WEBVTT - NASCAR Driver William Byron 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.600 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.879 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.039 Steve Smith Senior and i' and this is cut to it. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:17.400 Good do it? Good do they's getting down to do it. 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.360 Good do it. We asked the questions you always want 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.720 to know, but no one ever asked, let's cut to it. 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.400 You ain't heard am about it, then we're about to 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:41.159 let you know. It's all I hope to hear you do. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:46.639 All right, Hey gee, what's up? Man? What's up? I'm 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.160 gonna not say what's going on, so I'm gonna try 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:54.520 to switch up mind, switch it up, switcher whoa, that's 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.200 afternoon afternoon, Good day, afternoon, my after room, Good day, mate. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.560 You just didn't purpose um. You know it's There are 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:10.720 some funny people in the world, and in our production team, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:17.920 we have a young lady named Sarah. The Sarah is 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.399 O c D. She makes sure we do this this 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.600 She's like, wait, like you can't let just when we 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.800 need to start. She's awesome because I am not O 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.360 c D. I'm kind of like whatever. But Sarah came 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.000 in today and she had on glass. She had glasses 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.959 on her shirt in the middle, hanging from a shirt, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:45.200 hanging from a shirt as if they are reading glasses. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:50.560 However they are not. No, so I said, those are 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.680 nice glasses, and they are very nice, glass smooth, except 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.280 their fashion accessories. They do not have a prescription, not 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:05.080 one thing. Now, I said to Sarah, I said, there 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.600 was your god. She says, oh, no, tell my glasses. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.400 They just look good. But yes, she puts them on 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.919 before we start recording. She needs them to see which 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:21.240 is the best. But it gets best. But there, So 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.200 I said, well let me. She said, what you gotta 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.120 always have accessories. No, that's a female thing. So I 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:32.040 don't get it, and I get it. So I said, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.560 I said, so if you were to get twenty minutes 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.880 down the road to your house and you have to 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.800 take you twenty minutes to get back, would you go 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:50.240 get him? She goes, oh no, I would not. Oh okay, 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.119 but she said, but I would for a red bull 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.960 when one of her vices. But here's the best. Then 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.960 she tells me when she's driving, she's she's a police officer. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.000 She takes the glasses off, as as if it's gonna 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.040 make some sort of a difference. She goes, I don't 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:17.520 want to get pulled over or look bad and they 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.600 think I need them, Yes, and I did, so that 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.080 led me to and I said, are you a bad driver? 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:28.400 Still again her glasses, her non prescription glasses on her face. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.600 Her response is, or I'm a horrible driver? Like how many? 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.960 How many times have you been pulled over? Just just 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:41.360 just raise the number twenty six or twenty seven? Top? 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.800 And why have you been pulled over twenty six or 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:50.080 twenty seven times? She's not a good driver, suspicion of something. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.920 She needs to probably get her eyes checked. We'll get 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.320 off the most wanted list because you got twenty six 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:05.320 pullovers and you're wearing now prescription glasses. You probably need 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.360 to get your eyes checked, right, and and your and 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.320 your record expung And she and now she has her 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:20.360 glasses on and she's recording. They're not real. We love, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.200 we do, but this is hilarious, though, it is hilarious 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.440 twenty six times, like out of the twenty six times, 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.479 like give us examples, like how many of them have 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:38.599 you gotten tickets for? Just number? How have you gotten 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.200 fifteen tickets and still have a driver's license? Did you 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.760 have to go to court for it? No? Actually a 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.160 lot of times I get like a you know, like 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.080 a warning because I'm a girl. But you know you're 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.640 talking to two brothers, so we don't know. She was like, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.240 you know, I'm like, no, my black gas, I got 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.599 going over twenty six times. I got a record my 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:04.880 car getting searched. What you're doing over here? Can I 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:10.920 help you? I'll get back onto microL fifteen times. But 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:17.480 my lawyer when you say, oh, my lawyer, you gotta 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.240 do it, don't retain them. Yeah, I got a public 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:25.000 defender because if I get another ticket at like a 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.680 moving violation, um, then they could take my license away 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.240 for a year. And most people that doesn't happen to 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:36.760 unless they've been breaking. So okay, so what is some 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.240 of your movie violations that you have experienced? Please please 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:44.359 take us down that road? Just speeding and then so 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.880 like a bunch of recks, are you okay? A bunch 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.400 of recks which you've never been injured? Right? Okay, Well 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.400 that's that's the most important. He has not been injured. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:08.640 But she what what I've total three cars I've had. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.839 I didn't know this was gonna be about me today. Listen, Karen, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.640 don't get off. We're trying to we're trying to welcome 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.280 people into the cut to it room, the aura. Everyone 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.960 has to know about our teams, and you were just 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.440 first on the list. I've only total three cars. How 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.040 do you total three? Complete? Take us through one of 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.520 the car accidents? Please? Oh? Um, one of them wasn't 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:42.400 my fault. Hey, that's what I swear. It wasn't me. 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.679 That's what every criminal says. It's a jailhouse full of folks. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.240 It wasn't me. I tried that once. It didn't work. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.440 What happened? What happened? Um? The my hood flew up 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.960 while driving, so I pulled over. You were full and 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:03.080 just surprises you close it first? How did your car hood? 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.159 I don't know. It's really old vol though. Okay. I 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.800 just so happened to be near a fire station, and 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.520 thank goodness, these fire remember helping me try to close 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.240 thet I know the sounds unbelievable. Well I don't hold on, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.120 hold on. Let me tell you what I tell you 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.920 who it sounds unbelievable for for some of the black pholds. Listen, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.960 that's who sounds unbelievable. They're just some things. We just 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.800 have different learned speed. We do have different learning spirits. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.600 Like a black guy with a tattoo stops in front 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:37.320 of the firehouse right in my hood of an old 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.960 vovo pops open. Three firemen are not coming to assist me. 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.080 It was it was three. Oh yeah, and some guys too, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:50.720 weren't there search on? So three guys with brad approach. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:54.640 A black guy's a bad joke, so go ahead. They 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.680 were hoping to try to close the lid and make 0:07:56.680 --> 0:08:00.640 it so latch. Such good samaritans. A drunk driver plowed 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.600 into my car. Okay, So I wasn't even in the 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:08.600 car for that one. Okay, Hey, you missed the key 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:16.200 word that one. What about the other two? Really? Okay? 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:23.040 So I flew off an embankment and dune we're doing 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:39.400 nice off, We're just gonna. I didn't really need to 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.600 wrap this band up. Please take me through flying off 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:49.200 embankment because I didn't. I just got the look my 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.000 biscuit that flew off the plate. I didn't drop some 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.480 crackers on the floor. My dog has eaten my salad. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:07.120 But flying off hi bank I just have never heard continue. Um, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.760 I you know, whenever there's like no, no, I do 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.200 not know. You know there's a pothole and and well 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:21.679 I overcorrected. I mean there are some wine and roads 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.520 and boone, so maybe that's it over corect. I miscalculated 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:33.800 that one. Go ahead, Michael Jordan's I took out part 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:37.559 of a guardrail and two trees and they had to cables. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.040 So you went out in the blaze of glorious. What 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.480 you say, Hey, did they do a sobriety tests on site? 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:49.000 I have had to sobriety tests, but not that day. Um, 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.000 and both times I had not been drinking at all. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.080 It was just I was driving a little bit a 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.240 little bad. Did you notice the speed in which she 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.520 tried to at the end of that sentence? Beginning next 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:08.760 she hit that. I was driving that bad the same 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:13.680 way she hit that in bank two day fast all right, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:19.440 last the last one. Please, I'm loving this because you 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.080 do such a fantastic job with our recording. But I 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:31.160 did not know you are kind of bad, kind kind kind. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.680 I didn't see this one coming, like when you see 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.920 people you go. She didn't hit it in bank, man, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.040 Oh sorry, go ahead, go ahead? Last one, last one. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.439 I had a CRX. You you had is the right 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:52.400 word former in high school, and I did not see 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.840 a car that was stopped. It was turning left and 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.840 I just wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, the 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:03.960 car was at a bleat stop right. I would say, 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:08.080 I'm distracted, you know with what driver? Well, I don't know. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.240 You got distracted about podcasts or that was actually in 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:23.840 high school there wasn't a podcast the radio. I would say, Actually, 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.280 podcasts have helped I haven't had a wreck. Um, I've 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.280 had a ticket in like three years. I haven't had 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.959 a wreck intend And I think it's because I stay 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.719 on task better because I'm listening to to podcasts as 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.960 opposed to music, which makes me kind of you know, daydream, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:45.640 you know, you know, m hmm. Podcasts have saved her life. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.800 Have you all been in rex Hey? Not to that extent, 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.760 Like we do to all our to all our guests, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:56.200 we thank you for your time. Um, we value you 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.400 and m God bless all the other view close. That's 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.960 on the roll with s get out the way. Hey, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.800 who do we have next? Coming up? On the cut 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.320 to a podcast? We've got William Byron, driver of the 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.959 number twenty four Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, a former Rookie 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.120 of the Year in the kN N Pro series and 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.480 one of the up and coming young stars of NASCAR, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:31.280 William Byron on the cut to a podcast, William coming up, 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.080 You're about to get iced up. Their questions selected at 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.600 random that you have no idea of what's coming. There 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:38.839 also may or may not be follow ups to each question, 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:44.679 So Smitty, go ahead and ice them up. Your favorite 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:51.040 ice cream flavor. Flavor? Uh, probably chocolate chip cookie, though 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.400 Jerry's as pretty good. Will knows that Chi. Can we 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:01.680 call you chill? Will chill? Will you? It's good? So 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.760 did a little research research team. Best scene in the 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:12.200 movie Forrest Gump. Best scene? So I was in South 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.760 Carolina a couple of weeks ago, and I would have 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.439 to say, like the shrimp boat scene when he when 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:23.760 he jumps off and he just starts Yeah, when Lieutenant 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.560 Dan is just like finally happy with himself and he 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.440 he jumps off and goes rides off into the sunset. Okay, 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:36.560 like that one. If you can lose one of these senses, Okay, 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.360 which one would you be okay with losing? First of all, 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.800 do you know whoa any of the how many six right? 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.559 Sixth sense was a movie? Yeah, it was a movie. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:56.440 It's only five five. Let's let's go, let's so, what 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.559 what are the what are your six? And then tell 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:06.600 us for the rest of us mere mortals clearly, Yes, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.920 he is a man. I mean if I had to 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:14.240 lose one, no, no, no, no, let's say all over, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:21.560 let's give us a six of your taste, hearing, vision 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:29.960 and uh feel I guess yeah, and then yeah, like, okay, 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.920 good job. Now which one of the five would you 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.960 would you would? Would you be? Okay? Were losing for 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.680 the rest of your life? Done zo? You know? Probably 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.080 since I race, probably smell I don't you smell a 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:50.080 whole lot car? So I can I can do without that? Okay, 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 all right, you don't need to know if something's burning. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:15:01.000 I mean you can. I'm just saying, don't you smell 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:05.800 something burnon? Yeah? Maybe so rubber? Yeah a little bit. Yeah, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.640 he's only had a track, all right, last one? Last one? 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:19.160 Which superpower? Would you choose? Flying or being invisible? Uh? Flying? Why? 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.720 Just because you could? I mean, you can cover a 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.560 lot of ground if you're invisible, like you're just not 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:28.920 noticed by anybody. So that doesn't sound too cool, sounds 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.600 kind of creepy, like that Invisible Man movie. It's kind 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.800 of creepy, So I got it. Cool. Cool, alright, so 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.280 let's get down to it. Take us through. Who is 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:45.200 william as the twentysomething your old NASCAR guy? What was 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.760 your upbringing here in Charlotte? Yeah, what did you experience? 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.160 So for me, I, um, so I played a little 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.600 bit of football as a kid. That's pretty I was 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.840 like linebacker actually, which doesn't make a lot of sense. Yeah. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.720 I stopped growing out in ninth grade and then I 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.520 went to racing. But now, I I played a lot 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.720 of different sports as a kid, but really for me, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.840 racing was kind of what I watched all the time. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.760 So when I, um, when I would come home from school, 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.760 I think I was probably four or five years old, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.480 probably five years old, and I turned on the TV 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.960 and watched a NASCAR Truck Series race And so to me, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.200 that was what got me hooked. And so my dad 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.280 every year would ask me, you know, what's one event 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.320 that you really want to go to and and uh 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.040 be a part of. And you know, is it a 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.360 football game? Is it? Um whatever? Baseball game? And I 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.560 said a NASCAR race? And so we we went to 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.840 Martinsville Speedway in Virginia when I was six years old 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 and uh sat up in the stands, watched the race 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.480 and was hooked ever since. I went to probably six 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.160 or seven races a year after that until I was 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.760 fourteen years old, and then got into um a race 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.520 car for the first time. I didn't know how to 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.840 use a clutch, didn't know how to use sick shift 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.480 anything like that. So it's kind of difficult. But once 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.520 I got going and kind of um, you know, got 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.360 the rhythm of it. Um. It actually started before that 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:04.959 on on I Racing, which is kind of a virtual 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.240 racing platform, so um. So yeah, it's just been something 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.480 that's been kind of at my heart ever since I 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.240 was five years old. Really, all right, so you brought 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:18.199 it up first. So I spoke to a few NASCAR guys, right, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.919 regular fans, and then some other fans and then some 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:26.359 other people that are in NASCAR, and so I asked 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.760 that there's two gentlemen that that kind of my uh 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.640 NASCAR liaisons. Yeah, we got some inside we got but 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.199 but these two guys, uh that I know, one of 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:40.359 them U fifty sixty years old and they are NASCAR 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:46.440 through and through, and so I asked them about you, right, 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:53.960 and I consider them true blue Nascar. Um, yes, they 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.199 like live and breathe. They said, look, if you're not 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:01.399 my driver, I will talk about everyone else as like 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.720 they're nobody, but my driver is the best. And I 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.640 was like wow, And so I said, okay, so William. 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.199 What about William as a driver. What do you think 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.520 about him? They said, Man, he's a young I Racing 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:19.879 virtual racer. MM, well, explain what a virtual race I 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.439 racing is, because I don't know like we think of 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.879 When I first heard that, you are just some PS 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.919 five kind that's what I thought. I was like, I 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.640 thought it was like somebody gave him the NASCAR oh 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:37.840 three and so yeah, he played it online. Give us, 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.080 give us understanding what I Racing is. Yeah, So I 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:45.520 Racing is. It's probably closer to like a flight simulator. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.720 For you know, if you're so if you're trying to 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.840 be a commercial pilot or you're trying to be a 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.280 private aviation pilot, you're probably gonna have some kind of 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.400 flight simulation training. And I feel like I Racing is 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.040 is definitely closer to that. You know. Now for for 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.240 somebody who's never been on it, it's probably they don't 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.800 understand that because So what they do and I racing, 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.440 is they scan the tracks. So they go and it's 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.520 like a bunch of money to go and scan each 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:13.639 race track. And they stop a golf simulator, so I 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.880 get it. They go in and literally scan the whole 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.480 golf course, like the river, the pond, the old bee, 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.040 which I'm add a lot of times in the out 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:28.359 of bounds sections, right, And so I get that party. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:32.520 I did not know that they did that for the 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.560 iration because I just I thought they just it is 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.239 a PlayStation on steroids. That's what I saw, the same thing, right. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.560 You know, we don't have some dumb questions, Yeah, I 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.880 say super dumb. I'm talking about when they when they 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:49.560 say there's no dumb question. No, we got a whole 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.520 shuffled dumb questions. Yeah, I'll put myself out there. I'm 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.560 gonna ask. Yeah. So they scan the tracks every every 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:03.439 like oscillation in the track, every bump. So just like 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.440 the you know, racetracks have like small like if you're 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.160 driving down the road, you're going eighty miles, you might 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.280 feel a couple of every nook and cream kind of 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:14.480 every pothole and every little there's not a lot of 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.719 potholes but but yeah, like it'll be you'll have like 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.960 banking changes in little variations in the banking and they'll 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.199 have all that stuff simulated. And is that only like 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.640 the is the bank is like the high area where 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.840 the wall is and stuff. Yeah exactly. Yeah. So so 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:34.680 so you're in this eye racing virtual. Why does that 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:40.320 benefit you in becoming a NASCAR or does it keep 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:43.439 your your tools sharp? Like what is the benefit of that, 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.440 because a lot of the narrative has been well you 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.680 just eye racer, just virtual NASCAR guy, you know a 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.480 real racer. Yes, you're not a real racer. That's that's 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.760 what some people would say. I don't believe that we 0:20:55.920 --> 0:21:00.200 use simulation as like it's a monumental tool and racing now, 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.679 so we don't have any practice now with with the 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.280 COVID situation. So so all the teams do is use 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.600 simulation to to basically simulate what the car needs to 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:13.120 be set up as so like the ride high, the 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:16.240 shocks in the springs, everything in the car is all 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.920 based on The teams have a computer basically and they 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.040 say this is an ideal LAPP that the driver would 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.400 would drive and this is how we're going to set 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.680 the car up. So that's really what I Racing is 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:28.280 a part of that, and it's more of a part 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.040 of it for a driver perspective, to try to sharpen 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.600 your tools, like you were saying, and um, you know, 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:35.919 it's just a tool. I mean, but definitely when I 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:37.760 was getting started, I had never been in a real 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.320 race car at you know, thirteen years old. It was 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.879 the only tool that I had. So how can you 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:51.399 not be legally capable of driving a regular car but 0:21:51.520 --> 0:22:00.520 you can get a NASCAR can drive yeahs waivers, Yeah 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.280 you have to sign a waiver, but you don't even 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.520 have a Yeah you're not legal. Yeah, it's crazy. I 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:08.400 mean you So, racing is kind of like a fraternity, right, 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:12.680 It's like it's like a community that if you are 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.560 chosen to be a part of somebody's race team, you 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:19.399 can you can submit an application. What do you do 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:25.720 a fraternity sponsorship there? So you can buy your way in. No, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:28.200 I mean there's some of that, but it's there are 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:33.600 some drivers that are considered um rich racers. I'm not 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:38.480 going to say who. Yeah, No, I mean there it's 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:42.320 it's kind of a balance of like the guys that 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.160 you know come in and they are from a racing 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:47.359 family or something like that. You know. For me, I 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.320 wasn't part of a racing family. So for me, it 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:52.320 was going out to the Legend Car Track which is 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.520 out at Charlotte, MA Speedway and racing. Um yeah, it 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.200 used to be lows and so they have a fifth 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.680 mile track outside. It's kind of like where you cut 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.199 your teeth. So I think, um, you know a lot 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.360 of kids do that and kind of work their way 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.639 up through those different ranks. We have to take a 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:12.800 break and the morning anything, we gotta pay some bills. 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:20.200 You got check. I love cut to It and I 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.160 love it even more when you download us and subscribe, 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:27.359 and you can follow us on social media too, Smithie 0:23:27.400 --> 0:23:30.560 where where at? That's at? Cut to It on Instagram? 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:35.639 What about Twitter? At? Cut to It? Facebook? Cut to 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:39.679 It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? And you 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:42.120 can follow us at cut to It podcast dot com 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:45.439 where you can buy merch and you can subscribe to 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.560 us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got all my 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:53.040 answers questions. Um yeah, I got all my questions answered. 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:55.639 That's what I'm here for, a brother, cut to a 0:23:55.720 --> 0:24:02.680 Podcast dot Com. So I was talking two m R. 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:07.760 Hart Jr. Talked to him about you and he gave 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:13.480 me this information, which is basically, you've embraced the narrative 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:20.000 of being known for a I racer virtual racer. But 0:24:20.160 --> 0:24:24.480 he told me that that's not necessarily true. You have been, 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:31.320 like you said, racing at a young gauge. So well, 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.920 is is he kind of true on that or you 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:36.080 just kind of embraced that. Yeah, I'm an eye racer, 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:40.040 but you've really been You've been UM driving for a 0:24:40.119 --> 0:24:43.800 long time since you're what years old, fourteen? And so 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:48.560 really for us, um, you know, when I was so 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:51.000 I raced for Dale in late models, which is kind 0:24:51.000 --> 0:24:53.320 of like a it's a it's a full size car, 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:55.560 but it's not a full speed car, like it doesn't 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:57.760 go two miles an hour. But that's how I got 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.600 to know Dale. And I do really think the I 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:04.640 racing thing has become definitely part of my my story, 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:06.879 but you know, it's not all my story. Like I 0:25:06.880 --> 0:25:10.240 I really I raced, Um, I've raced for ten years 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:13.240 now and a pretty long time, not as long as 0:25:13.280 --> 0:25:15.120 some of the kids, you know, grew up racing seven 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:18.199 years old, but you know, really for me, and you know, 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.600 I've been able to win in each series and and 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.520 progress forward and um, you know one Rookie of the 0:25:23.600 --> 0:25:26.399 Year I think four years in a row. And and 0:25:26.960 --> 0:25:29.040 you know, won the championship in the in the series 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.159 right below the Cup series, which is kind of it 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:34.000 would be like your college level sport. And so you 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:37.040 win that championship and then you're able to move up 0:25:37.040 --> 0:25:39.920 into the next level. So um, so yeah, I raced 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:42.320 for Dale in that series and we have a great 0:25:42.480 --> 0:25:47.040 relationship through that. And then you worked with Kyle Busch 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:51.840 as well. Yeah, so I know Dale and Kyle are 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:59.359 very similar working with um. Would you say, no, I know, 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:04.040 if you picked you quit down Kyle is Uh. I've 0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.520 been in some meetings with Kyle where he just lays it, 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:10.240 lays it to everyone, and Dale is a little bit calmer. Yeah, 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:13.760 it doesn't really do that much. But but but wouldn't 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:17.160 you say obviously both of those individuals having as much 0:26:17.160 --> 0:26:19.880 success of both of them having UM, would you say 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.040 you picked up a little bit of everything from both 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:25.600 of those. Yeah. Kyle to me, Kyle kind of taught 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.399 me the uh the basics of of racing racecraft, you know, 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:32.240 like he he taught me, you know, how to be aggressive, 0:26:32.240 --> 0:26:35.520 how to how to manipulate other cars, other people on 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:39.080