Racing Thrills, Hollywood Tales, and Texas Sports: A Jam-Packed Episode with Rodney Rodriguez

Car Racing Talk Show With Rodney

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast From the Sugar Shack Studios near Houston , texas , usa . This is the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show . This hour we'll be chatting it up over our friend with our friend , rodney Rodriguez , talking about oval track racing , among other things .

Speaker 2 0:27

He's gone Hollywood , hasn't he he is ? He's gone Hollywood , he's gone Hollywood . He left us behind . I know that's all right .

Speaker 1 0:32

That's okay . Good luck to him , and we want to be on your coattails . There you go . Jeff has the Motor Minute and I guess I get to review the Lexus GX550 . You certainly can Howdy along with Mike out of this world Mars . We always need more . Jeff Zekin , I'm Don Armstrong . Thanks so much for joining us today . David Ainsley is trying to recover from the entire turkey .

Speaker 2 0:57

Still doing dishes , I'm sure , I'm sure no doubt Over there .

Speaker 1 1:01

Anyway , look who we've got here . Who do we got there ? Well , we got Rodney Rodriguez revved up sports show in Dirty Air . Dirty Air , I like it . We have the Dirty Air logo up over here .

Speaker 3 1:12

Yeah , you go to Hollywood . I see that .

Speaker 1 1:13

Both , both , okay , well , I guess I missed .

Speaker 2 1:18

Oh , there it is , there it is . You need one of those ring girls to walk through with the sign behind you yeah , there you go . Yeah , yeah , yeah , woo-hoo , and they'll call it Dirty Air .

Speaker 3 1:29

Just dogs in here . No women , no women , no women . Hey , did y'all say we're having a remote at Bombshells ?

Speaker 4 1:36

No , We'd love to Would we ?

Speaker 1 1:41

Yeah , you know , the last time we got involved in something like that . Would we ? Yeah , you know the last time we got involved in something like that ?

Speaker 3 1:48

I think I said to both of you we are never doing this again . That was at the Roadhouse or whatever . It was up in the woodlands .

Speaker 1 1:54

Yeah , yeah , yeah . What was the name of that place ?

Speaker 2 1:57

Women's Federal .

Speaker 1 1:57

Prison ? No , no , it was the Women's Federal Penitentiary . It was .

Speaker 2 2:01

Twin Peaks , almost the federal prison .

Speaker 1 2:04

Oh God , I'd never been to a Twin Peaks before . I had no clue , dummy me . Well , now I know there were girls in there that were young enough to be my granddaughter , oh boy , and they were in little skimpy outfits .

Speaker 2 2:25

And you know , it just kind of gave me the creeps and anybody that looked at me thought he's the creep for being in here somebody check his id , can we pull his criminal record online ?

Speaker 3 2:30

exactly . I'm always amazed with . Well , I'll say , we men , you know that , go into those places and it's like , okay , you know that you're going to eat , you're going to have , you know , cheap beer or not , cheap cold beer or whatever , and that's all you get . But some people go in there and they're they're thinking they're like at the Gentleman's Club and I'm like guys , what'd you get ?

Speaker 1 2:48

You know how many Hooters I've been to One One time , and it's not that I'm against any of that stuff , it just doesn't appeal to me . One wings they're terrible . There's just not enough meat on the bone there for me .

Speaker 2 3:02

I do like the Hooters wings when they're hot , let them get cold and they're great , does Becky ?

Speaker 1 3:06

know that .

Speaker 4 3:07

Yeah , so I'm not allowed to go there .

Speaker 2 3:09

Did you ever take Becky there ? I think we went there one time .

Speaker 1 3:14

That's what I thought , did you ever take .

Speaker 2 3:17

No , I've been to a Hooters once with an old boss of mine because he liked the food and the food was terrible . He liked the food no he did . I'm sure that's what it was , something about garlic wings or whatever .

Speaker 3 3:28

Speaking of Hooters and meat on the bone .

Speaker 2 3:31

Well , that's it for your segment . Gotta go .

Speaker 3 3:34

Pretty funny story One of the first times that I was going down to Pensacola for the Snowball Derby , going through Beaumont , stopped at the Hooters in Beaumont , stopped at the Hooters in Beaumont , and so we go in and there's like two pregnant Hooters waitresses there and it's like you know , pregnancy's fine .

Speaker 2 3:49

Retired strippers . Yeah , it's like that kind of it's East Texas dude . You take what you can get when you get to Beaumont . Stage name is Cottage .

Speaker 1 4:02

Cheese .

Speaker 4 4:02

Rodney Rodriguez .

Speaker 1 4:05

Giving ham . You had no clue what you were going to get yourself into on a thanksgiving saturday did you started it .

Speaker 3 4:11

I like this is holiday , uh , bliss it is . How are you doing ? Doing well , guys . Um , you know , just uh kind of kind of getting the uh racing season wound down . But uh , for me , uh , this is because , kind of dueling in the different sports things , we've got a little football game that I'll be working on today .

Speaker 4 4:32

Really yeah .

Speaker 3 4:33

Which one is this ? We've got the Fighting Texas Longhorns taking on the Fighting Texas Aggies for the first time . Are you working on the broadcast ? I'll have to do postgame . I'll have to do postgame , so we'll do a post-game broadcast .

Speaker 1 4:47

Oh I see , Is that on your local station there in ?

Speaker 3 4:48

Austin yeah , that's on Texas Sports Unfiltered . That's going to be very late tonight , so we'll see how that all goes . But yeah , racing season winding down and I guess getting wound up to do it all over again , more fun Getting ready .

Speaker 2 5:02

Getting wound up to do it all over again . More fun Getting ready . Well , yeah , one of the guys down here . He's already talking about the Chili Bowl next year , getting his cars ready January .

Speaker 3 5:09

I'm actually headed to next week . Next week midweek I'm heading to Missouri for the Gateway Nationals , which what they do is they take the dome there in St Louis , they take that and cover it up with dirt and they have a huge dirt late model race there for about three days . So that's going to be a pretty massive event .

Speaker 1 5:29

Is it ?

Speaker 2 5:30

an indoor event .

Speaker 3 5:31

Inside . Is Kenny Wallace connected to that , probably in some form or fashion .

Speaker 2 5:37

Dirt track Missouri , you would think Kenny Wallace that comes to mind .

Speaker 3 5:40

Yeah , yeah . And it's one of those things where I always laugh with the chili bowl and this race with the dome , to where it's like when , when nascar goes in and they , they did the racer at the la coliseum , a lot of the dirt folks are like that's not a real track . I'm like , well , what about the chili bowl ? Um , you know , kind of kind of same concept , I think . But uh , great events , uh , great events .

Speaker 1 6:02

Chili bowl is huge well , and I was talking to somebody about that just the other day . I said you know , even though that the official seasons for the big organizing groups has come to an end . Basically , there are these oddball things that happen in the offseason . What is it ? The Snow Bowl , what was that ?

Speaker 3 6:25

Yeah , that's next week . You've got the Snow Bowl Derby in Pensacola . That's kind of the Super Bowl of stock car racing , so that will draw just massive . I mean it really is the biggest .

Speaker 1 6:37

Yeah , and you say stock car racing . You're talking about local stock car racing .

Speaker 3 6:41

Well , I mean , that was the concept way back when . Now , as finances and big money teams have driven everything , oh , you get those guys and , and actually this weekend as well . Today , as a matter of fact , in central florida you've got the uh bill bigley memorial 128 at the at the freedom factory , and what you have there ? You've got 40 pavement super late models that are going to be racing and a lot of these guys . They'll pull up and they take their , their bigley car for this weekend and then they'll just head over to pensacola , um , and make it a full soiree . Are you going to go to that one ? No , no , I've got the st louis race . I usually , I usually cover the , the derby , but uh , this will be the first time in a long time . That uh gonna be weird . I'll be at a dirt track massive event , not a pavement event .

Speaker 1 7:25

You know this whole announcer thing at the play-by-play stuff at these racetracks . It's going to be your full-time gig here before too long .

Speaker 3 7:35

You know , don , I'm fortunate because I recently got a gig and I mentioned this to Mike . I'm now working for O'Reilly Auto Parts and I'm actually going to be one of their event marketing specialists Specialists , they call me . Basically , I'm going to travel around to racetracks and NASCAR races , indycar races , short track races , doing car shows , probably going to cross paths with you guys a lot in the Houston area because I'll cover the whole territory .

Speaker 2 8:05

Well , you're special to us . Yeah , regardless , we got history , I know . Let me ask you this , let me ask you this what's going on with the charters , with NASCAR and the 2311 racing and Hamlin and the big fight with the Hendricks and all that ? What's going on there ?

Speaker 3 8:23

So basically , the way that that works is NASCAR afforded the teams an opportunity to where they gave them the charters , which have become very valuable , which are teams . You've got a slot for a team . Yeah , basically what that means is that you're you're in every race . You know , back in the back in the days of when you had a lot of cars , cars wouldn't qualify for races . If you have a charter , you're going to be in the race every weekend , essentially .

Speaker 3 8:46

But but what happens here is what nat look , nas car , this is nascar's uh sandbox , as they call it . They control everything . I mean , they uh the finances of that , uh everything entailed right there . Nascar dictates okay , the teams are going to get this percentage of of whatever . I think would really put this over the top , jeff was once the tv money got so outrageous . I mean , now you've got five tv providers where there were three at one point . When you add in amazon , prime and whoever else , the other one is that's just a lot of money . And Denny Hamlin , now that he's on the ownership side there , and Michael Jordan , the ultimate financial guy when it comes to the sports industry , these two are like , wait a minute , we need a bigger piece of the pie here and that's why they do what a lot of us do now Lawsuit . So it's kind of do what a lot of us do now they lawsuit . So it's kind of stalled a little bit but it'll work itself out .

Speaker 2 9:48

But it's very weird for somebody to push back against NASCAR . Well , the reason I say that is because that's going on in Formula One and my minute's going to be about some of that too , a little later on in the show . But I had to ask because I knew you were coming on . So yeah , clear as mud that's the thing .

Speaker 3 10:00

I mean it's all this . Nothing's going to be resolved by the time we get to daytona in february . I mean none of this will be . I mean this is going to be one of those deals . It gets done miraculously , it gets done . It'll get very quiet for a little bit . Then it's done , then everybody's happy well , it's the dirty .

Speaker 2 10:15

You know they're airing all their dirty laundry . I don't want to hear that you lose interest in the sport .

Speaker 3 10:21

That's a whole thing . What happens when this happens in Formula One , nascar , wherever it is , is that it becomes very much the equivalent of big money contracts in the NFL , major League Baseball and the NBA , to where it's like people get soured on hearing about all this money that these people are making and they're trying to figure out a way to pay the electric bill and you're having to pay for streaming and you're having to pay for cable and you know it's just . It's not anything that needs to be . We don't need to know . I love your point . We don't need to know this stuff , they can figure it out speaking of nascar and uh daytona in february .

Speaker 1 10:57

So what's the latest with NASCAR ?

Speaker 3 11:00

Well , this was a year that was with the new playoff system there's been a lot of talk about . With the playoff system it needs to be changed , the different tiers of it , where the top 16 drivers get in and you kind of dwindle that down . And this year you get a guy in , joey Loggano that didn't have the best regular season . He won a regular season race , got himself into the playoffs . That's all you have to do . He does that , he gets into the playoffs . And then alex bowman you know , driver there for hendrick gets disqualified on a weight infraction at a race . Logano was out of the playoffs because that was a cutoff race .

Speaker 3 11:35

I forget which round that was because it's 16-12-8 , and then down to the four , alex Bowman punches his way into the playoffs , gets disqualified Joey Logano was out and then he's back in . Because Bowman was thrown out , joey Logano wins the championship . So in the old point system , joey Logano , I think , would have finished 12th .

Local Racing and NASCAR Challenges

Speaker 3 12:00

So you know , nascar is in a really tough spot , guys , because whatever they do is going to piss somebody off .

Speaker 2 12:05

Get rid of the stages .

Speaker 3 12:07

The stages .

Speaker 2 12:08

Get rid of them . Get rid of them , drive like a man .

Speaker 3 12:11

Drive like a man . I don't know about you guys , but I don't want to watch a 500-mile race with no cautions , nothing going on . I mean , come on , it's boring . To each their own , to each their own . It's going to be an interesting 2025 .

Speaker 1 12:25

How about local ?

Speaker 3 12:26

stuff , so local stuff , dirt continues to thrive and there are just so many in the state of Texas with the dirt tracks . Like I mentioned when I'm on on with you guys , your , your tractor in Cleveland , 105 has just done a 105 speedway . And Cleveland has done just amazing things this year . They added two or three really big events out there and they're continuing to grow and grow the fan base . And you know , dirt is kind of at a point right now to where they're kind of at that point as well , to where there are a lot of , uh , the modified type cars .

Speaker 3 12:57

Now there's probably about four or five of those different classes and guys will go from a sport mod to a B mod to an E mod , and so you're getting a lot of stuff with that where folks are like , okay , we've got too many of those classes . You've got a lot of stock car classes kind of all of that , but there's a lot of cars , there's a lot of fans , car classes kind of all of that , but there's a lot of cars , there's a lot of fans , so they're in a really good place . And then , when it comes on the asphalt side , I think obviously there's one track in Houston . I think that track did some really good things this year . They've released I think there are eight or nine dates that are going to be out in 2025 . Hopefully they can get a balance right there and also bringing back Bandoleros trying to add some cool midget racing , all of that . So hopefully that's things that are going to keep everything moving forward , I guess .

Speaker 1 13:47

How do we get the schedule ? How do we get the schedule for that Houston track ?

Speaker 3 13:51

HMP Oval . Hmp Oval track on Facebook is the best place . Okay , have they put out the schedule yet . What's that ?

Speaker 1 13:59

Yeah , it's out , it is out .

Speaker 3 14:01

And it's nice next year because it equates to about one event a month , and I think right now that's really what it is .

Speaker 1 14:09

That's what it should be and if I were going to offer anything , look , either make it the first Saturday or the the first , you know for second , third saturday of the month , whatever it is , and just keep that going yeah , and , and it just gets to where , with all these disciplines of racing , I mean the cost factor .

Speaker 3 14:28

I mean it's always cost a lot of money to do this . I mean there's no doubt about it . But you know , now , with with the escalation of prices , for tires and shocks are the ones now , whether on dirt or or asphalt , that you can just spend . Guys , I remember when we raced on pavement in stock cars we would pay , you know , maybe $300 for our four shocks . Now these guys go in there and they're spending $1,000 per shock .

Speaker 1 14:52

Well , they're all custom made , aren't they ?

Speaker 3 14:54

They're all custom made . You can send them back and get them revalved . You tell them what you want them to do with them and you know if a couple of series over in the Florida area , what they've done is they're going to a spec shock , and I think that that definitely helps . But then you get the outcry , usually from the teams that have the better finance , teams , where it's like oh , we want something better Because we want to win . They don't like the balance . Are you doing any racing yourself ? No , I didn't . Did I race this year ? I didn't race at all this year .

Speaker 2 15:24

I thought you said you did race a couple times this past year .

Speaker 3 15:26

Did I ? No , no , I actually didn't this year , this year .

Speaker 1 15:30

I did not . I'm surprised . If I were a car owner , I would make sure that I had you in a car at least one race , and one that you're calling yourself .

Speaker 3 15:42

That's how I would get rides , when I would run from time to time to where it's like they'd have a big event and they're like hey , they'd call me up . Hey , you want a race . I'm like okay , you want me to talk about it , right ?

Speaker 2 15:54

Call the race from the cockpit .

Speaker 1 15:56

Call it from the seat . That would be fun . So how's your weekly show Dirty Air doing ?

Speaker 3 16:04

Dirty Air is doing really well . It continues to expand the brand . I've actually taken it a little bit further to where I've included talking more with motocross . I mean , motocross is really big up in in this region of texas , down where I'm at , around the austin area , because there's so many different moto parks that are always going and there's a lot of uh , a lot of hidden talent , youngsters that are starting out that are doing this and really they have there are , there are kids that have started out and they're they're at a really high level right now that have come out of Texas and people don't know anything about them because nobody covers it . So , kind of really taking that on and really kind of kind of tailored over to drag racing as well , um , I was fortunate to make a contact with a , uh , with a PR person for Tony Pedragon and , um , she's been able to push people over to me to really make it sound like I know a hell of a lot about drag racing , but all I know is whoever gets to the other side first , yeah .

Speaker 1 17:03

Well , it's great to talk to you , my friend , and hopefully we'll get to see you this year . I'm looking for that invite to come to Houston Motorsports Park and maybe come up and have a race up there and enjoy that with a hot dog yeah , dog and dollar beer .

Speaker 3 17:21

Yeah , there you go . They still doing that , they still do that , they still do that good , and , like I mentioned , um , I'm sure that we are going to cross paths quite often um , on , on some car show , uh stuff , and I hope so I'm glad to hear about yeah , I'm glad to hear about O'Reilly's hooking up with you , and we wish you the best of luck at that and hopefully we'll be able to do some things together .

Speaker 3 17:44

Yeah for sure , guys , you do tremendous work . I mean seriously . I know we like to get on here and kind of be a little outrageous sometimes .

Speaker 4 17:52

You all do amazing work . That's what we do , though .

Speaker 3 17:55

I hope you guys have a really great holiday season . Enjoy that time and just keep hammering away . Boys , rodney , god bless , take care of yourself .

Speaker 2 18:03

Merry Christmas , rodney , take care .

Speaker 1 18:05

Rodney Rodriguez Revved Up Sports Show and Dirty Air hey . You can catch the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show 24-7 on the In Wheel Time app , along with the Odyssey Radio app . We also video stream our weekly show on Facebook , youtube and InWheelTimecom , and podcasts are available from your favorite podcast provider . The In Wheel Time Car Talk Show continues right after this quick break .

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Speaker 1 18:29

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Speaker 1 19:28

Is your car ready for that all-important holiday road trip . Gulf Coast Auto Shield is having another Car Social Saturday , december 7th , and you're invited . Bring your car , truck or SUV and find out what it'll take to get that thing looking new again . Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your one-stop shop for paint detailing , coatings , window tint , clear bras , camera installs and wheel repair . The Car Social is your opportunity to get a tour of this state-of-the-art facility located at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway , just south of the Southwest Freeway . Join the Car Social Saturday , december 7th , 9 to noon . Talk to other owners and see how good your car can look on the road trip to Aunt Mary's . She'll want that good looking ride in her driveway , I promise . Put it on your calendar the Gulf Coast Auto Shield Holiday Car Social and Road Trip . Get ready . Saturday , december 7th , 9 to noon at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway , just south of the Southwest Freeway . The In Real Time Car Talk Show will be there too . We'll see you then .

Speaker 1 20:24

Holidays are here , they're here we hope you'll think of our sponsors this season , including Loopy , tortilla , tex-mex Restaurants , pro-am Auto and Gulf Coast Auto Shield Time . Now for the Motor Minute . Jeff has that .

Speaker 2 20:36

Motor Minute . I may need to take three hours on this , but you know what happened this past week Cadillac confirmed Formula One grid . Yay , the racing world is set to welcome Cadillac into the Formula One , where who else ? Mario Andretti Jr will assume the role of director and board of the new team . General Motors , under the Cadillac brand , aims to join the Formula One grid as the 11th team in 2026 . That's awesome , cadillac's path . I think the whole thing with this , don , is that Formula One , the F1 guru knuckleheads , didn't like Mario Andretti himself . They didn't like him as a human being , as a man , as a person as a person .

Speaker 2 21:19

Exactly so they 86ed him and said well , take Cadillac . Cadillac says you're not taking us unless you got Mario . Now he did step away from the actual day-to-day stuff , but he oversees the whole project , so good for you , big fan . Uh , I'm I'm all into that , but cadillac mario f1 2026 gotta love it .

Speaker 1 21:42

Are you is it ? Are you gonna , are you gonna actually start watching formula one ? I ?

Speaker 2 21:45

almost cried . Oh well , speaking of which , last week f1 was on paramount or discovery xyz or whatever . It wasn't on a local station , it was from vegas , it was a home track , usa , and you had to buy a subscription to watch a blankety blank in f1 race . I refuse to do that . I refuse to do that too . So but and then you know , your , your bad mouth , them and everything . And then this comes along where cadillac and mario is f1 . Yay , I just brighten up the picture .

Speaker 1 22:17

Good , yep , all right time now for this hour's car review . I had the chance to drive the the 2024 Lexus GX550 . This is a new vehicle . Available trim levels include the 550 Premium , the Premium Plus the Overtrail . I wrote down here Overtail , but that's not it , it's . Overtrail the Luxury with a Plus version . For each of those I had the Overt trail four-wheel drive . This is a standard suv mars , kind of like that thing that you were driving . You think what ?

Speaker 2 22:55

is a standard suv .

Speaker 1 22:56

It's about the size of a chevy tahoe . It'll seat five , six or seven people . Uh , we did not have the third row . It had five seats in it and that's just fine with me . Don't cram that third row into a vehicle that size .

Speaker 1 23:10

It doesn't work , please don't uh , exterior changes from last model year , all new for 2024 . It looks so much like a land rover range rover it's scary , yeah , land rover styling cues um , very boxy , attractive design . Um , it's very different for Lexus Squared off wheel openings , flat nose , modern front end with modified Lexus grille , squared off rear lighting as well . What I liked about it ? The clamshell rear gate with the ability to open the top glass only . Uh , what could use improvement ? Nothing , we just need more of it or like it anyway . Interior highlights rugged design , styling . Uh , huge in-dash 14 inch infotainment screen . Uh , with a very likable operating system , and it is built into the dashboard . It doesn't sit up there like some add-on . Comfortable and supportive , perforated leather seating , off-road capability plus luxury , cargo and trunk room plenty without that third row . What I liked ? The cool box in the center console . So if you've got something that you want to keep cool , a beverage that you want to keep cool , you open the center console lid and there's a little box in there and you hit the little button and ice coldness comes to it . What could use improvement ? Again , I don't get the third row version . The vehicle's just not big enough for a third row . I understand why they do it . Hey , we're going to make it anyway . It's not going to be that big of a deal . Oh , young family , I guess yeah .

Speaker 1 24:55

Engine a 3.4 liter twin turbo V6 that acts like a V8 . 349 horsepower , 479 pound-feet of torque , making it truly off-roadable . 10-speed automatic transmission with a tow rating of 4 tons . Manufacturer's miles per gallon 15 in the city , 21 on the highway combined to 17 . I got 18 miles per gallon over 325.5 miles . What I liked about it ? The powertrain is well matched to its capability . Now , I personally did not go off-roading with this thing , nor would I , because I don't want to scratch it , yeah , and I don't want to have to call those fine folks over there at lexus and go .

Speaker 2 25:40

Well , I scratched it , take it to jason shop no , I'm not .

Speaker 1 25:44

No , I don't want to take it to any shop here . I got it , I'm doing the review . That's good enough for me . That's a good-looking vehicle , man , I'm telling you , riding handily , as I said , a body-on-frame architecture . What I liked about it ? Those 33-inch all-terrain tires , massive , wow . Steamrollers with lugs is the way .

Speaker 4 26:04

I look at it .

Speaker 1 26:05

Adaptive variable suspension on those 18-inch wheels is very nice as well . Now you can get into this for $62,900 . Price is tested as $71,620 and it's pretty much loaded up . Competitors Land Rover Defender 110 for $73,475 . That's their most popular vehicle , by the way . The Ford Bronco starts at $39,630 . And the Jeep Wrangler for $31,995 . Well , don , why are you doing it that way ? Because there really isn't a lot of competition in that particular style of vehicle . There just isn't . And I'm sure that there'll be more if they sell a lot of these things . And I'll tell you what , man , if I'm into that off-roading luxury thing , I'm seriously going to look at this . It's not going to be the Land Rover Defender . No , it's a nice vehicle .

Speaker 2 27:00

Mars even turned his nose up when I said that I really like the ones I was in , but as far as an everyday thing .

Speaker 1 27:11

This could be an everyday thing easily .

Speaker 2 27:12

Yeah , yeah , I could see that .

Speaker 1 27:12

So I'm a huge fan . I really like it a lot . I like the lexus brand . I like the lineup . I like what they do with their vehicles . Um , I'm not a huge fan of that . What do they call spindle grill ? It's just not my cup of tea . But they keep changing it up to make it different for particular model years .

Speaker 2 27:31

They're trying to find one you like .

Speaker 1 27:33

Yeah , and I do like the NX and I'm going to review that next week . So , anyway , that's my review of the 2024 Lexus GX550 . Hey , if you'd like to get in touch with us , shoot us an email . The address here is info at inwheeltimecom . We'll be back after this .

Speaker 1 27:55

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Speaker 4 28:56

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Speaker 3 29:00

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That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show . I'm Don Armstrong , inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook , youtube , twitch and our InWheelTimecom website . Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts , spotify , stitcher , iheart Podcast , podcast Addict TuneIn , pandora and Amazon Music . Keep listening and we'll see you soon .