Life's A Drag Here comes Peter Cottontail

I didn't do it. This is W F O radio.

Hey,

hello, happy April Fool's Day.

We're not. Yeah.

All right.

Hope you enjoyed the show.

Thanks everybody.

Thanks.

Bye.

We had an April Fool's.

And we're back and we're back.

Jason Logan.

Co host life's a drag.

Hello, Elon Warner right here.

Yep. Sorry about last week.

Yeah.

Very glad you, you know, reports

here demise were greatly exaggerated.

Yeah.

That was our April Fool's joke for you.

Yeah.

That was our pre.

We did pre April Fool's joke.

Yeah.

We're way.

We're trend setters.

Where is everybody?

We had seven people watch this right now.

Where are all the people's at?

All right.

Start liking and sharing the show.

Yes.

Get, get, get out there.

Tell all your, tell all your neighbors.

Go out in your front yard right now and tell all your neighbors to tune into

life's a drag.

Let's go.

Just show everyone.

Life's a drag is on.

Stop what you're doing.

Put your leaf lower down and let's go.

Oh my God.

Hey, tell me if I'm a horrible person.

So we've got these huge live oak trees in our neighborhood.

The whole neighborhood has been covered in leaves the past month.

The other night I got out at like, I want to say like nine o'clock.

At night.

And my, like my front easement, like the tree has eroded all the grass out of

it.

And the leaves lay there and I'm not home enough to rake and take care of

stuff on a Saturday.

So I just get the leaf blower out.

I just blow the leaves.

I blow the grass or the leaves out of the grass with the leaf blower.

Okay.

Nine o'clock at night.

Yeah.

But it's not super loud.

It's not super loud.

You're a monster.

Well, you know, it goes over.

The sun just came down.

Here's the monster part.

So my kids been away for a week and he's the one that usually cleans

stuff up.

I just blew the leaves from my gutter across the street to the other

people's gutter.

And now here, but here's the, here's the reason why I did that.

They are their condos across the street from houses.

They have a paid, somebody comes around and does all their lawn area and

they pick stuff up.

I just figured I'd add to their little collection.

That's not right.

That's bad.

That is like we, again, I am, you know, I don't want to open up a can of

worms about an HOA discussion about homeowner associations.

I have a good HOA.

I know there's a lot of terrible HOAs out there.

No need to get into that.

Right.

But we have people in our neighborhood that blow their leaves into the

community area thinking, well, I pay my HOA.

We do.

Well, no, that's not, no.

Yeah, I did it on the cover of darkness stealthily.

That's smart to do it at night.

Yeah.

We, I have, one time we thought about one of my, one of my neighbors is

very good about taking care of their yard.

Right.

And they have a very good yard guy and, but my neighbor in the yard guy

have a George Steinburn or Billy Martin type relationship where yard guy

gets fired about three times a year.

Cause he's just, my neighbor's so particular about stuff.

Right.

And neighbor was away and we thought about under the dead of night,

three neighbors getting together and blowing all of our leaves from our

respective yards.

Oh, that'd been awesome.

Into his yard.

But we thought, no, yard guy would get pummeled.

Yeah, that's true.

So we don't want any collateral damage.

Right.

Yeah.

So it is, we're Easter is upon us.

We're kind of a couple of weeks in a row off of racing, but big news

dropped yesterday with a IHRA buying the Frank Holly drag racing school.

I saw that.

I'm like, what?

And I, I, Joe posted that and then I immediately posted when I read it,

I was like, I got an entertainment company.

If he's somebody wants to buy that, I mean, let's just buy it.

Everything.

Buy it.

He'd seen one stuff and I don't begrudge him.

I don't begrudge Frank Holly at all.

I mean, Frank's put years and years and years into building that school.

He's getting up there, getting long on the tooth.

So someone wants to give him a golden parachute.

Right.

That's great.

It's unfortunate.

It's, you know, one of our chief competitors.

I think the perception, like you said, the guy's buying everything.

Yeah.

Um, but I had people calling me yesterday asking what, what we need to,

you know, we need to start our own dry-gracing school.

And I was like, well, I don't think the overhead is doable.

I mean, Frank has built that school over decades.

Yeah.

And from the ground up and yeah, and he put his heart and soul into that thing.

Yeah.

So it's, um, it is a bummer that, you know, there is this IHRA and HRA, whatever.

Yeah.

Um, this is the power hour, IHRA space shuttle.

See, that's it.

Yeah.

Just buy something.

Just buy stuff.

And so it is weird though that Frank was just honored as an HRE legend and then kind

of sells to the IHRA, but that's who was buying.

Right.

So you can't begrudge him that.

Honestly, I mean, listen, that's a private entity.

That's like, uh, you're like, oh yeah, we want to go buy, uh, we're going to go buy

copy link.

Let's go buy copy link.

Right.

Oh man.

Think about that.

Yeah.

Just throw that out in the universe.

Why?

If you're, if you're the IHRA, Bob Rockmire is also getting along in the tooth.

Yeah.

I mean, there's a golden parachute.

What ready to happen?

There, there's a golden parachute and a crippling blow to the HRA.

Yeah.

You know, that's just, I don't understand it.

I really don't get like, I understand if I had all the money in the world.

I mean, does he have all the money?

He has to have all the money in the world.

Let's answer Monica's question about the tracks.

I think I would be surprised if the IHRA owning Frank Holly school that NHA tracks would host

the Frank Holly school.

Like if you're an NHA sanctioned track, I think that takes you off the table.

I don't know that.

I think it could be up to the tracks, but I would think that there would be

potential some pressure to not do that.

I don't understand.

It's a private entity.

Yes.

It has to do with track racing.

It's not like, you know, it's a competition thing.

It's a school.

I don't understand.

I don't know.

I mean, I get it in HRE and IHRE button heads, but at the same time it's, it's really not

doing anything in competition with them.

I don't think.

The only, the only negative I could see, and this is again real, put my tinfoil hat on

is IHRA owns the Frank Holly school and you go to the Frank Holly school and then as

one of the benefits, you get entry into IHRA races like, okay, come do the Frank Holly

school.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now we're going to give you free entry into these IHRA regional races or whatever.

Yeah.

I don't want to, you know, I don't want to speculate with Hawk Motor Sports, but that

would surprise me.

That would shock me.

That would absolutely be a huge downgrade.

So that's the deal is, you know, kind of, but then I was also, I don't fully understand

Frank's business.

So I'm going to talk out of my rear end here.

But how many people go through the Frank Holly school?

400 people a year?

I mean, who, who, what world champions have it got through there?

But I mean, just like any year, like how many customers does he have?

Let's say it's 400 people.

Yeah.

A lot of those people just kind of go through for the experience.

They don't necessarily want to become racers.

Right.

It's like a corporate buyout or something.

It's a corporate deal.

They want it.

They want the coaching.

They want the leadership stuff.

Right.

So you're talking about 200 people a year that are potential racers.

But I think, you know, that's the thing is the Frank Holly school is awesome.

I've heard so many stories.

I've talked to Frank about it.

His, his, what you get out of going to the school is so far beyond just

learning how to drive a super comp dragster or whatever.

And that's the beauty of, and that's the thing is good for Frank for selling

it because when Frank decides to personally quit doing it, the impact

of going to that school is going to drop dramatically.

Correct.

Do you think, do you think this is just the devious nature in me.

Do you think IHRA buying that thinks that that's going to like affect

NHRA in any way, shape, or form?

No, I think they just think it's a just, I think they think it could

potentially be a distraction.

I'm just like, Oh, we got this legend that's now sold out to us.

Okay.

So somebody do the math on this.

So Hawk motor sports says 25,000 people have gone through the school

since 1985.

So let's do the math on that.

What's 85 is 40 years ago.

40.

Yep.

So we're doing live math folks never do this on social media.

Don't do this.

Don't try this at home.

No, that's that's 625 people a year.

Okay.

So we were too far off.

Nope.

So, you know, that that again, cut that in half of how many people are going

to become competitors.

You know, it's not like you're taking this major pipeline away from the

nature of potential.

Right.

It's a great school.

I'm happy for Frank.

But to me, it's not, it's much to do about nothing.

If you're getting your, if you're clutching your pearls on that.

Yeah.

But again, it's great to make announcements.

Everyone makes announcements.

And that's, that's the thing is we're in a bit of a announcement vacuum

right now, which I thought the other thing that got announced this week.

Do you see those more commemorative tickets from the nature?

I did.

There should be a Chris Kermit seen this one.

Where?

Yeah.

I mean, do you have the graphic of it?

No.

All right.

I don't.

So I meant, I meant to pull it up.

But okay.

So NHA is doing commemorative tickets for the, for the 75th anniversary.

And I think I'm just going to wait for them to all come out and then just

see if I can get all of them.

Yeah.

They look very cool.

They just look.

There's a gym head.

I would love to see, you know, and I bet NHA, you know, might look into doing

this a poster of all the commemorative tickets.

Yeah.

That would be, that would be cool.

That would be sick.

I would hang that in my office.

I don't know where I would have the office space for it.

Yeah.

Right.

Chicago gets Chris Kermit seen as Marilyn gets Shirley Muldowney epi gets

to task a family.

Bristol, Clay Milliken.

That's a good one.

Jim had a Norwalk.

Yeah.

The, the gym head in Norwalk will be a cool one.

I mean, that's, that's a young looking gym head too.

Yeah.

I like that.

He's still a handsome man.

He is held up very well.

He definitely has.

You know, take care of yourself.

He's, he's the epitome of taking care of yourself unlike us, you know.

Yeah.

Remember to take it out.

Also, have you seen that NHA watch?

Have you seen that?

I have.

I've been whoever, whoever the marketing guy for that watch company is go take

an extra 20 out of petty cash because that ad is good.

It is good all over my Facebook and Instagram.

I mean, I'm, I don't know what they just typed in drag racing fans that have

been in a sport for over 30 years that live in the Dallas, Texas area algorithm

because it's me.

I'm just, and it looks pretty good.

I mean, the two different kinds, you know, I'm debating whether or not to

get one.

I was talking to NHA people yesterday and I was like, maybe I'll just wait

and, you know, NHA PR department.

I just tossed some of those out at the end of the season.

Thanks for, thanks for your good efforts.

Yeah.

Kind of like they did with the, with the rings last year, the 75 championship ring

that, you know, Joe confiscated one right out the gate.

We, every weekend we had to find a new ring.

Where's the ring?

We got to have a ring to display.

I've got, I've got one here for, oh God.

Oh, what a catch.

Jason Logan.

Oh, look at that.

I got the 16 years of force.

Oh, is that the six?

Is that the John Force one?

Yeah.

50 years of force.

See if I got that in there.

Yeah.

I just pulled that out of my bag.

I need to get one of those at some point.

Well, this has to be on display at the track.

So that's the official track display.

Is that track material?

Yeah.

So, yeah, so that's something else.

They got that.

So make sure you, when you go to your favorite racetrack, renew your tickets.

You'll get that.

Renew your tickets.

And get one of those because the box, I have the 75th,

I have the first one they did, which I thought was really pretty cool.

Yeah.

That's a cool one.

I got that one too.

I got the, those are very cool track commemorative things.

And then the ticket holder, they had fantastic too.

Yeah.

So they are, I am very excited about all the 75th anniversary stuff from the

commemorative tickets to the watch.

Have you bought it?

Full stuff.

Have you bought anything from Dijkter Mall yet?

I have not.

I'm kind of waiting to see kind of what my options are.

If all the stuff is out, if all the stuff is out.

Yeah.

But I just want to make sure that, you know, I don't go,

some of the hats look really good.

Nikki was wearing like a black on black hat.

Yes.

That looked really, really good.

They have that 75th windbreaker in there.

It's 150 bucks.

But that might be $150 well spent because it looks, it's red,

it's white, red, white, blue.

It is old school.

All American looking.

Oh, it looks big.

That they're going to sell out of that thing.

Can you see the outline of where they pulled the Winston drag racing logo off

the back of it?

Oh, that would be so great.

Yeah.

Monica, it's going to be an expensive year for NHRA merch.

It's true.

It's what happens.

Please get a plan accordingly.

All right.

Come on, Memphis.

You're better than that.

We were talking about this.

I didn't get your take on this last week because it came up, Jason,

but did you, speaking of the tech department, did you see the

Sean Langdon WWE belt?

Oh, no.

That he had that basically it's like a WWE style belt that said

NHRA tech survivor on it.

Oh my God.

So he's holding the Arizona nationals trophy, the 75th anniversary

wally, and he's wearing this shot across the bout, the tech department.

You know what?

I got him winning this whole thing this year.

And I'm pretty excited for his speech at the big way because it's

just going to be guns ablaze and screw everybody.

Yeah.

It's going to be in spite of your best efforts.

I'm still standing here.

Yeah.

Real Britney Spears.

Oops, I did it again type situation.

God, he's so funny, man.

He's such a nice guy, too, off track.

But man, when he gets something in the back of his teeth and he's

just chewing on it, he's going to chew on it all year long.

He's going to get all the meat off that bone.

Yes.

And I'm here for it.

I am too.

He's so freaking funny.

Yeah.

So he's funny.

And he's so particular.

And I do value his opinion, but, you know, I do point projections

and he stays on top of me on that, which I appreciate.

Yeah.

We need to get him on this show.

Yeah.

I want to, we just...

We can work on that.

We can reach out to the great Rob Goodman and see about making that happen.

Yeah.

He's good.

Did you, what was I going to say?

Did you talk about how hot it was in Phoenix?

God bless.

Oh, we did.

We talked about how crazy hot it was and how it was a conundrum,

probably conundrum for both of us.

I don't want to speak for you, but the opportunity to go to the pool

in the afternoon and how I thought about it.

And I was like, no, I'm already familiar enough with these people.

They don't need to see me with my shirt off.

So I was it.

I DJed Courtney Ender's first wedding.

Did the Caimans.

I'm out there with all her friends.

Erica's out there, all the bunch of drag racing people.

And I got in the ocean and I had my shirt off.

Kind of still to this day feel a little awkward about it.

Yeah, I don't know.

I was at Tommy DeLago's wedding.

I mean, Rachel's wedding.

I was in the pool with my top off with all the Kalida guys.

I don't know if I should have done that either.

See, to me, I just don't.

There should be a little bit of mystery with your work family.

Yeah, exactly.

You don't need to see all this.

No, and there's a lot.

There's just, you know, I got tattoos that I've been keeping hidden.

Right.

I got stretch marks.

I just got weird hair patterns.

It's just not a good look.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I'm right there with you, especially when I saw we were at the bar

at the casino watching basketball on Thursday,

me and Galvin doing a little day drinking,

which I haven't done day drinking and God knows how long,

gamble a little bit, drink a little bit.

And here comes, you know, Chase Freeman.

Here comes all the freemen.

All the people.

And all their, you know, beautiful girlfriends and wives.

And I'm like, here comes the standfields.

And they're all, we're going to the pool.

I'm like, no, no, you gotta go out there and have a good time.

Yeah.

You guys go enjoy that.

So, uh, I also want to give a shout out to, to Memphis here for,

um, pro stock greatest moment brackets dropped this week.

There we go.

Perfect.

So for drag race bracket bonanza, you've got until from now until

the 10th of April, 64 greatest pro stock.

Awesome.

Moments.

And I've already gotten some really good feedback from people.

They think it is a little.

Eric Enders heavy.

I was going to say it has to be Eric Enders heavy, but I,

I, we made a conscious choice.

I think it's very balanced with Greg Anderson and Bob Glidden and

Warren Johnson and Erica.

But Erica has a lot of moments because she has a lot of firsts.

What I was going to say, you know, do you have like four different brackets

like one of Johnson's number one seed over here?

Yeah.

So like Warren's number one seed summer, Greg's number one seed,

Eric's number one seed for something.

Greg actually may have two number one seeds.

I don't know, but he, I mean, but it's, I think I did set it up to where

you have to eat your young a little bit.

Okay.

You're going to go out around one and if you like Eric Enders,

you're going to get an Eric Enders, Eric Enders matchup in round two.

Gotcha.

Um, yeah.

Yeah.

I always, I always, I did not listen to the show last week, Joe.

That's why it's questionable.

Yes.

My question is loyalty.

I've told you.

Um, but yeah, so we have a post-mortem major moments.

Yeah.

Who's your winner?

Memphis Lonnie.

Tell us.

Yeah.

My, my winner was honestly, um, I think it was Greg Anderson's

1000th round win.

Okay.

I think that beat out a Bob Glidden moment of something like the year

he won every race or something.

Okay.

I liked my, my favorite pro stock memory was Erica and Greg going

down to the wire and Erica beating Greg for the world championship.

Yeah.

She has a couple.

She won a championship on the double red light deal.

Um, you know, I, I think there's just so many guys that Glidden was

so dominant.

Yeah.

Her Johnson made history recently.

Park in English.

God, man.

Remember English town?

We got to get that track back.

So great.

English channel was awesome.

I think the funny, the crazy thing about pro stock, like one of the

moments was that they used to have a 32 car pro stock field.

Yeah.

Boggers.

Dude, I used to love English.

If you didn't get there early enough, man, you weren't getting

there for pre-race.

And I missed my race once.

I got in trouble for that.

And then English town, that, that is where, um, again, four story

alert, uh, at a Castro event, Castro was based in New Jersey.

So Reading or English town was their big race and force was on the

stage talking about his career and he basically was talking about

how you'd eventually, you know, his career is going to be over.

He knows, Hey, you know, we're all, you know, we're all going to die.

Eventually we're all going to die.

And he's like, I'm going to die.

You're going to die.

And then he points right at a little kid and goes, even, even this

little, you know, even this little kid's going to die eventually.

And he's the look on like this kid was like eight and I'm looking at

this kid.

He's looking at his mom.

I'm looking at Laurie Angola from Castro about how force just

introduced the idea of mortality.

Oh, I love it.

Like, oh, this little kid's like, I'm going to die.

Mommy, you know, I'm going to die.

And we're just like, we're all I love.

Yeah.

I love talking about dying and we're all dying.

He, um, we, I always used to like when, you know, you'd hear the fan,

he's coming down on a scooter and you hear the fans roaring and we're

doing stuff.

And sometimes we would stop him and we would just, you know, to

interview him right there.

And I'll never forget somebody did it.

I don't know if it was Joe or somebody stopped him and he, you

know, asked him one question, but he went off on a tangent about

somebody who has dying of prostate cancer.

And, uh, he was talking or who had just died or something.

He was basically telling people to go get their prostates checked.

Yeah.

But he didn't use the word prostate.

He used the word pronate.

He goes, you know, this great guy, he died of pronate cancer.

He's dying of pronate cancer.

And I'm like into my head.

I'm going, is he talking about walking on the outside?

Your feet cancer?

I go, what is he talking about?

And he said pronate at least 10 times.

And he goes, man, just get well then.

We hope you do great.

And I was like, he's got the wrong, he's talking about the wrong

thing.

I know he bit pro prostate, but not pronate cancer.

Oh, that guy's so funny.

Yeah.

Just, uh, just wild.

So yeah.

So we'll, so pro stock brackets right now, 100% there will be multiple

force special brackets for the year of force next year.

Yes.

So we'll for sure be able to probably do one just on John force

himself and then one on like team force and maybe like force.

I don't know if I can get 64 force quotes, but we'll have, we'll

have some things, some bags, you know, you know, crazy force

moments and stuff.

Cause there's a Sino.

I would tell me it's like Solomon's mind.

It's, it's an embarrassment of riches.

It really is.

And I just, it just, when he, when he gives you this long answer,

he goes, wait, what was your question?

It was a question.

Well, it was a question.

Um, yeah.

So, you know, major moments, bracket bananas.

We'll be back up and running for winter nationals.

Um, shock or shock, we actually had a, uh, fan that won the Gator

nationals, not claim their prize.

So we had to go to the second place person.

Yeah.

How do you not claim your prize?

I don't know.

I mean, so they're going to say the second place person is, and

we know it's an active email.

I mean, like we checked, it's like we can tell that, you know,

you open your emails and all that stuff.

So it's bonkers, but we still have people, you know, sign up

for Drag Race Backup and ends it play for free and you win prizes.

Yeah.

You know, cool stuff.

I love it.

Um, the great Hannah Rickards is texting me right now.

Uh, what's she texting you?

Does she not know if she blocked out a life to drag?

What, what's happening?

No, there's just fun stuff happening.

All right.

Well, why don't we just send her the stream yard link and have her

hop on the show?

Oh my God.

She would die.

I don't know if that's good right now.

Okay.

Uh, she might be, what does this person say?

Hold on.

I love John so much.

He did, did that to me in Sonoma because I was screaming when he won

like, okay.

Can't hear the question.

Was my girl screaming over there?

Yeah.

That's great.

You know, that's all.

Everybody's got a good job.

Forces man of people.

Forces has gone up in the grandstands as a driver more times

than anyone I can think of.

Seattle.

Winter nationals.

World finals.

When he jumped that fence in Seattle.

That was so great.

There's a tremendous photo that I, that I have for my personal

collection that a photographer not to be named shot because he

goes over the fence and fell flat on his face.

Yeah.

So he's just right back up.

He's sprawled out on the ground.

It looks like he's dead, but he bounced back up and went in the

grandstands.

It's very funny.

That was the best.

And then Austin proc wins and he jumps on the wing of the top

fuel dragster.

I was like, come on dude.

Yeah.

That's very shaky.

That's a crazy idea.

Yeah.

But he does it every once in a while.

But yeah.

And speaking of Austin proc.

How about the, uh,

I don't know if you go to competition plus.com and read the

Austin proc interview.

That Bobby dropped this week because it is.

Really interesting about how much,

when you really think about how much time goes into building a funny

cartoon.

Right.

When you have all the assets, it's just time.

And even for,

from a guy like Austin proc and task of racing to buddy whole,

you know,

buddy's rebuilding his program after his Gator Nationals crash,

but he's running into the same problems that Austin's running

into.

You just have to have time.

And those guys have been working an article.

It said from basically December until this week,

every day,

15 hours a day at a minimum that they just got the crew guys just

got two days off in a row.

And it was their first back to back days off since they started

this deal.

That's crazy.

Think, you know,

and then think about you're doing all that.

You're trying to get all your stuff together.

And then you're not seeing success.

Right.

And you're getting booed.

And, you know,

that to me is fascinating of just how much they are.

And he also made the point when we start winning,

it'll be crickets and it's winning cures everything.

When lights cure everything.

Yeah.

It's, listen,

and I don't feel sad about it because they kind of,

they kind of put that black hat on, you know,

you're asking for it.

Here we go.

Yeah.

You go against John force racing.

It is very rarely you're going to win.

Yeah.

But, you know,

there's new sheriff in town.

Right.

His name is Ergy Hammons.

Y'all be cool.

I ain't going to fall for the banana tailpipe trick anymore.

Um,

but the article is really good because he gets into a lot of stuff on that article.

Um,

so hold on.

Let's get this question.

I don't think they wildly underestimated it.

I just think they didn't care.

Yeah.

They don't care.

Yeah.

And there's nothing wrong with that.

No.

There's, you know,

not the world doesn't revolve around John force racing.

You know,

you can be,

I don't know.

And you need these healthy rivalries.

Yes.

100%.

Listen,

like a chair, Todd,

I caught him smiling in Phoenix.

I'm like, Hey man,

what are you smiling about?

And he's like,

what?

I can't smile.

I go, No, not you.

I go,

I don't know what you're doing,

but stop smiling.

Go risk.

Don't look so happy over there.

Coletta guys.

You want everything in Phoenix.

You got,

you got all,

you got all the chip money and then Sean wins the race.

Right.

I go,

enough of the race,

enough of the smiling.

Yeah.

But he's,

they're,

they're on there.

They're getting to be a wagon right now.

So they are.

All right.

You want to pay some bills and then come back and talk about some of their

nonsense stuff.

Yes, sir.

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Hey, we're black.

We're back.

You know where we got a rocket launch going up tonight?

Yes.

I was going to add, I needed to go to the Google

to see when that was going to happen.

We got a two-hour window starting at 6.24 tonight.

Okay.

And then we're going to, if that all goes well,

I've already saw NASA say the weather looks perfect

for tonight's launch.

If all goes well, we're sitting four people around the moon.

That's awesome.

So I, speaking of going around the moon,

I went and saw that Project Hail Mary movie this past weekend.

How was that?

My, my, who saw, my mom saw it and she was like,

It was spectacular.

It's, oh, I love it.

It's the same person that wrote the Martian wrote this.

Okay.

It's not as good as the Martian.

All right.

But as a movie, it is spectacular.

The storytelling is really good.

Ryan Gosling is really good.

Just, I mean, it's over.

It's almost two hours and 40 minutes long.

Oh my God.

Did not feel like it at all.

Okay.

Totally moved along, had some really good twists and turns

and drama and.

Okay.

But it was really, really good.

I have, Ryan Gosling has been showing up on my social media feed

feed everywhere to the point where I came home from work

the other night and I was like, you know what?

I want to watch the Barbie movie.

And I watched, I'm the same way.

I think I'm going to go rewatch La La Land.

Yeah.

I watched it.

I watched the Barbie movie just for Ryan Gosling.

Yeah.

And I'm like, let's go.

La La Land was tremendous as well.

He was just kind of like a guy to me.

Yeah.

But now I'm kind of becoming a fan.

Because he's married to Eva Mendes, right?

Yes.

Or is that?

No.

Or is that?

That's it.

The other guy.

Ryan Reynolds.

Is Ryan Reynolds married to Eva Mendes?

No, Ryan Reynolds.

No, he's married to, he's married to Blake Lively.

Blake Lively.

Thank you.

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

So Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes together.

That's a power couple right there.

That is.

They are both beautiful people.

I watched Crazy Stupid Love the other day just for Ryan Gosling.

I was like, I'm on a Ryan Gosling kick.

Yeah.

You can get on those kicks.

Yeah.

Oh, here we go.

Here we go.

The next guitar.

Project Hail Mary's great.

Who from NHL would you stick to the moon?

What a great question.

That is an excellent question.

Or let's, okay, let's think about this.

The four people, like the Artemis, it's about to take off.

Right.

Four NHRA people you would want to, like if you were one of the four, what other three

NHRA people do you want to go around the moon with?

Well, beer guy says, are we leaving them there?

Excellent question as well.

Oh, come on.

I know.

All right.

Yeah.

So who do we, so this is the ultimate road trip.

Yeah.

Who do we want to be stuck in a tin can with?

Right.

For going around the moon.

Yeah.

For four or five days.

It may be six days that you got up there.

Yeah.

Because you have to take all these factors because if, if you get like a Apollo 13 type

situation and some shit goes sideways.

Right.

Yeah.

You want a technical guy like, I might take like Thomas Proc.

So that's a good call.

Yep.

I take Thomas Proc.

Yeah.

I would probably take, like I would take Joe because Joe and I could just talk about,

Joe Castelli just talked about everything.

What about Doug Coletta as a driver?

You can't have anybody because he's a pilot.

You can't have any, you can't take a John Force up there because he'll go crazy.

Oh no.

You can't take John.

You can't take Beckman.

No.

I would jettison myself out of the thing about day two.

Yes.

Here we go.

Okay.

All four.

Dell, Joe, Amanda and Doug.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's a solid.

That's a good group.

Although I think Amanda's natural proclivity for screaming to get your attention could

be a problem there.

I love her to death.

We definitely need Joe to report back on everything.

For sure, Joe.

Doug would be a good one.

Sean Langdon would be good.

Yeah, but then Sean might get cranky.

Like why did you eat my frozen hot dog?

He would get cranky.

Yeah, that would be, yeah.

Who would you want to go around the moon with?

Warren Johnson, Eric Anders, Greg Anderson.

No, that.

Okay.

First of all, that would be four go up, one comes down.

Yeah.

What about this guy?

I would take big daddy.

Yeah.

That would be 90 year old guy.

Maddie Gordon.

Yeah.

Excitement level.

The gittiness could be.

Oh my God, did you see the stars?

Did you see all the stars?

I'll just be just ricocheting around.

Yeah, that could be.

Oh, here about this one.

Selzy, Kalida, Galvin and Milliken.

Okay.

No, that would be a solid foursome right there.

That is a good group.

That would be some good storytelling right there.

How about this one?

No, see, John Forrest, Jordan Vandergriff, Doug Kalida and Joe.

No, you can't do that.

No.

Yeah.

It's force.

God bless him.

I'm not going into space with force.

Right.

I'd take Sean Langdon, Antron Brown and Courtney Anders.

You would.

You know what?

That would be a good group of people.

Yeah.

That would be.

You're going to take me?

All right.

I'm in.

Let's go.

Yeah.

I'd be like, hey, I would play tricks on people.

So yeah.

So the Artemis rocket.

So actually one of the things that came up on Joe's podcast yesterday

with Chris Cunningham, which at the end of our show,

you guys need to go check that out.

Check out Joe's interview with Chris Cunningham.

They talked about the laidback header days.

Speaking of rocket ships.

Yeah.

And that was a wild time.

So that was really cool to hear Chris talking about that whole time period.

Right.

And I mean, Joe and I were talking earlier today,

that really kind of saved drag racing.

We were in a bit of a lull there.

And you got the laidback headers.

They started, that's when funny car started making three second runs.

Right.

And it was on.

And yeah.

You know, and yes, we have a tech department.

Yes, we're trying to hit there just there to help you be safe.

But yeah, you got to do you got to shake it up.

Got innovation drag racing was built on innovation.

And I think the laidback headers.

That.

And now you don't even hear people talking about the removal of the.

Mudflats or air deflectors anymore.

Yeah.

That was the latest deal.

Yeah.

That was all that.

That's all we talked about last year was that.

Yeah.

You know, so no one's even talking about that anymore.

And then.

The race this there is some racing this weekend though.

Okay.

Spring fling.

Oh yeah.

Million dollar bracket races.

That's yeah.

Everybody should be at that.

Right.

I think it's going to go there.

I bet Shawn Langman's got to be there about Antrons kids going to be there.

I was going to say Antrons kids got to be there.

You know.

But yeah, so that's.

How do you have as they have they stroked a million dollar check yet?

I don't think so.

I think they've gotten to like 750 780.

Yeah.

But so I get the exact.

I mean, I think you have to get.

What is it?

2,500.

Is it.

For 400 entries at.

$2,500 or something.

Does that equal a million dollars?

Again.

Does that math work out again?

Live math on our show.

You keep talking.

I'm going to do math.

Yeah.

They shake and make crew and Logan.

That would be a fun.

That would be a fun trip around the moon.

Good Lord.

Oh my God.

Stevie fast.

Lyle.

Yes.

You need 400 entries at $2,500 piece.

Okay.

Two million dollars.

So.

Yeah.

But then you got buybacks and all that.

Right.

You have all those.

Listen, the buyback stuff.

I get it grassroots and everything like that.

But that just makes for a super, super long day.

Yeah.

I when I was in the motorplex, we used to have all those.

There's a guy at a Hattiesburg that did us with starting to all these big money

bracket races and stuff.

And I pitched him the idea of a.

Golden ticket for buybacks.

Okay.

Cause normally you do, you buy the buybacks and it's, you lose first round.

And then you can buy back into the second round.

Then they do it like a consulate deal for the second round.

Right.

And I was like, you should sell a like $1,000 golden buyback ticket.

That can be used anytime.

And if you need to use it, you still got it.

Yeah.

And you can only use that's your only buyback.

So, but if you like get to the final and you still have this golden ticket and

you lose in the final, you could just be like, wait a second everybody.

We're going to run this mofo again.

Could you imagine that?

That would be crazy.

But make it just so kind of cost prohibitive that, you know, it would be

the ultimate promoter money grab.

But you know, there'd be like four or five guys that would like.

Yeah.

I got that.

And then you get a sponsor for it.

And then it turns into a whole thing.

Whole thing.

But that was the golden ticket.

Yeah.

We're bad at math.

I'm good at words, bad at math.

So I just.

Now I got to do math and nothing's happening.

Yeah.

Nothing's happening.

Yeah.

Like I did the P.

I did a PDR a race in Virginia Motorsports Park.

Yeah.

I got the golden good graces.

Hey, sure.

Go ahead and do it.

And they wouldn't, uh, Evan said, Oh yeah, you go ahead and do that.

Sure.

If you want to go do it.

And then they kind of laughed.

They're like, his fool has no idea what he's getting himself into.

Yeah.

Three o'clock in the morning.

You wrap up three o'clock in the morning.

I was there at eight o'clock in the morning and we're doing buybacks.

I'm like, what in the world is going on?

I had to tell the frankings.

I go, yo, I got a flight at six a.m.

I can't be here till three o'clock in the morning.

Um, so yeah, that was, uh,

they were the loans and Evan laughed super hard at me when I came back.

I said, I ain't never doing that again.

Yeah.

Um, we, there were times where I was the motorplex for those races until like,

and it's like multiple days.

Like, yeah.

You'd be there until like two o'clock and then they'd starting in at eight.

Yeah.

And you'd be there until two o'clock and they'd starting in at eight.

I mean, I was like, when I'm working those racer guys,

they would could go and sleep for a couple hours during the day.

I couldn't.

Yeah.

Uh, Will Smith, he was like, yo, man, I don't know.

That's how I got to know Will Smith is at that race.

Cause he was doing all the marketing for PDRA.

And, uh, he was like, yeah, it's a little different than what you do it in HRA.

And I go, yep, it sure is.

So that I think that really helps guys like Sean Langdon,

like hyper focus on top fuel racing.

Cause they, with the sportsman stuff, you know, you're off for a couple hours,

then you get on, you know, then you're, and then,

but once it gets down to the money rounds,

Yeah.

It moves along in a pretty good clip.

Yes.

Thank goodness.

But, uh, yeah, they're, um, that's always good.

Um, a couple of things I've been, I've been seeing drag racing people, uh,

at the boat house, uh, getting in cars.

I had a, the Japanese family, this is the best.

I only say this is, they're Japanese, they're Japanese because the shirt that

this guy, the dad of the family was wearing.

Yep.

It was a snake and mongoose shirt, old school snake and mongoose shirt.

And I go, I go, I like your shirt.

He goes, he didn't understand what I was saying because he was Japanese

and they weren't speaking any English.

And one of the daughters spoke English.

She goes, he likes your shirt.

And I go, I know that guy.

I know the snake.

He was like, Oh, you know snake.

Uh, it was funny, but, uh, yeah.

It's awesome.

Drag racing people are showing up and showing out at these places.

I'm kind of excited.

Repping their colors.

So, um, that is wild.

That, you know, the, but the million dollar race has always kind of intrigued me.

I know Warren Evans is out there.

You can watch it online.

I think, but to me, the guy that came up with that million dollar idea.

Spectacular.

Well, I mean, you see that.

I mean, even at the pro race, you know, when, uh, when, uh, what's it?

Richard Fremont was putting up all the money.

Um, people show up late.

I could win a million dollars.

It's just, I played the lottery.

Yeah.

So I think the NHA needs to take a page from that, the pro winter series and

look at our major races.

And if you win all the majors, you get five million dollars.

That would be kind of cool.

We are going to imagine the insurance policy would be too heavy on that.

So can we, can we agree what the majors are first?

Okay.

So our NHA races majors, Gainesville, Gator nationals.

Gator nationals, uh,

And for sure the U S nationals.

U S nationals.

Definitely.

Uh, not the winner.

The season finale of Pomona.

World finals.

What's the fourth one?

And I don't know why I kind of got locked in on this too of why we think there have

to be four majors.

I mean, cause it's for golf has the majors.

Yeah.

But I, I could see it.

You could add the winter nationals maybe as a fourth major.

Okay.

But then you got to a Pomona, but it would be better if the winter nationals went

back to first race of the season.

Yeah.

What about Bristol?

I would also throw in the motorplex as a major.

Yeah.

That's a good one.

Now the stamp you a speed.

Yes.

So let's just say there are five.

Okay.

Or even if you take the motorplex out, there are the four.

Gator nationals.

Winter nationals.

U S nationals.

World finals.

Think about,

I like the fact that we're not, we don't go to Pomona twice.

You can't, I like, I like the motorplex.

Take the, take the winter nationals out.

Yeah.

So think about this.

Think about basically the countdown.

Okay.

You start the season with the Gator nationals.

You know,

maybe I would throw Norwalk in there.

I don't,

to just kind of get stuff throughout the year.

Um,

but think about your coming into the world finals and you're racing for a championship.

Yep.

But then you also have maybe one, the previous three races and then you also racing for $5

million.

I love the world championship and all the money, or you're not racing for the championship,

but you're racing for all the money.

I love this idea.

This is why we haven't done this yet.

Cause you're right.

The insurance policy.

Let's be honest.

Yeah.

Austin proc.

He could have done that last year and the year before.

But I don't know.

It's going to be that expensive.

But yeah, I think that now with his move, that's going to take that off the table.

Right.

Oh, definitely.

And even then, I don't know that he got all four of those.

Right.

But if it was on the, if it was on the table, do we do a different setup for things?

And do we do this?

I understand the first argument that's going to come out of the gate is,

well, that would overshadow the mission foods world championship.

Cause it only pays a million dollars to the two nitro classes total.

Okay.

But okay.

So WFO radio asks, what do you mean insurance policy?

So you know how this works on the, on the big ticket items like hole in one contests,

the puck through the tiny hole, half court shots, winning the Winston shoot.

You basically are paying, and even the elite million, winning those three races,

they look at all the numbers and the probabilities and who could all do this stuff.

And then you buy an insurance and so for like a million dollar, I bet, I don't know this,

but I bet for the elite million that they had the pro mod world series or the winter series for drag illustrated.

I bet they paid 50 to $75,000 to have that policy.

So that if you're paying $75,000 to potentially get a million payout,

I think it's, I think it's way less than that.

Cause I used to do this, I used to do this for, we used to do like trade show traffic builders and conventions.

Right.

And we had a money machine and they would, you'd buy a, you have a golden ticket or whatever in the money machine or you had,

you grabbed a bill and if it matched the same bill, you want a million dollars.

And so people would do that.

It was like, man, I, and they weren't doing a million for like 50,000 or whatever.

It's all a probability.

Yeah, it's all probability and it's all set up on the numbers.

But it was like 1500 bucks or something stupid like that for like 50,000.

So, I mean, yes, it gradually goes up and with the amount of people that we have,

the racers and all of that, they take into statistics, statistics on that.

Yeah.

So, yeah, you're right.

They're 75 grand though to win a million or to have the potential.

And because what you're betting on is getting to the point where you're going into a race with,

for the chance to get that money, the publicity around it will pay for itself.

1000%.

And the fact you're, you're right.

This is what goes on.

They, uh, oh, it's going to overshadow this and we don't have a spot.

Who's going to pay for it?

We need a sponsor, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah.

Listen, you want to make an announcement that will overshadow.

Hey, they just bought, uh, you know, this track and that track.

Tell them you're going to offer $5 billion if you win these four races.

You win the Grand Slam at drag racing.

Yeah.

Come on, man.

That's the.

So, we do a majors deal for Bracka Bonanza.

If you overall get the most points for the Gator Nationals, Winter Nationals and US Nationals.

Three races.

Yep.

And Katie Batera does really cool major trophy.

It's by far the most popular contest we do.

Yeah.

And it's awesome.

She makes a great trophy.

It's really cool.

I love it.

Yeah.

I think the majors, that's, that's a deal.

You know,

Yeah, but then they're like, Oh, well, who, who says the, that Gainesville is bigger than,

uh, you know, Chicago, Joliet, you know, what's going on?

You just, you just pick, you just pick them.

You know.

Yeah.

But US Nationals definitely has to be in there.

Yeah.

All right.

Can you answer, can I answer Treasurer Maze's question here?

Sure.

Here we go with Bracka Bonanza.

If you belong to a few leagues, you just fill out one part.

Yep.

That's a good question.

So you can fill out your main drag race Bracka Bonanza bracket.

And then if you're in leagues, you can go to your league page and there's a dropdown.

So you can just copy your bracket.

You only, you only have to fill it out once and copy it into all your leagues or you can

make nine million different brackets.

Some people do it both ways.

So, yeah.

So free leagues are free, playing's free.

There's a ton of good leagues out there.

WFO beer guy has a league competition plus all the leagues.

Yeah.

And if you, if I'm in one of your leagues, know this, you will beat me every single time.

Yes.

You will also beat me.

Yeah.

There's no, I was on a hot streak.

I thought I had it nailed down for pro stock and I barely cracked it.

That top thousand.

Oh yeah.

I suck at it so hard.

Um, yeah.

Oh, good job.

We got a little flex.

Let's see.

Let's see a pick of that signed plaque.

Yeah.

Show that bad boy.

Okay.

So then also all time drag strips.

It'd be tough to get to 64 drag strips, I think.

Yeah.

Now, I think I could get a table of experts together and we could maybe come up with the

64 greatest national events like as far as what happened at a national like, did you

want to be at the 2010 World Finals when force came back and beat Hagan?

Right.

That would be a great race to be at.

Do you want to be at, you know, the Bristol when Greg Anderson won the thousandth round

win or when Clay Milliken wanted Bristol?

I'll put a pin in that, but you know, where you can kind of have combination of things,

significant moments that happened, you know, but I would need, you would need to stack

two or three moments like, cause maybe just like Clay winning on my father's day.

If that was the only significant thing that may not be enough to outweigh some other things.

Okay.

Good call.

You're the expert.

Yeah.

And I get there 400 tracks, but you know, that would, we could speak, I'm not ruling that

out, you know, hit me up with your tip me up with your top drag strips and maybe a little

reasoning.

I'm here for all.

Nighthawk is all over today.

Good job.

Nighthawk.

I love it.

Very, very positive today.

Nighthawk.

Yeah.

We're happy for you.

So I'm here for your ideas.

You can hit me up on Twitter.

I'll send you my email address and I'm all about it.

So you got big Easter plans this weekend.

Yes.

Going to Wilmington, North Carolina.

Going to see, uh, going to see Nick, the Marine and his girlfriend.

Very cool.

And then my daughter and Abby, who we're all familiar with and Adam are flying out with

us and we're going to spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Wilmington hitting the farmers

markets and some bars and some foods and nice.

All that stuff.

Nice.

I have a wedding on Saturday that I have to DJ and Easter weekend wedding.

Oh, listen, I was in, I was in Isla, Marata on this past Saturday night for a wedding.

And, uh, yeah, now I got to do this wedding.

I'm like, and then I got to work on Sunday driving cars.

I don't know why I think Easter weekend seems like a weird weekend to get married.

It, I, I don't know.

I mean, it's one of those things.

I get, you know, you just, well, it's a song weekend for outdoor weddings, I guess.

Yeah.

It fluctuates.

And so you, they might have picked, Oh, we're going to get married on this day.

And they're like, Oh crap, Easter's the next day.

Um, cause you know, Easter's that weird one that just, it's never just floats around.

Yeah.

Um, but yeah, I've already, I've already eaten a plenty of, uh, Easter colored M&Ms.

Oh, okay.

What about peeps?

How do you feel about peeps?

Nope.

No peep.

No.

Oh, how are we friends?

Cause I don't love the peep.

I don't like peeps.

I don't like all the marshmallow.

I do like the, uh, the Reese's eggs.

Those are good.

Yep.

That's a lot of peanut butter though.

Yeah.

But I like it.

Um, how do you feel that?

This is something that you don't see very much is, is the peeps s'more.

Oh wow.

I've never seen that at all.

I mean, let's think about that for a second.

Here we go.

Only cotton candy peeps.

All right.

Oh, is that like a flavor of peeps or is that a, I don't know that I always just thought

peeps were just like different color sugar on the outside, but yeah.

Um, the, there's your wife still like, uh, do like, uh, Easter basket for you.

It's hit or miss.

It's, it's hit or miss.

I do love, you see all the videos on Instagram about grown people that are like,

my mom just told me she hates me.

And the first like, I, that's not what I said.

What did you say?

We're not doing Easter baskets this year.

And it's like for a 40 year old person.

So yeah, so we will probably, I was actually going to have that conversation if we're

going to like try to do some like Easter baskets.

What about Cadbury eggs?

Just the goo gets me.

Yeah.

I'm not a Cadbury.

I need, I need just, yeah, but I do, uh, we've done some very fun in our neighborhood.

We have a great neighborhood and we've done growing up Easter egg hunts where the

wives one year put a bunch of Easter eggs out for the husbands.

Right.

And it was all like fireball shots and cans of beer and just all like,

you know, we do lottery, we do scratch off lottery tickets, snap pops and things like

that.

It was very fun.

Jack and Coke is all I need in my basket.

Yeah.

That's, that's fair.

I think that's also a good basket.

That's a very good basket.

Yeah.

So yeah, I like, I like the Easter egg hunt.

I think the sweet spot for kids in the Easter egg hunt is three to five.

Yes.

My, my 15 year old, I was looking at videos the other day of the Easter egg hunts when

he's got his high school brothers in there, you know, trying to help him find the Easter

eggs.

And when he found the Easter eggs, all he cared about was be getting more Easter eggs than

his brothers.

Yeah.

Excuse me.

Also, the, also the little kids get bogged down and, you know, you put out 50 Easter

eggs and they find one egg and then they're done.

Yes.

Like, okay, I found an egg.

You're like, no, there's a lot more out there.

Yeah.

Or you forget where you hid the eggs.

Yes.

And then six months later, you're doing the lawn and you're like, you're finding it when

you're doing your weed eating.

Yes.

Not good.

No, those are.

I love it.

Yeah.

Like when you have the adult ones and you find a bottle of, you know, find a little

fireball shot.

Yeah, we found cans of beer like three days later and the guys shrubs.

So back in the day in high school, we had a, our house looked like a pizza hut.

It looked exactly like pizza hut.

And, but it wasn't painted that color, but it was a pizza.

We called the pizza hut.

So my brother and I would throw parties and people would be like, Hey, we're going to

the pizza hut.

So that's where, you know, nice.

Into my house, but we had like, it was two acres.

We had a big pool, but you couldn't, we had like maybe 10 yards of like bushes and shrubs

around.

So the neighbors couldn't see over there or whatever.

Well, we'd get like three, 400 people over my house.

We'd have to call the cops on them, you know, just so we can get about it here.

But yeah, it was just crazy.

You know, and the best part was my parents would leave town and they were missionaries,

but their mission to the Christian world was to bring other missionaries to Orlando

and they would end up staying at our house.

They said, well, my parents would leave town.

They would have missionaries staying over, but that didn't stop us because we would,

the missionaries would go hide up in the room.

What's the missionary from Norway going to do to stop you?

Yeah, exactly.

So they, and as soon as they, you know, my parents, we get home, the missionary would

tell on us and we'd get in trouble for whatever.

But the whole point of the story is, um, my mom sold the house a couple of years ago

and she had to clean out all the bushes and shrubs.

She was like out there doing stuff.

And so we, we, we would laugh and we would all start laughing.

Every time we'd find beer cans from the 80s smashed up in the bushes.

In your bushes.

40 years later.

Yeah.

And my mom's like, my kid, and he was, you know, smaller in time and he was, you know,

15, you know, he was like maybe 13, 12.

Like he goes, why are there all these beer cans back here?

And my mom would be like, cause you're stupid father and you're dumb uncle.

What do you have?

He'll, he'll you and friends would come out here and that's awesome.

I just, I mean, and I, you can see through the years of the 80s of the bud light,

keystone, light cans, Budweiser's.

Yeah.

So great.

I love it.

All right.

Are you ready to go?

I'm ready to go.

All right.

Hey, we want to, first of all, share the show.

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What else?

Enjoy Easter.

Enjoy Easter and think about who you want to go on the rocket ship to the moon with.

That's it.

Cause that's where we're going tonight.

Make sure you watch it.

You can see the right.

I'm going to watch it.

Definitely critique it next Wednesday.

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Later.

Thanks guys.

Have a great Easter buddy.

You too.

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