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your seat belts, fire up the ignition and drop the hammer. Yeah, let's do it. Now, here's your host,

Joe Costello. Oh, that's right, WFO. We're back, baby. We're back on the air and I've already

sent out the Patreon beacon. Sent it out, baby. Sent it out. The beacon is out. The

Patreon's hopefully will be coming on real soon if it went out. Artemis on the dark side of the

moon as we speak. Maybe that was a few moments ago, but for all intents and purposes, it just happened.

Super excited. Easter weekend. That was a big deal. Happy Easter. And I see the Patreons

are signing on. That means the beacon went out. Let's bring on co-hosts to the show Giovanni

in Miami. What's up, Giovanni? How are you? All right. Happy Easter. Happy Easter. Did you find the

eggs? You know, I'm not gonna say there was not an egg hunt around here this year. You know the

no egg hunt? No, the child. There was no egg painting or... What kind of crap is that? No egg hunt.

Come on. There was a goodie basket, but no, no. I think the child has not grown the egg hunt and

the egg painting of the boiling and making Easter eggs and that whole process. On Saturday and then

the Sunday morning egg hunt has gone the way of the typewriter. That's it. No more egg hunts.

That's fine. That's it. That's it. The less and the less, but he seemed to be doing well. Let's

bring on our other co-host, Sue Morris. What's up, Sue? Yo, WFO. Happy Easter Monday. Easter Monday,

right? Which is the thing. Like some people take off on Easter Monday. I didn't know that,

but that's the thing. Australia. Australia. Well, they get off like every other day.

They got off Friday and Monday. I mean, you know, come on. What the heck?

Right. Well, that's what happens when you're a communist. You know, you get a lot of days off.

I'm kidding. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. I see Matt and Australia down there.

Fast Eddie is down there. Joe Lee. Stanfield is down there. Derek.

Joe Lee. Derek is 20 years at FedEx. That was a big milestone. Joe Lee. We got a report that

you won last week and then you were not on the show and we want to know if that was correct.

It was not correct. Got to figure it out. Let us know, Joe Lee. Come on. The hot news.

We want to celebrate you. Yeah, we do want to celebrate. We want to celebrate you.

So I saw you made the drag list. Drag list. Drag champ. Yeah. That's pretty cool. We made the top

10. Should have been higher. As a couple. As a couple. That's pretty cool. That was awesome.

Multiple people winning multiple classes at the same time is just against against.

And so I think you should have been higher on the list not being critical or anything. Just

my opinion. You were seven, I believe. The ones ahead of you were not that great,

but still good that you made the drag champ list. We made the list. It was awesome.

So Joe Lee won class eliminations. She won GTI automatic in class. And so that's good.

Heads up drag racing way to go. We ran super stock class, but I made it to the semis in the

sports national. So Joe Lee did win class. Do you get a Wally for that? Do you get a diamond Wally?

That's what I want to know is the class. Wally diamond. And I have a reason.

And I'll just go into the reason. I'm not going to hold it back.

Saw racers complaining in advance. You know how that happens. Yes. I'll send you a picture.

You have to send a picture. Come on, Jolie. Congrats. It's awesome.

Racers online complaining in advance that the class eliminations Wally's were not going to be

diamond Wally's. And I did not feel empowered to say that seems unusual, guys, because I've

heard that all the Wally's will be diamond Wally's for this season, but it did make some sense.

Maybe they wouldn't have been. And these guys were all over the Facebook, right? Like typing out

gripes, man. They were angry in advance. And it turns and turns out that they were wrong.

And we can dispel it all right now, right? Between the national, the divisional, the class,

and the open series, all diamond Wally's. Boom. There it is.

Best appearing Wally for my friend Rick. Rick got best appearing at the Gator Nationals. Rick

Daddy also diamond Wally. There we go. There we go. You know, still an HRA evil. You guys

keyboard haters trying to get over on the racer somehow. We just didn't get this one right. But

anyway, whatever. I don't want to defend them. Boom diamonds, baby diamonds. We got diamond

Monica says hi to my favorite people. Oh, Monica, that's nice. You should aim higher.

I love it. I've got to say I finally got something that Aaron doesn't have. Not yet. Not yet. Not

yet. Will she be rooting against Aaron for the rest of the year? So this is going to be another

stopwatch show we have made a official determination. Giovanni has been crunching the numbers, the

seven minutes and 30 seconds into the show. He's got us on a stopwatch and that the shows

have been so much better since we tightened it up to an hour. That Gio, please give the

explanation to everybody out there and they're doing such a great job with it. Just keeping it

tight, keeping it tight. That's it. That's all you need to know. The shorter and the more we cut

off Matt and keep them on on a short leash, the tighter the show is, the more hits against,

the more playbacks, the more downloads. Sorry, Matt. It's just as what it is.

Wow, you're attacking poor Matt. Can you guys hurry up? You're using my precious air.

Everybody's adapting and I actually think that I am going to apply this theory to

NHRA Nitro as well. Trying to do a cool hour like a tight fast hour.

There are people that want company out there in the world for their long job or long drive,

certainly, but there are people who really only have an hour to devote to the project

and they missed the second half of the show. So I'm going to try to like tighten it up. We'll see

how that goes tomorrow. As Brian Houston, Sean Langdon's crew chief who has won, been number one

qualifier, first two races of the year, won the Arizona Nationals, will be my guest. The Chris

Cunningham interview was very popular. A lot of people really loved it and it's very exciting. So

we're going to have another crew chief here this week. And as of now, as of this moment,

I am planning on going to Pomona. You heard it here. Second, the Patreons heard a version of this.

I will be going to Pomona as of now. Now, mom has had a regression for those that are wondering.

Last weekend on the Hear It From Heiner show for the Patreons, Michael Heiner and I were talking

about some various things and made some jokes and sure enough, she had a regression, got an

infection and a fever and they kicked her back to the other hospital and she went back to the other

hospital and the little house of cards we were building tumbled in. It is what it is. But at

the same time, having spoken with her, she's like, you need to go to work. So as of this moment,

barring some sort of major regression that what we would call life-threatening situation, like,

oh my gosh, I'm at the bedside, you know, trying to will her through the next minute.

I'm going to go to Pomona and I'm going to go back to work. And this is the push-pull and I'm

fortunate that I even have a job that I could do this. If you work for the man, bro, the man says,

I don't care, you got to go to work. You got to go to work. So going to work, hopefully.

All right.

Think about that, Bob. What do you think of that? Speaking of men with great work ethics?

Sounds good.

Run up there and kick your mom off at the sidewalk.

She's going to still be in a range and Giovanni has been wonderful and offered to go,

you know, check in on her and check on some things. And Mrs. Giovanni as well. And so I, you know,

I have a bit of a support structure over here.

But my work ethic is starting to run down in this retirement stuff. I'm starting to get spoiled.

That's good. That's good. Now, I see Bobby Graham is wearing a Napa shirt. That's nice.

He got his Napa race team.

Houston, off the Houston race.

That's great. But Bobby Graham is doing great stuff. I love it. Sue, did you go racing this weekend?

We tried. We really tried. We went to Greer. It was supposed to be the first points race of the

weekend and it was a packed house. And my nature was like, hey, sprinkles, sprinkles, sprinkles,

sprinkles. So like in between things. So, but, but you know, the funny thing is, you know, Dave

and I are just a little competitive. Joe, you've been part of that, right? We were going out there

and we go after each other to who's going to get the best light. So this weekend I go out,

first time run, then the being a time run. I go 10 with a seven. So I'm like, ha, beat that.

Dave goes out there to dragster. Would you believe we had identical lights to the thou?

Wow. That's crazy. I was like, I'm like, okay, we're just a little competitive.

So, but the rain came and so we didn't get the finish off that battle. But,

but now it was great. It was great to get out. It was great to see a packed, packed house of cars

at Greer Dragway. So, so cool. People are excited. They're ready to go racing, getting back back to

normal. Racing 2026. Here we go. That's all out boys and girls. Here we go. That is great. Great

news. All right. So, since we do not have fantasy NASCAR results, but we do have Drag Race Bracket

Bonanza. Derek wants to know about the fantasy results. Bobby asking about fantasy results.

Bobby, it is my understanding that you are prepared with the current stats in the WFO Drag Race

Bracket Bonanza League, which if you're not in the league, like you're listening, we see how

many people listen to ignition each week. It goes up, it goes down, but why not join the Drag Race

Bracket Bonanza League and start trying to pick. You can use the randomizer, but I've

participated in the first two races. I got wiped out, wiped out. Ron Capps in Funny Car at the

Internationals and Sean Langdon, wiped out. You know, so if I don't know what I'm doing,

it's okay to not know what you're doing. How about that? Bobby? Just play. Just play. Just play.

Now, y'all listen close because I've got hard rock bets. It doesn't matter what you know. Just

send the money and play. But I got a point to make out of these. So, listen closely. Yes. All

right. Now, these are the main league points. Okay. First place is Lightning and I'm on you.

The Drag Race Bracket Bonanza League or the WFO? Not the WFO League. I have both. I have both.

There's a point you're going to see. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. He's building a story, folks.

He's setting up a bigger league is Lightning with 136.709. Now, I don't understand

the point system because it says possible points is 136.709. And each person's points

is the possible points that they can get. So, I don't understand the points. But here we go.

Number two, 1320 BS. Number three, James Luce II. Fourth place, Possum. Fifth place is Dave.

We may know. This may be the day we know. Sixth place, SST. Superstock 5345.

Seventh place, Bracket Champ. Eighth place, Steve. Ninth place, get a kick of this.

Bug Barn is in ninth place. There it is. Overall, that's the key point to remember here.

Crazy. Remember the position. Yes. Tenth place, Kyra Sage. Now, Kira Sage. Here's what everybody

wants to know. The WFO League. First place, Drag Racing Billy with 140 points. This is overall.

The Total League. This is the Total League and WFO League. Yes. Okay. Second place is SST

5345 with 133 points. Third place, Micah. Fourth place, Good going, Fast Eddie. WFO.

Fast Eddie. Fifth place, Comp 503. Sixth place, Drag Race Gurley 69 or 99, I'm sorry.

What? What kind of person has got the guts to do that?

Call it a mispronounced name. All right. Seventh place, Alex 471. Eighth place,

Racer Girl, 723. Ninth place, Skeeter. Tenth place, Jesse 925. Now, here's the point I want to make.

In the WFO League, I am 59th and there is not one fifth or maybe one sixth of the people in WFO League,

but that should tell you that the WFO League is the toughest and the smartest league on betting on

the Racers. Wow. Okay. I see where you were going with that. All right. Now, also an 11th place

is Dave, 12th is Stubbo and 13th place and I want to get his name in there, D-Rail and that's in the

WFO League for this season. D-Rail, Derek. That was a point I wanted to make and all our points

are higher in the WFO League than they are in the Drag Race and Bonanzo League. Now, like I said,

I don't know how the points go, but that shows me that there's some pretty smart people picking the

Racers in the WFO League. I agree. Derek says, yeah, check me out. How about that? That's right.

And by the way, Joe, you're 60th. You're one behind me. Hey, me and you. So what I would say to everybody

out there is that you should copy your bracket into the regular league and how do you do that?

What I do is I go to the WFO League because when I go to leagues, going onto the page,

go to leagues, I go to the WFO League and I fill out my brackets and then you have the option to

copy what you just did to the main league. That's how I do it. So I do all my picks and then I just

copy those picks to the main league and so it would be cool if our top 10 were the top 10 in the regular

league. Those simpletons. Yes, it would have been. What do they know? What do they know?

And I normally do that. I'd normally copy, but my problem is as I go back with the WFO League

and I let a little bit of heart make the decision for me and I think that's where I go wrong.

I got you. Well, it makes sense. You know, I don't like to switch my picks because then

inevitably you go in the different direction and and you know, you know, you don't win either,

right? Like on this one I was right and this one I was wrong and etc. and so on. So usually I both

on wrong. Right. Dennis Quaid to star in NASCAR themed TV series. Dennis Quaid, he's a big star man.

What's he going to Dennis Quaid is set for the lead role in a series in the world of NASCAR

currently in development at AMC. Quaid will star in Thunder Road, which is being produced.

It could, you know, like how many different names are there for NASCAR shows? There's Thunder Road,

Days of Thunder, Thunder Man, all this all Thunder Relief. The show is described as a

multi-generational saga of the Whitlock family whose legacy in soccer racing is as deep as the

family's ties to the southern hill country roots that shape them. Wow. All right. Quaid will

star as Dwayne Whitlock, aka the wrecking ball. He is described as a NASCAR legend and a towering

figure who built a racing empire from a legacy of moonshine runs and dirt tracks and refuses

to let it die. This is a story about a blue collar dynasty at the edge of extinction and the old king

fighting to hold on to his crown. What do you think of that Giovanni? They the Thunder Road.

Sounds like a couple of good old boys that just never mean any harm.

Could be. Could be. It seems interesting. Matt in Australia is on there. He's working. Sacramento

Racing fan is on there. He's got his Fuel Factory hat on. What's up, Matt in Australia? How are you?

Good day, guys. Hi. Gio just beat me to the punchline. I was going to say who's playing Uncle Jesse,

but anyway, there it is. But we all love that show, though. We are mocking, but we are making fun,

but it's a formula that we liked. I'll check it out. I'll give it a shot.

Give it at least a once. Once over, right? At least a once. That's right. What about you,

Sacramento Racing fan? How are you? I'm good. Am I good? You're good. Yeah. We are not gifted

the squirrel sounds. I'm great. I'm excited that I'll be seeing you in Pomona barring anything major.

I don't usually go to the Winter Nationals, but this year I had to go between the first two races

of the year. And I live this close. I had to go to Pomona. So I think that I'll be driving down

Thursday and see you at the track on Friday. Love it. What's happening on the track on Thursday,

though? Do you know? What's that? What's at the track on Thursday? Sportsman. Sports and racing?

Sportsman's camera. Yeah. Okay. Well, I won't have to accept your care, but just

worry. Joe hasn't got a clue, mate. He hasn't been to work for like nine months or something

That is also true. I believe we have drag racing. I don't know.

And you're right, Matt. The last time I went to work was in the second week of November.

And we were raining out. The last time there was actual work was that Thursday. We did a

hardcore Thursday. We decided champions and that is my last drag racing work experience.

I fully expect to stumble in there, rusty as can be, struggling to keep up. It's probably going

to be a disaster. You should definitely all sign on to NHRA TV to watch. I'll be there to watch you

live, Joe. And I'm sure that, yes, you might have some hiccups, but I'm sure you're not going to

fall on your face or that or I could actually literally fall on my face. Anything is possible.

I'm just excited to, as of now, you know, I don't want to count the chickens. I talk about

how superstitious I am. Yeah, man. It's a, it's, I haven't canceled my flight. So that's the plan.

Just remember, Joe. Do you fly Thursday as well or? Yes, Thursday. Okay. We'll see you Friday.

Steer into the slide. We'll see you Friday. Steer into the slide. Oh yeah. I will mess up a

thousand times, but you just won't know it. Derek says get a John Force ring for every finger, Kevin.

Yeah. Like I got to bring my, I'm going to bring my 75th anniversary ring. I think something that

they've really been missing out on doing is the, you know, the ring. Well, everybody got a ring

last year and hopefully they brought it to the track and they're wearing it. Like what's the

point of having this amazing collectible if you're not wearing it to the track the next year. And so

you know, there should be some theme music, some sort of classical theme and everyone should be

holding the rings into the air and there should be lights shining off the rings as we do some sort

of like almost religious ceremony of the people of the ring. Instead of the flashlight on your phone,

you know, at the concert, all day, all day lighters will all hold up our rings or dusty roads.

Like, you know, my hand is touching your hand through the screen, touch the ring, whatever. I'm

still working on the concept, but you can tell. No, no, no. It's good plan. We've got these rings.

We might as well use them. Yeah. What are they going to do? Sit in the box all day? I've got two

of those. Show your bling. If plan goes accordingly, I'll be close to two double fisted on the,

on the force ones, but we'll see. Okay. Last year we got, we didn't get one in Sonoma. We didn't get

one in, we didn't get one in Pomona, somewhere else too. Monica says the ring is on AJ's list,

among many other anniversary stuff. Yeah, I haven't seen the Nitro Mall. This is, I'm doing it the

old school way. In theory, my debut will be the Winter Nationals. Is that how Matt wakes up, Matt?

Is that how you wake up? I don't know what's going on here. That's Reveley, right? That's Reveley.

Sorry, I'm going to go to combat. Sorry, Matt. You've been drafted. They need you at the

straights of Harlem. Yes, we're going to see you in Tehran. You're going to free the city.

Well, the way the fuel prices are down here, I might go and help you. You never know.

What are the fuel prices down there? Last week, Diesel got up to $3.30 a litre,

which is, what's that, about $12? $12 American? Well, because we're in the drag racing show,

that's about $13.20 a gallon for Australian, Australian for Diesel. Okay, so that's Australian

for Diesel. $10 a gallon. I don't worry about it, man. That's nothing for you guys. Small price

to pay. To be able to race your car out there. Yeah, for us, and we don't even look at how much safer

we are because of this. Don't you feel safer? Yes. Well, we're in the South Pacific, because I don't

you still owe us for that. So there's that. All you did was serve us the drinks, Joe. We were fine.

I got a little scary for a while, but yeah. My grandfather used to talk about having two cans

of courage. One thing they did have apparently in the Pacific was plenty of beer, which that's a

pretty old thing, but he used to say they used to have two cans of courage before they go out on

patrol. Got it. I know my dad was always said that the Australians were great to the Marines

in the Pacific campaign, that that was a known thing even to this day, the United States Marine

Corps and Australia are as tight as can be. Yeah, lots of Marines in the Pacific, that's

good stuff. Yeah, well, you know, the whole the war in Iran, it's part of our culture at this moment.

So every once in a while, there'll be like a mention, kind of hard to avoid such things,

especially since we got no Formula One directly associated to that. But, you know, we

I kind of even know what I even know how to communicate about it, right? Like I hope we win.

Like it's, it seems to me a foregone conclusion that the United States of America wins these

things. And when's that, you know, when's that happened, right? Like I said, and we all have

been watching all the communications and seeing how it's going down. Thank gosh, we got that pilot

man. Thank gosh, like, oh man, that was one that that had me feeling genuine anxiety about seeing

that like on TV or what would they do and we got them. And today we're telling the story about how

we got them and I'm thinking to myself like, I don't know if I would be telling everybody the

story about how we got them. I might keep some of that stuff a secret, you know, as best as we could.

Here in America, when we do something, we just tell everybody, yeah, then we have this capability

and that capability and we did it all and it was great. And it's like, you know,

they could get another guy tomorrow. We messed up like, we messed up like that with the America's

Cup when we showed you the wind kill. Well, everybody that's doing something new gets proud

of it. Like, look at what we did. I think it's proud of it. But just, I know we shouldn't, it's

a non drag racing topic. However, Joe, my, my, my understanding, my understanding from all the,

the news reports question mark, yes, is that the Iranians have no air force left. They have no

Navy left. However, they're still in control of the straight and the most. Yes. And how is that?

This is what I don't understand. Well, have they got canoes? What's their form of

resistance? We're not going to figure it out. Let me go to the map. But hold on.

If you explain to them why it is that they haven't been able to do it. Let me go to the map over here

where you'll see this straight up on loose. It's a shame you audio only people aren't on Patreon

because you would see this world map that we have set up in the, the war center.

This gap represents 21 miles, the Strait of Hormuz. And what happens is the ships that pass

through there are like worth a billion dollars each. And so the idea that one guy with a rocket

propelled grenade or rocket or something has got everybody scared. And so they're not going

through the Strait of Hormuz. Then they could maybe make it or maybe not. Like they don't know.

It's a simple day to the Somali Pirates, man. Yeah. What about the Somali Pirates?

But has the focus and the protection of the greatest military on earth just to pump up your

tires? How does that happen? Well, I can tell you that I have been through the Straits of Hormuz.

Yeah. Three times, four times, three or four times. Let's go to our Strait of Hormuz expert,

Kevin in Sacramento Racing Fan, with a first hand account. Kevin. So this was in the,

this was in the late 80s, of course. So at that time. It's really tight, tight, tight narrow.

I know, I know. It's going to be quick. It's going to be quick. When you were down in the 80s.

Sorry. So this is when I ran in Iraq, we're playing games with each other. And so we went

through a couple times. We were always escorted because we had very little defense capability

because I was on a supply ship. And one time we were going through, we were under escort, of course,

was a cruiser USS Fox. The Fox captain called over to, because we were doing a vertical

replenishment, helicopters, stuff, stuff to them. And they radio, the CEO of the Fox radioed to us.

I heard this verbatim because I was on the bridge when it came across. And he just said,

Iran's Iran sent a missile, launched a plane or a missile or something. We're setting GQ,

advise you do the same. And sure enough, we said general quarters. And nothing really happened. We

did see a couple of flashes off in the way distance. But and this was 1980s. So I'm quite

sure the technology has improved enough to be able to do something. I just, it doesn't make sense to

me. Well, look, you know, like again, like Matt said, difficult to talk about this topic without

like opening some discussions that go down roads that are not drag racing related.

Yeah, like, well, no, but this is happening in the world. And we all acknowledge, I think we're

probably all on the same page with what we hope the outcome is, you know, victory as soon as is

possible. And with as much positive energy going to those in uniform, we celebrate them all the time.

And now we got to celebrate them even more, because this is what they signed up to do. I hope,

and you know, we talk about prayer, that my prayer is that those who are making the decisions

have the wisdom to make the best possible decisions for all of those goals and outcomes.

And that's, and that's it. I just hope we don't put boots on the ground. That's my only fear.

See, and there you go. There's, I don't know. I'm sorry. I know, I don't because we're on the

stop. Watch, I'll go real quick. I think we should have already done that weeks ago.

That should have been done. Like my school of war that I know, if you want to have a regime change,

you have to have boots on the ground. You cannot win any war by air alone. Son of a Marine, you know,

but the son of a Marine was taught that you cannot win a war from the air all by itself.

And that weeks ago, we should have maybe gone in there to some friendly cities, cities that hate

their government and like set up a little bit of a shop. And we haven't done that yet,

but maybe we will, or maybe it's too late. And I don't know. And that's where I'm stopping. Let's

move on. Derek says FAFO, which is the answer to everything. Right. Yeah. Yeah. FAFO. There'd be

boots on the ground there. They would be boots on the ground there, but accidentally one of our

politicians may have let it slip that Australian SIS are there as well already. Oh, really?

Well, exactly. And the whole thing about there's always a debate, and President Trump is right

about this, telling the world the day, time, and second that we're going to do something, you know,

like so at 9.30 on Thursday morning, we were going to storm the beaches of Normandy. Like,

that is not a good idea. There should definitely be a little misdirection.

Maybe it goes too far sometimes, who knows. But anyway, let's move on. Sue,

there was some NASCAR this past weekend. I was not privy, but I know you were. What did we learn?

There was a little bit of NASCAR going on. This little track called The Rock, Rocking Ham.

I had some racing action. They had the trucks racing on Friday night.

So they had the trucks racing on Friday night doing a little roundy round action. It was actually

Friday afternoon. And it was, oh my goodness, some got lost in my notes here. But it was,

damn it. I completely lost my notes. She threw me for a loop there.

I went to, well, I was trying to get off the war on a ram topic.

I know, and you're like safe, right there.

Well, I'm all Sue's finding her notes. I do want to make one point.

Destiny, Destiny, Spurlock, Spurlock, to go bike a couple of times last year.

She was in the Archer race two weeks in a row, both times she's finished in the top 10.

Really? See, I don't know that. You know, I talked to Chris Harris, who is her manager,

and he told me about the Archer deal. And when he told me, I said, that's great. Awesome.

And I will tell you that inside my mind, I had some skepticism. This pro pro stock motorcycle

racer, who she's going to jump into a stock car and go out there and just compete. Like,

really? And you're telling me she finished in the top 10, both races?

Yeah, I think it was four. I think I want to say fourth and like eighth.

But when it was this week, she was like two laps down. But I think it was six and seventh.

There was only like five or six cars in the lead lap for that race.

So she was like at least one or two laps down, but it was still in the top 10, I believe.

That's amazing. I know is Cletus finished fourth in the Archer race. So yeah,

that was one big destiny. That's cool. That's awesome that she's doing. She's she's definitely

keeping pace out there. So the girls girls got got spunk, right? So you got a lot. But I also hate

losing a potential star to round track racing.

Well, yeah, that's true. And she's got a good personality, too. She'd be she does. Yeah, she

does it. Okay, Sue, he stalled for you. What do you got? He did. He did a good job. All right.

So Corey Haim was the eventual winner of the trucks on Friday, followed by Caden,

Honeycutt, and Lance, or Lane Riggs, Stuart Friesen, who had a horrible record. It's great

to see him back running, running strong, Stuart Friesen finished fourth, and Grant Enfinger

finished fifth for the truck race. Then they all said the Archer race, which we kind of covered

that one. So moving on to the bush race, aka O'Reilly's, I know, I'm still going to call it

bush. What can I say? But William Sewallage gets his first win in in that series. So it was great

to see that that was he was followed by Brandon Jones, Justin Allgaier, Raja Karuth, Carson

Quaffle, round out your top five. And for anybody who was paying attention, Cletus,

Cletus McFarland finished 32nd six laps down. The key thing with that is we'll see if

Cletus is going to get his license that he can actually get the go ahead to run in Palladeg. I

know NASCAR is is was going to decide depending on how his performance was this weekend at the

at the rock in the in the O'Reilly race. So that's a little bit of news on the NASCAR front.

So this coming weekend, Bristol, baby, Bristol is back. Woo. Wow. Love Bristol. Derek says he

finished it, though. DBC thinks they'll make him run Kansas. We'll see. We'll see. It was the six

laps down. They did say he was going to have to have a, you know, not just finish the race, but

but we'll see. Hey, he he's not saying it's easy. I will say that. Listening to Cletus is

between his videos. I heard Jeff Gluck interviewed him had a really good interview with him. And

you know, there's been some videos he put out there, he goes, he's driving it as hard as he

can. He cannot drive it into the corners like they like those guys do. So it's it's been an

interesting journey. So it's fun to watch. It's kind of interesting if you think about it. How

does the car know who's driving it and who's driving it into the corner?

Right? It just tells you it's it's harder than it looks. It's hard. I know. But

and I'm I'm not diminishing it. It's just, is it fear? It's one guy can drive it into the corner

deeper than another guy can drive it into the corner. But if you're on the same trajectory

and you've got the same amount of input on the wheel and you're at the same degree into the corner,

you should be able to drive as deep as those guys. Look, we watch Kyle Larson drive it up

against the walls closer than anybody else and not wreck. We those of us Earnhardt senior fans,

right? The man Dale could see the air, right? And and he could drive like nobody else. So

look, it's it's just it's not easy. Some some have that feel that they can just

drive it on in there and their butt's not clenching. Or if it doesn't matter,

drive it up against the wall. It's good. That was going to be my question.

And the car would be confused because Cletus isn't his real name, right? That's true. So

there's the first problem. And the second problem is I wonder what is on the NASCAR license?

Is he doing a smoke Johnson Tony Stewart? Or is he Cletus McFarlane? Or what's his real name?

I actually forgot. Right. We can find that. Yeah. So they were putting it as Garrett Mitchell in the

last and the previous races. But this year, I've noticed that they've put them in there as Cletus.

So I think that's because people are getting confused.

There's a useless trivia question for you. But anyway,

Oh, hey, glad I could answer it for you. Did you? I did.

And so there you go. Here's your NASCAR report headed to Bristol. Super excited.

Formula one, as Gio pointed out, we're not getting a race until Miami. That race is actually up

against South Georgia Motorsports. Well, I won't be able to go. Maybe Gio can go be on the spot.

Ferrari is teasing a mega update because they were going to have a couple of little updates in the

Middle Eastern races. But now they are going to drop them all in Miami. And it's going to be a

mega update and they're hoping for some performance. Car seems pretty fast in the corners. Just doesn't

have the power that the Mercedes cars have. But you know, we are off to a decent start. People are

talking about rules changes and trying to get a little more, a little less of this battery

racing, you know, a little less harvesting. Like Matt's been talking about V10s and

sending out pictures of grid girls, grid girls and V10s, Matt. I believe that's what you were

looking for. Yeah, one would hope. Well, you know, we can't have Colin Pinter just trying to kill

the Haas driver. Well, that was, yeah, Bierman. Yeah, too much. Yeah, between the slowest and

like 40 miles an hour or something. That was frightening. And of course that great shot,

that camera shot from the grandstand. You could see them coming right at it and

he almost flipped up into the fence. That was pretty nasty. But isn't there some regulation

changes? I guess that's what you sort of tough touched on that they're talking about between now

Miami to do with that power system. Apparently, yeah, they're going to review some stuff. So

we'll see what happens after. I haven't heard of the official. I haven't heard what the solution is,

but they were supposed to do some kind of reviewing now after this last race. And maybe you need

someone like Michael on here that might understand it better than us, but I can't even begin to

imagine what that change is. You know what I mean? Like I don't think the average punter

understands this power system and how it works or doesn't work or weirdly works to be able to tell

you, this would be my idea on how to change it. You know what I mean? Yeah. It just needs to be 10.

Naturally aspirated. I know it's difficult to believe that, but it's okay. We don't need you to

come up with the solution, man. I'm sorry. Why didn't why v 10? Why not v 12, Matt?

V 10 just sounded sweeter. I think a little bit, a few more thousand RPM more than the v 12, I believe.

You know, VA, it's all about the sound. Yeah, but I'll take anything. V eights were great.

I don't know. We'll see. Regulations introduced smoke is almost smaller lighter. So everything

that I'm searching on the internet is focused on this year's big change and nothing upcoming. So I'm

not really finding anything. My guess to answer your question quickly, Matt, would be allow more of

the power for longer so that there's less time with less power. If there's some sort of software

to allow that, like right now, they're deploying a large amount of power in a short amount of time.

And what that does is it causes certain cars to be going super fast and other cars to be going

super slow. Whereas if you made the boost of power less, but it lasted longer, you might have less

of that situation. I don't know if it would be really compelling, but it might be a little safe.

Well, I think that's, you know, what happened with Oscar Piastri in the first race is that

on the warm up lap, for some reason, it it discharged all its power mid corner whilst he was on the

one wheel or two wheels were on the ripple strip or just outside the

the racing line or the designating racing surface. Let's call it that.

Well, that's what caused him to zip around, apparently.

And we're all at the very front of this learning curve. So, you know, we don't know,

but I have heard people discussing the cars as self-learning, self-learning, like learning,

like when and how to deploy this power. And maybe it's not even the driver doing all of it.

Mario Kart.

And that would be the Mario Kart thing, which is why Max doesn't like it.

Yeah, I come from the racing school, like what's entertaining more power than you can use

and a driver that has to control through talent and ability, getting the power to the ground.

And if you put that in place, some drivers will be able to do it some of the time and other moments

they won't. And when they can't, the guy behind passes the guy in front.

I can't agree more, but when you've got someone with the actual driving ability of Max Verstaffen,

not showing those things, Joe, there's got to be a problem, right?

Something.

A little baby, maybe just a whiny little baby too, you know.

Look, I'm not taking away from the fact that he is, but he's also being a bit of a whiner in

this situation. He's being a bit of a baby. He's not being Lewis. He's not that bad.

Oh, here, let's read a story from Planet F1. This one's, this one's cool. It's called

Red Bull regret. Daniel Ricardo admits Verstappen might have obliterated me. Daniel

Ricardo fears his F1 career may have ended even quicker if he had opted to remain at Red Bull

beyond 2018 and found himself obliterated by Max Verstappen as he has denied that he was

running from a fight when he opted to join Renault in 2019. Daniel Ricardo, Red Bull exit, a

curiosity now to reflect. Ricardo remains as one of the most celebrated drivers in Formula

1, having claimed eight F1 wins in 257 appearances between 2011 and 2024. The Australian announces

retirement from motorsports last year, 12 months after his final F1 appearance for being an ambassador

with Ford, Red Bull's engine partner. Ricardo claimed all but one of his F1 victories with Red

Bull before joining Renault, now competing under the banner of Alpine at the end of 2018.

Let's see. Verstappen went on to win four consecutive world championships between

2011 and 2024 with Ricardo's final victory occurring with McLaren and 2021 Grand Prix and

Monza. Red Bull has struggled to replace Ricardo in the years since with the current incumbent

Isaac Hajar, the sixth driver to partner with Verstappen since the Australian's departure.

That's kind of interesting. Ricardo has stopped short of branding his decision to leave Red Bull

a regret claiming that Verstappen might have obliterated him had he stayed obliterated like

the Iranian nuclear program. Yes, he has conceded, sorry, when I heard obliterated,

but it just got me. There's another thing I want to mention in a second. Yet he has conceded that

he would almost certainly have won more races had he remained with the Milton Keynes team. I don't

know. Not if Max was there. Ask what he would do to turn back time. He told the Athletic,

the most obvious what if or whatever, especially for people on the outside, is what if you had

stayed at Red Bull in 2018? That's one where I don't know. I don't know if it was the right

decision. Certainly there was a bit of emotion in that, but there were reasons I didn't think it

was going to work out. There's also a scenario where Max just obliterated me as the years went by

and maybe my career ended even quicker. I don't know. At the time I was competitive with Max and

we were pushing each other really well. It's just hard. I'm sure maybe I would have still won more

races than I ended up winning, but I can't deny Max is Max. At the time, some sort of narrative was

like I'm kind of running from the fight. I don't know if I was running from the fight. I was just

concerned with how things were going to move forward. I was more concerned with the team dynamic

more than running from a fight, but am I denying that Max would have been extremely hard to beat?

Absolutely not, but I'm curious how that would have turned out. I don't know. I'd go so far as

say it's a regret, but it remains a curiosity, says Daniel Ricardo. Sounds like a regret to me.

That's a very real one. Well, think of it. He'll never know. He was a driver. He was

had his talent and ability and that's that. It's absolutely a regret. Now, thinking back,

he would have loved the chance to fight against Max in the Red Bull and even get obliterated.

It would have been great to find out because now he looks back and thinks,

what was it all worth? He doesn't know. He just doesn't know. All right. My other point,

I just want to say, since I mentioned the word obliterated, you know, you think we're hearing

these words, so many words obliterated and all that. The word decimated has been used a lot.

I saw Brett Kepner mention this and it irked me as well because he and I are on the same thing.

Decimated is a very specific word. Decimated comes from the Roman legions.

Decimation was a punishment for the military. What decimation is, is one in every 10 is killed.

It's basically a reduction by 10 percent. Decimation. That's the definition of the word.

And so everybody and their brother is using the word decimated. Decimated means reduced by 10 percent.

Hmm. And I don't know what's going on. Like maybe it's now the media. Everybody, everybody in

uniformity is like, that's decimated. Decimated. The Roman legions, when they showed cowardice,

the emperor said draw straws or their leadership draw straws and whoever draw the short straw

and this example, it'll be Geo, right? Then we all, you know, like the rest of us, the other nine,

we, we have to beat Geo to death. Oh, or stone. This is Roman stuff, guys. You can look at

WTF, man. It's just an example for the story. I wasn't going to make myself the one who got

decimated. And it was, it was a great shame because obviously we don't want to beat Geo to death or

stone, but we're ordered to do so. And if we don't do so, then we all get it. And that's what happens

when you're cowardly on the battlefield or you lose, you know, or you lose, don't lose. And there

were only a few examples in history, supposedly of decimation in the Roman legions, but it happened.

And that's what decimated is. That's what it is. And I guess now people are just choosing to adopt it

as blown the hell up.

Oh, it decimated.

Never been removed by 10%. All right, there it is. That's my, you know,

arc of the day. What grinds my gears by Joe Costello? All right, Geo, look at that. We're

coming up on it. It's time for final thoughts. Is there anything we didn't get to that we needed to?

Sports collision with Geo. Let's go.

Woo! Sports collision. And the March madness comes to a screeching halt tonight as a championship

game. It gets underway just a few minutes ago between me, Shigen Wolverines, and the Yukon Huskies.

That's right. Those are the two teams to survive the final four madness over the weekend where

both were involved in two blowout games, really. Very uninteresting by the time both games were

blowouts. And here we are both teams now in the final Indianapolis tonight. Yukon and Michigan

to the side demands basketball championship. The baseball is underway now with a full week

in full swing. Everybody's played about nine or 10 games, which is the equivalent of about one

football game. But you know, teams are doing well. They're very happy. Teams are doing not so well.

Plenty of time to get better. And I will say we touched on it lightly last week, but this whole

new ABS automatic balls and strikes challenge system is one of the greatest things I've ever

witnessed in my life as a sports fan. Just amazing. Really? I love it. I love it when,

you know, you got, you know, even the other day, the Martins catcher five in a row. You know,

I just love the way they embarrass the umps, man. It's, I will say, I don't like when the pitch is

on the, let's say on a right handed batter on the far outside, uh, away on the low,

low and away on that pitch that it's all the way in the outside. And the only thing that touches

the little ball, the strike, the, the, the box is like one little point one inch of the baseball.

And that's a strike. And it's always been that, but, uh, I don't necessarily like that one being

called a strike, but it is what it is, man. This whole system is much better. We get to make

fun of the umps and we get to see how terrible some of them were. And it really, you know,

makes me think like historically speaking, how these guys have changed history so much

and, and gambling and just games and, and the whole on a, you know, calling guys out

on a strike three call where the guy should have been at first base or given the opportunity to

swing again and next thing, you know, they get a hit and it completely changes the whole aspect

of a, of a game going on and Robinson safe at home. He was clearly out, clearly out.

All kinds of stuff, man. Well, that's even a different one. That's the replay of the basin,

which that would be replay. We would call it replay. Yogi bear would have been proven to be

right. Robinson one up with this whole new automatic balls and strikes. I love it. I think

it's a godsend and it really has let us see how terrible some of these umps are. And hopefully

those get terrible, terrible guys will go away and, uh, you know, and yeah, man, I love it. I,

I've really enjoyed it. And I think the fact that, you know, the only get two chances really

works out because, you know, you don't want them challenging every single pitch, but nonetheless,

I think the thing is, it's fine. And if anybody's watched the game, it's been great.

Um, yesterday angels guy Adele, last name Adele, Joe Adele, Joe, something Adele

stole three home runs, man, in a one nothing game. It was unbelievable. The last one,

I'm sure if you go out there, you'll find it. There's a picture of him standing. He jumped over

the short portion right field and he caught the ball and fell into the crowd. And then he stood

in the crowd with his hands up showing the ball that he caught it. And a fan from behind him

took a picture. And so there's a picture of the, you know, the outfielder in the stands with the

ball in his hands in the air. It's just great. Go, go look at that. And just wanted to point

that out because never in my 50 plus years of life and watching baseball. Have I seen someone

steal three home runs in one game? You know, in our field, just back three home runs. It's

unbelievable. One one is, is quite the fee. It doesn't happen that often, but three by the same

guy in the same game. It's just unheard of. The odds are it must be astronomical.

Yeah, against it. Did you like find that on the, what's it? Polymarket?

Yeah, no, I, you know, man, I'm a bit against that. Those, those things.

And I think, you know, I'm a big gambling guy and all that, but I think those markets are rigged,

not necessarily entirely, but they have the ability to be rigged. And too many people on there that,

you know, those prediction markets, it's just that that if you have insider information,

you could still get out there and gamble on that. And, and, you know, I don't want to partake in

anything that has the possibility of not being on the up and up. Got it. All right. Good job.

Sports collision. Here are the photos of Joe Lee winning class in from class a couple weeks ago

last weekend. And here is her Diamond Wally class Wally. Those came in a moment ago.

She texted him to me and that's a great looking little red spot right there.

That's awesome. Congrats again, Jolie. Way to go.

Well, it's clean, man. No decals. That's just pure Camaro. Way to go, Jolie. Thank you.

All right. We're on the clock. So let's go to Matt in Australia for the Australia report.

Matt, what say you? Well, thank you, Joe, for taking my mute button off.

There was music in the background. I didn't want us to get flagged.

I'm in the truck workshop. All the guys are, you know, sorry, wrong hand.

That's all right. Yeah.

Daylight savings has ended here. When does it start in the US of A?

I don't know. We just switched.

We switched. Okay. So I'm having morning tea with you now instead of lunch.

Okay. Racing news. This past weekend we had the Bathurst six hour production car race.

It's basically more of a grassroots race on Mount Panorama of Bathurst,

one of the only, the six times the tracks used throughout the year.

Made of ours, race in class 2B, which production car obviously in a

Holden Commodore with an LS2. They qualified on pole for their class.

I come into Park Fermay in scrutineering and he had scrubbed one of the curbs on his last

lap of qualifying and one of his tires was under pressure. Got put rear of grid,

69 cars in the race. Oh my gosh. Wow. However, they come back and got a third in class,

even with a broken drive shaft halfway through the race. So a big shout out to Scott and Ian for that.

Otherwise, drag racing wise, we had a supercharged shootout at Mildura on the eighth mile

this past weekend, which is a bit of a traditional sort of race at the eastern time.

Nothing really happening city dragway wise until the end of April start of May,

which is the the nationals. I've already put my entry in and I got accepted.

We've got the next two weekend V8 supercars in New Zealand, one race on the North Island,

one race in the South Island, which is a new concept for supercars. For the second race,

there is talk that they're trying to get Liam Lawson of RB Fame in F1 to give him a one-part drive.

Now, the only problem is all the cars have already been shipped there. It takes approximately two

weeks to ship the car there and do whatever. I don't think anybody's willing to stump up

air freight another car over. So the suggestion is one of the main main game drivers may be

financially encouraged to step aside. Oh, wow. This would have to be obviously one of the Ford

teams because of Red Bull and RB's connection with Ford. But they're saying maybe one of the lower

placed Ford drivers, even so early in this championship, hasn't got a chance, might be made

financially viable for him to take a seat for the second race in New Zealand.

Other than that, I've got a question for you for next week, Joe.

Yes. Chasing speed.

Its international debut is still pending and I was wondering the viewership,

what sort of viewership has it got from the United States of America and on YouTube?

Oh, that's a good question. The greatest of all time, the biggest and the best.

Huge, big numbers, huge. I'm not going to be sarcastic. I'll just leave that question with you,

Joe. Okay, let's see. I'm body my tongue. I'm body my tongue.

Episode five on YouTube, everything. You know, Joe, I'm going to have to talk to Joe and get him

to release and allow them to release it. 29,000, 31,000 views, basically about 30,000 views.

Well, so two episodes, episode five, episode six.

I don't know why he didn't want the rest of the world to be able to watch it,

but you know, I'm going to have to talk to give Joe a scolding about that.

Yes, exactly. Episode one, 14,000 views.

We'll see what happens. How many views, Joe?

One, 14,000. You know, call it 30,000 views. Here it is. Episode two,

6,000 views. Like, I don't know. Oh, Antron Brown posted that.

Anyway, I'll leave it with you. Yeah. I don't think it could, you know,

like, I don't know. I think it could have done better than that. It's more of a

on Vice TV kind of thing. But this was after the Vice numbers, not the YouTube numbers.

Oh, OK. I'll ask. I'll ask. I can tell you that the people at Vice were very happy with the way

the NHRA fan base shared and engaged with the idea of the show on Vice and that they were surprised.

This isn't what I had heard. They were surprised that our people were so

into it and chatting about it and engaging with it, that they had not received that kind of

engagement about any of their previous shows. That is something that I can report.

Cool. Yeah. All right. Good job.

Last but not least. Sorry, Joe. I know we're 104. Just in case you don't let me talk at the end.

Proud dad moment. My Emily got approved to do teaching ahead of her finishing her university

course. So this past week, she did her first day of casual teaching, filling in,

one day at a kindergarten. Oh, good luck with that. Very proud of me. Teacher.

Giovanni's a teacher, teacher, man. Let me tell you that one. She hasn't got the black hat thing

in the cape yet, but based off all her results for the last three and a half years, she's already

been approved by the board to teach. So that's pretty cool. And given the amount of money she

made for doing one day, I'm just looking forward to 2027 when board kicks in. There it is.

Well, wait a second. So hold on. We're gonna up TCS racing's interstate racing program.

Yeah, baby. So in Australia? Yes, sir. They pay teachers well?

Yeah. Yeah. And very, very, very good benefits, like amazing benefits, especially for that's the

biggest thing that Emily was actually telling us on the weekend. She will have trouble getting a

full-time employment in teaching because of the maternity leave and long service leave benefits

that are in place. So a lot of the time it would just be she might get a placement for 12 months

or 18 months as a casual teacher filling in for a teacher that's gone to have a baby.

Oh, well, that's maternity leave. Oh, yeah, it's big down under maternity leave.

You guys are, yeah, what a horrible civilization. I gotta tell you, nice.

Don't forget the mandatory vacation for four weeks. Yeah, we've got another one coming up,

Kev. We've got Anzac Day coming up, which is like a memorial day for you guys. That's coming up at

the end of April. And it falls on a Saturday this year, but the government, I've got to give them

credit when it's due, not that I give them credit very often. They've decided to make the Monday

a mandatory holiday in respect for the fallen soldiers. Right. Nice. Yeah, take some time off

of work and think about why you're even able to do this. Only appropriate. Good job. That's the

Australian hands. Anzac, where you going, Matt? And I'll show you. Then that's his final thought.

And we will do Monica, way to respect those teachers. Well, obviously my situation with my

mother has made me refocus on the medical field, which I did not really, and nobody wants to think

about that, right? Like what's going on in there? It's a nightmare. And there are certain people

that go there every day and deal with that every day. People like my mom, like, ah, you know,

every day, that's their life. That's their job. They're caring every day. Yes, this is the business

we have chosen. Right. Thank God that there's people like that. Like there's people that are

ready to be caring every day. It's exhausting being caring and like nurturing every day. And

there's people like that. There's the yin and the yang. There's people that are the complete

douchebags every day. Oh, I'm very well aware of it. For these people. You could have been a nurse,

yeah. I'm maintaining the other side of that yin and the yang. But teachers were my previous,

you know, we honor the first responders and the people that go into the fires, but teachers,

man, teachers, teachers without teachers, we are not, you know, they get nothing.

Here in America, Matt, you may not know, but teachers really are kind of not paid well.

That's the general stereotype not paid well, like college professors, they're paid well,

but like a fifth grade teacher, have tenure, but yeah, have fifth grade, right. Once they have

tenure, fifth grade teacher, they do get decent benefits, but it's not like, I don't know, not

that great. And they're kind of viewed as not like a fireman.

Yeah, the next time you do that, you need to do that off camera.

Yeah, exactly. Your giver is a hard job. All right, final thoughts, final thoughts.

Let's start with Sacramento Racing fan. My usual is, you know, check on people and then, of course,

I haven't got it yet, but I'll get it in the next day or so. The link for the NAMI walk.

Please support that. And you know, you mentioned you sent me this thing. Look, I got it.

Dragster Jeff just signed on. We're not going to be able to get to him because of the time

limitation. Sorry, Dragster Jeff, but look at what I got. This is like Dragster Jeff's time.

Kevin sent this. Oh man, I don't have the strength to cut through the tape.

Man, look out. Well, this, you know, this was like, this has been, what's the story behind this?

So I took it, I originally, I picked it up on the way to Pomona in the fall.

Dragster Jeff. I don't know that story. I don't know that part of the story,

but the journey this, this thing has been on. I took it to, I picked it up in Bakersfield,

took it to Pomona, didn't see you. Hey, Ron Cap's bobblehead. He's bobbling. That's so cool.

Look at that. He's a bobbling. I heard that Cap's going to be the guest host on WF4 if

he can't do the show. That's what I heard too. Yeah. He's ready. He's ready to fill in. Oh, hey,

here's first collision. The Masters is this weekend. Augusta. Don't forget about the Masters.

Hot Rod Reunion. Kuzi, thank you, Dragster Jeff. Hot Rod Reunion participant ticket. Dragster Jeff.

Hot Rod Reunion looks like a cool shop rag. You know, like this could go in the race car or

something. Look at that. No, man, that's going up right here. Dragster Jeff. Thank you, buddy.

I know you're down there. It finally made it. Thanks to Kevin. Kevin just sent it to my house,

and that's great stuff. Oh, that's it, man. The hard out is going. Yeah. Whose phone is that?

That's the timer. Oh, okay. Anyway, I'll see you in Pomona, Joe. And I'm glad that your mother's

doing what she's doing. Yeah, exactly. Good days, bad days, up and down. We got sent back to the

regular hospital, and that was very upsetting for everybody. But now, you know, is she still there?

Or is she back at the rehab place? No, she's still at the regular hospital. Oh, no, she's at the

Kill People Hospital. Hey, hey, hey, hey. She said go to work. I'm going to go to work. Go to work.

Okay, go to work. We'll see you. Bye, everybody.

Matt, you already did your final thought. Congratulations to your young daughter.

That's tremendous. Yeah, it's not just teachers either, Joe. It's,

I guess most government employees get those similar benefits, like firefighters, police,

and here to police firefighters, the nurses as well, because a lot of our a lot of our hospital

system is public hospital system. So they all they're all covered under that same award. So they

will get they will get maternity leave and so forth. So yeah, that's good things. That's that side

of it is a good thing. That's for sure. Yeah, but you have to deal with the death panels though. So

the death panels, right? No. Anyway, we'll talk about that another time. We're up against the hard limit.

Words of wisdom. Well, the best way is laughing. And so

my words of wisdom, the best way to screw up a good schedule that you sit down and spend a week

working out. Yes, is write it down. It's destroyed. Oh, no. That's my words of wisdom.

Do it as it comes. You do not write down anything. Way to go, Bobby. Thank you for

doing the Drag Race, Prega Bonanza stuff. Sue, how about you? All right, well, I gotta give a

shout out to Tyler Bohannon, spring fling million winner fuel factory Friday sponsored by

Moser Engineering and RadTwerk system. But yeah, Tyler Bohannon gets it done in the final.

That was a million winner. The big that was that was the big million. He's a great racer TV.

Yeah, very talented. And by the way, in my interactions with him, always a fine young man,

but very nice and respectable and respectful and cool and open with information and trying to be

helpful in my interactions with the race promoter too. I mean, they put on a help and they put on

a heck of a race. Isn't it Troy in Oregon's employer? Yes, yes. Yeah. Yeah. So all of the

yeah. So TV getting it done. It was a 1000 difference on the tree to 10 thou for the forest

first win at the stripe. So so yeah, so congrats to TV. A couple other notables that I can pull in

there is Gary Williams won $30,000 Wednesday. Matt Datis wins Thursday to 30 grand. Donovan wins

Donovan Williams wins Saturday. So pretty exciting. The spring playing did not disappoint.

A lot of people were a little on the hey, how's the car count? The car count was great. I don't

have the full numbers, but it was it was definitely another great race put on by the by the by Peter

Briando and that entire team, the playing team. So their next race will be in a couple weeks

over in at Galat and on on the east coast here. So so just wanted to call that out.

And then this weekend Pomona and besides Pomona, we also have the divisional, the double divisional.

So our D two friends down there at South Georgia Motorsports Park. Good luck to everybody. And

who knows Joe, there could be a wandering, you know, WFO reporter going around the IHRA race

at VMP this weekend. He might also be in a car to actually will be in a car called a blue roadster.

But but yeah, so cool. Yeah. Yeah. So you guys going to run Virginia at the IHRA event national

is in Virginia this weekend? Dave's going to run the roadster. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to I'll be

watching from afar. But yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. Farquay. You got to work. I got to work.

Ah, but hey, Dave, get that money. Like, go, go, honey, go, come on. Money, Dave. Go get it.

Money, Dave. So that's just what it's all about. You go if you go, you got to get that money.

That's right. It's up. There's our job. So Giovanni and Miami final thought.

WFO everyone have a great week. Be safe out there and happy happy Easter Monday to everybody.

Hope everyone got a basket full of chocolate goodies.

I did. I ate a chocolate goodie. I went to the grocery store last night,

Sunday night, and I'm going through and they had these chocolate eggs with some sort of candy in

them. And I was like, Oh my God, I've been being so good. Let me get this big chocolate egg.

And I ate the whole thing, man. I ate it. It wasn't a Cadbury. You remember the old school

Cadbury commercial? Yeah, of course. Rabbit. That's today was like

that. Normally, I go crazy on Easter candy. I love candy and I stayed away from everything.

Yeah, the peeps, jelly beans, all that good stuff. I had the Reese's eggs. I had a little bit of

everything. What do you think about the Reese's with the real chocolate again? Did you see that

theory? Yeah, man. That's a big deal, man. Who knows that other, you know, that fake stuff.

Well, but who knew that there weren't using real chocolate to begin with? Come on, man,

we all know that. I didn't know that. No real chocolate, no real peanut butter.

The white filling in the Oreo cookies isn't the same stuff that when we were kids.

But what is that, that white filling? I don't know. I don't eat the white filling.

I'll be happy when they go back to the real cream or whatever was in it, but I don't want to know

what the real cream cat. There's a scary says Monica. Megan says, let's go Dave.

All right, thank you. Come on, Megan. Come down to VMP. Go visit Dave. Why is right

there? There goes Sue. There goes Matt. There goes Bobby. And this is the final thought. Yeah,

we got a little bit over, but I'll keep it keep it short. If you get to this point of the audio

only episode, you must really enjoy WFO. These are the voices you hear. These are our wonderful

patrons and friends. We've got a whole secret society. Maybe you want to join and we're starting

to do these incredible giveaways. I don't know why I say incredible though, because it's happening

and it's real and it's legitimate. So they are actually very credible. These credible giveaways

of cool stuff like Dragster Jeff just sent me some stuff, more stuff, this great Ron Cap's

bobblehead. Maybe Dragster Jeff is sending this to me because he wants me to include it

in one of our Patreon giveaways. I will allow him to tell me that. Is that the reason you sent

this Dragster Jeff as an incentive to future patrons? Maybe maybe it is. Maybe it's not.

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have to be the first question for Brian Hughesen. And if you're an audio-only listener, I've been

trying to think about the funnel, right? Like we need nitro listeners to start listening to

Ignition. And we siphon them off. Like, ah, man, these guys are pretty entertaining. I'll check

out that Ignition Show. And then when they get to the Ignition Show, we got to convert you guys

to become Patreons, the Secret Society, the Monday motivation that ended very abruptly today.

Secret Society of WFO Patreons. We hope you join us and become part of the Secret Society. Other

than that, I just got an incredible text from fellow racers excited that I'm going to be

coming to the race this weekend. And that has been the most surprising of all of it.

And I know I've got some good friendships out there and some great relationships. And I try

real hard. Talent is subjective. Some people like what I do. Some people don't like what I do. They

like someone else. It's all subjective. But it's really amazing how much positivity I've gotten

through this whole ordeal. And on that note, we're out. Thank you very much. Appreciate all of you.

WFO, we'll see you on Nitro. Thanks to Giovanni Miami and Sue and everybody who helps make this

show go. Definitely not a one man show. Love you guys. Appreciate it. WFO.

This is WFO radio.

Yeah, welcome to the party. Bye.

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