The Wall Chipmunk

This is, is off track.

Alright guys, so you know how my house, my house is, my house in water are, they don't like each other, right?

Yeah. Water. You guys. I've had some run-ins with water.

I've gotten real good at dealing with it.

But, uh, here is, here's battle number.

I guess this would be three.

So Kelly and I were at the mall on Sunday.

We left around, I don't know, 10 15, 10 30, got back around 1 1 30, parked the car in the garage, walk in the hall, and we hear water running.

And I'm like, oh boy. It's the worst. It's the worst sound.

I hate it so much. It's just, it's so obviously we check,

all right, there's no faucet on, there's no toilet running, whatever.

And I'm like, here we go.

So I go down into the utility room and eight is just pissing water, like, just from the, the ceiling, which is underneath.

So fortunately, utility room, unfinished un un yeah.

Concrete floor. But you can see all the exposed water lines,

electrical lines, sewer lines, everything.

And I'm like, all right. A, thank God it's fresh water.

B thank God it's in an unfinished part of the house. What?

Let's just turn the water off and figure this out.

So we turn the water off and I'm just like, this doesn't make, this doesn't make any sense.

Like it's 55 degrees.

We've gone through the coldest part of winter, like there's, we haven't had any problems.

These are pecs lines, so they don't freeze.

Like it's not copper that we're dealing with.

Like, I don't understand what, how on earth this has happened.

Well, let me, let me backtrack to Thursday or Friday.

And uh, Kelly sends me a message and she's like, I hear something in the ceiling.

And I'm like, of my office.

And I'm like, oh, <inaudible>, there's no way, because between the ceiling of her office is just the second floor of the house.

So it goes ceiling, subfloor floor. There's no crawl space.

There's no, I was like, you heard dogs running upstairs, you, but you didn't hear anything.

So anyways, back to Sunday, um, you know, I'm walking through the house, I'm like, I'm, I'm like, there's no wet wood, there's no drywall, there's no staining, there's no area where this could be an issue.

Like the toilet where this line, I'm guessing runs to is fine.

Anyways, I hear this like screaming, just high pitch, screaming the wall.

And I'm like, holy fuck. Is this a horror movie now?

No, . Like, it's just this, this wailing,

and it sounds like a fricking, it sounds like a little human is inside my wall.

And so I positive, this isn't a horror movie.

Dames knows this about me. I love a good saw on drywall.

Yes. Just you love cutting holes in dry wall.

I just went to town and chased this sound around.

And it's a on whole number, on whole number four.

Kelly's like, we're in the, we're in the hall bath still.

Kelly's sitting on the toilet number Four.

This is, I, this is my nightmare. And

I'm like, I used a stud finder and I'm like, hole number four and pop the drywall out and there's a tail.

And I'm like, like what?

Like it's, this was one like, is it, it's, you don't know what's behind there, right?

So like, it was a little bit scary.

And so this little chipmunk pops outta the wall.

And so we close, we closed the door, and now we're like, well, now what? Like, open

The door. What do you mean close the door?

No, no, no, wait. Now it's just in

Chipmunk.

I know, but like, oh No, wait, where What room?

It's in the hall bathroom. In the hall bathroom.

There's a chipmunk. Right? Okay.

And we're like, okay, now what?

So we've got him outta the wall. Now what?

So we are, we're like, we're gonna open the garage.

We open all the garage doors and we create this like barrier Barricade. Yeah.

Right. So that he, when we open the, the bathroom door,

he just runs out the hall in into freedom.

So we open the door, this mother jumps back in one of the holes of the wall, .

Well, less scary than people.

Boo . Yeah.

Now, now we're getting provolone cheese out because we now know what it's, and it's not a rat, right?

So we're trying to coax this guy out and he, um, finds the cheese.

But then in this, in this moment where we're like, oh, here, little cutie chipmunk, whatever.

Come get the cheese. The barrier came down.

So now he came out dogs? Nope, the dogs were outside.

We had tied him up outside. Okay. He ran out to the house.

So now there's just a chipmunk in the house. Perfect.

And so now we're just trying to like find where this little chippy went and ran to.

Fortunately, like he was stuck in like, he just ran to the dining room 'cause there was a bunch of windows and everything.

So we were trying to like, get him out the window.

But this, he was like spider monkey, like he was jumping from table to, to dresser, to window to, and we were like, just go outside.

Poor little guy was so wet and so scared.

And we finally got him outside and it was like, huh.

And so here's the thing.

He not only chewed through a cold water line, , poor guy chewed through a hot water line too.

So he must worked his mouth real bad.

Um, and so got a plumber out, we replaced the, we replaced the, uh, the, uh, both lines.

Turned the water back on. Everything was fine. Are are

You sure it was him chewing through the line and not you, I don't know.

Cutting your walls open that maybe nicked one No Positive.

The flooding was happening first with all the bite marks.

Yes. Okay. Alright.

He actually chewed through the lines.

Oh yeah. Dude. Like, let me here stand

you guys talk amongst yourself for a second.

I'll be right back.

I feel like he's going to retrieve the leftover lines.

That is hilarious. What is it with Alex

and water in his house?

Also, just a little note, if you're ever thinking about buying Alex Rossi's house down the road, don't, there's just gonna be patches in the walls.

patch wall. Yeah.

Unfound water damage somewhere, whether it's the basement, the top floor, the main floor.

There's just, uh, every floor now has been struck by some sort of water catastrophe.

The one thing I will give you is that he, if there's one guy that's gonna figure out how to clean all the <inaudible> up and fix it properly, it's him.

But still, I, I still wouldn't do it.

So the plumber took away the, the line.

But these, I found these little pieces all along the floor.

So he just chewed through. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Just ate it. Yeah. Yeah.

Just, okay. Anyways,

Um, so we solve the problem without harming any animals.

Good. And now down

Minus the Burnout down a super deep dive of like, how do you get in?

So I've become pretty good at understanding how sewer venting works and all these sort of things.

So I'm pretty deep in the trenches on how, on how homes, How to pest proof your homes Were built.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been on the roof a lot.

So come to, have you found, have you found the area of penetration or Yeah. Are

We still doing phrasing? I think

So.

Yeah. I have. So what I've also learned is chipmunks,

chipmunks don't get in through the roof.

Um, chipmunks are ground animals. It wasn't a squirrel.

So the, it didn't get in through the roof, even though I'm now pretty locked in on some entry points for the roof and yeah.

Ordered stuff on Amazon and I'm good to go there.

Um, I've cocked some, I've cocked some things.

Uh, so we're good on, on, on top.

I'm not gonna call phrasing on that one.

All right. When, uh, when, uh, it just,

it felt like too much at this point.

It felt intentional. I had, I had a dryer vent

that was moved and I was under the impression, so the dryer vent, it had come out the ground floor of the house and it was kind of on the back patio.

And I had it moved to a different part of the house.

So it wasn't blowing like the little lint stuff onto the back patio, onto the furniture and barbecue and, and everything.

Well, when I hadn't moved, I was told that they sealed off where that dryer vent used to exit from the inside and that they didn't fix the outside just because it was brick work and that would require a mason and all this sort of thing.

So I had looked at it kind of briefly when they had finished and it looked pretty sealed from the inside.

And yes, there was a missing brick, but like, they weren't gonna do the brick.

And I hadn't gotten around to hiring a mason to do one brick job.

Right. Well, I, I did a little bit more digging

and poking around and everything and I found that they did not seal it at all from the inside.

So he came in through the dryer vent area on the ground floor.

Got it. And then got his way into walls and was thirsty.

So, 'cause he couldn't get out , He thought he was hungry.

So he started eating this thing.

Turned out he was actually what he should have been doing if he was thirsty. And

I just hope he got the hot water first.

I feel like if he got the hot water first, he would've stopped.

Would've been like, this isn't good. This isn't fun at all.

Or maybe like, that was the wrong one.

My mouth burns. I need help. Yeah. I'm

Not sure that they've got the concept of like multiple water lines for different temperature.

I know. I've read some interesting literature about this.

It was a, a book with these, these three bears and this blonde girl shut. That's coming. Shut up. Shut

Up. .

Shut up. Anyways, Tony, this pipe was too hot.

, this was too cold.

Shut up Tim. That was my weekend .

Um, and it was, it was it, as far as things can go, this cost me 400 bucks.

So I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty thankful of all like, is this Including the drywall repairs?

Well, I can do that. Okay.

It cost me anything.

I mean, it cost me a <inaudible>, 15 bucks in drywall and some, some plastic putty and some tape. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. That's fair.

I got a little hole in my bathroom.

Can you come putty that up for me?

No problem. The problem is I don't have the paint

That Its like, I'm just gonna have to repaint the whole bathroom. I

Just do that.

No, so I've got, I've got a little machine that matches the paint.

I know they can do that. I

should probably do that. It's been there

For a minute.

No, but no, I have it. Okay. It's pretty sick actually.

So it's like this little has this little like thingy. Yeah.

You put it against the wall on it connects to your phone and it's like, boom.

That is that. And then you go

to Sherwin Williams and they're like, I need that.

And they make it in the little thing and you just, perfect.

I need like, I need like 10 mil.

Like it's the smallest little thing, but it's like a, like where some drywall, like anchors for a towel rack thing came out.

Got, I have zero need for that.

Like my apartment complex.

I can just go to leasing and they'll give me the exact like paint that everybody uses.

Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm . But, but man, I really want that .

Like I still like, I still want this tool.

Alex can bring it over next time.

And just so you can learn what it's called.

Like Yeah, we like did a reno on the, the kitchen on the main floor.

I can tell you all those. I still know the name

of all those paints because my God did, we spend way too long looking at different shades of <inaudible> white.

And I know all of them now the trim is this, the walls are that, whatever, whatever.

But this bathroom was done before my time and so I still know.

And so I need your, I need your help on that one, pal.

So when you're free, swing on by, bring some putty into your little tool and uh, and away we go.

No worries. No worries.

How was your guys' weekend now that I talked about chipmunks and drywall for 12 minutes?

As exciting as that. Mm-hmm .

Um, I mean we had a very low key weekend.

Highlighted my week weekend. I think it was dinner with you.

Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. That was on the weekend, right?

Where? Where'd you guys go? That was on,

that was on Friday.

Friday, man, that's the weekend. Those revives were good.

Like I was fine Saturday morning. Yeah.

But like those, uh, I was a little, little woozy Saturday morning.

Oh really? , you know, a bit, a little bit.

Got on the bike. I was like, uh oh

shoot, I can't talk about the bike.

Nevermind. I got up and

Was a little, Little regretful. But, uh,

Mark stopped listening a long time ago.

I don't think it's an issue. You can talk about the bike.

Um, yeah, no, I mean we played a little racketball and then we played dinner.

We're getting good. I can't So we're filming. We're gonna

Go.

Did you go to the healthplex? Yeah,

We did. We

Did. All right.

We've been a couple times the last week or so.

And um, so we've been like slowly working on our game in private.

So, and like not been playing with Bobby for a minute.

And we're playing with Bobby later today and like, Oh, I'm excitedly optimistic, Confident that we can, like, we can, we can mess him up a little bit now.

Like we're accidentally getting some really good shots in.

So We're, We're coming along.

It's coming along. Um, then dude, I think we had like,

just super lazy days 'cause like things are about to get kind of nuts travel wise.

Um, Becky leaves on Friday, I leave on Monday and it's kind of just lots of stuff going on.

You, when do you, when do you head to la Alex?

'cause you're leaving soon, right? Uh,

I don't leave till Sunday.

Oh, okay. Sunday. So Are you gonna miss the Super

Bowl?

I am going to be on an old American Airlines flight during the Super Bowl, which is very sad.

Oh, that sucks. Why didn't you plan to like land

before the game started?

This is not, I Got it.

Didn't do this. You didn't do the planning on this trip?

I could. I mean, I, I could change my flight,

but like Ed Christian, they're all flying on that flight.

I'm not gonna be that guy. Like that's whatever. Like

You're just gonna buy the direct TV link on the Dude.

It's personal thing. And so like,

I don't think they do live TV like literally every other airline does except them.

Is that right? I don't think I've ever tried to watch live

because I don't care about other sports.

I don't. If there's a race on, I'm probably at it .

So I've never had to watch live TV on a plane. I, I don't know how it

Works.

It says on select US flights.

Alex, can you adjust so your mic is pointing towards your mouth?

No. You Tim . I just, I knew

that was gonna be the reaction.

It's so funny. Oh My

God's so funny.

I didn't think that was that weird of a request.

I thought it was a pretty too thing to ask. And

Your defense, it's a completely normal thing to ask.

It is a very normal request.

It's just, I that's also normal response from him.

It's just what you're gonna get better.

Um, so much better pal.

Thanks for that . Um,

When do you get to La James?

I, I get in Monday afternoon. All right.

So, so I've gotta figure out what to do for Super Bowl because like you're outta town and no one else I know has like planned anything that I know of.

I talked, like, I asked a few other friends that they were doing anything and everyone's like, no, I don't really have plans.

Which is surprising. I don't know

if it's just 'cause nobody, I think it's Because nobody gives a about this game.

Right? Right.

It is, it is true.

Like it is, it's potentially the worst Super Bowl lineup that we could have gotten.

Like it's just because it's chief Such a bummer and Eagles.

Yeah. Yeah.

And like, didn't the Eagles win not that long ago. Also

With Nick Foles, they beat Tom Brady pretty late.

There you go. Mm.

And and Tom Brady's the only guy that's beat Mahomes in the playoffs.

And so it's much Joe Burro. It's a weird, weird Oh yeah.

Joe Burrow call. Um, but yes. Yeah, I don't know.

Interesting. Well, look, I like watching

sports history be made.

So if Chiefs win again, like three in a row, it's not something that happens very often.

And so I guess is true that that part's cool.

Um, but I'm gonna go for the cliche.

I want to see the ads.

Okay. I've seen one, you know, like they, they sort

of releasing them way early now, right?

Mm-hmm . Like that's new thing. And I saw one I the dishes

against, which was pretty, pretty funny.

Um, credit credit to them for that. But I

Very much wanna see if we get an indie car ad.

I really hope I, I think we'll that, That third ad, 'cause we know that that paddle did one as well.

And I'm excited to see if it, if it drops then.

Um, but just back to flights real quick, as this is a travel podcast.

I read this article and I, I, I wanna get your guys take on it 'cause I think it's, I have my opinion and I wanna know what your opinion is.

So this person sits down on their flight window seat, and guy sits down next to them and taps on the shoulder, speaks no English, uses a translator, um, on the phone to say, Hey, uh, my wife's in the window seat at the other side of this row.

Do you mind trading? And so they were like, yeah, fine.

No, no problem. Whatever.

And so get up and trade and like, falls asleep immediately, just like was head up against the window, went to bed, and then gets woken up to this angry guy being like, Hey, you're in my seat.

And they're like, what? No, I'm not.

And they go, yeah, are you 12 F?

And they're like, no, I'm not.

I was 12 a, but I switched with the person that was in 12 F and he goes, no.

And he shows the seat.

Turns out the, the wife was actually in the middle seat on the other side.

And so now this person has to move to the middle seat.

Let this guy take his window seat short of calling the couple and being like, like, oh no, Hey you guys, you know, your seat was wrong.

I want my seat back. And so they just copped it.

It was a two hour flight and they just copped it and sat in the middle.

But the whole debate is like, did they know?

Did they just, did they see I person outta their seat?

I feel like I, I would Probably hit seat.

I don't speak English, you know?

And so like, they're like, yeah, I could've, but it would've required calling the flight attendant to come talk to the couple who doesn't speak English and whatever.

And, and so I'm like, the, the debate is did they know what they were doing and they seat scammed them?

Or was it an honest mistake?

Do you think, do you think people are that forward thinking in their plan to scam someone out of a seat?

Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. Really?

No, I'm saying, yeah. I'm saying no.

Like I'm saying it's a lot to get Oh, No, I was saying, yeah, I'm, I feel like they're gonna, I'm gonna pretend to, I just feel like it's not a long enough flight and it's mm-hmm.

Okay. I don't care.

What, what, uh, how easy is it to see what seat you're in?

They have the little, like the diagram in the map.

There's no language required to see which one you're in. I don't know.

Dude, have you never sat in the wrong seat?

Not that I can think of. But it's like,

but the thing is, is so the, the person who was telling the story was just like, from now on, I'm just gonna check their boarding pass.

You know, if someone asked to swap, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, sure.

Let me just see your boarding pass real quick so I can see what the seat number is. And that's,

I also wouldn't do that.

I think if you got burned by it once, you probably would be more willing to do that, You know? Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, you know, seat karma, we'll see if that comes back around and bites them later.

I will say when I'm flying with Hazel, I will like go through and pick it so that I pick an aisle and a window and leave and try and leave the middle seat open, because I figure all right, middle seats are gonna be the last to fill.

And even if they do fill, whoever's in the middle is going to be willing to trade. Well, happily swap. Yeah.

You're not reinventing the wheel here, Tim.

I know. I didn't say I was. I just,

Every single human Does that travel Feel like, and true.

I feel like you would be surprised how many people don't do that.

Mm-hmm. I feel like a lot of, I, I think

because you guys fly as much as you do, like I fly more than the average person.

You guys fly way more than I do.

I feel like a lot of things you assume are standard or not could be true.

I think most people don't even go through and pick their seats.

The the thing I, so this reminds me of a story, and this is how bad Man I've, I've heard like a couple podcasts talk about like memory and how memory is just like completely fallible, right?

Like it's mm-hmm . One person's recollection

of an event can be completely different than even one person's recollection of event can alter and shift so much over time.

Whatever. Like, memories are, they lie to you.

Like they're, they're a complete joke.

I have this me, I have this story in my head.

I have no idea if it's my story or if somebody told me this story.

I'm pretty sure it's not my story, but like, I'm not a hundred percent.

But the story is that there's this couple, so same kind of thing, older couple, and they're at a, an aisle and a window and someone's in the middle, whether it was me or not, I honestly don't remember.

It can't be, it can't be me. I would remember if it was me.

Anyway, they're like, they're a couple and they're like leaning over and talking to each other kind of thing.

And whoever's in the middle is like, do one of you want to swap?

So you guys are next to each other?

And they're like, no, we, like, we're traveling for a couple months together.

Uh, we actually intentionally booked seats not next to each other on the airplane.

'cause that's our kind of like, alone time because we spend the rest of the time together and the person's like, this is your Story. You've told me this.

Well, it is my story. Okay. It

Is your story. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Amazing. I remember you telling me this. Yeah.

And I was like, I've, I've thought about that in the past being like, I could, I could take a break from, well, Look, I totally get that.

But the problem was, is they just kept talking to each other.

It's like, you guys are not, you are not accomplishing your goal here.

Please let me not be in the middle of this conversation.

Yeah. Like go to different rows

if that's what you want to do.

Yeah. You just put some innocent soul in the middle. Damn.

That's my story. Huh? That

Is your story, bro.

Oh, wow. That's, God, I'm getting old.

I've hit my head far too many times.

Less now. Less now. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Less now. Yeah. Yeah.

Uh, which is good. But yeah, I mean, I, I get that.

I think if I was on like a, you know, if you're on a three month trip traveling the world with your significant other, I could, I could.

I like playing time.

Been married for six years.

Dude. These people have been married

for a lot longer than that.

Mm. But it's like, I like to read, I like to nap.

The best is when we first started dating, we'd get on planes and like, I can fall asleep like immediately on an airplane.

And Becky used to get mad at me.

Like she would hit me when I would fall asleep.

Becky, you can't even sleep in like her bed. Like

Bed, yeah. .

She does struggle sometimes with that.

And she just, she would get mad at me.

She's like, you left me . Like I left you.

I just fell asleep. Yeah.

If she couldn't sleep, I wasn't allowed to sleep for a long time.

She's over it now. Now I'm

allowed to saw logs and it's fine.

I have a story from this weekend Hit me.

So you guys know I've been working on running mm-hmm .

And like getting up to consistently running.

But I've been doing that whole thing just on the treadmill.

And I find the treadmill so <inaudible> boring. Mm-hmm .

Like, I try to listen to music to distract myself, but then I sit there in my head and I'm thinking, okay, I'm going at this pace.

This song is this long.

The average song of this playlist is four and a half minutes long.

So I need to listen to three more songs and I'll be done with it.

Like, I just am constantly figuring out how much longer I'm on the treadmill. It drives me insane.

Real quick, how long have you been, I know you've been running for a few months now.

How long have you been a serial killer?

Uh, most of my life. Got It. Okay. Carry on.

And the rest of yours .

That's nice. Uh, so anyways, I decided, uh,

Sunday I was gonna do a 5K.

It's like I'm gonna go find a path and go outside and then just That'ss tough in la Did you have to drive to said Town?

No, I went to Pan Pacific Park. It's nearby.

I had to do like three loops of the park to do a 5K.

But you know, it was, it was fine.

And so I'm like feeling pretty good that I went out and did that.

But as soon as I walked into my apartment, I get the, like notification of my Alexa that there's an air quality alert, .

And it was like, avoid exercise outdoors.

I was like, mother fucker, I try and do one thing to be healthier. , you're,

You're the story of the guy that like goes for a jog and dies of a heart attack because he's taking it all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. So, so are you, is this just

for general health?

Are you trying, are you gonna do like a Turkey trot 5K?

Like are you trying, what do you, you know, What, what is it?

You know what? I, I was going to just do this as a surprise,

but you guys aren't gonna be there anyway.

I am training for the Indianapolis Mini Marathon. That,

That is awesome, dude. Why

Are we gonna be there?

Why are we not Leaving there? You'll be at Barber.

It's May 3rd .

That's why I Was saying I'll be in town for Rev and you guys won't be there.

That one Really don't blame us. We didn't fucking

No, I know.

But it's like, I've never gone to Rev.

And the one year I'll be in town for it. , you've never been to Rev.

I've never been To Rev. So why is there a reason why

you're flying in specifically for this Rev? Considering we're not gonna be there

Because the mini marathons that day.

Oh, oh, okay. So you're,

you're coming into town just to do the mini marathon. Yeah.

I like it. I like that. I respect that.

So, wait, that's awesome. He's a half marathon, right? Yeah.

Okay. So, okay. So, right. Have fun with that.

Here's the thing, I if you, so I, uh, it's okay.

Here we go. So we have, Hmm.

I didn't say I'm gonna do it well, Right?

Well, I mean, Kay, you've got three months beginning of February, you got February, March and April to train.

How many Ks is a half marathon? Yeah,

It's Too many. Arguably too

Many.

I mean, a 5K is 3.1 miles, right? No,

Understand. So I gotta

Add 10 miles to that.

So you gotta do four or five Ks.

Yeah. Mm. That sounds right. Like, hang on.

Yeah, about 20 k. Yeah.

Yeah. Um, yeah, that is doing this like

Week program.

That is too many in my mind.

I'm doing this like 13 week program to build up Question.

True or false? Your 13 week program was created by Chad GPT.

It was not. I went and Wow. I is actually blown away.

I know. I went and found a proper one.

So are you, are you, do you have like a trainer or No, I just call the thing.

No, I dunno. It's, it's, it's, would you say a 13 week?

Mm-hmm . Okay. Okay. It's funny.

I'm, I'm, uh, that's good, man. It's funny.

I actually, I wanna do the mini one year. I,

I just feel like if I don't have a specific goal, I'm just not gonna stick to it. Oh,

That's Fair.

That's totally fair. Yeah, I, I'm doing a,

I'm actually doing a bit of a running challenge this month myself.

I wasn't gonna say anything because in case I just didn't do it. Then I, that

Was kind of what I was thinking.

But then we have like 20 more minutes.

So it's like, right, what Else are we Gonna talk about ?

So now we're just, now we're just gonna be held accountable, which is a good thing.

I hate, I'm trying to run a hundred miles in the month of February.

Okay. And so that works.

And now I picked a bad month 'cause it's the shortest one.

So it's like three and a half miles a day is what you have to average.

And so I'm keeping track and on my little notes thing, where am I at so far?

Hmm. So today, all right, so it's fourth be 15 miles.

Yeah, I've done, well I did 4.18 the first day.

4.2, 4.25, and 4.36.

So I'm, I'm, I bought myself a day off. You're, yeah.

So that's kind of, I find I aim for about four then I, you know, I buy myself a day every kind of, you know, week or so.

So, um, but it's gonna be tough.

'cause like I said, I'm traveling soon and that's when it gets hard.

Well get home. You, Tim can go run together in la

We could actually.

That makes sense. 'cause I'm definitely not gonna get up

early enough to run before I get there.

Um, so we could do that if, as long as it's not a air quality alert day .

But, so I'm going to LA and then in somewhat racing related news, um, you Get in Monday next week, Right.

Get in Monday and then, um, do our thing in in in the Fox booth or the Fox headquarters I was telling you guys about.

And then on the next day I fly out to Detroit because have you seen the articles about how the Im Ms.

Museum is selling a bunch of their non indie 500 cars? Yep.

Um, to raise, to raise money to kind of help fund the, the, the museum going forward.

Like create a, create a, what's the word I'm looking for?

Universities have 'em Endowment, Thank you endowment.

Um, 'cause they, they've, they've, they're doing this big renovation at the, at the museum, which when it opens is gonna be spectacular.

If, if you saw it beforehand, uh, you're gonna be blown away by what's coming.

And I'm really, really excited for it.

I think it's supposed to be April this year. It opens up.

Um, and so that's, that's all been funded, but then, uh, they just want to create an endowment so that way they can, you know, have money and perpetuity to keep, you know, improving it, whatever.

So they're selling a bunch of their non Indy 500 historic sort of cars.

And one of 'em already sold, it was a, a Mercedes 1 96 W 1 96 Formula one car that's Sterling Moss drove and it went for like 51 or $52 million or something.

Right. Good deal. They're ex they're expecting the whole

lot, which I think is 11 cars to, to raise over a hundred million bucks.

And so Sotheby's does the auction and I'm actually gonna get to go out to Detroit where, uh, the remainder of the cars basically are.

And film some like, videos for Sotheby's that kind of like, help showcase the cars and talk to a historian that knows everything about 'em or whatever.

So I'm kind of like a nerd about that stuff.

And I'm super stoked to get to go out there and see some of these old, some of 'em are old race cars.

There's like the Lama winning GT 40 and there's an old Michael Schumacher Formula one car and stuff like that.

So there's some cool stuff.

I'm gonna get to go, go play around Sotheby's around.

Cool. But there ain't no Mecu there.

You freaking roll with 2001 clapped out Jeep Wrangler across the books.

Let me tell you, old Tallahassee win Kissie Kissimmee Kissimmee not Kiss.

Kissemee. Kissimmee.

I feel like it was Kissemee, but then people were just like, no, that sounds dirty.

We're just gonna call it Kissimmee.

Potentially. Yeah.

Because they were real offended when I called it kissing me.

That's interesting. It's like when it's like,

what is it when people, if you're living like San Francisco, You call it go when you called Jacob Abel.

Jake .

You know what Actually kind of reminds me of how much everybody used to make a big deal out of you being Alexander instead of Alex.

And then it was just like everybody, Well, who used to make a big deal about that?

Well, like Andretti.

So when we first did, when you and I first met, we did that video where you got into the wrong side of the car Mm-hmm .

And at the end, the end credits on it, it was supposed to say, welcome back to America, Alex.

And, and people at Dread Auto Sports.

Like it has to be Alexander. He goes by Alexander.

And it was like everybody around you made a big deal about it being Alexander.

And then finally somebody went and asked you, you're like, oh yeah, I don't give a fuck. You can call me Alex .

Why, why do I feel like, why do I feel like that's a Peter Rossie thing? ,

it's not, it's a dawn rossie thing. Um, oh

No, I, no, because Your dad calls you Alexander a lot.

Yes. Uh, maybe it's a parent thing, but he doesn't Yeah.

My family calls me Timothy. Yeah.

Right. My brother gets Christopher from my mom. I think

All of my, so all of my, my website, all of my socials, all of that, all contracts, all press releases, everything is my full name.

Right, right. But like, I don't think anyone,

aside from my mom and grandma and my dad, when he doesn't call me other things, calls me Alexander.

Yeah. Um, but but you don't

Care.

I don't know. I've never cared.

I've literally always preferred Alex.

Well, you know, look, it makes sense though for that video when you were coming to coming back to America or whatever.

Yeah, Yeah. Like you say all your socials, website, all

that stuff, if you know it makes sense.

Well, no, it's, it's a way bougie your way to say my name, so it does make sense. Yeah.

Yeah. You sound fancy as <inaudible> when you,

someone says Alexander Rossi.

Hell yeah. I feel like in the broadcast,

I feel like Townsend says it a lot.

He does. Yeah.

No, I, I I don't mind Alexander. No. Yeah, yeah.

I just, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna introduce myself as that.

Like I'm not gonna listen. You can call me both.

I don't get, I don't, again, like Tim said, I don't give a shit.

Like, it doesn't, it doesn't matter to me.

Just like how FIM doesn't care if you call him fi or big Kid.

I really don't. Yeah. I, I don't like that one as much.

Which One I prefer, not dickhead.

Oh, . Yeah. It's not my favorite. It's not my favorite.

I'm not gonna like, am I gonna answer to it?

Yeah, I mean like if you yelled dickhead out in the crowd, I'm gonna assume you're talking to me, but like, I don't love it . Right.

I really enjoyed at Rolex, we went to the Toronto Motorsport trailer.

Yeah. Um, who again has a whole new raft

of new faf gear if anybody's interested in course.com.

Uh, yeah. In Jelli.

And they still had all, like, they still sell Profi and anti Themm.

Yeah. Like pins and stickers and stuff.

Oh yeah. So he got, he made a sticker of my face

that's the exact size of the presidential portrait in on the $1 bill.

I exact your face. I'm like, that's a big ass sticker. .

Oh, it's the same, it's the same size as, as the George Washington portrait on the $1 bill in the same style.

And he puts them on $1 bills and gives them out his change.

Yes. 'cause if you do a sticker, it's not defacing, it .

Right. So he can't sell them. Right. Because that's illegal.

But he gives them out his change and then there's a nine foot wide anti thin thing on the top of the trailer.

Yes. So whenever there's a helicopter shot of the,

of any racetrack he's at, it's just there.

Mm-hmm . You. So I don't know if I love

that . Yeah, no, I'm a big fan.

I'm a big fan. It's kind of like the dickhead thing.

Like I get it , I'm not against it.

I just, you know, I'd prefer maybe something else.

I might say I'm against it.

I think that I think that might be in a, I'm against it situation.

So we had an, we had a nice chat with Jacob Abel earlier this week, if you haven't listened, tune back, uh, to the Tuesday episode, one of the rookies of, uh, the 2025 season.

Um, but it's funny, he, he kind of brought up an interesting point about how, you know, he was on the road to Indy with guys like Oliver Raku and guys like Kyle Kirkwood, who obviously have made it to the Indy car level much quicker than he did.

But it kind of got me thinking about how that's one of the unique things about racing.

And Alex you kind of touched on it in the episode, but I was trying to think of other sports where that's even possible, right?

Because like, if you're trying to play football, right?

And you go through college and you don't go into the NFL right outta college, you're probably not playing in the NFL.

Right. And it's a lot of, a lot of college sports

Are like that.

I'm gonna, you're ly right. I'm gonna give

you a sport. Well,

Golf was the one that I was gonna say, because like, you can, you can try and get your tour card every year, right?

And like, you can just hit a, hit a banger year at 28 and end up on the tour and be on the tour for 10 years.

But like, if you're not a 19-year-old phenom, you still have a chance at being a professional golfer.

You seem, again, you know way more about golf than I do.

Yes. But it just seems like something you can get

better at and keep going.

Like the, the system doesn't leave you behind.

Right? Yes.

You're probably absolutely right in that regard. I don't know.

Now racing, you're not gonna rock up to in car at 29, but like Right.

That's true. That's true. You could do

It at 24 or you could do it at 18.

You know, you got a window.

You're absolutely right. It's, it is

so incredibly difficult though to accomplish that because you have to shoot, like what you have to score in like competition, like you would've been a pro golfer already, I think is kind of the, the, the reason why. But can't

You like just be on the, like it's possible and then you have just like a banger ear and that's enough to tip it over.

I'm not saying you're like a, you're like a, you know, golfer and then like one day you just figure it out, I suppose.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I suppose you're not gonna, well, what, what you gonna say?

You're not Well, I was gonna say bobsledding.

So I don't know if this is No, and the reason I, the reason I went there is because I don't know if this is public knowledge.

He might get really mad at me for sharing this, but he hasn't told me not to.

So I'm, I'll talk about it.

Spencer Pickett is currently training with the United States Olympic Bob Sledding team.

No. <inaudible>, No. Still like,

Well, Simone de Silvestro did it.

Right? She like pivoted.

Oh, and, and yeah, she did for Switzerland. Okay.

She was like trained to be in bobsled skeleton or something. Insane.

All right, well there you go.

So like, that's a sport that you could get a gold medal in with having no prior history and just deciding, yo, this sounds cool. I'm gonna go do it. Fair.

I, I know we've gotten d in the past, but I'm gonna reiterate Yeah.

I think currently, I think you could pick that up pretty quick.

Yeah. Fair. Yeah. Fair. I see.

I was gonna, I was about to, I was about to throw a caveat in there for bobsledding, which It is not a professional sport technically.

Yeah. It's like, like where do you, like if, is there,

first of all, is there a difference between an Olympic sport and a professional sport, right?

Like, are there some that only qualify as one and not the other?

Like is there a professional Yes, there a difference?

Biathlon League? No, there's not, right?

There's like Olympic difference. Difference.

There's a difference. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't think, I don't know, maybe there's like a pro bobsled tour that I know nothing about.

I'm not sure. There's definitely pro curling,

but it's not like, I don't know, it's not like one of the big six or whatever, you know?

I mean, there's pro, there's, I mean there's the World Cup for downhill skiing.

Like that's a real professional sport.

But you're also not gonna get into the World Cup at 28, so, right.

Like, you kind of, Yeah, no, I mean, I think, I think golf is, even tennis is a interesting shout.

Yeah. Like tennis is even hard to get into

after a certain point, right?

Yeah. I know. You see some cases

where someone wins their way into like a major or whatever, but I'm just googling oldest, Oldest player to get their tour card in the PGA Get first time. Yeah. Tour card.

And again, I'm saying these terms like Tour cards, if I know what, 47 years old, Boom.

There you go. You're right.

Your dream is never dead for golfers. That

Was a good, that was a good shout.

Hmm. Thank you.

Racing's like, not quite there, but it's better than like football, basketball, hockey, whatever, like, you know.

Yeah. Yeah. Very interesting.

Well, all right, now what do we talk about for the, the last five minutes of this wonderful episode of Off Track with Hiti?

Well, um, Tim, you're muted. We can wrap it up now.

We're at 40 minutes Now Real quick.

'cause racing. So look, racing started with the Rolex.

Now NASCAR racing has kind of started with their exhibition race, the Clash. Uh, did you

Watch any of it?

So two series have started before us, even though they ended after us.

Yes. Yes.

Now when you start before F1, F1 did go three months later than us, but this some point not the point.

You're missing the point. Did you watch any of The Clash?

No. Got it, got it, got it, got it.

Um, it was actually not, not, not, not entertaining.

I don't know why they took it away from the Coliseum.

The Coliseum was, seemed like a, like a cool venue to do that.

But this was like Bowman Gray or whatever, some old school flat track, late pro modified place.

I don't know. Um, the kind

of only notable things like really, really, really small track, tough to pass.

And Ryan Blaney, like by Alex Ryan Blaney started last and finished second.

So that was impressive from your cap champion.

Um, but yeah, I'm just excited because racing now is like going right?

Like we're, we're going. Yeah.

We've got Super Bowl this weekend, weekend after is Daytona 500, you know, we say we already had re Rolex, then we got St.

Pete coming, we got Australia coming, we got Sebring coming.

Like once we get to the beginning of March, we're just rolling and I just cannot wait.

Like even . So on Sunday

when the Clash was playing, I turned it on.

Welcome back Alex. And I was like,

like kind of glued to the tv.

Sorry. I dunno what happened.

That's right. And Becky was like, man,

I didn't know you were like this passionate about nascar.

I was like, babe, I just need racing.

Like, I, there's racing on tv , I'm just, I'm glued to anything Four wheel motorsport right now.

If, if it's on, I'm there.

So it's, I was, I'm just in that like twitchy phase of the year where it's just time to, time to go, time to Go.

It's time to, dude, we're so close.

I mean, we are literally, we're so close.

We're in Sebring in 11 days, like next week's episode, we can literally talk about like next week we're driving race cars, the preseason, we're driving Indy cars.

Yeah. So it's, um, it's the season.

The off season's almost over.

It was 65 degrees in Indiana yesterday.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel.

We're getting close to everyone.

We're getting very close. It's all kicking off soon. Um,

It's warm enough that there's chipmunks out and then in chipmunks Just chewing water pipes left, right, and center and yeah, like I, I was thinking, I was like, man, that chipmunk was soaking wet and you send 'em outside to just what?

Freeze to death. Beautiful day. Nope. It was a balmy 65.

He was having a great time. Beautiful day.

Yeah. He was just tanning. He was just, you know,

drying off in the sun.

Yeah. Wouldn't the,

wouldn't it be ironic if you got him out in, in the backyard and then like one of the dogs came back window , it's like six minutes later with a dead Jim hug in his mouth.

It's the circle of right .

Well, like, I would've, I would've, I am just so thankful it wasn't a rat the whole time.

I was thinking it was a rat. It was gonna be this disgusting

little fricking creature. Jim

Monks are just fluffy rats, right?

I mean, it's the same family. They're so family.

I mean, they're, they're cute little guys.

They're just little cheapies.

No, I mean, I'm not little rabies carry.

Little, little fluffy, little cliches.

Gross. Okay, we've gone too far.

Uh, thanks for listening, . We'll see you next week.

Maybe we'll have Dale Coin. Who knows.

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