January 1, 2025 • 15 mins
In this episode, Danica Patrick opens up about growing up in a racing family, her first Indy 500, transitioning from IndyCar to NASCAR, and why she decided to vote for the first time. Discover how she handles both critics and fans, the career moves she’s most proud of, and her candid take on politics and family life. Danica also teases her latest ventures, including a podcast and wine brand. If you’re a fan of motorsports or simply an admirer of perseverance, you won’t want to miss this fascinating glimpse into Danica’s life.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nice, thank you for coming on. I appreciate you a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How was your speech earlier? How'd that go? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I was trying to I was trying to tune in,
but I had guests on at the same time, so
it wasteresting. I promised my wife. She's like, I want
to talk to anyone. It's Danica Patrick, and so we
were able to make it happen. So Hannah love it.
That's your wife, Yes, ma'am. So the first question I
want to ask you, I do with things a little
different because a lot of my shows were like an
hour long.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I just have conversations.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just had a daughter. She's one and a half
years old.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And one of the things I was thinking with your
story that was really unique was being the race driver,
you were, being a woman in the industry. You you should,
you shook everything. What was it like when you told
your parents what you wanted to do? Like, do you
remember their reaction when you're like, you could do anything
you want to do at what point in your life?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I didn't really. It was my sister right there, Brooke.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
She wanted to she wanted to write ski carts, and
I just said I'd do it too, So I don't
think it was one of those things where it was
like I want to dad, mom, I want to be
a race car driver. It's not like that. It goes slower, right,
So it's kind of like you go out and you
start racing and then you start winning, and then you
go from regional to like local to regional and regional
(01:21):
to national and so it just kind of keeps going
and going.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And you're doing it at ten years old for fun.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So like it's not like your it's not like you're
planning your life at ten. Although I did think to
myself at ten years old, I thought, I'm going to
go to college for engineering so I can learn how
to work on my race car.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, right, I thought yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And then I realized when I left home at sixteen
to move to England for racing, I realized that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Have to do any of that.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You you actually, yeah, you didn't need to know anything
about engineering.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was up to someone else.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So so gone for that dream, thankfully, because that would
have taken that would have been distracting and taken time.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But it's but I did go.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
To my own college for racing, which was England, and
it was not only helped me about cars, but mostly
about life. I actually didn't learn that much about cars,
So anyway, came back when I was sixteen, and then
I'm sorry nineteen when over when I was sixteen, came
back when I was nineteen, and then you know, a
few more steps and then Indy Car.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Did you have someone in your life that kind of
helped you make the right connections to get to that point,
because you know, as a small podcaster, like there's a
guy named I'll show at Siaka Massapoy, awesome guy. I
You've never met him. He's the nicest guy you ever
gonna meet. He connected me with Michael Knowles. It was
the kindest thing anyone could possibly do. Did you have
someone that, looking back on, this person really helped you
make a connection that you just didn't think you were
(02:40):
going to make.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I think it was really from like beating the pounding
the pavement, like being out there having I mean, I
get I got a reputation from my go karting like
career of performing and winning. And then I would say,
you know, there was one person that I feel like
advocated for me early on, Lynn Saint James. She was
(03:05):
a race car driver and I one of the things
that helped the most was probably like the next step
after go karting was she brought me to this this
suite and turn two with this very wealthy family, and
I sat at the bar and drank a kitty cocktail
while I talked to some British guy for a while,
and I guess I asked all the right questions because
(03:28):
I was fourteen at this time. They contacted me after
following my career for the next two years and said, hey,
you're old enough now, we'd like to take you to
Europe and helped like cultivate you into a race car
driver professionally. And so so it was from like Lynn
taking me to that family and that suite and speaking
to the people there that you know, allowed the next
(03:49):
step to unfold.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so I lived in England for three years.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wow. And when was that?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It was sixteen to nineteen.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So I left high school, gotcha when I was a junior,
So halfway through my junie your year.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And then I want to talk about politics in a second,
because I know that we're a amfest. But my holy
life growing up, I saw Danica Patrick everywhere and so
I'm thirty, okay, and so you know, right from the
Go Daddy commercials to the I mean, I just remember
seeing Danika Patrick everywhere and so I just.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
See more now dot Com.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Perfect, And it was just one of those situations where
I'm like, we could talk about politics, but like I'm
really interested in your story, So if it's okay, I'd
love to peace.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, talking about I mean, the best the best interview
is when you just like come from the heart, you
ask a question you want to know because inevitably there's
going to be someone out there thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, and I think and if.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Not, at least you just got your questions.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, I know, well and for me, like legitimately because
as a parent, I want my daughter to have the
best opportunity to pursue things that she wants to do.
And you blazing through the pun intended racing fun, blazing
through it was pretty good, okay, blazing through the the
industry as you did. It's just like, man, talking to
Danic would be really awesome because I'm like, you turn
it on your head and you were were you the
(05:01):
only female race car driver in NASCAR when you were
at that at that stage.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, how was what was that like? The in that
in that I was.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So used to it?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean because IndyCar came before NASCAR, and so
I started NASCAR when I was thirty, so I I
was used to it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I mean, I guess I was always used to it.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I don't even know if used to it it's
the right word, because I never knew different, right, So like,
how would I know what it was like? It was
always a bunch of guys in me, so every now
and again there was girls at the end of my
IndyCar career, which was again like up until it was
it twenty eleven, was twelve?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Was the last year?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Eleven or twelve eleven eleven? I mean there was more
women at the very end. I think there was quite
a few women in the Indy five hundred at the
very end when I before I left, and then since
then it's been zero sometimes, right, So.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Like it doesn't it's it's it's it's like it's a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Stock market, you know, it very slow, Yeah, ebbs and flows,
but it like overall there's like an upward trajectory. It's
not a very big one, but and and honestly, I
don't care that there isn't it's not I've never been.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm not a feminist. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm not someone who thinks like women should do this,
and I'm sure. I just think that people should do
what they love doing, and they should. They should be honest,
and they should work their butt off and they should
and it good at it exactly, Like that's it, Like
I'm exactly and so so I I I think that,
(06:27):
you know, maybe it's not ever something that will be
fifty to fifty not everything is supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty four, absolutely, and it probably shouldn't be fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, And that's the.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Thing, like when I talk about my daughter, I'm like, no,
she's earning whatever she's doing at the end of the day.
But if there's opportunity, that'd be awesome. Do you So
I'm an athlete. I played basketball my whole life. I
don't look like it now I'm married. In Italian I
had a bunch of yeah, you know, but they have
that guy yor whatever. But I remember a missed three
pointer that I had to win a championship and it
haunts me. Do you have a move, do you have
(06:58):
a race? Do you have a race in your brain
that you're like, if I would have made this move,
I mean, walk us through maybe one of those memories
that you're.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Like, I mean, I think the one that comes to
mind first is really my first Indy five hundred, So
I was really fast all month. It's a month because
we're there for like so many weeks and there's qualifying.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That there was.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It was like the way it used to be structured.
You were you were on track for like three weeks basically.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So we used to call it the.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So there'd be like a week of practice and then
there was qualifying for the for the top it was changed.
It was like front row and then or that it
was top eleven positions.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It just changed and.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Then or like top thirty positions in the last row
had to qualify that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Next weekending on where you started the race.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, so the qualifying for the first weekend sort of
established the let's say the beginning the front of the
pack basically, and then the next weekend would be bump day,
so the last row would be qualified, would be qualifying.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, and then the next weekend was a race.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So you were there a long time and you'd practice
all week pretty much so, and so I was fast
all month and I almost qualified on the pole, but
I almost spun in turn one on my first lap
of qualifying, which still landed me P. Four for qualifying.
So I started inside of the second rogues. It's three
wives the start of the eighty five hundred, So I
(08:15):
started fourth and then I was lead. I'd led nineteen laps,
I was leading at the end, and I had ran
my tires a long time based on some circumstances that
happened at the end of the race, and so I
was also saving fuel as much as I could. So
we were like detuning me and taking fuel away from
that engine, which gives it less power, and so we
(08:38):
basically tuned me out so much that second place caught
me at the end. And I guess looking back, I
would have just said, screw it, and you just ran
whatever it took to maintain the gap. And if you
run out of fuel, you run out of fuel. Because
I ended with like two and a half gallons left,
you come, which is like two and a half laps.
And so I I look at that and I think
(09:03):
of that as the thing. But I also am not
a regret person, and I don't. I would never go
back and change anything, because I also believe in that
butterfly effect, you know, like that one thing leads to
the next, or sliding doors, whatever analogy.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Everything's a learning opportunity, everything and.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Everything leads to the next.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
So what happens if I'd have won my first Indy
five hundred is of like my fourth race in an
Indy car, and then it like what happens with my
life at that point? What kind of other things would
have happened. I love where I'm at now. I wouldn't
change anything. So that's the one thing where I'm like, oh,
I look back, but I still wouldn't change it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's just something that could have gone different.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I feel I completely understand. Two more quick questions, what's
our time for in ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What we're good for? Really? Okay, I don't want to
I would be very cautious of your time. And yeah,
you so you're fun to talk to.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I appreciate that. Being a podcaster, I like doing it.
I like doing research of like guests that you've enjoyed.
Would you mind sharing the best podcast you've been on
and who that conversation was with?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Best podcast I've been on yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Named Dylan England.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I understand your am I going to say me now, no,
it's kidding, but if you, if you had, if you,
if there's a conversation like this. This interview was one
of the most fun interviews I did because I love
doing the research.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
As I learned, well, you know, I like took off,
like hit the ground running. When I was promoting my
book pretty intense in twenty eighteen. It was the beginning
of twenty eighteen. I didn't know anything about podcasts. I
was still racing. I finished my career in twenty eighteen,
and so I was out promoting my book and they
were like, all right, well podcasts are they like, we
do some podcasts or promote your book, And I just
(10:31):
sounds really dumb. I feel really bad. I hope this
doesn't feel insulting to him or to any of these people.
But I had just said my head in a hole
with racing, and I didn't know about podcasts. But I
did three really great podcasts. I did Joe Rogan, is
it you know, Lewis House and Rich Roll and so
those are the three I did. And I mean I
(10:55):
didn't either. I didn't even know them then, Oh, which
is wild.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Did you know how big Joe's was when you were
walking into it? You had no clue.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I had only heard because it's only like.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
The number one podcast in the world.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Because the person I was dating was like, oh, you're
gonna be on that show?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh yeah, I heard him, like you were I don't. Yes,
I guess that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But yeah, obviously he's a legend and he's one of
the most I mean, look like he played a huge
role in the in the in this campaign, you know,
to be able to endorse Trump. Yeah, because people trust him,
you know, and he's been pretty like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He's been centrist, he's been very Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You know, he's he's trying to be a good reporter
to some degree. It's just like, you know, allow people
an opportunity and give them questions and help everybody make
their own decision. But when he did that and then
had Trump on and then Kamala didn't go on, it's like,
you know, all that played a big role.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well that's a good segue into one more question. I
want to ask you, So I read somewhere in that
this is false. Please correct me that this is one
of the first times you've voted, it is okay. So
I didn't want to lie.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I've never voted, question, I had never She's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You know. I had a rule for myself before I
had a rule for myself overall, which was, if I'm
not voting, I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It didn't mean I didn't have an opinion, but I
just didn't share it.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like I'm in my family and my friends and everybody
knows me, knows what where I stand along the way
and who I wished would have or I'm glad is president,
But it wasn't like I ever talked about it or
complained about it because I didn't do my part right.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And so I kind of jump in the deep end.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, So I went from like I went from like
I don't know podcasts of these podcasts, I went from
I don't know politics to like jumping in the deep
end and being all in literally, like you know, campaigning,
being on the trail for months.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
What was it about Donald Trump specifically?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Was it him or the team of people he has
that really both both.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was glad when he was president in two thousand
and sixteen, and I was bummed that it wasn't president
in twenty twenty, although I think that in hindsight, uh,
this is the best way it could have gone down,
because because a lot more is gonna get done this time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think the country was a lot more ready for it.
I think the country was more ready for it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, so I think that I think that all the
all the all the cherries on top just is what
ended up making it a landslide. It kind of still
blows me away. That's seventy How many seventy seven million.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People still voted for Colon?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Did they did they?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Did? You know?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean did they?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was kind of late, but I think that I
think they're still count in California.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't know a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Of people voted for her against Trump, so we have
to understand that that existed too. But I I mean, overall,
I just think that this was Look, at the end
of the day, he's a businessman, and I think that
this country needs to be run more like a business.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have you received any so that you know Donald Trump?
Everyone loved Donald Trump ever the view everyone, and then
he's you know, he ran and now they hate him.
Have you received any backlash brand issues for coming into
hoarding Donald something you just weren't expecting now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But it was me coming to this event and last
year and posting about it that created a backlash and
a judgment on.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Me for being here. It motivated me to get involved.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So there was but it didn't have There wasn't It
was only an uprising, to be honest, only a positive upswing.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I think that's what happens when you get in alignment.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Even if something does fall away, which something didn't, But
if something does fall away, something else will come through.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
How many more opportunities are maybe gonna better.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Clee when you're in your truth than when you're speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
When you're speaking from the heart and you believe in
something enough, it is like a magnet for other things.
So it also helps people know what they what they
can do with you, right, other companies, other businesses, other people.
So it's a I think it's a it's a big
tool to speak of truth.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Perfect Well, wrap up at fifteen minutes, I could talk
to you for another hour.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You've been lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Thank you so much than thank you so much, so
lasting before any any anything right now you would like
to promote anything at all? I just always get people
an opportunity to think a show out kine.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I have a podcast, Pretty Podcasts that comes out every week.
I make wine, somniu and wine, so I'd like to
drink a little wine. I'm Danica Rose is another one. Yeah,
that's those are sode of my companies.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Perfect, well, follow her podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
We'll make sure we connect with your sister someone to
get socials and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
If that's okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's all my name.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, well, only my mom watches my show, so I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And can you do me one more off camera? There's
a girl right there in the way.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
She's been very que Okay, great, great, Yeah, of course
I'm not a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Can we get one picture? And I know you have
a million things. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm taking forever.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Thank you so much,
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Nice, thank you for coming on. I appreciate you a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
How was your speech earlier? How'd that go? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I was trying to I was trying to tune in,
but I had guests on at the same time, so
it wasteresting. I promised my wife. She's like, I want
to talk to anyone. It's Danica Patrick, and so we
were able to make it happen. So Hannah love it.
That's your wife, Yes, ma'am. So the first question I
want to ask you, I do with things a little
different because a lot of my shows were like an
hour long.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I just have conversations.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just had a daughter. She's one and a half
years old.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And one of the things I was thinking with your
story that was really unique was being the race driver,
you were, being a woman in the industry. You you should,
you shook everything. What was it like when you told
your parents what you wanted to do? Like, do you
remember their reaction when you're like, you could do anything
you want to do at what point in your life?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I didn't really. It was my sister right there, Brooke.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
She wanted to she wanted to write ski carts, and
I just said I'd do it too, So I don't
think it was one of those things where it was
like I want to dad, mom, I want to be
a race car driver. It's not like that. It goes slower, right,
So it's kind of like you go out and you
start racing and then you start winning, and then you
go from regional to like local to regional and regional
(01:21):
to national and so it just kind of keeps going
and going.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And you're doing it at ten years old for fun.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
So like it's not like your it's not like you're
planning your life at ten. Although I did think to
myself at ten years old, I thought, I'm going to
go to college for engineering so I can learn how
to work on my race car.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, right, I thought yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
And then I realized when I left home at sixteen
to move to England for racing, I realized that you didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Have to do any of that.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You you actually, yeah, you didn't need to know anything
about engineering.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It was up to someone else.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
So so gone for that dream, thankfully, because that would
have taken that would have been distracting and taken time.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But it's but I did go.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
To my own college for racing, which was England, and
it was not only helped me about cars, but mostly
about life. I actually didn't learn that much about cars,
So anyway, came back when I was sixteen, and then
I'm sorry nineteen when over when I was sixteen, came
back when I was nineteen, and then you know, a
few more steps and then Indy Car.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Did you have someone in your life that kind of
helped you make the right connections to get to that point,
because you know, as a small podcaster, like there's a
guy named I'll show at Siaka Massapoy, awesome guy. I
You've never met him. He's the nicest guy you ever
gonna meet. He connected me with Michael Knowles. It was
the kindest thing anyone could possibly do. Did you have
someone that, looking back on, this person really helped you
make a connection that you just didn't think you were
(02:40):
going to make.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I think it was really from like beating the pounding
the pavement, like being out there having I mean, I
get I got a reputation from my go karting like
career of performing and winning. And then I would say,
you know, there was one person that I feel like
advocated for me early on, Lynn Saint James. She was
(03:05):
a race car driver and I one of the things
that helped the most was probably like the next step
after go karting was she brought me to this this
suite and turn two with this very wealthy family, and
I sat at the bar and drank a kitty cocktail
while I talked to some British guy for a while,
and I guess I asked all the right questions because
(03:28):
I was fourteen at this time. They contacted me after
following my career for the next two years and said, hey,
you're old enough now, we'd like to take you to
Europe and helped like cultivate you into a race car
driver professionally. And so so it was from like Lynn
taking me to that family and that suite and speaking
to the people there that you know, allowed the next
(03:49):
step to unfold.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And so I lived in England for three years.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Wow. And when was that?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
It was sixteen to nineteen.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
So I left high school, gotcha when I was a junior,
So halfway through my junie your year.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
And then I want to talk about politics in a second,
because I know that we're a amfest. But my holy
life growing up, I saw Danica Patrick everywhere and so
I'm thirty, okay, and so you know, right from the
Go Daddy commercials to the I mean, I just remember
seeing Danika Patrick everywhere and so I just.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
See more now dot Com.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Perfect, And it was just one of those situations where
I'm like, we could talk about politics, but like I'm
really interested in your story, So if it's okay, I'd
love to peace.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, talking about I mean, the best the best interview
is when you just like come from the heart, you
ask a question you want to know because inevitably there's
going to be someone out there thinking the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, and I think and if.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Not, at least you just got your questions.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
No, I know, well and for me, like legitimately because
as a parent, I want my daughter to have the
best opportunity to pursue things that she wants to do.
And you blazing through the pun intended racing fun, blazing
through it was pretty good, okay, blazing through the the
industry as you did. It's just like, man, talking to
Danic would be really awesome because I'm like, you turn
it on your head and you were were you the
(05:01):
only female race car driver in NASCAR when you were
at that at that stage.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, how was what was that like? The in that
in that I was.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
So used to it?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, I mean because IndyCar came before NASCAR, and so
I started NASCAR when I was thirty, so I I
was used to it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And I mean, I guess I was always used to it.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
And I don't even know if used to it it's
the right word, because I never knew different, right, So like,
how would I know what it was like? It was
always a bunch of guys in me, so every now
and again there was girls at the end of my
IndyCar career, which was again like up until it was
it twenty eleven, was twelve?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Was the last year?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Eleven or twelve eleven eleven? I mean there was more
women at the very end. I think there was quite
a few women in the Indy five hundred at the
very end when I before I left, and then since
then it's been zero sometimes, right, So.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Like it doesn't it's it's it's it's like it's a.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Stock market, you know, it very slow, Yeah, ebbs and flows,
but it like overall there's like an upward trajectory. It's
not a very big one, but and and honestly, I
don't care that there isn't it's not I've never been.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I'm not a feminist. I'm not.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I'm not someone who thinks like women should do this,
and I'm sure. I just think that people should do
what they love doing, and they should. They should be honest,
and they should work their butt off and they should
and it good at it exactly, Like that's it, Like
I'm exactly and so so I I I think that,
(06:27):
you know, maybe it's not ever something that will be
fifty to fifty not everything is supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty four, absolutely, and it probably shouldn't be fifty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, And that's the.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Thing, like when I talk about my daughter, I'm like, no,
she's earning whatever she's doing at the end of the day.
But if there's opportunity, that'd be awesome. Do you So
I'm an athlete. I played basketball my whole life. I
don't look like it now I'm married. In Italian I
had a bunch of yeah, you know, but they have
that guy yor whatever. But I remember a missed three
pointer that I had to win a championship and it
haunts me. Do you have a move, do you have
(06:58):
a race? Do you have a race in your brain
that you're like, if I would have made this move,
I mean, walk us through maybe one of those memories
that you're.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Like, I mean, I think the one that comes to
mind first is really my first Indy five hundred, So
I was really fast all month. It's a month because
we're there for like so many weeks and there's qualifying.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That there was.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
It was like the way it used to be structured.
You were you were on track for like three weeks basically.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
So we used to call it the.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
So there'd be like a week of practice and then
there was qualifying for the for the top it was changed.
It was like front row and then or that it
was top eleven positions.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
It just changed and.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Then or like top thirty positions in the last row
had to qualify that.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Next weekending on where you started the race.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, so the qualifying for the first weekend sort of
established the let's say the beginning the front of the
pack basically, and then the next weekend would be bump day,
so the last row would be qualified, would be qualifying.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Okay, and then the next weekend was a race.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
So you were there a long time and you'd practice
all week pretty much so, and so I was fast
all month and I almost qualified on the pole, but
I almost spun in turn one on my first lap
of qualifying, which still landed me P. Four for qualifying.
So I started inside of the second rogues. It's three
wives the start of the eighty five hundred, So I
(08:15):
started fourth and then I was lead. I'd led nineteen laps,
I was leading at the end, and I had ran
my tires a long time based on some circumstances that
happened at the end of the race, and so I
was also saving fuel as much as I could. So
we were like detuning me and taking fuel away from
that engine, which gives it less power, and so we
(08:38):
basically tuned me out so much that second place caught
me at the end. And I guess looking back, I
would have just said, screw it, and you just ran
whatever it took to maintain the gap. And if you
run out of fuel, you run out of fuel. Because
I ended with like two and a half gallons left,
you come, which is like two and a half laps.
And so I I look at that and I think
(09:03):
of that as the thing. But I also am not
a regret person, and I don't. I would never go
back and change anything, because I also believe in that
butterfly effect, you know, like that one thing leads to
the next, or sliding doors, whatever analogy.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Everything's a learning opportunity, everything and.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Everything leads to the next.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
So what happens if I'd have won my first Indy
five hundred is of like my fourth race in an
Indy car, and then it like what happens with my
life at that point? What kind of other things would
have happened. I love where I'm at now. I wouldn't
change anything. So that's the one thing where I'm like, oh,
I look back, but I still wouldn't change it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
It's just something that could have gone different.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I feel I completely understand. Two more quick questions, what's
our time for in ten minutes?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
What we're good for? Really? Okay, I don't want to
I would be very cautious of your time. And yeah,
you so you're fun to talk to.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I appreciate that. Being a podcaster, I like doing it.
I like doing research of like guests that you've enjoyed.
Would you mind sharing the best podcast you've been on
and who that conversation was with?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Best podcast I've been on yeah, not.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Named Dylan England.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I understand your am I going to say me now, no,
it's kidding, but if you, if you had, if you,
if there's a conversation like this. This interview was one
of the most fun interviews I did because I love
doing the research.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
As I learned, well, you know, I like took off,
like hit the ground running. When I was promoting my
book pretty intense in twenty eighteen. It was the beginning
of twenty eighteen. I didn't know anything about podcasts. I
was still racing. I finished my career in twenty eighteen,
and so I was out promoting my book and they
were like, all right, well podcasts are they like, we
do some podcasts or promote your book, And I just
(10:31):
sounds really dumb. I feel really bad. I hope this
doesn't feel insulting to him or to any of these people.
But I had just said my head in a hole
with racing, and I didn't know about podcasts. But I
did three really great podcasts. I did Joe Rogan, is
it you know, Lewis House and Rich Roll and so
those are the three I did. And I mean I
(10:55):
didn't either. I didn't even know them then, Oh, which
is wild.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Did you know how big Joe's was when you were
walking into it? You had no clue.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I had only heard because it's only like.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
The number one podcast in the world.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Because the person I was dating was like, oh, you're
gonna be on that show?
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Oh yeah, I heard him, like you were I don't. Yes,
I guess that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But yeah, obviously he's a legend and he's one of
the most I mean, look like he played a huge
role in the in the in this campaign, you know,
to be able to endorse Trump. Yeah, because people trust him,
you know, and he's been pretty like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
He's been centrist, he's been very Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
You know, he's he's trying to be a good reporter
to some degree. It's just like, you know, allow people
an opportunity and give them questions and help everybody make
their own decision. But when he did that and then
had Trump on and then Kamala didn't go on, it's like,
you know, all that played a big role.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Well that's a good segue into one more question. I
want to ask you, So I read somewhere in that
this is false. Please correct me that this is one
of the first times you've voted, it is okay. So
I didn't want to lie.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
I've never voted, question, I had never She's awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
You know. I had a rule for myself before I
had a rule for myself overall, which was, if I'm
not voting, I'm not going to complain.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
It didn't mean I didn't have an opinion, but I
just didn't share it.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Like I'm in my family and my friends and everybody
knows me, knows what where I stand along the way
and who I wished would have or I'm glad is president,
But it wasn't like I ever talked about it or
complained about it because I didn't do my part right.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And so I kind of jump in the deep end.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Yeah, So I went from like I went from like
I don't know podcasts of these podcasts, I went from
I don't know politics to like jumping in the deep
end and being all in literally, like you know, campaigning,
being on the trail for months.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
What was it about Donald Trump specifically?
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Was it him or the team of people he has
that really both both.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
I was glad when he was president in two thousand
and sixteen, and I was bummed that it wasn't president
in twenty twenty, although I think that in hindsight, uh,
this is the best way it could have gone down,
because because a lot more is gonna get done this time.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think the country was a lot more ready for it.
I think the country was more ready for it.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah, so I think that I think that all the
all the all the cherries on top just is what
ended up making it a landslide. It kind of still
blows me away. That's seventy How many seventy seven million.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
People still voted for Colon?
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But that's the difference.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Did they did they?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Did? You know?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean did they?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It was kind of late, but I think that I
think they're still count in California.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I don't know a lot.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Of people voted for her against Trump, so we have
to understand that that existed too. But I I mean, overall,
I just think that this was Look, at the end
of the day, he's a businessman, and I think that
this country needs to be run more like a business.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have you received any so that you know Donald Trump?
Everyone loved Donald Trump ever the view everyone, and then
he's you know, he ran and now they hate him.
Have you received any backlash brand issues for coming into
hoarding Donald something you just weren't expecting now.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But it was me coming to this event and last
year and posting about it that created a backlash and
a judgment on.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Me for being here. It motivated me to get involved.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
So there was but it didn't have There wasn't It
was only an uprising, to be honest, only a positive upswing.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And I think that's what happens when you get in alignment.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Even if something does fall away, which something didn't, But
if something does fall away, something else will come through.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
How many more opportunities are maybe gonna better.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Clee when you're in your truth than when you're speaking.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
When you're speaking from the heart and you believe in
something enough, it is like a magnet for other things.
So it also helps people know what they what they
can do with you, right, other companies, other businesses, other people.
So it's a I think it's a it's a big
tool to speak of truth.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Perfect Well, wrap up at fifteen minutes, I could talk
to you for another hour.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You've been lovely.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Thank you so much than thank you so much, so
lasting before any any anything right now you would like
to promote anything at all? I just always get people
an opportunity to think a show out kine.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I have a podcast, Pretty Podcasts that comes out every week.
I make wine, somniu and wine, so I'd like to
drink a little wine. I'm Danica Rose is another one. Yeah,
that's those are sode of my companies.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Perfect, well, follow her podcast.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
We'll make sure we connect with your sister someone to
get socials and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
If that's okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
That's all my name.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, well, only my mom watches my show, so I'm joking.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
And can you do me one more off camera? There's
a girl right there in the way.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
She's been very que Okay, great, great, Yeah, of course
I'm not a problem.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Can we get one picture? And I know you have
a million things. I'm sorry. I feel like I'm taking forever.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Thank you so much,
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