Speaker 1: And here we go here. Anything you have a chance
Speaker 1: against our simistic cowboy.
Speaker 2: Okay, what you like to do?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Play chess?
Speaker 5: Screw Weller's play chest.
Speaker 3: They give up the Jonathan Taylor Chuck cunning its way
Speaker 3: falk in the goal line.
Speaker 6: He's in there, put down and why Jonathan Taylor Wheeler.
Speaker 5: Finds here's Haliker into the front board, mishandled it.
Speaker 3: Mcgainst a shot he finds it. John. I have never
Speaker 3: been bedroom to be on the air with you here
Speaker 3: in Indianapolis, a place where so many of my dreams
Speaker 3: have come.
Speaker 4: True with the ride with JMV on ninety three five
Speaker 4: and one oh seven.
Speaker 3: Five the fan. Hey, welcome man. I am so excited
Speaker 3: about our location today. I was just talking to Jeff Matthews,
Speaker 3: the owner, about it. Jeff's going to join us coming
Speaker 3: up a little bit later on. We are at the
Speaker 3: Speedway City Garage today and hopefully that is a location
Speaker 3: you know very well now back in the day, and
Speaker 3: we were talking about too, how far back I go.
Speaker 3: My grandparents moved to Speedway in nineteen ninety five, and
Speaker 3: I was up here nearly every weekend, so you know,
Speaker 3: obviously the night before the five hundred or carb Day,
Speaker 3: or when the Brickyard four hundred first started in ninety four.
Speaker 3: I was up here for it, Saint Christopher's, the festivals,
Speaker 3: I was up here for nearly all of them. The
Speaker 3: basketball court behind Saint Christopher's I played there all the time,
Speaker 3: So I was up here all the time. And I
Speaker 3: know Speedway very well and very excited to be here.
Speaker 3: This is a combination of coffee and food and bevere
Speaker 3: Bridge beer and cocktail. It is called the Speedway City Garage.
Speaker 3: Jeff's gonna join us coming up in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about that on this show with
Speaker 3: him throughout, and Doug Boll, Speedway President's going to join
Speaker 3: us coming up a little bit later on as well.
Speaker 3: And we'll get your Thursday started here in the afternoon
Speaker 3: and the weekend leading into the brick You'rerod four hundred
Speaker 3: off to a fantastic start. Now. The other thing that's
Speaker 3: going on here is I've never seen it because I'm
Speaker 3: always on the air, and I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: been out here when it is going on. But the
Speaker 3: hauler parade goes on here, and I do want to
Speaker 3: also give a shout out to Sam of Speedway PD,
Speaker 3: who is an awesome dude, is out there right now too.
Speaker 3: But the Haller Parade is going to happen, and evidently
Speaker 3: that is something that a lot of people attend. So
Speaker 3: we'll be here for the Haller Parade. We shall be
Speaker 3: here for you. There is plenty of opportunity for you too.
Speaker 3: This is a multifaceted place here when you think about it,
Speaker 3: because for example, and we'll talk about the beer in
Speaker 3: which I'm drinking. James knows this because he looked it up.
Speaker 3: Pax Verum, they're the ones that put this together. This
Speaker 3: light logger that they have, this is one hundred and
Speaker 3: five calories. I'm feeling really good. But pax Verum about
Speaker 3: this right now too. So we've got that the many
Speaker 3: styles that they have of beer, the Founder's Grounds coffee
Speaker 3: that they have here as well, but they also have
Speaker 3: great food. They also make cocktails. This is just an
Speaker 3: incredible place. So on this Thursday when we're blessed with
Speaker 3: incredible weather, it's very unlike the end of July right now,
Speaker 3: which yeah, I know I need it hotter and more sweaty,
Speaker 3: but everybody digs this type of weather and this is
Speaker 3: the spot to do it, the Speedway City Garage. We
Speaker 3: are here until six o'clock. I'll be hanging well after that,
Speaker 3: so plenty of time for you and a busy schedule.
Speaker 3: As I mentioned, Speedway President Doug Bowles, who was here
Speaker 3: a little bit earlier today, is going to join us
Speaker 3: coming up on the four o'clock hour live here. So
Speaker 3: if you haven't met Doug before, I haven't talked to
Speaker 3: Doug before, this is going to be your opportunity to
Speaker 3: do just that. We've got that. We've got Mike Chappel
Speaker 3: of CBS four and Fox fifty nine who was going
Speaker 3: to join us. I mentioned Jeff Matthews, who was the owner.
Speaker 3: The inspiration of this place is that of Jeff. And
Speaker 3: here's the interesting dynamic with Jeff. He and I go
Speaker 3: back aways. Although I don't think we really do. We
Speaker 3: cross paths much in taro Hoa to Indiana State.
Speaker 1: We did.
Speaker 3: But he was and I make fun of him all
Speaker 3: the time, and I'm probably going to have to eat
Speaker 3: a little bit of crap here today. Pikes, he was
Speaker 3: a pike. They're the ones I talk about that had
Speaker 3: all dude parties back in the day. So he's We're
Speaker 3: going to make sure that wasn't always the case. Evidentally,
Speaker 3: but we'll talk to Jeff about that. In our days
Speaker 3: at Indiana State, we were just comparing a lot of
Speaker 3: the stats. He was a manager at Indiana State, and
Speaker 3: I was the guy that had all the parties. He
Speaker 3: was a manager for Tates Locke at Indiana State. Uh,
Speaker 3: Tates Locke had a squad that wasn't always so great.
Speaker 3: Tates Locke had among other players for end of the show,
Speaker 3: and you know PJ. Thompson Isaiah Thompson obviously of high
Speaker 3: school and now collegiate fame, and you know PJ is
Speaker 3: going to become I'm assuming the next head coach after
Speaker 3: Matt Painter up in West Lafaietta Purdue. But their father
Speaker 3: Isles South Thompson, the guard from Pike and the South.
Speaker 3: Thompson and Marcus Johnson were both at Indiana State at
Speaker 3: the same time and playing for Tates Locke as Jeff
Speaker 3: and I were at Indiana State. And while Jeff was
Speaker 3: the manager for Tates Locke and the Sick back then,
Speaker 3: I was the guy that through the parties and that
Speaker 3: Tates Locke ended up saying, you know what, you guys
Speaker 3: are no longer allowed to ever go to this guy's
Speaker 3: parties again, which merely made me feel good. So it
Speaker 3: was pretty good. They were no longer you cannot go
Speaker 3: to Ethan Crawford ever again, no more six oh six
Speaker 3: South fifth, no more sixth than deming. They were not
Speaker 3: allowed to go. It was a director from the head coach.
Speaker 3: They were not allowed to go to my parties. But
Speaker 3: the manager is Jeff, not only that tremendous race fan,
Speaker 3: tremendous IndyCar fan, and with NASCAR coming in town this
Speaker 3: weekend and in fact later on today with the haul
Speaker 3: or parade, we're going to talk to Jeff about what
Speaker 3: he has done here. And I say this all the time,
Speaker 3: if there's a place outside of where I live down
Speaker 3: in Bargainsville that I love even more than when I
Speaker 3: grew up in Green County in his Speedway. I love Speedway,
Speaker 3: and I have been here with Speedway when main Street
Speaker 3: was not nearly the way that it is right now.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you truly understand if you live
Speaker 3: in Speedway or around Speedway, how fortunate you are to
Speaker 3: have places like the Speedway City Garage and Main Street.
Speaker 3: It is absolutely spectacular and the way that it continues
Speaker 3: to evolve. The one thing that we're going to try
Speaker 3: to do, I'm gonna go over across the road here,
Speaker 3: across Main Street and tear down whatever the hell this
Speaker 3: thing is right here that's been up here forever. Once
Speaker 3: we get rid of that or do something with that,
Speaker 3: and we'll talk to Jeff I'm sure about that, and
Speaker 3: Doug Bowles coming up. Once we do something with this,
Speaker 3: the skeletal remains of an ill advised project. Once we
Speaker 3: do that, this place is going to be, as the
Speaker 3: young people say, absolutely cooking. It is awesome and I
Speaker 3: love Speedway. It is a tip of the cap to
Speaker 3: those that had this vision to put all of this
Speaker 3: together and actually next to the incredible Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Speaker 3: for days like today or days like any other day
Speaker 3: when we can all get together and have one hell
Speaker 3: of a time. We are at the Speedway City Garage
Speaker 3: and I'll explain it all to you. And while I
Speaker 3: explain it to you, you should be on the inbound
Speaker 3: getting over here and being a part of this, because
Speaker 3: this is exactly what we're looking for for the Hall
Speaker 3: of Parade coming up later on today. And then what
Speaker 3: is going to be a Brickyard four hundred weekend coming
Speaker 3: up here at IMS. And listen, the late great Robin
Speaker 3: Miller always said this, and I believe this to be
Speaker 3: one hundred percent true. No matter what you think about
Speaker 3: NASCAR and the Brickyard four hundred and the way that
Speaker 3: it was in ninety four compared to the way that
Speaker 3: it is right now, just always keep this in mind.
Speaker 3: Robin Miller always would say, whenever they open the doors,
Speaker 3: whenever they open the gates to IMS, that's a good day,
Speaker 3: and it's worthy of your time and your effort and
Speaker 3: your interest. And he was absolutely right. We certainly miss
Speaker 3: r there's no doubt about that. But he was so
Speaker 3: right about that every time they opened the gate, every
Speaker 3: time they opened the doors to IMS, it is worthy
Speaker 3: of being a part of it because it just stirs
Speaker 3: so many incredible memories. And that's what we're doing again today.
Speaker 3: And this place is outstanding. So we'll explain that. Coming up.
Speaker 3: Jeff's going to join us here. Dan Wetzel is going
Speaker 3: to join us. Coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 3: I saw where Iu got one of the top ranked
Speaker 3: quarterbacks coming in out of high school as a part
Speaker 3: of a recruiting class. We'll get to that story. And
Speaker 3: also with Dan, it's interesting the dynamic you got going
Speaker 3: on right now. You got the rest of the college
Speaker 3: football world hating, absolutely hating Kurt Signetti and IU. And
Speaker 3: it's funny. There are some things we never thought that
Speaker 3: we would talk about, certainly witness in this world, and
Speaker 3: that would have been where I was in January down
Speaker 3: in Miami for a national championship IU football team. But
Speaker 3: the way that they are universally now in college football
Speaker 3: hated by everybody, it is absolutely awesome, and I mean
Speaker 3: absolutely awesome. Does that not make you feel good? IU
Speaker 3: football fans? I mean, hell, you're the defending national champions
Speaker 3: You should feel good enough anyway, but that should feel
Speaker 3: even better. The fact that the Georgia's, the Alabamas, the LSUS,
Speaker 3: the SEC, the rest of the Big Ten, the Michigan's,
Speaker 3: the Ohio States, the USC's, the Oregons, the Oklahoma's, the
Speaker 3: Texas to they all hate you. It's a beautiful thing,
Speaker 3: it really is. Dan Wetzel and I discussed that, and
Speaker 3: then the massive changes that are going on in Michigan.
Speaker 3: They've had I had a lot of issues and then
Speaker 3: they won a national championship by doing what they hired
Speaker 3: somebody from Green County to coach a team, to help
Speaker 3: coach them to a national championship in Dusty May. And
Speaker 3: then Dusty May got offered by the Dallas Mavericks, which
Speaker 3: was a dream, but also probably saw that this whole
Speaker 3: Michigan thing is really, really weird. And we'll go over
Speaker 3: the really really weird part of about that Michigan dynamic
Speaker 3: with Ward Manuel, who is the outgoing ad, and more
Speaker 3: with Dan Wutsill coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 3: Colts Camp is going to start for the final time
Speaker 3: in Westfield that is coming up next week, and we'll
Speaker 3: get into that the final time at Grand Park in Westfield,
Speaker 3: which I think is a massive mistake and also reeks
Speaker 3: we're trying to save money and move back to West
Speaker 3: fifty sixth Street coming up next year. But camp is
Speaker 3: next week, and I cannot remember a time when there
Speaker 3: is more apprehension from Colts fans to really truly jumping
Speaker 3: on board and believe much about what is going on,
Speaker 3: not even last year. This year is also because here's
Speaker 3: the dynamic that works with the Colts this year is
Speaker 3: you have injuries, all right, They say this guy is
Speaker 3: going to be ready, But really, everything in the past
Speaker 3: that they have said has never really truly worked out,
Speaker 3: So why should I buy it. Whether we're talking about
Speaker 3: a quarterback or a wide receiver or a defensive tackle,
Speaker 3: you have three major portions of this team, and I'm
Speaker 3: not even going to factor in Mooney Ward, who is
Speaker 3: a concussion away maybe from being done, or Sauce Gardner
Speaker 3: coming back from an injury, or believing that your secondary
Speaker 3: is going to be the primary defensively to keep you
Speaker 3: guys on top over what is going to be a
Speaker 3: consistent pass rush. Yeah, that is out of the ordinary,
Speaker 3: without question. But even the belief last year I think
Speaker 3: was more than what you have going in to this year.
Speaker 3: Mike Chappel and I discussed that on the start of
Speaker 3: camp coming up in Westfield. Hey, listen, all you have
Speaker 3: to do is one significant thing that you have to do,
Speaker 3: and you have to win. If you win, you will
Speaker 3: squash a lot of what you believe to be a
Speaker 3: ridiculous conversation. If you don't, then everybody around here, every
Speaker 3: numb nuts like me around here, will end up being
Speaker 3: accurate about the situation. So that we shall see Mike
Speaker 3: Chappel joins us. Coming up in the five o'clock hour,
Speaker 3: we will go full scale discussion. All right, a couple
Speaker 3: of things here, the Fever role standing last night. I'm
Speaker 3: a huge basketball fan. You know that, I'm a huge
Speaker 3: offensive basketball fan, and what they did to Connecticut. First
Speaker 3: of all, Connecticut really does stink. They're not any good,
Speaker 3: but to do that, to be that dominant against the
Speaker 3: opposition is impressive and honestly comes around at a perfect time.
Speaker 3: Now you're going to the All Star break and you're
Speaker 3: going to help figure things out. Came at a perfect time,
Speaker 3: and really hopefully this is a rebirth of sorts to
Speaker 3: become what everybody thought you were going to be, if
Speaker 3: that makes sense. Last night was I thought, an exceptionally
Speaker 3: good night for the Fever. One twenty three eighty eight.
Speaker 3: That's a franchise record in points. Caitlin Clark early on
Speaker 3: could not miss. I mean really, nobody could miss. There
Speaker 3: was not a lot of defensive resistance from the Sun.
Speaker 3: They just didn't have it in them. And hopefully that
Speaker 3: is more of the product of the Fever than anything else,
Speaker 3: because they can come at you in waves. I know
Speaker 3: people want to talk about this and I'll bring it
Speaker 3: up and I'll tell you where I stand on it,
Speaker 3: because I brought this up before. It's really easy to
Speaker 3: look at a a technical situation with Kaitlyn Clark and
Speaker 3: know how good she is. But look at that situation
Speaker 3: and know that she's one more away from being suspended
Speaker 3: for a game. She's got seven right now, got one
Speaker 3: last night. And I'm gonna agree with everybody out there.
Speaker 3: Not always do I agree with you. It was an
Speaker 3: incredibly soft technical soft Again, what I have to tell
Speaker 3: you is, these officials are dumbasses. They're not any good.
Speaker 3: You always have to keep that in mind. And I
Speaker 3: know when you're living in the moment when you got
Speaker 3: somebody that did one stinking thing right the entire game.
Speaker 3: That Rivers chick did one thing right. She ripped Kaitlyn Clark,
Speaker 3: went to the other end, scored on a lefty layup,
Speaker 3: and then talked junk one thing right. They're down thirty
Speaker 3: and this chick does one thing right the entire game,
Speaker 3: and that was it. And then you go back and
Speaker 3: really that's just where we are today. And it's not
Speaker 3: just you know, the ladies in this case, the dudes
Speaker 3: do it too. I mean jackass dudes do this all
Speaker 3: the time. You do one thing right. Other I mean,
Speaker 3: you really suck, but you do one thing right, and
Speaker 3: then you got to talk junk about that one thing
Speaker 3: right you did. I don't I don't know if there's
Speaker 3: a license out there that's given or what. I think.
Speaker 3: It's just kind of the jackassery of certain people. And
Speaker 3: that's what you witnessed last night. But before you give
Speaker 3: an incredible soft technical pass, you got to keep this
Speaker 3: in mind. Why are we here, why are we discussing this?
Speaker 3: You can be the highest level of competitor and not
Speaker 3: put yourself in a situation where you're going to be
Speaker 3: lost for a game. And you know, like Stephanie White
Speaker 3: or you know, like Caitlin Clark. It's not easy for
Speaker 3: me to laugh that stuff off because that could bite
Speaker 3: you at some point. Hopefully it doesn't. If it doesn't,
Speaker 3: that's great. I mean, if you're able to pick and
Speaker 3: choose when you're going to get a t from some
Speaker 3: of these clowns, that's fantastic. But you put yourself in
Speaker 3: this situation nobody else has. Now you're head coach, you
Speaker 3: know what the officiating is. It's crap water, it's not
Speaker 3: going to all of a sudden get better. It's going
Speaker 3: to continue to be bad. Last night you're up thirty
Speaker 3: and last night it was one of those situations where
Speaker 3: I wish you would just let the other chick yip
Speaker 3: yap about it. And I know all you do, hopefully
Speaker 3: is rescinded. And I haven't heard today whether or not
Speaker 3: the technical has been rescinded. But if we get some news,
Speaker 3: I'm sure we will tell you. This should not be
Speaker 3: the massive news that it is. And for anybody that's
Speaker 3: ever thought, man, I wish Luka Doncik was on our team.
Speaker 3: I would love to have him on my team. But
Speaker 3: you know, this jackassery really does wear you out. This
Speaker 3: is going to wear you out too. And again, all
Speaker 3: is fine until you miss a game. You miss a
Speaker 3: game for your organization, you miss a game for your teammates,
Speaker 3: you miss a game exceptionally for the fan base that
Speaker 3: is counting on watching you play and spending a lot
Speaker 3: of money coming out watching you play. That's not so
Speaker 3: easy to laugh off. That's not so easy to make
Speaker 3: light of it. I realize you're in a position right
Speaker 3: now where you kind of have to I mean, what
Speaker 3: choice do you have If you're Stephanie White, you have
Speaker 3: to joke about it. If you're Kaitlin Clark, you have
Speaker 3: to joke about it. There is zero reason to be
Speaker 3: in this situation. None. And here's why I want you
Speaker 3: to understand the most about all this. This is not
Speaker 3: getting on Kaitlyn Clark. This is simply about understanding one thing.
Speaker 3: You are way too important with winning and losing in mind,
Speaker 3: for your team to be lost, for any game to
Speaker 3: be out, for any moment. You are way too important.
Speaker 3: If this was just some other back marker, some scrub,
Speaker 3: nobody would care. Nobody cares if you or I are
Speaker 3: out there running around like jackasses. Nobody cares if we're
Speaker 3: going to miss a game, But it matters when she does.
Speaker 3: And you can't have it both ways. Look at it
Speaker 3: this way too. If it were a situation where this
Speaker 3: were and frankly is never going to be, and that's great.
Speaker 3: If this were Tyres Halliburton, if this were a pacer player,
Speaker 3: you'd be all over their ass right now. If this
Speaker 3: were Daniel Jones or a colts player, you'd be all
Speaker 3: over their ass right now. I understand you can be competitive,
Speaker 3: and don't take it me that competitive nature away, But
Speaker 3: you can also be a competitive leader and understand your
Speaker 3: situation and when you're as deeply into it as she
Speaker 3: is right now, getting a technical you know, dumbass technical,
Speaker 3: soft technical, or not getting that when you're up thirty
Speaker 3: against the scrub that was talking some junk that had
Speaker 3: no other opportunity to do it during the game. Just
Speaker 3: don't do it.
Speaker 1: Don't do it.
Speaker 3: And I want to hear that. Well, it's easy for
Speaker 3: you to say no, it should be just easy. That's
Speaker 3: what you are as a really smart, elite level talented
Speaker 3: player and a team leader. That's who you are. That's
Speaker 3: how we view you, that's how we describe you. You
Speaker 3: can't get that, and you cannot compromise your playing time
Speaker 3: for some scrub that doesn't matter. God, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: And you know what, she was right and was it soft? Yes,
Speaker 3: but you have to understand the officials that you're dealing with.
Speaker 3: They're awful. So it's not light you're going to get
Speaker 3: this great judgment. And I will also tell you this.
Speaker 3: You go back to that Friday game against Seattle, and
Speaker 3: any other player in the history of the world gets
Speaker 3: tossed for that diatribe. So she was able to side
Speaker 3: step that. Just don't compromise your place on this team
Speaker 3: and your participation on this team jacking around with this, right,
Speaker 3: it should be that easy. I don't think that should
Speaker 3: take away any of your competitive ability anything about you.
Speaker 3: You can't you can't let scrubs like that get into you,
Speaker 3: all right, you just can't have it. Hopefully that's rescinded.
Speaker 3: But James, I have not heard has that team been
Speaker 3: rescinded at all? Have you heard? I've been here at
Speaker 3: speed Way to City Garage, but I have not heard.
Speaker 4: I am not saying anything about it being rescinded.
Speaker 3: Yet it needs to be because it was so often.
Speaker 3: It was stupid. And here these clowns have to realize this.
Speaker 1: It was a.
Speaker 3: Scrub getting into a player that was shooting the lights out,
Speaker 3: playing really well, and that player's team was up thirty,
Speaker 3: and you would think, hey, we understand the situation. But again,
Speaker 3: these WNBA officials are clowns and they don't understand any situation.
Speaker 3: It's looked like, hey, you know what, well, wait a minute.
Speaker 3: I was working at Kroger and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: we're gonna put you. Here's your whistle, go out here
Speaker 3: and officiate this game. They're that bad, but you have
Speaker 3: to deal with it. What's up. You have to deal
Speaker 3: with it being that bad. There's no other way, no
Speaker 3: other way at all. And to be a leader, to
Speaker 3: be the most important player on that team, which clearly
Speaker 3: that is the case, just don't compromise your participation. Really
Speaker 3: old that anybody should ask. All right, Wetzel's going to
Speaker 3: join me on there on the side from ESPN Phalan's
Speaker 3: the on site engineer, Jeff Matthews is gonna mosey over
Speaker 3: on a second. We're going to relive old school stories
Speaker 3: from Terrell Hold and talk about the place right here,
Speaker 3: Speedway City Garage is outstanding. Hey, Jeff, come here for
Speaker 3: a second really quick. I want to hit a break.
Speaker 3: I want to make sure this this beer, this is
Speaker 3: one hundred and five calorie beer, and I'm rocking right here.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and put that headset on, put that microphone
Speaker 3: in front of your grill right there. This is outstanding beer.
Speaker 3: Tell me a little bit about it.
Speaker 1: So that Speedway City light logger is made in uh Lapel, Indiana.
Speaker 1: This is really it is indeed so uh there is
Speaker 1: almost as good a coat.
Speaker 3: It's almost as good as basketball, like the Hall Family
Speaker 3: or something. It's almost bad like Mark Barnheiser beer right
Speaker 3: here and you're going way back. Well, Mark Barnheiser was
Speaker 3: one of my dudes right there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's but it's smooth. It's uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You're on your what.
Speaker 3: Easy?
Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't say the number. No one's keeping tracks.
Speaker 1: I'm knee deep.
Speaker 3: I am knee deep into what is this called him?
Speaker 1: Speedway City light logger?
Speaker 3: There it is. Everybody sees it right here, and it's
Speaker 3: not like it's unusual for anybody. It is not for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, tell me a little bit about the place.
Speaker 3: We're going to hit a break and come back. I
Speaker 3: want you to hang the rest of the show. What
Speaker 3: will be here?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Speedway City Garage right here, fifteen fifty two Main Street,
Speaker 1: right on the corner of Maine and sixteenth Street. You
Speaker 1: can't miss us. We are cocktails in the evening, coffee
Speaker 1: in the morning, where every lap begins and long day ends.
Speaker 3: Did you come up with that one yourself? Was that
Speaker 3: Indiana State Education coming out?
Speaker 1: It was? It was marketing slash health and safety management
Speaker 1: slash construction management. I changed my manager so many times
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: Did you really?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just went I'd like I said this store
Speaker 3: the other day. Paul young House. Paul young House was
Speaker 3: my advisor, and when I went in in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3: This spring of ninety three, he said, quote, I think
Speaker 3: you're close enough to graduate, so go ahead and get going.
Speaker 1: I heard something very similar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're close enough to graduate, so.
Speaker 1: Hey, go ahead and get going. We need to get gone.
Speaker 3: I thank you, Paul. I appreciate that more than you know.
Speaker 1: I recall, all right, what.
Speaker 3: Are the hours today? We got a haul of parade
Speaker 3: that's coming up a little bit later on, don't ye.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So haul of parade starts here at four forty five,
Speaker 1: so the streets already shut down, come down because people
Speaker 1: are starting to load up. It's going to run from
Speaker 1: four forty five to about six o'clock. Just so happens.
Speaker 1: JMV is going to be here until six and then
Speaker 1: we close at eight o'clock. So come see us.
Speaker 3: Got that night, sit tight, Jeff? All right, Speedway City
Speaker 3: Garage our location, Come and join us. Great food, the
Speaker 3: beverages are outstanding. Jeff will continue to be here to
Speaker 3: Dan Wetsll's going to join us. Coming up on the
Speaker 3: other side, Mike Chappell, CBS four and Fox fifty nine
Speaker 3: to the five o'clock hour, and Speedway Press Doug Bowles
Speaker 3: will be here. That is coming up in the four
Speaker 3: o'clock hour. Garth Brooks tickets for one of the four
Speaker 3: shows that we have coming up in August. That is
Speaker 3: a gamebrids Fieldhouse. Garth Brooks tickets coming up as well.
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Speaker 1: It is indeed, let's day first.
Speaker 3: Still get that profile right there, Jeff, he's a handsome fellow.
Speaker 3: My goodness, look at him. Look at the chicks are
Speaker 3: going wild. Day first walks inting here on the chicks
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Speaker 1: It's maddening.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. Jeff Matthew's own Speedway City Garage. We'll talk
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Speaker 3: four hundred. Jeff hang out with US Speedway Press Doug
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Speaker 3: looking for you here meantime on the Andy Moore Automotive
Speaker 3: Group potline. He knows I love him, but he forgot
Speaker 3: about me. A couple of days ago from ESPN, the
Speaker 3: senior writer Dan Webb, so it joins us. My pal
Speaker 3: did you forget about me?
Speaker 7: You don't you know, you don't call en up anymore?
Speaker 7: Don't spend flowers?
Speaker 1: You know, right?
Speaker 7: Like you know? No, it was bad.
Speaker 4: It was bad.
Speaker 1: I am sorry, my man year old.
Speaker 7: You, and more importantly to your listeners.
Speaker 3: Oh it is It is all good, pal. You know
Speaker 3: that you know how much I love you out there too.
Speaker 3: And hey, speaking of love, let's go to the opposite
Speaker 3: of love. Ride here hate. Would I you in the
Speaker 3: football program be the most hated in college football and
Speaker 3: the landscape right now? Is that what we're looking at?
Speaker 7: Are you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't think they're hated. Why because
Speaker 7: they're they're they're the champs.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll look at the sec rallying in the troops,
Speaker 3: you know, Ohio State and Michigan. You're looking at this Infiltrator.
Speaker 3: You know, it used to be the doormat of college football,
Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden it's now the defending
Speaker 3: national champion. It seems like, hey, everything is all great
Speaker 3: until team like this Infiltrates gets in and wins the
Speaker 3: national title. Now everything has to change. Why so much hate?
Speaker 8: Dan?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 7: Well, jealousy, I would say, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 7: The one thing that Indiana did was blow out the
Speaker 7: excuse for about fifty programs that's not more and why
Speaker 7: why you can't compete? And that to me is the
Speaker 7: most fascinating part of their their run, because I think
Speaker 7: you could reasonably sat around and said, hey, you know,
Speaker 7: how good can I don't know, you know, Missouri b
Speaker 7: how good can Michigan State really be? How good can Minnesota? Well,
Speaker 7: Indiana Uh was sixteen and up. So uh, that's how
Speaker 7: good you can be if you get the right guy
Speaker 7: and and you're you get the right alignment and you
Speaker 7: get everything going.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 7: There's but I'd say there's a lot of jealousy, there's
Speaker 7: a lot of concern. When you're on top, you're gonna
Speaker 7: take the shots. But I don't think you're anywhere near
Speaker 7: the most heated.
Speaker 3: So Dan Wetzel of ESPN ESPN dot COM's on the
Speaker 3: Andy Moore Automotive Group podline, how much longer do you
Speaker 3: think that the whole landscape of how you go about
Speaker 3: building a team and running you know, running a program
Speaker 3: within i L with a transfer portal? How much long
Speaker 3: exevity do you think this ultimately has?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 7: I would think it I think they'll they'll try to
Speaker 7: come up with some stuff, but there's only so much
Speaker 7: they can really limit it. At this point, the money
Speaker 7: is there. But even even if they got some kind
Speaker 7: of ability to limit transfers to a degree where you know,
Speaker 7: they talk about you only have five years to play
Speaker 7: or something and you have one one transfer without penalty,
Speaker 7: which I think is fine. You know, you can't transfer
Speaker 7: every year, but if you have one transfer without penalty,
Speaker 7: and then you're always allowed to transfer once you've graduated.
Speaker 7: To become a grad student, you basically got two and
Speaker 7: three and a half to four years three years. Sometimes
Speaker 7: these kids graduate pretty quick. So I think the roster
Speaker 7: movements kind of here to say, say it's about building
Speaker 7: a roster. I don't think they're going to be able
Speaker 7: to get you know, there's definitely people in the SEC
Speaker 7: to look back at the glory days of Yeah, Georgia
Speaker 7: and Alabama got all the recruits and that's why they
Speaker 7: always won. But I just don't see that getting bad.
Speaker 7: There's no way to put that toothpaste back in the tube.
Speaker 7: So WoT some limits, but I don't think it's going
Speaker 7: to totally affect in Indiana.
Speaker 3: Hey, Dan, is that why we see the SEC. There
Speaker 3: seems to be a little bit of freak out going
Speaker 3: on there with Greg Sankee and and really lot of
Speaker 3: the coaches and the teams, is that what they see
Speaker 3: do they see the longer term situation that they're going
Speaker 3: to have to deal with with this college football landscape
Speaker 3: that they never had to prior.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and like some of these complaints, if there was
Speaker 7: one thing about SEC media days, what we kept hearing
Speaker 7: is the Committee has to respect our strength to schedule right,
Speaker 7: And I'm not unsympathetic to that argument. I think the
Speaker 7: depth of the SEC is better than anywhere else. I
Speaker 7: think it's better. You know, the eighth nine tenth best
Speaker 7: team is better than maybe the eight nine tenth of
Speaker 7: the Big ten, or they certainly care more. There's not
Speaker 7: many teams that are just sort of there kicking along
Speaker 7: your UCLA's or your Rutgers or whatever. But if you
Speaker 7: look at last year, the Committee absolutely gave the SEC
Speaker 7: the benefit of the doubt. They put Oklahoma in the
Speaker 7: playoffs that didn't really have a great win. Their best
Speaker 7: win was Michigan, but that wasn't a very good team
Speaker 7: and they got in without even debate. Alabama survived a
Speaker 7: terrible loss in the SEC championship game and.
Speaker 3: Got in Notre Dame.
Speaker 7: It wasn't a Big ten team, but it was Notre
Speaker 7: Dame that got left out. And what did Oklahoma and
Speaker 7: Alabama do the respected because of their schedule, Well, they
Speaker 7: must be pretty good. Alabama beat Oklahoma and then they
Speaker 7: got beat thirty eight to three or so it was
Speaker 7: at least thirty eight to three in the enda. They
Speaker 7: got run off the field at the road balls, So like,
Speaker 7: what are you complaining about? Like, you got your chance
Speaker 7: and your teams didn't didn't show anything. They haven't had
Speaker 7: an SEC hasn't had a team in the title game
Speaker 7: in three years, let alone win it. They're losing significantly,
Speaker 7: you know, they're they're they're grasping as things to complain about.
Speaker 7: But getting more SEC teams into the playoffs has what's
Speaker 7: that going to show? You know, we're not seeing these
Speaker 7: SEC teams make you know, huge runs. I guess Ole
Speaker 7: missed last year. That was pretty good. They made the
Speaker 7: final four, but you know we are It's not like
Speaker 7: you're you're you're watching these fourth or fifth place teams
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, the Final four at three
Speaker 7: STV team So I think they're they're scrambling looking for
Speaker 7: something because they spent so many years dominant and then
Speaker 7: crowing about that dominance as is understandable, and they don't
Speaker 7: have that right now.
Speaker 3: So Dan Wetzel VESPN ESPN dot Com, Dan, friend of
Speaker 3: the Shows on the Andy Moore Onto Motive Group, Potline,
Speaker 3: Speedway City Garage, our location. Jeff's going to rejoin the
Speaker 3: second Doug Bowles Top of the Hour is going to
Speaker 3: be here live. Your staked out home base is Michigan.
Speaker 3: Dusty May is a long time high school friend of mine.
Speaker 3: He bails after a national title, goes to Dallas. And
Speaker 3: I do know this, Dan, I know that that was
Speaker 3: always a goal of his, like any other coach, to
Speaker 3: coach at the highest level, and he was offered and
Speaker 3: he took. But what is left behind? What is going
Speaker 3: on right now in an arbor? And was there a
Speaker 3: lot in your opinion of what you hear and what
Speaker 3: you know going up there that helped maybe him consider
Speaker 3: even more so that the NBA should be his next
Speaker 3: stop and be his next stop this year.
Speaker 7: You know, I kind of feel like Dusty was above
Speaker 7: the above the Fray as much as their Michigan keeps
Speaker 7: finding ways to put themselves in the headlines here.
Speaker 5: You know, the.
Speaker 7: Harbaugh error was over. Sharon Morse. Scandals were really personal
Speaker 7: at this point. I mean, he got cheating on his
Speaker 7: wife with a staff member. That's not that's not really
Speaker 7: a NCA violation. He had a lot of problems, but
Speaker 7: Dusty had his own program running and they had plenty
Speaker 7: of backing and all that, and obviously he knew he
Speaker 7: would keep aable winning national teams there. I just think,
Speaker 7: like you said, anybody knows Dusty for a long time.
Speaker 7: The NBA's long intrigued him, and you know, I think
Speaker 7: he's gonna do pretty well. We'll see. But even if
Speaker 7: he does it, the thing about going to the NBA,
Speaker 7: it's not a career killer. Michigan is a very good
Speaker 7: place to coach basketball, but it's not like it's the
Speaker 7: only place, and there are probably places even better. So
Speaker 7: if Dusty may a couple of years it doesn't work
Speaker 7: out in Dallas, he can have the number one job
Speaker 7: whatever's open that year. All these schools will beg to
Speaker 7: get him, whether it's you know, Kansas or North Carolina
Speaker 7: or even not you or whatever whatever's open that year.
Speaker 7: He'll go get it, So I think it. I don't
Speaker 7: think one had so much to do with the other.
Speaker 7: If he had stayed he was, he was in great shape.
Speaker 3: Blinton. He always told me how important he was as
Speaker 3: a part of his staff and his program. And obviously
Speaker 3: now he gets annoyed. They're in an arbor to lead
Speaker 3: that that program and that team is ending champion. He
Speaker 3: look back at his time at Oklahoma State and there
Speaker 3: was nothing really great about that. But I just know
Speaker 3: what Dusty tells me, and he was a huge part
Speaker 3: of the success of that program while he was in
Speaker 3: n R. But what do you think about the guidance
Speaker 3: there moving forward?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it was a good movie, kept them,
Speaker 7: kept the roster together for next year, and we'll see.
Speaker 7: Think about Mike Boyton, he is his tenure in Oklahoma
Speaker 7: State does not stand out. However, two of the years
Speaker 7: they were like banned from the nca Basketball to ornament.
Speaker 7: He's dealing with a lot of sanctions. That program has
Speaker 7: lost a lot of juice. I think the rise of
Speaker 7: the Oklahoma City Thunder has played a role in sort
Speaker 7: of the de emphasis of I wasn't a de emphasis,
Speaker 7: but the last there's just not the passion around Oklahoma
Speaker 7: State and Okahoma basketball that there once was when those
Speaker 7: were the those were the teams. That's that's where basketball
Speaker 7: fans had to turn. And now, okay, see is so good.
Speaker 7: He did coach Kate Cunningham, who happens to be the
Speaker 7: biggest star in the biggest city of the state of Michigan.
Speaker 7: So you know, he's an experienced guy, but he's young,
Speaker 7: so we'll see he's gonna have a great chance to
Speaker 7: win the job. It's a two year contract, which is
Speaker 7: basically a one year contract, but you don't have to
Speaker 7: get asked, you know, in the middle of November if
Speaker 7: you win or lose a game, are you coming back
Speaker 7: or not. It's a pretty smart contract.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 7: He's got a great chance because they he kept almost
Speaker 7: all of the roster together and it should be a
Speaker 7: pretty good roster.
Speaker 3: I get down here really soon, all right, man, it's
Speaker 3: always great to have you on. We're going to stay
Speaker 3: in touch as we get closer to the end of summer,
Speaker 3: end of the fall. But then I appreciate you more
Speaker 3: than you know, pal.
Speaker 1: Thank you, talk to you later.
Speaker 3: Man, Dan Wetzel, ESPN, ESPN dot com. So they any more.
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Speaker 3: We saw day First over there because his profile was stunning.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I need to figure out what my title is.
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Speaker 3: So what do you think about Speedway City Garage? Full?
Speaker 3: Do you like it? Love it? Yeah? That's great place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so nice.
Speaker 3: I know you get it run.
Speaker 2: I think they've done up and down Main Street here
Speaker 2: was so nice.
Speaker 3: So this is the crown jewel of Main Street, right,
Speaker 3: it's what we hit it.
Speaker 2: Drst me, Doug Bowl. You're having Dug on.
Speaker 3: He's coming over at four o'clock.
Speaker 2: He's a regular at this point.
Speaker 3: He sure well. He sent me a picture he texted
Speaker 3: me a picture this morning he and Jeff. So, yeah, okay, you'
Speaker 3: be there later off today, I said, Okay.
Speaker 2: He's grabbing coffee.
Speaker 1: He's grabbing coffee, Yes he is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you good here, good man, good to see
Speaker 3: what everything? Okay, that is the awesome day. First, you
Speaker 3: remember him obviously of our TV six back when uh
Speaker 3: they were a lot different, no doubt. Jeff Matthews, the
Speaker 3: owner of Speedway City Garage. We'll get back with Jeff
Speaker 3: on the look at that. Jeff got a lot of
Speaker 3: fans here, like a cool a lot. Is this like
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Speaker 3: City Garage. Jeff Matthews is the owner. We are very
Speaker 3: very special guests we have for Matt in Speedway. He
Speaker 3: spins us.
Speaker 4: Now madd in Speedway joins us. So you wanted to
Speaker 4: bring something up about Jeff that maybe people don't know.
Speaker 9: Actually, I just wanted to say thanks, longtime listener, Thank
Speaker 9: you matt oftentime caller.
Speaker 3: Now where do you live here in Speedway?
Speaker 1: I'm over on Moler Road, just north of the high school.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that has his Christmas lights up on
Speaker 1: his house all year long.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful. Can see whatever you don't Jack Wade taking him.
Speaker 1: We don't have HOA, so he can say whatever he wants.
Speaker 1: He can do whatever.
Speaker 3: I don't have hoa either, which is great. I don't
Speaker 3: know how people function with h I'd say once you
Speaker 3: guys just sticking up yours whatever else want.
Speaker 1: That's how we do it here in speed I want
Speaker 1: to put a.
Speaker 3: Turkey farm out here. By God, I'm putting a turkey
Speaker 3: farm out here. Go with it, all right, So Matt
Speaker 3: in Speedway, I.
Speaker 9: Just wanted to thank and I want to thank Jeff
Speaker 9: for this place too, Mike. My kids in here all
Speaker 9: the time, grabbing carfee in the morning. And Jeff's been
Speaker 9: a long time supporter of the town of Speedway.
Speaker 3: We were in dance.
Speaker 4: Choir together in high school.
Speaker 3: It was pret Dance Squire Jazz hand Well, Jeff, okay,
Speaker 3: So what was the most popular song you guys performed
Speaker 3: in dance choir?
Speaker 9: Probably Hernando's Hideaway.
Speaker 1: Jesus, what are we doing here? Man? Old man?
Speaker 3: So Jeff, Jeff, did you guys wear special uniforms via
Speaker 3: this tuxedos.
Speaker 9: It saved us money when problem came around.
Speaker 3: Did it bring the chicks out? That's all that matters.
Speaker 3: As long as it brought the chicks out in school.
Speaker 1: The smart chicks.
Speaker 3: The smart chicks came out.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Jeff, Jeff's been a longtime Speedway resident and a
Speaker 9: good friend, and yeah he's Uh.
Speaker 3: Isn't it cool to see what he's accomplished with this.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic and still going to continue to do here.
Speaker 3: I love what main Street has become. I go back
Speaker 3: much like you do, you know, I go back to
Speaker 3: the days in the eighties, and while I still loved
Speaker 3: it here, it is so massively different, but different in
Speaker 3: a good way. Hero main Street and Speedway.
Speaker 4: We missed the White Castle being on the island out here.
Speaker 1: I miss Wild Cherry over there.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I ever went in there. I went.
Speaker 3: I did a show at Winter Circle over once when
Speaker 3: I was at Inde. This is a true story, and
Speaker 3: my engineer, Eddie Hazel, we had a long, like six
Speaker 3: minute top of the hour break and he took me
Speaker 3: in there and got me a lapper during the break
Speaker 3: and then brought me back and I did the four
Speaker 3: o'clock hour after the lapper. Nice, Yeah, Jeff and I
Speaker 3: had a short. I don't even know what the lapper
Speaker 3: looked like, but I just it was. It was like
Speaker 3: something I don't think anybody's ever done. I got a
Speaker 3: six minute lapper during a break in the four o'clock
Speaker 3: Holiber Show. Shout out to Eddie Hazel back in the dead.
Speaker 3: It was ed Ed Hazel The Bob and Tom Show
Speaker 3: got me a lapper at four o'clock hour right there.
Speaker 3: But I still loved it, though, But I know it's
Speaker 3: massively different.
Speaker 1: It is different, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 9: It's much improved. It's family friendly. It's I mean, there's
Speaker 9: kids in here. People are usually saying nowt there with dogs,
Speaker 9: and it's Uh, it's been a great matt Great to
Speaker 9: see you, pal, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks for coming on here talking about the Showriar Show
Speaker 3: with Jeff Matthews. Right here, Jeffrey Johnson, he's gonna be
Speaker 3: Doug Bowles, the Speedway Press is gonna be your life
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Speaker 3: Founders Coffee right Founder's Grounds. There's grounds pax Varn beer.
Speaker 3: Jeff Matthews, is you have the owner? What am I
Speaker 3: drinking again?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 3: I love?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 3: Man? Chairs to you. Good to see you, guys. It
Speaker 3: is failing. The on site engineer Peyton for the first
Speaker 3: time with me, is like a nervous wreck over here. Okay,
Speaker 3: did you chill out a little bit? He's hopped up
Speaker 3: at you. We got to get Peyton chilled out. Payton's
Speaker 3: like a raw nerve. Right here. There's Speedway President Doug
Speaker 3: Bowles walking over here. I Doug Bowles towards us. Everybody
Speaker 3: loves him right here. So what do you think of
Speaker 3: this place? This is pretty awesome. It's pretty cool. You
Speaker 3: come here twice a day, That's what I hear.
Speaker 5: Certainly first thing in the morning, right, and I gotta
Speaker 5: get my coffee, and it's you know, you can keep
Speaker 5: an eye on the place because it's right across the streets.
Speaker 3: Did you walk over here? I did. I walked over
Speaker 3: there and got this. I saw you.
Speaker 5: I was going west earlier today and I saw you
Speaker 5: walking across the stoep.
Speaker 3: I was walking across the street, yep. And I let
Speaker 3: cars just go ahead and go yep.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean, better than getting hit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to get hit. I will say this,
Speaker 3: what they have done with its entire area at Speedway
Speaker 3: City Garage is incredible, especially for those of us that
Speaker 3: know what it looked like guys back in the eighties,
Speaker 3: for example. Yep.
Speaker 5: No, this is a huge transition. I started working here
Speaker 5: in twenty ten, and you had Dawson's and you had
Speaker 5: Charlie Brown's and that was really it. And just to
Speaker 5: see what the town of Speedway's really done with main
Speaker 5: street's fantastic. And you know, Jeff had Founders Grounds Coffee
Speaker 5: where I spent most of my mornings before he came here,
Speaker 5: and when he said I've got this idea, I think
Speaker 5: a lot of us are like, I don't do that.
Speaker 5: This is perfect because the way his coffee shop was
Speaker 5: before and this is the vision of this is pretty impressive.
Speaker 5: And we in the idea you get a beer at
Speaker 5: what's seven in the.
Speaker 1: Morning, seven thirty seven thirty.
Speaker 3: It was like right up my alley, right there, I know.
Speaker 3: So now would you come up, Jeff with this idea
Speaker 3: or the beer, the cocktails, the coffee, the food and
Speaker 3: all of it strutting early?
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's one of those deals where it's
Speaker 1: not it's not a new concept, it's just one that
Speaker 1: needed to be refined a little bit. So there's other
Speaker 1: places that do coffee and cocktails and beer, but not
Speaker 1: all day long. You know, they'll stop the service of
Speaker 1: coffee at a certain point of the day. But we
Speaker 1: also know that people like their lattes later on the afternoon.
Speaker 1: So it made sense for us to to do this concept.
Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna work out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe it's been pretty good. So Beth, that's here,
Speaker 5: Connor's mom my wife. So she just said, I bet
Speaker 5: allowed everybody. So she's drinking the coffee today.
Speaker 3: I go so it's kind of running coming up here.
Speaker 5: He's running trucks tomorrow Park, and you know, I connor a.
Speaker 3: Little bit of love for that too, because I love
Speaker 3: the Truck Series race, you know what.
Speaker 5: And he's and he will he will drive anything. He's
Speaker 5: a racers racer, which is really cool. And the one
Speaker 5: thing I love about this week. And we have the
Speaker 5: sprint car race tonight at the Speedway Tomorrow night, you
Speaker 5: have the trucks at Raceway Park. You had practice for
Speaker 5: both Cup and O'Reilly tomorrow, and then you've got to
Speaker 5: know Riley Race on Saturday, and then on Sunday you've
Speaker 5: got the Cup race. So if you're a race fan,
Speaker 5: just the opportunity to see all the different kind of
Speaker 5: racing in just such a small area and short amount
Speaker 5: of time, it's pretty cool for this.
Speaker 3: Does he feel comfortable and doing the trucks at O'Riley.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he did it. He did it a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago and they actually they rolled him out for
Speaker 5: practice and the car, the truck broke so he couldn't qualify,
Speaker 5: so he started last. So we got some time just
Speaker 5: running around at the back and so I think I
Speaker 5: think it'll be good he's looking forward to it a
Speaker 5: funny he's doing some RAM deal. So Ram Trucks has
Speaker 5: been putting celebrities or non NASCAR drivers in the cars
Speaker 5: all year long, and like Tony Stewart was in it
Speaker 5: during the Daytona five hundred weekend, so it's it'll be
Speaker 5: fun for him.
Speaker 3: I think, what's this weekend mean for you?
Speaker 5: It's hard to believe that we're like our thirty third brickyard,
Speaker 5: right It's it still feels like it's so new, but
Speaker 5: it's become one of the traditions here. It's really important
Speaker 5: for us. I think from a just putting continuing to
Speaker 5: put the Indianapolimotor Speedway on on the I ast told
Speaker 5: it belongs on, and this is a great weekend. You know,
Speaker 5: we continue to see that the ticket sales slowly creeping
Speaker 5: up as it relates to a brickyard. You know, look,
Speaker 5: it's never going to be the DY five hundred. We
Speaker 5: have three hundred and fifty thousand people here in May
Speaker 5: and you'll have sixty five or seventy thousand people here
Speaker 5: on Sunday, and you know that's twenty percent of the venue.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty crazy how it looks but it's a
Speaker 5: great event, and I love working with our friends in NASCAR.
Speaker 5: We got to race with them at Phoenix last year.
Speaker 5: We'll probably race with them at Phoenix again next year.
Speaker 5: So they've been pretty good partners for us, not just
Speaker 5: here but across the board.
Speaker 3: I love the fact too. You think about the growth
Speaker 3: of the five hundred too, and you know, selling out
Speaker 3: as much, and it seems like that we have never
Speaker 3: seen the enthusiasm for that race more than we see
Speaker 3: it right now.
Speaker 5: You know, people always say, well, why is it selling out.
Speaker 5: It's selling out because our fans. It has nothing to
Speaker 5: do with really us. Our fans have just embraced the
Speaker 5: Indy five hundred again, and there are people that continue
Speaker 5: to come back and not just come back, but they
Speaker 5: bring people with them. And you know that it has
Speaker 5: nothing to do with anything other than it starts right
Speaker 5: here in this community. If you in April, in this
Speaker 5: community when it comes alive and the people decorate their porches,
Speaker 5: and then it goes out from the speedway into the
Speaker 5: city of Indianapolis and central Indiana, and we just take
Speaker 5: an awful lot of pride as a community in events,
Speaker 5: but certainly the Indy five hundred and that's really the
Speaker 5: secret sauce that makes it so special, the people that
Speaker 5: show up every year.
Speaker 3: I got an email a little bit earlier that said,
Speaker 3: plan ahead for this weekend. What does that mean? Plane ahead?
Speaker 3: Plan ahead? I never plan ahead, so I want to
Speaker 3: have to try.
Speaker 5: So I don't How did you get here from downtown?
Speaker 5: The sixteenth Street bridge, right, So that's one of the big.
Speaker 3: Things that people don't know. It came from Bargersville.
Speaker 5: So yeah, but a lot of people that are coming
Speaker 5: from downtown or do it the way they've always done.
Speaker 5: Sixteenth Street bridge closed. It's a pain on a regular day,
Speaker 5: let alone a day where we've got events going on.
Speaker 5: So just trying to make sure people know how they're
Speaker 5: getting here, where they're going to park, when things are
Speaker 5: going to happen, just makes it a lot easier. Oftentimes
Speaker 5: you put something in on your on your mobile device
Speaker 5: and it takes you to the wrong place. So just
Speaker 5: making sure people are making making their plans before they
Speaker 5: come to sea.
Speaker 3: I saw that a little bit earlier too, So how's
Speaker 3: this going compared to maybe the last five years?
Speaker 5: So I would say ten years ago the Brickyard four
Speaker 5: hundred was on life support. It was really struggling. The
Speaker 5: racing product wasn't as good as we wanted it to be.
Speaker 5: It was hot in the summer. People were just sort
Speaker 5: of struggling with NASCAR in general. That was a problem.
Speaker 5: And then over the last few years we went to
Speaker 5: the road course, which gave us a little bit of
Speaker 5: bump the first year, and there I said, okay, that's
Speaker 5: a novelty and we did a couple more years. But
Speaker 5: just getting back to the oval has been good. The
Speaker 5: racing has been relatively decent. I think it continues to
Speaker 5: get better. So it's growing, and it's growing slowly, but
Speaker 5: it is going the right direction.
Speaker 3: Was it close to not being here any longer?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: I think for the drivers it's still one of their
Speaker 5: crown jewels, especially when it's on the oval. The road
Speaker 5: course they struggled with. You know, unless you were Michael
Speaker 5: McDowell right, you wanted it on the You wanted it
Speaker 5: to be on the oval. So I don't think it
Speaker 5: was ever close to being taken away from here because
Speaker 5: it is a crown jewel. But we definitely need to
Speaker 5: get it off life support, and I think we've done that.
Speaker 3: What are some of the things you've done to create
Speaker 3: more enthusiasm.
Speaker 5: A lot of what we've done is I think, you know,
Speaker 5: sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, right, and so the more we
Speaker 5: were familiar with the oval and the racing product, and
Speaker 5: more frustrated we got with it. So when we went
Speaker 5: back to the road course and that was okay for
Speaker 5: a year, and then people were like, hang on a minute,
Speaker 5: if you race at the Indian Apposmotor Speedway, you want
Speaker 5: to win on the oval. And so I think that
Speaker 5: created some energy. Kyle Larson certainly helped the fact that
Speaker 5: Kyle was running the five hundred for the two years
Speaker 5: he did and then doing the brickyard here that was helpful.
Speaker 5: I think NASCAR has picked up some more star names,
Speaker 5: which has helped it. And then one of the thing
Speaker 5: I love the most about is we continue to be
Speaker 5: fifteen and under free. With your flex ticket. You can
Speaker 5: actually get a grand stand ticket as an adult and
Speaker 5: bring fifteen and nunders for free, and you can choose
Speaker 5: those grandstands. There's several grand stands you can do with that.
Speaker 5: So just trying to get creative how we make the
Speaker 5: customer experience better and the value better.
Speaker 3: That is Speedway President Doug Bowles, the owner Speedway City Garage,
Speaker 3: and Jeff Matthews, you want a question for Doug? You
Speaker 3: got a question for Doug right here.
Speaker 1: You know, I talked to Doug almost every day.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you do. And Doug and I go back
Speaker 3: caffeinated up right.
Speaker 1: We get him all, well, you know, we've actually got
Speaker 1: a drink named after him. So he comes in and
Speaker 1: he orders a certain drink, and so we got to
Speaker 1: a point where like, well, we're just gonna name this
Speaker 1: drink after him. So we got the president and it's
Speaker 1: interesting and it's fun to watch and listen to the
Speaker 1: president order the president. Yeah, that's what he does.
Speaker 3: That's that's great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Doug and I go back for a few
Speaker 1: years and back to diar l days when he was
Speaker 1: a panther and I was with a small team, and
Speaker 1: and it's just it's it's fun to sit here today
Speaker 1: and here we are.
Speaker 3: You know, do you have a lot of relationships like
Speaker 3: that when when you go back to your days before
Speaker 3: you were a president.
Speaker 5: I mean there's a lot. Yeah, I have a handful
Speaker 5: of relationships like that.
Speaker 3: Those seem like that they could be the strongest of bonds.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there are there are some of those that are
Speaker 5: really strong. And then and so we talk coffee. But
Speaker 5: we also like pinball machines. Yeah, yeah, so we get
Speaker 5: a chance we're talking about In fact, this morning we
Speaker 5: were talking about pinball machines.
Speaker 3: All right, so what are we talking about? What pinball machines?
Speaker 5: So we both have the same machine. It's called spin Out.
Speaker 5: It's a nineteen seventy five racing themed, pretty simple machine.
Speaker 5: It means more to Jeff than I love it for
Speaker 5: the racing, but he remembers it. He had it in
Speaker 5: his house as a kid, and so I got mine
Speaker 5: and when I when I end up with mine, he's like,
Speaker 5: I gotta find one, And so we talk about that,
Speaker 5: and then what other racing machines do we want to get?
Speaker 5: And it's just kind of fun.
Speaker 3: So I've always wanted the Gorgaar pinball machine because I
Speaker 3: believe that was the first one that had voice activation,
Speaker 3: like when you walk by it. Gorgaar Gary, I've always
Speaker 3: wanted and I never really understood what Gorgaar was, but
Speaker 3: it was just so awesome for the time. I've always
Speaker 3: looked for that. You guys aware as pinball officiare of Gorgar.
Speaker 5: And it's funny when you get it. Yes, yes, I am,
Speaker 5: for sure, But when you get into that the number.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of people that are in the pinball
Speaker 5: machines and when they hear you're into it, they start
Speaker 5: and people will call you and say, I've got this game.
Speaker 5: You want this game? And I'm pretty focused on racing
Speaker 5: related games with their people out there looking.
Speaker 3: For every how many of racing well, we were looking this.
Speaker 5: Morning and so so there's a there's a website called
Speaker 5: pin Side, and on pin Side you can have a
Speaker 5: wish list and I think I probably got what we
Speaker 5: would look like ten or eleven racing related games, so
Speaker 5: that we're there's an amazing Indy five hundred game that
Speaker 5: fortunately Beth allowed me to pick up a couple.
Speaker 3: Of years ago ago.
Speaker 5: That's h and that was done in nineteen ninety five
Speaker 5: ninety six. So it's got Bobby Unser's voice, and it's
Speaker 5: got Paul Page's voice, and you can hear Tom Carnegie
Speaker 5: and it it's a really it's a really cool INDI
Speaker 5: five hundred game. But there's a bunch most of the
Speaker 5: racing games were done in the nineties.
Speaker 3: We'll be right so I just think about those games.
Speaker 3: I think about like Playboy with Hugh Hefner and then
Speaker 3: Kiss as well. Those were some of the the phenomenal pinball.
Speaker 1: But I mean, and Doug's got a great one that
Speaker 1: I wish I had, the Evil caniebl Oh, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how many do you have?
Speaker 5: Just three? I just have, but my wish list is
Speaker 5: a bunch more than that. So I keep telling Beth,
Speaker 5: we need to make more room in the basement so
Speaker 5: that can So.
Speaker 3: You know, it's funny people, But what's the third do
Speaker 3: you have?
Speaker 1: The rate?
Speaker 5: So I've got the ny five hundred games, spin Out
Speaker 5: and an Evil Canievl or the three games that that
Speaker 5: I've got.
Speaker 3: Okay, man, that's great. I love pinball, Gass.
Speaker 5: It is really fun.
Speaker 3: It is really fun. Do you think that that a
Speaker 3: lot of the video games, the old school video games,
Speaker 3: have stood the test of time. Has pinball done the
Speaker 3: same thing?
Speaker 5: Pinball's kind of come back now. You're see an awful
Speaker 5: lot of people with pinball, and then you also see
Speaker 5: like the old pac Man's and the old pack you know, Misspacked.
Speaker 5: Those games also are kind of big right now. So
Speaker 5: there are a lot of people that collect.
Speaker 3: Them and you have an arcade in your basement.
Speaker 5: We've got three mission not an arcade, but we have
Speaker 5: three machines in the basic.
Speaker 3: I guess the video games and there too, Gallaga maybe
Speaker 3: the Little Donkey Kong or something like.
Speaker 5: That could be.
Speaker 3: I'm looking looking okay, and the reason the reason why
Speaker 3: I want to bring I know, I think she's okay
Speaker 3: with it. We could put a little peer.
Speaker 5: Pressure on right here that we want, Yeah, we could.
Speaker 3: So what is are you involved at all with the
Speaker 3: the Indy Car video?
Speaker 5: For sure? One hundred percent?
Speaker 3: Where are we going with that right now?
Speaker 5: Well, so we've had the I Racing has been fantastic,
Speaker 5: So the simulator side of racing has been really really
Speaker 5: good over the last decade or so. But we haven't
Speaker 5: had a console game in twenty years, and so that's
Speaker 5: we have been really working hard to get a console game.
Speaker 5: And when I Racing decided to get into console games,
Speaker 5: they actually did the NASCAR game that's out right now.
Speaker 5: They say, hey, let's go figure out how to do
Speaker 5: an IndyCar game. So we've seen a lot of the
Speaker 5: renders and some of the some of the initial play
Speaker 5: the game. It'll it'll come out the first quarter of
Speaker 5: next year. Really excited about that and that that opens
Speaker 5: us up to a completely new audience because there are
Speaker 5: sim gamers and then there are console gamers. So the
Speaker 5: folks that really play the you know, the play PlayStations
Speaker 5: and the xboxes, that this will be that for them,
Speaker 5: and it's going to be great for our sport. And
Speaker 5: you get to play the drivers you like, the cars
Speaker 5: you like. It's going to be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Who's on the cover?
Speaker 5: We don't have a cover yet. We're working on that,
Speaker 5: so we got a little bit of time. We got
Speaker 5: a little bit of time to get there. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: what are the.
Speaker 3: Options of the cover right now?
Speaker 5: You know, it's a great question. I don't know exactly
Speaker 5: what we'll so I think it's going to be called
Speaker 5: IndyCar the game. So well, Alex Plow would be the
Speaker 5: guy that you pick right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, I mean, well, they like fight over who
Speaker 3: wants to be on the cover.
Speaker 5: No, I think we'll look at what makes the most
Speaker 5: sense for the sport. My guess is it would be
Speaker 5: the car and some and multiple drivers at that point.
Speaker 3: It's funny. My kid, who Blake, is a big race fan,
Speaker 3: text me the other day, so he's watching the Sopranos series.
Speaker 3: He goes man Aj is playing some cart the kart
Speaker 3: racing game from I think ninety nine or two thousand,
Speaker 3: I don't know which one that was, but he was
Speaker 3: actually playing it on an episode of the Sopranos. That's
Speaker 3: the type of product placement you guys need right there.
Speaker 5: And so so we're excited about the opportunities that'll that'll
Speaker 5: present for us, and I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 5: good game.
Speaker 2: And it's long, long.
Speaker 5: Long, over time.
Speaker 3: Why why has it been so long?
Speaker 5: Well, I think a lot of it is we hadn't
Speaker 5: focused on it so for a period of time. When
Speaker 5: there was the split, that was a challenge. And then
Speaker 5: when you unification happened, people were just worried about getting
Speaker 5: this moving the sport forward. And I just don't know
Speaker 5: that the audience was big enough, you know, there wasn't
Speaker 5: enough momentum for somebody to take the risk of creating
Speaker 5: a game like that. And then Motorsports Games was going
Speaker 5: to do a game for us, and that that whole
Speaker 5: company went under, and really what I Racing did was
Speaker 5: stepped in and said, look, this is there's too much
Speaker 5: value in this let's figure out how we make it
Speaker 5: work from here. So a lot of it was just
Speaker 5: the timing wasn't right for IndyCar, and then the Motorsports
Speaker 5: game things fell apart, and now we're at the point
Speaker 5: where I think I racing trying to step into the
Speaker 5: console game that makes sense for that.
Speaker 3: Was it disappointing with the way things went down with
Speaker 3: the weather following the World Cup match last week in Nashville.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was really disappointing. You know, the worst part
Speaker 5: about outside races, especially ovals's weather. First of all, everybody's in.
Speaker 5: Everybody's a weather man, right because we all have it
Speaker 5: on our apps. Even the five hundred this year, I
Speaker 5: had people saying, Hey, you need to cancel the five hundred,
Speaker 5: move it to Monday. You're crazy for stay And the
Speaker 5: one thing that I've learned is you cannot make a
Speaker 5: decision on weather until you're within a few hours of
Speaker 5: the weather. There's maybe there every once in a while
Speaker 5: you know for sure you're going to get a massive
Speaker 5: rain and you can move on. But for the most part,
Speaker 5: especially here, the weather changes. So I'm just glad we
Speaker 5: stuck with it. Same thing with Nashville. What hurt us
Speaker 5: at Nashville was the lightning delays that happened essentially as
Speaker 5: soon as the as soon as the soccer game was over,
Speaker 5: not the postgame, but as soon as the game ended,
Speaker 5: or when they were real close to ending, we started
Speaker 5: getting in lightning delays. But the weather was missing us
Speaker 5: other than the lightning, and if you were within eight miles,
Speaker 5: TV has to come down, all of their all of
Speaker 5: their guys have to come out, so you couldn't broadcast
Speaker 5: it anyway. So we kept having these weather delays, and
Speaker 5: then we thought we were going to be okay, and
Speaker 5: it looked like the rain was going to miss us,
Speaker 5: and then the one of the storms that was going
Speaker 5: to go to just miss us barely started blowing up,
Speaker 5: and that was that rain that caused us the issue.
Speaker 5: So a lot of people are giving us a hard time, saying, well,
Speaker 5: if you'd come out of soccer earlier, Actually we had
Speaker 5: a weather delay soccer. Fox stayed with soccer longer than
Speaker 5: they planned because what we really wanted to do was
Speaker 5: come out of soccer and go right to racing, not
Speaker 5: to pre race, but right to racing. And so they said, look,
Speaker 5: we'll stay at soccer longer to give us that opportunity
Speaker 5: which we thought we'd get, and then ultimately that rain
Speaker 5: came and was so so much rain that we just
Speaker 5: knew we couldn't we couldn't move on, and then we,
Speaker 5: you know, have to run on Monday, and running on
Speaker 5: Monday's terrible. The good news about the Monday race was
Speaker 5: we we still had seven hundred and seventy five thousand
Speaker 5: viewers on a Monday afternoon, right, we had two point
Speaker 5: nine million viewers that actually watched the rain delay broadcast
Speaker 5: of IndyCars. So you know what, I think we're most
Speaker 5: excited about that. Seven to seventy five on a Monday
Speaker 5: afternoon is a pretty strong number.
Speaker 3: I look back to as you're probably hoping for non
Speaker 3: extra time worry not for that soccer match. Did you
Speaker 3: find yourself say we'll just get this thing.
Speaker 5: Well, initially we were. We were not wanting not the
Speaker 5: extra time, and then when it got an extra time, right,
Speaker 5: you know, we ended up having that rain delay. So
Speaker 5: even if that non extra time hadn't a lightning delay,
Speaker 5: even if that hadn't happened, we'd have been in the
Speaker 5: same situation with lightning. But yes, as the game was going,
Speaker 5: we're like just get this game over note and let
Speaker 5: us have an opportunity to go racing.
Speaker 3: And that's that's hard right there, when you're dealing with
Speaker 3: mother nature of good luck with it, seriously, I mean
Speaker 3: to do nothing. And yeah, and it's good that you've
Speaker 3: got that good number on Monday too, because that's also
Speaker 3: a tough avenue to take, right For sure, you never
Speaker 3: really know what you're going to get, and most of
Speaker 3: the time, if you feel you know what you're going
Speaker 3: to get, it is probably not going to be great.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, no, it was. It was not ideal. The
Speaker 5: worst part is the way it's terrible for fans. I mean,
Speaker 5: you've got fans who have to go to work but
Speaker 5: have to go back to work on Monday, or who
Speaker 5: have made other plans, and you put fans in a really,
Speaker 5: really terrible spot. We talked at one point in time,
Speaker 5: as do we just try and go as late as
Speaker 5: we can and get it in on on Sunday night,
Speaker 5: And we were prepared at that point in time to
Speaker 5: go to eleven o'clock start time, But when that trenchial
Speaker 5: rain came, we realized there's no way we'd make it
Speaker 5: by eleven.
Speaker 3: Even that is Speedway President Doug Bolls and Jeff Matthews,
Speaker 3: the owner here of Speedway City Garage, and that's the
Speaker 3: location the NASCAR Haller Parade. Doug, this is the first
Speaker 3: time I've ever seen one. We's entail. I've never been
Speaker 3: here before.
Speaker 5: Saw the trucks that bring all the cars in. We
Speaker 5: call them transporters in IndyCar. They call them haulers in NASCAR.
Speaker 5: So all the transporters lined up here. It's a really
Speaker 5: cool event because so many people come to this with kids,
Speaker 5: and it's a really cool opportunity for kids to get
Speaker 5: right up next close to those trucks. The truck drivers
Speaker 5: oftentimes are handing out hero cards. It just is a
Speaker 5: fun way to celebrate the fact that the Brickyards just
Speaker 5: around the corner. This Haller Parade idea started here in Indianapolis.
Speaker 5: There's a couple other communities that do it now, but
Speaker 5: this is as much a tradition as kissing the Bricks
Speaker 5: thirtieth anniversary of that this year at the Brickyard. It
Speaker 5: is the Haller Parade that comes right here on Main Street,
Speaker 5: and then everybody all these businesses on Main Street, so
Speaker 5: we're in one of the great ones here on the
Speaker 5: North end. But walking up and down Main Street there's
Speaker 5: tons of shops, tons of place to eat. It's really
Speaker 5: a cool evening of just seeing the haulers and getting
Speaker 5: a chance to check out the vibrancy of Main Street.
Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite NASCAR driver? Oh?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 3: Your favorite driver is coming here tomorrow night? Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, I mean yeah, so Connor would be my favorite
Speaker 5: ye card driver. Followed behind if it wasn't family related.
Speaker 5: Followed behind by Will Power because Will it's just crazy.
Speaker 3: Sure, he's crazy, all right. So I'm a.
Speaker 5: Chase Briscoe fan, a Christopher Bell fan, and a Kyle
Speaker 5: Larson fan. Those would be my two.
Speaker 3: So here's what's funny about Chase briscow around here, and
Speaker 3: he's kind enough to come on the show often, and
Speaker 3: he's from Mitchell, Indiana, down where I'm from. It does
Speaker 3: not seem like that he gets the love nor the
Speaker 3: notoriety that certainly Jeff Gordon got from the time that
Speaker 3: he's spent over in Hendricks County or Tony Stewart from
Speaker 3: being from here as well. How do you get I mean,
Speaker 3: is it all up to winning and results or what
Speaker 3: is it with Chase? Because it seems like if you're
Speaker 3: really going to embrace somebody around here that would be
Speaker 3: the dude because he is from La Rule Lawrence County,
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 5: I think Jeff came to NASCAR exactly the right time.
Speaker 5: You had the older guard beginning to slow down. You
Speaker 5: had this young, good looking kid from Indiana slash California,
Speaker 5: and he instantly became successful. Yeah, and so Chase has
Speaker 5: not been as successful as Jeff, as He's obviously won
Speaker 5: some races. He's really competitive and he's a great guy,
Speaker 5: and I hope to the extent he continues to win
Speaker 5: races that that people get on board, especially Hoosiers, get
Speaker 5: on board with Chase. He's a great guy. He and
Speaker 5: Connor get along really well. It's pretty fun when you
Speaker 5: see some of these indy car drivers who actually have
Speaker 5: good relationship with NASCAR drivers. In fact, I think Connor
Speaker 5: spent some time Bend and Chase's here about driving trucks.
Speaker 3: Even that's pretty cool. I just think that he is
Speaker 3: as talented, and I just kind of wonder why, you know,
Speaker 3: from locally speaking, he doesn't get as much known.
Speaker 5: To Right and the other thing too. I think I
Speaker 5: think you think about the popularity of NASCAR when it
Speaker 5: came here in nineteen ninety four was such a big deal.
Speaker 5: I guess that was a part of the platform was
Speaker 5: maybe a little bit.
Speaker 3: Bitter, and Jeff was a phenomenon. He was definitely Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah he's actually he's actually over at the museum right now,
Speaker 5: is it really, Yeah, he's because we've got in the museum,
Speaker 5: we've got a Jeff Gordon exhibit. So he's over there
Speaker 5: officially doing the ribbon cutting.
Speaker 3: Weak. So I had my kids with me, they were
Speaker 3: much younger once upon a time, and you put me
Speaker 3: up in the pagoda, and I'm in the bathroom and
Speaker 3: I hear my daughter, who was I think around eight
Speaker 3: at the time, Laney talking to somebody. I go, who
Speaker 3: in the world is she talking to? And I walk
Speaker 3: out of the bathroom and it's Jeff. God. I don't
Speaker 3: know if she knows anything of what you're talking about
Speaker 3: right here, but it was a thank you very much,
Speaker 3: tera Hot. It was a really cool moment right there.
Speaker 3: And see, those are moments that you will remember forever
Speaker 3: around here, because that's what can happen when you run
Speaker 3: into guys like you know.
Speaker 5: I remember when I first started working the speedway, one
Speaker 5: of the one of the things I think was a
Speaker 5: challenge for us was I was told, hey, JMV doesn't
Speaker 5: like NASCAR because none of the NASCAR guys go on
Speaker 5: the show. And that was one of the things I
Speaker 5: do get pussy about that, And that was one of
Speaker 5: the things I was like, well, we got to fix that.
Speaker 5: And that's the beauty like a Chase Briscoe and you
Speaker 5: got people that because there are still drivers who.
Speaker 3: Are like Gano comes on and he's awesome.
Speaker 5: Too, So you've got you do have a handful of
Speaker 5: guys are like, I don't want to call radio, and
Speaker 5: they don't understand how big your reach is and how
Speaker 5: important because you're and you're talking to sports fans exactly right,
Speaker 5: you're talking to their their core demo. And so when
Speaker 5: you have guys that understand it, like a Chase and
Speaker 5: and and Joey's really good about that too. You know,
Speaker 5: even Michael McDowell coming in last week and trying to
Speaker 5: help out those those are the guys that are the
Speaker 5: good guys that understand how important it is to talk
Speaker 5: to the fans. My wife is leaving me.
Speaker 3: She's Beth is leaving. She's wait a minute, she's got
Speaker 3: delivered tickets do you want me to let him go
Speaker 3: right here? No?
Speaker 5: No, no, you got it, you gotta.
Speaker 3: I got work to do. So I'm hanging with you. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll hang up, see you, Beth. We'll take a break.
Speaker 3: You come back, Doug Bulls you okay today? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: saying Doug's gonna hang. Jeff Matthews is gonna hang as well.
Speaker 3: You guys could talk about the place coming up? Are
Speaker 3: you giving me tickets? Here?
Speaker 5: To giving you tickets to give away? So that's Friday
Speaker 5: practice tickets.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell me all about this.
Speaker 5: This is uh, those are just free tickets to come
Speaker 5: watch practice.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow, okay.
Speaker 5: And then I don't know how many handed you there,
Speaker 5: but give you a handful of believe.
Speaker 3: That's something around maybe eight or ten.
Speaker 5: And there's some for the race on Saturday.
Speaker 3: We got race on Saturday.
Speaker 5: And here's some for the race on Sunday or tomorrow
Speaker 5: whenever you want to do that.
Speaker 3: Now, Jeff, you also have tickets to give away to Yeah,
Speaker 3: we've just given a giveaway. Just giving away tickets. I
Speaker 3: don't want to we we have great deals of arousal
Speaker 3: right here, tickets.
Speaker 5: I'm just bringing your ga tickets all three days tickets.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, I don't want to up the man, but
Speaker 1: I got sweet tickets for race days.
Speaker 3: You've got sweet tickets.
Speaker 1: I got sweet tickets.
Speaker 5: So to figure out if you've never been in a
Speaker 5: site with Jeff Matthews, it is an experience you.
Speaker 3: Do not want to get. Imagine.
Speaker 1: It's a little different these days than they used to be.
Speaker 3: Well, hey, sit tight, we'll give those away. Coming up
Speaker 3: on the other side again, Speedway City Garage. Jeff, tell
Speaker 3: everybody about the place before we go to.
Speaker 1: A body to fifty two Main Street right here at
Speaker 1: the corner of Main and sixteenth Street. Come by, we
Speaker 1: do coffee, we do cocktails again where every lamp begins
Speaker 1: and every long day ends.
Speaker 5: That's a great one.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna be that's you came up with that yourself,
Speaker 3: Now my wife did. That's like Indiana State stuff right there.
Speaker 3: Pal Let me tell you that.
Speaker 5: And it's in the shadow of Gate one.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at this place. Can it get any
Speaker 1: better than it does?
Speaker 3: Nah? Man, it does, all right. Doug and Jeff come
Speaker 3: back on the other side, Speedway City Garage on a Thursday.
Speaker 3: The haul of Parade is coming up as well. Don't
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Speaker 4: The Ride with JMV ninety three to five and one
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Speaker 3: Fan Doug Bowles in his second Jeff Matthews, the owner
Speaker 3: of Speedway City Garage. We don't want to get everybody
Speaker 3: on here, Phelan, Yeah, let's go ahead, and Faylan Watson
Speaker 3: is the on site engineer. I want everybody on. Alex
Speaker 3: Lamontes some Hurst and Lamontes is here right now as well.
Speaker 3: You just stepped in here. You have the Pacers, You
Speaker 3: hit the foundational thing that we're going on to. How's
Speaker 3: that going.
Speaker 11: It's great, man, it's great.
Speaker 6: We're still waiting on some additional bids, but we're getting
Speaker 6: raising a lot of money for the Indiana Fever Fund
Speaker 6: as part of the Pacers Foundation, they support a lot
Speaker 6: of youth and communities, sports programs and local programs. And
Speaker 6: there's still time to bid. You can go online on
Speaker 6: our Facebook page. We still got four tickets available. They're
Speaker 6: great lower level seats. It's it's probably the best deal
Speaker 6: on Indiana Fever tickets. You're gonna find all all year
Speaker 6: and the bidding and tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So do you know Doug Bowles, Alex Lamontes, Headball, Jeff Matthews,
Speaker 3: the owner of Speedway City Garage, Alex Lamantes, we have
Speaker 3: all all of us have partnered up at one time
Speaker 3: and the other two and and what Alex guys is
Speaker 3: doing right here is for the betterment. Is a great
Speaker 3: cause that you're working for right now. And I know
Speaker 3: you've got you guys put a lot of stuff into this. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's taken a lot of effort, you know, trying
Speaker 6: to get all these things set up and get people
Speaker 6: to donate things. We've got Tamika catching signed jerseys, you know,
Speaker 6: signed jerseys from the Lee Boston Kelsey Mitchell's.
Speaker 11: So yeah, it's been a lot of work.
Speaker 6: But you know, like I said, every dollar that's donated,
Speaker 6: every dollar we raised in the silent auction, I'm going
Speaker 6: to match it.
Speaker 11: So you know, put my money where Min's get a lot.
Speaker 3: Of money right here. Oh god, so he can buy
Speaker 3: my gorgor pinball machine.
Speaker 5: Right yeah, there you go, and then you could donate it.
Speaker 3: We can all bid on it.
Speaker 11: That's part of being a lawyer. We all have big mouths. Yeah,
Speaker 11: we can't shut up.
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes you talk and then the rest of everything comes.
Speaker 11: Behind it is what happened, right that's yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I understand where you're coming from. Right there,
Speaker 3: I know exactly where you're coming from. Alex Lamont's with
Speaker 3: us Doug Boll Speedway President Jeff Matthews as well. Doug.
Speaker 3: We have tickets to give away too. Do we know
Speaker 3: how we want to do that?
Speaker 5: I have I have no idea, and I'm probably the
Speaker 5: last person to ask how to do that, but I
Speaker 5: did want to give them to you, so you can
Speaker 5: figure that and even if you don't do it today,
Speaker 5: you can do it tomorrow. Although these are Friday tickets,
Speaker 5: so you might want to give those away today and
Speaker 5: some Saturday and Sunday tickets.
Speaker 3: Well then, jeffany ideas here speed I'm looking around, see
Speaker 3: I'm looking around. I'm seeing some people that we see
Speaker 3: a lot of fresh faces out here. Jeff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 1: That's what we love that. So I'm trying to see
Speaker 1: if it's worth you know, maybe we do some trivia,
Speaker 1: maybe some brickyard four hundred trivia.
Speaker 3: Yes, who can do the most push ups? Something like that?
Speaker 3: You want to do physical but I want to I
Speaker 3: want to go off of it.
Speaker 1: This is an easy one. I feel it's an easy Okay,
Speaker 1: you go. So for the tickets that Doug brought in
Speaker 1: for tomorrow, Doug brought up the the.
Speaker 5: Thirtieth anniversary of the anniversary the kissing.
Speaker 1: Of the Bricks. So who was it that kissed the
Speaker 1: bricks for the first time?
Speaker 3: You don't know, Peyton?
Speaker 11: Who's got their phones out?
Speaker 1: Peyton?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We got a lady that's waving her hand right here.
Speaker 3: Come on over here, lovely lady. I'm on over. We
Speaker 3: got to win.
Speaker 1: We got a win.
Speaker 5: Dale Jarrett, Dale Jarrett, Chief Todd Parrott.
Speaker 3: Wait what are we giving here?
Speaker 1: We're gonna give the Friday take practice tickets?
Speaker 3: How many you waited here too? There you go, Lovely,
Speaker 3: I thank you for no problem.
Speaker 5: We'll see tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Dale, Jared and Doug. I will say this the Ned
Speaker 3: Jarrett passed away within the last two months. He was
Speaker 3: such an incredible advocate of racing in general, but certainly
Speaker 3: this race too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: He was fantastic. And you know one of the moments
Speaker 5: did I remember most is Dale Jarrett winning the Daytona
Speaker 5: five hundred and Ned getting to call that race and
Speaker 5: how cool that was as a dad. You could hear
Speaker 5: the emotion in him as he was trying to call
Speaker 5: them that win for for Dale. And Dale's a great guy.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a really really good Guy's been really
Speaker 5: helpful here. He's not here on this weekend, unfortunate, but
Speaker 5: Todd Parrott, his crew chief back then, that was the
Speaker 5: two of them that schemed on this idea of kissing
Speaker 5: the bricks. He'll be here this weekend and it should
Speaker 5: be a little bit of fun.
Speaker 3: You know, the situation going back to when Dale Jarrett won,
Speaker 3: everybody around here was waiting on AU Michigan. You remember
Speaker 3: that situation. Do you remember that on CBS they were
Speaker 3: waiting on AU in Michigan. You go, ah, I urry up.
Speaker 3: And then I think a lot of people around here
Speaker 3: were privy to that ending because of that, and that
Speaker 3: remains in your.
Speaker 5: Mind for sure. I'd totally forgotten that. Obviously, I was
Speaker 5: worrying about the Daytona five.
Speaker 3: Exactly right. You're waiting on Michigan right there.
Speaker 4: Doug Bowles, Jeff Matthews, Alex Lamantes of Ahearst of La
Speaker 4: Montes joining us too.
Speaker 3: Did you go to the game last night.
Speaker 11: Pal, No I missed it.
Speaker 3: You missed that, You missed a really incredible offensive performance
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I watched some of it, and especially towards
Speaker 6: the end there. But wow, what a game, right what
Speaker 6: they won by thirty?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've.
Speaker 3: They put one twenty three to the highest point total
Speaker 3: in their history.
Speaker 11: So yeah, the hell of a game, man, what great.
Speaker 3: Remind people again how they can get.
Speaker 11: Involved, absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 6: If you just go on our Facebook page or our
Speaker 6: Instagram page, you will see links for the online auction.
Speaker 6: All the money goes to benefit the Indiana Fever Fund.
Speaker 6: Indiana Fever Fund is doing great work through the Pacers Foundation,
Speaker 6: and like I said, every dollar that we raise is
Speaker 6: a dollar that I will match. So so how much
Speaker 6: longer do we have to have? Until tomorrow? Around three pm?
Speaker 6: And there's still some some seats available, lower level seats
Speaker 6: in the Sire Spirit sixty seven section. Real nice, great
Speaker 6: view center court. You can see all the action.
Speaker 3: You know, how much different it is going to a
Speaker 3: Fever game than they go really going to any other
Speaker 3: w NBA game out there. It's just a completely different experience.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and even you watch them travel, they travel so well. Yeah,
Speaker 11: It's funny.
Speaker 6: It's like you go, you watch a game online, you
Speaker 6: watch the Fever, or you watch the Fever play uh Atlanta,
Speaker 6: and you're gonna see Iowa jerseys in the stands.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just crazy.
Speaker 3: You go anywhere.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you see that too.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well we can't have a suspension though here Alex,
Speaker 3: we we've got a side step the next technical foul here.
Speaker 3: What you got to do that?
Speaker 11: You know?
Speaker 6: The thing is and I think a lot of us
Speaker 6: dealt with it when we were younger. We're just a
Speaker 6: little hot heads sometimes when you're younger, right.
Speaker 3: I understand quality of it too. I think then also
Speaker 3: what has to supersede that is my team and my
Speaker 3: organization and my fans right here, because you just you
Speaker 3: can't be lost for any game.
Speaker 11: There's more at stake than your ego.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt. Yes, people tell me that all the
Speaker 3: time and they'll go, We'll wait a minute, but no,
Speaker 3: that is that is so true.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: But at the flip side, is you love the passion, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean that's what's.
Speaker 3: So cool about it.
Speaker 5: I mean, if that's what makes her it is and
Speaker 5: you're right at the end of the day, when you
Speaker 5: get that close, you're like, Okay, I got to slow
Speaker 5: down a little bit because the team needs me. But
Speaker 5: but what makes her who she is is she's so
Speaker 5: passionate and that and it just comes through and it's
Speaker 5: authentic and you care about it, and that's that's fun
Speaker 5: to watch.
Speaker 3: If it were bull crap and it was not authentic,
Speaker 3: then we, like I take issue with it because you
Speaker 3: just can't miss a game with your team and those
Speaker 3: that are out to watch you. But because that has
Speaker 3: fuel the fire, I do understand that, because a lot
Speaker 3: of people are built that way, Doug.
Speaker 5: That's why I love will Power, right, I was telling
Speaker 5: you obviously, Connor, But I will love Will because we'll
Speaker 5: just it's the emotion comes through. And so many times
Speaker 5: we take our our athletes and we sort of we
Speaker 5: sanitize them, yes, and and you don't get to see
Speaker 5: who they really are and the passion that they have.
Speaker 5: And I think that's kind of what makes you fall
Speaker 5: in love or or not like somebody, right, And that
Speaker 5: sells tickets either way. You want somebody that's gonna polarize you,
Speaker 5: all right, Alex, have you been here before?
Speaker 11: Absolutely? Yeah, we were here.
Speaker 6: Uh, we were over next door not too long ago.
Speaker 6: And then I came over here.
Speaker 3: Well you know what the owner is, Jeff Matthew's right here.
Speaker 3: Have you guys met before, but you have set together.
Speaker 1: I think we met back in the hallway back to
Speaker 1: the restrooms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let it be known that you have a toilet
Speaker 3: that is completely by itself right there to do and everything.
Speaker 1: Now next to the i MS bathrooms. You're pretty solid.
Speaker 5: The troughs, yea, we've improved those.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when you were with me last time you came over.
Speaker 11: Here, Yeah, I need a trough. I got a six
Speaker 11: year old boy. I need for sure, because you're.
Speaker 5: Cleaning the floor up.
Speaker 3: It's called the backyard. My troff is the backyard and
Speaker 3: it has been forever. Hey, one more time, alex Amantes
Speaker 3: I Hurstal Lamontes. We've got a show coming up in
Speaker 3: the month of August, coming up before a fever game.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's August fourteenth. We're going to do another pregame show.
Speaker 6: During the ride. Between three and six, we can be
Speaker 6: raising more money for uh, we'll be raising more money
Speaker 6: for the Indiana Fever Fund. And then we've got another
Speaker 6: one in September, and you know the goal is for
Speaker 6: for us to hit ten thousand dollars for the year,
Speaker 6: because that's one of the grants, the smallest grant they
Speaker 6: give away. And if we can help change a couple
Speaker 6: of local organizations here, then you know, I feel like
Speaker 6: I've done my job.
Speaker 3: What's the major focus on this too? What do you
Speaker 3: have in mind with the Indiana Fever Yeah, with just
Speaker 3: the money you're trying to raise.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so the money.
Speaker 6: They basically what they do is they work with the
Speaker 6: Pacers Foundation and local organizations from across the state. They
Speaker 6: will petition them, they'll go through their grant process, and
Speaker 6: the Fever Fund will support local organizations that are really
Speaker 6: focused on young women and youth sports and not just
Speaker 6: women's sports, but community engagement and helping just kind of
Speaker 6: grow and empower them and provide a safe place for them.
Speaker 3: We're going to get you guys all together. You guys
Speaker 3: seem like like minded individuals.
Speaker 11: Have you met I have not met?
Speaker 5: Our first time meeting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, great, I'm telling you what man, I mean. I
Speaker 3: think you guys got to get together.
Speaker 11: Works with you. Jimmy McMillan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Jimmy Iman, you're talking about Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Jimmy's the cool thing about all of us is we
Speaker 5: care about community just like you know. I mean, we
Speaker 5: love our community, we love our city, we love our state,
Speaker 5: and we want to use the platforms we've been given
Speaker 5: to make a difference and to make our communities better.
Speaker 5: And you know that's the beauty of when we get
Speaker 5: the host of Brick four hundred or a Fever game
Speaker 5: or WNBA Championship or you know, the All Star game.
Speaker 5: What's so cool about it is we get to showcase
Speaker 5: the city we love so much. And that's what we
Speaker 5: all care about. And that is the secret sauce in
Speaker 5: Indianapolis and Indiana have. And it is fun when we
Speaker 5: get to be together with people who feel the same way.
Speaker 3: Isn't it cool too? We have this platform? Who do it? Alex, Doug, Jeff,
Speaker 3: We have this platform for sure to do this, And
Speaker 3: I wouldn't feel right if you didn't give it your
Speaker 3: all to try to make everything better like that.
Speaker 5: I mean, your job is to get listeners on the radio,
Speaker 5: You take care of your clients. You're worrying about, you know,
Speaker 5: moving a beer or coffee. I'm worrying about selling tickets.
Speaker 5: But if that's all we were known for, we've failed
Speaker 5: in the platforms we've given. We really have to find
Speaker 5: a way to give back to our community, to make
Speaker 5: our community better because of the places where we are.
Speaker 5: And that is again the secret sauce of India. There's
Speaker 5: so many people that believe that and care about this city.
Speaker 3: Well, that's what's great. It's a big city, but we
Speaker 3: all know everybody and it's like still a very tightly
Speaker 3: for sure group of people to where when you can
Speaker 3: get enough people together, you can really do some things.
Speaker 5: For sure, the size of the city should not have
Speaker 5: the five hundred Pacers, the Colts, We're not that big
Speaker 5: of a city. But the way we collectively work together
Speaker 5: to make a big difference. And even the sports franchises
Speaker 5: work together so well because we don't feel like we're
Speaker 5: competing against each other. We're all doing the same thing.
Speaker 5: Let's elevate the city of Indianapolis through the sports platforms
Speaker 5: we have.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's so impressive. All of the teams
Speaker 6: that this market has. I mean it's not a big market,
Speaker 6: not at all, and all of the professional teams that
Speaker 6: we've got here, and all the support that all these
Speaker 6: teams get from not just from the fan base, but
Speaker 6: from the local businesses, the local organizations, you know, jump
Speaker 6: in to try to help, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 6: love I love the message.
Speaker 11: Doug fantastic.
Speaker 3: As my parents, Yeah, hell yes, my mom and dad.
Speaker 3: So Beth left in your parents.
Speaker 5: You know, they got to keep an eye on me
Speaker 5: because you never know what I'm gonna do. Somebody's got
Speaker 5: to police somebody's.
Speaker 3: Gotta police me. I'll tell you what, guys, you want
Speaker 3: to hang for a minute, I'll tell you guys, steel cool,
Speaker 3: Sure you got time here. All right, let's take a break,
Speaker 3: James will take a break. Come back on the other side. Jeff,
Speaker 3: we have to figure out how we're gonna give away
Speaker 3: all these tickets. We've gonna load here, and then you've
Speaker 3: got even more.
Speaker 1: We do and and the bad thing about me is
Speaker 1: I don't have enough trivia for the Brickyard four hundred
Speaker 1: to give away this many tickets. But I got a
Speaker 1: few more, okay, uh trivia questions, but uh yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna ramp this up.
Speaker 3: Let's go, all right, quick break, We'll come back. We've
Speaker 3: got Jeff, We've got Doug, We've got Alex, We've.
Speaker 4: Got a great play Speedway City Garage. You can join
Speaker 4: us to haul a parade and more coming up. Don't
Speaker 4: go anywhere. This is ninety three five one oh seven
Speaker 4: five The Fan the ride with JMV.
Speaker 5: Excuse me any special message for all the kids watching it.
Speaker 3: All, stay out of trouble.
Speaker 4: Ninety three five and one oh seven five the Fan. Hey,
Speaker 4: welcome back, Doug Bowles, Alex Lamontees, Jeff Matthews, I'm JMV.
Speaker 3: We're at the Speedway City Garage. Kevin Lee's gonna be
Speaker 3: on the inbound a little bit later on. His son
Speaker 3: has driven in the truck series a couple of different
Speaker 3: times courtesy of our friend Marcus in California Closets, which
Speaker 3: is really awesome here, and we've got merrors all the
Speaker 3: way around. Alex. One more time and remind people about
Speaker 3: what they need to do to bid on stuff right
Speaker 3: now for the betterment of everybody.
Speaker 11: Absolutely so.
Speaker 6: You can go to the Hurst Lamontes Facebook page, to
Speaker 6: our Instagram page. On the link tree there you will
Speaker 6: get a link to a give Butter Silent auction and
Speaker 6: you can go online and bid on some signed jerseys.
Speaker 6: They were actually signed. J ANDV witnessed it. Remember you
Speaker 6: saw Tamika.
Speaker 11: Sign them last night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right there. So when I was talking to Mike d'mone,
Speaker 3: she sat right there. He did, you know, what are
Speaker 3: your little school boy right here? What's going on? And
Speaker 3: Demon we're hanging out a little bit. Yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: she was so awesome hanging out like that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: she's cool with hell.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So you guys, you can bid on those auctions. Every
Speaker 6: penny goes to the Indiana Fever Fund. You will hear
Speaker 6: me on the JMV Show on August fourteenth. We will
Speaker 6: give them the money. On that day, I will match
Speaker 6: all the dollars and then we're gonna do it again
Speaker 6: on the August fourteenth, and we're gonna do it again
Speaker 6: in September as well. So the goal is raise as
Speaker 6: much money for week as we can for these organizations.
Speaker 3: Where do they go right now?
Speaker 6: So they can go right now, they can go to
Speaker 6: our Facebook page. You will see a link right at
Speaker 6: the very top there that'll take you directly to the
Speaker 6: Silent auction page.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, Alex Lamantes right there. Jeff Matthews is the
Speaker 3: owner of Speedway City Garage, and Doug Moles is the
Speaker 3: president of the Speedway and Indy Car and more. He
Speaker 3: is more right here? You got family?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my parents showed up, which is cool. Here for
Speaker 5: the holler print which starts, starts here in a little bit.
Speaker 3: And what time does it start?
Speaker 5: I think five o'clock is technically when it begins, and
Speaker 5: I can't remember. I think the trucks actually roll off
Speaker 5: about seven and they had This is literally the trucks
Speaker 5: with the race cars in them heading on over the racetrack.
Speaker 5: Where let's start unloading, get ready for the weekend.
Speaker 3: Let's give away some tickets here, guys, how do we
Speaker 3: do it?
Speaker 1: Let's do that? So I think I've got another trivia
Speaker 1: question that will be a doozy. So, so you want
Speaker 1: to do it on the phone here? Do you want
Speaker 1: to do it with people that are just in the building.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a lot of great people in
Speaker 1: this building right now. I think we ought to do
Speaker 1: it right.
Speaker 3: No lively people right now, A lot of really handsome
Speaker 3: and attractive people in this place. Not me.
Speaker 2: You're not talking about this.
Speaker 5: So these are Friday practice tickets.
Speaker 1: They are they're Friday practice tickets.
Speaker 5: So they're good for tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yep, So come out and see it. So So nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety four, ninety four. It was the inaugural event, and
Speaker 1: we all know who won that race, right, but who
Speaker 1: was it that sat on the pole? And he's such
Speaker 1: a great dude. I still text with this guy. You're
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yes, it's such a great guy story.
Speaker 1: You want the ma mand to come over and tell
Speaker 1: us right here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got it right away?
Speaker 3: Rick Rick, Rick Rick, how about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Rick Mass is such a good guy.
Speaker 1: Used him.
Speaker 5: So there you go, Southeastern US guy's got to text text.
Speaker 5: He's a really really good guy, which is a lot
Speaker 5: of fun.
Speaker 3: Rick Mast what's your favorite livery Nascar wise?
Speaker 5: Of all, my dad and mom are here, so they
Speaker 5: would agree with me. Probably it's a Daryl walterp in
Speaker 5: the Tide Car.
Speaker 3: Sounds that to me. I was gonna go trip in
Speaker 3: the Gatorade.
Speaker 5: But the Gatory Car is pretty good too, for sure.
Speaker 5: And then even Dale Dale Senior in the Wrangler Car.
Speaker 5: I mean, there were some really cool liveries.
Speaker 3: We drove the Hawaiian Tropic back in the day Hawaiian cropping.
Speaker 3: I think it was the Hawaiian Tropic.
Speaker 1: Number one was that in the movie six Pack, or
Speaker 1: actually I.
Speaker 3: Think it was in May. It was the movie six
Speaker 3: pack or it might have been a smoky in the
Speaker 3: and to too. Yes, Yes, that's a great question because
Speaker 3: I think did Joe Pleco turnover?
Speaker 1: Joe Cleco? Did?
Speaker 3: Are you for Justice's patrol car? Now we're jack.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 3: Canna see that's what you're thinking about when NASCAR comes
Speaker 3: up things like that, right for sure?
Speaker 5: Pretty sure that's good. Somebody's got to tell us who
Speaker 5: drove that car, though I.
Speaker 3: Know Hawaiian Tropic number one, Kennonball run Peyton, I gotta
Speaker 3: go to at break here you got a name? Who
Speaker 3: is it?
Speaker 5: He's looking He's trying to find out, by the way,
Speaker 5: Buddy Baker, No, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to.
Speaker 5: Be giving the welcome to the U sax Print car
Speaker 5: drivers who are racing tonight, but I'm staying here with
Speaker 5: you guys in here because it's so fun. I just
Speaker 5: want to remind people if you want to come see
Speaker 5: racing to night. We got racing at the dirt track
Speaker 5: tonight with U sax Print cars. Should be a lot
Speaker 5: of fun.
Speaker 3: My Chapel's going to join on the other side of
Speaker 3: you guys are still good hanging out. Doug Ball Speed,
Speaker 3: Why President Matthews. He's the owner of the Speedway Citny Garage.
Speaker 3: Alex Lamontes Ofhearstal Lamontes, so you got Peyton Donnie.
Speaker 10: Allison, who actually ran the Indy five hundred as well.
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Speaker 3: Speedway City Garage. Alex Lamontes of Hurst and Lamontes with
Speaker 3: us and Jeff Matthews, the owner Speedway Garage. I believe
Speaker 3: Doug Bowles is out and about right now he'll be
Speaker 3: back to Speedboay Presda. We're doing okay here, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I think we're doing okay. I mean I look around.
Speaker 3: I see a lot of new face the new faces
Speaker 3: here too. How are we doing all? You know what?
Speaker 11: Man? I love watching you be as giddy as a
Speaker 11: school girl.
Speaker 3: I'm gidding when Demone.
Speaker 6: Comes on the R talking I know about the JMV
Speaker 6: taking It was incredible show.
Speaker 3: I had people go out to his event and they
Speaker 3: talked to him and he said, man, he was such
Speaker 3: a nice guy. I love being all with him. That
Speaker 3: made me feel so good, guys, said time. Mike Chapel
Speaker 3: of CBS four and fucked at the Dines on the
Speaker 3: Andymoor on the Monif group, Paula, Hello, Mike, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm doing?
Speaker 3: Mike? I wanted to ask because you kind of chimed
Speaker 3: in on the whole Caitlin Clark thing last night. Here's
Speaker 3: what I say. It can be okay if you feel
Speaker 3: that that's that's.
Speaker 4: What you are.
Speaker 3: In this case, you are you're compelled to be a
Speaker 3: competitor and you get teed up. But honestly, when you've
Speaker 3: already done that and you're you're sitting on six and
Speaker 3: now seven in a thirty point blowout, as the team leader,
Speaker 3: the most important piece of that team, you're going to
Speaker 3: let that thing go yeah, and I understand, and.
Speaker 8: The defense is gonna be, well, she's such a competitor
Speaker 8: and she doesn't have an off switch. Well, you also
Speaker 8: have to understand the moment. And now maybe there's a
Speaker 8: couple of games. I don't know what the rules are.
Speaker 8: Once you have eight, you're suspended one game, okay, you
Speaker 8: come back, and then you get another one. You get
Speaker 8: like a couple more before you're suspended again.
Speaker 1: I don't how that work.
Speaker 3: You go to eight, you're suspended, and then two more.
Speaker 3: Every two after that you get suspended again.
Speaker 8: But at one point, then I guess what you do?
Speaker 8: You look at the schedule. If there's two easy games,
Speaker 8: easier games, you get teed up, been one to get
Speaker 8: thrown out, and then you know you don't play the
Speaker 8: next game if you play two crappy teams. But what
Speaker 8: what she's done with her fiery way she approaches the
Speaker 8: game is she's put herself one one, one reaction away
Speaker 8: from a suspension, and your best player can't should not
Speaker 8: put herself in that situation. It was unnecessary, and I
Speaker 8: understand the fire that burns in her. And somebody mentioned
Speaker 8: where that was such a soft peck maybe, but You've
Speaker 8: got to understand also that these rests don't know what
Speaker 8: the hell they're doing. They're not out there, they're just
Speaker 8: out there guessing. So don't put yourself, don't don't put
Speaker 8: that your availability in someone else's hands. Walk away, and
Speaker 8: and I don't know, the word that comes to mind
Speaker 8: is unnecessary because she's put herself with the accumulation in
Speaker 8: a spot where maybe there's something that's really valid. Somebody's
Speaker 8: really pushed your to the edge and you respond, uh, well,
Speaker 8: then the legitimate one gets you a suspicion when maybe
Speaker 8: there were a couple and there've been a couple that
Speaker 8: were that were iffy, but that doesn't matter. They're on there,
Speaker 8: so that's the only thing. And when they I tell you,
Speaker 8: when they played like they did last night, I realized
Speaker 8: Connecticut's not very good. But when you get three players
Speaker 8: that can routinely drop seventy points, as these three players
Speaker 8: can do, you can do great things that they still
Speaker 8: can't play defense they either can or won't or whatever.
Speaker 8: You know what they remind me of. You remember Loyola
Speaker 8: melop Marymount. Yeah, they were that's what they remind me of.
Speaker 8: They want to get the game set up they didn't
Speaker 8: care if they gave us easy basket is in it.
Speaker 8: They let them get going hot and heavy the other way.
Speaker 8: But but no one hundred and twenty three points and
Speaker 8: the third with the fourth quarter for mainly your backup,
Speaker 8: so they could have scored if they had a mind too,
Speaker 8: they could have scored one hundred and thirty and not
Speaker 8: bad at I.
Speaker 3: Hey, Mike, I say this. Don't get triggered by a scrub. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, she got triggered by a scrub for one
Speaker 3: play tony point blowout. Don't get triggered and compromise your
Speaker 3: participation in the future by a scrub.
Speaker 8: That's it, because maybe that's what happens when it matters
Speaker 8: and they send a the eighth player on the roster
Speaker 8: out the rough her up, and you know, she throws
Speaker 8: an elbow or whatever I mean Clark in response, and
Speaker 8: then she suspended it, and then it matters, and may
Speaker 8: maybe they're probably good enough to handle a one game
Speaker 8: suspension with the way they're playing and their record, but
Speaker 8: it's just unnecessary, and I don't anticipate her changing. It's
Speaker 8: sound of like with Andrew Luck, with the way he played.
Speaker 8: He always told us he would try to change how
Speaker 8: he played, and and he didn't a lot because that's
Speaker 8: who that's what made him who he is. But at
Speaker 8: the same time, what is it the best ability, the
Speaker 8: availability and and if you if you can't play, you
Speaker 8: can't help.
Speaker 3: Although chapel, Yeah, my chapel of CBS just kind of
Speaker 3: behave behaviorrself.
Speaker 1: But just just watch your reactions.
Speaker 3: My chapel of CBS four and Fox with you down
Speaker 3: with us. So next week Coats Camp officially gets started.
Speaker 3: What are the some of the dialogue expectations when the
Speaker 3: players come in, you guys converse with them, what are
Speaker 3: some of the expectations from Daniel Jones to John fit Taylor,
Speaker 3: to Leatu Latu, the Mooney Ward to the Forrest Bucker.
Speaker 3: Give me some of the expectations, Mike.
Speaker 8: Oh, there, they're going to talk to defensively, this I
Speaker 8: think this is a chance to be a really good
Speaker 8: top ten defense that I think they can be if
Speaker 8: if the forest there can give them some meaningful playing time.
Speaker 8: And we don't know Daniel Jones, see, I don't know
Speaker 8: who we get on Toothy when they report we won't
Speaker 8: get Jones, I don't think. But no, they're gonna be
Speaker 8: optimistic again if this team can stay healthy, which I
Speaker 8: already already saw that Carolina lost a top tier linebacker
Speaker 8: with a knee injury or lower leg injury or whatever.
Speaker 8: But I think they're gonna be optimistic again. Defensively, you've
Speaker 8: got five new starters offensively, you know, with the Tyler Warrens,
Speaker 8: and it's a good offense with Tyler Warren and Pierce
Speaker 8: and downs internally Jonathan Taylor. But the quarterback has to
Speaker 8: be healthy and stay healthy, so it'll be upfeat. It
Speaker 8: always is up beat. Sometimes you're thinking, yeah, these guys,
Speaker 8: they're talking big and they'll be you know, four and
Speaker 8: twelve back in the sixteen game season. But I think
Speaker 8: there's reason for this team to be up beat. But
Speaker 8: it just it just depends on four or five issues,
Speaker 8: and some of them is an injury. But again, until
Speaker 8: you start playing, you're not gonna know. I'm more interested
Speaker 8: next Tuesday when Chris Ballard talks with us. He always
Speaker 8: does that free camp, and he'll he'll give us some
Speaker 8: insight I think on who's aware, who's going to do what,
Speaker 8: whether a bucker is going to be on puff or calex.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 8: See the last time we saw I like here's he
Speaker 8: wasn't practicing because of the ankle. Well, that's been a month,
Speaker 8: five weeks, so he very well could have been. I'm
Speaker 8: sure by now he's running around now. Whether it's full go,
Speaker 8: I don't know. But you know, one of the big
Speaker 8: questions is when he'll be ready to really cut loosing camp.
Speaker 8: And that's kind of important because you're paid him big
Speaker 8: money and you got rid of Michael Pittman, and you
Speaker 8: don't really have a proven number three receiver.
Speaker 3: So by chapel of CBS four or Fox with It,
Speaker 3: don he might Before I let you go here, we're
Speaker 3: kind of short on time. I drive ask you this.
Speaker 3: I brought this up yesterday. Situationally speaking, is there a
Speaker 3: scenario that you looked at if the Colts lived down
Speaker 3: again to expectations in twenty twenty six to where they
Speaker 3: have an organizational change but the head coach remains the same.
Speaker 3: How much of a possibility is that?
Speaker 8: In my mind? Not likely, because then again you're and
Speaker 8: again I think Shane is one of the top offensive
Speaker 8: coordinators offensive minds in the league. Now, whether he's made
Speaker 8: enough growth as a head coach. No, I think if
Speaker 8: Carly decides to make a change. It's everything and then
Speaker 8: which only a handful of players will be off limits
Speaker 8: as far as you know. I guess core players, I
Speaker 8: guess to the younger players are draft picks.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 8: If it doesn't go well, barring injuries that really you know,
Speaker 8: complicate things, I just think she blows it up and
Speaker 8: starts over.
Speaker 3: I would agree with you on that they're just ways.
Speaker 3: For example, if they don't live up through expectations as
Speaker 3: a team and the offense looks good in the process,
Speaker 3: I kind of wonder if situations are rethought. Yeah, truetally, but.
Speaker 8: But again, then you're telling you're telling your new general manager.
Speaker 8: You know, here's your team, and by the way, here's
Speaker 8: your head coach, and here's your quarterback. It makes a
Speaker 8: lot of sense to not have let the general manager
Speaker 8: make this team in his zone. Image would be difficult
Speaker 8: from the start.
Speaker 3: Right, And Mike Chapel of CBS four Fox with the
Speaker 3: nine Tuesday will be out in front of all of
Speaker 3: it with the players and Chris Boward and everybody for
Speaker 3: the final time at Grant Park and Westfield before it
Speaker 3: moves over to Westfield six. And we'll see what happens
Speaker 3: after that. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting, Mike, it it
Speaker 3: really is. It's funny. I mentioned this at the outset
Speaker 3: of the show. I thought even more so last year.
Speaker 3: They're most of the Colts fans out there are gonna say, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it, And it's gonna
Speaker 3: have to be the entirety of the season, not just
Speaker 3: half of it.
Speaker 8: And you can't blame him. It's been it's been five years.
Speaker 8: Is up the player, So you know, at the proven
Speaker 8: league and no one gives you much when you go
Speaker 8: eight to nine or nine and eight or whatever, and
Speaker 8: they don't want to excuse the just win.
Speaker 3: Baby, Mike, I appreciate you. Man. Next week we'll do
Speaker 3: it for real, whether they're in training camp, pal, thank you.
Speaker 8: Instead of bees, and we can just talk about real seven.
Speaker 3: I know, real things and no bs. That'd be weird,
Speaker 3: although I think most of my shows a lot of
Speaker 3: bs anyway, So yeah, thanks Mike. Mike Chapel on CBS
Speaker 3: four and Fox Withty nine on the Anymore Autumn of
Speaker 3: a Group Hotline, Jeff Matthews, the owner of Speedway City Garage,
Speaker 3: How things going good?
Speaker 1: We talked a lot about scrubs, right and we did.
Speaker 1: We had some request A lot of we had. We
Speaker 1: had some TLC requests during that whole time period.
Speaker 3: No, no, who was that request for him?
Speaker 1: Denise? Denise would like to hear some TLC. We're Denise.
Speaker 3: I like Denise see nice?
Speaker 1: She went to Ben Davis.
Speaker 3: So sony Kevin Lee. I love Kevin. Kevin Lee was
Speaker 3: going he was going to be here. But I don't
Speaker 3: think he's going to get here.
Speaker 5: Vin Davis. Folks have to talk slow. I'm further west
Speaker 5: in Danville.
Speaker 1: I have to talk really.
Speaker 3: Look, I'm in Green County at the eastern Green. I
Speaker 3: don't even know if I'm allowed to talk, to be honest,
Speaker 3: Alex Lamantes, where'd you go to high school?
Speaker 11: I went to Satellite High School in Satellite Beach, Florida.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you came up and went to college Transplants.
Speaker 6: Hanover'd you end up at Hanover? How did recruiter to
Speaker 6: play football there?
Speaker 5: You can look he's a football player, you can tell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good dude right there, in good shape.
Speaker 1: No, big big is a nice way of something.
Speaker 5: He isn't good ja. I'd be happy to walk into
Speaker 5: a bar with him and feel perfectly safe all.
Speaker 3: Day Alex, Doug and Jeff and me John on the
Speaker 3: other side. You guys, sit tight, We'll come back where
Speaker 3: it's Peedway City Garage. It's all of us the rest
Speaker 3: of the way. Don't go anywhere. Ninety three five one
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Speaker 3: That's all right, let's load.
Speaker 1: Up here really quick.
Speaker 3: Doug Bowls, Alex Lamontes, Jeff Matthews, Speedway City Garage, Doug
Speaker 3: or you just told you had to be someplace?
Speaker 5: Yeah, who was telling you that? That's Amanda. Amanda runs
Speaker 5: our pr So Hi.
Speaker 3: Amanda, I am look Amanda.
Speaker 1: Hey, look ad here, she's your Amanda. She's hey, Amanda.
Speaker 3: Where does Doug have to be here? When?
Speaker 12: What needs to be at the stage at five thirty four.
Speaker 1: For a now see a stage?
Speaker 3: Where the hell is it?
Speaker 12: Fourteenth Street? He's got to walk two whole blocks?
Speaker 3: What what time has he got to be there?
Speaker 12: Five thirty four?
Speaker 1: He's fully he's fully haffinated. He'll be there and like
Speaker 1: plenty of time.
Speaker 12: You don't know what taking Doug though, Like he has
Speaker 12: to stop and talk to everybody in those two blocks.
Speaker 12: She's gonna take us just a minute.
Speaker 3: To make it there, so normally would take how long?
Speaker 12: I mean I walked it in two minutes, but nobody wants.
Speaker 5: To talk to me.
Speaker 3: Well it take Doug again.
Speaker 12: It'll probably take that full ten minutes to get down.
Speaker 3: There, beautiful, right, because as it should though, I.
Speaker 12: Mean, like he's the people's president, he's got to talk
Speaker 12: to everybody.
Speaker 3: So so what's Amanda's background right here? What we got
Speaker 3: thanks Amanda?
Speaker 5: Actually Amanda from a law firm where she was doing
Speaker 5: PR for a law firm well, and has been with
Speaker 5: us for how many years now, it's been a while
Speaker 5: five years now, so she manages all the PR sides.
Speaker 5: So Susie Elliott, who's probably the name you know who
Speaker 5: really helps works for Amanda. And that's the group that
Speaker 5: really kind of points me in the right direction.
Speaker 3: So who was it that set the JMV takeover up
Speaker 3: on on Georgetown Road.
Speaker 5: So that was a collective effort of the once higher team.
Speaker 5: So the PR team wanted to absolutely do that, so
Speaker 5: did I. So we called the ticket team and the
Speaker 5: ticket team had to make a few phone calls. It
Speaker 5: took a little bit of effort, but it was good.
Speaker 5: It was a great lokate. It was right next to
Speaker 5: the porta pots too. Well, you know, you don't have
Speaker 5: to go far to go to the restaurant right there,
Speaker 5: but last year were so far out in the Coke
Speaker 5: lot it was really difficult. So you were right there
Speaker 5: on Georgetown Road where you got to see all this
Speaker 5: stuff going on. Anything but that's Amanda and her team
Speaker 5: and Kelly and her team on the ticketing side that
Speaker 5: collaborated and said we have to make this happen.
Speaker 3: Amanda's awesome. She's awesome. She was good on the air too, buddy.
Speaker 5: Well that's she's a pr person. That's why I gave
Speaker 5: it her. I knew she'd be fine.
Speaker 3: Right, Hey, mind, everybody do dug before you have to
Speaker 3: go about uh, not only today tomorrow, this week.
Speaker 5: So tonight's our sprint car race that's starting here shortly
Speaker 5: hot laps I think start about six thirty on the
Speaker 5: dirt track there. Then tomorrow we've got practice from about
Speaker 5: to noon to two with both the Ailey Cup and
Speaker 5: the Cup cars tomorrow night. Don't forget Raceway Park trucks,
Speaker 5: NASCAR trucks out at Raceway Park, Connor daily IndyCar driver
Speaker 5: actually running out there, which will be.
Speaker 3: A lot to Beth.
Speaker 5: And Beth is a little bit nervous. I'm worried about that,
Speaker 5: but she'll be She'll be good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're not nervous, are you? I've never known
Speaker 3: Bet to be nervous for anything.
Speaker 5: World Champions always chill, World Champions, stand up jet skiers.
Speaker 5: She was out jet skiing Tuesday night with the boys
Speaker 5: and she can. I won't say how old she is,
Speaker 5: but she will outride all of that. I got the
Speaker 5: look there. And then Saturday the O'Reilly race qualifying for
Speaker 5: our Brickyard four Undre prescent of by PPG, and then
Speaker 5: that race on Sunday, so and then we get a
Speaker 5: weekend off, and then we go for five weekends in
Speaker 5: a row with six races for IndyCar all over the road,
Speaker 5: including the Washington, d C Race coming up. So pretty
Speaker 5: excited about that one.
Speaker 3: How excited are you about DC?
Speaker 5: The idea that Indy cars can race around the National
Speaker 5: Mall in front of the Capitol and the Washington Monument
Speaker 5: is pretty spectacular.
Speaker 3: Well, the President of the United States, get your politics,
Speaker 3: the idea, the idea that we're racing and capital.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he will be there, for sure, he will be there.
Speaker 5: But the mayor of d C, who is a Democrat,
Speaker 5: also is really excited about this. So it's as bipartisan
Speaker 5: as you can give. But the minute I say Washington
Speaker 5: d C. I was at a bar the other Beth
Speaker 5: and I were getting carry out waiting at the bar,
Speaker 5: and some lady looked at me and she walked past
Speaker 5: me and she came back, stood in front of me.
Speaker 5: She said I know you, said I don't. I don't
Speaker 5: think so she said, oh, no, no, I know you.
Speaker 5: And then she said, oh, you're the you're the speedway guy, right,
Speaker 5: and then she just went off on the whole Washington
Speaker 5: d C.
Speaker 3: Race.
Speaker 5: And I tried to remind her that it's the two
Speaker 5: hundred fiftieth anniversary of our country. We need to celebrate it.
Speaker 5: And the fact that Indy targets to go in the
Speaker 5: national nation's capital and do that is a pretty big deal.
Speaker 5: So pretty pretty excited about that event. Gonna be like,
Speaker 5: did the President have a lot to do with you
Speaker 5: guys getting that right? So we started working through the
Speaker 5: channels of going through Congress to get it done, and
Speaker 5: you know how things are in Congress. So the President said,
Speaker 5: this is a great idea, let's just do it. And
Speaker 5: it depends on an executive order. Absolutely, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 5: that's the problem.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I just think when sometimes when politics gets involved,
Speaker 3: it's problematic. This is not the case.
Speaker 5: Well, and most of us, most of us, whether we
Speaker 5: are on one side of the aisle or not, I
Speaker 5: can sit down together and have a reasonable conversay, no doubt,
Speaker 5: figure out how.
Speaker 3: To make that's all of us right here, all of us.
Speaker 3: I've always felt that way too. Like the last thing
Speaker 3: I ever talked about my friends is you know their political.
Speaker 5: Lean I don't give a crap for sure. And even
Speaker 5: if you did have the conversation, you figure you listen
Speaker 5: to each other and you find a way to work together.
Speaker 5: And that's that's frankly, that's the beauty of the city
Speaker 5: of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. We've always historically
Speaker 5: been able to do that. We just can't let the
Speaker 5: rhetoric on both sides drive the way we make decisions.
Speaker 3: All right, Lawyers up in here, Alex Lamontes, are you
Speaker 3: agreeing with us?
Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't have said it any better. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 6: that's the best thing about Indiana. That's why I love Indiana.
Speaker 6: I mean, you can sit down at a bar like
Speaker 6: we're doing right now, have a drink with someone and
Speaker 6: have a conversation with them and a discussion whether you
Speaker 6: agree or not. At the end of the day, we're
Speaker 6: all hoosiers, We're all the same people, and frankly, we
Speaker 6: all want the same thing.
Speaker 5: And we all care about each other. Yes, right, I
Speaker 5: mean that's the thing we want to We want to
Speaker 5: make a difference for everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally totally agree.
Speaker 5: And if I may, Amanda is going to fire me.
Speaker 5: I don't go, and I'll try and come back before
Speaker 5: you're all yeah this time, thanks Amanda, thanks for taking
Speaker 5: our boy away. Thanks well done, Thank you.
Speaker 1: But if I may add to what was said here,
Speaker 1: you know, and and and and I agree with everything
Speaker 1: that's been said here. You know, our coffee shop is
Speaker 1: every walk of every person bad. Yes, you can carry that.
Speaker 1: This is just a random drink and drinking from their beds.
Speaker 1: I mean we are in the district, soldiers, so you
Speaker 1: know we are we are you know, we're a great
Speaker 1: coffee shop that you know, we don't give a damn
Speaker 1: about your political stance, what you do, what you are about.
Speaker 3: Just come in and have fun and that's what we
Speaker 3: do here. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: We'll come back and talk to you about that. Alex
Speaker 3: is going to rejoin too. James will take a break
Speaker 3: up back come back. On the other side, we got
Speaker 3: Garth Brooks tickets to give away as well. That is
Speaker 3: on the text line of three one seven two three
Speaker 3: nine ten seventy. So get ready, you guys got to
Speaker 3: show me that you want Garth Brooks tickets, four shows
Speaker 3: coming up in August. Your chance to win.
Speaker 4: That is on the other side ninety three to five
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Speaker 4: I want you back at the studio at three one
Speaker 4: seven two three nine ten seventy. Text line James, this
Speaker 4: has to be living up to expectations for Garth Brooks
Speaker 4: four shows coming up in August at Gambridge Field House.
Speaker 3: Somebody's gonna win these tickets. James, tell me how this
Speaker 3: is going, would you please? Right now?
Speaker 1: It's still pretty slow, but it does it also does
Speaker 1: tend to kind of pick up.
Speaker 4: I don't want you to give these away. If it's
Speaker 4: gonna be slow, don't give them away.
Speaker 3: If it's half assed, because we don't do half ass
Speaker 3: around here. If it's half assed, don't give them away.
Speaker 3: If it is, If it's full ass, give them away.
Speaker 3: Let's still have half right now.
Speaker 4: It's still half assed right now, but I'm.
Speaker 3: Telling you, guys, I may just decide not to give
Speaker 3: these away. If you guys half ass this three one seven, two,
Speaker 3: three nine, ten seventy James, you tell me exactly how
Speaker 3: this is going as we close out the show? Where
Speaker 3: at Speedway City Garage today Jeff Matthews is the owner.
Speaker 3: How things going?
Speaker 1: Things are going great. I think the crowd's been awesome,
Speaker 1: and it has it's been It's been a fun day.
Speaker 3: Do you want to give away? Do you have tickets
Speaker 3: you can give away?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a plethora of tickets that are
Speaker 1: here at my disposal, but I also have two very premium,
Speaker 1: premium premium.
Speaker 3: Let's let's give those away, Okay, let's do let's give
Speaker 3: those away at two three nine, ten seventy, right like that,
Speaker 3: idea premium tickets. Now, can they get it through? They
Speaker 3: can go digital through you, Yes, so we.
Speaker 1: Can connect and I'll get the tickets to them digitally.
Speaker 1: These are two tickets to the Turn two suites, Turn
Speaker 1: two Suites, and they are incredible tickets, incredible, all included, beer, James.
Speaker 3: Let's go number nine, two three, nine, ten seventy Jane
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 1: Can we do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, James, you sent me on the phone line number nine. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the phones, we'll do this on the phones. You send
Speaker 3: me the information. I'll pass that along to Jeff, and
Speaker 3: Jeff can get them what they need to go to
Speaker 3: the race on Sunday. How about that?
Speaker 11: What about those Friday tickets there, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Buddy, We've got all kinds of Goday, we got Fridays,
Speaker 1: we got Saturday, we got we got we got tickets.
Speaker 1: Glower here. So we're gonna we're gonna do some trivia.
Speaker 3: Here's here's part of it too. I'm gonna be here
Speaker 3: for a while. So why don't if you come up,
Speaker 3: if you hear what we're talking about on the show,
Speaker 3: come up to me. And I'll give you a couple
Speaker 3: of tickets of your choice right here. Can we do that?
Speaker 1: Solid? Well?
Speaker 3: That way, I'm gonna be here at against Pedway City Garage.
Speaker 3: Tell everybody about the place.
Speaker 1: So here we are fifteen fifty two Main Street. We're
Speaker 1: at the corner of sixteenth and Maine. We are in
Speaker 1: the iconic Roster Building. There we go. We've got some
Speaker 1: Roster family still here, beautiful, yep, come over and see us.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna hang out here until eight o'clock tonight,
Speaker 1: and we'd love to see you tonight.
Speaker 3: Hey, James updates here text line for goth Brooks. How
Speaker 3: did it go? Did it amp up? Text line is
Speaker 3: starting to pop off?
Speaker 4: And our phone lines are completely full right now?
Speaker 3: All right, well, and you tell me, James, give me
Speaker 3: the winner on the phones too for these prime tickets
Speaker 3: and we'll let everybody know who won those as well.
Speaker 3: So we got that. I'll give those away as well.
Speaker 3: Alex Lamant's one more time regarding how people can get involved.
Speaker 6: Sure you can find the Silent Auction on our Facebook page.
Speaker 6: There's a link right there and on our Instagram page.
Speaker 6: But I did want to mention this Speedway Logger. What's
Speaker 6: this all about?
Speaker 11: This is pretty good?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I tell you what.
Speaker 3: Hey, we're losing weight wall, We're drink Yeah. You love
Speaker 3: this And as long as it Southport High School. If
Speaker 3: I don't have a massive wils out later on tonight,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be working at a calorie deficit tonight, even
Speaker 3: with drinking all this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, are you gonna be seeing straight tonight?
Speaker 3: I've played much better. I played much better like that.
Speaker 1: You're gonna hoop it?
Speaker 3: That is great being.
Speaker 1: I mean that's straight from pax Varm Brewery, Ada Lapel, Indiana.
Speaker 1: Love it. He makes some amazing beers and award winning beers.
Speaker 1: We've got the Speedway City I Pa. We've got the
Speaker 1: light Logger. We've got ten beers on tap of pax
Speaker 1: Arm right now and we switch them out quite often,
Speaker 1: so come and check it out, you guys.
Speaker 3: Thank you all for having us today. This has been awesome.
Speaker 3: We got tickets to give away. I'm gonna be here
Speaker 3: for a lot longer than right now. Alex, thank you
Speaker 3: very much.
Speaker 11: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff. Thank you to Doug Boll, Speedway President. Haydon.
Speaker 3: Going to see you two. James back of the studio.
Speaker 4: You guys have been awesome at the speedway, sitting garage
Speaker 4: three five one O seven five the fan have a
Speaker 4: great night.