Speaker 1: This is cut to It with Steve Smith Senior at
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this
Speaker 1: is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it.
Speaker 1: Let's get down to do it. Good do it. We
Speaker 1: asked the questions you always want to know, but no
Speaker 1: one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard
Speaker 1: about it, then we're about to let you. Now it's
Speaker 1: all what's going on Steve Smith? Here, we are minus
Speaker 1: a co host today, Um gee had some things going on,
Speaker 1: so he he asked me to fill in. So Scott,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, um you're only getting half of cut to it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will be okay with you. None what happened,
Speaker 1: I guess exactly what it was. So I guess it
Speaker 1: was like not the want to borrow him and I
Speaker 1: appreciate me, no, but man, we love to have you
Speaker 1: on there. You. Um, I don't really know how to
Speaker 1: say it because here in Nascar. Yeah, we're in NASCAR
Speaker 1: country and you are a indie car driver and we'll
Speaker 1: we'll we'll get into that to decipher the difference, right,
Speaker 1: because um, I just uh, you know you guys, I
Speaker 1: believe do a little bit better job. You guys, don't
Speaker 1: really you go right in left first, just turning left. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I definitely think that's that we do a better job
Speaker 1: with that for sure. So we got Scott McLoughlin. Yea.
Speaker 1: Also just just turned twenty eight years old. Yea, So
Speaker 1: I'm h yeah, getting get getting on, I guess you
Speaker 1: could say. But now I'm probably this is probably for
Speaker 1: me as a race driver, is probably my peak, you know,
Speaker 1: like you sort of thirty two thirty four is sort
Speaker 1: of where we're sort of peking um. But our careers
Speaker 1: can sort of go to forty mid forties sometimes, So
Speaker 1: it just depends on really how good you are. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you can sponsorship is a big thing,
Speaker 1: you know, And if you can talk to the sponsors
Speaker 1: and market yourself to a point where you can have
Speaker 1: great brand sponsoring you and and keeping your racing and
Speaker 1: they want you still in the car, that's a big help.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've heard of a guy
Speaker 1: from Alio cash Nevis. He's one of the any five
Speaker 1: hundred four times, but he's forty five years old now,
Speaker 1: I think, and he's still in the game still and
Speaker 1: Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: he's got such a yeah fine wine, yeah, fine wine.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, wheels are good. Well, hey, welcome to cut
Speaker 1: to a podcast. Man, Thank you, thank you for taking
Speaker 1: a time. Um, we're gonna get right into it. Yeah
Speaker 1: we got we got some got some random stupid please
Speaker 1: random questions. Just just I'm just gonna grab him from it.
Speaker 1: I love it. If for color, why hold on? Hold on?
Speaker 1: What color blue? Like like like like a like like
Speaker 1: this blue. This is you know, it's an audio audio podcast.
Speaker 1: We don't have cameras. We do, but not everybody is watching.
Speaker 1: So what what color blue? Like a navy blue? Navy Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's more of like a midnight Yeah you reckon this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess you could say that. Yeah yeah, navy blue.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that navy blue. Okay, so let's go backwards. Okay,
Speaker 1: your favorite color is navy blue, not the midnight that
Speaker 1: you're wearing that you reference to your ships. I just
Speaker 1: throw out I saw the nearest blue I had, and
Speaker 1: I just went boom. Okay, that's it. So do you
Speaker 1: usually um get nervous when you're asked the question you're
Speaker 1: unprepared for because here in the States they call that
Speaker 1: dry snitching. Yeah, to be honest, I'd rather I'd rather
Speaker 1: draws niche because I hate being prepared for a bloody
Speaker 1: question because I feel like I overthink it. So like
Speaker 1: sometimes the press releases and stuff will go out and
Speaker 1: we might have like a media to it going on,
Speaker 1: and if I want to, like, they'll go, oh, do
Speaker 1: you want to know the question before you get asked?
Speaker 1: It's like no, because I feel like you get a
Speaker 1: truer answer as you're finding out right now if I'm
Speaker 1: just hanging out, so so you are. So you're saying
Speaker 1: that you you want to be known as a draf No,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what that means. Thank you something, honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. So here's here's what
Speaker 1: a draw niches is just a random like you just
Speaker 1: tell on yourself. Right, So, my mom, like a teacher's pet. No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no. A teacher's pet and a snitch is two different. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me show you the difference. Okay, my
Speaker 1: daughter who's twenty, she will be twenty one September. She
Speaker 1: was she was young and just like most siblings, she
Speaker 1: she told on her simply her older brother. And so
Speaker 1: my mom was over for the holidays. Um, and I
Speaker 1: know this is probably a surprising My mom is African American, right, um, right,
Speaker 1: so growing up in l A. And so she goes,
Speaker 1: she tells my eight year old daughter. My daughters eight
Speaker 1: at the time. She tells her. My daughter goes in
Speaker 1: tail and I said, my daughter, Bailey, are you are
Speaker 1: you telling? Are you telling? Telling? And my mother, my
Speaker 1: mother says to my her granddaughter who's eight, Hey, Bailey
Speaker 1: snitches gets stitches and just ripped into it that I
Speaker 1: love that straight to the right. A year olds She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get stitches, right yeah, so exactly, so so
Speaker 1: that that's what a snitch is. So just you, just
Speaker 1: a dry snitch is basically saying you openly, we'll tell
Speaker 1: on yourself. Okay, no, I'll take that back, all right,
Speaker 1: But like I said, I will happily take an unpression
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm more authentic. Son, hit me more.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Okay, well we'll talk. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hit you. I don't want that either. I like this guy,
Speaker 1: So let's get to it. Man. I always I love
Speaker 1: asking each guests. This um where you from in a
Speaker 1: place you call your hometown cross Church, New Zealand. One
Speaker 1: more time, christ Church, New Zealand. Where is that in?
Speaker 1: In proximiarly of Sydney or Melbourne. So it's it's north South,
Speaker 1: but Melbourne's Australia, New Zealand. And then cross Church is
Speaker 1: the bottom of New Zealand. It's basically one of the
Speaker 1: closest towns to Antarctica. If that's a yeah, it's probably
Speaker 1: one of the Yeah, so I'm assuming. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: little chilly. It's called all the time. Yeah for the
Speaker 1: most part. Like a hot day is like a seventy
Speaker 1: seventy seventy five, and then you get a cold cold
Speaker 1: days like freezing below freezing not not not like my
Speaker 1: not like um Fahrenheart. I'm still learning it, but I
Speaker 1: mean doing in celis like minus it's not a minus
Speaker 1: ten or anything like that, but it's it'll get down
Speaker 1: to like, you know, twenty what at mid twenties. No
Speaker 1: in in Fahrenhet. Yeah, but now I'm all mixed stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm going I'm talking celsis and Fahrenheitt. I've got crap
Speaker 1: gun on everywhere and then be careful. Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm starting, I'm getting ready to go. I'm podcasting.
Speaker 1: What are some of the experiences you had living in
Speaker 1: New Zealand. Um, I've I've been. I've traveled pretty extensively.
Speaker 1: I've had not gotten an opportunity to go to New Zealand. Um,
Speaker 1: but I hear is beautiful. It is beautiful. You know
Speaker 1: what What were your experiences growing up in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of rugby. Um grew up
Speaker 1: initially when I was sort of five years old playing rugby. Um.
Speaker 1: So you either in New Zealand, it's either you pick
Speaker 1: up a rugby ball, which most do, or you go
Speaker 1: and get yourself a car, maybe go out to a
Speaker 1: race track. Yeah. Motor sport is very prominent in New
Speaker 1: Zealand and like a lot of club races like, um,
Speaker 1: you know people that just have their own cars. I
Speaker 1: go out and just drive the tracks or whatever that,
Speaker 1: you know, on the road circuits. But I explain a road,
Speaker 1: so that's left and rights. Yeah, so you just so
Speaker 1: you can't get a driver's license. However you can go
Speaker 1: and just drive on a Yeah. Well there's a go
Speaker 1: karting as well, so like I could. So I started
Speaker 1: gocarting when I was six years old. Um, and that's
Speaker 1: when I So you were a six years old you
Speaker 1: were gocarting but still wearing a pull up at Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah the most but yep and surprised. Yeah, that that's
Speaker 1: where my parents were at. They just said, you know,
Speaker 1: get in there and have a But you know, when
Speaker 1: you're six years old, you try anything, right, Like I was, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you know, it turned a hobby like has now turned
Speaker 1: into a profession. You know. At the time, like that
Speaker 1: was like a a family affair, like we had so
Speaker 1: much fun for from when I was six years old
Speaker 1: to you know when I sort of was probably just
Speaker 1: before my teens, before I got noticed scouted brought onto
Speaker 1: bigger teams. But yeah, for the most part in New Zealand,
Speaker 1: like you know, growing up there, it was pretty simple.
Speaker 1: You had a couple of earthquakes, you know, the Cross
Speaker 1: is pretty known for its earthquakes. Um. You know, there
Speaker 1: was a couple of volcano eruptions like crazy stuff. When
Speaker 1: you think when even when I talk about it now,
Speaker 1: like thinking looking back at it, like New Zealand is
Speaker 1: a pretty simple place, but sometimes like the natural things
Speaker 1: that can happen down there, it's a pretty the natural
Speaker 1: things are happening to you at a young age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess like earthquakes. Earthquakes, Remember like the volcano ash
Speaker 1: like covering our car and really yeah, like stuff like that.
Speaker 1: That and we were probably five hours away from like
Speaker 1: the volcano that erupted kind of thing. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that My dad was a truck driver, so
Speaker 1: he was always like away. Um, so I hung out
Speaker 1: with my mom alike my sister who's two years younger
Speaker 1: than me. Um, pretty close knit family, small family. Um
Speaker 1: you know, well I only met my nana and my
Speaker 1: grand both my pops sort of passed away before I
Speaker 1: was sort of born. So um, you know, it's very
Speaker 1: tight knit. Not many cousins, um yeah, and just pretty
Speaker 1: simple life. And then eventually, you know, I went to
Speaker 1: a car show with my dad, going back to the
Speaker 1: Go Cut story, I went to a car show and
Speaker 1: there was a go Cut stand there and you know,
Speaker 1: Dad's like, oh, you know, I've I've raised these a
Speaker 1: couple of times. You know, would you ever want to go?
Speaker 1: And like I said, when you're six years old, you'd
Speaker 1: let you try anything, and the next day was actually
Speaker 1: a go cut have a go day at the local
Speaker 1: go cart track. And the next day I went out,
Speaker 1: loved it, bought a cart and haven't looked back since.
Speaker 1: It's Yeah, it's just how it's happening. So what did
Speaker 1: your sister do? Because you said only in New Zealand
Speaker 1: the only two things to do is rugby, yeah, and
Speaker 1: motor sports. So I'm I'm being ignorant to the fact
Speaker 1: and believing everything. Hanging on every word yeah, because that's that.
Speaker 1: That's your world, you're living in it, and I don't
Speaker 1: you know, you're giving us. You're giving us a visual
Speaker 1: and audio tour of you growing up in New Zealand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well so I grew up. There's another part of the story.
Speaker 1: So when I was ten, my mom and dad moved
Speaker 1: us to Australia and they started a new business there.
Speaker 1: And that's where did you move to? To Melbourne, Victoria?
Speaker 1: So you're talking about really good spot, um. And we
Speaker 1: were in Australia to be honest, from that point until
Speaker 1: I left to come here in America. So that's not
Speaker 1: Australia effective become my home in some ways, although I
Speaker 1: always I'm always a key. We always go for the
Speaker 1: all blacks. But it's it's one of those deals where
Speaker 1: you know, I am you know really uh. You know,
Speaker 1: our family went through a whole heap of staff with
Speaker 1: my dad's truck business. They start mom and dad started that,
Speaker 1: and my sister was you know, we went to school
Speaker 1: and a pretty small school, um in Melbourne. Um, and
Speaker 1: now you know, cutting the long story short, she went
Speaker 1: to Uni. She decided she tried go karting. She like,
Speaker 1: did a couple of races, did bits and pieces, but
Speaker 1: it was too it was too hot for at the time,
Speaker 1: she was like, oh it's too hot. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't really like having the helmet iron and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So and then um and yeah and
Speaker 1: we and then now she's actually my she looks after
Speaker 1: all my press down in Australia. She she works for
Speaker 1: a management company in Australia. She went to she's very smart.
Speaker 1: She went to a really good university down Australia and
Speaker 1: got a degree in and marketing and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been awesome to have her on sort of
Speaker 1: my team now and working together as a family it's
Speaker 1: it's cool. It's pretty cool. Yeah, Melbourne gets pretty hot. Yea,
Speaker 1: our winners is are you guys a summer and you
Speaker 1: guys summers? Yeah, so that was another thing I had
Speaker 1: to get used to here. It was like Christmas, it's
Speaker 1: cold and I'm used to being on the lake, you
Speaker 1: know over Christmas. It's so different, you know, and just
Speaker 1: yeah having having like my my birthdays is June and
Speaker 1: you know, having um, you know, having that as normally
Speaker 1: cold and here it's hot and it's kind of weird
Speaker 1: to make it all happen. But it's cool. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Melbourne is pretty cool place. Yeah you've been there? Yeah yeah?
Speaker 1: What did you go there for? Just like to hang
Speaker 1: out holiday? For the Australian Open? Oh cool? Yeah you're
Speaker 1: into your tennis? Yeah yeah, I like tennis too. I
Speaker 1: went to I went to that. I was open a
Speaker 1: few times. Yeah. Yeah, I love that playing that with
Speaker 1: my wife and we have a lot of fun doing that.
Speaker 1: It's nice. Is busy, Yeah, it's hot. Yeah. Yeah. Did
Speaker 1: you go like the main stadium there like Rod Labor
Speaker 1: and I took, I took, I took the whole time.
Speaker 1: Two weeks man, let's just jump right into explain to
Speaker 1: me indie car racing because I thought it was. You know,
Speaker 1: this weekend I was watching a little F one and
Speaker 1: I didn't see Scott was looking. I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't see him. And then I looked it up and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, I look at my notes
Speaker 1: and it says, um, indie stupid. So that really answered
Speaker 1: the question for me. So what is the difference? Yes,
Speaker 1: as and and I'm I'm I'm throwing myself. I'm the
Speaker 1: sacrificial lamb. I don't know the difference, right, I don't
Speaker 1: sports has There's so many sports, there's so many different
Speaker 1: elements to it, right, Just like you know, there are
Speaker 1: some people that who are naive enough to say, oh, basketball, football,
Speaker 1: what's the difference if you don't watch it, if you
Speaker 1: don't really understand it. And I think I believe what's
Speaker 1: going on right now currently with the lesser financial sports
Speaker 1: in the F one, soccer, hockey, they're doing such a
Speaker 1: good job of explaining things. I think the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that has helped me is that not that uh uh,
Speaker 1: Netflix Formula one kind of showing it's made people that
Speaker 1: it's it's dumbed it down to people can actually understand
Speaker 1: that there's a method to the madness. I think there's
Speaker 1: another good, good, good movie. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: saying it, Rush highly recommend that I've seen the movie.
Speaker 1: It came out of several years ago, right, but but
Speaker 1: but it was something about F one that I'm kind
Speaker 1: of yeah, yeah, but it's still something now I can
Speaker 1: go back and go watch it because I can start
Speaker 1: to put it in respective. So dumbed down the difference
Speaker 1: between F one and Indie well, like I'm using the
Speaker 1: word dumbed down. Well, yeah, but the best thing, like
Speaker 1: what you've just said though, like with Former One's popularity rising,
Speaker 1: not many people know the difference between the two. So
Speaker 1: that'sally great for IndyCar because if you see like IndyCar
Speaker 1: on TV, you're like, oh, their funds, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. And it's kind of it's been a good,
Speaker 1: you know, good thing. You know, there's like a little
Speaker 1: battle going on between Former one and IndyCar about popularity
Speaker 1: and where they're at in America, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: like it's I think it's been good for both parties,
Speaker 1: especially in America because traditionally America has been probably more
Speaker 1: so Nascar NASCAR. Everyone knows Nascar. It's just so every
Speaker 1: Sunday it's on, you know, Charlotte, the whole deal. You know.
Speaker 1: Um So the difference between Former one and in one.
Speaker 1: Formula one goes on just road and street circuits, so
Speaker 1: they just turn left and right. They do um races
Speaker 1: all over the world, like Monaco, they got some Belgium
Speaker 1: of China. I want a Long Beach. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: that's us. I'd seen these different Have you been to
Speaker 1: that one? No, I just know around that time, you
Speaker 1: don't go to Long Beach. That's what I remember. And
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Yeah there's other guy that blocks
Speaker 1: the roads. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no that see, I didn't know.
Speaker 1: I just I just knew every year it was something
Speaker 1: huge in Long Beach when I was a kid that
Speaker 1: that you knew around this time. Oh, you can't do
Speaker 1: the racers are down there. Formerly one used to be there.
Speaker 1: I think, like way back in the day. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm ohhead, yeah, that's damn. I said forty one. I
Speaker 1: said forty one. I was being nice. I didn't say
Speaker 1: damn like in a bad way, but I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not look good for forty three yes
Speaker 1: year old. So for all right, former one n car,
Speaker 1: any car, So going back to a rotor street course,
Speaker 1: just Formula one. The difference between what any car does.
Speaker 1: We actually go on ovals too, like what we go
Speaker 1: on ovals as well. Circles, yeah we do, we do
Speaker 1: those like you know to forty mile um World were
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So that's the only probably
Speaker 1: the difference until the cars. You know, there's probably there's
Speaker 1: more constructors. So in Formula one you've got to have
Speaker 1: a team has got to be a constructor, so you've
Speaker 1: got to build your own car. You've got to build,
Speaker 1: you know, like Ferrari's got a Ferrari engine at their
Speaker 1: own chassis, like gearbox they do everything. Where Indy car is,
Speaker 1: everyone's on the same chassis. You've either got a Honda
Speaker 1: or a Chef Chevy engine um, and it's that's where
Speaker 1: it's a little different because it's a little bit more speck,
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Everyone's got the same equipment. It's
Speaker 1: just who does the best with you know what they've got.
Speaker 1: What does the difference between a hunder engine and a
Speaker 1: Chevy Not much. It's the same principles. They've got to
Speaker 1: meet the requirements that any requirements like two point was
Speaker 1: it two point two leader to the driver, But I
Speaker 1: just drive it together if I'm being honest there Steve honestly,
Speaker 1: But no, it's you've got to like the Honda and
Speaker 1: the Chevy is is you've got to meet these technical
Speaker 1: requirements asked by Indy Car. Where Formula one it's like,
Speaker 1: you can you build the fastest engine you can. There's
Speaker 1: a couple of technical requirements and a few different electronic
Speaker 1: things that you can do. But if you can build
Speaker 1: a car that's you know, way faster on a straight
Speaker 1: line or whatever like, that's up to them because their constructors.
Speaker 1: Where we've got parameters that we've got to stay within.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, any car and former one
Speaker 1: are very similar. Um, you know, you've seen there's a
Speaker 1: lot of crossover. Sometimes any car drivers go to Formula one,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes Formal one drivers come back to come
Speaker 1: to any car and racing America before you finish, which
Speaker 1: is harder. Well, I personally I think you can ask yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no one actually asking yet. No, Yeah, I should
Speaker 1: get that. No, I think Indy Car because I believe it.
Speaker 1: Because of the there's less chance, less parameters to go through,
Speaker 1: so everyone's got the same equipment. It really comes down
Speaker 1: to the driver in some ways, driver and the team
Speaker 1: and pit stops, and there's a lot of variables that
Speaker 1: can happen where you're seeing F one. You've got the Mercedes,
Speaker 1: the Ferrari, got the same guys at the front of
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Speaker 1: I got all my answers questions. Um, I got all
Speaker 1: my questions answered. That's what I'm here for, a brother,
Speaker 1: cut to a podcast dot com. When you start a race,
Speaker 1: how many miles or laps can a set of tires
Speaker 1: get you? Well, normally it's dictated by fuel, So how
Speaker 1: excuse me? Fuel by fuel? So again, Indy car fuels
Speaker 1: up at their pit stops. F one don't F one
Speaker 1: is dictated by the They fuel up for the whole
Speaker 1: race and then it's just up to hell on the
Speaker 1: tires do and typically f one laps IndyCar like say
Speaker 1: it at Indianapolis, we try and get thirty three to
Speaker 1: thirty five laps out of a fuel tank, and it's
Speaker 1: about how you save and the more laps you do,
Speaker 1: the better off you're going to be come the end
Speaker 1: of the race because you've got more fuel and less
Speaker 1: station and his time in the pit stop. So how
Speaker 1: many laps is a mile? Was it two and a half?
Speaker 1: I have no idea again the driver, Yeah, I drive
Speaker 1: the car. They tell me, all right, last lap and
Speaker 1: I just get out there we go. I was right,
Speaker 1: I said two point five, but you said it with
Speaker 1: no conviction and no, no, no, I don't absolutely terrible
Speaker 1: like you said it like maybe yeah, maybe maybe not
Speaker 1: throwing it out there. I'm rowing a number. I believe
Speaker 1: this is. I don't know if it is, because I
Speaker 1: was thinking, I was like, all right, well I know
Speaker 1: and track four laps equal a mile. Yeah, But if
Speaker 1: I knew that question beforehand, I would have said two
Speaker 1: point five straight away, and you guys were thought, I'm genius. No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say genius, but I took the dry snitch. No,
Speaker 1: that's not dry sta. Still I'm still trying to figure
Speaker 1: that out. Just remove snitching and dry out of your
Speaker 1: vocab blaria. Just stop, don't say it again. Done, I
Speaker 1: will never do that. You don't need to be walking
Speaker 1: around to schnood. Yeah. Oh man, all right, So you know,
Speaker 1: what are some of the things that you've You've come
Speaker 1: over from Australia. How the hell did you pick Charlotte? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: my team's here. So initially I met a guy named
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of Roger Penskey? I've never heard
Speaker 1: of a guy in my life. Have you seen the
Speaker 1: Penske trucks? Never seen one of those? What is it like?
Speaker 1: It's like the yellow trucks. I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: everyone's seeing those bad boys. They're always holding up to see.
Speaker 1: How that was conviction? Yeah you really thought I did?
Speaker 1: That was impressive. I'll give you that, Okay, appreciate got
Speaker 1: you your way better than me. I just wanted to
Speaker 1: see how he's going to describe, as you see, like
Speaker 1: a yellow Yeah. But anyway, so yeah, old Navy exactly
Speaker 1: a bit of white in midnight exactly now, I, so
Speaker 1: I met Roger. Um I found out that Roger was
Speaker 1: coming to the series that I was in Australia, which
Speaker 1: was the h Supercar Series. That's basically Australia's NASCAR. So
Speaker 1: that's what I was racing in Australia. Before. You're driving
Speaker 1: a regular NASCAR regular. Yeah, like it's like a like
Speaker 1: a sedan, you know, that's basically what I was driving. Anyway,
Speaker 1: stock car, stock car, Yes, you see that. That's a
Speaker 1: very conviction four four NASCAR or car drivers, and I
Speaker 1: finally got it a big stock Even I don't say
Speaker 1: stock car. I always say NASCAR, so that's impressive. I'm
Speaker 1: always getting that wrong. But anyway, so I Roger was
Speaker 1: coming to the series, and I got word that he
Speaker 1: was coming to the series. So I reached out to
Speaker 1: his team manager and said, Hey, this is my name,
Speaker 1: you know my details. If you ever need a driver,
Speaker 1: I'd love to drive for you. About a week later,
Speaker 1: I got a response back from them saying, one, why
Speaker 1: didn't you come over to North Carolina to Charlotte and
Speaker 1: meet with us in Moresville and you see the team
Speaker 1: and see what's all about. And so they got to
Speaker 1: know me and Anyway, two years went by and then
Speaker 1: they contact me again and asked me to sign a
Speaker 1: contract with them in Australia when they two years later, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they joined the series and so I contacted them
Speaker 1: in they joined the series, they already had a driver
Speaker 1: at that point, and then they contact me about driving
Speaker 1: for their team for the seventeen season. In those two
Speaker 1: years was what was going through your mind? Well, I
Speaker 1: was at another team already, so I was like actively
Speaker 1: when they came in and I didn't hear from them,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I already want to beat these guys now,
Speaker 1: like you know, so I looked like that, you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, you want, I want to prove that
Speaker 1: I can be one day a Penske driver. Um. But
Speaker 1: along the way I met Roger and I like he
Speaker 1: was always really like approach and great, really nice, and
Speaker 1: you know, we might have a spot for you right now,
Speaker 1: but um, just by your time. And then eventually man in.
Speaker 1: In the American sports that's called tampering. Tampering, Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you can't approach you were on the car. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: yeah it was that would be right now. That's cool.
Speaker 1: We will not edit that up. I will never say
Speaker 1: that word again because you told me, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: what it means. But then I eventually saw an ideal
Speaker 1: and I always said to them, I want to come
Speaker 1: to America because I think it's the big leagues like
Speaker 1: for me, and as a racing driver, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit like more money than than Australia. There's more opportunity
Speaker 1: to racing, like the biggest races in the world, um,
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis five hundred for instance. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, you know, if there was an opportunity,
Speaker 1: I'd love to have it. But they said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like a one step at a time. Let's win
Speaker 1: a championship down Under and then there's a there's a
Speaker 1: racedown under called the bath As one thousand. So that's
Speaker 1: our Daytona five. That's one thousand kilometers. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: what I'm not even how many no conviction, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. I appreciate you, but a thousand kilometer cool
Speaker 1: rice sounds like a long it's a long as. It's
Speaker 1: a long race anyway, So you yetally, how many times
Speaker 1: in a thousand kilometers? How many times have you paid
Speaker 1: on yourself in that race? Never peated myself ever in
Speaker 1: my career. Where to god, you've never tinkled on yourself.
Speaker 1: I've been close, but never have Like how close it
Speaker 1: was real close, Like when you got out and no
Speaker 1: matter where you finish, you went straight to the bathroom. Understand,
Speaker 1: yeah you got something on your leg going to the
Speaker 1: bathroom or no. No, it was close. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: very close, but close, but never never, never have pissed myself.
Speaker 1: You thought about it, Oh, yeah, for sure. To the point,
Speaker 1: take us through that conversation with yourself on how do
Speaker 1: you how do you stop yourself or or convince yourself
Speaker 1: on you. Well, so we have an electronic drink bottle
Speaker 1: in our car, right, so you just keep sort of
Speaker 1: drinking and keeping yourself hydrated. Well, when you get to
Speaker 1: the point where you're like, okay, that's enough, Like you've
Speaker 1: reached your tether, your tether, You've reached your your tether,
Speaker 1: your tether, you've reached your limit, your limit, Like that's
Speaker 1: you just stop drinking. So you start sweating it out
Speaker 1: and it brings it back. But there's definitely a period
Speaker 1: of like ten minutes ague Scar, you're talking to yourself.
Speaker 1: Take us to that tinkle moment. Well, the problem is
Speaker 1: I don't want the guys to clean up by mess.
Speaker 1: But I know they won't because they'll make me do it.
Speaker 1: So I don't want to do it. I don't want
Speaker 1: to clean it up. I just think it's just it's tough. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a dialogue in which you have to decide is
Speaker 1: it worth it? Yeah? And I have never done it.
Speaker 1: Has have you heard of any nestcar driver or stock
Speaker 1: car drivers have done it? They say that they've done it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to find out. I'd have to find out.
Speaker 1: But no, I can tell you one guy I thinks
Speaker 1: he's tinkled on himself bubble. Yeah, that makes sense. He
Speaker 1: he looks like that, ty I doesn't care. Yeah, he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll actually speak to him about that. Um yeah so
Speaker 1: no never never so um but yeah. Then I met
Speaker 1: Roger and he said, yeah, can we you win the
Speaker 1: championship and you win us about this one thousand and
Speaker 1: we can talk. Then we can and then we can
Speaker 1: talk about bringing you over. And then when I won
Speaker 1: the bat one thousand, because I had won the championship,
Speaker 1: he said, all right, now, time to go to America.
Speaker 1: Before you tell us about going to America, what is
Speaker 1: different about Australia that makes you want to come to
Speaker 1: the to the States. I think looking down the road
Speaker 1: for my kids eventually, no kids, just for me opportunity. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I've been in Australia. I put it like this,
Speaker 1: I've traveled enough around the world. I've been all seven continents.
Speaker 1: De sisn't of my culture, he say, it's like flex.
Speaker 1: It's not about flex, It's just more about understanding. I
Speaker 1: used to believe the world was that as Americans, we
Speaker 1: who we are and all that stuff. But I also
Speaker 1: believe the world is so huge and individually we are
Speaker 1: so small, and being in Australia, there are places and
Speaker 1: how things look that I could see the difference. Right,
Speaker 1: Australia is a place that's so isolated so far, yeah,
Speaker 1: so beautiful. Right. It has some things that the States doesn't.
Speaker 1: The States have things that they don't. There are times
Speaker 1: in COVID that was one of the things that was challenging,
Speaker 1: not being able to go and see and do um.
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to know for you, like what
Speaker 1: were you what was your personal experience and Australia to
Speaker 1: the point of, you know, beyond the money, beyond all
Speaker 1: other stuff, but just it just just a Scott like
Speaker 1: why why and what was Australia for you and what
Speaker 1: were you leaving behind? I think generally, I think from
Speaker 1: a perspective of you know, you look, you see it's
Speaker 1: pretty political, but the gun violence and stuff like that, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, growing up in Australia, we never like worried
Speaker 1: about any of that. But it was never a point
Speaker 1: where I never went to school and went, you know,
Speaker 1: something could happen here or whatever. Um is a little simpler, yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely a lot simpler. But is that good or bad?
Speaker 1: It's simple, but it's good. But the problem is we
Speaker 1: are also in Australia. It's very rule driven. So I
Speaker 1: feel like we we grow up in Australia not having
Speaker 1: the same freedom is what I felt here in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, you know what you want to say.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, sometimes that's bad, sometimes it's good.
Speaker 1: But having the choice to do one or the other
Speaker 1: where which sometimes is a detriment for America. But I
Speaker 1: think Australia I grew up such so drilled by rules
Speaker 1: and regulations, yeah, and not having the opportunity to like, okay,
Speaker 1: maybe like I can choose to do this I can
Speaker 1: choose to do that. You know, it's for me. That's
Speaker 1: what I've really loved about here in America. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's that root that like that free freedom, that
Speaker 1: freedom of you know, not to say or do what
Speaker 1: you want. But it's it's just yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it feels a little looser. I feel like you you
Speaker 1: would grow up a little harder here in America. Not
Speaker 1: not saying like how to say it right, but it's
Speaker 1: it's just a true way. It's not it's not about listen,
Speaker 1: don't worry about um how it sounds, just just trying
Speaker 1: to get it out, like I know exactly what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. But it's just like you grow up
Speaker 1: in a earlier very restricted I guess that's in some
Speaker 1: ways because you are so far away from everyone. You're
Speaker 1: so far away from the world. It's so hard to
Speaker 1: get to Europe. It's a thirty hour flight to Europe.
Speaker 1: It's a twenty four hour flights of America. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's fourteen and a half hours to Los Angeles. Yes,
Speaker 1: So you grow up and you have these rules and
Speaker 1: stuff and you're like, well, like I can't go anywhere else,
Speaker 1: like it's like I've either got here on the land,
Speaker 1: you know where America You've got the world's your oyster,
Speaker 1: like you can you can go to South America, you
Speaker 1: can go up to Canada, you can go to across
Speaker 1: the Europe like quite easily. You know, it's it's a lot.
Speaker 1: I just feel like it's a little bit closer. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's funny as I hear you say
Speaker 1: that and you're searching for a way to describe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are people here as you live in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: there are people have never never been, never been to
Speaker 1: South Carolina. My wife was like that when so she
Speaker 1: she was from my wife from New York. She had
Speaker 1: never been to California before she had met me. And
Speaker 1: the only reason she went to California it was because
Speaker 1: she was flying back to Australia like to be with me,
Speaker 1: and we flew back together. So what was that like
Speaker 1: for you guys? It was cool, like we it's pretty well, sorry,
Speaker 1: we met in Vegas out of all places. Yeah, that's fine,
Speaker 1: there's no dramas, but we uh through mutual friends and
Speaker 1: I went over. I went over like it was yeah,
Speaker 1: single lad, and you know, I wanted to have a
Speaker 1: bit of fun boys weekend, just hanging out, and then
Speaker 1: I ended up just hanging out with Carli for four
Speaker 1: days and just yeah, I met her the first night
Speaker 1: through Smitten, pretty smitten. Yeah, and you're like, I used
Speaker 1: one of those worris. Yeah that was pretty very good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate. I pat myself on no worries
Speaker 1: a little far away. Um, but no, so you met
Speaker 1: So you met your wife in Vegas? Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 1: so you guys depart. Yeah, And I remember ringing her
Speaker 1: and I was like, I have to see you again.
Speaker 1: And her response was She's like yeah, absolutely, Like and
Speaker 1: what was she doing at the time that you met her?
Speaker 1: So she was running a restaurant in New York, okay,
Speaker 1: and you were driving. But I hadn't told her in Vegas?
Speaker 1: What what did you do? What you told her was
Speaker 1: a mechanic, a mechanic. But yet your fingers were not dirty. Huh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: most mechanics they have a little bit of they had
Speaker 1: a little bit of they have a little bit of
Speaker 1: black residue. Yeah, I'm looking at your hands. You have
Speaker 1: no looks manicure steps. Anyway, I bought them, trust me. Um, no,
Speaker 1: So you told her you're a mechanic. She believed it,
Speaker 1: Yeah she did. She's not trying. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: talk about you, but I'm looking at you that thing.
Speaker 1: I'm a mechanic. Nothing about you says mechanic. So you
Speaker 1: told us you're you're a mechanic. She bought it for
Speaker 1: how long? Until she followed me on social after Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't have that many fault, but I had a
Speaker 1: good Yeah it's like weird flex but okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: no I you yeah, yeah, I know, real weird flax.
Speaker 1: Um no. But then she's like, oh, what are youctually doing?
Speaker 1: She obviously must have scrolled through. And then I said
Speaker 1: and then I said, yeah, um, I race cars for
Speaker 1: a living. And what did she say? She's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't really know what that is about. She had
Speaker 1: no idea. She's kind of like yourself, like I didn't
Speaker 1: really know much about motor sport, like her family had
Speaker 1: no idea. And then um, and so how long? That
Speaker 1: was November November? So you met in November November, you
Speaker 1: met her in Vegas. You told her you a mechanic.
Speaker 1: You guys go separate ways. You exchange numbers, right, so
Speaker 1: you you you call her up and your chitchat and
Speaker 1: pillow talking FaceTime the whole dal. Oh you were really smitten.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that was yeah. Continue and then and then um,
Speaker 1: I said, when you come down under for years and
Speaker 1: like said, you know, I'll fly down like come hanging out.
Speaker 1: He said, hey, come on, then I'll fly you down
Speaker 1: and down under. Okay, hold on, before you finish your story,
Speaker 1: I have to ask you, as a fellow athlete myself,
Speaker 1: first class of coach? What first class coach will not
Speaker 1: show up? Well? That this is that, this is this
Speaker 1: is where the story gets good. So her parents wouldn't
Speaker 1: who I love on the door now that they're awesome,
Speaker 1: but they wouldn't let it go, of course, not which
Speaker 1: I got some due from Australia that says he's a
Speaker 1: candy and now he's a nasty he's a driver. I'll
Speaker 1: fly to New York for Christmas, and I'll spend Christmas
Speaker 1: with your family. I'll be the Vegas kid, and then
Speaker 1: we'll fly home together if they're good with well, not
Speaker 1: if they're good with it. If yeah, like I had
Speaker 1: booked the tickets already, but there ain't no way I
Speaker 1: was flying to Usa, not like, ain't no way, ain't
Speaker 1: no way. Boy. I was like I was in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. I was still racing. I was like,
Speaker 1: now talking about sacrifice. Yeah, and there were you better recognize. No,
Speaker 1: I sound like I know, I sound like a douche
Speaker 1: bag like that, but but I was like, it was
Speaker 1: it was investment. It was an investment. I don't gonna stop.
Speaker 1: Here's what you're saying is that you are Hey, you
Speaker 1: all in? Yeah? Yeah, And I wanted to prove to
Speaker 1: appearance like they didn't know about the flights, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to be there and to show to show
Speaker 1: that their concern was valid. Yeah, and our too. You
Speaker 1: have one and something from Australia. I'm gonna fly you
Speaker 1: the first thing I'm saying, Yeah, that's cool, We're gonna fly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't mind we go. She gave me like the
Speaker 1: false sense of security as well. She's like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: come down under. Oh, make it happen. It wasn't falls, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. She had it act like that. Her mom
Speaker 1: and dad were good from with it. From the stop
Speaker 1: they were until you actually followed through the Vegas all
Speaker 1: this guy's actually coming or this guy's actually taking me back.
Speaker 1: That's not happening exactly. Yeah, so that's what because she's
Speaker 1: still smitten on the phoda we flew back after after
Speaker 1: first class quantus what what? You just love it? Do
Speaker 1: you know why? Because I am I'd like to travel.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying, when I've been to Dubai flew
Speaker 1: immers right out of New York, Emmers Airport is amazing. Yes,
Speaker 1: Emmers Airport, it's crazy. Emmers Airport in Dubai and New
Speaker 1: New York. When you're in first class when you go
Speaker 1: to their their lounge. You bought the plane from Emmeress lounge.
Speaker 1: Like it's a hallway and you're walking and generally you
Speaker 1: can see some of those people when you're driving to
Speaker 1: be dropped off. That's the Emmeress. It's glass, it's bananas.
Speaker 1: That's huge. I'm talking about bananas. It's it's it's so worth.
Speaker 1: I also booked it because it was really that was
Speaker 1: I was end of November. That's really all that was
Speaker 1: left to get to New York. There wasn't many flights
Speaker 1: left from you. No risk it. I just like, bang,
Speaker 1: let's like, let's get a dancer on the card. No
Speaker 1: risk it. No biscuit risk. Yeah, yeah, that's very good.
Speaker 1: That's another that's a good. Um, that's a murder racing term,
Speaker 1: to risk it for the biscuit. That's that's another term.
Speaker 1: So it was that's uh, you know, I bestly I've done.
Speaker 1: And she come back. She was here till the end
Speaker 1: of how long did she stay January? She stayed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she stayed for a while. So so you I don't
Speaker 1: know the story, but I'm assuming you had a return.
Speaker 1: She enjoyed it. She wanted to see more of who
Speaker 1: you are actually what I'm talking. Yeah, I was like, well,
Speaker 1: let's move the flies comes to come see my own
Speaker 1: race team, like come hanging out like you know, I was.
Speaker 1: I was actually in the midst of like obviously, it
Speaker 1: was my first year of Penskey, so it was a
Speaker 1: pretty important time. So I had to go up to
Speaker 1: I was going to the race team a lot, and
Speaker 1: she was really cool with that, and especially when she
Speaker 1: had no idea about it. Um. But then she went
Speaker 1: back January and into January, and we did long distance
Speaker 1: too around April, and then she flew back out again
Speaker 1: for a race and that was the first time she
Speaker 1: had seen me race or being a part of it,
Speaker 1: and it's sort of like blew her mind a bit. Good,
Speaker 1: good good, let's getting down to do good. Hey Gerard,
Speaker 1: why did you get that T shirt? You mean this thing? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: I got it from cut to a podcast dot com
Speaker 1: where we have exclusive merchandise out to our guys a
Speaker 1: seven or four shot. But yeah, you can go on
Speaker 1: buy you a T shirt subscribed to us wherever you
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. So are you a US citizen? No,
Speaker 1: I'm a Green card holder? But what is what is
Speaker 1: a permit residency? I've got every I'm basically a citizen.
Speaker 1: I just can't vote basically, So I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. Yeah, but that's basically where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So like I've got, um, you know, basically every privilege. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for it, man, I love it,
Speaker 1: Like it's such amazing. Would being a Green card holder
Speaker 1: when you go to Australia is their process? Which line
Speaker 1: do you get in? Because I've got a New Zealand
Speaker 1: passport I can go into like the Australia and New
Speaker 1: zel On line where my wife still has to go
Speaker 1: through the US citizen line. But we haven't done that
Speaker 1: since we've been here because when we moved from Australia
Speaker 1: and we haven't been back since, which sucks because whole
Speaker 1: COVID thing happened when I got the opportunity to come here. Right,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Mom dad for like two enough years.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see them next week. It's got me awesome
Speaker 1: just because I'm so excited. I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was the first time we went to Italy for
Speaker 1: Christmas over the over the break giving me all the time. No,
Speaker 1: but it was that was amazing. But which part Italy Florence?
Speaker 1: Rome been there? I like like it was like Como
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. That was what went to like
Speaker 1: Como and things really nice. Yeah, really Florence. I would
Speaker 1: love to go there and something so here. Let me
Speaker 1: ask you, what do you think it was better Florence
Speaker 1: A Rome. I like Rome. I know you know what
Speaker 1: I was about to say, Well, I feel like you're
Speaker 1: just gonna rip me like Florence is beautiful because it's small,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't. I'm just going to ask you why
Speaker 1: you're looking at me like you're blowing me up. No,
Speaker 1: I was looking at you like why because I've been
Speaker 1: to Florence, Rome. I like Florence. Florence seemed there were
Speaker 1: more to do. Rome seems outside of the regular stuff.
Speaker 1: It was kind of dead. And I liked Roome because
Speaker 1: I felt like when you walked like through like little
Speaker 1: alleyways and stuff, it was like little pockets of like
Speaker 1: a cool little pizza store, piece of store. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: or like a you know, just a little bar like
Speaker 1: I speak easy or something like that. And where Florence
Speaker 1: felt a bit more like you had to do a
Speaker 1: bit more digging, like you couldn't just walk over it
Speaker 1: was a regular city. Yeah it was. It was a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger. Yeah, yeah, I mean I I that
Speaker 1: was awesome. We want to go back in the summer
Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah. I just love to see what it's
Speaker 1: like like just swimming that water and hanging out. And
Speaker 1: but anyway, we went there and I couldn't believe when
Speaker 1: you come back like that, all the facial recognition now,
Speaker 1: like to get back and it's just like they didn't
Speaker 1: even check my passport. They're just like, hey, Scott Hay
Speaker 1: Carli boom through like welcome back. I'm like, that's it's different, crazy, right,
Speaker 1: until you get face recognized or something else. M that
Speaker 1: could be drama, that could be right. So man, that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So what you know, what are some of
Speaker 1: your aspirations in Indy car that you that you you
Speaker 1: want to do. I want to win the five hundred
Speaker 1: A yeah, that's that's for me, Like that's my next
Speaker 1: if I won that, like that, that is just what
Speaker 1: you win. That what happens. It's just it changes your life,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, it's just I don't know. It's the biggest
Speaker 1: one of the it's the top three probably biggest races
Speaker 1: in the world. So Indie, what else You've probably got Monaco,
Speaker 1: which is the Monaco F one race. Um, I guess
Speaker 1: you could. There's a lot of different opinions on like
Speaker 1: the main we only care about the Crown. We only
Speaker 1: care about your opinion. Love it all right? So Triple
Speaker 1: Crown is Indie, Monaco and a race called Lamon, which
Speaker 1: is a twenty four hour race in France. So you
Speaker 1: you race for twenty four hours, different drivers. You have
Speaker 1: like normally three or four drivers and it's like a
Speaker 1: team and I mean, I mean lame, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know. It changes. It depends how fast your car
Speaker 1: or is if it rains like you do less if
Speaker 1: you like you know, it's just twenty four hours, just
Speaker 1: around the clock. Really, yeah, that's it's it's a very
Speaker 1: very special race. Actually Rogers doing it for the first time.
Speaker 1: Soon he's not for the first time. He so what
Speaker 1: Roger has done, which is amazing. He's competed in F
Speaker 1: one Indy car now sports car, He's been in super
Speaker 1: cars in Australia. He's won so many big races. He's
Speaker 1: never one Lamon and I think and that's what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do. He's trying to win it. So it's, um,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. He's done doing it like a collab
Speaker 1: with Porsche, like him and Porsche are working now and
Speaker 1: working together. It's going to be it's pretty exciting. But
Speaker 1: that's effectively that's the triple crown, the three biggest. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty aware of the triple crown because I was a
Speaker 1: triple crown winning a foot and football. There is but no,
Speaker 1: it's not a worth flex was a super flex. Hey, look,
Speaker 1: I just show up man. Sometimes you give me materials.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I do some magical things. I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. So what what personal um, what personal goals
Speaker 1: do you have? You know? You're obviously being married. Um
Speaker 1: you know, yeah outside of racing. I mean you're awesome racer,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I want to know more about you. I
Speaker 1: love you know, wife and the future. Want to have
Speaker 1: some kids? Boy, girl, would you prefer stop lying? No, Lily,
Speaker 1: all right, I'll be honest. I would love a boy
Speaker 1: first because then they're the big brother. What's what's something
Speaker 1: I love being a big brother? What's some of the
Speaker 1: names for a boy? Like, just get him out now,
Speaker 1: like with a c RK, Like the wife she's gonna
Speaker 1: want to go with the K? Here you reckon? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we talked about that. You've already talked about it. What
Speaker 1: you see her? Okay, it's like summers a good. So
Speaker 1: let me tell you I'm gonna go with the K. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can change, you know, you can change it if
Speaker 1: you want to or change. Yeah. So what's some of
Speaker 1: the other boy names? Actually? Like, I don't know, this
Speaker 1: is a this is another this is really good question,
Speaker 1: straight up the spot. I don't know. Um, so how
Speaker 1: about throw some names out and then you tell me
Speaker 1: what you like? All right? So you know, I got
Speaker 1: three boys, So I got a Peyton. I like the name.
Speaker 1: I like that name would you like? Would you spell
Speaker 1: it with A or E E? So you got I
Speaker 1: got yeah, all right, Boston like the city, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, you want to like cruise Actually
Speaker 1: that's cruise. I like cruise to cruise with a Z
Speaker 1: on the end. Excuse me, like a sorry, Yeah, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I got one. I got one for you. Is the
Speaker 1: zebra or zebra? That literally tell you that it's a zebra?
Speaker 1: Why is the zebra? Because ze bro? Thank you? Yeah boom. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My wife is home school on our youngest, so we
Speaker 1: talked about this. It's not zebra zebra. Yeah. I like
Speaker 1: Debra zebra zebra zeb alright, that's a I like Boston Boston. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Um, A buddy of mine's cruise as as cruise. Um,
Speaker 1: I like four boy or a girl. But Brooklyn I
Speaker 1: love that for a girl's name. For me. I think
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's that's a nice name. All right, So boys names
Speaker 1: one of the names I love. If we would have
Speaker 1: another one, I would go with bishop bishop. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that. That's a strong bishop leg yeah, and
Speaker 1: we had a bishop the bishop. Um, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's I'm not like I like the non conventional names.
Speaker 1: I like the difference spelling. Oh, I mean I'm for
Speaker 1: me my brother, so you know, we do a lot
Speaker 1: of unconvinced. I was just saying, like, for a girl,
Speaker 1: like I like summer. I think I guess that's conventional
Speaker 1: you say it all the time, but like it's like
Speaker 1: a nice, nice name. M Autumn. Yeah like Autumn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a nice name. Um, we got Kylie
Speaker 1: online one. What have I said? Wind Star? She said winter.
Speaker 1: We got callings here we love but yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: like I'm a bit I love kids. I love one
Speaker 1: of the last ones. So yeah, four female, London, London. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that, Like it's yeah, they're nice names. I
Speaker 1: like it. Yep, there's a name that's literally on the
Speaker 1: top of my head. That mean, Carlie have been talking about.
Speaker 1: I forgot man. Here's one that I went to that
Speaker 1: my kids make fun of me. My daughter's name Bailey. Um,
Speaker 1: I wanted to name it Basil. She was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you said that, old lady. Did you name your babies
Speaker 1: before they came out of the womb? Oh yeah we did.
Speaker 1: Did you do it? When? So what we did is
Speaker 1: we we got a book, like cool name, Cool name books.
Speaker 1: And then she wrote down some names. I wrote down
Speaker 1: some names, and then we kind of voted on the name.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just yeah, I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: just like that. So we so we wrote down five names.
Speaker 1: She wrote down five names, and then we kind of
Speaker 1: the same. I think we had one of the same.
Speaker 1: So we combined them and we had our top five
Speaker 1: and we would go through them and so we would,
Speaker 1: you know, go through and walk through the house sometimes.
Speaker 1: And one of the names, so ball Austin, one of
Speaker 1: the names that we wanted. I love that name, right.
Speaker 1: One of the names we wanted was uh Jonah yep.
Speaker 1: But then we bought a car and our salesman name
Speaker 1: was Jonah. M hmmm. Not didn't want to buy but no,
Speaker 1: just Jonah just said, well the salesman Jonah. You say
Speaker 1: it like Jonah Smith. We did that, but just we
Speaker 1: didn't like Jonah the car salesman. So that just we
Speaker 1: just nope, just mark that dude. I like. I like
Speaker 1: names that you can have an easy nickname with. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So so in a black community, nickname comes first, right, okay,
Speaker 1: so uh, and there's a debate on nicknames, like what's
Speaker 1: your nickname, Um so in black. Uh uh, that's interested smitty. Um,
Speaker 1: well did your wife call you by Steve? Well, uh, babe.
Speaker 1: But generally I really go by my birth name, which
Speaker 1: is Steven. So a lot of people are actually calling
Speaker 1: me my nickname Steve because my dad's name is Stephen,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to be little Stevie. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be Stevie. Yeah, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: Steven and they would butcher my real name, so I
Speaker 1: just go with Steve. So people actually are calling me
Speaker 1: my nickname every day of my life that they don't
Speaker 1: even know. Yeah, yeah, I mean I just thought your
Speaker 1: name is I think that you might have been like
Speaker 1: Steven or Steven. So Steve is that stev o n E? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a that's you need you want to know. My
Speaker 1: brother's name is Von rave Ray Von Steven Rayvon the
Speaker 1: same spelling, just R a apostrophe capital V. Oh that's
Speaker 1: no e. Yes, you could look on your face says
Speaker 1: it all. Man. I'm yeah, you're blown away. I'll tell
Speaker 1: how I was going to spell it R A V
Speaker 1: O N straight out and I'm way off chooper off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to rave V. Yeah, I can see where
Speaker 1: the aposter comes. And you want to know what his
Speaker 1: middle name is, Terrell, Terrell, You want to know my
Speaker 1: middle name is Latreille's the thing here. I can feel it, terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible thing. Gosh. I like, I don't, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: I do. So my middle name is Thomas, and it
Speaker 1: was actually my my mother's name made a name is Scott.
Speaker 1: So my granddad his name is Thomas. So his name
Speaker 1: was Thomas Scott, and I'm Scott Thomas. It was the way, like,
Speaker 1: I like that, keep it. And so Boston's middle name
Speaker 1: is Gene, which is my life's father's middle name, which
Speaker 1: was with a jet jam with a g g e
Speaker 1: any because that was great grandfather's first name, grandfather's middle name.
Speaker 1: Boston's middle name like it, Yeah, roll back with a
Speaker 1: few names. Yeah. So you don't want me to say Latrell.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, don't do that. Get rid of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah that that it hurt you. I'm just saying for
Speaker 1: that latreal that I just don't do it. That it
Speaker 1: hurt you. Like I'm just telling you, as a person
Speaker 1: that's lived with that, don't do it. I appreciate the advice.
Speaker 1: Yea tape that take that. Just think about it. Latreial
Speaker 1: like yell at Latrell right now for not doing something,
Speaker 1: la Trial. What are you doing dude? Like stop, that's
Speaker 1: that's kind of hard. Yeah, I cain't. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard. Yet, no one right now. And it's love
Speaker 1: l A and then a capital team. That's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's a whole it's a whole thing. We appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: This is a good lucky in your next race. You
Speaker 1: hope you get that triple crown. Hope you get that opportunity. Man,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. And um, you know, keep it. Let's
Speaker 1: keep in touching. Uh me back you. Yeah, let's go
Speaker 1: socker game my treat. Yeah, I'll take you up on it.
Speaker 1: I'd love to do that. And you can meet my
Speaker 1: wife and you can really ask the real story. Yeah.
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