WEBVTT - The Texas Mile 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.880 Welcome to Car Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio. Hi, 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.160 and Welcome to Car Stuff. I'm your host Scott Benjamin 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.399 and I am Kurt garn Well. We've got one today 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.280 that I think is going to pique your interest and 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:14.720 hopefully the interest of a lot of our listeners as well. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.759 We're going to talk about a very specific event, a 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.119 very um it's kind of I think it's one of 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:21.880 a kind. I don't I've never heard of an event 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.520 like this any other place in the world. Really, it's 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:28.160 different than a drag race, but it's called the Texas Smile, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.880 and it has a lot of similarities to a drag race, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.279 but this is a unique competition of speed and uh, 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.239 and it's worthwhile for us to dig into this. And 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.400 I do want to tell you, Kurt um, just so 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.000 that you're not not taking off guard by this. But um, 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.239 we we have done a previous episode of this. You know, 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.720 this archive goes back all the way to two thousand 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:51.199 and eight, and back in August of two thousand twelve, 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.160 we did a an episode that really was kind of 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.440 the ins and outs of the Texas Smile and kind 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.600 of what it's all about and where it was and 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.000 everything and the record holders that were you know, the 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.880 current record holders, and how some strategies I guess to 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:05.560 to get the best time, and you know whatever. We 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.520 just had a whole bunch of topics that were we 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.240 covered in there. Of course, all of that's changed now 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.600 since since two thousand twelve, and I mean it's seven 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:16.399 years later. You can imagine that not only is technology 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.120 growing and leaps and bounds, you know, since then, Uh, 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.240 you know, the guys building the cars are learning a 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.520 lot more, and they're and they're they're going faster and 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.720 faster every year. There's been some notable events that are 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.080 things I guess events, you can call it events. I 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.759 guess that happened. And uh, there's even been a change 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.600 of venue since then. I mean, it's just just real quick, 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.040 and I want, I'll be honest with you. We're gonna 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.080 jump into the topic a little bit later. There's a 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.080 little bit of other stuff that I want to talk 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.520 to you about before we start here. But I want 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.360 to talk to you just just a second about what 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.280 you what's your gut feeling about the Texas smile. I mean, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.960 just just like a general when you first heard about 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.360 this initially, I compared it to a drag race. Um, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.680 But as I looked into it a little bit more, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:03.040 I drew vast differences between this particular type of racing 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.120 and a drag race. First of all, it's a time 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.240 trial type set up. It's not two cars aren't competing 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.760 against each other. It's more like a qualifying event, and 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.919 a drag race would be more than a head to 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.799 head race. But but what I mean getting we'll get 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.200 to the specifics I think, but but getting to like specifically, 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.160 what you thought when you first saw like maybe a 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.720 car going I'm gonna say I'm above two hundred miles 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.320 per hour. That's not the record, by the way. We'll 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.200 tell you what the record is later in the show. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.240 But let's see the first time you saw a car 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.560 achieve two hundred miles per hour in one mile? You know, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.839 from standing still? I mean, it's it's it's crazy, isn't Yeah, 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.840 it is crazy. I'm used to seeing drag races in 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.160 a quarter mile, very different types of cars. Yeah, it's not. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.120 It's not over in a few seconds. So there's a 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.240 lot of factors that come into play. Um, cooling is 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.200 one of them. Yeah. Um, we saw some interest in 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.440 cooling tactics, didn't we Yeah, normally they would cool the 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.839 car with air flowing through holes in the car. That's 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.480 not the way to go fast. Do you want to 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.919 make the car as slick as possible. So there's other 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.720 techniques that they use, the cool engines down. That's a 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.200 good way to put it. I like how you said that, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.840 because like you can't have a ton of openings and 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.280 vents and I guess full face of a vehicle that 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.480 you normally would have. You're trying to minimize that because 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.600 these are modified cars we'll talk about, and there's there 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.639 are different tactics that these racers employ to go and 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.840 do what they do on these Uh. Well, it's two 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.480 weekends a year. And again, all of this we're gonna 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.640 get too, I promise, because the Texas Smile Is is 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.519 definitely an interesting and unique event in a lot of ways. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.040 And you can see my notes are crazy again today. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.680 I have a pile of notes in front of me 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.800 and and for new listeners or listeners that aren't familiar 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.400 with with my note system, I I'm very analog. Before 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.440 we begin, I've got a kind of a banged up 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:48.360 front bumper on my car and it's got a crack 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.200 in it right now. So I'm looking to do something 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.960 that's called this. This is the term I've seen used 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.880 for it, called the drifters I think it's called the 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.480 drifters stitch. Is that with zip tized. Okay, I've seen 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.000 that before. Okay, Yeah, and you know what, It's surprisingly 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.080 easy to do and surprisingly holds well really well. Um, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:10.080 I've done it already on this repair, just in a 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.240 minor way, but I did it in a very not 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.640 haphazard I mean it looks good. You can't even see 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.320 them hardly that that's there. It makes the makes the 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.360 crack and the bumper disappear really and holds everything together. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.279 It's it's just you drill a couple of holes on 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.760 each side of the crack and then run a zip 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.280 tie through and you do that a couple of times. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.160 It looks like like stitches that you would put in 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.760 somebody's you know body, you know, head arms, wherever you 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.480 get to cut. Um. It's it's a lot like that. Umm, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.680 I've always cracked it. It's kind of funny, yeah, like 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:39.720 anybody would go and get stitches at the doctor. It's 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.800 it's very similar for your bumper and it's it's a 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.200 low cost, easy way to do repair. I mean, you know, 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.160 I guess it depends on the color of the vehicle. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.080 I've got a dark, dark blue vehicle, so I'm using 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.080 black zip ties, and uh, you know, the wound in 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.880 the in the bumper pretty much disappears. It's it's really nice. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.200 And I think I need um maybe at the most, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.839 like two more stitches to make this whole thing work out. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.000 You're in there at the moment right now, I've got three, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.680 um three, and I mean I need two more. I've 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:08.120 I've just discovered that, you know, the the supporting structure 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:11.119 behind it was jostle just enough that it's not quite 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.960 holding up in the corner, so I need to add 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.520 some to the corners. I know this is all very 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:17.719 uh specific to to me and my my car, but 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.360 I wonder if anybody else out there has has either 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.760 done you know this this drifter stitch, or has heard 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.480 of it or anything like that. If you haven't look 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.000 at it online, you look at some photos online and 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.320 you'll see some good versions of it, some bad versions 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:31.960 of it, and it looks kind of neat. It looks 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.920 like like a Frankenstein kind of repair made to a car, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.920 but um, it works in a pinch, and it definitely 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.480 is not going to cost you a whole lot of money. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.960 Makes it makes a huge improvement in the way the 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:46.080 car looks after you know, a minor a minor incident. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.880 I've had a minor incident my car, and they employed 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.159 this technique a lot up north, I believe. Is that right? Yeah? 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.320 What what do you mean? Well, that's where I've seen it, Okay, Well, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.240 like where Boston it snows a lot there, so maybe 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.159 there's they you hit things a little more often. The 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.520 one I saw last was I didn't count, but it 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:09.679 looked about like forties stitches in the corner of a bumper. Yeah, no, dint. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.799 It was just a straight crack. It's weird. It's about 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.719 forties sometimes holding it it almost looks like a decal 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.960 that somebody's put in the car. Doesn't close to appreciate 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.760 it completely. Yeah, it's interesting, and that's a great theory 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.040 behind behind why maybe you would see this more in 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.520 the north. I guess that's true. I just got a 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:31.320 new bumper. Every time you know a little something happened, Scott, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.880 what happened? Tell you the story or is it too painful? 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.880 I will tell you. You You know what, Yeah, I had 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.120 a little incident here in the office area in the 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.680 parking structure. Bumped the wall, just put it. Was it 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.159 one of the columns, And now you're gonna make me 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.120 tell the whole story. I'm not going to know. It 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.400 wasn't It wasn't a column. Now it was on one 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.279 of the ramps. But um, anyways, there's so much damage 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.680 on those columns down there, and I'm wondering who's doing it. 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.800 All that was that was a first for me and 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.560 hopefully hopefully now it's been the last. But Okay, to me, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.840 this is like, this is really personally upsetting because I 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:10.000 try to keep them looking almost new inside and outside 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.600 as long as I can, and I've been pretty successful 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.920 with it my whole life. This little minor incident with 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:19.000 the front end is really really upsetting to me. And 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.000 you know, I know, you can take it to the 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.800 body shop and just be done with it, but it's expensive. 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.640 And I don't know, maybe it's too much inside baseball 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.200 about my own vehicle, but but I think a lot 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.560 of people find themselves in the same position and look 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.400 into that. Um, you know that the drifters stitch if 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.400 you want to for a for a simple answer, an 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.800 inexpensive answer, it's uh, maybe try it yourself. Yeah, it's 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.200 an option. It's an option. Maybe you could even practice on, 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.000 you know, a Junkyard bumper or something if you wanted to. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.760 But it's very easy to do, very very simple to do, 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:51.560 and uh and a lot less money than taking it 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.280 to a body shop a lot less sure. Yeah. Okay, well, listen, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.120 I I probably have wasted more than enough time. I 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.800 think maybe it would be a good time to take 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.040 a rake and we can come back and then finally 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:14.880 begin our talk about the Texas Smile. And we're back 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.040 in your host, Scott Benjamin, and across from me is 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.560 Kurt Garen. How you're doing, Kurt, I'm doing well, Scott, 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.200 still hanging in there, huh okay, okay. I'm gonna keep 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.600 checking in with you until finally, you know, one day 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.560 I'm gonna say, you know, I'm your host, Scott Benjamin, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.240 and one day you're gonna I'm just gonna jump right, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:33.440 You're gonna be like, and I'm kurk Garen and today's 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.600 a beautiful day or whatever I do or now something 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.880 like that. It's a real beautiful out there. Actually is 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.840 it's a really nice day, you know. And you know what, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.080 now that we're talking about beautiful days, I guess we 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.160 probably should mention that it will probably be a beautiful 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.600 day in late October in Texas, just guessing when they 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.800 are running the next edition of the Texas Smile. This 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.439 is an event that runs twice a year. They're running 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.680 in March, which is no problem for them. There's gonna 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.440 be no snow. Of course, you might might have issues. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.160 I don't know if they ever have or not. And 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.679 then there's another one in October. So it's a it's 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.600 run twice a year every year, and this year they 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.880 are running it at a new place actually they have 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.880 for a couple of years now called the Victoria Regional 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.120 Airport in Victoria, Texas. And they've completed this race since. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.080 And I keep calling a race, I don't mean to 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.559 do that. It's we should just say event maybe and 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.160 just call it an event or speed event. Yeah, and 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.480 it's weird they call it. And here's the funny thing 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.840 is they put it in the in the genre of 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.640 auto show, and it's not an auto show by any means. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:31.960 I don't I don't know why they did that. But 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.120 I see it more as like a contest or even 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.880 a test of your vehicle, or an exhibition, an exhibition 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.920 of speed maybe um approving ground. Yeah, I think a 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.520 lot of people do look at it as a test event. Yeah, sure, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:45.880 I think that's how they view it. I mean it's 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:47.520 a chance for them to go out and just show 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.160 what they can do, show it they can put together. 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:50.880 It's not a show in the traditional sense where you 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.480 walk around the car and peek in and look at 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.720 the interior, but you can see it run down the track, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.679 which is nice. Yeah, I mean, it's it's nice to 0:09:58.679 --> 0:09:59.959 be able to do that because a lot of times 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.800 you don't see cars in motion. You go to a 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.480 car show and you see all these fantastic vehicles, but 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.280 they're all parked. You know, you might get to hear 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:08.280 them start off or watch them pull onto a trailer 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:09.760 or something like that, but this is one where you 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.439 get to go and see them actually run. It's it's 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.600 like you know, going to the drag races, like where 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:15.560 it's amateur and pro and you know, it's kind of 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.440 a big mix. And yeah, I guess any day at 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:19.200 the track really, but you don't get quite as up 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.040 close and personal when you're at the typical racetrack unless 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.360 you spring for the optional pit pass and you know, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.480 get to go and walk around the vehicles and get 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:28.400 a little more hands on or not not hands on, 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.920 but just you know, closer to them and talk to people. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.080 Let's just kind of go through some real simple basics 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.040 of this whole thing, and then we'll move on to 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.079 some specifics, because there's some interesting specifics. I guess. The 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.480 most notable change, I guess is the change in venue. 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.600 I mean, this is its third home since two thousand three. 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:47.240 It's been run since two thousand three. It began in 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.640 a place called Goldiead, Texas Goliad and I look at 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:54.720 how to pronounce Goldiead. That's that's correct. Uh, go ahead. 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.160 It was ran there until about I think March of 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.960 two thousand eleven, so it ran there for a good 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.680 long time, around eight years. The funny thing about this 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.439 is that it started with only about thirty five people. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.920 It was began by a couple out of the Houston, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.360 Texas area, a guy named Jay Maddis and his wife 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:12.880 Sharon Madis, and they had a company I think that 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.679 they called J and S. Maddis Motorsports Incorporated. And I'm 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.000 sure that that's still around. I think I think it 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.520 is in some way, of course, A couple still still 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.320 around there. They're still running this thing. It started again, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.080 thirty five participants and almost no spectators because no one 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.920 really knew about the event. It wasn't, you know, heavily promoted. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.800 I guess the people that participated probably told friends maybe 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.400 and that was about it, but very few people showed 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.240 up to that. It's a lot different today, isn't it. 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.800 I Mean, we've they've changed venues three times. The second 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.120 move after they went from Goliad, they went to up 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:48.839 the town's name is Beville, Texas, and the forum or 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:53.680 the actual venue's Chase Field Industrial Complex. Then they finally 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:57.559 relocated just in seen to the new place that they're running, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.960 which is the Victoria Regional Airport, which is in Victoria, Texas. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.240 Now these are all kind of around the Houston area, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.760 which makes sense, you know, from where the couple began, 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:07.640 and they don't want to move it too far, I 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.880 guess because it's you know, it's a it's a regional 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:14.760 specialty event. But the number of spectators has gone up immensely, 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.719 from this, the number of participants has gone up incredibly 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.080 from from the first days. Just it's become a huge, 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.760 huge thing. It's one of the only places you can 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.440 go and enter your car and test it out in 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:29.440 an event like this. Of course, there's regional drag strips 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.680 that you can go to every Thursday night or whatever 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.920 and see what you can do. But to get on 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.800 a mile in a straight line, have professional timing equipment 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.840 and medical staff and just everything there for you to 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.120 do this. It's it's rare that you find out. Don't 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:44.960 how much is it to to sign? You know, I 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.120 was looking at number I might have an average person 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.360 can't do it? Do it anymore? Well, I don't know. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.920 I mean I wouldn't be so sure for an event 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.240 like this because it was like they try to keep 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:57.000 it somewhat open. Let me just I'm just gonna just 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.160 let it out here. Why not? I why hold back 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.320 on this? But here's here's a just an idea of 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.000 what you're paying for these. You know, it's not it's 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.920 not a high dollar event like you would think. I'm 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.000 looking right now. It's information that came from the Texas 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.720 Mile website, which is um Texas Mile dot net. So 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:15.120 if you want to go there and look up all 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.040 this information, you can, but just see you get an 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.079 idea of how low dollar this whole thing is tickets 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.240 for it's a three day event, it's a whole weekend. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.640 If you're a just a spectator, twenty five dollars per 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.839 person for all three days. You just get a risk 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.240 band for twenty five dollars. It gets in for three 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.600 days of activities. And now that you can even if 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.800 you if you wanted to, you could stay on site. 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.880 You can camp there, I guess on the on the 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.040 on the property, which is really cool for a very 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.360 low price. I mean, I know it sounds well. Just 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.480 compare this to to renting a hotel room. But one 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.480 night is only sixty bucks. If you want to want 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.280 to stay two nights is undred and twenty three nights 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.880 is a hundred and sixty dollars. And that's if you 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.280 want to set up you know, a motor home or 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.400 a camper on site and stay there. I don't know 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.760 if they allow tents. Uh, you know, the information wasn't 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.320 pacific about that. You can contact them and find out. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.079 And I'm not trying to sell tickets for them or 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.200 anything like that, I promise, but it says they do 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.880 not sell out of tickets, but I guess they never 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.839 run out. But the number of spectators here and you know, oh, 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.920 I should say this, kids under twelve are free, so 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.360 that's a bonus too. I think that there, yeah, so 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.440 or free is really the price point for something like this. 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.800 I don't know what the registration is for the drivers. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.920 It can't be a whole lot of money. There's they're 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.400 shaded seating, there's bleachers, but they say you probably should 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:31.960 bring a folding chair if you want to just kind 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.240 of hang out and you know, one of the grassy 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.840 areas and watch and catch everything because it is a 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.080 long day. I mean they start in the morning early, 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.120 goes all the way until dusk. I would guess, you know, 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.960 it's not sunset but dusk. So it's um. It seems 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.120 like a good mix of cars to uh, mix of 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.360 shops that are really into the speed and then just 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.680 average folks with nice cars. I'm just want to go 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.760 out there and run the mile. There's a healthy mix 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.680 of both amateur and I would call him professional. There's 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:02.400 these people that do the speed runs are professional race shops, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.160 professional engineers, absolutely. Yeah, they're they're in shops building cars 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.680 to specifically run in this event, and we're going to 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.240 talk about one car and specific that's what was built, 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.720 the record Holder. Of course, we'll get to that later 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.480 in the podcast, I promise. Gosh, I'm all over the place. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.680 I apologize Kurt and and listeners because, um, I'm just 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.400 skipping all over the place. But I feel like there's 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.920 just that there actually is a lot of new information. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.440 You know that the spectators and the number of entrance 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.240 is something we should talk about, because I just kind 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.560 of breezed over that a moment ago, and I said, 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.200 you know, back in two thousand three in Goliad, they 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.480 had thirty five participants and almost no spectators, So there 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.240 are very few people there outside of the timing individuals 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.320 and you know, the staff that operates it and the participants. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.400 There were very few people there outside of that. Well, now, 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.680 as of two thousand eighteen, or at the two thousand 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.640 eighteen event, I think it was the March event, they 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.280 had something like twenty hundred spectators at this thing, so 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.600 it's really grown in popularity. I can only assume that 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.320 it will go up, you know, with social media, you know, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.400 reach and all that, you know that they're kind of 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:06.160 able to garner more attention from this community and from 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:08.040 you know, people that are interested in this sort of thing, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.560 and not just from the United States, but everywhere. People 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.120 come from, you know, from Mexico, from Canada, from Saudi Arabia, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.479 from France. They're from all over the world now participating 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.840 in this thing, which is really cool. And the number 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.880 of participants they went from thirty five again in two 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:27.760 thousand three, is climbed steadily now they allow something like 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.120 two hundred and fifty or more participants. And one thing 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.280 about this particular event, when you throw it back to 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.440 the beginning of spectator type racing, which I guess goes 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.560 back to the beginning of the car um the fact 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.920 that you can watch these cars do this thing and 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:44.640 maybe it's something that you can go and watch with 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.600 that hope of maybe one day you can get your 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.360 car out there and do it. Unlike going to a 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:54.040 professional sports car racer indiecr NASCAR, you can't really dream 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.400 of doing that if you're just the spectator, the fan. Yeah. Well, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.720 like you you said earlier that this is a nice 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.160 health the mix of people that have built a car 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.920 in their garage and want to bring it out and 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.119 try it. It could be a really like kind of 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.560 a hot street car that they have just never been 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:11.320 able to really push to the maximum, to the limit. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.360 And it also could be like these shops that specifically 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.480 build cars for this event with the one mile run 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.199 in mind, and that's the main goal, and that's all 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.000 they do. They just do that with that one car. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.200 And you know, they might have a customer that comes 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.439 in and says, I want to be in this, here's 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.239 my budget, here's the car I want to start with, 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.760 here's you know whatever. You know, they have lots of 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.160 sponsors and all that is. It's a lot like professional 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.479 racing would be for some people. But you don't what 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.760 you don't see is you don't see like a Formula 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.159 one team pull up with their F one car and 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.040 run this mile. You don't see and and honestly, they 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.720 would probably be beaten by some of the guys that 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:49.199 build cars in their own garage, which is unbelievable to me. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:53.400 I'm and it's it's such a strange contest and maybe 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.960 maybe we should talk about just like I hope them 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.320 saying this right way, the right way, but some of 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.640 the uniqueness of this event because there's so many things 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.760 about it that are different. So, first of all, it's 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.720 a full mile run. It's not a quarter mile like 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.399 you would find in a dragstrip. It's not a long 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.040