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From Pain to Purpose -Live from Dominion Raceway · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Welcome to the Propane to Purpose radio show.
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  I'm your host Viva Fulton. In this show, we explore the
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  incredible journeys of resilience, healing, and
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  transformation. In each episode, we will sit
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  down with individuals who have faced unimaginable struggles and
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  turn their pain into power, heartbreak into hope, and their
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  challenges into meaningful change and finding new purpose
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  in life. Through candid conversations and
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  inspiring stories, we will uncover how pain, whether
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  emotional, physical, mental or spiritual.
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  Can be the. Catalyst for profound growth and
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  a deeper sense of purpose. So if you are looking for
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  motivation, insight, and real stories of triumph over
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  adversity, you're in the right place.
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  Let's get started on this journey from pain to purpose.
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  Let's give veterans a voice through military broadcast talk.
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  Hello everybody, Let's try this again.
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  I think it's like take 4. That's OK we're going to roll
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  with it, right? Because that's what we do.
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  So hi, I'm Eva Fulton, the host of the propane to purpose radio
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  show with military broadcast radio.
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  I am coming to you live from Dominion Raceway in Thornburg,
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  VA, right off of good old I-95 S background happening.
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  I'm going to I'm going to have to turn like this guys cameras
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  not working on the cell phone to be able to flip it around like I
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  would love to my computer died while ago, but that this is how
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  we roll, right? This is how we roll.
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  So we have I think we had the this particular group, I think
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  it's group 2 has already gone one lap around.
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  They are outgoing for they're lining up for their second lap.
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  So you can see, you can hear, you can hear and we got to watch
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  these guys. So the tricky part that I've
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  seen so far on this racetrack is this section right back here.
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  This is where you can see the the black marks on the wall
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  where that blue car just passed. That's where they tend to have
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  the biggest problems and they start drifting as they come
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  around and then they're having to shift down to, you know, to
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  make the right turn around that corner right there.
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  So we've had a couple of drift drifts into the wall.
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  Nothing major. One of the guys had some Fender
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  bumper issues and so it did stop the track for a little bit and
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  the safety folks from over in that corner and from the start
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  line both ran over. Guy was safe.
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  He got out of his vehicle. That was fine.
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  We had another vehicle while ago that did little dent into the
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  wall over in the same place. It's that's the tricky place
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  right there. And if I go back in and show you
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  the map, then that'll help you. No, I forget what the name of
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  that turn is. So this is that turn.
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  That turn is the easy does it right, Easy does it.
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  So that's the issue. They come.
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  This is where they're starting out and and PO going in the
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  north shoot have patience, but that easy.
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  Does it turn where they're making that right?
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  This is the wall section where they're having the biggest
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  issue. And but but fortunately, from
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  where I'm standing back here on the little porch, we can see all
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  seven turns. 7 turns is what we get to see.
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  So let me go back out here and let's see you know, the safety
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  is always first. We have the ambulance over here
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  as well and man, some nice cars, nice cars out here.
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  Some of these are their personal PO VS and some some of these
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  guys they invested. This is their race car.
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  That's their baby. They, they just only fund it.
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  Met a gentleman while ago who's Navy veteran, Mr. Rick
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  Millenbeck. He's the founder and chairman of
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  Speed and style. That's the Festival of Speed and
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  Style in Alexandria. So that, that's a neat
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  connection. He's a 5O1C3 and I'll, I'll get
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  him on my show. Right.
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  Let's get him on from pain to purpose.
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  There's another guy that I met while ago on the computer before
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  it died on my first streaming and he says ask me why I drive
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  my car. And that's that's exactly what
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  we want to hear, right. Why are they getting out here?
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  It's not you different than somebody scuba diving, hiking in
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  the woods. It's it's about getting out of
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  the house and doing something and sometimes adrenaline rush.
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  Look at that little these these guys soak up their cars, don't
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  they? He's got that's that same one.
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  I think that has a little putt putt while ago.
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  I say that that's the little backfire sound.
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  Robin needs to clean some carbon out.
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  Clean that carbon out. The weather's so far cooperating
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  pretty well We're it's not raining.
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  It was forecast for 80% chance of rain today.
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  I watched the news the weather this morning was predicting that
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  the rain would come later this afternoon.
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  So that is good. Is it here comes the here comes
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  the Yeah, that that guy's having some issues.
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  You can hear it. You can hear it.
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  Maybe it's a fuel problem. I don't know.
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  He's got something going on. See that, that red car, that's
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  that stretch where they're having issues.
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  So Easy does it going around that corner.
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  That's the name of it. Easy does it 11 looks good
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  though. I hear a little bit of something
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  in his car. You it's kind of hard to tell,
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  you know, until you hear them shifting down, but that's that's
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  when you can kind of hear some of those issues. 59 sounds good,
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  but he's taking it easy through there.
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  He, you know, remember this I told you this is sometimes their
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  day cars as well. It's not just a race car, so. 05
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  is going pretty bad. 5 is going much faster than the other one.
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  Oh, I did meet the guy. I talked with the guy while ago
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  that's driving the Tesla. He thinks he'll be OK.
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  He was trying to charge in between, you know, sessions, but
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  they had didn't have the right kind of charger connection that
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  he needed for his car. So I'm not sure what they have
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  over there, but it's not meant to handle a Tesla plug.
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  So I don't know. I've always loved the sound of
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  engines. And there is this.
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  There's a neat adrenaline thing about going fast, I'll tell you.
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  But I do get to Robert offered that I could drive the Miata
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  this afternoon. I'm not going to turn that down,
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  folks. Are you kidding me?
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  I grew up racing, watching my dad race Jeeps off road.
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  He had a Jeep CJ5 and we we grew up off roading, not just him
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  racing, but we'd have reflector runs and that was that was a
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  whole bunch of fun. So we'll see.
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  Oops. Think I'm OK.
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  I'm chatting with my producer, Joel.
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  We'll see. We'll see if maybe you can help
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  me figure out how to flip the camera, folks.
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  That'll be nice. And you won't have to just look
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  at me. I can turn, I can turn the
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  camera around and you could or turn the phone around and you
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  could see what's happening on the track and I can just
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  commentate. I wish I had a roster list of
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  who all these drivers are. That's really what I wanted to
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  be able to do. But what?
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  So from last year, what I can tell you what they do when
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  they're racing each of these sessions, they get the timed
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  session right. So session one in the morning is
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  a, is a, is a different track than the afternoon 7.
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  They have 33 laps that they get to run in the morning and then
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  in the afternoon and then and then they will take the best two
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  times and, and that and that. Total.
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  Of time is how they will do the ranking on who's going to bring
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  home the trophy. The but by the branch.
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  So that's the individual racer. And then by branch, the fastest
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  time added up between, you know, I think it's an average, the
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  fastest average time between the branches is how they will figure
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  out by branch who wins the race, who brings home the trainers.
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  So last year was the Marines and who knows who it'll be this
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  year. So Joel, I think you're
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  backstage. So my issue is I'm trying to
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  change my camera angle so that I'm not only using the front
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  wide, ultra, ultra wide camera, but when I flip it around, can I
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  want people to see their race and not necessarily just look at
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  me? So if you know how to tell me
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  how to change the camera angle, that's what my issue is.
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  Can you flip the camera? Well, I've tried when I when I
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  go, so I'm using my phone right now.
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  When I so right now it said on the front ultra wide.
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  If I change it to back ultra wide, oh now it's working.
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  What? What happened because?
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  It wasn't doing this a while ago.
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  That's OK. I I it was doing nothing while
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  ago. It was only doing the backdrop.
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  So is there something special that does this?
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  I don't know. I'd have to look.
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  I I would have to look at your Gmail.
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  I'm sorry, I don't know you. No, it's just I I'm just using
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  the iPhone 17 Pro Max. But if, if this is working
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  better, I like this view. All right, this view works,
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  doesn't it? Why is it reversed though?
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  Sure you don't get why is it in reverse?
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  It's showing in reverse. That's the back telephoto
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  camera. But it is showing reverse.
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  That's weird because there's a blue.
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  There's a blue car coming around, it should be coming
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  around to my right and it shows on camera like it's coming to my
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  left. Weird.
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  OK, well we're learning. My my my computer died while ago
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  so I had to switch. I had to switch to my headset
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  and and external microphone so I could get good sound.
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  But hey, there's there's media here.
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  They're recording for rally for vets for a show later this year.
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  So all right, well, maybe we figured this out.
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  If you need to drop off, you can.
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  Or if you have questions or comments about, you know, what's
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  happening here, feel free to ask.
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  Oh, he dropped off. All right.
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  Well, we got it figured out. I don't know what happened, but
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  we got it worked out. So as you see that as they
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  finish up and they're beeping, where am I?
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  I don't know what that beeping was from.
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  So when, when they finish up the lap, they will line back up
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  again and get ready for the queue to be able to leave the
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  starting gate again. Remember this is that's when
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  they start the time. So I'm pretty sure it's still 30
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  seconds in between each driver leaving the front line.
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  And that's what you know, that's what triggers the clock.
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  I'm not sure where they have the end marker at because usually
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  there's a. There's a lap.
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  End timer like a female. She's she's in a Beamer.
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  Oh, that's a right seated driver.
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  Look at that, look at that. We even got a Porsche on here.
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  Look at this man. Which group is this?
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  3 A Oh A is back on another right seated driver.
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  This will be the last 20 minutes for each group before lunch.
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  Right. The session 3, morning Session
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  3, right? Yes, yes.
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  I got my camera working now. Let's see.
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  So this is a gentleman that I was talking with while ago.
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  Tell us your name. Jim Ford.
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  Jim Ford, what branch were you? Army.
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  Army. All right, so this is his car.
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  He works here at Dominion Raceway.
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  And I I I saw him and he's like, yeah, that's my car.
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  And he's a Vietnam veteran. So tell me.
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  Tell them so you're live. Tell them what you told me.
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  You get to work here. You get to play here there.
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  I had an Austin Helio that I fixed up for car shoes, but I
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  couldn't play with it. Being at work here, I pull it
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  out on the track all the time. Yeah.
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  And what does it mean to you to be able to be here to do this
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  today? Everything is my retirement job.
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  Why? That's not a job that's fun,
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  right? This is fun.
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  I retired from the. FBI and I thought, I want just
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  an easy, fun job. Oh man.
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  Oh well. So you don't live very far from
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  here. You kind of lucked into.
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  It on the north north of Quantico.
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  OK, OK. What a blessing to get to do
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  this. It is.
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  So were you at Summit last year? Did you know anything about it?
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  There, there was. I've worked up there one time,
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  Edwin. It used to be here.
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  Run Summit now, OK? But you were here and got and
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  heard that we were having rally for vets.
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  Yeah, I've been here since the red course opened.
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  Oh, it. So how long is this?
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  This is this is what they call a Circuit Court, of course, right.
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  Yeah. So when did they open it?
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  About nine years ago. OK, so I understand this
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  afternoon, did they get to do the longer extension but?
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  Yeah, they stop over here this morning, OK?
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  They'll go all the way past corner 12 up there, OK on the
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  straightaway, and then they slow down to come down.
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  OK, because otherwise they could probably get pretty fast going
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  through. They can go pretty fast through
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  the back asses. There the back asses.
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  OK, yeah, I saw that on the map in there that the back asses
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  look fun, but I'm sure kind of bit tricky because you want to
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  get that speed going, but as you're making those turns you
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  got to remember to slow down. Yeah.
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  Yeah, we've had a couple of drivers that aren't used to it.
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  They go. That was scary.
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  Really. Well, you know, at Summit last
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  year, I remember they cut off part of the course because you
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  could get going in that fast section.
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  But unless you're a pro, you better not do it because that
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  adrenaline starts going and you want to, you want to gun it, you
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  want to, you know, pedal to the metal.
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  Think they put a little chicane over there to slow them up the s
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  s so they won't go too fast. OK, good.
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  I saw saw in the warm up laps they went a little slower this
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  morning. The pace pace car kept them
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  pretty slow. Yeah.
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  It's a fun track. So what?
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  What do you think is the best part about racing?
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  Just being out there and can do your thing.
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  Going fast, Yeah, it's the moment, right?
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  I mean, I think it's what I found even when I'm scuba
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  diving, when I'm hiking, it's being in the moment and and you
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  shut out the rest of everything else, right?
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  Is that your experience too? Yeah, I've we're going to go.
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  I surfed all my my life usually. And then the cars.
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  I enjoyed the Hang Gliding anything went through.
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  You sound like fun. Oh man, look at that car.
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  Look at that car. Is that amazing?
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  These are some not so cheap cars.
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  They aren't that that that's Ronnie.
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  Yeah, they cost some pretty and that Porsche, the Beamer, these
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  are people that put some money in these cars.
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  Well, we are having fun. Great day.
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  Have you heard any updates on the weather?
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  It's still supposed to be this evening, right?
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  Maybe this evening I think is what I saw on the.
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  News after we finish, hopefully. Let's pray yeah, no rain on the
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  track today. No rain on the track after is
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  fine, but not while we're racing, right?
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  Exciting, exciting. What is your best advice if
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  somebody wants to dabble into, you know, getting started
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  racing, maybe they want to try it.
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  We. We have a track attack where
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  it's a lead follow and they can go pretty fast with get some use
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  to the curves and all of that. They don't even need a helmet
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  for that. They can come out on track
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  attacks. OK.
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  After that, the track cross, we have a driver's club or a week
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  tomorrow we'll have a high performance driver education
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  where they can go it out in 20 minute sessions.
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  OK. It's whether they're a beginner,
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  intermediate, or expert is basically where they can pass.
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  Experts can pass anywhere with a point pot.
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  A beginner can go out and go any speed they want, they just can
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  only pass on the straightaways. Oh, OK, OK.
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  We don't want them passing in the corner.
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  Oh, for sure. Yeah, for sure.
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  I I got to drive the Miata last year, the one that Robert's
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  driving, you know, I got to drive the Miata I raced last
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  year. OK, Yeah, I had so much fun.
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  Yeah, there's a need adrenaline rush that you get doing it.
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  So I know a little bit about that, but it's a different
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  adrenaline rush than what you get scuba diving.
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  But you have to be very focused about because it's you and the
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  and the equipment, you know, it's still you and the
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  equipment. Keep your mind on it.
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  That's right. You can't let your mind wander
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  and the music or whatever, you got to focus on what's happening
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  in the here and now and make sure you don't get like some of
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  those guys who try to push it to too hard and then end up in the
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  wall. Yeah, yeah, we don't want that.
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  Definitely don't want that. And.
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  None of the other drivers do because that slows everyone up.
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  Right, right. Well so oh I'm getting a post
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  from my producer about being able to change something.
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  We'll see if I can figure this out.
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  He's telling me how I can maybe change something in my settings.
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  Have an iPhone so it's landscape and not phonescape unless I
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  just. Maybe I just have to.
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  Turn it. Sideways.
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  I don't know. I haven't.
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  Tried. Does it work if I turn it?
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  Oh, there we go. That works a little bit better.
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  Doesn't why there were wide screen now that works better.
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  I told you I'm live and this is my first time using my cell
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  phone to do this and be live like this.
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  So I'll let you get back to your job and let me go see if I can
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  find some other folks to interview and everything.
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  Thank you for calling. Great talking with you.
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  Thank you for what you're doing. Most importantly, isn't this
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  cold, guys? They're getting some of the
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  service dogs over here with the Miata and getting some photo
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  OPS. So part of what the mission for
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  Rally for Vets is not just about race racing itself.
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  Rally for Vets supports a nonprofit for service, for
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  raising service dogs and giving the service dogs to needy
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  veterans who who need a trained service dog to support, you
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  know, to support them. And so there are, they have 33
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  black labs here that I think they're working on raising.
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  I'll work out a time where I can interview them as well.
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  And, you know, this is the neat thing where you've got one
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  nonprofit that is helping another nonprofit.
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  Both of them are supporting veterans and, you know, making
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  sure that what we are doing now is, you know, that we are living
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  the best lives that we are with the support that we need.
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  So kind of. Yeah.
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  So they are the Rally for Vets. Just so you know, Rally for Vets
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  is support. It is the nonprofit itself is
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  Disabled Veteran Empowerment. I, I, I told Robert last year, I
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  said, just call it driven, put an R in there somehow and he's
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  like, oh man, I love that. So Disabled Veteran Empowerment
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  Network is the main nonprofit behind the Rally for Vets and
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  that which this is what this is and you know, being able to
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  support veterans this way is really pretty cool.
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  Oh, here we go guys. I just, I need man, I need a
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  copy of this. So, so they do have there is
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  this it's sorted by car number. The Rally for Vets champions
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  this is and then so there are different groups.
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  Like I said, this is my car number.
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  There's every been everything from a Nissan 300ZX, the Ford
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  GT350, Toyota Supra, Tesla 3AR. These are the types of cars that
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  have been raced in the past. Subaru Toyota Aristo Subaru
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  Impreza, Honda Civic type R Audi S4 BM WX3M40I Nissan 300ZX
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  Subaru Impreza, Ford Shelby Mini Cooper S Chevrolet Corvette,
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  Mazda Miata. Of course Subaru Impreza, Subaru
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  BRZ, Subaru WRXSTI, Ford Mustang Ford Shelby Chevrolet Corvette,
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  Honda Civic type R Ford Focus Mini Cooper S and a fortune 9/11
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  turbo WI. Was trying to see if I could
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  find where was the 2025 last year's last year's winner was
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  from the Marine Corps. Eric Kreitzer with a Honda Civic
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  type R He was last year's winner, last year's winner.
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  So pretty awesome, pretty awesome.
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  Trying to see if there's anybody yeah.
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  So anyways, the nonprofit that they're supporting with the for
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  the dogs is Veterans Moving forward.
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  They let's let's read what they're about their Veterans
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  moving Forward is a mission to provide service, therapy and
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  emotional support dogs to veterans with physical and or
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  mental challenges at no cost to the veteran or their family.
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  We work to guarantee that the veteran and dog are a great
• 29:41
  match, not only with the tasks that are needed and perform, but
• 29:45
  also in personality and temperament.
• 29:48
  If you want to know anything about this organization,
• 29:51
  veterans moving forward, reach out to them at
• 29:54
  www.vetsvetsfwd.org. That's Victor.
• 30:02
  ETSFW, delta.org. Yes, I know my military
• 30:09
  alphabet. I was always pretty good at
• 30:12
  that. They have two dogs that they are
• 30:18
  that they are asking for support for.
• 30:21
  One of them is Piper. Looks like a Beagle.
• 30:23
  Beagles, not beagles. I've had a Beagle before.
• 30:28
  Piper is date of birth was August 16th, 2016.
• 30:34
  Yes, a Beagle namesake is Finn's Pied Piper, the Queen, and then
• 30:39
  they have Phoenix. Who?
• 30:43
  Was born November 17th, 2022 Yellow Lab Retriever.
• 30:48
  The breeder is Turnkey Ridge Labradors, and it's named after
• 30:53
  Lance Corporal Christopher J Phoenix Jacob Levi Levi.
• 30:59
  So. There you go.
• 31:01
  Pretty cool that they're doing this.
• 31:03
  Yeah, I'll take care of this. I just wanted to spot you last
• 31:08
  night. We'll touch you up in all the
• 31:11
  right slots. Oh, Monique's telling me about a
• 31:15
  seating dining table. Like a, Like a.
• 31:22
  Cafeteria. Hi, how are you?
• 31:24
  Do you Remember Me? I do.
• 31:26
  I do. I'm live.
• 31:30
  How are you? Good.
• 31:33
  How are you doing? I'm good.
• 31:34
  Tell us about your journey since getting your dog last year.
• 31:38
  Well, introduce yourself. So yeah, hi.
• 31:39
  I'm Susan. Susan Senko.
• 31:42
  I'm a veteran. I served with the Air Force in
• 31:45
  Nurse Corps. And come here.
• 31:47
  What's so I have with me come. On.
• 31:52
  Come on. Is moving out of the way.
• 31:54
  Come on. Oh, I'm so sorry.
• 31:57
  It's OK. Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 32:02
  It's OK, I mean. He's settled now so it's easier
• 32:09
  so. Competing media?
• 32:13
  Who knew? You're right that that's not a
• 32:20
  bad thing, Competing media. No, no, it's not.
• 32:23
  Yeah. And I spoke with them a little
• 32:24
  earlier. So I have Woody, and Woody is a
• 32:29
  black lab that I got from Veterans Moving Forward, and he
• 32:33
  was sponsored by Rally for Vets. So because of the sponsorship
• 32:40
  that Rally Vets provided, that's how you know Woody was able to
• 32:45
  come into the program. And training, right?
• 32:49
  So without them, then he wouldn't, you know, we don't
• 32:52
  know whether or not he'd be here, right?
• 32:54
  And so. But you had only had him a short
• 32:58
  time before last year, right? I think you had just got me we.
• 33:02
  Had we've been together for a little more than a little over a
• 33:07
  year and a half. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:08
  So yeah. I remember, yeah, I remember
• 33:11
  you. Yep, good conversation 'cause I
• 33:14
  got to interview you last year too.
• 33:17
  How's the last year been? Crazy, you know, it's been, you
• 33:26
  know, started a new job. Congratulations.
• 33:28
  You know I had some. You know this.
• 33:30
  Challenge is on its own. There's challenges on its own,
• 33:32
  you know, and some, you know, personal hardships.
• 33:36
  I'm sorry, sorry. But you know, the you know,
• 33:42
  having him helped me through. Good, good focus, but he takes
• 33:51
  care of you. He does.
• 33:53
  I try to take good care of each other.
• 33:56
  So for somebody who doesn't or has not had a service dog,
• 34:04
  what's the best advice that you can?
• 34:07
  I mean, now that you've had him for over a year and a half, then
• 34:12
  what are some, what are some takeaways that you have that
• 34:15
  could share with somebody else who is contemplating could they,
• 34:20
  should they get a service dog? Yeah, I mean, I can say that for
• 34:24
  myself personally, I thought like really long and hard.
• 34:29
  It would took me a solid year of like hard contemplation before I
• 34:35
  submitted my app started my application.
• 34:37
  Right, right. I remember because you also
• 34:40
  talked last year about talking not just to your family members,
• 34:45
  but your support around you, your doctor, you know, your
• 34:49
  primary care, your other specialist who who wanted to
• 34:53
  make sure were you ready because this is.
• 34:57
  Its own kind of commitment. It is, it is.
• 35:00
  And you know, like, I wanted to make sure that I was ready and
• 35:03
  make sure that, you know, I'm just going through the process
• 35:06
  of, you know, am I taking it away from somebody else who
• 35:09
  might need it more as a resource or, you know, and then the whole
• 35:14
  perception piece because navigating the world with a
• 35:17
  service dog has his unique challenges, right?
• 35:20
  Sometimes because you can't just leave it at home.
• 35:23
  No. And you don't.
• 35:24
  And I mean, he is by law, you know, by ADA law, I mean.
• 35:28
  He must lie. I must be OK.
• 35:29
  He's leaning up against me like he like almost sitting on my
• 35:34
  foot. He's a good boy.
• 35:36
  Yeah, so. He's been in love on me though,
• 35:39
  that's good. Yeah.
• 35:41
  So I mean, it's, you know, sometimes like going into like
• 35:44
  different establishments with him, like some.
• 35:46
  People, they don't always understand.
• 35:47
  They don't always. Understand.
• 35:48
  And sometimes they're, it's a little bit awkward.
• 35:52
  Challenging. It can be challenging.
• 35:53
  Sometimes. But you know, the fact is that
• 35:57
  just having him has opened up my world in ways I'm doing things
• 36:03
  that I wouldn't be doing. If I didn't feel awesome.
• 36:08
  Because he's allowed me to feel comfortable to do it.
• 36:11
  That's exciting. That's like I had to agree like.
• 36:13
  You know, as you say, he's got my 6.
• 36:16
  Right, right. Well, I've got your six too.
• 36:19
  Thank you. You know, I feel free to reach
• 36:22
  out. I'm serious.
• 36:24
  You know, I'm working on some other things that, you know, I I
• 36:28
  moved back to Texas, so I drove back for this right.
• 36:33
  Awesome. Because I didn't want to miss
• 36:36
  the what Rally for Vets does, right?
• 36:39
  It's mission working with you guys.
• 36:42
  And I mean, you can't, you can't.
• 36:45
  Adrenaline rush is a part of it too.
• 36:48
  But you know. It's a good, you know, but yeah,
• 36:53
  I know, like I said, I mean, the fact that Rally for Vets was,
• 36:58
  you know, that's how, that's how he came through to the program.
• 37:04
  And, you know, and so you know, I just felt it was important to
• 37:08
  come back again this year to just help show my support and
• 37:13
  hopefully like by putting our faces out here, 'cause I don't
• 37:18
  like being the center of attention.
• 37:20
  Right. But you know, hopefully by being
• 37:23
  here and just having like a presence, it'll bring a little
• 37:27
  more awareness. And if I can help one other
• 37:30
  veteran to. Look exactly.
• 37:32
  That's that's my goal. It's.
• 37:34
  Your base being here, that's not a narcissistic thing, right?
• 37:38
  It is and I'm using it. I mean, that's the technical.
• 37:41
  Word for it, It's not about. It's not about.
• 37:44
  You as the person, this is about representing 2 organizations
• 37:49
  that is doing a lot of good. And if it's opened up, if it's
• 37:52
  opened up doors and pathways for you to get out there and enjoy
• 37:57
  your new normal life, then we need that to happen for other
• 38:01
  people too. I want other veterans to benefit
• 38:03
  from, you know, and have the same like benefits and positive,
• 38:07
  positive experiences that I've. Had now, but your other passion
• 38:10
  is riding motorcycles too. Yeah, I have a motorcycle.
• 38:16
  So, you know, I'm just in the process of trying to save up to
• 38:19
  get a trailer so that I can bring in with.
• 38:23
  Me OK. Because now it's a matter of,
• 38:25
  you know, if I want to go somewhere on the bike, I can't
• 38:29
  bring him with me. Or a sidecar?
• 38:30
  Can you do a sidecar thing? Sidecar, but I'll probably do
• 38:33
  like a trailer because in that like a sidecar will change how
• 38:36
  the motorcycle handles. Right.
• 38:38
  You know, versus 2 wheels, it'll have, yeah, you know, 3.
• 38:41
  I know my dad has, he's pulled one of those camper trailers
• 38:44
  before, so I didn't know they had like a dog trailer, but you
• 38:48
  would have to wear a good harnessing in and.
• 38:51
  Correct. And maybe where the goggles is.
• 38:53
  The goggles, Yeah, I've heard of those.
• 38:58
  I wanna see that. When you do that, I wanna see a
• 39:01
  picture of that one. Like, yeah, I, you know, I just
• 39:06
  with different, you know, employment issues and stuff it,
• 39:10
  it's just been financially challenging so.
• 39:13
  Yeah, Yeah. Well, maybe.
• 39:15
  Hopefully one of these. Days, Let's put a wish list out
• 39:17
  there. Maybe somebody knows of one that
• 39:20
  they could donate or somebody. That does or even like sell it
• 39:24
  like if they have one that they're not using that they're
• 39:26
  looking. To right y'all hear her wish
• 39:28
  list. She needs a she she she's a
• 39:31
  motorcycle. What kind of motorcycle do you
• 39:33
  have? Harley, OK, I have a Harley
• 39:35
  Street Glide and actually a member, an active member of the
• 39:40
  Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association.
• 39:42
  OK, so those are the people that I ride with.
• 39:46
  So maybe we know somebody that can hook a gal up.
• 39:48
  She needs a trailer for Woody. Woody right So that he can Woody
• 39:52
  needs a trailer so that because they are.
• 39:55
  That would allow me to ride more and be able to because otherwise
• 39:58
  now if I want to go somewhere and have make sure he's with me,
• 40:02
  we have to drive. So yeah.
• 40:05
  But you would need your air therapy, wind therapy.
• 40:09
  There you go. Need some wind therapy?
• 40:12
  Yeah. It's it's healing.
• 40:14
  There's a reason why we do that. Yeah.
• 40:16
  No, I get it. I haven't gotten to do that.
• 40:19
  Maybe I need to experiment. And it was.
• 40:22
  Like one of those things that I gave it a go and tried it and.
• 40:26
  That was your thing? That was.
• 40:27
  One of my things. Awesome, awesome.
• 40:30
  But thank you for your time. Yeah, thank you.
• 40:33
  It's so good to see you, too. Oh, this is This is why I love
• 40:40
  doing this, folks, you know, and seeing Woody, he was loving up
• 40:44
  on me. I I took that as a good sign.
• 40:48
  Took it as a good sign. All right, you know, it's neat
• 40:55
  seeing some of these guys coming through.
• 40:59
  If I can switch the camera, if I can switch the camera back
• 41:03
  around and there we go. What do we have here?
• 41:11
  We got, we got Chevy, we got Mazda, Mitsubishi.
• 41:24
  I tell you some of these guys are pros and gals.
• 41:28
  There's a lady driver. I'll have to she's talking to
• 41:36
  them. Hey, I have to Maryland.
• 41:47
  I think I saw Florida plate earlier got Kia Kia Stinger Air
• 41:57
  Force told you Florida. I was looking to see if my my
• 42:06
  friend Richie is here that I met last year.
• 42:10
  He was from Pennsylvania. There is another place to watch
• 42:22
  the track from over here too. I.
• 42:23
  Haven't been over this side. Of the track, I don't know where
• 42:30
  all the fake grass is from. Here's a much closer area to get
• 42:37
  to the track. I remember this is Group A.
• 42:51
  Remember each session gets 20 minutes so they this is the last
• 43:00
  last session of the morning. They let them go every 30
• 43:10
  seconds in between cars. How you doing?
• 43:28
  So far James, how you doing so far?
• 43:34
  Already running a back door Body Shop here.
• 43:37
  Is he OK? Yeah, he's good now.
• 43:38
  He's good to. Race, So I don't know, like I'm
• 43:43
  watching him, but then I heard it.
• 43:43
  It looks like he went off this corner here.
• 43:46
  Oh, you're talking about the one over here?
• 43:50
  Yeah, OK to. The tires, Yeah.
• 43:52
  That first one into the wall, Yeah, Black.
• 43:54
  Art Yeah, yeah, I got him that he's.
• 43:57
  Good to go. Oh, good, good.
• 43:57
  I'm not another one. She.
• 43:59
  Told me about that. I was like, I'm not running a
• 44:01
  backyard Body Shop. Stop the.
• 44:03
  Truck. This is not my truck.
• 44:08
  Well, that's good. You're able to help get that guy
• 44:11
  back on 'cause his his front bumper came off right?
• 44:14
  His front bumper and part of his Fender.
• 44:17
  Yeah, a whole rat sport went right over.
• 44:18
  So I had to use Doug, the gentleman that has that Pontiac.
• 44:22
  OK, I'd use. This truck bullet.
• 44:24
  Ah, I. I had 10 years of body shock.
• 44:27
  OK. So just kind of the backyard
• 44:29
  fix. No, they glad you could do it.
• 44:39
  Probably could make some extra money.
• 44:41
  Yeah, So I am live, by the way. No, that's OK.
• 44:49
  So I, I'm the my my radio show. It's actually kind of a talk
• 44:54
  show. I'm live with military broadcast
• 44:56
  radio. We heard about you the last time
• 44:57
  we were, yeah. Yeah.
• 45:00
  Oh, yes, I was there. I got to race the Miata.
• 45:03
  So I'm broadcasting live right now on my show with military
• 45:08
  broadcast radio. You want to say hi?
• 45:10
  Sure. So let me flip the camera
• 45:13
  around. Here we go.
• 45:14
  All right, here we go. Here's who I'm talking to.
• 45:16
  So tell us about your you your military experience.
• 45:19
  How'd you get into racing? And.
• 45:21
  Got back from deployment back in 25.
• 45:23
  I was deployed to Africa from and September 24th to I believe
• 45:28
  July 25. Got back, won the race and this
• 45:33
  actually helps out with my PTSD honestly.
• 45:35
  OK. And.
• 45:36
  So if I'm not at the gun range, I'm.
• 45:38
  Here I'm working OK. That's all I basically do.
• 45:44
  But how did you get into racing? And so I did it back in 2011, I
• 45:50
  believe. I did one race and just haven't
• 45:52
  had time to ever since. And then now I just got the
• 45:55
  time. The bug was there.
• 45:57
  The the bug was planted for racing back then.
• 46:00
  You said all right, when so you got out of the military.
• 46:04
  I'm I'm. Still it I'm not going to.
• 46:05
  Guard OK, but this is your outlet and you can afford doing
• 46:10
  it because it's not a cheap sport.
• 46:12
  Right now, yes, me and my wife were actually expecting our
• 46:15
  first kid. March 20, eighteenth and March
• 46:17
  22nd. OK, so I'm going for March 20th
• 46:20
  because that's my birthday. Congratulations though March.
• 46:26
  24th is my grandfather, so we're trying to aim a.
• 46:29
  Little bit OK, I got you I got you congratulations though.
• 46:34
  Thank you. So what's the, what's the best
• 46:38
  part about racing though? Just.
• 46:40
  You're on the track. Nothing bothers you, nothing's
• 46:42
  there. It's just you and what's in
• 46:44
  front of you. Right, that that hits home with
• 46:47
  what I was saying earlier, folks, because I compared it to
• 46:50
  like whether you're hiking on the trail, whether you're scuba
• 46:55
  diving and it's you and bubble therapy.
• 46:58
  It's like Susan was just talking about wind therapy on the you
• 47:02
  know, in the motorcycle. This is a different kind.
• 47:06
  It is you and the car and the track and everything else just
• 47:10
  shuts off. I mean cuz you, cuz it's it is
• 47:13
  about what is happening every millisecond going around the.
• 47:17
  Track. And ironically, I do ride
• 47:19
  motorcycles as well, so. OK, there you go.
• 47:22
  So what? What kind of car do you drive?
• 47:24
  I drive the rec Ford Focus St. OK.
• 47:29
  Nothing too much done with it. What's what's the highest speed
• 47:32
  you've gotten on this track so far today?
• 47:34
  That I have no idea. I usually look at the end.
• 47:36
  My wife keeps track of that for me.
• 47:37
  OK. OK.
• 47:38
  So, but you're behaving on the track so far she's not having
• 47:43
  any heart attacks. Heart attacks.
• 47:48
  Very good. So I've I've always been asking
• 47:52
  so far, what's one thing if somebody wants to get into
• 47:56
  racing, what would you recommend that they do?
• 47:58
  What? Got me started.
• 48:03
  Was just kind of showing up. Showing up, yeah.
• 48:06
  I mean, people say like they want to do it, they want to do
• 48:08
  it, Just go for it. You know, the, the there's a
• 48:12
  volunteer over there that works for Dominion Raceway, Vietnam
• 48:15
  veteran over there who's who's watching people before they go
• 48:19
  over there on the track works here.
• 48:22
  They have a, they have events like tomorrow, tomorrow where
• 48:26
  you can get some time behind the wheel, do some orientation and
• 48:31
  learn, you know, some of the curve navigation.
• 48:34
  So it's not like driving on the regular highway.
• 48:37
  Yeah. Yeah, it's more challenging
• 48:40
  because you got the turns, you got the basically the choice,
• 48:43
  I'm going to say. So speed.
• 48:45
  Yeah. So as you're as you're coming
• 48:47
  around the turn, you don't know if you're going to be doing a
• 48:48
  90° turn, a 180 or could even be like a 120.
• 48:51
  Yeah, you just have that turn and then just God like you just
• 48:55
  go for. It right, right.
• 48:58
  I hear you. Thank you so much for talking
• 49:01
  with me. I'll see you around.
• 49:03
  Robert promised that I could drive the Miata this afternoon,
• 49:06
  so I'm looking forward to that. Talk to you later.
• 49:10
  Have a good day. Safe driving.
• 49:13
  Isn't this cool, guys, isn't this cool?
• 49:17
  And I could have camped here too last night.
• 49:19
  I didn't know I could have camped here too.
• 49:20
  But that's OK. I'm at, I'm boondocking.
• 49:24
  I'm boondocking out there and nearby, not too far away, just
• 49:29
  10 miles away. Let's see if I can flip around
• 49:32
  and see we get some other cars. There's some other cars over
• 49:38
  here in the parking lot while they're out there driving
• 49:42
  around. I mean, it's here we go see
• 49:52
  Catterham, this 7R, this 7420R, Catterham.
• 49:59
  Look at that. I mean, is that like?
• 50:01
  Gorgeous or what? That is gorgeous, gorgeous,
• 50:09
  gorgeous. So he's #17 got AGT 350.
• 50:18
  So if if folks, if they're registered to race and they
• 50:22
  don't have their own numbers on, then they are using the tape to,
• 50:29
  you know, to put it on on the side of the car so they can
• 50:33
  track, you know, who's going around and what their numbers
• 50:37
  are. So you can, I can smell the
• 50:48
  fuel. I have a nose for that stuff,
• 50:52
  folks. I grew up, like I said, I grew
• 50:55
  up with my dad racing Jeep and I know it's not quite.
• 50:59
  The same, but a lot. Of the same principles even even
• 51:03
  off road still applies and I you know got to race last year so
• 51:10
  you know going around those turns with the speed makes all I
• 51:16
  mean that just you got to really watch what you're doing is this
• 51:20
  fat racing yes this fat's racing you're 462 army go army go army
• 51:28
  here we go we're live how is it going going good if.
• 51:34
  We can keep the tire temperature up.
• 51:40
  Well, it's expected. Is the track pretty hot?
• 51:43
  Not yet, not yet. It's we've been overcast so, but
• 51:48
  I think the sun's coming out, so we're going to have a little bit
• 51:50
  hotter laps. I think that'll actually help
• 51:52
  with the temperature for the tires for me.
• 51:53
  Yeah, so the afternoon. I think I'm going out now so
• 51:58
  Group C so. OK, I.
• 51:59
  Think a little sunshine's going to help me out?
• 52:01
  Good, good. It's pretty.
• 52:07
  Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome, C. 506
• 52:12
  with the Lamont's Blue. It's actually a carbon fiber
• 52:15
  hood. OK, back.
• 52:16
  Even in 2004, Can you imagine? And of course the C5 Corvette
• 52:22
  won the Lamont's twice from so from 97 to O 4, the C Fives
• 52:27
  06/1. Well, not the 06, but C5
• 52:30
  Corvette won the Lamont's twice. Wow.
• 52:34
  Still the best bang for your buck if you can pick one up.
• 52:37
  Well, I will be rooting you on you be safe out there on the
• 52:40
  track, OK? I know.
• 52:42
  Go Army. Go Army.
• 52:45
  I already told the Marine while ago.
• 52:47
  I'm sorry, I forgot the crayons. He laughed.
• 52:51
  I love that we have branch humor out here folks.
• 52:55
  We are not so serious and not so full of ourselves that we don't
• 53:00
  have some humor. So I I love that we have the
• 53:03
  ability to do that. Let's there we go now.
• 53:08
  So Group C is going out on the track. 992 is casino in his
• 53:16
  Porsche Turbo S You know I love that Rally for Vets has the has
• 53:23
  the stickers that they put on the cars.
• 53:25
  I mean that just says something. So if you see somebody driving
• 53:29
  with Rally for Vets on their windshield, you know exactly
• 53:33
  what the organization is all about.
• 53:36
  And you need to make sure that you give them a thumbs up
• 53:40
  because they are supporting veterans two ways out here on
• 53:44
  the track and out there with partnering for service dogs for
• 53:53
  veterans. And that's just, that's just.
• 53:57
  Beautiful. We have a good, good group of
• 54:02
  vehicles getting ready to go out there on the track for or the
• 54:11
  third session, the 3rd morning session.
• 54:14
  So you can see out there on the track session two, I'm sorry,
• 54:19
  Group C is finishing up. So that's why they are pre
• 54:26
  staging Group C. So as the other group comes off
• 54:32
  they will they will stage Group C to go out there and do the the
• 54:39
  last their last session, session 3.
• 54:42
  And. Look, there's official pace car.
• 54:46
  It's a Chevy. The EMSEMS people, you know,
• 55:05
  we've we've got the signs for never forget for the 9/11 and
• 55:15
  Air Force NOAAUSPHS, Marine Corps, Army, Navy and maybe
• 55:23
  that's Coast Guard sign down there.
• 55:26
  You know, USPS is health services.
• 55:30
  I I guess maybe they're technically a I don't know who O
• 55:36
  6 is. Technically they count towards
• 55:40
  our services, but they're not like one of the main branches.
• 55:43
  But I know even even as a federal employees, I see health
• 55:46
  services out there because they they were uniform too.
• 55:50
  They represent so Group 2 leaving off of the track.
• 56:00
  That's how they exit out and you've got some of these others
• 56:05
  out there. So y'all remember a while ago I
• 56:07
  was talking about easy does it that red car is coming through
• 56:12
  the easy does it turn? And that's that area right
• 56:17
  there. He's leaning into it.
• 56:18
  You can see it little squirrely right there.
• 56:28
  And a few more of them, few more of them, like I said, they, they
• 56:36
  think they can pick up that speed right there.
• 56:39
  It just before the easy does it turn, but you can see they start
• 56:43
  leaning in. And I mean, it'll be interesting
• 56:47
  when I drive around it because you can see the, the weight of
• 56:52
  the car shift as they move through.
• 56:55
  So it's a combination. There we go.
• 57:52
  Maybe. That's think think we're better
• 57:55
  now So Yep, there they are. They're.
• 57:57
  Getting they're staging out there on the track,
• 58:02
  whoopibus.com, somebody needs to look that up.
• 58:04
  Whoopibus.com Don't know what that's about, but we've got,
• 58:11
  like I said, the last last of the folks from Group 2.
• 58:19
  Of. Session three finishing up on
• 58:23
  the track and then they will start out with group Group C for
• 58:31
  session 3. Say that.
• 58:34
  Three times. Fast
• 58:46
  looking go, looking go. Alright, yeah, so.
• 58:55
  Is this looks like it is group? Three out there.
• 58:58
  On the track now. Now I never did actually see
• 59:08
  where they do their turn around at the back.
• 59:11
  So they do there is another like I said, a back the back s s
• 59:16
  there's a cut through I guess from before the back s s to loop
• 59:21
  around. So it's a shorter track, which
• 59:22
  is not much different than what we experienced last year at
• 59:26
  Summit. The those those s s the tendency
• 59:31
  is to go fast on those big s s, but but that's where it it
• 59:38
  actually fools you. You have to still maintain a
• 59:41
  certain speed and and don't treat it like it's a straight
• 59:45
  away because it's not. So got a white Mustang.
• 59:54
  I'll tell you they're watching that.
• 59:56
  They're watching that easy does it corner.
• 1:00:00
  So apparently when I if y'all heard me a while ago back there
• 1:00:04
  where I was in the back talking with that gentleman, somebody
• 1:00:08
  did go off the road back there. It's it's a large U-turn in a
• 1:00:14
  way large U-turn. And I guess whoever the driver
• 1:00:19
  was didn't take the turn sharp enough and ended up over in the
• 1:00:25
  grass. Fortunately I don't or no, they
• 1:00:28
  said some the tires got into the tires over there.
• 1:00:32
  So. Not I'm going to sit a little
• 1:00:37
  curb. I can sit on the wall here and
• 1:00:41
  watch. This is pretty.
• 1:00:51
  You know, for even for a spectator, even if you don't
• 1:00:54
  want to race, it is interesting to just watch.
• 1:00:59
  You know, there's something soothing about it and just, you
• 1:01:03
  know, being in the moment and, and hearing what these cars are
• 1:01:08
  doing. The guy while I go was talking
• 1:01:13
  about, you know, the sun, the sun's trying to peek out and you
• 1:01:17
  put your helmet on, dude, you better hurry up and put it on
• 1:01:23
  fast. It won't take long to get up
• 1:01:25
  there to the starting line because you, you have to not
• 1:01:29
  only put your helmet on, but you kind of, you got to put that
• 1:01:32
  white sleeve on too. And that's supposed to be fire
• 1:01:37
  retardant. So you wear the you wear the
• 1:01:40
  hood sleeve, you know, the head sleeve, and then you put the
• 1:01:43
  helmet on and it protects you, right.
• 1:01:47
  There are certain standards for having the right helmet.
• 1:01:52
  I noticed over at the at the Fort Belvoir PX that they have
• 1:01:57
  racing helmets over there. They look like they're racing
• 1:02:00
  helmets, but they had helmets, ate about 85 bucks for helmets.
• 1:02:12
  Some of these are little cars in this group.
• 1:02:21
  But if y'all notice the thread of the people that I have
• 1:02:24
  interviewed so far, they have all mentioned that this was a
• 1:02:32
  great alternative for their PTSD.
• 1:02:35
  It's something they look forward to doing.
• 1:02:37
  It is something that they shut out all of the other noise of
• 1:02:41
  life. And when they're on the track,
• 1:02:44
  then this is what they are doing and it's the only thing that
• 1:02:48
  they're thinking about. And, you know, you can think
• 1:02:52
  about it. You could even do that on the
• 1:02:53
  regular Rd. Not, you know, just driving,
• 1:02:56
  normal driving. Shut out the rest of the noise
• 1:02:59
  or everything else. Turn off the radio and just
• 1:03:03
  concentrate on the driving. If we all did that, we'd
• 1:03:08
  probably be a lot happier in the world because sometimes we
• 1:03:10
  listen to the wrong stuff, the bad news that's out there, or,
• 1:03:17
  you know, sappy songs that remind us of who or when or
• 1:03:22
  where. And if you just turned it all
• 1:03:24
  off and just concentrate on driving, we'd probably be a lot
• 1:03:29
  better off, better drivers because we're concentrating on
• 1:03:32
  actually driving and it doesn't have to.
• 1:03:35
  Be. Fast like this, but just be in
• 1:03:38
  the moment of driving thinking about the the turn of the
• 1:03:42
  driving. I mean, I've noticed that with
• 1:03:45
  the RV driving a cross country, you do have to focus more about
• 1:03:51
  how you actually drive. It does make me a better driver
• 1:03:55
  because I'm not assuming that that bumper, this bumper that
• 1:03:59
  turn or the way that particular Rd. leans it's going to do.
• 1:04:05
  There is a an equal and opposite reaction.
• 1:04:07
  You have to be careful how you drive so.
• 1:04:13
  That's. Where we are so long I we have
• 1:04:19
  to focus after focus close to lap 3 and 20 minutes.
• 1:04:33
  You know, you got to think about how long it takes for each of
• 1:04:37
  these cars to go. It takes usually a couple of
• 1:04:41
  minutes. So each driver gets generally
• 1:04:45
  about 3 laps on each of these 20 minute sessions.
• 1:04:51
  And like I said, they they allow 30 seconds, they actually have a
• 1:04:58
  stopwatch and it's 30 seconds. Pretty sure it's 30 seconds in
• 1:05:02
  between drivers before they let somebody else go.
• 1:05:06
  And when you get that go, there is an adrenaline rush that
• 1:05:12
  happens because you you know, there is the instinct you want
• 1:05:16
  to put pedal to the metal, but your first thing that you're
• 1:05:18
  having to do is make a turn and you get that.
• 1:05:21
  You know you want to punch it for that first straight away
• 1:05:24
  only to now have to make the hairpin here and go into the
• 1:05:29
  easy does it turn? So they go to the left and
• 1:05:36
  there's another, like I said, there's another you.
• 1:05:39
  He's already come back around and coming back for this last
• 1:05:44
  turn and he'll go into that kind of semi straightaway for the big
• 1:05:50
  s s. That's where they have to slow
• 1:05:53
  down. Think, like I said, there's a
• 1:05:55
  cut off that they have before the big s S and then they come
• 1:05:59
  back around to do another lap. This afternoon, the big.
• 1:06:04
  S s are supposed to be open for the afternoon session, and that
• 1:06:11
  will be, you know, a different kind of different kind of drive.
• 1:06:17
  Different kind of drive. Fortunately, the weather's
• 1:06:20
  cooperating because the forecast all week long kept saying it was
• 1:06:24
  going to rain. 80% chance of rain, but the news forecaster
• 1:06:31
  this morning said it'll happen this evening after the race is
• 1:06:36
  over, so that'll be good. That will be good.
• 1:06:40
  Oh yeah, a little squirrel there, didn't he?
• 1:06:45
  What a pretty car. It's some smoke off of that
• 1:06:53
  black car that's on right now. Had some smoke in that first
• 1:06:56
  turn. I don't know if it's engine or
• 1:07:00
  tire smoke but he had some smoke.
• 1:07:04
  Might be engine you hear it, it's puttering might might have
• 1:07:11
  a gasket issue. My guess might have a gasket
• 1:07:14
  issue. You can hear the RPMS Rev up on
• 1:07:21
  the straightaways. Thank you.
• 1:07:36
  So hopefully the timer works this year.
• 1:07:40
  They had an issue with the scoring mechanism and being able
• 1:07:44
  to tally all of the. The.
• 1:07:47
  Scores last year. So it's the nice thing what
• 1:07:50
  they'll do for lunch are during lunches, you know, make sure
• 1:07:56
  that the the scores are getting tallied and tracking for the
• 1:08:02
  morning results and then they'll be able to you know, start with
• 1:08:07
  fresh numbers for the afternoon. I'm saying fresh numbers, but
• 1:08:11
  that may not technically be right, but they'll they'll do
• 1:08:14
  the afternoon scoring as well, so.
• 1:08:20
  Are you going back to my dad? Thursday morning we made 100.
• 1:08:24
  You put him on the. Site.
• 1:08:26
  Pretty sure we can get a quick turn around.
• 1:08:31
  You got it, you got it. You know the racing group.
• 1:08:35
  The racing racing folks have always been pretty down to
• 1:08:38
  earth. They're pretty sometimes pretty
• 1:08:40
  intense about their vehicles. They know it inside out becomes
• 1:08:45
  their, you know, second baby that I mean, that's what I say
• 1:08:49
  they it's because I want to say maybe a a second obsession
• 1:08:54
  because they get so focused on the performance of what that
• 1:08:57
  vehicle is doing. And that in itself is.
• 1:09:01
  Its own therapy if you think about it.
• 1:09:03
  For each of these, you know drivers who are maintaining
• 1:09:08
  their vehicles just like we did in the military.
• 1:09:10
  PMCS wanted to run optimum performance.
• 1:09:14
  You learn what fuel works the best, what oil works best, what
• 1:09:18
  transmission fluid works the best, what coolant, the the
• 1:09:21
  tires, everything. Tires matter, right?
• 1:09:25
  Rubber matters, and you've got to make sure that, well, you
• 1:09:29
  gotta get the bluing. I'm pretty sure I'm saying the
• 1:09:33
  right term. You get the bluing burned off so
• 1:09:37
  that the grip of the rubber on the track is going to be
• 1:09:42
  optimum. I know when I raced the Miata
• 1:09:46
  last year, we wanted to make sure we got some laps in because
• 1:09:50
  Robert had put new tires on the Miata.
• 1:09:52
  So we had to get that bluing rubbed off that that.
• 1:09:57
  He was a little squirrely going around the easy does it turn?
• 1:10:01
  But he handled it, had good control over it.
• 1:10:05
  But but. Tires matter.
• 1:10:07
  Temperature matters. The amount of moisture on the
• 1:10:10
  track matters as well. Any of those things changes the
• 1:10:14
  condition. So maintaining the vehicle is
• 1:10:17
  just as important in the non track time as it is being on
• 1:10:24
  track. Because without that non track
• 1:10:28
  maintenance performance time of things, then the actual
• 1:10:31
  performance on the track is not going to be so far.
• 1:10:35
  You have to maintain your equipment.
• 1:10:37
  I think that's one of the beautiful things that the
• 1:10:40
  military has done right for us is making sure you take care of
• 1:10:45
  your equipment. You take care of your equipment,
• 1:10:48
  it will take care of you. You take care of your people,
• 1:10:50
  they will take care of you. It it is as true then as it is
• 1:10:55
  true now, no matter what organization you're in, no
• 1:10:59
  matter what kind of equipment you are working with, you have
• 1:11:04
  to do do maintenance. And it gives you something to
• 1:11:07
  think about, gives you something to do when you, you know, and I
• 1:11:13
  don't mind as a devil's playground folks, the more you
• 1:11:17
  can stay engaged in something. And I don't care whether it is
• 1:11:21
  racing, whether it's hunting, you know, hiking, fishing,
• 1:11:28
  whatever. Find something because and, and
• 1:11:32
  maybe that changes per season. It changes for me.
• 1:11:35
  It it changes also how I feel physically.
• 1:11:42
  My knee's been bothering lately so I have not been hiking in a
• 1:11:46
  while. It hurts my knee.
• 1:11:48
  My left knee's been bothering me.
• 1:11:50
  I went to the ortho Dr. last month.
• 1:11:53
  He gave me a knee injection. It hasn't helped.
• 1:11:58
  It's it's not doing well. So I.
• 1:12:02
  I you know. That's the hard part.
• 1:12:06
  You get, you know, you have to learn how to live with things
• 1:12:09
  and figure out if I'm going to be able to keep hiking or do I
• 1:12:13
  make a switch to a different sport that still keeps me out
• 1:12:18
  and active and moving. Because I I have learned over
• 1:12:21
  time, motion is lotion, movement is my friend.
• 1:12:26
  And that's how I stay, you know, invigorated and doing this
• 1:12:31
  stuff, getting out and moving, some of these cars coming back.
• 1:12:38
  There's a few more coming back trying to show you guys some
• 1:12:42
  different stuff. Yep.
• 1:13:01
  Change drivers or ride persons going to ride in passenger.
• 1:13:08
  So being a passenger is allowed too, but you got to wear a
• 1:13:12
  helmet also. Well, just know that they do
• 1:13:15
  allow passengers. Remember that That Vietnam
• 1:13:19
  veteran that works here said that they have a track session
• 1:13:22
  tomorrow. And maybe that's where if
• 1:13:25
  you're. Interested in doing this?
• 1:13:26
  You don't, you know, like I said this, these are people who are
• 1:13:30
  driving their regular personally owned vehicles.
• 1:13:33
  Some of them have dedicated race vehicles but they you can drive
• 1:13:38
  your POV car. Not a truck.
• 1:13:42
  I can. I can guarantee you trucks are
• 1:13:45
  not allowed. Don't think I didn't ask last
• 1:13:47
  year because I did. Trucks.
• 1:13:50
  Trucks are not allowed too heavy.
• 1:13:52
  You know you can't. Even if you could get the speed,
• 1:13:56
  getting around the corners and not flipping over is a different
• 1:14:00
  story. So shoulders pinching.
• 1:14:05
  So it's it's cars only on the track, but you can get out there
• 1:14:13
  and drive your own car. Nothing.
• 1:14:16
  How much is going to happen to it here versus being on the
• 1:14:20
  freeway? More chances probably something
• 1:14:22
  happening in the freeway than here.
• 1:14:24
  But the speed is up to you. And you know, nobody says you
• 1:14:29
  have to go fast during. It's just getting the
• 1:14:33
  experience, just doing it. Although I'll say the temptation
• 1:14:42
  of driving fast is definitely there.
• 1:14:46
  If you haven't ever raced, then I don't know what to tell you.
• 1:14:50
  Because I'm telling you you'll want to go fast on the Raceway.
• 1:14:56
  That's a no brainer. But you can go slow too.
• 1:14:59
  Nobody says you have to go fast, but I tell you what, this girl
• 1:15:05
  likes to go fast. All.
• 1:15:23
  Right, well, we are going to I'm going to flip the camera around.
• 1:15:31
  We're going to, you know, this, this session is winding up.
• 1:15:37
  I will give my phone a chance to charge and hopefully I get to
• 1:15:44
  race this afternoon. I'll be excited if I get to do
• 1:15:49
  that. Robert said I could.
• 1:15:51
  So I'm not going to say no to racing, but I'll make sure that
• 1:15:58
  I sign back on as soon as I can or maybe in between sessions.
• 1:16:05
  Well, yeah, right between groups, between groups and
• 1:16:09
  sessions, because it'll still be session 1/2 and three groups AB
• 1:16:14
  and C in each session. So just want to make sure
• 1:16:17
  everybody understands how all of that has worked out and I will
• 1:16:22
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• 1:16:26
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