Kevin Harvick On Youth Racing, Funding and Access

In this episode Greg sits down with Kevin Harvick, professional stock car racer and Daytona 500 winner. The pair discuss the youth racing landscape (4:36), the high costs of racing (21:28) and the importance of access & strategy (28:03).

Greg also answers listener questions (49:51).

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Episode Transcript

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He just was not having any fun at all, I'm like well this sucks

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because I'm having fun and you know I like doing well shit.
I don't I'm not the guy that's supposed to be here.
So What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode
here on. You think presented by Audio
Rama. I hope everybody had a Happy
Thanksgiving. I hope everybody enjoyed their

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week, with their family and loved ones and friends.
And we had a busy one in the Olson house.
It was actually nice. We did not have any sports, we'd
had no practices games. We gave everybody off from our
team. So we brought the entire crew
out to Dallas. I was able to which was a super
cool experience. I got to call the Thanksgiving
Dallas Cowboys game. They played the It's so on

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Thanksgiving afternoon. So we got to bring the entire
family, my wife, my kids, my parents both my brother's their
wives. We all went to Dallas together
for the week and went over to the stadium.
Obviously I called the game and then we came back to the hotel.
Awesome. Spread all the other members of
the crew and their families and everybody was in town.
We got the watch the night game and just chill and, you know, I

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was just cool. I grew up obviously, as we all
did, where NFL football on Thanksgiving was just like,
that's what was on. That's what you watched at least
at our house and to be able to call a game that's been called
by some of the best broadcastersof all time.
Of course, we spent a lot of time on Thursday honoring and
celebrating John Madden, who really voiced pretty much all of
our Thanksgiving football experiences.

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It was really cool to be in the booth with, with my team and,
and call the Cowboys game. So, that was really cool.
And then spent the rest of the week in Dallas.
And then I flew with my oldest son, it was his turn to take a
trip with me. So we went from Dallas to Kansas
City. Got the called the Chiefs game
versus the Rams, kind of a fun game.
The Chiefs are really good, the Rams are struggling a little

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bit, but nonetheless, it was funto spend some time in Kansas
City. I'd only been there one time
prior as a player, so great place to watch a game.
If you haven't been to Kansas City, it's like going to an SEC
football game tailgating Barbecue Pit smokers.
Just a really cool scene, so gotto watch them and then flew
home. So it was a good Thanksgiving in
the Olson house. This week, we are gearing up for

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the trip. We've talked about we've Leading
up to all fall are Pop Warner national championships.
Super Bowl in. Florida, you play a Camping
World Stadium, go to Universal Studios.
They shut down the parks for everybody.
It's going to be a really fun experience.
So we go on Friday. We play our first game on
Saturday. We don't know who were playing,

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so that's a little nerve-wracking is you know, it's
hard to Pratt, you know, we're practicing this week and you
don't know who you're playing. So you're just trying to make
sure you're organized and have aplan and just have to figure it
out. Out when she once you see the
opposing team when the game starts.
So that's a little weird, a little different from what we've
done all year. But nonetheless, awesome
experience for the kids they have like welcome parties to

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beat teams from all over the country and all the different 10
years old, all the way up to 14 years old every age group,
there's eight Regional Championsso there's eight teams in each
age group that come down and that Division.
And we'll see how we do. In fact that where there is
nothing short of a miracle, the we're going Give it our best
shot. So I'll have an update for you

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guys next week. Hopefully, we're still playing
and we'll let you guys know how it goes but we have a really
cool guests in store for today, we have Kevin Harvick, Kevin
competes full-time. In the Nascar Cup Series drives
the number for Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing Daytona. 500
winner back in 2007 has a young son who's wait to hear this

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story about his young son. He's 10.
His kind of growing up in the ranks of being a driver himself.
And You know, he's overseas and training in different circuits,
really fascinating to listen to Kevin's unique.
Insight about not only his upbringing as a kid in the world
of racing but now also now as a father, so really cool
conversation. Really cool guy lives here in

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Charlotte and does a lot here inthe community as well.
So I hope you guys enjoy this conversation on.
You think with Daytona 500 winner, Kevin Harvick Kevin,
thank you so much for joining uson you think.
No problem. Thanks for having me.
There's there's not many more things that I like talking about
than the new sports because it'slike you say, it is very

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fascinating and I am knee-deep in the middle of it currently
but we'll start there with tough.
What does your youth before we go into your experience as a kid
raising through the ranks that you know in your experience?
So what do you mean? What are you doing?
What does a life? What does the Kevin Harvick
Youth Sports Experience look like right now?
Yeah, well, I have a I have a ten-year-old, my son Keelan and

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and you know, he's been really Iguess it started when covid
started because we didn't have anything to do.
So we went we went and started racing and that has evolved into
trying to, you know, put him in the best spot to succeed in
racing and also get the same same learning that he need.
So, he's progressed pretty well over the last couple of years
and he's currently on his own inEurope, racing karts over there.

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Trying to To make him comfortable being uncomfortable.
That's, that's really my wife and I just go and grow up just a
little bit. I know, he's only ten, I'm sure
a lot of people be, like, what are you doing?
But it's, you know, I would consider that the highest level
of kart racing and I think it's probably one of the best
experiences that we put him through so far.

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Because you know, I think one ofthe one of the hard things to
manage, you know, growing up is how hard do I push them and how
hard do Do I let him struggle and finding those places to
struggle? Because so many of these kids,
what do we see it through the management company or my own
kids? Or, you know, whatever is

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hardest thing to manage is how do we teach the states to
understand how to lose? Because we have all the
resources, we have all the things that they need to help.
Make them successful while they're young.
But how do we put them in real life situations?
Because, you know, when you become a professional or you get
to college or at a higher level,you're going to lose a fair
amount. And you need to understand how
to how to deal with that and make yourself better so, so

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yeah, it's been, it's been a lotof fun and hopefully, hopefully,
we can keep that going, why Europe?
Like so I know a lot of the guysI had Kyle Busch on a few months
ago on one of her episodes on you think and obviously his son
and what he's doing but I think a lot of their races were both
locally here in Charlotte and just within the United States.
Why what is the youth seen over in Europe?

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Tell us a little more about that.
Yeah so you know I think everybody every kid in Europe.
To be a soccer player or they want to be an F1 driver.
So when you go to Collins in this, this funny, his birthday
is in the middle of the year. So it's in July.
So you have this decision to make, do I leave him up a
division while he's older or down and division while he's
older or do I leave them up a division while he's younger and

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I'm sure obviously you have kidsand you so you understand that
that the Age game and you know, it's for us it's really trying
to develop and so you know, he progressed a little bit faster
than we thought this year. Here and I wanted to reach out
and show him. Hey buddy, there's a little,
there's a little more to this world if you want to, you know,

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bite off a little bit more and get your face drug through the
mud, a little bit, at a different level.
We can always go find that. I don't think he quite believe
that and, you know, sending him to Europe.
You know, I think our biggest race here we probably had 45 or
50 carts in his class every week.
There's a over 100 or right at 100, you know, in his class and

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it's just, it's just it's a different.
It's a very professional different approach.
Not that there's anything wrong with the with the kart racing
here. But it's just a it's a different
level because those kids are trying to achieve a different
thing and you know for us we're trying to achieve how do we make
him comfortable being uncomfortable?
And he doesn't know the language.
He doesn't know anybody there that they're all you know the

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mechanics speak. Italian for the most part, is he
in Italy? Going to different country.
Yeah he's in Italy right now. They were in.
Let's see, they were in Lamar three weeks ago so he was the
only American over at the at that particular race.
So I just, you know, the more the more the more times that we
can put him in situations being comfortable, being uncomfortable

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and big events that more comfortable, he's going to be as
he gets older. Because as you know, you know,
if you if you take it to the toplevel, you better be ready for
it because you're going to be insome some pre.
Intense, high pressure situations.
And hopefully you've seen them before.
Yeah. Like who is he living with?
I mean, obviously you guys are here, like, who is he over there
with? Yeah.
So I'll go I'll go Monday at ourseason in in Sunday.

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So I'll go Monday. But the lady in the office that
has worked for us for 20-plus years, that has taken him and
then the driver coach that we use here because I found it to
be a little more effective if I'm not the everyday coach.
Okay, coaching through the coachfor me has been More effective
for our personal relationship and being able to let him still

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have fun and have somebody that can, you know, enforce the
things that you want to enforce with making him a good person
and doing the things that you want him to do.
But he just you know kids everywhere like everybody else
and are your kids and my kids probably don't they I know mine
doesn't want to hear from me allthe time so you know, we've just
chosen the path to do it throughthe coach.

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Well, I can relate to that because my my kids don't think I
know Anything and then we'll take them to somebody else and
they'll come home from a battinglesson or a practice.
Whatever be like, hey, Dad coachso-and-so told me.
I said, yeah, no shit. I told you that two months ago.
Well, yeah, but I said, well hopefully, at least you listen
to him because you don't need sure as hell.
Don't listen to me, but I just find that so that in there,

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like, how much longer will he beover?
There you mentioned, he's the only you said, he's the only
American over there, not it. There's probably there's
probably three or four there, you know, in this particular
Together in this particular thisparticular race so he'll
probably go. I don't know, you're probably
race 22 to 25 races over over there throughout next year I'll

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go with him in December and January to run the events there.
And so we've just kind of been dipping our toe in this year
just to get him prepared to see if it was even possible.
And we went through a little phase of homesick but the change
in his personality has been pretty drastic just because of
the fact that he has a little bit of Independence Way from his

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parents. I won't blame it, all on Mom,
but away from his parents and has actually asked us to come
watch. So that that that to me is a
wind just because of the fact that, you know, we got to manage
school. He's done a good job in managing
school, you know, we home schooland then he does school over
there online. So, you know, trying to figure

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all this out and manage this along.
The way has been a little bit ofan undertaking, but, you know, I
think we've got a pretty good system down.
Now, I just For me, I'm really excited about the fact that he's
learning that there's a much bigger bubble than the bubble
that he seen his dad and his family live in, for, you know,
his whole life and, and, you know, being able to get on an

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airplane and go do that yourself, is is definitely
something that I think it will be good for him in the long run.
No, doubt, we're going to talk more about the current Racine
for the kids will get back to that but I just want to back up
a little bit. I want you to take us back, you
grow up Bakersfield, California West Coast everyone.
I know traditionally the traditional to I mean, we all
live here in Charlotte, right? The birth of NASCAR and the home

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of NASCAR and and there's dirt tracks every Highway everywhere.
You drive around North Carolina,South Carolina, there's tracks.
There's and there's race is going on.
Just give us a sense of what your experience.
You just dip. You just kind of give us a
little taste of what your of what your ten-year-old son is
going through today, but take usback to California, the race,
seen your first introduction to it.
Like what did that life look like for you as a young driver

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as just a On kid, kind of getting your feet wet and on
that scene. Yes.
So for me, you know, a lot of people would think, well, he
grew up in California. You know, there's there's no
racing out there and nobody likes cars.
That's not true. If you took Bakersfield
California, and you put it rightin the middle of Charlotte
Mooresville, North Carolina in that area.

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Everybody would fit right in just because of the fact that
it's a, it's a, it's a racing town, you can race, you can race
it, the asphalt oval that there's to do.
Dirt ovals, there's go-kart tracks, motorcycle tracks are
see tracks. You can race anything.
So I grew up, you know, my dad was a fireman.
Mom was a secretary at the localelementary school and for

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kindergarten graduation, my dad got me a go-kart.
I had been with my dad to the race shops.
He worked on his on his days off, he would work on different
race cars, you know, throughout the town of guys that would,
that would come in and race. And so I spent a lot of time
around the Scars and wound up with, you know, go-kart for

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kindergarten graduation and thatstarted in a dirt field.
And first day, wound up under underneath a barbed wire fence.
And and I guess I liked it enough that we came back or my
dad did want me to lay down and you know, give up.
So we went back again to the actual go-kart track and really
from from there, I started I started racing so I think I was

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eight for two years because you had to be eight at the time.
So I think I started at six but I was I was actually a for a
couple of years. But so I started at the at the
local go-kart track and we wouldrace as we could afford.
Once we got done with the club Racing level, then it became a
little bit more difficult because Dad had to go to work.

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And so I would travel with my grandpa or my dad when he was
off work and we started racing up and down the West Coast when
we could afford to. And I did that until I was
probably I guess I had to do that until I was 16 because you
could race cars until you were 16.
And then when I turned 16, I went straight to late model
stock cars at my local short track in Bakersfield California

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track. That is no longer there called
Mesa Marin and from there, I really just was fortunate to win
races and be in the right spot at the right time and wound up.
Having a lot of people in town that would help me with my late
model and we built a truck and you know, ran the first my First
race at in the truck series and 1995 at masonry in which is, you

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know, where the where the truck series started.
So really, for me I went from go-karts too late model stocks
to the regional touring Divisionand really about about, I guess,
1995 was really when they, the end of that was all done through
the, through the family racing and we did everything ourselves.
And from that point, I kind of stepped outside the box when I

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realized that. We couldn't afford to go do what
I wanted to do. So I went to school for six
weeks at the local, Junior College, Bakersfield
Bakersfield, junior college and I came home and I told my mom, I
said this, this really isn't what I want to do and she's
like, well, that's cool, be there.
Why don't you go figure out if you can do what you think you

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want to do? So I actually went to work as a
mechanic for Wayne and Connie Spears, who were the really the
owners of the only West Coast track team that that ran Nash.
Really and I went to work down there as a mechanic.
I guess I was 19 and they paid me twenty five thousand dollars
a year and gave me a credit cardto travel with and I went to

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work there and hope that I got the opportunity to drive.
And by the end of the year, I had convinced Lane to I guess it
was the middle of the year. Had convinced him.
I guess this would have been 1997.
I convinced him to let me drive the West series, Regional
touring car that he had and we did pretty good and then he In a
truck race in the summer as truck and we'd beat the other

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truck and the next week I was the full-time driver of that
truck in in 97 and 98, I ran it full time and in 99 I went to
drive for actually Brad Daugherty own half of the truck
team. Yeah, that I went to drive for
and in I bought my first house in 1999 that my wife soon to be

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wife Delana at the end of 99 andthen decided that I was going to
go. Drive for Richard, Childress and
in 2000 I've just bought my first house.
I had to get a second loan out on my house to buy myself out of
my first contract that I got myself into for my truck ride.
So I put a second loan, second loan against my mortgage took

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out a second loan against my mortgage and lived off my wife's
credit cards for, for three months, and, and went to our CR
and and started driving in the Busch Series.
And then everything happened with, you know, Earnhardt in
2001, and I took over Have you know for him the second races of
the season in 2001. So I really went through all the
steps of the ladder system of NASCAR.

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It's just really fascinating. The part, I want to just hear a
little more about is, I've always found it.
So fascinating. So, what I used to drive the
training camp, we used to drive down 85 towards Spartanburg, you
know, in before you get through Greenville and all that, or the
Big Orange, the big peaches. And there was always this dirt
track on the side of the highwayand with, we would drive down.

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Was a Friday night and you're driving either 2 or home from
from Spartanburg. It was slammed with people.
Like I always wanted to one day just like pull in and just watch
it but the part I love is at those local tracks, its parents
its grandparents, it's uncle's it's guys down the street.
You guys are like serving as your own pit crew, your own
mechanics, you're doing your ownwork.

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Like I want to hear more about that like I want to hear about
going with your dad or going with your grandpa and your
fixing, your own cars, and you're doing your own.
Work in you're pushing your trailer in your own car.
Like to me that Grassroots nature of this sport that now we
all see the you know fancy cars and the trucks and all the
sponsors like at its core. That's really what racing was

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right? Yeah.
And and you know looked at the Grassroots level of it is is is
very different than it was then,but it's very much the same,
it's just way more sophisticated, you know, than
what it used to be. So look, you know, when I was, I
got I remember when I was 12 13 years old, we had a we had a box
fan and house trailer that we would go to the go-kart trailer,

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and my dad would be asleep in the in the passenger seat and I
would drive home. I drive home from Riverside and
Los Angeles and I just get up inthe box, man.
And he'd say, if you get pulled over, just wake me up and I
drive home, you know, three, three and a half hours.
And I'd pull the box fan into the into the house and and we
get out and that was it. So that was just part of what we

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did. So, you know, it, You know, my
grandpa at times would take me around and me, I'll never
forget. We drove the Kansas one time,
and my grandpa would never go over the speed limit.
So it was 55 miles an hour. We stopped at every rest area
and every Danny's what I thoughtwe were going to the rest area
for was to go to the bathroom, but little did I know until I

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figured this all out that he wasgoing to have a cigarette smoke
and all these places. So but you know, we traveled
around and, you know, we lived in campgrounds and We built all
of our own stuff, we built all of our own cars and we drove
them all the racetrack. And you know, even even all the
way up until until the time thatI left.

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And even, even when I work for Wayne and Connie when we ran
the, when we ran the West car, we had a 1977 Winnebago that had
a, you know, a 30 foot trailer that we would halt behind and
all the crew guys woodpile in there.
And we had the time of our life and, you know, the camaraderie
and the relationships and thingsthat that you had during that
time or are still relationships that I have today.

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So, you know, it's, you know, it's working on the cars and
being in the shop and that was one thing that I had mentioned
earlier about Keelan and how we started racing was covid because
he had this community of people that all have the same interest
in lifestyle and, and they all come from different places.

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But when you get to that race track, it's just it's a great
culture to to raise your family and and and I think there's a
there's a lot of life skills. Eels that were that were
specially for me learned along the way whether it's driving
that van home or having to work on your on your own vehicle and
figure out how to ask people forsponsorship, or whatever the
case was, I think I had a checkbook when I was in the

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fourth grade and my dad made me handle all the all the finances
of everything that we spent. So you understood how much it
cost. So, you know, I think, you know,
the common sense and and simple things that were learned along
the way are still very much so with with the way that
Grassroots racing Today, it's just very much very very there's

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a lot more science and engineering that goes into it
and you know so it's made it more expensive but everything's
more expensive. That's what I was going to ask.
I was going to say like at what stage, you know, you gave a
really good description of that,entire kind of Journey from from
a young, you know, 67 year old kid all the way to your time on
this cup series. What when does money really

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become a factor? Like at what stage in this
progression? Do you have to say, Okay, we
can't Do this all ourselves anymore?
We got to get some sponsors. We got to get some, whether
they're local sponsors Regional sponsors.
Like, what at what, stage in that in that process?
Do you really have to say, okay,if we're going to do this, we
need some people to help us out financially.
You know, for me, I was, I was fortunate that, you know, I had
a dad that that he could pretty much make anything.

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So when we raced when we race carts, my dad would make cart
stains and side pods and bearings.
And anything that the go-kart team would need and we would I
would trade that for what it would cost us to race.
And as we got close to race in acar, he actually built the whole

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chassis a year and a half. Before we actually, I was old
enough to race a car. So, you know, I think we did a
lot of horse trading and, you know, I was fortunate to be in
that position. And I think for me, when the,
when the money thing really kicked in was probably my first
year of late Motor Racing which I guess that Would have 1993.

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And you know, I went out and ranmy first race and backed it into
the wall and then I think I wrecked six out of the seven
races and the only reason that we didn't race more was because
of the fact that we couldn't afford to put the car back
together. So the next year I broke one
Fender and we won the championship ran all the races
and and I think we won you know five six seven races in in the

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13 or 14 Race season and and I realized really quickly that we
didn't have Money to go out and tear the car up every week.
Because if we tore the car up every week, I didn't get to race
as much so. And and then when when I didn't
tear the car up and we won races, we were able to get more
people to help us than more people to sponsor us and, and,
you know, make things easier as we went along.

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And then after we got done with the first car actually went on
my senior trip in 1994, when I came home, and my car was gone,
I asked my dad, I'm like, where the cargo, he's like, what you
want in the first four races. So there's no reason to race
this car anymore. So, I sold it.
We're going to go. Move up to the next Division.
I said, oh okay. So you built the next to it.
Yeah we built the next Division and my dad soon figured out that

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the next the next division was much more expensive.
So at erase one day and this guyprivate Equity guy, investor guy
comes up and says hey I want to own to help you through your
career in like oh ok. So he invested in buying cars
and trucks and trailers and and we managed all that out of our

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family shop and Soon, he realized over the next year and
a half that it was way more expensive to because he paid to
build the first truck that we ran as well.
Well, by the end of 96, all the money was gone and that's that's
when I took the next step to go get a job and you know try to do
it. Professionally with with real
sponsorship, waning Connie Spears, they own Spears

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manufacturing, which makes all the PVC pipe fittings, you know,
throughout the world. So but yeah, I guess, right in
those 22. And a half years is really.
When I realized that in order todo this, right?
You've got to have real funding,otherwise it's going to be a
hobby for your whole life. That's interesting.
So so bring us back to now current-day.

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Right. You have a son who's going
through it. At a young age similar like is
the finite you mentioned, sometimes with the technology
and the engineering, is there still?
I'm assuming there's even a greater financial burden to race
at the Young level today even than there was when you were
coming up. For sure, unfortunate part about
all that is. You can't, you can't forget all

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the things that you've learned, right?
So now, there's just this, in mymind, this is, this is how you
race, you know, how you race on Sunday.
This is the expectation that youhave for the preparation and
what the cars look like the carts.
Look like, whatever it is. You got to have the right
people. And so you just have this.
You have this Vision in your head of, you know, this is, this
is just how I race, and, and I have learned again.

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That it's much more expensive than I remember it being because
of the fact that now I'm having to pay for it.
And so, I think racing is racinga, even at the kids level today
is a lot like other sports, right?
So you got to have the right coach.
You got to have the right competition.
And in order to Expose them to the things that they need to be

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exposed to to competed at the high level.
And you know what that looks like?
And you think that you can I guess for me, I just figuring
out how this puzzle works and how you can push you know the
young kid as hard as you can push them and still have fun and
still have a relationship with them is difficult.
But the finances of it or are you know it's expensive and you

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know I just there's really no way around that racing is just
expensive. And and, you know, we were
fortunate to be in the position that were ended to be able to go
do it right and how I want to doit.
And, you know, that's that's theway we ran our race teams when
we when we had our, our race teams in, you know, 2010, 11 12.

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So that's just how we do it, butit's really like every other
sport. It's, you got to have the right
people around it to make it go. Yeah, and and that brings up my
next point. the experience, you know, I know your son's overseas
right now, but just say that with the experience to Raising a
Son who wants to get our daughter, who wants to get in to

(26:58):
the race scene here in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Bakersfield, California Vegas, that now in today's world, like,
with those experiences be similar, like if I heard another
father out on the west coast today describing his son, his 10
year old Sons like Is there a regional component to all of

(27:19):
this or is everyone pretty much playing the same game by the
same rules? Yes.
Oh, you know they're there is a there's a number of different
ways to do you know it's exactlythe same way that that I came
up. You know it's obviously going to
cost more than what it did then but you can you can do it the
exact same way that I did it when I came up but you know it's

(27:43):
like like I said earlier I mean you know how to do it, you know,
the path to Get there now and you know, the people to do it,
you know, the right race teams to call, you know, the right
go-kart teams to call. And you just, you go straight to
it. And and I tell other parents,
that all the time, you have to be able to do what you can do
within your means to not destroyyour family, because I've seen

(28:04):
this happen time and time again,where people spend everything
that they have thinking that they're doing the right thing
and they have, they don't do it properly.
And then they destroy their whole life.
Because of the fact that, you know, They think that they're
going to their next kid is goingto be Dale Earnhardt, jr.
And that's just, that's just notthe case for everybody and and

(28:24):
you know I think as you look at it I always tell people try to
be successful at the division that you can afford and when you
can do that, try to figure out how to go to the next division
because you can race it every local short track across the
country has a you know, Friday, Saturday, night races, if you're
good. There there's some sort of
regional touring division that you can run and whether it's on

(28:45):
dirt or asphalt all over the country.
So there is local Regional national International.
It's literally you know whateveryou choose.
There's just that there's a price tag that comes with it all
and and you know in the end you can still get there by having
success. It's just a matter of Being

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around the right people and being in the right places.
And, you know, if you can't afford to go do them all, go,
go, go do the ones you can afford to do, right?
And that's more important than just showing up at every one of
them. So, so again, obviously you have
the experience, you've lived this your whole life.
We see so many Legacy drivers, right?
Of course, Wood Dale. You know, so many guys who grew

(29:27):
up in the sport where there's aninherent, forget the financial
abilities, just an inherent knowledge that comes with
navigating these circuits and whatnot.
So what do the Parents of kids who want to get into racing and
whatnot, but they haven't lived their whole life.
They weren't cup drivers, they don't maybe know the scene like,
how do they figure it out? Yeah, so we have, we have 11

(29:50):
young man by the name of Connor's ilic.
His dad was a dad's, a banker, you know, they had some some fun
with into Mazdas and but we've been, we've been helping him
from from the management side ofthings.
And I think, for for him, you know, No, it's been trying to
put him around the right people to be able to see a son, be

(30:12):
successful. And and, you know, I think doing
your homework as far as so, you can trust who the right people
are too to be around there. So many Crooks, and whether it's
baseball, basketball, football, no doubt coach, The Rake all the
same, it's all the same. Yeah.
And you have to find the right people and finding people that
you can trust and not going downthat path.

(30:34):
And that's, that's really what I've tried to coach them.
On, let's not go down the path, where we sign a contract that we
shouldn't sign, or we get a dealthat we shouldn't have, or we
get a coach that we shouldn't have and we waste, you know, two
years three years. Whatever the case is and you get
you just got to do your homeworkand being able to put yourself
in a position to where you're around.

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People that you can trust that are going to do right for your
kid to be able to teach them, the skills that they need to
have. And that's that's really the
hardest part for anybody to navigate.
Is that is out Outside the racing world is to find somebody
that you can trust. That's not just going to take
all your money because that's that's really what what a lot of
these people do. They'll they'll sweet-talk you

(31:16):
and you know thinking that they know more than they know and the
next thing you know you're just another number making making
their mortgage and and your kid hasn't learned anything and
you're just having a bad experience in the next thing.
You know you're just done with racing because you know,
nothing, nothing went right. You spent all your money.
Yeah, but again you mentioned it.
It's really the same. Mm story.

(31:37):
It looks different. It feels different to set up
different but that's going on right now across the country in
every youth sport, whether it's travel.
Soccer, baseball, bat there, everything has a financial
component. Everything costs money, you want
your kid to go to a baseball showcase?
Sure, you got pay $600. So some of these parents are so
there's that that Financial thread is kind of woven through

(31:59):
this entire landscape. And a lot of the conversations
we have here are trying to find ways to help educate our fans
and listeners. And what not to like, don't fall
victim to everything you just described because it's happening
across the entire country. I want to come back to your son
Keelan and and his experience and you mentioned it earlier.
Like how do you ensure that he'sliving?

(32:22):
And he's pursuing his dream? Like this is something like, do
you guys have conversations withhim?
Is this something you constantlycheck in and say, hey are you
sure you want to do this? Because I know I go through that
a little bit with my kids. I have two ten-year-olds.
They're twins boy and girl, and Then an 11 year old son and they
play sports and whatnot and I think they want to do it and
when we do it we do it Full Throttle but I also don't ever

(32:45):
want them to feel like they haveto do things because that's what
I did. So like how do you do?
Like what does that look like for you and your son?
Yeah. So it's pretty funny because
when we started racing the firstthing he told me was Dad, I
don't want my last name on the go-kart and I do not want to be
number four. And I was like, what?

(33:08):
Why not pay your at first? You're like pissed off, right?
You know, what do you mean? What do you mean is so bad and
core? And the more I thought about it?
I'm like well he doesn't, he doesn't want to be here because
of his name or a number. He wants to just be his own kid.
So you know, it in the beginning, man, I was I was
tough on him. And I was pushy, pushy, pushy,

(33:30):
pushy, you know, you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you
gotta do this and it was, he wasjust, he just Was not having any
fun at all. I'm like, well, this sucks
because I'm having fun. And, you know, I like shit.
I'm not the guy that's supposed to be here.
So I think in the beginning it was more about trying to figure
out, you know what, how I was going to navigate it.

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Then it was his then he was because of the fact that when
practice was over it was throwing a football or riding a
bike and, and having fun with the other kids, and he'd come
back at dark and sleep in a motor home and get up the next
day. And we drive again.
So we do have those conversations all the time
because you know especially before we started the Europe
stuff I'm like look you know this is going to be this is

(34:16):
going to be a major undertaking for our family because we're
going to have to change the way that we do school.
We're going to have to change the way that we live.
You're going to have to live with other people for you know
weeks at a time like this is going to be something that is
going to take some time to put together and you know, it's
going to be Something that that's going to be expensive.

(34:38):
So you know we talked about it and that's what he wanted to do
and he went through the first couple and then the third one he
was like yeah I don't know what I want to do this anymore.
I said well buddy, it's too late, you committed to this and
you can you can you can go untiland finish what we've what we've
committed to and do the things that you've committed to and

(35:00):
honestly that was the best thingthat we did was make him go and
I really do this day believe. You that he didn't want to go
because he was getting his face drug through the mud.
And it was the first time that he's ever been somewhere and
lost and lost and lost and lost and missed a race.
And, you know, and he's never experienced anything like that.
And I and, you know, my wife andI talked about it, I think a lot

(35:22):
of that came from the fact that it was hard and that's what I
was, you know, getting that earlier.
I think you know, a lot of the things that I've learned
throughout his process is man. A lot of these kids that come
through you Sports, don't lose. Much because they have the
proper coaching and the proper things that they need.
And and he, he needed the lose and he needed to lose more and

(35:43):
he needs to continue. So there's more in order to
learn more so that really was the moment, that key moment that
I knew, he wanted to keep going back because we've never had
that conversation again here andgood the next week and we he's
never mentioned not going again.So I do I do periodically check
in. Yeah.
But that was one moment that we had to really Put our foot down

(36:06):
and say you're going to at leastfinish?
Yeah. Even if you don't run another
race you're going to finish whatyou started here and that to me
is the lesson, right? You don't have to do it again
but if you start the season, youare going to roll through it.
And at the end of the season, ifyou don't want to re-sign up for
next season next year, you want to go back out, team fine, but
you're not going to bail on yourteammates, you're not going to
bail on your commitment to your to a lot of people who have

(36:28):
sacrificed for you to be in the spot.
So, kudos to you guys because that I give you a lot of credit
for that because I think those are such Valuable lessons for
kids. And today's day and age, people
are very conquer, very careful. They don't want to tell their
kids what to do and they and I get it but I get it, I get it.
Let me not eat it. People look at me and they're

(36:48):
like you really gonna do that. I'm like, yeah, he needs to be
accountable for his actions and he needs to be accountable for
his performance and he needs to be accountable anymore, an
ability. Yeah, we need more of that.
If they're not doing a good job,you need to tell them they're
doing a bad job. Otherwise, they get this false
insecurity that That be an average is.
Okay. When are you going to become?
You need to come speak at all myteams that I coach in town

(37:10):
because I have a saying with them, I say if everything's
okay, nothing's. Okay, yeah.
Right, this whole thing. Hey, it's okay, it's okay.
No, it's not okay, it's not okay.
You didn't completely wrong. You didn't do it.
You're coached, my favorite thing is you hill yesterday, he
got me pretty good. I talked to him yesterday and I

(37:31):
asked him, I said, well, how'd it go?
He said good. That's why not great.
I said you want to be good or you want to be great he's like
Daddy went fantastic. He's like I got some good since
it me a text and and that's that's been kind of my saying
with him. We want to be good or you want
to be great because if you want to be good, just keep doing what
you're doing. If you want to be great, there's
going to be some pretty crappy times that you got to go through

(37:51):
some things that really aren't that much fun but it's so true.
So what's the, what's the long-term Vision like where does
this lead? What's if you had a magic wand?
This leads him to what series? Where's Is he back in the
States? Is he stay overseas.
Like what is the in the perfect world?
This path leads where? Yeah, well that's a good

(38:15):
question, you know, if you're going to go, if you're going to
go down and F1 path, you have todo some of this European racing
really, really about the time. I guess, you know, he's going to
do he's going to do the Europe stuff and he's going to run the
oval Legend car stuff in the It states here.

(38:36):
Do the Europe stuff in the carton.
Next year, do Legend car here onthe ovals.
And, you know, I think really for the next, he'll move up to
the bigger carts, I guess that would be 2024 and still do his
Legend car and you'll do all that in the US and in 2024
really when, I guess that would be lets see 1011 next year 1112.

(39:00):
So, the 1213 year is when it Starts a little bit, dipping
your toe in the water with big cars.
Whether it be late model stock cars, they're modified,
whatever. Whatever that that path is f for
as far as the testing goes but when they when he turns 14, so
that would be like 2026, that's really when you got to start

(39:23):
deciding what that path is whether it's, you know, stock
cars or open-air cars, whatever it is.
Yeah, I think realistically, youknow, for him unless there's
Some crazy Opera walls situationthat happens, you know, it's
going to be an in a stock car, got it, got it, but that but you

(39:43):
still have some time to kind of sort all that through.
Yeah. And you know obviously give me
10 it's just you know what I find.
So fascinating is like in our world at 10 playing, you know
playing football say so just take my older Sons playing
football this year. He's 11, he's in fifth grade
like the next decision is. Do you make your middle school
football team? And then after that it's like

(40:05):
you go out for your high school football team.
Like there is no real decision. There's no paths, there's no
circuits. You just play football until and
then when you get to high schoolobviously, Then the kids who are
more advanced have opportunitiesto go to college in whatever
that journey is. But there's not a ton of
decision-making, you know, that's the key though, you know,
the more advanced right? So you know that's what is he

(40:28):
mentally ready for as far as competition, what can he
comprehend as far as speed race tracks and different Vehicles?
You know, what is his maturity level because I think a lot of
people lose sight of you know the honest opinion of the
maturity level of your kid and that That is something that a
lot of parents lose sight of is saying, okay my son's just He's

(40:53):
Just Not That mature and I wouldtell you that keeling's kind of
he's on that fence of saying, okay is should he go to be
racing in the older division? Or should he be in the younger
Division? And really we thought finding
more competition was better to keep him in the younger division
because we didn't think he was mature enough to really
understand what it was like to race against a 13 or 14 year

(41:15):
old. Rhino down sooner, you can the
sooner you can do that the better but man you can you can
just crush them if they're not mentally mature enough to do
what they're doing against the guys, they're playing with.
Yeah. Yeah.
I we see it all the time that you play with your age.
Do you play up? I get it the Last Thing Before I
Let You Go. And again, thank you, Kevin
Harvick thank you so much for spending time.

(41:37):
I find this entire world fascinating just because it's so
new to me. Talk a little bit about I know
you're very passionate about your foundation work.
Back in baker's, Bakersfield California, For Nia, where you
grew up your hometown and not all of your passions in the
Youth, Sports scene is in racing.
So I want to just give you the opportunities.
I find it a really cool story. What you told me before the show
started about some of the work that you guys do.

(41:58):
And a lot of the success, your foundation is having.
Yeah. So the Kevin Harvick Foundation,
everything we do is for kids. We've found a lot of success in
through our foundation, through Sports because especially at
high school, because if they're in high school and they're
playing sports, they got to havegood grades.
They got to show up to school, you know, especially if they're

(42:20):
showing up at school and their Sports activity around.
Good coaches, you know, makes a huge impact on all these kids.
So I got involved in my high school wrestling Pro.
I wrestled in high school for all four years of high school
and that was, I still talk to mywrestling coach today.
I had a great coaches have talked to him you know, through
the years and had a great experience.

(42:42):
Probably the best thing that I've ever done in my life was
was wrestle. Those four years because I More
about myself than probably, anything else that I've ever
done. But you know, I think for me I
got involved. I got a letter from the vice
principal at North High School in Bakersfield in 2006 that said
in my mailbox and I didn't I didn't even know what it was and
and I finally opened it one day and it was we need your help.

(43:04):
They want to shut the wrestling program down.
Would you be interested in donating $1200?
So we called the high school or like $1200.
She's like, yeah, you know, they're, they're thinking about
shutting the wrestling. Um down because they can't
afford to operate it. I was like well here we go.
So I went out and we had a fundraiser in the quad and we
raised 80,000 dollars and we putthat into a trust for the

(43:29):
wrestling team to be able to operate for how long.
I don't even think we've spent all the money yet because now
functions. Well, I think at that particular
time, I don't think we could fill out a complete varsity and
JV team over the last couple years.
We've had over 100 kids try out for the program.
Spent two or we sent two or three kids to college last year,
they've been competing for Valley and state championships

(43:53):
throughout the year. But, you know, and I go out
every once in a while and spend some time with the coaches or go
to the school and just kind of check in because you know, we
still do a lot of stuff, you know, through the, through the
wrestling club, they're in town to make sure that they have
uniforms and shoes and and that was really something that we
concentrated on because a lot ofkids won't go out for sports

(44:15):
because they can Afford to buy shoes.
The golf programs that we do with PJ reach here and in North
Carolina. You know, we've gone to the
Charlotte Mecca, Mecklenburg school district and and
basically any school who wanted it, you can have free.
Clubs, free shoes, free uniforms.
And we give the school all this to try to get the kids to come

(44:39):
out for golf. Because golf is it's even more
difficult than wrestling. We've had a huge impact on the
wrestling program at home and Functions on its own and its
competitive. And lots of kids showing up a
great environment and and so that's been great.
Golf has been different, just because of the fact that a lot
of kids don't go play golf and alot of schools don't have golf
teams because they can't afford to buy the clubs and they can't

(45:00):
afford to buy the shoes. So we try to put programs
together that Supply, the equipment and you know, the PGA
reach does a good job in sendinga local Pro that is near the
school to help the coaches. Because a lot of the gulf
coaches don't know how to play golf.
They're just, Filling the slot be correct.
There's nobody to fill the slot for the golf coach, so they go

(45:21):
and try to take these kids. So we try to give them, you
know, some, some opportunity to have some coaching.
We have a great program through the Charlotte Police Athletic
League. I think we have, let's see, I
think we have three or four AAU basketball teams, fully funded.
We have some great coaching thatcomes into the end of the club
tubes. You be able to give the kids who
can't afford the the coaching free coaching, you know, the

(45:45):
police A great and do a lot of the coaching selves and take the
kids around. But the more we can do for I
like doing doing stuff like thatthrough Sports, through our
foundation because it gives kidsthe opportunity that may not
have the opportunity, otherwise and it also gets them out of the
bad environment that a lot of them had to have at home,
because they can come play sports.

(46:06):
And then when they find a sport that they love, they come to
school. And that's those are those are
the pieces that I like to tie together.
So, it's great seeing a lot of those Sports programs.
Come together and heck we've been everything.
We built a 1.2 million dollar Field behind the Boys and Girls
Club here in Charlotte. You know, they have a lot of
great facilities that we that webuilt around.

(46:27):
So we love doing stuff for kids and that's awesome, programs and
Fields And whatever it is to give them a safe place to play
Rise as a lifelong supporter of the Youth Sports Experience.
Obviously, this has been in my blood since I was a kid, this is
what I do now is a dad, obviously, we do this show so
you know, Pretty clear Youth Sports is super important.

(46:48):
So as someone who's just a dad and a youth coach whatnot, I
commend you for that because theimpact you guys are making and
the impact that we all can make on kids through their youth
Sports Experience. Regardless of what it is,
whether it's racing, whether it's football, whether it's
basketball, whatever it is wrestling.
We can impact these kids lives in just such an incredible way
as well. Kevin, I know you have a lot

(47:08):
going on. I know you have a lot of places
that you could be. So for you, to take some time
and share your story about your family, and your upbringing and
your experiences in the youths. Port scene with us here on.
You think is is greatly appreciated and best of luck to
your kids. Best of luck to your son racing
best of luck to you and we'll bewe'll be following hopefully one
day. There's a multi-generational

(47:29):
Harvick's bracing on the Cup Series.
Yeah that would be great. I enjoy it.
And if there's ever anything that I can that I can help with.
I love the the Youth Sports category.
So just let me know. You got it, you'll be, you're
going to be on the top of my list of call.
So be careful what you ask for. Sounds good.
Appreciate it. Thanks Kevin.
Thank you. I hope you guys enjoyed that

(47:53):
conversation with 2007 Daytona 500 winner.
Kevin Harvick the part I found so fascinating, just now as a
father, raising kids in different sports here, you know,
soccer and football and basketball and baseball to
listen, to Kevin talk about the journey that his son is
currently on, you know, as an aspiring driver.

(48:14):
You know, I'm not quite sure which circuit or which, you
know, Direction could go, you know, ND, you could go open
wheel in, could go traditional alittle stock car like we're like
we're custom seeing here in the States but just to hear him tell
the story of his son being overseas racing in some of the
European circuits and just the experience and the you know, the
maturity that he's that he's grown and developed is a really

(48:35):
fascinating insight into a worldthat I don't know what ton about
but it's obviously very popular here in the North Carolina area
and kind of the home of NASCAR. So, appreciate Kevin for coming
on. I hope you guys enjoyed that and
found. That is fascinating, is I did
and Kevin's a great dude. Like I said, he lives here.
In Charlotte, does a ton in the community really interesting
successful guy in his own, right?
And now navigating it as a father, I can relate to a lot of

(48:57):
the a lot of the stories and concerns that he told so
appreciate Kevin for joining us on.
You think at this time, as you all know, we are going to bring
in Tasha, Tasha. How was it, Tasha, babers,
obviously our producer, how was it?
Having your dad like going back now and listening to the last
episode like and having your dadon last week?
Was cool. Wasn't it?

(49:18):
See, you know that some social? Yeah, it was fun.
It was fun to like, send to my family group, text and them.
Harass my, what did you what wasyour family feedback?
Like what did everybody think they were?
Just like, oh my goodness. Oh, Dino, you know, he's just
he's a character. So it's always interesting.
Has he always been a character? He's always been a character.
Yes, this is an interesting interesting.

(49:41):
Yeah, it's a great house. So yes we have a really good
questions. This one's kind of sad and
interesting. Sarah from Instagram says my son
is being bullied. Don his football team and my
heart breaks for him. So, any advice on how to talk to
the coaches about it, without being a helicopter parent?
Yeah, this one's hard. I think, especially in today's

(50:02):
day and age, you know, we're hazing and really creating
positive, you know, culture and environment and locker room is
so critical at all ages. You know, whether it's at a
young age and Pop Warner all theway up through college.
And we talked to your dad about just how important culture is.
And guys, buying in feeling partof something goes such a long
way. Beyond just their, their talent

(50:23):
is feeling a part of the, the greater, the greater whole.
So, in regards to this, I guess I have a few Few questions I'd
be curious to know how old the child is.
If the child is Young Middle School or down, you have to get
involved, right? Especially if they're being
bullied. If it's becoming dangerous.
If it's becoming, you know super- whether it's emotionally or
physically God forbid. Like, either way, I think as a

(50:45):
parent it since, it seems to have been continuing for a long
enough that she submitted the question, I think you have to
get involved. I think any time you feel like
your son or daughter is being treated poorly and it could
cause them either physical or emotional harm.
There is a fine line between notwant to be a helicopter parent,
I get that but when it comes to the safety and the wellness of

(51:05):
your child, you have to get involved.
A if this is an older child again, I'm speculating.
If there was steps taken that, you're not your high school son
or daughter in this case son, you know, went and talked to his
coach tried to address it with the players and tried to
advocate for themselves and it'sstill not working.
Yes, you still have to get even though, you know, you want your
child to fight for themselves orhigh school, they're older you

(51:27):
have to get involved any time. You're talking about the mental
well-being, the physical well-being of your child as much
as you want them. To advocate for themselves.
You have to go speak to the coach.
I would be surprised if the coach was aware of the bullying
and decided not to stop it. If he was aware of it and has a
Let It Go on, then there's a whole nother conversation to be

(51:48):
had about what's going on at this program.
But yeah, I think the coach needs to be needs to be
addressed. I think you need to find time to
go speak with him. Be honest, be up forward to.
Hey listen, I got my And he tried to advocate for himself,
he tried to address it. It's not working.
It's almost making it worse. Your child should not have to
fear being part of a team that doesn't mean they don't have to

(52:09):
earn their stripes. They don't to be held
accountable like all that stuff is going to happen.
But it should not be to the point where it's considered
bullying, where it's becoming harmful and potentially,
dangerous, have you experienced that as a player or coach on
your team? So, you know, when you know,
growing up when we were in high school, and I remember being the
freshman sophomore, and there was like, like, and when I say

(52:29):
hazing, it wasn't like some of these horror stories, you know,
we'd have to carry the seniors shoulder pads or we'd have to be
in charge of cleaning up the field after practice.
Like there was kind of a rite ofpassage between, you know, what
lockers you were able to have inthe locker room.
Only the seniors could have the ones in the middle.
So there was kind of like a riteof passage process of growing
and earning your stripes and andcoming up as a younger player,

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whether it's in high school or in college and college, they
shaved our heads. I don't know if they do that
anymore. Well, freshman had to Their
heads. It's a great picture.
You can probably find it on the internet but no, I was never
around a team that was like physically or emotionally like
really harsh, you know, it was it was it was more tradition.

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It was more earning, your stripes and kind of carrying
your weight as a young player, but it never it never turned
over to being physically harmfulor emotionally harmful now.
Hmm, yeah. That I did not look great with a
bald head. I have a big head.
Didn't look great bald. I can't wait to see that on our
next question is from Nick from Charlotte.

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She said, I saw that Ryan has his own pod and they love that.
How did you guys get the idea toget into the podcast world
together? Yeah, so it's been cool.
So also under the audio Rama that you guys hear us obviously
mention a lot here under the audio, Rama umbrella.
We have a bunch of different projects that are either
released or in the works. And Ryan who's a partner and I
who's a partner with me and Vince and our team at audio

(53:56):
Rama, he partnered up with Audible And during and in
conjunction with the Thursday night, football package, that
Amazon, which is audible, they did a show called block forever
and Ryan goes around and and it's centered from like the
perspective and offensive. Lineman kind of the Forgotten
guys of the, of the team. But the most probably the most
critical component of a team andhe just interviews all sorts of,

(54:17):
you know, players coaches past players current and just does it
from a different perspective where we hear the voice and the
stories of what it takes, you know, what the days were like as
an offensive lineman in the NFL and He's got a really good way
of Storytelling and weaving it in to the conversation, so it's
gone really well. It's it was a huge project.
One of our biggest things that we've so far launched in the

(54:38):
first year of audio Rama being in existence and to partner with
the group like Audible for Ryan to create, and present block
forever was a really cool opportunity.
So we have other projects comingdown the pipeline that we're
really excited about. And Going to see what the future
holds for audio Rama VI block forever, was the next show after
after this one? So it's been, it's been a fun

(55:00):
build nice. And then, our last audience
question is Bill from Instagram.He knows that your daughter
plays soccer. Have you been watching the World
Cup? And do you need a bar to watch
it from? That's a great bar to watch it.
From sounds incredible. I don't know how many bars I'm
going to find myself in tonight.I am going to try to watch the
game here this afternoon. I watched The American game, you

(55:24):
know, the u.s. game vs England on Friday.
I think everybody watched that, I did not catch our first game
against Wales. I was in and out of the house.
I saw it was on and I didn't watch it.
And obviously, I know we tied, Iwill watch today.
The fact that it's win or go home.
Makes it very exciting anytime America.
Whether it's a World Cup male orfemale, whether it's the

(55:46):
Olympics. I don't care if it's curling
basketball, like any time the US, has a u.s. represented team.
Like I try to watch the sport whether I care not about the
sport, I just like supporting when our country goes out on the
world on the international stage.
So yeah, I'm rooting for obviously the u.s. to win today.
I almost feel like if we can't beat Iran in soccer, I'm not

(56:09):
sure what we're doing. Like, I'm not sure what we're
doing as a country, we need to re-evaluate our approach to
International, you know, events because I don't know a lot about
soccer, but I feel like the United States should be able to
beat Iran. Yeah, we need more kids and
development. Let's skip said that a couple
weeks ago, I guess it's just hard to believe that the best 20

(56:31):
soccer players and Iran could potentially be better than the
top 20 soccer players in America.
I don't know, I don't know a lotabout it, but that just seems
hard to believe. So hopefully we come out and we
beat them we met and we advance to the round of 16 in advance at
a pool play. But I heard that, that's not
like a guarantee. I guess.
Iran's pretty good. Right.

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I know we need to watch. Ouch, that's scary.
USA. I get so psyched when I watch.
You aside. Love why I like the Women's
World Cup better. I'm going to be honest.
Oh, he said it, I I like it better.
I the team competes. Like, I think watching a team
that, you know, could potentially win the whole thing
is obviously, exciting. I don't know if anyone imagines

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the u.s. winning it. I support the boys.
I want them to win. I want them to shit.
I want them to win the whole thing.
So we got to beat Iran. That's the bottom line.
You got to beat Iran. Gotta Focus fellas.
Let's go. Fellas feed Iran.
Let's go. Oh, that's it for all the fan
questions today and we'll see ifthe USA team advances.

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appreciate you guys. Thanks as always for the
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on, you think? Have a lot to report back on.
So we'll see you guys next week.Have a lot to report back on.
So we'll see you guys next week.