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Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nukham and this is a production

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Speaker 1: of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Rendered

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Speaker 1: where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by FHF Gear,

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Speaker 1: American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that's designed

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Speaker 1: to be as rugged as the place as we explore.

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Speaker 2: So we're in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Speaker 3: With Concord technically Concord, North Carolina, about twenty miles northeast.

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Speaker 2: Suburb of Charlotte, North Charlotte. Yes, at the track House

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Speaker 2: Race Team Global headquarters. Huge facility. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for NASCAR, this is where all the magic happens.

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Speaker 3: All of our cars come out of here. We come

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Speaker 3: back with our semi hollers here every week before headed

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Speaker 2: Man, I mean we just got here. I've been with

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Speaker 2: you for a few days here. I'm astonished. I'm with

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Speaker 2: Ross Chastain, who told me not to say this, but

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it. Six time Cup winner, NASCAR Cup winner.

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Speaker 3: Yes, technically, as we were trying to get how you

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Speaker 3: would introduce me, we have won six Cup races in

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Speaker 3: the number one car for trackhouse racing. So that goes

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Speaker 3: back to our very first win as a team in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two at Circuit of the America's down in Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 3: And my most recent win was the Coca Cola six

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Speaker 3: hundred this year. I'm Amorial Day Sunday.

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Speaker 2: That means these really good folks. Just in case you

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Speaker 2: weren't able to interpret that, that means that you're good man.

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Speaker 2: So Ross and I have been together. We've been deer

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Speaker 2: hunting and Georgia. Yeah, we've had a good time. So

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Speaker 2: so you're a NASCAR driver. But what is the second

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Speaker 2: thing that you would introduce yourself Probably the first thing

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Speaker 2: that you would introduce yourself.

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Speaker 3: As is a watermelon farmer.

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Speaker 2: There's our watermelon.

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Speaker 3: I know we've forgot it.

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Speaker 2: It's in your truck.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: We we've had a watermelon that we've been carrying around

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Speaker 3: But you're an eighth generation watermelon farmer. Yeah, so I'm

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Speaker 3: really the son of a farmer. Like I use that

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Speaker 3: I'm proud to be the son of a farmer. I'm

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Speaker 3: the brother of a farmer, the cousin of a farmer.

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Speaker 3: So my job is to tell the story of agriculture.

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Speaker 3: I'm not the one out in the field. I can

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Speaker 3: show you the field. I've grown up in these fields,

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Speaker 3: right But day in and day out, my job is

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Speaker 2: But that would have been your trajectory if you hadn't

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Speaker 2: been a phenom racer as a kid and turned into

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Speaker 2: this NASCAR driver. So there's as I've learned, there's there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of different great ways to get into NASCAR,

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Speaker 2: but at the end of the day, there's only like

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Speaker 2: forty guys in the world that get to race NASCAR.

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Speaker 2: Is that about right?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Guaranteed, thirty six cars are going to start every race.

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Speaker 3: That's part of our charter system, which is a bit

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Speaker 3: of an uproar right now with lawsuits and teams fighting

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Speaker 3: NASCAR and court the courts are involved. But right now,

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Speaker 3: the way it stands, thirty six cars will start every

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Speaker 3: forty one. We can run an extra car if the

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Speaker 3: situation's right and everybody agrees. But it definitely is a

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Speaker 3: very exclusive groups. It's similar to a single position in

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Speaker 3: a football team, right, There's only so many quarterbacks really,

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Speaker 3: that's that. Even even though each team has several in

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Speaker 3: the lineup like as backups. We have three cars that

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Speaker 3: operate out of this shop. This year, our reserve driver

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Speaker 3: has been Connor Zilich, who is now being promoted into

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Speaker 3: time cup entry. So yes, my path was as a kid,

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Speaker 3: I followed in my dad's footsteps, the sugar sand of

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Speaker 3: You leave a print when you walk. Everything, tire tracks,

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Speaker 3: As a kid, I love those things and I would

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Speaker 2: You, I wanted heard somebody say that phrase, he's following

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Speaker 3: I did it and I jump, and I would jump,

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Speaker 2: Don't you don't start when you're twelve and have a

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Speaker 3: A lot of people do, a lot of people that

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of people it's unreally, it doesn't happen right.

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Speaker 2: But they a kid wanted to play NBA and not

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Speaker 3: To do it right, But they have that dream and

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Speaker 3: some of them were better than me. But the way

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Speaker 3: I worked and built this brand and built this life

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the more I've seen the inside of this,

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Speaker 2: I mean, you are a professional athlete. You're handled like

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Speaker 2: NASCAR is the North American Stock Car Association something NASCAR

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Speaker 3: Stay you're close what is it. It's the National Association

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Speaker 3: for Stock Car Auto Racing. Okay, NASCAR, Okay, got I

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Speaker 3: also think they went that's a NASCAR, and someone said,

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Speaker 2: It works, it's a good it rolls off the tongue.

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Speaker 3: It does. And that is the premier stock car racing

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Speaker 3: a family and well theyton't to Beach, Florida, the France family.

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Speaker 3: They've built this. I mean they had a lot of help.

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Speaker 3: On about half the tracks. They worked with the Smith

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Speaker 3: But they have built a world that has provided a

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Speaker 3: of them that has benefited from NASCAR Beyond my wildest dreams.

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Speaker 3: This this shop wouldn't be here. This was formerly a

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Speaker 3: different name shop. This was Chip Gannassi Racing. Chip Gannassis,

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Speaker 3: winning all of the IndyCar Championships right now. Races over

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Speaker 3: So it's crazy to think about the life I've been

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Speaker 2: It's incredible. So you you just were a gifted racer

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Speaker 2: And but so there's different path pathways to get into this.

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Speaker 2: How many other guys would have been like that in

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's there's some there's a good mix. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Somebody has to lay the groundwork for you. And I

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Speaker 3: that cycle of like hard times create hard people, which

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Speaker 3: But in racing, I'd say it's a good mix. There's

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Speaker 3: Let's do some somet' Let's let's try to stabilize this

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Speaker 2: It's he's named driving Watermelon Farmers.

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Speaker 3: Now, people that we met, We're not going to show everybody,

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Speaker 3: watermelons three hundred sixty five days a year. And that's

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Speaker 3: what we're proud of that it's not Chastain Farms anymore.

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Speaker 2: Well, I consider myself in the watermelon industry. Ross because

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Speaker 3: Man. Do you subtract a meal out of your day

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Speaker 2: It's sort of additive. Man. So Ross and I have

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of cool parts of this story. I

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Speaker 2: Ross represents the Watermelon Association of America, which I'll be

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Speaker 3: Like, well, what I think, what my takeaway and what

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Speaker 2: Yeah, afternoon, So something that you said to me that

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Speaker 2: consideration of data points, you know. I mean, you're you're

431
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: needing to learn tree species, and you're needing to learn

432
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 2: about what the animals are doing and their travel patterns

433
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 2: and wind and it just became this whole new world,

434
00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,240
Speaker 2: which is unique because a lot of people that get

435
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 2: into hunting, you know, they're they're getting used to being

436
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 2: outside really for like exposed period of time. I mean,

437
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 2: it's we live in such a bizarre time period in

438
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 2: place where like we rush around from place to place

439
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 2: trying to get away from outside. I mean it's like

440
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 2: you're standing outside in the parking lot and you're like,

441
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:05,440
Speaker 2: let's go inside.

442
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 3: When the park is close to the front and everybody

443
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 3: piles up.

444
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 2: Like if you were just a bile just looking at humans,

445
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 2: you'd be like, man, they're just always wanting to get inside.

446
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,119
Speaker 2: They're wanting to get away from outside, you know. And

447
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't have had that, like you would have

448
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 2: been a farmer. You would have been exposed to a

449
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 2: lot of it. But but it's just a different a

450
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 2: complete different set of considerations when you're hunting. And then

451
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 2: what's so fun? So I was with you yesterday when

452
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 2: you killed a deer and uh, so Ross, I mean,

453
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 2: we could go into the story, but like, he shoots

454
00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 2: this deer, and it was kind of stressful. The deer

455
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 2: came from a position we weren't expecting it really at

456
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 2: a time we weren't. I mean, it's like right a dark,

457
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 2: right it dark, and you get situated and we finally

458
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 2: get everything set up, and uh and I mean it's

459
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: like I could just feel the adrenaline pumping like right

460
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 2: beside me. I kind of had to duck down into

461
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,400
Speaker 2: the blind when he turned and laid a gun over

462
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 2: this rail and uh and I asked him, I said,

463
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 2: we were at Talladega two days ago, and I was like,

464
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: were you ever this excited at Talladega on Sunday? And

465
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 2: your answer was.

466
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 3: Hell, well, yes, about my heart rate And it was

467
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 3: a heart rate ever that high?

468
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 2: Like no, and you were shooting a doe deer too.

469
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 3: Yeah with a rifle. No, not at all. And if

470
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 3: it would have won, heart rate would have spiked. I

471
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 3: mean that if you're in contention for the wind. But

472
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 3: I got shuffled back. I'd made some bad moves at Talladega.

473
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 3: But yeah, getting turned around my knee on the chair

474
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 3: had been sitting on in the chair, almost almost knocked

475
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 3: the chair over. You got her to stop in that moment,

476
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 3: to exhale and pull the trigger. I mean it just

477
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 3: it's only that that is that is my fourth dear

478
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 3: that I've ever harvested, and and I respect that, and

479
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 3: I have I let deer walk, But that was a

480
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 3: cool moment to do it with you there. Of course

481
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 3: I want the big buck to walk out, But for

482
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 3: that land, that was the first year of harvested on

483
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 3: my land that wasn't ertilize. That so really cool to

484
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 3: see that that's our first dear season hunting on that property,

485
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 3: and the group I've got down there that I do

486
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 3: it with on we you know they've they've already harvested some.

487
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 3: But for me that was my first, So it was

488
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 3: that was a big moment, my first piece of land

489
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 3: down there, an area of the country that I've grown

490
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 3: up going to know, a bunch of families there and

491
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 3: that's why I'm down there.

492
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was such a cool group.

493
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:34,360
Speaker 3: But shaking.

494
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 2: And what's so awesome is that it really doesn't go away.

495
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: I mean it it, I hope not. To some degree

496
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 2: it does. I mean there's times when I take an animal,

497
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 2: you know, the like heart thumping adrenaline is is less.

498
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 2: I mean, there's certainly times when it's higher than the

499
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 2: others based upon the circumstance. But to this day, I

500
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 2: will at times get very nervous at a dough deer

501
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 2: with when I've got a bow. I mean, for reals.

502
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 2: That's kind of the cool thing about about this is

503
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: it that can never Sometimes it never goes.

504
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 3: Away, I hope not. And and talk about a bow.

505
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 3: I remember growing up some one well, my best friend

506
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,719
Speaker 3: growing up was Cody Singletary, Singletary's Big Hunters best friends.

507
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 3: Me and Cody and his older brother Matthew, and then

508
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 3: our dads have been best friends for a long time.

509
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: Our grandparents knew each other in all farms, so watermelon farmers.

510
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 3: We all grow from melan one. I say we. I

511
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 3: lightly insert myself into that. It's really my dad, as

512
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 3: you can, I think. But to grow up with them,

513
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 3: I remember standing there, sitting on the ground watching them

514
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 3: shoot their bows ross you and try it. No, I

515
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 3: want to go ride the four wheeler. Well, we're gonna

516
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 3: shoot bows until dark. We're shooting at the block, shooting

517
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 3: at the decoy. We're like practicing. They're practicing. They're practicing,

518
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 3: And I could have been doing that at ten years

519
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 3: yars old, and I never had any interest. And now

520
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: I've asked you, like, all right, guide me on how

521
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: to buy a boat, Like where should I go? So

522
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 3: we've talked about that and yeah, find somewhere, and it'll

523
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 3: start that process sometime soon. I'm not saying I'm gonna

524
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 3: go today, but that's exciting for the next step, and

525
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 3: to be able to get more intimate and understanding then

526
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 3: the different positions I'm gonna need to go sit and

527
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,159
Speaker 3: hunt from with the bow versus the rifle is exciting

528
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 3: because now that's like a whole other chapter of this book.

529
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I heard you say this, but

530
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: there's something about the natural world that you can't control.

531
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,560
Speaker 2: And the exposure that I've had to the inside of

532
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: inside looking too NASCAR just the last couple of days,

533
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: I have been amazed at the control that you guys

534
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 2: have over that car. I mean, just phenomenal. I mean

535
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,719
Speaker 2: I could do this whole podcast just telling you what

536
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: I've seen, just like the the micro adjustments that they're

537
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: making on these cars in the fly. Your your job

538
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 2: is so, I mean, you have a race on the weekend, Monday,

539
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 2: you have this big meeting where this huge team comes

540
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 2: in and you analyze the car, the data, how you did.

541
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: And then today is a Tuesday, and so the guys

542
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: have your car in there and they are tweaking on

543
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: that thing, getting ready for next week. Ton of control

544
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 2: is the point of that story. When you go into

545
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: the woods and you're hunting the deer, white tailed deer

546
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: or turkey or whatever, that control is completely different. I mean,

547
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 2: does did you identify with that as something that's that's

548
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 2: that's uh compelling about going into the woods, like it's

549
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 2: it's it's kind of like a relaxation, just like I'm

550
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 2: this is not nobody's asking me what to do here?

551
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: Yeah? Is that? I mean absolutely? And that's what I love.

552
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 3: I don't my life and calendar is is I'm helped

553
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 3: by a lot of people. I've got We use Apple Calendar,

554
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 3: and I think there's nine getting ready to be a

555
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 3: tenth person added to it that input things. And they're

556
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 3: all talking, and they're all guiding me on where I

557
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 3: need to go. And a couple work like almost a

558
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: month out on stuff, and sometimes longer. Stuff comes on

559
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: the calendar for like already next race season. We haven't

560
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 3: even finished this one, and we're already like locking in

561
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 3: dates down to the minute of things next year. And

562
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 3: so when I get to the woods, I am not

563
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: making a decision. When I get away from the racetrack

564
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 3: and away from work, I don't you saw. I don't

565
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 3: want to pick where we go to breakfast. I don't

566
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 3: want to pick where we go to dinner. I don't

567
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:39,880
Speaker 3: care what we eat, I don't care what time. I'm

568
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 3: just along for the ride. I want everybody else to

569
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: guide us. And I'll be a I'll paddle the boat,

570
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 3: but I'm not steering it. And so I feel like

571
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 3: when I get in the woods and the natural part

572
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 3: of animals, and what I've learned is they're not going

573
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 3: to do the same thing every time. There's gonna be

574
00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: some wildness to it. And so not expecting that dough

575
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,400
Speaker 3: to walk out directly behind us. We had picked our quadrants. Yeah,

576
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 3: a game you had us play. Picked of the four

577
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 3: quadrants we picked. I would think I was closest. Ish

578
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 3: you picked opp.

579
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say you because the dough came from the quadrant.

580
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 2: So we were sending in a box line looking three

581
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty degrees and I said, let's let's play game.

582
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 2: Pick which quadrant we split it into, you know this

583
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: three sixty into into four. And so we guessed and

584
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: both of us were wrong.

585
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, the first one take that our caravan read was wrong.

586
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 3: Well he just copied you because you know, I went

587
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: with your But yeah, you were closest.

588
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we we didn't know where the steer was

589
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 2: gonna come from.

590
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was that's cool. And yeah, excited to

591
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 3: learn that land more it's new and continue to learn land.

592
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's got a different angle for why they

593
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: do something. And I think, uh, as long as that

594
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: and I think They're all valid really as long as

595
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: I mean, as long as the hunting that the person

596
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: is doing is is inside the limits of the law

597
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: and you know, is aiming towards some conservation goal, you know,

598
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I mean, like there's people

599
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 2: that go to the woods to relax. There's also people

600
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,239
Speaker 2: that go to the woods not to relax. And in

601
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 2: many cases ross my hunting is probably like you're NASCAR

602
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: racing in a way, and that like I go to

603
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: the woods oftentimes to to test myself in a while place,

604
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: if I'm being honest, I mean, that's part of the

605
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: fun of it. Is just you know, more these more difficult,

606
00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 2: strenuous hunts or more technical hunts that require a lot

607
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 2: of time, a lot of getting stuff right, you know,

608
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 2: the hard stuff. But I also do a lot of

609
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 2: hunting that's just pure, just a pleasure hunt for like

610
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 2: we use that term in the coon dog world always

611
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 2: like that since I was a kid, they were like,

612
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: you pleasure hunting this weekend. Like it's an interesting way

613
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,959
Speaker 2: to say it, but yeah, I guess so, you know,

614
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 2: so there's different I don't go to the woods necessarily

615
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: to I do go to the wood because my job

616
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 2: in some way revolves around hunting. But also that's my

617
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 2: hobby too, like I really don't do anything else.

618
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 3: I think that's for me is what racing is. It's

619
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 3: it's a hobby that's turned into profession. But if if

620
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 3: the right circumstances, and it would have to be a

621
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 3: social thing with with buddies, with other racers, if we

622
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 3: were going to go and have a track day, call

623
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 3: it where we're not getting paid, we actually probably have

624
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 3: to buy the tires and pay for the fuel and

625
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 3: on the cars and have our own Like if we

626
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 3: were going to go do a track day with some

627
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 3: cars or something, I would do that for fun, so

628
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 3: you would pleasure. I pleasure race, pleasure race. But then

629
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 3: thirty eight times a year, I'm racing the cup car

630
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 3: not for pleasure. I want to win. I am there

631
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 3: only to win. I bring my friends with me at

632
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 3: trackhouse and we go try to win, and uh, it

633
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 3: is pleasurable to do, but it is not pleasure racing.

634
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 3: So I think it's similar for me in racing, you

635
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 3: to hunting. For me to hunting, and honey, I want

636
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 3: to go hunt now. If it was going to be

637
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: more strenuous, I'd have to know that ahead of time

638
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: and right where the right gear and be ready and prepared.

639
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 3: But most of mine is so I mean, I'm very

640
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 3: very new, and I think what is so cool is

641
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 3: you can always like every day you could be your

642
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 3: first day to go hunting, is what I've learned. Like

643
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 3: my first time was with Adam Will who you met,

644
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 3: and David set me up with that, and they were

645
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,240
Speaker 3: hunting and Adam took me and just talked me through everything,

646
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 3: and I'll always remember that first staying. We sat in

647
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 3: me trying to be still, and a buck did walk

648
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 3: out and I was like, I couldn't shoot it. I couldn't.

649
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 3: I couldn't get the scope anywhere close to that buck.

650
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 3: He was moving back and forth and rut chasing a doe.

651
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 3: And that was a couple of years ago, three seasons

652
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 3: ago now and just like Adam, like I never even

653
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 3: got close and he was gone. So like I remember

654
00:34:55,200 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 3: that in that adrenaline rush, Mine's definitely gonna be more pleasure, say,

655
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 3: because I'm trying to relax. Yes, it's what I want

656
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 3: to do.

657
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And those those like hard hunts, I mean

658
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 2: they're fun. Yeah, I mean we're not doing it because

659
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 2: it's not fun. It's fun. If you're not familiar with

660
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 2: Ross Chastain, go type into your computer Wall the Wall Ride,

661
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 2: Ross Chastain Wall Ride. So something happened with Ross three

662
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,399
Speaker 2: years ago. He was in a race and this, this

663
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 2: event has will will probably outlive him in terms of

664
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 2: its legacy. And NASCAR tell me about the wall Ride.

665
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: So we've had this conversation before, but it's it's I

666
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 2: had to bring it up on this podcast.

667
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I went into the thirty fifth race of

668
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 3: our thirty six points races, eighteen points above my competitor.

669
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 3: I need to beat the eleven of Denny Hamlin, not

670
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 3: let him gain eighteen points on me. Nineteen we could

671
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 3: tie and I would win. So at eighteen positions over

672
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 3: the course of the race. Now we'd had a long

673
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 3: history that year. I had ran into him at Saint Louis,

674
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 3: he didn't. I ran into him again Atlanta, and then

675
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 3: he ran into me at Pocono. So we had had

676
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 3: this on track, hurting each other.

677
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: Is this I'm not sure if I can bring this

678
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 2: up or not, but it's kind of out there. Is

679
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: this the guy you punched?

680
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, definitely not, definitely.

681
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: Not that that video comes up too.

682
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, that one does.

683
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: And before I even knew you, I knew it wasn't

684
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 2: your fault.

685
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,439
Speaker 3: Oh well had I had a large hand to play

686
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 3: in it well as well as he and he started it.

687
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 3: He started it, and yeah it was it needed to

688
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 3: be ended. So and we were Noah Gregson and I

689
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 3: we walked in the gym Monday morning after that punch

690
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 3: and shook hands and worked out together. Is that what done?

691
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 2: Is that right?

692
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,479
Speaker 3: Yep? He was good. I was good.

693
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: Is he still race?

694
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 3: He does?

695
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: He was at the race Saturday.

696
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 3: He was in it.

697
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 2: He was a leader.

698
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 3: We're good. Yep. He texted me last week. They were

699
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 3: in Nashville. Everybody thinks because of the track house that were

700
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,240
Speaker 3: in Nashville a lot. Yeah, And we're over here in Concord.

701
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 3: This is where our workforce is. But our kind of

702
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: soul and the foundation of the company justin lives in Nashville,

703
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 3: So we do a lot there with Tutsi's so anytime

704
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,360
Speaker 3: any of the other drivers that I'm buddies with or

705
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 3: they're they're like, send me a picture on Broadway, like

706
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 3: where you at? Like I'm in North Carolina and where

707
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 3: you live?

708
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: Yeah? We all live every year, so yeah, you could

709
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,959
Speaker 2: have come over to my house. Yeah, where we left.

710
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 2: So the wall ride distracted, but you could also the

711
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 2: last last getting.

712
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 3: A little scuffle the last lap, I needed to gain

713
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 3: two spots and I was far enough away I couldn't

714
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 3: catch them. So in the final corner I held it

715
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 3: to the floor. I ended up up shifting to fifth gear.

716
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 3: Normally we run fifth gear all the time, and at

717
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 3: martin zilt's a unique small track, so we run third

718
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 3: and fourth. Uh, and I shifted the fifth and ran

719
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 3: the wall and I gained like three seconds on my competition,

720
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 3: and that put me right ahead of the eleven, which

721
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 3: moved me on to the champion ship race the next week.

722
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 3: So in our first year as a team twenty twenty

723
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 3: two track Houses second year of existence, my first year

724
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 3: with the team, we're able to go fight for a

725
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 3: championship in a four car playoff at one race and

726
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 3: we'll ultimately finished second two hundred and thirty five feet.

727
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 3: We lost the championship by two hundred thirty five feet. Wow,

728
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 3: So that was a bummer.

729
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: He kind of didn't give the full drama version, but

730
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 2: the wall ride was imagine an oval track with concrete walls,

731
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 2: and in the corner you have to slow your car

732
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 2: down to go around the corner, and the guys are

733
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 2: cutting the corner as tight as possible to make the

734
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 2: shortest line, And so if you go wide slower, it's

735
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 2: slower and you're taking a longer route to get to

736
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 2: the finish line. So on the final lap, ross is

737
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 2: like ten or eleven and he knows it just like

738
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 2: fifteen seconds before you did it. You kind of thought

739
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 2: about this, but.

740
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 3: I had accepted defeat and then off turn four taking

741
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 3: the white flag the last lap to start the five

742
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 3: hundred lap, it popped in my head to run the wall.

743
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 3: And what's scary, I honestly, is that I couldn't think

744
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 3: of a reason why not to do it? Why not?

745
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 3: I kept why not? Why not? And I thought wall, fine, fence, fine, gate, fine,

746
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 3: all things that should have been like red flags. You know.

747
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 3: It's like I just ignored all of them and held it,

748
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 3: and I ended up letting go of the wheel because

749
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: it was shaking so violently. So we have aluminum wheels

750
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 3: and really low sidewall like low profile tires. Our sidewalls

751
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 3: are very short so they don't bubble out the year

752
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: before twenty twenty one, and all the way back in time,

753
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 3: we had a smaller wheel and bigger tire, fatter tire,

754
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 3: just the way the evolution of our car went to

755
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 3: a single lug nut aluminum wheel versus steel, and that

756
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 3: aluminum wheel the sidewall pressed in flat and like just

757
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 3: straight up and down, and the illuminum wheel slid along

758
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 3: the steel wall. So on the concrete. Then we bolt

759
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 3: steel with foam, and that steel just as smooth, and

760
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 3: that aluminit wheel is actually like a castor tire, like

761
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 3: a castor wheel and a dumpster like you can roll it.

762
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 3: You know, it's rough, but a steel wheel rolls on concrete,

763
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 3: it rolls on on asphalt. It's rough, but that's what

764
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 3: it felt like, was a steel wheel.

765
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: So he used centrifical force to basically, when these guys

766
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 2: were slowing down to take a shorter route around the corner,

767
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 2: you went faster and the wall kept you in line,

768
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: and basically you were going twice as fast as that.

769
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 3: Basically normally it's like one hundred and thirty on the

770
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 3: straightaways down to seventy five in the corners. Yeah, constantly

771
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 3: accelerating and slowing down. I went one hundred and forty

772
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 3: five ish. I don't have the exact number off the

773
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,160
Speaker 3: top of my head to say I sped up an

774
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,720
Speaker 3: extra fifteen miles an hour than our normal top speed

775
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 3: because I had more straightaway to keep going. They hit

776
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 3: the brakes. Sin took a shorter distance.

777
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 2: But you went.

778
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 3: I just shot it around and I couldn't see anything.

779
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 3: That's the G forces were high. It was a couple

780
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 3: seconds doing it. It took a couple to get around there.

781
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: And the car with the independent rear suspension the transact

782
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 3: so it kept driving the car like it kept the

783
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 3: wheels on the ground. The rear tires the left front

784
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 3: did pick up off the ground a little like the

785
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 3: G forces pulled it up. But it destroyed the car.

786
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 3: It bent the chassis, it broke the suspension. My brakes

787
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 3: weren't working very good at the after, so I kind

788
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 3: of hit the wall after the finish again, but it

789
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 3: accomplished the goal. We went from tenth to fifth place

790
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: and that got us in the.

791
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: Chair and then they outlawed being able to do this.

792
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,399
Speaker 3: They left it for one more week, so the championship race,

793
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 3: we were allowed to do it if we wanted. Unfortunately,

794
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 3: Joey Logano for teen penske. He won the championship and

795
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: won the race. His teammate Ryan, who wasn't in the

796
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 3: final four, was right behind him, so I already knew

797
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 3: if I did it, Ryan would just pull up and

798
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 3: block me. So I didn't do it, and Joey won

799
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 3: beat me fair.

800
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 2: And square, beach, fair and square. Well, I thought it

801
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 2: was pretty cool that they outlawed it after that. I mean,

802
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 2: just you know, so nobody's gonna like, nobody's gonna do

803
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,479
Speaker 2: it any better than you did.

804
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 3: It, not better. It has been done again on accident.

805
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,439
Speaker 3: Chrisopher Bell did it. Happened to him last year twenty

806
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 3: twenty four, and he didn't mean to do it, but

807
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 3: he did do it a little bit and they pulled

808
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 3: him out of the finale for doing it. He had

809
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 3: made it in and they pulled him.

810
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 2: So that was bad, completely disqual.

811
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 3: That was disappointing because that he didn't deserve that, Like,

812
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 3: there was a lot.

813
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 2: Of disciplined him. They didn't just like say that race.

814
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 3: They disciplined him and that took him out.

815
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 2: Oh that's that was bad.

816
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 3: I didn't I don't love that because he didn't do

817
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 3: it with my intention, My intention for fifteen seconds was

818
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 3: to do that. No, there was no rule. They created

819
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 3: the rule athlete legal, What you did? I asked NASCAR.

820
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 3: They'd add my initials in to the rule and it

821
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 3: told me to get out, go on, come on, get out,

822
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 3: go get out here.

823
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 2: I thought that was I thought that was pretty cool.

824
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It gets talked about as much as

825
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 3: each win. What's I'm proud of? We won two races

826
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 3: before that, two then we won or then we did

827
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 3: the hell Melon. Then we've won four more times after.

828
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 2: We call it the hell Hell Mary, but it's the

829
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 2: hell Melon.

830
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. I like it. We've won more race,

831
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: We've won more races after which I'm proud of.

832
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

833
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't want that to be my last thing.

834
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 2: Well, and you said that in NASCAR, that was like

835
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 2: one of the most watched video clips of all time.

836
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I've seen some reports and the best

837
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: they can capture from all social media and all impressions

838
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 3: and right clicks and everything. I don't really know what

839
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:39,240
Speaker 3: I'm talking about here, but there's been no no thing

840
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,720
Speaker 3: right when you when you pile it all together. From

841
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 3: the winner of the Daytona five hundred, the winner of

842
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 3: the Coke six hundred, the championship winner. Like those videos,

843
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: none of them add up to anything close to what

844
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 3: Because it went worldwide, there was people chiming in other

845
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 3: racers from other Formula One series a right indy car

846
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: because a lot of us had done it as kids.

847
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 3: So the best I can tell you, the only way

848
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 3: it popped in my head was as a kid. I

849
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 3: probably did it on the game cube, and I know

850
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 3: I did. You turn around and go backwards on those games,

851
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 3: right video console games, hold it wide open, turn the

852
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,879
Speaker 3: automatic brakes off on the video game and just let

853
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,240
Speaker 3: it go into the wall and it'll flip or whatever,

854
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 3: and not not like, Oh, when I get to NASCAR

855
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 3: and I'm I'm racing for a championship, I'm gonna do this. No, definitely,

856
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 3: that's cool.

857
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 2: I like it. Man, Have you ever been in any

858
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 2: bad recks?

859
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 3: I have California twenty twenty two Spring practice, a track

860
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 3: that's now closed down. We've lost it. They developed that land,

861
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 3: but yes, bottomed out new car. The Gen seven car

862
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 3: was brand new, bottomed the left ear frame out and

863
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 3: over corrected. It got started to get loose and slide.

864
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 3: The rear and I turned the wheel to the right and

865
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: lifted and it caught. And it comes back to that

866
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 3: low profile tire. It acts different than our old tire,

867
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 3: and the suspension acts different. So I hit at an angle,

868
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 3: but pretty much head on at about one hundred and

869
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 3: forty miles an hour into the wall to the wall.

870
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 3: Came off the wall seventy, so it was like hitting

871
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 3: a wall at seventy and stopping.

872
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 2: So you hit this wall going seventy.

873
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 3: One hundred and forty, one hundred and forty, and when

874
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 3: I came off of it, I was still going seventy.

875
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 3: I like it like redirected me, you know, at an angle.

876
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 3: I hit it and then I went.

877
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: So did the car catch on fire? Did it tumble?

878
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 2: Did it just crumple up it?

879
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 3: It did not flip, And at the time it didn't

880
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 3: absorb much, so I took the energy. The energy the

881
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 3: G forces was up in the I don't know, mid fifties,

882
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 3: sixty sixty g's of impact. There's some discrepancy on their

883
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 3: data calculators and they're capturing at the time. Some math

884
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 3: doesn't add up back then when you look back at it,

885
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 3: the cars were very stiff. Everything all the frame rails

886
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,439
Speaker 3: on the new car very horizontal. Everything's very block, I'll

887
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 3: call it. There's no real curves to the frame a

888
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 3: Monte Carlo that Chevrolet would have produced in the eighties.

889
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,080
Speaker 3: Everything's very rounded because when it hits, they want stuff

890
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 3: to move. They want the frame horns, frame horns to crush,

891
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: bumpers to come in. We had just foam and the

892
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 3: way it was all built was very stiff, and we

893
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 3: hurt some drivers. Kurt Busch has retired, and he took

894
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 3: hits his whole career. It all adds up. He took

895
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 3: a hit at Pocono that year, backed it in the wall,

896
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 3: and he never raced again. We've learned from that. We've

897
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 3: evolved this car. I'm proud to drive this car. I

898
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 3: was proud then, I'm proud now when I took that hit.

899
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 3: I believe if I took that same hit today, although

900
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: the cars the same, technically, we have modified it, the

901
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 3: sport has, the league has, it would feel better. I

902
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,759
Speaker 3: would take less impact than my body. So I had

903
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 3: some pull muscles in my back, in my neck, had

904
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: some pain that I raced the next day. So I

905
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 3: did I scare you? It did? It did? That was

906
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 3: the only one I've ever had that scared me. Scared. Yeah,

907
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 3: and I've never had any like, you know, broken bones

908
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 3: or surgeries. An ice bath that night got the swelling

909
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 3: down in my back, a lot of stretching to get

910
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 3: in the car. I was still really stiff though, getting

911
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: in really sore, and I was able to go race

912
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 3: and I ultimately worked my way up into the top ten.

913
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,319
Speaker 3: Late in that race, and then I spun out in

914
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 3: the same spot, but instead of over cracking and hitting

915
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 3: the wall, I just held it left and spun the

916
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 3: car out and ultimately cost us to get finish. But

917
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,399
Speaker 3: it it was at least I learned my lesson because

918
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 3: I hit the same bump I'd avoided all race and

919
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 3: I was trying to gain some more spots at the end,

920
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 3: I thought I'm gonna go on that line again, and

921
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: it bottomed out the same.

922
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 2: Way, and really it was a bump in the track.

923
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that track was really bummy. It was an awesome track.

924
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,399
Speaker 3: I hate we lost it. It was super wide. It's

925
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 3: unlike anything we have. And they ultimately sold the land

926
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 3: and there's some distribution centers or something there now.

927
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: So when when I was at Talladega, the other day

928
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 2: in your pit, like watching the start and just being there.

929
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 2: I was thinking it was scary is probably the wrong word,

930
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 2: but it was intimidating it clearly it would be that

931
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,720
Speaker 2: someone who's not been there before. But after the race

932
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 2: we met you, Like after the race, he's two and

933
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 2: a half hours, like white knuckle driving this car one

934
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety miles an hour, bumper to bumper. I

935
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 2: mean you're touching the car in front of you sometimes

936
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: going one hundred ninety miles an hour. Yep. Like the

937
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: intensity level of it, I mean, just even as a

938
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 2: fan was over the top. And so you like crawl

939
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 2: out of the car and then we drive to go

940
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 2: deer hunting. I didn't know what to expect from you,

941
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 2: Like would you be like like you just got out

942
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 2: of an MMA fight, you know and you or would

943
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 2: you be like super tired or would you I had

944
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 2: no idea, and you were just like you are right

945
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 2: now when you got out of that car. That was

946
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 2: my perception, and I think I ask you, was that scary?

947
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 3: Yeah?

948
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 2: Because in my mind, you know, Ross's race his whole life,

949
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: and I'm like the one race I see. I'm like, man,

950
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 2: I hope he's okay. I mean, I hardly know this guy,

951
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 2: and I'm like, man, this is this is dangerous. I

952
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 2: don't know about this, but you said that you're you

953
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 2: don't like, you're not afraid at all. You're more scared

954
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: climbing a deer stand than driving in the that Taladan

955
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 2: for any race. Yeah, absolutely, that's astonishing to me.

956
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 3: I have respect for racing. I don't. I don't. I know.

957
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 3: I know that I will not always race. I know

958
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 3: one day I'm gonna stop racing. Now. I hope it's

959
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 3: on my own terms. I hope that I'm able to

960
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 3: decide that and plan that out. I don't want it

961
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 3: to be taken from me, but I respect that it could.

962
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 3: Like I'm not guaranteed to race this weekend, Like, yeah,

963
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 3: we're back from deer hunting. I'm gonna prepare now the

964
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 3: rest of the week, I'm not gonna you know, I'm

965
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 3: really not gonna think about hunting other than maybe some

966
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 3: memories from the week. But I'm going to focus now

967
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 3: for several days on Martinsville and Phoenix, and that's what

968
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 3: I'm gonna roll. Right out of Martinsville and no nothing

969
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 3: ahead of the ahead of Phoenix, well straight into our

970
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 3: finale in a week and a half. So I respect

971
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 3: racing from that aspect, just like I respect climbing a

972
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 3: ladder in a tree or climbing up into a box blne.

973
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,959
Speaker 3: I just I don't. I don't. I don't lose sight

974
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 3: of like one slip off that ladder and it changes things.

975
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 3: One bad wreck and it changes things. Like we're human.

976
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 3: This is not nobody's getting out of this live. And

977
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 3: I respect that in all aspects of things I do.

978
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 3: When I get on the highway to drive home, like

979
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 3: I have a respect that and a feeling that like

980
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 3: that I could be my last time. I don't. I'm

981
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 3: not like a morbid I'm not saying it in a

982
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 3: morbid way. I'm just that I respect this so I

983
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 3: enjoy the time here. I don't take it for granted.

984
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 3: Walking in these front doors, walking in your eyes were

985
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 3: big to this shot, right. I've now walked into this

986
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 3: building since twenty eighteen. I was first invited here and

987
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 3: hired here to drive for zero dollars in their Exfinity car.

988
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 3: I got an opportunity as like a three race tryout,

989
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 3: and I was able to win one of those, finished

990
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,319
Speaker 3: second in another and crash for the lead in the

991
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,439
Speaker 3: third one and that got me And I'm still here.

992
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 3: That was twenty eighteen, and I've made a home here.

993
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 3: The name has changed, that people have changed, but some

994
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 3: of us are still here and that's really cool. And

995
00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 3: I wouldn't do it want to be doing it right

996
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 3: with anybody else. So I just have a respect that, like,

997
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 3: one day's going to be my last day walking in here. Now.

998
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 3: I hope it's when we moved to some bigger shop

999
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: and we're in this better situation and track House has grown.

1000
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,959
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't I appreciate that the race was over.

1001
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,160
Speaker 3: I think I had a bush light in my hand

1002
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,479
Speaker 3: when I walked up to you had had a bowl

1003
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 3: of chicken and rice. I think I had some broccoli

1004
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 3: and chicken and rice and had a meal and had

1005
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 3: a beer and was ready to jump in the truck

1006
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 3: and I had the deer camp and then we had

1007
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 3: a good couple of days.

1008
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know when you told me that, it reminded

1009
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 2: me people not it's not hunters that asked me this,

1010
00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 2: but people that just don't understand much about hunting or

1011
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 2: bears in particular, and people here that we bear hunt

1012
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 2: and The first question that people want to ask me

1013
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 2: is are you not afraid? You know? And I respond

1014
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,720
Speaker 2: the exact same way that you do about your car.

1015
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 2: It's like no, and it's not bravado or something. But

1016
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 2: people that hunt bears aren't afraid of bears, like bears

1017
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 2: are not. You should be much more afraid of driving

1018
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 2: down the interstate. And we had this conversation. I mean, like,

1019
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 2: it's probably more dangerous driving down the Interstate than it

1020
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: is you driving out there one hundred ninety miles an

1021
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 2: hour in the car that you're driving.

1022
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 3: You know.

1023
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 2: So Yeah, to the uninitiated, everything seems unusual or you're

1024
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 2: you become like hyper aware of the of the of

1025
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 2: the danger of it just because you're like just not

1026
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:03,359
Speaker 2: you just haven't been there before. Yeah, but but now

1027
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 2: I had such a good time. I was amazed at

1028
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 2: the access. I've heard it said before this week that

1029
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 2: the cool thing about being a NASCAR fan is the

1030
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 2: access that you can get. I mean there were fans

1031
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 2: like the minutes before you get in your car, like

1032
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 2: swarming you, getting pictures. Yeah, if you've never been to

1033
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,440
Speaker 2: a NASCAR event, you you should go. You should go

1034
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: before we close? What what do you want to do

1035
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 2: inside of hunting. I realize this is your third season,

1036
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:45,319
Speaker 2: you're new to it. You probably you probably don't know

1037
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: all the options, nor do you need to like you could,

1038
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 2: you could. You could hunting Georgia for the rest of

1039
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 2: your life. Deer hunting at that camp with those friends

1040
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:01,239
Speaker 2: and like have a very very rich component of your life.

1041
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: That's honey, that's the cool thing about it. You don't

1042
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 2: have to do anything. But what what do you have

1043
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 2: any goals? I mean, even like deer hunting on your land, Like,

1044
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 2: do you have any goals?

1045
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 3: Well, I know an area that I'm gonna spray and

1046
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 3: burn because it's a little thick. Yes, it's a little thick.

1047
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 3: So that is on the docket. David la we.

1048
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: Had to track his deer a little bit last year,

1049
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 2: pushed a little bit good gear habitat though.

1050
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 3: You know, I know, I know it, I know it.

1051
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,479
Speaker 3: I was all in it. Well you were in it, yeah, yeah,

1052
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 3: uh yeah. I want to work that land. I want

1053
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 3: to continue to learn it. Like I told you, I

1054
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,000
Speaker 3: had hunted the gilly, but I had not hunted that

1055
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 3: tower blind. So I like to add some bird like

1056
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 3: little things, like I want to add some bur Lab.

1057
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 3: I didn't like that we were so exposed. They liked it.

1058
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 2: You want to learn how to hunt your land.

1059
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 3: I want to do it a bit my way, and

1060
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 3: I want to be a little more more covered up

1061
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 3: up and blend in a little more. So.

1062
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 2: I don't know, but you like whitetail hunting. I think

1063
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:06,760
Speaker 2: that's kind of what you're focused.

1064
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 3: I do know it. And yeah, hunting hogs is something

1065
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 3: that we do in South Florida, so I've done that before,

1066
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 3: but that's a that's not a sitting thing as much

1067
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,839
Speaker 3: where those are now since they're eating the watermelons. That's

1068
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 3: a more of an ag hunt. Totally different atmosphere when

1069
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 3: we do that. So have met a friend in Kansas,

1070
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 3: his daughter actually works here at track House, and then

1071
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 3: met her dad and mom and so it been out

1072
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:40,040
Speaker 3: to his place last year. I'm going to go again

1073
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 3: this year with a farmer from Florida. So mine is

1074
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 3: definitely if I'm going to my land, I can go

1075
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,319
Speaker 3: by myself and sit and I don't you know, text them,

1076
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 3: text the group, chat a picture or something, but my

1077
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 3: hunting buddies. Other than that, if I'm going somewhere, I

1078
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 3: want to it's social for me, I want to do

1079
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 3: it with pool that want to go to deer camp

1080
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 3: and have that experience. Justin marks no different. Him and

1081
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 3: I got into hunting on the same day. Neither one

1082
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 3: of us had ever done it. He's hiked mountains right

1083
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 3: like climb He's a climber. I've been in fields. He's

1084
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 3: been in the wilderness. He never and I never, like

1085
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 3: we never looked at the woods like we look at

1086
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 3: it now. And for him and I, it's been so

1087
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 3: cool to have this, this professional relationship we've built after

1088
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 3: over a decade of a personal friendship and now we've

1089
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 3: grown it in a hunting so I kind of have

1090
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,359
Speaker 3: three different parts of Justin that we've and he has

1091
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 3: three different parts of me that we've grown through and

1092
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 3: to get to go race and win races together and

1093
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 3: see what he's built a worldwide brand now where track

1094
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 3: House has won. Now in Moto GP in America, Motor

1095
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 3: GP is not what it could be. It's not nearly

1096
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 3: as popular as NASCAR motorcycle motorcycle racing on circuits, so

1097
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 3: it's the fast motorcycles where the riders are leaned over

1098
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 3: on the racetrack that a Formula One car would race

1099
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:03,200
Speaker 3: on and their elbow me touching the ground. They have

1100
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 3: pucks on their elbows and Rowell was able to get

1101
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 3: his first win from self and trackhouse. So I look

1102
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 3: at that like we were just a couple of years

1103
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 3: ago and I met Rowell. He's been here to America,

1104
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 3: came to the shop and to see his struggles and

1105
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 3: now see his success and see Justin Who's I think,

1106
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 3: by the way I know it, one of his first

1107
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 3: loves was Motor GP racing, even before NASCAR, So to

1108
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:27,920
Speaker 3: see that come through for him, to get to see

1109
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,520
Speaker 3: him Sunday after his team won all the way in Australia,

1110
00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,640
Speaker 3: he wasn't there. It's a bummer. I wish he would

1111
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 3: have been there, but he was with us in Talladega

1112
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 3: getting ready to go to Deer Camp. Yeah. You got

1113
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 3: a guy that has built a race winning NASCAR team,

1114
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 3: has won a race in the Nationwide Nationwide Series, in

1115
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 3: now Xfinity Series, getting ready to be O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

1116
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 3: It's stepping through some names and has built this winning

1117
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 3: organization here with all of his drivers winning and now

1118
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 3: winning in Australia in Motor GP. It's just incredible. And

1119
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 3: the fact that he wants to go to deer camp

1120
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 3: with me for two days. Is so cool. Yeah, and

1121
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 3: we have learned it together. We're learning about ammunition together,

1122
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 3: We're learning about guns together. You know, everybody in both

1123
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 3: of our families are not hunters like we. We both

1124
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 3: are catching some flak for it. You know. We we

1125
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 3: have to have both have hard conversations with our family

1126
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 3: that can be tough about why we want to do

1127
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 3: this and the respect we have for it. Right. So

1128
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 3: doing that together has been really really cool, and I

1129
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 3: think it's very unique. I don't see that in a

1130
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 3: lot of Nascar, and I I want to do this

1131
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 3: with my people. I want to go hunt with my people.

1132
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 3: I want to go racing with my people, and Justine

1133
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 3: my people. So we have we have a good time.

1134
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 2: Man, That's cool, very cool.

1135
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1136
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 2: Well, ross Man, for for a guy that has been

1137
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 2: on a super Bowl commercial, on the halftime super Bowl commercial,

1138
00:58:55,600 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 2: you're you're incredibly humble and been really genuine and fun

1139
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 2: to hang out with. And I hope we get to

1140
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 2: do something together again at some point inside of hunting.

1141
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 2: I want to bring my wife to a NASCAR race.

1142
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 2: She wants to come, come on, she does, but it's

1143
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 2: been a pleasure. Thank you for the hospitality. Yeah. So

1144
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 2: we're at the now we're going to go to the

1145
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:23,320
Speaker 2: track house facility.

1146
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 3: All right, we're here at the cup shop. This is

1147
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 3: where our cars get assembled. Nearly one hundred and ninety employees,

1148
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,520
Speaker 3: nearly two hundred, right around one hundred and ninety, and

1149
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 3: a lot of them live right in this area, come

1150
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 3: to this shop right Their careers, their lives, their families

1151
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 3: all revolve around these three race cars going and trying

1152
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 3: to win every Sunday. We've been able to win six

1153
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 3: races as a team this year. I've got one. SVG

1154
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 3: has got five last five road course races, so definitely

1155
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 3: a lot to celebrate as we wrap up the year.

1156
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 2: Awesome man, cool, Keep the wild pless as wild because

1157
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:58,080
Speaker 2: that's where the bears live.

1158
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 3: Nine