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Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, Hi Kai? But this is sexy, isn't it?
Speaker 4: Are you sitting blue right now?
Speaker 1: This sounds like this sounds like old school Spice channel.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, hey, welcome to spice h.
Speaker 1: Oh got the wind chimes too? Or the chimes?
Speaker 4: Just hi, bab.
Speaker 6: Sauce. Do your best Barry White impression?
Speaker 1: Oh, Berry White for sure. What I don't like to
Speaker 1: say problem is towards the end he needed.
Speaker 7: Like, very good morning, all are we doing?
Speaker 8: All of his songs started out to with him just explain.
Speaker 1: He's like, I just want to feel you all. I
Speaker 1: want you to kiss me.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 10: He wanted to make sure that she knew her rights.
Speaker 1: Check your oil, Like where believe he.
Speaker 6: Was looking for consent.
Speaker 10: Everybody to know on record that I said that I
Speaker 10: was going to have sex with dude.
Speaker 1: Was just a smooth operator.
Speaker 8: Problem is, near the end he had to wear like
Speaker 8: a king size, a California king sized bed sheet to
Speaker 8: cover him because he was just a building.
Speaker 10: No, I'm thinking of somebody else. Barry White wasn't on
Speaker 10: the cartoon, right, Oh, chef, No, that was.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but Verry White like I'm going to love you
Speaker 8: a little more, the all time greatest charge, great lyrics
Speaker 8: and just gets it going. Man, oh yeah, how many
Speaker 8: children we are on this planet because Barry White's bangers?
Speaker 3: Probably many? Yeah, what were one of those? Like you
Speaker 3: know those lead ups, those ramp ups? What did those
Speaker 3: sound like again Barry White? Yeah, Like Crisa was just
Speaker 3: referencing how he normally started his songs.
Speaker 6: How did those go?
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm gonna sit down and we're gonna stud kissing
Speaker 9: and then kiss That's all I need.
Speaker 1: I'll be done.
Speaker 3: What that sounds way more like a gall that's smoking
Speaker 3: thirty cigarettes an hour for forty straight demo, because I don't, Yeah, a.
Speaker 9: Lady that smoked thirty cigarettes an hour would hawk an
Speaker 9: hour because she also a recording artist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, been sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sounds like one of her hands.
Speaker 3: And you know, speaking of speaking of mouths, is your
Speaker 3: wife's jaw brag?
Speaker 4: One good point.
Speaker 9: She was wearing it a little bit yesterday, but she
Speaker 9: has rebounded very nicely from get her wisdom teeth out.
Speaker 9: You would never know she had him out. Tommy, are
Speaker 9: you willing to wear a job?
Speaker 7: Ra?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course? Do you own one? No? No job?
Speaker 1: No job? Would you wear an accommodator like I sent him? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What's it's okay?
Speaker 8: So we've talked about this called the accommodator, so a chindo.
Speaker 6: It makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: It just it feels like it to me.
Speaker 6: But no, it feels like it has a great place.
Speaker 4: I've got one at my desk out there.
Speaker 3: You know, we can talk like strategy in form of
Speaker 3: how to you like how it gets down, but form
Speaker 3: is important.
Speaker 1: No, but yes, I see, I agree.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, let's talk strategy.
Speaker 10: Strategy, right, I mean, what if you see the guy
Speaker 10: coming at you and Andy's got it like he looks
Speaker 10: like a unicorn a spot im.
Speaker 6: He's gonna look for a place to sit.
Speaker 1: We should go over some film later.
Speaker 10: To my axes and nose, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 10: I gotta, I gotta figure it out here.
Speaker 6: It's time for the news.
Speaker 1: How do you going there, Perry and go great?
Speaker 4: Everything's awesome, hous traffic, everybody all right out there? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was pretty good, good, pretty good.
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Speaker 10: Man, that seemed like it was a minute ago that
Speaker 10: we were saying two months from now.
Speaker 4: You know, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 6: You know how dumb I am?
Speaker 1: I don't answer that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: For like the last week, I'm like, man, what a
Speaker 3: weird thing? The Wild have three games and then after
Speaker 3: the Christmas break, seven on the road, season high seven
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I didn't think for one second of why they were
Speaker 3: on the road for seven straight games, never put two
Speaker 3: seconds a thought into it. And then like three days ago.
Speaker 10: My.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's hey, how was yours?
Speaker 4: That was your drive last night to Elcho?
Speaker 6: Didn't go? I got postponed.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, that's a good idea because I drove to
Speaker 10: Harper's thing and it took me forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Once once the wind started blowing sideways and it looked
Speaker 3: like it was gonna be blizzard conditions, they made the
Speaker 3: call to postpone it. So we'll get down to Elcho
Speaker 3: in the next couple of weeks, for sure. So I
Speaker 3: was fifteen minutes down the road when I got the call,
Speaker 3: and it was like, yeah, was glad to turn.
Speaker 6: Back because it was getting dicey, It was getting dice Oh.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. Making plans is great. Plans getting canceled even better.
Speaker 6: Loved me like trivia. But yeah, that was a rough
Speaker 6: That was a rough one.
Speaker 1: So let's we'll get down there.
Speaker 4: Where was that?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 4: Oh uh? Where's it? Hold on?
Speaker 10: Remember stay with me where my top story goes. It's
Speaker 10: time for some news, by the way, in case you're
Speaker 10: wondering what's going on in the whole white world. I
Speaker 10: got there news for here, and an update on the
Speaker 10: uh proposed uh the kid he wanted to do? Uh?
Speaker 10: Who got arrested for wanting to shoot up schools in
Speaker 10: Apple Valley. Did you guys read about that?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 10: Oh, man, hold on, let me get back to it.
Speaker 10: Looks like I deleted. Apparently he went online and asked
Speaker 10: which one he should go to, and that's how he
Speaker 10: got caught. That's how they knew he was going to
Speaker 10: do it.
Speaker 1: Well, thank god crime as an adult put him away, right.
Speaker 8: That's heresy and make an example of the son of
Speaker 8: a bees.
Speaker 10: Prosecutor say teen posted photos of guns to social media
Speaker 10: with a poll asking which the school he should target.
Speaker 10: The sixteen year old suspect is an Eastview High School
Speaker 10: student who is facing charges for four felony accounts of
Speaker 10: violent threats with the intent to terrorize. The Dakota County
Speaker 10: District Court is charging him as a juvenile. The teenager
Speaker 10: remains in custody ahead of hearing it on Tuesday. County
Speaker 10: attorney said any threat of gun violence, especially when directed
Speaker 10: the schools, is taken very seriously.
Speaker 8: Apparently not though if you're tried as a juvenile, get
Speaker 8: a slap on the risk he's not going to learn
Speaker 8: from it, and part of the responsibility of the prosecutors
Speaker 8: in this situation is to deter other people from doing it,
Speaker 8: and it by throwing the absolute hammer at them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, thank god.
Speaker 8: Because then even you have to assume that they're all serious.
Speaker 8: But in the off chance that they're not and they're
Speaker 8: just joking, you got to learn that it's not funny.
Speaker 4: And yeah, he had the guns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where'd he get the guns? Right? Right?
Speaker 10: You know, I mean he had He wasn't messing around,
Speaker 10: you know, yep. Oh Jesus. So anyway, so there you go,
Speaker 10: Thank god that didn't happen. Yes, NASCAR driver Greg Biffle
Speaker 10: has died in a plane crash in North Carolina. We
Speaker 10: talked about it earlier that the North Carolina State Highway
Speaker 10: Patrols's Biffle was among these seven people killed when it
Speaker 10: was his private jet burst into flames while landing at
Speaker 10: Statesville Regional Airport, about fifty miles from Charlotte.
Speaker 4: His family was among the seven killed.
Speaker 1: Jes Louise, It's awful, especially this kind of year.
Speaker 4: Just terrible.
Speaker 10: It looks like winter's getting ready to visit Las Vegas.
Speaker 10: This weekend should be dry and mild, but next week
Speaker 10: a different story. By Christmas Eve, they're going to get
Speaker 10: in rain and start getting rain out there. Man, I
Speaker 10: love it when it rains in Vegas.
Speaker 1: It rained when John and I were out there, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: I never noticed because I'm indoors. Good point.
Speaker 8: Yet when I walk in the rain to him always.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Man, I love walking in the rain. And when it's hot,
Speaker 10: warm rain, it's even better. And that's always what it
Speaker 10: is in Vegas.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 10: Two men are okay after getting stuck on a roller
Speaker 10: coaster at Circuit of the Americans in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 6: Good nightmare, Yeah, the worst.
Speaker 10: They were suspended one hundred and thirty feet above the
Speaker 10: ground when the Circuit Breaker ride just stopped right before
Speaker 10: nine pm on Wednesday. Mechanics were able to get the
Speaker 10: coaster going again, and the two gentlemen were able to
Speaker 10: finally leave the ride after being stuck for about an hour. Man,
Speaker 10: the whole time you're there, you're thinking, well, this is.
Speaker 6: It, this is what position was the actual.
Speaker 4: Military didn't I don't have that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, likely not upside.
Speaker 1: Down, and we probably would have heard the Mighty Acts
Speaker 1: used to get stuck.
Speaker 6: Like once a month, you've googled the Mighty Acts I.
Speaker 3: Swear I was always so scared to go on it
Speaker 3: because people used to get stuck on it all the time.
Speaker 4: No kidding.
Speaker 1: Ninety degree angle?
Speaker 4: Oh up or down?
Speaker 1: Pointed up, trying to find that that's awful.
Speaker 4: It would be awful.
Speaker 6: Agree angle. Have you guys rode coasters lately?
Speaker 10: No, I'll never do last summer I've done that for
Speaker 10: the last I probably don't.
Speaker 1: Coaster days are dead me too.
Speaker 6: I love riding coast same, they're so fun.
Speaker 1: You get a high?
Speaker 6: Did Valley Fair last summer? Wild Thing was the best?
Speaker 1: So good?
Speaker 6: So holds up it does it's a sweet coaster. No,
Speaker 6: it's so good. I love coasters. Why don't we go
Speaker 6: road tripping?
Speaker 1: You and me ride?
Speaker 3: We'll do six flags across America? Yes, have you been
Speaker 3: six days before? Yeah, but it's been twenty five years
Speaker 3: or something like the one where it's like the dragon
Speaker 3: and they don't they don't put something over the top
Speaker 3: of you. It's just like a triangle that like locks
Speaker 3: down on raging Bowl. Yeah, yeah, raging you I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I've been there.
Speaker 6: Coaster of all time? That is maybe my all time favorite.
Speaker 1: Question. It's so good, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 3: Your your feet are dangling, but the cart is still
Speaker 3: underneath you, so it feels like you're just floating. It's
Speaker 3: a it's the most surreal thing ever. It's awesome core.
Speaker 6: Yes, well that's the best gurney right or whatever.
Speaker 1: Day of high school.
Speaker 3: It's got the Batman coaster, which is sweeten like you
Speaker 3: fall forward.
Speaker 6: They still have Iron Wolf, which was the stand up coaster.
Speaker 6: That was sweet core. Let's go, let's go a road
Speaker 6: trip in time.
Speaker 13: I would love it.
Speaker 4: It's about time you guys went somewhere.
Speaker 1: Cash. You're facing down by the way.
Speaker 2: One reported lightheaded, another one reported numbness in their leg, and.
Speaker 10: The people in front of the report of being covered
Speaker 10: in urine because one.
Speaker 9: Of one of them said it was the greatest day
Speaker 9: of his life. That was dwighte hot right down, dad, Yeah,
Speaker 9: he got urinated on.
Speaker 4: Why would you like that?
Speaker 1: He's into it. He likes a warm rain, just like.
Speaker 4: I guess I get it.
Speaker 6: Tell me it wasn't raging bowl.
Speaker 3: The other one that has the false drop, like when
Speaker 3: you hit the peak, they drop you.
Speaker 1: On a little platform just for a second.
Speaker 3: The trick you to think that it's like the big drop,
Speaker 3: So it's a little like ten foot platform, so you
Speaker 3: get the fake drop and.
Speaker 1: Then the real drop. I feel it, and you think
Speaker 1: that was it.
Speaker 6: Out of time.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you know this because not a lot
Speaker 1: of people know about this. It's so good.
Speaker 3: Six hour drive and it's the best coaster I've ever
Speaker 3: been on core.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 6: Or I could kiss you on the mouth.
Speaker 4: I wish you would, wow if you didn't bring up
Speaker 4: the raid.
Speaker 3: I haven't been there since I was like twenty, though,
Speaker 3: so I have no idea if it still holds up.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: If it's a little rockier ride than it was back
Speaker 3: in the day. Hopefully it's so smooth as ever, you
Speaker 3: have no idea. I haven't been there since high school,
Speaker 3: So man, clue.
Speaker 10: All right, power trip, road trip you and no, No,
Speaker 10: just you and Tommy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this can be wit just all one twin sized bed,
Speaker 1: one room.
Speaker 4: Yep, and that's it.
Speaker 10: An automatic car that's treated like a stick shift.
Speaker 1: No, we can stop it. Holiday gets some snacks on
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 6: That'd be the best time.
Speaker 1: He's shifting with his mouth.
Speaker 4: No, No, it's a good question. The answer the question.
Speaker 10: JMK and LaGuardia and Newark airports are crowded with a
Speaker 10: record high number of travelers moving around this holiday season.
Speaker 10: The TSA believes today and tomorrow will be the busiest
Speaker 10: days for travel. Triple A projects one hundred and twenty
Speaker 10: two million Americans gonna go at least fifty miles or
Speaker 10: more from home over this thirteen day holiday period, a
Speaker 10: record high and more than two percent increase over last year.
Speaker 10: Triple A says New York City is the seventh most
Speaker 10: popular domestic travel destination. Gonna be interesting getting the Vikings
Speaker 10: in and out of there this weekend, I guess. And
Speaker 10: by the way, Triple A also says, don't worry about
Speaker 10: going anywhere because Saturday the twenty seventh, just go to
Speaker 10: Saint Cloud where the Chris Hockey Band is playing at
Speaker 10: the Pinero. Yes, this is part of the news story.
Speaker 10: Tickets are available piner Place in Saint Cloud, the twenty
Speaker 10: seventh Saturday.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fine looking forward to week from Saturday.
Speaker 4: Tickets available.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 13: So there you go.
Speaker 6: That's the news, Tommy. It was an absolute dream.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Likewise, I won't see you guys.
Speaker 6: Now find out dude, that's that does suck.
Speaker 4: That sucks.
Speaker 6: So I guess Happy New Year too? Happy New Year
Speaker 6: as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: How you doing anything at all? Or you guys just
Speaker 4: go stay home.
Speaker 6: But we're going to Mexico Actually awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: Port of something Porta Barda.
Speaker 4: Yeah, do you flying the cantcun go south over.
Speaker 6: New Year's but then Christmas?
Speaker 1: I can't wait. It's gonna be the best of.
Speaker 6: You med in Mexico for New Year's Eve and New
Speaker 6: Year's Oh jeez you and sas are you?
Speaker 1: And Eddie? No good? Dudemy?
Speaker 4: Can can Corey come?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 8: He's going to show you what rage out.
Speaker 1: So good with the inlaws.
Speaker 6: It'll be great, it'll be super awesome.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love you guys, Mary, Christmas christ We're off next Friday,
Speaker 3: so we won't see you next Friday, but we'll see
Speaker 3: you what Jan two?
Speaker 1: Jan two? And I get to play initials?
Speaker 6: Hell yeah you do.
Speaker 1: I love you guys, to marry Merry Christmas?
Speaker 4: Thank you please.
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Speaker 10: It is seven twenty eight and it's time for sports.
Speaker 4: Is he over there yet?
Speaker 6: Sauce is here?
Speaker 1: Marnie just walked in.
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Speaker 9: excuse me, the Vikings battle the Giants on Sunday at noon,
Speaker 9: pregame at ten. Your Vikings are two and a half
Speaker 9: point favorites. Christian Daris and Jonavan Hargrave. We're both out
Speaker 9: of on Javon excuse me, and have not practiced this week,
Speaker 9: so I doubt we will get Christian darisaw or Javon.
Speaker 10: I truly am surprised they haven't just put him on
Speaker 10: the shelf same I thought they would this week. I
Speaker 10: really like, no, I don't know anything about anything, but
Speaker 10: I thought they would.
Speaker 9: And Brian O'Neill and Ryan Kelly were both limited yesterday.
Speaker 3: Do you think Javon Hargrave and Jonathan Allen are both
Speaker 3: one and done with the Vikes or do you think
Speaker 3: they're going to come back.
Speaker 9: I think one of them has a trickier contract to cut,
Speaker 9: and I think that one's Jonathan Allen, So.
Speaker 6: Alan likely to come back hardreg maybe not, I would guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder why. We'll see. But they got it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they got to get rid of like
Speaker 9: fifty six million dollars.
Speaker 3: No they don't. The Caps and myth you can sign
Speaker 3: whoever you want to whatever you want. Well, still your
Speaker 3: turn now.
Speaker 9: The Week sixteen started with an epic game with the
Speaker 9: Seahawks beating the Rams thirty eight to thirty seven and ot.
Speaker 9: The Hawks trailed thirty to fourteen with thirteen minutes and
Speaker 9: thirty four seconds left in the fourth. They scored two
Speaker 9: time touchdowns, got both two point conversions. One of them
Speaker 9: was basically a backwards pass that then the guy picked
Speaker 9: up in the end zone, an unbelievable play watching on
Speaker 9: social media, and then a ot The Rams scored a touchdown,
Speaker 9: but then the Hawks scored and went for two puka
Speaker 9: in the loss, two hundred and twenty five yards, two
Speaker 9: touchdowns and twelve catches. The Seahawks are twelve and three.
Speaker 9: The Rams are eleven and four. This is pretty guessable
Speaker 9: because I'm bringing it up. Marny Seahawks all.
Speaker 3: Time, Marnee and Chris and Parish and Zackenhawks Seahawks all
Speaker 3: time in the fourth quarter trailing by sixteen or more,
Speaker 3: and last night they trailed by sixteen right thirty to fourteen.
Speaker 3: Before last night in their franchise history, they had been
Speaker 3: down one hundred and fifty five times with that scenario
Speaker 3: sixteen or more in the fourth quarter. How many wins
Speaker 3: in their franchise history had they had out of the
Speaker 3: previous one hundred and fifty five times.
Speaker 1: Zero.
Speaker 12: That's an impressive comeback. It has to be a small number.
Speaker 3: Two you say two, Parish you said zero, Chris, yeah, one, one,
Speaker 3: Zachary yeah, baby.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter. Parish is right.
Speaker 1: Zero.
Speaker 3: They were zero and one fifty five in the fourth
Speaker 3: quarter trailing sixteen or more until last night.
Speaker 6: That's their first ever win in that scenario.
Speaker 9: The Rams are the first team in NFL history to
Speaker 9: lose with five hundred plus yard zero turnovers and three
Speaker 9: plus opponent turnovers.
Speaker 12: I went to bed last night and yeah, congrats, And
Speaker 12: then I got up and wasn't it literally until SaaS
Speaker 12: just read this update and said the Seahawk. But I
Speaker 12: was like, what, yeah, you assumed he was wrong? I
Speaker 12: just I was like, wow, what did I miss? Because
Speaker 12: I think Sam Darnold had just thrown an interception and
Speaker 12: it was just going the wrong way. And I wasn't
Speaker 12: really watching watching the game. It was just kind of
Speaker 12: on and I'm like, okay, and what an update.
Speaker 1: But you're right.
Speaker 3: If you hear Matt Stafford throws for four hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty seven yards, three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And no interceptions, there's no way they lost. They did.
Speaker 12: You know who would be really happy about the outcome
Speaker 12: of that game? Both of my brothers, who both have
Speaker 12: a Seattle Seahawks tattoo, and.
Speaker 3: I what they have like Sea Hawks tattoos?
Speaker 1: How did that happen? Are they also from the Dakotas?
Speaker 12: They are from North Dakota as am I. But you
Speaker 12: know I've told you about my mom's sisters that I
Speaker 12: casino trip with. They are they mar They lit Yep,
Speaker 12: margaing Colleen. They live in north of Seattle in Washington
Speaker 12: and my parents it's actually lived out there as well.
Speaker 12: My older brother was born there before they moved back
Speaker 12: and we've lived our.
Speaker 13: Entire lives in North Dakota.
Speaker 12: But my brothers have this affinity because his two aunts,
Speaker 12: those old ladies that I could see no gamble.
Speaker 15: With Margie and who main Colleen the color anti Keene.
Speaker 15: I'm sorry, colored anti Keene is a yeah, though Colleen
Speaker 15: is with the sea when you're.
Speaker 4: It's hard to say.
Speaker 1: He can all your hands out, marg G and Colleen Woodhawk.
Speaker 4: Marg G.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they gamble.
Speaker 5: Hold on and say it the gamble something about a tattoo.
Speaker 12: Yeah, because my brothers went out there maybe, I mean
Speaker 12: it's been at least ten years. They went out there
Speaker 12: for a game, as they have done before, and they
Speaker 12: both came one a game I'm sorry he Seattle Seahawks game,
Speaker 12: and they both came home with tattoos, one on the calf,
Speaker 12: one on the shoulders.
Speaker 10: Lad thank you, thank you. I'm starting a new book
Speaker 10: about Marny. What's it called superfluous?
Speaker 4: Is that a compliment.
Speaker 1: My brothers have?
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm a Vikings fan.
Speaker 3: Do you have a Vikings tattoo? I don't have any, too,
Speaker 3: same we're freaks now, we're like we're the weirdos. It
Speaker 3: used to be if you had a tattoo, you're a weirdo. Now,
Speaker 3: if you don't have a tattoo, you're a weirdo. M okay, Mars,
Speaker 3: thanks Martin Garris, you have a Seahawks tattoo?
Speaker 1: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: You played in Seattle.
Speaker 4: I played in I love.
Speaker 7: Thunderbirds, absolutely underbirds. Yeah, I had a blast out there.
Speaker 7: I love Seattle. Lorrain didn't bother me at all. I
Speaker 7: can sleep in the rain. I sleep in the snow.
Speaker 3: Is that one of those bits, like, just like the seahawks,
Speaker 3: But seahawks is not a real thing, right, say, like
Speaker 3: a fictional bird. There's no such thing as a seahawk.
Speaker 3: Same thing with the thunderbird or not? Is that the
Speaker 3: also fictional? Our logo was.
Speaker 13: A green and blue two can stamp.
Speaker 4: Oh, let me see it looked a lot.
Speaker 9: Tougher, but more or less, the internet of this building
Speaker 9: is awful.
Speaker 4: Awful.
Speaker 1: It sucks.
Speaker 10: Sunderbird is primarily a powerful mythological giant bird.
Speaker 6: Okay, there you go, fake bird.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 10: By the way, the Seahawks uniforms last night, Marn's pretty cool,
Speaker 10: right Yeah? Yeah, Like they were kind of greenish in
Speaker 10: a way that I've never seen them before.
Speaker 12: Agreed, And I like when the lower third scoreboard Zacho
Speaker 12: matches the uniforms and how it changes every week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Seahawks have.
Speaker 13: Had good uniforms for a long time.
Speaker 12: When they this year were their throwbacks from the Steve Largin.
Speaker 4: We played against them.
Speaker 12: So cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't love the neon green of that lime green that.
Speaker 12: They went too, but I mean it was distinct, but yeah,
Speaker 12: but that throwback was so I didn't.
Speaker 3: Want to any of the game because I was watching
Speaker 3: the wild win, right, Zachary, But man off air earlier,
Speaker 3: a lot of people in this room lighting up al Michaels.
Speaker 4: Oh no, really curiously for.
Speaker 3: The two departed members of Power to Morning, Joe, Tommy
Speaker 3: Olson and John Cass just how the call is?
Speaker 6: You guys are just hammering.
Speaker 9: There was a game winner last week that he didn't
Speaker 9: and you've nailed it yesterday, Zach.
Speaker 6: And when you tweeted that Kevin.
Speaker 9: Harlan is on like the Sea team, he should be
Speaker 9: the voice of Thursday Night is the third in command
Speaker 9: at CBS Sports, and at such a waste because he'll
Speaker 9: be doing Kansas City, Tennessee this weekend on just little
Speaker 9: literally just a Missouri and Tennessee. Basically, he is a
Speaker 9: national voice. He's a national talent.
Speaker 6: He's the best, all the.
Speaker 1: Respects in the world of Al Michaels.
Speaker 2: I love the guy, greatest hockey call or greatest really
Speaker 2: one of these sports call.
Speaker 1: But he he just doesn't doesn't have it an what
Speaker 1: happened last night? Though? What just a boring call? It
Speaker 1: just does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't sound interested much at all. And again
Speaker 2: I would say it's less for me about Alan the
Speaker 2: boring nature of his calls now, and it's just more
Speaker 2: about the fact that Kevin Harlan is universally loved. He's energetic,
Speaker 2: he's funny, he's he would be a great uh fit
Speaker 2: with Kirk and the rest of that Prime crew, which
Speaker 2: is all about having fun and and and energy. It's
Speaker 2: just it's a very weird juxtaposition of Al Michaels versus
Speaker 2: the rest of that crew. Kevin Harland be great, but
Speaker 2: and he's already on the payroll for Prime. He does
Speaker 2: the NBA on Prime. So it's a perfect situation. Make
Speaker 2: the call, Amazon, sauce, do you did you stay up
Speaker 2: and watch the end of the game.
Speaker 1: I did not.
Speaker 3: You did not, But you've seen it. Yeah, give me
Speaker 3: your best impression of what al Michaels did on the
Speaker 3: game winning two point conversion in overtime.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the Seahawks need this two point conversion for the victory.
Speaker 9: Very ballsy to go for this two point conversion, even
Speaker 9: though if they don't get it, they will probably lose
Speaker 9: the first seat. Isn't that right, Kirk? Yes, you're correct.
Speaker 9: Here we go. Donald stands behind the center checking out
Speaker 9: them slabs, looks over to his wide receiver, wings at him,
Speaker 9: blows him two kisses. I think that's a sign for
Speaker 9: the play. Kirk is still with us. Are you sleeping? Okay, Kirk,
Speaker 9: Here we go. Donald motions to the center to snap
Speaker 9: the ball, also waves to two babes in the stands
Speaker 9: with ginormous jugs. Donald takes the snap, drops back, looking
Speaker 9: looking right, looking left, looking all over the place. Pass
Speaker 9: rush comes in. He ducks under one guy, throws the
Speaker 9: ball to a guy who hasn't played all season. The
Speaker 9: ladies with the big jugs go wild. Seahawks.
Speaker 6: You're right, al Michaels has lost it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a little musburger in there, Yeah, buddy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little bit of Rosie in there too.
Speaker 9: The Wild beat the Blue Jackets five to Zacho and
Speaker 9: Perry for their sixth straight win. Hartman, Terasenko and Ericson
Speaker 9: that Calls scored for the Wild. Caprisof and Boldy chipped
Speaker 9: in two empty net goals. The Wild are twenty one
Speaker 9: nine and five. They battle the Oilers tomorrow at two.
Speaker 10: It's time for the Hockey Minute with Mark Parrish, brought
Speaker 10: to you by.
Speaker 4: My friends at Saint Plant State University.
Speaker 7: We are seeing now with the Minnesota Wild some all
Speaker 7: the adversity that went through last year with the injuries,
Speaker 7: they learned that they can do the next man up,
Speaker 7: especially when you're missing your best players most of the
Speaker 7: year and you're still continuing to win your playoff team
Speaker 7: to prove something to yourself. And right now they have
Speaker 7: some serious top end talent with Quinn Hughes coming in.
Speaker 7: Obviously the Boldie Ross or the Boldi ec prieze Off
Speaker 7: connection is still there, and it's just it's amazing to watch.
Speaker 7: I love watching Quinn Hughes and Brock Fraber play in
Speaker 7: thirty minutes because you know what coming down the stretch,
Speaker 7: coming into the playoffs, there's going to be nights they're
Speaker 7: going to have to play that, so I want them
Speaker 7: ready for that.
Speaker 1: And hey and you talked.
Speaker 7: We talked about depth on Wednesday, Hartman Johansson. These guys
Speaker 7: are the depth players and they're kicking in scoring. So
Speaker 7: I don't see much issues right now with us making
Speaker 7: a run this.
Speaker 3: Year, Marky Mark, Well, yeah, is this the best wild
Speaker 3: team in their twenty five year franchise history?
Speaker 1: It is? Yes? Really wow.
Speaker 7: Well with Quinn, Hughes and Rizov the goalie tandem right now,
Speaker 7: Balstaad Augustuson, there's just it's amazing right now. Our decour
Speaker 7: is terrifying. It went from a very very good, a
Speaker 7: sneaky decour in the league to one of the best
Speaker 7: instantly instantly. And I love Baalstad and Gustuson competing for
Speaker 7: that job because man, they are making each other better
Speaker 7: and better and better.
Speaker 4: Man does that go?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I concur it was. It's it's fascinating.
Speaker 2: I mean, we knew over the summertime that this team
Speaker 2: last year was was was good and they could have
Speaker 2: certainly gone.
Speaker 1: Further if there wasn't a stupid off side called.
Speaker 2: But they they you know, they got better both you know,
Speaker 2: as a cohesive unit, and as you mentioned Parish, I
Speaker 2: mean they did learn their lesson. This was a very
Speaker 2: tough time a year year ago because of all the injuries,
Speaker 2: and there were good excuses to be made.
Speaker 1: But now they've learned from that.
Speaker 2: Everybody's pitching and everybody's doing their job, and they put
Speaker 2: themselves in a very very good position. The problem, of
Speaker 2: course is uh, tough weekend had Oilers, obviously tough with David,
Speaker 2: but the headline is.
Speaker 1: Going to be on the.
Speaker 2: Second night of a back to back Colorado Avalanche in
Speaker 2: the town. Two losses all the year still and we're
Speaker 2: almost at Christmas for Colorado. They've got an unbelievable squad,
Speaker 2: but they're they're they're human babing.
Speaker 3: You know, there's you're in Tooiler's schedule and the ABS schedule.
Speaker 1: Who's that go?
Speaker 3: Why they are more afraid of us than we are
Speaker 3: of them. I don't know if that's true. I just
Speaker 3: wanted to say it all said, we're one team that.
Speaker 1: Everyone else uh knows. They got to bring it.
Speaker 2: Bet Yeah, and then I don't think they want to
Speaker 2: play us necessarily other at this point because gosh, we're
Speaker 2: playing good hockey.
Speaker 1: Five goals again, Come on, Quinn.
Speaker 3: Hughes has never lost his number of the middical Yeah.
Speaker 6: Wells and that goes into beast mode.
Speaker 4: That's hockey, I think sure.
Speaker 3: Is Vikey's news in a second William so Walach in
Speaker 3: about twenty minutes, initials in like forty five.
Speaker 6: This is the power to a warning show. I'm a fan.
Speaker 4: F Hey, Happy, Happy.
Speaker 10: Christmas, every money, Good morning to you.
Speaker 4: Hope you're feeling good, Happy Christmas?
Speaker 10: Yeah, man, Marco, Merry Christmas to you, brother, thank you.
Speaker 10: How you feeling the old parish households it feeling Christmas?
Speaker 7: It's oh, it's been feeling Christmas for a while. He
Speaker 7: did a great job getting all the lights up, all
Speaker 7: the decorations up, pretty much instantly after Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is weird to say Happy Christmas, right, but
Speaker 3: it's also weird to say Mary Halloween, Mary fourth July,
Speaker 3: Mary Valentine's Day.
Speaker 6: That sounds insane.
Speaker 3: You don't ever use the word Mary except for the
Speaker 3: holiday season. Let's start doing that, you know, Mary Saint
Speaker 3: Patrick's Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 6: Like you don't like the ring of that, Marnie, you're
Speaker 6: shaking your hand.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Mary Frost Awareness Month, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 12: Right, let's Christmas stand out? It does I feel like
Speaker 12: the holiday cheers in the era? Guy opened the door
Speaker 12: for me. Nope, it was not Zach. It was a
Speaker 12: younger man, even like maybe thirty. And he waited for me.
Speaker 12: It was a good ten steps behind him, and he
Speaker 12: waited and I said not good. I said thank you
Speaker 12: very much, and you said you're welcome. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 10: Oh, I was like, did he say I hate to
Speaker 10: watch you leave, but I love to watch you go?
Speaker 1: And then he said, have you been using vitamin C?
Speaker 4: Siah?
Speaker 1: Did he try to take did he try to tickle
Speaker 1: your sides?
Speaker 3: Whoa, you're shaking the hand of William s Wallach, William
Speaker 3: walcome to the show, William Marny.
Speaker 6: Gellner, Marniy Gello or Glener William Swash.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 13: Get there? You guys doing?
Speaker 6: Good morning?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 3: So eating prairie zone, Yeah, eating prairie Look at this dude, Nascar?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I'm so happy you came in. Thanks for getting up early.
Speaker 16: Yeah, no problem. It's great to be here and great
Speaker 16: great to be back home. Flew in last night, so
Speaker 16: good to experience the chili weather. Well, I can flew
Speaker 16: in from where North Carolina? Yeah, because, like you.
Speaker 3: Were saying, Chris, everybody's flying in and out of North Carolina. Obviously,
Speaker 3: just terrible news yesterday. We can get your reaction here
Speaker 3: in a second. But you're back just for the holidays
Speaker 3: and you go back out or what's the plan.
Speaker 16: Yeah, we go back out the twenty first, and then
Speaker 16: just spend Christmas there.
Speaker 10: I would guess that testing never ends, right testing.
Speaker 16: Yeah, honestly, this is my time off. We still have
Speaker 16: simulator time, ok, twice a week for three hours, and
Speaker 16: then actual testing is really limited in Nascars, so it
Speaker 16: kind of sucks. They can't be in the car all
Speaker 16: the time, which I'd prefer that over the simulator, but
Speaker 16: you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: It's the nineteenth.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you go back in two days, three days, sorry,
Speaker 13: three days.
Speaker 6: He's a mover and shaker with us.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have time.
Speaker 3: You can't drive Nascars stock cars in the snow.
Speaker 1: You gotta get out of here.
Speaker 10: The good part is that he got here from the
Speaker 10: airport in three minutes. Yeah, you know, I mean, it's
Speaker 10: it's time man.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Is it is it.
Speaker 10: Tough for you to get behind the wheel of a
Speaker 10: regular car and not get speeding tickets.
Speaker 16: No, no, I haven't take it. Actually what Wow? Pulled
Speaker 16: over twice, but I got out of it and it
Speaker 16: was Dad.
Speaker 6: Sauce's dad get you out of it. He's a lawyer.
Speaker 13: Now that was my own doing nice.
Speaker 6: He was probably a gentleman. Chivalry is not dead.
Speaker 3: Being a gentleman, being nice, best officer yep sometimes helps.
Speaker 10: So again, before we get moving too far, sawallis right,
Speaker 10: we're saying that correctly. Good Eden Prairie, Minnesota's own a
Speaker 10: future NASCAR star, current NASCAR star has raced everything from
Speaker 10: the Transam Series to a uh you know obviously Minard's
Speaker 10: Arcis Series. You I mean, you've been in every type
Speaker 10: of race car. What kind of racing do you prefer?
Speaker 10: Your circle track?
Speaker 1: Guy?
Speaker 4: You like the road course stuff?
Speaker 16: Well this year I really like the road courses because
Speaker 16: it gives you a lot to do. You know, you
Speaker 16: gotta change gears, you manipulate the car a lot different
Speaker 16: than the ovals.
Speaker 13: But the ovals are always gonna have my heart.
Speaker 16: That's what I grew up doing in They're the fastest
Speaker 16: and highest pace.
Speaker 10: You started at Little el Coo Speedway, which is of
Speaker 10: course where you were supposed to go last night there.
Speaker 16: I started at nine, at nine yep, in cars called
Speaker 16: quarter midgets, quorter midgets yep.
Speaker 3: So he did somebody in your family did they love racing?
Speaker 3: Or were you at nine years old just into cars
Speaker 3: and said I want to try this.
Speaker 13: No, it was really on me. And then yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Have no history with racing in your family or almost
Speaker 3: none now nothing.
Speaker 13: Was the first one to really watch NASCAR and enjoy it.
Speaker 6: So they took you down there at nine years old
Speaker 6: and you're like, I want to give this a shot.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it was a king. It's called try it. You
Speaker 13: like it, and I liked it.
Speaker 16: I did that for four years, and then moved the
Speaker 16: legend cars and did that for two years when I
Speaker 16: was twelve, and then got into a full bodies dot
Speaker 16: car at fourteen?
Speaker 1: No kidding?
Speaker 10: Can I get deep in the weeds with him for
Speaker 10: a minute, guys? Do you guys mind go for all?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 10: So William I ran a legend at Elko and Raceway
Speaker 10: Park for one year and then I ran a NASCAR
Speaker 10: Late Model at Elko and Raceway for one year.
Speaker 1: Awesome.
Speaker 4: I was terrible, I really was.
Speaker 1: I was doing rady.
Speaker 10: So when you moved yeah, right when you moved out
Speaker 10: of the tqs and to no it's just a ray Yeah,
Speaker 10: was it a is that you guys call them up
Speaker 10: here TQ mins midgets for you just court them?
Speaker 4: Okay, I got it. I grew up in Indiana. It's
Speaker 4: a different world, as you will know.
Speaker 10: So when you moved into that Legends car, into those
Speaker 10: tiny little tires, did you back it into the wall
Speaker 10: as many times as I did?
Speaker 13: I know I did not.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 16: Maybe maybe you had a few self spins. That was
Speaker 16: really about it. But I kept it clean.
Speaker 10: Turn three at Elco, going in as fast as I could. Yep,
Speaker 10: those back tires broke loose and I hit that wall
Speaker 10: so hard I can still feel it. Just back that
Speaker 10: thing in there and that car was done. You never
Speaker 10: raced that car again, Yeah, had to get a different one.
Speaker 16: That's actually one of the worst hits you can take
Speaker 16: is backing it in because you're anticipating it and you
Speaker 16: put your head forward and then you slam back into
Speaker 16: the seat.
Speaker 13: That's how I got my first concussion. Was it really yep?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Those cars.
Speaker 10: One of the crazy things about racing to me that
Speaker 10: I always find really fascinating is how much more difficult.
Speaker 10: It is in some ways at the lower ranks of
Speaker 10: the racing. To me, driving the Legend was much harder
Speaker 10: than driving the Late Model because of the tires.
Speaker 4: Do you agree?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Absolutely, And the power to wait ratio is really huge,
Speaker 16: and it's the most difficult car to drive, I think,
Speaker 16: and that's why you kind of have to start out
Speaker 16: and learning that, and then late Models it gets easier.
Speaker 16: You have more grip, a little bit less horsepower to wait,
Speaker 16: and but then when you get to NASCAR, they took
Speaker 16: away some of our horse power. So we're hoping to
Speaker 16: get some of that back to have a little bit
Speaker 16: more fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're only going one hundred and ninety yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Well that's wound up. Yeah right right right, William,
Speaker 13: you are nineteen years old?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 12: Did you graduate high school like Edenbray High School at eighteen?
Speaker 4: Last year?
Speaker 16: So when COVID hit I switched online and then moved
Speaker 16: to North Carolina to pursue racing.
Speaker 1: He did.
Speaker 6: Okay, So we did your parents stay here?
Speaker 16: My dad's here, he runs the family company. Yep, Hey
Speaker 16: he's over there.
Speaker 12: Are you living in like a village of other young drivers?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 13: Actually, everybody lives yea, they all were.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's one big Yeah.
Speaker 10: The drivers down in North Carol they get they give fires.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: It's like a camp.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 6: William is the one, the only one that survived.
Speaker 1: So you said it fourteen. What year?
Speaker 6: How old were you when you moved in North Carolina?
Speaker 13: Twenty twenty one? So I guess fifteen.
Speaker 3: Uh kind of hard though, to leave your friends and
Speaker 3: like the life that you knew, and just like I'm
Speaker 3: going all in at fifteen years old, not twenty years
Speaker 3: old like college age.
Speaker 6: We're going fifteen, just going for it.
Speaker 16: I guess it was a little bit weird, but I
Speaker 16: didn't really think about it that much, and I came
Speaker 16: home a good bit to see them because I had
Speaker 16: more time then. But now it's about three times a year.
Speaker 6: Was there was there a plan B though?
Speaker 3: Or not? Was it all just I have to go
Speaker 3: all in and if it doesn't work out, then I
Speaker 3: have the rest of my life to figure out how
Speaker 3: to get back on track. Yeah.
Speaker 16: Basically that if it doesn't work out, you kind of
Speaker 16: have to figure it out. Then if you have a
Speaker 16: plan B, that means you don't want it bad enough.
Speaker 3: I guess I've heard that actors and musicians say that
Speaker 3: a lot, that you have to go in one hundred
Speaker 3: percent without one foot out the door, because then you're
Speaker 3: not fully committing. You have to be willing to fail,
Speaker 3: but you have to go all in.
Speaker 13: Yep, that's.
Speaker 3: I don't know have the balls to do that now,
Speaker 3: let alone at fourteen or fifteen years old. I don't
Speaker 3: have that kind of gamble in me. I can I
Speaker 3: ask you one other questions? This is the dumbest question
Speaker 3: you're going to be asked in the next hour.
Speaker 13: That's fine.
Speaker 3: I have this theory, especially with NASCAR, that like you know,
Speaker 3: Bryson Deshamba had to be a golfer based on the
Speaker 3: name you don't have, you're destined to be a golfer.
Speaker 6: Has anybody in NASCAR asked you to change your name
Speaker 6: to Billy?
Speaker 3: Because Billy's Sooalwich sounds like a NASCAR driver, William SWaCH
Speaker 3: sounds like a lawyer, right like that, that's a really
Speaker 3: distinguished sounding name.
Speaker 6: How do we get you to change it to Billy?
Speaker 4: How many times are you going to asked that question?
Speaker 11: Like can't you see Billy Soalich in the Daytona five hundred?
Speaker 16: Dad's in it sounds sounds like the winner sounds a
Speaker 16: little bit more redneck, but that's exactly speeding tickets.
Speaker 1: William gets out of a speeding ticket.
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, did you say this is dad in serios?
Speaker 10: We say, yeah, yeah, you know what Starky rules. Thank
Speaker 10: you for everything you guys do.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 10: I mean, honestly, we love Starky. You guys are the
Speaker 10: best Starky hearing technologies. That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Place was awesome. We were there just a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, so back to my uh stupid questions.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so then you move up.
Speaker 10: Did you run Alko ESK late models a lot or
Speaker 10: did you go straight down to North Carolina run light Moss?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 13: I went straight down to North Carolina.
Speaker 16: And then the next time I raced at Elko was
Speaker 16: when the Arkha Manards series went there. Got the first
Speaker 16: year I got second, and then the the last year
Speaker 16: I went, which was I think it was last year.
Speaker 16: Only last year we won that race in a three
Speaker 16: wife finish. It was pretty cool to put that show
Speaker 16: on for the fans.
Speaker 10: Do you find that it's much more difficult to run
Speaker 10: the lower rungs of racing because the drivers are less.
Speaker 16: Predictable sometimes, yes, but the fields aren't as dense in
Speaker 16: the competition. But I'm going to be running some late
Speaker 16: model races this year more than I did last year,
Speaker 16: and those are just really fun races to just keep
Speaker 16: going and stay active because we don't have testing all
Speaker 16: the time in the actual car.
Speaker 3: Back to going all in when you're fourteen or fifteen, right,
Speaker 3: that means you have to on some level have a
Speaker 3: little bit of fearlessness to you And now the fact
Speaker 3: that you're a professional driver, how much fear is involved
Speaker 3: on any given race? Do you have any fear or
Speaker 3: is that a huge problem to even have that seep
Speaker 3: into your brain at all?
Speaker 16: It's definitely an issue if it's all the time, maybe
Speaker 16: like your first time at Daytona, you know, you don't
Speaker 16: know what to expect, so you get some butterflies, but
Speaker 16: you kind of have to feel in control and know
Speaker 16: what you're doing and feel like you know what you're doing,
Speaker 16: and then it all just kind of come together and
Speaker 16: you'll get really comfortable. Once you're comfortable is when you
Speaker 16: start pushing the car harder and you get faster.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, I've told this story on the air and
Speaker 10: I will said, do you remember the name Kevin Siwinski.
Speaker 10: Have you ever met Kevin?
Speaker 13: I don't know if I've ever met him Bill.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So he was technically my teammate. I was way
Speaker 10: above my pay grade. I was racing for Country Joe
Speaker 10: Racing just because I had a sponsor. That was kind
Speaker 10: of how it was. Right, And I'm early in the
Speaker 10: racing season driving the late Model.
Speaker 4: I had this very fast car.
Speaker 10: The car that I was driving had won the championship
Speaker 10: at Alcoe the year before, right, but I wasn't going
Speaker 10: fast enough in it. I was qualifying like midfield and
Speaker 10: a car that should have been on the pole. So
Speaker 10: Kevin takes me out one day to practice and he says,
Speaker 10: follow me around the racetrack. Don't break until I break.
Speaker 10: Get on my tail. I don't care if you hit me.
Speaker 10: Stay on my tail, but don't get off the gas
Speaker 10: and hit the brake until you till I do. I said, okay,
Speaker 10: I mean this, William. I could not physically keep my
Speaker 10: foot off the break because every time we went into
Speaker 10: the corner, I was thinking I'm going to die. There's
Speaker 10: no because you get there's a certain point where the
Speaker 10: car sets and you can feel your butt cheeks kind
Speaker 10: of the right rear tire set in the corner and
Speaker 10: you know you're set.
Speaker 4: You're okay.
Speaker 10: I could never get the car to that spot. I
Speaker 10: was too afraid. That's when I knew I couldn't be
Speaker 10: a race car driver.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's tough. You really have to have that feel
Speaker 16: in your butt. Like you're saying, it's true.
Speaker 4: I know it sounds weird, but it's true.
Speaker 13: It is.
Speaker 16: It is weird, a lot of people probably want to
Speaker 16: understand it. But to go that extra mile, you kind
Speaker 16: of have to do stuff you're not willing to do
Speaker 16: and be uncomfortable. And whenever I take somebody in my
Speaker 16: simulator at home we use I racing, they always think
Speaker 16: as soon as they get off the frottle they just
Speaker 16: slam on the brakes, and then they don't.
Speaker 13: They're not even at the corner and they're stopping.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So, but it's completely different what people think, and you
Speaker 16: have to be really smooth.
Speaker 13: I'm a thoddle on the break.
Speaker 16: We really don't use much brake on tracks that are
Speaker 16: bigger than half a mile.
Speaker 3: Well, oh, heavy note, But in your young career, have
Speaker 3: you ever crossed paths with Greg Biffel.
Speaker 16: I have a few times. So the first time I
Speaker 16: met him was when I was a race fan. I
Speaker 16: went to Texas in fifteen, and you know, when you're
Speaker 16: a kid, you meet the drivers and they come out
Speaker 16: of their hollers and they sign your stuff and then
Speaker 16: go back in. But I remember he was a really
Speaker 16: genuine guy and just really nice and a lot of
Speaker 16: the drivers are you know, signing stuff.
Speaker 13: Go, But he talked for a little bit.
Speaker 16: And then the last time I met him, I think
Speaker 16: was two years ago at a late model race at
Speaker 16: Tri County in North Carolina when he was doing all
Speaker 16: the help for the hurricane victims in North Carolina. They
Speaker 16: had him be the Grand Marshall and so we got
Speaker 16: to meet him briefly before the race.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: Terrible yep, super tragic.
Speaker 10: Yes, a lot of traveling man, that's always there's a
Speaker 10: lot going on. All right, Yeah, we should break and
Speaker 10: come back and continue to meet our guests.
Speaker 1: Yep.
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Speaker 13: I am.
Speaker 16: I'm excited to get to get one right.
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Speaker 3: rest of the Power Drip Morning Show. After this on
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