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Screen to Speed No.46: Alex Goldschmidt, a voice with passion! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Welcome to Screen to Speed, powered by Init eSports.
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  In this podcast, we dive into the journeys of remarkable individuals
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  making waves in sim racing and bridging the virtual with the real.
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  From the thrill of digital circuits to the roar of real life racetracks, we explore
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  the passion, dedication, and innovation that drives the world of motor sports.
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  We'll hear from athletes, creators, and pioneers sharing their stories,
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  insights, and the powerful ways sim racing is connecting communities and
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  creating pathways into motor sports.
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  So buckle up screen to speed starts now.
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  Hi, everyone.
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  Welcome to any talks.
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  Uh, happy see everybody here.
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  We didn't, uh, have any talks long time.
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  Uh, first of all, want to, uh, say that we got Alex, uh, Goldschmidt with us today.
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  Welcome, Alex.
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  Hi, Lou.
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  Hi everybody.
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  Uh, good to be on.
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  Thanks for the invitation and really looking forward to a good chat over
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  the, the next few minutes or so.
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  Yeah.
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  Thank you so much for being here with us.
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  So please, uh, follow the channel and, uh, let's start Alex.
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  Uh, so how did your love for racing first start?
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  Like was it car or like you watched some races or something else?
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  Um, I go back to, I'm, I'm gonna really show my age here, Lou.
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  Uh, I go back to the mid 1980s.
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  Um, my dad and a few of his friends were big petrolhead and we got the opportu,
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  well, myself and my best friend at school at the time, we ended up going to
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  Brands Hatch, and this was back in the day when Formula One had pre-qualifying.
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  We missed pre-qualifying by 20 minutes.
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  Ended up watching Formula forward, uh, from then.
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  Dad made it a usual thing.
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  I think the first Grand Prix we watched together was the iconic 1988 Monte
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  Carno Grand Prix when Sena was trying to lap frost, put it in the, uh, in
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  the barriers just before the tunnel.
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  But it was that sense of, um, how Aton drove the car.
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  Like he, it was like it was his tango partner on the dance floor.
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  It just captivated me, the sound, the noise, the, just the
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  visceral nature of motorsport.
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  And then I became a really, really big fan.
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  We, we were watching as many Grand Prix as we could, depending
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  on what the family was doing.
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  And, uh, it just went on from there.
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  Uh, after every single, you know, like four one was part of my life,
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  uh, the best part of two decades.
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  And then I. Started enjoying other motor sports.
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  So like sports cars, feeders, single seaters, uh, single seaters.
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  Uh, DTM was another one.
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  Um.
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  That I really got into.
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  And then most recently, in the last decade, you know, ims, a world sports, uh,
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  you know, the World Endurance Championship and, and there's so much more motor
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  sport out there to, to really enjoy.
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  And I've become a lover of all, all things that's got an engine note and burns tires,
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  burns fuel, and provides great racing.
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  So you're really passionate about racing all the noises and all
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  the stuff that's really cool.
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  So I think we all, uh, we hear, uh, all really like, uh, that in racing.
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  Definitely.
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  Uh, do you remember the first time you realized like that.
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  Really your thing.
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  So not like you like watching races and, uh mm-hmm.
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  You know, go for events.
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  Uh, you realize that you, uh, can jump into industry and be in it.
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  Um, I sort of got an itch that I wanted to scratch back in the late
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  two thousands, so like 2008, 2009.
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  And I wanted to be like the best F1 reporter going, you know, formula One
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  was what I really, really loved, and it was, it was like at that level a
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  little bit higher than everything else.
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  Um, so I got in touch with some people.
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  Um, I didn't really have any experience, uh, but my mom always told
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  me that when I was younger, she said.
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  You found it, uh, that I would find it better to communicate on,
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  uh, a pen and a piece of paper rather than speaking to people.
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  And through that I made some connections with, say, a pop culture website that
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  needed a, uh, a motor sports writer.
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  I then ended up going through multiple different websites, um, whereby it
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  was voluntary work so you weren't getting paid for what you loved doing.
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  Uh, and it was then when I got to like 2015 where commentary became on my radar.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And I got the opportunity to do some voluntary work on, uh, downforce radio.
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  Uh, a channel that was founded by a good friend who was still
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  a good friend to this stage.
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  Jake Sanson and I ended up doing the four hours of funk up, ran Hatch indie.
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  We had every single chaotic situation.
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  We had multiple safety cars.
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  We had.
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  Slippery surface flags.
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  The weather came in 30 minutes before the end of the race and we were
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  red flagged with 90 seconds to go.
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  'cause the Rangers went completely ballistic.
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  And then I thought after that I just went, you know what?
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  I'd rather do the commentary because you're able to provide
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  your personality, but also.
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  Tell the story the way that you see it mm-hmm.
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  To the general viewers or listeners out there.
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  And so I got bitten by the bug and commentary is now my livelihood.
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  I I, I travel around so many places I. I think I did 80,000 kilometers worth
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  of travel last year, 43 flights, and that's every single kilometer measure.
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  So from like driving to the airport, flying in the plane to a location, I
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  think my longest trip last year was London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to
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  commentate at the Sang karting circuit.
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  And that was about a good 18,000 kilometers travel there and
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  back with a stop off in Doha.
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  On each journey, so, mm-hmm.
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  It was, um, it's crazy how chaotic my life has been at weekends.
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  But the good thing is I've got a very, very close family and it's always nice
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  to come back home and sleep in your own bed when you've been away for three to
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  four days and you're just like that.
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  I just need the comforts of home.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Uh, let's talk a little bit about your travels.
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  Uh, do you remember any.
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  Pan things, uh, which happened also.
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  Uh, good to know that you visited, uh, Sipan.
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  I race here a lot of times, uh, with formal BMW, then with formal war,
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  um, just in love with the circuits.
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  Uh, conditions are tough, but, uh mm-hmm.
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  Sipan is, is great one.
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  Um.
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  Yeah.
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  Um, funny travel stories.
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  Actually, most recently, uh, we're talking probably within the last
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  month, if anyone might remember that London Heathrow was shut down
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  due to the, the sub power station.
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  Three miles south bursting into flames.
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  Uh, well I was due to, I was due to fly to Brussels to go to Kati
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  Dian in southern Belgium, right off the Franco Belgian border.
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  So there's been no notifications on my smartphone, no notifications
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  on the N 25 leading to e throw.
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  And I rock up to the car park and they go, uh, the barrier's up.
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  So like, instantly you think, what's going on here?
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  And they said, um, he throws clothes today.
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  Like this.
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  And I go, what are, are you kidding me?
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  I, I've got a business trip.
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  And like, he looked me up and down.
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  He said, you didn't like look, look like you're going on business.
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  I said, am a motor sports commentator?
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  Come on.
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  I said, don't judge appearances by, by the, by the cover.
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  You know?
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  Um, and so I said, well, what's the situation?
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  Oh, well, the.
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  The, the, the parking provider will get in touch with you.
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  Obviously your flight provider will get in touch with you, which I have
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  to give shout out to British Airways.
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  They were absolutely spot on.
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  Um, flight was canceled and I was able to reboot my flights for another time.
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  So.
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  The good thing is being in the southeast of the United Kingdom, you are not
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  that far away from the Euro tunnel.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So, and this is like 20 past five in the morning, Luke, and I've just gone.
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  Right.
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  The only way I, so I looked on flights for Gatwick direct to Brussels.
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  None.
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  Lutin none.
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  Stan Stanzi, no.
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  Uh, London City Airport.
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  No.
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  And I went, okay.
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  Right.
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  The only way I can do this is, uh.
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  I've gotta book the Euro tunnel and rebook the flights for another time.
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  So, which luckily enough, I had an event mm-hmm.
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  To the same location two weeks later.
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  So there I was at seven o'clock in the morning booking euro tunnel, uh,
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  Euro tunnel, uh, crossings to and from Bruss, uh, to and from Cali.
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  And I was communicating with my assistant.
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  She'd gotten up early because my.
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  Um, my nephew Austin, who's the apple of our eye here, um, he's five years
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  old, he's turning six in August.
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  He's fully autistic, nonverbal, um, and is very, very sensory sensitive.
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  So like, say noise, light, um, sudden sounds, um, sudden movement even.
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  Um, she'd kept my sister up a little bit during the night from about
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  three until five that morning, and I said, right, okay, I need
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  to book the Euro tunnel ticket.
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  She said, well, you've gotta do the work.
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  You've gotta do it, so just get it done.
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  I then had to stop off at the local, local, um, cast spares
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  place to pick up a first aid kit.
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  'cause that was the only thing I was missing.
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  So I had the, the high visibility vest, the hazard triangle, the bulb kit.
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  Um, and then the first aid kit was the only thing I needed, and I think
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  I drove about 1400 kilometers in total there and back and all these, mm-hmm.
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  Surrounding mileage.
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  Um, so that was, um, that was a, my most recent, uh, funny experience.
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  Other things that have happened to me, um, I've had higher car companies,
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  major higher car companies actually say we've run out of vehicles.
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  Like literally you are having, then you have to find another provider
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  and then you find that provider's more expensive, yada, yada, yada.
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  So it's like minor things, but it, when I got to Marburg, um, I
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  spoke with a couple of the team.
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  They said, how are you feeling?
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  And I just started laughing and they said, why?
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  What's happened?
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  And I went.
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  If I tell you the journey that I've had just now, you'd probably tell
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  me to go away and just say, shut up.
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  That's not true.
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  Um, and we just all had a laugh, uh, over dinner and a drink over it.
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  So that has been, I think, the most, um, in terms of funny travel stories.
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  Uh, the, there was also one in 2020.
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  I'm just trying to think now.
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  Uh, 2023, I was due to go over to the Bahrain International Carting circuit,
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  uh, for work for Rotax, and I get a phone call the week before I'm due to fly.
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  Oh, uh, what's your availability like?
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  And it was the dates for the week after and I said, well,
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  you realize I'm in Bahrain.
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  Um, so then.
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  Uh, the deal, the, the agreement was made pretty, pretty quickly within
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  48 hours of the initial discussion.
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  And then I remember having to wait three hours because the flight
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  for, for British Airways to London, Heathrow from Bahrain was delayed.
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  So there I was on my smartphone watching Motorsport TV for about three hours
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  waiting until I could check my bag in.
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  But the, the, the recent travel to, to Belgium, I think is
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  the worst sort of problematic.
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  Journey, but you just have to, it's, it comes with the territory.
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  It's first world problems as the hashtag suggests.
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  Um, and it is what it is.
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  It's just part and parcel of it.
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  You just have to roll with punches.
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  And if you're gonna be running a little bit behind you just tell the organizers
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  saying, look, this is the situation.
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  I'll be with you soon as I can.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Well, we got a really, uh, busy life and a lot of adventures in it.
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  Definitely.
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  Yes, that's, that.
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  That's very, very true, Lou.
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  I mean, um, yeah, it's 43 flights last year, I think already we're,
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  we're now what coming up to.
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  I've got three.
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  Oh, well, um, just for you folks out there that do follow me on socials,
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  I've got Super GT Motorsport TV for Saturday and Sunday, Porsche Switzerland,
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  Saturday all day Dutch, uh, Dutch karting championship season over the in Bergham.
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  So I think probably by the time I get home at about midnight on Monday morning,
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  I'll have done just 5,000 kilometers worth of traveling alone that weekend.
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  So, yeah, it's really hard to be a commentator for motor sports events.
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  Definitely.
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  Yeah.
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  It, it, it is, especially when you are, you are one person that's, uh, in demand.
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  I mean, especially with the, uh, the carting because the week
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  next weekend I do the first round of the German car championship.
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  Fun enough, inbo, which means I've got flights of Brussels again.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Heath.
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  Don't let me down.
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  Please don't let me down.
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  So it's, it's the case.
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  You have to be on a bit of a wing and a prayer.
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  Like I say, Lou, it's just, um, you roll with the punches, but there's, apart
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  from the travel, there's just so much more involved in, in being a commentator.
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  You are, you are constantly researching and like, like for
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  instance, this is my Bible.
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  This goes everywhere with me and it's got all my notes that I've spent the last.
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  Like literally entry.
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  Well, from, from what people can see, there's like entry lists.
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  I've got notes underneath.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  I've got track maps, um, championship standings.
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  Like literally that has taken me multiple conversations to sort out, because people
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  might say, oh yeah, well, you know, all this information as a commentator.
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  Yes, but you've got to be fully prepared.
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  And if you can't get the information before the event, if you are there
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  the day before or two days before, you can try and find the drivers,
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  um, and speak to them and say, right.
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  Okay.
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  I dunno much about your past history.
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  Can you tell me a little bit about yourself in the next couple of minutes?
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  And then what you also need.
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  A good old note because, well, just in case with a pen.
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  I mean, I never go, I never leave home with any, without any of that.
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  It's just, um, part and parcel of of, of being in this industry.
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  You know, definitely if you got different events, like you said, you got Porsche,
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  you got carting and, uh, different drivers completely in this series.
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  Uh, so you need to be up to date every time and yeah, that's good
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  that you got this folder and you're well prepared every time.
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  That's great.
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  Uh, can you tell me what's your favorite, uh, part about, uh, mentating
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  outside of, uh, travels, some funny, uh, situations which happened with you?
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  Um, to be honest with you, I think the, one of the biggest things for me is.
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  When you travel, uh, this is aligned with the travel side of it.
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  When you meet people in the paddock and you get to know not just the
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  driver, but you get to meet the people that work with the driver, like
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  the engineer, the mechanic mm-hmm.
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  The team boss.
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  You get to, you get to spend time with people.
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  And uh, that's the thing, as a commentator, you are the person
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  that is the voice of that.
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  Championship or one of the voices of that championship.
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  So you've got to be a little bit, uh, on the mic.
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  You could be a bit more of an extrovert, a bit more outgoing with your personality.
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  Uh, but you've got to be that people person.
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  You've gotta be that, you know, professional, but you still have
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  that positive mental attitude.
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  And, and that's one of the biggest things that I love about real life motor sport.
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  Um.
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  Is the, the, the, the people that you work with as part of the
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  organization, the people that you meet.
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  And it's not just the teams and the drivers, it's also the families.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  You know, let's say younger sister, younger brother, elder sister, elder
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  brother, mum, dad, grandparents.
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  Um, I've, I've had it where four generations were in the
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  same paddock at one time.
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  So you had daughter mm-hmm.
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  Racing driver, mom.
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  Grandmother.
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  And then because of the, well, because of the, the genetics in the
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  family, from what I was told, the great grandmother was there as well.
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  Wow.
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  Uh, which was, which was mind blowing.
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  Um, but it's, it's more the case of it is about the people and it is about the,
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  you know, when everything's calmed down on the track loop, it's more the case of,
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  it's the, the ambiance, the atmosphere.
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  Like everyone has just gone.
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  Right, the racing's done.
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  Time to chill out, get to know people.
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  Uh, and there's been times when families or teams have invited me out for
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  dinner and I've accepted because I.
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  You wanna make sure that, okay, yes, people might say, well, you
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  are, you might just be freeloading.
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  No, it's, it's about the spirits of community.
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  And it doesn't matter whether it's sim racing or real life, there is a
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  big community aspect about what we do.
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  And you cannot, you cannot deny that because we're all
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  part of the human condition.
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  Yeah, that's really true.
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  So this is exactly what I really like about sim racing and, uh,
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  doing my streams on Twitch, uh, and I racing community as well.
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  That's all about people who into this industry and, uh, all my streams also,
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  I'm all the time happy to see them and, uh, they all got, uh, different stories
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  in their lives, but we connect here, uh, with some racing with, uh, streams
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  and, and that's a really good thing.
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  Definitely.
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  Um.
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  Do you have a race, uh, which, uh, you've called that you will never
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  forget in your, uh, commentary career?
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  Um, well, as the surname suggests, ladies and gentlemen, I act, I'm
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  actually, uh, I'm part German by descent.
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  Uh, my grandfather was born in the suburbs of Bergen, Berlin, uh, not too far away
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  from the Alexander Platz and the Belling Temple Health Airport, which is now,
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  uh, used predominantly for Formula E.
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  Uh, 2023, uh, I was the circuit commentator for the circuit experience
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  for Formula E for that round of the championship and completely in German.
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  I was commentating the whole weekend on every free practice session, qualifying
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  and both races, and just to think that, um, I was only 25 minutes away by taxi.
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  From the place where my grandfather was born was quite a seminal
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  and quite an emotional moment.
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  Luke and I remember our broadcast director, uh, Del Brown, he
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  said, Alex, for the final time this weekend, well done.
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  You may stand down.
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  So, um, I, uh, I, I basically, I cried by I, my tear ducks
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  dry for about five minutes.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Just because of the realization of how.
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  From my grandfather Habb, who passed away when I was five.
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  He legally immigrated to the United Kingdom before the Second World War and
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  had to go to the local constabulary in London every six months with a document
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  called the Aliens Order, where they would interview him, ask him where he
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  is been, what he is been doing, and then they would stamp the book and say, okay,
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  you're good for another six months.
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  And to have that.
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  Where you've got grandfather to father to son, uh, to son.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And having that sort of full circle, I, I got really emotional and like people
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  could see that my eyes were like red.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Not, not on the pupils or anything, but like the, like my tear ducts
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  were dry, my face was bright red and they, they, they wondered why.
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  And so I told them and they went, that's just really, really awesome.
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  And it, and it was quite nice because, um, I. Oh God.
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  Yeah.
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  Now, now I've reminded myself of another bad journey home and it was funny enough,
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  it was that weekend, but, uh, I'll give you the version of that in a second.
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  But it was, it was just like.
• 20:57
  People connected on that emotional level.
• 20:59
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:00
  And, and that again, goes to that community side of things.
• 21:04
  But that weekend, Berlin had an air, uh, had a airport
• 21:07
  strike at Berlin Brandenburg.
• 21:09
  So I had to take the train to Hamburg, got delayed by an hour and half,
• 21:14
  leaving Ha Hamburg hub, bun Hor, got to the hotel at one in the morning,
• 21:18
  thought okay, his flight's at six 30.
• 21:20
  I'll get up at, I'll get up at like four 30 and have a shower.
• 21:24
  My alarm woke me up at five o'clock and I just went.
• 21:27
  Ah, I've gotta get through security and I made it by last call.
• 21:30
  Uh, and then I was quite happy to get back to home, uh, to UK soil at
• 21:35
  London Gatwick, even though I'd flown from E. But yeah, it, it that, that to
• 21:40
  me, um, is the most emotional moment.
• 21:43
  I will, I. Never forget at all.
• 21:46
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:47
  Yeah, I think it, it's really good to, you know, return back to places, uh,
• 21:51
  would give you some emotions and you share this emotions with other people.
• 21:55
  And also that makes, uh, like easier situation by the end, uh, for you.
• 22:01
  So it's really cool.
• 22:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 22:02
  Definitely.
• 22:03
  Um, let's pick about, uh, formal EA little bit so I know that you're
• 22:08
  doing some commentary on them.
• 22:10
  Um, so tell me more about this.
• 22:14
  Well, it was, um, I. It was, uh, I'm, I'm part of the Loudspeaker Agency, which is
• 22:19
  run by Gemma Scott and Louise Beckett.
• 22:21
  Two women that have made their careers as presenters and pit lane reporters
• 22:25
  in Motorsport most nightly GT World Challenge, powered by AWS for Gemma.
• 22:29
  And Louise Beckett was the Pit Lane report and for the World Endurance
• 22:32
  Championship, uh, for the World Feed, um, for many, many years.
• 22:36
  And, um, about five years ago, uh, they set up a loudspeaker agency, which is to
• 22:43
  help other talent get the opportunity.
• 22:46
  To, uh, commentate or present or be involved within, not just
• 22:51
  Motorsport, but other sports beside it.
• 22:53
  'cause some of the commentators that I know, such as Chris McCarthy,
• 22:57
  who's just become the, uh, world Feed commentator for FIA Formula two,
• 23:01
  following in the footsteps of Alex Jakes.
• 23:04
  Um, Chris was their first ever client, and I've known Chris since 2017.
• 23:09
  He was the one that gave me my start in this business as a commentator.
• 23:13
  Um.
• 23:14
  Ha records racing saying that's convenient.
• 23:16
  I'm heading to Miami.
• 23:17
  Yeah.
• 23:18
  Miami on Saturday for Formula E. Have to give a shout out to my
• 23:21
  good buddy who's now the World Feed commentator, Tom Brooks.
• 23:24
  Um, it's quite funny how a lot of people that I know in the industry
• 23:28
  that are going, you know, that are making these stride strides forward,
• 23:33
  are now getting that recognition.
• 23:36
  Um, so for me, I, I just was, uh, I got contacted by Gemma,
• 23:40
  I think it was late 2020.
• 23:41
  Two or early 2023 and she said, you, you are being shortlisted
• 23:46
  for the Formula E gig in Berlin.
• 23:48
  Two weeks before the event I got the call, I was, uh, sitting down having dinner
• 23:52
  with my family and I've seen her number and I've gone, I need to answer this.
• 23:56
  And they said, is it what we think it is?
• 23:58
  I said, now we find out.
• 24:00
  So I walked away from the table and she said, yeah, you got the gig.
• 24:03
  Mm-hmm.
• 24:03
  It's the only time I've done for me to read commentary, but um.
• 24:07
  One of the funniest things, one of the funniest stories there, I got
• 24:10
  the brightest, um, you know, like where you get these mo, you know,
• 24:15
  these really, really brightly colored like, uh, Caribbean style hoodies.
• 24:20
  Well, I had the one that maybe looked like I'd come from Barbados
• 24:23
  only and needed a tan on my face and it had formulary and pink letters.
• 24:27
  And one of the things that was happening was that after qualifying one of the
• 24:32
  presenters, either Toby or Kayana would come into the, the Porter cabin.
• 24:37
  Which is literally just off the start, finish rate and asked me, well,
• 24:41
  you know, what a great qualifying, and then I was getting, I was, I'd
• 24:44
  like, I'd become a mini celebrity.
• 24:46
  I was like, thinking why are, why aren't people in, uh, interested in,
• 24:50
  you know, like say Nico Miller or maybe even Daniel Apt, who is mm-hmm
• 24:55
  testing the new Gen three car I said.
• 24:57
  Why am I getting, uh, and then I end up on someone's Instagram story and
• 25:01
  my picture with them is above Daniel, uh, Danny Fiat of all people mm-hmm.
• 25:06
  Who was doing the young driver test the following week in Berlin.
• 25:08
  And I was like, thinking.
• 25:11
  This is really, really crazy.
• 25:13
  And then the amount of comments for people that had actually been there either on
• 25:17
  the Saturday or the Sunday, they either messaged me personally and said, thanks
• 25:20
  for, thanks for doing such a great job.
• 25:22
  Really enjoyed your commentary.
• 25:24
  Hopefully you're back next year.
• 25:26
  Unfortunately it didn't happen.
• 25:27
  Um, but you know, you have to take these opportunities whilst you get the chance.
• 25:33
  Yeah, sure.
• 25:33
  I, I think that was great experience for you anyway.
• 25:36
  And, uh, would like to ask you, because you mentioned, uh, before that you
• 25:41
  like about racing and motorsport, the sound of engine and all this stuff.
• 25:46
  So what do you think overall about, uh, electric racing and, uh, we
• 25:51
  would have a future and maybe we'll go on to see like more serious, uh.
• 25:55
  Like this.
• 25:57
  Well, based on 25 years of automotive experience, I was in the auto
• 26:01
  industry until September 1st, 2020.
• 26:04
  I think electric is part of the future.
• 26:07
  It is not the complete solution.
• 26:10
  Uh, you're seeing championships like DTM, uh, super, GT over in
• 26:14
  Japan, rot on sustainable fuels, you know, so they're using these CNFs,
• 26:18
  which are carbon neutral fuels.
• 26:20
  You are seeing total energies.
• 26:22
  For instance, for the crowd, for, for the 24 hours of spa and for the world,
• 26:26
  you know, like part fuel partners are now going into sustainable fuels, like say
• 26:33
  Total energies for the 24 hours of Lamar.
• 26:37
  The, they, they did, they, they did something which I thought
• 26:40
  was quite quirky, but actually was a quite good marketing ploy.
• 26:44
  They did the total energies based their sustainable fuel
• 26:48
  on, uh, wine grape residues.
• 26:51
  Mm-hmm.
• 26:51
  And then they did, uh, then they had the 24 hours of Lamar Virtual powered
• 26:55
  by Total Energy Energies energy bars, which were made from the same residues.
• 27:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 27:02
  So you can see that how, uh, the, the technological advances we are, we.
• 27:09
  Uh, I'm looking at electric as a, as as a partial solution.
• 27:13
  Fuel cell technology is so underrated.
• 27:18
  It is obscene, uh, I mean like Hyundai with the IX 35 fuel cell
• 27:22
  vehicle back in late 2000 tens.
• 27:25
  Then they came out with the, the nexo, which was the second generation of it,
• 27:29
  BMW with the ix, uh, with the X five.
• 27:32
  They've had like multiple.
• 27:35
  Uh, hydrogen fuel cell cars being trialed by companies.
• 27:40
  Um, carbon neutral fuels definitely the way to go.
• 27:43
  If Porsche can set, spend over 150 million Euros mm-hmm.
• 27:47
  On a planted Chile to keep the nine 11 they halo car alive.
• 27:51
  Well, you could be damn sure that other fuel partners like,
• 27:55
  say, shell, like, say total.
• 27:58
  Um, so, you know, all the big brands I think have.
• 28:03
  You know, yes, they've drilled for so many years, but it's now, it's
• 28:07
  their time to help keep internal combustion engine cars on the road.
• 28:14
  We, it is.
• 28:15
  I think it's just that they're from when, like say people were
• 28:19
  saying we are gonna be net zero by.
• 28:23
  Formula.
• 28:23
  Formula One is a perfect example.
• 28:25
  They wanna be carbon neutral by 2030.
• 28:28
  Mm-hmm.
• 28:29
  Not all of their production team is on site at the circuits.
• 28:32
  They're located at FOM headquarters in Biggin Hill.
• 28:35
  Like say Chris McCarthy, Alex Brandle, some of the other commentators,
• 28:40
  they will go to Biggin Hill.
• 28:41
  They will not be flown on site because that CO2 being pumped into
• 28:46
  the air by more people flying.
• 28:49
  And it's easier on the environment.
• 28:52
  You know, a hundred percent sustainable fuels will be coming in I think for 2026.
• 28:56
  And now you are seeing a lot more motorsports are doing it.
• 29:00
  So if the motorsport industry can do it, why can't the automotive industry mm-hmm.
• 29:06
  See behind, see past the end of their, is my honest opinion as a, having been a
• 29:11
  professional, I saw so much technology.
• 29:14
  Like say when, if anyone might remember the old Mark four golf GT
• 29:17
  TDIs with, what was the Pomper Doer Direct injection diesel technology,
• 29:23
  which revolutionized the market.
• 29:25
  Um, that, that was, that was a, a fantastic technology.
• 29:30
  It's only Euro six emissions that basically said Volkswagen
• 29:33
  you can't do, or Euro five Volkswagen couldn't do it anymore.
• 29:36
  But I think it's, it's more the case of motorsport can
• 29:39
  lead the way for automotive.
• 29:40
  Mm-hmm.
• 29:41
  And we see that with the technological advances at the mall.
• 29:44
  Especially with the the LMDH cars, we now see there's a varying amount of solutions,
• 29:49
  different power plants, like a twin turbo V eight, and the Lamborghini squatter.
• 29:53
  Across the 63, you've got the four liter.
• 29:56
  Uh, now this is an interesting bit of information.
• 29:59
  I didn't know this until I found out about the spec of the car,
• 30:02
  the B-M-W-M-V eight hybrid.
• 30:05
  The engine that's in it is the original four liter V eight that's now got two
• 30:10
  turbo chargers on it, and it's the engine that powered the original returning
• 30:15
  BMWM three when BMW made its return to the DTM in the early 2000 and tens.
• 30:22
  So there are solutions to every problem and I, I think that these, you know,
• 30:27
  the governments in some respects have.
• 30:31
  Try to, try to look into their crystal ball that's obviously broken and go,
• 30:38
  well, okay, we, we need to make sure all cars are, you know, uh, all new cars are
• 30:43
  electrified, fully electrified by 2035.
• 30:47
  That will never happen.
• 30:48
  Mm-hmm.
• 30:48
  Because the amount of r and d, the amount of development, the time crunch
• 30:53
  that the, the manufacturers are under.
• 30:55
  You know, and that's why you are seeing Mercedes going away from the two
• 31:00
  liter four cylinder turbo charge C 63.
• 31:04
  They're bringing back the V eights.
• 31:06
  So you are now seeing that government, government forcing restrictions
• 31:10
  on manufacturers are hurting the reputations of said manufacturers.
• 31:15
  I don't, and.
• 31:17
  I'm glad that they are bringing back the v eights.
• 31:19
  It's what Falta bark is known for.
• 31:22
  So I think t the automotive industry with the help of their motorsport arms can
• 31:27
  really progress the technologies further.
• 31:30
  And if Motorsport can develop tech, uh, get like say l and DH cars on the road in
• 31:36
  a couple of years, who's not to say they can help accelerate the r and d programs.
• 31:41
  Of their automotive cousins, like say at Munich for BMW.
• 31:45
  Stu Guard for Mercedes-Benz.
• 31:47
  English stuff.
• 31:48
  For Audi and so on and so forth.
• 31:50
  There is a i I think that if you let the motor sport arms help the development
• 31:54
  race, we'd be along a lot better than we would be now at this point.
• 32:00
  Yeah, I think I agree with you because, uh, all the best technologies we can
• 32:04
  test like in motor sports and then apply them to, um, like normal cars and, uh,
• 32:11
  I kind of agree that uh, electric cars not only one solution so we can, um.
• 32:17
  Use different options, uh, for this to make mm-hmm.
• 32:20
  Environment better.
• 32:21
  And it's also to have, uh, like opportunity for people to choose,
• 32:26
  uh, what the best for them.
• 32:28
  Uh, because not, not really, uh, all people are crazy about all
• 32:32
  electric cars and, uh, they can be a little bit hard to travel, uh, by.
• 32:38
  Long distance.
• 32:40
  Uh, that's still a problem, I think.
• 32:42
  Uh, so yeah, I think that you, that you're on point with this.
• 32:47
  Definitely.
• 32:48
  I, I think also coming on to, you know, in some respects trying to,
• 32:54
  I. Look at my own carbon footprint.
• 32:57
  You know, I do.
• 32:57
  I uh, I do drive a lot.
• 32:59
  I do fly a lot, but most recently, um, I've actually been embracing using
• 33:05
  electric vehicles as higher cars.
• 33:07
  Um, when you've got, like, say the Polestar two, the Polestar three, you look
• 33:12
  at what BMW's now doing with the I five.
• 33:14
  Um, I, um.
• 33:17
  I think it was January, late January of this year, I was going to a
• 33:20
  carting event, and six actually also upgraded me for no additional cost.
• 33:25
  So I like books.
• 33:26
  Uh, I think it was the IX one, which is their entry level SUV electric vehicle.
• 33:31
  Mm-hmm.
• 33:31
  And then I'm waiting for, 'cause this, I think this is, yeah, this is
• 33:35
  another thing that happened this year.
• 33:37
  We had a problem where Belgian air traffic control was, uh, the compute,
• 33:40
  the main mainframe computer had, um.
• 33:43
  Bone gasket and shut down.
• 33:45
  So, uh, I looked and I ended up in A-B-M-W-I five E Drive 40
• 33:51
  M Sport Touring, which had 340 brake horsepower rear wheel drive.
• 33:58
  I. But it had a range of about 480 kilometers.
• 34:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 34:02
  Which, for a car that weighs nearly two tons is pretty good.
• 34:06
  I think it's just that when cars, like the Nissan Leaf came back, came out
• 34:11
  when Carlos go, was in charge of rental in Nissan and, and tried to spearhead
• 34:15
  the electric rev vehicle revolution.
• 34:18
  The technology wasn't at that point where we could say, yes, you can do 10 to 80%.
• 34:27
  In 20 minutes, and that will give you 300 kilometers of range, meaning
• 34:32
  that if you are 210 kilometers away, you know you've got that window.
• 34:36
  Mm-hmm.
• 34:36
  Back then, electric vehicles were probably, if you were lucky, getting
• 34:41
  a hundred, 110 kilometers from a full choice, full state of charge, which
• 34:46
  in my money is about 7 62 to 72 miles.
• 34:50
  Per, per full charge.
• 34:52
  But now the technology is accelerating to the point where Tesla is not
• 34:56
  gonna be the big power player.
• 34:58
  The, the automotive big brands are catching up.
• 35:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 35:02
  And it's just about finding all these alternatives.
• 35:05
  I think it's just, but I, and I actually enjoy, I'll be honest with
• 35:09
  you, I love any kind of motor sport.
• 35:12
  Even Formula E, when they went gen, now they've gone Gen four, four wheel drive.
• 35:18
  Can do nearly 200 plus miles an hour on a city street.
• 35:21
  Mm-hmm.
• 35:22
  Now you've captured my attention, but now I'm worried as sort like thinking.
• 35:26
  Does Formula E have to move away from city circuits?
• 35:30
  Uh, from City Street circuits to actual tracks?
• 35:33
  Um.
• 35:34
  That's the big hurdle that, that I think they've, they've gotta overcome
• 35:38
  extreme E the rally cross series has now become extreme HH standing for hydrogen.
• 35:44
  So there are people that are willing, like, uh, Alejandro a gag.
• 35:49
  He is the biggest catalyst.
• 35:51
  For this revolutionary change in motor sport.
• 35:54
  Mm-hmm.
• 35:54
  And when Lucas Degrassi was the first test, you know, Lucas Degrassi has
• 35:57
  been a part of Formula E from day one.
• 36:00
  He was the first employee that a gag wanted him on board.
• 36:04
  They knew each other very well, and people laughed at formulary.
• 36:09
  I don't see people laughing now.
• 36:10
  And now we're in, I think it's season 11 and they're off to Miami.
• 36:16
  It's, it's always about the doubt, the naysayers, and
• 36:19
  just carry on your own path.
• 36:21
  And that's exactly what Alejandro gag and so many other people have done.
• 36:26
  Yeah, definitely world, uh, changing and, uh, good alternatives to have.
• 36:31
  Uh, that's a great thing.
• 36:33
  Definitely.
• 36:34
  I also noticed that I, we, we got a lot of, uh, electric
• 36:37
  cars, uh, outside, uh, and um.
• 36:41
  It's, it's great.
• 36:42
  It's great.
• 36:43
  And, uh, good to see that formal e finally, um, you know, taken the
• 36:47
  reputation from people and people really enjoy, uh, racing this cars and that.
• 36:53
  That's great.
• 36:54
  Um, I really like about formal E. That's, uh, I think they running the same chassis.
• 36:59
  I really like series like this, uh, like IndyCar for example.
• 37:03
  Uh, because I think that drivers can show their skills, uh, here.
• 37:07
  Of course, formula One is good in its own way, uh, with all this, um, you know,
• 37:13
  fights between teams and, uh, engineers.
• 37:16
  It's really cool also.
• 37:17
  But, uh, as a driver, I really like Sirius, where you can
• 37:21
  show your driving skills.
• 37:25
  I, I, I think that's also another thing that, um, is very
• 37:29
  much overlooked these days.
• 37:31
  Um.
• 37:33
  It's just a case of, um, showcasing talent rather than needing a budget.
• 37:39
  Mm-hmm.
• 37:40
  Um, so it's, uh, it's just one of those things where I.
• 37:47
  You just have to sort of like, say back in the seventies, back in the eighties,
• 37:52
  drivers got drives because they, they earned it or they were picked up.
• 37:57
  Now it's all about academies.
• 37:59
  And I can understand motor sport is a business.
• 38:02
  We're in a very, very different time.
• 38:04
  Things have evolved so quickly.
• 38:07
  Um.
• 38:08
  And now I would rather see drivers given the benefit of the doubt through what
• 38:13
  they've achieved, rather than how much money they have to bring to the table.
• 38:18
  Yeah, absolutely Agree with you in this.
• 38:20
  And, uh, let's move on and speak about your own podcast.
• 38:24
  I know that you're doing it.
• 38:26
  Uh, so tell me more about, uh, how you want to start your own podcast.
• 38:31
  What actually lead you to this?
• 38:35
  Um, well, my podcast, uh, which is on my own YouTube channel,
• 38:38
  is called Commentators Corner.
• 38:40
  Uh, it's to give an insight of the personalities behind the people who
• 38:43
  have certain roles within the industry.
• 38:45
  So from commentators, presenters, uh, driver, coaches, drivers,
• 38:50
  uh, personalities, let's say.
• 38:53
  And it's more to, you know, uh, it's a bit of a, more of an
• 38:57
  anecdotal podcast, if you will.
• 39:00
  Um.
• 39:02
  And it's, it's about finding about characters, about people, um, talking
• 39:07
  about the community and talking funny stories going off on tangents.
• 39:11
  And I think the longest episode was with my good friend Adam Weller,
• 39:15
  which was about the best part of nearly two hours we were talking for.
• 39:19
  But it was one of those conversations where you just had to let it flow.
• 39:24
  Um, it is available on YouTube, so if you go to youtube.com at Alex Gold.
• 39:31
  You should find me.
• 39:32
  Um, and then it's available on, I'm now doing, uh, the vid, well, the video
• 39:37
  version is not only on YouTube, but now on Spotify, uh, it's on Apple Podcasts.
• 39:43
  And, um, I'm really enjoying doing something whereby I get to speak to
• 39:47
  people that I know or people who, I dunno in the industry, find out about them.
• 39:51
  A bit like what you people do here at, at eSports with the unit
• 39:55
  talks, it's really, really good to.
• 39:59
  Find out about, um, different personalities, different individuals.
• 40:05
  Yeah.
• 40:05
  That's, uh, why we got this, uh, podcast to show people who's
• 40:09
  in motor sports, uh, who can.
• 40:12
  Inspire people to jump into this industry and be a part of it.
• 40:16
  Definitely.
• 40:17
  Um, can you tell me what's different, uh, for you and
• 40:20
  what's the preparation for you?
• 40:22
  Um, like, uh, what's different, uh, with commentary and, uh, with podcasts?
• 40:27
  So, uh, what are you doing differently for this one podcast is basically let it flow.
• 40:34
  Just get the guest I, I, I think you can.
• 40:39
  You can have a set line of questioning, but it doesn't
• 40:42
  make the podcast feel natural.
• 40:43
  Mm-hmm.
• 40:44
  In my, in my eyes, I, I look at it rather than, rather than quantity.
• 40:48
  I look at qua quality and you're talking about the personality of the individual?
• 40:53
  Individual, sorry, trying to get my words out right.
• 40:56
  Sorry.
• 40:56
  I, I know, I know we're gonna be short on time in a second because I've got a
• 40:59
  sim racing broadcast to do very shortly.
• 41:02
  Um, but it's basically let the conversation flow, but
• 41:06
  with the commentary is.
• 41:07
  Have so much information that your mind is, uh, is swamped by it, but
• 41:14
  it helps you to do your job right.
• 41:17
  And it's a famous saying here in the United Kingdom, and I know
• 41:20
  quite a few people will, uh.
• 41:23
  Will, will definitely be on the, the, the same wavelength as me, which is called
• 41:28
  the seven Ps. Piss pull preparation promotes piss pull performance.
• 41:33
  And I stand by that mantra every single time because if I don't
• 41:37
  prepare, I don't feel I've done enough to make sure that my job is safe.
• 41:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 41:43
  Um, commentary is a cutthroat business.
• 41:46
  Um, a lot of us are, are good friends, but we are all out for a specific goal.
• 41:53
  Um, I look at my, my commentary career so far that I've, I, I've been very, very
• 42:01
  fortunate to work with some great people.
• 42:05
  I continue to work with some great people, and there's other people that I've, I've
• 42:09
  worked, I mean, I've got to know Steffi Bow really, really well, and I love her.
• 42:14
  You know, let's just roll with it.
• 42:16
  Um, and, and that's how my podcast is.
• 42:19
  It is basically on, it's now based more on her mantra of what she said to me,
• 42:24
  uh mm-hmm When we finally met in person.
• 42:26
  Hopefully, uh, uh, Steffi, we get to catch up very, very soon.
• 42:28
  So chow, uh, over to California.
• 42:32
  Um, it's more, it's more the case of the podcast needs to
• 42:36
  be a living, breathing entity.
• 42:39
  And if you strangle that with.
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  Predetermined questions, which I did for the first 15 episodes, and I just went,
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  it doesn't feel, you know, when you just get that, that, that feeling of the pit of
• 42:51
  your stomach where it doesn't feel right.
• 42:54
  Mm-hmm.
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  And that's exactly what I felt.
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  Um, there is one person that everyone will know in the sim racing
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  commentary space, uh, George Morgan.
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  Um, he's the only guest that I've interviewed twice, and it was mainly I
• 43:09
  wanted to, uh, I had a rebrand of the show, so new graphics, new look, and
• 43:15
  I thought, right, who can I bring on?
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  That was one of my original guests, and we talk about what's changed
• 43:24
  since that interview and now mm-hmm.
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  And George.
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  Wonderful, wonderful guy.
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  Absolutely passionate.
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  Um, and he, he was up for it.
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  And it was, it was, I mean, I looked back between after I'd recorded that
• 43:40
  episode, uploaded it, premiered it.
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  I looked at the first episode and I just went, I.
• 43:46
  Just look how far you, Alex, not anybody else.
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  You, through passion, through grit, determination, have managed to get
• 43:54
  this podcast to where it is now.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And now I'm looking at thinking, okay, so I've done another further
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  revision of the graphics that where I'm talking to my guests.
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  Um, it just makes so much more sense.
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  And I'm looking at other ways in which, okay.
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  How can I, how can I change it up?
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  And I'm, I love the format because it just means it's completely 100% natural.
• 44:19
  It's not forced, and it's my podcast.
• 44:22
  Mm-hmm.
• 44:23
  And no one can take that away from me, which is, which is
• 44:26
  one of the wonderful things.
• 44:28
  Yeah, that's, uh, good that you mentioned.
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  You can have a look on yourself, uh, like on four first, uh, videos, which you made.
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  And it's really cool opportunity actually to have, uh, because, uh, sometimes I
• 44:40
  watch my first dreams and also like, oh, you've come really long way to
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  where you are now, so it's really cool.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, definitely.
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  Uh, I, I couldn't agree more.
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  And, um, yeah, I'm still, uh, still commentating on sim racing.
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  Like I said, uh, in about 10 minutes time, I've got a bit, we're going
• 45:00
  live with the radicals at Suzuka.
• 45:03
  Mm-hmm.
• 45:03
  Um, as much as I'd love to continue this conversation, Lou, I think, uh, I need
• 45:08
  to skid out because, uh, my producer's call, uh, trying to call me as we speak.
• 45:12
  Bless him.
• 45:13
  Okay.
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  But it's.
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  I've got one bit of advice for you people out there that want to do commentary.
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  Um, from my perspective, make sure that you work hard, but you enjoy every
• 45:27
  single step of the journey because if you don't enjoy it, you're gonna be
• 45:34
  basically falling flat on your face.
• 45:36
  If you don't have, you know, the, if you don't have the relevant.
• 45:42
  Know how, in how to get into this industry.
• 45:46
  Find one of us, talk to one of us, see how we can help.
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  I've given, um, I mean as of you'll, you'll know this lady
• 45:56
  as well, Lou Ash, van Deley.
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  She came to me and asked me for advice, which then led onto the
• 46:04
  SRO job in the United States.
• 46:07
  She came to me for a, for, and I said, Ash.
• 46:12
  If you know what you're worth, go and get what you're worth.
• 46:15
  It's like a famous saying from Rocky Balbo.
• 46:17
  From Rocky Balbo in one of his movies.
• 46:19
  And when you have to look at these monologues, they're
• 46:21
  actually quite powerful.
• 46:23
  But there's also a very, very interesting answer that David Croft
• 46:29
  lead commentator for Skyport F1, said to me when I interviewed him at
• 46:33
  the Autosport Show, which is never give anyone a reason to tell you no.
• 46:41
  He started from hospital radio, and now he's been in Formula One
• 46:44
  as the lead commentator for Sky Sports for the best part of over
• 46:47
  two decades alongside Martin Brule.
• 46:49
  And if that's not, uh, a way of saying, don't let people tell you no.
• 46:54
  Mm-hmm.
• 46:55
  David Croft is the epitome of that.
• 46:59
  Yeah, I think main thing, just to be passionate to what you're doing and uh,
• 47:04
  this is what will lead you and motivate you to go forward and improve, uh,
• 47:09
  like step by step and go to the future.
• 47:12
  Uh, so yeah.
• 47:14
  Yeah, ex exactly.
• 47:16
  Um, so really I have to say, Lou, it's been an absolute pleasure.
• 47:19
  Uh, Johnny you here on, on Init talks and, uh, yeah.
• 47:23
  Um, I'm.
• 47:25
  I'm just looking forward to what, not just in eSports, but also uh, screen to speed.
• 47:30
  Uh, it's gonna be doing obviously a lot coming up, uh, so I'll be keeping
• 47:33
  my eyes on it and, uh, don't worry, you've definitely got a cheerleader in
• 47:37
  this corner here in the United Kingdom.
• 47:40
  Okay, I'll thank you so much for being here.
• 47:42
  It was a pleasure to talk with you and, uh, also get a lot of, uh, new things.
• 47:46
  Uh, for myself.
• 47:47
  Uh, guys, thank you so much for watching any talks.
• 47:50
  Uh, don't forget the 19th of April.
• 47:52
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• 47:56
  Thank you so much.
• 47:58
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