WEBVTT - HARRISON BURTON 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.640 This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.920 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.720 Steve Smith Senior and I'm ger Little John and this 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.040 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.479 Let's get down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.920 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:29.080 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:35.080 about it? Then we're about to left you. Now it's all. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.200 We got one of Charlotte's own, born and raised in Charlotte. 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.920 He's racing with one of the oldest race teams known 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:54.960 the mankind, right, the Wood Brothers Racing Team. They have 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:59.440 been around for centuries. They were racing cars when the 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.040 Roman Empire was still raising. Might as loven you? Yeah? 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:10.240 So we have NASCAR Cup Series driver the number twenty one, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.920 I mean could have been a number anyway, number twenty one, 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:18.200 Ford Mustang. Welcome to the Cut to a podcast, Harrison Burton. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.880 Let's get to it. I got some goat ones. Alright, Um, 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:30.120 what three what three places would you love to travel to? Oh, 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.720 that's a good question. I love going to the Bahamas, 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:37.000 so probably go there be one. Uh, A lot of 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.960 my families from Poland and I went there when I 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.440 was a little kid. Was pretty cool. So I've been 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.800 there pretty neat what what how old were you when 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.840 you went too? Probably eleven or twelve? Oh that was 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.280 like two six months, probably two years, two years at max. Yeah, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.840 so it's crazy. That's not that long ago, right, it 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.560 really is, but it is to me. But uh, number three, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.840 number three probably go to Italy. I've never been there. 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:06.640 That'd be cool. Check it out. Being a NASCAR driver 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.400 stick shift or automatic, stick shift all the way. Why, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.160 it's just better. It's just well it's not better, it's 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.919 more fun. It's your store. So so the stick shift 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.480 the automatic nowadays, like if you buy a sports car, 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.400 it's gonna be automatic because it's faster than any human 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:32.480 could be. Right. Uh, but there's something cool about having 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.520 a tool in the car that you can have more 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:39.120 control over. Um, so if I was to buy a 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.440 car that was Are you allowed to buy a car 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.160 at this young age? I have I bought a car 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.760 for Yeah, you just bought it to No, I didn't 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.680 just buy it. I bought it two years ago. That's 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.120 just bought. They might not they might not sponsor us, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.560 So don't say the name that don't sponsor me anymore, 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.080 So I can't then definitely don't sus right, I wasn't. 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.000 I wasn't gonna ask um what did they automatic? Yeah? 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.679 It was they didn't have a manual. They didn't have 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.359 a manual. They didn't have So the manufacturer I drove 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.799 for at the time was Toyota, and they came out 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.360 with the Super and it didn't have a manual option. 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.120 So I got the automatic and then now drive for Ford. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.280 So I have a big f two fifty I drive 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.280 around and that doesn't have that's not a stick show. No, no, 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.520 it's not six shifts. But my race card is I'm 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.600 gonna get with that. Al right, So go ahead, and 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.960 you know, be biased. Does it look like I've ever 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.760 driven a stick shift? Yeah, I'd say so. I feel 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:34.720 like I feel like I could see it. I took 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.120 my driver's test in with a stick shot. Look at 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.920 that as a Ford Focus Ford Focus. You like how 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:45.320 I dropped that home? That's nice? It was green green 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:50.040 Ford Focus. You know, racing green is bad luck, but 0:03:50.360 --> 0:04:00.560 just trying. I'm just trying to be a legal drive racing. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:05.280 I don't know no idea. There's a about thirty thousand 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.720 different superstitions, and I've heard them all from the Wood, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.680 the Wood family, because they, yeah, exactly, they were from 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.880 you know, they started racing in nineteen fifties. So yeah, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.320 so the Roman Empire and all that was there, like 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:23.039 you said, and uh, hard to change a granite wheel, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.120 wasn't it. So the speaking of that, when they used 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.839 to race, you would just buy the car from the 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.640 showroom and then go take it to race. So how 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.599 do you know that? These people, the Woods told me, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.360 and it's just that's right, Yeah, I gotta listen to 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.919 your elders, right, So, um, they you know, they would 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.920 buy them and then just go race them. And when 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.720 they would have to change parts, they had a an 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.240 old oak tree out in Stewart, Virginia, which is where 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.520 this all started, where they would hoist the engine out 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.920 of the car with an oak tree over the limb 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.159 and pull it out like just crazy stuff like that. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.360 Where it is it's literally like changing granite wheels like 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.080 they It was from you know, stage one where they 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.800 started it. And uh, now where our sport and motor 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.120 sports in general is pretty nuts compared to that. All right, 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:15.080 She'll give me one of the superstitious, superstitious that they 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.599 told you thousand. Yeah, the most recent one was fifty 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.159 dollar bills is bad luck. And we had a pretty 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.520 rough start to our rookie season. Was leading the Dayton 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.839 of five hundred and flipped. Uh. The next week got 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:32.760 into a crash. Someone spun in front of me and 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:38.159 I hit him. The next week it was Bubble Wallace 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.320 who spun out and lots of smoke and then I 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.640 hit him in the side. Yeah, so not his fault. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.880 He obviously didn't want to spend out. I'm actually gonna 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.560 text Bubble he's he came up to me after he 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.440 said where are you going? I said, well, apparently into 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.039 your door? But what else? Right? So, uh yeah, a 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.960 whole bunch of bad things happened, right, and uh Eddie 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.560 would one of the Wood brothers. So I'm texting Bubba. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:08.120 I just said, hey, Harrison said you left up his 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.440 race the other day? What's up with that? That was 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.440 not what I said, but it was okay, we got 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:22.479 the recorded one. I want to get my phone out. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.840 I don't fix this situation. That's why we can edit 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:30.560 stuff that's true. Yeah, it's true, dang many So all right, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.839 So what's another So so the superstitionous. Yeah, so all 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.560 this stuff is going bad, and uh, Eddie would just 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:44.160 one of the Wood brothers, Eddie Eddie Eddie Tobacco. No, no, 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:49.080 I'm just trying to get it. He's he's pretty tall, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.160 he's you know, six one, gray hair kind of guy. Right, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:57.880 he's uh, pretty country guy. Tobacco though, from a guy 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.719 from Charlotte, but continued, Yes, he's hey, man, you know, 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.440 I know what's going wrong. Why we've had a bad 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.120 couple of races. Why is that founded fifty bill in 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.880 his wallet? And uh so Eddie's the problem. Eddie was 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.640 the problem. He even said. So, yeah, I'll tell you that. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.680 He's texting me, man, what are you doing that fifty? 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.640 We'll take you. He I don't know what we don't, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.080 but I didn't know it. I didn't know his bad luck. So, like, 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.240 you know, it's bad luck. He's not have no money. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.320 That's really bad luck. Yeah, that's really bad. Yeah. Beggars 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.040 can't be choosers, right. I ain't never seen a broke 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:40.520 brother got good luck. Green peanuts is bad luck. I'm 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.640 not sure why that one. What peanuts like if you're 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.600 eating peanuts before the race, you're gonna crash. Man, this 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.080 this sounds like a lot of excuses. Said how I'd say, California, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.960 when you crash and I hit you, that's you're a 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.560 rookie though. Yeah, so I don't have that many people 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.920 I don't like yet, that's right exactly. There's a big 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:04.760 yellow stripe on her bumper. It might as well be 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.360 a target. It's like, hey, kie, you have a yellow stripes, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.040 two yellow stripes on your back bumper, which those two 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:15.360 yellow obviously? Yeah, so it's I guess the old tradition was, hey, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.760 this guy is the beginner, go easy on him now, right, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.920 But now it's should they should put a student driver? Yeah? 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.480 So now that's hey, there's blood in the water because 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.720 this guy is this first year, so go hit him 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.680 out of the way. It's a complete opposite of what 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.480 the old tradition was. Uh. And now guys when they 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.200 get to cup are ready, right, It's not like, hey, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.880 you're ready, I hope. So yeah, you know, I think 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.600 I'm gonna get better as time goes for sure, but 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.240 you know you're ready. You know how to drive a car. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.839 It's really small details at that point. So it used 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.360 to be like I think I'm just guessing. How do 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.240 you know what he used to be? I think just 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.319 because my dad raced for so many years, and uh, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.680 I heard stories from him, A generation of racing. Would 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:06.480 you would you would? Would you say you are because 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.079 there's a lot of family members. Yeah, I'd say I'm 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:16.480 a second generation racer. So my my granddad, my dad's 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:21.320 dad did some racing locally, nothing too much. Uh, and 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.839 then my dad and my uncle both went the cup 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.280 and made it a cup. You're talking about my you know, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:33.520 my grandpa did some You never got beyond local to 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:38.480 be considered a professional racer. You have to go beyond local? 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.160 Is the standard? I don't know. I don't, I don't, 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:46.280 It's it's different. I'm always interested in, like the different dynamics, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:50.040 the levels of of sports. You know, you obviously you 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.120 have the weirdness you need, so hey, you gotta do this, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.480 you got, but there's so many other there's so many 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:02.080 more deep texture to the detail of what's considered a 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.880 true blue racer. Like you know, listening to and this, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.640 these are my words, and this is some of what 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.400 I heard before when he first came on the scene, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.800 Joey Logano, he was considered a you know, he was 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:18.000 not considered a real racer. He was considered a a 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.120 money racer or a video game racer William Bryan or 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.520 or this guy is you know, just not hearing that. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.120 We've had Jeff Gordon on here and listening to how 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.320 he had to open up the phone book and call 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:36.439 his sponsors. Right, what's considered the standard to be considered 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.960 a racer? Like, so you're saying the second but technically 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.800 the first guy did a little bit locally that got 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.800 the second guy, which is your dad, the taste of it, right. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.240 He may not have been as successful, but he got 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.400 he started to taste so and then now you're in it, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:58.600 you know, as your first. And there's certainly the local 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.079 guys that like when I was coming up through the 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.920 ranks that I raced with that I'm like, oh my gosh, 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.480 this guy is so good. A guy named Bubba Pollard's 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.560 one that I think of off the off the top 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.200 of my head. Uh. Race caused super late models. It's 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:19.640 a local, short trip. So imagine what you see on Sunday, right, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:23.120 the cup cars a little bit sleeker, a little bit, 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.760 a little bit lighter, so it is light it's honestly 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.720 one of the fastest cars I've ever driven. Uh it's 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.440 like uh so it's got six d fifty horsepower and 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.720 it weighs under less than three thousand pounds. So it's 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.840 he that's that's pretty light. So for as far as 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:45.080 as far as the car right now, So it's two 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:49.719 hundred more pounds. Ye, So why is that significant? So 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.600 any weight that you bring with you is more that 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.920 you have to basically pull when you get on the gas, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.679 right per driver? Know, how did they adjust for you, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.560 like say, say like after things given? Yeah, So it's 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.080 actually a big game that gets played. Now. There's a 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.240 way in every every start of the year at Daytona. Hey, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.920 we're gonna wait the drivers. Why because every car passed 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.400 away the same walk off music before you weigh in, Like, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.560 you know, it's not like us'd be cool though. It's 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.960 in a it's in a little infield care center where 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.280 you go after you crash. So do you bear? Do 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:31.240 you strip down like the guys in the combine? Yeah? 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:35.120 And they because there used to be stories of a 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:44.160 lot of non muscle individual it's all separate. It's all separate. Yeah, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:49.840 So you don't exactly exactly. You wouldn't want people. You 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.200 guys will flown. You'd be flounders at the if we 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.320 had the combine. Oh dude, can you imagine, Oh my god, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:01.440 can you imagine some of these dudes. What's crazy? I 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.439 work out four or five days a week doing what running? Lifting? 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.480 You're lifting uh, base weights like real weights or like 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:17.680 jazzer size weight. Yeah, tell me show me your workout. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:23.640 So a lot of it was was well. So I 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:28.120 was at a facility with wait moved forward. So when 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.839 I was with Toyota, wherever is that wherever you used 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.320 to being currently, I'm looking at you. I don't think 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:40.280 you're using either one of those weights. Man, I'm just 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:46.439 listen this. I'm just having fun with you because you literally, yeah, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.040 I mean you're not I'm not a built guy. It's 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.680 not secret. No, no no, no, I was. I was about 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.760 to say, you literally just got on the scene. Right 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.640 as far as what you've been on the scene for 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:59.160 a long time. Your second I think third generation racer, right, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.800 you know this this game, you know this sport. However, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.240 you just have to master your craft. You you know 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.440 all the tricks of the trade, but doing the tricks 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:14.520 of the trade actually in the trade and doing it 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.800 at the right time and doing it at the right place. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.200 That's how you master your craft. You haven't mastered it, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.960 but because you were rased by the the the guy 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.560 who's mastercrafted. Yeah, what's what's crazy is it's changed so much. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.720 So when my dad was racing, it was, hey, this 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.000 this driver is super smart at knowing what shocks and 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.840 springs and all sorts of measurement, whatever you want to say, 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.200 goes into the car. And now they have engineers that 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.720 are the smartest people I've ever talked to, that you know, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.760 can do it all on the computer, can say, hey, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.080 this is what's gonna you know optimal. This is what 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.040 is optimal for this weekend. We think we're gonna go 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.240 try it and then you're gonna feel it, and then 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.320 you're going to relate to us the information. Well, now 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.480 the driver, that driver that hey, I know what shock 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.520 goes in the car, that's sleep Because the engineers are 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.880 so good that you can't keep up with them. You 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.720 didn't go to college and learn what they've learned. And 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.160 so now it's how can I be the best driver 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.840 I can be? Obviously those guys worked on being better 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:18.080 drivers but now it's Hey, we're watching film of every race, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.520 I'm watching data on every race I'm working out I'm running. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:26.160 How does that play for you to be an optimum Yeah, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.040 race card, the biggest thing is the more of your 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:34.080 heart rate is elevated and the worst your mental capacity is. Right, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:38.840 So for us, it's a lot of decisions. You were 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:43.280 saying that as for me to confirm, No, that's that's 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.680 what people have told me, at least that that I've 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.560 worked with. What's interesting about what you just said. The 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.640 people in racing are the smartest people. Yeah, and then 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.200 I go to football and their legs people are the 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.040 smartest people. You go to baseball and there you guys 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:03.720 are the smartest people. But yet you know, not anything 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.960 with you is. But yet it's like, but the other 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:11.840 two you want the super Bowl? You know, It's just 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:18.680 like it's the game of sports has made it. Who 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.320 can have as many people that can give them as 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.040 much information? But the end of the day, you have 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.560 to do it right. Yes, yeah, absolutely, and and you 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.120 know that's that's what makes it awesome. At the end 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.160 of the day, you can have Tony Stewart who looks 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.720 how he looked and he kicked everyone's ass like he 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.080 just did. He was awesome. And you have guys like 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.200 Jimmy Johnson Carl Edwards that go run marathons, are ripped 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.920 and they kick everyone's ass. They're not ropped. Carl was, man, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.280 do you ever see Carl Edwards? Well, I mean he's 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.280 probably not you compared to people you seeing, compared to 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.200 people I've seen. Okay, I just wanted to make sure 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:57.560 we weren't in that room at Carl Edwards said ripped. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.040 I'm like, I ain't never seen a rip. Yeah, man, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.480 what do you think my heart rate was when you 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.440 were playing after a different place, or every play, after 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:14.680 a big play or not that. So that's why when 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.480 you said that, if you go back, if you go 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.199 back and look at any of my pictures. When I played, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.760 I wear my watch on my right hand, so I 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.120 used to wear a heart rate monitor and you could 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.879 look and see and I could look at see, and 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.640 depending on how my heart rate was going, there would 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.280 be times where I come off the field to let 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.000 it get that calm down. Because when I trained, like 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.560 if I was in off season right now, if I 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.880 was playing, I would train and he would make sure 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:47.600 based on these numbers, we would phase in the intensity 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:53.000 of my workout so I would not peek too early. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.080 It makes sense. That's why sometimes being a gym rat 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.560 in an organized scheduled sport, it's not good because you 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.120 can overtrain, you can you can actually do too much. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:07.639 So you probably if you're you're saying that thinking about it, 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.000 you're probably you probably need to, like you're doing m 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.280 M A or some of that stuff, need to add 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.159 something else to it to maybe just kind of push 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:20.439 or remove something to take it back. Explain to me 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.920 why the simulating part is such a key key component 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.199 to racing. Yes, it's certainly newer. Um Like back in 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:34.480 the day, they howl, do you one? Okay? Continue? I 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.280 looked twelve one. I'm gonna need some I d Yeah. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.440 If I were trying to order a beer, it's a 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.640 long process. They gotta scan it, you know. Yeah. Yeah, 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.720 because you look like you don't even you look like 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.479 you have your learner's permit. Yeah, I was racing. I 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.320 have my learners permit that So I was all right, 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.879 look how he's just smile. He's like, idiot, I've been 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.480 doing a lot. I've been doing a lot more things 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:03.560 than you have. It's a good story because my driving instructor, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.240 when I was, you know, fifteen or ever get my 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.680 driver's license, fell asleep when I was driving, like driving 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:10.879 him around because he knew I was a driver somehow, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.280 and he's like, oh, you're good. You know how you 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:16.639 know how disrespectful this is that you at your driver's 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:22.240 permit probably had like you're driving a car like we've 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:24.800 had a few NASCAR guys now and it's literally like 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:29.840 guys are driving cars in Nascar, like still in pull ups, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.760 still still in pull ups, and that's remarkable to me. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.199 It's crazy. I started when I was five. When you 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.800 look like you look like you wore a night pull 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:47.399 up to use like seven or eight. That was a 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:56.960 chuckle of Steve. You're absolutely I love cut to It 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.240 and I love it even more when you that load 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.640 us and subscribe And you can follow us on social 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.720 media too, Smithie where where at that's at? Cut to 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:11.800 It on Instagram? What about Twitter? At cut to It? Facebook? 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.920 Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr. What about online? 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:18.879 And you can follow us at cut to It podcast 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.080 dot com where you can buy merch and you can 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.560 subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:29.080 all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.680 questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother cut 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.919 to a podcast dot com. This past weekend was the 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.320 hottest race we've had all year. And there's a lot 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.480 of guys that can You can run different stuff to 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.000 help you stay cool in the race. I ran just 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.360 a fan in my helmet. You can run a suit 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.399 that you plug in that runs water through. You can 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.240 run a fan to your back. So I said, hey, 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:57.040 it's a little weird. As a little weird. It's like 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.399 when you turn the cool seed on your cars and 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.520 kind of feels like you beat yourself or something. You 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.240 know what I mean. It's not good when you're full 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.439 sweat and you turn that sucker on. It's like yeah yeah, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.520 so uh yeah. So this weekend I was pretty hot, 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.600 Like the HoTT I've been in a long time. Was 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.200 the temperature I would imagine in the car. It wouldn't 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.080 want to imagine, I just want I don't know. I 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:22.359 don't know for sure, there's no thermometer something in the 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.679 old car. Yeah, for sure, in the old car, it 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.000 would get on the hottest, hottest days you could get 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.479 two hundred forty on an average day, you get two 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:34.159 D inside the car. Okay, yeah, I can see you imagine. Okay, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:40.000 so yeah, there's there's no thermometer, right, but uh, they 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.000 did put something in and that's what they came up with. Yeah, 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.960 so it's it's it's super hot. There's no airflow in there. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.760 There's so that's why you know, the helmet fan is 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:51.840 a big deal, because it's just any fresh air. You 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:55.119 get that air that sits still in the car, and 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.840 it just gets hotter and hotter and hotter. That's when 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.119 you start kind of you know, you'll start having that 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.359 mental fatigue where you can't make good decisions you're just 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:06.520 focused on Um I just thought about it. People getting 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:11.040 mentally fatigued. Oh yes, if anybody feigning while driving, not 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:16.280 while but after pass out after races you just water 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.639 obviously not driving, not driving, not that I know of. 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:23.240 Have you ever got delirious so kind of like seeing doubles. 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.200 The worst I got I had when I was younger. 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.520 I had asthma really bad, and so I'm allergic to dust. 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:32.120 And so I was at a road course and their 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.480 sand on either side of the course and so they 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.400 get kicked up, and so I had an asthma tack 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:41.560 in the car. So about two to three laps ago 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.000 it was bad. I had kind of fallen out of 0:22:45.000 --> 0:22:47.800 the car or deal and then uh finished the race 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:52.240 and got out got my tailor. I don't know, I 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.840 just kept going. Yeah, I don't remember, you know, it 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.480 was probably I was probably fifteen sixteen, but yeah, it 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.880 was just you know, a race that got had had 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:06.720 gotten really spread out. So I was thankful I wasn't 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:08.800 really racing hard with anybody, and I could just kind 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.800 of pace myself. Uh and uh, I still finished like 0:23:12.920 --> 0:23:14.760 third or something, So it's okay. It was only with 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:19.320 a few laps ago that it happened. So so stuff 0:23:19.359 --> 0:23:21.199 like that that will jump up on you. And I 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:24.280 think if you're I think if you're prepared physically for that, 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.680 it affects you less. Let's get into a little funny stuff, right, 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:34.359 you're a family history, Yeah, man, what is the dinner 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:38.520 table looking like? What things given? With all of that 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.760 race knowledge. It's funny because we don't really talk racing much. 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:49.159 Um me and my dad in particular drew up loving 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:52.640 sports and and he we obviously both love racing. So 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:54.920 when I was at the racetracker he was, we would 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.439 talk about racing a lot of time. We just like 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:00.400 to watch basketball or football together. What's just what's what's 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:03.400 what's she? What's your dad's team? My dad's. My dad 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.000