Leila: Hello, welcome to Fun Fact Friday. I'm Leila.
David: I'm David. Wow, you just jumped right into it on that
one.
Leila: Yeah. We have a fat,
David: baby. Yep. And it's Friday,
Leila: and it's fun.
David: Well, we hope it's gonna be fun. Yeah. If you have any
Ashlyn: Hello, I'm Ashlyn Speed. I've been racing for over a
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Twitter. We have guests. Plural. We have Ashlin Speed and Greg
Speed. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourselves.
decade now started racing and competitive go karts and then
think this is the third or fourth year I've been racing
cars. Last year I won the Southern Conference Championship
in a formula Mazda. It's a Formula car with a RX seven
engine in it. I also won job of the Year Award for SCCA in 2022.
And this year, I'm hoping to raise an F six an F 1600. And
try to race that and do really well.
David: That's awesome. Nice. And Greg,
Greg: and I'm dad, and this is really cool. I know that you
guys said that. It's your only one of two. Daddy daughter
podcasts when I heard that are really nice. Because Ashlyn is
always a star and I want her to be the star. But this is gonna
be really cool. Getting to jump in here and talk. My name is
Greg Speed. My best thing that I'm known for is I was a
Paralympian. I'm a paraplegic in a wheelchair. And when I got to
college, I got involved in wheelchair racing. And in 1990,
I broke the national record and 100 meter, went to the World
Games in England and won the open 100 meter there, and then
was selected for the Team USA Paralympic team, and went on to
compete at the Paralympics in Barcelona in 92. So that was my
claim to fame. And I guess the funny thing is, our last name is
Speed. And if you believe that we're living in a simulation,
then that fits pretty well. It's good proof. Right? Right. Well,
I was I was fast. And now Ashland is fast in a car.
David: Yeah. When I heard about heard about Ashlyn. I figured
that the Speed was just like branding, you know, because I
heard of you as a racecar driver. And I was like, Oh,
okay. Ashland Speed. That's like the name of the company or the
nope, nope. That's the last name.
Greg: Yeah, so that's what I used to race. More than once,
when I went to the registration table, that competition, they
would say, what is that a stage name? Like? No, that's my real
last name.
David: Yeah, my last name is meet us. And I have it on my
hat. Because I was in Las Vegas. And they were like, What do you
want monogrammed on your hat. And I was like, Oh, are
embroidered I guess not monogram because that will be the
initials. Leila. I saw I saw it in your head. You were about to
be like, Oh my gosh, he said monogram when he meant
embroidered? No.
Leila: I wanted to add something to the conversation.
David: Anyway, I'll just like I'll put my name up there. And
it actually helps because like when we go to a hotel or
something, and they're like, Can you spell your last name and I
just like pointed the hat. And it's very handy. So Leila, did
you have any questions? Or do you do you want me to jump into
mind first? Did you not do I have it pulled up there?
Leila: Honey, hold up. Hold on,
David: I guess. Okay, so I have a quick question. So when you
are or when you're when you're getting ready to start a race,
right. Are you reluctantly crouched to the starting line?
Greg: We've used that song.
Leila: Oh my gosh, good. Luck, okay. Yeah. I'm glad y'all know
that reference. Yes. It's so funny, right?
Greg: Yeah, we need to remake that song. Instead of saying him
that needs to say her right. We'll let that slide.
David: I know that there's ways that you can get like, cover the
rights to do a cover for something. And you know, change
it up enough. And you just pay like one time or for every
million downloads or something like that. It's like, I can't
run what's called there's a service for it. But that's
that's not why we're here. So you started you said you started
at goke on go karts? Yes. Okay, good.
Ashlyn: When I was seven, my dad took me to k one speed after
school. After school. He asked me Do you know what a go kart
is? I said, No. So we went to k one speed. And we bought a
little pack of races. And I went out on the track for my first
time ever. And what I was told is I kind of naturally just took
to the racing line that you're supposed to take To be fastest,
and so one of the desk workers said they noticed my talent and
asked if I had any interest or knowledge about the league races
that they host. So we ended up joining those league races, and
I did really well and I won the 2015 2016 Junior League
Championship at k one speed. And then, since I was winning so
much, it was time for more of a challenge. So we moved to
outdoor gas powered competitive go karts. I won a couple
championships, doing club races, a few podium races and regional
races. And then I moved up to cars.
Greg: Yeah, the first time we went to k one. I had been a race
fan my whole life. And so I was just looking at her going, man,
that looks really smooth. And then after a couple of sessions,
I'll just expand on what she said. The lady working at the
front desk came up to us and said, How long have you been
racing? You're doing really good. You've got one of the best
lap times of the month. And we were like, This is our first
time. And so yes, she said, Well, you need to get into
league racing. So you know, little did I know that was going
to be an introduction to turn my life up until the point
David: right, like turn it into a whole thing. We have
Unknown: a huge studio with scary looking spider right above
me right
David: in front of her face. So we're gonna have to we're gonna
hit pause for a second.
Leila: So Leila was sitting there. I was sitting there. And
then the spider crawled into my computer, and It crawled out of
theirs. And it bit Ashton's arm off. Yep. So
David: I head to the hospital. Sorry. Yeah. So thanks for
coming. Outro Music All right. All right. Now push your laptop
back because I'm getting feedback again. All right, there
you go.
Leila: I pull it forward to kill the spider.
David: Right. So whoever we were worrying, oh, the go kart. So
when you say you're 17 you started racing? Race cars at 14.
Was that you said three years.
Ashlyn: So started testing. You can see we started testing and
kind of learning how to shift manual and learn manual gears.
Heel toe. Yeah, heel toe. Right. You know, still trying to
perfect that to this day. But yeah, I think I think 13 is when
I first started my introduction into car racing. And my
introduction into car racing was because of a guy named William
Snyder, who, when we first started racing, competitive go
karts outside, we were teamed with him. We were on Team core
carding, and, you know, we introduced ourselves to them.
But seven or six or seven years later, he came up to me when I
was practicing one day at the go kart track came up to me. He's
like, you want to practice on my Spec Miata?
Greg: You said we need to get you in the Miata? Yeah,
Ashlyn: we need to get you in the Miata. And she's like, Oh,
okay. Yeah. Nice. Why would I say no. So then, after that
weekend, we've soon later started testing in that Miata.
So
David: since you probably didn't have a license at that point, so
I guess, well, I guess it's on private property. And it's Yeah,
you don't have to have a license. You don't
Greg: have to have a license. You don't have a license to race
in SCCA. You have to go through a three day class, which
involves classwork as well as on track construction, Passing
Drills, all that sort of stuff. And then you get your SCCA
license. So she got hers at 14, which I think is the youngest
you can get I think somewhere around there.
David: That's really, Leila has driven one of our vehicles one
time about 10 foot and I almost crashed into the tree. Yeah.
Because I was just like, you should try it. And she's like,
No. We're planning on heading up to the go kart, there's a go
kart track in Raleigh, that we're we're looking to go into
maybe for my birthday next month. So we found some pictures
of back when she was a real small kid. I mean, like six or
seven of us at the one down at Lake but it's like the real
small little, little things. And she was like, I was fine. Let's
go do that again. So I'm we like to go karts. We just don't have
any within they're like an hour away everywhere. Yeah. So we
don't have any local. There's no home track.
Greg: At North Texas Carter's was at least an hour away. And
you know, we were up there almost every weekend. That's the
key really, to racing is seat time. They call it seek time.
It's just being on the track. And that's the beautiful thing
about go kart racing is the go kart racing. You're always going
through tires, but with go kart tires, they do last a little bit
longer. So you can Get a lot of seat time in. You just have to,
you just have to get out there and do it and get the feel of
it. Really. It's just lap after lap after lap.
David: Yeah, the my brain went through like three questions I
wanted to ask and I forgot all three of them. But the when
we're watching the video, the driven video on YouTube that
featured y'all, you said that that was somebody from your
church that made that you said something that kind of is like
it resonated with both of us because you know, father
daughter relationship, and, you know, I want to I want her to do
great things. I'm always trying to teach her, you know, life
skills and things like that. But one of the things that really
got me that you said was that, like, I think it was after your
wreck that you just gotta get up and press on. You just, you just
keep going. Right? No matter what the adversity is, you just
gotta keep going. And that's kind of like our family. Motto.
For us three is like, Okay, well, that sucks. Let's, let's
keep going. You know, what's next? No, that's
Ashlyn: exactly how we are too good. No, I remember after or
during my wreck. I was calm the entire time. And when I was
sitting in the car, waiting for the all the safety crew on the
track and the ambulance to get there. I was very calm. And all
I did was just check my legs and make sure I could feel
everything, which I mean, I thought I did. But I just kind
of sat there, I knew I'd be safe. And once I got pulled out
of a car and put into the ambulance. They then fell out on
me. And my whole entire left side was numb, which since it
was something with my back, I guess got shocked or sprained.
And they ended up having to care fly me to the hospital, because
it's something dealing with my back. You don't want to run
better be safe than sorry. But the whole time I was calm
because I knew I was safe. And I knew God had a plan for me. And
Leila: that's a really good way to think.
Greg: Yeah, it was less than a week. Now an interesting part of
that is when she was 11 years old, the Snyder's invited her
out to the track and gave her a ride in that Spec Miata. And
then when she was 14, that's the Miata that she tested in. And
then in her second race is when she had the crash. And that was
because two cars in front went off and kicked up a huge dust
cloud with zero visibility. And like a real race or she kept it
floored right into the dust cloud. But somebody in front of
her didn't. And so she just plowed into the back of them. So
she totaled the car that she got to get to ride in an 11 and
learn that and 14 got her license in and totaled it. And
then what happened next?
Ashlyn: After I got out of the hospital, Williams, I had been
in there for I think, four hours. And William Snyder when I
came out of the hospital, I came out with my mom and my dad, and
he walked up to me and he had been sitting inside that parking
lot the whole time.
Greg: He wasn't allowed in because of the COVID
restrictions at the time.
Ashlyn: And he came up to me and he was asking me if I was okay.
And I was like, yeah, and he asked me if I was still willing
to race and if I were if I were scared or just wanting to quit.
Greg: So do you want to get back on the horse I believe?
Ashlyn: And I said yes, with no hesitation. And so went back
home. And then he called us up and told us to come out to the
track and we went to Team Mar what and we're just socializing
in there. And then I hear a car pull up. And it's a new Spec
Miata he was looking at in the car when he was waiting for me.
And so it had my name on it and it had this had a little road
runner, little black logo logo in the front where my crash was.
So it was very personal. The car and it was for me to race for
that next year that can amazing. This fan. Yeah, it
Greg: was incredible. We were speechless. And I think what she
said that her logo is the roadrunner with Ashlyn Speed on
it. And so our crew chief Phil had had made a vinyl of the
coyote splat gun. It was on the front of the car where he had
hit. So the coyote splat was on the front of the car.
David: Nice. I love it. That's fantastic. That these
Greg: guys are just incredible. The Snyder's and all of the
people that he's got around him are just amazing people and we
couldn't have done the first two years of racing without them,
period.
David: So Ashlyn Are you and you said in the video, I'll link the
video in the show notes if anybody wants to go watch it.
But you said in the video that you're you don't even like
IndyCars like I love that. Yeah, I love that because like Lee La
Is not she knows how to do all of the techy stuff involved with
the podcast. She's not into it, but she is a very entertaining
personality behind the mic. Thank you. And she has very good
mic skills. And it. It's natural to her. So like I kind of
granite racing is a much more dangerous, lot more skillful.
Takes a lot more courage, but I saw the parallel.
Greg: I don't know you had a spider in there. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,
what
David: was the thing that we had to go kill it, it took us like
20 minutes. A horse was a horse,
Leila: terrified of it. I was more terrified of this horse
plot and I wasn't the spider. We'll see.
Greg: You don't know what a horse fly is going to do. But on
a racetrack you're only going one direction. So you got you
got to feed.
David: But I just saw the parallel that like she's not
into it, but she's naturally good at it. So she does it, you
know, and but I'm, I'm there to do all the, the to do behind the
scenes stuff and the nerd stuff.
Greg: But and I don't know, she's not into the car culture.
Like if you come up and then say, Hey, isn't that a cool car?
You know, she's not in that necessarily. But racing
Ashlyn: is a whole different thing. There's so many like
different components, then. I mean, obviously, I can't really
speak about car culture and going to meats and everything. I
don't know what all goes into that. But racing. There's like
so many more components, like relationships, and then your
team that you're with, I really enjoy the team aspect and being
able to share your data and information with the team that
you're at the race with that weekend. I like helping out and
prepping the car. I like helping the team making sure
everything's running smoothly. But like he said, tires Yeah, I
like working on race cars and I'm interested in race cars, but
not just cool cars on streetcars. So coach
Greg: will a coach will sit down with her and go over the data
you know the car you download data from the car it's got you
know your throttle position, your brake position, your RPM,
engine temperatures, all this sort of stuff and you have to
you compare that with the other members of your team and go hey,
you are faster in this corner. If you were to listen to her
talk to a coach and break down every corner here was my
throttle here was my brake which gear was I at which my RPM here
was the weight balance of the car? It would blow your way.
That's that
David: I love the nerd stuff. Like I would love to see the
data dump from this car.
Leila: If you've had to choose a car that you would like
absolutely die to raisin motor be
Ashlyn: well, my dream is IndyCar. But I also I really
like the BMW Z Ford GT three. It's just completely random and
I've never talked about it before but I love it.
David: She's She's googling it. W
Ashlyn: z four, G T three. T T
David: three. Well, since you graced us with your presence we
we we have purchased you this vehicle that's on its way so I
like that car now we have no money. Oh wow, that's pretty.
That is pretty
Leila: cool. Yeah, it
Ashlyn: sounds really pretty. It's like very deep. It kind of
sounds like a NASCAR
Greg: you know being that this is Fun Fact Friday they want
facts. When you say IndyCar a lot of people probably don't
know what that is. Yeah. To maybe tell them about the road
to Indy and people who you know what the Indy 500
David: I genuinely do not know anything about it. Like I hear
IndyCar. And I'm like, Oh, yep, Indy. I've heard that before.
But I don't know what that means. Versus I know what NASCAR
is. And I know what a Formula One car is. But I don't know
like the differences. I have no idea what IndyCar means.
Ashlyn: Indy car it.
It looks like an f1 car. It has all the wings in the aerodynamic
stuff. But it's basically like the USA version. f1 is like the
European European version of open wheel cars and open wheel
cars just means that it has nothing covering the wheels and
you have all of that arrowhead and aerodynamic component to the
car. And the sports cars is more like the NASCAR
Greg: the BMW Z four would would run as a sports car. A sports
car is like one that you could buy at the store, but it's been
souped up. But open wheel is what we really like. It's what
she really likes. And unfortunately, it's the way more
expensive of the two. But, you know, IndyCar? Everybody knows
the Indy 500. It's in fact the most attended one day sporting
event in the world. So it's the pinnacle of race. You know,
people say f1 is the pinnacle, but they're really different. f1
currently has 10 teams in it two cars per each team. And each
team designs that car, they make their own little changes to it.
And so that's why you might have one team that's just incredibly
dominant one year, but an IndyCar, it's more of what they
call a spec racing, where they have very tight rules. Everybody
uses, you know, one of two engine manufacturers. And it has
to fall every car has to be almost exactly like they do
little things. But the racing is just so much closer and so much
more competitive and entertain, you're not going to see one
person just run away the whole season. Each race would you'll
have I think last year, there's almost a different winner for
each race. It's just crazy.
David: Yeah, and those, those aren't typically on like oval
tracks. They're normally on the more windy roads, or is it on an
oval track? Am I totally off base on this? Yeah,
Ashlyn: most of the time, it's road course tracks. But
sometimes they do the oval
Greg: circuit Formula One is all road what they call road
courses. It's it's so close track, but they call it a road
course. Whereas IndyCar is very unique in that they do both.
Okay, they do ovals, and the Indy 500 is an oval. Although
it's really four corners. It's not perfectly oval, but they run
like they run Texas Motor Speedway near us, which is
considered an oval track or a tribal. So that is unique to
IndyCar. And that open wheels are running those high speed and
that those are dangerous, very dangerous, because they're so
high speed.
David: Oh, yeah, I, I'm not really in that into NASCAR. But
the ones that I will watch are the road courses, because like
when it's when it's an oval, right, and they're doing 500
laps on it. I'm just, I'm just like, you know, it's just such a
long process.
Greg: The only way to make that interesting is to listen to the
radios. So whenever we go to those, we will rent the radios,
and you can dial in and hear what the crew chiefs are
telling, okay. Because if you don't know, the strategies that
they're using, like their pit strategies, how their fuels, you
know, all that sort of stuff. It Yeah, it just becomes
monotonous. And they added the road courses, I think, maybe
speaking out of school, but to make it more interesting for
people. And and I think they're continuing to add more.
David: Yeah, like, I like the road court. They just it seems
more entertaining, when you're not only turning left. And
there's a little bit of right turning in there. So I went and
pulled up some some facts about speed itself. And essentially,
so So speed is a measurement. Did you know that?
Greg: Engineering so? Yes, absolutely.
David: Speed is a measurement of how fast an object moves
relative to a reference point. does not have a direction and is
considered a magnitude, or scalar. Quantity. speed can be
figured by the formula speed equals distance divided by time.
So there you go. There's the definition of speed. Speed was,
here's another one. Speed was invented in 1976. By Joseph
speed, who decided to 19 Oh, sorry. It's it's blurry. I need
new glasses. 1978 by Joseph speed who just started walking
faster. Okay, whatever.
Greg: Speed was invented in 1970. Yes.
Ashlyn: The definition of when walking was
David: running was invented in 1978. Also by Joseph running,
who tried to walk twice at once. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We we do
have a running gag on the show, whatever we're talking about
Joseph, who whatever we're talking about, invented it in
1978. And then we have to improv a story on how it was done.
Okay, so, like microphones were invented in 1978 by Joseph
microphone, who had a a piece of paper hooked to a string and it
vibrated. And then the end of the string vibe. I don't know. I
Leila: had a string. Yeah, yeah. Hold it up to someone's ear. And
he talked into it. Yeah,
David: night. Hey, everything. Literally everything was
invented in 1919 78. Yeah, by a guy named Joseph. So it's just
but yeah, we always try and throw just a couple of little
little fun facts in here. The top speed of a dolphin is 37
miles an hour. Sharks are 44 which is how they catch the
dolphins. Let's see what else do we have in here? The first train
reached a top speed of do want to guess on how fast the first
train was first train the first train.
Greg: Most you take it
Ashlyn: 47 miles per hour.
Greg: I'm gonna go 48 $1 So
David: the very first train reached at a top speed of a
whopping five miles per hour.
Ashlyn: Okay, nice. Well, I mean, what do they define by a
train? Is it just like a school car on some rails? Or is it like
a fully like electricity FIDE cart? No, no,
David: this this side,
Greg: but it's the cart on Yeah, on rails.
David: That card on rails? Is that will be my guest. No more
than one more than one car.
Greg: Do you know when the first car race was
David: 1978
Greg: when the second car was built,
David: I imagine Yeah, it's like you gotta get two of them. Which
one's faster? Alright, let's
Leila: see. Car and Joseph second car. Got on the road
together on the road made by Joseph road. Of course. The car
brothers. Yeah, the car.
David: But oh my gosh. But no, a lot of these sites. So when we
look up our facts, we don't typically dig really deep.
Because we do deep dives on stuff. The show's gonna be four
hours long, because we'll get we'll get. We've done it before.
And like, we get way too into things. So we kind of just find
some fun facts. And we try not to dig too deep. Because when
you say what was the first train, like the fine train? The
site doesn't have that. Yeah, so it's more
Greg: fun if you just make it up anyway.
David: Right. And then also the, we will find Leila and I will
both be looking on different sites and we will find
contradictory facts. Yeah. And both of them claimed to be
internet. Yeah, the internet sometimes. Some of the
information on the internet is unreliable.
Greg: Well, I'm not using chat GPT it'll get it right every
time
David: with us chat GBT for one episode. And it was fantastic.
We let it we let it just run rampant over the show. And it
was it was a mess. That thing is not what it's cracked up to be.
It does some things kind of well, though. It's good for meal
planning. Very, very narrow, focused things. Especially if
you can find a good training model for the for the AI. I've
dug into that and it's but it's still it's still it's not there
yet. It'll get there. Okay, sure. So let's see what what is
the fastest fish in the sea?
Leila: Make the fat fastest. I love the debtor their
Greg: name Barracuda comes to mind.
David: You gotta get an answer. No reference.
Ashlyn: Um, I'm gonna say 100 And no 102
Greg: Oh, you want this? You're going for the actual Oh,
David: yeah, no, I would say no. What species? Oh, I find a fish.
And what's the thing? Yeah, and fish. Um, you can fight with it.
Unknown: A sword fish a sword.
David: You got it. You got it without any any coaching. 168
miles an hour. Oh, dang. Yes, that aerodynamics?
hydrodynamics. Oh, mermaid.
Greg: What's the name of the Little Mermaid Ariel Ariel
Ariel.
Leila: Ariel is the fastest efficiency. Squirrels
David: can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
I believe
Greg: I knew this was not fast when they crossed the street.
No,
David: they're not and they stop they stop right in front of your
tie. Anyway, like deers? Yeah. Oh, so deer. With a little a
little before the show. Y'all had y'all had a cool little
story before we actually started recording. Yeah, we had
Leila: good news. We were talking about good news. We're
gonna skip it because of the 100 Good news. We weren't we weren't
to talk about it.
David: Well, why don't we talk about your good news.
Ashlyn: Our good news, y'all. I shot a deer and we had the
timber. We met and we had deer steak for dinner tonight. And it
was both of our first times having deer steak. It was very
delicious. But to kill this deer, we met a guy named Caleb.
And we met him at G G. G to Motorsports Park. And they were
having a little opening ceremony and people got to bring their
cars and race on the track for the first time. But we met this
guy named Caleb and he's on a the lemons limit
Greg: would limit 24 hour of lemons. There's a I won't go too
deep. If we start giving the backstory.
Ashlyn: It's an endurance race and you have a very small budget
to spend on it could only spend $500
Unknown: on the car.
David: Oh nice.
Greg: That sounds great. And you have to run it for 24 hours.
Wow.
David: So how much are you allowed to spend on fixing it
up?
Greg: But well, you have to put a roll cage and all that stuff.
So you end up
David: in it. The initial car has to be fine. Okay, yeah, the
Greg: car is what it is. And the people decorate them. They wear
matching costumes. I mean, it's a whole they have costume
contests for the race. It's hilarious. So we're gonna
hopefully get to ride or drive for them in one of these races
this year, but they were out there with their Miata. And it's
just, you know, it. It's hilarious looking, but they let
her drive it on the track.
Ashlyn: Yeah. So Caleb is one of the guys that was out there that
races that car. And I had mentioned, I liked hunting a
lot. And that I really wanted to again, and he said that he has
some land, and he would let me shoot a deer. And I was like,
oh, okay, yeah, I will do that. So we scheduled a time and I
went out. And we went in the deer and the deer blind for a
few hours, and it was starting to get really dark, and we're
let down. But then right as we were about to step out of the
blind, we're talking about me and him. I tapped him on the
shoulder and he turned very slowly, and I just pointed over
to where I saw the deer and it was three deer that walked out
of some shrubbery. And he was like, No way. So I loaded the
gun and I want to take a shot at the biggest of the three dough.
And I pulled the trigger and clicked because it was not
loaded. Oh, no.
I didn't know this. Oh, no. We reloaded
it really fast. My shot one of the dough and it was like 75
yards out, I think. And we ran out over there. It was freezing
cold. I bet we ran over there and we drug it to the truck. And
then he gutted it and skinned it right at his house in his
garage. And we took the meat to get it processed with we had a
whole carcass inside of the back of our Honda CRV.
David: You gotta do what you got to do. Right? Yeah.
Ashlyn: So I I invested some money into it. And I got the
head mounted. Nice. So that'll be done in December. And then we
got the meat processed. And we got that back last week. And
this was the first time I've seen the steak and it was very
delicious. We
David: I'm not a fan of just a venison steak. Because typically
it's a little more than so long, a little more lenient. But like
when we do venison burgers or venison jerky, venison stew,
something where you add the fat. You will go buy some fat from
the butcher and it's good stuff. Good stuff. But Leila has a dear
story. I'm not great at telling stories. You want me to tell the
story? Yes. Okay. I will butcher and it's been a while. We need
the sound. sad trombone, please. So we were at Sam's, which is a
membership club store at Costco kind of like a Costco if that if
that's what you got where you're at. Okay. Oh, lucky. So we're in
Sam's and I'm looking at the olive oil. We tell the story
about every 20 or 30 episodes. And we're looking at the olive
oil, you know, the gallons of olive oil and like what's going
on? So I'm looking at Phaedra and Leila, this is my wife and
Leila. And all of a sudden Phaedra goes dear, and I'm like
yes honey. No, she she points behind me and says Dear, and I
turn around right is this was 12 point buck 1010 point buck. Come
is barreling at us like just full bore running down the aisle
at Sam's. And it's not doing a great job because the floor is
all slick. But my wife grabs Leila and yanks her out of the
way and throws her into the palate of olive oil. Right as
the book just right where Leila just was oh my god, it was about
to just plow over her it didn't even care. And then right after
it passed her. I kid you not it face planted isn't really part
that I remember into a pallet of deerpark water puncturing
stations. And it punctured a few of the bottles. And anyway, it
fell to the ground. And it gets back up and looks at us. And I
don't know if it's going to charge us like if it's mad or if
it's scared. I don't know what's going on. So I put my hand on my
pistol, and then it turns and starts to run away from us.
Well, a couple of the employees a bystander and then me
afterwards. We all got our carts and like corralled it back into
the warehouse where the trucks load the stuff and they opened
up the bay door and we like got it back outside. It had come in
through the tire center. The tire department. Yeah, yeah,
there. You know where the cars come in to get their tires
changed it There's some woods backed up against the SAMS and
it just wandered in and then got got stuck in there. And I was
freaking out. It was it was really interesting that actually
happens here about once every two years a deer will get into
one of the major retail places. My buddy was here. Yeah, my
buddy was in Walmart one time they had a subway at the back.
And he's just walking past the subway. He had heard a commotion
earlier, but he's walking past the subway and there's a doe
just like laying there and, you know, like, like, it's resting
in the middle of the subway risk. Oh, my God. Oh my gosh.
But we have lots of deer here. It's actually really dangerous.
It's a problem. Whitetail. And though, some, some years they're
just like, You know what? Don't even count just get as many as
you can get, because they overpopulate here. Right and
cause a lot of damage and spread a lot of disease. So well,
Greg: it's it's the the wild boar down here.
David: Oh, yeah. I've heard about that. I'm from I'm from
Lubbock, originally. Yeah, so y'all know where that's at? And
I'm Leila wants to go to Texas. I'm sure the sky. I want to show
her what the sky looks like without trees. Yeah, she sees
trees everywhere. She's seen it on a cruise. But yeah, when it's
over the over the land, and you got the you know,
Greg: so you have so many trees where you are that it's hard to
get a clear view.
David: Yeah, there's there's a lot of really tall like pine
trees and stuff like that. And there's just, I mean, if you get
to see like
the horizon, right at all, it just kind of like shrinks
the sky. Yeah. You'll get a good a good, long view. If there's
like a huge field. Like there's a couple of places here where
you got to really big soybean farms used to be tobacco, but
they've moved to soybean now, and you can get you can kind of
get that but not like Lubbock, you know, it's on that plateau.
It's like perfectly flat. So like I grew up being able to see
10 miles, you know, it was like, it was amazing. And she's never
experienced that. So we'll get out there one day out back out
of West Texas.
Greg: Ashlyn likes to have us go out. You got to get out into
West Texas to be able to see the stars. I mean, we live in the
Dallas Fort Worth area, and it's just all light pollution, light
pollution. Yeah.
David: We lived probably 15 miles outside of Lubbock. So it
was desert. Like it was just there was nothing. And we could
see I mean, you can see the Milky Way there was hardly any
light pollution. We did have a military base nearby. But there
was that wasn't a lot of light pollution. Not like Dallas Fort
Worth.
Leila: If we go to Texas, I gotta condition myself because
last time we went to like a desert in Nevada. I could not
speak for a couple days. So dry my lungs. Oh, yeah. Yeah, well,
I've never been anywhere. Like a desert.
Greg: In the flat area. Like that works real open. And you
can see the night sky. I feel like disoriented. I feel like
I'm gonna fall up into space. It's It's wild. Yeah,
David: it's a very interesting. Another. Another interesting
thing when I moved from there to here. The humidity is like zero.
They're
Leila: all the humidity here is like 70
David: minimum that's the minimum ever gets. So when we
moved like here, I didn't understand why people were so
crazy about putting a coaster under your drink. Because
there's no sweat. Like you don't get the sweat on the outside of
the cup in Lubbock. Like I've done it never been a problem
with us. Yeah, so like when we moved here, but he's like, put
it on a coaster. And I'm like, What's a coaster? Like, I had
genuine I was like eight I had no idea what a coaster was. And
they'll and I was like, oh, is our is my drink leaking? What's
wrong with this cup? And I was like, I had never experienced
humidity before. That was just an interesting thing. So she
Leila had the opposite. When we went to Vegas, it was just so
dry. And her body's used to the the moisture in her laryngitis.
Leila: And I couldn't speak because of how dry my throat was
and everything.
David: Plus the oxygen they pumped into the casino. Yeah,
because Leila just she just sat down to the slot machine for
three days straight. And just 13 They don't let kids play the
slot machines. Everybody knows I was joking. So, so what's next?
What's next for you? What's what's on the horizon in the
next year or so? Thinking of Lubbock?
Ashlyn: Well, the team that I am signed for to race with this
year, they are from Lubbock. They're the team is called Race
dog. And we've done a couple of practice sessions or testing
session sessions this year, but we really want to do the series
called FRP, which would make make my first pro year racing,
which would be very cool, but we just need funding to do that.
But if not, we would do a few SCCA racing, which is races
which is what I have been doing previously. And we would do a
certain amount of races of those races in order to make it to the
SCCA Runoffs, which would give me some more exposure if we
cannot do the FRP series until about the car that
we're racing. And we're
going to be racing the F 1600 that I mentioned earlier, what
makes that unique? What makes it unique is it does not have any
wings. It's just It looks very weird. Weird. It's just like the
center body of the car and then four wheels off to the side.
Leila: That's your
Greg: she raced the formula. Mazda, if anybody listening can
just google these to see pictures of them. The formula
Mazda looks like a Formula One car to most people that they
would call, people call it a Formula One who don't know, the
wings on a car, give it downforce. And so what that does
is it allows you to take it gives you more grip in the tire
so you can take the corners faster. One of the interesting
things about wing cars is when you're going into a corner and
you're going to break, you can just slam on the brakes as hard
as you can because you have so much downforce but as soon as
the car starts to slow down, and the wind speed slows down over
the wings, you lose downforce, you have to let off the brake
quickly or you'll lock the tires up. So mastering all those
intricacies. She's already done that she won the Southern
Conference Championship in SCCA last year in that our biggest
race that she won was at Circuit of the Americas, which was
really cool. But this car with no wings, it's all mechanical
grip. So a lot of times they will use this car for kids that
are coming out of Karting because it gives them an
introduction to the formula open wheel cars without having to
deal with that extra complication of the downforce.
So this will be a walk in the park for her.
David: So you just said a term karting. What's that? karting
Greg: is what we call kart race go kart racing? Oh, yeah. And
they're spelled with a K. They spell it K AR T?
David: Like Mario Kart? Yeah.
Greg: Harding. Yeah. Thank you for calling attention to that.
Because we'll just throw out words that we know secondhand.
David: We try real hard to nature with you because like I
genuinely didn't know. I thought you said card being like car D
right ing. And they said karting and Oh, okay. Yeah, that makes
sense. But yeah, that's that's one of the things when we bring
people on, we always have to be like, hold on, you're using
lingo? No, know, it's tough. Like you said, you you build
websites. You start talking with nerds about computer stuff. And
you start talking about you know, DNS and, you know, things
and people are like, whoa, you know, so you gotta you got to
make sure you let folks know who don't
Greg: actually has their their little language.
David: It's a so did you have anything else you wanted to any
fun stories or like, like, what's the funniest thing that's
happened to you in a race has anything like funny happened
where you were just
Greg: spinning out?
Ashlyn: Oh. So
this is when I was racing the Spec Miata, and we had a race in
Hallett, which is an Oklahoma and qualifying is whoever gets
the fastest time, it's based on whoever gets the best time. And
from that, then, if you get if you get the fastest time, then
you'll start first place in the race starting, so you want to
get the fastest time in qualifying. We pulled up to the
grid, which is where everyone lines up before they release you
to go onto the track to start your qualifying or your race.
And it had started sprinkling, and everyone had slicks on which
is the tires that have no treading through it. And why
that is bad when it rains is because once it starts raining,
and you have that slick tire, there is no traction between the
car and the ground. So that's why you have rain tires and why
in racing, sometimes you see people pit when it starts to
rain, so they can put on those rain tires. They have little
grooves so the water can move through the tire and have you
make oh my goodness, allow you to have contact to the track. So
it started sprinkling and everyone was on slicks. And this
was also my first time ever Racing in the Rain in cars, so I
went out and it was the first corner and I was being very
cautious. And the very first corner I wasn't even going full
speed I was going maybe 10 miles an hour, first corner I spin out
and I just ended up not qualifying
David: so like the very first corner It's just like, alright,
this is the first one get this one good. And I spun out
Greg: over the radio I said Ashlyn. Don't worry about your
first time in the car racing. In the rain, she goes, Dad, this is
my first time driving in the race.
David: And it's always like, Okay, what's the what's the
worst thing? Oh, there it is. I just did the worst thing.
Greg: But then there was a time when we were racing go karts,
when she was younger, and it was raining off and on during the
race weekend, and this was a regional competition. So the
stakes are high. And we were watching the race before hers
and trying to decide, okay, is the track dry enough to put on
slicks I mean, you have to make the decision. And so everybody
was on the grid getting ready to go out. And all of the dads went
and grabbed the slicks, and changed from the rain tires to
the slicks on the grid, just before we go out. And ask them
looks up to me, and she's probably 10 years old at this
time. And she looks at me and she goes, Dad, Dad, go, go get
the Go get the slicks go to the slicks, and I'm looking at my
weather app. And I looked down at her, I said, Ashlyn. I think
we're going to win this race. And I've got the GoPro and it
starts pouring just before the green flag. You should put some
Benny Hill music with this thing or that dunk that the cars are
just going around in circles around her and she just goes
right through mu boo boo boo boo wins the race. Actually, red
flagged the race before the end of it and she was in first.
That's cool.
David: That's, that's so the um, the or the slicks, like, like,
why wouldn't you just always leave on one or the other. I
mean, obviously, if it's raining, you want to have the
rangelands, but like, are the slicks faster.
Ashlyn: If it's dry, yeah, if it's dry, they're faster made of
a different material, okay, and also, not having grooves it
gives you more contact to the track and allows you to have
more grip, you
Greg: want as much contact as possible. But the rains have
grooves in it to allow the water just to get out of the way. But
also the rains are super soft. If you run rains, and it's not
raining, they'll get so hot, they'll just melt.
Ashlyn: They'll look like they'll look like slicks at the
end of however many laps, it usually takes just a couple of
laps if you're running rain tires, on a dry surface,
David: so the tread would just melt. So the materials they're
made out of as well as the surface surface area touching
the road, why not just put, I don't know how to put like more
tires. Just like what have you had like 12 tires on the front?
That would be more surface area. Right? I can just, that's
Ashlyn: a lot of money.
A set of tires will last us about one race weekend and low
cost about what 12?
Greg: I mean, it depends on the car. Yeah, right. They always
limit they with the levels that we're racing at which is
considered amateur. They limit the number of tires and the tire
compounds that they specify you to use are hard enough or they
don't wear out over the weekend. Because you know, then the
richest people would win all the time. So they limit it to where
you're you only use one set of tires over a weekend. But like
on the Miata they were 150 for a set that last one weekend. The
the formula Mazda was 14 No 1600 Yes. 1600 for a weekend, it gets
up there. It's crazy.
David: I can see why you need sponsors for that sort of thing,
man. I didn't know. I mean, I knew like NASCAR would wear out.
And you know, you gotta change the tires multiple times during
one race. Yeah,
Greg: that's part of the race. You know, the way they race?
Right? You know, they do that. But for amateur racing, they
specifically tell you to make you use tires that have a harder
compound so they don't wear out as fast so they don't cost you
as much.
Leila: Okay, so if you throw a banana peel behind you, with the
the person behind you like, like, a circle and then go well
their coin
Ashlyn: flips five times and then explode. Yeah.
Leila: Raise my, my, you bring this thing of bananas. And you
David: know, I was gonna kill me for telling this story. She is
gonna stab me in the face while I'm sleeping. She slipped on a
banana peel. Like she was getting out of her car at work.
And somebody had done a banana peel on the ground. And she
slipped on it. Like, like in the old comedy cartoons. I didn't
know that that would actually happen. She called me and she
was very upset that nobody saw it. She was you just that just
reminded me of that.
Greg: Well, it sounds like she's got a good sense of humor.
David: She does so and if she would actually like be mad about
it. I wouldn't air that but I did. As you can all tell. No.
What's funny is if I go back and edit it, make it very obvious
That would also be funny. Oh, the comedy choices? Switch?
Yeah. Yeah, we have, we found out that the, the hardware that
we use for recording, it's got a sensor button that does the
standard center beep to get
Leila: a mute for my trumpet. So I can do a warm, warm, warm,
warm, warm, Charlie Brown,
David: right. But this sensor button, you can actually record
a custom sensor word. So we have to decide what we want to say or
what we want that to save when we want to, you know, censor
something as a joke, or what sound we want. So it's, you
know, like, when you're dealing with this high level of comedy,
you just have to make sure that you're, you're making the right
choices, you know? Did y'all have any questions for us at
all?
Greg: How did you guys get started? And I heard and you
tell me if I'm wrong, that you're one of two podcasts that
are daddy daughter was always the one. And then when I heard
this as I think you were the one that asked me, Do you want to
both come on? I was like, Man, this would be a lot of fun.
We've never got to do this before.
David: The we us being in one of two pod cat now. That's that's,
there's so many dad and daughter podcast. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, I
was joking around because, yeah, I said it was just a joke. I was
talking to Reena, who was on an episode a couple episodes ago.
She does a podcast with her dad, where she interviews somebody.
And then the dad listens to the interview and add some words of
wisdom at the end of the thing. So that's like their dad
daughter podcast. And we were talking about that. And I was
just joking around I know of I know, of at least four or five
other father daughter podcasts. And that's just the ones I know
of, there's 4.2 million podcasts out there. Yeah. Only about
380,000 Give or take are actually active podcasts. But
yeah, there's there's a lot of there. But we got started. Leila
was 10. It was we got started a month or two into, you know, you
know, the the bad times.
Greg: lock downs, I call them the long lock downs.
David: And but we would actually planned on starting before that.
But the initial idea for the show was just to do a, like one
minute podcast, of just a fun fact, like one or two fun facts
on each topic, like something that you learned that day,
right? That's what the show was gonna be. But then I was like
that, let's make it at least like 10 minutes, and then turn
to this. And now it turns into we've had hour and a half
episodes we've had, you know, it's it, it slowly turned into
what it is now, over time, you know, receiving criticism,
realizing we don't like editing. Yeah, so we just do it live now.
And then we tried video, and we tried, you know, we tried
different things. And some things work. Some things stick,
some things don't.
Greg: But well, it's something that you'll always have. And
you'll always look back on this. And this is something that, you
know, with our racing, nobody else has shared this experience
with us, like we had nobody, I mean, it's completely unique
experience and completely unique for us. And we never, we didn't
plan any of it. It just it just one foot after the next you
know, one step after the next. And then here we are, it's It's
wild. But I sometimes think about, you know, 20 years from
now, we're going to look back at pictures. We were over at my my
parents house Sunday, and looking back at pictures of my
racing, my wheelchair racing, and just thinking and I was
getting to show her. And then I'm thinking well, 20 years from
now we're gonna look back and go oh, remember that time that we
were the only ones that went out on rain tires, and, you know,
all these experiences that are just completely unique.
David: Yeah, and, and that was I just went to pod fest Expo down
in Orlando. Talking about podcasting with other
podcasters. Like a, it was a really good experience because I
got to share what we do with people, a lot of people that
appreciate that. Now, I have four years of conversations with
my daughter in her in her formative years. And we talk
about what we're doing in our daily lives. You know, we kind
of give like most episodes, we do like a little recap of what
are we doing this week? I didn't do nothing this week, we're
talking about but we have all these conversations and it's
just something that I'll get to get to have forever, you know,
and I get to teach her a lot of very useful skills through this.
Public speaking being one of them she's not afraid to get up
in front of people and talk. She knows how to use a microphone
she knows proper interview etiquette, she knows you know,
the all of the recording stuff. So there's less I could talk for
30 minutes on all the stuff that I've taught her through Through
this experience, and I'm sure you have not just the racing and
staying on the on the line and all that, but like,
responsibility for showing up things like that. I'm sure you
all got, you know, all kinds of things that aren't directly part
of the race that you've learned.
Greg: Yeah, one of the things that we've concentrated on is
communications. And I've made sure that she's taken
communications and speech classes in school. And like when
she was, what comes to mind is, when we raised a circuit, the
Americas and the formula Mazda last year, she was leading the
race for almost the whole race. And she's in you know, you have
to give the speech afterwards, they come up and interview you.
And we had worked on the speech ahead of time, and later, she
told me that while she's driving, she just kept going
through the speech while she's in first place. Just going over
and over in her head, so she get it right, right. So sometimes
Ashlyn: I think about or talk to myself or think about what I'm
going to eat for dinner, or what I'm gonna do on my phone after
the race.
David: You've got an internal monologue. At least you got
that? Did you know, speaking about fun facts? Did you know
that some people do not have an internal monologue?
Ashlyn: Yes, we're just talking so weird to me.
David: It's so weird. But we're about to hit fit. We're just had
56 minutes on this episode. I think we're gonna we're gonna go
ahead and wrap it up. Unless y'all had anything else y'all
wanted to ask us or say or?
Greg: Well, your social media stuff. Yeah.
Ashlyn: You can find me on Instagram or Twitter, Facebook
and Tik Tok I AshlynSpeed. And
David: we will definitely Yeah,
Greg: and we try to put out a new reel. We try to every week
but it's it's a lot of work. It is
David: content creation is no joke. But people pop in and
think they're just going to make stuff gets it can get tedious. I
will definitely link those in the show notes. Did you need Did
you want anything else linked in there? Or is that just
Greg: be cool everybody go check that out. The guy who did it is
a Emmy nominated video creator and just fantastic. And it's
it's a good introduction to our story.
David: It was it was it was a really good show prep for us. So
all right, well, I think we're gonna wrap it up. Oh wait value
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that theme song talking about episode 175 beatboxing with
Parker Kane. Parker is working on the beatbox rendition of our
theme song. How fun. So he's working on that. And he also has
another little surprise for us. And I can't say it because Lilo
get too excited. So that's all we had for support this week.
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If you're listening. Alright, well, I think thank you all for
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fantastic weekend. You and say bye. Bye.
Leila: All right. Bye.
David: And we have our buddy Kyle here. He does our outro for
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