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Moto Parent Podcast - Episode #8

• Scott & Calli Gebken • Season 1 • Episode 8

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Episode #8 of the Moto Parent Podcast with Scott & Calli Gebken! It's been a few months but we are SO BACK! We climbed back into the MPP Studio aka our Camper in the driveway and caught everyone up on what we've been doing. From training sessions and races to supercross and working with sponsors. We go on a few tangents but we are back and trying to keep this thing rolling! 

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SPEAKER_01

What's up, internet? We're back. Episode number, I don't even remember because it's been so long. I think we're at episode number eight.

SPEAKER_00

It's been a couple months, but we're back.

SPEAKER_01

I don't even know what the excuse is. I know the first excuse is everybody got sick. We were gonna do it, but we don't have an excuse. We tried multiple.

SPEAKER_00

Just never made time, let's be real.

SPEAKER_01

We never really made time. And uh we actually even tried to. We were gonna have the cliques on.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_01

In Texas and Arlington, and then we just never really made it work.

SPEAKER_00

It just never worked out. When we were available, they were not, and then when they were available, we were not.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah, that's all the way back to Arlington Supercross, whenever that was February.

SPEAKER_00

I think our last episode was end of January. So the season has kicked off.

SPEAKER_01

Started. Lots of things have happened since we've been.

SPEAKER_00

This is gonna be just a catch-up episode of what we've been doing. Innovative trainings we've done.

SPEAKER_01

I hope you remember all the stuff we've done here.

SPEAKER_00

I think I can remember.

SPEAKER_01

You do? Yeah. Okay, because I already don't. I have a hard time remembering what I've done.

SPEAKER_00

Well, February you start. Well, first our daughter turned one.

SPEAKER_01

In February, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We didn't do too much until after that.

SPEAKER_01

I went to Oklahoma once with a group of kids.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, for an elite training.

SPEAKER_01

For one day, and it was like a one sixty degree day, and it was nice, and for our elite programs kind of through the winter. We tried to do something, but the weather just didn't work out, just wasn't very nice to us. So um we didn't really do didn't get a do a whole lot of that up until just recently when it's finally been able to get back to the track, get back to training, get back to normal.

SPEAKER_00

So you went to bar to bar for a regional prep.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I went down and stayed back. We were all gonna go, but then it was kind of cold and it was just gonna be too much. And I w I want to say one of the kids was sick or something, I don't remember. And so I went down by myself for that one. Uh knocked out a couple of couple of days of training down there. Um, track was great. We actually had a bunch of kids from uh all over the place, a bunch of South Dakota kids, Iowa kids, Nebraska kids. It was kind of cool. Like uh, I don't know where the Kansas kids were, but they weren't around there. It was all the all the kids from up north came down uh to get in a couple good days of riding.

SPEAKER_00

So that was that was probably really good weather from what they're used to though. Yeah, from what they had going on, absolutely. I remember it being cold for you though.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so uh then we went to Great Benton. No, but before that we didn't even talk about Arlington, USMCA. Oh I mean, we kind of mentioned it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's right, because we were gonna do the clique, so you're right. Yeah, so we didn't even talk about that.

SPEAKER_01

So we skipped, we got a little bit ahead there, but so we went to Arlington Supercross and we went to that one because the USMCA, uh which is the coaching association I'm part of, it's motorcycle coaching association, uh, had their annual summit. Yeah. Was on the Friday before the Supercross, and they asked me to speak on a panel of coaches, um, with a couple street bike guys, and then Tyler Live, say from MX Factory, and I sat on a panel in front of, I don't know, 50, 60 coaches, something like that, um, just to answer questions and talk about different things. And uh my little portion that I got to talk about was like relationships with sponsors and dealers and how to work that out. And uh it was really cool. It was really cool because I got to talk, got to be, you know, Jason Wygant was the host, so it was kind of cool. They featured a little piece of it in their uh in the I don't know, the pre-show, whatever you call it.

SPEAKER_00

I also feel like there was a lot of speakers. I couldn't tell you their names now. But Tim Cotter talks. Okay, so I knew that one. Yeah, you knew him, I guess then I got ahead of you. That's the only one.

SPEAKER_01

Mike Burkeen from the AMA. Yes. Um uh who Jeff Imig talked.

SPEAKER_00

And there was a couple like outside of the industry speakers talking about life and yeah, how to just how to work with your athletes, how to communicate.

SPEAKER_01

That was cool, uh, how to bring your group of people together. It was it was really neat. It was really cool, it was really informative. It was really great to be a part of, you know, kind of it's the association's been really cool. It's been a good deal for us, for our business and just for everything. Great connections. We've been able to meet a lot of people in the industry, and then with that, we've been able to get really involved with it.

SPEAKER_00

Um and you've done your like what are they monthly coaching calls?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they do they do once a month, they do like a coaches only. Yeah, that's for coaches. So we do a the the coaching association does a monthly call on Zoom, and the coaches call in and they have people, you know, they either have a speaker or they have you know, QA or things to talk about, and so I I do those kind of once a month, and we have one coming up next month that they asked me to present on.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, and you're gonna have Brandon on there as well from Dismode.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Brandon's gonna come on, him and I are gonna talk about uh coaching to dealer relationships and how important that is and working together and so kind of the same thing you discussed at the panel, but more kind of more in depth.

SPEAKER_00

Intuitive is what I was gonna say. I don't think that's the word.

SPEAKER_01

The other thing about it is um it allows me to go a little bit more in depth with all of it and talk about just you know how I work with Brandon and what we do together. Because when we got done talking on the panel at the summit, a whole bunch of people came up and asked questions. A guy would ask a question, somebody else come ask a question, just hey, how do you do this? How do you reach out to these guys? Where do you start?

SPEAKER_00

I think people just don't know where to start without walking in saying, Can I have this?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and it's like how do you provide the value, right? Like obviously, uh it never works really well when you just walk in with your hand out and said, I need this. You know, you need to be able to provide some kind of value for that. So that'll be a big conversation that I have. And that goes both ways for not just for coaches to dealers and things like that, but also for like parents and athletes when you're looking for sponsorships. It's like you need to provide value to them when you work on when you're doing it, um, when you're working on the sponsorship season. We're kind of past that, but whether you're trying to get money from the local hardware store to sponsor you or you know, whatever it is, you need to you need to be professional in a way of doing it. You need to put together a little package or whatever you want to call it, almost like almost like a resume, but there's there's a hundred different ways you can do it. Maybe I need to do a Facebook Live and talk about it.

SPEAKER_00

I'll say I think that, and I also think next time we're with JP and Bobby, I think we should that's a topic to discuss because I feel like they do a great job of presenting the girls or having the girls present themselves to sponsors in the industry and out of the industry to create like opportunities and like they work for their sponsorship, it's not just hey, I ride a dirt bike, can I have a hundred bucks? Yeah, right, you're exactly right.

SPEAKER_01

And I see all kinds of people put stuff on Facebook. Hey, Venmo, here's my Venmo, I need to go racing this weekend. And like that doesn't work, like other than like getting grandma or your uncle to like send you money to go racing, like it just doesn't, you're not providing any value. And so if you create some kind of program of like what and showcase what you can do for them, whether it's through social media or you know, events or whatever you're gonna do, um you know that people want to sponsor athletes, they want to do that. Businesses want to do it. It's a great write-off for them and it's a great opportunity for them to get some exposure, but you got to do your end of the end of the deal. And just going and asking for putting your hand out and saying, Hey, I'll put your sticker on my bike, that doesn't do a lot. Like, and I know a lot of people do, like maybe that works in the car racing world, but that doesn't work in the motor world. We're too social media driven, we're too active online, that there's so many other things you can do, whether it's video shout-outs, online, it's posting, you know, different things you can do go a long way for your sponsorships on motocross. Well, we're getting into a whole lot. Yeah, I knew this was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00

We were gonna do like catch up with us, and then it's gonna go off inside tangents, and that's fine. That's what it's about.

SPEAKER_01

Well, we're deep into one right now.

SPEAKER_00

So, like, here's a part of But we should do a whole maybe a podcast on this if people are interested.

SPEAKER_01

We're gonna make a note too. If you do want us to go into it, comment on our post or on this.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like we've had a lot of experience, especially with like Mega Camp and the sponsors we have on board and how we communicate with them and work with them throughout the whole year versus just I mean, I guess some sponsors are just event sponsors, but there's a lot we have on board for the whole year for both UA and cruise racing. Yeah, just Gepkin racing in general.

SPEAKER_01

Right, that have been repeat and they come back every year and they want to support our program and be a part of it. But the thing about it is is like, guys, like doing a shout-out for a company that's helping you on social media goes so far, especially in the moto world. Like, like a video of you using their product or installing it on your bike or just the pictures of it and tagging them so that they can share that content, like that goes so far because they see it. Almost all the moto brands are small and they're almost, I want to say mom and pop owned or whatever, like that stuff goes so far, just like Callie in the coffee shop. Okay, Callie goes to Scout Coffee Shop. I get a ding in my email. I don't know, four times a week, she's one of the coffee shop. Okay, what however often? Anytime she leaves the house, at least once a week. If she leaves the house before 10 a.m. Yes, she gets a coffee.

SPEAKER_00

100% that is accurate.

SPEAKER_01

But she does some post and different stuff of just like, hey, check out Scout Coffee, but whatever it is that you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, no, it's a good example because I have friends, or I guess I shouldn't even say friends, because that's what I'm trying to prove here. Like, I'll go to burn, and not even was it Wednesday I worked out, and one of the coaches there walked up to me and she's like, Oh my gosh, I see gosh, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness, are you even with babies? Yeah, I see you post Scout all the time. I went there the other day and I tried X, Y, and Z. What's your favorite? Like, just like casual conversation, but like she's seen me post it so many times. She's like, I have to go try this. And then they know me by name because of it, I think. Yeah, and they're like, Oh, Callie, she told me to come here.

SPEAKER_01

So she can go in there and sometimes she gets a free coffee, and I don't see a receipt pop up when she goes in, or they get new flavors and different stuff. Hey, try hey sometimes. They'll text her and be like, hey, or DM you or whatever and say, Hey, we got a new flavor coming out tomorrow, come try it, you know, or whatever, or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00

But that's just how it works, right? Like I'm spending money there. It's not like I'm getting everything free. No, right. I'm 100% spending my money, and in the end of it, I'm posting just a simple story and just tagging them and like talking about their flavors or whatever it is. It could just be tagging them and it's drawing attention for sure.

SPEAKER_01

And it's just that they it's a small family-owned business and they see it. Like that's and so guess what? Now they can share it on their page, so it looks like people are coming to their shop. Yeah, and so it's just and we want to support small business anyways. I would rather you buy a hundred coffees at Scout than buy one coffee at Starbucks. Yeah, like that's just how I feel about it. I mean, that's a separate sort of deal. But like I would rather you spend your money at the local coffee shop, like or whatever, like at the local family-owned grassroots type thing. And so when it comes to Moto, it is so grassroots-driven that posting, talking about it, sharing on Instagram, Facebook, all of it, like that goes a long way.

SPEAKER_00

Well, even just our I mean, innovative is a side business for us per se. It's not both of our full-time jobs, but having our athletes that come to our camps, or even just like the weekly elite athletes posting something about coming to us or had a great day here tagging us, us sharing it for one that's giving us exposure, obviously. Like we would love for your friends to join too. Like, you know, hey, I went here tonight, I learned X, Y, and Z, I had a great time, whatever it is. Also, where was I going with the city? Is where I think you were going to be here. We are sharing it, but it also like the the people that follow us. This is where I'm going. The people that follow us and the companies that follow us see Timmy's story and our story and is like, oh, what's this athlete doing? And going over there, checking them out. I'm just saying, like, it could work.

SPEAKER_01

It creates a network kind of opportunity. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And maybe they don't have a sponsor for whatever that is. And they're like, hey, I want to help them out. Here's the you know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

It just creates Yeah, it creates just interaction. Like, and and all of that stuff, it hits the algorithm differently and it gets you in front of different people and different stuff. But that's a perfect opportunity, like you said. Like, hey, Motorsport and Innovative MX work together, or B's and uh innovative work together. Oh, I see this kid has oh, he's riding at Scots or whatever, riding with innovative. Yeah, um, let's see what they're doing. Oh, cool. He's he's riding.

SPEAKER_00

Like, let me go try it out, and then that gains us a new customer, and then it could also are you gonna sneeze? Go away from the kids. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01

Not that that built up for entirely too long. That could just gain obviously us a customer, but maybe it drives us, or like maybe it drives you support from whoever the code.

SPEAKER_00

I've seen people like come to Scott at the track, and again, we're going off on this subject here, but we could go so long. I've seen Scott at the track working on his bike or cruises bikes, and I let's use um muck off or red line products, like getting your bike ready. I see people come over and be like, what is that? What are you doing? Like, I've never seen that, or like uh talking about the products, and then you can be like, Oh, well, this company helps sponsor us as well. Like, you should check it out. Sometimes we get free samples from these companies too, like Hammer is always one that is willing to give us you know gels. If you've done any track walks, you've probably gotten a gel or some type of thing from Hammer. And that just drives, like, oh, Scott's using this, innovative's using this, or innovative is innovative. I'm done.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we're uh we're just getting so we are I don't even know how long I'm in right now.

SPEAKER_00

You know, promoting this product too. I want to try it out. Like, I think that's just fantastic. So if you're an athlete, if you're a company, if you're even a family-owned business, um I don't know.

SPEAKER_01

Like, and just it shows that you're active when you get to a track, tag the track that you're in. Yeah, like post a video of a picture of it.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like we do a good decent job of doing that. Probably too much, actually, now that I'm saying that. I feel like we're both very active on social media.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but but it all it kind of just creating that attention, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Well, not attention, but I like just sharing my life.

SPEAKER_01

Attention towards the brand. Right, yeah, sharing your life, yeah. And I mean it's just like your YouTube, right? It just shows days in our lives type of stuff.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I don't even have a thousand followers, but I just enjoy making them and posting them.

SPEAKER_01

I like looking back at them.

SPEAKER_00

And then literally we'll look back like two years ago when I was starting, yeah, and like watch someone cruise with such a baby. Anyways, we're getting off. Yeah, we're all over the place. Aren't they kids supercrossed? Was a blast. We did a mom and dad, we're kind of bringing it back. Yeah. We're circled back.

SPEAKER_01

We're circle back to the summit and our Arley. There you go.

SPEAKER_00

Mom and Dad took the trip alone. We didn't take kids. We kind of thought with the summit um or the co yeah, the coaching summit all day Friday, that was like impossible. So kids stayed back with Granny and Grampy.

SPEAKER_01

And Callie went to the summit. She sat in on the city.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, which honestly, like I'm not a certified coach. Certified coach, which I probably should be, because I'm a part of innovative, just to do it. But it was still interesting to sit and hear how it works because I'm just like more of the back end. I'm the books, I'm the schedule, the organizer, not the same. Some would call you the glue. I do think if you threw me in a training.

SPEAKER_01

You could do it.

SPEAKER_00

I could do no, not ride the training, but I could probably coach the training.

SPEAKER_01

You can coach the training. You probably could. You can take over for me. I could assist.

SPEAKER_00

You know not not a head coach, but I definitely could uh tell you what you're doing wrong.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. You probably could. I could. You yell at me enough, you see me ride. 100%. Yeah. You need to go faster over here.

SPEAKER_00

But anyways, Arlington was a blast. Went to Supercross, obviously. Had some good food. Honestly, we went to bed every night early, and it was fantastic. And then like the night or the morning before we were leaving, Scott's like, it's like seven, we should probably get up. I'm like, I'm not done. I want to in bed rot for like 30 more minutes, and then I will get up and head out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Because I was kind of like itching to get on the road and get going.

SPEAKER_00

Well, and I just feel like when you have kids and you wake up in a hotel, like they're ready to go. They want food, they you're ready to hit the road early, and look at that calendar.

SPEAKER_01

I know, it's so many colors on it.

SPEAKER_00

But then we went to Great Bend. That's where I was going with this. JP and Bobby did something else before then, didn't we?

SPEAKER_01

I think you just don't want me to talk about it. No, I want to talk all about Great Bend. I had a great time.

SPEAKER_00

I just don't Well, first off, Arlington was before.

SPEAKER_01

We're looking at our calendars, trying to we're trying to wrap you guys in and get you up to date. And I I'm if you care.

SPEAKER_00

But Arlington was before. No, I don't even know when that was. No. Arlington was February 20th. It was my dad's birthday. I remember that now.

SPEAKER_01

It was March 7, 8th, we went to Great Bin.

SPEAKER_00

And then we went to bar to bar. Which we already discussed. We kind of went back and forth here. And then we went to Great Bend.

SPEAKER_01

And so we loaded up the whole family.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01

It was a lot. But it was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00

Coming home to that trip. I'll never forget.

SPEAKER_01

Coming home was oh my god. Do we gonna get into that story?

SPEAKER_00

Okay, so we went to Great Bin. Obviously, you guys know Bobby and JP are running that track, and it was fantastic.

SPEAKER_01

We announced it like before the world. We we probably broke those. But there's like three people that listen to this podcast, so it's fine.

SPEAKER_00

It's fine. Maybe more than I'm one, you're two. There's at least five.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, at least five.

SPEAKER_00

Um, they had practiced that Saturday. Cruz and Scott both rode. It was pretty cold still. Cova and I sat in the truck a little bit.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she was over here.

SPEAKER_00

And also, it was one of those weekends that the sun was finally out. Still cold though, wearing stocking caps, and I fried both my children's faces and myself, but more so my children, and I felt like an awful mom. But we went to practice. It was Bobby's birthday, so we went to dinner to celebrate her.

SPEAKER_01

Went to their Mexican restaurant. So we gotta get them to come to town with us and go to our Mexican restaurant. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And it sounds like with a margarita tower.

SPEAKER_01

Margarita Tower. That's right up here. That'd be great. Yeah, we'll be carrying you guys out.

SPEAKER_00

Me, yeah. Um and then we went back to their house and watched Supercross. Sarah and Joey came, kids hang hung out.

SPEAKER_01

Declan and Cruz just played the lizard. Gecko. A lied lizard, sure. I don't know. What was he calling it? A lizard.

SPEAKER_00

He was not understanding why I didn't want to hold the thing, but he loved it. He loves playing with Declan. He calls those girls his girls. I want to go see my girls.

SPEAKER_01

That's pretty cute.

SPEAKER_00

It's really cute. But then we had training on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01

Yep, so we stayed the night. We actually stayed in a hotel. We didn't stay at their house. Um we stayed in a hotel just to give the kids, just to not terrorize their house any more than their kids already do. And then trained all day Sunday. Uh I guess of just not all day, but a full training session on Sunday. We had a great little group. It was chilly. I should have probably pushed the start time back a little bit, but I didn't realize it was that cold until we were already we were already into it. We were already going before we kind of realized the temperature.

SPEAKER_00

So Cruz was so cold he said he was gonna do the training, got all geared up, went out there, basically rode off the track, came back, was like, Mom, it's too cold.

SPEAKER_01

And then he just showed back up an hour later back out there. Like he just rides when he wants to, I guess. Yeah. It ended up being a really nice day. The track was great, it was fun. Um I thought you were gonna sneeze this time. Um but uh trained that day and then uh said our goodbyes and hit the road home. I think it's about what four hours or so from us to Great Men, I think is the drive. I think it's roughly four hours.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it wasn't too bad.

SPEAKER_01

Cruz just So Cruz didn't really eat all day.

SPEAKER_00

I'm sure many parents can relate to this, but like when Cruz rides, first off, Cruz doesn't ride, doesn't do any activity, he still doesn't eat a lot because he only wants chicken nuggets, yogurt bowls, corn dogs, and corn dogs and fries, that pretty much checks it. And strawberries, busies is what he used to call them. Yeah. Anyways, he doesn't eat enough substance, so then when you ride all day, you're a little dehydrated, and you eat a bag of chips and a Gatorade And refuse to eat anything else to eat dinner, which mom and dad's fault. We went to Culver's on the way home just because that's what was available and how we could get there with our camper and everything. And or with our trailer. I'm sorry, we didn't take our camper. Um got him a meal, corn dog and fries, thought he was gonna eat it, definitely did not eat it, but wanted ice cream.

SPEAKER_01

So I said mom caved in and gave him ice cream, like a great idea.

SPEAKER_00

Well, ruined it because about 30 more minutes down the road he fell asleep, woke up.

SPEAKER_01

We are two exits from our house.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, like 15 minutes, and Cruz starts saying his throat hurts, his neck hurts. I can't remember. It was something that I've never heard him say. Usually his cue is my back hurts, and that means he's getting car sick. That means he's either gotta shit or he's gonna vomit.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So when he said my throat or my neck, I think he said my neck, my neck, and he was like freaking out. I'm like, what are you talking about? Before I could even like turn back to realize that I needed to grab a bomb bag, which I do carry in the truck, it was already coming out, spewing all over himself down the car seat. I'm talking gallons.

SPEAKER_01

It was bad. It was so bad. We tried to just like let's just drive, let's just get home and he was having a meltdown, and then he could smell himself, and it was all over him, so then he threw up more, and it was like we are two exits from our house. I'm pulling off the highway to get him out of the house.

SPEAKER_00

We had to clean him up, get him naked, get a towel. He sat in the front seat very illegally, but I'm like drove the rest of the way home. Totally fine. I'm like, are you gonna get sick? No, mom, I'm fine. My belly's fine. Cove slept through the whole thing.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We got home, they both were taking baths, fantastic, going crazy. Yeah. So that was funny.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, just the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00

And then when you vomit a car seat, if you have kids, you just know that it just freaking reeks no matter how much in the car seat. Hose it out, power wash that thing, but you're not supposed to technically wash it.

SPEAKER_01

We hose that baby down.

SPEAKER_00

And I still for a while smelled it.

SPEAKER_01

It's gone now though.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like it just aired out, which is also gross. Whatever, yeah. Anyways, so that was cool.

SPEAKER_01

Great way to cap off our trip to Great Ven.

SPEAKER_00

But we all came home safe and happy. We had a good time with everyone. It was fun.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's a good group to hang out with.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. They just had a race that we missed, but it was kind of a scheduling.

SPEAKER_00

I know.

SPEAKER_01

Well we had trainings and we got rained out of our training and had to reschedule it and put it right on top of their their uh whatever their race. It was we were total opposite directions. I don't I don't know. I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_00

Then let's see our next innovative event. Well, I mean it's been a few months.

SPEAKER_01

It's yeah, we got a lot. We had a lot we've done a lot of things since then.

SPEAKER_00

Scott went to Bartabar for the regional at Bartabar uh Bartabar area.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

What did I say? Oh regional.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Area for the day Friday, just a day trip.

SPEAKER_01

We did our elite training the night before. Sophia came up and she stayed to hear our house. And then I loaded up and took her down to ride. Social. I rode a little bit. I ripped a whole bunch of teeth off my rear sprocket. So that was fun. That was cool. Front and rear sprocket. Uh so that ended my day pretty quick. Um well, not pretty quick, but like for the last session. I literally rode up to the starting gate and I'm sitting in line waiting to go ride, and a guy points at me. He's like, dude, look at your sprocket. And I look down, like, oh my goodness, I'm missing 10 different teeth on my sprocket. Like, I guess I'm done for the day. Uh, and so loaded that up. She got to ride a little bit, then we turn around and zoom back home. Start all over again.

SPEAKER_00

And then long day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, we did track walk. I did that's what I went down there to do the track walk. Yeah. So we rode, had that happen. I did a full track walk with a whole bunch of people and uh walked and talked basically. And then zoomed back home to be home for the weekend.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, that really kind of just wraps up February.

SPEAKER_01

So so we've made it through February.

SPEAKER_00

Oh no, that's like March. No, yeah, we're March. That wraps up March. But really, end of March, we went to four states for the Missouri State round one.

SPEAKER_01

Round one, Missouri State, which was an interesting weekend all on its own as well. We just have everything.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, Sunday was interesting, but Cruz got to race, and he hasn't raced since Father's Day weekend was his very first race last year at Grain Valley.

SPEAKER_01

And then he raced guests.

SPEAKER_00

And then he raced, I yeah, I like feel like that doesn't count. It counts, but like that was it, that's it. It doesn't count. But those are his two races he's done. So I'm like, this year is his first like official season of racing. What is he, AMA four? Yeah. Okay. So he uh we went to Mo State. No, four states. Four states. For Mo State. For Most State. And went down Friday night. Sarah Joey, the Swopes were there. I don't even the wards. I don't even know who else. I mean, every seemed like everybody was there, but we're all parked by each other. Sophia was so fun. Oh Sophia, that's right.

SPEAKER_01

The Hamilton's uh the Kindles.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Uh I mean we go down the Dean.

SPEAKER_00

The Dean Cross. Yeah, it was a good time. I think I feel like a whole bunch of people turned out there. My dad texts me Saturday practice and was like, if I come down Sunday morning, I might come down Sunday morning. I'm like, just come down tonight and just stay with us. Like you can sleep with Cruz.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you sleep in the camper. We have a spot as long as you don't mind sharing it with a four-year-old.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so he did. So that was a lot of fun too. Dad came down Saturday night.

SPEAKER_01

And I thought he was just coming down to like come hang out. No, he should have. He's got his dirt bike with him. He's riding. I just I missed the memo. I completely missed it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I didn't know that either. He didn't mention that, but yeah, that was fun. So Grampy raced. Cruise thought that was a blast.

SPEAKER_01

So what happened Friday night? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_00

Friday night.

SPEAKER_01

The heat in the camper quit working.

SPEAKER_00

And it was like 40 degrees at night.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Maybe less.

SPEAKER_01

So Callie wakes me up.

SPEAKER_00

It's like no one slept that weekend. Yeah, there was zero.

SPEAKER_01

So I don't, I don't. It seems like I never sleep when we are at the track.

SPEAKER_00

The camper never is like, I hope one day it's like comfy to me because it's not comfy for me.

SPEAKER_01

You need to get it together then.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I feel like I always hear things, and I probably do, like dirt bikes or you need to get rid of the baby monitor at bedtime. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Because you she's three feet away.

SPEAKER_00

I know. No, you're right.

SPEAKER_01

It's just not three feet, but like it's a door. There's a bedroom.

SPEAKER_00

Anyways, I just kept waking up because our AC. Well, it turns out the thermometer was bad. Was it called a thermometer? Thermostat.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so it's Friday night. We get down there Friday night. We're set up. Everything's cool. We're up late. You know, we're hanging out with everybody. The kids are running around playing. He's having a great time. We get everybody washed, which was a nightmare again. Like bath time at the track is always a nightmare. Um focus. And then uh sorry. And then uh we we go to bed and like midnight comes around. It might no, it might have been like two in the morning.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like it's before that because you were like, why does that keep kicking off? You kept saying, like, why is it like just shutting off and not shutting back on? And you kept resetting it.

SPEAKER_01

No, that's what I did all you woke me up because it was freezing in here. I was sleeping good. So I don't, it was it wasn't that it was good for me.

SPEAKER_00

It's cold. I heard cove like starting to move around.

SPEAKER_01

So I'm like, what in the world? So I get up and the heat's not on. I'm like, what? Or so I turn the thermostat off and I turn it back on. I guess what kicks back on. Oh, okay, cool. It's fixed. Go back to bed. I can just reset it, get back in bed, whatever. I go back to bed, and an hour later, you wake up because it's cold again. It's like 40 degrees in the camp. I'm like, oh my goodness, what is going on here? Get up, turn it back off, turn it back on again. And like, I know we have propane because it's all full. I I went through all that. And so uh that's literally all night long. I think I woke up every 45 minutes to reset the kids were freezing. Everyone, but they slept for the most part for the most part, but I was awake every 45 minutes on Friday night going into this. So then Saturday morning comes around and I'm like, what am I gonna do? We have a whole other night here. Yeah, I gotta figure out what's wrong. And I'm like, I don't know if the thermostat's bad. I don't know if something's wrong with the heater itself. Like, I'm Googling, it's three in the morning and I'm laying because I'm still aware.

SPEAKER_02

He texted Brad too that morning.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so that morning woke up. It's like, hey, the misers are here. Brad's a heating and cooling guy. Brad, can you come help me?

SPEAKER_00

Just like let us know what we need to do.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, just tell me what you think I need to try here. So he actually comes over and he's got this little tool bag of like stuff. Torkine's like, hey, let's try this, try that, try this, try that. So we find out that the heater cover on the outside of the campers like like has some caulking on it to hold it on. So we had to get a knife out and cut that. Well, guess what? I cut the shit out of my finger with the razor blade knife because I like dropped it as I was cutting it, slipped right through my hand, cut the shit out of my finger. So that was cool. So we get that off, go through it, check it out. All of that's working like it's supposed to. The propane's full, we know that. So then it really only brings it back to the thermostat, which I kind of thought it was that, anyways, at three in the morning when I was Googling. So then I'm like, okay, well, what do I do? How do I figure this out? So then it's seven in the morning. I'm waiting for all these camper places to open, and I just start getting on the phone. Ringing the phone, ringing the phone, ringing the phone. Saturday morning, boom, boom, boom, boom. Find one. I find a thermostat at a camper place 20 minutes away up the road. So what do I do? I jump in the truck and I drive a hundred miles an hour to get there and get the thermostat and then turn around and come back to make it in time for practice to start.

SPEAKER_00

Which he missed like one round.

SPEAKER_01

No, I got back just in time for it to start.

SPEAKER_00

I thought you missed one. Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_01

Cruz was sitting on the starting gate. Colton helped me.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Colton helped me. I had Cove on me too, and she was asleep, of course. So Cruz needed his bike off the stand with the sleeping baby. I didn't want to wake her up. So Colton helped me down, and then we walked up to and Scott comes running up there. That's right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, our new truck's really fast, by the way. Like it drives really fast. Zoom all the way out there, get the thermostat, and at least I have it. So then zoom all the way back. Don't even jack with the camper. And I park the truck and run straight to the starting line because he's on the gate, ready to go.

SPEAKER_00

Which Cruz did fantastic. I'm gonna interrupt here.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's great. That's the camper story.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, then we get it fixed at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we need to fix it after that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Cruz. So this was obviously his first time at four states. And again, I'm gonna just keep tootin' his horn because he hasn't really rode other tracks besides Kingsville recently this year. Yeah, Green Valley last year, and the Cass County Fair. Yeah, like and now Great Ben. I guess he wrote he's so this year he's been riding tracks. So Great Ben.

SPEAKER_01

He's done some more this year, but I mean in the past. That's the goal, right?

SPEAKER_00

This year, our goal for him is just to go to different tracks, practice, and if we're racing, race. Like I want him just to do it, and he wants to do it. He is so stoked. He doesn't understand, still, and I've said this before, the practice schedule. He just wants to go out. Oh, dad, you're going here. I come too. Yeah, he doesn't understand waiting for the time. You have to wait your turn, or it's like, mom, it's my turn again, or he'll like pull off. He's like, Okay, now I do the P dub. I'm like, no, now you have to wait. Like, he just doesn't quite understand that. And same with race day, race day rolled around. I'm kind of jumping the gun, but race day rolled around, he'd get off the track. He's like, Mom, I got like fourth or fifth, and then now I can I race the next class. Like, no, you've got to wait your turn. And that's a long day for a four-year-old. Right. Like, he was like race 21 and 14, or I don't even know. It seemed like a long time he had to wait. But we got the thermostat.

SPEAKER_01

Brad had to come help me. I took it all apart. I thought I could do it. And then I was like, what is going on? Brad had to come help me. So we got it.

SPEAKER_00

So the camper was much better Saturday night. My dad stayed with us.

SPEAKER_01

We all slept.

SPEAKER_00

We all slept for the most part.

SPEAKER_01

For the most part.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And then Sunday, of course, race day is always just up early, busy, getting everything ready. Race day with Scott riding, racing, and cruise racing. We still haven't figured out quite yet. And I'm not sure if we're probably ever going to because I think we're just going to pick races that Scott will race with Cruz or just races Cruz is going to race and we focus on Cruz and dad be dad and maybe moto coach.

SPEAKER_01

It was so hard doing the riding. I think I wrote plus 25 plus 30, plus 35, whatever it was. And I know guys do it, but it was so hard. So Cruz would be like two motos after me or one moto after me. So Callie's dad took my bike to the line, like picked my gate out and everything, and I was out walking the track. I'm out, I'm walking hundreds of yards out in all my head.

SPEAKER_00

Someone has to be out there. And like I could strap Cove on me and go out there. But she's also in this stage of don't strap me to you.

SPEAKER_01

I want to go on my yeah.

SPEAKER_00

If she's not asleep, she is not going to be on me. She wants to crawl and do that, and you can't do that in the middle of a moto track. Like that's just not how that's gonna work. So it's just a little different.

SPEAKER_01

It's just it's a lot of work, it's a lot going on. Dad was very busy, but I think it will get better just as he gets bigger.

SPEAKER_00

Of course it will, like all of that does, but it'll be more self-sufficient, not like, oh, I have to go potty. Okay, let me help you. Like all the things.

SPEAKER_01

It's just a lot. And so I think I sat down for all of three minutes on race day, and it was I just feel like we're always separate. Yeah, we were, yeah. I think we were.

SPEAKER_00

Like I was inside with Cove, or I was grabbing you guys snacks, or I don't know what that was. Um I just feel like we were just battling against each other all day.

SPEAKER_01

Not badly, but like going separate directions the whole time.

SPEAKER_00

Or like my dad, thankfully, honestly, he was there because it was a nice middle man, and Sarah and Joey every time we park with them, they're always helping too. Like, oh, they're grabbing Cove to help me go get snacks for them or whatever. Like sometimes I just leave Cove out there playing, and she's fine, and she's totally fine. Like if she cries a little bit, but Sarah goes and picks her up and like helps, and like that's that's best part of one of the best parts of the city. But it's like so nice that we just have, and like Cruz like runs off and plays now, which I'm getting used to now. Like he loves it, and I'm trusting the parents that he's with, which we know them. I he's never been with someone that we don't know, so I'm just learning that as a parent right now. That it's okay that he's two campers away, like yeah, that he's not have to like go check on him all the time. Um, so that's been fun. And Cruz absolutely loves it. Like he'll wake up and be like, What do you think those boys are doing? Like, what do you think Grayson's doing right now? Or like at bedtime, he'll be asking them.

SPEAKER_01

Like, everyone's in bed, dude.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I'm like, look out the window, they no one's out there. Yeah, like you're going to sleep. So that's always still a challenge, a battle. But we had a great weekend.

SPEAKER_01

Everyone was a lot healthy. Track was gnarly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Scott and Cruz both came home with a fifth place. Grampy came home with a first. Cruz thought that was the coolest thing, just that all three of you got statues is how he calls them. But they're trophies. Trophies are statues, yeah. Um on the way home, it was great. Kids actually slept a majority of the whole way home, so that was great. No car sick, no anything like that. So that was a good weekend. We have tons of pictures, I feel like, from that weekend, which is a blast.

SPEAKER_01

There's a lot. Yeah, there's a lot going on.

SPEAKER_00

I vlogged the weekend too. I haven't posted it yet, but it's coming soon. Yeah, vlog, check that out. Check it out.

SPEAKER_01

Callie Gepion on YouTube.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. But then the next weekend we went to Supercrass in St. Louis. I don't know how long we've been vlogging. 34 minutes vlogging. Yeah, we're good.

SPEAKER_01

Um Are you trying to just keep track of our babysitter time? You guys, we got a babysitter. That's another thing.

SPEAKER_00

So hopefully podcasts are coming more often, which we are planning for Mega Camp right now, um, which is Memorial Day weekend if you haven't signed up yet. Uh-huh. InnovativeMex.com. So uh Scott's been telling me to get a babysitter for months. Wow, for a while. And I have a hard time doing it during the week because in my head, logically, I'm like, what is the point? I come home, the kids get out, I get them all, you know, backpacks up, shoes up, blah, blah, blah. Start dinner, cook dinner, clean dinner up. By that point, it's already like six o'clock once that's all done. I'm like, bedtime's in an hour. By the time like in an hour we start doing baths and doing all that. Cruz doesn't go to bed quite away right away, but Cove does. I don't want a babysitter to have to deal with the crankiness of a baby at 645. But here we are, 645, and I'm sitting out here with her inside of the babysitter, which it's Ella, and we love her. But we have a few options actually of good babysitters. So I'm just I need to use them. And this is my second week, third week of using her.

SPEAKER_01

Second week.

SPEAKER_00

But I'm doing it. So we can do podcasts, or we can work on megacamp. Last week we tried to do a podcast, but we just did mega camp for like two hours. Or mega camp, which we needed to do that. That just took too much time. And maybe it'll be every other week we do a podcast, and uh then every other week we do megacamp. Anyways, so I'm doing good.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, look at you. Look at you spreading your wings or letting go, whatever you want to call it. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_00

I am. We've just been busy. Cruz is also doing soccer on Tuesdays, and then we just finished swim. Tonight was his last night of swim. So it's just been a little busy, but that's okay. That's the way we like it.

SPEAKER_01

Like I just mowed the grass today for the first time.

SPEAKER_00

Well, half mowed because I made half of it the other day. I mowed half of it today. So that's just how life's been going. But I feel like everyone can relate to that. Like, who's not busy? Anyway, St. Louis Supercross. We actually were going to do an adult trip, but unfortunately, Scott's grandpa passed away, and so we went to a funeral. My grandpa lived in St.

SPEAKER_01

Louis. We went down Thursday night, Friday was the funeral.

SPEAKER_00

So we kind of just wrapped it all up in the weekend. One big trip, yeah. And Cruz went with us. We left Cove behind with my parents because of the funeral. To be honest, like she didn't need to drive down, be at a funeral, either go back with Scott's mom or go to St. Louis Superc. Like, that's not gonna be fun for her, like, and I'm gonna have to carry her around at Supercross. Like, it just would not have been a good time.

SPEAKER_01

Would not have been a good time for you. And your mom was available in one. And she was available. She wanted girl time for it.

SPEAKER_00

It was fantastic. They went on a coffee date to scout coffee. Yeah, there you go. Um, they all know her as well.

SPEAKER_01

Circle back to that. Your mom's done business there and done all kinds of stuff just from you going there. So that's it.

SPEAKER_00

My mom has done painting classes there, so it's all full circled if you do your marketing and social media correctly. But anyway, supercross was a blast. Cruise had fun after time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

We did it different this year. We kind of kind of so we took a break midday. Yeah, which I do think was very helpful. We would took like one break, like one. Well, we watched like one round of practice and walk. We got with so with USMCA, I was able to do the coaching interview. So I got to go down on the podium and interview on Race Day Live in front of the crowd. And so because of that, we kind of get pit passes, we can get in early and do different stuff, and that allows uh us to kind of get in before the crowd. So we got in there and got to check out the pits real quick, just kind of a walkthrough. Cruise got to get a dirt bike and like check stuff out and whatever.

SPEAKER_00

And which by the way, if you buy a full-size like kid toy dirt bike at Supercross, it's like $45.

SPEAKER_01

I'm sure it is.

SPEAKER_00

That's insane to me.

SPEAKER_01

Anyways, he got one and a t-shirt, and you got a hoodie.

SPEAKER_00

Okay. What is that foundation again? Right Road to Recovery. Road to recovery. Okay. Super hook. They got me. I mean, the hoodie was sick. We walked by, Scott was like, look at that hoodie. I'm like, yeah, they do a pop-up hoodie or t-shirt. Every round. Multiple t-shirts. Um, Cruz actually got two t-shirts because he got a road to recovery t-shirt too.

SPEAKER_01

If you buy anything, go buy it from road to recovery.

SPEAKER_00

But it's like a pop-up design. Graphic design of St. Louis. Like this one was St. Louis, obviously. So I walked by and I was like, okay. And actually, I didn't purchase one until the very end. At after the races, we went back down or right before the races. Whatever it was. I can't remember. We went after my interview, right?

SPEAKER_01

Right before the main street.

SPEAKER_00

We went back down to the pits and we're just gonna walk and see who all was down there or whatever. Yeah. And uh they were kind of packing stuff up already. And I was like, okay, do you still have this hoodie and this size? And she's like, No, I haven't. It was like the next size up. I was like, no, okay. And then I was like, you know what? No, let me see it.

SPEAKER_01

You wear your stuff super oversized.

SPEAKER_00

I do, and she got me. She was like, okay, well, it really goes to the road and like gave me the whole spiel, and it went to the two girls, the monster athletes that just got burned in the car. I don't know the sport name, but it's like cars. They race cars or spread cars, or I don't I don't know, I don't I'm gonna get it wrong, but it went to them, and I actually just had read that story, so I was like, fine, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Take my card.

SPEAKER_00

Here's a hundred dollar money. Sick. But go to a good cause.

SPEAKER_01

And it worked out really well because Callie didn't take a jacket.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And it was like 40 degrees outside after the race.

SPEAKER_00

We had to walk home after the races. But anyways, they went to brunch backtrack Friday. We always go to Ballpark Village and um yeah, Friday night after the funeral and stuff. We checked into our hotel, which we stayed this year at um Lowe's. Is that Lowe's Hotel? Lowe's, um, which is by Ballpark Village. So if you do have an adult, that hotel was fantastic if you have an adult weekend. Honestly, with Cruz is great too. It was close to everything. Um, they have a parking garage right there that's part of your thing.

SPEAKER_01

Um an F-250 fits in it.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And the rooms are super, super nice. Everything was like, I don't know, I loved it. I would say there again. And the price was perfect. They have a bar and restaurant in there. We just never got there.

SPEAKER_01

We should have gone there for dinner because that other place we went.

SPEAKER_00

It was like a high steakhouse price.

SPEAKER_01

Like, I would not have paid that for cruise. Like, yeah, but the other place didn't, it took an hour to get in the middle. I know.

SPEAKER_00

So, anyways, I went to Ballpark Village though, and had drinks, met Sarah Joey, Madison, Jake. I don't even know. The other Jake there was people we saw there. Um, but Cruz loves to play and run the bases outside of Ballpark Village.

SPEAKER_01

He was playing with other kids.

SPEAKER_00

He found friends to play soccer at one point. He was playing bags with another, he was spinning around with another at one point. The restaurant sucked when he was making friends, yeah. He had a great time. We had a great time with our friends. Um, and then Supercross obvious obviously was a blast. We woke up, had breakfast. It was like kind of a rainy poopy day.

SPEAKER_01

But the supercross races inside.

SPEAKER_00

Yep, it was a blast.

SPEAKER_01

So went to the pits, we left the pits, went back to the hotel, and everybody took a nap.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, which I think was key before the night show.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I passed the F out. So did Cruz.

SPEAKER_01

Cruz. It took him a little while, but he finally crashed out. He needed that nap bad. And he actually was so tired, like waking up, he didn't want to go to Supercruis.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, he said, I'm good, I don't need to go. But then once we got there, he lasted all night. We made through the whole race.

SPEAKER_01

Full throttle jazz to be there.

SPEAKER_00

He found friends to play with, which were actually um Tomax kids. I didn't realize who he was playing with at first because we sit in industry seating when we do like um the USMCA interviews and stuff. That's just where the seats they give us are. And um Cruz was just playing with some kids on the railing, like up and down. They were playing with some bikes. And Scott's like, Do you know who those kids are? And I'm like, No. And then I saw Tomac's wife, or was it mom? Mom was up there first, and then wife. I was like, Oh, okay. So he was playing, he loved them. Yeah, whatever, whatever, whoever was playing.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they were going wild.

SPEAKER_00

But tons of kids came. There were other kids and other sections that came over to play, so they were having a great time.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and side note, the main event, 450 main event, is going, and people are coming up to Tomac's wife to like take pictures of him. Yeah, it's like, what are you guys doing? Like, don't do this while he's out there motivating.

SPEAKER_00

I feel like like the people in front of us, so they're probably f super fans from for someone and got tickets through some like who knows? They had Tomak shirts and whatever. It was all kinds of that. Yeah, fan shirts. And I I'm not saying anything against that. My son was wearing a Deegan shirt, like, wear your fan shirts. Um, but I could hear one of them whisper to the next one, hey, I think that's Tomac's wife. And then the next one be like, Hey, down there, hey, John, do you did you know that's Tomac's wife? Yeah, like all over the place. Leave her alone. He is racing. I think he was in like fifth or something at the time, and she was like intentively watching, and they're like, Hey, can I get a picture? And she was just like, Yeah, smiling, and she was nice, but she didn't know. She handled it great. It wasn't bad. There was a few times I was just watching because I was being observant of the situation. She was looking back at his mom, just like, what is happening? Like, I'm trying to watch it. The main event is happening. One person did it, and there was like ten more people after that. It was like, let the girl live.

SPEAKER_01

So if you were in that situation, be aware of what's happening on the track and then make it.

SPEAKER_00

If he wasn't racing, I feel like it would have been totally. Fine, and she would have been totally agree. And she was fine with it, but it's just a respect thing, in my opinion. Like, don't come up to me if my husband's out there. Yeah. Or my son or anyone who's right.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, just win, just pay attention to who's on the track if you're taking pictures of anything. Anyways, that was a random sign.

SPEAKER_00

But we had a great time. We came home Sunday, had Easter with your family, rushed, yeah, rushed called.

SPEAKER_01

Zoomed home, zoomed back over there.

SPEAKER_00

But it was fun. Great time.

SPEAKER_01

The whole thing, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And really, we're pretty much caught up except this past weekend.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

We had Easter with my family. And you did a private training Saturday with a couple girls at the sandbox. And then we did HLR Sunday.

SPEAKER_01

I did not go, but I went, zoomed down to mobile, and we got it in before the rain happened. I didn't know what was gonna happen. We moved pushed it up an hour, tried to beat the weather, and it worked out. The track was awesome. So it worked out really good.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we've had some good opportunities to go to different tracks already this year. I think we're planning more after mega camp per se. That's like our last weekend training until after mega camp.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, no, this coming weekend. This weekend, yeah. That's what I meant. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So this weekend we are. You are.

SPEAKER_01

I am. We were all gonna, so we're going to P Town in Pleasanton, Nebraska. It's just under six hours away from us. And uh it's a cool track. John, the guy that runs it, super cool. The place is it's neat. It's uh it's a cool little track. It's got all kinds of elevation. The dirt gets a little hard by the end of the day, but it's it's still cool. And uh I'm heading up there. We did a camp. The first camp we ever did up there was last year, and then we're going back this year. And uh, we were all gonna go as a family, take the kids, take the camper, do the whole deal.

SPEAKER_00

Then we kind of realized how far it was, try to zoom in that far on a Friday after work, and then I just feel like we're gonna get back on Sunday there at midnight, try to get set up in the dark, yeah, have a full day, go to sleep, and then the next day we had to pack all back up and drive six hours after training. Like I just wasn't worth it. And the boys, the boys, Cruz has a birthday party for his boys, um, his cousins, and there's other things like Laughlin has football games that we'd like to go watch. Um, we have another friend's birthday party Friday night, so it kind of just makes sense that we divide and conquer this weekend and wait for all of us to go.

SPEAKER_01

That's a lot of car seat time for a one-year-old and a four-year-old for them to go. So if I can just zoom up there, I'm gonna stay with JP and Bobby in their camper and then zoom back and just you know, yeah, go do what needs to be done, and then we'll ride here during the week, and then we roll into Kingsville State Race.

SPEAKER_00

We've still been doing a lead here as the weather allows.

SPEAKER_01

We had elite last night, and you got like an hour, a little over an hour in, and then it started raining on it. It was like hailing. Yeah, it went.

SPEAKER_00

And we're all running in our little shed barn thing down there. It was cute.

SPEAKER_01

At one point, I'm just standing in the rain, like guy. I stopped, pulled them off the track, like, go to the barn, go to the barn, go to the barn, send them all to the barn. So we hung out in there for 20 minutes. Then it stopped raining. It was just a mud pit. Then it was just a mud pit after that. But we tried to make them ride in it. Like, guys, you're already dirty, you're already wet. Like, let's try to ride this. And they were going every five feet, they would all crash and turn and fall down. The boys had fun though.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, they came in and played a little bit after. Well, a couple of them did. Yeah. So but that's been fun having it kind of here, just being closed, it just kept us busy.

SPEAKER_01

But it works good with crews. Yeah, and of course, okay, I washed his bike after four state, got everything cleaned up, and I worked on it. I was this PW50. I'm sure somebody, I'm sure other dads can relate to this. I worked on it, I cleaned the carb on it, made sure there wasn't any water or anything in it, because those aren't the best the most sealed off carburetors by any means. Rejetted it, I leaned it out a little bit, running great, cool, awesome. I did it the night before, I did it Tuesday night because I knew I wasn't gonna have time to jack with it on Wednesday. I wasn't gonna have time. And started up, runs great, he rides out to the track, gets halfway, gets up to the track, and it won't run right. Like, are you kidding me? So then he's gotta switch bikes, and then I was trying to get somebody else to work on the bike. It was just it was a whole thing, and then it rained, and then it was it didn't really matter anymore.

SPEAKER_00

But yeah, he had to ride. It's funny, we've switched, we've switched the way he likes to ride. So before, getting him to ride the P dub was the end of the world. Like, no, I want to ride my Zing Zing bike, which is his E2. Um, he was so uncomfortable with it, he's like, I'm not riding the E the P dub. So I'm like, yeah, whatever. And we kept trying to like, you know, Degan ride. What's he call it? Not a zing zing. Um ding ding. A ding ding. That's right a ding ding and a zing zing. A ding ding bike. Like you should really try it. So we got him a new helmet, anyways, and so that was already kind of amping him up. He loves to get geared up and stand in our mirrors in our garage gym and just hype himself up. He thinks he's the coolest dude, which I love. Like, I hope he always does that. But, anyways, I don't even know why or how. The new helmet came, and then I feel like he worked on it, made it a little smoother because it was pretty rough. Because again, it's not our bike, it was Lachlan's bike. So now it's Cruises, really. But we need to get him a different one, yeah. A new one, yeah, something else. Yeah, but, anyways, now if the zing zing bike is what we tell him to ride, he does not want to ride it, he wants to ride the P dub, the ding ding bike. And he got mad at me at four states because his race was coming up for the E2. And I said, buddy, you have to ride the E2 for this race. He's like, No, I don't. I have to ride the P dub. I'm like, no, you have to ride this bike for this class. And he's we literally argued for about two minutes. I said, You either ride the E2 or don't ride at all. You choose. I don't care. Like, I really don't. And he was like, Okay, mom, I'll ride the zing zing bike. So the tables have turned because now we're into gas bikes. Yeah, yeah. And when he came back to tell me yesterday, that's where I was going with this, yesterday, that the zing zing bike, the ding ding bike was not running correctly, is what dad said. I said, Okay, what did dad tell you he wanted me to do? Because I didn't know like what your plan was. I didn't know if you were coming. And he goes, get the battery. I'm like, okay, so you're gonna ride the zing zing, I guess. And then Jason came around on the side by side and he thought it was you. He goes, Dad, I oh, you're not dad. And because he was gonna tell you, I don't want to ride this the zing zing. It was funny.

SPEAKER_01

Shout out to Jason who did get it running right though. Yeah, he got it working for me, but then it rained and then he didn't ride anymore.

SPEAKER_00

But elite's been fun at the house. If you're interested, we still have a couple spots.

SPEAKER_01

A couple, not really much more. It's pretty much we like to keep it a little more being here elite, smaller, just so we can uh keep the noise down and get more done every gets their attention and it's not super destroyed. Well, it's been fun.

SPEAKER_00

The group of boys you have are just like around the same age, bike size category. Yeah, so that's been fun. And Chris thinks they're just also cool because they're obviously a little older than him. Yeah. Those are his friends, though, his boys.

SPEAKER_01

His boys that are not separate from his cousin boys, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So who knows? Yeah. On to Nebraska this weekend, then Kingsville State Race is coming up. Hopefully, maybe we'll do another episode before Kingsville. Maybe we'll take the stuff and do one at Kingsville. That'd be fun.

SPEAKER_00

I think we're gonna take the camper to Kingsville, even though we're really close to there. But I think it'll just be easier. We have AC for Cove if needed, or we can just be there on Saturday night. I think Sarah and Joey are gonna come camp. Soaps are camping.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna race.

SPEAKER_00

I don't I think we're gonna be Moto Dad, Moto Parents.

SPEAKER_01

Moto parents this weekend.

SPEAKER_00

This weekend, which that'd be a fun podcast afterwards just to discuss the weekend.

SPEAKER_01

And if I can just hang like I think it's just gonna take some stress level off of me. For sure. Me too. Yeah, you do, yeah. Just trying to balance all of that. Like, I think let Cruise race do his thing, and I'm not trying to run the track and technically. Well, I think Cruz will think it's cool too.

SPEAKER_00

His little own weekend. And then I think people are coming to watch him, which will be even more fun. So since it's local. I feel like with traveling a lot, we don't have a lot of people that come watch Cruz, and obviously we want people to so that want to, like our parents and stuff. So I know my parents are coming out. I'm sure your parents are, your mom, the player said they were coming to bring in the boys, so that'll be fun. But let us know if you want us to talk about the topic. Yeah, we're gonna try to kick this back up.

SPEAKER_01

We'll do sponsorships. We'll get maybe we'll get the cliques back in because we were supposed to, and it just all kind of fell apart.

SPEAKER_00

Obviously, we'll get JP and Bobby back on here.

SPEAKER_01

We'll figure something out. We're gonna get some more people on. There's a handful of people that kind of want to get on that. I'll say that I've told us, yeah. We just haven't. We just need now that we're kind of getting a schedule, we just gotta schedule it and make it work.

SPEAKER_00

So now that we're caught up on our last two months here, just let us know if there's other things that you want us to talk about. We can go more in-depth in sponsorship. I feel like we kind of went on a little tangent, but we could do that or whatever, whatever topic.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we went on a little tangent. Maybe we'll just make some notes and do a whole show on that.

SPEAKER_00

Well, like I said, I think we need to ask someone that's really like in it too for their girls and stuff. Like I said.

SPEAKER_01

Like you said.

SPEAKER_00

Like I said. Yeah. But Mega Camp's coming up very quickly.

SPEAKER_01

Registration's open, it's coming fast. We got it open, we have spots open. So yeah, innovative weekend. Sign up, it'll be there. We got uh tons of free stuff to give away. You can win awards, you can win raffle prizes, you can do all kinds of stuff. We've got really fun events. We're doing limbo, we're doing slow race, we're doing whole shot challenge, we're doing last man standing. Plus, you got three myself and three other USMCA certified coaches. Amy, Rob, and Mike. Yeah, super cool. So um be a really good opportunity to develop and uh get faster, get better. So just have fun. Yeah, we will see you then. Uh oh, well, what happened here? No, it's okay, guys. Well, thank you so much. Thanks for listening. Make sure you like, comment, subscribe, whatever else it is. Uh, download what do you do on Spotify? I don't know, share it, post it, tell your friends about it. Um, we'd like to have more than one person listen to this podcast. So uh we will see you guys later. Uh if I'm gonna go.