Podcast: The Ride - K1 Speed with Ronnie Adrian

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

Ronnie Adrian (Grand Crew, Comedy Bang! Bang!) joins us to discuss this chain of indoor go kart tracks with 63 locations across the US. Plus, the Good Boys' thoughts on go karts in general! Beach Boys episode up at The Second Gate: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vroom vroom the following podcast contains tight-fitting helmets a tournament of teens high school lies and aggro carboys reminiscing about burning rubber all this plus Ronnie Adrian joins us to talk k1 speed indoor go-kart racing on today's podcast, The Ride. Welcome to Podcast The Ride, a theme park podcast hosted by three men who are only comfortable driving if the vehicle has a human face. My name is Michael Carlson. Joining me as always, Jason Sheridan. Did your vehicles have a human face? No, I'm saying... No, that's why we weren't comfortable.

We were curious about the whole thing. Right, yeah. Scott Gierner's here and he wasn't comfortable either No of course I needed to have a name Maybe I need to have seen that car Up to some hijinks I need to have heard a catchphrase The car has said Like ka-chow

I don't know if I can trust this car Yeah I know I feel the exact same way We are talking about today Go-karts essentially A specific one but also in general I think I think this is a great place to put all of the go-kart thoughts we've all had our whole life i don't know we could get a lot of different go-kart episodes because there are different companies you know so uh but yeah yeah well let's yeah let's not get into specifics about boomers about the chain boomers and their go-karts because i'm not qualified i've never done

a boomers go yeah but we've done we've done K1 now, I'll tell you that. It could be way different. But let's bring our guest in. He's an actor. He's an improviser. He's a musician. He's a writer. He's a lot of things.

He's Ronnie Adrian. Hello. Hey. Whoa. I like to give a little space for people to clap. I love that. Or be surprised. People will be surprised.

They're listening. They're like, I don't want to know who the guest is i'm going to be surprised when they tell me and then they hear my name and if they've ever heard of me they go whoa him yes i like him and i'm assuming that they like me they've heard of me and they like me yeah and that's that was short though i think they would give you a longer applause so yeah i guess it's more for the people who who clasp their hands on their face a home alone style like oh it's a gasp space oh they're shocked okay it's more like a shock they they got him that's smart because they do that in the editing of like a marvel movie like captain america

like he gets thor's hammer and they leave a pause in for the theater to applaud. So that's basically the same thing. And we should tell every guest now going forward to do that, to leave in the hammer applause. Oh, sure. Yeah, the hammer applause, of course. For all the, we assume that there's listeners who get together for like midnight screen.

When these episodes drop. They do drop at midnight. They do drop at midnight. So we assume that there's a contingent of listeners out there who all gather rent a theater at their own expense so they can experience each episode every week midnight on the west coast on the east coast it's 3 a.m yeah so they all got it yeah they got to do the 3 a.m screenings the cultiest cult movie does a 3 a.m screening but this podcast we know they're doing it yeah yeah and if jason like yeah these are people that like dress up as

the different meats that jason talks about from the east coast ah okay well yeah that makes a lot of sense the hardcores i mean and hopefully everybody is as is as into it as everybody else you hate going to those movie theaters and you're sitting there and you're like you're the first one to start the clap and immediately realize that no one else is on board they're like we're all just regular watchers you're like a super fan you're you've missed the super fan screening yeah so it's like oh yeah and this is like that slow that that quick peter out that's like ah you tried yeah you know what i've thought about that a lot with is the, because we are now firmly in the world where nobody freaks out at the Nicole Kidman AMC intro.

There was a time where you went and then it got this, woo, people were giving it all this energy. And then I missed the transition at some, but now you go and it gets nothing. Everybody agreed. We had our fun with that. We don't do it anymore. It's just there. And I kind of wish i'd seen something in the middle where somebody like

you said was left flailing they did the craziest fakest scream and then her left and everybody's just glaring well i want to actually honestly i think some people are still trying to keep it alive i got you maybe i have amc pass so i go to the movies pretty frequently and there's still some where I'm like oh you're it depends on the thing but I was just at a movie the other day and it was like the movie past lives and so it's like one of those sort of like more independent sort of just like here's a story here's a nice story we're telling with you know that unfolds and such sort of thing and that crowd was not the crowd that cheers for the nicole kid it was very silent when she came onto the screen yeah yeah but i've been

the one maybe like even just as much as two weeks ago where somebody was like whoa and then everyone just like yeah we'll give it to you and this was like it's usually over you they're usually overzealous like you could tell like oh yeah like you're the like you're you're probably not funny in real life oh yeah yeah you're like but you're like the fun friend you know like you're applying your like i i'm extracting my like comedic value from this thing right i know this this thing's funny and i know it's funny so i'm funny right yeah it gives them it gives them a chance though to be funny maybe so i think it's a, right? Yeah. It gives them a chance, though, to be funny, maybe. So I think it's a positive thing.

Right. I mean, it gives them a chance to sort of be like the life of the theater for... Yes. You know, like, oh, yeah, sure. I would never do that. But yeah, I guess. I'm not bothered that you're doing it.

I can't do it. But like... The funniest thing I've ever seen in the family of this is at a wrestling show, past guest Nick Mundy tried to start an ironic USA chant at a wrestling show, and he got booed so fast by the entire audience. It was like USA twice, and there's boo, everyone booing him. And I was like, that is not what he was looking for.

Well, I've been in places where he's done similar things and it worked but this but that is pre-2016 i don't know what year we're talking around 2016 the usa chant became a very undesirable i see what you're saying i think the irony was clear maybe in 2014 and now it's like somebody's chanting usa they might kill us we gotta get this guy out of here, maybe out of the state. It's a good question. I'll have to, I can't remember. I feel like it was around the same. It was around this time.

Maybe before though. I'll ask him. Although he probably has erased it from his mind. What are you talking about? That didn't happen. I never have a boot ever. No. Crazy.

I chanted, everything's good. I chanted a different chant. So Ronnie, you're on the podcast We could talk real briefly about this Because you sent me an email a couple months ago And you were wishing me a happy birthday And I immediately said oh man

I like Ronnie so much I haven't seen him I'm gonna do what every adult does to hang out I said you gotta come on the podcast And I immediately After like 10 emails back and forth To try to figure out a topic I felt really bad About it A lot of back and forths for sure

And it was like oh you got to come on the podcast I was like okay great and then it's like well what do you Here's like What have you done or like what are these things that you Could do that could be on the podcast I gave them all the parameters you know know, you guys know the parameters. Oh, no, we've done this dance before. We've lost people doing this dance.

I know, people stop responding to emails. I'm happy Ronnie's here. Yes, it took forever. I know. And then I was like, I don't want to like keep sending emails immediately back. Like, no, not, this isn't right. I was like, all this stuff you're talking about, we can talk about. We're just trying to find a thing that's like a themed thing.

And you were like, what about the tram tour? And I was like, well, we're going to do a tram tour thing're just trying to find a thing that's like a themed thing and you were like what about the tram tour and i was like well we're gonna do a tram tour thing just so all you listeners know they curate for you all so so well because there was a real thin line dance that i was going through with mike for a while about well they kind of like this uh we know they're not our fans are really not just know that you're at top of mind a lot of the times when they're yeah curating these show topics for oh man and then you got other shows that are like hey come on and do whatever you want no yeah i know no parameters sorry i feel so bad it's rules and parameters the show it's like where you're sitting oh i was gonna say look we're all we're all just trying to put out a good podcast and also to slowly drive ourselves insane you know and the people we know drive ourselves bad with uh rules that we have solely

imposed on ourselves that we're doing this to ourselves basically and mind you i want to let i wasn't frustrated by it or anything but it is it is funny to sort of be like all right well i'm gonna do what you're asking me to the best of what i think you're asking me so this thing and it's still like no it's like it's like it's like being in math class and the answer is four and you go four and they go show your work and you're like well this thing and it's like that's not the work and it's like what what are you talking about but the answer is four it's like not for our audience it's not four it's four but it's not the four that you're doing when we're the fact that we like i'm so sorry yeah the fact

that we end up often at like uh yeah come on on our show. You can talk about whatever you want. It would help if you went to Disney World in 1993 and saw this one specific animatronic show that was open for three months and was not liked. People didn't know about it. And actually, it wasn't even publicized if you were even at Disney World. You might have missed it entirely.

So anyway, are there any of those that you would like to talk about? And really any of them. They're completely open-ended. Yeah yeah yeah i mean your pitch should be uh uh have you been to a theme park and also the niche the niche theme park or the niche ride the better yes oh yeah what about this thing it's like ah rather we've kind of already done it or we're thinking about doing that but in a bigger way so give us something else and you're like well okay i guess one time i went to this place when i was young and they had you riding slugs and you're like riding slugs i don't know if that

fits the parameters of what we do what do you want what do you want i love this if you if we skipped out on a slug ride there was no sl slug ride. There was no slug ride. I'm not crazy. It leaves like a trail of slime behind you. And then they let you. Great idea. You can take a vial of the slime home. And then I showed it to Eric.

That was my show and tell when I got back to school. Yeah. This is real slug slime. That's a great idea. Well, I'm sorry we made you do taxes. It's truly okay this i mean this has been a long journey everybody you should know that there's been lots of non-communication in between so mike said too much but i feel like it was at least three or four it's been a while it's been a while i'm glad it happened because scott, there's been people who just stopped responding

to us. Oh, yeah. Thank you for eventually picking it back up, eventually. And here I am. And now here he is. I am on one of the best podcasts about theme rides or whatever. Whatever this is. Whatever it is we're doing here.

We don't even know anymore. You hit on a great topic. This is a great topic. I was like, do you have any have any thoughts though on the tram tour you wanted to get out because we could talk tram real quick or not even quick uh i mean the only i have nothing interesting to add about it just as just i i was on the ride because it was like, we were gifted. I was in a room, and we were gifted. The showrunner wanted to go like, for our last sort of excursion together as like a group, let's do the tour. Oh, great. And so we did the tour. Wait, was this when you were working on the lot, like you were saying before I recorded?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we were working on the Universal lot. So it was like, well, let's do the thing. And then, to his credit, they didn't give us, just because we were working on the universal lot so it was like well let's do the thing and then uh to his credit they didn't give us just because we were on a lot they didn't kind of go well because you're like employees on our lot of course you can get the the ride for free they were still like no you have to pay so like so the showrunner was very nice enough to pay for everybody, which I couldn't have been cheap. And so we rode on the ride.

And I just remember being I remember everything feeling so much smaller than what it was in movies because it would be like, well, this is where they did the Jaws thing. And I was like this. It was like the size of this backyard, maybe even smaller. You know, like this is the lake that Jaws was in. You're like, well, this is where they did the Jaws thing. And I was like, this? It was like the size of this backyard. Maybe even way smaller. You know, like this is the lake that Jaws was in. And you're like, what? And this is where they shot this particular scene. And you're like, this is like, it really showed you how the magic of movies.

Yeah, yeah. But some stuff did make me go, they have the part where it's like this is the this is the iconic scene area for like one of those movies of like a war of the world and i remember it because i then went home later and watched it just to be like i saw that in real life i i saw this thing that looked like this and i saw it like that because you know it doesn't it's not cinematic when you actually see it in person you're like like, yeah, this just looks kind of, but like in the movies, it's like, oh my God, it looks, oh my gosh. So that was my thought. My thought was that people who make movies are, they work, they do wonders.

They do wonders. Your thought is Hollywood is magic. Yeah, Hollywood is magic. Wow, yeah. It worked on you. Yeah, it worked on you Yeah it worked on me It worked on me So obviously you made A good choice of being like

No we're gonna do that In a different show Maybe I sensed that You just were I wanted to make a point About how the magic Of the movies were good Yeah

So if everybody's listening Who was getting disheartened With movies Just know that the magic Still exists Yeah Wow That's good

So you feel the magic When you go to the places Where the movies were made And are underwhelmed And you really feel this yeah that's good yeah and you see you feel the magic when you go to the places where the movies were made and are underwhelmed and you really feel like wow i guess movies are good this sucks oh yeah this is awful it truly is being like here is this set that has also been used in and then they give off like 50 things and you're like oh yeah like of course that's how that works they they have a property and they kind of go yeah let's just redress this property and use it in like 50 things and you're like but they're all like think but like of those 50 25 are being like i've seen 25

all 25 of those things and i never thought that this was the same place that was in this thing yeah yeah yeah yeah you start to the more you like because i did that i was on the tram i did the tram it was a guide on the tram tour and then i worked at uh the warner brothers lot and would take big walks where i end up on that like gilmore girls town square and certain what i think it's just just if you spent time at these places you start to see through the met you suddenly are like this what's it is it called stars hollow is that i think so yeah yeah suddenly you're like just everything you're white stars hollow again i've seen stars hollow in every movie i've seen this year you just suddenly start like that that's

that one movie theater on the universal lot yeah i know because the street bends this way but probably but a regular person is not doing that what it's it's ruined uh movies for me yeah now i can't just watch something and relax i'm like i know what this is repurpose this thing well surprise everybody this is turning to an argument podcast where me and sky go back and forth about the magic of movies i think there's still magic somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this yeah i'm still cheering for it yeah okay yeah okay um well let's okay then let's go on to the the real topic here today the big themed experience k1 speed go-kart track uh that many, there are many locations across the world. 63 locations across the country.

63 locations across the country. Can you believe it? Ronnie, can you say, when you were thinking, when you were laboring over this, when you thought, like, oh, okay, I forget what I said specifically of like, is there any like experience type thing you had? And you were like, oh, I guess I went on a go-kart once right yeah that was what it was i went i had went on it this year solely because um i uh me and my girlfriend we had we had went there because she was like oh let's go to this thing one time because it's right by our house and you know

she wanted to do something outside the house and i was well i'm always like we could just stay home she's like let's do something outside the house and so um so we went to this place and immediately you go in and we're like oh we're gonna we're gonna do the go-karts or whatever and so we're kind of like getting the lay of the land so we go into the game room area and i don't know if all 63 locations are like this maybe other ones are like we're we're like we have like a total barcade and what this one does not is essentially like there's a pool table in there that's like maybe one or two pool tables maybe like a ice hockey table or something or two video games and then like maybe like it's like not basketball you got some like basketball

there's not much going on in the game room you know what's funny scott and i went actually literally yesterday to do this and i had no expectations so i was very impressed by the arcade i was like wow look at this look what we've got a magic thing all over yeah we're having the same discussion sees it differently i we walked out i was like look at this Hollywood magic thing all over again Yeah we're having the same discussion We walked in I was like look at this place I thought they'd just have one thing But look at this And this is five minutes away Wow

Don't get me wrong we had fun Still in the thing And then we didn't get a chance To even ride the go-karts Because it was a weekend And it was like really sort of a lot of people like a lot of people coming yeah and then we were like they were making they were basically saying you have to wait like an hour or something if you want to

get on the rain we were like uh you know and i was like i don't on top of the fact that i didn't really want to be here in the first place like i don't really want to wait an hour and she also agreed and so we left but then for my birthday they just because we have to sign up still yeah to even be so you have to sign up to even be able to be able to get on the ride yeah yeah basically so we signed up and so when my birthday was in march they were just like they emailed me like hey you get you get a free ride because your birthday. And so I went, OK. And I just went one day. Alone?

Yeah, I went alone. OK. Just one day, she was at work and I was like, I'm just going to go use this ride real quick before I had something else to do. And then so I did that. And then you were like, and then as fate would have it. Then I harassed you you came calling and i was like well i did this thing and i just did a go-kart yeah perfect uh uh so did you let's just like your initial response like reaction to it was like i love the go did you like it or was

it fun would you do it again i mean i i would i would do it again but if i'm paying for it i would do it again probably with other people that like we're all racing like doing it alone is fine especially when it's free sure but i'm not the person that just goes to the park and buy themselves to be like let me just race a bunch of strangers you know what I mean Yeah no I this was our Concern going into it was like I how can we do this to avoid Stranger because I think what we Did not want is teenagers

Like we are now there are A bunch of strange teenagers Trying to bump us Yeah the I was worried about teens Basically teens were My biggest concern uh what were you think they were gonna do make fun of me yeah race faster than us uh uh bump us try to hurt us get it taunt us on the way in make fun of the language we use it's outdated um yeah yeah yeah

um yeah say that the things that were the phrases that seem new to us have actually been said for 20 years. And is this before you actually get into the car or is this while you're driving? This is the night before I'm worried that all this stuff is going to happen. But what I'm saying is when you're worrying that they're going to do this stuff to you beforehand. Yeah, when are they going to bother you in this scenario? Probably beforehand, but if we're on the track, they're going to do the sort of aggressive stuff while we're racing. That's my concern. And that they will,

I think they will stop us, T-bone us, create a little cul-de-sac with their cars so the race is stopped so that they can point at us and call out specific flaws, then keep going.

Yeah. And also, you guys, i see some gray hairs there okay and then they keep trying i think they're going to take every opportunity yeah i i really didn't know what to expect i was wondering because we went right at opening and i was like is it going to be empty in here or is it going to be like groups of teens like teen race groups are all kind of hanging out ready to go or they dress sort of like the warriors teen race groups burbank burbank teen race groups are all waiting to race and then there's these two older men who come in who are

novices and they don't know the ropes of this don Don't you know noon is our time? Noon is teen race group time. I feel like that's something to maybe consider if the rides are like $10 a go-kart ride. Then maybe you get some street toughs in there that's like, we're here to cause trouble and ride fast. But when the ride is like $45 for one ride or something. Oddly oddly a single Ride yes it was pricey yeah But you can't get an annual pass to This place so maybe

If the teens are thinking smart Economically they can just get They'll get an annual pass and they have nothing But time so they can wait ninety minutes To two hours to do a single go Cart race and they can hassle a couple of Dads while they're waiting Yeah

Well let's describe For the listener What the Burbank What it's like Because again I was kind of I didn't know What it was going to be

It's kind of a big warehouse In the middle By the old It's by the Aldi It's by the Burger King From Back to the Future If that helps you On Victory

Hollywood Magic That's some That's some Hollywood Magic Oh yeah I had no clue Oh yeah Watch Back to the Future And it's Marty comes out He skateboards Right magic no clue oh yeah watch back future and it's marty comes out he skateboards right in front of that burger king oh i got okay all right um i didn't know

so recreate the shot line up with your phone so you go and it's like a big warehouse and there's a big you know go-kart track and it's a lot like more like updated there's parts of it that look almost like a gastropub or something like with the lights and like the like there's counters and oh you're talking about the paddock lounge i am talking about the paddock lounge right the place where you can eat it's a full service restaurant uh yeah it is yes and um this by the, this is not the first owner of the go-kart track. Of the whole thing? Of the whole thing. Was that location a different go-kart?

Yes, it was. It was called Racer's Edge. And I learned this because I went yesterday as well after we recorded. I just walked around because I was like... i was like wait you went and didn't race no i didn't race at all uh and i went i went wow new episode title jason's walk through did you walk the track go-kart place you walk the track i just walked i kind of walked in and uh walked around and my memory it was a lot more low-key at race when it was racer's edge that seems crazy because that name is so edgy it is yes uh and um i was like oh i'll just

go in uh play a couple dollars on the uh iron maiden pinball machine i remember uh and then i'll leave and that was not an option there is no pinball anymore there is a kind of weirdly spaced out game room where you have to get a game card this is a thing at our case there is tickets yeah because you can get like tickets and redeem them from prizes wait guys speaking, speaking of old man things, it's been game cards for like a decade plus. There's this thing now where there's a card that you, this has been the case for a long time. Excuse me, I would

much rather just use tokens. I got some ones, pal. It's tactile, you know. I want to put my money in a machine, then they give me a different money back that I get to use only in these machines. I want currency that does nothing for me machine, then they give me a different money back that I get to use only in these machines. I want currency that does nothing for me elsewhere. Quarters, tokens.

The teens now are using the tokens to throw at older men. Yeah. This is what I'm afraid about, that they hear over here, like, oh, it's game cards these days. Yeah. What has happened to the go-kart industry? Cut to teens. Now the teens, they somehow hear that from the go-kart track.

Get the carts to do a launch into the arcade. Let's crash into them. Here, I'll make my car a ramp. You drive over me. Let's crush these motherfuckers. But for the purpose of this, the thing that I will say about game carts, specifically in this instance, is to make somebody get a game card for a room that has not even 10 games,

it seems a little excessive. A little excessive. That is true, yes. They're counting on you buying it and not using all the money you spent. That's the thing with game cards. It's like, oh, we'll get a little more money out of them and they'll not use it all.

They'll lose the card, the fools. They'll lose the card probably for sure yeah i would like to go back though you knew this pinball machine when it was racer's edge were you a frequenter of racer racer's no i went with like an old sketch group of mine i think avery monson was with us and um and it wasn't k1 back then it wasn't k1 it opened five years ago it's something like that yeah it opened in like 2011 as racers edge and then i found the racers edge facebook page and the last entry says march 18th 2020 for the safety of our guests and our employees we are closing due to the covid 19 pandemic and then And then Racer's Edge never reopened. Did you race at Racer's Edge?

I did race a few times. Oh, you did? So you got in the cart then? Yeah, I got in the cart then. So you were just respecting the legacy of Racer's Edge by not racing at K1. I don't trust this new brand. I don't know.

Are they edgy or not? The other thing that stuck out uh the original play was that razor's edge was trying to crowdfund a laser tag arena oh that'd be awesome yeah to pay money to to know that i helped fund this yeah what do you get what are the rewards for crowdfunding a laser tag arena free go-kart races and a few free laser tag. I thought you were going to just say, I think free go-kart racing can be like, so you don't even get to use the laser tag?

You get to use it. I believe the space that they were trying to make laser tag is now the game room, and they expanded the track at some point. Oh, okay. So the track's a little bigger than it used to be. I have one more question. Why did you think the Iron Maiden machine would be there,

even though it's new owners? I didn't know it was new owners. I was like, oh, this place looks different. Oh, so when we said K1, the place by Burbank, you thought of Racer's Edge. I thought that was the name. Yeah, no, I thought that was the name, and I just forgot the name.

I see, okay. Because I didn't know there were competing go-kart company like that like a giant chain would take over an old like well this is like the walmart of go-kart companies just absorbing everything in its wake i feel like it just takes over um because of all the locations and i don't know do we know what does racer's edge even functioning at all i don't think it exists anymore rest in peace peace, Racer's Edge. Oh, man. I think that was the one location.

Racer's Edge, the mom and pop of go-kart. Mom and pop, basically. By big K1 speed. K1's just bumping the other competitors off the track. Oh, man. So, yeah. So, we go in there and it's a big place, obviously, because you have to have a track. I was thinking the track would be bigger, honestly. It was a little smaller than I might mind.

Really? Yeah. It felt narrow to me. Like, I kind of didn't understand how anybody, like, you're maybe one racer can pass another, maybe. But if that thing's packed, how is anybody getting through? That seems like traffic in the city. Well, that was my city i was so nervous

for so many reasons and i'll tell you i haven't even revealed all the reasons i was nervous yet that's what my podcast is mostly about what you were coming in with uh like jason taking a leisurely stroll i want to make sure that our discussion of the racing part doesn't preclude jason from talking about his stroll keep chipping in in the stroll. I've got some traumatic memories to talk about too. Don't worry. I've got some traumatic memories. But even that, don't focus on that so much that it distracts from the stroll.

Well, even just to Jason's point earlier when he said that, oh, they the game room and expanded the track. I thought they expanded the track so it was smaller than that before? Yeah yeah yeah yeah like i could see where they i could see the area probably being like of where they had expanded being sink thinking like oh yeah i see that they could have expanded that particular area um because it feels like this feels different than what everything

else is but if you were just right you were basically riding around in a circle, then if, if, if, if racer's edge was, that was smaller than what it is now. Racer's edge was like the bear in the little car in a circus. You just drive in a circle over and over again. Keep it steady. I guess it's more like NASCAR though, I suppose.

Cause NASCAR, you're just going in a big oval. Oh, so you always, I don't think that's necessarily always the case. I don't know. Does NASCAR have different stuff? Is NASCAR different than the did they have different facts?

Didn't they just do or are about to do that you race through the streets of Chicago? That's Formula 1. Oh, okay, okay. Not NASCAR. Okay, yeah. I was worried I didn't know NASCAR. And this is more akin to Formula One than NASCAR. F1.

What's that? K1. K1. Yeah, K1, sorry. K1's like F1. K1's like F1 for sure. It seems like, depending on the location of these places, they'll either have a Formula One car or a NASCAR car.

Like as a branding. As like, oh, look, here's a car you can take your picture oh yeah which one was this we're like shit on the walls yeah well there's this one has speaking of shit on the walls this one has like i how would you describe this like sort of trend in restaurants where it's like kind of a fake brush sort of like leaves on a wall and then there's a neon sign that says ended up at k1 do you know what i'm talking about what that's like an instagram yeah ended up in k1 yes oh right okay it's a very like trendy thing to have it like again like a gastropub or or some sort of a restaurant or. I sent this picture to Jade, my girlfriend, and she was like,

oh, an Instagram wall? You hate that shit. She's right. It's a little exhausting. You hate a neon sign against some fake leaves? No, I love neon. But the fake or real greenery. A fake shrub.

We like fake rocks. We don't like indoor fake shrub. We like fake rocks. We don't like indoor fake shrubs. That's not true. That's what he's saying. That's Jason's opinion at least. It's just like when everywhere it just has the sign. Is it the cursive? Do you not care for the cursive aspect of the neon?

I mean, what does dot, dot, dot ended up at K1 mean? Well, it means you ended up at the K1 Speedway. I guess. It means your day took an exciting turn. Yeah. How do you feel about that type of Instagrammable wall? I mean, ended up at K1 just makes it feel like it was an accident. It's like, well, just ended up at K1.

I think maybe they should think about how they want to brand themselves. Yeah, yeah. Great to be at K1. Maybe that doesn't have a better flow, like I think maybe they should think about how they want to brand themselves yeah yeah great to be at k1 or something I go maybe that doesn't have a better flow but you want to make it seem like it was intentional that they came the idea of drag to k1 then it's not like because that's kind of that's what you text somebody when you there's not a very exciting night afoot and you just went to that bar that is acceptable and close. What happened, man? Ended up at K-1.

It's like, oh, yeah. I've been there, man. I'm going to call it then. Yeah, I won't see you there. Drank too much White Claws at the Paddock restaurant. Drove a little gasoline bomb. Also, to say restaurant at that place is very much a stretch. It's a stretch for sure. When you said you said full, it is a full service restaurant.

I'm using their language. I'm using their, just in that they have appetizers, sandwiches, and like desserts, I think. The menu is full. The pizza, the menu is very full, but it is basically like a counter at a movie theater. Right. Smaller than that, actually. Yeah. The most AMCs.

Again, when I was there before, it was like a snack bar where you can see the entire side of the soda fountain. You know, you can see the tanks and stuff. What? What does that mean? Like the syrup? A soda fountain at the Little League clubhouse, you know?

I actually don't know. I don't know. Are you saying that you could see inside of the soda fountain in the sense that you could see the walking by the soda fountain because it's on the other side of where you buy tickets you know it's right next to the cash register you're seeing like the tubs of syrup that go into making soda yeah yeah but like you see the canisters the tubs and the tubes out yeah it's just because it just used to be a fucking counter with like you know it was not as fancy yeah it wasn't as they weren't as worried about instagrammable right moments moments yeah okay so it sounds like it got better uh i i guess uh better in what sense

well i don't i don't want to see the syrup canisters. Sure. That's kind of gross. But you know that's how they make it, though. So you're just out of sight, out of mind? Yeah, basically. Because those are like, it's just like a big, like those metal, circular kind of things that almost look like they're helium tanks. Yeah. Like some certain kind of helium tanks.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I think in the past they had more of a shitty family fun center vibes and this has more of like a brew pub yeah it's a brew pub with a lot of Yelp reviews of like grown men hit my 10 year old son a number of times

when we were racing I say good that's how you make him a man Scott was talking about bringing his son I said This is a future in which my son Is older more confident And doesn't whine at everything

That's suggested that he does So a lot has to happen Between now and then but yes I would I'll give it a shot When a lot changes So yeah we went in there and they give you the option. They try to sell you the annual pass. I don't know if you remember.

Did they try to do that to you? Probably. Probably. Yeah. And we said, no, we want one race, which is still kind of unclear, like how many laps a race is. I didn't know that going in. I'm sure if we asked, they would tell us.

And according, look, and Scott and I have printouts of our race as well. Yeah, we got our graphs Oh I've been wondering What this paper was I was like Was there flyers there That I didn't grab Yeah it is oddly

Yeah we're very analog In this service We're gonna hear a lot Of paper rattling So let's get the stats You gotta print out You gotta print out Of how you did

It's a couple stats That a lot of like Diner placemats With advertisements Yeah The advertisements Are about the other Counters The other options At K1 Race that a lot of like diner placemats with advertisements yeah the advertisements are about the other counters the other options at k1 yeah yeah they're smart about it there's a coupon

here and then there's what other else what other stuff you can get involved in like the k1 teen cup everybody you have to realize it's it's double-sided so there's stuff on both sides of the sheet of paper and the smallest block is the block of their progress and then everything else is like pictures and advertisements and other things about stuff about k1 it's almost like uh did you guys have weekly reader growing up do you remember this there was a little like a thin kind of like magazine they would pass out in my the only oh for kids like yeah kids at elementary school yeah it's called weekly reader And it would be like On this thin paper Like the scholastic book Like

Yeah Kind of Something like that Anyway We'll do Weekly reader would be A good episode For podcast the ride

Really I feel like I want to pitch that You would have been like No way No weekly No because we're doing A whole month about Weekly reader

So yeah We're just You're going to have to Wait on that one But you know what So my I will say this, looking at this, I'm getting all over the place here, but to justify my worry about teens,

there is a K1 Teen Cup. So they are encouraging teens to race and they're having them. How dare they close this establishment down? I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. They can't even vote.

I was right. There's a K1 Junior League, a K1 Teen Cup. So if the Teen Cup was there that day, they might have thrown Scott and I on the track with them. I mean, oh, and then they would have just outraced you? Yeah, they would have destroyed us. You guys are imagined walking into the movie The Warriors. That's what I said earlier.

Yes. Exactly what Mike said, yes. It's almost like the thing Mike exactly said. I said it, yes. So we go in there, and they try to upsell us, and still, just because of how we like annual passes on the show, there was part of me that was like, should we get an annual pass? Probably not.

It seemed like it. It's not the worst deal, I don't think. It seemed like a good deal. But I was like, realistically, am I going to be back here a lot? And I don't think so. But we'll see. Well, let me ask, did you guys like go-karts growing up? Because they really caught on at some point, seemingly, in my memory,

at family fun centers. Did you ever ride in summer? Yeah, I mean, I didn't ride that many. But I do agree that there was a point when, and maybe that's just always the case. Like, once you become a certain age as a teenager and you're able to sort of, like, do stuff. You're like, yeah, these sort of fun park places, that's where we hang out now. And then that's when you sort of, go places that's where we hang out now and it's like and then that's when you saw go-karts or whatever and so i i had a couple of those but i i didn't i wasn't a frequenter

of go-kart stuff because i also am very i i'm i'm pretty cautious so like a go-karts are kind of to me potentially they, they seemed reckless. Like, oh, what are you? I mean, then when you get in them, you're like, oh, yeah, this is kind of what it is. But the idea of it felt so, like, so I would always be like, no, you guys go do your ride. It's okay. I'll be over here, and I'll wait around or whatever. And I never really got on as many as, you know, I probably could have.

Sure. Yeah. This is exactly me. I think I, here's my full scoop i had never done go-karting until yesterday for this i've never once and i have the exact same situation you just described we're like no you guys guys just don't really where i think i was assuming a degree of danger that you realize is not there as soon as you do your first turn in the car.

I just like my whole life, I'm imagining something so much crazier than it is. Yes. I will also say yesterday was my first time riding in a go-kart. Wow. And the reason I was not allowed to. I was told. Another thing on the list. I was told.

Fill Ronnie in on your childhood. I was told this was too dangerous. This was like a lot of things I was told Fill Ronnie in On the Your childhood I was told this was too dangerous This was like a lot of things I was not allowed to do As a kid Including not having posters Above my bed Because they would fall

And suffocate me During the night Interesting What? That's a new You haven't said that I think I have said that On the show

I don't remember that Casey you've heard that? I didn't remember that Now in California You really aren't Because of earthquakes You're not supposed to Well I grew up illinois you grew up in illinois though so i i don't quite get that poster could suffocate you i swear this is what she said and she claims to not remember this like

a lot of things she claims to not remember like a plastic bag it would have to get so precisely on your mouth like you i guess if it fell on you and then you'd have to roll over a couple of times. You'd have to end up being a real pig in a blanket with that thing. You're wrapped in it.

It would have to be like a Mr. Bean episode for me to suffocate with a poster. Your childhood, it's like the video game Hitman where it's like, and there are so many ways

you could kill somebody. There's so many scenarios. Well, you can use the wire. The text on his poster so that when he goes to sleep at night, they fall off the wall and suffocate him. No vases in the house because it could be used to bludgeon you or the shards could cut you. Yes, that is, yeah. So stuff, it was hard to get to a water park. I was not allowed to go to a water park with his friends

I had to go with my mother Until I was like 16 or 17 It was like At 18 I went to Noah's Ark alone Which is a water park up in Wisconsin Dells So there were a lot of no-no's I could not have a skateboard That was too dangerous

The listeners have heard this But Ronnie the one that I'm obsessed with Is how you had to lie About You had to lie Because you could not go to water park birthdays I did lie to my friends Yeah

So like I would get invited to my friends birthday Every year which was at a water park For whatever like teenage years And my mom would be like well tell them you're going to celebrate your father and i's anniversary and i go why would i be doing that well but that because it's it's not it's a white lie okay uh yeah i i go i'd rather just say you won't let me go in this instance i would rather just tell the truth yeah that seems more lamer than me making up a lot argue with me about this instance i would rather just tell the truth yeah that seems more lamer than me argue with me about this too she would be like no no no it's more lame if you say uh that i won't

let you go i go no it's not at least there's like an external force preventing me from doing it's not that i'm just like a little wuss look son you're already pretty lame so like i don't want you be more lame by like i'm hindering you a bunch in your childhood i agree but at the same time i don't want to make you even more of a lame than you have to be at this point you're celebrating me and your father's anniversary sorry it's not lame in the least and it was always there i wrote you a little song mom and dad i'm the kid you had and i'm wishing you an anniversary my sister and i are putting on our annual pageant to celebrate mother and father's anniversary and of course the rehearsals take two weeks so your birthday always falls in this two-week gap so i'm so sorry but

we always do little skits i'm gonna be be Austin Powers saying that your anniversary is groovy and my sister's going to be Dr. Evil. This anniversary will not stand. We had to put on a performance every year. I had to do something. I don't even remember what happened. I may have one year made her say it. It's so cloudy what's

the oldest you were that this happened that's a good question it probably 14 i mean 14 maybe 13 or 14 like it will it seemed to let high school i don't think he had this every year so probably like 13 14 ish maybe a little give or take a year. So, so. Do you think that that's an experience now that you having your own child, you're like, obviously you're not like, I got to make sure my child takes risk, but does it make you more aware of the idea of that you have to be, or that you probably will be a little bit more loose with like what you let your child experience. Yeah, it does.

And it doesn't. It's interesting because I think on some of the actual specific point, like specific places and things I'm going to be looser on. But the feeling of anxiety does remain and it comes out in different moments. Now, your nine month old is free climbing right now right she's free like tom cruise in uh mission impossible two yeah she's training to do like the free solo climb yeah yeah yeah yes uh so i think there'll be some stuff i'm looser on but the feeling of like oh my god anything can kill you is there and it'll pop up in weird ways for me so so so yes

and no i i can manage i i at least i'm aware of it which i think is the good thing right the managing is the is the managing can make it okay everything i'm not gonna worry about it i swear everything's gonna be okay um so going yesterday, in the back of my mind, there was a little bit of like, you're doing something dangerous. But I had the only, the reason I wasn't. You had a little mom over your shoulder. The reason I wasn't. Tsk, tsk.

Yeah. Yes. Well. Yes. Tell Scott and the podcast listeners that it's our anniversary. And you have to tell them. Just tell them it's your anniversary. You're celebrating me and your father's anniversary.

Yeah. I, I, my mother is like, there's a little great kazoo on my shoulder. I, my, I might have some,

some ammunition for your mother because my go-kart memories are more along the lines of what she worried about. Hold on one second because I just want to finish this thought and then we'll get to your traumatic stuff. We'll get to his ammunition for your mother. Ammunition. An unsettling phrase. We'll get to your pro-mother.

He's going to kill your mom for you. No, his mom's going to kill him. I always see you're giving her the ammunition. With, like, the plastic bags from the grocery store that you could suffocate. Oh, yeah, yeah. Be careful. Don't go to the grocery store by yourself. That's true.

And certainly my mom hasn't brought up a bunch of things to worry about in regards to the baby. That's not happened. Oh, okay. That's good to hear. That sounds to the baby That's not happened Oh okay That's good to hear That sounds genuine And that's good to hear And she lives closer to you now So that helps

So we went in there And I was also In my mind sometimes I'm like I was thinking There would be like Go-karts like Mario Kart Like smaller karts

But that's not Like Mario Kart The original But yeah Once I saw it I was like Okay those are bigger things They have to fit a person, so yes.

Yes. As opposed to a little dinosaur. Well, Bowser crammed his way in there, so. Yeah, that's true. Maybe I was. I also say, I will say, it was a little tight for me. I'm a tall guy. You're a tall guy.

Yeah. So we did this. Now, the only reason I wasn't super super worried Was because I have done A crazier version of this Which I've talked about On the show before Like an actual

Drive on the desert At a track Where you get in a car Oh uh huh And there's a guy next to you To make sure you don't crash And he's just yelling stuff at you The whole time

And you go It was a bachelor party And you're going like A hundred miles an hour And it's insane Right That sounds Yeah that sounds crazy too

So That's the only reason I wasn't a little bit more worried but like a straightaway or no like this like a track like kind of like turns and stuff which is and and other people on the track oh which is insane yeah okay and the cars are nice too and the cars are nice not mess these up uh so we go in there they give what do they call them the things we got for free

head socks head socks you get a head sock for free yeah yeah Jason did Racer's Edge give you a free head sock do you remember no I had

I don't remember head socks I remember like I don't would you call it a neck brace like the neck padding I don't think you would call it a neck brace? Like the neck padding? I don't think you would call it a neck brace. Like a neck, the sort of padded thing. The old lady version of Ernest wore.

And a motorcycle helmet. Are you talking about after the race when they put you in a neck brace? No, no, to put under your helmet. It was like a neck guard. Really? That's weird. That sounds much worse. That sounds a lot worse.

On top of a motorcycle helmet. Oh. I guess they knew what their rides were. Racer's Edge was like, this is a neck pain for sure. It's a preemptive neck brace. Yeah, avoid some lawsuits. You're going to get whiplash. This is to slightly decrease your whiplash.

Yeah. So we put those on. And very quickly, I remembered, I have mild claustrophobia when it comes to- Oh, no. Yeah. So we put those on and very quickly I remembered I have mild claustrophobia when it comes to... Oh no! Yes! No! No! We've talked about this before. I had to bow out of an escape room

a year and a half ago because I was wearing a mask at that point and they put a big kind of restrictive outfit on you and I had a mild panic attack. And I remembered I did a Funny or Die video with Jeremy Piven many years ago where i had to put on a racing helmet and i had a mild helmet yeah i had a mild like oh i don't like this so we go and i'm like oh shit i wasn't even thinking about worrying about this you didn't indicate this to me at all probably because i couldn't see your face by the time this was on. Well, at this point, I was just like, I tried to serve.

Like, I was just like, no, you're not freaking out here. So I put the thing on. I put the helmet on. And I'm like, no, you're fine. You're fine. You're fine. You're fine. I'm thinking this in my head yesterday.

Everything is fine. I missed all of this. And then once they put me in the car, I forget. But it's such a weird thing to have this, like, pop up once in a while. Because your brain knows it's stupid. Right. As soon as you're distracted, it's such a weird thing to have this like pop up once in a while because your brain knows it's stupid right as soon as you're distracted it's fine right but there was a good like 30 seconds not not i didn't come anywhere close like the minotaur escape room to bowing out or anything but it was still it happened ronnie we'd love to have you on the show let's just do a couple rounds of picking a topic to make sure we get one where that causes me multiple levels of anxiety.

So I guess... Anything with dark caves or any sort of like... Yeah. What about... We've never reviewed MRI machines. Can't have you ever been in an MRI... But they have to be themed MRI machines. If they have like a pattern...

If they play music through it, then any of them can be. That's true. That's true. So once I was seated in the cart, that was fine. And then I was ready to race. I was ready to go. So anyway. Wait, can I back up to Ron's experience?

Yeah, yeah. Of course. You did it by yourself, but was there anyone else on the track? Oh, for sure. There's a lot of people. Like, and there were, because at first it was a group of teens. Oh. So I think they were like a group.

It was like, oh, maybe like a family and other people. And so it was like a bunch of younger people that were just in that ride that sort of like knew each other so like they were sort of like bumping each other a little bit or like or even when they came in you know like when you come back in to pull your car in they're like kind of smashing at you like oh and they're like laughing like whatever that type of thing but it's because they knew each other so it was like oh we're just having fun with our buddies and then they got out and so i went in by myself and it was like people who sort of knew each other so it was like i'm gonna say a pack

of women but no it's not as aggressive as it sounds but like of women who knew each other so they were like having fun and then some guys whatever and then there was one guy who is like if you've ever seen any of the fast and furious movies it's like one person who is like the that the racer who's like oh man that's that's that's tony so-and-so like he had that vibe wow right just uh just um just he looked like he looked like one of the bad guys from any sort of rambo movie like just uh somebody uh just somebody from somewhere else who's just whose job is to just kill Rambo so that was what he looked like but apparently they had to have known this person because it's like oh hey what's up man and he's like yeah so I'm thinking like maybe he like he's worked there or it's rather he he works there so this is him the thing or he races there so much that he's like a regular so the guy knew him and so i'm going to tell you

my experience because this is how i knew this is how i felt like i was being cheated we start the race i'm i'm racing like oh okay i'm like driving shifting and doing all this stuff we're not shifting just breaking yeah breaking and gassing there are no shifts it's breaking and gassing i was like well you got a different going nuts i thought you got a different car than us yeah yeah i know there might be different there might be more complicated cars i think there is something where you could drift or i think there's a drift night uh-huh where they modify the cars and there's also a glow night well yeah we gotta talk about that later well so i'm so i start driving so i'm i'm like the last car right or maybe he's behind me rather he was in front of me or behind me so yeah so i'm driving the guy hasn't moved and so it was

finally like they've got far enough and then you just see him sort of take off but you're like we're so far ahead and seemingly i'm flooring it like i feel like i'm pushing the gas through the floor so i'm riding like if we're all going the same speed there's no way yeah and then he just sort of starts whipping through wow to the point where that's when i realized i was like i think he i think his thing is just faster than everybody else's because there's no way that he's lapping us like this because i i was in by no means playing it safe i was break when i had to sort of get into a turn but i was because i was literally trying to be like it was like a puzzle to me i was like I gotta get it's like if you ever pay test or something I was

like I gotta get through him gotta get through this person okay I'm gonna get there around this person all right got around this person like so it literally was like I'm going as fast as this thing can possibly go but I think but at one point and this is how i realized that how they control sort of the the uh the oh they can turn they can turn like throttle the speed because somebody had sort of t turned t-bone turned or got turned sideways so he had to sort of like stop it so they could manually stop it so we couldn't drive our cars until they sort of got the car turned around so that's when i was like are they juicing his car up like does he have if there's to speak in terms if there's like um if there's like a 10 like a 10 speed level and let's say they got all of our cars at like a five it's like do they have his at like

an eight you know because he's like somebody who knows the track clearly they're like oh yeah you're gonna you can do whatever the fuck you want like we trust you not to wreck your the car and so he was able to sort of like lat i think he might have lapped me like twice he was going so fast like so much just so much faster than everybody else that he was able to catch up and sort of like that that was his this is the only way to make it a challenge for me sort of the sort of vibe let everybody lay back let everybody else go and then we're we're tempted at every turn to compare this to mario kart at court but this is this this is like he had a star right he had he had the star how he got it i don't know if he like if that's a deal he makes with the plays right but that wow that's that's. But it definitely was like the experience of,

oh, and there's a split second for you where you kind of go, do I want to kind of get into go-kart racing? Like, do I want to come here enough to where they allow me to go faster than that? And then you're like, think about it, and you're like, of course I don't. No, no way do I want to devote my time,

my free time to being the go-kart guy as soon as you do one thing in your regular life it reminds you oh right yes I am not I cannot drop everything and be Mr. Go-Kart because I felt similar I don't think I went for it as hard as you did but I'm looking at stats and I'm like, God, I think I could increase these stats. I think I know what I could do different now. Maybe I gotta start and then I see my son again and like, wait, this is what I have to be doing, not tending to my go-kart stats.

It seems like, it reminds me of the indoor skydiving at CityWalk, where we did it once, and we're just trying to keep it together. And then sometimes you walk by, and there's clearly regulars. There was a 12-year-old kid there once, and he's just flipping around and bouncing on the walls. And they turn the air up for him so he can go high. It's funny that you mention that, because within the time frame of when mike

first asked me to do this and till now i've done so many stuff in between that window and i fly was one of the things that i really did i did it with my like for my girlfriend's birthday she had like a bunch she doesn't use gift cards uh-huh like she forgets that she has them sure so we basically i basically divvied up all the gift cards of hers that i could find and then we just started going around places to where the gift card some of these were so old that people had to sort of like go to a different system like i fly was one of them where they were like we have to sort of we got a new system so we have to go dig into our sort of analog manual system to sort of like find this gift card thing so it was situations like that and so we went and i was not gonna do it but i but i said if i get this for her and i don't do it

she's not gonna enjoy it as much so i had to do it and so i did it as well and it's like yeah it's like there's people in there that is like oh yeah in my it was just the instructor who was like all right time to show you all how to do it and when they're doing it you're like yeah maybe i do want to kind of because they only like letting you do like tandem sort of it's like let's keep it straight go up and down yeah and then it like, all right now after the fact, that's how they get you. Cause it's like, all right,

well you've got, you've perfectly, totally quit. They've like, all right, now you got the ride or now you've done it before. So now do you want to, you know,

maybe invest in this a little bit more right now is the only time you can get a 10 pack. And for this price now, cause you did the ride, but if you want to, you know, maybe invest in this a little bit more? Right now is the only time you can get a 10 pack. And for this price now, because you did the ride. But if you leave here, then it's regular price again to get the 10 try ride or whatever. Right. And I was seriously thinking like, that's kind of a good deal. Do I want to? And then it was the same thing being like, I'm not the iFly guy.

I'm not going to be here once a week spending my time trying to, you know, try to get better. Now I get to turn around one time or whatever. Like it was like, I don't, I'm not going to do this. Like it's interesting,

but it's, I don't have the time. Yeah. Yeah. But it's, so it's a perfect teen thing because you do have the time. If you have the time, these are great teen places.

Cause you can be like the coolest teen with a very specific skill. Like that your friends probably do not have. Yeah, and then you compete with other teens in the teen cup. Right. So now with this context, Mike, do you see why the teen cup is not necessarily an evil? No, I understand there's probably good teens that compete in the teen cup and they just like the spirit of competition. And yeah, maybe it gives them some sort of pride in something that they've learned how to do.

I get that. They're not all bad teens. I don't want to paint the broad brush that all teens are going to hassle an older man. That's not true. I know, I know that, but this is just a illogical mind of mine.

That was brave of you to say, I mean, you feel very qualified and say an older man who is totally down with teens and knows what teens like. Well, yeah, an older man who is sort of in tune with the young generation in a lot of ways. Because you go to Hot Topic once every nine months and you see the items on the shelf, so you know what teens like. And I'm drinking liquid death water. I was just telling everybody before the record now. That's like a younger, hipper thing to do.

Does the audience know this, that Mike's drinking liquid death now? You guys should probably be listeners listeners, you should be aware Mike has made a choice in his life. You have stylish camo pants on. I went to camo joggers a few years ago, almost exclusively. Thank you for noticing. So, obviously,

that's a good way to hide if a bunch of, if you're in the jungle and there's a bunch of teens running loose in there. That's right. Or if you don't, if you're on a hike and you don a bunch of teens running loose in there. That's right. Or if you're on a hike and you don't realize that you crossed a border into a paintball zone. Yeah. And now you're on the run. Like, uh-oh, I'm going to get hit.

But maybe you won't because you got the camera. I was not allowed to do paintball either because it was dangerous. Well, that is a weapon. It does feel. I am scared. I've never done it. That feels I'm a little scared to do it because those hurt. I've also never done paintball. But we should probably do it and just hurt each other.

Yeah. Well, if you wear your camo pants, you can hide. You can also hide against the fake plant Instagram walls. You can disappear into them. Is there like a gastropub-y style paintball place that we could go that has some sort of a lounge? Gastropub looks like the worst food you've probably ever eaten. Okay, fair enough. And if you're going to be worried about anybody, I would say I'm worried about any of the patrons at the paintball place.

They're probably people who, I own real guns, and this is the only way I get to get my gun shooting out. It's the only way I can shoot humans. You're going to get real aggro people that are like you can go with your friends and it's different, but if you're like, all right, we're just going to go and sort of be amongst the regular patrons of somewhere like this, that's probably where you're going to meet a lot of more aggro people. Yeah, and not the teens

are not the people I'm worried about there. No, it's the guy putting his paintball gear on and going like, this is just like being back in NAMM and you're like, oh no. You want to be back no full metal jacket for people multiple different style of paintball weapons he got a handheld paintball gun he's whipping that to his pants guy's got like ak-47 paintball he shoots himself in the head with his own paintball gun no no you're backing me to a corner i gotta take myself out it's like what are you talking i haven't talked to you i'd rather do it no right now i'd rather you do it than i

rather i do it than you do it uh so wow i that is the yeah the cool guy doesn't the cool evil guy doesn't surprise me there because there's so much going on. YouTube, did you look at the YouTube at all for K1 Speed? A little bit. Yeah. It's like they got a lot. This is a whole thing. As they show you on these printouts, they have weekly the National Leaderboard and the Burbank Adult Best of the Week.

So they keep track of all these numbers. Yeah, exactly. You can look at this right now and see number one, Scott Gairdner. Number 1,000 foreign. I'm the national leader board. Yeah, that'd be national. Number two, it just says The Ace. No, I don't know about The Ace.

The Ace. Oh, that's when I used a different name. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. I am The Ace, too. Oh, and then there's also... That's on the top, too. Interesting. okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. I am the ace, too. Oh, and then there is also... That's on the top, too.

Interesting. Best stroller, also. Best adult stroller through the show. Oh, yeah, that's right. Coolest guy who strolled in to see if there was an old pinball machine there. Best adult stroller. So I like how they break it down into rather child or adult or child. Yes.

Yeah. Yeah, Burbank adult best of the week. And I'm confused by best of the week. And that's, I'm confused by some of the scoring. All I know is that like, okay, let's just like the ranks is the rank out of how, how many people have ever done it?

Because the rank is out of 12 million. The rank is out of almost 13 million. And I'm happy to say, I don't remember what yours is. Mine's like 747 000 something where are you 972 000 okay so okay we're in the we are in the top million i was i was definitely that's true yeah that we might be so in the bottom or even i, the worst would be to be in the bottom 10 of 13 million. But I think we're keeping pace.

That's like the top 15%, I think. Yeah. Or something. Pretty good. Maybe, okay. Do you have an email? Because you had to sign a waiver before you start. Do you think you could, like, if you search K1 in your email, do you think you might have,

because I found my results also in my email from the waiver as well. So your results somewhere somewhere on your email oh i would have to look um i i do remember i don't remember where i was in that i do remember that um in it i was rather like out of maybe like eight or nine racers i was like fourth or fifth but i only remember this because i remember kind of oh okay and this is the most i remember it because i was like oh i was the worst man because everybody who was before me were all men and everybody i had beat were all the women and i was like interesting okay i'm the worst man yeah i'm the worst man here but i'm faster than all the women which is like i just remember it was such a misogynistic thought to be like huh interesting like it's like interesting you all did this that's strange

it broke down that way that's interesting i wish that we had broader stats now i sort of wish that we had i i felt the same i think we felt the same way going in we were like so you want to get there at opening and then once we're in there do you want to make sure that we sign up and pay as quickly as possible and as soon as any other customers come in people who maybe were older than us hey let's make sure hey let's get on the show yeah run us through the safety instructions really fast i was i wanted to get out there so quickly on the track so that it was just the two of us yeah but now that i've done it and i realize that it's not scary at all now i kind of wish that we had a bunch of teen stats to to go up against but unfortunately that was a race of two people

it was a race of two people yeah i i for the for the show yeah it would be better if it was scott and i versus six 13 year olds or like we like we got entered into the teen cup that day they're like well you can race today but you're going to be part of the teen cup i'm like okay well but i might have been like out i'm out i'm out i don't care i'm out of the show i'm quitting the show um i but there was a race going on which was the race to get out there as quickly as possible to arrive maybe like not even a little late to like let's make sure i'm parking at 11 58 because i do not want anyone else on that track let's put these face socks on as quickly as possible oh mike's having a panic attack let's look let's muscle

through that let's get through that as quickly as we can. And so did people come in after you, like, were people coming in regularly around the opening time, or were you like, oh, it's us, and then it wasn't anybody else for like 10 minutes or so? Maybe 10 minutes later.

People were right on our tail, but we got out of there. We did our race, just us, and then got to watch their race and see that they were going, I would say, an average of 10 seconds faster per lap than we were. Our average laps are in the 35, 37 zone. Does that mean seconds? What does that mean?

That's seconds. That's how long. It's 12 laps. That's how long one takes. So I'm averaging 35 and the people right after us one of them was very young were at least 10 seconds faster yeah that's that's where we stacked up yeah okay uh uh so we were i was because i did the car that car thing many years ago at this point i i was like you know what i know how to do this what

you do is you accelerate when there's like kind of a straightaway and then you hit the brake and do the turns because that's what the man yells at you who's sitting next to you in this car thing to do he goes got it floor like put the pedal to the floor and you're like that feels wrong like so you're like i'm already going pretty fast uh but that's like sort of how you're supposed to do it because they have you know when you get to those turns it already says slow down and stuff so or break maybe i forget there's some warning on the when you're going around the turn it says slow down or break you mean on the track on the track itself yeah that threw me for a while i'm like iso i have to

slow down every single time i see the word slow down yeah so so i think what you're really supposed to do is gun it on a straightaway and then just break as hard as you can and turn and then gun it again and that's the way to get the fastest speed now i realize after i've done this there's no way i was going top speed on any of the straightaways because i was trying to do this in my mind scott was scott almost laughed me i was really trying Towards the end I was thinking I thought you might have not

This is a question I had I thought you might have been Going easy on me Because I go Scott's going to lap me I don't want him to lap me And I started getting Really stressed out about it

I knew this was happening We didn't talk about it We've not talked about this yet We didn't talk about it But when I started to realize It was a possibility Like oh shit Can I

So I had some real motivation My best lap was 11 out of 12 so you could tell that by the end i'm thinking can i do this can i do this maybe i can do this and i didn't quite get there ultimately i was still like kind of like uh you know like nervous enough to not fully but i was getting more ambitious i would have really liked that lap to be completely fair to you i did start first it was a slow beginning so i don't think all of that lapping would have been purely but yeah because i'm a speed demon well i think what happened was you were just maintaining a normal amount of speed

the whole time because you said you never broke i never hit the brake one time all i would i would ease off on the gas but but I did not ever brake. So I think this notion, yeah, I think you were applying this real, this crazy fast car logic. Right, but not doing it right. Yeah, yeah. Not going fast enough for that. I don't think you ever brake. But this was accidental, finally. Because I did, one of the times I went the fastest, I broke and I did kind of almost hit the wall a little bit.

So I was like, well, that's a little too fast, I think. Like, so I didn't, I definitely was not going as fast as possible, but I think you've proven the tortoise and the hare almost in a way, not that we were going slow and steady, but consistent speed is better unless you're very good at doing.

I just don't think you want to break entirely because then you have to gear up. To go back to Mario Kart, this is if you get hit with a shell or spin around and lose your five coins. I'm talking about the very first Mario Kart. Of course, yes. Or you have to be lifted back in

by the little guy with the fishing pole. The gear up again takes so long. Well, but I think what it would be Is the drift type thing Is that you're going so fast That brake, you're skinning into position And then you go Like if you're doing it correctly

I don't think you're actually losing as much speed As you think you are I think But this is something You have to become, as we've said A go-kart guy To be able to master this So I think for a first-timer.

Mastering the art of how much brake, how much gas. I mean, full gas, but how much little brake to full gas. Yes. Now, there are K1-on-1 race classes where you can book a one-on-one racing lesson with an expert. And you booked them for all of us. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate it. $99.99 for a lesson.

Oh, my God. So it's possible. Look, I don't think I'm going to be a race guy, but I did leave there going, I should have done a little better than that. And it's not just because I lost to Scott. It was just like, I was like, give me one more. Well, that's how they do you. Because once you realize that it's not just because i lost the scott it was just like i was like give me one more well that's how it that's how they do you because once you realize that it's like oh it's not as crazy as i

thought it was gonna be then you're like all right now that that part is over i feel like i know how to approach this in a way that's that i can do better yes like and if you would have had if let's say like if you would have bought two rides because i think like the deals get better the more rides you buy yeah for sure so if it's like oh i would have paid for the two rides and then the second ride you would probably would have did much better than your first ride that's right but you're not gonna pay for one ride and then go like i think i got another one and then pay for another full one right it's like i'll uh yeah i'll just i'll just eat this will just burden me for the rest of my life yeah yeah Yes I will never fix this

I don't think That's what I left When I did that car thing The car thing is I've said this I'm repeating myself But I guess I haven't said it In a little bit

What they do with a car When you're actually racing In a car Is they take you On the track In a littler car With somebody else driving To familiarize your brain

With the layout of the track So it's in almost It's not in Like It's just like a little bit Bigger than a sedan Or something But you're packed in there With the layout of the track So it's in almost It's not in Like It's just like A little bit bigger Than a sedan or something But you're packed in there

With the other people That are going to race And A person is driving the car And you get on the track With a bunch of other cars And you race She drives around the track

And she's just like So what are you going to do You're going to be Taking a left here And then you brake here Accelerate here And you're going I'm like in the backseat

I'm just like This is the fastest I've ever been in a car ever and she's driving she's driving fast and explaining everything she's like it's amazing what she's doing she's repeating the speech she's memorized that she's breaking going crazy or whatever and then she goes and now i'm gonna go around again and really open it up so she so you're already in the back seat of like this is a runaway car i've never been in that we're good we're going to crash then the second lap she goes as fast like what feels like twice as fast and i remember just going i am terrified i've never been this scared in my life

i've never been in like a vehicle going this fast uh and you get out and you're shaking everyone in the car with us was just like rubbing their head. Like, what are we going to be? What are we doing? You feel like 10 posters fell on you in the middle of the night. Yes. So everyone who's never done this before is commiserating like, oh my God, what are we doing? And then you do get in the car.

And once you kind of get the hang of it you've never felt adrenaline like this and it's the same kind of thing where afterward i was like i gotta race a car again like your adrenaline is so high you start having the thoughts of like maybe i drive out into the 90 minutes into the desert every weekend i wonder if i would feel like that if i did in a controlled environment like that. Yeah. Like, one time when I was back home, I'm from South Carolina,

so I was driving, I had flew into Atlanta to drive to South Carolina, and the car they gave me was this orange Challenger. Oh, wow. I'd never been in a Challenger, but they gave me, and I was like, oh, okay. And I remember it was, when I was driving back to Atlanta to return the car and fly home

um it was late at night like really late like 1 2 a.m that type of late right and it was like just one of those kind of roads that's just like nothing's happening either way it's just one of those straightaways that's just it's the country it's just a straightaway nothing but trees and stuff like and i'm in this challenger and there's no cars behind me and it's just a straight away nothing but trees and stuff like and i'm in this challenger and there's no cars behind me and there's like no cars in front of me like i'm sort of like in this unspoken like race um with another car at some point but i had dusted them yeah and when i say dusted them i just meant like you know hey i don't didn't see them. And I was like, I think I'm going to open it up. And I just remember hitting the gas and being like, okay.

And like when it got around 80, I got so scared. I was like, oh, this isn't for me. You know? And so the whole time I spent just like the wrestle of I'm going to punch it a little bit. There's nobody going. There's nothing. This is a straightaway. Like nothing can happen.

I'm just going to press the gas. And it got to a certain speed. And every time it got to a certain speed, I got too scared and started to let off the gas. And so I wonder in an environment where it's like, this is it, would I feel more comfortable? But I could not do it. Well, there's a guy yelling.

Again, the way they do it with the car racing is there's a person sitting next to you going faster yelling so there's a man screaming at you to do something so like you will go a little faster than you you're comfortable with but it is such a thing like with driving a car because you've driven a car for so many years that like just there's a comfortable speed which like once you go past it it feels like you're breaking the rules of space and time and like your brain all of a sudden just is like we're out of control i can't a hundred is too much and i think maybe i got to like 90 something but he was still upset with the lack of speed the guy next to me because he was like i'm driving with this fucking grandma over here i I'm driving Miss Daisy.

You've hit like 99 miles per hour. He's doing the pace car experience. He's doing like the monitor car. I can't see anymore. Do you understand? You call me a grandma? I do think we should all do it. I think we should go race cars.

Maybe. You all should go Race cars for sure No It sounds awful Alright well you two Should race the cars And Jace just stroll around Yeah Just stroll around

Just stroll around See what drinks they got In the lobby of the car racing place Yeah No it was scary But by the end of it I was like That's the craziest

Adrenaline surge Of my life Yeah So that It's worth it for that. And I'm sorry, more than finally getting the $4 off at CVS? Well, that was a pretty big adrenaline surge, Ronnie. Jason brought to my attention that if you go on CVS, sometimes in your email, they will give you a $4 off coupon.

And my coupon was only for $2. And Jason was getting a weekly $4 coupon. I haven't gotten them in weeks. keep getting the four dollar coupon now so jason is not getting it and i i've used it in the last two or three weeks anything you want look who's lapping who oh yeah i didn't think he was gonna do that i mr checking um check this is just happening i wonder if somebody i wonder if we have a listener at CVS Corporate or something, or CVS Marketing. And they're like, this little asshole keeps spending $4 on candy and nothing else. Well, Jason found the perfect hack.

If they have like a two for three movie theater box candy, that's getting you under $4. You roll in there, get three boxes, free. Walk out with three boxes of movie theater candy yeah and that's his that's his hack i've done it once sure it works yeah ronnie you didn't know the kind of thrill junkies you were dealing with honestly honestly i thought i was coming in for a nice chill conversation but i didn't know i was gonna be in here with just a bunch of a bunch of neurotic weirdo guys. What's the best deal

you've ever gotten? Scott, get off my neck! Name a good deal you've had or you're out! If you had said I want to talk about CBS, we would have said yes. CBS counts, yes. I thought, there's no way that these guys would talk about CBS.

It's just too action-packed. Are they ready for it? Speaking of neuroses, so my go-karting experience, I did do go-karts as kids. My first memory was that my family had gotten free tickets for the go-karts run by, like, Playland, the amusement park at the boardwalk in Ocean City. And these are the go-karts. They're kind of, like, behind the boardwalk.

And I think it was a lot of two-seater go-karts. And I think I was either too short or right on the line to drive it but because it was two-seater i could ride in the passenger seat with my dad driving wow and these are like the teen made ones because it's like seven dollars a race it's not like thirty dollars but i thought like oh this is good i want to try this anyway these things must go like 50 miles an hour i'm sure they went 15 or 20 miles an hour. How old were you again? This is probably like 10.

So then a few years later, it was like a group from the neighborhood went to a shitty family fun center, like a junky second rate Chuck E. Cheese Dave and Buster's. And that had a go-kart track. And whatever group rate we had gotten we had like unlimited races from it and so me and my brother did it like once or twice and i the like second time we did it you know we're pulling in the races ending and like you said like you're getting a little jostled as everyone's braking and coming into a line and stuff uh whoever the young teen uh was did not signal to one of the cars like stop slow down and so they hit my brother's go-kart at like whatever full speed was and he got his shit rocked oh like he was fine it

was just very shaken up sure my mom was like screaming at the teens like what the hell are you doing what is who's watching that who's in charge here and probably making a bigger scene than he was upset about so that shook me just witnessing all that shook me so much i then did not do go-karts for like 20 years until uh the former racer's edge here in burbank so i did it a little bit as a kid and then not again until i was like 30 because you don't want to be hit because i didn't want to get nailed from behind which seems to be a real possibility at this place as they give you a full motorcycle helmet. There's a lot of reviews online of like, I kept getting hit. There's no way people aren't getting hit daily.

There's just no way. I'm not saying it's maybe major stuff, but there's just no way when there's a track full of people and kids right if it's i think if it's i think if it's like adults trying to really win or kids just yeah being kids i think i was lucky that people were trying to figure out what was going on and i was just i was i was doing that thing where i was like the goal is i want to try to pass as many people as i can and then also do it in a way where it's like I'm crossing you but I'm not hitting I didn't touch you you know whatever it is for like puzzle piece sort of situation but

I'm sure like when it's like no I'm trying to win I'm sure it's a lot of bump fast and furious style bumping and and Nas hitting and oil slick drop off tricks and stuff when I went like and when i had been there before i noticed this too there were like some very nice cars in the parking like some teslas some dodge

chargers and i'm like you've driven your nice car to this place to drive a worse car you know well that's every i everyone's car is uh worse than a go-kart yeah you're in a bad situation if the go-kart is better than your car yeah i mean in some cases i've driven worse cars than the go-karts you think you had a worse car than a go-kart i mean i've just had older cars they're like borrowed friends in college like old 80s volkswagen or whatever that was like a tank but let me ask you this did it have a roof yeah it did have a roof and i think we're talking better than a go-kart all right listen i don't want to i'm sure scott isn't trying to any of his fans out here who has a really bad car that's worse than a go-kart we're not trying to shit on you

i'm not i'm not shaming but just take this moment as a moment of inspiration where it is like you need to get a better car than a go-kart. If you're in the camp where it's like my car is not better than a go-kart

then this is your wake-up call. For safety's sake. For safety's sake. I have to wear a face sock and a helmet before I go anywhere. Every time I put on my business suit in the morning

before my corporate job and then I have to put on my face sock and my helmet. So my hair is so messed up by the time I get to work. I don't look presentable. And then I'm on the freeway. It's taking me forever. And then

a big truck just drives right over me entirely. I'm under the truck. I'm so sick of trucks driving over my car i used i i for for many years i drove my dad's old mazda and it was like a 10 or 12 year old mazda and once it started to overheat and i took it to a garage and like the next day they called me and they're like you never want to hear a garage say like i've never seen this before and the answer was pieces of the engine are like breaking off and going through the transmissions

it was like a total freak thing the car is eating itself yeah the car basically the car was eating itself it's like if mater had eaten it's his own like butt or something yeah well you gotta try everything once in life i'm gonna eat my own ass i just get her done oh shoot now i don't exist anymore i hated myself out of living the summer before i was driving it i just filled it up with gas and as i'm driving i start to smell gas and i watched the gas tank meter slowly go down and uh did you have a leak in the gas it was there was a leak in the fuel line and i took i took it to the to a garage and the guy very similarly was like wow i don't normally smell the smell of gasoline working around cars as much but i can really smell gasoline like you're driving a jug heads jalopy around town basically here's what's the car is drinking its own gasoline the car the car is a junkie and it's trying to get high.

So it's literally getting high off its own spot. Well, here's the question. Is gasoline a car's pee or is, I guess. Oh, Mike, we don't have time for this discussion. I think we have a lot of time for this. I'm putting some coffee on. Nobody's leaving until we figure out if a car's pee is gasoline. Part two.

K1 speed part two coming in a second. Is gasoline pee? Find out in part two. What a tease. I think it's like fresh water. Like you'd get in a can of liquid death. Pee is? No, gasoline.

Oh, okay. A car's got to hydrate. You want your car to be better than a go-kart And you want your sparkling water to be better than Pee or gasoline Liquid death does have a piss flavor Because it's a little extreme It's sort of an extreme brand

So they're going to have a little Some people, and once again I'm not shaming Some people might like drinking a big glass of pee. That's right. A tall boy of pee, please, I say when I go out on the town. I don't care. So, yeah. What have we missed?

We got to his gasoline. Well, we opened up the question of is the car's pee gasoline. We left a cliffhanger for the audience. Yeah. We did. We started to open it up like Mike on a straightaway behind a decommissioned NASCAR car. We agreed that we're all going to race in the desert in real supercharged cars, including Jason. While a man yells at us, yes.

And other than that, we realized today that teens can be nice. That's the takeaway, everybody. I mean, we talked about fast cars and driving and stuff, but the real takeaway from this entire episode is that teens can actually be nice. Teens can be nice, and they deserve a cup. Why not give them a cup it's hard being a teen it is i was it was hard for me to be a teen in a lot of ways not how much easier would it have been if you'd gotten a cup if i had a cup if i if i probably walked into

my junior high with a cup raised over my head i'm sure everyone would have been so pleased to see it and treated me better than they had been. I mean, but then, in the contrary, if you walked into your home with a cup over your head, your mother probably would have took that cup and disposed of it immediately because having a cup over your head could be very dangerous. But if you were too weak to hold the cup and you dropped it on your head, giving yourself a concussion. Base is very heavy. Yeah, that's a very good point.

I would have had to hide the cup from my mother for many reasons well you won the teen cup your mom must be so proud uh well it's complicated i would have had to say that the cup i won before being like it was not from go-karts it was from like being the the handsomest teen or something but and then i couldn't have shown her the actual cup i'd have to show her like a picture of what it would have looked like now the cup is uh medium sized right not big enough to fit over your head right yeah yeah right yeah you literally almost can drink from it it's like a drinking glass yeah it's a small it's handsome but it says handsomest teen on the bottom why would they why would they

give you a big cup to fit over your head if you're the handsomest teen it might fall over your head and then nobody can see how handsome you are. Well, that's, I don't know. I have to talk about, I'll talk with the head of the teen cup organization who hands out these awards. Hey, listen, this was a blast. Thank you. Thank you for bringing, thank you for, mainly for surviving our topic selection process.

Right. So that we could be here. here as part of the show yeah yeah well once you you know once you get that's like that first lap where you're just like getting your bearings but then when then once you hit a straightaway uh then it's nothing but fun right right no you're right i'm right honestly i am happy that this allowed you two both to experience go-kart racing for the very first time at soon to be 38 i have yes i have done the mainly child and teen sport go-karting now and it's all thanks to you ronnie adrian i survived doing that and you survived podcast the ride uh thanks thanks so much for being here uh and let's exit through the gift shop is there anything you'd like to plug uh no I mean well I mean bones Adrian that's what you get uh some Instagram that's also on Twitter

or whatnot and you know on Instagram mostly is if I was doing something that's where you find out sure as the place to keep it tuned for future things to plug uh well yeah so fun having you uh and as for us um hey next week is the beginning of podcast the ride sin city nights we head to Vegas next week uh so hope everybody's excited for that and that of course means that coming up very soon is Podcast the Ride's Big Vegas Groove Blender with Eva Anderson. You can come see that in person in Las Vegas, or you can watch the live stream, which you can find at thespacelv.com. And besides all that, there's, as always, the Patreon for three bonus episodes a month. Podcast the Ride, the second second gate patreon.com slash podcast the ride um and i just this is a quick i didn't want to derail us because we were kind of on our

way out the door but i do want people to know that the owner of this of k1 yeah uh is a former uh nascar or could i clearly i don't know nascar versus formula one but a former driver named boris saeed um so that might be if you're getting legit racing thrills out of this place that might be why you got a real racer at the head of the organization but i i'd have to say that he did uh unfortunately um he did get into a heated incident with greg biffle at the 2011 hell of a good sour cream dips at the glen what what did you just say uh well boris saeed the owner of k1 speed got into a heated incident with greg biffle at the 2011 hell of a good sour cream dips at the glen are you not a hell of a good man michael now have you

heard it yeah do you know i know i assumed was a brand, especially by the exclamation point in the name of the, it's a weird thing to name a race. I don't even see the part in the race title where it says, you know, race. It just says hell of a good, the 2011 hell of a good sour cream dips. So sour cream, it's the brand of sour cream. It's the brand of dips, I think. It's the brand of dips. it's the brand of uh dips i think it's a hearty it's okay i mean well it probably wasn't even his fault because i could i know greg biffle and he i know he's a real hothead so okay yeah greg biffle could be a real hothead sometimes you

know what i'm gonna quote you're not wrong i'm gonna quote boris saeed and say i'm upset with greg biffle he's the most unprofessional little scaredy cat i've ever seen in my life he won't even find me like a man if someone texts me his address i'll go see him wednesday at his house and show him what he really needs he needs a freaking whooping and i'm gonna give it to him totally unprofessional wow right you you sensed from- He knew. He knows Greg Biffle, though, so it's not surprising. Yeah, yeah.

You know all about him. I mean, I don't know him personally, but I just know of him. You've heard the reputation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. I know about Biffle. Yeah, Biffle needs a whoopin'. I don't know if it ever happens, but I hope it does.

Make those shirts. Those are Podcaster Riot shirts. Biffle needs a whoopin'. On sale soon. Look for those. ceiling for those it's so popular and and you know for just doing wrap-ups uh unfortunately uh the former racers edge did not hit their funding goal on fundable for the burbank laser tron we never saw the burbank laser how close did they get it doesn doesn't say. It doesn't say. Just that they're no longer taking donations. Well, now, everybody who didn't donate needs a whoopin'.

They need a whoopin', too. There's too many whoopins' to go around. Oh, I'm ending this episode so mad. I'm angry, too. Let's all go get whoopin'. I'm mad, yeah. Forever Dog. This has been a Forever Dog production.

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