Exploring the Most Immersive Rig

Unlock the exhilarating world of sim racing with our special guest, Daniel Kilian from Kilians Creative Studio, also known as Astrologicals Racing. Daniel's passion for sim racing and content creation takes center stage as he shares his journey from console gaming to sophisticated sim rig setups. Our conversation is packed with insights into the latest sim racing technology, including the Ace Evo 1.5 update and the seamless transition from basic hardware to advanced peripherals, offering a treasure trove of inspiration for both newcomers and seasoned racers.

Our discussion goes beyond technology, diving into the heart of the sim racing community. We explore the strong bonds formed over shared interests and the joy of vehicle customization. The episode offers a window into the creative and collaborative side of sim racing, highlighting partnerships with companies like Podium One and touching on the influence of real-world drivers like Daniel Morad. Daniel Kilian provides a unique perspective on how authenticity in content creation enhances the experience for sim racing enthusiasts, making this conversation a must-listen for anyone passionate about racing.

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Kelly and a very special guesttoday, mr Daniel Killian from,
let me say it, creative Studio,aka Astrologicals Racing.
How's everybody doing?

Daniel (00:56):
today.
We're doing good man.
How are you guys doing?

Erick (00:59):
Doing good.
Happy to see you, man.

Jason (01:01):
Look at that, look at that man, those crazy reels on
Instagram.
And here he is, man.
I'm telling you, I'm excited toexplore the magic studio behind
the amazing shots that heproduces.
I'm telling you, I've beenfollowing him before I think
before even the show started,man.

(01:23):
So it's an absolute pleasure tohave you here in the studio
with us.
Thank you for making the timetoday, man.
Welcome Daniel.

Daniel (01:30):
Thanks for having me, guys.
I really appreciate it, hellyeah.

Erick (01:34):
And I'll say, my first time meeting you was when I
joined the Facebook group.

Daniel (01:39):
Right on.

Erick (01:40):
The Cimery group and he was one of the first guys to
welcome me and also, when weshared the podcast in there, one
of the first guys to reallyshow us a love on the podcast
link and you know, gave us somekudos on that and of course I
had to check him out.
I was like man, he's next level.
Like as far as his videos andstuff.

Daniel (02:00):
So happy to finally have you on man, thanks for coming
through.
Thanks guys, it's an honor,Thank you guys Awesome, yes, sir
.

Jason (02:14):
Hell yeah, man.
I mean we've been meaning tosend out the formal.
It's been kind of back to backhere in the studio, but I said,
man, we got to get them inbecause we've been following you
for a long time and all thechanges you've been making.
We've been following you for along time and all the changes
you've been making.

Daniel (02:30):
I remember when you I think you released a video about
the Osmo, the new camera, thenew DJI Osmo Action 5, this
little thing right here.

Jason (02:33):
Yeah, and it was your video.

Daniel (02:35):
Yeah, this deal, yeah man.

Jason (02:37):
And it was your video.
You were telling everybody heyman, the low light settings on
this thing is insane.
Everybody, hey man, the lowlight settings on this thing is
insane.
And I took another look and Iwas like, damn man, I'm going to
have to buy one of thosecameras now.

Daniel (02:51):
They're next level.
I got to say man, these cameras.
It's crazy what technology cando in such a small, compact
little camera.
Man, the technology is crazy inthese things.
So you can get some insaneshots with these.
So shout out, DJI, you guyskilled this camera.

Jason (03:07):
Hey, man DJI, If you want to collab, you know where to
find us.

Daniel (03:12):
It's right here.

Jason (03:14):
All of us.

Daniel (03:16):
All right so real quick.

Jason (03:18):
some announcements, not really many Just I promised an
update every time Ace Evo had anupdate, and 1.5 is out, and
that means that it's fullyonline now.
So you don't have to worryabout installing a beta or
having to do anything crazy.
It should work out the boxtheoretically, because I haven't
tested it yet.

(03:39):
But hey, if you're still on thefence and you're watching this
right now, go ahead and updateyour game and you should be able
to try out the new DriversAcademy and see how the economy
works in the game, if you may,in purchasing vehicles and stuff
like that.
So I'll give it over to Eric tosee if he has anything this

(04:00):
week.
If not, we'll get right rightinto it with our guest here.
Anything?

Erick (04:04):
this week.
If not, we'll get right into itwith our guest here.
Nothing much is following up onthe AC Evil update.
I know one of the things thatkind of deterred me especially
from kind of really spending alot of time with the game
outside of tinkering was I wouldcustomize the car and go
through and pick the interiorand the wheels and the color and
I load it back up and it wasgone.
Now that is fixed with the new1.5 update so you can pick your

(04:29):
car, customize it, close thegame, come back up and it's
still there.
So for any, if for any otherreason than to just be able to
have a car that you pick thecolor of and pick some details
on and it stay, uh, it's worthchecking out the update.
Just from my end.

Jason (04:45):
Yeah, I think that's good .
That's good, good input.
Eric, I just bought the S2000,man, same here.
Man With the red interior anddrive.
It's a clean vehicle.
But anyways, that's going to beabout it.
Um, for our announcementportion.

(05:06):
Uh, jeff smart couldn't make ittoday, so it's just going to be
me and Eric and our guest herewriting it out, and I'm really
excited to get into this man.
So, daniel, welcome to the showOnce again.
Man.
Um, can you tell us a littleabout yourself?
Man, like you know what'swhat's going on?
How, how did happen In your ownwords, right?

Daniel (05:35):
Yeah, yeah.
So I had this weird I don'tknow what to call it weird this
obsession about escaping reality, since I was in 10th grade,
11th grade when the wholevirtual reality thing started to
emerge and they started comingout with these headsets and
everything like that, and I wasjust so infatuated with how that
technology worked.
Now, as you can see, I didn'ttake that route.
With all due respect, I stillhave the triple screen set up,

(06:03):
as you guys see but I was justso amazed by how you could
literally be in one portion ofyour house and be in a
completely different realm.
So, like, this whole experienceof like and it all started I
was.
I was actually scrolling onYouTube and I saw a couple of
videos, boosted media, you know.
I saw his setup and I was justlike yo, this, this guy's a good

(06:23):
driver.
I was just like, and I dug onhis page come to find out this
is a Simrid.
I was like what, what do you?

Jason (06:29):
mean, this is a Simrid.
What are you talking about?
You thought it was real.

Daniel (06:32):
I thought it was real.

Erick (06:33):
Those are crazy.

Daniel (06:35):
And then I'm looking at related videos and then I came
across Race Beyond Matter and Iwas like this is crazy.

Jason (06:43):
Oh, and I was like this is crazy.
Oh, that's another guy.

Daniel (06:45):
Which is even crazier.
So I see this one-to-oneexperience.
He built out this roll cage, hebuilt out all these extra
components that you can feel andtouch inside the car.
I'm like there's got to be away to replicate something like
that, and I've been on thisjourney ever since man, so I've

(07:08):
just been so infatuated with thewhole bringing the actual
simulation to like a one to oneexperience and it's just that's
my escape, man, like I love it.
I love it and, of course, thecompetitive side.
But we'll get into that latertoo.
So, yeah, ok, yeah.

Jason (07:17):
I mean, to be honest, you know I took the roof off my rig
, you know, a few episodes back,and I had to make the decision
because it's like I play so manydifferent Sims and sometimes it
just didn't make sense to haveit.
But a lot of the ideas camefrom your videos man and Race

(07:40):
Beyond Matter too, like thewhole PVC thing and the whole
having the lap timer up therethat came from you.
I mean, those were ideas thatwe all share.
I mean this community is insane, bro.
It's like you go on, especiallythe Facebook group we're all
part of.
You see things like Eric says,people going into the junkyards

(08:01):
and picking out stuff fromjunkyards, bro, like damn, it's
crazy.

Daniel (08:08):
I'm a culprit of that man.
I mean, that was one of myfirst seats, man.
I literally went out to.
It was a place called U-Pulland I picked up it was a seat
out of this old S2K.
It was literally out of a Honda2000.
I said you know what I'm goingto put that on my rig?
I said you know what I'm goingto put that on my rig?
And I paid $15 for it and I gotthe universal brackets.

Jason (08:27):
You beat Eric bro.
Eric paid $50 for his.

Daniel (08:30):
Oh see how it goes, there we go.

Erick (08:33):
Out of a 2000 Civic.

Daniel (08:35):
Yeah, man, and I'm sure a lot of you guys.
How did you guys start with simracing?
What was one of your firstsetups?
What was your first experience?

Erick (08:45):
how'd you get into it?
You want me to go, since my mypath is a little quick, yeah I'm
standing back, bro.

Jason (08:50):
I'm not you.
I'm gonna let you have it.

Erick (08:52):
I'm interested, yeah so for me, I always like playing
racing games, started out withthe arcade stuff you know, um
shout out to midnight club.
We need that back.
All right, they imagineeverything else midnight club
dub edition.

Daniel (09:03):
I need that back.
All right, they're advancingeverything else.

Erick (09:04):
Midnight club dub edition .
I need that, yes, okay, um.
And then, uh, dear ridge racerand stuff on playstation.
Um, got into gran turismo alittle bit, but not too heavy,
and a little bit before covid Iended up getting a logitech
wheel and pedal set from a placehere called uh, second and
charles, so they had one.
It was like 199 or somethinglike that, in the box, still

(09:27):
almost brand new.
I got it mounted to my desk andwould play around with it from
time to time, but we had justhad my youngest so I didn't
really get deep into it.
Uh, fast forward to covid onceagain.
Uh, end up getting shut, youknow shut up in an apartment,
had the wheel and pedal set,would play around with it a
little bit.
Then got into the house, got myman cave here and I ended up

(09:52):
building a wooden rig off of.
There's a guy on YouTube.
I hate I can't remember hisname, but he had plans for.

Jason (09:59):
I remember this guy was driving home you were driving
home, right and this dude hadwood sticking out the back of
the car with a face like he wasmean.
Yeah, it was funny, I'm goingto get that picture, man, I'm
going to post it on there, thatwas funny.

Erick (10:15):
Yeah, man, so that was my first rig, so I built that.
It cost me like maybe $100 forall the wood.
I got the seat from a guy offof Facebook Marketplace who was
selling them out of a car.
He wrecked and built that andas soon as I got it together I
was like this is awesome.
At the time I didn't have a lotof time, but as the kids got a
little older, a little moreself-sufficient especially my

(10:37):
youngest, jason knows about that.
Oh, yeah.
Talked to him earlier this pastyear and he was like I've been
waiting, bro.
I looked, Talked to him earlierthis past year and he was, like
I've been waiting, bro.
I knew it was going to happen.

Jason (10:47):
I looked at my watch, bro , I said exactly.
I was like it's about that time, man there you go.

Erick (10:52):
It's about that time, man .
I talked to Jason and-.

Jason (10:58):
It's always my fault, man , every time we get on this.

Erick (11:03):
I give you your flowers because I was looking at a lot
of tech set up like the LysatechG Pro, and you talked to me
about SimMagic.
I never heard of them.

Jason (11:11):
And the Fanatec you almost fell for.

Erick (11:14):
Yeah, I felt like I was being forced to the Fanatec just
from like because Lysatech GPro they just came out with some
more accessories but for themost part they didn't have
anything else.
I knew I didn't like that.
But also I knew about theFentatec situation with them,
you know, facing bankruptcy andsome of the customer service
issues.
So I really didn't want to goFentatec.
And I was real happy when youtold me about SimMagic.

(11:35):
I raced on PS5.
Mostly I was able to use theCortex converter, got it set up
and kind of used thatreligiously with the PS5, now
Ended up doing an ASR1 rig.
So basically like the cheapestrig they have Still aluminum
profile Still rig bro, so I gotthe benefits of that and mounted
my seat to it, took it off mywooden rig, put it on my ASR rig

(11:59):
and I've been rocking out withthat ever since, man.

Jason (12:04):
And now he's got a PC.

Daniel (12:05):
But listen, I tell you, I see that PC in the background.
It looks good man.

Erick (12:10):
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you, I'm dabbling alittle bit.

Jason (12:16):
So the majority what I've gathered so far just by hearing
stories, is that a lot of usstarted with a console so far
just by hearing stories is thata lot of us started with a
console because a console is theeasiest way, is the easiest,
most affordable way to play aracing game.
Right, yeah, agreed, and whenyou buy hardware you want that

(12:37):
hardware to work with theconsole so that way you don't
have to buy a pc.
That's the mentality, that'show it You're like what can I
buy that works with what I haveright now?
And that's kind of why he cameat the perfect time, eric,
because I was like dude,simmagic is coming out with some
stuff and it's way affordable.

(12:58):
And I even heard about thisadapter that you might try and
see if it works out for you,because there's really not that
many options out there.
You either go Fanatec or maybeMoza.
I know Moza's starting to dipinto the console market.

Erick (13:14):
Yeah, they only support Xbox right now.
Xbox and.

Jason (13:17):
PC See, and there you go.
There's that.

Erick (13:19):
PlayStation.
Playstation is weird.
They charge extra for licensingSome some chip.

Jason (13:28):
They put a chip inside their device the devices that
are licensed by sony and it goesthrough like uh, authentication
.
It's kind of like I don't know.
I don't know what the I don'tknow what the deal is.
Microsoft doesn't care.
You can plug in a keyboard andit'll recognize it as a keyboard
.

Erick (13:48):
PlayStation is the worst thing about them Lockdown.
They're locked down and theyhave that hardware that they
authenticate with.
But also, it doesn't justauthenticate one time, it
authenticates over and over,like every two minutes.
Right, it reaches out.
It's like, hey, hey, are youauthentic, hey, are you
authentic.
Oh my y'all that's crazy,actually, bro, that's so

(14:08):
invasive, no privacy they wantto make sure you're legit.
You got some stuff.
We're gonna make sure it stayssony, because you know oh of
course.

Jason (14:23):
I mean, my story is relatively short.

Daniel (14:27):
Yeah, I'm interested to hear that.
Yeah, so I mean.

Jason (14:29):
I got into you sit back.
Similar to Eric.
I'm going to try and summarizethis right.
Okay, Similar to Eric, Istarted on a console and I'm
both Xbox and PlayStation.
I, like the Forza games, Gotinto racing, I want to say with

(14:50):
Gran Turismo 1 on thePlayStation 1.

Erick (14:53):
Right OG.

Jason (14:54):
OG and then GT2 came out, and that was next level.
When that came out, it was thefirst racing game that had a
double disc too.
I don't know, I'm aging myselfright now.

Daniel (15:04):
Oh man, I remember those now Remember that it had the
simulation mode and the arcademode.

Jason (15:09):
I do remember now, yeah, that's wild, and we would load
up our cars and our car setupsinto a memory card.
We would bring the PlayStationto high school, to school, to

(15:30):
school and, yeah, you know,maybe cut class one day and and
go to go to a, an own unmarkedlocation, and we're loading up
our setups and we're like racingagainst each other.
And that was the beginning ofonline racing.
There was none, you know, backthen, back in 2003, 2004.
I was like yeah, so that's how Igot into racing.
And then progressively Istarted looking at I've always

(15:52):
asked Eric about his Logitech.
I was like dude, I want to buyone of those.
It kind of looks cool, but Idon't know, I'm not sure.
And then a game calledSnowRunner.
So random, it's a truck game.
Oh yeah, snowrunner.
I know that one I picked up aLogitech and I was like man, I
want to use this, I want toreally try and drive the truck

(16:13):
with this thing, and it justescalated big time.
I returned to Logitech.
I bought a whole Fanatec setupand then I bought a PC, started
trucking in america trucksimulator and started racing
with the formula one games.
And then the aluminum profilecame.
I started with the next levelracing.

(16:34):
remember the next level racingrig that had a built-in seat,
whatever, yeah, yeah yeah yeah,I had a beach chair before that,
but my I guess my real propersim rig was that next level.
And then the Sim Lab came andthe triple monitors came and it

(16:54):
was a rabbit hole.

Daniel (16:55):
after that, it hasn't stopped.
I think it's so funny and Idon't mean to interrupt you guys
, but I just think it is sofunny when people post on the
groups hey, I just posted my Simrig, it's complete.
So that is the last word thatwe want to talk about here in
this group.
The C word.
I promise you in two weeks.

(17:16):
Yeah, the C word, it'sforbidden.
We just laugh at that.
It's so funny.
Man, there's no done, bro.
I used to say that.
Man, there is no done.
I used to say it.

Jason (17:25):
It's just like a car I used to.
I mean, I'm not a mechanic, butI had a 97 Honda with an H22
engine and it was kind of fireand every time something broke
down or every time I was lookingfor that next upgrade, it was
never put this in and you'redone.

(17:46):
There's no point that importmagazine.
Come in Again I'm aging myselfagain that import magazine.
Come in and you see all the newparts that are coming out from
Japan or whatever, and you'relike, damn, I want this, I want
that.
I'm going to trade this in Samething we're doing Sell this
wheel to get that other pieceand then hook this up.

Daniel (18:07):
That's it yeah.

Jason (18:08):
That's it, man.
The only thing, the onlydifference is we're not on the
street, we're just in our house,safe and sound.

Erick (18:15):
Yeah, definitely safe and sound, hit the reset button.

Jason (18:19):
Yeah, but in a nutshell, that's how we got here, so it's
always interesting to hear thestart of it, right?

Daniel (18:27):
Yeah, definitely man.

Jason (18:29):
I'll give the next question over to Eric.
What's up, Eric?

Erick (18:32):
Yeah, so kind of on that same path.
Man, how'd you end up gettinginto sim racing?
What's your journey like?
Yeah, journey like.

Daniel (18:40):
Yeah, so my, my father has a uh, he has a detail shop
in Cape Coral and he um, he got,he had this shop.
Maybe he was a mobile detailerhere in Southwest Florida for
like 20 years and we've alwaysloved cars and that's pretty
much how I really got into thecar scene, because I just had

(19:01):
this deep love for making carslook really, really pretty.

Jason (19:10):
So I was a detailer since I was eighth grade, all the way
up through high school, and Iwas helping dad.

Daniel (19:12):
That's it, man.
So we just shared this passionfor cars and when we would get
Corvettes he loves freakingCorvettes and then we'd meet the
occasional Lamborghini or theHuracan and it's just like man
do this.
This makes my job so muchbetter, like when I get to do
the high end cars.
It's so awesome.
But, um, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it it it.

(19:41):
Eventually he got a little simrig.
He got a g29.
Your dad, hi, yeah, my dad gotwhoa.
He got it and he got the g29dude, you're a blessed man, bro,
you know shout out to your dad,bro.

Jason (19:54):
That's what I'm saying, man so that's.

Daniel (19:56):
That's where it all started.
So he had this big 75 inch tvin the front room.
Right there it.
It was pretty cool, thistubular design, real cheap, real
flimsy, like Toys R Us, liketubular design hooked it up to
the wheelbase right there.
You got the G29 right up topright there, and then you got
the pedal tray and everything.
But I loved it, man, I didn'tcare how horrible it felt.

(20:20):
At least that's how myperception of-.
We didn't know any better,though, dan.
I didn't know better, right,none of us knew.
That's the thing.

Jason (20:25):
That was the shit.

Daniel (20:26):
Excuse my language, that was the shit when it came out.

Jason (20:29):
It was nothing else out there.
What was the other option?
You know what I mean.

Daniel (20:33):
Exactly so I fell in love with it and it was amazing
to me and I was like how do Ibring this to the night?
And then I started.
That's how this whole thingstarted Like.
I started looking up YouTubevideos, I came across these few
pages and I was like, well, letme see what I can do to get my
own.
Yeah, I didn't want to belocked into a PS4.
So I went on a budget PC and myfirst PC was actually a that

(20:57):
was a oh my gosh dude.
It was an RTX 1660 Super on anAMD 3600X and I had a single
34-inch widescreen.

Jason (21:10):
I ran it at NDP.
That's not a bad start, man,that's not a bad start.

Daniel (21:13):
It was cool.
I had my own tubular, realcheap tubular design.
I had a G29 I bought on my ownand then I got the pedals and
I'm just like I am content, I amhappy, I'm complete, complete,
I don't need anything else.
Yeah, that was the biggest lieI ever told myself.
Biggest damn lie.
This was almost five years agoand since then, man, it's just

(21:35):
been.
And this isn't something thatand a lot of you guys could
probably relate maybe maybe youas well but like this isn't
something that you just go outand buy.
Not a lot of people that canjust drop a few thousand dollars
and just do this.
This was a long course of justsmall investments here and buy,
sell hardware.
Well, that's why it's calledbuilding.

Jason (21:55):
We're building these.
There's no way that you canimagine that thing that you have
back there from the get.
It's an experience.
You start learning where youwant things to fall into because
I bet you anything, the way youhad it before looks nowhere
near what it is now and that's.

Erick (22:18):
That's almost all of us.

Jason (22:19):
You know what I mean.
Yeah, unless you you got someyears of of like.
If I was to build another rig,then yes, right now, yes, I can
tell you where things might fitright Due to the experience that
we have with today's hardwaretoday's, Because back five years
ago it was hard to get one ofthese aluminum profiles across

(22:42):
the sea.
You're in the United.
States to get one of thesealuminum profiles across the sea
.
You're in the United States.
You already know.
There really isn't amanufacturer for us at all right
now, other than GSI, and theymake wheels, they don't make
rigs.
So we have Canada, which is thewhat you call it, the ASR.
Rob Markman.
And advanced CR Williams, andthey're not that old.
You know what I mean.

(23:02):
They're pretty new to the game.
Rob Markman, Right, and they'renot that old.
You know what I mean.
They're pretty new to the game.
So you know, you had just stuffcoming in from Europe and that
is yeah, it's expensive, yeah,man.
Especially listen, bro, comingover to Hawaii?
I don't want to hear it.
Eric, don't talk to me aboutshipping.

Erick (23:21):
So the only reason I didn't get a Sim Lab rig I
wanted that Sim Lab one becausethere's one that you showed me
and it was like $450 beautifulrig.

Jason (23:30):
That's not bad yeah the shipping on that thing was like
almost $300 and I was likethat's another rig, that's a
whole different level of rig andI seen ASR's rig and it was
like $399 but the shipping wasfree.
Yes, because you don't have thelower 48 problems, bro, like we

(23:53):
do.
You know what I'm saying.
We're all the way across the.

Erick (23:56):
We got plenty of space back up here in the mainland bro
.

Jason (23:59):
I see here we go.
That's what's up, man.
So, and to recap this uhquestion, if you don't mind me
buttoning there, eric, um, yeah,what, what sim title was was
the one that your dad wasplaying on on the ps4?
Yeah, good question.

Daniel (24:18):
So yeah, it was a set of corsa and that was the main sim
that I, yeah, assetto Corsa forPlayStation 4.
Yeah, wow, it was actuallypretty cool.
So I mean, I had the big screenset up and I'd play in the
first person view and I noticedthat, you know, the closer I
moved myself to the screen, likethe bigger screen the more

(24:39):
immersed I like felt inside ofit.
And so I got this idea.
Look, I, I gotta bring thiscloser to me.
So I started researching thebuild out.
Everything brought the visionto life over the course of a few
years.
But like, yeah, it started offwith the set, of course, back in
god man, yeah, it was rightaround covet 2020, 2021 yeah,

(25:00):
that makes sense.
A lot of man that's dope a lotof you guys that's, that's how
we all started was during thispandemic.
As tragic as it was, there wasa lot of good things and cool
things that came from it, likesim racing, as you guys see.

Jason (25:13):
I mean I'm going to say something on the show.
I mean nobody wants a secondpandemic or lockdown.
Uh-uh, yeah, pause, but I'mready.
I don't know, hey, yo we'recutting that he's like I'm ready
, I'm ready.

Erick (25:32):
Well, you're out in.

Jason (25:33):
Hawaii, bro, I mean nothing gonna touch you out
there, hey we got volcanoes overhere oh man, you never know
right so, alright, so now thatwe know how you progressively
you know which is insane, by theway, and I really love the fact
that your dad was the maindrive for you right To get you

(25:58):
yeah, definitely.
Because he was the one thatsaid hey, look at this and you
loved it, which is awesome.
That's a great dad, so shoutouts to your dad, mad respect
already.

Erick (26:07):
For sure, shout out to the detailing.

Jason (26:10):
And the detailing.

Erick (26:11):
I'm an amateur detailer.

Daniel (26:12):
That's what's up, yeah.

Erick (26:14):
I do a little.

Jason (26:15):
I enjoy it, man, that's it.

Erick (26:16):
I enjoy it.

Jason (26:17):
I'm not the best though.
I'm not the best I couldpressure wash a car and wax it.

Erick (26:23):
I pressure wash and got a rotary and all that stuff,
right.

Jason (26:27):
So yeah, no worries.
So all right, let's move overto the next question.
So we covered your journey sofar.
Right, and tell us about what'syour rig right now.
What is the setup?
What do you have installed?
What do you call complete fornow?
What is the setup?
What do you have installed?

(26:47):
What do you call complete fornow?
What is for now?
What's going on in 2025?
Okay, I'll put it that way.

Daniel (26:53):
Oh, if you guys haven't seen it already, I did release a
rig tour of 2025.
It just came out, probablyabout four weeks ago, but we're
going to go over through prettymuch everything from start to
finish, and what I have sharedthat currently.

Jason (27:06):
Yeah, yeah, for sure yeah , for sure.

Daniel (27:08):
So link that as well for you guys.
But right now, uh, just likeeric, you have an asr rig right.
Yep, yep, my framing isactually an asr3 rig, so it's
it's solid.
I think I got a pretty gooddeal on it back then.
I think I paid, like whoa,about 549, maybe 600 for it yeah
so I have an asr3 rig.

(27:31):
This component right here isreally the, the heart of
everything, and it's thisdaytona momo xxl.
Now, this was.
This was kind of hard to findand get, because I'm six foot5".
I'm about 250 pounds.
I'm a large person.

Jason (27:48):
I would have never guessed you're 6'5" bro.
So I needed to get some Goodcamera angle, by the way.

Daniel (27:57):
I'm trying to make sure I don't look.
Yeah, exactly.

Erick (28:01):
Shout out to the seat man because I just said watch this.

Daniel (28:11):
It looks like you're fine man.
That's, that's.
That's awesome, yeah, man.
So I had to obviously make thisfit my body profile the way I
needed it to, or otherwise, youknow, it would have been useless
.
So, being six foot five, I hadto find the seat.
Man, where did I get this from?
I believe it was from I don'tremember the exact name of the
dealer.
It was somewhere here in the US, but they were sold out

(28:33):
statewide for probably six oreight months before I could
actually get my hands on one,because the XXLs would only come
in every so often before theyget on back order.
So I waited like six monthsbefore I could get this seat.
Uh, long story short, I gotthis thing mounted and it is
absolutely amazing.
If you guys are big and tall,like big boned, like me this is

(28:54):
definitely the route to gothere's an option with a seat
gotcha, yeah, and I think and Ithink ergonomics and seating is
huge in a yes like 100, and youcould probably speak on this too
, being you know I racing withyou guys that you have to be
comfortable for a long period oftime, and this is extremely
important when I'm shootingcontent or I'm doing a long
endurance race.

(29:14):
I got to be comfortable.
My ergonomics have to be onpoint.
Last thing I want is for mylower back to be hey bro, we
done.
No, I don't want that.
So so yeah, the ergonomics thatwas super important on this, so
that seat comes in clutch.

Jason (29:31):
It looks.
It looks nice, man, I like it.

Daniel (29:32):
Uprights yeah, these uprights right here I had to buy
.
I actually bought these fromAutomation Direct.
It's actually an extrusioncompany.
If you guys are looking for areally good source of extrusion,
automation direct is a reallygood place to get extra pieces
and they'll custom cut them fora really good cost and they'll
do two free day shippingstraight out to you.

Jason (29:55):
So these are not the one I don't see.
We'll test that free, that freetwo-day shipping here in a
second.

Daniel (30:02):
Oh shit, I think Hawaii might be the exception here.

Jason (30:08):
Yeah, but that is good though.
That is a great point.
It's really hard to find extrapieces like that, because once
you buy a rig and it comes withwhat it came with.
Sometimes it's really hard tofind those pieces and cut to
measure, which is awesome.

Daniel (30:26):
Yeah.
I'm definitely not cutting them, no Hell no.
Hell, no, no, I'm not doingthat, all right.

Jason (30:33):
So we have a seat and we have your stand-up post where I
can see some lights up there.

Daniel (30:39):
Yeah, so we'll talk about the lighting.
So right up behind me, this iswhat is really the heartbeat of
everything it's lighting.
I think lighting is one of themost important things when it
comes to the interior andbringing that to life.
So when you see these dynamiccrazy things going off on the
rig, these are all synchronizedto the actual game itself.

(30:59):
So the phillips hue system isone, and govi does it too.
Shout out, govi, y'all kill thegame as well.
But you can synchronize thisadaptive lighting from the
exterior environment and bringthat inside of the vehicle in
real time.
So let's just say I'm drivingand it's sunset and I got trees
and I'm going underneath theactual like the trees and you

(31:20):
got shadows and stuff In realtime.
You can see the light shiftsand the changes and it's.
It's crazy.
Let's say we got lightningoutside and I want to create
this crazy video.
You got cars buzzing all aroundand I got this lightning storm
going on.
You're getting flashes of lightsfrom the lightning on the
interior of the rig and it'sjust it's this is from this is

(31:41):
from sim hub, right the ambientlighting yeah, this is all via
SimHub and this is going to allbe configured.
You can select little points,capture points on your.
Yeah, you probably know aboutthis too.

Jason (31:51):
Yeah, On your roll cage.

Daniel (31:54):
I can't be without that, bro.
I'm telling you, I'm tellingyou man so adaptivizing.

Jason (31:58):
Especially when you go into an underpass and it goes
dark and then the light comesback on and it goes dark, and
then the light comes back on oryou go with the trees.
The trees, eric, you need toget with this life bro.

Daniel (32:08):
I'm telling you, eric, you haven't experienced it yet.
He's not there, yet he's on myhit list.
Yeah yeah.
So the adaptive lighting, thatwas cool.
So I got four Philips Hue lightbars.
Now I just did a video on theactual roll cage.
It's just PVC was maybe two or300 bucks.

(32:30):
I mean, you got the blackdisplay foam right here.
That's just foam board, it'snothing special.
I was thinking, one day I'llget with somebody, maybe we
could make some plastic moldsand actually make some pretty
cool stuff like that.
But it's super simple, man, sothat's wrapped in Alcantara.

Jason (32:47):
You got to think about heat too, Daniel.
I mean, if you insulate thattoo hard, like with metal or
rough, it's going to get hot ashell in there.

Daniel (32:57):
That's a good point.
That's a good point and I wouldnot recommend a roof for
somebody that has, if you livein Nevada or you have a very hot
environment like Florida, likefor myself.
Thankfully, I live in anupdated home where I don't have
to deal with heating.
I usually keep my house around72 degrees, so it stays pretty
cool in this room.

(33:17):
Air conditioning, yeah, airconditioning is a big one.
So that was one thing that Istruggled with my last place,
like when I installed all ofthis lighting and I had this
roof and I didn't have any typeof airflow and there's actually
a little fan inside there that Ikeep just to keep the airflow
going as well yes um, it was hot, bro, like I was like it felt

(33:40):
like an actual, like an actualrace car and I just I'm like no,
this is, this is toouncomfortable now it's too
immersive for real, yeah.

Jason (33:50):
Exactly.
You're sweating fuck inside.
You know what, even with AC,even with fans, I have two fans
that come at me from the top andI don't have them hit my face,
I have them hit my chest.
So that way, the air kind ofFans like this and then I have

(34:10):
an overhead which is, overall,just um circulating air.
It don't matter, bro.
You start racing for 30 minutesand your heart rate's going.

Daniel (34:20):
Your heart rate's going, bro, it's I just know pro
racers are watching us right now.

Jason (34:25):
You pansies you realize what I'm you realize what I'm
going through.

Daniel (34:29):
Right now it's 300 degrees in here.
I have no wind flow yeah yeah,well, there's some streamers out
there.
You know what I'm saying, so Iget it, man.
So, like, for me,comfortability is key, you know,
for long periods of time.
So like, I think that's prettyimportant.
You gotta have good airflowinside there.
So, like, the monitors, I havethree 32 inch, so they're agon

(34:51):
pro 2560, by 1440, 155 hertzokay, monitors, those are all
synchronized.
So obviously, get what you guysare seeing content wise is
three screens meshed together,uh, surrounded, and then you
have the left side, the rightside, everything, and it just
creates this.
That's all the visuals that yousee right there.

(35:13):
So so that I would highlyrecommend those monitors
specifically just because, Imean, I've had them for two and
a half years and I have oneissue they're pretty dang good
for what they are.
I think, I got them for likeless than $300 a piece, I think
at the time.
Not bad.

Jason (35:31):
So these are flat or are they curved?

Daniel (35:35):
they are curved they are curved and that's.

Jason (35:37):
That's a whole debate, if you want to go on that I mean I
know and a lot of people askthat question it's very personal
and that's really hard to tellyou because you don't know until
you see it, that's it.

Daniel (35:53):
I will say that over the years.
If I had the choice to do itagain, I probably would go with
flat, just because they'reeasier to line up and mesh
together.
Curved is tough.

Jason (36:07):
I'm going to counter you with this.
Go for it.
So I like the curve because thecurve saves space and it brings
the image closer to my shoulderand I feel more immersed
because it's wrapped, it's notlike a panel.
That's kind of off to the sideand it's taken a lot of width.

(36:28):
So that's how I feel about it.
If I had unlimited space, thenshit I would, there'd be 55s
back here.
Tell you, right we're getting65s are you?
Are you looking at 65s?
Okay, hell, no, I couldn't fitthat in this little room.

Daniel (36:45):
I've been thinking about .
Um, I was talking to a coupleguys um, I want to do a portion
of my garage because obviouslythis room it's a small studio
room in the front of my home.
I want to AC my garage, mytwo-car garage, and just have a
little corner where I keep thatportion of the garage.
Temperature range around 75, 72degrees.
Get all that in there and builda second rig potentially.

(37:07):
We'll see how that goes.

Jason (37:10):
It'll come bro, it'll come.
I know we're kind of skippingahead here, but just to cap that
off, I know you started yourcontent creator, youtube reviews
and stuff like that, and asecond rig is very useful I mean

(37:33):
to have for testing, definitely.
Uh, you know the immersivefilms that you do, or the reels,

(37:56):
or you know whatever china,whatever, excuse me, whatever
capture you're trying to get,whatever china angles you're
trying to get.
That's how I feel.
I mean I wouldn't rush inthere's so many options now, um,
for rigs and saving, you know,saving cash.
You could build a rig waycheaper now than you could a few
years ago, when we started manyeah Way cheaper now.

Daniel (38:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Erick (38:16):
So that studio rig would be nice.

Jason (38:19):
So, to wrap up your setup , though, so you got the three
monitors, you got the roll cagewhich I love, is my favorite
part of it and the lighting.
So what kind of wheel?
Base wheel what are yourpreferences?
Pedals what's up?

Daniel (38:36):
Yeah, so, as you guys were talking about earlier, I
decided to take the Sim Magicroute for a direct drive
wheelbase.
I was really pleased with theirecosystem.
I think, that a few of thewheels that you see behind me.
I'm just really pleased with theNEO system that just came out.
Their NEO system is beyondaffordable, like if you're just
now getting into sim racing andyou want an affordable route to

(38:58):
take.
I think that sim magic andtheir neo system is going to be
that route, because for a hubnow 200 bucks, typically hubs.
If you go anywhere else theystart at six to seven hundred
dollars I mean yeah that's a.
That's a big investment.
For a lot that's just a buttonhub, you know, and some

(39:20):
companies out there they'llstart around 12 to 1500 for a
wheel, you know, and that's notfeasible for somebody that
typically that are just nowgetting the sim racing, you know
.
So I took the sim magic route,my wheelbase.
Um, I started off with a simmagic alpha mini and I ran that
for two years before switchingover to the SimMagic Ultimate.
Simmagic Ultimate is incrediblethe fidelity, the amount of

(39:43):
power this thing has the detail.
It's beyond anything that I'veever tested.
I tested Fanatec.
I tried their top of the line,their DD1.
I tried their DD2, and they'regreat.
I think they feel amazing.
But the amount of detail that Ifelt at a lower voltage on this
one so less power draw and Icould just barely turn.

(40:06):
I felt more detail with thisone and it's newer.

Jason (40:09):
You know I mean the DD2 is damn near eight, seven years
old.

Daniel (40:15):
It is.
Yeah, it's dated.

Jason (40:20):
It's way dated.
They're one of the first directdrives to come out, and you
mentioned that you went from aMini to an Ultimate and
sometimes that's very difficultto explain to somebody because
they're like well, the mini has10 Newtons, that's all you ever
need.

Daniel (40:37):
And it's not-.
Yeah, let's talk about that.

Jason (40:40):
Yeah, newton meters is a number of force, correct, it's
not slew rate, it's not detail,it's not fidelity.
You may not use the 25 Newtonsthat you have now I think it's
25, if I got that correct.
23, yeah, okay, 23, 20, 22.
Same thing, yeah, but there's adynamic range with that

(41:03):
feedback and that's whatseparates the two.
But you can't explain.
They don't.
It's not something that I cantell you.
It's something that you have toput hands on and feel, yeah,
correct, which is a problem,right, because it's an expensive
hobby that we have here and wedon't have nowhere to test.

(41:26):
You know, it's not like we cango to a store.
Or let me try the mini, allright, let me try the alpha, all
right, let me try the ultimate.

Daniel (41:46):
You're kind of praying and hoping that it works out.
Follow on social media was ahuge deciding factor, even I
guess another one was DanielMorad as well.
He was a huge deciding factoron certain hardwares and I
follow his channel just becausehe has a professional opinion.
And how this translates into asim racing world, it's
incredible, and that's one thingto note.

Jason (42:09):
Oh yeah, he's a real-life driver, I mean he can't.

Erick (42:13):
He's fast in real life too.

Daniel (42:16):
Yeah, I saw him at the Daytona two weeks ago.
I was at Daytona Rolex 24.
I saw him racing.
He was doing amazing.

Erick (42:22):
Yeah, man.

Daniel (42:23):
Oh, wow.

Erick (42:24):
Nice man See we ain't got none of that stuff in Hawaii,
man, I didn't go over here.
Get rid of some of the golfcourses, man.

Jason (42:32):
Hawaii is amazing.
I'm teasing, I'm teasing.

Daniel (42:35):
Now are you Now?
I didn't want to get offsubject here.
Are you originally from Hawaii?
Were you born there?

Jason (42:40):
No, bro, you see that Puerto Rican flag back there on
the chair Okay, and I got somefamily in Florida too, man, so I
see you.
I got some family up in inorlando.
No, I'm originally from puertorico and I moved out here for
that's career opportunities,basically right now, you know,
and I guess I got into racing, Ibought my rigs, all everything

(43:03):
came to hawaii so I had to paythe price for it.
What is?

Daniel (43:10):
what's the community out there like for sim races, like
if you could count how manydudes are out there.
How many dudes out thereactually sim race?
Is there, is it yeah, I wasgonna say probably not too many,
there's a few because I've soldhardware before on facebook and
that gives you an idea on.

Jason (43:30):
You know how many clicks you.
Some people click on the ad ifyou're selling a wheel or a
piece of hardware, Right.
Yeah, and it's not many.
I mean I want to say less than200 people out here that I
especially on this island,because Hawaii has many
different islands, but not a bigniche over here, not really big

(43:54):
into racing.
We don't have tracks over hereeither, so it's not really known
for racing, for motorsport.
I'm sure there's fanseverywhere and there's a lot of
military here, so a lot of themcoming over might be those sim
racers that are coming over from, uh, mainland United States.
I'm guessing, though I may be.

(44:16):
I hope I'm wrong.
If somebody leave us a comment,let me know if you're from
Hawaii.
Yes, let me know.
Leave us a comment or send usan email at the chicane podcast
at gmailcom.

Erick (44:29):
Or if you're from Alabama , cause I kind of have a similar
issue there you go all righthere.
Let me know what uh what.
What pedals do you have?

Daniel (44:41):
oh, yeah, yeah, there's a couple more things I wanted to
touch on.
Uh so, uh so the pedals areactually by ghost sim racing.
So this guy, he, I don't knowif you guys are familiar with
sim jacks, you guys familiarwith the sim jack pros?

Jason (44:55):
yeah, yeah okay, all right, I haven't.

Erick (44:59):
No, I'm not familiar with those from uh like aliexpress
or something like this so I'mtelling you, man so like and
this I've been hearing this.
This is a funny topic actually.

Daniel (45:08):
So I actually got so my review side of things.
So I do reviews like on YouTubeevery once in a while, Right,
and it kind of blew up fromthere.
But what I used to do isliterally put my neck out on the
line and buy sim racingcomponents from AliExpress and I
say, you know what, let's seeif this thing's even legit Like
I would buy these things.
I would take the risk.
I didn't care if it cost me 20,30 bucks, I mean a hundred

(45:29):
bucks here and there.
I would buy these things.
I would take the risk.
I didn't care if it cost me 20,30 bucks, I mean a hundred
bucks here and there.
I would just buy it, review itand nine times out of 10, I was
pretty surprised with how wellthese components performed from
AliExpress, mainland China.
Sometimes it would take six toeight weeks to get to my house.
I get a package on my frontdoor.
I'm like what the hell is it?

(45:53):
Some random package I'd bescared to open it sometimes
because it'd be wrapped in tape,all crazy.
I'm like, oh man, I don't knowwhat I ordered this time, but I
tried button boxes and thenlittle dashes and DDUs and stuff
like that, and then eventuallyI got these pedals.
So I ran SimJack Pros, whichare all aluminum or not aluminum

(46:14):
, stainless steel construction.
They're actually an exact,quote-unquote replica of the
husion field.
Is that how you say?
Husion field sprints, uh uhhusenfeld or husenfield right.
So they copied their design andthey decided to make their own
and I was pleasantly surprisedwith how well the build quality

(46:36):
were of these pedals and,honestly, I ran those for two
years straight.
And this guy, taylor from GoSim Racing, reached out to me.
He's like hey man, I see thatyou've been running the SimJack
Pros.
The Ultimates just came out,and what I do?
I take these pedals.
The ultimates just came out,and what I do?
I take these pedals.
I'm based in the US.
I get you know 20 to 50 at atime and I will custom tailor

(46:58):
them to your liking.
I'll do bearing mods, I'll dospring mods, I'll do all these
crazy custom.
Yeah, dude, it's just crazy,it's legit.
Yeah, so he will literallycustom build all of these little
intricate parts to your exactliking.
It's absolutely crazy.
So, and there's no markup likehe will literally buy them from

(47:21):
me, and that's what a lot ofguys would ask me.
He's probably selling them forsix to $800.
No, he'll buy them, maybe, youknow, 10 or 15% off, because
he's like a dealer, right, buthe will sell them for the exact
cost that they cost onAliExpress.
So I'm like that's a win.
That's a win.
You get fully customized pedalsfor $299 or $289, three pedal

(47:42):
set.

Jason (47:43):
And they're custom.

Daniel (47:44):
Wow.
They're all custom.
So he hooked me up with thoseand I've been running them ever
since and they are very durable.

Erick (47:57):
I have nothing but good things to say about them, so
shout out taylor.

Daniel (47:59):
There you go.
Your cars are pretty freakingawesome, bro, they are.
And what was the name of thiscompany?
Again, yeah, ghost sim racing.

Jason (48:02):
Yeah, we'll leave it.
We'll get that in thedescription as well.

Erick (48:04):
I need to check this out big time, you might find
something pretty interesting onthere yeah, yeah it's, and it's
funny that you mentioned thoseand the only reason I know that
about dissemination stuff onaliexpress, by default I
wouldn't like joke about it,like see it and laugh.
But somebody was reviewing oneof their um race logic kind of

(48:25):
dupes and they were just like,yeah, like the guy was talking
about it, he was, he got itliterally to kind of bash it and
he was like I'm just confusedat how good this is oh yeah, I
mean it's like.

Daniel (48:39):
Yeah, he's like I'm laughing because it's so
relatable.

Erick (48:43):
Yeah, so uh alibaba man, I mean, I'll tell you I alibaba
I got the same thing though Igot a

Jason (48:51):
sim push man from man from AliExpress.
That's the race logic, thereplica.

Erick (48:57):
Yeah, that might be what he's doing, bro, and it's solid
man Some of their stuff, man.
Yeah, that, look Some stuff.
I guess they get right, youknow.

Daniel (49:06):
Yeah, it's actually pretty surprising and, like you
said, you look at it and you'reexpecting something.
Oh man, this is.
You know if it is what it is,and it turns out to be something
pretty substantial and prettyhigh quality.

Jason (49:22):
So, yeah, I mean to be honest.
You never know.
It's a gamble, right?
Because?
It is a gamble.
A lot of great stuff get madein China.
I mean, look at DJI's products,look at their drones that are
made in China, that are based inChina.
True, that's very true, superhigh-end stuff.
It just depends who's makingthem right, it's not really

(49:44):
where it's being made, it'swho's making them, because most
of our stuff is made in China.
Bro, look underneath.
Look underneath it.

Erick (49:55):
Yeah, they definitely are capable of making anything.
It's just how much are youwilling to pay for whatever
they're making?
And they'll make it to thatspec.
That's their bread and butter.

Daniel (50:07):
And I think, a lot of these things that we look at.
There's designers for all ofthis, but these designers don't
have the means to produce it ata larger scale.
So that's where china does comein, like you'd be.
I mean, you guys probablyalready know this, but things
are designed in italy, butthey're manufactured and
distributed all around the worldfrom mainland china, just

(50:27):
because they don't have themanpower to create these kind of
things.
So, yeah, yeah, man, noteverything from China is
terrible.

Jason (50:35):
And the cost too.
The company's looking at costsat large scale without going
into detail what that means, butyou know what that means.

Erick (50:42):
Oh yeah, exactly, you know iPhones.

Jason (50:46):
they're made in China, bro.
They are, they're trying.

Erick (50:49):
They're trying Good out of there but the bulk of them
are made there.
They're trying.

Daniel (50:54):
They're trying Good luck and then going into yeah, go
ahead.

Erick (51:01):
No, you can go ahead.

Jason (51:02):
No, you finish your rig, brother.
Yeah, all right, I was going toask you another question man,
You're good.
I assumed Sim Magic pedals.
That's when you said Sim Magic,I would have never guessed
SimMagic pedals.
That's when you said SimMagic,I would have never guessed
custom-made pedals.
That's impressive.
That's impressive.

Daniel (51:20):
It blew my mind too.
So yeah, I'm glad I went thatroute as well with the
GoSimRacing.
So I guess I could talk aboutthe brains behind this entire
rig.
I think the computer specs arekind of important.
So the computer that we're onright now, I had this one for
quite a while, so I went from a1660 super right, and I had that

(51:41):
34 inch 1080p monitor, and thenI went from a 1660 super to a
3060 ti rtx, and that's when Ifinally decided to get triple
screens.
My triple screens were only 27inches and then 1080p, but that
was it.
This is my first immersivetriple screen setup and I was

(52:03):
super pleased.
And then come to find outthere's still rooms.

Jason (52:08):
Oh yeah, a little bit oh yeah.

Daniel (52:10):
Upgrade.
So I sold those monitors.
I sold all three for I't knowlike 500 bucks, real cheap.
And then I decided to go withthe uh, the 32 inches, and I've
had these on the rig for almostfour, yeah, about three years
now, and that is powered by.
So that was powered by the rtx3080 at triple 2k and I'll tell

(52:32):
you, man, like that is apowerhouse.
Even still, I'm using this asan editing computer right now.
It is a powerhouse of a card.
And over the years, over thepast couple of years, as of
previous uh, 2025, from, youknow, 2024, all the way back to
2022, all those videos that yousee and people are like, oh man,

(52:53):
you must have a 4090 in there.
Nope, I don't.
I swear, that's a 3080.
I just optimized the hell outof it.

Erick (53:00):
That's all I did, yeah hey, man shout out to
optimization.
Man, that matters, that's itfor real, that's it.

Daniel (53:05):
So had that and then decided to go out and I picked
up a build of a RTX 4080.
Once I got that, it was thatwas the Mecca and that's where
we're at now the RTX 4080powering this.
It's like butter on everysingle SIM Evo and we can talk
on Evo a little bit.

(53:26):
But I had it was a lot ofpeople posted in the groups
having all these issues and Ifeel like maybe I was one of
very few people that didn't haveany issues setting it up On the
first day of release.
It ran like super smooth.
It was buttery smooth,everything set up seamlessly.
I think a lot of thatcontributed to having a newer
computer at the time, but I wasjust thankful that I didn't have

(53:50):
any of the crashes thateverybody else was having.

Jason (53:52):
It's very, very it depends yeah, yeah you know I
have a 9800 x3d with a 4090 backthere.
That's the best yeah and I wasgetting like 60 70 fps and with
a rig like that, you kind ofexpect more.
But at the end of the day youhave to accept it.
It's an alpha build.

(54:13):
It's not going to work, right.
You're paying to test itbecause that's what you're doing
, literally.
Yeah, you have to wait it out.
You have to wait it out andgive it the time of day and
don't judge the graphics, notfinished product.
Test the driving.
Test what you're going to bedoing.
Yes, on this sim, not how itlooks.

(54:34):
You know what I mean.
Test the driving.
That's how I come iRacing Ican't get away from iRacing.
A lot of us, I know yourecently just jumped back into
iRacing too.
I saw your post just today.

Daniel (54:45):
Welcome back, brother.
Welcome back.

Jason (54:46):
Thank you, man, I am excited to be back and you kind
of forget about the way.
I mean the graphics.
They improve them a lot butstill, like you, kind of that
fades away and you're immersedin the fidelity of the vehicle
and how it.
You know how the tires arefeeling and everything else and
the weight and everything, andyou kind of just that goes away

(55:09):
and all you see is road or a carway, and all you see is road or
a car and the car model, thecar models.
That detail looks really good,in my opinion, for a game that
came out in 2008 is insane.

Daniel (55:22):
2008, huh, holy cow, I didn't know it was that far back
yeah, that's waiting for it wow, holy cow.

Jason (55:28):
Yeah, it's been out for a minute, that's that's crazy to
say.

Daniel (55:32):
That's's insane right?
Yeah, so when you I can testifyFreshman year.

Jason (55:37):
Yeah, when you look at it that way, it's like you know
same engine, you know withoptimizations.
Yeah, they've done a lot ofwork.
I mean you got to give themthat you know, yeah, I will say
yeah.

Daniel (55:49):
Go ahead.

Jason (55:51):
Because it's still alive and well.
I don't know if you, when youlog in and you see the amount of
users racing, there's no othersim that has that many users
racing at any time of day.
There's always something foryou to do on there.
But yeah, man, that's what's up.
That's a very interesting setup.
It's very different.

(56:11):
This is the first time I'veheard of custom pedals.
Yeah, that's dope.
Very interesting, veryinteresting, yeah for sure.

Daniel (56:20):
Yeah, definitely pretty interesting.
And then, yeah, man, it's justbeen such an incredible journey
over the years and a lot of thisinspiration, like I said, it
was coming from you know, seeinghow I could make this more
realistic and bring you know theextra car components, like a
button box or some of theselittle screens that you see

(56:43):
right back here, how I can bringthat into like this 3D
environment, right.
So I had, you know, thesescreens.
We'll talk about these just alittle bit.
So I have these are actuallyfrom Etsy and one of my buddies.
He actually designs theselittle screens and they're all
tough screen and it's by DSSrace simulations and it is he.

(57:04):
3d prints like these screensare like these carbon fiber face
.

Jason (57:08):
I may have ordered one of those, and they're so cool you
can do anything with them.

Daniel (57:14):
So DSS, sim simulations and what you can do, they're all
configurable via SimHub and youcan put any type of overlay on
there.
So if I want track relevantdata with leaderboards and maybe
like gas pedal information,just something that kind of
looks cool, Maybe I need toglance up and check my time for
a half a second.
I can bring that, you knowinches from my face wherever I

(57:35):
need it.
Or if I need a lap timer rightover here, I could just glance
up.
Okay, I need to, you know, gainfour seconds or I can see how
many seconds are in front ofthis guy or how many seconds
behind this guy is from me.
So these little things ofremoving the HUD, which is the
HUD, and bringing that into theenvironment that I'm seated, I
have a clear picture ofeverything that I'm seeing, and

(57:57):
now I have little screens ofinformation of like okay, this
is all relevant data that I cantouch, I can play with, I can do
all this stuff.
It sounds crazy, but it reallysatiates this whole experience
and adds an extra layer ofimmersion for me, so it's cool
like that man.

Jason (58:16):
Yeah, it is cool.
I've always told this to Eric.
It's kind of like it'ssomething when you look at a
game or a sim or whateverwhatever it is and you see a
bunch of gauges and you see abunch of data but they don't
mean anything.
You see a bunch of gauges andyou see a bunch of data, but
they don't mean anything.
But then when you actually lookat something that's meaningful,

(58:40):
that I can see my rear lefttire overheating and it's really
overheating and I need to getoff.
I need to let off the car.
There's something about thatthat just ties you into the sim
deeper than just a game, thanjust a game or sim that shows
you a screen and it looks coolbut it does nothing.
You know what I mean, right?

Daniel (59:00):
right, so I kind of function no function.

Jason (59:03):
Yes, so when you have it, when you take it off the screen
, if it's, if it's in digitalform and you bring it closer to
you, that's, you know, way moreimmersive's, way more immersive.
It makes it feel alive, likethe rig has life.

Daniel (59:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's tangible.
It's tangible in that aspect.
Yeah, exactly, it adds thatextra layer of it's in front of
you and my biggest thing is, Idon't want extra information on
my physical screen.
You know, as a lot of you guys,I just remove it if I can, you

(59:40):
know, minimize all the relevantinformation.
So I said, you know what,there's got to be a way to bring
all that off so that I can playwith it.
You know what I?

Erick (59:45):
mean.
So that's cool.
Yeah, they can put it where youwant in the rig.
So if you want it down low, youwant it you, you know up high
or off to the side.

Jason (59:56):
Yeah, that that's, that's dope, all right, and so that's,
that's, that's part of the uh,the immersive build that
daniel's built um and my fault,Jason.

Erick (01:00:11):
I was curious because I was just going through some of
Daniel's social media and stuffand I saw that you have a
partnership with somebody calledPodium One and I wanted to see
just what's your relationshipwith them.

Daniel (01:00:30):
Yeah, so the co-owner, chandler and Steve over at
Podium One.
They've been following mycontent for a bit of time I
think a couple of years now andit was actually really cool.
I actually spoke to StevePalladino, which is one of the
main guys over at, actually thefounder of Podium One Racing,

(01:00:51):
and if you guys don't know aboutpodium on racing, they actually
built joe rogan simulator.
They built kat williams simwhoa, that's crazy, it's insane.
So they got a whole youtubevideo on that build up, what's
what went into that setup and um, it's just so cool to see you
know celebrities and otherpeople you know know gaining

(01:01:13):
traction from, uh, sim racingand when these types of people
like the celebrities and youknow people have a large
following buy into this, they,they see it.
It's like, you know, we got awhole new wave of you know sim
racers coming in every time.
It's crazy.
So, like, the more we talkabout it, you know it's, it's,

(01:01:36):
it's so cool.
So podium one reached, reachedout.
They said hey, man, we reallylike your setup.
What is it going to have to,what's that look like, for us to
collaborate on some of thesevideos that you're making?
So Steve had some ideas likehey, man, what if we send you
out some cool products for youto review, like the FPE?
Now, not all this stuff wasfree.
You know a lot of guys areasking hey, do you know they

(01:01:58):
just send you stuff for free,like no, not, not, not.
Yet I guess it's notnecessarily free yet but I got
the f.
That day will come, bro that daywill come, yeah it'll come
right, so like the gsi fpe v2wheel oh yeah, you're in love.

Jason (01:02:13):
You're in love with that thing.

Daniel (01:02:14):
I could tell bro, that is the most gorgeous damn wheel
I've ever freaking touched.
It is the grips, everything.
I did a whole review and I willtalk about that on another
review, but this relationshipthat I have with podium one,
it's it's.
It's really unique, man.
So, like they will send mestuff, um, you know I can review
it for them and then we'llcollaborate on some videos and

(01:02:36):
stuff like that.
But, um, it's all about youknow that this, this community
that we're building all aroundus, that we're trying to bring
in more sim racers, new simracers, and just trying to help
them, essentially because youknow guiding your way through
getting first, like getting intosim racing.
First of all.
I mean, I was blind, bro, likeI saw a couple of YouTube videos

(01:02:58):
and I thought, you know, thisis cool, but where the hell do I
start?
You know, like, how do I evengo about buying a rig?
Like what are these peripheralslook like?
How did how did he do that?
So I think a lot of it has todo with, obviously, you know
guiding and directing.
You know where to even start,you know.
So that's, that's how thiswhole thing is going.

(01:03:20):
I think it's really unique thatthey reached out to me and you
know this whole thing.
Wherever this thing goes, I'mI'm all, I'm in for a ride.
And you know, steve and I havebeen talking back and forth.
He's like yeah, man, I want youto come up here and meet the
team.
I want to fly you out.
You know, if we have a race day, I want you to go there.
If we have an f1 race in miami,I want you to be there.

Jason (01:03:37):
I'm like dude, that's crazy.
That's a dream come true it is,bro.

Daniel (01:03:41):
So it's like and I'm telling my buddies this and I'm
like, you know, the sky's thelimit in this, in this, in this
industry, like there's so muchthat can possibly happen,
whether you one or two videos,and I just just do this every
day, bro.
Like I started doing thiscontent creation like four years
ago and I just posted justbecause I love racing and
sharing that experience withother people.

(01:04:03):
Like, if I can share thisexperience with other people,
whether or not I get hate, atthe end of the day, I'm enjoying
what I'm doing and if you sohappen to like my racing videos,
then that's what's up.

Jason (01:04:15):
You think it's cool.
You think it's cool.
Yeah, I'm the same way, dude,we have something in common.
I'm the same way.
The only thing is I don't Imean I should post it, but I
send it.
I bloat my friends up Eric andJeff and all my friends and I'm
like man, I should.
We should do something, youknow cause, put it out there.
And I had this, I had this,pretty yeah.

Daniel (01:04:37):
I had this pretty unique idea, like now that I'm into
iRacing and I had this reallysweet idea and maybe you guys
could join me with this but Iwas thinking like if we had a
race going on, we could all do afirst person view race.
So I'm shooting with my cameraright here.
You're shooting with yourcamera right here.
We have all these crazy dynamicangles.

(01:04:58):
We got voice chat in thebackground.
Oh, here he's coming likecoming around the corner, and
I'm just like, and we're justall going at it in this, in this
live stream, where you can seedifferent, all angles and dude
that sounds amazing it soundscool, so I like I would have
this online session Kind of likeF1.

Jason (01:05:14):
You know F1, where you can monitor the driver's
perspective.
I don't know if you watch it.

Daniel (01:05:20):
It's kind of like that.
Yeah, I've seen that that wouldbe very very, very interesting
man.

Erick (01:05:27):
That would be pretty cool content.
That would be exciting too.

Jason (01:05:29):
That would be pretty sweet.
You got me thinking now.

Daniel (01:05:32):
It's awesome, bro, DJ hey, if you want to collab, we
can get these guys some cameras.

Erick (01:05:37):
I'm telling you man Come on, we'll make an ad and
everything.

Jason (01:05:40):
Let's do it.

Daniel (01:05:41):
I'm saying We'll do it DJI, dji.

Jason (01:05:45):
you know, I've had DJI drones and their mic too.
I have their mic too, thelittle compact travel mics.
You know the little wirelessones.
They're putting out someamazing stuff Not for nothing.
They definitely are.
If you're a content creator,they're really hard to beat
right now, Especially theirgimbals too.

(01:06:06):
If you want a gimbal, DJI isthey got you For real?

Daniel (01:06:10):
Yeah, they're next level for sure.
Alright, so that's awesome.
Congratulations on the.
They got you for real.
Yeah, yeah, they're next levelfor sure.

Jason (01:06:14):
All right.
So that's awesome.
Congratulations on the podium.
One deal.
I think that's a hell of a deal, honestly, bro, I mean Wild.
Yeah, that is a pinch yourselfmoment, kind of like wow, you
know what I mean.
So congratulations, that'sfantastic.
I really appreciate it.

Daniel (01:06:31):
I really appreciate it.
Congratulations, that'sfantastic.

Jason (01:06:32):
I really appreciate it.

Daniel (01:06:33):
And just to touch on that, like when I was and Steve
like messaged me.
He's like hey man, are you, areyou available for a call?
I'm like, what do you mean?
So, like this wholeconversation went with like it
was kind of surreal in themoment.
I was just sitting at my desk,like where I am right here and
I'm like am I really talking tothe owner of Podium One Racing
right now?
Like this is crazy, like.

(01:06:53):
And he told me like how theyall started, you know, during
the pandemic, right, so that'skind of.
Another thing is like a lot ofthese sim racing companies like
that was their kickstart was thepandemic and that's where a lot
of people they're like sittingup at home can't really have a
track day because that's shutdown.
And then people started pushingsome content for like the sim

(01:07:18):
racing stuff.
I'm like what is this simracing?
And then that's when Podium Onereally blew up, I think, and a
lot of even like advanced simracing.
You know that's another hugecompany that also blew up during
that time and it's just so coolto see, you know, and it wasn't
cool at the time because of thepandemic.

Jason (01:07:39):
I hope we don't have another one on like.
I mean like you.

Daniel (01:07:40):
Jason, but hey, we know what I'm saying, like we're
ready for it.

Jason (01:07:41):
Right, we're ready for it .

Daniel (01:07:42):
But it's so cool to see how everything you know began
and that was like their pivotalpoint and a lot of people's like
beginning of their successstory and sim racing, I think as
a whole, really started duringthe pandemic.
So it was really neat to talkto him here about his life story
and it was really cool to gethim on a podcast one day too.
I think you guys shoulddefinitely sit him down, you

(01:08:04):
know, pick his brain a littlebit.
He's got some really neatstories about how his upbringing
was and everything like that aswell Interesting.

Jason (01:08:11):
Interesting that would be .
That would be kind of cool, man, I am totally down for this.
It's cool.
Yeah, man.
So you have.
You know we introduced youearlier, as you know, having two
sides right Because you haveyour astrological racing.

(01:08:31):
Can you talk to us about thatside of you?
You know what I mean Because weknow your creative side or
maybe I'm getting it wrong orright, yeah, you are, we know
what your creative side is.
Right, the immersion, the rig,the custom pedals, which got me
messed up right now thinkingabout like, how come I didn't

(01:08:52):
hear about this, how come nobodytold me about this?
And you know we were blind.
It's like you said, we wereblind going into this for the
people that started then, andthat's kind of that's part of
what the show is about.
The Chicane Podcast is gearedtoward the beginner,
intermediate, expert racer, butall blended in together, right.

(01:09:15):
So that way you can have aresource, that way you can have
something that you can backfillon, that you can reference or
you can try.
You know what I mean.
But, yeah, tell us about thatside of you, that side of your
content, which is theastrological racing.

Daniel (01:09:41):
Yeah.
So astrologicals racing, so thatused to actually derived from
an old gamer tag that I had Xbox, yeah, and like I was telling,
yeah, actually it was Xbox, andlike I was telling you like how
I want this experience to be,like you're immersed in
something, and I thought of likewell, I could just tie this in
with the racing channel, youknow, because it's kind of like
out of this world racing andthat's where I kind of got this

(01:10:03):
whole experience.
You're like going to anotherplanet.
You're kind of going.
You're not where you are.
So astrologicals kind of justmade sense.
And then I kind of just builtthis whole thing around this,
this whole derivative of likeleaving earth, and I'm just like
yeah, we'll run with it.
It sounds cool.
So that's where like the namekind of derived from.

(01:10:23):
And then, yeah, so I I just Ijust held onto that tight and it
was, it was kind of iconic forme.

Jason (01:10:29):
So I just decided, you know, astrologicals racing
sounds cool, we'll, we'll runwith it no, definitely it makes
sense, you know, to have to havethe two, you know kind of
intertwined right together.

Erick (01:10:43):
Yeah yeah, that's the goal, you know transport
yourself to a car to a track youknow yeah, yeah, man, that's,
yeah so you're the yeah and thenthe uh the killian's creative
studio.

Daniel (01:10:57):
So like that's my llc, that that's my creative business
that I that I run as well.
So outside of working full-time, you know I'm I'm vice
president at marine detailsupply company, so I work a
full-time job there.
Really amazing experience.
I've been there for a couple ofyears.
And what I do over there Iactually help people and boat
owners find detailing productsfor their boat, their vessel,

(01:11:19):
removing oxidation.

Erick (01:11:21):
Oh, you need to talk to Jeff bro.
Helping restore their boateverything like that.

Jason (01:11:24):
So if you got a, boat.

Daniel (01:11:26):
I'm going to help you out.

Jason (01:11:27):
Yeah, yeah, jeff's got.
I think he's got a 20, 21footer or something like that, I
don't know, hey, man, I got.

Daniel (01:11:34):
I got some sweet products I need you to try.

Jason (01:11:36):
So he's got a roboto.
I think is what he got wow,yeah, beautiful boats, those are
beautiful man.

Daniel (01:11:43):
yeah, they're sweet, yeah.
So, yeah, I do that full time.
I've been there for a coupleyears.
I help people, you know,restore the luster of the boat,
the ceramic coatings, the wholenine yards.
So I'm in sales marketing forthat.
And then I have the creativeside of things, which I also
help with the company.
I said you know, I want tocreate my own business because I
do all the video work.
I do, you know, the creativeside.

(01:12:04):
I do the YouTube, I do theirInstagram, I do everything like
that.
And that aspect I said well,why can't I create my own
business and offer that forother people as well, like other
companies, maybe even likeanother detailer that needs to
get his foot off the ground,like his business?
Maybe I can interview him andhelp him, kind of like how you
guys are doing here, like youguys are interviewing, giving
people a spotlight and a voiceto talk about themselves to you

(01:12:26):
know, their experience,everything like that.
So, and I think that's powerfulman Like interviews are so
freaking powerful and there'snothing more, I think, powerful,
or at least more defining, thanwhen you put a name to a face
and a face to a company andbecause otherwise you're just
you're Joe the detailer down theroad, or you're just I mean

(01:12:49):
You're just someone behind thecamera, that's it, that's it
Right.
And when you can capture thatand help somebody give them a
platform like that, I thinkthat's so powerful and that's
how I created a lot of successfor even friends of mine that
have their own companies as well.
It's really cool to see that.

Jason (01:13:08):
You're on the right track , brother, for sure.
I'm highly impressed thatyou're able to have a full-time
job and then have the creativestuff, the astrological sim
racing, all of that togetherthat's a lot of weight, man, so
respect.

Daniel (01:13:28):
Rob Markman.
Yeah, and don't forget the twokids.
You got the wife, you got thefamily needs and all that stuff,
rob Markman.

Jason (01:13:32):
There's a man, a family man too, rob Markman Father too,
Father man, yeah man.

Daniel (01:13:37):
So we have an example here.

Jason (01:13:39):
If you want something done, you can get it done.
That's it.

Daniel (01:13:42):
Yes, that's it.
Oh yeah, if you want it.

Jason (01:13:45):
Yeah man.
You just got to make the time,damn, daniel.
That's insane, bro.
That's a crazy story and and Ifeel like you're just beginning,
I feel like you're, you're notdone here, man, you're, you're
just.
Yeah, you're just gettingstarted, dude, yeah.

Erick (01:14:11):
Like I'm.
He's the creativity but alsothe skillset.
So the videography, like I said, I was looking at your channel
and just seeing just like theclean slow-mo pans and stuff,
I'm like man, this is crispy man.

Jason (01:14:24):
It makes sense.
I'm like this guy knows whathe's doing.
Like for real.

Daniel (01:14:30):
I know a little something, something, yeah, like
I'm asking for some advice, man.

Erick (01:14:34):
But yeah, man, I appreciate it man.

Jason (01:14:36):
Yeah, you got the quality down already, man, and once
people see what you got going,man, the sky's the limit already
, like Jason was saying yeah,man, and I just want to touch on
something you mentioned aboutus the Chicane podcast bringing
on guests to the show, Because Ibelieve everything you said is
100% valid.

(01:14:57):
But just to add a little bit toit, is the knowledge right?
There's not enough, you know.
Have you ever just an example,any of you viewers out there, if
you're like shopping for asteering wheel, how many videos
do you watch on that samesteering wheel?
Right, You're going to click onthe?
first one the second one, thethird one, the fourth one At

(01:15:19):
least that's me, because I'm avery thorough person and I want
to know the bad.
I don't want you to tell me howgood it is.
I skip that part.
I go straight to the cons.
What's up with the wheel?
You know if I and and you know,example wheel, it could be
anything.
Um, and I compare that data toothers and that's kind of how

(01:15:41):
the chicane podcast in a way is,is implemented the interview
stuff and the sim racing and thestories.
To get you guys differentangles, different views, views,
different options.
We just found out today thatyou can get custom-made pedals
at a fraction of the cost onthis show tonight.

Erick (01:16:05):
You know how much money.

Jason (01:16:06):
I spend on my pedals bro.

Erick (01:16:08):
I don't want to know, don't say it.

Daniel (01:16:10):
I'm looking at the active pedal, there's an active
pedal there and right next to itoh, you got it Is two
Hewsonville Ultimate.

Jason (01:16:19):
So you add all that up how much I paid for the
Ultimates plus the active pedal.
It's a lot, but it's not a flex.
It's just.
When I was going through this Ididn't have that resource, I
didn't have that friend that Ican call, I didn't have a show
that I can go to.
Yes, if you look at BoostedMedia's videos, they're amazing,

(01:16:41):
but you're staring at a$100,000 rig.
Let's just remind ourselvesthat If you want what that man
is running, you're going to needsome serious cash for that yeah
, yeah, power.

Daniel (01:16:58):
Oh, power too, man, a long time.
Yeah, he actually.
He just got a 50 90 fromoptimum.
I don't know if you guys sawthat post.
He bricked it and then he fixedit.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
So yeah, he went through it.
So it was super clickbait.
At first I'm like, oh man, thisis, this is so bad.
Optimum's going to be pissedLike you know what I mean.

(01:17:20):
And then you know, come to findout, he found out a solution on
how to, you know, repower itand get it working again.
Are a freaking goat for doingthat for boosted media.
That is actually really coolthat you lent him that 50, 90,
that's that's amazing, bro.
That's amazing, that's reallyawesome, yeah, he couldn't get
his hands on one, just like 90well, probably 98 of the world

(01:17:42):
can't get their hands on one.

Jason (01:17:43):
So I think that's, yeah, really sweet, honestly if you
want my, I mean I I usuallydon't review PC parts.
If you have a 40 series cardright now, you do not need a 50
series.

Daniel (01:17:58):
I'm going to say it right now you do not.

Jason (01:18:01):
They're using this AI stuff to give you fake frames
DLSS 4, which is an upscale.
If you know what that means, golook up what DLSS means.
It's a dynamic resolutionscaler.
It drops your res, it dropsyour resolution to give you
those frames.
So if you have a 40 series andwe have, we have, we have um

(01:18:25):
eric's got a 40 series card andhe can run a subtle course of
evo.
If we're talking strict simracing, that is the 25 2025
title and it can run it like achamp.
So you are good.
Take that money and buy somepedals.

Daniel (01:18:42):
Yes, Buy some pedals I can agree with.
So just to run a quick stat foryou guys from a 4080 to a 5080,
typically you're looking at amaybe an eight to 13% increase
in overall performance, whichnot that much.
Now, if you want the flagship,maybe the 5090.
If you're coming from a 30series, I think that's worth the

(01:19:04):
upgrade, but I mean I don'tknow.
You know 4090 is probably abetter option right now.

Jason (01:19:10):
Still, that's if you can find a 5090 at MSRP.

Daniel (01:19:16):
You're not going to for at least six to eight more
months.

Erick (01:19:17):
Yeah, so you know if you locked up like crazy that 4090 I
mean see the 50 series cardsand they laid the cards on the
table and I don't think theargument is there.
I think if you get a 4090,that's, that's still the card to
go to, because the the jump tothe 50 series is so minimal.
Just in you know, power maybe athinner body, you know, yes,

(01:19:40):
it's more efficient, but as faras just like graphical power,
you're not getting that rawpower and as games get more
optimized, it'll be years beforeyou're running a 4090, and
that's your problem.
You're gonna run into someother bottleneck before.
That's your issue.

Jason (01:19:54):
That is a great point.
Another thing I'll say topeople that have a 30 series
look at your overall system,because if you're running a 30
series, you might be coming froman AM4 or an AM3 generation
that may not support the chip.
That way, what it'll do isit'll run it in compatibility

(01:20:18):
mode.
It won't run it at PCIe 5because your board doesn't have
PCIe 5.
It'll run it at PCIe 4.
So you're not even using thatpower that you paid money for.
So just yeah, I can do anepisode on components, but just
do your research for real.
Do your research.
You don't have to have thelatest and greatest At the end

(01:20:40):
of the day in a rig, with theexception of Eric's beautiful PC
in the back that we're viewingthere most of our PCs.
You don't see them.
Nobody cares what you'rerunning back there.
Can you get the frames?
Can you get the performance?
Can you get the performance?
Can it run?
Nobody's watching this stuff.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, you're not seeing it.

(01:21:00):
I agree.
Is it cool?
That's the one thing.
Cool, like temperature-wise, isit cool?
Is it running?
We're good to go after that.
Yeah, man, can my PSU handle it?
That's another one.
You're going to need a thousandwatt PSU minimum for 50, 90.
Nowadays, times are changingand that electric bill.

Daniel (01:21:23):
I don't want to talk about it.
I don't want to talk about it.

Erick (01:21:27):
To piggyback off what you were saying, jason.
I made an active Becausethere's a streamer who has an
all white bill and when he'sstreaming he's got his camera
set up to where his PC likelooks very similar.
That's why I got shot.
Yeah, it's in views and shotand that was where.
I kind of got the idea because Ikind of got like a white

(01:21:47):
aesthetic.
Like my desk is white, like my,I got my surround sound and
kind of theater stuff over thereis white.
White like my.
I got my surround sound andkind of theater stuff over there
is white.
It's like a white kind ofaesthetic.
When I saw that I was like I, Iwant that.
When I was building the pc Icould have gotten a like a you
could have saved a little money,but because to your, to your
point it's clean, even it isclean if you decide to have your

(01:22:11):
pc tucked away, like at thatpoint, if you kind of aren your
PC tucked away at that point, ifyou aren't really worried about
aesthetics, you're just worriedabout performance and cooling,
you can get a great PC for not awhole lot of money for real.

Jason (01:22:25):
Yeah, agreed, yeah.
And if you have a PC, I meanpeople are always looking to buy
.
I was able to sell my other PC.
I sold an AM4, now the AM5,current gen, thank God, because
I was locked in.
I was locked, I couldn'tupgrade.
And I'll say one more thing, andI'll drop it, I promise.

(01:22:46):
But if you have an AM4 board,if you have a 30 series, you
most likely have an AM4.
We're speaking AMD.
I know Intel has their ownthing, yeah, but an AM4 is, and
you put a 5090 into that, you'rebottlenecking that GPU because

(01:23:08):
the processor can't keep up withthat generation, can't keep up
with that generation.
There's always a bottleneck,whether it's CPU in front of the
GPU or it's the GPU in front ofthe CPU.
There's never a one-to-onematch.
Even if I put a 50-90 in this,there's going to be some
bottleneck somewhere on one endof the spectrum.

(01:23:30):
And the fact that we're running90% of us that are running
triples are running it at 1440p,which already is a resolution,
that's bottlenecked anyway.
Right, it is.
So I mean, you're never goingto get the max amount of juice
out of anything.
So I'm just trying to tell youto kind of open your eyes and

(01:23:53):
not listen to the market,because the market wants that
$2,000.
They want that two grand.

Erick (01:23:59):
They want it.
So you ain't got nothing,unless you got that, you know so
Exactly, bro, that's it.

Daniel (01:24:05):
I mean, that's how it works, that's how they really
win, that's how they win.

Jason (01:24:09):
So I mean, buy what works for you and buy what you really
need.
And then you know, take thatmoney, get a shifter or get a.
You know, get a piece ofhardware, something you can use,
don't blow.
Get some custom pedals, man.

Daniel (01:24:27):
Get them custom pedals, man, all right.

Jason (01:24:30):
So I guess, Eric, you got the last question before we
wrap this one up.
Man, it's been fun, man I lovehaving especially.
This episode is extra specialto me because you know it's
usually we all follow the samekind of pathway, but Daniel's
path is way different.
This is totally different thanI didn't expect.

(01:24:51):
This and it's cool because wedidn't talk about it.
This is straight up live on theshow.

Erick (01:24:57):
Yeah, live on real time, for real.
That's kind of what I wassaying before backstage.
I was like I can't wait to hearyour story because there are
similarities but then there aredifferences.
Right, People have some uniqueaspects to their path and it
never fails.
There's always something coolyou find out about, or some
route that people took that youdidn't.

(01:25:17):
You didn't anticipate, like soright like jason right?

Daniel (01:25:20):
yeah, we found out here real time man.

Erick (01:25:23):
Yeah, but it's a part of your journey, one of the things
that really that alwaysresonates with me whenever I
find people that find theirpassion, that are able to
connect with it and share thatwith people.
I always appreciate that becausethere's so many people that
kind of discourage you from youknow even just yourself or
something that you're passionateabout and you're like, oh well,

(01:25:43):
nobody will want to see this orwant to hear about that, but
there is, and so I alwaysappreciate people that share
that.
And so I just kind of want toask you about what inspired you
to be a content creator, becauseI know you know you're doing
the videography and you know youhave your creative arm already.
But kind of being a contentcreator is like a little bit

(01:26:03):
different.
It's not necessarily producingcontent for other businesses,
it's kind of producing contentfor yourself.
So what got you so?

Daniel (01:26:10):
yeah, that's.
That's a really good question,man.
And um, I try not to let mypassion for what I love to do,
which is literally race andshare that experience that I'm
having in that rig right behindme, with everybody else, because
that right there is the core ofit all.
If I let my mindset get intohey, I need to do this review

(01:26:34):
because, you know, I need to saygood things about this, or I
need to say bad things aboutthis, or if I have an obligation
of, like, pushing something out, I feel like that's going to
and I've seen it before withother people it could burn you
out, you know.
So, like I want, I don't wantto get ahead of myself where
it's like man dude, I don't wantto get tired of this.

(01:26:56):
I want to make sure that myheart discount code you lose
authenticity with who you are asa content creator.

Erick (01:27:19):
You didn't build this for that Right.

Jason (01:27:21):
None of us did Exactly bro you built this for Simrace.

Daniel (01:27:25):
And at that point, these people, these brands, are using
you as a freaking billboard,and that's the last thing I want
to do.
I want to make sure that myheart stays in it.
I want to keep that in theforefront of it, because I love
doing this shit.

Jason (01:27:40):
I love sharing it with you guys.

Daniel (01:27:42):
You know what I'm saying .
So, like, if I can remain who Iam and authentic and true to
myself and true to you guys.
I think, at the end of the day,that's what it's all about.
I think, at the end of the day,that's what it's all about.
I'm just gonna keep doingproducing race videos because I
enjoy.
I love doing it, man.
It's, it's such a coolexperience and when people ask
me questions, I'm able to helpthem out.
You know, it's, it's just cool,man.

(01:28:03):
I love sharing that witheverybody.

Jason (01:28:04):
So that's that's what it's all about you know that's
got to be the realist answerI've heard on this game podcast,
like for real, because I mean'sI always go back to this.
You know, like regardless ofcause.
You know you have a journey andyou have.
You have goals and aspirations.
Right, reviews are a greatthing.

(01:28:25):
I'm not telling you know, neversaid here that they're not.
But, however, comma, we didn'tbuild the rig, we didn't spend
thousands of dollars to get areturn on that.
We, yeah, we spent the moneyfor the hobby and the hobby is
already the amount of fun andenjoyment, at least for me, and
and and eric is worth the cost,right.

(01:28:47):
And then, yeah, coming on to ashow like this one and talking
about hardware is to benefit you.
It's not to benefit us, it's tobenefit you to tell you hey,
man, I tripped on this hole, becareful walking down that street
, because there's a hole in thestreet.

Daniel (01:29:05):
That's exactly it, bro.
It's perfectly put.

Jason (01:29:09):
In the simplest form, like hey, man, and then when you
go and do it anyway, I get tosay I done, told you so.

Erick (01:29:17):
I get to remind you hey.

Jason (01:29:18):
I told you, man, listen, cry Once.
That is a.
What do you call that?
That is one of the shows.

Daniel (01:29:24):
Cry Once.
Shame on Me, yeah.

Jason (01:29:26):
No, it's Buy Once, Cry Once.

Daniel (01:29:28):
Oh, buy Once, Cry Once yeah.

Jason (01:29:34):
I wish I could have done that.
My first run around Rob MarkmanJr Right me too.
When Eric got into the sceneand Jeff, I basically held him
by the throat.
I'm like you're not buying this, rob Markman.

Erick (01:29:41):
Jr.
Yeah, rob Markman Jr, you'renot buying it, bro.
Rob Markman Jr Bought 80-40.
Rob Markman Jr, I said 80-20.
Rob, I know that other riglooks cool.

Jason (01:29:52):
He wanted the tubular one because it looked nice, and
then it's got the blue.
He almost got them.

Daniel (01:29:57):
Oh the TRX.
Yeah, yeah, it looks cool, itdoes man.

Erick (01:30:04):
I'm happy though just kind of looking for
Functionality thoughFunctionality.
Yeah, functionality andcustomization, anything I look
at.
If it says it goes on the simrig, they're talking about an
8020 rig.
Yes, I have to look and seelike, oh, how would I feel you?

Jason (01:30:16):
don't have to look for compatibility yeah.

Daniel (01:30:18):
Right Well when you go that route of that tubular
design, it's like, and I'm goingto bring up the iPhone, I'm
going to bring it up.
You know it's like you're ofthe show early right, you know,
that's what I was going to say,bro, hey, but I'm serious
because like hey Eric, I thinkit's time to go.

Erick (01:30:37):
I don't know, we're just getting going, baby yeah.

Jason (01:30:42):
This just came out the dark right here We'll be bashing
.
See, and I'm alone in thisfight too.
Jeff is doing the thing rightnow.
He's usually my backup.

Daniel (01:30:52):
Yeah, but it's like when you get into that you're locked
into that ecosystem or thattubular design and you know if
you want to add components andstuff like that, you can go that
route.
Don't get me wrong.
It looks cool, but form overfunction.
You're looking at likesomething that looks pretty and
people are drawn to it.

(01:31:12):
I see people still buying themto this day and they're
beautiful rigs.
People are drawn to it.
I see people still buying themto this day and they're
beautiful rigs.
But as soon as you want tostart doing adjustments and
start adding little hardware orpieces and stuff like that, good
luck.

Jason (01:31:21):
It's not that easy.
Look at your build back there.

Daniel (01:31:22):
You can't, I couldn't do that with a tube design.

Jason (01:31:25):
Everything gets bolted together.
Those guys get bolted.
I can see how it's mounted.

Erick (01:31:32):
Exactly, and it makes sense because it's 80-20.

Jason (01:31:35):
And it gives me an idea just by looking at that.
You didn't have to tell methat's what I mean.
Like 80-20 is 80-20.
80-20 is a standard.
If something's 80-20, it willfit.
It will fit.
Don't worry about it Every time.

Erick (01:31:49):
Yeah, I love that.

Jason (01:31:54):
That's a good thing and a bad thing because everything
could fit Exactly.
Stay off Etsy, bro.
Etsycom is your biggest heystay away from that.

Daniel (01:32:01):
All right, we'll see.
I am a guilty culprit of Etsyman.
I've found some incredible.

Jason (01:32:06):
If Etsy had a credit card with some rewards.
I'd be in some serious troubleright now, bro yeah man serious
trouble right now, bro.
How time, yeah, man.
All right, so we are.
We've reached the end of theshow here.
I'm going to do a round table.
We'll start with Eric.
Oh, before we do the roundtable, I need to give a shout

(01:32:27):
out.
Chad McNeezy, we hear you.
We got emails from you.
We haven't gotten a chance toget to the software.
We hear you, we got emails fromyou.
We haven't gotten a chance toget to the software.
But if you're watching the show, just hang on, we're going to
get to those emails.
Okay, it's been a back-to-backschedule, but we have them and

(01:32:49):
you're our top priority.
You know who you are.
Roundtable I'll start with Eric.
Eric, what you got for us for aroundtable?

Erick (01:32:58):
For a roundtable.
I got nothing, man.
I'm just trying to get in therig recovering from whatever
this little mystery, flu, coldstuff is this week.
I missed my race earlier thisweek with the GRL.
I recently hate that GRLracingLeague.
I hate that GRL.

Jason (01:33:17):
You saw me yesterday, didn't?

Erick (01:33:18):
you.
Yeah, I saw Jason out there,man last night.
It was a beautiful race.

Jason (01:33:25):
No.

Daniel (01:33:27):
I got spanked Michael.

Jason (01:33:29):
Pagliaro from the SimRacing Den was on track with
me and streaming.
So if you guys want to tune in,if you want to join the race,
you can go ahead and join thatrace.
Check out our video Guide toLeague Racing and you can race
with one of your favoritecontent creators.
Now we got Daniel Killian backin the iRacing which we are

(01:33:54):
using, the what you call thisthe vaccine, the GRL vaccine on
him.
I told him, I instructed him yo, you need to watch this video,
just drop what you're doing andget on track with us.

Daniel (01:34:07):
That's it.

Jason (01:34:08):
You know we'll get a group.
You know we're about to invade.
You know Global iRacing League.
We're going to take over.
This is a takeover.
We're going to start up a teamcalled Free World man.
We're just going to free upeverybody up in there.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding.
I got spanked to death.

(01:34:28):
So if you want to watch thatreplay, my driving was off.
I was completely out of it.
You know Michael did great.
So congratulations, michael.
When you see this Good driving,good pushing on the Porsche and
yeah, I really don't have aroundtable for me either this
week it's been a relativelyquiet week.

(01:34:50):
I do want to shout out again toour special guest here.
I want to thank you for yourtime.
I want to thank you for thelevel of professionalism and
content that you are putting outdaily.
This is not weekly, this is adaily occurrence.
You need to follow him on allhis social platforms.

(01:35:10):
You need to check out hisYouTube.
He does tutorials, he doesreviews.
He has even suggestions for theDJI camera that I personally
used.
Rob Markman, he's got a sickrig man, rob Markman.
That's it.
He's got a dope ass rig, robMarkman.
I appreciate it.

Erick (01:35:30):
Rob Markman.

Jason (01:35:31):
On behalf of the show I just want to, you know, on
behalf of the show, I just wantto thank you so much for you
know, giving us the chance tohave you on the show and to
accommodate a schedule thatworked for all of us.
So I really appreciate that,and your story is amazing.
Feel free to share it witheverybody, because it's like I

(01:35:52):
told you before we got on.
To share it with everybodybecause it's like I told you
before we got on.
I said, man, you never know afew years from now, you look
back at this video and look at asplice of your memory and see
where you were and where we'reheaded, and I can see nothing
but success headed your way.
So I appreciate it, man.

(01:36:12):
Thank you, keep up the goodwork and keep doing what you're
doing way.
So I appreciate it, man.
Thank you, keep up the goodwork and keep doing what you're
doing man, so I can curate youguys so much.

Daniel (01:36:19):
And just to touch on that real quick, I am I'm really
thankful that you guys are evengiven guys like myself a
platform like this.
I think it's so unique and Iwas telling you earlier, it's so
niche, bro.
Nobody's doing this in thisspace and I just think it's so
cool that you guys are offeringthis for guys like myself and
Daniel Morad, MichaelSimRacingDen.
It's just so cool to watch thisand be a part of, so I really

(01:36:43):
appreciate it.
Again, guys, thanks so much,thank you.

Jason (01:36:46):
All right, daniel, and the one thing we always say here
is we're all sim racers at theend of the day.
Daniel morad is a professionaldriver, but he's a sim racer.
Michael pagliaro, amazing guy,great friend, amazing friend I
talked to him almost every otherday and but he's a sim racer.

(01:37:07):
You're a sim racer, I'm a simracer.
You know, that's that.
That that's the bond that weall have with each other, you
know.
So, yeah, you're more thanwelcome on the show Anytime,
brother Perfect.

Erick (01:37:21):
I concur man.

Jason (01:37:23):
All right, I'll give you one.
Thank you.
So with that, guys, if you haveany questions for Daniel
Killian and his work, pleaseemail the show at the chicane
podcast at gmailcom or leave acomment below on this video.
I will leave out all his linksand social media and every

(01:37:45):
related links that we spokeabout during today's interview.
So I just want to thank youguys for being here and have a
great start of your week, thankyou.
Thank you, guys we'll see you.