
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  And this man met me in Lincoln, IL, and I won that night.
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  It was a big UMP race, so let's move a little bit closer.
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  OK? Your name, Jonah.
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  Jonah. And I remember that, Matt.
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  Matt, you were the one that invited me.
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  Caleb. Caleb.
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  All right, gang, where are you? Take Matt.
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  Where are you taking me to? Taking you to Oliver Hall to
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  meet the parks racing team and see the car.
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  All right, let's go, everybody. OK, here we are.
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  We are Where? Where are we?
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  What's this called? Oliver High.
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  Oliver Hall So Joe would come up here for a minute.
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  All right, we got a lot of students behind us.
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  So before we start, let's do a nice slow 360 and don't be shy.
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  Just do a complete 360 and everybody say hi.
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  Yep, there they are. Yeah, this is awesome.
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  Yeah. Well, thank you everyone.
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  We've had a nice talk. Jonah, this is the framing cage
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  is what I call it to the start of the is there is there a name?
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  PR5PR5 Parks Racing 50. I like that.
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  Parks Racing 5 so maybe roll on in here a little bit and let's
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  they have done a lot of tubing Notchy.
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  I I think the welding has been great, but yeah, they've had to
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  notch the tubing and and these students are are learning.
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  So can you show me the radius rods now these are they're not
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  used to doing in the in the this for us races.
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  We this is what we do for a living, but check this out
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  there. These are the.
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  This is the upper A frame. Yep.
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  So this is a upper, a arm. Yeah, this one is actually for
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  the rear, but I'll say I get the front.
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  Let's go. Back let's go where it's going
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  to go that. Ain't.
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  The way to that's OK, so this would be the upper A frame.
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  Kind of love it region and then these get welded.
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  Welded in there it's. Kind of like that.
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  Yeah, very nice. So almost like an IndyCar
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  wishbone, they call it a wishbone, you know, when you're
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  Thanksgiving at the wishbone. So that's a wishbone upper
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  A-frame. And I bet you all didn't know
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  that. Ridiculous.
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  OK, what about let's go over here a little bit closer.
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  This is very impressive. Everybody's 3D printing.
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  So explain to us. You got the hub here.
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  Yep. OK.
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  So we have a wheel hub. This is actually a 3D printed
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  brake disc. Check these kids out the 3D
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  printing. These are rotors, right?
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  For all of us racers, we know this so.
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  That's that's just a mock up. So we'll actually water jet our
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  own brake discs. You're going to make your own
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  rotors. They're going to What are you
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  guys going to Jetter? Yeah, They got great machinery
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  here. I saw a a Haas CNC machine, so
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  we know they own a couple Formula One cars.
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  Gene Oss, if you're wanting to know where Gene Hosk gets all
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  his money, I can tell you everybody's got one of his
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  pieces of machinery, OK? And then these are going to be
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  the upright, so these will be in the front.
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  So the wish cones will mount here and here, tie rod mounts
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  there, and then the brake caliper and then this wheel hub
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  will slide in there. So this whole thing to go get
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  your A frames, we'll we'll have some teamwork here, but they're
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  making all this. I'm very impressed.
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  So your wishbone will be up here and this will all go here and
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  the right rear tire will bolt right on this.
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  Good job, students. That that's awesome.
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  Who's the main 3D printer person?
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  Oh, come here. Stay right there.
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  Stay right there. This is awesome.
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  Yes, you're awfully smart. How did you learn how to 3D
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  print? On trial and error and a lot of
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  practice, I'm just so taught. So I picked it up.
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  I actually got three years ago, I got a 3D printer.
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  I'm just for Christmas, knew nothing about it, didn't know
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  anything about it. And just from trial and error I
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  just learned how to do. It man, oh man.
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  And so you'll turn. This will be made out aluminum.
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  I yes, I think so. This yeah.
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  And and this obviously made out of some type of steel.
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  Yes. Or that'll be yeah.
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  Cast iron brake rotor. Yeah.
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  Well, good jobs to everybody. So how many how many students?
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  We got one. What do you do?
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  I'm I'm for the drivetrain so I've designed the steering as
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  well as the pedal plate and I'm also working on the dashboard.
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  As well, I'll make make the dashboard out of carbon fiber.
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  I got to get him some carbon fiber.
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  Yeah, that's awesome. Well, good job.
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  So carbon fiber 3D printer I'm working on like.
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  The main battery cell box. So like what distributes all the
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  electricity on the system? Have you talked to Elon Musk
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  yet? He's the best.
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  Yeah. Body work.
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  Body work, Yes, make it look good.
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  Aerodynamics. That's the plan.
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  And aerodynamic, We'll get there later.
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  As long as there's fireworks on the car.
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  And behind this is a wind tunnel.
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  That's our own wind tunnel right there.
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  These two I know went to Texas University, Arlington.
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  University of Texas, Arlington. Yeah.
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  Let me give you this back. I'm carrying it around like
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  groceries. So one thing I like that the
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  students did is they didn't think they were too good for the
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  project. You went to Arlington and did
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  y'all learn some things? Yep, for sure.
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  We talked to a lot of the people on the team and got some good
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  advice on like modeling and that kind of stuff, yeah.
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  So come on, so we can we don't, hey, we don't got a speaker or a
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  microphone. What about you?
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  I work on the battery. Management system.
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  Just. Battery.
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  Management. House wired and stuff.
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  So I was. I was born, you know, attention
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  deficit disorder. I'm hyper.
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  So you know what just caught my I'm distracted right now.
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  Move out of the way. Look, look what I just found.
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  And I just did a interview with Irish Saunders, who's with
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  Hoosier Towers for 40 years. So these come out of around
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  Lakeville IN Plymouth, IN. That's awesome.
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  So going to have a Hoosier Times on this baby.
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  Yeah. Good job.
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  Come on. And then I'm working on the
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  suspension suspension cadding stuff so we can make them.
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  Yeah, yeah. The CAD on the computer.
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  Yeah. Good job.
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  My my son-in-law, Brody. You know, you get on the
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  computer. CAD is where you design it and
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  then make it come to life. Don't be shy.
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  Come on, keep following me. They won't be.
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  So I work in the powertrain mostly with the differential in
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  the motor. So I'm designing the
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  differential amounts which he's got.
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  Right here. We have a 3D printed mock up of
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  it, so this will be mostly water jet and then for the inside lip
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  it'll have to be we'll have to use the CNC.
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  Oh, I love it. You're talking my life.
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  So. So the when all when it all
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  comes down to it, are you telling me all the power is
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  going to go to this? Is this our differential?
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  Yeah, awesome. So all the power will go to this
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  and this will. Yeah, we'll have a largest
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  bracket. Deb attached us to these point
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  here, driven by just a motorcycle chain, and then, Yep,
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  that's what we'll get. Our absolutely fantastic.
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  Oh, what about your, your last but not least circuit batteries?
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  Oh, what do you mean? Just so I think what do we have
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  four people on the battery? Yeah, 5 five people on the
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  battery. All right, so I think that's it.
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  Why don't you come over let's trade places the camera.
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  We won't show you She's wanted by the police.
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  No, come over here. We're going to we're going to
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  end like this. I would like you all behind me
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  up. Listen, this this is a a big
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  shout out to Saint Louis University in Saint Louis.
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  We call this bunch slew. Matt, how many students are on
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  the whole campus? There's around 15,000 and 15,015
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  thousand people. I think we're quite famous.
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  Got a good basketball team that's known throughout America.
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  But anyway, thank you all for inviting me.
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  Thank you. And remember to log on and see
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  yourself here on the on the Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  All right, well, listen, where do we go to learn more about
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  this projectsomething.com, slew.edu, slew, sluslew.edu.com
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  and then. We also.
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  Have our. Own website.
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  Is it? Formulizedslew.edu.
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  What is it? Formulas.
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  Parks, racing.com.com. Let's do it all over again.
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  Can you tell me? OK, it's good.
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  Let's say it's up. There is.
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  There a. Parks, hold on.
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  Let me see. Oh my.
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  Slough is over here. Come on over here.
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  We want to get it right. So if you want to follow this
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  project, maybe let's show this really nice.
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  Let's focus up there a little bit.
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  There we go right there. Let's stay like that just for a
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  little bit. So there we are.
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  Everybody follow this project. This is where we find all the
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  smart people and they make things better for all of us in
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  the future. Until the next Kenny Wallace
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  YouTube show. We'll see you all later.