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Inside the World of Circle Track Racing: Challenges, Camaraderie, and Upcoming Car Shows · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am Central.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: You've got the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show coming up.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Our local track roundy round expert Rodney Rodriguez from Dirty Air.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: You'll hear my thoughts on driving the new 2025 Mazda CVCX70.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I got CC.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: I got CC here.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: No, it's IWS Opus.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: You were using my computer.
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: No, no, yes, no.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: I copied and pasted your thing on here.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: That's your second mistake.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: And you're computer.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: See, we're married in many ways, Mars and I and.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Mars has this week's events calendar.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: It's just ahead on the NWL Time Car Talk Show.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: Howdy Along with Mike.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Out of this world, Mars.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: Jeff Zekin, Chief Engineer David Ainsley I'm Don Armstrong, Glad you could join us on this Saturday.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm telling you it's just been a bevy of mistakes, but not through your new computer.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: That's your new computer isn't it?
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: That's my old computer, oh.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Because I finally fired up my new computer.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I, I finally fired up my new computer.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: I did something, and how I did it I still don't know, but it copied everything off of this computer and put it on my new computer, which I did not want to do.
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: No, now I've got to go back and somehow undo what I did.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Good luck on that.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: You undid it.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Welcome to my world.
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: Wow, anyway, something in the air.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, dirty air, yeah, dirty air.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: That's what we've got coming up.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, here he is.
• 1:50
  Speaker 1: Rodney Rodriguez.
• 1:52
  Speaker 1: Are you at a track somewhere at night?
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: He's in jail.
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: No, I'm actually at home.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: These are TVs behind me.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: I'm at home.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: It's a rare weekend at home.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a great weekend at home.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a.
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a great weekend at home, is it?
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: do you have any?
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: Do you have any brown water there?
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: yes, yeah, we do.
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: That's good how have you been my friend been good man just trying to beat the heat.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you, this is um.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: This heat is something else and and we're only getting started, you know, and these race teams and stuff that are sitting out at racetracks all the time, I I often wonder, it's like, why do you guys want to be at the racetrack all day long?
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: I mean this is ridiculous.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: I mean you start feature races at eight, eight in the evening, and it's 95 degrees.
• 2:40
  Speaker 3: It's like what are we doing here?
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: this is ridiculous yeah, they got to be there early.
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: Well, they are there.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all day, all day.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: They're there all day and uh, yeah, it typically and I I've I've always wondered how in the world they they do what they do, because on race day saturdays, typically with short track, local stuff, that that that day starts early in the morning and doesn't end until they get home, put their head on the pillow, usually after midnight yeah, and there's a lot of downtime in there too.
• 3:11
  Speaker 3: That that's the bad thing.
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: It would be one thing if you could go, you know, practice or whatever you need to do, and then you had you had like a lounge or something you could go to and then come back in four hours, but it, um, it's not the case.
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what's been interesting to watch here lately guys is with these dirt tracks.
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: Obviously, trying to keep moisture in these tracks is something that's an ongoing.
• 3:33
  Speaker 3: Track prep is really fun to watch these days because as soon as that water hits it's gone, so it's a lot.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: It's always good to have yourself a little tank, if you will, in the ground catching rainwater when you can, and go and suck it out of there and put it in the truck.
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you, yeah, the water trucks these days.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: I mean that's the MVP at the dirt tracks.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: I was actually at a dirt track, I think it was probably about three weeks ago, and they I mean they kept having to water, water, water water.
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: And they did one more pass with the water truck right before the races were about to start and they overwatered it and the water truck got stuck.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: So that was another power ordeal.
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: So it's like you can't win for losing on some of these deals sometimes.
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: Well, you're a race car driver yourself.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: What kind of cars did you typically drive?
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: I was for most of my career.
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: I was, I was in, you know, stock cars, what you would call a street stock or a super stock or something like that.
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: Lots of, lots of novas and camaros were destroyed by your yours truly right here.
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: So, um, and right towards the back end of I never say that I've.
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: I never say the r word because I will gladly jump, although I have been offered a couple of opportunities this summer and I've turned them down.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: I have to work.
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: It's the heat why I don't want to do it.
• 4:54
  Speaker 3: But right towards the back end of, when I was competing full time, I got in a dwarf car and that was the little motorcycle engine, thousand pound chassis, and that was the most fun I ever had in one of those cars.
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can only imagine.
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: I would love to try to do that, but I think I'd prefer to do it in dirt as opposed to asphalt.
• 5:19
  Speaker 3: No, no, you know, I thought the same thing because at Central Texas Speedway in Kyle we'd have about 25 cars on the track and we were, you know, inches apart and we were just so fast.
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're so fast.
• 5:34
  Speaker 3: And I thought the same thing Because on dirt you're going to slow down a little bit.
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you're going still really quick, but, man, you want to talk about your body getting beat around.
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: The first time I took one of those to a dirt track, went out race, we did.
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 5:52
  Speaker 3: About three days later I get out of the shower and I look in the mirror and you know, after I, after I look in the mirror and I think what a beautiful man I look and I'm, I'm literally so you often shower with other people.
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: You're all bruised up, I'm all bruised up and I'm like what the hell happened here.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: And I asked my wife.
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: I said, did you take a club to me last night?
• 6:14
  Speaker 3: But it was that where you get beat around.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: But that was a lot of fun.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: I've never seen those on a dirt track, but I certainly have seen them on a three-eighths mile asphalt oval and I'll tell you what those things are scary fast, looking from the grandstands much less.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what it would be like behind the wheel.
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: Of course you know all things in perspective.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: It's like going down the freeway 75, 80 miles an hour.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: You really don't think about that aspect of it, but I can only imagine how much fun that would be.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: It is and actually it's funny that you brought that up about what I drove, because on July 6th that will be the next event out at Houston at Houston Motorsports Park.
• 6:59
  Speaker 3: The dwarf cars are coming back, so it will be the return of the dwarf cars and I think we're expecting at least 15 of them out of the dwarf car racing series of texas.
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: So that that'll be.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: That'll be a lot of fun for the uh, independence day.
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: Um, I don't know what the event's called, but it's on july 6th do I have.
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: Are you going to be running?
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: are you going to run those cars?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Are you going to?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to do the announcing the play-by-play from behind the wheel.
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: I honestly thought about it, but that day I can't, because we have a couple of folks that are going to be out of pocket that day for the holiday, so I'm going to have to fill in some other aspects.
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: I need to be on the business side that day, so I'm going to skip.
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: Can you get me a couple passes, Rodney, if I want to come out there.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: You guys should come out honestly.
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: I'll take care of that for y'all because it it really is a good thing that's going on out there.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: We've got it's a good family atmosphere, there's lots of fun things.
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: I mean it's always been like that, but now it's been ramped up and kind of the goal of what this group is doing out there, led by Owen Pittman from South Texas, is to run it very much like a dirt track where it's seamless, where it's like race on race off, race on race off.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: He's trying to compress everything into about a three, three and a half hour window to where you're done by 10 o'clock and you get out of there and you're not having to sit around there all night.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Right, Well, how's the attendance?
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Spectator attendance.
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: It seems like it's getting better.
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: How is the attendance?
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: Spectator attendance?
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: It seems like it's getting better.
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what has really just blown this thing up is that we had a crazy idea a while back to do spectator racing.
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: So what we actually do now is you can sign up, you bring your.
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, you're teasing me now.
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: We had.
• 8:55
  Speaker 3: When did we do that?
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: Last week we were racing.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: Last week we had 18 spectators that showed up and brought their stuff out and it's it's everything from you know brand.
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: The winner last race was a was a 2022 bmw suv or something like that.
• 9:12
  Speaker 3: Um beat a ford, a 2024 Ford Explorer, all souped up and there was a 65 Mustang Coupe, 2002 Camaros and it's everything.
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: There was a guy out there.
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: I swear he had his work truck out there.
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: It was a GMC F250.
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: That dude got out there and I nickname every car you know, so that was the worker's truck.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: There was a guy out there that I guess he worked for Milwaukee Tool and he was like in the Milwaukee car.
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: I'm like did the boss know he was out there in?
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: the company car.
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: So that seriously steals the night.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: That steals the night right there, oh, absolutely.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: All I can think of is, you know, dad's 69 Biscayne white with a red interior, four-doordoor, six-cylinder.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Out there, I tell you.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: And there have been because we've done that two nights, guys, and I think there have been three different occasions where there's a vehicle out there doing this stuff with like paper plates.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: So it's like man, I'm like this guy's on a test drive.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: I've got an idea and I think it's a good one.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: It'll involve Mars bringing the in-wheel time truck with the cap on the back of the trunk, the bed, yeah, and it's got in-wheel time all over it.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: What do you think I think you should?
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: It's got a Hemi in it.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: It's got a Hemi in it.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: It's got a hemi in it.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: That thing's got a hemi.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: Thank God you need to do it.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: We might have to put some different tires on it.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: You go out there, you put it in drive and you hit the go pedal on.
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: It won't have tires to go back on.
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: Guess what.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: They're already tore up, so you don't have to worry about that.
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: But I'm serious, I just don't know how them knobbies at play are going around the curve.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: What are you doing next weekend Next?
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: weekend Going racing.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: Going racing, going to Houston Motorsports Park.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: I absolutely love it.
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's get back to talking about racing.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: And let's get back to talking about racing and let's talk about circle tracks.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: You know, every year I see more and more tracks closing and that is very disheartening for me, being a circle track kind of guy.
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: I love circle track racing, as you know.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Yep, so do you still have the same group of circle tracks from last year that you do this year?
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, everything around here seems to be, I guess, stable.
• 11:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, you never know.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: That's the weird thing about it.
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: Not that I'm forecasting a racetrack would close around here or anything, but what I see around the country is the new trend really is, I think, where promoters are just throwing up their hands just for various reasons.
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: I mean the.
• 12:03
  Speaker 3: The topic that comes up quite a bit is streaming, and, and that one hits to heart for me quite a bit because you know I'm a streamer, you know I stream stuff all the time and kind of the consensus about is streaming helping short track racing or hurting it.
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: You know, I sat here last night and I was watching racing from Pensacola, I was watching racing from California and I mean, in those instances I think it's not because I'm not going to go to Pensacola last night or anything like that, but what we're really seeing is that promoters are like look, the cost is just too much.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Social media is driving people away.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: Social media is not helping the racetracks in the sense that fans and drivers will just get on these things and just start hammering them and you know they're losing revenue and they're losing motivation and I think that's the hardest thing.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you've got to find the finances to pay purses, to do all of that, but I think, um, just the motivation and and the uh and the want to for some of these folks is kind of wearing out because it's it's such a changing environment that that is just so negative, unfortunately I guess because if I was a driver and I came out, you are a driver and you're going to be a new race car driver.
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: And and saturday there may be 10 000 people watching on the stream, but if there's only 10 guys sitting up in the stands, I can see where that would be kind of disheartening.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, it really is.
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: That's a great point, mike.
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: And the thing about it is, I mean, a lot of the streamers and again, full disclosure, I work for several of them but the streamers will say, yeah, but the revenue that we're getting, we're putting that back into the racetrack.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: But I guarantee you that it's not anything that's going to.
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, every dollar helps.
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that.
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not discounting that.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: But you think about every empty seat that you have there, or every spectator bleacher that is empty.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of return on investment that you're not getting and it's very difficult because, like you say, though, even if the money was there, if there was enough money coming from that streaming source, like a tv contract or something like that, oh yeah, we're going to pay you a million dollars, but if the stands are empty, then your drivers are just going to.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, okay, I can, I don't know, I, I would think it would be very disheartening to go out there.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: It goes for all forms of racing.
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: You see it at.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: Nascar races, where they've closed off the entire backstretch.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: You can't even buy a ticket back there.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: They've covered them all up.
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Same thing with drag racing.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: I was looking at some old drag racing video for Diamond P Sports back in the 80s.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember that the grandstands were jam-packed with people.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: No empty seat in the house.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Now, on Sunday, they may say that they're sold out and they may have sold all the tickets, but I don't see a full house there?
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, people aren't there.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: I don't ever see it.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: And same thing, obviously, nascar and every other form of motorsports.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's face, face it, the entertainment dollar is stretched thin, to begin with mainly because of the economy, but also there's so many things to do, a lot of it online.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: What do you want to watch it's online somewhere?
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: yeah, sit at home.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: I can watch three different races at home by flipping channels or changing the stream, or I can go and watch one race and watch the water truck get stuck and spend an hour watching him get that stuff that's really the whole thing, and like on the, on the nascar part and and some of those larger series, uh, you, you get that to where it's not, like it was in the 90s, in the early 2000s, and it never will be again.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, because exactly what what you guys are saying there?
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: There are lots of other things to do and there are.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, attention spans are not what they used to be for folks.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: They don't want to sit there for six hours baking in the grandstands.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, I do it, but you know, that's where we get back to on the short track side, to where a lot of the veteran race fans will say, well, I'll go, I'll go anytime.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there's about 10 of us that'll do that.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: If you get 100 people together, 10 of us will do it the other night and you're going to go find something else to do.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm a big fan of instant gratification, don't get me wrong, but it's not the same as going out there or going to a live concert or hearing live music.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: It's just not the same, no it's not, it's just not the same.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: No, it's not, it's not.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's why I tell people very often where I'm like look, go one time and I guarantee you that you may not go all the time, but you're going to want to come back frequently.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: But there's showing highlights of the Formula One sprint race from this morning.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Formula One is the one entity.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: It seems like that they don't have an attendance problem.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: But look at that, that's not a race event, that's a bunch of other crap and there happens to be a race.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Exactly yes.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Look at my new high heels, yeah yeah, yeah.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: It's a social event.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Rodney, tell me about the Houston race next weekend.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Obviously, you're going to call that from the press box.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: So that's really going to be a big event.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: We've got a 50-lap modified race that is set for the open-wheel modifieds.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: We're expecting about 16 of those and it's going to be some of the big heavy hitters from around the area, so I think that's going to be a tremendous race.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Our stock car division is starting to take off again.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: You know the steel-bodied, like what I was talking about, that, of course we're going to have spectator racing.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Our legend class has really really blown up as well.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: The legacy division is pulling about 18 cars a night.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: So it's fireworks.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: There'll be fireworks as well.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: An added bonus that is out there this year is right in the middle of the racetrack.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: We have a huge video screen.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Really, yeah, we do lots of cool things there and you can see the race.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I mean not like you couldn't see it anyway, but it's right there in high definition.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: So it's dollar beer, dollar hot dogs.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm in, I'm in.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I've got it on the calendar.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Mike, let me know how many.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: If you guys want to come out, seriously, let me know who's coming out and I'll get that over to our folks and make sure you guys can just roll right up in there.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: We appreciate that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Mars bring the in-wheel type truck.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: So what's the purse if Mike wins?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Do it next weekend?
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, then leave the truck here and I will be your representative at the racetrack.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Rodney, now I'm not signing any kind of agreement that says that I won't race the truck.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Just bring a helmet.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: That would be the point.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Why do you need a helmet?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I got the helmet.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: I got the helmet.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Honestly, guys, even if you aren't all kidding aside, even if you're not going to race it, bring the truck anyway and park it there.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, get some exposure, yeah, absolutely.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah it there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, get some exposure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely yeah, yeah, bring it out, ronnie, it's always fun talking to you.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: We, you know we, you should join us one weekend, uh, like, for instance and I know that you can't do the whole show, well, maybe you could come down here next week are you.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You spend the night on friday night for a saturday night's rate or you drive in on saturday it's?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: usually just saturday.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It kind of depends what.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: What's going on on friday?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Um, right now with some work stuff, I seem to have a lot of time.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we, we're, we're very familiar with that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: We.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Should find a, a remote someplace up in that austin area and he could come out and join us there.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: What you should have done is you should have joined us for the Hot Rod Tour of Texas.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Isn't there a big one coming up in Victoria, or did I miss that?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: That's the one we're talking about.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That's the one.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: That's the one.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I know you could have brought a Legends car or something, yeah, and run that.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd have been there with Legends, you guys.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Rodney, it's great to talk to you, my friend.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You take care of yourself and hopefully we'll see you next weekend.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: You guys take care, be well.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you, you too, rodney Rodriguez.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Dirty Air is the name of the show.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, I like getting.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: AM radio from Mexico.
• 20:16
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• 20:23
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• 20:30
  Speaker 1: The In Wheel Time Car Talk Show continues right after this quick break.
• 20:35
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• 20:44
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• 20:49
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• 20:56
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• 21:06
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• 21:17
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• 21:26
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• 21:31
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• 21:35
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• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You did for someone special In Wheel Time and the original Loopy Tortilla group of Tex-Mex restaurants have joined together to help a very worthy cause God's Garage, a Christian-based 501c3 charity.
• 21:50
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• 22:02
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• 22:11
  Speaker 1: A car donation is an easy way to make a difference in the lives of others.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: God's Garage needs good operating vehicles but will take all types in working and non-working condition.
• 22:21
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• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I, honest to gosh, really didn't mean to hit that button, but I just did it Because I wanted you to be familiar with our theme song, our opening theme song Okay, is that okay?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, will you forgive me?
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about because I had to go get water.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Can you hear the music in your ears?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Did you look at the clock and see what time it is?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't time to play that, but I played it anyway.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Just to make you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You just did it so you could make an entrance when you come back with the water.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Dun, dun, dun.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the water.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: All right Time now for Mr Marr's events calendar.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I've Well, that's all right, I was checking with our next guest, so you weren't ready either.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: No, no, oh good.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, busted, but I had a good excuse.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: All right For the events here.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Mr Mainsley is up in the UP and he is actually attending the 48th Annual St Ignace Car Show Now this how you say it St Ignace, a St Ignace car show.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: This is a big car show he keeps talking about.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It says there's over 800 cars up there in the neighborhood.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: We couldn't get him up there and get there early enough to actually call him the big car show with small town charm.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah yeah, where is that?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: It's in St.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Ignace yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Is that?
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: by the Mackinac Bridge.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: It's up in UP.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, go to stignacecom for more information.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you say that, but anyway, never mind, he's from Neiderville, he's got an excuse Coming up this Thursday, july the 4th the Freedom Celebration and Car Show in Spring Texas.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Now there's going to be a day of fun things going on.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Entertainment there's going to be a car show in Spring Texas.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Now there's going to be a day of fun things going on.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Entertainment there's going to be a car show, there's going to be fireworks A lot of things going on.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: 25-130 Aldean Westfield.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Road.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Who is the distinguished guest speaker?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Dave.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Rover.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: He is a veteran that is going to be speaking for the 4th of July.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: This is sponsored by the North Central Church Good family event.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: If you're looking for something to do on the 4th of July, then on July the 13th, dog House, bear Garden has got their second annual Christmas in July car show.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Santa's going to be there.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Bring an unwrapped toy for ages 1 to 15.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, You're going to see Santa melt down.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: He slimmed down Summertime Cars are going to register a $25 entry, 2115 Spring, stubner Road.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: All proceeds go to the Marine Toys for Tots.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Then, coming up in August, we're going to get really warm.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: August the 10th and 11th the Texas Elite Auto Showcase this is going to be the first year for this event out at NRG Park.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Custom cars, trucks and exotic cars Go to TexasEliteAutoShowcasecom for more information.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Then in September, the 21st, 11th Annual Big Boys Toys.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Corvette Club.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Corvette Show.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Entry fee is $35.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: And this is going to be at the Twin Peaks.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Now, this was originally scheduled to be at the Rio Cajun restaurant that told all their employees by text last Monday that they were closed and not to bother to come to work.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, and so they moved it to the Twin Peaks at 3805 Interstate 10 in Beaumont.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: All right, coming up then on September the 28th is Woody's sixth annual Waterfront Rod and Custom Car Showdown at the Topwater Grill in San Leon.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Is that right, san Leon?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: San Leon.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Tell me again how do you spell Leon, l-e-o-n, san Leon?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: And guess what?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: That's where it is Not San Leon, san Leon, leon, leon, leon Leon.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I worked with a guy by the name of Leon over at Richardson Chevrolet back in the day.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Great big, tall guy, leon.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: So we're talking Tune in next week when we spell cat Pre-2004 vehicles Best truck, best rat rod, imports, best paint, things like that $30 entry fee.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Day of the event Go to Facebook at Woody's Waterfront Rod and Custom Show.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Then on October the 19th, back to the past car show Annual open classic car truck and Custom Show.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Then on October the 19th, back to the Past Car Show annual open classic car truck and motorcycle show benefiting the Spring Branch Senior High School Foundation, 9016 Westview Drive in Houston, and we will be there.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: How long have we been doing this show?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: 13 years, 13 years and all of the shows that we have done in 13 years.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I have tried and attempted to have these boys look at the clock once in a while.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Well, mr Mars just went with a four-and-a-half-minute events calendar that's supposed to be 60 seconds and has ruined my opportunity to do a car review.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: So for those that were staying tuned for the car review, you've all left, but for everybody else, they went to the car review.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: You've all left, but for everybody else, they went to their car.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they went to their car to get a hot dog.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you, mr Mars.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I guess we'll do this on the other side of the board, sure.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He's not listening.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I'm ignoring you.
• 27:36
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• 27:38
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• 27:40
  Speaker 1: We'll be back after this.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipe means when it comes to the best fajitas in Southeast Texas.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the first Loopy Tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Here is the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make Loopy Tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes Loopy Tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Loopy Tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at Loopy's.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It's located on 99 the Grand Parkway at Kingsland Boulevard in Katie.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Find yourself in Aggieland.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Head to the Loopy Tortilla in College Station, located just around the corner from Kyle Field.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: It's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Going to Louisiana, the Loopy Tortilla in Beaumont's on I-10, so you can't miss it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: The original group of Loopy Tortilla restaurants has the best Tex-Mex anywhere and you're invited anytime.
• 28:43
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• 28:45
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• 29:38
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• 29:42
  Speaker 1: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 29:47
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