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This week on the Eye Racing down
Shift, we resolve our Thanksgiving Toby,

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it was not good. It was
bad and you admitted it. Talk about

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the content in the twenty twenty three
season one build, Well, the damage

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models fantastic on the car. I
can tell you that. And Cisco tells

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us how to say his last name
Scarf. All this and more, it's

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a strap in. Welcome to that
racing damn shift up here. He's Greg

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West. I'thing back of the boys, Kevin Boba and Chris Leone. We

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have a great show for you.
Have bet you didn't know that was coming.

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We're gonna talk about the twenty twenty
three season one build. Lots of

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stuff to go through and that.
We have a great interview with one of

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our broadcasters, Cisco s Let leave
it exactly. So we're gonna talk about

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the world of World of Outlaws,
Sprint Car Series and NASCAR International and Contender

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series that are going on right now. How are you doing boys? Excellent?

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You have a hat on it?
Are you cold? It's cold in

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my house And Laura gets home from
work and she's like, why is the

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heat up so high? So now
I've decided to be cheap and just wear

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a hat so no hair head gets
cold. Whatever. You know, it's

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a nice hat though. Is that
from Iceland? It's from Iceland. I

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recognize the sixty six degrees north I
have. I have a sweatshirt. A

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lovely place to visit if you've never
been. I know this is not a

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travel podcast, but I really enjoy
going through Iceland a couple of days there

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months. It's lovely. Oh missus
Leonie, now that I've correct you have,

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how are you doing hanging in there? Um? Got the beard?

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We got to talk about the beard. Kevin's got the hat on because his

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head's cold. You've got you're growing
out really like jealous almost. I mean

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it's not long, but it's it's
not nasty sort of beard. You know,

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it's like a beer three c's thick. This is the longest I've had

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it since about twenty thirteen, one
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I just had it and it just
it looked like a neck afro. Like

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I just bothered grooming it at all, because you know, the whole team

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was doing the whole beard thing,
and I'm like, what the hell?

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And I just walk into bars and
get free drinks because they're like, that

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guy's beard is huge, give him
a beer. This is before you met

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Emily. It wasn't it. This
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somehow she's stuck with me. Wow
ah, well you know, you know,

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all right, Well let's uh,
let's get into it. Twenty twenty

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three Season one build. We had
a lot of stuff that came out last

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week. A ton of fun during
week thirteen, trying out all the content,

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watching all of the streams, watching
Kevin Bobba get put into the pen

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insinuator. We'll talk about that later
in the show. Yep, that's coming

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up again. But Kevin, let's
talk about it's one of the big pieces

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of content. A great relationship led
to a great opportunity. BMW M Hybrid

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V eight. Yeah. What a
great car, right, our first GTP

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car. It's a new class of
cars, you know, going to be

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running all around the world and it's
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You know. We we we've talked
about it before. We have this great

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relationship with BMW Motorsports. We built
them or GT three while they were developing

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the car. We kind of built
it alongside that. A similar process with

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this car so we've had early access
to it, right, and they've been

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testing the car for months. We've
been attending tests, we've been capturing sound,

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all kinds of stuff, and it's
been great. I've driven it a

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few times. Actually, the first
time I drove it, because I didn't

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do any testing on it, was
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half ago when we were over in
Germany. Greg, how cool is that?

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And I mean they have they have
three sims set up right in their

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main lobby of the facility and I
racings running on it. That's pretty awesome.

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Yeah, that was It's pretty cool. They also showed us some other

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stuff behind the scenes that we're not
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it to say it was cool.
So it's a it's a cool place.

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It's a cool place. But yeah, great partnership with BMW. They seem

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to be super excited about it.
Um and you know, like Greg said,

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we a few staff members got together
last night, which was the first

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official IMSA race with seven five Eastern
times something like that. And uh,

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I wasn't in the same split as
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a little higher. But my race
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where I got put into the what
whatever happened? Kevin? Please tell us

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about it? Well? Well,
the damage models fantastic on the car.

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I can tell you that part everywhere. Um, but no, it was

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still super fun. I'll get that
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it happens. What are you gonna
do? Yeah, a really great opportunity

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to debut the car. We actually
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Racing Expo. We partnered up with
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booth. Thank you to fan Attech
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BMW M A Hybrid or M Hybrid
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something we'll talk about in just a
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Magny Corps. So that was a
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it was a highlight. A lot
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neat to get members and prospective members
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know it was. It was funny
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Fantotech booth when when we were debuting
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crowd. Then all of a sudden, one of these pedal manufacturers on the

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other side of the expo hall,
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fought would fire up. And I'm
sure this broke so many rule laws,

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city ordinances, whatever, And that
thing was loud, and you could just

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watch everybody in the entire expo leave
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get fired up. So the only
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the UH the the BMW in person
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up. That was kind of cool. Yeah, absolutely, So another new

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piece of content we have the UH
Mercedes Mercedes Amge Performance W thirteen. Chris

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did not write the whole name out
in the outline, and I hold you

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personally accountable for that, but I
think it got the name right anyway.

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Yet thirteen. That's out right race
winning car. Super cool. Because I

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can't drive Formula One cars. I
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I mean the BMW is plenty fast, um, but I don't have

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you raised the thirteen yet. I
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significant amount of lapse, not nearly
as much as the likes of some of

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our vpa's Christian Brian who I remember
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on that car. A hard tire
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if they go off the track or
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have to start over. And those
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not wrong, and takes anybody a
lot of time because you just can't mess

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up. But you have to be
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We have to know, I mean, that's the you know kind of

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the happens, right yea. And
working with the likes of Mercedes and their

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their engineers and their test drivers Anthony
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the real question is, Chris,
have you taken this car on a rally

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cross track yet? Because I know
that's the first thing you do. No,

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I do a lot of ridiculous bizarre
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As anyone talk to me out running
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recently can attest to um because it's
got headlights. But no, have not

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taken the Mercedes AMGW thirteen E Performance
yet on a rally cross. I flipped

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the E Performance. I might have
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And we'll fix it in post probably
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want me to take it on a
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short course track? How do we
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I think it needs a this car
climb Mount Washington sticker on the on

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the rear wing that goal. It
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because they'll probably drive it three miles
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We'll get there, get all right, Yeah, I'll go get the

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free sticker link in the description below. Yes, now, but a really

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cool car. Excited to uh to
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and the open set up series,
Uh, just really nice participation. Last

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year a lot of people were asking
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Grand Prix Tour? Um gonna are
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yes, yes it will be.
That's the NIS styled series right,

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so full three hundred five kilometer race
links, Um we do. It's spaced

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out over eight or nine or ten
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us the real world schedule as close
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run with the four time slots each
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or Thursday, open racing on Friday, fixed racing on Saturday, open racing

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on Sunday. So, uh,
plenty of opportunities to go racing in that

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car. Expecting a lot of splits, just like last year. And uh

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yeah, I'm just excited to see
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It's a it is a different animal. For those that don't know,

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this was not a rees skin.
Contrary to some some threads I saw in

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the forums, this was a ground
up rebuild of this car, completely new

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rule sets, new aerodynamic concepts,
this thing that relies a lot ground effect,

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and I mean, I don't think
this wasn't a Look what you see

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Formula Fun teams do in the middle
of the season where they bring in a

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new widget here or there. The
rules completely changed between years. So this

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car has a whole new setispects,
whole new setispects. I mean, they

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both have carbon fiber in them,
and they both have wheels, and that's

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about The tires are different. The
tires are different, but they have four

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wheels. Yeah, you know,
so no great car if you haven't got

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it, get out there and try
it. A ton of fun, even

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like solo hot lapping is a fun
in that car because it's just, you

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know that way you feel like you're
fast, you know, because if you

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get in, you know the top
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the tops, but you're not fast. But if you do it by yourself,

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it's like, oh, I'm moving. Some of these guys can flat

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out fly, that's for sure,
speaking of things that don't flat out fly.

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In fact, kind of slow,
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of fun. Kevin Toyota GR eighty
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finest. I mean, we love
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with the Master for years, right, and it's so popular And obviously it's

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popular partly because it's the rookie car
and people drive it, but people keep

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coming back to if you're going to
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it's full of every license level even
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I expect you're going to see the
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Similar series in terms of spec carum
not too complicated to set up. There's

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not a whole lot of options,
right, Greig, and what you can

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do to it. Um, we
do have a guide coming by the way,

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so that'll be out hopefully this week. Maybe shout out to Miguel you

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actually listen to this. But yeah, well there will be a guide for

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the basic set up things. But
I expect this is going to be heavily

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raced and lots of splits and all
that, which is what that's I racing

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out. It's best when you get
in the right split, when you're in

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with similarly skilled people. It makes
the experience so much better. Yeah,

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So we basically took the format of
the Skippy at the D level and we

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just copied the format with fenders.
So for the first season actually runs on

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seven free tracks. We just want
people racing. This thing's a ton of

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fun. The car is included in
the base package. It is free,

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does not cost you anything side up
for I Racing, Go Racing gr eighty

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six. You can also race it
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You get a little multi class action
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series, a little bit longer races, and just an absolute ball of fun.

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So I honestly I've heard more people
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the service than anything we put out
a long time. There's people are really

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enjoying it. It's predictable, it
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when you turn the wheel, and
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greatest compliment you can give to a
car in sim racing. So we also

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have some new track content that came
out Kevin Magney Core makes its debut on

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Eye Racing. Yeah, another kind
of Tier one track that uh helps us

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uh kind of fill out that that
that niche of tracks that that people are

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looking for. Um, I actually
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it. It's been a while since
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but I think do we have them
ZIMPSA go there. I don't know you

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did the schedule zimps go there?
This year? Our hims to schedule not

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real him so obviously, yeah,
something's going there. I'm still making that

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announcement. Nim is going to eropean
sprint series one of those two they'll be

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there, will be multi classroom,
be able to drive there. So that's

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your car, now, isn't it? Is? That is a car for

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now? Yeah, have you put
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but I didn't load it properly yesterday. Maybe that's why we uh, why

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it ended in disaster. I didn't
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that's probably it. All Right,
we're gonna throw o a Chris because we're

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gonna talk about something that goes on
dirt. Chris Lincoln coming to I raising

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another great track. I love how
even though dirt oval isn't really my thing,

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I've become the de facto guy.
Yeah, Lincoln Speedway yet another of

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the top tier Pennsylvania tracks that the
sprint cars and the dirt late model that

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they all visit where the action is
the attraction, and you know that with

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a slogan like that, they're gonna
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of racing history, even NASCAR way
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of the World of Outlaws schedule and
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that. We'll get to the eye
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this track in show it off three
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wheel to wheel banging. It's going
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the pros go to go to work
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of the dirt oval lifers that we've
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have a ton of fun with it
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the world of Outlaw Sprint car series
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not done with content. There's more
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Now this is dirt road stuff.
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Chris. Something happened with wild West
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short course off road track. For
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full on off road tracks, you
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same thing as rally cross. There
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lap in short course racing. We
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kind of pushed for internally. What
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Kimmer. Yes there was. After
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you poorer colleagues of mine down long
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you know, we talked through a
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that I kept coming back to was
we need to try to start getting the

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pro two light off rally cross tracks
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track are made to do something different. We need to get that vehicle back

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in its natural habitat to get people
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you start boosting participation and make it
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can for everybody. So, with
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that we've gotten the service and unfortunately
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you know, we decided we're going
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be a staple of that rookie pro
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a great place to learn, a
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those if you haven't done the off
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or you've never done it because you
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perfect opportunity. Would love to see
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wild West. It sounded like some
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it during Week thirteen, we're just
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hoping we can keep that up and
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with it. I might have to
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this. I've forgot that's there this
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doing that. Not doing that,
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content, but that's not all.
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so another one of the things that
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Uh, Seabring got a complete art
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but one of the older tracks in
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got completely revisited. There's even three
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a totally new experience. As far
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some running there in the in the
the the BMW GCP just to kind of

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get a get a feel for it, and it just really comes alive,

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especially in VR. You really feel
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that. Um, we'll obviously talk
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specially event uh comes to EE Racing
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just did I feel personally attacked?
Hey, this is why they need

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to listen to the show because we
dropped news there. We go. Okay,

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if if people were if there was
any question whether we're gonna have another

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race at Sebring, they're not familiar
with the service, that's for sure,

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everybody. Kevin Pitt intinuator, Bobbitt. That's PI over here, not KB,

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that's PI. Another piece content that
got an art up date to Ford

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five s from the Similab Production Card
Challenge. It got the treatment that we've

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given to things like the Skippy or
the Lotus seventy nine got it recently,

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but this time it's the Ford and
it looks delightful, I think, and

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I think Matt Malone is probably the
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He's the biggest Mustang driver that I
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fun. It's an h pattern,
not a lot of those left on the

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service, but it's a good time. And the similar Production Car Challenge,

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I think is the fifth most popular
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you're wanting big fields and a ton
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go run that series. There's a
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and Obviously we have a formula there
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Then we got all kinds of other
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right, Chris, I mean I
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but I don't. Yeah, we
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over email, just unlocking as much
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things we won't mention that we're just
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there was a lot, starting with
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s, the all new GR eighty
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the long owated nineteen eighty seven NASCAR
cop series, which thrilled a out personally.

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I've been waiting for that one for
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on trading paints for that. The
rosters are awesome. If oh, I

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know, I have had a rating
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just waiting for this, And one
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doing over the holidays is finally building
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it works with those. I am
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which we also just mentioned as having
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then finally the Legends car. Yes
that I've been waiting for those quarter mile

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ovals and well and I was case. I think it's a third mile in

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the infield, but a lot of
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Roade America, Nerburgring, Donnington,
barber Brand, you know, Interlagos,

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you name it, Nerburgering. I
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in the build. We have all
of the wayouts of the North Life are

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now available for AI. It's not
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version or the was it the vel
In we had one unlocked and now they're

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all there, so you could go
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your heart content on the Green Hell, and it is a lot of fun.

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that are difficult like the Green Hell, Active Reset comes to I Racing.

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This was a really cool feature that
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track that you decide on whether they're
going to be Um, yeah, it's

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it's perfect right, even I can
learn it. And so maybe if we

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bring back Thrown Go challenge, I'll
have a chance. Maybe maybe you could

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beat me. Finally, Yeah,
is that why we act that segment from

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this pot one I got my butt
kicked. Oh but active reset a really

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cool feature going to your controls options. Check it out. There is a

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video on YouTube on how to use
it. I believe our video that Cole

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and Cisco worked on right, it's
fantastic, um, so check it out.

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It explains it really well. And
that's a really good segue to our

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guest today, Cisco s As as
we were referring to him today because his

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last name is uses almost all of
the letters of the alphabet. It's very

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close. But uh yeah, Cisco
from our broadcasting team is joining us.

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Set down with Kevin and I about
twenty five minutes ago to talk about all

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things broadcasting on I Racing a lot
of fun. Cisco is hilarious. Also,

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he did show up Kevin and I
though he used the fancy microphone and

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he did have a nice micro so
yeah, so when he uses his radio

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voice and sounds way better than Kevin
and I, just remember it was the

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microphone. It's always the equipment,
just like some racing equipment yesterday was not

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my skills. It was definitely the
equipment. Yep. So without further ado

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Cisco S. All right, Kevin
and I are back. We're pretty excited

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today. We're continuing this trend of
interviewing staff members who you probably know or

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you know their voice or something that
they did that's notable within the iRacing service,

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and Kevin today is no exception.
That's true, it's no exception.

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Was that that was the the handoff? Yeah? That was that was the

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handoff. But I pointed at you
and you're not ed. I shouldn't multitask

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do email dan podcasts at the same
time. This is what happens all the

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time. Can wait, Tony if
you maybe answer him? So anyway,

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we have Cisco, Cisco S,
we have Cisco S. Nobody in this

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company knows how to pronounce his last
name. Greg and I had a pre

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meeting before recording this podcast to try
to decide on how to pronounce his name.

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He's only worked for us for three
years. Yeah, three years.

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Yeah, So we have with us
today Cisco S, HEI Cisco Hey,

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Greg, how you doing. I'm
well, So would you like to tell

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the viewers at home how to pronounce
your last name? A? Yeah,

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So there's normally two popular versions.
It's either scare a musa or Scaramuza.

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But it is in fact Scaramuza.
I don't know where the e comes from,

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but yeah Scar move zo. Okay, gotcha? Yeah yeah, yeah

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there, yeah, there you go
here. At least I'm not as bad

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as Corey. Let's be fair.
Good luck with that one. Yeah,

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well he's bigger than you in behind
you, so I don't think he has

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vows in his name. Right.
That's the problem is why considered a vol

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at this point? That depends in
wordles sometimes sometimes I haven't done wordle today.

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I mean, that's what I should
do it in the podcast. I

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got it into today, just so
we know, very excited, humble brag

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because he looked over with Laura.
All right, this assisted Kevin was I

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don't even know what to say.
Was Laura involved in this or I like

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this interviewing Kevin with sis. I
thought you were the guests. No,

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no, no, quit deflecting.
All right, let's talk about Cisco.

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Yes, Cisco is a member of
our broadcast team. He's a long time

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member of I Racing. He's been
broadcasting races for for Eye Racing and on

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I Racing for longer than I've known
him, which is a while. Now

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A long time. Yeah, a
long time. So let's get into it.

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Let's get through your history here first
of all. Actually, let's talk

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about what you do at I Racing
right now, Um, and putting up

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with Drew is not officially in part
of your job title, right, No,

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because that's part of my daily life
too. Now. Oh yeah,

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because you guys are roommates, yes, and there ms glutton for punishment,

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yeah, just begging for it.
But all right, jokes aside, Sorry,

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Drew, Um, talk to us
about what you do at I Racing.

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Starting off with your job title.
Yeah, so I work in digital

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content and then broadcasting is my main
focus. So I'm basically number two in

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the broadcasting department. Drew's the one
who has to interface, makes a lot

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of the main decisions, and then
usually the execution guy that comes down to

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me or one of the other members
of broadcasts. But basically it's Drew's vision

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that I helped carry out, So
it means I'm a bit more on the

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technical side versus him. I do
a lot more, like I said,

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of the execution of the ideas.
Basically, you push buttons on that big

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switchboard that we have. That's one
of the things I do That's one of

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the things the other two do is
while Sean and Corey, who we mentioned

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before, they are also part of
our kind of group of four that does

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all of the major broadcasts that come
out of I Racing itself. How many

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broadcasts do we do last year?
Do you remember off the top of your

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head? Yes, well, we
had what in eighteen race Coke Series season,

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ten race Porsche seasons. That's twenty
eight right there. I mean just

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we had another what six races for
Porsche Contender. We're going to by the

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time it's over have seven races for
e NASCAR Contender International. Um, we've

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been doing support for it, so
that's five. Yeah. Yeah, there's

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a lot. There's in the comments
below. Please please count that. Add

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that up inger somebody, Hey,
there's a there's a list that I don't

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have, but there is a list
where we track everything, so I could

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get you a number. Actually sec
a runoffs, Yeah, run off because

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that count is one that counts like
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there are eight races. That count
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you're saying is you're busy. Yeah, And that is something that's come up

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a couple of times because there are
people I know in the I Racing community

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go, wait, you just run
broadcasting for I Racing, and they're kind

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of like underwhelmed by the I'm like, oh no, no, no,

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no, no, you don't understand. This is not a show up,

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turn obs on, turnobs off,
walk away sort of thing. That's how

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we do the podcast. Yeah,
well, the production value of our answer.

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I don't answer to eat NASCAR or
to Porsha Greg. So that's true.

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That that is true. Kevin's gonna
laugh. Um all right, But

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good time to talk about it's not
just the two hour show itself. No,

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it's not hours and hours of prep
work from you and the team.

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We've got you on the spot,
but it is the whole team. It

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is the whole team absolutely, and
other people too. I mean during the

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broadcast, the talent is always almost
always remote, and then we have camera

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operators, we have replay, we
have all kinds of people that are involved,

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not just the four full time staff
people. Right. Yeah, absolutely,

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And it's something to where at the
end of the day you can't just

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look at the broadcast itself as well. That's what the product is No,

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it's it's part of our partnerships that
we have with these different groups like NASCAR,

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like Porsche. It's part of working
with them to bring better and better

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things to the sim So it's it's
all rolled into one thing. So just

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the broadcast itself is very minor compared
to everything overall, and you know what

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it actually means and what it's actually
entailing. How long have you been involved

408
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:11.599
with the Eye Racing Service period?
Um, I started, I know my

409
00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.400
account. I think I opened my
account if I remember correctly, the summer

410
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:19.279
after I graduated high school, so
that would have been what three years here

411
00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:23.960
plus another four and a half at
school, so seven eight years probably somewhere

412
00:29:23.960 --> 00:29:27.720
around there, all right. And
then how long were you a member before

413
00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:36.240
you started getting into broadcasting? Like
four months? So it's a funny story.

414
00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:40.160
I started doing it just as a
goof off thing with a league that

415
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:44.240
I was doing it was it was
for ten people, nobody really cared about

416
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:47.160
it and I was. I was
doing it on a twelve eighty by ten

417
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.279
twenty four screen, so it wasn't
even a normal sixteen by nine YouTube stream

418
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:56.160
that everyone's familiar with. So I
just started doing it as a league and

419
00:29:56.039 --> 00:30:00.880
the people who were calling the races
at the time, they are league members

420
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.119
who worked for a bigger organization alice
RTV at the time. So I ended

421
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:08.240
up having being interested in it and
were and ended up being brought into the

422
00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:14.599
fold at LSRTV as another producer,
and then I ended up having to take

423
00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.839
over for LSRTV when the main producer
ended up stepping away. She had some

424
00:30:18.960 --> 00:30:22.319
health issues that came up, and
it was basically a well, Cisco's the

425
00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.680
only one who knows how to push
the buttons. So basically my sophomore year

426
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.440
of college, she shipped me her
two computers, all this computer equipment,

427
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.160
so in my dorm at the best
of the rest of my roommates. I

428
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.960
started, you know, doing that
while I was in college and I was

429
00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:41.359
studying motorsports engineering at the time at
Butler, and I got to the point

430
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:45.640
to where I kind of hit a
crossroads where it's like, Okay, I

431
00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:48.839
can continue doing this broadcasting thing and
continue working at that, or I need

432
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.359
to focus more on my major because
there's only so much time in the day

433
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.720
to be able to do either.
And I'd known a couple of people from

434
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:00.559
doing it for LSRTV for a little
while. I was a little bit bigger

435
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.160
of a company, better contacts,
So I went ended up going to Charlotte

436
00:31:03.279 --> 00:31:06.720
over a summer just to see what
it was like, and it was kind

437
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:10.000
of at that point I made the
decision, I'm going to stop pursuing the

438
00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:15.000
engineering side and go into more content
and journalism based side of motorsports. And

439
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.799
so from there I changed my whole
major over, started taking broadcasting classes and

440
00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:22.000
basically I had to fast track my
way. It was a five year engineering

441
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:26.160
program, so I still made it
out half a year. I had a

442
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.799
schedule, but from there ended up
meeting some contacts in real motorsports, working

443
00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.559
in there for a while, and
then I got the call and a couple

444
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.240
months later ended up coming nigh Racing. Well, we think he made the

445
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.880
right decision there changing Yeah, I
h it did save me having to commute.

446
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:47.759
Was it eight hours? What's the
commute from Indianapolis to Charlotte that I

447
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.200
was doing for Real World for a
while there? Eight nine hours? That's

448
00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:55.720
not short? No, No it
wasn't, but it was. It was

449
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:57.640
the opportunity I had, and it
was just I want to work in this

450
00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:01.480
field. I want to be involved
in this field, and that was the

451
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:06.039
opportunity open to me, so I
took it. Awesome. I did not

452
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:09.440
know that you were I did not
know you were an engineering student before you

453
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:14.359
you changed over, so that was
news to me. It explains a lot.

454
00:32:14.599 --> 00:32:17.359
Yeah, yeah, it's part of
that still with me. Once we

455
00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.680
got into the higher mathematics, I
began to struggle. That's kind of where

456
00:32:21.920 --> 00:32:25.160
we started getting to a lot more
you know, math based sciences and stuff

457
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:29.279
like that. That was always never
my best strong suit, and it just

458
00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.039
it the path. It would have
been a ton of hard work, and

459
00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:37.000
had I had the time to sit
there and study, study, study,

460
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:38.960
I would have been all right.
But by then I was already doing the

461
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:43.240
broadcasting as a side thing, making
a little bit of money to get by

462
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:46.319
in college. At that point it
was just sort of I felt better doing

463
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:50.119
that. And then once I started
taking the classes in college, I was

464
00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.599
like, oh, this is this
is what I want to do. It

465
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:54.319
seems like you found your passion.
So yeah, yes, part of what

466
00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:57.720
college is about, right, And
a lot of most people go in with,

467
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.759
hey, this is what I'm gonna
do because it seems like that's what

468
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:02.359
I want to do and then you
find your way in college and all that.

469
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:06.680
And you know, it was a
unique strategy for sure, because trying

470
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:08.559
to explain to your three other roommates, yeah, I need to have two

471
00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:13.960
computers on and five monitors going,
and no, I swear this isn't where

472
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:16.480
there's a reason I'm doing this.
It's not just to aggravate all of you.

473
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.200
I have to imagine if I had
gone to engineering school and decided to

474
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.279
switch part way through and I called
my dad and said, I'm going to

475
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:30.039
switch majors because I'm going to broadcast
esports, I can't imagine that call would

476
00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:34.319
have gone, Well, that's why, Well you don't say esports, Kevin,

477
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:39.559
you don't say I have a sports
media degree. So what other stuff?

478
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.799
After? You know, you call
your parents, you let them know

479
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:46.400
that you're making this kind of change. What other real world stuff did you

480
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:51.799
also broadcast to kind of, you
know, smooth things out a little bit.

481
00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.039
Um So I through LSRTV, I
got to know Tony Stevens, who,

482
00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:59.920
for those of you who've been around
even longer than I have, you'll

483
00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:05.160
remember he was one of the voices
original voices for the e NASCAR series with

484
00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:08.360
previous sponsors in previous broadcast companies,
So he knew me through I Racing and

485
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.679
I end up going to him to
work for him as a technical director for

486
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:16.199
about two three years or so while
I was still in college. So that's

487
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:22.039
where the commuting came in. That
meant I broadcasted the Cars Tour for a

488
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:29.039
couple of years. Also worked with
Legends in us I x US Legend Car

489
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:35.840
International UM doing some of their events
the Summer Shootout Bojangle Summer Shootout which Bubba

490
00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.719
used to race in. Raja raced
in a lot of the names were starting

491
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:43.320
to see on the the uptick of
the NASCAR Ladder, and it is a

492
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.159
it's kind of a joke. I
have to myself that I'll I'll look at

493
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:47.880
who's in ARCA and who's in the
Truck Series and go, I know this

494
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.039
guy. I know this guy.
I know this guy. So a lot

495
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:53.880
of the people like Ty Gibbs,
for example, I worked with him on

496
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:59.480
his way up the NASCAR Ladder.
Raja, who I knew from Summer Shootout.

497
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:02.519
I've known Rag for a long time
now, from his first season in

498
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:06.760
Legends Cards all the way to where
he is now. So it's really cool

499
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:09.679
to kind of see these drivers up
on their way their path through, uh

500
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:15.119
to the big leagues. So let's
not like your careers followed. There's you

501
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:16.960
know, like you guys kind of
yeah, it kind of has. It

502
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.880
kind of has in a weird way. And same with the same with the

503
00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:23.440
commentators I've worked with. Who've you
know, gone from you know, just

504
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:28.719
doing eye racing races to being able
to call real life events and work for

505
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.960
their local track Like Blake McCandless,
for example, is the track announcer over

506
00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.639
at eight Speedway, and I knew
him when he was just calling eye racing

507
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:39.920
races. And same with Evan.
We've seen Evans, you know, big

508
00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:45.960
into being part of Feld Entertainment which
does all of monster Jams things, and

509
00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:49.840
he's worked his way up through that. I knew Evan before any of that

510
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:57.840
was even a twinkle, Yeah exactly. So let's excuse me, let's go

511
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:01.559
back a little bit. You uh, Brian I Racing, you got just

512
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:07.480
kind of found your footing and then
March of twenty twenty happened, yeah,

513
00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.880
from and we've talked about that in
March and April twenty twenty a number of

514
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:19.199
times on this podcast. We've never
actually looked at it from the perspective of

515
00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:23.599
the broadcasters who were I mean,
we didn't lock you in the broadcast room

516
00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:30.239
during that time, but the door
was open. But it was it was

517
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:35.480
a unique time, to say the
least. Um certainly. Now keep in

518
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.400
mind, of course, this was
before we brought Corey and Sean in,

519
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.960
so it was literally just Drew and
I. Drew ended up I remember,

520
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.440
he ended up moving his whole set
up, his whole desk in the here.

521
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:49.519
I didn't because I was on the
other side and just wanted a little

522
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.639
bit of that space. But um, yeah, no, it was.

523
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:57.400
It was a crazy time, to
say the least. And you know,

524
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:00.960
I'd known what we could do with
racing and the product and what it could

525
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:07.280
mean, and just in the span
of weeks, if not days, seeing

526
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.039
all of that happen all at once, and oh, oh this is whole

527
00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.719
Okay, okay, hi Fox,
Hello, okay, um um Andrew Junior.

528
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:19.199
Oh, so many phone calls,
so many people, so many things

529
00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:22.639
happening at once, And it's a
time I'm never going to forget. But

530
00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:27.440
it's also a time that, you
know, it was hard to really take

531
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.239
a stop and breathe and go,
Holy cow, this is actually what's happening.

532
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:36.920
But um, looking back on it
was crazy. But and yeah,

533
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.840
like you said, it was,
I mean, you guys have talked about

534
00:37:38.880 --> 00:37:42.679
it on the podcast. But it
was very much a case where the office

535
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:46.840
everybody went remote except for broadcast because
the equipment was here that we needed to

536
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.119
do the job. And so you
guys, graciously, we're like, okay,

537
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:52.280
we want you to do this.
We know what this can mean,

538
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:58.039
and basically left us the office and
left us to our own devices to work

539
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:00.880
with our partners at the broad cast
networks in the series to be able to

540
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:07.079
do all of these shows, all
these cool fun events during during the pandemic

541
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:15.280
era. Talk to me about as
we approached the first televised NASCAR race and

542
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:19.639
what it was like leading up to
that close. It was insane. To

543
00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.440
say the least. We had had
that replacements event, which I was also

544
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:29.480
involved in previously before as sort of
like a trial sort of thing, and

545
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.639
going, hey, is this is
this even humanly possible? Let alone can

546
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.800
we connect the dots? And at
that same time, Steve was making the

547
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:39.199
call to Fox and talking to Jeff
Gordon and all the junior and all these

548
00:38:39.599 --> 00:38:45.400
people to make this happen and kind
of you know, that's once we started

549
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.239
getting the calls of, oh,
all these paints are having in, Oh,

550
00:38:47.360 --> 00:38:50.960
we have to do all this sort
of stuff. It's it was a

551
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:54.960
blur, to say the least.
And luckily for us, Fox was able

552
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.039
to work with us and we're able
to use a lot of the techniques we

553
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:05.000
had already developed for February and for
January for our beginning setups for the Eye

554
00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:08.159
Racing broadcast, because a lot of
people kind of missed the fact that we

555
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:15.000
had only started broadcasting here from Eye
Racing two months. Maybe if that before

556
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:17.800
we went on TV, that's a
really good point. We built the new

557
00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:22.960
office and opened it an end of
November twenty nineteen, right it was still

558
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:28.920
getting outfitted after Christmas, especially the
broadcast room. And Drew has a ton

559
00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:31.519
of experience broadcasting. You know,
his family grew he grew up in the

560
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:36.920
Turner Sports entire family basically, so
it's in his blood. And I'd spent

561
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.760
a long time doing EE Racing broadcast, but we had only had about three

562
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:45.360
months to really figure out a working
sort of dynamic of how to make things

563
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.280
work and how we're going to able
to get done what we need to get

564
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.480
done, and you know, be
able to include all you know Fox as

565
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:55.920
producer and you know, X,
Y and Z things that we're putting into

566
00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.840
the broadcast. So it was a
blur. I don't remember a lot of

567
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:02.639
it, but I remember a lot
of the cool moments that I got to

568
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.039
experience because of it. Um.
The one that stands out to me was,

569
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:12.400
Um, I got to work on
Jimmy Johnson's car for the Watkins Glenn

570
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.639
Race. I believe that he ran
in and I got to design that work

571
00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:19.239
with Jimmy on his template. For
people that don't know. You don't know

572
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.199
that you are, yeah, super
fan of Jimmy. Yes, yes,

573
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.440
Jimmy was my NASCAR driver. Yes, my mom was a Jeff Gordon fan.

574
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.360
And when I started to really comprehend
the sport, there was this new

575
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:35.639
upstart kid who Jeff owned part of
his car, named Jimmy Johnson. And

576
00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.679
you know, everyone said he was
gonna you know what, was this crazy

577
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:42.559
dirt racing guy gonna show up and
do something in NASCAR? Yeah, it

578
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:45.719
turns out he did one or two
things possibly, and he did all right.

579
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:49.559
I don't know, he's some washed
up road racing driver. Now I

580
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:54.199
don't know, so what else stands
out from that? Is it? I

581
00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:58.400
want to know the question? Sorry, Greg, but how many nights did

582
00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.079
you spend in the office. There
were a few, There were legitimately a

583
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.559
few. I My sleeping bag stayed
here, I think until the beginning of

584
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:08.880
twenty two, just under tucked under
my cube. Remember the first time I

585
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:12.119
came back to the office, which
I don't know when that was, I

586
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.800
think I stopped in for some something
that had to be done in person,

587
00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:19.760
you know, and you andrew sleeping
bags in your cubes. I was like,

588
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.760
oh, wow, this is real. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

589
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:30.880
And it's it's a job that was
it was daunting and that's not even a

590
00:41:31.000 --> 00:41:36.079
word to describe how much had to
happen. But at the same time,

591
00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:38.119
and I can speak for the rest
of the broadcast team, where it's just

592
00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:44.079
when you're in this industry and you're
in this kind of entertainment, it's all

593
00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:47.639
encompassing. It's it's a part of
you. There are things that that I

594
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.199
know about how broadcast working that I
could sit there and talk about for hours

595
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.039
and hours and hours, and everybody
else would just leave the room because they're

596
00:41:54.079 --> 00:42:00.239
like what's he talking about? But
um, it's it's really become such a

597
00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:04.119
love of mine, such a passion
of mine, and seeing you know,

598
00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.800
being able to see what we continue
to create, how we can continue to

599
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:09.920
grow, what we can do on
broadcast, and what the next steps look

600
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:15.599
like. I mean even coming to
this year with the NASCAR Finale and Charlotte

601
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.039
for example, you know, being
able to do a live event like that.

602
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:23.159
Previously we did one with Porsche at
Hockenheim as well. So having those

603
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:29.000
live events and just continuing to grow
and being able to take our product and

604
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:31.159
be able to tell stories with it
and be able to make those stories better

605
00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:37.440
and better and bigger, and you
know, just have fun. Well that's

606
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:39.880
the big thing and something that I'm
always trying to push on my guys as

607
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:42.880
well. It's like, at the
end of the day, this needs to

608
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.320
be fun, you know, working
here, using the product, the whole

609
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:52.599
thing. We make a racing simulation. Some people would say video game,

610
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:54.480
but I don't want to fit in
anybody, but no, but seriously,

611
00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:59.559
it should be fun. I watch
I watched K Bob get Stuck in the

612
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:02.320
Pit and anuat or Interlagos last night. The first big wreck last night.

613
00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:07.000
Oh oh, talk me into go
doing the first inter race of the season.

614
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.159
You said you were doing it already. He didn't. Didn't take much

615
00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:16.719
to talk me into it. But
I almost completed one lap almost. Hey,

616
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.039
it's I I remember one of the
twitch clip videos I did way back

617
00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:23.960
in the day where it was it
was a skip barber race and it was

618
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:28.480
at Interlagos and the guy leading pulled
out at the last second. The other

619
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.840
guy didn't know the attenuator was there. And that was at speed Greg so

620
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:36.800
uh and that was with due damage
model too, so boom. But it's

621
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.760
gotta be fun. I gotta give
its Kevin. It was a kind of

622
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:43.079
a bad waiting in your race and
he was still had a good time last

623
00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.519
night though. It is what it
is, right, you know, little

624
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:47.440
lost a little SR and I r
but whatever. You know, something in

625
00:43:47.519 --> 00:43:52.159
the world. It back maybe six
or seven guys in there racing together and

626
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:53.880
discord. It was. Yeah,
it was a lot of fun. And

627
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:58.239
that's that's something like, whether you're
working on it or whether you're using it,

628
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.079
it's gotta be fun. If it's
fun, we're doing something right.

629
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.199
And uh, you know your story
right here. You know exemplifies that point.

630
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.480
So thanks for taking the time today
between all of your many duties in

631
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:12.559
that broadcast room, which I wish
we were showing off right now because it's

632
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:15.760
such a cool room. But uh
yeah, thanks for taking the time and

633
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:17.960
I'm sure we'll have you back on
you a lot of fun. Okay,

634
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:23.360
thanks guys, Thanks all right,
we are back. Great to sit down

635
00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:27.880
with Cisco. I really wish that
you guys could hear all of the outtakes

636
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:30.000
from that because we just sat and
goofed off and had a good time.

637
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:32.800
Cisco is great. I'm sure we'll
have him back on the show as well

638
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.840
as other broadcasters and other staff members
as well. That seems to be what

639
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.280
you guys like listening to, and
that's the content that we're gonna give you

640
00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:45.920
here on the I Racing Downshift.
Kevin's giving me a funny look. I'm

641
00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:47.559
tired and I took ni quill today
because I have a cold. Please leave

642
00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:55.639
me alone, all right, Let's
let's move on the East Sports World of

643
00:44:55.679 --> 00:45:00.960
Outlaws Sprint Cars Series. Chris take
it away, yep, I Racing World

644
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:07.280
of Outlaws car Quest Sprint Car Series
running throughout the winter. As we have

645
00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:09.360
done for the past couple of years. Now with the World of Outlaws,

646
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:14.320
they wrap up the real world sprint
car season, they jump right in with

647
00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:19.079
us and they run with us until
they go start a new real world season.

648
00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:23.559
So for those of you who just
cannot live without sprint car racing fifty

649
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:29.199
two weeks a year, we got
you covered. As always, season starts

650
00:45:29.239 --> 00:45:32.400
in Valusia, ends in Charlotte.
I believe at the end of January we're

651
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:36.639
only through a few rounds, but
we've already got our first repeat winner,

652
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:40.000
Hayden Cardwell, and he's needed to
do it as he missed the feature in

653
00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:46.000
Valusia. But as always, front
runner Alex Bersier on multiple championships, won

654
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:49.440
a bunch of them in a row, didn't win the last one, so

655
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.480
he's trying to start a new streak, but takes the opener consistent finishes in

656
00:45:53.559 --> 00:45:58.320
the two after and now for Cardwell, he's on the back foot, just

657
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:02.079
trying to catch up. Exciting to
see to see how that plays out.

658
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:07.679
I saw a note and chat our
marketing chat last night during the race,

659
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:13.559
and our race director Tyler Hudson was
like, Wow, these boys have their

660
00:46:13.639 --> 00:46:16.480
elbows out or something to that effect. There was some good racing last night,

661
00:46:17.000 --> 00:46:21.280
so excited to see how that season
plays out. We have a couple

662
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.159
other things going on as well right
now, E NASCAR International and Consenter Series,

663
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:30.480
right Chris yet both using the NASCAR
Exfinity Series cars. The Contender races

664
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:35.840
taking place on Tuesday night in that
same E NASCAR Coca Cola I Racing Series

665
00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:39.000
slot. You've got all these drivers
battling for, you know, the twenty

666
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:43.320
or so spots that they're going to
move up to Coke next year. Big

667
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:50.119
interesting mix of returning favorites, a
handful of new faces, even some names

668
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:52.719
that have been out of the series
for I don't know half a decade that

669
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.639
I think have just kind of gotten
that renewed passion and that renewed fire for

670
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.199
trying to run at the top level. Certainly, obviously, I'm sure they've

671
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.679
seen all of the ways that Coke
has evolved over the past few years.

672
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:08.440
You know, bigger purses, bigger
teams coming in, and you know that's

673
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:15.440
definitely enticing to get some guys to
hang up the retirement gloves, I guess,

674
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:20.199
and put the driving gloves back on. Meanwhile, the DBox E NASCAR

675
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.800
International IE racing series powered by Digital
Motorsports. Don't give me credit for that.

676
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:30.119
I read it also running mostly on
Tuesday nights. However, we did

677
00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:35.559
have and you guys were certainly there
for it. In Nuremberg at some racing

678
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:40.760
expo. We had one race that
got moved to Sunday Sunday morning so drivers

679
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:45.840
could compete from the event. A
lot of interesting stuff. That one was

680
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.280
fun that had. That was the
first superspeedway race in the history of that

681
00:47:50.440 --> 00:47:52.440
series, I think at Daytona.
Correct me if I'm wrong, guys,

682
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:57.519
I think that's right. And it
was pretty cool to have a competitor there

683
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:01.880
on stage with this break set up. Always fun to add the live human

684
00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:06.639
element to it, right. Wasn't
quite as big of a production as what

685
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:10.119
we did for the Coke Finale with
four drivers, but along those lines,

686
00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:14.199
so super fun. Hopefully we can
do more of those things. Yeah,

687
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.440
and anytime, Ryan Vargas, Sorry, Greg, Oh, you're fine.

688
00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:21.599
I was just gonna say the the
stage there at the expo was huge,

689
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.639
and the method of which they put
this rig up on a forklift and drove

690
00:48:24.719 --> 00:48:30.440
it over and sat it down without
disassembling it. That was super cool.

691
00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:31.960
I'm not gonna say that. I
wasn't nervous when they were like, yeah,

692
00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:34.639
we got twenty minutes to move this
over there. I was like,

693
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:38.599
oh, okay, this will be
fine, and it was so. But

694
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:45.840
the driver was forklift certified. I
take it apparently. I will also say

695
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.480
it's always a popular night when Ryan
Vargas is able to take a victory one

696
00:48:50.480 --> 00:48:52.679
of the good guys in the sport, somebody who are a lot of people

697
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:55.039
love and for very good reason.
And that was that was a hack of

698
00:48:55.119 --> 00:49:00.000
a finish. Good times excited once
again. Got a lot of good series

699
00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:04.840
going on right now. We have
some of our bigger series kick it off

700
00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:09.000
very soon with the e NASCAR Co
Cool Iracix Series U with Daytona coming in

701
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:16.280
January and February February. Sorry I'm
wrong, It's all right. I think

702
00:49:16.320 --> 00:49:21.000
it's February, so the last podcast
of the year will give us some wiggle

703
00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:24.320
room. Anyway, February something like
that, southing like that, Chris,

704
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:30.199
can you edited make it sound better? I can? But should I?

705
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.960
No? No, that's your prerogative. That is your prerogative. If people

706
00:49:34.960 --> 00:49:37.960
are still listening, you know,
forty four minutes into it, we're doing

707
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.360
pretty good? Right, yeah,
exactly? I mean, oh no,

708
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.760
note all right, Well, the
last podcast of twenty twenty two, I

709
00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:52.119
almost said twenty twenty three, but
I didn't. Uh, what are your

710
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.920
guys plans for the holidays? Well? I got family coming home. Both

711
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.719
my boys will be home for Christmas, which is great. Connors home from

712
00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:01.920
Kyle in the week and a half. Ryan's on leap from the army,

713
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.039
so we'll get to see him,
which is awesome. But the most important

714
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:09.519
thing that I'm probably doing is not
eating one of Greg West's chocolate pies.

715
00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:15.280
Who brought this up on the last
podcast, and we didn't really revisit it

716
00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:20.880
whether it was good or not,
and fantastic. I'll have to say that,

717
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:23.880
you know, Greg, dear friend, work colleague. It was not

718
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:29.360
good. It was bad, and
you admitted it. It was. It

719
00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:31.039
was not good. Oh I made
a bad pie. It was bad.

720
00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:35.199
I did take diet pie. That
was the problem. It was keto.

721
00:50:35.599 --> 00:50:37.960
It's keto whatever. It didn't have
any of the good stuff. It didn't

722
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:43.000
have real chocolate sugar. I don't
even know why. What did it happen?

723
00:50:43.400 --> 00:50:47.599
San Basically, yeah, hi is
not a word that should come after

724
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:52.039
diet exactly. I'm gonna make another
pie. I'm gonna bring it over on

725
00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:57.039
Christmas Eve. Oh boy, is
it going to be a whipped cream one?

726
00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.880
Is it just gonna go straight into
his face? It might? Yes,

727
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:06.920
I'm sorry, did I blow the
surprise? What about you, Chris?

728
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.440
What are you up to? Um? Well, I will say that

729
00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:15.719
the reason that we got this show
recorded as technically early as we did is

730
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:19.599
because I have a bunch of vacation
days that we're expiring, and I just

731
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:24.320
piled all of them in at once
in hopes of avoiding that. So I'm

732
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:30.920
sorry everybody in the marketing department.
Uh, but I don't know a lot.

733
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:32.079
We'll bother you on your days off, so don't worry. Yeah,

734
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:36.800
yeah, yeah, that's that's true. What I don't know a lot of

735
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:39.840
hands around. Well, we'll see
some family too. Um. Got a

736
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:45.159
whole room of guitars and amps and
stuff that I never really get to play

737
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.880
with anymore, So thinking about trying
to make some time for that, um,

738
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.639
I have. I have cut cable
for the time being, and I

739
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:58.559
am now running an antenna all the
way across my basement from the one window

740
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:02.800
that gets really really good reception and
It is now running into my computer so

741
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:09.239
I can stream it through all of
my different devices. I got really bored

742
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:13.280
one day and decided that I was
just going to become one of those people.

743
00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:16.199
So I think the first thing that
I'm gonna do when I take time

744
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:22.559
off is run to lows and get
about twenty feet of cable race ways,

745
00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:25.599
which I didn't know that they were
called that, and I got irrationally excited

746
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:30.079
when I found out. So in
case you need a look into my psyche

747
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:35.519
and how badly I might need some
time off. There you go, Well,

748
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:40.599
enjoy the time offense to each their
own. Yes, and Greg,

749
00:52:40.679 --> 00:52:44.039
you're sticking around? What are you
doing? Yeah, I'll be around,

750
00:52:44.639 --> 00:52:45.920
I said, I gotta bring a
pie over to you. I guess great.

751
00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:49.800
Yeah, I can't wait. Yeah, No, we're gonna be around

752
00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:52.639
Christmas. Take a few days here
and there. I try to get out

753
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:58.119
and go ski in a little bit. But yeah, just looking forward to

754
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:00.760
a little bit of a downtime with
the fans. It should be a good

755
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.239
time anyway. Thank you for listening
to this episode of The Eye Racing Downshift.

756
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:08.280
Don't forget to rate, review,
and subscribe anywhere Chris has put this

757
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:12.800
or I screwed that up too.
Man. I'm really struggling on Apple,

758
00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:16.119
podcast, Spotify, and anywhere else. Chris put this for Kevin Bobbitt.

759
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:22.039
Chris Leoni, I'm remembered my name, It's Greg West and uh yeah,

760
00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:23.760
let's see album track. Happy holidays, everybody,