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Race Weekend Recap: IMSA Thrills, Legends Lost, and Trading-Card Surprises · Fast Cars Fast Girls

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  Welcome to Fast Cars, Fast Girls. I'm Abby Meyer. I'm Sarah Proctor.
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  We'll be your host this week.
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  We've got a couple things to talk about. It's been a little over a week since
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  the Battle on the Bricks at IMS, but we're going to talk about some IMSA fun
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  that we had over the weekend.
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  We're going to talk about IndyCar drivers and some things they're doing in their
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  downtime of the offseason.
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  We've had a couple of Indy legends pass away this week, so we're going to talk about them.
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  And of course, we are going to talk about Parkside Cards, one of our new partners,
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  and some fun giveaways that we've had.
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  And of course, looking forward to a big and nasty announcement tomorrow. So...
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  It's going to be a big week, Sarah. Yeah, I know. It's going to be pretty cool.
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  It is. It is. So the IMSA weekend. Oh, so much fun. Rain only got in the way
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  a little bit on Saturday afternoon. Just interfered with some of the qualifying for the main event.
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  But otherwise, we have pretty decent weather. No, it wasn't bad.
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  And I actually got, like, hot on the grid.
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  Honestly, I was going to say, if anything, it was probably too hot for me.
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  I wanted it to be a little cooler since it was September. But yeah, it wasn't too.
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  No, it wasn't like it was 100 or anything. No, I thought it was.
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  Yeah, I have enjoyed the lower temperatures that we've been having since then,
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  though. Been loving that.
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  But yeah, so IMSA was a fun time. Rasmussen won in his class. Yep.
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  And we just had lots of racing the whole time. What was your favorite part of the weekend?
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  I got to hang out with my dad on Sunday, so that was good.
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  He hadn't been to a race since May. So all the same racetrack.
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  Yeah, but still, I'm sure he had a fun time. No, I keep trying to get him to go to some other races.
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  He has gone to like in Ohio and he's gone to St. Louis. But it's been a while.
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  And he even back in the cart days, Michigan and Houston. So excellent.
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  Yeah, he should come to some other ones. We're trying. We're trying.
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  He's actually him and some of our family friends, my parents and some family
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  friends are thinking about St. Pete, so.
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  Ooh. Maybe, maybe. That's a good one to go to. I know. My mom's somewhat like
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  a big racing person, so they would just basically leave her at the beach and...
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  They would go watch the race. I mean, whatever works.
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  Or if somebody rented the tiki boat for a while, I think my mom would be okay
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  just out on the tiki boat while the race was going out, just hanging out.
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  Yeah, 100%. I mean, there is a party barge inside the racetrack that doesn't
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  actually have any TVs that she could hang at the whole day.
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  Yeah, it's just really like she's just gone to a couple 500s.
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  It's just not her thing. We even took her to some F1 stuff when it came in Indy,
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  and it just was not her thing. So it's all right. That's fair. It's all right.
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  But, like, she goes. I mean, Dad took her to Carb Day a few years ago because
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  she had never been and was like, Mom, the people watching will be amazing.
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  I mean, it really is, though. It is some of the best people watching.
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  I convinced some friends to do that.
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  Oh, it's probably been more than 10 years ago, but.
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  It was the year The Journey played. And I had a friend who was a huge Journey
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  fan, and so she'd never been to a carb day, was not an 80-500 fan,
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  was not a race weekend fan, and typically would be out of town for that weekend.
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  Weekend, but I talked during the coming to carb day for Journey.
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  And I was like, listen, we're not going to do like, I know there's a bunch of
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  stuff that other people want to do that you're not going to like because you
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  don't care about any of it. So just come with me.
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  I want to watch practice. And then after that, we'll just post up in the grass,
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  outside of the entrance to the concert area, like on a main drag and just watch
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  everybody stumble their way into the concert for hours.
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  And that's what we did. And it was fantastic. Oh, my gosh. We had camping chairs.
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  We used our coolers as footrests. And we had the time. Sarah,
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  of course, got burned because she always does, no matter how many times she
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  reapplies. Also named Sarah, by the way, but not my co-host, Sarah.
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  But yeah, it was so much fun. It's the best. I love the people watching at Carb
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  Day. I know. It's just good to spend a little family time.
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  That's wonderful. Since we did all of our content shooting on Saturday.
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  Yeah, we did.
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  We did. We got some good shooting done on Saturday.
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  Yep, we did. We did indeed. You had some great ideas. So yeah,
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  so stay posted because we've got fun content that's going to be continuing to
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  come out, even in the off season.
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  You know how we do. Fast and funny, 52 weeks a year.
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  I wouldn't say I'm funny, but that's okay. I would. You're funny.
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  We'll see. So, IMSA, I enjoyed. We had lots of, I say we had like the whole,
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  almost the whole FCFG team together.
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  In-house. The only person who was missing was our blogger, Mike.
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  But all of our photographers were out and about, so I didn't have to lug my
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  camera around, which was nice for me.
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  So I just got to take some selfies with friends and do that kind of fun stuff
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  on Sunday. I made sure my dad was taking pictures on his nice camera.
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  I had my nice camera with me, but I didn't. It was all thumb shots.
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  I hate when I do that, because then I'm like, why don't I lug this around the
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  whole day if I didn't even use it?
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  Because I like my good camera. Like, my I get it,
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  and I just was making sure because he was gonna leave early he wanted to leave
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  early and I was like no we we're sticking it out we're not doing that I was
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  like no yeah we're not doing I was like no no no no no this is like a two hour and
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  40 minute race like no like yeah we're not leaving early no no and I'm glad
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  we didn't because you know car ran out of fuel and you know yeah.
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  So it's okay there was some action near the end yes but no he got to see everything so it was cool and,
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  you know rexie and spike a fun always i mean,
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  their merch shop was packed with people i saw a ton of kids walking around with
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  with their stuff with their dinos yes
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  yes i mean honestly what a great marketing idea honestly just fantastic and
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  speaking of other merchandise shops shout out to toronto motorsports by the way who,
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  gave us some event stickers and keychain which i really dig that keychain it's
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  super fun the koozie's awesome yeah and a koozie
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  so then i went back and thank you derrick and then and roger i went back and
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  bought some uh stickers too so that was fun oh yeah that was fun and of course
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  if you want any fun tunes um stickers etc,
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  you can find those all on toronto motorsports website,
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  um they in the past have sold fast cars past girls stickers as well so they
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  are definitely friends of the podcast so give them give them some business they do good things,
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  Which was, it was sad, like, Bath only has one more race. I was like, no. I know.
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  Yeah, it is sad. But it was so fun to hear, like, all of, like,
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  the fun different engines, the V12 and something, you know.
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  Yeah, I do love that about the IMSA races. You get to really hear the difference
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  in the different cars and the different classes.
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  And one of the things that our friend Doug of Doug's Garage said before I went
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  to my first Rolex 24 was that at some point you'll get used to the cars enough
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  that you'll be able to fall asleep through them,
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  which was untrue for me unless I am in a vehicle and the sound's a little bit muffled.
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  I found that out when I'm in the infield. If I'm not in the infield, then it's easier.
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  But when they go to a caution because the sound changes, it'll wake you up because
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  you're like, wait a second. Your brain's like, wait, something changed. Something happened.
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  And he was absolutely right. And I find that, especially with the IMSA cars,
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  because there's such a difference in the different engines that especially when
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  they go to caution, it's like there's so many different noises changing at the same time. Yeah.
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  Well, and that's why I like going through the eight hour or two,
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  because I can just a blanket, take a book, sit on the viewing mound and just
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  have the noise of race cars and just enjoy the weather.
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  Absolutely. I know that's weird to take a book to a racetrack.
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  But I mean, for an eight hour race, though, I get it.
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  Because, yes, every hour matters, but people aren't going to be doing racy,
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  stupid shit in hour one or two.
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  So, I mean, it's fun. Yes, I have not been to Rolex. I would like to, that would be a fun one.
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  It is fun. I always like seeing people sleeping in the stands.
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  I have not ever slept in the stands.
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  I would probably sleep in the car, honestly. Yeah, that is the only place that
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  I've been able to sleep is when I've made a little nest in the car or just lay my seat back.
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  I can lay it back pretty far and get comfy. And of course, Duchess has gone
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  with me the last couple of times that I went. And I learned that she does not care for escalators.
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  Yes, they they frighten her. And if I make her use them and she has anxiety
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  diarrhea in the middle of concourse.
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  Yeah, that was really exciting the first year. And like it was so like it should
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  have been a scene in a movie. It was so ridiculous.
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  So I'm trying to walk with her and she's stopping because she knows that she's
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  about to poop. And I'm like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  And she starts going. And at the same time, there's like a two and a half year
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  old that sees the dog and is like, hey.
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  And the mom is not looking at the kid and the kid just takes off towards me
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  and the dog. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, all I can see is this kid's going to
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  slip and fall face first into this poop.
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  And so I'm like trying to get the mom's attention. And I was like,
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  get your kid. Don't let your kid over here. And then she thinks the dog's mean
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  and that that's why I'm yelling. And I was like, no, there's just poop on the
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  floor. The dog's perfectly nice. Oh.
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  Yeah, it was a cluster. So, lesson learned. We take the elevator now.
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  She does not mind elevators. Oh, that's fine.
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  Well, and the winners were the Grand Touring Prototype, the number 24 BMW M-Team,
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  WRT BMW Hybrid with Sheldon Vanderling and Dries Vanthor.
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  Vanthor. Vanthor. Yeah, hopefully I'm not butchering that too bad. And then an LMP...
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  Two, number 18 ERA Motorsports, Aureka LMP207 was Nick Bouloulou and Rasmussen.
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  Love it. And then GT Pro was the Ford Racing Mustang of Ben Barker and Dennis Olson.
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  GTD was number 96 Tuner Motorsports BMW M4 GT3.
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  EVO was Patrick Gallagher and Robbie Foley.
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  So it was a fun little race. It was. It was indeed.
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  Oh, my. It was, and it was a good weekend. Yep. I do wish it was still a little longer, but...
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  No. But I enjoyed it. And everybody did really well, like, walking, doing the gridwalk.
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  I feel like a couple years ago, it was very, like, claustrophobic.
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  It wasn't as claustrophobic. It was not.
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  So I agree. I was happy about that. Yeah.
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  Well, and I love the access that everybody gets to gridwalk at Emsa Races.
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  And they give out stickers.
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  Like, ugh, it's so awesome. It is awesome. Very, very cool. Any car needs to do more of that.
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  It'd be cool if they did. Yeah. Have stickers out. It'd be super cool. Yeah.
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  I didn't pay extra for pit access in IndyCar. Yeah. Well, and then I talked
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  to a couple of people and they're like, no, I like sports cars better than IndyCar.
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  And I was like, that's fine. Fair.
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  You know, whatever. To each their own. And it was just cool to see them like
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  just getting into racing. So I was very happy about that. Yeah.
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  Agree. It's like, OK, we don't all have to like the same kind of racing,
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  but like we all still like fast cars.
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  And there's a lot of kids, which, you know, that builds a fan base.
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  So it sure does. there's a ton of kids at Imsa Reese's and I love that.
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  I love that they have promoted themselves to be family friendly and that they are family friendly.
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  It was awesome and like I see I'm jealous of those little kids because my parents
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  were not brave enough to take me as kids to places like that.
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  But also my dad did say like IndyCar was not as kid friendly back in the day
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  as it is now. I mean, I can definitely see that. Yeah.
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  I don't think back in the days of like, yeah, the real snake pit and things,
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  it wasn't quite as kid friendly. No, no.
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  But that's been a makeover that has happened. No, but it was so cool.
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  I mean, I was in fifth, sixth grade, my first race. So, yeah.
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  I had to go long enough that I was able to go to the bathroom by myself because
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  my dad was not going to walk me up and down the bleachers all the time.
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  Fair point. I don't I don't know that my mom even thought about that,
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  but I went in sixth grade as well to my first race. But that's funny.
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  He wasn't going to walk up and down back and forth with no.
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  I get it, though. I get it. If I were a parent, I would feel the same way.
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  I'd be like, no, no, you have to be self-sufficient and have a quasi-adult-sized
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  bladder. Yeah, it was fine.
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  It was hot. My first Indy 500, my very first race, was the one that it rained
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  out Sunday and Monday and then ran on Tuesday.
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  It was very interesting weather. It was very Indiana. Indiana.
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  Indiana. Gotta love it. So, speaking of IndyCar, what are some of our drivers
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  doing in the offseason? Well, I saw Kyle Kirkwood was surfing,
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  which was pretty cool. Good for him.
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  Marcus Erickson was at the IMSA race. Nice. Connor Daly went NASCAR truck racing.
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  He sure did. Finished 16th. Good for him. Excellent.
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  Kyle Kirkwood seems to like all the water activities. Yep. Fishes,
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  he surfs. Yeah, and then Alex Plow is at the Colts game this past weekend.
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  Look at him. Really turn into quite the Hoosier. He's getting there,
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  I believe so. It really is.
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  I believe so. I want to see him at an IU game next. Yeah, and then I did see
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  a few of them golfing too. Oh, yes, I have seen that as well.
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  People, you know, golfing.
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  Yes. Oh, which speaking of Indiana football, of course, Indiana football won
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  on Friday night, although they had to fight for it far too hard.
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  But I do want to say a huge congratulations to Notre Dame, who spanked the shit
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  out of Purdue. Yes, Notre Dame. I was there.
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  It was amazing. Oh, God. I'll tell you what.
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  I am one of the few people who actually went to both Purdue and Indiana.
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  And so I can tell you I have tried both and Purdue does suck more. It is worse.
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  I like Ross-Ade Stadium. It's very... It is a nice stadium. It's very cozy.
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  I have not been to IU, so I can't put it there.
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  Notre Dame Stadium is also very much iconic.
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  Oh, it's iconic. Touchdown Jesus.
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  I love Touchdown Jesus. I've seen the big house, not for a game,
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  but walked into that. That's way too big.
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  Yeah. I mean, it's like math. I mean, that's why they call it.
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  Right? It's massive. It's massive.
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  So. Yeah. But yeah, so...
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  Good weekend for most of the Indiana school football teams. Yeah,
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  and I think, I hope Purdue eventually turns it around.
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  They just got to get it together. Maybe Drew Brees can coach,
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  maybe down the line. I don't know.
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  Yeah, wouldn't be a bad idea. Nope. Wouldn't be a bad idea.
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  Well, we have two different former drivers that we're going to talk about. We did.
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  And they both passed away, actually. and one of them just broke right before,
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  we're recording. But earlier last week, Jigar Shawari passed away.
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  His real name was Lenny Duray Shawari. Drew his first spot in the qualifying
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  line in the 1969 Indianapolis 500.
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  The crew waved off as he was coming off of turn four on the final lap of his first attempt.
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  The rain fell during the next qualifying attempt.
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  Had the crew not waived the attempt off, Sarari would have qualified on the
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  pole position for the race because the rest of the pole day was a washout.
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  Wow. Yeah. Second attempt was too slow. Third attempt had a mechanical issue.
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  Back then, each car had only three attempts for the whole month.
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  Sarari never made the 500 despite years of trying.
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  Had Sarari made the race, His unofficial speed would have been the 28th fastest
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  of the 33-car field that year, which would have set a record for being the slowest
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  rink pole speed in Indy 500.
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  The American Auto Racing Riders and Broadcast Association gave out the Jigger
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  Award for the most hard luck driver and team during the Indy 500 qualifying.
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  Well, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Quite the folklore for somebody who actually
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  never made the race. I know, but this is the stuff that makes Indy, Indy.
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  Exactly, because somebody can try that hard, and we still talk about them because
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  we know how hard it is. Right, yes.
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  You know, good stuff. And then right before we started recording tonight.
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  Jordan Johncoff passed away.
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  He did. And so Jiggy was 91 and Gordon Johncoff was 90. Yeah.
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  Jordan Johncoff was born in Hastings, Michigan. He was a rookie of the year
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  in 1965 and drove for Gordon Weinberger.
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  He completed the 1966 Indy 500 in a faster elapsed time than the winner Graham
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  Hill, but because he started so far behind after the opening lap accident was
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  only classified in fourth place, he won the.
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  500 in 1973 and 82 driving for Patrick's team.
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  The 1973 race was marred by the tragedy during the month.
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  Looking up online, not going to go into that.
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  The race only went to 332.5 miles.
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  The 1982 Indianapolis 500 had a winning margin of 0.16 seconds,
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  1,600 of a second over Rick Mears, which is the closest finish at the time.
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  The former closest finish was in 1937 with Wilbershaw by just over two seconds.
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  He won the first race in kart history, the 1979 race at Phoenix.
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  He also won the Michigan 500 in 1982 after winning the 500 that same year.
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  He didn't complete the Triple Crown that year as he finished sixth at Pocono that season.
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  The final win was 1983 at Atlanta, also the final win for the Wildcat Chassis,
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  the in-house developed by Patrick Racing.
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  He temporarily retired ahead of the 1985 500 and was actually a driver expert
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  on that year's IMS Radio Network broadcast of the 500 alongside of Roger Ward.
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  He came back for the 1987 Indianapolis 500.
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  After winning the 1982 Indianapolis 500, John Kock only finished the race in
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  time, which was sixth in 1991 for Helmogarn Racing.
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  John Kock was sick leading up to the race, but kept the car running to finish.
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  His final Indy 500 was in 1992 and retired with engine failure.
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  He ran 24 Indy 500s. Wow. Yes.
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  Thanks to my in-house historian. Yes.
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  My husband for those facts about John Cock and Sherroy.
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  So, yeah, it's crazy. Like all these legends that I've heard about are like,
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  passing and I'm, I don't know, I'm just not okay. Like, I know.
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  I'm with you. It's weird. It's weird. Because. I'm with you. I'm with you.
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  Well, speaking of legends and drivers and things, moving on to Parkside Cards,
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  which have cool photos of drivers and teams and podiums.
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  And what are all the other fancy words that the cards are? There's a hit in each pack.
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  Yeah, there's a bunch of different hits. You can get autographs,
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  you can get parallels, different, you know, things.
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  It's really fun. And, you know, I knew about them before we partnered with them,
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  opened a few boxes myself, and they're very fun.
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  And actually they were very fun i did not i knew about them but i didn't participate
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  before we partnered with them but opening packets with you is super fun like
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  it's exciting to see who you're going to get
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  and you want to open it really fast but you also want to be careful because
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  you don't want to mess up the cards yes oh yes um
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  that's like my husband's very much has taught me do not touch the corners i have fat fingers yeah,
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  It gives them the heebie-jeebies sometimes when I open, but it's not bad.
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  I know. He's so nuts about it. Yeah. It's okay. I mean, I get it.
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  Yeah. No, but they're super fun. But we went to the card shop.
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  He bought a hobby box, and he opened that up, and he got a bunch of cool hits,
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  and then I bought two little packs. And I got, like, a fun little Pato thing, Pato card.
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  So, I mean, they're fun. And then the little kid next to me,
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  I gave him like all the cards that I know we had and I gave them to him and
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  he didn't know who they were. So I kind of like told him who they were. Oh, very cool.
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  We have a ton of them lying around the house. So we also gave them the card
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  shop because they're doing a big thing at the Speedway Saturday for the kids.
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  So if your kids are part of the Indie Card Exchange Kids Card Program,
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  they're doing a you had to sign
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  up for it. So make sure you check on their Instagram and sign up for it.
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  They're having a big thing at the Speedway this weekend.
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  Heck yeah. I was like, here, the kids can grab those extra cards that we don't need.
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  Absolutely. Oh, yeah. But, I mean, they're fun. They love to share.
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  They're really fun. And I actually saw somebody online pulled a relic card from Parkside.
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  And it was a piece of the brick. And I was like, it was like a one of one.
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  And I was like oh that's awesome yeah and that's the cool thing about Parkside
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  cards you can also like pull insane autographs.
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  They have a paint and you can get one of the like hand painted ones if you hit
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  those and those are really neat they're very and
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  I have not pulled those before and we have not pulled one of those yet but oh
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  I would love that it'd be really really cool it would be Honestly,
• 23:02
  they're more fun and they're cooler than I thought they were going to be.
• 23:05
  I will 100% say that. Well, and Justin. And I also want to say the people at
• 23:10
  Parkside are absolutely awesome.
• 23:13
  Yeah. Yeah. Like they've been awesome.
• 23:16
  Awesome to work with. Yes. And Justin Vinning is the painter that paints those
• 23:22
  Indie card cards that you can chase in those. And I saw him painting in Milwaukee and it's so cool.
• 23:28
  It is cool. Yes. So, I mean, check them out, guys. You can give them at a card
• 23:33
  shop. Some of the stores sell them to.
• 23:36
  The gift shop at the museum has them. Very cool. I mean, they're just fun.
• 23:43
  Also, the holidays are coming up. Great stocking stuffers.
• 23:48
  They sure are. Great stocking stuffers and things. My youngest niece and nephew
• 23:52
  are like at the age where they'd be into it somewhat, but not the age where
• 23:57
  they would not ruin the cards yet.
• 23:59
  So they're not quite ready. No. Because it would kill me because they would
• 24:03
  open and they would get like a piece of the brick and then like leave it on the floor.
• 24:06
  No, but I mean, they're very, it's very...
• 24:09
  Very fun. So definitely. It is very fun.
• 24:14
  I mean, it's something fun. And I knew somebody, they used to own a card shop
• 24:20
  back in the day and they would give me like little Disney cards.
• 24:23
  And so I collected a little bit of them, but I didn't like do the big like baseball,
• 24:28
  hockey, basketball cards. But they are really fun.
• 24:31
  And they actually have a Parkside has a Disney box.
• 24:35
  And they're super expensive if you buy the hobby box because you can get autographs
• 24:41
  from tom hanks oh shit yeah like that's awesome but they're really cool like in cards that is so cool.
• 24:49
  It's really cool i've been to a few trading card games like don't worry guys
• 24:52
  fast cards fast girls is not turning totally into trading cards so don't freak
• 24:57
  out but i mean we're not there it's just fun but But we have turned into,
• 25:03
  like a trading card fan page.
• 25:06
  Yeah. For a little bit. Just a little bit. For a little bit.
• 25:09
  But they're fun. Just a little bit. They're fun, though. Like. They're super fun.
• 25:13
  No, they really are. So if you haven't gotten into it and you want to,
• 25:16
  10 out of 10 recommend. Check out Parkside Cards. They're on social media.
• 25:20
  Check out our videos with their stuff. It's fun. Yeah. Like,
• 25:24
  they truly are, and it truly is fun. It's truly like, you know,
• 25:28
  they say in Forrest Gump, life's a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
• 25:31
  Every card box. It's true. You never know what you're going to get.
• 25:34
  That is true. Very true. Very true. It is. That's some of the excitement.
• 25:38
  See, I wish they would. This is just me.
• 25:41
  I wish they would do it a little bit with the IndyCard. Like,
• 25:45
  get some of the older legends that are still around.
• 25:48
  Yes. Get them to sign some stuff. it'd be really really cool and just like shove
• 25:52
  it in there and not know and they could be one of ones or like one of five or
• 25:56
  something totally it'd be really cool but yeah there's like a ton of legends
• 26:01
  who would absolutely still do that yes
• 26:02
  like rick mears he'll sign an autograph any day of the week johnny rutherford
• 26:06
  has the nicest signature of anybody a and b will sign a sign will sign anything
• 26:12
  for anybody any day of the week he's so nice well and i would also like getting
• 26:16
  a roger penske signed card
• 26:19
  one of one oh that'd be insane that would be insane it'd be really,
• 26:22
  a doug bowles card would be fun a parallel of doug bowles would be awesome to
• 26:27
  collect too yes yes yes and then like a firehawk,
• 26:32
  i don't know how we could do it but we need firehawk in there absolutely yeah
• 26:36
  but yeah on in parkside would have to work that out but yes yeah we need a firehawk
• 26:41
  card for sure it'd be sick it would be very sick it would be it'd be fun
• 26:46
  and like i know like in the f1 ones they have like pieces of fire suits
• 26:52
  or they have like pieces of actual like cars i think they should start doing
• 26:56
  that too it'd be cool or like maybe,
• 26:59
  ribbon from like the victory or something,
• 27:03
  okay i'm loving all of these ideas yeah so i you know it'd be cool very cool.
• 27:10
  It'd be when you see people,
• 27:14
  At certain places, they're actually, like, signing the cards.
• 27:17
  So, that'd be cool. They're just fun. It's something to do.
• 27:22
  At a race, we'll go buy, like, my husband and I will just buy a box and just
• 27:25
  open it just to kind of see what we get.
• 27:28
  Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of our little thing that we do. Aww, that's cute.
• 27:32
  So, you know, they're just fun.
• 27:35
  They are just fun. They're just fun. And congratulations. we did do a giveaway,
• 27:40
  and somebody found one of our um,
• 27:44
  little gift bags so congratulations whoever you were it's okay there was i gave
• 27:48
  away there's like three of them so not everybody posted so,
• 27:52
  just make sure next time guys that's okay yeah it's okay um we understand some
• 27:57
  people are a little more shy and don't really want to like post big stuff like
• 28:00
  that and that's okay yeah no worries at all we just hope that you enjoy it yes and so
• 28:05
  keep an eye out we might do something later this coming month as a giveaway.
• 28:11
  Absolutely. For our North American friends. Sorry for our overseas friends.
• 28:17
  It's a little too expensive.
• 28:18
  For us to ship. To ship. We've looked it up. We apologize for that.
• 28:22
  We do. So our online giveaways are just for North America.
• 28:26
  So show our sugar in. Yeah. Yeah. I know.
• 28:30
  I even was like, maybe we'll just... No, it's a lot. Because I would totally like, you know.
• 28:36
  But don't worry, they will be fun, I promise. That is true. There's lots of fun to be had.
• 28:42
  So, speaking of fun to be had, tomorrow, of course, after we record,
• 28:48
  Ganassi is going to make the announcement of who's going to be in the ninth.
• 28:51
  Well, I think so, because they were teasing it with a putt.
• 28:56
  It was posted today, and it was putting with an orange ball.
• 29:00
  Which, like, is that an Easter egg? Is that not?
• 29:04
  You know because a lot of people think that it's going to be lungard of course
• 29:07
  nothing's set in stone nobody's confirmed or denied that,
• 29:10
  but you know is the orange ball alluding to him coming from papaya or does it
• 29:14
  have to does it have to do with the nine car having orange on it i don't know who knows we'll see
• 29:19
  i mean we're getting everybody situated so this is when i look like that scene
• 29:24
  like charlie and it's always sunny in philadelphia,
• 29:27
  with the conspiracy theories i think most of those were proven wrong so we'll see,
• 29:32
  i feel like that though in my head i'm like but if this person goes here and this person goes here,
• 29:38
  so hopefully we learn tomorrow because we all know i hate waiting for a surprise
• 29:42
  yeah i know i know but whatever whatever happens you know it's gonna happen
• 29:47
  and i'm gonna be busy so i'm gonna like miss it by like a couple minutes.
• 29:53
  Well, it's better than me. It'll happen while I'm asleep and I'll miss it for
• 29:57
  like five. I don't know. We'll see.
• 30:00
  If they announce it at like eight or nine in the morning, that's prime time for me to be asleep.
• 30:04
  So whenever you see it is perfect timing as far as I'm concerned.
• 30:08
  Hopefully. Hopefully. So I don't know.
• 30:12
  So, yeah, but watch out on our socials as well as, of course,
• 30:14
  Ganassi socials because we'll repost everything.
• 30:17
  And of course, you can follow us everywhere by just searching Fast Cars, Fast Girls.
• 30:22
  And you can listen to us anywhere that you like to listen to podcasts.
• 30:25
  Oh, but we're not done. That's right. We're not done.
• 30:28
  Because we got a grade. We have report cards. We do have report cards.
• 30:34
  Now, Abby does not know how I graded these guys.
• 30:37
  So Abby is going in blind on this.
• 30:40
  I'm going in blind. These are going to be real-time reactions. All right.
• 30:44
  Andretti Global. A-. Yes. Kyle won three races. Marcus won one.
• 30:48
  Will had some podiums in a row. So that's why they're not A+.
• 30:53
  Sure. You know, pretty good. Okay. CGR, A+.
• 30:57
  I mean, below. Yeah. Kif, silently going into the top 10, a bunch. Yeah.
• 31:03
  And Lungard, rumored to go into that nine spot. So. Yeah.
• 31:09
  McLaren. I probably would have docked them a little more. Oh, okay.
• 31:13
  For the nine. I probably would have also given them like an A-,
• 31:15
  just because the nine car didn't do anything this season. Okay. Fair. Fair.
• 31:19
  But they did get the... But they did win the championship, so...
• 31:23
  And then Lungard, driving up Lungard, we're a merge, so...
• 31:26
  Yeah, that's an A plus move. Okay, McLaren, A on track, B off track. Okay, why?
• 31:33
  Well, I'm still not getting rid of Lungard. Yeah.
• 31:40
  That's why. Well, and honestly, I wouldn't even give them an A.
• 31:44
  Like, Pato won the Milwaukee races, and then what other race did he win?
• 31:49
  Well, Lungard got some wins in there too, so. Oh, that's true.
• 31:54
  But like Seagull didn't do shit, so I might just give them a B poll. Like I said, A on track.
• 32:00
  B off track. Yeah. Myers-Shank, a B+.
• 32:04
  Yes. That's solid. They won the 500, but then what did they do?
• 32:08
  Armstrong had chances to win and then disaster, which wasn't always their fault.
• 32:17
  But still. Yunkos, a B. Yeah. They had some podiums and some top fives. They did. They did.
• 32:24
  Arenas did good things for them this year. I hope they keep him. Dale Coyne, a C+.
• 32:29
  They did win Rookie of the Year.
• 32:32
  They had two races where two of their drivers didn't start.
• 32:36
  Grosjean in Phoenix and Hauger in St. Louis. Yeah.
• 32:42
  Yeah, that hits you hard when you're a small team like that.
• 32:45
  Ray Hong, I'm going to give a B-.
• 32:48
  Okay. Rams podiums, Louis pool.
• 32:51
  Yep. They decided, hey, three cars is not us. Let's sell that away. Yep. So, B-.
• 32:59
  I think that's a fair grade. You know, this one might be a little controversial. Ooh, yes.
• 33:04
  B-plus. I mean, they earned it. So, Joseph won.
• 33:09
  McLaughlin won one. Mm-hmm. Malukas, how many times did he finish second?
• 33:15
  Ask him. I think he'd love to talk about it. Yeah. So, B-plus.
• 33:19
  Yeah. No, we didn't see much of Penske Perfect this year. And that's why they did not get an A-plus.
• 33:25
  Maybe I probably should have done like a B-minus, but they still had wins. So that's why I was...
• 33:31
  Yeah, they did still have some wins. I agree.
• 33:34
  Foyt, C-minus. That's fair. Ferrucci regressed horribly this year.
• 33:39
  Yeah, it was not his best year, that's for sure. And I feel like Kaio had moments
• 33:44
  of brilliance, but then crashed. Flashes.
• 33:47
  Flashes of brilliance, yeah. Yeah. But couldn't put together a whole race.
• 33:51
  Yeah, so C-minus there. Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:54
  And then ECR, B-. I probably would have given them a C or C-.
• 33:59
  But they turned it around at the end of the season.
• 34:01
  They did, but they had so many dismal results. But they picked their driver
• 34:05
  to test the IR-28. So, I don't know. B-.
• 34:10
  I couldn't do a C. That's fair. A B-. So, do you think I graded them fairly?
• 34:18
  Would you change any of them?
• 34:21
  Just a couple I mentioned. I'd probably just adjust like by a plus or a minus
• 34:26
  or like, you know, A minus to a B plus, B plus to an A minus,
• 34:29
  you know, like, but I wouldn't change any like egregiously.
• 34:32
  None of them would be a big change. I think that's I think that's pretty fair assessment. Yeah.
• 34:36
  And then like IndyCar as a whole, I would say this season was a decent A minus. Yes. Yes.
• 34:46
  Definitely a good season, especially we're growing with fans.
• 34:51
  We're growing with viewership, streaming, etc.
• 34:55
  We're moving in the right direction, but we still have room to grow.
• 34:57
  Yes. And then Fox, of course. Yeah.
• 35:01
  A. They're doing a bang-up job. A, for sure.
• 35:04
  Firestone, still doing A, as always. Yep. Fonda Chevy. Solidays. Solidays, so.
• 35:12
  For the most part, I don't know. Why do we keep having to replace so many damn engines?
• 35:15
  I'm just saying, at some point, if I were a team owner who keeps having drivers
• 35:19
  get penalized for replacing engines when I'm not the one making the engine,
• 35:23
  I'm going to start talking to the people who make the fucking engines and just
• 35:26
  be like, why do these keep breaking when I'm supposed to only need X amount of them per season?
• 35:32
  Just a thought. So just my thoughts, what I thought.
• 35:35
  Like I said, like I said, like I'm not...
• 35:39
  I'm just a fan turned podcaster, so I don't drive these cars.
• 35:43
  I just see it how I see it. Right.
• 35:45
  You know, you can agree or disagree. That's true. And if you would grade them
• 35:48
  different, we want to hear about it. Yeah.
• 35:50
  Hit us up on social media. Yeah, totally. I'm fine with it. Yeah.
• 35:54
  We'd love to hear how you guys would grade them. Ooh, maybe that should be instead
• 35:58
  of trivia. Well, I got to do trivia. We cannot not do trivia.
• 36:03
  Okay, well, maybe we'll just do a poll. We'll do poll maybe Wednesday.
• 36:06
  I'll do a poll on Wednesday.
• 36:07
  I'll do a poll on Wednesday. Yeah, we can do it for each team.
• 36:09
  Like, yeah, draw it out a couple days.
• 36:11
  Yeah. We don't have to do them all at once. No, we can see how,
• 36:15
  or we can just do an open-ended question. They don't really, they don't always.
• 36:19
  So, but, well, if I give them the options, A, B, C, and D, they can, they'll do it.
• 36:26
  I know. You guys don't like open-ended questions.
• 36:30
  It makes me sad at times. It's okay. It's, you know, when you're scrolling,
• 36:33
  you just want to do it easy. It's okay.
• 36:35
  Right. It's fine. It's fine. You got to think easy and quick. Yes.
• 36:38
  And i do want to apologize guys some of the the trivia lately has been a little
• 36:44
  late being posted just because i've been super busy during the day so no worries
• 36:49
  dude i still post it it's just.
• 36:52
  It wasn't at the i think people understand that like we do the podcast in our
• 36:56
  free time like nobody pays us for this we have other jobs like,
• 37:01
  I think people understand that. I do try to be pretty consistent, so. We do.
• 37:06
  We try. We try. So I do apologize if you're like, oh, it's this time and then
• 37:10
  nothing was there. So I'm apologizing now because, you know.
• 37:13
  And thanking you for your patience.
• 37:15
  Yes. I started doing that rather than apologizing for things being led.
• 37:19
  I just be like, thank you for your patience. Yes. Thank you for your patience.
• 37:22
  So. All right. Well, I think that wraps it up for this week.
• 37:25
  It does. Hey, cool, guys. Enjoy.
• 37:29
  Enjoy the fall weather. All the fall things have started again,
• 37:32
  so I had my first pumpkin spice chai latte today.
• 37:37
  Oh, jealous. And it was fucking delicious. I do have pumpkin spice in my coffee now.
• 37:43
  I've lit a pumpkin candle in the house a couple of times already.
• 37:48
  I got all my pumpkin decor together in the basement, and when we got off this
• 37:53
  call, it's coming upstairs to be put out. So it is it's time for fall,
• 37:57
  which, as everybody knows, is basic bitch white girl season.
• 38:02
  And I will be fully participating as I usually do.
• 38:06
  I yeah, I'm I get sad because I having the lights. I'm driving home.
• 38:12
  Yes. In the dark and coming home in the dark that I don't. I don't I don't like
• 38:17
  that. But I do love the weather.
• 38:19
  Yes. I like the boss season. Give me a nice day at a football game.
• 38:24
  Um yes no and i like and crisp breeze and a blue sky going to a pumpkin patch which,
• 38:31
  i need to take my husband to i don't think he's ever done the pumpkin patch
• 38:35
  oh you should i i need to i need to yeah you do yeah we'll we'll have to do
• 38:40
  that it'll be fine it'll be fine.
• 38:44
  No that's i mean the bow that and you know,
• 38:49
  Just trying to take care of myself. Like right now I have hair oil in my hair,
• 38:53
  you know. Good for you. You know. Self-care. Self-care.
• 38:56
  Sometime I need to do a face mask here and there. Very nice. You know.
• 39:01
  One of my favorite self-care, like skin care products I accidentally left in
• 39:05
  my car when it was a thousand degrees. And so now I need to buy another one
• 39:09
  because it melted and eked out.
• 39:11
  Yeah. It was like a soothing stick that I could put on your like your T-zone.
• 39:16
  No, no. See, I really, I really need to get an eyebrow, like an eyebrow tint,
• 39:22
  and lamination. And I know I could do those at home, but I do not want to end
• 39:27
  up like a cartoon. I mean, that's the truth.
• 39:31
  I, yes, if I knew I could do it myself, I would do it to save me some money.
• 39:36
  I get it. But I've also been seeing a lot of girls with fun,
• 39:39
  like pumpkin spice nails.
• 39:41
  Oh, I love the fall nails. So I'm like, I really want that.
• 39:45
  I really, really want that. We went to the fashion mall because I had,
• 39:48
  I finally replaced my air pod that I lost during the mini.
• 39:52
  Oh, nice. And I went in to Kendra Scott and they had one of their Halloween
• 39:58
  necklaces on clearance and I got it.
• 40:02
  But they have like super cute like ghost stuff their new halloween collection is super cute oh,
• 40:10
  yes and also guys if you haven't if you're a race girly and you haven't got
• 40:15
  the kindred scott checkered flag necklace get on that
• 40:19
  get on it i need to get one i don't have one yet oh they're so they're so cool
• 40:23
  so pretty they need earrings to go with it though
• 40:26
  they do They absolutely need earrings and, frankly, a bracelet.
• 40:30
  Yes. I'd buy the whole set.
• 40:32
  Yes. Well, and I want them to do, like, a helmet. Ooh.
• 40:35
  Or, like, a... Yes. That would be very cool. Yeah.
• 40:40
  Being girly, you know. Sorry, guys, if you're listening.
• 40:45
  The guys have all checked out by now. Yeah, they're like, you know,
• 40:47
  eyebrow lamination. They're like, nope. See ya. And I'm out.
• 40:52
  See ya. All right, ladies. Now for what we're really here to talk about.
• 40:56
  Now that the guys are gone.
• 40:58
  Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that I would mess with tinting my own eyebrows either.
• 41:02
  Like, I'm going to color my own hair tonight, but, like, the hair on your head
• 41:05
  is very different than the hair on your face. Oh, no.
• 41:07
  I keep it to the professionals. Yeah. On everything, because I would be the
• 41:11
  one to, like, turn my hair orange or something. Well, I've got some professionals
• 41:16
  in my family that I consult with.
• 41:18
  Yes. That's the only reason that I feel like I'm okay to do it. Yeah.
• 41:22
  So, I just, yeah. Yeah. I play it safe.
• 41:27
  You can't go wrong with that. No, no. I just, yeah, I don't.
• 41:31
  I spend too much money on my hair to screw it up.
• 41:34
  I hear that. I hear that.
• 41:37
  Yeah, yeah, I get it. No, but yes.
• 41:42
  All the Olaplex I buy. Oh, God, I love Olaplex. It's the best.
• 41:46
  Save my hair. It's the best.
• 41:48
  Save my hair. But yes, but yeah, but no. I wish. No.
• 41:53
  All right, well, that'll do it for Sarah. I'm Abby Meyer, and we'll see you at the racetrack.