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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks.

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Speaker 1: And we continue with part two of our conversation with

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Speaker 1: Gilbert House right after these brief messages from our generous sponsors.

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Speaker 1: So we have Samantha's death and then this. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put words in your mouth, and

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly not trying. Nobody knows what you're struggling with

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Speaker 1: and how hard that must be unless you've gone through yourself.

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Speaker 1: So please don't mistake what I'm saying here. But it

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Speaker 1: feels like you and Nicole suffered a decade long depression.

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Speaker 2: Try to in twenty years, because I mean, we still

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Speaker 2: we we still want on vacations here and there. But

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Speaker 2: there was there was always that you could always look over,

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Speaker 2: even when she's sitting on the beach in Hawaii, you

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Speaker 2: could see that emptiness center.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It was just all the time. What if Samantha was here,

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Speaker 2: What if Samantha's here, she would have babies, now, we'd

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Speaker 2: be grandparents. What if what if she could not get

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Speaker 2: that out of her head? She could not she couldn't

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Speaker 2: move forward, She couldn't move forward, you know, And I

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Speaker 2: just everybody thought we were never gonna make it. They

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Speaker 2: gave us two years we'd be divorced. But I'm not

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Speaker 2: that guy. I just I'm not that guy.

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Speaker 1: Was that rough?

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Speaker 2: Oh it's like I said, She she just you know,

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Speaker 2: they they try to they try to give her stuff

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Speaker 2: to help her sleep, because see, she fell asleep that

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Speaker 2: morning and when she woke up, she was gone. So

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Speaker 2: she regretted falling asleep, so so sleep at night. She

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Speaker 2: she has to force herself to go to sleep with pills,

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Speaker 2: you know. And and so I battled that, and you know,

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Speaker 2: of course, you know xanax with depression and everything like that.

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Speaker 2: And and it's not her fault, It's just she needed

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Speaker 2: it to get through. And but for me, it just

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Speaker 2: it tore us down. And and I love her to

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Speaker 2: today she'd die. I still love her, you know, but

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Speaker 2: I just h I never understand. I guess I never

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Speaker 2: really truly understand some of the pain she was going through.

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Speaker 2: So too, I got there, you know, with both of

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Speaker 2: them men going and and it taught me a lot

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Speaker 2: about myself. And that's why a lot of I've had

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Speaker 2: a lot of change in myself is through that experience.

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Speaker 1: So then at some point Nicole looks at you and says,

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Speaker 1: I want to see Samantha again.

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Speaker 2: This was that's probably around November of twenty twenty, when

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Speaker 2: COVID was speaking and we had that discussion. We gave

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Speaker 2: hearing all these people are dying around us, you know,

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Speaker 2: and families are dying. Your husband and wives are dying.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're they're going over and to finding them

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Speaker 2: dead in their homes. And we're like, you know, we're

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Speaker 2: looking at each other, going one of us are going

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Speaker 2: we made that decision, and and then on.

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Speaker 1: Margin decision finally for Nicole take the edge off a

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it took the edge off, it

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Speaker 2: That that she didn't have you know before. You know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we always believed in God, you know, we

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Speaker 2: the fully, you know, the people don't understand something. They think, oh,

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Speaker 2: they read a few Bible scriptures and all that. It

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Speaker 2: takes a lot to fully give yourself over to Christ.

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Speaker 2: But in turn, God has put some such an amazing people,

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Speaker 1: So you guys give your selves. Basically, you decide you're

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Speaker 2: And so she's trying to get us appointments. Of course,

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Speaker 2: I was a country boy. Well, my my brother's bigger

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Speaker 2: And the next thing she goes, what were you talking about, Nicole.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Okay, when did she die?

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Speaker 1: You had to have gone, you had to have been depressed.

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Speaker 2: How did that person get to that point? How could

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Speaker 1: When you got home from work after this, she recovered,

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Speaker 2: because he came over. He came over in October and

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Speaker 2: I don't know why you do that. I said, because

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so we got in this big conversation. You know,

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Speaker 2: We went up and picked the car up. It was done,

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Speaker 2: He's looking at me like, who is this guy? You

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Speaker 2: And I said, I'm building something pretty special. I want

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Speaker 2: He's like, you put your deal together, you come you

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Speaker 2: side for you right now, you're gonna flip out.

426
00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:03,480
Speaker 1: Wow.

427
00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,600
Speaker 2: And uh and I said, hey, I said, if you

428
00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 2: don't want to do it, I said, it's fine with me.

429
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:09,399
Speaker 2: And he goes, no, no, no, no, no no. So and

430
00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,000
Speaker 2: Baker goes, let me tell you what you better do it.

431
00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,399
Speaker 2: He goes, he you don't know what he what limps,

432
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 2: he went to give you something special and uh. And

433
00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,800
Speaker 2: so anyway went through the process. And then and then

434
00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,520
Speaker 2: Tim Fraanker over Freker Sads and Haggerstown, he he did

435
00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:25,600
Speaker 2: the original forty four car. And so he set the

436
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,280
Speaker 2: car up, you know, and did all the did all

437
00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,000
Speaker 2: the letter and everything. And he even stood back and goes, skilled,

438
00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:31,720
Speaker 2: I know you had a vision, he goes, But man,

439
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,920
Speaker 2: he goes, I didn't think this thing was gonna look

440
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,239
Speaker 2: this good. And uh. And then when we and then

441
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,119
Speaker 2: we then we showed it off the Gary at the

442
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,560
Speaker 2: at the our first ever event up at Portoral Speedway,

443
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,399
Speaker 2: we had Nicole's Dream childhood Cancer Awareness night and uh

444
00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,280
Speaker 2: and uh he was just, uh, you can see it's

445
00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,840
Speaker 2: it's it's funny to look at a sixty some year

446
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,240
Speaker 2: old man and the same acting like a kid, you know.

447
00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 2: And he walked by that thing and he rubbed the

448
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,120
Speaker 2: doors and he looked down and going this man, he goes,

449
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:57,920
Speaker 2: this thing's nice. He's sitting inside of it and he's

450
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,560
Speaker 2: roaming and he goes. He goes, man, he goes, he

451
00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:02,919
Speaker 2: somebody took some care. I said, it's a new car

452
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:04,879
Speaker 2: because Nowgil where he goes, they did a good job

453
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:05,520
Speaker 2: on this thing.

454
00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,280
Speaker 1: And they did so to be clear, you unveiled the

455
00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:13,080
Speaker 1: car like you just said, at Port Royal Speedway. It's

456
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:18,040
Speaker 1: called Nicole's Dream, named after his light late wife, Nicole's

457
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,439
Speaker 1: dream of having a race car. They're raised awareness for

458
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 1: childhood cancer and right on the front of the nose

459
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,119
Speaker 1: of this car it says childhood at Cancer Awareness. And

460
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,679
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful red car. And on the tail of

461
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 1: it it's got across at Samantha HM. So this car

462
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 1: racing around every weekend, raising awareness for your loss, and

463
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:58,679
Speaker 1: you've turned a horrifically sad story into a way to

464
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,800
Speaker 1: honor their legacy doing some good.

465
00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also made my wife a promise. She she

466
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: had me made a promise because go if I die

467
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:09,320
Speaker 2: before you don't ever let Samantha's name be forgotten. She

468
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,159
Speaker 2: constantly kept her alive on Facebook, always posting something, doing something,

469
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 2: and to see what we have done with this she had.

470
00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 2: She had no way to imagine that on see see

471
00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,400
Speaker 2: I never drove one of these cars before. I drove

472
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 2: old old Mustangs and stuff like that. That this was so

473
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:30,480
Speaker 2: I took this car. I took this thing to the

474
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 2: world one hundred. For the first time ever, I drove

475
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 2: one of these cars. I was told, are you crazy?

476
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,639
Speaker 2: I said, I don't know, but we'll see. And and

477
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 2: and Plus we run a limited class. They run a superclass,

478
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 2: which is about two hundred more horsepower. I said. But

479
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 2: I want to stand in el door and soak that in,

480
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 2: I said, and get that experience. I said, this is

481
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 2: all the things that me and her wanted to do.

482
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,440
Speaker 2: So I'm standing in the middle of eld Door Speedway,

483
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: you know, and and and they're they're talking about Speedy

484
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 2: Hayes was the original owner of this car. And and

485
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 2: they're talking about what we're doing and everything like that.

486
00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,000
Speaker 2: And the most the most amazing thing happened. I'm standing

487
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,960
Speaker 2: in the staging area and her favorite driver is Jonathan Davenport,

488
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,439
Speaker 2: which he's one just about everything there is to win,

489
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 2: and he carries her decal in his car. When I

490
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 2: ask him to, well, of course, he pulls up the

491
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 2: side of me just because I'm getting ready to pull

492
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 2: out for the track. For the first time, I got

493
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,360
Speaker 2: tears rolling down my face and I'm praying, and I'm

494
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 2: talking to my girls, and you know, and I'm looking

495
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 2: over at him and I'm like, am I in a dream?

496
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 2: Is this really happening? You know? And so so on

497
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 2: September the seventh, you know, in twenty twenty three, you know,

498
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 2: Samantha's name was heard all over the country in the

499
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 2: dirt racing world, you know, and and it was just

500
00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:40,679
Speaker 2: the most amazing feeling that you could you could ever do,

501
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 2: you know, because there's thousands and thousands of drivers all

502
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 2: across this country would would would give their left arm

503
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 2: to take one lap at Eldor and I and I

504
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,719
Speaker 2: got to compete. I knew we wasn't going to make

505
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: the race. We didn't have enough motor, I didn't have

506
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 2: the experience, you know. But but you know, it was

507
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 2: funny because the guy got in a wreck and and

508
00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 2: and I got slowed down. And the leader, well, of course,

509
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 2: as the leader was the world champion that that that year,

510
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: plus he was also the winner of that race that night.

511
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 2: And I got to go door to door him for

512
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: three quarters of a laugh, and my buddies in the

513
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,919
Speaker 2: grassy heads going to give it their cheer for you,

514
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,960
Speaker 2: like you're winning the race. And he come down and

515
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 2: he give me a big old his name's Craig Clyde.

516
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:16,959
Speaker 2: He come down and give me a big old bear

517
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 2: hug and kissed me on the cheek. He says. Brother,

518
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 2: He says, you did something and I'll never get to

519
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 2: do in my life. And if I don't humble you,

520
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: you know. And then like Russ had me speak at

521
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 2: the church out there that day, and and people come

522
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,399
Speaker 2: down and I had him sign the car all around

523
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,680
Speaker 2: the pillars here they signed their names of their their

524
00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 2: kids and their family members that they lost to cancer.

525
00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 2: And and and to hold my hand while I'm sitting

526
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 2: in the car getting ready to go out. And and

527
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 2: people to tell you, hey, you give me hope. You know,

528
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: you give me hope for tomorrow. That's a pretty powerful

529
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 2: thing to have on your shoulders, you know. And and

530
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,679
Speaker 2: but uh, you know, it's just me being me, you know.

531
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,679
Speaker 2: And uh, it's just uh, you can't put some of

532
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: it into words when how it's it's it's funny because

533
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:58,919
Speaker 2: I was dating a girl, you know, a little bit

534
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 2: after that, and she stood at the bar this little

535
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 2: dinner that I was at and I won't mention her name.

536
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 2: She don't like me anymore, But it's okay. But she

537
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 2: looked at me, and she says, Gilbert, she says, when

538
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 2: you first start talking about this, she goes, I thought

539
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 2: you were lying. And I said, well, why would you

540
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: think that she goes? This is so outlandish and so

541
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 2: far out there, you know, she goes, go or people

542
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: don't get their dreams, I said, she goes. But every

543
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 2: day you come in here, you got a new story something.

544
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 2: You're like, guess what happened to me today? And you know,

545
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 2: and all that. And I was like, well, I'm just

546
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 2: telling you my life, you know, and she goes, Yeah,

547
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 2: she goes, but I've never seen a real life dream

548
00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,880
Speaker 2: unfold right before my eyes. She goes. And it's it's

549
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 2: it was amazing, you know, and and and and it

550
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 2: is that it's just that you don't a lot of

551
00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: people will never ever get to do what I get

552
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 2: to do, you know. I mean, I set up in

553
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 2: those grand stands for years and looking down and like,

554
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 2: never even imagine that I would be on and now

555
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: I'm not at nowhere new work shape or level. With

556
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,960
Speaker 2: some guys, they're just they're just amazing, you know, but

557
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 2: they you know, like I said, but see, we I

558
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,959
Speaker 2: guess for society has taught us that, you know, winning,

559
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 2: you have to win, you have to win the event,

560
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 2: you got to do this. Winning comes in so many

561
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 2: different forms.

562
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: Just having this car go around the race track is winning.

563
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 2: And that's and that's what I'm saying. My goals are

564
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 2: not your goals. But I've accomplished all my goals just about.

565
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 2: We haven't won with the car yet, but the very

566
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 2: first night we took this car out, very first time

567
00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 2: on the track, set fast time. You know, we did

568
00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 2: a memorial race for my wife, so she call she

569
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 2: was the trophy girl. We did a memorial race, run

570
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 2: second almost almost. But the funny thing about us, I

571
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 2: guess who wanted a race? Her favorite local driver, Trevor Feathers.

572
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 2: You're kidding, no, So we got to because he actually

573
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 2: he actually shortened his vacation to come back to run

574
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 2: that race. He goes, go, but I got to find

575
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 2: a car, so brad omsloon need my car, and he

576
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,520
Speaker 2: came back and and uh he won our race. And

577
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 2: of course our trophies they're all they're all memorialized by

578
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 2: the coal. She was four foot eleven, so all of

579
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:59,439
Speaker 2: our trophies are four foot eleven, you know. Yep, so

580
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 2: it and so we tried to keep and everything is

581
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: implemented with her name. It's Samantha's name in.

582
00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, all right. So in two thousand

583
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: and three, you raise twenty thousand dollars for Saint Jude,

584
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three and twenty what I say in two

585
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: thousand and three, I'm sorry. In twenty twenty three, you

586
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: raised twenty thousand dollars for Saint Jude in honor of Samantha.

587
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: How did you raise twenty thousand?

588
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 2: We we did some auctions where we drivers donate doors

589
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 2: and quarter panels off their cars, helmets, gloves, driver's suits,

590
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 2: sprint car teams they're different type of car. They give

591
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: us parts of their wings, t shirts, just anything you

592
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 2: could think of that they donate, you know. Plus I

593
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 2: do a lot of custom bicycles to make them look

594
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: like race cars. And our first custom bicycle that we

595
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: auction off part one thousand dollars and and we and

596
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 2: we gave it directly to Connor. You know that that

597
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 2: bike was built for Connor to to raise money for him.

598
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 2: So we we uh, we had a guy bid on

599
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 2: it. It brought nine hundred dollars and the girl that was

600
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: bedding on it. Whether she can I just go ahead,

601
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 2: non eight one hundred, so you can give him an

602
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 2: even thousand. I said, sure, you know, and so we did.

603
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,359
Speaker 2: We did that, and but we've given away probably about

604
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,879
Speaker 2: fifty bicycles so far since we've started. Some of the

605
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 2: bicycles for because my wife wanted to do it. They

606
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 2: used to say they used to give out bicycles a

607
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 2: lot each year, you know, and and what we we

608
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: wanted to I want I don't want to mention the trackers.

609
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 2: I don't like putting anybody down. But we used to

610
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: go to the track that did it, and they were

611
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: all like, oh, we got enough bicycles. You don't have

612
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 2: enough bicycles. When you got thirty forty kids here and

613
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 2: you got ten bicycles, that's right. And so she got

614
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 2: upset about it. So now I'm suddenly I'm gonna take

615
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 2: it on. So so we so we started giving bicycles away.

616
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 2: So we gave we gave thirteen bicycles away that night

617
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 2: of our first auction. Well, Ethan Benson and his brother

618
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 2: they said, girl, but that's the best thing we ever

619
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 2: thought of when we were thought about it, when we

620
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 2: was coming to the track as kids are we gonna

621
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 2: win up? I said, goll tonight and nobody does it anymore.

622
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 2: I said, well we're doing it now. So then this

623
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 2: past Easter, I dressed up as the Easter Bundy in

624
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 2: my racing suit and pull my trailer head and she

625
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 2: let me get all set up. She let me all

626
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 2: get all set up. Lisa to it over at Haggerstown

627
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 2: Speedway and we gave away I think thirteen fourteen bicycles

628
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: over there, uh, collar TV set die cast cars. I

629
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,879
Speaker 2: got a poster me as a cartoon character that I

630
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: that I always give away.

631
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: Uh.

632
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 2: And then but every kid that walked in that it

633
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: was East it was Easter weekend. Every kid walked in

634
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: got a pail for the for the candy scramble, and

635
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 2: they got to pick one toy. I go to five

636
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:37,480
Speaker 2: and below. I don't know if you're aware of that.

637
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: It's it's a little store, but nothing's over five dollars

638
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: before COVID now it's seven. So but but they have

639
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 2: all kinds of toys and stuff, and we set up

640
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: big tables and they get to come in and pick

641
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 2: one toy, pick a basket and and and go do

642
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 2: stuff like that. You know, and and and like I said,

643
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 2: through that process, I've met a lot of extraordinary people.

644
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 2: I go through and I'll walk over to the guy

645
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 2: that sells t shirts and I'll buy all his flags

646
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: and I'll just go start handing them out where I

647
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 2: got a buddy of mine at Eric Farner, at Farner's

648
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: raising collectibles. He sets up he sells die cast and

649
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: he has a lot of you know, older stuff that

650
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 2: doesn't sell, so he sells the cheap and I'll buy

651
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: a bunch of them. I'll start handing them out. So

652
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: I'm stepping beside this guy one thing. Why do you

653
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 2: do that? And I said, because I lost my daughter

654
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: to cancer and she never got to have fun at

655
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 2: the track like this. And he goes, man, I lost

656
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 2: my son to cancer. I've had that man at my

657
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 2: house cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and we still talk every day.

658
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 2: Not every day, but you know, we text each other

659
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 2: back and forth and build and build a relationship. All

660
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 2: of that. And I could call that man right now

661
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 2: and say I'm stuck in Tennessee, could you come down

662
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,680
Speaker 2: and get me? And he'd be in that truck and

663
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 2: he'd run down the road and come get me.

664
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: So your wife's dream was to give iPads and video

665
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: games to kids at the hospital. So you raise money

666
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 1: and bought sixty of these devices and took them to

667
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: Walter Reed and Georgetown.

668
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 2: Well, what what we've done is when Samantha was going

669
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 2: through our chemotherapy, you know, back then when we're down

670
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 2: at children, so there was a lot of inner city

671
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 2: kids down there, so they didn't have the money that

672
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 2: we had, and so Samantha would have her little kindle fire,

673
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 2: you know, basically watching movies. And well, now, excuse me,

674
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 2: wasn't the Kendol fire back then it was it was

675
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 2: a little portable DVD player. So my wife's like, when

676
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,239
Speaker 2: we get this thing up and run, if we ever

677
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:20,479
Speaker 2: get a chance to do it, I want to make

678
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: sure these chemo rooms have stuff that these kids can watch,

679
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 2: you know. And so over time we talked about and

680
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 2: then the Kendles came out and well that'd be better

681
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 2: than the DVD players. So when we when we start

682
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 2: doing this, I well, all this all come about. Down

683
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: at work, we have a thing called Fantasy Flight where

684
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: they have a thing set up the airport where we

685
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 2: bring in toys and all that stuff, and they have

686
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:42,800
Speaker 2: a whole North Pole set up, and they take the

687
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 2: kids and they fly them around the airport. When they

688
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: pull back in, they land at the North Pole. And

689
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 2: but with COVID cut all that out. And so I

690
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 2: put up a challenge at work. Hey, I'm putting up

691
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 2: the first fifteen hundred dollars. If your match it, we're

692
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna start doing some stuff for the hospitals

693
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 2: and we'll go there locally. Well, like I said, over

694
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 2: the last over the last three years, we've raised sixteen

695
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars through my Nicole's dream in the United

696
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,840
Speaker 2: Airlines venture. And so so what we've done is we

697
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 2: started out with Walter Reed and Georgetown. West Virginia Children's

698
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: Universally hadn't open up yet, they were still building a

699
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 2: new wing. So what we've done is we went ahead

700
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 2: and we went down there and we took the DVD

701
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: players and and and the and the Kendles and a

702
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: bunch of different things to Walter Reed and Georgetown because

703
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 2: that's the only places we were going to at a time.

704
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 2: So then over the last two years I told my boss,

705
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: I said, hey, I said, you know, West Virginia is

706
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 2: my home. I'd really like to do this here. He

707
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: have no issue with it. And I was introduced to

708
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 2: Barbara Shaeffer up there and we got a talking and

709
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: we did we did the stuff she goes, but she

710
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: really need other things. I said, well, listen, let's let's

711
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 2: do this. Send me your wish list and then what

712
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: what what we get out of that. We'll see what

713
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: we can do, and then we'll backfield with toys, because

714
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: it's like I got to do my toys. And so

715
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: what we've done is the first year up there, we did,

716
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: like I said, she wanted these baby Einstein's and of

717
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: course just to see this on here. This sis Jackson's heart.

718
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 2: This is this is my wife's friend's grandson. He died

719
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: of heart disease. I think he was only four months old.

720
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: So we were talking about that and they weren't allowed

721
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: to touch him. And that's what Barbara was talking about.

722
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 2: These these devices they hang in the beds, they play music,

723
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 2: they vibrate and all that. When you can't touch the

724
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 2: babies to sue them so they don't cry all night

725
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 2: and have heart attacks and have and have issues. And

726
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: so what we did is we went out and bought

727
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 2: sixty there. So they're probably hanging into this about every

728
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 2: bed in West Virginia Children's University Hospital. And so, but

729
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: we took a lot of other things. Like I said,

730
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 2: the first year we did we did wagons and because

731
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 2: like I said, they pulled us from from uh X

732
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: ray too chemo and wagons so make the kids more comfortable.

733
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 2: And then last year I did some really cool stuff.

734
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 2: I took strollers and looked like cars and turn them

735
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 2: into race cars. What the strollers, they're the little little

736
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 2: toy car strollers. And I took them up to my

737
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: friend Maharten at Hard and Graphics in Winchester, Virginia, and

738
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: he made them look like race cars. He made he

739
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 2: made some of them look like the number one car

740
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: of Rocket Chassis house car, and then he did the

741
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: red ones for the forty four for us, and so

742
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 2: we took those up there because I wanted people to

743
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 2: see Nicole's dream driving through the hospital, you know. So

744
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: so we did that. Plus we went up to Rocket

745
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 2: Chassis and uh they and showed him and Steve. Steve

746
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 2: just flipped out. And but also what Barbara required last year,

747
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 2: she said, yo, work, I want to build overnight bags.

748
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 2: She goes, you know, a lot of people get sprung

749
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 2: at the hospital. He's remember when you all went to

750
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 2: the hospital. She goes, you got stuck. She goes there,

751
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 2: she goes you to know you were getting stuck there,

752
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 2: she goes, we have to build overnight bags. So so

753
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: I work with you and out of Airlines. And uh,

754
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 2: they gave me the toiletry kits from the Polaris first

755
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 2: first Class players. They gave me those. Uh we did

756
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 2: through the donations. We bought the pajama bottoms. And then

757
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 2: all my racing family kicked in and they all donated

758
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 2: T shirts. So now if you say you you go

759
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 2: to West Virginia Children's University, there's a possibility if you

760
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 2: got to spend the night, there's a there's a big

761
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 2: possibility you're gonna get a pair of pajama pants, a

762
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 2: racing T shirt, and a United Airlines Polaris lounge toilet

763
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 2: your kid to help you get through that night. You know.

764
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,479
Speaker 2: And and but we're big about giving them their lists.

765
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 2: We bought the Mama Roose wings last year. We bought

766
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: we bought all kinds of stuff for for the you know,

767
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 2: for the ward itself. But I bought two regular strollers.

768
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 2: I said, I just She goes, well, we can't really

769
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 2: have those because they're hard to clean. I said, no,

770
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 2: these are specific for two different kids. I said, the

771
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 2: first kid that walks out of here or that get

772
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 2: strolled out of here after heart surgery. I said, I

773
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,479
Speaker 2: want that to go to that little kid. I said,

774
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 2: for this stroller here, the first kid that that rolls

775
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: out of here in remission, that that beat cancer, I

776
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: want you to give this to their family. And she goes, well,

777
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 2: I can do that. So so I was tickled to

778
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 2: death that we were allowed to do that.

779
00:34:52,600 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: So what do you say to the person that has

780
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: a heart for service, but it's sitting on the sideline

781
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: and isn't really engaged.

782
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 2: Well, this is this is how I look at this.

783
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: You know, we're we're here on this earth to inspire people,

784
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 2: you know, to do many different things. You know, like

785
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 2: I said, I actually lost a relationship with a lady

786
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: because I talk about God too much. Okay, but we're

787
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: back together because we work through it.

788
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: You know.

789
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 2: It was because it's it's scary. It's scary for people,

790
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 2: you know, but also too we have guys out there

791
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 2: that that can do this all over the country and

792
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 2: they're sitting on the sidelines, and they and they and they.

793
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 2: You know, how do I go about it? Well, I'm

794
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 2: laying the blueprint for them now right now, you know

795
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 2: how they do it, how to approach it. But they've

796
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 2: got to be a people person and they got it.

797
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 2: And you've got to humble yourself when you come into this.

798
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 2: You just you can't come in this with any kind

799
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 2: of arrogance, and you can't come into it with any

800
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 2: kind of expectations. If you come into it with expectations,

801
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 2: you're going to get hurt because it takes time. Everything

802
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 2: takes time. Just remember one thing, life is all. God's

803
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: timing is not our timing, So it takes time and

804
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 2: a lot of times he won't give you the things

805
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 2: you need because he knows you're not ready for it.

806
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: See I'm where I'm at right now. I feel like

807
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 2: I'm going to standstill. But there's something that I'm still

808
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 2: maybe I'm not doing right that he's waiting because he

809
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 2: can't hand me that big prize yet because I'm not

810
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: ready for it. But I'm trying to inspire people all

811
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 2: across the country to get involved in that. But I

812
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,959
Speaker 2: also do and I believe this of all my heart

813
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 2: and I tell my brother this, and he just me

814
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: and my brother are two different people when I love

815
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: him to death. But there's a guy watching me right now, okay,

816
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 2: And he's asking questions, and he's researching me, and he's

817
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: watching me how I carry myself. He's watching me in

818
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: situations like we had an incident at the racetrack where

819
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 2: we got our car smashed up. Do you go over

820
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 2: there like the old country boys do and you get

821
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: in a fistfight or you walk away? We walked away.

822
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: I got a Hall of Fame driver driving for me.

823
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 2: He doesn't carry yourself that way. I don't carry myself

824
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: that way. You know. He was very upset. I was upset.

825
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 2: But that night we put this car. We won the

826
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 2: heat race in this car. That's the first time that

827
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 2: this forty four had won a heat race. The symbol

828
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: of this car in thirty years, this alleged engine research

829
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: on the side. He was standing there. He said, man,

830
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: you don't even know what it looked like to see

831
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 2: that thing go across that checker flag. It was just

832
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: a heat wind. But then after feature we got we

833
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 2: got beat up and pulled out of the race and

834
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 2: everybody's upset, said, listen, listen, calm down, we're not We

835
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 2: accomplished something tonight. We put the forty four, you know,

836
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 2: in a heat race win for the first time I

837
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 2: got me. I got Gary Stoller a heat win in

838
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,359
Speaker 2: the forty four after thirty years. I said, we accomplished something.

839
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 2: I said, God gave us something tonight, and the devil's

840
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 2: trying to take it away with this bunch over here.

841
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 2: I said, we're not going to do that. I said,

842
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 2: We're going to relish in this moment and laugh and

843
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: have fun and just have a good time because we

844
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: accomplished something. I gave this man a fast race car

845
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 2: first night out, said fast time. I gave him a

846
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: card that almost won the race in Nicole's memorial race,

847
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 2: and then he won a heat race, you know, And

848
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 2: and a lot of people said, well that's nothing, that's nothing.

849
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 2: But for me, remember what I told you. My goals

850
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 2: are not your goals. My wins are not your wins.

851
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: But whatever makes me happy. And I'm how tickled to death,

852
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: you know, I just wish we could have got him

853
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 2: a win, because, like I said to me, to have

854
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 2: Gary win in my car is amazing. You know, we're

855
00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 2: getting ready. This whole car will be different next year

856
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 2: because we're we're going in his fiftieth an He's been

857
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 2: racing for fifty years. Man, he'll be seventy next year.

858
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 2: And he's and he's and he's still running up front.

859
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 2: And you know, so I'm doing a very special car

860
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 2: for him for his fiftieth anniversary. You know. But but but,

861
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: like I would get back to that point where, like

862
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 2: I talked to my brother, I was like, there's a

863
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: guy watching me. He's got tons of money. He but

864
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 2: he can't talk like I can talk. But he's lost.

865
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 2: He's lost a lot in his life, and he wants it.

866
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 2: He wants to he wants to get involved. And he's

867
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 2: and he's asking questions about me right now, and and

868
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: and and I feel when when this opportunity happened, I

869
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 2: almost sank. I almost wept because this might have opened

870
00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 2: the door up for that guy to see me or

871
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 2: hear me, you know, and it's it's gonna take this thing.

872
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 2: Then I want to take this on a national level.

873
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 2: You know, I can't do it because of funds, but

874
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 2: there's millionaires all over this world. It says, hey, let's

875
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 2: jump in and let's let's have some fun with this boy.

876
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 2: You know, and what if what if you know? But

877
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 2: you if you can't, if you, if you, if you

878
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: venture into something you use football coach, right, yeah, if

879
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 2: you went into every game going well, we might lose

880
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 2: this one to night, what do you think is gonna

881
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 2: happen so fulfilling profits if you don't, if you don't

882
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 2: go into everything thinking you can win. And that's why

883
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 2: I built a car that I know we can win

884
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: in any given night. We just got to have everything

885
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 2: lined up. These cars are so complex. The geometry is

886
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 2: the suspension of these cars will drive you completely insane.

887
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 2: And I'm and I and I jumped off from the

888
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 2: deep end of the pool and I'm still learning this stuff.

889
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 2: But but the thing about is if you don't believe

890
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 2: that you can win and don't do it, don't do

891
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 2: anything in your life because if you, if you, if

892
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 2: you don't have confidence in yourself, nobody's gonna have combness.

893
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: And and that's the things And that's why I think

894
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: some people may think I'm smugging er. It's not that.

895
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 2: It's just that I'm confident. I've got a plan on

896
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 2: my place. You know, when I had my auction. I

897
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 2: already saw it before it happened. I could see the

898
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: people over here bedding on the stuff. I could see

899
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 2: people holding up the panels. I could see it all,

900
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,839
Speaker 2: you know, I could have I could envision the whole

901
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 2: thing and I and I've already envisioned my new race shop.

902
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: You know, when this thing gets big, you know, hey,

903
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: you know. But but my ultimate goal is and and

904
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 2: and like I said, I don't say it. Whatever happened,

905
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 2: but it's a big it's a big stretch for me

906
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 2: and my wife. We all sat around, you know how

907
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: you have say, talk to your wife, everyone and Lottie

908
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: what you would do. We've already we've already picked out

909
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 2: the piece of land that's right down from the house.

910
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: That where we're gonna put a twenty five patient hospital

911
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 2: with little cottages all the way around in the church

912
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 2: in the back. And that's going to be Samantha's memorial

913
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 2: right there. You know, we we we got it. But

914
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: I learned something the other day. I listened to I

915
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 2: listened to some guys called and everything, and I learned

916
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 2: something the other day. I'm my own worst endemy. He said,

917
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: he said, you can't you can't have a dream and

918
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 2: put it in place if you don't have a plan.

919
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 2: And he says, you got to sit down and you

920
00:40:59,120 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 2: got to.

921
00:40:59,400 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: Draw it up.

922
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 2: He said, draw up, He said, draw it up, draw

923
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: up your dream. You know, he didn't know. I'm listening

924
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 2: scowling on TikTok and everything. He's but you know, whatever

925
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: you're doing, draw a picture of it. You know, how

926
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: would you do this? Who was the people that you

927
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 2: woul hire? How would you do this? How would you

928
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 2: do that? Have it in place, have have it all

929
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: ready to go, so when it does happen to you

930
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 2: know how to sit around wait on it. And and

931
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: that that and got me thinking about a lot of stuff.

932
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: And so but like I said, I'm you know, everybody

933
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 2: calls me a dreamer. I'm a dreamer. But look at this.

934
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: You know, whoever thought, whoever thought I would be a

935
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 2: disposition in my life?

936
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: Right now? We'll be right back, all right. So in

937
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, you raised twenty k for Saint Jude.

938
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean, how much have you raised in total?

939
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 2: And total we're setting at probably around forty six thousand,

940
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 2: five hundred. We did about thirty thousand direct cash payments

941
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 2: to Saint Jude's and then we've done about sixteen thousand,

942
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 2: five hundred directly through the hospitals.

943
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: And then that's only in a couple few years.

944
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're hoping that we're we're gearing up right

945
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: now for our Christmas deal. And so if we raised

946
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 2: you know, additional four thirty five hundred and four thousand

947
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,439
Speaker 2: this year, we could hit that fifty thousand dollars mark.

948
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 2: And it's not about the number per se, It's it's

949
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 2: about what it shows to other people. You know, this

950
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 2: just a ring of fifty thousand, you know, and we

951
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 2: get to hold up that well. We you know, we

952
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: always every time we make an accomplishment, we rebuilding these

953
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 2: checks and things like that, and we do it for

954
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 2: to inspire people.

955
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: Well and supporting to know you're still working all the time.

956
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you have a job at a life and

957
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: everything else and you're still raising this money and it

958
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 1: can it can be done. And I gotta believe, knowing

959
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: you a little bit now, what you raise fifty, you'll

960
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 1: want to raise one hundred.

961
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: Like I said, it's we're in at the we're in

962
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 2: it now. I mean it's just that you know, we

963
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 2: have we have some tough days. But but like I said,

964
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: it's the biggest thing is is help, you know, and

965
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: we get it. This one, it seems like we don't

966
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 2: sure we're gonna get it. It comes out of nowhere.

967
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 2: So phenomenal story. You got a guy who comes from

968
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: West Virginia and in his words, grew up poor, married

969
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: his high school sweetheart, had his little girl, and it

970
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: all taken from him. This little girl dies with leukemia.

971
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 2: Love his life dies from COVID And from that he's

972
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 2: raised thousands of dollars for Saint Jude. Kids have gotten bicycles, kindles, toys,

973
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: Baby Einstein's strollers made into race cars, t shirts of

974
00:43:54,440 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 2: pajama pants. It's gotten his employee United involved, and have

975
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: not only put smiles on a lot of kids' faces,

976
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:15,279
Speaker 2: but every weekend goes out and people are reminded of

977
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 2: the difficulties of childhood cancer and the sadness of child's

978
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 2: are cancer, but also the importance of raising money to

979
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 2: help other families who went through what he and Nicole

980
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 2: went through with their daughter Samantha. Raising money to try

981
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 2: to help that be better for others. You know, if

982
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 2: there's not I just can't imagine a better example of

983
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: a normal guy. I mean, we're talking about a mechanic

984
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 2: from West Virginia who grow poor, who's had lots of

985
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 2: pain in his life, who's turned that pain into a

986
00:44:55,080 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: dream and done so much for so many honor of

987
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,720
Speaker 2: both his wife and his daughter. And Gilbert.

988
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: I just I can't imagine a better example of what

989
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: just a normal guy can do. What's next?

990
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 2: Uh, we're trying to get ready for next year. I'll

991
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 2: go ahead and tell you we've got most of the

992
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: pieces in place right now. Not one hundred percent sure

993
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 2: it's all going to come together, but I when I

994
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 2: was down in Charlotte this past week or weekend before last,

995
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 2: I put a lot of things together. We're talking about

996
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 2: building a two seater and see these only hold one driver,

997
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 2: and we're gonna have it set up for Make a

998
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 2: Wish kids and kids with cancer, that that we can

999
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: take them a ride around the track, not like we

1000
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 2: race is so cool. Well we have them. They haven't

1001
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,360
Speaker 2: they having for adults? They having for adults. But I've

1002
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: talked to Butler built Seats down in North Carolina. I've

1003
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 2: talked to Simpson Safety Apparel. I've talked to Velocida Race gear.

1004
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 2: I've talked to ARC Racing up in Winchester is going

1005
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: to help me get the card done. Talk to so

1006
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 2: many wonderful people that want to jump on board and

1007
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: help this project out. I've already got it clear with

1008
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 2: the Speedway. But you know, like I said, we're trying

1009
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: to get a few things done. You know, financing is

1010
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 2: a deal with that, because, like I said, we got

1011
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,279
Speaker 2: this car getting ready going for the fiftieth anniversary for Gary.

1012
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: That's a big deal for me.

1013
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 1: If people want to support that, if people want to

1014
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: hear more about you, if p is there a website

1015
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: for this or unfortunately no, I'm trying. How do people

1016
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: find out? I know somebody listening to us may want

1017
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: to may want to donate, someone with us, may just

1018
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 1: be inspired, want to reach out. How do people find

1019
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: Gilbert has The quickest.

1020
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 2: Way to find me is on TikTok through Nicole's Dream.

1021
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: If they go and look, if they look up Nicole's Dream,

1022
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 2: or if they write, if they look up Gilbert Hess

1023
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:50,400
Speaker 2: Racing and everything starts to pop up, all my pictures

1024
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 2: and all that stuff like that, they'll find it.

1025
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: Have an email? An email?

1026
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I just I guess we could give

1027
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 2: it to them. It's a it's a G I L

1028
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 2: A E. S at MSN dot com.

1029
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: Perfect.

1030
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, all of.

1031
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: Our guests give their an email or some contact because

1032
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,760
Speaker 1: I'm telling you people will being sorry by your story

1033
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: and that we'll want to reach out. And I'll tell

1034
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: you a Gobert from personal experience, it's really nice to

1035
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: be reached out to people you don't even know who say, hey,

1036
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: what you had to said. What you had to say

1037
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: meant something to me, and you'll be shocked at You'll

1038
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: be shocked at what it was your words and what

1039
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: you've done and your life story can have there's somebody

1040
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: listening to us right now. There's probably many people's right

1041
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: now who are probably dealing with sadness and difficulties the

1042
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: result of the loss of someone they love, maybe even

1043
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: to cancer, and hopefully your story could be an inspiration

1044
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: of ways to overcome that as well. What an amazing story,

1045
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: Gobert and I deal with that.

1046
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 2: At El Dora, I had a lot of people come

1047
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 2: up and did a personal one on one with their

1048
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: loss and how how they and just astonished that I

1049
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,479
Speaker 2: could take something and turn it into what I turned

1050
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 2: it into. And that made me feel That made me

1051
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: feel really good.

1052
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: You know, your story is the epitome of what a

1053
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,479
Speaker 1: normal guy can do to make his world better, even

1054
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: in the face of adversity. Gilbert has you are definitely

1055
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: a member of the army of normal folks, and your

1056
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: story is so inspirational. And I cannot tell you how

1057
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: much I appreciate your candor and you sharing all of

1058
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: it with us, and I can't wait to see what

1059
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: you do next.

1060
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: I just appreciate the opportunity. And hey, if whoever's listening

1061
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 2: out there, any chance you get, just say a little

1062
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 2: prayer for Olive and Connor. Like I said, they both relapsed,

1063
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Speaker 2: you know, this past year, and just they're going through

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Speaker 2: a difficult time and that means more to me than

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Speaker 2: anything else in the.

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Speaker 1: World knows about that a little.

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Speaker 2: It's just that I met I met Connor through Stephanie Jones.

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Speaker 2: She's she's the girl that works at Valdocia Race Suits.

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Speaker 2: She designed and my race suit and I bought all

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Speaker 2: my safety year through them. And you know, a short

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Speaker 2: time after we had met, she'd called me up with

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Speaker 2: the phone and told me that that she discovered her

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Speaker 2: five year old nephew had got brain cancer, and we

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Speaker 2: went through a few things, and and then Olive, her grandfather,

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Speaker 2: contacted me through finding me through the racing program. And

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Speaker 2: you know, she's fourteen years old and she's about on

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Speaker 2: LIKEMI right now, and she's just she's got a lot

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00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 2: of problems right now going on. And so we do

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Speaker 2: a lot. We do a lot for those kids. And

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Speaker 2: like I said again, me and Alex were talking coming

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Speaker 2: down the road and Steph thanked me for coming in

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Speaker 2: through their lives. And I'm like, Steph, I don't think

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Speaker 2: I came into you all's lives. You all came into

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Speaker 2: my life. I said, because you don't realize something. I said,

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Speaker 2: you took my level of prayer to all new height

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Speaker 2: this year. I said, I've never prayed as much as

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Speaker 2: I prayed for them two kids in my entire life.

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Speaker 2: I said, it's just been the most amazing experience. I said.

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Speaker 2: I said. They didn't change I said, I said, I

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Speaker 2: didn't change them, They changed me. I said, they changed

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00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 2: who I were. They let me see a different side

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00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 2: of myself that I didn't even know how to in me.

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Speaker 1: It did phenomenal that through the work that you do,

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Speaker 1: you always end up getting fifteen times more out of

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Speaker 1: it than you put in.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Like I said, I just I have met the

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Speaker 2: most amazing families that support me. You know, I've got

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Speaker 2: a family. I don't want to name names because then

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Speaker 2: if I forget, somebody'll feel left doubt. But I've got

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Speaker 2: several families you know, at Port Royal, at Winchester Speedway,

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Speaker 2: at Haggerstown Speedway that you know that just bend over

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Speaker 2: backwards and they know I'm having a difficult day. They

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Speaker 2: take their time out that text me and say, hey, Gilbert,

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Speaker 2: what's wrong and everything. And I've got a little boy

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Speaker 2: I sponsored his goat cart and you know, I showed

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Speaker 2: up at the track and his grandparents were like, Hey,

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Speaker 2: come on down here and have breakfast this morning and

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Speaker 2: pay for my whole weekend, you know, for getting in

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Speaker 2: the racetrack and all that. You know, I just it

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Speaker 2: humbles you because I give gifts. I don't get gifts,

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Speaker 2: you know, And it's it's pretty amazing, you know, when

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Speaker 2: even even the smallest thing, and uh, you know it

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Speaker 2: was I went down to Florida to set some deals.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to get Jonathan Davenport to drive this

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Speaker 2: car for me. But of course he drives a Longhorn.

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Speaker 2: This is a rocket chassis. He's not allowed to because

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Speaker 2: of manufacturer differences. But I also talk to a guy

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00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 2: named Scott Bloomquist, and Scott bloomquists if anybody ever hears

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00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: that name. He's the biggest name in dirt track ration ever.

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Speaker 2: And we was trying to work out a deal. We

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Speaker 2: were still trying to figure out a few things. But

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Speaker 2: he was killed in an accident in a plane crash

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Speaker 2: at his propertly a few months ago, and so it

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Speaker 2: didn't happen. But what if, you know, what if if

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Speaker 2: I get one of those guys in this car as well.

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Speaker 2: Now not the Gary is not the greatest guy in

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Speaker 2: the world. That's my guy, but you know, just to

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Speaker 2: take it to another level, and you know, on a

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Speaker 2: national level. And you know, like I said, I told,

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Speaker 2: I told Alex, come up the road. I asked everybody

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Speaker 2: what I want. I don't hold back because the worst

1132
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 2: thing he says no. But what if they say yes?

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Speaker 2: Don't be scared. You know, you got a fifty to

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00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 2: fifty chance. It's either yes or no. And what if

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Speaker 2: they say yes? And I and like I said, I

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Speaker 2: wholeheartedly believed the guy I've been talking about is listening

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Speaker 2: right now, and you helped me get that guy. And

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take this thing to a new level

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Speaker 2: and I believe. I believe that with all my heart.

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Speaker 2: And we'll keep you informed when it does.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope it happens.

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Speaker 2: There's going to be an email or a phone call

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Speaker 2: or something going to happen.

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Speaker 1: God bless Connor and Olive. Prayers for them, and God

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Speaker 1: bless Gilbert Has and your work, and God bless the

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Speaker 1: forty four car Childhood Cancer Awareness Samantha on the back,

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00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:30,919
Speaker 1: Jason's heart doing good work, and all in remembrance of own,

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Speaker 1: remembrance of your family, Gilbert Has. That's an amazing story.

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Speaker 1: Thanks sharing it with us, Thank you for having me,

1150
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,360
Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us this week. If Gilbert

1151
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: or other guests have inspired you in general, or better yet,

1152
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: by reaching out to Gilbert and donating to this calls,

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00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: following him on TikTok at mister Wayne one zero eight

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Speaker 1: or something else entirely, please let me know. I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear about it. You write me anytime at Bill

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Speaker 1: at Normalfolks dot us, and I promise you I'll respond

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Speaker 1: will help us grow an army of normal folks. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to our producer, Iron Light Labs, I'm Bill Courtney. I'll

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Speaker 1: see you next week.