LA Fires and a Season Starting

This is off track. Hello and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to another episode of Off Track with Hinch and Rossi. Uh, yeah, this is a Thursday episode, so we're both here. Um, amazing. Great to see you guys. How was your Wednesday that you haven't had yet? I don't know. I don't know.

I had an interesting last week.

What'd you do? Why? What happened there?

it. Dude, this has been nuts. This is, this is the craziest wildfires I think we've had, at least since I've been here.

Well, I think like historically and statistically they're the worst. Yeah. That's ever happened. I mean, it's, it's unbelievable what's happening over there. And I'm still a little mad at you that you're still there, but, um, I'm good

Now. Air quality's like 30 on in the a QI. Yeah. Although it's supposed to get windy again today,

So Yeah. I just kind of meant in general, you should probably leave.

I'm working on it. I'm working on it.

Yeah. Yeah. That sounds good. Uh, obviously, yeah. I mean, this may have been touched on on the Tuesday episode, but, um, I, I don't know. I don't know what to say. I mean, just thoughts with everyone out there that's dealing with everything. It's insane. Um, I really hope that the stories that like some of this is manmade is not true because that would be very upsetting.

I don't know. I don't want to, I don't wanna be like the, the podcast that, that like spread conspiracy theories. 'cause I feel like there's enough of those. Quite

A few, 'cause like the one that started near me, the Runyon Canyon one. Yeah. Like, there's no power lines there. There's not, it wasn't windy when that one started. Yeah. Like, it just, it wasn't near any other fire where any embers would've Hit it. That one got contained quick and didn't really damage any like, proper

Right.

ITT windy. Right. So yeah, fine. If that one was, I hope that guy, you know, is in jail for the

Rest of his life. But, and I think they arrested somebody that started one in the valley.

That's just who would do, like, what are you thinking? What is wrong with people?

Yeah. It's

Dude, I'm, I'm with her. I'm with you. Yeah. Every

Day Alex gets a little, a little more right in my mind.

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Thanks, Bob. Um, yeah, no, I mean, it's, it, uh, it's, it's horrible. Like, I, I mean, I think we all have friends out there. Um, you know, obviously in the racing world, we've seen what's gone on with Townsend. Um, it's just, it's, it's, it's so sad. Like, I don't, there's no, there's no other explanation for it. Like, I, I guess the only, the only thing is that, you know, ultimately with modern day firefighting, like, even though it's not contained, it is in a way controlled.

I wonder, you can't So on, on, on the Pacific Coast Highway, you know, all those houses that like right up on the beach, like those are gone. They just, oh, they're gone. Those are, I, I wonder if they're going to rebuild those or if the state's gonna eminent domain that and just be like, no, you know what, let's expand the beach a little bit. Like, I don't know. It's,

It's tough to know. I mean, I read an article about this guy. They, he bought a property like 20, like $19 million, put another aid into it, renovating it, and was gonna flip it for like, he was gonna list it for like 40 million. Beautiful spot. You know, like, unbelievably like Italian mar like, just did everything right. It's an insane rental on this place. Burned to the ground.

It's like fair act or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Which is super going to be in solvent. Like there

Oh, there's, yeah. There's no way he is getting even that. But it's like he spent $27 million on this property and he can't even sell the land. The land's useless. 'cause there's now, there's no infrastructure around. There's no, as he said, there's no grocery stores around, there's no restaurants around. Everything's just gone. So, yeah, I don't know.

I was thinking about that. Like, it would almost like, obviously it's, it's awful for the people who lost their houses, but then you see the videos of like a neighborhood where there's one house left that's just like miraculously untouched. Imagine living there, like you're going to be around just demolition for years. Yeah. And then construction for years. And there's not, like you said, there's no, there's not gonna be any infrastructure. It's, it's awful. The,

I will be very interested, just getting back to your point about rebuilding on the beach, because I have friends that live in, um, Laguna Beach and they're on, they're on the hill, right. But they also have this, their own private, almost like tram that goes down to an A-frame that's on the beach. And there's like, there's under 10 of these that are still existing, but they've been that

Thing just quintupled in value.

Yeah. Been grandfathered in. Right. This

Is way, this is way south. But my point is, in order for them even to like, redo the bathroom, there's no construction allowed because California Oh yeah. Wants those to like, fall apart and disappear. So like, middle of the night they're doing, they're getting construction workers to come in and sneak down the tram and with like, headlamp, redo this bathroom. Right. And there's a-frame house. So like, there's laws in place about how you can't build on the beach mm-hmm .

Replace the beaches in California are public. They're, they're, they're meant to be for everybody. So like Right. Those are grandfathered in, but yes, you're right. California very much doesn't want those to be around anymore. .

Wow. a new podcast. I, we are podcast, a travel podcast. So I, um, was in New York over the weekend. I took Becky there for her birthday, surprised her with a little weekend trip, saw some shows, ate some food, great time. But what I wanted, what I wanted to touch on as a travel podcast was when you travel as much as we do, right. You often travel alone and you have your system. You have Exactly. You know. Exactly. Everything's mapped out.

Yeah, no, you definitely have to. Well, first of

All, I Hazel PEA's less than Becky. I promise you.

I have to check a bag when traveling with Hazel.

Yeah. That's that

Bad boy. But it clothes are

Very small. Yeah. Well,

But there's a lot of 'em and it's, I don't know it, I guess it started when we would travel with the car seat, so probably wouldn't mean anymore. Yeah.

When she was I don't know, I'm going through with her in the airport. I want to have less stuff. I wanna have less of a footprint. 'cause it's like you said too, like, we're gonna be going to the bathroom, we're gonna be doing stuff a lot more. I don't know, it's just part of, it's actually almost comforting. 'cause it's just like, I'm not in a hurry, I'm not in a rush. I'm going to get here early. I'm going to accept that everything's gonna take a longer time.

Yeah. with another human and it's not, you know, Becky's a good traveler. Like if it was a bad traveler or a non-experienced traveler, I just feel like he would be infinitely more disruptive to your natural program. So speaking of Hazel, just traveling with her, but, uh, not a travel story, but, uh, we had her birthday party over the weekend. 'cause her birthday's New Year's Eve, so we're back in Indiana for that. So she didn't get to do anything with her friends.

I'm still mad. We haven't done that after the race in Toronto yet.

I know. And that's what, that's what got me thinking about it. 'cause we always talk about Medieval times one, it was a blast. It was my first time going there, but, uh, I was there with six, 10 and 11-year-old girls for this birthday party. And you know, like you are rooting on the night based on what section you're in.

Yeah. There's like colored sections. Yeah. And then there's a night for each color and you cheer for that night.

So we were in the Red Night section

Obviously 'cause Canada rules.

It became very clear. Uh, sure. It became very clear early on that the Red Knight was like the bad guy of the story. Like he would be cheating and, and doing things. And rather than, I don't know, there, there's something about like being a sports fan that, that I guess clicked in these girls' heads, but with the complete arbitrary thing of we were just sitting in this person's section, they overlooked anything that he did cheating.

. Just

Immediately their loyalty was unwavering to this Red Knight. Wow.

Like for nothing other than they sat in his section that we

Were in this section. Which again, like I'm a Cults fan 'cause I was born in Indiana. So like, is that any less

? Yeah. No, I did wanna touch back on that. 'cause you said as a sports fan, and I was just like, sorry, who are we talking about? What sports are

You fan? I in

General where you're, you're even like racing.

I meant more on the abstract. Like Got it. Where people like let a group of athletes dictate how their mood is going to be for the rest of the day. every

Week. Dude, my, my, so as we've, we've talked about not a big college sports guy. The, if I were to cheer for a college football team, it's Alabama. Because in 2009 I was racing in Barber and a friend of my dad's came up to me who lived in Birmingham and was like, if someone asks you Auburn or Alabama, what do you say? And I stared back at him and I said, sir, I'm not sure if Auburn's estate, I've never heard of or Alabama's a color. I don't know, but I'm not sure what you're talking about.

So, quick question. Who was Alabama's head coach?

Nick Saban. Thank God, if you didn't get that right, I was gonna be so upset. Please ask me No follow up questions. Let's move on. ,

I know nothing else other than they're pretty good. And Nick say Alabama's like this.

They, they won a lot those first couple years after that happened. So I was like, all right, this, this guy knows. Yeah. Yeah. This is great. I love this.

Interesting. my fit today was not because we were recording, I just was wearing this. I'm like, this is legitimately one of the most comfortable I Own. Must be nice. Must be nice that you have one

Dude, we have a store. Just go buy one.

You you didn't buy that I also paid to set up the store before this podcast made any money. Everything came outta my account and we all got samples of stuff at some time that I just had to pay for. I think Tim actually paid for some stuff at some point

? Yeah. I paid for my samples. I didn't feel right taking it from, Hmm.

Yeah. Sure. Thanks. I'll, I'll, yeah, I'll dip it into the corporate account and and buy you some socks. So,

So I honestly didn't know he had a, um, store. So I'm on it right now.

Yes, you did. You've helped us like design clothes before.

Right? I thought those were just sold at the track. I didn't know he had an actual online store. Oh yeah.

It's hilarious about that to me is they're not sold at the track.

We've never sold anything. Like

You got every part of that incorrect .

Were these, did we pay people to wear these or is this just Photoshop

Of people? No, it's like, it's the, the models that the site Yeah, this is Photoshop. Yeah,

You just go to shop do offtrack.com.

I went to our website and then it hit shop. So I was like, I don't know any of these people. So did we pay them or Look,

I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna lie to you guys. It's not the highest. Like it doesn't, it's not like the most expensive hoodie. It's not the highest like quality, like the,

It's really comfortable though. I was wearing,

But it's the most comfortable, it's the softest, like just most everyday hoodie. Interesting.

I'm actually curious about, it's about a website. Does it still say you both drive for and ready? .

It doesn't say anything. Our website is

Just our, we should update that. That's gonna be our resolution for 2025. Is Tim's gonna do more work on the shop?

I don't even think I have access to that website. ,

Isn't it? And if you don't have access to it, you have access to the website.

Well, the last episode that was posted was August 22nd, 2024.

Oh, okay. That's more recently than I thought. And definitely in a time that Tim should know,

But also recently than I thought.

I thought you were gonna say like 2022.

But then one of the pin nail, like I am the only pinned person on here, me and Marco, which is

Oh no, no. If on the about Us. Okay. Alex, you're still in your McLaren gear, so we should probably

Change that. I mean it's, you know, that's a relatively recent change. Yeah.

Okay. Huh what a top class operation this is. Um, should we talk about some racing stuff? Well,

There is racing news. Um, yeah,

The roars coming up.

No, there's only one Indy car seat left guys. And like, I think this is a world record for bail announcing a driver.

Wait, who got announced? When? Oh, that's, oh, that's why you text me that.

Wow. James some Fox reporter. You are

So again. No, wait by now. I now

You'll be by now.

I'll wait by now. Oh, was that, did that happen while we were recording the last show?

Doesn't matter. Are you,

Because I checked last night. I checked morning reporter, I checked this morning and there was no,

Everyone knows that I carry the show, but you're just, now you're

Just Really show at our professionalism today in all know. I I know, but you didn't know about the store. I messed up the site. Like we're just, it's just a mess. It's just a terrific

Whatever.

Alright. It's all right. I'm gonna start recording now.

So back, back to what I, back to what I was saying. World record for Dale Coyne having a driver's announcement and uh, congratulations to Jacob Abel. And it's down to one guys. There's only one left.

And what's also important is that it's a, it's a full-time role. Excuse me for Jacob. This is not like, uh, he's doing four races or he is doing the first six or he is doing the 500 and

The GB four road courses only. Yeah,

Right. This is a full season, uh, for Jacob. Congrats to him. Been running well in, uh, next, for the last few seasons, battling for championships, winning races. Uh, there was a lot of talk around him even last year when there was kind of that rotating door at coin about him doing a race or two or something. But, uh, great for him to get that. And as you say, Alex down to one, which is impressive because again, there's 27 this year. It's a lot of cars, it's a lot of seats.

The other, the other thing that uh, happened this week was Prema um, kind of launch their team and their livery and all that sort of thing, which, um, you know, looked real pretty on the internet and stuff. But I think the main talking point to come outta that was they're employing a strategy of having a reserve driver. Yeah. Um, which is, uh, Rojan. So what do we think of, what do we think of that? Because reserve drivers are a very common thing in Europe.

Well, yeah. 'cause the, as I understood it, the previous system was just Connor Daley traveling to races. He wasn't racing

In with a helmet. He's just every team.

Yeah. Reserve, reserve driver.

But Because I, I guess Sage could start going to races that he is not in again with a helmet. But short of that, you know, So, so this is what's, this is what's interesting because again, IndyCar's always kind of operated under this, well, there's always one or two guys available that are kind of there, right? Obviously Connor's done it for a bit. Um, you know, like Jack Harvey doesn't have a full season this year, but he'd be a guy that'd be roaming around and would be willing to sub in.

You think so, because I imagine

He's, he like five different teams.

I would imagine he's like an employee,

Right? So is the, is the benefit, like you have a guaranteed salary and I imagine there are some, maybe, maybe there's some sim work involved. Um, 'cause you gotta remember you've got on that team, Cal Milot, Robert Schwarzman, Schwartzman's, a rookie, never done an IndyCar race, never been on an oval as far as I know. Um, Callum's got his two-ish years, uh, in the series. So still pretty young.

But, but you say all that and Sure. But then they also hired a Ryan Briscoe, right? It seems that, you know, Dario, but Bris my

Mind, Brisco's like, no Briscoe's, like, he's like tk, I think Briscoe's like, no, not team manager, but he's not the boss. No, but he's like sporting director. He's got like a real job. Right. I don't think, I don't think he's like the, not saying Dario's job isn't real, but like, I don't think he's the, the driver advisor role, but that could be something more like what Han's got. Hmm. I think, I think, I think Brisco's like a white shirt. Like he's, he's part of management I believe. Hmm.

I don't think there is.

I don't know, man, it's been a minute

From the beginning. I mean, Brian heard Autosport, I guess.

Yeah, that was one. I mean even Schmidt, Sam Schmidt Motorsports right. Started as a one car, 500 only effort. Right. And went full-time racing in I think 2012 for the first time. Okay. 10 years after their first 500 kind of thing. And obviously has grown into what it has. But like again, that's after, which is

No longer Sam Schmidt Mike Mike Shank, right. Mike Shank, he did a partial season. He started with one race, then it was three races, then it was five races, then had his own team then it was a two car team. So he's kind of done it over. But like for someone to come in, their very first race is gonna be the first race of a full season with two cars. Like that's big. But I think, but I think the huge, the huge differentiating factor between the MSR example is Prema is doing it without help.

Have a technical alliance.

MSR went in with, you know, a technical partnership. You know, you, you've seen teams for the 500 go in with technical alliances with people like doing the one-off entries. Um, you know, able Motorsport kind of did that and, and had some help from, from DCR. So it's wild. I mean it's, it's a huge challenge in front of them. I, I don't know, I was talking about this actually with Tony, uh, 'cause I was with him over the weekend. It was like, I, are they staffed up?

And they are building a shop, like it's doing all these things

And everything's from, from new.

And look, you are, you are the best seated to talk about how, 'cause everyone's like, oh, well they're really well funded and you know, they're gonna come in and be quick right away. Like, I've had this debate with, um, somebody European based that has seen what they've accomplished over in Europe. Like, oh, these guys are gonna bring everything to the next level and they're gonna, they've got this, all this money behind them and all this stuff, blah, blah, blah. And I was just like, cool story.

Learned in my life to never say no to saying no to racing. Um,

Never say no to saying no to racing,

Never say no to saying no to racing. So don't say no to racing.

Right. Got it. I Okay. No, it's never saying yes to saying no. That would be

Worrying. Never, never say no

To say no. You could've just

Said, never said. You could've just said never say no or never say never. I don't know. It was dumb. I didn't like it.

I'm pretty sure what you said was wrong, but we know what you mean. Um, okay. Never.

So don't say no no to saying no.

So in that instance you're Willing to say no, right? like

Yes.

Can always Listen, always saying to no racing My brain hurts. So, which

Okay, he's both wrong but also more accurate for what he probably really feels right. Like I feel like Alex is always willing to say no to things.

Okay. Alex, you are not going to bed at night dreaming of doing the dakkar, but if somebody called you up one day with the right opportunity, you'd entertain the thought. Yeah. Perfect. Do you think they have to put guns in the trucks in Dakkar, ?

No. So I'm less interested in me

Less interested. There's not a petty cash fund and then revolver. So care a little bit less. Ow. Okay. Well then I have no idea what to, I, I don't follow either. So I don't know know how that's going, but I hope it's going well. Cool. Sweet. Yeah. Um, one thing I do wanna bring up, you guys aren't gonna care about this at all, but I just need to say it. So I went on a podcast, the Red Flags podcast, I dunno, a couple weeks ago. And

Did you promote this podcast?

I didn't as much as I should have. Hmm.

Seems to be a theme with you.

Yeah, with just me. Did you tell all of Kissame Florida about offtrack?

I wasn't a podcast. It's not when you, what you did a house tour? Did you tell, did you be like, oh, this would be the room that I would sit and listen to offtrack with in generosity or this is the room that I'm gonna record in the next episode of Hof Track with Hin Rossi one. I've Never listened to off track with Hin Rossi. So why would I lie? I tell you, I'm just, why would I lie to my listeners about

, that's fair. You're nothing if not honest to your listeners. Um, anyway, so on it, they brought up the wait. Is he

Nothing if not honest, or is he nothing

If not not, he's never, not nothing about never not being, not honest.

Never say that. I'm not honest. Not honest. Yes, exactly.

So they brought up the whole max for Stepin, Kyle Larson debate.

Oh boy. I know we've talked about, but if we talked about it on here. I think so. I think so. And it was like, my, my point on it was, it was silly because if you take the five top forms of motorsport in the world, call it a high downforce open wheel car, whether it's IndyCar or F1, a stock car, a prototype sports car, a GT sports car, and a rally car. And let's call those the five best or the five kind of top motorsport, four wheeled motorsports out there.

No, I'm just annoyed that they would.

I mean, you are the media. I

Know. That's why it's worse. Like, I wouldn't, one of my people does something ugly. Yeah. I'm like, ew, gross. You're giving us all a bad thing.

So you understand where I'm coming from

About what Nope, we're great. Um, on that note, on that note, Fox drop their first commercial of IndyCar. Guys, if you haven't seen it yet, if you haven't seen it, uh, at font IndyCar font,

My favorite was the semen

Actually , I thought your question favorite would've been Tom Brady being out. Well,

Okay, that's what I was gonna get to. Are you upset that Tom Brady was in an ad for a different driver?

No, I'm thrilled that Tom Brady is even knows what IndyCar is.

Has heard of Indy car. Okay, , I was just curious.

Like absolutely not. I, yeah, let's talk about that. Yeah, I, um, I, listen, I don't know, obviously one commercial with Joseph, one commercial with Pata, one commercial with Alex Below. That's not, that's not the solution to our problems. Um, but I do think that what the, the framework that Fox is putting down in order to make this a success is just unbelievable.

It's the tone, right? Like it's right. They, it's, yes. This one commercial does not change the outcome of the IndyCar series, but it shows what Fox's position is on this property that they now control. And, and I love the position and I think everybody does. The commercial was hilarious. Your favorite part was the semen. Okay. Um, and just for the record, we're not gonna clarify or give any of this context. If you haven't seen the commercial, that's your fault.

Polo's? Paolo's cameo.

Oh, Palolo Polos came. Cameo drop was so good. My kid hated it. Yeah, so good. Joseph with quite possibly the strongest. John Sports. Tom Brady. I mean, he's not that handsome. He's not that handsome. . But see, it's, it was clever. It was clever. The tone was right. It was funny. Um, and like you say, like leveraging their other properties, the fact that Tom works for Fox, they got him on that. Hallelujah. Absolutely incredible. Loved it. Um, so yeah, I'm, I'm, I can't wait for the palolo one.

Florida was great, James. Um, thanks for asking. It was a little bit colder than I would've liked or expected. Okay. But, um, that's fine. You

Still went swimming?

Uh, well, , yes. I got Go,

Go, go look at Alex's like video on his Instagram if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, yeah. Um, so I, I went down there as a part of, um, kind of a, uh, what would you call it? A social campaign, media promotion campaign for, uh, the city of Kissimmee, Florida. Uh, it took me forever to figure out how to pronounce that correctly.

Yeah. Kissimmee, not Kissemee.

Correct. Kissimmee not Kiss. Um, and what their, their main kind of attraction, if you will, I don't know if you call it an attraction, but their main draw, um, for tourists is the Mecca Auctions. It, it's grown into where you want to be if you are an owner of a supercar or a collector's car and you're looking to move it. Because, um, 10 years ago they started as kind of a, a small little auction that happened in Indianapolis. And now they are nationwide.

And basketball Hit to basketball. The house was insane that you guys stayed at

It was pretty ridiculous. Yeah, because

That was all part of it, right? Like that's a rental property, I guess, or Sure

Is. Yeah, it was good times, man. Good times.

Yeah. Go check out, uh, Alex's MTV crib style tour of the house. You realize that that was with no off track. Shout out. Not a single one. Not a single one. Not a single one. Um, that was a, that was an incredible decision. Uh, that was a incredible artistic decision to do a house tour Rapid fire, the way that you did it. Mm-hmm . Um, I, I, my fear for you is the, the furor that it's created on the internet is going to require you to do more videos in this sped up style. Um,

And listen, I can't wait. That gets me done with it quicker, so that might be my new thing. Um,

Yeah. But if it's creating, I might start doing more videos that you have to do because people want to see them.

I might start doing podcasts like that.

How just speaks in times two fine. . Wait, is your name two for X two?

Yeah. Two for times? Two.

You in words. Last week I was named Twofold. 'cause we were doing two episodes in one recording and we did that again this week. It makes perfect sense. That's actually Fair. That's actually fair.

So, um, if you're listening to this media Day's Over, but it hasn't happened yet. Oh God.

God, don't, you're remind me that I have to do that tomorrow. Can't

Wait to see you there tomorrow. . Well

Here's, here's, here's my fear and I, it's actually not a fear. Here's my, uh, realization. Um, the people at NBC, they all got, they all knew me and got to know me. Um, so they were very understanding and patient and also found it comical because we all found common ground. Right. You know? Yes. When they would ask me to do stupid <inaudible>, I'd say no. They'd be like, ha ha please. I'd still say no and it'd be fine.

Not, you're not gonna not be Alex.

Right. version of that Joseph commercial is what I'm hearing mean.

It'd be a very different vibe.

Like you're not gonna, you're not gonna agree to do that. He

Agreed to do a commercial, but it would have to be a very different commercial script.

Yeah,

More sperm.

Yeah. He's never gonna, not, never, not, not never do a

. No. But do you know what I'm saying James? No, I

Know exactly what you're saying. And now that like, here's the thing. I have the ability to warn them and I'm not gonna do that.

Oh, to see the collective meltdown. I wanna see who melts down first. The poor like producer that's down there having to ask you the questions or ask you to do stuff or you, and just like, steam comes outta your ears and you throw 'em outta the room. ask a stupid question. Give a stupid answer. That's my, it's, that's my,

Alright, maybe I'll brief him a little bit. Either way. I just wanna be in the room when it happens. . Um, 'cause it's gonna be gonna be great. Gonna be great for the rest of us.

No. So I, yeah, anyways, it'll be that. It'll be, it'll be a thing, um, exciting to as much as I despise it. Um, it's a long day. It's uh, it's also like the first day of school back, right? Like it's, yeah, it means the season's around the corner. It means this off season that has gone on for months is slowly coming to an end. Um, and so it's, it's cool. It's cool to see everyone. Um, you know, a lot of people have had big life moments, um, since I saw them last

And kids and wedding and what

Have you. Kids and marriages and all that sort of thing. So pretty printers. It's, it's nice to catch up with everyone. Um, and it's just nice to put on a race suit with your new colors. Even if you're with the same team. It's usually new colors and just get excited about the year coming up. So yeah, that's my positive spin on it.

Love. That should be good. And then you take off for vacation. I'm gonna head down to Daytona and go Roar. Um, my new faf, Lambo livery was unveiled this week and it looks awesome. Plaid is back. Maybe

I wasn't, I missed that. I was too busy getting IndyCar news.

The Lamborghini. Yeah, sure. So yeah, excited to get down there. Is it PA

Still?

It's still PA. Looks a lot like the old

P Porsche. It actually, I will, I will say the Lamborghini carries the plaid much better than the Porsche

That it's, I I agree. I think that's, uh,

Like I Yeah. Like the Porsche, I, I liked delivery on the Porsche because it was, it was their identity. It was unique. Yeah. But like in terms of oh that car is beautiful or not, like it was never on the beautiful scale,

How it fit the lines of the car or whatever. Yeah.

Right. I think this actually looks very good.

Yeah. It's 'cause the Porsche is very round. There's a lot of curved edges where it's like the Lambo iss a lot more angular. And so when you've got a checkered pattern, I think it probably fits better. Yeah. Yeah. Um, so yeah, hope it's fast. I also hope it's fast. I hope

It runs for 24 hours.

Also hope it runs fast for 24 hours. Yes. Um, it's gonna be fun racing. Uh, T Bell who got that last minute call up to join the Lexus program again. So he and I are gonna be battling on track again as is Parker Kligerman, who's also racing a Lamborghini. Um, but it's funny because,

Are you so happy? I'm sorry that you get to do Daytona and not have to go to an NBC booth.

So I'm also working for NBC, um, , um, for Daytona with Parker and t be, so we have this fun little side thing going on where three of their, it's my kid

For interrupting. Yeah.

Yeah. It's literally the next thing I was gonna say . So, uh, so yes. Um, luckily still gotta be part of that. And uh, yeah, we were lucky we were, we were literally on a, on a phone call or a text chain trying to figure out if we could find a way to get radios that talks to each other so that way we could still yell at each other during the race. I don't think that's gonna happen. Um, but yeah. Okay.

Gimme So is that,

Is So I It is, it is not. Um, why the lovely people at Fox have afforded me the freedom to explore other avenues. Um, you know, indie car, anything, indie car is all Fox all the time. But Fox don't do sports cars, Fox don't do Formula One. So it's still affords me the opportunity to go, um, you know, get more reps doing other stuff and learn more working for other networks and hopefully it just makes you a better broadcaster all around.