WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:08.000 This week on the I Racing down Ship, Greg Speed runs the podcast I 2 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:12.560 Racing Good. Hey, thanks for listening to Gyras heaven gets swollen buns out 3 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:17.480 gunsounds. Next episode, we're all wearing thank cop and Chris cites his sources. 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.160 Just go put that note in there, but I'm vouching for us. 5 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:26.879 All that plus special guests Doug Hunt, it's a strap in. Welcome to 6 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:29.640 I Racing Downship, Tommy host, Greg West. I'm back with the boys, 7 00:00:29.679 --> 00:00:33.039 Kevin, Bobba and Chris Leoni. We got a great show for you 8 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:37.759 today. We talked about what's new and exciting and I rasing got some special 9 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:41.479 events, some special series. We talked a little bit about rain. We 10 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:46.439 brought on Doug Hunt, social media admin master and really jack of all trades 11 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:49.600 at I Racing. He's our staff interview for the day. And of course 12 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.840 we'll wrap it up with the esports as usual with NASCAR co Cole I Racing 13 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:57.399 Series, Porsche Tagle Esports Supercup and the NASCAR College I Racing Series. I 14 00:00:57.439 --> 00:01:03.079 got all those right, Dang, dang, that's right. How are we 15 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.680 doing, guys? Good? Good? Just uh came off a big weekend 16 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.120 last weekend. I was at jill Ed Stadium for Supercross, and uh, 17 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.920 let me tell you the view from the press box, immaculate, great view. 18 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.640 You can also feel the Pyro through the press box. When it goes 19 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:26.439 off, it gets like ten degrees warmer for half a second. Sound a 20 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.719 little out of breath though, yeah, just a little bit. We were 21 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:33.599 running around, uh I, poor Cisco got his cardio in because we had 22 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.280 some uh last second tech issues that we were trying to compensate for. I 23 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.879 think we're all a little out of breath right now. If she used a 24 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:44.640 PC, yeah, maybe you should stop using that mac. Yeah, maybe 25 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:49.239 come over to LA. But he was actually doing some repairs to my tower 26 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:56.120 as we speak, So yeah, but that's going to come back and bite 27 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:02.760 you. He's doing a fantastic fixing whatever I broke. But yeah, Supercross 28 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.959 was great. I do want to give a shout out to Lee Diffy and 29 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:08.639 Ricky Carmichael for hanging out a bit. Lee and I go back to the 30 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:13.800 GRC days and Ricky was a key member of LCQ league and so we were 31 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.560 just kind of telling stories back and forth with one another about the things we'd 32 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.919 work together on. And I also found out I don't know how many people 33 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.120 know this, Kevin, I know you do. But one of the first 34 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:29.280 videos that we ever did here at I Racing explaining what the product was Lee 35 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.919 Diffy was the MC I remember it well. It was a fun project, 36 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:40.520 probably in two thousand and eight or nine ish. Yeah, I don't remember 37 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.919 exactly. We might have done it before we actually launched. It's possible, 38 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:47.319 I don't know. Is this like the circle time? Is that when you 39 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.360 were walking around also with a sign in the back of the speed TV? 40 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:55.039 Yeah, same time frame? You got time frame? Yeah, we have 41 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.560 time. We have that clip available, we have that twootage somewhere. Yeah. 42 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.000 Yeah, all right, Kevin. What have you been up to? 43 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.719 Well, a lot. I've been busy at I Racing. Lots going on, 44 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.759 but you don't care about that. I went to the Boston Marathon. 45 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.439 I did not run it. I cheered on a good friend and had an 46 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.719 amazing time. Boston Marathon is a cool event to go to. If you 47 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:20.800 haven't been to, definitely check it out, especially if you live in the 48 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:24.719 Boston area. I've also been doing a ton of push ups because you got 49 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:28.759 me on this one hundred push ups a day challenge. In fact, I 50 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.840 just did fifty of them while Chris was trying to sort out his tech issues, 51 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:36.639 so I'm a little bit winded. So yeah, so I'm ahead of 52 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.919 the head of the schedule because it's only two o'clock here. Usually I'm not 53 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:46.159 done that early, but appreciate the little motivation to get it done while Chris 54 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.039 was doing something. I don't know how long have we been doing this now 55 00:03:49.319 --> 00:03:51.199 got to be close to too much. I just looked it up. I 56 00:03:51.199 --> 00:03:53.360 think I've done seven thousand push ups since we started, so that's pretty good, 57 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.039 and a lot of push ups. Feeling it got gun show. I 58 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.840 feel like I'm ripped. Yeah, yeah, uns out, guns out. 59 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:04.439 Next next episode, we're all wearing tank tops. No, we're not. 60 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:10.599 We're not going to do that, absolutely, are you? Eighteen rating for 61 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:15.199 the show eighteen. Birdie told me you play some golf yesterday. I did 62 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.399 play some golf first time out. I had an awesome time, even though 63 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:20.240 I didn't play all that great, but it was super fun to get out 64 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:24.079 there and hit the balls into the woods. How many did you lose? 65 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:32.199 I lost two balls. I lost four. I had a bad bad first 66 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.800 outing. Me and the driver did not I did okay for the first like 67 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:43.879 six holes and then I then something kicked apart. Yeah, just fell apart. 68 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:47.040 I had a snowman. It's like, oh my gods around that. 69 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.360 As soon as you have a snowman in your round, you're done. Like 70 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:51.680 that. It's it's like, all right now, I'm just practicing now that 71 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.240 this round will not be a good one. Couldn't hit the driver, so 72 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.879 that that's that's tough if you're hitting your drivers not straight. Yeah, but 73 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:03.920 still good to get out there. It's all about you. What have you 74 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:08.560 been doing? Well, I've done a lot of push ups, I've done 75 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:13.120 a lot of a lot of a little bit of golf, been racing in 76 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.160 the sem a little bit. I just got done playing some exocross nice, 77 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.000 a little little playing the demo a little bit, familiarizing myself. So that 78 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:25.800 was that was a lot of fun. Looking forward to play test tomorrow that 79 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:28.720 spring. Cleaning around the house, a lot a lot of that going on 80 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:35.480 the purge. It's really sad, Yes, multiple nice. I need to 81 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:39.759 build some golf clubs. So yeah, all right, well let's get going 82 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.800 because I have a hard stop. We got to get through this, uh 83 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:46.079 this agenda items or outline that Chris put together. All right, well, 84 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:48.680 we'll make it real easy. I racing good. Hey, thanks for listening 85 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:55.160 to I forget all right, let's work down the drink. Well, let's 86 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:57.439 cruise through it a little bit. Here. We've got a great interview once 87 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:01.240 again with Doug Hunt, who's our our we're never in the Senate's title marketing 88 00:06:01.319 --> 00:06:05.839 associate and social media manager. So we got a great interview with him that 89 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.680 it took a good bit of time. But let's get into what's new. 90 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:14.920 Season two twenty twenty four updates. We put out two new micro sprints. 91 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.240 Chris tell us about them. Oh yeah, so now we got four micro 92 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.199 sprints in total. We've got both winged and wingless versions of the one hundred 93 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:29.079 and twenty horsepower stock version and the one hundred and sixty horse power outlaw version. 94 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.360 They're all packaged together. If you already have the original models, you 95 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:38.040 got the new ones. They're these they're fun little cars to drive. They 96 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:42.319 work really well on these small quarter mile bull rings. You can race the 97 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.120 winged and the wingless stock versions at Rookie. They alternate every half hour, 98 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:48.879 and if you're looking for more of a challenge, you can go to Millbridge 99 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:54.439 and the Micro Showdown, which keeps the outlaw versions so you can race. 100 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.199 You can race micro sprints at least three times an hour if you really want 101 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.839 to. At the two different horsepower levels, they are a blast to drive. 102 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.800 I was looking at the stats. The one hundred and twenty horsepower version 103 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:09.560 that's at Rookie is exploding. Everybody is going in there and racing it. 104 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:12.519 It's so it is. It's a ton of fun. If you haven't had 105 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.480 an opportunity to get in there, it is. Uh, it's approachable. 106 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.759 I mean that's the thing. It's approachable. And it's I struggle with on 107 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:23.199 dirt ovals because I'm just trying to get the car around the track. I 108 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.879 really am. But this I feel like I can place it and I can 109 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.800 go racing versus go lapping. And so if you have a chance, go 110 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.720 go rip around and at that Rookie series, but also the one hundred and 111 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.480 sixty it's not bad either. It's not like going from the three oh five 112 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.240 to ten. It's just a little bit more pace. But both are all 113 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:45.519 four of them super approachable, and I once skin on. The outlaw is 114 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:50.240 at the Millbridge Micro Showdown that runs every forty five minutes and it's alternating between 115 00:07:50.279 --> 00:07:55.879 the winged and the wingless every week. Oh see, what of the stuff 116 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.160 we got we added. We've added more rain tires we got, so we 117 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:03.439 added the GT three, their full lineup that races has, and we added 118 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.079 the Ford and the McLaren so you can see some rain happening in our GT 119 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:11.399 three races moving forward. And then we also launched AI for the SRX car, 120 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.199 just the pave tracks. Obviously we don't have it on dirt yet, 121 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.600 but that's a good time. And of course every clip I've seen is not 122 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:22.800 those cars racing at the tracks that they actually raced at, but going to 123 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.360 Daytona and Talladega, because that's what people do. So don't forget road courses. 124 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.800 They're fun on road courses. They are a fun road course car. 125 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:33.159 Yeah, just go put that note in there, but I'm vouching for his 126 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:39.080 note. Great road car. Moving on, we got special events. We 127 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.039 just had one of my favorites of the year, road America five hundred thrown 128 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:50.960 it back with the Nissan and the Audi ninety. These are not the biggest 129 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:54.759 hitter as far as you know participation, but the clips and the visuals of 130 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:58.320 these events are the ones that you will see played over and over and over 131 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:03.639 because they are so iconic. Still had, you know, over sixteen hundred 132 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.840 people racing, so it definitely was a good race, and we had a 133 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.879 good amount of staff. This is a fan favorite, staff favorite, Cisco, 134 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.279 You and Corey for the marketing team. You had a pretty good race. 135 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.840 Yeah, you can actually see us on screen there in our Audi that 136 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.080 we drove. But yeah, we had a good outing, finished second in 137 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.879 our class. After it was a long day for us because one of our 138 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.240 drivers ended up having a last minute going to have to start using paddles for 139 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:31.799 their throttle and brake pedal because their pedals broke. So that was fun. 140 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:35.799 So we had to go into sort of last minute oh no mode on that. 141 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:39.840 But that was me, Corey and one of our friends. And then 142 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.320 I think there's some more staff behind the wheel as well. Greg. Yeah, 143 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.120 justin Malilla, which Chris in his outline that's very well bulleted, by 144 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:50.039 the way, could job Chris props. This is one of the better formatting 145 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.279 jobs you've done. Although I don't I know Justin you didn't have to phonetically 146 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:01.960 spell out his last name. I like that hehonic spelling for us. Just 147 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:05.639 make sure, just making sure. But yeah, Justin finished fifth in the 148 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.639 Nissan, and then Nick Bailey they were racing, they finished third in the 149 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.200 OUTI. So yeah, we had a lot of staff participating, so that 150 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:18.519 was good. Next up, though, is a big one Nurburgering twenty four 151 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.519 coming up. I just made the post, but that's coming up May seventeenth 152 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:26.480 through nineteenth, depending on what time zone you're in. And this is the 153 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:31.000 biggest field of cars that we've ever had, and it's always difficult because so 154 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:37.600 many cars race around the ring to find we know, anything that I choose 155 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:39.519 or leave out, you know, it's gonna make somebody happy and make somebody 156 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.440 mad. But you know, having the opportunity to have twelve cars in there, 157 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:48.440 that's a huge improvement from even you know, a year or two ago. 158 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.120 Just made that post. You can find it in the forums. But 159 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.720 the the classes that are involved, of course, we got a wide variety 160 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.440 of GT threes, Porscha Cup cars, a staple GT four's, a couple 161 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.759 of TC this year, and of course Toyota grighty six, which is a 162 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.399 ball of fun around the ring. This is the question I made the post 163 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.480 four hours ago, and I bet I've got twenty five questions already will it 164 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.440 rain And the answer is no, because not all of the cars have re 165 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.320 entire yet, so this will be a dry event. It's hard enough to 166 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.600 get around the Nerve Ring, so you don't have to worry about that this 167 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:26.240 this season. But I'm sure looking into my crystal ball, I suspect it 168 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:30.080 will rain at the nrber Ring at some point in the future. I bet 169 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.919 it rained some points in twenty twenty four, just not for not for this 170 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:41.000 particular event, right, But yeah, it's super exciting. I'm getting the 171 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:45.440 notifications from the post already, so I'm curious who's mad about what? But 172 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.240 yeah, the most number of cars we've ever had, most manufacturer representation, 173 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.399 super excited about it. Let's go on. We also have not just special 174 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.720 events, our special series, Kevin, this one's near and dear to you, 175 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:03.039 BMW empowered to let's talk about it. Yeah, it's a great series, 176 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:11.120 fully supported by BMWM Motorsports, our friends and partners over there. We're 177 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:15.480 kind of rotating through all the BMW's that we have on the service, switching 178 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.840 up tracks where we this week. I think let's see if I can pronounce 179 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:24.240 it auser schlaban, Is that right? That's pretty good? Right in the 180 00:12:24.360 --> 00:12:28.320 Z four, which is one of the most beloved BMW's we've ever built, 181 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.279 and if you talk to real world racers who have raced the various GT three 182 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.399 or g G E cars, many of them will say that was the coolest 183 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.960 one that the BMW built in recent times. So cool that that's back in 184 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.960 an official series and getting getting some love. You know again, BMW is 185 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:48.039 behind it, They're supporting it. They're going to have some cool prizes for 186 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:52.080 both the top drivers as well as some participants. I know we haven't announced 187 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.559 with those are, but they're going to be cool things, uh, things 188 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.240 that you can't get you know, normally. So they're gonna come up some 189 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.639 unique things like that. I can't get into exact details, but let your 190 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.679 mind go crazy with some ideas. It'll be something that you can't get any 191 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:09.679 anyplace else. So that's kind of neat. I got a sample of some 192 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.320 of those things you can't get anyplace else. I can't vouch it's cool, 193 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.000 excellent, So yeah, so more come on that. Yeah, yeah, 194 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:26.519 there we go. You thought I say about it. There's nothing to tease. 195 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:31.360 Oh, let's see what else we got Creventic. This is a really 196 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.480 cool series of partnership of the twenty four hour series. It's nice to you 197 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:39.600 know, kind of like work with BMW, working with people that just want 198 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.519 to do cool stuff. And we have these four races a year with just 199 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.200 kind of a mismash of cars. They are all twelve hour races and it 200 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:50.120 kicks off this weekend at Migello, so that one's exciting, but we also 201 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:54.639 the next four rounds. We're going to Massano November, We're going to Portamayo, 202 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:00.240 and then finishing off in December, fan favorite Spa. But it's great 203 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:01.240 to be able to put on these events for them, and we get a 204 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.879 lot from them as well. You can see our signage at all their races, 205 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.000 real world and lots of eye racing stickers on cars, and it's just 206 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:13.000 really cool partnership that's turned into I didn't realize how big of community events these 207 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:16.080 would be, so we're pretty excited about that. And then of course the 208 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:22.279 I Racing nerber Ring and Durance Championship Round two. It's going to kick off 209 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:26.720 the week before the twenty four hour of twenty four Hours, and you'll notice 210 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:31.120 the cars are identical, So what track are they What track are they using? 211 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:39.200 Masano? Sorry, oh I was ready for your dad joke fu Yeah, 212 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.559 I was ready for tried to get to Yeah, didn't make you stumble 213 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:46.480 low. Well, I'm here for it. Then. Last thing as far 214 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.879 as series go, this kick kicked off last week the I Racing rain Master. 215 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:54.679 It's kind of like the ring Master draft Master, a weekly challenge, 216 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:56.440 but instead the hook on this one. It's gonna rain. It's gonna rain 217 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.600 always, uh in the light, rain all the time. So if you 218 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.159 want to go in there, it follows the Ferrari Chi rain all the time. 219 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:09.159 It's not like getting wet or dryer. It's just rain, right, 220 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.600 It's just gonna be raining, like it's not torrential. You do not need 221 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.279 to, you know, get ready for a long fifteen minutes, just like 222 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.080 the Ferrari Challenge. It's just like the Ferrari Challenge, like the challenge, 223 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:22.759 except that's wet. Got it all right? You couldn't be more clear on 224 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.960 that. Six setups. You know, we've rain tires are default. That 225 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:28.799 is on. You just got to get in and try to keep it on 226 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.159 track. And it's been a lot of fun. I like, I like 227 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:37.840 going in and just watching those races. They're they're highly entertaining. All right, 228 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.879 well, let's get into our interview today once again, our pulls up 229 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.279 Notes. Marketing associate and social media manager Doug Hunt sat down with Kevin and 230 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:52.240 I. Oh about forty five minutes ago. We talked all things that is 231 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.679 social media on I Racing. So without further ado, let's talk to Doug 232 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:07.759 Hunt. All right, Kevin and I are back with a long awaited guest, 233 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:17.720 mister social media admin himself, mister Doug Doogie Hunt. Doug, welcome 234 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:19.720 to the show. Glad to have you. Welcome Doug, thanks for coming. 235 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.960 And it's not like you were voluntold that you would be on the show 236 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:27.120 or anything, but we appreciate you making time in your busy day between tweets 237 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:32.000 and posts and whatnot. So absolutely, you guys told me about it, 238 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:33.840 I think a week and a half ago, and I've been sweating from then 239 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:38.720 till now. So that's because you live in Orlando. That's why I'm sweating. 240 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:42.200 But let's let's jump right into this because there's there's a little bit of 241 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:47.919 rivalry, uh and some some some numbers rivalry. What did you tell us 242 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.399 about the the Alex Horn episode, which did really well for us. Yes, 243 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.799 I've I've heard that's the best episode so far, but I do have 244 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.600 the keys to the kingdom here, and uh my episode will go farther purely 245 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:04.960 based on how many times I'm going to retweet it. So I love it, 246 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:10.400 don't hate the player, hate the game. Yep. All right, 247 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.720 well let's get into it. So I'm following Chris, who's muted at the 248 00:17:14.720 --> 00:17:19.000 moment while he's drinking his allegedly unsweet tea. But you know whatever, he 249 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:23.240 sent me an outline to go from on this and it starts with the usual 250 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:29.519 who are you and how did you end up here? Introduction? Thanks Chris, 251 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:34.200 you got my name. I'm Doug. I've been here for six and 252 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:40.920 a half years now, I think twenty seventeen October. I got here from 253 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:45.119 my mom finding the position on Indeed and sending it to me to apply too, 254 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.720 and I got across the finish line thanks to Kevin accepting me. So 255 00:17:51.039 --> 00:17:56.039 did your mom drive you to the interview or she did not know, but 256 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.599 she did the legwork to get me to that, Like without her I would 257 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.880 not have the position. So who did your resume? Be honest. I 258 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.400 did. Okay, yeah, good, mom, edit it. There's nothing 259 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:07.440 wrong with that. You gotta have somebody at at your resume when it comes 260 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:11.440 to presentation stuff like words and all that. That's my specialty, not there. 261 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:15.079 So, like they've been, they've applied to jobs within the last seven 262 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.079 years. A few times I'm the one proof reading for them on everyone. 263 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.640 All right, yeah, very good on this. What's it like interviewing with 264 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.119 Kevin Bobbitt? It's already off the rails, by the way in case. 265 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:30.880 Yeah, it's really this was not on the outline. I feel like in 266 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:33.599 all the marketing calls we have, I'm kind of like the I would have 267 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.519 left field kind of person with my comments. So it fits the my script 268 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.119 at least, maybe not you guys a script. But so did he ask 269 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:44.759 you like how many tennis balls were in a seven forty seven or anything or 270 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:52.200 no? So that was very It was kind of boring actually. I mean 271 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.720 when I applied, it was a marketing associate position, very generic, don't 272 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:59.960 know what I'm going to do kind of thing, and it was a smaller 273 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.039 company so it was kind of going to do everything. So I think I 274 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:07.279 was running my My mom had an an Etsy shop, and I was running 275 00:19:07.279 --> 00:19:12.119 her Instagram account and that was my proof of social media experience. What's that? 276 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:15.319 And Kevin was like, okay, that's good enough, so he took 277 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:18.799 a gamble. Uh yeah, I mean when you started, you were doing 278 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:22.759 a little bit of everything marketing. We were a marketing team of just a 279 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.119 couple of people at that point. So yeah, exactly, Hey we need 280 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.279 to figure this out, uh, doug can you help? And then we 281 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.599 went from there. I think Larry is still cleaning up some of my graphics 282 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:40.000 across the website. That's that's really really funny. I remember back prior to 283 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:45.240 uh US having a proper graphic design team to uh, Dougie's Dougie's graphics. 284 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.839 But now you've done it. You've done a bunch of stuff though you've been 285 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:52.720 over You've done a couple of trips over to Europe for UH the trade shows 286 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:57.079 and whatnot. You I've been in been at a BMW going around the northch 287 00:19:57.160 --> 00:20:00.240 Life with you in the front seat, not driving. Thank god, we 288 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.640 made it so when all of us got scared to death, who's that? 289 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:11.680 Who's driving the jag Dale Dale? Yeah, one hundred and sixty two miles 290 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.359 an hour with no helmets on. Guys, easily the most irresponsible thing I've 291 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:18.920 ever done in my life, and Doug was there. I appreciate you letting 292 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.039 me have the front seat. It was also one of the most fun things 293 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:23.960 you could do. Yeah, that was pretty cool. It was. It 294 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.279 was fun. But you know, looking back on it, you know, 295 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.519 if you were to have a blow out, that would have been bad. 296 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:33.640 But the best part was trying to eat lunch right afterwards. Oh that was 297 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.640 bad and we were like, that's yeah, it's going to look at that. 298 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:41.200 No, thank you, no, thank you. All right, well 299 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.720 let's uh, let's keep on going down Chris's list here. So, Doug, 300 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:52.599 who are you when you're not being incredibly sarcastic and witty on on Twitter 301 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:56.920 and Facebook and everywhere else? You know, what's what's life outside of of 302 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:00.920 the I racing sphere? You have some interesting hobbies? Yeah, like you 303 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.559 said, I am down here in Florida now, So I punch out at 304 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:07.559 five and I'm in Magic Kingdom by five thirty. So how many days a 305 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.480 week? Every day, not every day, but pretty frequently. What do 306 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:18.440 you want to do all day in Magic Kingdom? Tell I've never been gone 307 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.119 I've gone almost every year since I was born. We've gone since we were 308 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:25.599 kids. But now that we live down here, A lot of the trips 309 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:29.279 back then we called the four park blitz. You've got a four day vacation 310 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:33.119 and you've got to get everything done one park a day. Now it's a 311 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:34.519 lot more casual. You kind of just go sit over there and people watch, 312 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:37.039 grab food and come back. You don't even go on rides or anything. 313 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:42.359 It's just the atmosphere hanging out. All right, Well, I guess 314 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:47.039 yeah, I've always done the blitz package. Yeah, go go, go, 315 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.759 go go and try to time up rides when everyth was at lunch or 316 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:56.000 when babies start crying at two pm, which is hilarious. Yeah, all 317 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:00.880 right, well let's keep on rolling through here. So this you have. 318 00:22:00.920 --> 00:22:04.119 You have quite the reputation in the industry of being incredibly good at your job. 319 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:07.119 Now I hope you can fit to the door layer as we blow your 320 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:11.599 ego up here. But how did you develop this this persona, this voice 321 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:19.440 of I racing and social because you will engage with anything and and you're always 322 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.640 it seems like, at the cutting edge of trends before they actually happen. 323 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:27.839 So let's talk through your process and how you developed that that brand on on 324 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:32.640 social Well. I mean, the most important part of it, I would 325 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:36.680 say, to the detriment of my own health, is to consume an absurd 326 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:41.839 amount of social media to be on top of everything that's happening. So it 327 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.960 doesn't doesn't sleep at any point. So there's always something to be seeing and 328 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.519 always something to be doing. So even if I'm not posting, I'm still 329 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:53.559 making, yeah, lurking, finding memes, following trends, all that stuff, 330 00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:59.160 putting it away for you said another time, So that that's probably the 331 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:03.160 most important piece, is always being on top of it. Other than that, 332 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.079 I don't know. I've always found that some of the motorsports industry is 333 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:12.200 kind of just scheduled posts, uh, put it up there, walk away 334 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:17.200 kind of thing. Uh. I feel like that doesn't get as much done 335 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:21.079 as you can if you're just there tuned into it constantly, uh, engaging 336 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:27.119 and commenting and and whatnot. So uh, I just lost my spot. 337 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:30.720 Sorry about that. You know, we're this is a really professional podcast. 338 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:34.440 We're really good at So how is how has it changed? You know since 339 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:37.359 we started? You kind of you're trying to touched on it there, but 340 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:40.920 let's expand a little bit. Uh, you know from the scheduled post and 341 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:44.559 now being like super on top of it and engaging. But how have you 342 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.519 how have you seen maybe your your style and your approach to social from day 343 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.720 one six years ago to now. Uh? You know what do you think 344 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:56.160 the biggest change has been? What is there's the growth been? You know 345 00:23:56.440 --> 00:24:02.400 walking through that. I mean I would say there's nothing thing that has that 346 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:06.640 I was doing a year one that's stuck. Even if something's good and sticks, 347 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:08.160 I feel like you shouldn't do it too frequently, like you should just 348 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:14.480 constantly be changing. So I mean one thing that we kind of we I 349 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:15.920 say, like the video guys, because I don't make the videos, I 350 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:19.720 just you know, get them out there. We came up with the member 351 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.519 highlights and all that, which I always refer to as the go pro strategy, 352 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:30.000 which I mean, you guys know GoPro all of their marketing is videos 353 00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:33.559 from their users using the product. They didn't go out and film anything. 354 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.240 So people send stuff in and then they show it off. So it's a 355 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:41.559 win win. It's we have like eyes everywhere because we people submitting stuff, 356 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:45.440 so we can post endless amounts of content and they get to be featured out 357 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:48.279 there, and I know a lot of them are very very excited to submit 358 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.720 stuff to Alex and Cole. So oh yeah, top top ten videos and 359 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:56.319 not top ten are are huge. Yep. Yeah, those are wildly popular. 360 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.440 They do very well on our channel, So we just stick to that 361 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:08.440 usually. Other than that, I try not to. For for for the 362 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:11.799 World of out Laws game, it was a little different, but for EE 363 00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:15.119 Racing being a product, I feel like I don't push it as a product. 364 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:18.519 It's it's more about the community and the day to day happenings and how 365 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:22.839 we relate to the larger motorsports space more so than just hey, buy this 366 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.480 or whatever. It's like, I don't like that marketing strategy as much. 367 00:25:27.039 --> 00:25:33.920 Uh, for the for the larger motorsports space, I find that we get 368 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.759 a lot of eyeballs just engaging with whether it's F one or NASCAR, any 369 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:45.240 of those series. Just as Coco Cocoa and Cam. She's on the ground, 370 00:25:45.799 --> 00:25:51.279 she walked into frame whatever work. Yeah, she'll she'll probably start distracting 371 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:57.279 me at some point, which actually she already she already distracted. Here we 372 00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:02.839 are all right, son, go off the rails again here, And I 373 00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:04.640 know the answer to this, but I've always find it really interesting and it's 374 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:10.240 one of those like kind of things that people don't really understand. As I 375 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.599 mentioned earlier, you're very ahead of the game and you're not afraid to interact 376 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:17.240 with anything. How often do you have to like type it out, like 377 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:22.440 oh, and I have to walk it back yourself, or how often do 378 00:26:22.480 --> 00:26:26.559 you feel like that you have to be rained back in by say Kevin or 379 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.279 Tony, like like where where how do you developed the line? Because you're 380 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:34.039 pretty progressive, like you will get in there and and shirp a little bit, 381 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:38.920 and I can add into this. I mean generally, I mean ninety 382 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:42.359 nine point nine percent of the time, it's just he just goes right. 383 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:45.799 And on the rare occasion, he'll send something to me and be like, 384 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.400 yeah, I don't know about this, and I'll usually we agree, or 385 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:53.799 on occasion I'll send something to him like dude, don't touch this, and 386 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:56.559 he's like, I know, I know, but I feel like I have 387 00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.799 to just say it, you know, just yeah, to be right. 388 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:06.039 But I mean we're generally on the same page. I think Doug does I 389 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:11.319 mean he spends obviously he's more time with the community, more time on social 390 00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:15.559 picking up all those trends like you talked about. But you have managed to 391 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:19.519 find that line and been pretty successful at that, and I don't think we've 392 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:25.119 crossed it too many times. Probably something didn't land right with somebody, but 393 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:27.720 nothing that was like a major crisis or anything like that. Right have you 394 00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:30.599 met Internet people? Of course something didn't land right, But that's it, 395 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:36.000 you know, marketing one on one and listen an emotional response. Yeah, 396 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.519 but there is a line, right, Like it's one thing that like all 397 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:41.720 that I didn't think that was funny saying oh that was offensive, right, 398 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.440 and that's yeah, that's what. I don't know if I've ever ever gone 399 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.119 into a fence, it's a it's a it's like chess, like you got 400 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:52.920 to think five moods that moves ahead. I'm going to say this, what 401 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.319 are they going to say? Like? What? What's what are the next 402 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.400 four to be? Exactly? So even if we're like, say we have 403 00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:03.039 a particular issue in the sim I I know that whatever I say is going 404 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:10.960 to be twisted into that or or another example. Facebook specifically loves dirt content, 405 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:14.599 so I post anything that's not dirt related, and they're going to twist 406 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.880 it into where is this dirt piece of content? So it's for a long 407 00:28:18.920 --> 00:28:22.000 time it was like where's rain, Right, You'd post something about, you 408 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:25.559 know, the Nord's life, and then where's rain? You post something about 409 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.640 and there's always there's always been raining. So what you get one right now? 410 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:33.119 It's you don't want to say out loud, let's let's let's pull a 411 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.559 pin of the grnade. Come on. Well, so dirt, the dirt 412 00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.440 community wants east Bay. Uh and that will not stop. That is just 413 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.279 non stop east Bay, East Bay, East Bay, east Bay. So 414 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:48.240 Tyler Hudson himself, he's bugging me, uh oh yeah, because you make 415 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:52.559 those decisions. Yeah, exactly. He seems every every time that. That's 416 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.920 another thing that's kind of funny. So on Facebook, I make the post, 417 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:00.519 Tyler will share the comments with me like I'm not seeing them in real 418 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:02.599 time. He's like, did you see this? Yes, Tyler, that's 419 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:06.720 my job. So that's actually my jobe that I wish somebody could see Chris's 420 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.400 face right now because he's dying. Oh my gosh, Cisco hit the button 421 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:15.039 there it is, Yes, but anyways to get back to the to get 422 00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:18.519 back to the walking the line comment, I find that, first of all, 423 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.480 you can't really find the limit until you push it. So like I 424 00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.359 have probably stepped over a few times. Yeah, it's exactly like racing, 425 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:32.599 uh, you know, minus the It's one thing to drop two wheels, 426 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:37.240 it's another thing to crash headfirst into a wall. Right, So it's okay, 427 00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:38.559 you're looking for a one x, but not a four x to bring 428 00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:48.480 it by I racing terms exactly. And so I found that you can push 429 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.079 some things pretty easily. I mean, again, I'm not doing anything that's 430 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.480 that's terrible, but you can get edgy with it sometimes. I would say 431 00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:02.000 probably one of the one of the mistakes I've made that came back and hit 432 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:07.240 me in the face was there was a NASCAR race and it was might have 433 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:14.240 been Bowman, but Suarez took a bottle of water and threw it in Bowman's 434 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:17.920 face. And I think in that same race, but Suarez's car had caught 435 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:21.920 on fire. I remember this, So I was like, I basically said, 436 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:23.759 you should have saved that water for your car to put out the whatever, 437 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:26.960 and he snapped back with something I don't remember what it was. But 438 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.359 when he snapped back, the rest of the community snapped back because again it's 439 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:36.720 it's it's driver versus brand in that case, and and that like the brand, 440 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:40.440 I mean, the driver wins over brand. So I had to walk 441 00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:44.880 it back, and I think I had found an image of Bart Simpson writing 442 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.880 on the chalkboard, you know, when they get punished. I said, 443 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:53.240 I will not antagonize Daniel Suarez over and over and over again. I managed 444 00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.720 to walk out of that one. Yeah, but I bet if you're going 445 00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.680 back now and look at the impressions, it was worth it. Yeah. 446 00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.319 And that's the thing. I don't think we burned any bridges with Daniel. 447 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.839 It was just the heat of the moment kind of thing, and it got 448 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:08.519 some traction. So again, I don't mind being the butt of a joke 449 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:15.400 or pushing stuff like that. So did you hear right, Kevin? Kevin 450 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:19.240 uh consoled me pretty much. He saw he's not and he was like, 451 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:23.319 don't worry about it, don't worry about It's okay. So, so, 452 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:29.359 Doug, what what was what's been the most interesting day at at I Racing 453 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.400 taxi ride besides the neurburgering taxi ride. I think it's still related to neurburgering 454 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.359 that day. Yeah, so you want me to tell the whole story, 455 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:45.200 and like just yeah, we were at the SIM Racing Expo and it was 456 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:51.000 the last day and we were leaving. I don't know what time it was, 457 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.160 but and I don't know what time our flight was at. But we 458 00:31:53.200 --> 00:32:00.680 had a rental car and no not this, and and Kevin was Kevin was 459 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:07.680 loading up the car with whatever we had, suitcases and just stuff, and 460 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:09.640 as he bent over to put something into the car, he heard a hissing 461 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:15.160 sound. So he looked down and the rental car is I think it was 462 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:22.039 right rear maybe was going down. Like no, so we don't, we 463 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:23.519 don't have to, you know, stick on whose fault it was for too 464 00:32:23.559 --> 00:32:28.519 long. It was Greg's fault, but we kind of we can move on 465 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.839 past that and the rest of it. So uh. Anyways, we got 466 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.519 into a back and forth with the rental company and trying to get someone out 467 00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:39.000 to you know, get us another tire, and for some reason, how 468 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:43.000 many hours later, I don't know, it was multiple, multiple hours, 469 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:46.200 they never showed up. They couldn't for some reason, they couldn't figure out 470 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.920 where the Nurburgring was in Germany. They were like, where are you guys. 471 00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.640 We're at the Nurburgring, one of the most iconic places in Germany. 472 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.119 Uh So they never showed up. So we ended up having to go to 473 00:32:55.200 --> 00:33:00.920 Plan B, which was called Will Vincent a race spot, to see if 474 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:04.000 he could bring us over to the airport in time. And he couldn't because 475 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:12.680 they were celebrating. They were celebrating. Yeah, they were celebrating the end 476 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.640 of the event. You know, they're over twenty one. They were having 477 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:19.519 a good time and definitely having a good time. But so Will asked around 478 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:23.559 the party to see if somebody could save us, and Mitchell de Young's father 479 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:30.240 happened to be there with Mitchell, and Mitchell's a rally cost driver, I 480 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:37.079 racer big just you know, sim racer. His dad volunteered. I don't 481 00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.519 think we'll volunteer him, but he might. He might have also only been 482 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.720 the only sober one at the party. Who knows the three of us were 483 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:47.880 sober. Phone, Yes, we were sober. We were. We were 484 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:53.279 there on a work trip, so we were. That's not anyways, he 485 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:59.039 can this up drove us, however long it takes from the neurbour Green wo 486 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.000 hours each way. Yeah, at this point it was what time was it 487 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:07.639 we were at we were at the airport. It was very late. So 488 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.400 we took a nap in our hotel room. Yep. Yeah, So we 489 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:15.519 got to got to the airport, caught the flight and made it out. 490 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:20.559 Thank you to uh Mitchell de Young's father, which I think we did something 491 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:22.960 for him, right, thank you, thank you. I think we sent 492 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:29.559 him something something nice, so credit something like that. Yeah, yeah, 493 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.320 yeah, I can. I can add to this story a little bit. 494 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:35.440 The rental car company because the hole was in the sidewalk because I scuffed a 495 00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:38.880 curb, so I parked and uh the we ended up having to leave the 496 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:42.800 rental car there because they wouldn't come and get us. They said they drove 497 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:45.039 by. There was nobody on this road. Nobody drove by. They said 498 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.000 they drove by twice. Actually, So we left the rental car, locked 499 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.119 the keys in it and my sunglasses, my brand new Oakleys, as we 500 00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:58.000 discovered, and I took a picture and dropped the pin and sent it to 501 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:00.400 the rental car company. So I was like, we have to go catch 502 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:05.880 a flight. And they were convinced that we had taken the car around the 503 00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:10.199 nurbur Ring. Yeah, and forgot a lot of really mean letter which we 504 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:14.280 did not, which we did not did not. It was, it was, 505 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.639 but it wasn't in that car. Yeah, it probably would have been 506 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:21.039 less embarrassing to explain that you you know, actually took it out on track 507 00:35:21.079 --> 00:35:23.159 instead of just yeah, I nicked the curb on the way to put some 508 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:28.679 suitcases in the trunk or whatever. But well, they found every every scratch 509 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.360 on that car and everything, and we should have taken around for as much 510 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:37.079 as it ended up costing, because yeah, that was a fun phone call 511 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.760 it Tony Gardner. Hey, Tony, if you're listening, appreciate it. 512 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:45.559 Yeah that was a five figure tire. Oh good times. I forgot. 513 00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:49.519 I didn't forget about that. But of all the things I thought we were 514 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.079 going to talk about on this episode, that was not on my BEINGO a 515 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.360 good one. It's come up a couple of times on this podcast. I 516 00:35:54.880 --> 00:36:05.280 enjoy it. I'm gonna tell a hazelut water story someday. Okay, well 517 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.320 maybe we should have them on as guests. Yeah, now that's a good 518 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:14.840 idea. There you goick, But all right, we're gonna gip ahead a 519 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:19.199 little bit, but uh, I guess you know, let's let's circle around 520 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:21.760 the whole thing. You know, you've been here what almost like six years. 521 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:23.480 You know, how would you say your role has developed? I mean 522 00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:27.519 we've kind of touched on a little bit, but you know, you do 523 00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:30.880 you do much more than just the social media. You're involved. You got 524 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.559 your hands on a lot of things. You know, kind of talk about 525 00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:37.840 how how you've grown within I raising you know, the opportunity set that that 526 00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.320 has been you know, laid in front of it. Yes, I mean, 527 00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.480 obviously Irish social media is the most forward facing stuff that I do. 528 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:50.360 But I mean when I when I started, I was doing graphics. I 529 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.280 was doing we were going to the trade shows. I think within two weeks 530 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:58.920 of being hired, we were over at Vegas for Seema. Uh we did 531 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:02.000 we did packs one year. I designed the booths for that. We had 532 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:06.639 a Twitch Rivals event a couple of weeks ago. I organized and set up 533 00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:09.000 that. Getting out creators, Yeah, that was pretty fun in the rain, 534 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.079 but just working with the content creators there, there's lots of lots of 535 00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:17.840 calls with partners and manufacturers and making sure they get what they need and it's 536 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.159 a lot of you know, right hand man stuff for Kevin pretty much. 537 00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:24.840 So making sure on social too isn't just making posts, right, I mean 538 00:37:24.880 --> 00:37:29.079 you're pulling reports and we're looking at data, what posts work? What? 539 00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.239 Don't you know? Things like that. I mean it sounds probably more fun 540 00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:35.920 than I mean, I think you enjoy what you do, but there is 541 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:37.599 some other stuff to it as well, right, I mean, just just 542 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.760 like people say to me, oh, you just work for a video game 543 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.119 company, well sort of, but it still work. You know, there's 544 00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:45.760 a lot of work, and there's still stuff that goes on. You know, 545 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:51.840 still have goals and objectives and projects and trials and tribulations and all that. 546 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.239 So there's lots of numbers and analytics and reports and all that. But 547 00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:58.280 I mean they've only gone up in the seven years, so's they're always fun 548 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.679 to look at. They're always higher. Not to brag or anything, but 549 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:06.639 I got I got one last one for you here, because you know, 550 00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:10.760 getting into working in the subject matter, you know, working in video games 551 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.639 and whatnot, or you know, becoming a content creator an influencer, you 552 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.320 know, working in social for any company, let alone something like that. 553 00:38:17.360 --> 00:38:22.360 We do. Uh, there's a lot of interest in that. What advice 554 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.400 would you give to somebody, say, maybe in high school or maybe in 555 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.119 college, if this is something that they wanted to pursue, you know of 556 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.320 the you know, the school of hard knocks that you've gone through. What 557 00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:38.079 advice would you give to those those people that are considering this type of role 558 00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:45.119 our career. I mean, the most important thing, I guess is just 559 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.119 following it, like the if you've got a particular game that you like, 560 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:52.960 or I mean again, it applies to sports in the real world too. 561 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.480 Everybody wants to grow up to be a baseball player or whatever, but there's 562 00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:59.960 so many positions beyond that, like behind the company, Like you're not gonna 563 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.800 you might not be an esports superstar, but you could be the person creating 564 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:07.480 the esports or whatever. It's it's I mean what I did. I got 565 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.519 my business degree with the concentration in marketing and a little bit of photoshop skills 566 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.960 on the side one of the classes that I took, and then other than 567 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:21.760 that it was just applied to Kevin hired me. I don't know, I'm 568 00:39:21.760 --> 00:39:22.519 not sy, but you weren't. I mean, to be fair, you 569 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:25.960 were doing esports stuff weren't you working for Yeah, so Draft Kings or something 570 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:32.239 you were doing? My what was that job? My final year of college, 571 00:39:32.280 --> 00:39:37.639 I actually found a position at Draft Kings doing data coordination for the League 572 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:43.440 of Legends component of it or whatever, which was literally just staying up at 573 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:49.079 three am watching the Chinese League of Legends series and coordinating the data and collecting 574 00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:53.159 on all that. But there's so many positions out there that like like that 575 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.280 that are I mean, so that was essentially an entry level position, but 576 00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:59.800 I was able to you know, snowball that, and snowball that and snowball 577 00:39:59.840 --> 00:40:02.639 that. Before that, I was writing for Team Dignitas, which was an 578 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.400 esports team. I was just writing articles for them that wasn't even paid. 579 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:12.000 But again, part of that snowball, just getting it rolling, just getting 580 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.159 your foot in the door. Again. Networking is a big thing, obviously, 581 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:20.639 going to these conventions and expos and all that, and meeting people that 582 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:25.880 are in the industry already, whether it's someone like me or someone like way 583 00:40:25.920 --> 00:40:30.119 more important than me. But I remember that there's nobody more important than you, 584 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:34.719 Doug, come on, thank you, thank you. But yeah, 585 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:38.039 I remember talking to people and trying to like get my foot in the door. 586 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.199 Again, that's the biggest thing, is just getting your foot in the 587 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.719 door. But you got to start small, and not that I'm not big 588 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:47.519 in any sense of it, but I've managed to stick. I've got both 589 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:51.039 feet in the door now. So yeah, you've made a career of it, 590 00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:53.360 right, Yeah, exactly for seven years or whatever. So yep, 591 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:58.800 hopefully you'll stick around for seven more. You've got me for life probably, 592 00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:04.760 Kevin probably probably in there just in case. But it's a very, very 593 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.679 very fun company to work for. I think Steve had a tweet the other 594 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:12.559 day about who's someone's retiring, and he was just talking about the one person's 595 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:15.559 retired, first person ever retired from just the longevity of it, Like I 596 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.119 I can't think that. I don't think I could count on it, uh 597 00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:22.840 more than one hand, the amount of people that have left, Like you're 598 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:29.719 here and then you stay because it's just such an awesome company. So yeah, 599 00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:35.880 yeah, hopefully Tony hears that one too. We'll give him the time 600 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:38.920 stamp to listen to that. Yeah for sure. Actually, Tony's an avid 601 00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:43.599 listener to the podcast. He always comments and sends me notes afterwards. He's 602 00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:45.920 like, oh, I don't know what he has time for. It must 603 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:50.239 be in his commute or something. Yeah, he absolutely listens. He's one 604 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.960 of our four fans or five. He's number five, I think number five. 605 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:57.599 All Right, I have not mom, Sorry, I was gonna say, 606 00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:00.239 I was gonna say I have not listened through an episode all the way 607 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:01.400 through. Well, now you're going to have to. Now you have to 608 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:06.039 just to hear myself talk again. Yes, absolutely, that's the worst part 609 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:09.760 of it. I hate listening to myself. That's not that you guys do 610 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:14.639 a bad job. I just listened to you guys enough, like throughout the 611 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.400 throughout the week and all the meetings there. Yeah. Yeah, you're in 612 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:22.119 the marketing call. Yeah, that's like the length. Pretty not much know 613 00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:28.480 what we're going to talk about other than yeah. Yeah, Well, Doug, 614 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:30.159 thanks for taking the time. We appreciate it. Now go make this 615 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:35.760 episode bigger than Alex's Alex if you're listening, sorry, and uh. On 616 00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:45.079 that note, let's get back to the show. Always good to sit down 617 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:49.119 with staff. I think Doug has made it his personal mission if if you 618 00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.440 didn't notice during the interview, to make this the biggest episode ever. Chris 619 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:55.079 is cracking up again. Yeah, Well, can I just say I'm glad 620 00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.760 that the Vince de Young story got in there because I worked with Vince for 621 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:02.079 the decade and he's one of my favorite people on the planet. And I'm 622 00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:05.679 so glad that he bailed you guys out to get you guys to the airport. 623 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:08.320 Well, he definitely we were in we're in a little bit of a 624 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:15.239 pickle, and yeah, and that things like I get reminded of that story 625 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:23.639 a couple times a year in opportune times, like on a broadcast. Moving 626 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:28.119 on though, more news at I Racing. I know this because it says 627 00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:31.079 more news and Chris as well bulleted outline here I Racing one oh one, 628 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:35.079 very similar to what we just did with Doug. Chris, let's talk about 629 00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.360 it. What what is I Racing one on one? And what's kind of 630 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.639 the goals of it. Yeah. So we've actually got two sort of more 631 00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:44.880 evergreen news pieces going on. I Racing one on one is the one that 632 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:50.480 I'm leading, and we're doing staff interviews that Justin Millillo was handling for one 633 00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:52.320 on one. We're trying to delve in a little more on some of the 634 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:57.280 things that you or I are probably most of the people listening to the show 635 00:43:57.719 --> 00:44:00.199 probably just know innately because they've been on IRA Racing for quite some time. 636 00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:05.920 You know, if I say the initialism inis, you probably know exactly what 637 00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:07.880 I'm talking about. But if you just signed up in the past year, 638 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:12.519 you might have no idea how the NASCAR I Racing series works. So we're 639 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.559 trying to talk about things like that. We're talking about ranked versus un Ranked 640 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:21.079 racing, will profile some of the special events, etc. Etc. And 641 00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:24.360 so those will go up on every Thursday. By the time the show is 642 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:29.360 coming out, I've just got another one on one out and then alternating weeks 643 00:44:29.400 --> 00:44:32.760 with staff interviews. Justin just profiled Jake Puhlan, who is one of his 644 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.760 co admins in his league FtF. So that was a nice and easy one 645 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:43.000 to kick it off with. And Jake has a really interesting background. You 646 00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:47.199 know, he's one of those people who really came into I racing just from 647 00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:52.119 developing a skill set in previous SIM racing titles and was a big eye racer, 648 00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:55.239 and you know, just one of those people who we kind of hired 649 00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.800 based on their experience working with and SIM racing titles, just kind of having 650 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.360 fun. Excellent. Oh it's a I think it's a really good a really 651 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:08.199 good series. I know what kind of your lineup, and I'm excited for 652 00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.840 people to read more about it. But you're right, you're one hundred percent 653 00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:15.840 right that sometimes we have normalized the nomenclature and what is I racing? And 654 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.440 well, with a you know, over two hundred and sixty thousand active members, 655 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:22.440 there are probably a few new faces that may not know what we're talking. 656 00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:28.440 So good to get that information out there. Now. Kevin has a 657 00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:31.079 meeting in seven and a half minutes, so we are gonna we're gonna breeze 658 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:35.360 through here a little bit. Let's go to E Sports. Sorry Cisco skipping 659 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:39.360 ahead on the outline on you again, But NASCAR Coca Cola EE Racing Series, 660 00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:45.320 h it says, now into this second segment of the season with Chris 661 00:45:45.400 --> 00:45:49.480 so. Yeah. So the regular season in the E NASCAR Coca Cola I 662 00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:52.800 Racing Series is now broken up into three segments. They're all four to five 663 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:58.159 races. There's a special bonus if you're the top point scorer in any of 664 00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:00.559 those given segments, you get a nice little cash bonus. You get some 665 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.280 playoff points. Casey kerwin the former series champion. He won the first segment 666 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:09.000 of the season, so he's got a nice little cushion if he makes it 667 00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:15.320 into the playoffs. I Racing dot Com slash e NASCAR has all your coverage, 668 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.280 including this week's race at Dover. Justin's got those previews and those recaps 669 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.559 on points, so if you need the latest standings, points, et cetera, 670 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:27.480 check it out. Check it out. Also Porscha tag here E Sports 671 00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:32.280 Super Cup Kevin Sebastian Joe winning his second championship at Monza and clearing up pretty 672 00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:37.199 big check in the process. Yeah, fifty thousand dollars to him. He 673 00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.480 had a pretty dominant season. I mean, there were some other good performances, 674 00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.480 but he deserved that championship. Also won the pole award, so he's 675 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:47.000 going to get a nice watch from the sponsor, tag Hoyer, which is 676 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:52.079 awesome. Also had a great, great participation in the All Star Race, 677 00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.239 which has a bunch of streamers, influencers, and the top finishers in there 678 00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:59.880 also get a cool prize from Tag Hoyer, which I assume is a watch, 679 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.199 but we'll see. But yeah, great season. It was a little 680 00:47:05.239 --> 00:47:08.880 shorter, a little bit more condensed, but we added mixed things up. 681 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:13.199 We put a tournament in the middle. We had double points on the on 682 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:17.000 the finale or extra points anyway, so it spiced things up. It was 683 00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:22.440 fun. I think it was the most exciting season to date. So congrats 684 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.159 to everybody that competed in it. You know, there it's a I know 685 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:30.119 those guys put a ton of time and effort and practice, and you know 686 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.960 there can only be one champion. But but hats off to everybody that made 687 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.119 the series and participated all season long. So awesome job there. And that's 688 00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:43.559 not the only only ones we have going on. We also have the e 689 00:47:43.679 --> 00:47:46.840 NASCAR College I Racing Series, right Chris yep, And so this is also 690 00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:51.320 about to wrap up the first eight rounds of the season. And this was 691 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.159 the first season where we combined the fall in the spring semesters like a full 692 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.519 year of college, rather than splitting them up. Logan Klampett took the victory 693 00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.239 at nash Bill and didn't have time to review the stat before the show, 694 00:48:02.280 --> 00:48:07.039 but I think Logan may be the first driver to win for multiple colleges in 695 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:09.440 the series. Cisco, I might have to have you fact check me on 696 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:13.880 that after the fact. Did he enter the portal. Yea, yeah, 697 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:19.440 he entered, he entered the portal. Oh Man, portals everywhere, Yeah, 698 00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:23.840 portals everywhere. But now works is the top twenty five drivers who did 699 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.800 those first eight races in the points championship, they're the only ones who get 700 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:30.920 invited to the finale. So the finale's going to take us to Homestead, 701 00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:36.239 which my favorite oval on the sim for what it's worth, Friday, May 702 00:48:36.280 --> 00:48:38.599 third, eight pm Eastern, those twenty five drivers are going to go for 703 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:44.519 a championship, sixty thousand dollars in total in collegiate scholarships on the line. 704 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:50.000 So not a bad little extracurricular activity when you're in a school. Huh. 705 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.079 I can think of worst ways to spend my time. Yeah, I'm just 706 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:57.079 watching the highlights of Cisco put on screen there and that's driving through that mess 707 00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:02.679 on the super Speedway. That is uh is a wild increased my anxiety just 708 00:49:02.719 --> 00:49:07.639 watching. Well, thanks for listening to this episode of the I Racing down 709 00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:10.840 Shift. Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, 710 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:15.599 Spotify and anywhere else. Chris has put this thing. Kevin Bobbit, Chris 711 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:21.360 Leoni, I am Greg West oh and Cisco and Sean and Drew and everybody 712 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.360 else in the in the truck also known as the studio or whatever, it's 713 00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.840 virtual truck, the virtual truck. Kevin's Mike sounds like poop all of a 714 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:32.079 sudden, but anyway, Yeah, don't forget to rate, review, and 715 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:36.039 subscribe, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, anywhere else. Chris puts this thing. 716 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:37.480 I think I already said that wants me. Who cares? We're not good 717 00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:40.000 at this? Thanks for listening to the podcast. Let's get out of here.