LTN RADIO NETWORK - November 16,2025

LTN RADIO NETWORK - November 16,2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
The LTN Hour.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's talk Nascar with your host Todd Bayling, co hosts
Brian Schmidt, PJ Newedleman, and producer Dangerous Dan Margetta. Call
the show anytime at four one four four two one
seventy nine oh one. And now the creator and host
of the Fastest Hour and Radio, Todd.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Bailing, And welcome to the Great off Season as we
get ready for the court proceedings, which is really next
all the fun. Hello there, Todd Bayling in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona,
where it hasn't dropped below eighty degrees for a high
since I've been here, but that's going to change this

(00:55):
week and get cold like Wisconsin. Except Wisconsin's beautiful this week,
so figure that out. Joined by my three partners, first
of all, Brian Schmid over in Utzburg, Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hey, Bud, morning, Yeah, the Great offseason. It just seems
you know, here we are only in November, the second
weekend of November, and it seems like we've been in
the off season a long time. But Nascar ended so
much earlier this year than normal, you know, with your
season ending on November two. Next year it'll be a
week later. But remember years ago I think it used
to end like the week before Thanksgiving? Right, Dan, weren't
you down in Homestead and it was like the week

(01:26):
before Thanksgiving is when they normally ended.

Speaker 5 (01:29):
That always was right or wrong Thanksgiving week.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
That would be Dan Markeetta of Saint Francis, Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Who we just off season, everybody, you know, we we race,
We race or race.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
We can't wait to get the time off and we
get some time off in a week later, or like,
what do we do now?

Speaker 5 (01:45):
We need to get going again.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Bj Neudleman over in Trumplow, Wisconsin.

Speaker 7 (01:49):
The left coast, the left coast, it's sunny in forty one.
I'm loving it.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's good. It's been really nice in Wisconsin, hasn't it.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
It has?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well, we are it's an off season, but we've been
preparing for this because it's it's time for court proceedings
to well. The first of December is when the court
actually convenes for this and they start selecting jury people.
But Dan Margetta has been keeping on top of the

(02:23):
latest developments from the legal world and can fill us
in about what's happened this week a lot.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
I think the biggest thing it went down is depositions
for Rick Hendrick and Roger Pensk. You know, they were
supposed to call as witnesses and they couldn't find a
time to depose Rick Hendrick.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
He couldn't find a time to do it.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
The twenty three eleven guys on that side said, we
want to exclude him from the witness statement. We don't
want to have them testifying because we didn't get a
chance to depose him and they couldn't.

Speaker 8 (02:51):
Find a time.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
You know, Hendrick's lawyers and their lawyers couldn't get together
and find a time that worked to sit down. While
I judge kind of said find some time. I don't
care if it happens after the trials starts. By some
time to do it, he's we're not going to exclude
his testimony. That's probably the biggest thing that happened. I think,
you don't have time for this shit. Oh yes you do.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
You can't set them, you can't do it. I'm too busy.
What the hell's he thinking now?

Speaker 6 (03:15):
And they were trying to restrict their narrow down what
they could ask him about, and I think that kind
of got shut down a little bit too. I mean,
it's it's everybody that's a fan of court proceedings. There's
waiting for the thing to start and say, let's just
pop some popcorn and watch his goal because it's going
to be pretty interesting.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
It is. I see both sides believe that this thing
is going to be resolved quickly. Now, if they actually
believe that, it seems to me, we shouldn't even have
to go to trial, right, And yet everybody is hell
bent on getting this thing taken the court. NASCAR is

(03:50):
trying to keep you know, they're trying to take a
step back and say we're not the bad guys here.
We want to make we want to have a settlement.
We've talked to them and they're just not interested. Well,
it seems like if you're going to do that, let's
get it moving, right or do they want to?

Speaker 6 (04:08):
And they should, I mean, because once this thing goes off,
and if they do it as it keeps going, it's
just gonna you know, explode more. And not all of
the legal stuff and the you know, the meat potatoes
of it all, but just the fault of it, I mean,
just the the story is that gonna fly out there
on social media and all just all the garbage. It's
gonna come out. It's not gonna look well pr wise.

(04:29):
I don't think I don't think anybody's that come out
of it looking really good.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
No, there's no positives out of this thing. There are
people that for years have been looking forward to having
NASCAR's pants pulled down and over something, and they think
this is going to do. I'm not sure it's really
healthy for our sport. Actually, we want NASCAR to survive.
We like the racing, we like following it, we like

(04:53):
the drivers. And yet you know there's something about big
brother who likes to throw around. We made new rules.
Who the hell are you to make up all these rules? Well,
they're the ones that own the goddamn sandbox. You know
they can make up rules. That's how it works. And
yet you got people like Michael Jordan, who was way

(05:15):
smarter than anybody thought he was, come in and say
this isn't a good business model. You're not thinking of
the teams, you're thinking of yourselves. Well, it's really nice
to have you, Michael. Yeah. Well I.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Think how long E I R I lasted? I mean
they got away with that.

Speaker 6 (05:32):
That was Remember that was the one line in the
rule global E I R I accept in rare instances.
They always went to that and said, that's the way
it is.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
It's last page of the rule book. We'll change it
as we see fit when we see fit, because it's
our sandbox. I don't know, I guess this is what
we're going to uh on the first of December, We're
gonna start watching this close and see what happens. Maybe
it'll be over with in a hurry. Where are they
gonna find enough people that had in North Carolina by

(06:02):
the way, that haven't hurt of Michael Jordan? Hey hitting great?

Speaker 7 (06:07):
Yeah, that's going to be an impossibility, especially down there
because he's isn't he originally from North Carolina? Because he
grew up loving racing. That's just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
And you know made is he played for the University
of North Carolina and owned the franchise in Charlotte, you know,
I mean he's been there and is a North Carolina. Yeah,
he grew up loving NASCAR and was in the minority
there among black kids because I'm sure it wasn't a
real popular sport among black kids because there was no

(06:41):
black people involved. But it's changed over the years and
for the betterment of the sport. Really, there's nothing wrong
with it bringing all these new fans in. That's what
they want to keep expanding. But now the same guy
that we're so happy to get is the one trying
to pull their pants down. And the way it looks

(07:01):
right now, it's gonna happen. What what do we do
when we see what NASCAR is hiding under them shorts?
What now? What are we going to get out of it?
Is it going to better? Is it going to be
better for our sport? I don't know about that. We
can only hope at any time during this program, if

(07:24):
you'd like to call and weigh in with anything, we say,
we have this telephone number that has not changed four
to one, four, four to two, one seven nine zero one,
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Speaker 7 (07:36):
Why not.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
It's uh, it's a good Uh, it's a good time
of year to get all this stuff out of the way.
What's that then?

Speaker 6 (07:43):
A good thing to look at as far as how
this might all shake out. A look at any car
went through back in the in the nineties. You know
they're split. It really killed them. I mean, it really
took them out, and it paved the way for NASCAR
to get really huge, I mean really and so kind
of looking back at that, you know, they had a
little bit of a dispute there that went on forever
and nothing ended up well for either side on that,
and NASCAR got huge. So looking back at that, does

(08:05):
the same thing happened in Ascar?

Speaker 9 (08:06):
Here?

Speaker 6 (08:06):
Do you beat each other up so bad that's's nothing
left when it's all done? And what's what moves in
to take his place? Will you another series come into
to rise again? Or you know what will happen that way?

Speaker 4 (08:16):
As the old saying goes, those who forget the pass
are dooming to repeat it. And that's who's people are
looking at.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
And they can't seem to think that this is going
to only be detrimental. I mean, if you really want
something to come out of this, get your lawyers in
the damn room and get it worked out. It can't
possibly need to go in front of a jury. But
you know, this is I think it's more important to

(08:45):
Michael Jordan to have NASCAR be embarrassed for some reason.
I don't know why, why would that be anyone that
makes men?

Speaker 4 (08:54):
I think he just he wants he wants a more
fair business model to the teams, which is what he's
looking at, and he's he's looking at it from a
more of a professional sports side of it, like with
the NFL, the NBA and MLB do where you know,
it's pretty equal other than MLB, but it's pretty equal
amongst all the teams.

Speaker 8 (09:11):
We don't quite have that in NASCAR.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
You know, teams are forced to do this, they're forced
to do that, they're forced to race this car, they're
forced to.

Speaker 8 (09:17):
Do all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (09:18):
And I think he thinks it should be more, there
should be more equity amongst the teams to have more
say in it. But that's not how NASCAR was built.
And that's NASCAR's side of it. So you know, you
can definitely see how both sides of it work.

Speaker 8 (09:31):
No, don't.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
In the next segment after this break, we are going
to talk to Carson Quopple. It's been a while since
we've had him on and things have gone rather well
for Earl Carson, and we'll talk to him when we
come back.

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Speaker 13 (11:37):
Hey, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
We're doing great. I would think as this season got started,
if you had the goal of making it to the
final four, that would have been a pretty lofty goal.
And I'll be damned if you didn't do it. And overall,
I think it was a great season, and I hope
you agree with me.

Speaker 14 (11:55):
Yeah, I think it was. I mean there was a
lot of highs to it, and there are some ws,
just like in your ac right, and we kind of,
I guess points wise, we outperformed what we were expecting to,
but definitely still have some room for improvement, and the
grind never stops, so they're always always looking for how
we can be better and what we can do different.

Speaker 7 (12:16):
And now you have the PJ Newdleman. By the way,
Hi again, you have a full time ride now that
you're going to be in the Exfinity Series. Are you
going to be working with Rodney Childers or do you
know who's going to be your your crew chief?

Speaker 14 (12:30):
Yeah, it's gonna be uh oh, it's a little messed up.
I mean, we got twenty four races in the number
one car with Rodney. Those would be some really good
races for us. I think that'll be I guess the
ones the Circle, and then there's nine races that we
were able to put together after we made the part
time announcement that are kind of question marks right now.

(12:51):
Whether it's gonna be in the in the in the
JR and part time car, or whether it's gonna be
with for another team. All that stuff's kind of unknown
right now, and we don't really still trying to put
it all together and trying to figure out how to
make it all work. But there will definitely be twenty
four races with the one car with Rodney, so everything
else is kind of still a work in progress.

Speaker 7 (13:12):
And have you had a chance to talk with Rodney yet?
How are you thinking that's gonna be a good relationship.
I feel like the two of you are gonna gel
really well.

Speaker 14 (13:21):
Yeah, I think so. I mean, I feel like me
and him, both of our backgrounds are are pretty similar.
He used to weight model race and I'm a late
model racer. So I feel like we're gonna work together
really well. And I've got to talk to him quite
a bit, and and and and kind of lean on
him and go to lunch with him and see what
he thinks and and just see what how how he
works right? And I do I do agree with you.

(13:42):
I think we're gonna jail really good. And I think
everything's gonna be, uh be be all good. And I
think his experience that he has is gonna help me
and the kind of a rookie mentality that I have, Uh,
he's gonna help me navigate some of the things that
I guess we struggle with this season.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
So, looking back at your season here and making the
final four, what are the things I guess you're gonna
take going forward next time you get into the playoffs.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
What are they.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
I mean, and of course we don't even know what
the format is going to be, I guess, but YE say,
the formats kind of stays the same. What what are
things that you'd like to do differently that you think
you could do to to you know, have a better result.

Speaker 8 (14:17):
At the end.

Speaker 14 (14:18):
Yeah, honestly, I haven't really sat down and thought about
what exactly I need to be better at. I think
it's kind of one of those situations where I'm definitely
going to I'm definitely gonna sit back and think about
what we could have done better, what we could have
done differently. But I honestly do think it's just gonna
be after I sleep on it for a for an
off season and and and kind of think about it.

(14:39):
And obviously us racers we never stopped thinking about racing
in our previous races and what we need to do
to be better. So I think just sleeping on it
on an off season and coming back to Daytona to
start off twenty twenty six, I think I think just
by then I'll be a lot better, you know. I
feel like there's a lot of little things that I
need to need to clean up, and there's some little

(15:00):
things that they've done good this year, but there's also
little things we've we've messed up this year. So I
guess I couldn't exactly tell you, but I think it's
just gonna be how everything runs. I mean, this is
my first full time season, first thirty three race season,
so I think just having that experience and being able
to kind of sleep on it because you can say,
is really gonna help out when it comes time for
next year.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
Well, I was gonna say, people don't realize that.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
I mean, your first start was just in twenty twenty
four in the you know Expinity or Riley series, the
heavy car kind of thing.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
What was that like?

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Making that transition from under like late model stocks and
super late model stuff to getting into the bigger NASCAR car,
especially on the like Expinity car. Was that was that
a big change? I mean some people have a hard
time adapted to that, but you did really well. I
mean you obviously made the final four in your first season.
How big of a difference was that getting into the
heavier cars.

Speaker 14 (15:50):
Yeah, it definitely is. I mean I actually I kind
of thought it was gonna be not as big of
a jump. I guess you could say I almost feel
like I'm one of the ones that's struggling with the
with the jump, but we have ray good, like you said,
so I don't know. I mean, they're quite similar to
a lay Mouth stock chassis wise, but the tires were

(16:11):
on are different, the front suspensions a little different, obviously,
the bodies different. Aero dynamics are are huge in Xfinity,
where where the lay Mouth stuff it's kind of nothing.
So there's just been a lot of things that I
am getting used to. Obviously, the tracks are are tripled
the side, as as what I usually run on in
a light bottle, and uh, it's tough. I mean there

(16:31):
there's some stuff that I've picked on picked up on
pretty quickly, but there's some stuff arrow wise and and
entire feel wise that I've I've still kind of been
fighting and it's been jumped for sure. But I think
as I run more, even by even by the end
of the season this year, I felt like I was
way better off compared to how I started. I feel
like I really really knew what I needed out of
the car and stuff like that, and I just think

(16:53):
twenty twenty six it's gonna be a whole year of
knowing what I need instead of kind of guessing, speaking.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Of the lay models off, is there is there any
uh extracurricular racing.

Speaker 8 (17:04):
You got planned over the next year coming up?

Speaker 4 (17:06):
Like, are we gonna be able to see you running
any super late model stuff either down there during speed
Weeks or up here next summer.

Speaker 14 (17:13):
I mean, it's still kind of all up in the air, right,
I mean it's it's I'm one of those guys. I
don't plan something out a year in advance, right, So
I am planning on going to run a light mile
stock at Florence here this coming weekend for the big
softrone of four hundred race they have every year, And
I don't even know, honestly. I mean, if there's an

(17:34):
off weekend, I might, I might have the might have
the kind of want to go run something, but uh,
I don't really have a Derby race planned out or
anything like that. None of that's necessarily on the table.
The anything left for me is at Florence Race this year,
But beyond that, I don't even know. Couldn't even tell.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
You Slinger Nationals. I mean, come on, man, you've you've
been there before. You were pretty young. Now that you
got this thing figured out, you'd be a natural.

Speaker 14 (18:02):
Yeah, I'd love to go run Slinger. I got to
run there for the for the Nationals twice and we
kind of struggled the first year, but the second year
we were I think we were running top five all
race and then we had ahead of parts failure. So
I'd love to, but it's probably on It's probably on
a race weekend.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
If I had to guess, well, it's in the middle
of the week, you'll just have to tell Dad, Hey, Dad,
I really want to go run Slinger.

Speaker 14 (18:23):
He'll tell me to go get the thing ready.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Pretty cool that you work with your dad this closely,
and I believe your brother And is your dad going
to Florida for the Freedom Factory Race?

Speaker 14 (18:37):
Yep, yep, the my Dad and my brother race and
the Freedom Factory the Billy Bigger Race, And that's kind
of what we're gonna do instead of going to the
Solo Derby. I'm probably gonna be there helping out, working
on the race car with them. But yeah, it's pretty
cool the relationship that I have with with my dad, Travis.
We're obviously always in the shop together. Heck, today, after

(19:00):
after I get done with this, I'm going to the
race shop to work on something so definitely huge. To
have him in my back pocket, especially at the extinnity
race weekends.

Speaker 5 (19:11):
I think that'd be a cool deal.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
Now coming up, as far your path to the NASCAR cars,
you ran late model stocks and you ran some super
light stuff, but you also ran some transam races in
there too. Is that Do you think that's a pretty
good way to do it? If you're gonna give somebody
advice to come up to there to get a kind
of a mix of different cars like that, Does that
help you in the NASCAR car?

Speaker 14 (19:30):
I mean, I think any racing is better than no racing.
I mean I think I overrun a flat car at
a dirt track. I think that's better than sitting on
the couch. I think going running arc car is better
than sitting on the couch, right. I mean, I think
just being in the race car quite a bit. Whether
it's whether it's a trans am car, whether it's a
Maza Miata or a late model Stock or a truck.

(19:51):
I mean, I think that's all it matters right where
we were in. But I think just being in the
racing at the racetrack, doing it consistently, I think a
big help. I would say that the trans am stuff
has seemed to seem to pick up my road course stuff.
Before I ran Chan's Am, I'd really not run any
road course stuff. And I ran a few trans am

(20:12):
races and went out in the Exfinity Series and ran
pretty good at the road course stuff. So I think
just being in the race car is a huge help
in any any race car or any track.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Carson, we have to take a break. Can you hang
on through the break and talk to us for a
couple more minutes?

Speaker 14 (20:29):
I would say, yeah, probably one more.

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Speaker 3 (22:41):
We're talking with Carson Kuoppo his first full year and
here he is, was in the final four and had
a shot at a championship, which is, you know, that's
all anybody can dream of. I think when a season
gets started, you know, being that your dad is from
Janesville and uh, you know, we've we've to watch him
racing at Madison and Rockford and whatnot over the years.

(23:05):
It seems as though we kind of consider you a cheesehead,
even though you've never lived in the state of Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Have you?

Speaker 13 (23:14):
No?

Speaker 14 (23:15):
I I was born and raised in more than in
North Carolina where we live now. Obviously, my parents were
born and raised in the Jamesville Milton area, so when
they moved down in two thousand and one.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
I was. I was.

Speaker 14 (23:26):
I was considered a North Carolinian when I was born
O three. But I'll let you guys claim it.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
And it's a family it's really a family operation. I
mean your dad, Travis, who won championships all over the
place before he went south and ended up winning a
truck title and raced in the Cup Series and all that.
I think, now you've got a younger brother who is
on the same path that you were on, and uh,

(23:57):
it's a kind of a neat thing that the three
of you have all worked together and got to this level.

Speaker 14 (24:03):
Yeah, for sure. Obviously, starting out, uh say five years ago,
just me and my dad going late model racing and
and my brother was running too, but he was just
running go carts and stuff like that, which which I
was as well in the background, but working on her
own superlight models and and going cars to a race
and down south here and we won a few races,

(24:23):
wanted to won a championship and and that's what kind
of got me to the JAM late model program. And
I worked with the Junior Motor Sports late model guys
for a few years and really on my on my year,
come my year, out pretty much.

Speaker 13 (24:36):
I was.

Speaker 14 (24:36):
I was in and ended in twenty twenty four. I
was running some part time Exfinity stuff, gonna be moved
up to full time in twenty twenty five. Had my
brother working in the shop and and and stuff like that,
and my dad would swing buy and and help us
out with some stuff. But here this year my brother
has been able to uh, I guess kind of take
my take my role over at the Late Model shop

(24:56):
as a as a as a full time worker, pretty
full time work her. And now my dad's over there
part time working on the stuff and just uh yeah,
he's trying to follow the same path we are and
and trying to do the same thing that that I did.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Is he good? Who's better? You were him? I love
asking stupid questions like.

Speaker 14 (25:17):
That, and I you know the answer to that one.
I mean, if you asked me the answer.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
So, Carson, what is what is Dale Junior really like?

Speaker 13 (25:28):
Man?

Speaker 14 (25:29):
He is just a chill guy, as they would say,
he's uh, he's super cool. I mean you would never
know if you didn't know him, if you didn't know
him from what he used to do. Obviously just a
stranger and passing by. You think he's just uh without
an earth cool dude, right. And for me, he's not
even a car owner to me anymore. He's just a
good friend of mine that that that that we play

(25:51):
video games with and I drive his race cars, right,
So he's pretty crazy how that's evolved. Obviously, whenever I
first started, it was, oh my gosh, it's Dale I
got we gotta can't make him mad at me, can't
get fired, right, But now it's kind of turned into, uh,
all this, call him up and and and if I
have a question, I just call him up in the
in the middle of the week, and and and and

(26:11):
just check in with him. And like I said, we'll
play video games and we'll go waight mile racing together
and and do stuff like that. So it's really kind
of kind of transformed into a friendship and from a
partnership to me.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
And is that is the whole the whole vibe of
Junior Motorsports seems that way. I mean I've talked to
Justin Allguyer a lot over the years back when he
was running ARCA during Late Miles and stuff, and he
seems just as chill as Junior and and and so
does so does Connor's illage now that he came over
to that team, is that whole team like that? And
how are your teammates as far as you being the
new guy last year? Was Justin just as open as
he seems to everybody else he talks to.

Speaker 14 (26:45):
Yeah, for sure. I mean, obviously Justin is the veteran
of our race team, and he's the guy that we
all walked to when we got out of our race cards
after practice, and and when we have questions, we go
to him. So he's definitely the go to guy for us,
I say, and and and obviously Connor and Samy have
being on the team. We we all you know Justin
quite a bit, and and the whole vibe with all

(27:06):
the drivers, we're just we try to be cool with
each other, right, And obviously we can't be a teammate.
He can't be a bad teammate, and and expect to
have a good relationship of those guys, right, you got
to be a good teammate. And I feel like I've
tried to do my best at that and try to
help him out the best I can when we go
speed racing and stuff like that. But really, the whole
groove O or jarm from drivers to management, to to

(27:27):
everyone to mechanics. I mean, it's all all a family.
Kind of feels like a family, you know, it's not
it's not it's not doesn't feel like a business or
doesn't feel like a race team that you're you're driving for.
Just feels like the Uh, your your buddy Dale and
Kelly and l W invited you to come drive the
Vicinity cars. So that's the way I I see him, That's.

Speaker 8 (27:46):
The way I like it.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
We've been chatting with Carson Quoppole. He's not a cheesehead.
He's actually from North Carolina, but we're gonna claim him
as our own. Uh, Carson, your career has been taken
off and we're just having a great time following and
cheering for you and looking at you as one of
our own. And it's it's pretty fun to have you

(28:10):
making the strides you are in racing. The best of
luck to you, say hello to your dad for us.
We always love Travis, and good luck to your whole
family when you go down to Florida coming up pretty quick.

Speaker 14 (28:24):
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate. I'll let all of them know
and we'll see how we do. But I appreciate you guys.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Thank you all right, Carson, we'll talk to you soon, hopefully,
Carson Kuopple North Carolinian that he is. And for everyone else,
if you'd like to give us a holler and partake
in this program, that number stays the same, four one
four four two one seventy nine oh one. There's lots
of things happening in the world of Nascar, and we're

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The twenty twenty six schedule was released recently, and there's
I don't like particularly looking at it in advance because
it doesn't really affect very much as far as I'm concerned.
But there's some things that are jumping out on this schedule,
and Brian has been looking at it very closely. It's

(31:05):
not just the Cup schedule, t Xfinity too, are not
excuse me, Yeah, it's all of them.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
It's O'Reilly, Yes, the O'Reilly series. Yeah, the biggest thing.
You know, they just did announced the start times that
were released this week, and it seems like NASCAR is
going back to that little later shift of start.

Speaker 8 (31:22):
Times when you roll through it here.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
I think the earliest start time we're gonna see next
year is one o'clock, and that's for a race at Kansas.
Everything else is gonna be later than that. You're gonna
be looking at, you know, just rolling through here, three
thirty jumps out three thirty eastern, So that's two thirty
our time that jumps out at a lot of these races.
They have a lot more primetime races. Obviously, the six
hundred has always been a primetime race than the very

(31:44):
next week in Nashville, May thirty first, that starts at
six o'clock our time. For those going to Chicago Land,
a lot of people were wondering with the Chicago race
being for the July weekend in the heat. But we
won't have to battle that because they're gonna use the
lights at Chicago kind of because it's light out pretty
late then. But it's a five five o'clock start time
for the race at Chicago on a Sunday night, so
that should get the Wisconsin folks enough time, like me,

(32:07):
I'm two and a half hours from there to see
the race and get home at a decent time. North Wilkesboro,
we all wondered about that race being July nineteenth. That's
a six o'clock hour time, seven o'clock local time start
time for that race. So they've kind of taken care
of some of the warm weather stuff there. But then
when you go to the Xfinity Series that the CW
is making a definite shift to more of a later

(32:28):
Saturday afternoon start time most of their races. I see
five o'clock Eastern jumping out on the screen a bunch
here when you go through that schedule, So you're going
to see a lot of that. The Chicago race on
the fourth of July down there, four thirty local time,
five thirty Eastern times start time for that one, So
you're going to see a lot of later races. They
have a whole slew of I think from August twenty

(32:49):
eighth through October third, every race six thirty Wisconsin times
start for the Infinity series, So you're going to see
a lot more Infinity racing later in the evening on
the CW next year.

Speaker 8 (33:00):
Which I think is far seeing viewers. That's by a
smart move.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
You don't just think that's just odd that they would
go to Saturday nights right head to head with all
your local short tracks. I mean, it's just a little
odd afternoon you could watch the race and still make
it over to your favorite Saturday night track, and now
they're kind of making you make a choice, you.

Speaker 8 (33:19):
Know, Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (33:20):
I mean, I hope they can get their streaming thing
figured out. And actually, when we were at Phoenix the
other week, we're walking through the garage and it was
Jamie McMurray and Adam Alexander walking there, and then I
turned to them and they said, you guys are doing
a great job, but you got to fix the streaming thing.

Speaker 8 (33:32):
And they laughed and said, you know how many times
you've heard that and we have nothing to do with it,
but yes, we've heard that.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Yeah, well you're the ones that are in the face
of your network, so we don't know who the guy is.
Albert in Sauk City has been waiting very patiently to
talk to us. Albert, welcome to the program.

Speaker 13 (33:50):
Oh thank you. I was interested in going to Florida
to Freedom Tunnel. What's the deal there?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
The Freedom Factory Race. The Billy Memorial is the one?

Speaker 13 (34:01):
Yeah, right, that's the one they had last year. They
had one last year.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah, a couple of years they've had it. The Wisconsin
guys are going down there in force. It's a Saturday
night after Thanksgiving and don't believe a second, it's going
to be warm on.

Speaker 13 (34:20):
Oh okay, I was interested in. I was down there
last year and I had a great time, and I
was considered whether they were going to actually get started
that They did get started and it went real fine
and a lot of fun. And I had a big
trickle shirt on and so I was surprisingly enough there

(34:44):
was people stopping me to visit, so I'm pretty happy
about that. And then there's a gang from Wisconsin. It's
up in the bleachers. They said go up there and
visit those guys and so on and so forth. So
I found it.

Speaker 8 (34:58):
To be fun.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Wisconsin contingent down there is pretty good. First of all,
it pays thirty grand to win, which is a kind
of a nice thing in the first place. PJ what
was it one hundred and twenty eighth lapper? It wasn't
a It is.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
One hundred and twenty at lapper and we had an
all Wisconsin podium last year time A Jeski won it.
Casey Johnson was second in John DeAngelis third. Luke Fenhause
was there, he finished ninth. Last year, Jeff Storm was twelfth,
Johnny Sawder finished fourteenth, Andrew Morrise he was even down
there last year, twenty first finished for him. Derek Cross

(35:31):
was twenty seventh. So we had a really good showing
of Wisconsin boys down there, and there's a good contingent
heading down this year as well.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, Johnny saw is going to go back, Casey's going back,
Brazen Bennett is joining him this year, Levon Vander Geese,
Grant Greasebach, Kendrick Cryer, and of course time of Jesky's
going to go back and try and win another one.
So yeah, it's a good race to go to. I
think did you enjoy it?

Speaker 14 (35:58):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (35:59):
Sure did, especially people that have lived there for over
twenty years and stopping me and visiting bout how home
sick they must be.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Well, hopefully we'll run into you down there, if you're
in the pits, we'll see you.

Speaker 13 (36:16):
Well. I appreciate thank you much.

Speaker 3 (36:18):
All right, Albert, thanks for calling. There's there's other This
came out this week that I thought it kind of
It didn't blow me away because we kind of been
hearing it and expecting it. But NASCAR finally relented and
they're going to go from six hundred and seventy to
seven hundred and fifty horsepower on short tracks and road courses. Now,

(36:43):
they have decent races on mile and a half, but
they really haven't had good races on those short tracks.
Is this really going to solve the issue of crappy
races on short tracks?

Speaker 8 (36:55):
No?

Speaker 4 (36:56):
No, When this came out a couple weeks back. Kyle
Larson said, if you think it's gonna to make a
big difference, it's not. He says, we need, you know,
nine hundred plus, which would be basically unrestricted motors to
make a big difference.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
So I mean this is a baby step.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
They were testing at Bristol, but I looked to me
from the video, I saw there was like one car
at a time, So I don't really know what you're
gonna gain by that, because you need to have multiple
cars out there to see if the racing is going,
you know, if you're gonna get the as Crafton said
the other week, you know two foot driving back, and
that's that's what you really need on there.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
You need the late breaking.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
You know, where you get on the throttle, you gotta
feather it instead of just matting it.

Speaker 8 (37:35):
Those are the things you're looking for.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
I mean, it's a little bit of a start, but
I think you need to release all the restrictions on
those motors to really get what you're looking for.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Without really knowing how this is affected, Is this going
to mean that they're not gonna have to shift a
couple of times every lap, even on short tracks. I
don't know.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
I don't know that that's really going to make that
big of a difference. I don't.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
I don't, Yeah, I don't know. With the transmissions they
have in most cars, I'm not sure. Interesting, all right.
And one other thing came up this week that I
just can't get it. The Camaro, which has not been
produced by General Motors since December of twenty three. Okay,
that's twenty three months ago the last Camaro rolled off

(38:22):
an assembly line. They redesigned it for NASCAR for this
year's Cup Car, and they're going after yet another manufacturers Championship.
Don't you have to manufacture a car before you can
win a Manufacturer's You think so?

Speaker 5 (38:44):
Wasn't there?

Speaker 6 (38:44):
I mean one of the super Birds in Daytona's Come on,
remember they had to make so many of them for
the streets so we could race them on the racetrack.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
I mean that was way back when.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
But if we're going to use cars that we haven't,
you know, we don't make, maybe we can come up
with the Talladega to Reno again, was a kind of
a nice car. Of course, we haven't raced that since
nineteen sixty nine. But you know what, the hell.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
Exactly, wasn't that it backed? Then they had to make
so many production cars so they could race them. That's
why your Superbirds are out there with the big wings
on them and everything.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Yeah, well there was. There was a lot more Superbirds
and Daytona Chargers built than there were Talladega Torinos. It
was just basically a different nose on the thing. Although
I did drive one once. It was pretty cool. In
the very short time. I was actually a salesman at

(39:37):
Southgate Ford back in nineteen seventy two, I got to
drive one. I used one, came in and I hopped
in and took it, and the four to twenty eight
that was in there was beat the shit and it
really didn't go very fast. But oh well, what's that sell?

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Any cars that did something? Actually buy a car from it?

Speaker 3 (39:58):
Uh? Yeah, some people did not, not enough. Unfortunately, I
wasn't designed. Some people can look you right in the
eye and lie their asses off, and I wasn't as
put at it as as Luca wasn't. He can't sell
anything to anybody, so but that's what happened. We're really
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Speaker 3 (41:36):
LTN Hour presents Turn on the Dirt with Brian Schmidt.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Pretty quiet week of dirt racing across the country, but
there were a few selected events around. We'll start in
Bullhead City, Arizona, the Mojave Valley Speedway, the Duo at
Mojave Valley. Now, if you remember over the years, there
was always an event out at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
dirt track called the Duel in the Desert. That was
a big IMCA race. They transitioned to regular modifieds all

(42:03):
that was run by XAR. Well this week the guy
who runs XAR, Barry Brown, who put on all these big, multi,
multi million dollar events across the country, he was arrested
on some charges for not paying people. As you see,
like they had one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
to win modified race this past summer up at Ogilvy,
Minnesota that Kyle Strickler won, Well, he never was paid

(42:26):
his one hundred and twenty five thousand for women. He
took over the old Pennsboro Track in Pennsylvania last year
redid it made it look real good, bought all this
equipment to put well. He never paid his bills for
the guardrails or any of that kind of stuff if
you look at the different reports. So the old duel
in the desert out at Las Vegas kind of went
away because that promoter is gone. So they moved it
to Mohaw Valley Speedway in Bullheads of the Arizona for

(42:49):
three nights of racing there. Thursday night, the modified Ethan
Broxma was your winner and the stock cars was Wisconsin's
Cole startin Eski. They did it again Friday night out
in Bullheads of the Arizona Modified feature. The winner was
Colin Hibden and the stock cars was Cole Cernesky. So
the Wisconsin man taking two nights in a row of
money there rained out last night, so they did not
run a Saturday night event. There s paulpa Oklahoma Creek

(43:11):
County Speedway Friday night for the ASCs three sixties Blake.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Han was your winner.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
And down in sonoyat Georgia they had the big finale
for the Flow Late Model Night in America Super Late
Model Series the Peach State Classic twenty thousand dollars to win.
Friday Night, Jonathan Davenport was your winner there. Last night Sapulpa, Oklahoma,
the second night for the ASCs three sixties, Zach.

Speaker 8 (43:29):
Dom was your winner.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
York Haveven, Pennsylvania BAPS Motorsports Park, the Sprint Car showdown
for ten sprint cars.

Speaker 8 (43:35):
Brent Marx was your winner.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Out in Placerville, California the YUSAK National Midgets Hangtown one hundred.
They run one hundred laps with the midgets for twenty
thousand dollars to win. In Dayson, Pursley got to win
after Kyle Larson was leading that race and with six
to go, got into Larson. You usually don't see Larson
that upset, but he was pretty upset after that one.
Just a racing incident. I think, Dan right where you

(43:57):
were watching it too, right.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yeah, I saw it.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
I mean he sent it in there obviously, but he
didn't didn't clear him, and he pretty much lars now
of the park.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Yeah, when Dayson got out of the car, he didn't cheer,
he didn't do all that stuff. He goes, that's not
how I want to race. I'm gonna make it a
point to go right over by Larson. And apologize for it,
so pretty stand up person. Dayson was after that win Springfield, Missouri.
Last night the Turkey Bowl six thousand win for the
super late models. Sawyer Kriggler was her winter. They had
seventy five super late models there for that race. For
the modifieds it was Jim Chrisholm. And finally, the big

(44:25):
money race of the weekend was in snoy At, Georgia,
the track owned by Bubba Pollard for the Flow Late
Model Night in America Peach State Classic Championship Night, thirty
thousand dollars to win, and Jonathan Davenport made it a
clean sweep of that and Bobby Pierce, by virtue of
his sixth place finish, is your twenty twenty five Flow
Late Model Light in America super Late Model Champion for
the year.

Speaker 8 (44:44):
And that is everything for this week.

Speaker 7 (44:45):
On to the asphalt side of things. Last Sunday the
All American four hundred, which is actually three hundred laps,
but it's that the Nashville Fairground Speedway. The winner was
Dawson Sutton, Carson Brown, Derrek Thorne, Dylan Fetcho and Steven
Nassy rounded out the top five. Five notables were Ty
Mjeski sixth, Austin Mason seventh, Gabe Summer's ninth, ty Frederickson tenth,

(45:07):
Derrek Cross twentieth, Penn Sawder twenty first, and Michael Hind
who runs at lacrosse during Fest finished twenty third Governor's
Cup Weekend at New Smyrna here Friday night, they had
the pro light models running hundred lapper, eight cars. The
winner was Jason Vale. Jade Of Avedisian, Am I saying

(45:27):
it right.

Speaker 8 (45:28):
Brian Yes, jade E Vidisian Yep, she was fourth.

Speaker 7 (45:31):
But I guess halfway out of eight she looked like.

Speaker 8 (45:35):
She had her hands full in the car. From a
little bit I saw.

Speaker 7 (45:38):
Well, yeah, eight cars too. So there's that last night
super Late Model two hundred lapper for the Governor's Cup weekend.
The winner was Cole Butcher. Other notables Stephen Nassy was
seventh and eighteen cars for that race. And that is
all I have for the asphalt.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
No Ryan, Just so you know, Sepulpa, Oklahoma is a
suburb of Tulsa, Okay. That's wondering where that is Northeastern Oklahoma.
And when you talk about these promoters that are so
slimy at that reminds me of that guy that ran
the Dells for a while the best of everything had

(46:14):
put in there, and then didn't pay any of his
bills and ended up going to jail for eleven years
and eight months. And now from what I understand, he's
out and he's a Chicago City of Chicago bus driver.

Speaker 7 (46:29):
Wow Verry Brown.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
Thing is it is very unfortunate Dan and I got
to meet him last year we went to that big
modified race. He has great ideas and he does a
heck of a job putting on the events. But you know,
sometimes the old saying you bite off a lot more
than you can chew, and I think that's what came
came true here. I mean he he changed dirt track
racing's payouts because in the last handful of years it

(46:54):
went from every race just being like ten thousand to
win to having these incredible payouts.

Speaker 8 (46:59):
And it's because of him. He's the one that started it.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
He's the one that came in and started paying the
big money constantly and made these bigger series increase their payouts.
So you've got to give them credit for that. But
in the end, you still got to pay your bills
where you can't just print money in your basement.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
PJ. No, I can't remember the guy's last Brian. Yeah, yeah,
Brian the bus driver. So yeah, that's how that works.

Speaker 6 (47:25):
A couple of notes bank with this Friday night. I
was a couple of news items out of there. The
mid Am Series is coming back to Slinger next year,
will be on August ninth. That Compact series is going
to run the Small Carnationals again on July nineteenth. Mid Yeah,
the Midwest Tour will be back. I don't have the

(47:46):
date yet, but they'll have a date at Slinger next year.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
It might be the opener. We'll see.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
And uh, there'll be something coming up, he kind of
Travis Dassel kind of teased everything. So there'll be something
coming up on Monday of the Nationals on track activity,
something special. It will be announced in a couple weeks.
Something that has never been done in super lit model racing.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Before, is what he said.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Oh maybe they'll go the other direction.

Speaker 7 (48:07):
That's been done figure out.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Oh yeah, it's kind of odd. All right, this h
we'll sneak away for this break and we got some
news and notes we can talk over when we come back.
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Speaker 3 (50:00):
A couple of things that they're going on. I found
this to be interesting. I'm not worried that we're going
to lose the Kansas City Race because I did little
research on it. And we heard this week that the
Kansas City Chiefs are looking to build a new stadium
and they're looking for a place to put it. And

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the name that was kicking not kicked around. Somebody actually
said they're looking at it pretty seriously. NASCAR owns eight
hundred and eighty acres just west of the city, actually
in the state of Kansas, Okay. It's part of the Metro.
It's still going to be the Kansas City Chiefs. You know,

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remember that the New York Giants don't play and the
Jets don't play in New York. They both play in
New Jersey. But this eight hundred eighty acres, NASCAR actually
only uses three hundred acres of this, which means there's
quite a bit of room there to build something else, like, say,

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for instance, the new home of the Kansas City Chiefs.
It's on A east West. It's on I seventy. You
can see it from seventy as you're driving by, because
I've gone that way to come out here to Arizona
in the past and check that out. But it's interesting
that that it didn't. It wasn't that long ago. The

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state of Missouri had two NFL franchises, the Rams that
played in Saint Louis, And now they're talking about moving
the Chiefs out of Missouri and into Kansas.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Interestingly enough, that would be a I mean, there's there's
a lot of room there. If you look at a
Google view of the track, there's there's all kinds of
room to the west of the speedway there. What that
would require NASCAR do is to work with the NFL
because the second race at Kansas Speedway is always during
the playoffs in October, and you know, darn well, you
can't run the race the same day as you have
a game, you know, a Chiefs game especially, So is

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NASCAR gonna be able to coordinate that, you know how
well they like to work with others.

Speaker 5 (52:06):
Yeah, move from Kansas City to Kansas City.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Yeah, they'd move from Kansas City to Kansas City. Oh,
that's there, And there's other sporting events around that racetrack.
The MLS Stadium is right outside of turn three. Right
outside of turn number four is a minor league ballpark there.
So there's there's other venues around that property. And a
casino right yeah, yep.

Speaker 8 (52:27):
The Hollywood Casino is outside of turn two on that property.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
What could go wrong? You know, no wonder we're finding
baseball players, now, what are we surprised that all of
a sudden we're starting to find out that these guys
are are taking what these prop bets. There's there's kind
of no way to police them. Right then, and the
first pitch you're gonna throws a ball, Okay, I'll throw
a ball or you know whatever, right down the middle

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doesn't matter whatever it is. They make money on this,
on this prop that thing, and now they're busting guys.
Two different pictures from the Cleveland Indian Slash Guardians were
were are they being investigated or were they arrested? Then?

Speaker 8 (53:13):
I can't remember they were investigated.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
I think it's coming up more. They were involved in
a lot of stuff. Same with the basketball side too.

Speaker 6 (53:19):
They had some players there too, were doing that and
and a.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Ref wasn't there a ref that was involved a couple
of years ago.

Speaker 6 (53:25):
It's it's it's right for that, you know, that kind
of money thrown around, and it's easy to do, I guess.
I mean, like you said, how you know now how
God to affect racing everyhow? I don't know how it
would unless he purposely crashed somebody or I don't know.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Yeah, we we know we have seen canipulation, manipulation there
you go. There's been things happened, But how many of it,
how much of it is just to win the race
and not so much to to take care of a
prop bet? You know, I can't imagine unless they'll over
under for cautions or some shit like that, you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
Actions debt trumental to the sport. That's what could happen gaming.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Junior Motorsports announces that same deal they had for the
Daytona five hundred last year. Justin Algeyer will be number forty,
the Traveler Whiskey car. Kind of a neat looking car,
even though it's got some colors that probably were designed
by a female. Now, don't take this wrong, PJ.

Speaker 7 (54:20):
I'm already taking it wrong.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
To a pretty car. It's it's and with orange. I mean,
come on, either way, it looks pretty sharp on the
race track. They're going to bring it back this year,
and uh, and that's that's good.

Speaker 8 (54:32):
Why not one.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Race a year might as well be the Daytona five hundred.
We all remember NBS, NBC sports news and bad news.
The good news is that it comes back and it
relaunches tomorrow. The bad news is they're not going to

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have any race programming on it. NBC's race programming is
supposedly going to remain on USA. They are the people
that produce everything. Anyway, I don't know if it's all
owned by the same outfit, what does it matter if
it's USA.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
I spun USA off to as I called vers sant
or something like that now, and that's going to have
all the racing stuff. It's the NBC, but it's spun
off with another company a lot to it all.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Our friend Josh Blicky of Richfield, Wisconsin, our only the
state of Wisconsin's only Cup driver, will not be returning
to the team he has raced for. Mario Goslin is
the guy that owned one of the owners DGM Racing,
number ninety one and number ninety two. And before you
become too concerned for Josh Bilicky, where have you heard

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this story before?

Speaker 7 (55:46):
Parker at'slf.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
What in the hell was that interesting?

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (55:56):
That was to let me know that I got the
right answer, Parker Ret's loff.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, uh yeah. Uh. Bilicky is firing
DGM Racing and taking his many sponsors to some other
unnamed team, which we'll find out in the in the
near future. Josh pretty good at uh uh keeping everybody informed.

Speaker 8 (56:17):
And the socials and marketing wizard too.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Yes, he absolutely is.

Speaker 8 (56:23):
And uh.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
By the way, Kyle Bush is going to go to
the Snowball Derby for the first time in a couple
of years. He is going to drive for a guy
that none of us have heard uh of before. I
don't think I.

Speaker 7 (56:34):
Looked into it. The Lopez kid has raced before, but.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
He's Bryson Lopez. Yeah, if you're missus Lopez, what would
you like to name your baby?

Speaker 8 (56:46):
You know, Wan?

Speaker 3 (56:47):
Maybe no Bryson. That doesn't add up either way.

Speaker 7 (56:53):
That as our racist, I wouldn't say so.

Speaker 8 (56:58):
My question is what kind of car is Kyle Busch
canna drive? Which is a kid?

Speaker 7 (57:03):
The kid has had pretty decent finishes in some races.
Other races he's kind of hit and miss. So the
thing is, you put a guy like Kyle Busch into
any car, you're going to get a better finish than
you would expect. I mean, is Kyle can squeeze a
better finish out of something?

Speaker 4 (57:20):
Yeah? The racing world is better when Kyle Busch is successful.
So the way the season he had and how rough
of a year he had, I would love nothing more
than to see him go to the Snowball Derby and
be able to compete and really get his his well
being of.

Speaker 8 (57:33):
Hey, I can still do this back because that would
be really bad.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
Hey, while we still have a little time, I want
to bring on Matt Losi, who hasn't really spoken on
the actual podcast, but we have an extensive list of
places that you can download this podcast, and Matt's going
to fill us in on that.

Speaker 9 (57:56):
Okay, I'll try to make it quick. We got a
bunch of them. iHeartRadio, Apple Podcast, Google Chrome, Spotify, Overcast, Podbean,
Apple Core Media, pocket Cast, cast Box, Victor Reeder, tune
In Radio, Spreaker, Amazon Music, Podtrack, dot Com, Windows Media Player,
I don't know what that is, YouTube Music, Air Podcasts,

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Internet Explorer, Safari, Pandora, and a bunch of others.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
Oh, it is a pretty extensive list. And we're brand
new on TikTok today. Huh yeah, I'm trying it out.
More of that in the near future. John Force announced
his retirement this week from racing. One of the great
personalities in the sport of automobile.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
Races and Margarita I'll still remember at eight o'clock in
the morning, here you go in the pri I building.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
Change it name to Margarite. It's lazy to say it,
way more fun and he wants the Margarita right now
instead of.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
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