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Monday Night Rewind | Episode 15 | Will Greenwell | Mason Metzger · Top Row Racing Media Monday Night Rewind

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  All right, good evening everyone, and welcome to the
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  Monday Night Rewind. With it being Memorial Day, we
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  are going to take a moment and remember those who we have lost,
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  sacrificing their life so that we can live our freedoms today.
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  All right, again, thank you guys and welcome to the Monday Night
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  Rewind Tonight. We have a pack show with two
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  amazing guests coming up. And here in just a few moments,
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  we have Will Greenwell from the Wild Will throw Down.
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  He's also the voice over at Salem Speedway and you can hear,
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  in fact hear him in a lot of different places.
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  And he's been on all the major streaming platforms at some
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  point in his career and so excited to have someone of his
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  caliber on here. So if you know anyone who's an
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  announcer at a racetrack, tonight might be the night to
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  tag him in the comments and say, hey, come on and listen.
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  And and just in case you have questions, to learn from one of
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  the best in the business. And then last Friday night, it
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  was a historic night at the Kalamazoo Kalamazoo Speedway.
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  And for a track that's now on its 76th season, for the first
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  time ever, the youngest late model driver at 14 years old,
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  Mason Metzger won the late model feature, beating a lot of
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  talented drivers who are right behind him.
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  So again, he will come on at eight O 5.
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  We're so excited for that. And to celebrate his big win and
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  his big moment this past Friday night at the Kalamazoo Speedway.
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  Don't forget this Thursday night, you can throttle off with
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  us on a Thursday night throttle where Boozoo and I come back and
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  we preview the upcoming weekend, not only the schedule from
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  around the area, but the storylines heading into the
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  weekend. And this is another busy weekend
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  where we have quite a few Sunday shows that are also on tap and a
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  couple different locations in Michigan.
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  And then of course, like I said, we do have Will Greenwell with
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  us and he has the wild will throw down.
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  So I want to do as mankind would say, a cheap plug time.
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  And so definitely visit after he's done with us saying he's
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  going to be recording his own podcast and getting some of
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  those sections going. So definitely head on over to
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  wildwillgreenwell.com to listen to his podcast covering regional
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  news, track updates and everything, especially down in
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  Southern Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and all that.
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  So again, excited to have him. And before I forget to the
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  marketing special still going on, you have all the way through
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  September 30th where if you want to come on down to the sunny
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  shores of Bridgeman, Michigan and have your car detailed,
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  enjoy Waco Beach where you can see the Chicago side Chicago
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  skyline right from our beachfront.
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  You can come on down while that's getting detailed, go over
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  Waco Beach, enjoy a day at the beach, come back when your car's
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  all fresh and ready and drive back home ready to go.
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  Having people do is double look to go.
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  Wow, is that brand new Because I promise you when ELH is done
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  with it, they'll think it's new. We do if you use code, the code
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  top row we're going to be giving away some details.
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  So the first one will be on July 13th right here on the Monday
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  night rewind and then again on October 12th, especially as we
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  head into the winter months. They do a lot of different
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  packages to get cars ready, but other than that booze you it is
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  Showtime. How are you doing tonight?
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  Pretty? Good weather was kind of iffy
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  this weekend. I did get a double header in but
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  chopped the feature off on Friday and Saturday was Angola
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  and I think we got, we started qualifying I think 3 hours after
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  race time was supposed to start. The mist just would not end and
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  kudos to them. They said they were getting the
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  show in. They got the show.
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  Oh, you know, that's something that I know you had gone to
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  Butler originally and then you went the other direction.
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  And so we had it at New Paris for the night of destruction.
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  We were getting a little worried, but you know, with
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  night of instructions, it's rain or shine and you know, we had a
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  bunch of cars pulling into the pits.
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  We had of course Wichter came down and they had their whole
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  deal going on. And so his next event will be at
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  Hartford Speedway on June 13th. I believe that is Saturday, June
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  13th, they'll be back in action. So Wichter of course, doing
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  Wichter things with Jeremy Templeton and Frank Gasco and
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  and Phillip. But again, it's a it is a great
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  show. But I know obviously we do rain
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  or shine, but I know sitting over at Angola, you know, just
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  kind of waiting like OK, anytime now.
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  And The thing is, I went to the Matt Rackham weather app and you
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  know, he doesn't lie. His app wasn't even showing
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  anything that was. Happening.
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  Yeah, I was doing the same thing.
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  Yeah, Like, come on, Will or not Will?
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  Will's our guest. Come on.
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  You know, you're letting us down.
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  Like out of every meteorologist, you're the one who we go to, and
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  it's not showing anything on your app.
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  So I wanted to almost protest that a little bit, but but
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  anyways. And I know Crashers was over at
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  Sod Buster's on Sunday and they had a wicked flip there that he
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  got a part of and I know a couple other people got a part
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  of. So I know it's a busy week in
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  the area, but now you get to today and it's 82° and sunny and
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  it's like, couldn't this have happened like, you know, 2 days
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  ago and three days ago? But especially Kalam Zoo Friday,
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  again, once that sun went down and it got cloudy, it's like I
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  was hot and sweaty and now I'm cold and wearing my winter
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  jacket. So I'm like, how did that happen
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  that quick? And you know, that breeze comes
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  off of Lake MI and you just kind of pay for it.
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  So, but other than that, I know is a great weekend.
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  I'm excited to talk to Mason about his huge win because that
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  was that's been a long time coming for him and so excited to
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  have him on. But I know just before that we
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  have Will Greenwell. And I know, you know, I have
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  been super excited for this for several weeks now.
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  And then finally the time is here.
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  So Are you ready to get started? Yes, Sir.
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  All right, so let me go ahead and bring on when Will
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  Greenwald. So again will welcome to the
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  Monday Night Rewind. How's your Monday going so far?
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  Well, guys, first and foremost, thank you for having me.
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  A pleasure to be here. I'm glad I could talk to you
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  guys. I know you cover the Michigan
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  Park quite a bit and that is awesome because there are a ton
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  of short tracks in Michigan that deserve the recognition.
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  But first and foremost, I'm doing good, great Memorial Day
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  weekend. And first and foremost, as you
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  know with me and the veterans, this is a big holiday, something
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  for us to remember. And you know what, to realize
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  that life is not that important at times when you think about
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  the men and women who sacrifice. So first and foremost, thank you
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  so much for having me. Oh, again, I've been so excited
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  when I reached out to you and say, Hey, do you want to come on
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  and, and you're ready. And we didn't know whether we
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  were going to do it on Monday or Tuesday at that point, but you
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  had both days available. And it's like, man, I'm just so
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  excited. So again, it's our honor to have
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  you on. I mean, you're, I, I got to meet
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  you at Painesville and, and hear you and then that's how I got to
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  know you and your work and I followed you since then and, and
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  keep up with what you're doing. And, and I mean, that's just
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  where in the hour that we have, I mean, we have so much that we
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  can touch within your career and all the opportunities that
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  you've had. But then how you've also been
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  able to build your platform and, and help veterans and with your
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  T-shirt sales and everything that you do.
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  So we'll definitely get into that and maybe how people, you
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  know, might be able to get their hands on AT shirt and and help
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  support that cause. So I'll just ask everyone.
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  The easy thing to do is give this a show like share it out,
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  help us continue to grow. That's where we've been having a
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  just really strong podcast week after week after week.
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  So the more you like, the more you share, the more it helps us
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  continue to grow this platform. So again, will, I kind of gave
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  you the heads up that, you know, between Boozer and I, we're
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  shoot first, aim second kind of show.
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  But I always start off with what some might call the softball
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  question, right? But it really helps our
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  listeners know who are you right?
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  So who is Will Greenwell, How did you get into announcing?
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  You know, Buju announced for the first time a couple weeks ago.
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  He got awesome off the bench. And so you know, he he's Someone
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  Like You know, him and I are talking.
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  You just don't grow announcers on trees.
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  So if you want to give us a a rundown of your background in
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  your career. Sure, absolutely.
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  Well, you know, I never expected to be an announcer or anything
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  of that nature. Basically what had happened was
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  in 2019, I'll never forget it. I grew up going to the local
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  Motor Speedway in Louisville before it closed down.
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  Then of course the Sportstrom Speedway right after, which is
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  celebrating 80 years this year, so basically April the 27th.
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  I'll never forget it in 2019, we were my father and I were going
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  to Sportstrom through as fans. We sit on the back straight away
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  at top row and it got rained out that night.
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  So my father and I went down to a little track in Morgantown, KY
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  called Cedar Ridge Speedway, which is primarily primarily a
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  dirt track. And then I heard the Sportstrom
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  had canceled and postponed to the following Sunday, April the
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  28th. And I was listening behind me to
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  the PA, the the announcers up there working together.
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  And I thought to myself, you know, I've always wanted to be
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  an announcer. I've never got the chance or, or
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  anything of that nature. So what I did was I reached out
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  to Mr. Brandon Taylor. He he also Co announces with me
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  at the Sports Trump Speedway. And I said, you know what, I got
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  a crazy idea. I said, I want to try to work
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  with the announcer at the time, which was Mike Benson at Sports
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  Trump Speedway. This was in 2019.
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  He goes well, I mean, come on. So I arrive on Sunday afternoon
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  to the track at Sportstrom Speedway.
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  And little did I know, he introduced me to Mike Benson.
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  And, and you know, I just wanted to say, hey, the next week, you
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  know, if you don't mind, I would kind of like to work with you a
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  little bit, try this little gig out a little bit.
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  I think I got what it takes. And he was like, well, here's
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  the mic here, work with me tonight.
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  So I was like, oh crap, really tonight?
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  I don't have no material. I've never done this thing
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  before. But guys, when I tell you I
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  tried it out for the first time, I touched that microphone and
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  social media went off. Who is this guy?
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  What is he doing? You know, this guy is the real
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  deal, you know, and I loved working with Mike Benson.
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  So if it wasn't for Brandon and Mike Benson, there would be no
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  wild. We wild will green one.
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  I'll get to the wild here in a minute on how that all
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  transpired, but you know it, it's incredible to think about
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  2019 and speed up eight years later to 2026 and thinking of
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  everything in between. It goes by too fast.
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  It truly, truly does. You know, I, I said and think at
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  times, well, 2019, you know, eight years and it's went by so
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  fun by fast because it has been fun and that's what you want to
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  keep it at. I told myself, if it ever
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  becomes not fun, don't do this anymore.
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  Well, after 2019, 2019 was a whirlwind that that's kind of
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  when I started building that OK, Because my thing is how can I go
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  bigger each and every year? Because if I'm going to do this
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  professionally one day, which I have, I, I'm very blessed to be
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  able to do that. I was like, I got to think of
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  different things to keep the wheel turning.
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  So 2019 ended, Mike Benson gave me the name Wild Will Greenwell,
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  and he was, you know what the best way to create your name and
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  solidify it is Mike Benson. I'm going to do a bus race.
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  So in 2019, it was planned for me to get flipped.
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  And, you know, I solidified the name Wild Will Greenwell.
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  I didn't know what to think, but I did it.
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  And after 2019 ended to Mike Benson decided he was going to
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  retire. That was the announcer at the
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  time. And I realized 2020, obviously I
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  was going to be the announcer at sports drum.
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  Well, at that time in 2020, I got all kinds of calls.
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  Of course, we know COVID year. So it was kind of a weird, weird
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  time for me to go out on my own, right.
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  So I, I guess one could look at it like, well, you're not going
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  to have many people to talk in front of.
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  So you can practice a lot because you, you, you know, when
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  they only allowed so many people to come in at the time, you
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  know, it was like announcing to an empty stadium, which I hate
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  it. It sucked.
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  You know, it wasn't the same without the fans cheering and
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  everything like that. Just a car going around his
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  victory lap with nobody cheering was just a weird feeling to me.
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  So 2020 I get the call from All Star Monster Truck Tour and go
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  out in Salt Lake City, UT, start announcing there and the the
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  arena. And then I went to Wisconsin,
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  started doing a little bit of there.
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  And then of course, I got the call from everywhere, you know,
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  I Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, you know, it was just
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  a whirlwind of things that I got the chance to announce at all of
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  these different tracks and facilities.
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  Then, of course, looking at my notes here, 2021-2022 was my
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  first year at Salem and that was a big deal.
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  You know, I did not like the big track stuff stuff at first.
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  I did not, I did not like calling it.
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  I did just, it just wasn't me. The place grew on me
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  tremendously. The action that we call on the
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  Salem High banks is truly like anything else I've ever called.
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  So 2022 we also did a big thing and Ryan bowling with Dirt 2
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  Media came to me and said, you know what you're getting, You're
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  getting bigger. Why don't we create this
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  podcast? Why don't we do a podcast now?
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  So I was like, OK, podcast, that's fine.
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  I, I don't know what to do or I don't have the equipment.
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  I don't know where to start. He was like, here's this odor
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  equipment. I'll give it to you.
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  You have to go to the guest. So it's kind of hard to kind of
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  reach out and branch out. So I was like, you know what,
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  2022, this is awesome, let's do this.
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  So we come up, he comes up with a logo, which is my old logo and
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  he says, you know what, let's call it.
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  I had the idea of the wild will throw down.
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  I was already Wild will. So you know, how about a cool
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  name like the throw down? So wild will throw down.
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  So that just kind of meshed. And then from there, the 2023 I
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  was at Salem Speedway also then became the director of
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  operations at the Circle City Raceway in Indy from Eddie Van
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  Meter and Donna Van Meter never wanted to do management in my
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  life. And I'm so glad I got the chance
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  to do it because I will never do it again.
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  But you know, I I put the staff in place there 2023 we we did
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  not at the end of the year break in an unhealthy relationship.
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  Eddie loves me, I love Eddie. It was not one of those things
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  where it well, let's leave a bad taste in the mouth.
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  Let's leave. It was nothing like that.
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  It was just like, management is not for me.
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  I belong on the microphone. Trust me.
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  That's where my heart is driven at.
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  So then after 2023, I was still doing the Salem Speedway stuff
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  during that time, which is kind of weird.
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  And then 2024 was at Salem again and traveling again with
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  different places. And then 2025, that was a big
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  one. We, we hit, you know, different
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  places. 2000, the XR tour, that was another thing that came up.
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  Of course, the breaking XR after that year, everyone knows what
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  happened. Just look at social media,
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  right? So we're going to get into all
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  that, but I'm blessed for the opportunity got to hit Oklahoma
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  or Iowa and Minnesota. You know, it was a great time
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  the drivers and working with the staff at those places.
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  I will say that I did take a little bit of out of that.
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  That is the positive. And then here in 2026, you know,
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  we're celebrating five years the podcast.
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  We got the brand new gold merch for the podcast and I will say
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  2025, one of the biggest new things that I did was how do we
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  give back to the veterans, right?
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  I always said if I have a platform, I want to use that
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  platform for the better good. And Soldiers Angels was a big
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  military organization in San Antonio we hooked up with and we
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  gave $5.00 of every shirt sell back and we raised over $5000, I
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  think $5055 for our veterans. And a lot of people are like,
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  why veterans? Well, obviously they're
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  veterans. And my wife is an A veteran of
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  the US military now she retired major in 2022.
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  I believe she might be watching so she might check that.
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  But yeah, you got to, you got to watch that.
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  But she retired and you know, it's it's a blessing for me to
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  give back and being a military spouse throughout the years with
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  her because a lot of people don't know we sacrificed a lot
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  for me to work on my racing career.
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  We actually lived five years geographically separated.
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  She was in Louisiana. I was here in Kentucky with my
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  family, taking care of my mom and dad at the time while I
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  built this racing career. So in 2022 we finally lived back
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  together and we, we live here in Jasper, IN now, which we love
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  and and of course, a lot of different race tracks around us.
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  So yeah, that's been the journey.
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  This year we're doing Indy Warrior partnership and the next
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  year we already have something we can't announce yet, which is
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  already bigger and better. So we're, we're truly excited.
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  We're we're truly able to give back to our veterans.
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  And man, 8 years this career has been just none other than
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  non-stop but great. Well, I mean, and that's where,
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  you know, when you came to Painesville Speedway last year,
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  Figure 8 and you did that, that's how you and I got to meet
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  in person. And, and I was just impressed
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  right away because I, I even called my mom and my stepdad,
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  who I know are listening and I said pit Rd.
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  TV has the broadcast rights, but I'm here in top row racing media
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  as much as I'm here in pit Rd. TV.
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  And you were, and you reached out too even before, oh, you
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  know, who are you? What are you doing?
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  What are you bringing? Just kind of to get to know me.
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  And I hadn't had that experience before like that.
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  So I mean, right away, it's just that first impression was just
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  like, OK, this person knows what they're doing, right, You know?
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  So I appreciated that. If you put all the tools
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  together to be a good announcer, and here's how I view it, you
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  have to look at all the perspective.
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  You're not just calling the drivers.
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  And yes, they are the reason you have a racetrack, but you got to
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  call out your safety crew, give them appreciation.
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  You got to call out you. You're doing great on media.
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  You can call the TV broadcast, that's fine.
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  I don't care if it's concession stand workers.
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  They deserve some recognition, right?
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  So as an announcer, obviously one of the big things is you got
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  to fill time at at some point in that broadcast, you got to fill
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  time. So why not utilize it to to give
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  out respect and credit to those who deserve it that don't really
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  get to be seen or heard of what you're doing it.
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  It's great Top row media, you guys, I love top row media.
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  When I'm not at a racetrack, I can see highlights from you
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  guys. So that's just.
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  You know, it's just common courtesy to me and there have
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  been places I'm not going to name names that I've got in the
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  fight in the press box with and arguments.
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  Well, you can't say that on our broadcast.
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  Well, then I'm going to leave the broadcast then because I'm
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  going to say what I need to say. You know, so there have been
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  press boxes where I did not walk out of, but there have been
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  disagreements many times because you can't say this, this and
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  that and it's not going to hurt this, this or whoever, you know
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  what I mean? So you, you got to give respect
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  to everyone in this industry. You just cannot go and, and just
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  call this person. Well, you see that guy over in
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  turn #1 he's working just as hard as this person.
• 20:42
  So fire me. I mean, you know, I have 15
• 20:46
  other tracks I can go announce that, you know what I mean?
• 20:50
  But I think each and every track that you visit, you should call
• 20:54
  out and respect each and every one of those workers and
• 20:56
  whoever's doing media in the grandstands.
• 20:59
  Yeah, that was, I mean, like I said, that was, I remember
• 21:02
  calling right away, I'm like, it's on pit row and I'm here in
• 21:04
  top row just as much as pit row. And and I'm like, you know,
• 21:08
  that. I mean, again, that was just
• 21:09
  really cool that you did that. But that makes so much sense
• 21:12
  too, because I know that's something when I was at Hartford
• 21:15
  in 2022, they gave me my first gig, my first official gig, Leah
• 21:19
  and Tim. And that's a track that you
• 21:20
  should check out to some point. Sure.
• 21:23
  They they didn't have a photographer that year either.
• 21:26
  So I was kind of like all in one for them.
• 21:28
  And they're say their track prep crew.
• 21:31
  I said, why don't we make hero cards for them?
• 21:34
  Because they're just as much as much as part of the show.
• 21:37
  And then at Kalamazoo, I did that for KTS as well or
• 21:40
  Kalamazoo track services team because one, they're one of the
• 21:43
  best in the in the nation. I mean, they train a lot of
• 21:45
  people. They go to a lot of training.
• 21:46
  So I said they're just as much as part of the show.
• 21:49
  I mean, we don't want to see them because if we're seeing
• 21:51
  them, that means something happened, right?
• 21:53
  But when they're in action and and then to respect and honor
• 21:57
  the trainings, everything they've done.
• 21:58
  So, so I totally get that perspective of like giving
• 22:01
  everyone the shout out. That's why I do my short track,
• 22:04
  you know, spotlights where it's, it's not just drivers anymore.
• 22:08
  It's like, let's shout out anybody and everyone because we
• 22:10
  all I Jay Freak said he's a photographer of pure contract
• 22:14
  design. One time at South Bend, he said,
• 22:17
  well, we're all in this together alone.
• 22:19
  And and I've kind of translated that into, you know, we're all
• 22:23
  in this together, but what can we do individually in our parts
• 22:27
  as the community? So so I definitely totally get
• 22:31
  that with you. So, you know, when you think of
• 22:34
  your announcing career, what are moments that stand out?
• 22:37
  You know, for you that you sit back and go one Dang, like I got
• 22:42
  to call that or be a part of that or even be a part of
• 22:46
  something that maybe people didn't know what was going to
• 22:50
  happen, but you as an announcer knew the plan and you got to
• 22:53
  surprise somebody. So what are some moments that
• 22:55
  stand out? Well, I mean, that's a great
• 22:58
  question, you know, and there are times over the past eight
• 23:01
  years that do run together and you don't really remember races
• 23:04
  as much. And then of course, you it
• 23:06
  clicks and you're like, wait, I do remember that time or people
• 23:09
  in the stands, the people I get to meet, you know, the fans.
• 23:11
  And, you know, you try to remember their names, but
• 23:13
  there's so many. You know, I will say 2020, COVID
• 23:17
  year, Yeah, that was only a year after and announcing in front of
• 23:21
  an empty racetrack. That was 1 memorable moment that
• 23:26
  I will never forget because it was so eerie.
• 23:28
  We had the outlaw Figure 8 cars there in the big race, one of
• 23:30
  the biggest car counts about 2425 cars, go figure the biggest
• 23:34
  car count and no fans in the stands.
• 23:37
  I I think it was also a mix of these guys want to get out of
• 23:40
  the house. So you know, they're coming to
• 23:42
  run somewhere that, you know, can be.
• 23:44
  So what we actually recorded it on Facebook live that whole
• 23:47
  race. And that is the first race I got
• 23:49
  sun poisoned at and had to go to the hospital to get IV because I
• 23:53
  sat out in the grandstands and recorded the whole show for the
• 23:55
  fans at home. So I took one for the team
• 23:58
  there. So yeah, that was a great year.
• 24:01
  You know the school bus racing deal, we won't that that will be
• 24:05
  a memorable moment because when they put me in the school bus, I
• 24:09
  did never I had never drive a drove a school bus must less get
• 24:13
  in one to wreck. So I'm sitting there in the seat
• 24:17
  and they're like, all right, you need to come out to the track.
• 24:18
  So I'm out to the track and then I know what lap it's coming.
• 24:22
  So basically I I can prepare myself just a little bit, but I
• 24:26
  did not know I was going to get hit that hard at the time.
• 24:29
  So the last thing I remember is the check engine light comes on
• 24:31
  and I'm hung up like this and just like, am I still alive or
• 24:34
  am I dead? OK, I'm still alive.
• 24:37
  So you know, that's a memorable moment.
• 24:39
  There's many Halloween 2 hundreds at Salem and power
• 24:42
  crack for two hundreds that you call that are very special to
• 24:46
  attract Lake Salem. They're I've gotten the
• 24:49
  opportunity to announce inside Lucas Oil Raceway Park up in
• 24:53
  Indy. So that was a a fun opportunity
• 24:57
  and there's just been so many different short tracks that I've
• 25:00
  met people Painesville, Lorraine, Mount Lawn.
• 25:02
  I got to announce that work with Glenn Luckett.
• 25:05
  You know, he is a big race director, president of the CRA,
• 25:08
  used to be CRA, now HRA, you know, and, and there's been
• 25:12
  other opportunities that, you know, I've gotten to announce
• 25:15
  different novelty events like demolition derbies or, or
• 25:18
  monster truck shows and you know, everything like that.
• 25:22
  So, you know, there's so many memorable moments over the
• 25:24
  years. But man, 2020, that was a big
• 25:27
  one when nobody was in the stands.
• 25:29
  And of course everyone knows COVID.
• 25:30
  So that was a big one. But I'm sure there's other
• 25:33
  events out there I just can't think of, but there's a lot of
• 25:36
  them. So I mean just in in what you
• 25:40
  just talked about in that little bit, you have also been
• 25:43
  recognized as one of the most versatile voices because again,
• 25:47
  you can go Figure 8 racing. You can do circle track racing,
• 25:50
  you can do the good old fashioned demolition Derby.
• 25:53
  You can get in a in a school bus and, and take a hit and, and do
• 25:57
  all these things. So what does it take to be an
• 26:00
  announcer who's not only highly sought at after nationally?
• 26:04
  I mean, it's not just like your local tracks fighting for you,
• 26:07
  but it's tracks in North Carolina and South Carolina and
• 26:10
  not everywhere. Like not only that, but then you
• 26:13
  know, what skills does it take to be able to go from like, Hey,
• 26:16
  I'm going to call a Figure 8 outlaw race today.
• 26:17
  And then tomorrow I get to see a bunch of monster trucks jumping
• 26:20
  and crashing. And then, oh, by the way, we're
• 26:22
  going to go see a station wagon punch somebody with their back
• 26:25
  end at the demolition Derby. So like, what does it take to
• 26:28
  have that that skill set that you can just flip the switch?
• 26:32
  Well, one, one thing that's helped, and I'm not going to
• 26:35
  lie, is the voice, right? The voice, the dark voice, the
• 26:39
  deep voice. It helps.
• 26:40
  I mean, it truly does. One thing about it is it's just
• 26:44
  your knowledge. You learn it.
• 26:45
  If you can learn different things here and there and put it
• 26:48
  all together like there's some easy things that you could learn
• 26:52
  your my race pass help. So there's some of your
• 26:55
  knowledge right there, knowing the drivers by name, not having
• 26:59
  to scurry through a paperwork and seeing, well, who's driving
• 27:02
  #68 who's driving #42 you know, if you know those drivers, take
• 27:06
  the time here. Here's my biggest thing, take
• 27:09
  the time and walk the pit area before the race starts.
• 27:11
  If you truly love racing and you're passionate about it, make
• 27:14
  sure you take your notes, go back there, learn some fun
• 27:18
  stories about these drivers that the die hard backwoods call blue
• 27:22
  collar racers. Learn some stories that you did
• 27:25
  not know and that is what the fans want to know.
• 27:27
  So first and foremost, you get yourself a little script going
• 27:31
  on. You know opening ceremonies, you
• 27:32
  know the invocation, you know all of that fun stuff.
• 27:35
  You know your order of events, you know, heat races are first
• 27:38
  possibly some B mains, B features and then an A feature.
• 27:42
  So just learn that stuff. I mean, the, the technique of
• 27:45
  announcing will come along with it.
• 27:46
  And I always say there there's never a bad announcer.
• 27:49
  Each announcer could be the worst you think, but it's his
• 27:53
  own little style. I always tell people in
• 27:56
  announcers that I've worked with young announcers, maybe 1819,
• 27:59
  who want to be a, make a career out of this thing.
• 28:02
  I always tell them you were always going to have criticism.
• 28:07
  Anybody in life, you're going to have somebody that does not like
• 28:09
  your style and you're going to have someone that loves your
• 28:12
  style. And I think that's the biggest
• 28:14
  thing. A lot of people quit announcing
• 28:17
  just because they're they're having people criticize them too
• 28:20
  much. And I always tell them, in 2019,
• 28:23
  I had a lot of people that didn't really like my style
• 28:26
  because I was still trying to find out what kind of announcer
• 28:28
  I was at that point. So once you get past that first
• 28:32
  year, you'll learn to grow. But you know, versatile, the
• 28:35
  versatility, man, that's a different 1.
• 28:39
  You know, when I first started to announcing just stock cars,
• 28:44
  you know, basically I learned best with getting thrown in the
• 28:48
  fire. So you have to make sure that
• 28:51
  you know what you're getting yourself into first and
• 28:55
  foremost. Now, can I go announce the
• 28:58
  Kentucky Derby, a horse race? Absolutely not.
• 29:01
  That is not for me. I do not know nothing about it.
• 29:03
  My wife knows about horses, but I could not announce a Kentucky
• 29:06
  Derby. I would just be like, there
• 29:08
  comes the next horse because this is just not what I want to
• 29:11
  do. As far as monster trucks, you
• 29:14
  know, I, so I grew up and I just, it's really cool.
• 29:17
  I pulled out some pictures the other day of when I was 2
• 29:20
  setting on a gravedigger's tire in Louisville.
• 29:23
  And you know, my dad would always take me to the monster
• 29:25
  truck shows And people are like, why did you get into monster
• 29:28
  trucks? Well, that's because of that.
• 29:31
  And this year I, I got the opportunity out of many, many,
• 29:37
  many, many people across the US to be one of the final eight
• 29:39
  selected for an audition for Monster Jam.
• 29:42
  And look, I'm not going to tell you that I'm never going to do
• 29:45
  that. They're they're possibly may
• 29:46
  come a time when I actually want to do that on the national
• 29:49
  level. At the time, short track really
• 29:53
  meant a lot to me and, and my family's health wasn't the best.
• 29:57
  So I had to put their health first.
• 29:59
  And you know, obviously this year I could not go on the road
• 30:02
  with that. A lot of people know that.
• 30:04
  Some people don't. I didn't really, I don't really
• 30:06
  announce many things on social media if I'm not 100% sure that
• 30:09
  it's going to happen. So versatility with all of that
• 30:13
  stuff. I always tell young announcers,
• 30:16
  don't give up. As you guys know, you're always
• 30:20
  going to have a criticism no matter where you lie.
• 30:23
  There's people out there that's not going to like you.
• 30:25
  If you're the best person in the world, people are not going to
• 30:28
  like you. And I'm going to tell you this.
• 30:30
  This is my quote here. You could shit a silver egg or a
• 30:34
  gold egg and someone would be mad.
• 30:36
  It's not silver, you know what I mean?
• 30:39
  So that's just part of it, right?
• 30:43
  So you cannot. And I used to be the hardest on
• 30:46
  myself, guys, I would tell you that much.
• 30:49
  You know, if I heard criticism, it was hard for me to take
• 30:52
  criticism at first. Like if this, I'm going to give
• 30:55
  up, I'm not doing this. And I'm like, you know what?
• 30:58
  No, don't listen to those haters.
• 30:59
  Just do what you have to do. And you can storm past anyone
• 31:02
  like that. And that's, I think part of my
• 31:06
  grid of getting this far is not letting those haters kind of
• 31:09
  hold me back a little bit. So yeah, that and just learn the
• 31:14
  drivers, walk the pit area. Take time to walk the pit area,
• 31:18
  learn as much information as you can because people have came up
• 31:21
  to me and they're like, we love knowing about these drivers.
• 31:24
  We would have never known that. And you'll hear me all the time
• 31:27
  say the biggest goal of my career would be driver fan
• 31:31
  connection because we've lost that a lot.
• 31:35
  Learning the drivers behind the helmets, kind of why I do the
• 31:38
  interviews, the on track autograph session, I tell tracks
• 31:41
  this all of the time. You will have more crowds in the
• 31:44
  stands because they want to do that.
• 31:46
  You know, getting the candy, getting the hero cards, all of
• 31:49
  the fun stuff. Shaking that driver's hands.
• 31:52
  We can have a 12 year old kid come in and they might meet this
• 31:55
  guy who finishes 25th all of the time, but they shake that kids
• 32:01
  hand and give them a hero card. They have just earned a fan and
• 32:04
  they may buy a merchandise item from them or not.
• 32:06
  But this is what's going to keep short track racing alive.
• 32:10
  Oh, absolutely. Well, and that's where I think
• 32:12
  back to Bristol Dirt Nationals Week 1.
• 32:14
  A few years ago, I met Alec Fett.
• 32:16
  They were the first crew that I came up to and they're from Iowa
• 32:21
  and I got to do that's top row was literally like what Buju,
• 32:24
  only a couple months old at that time and probably like 50
• 32:27
  followers, let's be real. But it was one of those that I
• 32:30
  got a chance to connect with them and just the way they
• 32:32
  treated me and the way they welcomed in the way that they
• 32:34
  kind of put up with my annoying self.
• 32:36
  At times I felt like I was annoying them.
• 32:38
  But with that I said, you know, lifelong fan, you know, just
• 32:41
  with their treatment of me and I still I share Alex's stuff all
• 32:45
  the time on my page. Follow what they do in Iowa.
• 32:48
  If it weren't 10 hours away where they race, I would make a
• 32:51
  trip there. But it's like, well, I got
• 32:53
  calums you on Friday. I can't be you know, it's like
• 32:55
  they race a lot on Thursdays, right.
• 32:56
  So that would that would be like a big trip back and forth and
• 33:00
  but one of these days, one of these times, I want to make my
• 33:03
  way out to Iowa and, and just, you know, to support them, not
• 33:06
  just from Michigan where I am, but actually they're in person.
• 33:10
  So, and that's just me, you know, when I was just starting,
• 33:13
  So I definitely know we just had, you know, DJ Mccotter on
• 33:17
  last week and he's someone who connects with fans and Joel,
• 33:20
  who's our announcer at Kalamazoo.
• 33:22
  You know, he hit the wall a lot and now he's our announcer.
• 33:25
  But when his front wheel drive racer, he'd hit the wall, do the
• 33:28
  things and you know, he had so many people just look forward to
• 33:31
  him. So absolutely, those connections
• 33:33
  matter. Oh it absolutely does.
• 33:35
  And you guys, you 2 know this more than anything as well.
• 33:38
  You know, when you walk the pits and meet these drivers and you
• 33:42
  know, this one driver may have gotten to this one guy and the
• 33:46
  fans are like, man, that guy's a cheater.
• 33:48
  He's you know, he sucks, he's not good.
• 33:50
  But you know that driving a different kind of different
• 33:53
  level in the back of the pit area, right?
• 33:55
  Like this guy, if you just knew him, right, If you just knew
• 33:58
  what kind of person he was. And it goes with the staff,
• 34:01
  right? The behind the scenes stuff that
• 34:03
  you and I, we all get to see it behind these press boxes.
• 34:07
  I always tell people the press box for me is the most fun I've
• 34:10
  had anywhere in my life because of everyone fighting up there,
• 34:14
  the scores and the the other stuff and the race director, how
• 34:18
  mad they get. I'm over here just dying
• 34:20
  laughing. And you know, I just want to
• 34:22
  point that out. That is the biggest thing too
• 34:24
  that fans love and I've always made a point to do it.
• 34:27
  You got to be a versatile. You got a multitask is a good
• 34:30
  announcer, right? You're the left ear needs to be
• 34:32
  on that race director. All right, guys, here's what
• 34:35
  we're going to do. We're going to disqualify and
• 34:36
  blah blah, blah. I tell the fans that because
• 34:39
  that connection between the race director and the fans is your
• 34:43
  bridge. Well, the race fans.
• 34:44
  If you do not do that well, what the heck is going on out here?
• 34:47
  What are we doing this for? Why is this lineup not not
• 34:50
  hurrying up? You know well, here's the
• 34:52
  problem. We got to get the number 22 in
• 34:54
  front of the number 36. We're we're out of order here.
• 34:57
  That's an example. If you connect that, it's just
• 35:00
  like an on on TV commentator. You know what, what is the
• 35:03
  official saying now? You know, So I think that is a
• 35:05
  big point that many people should do is it's let people
• 35:08
  know what the race director is saying.
• 35:10
  I will go on and say it. If you're just calling the
• 35:12
  number 36, I'll sell it over the air.
• 35:14
  I do not care, you know what I mean?
• 35:15
  But the fans want to know that stuff.
• 35:17
  Oh yeah, and well, and just as you were even talk about getting
• 35:20
  to know drivers behind the scenes.
• 35:22
  I mean, I don't know if boos you saw my face like, oh, I know
• 35:24
  driver who you're who I would talk about with that kind of
• 35:27
  thing, because you just know that right, and I and drew Jack,
• 35:30
  he wasn't able to make it tonight, but I know he's a big
• 35:32
  fan of you too. And him and I talk.
• 35:34
  I always tell him I was the dumb fan.
• 35:36
  You know, I was I was the fan in the stands who who thought they
• 35:40
  knew a little something and I've gotten on this side and I've
• 35:43
  learned really quickly. I knew like nothing.
• 35:46
  So I just really appreciated this side.
• 35:50
  But but and I'm a big connections person.
• 35:52
  So, you know, hearing you walk through the the Parian doing
• 35:56
  that, That's one thing that because I have my go pros and I
• 35:59
  have all my other things, I get a chance to talk with drivers
• 36:01
  and when I do, the spotlights are like, we had one
• 36:03
  conversation. You remembered all these things.
• 36:06
  It's like, yeah, notes don't mean anything to me, but that
• 36:08
  conversation meant everything to me.
• 36:10
  And so it's like I I store a lot of information.
• 36:13
  And so when we have things happen at like tell him, as you,
• 36:16
  I'll yell down at our announcer, Joel, say this Joel know this,
• 36:20
  right? And cuz he's just below me and,
• 36:23
  and he'll put it in his notes because I know sometimes he
• 36:26
  doesn't always get a chance to go through when he's doing some
• 36:28
  of the other things up top that it's like, Hey, this is like a
• 36:31
  mini wedge graduate. Let's promote that.
• 36:33
  Hey, this is the first time, you know, that's a dirt car on an
• 36:36
  asphalt track that right? Like, cuz fans do do love those
• 36:41
  things. The weird knowledge.
• 36:42
  I call it, you know, they they want to know that weird stuff
• 36:45
  that is meaningful. Well, here is the number one
• 36:48
  thing that I run into, believe it or not, and that is a veteran
• 36:52
  driver who has came back and especially because down here
• 36:56
  prominently the car count is the crown VIX, right?
• 36:58
  It's the old bomber days kind of style car.
• 37:01
  So a lot of these veterans, I don't care if it's a late model,
• 37:05
  if it's a street stock, if it's a sportsman, they're coming back
• 37:10
  after 10 to 15 years to run these because hey, I miss
• 37:13
  racing. How do I get back into it?
• 37:15
  So when you talk to these old veterans in the pit area,
• 37:18
  they'll say, well, I would love it.
• 37:20
  You know, they're excited. I would love if you told them
• 37:22
  that I won the 1979 Bush, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:26
  Or, you know, I did this, this and that.
• 37:28
  And, and I love that because you reminisce, right?
• 37:31
  Those veterans deserve that. And they are so pumped up that
• 37:35
  you talk to these veteran drivers and they know they're
• 37:37
  not going to win. OK, let's be honest.
• 37:39
  And they will tell you, I know I'm not competing with so and so
• 37:41
  and so and so. So, you know, if you give them
• 37:45
  that credit and announcer and I have many times after the race
• 37:49
  is over, they are lit up. They are ecstatic.
• 37:52
  You're bringing some credibility back to my name.
• 37:55
  And I raced in 1970 something or 80 something.
• 37:58
  We've had racers come out from 1960 something that got back in
• 38:01
  the car. This is just, this is part of
• 38:04
  our family of short track racing, right?
• 38:06
  This is why I live it. I breathe it because these guys
• 38:09
  deserve to be recognized. You know, let's be honest, if it
• 38:13
  wasn't for those pioneers back in the 60s, hell, I mean,
• 38:16
  Sportstrom Speedway and Salem celebrating 80 years this year,
• 38:19
  open in 1947, you know, So over the years, if you didn't have
• 38:23
  these pioneers all over the nation when the big tracks
• 38:26
  boomed back in the late 40s and 50s because many tracks across
• 38:30
  the nation started firing up after World war.
• 38:32
  So, you know, these are our pioneers and if you want to give
• 38:36
  them a little recognition, the ones that are still living and
• 38:39
  able to get in the car, that's what they love and live and
• 38:41
  breathe. Oh, yeah, And that's, and that's
• 38:45
  and, and Bhushu kind of did that with Rich Bull, who's a veteran
• 38:49
  up here where he, you know, that was Bhuju's first love, you
• 38:52
  know, as a kid with the first driver is remembering that and
• 38:56
  being able to recall that story. And so I mean, those moments
• 38:59
  stand out. And for those veterans, right,
• 39:00
  you're just honoring, you know, their past.
• 39:03
  And then Buju also has his Bullring Chronicles where he's
• 39:07
  highlighted like, old tracks like Playland Park up here in
• 39:10
  South Bend, which is now part of IUS, BS, Indiana University,
• 39:14
  South Bend University campus student housing is where the
• 39:17
  track used to be and still there.
• 39:20
  Yeah. And he's also, what was that
• 39:23
  track in North Carolina? Yeah.
• 39:27
  Okonichi, that Dale Junior did, you know, an episode on where
• 39:31
  they walked the track and all that.
• 39:32
  So, you know, even honoring those kinds of things to tell
• 39:34
  them those stories, because I bet there are many people who
• 39:38
  have probably passed through the hallways of those dormitories at
• 39:41
  IUSB who don't even know that play, that they're on historic
• 39:44
  property that at one time held all these things, including a
• 39:49
  roller coaster and baseball fields and big track.
• 39:52
  It's amazing. And those bleachers, you really
• 39:54
  have to be looking for them because there's growth in them.
• 39:56
  So right, it's all those legacy things do add up because you
• 40:00
  know, we lose a lot of that. And especially you have to think
• 40:03
  of media back then versus media now, right?
• 40:05
  Everybody has a phone, everybody has something that they can
• 40:09
  document. But back then, right, you had
• 40:11
  very. Talented specific people who did
• 40:13
  a lot of those things. Not everybody just had a camera.
• 40:16
  Not everybody just had that. So and I mean, you can go back
• 40:19
  to as you were talk about some of those careers and even in the
• 40:22
  70s and 80s probably didn't have just everybody doing that.
• 40:25
  So so it's pretty cool that you you do that.
• 40:28
  But I know I've asked a lot of questions so far.
• 40:31
  So booze you, I feel like I'm leaving you hanging out here.
• 40:33
  So I know you were in fact, you know, looking up and researching
• 40:37
  will to get to know him too. So what are some of your
• 40:39
  questions you have? So my which we're talking about
• 40:43
  the announcement and Lewis mentioned that I'm kind of newer
• 40:45
  to the game here and you mentioned filling time and
• 40:48
  that's clear to me. By far and away the hardest part
• 40:52
  I can, I've called races on PlayStation two my whole
• 40:54
  childhood. I can do that part.
• 40:56
  I feel like I'm comfortable with that.
• 40:57
  The filling time is hard. So I guess my question is how do
• 41:01
  you fill time? Well, you know, filling time,
• 41:04
  obviously you have, you have your big ones, right?
• 41:07
  You can only announce the concession stand.
• 41:08
  So bad times because people get tired of hot dogs.
• 41:11
  That's right. So, you know, then you go to
• 41:14
  sponsors, you know, the track sponsors, you can you wrap that
• 41:17
  in there as well. That'll fill a little bit of
• 41:18
  time, you know, the, the, the upcoming schedule, right.
• 41:22
  You know, I'm fortunate enough down here that other tracks let
• 41:25
  me announce other track schedules at at their facility.
• 41:28
  So that's good that I've always kind of preached at and music,
• 41:32
  music is your best friend. Whether people want to admit it
• 41:35
  or not, they do not want to hear the announcer 24/7 while they're
• 41:39
  at the racetrack. That's been one of the things
• 41:41
  that you can only talk to these people so much before they're
• 41:44
  like, you see them, right? You, you actually as an
• 41:46
  announcer, you can you watch the people out there and that when
• 41:49
  you get that, that look, you know, you're talking a little
• 41:53
  too much. You know, I've gotten them many
• 41:55
  times, but you know, I always say especially red flags, the
• 42:00
  red flag music, I always say, you know, do not keep talking,
• 42:04
  right. I always tell people that I was
• 42:06
  like, put on a good play mix. You know, you don't want some F
• 42:09
  this, F that. I, I, I hate that when I've been
• 42:12
  places where they actually put that on country music, you know,
• 42:16
  that's a safe bet. Happy music like, you know, I
• 42:20
  don't know, like dance music, you know, something like that,
• 42:24
  but you know, family friendly, obviously.
• 42:27
  So yeah, I think music is the biggest thing you can on on red
• 42:31
  flag situations. People don't want to hear you
• 42:33
  talk all the time. But after you hit your upcoming
• 42:35
  schedules, your concession stand and your sponsors and you know
• 42:39
  what is coming up the rest of the night, if if you got a
• 42:43
  plenty of a schedule now, if it's your feature race event and
• 42:45
  the front wheel drives and you're getting 25 cautions at
• 42:48
  that point, you're just like, all right, here we go.
• 42:50
  Let's let's get this throughout the night.
• 42:51
  So, but you know, I think that's the biggest time I'm filling
• 42:54
  time, sure. What's about time that you
• 43:01
  realize you're completely out of depth?
• 43:02
  Like you talk about all these different things you've done,
• 43:04
  the demolition derbies, the school bus races and all the
• 43:06
  novelty side stuff. What's one time that you were
• 43:09
  like? I don't know if this is for me
• 43:11
  at all, but I'm going to figure this out as we go.
• 43:13
  Oh, Demolition derbies for sure. Now watching the WWF back in the
• 43:20
  day that that would be actually some, some commentary that I
• 43:23
  could take or the old slobber knocker from Jim, Jim Ross and
• 43:27
  all that fun stuff that that's hard to do, boy, that's hard to
• 43:31
  do because you know that you I have to have my list because I
• 43:34
  do not know all of the drivers, obviously.
• 43:37
  And you know, what do you do? He's backing into him.
• 43:41
  He's hitting him. It's awkward, if that makes
• 43:45
  sense. You just.
• 43:46
  Oh yeah, he just hit him, you know, what do I say?
• 43:49
  You know, I'm not saying they'll hear it side by side and turn #1
• 43:52
  down the back straight away kind of deal, right?
• 43:54
  So it's not like, all right, here I am because I'm like this
• 43:57
  the whole time. Demolition derbies.
• 43:59
  Is that the number? Because sometimes on those cars
• 44:01
  crunched up, you can't see the right number, right?
• 44:03
  So I think that's him. He just hit him and the fans are
• 44:07
  like, this guy sucks. Yes, I know you want to come do
• 44:12
  this. The demolition derbies.
• 44:13
  If I had to do it, I will do. Do I love to do it?
• 44:17
  No. Do I love watching it?
• 44:18
  Absolutely. But commentary and demolition
• 44:21
  derbies, Yeah, that's not for me.
• 44:22
  I will say that. What's another role that you'd
• 44:25
  like to play in a rant? You said management wasn't for
• 44:27
  you, so we know you're not going back to that.
• 44:29
  You know you'll, we know you love announcing.
• 44:31
  If there's something else that you could try at the racetrack,
• 44:33
  what might that be? Well, you know, the good thing
• 44:35
  is at a racetrack, as you know, sometimes you have to be
• 44:38
  versatile. If I'm down to the pit area
• 44:40
  walking will can you flag go on and flag and tell him get off
• 44:44
  the track for practice. Sure, I can do that.
• 44:46
  I'll I'll try to flag a little bit.
• 44:48
  Can you get on the pit mic and announce, hey, sportsman's you
• 44:51
  up to the lineup shoot now we need you to the lineup shoot
• 44:53
  immediately, blah, blah, blah. So your pit, you're the pit mic
• 44:56
  now can you run and get a thing of hot dogs for the can cook at
• 45:01
  the concession stand? Sure, I can do that.
• 45:03
  Absolutely. Hey, can you can you check them
• 45:06
  in the pit window? Can you give them a wristband?
• 45:09
  So yes, I've done everything. Obviously, my home is in that
• 45:12
  press box. That is where I feel the most
• 45:14
  comfortable. That is my home.
• 45:16
  And believe it or not, this is going to surprise a lot of
• 45:19
  people. I'm one of the most nervous,
• 45:21
  anxious people you will ever meet at the racetrack.
• 45:24
  When I'm walking in front of someone, our grandstands, it
• 45:28
  took me for years to make eye contact.
• 45:31
  When I'm inside those four walls of the press box, I become me.
• 45:34
  Will Greenwell. I can just do what I do the
• 45:37
  best, but I've gotten better over the years at that.
• 45:41
  You know, it's just I don't know, it's not being scared or
• 45:44
  or not humble to talk to the audience because I love those
• 45:47
  people. It's just when I'm you get all
• 45:50
  eyes on you and that's just part of it, right.
• 45:53
  So you go out to get you a drink or go to the bathroom at a press
• 45:57
  bar. If your press box don't have a
• 45:59
  bathroom, like you have to go intermission.
• 46:01
  You know, people are know who you are.
• 46:03
  You're walking down. You know, the eyes are on you.
• 46:05
  You can feel it. This guy you've always talked to
• 46:08
  says, Hey, we'll stop here for a minute.
• 46:09
  You're not going to ignore them. I do not and ignore them, but
• 46:12
  you, you, everybody is now watching you in that
• 46:14
  conversation because you're who you are.
• 46:16
  You know what I mean? So for me, that is the hardest
• 46:21
  part about announcing, believe it or not, is just trying to
• 46:24
  come out of that anxiety, which I played off very well.
• 46:27
  Now when it's time to work, I work and I'm zoned into what I
• 46:30
  need to do, whether it's on track interviews, announcing a
• 46:33
  race in the press box. I am who I am, so that's just
• 46:36
  been a great thing about it. Now with my merchandise this
• 46:39
  year and last year, I think it's helped me a lot because we've
• 46:42
  had my tent, my beautiful wife sets up in the concourse.
• 46:45
  I signed autographs on the shirts when I did the school bus
• 46:47
  race and talking to these people really made me less anxious to
• 46:51
  be honest with you, if that makes sense.
• 46:54
  It's interesting you say that because I have anxiety myself
• 46:57
  and announcing is definitely me going out of my comfort zone and
• 47:00
  I sure I think I have the same struggle.
• 47:01
  Isn't that the face to face interactions are a little more
• 47:03
  difficult than being in the press box and everybody's
• 47:05
  looking that way? It is.
• 47:08
  And that's awesome that you said that, you know, because in in
• 47:10
  2019 with Mike Benson, it was the most hardest thing in the
• 47:14
  world for me was like, I'm not cut out for this.
• 47:18
  Another voice. Yes, you are your ass.
• 47:19
  Better do it. OK, so, you know, and I had a
• 47:24
  lot of great support around me and they've helped me out a lot
• 47:27
  and my family, you can do this. The biggest supporters, biggest
• 47:30
  cheerleader is my wife. I'm telling you again, she's the
• 47:32
  biggest supporter I have. If it wasn't for her, the
• 47:36
  merchandise, people just don't see the behind the scenes.
• 47:38
  She does my QuickBooks. We've become an LLC in Wildwood
• 47:40
  Entertainment. She does all of that some fun
• 47:43
  stuff. You know, she does the
• 47:45
  merchandise wrapping. She's you know, she's wrapped
• 47:48
  our, our, our new blankets and whatnot.
• 47:50
  So I mean, yeah, I mean, there's just been so many different
• 47:53
  things that she's done behind the scenes that if it wasn't for
• 47:56
  her, yeah, I can be the face and go out and and make the name.
• 47:59
  I can talk in the press box all day long.
• 48:01
  But the behind the scenes stuff, that truly was where it really
• 48:04
  comes together. Do you want to talk a little
• 48:07
  bit? Oh, sorry Buju, I didn't.
• 48:09
  Go ahead, Louis. I'll go over it.
• 48:10
  Since you're just talk about the merchandise, that's what made me
• 48:13
  think if we just can cut really quick.
• 48:14
  Do you want to talk a little bit about how people could get those
• 48:17
  T-shirts, especially since $5.00 of that or yeah, it's $5, right?
• 48:20
  It goes towards since you already talked about your
• 48:24
  merchandise and then we can go back Buju that way since you
• 48:27
  just showed it like, oh, this is probably a good time to to where
• 48:31
  can people get all that especially help with your 'cause
• 48:33
  that you do. Yeah, so this year, 5th
• 48:36
  anniversary, we went a little extreme on the merchandise,
• 48:38
  which it's going really well. The sales are great.
• 48:41
  So we had the brand new blankets.
• 48:43
  Now these blankets basically I try to sell all the merchandise
• 48:47
  cheap, 25 bucks basically. This is actually a different
• 48:51
  kind of blanket. This blanket you can sit on the
• 48:54
  the bleachers and you can turn it over if it's raining because
• 48:57
  it's waterproof on the other side.
• 48:58
  So you can actually use it as a shield gear.
• 49:02
  Yeah, we released the brand new hats this year, the mesh on the
• 49:05
  back. So those are going really well.
• 49:07
  And of course, the big seller is our Military Gold Metallic
• 49:11
  T-shirts, and this is really something that I take pride in.
• 49:16
  So as you can see, I'll try to zoom it in there a little bit.
• 49:19
  You can see the cars. It's got the Crown Victoria, the
• 49:21
  Figure 8 St. stock and the Super Late Model on it with our logo.
• 49:27
  And the reason I keep these so cheap, 15 bucks is because of
• 49:30
  all of these marketing partners on the back.
• 49:33
  As you can see, we got a lot of them that came on board this
• 49:36
  year and all the tracks at the bottom that I've had a little
• 49:39
  bit of work in. Sportstrom, Indianapolis, Speed,
• 49:42
  Drum Circle City, Salem, yeah, Salem's on there.
• 49:45
  And then of course, KKR. So all of that stuff.
• 49:48
  And these are these are good 5050 polyester and cotton.
• 49:51
  We, we do it all big because the sponsors, again, they keep it
• 49:54
  cheap and if you're interested in one of those are 15 bucks.
• 49:58
  There is a shipping cost. Sometimes it's different on
• 50:00
  where you ship 8-9 dollars depending on what it goes.
• 50:03
  But you can just go to my Facebook page, Will Greenwell.
• 50:06
  Everyone knows that I've have a lot of followers.
• 50:09
  You can just send me a direct message on there.
• 50:11
  I try to check all of those and say, hey, I'm interested in one
• 50:15
  of those shirts and and we'll figure out a way to ship it to
• 50:17
  you and get it all there. But we've had people order our
• 50:20
  merchandise from Seattle to California this year to Texas.
• 50:24
  So we're very blessed in that. And basically it goes to a great
• 50:28
  'cause our military and, and I forgot to show you that, but
• 50:32
  basically the India Warrior Partnership, they are a big part
• 50:35
  of that. So their, their badge is stamped
• 50:38
  on there as well as last year's the Soldiers Angels are on
• 50:40
  there. So we want to make sure we get
• 50:42
  the calls out. And Indy Warrior Partnership,
• 50:44
  they do a lot of military housing for homeless veterans.
• 50:48
  And that's such a big need because in my opinion, no
• 50:52
  veteran should ever go homeless. I'm telling you that now we've
• 50:56
  kind of forgot them in our system throughout the years,
• 50:59
  whether it be healthcare, whether it be home shelter and
• 51:03
  it just, it's sickening to to know that a veteran is out there
• 51:06
  homeless for sacrificing all that they have for our country.
• 51:08
  So. Well, that's where I was going
• 51:11
  to ask like, you know, those, those or those organizations
• 51:14
  that you work with in their background and what they do.
• 51:16
  And so and why this, you know, selling this shirt, you know,
• 51:20
  the $5.00 of that goes, you know, to help, you know, these
• 51:23
  organizations who obviously, you know, with VA hospitals and all
• 51:27
  these different things being being cut all the time.
• 51:30
  It's like, you know, these organizations probably are the
• 51:32
  ones, you know, who need the most help that are sometimes
• 51:35
  forgotten. You know, when you have us
• 51:37
  causes that, you know, like, obviously breast cancer's a big
• 51:40
  thing and other cancers are a big thing.
• 51:41
  But then sometimes, you know, we forget the military, right?
• 51:45
  Like, I mean, right now, obviously we have conflicts
• 51:47
  going on all across the globe. And, you know, they're
• 51:49
  sacrificing, you know, their their life for our freedom so
• 51:53
  that we can live hopefully safely in this country and all
• 51:56
  that. And it's sometimes like when
• 51:58
  they come back, they're almost forgotten because of that.
• 52:00
  It's like yeah 1. 100%. Now, now I don't know you
• 52:03
  because you're back home and you're just doing your normal
• 52:06
  daily stuff, right? You're only we know you on the
• 52:08
  news, but that's it. Yeah, and you know, that's the
• 52:11
  thing. You know, there's all kinds of
• 52:13
  other organizations out there that support those
• 52:15
  organizations. And trust me, they are as
• 52:17
  important as the military organizations, but you know,
• 52:20
  whether it be these big corporation, and I'm not going
• 52:23
  to get into names and all of that stuff, but these big
• 52:25
  corporations of giving back is they're finding out it's really
• 52:28
  not using The Big Bang or the buck going towards that
• 52:31
  organization. So what I do is I research the
• 52:35
  organizations that I know, soldiers, angels, they're big on
• 52:39
  gift baskets. And basically, I've actually had
• 52:42
  a couple military personnel last year that were retired that came
• 52:46
  up to me and said soldiers Angels, They actually sent me
• 52:48
  three care packages when I was on Iraq and I did that.
• 52:52
  So that made me feel great. Indy Warrior Partnership, I know
• 52:55
  a couple that have homes built for them.
• 52:57
  You know, I know where they're building the homes at.
• 52:59
  So yes, they're legit. So I do not want to give it to
• 53:03
  an organization that's not legit or not giving back to their true
• 53:05
  potential. And another thing is, do I, am I
• 53:09
  going to do the military next year or somewhere else, maybe
• 53:11
  someone else, maybe another organization that doesn't do
• 53:14
  with the military? So that's why I'm kind of trying
• 53:16
  to branch out a little bit. And each year I want to do
• 53:19
  something special that I know that an organization is truly
• 53:22
  giving back to that 'cause that I'm passionate about.
• 53:25
  Yeah, so Buju, I know I put a pin in your question really
• 53:28
  quick. So I but that's where I thought,
• 53:30
  you know, going there, talking about the shirt, talking about
• 53:33
  the cause. It's like since you showed the
• 53:35
  blank, it's like, oh, that's the perfect opportunity to do the.
• 53:38
  I don't call it a cheap plug because that's not, it's not a
• 53:41
  cheap thing that you're doing, but like.
• 53:43
  I appreciate it, no worries at all.
• 53:45
  You know, get these T-shirts out there, right, because someone
• 53:47
  watching may reach out and say, hey, we would like to get AT
• 53:50
  shirt and support that cause. So it's like that was perfect
• 53:53
  opportunity. OK, Boozoo, your turn.
• 53:56
  Two more questions. Not throwing it back to Lewis
• 53:58
  please, but but your ultimate goal.
• 54:01
  Do you have an ultimate goal in you're announcing career?
• 54:05
  Is there something a big red circle that you have on
• 54:07
  something or you just riding the wave seeing what happens?
• 54:10
  I know you have a great race tracker, you have a great home
• 54:12
  in Salem and a lot of great race tracks around you and mention
• 54:14
  the great opportunities you've had, but is there one thing that
• 54:17
  you have a big red circle around it?
• 54:19
  This is what I want to do one day.
• 54:20
  You know, I always say that every year I want to go bigger
• 54:25
  and better. I had an opportunity with
• 54:28
  Monster Jam that was the national level of the top.
• 54:31
  You know, we're talking Gravedigger Max D, we're talking
• 54:35
  the top top level monster trucks and there may be RC truck right
• 54:39
  here. Yes, exactly, exactly.
• 54:44
  And I'm not going to say I'm not in talks with them right now.
• 54:46
  I'm not going to say that there may be an opportunity come up
• 54:50
  where you know they understood last year that my dad was not in
• 54:54
  a good place. Well, now we have him moved out
• 54:55
  here by us. So that kind of opens up the
• 54:58
  door for a little more potential.
• 55:00
  Not going to say anything's definite yet, but there could be
• 55:04
  a national spotlight somewhere down the road.
• 55:06
  For me, I know that I'm good enough and that's not be being a
• 55:11
  confident ass, right? Excuse the language, but I I
• 55:15
  know that I had the potential to do that and reach that go.
• 55:19
  I'm 36 years old right now. I've done a lot that a lot of
• 55:21
  people at that age and eight years ago could not have done.
• 55:25
  So I'm very blessed, very, very thankful for my faith and
• 55:30
  praying that I I get to this level.
• 55:33
  But I'm satisfied right now. If that never comes.
• 55:36
  I am so happy with what I accomplished because I have so
• 55:39
  many different race tracks down here.
• 55:41
  And someone was telling me the other day, do you know real will
• 55:44
  that you are the only announcer that has announced at the same
• 55:48
  time to competitors of each track?
• 55:50
  And I'm like, well, I never really thought of that.
• 55:52
  She he goes think about it, Indianapolis speed drums sports
• 55:56
  Trump, Salem and Mount Lawn and all of these tracks Brownstown
• 56:00
  Speedway that have competed for over the years and you know,
• 56:03
  they're still competing. Not in a bad way.
• 56:05
  But hey, don't run on me this night.
• 56:07
  Don't run on me that night. You're the only announcer that
• 56:09
  is announced in all these press boxes at the same time
• 56:12
  simultaneously the same year. And you're like the link of all
• 56:16
  these. Hey, you know, go tell them not
• 56:17
  to do this or go tell them not to do that.
• 56:19
  I said I'll tell them, but I ain't going to make no promises.
• 56:21
  But you know, it's been a blessing to think about, to be
• 56:25
  honest with you, because you know, those promoters have
• 56:27
  enough faith in me when I'm announcing at a competitor's
• 56:31
  track that, you know, I don't want to see them as a
• 56:34
  competitor. They're all short track race
• 56:36
  tracks that deserve to be there. And I think that's the biggest
• 56:40
  thing I, I think, you know, just trying to let them know that,
• 56:42
  hey, I cannot help what they did, but I am going to support
• 56:47
  those tracks that support me. So, you know, I'm happy that I'm
• 56:51
  able to do that for sure. And then on the lighter side, a
• 56:54
  little bit one track that you haven't been to that you want to
• 56:57
  visit a bucket list track. What's 1?
• 56:59
  Oh, boy. Well, I'm friends with the
• 57:01
  announcer and he's gave me an open invite to Bowman Gray
• 57:05
  Stadium. So, yeah, that the Madhouse, you
• 57:09
  know, that has been a big a big bucket list item, I think
• 57:14
  because we were stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina,
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  which you have to drive through Winston Salem to get there.
• 57:21
  And so that place always has been on my radar.
• 57:25
  I've always wanted to do it. Yes, I have the connections down
• 57:28
  there. The time I have to get down
• 57:31
  there. It's little to none that that's
• 57:33
  the other thing when you're announcing for four to five race
• 57:35
  tracks. And now a lot of people just
• 57:39
  heard that down here at Thunder Valley Dirt track in Salem has
• 57:43
  reopened and we're adding like 12 dates on Friday nights and I
• 57:46
  come home and tell my wife, hey, I got 12 more Fridays.
• 57:48
  I'm taking your what I I know where am I going to get those
• 57:52
  at? Well, I'm, I'm giving 12 more of
• 57:54
  my Fridays. But what she doesn't know that I
• 57:56
  finally talked her into was, oh, you're our social media girl for
• 57:59
  the inner track. So you're going to post the
• 58:00
  winners at that track. She goes fine, just because I
• 58:04
  want to spend more time with you.
• 58:05
  That's the only reason I'm doing it.
• 58:08
  So I guess any advice out there to the guys who want their woman
• 58:11
  to go to the racetrack, get them a job and whether you don't see
• 58:14
  them already, they have to go because they want to spend time
• 58:17
  with you. That's how you do it.
• 58:19
  Well, there, there you go, Buju. You know, that could be your
• 58:24
  selling point. Hey, you know, date night at the
• 58:26
  races, except I'm going to be busy on the mic.
• 58:28
  But just think of how famous I am.
• 58:30
  So yeah, I will. Hang out with the tech guys for
• 58:33
  a while. Now I will tell you our first
• 58:37
  date I still she tells everyone this in a bad way.
• 58:40
  Our first date we met online. We both got out of bad
• 58:43
  relationships in 2012 thirteen. It was 2013 June and I was a fan
• 58:50
  of the sports jump Speedway at the time.
• 58:51
  So I would go on Friday or excuse me, Saturday nights.
• 58:54
  So she goes where you want to go for a date at.
• 58:56
  So not thanking, I was like sports jump Speedway, let's go
• 58:59
  to a date. I will take you to a racetrack.
• 59:01
  So she shows up, we meet in the parking lot.
• 59:04
  She's got this beautiful outfit on, not dressed to go to a
• 59:07
  racetrack. I'm like, OK, this is we'll get
• 59:10
  her there. So we get in the car.
• 59:12
  She obviously, I don't know why I didn't think about doing this,
• 59:15
  but I did not take her out to eat on our first date.
• 59:17
  So I took her right to the racetrack.
• 59:20
  I wasn't thinking so just trying to be the cute me and that I am
• 59:25
  I bought her a ring pop. I'm like, so here's your dinner,
• 59:28
  here's your ring, Pop. Maybe one day you'll get a real
• 59:31
  one on your fingers. Some stupid stuff that I said.
• 59:34
  You know, you got to think when you get older, you always think
• 59:37
  about the stupid things that you said when you were younger.
• 59:40
  And so we sat there, best day ever because I did not have to
• 59:44
  talk because you could not talk because of the roar of the
• 59:47
  engine. So it's the best thing ever.
• 59:49
  So after that night at Sportstrom, we went to the big
• 59:52
  walking bridge in Louisville. And we're like, so is this a
• 59:56
  thing? She was pretty tired.
• 59:57
  It was like 1:00 AM. Again, no food.
• 1:00:00
  Loud race cars and finally we walk on the bridge at night and
• 1:00:04
  I was like so are we a thing? And I guess she goes, yeah, we
• 1:00:07
  are sure. So here we are 10 years married
• 1:00:11
  later and about yeah, the 12 years in it as a relationship.
• 1:00:15
  And she hasn't left me yet, so at least she knew what she was
• 1:00:18
  getting into when she married me.
• 1:00:21
  That that's awesome. That just you know that I'm
• 1:00:25
  going to clip that that's awesome.
• 1:00:27
  That's it. And then since I said clip, that
• 1:00:28
  stream yard is going to do its own thing and put a clip spot
• 1:00:30
  there because that's there you go.
• 1:00:32
  Awesome story though, right? Because think of how many
• 1:00:34
  people, I mean, we can see at Kalamazoo, you can see at
• 1:00:37
  Plymouth, South Bend, wherever you go, M40, how many people
• 1:00:40
  have met at the racetrack, right?
• 1:00:42
  And that's where, you know, a lot of times like the the new
• 1:00:45
  Paris United destruction, people count me as part of their
• 1:00:48
  family, right? I'm an outsider that came in a
• 1:00:50
  few years ago. But they've really, you know,
• 1:00:52
  embraced me as part of that. And it's like, just think of how
• 1:00:54
  many race tracks, they're not just important for an economic
• 1:00:57
  driver. They're just not important for a
• 1:01:00
  place of entertainment. But they're a place where people
• 1:01:02
  meet lifelong friends, people who they would call family,
• 1:01:06
  think of as family, you know, all these things.
• 1:01:08
  And then in this case, that's where you know, love blossomed
• 1:01:13
  for you is at the racetrack with a blow pop ring.
• 1:01:17
  That, that's it. You know, I like, I mean, I'm
• 1:01:20
  sorry. At least give me some pointers.
• 1:01:21
  I was trying to be cute, but oh, yeah, because I didn't even have
• 1:01:24
  dinner. What are you talking about?
• 1:01:25
  And I'm like, well, I mean, you can enjoy the race.
• 1:01:27
  That'll be all right. Again, that that's an awesome
• 1:01:31
  story though, So that's well and and now again, 12 years later,
• 1:01:35
  you can remember that and and share them say hey, you just
• 1:01:37
  never know, you might find your next love at at the racetrack.
• 1:01:40
  So I know we're running out of time here and you have your own
• 1:01:44
  podcast that you have to record here after this because your
• 1:01:48
  partner in crime is going out of town.
• 1:01:51
  And so do you want to talk a little bit about your podcast
• 1:01:53
  and your mission with that? And then I'm also trying to
• 1:01:57
  think there was one more thing I wanted to oh, and the race
• 1:02:00
  tracks that people can currently hear you at, you know, if they
• 1:02:03
  want to come down and and hear you call a race.
• 1:02:05
  Obviously, I know Salem, they were doing Sunday shows at the
• 1:02:08
  start, but now they're back on Saturdays for the most part.
• 1:02:11
  But if you want to talk about all of that podcast where people
• 1:02:14
  can listen and then where people can hear you announce races.
• 1:02:17
  Sure. So the podcast, absolutely.
• 1:02:20
  You know, we're five years into this thing.
• 1:02:21
  We have different guests. We've had Jeff Bodine on, we've
• 1:02:24
  had, you know, we've had Devin Moran and Lucas Oil Late Model
• 1:02:27
  series on, we've had different people on locally.
• 1:02:31
  That's kind of our big thing. We want to kind of showcase
• 1:02:33
  someone locally that really doesn't get the attention that
• 1:02:36
  they deserve. So each and every week, usually
• 1:02:38
  on Wednesday or Tuesday nights, it's released.
• 1:02:40
  After I edit it, I do all of my own editing.
• 1:02:43
  So basically there is my logo. You can see it on the screen.
• 1:02:45
  The Wild will throw down 5th anniversary.
• 1:02:48
  You can go many places to hear it.
• 1:02:50
  You can go to obviously www.wildwillgreenwell.com and
• 1:02:54
  absolutely listen to it for free.
• 1:02:56
  Or you can go to Spotify, you can go to Apple Podcast,
• 1:02:59
  Android, Amazon, iHeartRadio, all of the big, big platforms to
• 1:03:04
  listen to it. So yeah, the Wild will throw
• 1:03:07
  down. As far as where I'm announcing
• 1:03:09
  that this year I am back at the Sportstrum Speedway down here at
• 1:03:12
  the Kentucky Indiana border. We were talking about the car
• 1:03:16
  counts about 65 to 7 each Crown Vics each week.
• 1:03:19
  So that is an awesome place to go to watch racing.
• 1:03:22
  Also our modifieds, our Sportsman's are down there as
• 1:03:24
  well. And the Salem Speedway, yes
• 1:03:26
  indeed I'm back there at 2022 now 26th of my fifth year at
• 1:03:31
  Salem, hard to believe as well. So yes, we're racing mostly
• 1:03:34
  Sundays and Saturdays now. Saturday schedule comes out June
• 1:03:37
  6th, our next scheduled date. That is when the modifieds
• 1:03:40
  return to the high banks. So Salem Speedway, I'm doing a
• 1:03:44
  few races at the Indianapolis Speed Drum this year.
• 1:03:46
  I'll be on the broadcast TV crew for the three hour.
• 1:03:48
  It's our 50th annual $50,000 to win three hour this year.
• 1:03:53
  Absolutely great. Going to be about 60 outlaw
• 1:03:55
  Figure 8 cars from all over the country.
• 1:03:57
  So check that out. Yeah, in different places.
• 1:03:59
  I just pop in. They asked me to announce and
• 1:04:01
  when I can watch. But predominantly this year, the
• 1:04:05
  Speed Drum, the Sportstrom, the Salem Speedway is predominantly
• 1:04:08
  where we're going to be at. 1 and I didn't know all the tracks
• 1:04:12
  in that area, so when you're sharing something for the speed
• 1:04:15
  drone, I'm like, hold on, there's all these drones and I
• 1:04:19
  wanted to make sure that I was calling the right drones because
• 1:04:23
  again, I'm like, well I know there's Indianapolis and then I
• 1:04:25
  know I didn't know about the other one, right?
• 1:04:28
  And so that's where I looked it up on the maps to go OK, where's
• 1:04:31
  that located? So it's because of you, you
• 1:04:34
  know, that I've learned about other tracks down in that area.
• 1:04:36
  So yeah. Sportstrom Speedway is a very
• 1:04:39
  historic place. You know, in 1947 it opened
• 1:04:42
  right there when they were shipping crate containers down
• 1:04:44
  the Ohio River. And I know we're we're running
• 1:04:46
  out of time and I'm not going to get into the history of it, but
• 1:04:48
  they actually did ostrich races there back in the 40s and 50s.
• 1:04:52
  A lot of these short tracks, I did not know did ostrich races.
• 1:04:55
  Thunder Valley Raceway in Salem did ostrich races.
• 1:04:58
  So when I tell that to the fans, like, are you crazy?
• 1:05:00
  It's like, no, it's just this historic time.
• 1:05:03
  And the drone actually means sports, a kind of different
• 1:05:06
  sporting events, boxing, racing, you know, running, stuff like
• 1:05:10
  that. So that's where the drone kind
• 1:05:12
  of came in back in the 40s and 50s.
• 1:05:14
  Wow, OK, see, I learned something new.
• 1:05:17
  I mean I. You never know ostrich racing.
• 1:05:20
  I I don't, oh, I wonder if we, I wonder if anyone legally can get
• 1:05:24
  away with that. In today's world, probably not.
• 1:05:26
  PETA would probably be laying down at the parking lot, so I
• 1:05:29
  would not. We would see them all over.
• 1:05:32
  But that. I mean, imagine that though,
• 1:05:34
  right? Like ostrich races come in, you
• 1:05:36
  know, you know, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
• 1:05:39
  And I mean, we have pig races. If you go to a County Fair, they
• 1:05:42
  have pigs doing this, you know, this and all that.
• 1:05:45
  So I mean ostrich. I would have never.
• 1:05:48
  Next time I go to Pottawatomie Zoo, I'm going to look at the
• 1:05:50
  ostrich and go, Are you ready to race?
• 1:05:52
  Let's saddle up. Hey, but you know what?
• 1:05:54
  The fastest bird. So you know what?
• 1:05:56
  That makes sense. Yeah, man, I would not.
• 1:05:59
  I I didn't know that was something Buju.
• 1:06:03
  Did you know that I've never heard of ostrich races?
• 1:06:07
  That's a Bullring Chronicle episode right there.
• 1:06:09
  There you go, that's. What we need to do, but again,
• 1:06:12
  well, I know it's eight O 5 and I know Mason just popped in and
• 1:06:15
  you have two segments of your podcast that you get to record
• 1:06:18
  right after this. So we helped warm up your voice
• 1:06:20
  for it, but. Hey guys, I appreciate you so
• 1:06:23
  much for having me. I love what you guys do.
• 1:06:26
  We need more media in the racing world so I love taking the time
• 1:06:29
  to chat with you guys. Anytime you need me just let me
• 1:06:32
  know. But thank you so much for what
• 1:06:33
  you guys do. Thank you again, It's thank you
• 1:06:36
  to to have some of your caliber on here.
• 1:06:38
  I mean, a national voice who lots, you know, thousands and
• 1:06:42
  thousands of people probably heard you and now they, they
• 1:06:45
  might be able to connect that face to the voice because
• 1:06:48
  sometimes again, with announcers, right, unless you're
• 1:06:50
  walking through, you know, for people who are listening on pit
• 1:06:53
  Rd. TV or XR events or whatever it's
• 1:06:55
  called now you know, all these things, right, like they might,
• 1:06:59
  you might be over in North Carolina or whatever and they're
• 1:07:01
  in California. They'll never maybe have a
• 1:07:03
  chance to see you, but you never know.
• 1:07:05
  I mean, now they can maybe say, hey, that's that guy, right?
• 1:07:08
  So. Hey, and I know I, I mentioned
• 1:07:10
  anxiety, but if you see me at the racetrack, please come up,
• 1:07:12
  introduce yourself. I'd love to talk to you.
• 1:07:15
  Any question. I'm very approachable.
• 1:07:16
  So yeah, I I just love our fans and our drivers, that's for
• 1:07:19
  sure. Well, again, thank you for
• 1:07:21
  everything that you do. Again, one of the top voices in
• 1:07:24
  the nation and I'm excited to see what you get to do next.
• 1:07:26
  And you just never know, right? You know, the doors are always
• 1:07:29
  open and you're opening a lot of them.
• 1:07:30
  But again, when you have the skill set that you do, there are
• 1:07:35
  a lot of traps who would be very lucky to have you even just be
• 1:07:38
  there. So, so again, thank you,
• 1:07:40
  everything Will, for what you do and thank you for helping our
• 1:07:43
  veterans through the different causes that you work with.
• 1:07:45
  So I'll be sure to put in the comments when I get a chance to,
• 1:07:50
  to connect with you. That way.
• 1:07:51
  If people want to buy that shirt, again, it's $15 and $5.00
• 1:07:54
  of it goes towards the organization that helps with
• 1:07:57
  homeless and all that for our veterans.
• 1:07:59
  So again, thank you so much, Will.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah. Thank you, guys.
• 1:08:02
  Have a great night and thank you again.
• 1:08:05
  Oh, no, absolutely. Again, thank you.
• 1:08:06
  And, and I know we're at the top of the hour here, so I do want
• 1:08:09
  to remind everyone that you're listening to the Monday night
• 1:08:11
  rewind again, every like and every share that you do helps
• 1:08:15
  grow this show each and every single week.
• 1:08:17
  So definitely appreciate that. I know race and Mason's already
• 1:08:20
  in the in the staging area, so I'm about to bring them on, but
• 1:08:23
  I do want to do our top of the hour shout outs again.
• 1:08:26
  You can throttle up with us. Buju and I are back this
• 1:08:28
  Thursday at 7:00. We preview the schedule of the
• 1:08:31
  upcoming weekend where we'll talk about the tracks in
• 1:08:34
  Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, sometimes Ohio on where you can
• 1:08:38
  go on a Friday, Saturday or especially this week on a Sunday
• 1:08:41
  between the mini wedges and Corgan oil.
• 1:08:43
  And then we talked about the storylines heading into the
• 1:08:46
  weekend. Again, we are just talking with
• 1:08:48
  Wild Will Greenwell who has the Wild Will Throw Down podcast
• 1:08:52
  that you can listen to on his website.
• 1:08:56
  One more quick reminder for to the marketing special for ELHELH
• 1:08:59
  Detailing. If you want to get a fresh
• 1:09:01
  detail, come on down to the Sunny Shores or Bridgeman,
• 1:09:04
  Michigan. While your car's getting
• 1:09:05
  detailed, you can wave to everyone in Chicago.
• 1:09:07
  From our shoreline, you can see the Sears Tower.
• 1:09:10
  Boozoo. I'm not calling it the Willis
• 1:09:12
  Tower. That's not a thing.
• 1:09:13
  It is the Sears Tower. I was born in Chicago.
• 1:09:15
  That's what it is. That's what it'll always be.
• 1:09:17
  There's no Willis in it, but Sears Tower or officially Willis
• 1:09:20
  Tower as it's called now, but nobody from Chicago calls it
• 1:09:23
  that. So anyways, we have Rayson
• 1:09:26
  Mason, who is now joining us. I'm going to bring him on the
• 1:09:29
  staging area. So, Mason, again, welcome to the
• 1:09:32
  Monday Night Rewind. I know you already did one
• 1:09:34
  podcast, just not too long ago, but now you're on the Monday
• 1:09:37
  Night Rewind. How are you?
• 1:09:40
  Yeah, he's on your tour. You're good.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah. How you feeling?
• 1:09:45
  I mean, you know, you had all those emotions on Friday.
• 1:09:49
  So walk us through from the moment you had the checkered
• 1:09:52
  flag and did the bow. How have you been feeling since
• 1:09:54
  then? I've been feeling amazing.
• 1:09:56
  We went up to our cabin, celebrated and just had a bunch
• 1:10:00
  of fun. So because did you do any
• 1:10:03
  fishing? Because I know sometimes you
• 1:10:04
  guys do fishing and other things.
• 1:10:06
  So what? What is your weekend look like?
• 1:10:09
  Well, we went after I won, we drove up north, we did some
• 1:10:12
  fishing, did some riding, and I just got home from that actually
• 1:10:16
  just to do these podcasts. See.
• 1:10:19
  Well, I hope we didn't cut your vacation short because you
• 1:10:21
  definitely after the race that you pulled together on Friday,
• 1:10:25
  you definitely earned, you know, a little bit of a celebration
• 1:10:28
  because we were kind of talking about with Will how you've kind
• 1:10:31
  of been like the silent assassin in a way, right?
• 1:10:33
  You know, you've seen, you know, Phil, obviously when you've seen
• 1:10:37
  Bryce win and you just kind of been working your way, find your
• 1:10:40
  way up. And then now you finally, you
• 1:10:41
  had the spotlight that night. So how did it feel to to finally
• 1:10:45
  join in those ranks? It felt amazing.
• 1:10:48
  I just, I'm just thankful from all all my crew just to get that
• 1:10:53
  car running and get that car super fast.
• 1:10:58
  And it Buju, I know you've gone to Kalamazoo a couple times, but
• 1:11:01
  I think for anyone who's been watching you, Mason, especially
• 1:11:04
  this year, it's not a surprise. I I'm trying to be neutral as
• 1:11:08
  like a videographer on the roof. But if Raymond were to tell you
• 1:11:11
  that I was doing this as you were pushing for the front, like
• 1:11:16
  I try not to look like I have bias or anything when I
• 1:11:18
  especially when I've been doing after the races, it's all fair
• 1:11:20
  game. I go and talk to everybody.
• 1:11:22
  But as a race, I'm doing this because, you know, I just think
• 1:11:25
  last year and you'll remember this, you spun out, you know, at
• 1:11:28
  Kalamazoo and you let out a lot of words and a lot of emotions.
• 1:11:31
  And obviously that never made it to the public viewing.
• 1:11:34
  And it won't because that's not right and fair to you.
• 1:11:37
  But you are very vulnerable and just it's like you let
• 1:11:41
  everything out, everything that had been building all season.
• 1:11:43
  And then to see you where you came to this moment in time on
• 1:11:47
  Friday where you just raced, you know, probably I thought two
• 1:11:50
  weeks ago you raced your best race and then you did that on
• 1:11:53
  Friday. It's like for anyone who's been
• 1:11:55
  paying attention to see your journey, I mean, you've just
• 1:11:57
  come such a long way. So I know I'm very proud of you
• 1:12:00
  and what you've done. So that was not that I was
• 1:12:03
  rooting against other drivers, but I was certainly not not
• 1:12:07
  rooting for you doing this on the roof, trying also not to
• 1:12:10
  throw the camera all over the side while doing that.
• 1:12:13
  So so again, congratulations on such a huge win.
• 1:12:18
  Thank you. I'm just so thankful for
• 1:12:21
  everybody helping me. So do you want to talk before we
• 1:12:24
  get into who are you? Because obviously, you know,
• 1:12:27
  there might be people watching who don't know who you are
• 1:12:30
  because they don't come to Kalamazoo or they're not able
• 1:12:32
  to. So before we get to that
• 1:12:34
  question, do you want to talk a little bit about who helps get
• 1:12:37
  you to the races? Who helps get the car put
• 1:12:39
  together? I know you do your shop talk
• 1:12:42
  with Bryce that you guys put out a promo video each week to talk
• 1:12:45
  about the updates. So do you want to talk a little
• 1:12:46
  bit about who helps you get there and your sponsors?
• 1:12:49
  I would like to thank DNL Transport, Diamond Auto Sales,
• 1:12:55
  Next Generation Lawn Care, Amsoil by Midwest Synthetics,
• 1:13:00
  Mark Pack, Niggle Shipping, FK Rod Ends, All Star Performance,
• 1:13:05
  Duka Performance, Tony Lacaya Racing, Outerwears, Landrum
• 1:13:12
  Springs, Sweet Manufacturing, Advanced Property, R&N Sport
• 1:13:16
  Trucks, Superior Bearings And I would like to thank my Papa, my
• 1:13:20
  Gigi Bryce, my dad, my mom, Phil, Uncle Ron, Todd Wilcox,
• 1:13:27
  Bubba, Uncle Jeff, Paige, Morgan, Brian, Aaron and
• 1:13:31
  Cassidy, Aunt Ginger and Uncle Bill.
• 1:13:36
  That's a lot to remember. I'm impressed with that because
• 1:13:38
  I, I don't know that I remembered what I had for dinner
• 1:13:41
  like 2 weeks ago, but I mean, you just read that pretty
• 1:13:44
  perfectly. So, so now that you've done that
• 1:13:48
  and we've and you've thanked everyone because I thought
• 1:13:50
  that's a good place to start since you brought that up.
• 1:13:52
  Now let's back up and who's racing Mason for those who don't
• 1:13:57
  know who you are. I raised in the lower part of
• 1:14:02
  Michigan and I'm I race weekly comes to Speedway and I'm
• 1:14:06
  starting to get into a travel series with the outlaw races and
• 1:14:10
  the reveal the hammer series. And are are you excited to do
• 1:14:15
  the the Wedge race racing too? Because you haven't done the
• 1:14:18
  Wedge racing yet, have you? No, this will be my first year
• 1:14:21
  in an Outlaw. My first race in an Outlaw was
• 1:14:24
  at Owosso Speedway for the Bob Finley Finley Memorial.
• 1:14:28
  Earlier this year, right? Yep, Yep, Yep.
• 1:14:31
  So how did I, I forgot to look at the results, that's my bad.
• 1:14:33
  I should have looked at the WASA to see how you did.
• 1:14:35
  But what did you think about racing in the Super light
• 1:14:39
  models, especially at Owosso where I mean that racing
• 1:14:41
  obviously brings the best in the business around there too.
• 1:14:44
  So what? What was going through your mind
• 1:14:46
  as you took on that challenge? It's way different than just
• 1:14:51
  template models and other late models.
• 1:14:53
  You have to be very patient. You have to be quick though
• 1:14:57
  because you can't stay in the back and put around for too long
• 1:15:01
  and just very different. So what makes it different?
• 1:15:05
  Like for those who don't know cars or like fans who like, OK,
• 1:15:08
  I know that's a template. It's shaped like a NASCAR.
• 1:15:12
  I know that's a wedge. I know it has the wedge, right.
• 1:15:15
  So for fans who don't know, when you're in that driver's seat,
• 1:15:17
  what are some of the different things that you feel as a
• 1:15:19
  driver? The different things is the
• 1:15:22
  amount of grip that the cars have.
• 1:15:24
  Template like models don't have as much grip as the wedge series
• 1:15:29
  does 'cause they don't have as big as tires, and the wedge
• 1:15:33
  series can have different kind of motors than the template
• 1:15:37
  series and all the other serieses.
• 1:15:41
  And So what has been the biggest challenge because we were
• 1:15:43
  talking with Will before the show because he read up on you
• 1:15:46
  and he wanted to know like who you were and he was going to
• 1:15:49
  stay and hang out. But then his partner that he
• 1:15:52
  does his podcast with is going out of town.
• 1:15:54
  So they had to, as soon as he got off with us, he started
• 1:15:58
  recording his next podcast. So you felt awful that he
• 1:16:00
  couldn't stay around, but he looked up, you know, everything
• 1:16:03
  about you and wanted to know who you are because he was really
• 1:16:05
  interested in that. So we were telling him that, you
• 1:16:08
  know, not that long ago, you're a front wheel drive racer and
• 1:16:10
  you jumped right from front wheel drives into late models.
• 1:16:13
  So do you want to help fans understand even what that kind
• 1:16:16
  of jump is going from that front wheel drive right into now
• 1:16:19
  you're racing a late model with, quite frankly, some of the best
• 1:16:22
  in the business at Kalamazoo at the time?
• 1:16:24
  Yeah, front wheel drives and template models are is a pretty
• 1:16:28
  big difference. The template models, it's rear
• 1:16:31
  wheel drive. So you have to be like you can't
• 1:16:34
  just stand in the gas and it's just so different.
• 1:16:39
  The template models has, it's like not many people, but it's a
• 1:16:44
  big competition there. And what you know when you're
• 1:16:50
  growing up, right, Obviously being related to bozos and being
• 1:16:54
  surrounded by racing and having a lot of family and racing and
• 1:16:57
  everything. What did you know?
• 1:16:59
  What did you grow up wanting to race like?
• 1:17:01
  What were your goals that you had where now maybe you get to
• 1:17:04
  live some of those goals? Like what did you want to do?
• 1:17:08
  I want to ever since I was just a little kid watching my grandpa
• 1:17:11
  go around in the rocket car at Kalamazoo Speedway.
• 1:17:14
  I just wanted to be a race car driver from then.
• 1:17:18
  And do you, what are your future goals?
• 1:17:21
  Like obviously you're doing this right, You're racing the
• 1:17:23
  Outlaws. But you know, do you, do you
• 1:17:25
  ever want to find your way to doing like a NASCAR or like an
• 1:17:29
  ARCA or, you know, do you like what you're doing now and just
• 1:17:32
  kind of staying local? I would love to get in the
• 1:17:35
  NASCAR, that's my dream, getting the NASCAR, win a NASCAR race.
• 1:17:40
  But my goals for this year is to win a championship at Kamzu
• 1:17:44
  Speedway and get Ricky of the year at in the revealed Hammer
• 1:17:48
  Series. And I know Bryce got that what
• 1:17:53
  last year, right? Yep.
• 1:17:55
  So there's going to be noise for really quick OOP.
• 1:17:59
  That was bad. But anyways, I'm getting that
• 1:18:01
  ready. I'm going to hide it for now
• 1:18:03
  because I want you to kind of walk us through that here in
• 1:18:05
  just a little bit. I know Buju had a question and I
• 1:18:07
  stomped on him really quick, but I was doing that.
• 1:18:09
  But I'm like, I wanted to warn you, I, I, we were talking to
• 1:18:12
  Will and I forgot to get that ready.
• 1:18:13
  So that's my fault, production manager fault.
• 1:18:16
  But Buju, what was your question?
• 1:18:18
  So Lewis was talking about you being from a racing family, you
• 1:18:20
  obviously grew up in Kalamazoo and tracks around Kalamazoo.
• 1:18:24
  And now with you racing and still being so young, you're out
• 1:18:26
  there with these guys that you grew up watching.
• 1:18:28
  So what are some of the names that you're out there racing
• 1:18:30
  with now that when you're when you see that car out there, you
• 1:18:33
  still have that moment? It's like, man, that's kind of
• 1:18:34
  cool that I'm racing with so and so now instead of watching them.
• 1:18:37
  Well, obviously my Uncle Phil, Buddy Head, Jeff Ganis and Jared
• 1:18:45
  Blanchard and all them. That's awesome.
• 1:18:50
  Who have you always wanted to race against that you haven't
• 1:18:53
  had a chance to race against yet?
• 1:18:55
  Or when you've got to race against them?
• 1:18:58
  You kind of felt like you had to pinch yourself.
• 1:19:00
  Like, man, I used to just watch you from the stands, from the
• 1:19:03
  Pederia, and now I'm literally like lined up next to you.
• 1:19:06
  I'm in the same race with you. I always wanted to.
• 1:19:09
  I always wanted to race against my grandpa, but when we did get
• 1:19:13
  to race each other at Corgan Oil Speedway, he whooped my butt.
• 1:19:18
  That time there, you know, you never know, right?
• 1:19:21
  You know, so other than so other than what about other than
• 1:19:25
  grandpa, like know who else? Like let's think about Victory
• 1:19:29
  Lane Last week you had when you after you did your bow and
• 1:19:33
  everybody's doing hugs. You had Jeff come over, you had
• 1:19:36
  Brock come over. I mean, there's a lot of
• 1:19:38
  emotions down in that Victory Lane.
• 1:19:40
  And So what was it like to have championship drivers even like
• 1:19:43
  them? Obviously in your family you
• 1:19:44
  have championship drivers, right?
• 1:19:46
  But to have people like them come over and show their
• 1:19:50
  excitement for you. What did that feel like?
• 1:19:53
  It was amazing. Just I have a bunch of people
• 1:19:56
  rooting for me and I just can't imagine that many people are
• 1:20:00
  rooting for me. Well, and that's why I wanted to
• 1:20:03
  pull this up. So not supposed to have sound.
• 1:20:07
  So this is just before, right? So I want you to kind of walk us
• 1:20:10
  through because you're going to see, even though it's a little
• 1:20:14
  fast, you're going to start to see people in the pit area start
• 1:20:18
  cheering you on, right? And, and on the trailer, they're
• 1:20:21
  all jumping up on the trailer. I know you again, my graphic
• 1:20:24
  kind of blocks some of that out, but they're jumping up on the
• 1:20:27
  trailer. Again, you'll see the camera
• 1:20:29
  kind of jerk here in just a few moments when I'm on the roof,
• 1:20:32
  you know, doing this too. So walk us through all of this.
• 1:20:36
  Well, I started 5th on the restart that happened and I got
• 1:20:41
  to the outside and Jared Blanchard and Buddy Head was on
• 1:20:45
  the inside. Jared Blanchard and Buddy Head
• 1:20:48
  got together and I saw a hole on the outside.
• 1:20:50
  I took it and then I after I got past them two, I ducked to the
• 1:20:56
  inside past Zachary Maynard and just led the race from there.
• 1:21:01
  When I know I'm going to call you the battery killer, just so
• 1:21:06
  you know because so a few weeks ago, so Mason had an onboard
• 1:21:10
  camera all last year, no issues year before no issues.
• 1:21:14
  Few weeks ago he has a camera. Guess what happened Buju to the
• 1:21:18
  battery inside. Gone dead.
• 1:21:21
  It no. It no.
• 1:21:23
  It blew up. It exploded so it got fat
• 1:21:27
  inside, so I put it too far back in the car.
• 1:21:30
  So last week, not last week, the week before, no issues.
• 1:21:33
  I moved it up a little bit more air to get to it last Friday,
• 1:21:37
  put it, I thought, in the right spot.
• 1:21:40
  Mason. Guess what happened after
• 1:21:41
  Sabrina turned it on? You got about a minute and a
• 1:21:44
  half before died and I was sitting in the parking lot at
• 1:21:49
  Love's because I'm getting ready to post that because I'm excited
• 1:21:52
  for you again. I just so you know, I don't know
• 1:21:54
  if Phil told you, but I had tears up on the roof myself
• 1:21:57
  because again, I just thought of that moment last year where you
• 1:22:00
  spun out. You had all these emotions.
• 1:22:02
  You had all these things. I and I came up to you that next
• 1:22:05
  week you might remember and I said, Mason, come on, like
• 1:22:09
  you're good. You got to remember you're good
• 1:22:11
  and you can do this right? And we had that conversation
• 1:22:13
  because I saw all those emotions.
• 1:22:15
  Well, so I go to post the damn thing.
• 1:22:18
  It's a minute something. I texted Sabrina going the
• 1:22:21
  camera. So I get home.
• 1:22:24
  Fat battery. So that's two cameras.
• 1:22:26
  Now that Mason's just so fast that he's going through all my
• 1:22:29
  GoPro batteries at a lightning speed.
• 1:22:32
  So he's getting camera #7 again, because he had luck with that
• 1:22:36
  one. And I know that's a brand new
• 1:22:37
  battery. Camera 7 went to someone else
• 1:22:40
  last week just because of my pattern in the pit area.
• 1:22:43
  But I'm like, I not only do I feel bad because then we didn't
• 1:22:47
  get the onboard camera view of him doing that.
• 1:22:50
  Least Jared Blanchard's was working and behind.
• 1:22:52
  So you can still watch you win the race from Jared's point of
• 1:22:55
  view. But I'm like, come on.
• 1:22:57
  And Sabrina felt bad And she's like, what did I do?
• 1:22:59
  I said the camera, the battery. He's just so fast this year that
• 1:23:02
  he keeps going through my GoPro batteries here.
• 1:23:04
  But but at least we have this. So now walk us through this
• 1:23:07
  moment because this is what I wanted to show on the onboard
• 1:23:10
  camera as you're doing this. Walk us through this when Andy
• 1:23:14
  Bozell, I'll back it up just a little bit because I know we
• 1:23:15
  were talking and I was venting on why you haven't seen your
• 1:23:18
  footage yet. It's because you keep going
• 1:23:19
  through my GoPro batteries here. So Andy Bozell junior brings up
• 1:23:25
  the flag. This is a Kyle Busch flag.
• 1:23:27
  So do you want to talk a little bit about this and what it was
• 1:23:29
  like, especially after the tragedy last week to drive with
• 1:23:33
  that one? Well we found this cow Bush flag
• 1:23:38
  in my grandpa's house and I wanted to bring it to the track
• 1:23:41
  and hang it up. And I was like if I win I want
• 1:23:44
  to take this track, this flag around the track.
• 1:23:46
  And once I won, my 2 uncles brought the flag to me and put
• 1:23:51
  it in my hand and I just brought it around the track.
• 1:23:56
  And again, this is where you have a whole gathering of people
• 1:23:59
  on the front stretch, which you can't see yet.
• 1:24:01
  Cuz obviously I'm focusing on you and going through crying on
• 1:24:04
  the roof, you know, having all these emotions myself.
• 1:24:08
  Because I just know, again, like I said, I, you know, with you
• 1:24:11
  having an on board camera, I've gotten to see you, you know, at
• 1:24:15
  some moments where you were just letting out all these emotions
• 1:24:17
  that obviously, like I said, no one else sees.
• 1:24:20
  You know, I would never put that up publicly cuz that that's not
• 1:24:23
  fair. You know, I'm not going to do
• 1:24:24
  that to a driver, but in this case, you know, that was going
• 1:24:30
  through my mind like, you know, each week you've gotten better
• 1:24:32
  this year. And then to have this moment to
• 1:24:35
  have all these people, like I said on the trailers, they were
• 1:24:38
  going crazy. As you're getting past, you
• 1:24:40
  might have seen the camera jerk a little bit like I talked
• 1:24:43
  about, because I'm sitting there, you know, waving you
• 1:24:45
  forward like go, go, go, go. You know, the the whole opens
• 1:24:49
  right? And you did take it, but it's
• 1:24:51
  one of those it's like, I just know what you've worked for to
• 1:24:54
  do this and have this moment. So it's like, you know, when the
• 1:24:57
  moment and opportunity's there and it's right, it's like, man,
• 1:24:59
  you just want that person to get what they've been working hard
• 1:25:02
  for and thankfully you got it. And again, that's not against
• 1:25:05
  any other driver, right, You know, I but just for you to have
• 1:25:10
  that moment. That was incredible.
• 1:25:12
  And again, this is you can't see in the frame yet booze you, but
• 1:25:15
  there's at least 20 other people on the other side.
• 1:25:18
  You did the Kyle Busch bow and now everyone's going to start
• 1:25:23
  coming in. So what do you think?
• 1:25:28
  Again, what emotions are you going through as you watch this
• 1:25:31
  back? I was like, holy crap, I just
• 1:25:35
  won this race. And did you know at that time
• 1:25:38
  that you were the youngest in Kalamazoo history to win the
• 1:25:41
  Late Model race? No, I did not know that.
• 1:25:45
  So for those who are watching, we were talking again with Will
• 1:25:49
  a little bit about you let people know who are watching,
• 1:25:54
  Like I know Pitbull racing, That's Ralph.
• 1:25:57
  He's done at New Paris, Benny Miller's over at Spring Court,
• 1:25:59
  Corgan Oil, Owasso, that area. So you know, some may not know.
• 1:26:03
  So how for those who don't know, how old are you?
• 1:26:07
  I'm 14. So 14 youngest late model winner
• 1:26:14
  in Kalamazoo history. So this is been the top division
• 1:26:17
  for several years now, especially his Outlaw Super late
• 1:26:21
  Miles were more specialized. But again, in this division you
• 1:26:24
  had Jared Blanchard, you had Buddy Head right there who is
• 1:26:27
  chasing down for victory. You had Lane Head chasing down
• 1:26:31
  for victory. You had, of course, Maynards and
• 1:26:33
  Maynards are good anywhere they go.
• 1:26:35
  So again, you just look at the talent and this race that you
• 1:26:38
  were going against and you do that on a weekly basis.
• 1:26:42
  That's not like a special show. There's no extra money.
• 1:26:45
  That's our weekly late model class that you get to go
• 1:26:48
  against. And so, you know, what do you
• 1:26:51
  feel like? You know, you said you want to
• 1:26:53
  win a championship this year. So you know, for you, what are
• 1:26:56
  your goals each Friday night when you get to the track that's
• 1:26:59
  going to ultimately help you achieve what you want to achieve
• 1:27:03
  later on this year? My goal when I get to the track
• 1:27:06
  is just a whoop, everybody's butt and win that race.
• 1:27:12
  Well, and you can say, well, I saw how my grandpa did it, so I
• 1:27:14
  know what it looks like and what it feels like.
• 1:27:16
  So you know when you get out there and again, you like I
• 1:27:18
  said, you've been impressive this year.
• 1:27:20
  But Buju, what kind of questions do you have for Mason?
• 1:27:22
  Because I know you get to be the fan side more so you don't get a
• 1:27:26
  chance to always interact with the drivers of Kalamazoo.
• 1:27:29
  So you know, what are questions that you have?
• 1:27:31
  So Lewis mentioned earlier the tough moment you had in the race
• 1:27:33
  earlier that maybe slipped through your hands and you come
• 1:27:36
  from such a racing family. Who's maybe the person that you
• 1:27:39
  go to that calms you down in those moments where you're
• 1:27:41
  doubting yourself or you're frustrated and you do get talked
• 1:27:44
  to? Who's the person that you lean
• 1:27:45
  on? Everybody, every, everybody at
• 1:27:48
  my trailer just believes in me. They keep me motivated and I'm
• 1:27:53
  just so thankful for all of them.
• 1:27:57
  And you mentioned that you're, you've been looking forward to
• 1:28:00
  look racing with your grandpa. I've been a big fan of your
• 1:28:02
  grandpa since I was younger than you.
• 1:28:05
  So is that a realistic possibility you thinking and
• 1:28:07
  your grandpa are going to race door to door again?
• 1:28:09
  I know you've done it before, but is that going to happen
• 1:28:11
  again this year or sometime soon?
• 1:28:13
  Hopefully it'll happen this year again.
• 1:28:15
  Hopefully he gets in the Lane Automotive 59 car and races me
• 1:28:19
  again at Kalamazoo Speedway. Is that is that the number one
• 1:28:23
  goal right now? Beat Grandpa.
• 1:28:25
  Yeah. I appreciate the honesty.
• 1:28:29
  It would be too if I was racing late models.
• 1:28:30
  Your grandpa's a legend, so fair enough.
• 1:28:33
  What are some other goals that I I know you won the championship
• 1:28:35
  this year. You want to race with grandpa.
• 1:28:37
  You said NASCAR, maybe some other big races in the area that
• 1:28:40
  you'd like to add to your resume.
• 1:28:41
  You've got the first one under your belt, so maybe looking
• 1:28:44
  forward, you got a lot of wins coming.
• 1:28:45
  What are some big ones that you want to check off the list?
• 1:28:48
  Well, I would love to just like win at least five races this
• 1:28:54
  this year and yeah, that's it. I don't really no other races
• 1:28:58
  that I could really want to win that much.
• 1:29:02
  Fair enough. How far is the competition
• 1:29:04
  between you and Bryce? How much trash talk do you and
• 1:29:05
  Bryce go back go? Back not that much trash talk.
• 1:29:09
  We just, we just make each other motivated and yeah.
• 1:29:15
  Fair enough, fair enough. There's a lot of trash talk in
• 1:29:17
  my garage, so I thought maybe you and Bryce might.
• 1:29:18
  Be the same. That's a Davis thing though, you
• 1:29:22
  guys. And then when you go out and,
• 1:29:26
  and you know, you bang and bump along each other, it's like
• 1:29:30
  that's just the Davis family doing Davis family things.
• 1:29:32
  Makes it fun though for the fans.
• 1:29:35
  One more question come from that racing family and Lewis talked
• 1:29:38
  about the accomplishments that family has and Bryce has some
• 1:29:40
  wins under his belt and and being so young maybe you
• 1:29:43
  shouldn't feel pressure, but did you feel pressure to get into
• 1:29:46
  Victory Lane and get that win under your belt even being such
• 1:29:49
  a young age? Well, after I won, after I got
• 1:29:53
  third at that one race, I was like, I know I could win, I know
• 1:29:57
  I can win and then the next week I go and win.
• 1:30:00
  Is that the time you felt? Is that when you felt like your
• 1:30:03
  confidence really switched over? Is like from I'm just.
• 1:30:06
  I'm on the field and I'm learning until I can win a late
• 1:30:09
  model race. Yeah, after that race I was just
• 1:30:11
  like, holy crap, this car was so fast.
• 1:30:14
  I know I could win. Fair enough.
• 1:30:17
  When we talked about that Buju, what was it last Thursday,
• 1:30:20
  right? We were talking about how well
• 1:30:22
  Mason was doing. I know it was on one of the
• 1:30:24
  shows that I said, man, he's just coming along and and you
• 1:30:27
  just feel like, man, that moment's coming and then you did
• 1:30:30
  it right. And they always say the first
• 1:30:32
  one is the hardest. One of the questions that Will
• 1:30:35
  had is, you know, he said, was that his first late model win?
• 1:30:40
  And I said that's his first late model win, But we couldn't
• 1:30:42
  remember if that was your first win ever, like feature win ever.
• 1:30:45
  So is that your first feature win, or do you have other
• 1:30:48
  feature wins under your belt? That's my first ever win, yeah.
• 1:30:51
  And. That's kind of what we're
• 1:30:52
  talking about, I said. I don't feel like he had one in
• 1:30:55
  the front wheel drives, but I again, I my race pass wasn't
• 1:30:58
  loading for me earlier when I went to look and then I forgot
• 1:31:01
  to check it again one more time just to do a double check.
• 1:31:03
  That's what I like about my race pass.
• 1:31:05
  You can find just about anything you want on there.
• 1:31:07
  But said I was pretty sure it's his first overall win and then
• 1:31:10
  again in the top division at Kalamazoo.
• 1:31:14
  That's well known. I mean, Will's not been to
• 1:31:15
  Kalamazoo yet, but as he mentioned during our interview,
• 1:31:18
  you know, he watches the highlights and see what it goes
• 1:31:20
  on. So, so now you're going into
• 1:31:23
  this Friday, do you feel like there's now a target on your
• 1:31:27
  back that you had that first win, or do you feel like you're
• 1:31:30
  just going to go do your thing and try not to put pressure on
• 1:31:35
  yourself because now you've done it?
• 1:31:37
  Well, I'm obviously going to go try to win another race, but I'm
• 1:31:42
  just going to try to get up in points, get to the front so I
• 1:31:45
  can get more points and try to win that championship.
• 1:31:49
  Do you feel like there's pressure now?
• 1:31:52
  Not really, no. Because sometimes, right, I
• 1:31:56
  booze you, I saw your face, right?
• 1:31:57
  And sometimes that happens right when you get that first one.
• 1:32:00
  Sometimes you see drivers push then because they feel like, OK,
• 1:32:03
  I've done it once now I got to do it again and do it again and
• 1:32:06
  do it again. And you know, you can sometimes
• 1:32:08
  that pressure just builds and you, and you may not always
• 1:32:11
  think about it, but then you start overdriving or start doing
• 1:32:14
  things that you didn't do before.
• 1:32:15
  So that's why I asked if you're if you're feeling the pressure
• 1:32:18
  yet. No, I'm not feeling much much
• 1:32:21
  pressure. So what's something that grandpa
• 1:32:24
  has told you? Because he has a lot of wisdom,
• 1:32:27
  I have started to quote some of the things he's told me.
• 1:32:30
  So you know, what are what are some of his lessons that he's
• 1:32:35
  passed on to you that you keep with you, especially in the car
• 1:32:39
  while you're. Racing well, just never give up.
• 1:32:43
  Even if you get tired, just keep pushing through.
• 1:32:48
  Well, that's he's told me, you know you can sleep plenty when
• 1:32:51
  you're dead, so that's good to know.
• 1:32:55
  And same ballpark there. Yeah, with the, I literally told
• 1:32:59
  my super shoe with the resume that he has, who's going to
• 1:33:01
  argue with him? So you know, like, so when I'm,
• 1:33:04
  you've heard me say that too on the show Boozoo and I'm like,
• 1:33:06
  I'm tired. But Andy Bozell says, you know,
• 1:33:08
  and I figure Andy Bozell says it then then that's like, that's
• 1:33:13
  the truth. That's the Bible we live by.
• 1:33:15
  So again, I know there's a lot of respect for your family.
• 1:33:18
  So as you think about now, your next Late Model race is coming
• 1:33:24
  up because you're going to Ken Ross this weekend, right?
• 1:33:27
  Yep. So do you want to talk a little
• 1:33:28
  bit about Ken Ross and what you're excited for?
• 1:33:30
  Because you're racing Friday nights and then you're going
• 1:33:33
  straight up to Ken Ross overnight.
• 1:33:36
  So do you want to talk a little bit about what you're excited
• 1:33:39
  for this weekend, not only racing at Kalamazoo, but then
• 1:33:42
  going up to the UP to race at Ken Ross?
• 1:33:46
  I'm I'm excited to make my debut in the Reveal the Hammer series
• 1:33:49
  at Ken Ross. Have you been there before?
• 1:33:53
  Nope, never been there. Never.
• 1:33:56
  Do you have Has anybody in your family been there?
• 1:33:58
  Because I couldn't remember. Phil has or not?
• 1:34:01
  No, this is one of the only three asphalt tracks that Phil
• 1:34:04
  has not raced at in Michigan. Wow, going in with the blind
• 1:34:09
  brother, that's a challenge. Have you seen the track at all?
• 1:34:13
  Like I, I had only, how did I remember here?
• 1:34:18
  Oh, because it revealed the hammer when they announced Ken
• 1:34:20
  Ross. I'm like, where's Ken Ross?
• 1:34:22
  So I, you know, got on the old machine and I looked at Ken
• 1:34:26
  Ross. And so I I'd not heard of the
• 1:34:28
  track before. So what do you think the
• 1:34:31
  challenge will be? Since you're going in blind, do
• 1:34:33
  you sometimes think as a driver that that means no pressure
• 1:34:36
  because, hey, it is going to it's going to be what it's going
• 1:34:38
  to be? Or do you think there's more
• 1:34:40
  pressure because you're like, OK, we have to race at a high
• 1:34:43
  level the track we've never been to before?
• 1:34:46
  Well, obviously it's going to be a hard race because we have big
• 1:34:49
  competitors and it's going to be pretty hard for me because I'm
• 1:34:52
  not going to be able to get any like practice on Friday because
• 1:34:56
  I'm racing Friday at Kamazoo. And didn't they say last week
• 1:35:00
  that that some of them are already going up?
• 1:35:02
  Because I think Friday they have a practice session at Ken Ross.
• 1:35:05
  So isn't, aren't you guys doing like two different trips?
• 1:35:07
  Like you'll be racing, but some of them will already be up at
• 1:35:10
  Ken Ross. Yes.
• 1:35:11
  So actually we bought our our trailer up to our cabin and up
• 1:35:20
  by Ken Ross and my uncle and my grandpa are going to stay there
• 1:35:26
  through the week. Me and my cousin came back
• 1:35:28
  because we have school this whole week.
• 1:35:31
  Yeah, sorry, in Indiana where Buju is, he's in South Bend IN
• 1:35:35
  is like out like last week. But I know obviously for us
• 1:35:38
  Muskan people, we going what your your last days are probably
• 1:35:41
  what next week. My last days in two weeks.
• 1:35:46
  Two weeks. Oh my goodness.
• 1:35:49
  Oh future winner should get early Louis early summer pass.
• 1:35:54
  This is the. Time, you know, this is the time
• 1:35:55
  of year when I was teaching in a classroom, right?
• 1:35:57
  Like I knew, OK, we got past Memorial Day, it's four days and
• 1:36:00
  then we had two and a usually 2 full days and two half days.
• 1:36:04
  And we would always end next Thursday.
• 1:36:05
  So, you know, I, this was the countdown for teachers.
• 1:36:08
  So that's why I was asking because every, every county's a
• 1:36:11
  little different. And I know they had a few more
• 1:36:13
  snow days up there than what what we did down here too.
• 1:36:15
  But but Mason, other than than that, when you think back down
• 1:36:21
  the road to your first win, what are some of the lessons that you
• 1:36:26
  want to take from this first win that you want to remember now
• 1:36:30
  going forward? Well, I want to remember my
• 1:36:33
  first win as the hardest win because it's always the hardest.
• 1:36:37
  And I've always been told just because you won doesn't mean you
• 1:36:42
  have to get cocky. Yes, we've seen that too,
• 1:36:46
  Boozoo, right, like you kind of see that moment again and I
• 1:36:49
  think in your in your pit stall, they're not going to allow you
• 1:36:52
  to get cocky. You know that there's a very
• 1:36:54
  professional organization right there who again, they've all won
• 1:36:59
  at the highest level. So when you think of all the
• 1:37:01
  mentors around you, I mean they've all done it at that top
• 1:37:05
  level. Now you and Bryce her that
• 1:37:07
  future generation who's starting to take over the reins and
• 1:37:09
  moving on up that I don't I don't think they're going to let
• 1:37:12
  you get cocky. You know, they're going to keep
• 1:37:13
  you pretty grounded because again, it, you know, I think of
• 1:37:17
  there's champions in this area who, you know, they have really
• 1:37:20
  great seasons. And then there's a season that
• 1:37:22
  comes around that it's just rough and everything's rough and
• 1:37:25
  nothing works and the car breaks down and you have all these
• 1:37:28
  things going on that it can be kind of humbling.
• 1:37:31
  You know, where you're like, man, I was at the top of the top
• 1:37:33
  and now, now I feel like I'm just scratching to get a tire to
• 1:37:36
  not go flat the next time I'm out or whatever.
• 1:37:39
  So, so with that, you know, at the same time too, when you
• 1:37:44
  think of now Rookie of the year that you're going for and reveal
• 1:37:48
  the hammer, what are your goals then to accomplish that and
• 1:37:52
  reveal the hammer? And reveal the hammer.
• 1:37:55
  I've obviously trying to beat my cousin but he's whooping my butt
• 1:37:59
  in that class. For now, yeah, no, now.
• 1:38:05
  So let's say you and Bryce, right both line up with whatever
• 1:38:11
  car you desire. Front wheel, drive lane model,
• 1:38:15
  shopping cart, whatever you want to do. 1 lap.
• 1:38:20
  Actually, let's make a 2 lap. It's a spectatories 2 laps.
• 1:38:23
  Who's winning? Me.
• 1:38:26
  So what does it take to win that?
• 1:38:28
  Because again, you're going against Bryce.
• 1:38:29
  So, you know, what do you have to, what do you know about Bryce
• 1:38:32
  that you have to use against him to win?
• 1:38:35
  I don't really know. He's all I know is he's a great
• 1:38:39
  driver. Now your preference, you guys do
• 1:38:43
  choose come madhouse, inside, outside.
• 1:38:46
  How do you like to plan your race as you go through with the
• 1:38:49
  Madhouse? Well, like that with the choose,
• 1:38:52
  I like to just sit back a little bit and watch if there's see if
• 1:38:56
  there's a hole, if there's a hole in the outside, if people
• 1:38:58
  are fast on the outside, then I'll go to the outside and
• 1:39:01
  obviously if that's on the inside, I go to the inside.
• 1:39:05
  I've always wondered that because sometimes their drivers
• 1:39:09
  have built switch it every single time they do the choose
• 1:39:11
  cone. I'm like, I mean, it makes sense
• 1:39:13
  the strategy, but sometimes you've seen them overcorrect
• 1:39:17
  strategy where you're like, oh boy, they just got sucked in
• 1:39:19
  that wind tunnel and they went all the way back.
• 1:39:21
  So 'cause you never know Kalamazoo, things happen so
• 1:39:24
  fast, especially coming out of turn 2.
• 1:39:25
  It's like that's that seems where people fall off if they
• 1:39:29
  make that mistake. But you know, for people who
• 1:39:32
  don't know Kalamazoo over in race Kalamazoo, you know, what
• 1:39:34
  would you how would you describe racing at Kalamazoo to someone
• 1:39:37
  who's coming to the first time you do it every week, But there
• 1:39:40
  are people who have never been there, never racer.
• 1:39:42
  So how would you describe that to people, what it's like racing
• 1:39:45
  at Kalamazoo? There's no really track like it.
• 1:39:48
  It's just like a, it's like really different than other
• 1:39:53
  tracks. You have to drive every corner
• 1:39:57
  different. You can't drive the corner the
• 1:39:59
  same. What corner's the trickiest?
• 1:40:03
  The trickiest? I don't.
• 1:40:07
  I don't really think a corner's that tricky from the other one,
• 1:40:10
  but probably 3 and 4 for me. What are the tracks have you
• 1:40:14
  raced so far, Mason? I've raced at Kalamazoo
• 1:40:17
  Speedway, Owosso Speedway, Corgan Oil, new.
• 1:40:23
  No, I have raced at Gilsberg and yeah, that's it.
• 1:40:29
  OK. And what's your favorite that
• 1:40:33
  again, I know you race the Kalamazoo every week, but it
• 1:40:35
  doesn't have to be your favorite if you like other ones like so
• 1:40:39
  what's your favorite that stands out to you that you just like
• 1:40:42
  either being at as a fan or racing?
• 1:40:45
  Well, the most one I like racing at is Kalamazoo, but I just like
• 1:40:48
  any racetrack I get to go to. That's good because quarter mile
• 1:40:53
  racing and 3/8 mile racing sometimes that right, That's the
• 1:40:56
  difference too, like quarter miles where I got started as a
• 1:40:59
  media person. So I always kind of like that
• 1:41:01
  tight bull ring racing. But you know, the three eight
• 1:41:03
  you can spread out a little bit because you raced at Spring
• 1:41:07
  Court too, didn't you? Or not yet.
• 1:41:09
  Oh yes, I've raced at Springport.
• 1:41:11
  Because that 3/8 is not the same as any other 3/8 in the area.
• 1:41:14
  That's, you know, that paper clip?
• 1:41:16
  Man, I'm so glad that Donnie has that back because I, I cannot
• 1:41:19
  wait, even if I'm just a fan, to get back to Springport.
• 1:41:22
  I love, love that track. What did you think about
• 1:41:25
  Springport? Because again, that that banking
• 1:41:27
  at Springport's way different than a lot of other places.
• 1:41:30
  Yeah, it's, it's a special track.
• 1:41:33
  The corners, they're kind of the same.
• 1:41:35
  It's just you have to run the specific line to be fast there.
• 1:41:41
  Now, Buju, I know there is something else that you're going
• 1:41:43
  to ask. I didn't want to cut it off.
• 1:41:45
  What's another track that you want to run at some point?
• 1:41:47
  What's a big one on your bucket list?
• 1:41:50
  And goal I want to run at and probably Toledo or Winchester.
• 1:41:55
  Oh yeah, Winchester would be a whole another animal to I mean
• 1:41:59
  those bankings would make Springport look like a speed
• 1:42:01
  bump in Walmart parking lot that just standing.
• 1:42:05
  I've seen so many pictures. I've never been to Winchester
• 1:42:08
  Mason but seen pictures of Winchester.
• 1:42:10
  I'm like, and I stood at the top of Bristol and and I think some
• 1:42:14
  people have said that Winchester makes even Bristol look a little
• 1:42:17
  tame. So I'm like, I was tired of
• 1:42:19
  climbing up to Bristol's top bank there.
• 1:42:21
  You know, that would John Trudell and Andrew Ritter, you
• 1:42:25
  know, we all climbed to the top there and I went, I'm a little
• 1:42:27
  tired. This was steep.
• 1:42:31
  Now, is there a track that you've gone to as a fan?
• 1:42:34
  Like you talked about Toledo and all that and Winchester.
• 1:42:36
  Is there a track that you've gone to as a fan that you think
• 1:42:39
  back that maybe you're like, and I want to get there and race
• 1:42:41
  sometime too because I know. Or even a track that doesn't
• 1:42:45
  exist anymore that you've wanted to try that or you wish you
• 1:42:48
  could have tried. I don't really know of tracks
• 1:42:52
  that don't exist. The one track that I haven't
• 1:42:55
  raced at in the Michigan and Indiana area is New Paris.
• 1:43:00
  Oh yeah, and we need to get you down to New Paris.
• 1:43:05
  They don't do yeah, they don't do template racing there.
• 1:43:09
  So you but you will be reveal the hammer.
• 1:43:11
  So you'll be able to race there for the Sizzler.
• 1:43:14
  Yeah, I'll be racing the Sizzler, I'm pretty sure.
• 1:43:17
  Oh, I hope so, because I'll be at the Sizzler.
• 1:43:19
  So that would be, oh, so here's a question from Phil, where did
• 1:43:28
  give it the beans come from? Did give it the beans came from
• 1:43:32
  actually last year, my car last year, Phil actually used to race
• 1:43:37
  and he used to race it at Galesburg Speedway.
• 1:43:40
  And when he was about to go out to the track, I said give it the
• 1:43:43
  beans and he's like, he's like, what does that mean?
• 1:43:47
  I said it means go fast. And that race he won.
• 1:43:52
  Oh, so now that just stays right because it's almost like Bryson
• 1:43:56
  isn't there like Skittles after he races or wins, isn't there
• 1:44:00
  like him and Billy Shannon did like Skittles and all that kind
• 1:44:03
  of deal. Yeah, last year Billy Shannon
• 1:44:06
  and him had a Skittle War. They would put Skittles in each
• 1:44:09
  other's scars. And after, after Bryce won the
• 1:44:12
  championship, Billy put a bunch of Skittles in his driver's seat
• 1:44:17
  and we went to, we went to Springport and the guy, the guy
• 1:44:20
  that was racing behind Bryce said there were Skittles popping
• 1:44:23
  out from behind his car. Leave it to Billy Shannon to
• 1:44:29
  come up with that. Right.
• 1:44:30
  I remembered that because I was videoing and there were Skittles
• 1:44:33
  going all over the place and and I'm like, where did they get all
• 1:44:37
  the Skittles? I mean, there's like hundreds of
• 1:44:39
  Skittles. It wasn't like a little skittle
• 1:44:41
  bath. It was hundreds of Skittles.
• 1:44:43
  I thought, man, now, so give it the beans, right?
• 1:44:47
  You know, that's kind of like, do you have any superstitions
• 1:44:50
  then? Do you have anything that you do
• 1:44:52
  that you have to do the same routine before you go race or
• 1:44:55
  you have to buckle up the same way or put on your race gloves
• 1:44:58
  the same way or what? Whatever a superstition may be.
• 1:45:01
  Not really just my. I've always said give it the
• 1:45:04
  beans because that one race. Yeah, but that's why I'm asking
• 1:45:09
  because you know when you say when you have something like
• 1:45:11
  that, it's almost like, oh, hey, that worked this time.
• 1:45:13
  I've had that with T-shirts before where not that I was on
• 1:45:18
  the softball field, but I, you know, the team that I was
• 1:45:20
  following and they were going to state championships.
• 1:45:22
  I as they were winning each time I had to, I did the same things
• 1:45:25
  even though I had no, no impact on anything that that team did.
• 1:45:29
  But that was my part as a fan. I did my part and they won this
• 1:45:33
  championship. So I'm like, it must have
• 1:45:35
  worked. Not that again, I had anything
• 1:45:36
  to do with it. But you know, those
• 1:45:39
  superstitions. Sometimes I do have things where
• 1:45:40
  I'm superstitious. I do that with my video camera
• 1:45:43
  after it fell off the roof at New Paris last year.
• 1:45:46
  I do things a little different. So I have my own superstitions
• 1:45:48
  with that so it doesn't fall off the roof anymore.
• 1:45:50
  And so far I have been lucky. So no superstitions.
• 1:45:55
  What about you know, do you do any like joking around or
• 1:45:58
  something to keep you loose at the track because you always
• 1:46:01
  seem to just be happy and a good mood ready to go.
• 1:46:04
  Like what keeps you loose? Well, my cousin's always
• 1:46:07
  cracking jokes, so yeah. And Phil's always cracking jokes
• 1:46:12
  to me. We just always are having a good
• 1:46:14
  time. Because it doesn't, I mean, you
• 1:46:17
  could tell when like things are getting serious in that pit area
• 1:46:20
  because they definitely have a game face on.
• 1:46:22
  And it's it's like, OK, I'm not going to stop in the pit now
• 1:46:24
  because game mode has been engaged.
• 1:46:26
  But you know, beyond that, I mean, even after your win last
• 1:46:31
  week, you're in the pits being Mason, right?
• 1:46:32
  You're just joking around. Obviously you were the center of
• 1:46:36
  attention for a lot of people because they wanted to come
• 1:46:38
  congratulate you again. I know you can't quite see it in
• 1:46:41
  all the video, but people are jumping up and down on their
• 1:46:43
  trailers as you're going, especially on that Bozell
• 1:46:45
  trailer where they're jumping down and cheering.
• 1:46:48
  But you're just still you. And I thought that was pretty
• 1:46:50
  cool too, where you just, you didn't look, didn't look like
• 1:46:55
  you were stressed or, you know, overwhelmed or anything.
• 1:46:57
  You just had the same smile that you always do, the same kind of,
• 1:47:01
  you know, easy going. So how do you, how do you keep
• 1:47:04
  yourself so grounded like that, especially when you're racing in
• 1:47:07
  such a fast car? You know, other than the joking
• 1:47:10
  and all that, like, how do you keep yourself in the moment?
• 1:47:14
  Because I just like to stay humble.
• 1:47:16
  Don't like. I like to have fun and just joke
• 1:47:21
  around, but when it's time to get serious, I like to get
• 1:47:23
  really serious and get to work. What's your game face look like?
• 1:47:28
  I don't know, I can't wait for. Line right now when I'm right.
• 1:47:35
  Yeah, Yeah. So other than that there,
• 1:47:39
  there's one other thing that I wanted to ask because again, you
• 1:47:41
  know, for a lot of our audience who watches, they may not get a
• 1:47:45
  chance to watch you because they're at other tracks on a
• 1:47:47
  Friday night or they don't get a chance to come to Kalamazoo.
• 1:47:50
  And there's one other with that. Oh, music.
• 1:47:54
  So bam, you know, the there's a couple people who have different
• 1:47:58
  musics that they listen to that kind of get them.
• 1:48:00
  So do you do any kind of music or any kind of thing you know
• 1:48:04
  that gets you motivated or pumped up ready to go on race
• 1:48:07
  day? Well, I don't really listen to
• 1:48:10
  music before I go race, but if we have a good race day and on
• 1:48:15
  my way back from the track my cousin likes to play a white
• 1:48:18
  girl bank white girl bangers on the way home from the track.
• 1:48:23
  Like like Party in the USA or last Friday night?
• 1:48:27
  That's good taste. So that what I'm hearing is that
• 1:48:31
  we need to get Joel the next time Bryce wins a race to play
• 1:48:35
  party in the US. That's why not the other music
• 1:48:39
  that he plays that he's ready for, and I haven't, that's who
• 1:48:42
  we haven't seen tonight in the chat yet is Joel.
• 1:48:44
  So I'm going to fire him just so he knows that.
• 1:48:46
  But but that's what we're going to have to pass this on to Joel
• 1:48:49
  next time Bryce wins party in the USA, That's going to have to
• 1:48:54
  be just to throw him off a little bit there.
• 1:48:58
  Now. So you don't really listen to
• 1:48:59
  music and race tape, but you do have a tradition afterwards that
• 1:49:02
  everyone part of the team does on Friday nights just before you
• 1:49:06
  guys pack up and get ready to go.
• 1:49:07
  So do you want to talk a little bit about your Fireball Friday
• 1:49:09
  tradition that the that the Pit has?
• 1:49:13
  Me and my cousin don't do it because we're underage, but
• 1:49:16
  every time we have a good race day or it's Friday night they
• 1:49:19
  like to do that. It's just your tradition that we
• 1:49:21
  only do every week. But you could do it with that
• 1:49:25
  Gatorade or something. That's what I do.
• 1:49:28
  Yeah, yeah, because obviously disclaimer, right, we're since
• 1:49:31
  we're on public Airways because we're underage, we can't do
• 1:49:34
  that. But that I mean when I'm packing
• 1:49:36
  things up on the roof, I hear you guys.
• 1:49:38
  I mean it's loud and clear from that area of Fireball Friday.
• 1:49:41
  I'm like, Oh, they did it again and I didn't get a chance down
• 1:49:43
  to because I'm, I just need to leave my stuff on the roof and
• 1:49:46
  get down really quick and be like, if it blows off, it's OK.
• 1:49:49
  It's done it before and lived to tell about it.
• 1:49:51
  But but other than that, that's where I thought, you know,
• 1:49:53
  traditions. Do you have any other traditions
• 1:49:55
  that you guys do on like a race day?
• 1:49:56
  Or do you have like sometimes if you think about teams, like
• 1:50:00
  obviously in your family, there's also the sports side
• 1:50:03
  outside of racing, you know, softball and all these things
• 1:50:06
  going on. So do you guys do any like team
• 1:50:08
  dinners or do you have anything that you go to the shop and you
• 1:50:11
  watch film or video just to prepare for the next week?
• 1:50:15
  That's like a tradition. Well obviously we use top real
• 1:50:20
  media racing videos like my grandpa shows me like the lines
• 1:50:24
  I should use when the videos because the videos are very
• 1:50:27
  helpful to us racers to show the lines and show how like we
• 1:50:31
  should be running and all that. Well, that's where you'll see on
• 1:50:36
  Jared's. I wish I could show yours, but
• 1:50:37
  you keep going through my battery.
• 1:50:39
  So you know you're getting camera 7 again, because I know
• 1:50:41
  that's a brand new battery. And you did third the last time
• 1:50:44
  you had camera 7. So I already know Friday if you
• 1:50:46
  want a camera, which usually you do, you're getting #7 because
• 1:50:49
  we're just not going to play with these batteries anymore.
• 1:50:51
  I know that's a new battery. I, I, it just came in the mail
• 1:50:54
  not too long ago. So that's the camera you're
• 1:50:56
  going to get. Bryce gets 5 and I know that's a
• 1:50:58
  new camera too, or not a new camera, but new battery.
• 1:51:00
  So we're just not going to have you blow up my batteries
• 1:51:03
  anymore. But with Jared Blanchard, so
• 1:51:07
  when you go to do film study and he's right on you the whole
• 1:51:09
  time. So you'll get to watch
• 1:51:11
  everything that you did from that perspective at least.
• 1:51:14
  So and obviously the overhead video.
• 1:51:17
  What do you think about the audio?
• 1:51:18
  I I'm still battling some of the audio like getting it to balance
• 1:51:21
  out perfectly, but what does the audio help you at all as you're
• 1:51:23
  watching or you guys muted and just watch the race itself?
• 1:51:26
  Well, the audio audio actually helps some because like the
• 1:51:30
  pitch of the exhaust changes the closer you get to the wall.
• 1:51:34
  Yep, Yep, yeah. And well, and like I said, I'm
• 1:51:38
  still fighting the audio at Kalamazoo to get it to balance
• 1:51:40
  just right. I'm, you know, I don't have that
• 1:51:43
  issue at New Paris, but where Joel has to stand like, OK, I
• 1:51:46
  still need to balance out his microphone to my microphone.
• 1:51:50
  So I'm still working on that. But other than that, I mean the
• 1:51:52
  audio this year I've had a lot of drivers say that it helps
• 1:51:54
  them kind of know too, you know, what point in the race so they
• 1:51:57
  can go back in and say, hey, my car was doing this, what lap was
• 1:52:00
  that? So, so I know that's been
• 1:52:02
  helpful too, but it's almost 9:00 and you said that you were
• 1:52:06
  just on vacation and did all those things so and traveled
• 1:52:09
  back. So I know it's been a long trip
• 1:52:11
  for you guys and you have a busy week ahead.
• 1:52:13
  So again, this Friday everyone can see your calendars.
• 1:52:17
  You Speedway, you'll be racing the template model.
• 1:52:19
  Then you're driving up on Saturday and doing Reveal the
• 1:52:21
  Hammer with the Outlaw light model.
• 1:52:24
  So if you're tired on Saturday, people would understand why
• 1:52:28
  'cause what was it? A three hour drive. 4 hour
• 1:52:31
  drive. Up to the our up to the cabin we
• 1:52:35
  have which we're going to is a three hour drive and then I
• 1:52:39
  think it's like 2 hours to an hour drive to the.
• 1:52:47
  Yeah, that that's like driving from where I live to Green Bay
• 1:52:50
  and then some because it's I'm 4 hours, 4 1/2 hours to Lambeau
• 1:52:54
  Field. Not that I'm a Packer fan, but.
• 1:52:57
  That's me to Will Greenwell. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:53:00
  So, so, yeah, that's a long drive.
• 1:53:02
  So if you're tired on Friday, people would understand.
• 1:53:04
  But obviously when you get in the car, you won't be tired.
• 1:53:06
  So you also said that most you're, you know, you're
• 1:53:09
  competing for a championship at Kalamazoo.
• 1:53:11
  You have a goal racing at New Paris this year.
• 1:53:13
  So the two schedules that fans can follow you at will obviously
• 1:53:18
  be Kalamazoo. Then reveal the hammer.
• 1:53:20
  So social media, how can they keep up with everything that
• 1:53:22
  you're doing? Well, on social media you can
• 1:53:25
  search up ABR Racing, Bryce Bozo, Bryce Bozo and Mason
• 1:53:31
  Mexico on Facebook and we will tell you when we're racing what,
• 1:53:34
  what time the races start and all that.
• 1:53:38
  Where did the shop talk come from before we let you go?
• 1:53:40
  Because you guys do your little shop talk that each week where
• 1:53:44
  you and Bryce kind of go over the results and everything they
• 1:53:46
  did. So where did that start?
• 1:53:48
  Well me and Bryce had an idea of like let's tell them how our
• 1:53:51
  week went so they so we can tell them when to come and how our
• 1:53:55
  week went. Yep.
• 1:53:57
  Buju, you're going to ask something.
• 1:53:59
  Did I cut you off again? No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:54:01
  OK. You kind of had that movement
• 1:54:03
  where I cut you off. You're you're talking about him
• 1:54:05
  being tired on Saturday, I said. As grandpa said, you can sleep
• 1:54:07
  when you're dead. So send it Saturday too,
• 1:54:11
  brother. Yeah, that's, I learned that
• 1:54:13
  lesson. I've kept that lesson with me.
• 1:54:15
  I'm like, huh, hadn't thought about that before, but I guess
• 1:54:18
  it makes sense when it comes out.
• 1:54:19
  But, but again, obviously on social media and you guys have
• 1:54:22
  been, I mean, that's something Drew Jack and I, he wasn't able
• 1:54:25
  to make this tonight. But that's what Drew Jack and I
• 1:54:27
  have talked about before is you guys do an incredible job with
• 1:54:29
  your social media. You're always promoting the
• 1:54:31
  tracks where you're going. It's easy for people to know
• 1:54:34
  where you are. And I mean, even when you're at
• 1:54:37
  the South Bend auto show, you helped me a lot by helping to
• 1:54:40
  promote the South Bend auto show.
• 1:54:41
  And that helped, you know, get a lot of people from the Kalamazoo
• 1:54:44
  area down, you know, to South Bend because I that, you know,
• 1:54:47
  part of our goal of being at Kalamazoo is getting that
• 1:54:50
  exposure for our drivers at a show like that.
• 1:54:52
  And so I know that was your first show experience and you
• 1:54:56
  got a trophy on top of that. So before I let you go, let's
• 1:54:59
  kind of rewind back to March. What did you think about being
• 1:55:03
  an auto show for the first time and then first time ever you go
• 1:55:06
  home with the trophy? I thought it was great meeting a
• 1:55:10
  bunch of fans there. I met this one girl that was a
• 1:55:13
  Andy Bozell fan since she was like 6 and it it was just so fun
• 1:55:18
  meeting all the fans. If we go again, you got you guys
• 1:55:21
  can check it out at South Bend Auto Show and South Bend.
• 1:55:26
  Yeah, my goal is to each year to have us at the Kalamazoo show.
• 1:55:29
  And I'm always looking for cars, so I don't know who I'm going to
• 1:55:31
  be heading up first. It's just always tough because
• 1:55:33
  that's also during spring break for a lot of people.
• 1:55:35
  But next year it's mid-april, they moved it to mid-april.
• 1:55:38
  So I'm like, well, that that won't be spring break, but
• 1:55:40
  that'll be practice sessions and all these things.
• 1:55:42
  So I'm like, yeah, we'll see how that goes, you know.
• 1:55:46
  But again, their market is more show cars and deal not so much
• 1:55:50
  race cars. We're kind of just in the back
• 1:55:52
  corner, but but we bring a lot of people.
• 1:55:54
  So. But again, Mason, I know you had
• 1:55:56
  that big trip, so I don't want to keep you too much longer.
• 1:55:59
  We've already kept you 50 minutes here and I know you were
• 1:56:01
  on just a little bit before that.
• 1:56:03
  So again, definitely good luck this Friday that that was again
• 1:56:07
  exciting to watch. I, I even made a post, I don't
• 1:56:11
  know if anyone showed you it, but I made a post for there's
• 1:56:13
  not a whole lot of things that make me cry.
• 1:56:15
  Even though I'm an emotion on my sleeve guy.
• 1:56:17
  There's not a whole lot of things.
• 1:56:18
  But when you did that and you pull through and watching all
• 1:56:21
  the emotions, it's kind of like when Alex Sexton won last year.
• 1:56:24
  Watching Taylor Sexton jump up and down and her family, their
• 1:56:28
  family, getting excited for Alex, you know, watching that,
• 1:56:31
  it's like, you know, when you get to go to weekly track and
• 1:56:33
  you get to watch people grow you, you know, you have a lot of
• 1:56:36
  care for people. And so I have a lot of care for
• 1:56:38
  our drivers at Kalamazoo. And I'm excited when anybody
• 1:56:41
  wins. But especially, you know, my
• 1:56:43
  first thought was onboard camera last year when you spun and lit
• 1:56:47
  out all these emotions to where you are now.
• 1:56:49
  It's like, I don't know, that just got me all in the fields.
• 1:56:51
  So not too many people do that. So congratulations, Mason, you,
• 1:56:55
  you found the red button and I got the waterworks going, but I
• 1:56:58
  was just so happy for you. And I know hundreds and hundreds
• 1:57:01
  of other people were too. So again, congratulations on
• 1:57:03
  your win. Thank you.
• 1:57:06
  All right, well, we'll definitely let you get going
• 1:57:08
  because you got school tomorrow. So I know it's a school night
• 1:57:11
  for you, not for me. I retired from that, so I don't
• 1:57:13
  have to do that. But again, good luck this this
• 1:57:18
  Saturday and I'll see you on Friday for sure.
• 1:57:20
  Thank you. Thank you Mason again.
• 1:57:22
  We've been talking with Mason racing Mason after his first
• 1:57:26
  victory ever career victory over at the Kalamazoo Speedway.
• 1:57:31
  You can see him again this Friday night at the Kalamazoo
• 1:57:33
  Speedway on Saturday if you want to head up to the UP, he's at
• 1:57:36
  Ken Ross Speedway racing in the outlaw super light model for the
• 1:57:39
  second time, which we'll talk about on the Thursday night
• 1:57:42
  throttle. So you can come and join us on
• 1:57:44
  Thursday at 7:00 PM as we preview the upcoming weekend of
• 1:57:47
  events across the area. We'll also include the Ken Ross
• 1:57:50
  trip just because so many of our drivers from down here are
• 1:57:53
  heading up. I even think Rich Bowl is
• 1:57:54
  heading up to Ken Ross or was talking about it.
• 1:57:56
  So that'll be pretty exciting. So again, Boojie and I are back
• 1:57:59
  on Thursdays and you've been watching the Monday Night
• 1:58:04
  Rewind. So Boojie, before we get going,
• 1:58:08
  we have about 4 minutes or so. Any, any weekend updates that
• 1:58:13
  you want to highlight? We talked about doing like a
• 1:58:15
  weekend shout out. So any last shout outs for you?
• 1:58:20
  Like I said at the beginning of the show, but shout out to
• 1:58:22
  Angola Speedway for getting the show in as they promised.
• 1:58:25
  They, they had a very uphill battle on Saturday and they
• 1:58:28
  battled through it and and made it happen.
• 1:58:31
  So kudos to them. I had another one and boy did I
• 1:58:35
  forget it. So oh, Cameron Mccrudden, my
• 1:58:37
  driver that I sponsored, picked up the first aid feature win on
• 1:58:40
  Friday. For him, it was a messy feature.
• 1:58:43
  My God, that wasn't a messy feature.
• 1:58:46
  That's topic for another day. Yeah, but shout out to Camera
• 1:58:49
  coming up on top because he's out there sending it.
• 1:58:52
  Probably happy for the kid. He got his first.
• 1:58:54
  A feature win. That's always cool.
• 1:58:55
  Just like Mason. Happened for my What drives was
• 1:58:57
  that front wheel drives? Is that what he's in?
• 1:58:59
  Hornets. Hornets Yep Yep Yep see these
• 1:59:02
  Michigan got your training you know I just.
• 1:59:05
  I got. You Hornets anymore?
• 1:59:07
  Although I do at New Paris, but it's still sometimes it feels
• 1:59:09
  weird because it's like every, all my vocabulary in Michigan is
• 1:59:14
  front wheel drives or ABC. And then obviously the new Paris
• 1:59:18
  is a hold out on that and 40 is a hold out on that.
• 1:59:21
  So, you know, I still have the vocab that I have to use, but
• 1:59:25
  every now and then I'm like, can we all just switch it?
• 1:59:28
  You know, I get it though, Every track has their right to do
• 1:59:30
  their sandbox things. So I'm not I'm not criticizing
• 1:59:33
  them. It's just from a vocab.
• 1:59:36
  Like I'm so glad that this year Kalamazoo dropped the Outlaw
• 1:59:40
  from the Outlaw Limited Late Models.
• 1:59:42
  Like we just call them limited late models now.
• 1:59:43
  They're not even Outlaws, even though they are the Outlaw
• 1:59:46
  style. But yeah.
• 1:59:47
  That's been that's another ball game too.
• 1:59:49
  It's limited late models and the different names those have
• 1:59:51
  around here. That confuses me.
• 1:59:53
  It's like, what late models am I seeing tonight exactly?
• 1:59:55
  Yeah. So, yeah.
• 1:59:56
  And I even this year I just dropped template too.
• 1:59:59
  I just hit late models and limited late models.
• 2:00:02
  I thought that's just that's pretty easy.
• 2:00:04
  You know, that's kind of. You know, because sometimes you
• 2:00:07
  get them called Sportsman too. So, so that's where that when I
• 2:00:12
  went to Springport, they called them Sportsman late models, but
• 2:00:16
  at Kalamazoo they were template late models.
• 2:00:18
  So I just called, I'm like, let's just make it easy for the
• 2:00:20
  fans from my graphic standpoint. And everyone's a template late
• 2:00:23
  model. If you race in this class, it
• 2:00:24
  just makes, I know there's a difference and I, you know, but
• 2:00:27
  it just makes it easier. But do you know how many times I
• 2:00:30
  posted the oh wow, limited late models and I get so many
• 2:00:33
  comments. How can it be an outlaw and
• 2:00:35
  limited? And I'm like, I'm just tired of
• 2:00:37
  it doing this. It let you know it's not a
• 2:00:41
  super, it's limited, but they look the same.
• 2:00:44
  How about that? That's the easy way to explain
• 2:00:46
  it. But again, I know we talked last
• 2:00:49
  Thursday about Mason and then for him to do what he did on
• 2:00:51
  Friday. I don't know if you'd had a
• 2:00:53
  chance to watch the video or not, but that that was that was
• 2:00:57
  the the pass for the lead. And again, that's right, just
• 2:01:00
  Sabrina. I texted her right away in the
• 2:01:02
  lost parking lot. It was raining and I was getting
• 2:01:05
  the camera and wanted to post that.
• 2:01:07
  And I went, Sabrina, it's not there.
• 2:01:09
  And she felt so awful. She's like, well, I turned it
• 2:01:11
  on. I'm like, I know I have proof
• 2:01:12
  that you turned it on. And I do want to do a shout out
• 2:01:15
  again to Sabrina. She's been really the only
• 2:01:20
  photographer the last couple weeks.
• 2:01:21
  Kendall's been working a lot of overtime at her other job.
• 2:01:24
  And so that's limited her being able to come on Fridays.
• 2:01:28
  That's for Sabrina. You know, she's there to help
• 2:01:30
  with my onboard cameras. That's, you know, what she comes
• 2:01:32
  for. And then I make her, you know,
• 2:01:34
  bring her camera. I always tell her, girl, we need
• 2:01:37
  to get you opportunities with this camera.
• 2:01:39
  So bring your camera, take shots as you can.
• 2:01:41
  But everyone knows your primary responsibility during features
• 2:01:46
  it you know, to get the on boards on and help collect that.
• 2:01:48
  Nobody is going to question you if you're not taking photos
• 2:01:51
  because you're literally there helping with that.
• 2:01:54
  But she's been doing it all. She's been taking Victory Lane,
• 2:01:57
  she's been taking action shots, she's been turning on board
• 2:01:59
  cameras. And then as she gets time goes
• 2:02:02
  and collects the cameras. And then luckily her boyfriend
• 2:02:05
  Peter is up top and he helps collect those cameras up top,
• 2:02:10
  you know, which has been a huge help because they're they're not
• 2:02:12
  trapped. It's a lot easier for them to
• 2:02:14
  leave than it is in the infield. So I just want to do another
• 2:02:17
  shout out to Sabrina. And I hope people are realizing
• 2:02:20
  and noticing the amount of work and things that she's balancing
• 2:02:23
  to get not only race photos, but Victory Lane photos, but then to
• 2:02:26
  manage the onboards. And, you know, I keep telling
• 2:02:30
  her last, not last week, but the week before I dropped it down to
• 2:02:33
  15. I'm like, I can't have you
• 2:02:35
  running around in a sweatshirt. I'm sweating seeing you in a
• 2:02:38
  sweatshirt and it's hot, right? I can't do that to you.
• 2:02:41
  That's not fair, right? And so I dropped it down to 15
• 2:02:44
  last week. I went back to 19 this week.
• 2:02:46
  We'll probably be back at 19 just because it gets more
• 2:02:49
  opportunity. And I hate, you know, cutting
• 2:02:52
  drivers off, especially if I know that I have cameras just
• 2:02:54
  sitting there. But most people have been
• 2:02:56
  understanding like it's I got Sabrina and she's managing all
• 2:02:59
  this. So again, Kendall will be back
• 2:03:02
  once all of her on all of her overtime is done.
• 2:03:05
  But you know, making it from Elkhart to Coloma back to
• 2:03:07
  Kalamazoo by the time races start, you know, it's just it's
• 2:03:11
  tough with all the construction. So, but in the meantime, that's
• 2:03:15
  why I wanted to shout out Sabrina because again, she's
• 2:03:18
  taking on a lot and managing a lot and, and, and hasn't missed
• 2:03:21
  the camera the, the time that or, or last week missed 1
• 2:03:26
  camera, but that was my fault because the driver usually races
• 2:03:29
  a red car, but they're racing a gold car that night.
• 2:03:31
  So she's not looking for the gold car because you're always
• 2:03:35
  in the red car. So she did miss one, but that's
• 2:03:37
  not often. And so the fact that she gets
• 2:03:40
  all the cameras and none, none of them have left property.
• 2:03:43
  I just want to do that shout out because she makes it so much
• 2:03:46
  easier for me to be able to do what I do while she manages that
• 2:03:50
  part. Because there's just no way at
• 2:03:52
  Kalamazoo that I'd be able, humanly possible to be able to
• 2:03:55
  get from the roof down, get them all turned on and back up.
• 2:03:58
  It's this spring port I was able to do because of where
• 2:04:01
  everything was situated and there wasn't a lot of obstacles.
• 2:04:04
  But at Kalamazoo, I got to get down one ladder, get down all
• 2:04:07
  the steps, come all the way around.
• 2:04:09
  And now that you know, it's just, it's not, I tried it and I
• 2:04:13
  almost got trapped down there one time.
• 2:04:15
  So it's like it's just not mathematically possible.
• 2:04:18
  So anyways, I hope you have a great rest of your Memorial Day.
• 2:04:23
  Like my stepdad earlier said, well, happy Memorial Day.
• 2:04:26
  And I and I at 6:00 AM this morning when I still editing
• 2:04:30
  stuff, I'm like, I had that random thought, which if you
• 2:04:33
  love history on The History Channel, they have a 20 part
• 2:04:36
  World War 2 with Tom Hanks. It's already recording.
• 2:04:39
  That's what I'm going to be watching tonight, the first 3
• 2:04:40
  episodes. So once we're done, I'm going to
• 2:04:43
  watch that and it. Does interest me?
• 2:04:46
  Yeah, it's from the 21st century perspective too, of looking back
• 2:04:51
  to how all the events folded with Tom Hanks.
• 2:04:53
  So again that it's good at 8 O clock.
• 2:04:55
  So 8-9 and ten are the first 3 episodes and then it's like it's
• 2:04:59
  a 20 part series. So that's what I'm doing as soon
• 2:05:02
  as I get off here as I'm watching those.
• 2:05:04
  Sorry, Monday Night Raw, you'll have to wait.
• 2:05:06
  But but you know, my Bob had said, well, happy Memorial Day.
• 2:05:10
  And I kind of at my 6:00 AM thinking, thought I'm like, as
• 2:05:14
  I'm making stuff, I'm like, why is it happy Memorial Day, sad
• 2:05:17
  day. When I made the post on my page,
• 2:05:20
  I was like almost a happy memorial down there.
• 2:05:22
  It's like, yeah, it doesn't feel like the right thing to say.
• 2:05:25
  Like, like it's happy because we have these freedoms and we know
• 2:05:29
  that these people get into this. Our soldiers who go and
• 2:05:32
  sacrifice for our freedoms. Like we know that they know what
• 2:05:34
  they're signing up for. Sorry, there's a really loud
• 2:05:36
  truck. Damn.
• 2:05:40
  Well, they're lucky, the deer, the deer didn't run out in front
• 2:05:42
  of him, otherwise we would have heard it too, by the way, 'cause
• 2:05:46
  there's a really huge male deer that's been running through the
• 2:05:50
  yard and everything. So he's really glad and he
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  didn't 'cause we're out in Farmfield.
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  I mean, the cook nuclear, it's not too far from me.
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  So I always tell people it's not tornadoes I'm worried about.
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  Here's the nuke plant. If the nuclear plant has a
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  meltdown or whatever, I'm in zone one.
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  I'm just done. So but yeah, I mean, the fact
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  that you can hear that, it's like, I hope the deer don't run
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  out in front of you, but I kind of I do.
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  But anyways, I know you're a history person, so I wanted to
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  share that. But that's where I had that
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  random thought in the morning. Like it's a Memorial Day, but
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  it's not really happy day. But I guess it's kind of a happy
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  day because we get to live our freedoms, but we live our
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  freedoms because people sacrifice their life.
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  So is that really a happy thing or not?
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  But I don't know. At six AMI have a lot of random
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  thoughts after that. So I don't know, maybe that
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  makes sense to other people too. Like, I don't know, I thought
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  I'd say that is a random thing. Speaking of documentaries, you
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  mentioned the Tom Hanks thing. I did finally finish writing the
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  next Bullring Chronics episode. I recorded part of the voice
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  over too, so that'll be out soon.
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  People have been asking me about that.
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  I know I've been kind of dragging feet a little bit, so
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  that's coming soon. It's going to be on a few of the
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  lost tracks of Indiana. Sorry that I scared.
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  Me. To press a button and I did the
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  wrong thing. So again, I was just again,
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  right, because I figured we started with taps, that that's
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  how we'll end our show with taps and then end the stream.
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  But I I wasn't cutting you off by the way, I.
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  Had played me off like the Oscars.
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  No. Well, Buju was great knowing
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  you, but anyway. But no, that's my fault because
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  I hit it in the staging so I can move will over and everything.
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  And then I forgot that I need to bring it back and.
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  But when I do, the sound comes with it.
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  That's why, yeah, I just, I you need to fire me as the
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  production manager because I don't know what I'm doing half
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  the time. But anyways, you agreed with
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  that, so I'll remember that. But anyways, again, awesome
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  show. Thank you so much.
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  Thank you to everyone who watched again like this.
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  Share it out. It's free to do that.
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  By the way, that helps us continue to grow.
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  We have a lot of awesome guests coming up.
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  Drew Jack is working on a really special one for us possibly in
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  the next week or two who has NASCAR connections.
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  So that's what I'll say. I won't say more because I'm not
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  allowed to legally, but but it, you know, oh, and it's getting
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  dark in my room too. So it is time for us to go.
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  But, but we may have someone who has been in a NASCAR, raced a
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  NASCAR won in NASCAR. So just maybe, maybe not.
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  It's not officially. That's why I said I legally
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  cannot say more. But it is something that we are
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  working on. So we'll know more soon.
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  And I'm not going to tell you. I'm going to keep it a secret.
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  I don't even know so. But let's just say once you hear
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  the name, you'll know the name, because then I'll tell you once
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  I'm illegally allowed to. OK, fair enough.
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  Victor may be coming back on here in a few weeks too, just
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  before the Hartford Knight of Instruction.
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  Victor, Jeremy Templeton and Phil may get on.
• 2:08:50
  And then I know Ralph has talked about getting on and I
• 2:08:53
  definitely want to get the strummies on here because it's
• 2:08:56
  cool. Dynamite Dylan strumming did the
• 2:08:58
  did the night of destruction the other day at New Paris.
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  So it's always great when a strumming's on the property.
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  I've said that many times. So, but other than that, like we
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  started the show. Do you have anything else good
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  for the group? No, Sir, I think we covered it.
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  All right, so like we started the show, I'm going to get rid
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  of all the graphics because this is more than us.
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  We're going to end with taps just like we began with taps.
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  So again, Buju, thank you for the show.
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  Thank you for everyone watching. For now, we'll see you on
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  Thursday for the Thursday night trial because it's almost, it's
• 2:09:30
  almost time to turn left and go fast because.
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  We'll see you at the races. See everyone at the races again,
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  remembering those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.