Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 648 - Lexi Arnold #5 and Competitive Driving

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

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It's weird medicine, the first and still only, uncensored medical show in the history broadcast radio now a podcast i'm dr stephen my little pal dr scott the traditional chinese medical uh provider who gives me street cred with wack alternative medicine assholes hello dr scott hey doc steve and uh also in the studio we have can i use your whole name i mean you're a celebrity right no absolutely okay lexie arnold uh up and coming uh uh nascar star hopefully we'll get there yeah Anyway, we're going to be talking about the Han system and some other things about racing, being a woman in racing, and all that kind of stuff. So look forward to that.

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That's still going. Do you have any product? I don't think we have anything up there right now. Oh, my God. We're phasing out. Why do I? Are you really? We're phasing out. A little bit surely. Are you going to sell it to somebody?

I don't know yet. But if anybody needs anything, all they've got to do is if they'll just email me, I'll have rain call them and we'll get them anything they need. We still have some nasal sprays and some fatigue and breathing stress less. Oh, my God. I don't know, dude. Just getting old. The sign of the times. What am I going to do?

Well, you call me, and I'll whip you up a bitch's brew full of stuff. Shit, I don't want that. You'll have. What did I see? I watched a show where they had traditional Chinese medicine, and they were using squirrel feces, flying squirrel feces. But it wasn't sterile, and they almost killed somebody with it. They gave it to a little kid. Oh, no.

That was the whole thing, is that they snuck the flying squirrel feces in there. They were trying to poison the kid. Oh, no. It was like an, you know, emperor. So this was not a, this was not a documentary. This was a show. No, it was like a TV show. Gotcha.

Oh, my gosh. It was called Bon Appetit, Your Majesty or something like that. It was a Korean drama, but he had, like, traditional Chinese medicine. But anyway, it was way back in the past. Oh, no. This woman goes back in the past like Outlander, right? And she has to cook for the emperor of, uh, Chosun, which was

Korea at the time. But these people were trying to incriminate him for poisoning his half-brother. And the way they did it was by sneaking in

squirrel feces. Flying squirrel feces into his medicine. And they could do that because it didn't look like poison. It was a medicine. and it was a medicine, but he couldn't take it, and it made it, you know, almost killed him and all that stuff. Do you remember my flying squirrel fecesy story? No.

Yeah. So you know the first. By the way, Lexi, Dr. Scott does traditional Chinese medicine. Okay. And he uses flying squirrel feces. Only when necessary. Okay. Only when.

Anyway, so, now what's the story? Yes, real quick, my last year of training in Houston, we had a day called herb Monday. We had to see just a couple of patients a day, But we had to make the entire formula from scratch. Right. Going on our pharmacope. And you still do that.

And I can do that. I don't do it a lot. Okay. But I went in and one of the formulas X had flying squirrel feces. The girl had some gastritis and gastroporesis. And so I went and I told my supervisor what it was. And I said, but you know, this has whatever willing's done. And she looked up with me.

She goes, yes. I said, I can't put flying squirrel feces into a formula and give to this lady. She goes, you can and you will. It's in the formula. And I said, well, how the hell do you do that? She looked at me, she goes, oh, you double bag it. What? I said, I said, what the hell does that mean?

So I had to take that, the woodlings up, it was sterile, it was dry, put it in a tea bag, put that in another tea bag, and then put those two tea, that double tea bag into the normal tea bag with the other herbs, which might have been astragalus, or it might have been ginseng or whatever. So it wasn't touching the other stuff? Right. I don't like that made a difference. So, so I give the lady the direction.

You're still drinking shit, though, right? Well, I give the lady direction. She came back a week later. she said oh my god she goes I swear to you she goes my stomach hasn't hurt everything's been really good bowel moves are normal wow she goes but I got to tell you that stuff tasted like shit

and that is a true story folks and I said hmm I said well honey I don't have my laughing I said yeah we're so laughing I said there it is I said well honey the good news is you won't have to take that again as long

as the stomach continues yeah you know thankfully that was the only time I ever had to use it. Oh, well, that is very interesting. Please tell me more. So there you go. Awesome. So they're putting down my flying squirrel feces.

That's terrible. No, no. It was just interesting because I knew, I mean, I'm sure people watch that. Well, that can't be right. They don't really use that stuff. True story. Oh, no. We use that.

We use dried sea, you know, male sea urchin, you know, sperm. And we use dried snake. We use all kinds of shit. Well, I know the sea cucumber, you can kind of, you know, if you irritate, you It looks like you're jacking it off. It will shoot out ropes of something. That's probably therapeutic in some way. We use rut and buck, you know, antlers that had been broken off and found in the forest.

Right. We thinly shave those things down and then to when tea bags up. Really? Because it's supposed to have all the testosterone in it. Well, it's good for the erections. Yeah. Allegedly. I'd like to do a double-blind placebo-controlled study on that one.

I'm sure it's probably been done somewhere. But there's a lot of placebo effect. It is, of course. Nothing wrong with that. Stop calling it the placebo effect. I even wrote a paper about this and published it and said, we need to change it to the cryptogenic therapeutic effect. Right. Then people won't go, oh, no, my thing isn't placebo.

Yep. You know, when you're cryptogenic therapy. When you're, you know, running your hands over people and not touching them and you're, quote, unquote manipulating their bioenergy fields. People do feel better, but it's because they're getting that attention and you're recognizing them and all that stuff. But people, those people will get mad if you say, well, it's a placebo. But it's, so don't call it that.

Don't call it a cryptogenic. Cryptogenic therapeutic effect. Yes. Yes. Our method operates using the cryptogenic. therapeutic effect. Oh, God, it sounds so, half a lutein, half a luteon. Yeah, nobody would be.

Nobody second guess that. No. It'll end up on the, you know, the euphemism treadmill eventually. Well, just like placebo did. You know, more, Lexi, you may not be aware of this, but a moron used to be a medical term. Yeah. Okay. And idiot was a medical term.

But we just call people morons and idiots. And they're pejorative. So people take these terms, turn them into pejoratives, and then we have to come up with something else, right? It's called the euphemism treadmill. And placebos had kind of that same thing. Placebos now become a negative term for a lot of people. It's like they think we're trying to pull something over them if there's a placebo. Right.

Or that we're criticizing the therapy that they're doing, like a naturopath or, you know, someone doing therapeutic touch or whatever that somehow we're criticizing them. No, it still works. The placebo effect is so powerful that we have to subtract it from every trial that we ever do or we don't believe it.

That's why we have double-blind placebo-controlled trials because the placebo effect is so strong. It's crazy. You know, but anyway. All right. Don't forget to check out roadie.

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I do think. I'm so excited. Yeah, if you'd like to open that. As long as this not my pink slip, I'll be happy to open. Oh, pink slap. You're getting paid for anything. Hold it up to the camera there. Oh, I'm liking where this is going. I'm liking where this is going.

Well, you've been envious of mine. So you have the very first Rode 4 off the assembly line. The very first is one of one. That's number one of one. I mean, number one of many. Number one of many, yes. So anyway. Thank you, Dr. Stevens.

You're welcome, man. And I didn't get it free either, so I wouldn't re-gift something. Somebody gave me. They didn't send you some debate. No, they did not. They gave you seven of them. It's like, now, they, I get, I get a discount because I get paid for the, you know,

4% for everyone that we sell. But, so I got a 4% discount. But yeah, you got the Rodey for it. So I want to see how it works. Super. Yeah, I'll check it out. So you got a Bluetooth. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's cool as shit. Oh, that's neat, man. Thank you. So I did buy one for myself. I'll lift your Christmas gift at home. Oh, to hell with it. You come in here and do this for free. And now that simply herbal's in there, you're not even getting the plugs.

I'll take a roadie. All right. There you go. That's your wages for the year. Don't forget patreon.com slash weird medicine. I'm putting stuff up on Patreon. There are things on there that no one else has seen. Not too many, but there's going to be more.

And news for everybody, I have signed the lease for a studio. that's outside of this weird. It's the new weird medicine studio. And we're going to have our own space so I can clean everything up and get all this shit out of here because I've got a TV studio, a television editing station, ham radio, music studio, and then this voice studio all crammed into one place. So I'm going to take the video production out of here and put it in my new studio. Cool.

And then we'll still do the radio show from here or the podcast now. Cool. All right. Sounds good. And we've got some other things that might be happening in the future. But I can't say anything about those. But stay tuned. We're actually, you know, I've been kind of taking a break.

We're getting back into it. Are we going to be part of Lexi's medical team as well? That would be awesome. We could be her medical team. I can have you at the track. Good segue, Dr. Scott. Yeah, you need an acupuncturist down there at the track. Oh, hell, yeah.

There, I guarantee it. Yeah, I mean, I'm serious. I was kidding, but actually, after I said it, I could see some things that he could do, just going from pit to pit to pit. So I came down to the track, and Lexi started, what, last year, right? Yes. Last year was my first year and late model. I got my first car in 2019, but didn't race until 2025. So what did you do, just driving around? No, quite literally, yeah.

Throwing around the backyard? No. Well, actually, we're looking at our shop. We're trying to put a little track around there. But where it's Super Cup, it's a 750 horsepower, which isn't legal. And they're not hosting that at the Speedway we use, which is Kingsport for our home track. Okay. Okay.

Is it 750? It's too big? No. For what they run, they run late models, which is about 450, 475. So there's a huge difference. That's a big difference, yeah. Yeah. So right now, you're the only woman that's running over there, right?

I am in my class, yes. So how is that? I mean, before we get on to everything. How is that? I'm sure you get a lot of unwanted attention and maybe some wanted and maybe even some undeserved attention because of it. That is true, everything you said.

I absolutely love it. The guys at the track, very, very redneck, ain't nothing wrong with it. There's no drama. No, it is awesome. The only drama that goes down there is if you hit someone, you know, you're going to see them,

you have to apologize maybe, but they'll get you right back. So I love it. It's a supporting community, and it's so fun. So, yeah, I mean, I have to ask how you got into this, because I've known you since you were a little kid. Yes, we have gone on so many family trips together. Yes, and this took me by surprise.

Me too, honestly. So you know I've done cheer my whole life. I've been a cheerleader. I actually cheered in college. I went to Milligan. And then I switched to ETSU, and that is where I picked up late model racing. So last year was my first little year. Me and Dad went to a race.

I saw it. Absolutely loved it. got in the car, first day I got in the car, it felt like I was either high or drunk or the adrenaline I felt I had never felt before. Wow. And it was absolutely insane. Wow. And it's like that every time I get in the car.

Question, the question. The first time you got in the car, were you a passenger or were you driving? I was driving. There's only one seat in those cars. Yeah, well, okay, yeah. I don't know if maybe they had like a, like, so I did the Richard Petty driving experience. We did that too. Oh, my God.

That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. So how old were you when you did yours? Richard Petty, we went to the one in Florida. I was about eight years old. Okay. So that one I did ride it. You did riding. So what this is is actually Richard Petty driver experience. You can go to the NASCAR track, and they will set up a car like a NASCAR kind of specs, and you can drive it, and they let you follow around the professional driver.

And they'll kind of talk to the person, say, hey, this person is you don't okay or not. And depending on how well you're driving. People do stupid shit, though? Do they like, go? Well, I'm going, oh, I'm going to meet this in the beach. Oh, no, no, no. The last thing that the damn guy said to me when he slapped me on top of the roof and said, go. He goes, don't drop the clutch because if you bust it, you break it.

How much is it? Like $5,000 or whatever. I said, oh, don't worry, I won't drop the clutch. What the hell does drop the clutch, I mean? Yeah, let her do it. Yeah, she's a pro let her do it. When you're switching gears and you're taking off in first gear, you got to let off the clutch completely to put it in the first. And I didn't get this.

until maybe like five or six races ago. I was still brand new. I learned to shift on the way to the track in the car. So it was an experience for me. But when you drop the clutch, the car dies. The battery's disconnected and everything goes dead. Really? So what do you mean?

How do you drop the clutch? So whenever you're on the gas and you're on the clutch, whenever you're going, you have to come off slowly off the clutch onto the gas. And it's just a transition between the two. Got it. Now, if you miss. You find a sweet spot. Yes, you do.

Or else you get stuck. And whenever, actually, I have missed. the clutch in a couple races, and that's caused me to get rear-ended, and it ruined the whole field. Oh, geez. It is rough. Now, I mean, I've driven a manual transmission my whole life. I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

So the difference is the torque. What is the difference? It's really torque and horsepower. And if you drop the clutch on one of these cars, that things spend so fast. The torque is so high. It'll shred the clutch plate. Okay. Versus, like, in our cars, you and I do it.

It's like, yeah, I mean, you do have to. It's the same exact foot park. But it's more precise. Yeah, so I'll never get. And Lex, I know I'm going to say this because I want you to hear it so you can laugh really loud. So I get out there. And we, and I follow this guy, this, this NASCAR guy around. And I'm like, man, I'm really starting to feel like, because I was at Bristol.

Oh, yeah. I'm good. I'm like, man, I'm really kind of rolling pretty good. And then, man, I think I burned this thing up. We're pulling him. And I'm like, yeah, hell yeah. I get out and my girlfriend at times, she looks at me. She goes, why didn't you go any faster?

Oh, my goodness. Thanks, number one. I was like, I thought I went really, really fast. So we did a half mile, and I think I did it in. That's two times around? No, one. That's one time. One lap, one lap, one lap.

One lap. And I think I did it, I think I did. And you just turn left, left, left, left, left, left. You don't even turn. You don't even turn. You just, you just let it straight up kind of you know. I got it. And I think I did my lap in like 50 seconds, and I'm like, hey, that's not bad.

And then those guys are turning them at what? Do you know how fast they turn them? Gosh, I went to the last Bristol race, but I had to leave early, so I wasn't sure. But they turned that probably about half the time you tend, maybe and quicker than that. I want to say like 15 seconds, 20. That sounds about right. The first time I went to watch her race. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

She's number five, by the way, and she's got weird medicine, you know, stick around that because we do, we do sponsor. Yeah, that's awesome. Disclosure. But I couldn't believe how when you come around that, the curve or whatever you call it, and then you'd get on the straightaway and just floor it. It's cool. It was cool. I was laughing my ass.

I was like, that's Lexi. That's amazing. And once you get on that gas, I mean, it's a different, it's a different feeling. So we had the option to ride along with a professional, which I chose, of course. And so I get a client. I'm in, and, of course, I barely fit in his cars because I'm big compared to most of these guys. Yeah.

And the seats are so small. They're tiny. It's hard. Yeah, I mean, I call them a little fuckers. I about had a panic attack because it was, because it's a metal seat. And I'm sitting there, I'm like, fuck, I can't breathe in. Then they hit you with a five point. And I'm like, oh, my nuts.

So I'm like, holy cow. So this guy goes, how fast you're going to go? I said, well, as fast as you want to go, we get out there. And this is a God's honest truth. Those banks of Bristol are so high. When we go into the banking, it was, it was, it was, It was pulling me up so far that my head was on the roof and bending my neck to the side. Wow.

And then we'd go back. Just the G-Forces. Yes. It was crazy. Now, the track you're on is it got a cant to it? So it does have a banking, but it's not as high. Newport Speedway, which is just down the street, is closer to Bristol. Bristol is in the 40-degree range as well as Newport.

Kingsport, I think, is in the 20s, maybe lower 30s. It's not as high, but it's a smaller track. Do you know how they choose the banking? angle, it's really interesting. If you took physics, you would know the answer to this. I don't know, but I would love to. So there's a perfect angle that you can, and you can calculate this just using first year college physics. If you know the speed, people are going to go around that thing, that if you bank it perfectly, you could have black ice on there and they would still go around without sliding.

And there's just a physical, you know, mathematical formula for that. So they calculate the average speed, and then they'll make that average so that it's not pulling you up or pushing you down when you're going, you know, between those ranges and speeds. So if you're going too fast, it'll pull you up, and if you're going too slow, you'll go down. But if you're going just the speed that it was designed for, you'll go right down the middle. You don't have to do anything. That's right. And Lexi, I'm glad she's here because I've got the question. And they were telling me that we got to get to the

When the, Scott's Well, this is what I did. We got an expert in here. Yeah, I'm totally like, That's fine. You're just a fan boy. Enjoying. I'm a fan boy on Lexi.

But the guy was telling me when they set these cars up, like especially at Bristol, they have them set up so hard to the left that you can't even turn the wheels to the right because there's no need to. It's like there's no need to even turn to the right. But you have to drive it off the track at some point, right? Not farm. So I'll give you some insight on that, actually. Your steering wheel...

Shut up, Scott. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. That's what she's here, yeah. Your steering wheel more than likely for most drivers has a line on it. And that line typically indicates where the front of the car end is at. And when you put that steering wheel on, it is so far to the right to keep you so you can go left, if you know what I mean. So it'll turn. It's already set up.

So all you have to do is hold it straight and you're holding at an angle. And it just goes straight at that angle. Does that make sense? Yes. Oh, that's cool. That's cool, yeah. Wow. Okay, so let's get to the thing that we were talking about.

Then I want to, we'll just ask her every question we can think of. And if the waiting room and the fluid family who are in the waiting room have any questions for Lexi, just put it in there. If you want to join the waiting room crew, which we call the fluid family, go to YouTube. com slash at Weird Medicine, click like and subscribe and hit the notification button. Also, click join, and if you want to join, you can, but click accept gifted memberships. I know Amy from Kentucky is in there and got a free membership today because Myrtle was giving out memberships. And the birthday coming up.

Yep. So if anybody has questions for Lexi. So last episode, we were talking about this Hans device. We talked about a little bit. Scott knew something about it, but you're the expert. So tell us about just safety in general in these fucking cars because I watched Dale Earnhardt die. And it didn't look like it was that big of a deal when it happened. It never does.

That's the problem. Yeah, yeah. So talk to us about that. Well, I'll give you a head start. I am not an expert, but I will tell you everything I know. You know more than we do. Well, I will say that one... You use this stuff.

Yes, I do, yeah. So in every car you're in, NASCAR requires this Hans device, which goes around your neck. Most of the time, it's carbon fiber with a couple of pieces of fabric underneath for cushioning. Okay. So this was made in 1985, I believe, but it wasn't taken serious until Aaron Hart's accident in 2001. Okay. So after that is when it was like, hey, we need this. Yes.

And after that, in 20, I think it was 2003, NASCAR legalized it. for everyone. So it doesn't matter what type of racing you do, Formula One, drag. Even what you're doing? Yep. Even what I'm doing. So you have that in your car? I do have the Hans device.

And the five point buckle, as he mentioned in the Richard Petty experience, is in my car as well. And that connects to your Hans device, as well as your helmet, which connects to your Hans device. So you've got all this stuff on. Are you able to move your head to look around? It's so claustrophobic. Really? The seats that you're in.

It's different for every car, but the seats that I'm in, I can't turn left and right. All I see is in front of me. So if you don't know. So how do you know if there's somebody next to you? Well, that's relying. I'm relying on my spotter for that. Yeah. Spotters.

I don't have. So my spotter, his name was Wade Day. I wasn't allowed to have mirrors in my car. Because. I needed to fully trust my spotter beside me, behind me, in front of me. Let him know if I was pulling the car or if I was going too far in. They didn't want you to have mirrors because they wanted you to trust. It's like when they do.

instrument flight rules where they put cardboard over the windows and the planes and make them fly just trusting their instruments. So where this was my first full year doing this, I guess he wanted to build that level of trust and I'm really grateful for it because now I don't need mirrors where I go rather than checking like, hey, this guy's

beside me, hey this. At first I hated it. I hated it. I had no trust. I've never done this before. But this guy knows what he's doing. He does. Yeah. How does he know what he's doing? He actually used to race as well but he got out of it due to age and now he is coaching and helping cars kind of locally in the area. So I wish we'd brought some recordings.

Now, I set up your walkie-talkies. You still using those stupid walkie-talkies? I am. Yes. If it weren't. They bought these Chinese walkie-talkies called Bao Fong. Oh, no. And thankfully, I'm a ham radio operator, and I had used some of their radios.

But you cannot figure out how to program these damn things. Unless you've done it before. So they brought them over and I set them up for them. But anyway, that was fun. So that's what you're using is that? And you've got a little headset in there. And can you talk back to them? We can talk back to them.

Actually, I got my helmet programmed where my headphones are in my helmet. Which I find so much easier than having to put them in my ears. It is so much better. It's louder. I can hear everything. It's clear. And then the radios that you use, we don't plug anything in. We plug a speaker, actually.

So we got a connection cord to a speaker. And all the little friends. I bring and my mom and dad sitting on the hill. They can hear a conversation. Perfect, yep. Yep. That's cool. When I came to see you, your mom didn't have a radio where we could listen.

Now I'm pissed. Well, the cool thing about what she's saying, too, is for those of us who are fans, but don't, you know, obviously can't raise. But having the ability to listen to the talk between a driver like Lexi and the team is really fascinating. So it's not encrypted? You guys don't encrypt it? They just have, you have different, everybody has a different channels. Everybody has different channels and sometimes channels will overlap. That's why we have a backup channel just in case that happens.

Would there be an advantage for someone in a different pit to listen to your thing? I actually have a story. So that has happened to me before. Okay, tell me about that. Someone chimed in on my channel. I gave a close friend this and they worked for a different pit. I won't say who. Okay.

But I came to the track. I came to the track to practice by myself. So we rented out the track. just for me. This person shows up. They're up on the hill. I can't see them. But they talk into the walkie talkie talkie. And they say, Lexi, you're doing great. That's all they say. And I'm like, who is this? Because I know my dad's voice. I know my coach's voice. That's it. And so this person's up on the hill. And we go to the track director. We're like, hey, what's happening here? And there's like, there's nothing we can do. So all this time where my coach has been,

Lexi, you're doing great. That's what it felt like. It was so creepy. Your creators, chiming in. All this time that we're like communicating essential things about the car, whether it's the angle the wheels need to be turned to or it's the amount of air in the wheels because that plays a big role.

They're listening on. So everything we change to the car, they can change as well, which is their advantage. Right. So we ditch that and got a different one. You know, is it legal for you to have encrypted conversations? because I could set that up for you easy. That way they could listen, but they wouldn't be able to understand anything.

It would just sound like static. I think that would be legal, other than the aspect that the track has to be able to listen as well. Well, then that wouldn't be legal then. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not. Okay.

Which I don't find fair. Now, that might be a different rule in NASCAR because I know there's no way they're talking to their driver without an encrypted line. Yeah, you wouldn't think that'd be crazy. There'd be some advantage there. But you know the power. cars that be are listening to every word they say.

Because if they hear somebody say, I'm going to wreck that son of a bitch. Yeah, that'll tell him. Wait a minute. Yeah. Now, let me ask you this. When I was in the pit and your car was sitting there with the hood up, there was all kinds of shit hooked up to it. Yes. Like blowers and all kinds of.

What's going on there? I don't do that to my car. Well, I hope not. Then we got some problems. That would be weird. But whenever you go out, your car heats up. It gets up to about 120 degrees inside the car. Inside?

Inside where I'm sitting. And I have a whole fire. And you've got all that shit stuff on. Yeah, I have a double layer fire suit on. I have my helmet. I have my five point and I have the chair with the insulated seating. So it is hot as hell in that car. And then inside the hood, I can't even imagine.

I'm not sure the temperature it gets to, but it is so hot where most times it's coming back smoking. So we have to do that before and after qualifying, before practice. Just to cool it. Keep it cool. So the cooler of the car is, the better it runs, the easier I should do. How long could that possibly last, though? So you cool it down, you have refrigeration unit or whatever, and you cool the engine down. Wasn't it last 30 seconds before it's up to heat?

But, you know, I think part of that, too, is probably, my guess is that when you're sitting there, there's no air coming through the front end of the car to cool it off. You know, at least when you're going forward and you're driving forward, you're getting some engine cooling there. There's a couple things. we have a four-inch ride height. So there's about four inches between the bottom of the car and the bottom of the ground. That's the only airflow you get.

There is a ventilation system on the front that allows it to go inside, but there's not much you get. Maybe a couple degrees difference. Gotcha. Interesting. Yeah, that is fascinating. Because, you know, they always told us,

you know, 100 years ago when you have radiator troubles just to try to keep your car moving forward because it'll keep the engine cooler. Yeah, yeah. Because as soon as you pull, well, as soon as you pull, where, like, spoke everywhere.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, interesting. That's cool. Wow. That's fascinating. That's awesome. Yeah, that's a very... I love it. So what's next?

When do you graduate from the smaller tracks and hit the big time? Because I've told people, nobody that's watching this can tell because the microphone's in front of your face. But when you get out there on the track and take your helmet off, you know, on your first NASCAR race, They're all going to go, Danica, who? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. She's terrible. So when do you graduate to that?

I'm hoping in the next three to four years. Really? You know, it is really, really difficult to get to that level and you really have to want it. But I want it. I think about it all the time, 24-7. What could happen if I get there? You know, this year we're going to expand a little bit. There's a couple different series.

IRAHA is a new series that's coming. And it seems to be a lot bigger than what I'm in right now. But also, I have to pick due to efficiency and how far it is, you know. It's going to be really difficult to get to California all the way from here without having to pay, like, three grand just to get there, you know. So it really just depends on the efficiency of the team and how well we do. But as of right now, I think we're going to spread out. I'm going to do a couple of NASCAR weekly series, and then we might as well do the IRAA series, and we'll see where it goes from that. It would be with the car that you've got now?

Yes, that is for the 05 car. Now, something else that's brought about is the Super Cup car. Okay. That one has double the horsepower, and I actually ran it at King's Sports Speedway. Wait, you have this, this a new, is this the car your dad bought? This was the very first car we bought. So this one is a yellow Super Cup car, which is closer to cup cars, like the actual NASCAR series. This is about as close as you can get without getting there.

Not the series, but the car itself. So this car has double the horsepower, and it's a lot bigger. It's insane But that is where I actually set a track record at Kingsport Is that right? Yes, sir It was my first time and it was awesome So we're gonna do

It's official, I mean it counted or was it in practice? No, it's official It's online, it's in the books It's official, yeah And it would be super hard Especially where you're talking about Because of the lack of slope Yep

To really dial that in when you're driving that quickly That thing will spin out from under you You'll lose in a second Yeah Have you ever done any racing on dirt I have not God I love watching dirt racing It is so much better

It's so much better I know I agree Oh my God it's great It's tough though It is it is I took my dad It sounds awful No it's fabulous man I'm telling you I took my dad to a dirt race

And not even two laps in The front car flips Goes on its side and scales the wall And when my dad looks at me He just starts shaking his head No That was it That was it guys

Oh my God I love I love the turret track band. You're talking about some guys that don't get after it now. They get after it. It's a good, that's a good show. I would be open to try it. It looks amazing.

But my dad. It would be, I think it would be fun to drive it with nobody else on the track. You don't know what I'm saying? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't think I would enjoy driving with other people trying to beat me. That's fascinating. So what we need to do is get our Lexi Arnold memorabilia now,

because when you hit NASCAR, all that stuff's going to be worth something. So, do you have anything to plug your Instagram that you want to plug? Now, listen, you know, you're going to be a public persona. You're going to get a lot of attention. Some of it very unwanted. There's a lot of that. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of that.

I will say on Facebook, Lexi Arnold Racing, that's my biggest platform for racing, I think. I do interviews before and after races. I kind of give you a vlog of the process of going through a race day. Wait, who's interviewing you? Randall Perry. He does our track photography. Oh, okay. So what he does is he just does a, he, I'm tired by the end of the night, Lord.

But he tries to grab a little five-minute clip. I talk about how I qualified, how I practice, who my coach was and all the conditions and whatnot. Okay. Cool. Wow. Well, Randall Perry. Uncle Steve does all those things. That's okay.

Get Randall Perry to do he. Oh, you should come on down. Yeah, that's a stupid randle. One of my good friends, and he just... Just don't marry a race guy. Marry a nerd and not one of those... I know, I'm telling you. Here we go.

Don't do it. You'll meet him tomorrow. Pat Paul's to-to-you. Don't listen to me. Hey, you don't want to listen to either one of us when it comes to those certain subjects. But I mean, a friend of mine is, and he just recently passed away

was a NASCAR team owner Larry McClure. He had Morgan McClure racing. And they're from up in Abingdon. And they won Daytona 500. Wow. Yeah, so they were big... I don't care. I don't care. Well, that's not true. Daytona

is a big deal. That is a big deal. It's a big deal. The Super Bowl, baby. Well, let's see here. We've got Gala Gala Gah 73737 says Lexi is lovely. No. Okay, Chris Mack says, does she piss herself during races or nah? I have. I have indeed.

I hear the endurance drivers have to sometimes. Well, I didn't do that for that reason. Mine was because I was scared. But I have seen others that have had to do that. Where I race, we do twin races, so it was 40 laps increments. So it's not long enough for that to happen, hopefully. Unless you just really got poor planning skills. Correct, yeah.

Let's see, if there are any other questions for her in here? Let's see. But a lot of comments on people's cars. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people were talking about their cars. Dallarious. All right, very good. Well, let's take some questions. Okay.

And then we'll wrap this one up. But, Lexi, if you think anything else you want to throw in there, I was hoping your dad would come. Me too. I wanted to hear him on the radio. Did you know he crashed my car? No. No, he did. Tell us that story.

Okay, so I have two stories. One's with Super Cup, one's with late model. My late model is my pink and white one. That's my baby. And he drove that car, and he drove it straight into the wall. What? He turned it sideways. The front end completely damaged.

What? The biggest wreck of the year in my car. Well, he, my first... He was by himself on the track. Well, I was actually in his car, as you've seen before. My old late model that I raced last year is what he wanted to race this year. And so I was driving that, and we were having some daddy, daughter racing going on next thing i know that thing goes into the wall and

oh god it was it was awful the car was in pieces couldn't even pull it into the trailer you watched him do it did you stop or did you keep i stopped on the track the car was still rolling i got out i screamed i have never been more scared and my life for my dad's safety than then but luckily the hans device which he was wearing saved his head in his chest so it really it played a safety is key in that for sure and And then another time, the Super Cup, he turned that thing sideways. Same thing happened, straight to the wall. You know, we old people, when we try to follow our children into things, it's always a problem.

Liam was long distance running. And he was killing it. He was winning races and just doing really well. And I went, you know, that looks like fun. I'm going to start racing again because I rate or doing long distance running because I was long distance running in high school. Yeah. And I probably did it three times and I tore my gastronymia. muscle in my leg, a.k.a. the calf muscle. And that was the most intense pain I've ever felt.

I had to lay down on the track and just lay there and then just limp home because I had walked there, ran there. Ego down. Yep. So I can relate a little bit to Scott's like, oh, Lexi can do it. I know I can do it. And the boom right into the wall. I couldn't do it. Oh, hell, no. I'm smarter to it. Anyway, that's funny. Okay. Here, old top, 459 says, what are Lexi's thoughts on Hallie Deegan? She was the first woman to win a NASCAR series race. Her NASCAR career is kind of petered out, unfortunately. You know, I've been keeping track of that, and she has a brother who does motorcross and bikes.

So that's kind of how I figured out about Hallie. I watched Hallie, and I think that she has been a great female driver. I've seen other drivers. I won't say names because I don't like to put others down. Yeah. But I've watched her. They're hoars. Dirty whores.

Maybe. I've seen a lot of driving and I think hers has been decent for what she's been doing. Now, it is really hard for females in motorsports these days. The different treatment you get just being for having hair and being a female. So, like, I applaud her for her efforts and what she does. Her driving's decent. So, I mean, that alone, as long as you go out there and you maintain yourself and you don't crash into others, that's what people really want to see. Right.

They don't want to see the whole track get stopped up because of one person. They don't want to see... Because of somebody's incompetence. Correct. There is a difference between bad driving and just a crash. Correct. And if you do that, there's someone out there, a female who does that. And she has a higher name up there.

But there isn't a lot of respect for that. Now, some people like to see that. Old NASCAR was all about it. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like hockey. Right, right. Yeah. Everybody's about that.

But it just really is different nowadays. Okay. I've got one last question for it before we wrap it up. It looks like... Oh, it's a good one. Lexi, when you first started racing... It was Crystal Williams, 1331. Were there any funny traditions or pranks

that old erasers would do to the newbies? That's a great question. Was it hazing? No, there wasn't hazing where I was. I did get a bucket of bolts. That was my gift. It was a bucket of bolts and they put a Christmas bow on it. That was a comment on your car.

It's been a bucket of nuts. And then the only other thing, I think, not Hayes and Wise, but everybody will give you one love tap during the first race. Because I was passed by everyone. So everybody will come up and give you a little tap and just move. They can do that. They have that kind of control. As long as it's not a sub-quential wreck and they actually intend to put you into the wall, they'll do a little love tap, let you know, hey, you're here, you're welcome. But they can do that without wrecking either one of you.

Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah. The control out there is crazy. That's pretty cool. That is cool. All right. Cool, man.

Well, to hell with questions. What we'll do, let's wrap this episode up. Cool. And we'll take questions from the fluid family and from you, the listener, because we've got a ton of questions for this week. And, yeah, we'll do that. How about that? I've got, let me see here. There it is.

Well, thanks always go to Dr. Scott. Lexi, this was awesome. No, thank you for having me. No, thank you. You're going to hang out for the next show? I might stick around. Okay. We'll answer medical questions.

You might be able to toss something in on that. You know, if you got something. A new perspective. Yeah, you never know. And I did call your dad to see if he wanted to come, and he said he would rather do paperwork than come over here. Of course he did. Oh, well. All right.

Oh, yeah, Galaga. 73737 says, my next read will be Hyperion. If you are into science fiction, Dan Simmons Hyperion is basically the Canterbury Tales in outer space where a bunch of people come together and tell stories, but he's a really good world builder and really good storyteller, and that one comes highly recommended. The other three books in the series are somewhat controversial, but the last 50 pages, of the fourth book, make the whole thing worth it. Just trust me. Check out Dr. Scott at simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net for whatever.

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Well, let me put it this way. Let me change that. It's totally fictitious. No resemblance to people living or dead is intended, but it does kind of look like Tuki and Rocco. How about that? and then patreon.com slash weird medicine where all of these shows on video go there because we do behind the scenes video live stream those go there immediately after so you get the whole thing and cameo.com slash weird medicine I will say fluid to your mama and actually one of my son's friends bought a cameo from me. me, and I did all Cletus puns.

Oh, how fun. Yeah, it was all cladist puns. So there you go. All right. Well, let's get out of here. Thank you to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Lexi Arnold, number five, at Lexi Arnold Racing on Facebook. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years.

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