May 15, 2024 • 21 mins
Does Julia miss racing? What does a good relationship boil down to? What are the metrics and measures it takes to build a team in NASCAR? What podcasts do I listen to?
You asked great questions, and Julia hopes she delivered satisfactory answers to these questions and more on this week’s episode of If I’m Honest with Julia Landauer.
In this Ask Me Anything, Julia tackles the questions you sent in over social media, ranging from racing questions to relationship advice to Taylor Swift.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of If
I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. We are approaching episode fifty
in a few weeks from now. How exciting is that
this is a really wonderful passion project. As I've mentioned
on a couple of different episodes, it's been very therapeutic
to talk through some of the stuff that we've addressed.
(00:25):
It's been really interesting to do more research into some
topics that I find interesting and then share with you.
It's been really cool to connect with a diversity of
guests who have done different jobs and industries and passions
that they've pursued. It's been really, really fun, and I'd
obviously love to know what you think, what has resonated
with you, what topics you really enjoy hearing about, what
(00:47):
maybe you don't like as much, which guests you found
really great. So would love to hear from you either
in comments and reviews. So feel free and let me know.
Let's jump right into today's Ask Me Anything, because you
guys send in some great questions. I'm going to try
to get to as many of them as I can,
and if you have any more, please obviously reach out
(01:07):
and I will try to include them in a future
episode as well. The first question I want to answer
is something that a lot of you asked in some
variation of how much do you miss Nascar? Does Julia
miss being behind the wheel? Are you missing racing? The
answer is yes, I do miss racing. I absolutely love racing.
It's so exciting to be at the track. It's so
(01:28):
fun to go fast. It's really satisfying to feel like
you've mastered a perfect lap or to be able to
win a race, or even just be competitive in a
way that you are judging yourself by. So I miss
it a lot. But at the same time, I'm also
really enjoying flexing new muscles. I'm really enjoying being able
(01:49):
to learn more about business and corporate and to understand
what goes on behind the scenes with NASCAR and to
contribute to making the sport as great as possible, and
to understand some of the things that have to be
weighed for decision making, whether it's on the competition side
or the business side. I'm really pushing my brain and
(02:10):
developing new skill sets and meeting a lot of cool
people and being able to just push myself in a
different way. And that's really cool. Episode eleven of If
I'm Honest with Julia Landauer addresses the more emotional side
and it's called navigating identity shifts, and that's definitely a huge,
significant thing that's been challenging. But overall, I'm content. I'm
(02:37):
in a good place. I will say that there are
little trigger moments that sometimes happen that make me feel
really sad about not racing and not pursuing racing. Things
like when Shane Van Gelbergen won his debut NASCAR Cup
Series race in Chicago last year. The sheer elation that
(02:58):
he felt and the happiness and emotion and you could
hear it in his voice. I had this pang of,
oh my god, I may never experience that again, and
that was really sad. And there are other moments where
I see certain things that happen during a race, or
you know, seeing things with F One Academy, which I'm
so happy for. I'm so so happy that there is
(03:20):
a real significant and financial push to encourage and support
more women and girls getting into racing, like I love that.
I just kind of wish I could have been part
of it too, and that, you know, seeing this huge
surge of interest in women's sports and women in motorsports specifically,
just kind of feel like my timing for being in
racing was a little off, But that's okay. So besides that,
(03:41):
you know, it is what it is. This is life,
and I'm getting older and there are other things that
I'm looking forward to, but I do miss racing for sure,
and I hope to do it for fun where I can. Sushada,
and I hope I pronounced that correctly. I'm sorry if
I didn't ask our next question, which is is there
any way to get into racing, maybe not driving, but
(04:01):
support later in life. I love this question, and I
hadn't really thought about it a whole bunch until I
saw it pop up. But there are a couple of
ways that I want to tackle this question. So in general,
there are a lot of racing clubs and track days
and more like amateur style racing, whether that's SCCA or
(04:21):
Skip Barber or the Radical Race Cars or different manufacturer
clubs like Portcha Club, Ferrari Club. I'm sure there are others,
But if you're looking to get involved in at track
events later in life, I think that's a really cool
way to either bring your own car, rent a car,
just show up and watch a bunch of really cool
(04:42):
amateur racers racing and competing and getting the camaraderie being
at the track. I think there's a lot there and
kind of related to that. I know that for a
lot of those events, and even some other higher level
sanctioning bodies. You know, a lot of times tracks or
racing sanctioning bodies will look for volunteers or independent contractors
(05:04):
to help work the race. Maybe that's officiating, or maybe
that's more like flagwork, or maybe it's official work. Maybe
it's go karting, maybe it's legend cars, maybe it's these
club track days. I think there's things that you can
look into there if you're thinking on more of a
professional level. I can't speak to a lot of the
other higher level motorsport series, but I know with NASCAR,
(05:26):
especially on the truck level, on the expinity level, there
are a lot of smaller teams that are always looking
for extra hands or freelance people to help them out.
Whether that's on a marketing pr side, maybe it's on
the crew side. There is a need there, and so
just putting feelers out there and reaching out to teams
and trying to see if they need help or if
(05:47):
you can assist in any way. And then if you're
thinking more like a full time job, there's opportunities on teams,
there's opportunities and sanctioning bodies. There's opportunities at tracks and
with facility management and like the event management for specific
events that go on. I think that's what comes to
(06:08):
mind off the top of my head. There's kind of
the amateur approach and the more professional approach, but it
really comes out to putting feelers out there, reaching out
to people, leaning on your network, cold emailing, cold calling.
I'm a big fan of that. And once you get
into an opportunity, you'll be able to see how much
you like it, if it's something you want to keep doing,
(06:28):
or maybe pivot to another direction. The third question we
got was from Corey, and she asked, at the end
of the day, what does a good relationship boil down
to one word or thing? And let me tell you, guys,
being succinct enough to describe what a relationship needs in
(06:49):
one word is very challenging. And there are so many
things that I think about with my own relationship with Ben,
my own relationship with my siblings, I don't know if
this was asked in a romantic sense or just any
kind of longer relationship. But there's a lot that goes
into it. But if I had to summarize what a
(07:11):
good relationship boils down to, I think I would have
to say communication. And I know it sounds cliche and
maybe a little boring, but I feel like that touches
on most areas of a relationship. So let's say, let's
think about the beginning of a relationship. You have to
(07:32):
be comfortable articulating what your big life goals and dreams
are to make sure that the person you're interested in
is kind of compatible enough, right, discussions around kids, where
you want to live, what lifestyle you're going for, how
you view finances, that's later on, But like you need
to eventually become comfortable articulating what it is that you
not need and want and what you're going to prioritize
(07:55):
to make sure that you work. So that's early level.
Then I think whenever it comes to having any kind
of problems or disagreements or feeling weird or getting a
weird vibe from your partner or whatever that might be,
being able to talk about it pretty quickly prevents feelings
of anxiety. It prevents having maybe a miscommunication or differences
(08:19):
in opinions snowball into bigger resentment towards each other. You know,
you need to be able to nip that stuff in
the bud. And I think even when trying to figure
out maybe what's bothering you, what's bothering your partner, to
be able to empathetically understand how to have that conversation
(08:40):
and to pick up on subtle cues and give yourself
what you need and what your partner needs. I think
that all is rooted in communication. And then you also have,
you know, on the physical intimacy side, being able to
communicate what you want and if something needs to be
done differently, being able to identify and vocalize it so
(09:02):
that the other person knows what's going on, because I mean,
none of us are mind readers, right, none of us
know just what someone else's wants and desires will be.
So being able to communicate there, and then in terms
of having fun and making jokes and intellectually stimulating each
other there's it all just comes back to communication. I think.
(09:25):
At the same time, if I had some backup wards
that I could use, I would say, respect is a
really big one. I think empathy and compassion is a
huge one. But I don't think those are as much
of a central need for a good relationship as communication is.
And it's so hard, and it's something that's always evolving,
and part of its learning communication styles and understanding when
(09:48):
someone is emotionally reacting to something versus maybe less emotionally reacting.
It's just so complex and it's so hard, and each
person has their own communication styles, and each couple will
have their own communication styles. What works for one couple
might not work for another, And so I think that's
really the root, and it's again so challenging, but I
(10:10):
would have to say that communication is what is really
needed for a good relationship. Tom asked our fourth question.
He said, what was a bigger challenge for you? Competing
on Survivor or several hours in the one hundred and
fifty degree race car. Great question. So I would say overall,
(10:31):
Survivor was a harder experience because I was so unfamiliar
with it. It was so challenging physically to be hungry,
to be out in the sun, to be in the weather.
We had limited amounts of rain, but still when it
rains and just can't dry out. It's awful. The challenges
were really fun, they were challenging, but I would say
(10:51):
like overall is an experience that was really hard. But
in some ways racing is harder because one the active
racing and winning is it's such a low percentage for
any race car driver that it's constantly challenging. But also
I think a given race could be really hard, especially
if your car is not handling well, if you had
(11:12):
to start the back or something like. There can be
really challenging races, and the career building associated with race
car driving is really challenging as well, and funding is
just so hard to come by, and I really struggled
in that area, And so I would argue that the
whole career of racing was a lot harder, especially because
(11:32):
I was so emotionally attached to making racing work and
wanting to be a race car driver, So there were
higher stakes I think with the whole racing career. When
it comes to physically driving the car, I felt like
in my prime, I was pretty pretty much in good
shape and able to tolerate the heat, able to tolerate
the g forces. Definitely felt totally whipped at the end
(11:53):
of some of these races because it can just be
heat is just no joke. And I remember, I think
where I felt the app worse getting out of a
car was racing at Sonoma in twenty sixteen. We were
it was K and N West at the time was
now ARCA West, and my teammates decided to crash each
other on the start of the race and blocked the
(12:15):
entire front straight away. So it was like two pm
in the middle of June, and we had to red
flag the race and we just had to sit in
our cars in the beating California sun for like forty
five minutes and it was just so hot, and then
we had to go run this whole race. And Sonoma
is a very physically demanding track. There's a lot of
elevation change, there's a lot of off camber corners, and
(12:37):
so physically it was one of the hardest ones. And
we had been sitting in these ovens for forty five minutes,
so that was really physically challenging. But I love that question,
so thank you. Tom Brian asked our fifth question, which
is what podcast do you listen to? And this is
such a fun question, so I have a few in rotation.
There are some I listened to a little more religiously
(12:58):
than others, and I do dabble a lot of different podcasts,
and a lot of times there will be a specific
podcast episode that I'm interested for a certain show, but
I might only listen to one or two episodes. But
ones that are consistent for me are The Morning Brew,
which is a business and finance podcast with two or
one millennial one JET and Z host and it's about
(13:19):
thirty minutes. I really enjoy listening to that, understanding what's
going on in the world, different consumer trends all that.
I also really like the ask Me Anythings in the
It's Meatinks podcast. I really enjoy hearing people call in
for asking her advice. She was the above me at Stanford,
although I did not don't think I ever saw her
(13:39):
on campus, but I just really I really admire what
she's built with her brand and following, and I think
her advice is usually pretty sound, so it's fun to
have that little girl talk moment with her and her followers.
And the third one of the that I got into
more recently was I Think Fast Talk Smart from the
Stanford Business School sponsors that one, and it's with Matt
Abraham and it's really interesting. It's communication based and the
(14:04):
guests are really smart and so just being able to
think about communication in a different light is really cool.
But Linda asked our sixth question, and she said, what
are the metrics and measures it will take to build
a racer and a team in NASCAR? Oh, that is
a loaded question. So for some high level answers to that,
(14:29):
I think the key things that you need for a
team are a talented racer, key personnel, which would be
crew chief, team owner, mechanics, maybe some logistics folks. You
need money, and that's funding for payroll, upstart costs, crash damage, travel, lodging,
if you're paying your racer, which doesn't happen a lot,
but hopefully more people will get paid as raceco drivers
(14:52):
in the future. And you know the shop space that
you need all that stuff, so you need that, and
then you need all of the assets and the data
and like the car and the parts and the engines
and the machines that you need to do the different
pulldowns and assessments of the of the cars. So it's
(15:13):
really it's a heavy lift to start a team. It's
a big energy, time and resource commitment, and I think
some people who have done it really well. You see
Sam Hunt Racing in the Xminity Series. You see Alpha
Prime Racing, which was my team when I ran my
two races, And there are really great examples of younger
(15:37):
team owners who are former racer starting up teams, obviously
intimately knowing what needs to be done on the competition side,
and then also bringing new blood into the arena for
the business ownership side. With NASCAR, there's a lot of
basically like really long standing legacy teams, the Hendrix, the Gibbs,
(15:59):
the Stewart hous Racing, just a lot of teams that
kind of have been here for decades. And then you've
got some newer big teams which are Trackhouse Racing twenty
three to eleven, and they do incredible jobs. They have
co owners that are celebrities with Michael Jordan and Pitbull,
and there's just so much And I'm definitely not the
(16:20):
expert in how to build a NASCAR team, but you
need probably a lot of patients, a little bit of crazy,
and a lot of money to go do it. And
I hope that we do see more and more team
owners new team owners in the sport a different Corey
asked what made you get into racing? So I got
kind of lucky because racing fell into my lap a
(16:40):
little bit. My parents were looking for an activity where
my siblings and I would be able to do something
together on the weekends and where they could help out,
and one way or another, they discovered Oakland Valley Race
Park in upstate New York and start racing go karts
there and I absolutely loved it. I loved going fast,
I loved winning, I loved working with adults. And yeah,
(17:03):
So it started in go karts, and then I went
to Formula Cars and I wanted to skip Barber Championship
when I was fourteen, and then when I was sixteen,
I switched to more oval style racing with Ford Focus Midgets,
and then did some Late Models and then Legends cars
and then back to Late Models one championship, climbed the
minor league NASCAR Ladder with the KNA n West Series,
the Canadian Series, the euro Series, and then ran my
(17:26):
two NASCAR Community Series races. That was the long story
short in my racing career. Kylie asked what was your
favorite cann track? Ooh, this is a good one. So
I did really well on the short tracks. The Orange
shows all American meridian, you know, quarter mile basically, or
(17:48):
maybe a little bigger than a quarter mile. In terms
of ones that were really fun to drive, I really
liked Kern in Bakersfield. It was a half mile, pretty
wide and just had a really nice flow to it.
I really liked Iowa once I learned that I had
to turn in under full throttle, which was absolutely terrifying,
but I figured it out. I want to love Sonoma,
(18:10):
but I really don't. Don't love that track. And oh
I had so much fun at Bristol. I got to
do cann East race at Bristol in April twenty seventeen,
started like twenty first because we got qualifying rained out
and I wasn't racing in that series full time, so
(18:32):
I started twenty first and we only got half the
race because it rained. But I asked my way from
twenty first up to like seventh. I think by the
halfway point, and have we not had the rain shortened race,
I think I probably could have gotten in the top
three in that race. It was just so much fun.
It was so exhilarating. You can't see very much, because
(18:52):
it's so banked and it's so small, and you had
to trust your spotter and you get a little lucky
that no one crashes right in front of you, and
oh it was absolutely amaze. It was my all time
favorite Oval track, I think after all that. Our last
question for today is from Jessica, and she asked, what
is your favorite song on The Tortured Poets Department? Girl,
(19:14):
Let me tell you episode forty four. If I'm honest
with Julia Landauer, was my initial thoughts of the album
three or four days after it came out, and I
stand by what I said, but it has also evolved.
My opinion of the album has evolved, and like so
many people, I realize that there are so many bangers
on that album and it's really great. In terms of
(19:37):
a favorite song right now, I continue to be obsessed
with I Can Do It with a Broken Heart. I
also really love So High School That one is really
really striking a chord with me now, and I still
really like but Daddy. I love him. So those are
my top three Tortured Poet's Department, and I am definitely
(20:01):
in that cohort of people who are watching all of
the Cell phone recorded videos of the Eras tour from Paris, because,
let me tell you, I enjoy seeing all the different angles,
seeing the choreography, and I'm one of those swifties that
will just get down the rabbit hole of watching these videos.
I'm really happy that she's on tour. I'm really grateful
(20:21):
I got to see the tour in the US. But
I'm also so jealous of this leg of tour attendees
who get to see Torture Post Department. I think a
lot of those songs are just really well choreographed, and
she picked some good ones to bring on to the stage.
So yeah, friends, that is our show. Thank you for
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(20:42):
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Hello everybody, and welcome back to another episode of If
I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. We are approaching episode fifty
in a few weeks from now. How exciting is that
this is a really wonderful passion project. As I've mentioned
on a couple of different episodes, it's been very therapeutic
to talk through some of the stuff that we've addressed.
(00:25):
It's been really interesting to do more research into some
topics that I find interesting and then share with you.
It's been really cool to connect with a diversity of
guests who have done different jobs and industries and passions
that they've pursued. It's been really, really fun, and I'd
obviously love to know what you think, what has resonated
with you, what topics you really enjoy hearing about, what
(00:47):
maybe you don't like as much, which guests you found
really great. So would love to hear from you either
in comments and reviews. So feel free and let me know.
Let's jump right into today's Ask Me Anything, because you
guys send in some great questions. I'm going to try
to get to as many of them as I can,
and if you have any more, please obviously reach out
(01:07):
and I will try to include them in a future
episode as well. The first question I want to answer
is something that a lot of you asked in some
variation of how much do you miss Nascar? Does Julia
miss being behind the wheel? Are you missing racing? The
answer is yes, I do miss racing. I absolutely love racing.
It's so exciting to be at the track. It's so
(01:28):
fun to go fast. It's really satisfying to feel like
you've mastered a perfect lap or to be able to
win a race, or even just be competitive in a
way that you are judging yourself by. So I miss
it a lot. But at the same time, I'm also
really enjoying flexing new muscles. I'm really enjoying being able
(01:49):
to learn more about business and corporate and to understand
what goes on behind the scenes with NASCAR and to
contribute to making the sport as great as possible, and
to understand some of the things that have to be
weighed for decision making, whether it's on the competition side
or the business side. I'm really pushing my brain and
(02:10):
developing new skill sets and meeting a lot of cool
people and being able to just push myself in a
different way. And that's really cool. Episode eleven of If
I'm Honest with Julia Landauer addresses the more emotional side
and it's called navigating identity shifts, and that's definitely a huge,
significant thing that's been challenging. But overall, I'm content. I'm
(02:37):
in a good place. I will say that there are
little trigger moments that sometimes happen that make me feel
really sad about not racing and not pursuing racing. Things
like when Shane Van Gelbergen won his debut NASCAR Cup
Series race in Chicago last year. The sheer elation that
(02:58):
he felt and the happiness and emotion and you could
hear it in his voice. I had this pang of,
oh my god, I may never experience that again, and
that was really sad. And there are other moments where
I see certain things that happen during a race, or
you know, seeing things with F One Academy, which I'm
so happy for. I'm so so happy that there is
(03:20):
a real significant and financial push to encourage and support
more women and girls getting into racing, like I love that.
I just kind of wish I could have been part
of it too, and that, you know, seeing this huge
surge of interest in women's sports and women in motorsports specifically,
just kind of feel like my timing for being in
racing was a little off, But that's okay. So besides that,
(03:41):
you know, it is what it is. This is life,
and I'm getting older and there are other things that
I'm looking forward to, but I do miss racing for sure,
and I hope to do it for fun where I can. Sushada,
and I hope I pronounced that correctly. I'm sorry if
I didn't ask our next question, which is is there
any way to get into racing, maybe not driving, but
(04:01):
support later in life. I love this question, and I
hadn't really thought about it a whole bunch until I
saw it pop up. But there are a couple of
ways that I want to tackle this question. So in general,
there are a lot of racing clubs and track days
and more like amateur style racing, whether that's SCCA or
(04:21):
Skip Barber or the Radical Race Cars or different manufacturer
clubs like Portcha Club, Ferrari Club. I'm sure there are others,
But if you're looking to get involved in at track
events later in life, I think that's a really cool
way to either bring your own car, rent a car,
just show up and watch a bunch of really cool
(04:42):
amateur racers racing and competing and getting the camaraderie being
at the track. I think there's a lot there and
kind of related to that. I know that for a
lot of those events, and even some other higher level
sanctioning bodies. You know, a lot of times tracks or
racing sanctioning bodies will look for volunteers or independent contractors
(05:04):
to help work the race. Maybe that's officiating, or maybe
that's more like flagwork, or maybe it's official work. Maybe
it's go karting, maybe it's legend cars, maybe it's these
club track days. I think there's things that you can
look into there if you're thinking on more of a
professional level. I can't speak to a lot of the
other higher level motorsport series, but I know with NASCAR,
(05:26):
especially on the truck level, on the expinity level, there
are a lot of smaller teams that are always looking
for extra hands or freelance people to help them out.
Whether that's on a marketing pr side, maybe it's on
the crew side. There is a need there, and so
just putting feelers out there and reaching out to teams
and trying to see if they need help or if
(05:47):
you can assist in any way. And then if you're
thinking more like a full time job, there's opportunities on teams,
there's opportunities and sanctioning bodies. There's opportunities at tracks and
with facility management and like the event management for specific
events that go on. I think that's what comes to
(06:08):
mind off the top of my head. There's kind of
the amateur approach and the more professional approach, but it
really comes out to putting feelers out there, reaching out
to people, leaning on your network, cold emailing, cold calling.
I'm a big fan of that. And once you get
into an opportunity, you'll be able to see how much
you like it, if it's something you want to keep doing,
(06:28):
or maybe pivot to another direction. The third question we
got was from Corey, and she asked, at the end
of the day, what does a good relationship boil down
to one word or thing? And let me tell you, guys,
being succinct enough to describe what a relationship needs in
(06:49):
one word is very challenging. And there are so many
things that I think about with my own relationship with Ben,
my own relationship with my siblings, I don't know if
this was asked in a romantic sense or just any
kind of longer relationship. But there's a lot that goes
into it. But if I had to summarize what a
(07:11):
good relationship boils down to, I think I would have
to say communication. And I know it sounds cliche and
maybe a little boring, but I feel like that touches
on most areas of a relationship. So let's say, let's
think about the beginning of a relationship. You have to
(07:32):
be comfortable articulating what your big life goals and dreams
are to make sure that the person you're interested in
is kind of compatible enough, right, discussions around kids, where
you want to live, what lifestyle you're going for, how
you view finances, that's later on, But like you need
to eventually become comfortable articulating what it is that you
not need and want and what you're going to prioritize
(07:55):
to make sure that you work. So that's early level.
Then I think whenever it comes to having any kind
of problems or disagreements or feeling weird or getting a
weird vibe from your partner or whatever that might be,
being able to talk about it pretty quickly prevents feelings
of anxiety. It prevents having maybe a miscommunication or differences
(08:19):
in opinions snowball into bigger resentment towards each other. You know,
you need to be able to nip that stuff in
the bud. And I think even when trying to figure
out maybe what's bothering you, what's bothering your partner, to
be able to empathetically understand how to have that conversation
(08:40):
and to pick up on subtle cues and give yourself
what you need and what your partner needs. I think
that all is rooted in communication. And then you also have,
you know, on the physical intimacy side, being able to
communicate what you want and if something needs to be
done differently, being able to identify and vocalize it so
(09:02):
that the other person knows what's going on, because I mean,
none of us are mind readers, right, none of us
know just what someone else's wants and desires will be.
So being able to communicate there, and then in terms
of having fun and making jokes and intellectually stimulating each
other there's it all just comes back to communication. I think.
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At the same time, if I had some backup wards
that I could use, I would say, respect is a
really big one. I think empathy and compassion is a
huge one. But I don't think those are as much
of a central need for a good relationship as communication is.
And it's so hard, and it's something that's always evolving,
and part of its learning communication styles and understanding when
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someone is emotionally reacting to something versus maybe less emotionally reacting.
It's just so complex and it's so hard, and each
person has their own communication styles, and each couple will
have their own communication styles. What works for one couple
might not work for another, And so I think that's
really the root, and it's again so challenging, but I
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would have to say that communication is what is really
needed for a good relationship. Tom asked our fourth question.
He said, what was a bigger challenge for you? Competing
on Survivor or several hours in the one hundred and
fifty degree race car. Great question. So I would say overall,
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Survivor was a harder experience because I was so unfamiliar
with it. It was so challenging physically to be hungry,
to be out in the sun, to be in the weather.
We had limited amounts of rain, but still when it
rains and just can't dry out. It's awful. The challenges
were really fun, they were challenging, but I would say
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like overall is an experience that was really hard. But
in some ways racing is harder because one the active
racing and winning is it's such a low percentage for
any race car driver that it's constantly challenging. But also
I think a given race could be really hard, especially
if your car is not handling well, if you had
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to start the back or something like. There can be
really challenging races, and the career building associated with race
car driving is really challenging as well, and funding is
just so hard to come by, and I really struggled
in that area, And so I would argue that the
whole career of racing was a lot harder, especially because
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I was so emotionally attached to making racing work and
wanting to be a race car driver, So there were
higher stakes I think with the whole racing career. When
it comes to physically driving the car, I felt like
in my prime, I was pretty pretty much in good
shape and able to tolerate the heat, able to tolerate
the g forces. Definitely felt totally whipped at the end
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of some of these races because it can just be
heat is just no joke. And I remember, I think
where I felt the app worse getting out of a
car was racing at Sonoma in twenty sixteen. We were
it was K and N West at the time was
now ARCA West, and my teammates decided to crash each
other on the start of the race and blocked the
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entire front straight away. So it was like two pm
in the middle of June, and we had to red
flag the race and we just had to sit in
our cars in the beating California sun for like forty
five minutes and it was just so hot, and then
we had to go run this whole race. And Sonoma
is a very physically demanding track. There's a lot of
elevation change, there's a lot of off camber corners, and
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so physically it was one of the hardest ones. And
we had been sitting in these ovens for forty five minutes,
so that was really physically challenging. But I love that question,
so thank you. Tom Brian asked our fifth question, which
is what podcast do you listen to? And this is
such a fun question, so I have a few in rotation.
There are some I listened to a little more religiously
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than others, and I do dabble a lot of different podcasts,
and a lot of times there will be a specific
podcast episode that I'm interested for a certain show, but
I might only listen to one or two episodes. But
ones that are consistent for me are The Morning Brew,
which is a business and finance podcast with two or
one millennial one JET and Z host and it's about
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thirty minutes. I really enjoy listening to that, understanding what's
going on in the world, different consumer trends all that.
I also really like the ask Me Anythings in the
It's Meatinks podcast. I really enjoy hearing people call in
for asking her advice. She was the above me at Stanford,
although I did not don't think I ever saw her
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on campus, but I just really I really admire what
she's built with her brand and following, and I think
her advice is usually pretty sound, so it's fun to
have that little girl talk moment with her and her followers.
And the third one of the that I got into
more recently was I Think Fast Talk Smart from the
Stanford Business School sponsors that one, and it's with Matt
Abraham and it's really interesting. It's communication based and the
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guests are really smart and so just being able to
think about communication in a different light is really cool.
But Linda asked our sixth question, and she said, what
are the metrics and measures it will take to build
a racer and a team in NASCAR? Oh, that is
a loaded question. So for some high level answers to that,
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I think the key things that you need for a
team are a talented racer, key personnel, which would be
crew chief, team owner, mechanics, maybe some logistics folks. You
need money, and that's funding for payroll, upstart costs, crash damage, travel, lodging,
if you're paying your racer, which doesn't happen a lot,
but hopefully more people will get paid as raceco drivers
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in the future. And you know the shop space that
you need all that stuff, so you need that, and
then you need all of the assets and the data
and like the car and the parts and the engines
and the machines that you need to do the different
pulldowns and assessments of the of the cars. So it's
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really it's a heavy lift to start a team. It's
a big energy, time and resource commitment, and I think
some people who have done it really well. You see
Sam Hunt Racing in the Xminity Series. You see Alpha
Prime Racing, which was my team when I ran my
two races, And there are really great examples of younger
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team owners who are former racer starting up teams, obviously
intimately knowing what needs to be done on the competition side,
and then also bringing new blood into the arena for
the business ownership side. With NASCAR, there's a lot of
basically like really long standing legacy teams, the Hendrix, the Gibbs,
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the Stewart hous Racing, just a lot of teams that
kind of have been here for decades. And then you've
got some newer big teams which are Trackhouse Racing twenty
three to eleven, and they do incredible jobs. They have
co owners that are celebrities with Michael Jordan and Pitbull,
and there's just so much And I'm definitely not the
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expert in how to build a NASCAR team, but you
need probably a lot of patients, a little bit of crazy,
and a lot of money to go do it. And
I hope that we do see more and more team
owners new team owners in the sport a different Corey
asked what made you get into racing? So I got
kind of lucky because racing fell into my lap a
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little bit. My parents were looking for an activity where
my siblings and I would be able to do something
together on the weekends and where they could help out,
and one way or another, they discovered Oakland Valley Race
Park in upstate New York and start racing go karts
there and I absolutely loved it. I loved going fast,
I loved winning, I loved working with adults. And yeah,
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So it started in go karts, and then I went
to Formula Cars and I wanted to skip Barber Championship
when I was fourteen, and then when I was sixteen,
I switched to more oval style racing with Ford Focus Midgets,
and then did some Late Models and then Legends cars
and then back to Late Models one championship, climbed the
minor league NASCAR Ladder with the KNA n West Series,
the Canadian Series, the euro Series, and then ran my
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two NASCAR Community Series races. That was the long story
short in my racing career. Kylie asked what was your
favorite cann track? Ooh, this is a good one. So
I did really well on the short tracks. The Orange
shows all American meridian, you know, quarter mile basically, or
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maybe a little bigger than a quarter mile. In terms
of ones that were really fun to drive, I really
liked Kern in Bakersfield. It was a half mile, pretty
wide and just had a really nice flow to it.
I really liked Iowa once I learned that I had
to turn in under full throttle, which was absolutely terrifying,
but I figured it out. I want to love Sonoma,
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but I really don't. Don't love that track. And oh
I had so much fun at Bristol. I got to
do cann East race at Bristol in April twenty seventeen,
started like twenty first because we got qualifying rained out
and I wasn't racing in that series full time, so
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I started twenty first and we only got half the
race because it rained. But I asked my way from
twenty first up to like seventh. I think by the
halfway point, and have we not had the rain shortened race,
I think I probably could have gotten in the top
three in that race. It was just so much fun.
It was so exhilarating. You can't see very much, because
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it's so banked and it's so small, and you had
to trust your spotter and you get a little lucky
that no one crashes right in front of you, and
oh it was absolutely amaze. It was my all time
favorite Oval track, I think after all that. Our last
question for today is from Jessica, and she asked, what
is your favorite song on The Tortured Poets Department? Girl,
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Let me tell you episode forty four. If I'm honest
with Julia Landauer, was my initial thoughts of the album
three or four days after it came out, and I
stand by what I said, but it has also evolved.
My opinion of the album has evolved, and like so
many people, I realize that there are so many bangers
on that album and it's really great. In terms of
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a favorite song right now, I continue to be obsessed
with I Can Do It with a Broken Heart. I
also really love So High School That one is really
really striking a chord with me now, and I still
really like but Daddy. I love him. So those are
my top three Tortured Poet's Department, and I am definitely
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in that cohort of people who are watching all of
the Cell phone recorded videos of the Eras tour from Paris, because,
let me tell you, I enjoy seeing all the different angles,
seeing the choreography, and I'm one of those swifties that
will just get down the rabbit hole of watching these videos.
I'm really happy that she's on tour. I'm really grateful
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I got to see the tour in the US. But
I'm also so jealous of this leg of tour attendees
who get to see Torture Post Department. I think a
lot of those songs are just really well choreographed, and
she picked some good ones to bring on to the stage.
So yeah, friends, that is our show. Thank you for
submitting your questions. If you have any other questions, leave
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them in a review, leave a comment on social media,
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