Navigating winter weather and the challenges of driving in snow takes center stage as the hosts share personal anecdotes about cold conditions and emergency alerts. They discuss the complexities of towing vehicles to the track, highlighting the balance of good and bad experiences in motorsports. The episode introduces the intriguing word 'agathakaklological,' which describes situations that embody both positive and negative aspects, prompting a deeper reflection on life’s events and the duality present in racing and everyday experiences.
"so many people talk about towing as you know this thing it's just it's what you need to do maybe even get a c-class motorhome like you just have to get a trailer and tow vehicle and again there are benefits because if something does happen to the car you can get home"
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a luxury car that is smaller than some of their other models but still offers a lot of comfort and nice features. It's known for being stylish and having a smooth ride, making it a good choice for people who want a nice car for everyday use. Many people talk about it when discussing luxury vehicles that are also practical.
The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a line of compact executive cars that combines luxury, performance, and advanced technology. It has been a staple in the Mercedes lineup since 1993 and is often discussed for its balance of comfort and sportiness, making it a popular choice for both personal and business use. The C-Class is also known for its high-quality interiors and safety features.
"...was born out of one of my motor mounts melting you know as the story starts right and me having to grab like a few friends..."
A motor mount is a part that holds the engine in place in a car. If it breaks or gets too hot, it can cause problems with how the engine works.
A motor mount is a component that secures the engine to the vehicle's chassis and absorbs vibrations. If a motor mount fails or melts, it can lead to engine misalignment and performance issues.
"...while they're like finishing tightening up the exhaust bolts"
Exhaust bolts are the screws that hold the exhaust system parts together. If they aren't tight, it can cause noise and let harmful gases escape.
Exhaust bolts are used to secure the exhaust system components to the engine and the vehicle's undercarriage. Properly tightened exhaust bolts are crucial for preventing leaks and ensuring the exhaust system functions correctly.
"...and I'm like trying to you know not be a roadblock for anybody..."
A 'roadblock' in racing is a car that is slower than others, making it hard for faster cars to pass. It can be frustrating for drivers trying to race quickly.
In racing, a 'roadblock' refers to a driver who is slower than the others and hinders their progress on the track, often leading to frustration among competitors.
"...and sure enough the car's low on gas oh yeah yeah miss something yeah..."
When a car is 'low on gas', it means there's not much fuel left in the tank. This can cause the car to not run properly or even stop working.
Being 'low on gas' refers to having a minimal amount of fuel in the vehicle's tank, which can lead to performance issues or engine stalling if not addressed.
The Honda Grom is a small motorcycle that's easy to ride and great for beginners. It's fun for short trips and around the city.
The Honda Grom is a small, lightweight motorcycle known for its agility and fun riding experience. It's popular among new riders and is often used for urban commuting and recreational riding.
"...it was the final event of the year, it was the six hour race final endurance race of the year..."
In an endurance race, teams race for a long time, sometimes several hours. They need to make sure their vehicle lasts and that they manage things like fuel and driver changes well.
An endurance race is a motorsport event where teams compete over a long distance or time, testing both the vehicle's durability and the team's strategy. These races often require careful management of fuel, tires, and driver changes.
"...and about four hours into it the clutch went out on the bike"
The clutch helps you change gears in a vehicle. If it breaks, you can't shift gears properly, which can make it hard to ride or drive.
The clutch is a mechanical component in vehicles that engages and disengages the engine from the transmission, allowing for smooth gear changes. In motorcycles, a malfunctioning clutch can significantly affect performance and control.
"...we just uh everyone just had the sim racing Daytona 24 hours of Daytona recently oh yeah that went on so there was..."
The Daytona 24 Hours is a famous car race that lasts for 24 hours straight. Teams of drivers take turns racing their cars around a track in Daytona, Florida, trying to cover the most distance in that time.
The Daytona 24 Hours is a prestigious endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Florida. It is part of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and features teams competing in various classes of sports cars over a 24-hour period.
"the miata long since has not you've ruined another car you realize that the van ah no i don't..."
The Mazda MX-5 Miata is a small sports car that is very fun to drive. It's light and handles well, making it a favorite among people who love cars.
The Mazda MX-5 Miata is a lightweight two-seat sports car known for its agile handling and fun-to-drive nature. It's often praised for its balance and is a popular choice among car enthusiasts.
"we've been fortunate enough to have uh use the fields auto works cardinal coups and that's been awesome"
Fields Auto Works is a company that helps prepare cars for events or races. They do a lot of work to make sure the cars are ready to go.
Fields Auto Works is a company that specializes in automotive services, likely including restoration or preparation of cars for events. They are known for their quality work in the automotive community.
"...i was actually i was talking to my friend gabe years and years ago um he had purchased the white crx known as badger..."
The Honda CRX is a small, fun car that was made in the 1980s and 1990s. It's loved by many for being light and easy to drive, especially on race tracks.
The Honda CRX is a sporty compact car produced by Honda from 1983 to 1991. It's known for its lightweight design and agile handling, making it popular among enthusiasts and racers.
"...in your case if the miata goes to a new home mooncake is still there like you're still your household still has a race car..."
'Mooncake' is likely a special name for a car that someone is working on or modifying. People often give their cars unique names to reflect their personality or the car's characteristics.
'Mooncake' appears to be a nickname for a specific car that the speaker is developing or modifying. It's common for car enthusiasts to give unique names to their vehicles, especially project cars.
"...like becky's new seat is not going to be on a slider anymore which means it's not going to be a car for you to drive not easily..."
A racing seat is a special type of car seat that helps keep drivers safe and comfortable when driving fast. They are designed to hold you in place during sharp turns and high speeds.
A racing seat is designed to provide better support and safety during high-performance driving. These seats often have features like increased bolstering and harness compatibility to keep the driver secure during turns.
"...i'm looking at getting out to some enduros this year which i'm so excited to hear about that..."
Endurance racing is a long-distance car race where drivers switch places to keep the car running for many hours. It's about how fast and reliable the car can be over a long time, not just a quick sprint.
Endurance racing is a type of motorsport where teams of drivers compete over a long distance or time, often lasting several hours or even days. The focus is on maintaining speed and reliability over the duration of the race, with drivers taking turns behind the wheel.
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Hi, I'm sick and I'm in Colorado and we are track walking I've become pretty good at like
detecting when I'm not feeling great usually it's like it's either some random afternoon or
usually morning I'll wake up and my throat will be just like the tiniest bit sore you know yeah
yeah I detected this like on last Friday here we are Monday we'll see you should as soon as you
know that's coming you should just rest I did rest I didn't do hardly a damn thing over the
weekend didn't work a no I mean maybe you should exercise yeah yeah I mean I should super cold and
super snowy we got like eight inches of snow last night that's a lot of snow yeah and this weekend
it's supposed to get down to like negative 12 I think it's gonna be so cold up there yeah my
mom was gonna come up and I'm like maybe not this weekend up to you I love you don't visit yeah
I'm not sure Indiana is gonna be much warmer it's usually pretty cold it's not my kid was
unhappy when we were there we were there a couple days ago we stole her car and when we left she
was like perpetually slightly grumpy because the severe cold was coming and she lives a
mile from campus and has to walk there in and give your big puffy coat and her mittens and
she gets all tiny and grumpy it's adorable yeah I mean I get it because it's this it's this time
of year it's like mid late January haven't seen the sun in a minute not really getting out of
winter anytime soon no you're in it now and like it just tripled down it's done this it's done
this several times so far is that we'll have enough warm days in a row where everything
thaws and then it immediately snows and freezes again like it's done this two or three times
cold go to hell so sick of it and I'm at work today and it's not often you get one of those
emergency alerts on your phone no and when you do you know there were four people at this house
I'm working on and of course you hear the same sound from four different parts of the house
it's like oh boy yeah because we've all turned like the amber alerts and those things off on our
phones now and so you get that that's like oh I have so but it used to be like before we did
that you know like amber alerts would go off in Houston because Houston's a big city and sure do
that but there's still those alerts that they can push to your phone that you can't turn off yeah
so it was curious I thought it was gonna be like an emergency weather thing which again seemed
weird unless we're about to get a hurricane over Michigan which a snow NATO I mean at this point
why not wait a thunderstorm a few weeks back did you get thunder snow kind of is weird thunder
snows cool yeah it was a emergency alert saying that the highway just east of us about half an
hour at a hundred plus car pile up and maybe find another way to drive because that's gonna
be closed for a minute a hundred cars is a lot yeah and I mean I I didn't go on that road today
but even the smaller highway that I was on today I mean it was 50 feet visibility a point
and all it takes is for one person to get sideways or like slam on their brakes because
they can't see which is again if if I can like do a public service announcement slamming on your
brakes because you can't see is a very bad idea doesn't help anybody no you can like slightly
lift and start coasting but like if you can't see guess who else can't see everyone behind you
but yeah it was bad they had this drone flyover of the aftermath and it is trucks on cars cars
scattered everywhere and this goes on for like quarter half mile I mean it's just wild it's
hard because when visibility is bad and the roads are bad sometimes you could be doing a safe speed
and there's just a truck stopped in the middle of the road and you've got nothing that's a thing
on a freeway you're not expecting the cars around you to be stopped so a safe speed
is predicated on the other cars around you moving yes so yeah which is why you don't
slam on your brakes nor do you turn on your hazards in super snowy conditions but
you know I was thinking you know you know what the worst part about this terrible snow
today is I mean probably death if we're well I mean probably death but but also
it's a holiday so like kids kids don't get a snow day oh god that's the worst I hope there weren't
but yeah anyway this yeah we hope everybody's okay but yeah we make light of things but we
really do hope that nobody got squished so yeah it was bad so man I feel like we should do a do
and do not do for bad weather driving but not today but yeah I'm not I'm a little under the
weather and we have weather that's on top of us so this this is a hard time of year for me
it's dark you know I haven't seen this on sort of thing and I kind of get moody and sleepy and like
want to sit and not do anything sort of thing yeah it's hard I should take some more vitamin
D or something that usually like helps a little bit anyway sunlight vitamin D something like that
yes speaking of which you're sitting you're in Colorado in your new house yes next to a pretty
decent view if if people could imagine the view I'm on the third floor because we rented a townhouse
so it's like stacked on top of itself in the the spare bedroom which looks north up the Animas
River Valley in Durango it's pretty cool so it's it's not bad and you were a darling and walked
your wife to work today I did it was it was cold this morning it was like 18 degrees and I walked
my wife to work this morning because it was it was fun and we get to talk and it's like the best
40-minute walk commute ever except then I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and I forgot
that when you get like really cold your fingers don't work and I couldn't I almost couldn't
get my credit card out of my wallet to buy coffee filters and I almost had to ask the little old man
who was manning the self-checktills if he could help me so you're I mean I feel like you're missing
part of the equation is that that doesn't happen to everyone it happens to old people
I feel like my fingers have always gotten somewhat stiff in the cold but yeah it's pretty bad
but I've got a sneak in a jab at your age at some point yeah I'm an old man but I'm getting
also getting to the age where I'm old enough I can just ask people to help me with that stuff
and I'll be like all right let's help the cute old guy uh I'm I want you to wear like a big like
one of those pom pom hats with the big puffy ball on it I feel like that's an old man thing
my wife's got a really good one I should get one though yeah all right get on that
so there's a an instagram guy I don't follow him but I come across his stuff
fairly often it's a gentleman with a fantastic voice who every day will read and tell you the
definition of a very strange word and okay I'll try to do my best impression of him
well I can't like yeah so is the the appeal of this just like a sexy voice saying weird things
no I mean you do learn because there are these like big fancy words or like strange words you've
never heard of that are part of the English language and it's educational but the voice is
also good too so all right the word is agatha cacological aga caca logical agatha cacological
and then it goes into the uh you know the definition I'll admit my Latin is not what it
previously was and so I don't know what that means I mean I didn't either so I mean
if if you do like you either heard this recently or you're a nerd I don't know I'll put everybody
into those two categories we could have listeners who are good at latin maybe we could that as a
brief aside I did take latin in um undergrad I don't know why I slept through a lot of it
but I remembered enough to when I went to Rome I could read some stuff off of like thousands
of year old stone and that's pretty awesome that was kind of cool anyway agatha cacological
it means something that has equal parts good and bad so it's either a thing an offense or
something like that but it has both good and evil present within it and I like this
I need to know why because I have more questions and answers right now well I mean yeah that's
kind of the thing I like this because one of my old friends um questions to people
and something we like to talk about was what's the best day of your life
and so many people you know it's kind of easy to point to like the big events a wedding
a child being born um graduation like something grand something big right
but if we're honest with ourselves there's always it's never pure enjoyment it's never like
birth sure isn't good lord I mean that one's easy right um but even like weddings you know there's
always there can be nerves about some family member or two family members who don't get along
with one another right or you know the amount of money that you spent on the thing but it's
these events just are never one thing that it encapsulates a whole lot more than just like
best day ever right and so in thinking about this and race cars
you know we so many of us look forward to going to the track on a weekend or even to have a really
good performance on track right and we can kind of like chalk that stuff up as like making it
worth it or like we look forward to it so much but it's also a lot of times really hard work
and it can be super tiring um or the stupid car breaks again and like it can be a good weekend
but it doesn't mean that these other things aren't fully present inside of it
honestly just towing like it just I mean it just made your day harder than it had to be
right at the beginning yeah yeah you know the alternative is driving your car there and that's
not fun either I mean when Becky and I made that switch five years ago now four or five years ago
it wasn't better I mean it had it it obviously has its upsides because right otherwise you
would hope people wouldn't do it right but it took a whole lot longer to get there and back
costs a whole lot more to get there and back there's a whole lot more wheels and tires that
you have to pay attention to and braking you have to really plan ahead for looks just like
stopping to get food what a pain in the ass yeah I mean we have to look ahead to gas stations to
see which one's going to be towing friendly like can is it a single entrance and exit or
does it have another way to get out right and yeah no that's a good example of one you know
so many people talk about towing as you know this thing it's just it's what you need to do
maybe even get a c-class motorhome like you just have to get a trailer and tow vehicle and
again there are benefits because if something does happen to the car you can get home
but that also means a full another vehicle to make sure is good and maintained
on top of the trailer that has to be looked after and maintained and it's more money
and it takes more time it's it's not all net positive is what I'm saying it might just have
to displace your daily drivers you know you're like oh cool my daily driver is a full-size pickup
or a full-size van awesome I love that yeah yeah and then uh yeah figure out the city mileage
and one of those I know what it is trust me yeah or in my case you know that you put a dumb
air dam on your van and now it's really kind of hard to go anywhere in it because it's kind of low
sometimes well and it's not subtle either it's not like you know it was it was the other guy in the
van with a giant air dam on it officer I swear yeah I don't know I kind of like it yeah I know
you don't like being subtle no well that's not true I when I used to drive the race car around
or like a cool car on the street like getting looks was kind of part of the thing you know yeah
and it's weird that now it's my full-size extended length one ton van that gets the looks
instead of anything else I drive on a regular basis that's as cool as you can be on the road
right now I guess oh yeah comfortable relatively comfortably so
yeah I just I just thought that this was an interesting word an interesting idea
is yeah the the quite my my first question would be is the nature of that word mean that
everything falls into it so that so that every event is is made up of good and bad
simultaneously and there's nothing that falls outside of the purview of that that word
it would depend I think there's the the last time I really paid attention to
super modern good and evil ethics was probably some 10 15 years ago not modern yet
yeah it's not modern enough like the thousands of years of philosophy and ethics
but it they were talking about this idea that instead of you know they're being good and evil
and sometimes there can be greater goods and greater evils but they're still like this weird
push-pull balance or you know the mid 1900s there was this notion that evil is the absence of good
so that it's not something in and of itself it's just where good isn't is where evil can reside
okay the next evolution was that
all things at their roots are good but these smaller goods can have conflict with one another
like when somebody chooses to
I'm trying to think of an example here all right let's say somebody needs to feed their family
doesn't have many other choices other than stealing
that can be a conflict of good I mean the stealing itself is not good but like at the root of it
want to feed my family that is good that is something that you want to have
and so it's at these intersection points of somebody wanting to keep their possessions and
you know so that they can use them or something like that and somebody who needs something
they're both billionaires billionaires not wanting to pay taxes it's good for them
maybe bad for others I mean we can talk about it we keep dancing around this whole capitalism
thing occasionally but um so yeah I would I wouldn't say it's in all things and at all times
okay but I think it certainly can be depending on where and what you know people people having a
nice party out on the dunes or something like that like that can be a good thing until you know
some grass catches fire all of a sudden you get a pretty big deal on your hands
or the reason why those people need to be at the fires because they're sad they're lonely
you know they've got struggles and they just want like one night to go like try to have some fun
so it's not that the event itself is evil or bad but there's more going on than just the fire
you know yeah that's it's I mean when you you start playing the philosophers games of throwing
out a situation whether it's a good situation and finding the bad or a bad situation and finding
the good like people have made their careers over over those sorts of things right yeah the
train scenarios right um yeah so I'm trying to think like one of the
really fantastic memories I have of being at the track
was born out of one of my motor mounts melting
you know as the story starts right and me having to grab like a few friends real quick because a
race was about to start in like not very much time to try to swap out this motor mount get
everything bolted back on and get me out there and so it was like one of those things I'm wrenching
until I needed to not wrench and we were getting pretty close so I had to hand everything over
to Becky and my friends so that I'm getting my suit on getting my helmet in
getting the car and I'm belting in while they're like finishing tightening up the exhaust bolts
and checking over everything and then the cars are rolling off from grid to enter the track while
I'm sitting there waiting for them to tighten all the bolts and I fired up all the cars are fully
on track by this time and I fire up the car shoot out and like I'm trying to be very conscious
because this is that festival too it's not like nobody's watching you everybody's watching
things are happening it's like why isn't Scott here you know oh there he is and so like I didn't
also want want to run over any kids or dogs and stuff so it's like I'm trying not to speed too
much going through paddock and I turn around and like I think it was my cone at the top of grid
just like doing a big arm wave like so I just fly up grid get out and it takes me until I think
like at gingerman turn eight nine that like full tilt to catch up with everybody so I get like two
and I'm at the back of the grid right I get like two turns to like get my breath about me
and all this stuff and you know obviously wasn't starting where I should have but
you know I'm out there have a good start and I'm like passing people and I'm passing people and
everything's going great just things are clicking and like I'm super focused because of all the hype
you know from what had just happened and one lap I came out of turn two and the car stumbled just a
little bit and I'm like that's weird but like it immediately it immediately went back up and I'm like
all right let's continue on let's keep going next lap come now turn two it fell on its face
and it's like uh what's like did we not tighten something like this what's happening here
and it takes me a few turns and I'm like trying to you know not be a roadblock for anybody
and sure enough the car's low on gas oh yeah yeah miss something yeah
yeah so it's like that's a really good memory for me of like teamwork and like the excitement of
like barely making it out there sort of thing but like like I also cried a little when I
when I got back to to uh to the paddock you know just going really slowly just pulling and stuff
and it's like all that you know stress and stuff to get out there we make it out there the races
going well and then we forgot gas yeah so you have uh what's what's the story that you have from
motor I mean from from motorcycling it would like one of the one of the great days in motorcycling
was the last the last race we ran the grom as a team um it was the final event of the year
it was the the six hour race final endurance race of the year um we weren't in a huge threat of losing
it but we had to be there and we had to do laps and we pretty much had to do most all of the laps
to win went into it something like 30 laps ahead of the next team so like I mean you just have to
stay out there right okay and and about four hours into it the clutch went out on the bike
yeah and we when I say hot swapped I mean like hot swapped because motorcycle clutches are wet
they're bathed in engine oil that's right the engine oil is very very hot and we hot swapped
clutch discs and we put the bike back together and burned the shit out of our fingers
and we we won that race or we didn't win that race but we won the season by like
eight laps or something um you know when we worked together as a team my buddy Derek and I were
we're in there because both of us knew that bike pretty well we'd done it plenty of times
um and we worked fast and we worked well we weren't panicking as we did it it was just sort of like
we swore a lot and we said ow a lot but we did a good job we got the bike back together and
you like it was good it was so good yeah but it was it would have the day would have been
completely unremarkable if it also wasn't bad it's true it's true i'm thinking of uh
of more summer example um when i was a chaplain at the hospital the i got to be there for
good many uh deaths good many passings in the hospital um you know sometimes family was there
sometimes friends sometimes no one just how things work and it never kind of stopped amazing me
that like like who am i to be in this room at this time sort of thing yeah like really like i know
you know maybe i had a brief relationship with the person or their family or something like that but
to be in a place where like that happened and again oftentimes there was at least one family
member friend present and i like share that was special and meant a great deal and was like
also heartbreaking at the same time and so you know was it the worst day ever no it was pretty bad
but there was this pretty amazing thing that happened in the middle of it you know right
right people people are can be amazing in the midst of a dark moment right and so that's that's
why this word agatha cacological kind of has a bounce to it um i don't know it it kind of
hauls out that these these victories we have the highest of highs and lowest of lows like
there's more going on there you know it's not just best weekend ever best day ever
like nothing's going to ever be good or warm again like i think of michigan sometimes
but like there are good things happening too it's all happening at the same time right it's the
everything bagel did you did you watch that movie no everything everywhere all at once
oh yes i did yes that was a wild movie it was a roller coaster it was so fun
but yeah it's it's this if you haven't seen it it's not much of a spoiler but one of these goofy
ideas what's not like life is like an everything bagel literally everything is on it the good the
bad the weird the mundane everything and so you know when we're in like the i would say almost in
like the the pit of winter here for a lot of us who are up north um you know it's not all bad
it's good good soup weather it is good soup weather we just uh everyone just had the
uh sim racing Daytona 24 hours of Daytona recently oh yeah that went on so there was
you know some cool stories and teamwork to come out of that um you know if you're working on something
hopefully there's progress in one way or another but yeah there's good things that's all i'm saying
and bad things but i wonder if in racing like the nature of racing
we don't intention maybe not intentionally but like we know racing is hard
like sure there's there's no way to go racing and not accept the fact that you have intentionally
made yourself made your life harder by engaging in this idiotic sport
yeah and i wonder if you didn't like if you weren't creating your own pain and suffering
if you would have the ability to have the high highs that you have
well i we've talked a little bit about joy rather than happiness right in that joy
also encompasses struggle and hardship there's a contrast right yeah and i think that is
part of what makes the celebrations feel as good as they do in racing you're right is because of
the struggle right and because the those two things exist in the same environment in the
same moments right and if they were separated so all your bad stuff happened on one day
and all your good stuff happened on another day it would feel different
yeah i think well it's interesting to me i've been listening to a new podcast
where they have on like a bunch of pro level drivers athletes managers just like a bunch of people
not all in the racing sphere and it's it's always interesting to me you know of course drivers
will talk about you know they're striving to you know to become number one you know that's
so many pro level drivers like that is the goal is to be right best but the thing about being
best is that there can only be one best and there are a lot of others
and so in that quest there's always going to be struggle but they have to believe that they
can do it and so many of them are also just hyper aware of the amount of sacrifice and work
and effort the people around them have put in on their behalf whether it's financial or time or
support or you know whatever it is they're aware of like the team of people the group of people
around them that it takes to for them to be at that level and i think you know in grass roots
racing oftentimes it's a much smaller singular effort but you'll also get like you know you have
like this one friend who just constantly helps you out or you go to the track and you meet your
friends there and sometimes things come up and they throw in a hand or it's it can even be somebody
you never met in paddock that all of a sudden it's like hey yeah i'm having trouble oh yeah i've
got that part let me go get it for you yep you know it's
things going wrong can invite good things to happen and to like realize the amount of support
and effort that either you put in at your job to be able to go there or that you're if you have
partners and sponsors the amount of effort or money that they put forward to you know helping
you support like that's not a small thing like even if they gave you like a hundred bucks because
they're like hey good luck like that's something yeah it can be significant yeah um but then that
that can also be why yeah the lows are so low you know well yeah you don't just disappoint yourself
you disappoint everybody yeah yeah so yeah a gothic ecological that's still a weird word it is
another note you ready for this i have no idea i might be okay well i listed my car for sale
recently i saw that and i've got a little tear in my eye but go on i haven't gotten there yet
but like i paused to think about it for like half a second and i could feel it
in there and i'm like yeah i got other stuff to do i gotta keep working yep um yeah i've gotten
some people who messaged me you know i got your requisite low ballers and like shockingly low
to the point let me give you a grand it wasn't even that oh my god yeah and to the point where
like i saw the message and i'm just like i'm not gonna respond um you know kind of nicely had a few
people say hey really sweet car you know just want to say it looks cool good luck that's that's cool
i've gotten like i think like two people who are kind of kicking tires off to see if it materializes
i'm i'm kind of expecting just to be driving this car this year
um you know it's one of those things until somebody shows up at my door with a trailer
and money in hand it's still my car i think you're just emotionally protecting yourself by
maybe by keeping that that thought process going yeah it's a thing i can't even work on it right
now there's so much crap in the garage i think but i mean you've done that to yourself so
yeah it's hard mooncake did that to us right but you are a wonderful loving supporting husband
oh there it is okay i guess so you've chosen to be a good person and that comes with consequences
yeah um but the other thing that i did recently was i called brock h jr up
hey brock how's it going and uh he says hi he didn't but like he would um and you know we talked
about weather and i asked for my deposit money back for this year whoa that's bigger than putting
your car for sale it feels honestly it feels more significant um yeah and it's it's interesting
there's a few reasons obviously like the financial side of it um you know going in havesies on a
one lap with a good buddy or something like that is very different than having an entire
one lap come out of a single household yep and we've done that now for seven running years
i would hate to add up the dollars yeah i was just about to start doing quick math and i'm like
that'd be a bad idea yeah i would and you know we had you know an engine to replace um
i think you got a new seat for her car you know there's things that have been purchased and needed
and the thought of like you know doing was it now 4500 or is it up to five no it's somewhere
in there for the entry fee i i have delightfully chosen to ignore that because i pretend that
it's not relevant to me anymore yeah to protect your own feelings yeah yeah um and that's just
like entry fee and so you know use our deposit money to pay for some of these other things
seems like the right and responsible thing to do and uh the other thing is like we just don't
really know what car we would take if we did uh mooncake is not appropriate anymore
the miata long since has not you've ruined another car you realize that the van
ah no i don't i'm not sure brock would let you do the van no probably not um
and you know the last couple years we've been
fortunate enough to have uh use the fields auto works cardinal coups and that's been awesome
and it's also again like taking its toll you know whenever you prep one car let alone three cars to
go do this massive thing like it's it's a huge undertaking and so you know they're taking
a step back rightfully so and so it's just yeah there's not like a clear a clear path
for one lap this year on top of the financial things nobody stepped forward and said scott robertson
be my hero would you be my hero who is what was that song in rekay and glaciers i think i pulled
that off the top of my head that's amazing thank you um all the times you you go to a
doctor and you're trying to remember the year your kid was born when you're doing that stuff
you got this other stuff stuck in your head you got in rekay glaciers just crammed in there
you're forgetting your kid's birthday yeah good job thanks yeah okay um
so yeah it's like i i'm still like leaving it open in case somebody calls me it's like hey scott
need to co-driver and i could go to becky i'm like but i mean they they need me they need it
and like i want to of course not about wanting it's about it's about them needing me i'm answering
the bat signal is what it is exactly um yeah so it's like i'm i'm leaving that room for that to
be open um but at the same point like we're planning on not doing it yeah and that is
it's literally why i got into motorsport was to do the one lap of america
it's why i started driving on track i mean that that's i i was i will tell you i wasn't ready
to do a track day didn't think i was ready to do a track day until a friend of mine said hey
we should go do one lap and i was like cool what do i need to do he's like sign up for a track
weekend and that's how it all started that's a bad friend he's a bit he didn't even go he
backed out and i had to find another friend to go yeah because you committed at that point right
yeah yeah i was gonna go do it i was like three track weekends into the year and like i was hyped
and so luckily i've got other dumb friends yeah always good yeah yeah i checked in with brian
he's doing it with his dad good those two seemed to have fun yeah and he didn't get to do it last
year so you know it's good uh good to get the band back together yeah father father son team's
kind of you know talking about heartstrings anyway absolutely so uh we're planning on going down
for the start anyway i don't know if we'll go down for tech and registration day or just for the start
um tech and registration is usually more fun more social anyway right said probably be
probably be my preference uh yeah so this season is going to look different from every other race
season we've ever done in that i might not have a race car maybe and we aren't doing the one lap
of america are you even a racer anymore i mean so that's the the whole when i was reading a comment
on your your uh your ad that was up and somebody said you know that you said to them at some point
yeah can you imagine yourself that's bob not owning a race car yep that's one of the better
i like questions that's one of the better questions i've ever come up with is it was actually i was
talking to my friend gabe years and years ago um he had purchased the white crx known as badger
oh yeah i know that car and um you know had a pretty big life shift and
wasn't driving the car what was kind of on the fence about keeping it or selling it sort of thing
right and my question to him was can you see yourself as somebody who doesn't own a race car
and he thought about it he said not yet
like well there you go in in your case if the miata goes to a new home mooncake is still there
like you're still your household still has a race car you still have a car to develop there's still
a reason for you to own the van in the trailer yeah and that's kind of what's
getting me going is like developing mooncake more um like turning wrenches on it you know really
working through some stuff but like becky's new seat is not going to be on a slider anymore
which means it's not going to be a car for you to drive not easily uh i mean i could probably like
put my knees far enough apart to be able to like hobble through it sort of thing but yeah it would
not be ergonomically correct for me um and so yeah it's not going to be really a car for me to drive
anymore or a car for me to like go take it out for a few laps and give feedback on it like that's
that's not going to be what i do so it's interesting you're gonna be a race husband
yeah i mean i'm still gonna race um well i i but i mean kind of i mean i i will be supporting
yeah doing that whole thing um but yeah i'm looking at getting out to some enduros this year
which i'm so excited to hear about that i'm intrigued and excited by
i hope it doesn't suck otherwise you're gonna be like oh my god we've been talking about this for
like three years and it was crap yeah wouldn't that be something it's like that would be endurance
racing not not all maybe it's not me turns out don't like it at all question answered but i mean
honestly that would be okay because that would narrow down the list of things that i would want to
do that's true um yeah and there's so many different types of organizations that do endurance
racing and the right you know the vibes of all of them are going to be different so it'll be it'll
be good and interesting so we'll see but yeah the pluses and minuses good and evil it's all there
yep agatha cacological i have not tried to say it yet i know i'm kind of sad can you give it a
shot trust it would just be embarrassing for both of us be embarrassing for one of us uh
yeah we are at track walking podcast on socials discord is the place to
go hang out and ask questions which finds new words apparently apparently i'm gonna have to
look it up and figure out how to spell it correctly you know for the title and whatnot um yeah i need
to check i forgot to check see if we had a question in discord or not but that's on me
yep anyway but i hope your winter is uh not wintering too hard
and uh that your race season is looking interesting at least i mean if you need a car i know a guy
it's just it's true my own personal salesman here uh that's gonna do it for us for the two of us
i'm scott and i'm set we'll talk to you next week
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