SPEAKER_00 0:00

I had mentioned this, but I'll say it again. We're gonna be on and off with the rain and possibly storms and all that all throughout the week mostly until Friday. Um and honestly, not uncomfortable. I mean 86 today. Uh we're looking at, let me just take a peek here. We're looking 70s, 70s, 70s, and then 83 on Friday once we get the sun back. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

That's that's pretty much that. I also want to say thank you to the community of Odessa. I was there on Saturday for their community days. That was so much fun. If you guys have never been to that, next year when it comes around, go to that. It is a uh small festival, small but mighty. Man, those Odessa people know how to have a real good dang good time.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

You were telling me a little bit that it was, well, kind of a wild party on the street.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

It was a wild party on the street, and people were like dancing in the street. They were they were uh oh my gosh, just so much fun. So make sure that you come next year if you missed it this past year, because the weather was so perfect.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Oh my gosh, everything over the well, for Santa, except for the random thunderstorm you got in Corning that night, uh, which I got nothing of. But uh yeah, it was absolutely gorgeous. Like everything up at the uh track when we were up there for grid life. What a neat experience, by the way. I have to tell you. So we have seen NASCAR many, many times. Yeah. I mean, that's something that we're yeah, we've been a part of this now, and being at the track and doing different things.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

It's nothing like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

We've seen Salem's, you know, the six hour at the Glenn, the word I hate IMSA. I hate I don't know why. I just I it it's one of those where it's like moist for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Okay, so this was totally different.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

It is. It's uh and and and Scott and I noticed this too, even with the merch, it's a certain lifestyle that is I can see like that EDM hip-hop crowd.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

Like it was a very but mixed with racing, it was the weirdest thing. We met a uh a whole group of people. Allie was in line to get to uh drift, he had to wear long pants. I was in shorts, of course, because it was a thousand degrees.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

I can't believe that I decided to wear pants that day, too.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

And uh we had we were just standing there. I was hanging out with you while you were in line for a few minutes, and we were talking to uh what six people from New Jersey that had come?

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Yeah, and they were probably, if I was to guess, 25.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

If that.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

If that.

SPEAKER_00 2:10

If that they were super nice, though. We were just, you know, kind of getting the rundown of it all.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

They said that they were actually there for the music, but the racing just became part of the whole culture of it too.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

Yeah, when this comes back again, you guys gotta recommend. I I recommend checking it out.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

I saw that the operations manager for Watkins Glenn International wants to bring it back next year, too.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

I would. I absolutely would. This could become an annual staple. Yes. Because you know, here's the thing.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

It would become our electric daisy.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Electric Daisy is remember when I went to Vegas, I was telling you there was that huge EDM festival with 300,000 people.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

That's electric daisies in Vegas, and this would be like the East Coast version.

SPEAKER_00 2:50

And don't just go with the EDM though. It was that racing culture. Like here, here's the other piece to it too is with NASCAR, and I this is not a negative. NASCAR has a very base audience, they have a very clear demographic that they shoot for, and it's cool to see. It is, it's wildly different from that.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

What I like about it too is it opens up racing to a younger generation. And that was just because NASCAR, I think, has started to lean older. You still have your diehards and and whatnot, but you're catching some race fans at a younger age that you probably would not have caught before.

SPEAKER_00 3:24

Yep. Yep. In the NASCAR world. And uh 1793, this is Chad. I see your text, but I have absolutely no clue what you're talking about. So I'm just gonna give you a shout out saying, I I see you, don't understand what you mean when you say what you say.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Also, Emily said grid life people are the same people that go to Vans Warp Tour. Some, there's some, there's some overlap.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

That's a different demo. But Vans is now, you gotta realize Vans is even older.

SPEAKER_01 3:48

Well, I'm Elder Millennial?

SPEAKER_00 3:51

My God, it is. How does that make you feel?

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 3:55

I mean, this is the Gen Z of racing.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

This Saturday, I'm going to a festival outside of Cleveland, and I know that I can wear a skirt, and I know that I'm not gonna have eyeliner dripping down my face because I'm not getting in the mosh pit anymore.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

No, it's days those days. Those days are over, and I think it's you think you did damage to your phone now. Try that. Yes, along with your hip.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

I think this festival is going to be basically like a bunch of that. It's gonna be people my age. I don't have to worry about some guy spilling his beer on me because he's he doesn't want to waste the money, you know? He's like, I got an electric bill to pay for.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

That's what Vans Warp Tour has become now. I have an electric bill I have to pay. Exactly. Can I afford this?