August 27, 2025 • 35 mins
In this episode, Gandhi talks with NASCAR Driver, Bubba Wallace about online trolling, how Michael Jordan accidentally became a NASCAR team owner, and a whole lot more. We also find out who Diamond's dream guest is and discover a new crush.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Her.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, damn was this where he was sitting? It was
with the seat is warm.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
He's sts on the side. What's up, Gandhi? And I
am here with Andrew and Diamond.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
If I sound a little giddy, it's because we're talking
after I have already recorded this interview, so we cut
the ins and out sometimes after a little inside baseball there.
Today you're gonna hear from Bubba Wallace.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My god, that man is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Diamond he so we you know, we do the interview
or whatever, which, by the way, he said it was
his favorite.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And I was like, am I the first one?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Though?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Like is that? And he said no, they did Good
Morning America and he named like a bunch of other
ones that they had done. So yeah, not to ruin
it because you're all going to hear this, but iTap
Oh yeah, like we had a little good a thing
happening there. But you know me, if I have to
speak to somebody and I like have to be cool
about it, I just sweat. You remember how sweaty I
(01:06):
was after Taboo? Oh man, if you come touch me
right now. When he put his arm around me to
take the picture, I was like, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh true, it was so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He is such a babe. And he was really nice,
good and very personable, and there wasn't anything he like
didn't want to talk about because he's had some controversy
and he touched on it. So we had a good time.
Diamond just walked it and she was like, did he leave?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is he still?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He left?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was like, yeah, he's a babe. She goes, Oh,
that man is gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He is gorgeous. He's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Pictures don't do him justice at all at all.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Little I had to double take.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm like, oh, hell, har are you free? They invited
us to a race in the Poconos when I don't
know they're going to send us the information I guess.
And there's also a chance that I'm about to make
a lot of money off of these people.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
They loved her lines too.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, they want to use some of the lines that
I is cut the check.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I said Andrew mark that in the podcast, because we're
gonna make sure that if these people start using it,
it's me Because here's the question. So he is preparing
for playoffs. Oh, you're making a weird face because why
aren't they called drive offs?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well that but I didn't know that there were even
playoffs in Naska. I thought they just go around the track.
Whoever wins that day wins that day.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, we learned all about that today, baby, Because
I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But now that I know this guy, Hello, lady, let's
clap it up for bubble Wallas.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Can I also just say clarket if I were ever
in actually a position of power, I would utilize that
to get dates all day long. Oh without a Hey,
when you on podcast one thing talk about it guys
doing all the time. This is my moment.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I'm just I have no words because I'm actually shocked.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Thought how cute he was?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, yeah, he's.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Cute and really good interview too.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh wow, I to hear.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Let's go back to that. But it was really good.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He was so just personable and I really didn't know
anything about NASCAR either. I've been to one the Delaware
Downs for my brother in law's bachelor party. Let me
tell you something an experience that I have not forgotten.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's where David had his bachelor party.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And Dover Downs and you didn't object at the NY Downs.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Let me say it was it was special, but I
would go to this and.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Now I'm rooting for him, and now I'm like a fan.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, the three of us are going to show up.
We're going to be all the diversity in the whole
crowd yep, not not me. Diamond and I I go,
you know who they're rooting for, and sure do c
market market? Yeah, so I guess we should just get
right to it. Here's Bubba Wallace. Diamond and I are
fans and Andrew. Yeah, all right, I'm here with Bubba Wallace,
(03:51):
and I'm really excited because I don't know a lot
about NASCAR, and you've already taught me one thing that's important.
I feel like I'm about to learn a lot. Hi,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Prom Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Okay, So I looked at this. I have a bio
about you in front of me, and it says driver
of the number twenty three Toyota camera for twenty three racing.
It's an X and and I I was gonna say XI,
it's twenty three.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Eleven, twenty three eleven racing.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why is it an XI and not just an eleven?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I don't know. I told you this was for a
different conversation of the day. But that's a good question.
I don't know. Was there reasoning said why you awaited that?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Trying to be different?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's what I figured for trying to be different. Okay,
I don't know if there was any other reasoning besides that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay. How annoying is it when people mess it up
all the time?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Uh? Pretty annoying? Incredibly Well, it props to you the
first person ask, though, because they just go with twenty three.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
X I really, yeah, that's that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And then it's like, I don't know if it makes
them feel awkward when I'm like, yeah, I drive for
twenty three eleven racing. Like later in the conversation, they're probably.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Like, oh, that's nice of you not correct it immediately,
because I'm one of those people that'll be like, no, no, no,
twenty three eleven, thank.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You, but I want to so bad you should.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One of the most important things is that they get
your name right. And I have a name that everybody
gets wrong all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
How do you get that wrong right?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, Gandhi, you wouldn't think people get wrong. They still do,
but my first name just gets slaughtered and it's really
not that difficult.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's Maia Maia. Yeah, how do you spell it? M
E d h A M D Yeah, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I get medha media meta, it's everything. And I'm very
impressed at how bold people just are with like I
know how to say this and then they roll with it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, and I just sit there just lot so sauce
on the side with a full name. No, okay, it
is always Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I dropped my first name as soon as I started
in radio because I was like, there's no hope, no
one's gonna say it right and I'm gonna spell it right.
But like, okay, but for you, you don't go by
your government name either, right, you go by Bubba. That's right,
because it would be weird for people to call you
something else.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Now, yeah, my wife will. So it's actually weird for
my wife call me Bubba.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, it's weird when my friends call me Gandhi.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, see it's it's it's yeah, I don't know, we're weird.
I guess I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So you were racing and you just actually came off
a pretty big win. Yes, let's talk about it. How
excited are because you'll history.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, that was BIG's I guess that's almost a month
ago now. Winning at the Brickyard Breakyard four hundred and
Indianapolis just a one hundred race wind streak snapped, winless
streak snapped. Nice, that was big. I didn't know that
until maybe thirty minutes later that it was raced number
(06:21):
one hundred since I've won, So that was pretty cool.
We locked ourselves in the playoffs that start next week.
We are heading into the season finale, uh, going into
Daytona this weekend and then we'd go to Darlington and
then there's a ten race stretch from that point on.
So I've never won in the regular season. I only
(06:44):
have three wins. Okay, Okay, I don't have that many.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You have three more than me, that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And three more than the armchair racers that are on
Twitter them. Yeah. Yeah, And so it's kind of been
nice living in this stress free and Vince, you said
you don't know much about Daytona, but it's a win
in your in mentality. So I was, I was like,
(07:09):
I think the last car in before India, I was sixteenth,
like twelve points to the good and so if a
new winner wins, then I get bumped right because I'm out,
so like, it's not fun living on the on the
verge there, and I've done that last three seasons. So
now I'm well and I'm ninth. I'm good. I'm gone
see you later by ok to the cut line. And
(07:30):
it's been really really nice living in this this zone
that I'm in and being able to kind of race
freely and and figure out your strengths and weaknesses. So
it's been a lot of fun. Been a really good year.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Congratulations good because everybody needs a good year. And I'm
sure that you've had quite a time just in general
being a minority in the racing industry and everything else.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That you've read with.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So I love that you've had a good year.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And now here come my stupid questions. Here is there
like a season for driving or is this all year?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Basically all year?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We get one month, Okay, what month do you get off?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So we go from Valentine's Day to the first weekend
of November and that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's just constant. You have races one off weekend day.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We just announced, we just announced. She works with a
NASCAR and so she takes all the heavy hits that
we just love to dish out when we're annoyed at things.
So anyways, so yeah, we just announced the schedule for
the twenty twenty sixth season and there's two off weekends.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What do you do all that time?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Nothing, you think about it. So you have a race
typical typical Sunday to Wednesday for me is Sunday we
have the race, Monday have meetings, Tuesday have meetings, and
then Wednesday Thursday you're free and then you travel Friday.
So I look at it as Okay, I don't have
a meeting on Monday and Tuesday the following week, that's it.
So it's really because then you're right back to it
(08:57):
because you're preparing for the next race. So you don't
have much time off. So I say, we have the
full month of December off, so we usually plan a
little vacation. Obviously the holidays are then, but so you
get majority of November off, December off, and then January.
Second week of January you're back to doing media hits
(09:18):
and everything. So really demanding grueling profession that we have.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
How does one prepare for this? Like how do you practice?
You practice? Don't you don't practice.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We don't practice, you just go in raw. So yes,
raw on it, Okay, I think they call it raw. Yes,
we get twenty minutes of practice on the weekend, so
we do practice. But you would think, well, I'll go
back maybe fifteen years ago. Now we could go practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
That comes at extreme cost, right, super expensive to do.
(09:53):
Motorsports in general, any form of motorsports are super expensive.
And NASCAR wanted to start to bridge the gap between
the well funded teams and the lesser funded teams, and
so the well funded teams could test every day, lesser
funded cannot. So they got away with testing. Now we're
allowed I don't know, twenty tests on the year, but
(10:14):
it's mandated by NASCAR. And I haven't tested in over
a year. Oh wow, So it's just like random selection.
So yeah, not to get off in the weeds on that.
So basically, yeah, no no practicing. We show up and
we get twenty twenty five minutes of practice, which is nothing,
and then we go straight and qualifying and then on
(10:35):
Sunday we go right into the race. So you really
have to have all of your eggs in the basket
as soon as you leave the shop, and so the
weekly prep that you do. We can do some simulation
work or we're driving virtually to help out that, but
it's still virtual versus reality. There's always a disconnect there,
and so yeah, not much practice going on.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That is crazy and you just for Okay, so I'm
going to get to this in a second, but we
were just talking about the armchair racers. We had a
conversation about that today as well. All of the people
who don't do your job probably could never do your job,
not even coming close to being in the arena of
doing your job. They have a whole lot of stuff
to say. How does that as a professional athlete impact you?
Do you read it? Do you read the comment section,
(11:18):
or do you just say, na, I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah. No, So I've kind of gone through a transition.
You know, once upon a time, many moons ago, I
was pretty well liked in the NASCAR ranks.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Are you not anymore?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You know, you have your days. Yeah, it's not bad.
And so like when I've kind of took a turn,
I was reading everything and just like trying to defend yourself, right, Well,
then you realize like, it doesn't matter what you do.
You could you could hand out a million dollars to
everybody in the world and you'd still be a jerk.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Anyways, now I kind of just feed into.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It and you became our own troll. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, of course. Yeah. So like Bubba hasn't won in
a hundred races. Yeah, you know, like the kids sucks.
Then I go out and win Brickyard and it's like.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And now they all shut up, but they don't.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But they don't, don't. They just moved the goal post
goal posts further.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Which is fine when you say there was a turn?
What was the turn? What happened?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Oh? Do we have all the time in the day
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
As long as you want to. I would love to
hear it.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
So I would just encourage you to type in Bubba
Wallace on Google okay, not race stats, and it probably
would pop up right at the top. But twenty twenty,
there was a little scenario that went down that.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Got wait, I think I actually know this. This is
the one thing I know. Was it about a rope
in your okay?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That was that?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And so everyone kind of thought, not everyone, that's where
I messed up before I said everyone everyone thought that
it was manufactured by me. You know, Bubba's phasing out,
so he had to pull this stunt.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Hold on once I because if somebody doesn't know what
we're talking about, and I don't want them to Google
while they're listening to this fascinating conversation. In twenty twenty
you were which race was it?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Talladega twenty twenty two in the fall. Yeah, I'm driving
for Richard Petty Mottersports.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And there was what appeared to be a noose in
your in your garage and your okay in your garage. Yeah,
so obviously you see this you are a black driver,
and I did not see it. You didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Else saw it? Yeah, somebody on my team saw it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Aw.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I wasn't even in So that was COVID year, so
we weren't even allowed. I wasn't even allowed in the garage.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And everything was crazy that year.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
People were hypersensitive, right, and so it was just like
the worst possible, best case scenario for this all to
go down, And so people.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Thought you guys had manufactured that as like a public
this is horrible. I'm trying to get some attention, right, Okay, so.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
That all took a turn for the worst. So for
two years after that, I was like, you know, like
what the hell, Like, why did I turn into the
bad guy?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Two years about that? Geez?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Okay, Well, I mean, if you want to get real
in the five years so you're still working, I'm not
really working. I'm just enjoying where I'm at. So we
know we've moved past that. And yeah, and you know,
the sport has evolved and changed so much in a
positive way since twenty twenty and the world has two
to an extent, no COVID, none of that craziness anymore.
(14:18):
But it's it's uh for me, you know, back to
your question, like, yeah, there's not enough time in the
day to convince everybody like, hey, I'm actually a good guy, right,
you know, it just gets tiring at that point. So
I just enjoy who's actually supports me, and I appreciate
that and move on and forget the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't know if you're like me, but I could
get a thousand very nice comments.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh it just takes one bad one.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, the one shitty one that's like you look glean
fat today. I'm like, really, I'm gonna talk about your mom.
Hold on, and I'm like, go down this rabbit hole.
And I get so annoyed at myself for letting some
weird idiot into my life and my personal space and
my brain for no reason, when all these people who
are being super kind, I didn't acknowledge right what's wrong
with me? And then also when I go down that
rabbit hole the person who left the comment, it's not
(15:10):
even a fight I want to have.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
It's not and it's not a normal person ever. Picture
of your chairs are lovely, but it's a picture of
a chair.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Exactly, or it's some absolute creep that you know lives
in their mom's basement and it's probably sitting on a
sticky couch. And I'm like, why why am I having
a slapfest with you when it's just not even worth it?
So yeah, I feel like it's a really good practice
and self control to un stay out of the comment
section and to just ignore the assholes that come for you,
because happy bitches ain't hating, and hating bitches ain't happy.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
So a good one.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, use it, take it away, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Person a little petty, Oh yeah, we're going to use that. Yes,
we're gonna use that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm gonna come follow now just so that I can
watch because this excites me. And it's also when all
that happened with you, that was kind of the peak
I guess what people will want to call cancel culture.
And it has totally changed since then because now I
feel like the news cycle is just moving so quickly
all the time. That someone does something egregious or what
people think is egregious one day, and by the next week,
(16:13):
you got a story about like Chris Brown throwing a
chair and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, like there was something about Denzel went on and
talked about cancel culture, and that was I don't know
what sparked a somebody trying to cancel him, Like, how
do you try to cancel Denzel?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's there are some people that are uncancellable.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He said, how do you get canceled if you don't
sign up? You don't.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm like, ooh, okay, I have my dad on my
podcast once nice he is outrageous. I was like, you're
gonna get me canceled somehow for the things that you say,
And he was like, impossible, you can't cancel me. I
don't care. He's like, you're not going to come from
my job. I don't care if you tell me you
hate me. You're not going to impact my money. You
cannot cancel me. It's impossible. I was like, shit, he's right.
(16:53):
So you're having a good time. Yes, things are going
well right now?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Things are going well.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What brings you to New York City?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Work?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You say that like you would not be here if
it was Is that true?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I actually actually like New York City. That sounds a
little sus No. I finally came not for work Christmas
last year. Okay, my wife and he was Oh he
was old, born in September. What's the math five months
if it was Christmas time?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, September to December.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Three months, three months?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Is that math math?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Nine to twelve?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh yeah, that's I'm thinking seven. Sorry, I'm thinking yeah.
I'm like, no, that's five, yes, nine to twelve, Imb asked, Yeah,
three months old, and we actually enjoyed it. Any other
time I've been up here has been work has been
media stop, media stop, media stop, and you just hear
honking traffic, people yelling at each other, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Something weird.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, damn it. Yeah, so I actually really enjoyed New York.
And so this trip is all working at five am
this morning, leave out at six starts today.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So oh wow, So you're here for one day, you're
doing press one day. Thank you guys for squeezing me.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're just on the assembly line. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I felt special for just a second. And here we go.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Actually, hey, I will say this has been the best
stop so far?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is this the first stop?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
No? We did what? This is great?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Gm A, we did boomer and oh my god, it's
so good right here. And I'm not kidding. I like
the vibe. It's fun. Do we just become friends?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Friends?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
There we go?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you're here for work, you're doing all these stops,
and you're talking about the things that are important to you,
which are.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
NASCAR and my family.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I'm my family.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah I should have said my family and NASCAR. Should
have put them first.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I can I can edit this so that it sounds
like that.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I don't know if I'll remember to do it, but yes,
we thought about it.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yes, like Missy Elliott put that thing down flipping and reverses. Yes, boom,
there you go. Uh so what do we got we
got the playoffs starting soon.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Why do they call them the playoffs and not the
drive offs? Like, do you say I'm going to play
a race right now?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Did you just change something else?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I might have to get you some royalty on that.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh my god, recorded Andrew, make sure you mark this.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yes, okay, So the drive offs, Yeah, they start, They
start next week in Darlington. So the season's going really well.
Like I said, we're ninth in points. We're good. We're
tenth in points where we're at really enjoying that. But
my family is even better than that. Family is good,
Like we have a like I said, we have a
(19:30):
ten or almost eleven month old at home. Becks, he
sleeps well, he's awesome. He's the cutest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
See a life at home has been really good, as
crazy as a eleven month old can be. I think
we got a little lucky.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
How does that work with you traveling so much? Do
they come with you?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
They usually are at majority of the races? Yes, wow, yeah,
days like today now they won't travel, but yeah they'll
I'll fly home tonight, then leave out in the morning,
go to Florida and they'll be with me. So we
get to spend a lot of time together, especially on
the weekends, which is big.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Throughout the week it's I'm gone a lot. Sorry, but
but yeah, no, life is life is good on and
off the racetrack.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Good.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So when you're home and you're off on these weekends,
maybe the two weekends that you're gonna have, do you
drive or is your wife like absolutely the fuck not?
You are driving too fast? I'm driving. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm not safe anywhere because she hates driving, but she
hates when I drive. Okay, so I can't win.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So what is the dynamic? Usually you drive?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I drive all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Do you drive like an a hole when you're not on.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The No, it depends. It depends, Okay what you do?
I drive like New York? Absolutely not okay, so no, okay, Uh.
It's funny because we were just sitting here earlier. I
was thinking about it. Somebody was mentioned in Driving in
the City where somebody was mentioned out of us three,
I don't know. But like when I come to New
York and I have to drive, I am super nervous.
(21:04):
It's like an obstacle course here, Well, it's not even
that it's like, oh, can I get over in front
of you? You know, and like, no one hesitates here,
you know, and I hesitate, But like on the racetrack,
I don't hesitate, or even at home, I don't hesitate.
But when I get here, I'm like, ooh, I miss
the light by point zero zero two seconds and I'm
getting honked at.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Absolutely, so, yeah, I get a little bit of I
don't know. I don't like driving here. I don't know.
I can't tell you the last time I drove here
in the city though, anyways, neither can we.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well this one over here, my producer, he drives in
the city all the time. I don't know why. I
don't even have a car.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I walk everywhere.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Oh, or take the subway, which is practical. It's more convenient, right,
But like, I don't waste time. So if you tell
me we got a thirty minute drive to wherever, I'm
going to try to make that. Not by speeding, okay,
not by speeding. I'll try to make that in like
twenty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'm always refreshing the GPS to make sure I'm on
the fastest route. Stop lights, You've picked the car with
the least amount of cars in it, and you're picking
that lane and then when the lane, the next lane prevails.
You're just bouncing all around.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And these are tips from a professional driver.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, you don't waste out.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
There four minutes early. Very important.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Time. You can never get back you can't.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You know what, You're right, you can't.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You can get money all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Time is important. So I just wondered how that works,
because you know, like, is there are there rules for you,
like if you were to get a speeding ticket? Is
that like a boxer getting in a fight, Like, Hey,
you're extra good at this, You're not supposed to be
doing that.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Oh, that's that's the question. S meeting tickets, Well, I
just got asked this last one and it's been over
ten years.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, I have a clean record. I'm pretty good. So
it's it's nice.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Would you get an extra trouble like, hey, you know better, you're.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Not supposed to know. I think it's more so, Hey, man,
go luck this weekend. I've gotten out a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Wait do you tell them who you are?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Figure out now I've never pulled that card. Good for you, Yeah,
I never pulled that card.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We left all the time because if you pull that card,
it's just you've already lost, exactly, because if you have
to say it, either they know who you are and
they don't care, yes, or they don't know who you
are and they don't care. Either way, they don't care,
so you exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah. My wife is like three for three or like
four for four. And I drove her car one day
and I got pulled over and she was like, this
is it. You're finally getting a ticket and h I
turned right on red and it was a new sign
because I grew up in this area and they had
just put this sign up and I've seen it and
(23:29):
I was like, man, I'm going copy is right behind me,
of course. And I was like, man, how long has
that sign been there? And he was like all my life,
as long as I've been living here. And I'm like, okay,
not true, liar. Yeah. And I was like, all right,
sorry about that, and he's like I'll be right back,
and he walked and she's over here laughing. She's like,
you're getting a ticket. And he's like, hey, my my
(23:50):
partner's with me. She's a big fan. You'm taking a
picture with her. I'm like, yeah, absolutely. She was so pissed.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Your demise.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yes, yeah, that's a good that's a healthy couple. Yes see,
I didn't have to say anything. I don't have say anything,
and it just just so happens.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So be cool about it. It's so you have a
lot of stuff coming up, obviously, a bunch of races
that are going to happen, the playoffs, which don't rename
the drive offs, Yes, the drive offs? Can you call
them Bubba Wallace drive offs? Since it's it's oh, if.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We win it, I'm definitely calling that. Yes, okay, good
when we win it.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
When you win it, absolutely, there we go and we're
going to be cheering for you. School out over here.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You'll hear it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You were talking about teams that have money versus teams
that don't have money and the disparity that happens there.
You are on quite an amazing team. One of the
co owners of your team, Michael Jordan, Yep, how does
that happen?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Uh? I don't know. Uh. From a text actually from
a fake news article that got kind of stirred up
in the media around twenty twenty. At the end of
twenty twenty that Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan were starting
a race team, which was not the case at this
point really, and I think think, uh mj text Denny,
(25:04):
if you want to make this true, let me know.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That was it, and I got called to be the driver.
So it's now been five years and it's just been
an incredible journey, a lot of fun. Was that really
really cool?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Honestly, I can't say it was, because I'm I didn't
I didn't want to race cars when I was a kid.
I didn't know I wanted to race cars when I
was a kid. I just happened to race go cards
and next thing you know, here we are, right. I
don't know how your pat started, but when you were
a little girl, like did you want to do this? No,
I just talked a lot and there you go, and
(25:41):
then all of a sudden, microphones in front of you.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
See I just kept driving. We got pretty good. Yeah,
and now I'm in the Cup Series driver Michael.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Jordan, which is incredible.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's cool to say, no doubt like it's it's really cool.
We've had multiple times of just being around each other
and having just natural conversation and it's and it's a
lot of fun. Definitely blessed and fortunate for the opportunity
that's in front of me in the position that I'm in.
Don't want to be anywhere else. You know. It's we
have everything that we need in front of us, the
right people, the right equipment, and it's just fun. It's
(26:11):
fun showing up to the racetrack with fastcars and and
win in races. So yeah, all is good.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So when you say you didn't want to be a
driver when you were a kid, what did you want
to be?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I was playing basketball the time, but I did not
like I wanted to play NBA.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But now you get to work with Michael Jordan Holy Creer.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yeah, it's like a cool crossover. Hello, did not plan
that to be a pun, but it was.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
But here it is. That's awesome. So outside of racing
obviously number one priority, family first, then racing. What are
goals outside of racing that you think you want to
accomplish maybe in the next couple.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Of years outside of racing, TV movies, start a business,
write a show. Got to have time off to be
able to do that stuff. Oh we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Hello, he's looking right at you. NASCAR. He wants three weekends.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You know. I don't know. I'm a big homebody, Like
I love just being at home, being with the family
and doing absolutely nothing, and so the thought of doing
something else, like people always ask like, what are you
going to do in the off season, It's like, I'm
going to stay at home because I travel all the time.
So the last thing I want to do is travel.
But every once in a while, my wife and I
(27:22):
will plan a little vacation for us and go somewhere.
We love going to Hawaii. But goals off the racetrack,
I don't know. I'm a very live in the moment.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Type guy, like one track mind. Hey, we can keep
doing this all day.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
We can all for it. Let's just cancel everything else
and just keep delivering the one liners.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I hope none of the interviews for the rest of
the day are as puny as this one was. So
if people want to come find you and they want
to support you and leave you nice comments, where can
they do that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
You can follow us along on the NASCAR circuit, Like
I said, we have eleven races left. You can follow
them on my socials at Bubba Wallace, on everything, follow
our Team twenty three eleven, or Racing on twenty three
x I if they're trying to look for it right, Yes,
you have to type that in, but it's pronounced three eleven. Yes, okay,
(28:15):
nothing wrong with clearing that up. Yeah, I'd say that's
about it. Yeah, follow along, come come out to a race.
I don't know where's your demographic at, like all over
there's majority of where they located. Yeah, listeners all.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Over the country. So our morning show is syndicated across
eighty stations across the country. And then that's where the
listeners come for my podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So there's no one Yeah, yeah, well there's a lot
of racetracks. Get out to one and come have fun
and drink a beer.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Very vague and I like it. Have them come out there.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Would you drink a beer with them after the race?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
For sure?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well hopefully not before I hear you can get in
trouble for that, even if the cops recognize you.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Last question, you just made history. How to does it feel?
Did you take a moment to take it in?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But yes and no, I mean I don't pay attention
to the history side of it. Never have.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You're gonna be in the books. You probably should. It's
gonna be you like, no one can no one can
beat that. Now you're the first. It's not like you're
the best time and someone might be able to beat it.
You're the first African American person.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, but don't take this wrong way. But that's been
happening all my career. Sure, so it's kind of just
like a normal another day to me.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I just kind of go about it. And you know,
I look at if I win at Daytona like it'd
be another history making weekend. So I get used to it, right,
I am used to it, and I don't recognize the
history until it's brought to me after the fact. So
(29:47):
it's cool, you can.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Did you celebrate?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh yeah, we celebrated. Okay, yeah, I was wiped out though.
I was pretty tired and I only had a couple
of beers and I went to sleep, but the team
came over to the house and we had a good time.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Okay, Well, congratulations you and thank you for coming in.
I know you guys have a super busy day and
I appreciate it and you're really fun.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, thank you you as well.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
All right.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Okay, so Andrew, you need to do better, a better
job of like matchmaking. He's married and has a child,
so we're gonna stay away from this one.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
But yeah, I'll go on Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
No, you know who I'm gonna have on This is
not a hot single thing. I'm gonna have on my
podcast sometime soon. So I told you guys about my
friends who own this big weed company. So they're launching
here in New York this weekend. Wow, they're here. They're
a blast. I cannot wait to have them on because
I don't just want to talk to them about all
kinds of stuff, but specifically, how do you become a
legal drug dealer? Yeah, because they've really got it. They've
(30:48):
cornered the market. So we're gonna at some point talk
to my friends who owned Jeter. If you haven't heard
of it, you will soon. And they're about to have
a bunch of parties, and I really think we should
go this weekend. Our it is down.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
My hair is done, Okay, your hair will be done.
It'll be fine. Yeah, And I think you'll really like them.
They're a fun group of gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Who else do we want to shoot for? A diamond
shoot for the stars, who do we want to have
on this podcast in like creepy, manipulative.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Ways, Oh.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Island, let's get real.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, why don't we have it?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Shelley and they're coming back up here? I think this
week they've been saying no to everything like they have.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been say, eighteen minutes, it's running up.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, No, they don't care, they're not They're especially Ace.
He didn't go on the Today Show when they all
went He's yeah, why.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Do you think he's avoiding press?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I saw a theory that, like the producers made him
look so bad quote unquote this season that he's now like,
I'm not doing anything for the producers unless it's for myself.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And I'm like, I kind of get it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Did they make him look bad? I didn't finish the season.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
There was something that happened. I mean, we could talk
about it now.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We're weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
They blamed him for Jeremiah going home and apparently it
wasn't him, it was Taylor and so and Ed yes
and so yeah, and I mean the whole Amaya thing
and like him not wanting to be touched. Apparently Shelley
and Landria were like no, Ace used to hug everybody
so I don't you know, those are just like little breadcrumbs.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So if it's true, Andrew, mind your business. This is
a black person conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Me. But yeah, like I mean, if it's true, I
get it. I wouldn't want I wouldn't want anything to
do with.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
The producers either, which this has happened in the past.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But also, though you know, I get it, it's a
it's a raw deal and it sucks. But how do
you not know that that's what's gonna happen to you
when you go on reality.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
That's True Island and is put out daily.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Also, don't get me started on the fact that he
was the only he and Shelley were the only couple
who found love and they were kicked off and didn't
make the final So I mean or finale, let's let
let's keep it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Let's keep it a stack. As my people in the
hoods say, Okay, what do I say?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
All the time? I believe less and less in democracy
the more people that I meet. I'm like, what are
you voting for? What is happening right now? You vote
off Love Island? The only people in love? Yep, that's
just some hater shit.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Remember I don't think you guys would remember this. It
was like early American Idol. There was a horrific Indian
kid on the.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Show in Jaya. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember this.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
He was so bad. He was just notably not good,
but everybody kept voting for him to get through because
it was torture, and I was like, this is not
how we do this.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You never want to say, I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It was like the mid early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
You gotta go fourth or fifth season.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
They had like a website like vote for Sanjaya dot com.
It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
They breed the system so much so that American Idol
had to like shut it down and change voting patterns
because it was called vote for the Worst.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yes it was, yeah, yes, and that is what this
dumb ass group of people do. They vote for the
worst and look where we are. It was all funny
when it was some giant. Now it's not funny when
it's a government. I laugh for I'd cry.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I am crying.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Do we No, we don't really have any time for
talkbacks today. I feel like we're pretty solid.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
And that was a great interview I love and they're
going to tweet it out if you see happy bitches
saint hat and heat and bitches ain't happy, then just
know that that was from this interview right here.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Absolutely. And if you see the playoffs have become the
drive offs, that was from this interview right here.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Boom.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And I'm really thinking I should edit out a lot
of my crush on Bubba Wallace if they're going to
retweet any of this podcast or listen to it.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Oh maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Again, pictures don't do him justice. Had I known he
was a babe, I would have attempted to put myself
together today.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Same and here we are put a put on a
little concealer to walk by him in the hallway, Like
how many.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Times do I need to learn the same lesson? I
am not allowed to come in here looking like a bum.
It's just not a thing that should be happening. Yet
I do it all the time.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
If we actually go to this race in the Poconos,
you guys, you're both going to be in like ball gowns, like.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Oh hey, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna hug his wife.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Like listen, when God blesses your neighbor, that means he's
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, all right, On that note, if people want to
find you guys online. Andrew, where are you at?
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Andrew Pug?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Have you had eleven thousand yet? I'm really close Massive? Okay, Diamond,
Where can they find you at?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Diamond?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Sincere and I am at Baby Hot Sauce And we'll
see you next time. Say bye bye
Her.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, damn was this where he was sitting? It was
with the seat is warm.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
He's sts on the side. What's up, Gandhi? And I
am here with Andrew and Diamond.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
If I sound a little giddy, it's because we're talking
after I have already recorded this interview, so we cut
the ins and out sometimes after a little inside baseball there.
Today you're gonna hear from Bubba Wallace.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
My god, that man is beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Diamond he so we you know, we do the interview
or whatever, which, by the way, he said it was
his favorite.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And I was like, am I the first one?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Though?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Like is that? And he said no, they did Good
Morning America and he named like a bunch of other
ones that they had done. So yeah, not to ruin
it because you're all going to hear this, but iTap
Oh yeah, like we had a little good a thing
happening there. But you know me, if I have to
speak to somebody and I like have to be cool
about it, I just sweat. You remember how sweaty I
(01:06):
was after Taboo? Oh man, if you come touch me
right now. When he put his arm around me to
take the picture, I was like, this is embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh true, it was so embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
He is such a babe. And he was really nice,
good and very personable, and there wasn't anything he like
didn't want to talk about because he's had some controversy
and he touched on it. So we had a good time.
Diamond just walked it and she was like, did he leave?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Is he still?
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He left?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I was like, yeah, he's a babe. She goes, Oh,
that man is gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
He is gorgeous. He's gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Pictures don't do him justice at all at all.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Little I had to double take.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I'm like, oh, hell, har are you free? They invited
us to a race in the Poconos when I don't
know they're going to send us the information I guess.
And there's also a chance that I'm about to make
a lot of money off of these people.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
They loved her lines too.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, they want to use some of the lines that
I is cut the check.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I said Andrew mark that in the podcast, because we're
gonna make sure that if these people start using it,
it's me Because here's the question. So he is preparing
for playoffs. Oh, you're making a weird face because why
aren't they called drive offs?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well that but I didn't know that there were even
playoffs in Naska. I thought they just go around the track.
Whoever wins that day wins that day.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, we learned all about that today, baby, Because
I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to NASCAR.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But now that I know this guy, Hello, lady, let's
clap it up for bubble Wallas.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Can I also just say clarket if I were ever
in actually a position of power, I would utilize that
to get dates all day long. Oh without a Hey,
when you on podcast one thing talk about it guys
doing all the time. This is my moment.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So I'm just I have no words because I'm actually shocked.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Thought how cute he was?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Yes, yeah, he's.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Cute and really good interview too.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Oh wow, I to hear.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Let's go back to that. But it was really good.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
He was so just personable and I really didn't know
anything about NASCAR either. I've been to one the Delaware
Downs for my brother in law's bachelor party. Let me
tell you something an experience that I have not forgotten.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
That's where David had his bachelor party.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
And Dover Downs and you didn't object at the NY Downs.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Let me say it was it was special, but I
would go to this and.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Now I'm rooting for him, and now I'm like a fan.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, the three of us are going to show up.
We're going to be all the diversity in the whole
crowd yep, not not me. Diamond and I I go,
you know who they're rooting for, and sure do c
market market? Yeah, so I guess we should just get
right to it. Here's Bubba Wallace. Diamond and I are
fans and Andrew. Yeah, all right, I'm here with Bubba Wallace,
(03:51):
and I'm really excited because I don't know a lot
about NASCAR, and you've already taught me one thing that's important.
I feel like I'm about to learn a lot. Hi,
thank you for joining.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Prom Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Okay, So I looked at this. I have a bio
about you in front of me, and it says driver
of the number twenty three Toyota camera for twenty three racing.
It's an X and and I I was gonna say XI,
it's twenty three.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Eleven, twenty three eleven racing.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Why is it an XI and not just an eleven?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
I don't know. I told you this was for a
different conversation of the day. But that's a good question.
I don't know. Was there reasoning said why you awaited that?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Trying to be different?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's what I figured for trying to be different. Okay,
I don't know if there was any other reasoning besides that.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Okay. How annoying is it when people mess it up
all the time?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Uh? Pretty annoying? Incredibly Well, it props to you the
first person ask, though, because they just go with twenty three.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
X I really, yeah, that's that's right.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And then it's like, I don't know if it makes
them feel awkward when I'm like, yeah, I drive for
twenty three eleven racing. Like later in the conversation, they're probably.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Like, oh, that's nice of you not correct it immediately,
because I'm one of those people that'll be like, no, no, no,
twenty three eleven, thank.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
You, but I want to so bad you should.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
One of the most important things is that they get
your name right. And I have a name that everybody
gets wrong all the time.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
How do you get that wrong right?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Well, Gandhi, you wouldn't think people get wrong. They still do,
but my first name just gets slaughtered and it's really
not that difficult.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It's Maia Maia. Yeah, how do you spell it? M
E d h A M D Yeah, I wouldn't know.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I get medha media meta, it's everything. And I'm very
impressed at how bold people just are with like I
know how to say this and then they roll with it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, and I just sit there just lot so sauce
on the side with a full name. No, okay, it
is always Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I dropped my first name as soon as I started
in radio because I was like, there's no hope, no
one's gonna say it right and I'm gonna spell it right.
But like, okay, but for you, you don't go by
your government name either, right, you go by Bubba. That's right,
because it would be weird for people to call you
something else.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Now, yeah, my wife will. So it's actually weird for
my wife call me Bubba.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yes, it's weird when my friends call me Gandhi.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, see it's it's it's yeah, I don't know, we're weird.
I guess I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
So you were racing and you just actually came off
a pretty big win. Yes, let's talk about it. How
excited are because you'll history.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yeah, that was BIG's I guess that's almost a month
ago now. Winning at the Brickyard Breakyard four hundred and
Indianapolis just a one hundred race wind streak snapped, winless
streak snapped. Nice, that was big. I didn't know that
until maybe thirty minutes later that it was raced number
(06:21):
one hundred since I've won, So that was pretty cool.
We locked ourselves in the playoffs that start next week.
We are heading into the season finale, uh, going into
Daytona this weekend and then we'd go to Darlington and
then there's a ten race stretch from that point on.
So I've never won in the regular season. I only
(06:44):
have three wins. Okay, Okay, I don't have that many.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You have three more than me, that's true.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
And three more than the armchair racers that are on
Twitter them. Yeah. Yeah, And so it's kind of been
nice living in this stress free and Vince, you said
you don't know much about Daytona, but it's a win
in your in mentality. So I was, I was like,
(07:09):
I think the last car in before India, I was sixteenth,
like twelve points to the good and so if a
new winner wins, then I get bumped right because I'm out,
so like, it's not fun living on the on the
verge there, and I've done that last three seasons. So
now I'm well and I'm ninth. I'm good. I'm gone
see you later by ok to the cut line. And
(07:30):
it's been really really nice living in this this zone
that I'm in and being able to kind of race
freely and and figure out your strengths and weaknesses. So
it's been a lot of fun. Been a really good year.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Congratulations good because everybody needs a good year. And I'm
sure that you've had quite a time just in general
being a minority in the racing industry and everything else.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
That you've read with.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
So I love that you've had a good year.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
And now here come my stupid questions. Here is there
like a season for driving or is this all year?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Basically all year?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
We get one month, Okay, what month do you get off?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
So we go from Valentine's Day to the first weekend
of November and that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
It's just constant. You have races one off weekend day.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
We just announced, we just announced. She works with a
NASCAR and so she takes all the heavy hits that
we just love to dish out when we're annoyed at things.
So anyways, so yeah, we just announced the schedule for
the twenty twenty sixth season and there's two off weekends.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
What do you do all that time?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Nothing, you think about it. So you have a race
typical typical Sunday to Wednesday for me is Sunday we
have the race, Monday have meetings, Tuesday have meetings, and
then Wednesday Thursday you're free and then you travel Friday.
So I look at it as Okay, I don't have
a meeting on Monday and Tuesday the following week, that's it.
So it's really because then you're right back to it
(08:57):
because you're preparing for the next race. So you don't
have much time off. So I say, we have the
full month of December off, so we usually plan a
little vacation. Obviously the holidays are then, but so you
get majority of November off, December off, and then January.
Second week of January you're back to doing media hits
(09:18):
and everything. So really demanding grueling profession that we have.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
How does one prepare for this? Like how do you practice?
You practice? Don't you don't practice.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
We don't practice, you just go in raw. So yes,
raw on it, Okay, I think they call it raw. Yes,
we get twenty minutes of practice on the weekend, so
we do practice. But you would think, well, I'll go
back maybe fifteen years ago. Now we could go practice Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
That comes at extreme cost, right, super expensive to do.
(09:53):
Motorsports in general, any form of motorsports are super expensive.
And NASCAR wanted to start to bridge the gap between
the well funded teams and the lesser funded teams, and
so the well funded teams could test every day, lesser
funded cannot. So they got away with testing. Now we're
allowed I don't know, twenty tests on the year, but
(10:14):
it's mandated by NASCAR. And I haven't tested in over
a year. Oh wow, So it's just like random selection.
So yeah, not to get off in the weeds on that.
So basically, yeah, no no practicing. We show up and
we get twenty twenty five minutes of practice, which is nothing,
and then we go straight and qualifying and then on
(10:35):
Sunday we go right into the race. So you really
have to have all of your eggs in the basket
as soon as you leave the shop, and so the
weekly prep that you do. We can do some simulation
work or we're driving virtually to help out that, but
it's still virtual versus reality. There's always a disconnect there,
and so yeah, not much practice going on.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
That is crazy and you just for Okay, so I'm
going to get to this in a second, but we
were just talking about the armchair racers. We had a
conversation about that today as well. All of the people
who don't do your job probably could never do your job,
not even coming close to being in the arena of
doing your job. They have a whole lot of stuff
to say. How does that as a professional athlete impact you?
Do you read it? Do you read the comment section,
(11:18):
or do you just say, na, I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah. No, So I've kind of gone through a transition.
You know, once upon a time, many moons ago, I
was pretty well liked in the NASCAR ranks.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Are you not anymore?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
You know, you have your days. Yeah, it's not bad.
And so like when I've kind of took a turn,
I was reading everything and just like trying to defend yourself, right, Well,
then you realize like, it doesn't matter what you do.
You could you could hand out a million dollars to
everybody in the world and you'd still be a jerk.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Anyways, now I kind of just feed into.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It and you became our own troll. What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, of course. Yeah. So like Bubba hasn't won in
a hundred races. Yeah, you know, like the kids sucks.
Then I go out and win Brickyard and it's like.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
And now they all shut up, but they don't.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
But they don't, don't. They just moved the goal post
goal posts further.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Which is fine when you say there was a turn?
What was the turn? What happened?
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Oh? Do we have all the time in the day
to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
As long as you want to. I would love to
hear it.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
So I would just encourage you to type in Bubba
Wallace on Google okay, not race stats, and it probably
would pop up right at the top. But twenty twenty,
there was a little scenario that went down that.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Got wait, I think I actually know this. This is
the one thing I know. Was it about a rope
in your okay?
Speaker 4 (12:44):
That was that?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
And so everyone kind of thought, not everyone, that's where
I messed up before I said everyone everyone thought that
it was manufactured by me. You know, Bubba's phasing out,
so he had to pull this stunt.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Hold on once I because if somebody doesn't know what
we're talking about, and I don't want them to Google
while they're listening to this fascinating conversation. In twenty twenty
you were which race was it?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Talladega twenty twenty two in the fall. Yeah, I'm driving
for Richard Petty Mottersports.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And there was what appeared to be a noose in
your in your garage and your okay in your garage. Yeah,
so obviously you see this you are a black driver,
and I did not see it. You didn't see it.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Else saw it? Yeah, somebody on my team saw it.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Aw.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
I wasn't even in So that was COVID year, so
we weren't even allowed. I wasn't even allowed in the garage.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And everything was crazy that year.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
People were hypersensitive, right, and so it was just like
the worst possible, best case scenario for this all to
go down, And so people.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Thought you guys had manufactured that as like a public
this is horrible. I'm trying to get some attention, right, Okay, so.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
That all took a turn for the worst. So for
two years after that, I was like, you know, like
what the hell, Like, why did I turn into the
bad guy?
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Two years about that? Geez?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Okay, Well, I mean, if you want to get real
in the five years so you're still working, I'm not
really working. I'm just enjoying where I'm at. So we
know we've moved past that. And yeah, and you know,
the sport has evolved and changed so much in a
positive way since twenty twenty and the world has two
to an extent, no COVID, none of that craziness anymore.
(14:18):
But it's it's uh for me, you know, back to
your question, like, yeah, there's not enough time in the
day to convince everybody like, hey, I'm actually a good guy, right,
you know, it just gets tiring at that point. So
I just enjoy who's actually supports me, and I appreciate
that and move on and forget the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I don't know if you're like me, but I could
get a thousand very nice comments.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh it just takes one bad one.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah, the one shitty one that's like you look glean
fat today. I'm like, really, I'm gonna talk about your mom.
Hold on, and I'm like, go down this rabbit hole.
And I get so annoyed at myself for letting some
weird idiot into my life and my personal space and
my brain for no reason, when all these people who
are being super kind, I didn't acknowledge right what's wrong
with me? And then also when I go down that
rabbit hole the person who left the comment, it's not
(15:10):
even a fight I want to have.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
It's not and it's not a normal person ever. Picture
of your chairs are lovely, but it's a picture of
a chair.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Exactly, or it's some absolute creep that you know lives
in their mom's basement and it's probably sitting on a
sticky couch. And I'm like, why why am I having
a slapfest with you when it's just not even worth it?
So yeah, I feel like it's a really good practice
and self control to un stay out of the comment
section and to just ignore the assholes that come for you,
because happy bitches ain't hating, and hating bitches ain't happy.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
So a good one.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Yeah, use it, take it away, but it's true.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Person a little petty, Oh yeah, we're going to use that. Yes,
we're gonna use that.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I'm gonna come follow now just so that I can
watch because this excites me. And it's also when all
that happened with you, that was kind of the peak
I guess what people will want to call cancel culture.
And it has totally changed since then because now I
feel like the news cycle is just moving so quickly
all the time. That someone does something egregious or what
people think is egregious one day, and by the next week,
(16:13):
you got a story about like Chris Brown throwing a
chair and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, like there was something about Denzel went on and
talked about cancel culture, and that was I don't know
what sparked a somebody trying to cancel him, Like, how
do you try to cancel Denzel?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It's there are some people that are uncancellable.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
He said, how do you get canceled if you don't
sign up? You don't.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm like, ooh, okay, I have my dad on my
podcast once nice he is outrageous. I was like, you're
gonna get me canceled somehow for the things that you say,
And he was like, impossible, you can't cancel me. I
don't care. He's like, you're not going to come from
my job. I don't care if you tell me you
hate me. You're not going to impact my money. You
cannot cancel me. It's impossible. I was like, shit, he's right.
(16:53):
So you're having a good time. Yes, things are going
well right now?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Things are going well.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What brings you to New York City?
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Work?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You say that like you would not be here if
it was Is that true?
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I actually actually like New York City. That sounds a
little sus No. I finally came not for work Christmas
last year. Okay, my wife and he was Oh he
was old, born in September. What's the math five months
if it was Christmas time?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Yeah, September to December.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Three months, three months?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Is that math math?
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Nine to twelve?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Oh yeah, that's I'm thinking seven. Sorry, I'm thinking yeah.
I'm like, no, that's five, yes, nine to twelve, Imb asked, Yeah,
three months old, and we actually enjoyed it. Any other
time I've been up here has been work has been
media stop, media stop, media stop, and you just hear
honking traffic, people yelling at each other, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Something weird.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yeah, damn it. Yeah, so I actually really enjoyed New York.
And so this trip is all working at five am
this morning, leave out at six starts today.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So oh wow, So you're here for one day, you're
doing press one day. Thank you guys for squeezing me.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
You're just on the assembly line. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
I felt special for just a second. And here we go.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Actually, hey, I will say this has been the best
stop so far?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Is this the first stop?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
No? We did what? This is great?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Gm A, we did boomer and oh my god, it's
so good right here. And I'm not kidding. I like
the vibe. It's fun. Do we just become friends?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Friends?
Speaker 4 (18:28):
There we go?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you're here for work, you're doing all these stops,
and you're talking about the things that are important to you,
which are.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
NASCAR and my family.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
I'm my family.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah I should have said my family and NASCAR. Should
have put them first.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
I can I can edit this so that it sounds
like that.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I don't know if I'll remember to do it, but yes,
we thought about it.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yes, like Missy Elliott put that thing down flipping and reverses. Yes, boom,
there you go. Uh so what do we got we
got the playoffs starting soon.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Why do they call them the playoffs and not the
drive offs? Like, do you say I'm going to play
a race right now?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Did you just change something else?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
I might have to get you some royalty on that.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Oh my god, recorded Andrew, make sure you mark this.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yes, okay, So the drive offs, Yeah, they start, They
start next week in Darlington. So the season's going really well.
Like I said, we're ninth in points. We're good. We're
tenth in points where we're at really enjoying that. But
my family is even better than that. Family is good,
Like we have a like I said, we have a
(19:30):
ten or almost eleven month old at home. Becks, he
sleeps well, he's awesome. He's the cutest thing ever.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Congratulations, thank you.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
See a life at home has been really good, as
crazy as a eleven month old can be. I think
we got a little lucky.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
How does that work with you traveling so much? Do
they come with you?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
They usually are at majority of the races? Yes, wow, yeah,
days like today now they won't travel, but yeah they'll
I'll fly home tonight, then leave out in the morning,
go to Florida and they'll be with me. So we
get to spend a lot of time together, especially on
the weekends, which is big.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Throughout the week it's I'm gone a lot. Sorry, but
but yeah, no, life is life is good on and
off the racetrack.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Good.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So when you're home and you're off on these weekends,
maybe the two weekends that you're gonna have, do you
drive or is your wife like absolutely the fuck not?
You are driving too fast? I'm driving. How does that work?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm not safe anywhere because she hates driving, but she
hates when I drive. Okay, so I can't win.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
So what is the dynamic? Usually you drive?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I drive all the time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Do you drive like an a hole when you're not on.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
The No, it depends. It depends, Okay what you do?
I drive like New York? Absolutely not okay, so no, okay, Uh.
It's funny because we were just sitting here earlier. I
was thinking about it. Somebody was mentioned in Driving in
the City where somebody was mentioned out of us three,
I don't know. But like when I come to New
York and I have to drive, I am super nervous.
(21:04):
It's like an obstacle course here, Well, it's not even
that it's like, oh, can I get over in front
of you? You know, and like, no one hesitates here,
you know, and I hesitate, But like on the racetrack,
I don't hesitate, or even at home, I don't hesitate.
But when I get here, I'm like, ooh, I miss
the light by point zero zero two seconds and I'm
getting honked at.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Absolutely, so, yeah, I get a little bit of I
don't know. I don't like driving here. I don't know.
I can't tell you the last time I drove here
in the city though, anyways, neither can we.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well this one over here, my producer, he drives in
the city all the time. I don't know why. I
don't even have a car.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I walk everywhere.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Oh, or take the subway, which is practical. It's more convenient, right,
But like, I don't waste time. So if you tell
me we got a thirty minute drive to wherever, I'm
going to try to make that. Not by speeding, okay,
not by speeding. I'll try to make that in like
twenty six minutes.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'm always refreshing the GPS to make sure I'm on
the fastest route. Stop lights, You've picked the car with
the least amount of cars in it, and you're picking
that lane and then when the lane, the next lane prevails.
You're just bouncing all around.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And these are tips from a professional driver.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Yeah, you don't waste out.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
There four minutes early. Very important.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Time. You can never get back you can't.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
You know what, You're right, you can't.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
You can get money all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Time is important. So I just wondered how that works,
because you know, like, is there are there rules for you,
like if you were to get a speeding ticket? Is
that like a boxer getting in a fight, Like, Hey,
you're extra good at this, You're not supposed to be
doing that.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Oh, that's that's the question. S meeting tickets, Well, I
just got asked this last one and it's been over
ten years.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah, I have a clean record. I'm pretty good. So
it's it's nice.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Would you get an extra trouble like, hey, you know better, you're.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Not supposed to know. I think it's more so, Hey, man,
go luck this weekend. I've gotten out a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Wait do you tell them who you are?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Figure out now I've never pulled that card. Good for you, Yeah,
I never pulled that card.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
We left all the time because if you pull that card,
it's just you've already lost, exactly, because if you have
to say it, either they know who you are and
they don't care, yes, or they don't know who you
are and they don't care. Either way, they don't care,
so you exactly.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Yeah. My wife is like three for three or like
four for four. And I drove her car one day
and I got pulled over and she was like, this
is it. You're finally getting a ticket and h I
turned right on red and it was a new sign
because I grew up in this area and they had
just put this sign up and I've seen it and
(23:29):
I was like, man, I'm going copy is right behind me,
of course. And I was like, man, how long has
that sign been there? And he was like all my life,
as long as I've been living here. And I'm like, okay,
not true, liar. Yeah. And I was like, all right,
sorry about that, and he's like I'll be right back,
and he walked and she's over here laughing. She's like,
you're getting a ticket. And he's like, hey, my my
(23:50):
partner's with me. She's a big fan. You'm taking a
picture with her. I'm like, yeah, absolutely. She was so pissed.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Your demise.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yes, yeah, that's a good that's a healthy couple. Yes see,
I didn't have to say anything. I don't have say anything,
and it just just so happens.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
So be cool about it. It's so you have a
lot of stuff coming up, obviously, a bunch of races
that are going to happen, the playoffs, which don't rename
the drive offs, Yes, the drive offs? Can you call
them Bubba Wallace drive offs? Since it's it's oh, if.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We win it, I'm definitely calling that. Yes, okay, good
when we win it.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
When you win it, absolutely, there we go and we're
going to be cheering for you. School out over here.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
You'll hear it. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You were talking about teams that have money versus teams
that don't have money and the disparity that happens there.
You are on quite an amazing team. One of the
co owners of your team, Michael Jordan, Yep, how does
that happen?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Uh? I don't know. Uh. From a text actually from
a fake news article that got kind of stirred up
in the media around twenty twenty. At the end of
twenty twenty that Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan were starting
a race team, which was not the case at this
point really, and I think think, uh mj text Denny,
(25:04):
if you want to make this true, let me know.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That was it, and I got called to be the driver.
So it's now been five years and it's just been
an incredible journey, a lot of fun. Was that really
really cool?
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Honestly, I can't say it was, because I'm I didn't
I didn't want to race cars when I was a kid.
I didn't know I wanted to race cars when I
was a kid. I just happened to race go cards
and next thing you know, here we are, right. I
don't know how your pat started, but when you were
a little girl, like did you want to do this? No,
I just talked a lot and there you go, and
(25:41):
then all of a sudden, microphones in front of you.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
See I just kept driving. We got pretty good. Yeah,
and now I'm in the Cup Series driver Michael.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Jordan, which is incredible.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
It's cool to say, no doubt like it's it's really cool.
We've had multiple times of just being around each other
and having just natural conversation and it's and it's a
lot of fun. Definitely blessed and fortunate for the opportunity
that's in front of me in the position that I'm in.
Don't want to be anywhere else. You know. It's we
have everything that we need in front of us, the
right people, the right equipment, and it's just fun. It's
(26:11):
fun showing up to the racetrack with fastcars and and
win in races. So yeah, all is good.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
So when you say you didn't want to be a
driver when you were a kid, what did you want
to be?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I was playing basketball the time, but I did not
like I wanted to play NBA.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But now you get to work with Michael Jordan Holy Creer.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Yeah, it's like a cool crossover. Hello, did not plan
that to be a pun, but it was.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
But here it is. That's awesome. So outside of racing
obviously number one priority, family first, then racing. What are
goals outside of racing that you think you want to
accomplish maybe in the next couple.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Of years outside of racing, TV movies, start a business,
write a show. Got to have time off to be
able to do that stuff. Oh we don't have that.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Hello, he's looking right at you. NASCAR. He wants three weekends.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
You know. I don't know. I'm a big homebody, Like
I love just being at home, being with the family
and doing absolutely nothing, and so the thought of doing
something else, like people always ask like, what are you
going to do in the off season, It's like, I'm
going to stay at home because I travel all the time.
So the last thing I want to do is travel.
But every once in a while, my wife and I
(27:22):
will plan a little vacation for us and go somewhere.
We love going to Hawaii. But goals off the racetrack,
I don't know. I'm a very live in the moment.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Type guy, like one track mind. Hey, we can keep
doing this all day.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
We can all for it. Let's just cancel everything else
and just keep delivering the one liners.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
I hope none of the interviews for the rest of
the day are as puny as this one was. So
if people want to come find you and they want
to support you and leave you nice comments, where can
they do that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
You can follow us along on the NASCAR circuit, Like
I said, we have eleven races left. You can follow
them on my socials at Bubba Wallace, on everything, follow
our Team twenty three eleven, or Racing on twenty three
x I if they're trying to look for it right, Yes,
you have to type that in, but it's pronounced three eleven. Yes, okay,
(28:15):
nothing wrong with clearing that up. Yeah, I'd say that's
about it. Yeah, follow along, come come out to a race.
I don't know where's your demographic at, like all over
there's majority of where they located. Yeah, listeners all.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Over the country. So our morning show is syndicated across
eighty stations across the country. And then that's where the
listeners come for my podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
So there's no one Yeah, yeah, well there's a lot
of racetracks. Get out to one and come have fun
and drink a beer.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Very vague and I like it. Have them come out there.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Would you drink a beer with them after the race?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
For sure?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well hopefully not before I hear you can get in
trouble for that, even if the cops recognize you.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Last question, you just made history. How to does it feel?
Did you take a moment to take it in?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
But yes and no, I mean I don't pay attention
to the history side of it. Never have.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
You're gonna be in the books. You probably should. It's
gonna be you like, no one can no one can
beat that. Now you're the first. It's not like you're
the best time and someone might be able to beat it.
You're the first African American person.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, but don't take this wrong way. But that's been
happening all my career. Sure, so it's kind of just
like a normal another day to me.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I just kind of go about it. And you know,
I look at if I win at Daytona like it'd
be another history making weekend. So I get used to it, right,
I am used to it, and I don't recognize the
history until it's brought to me after the fact. So
(29:47):
it's cool, you can.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Did you celebrate?
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Oh yeah, we celebrated. Okay, yeah, I was wiped out though.
I was pretty tired and I only had a couple
of beers and I went to sleep, but the team
came over to the house and we had a good time.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Okay, Well, congratulations you and thank you for coming in.
I know you guys have a super busy day and
I appreciate it and you're really fun.
Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah, thank you you as well.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
All right.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Okay, so Andrew, you need to do better, a better
job of like matchmaking. He's married and has a child,
so we're gonna stay away from this one.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
But yeah, I'll go on Craigslist.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
No, you know who I'm gonna have on This is
not a hot single thing. I'm gonna have on my
podcast sometime soon. So I told you guys about my
friends who own this big weed company. So they're launching
here in New York this weekend. Wow, they're here. They're
a blast. I cannot wait to have them on because
I don't just want to talk to them about all
kinds of stuff, but specifically, how do you become a
legal drug dealer? Yeah, because they've really got it. They've
(30:48):
cornered the market. So we're gonna at some point talk
to my friends who owned Jeter. If you haven't heard
of it, you will soon. And they're about to have
a bunch of parties, and I really think we should
go this weekend. Our it is down.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
My hair is done, Okay, your hair will be done.
It'll be fine. Yeah, And I think you'll really like them.
They're a fun group of gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Who else do we want to shoot for? A diamond
shoot for the stars, who do we want to have
on this podcast in like creepy, manipulative.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Ways, Oh.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Island, let's get real.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah, why don't we have it?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Shelley and they're coming back up here? I think this
week they've been saying no to everything like they have.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
They've been say, eighteen minutes, it's running up.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Yeah, No, they don't care, they're not They're especially Ace.
He didn't go on the Today Show when they all
went He's yeah, why.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Do you think he's avoiding press?
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I saw a theory that, like the producers made him
look so bad quote unquote this season that he's now like,
I'm not doing anything for the producers unless it's for myself.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And I'm like, I kind of get it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Did they make him look bad? I didn't finish the season.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
There was something that happened. I mean, we could talk
about it now.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We're weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
They blamed him for Jeremiah going home and apparently it
wasn't him, it was Taylor and so and Ed yes
and so yeah, and I mean the whole Amaya thing
and like him not wanting to be touched. Apparently Shelley
and Landria were like no, Ace used to hug everybody
so I don't you know, those are just like little breadcrumbs.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
So if it's true, Andrew, mind your business. This is
a black person conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Me. But yeah, like I mean, if it's true, I
get it. I wouldn't want I wouldn't want anything to
do with.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
The producers either, which this has happened in the past.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
But also, though you know, I get it, it's a
it's a raw deal and it sucks. But how do
you not know that that's what's gonna happen to you
when you go on reality.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
That's True Island and is put out daily.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Also, don't get me started on the fact that he
was the only he and Shelley were the only couple
who found love and they were kicked off and didn't
make the final So I mean or finale, let's let
let's keep it.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Let's keep it a stack. As my people in the
hoods say, Okay, what do I say?
Speaker 3 (33:05):
All the time? I believe less and less in democracy
the more people that I meet. I'm like, what are
you voting for? What is happening right now? You vote
off Love Island? The only people in love? Yep, that's
just some hater shit.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Remember I don't think you guys would remember this. It
was like early American Idol. There was a horrific Indian
kid on the.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Show in Jaya. Yeah, yeah, I don't remember this.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
He was so bad. He was just notably not good,
but everybody kept voting for him to get through because
it was torture, and I was like, this is not
how we do this.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
You never want to say, I don't.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
It was like the mid early two thousands.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
You gotta go fourth or fifth season.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
They had like a website like vote for Sanjaya dot com.
It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
They breed the system so much so that American Idol
had to like shut it down and change voting patterns
because it was called vote for the Worst.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yes it was, yeah, yes, and that is what this
dumb ass group of people do. They vote for the
worst and look where we are. It was all funny
when it was some giant. Now it's not funny when
it's a government. I laugh for I'd cry.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I am crying.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Do we No, we don't really have any time for
talkbacks today. I feel like we're pretty solid.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
And that was a great interview I love and they're
going to tweet it out if you see happy bitches
saint hat and heat and bitches ain't happy, then just
know that that was from this interview right here.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
Absolutely. And if you see the playoffs have become the
drive offs, that was from this interview right here.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Boom.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
And I'm really thinking I should edit out a lot
of my crush on Bubba Wallace if they're going to
retweet any of this podcast or listen to it.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Oh maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Again, pictures don't do him justice. Had I known he
was a babe, I would have attempted to put myself
together today.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Same and here we are put a put on a
little concealer to walk by him in the hallway, Like
how many.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Times do I need to learn the same lesson? I
am not allowed to come in here looking like a bum.
It's just not a thing that should be happening. Yet
I do it all the time.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
If we actually go to this race in the Poconos,
you guys, you're both going to be in like ball gowns, like.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Oh hey, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna hug his wife.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Like listen, when God blesses your neighbor, that means he's
in the neighborhood.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, all right, On that note, if people want to
find you guys online. Andrew, where are you at?
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Andrew Pug?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Have you had eleven thousand yet? I'm really close Massive? Okay, Diamond,
Where can they find you at?
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Diamond?
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Sincere and I am at Baby Hot Sauce And we'll
see you next time. Say bye bye
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