Let God Guide your Drive

This is the Truth Network radio show will cover Christian Car Guy radio on Jerry Mathis with raised body shop and wrecker service. The Christian body shop guy again this morning for for Robbie who is in Florida on vacation. Well-deserved vacation this morning. I love that song laden in Jesus take the wheel and this morning is a perfect time for that because in the studio with me this morning is pate what when you hear his voice, is to be you can recognize exactly who it is and maybe maybe this is one of those unique voices that is if you are a NASCAR fan you know Mark Garo's voice and Margo's not just PRN announcer and I think multiple winner of NASCAR broadcaster of the year award and not bragging but 6×6 to know how I would've thought Lee seven. I was hoping for maybe two, I might seal it when I left Vermont years and years ago did to chase my NASCAR dream. I joke with everybody that I'm just going down there to try to be almost semi-famous and so I'm working on.

Always try to be almost semifamous is my goal in life almost semi-almost all my besides all of that. I can tell you had another thought thing about Mark is not only as PRN NASCAR announcer is also my good friend and also a brother in Christ and that probably means more to me then didn't. All of the other stuff put together and then I'm just excited about having you in the studio this morning, but I told you before. This was on my bucket list and you looked at me like got serious and listen you guys all the time and you know being a brother in Christ you I want to try to involve myself and just as many Christian things as I can get my hands on and so this was on my bucket list. So this is really cool for me and you notes to little stew and big stew and all those guys are Bible study every Wednesday at the barrios so yet you like to be on the radio station is pretty cool and I think the thing is pretty cool.

Also this morning. One of things I won't to do is remind you that this is a call-in show, so if you have any kind of NASCAR related questions or something about body repair are our total and or anything like I just give us a call number is 866-34-TRUTH 87884 again 3366 but is 866-348-7884 and this morning one of the things to talk about his talk about NASCAR. We talk about speed plenty of speed involving absolute absolutely. This morning, forgoing them, leading to where speed isn't always the best thing at work and get us in trouble. You what member would NASCAR a few years ago had that motion. Without that all the different series of us be leave it on the tractor and Stefan. Sometimes I think we kind of forget about that this week I ended up getting an email with a lot of that stats from driving in car accidents.

Bras want to read through some of these are Markey to stop me because some of them are the same interest of some of her so when they sort of take you back when you realize just the magnitude of the sheer number yeah yeah got speed related crashes cost Americans you know much it cost Americans with with speed related crashes $40.4 billion a year.

That's with a B.

That's with that be I think about that now.

My end a little bit I'm I'm grateful for that. In the body shop business and that's good for you, but bad for us and yeah I got your and there for more than two decades speeding is involved in approximately one third of all motor vehicle accidents. Teens are more likely than older drivers to speed and lower shorter stopping distance between cars in which increases the risk which comes down to a their inexperience and be they know they think they're 10 feet tall bulletproof as well and when they're done growing up a minute you hear all the stuff you happen to everybody but me. I did some stuff on motorcycles when when I was a teenager that I look back and every time I'm called to testify, or I feel led to stand up to testify. I always start with a thank God for saving me and be thank God for protecting me before he did, because there's no doubt in my mind.

He had a plan for my life in a planned for me to become a Christian because of the things that I survived that I should not have Sir behind when I was younger then another one. Here's another step that really should concern us all speeding killed 10,111 people in the US in 2016 and then speed is a factor in 31% of all teen deaths you think about those numbers. I mean, and then they don't mean up in a and I don't want to get out of the politics but you know you have these crazy shootings and people get up all in arms about it in the end they should. I'm not saying they shouldn't but when you see those numbers I don't see anybody marching in the streets like we have to stop this carnage for young for young people. We have to figure out figure out a way to help them. Yeah, I think a lot of just education you get in some his other stuff where data shows that 110 miles an hour over the speed limit increases the risk of an accident, not 10%.

Wow is just the mere that's that's kind of that goes back to stopping distance and reaction time and Ian and everybody's reaction time is different. You know so you know mine is always been pretty quick, but is got me out of situations when that not everybody has that kind hand.

I yeah was nation. Yeah, you mentioned that the tailgating got bad about that. Sometimes yeah I had to start talking was a look back up. You know the deal.

You know this is NASCAR drafting account with the tailgating contribute is a contributing factor to the more than one third of all crashes on the roads like wow that's numbers are crazy numbers may say here are couple of the others 6% of traffic fatalities or calls by aggressive driving and that goes back the tailgate and goes in different factors and stuff every year, roughly 1.3 million people died in car accidents worldwide 50% of police report of totality accidents in US involve only one color thing with us running off the road, losing concentration, not paying attention to his being there you go to. I'm just coming up. You know 52 on the way to the studio and I come upon this car and I moved the inside then come back to the left-hand lane there on the left-hand lane head down, texting, head up, looking for second and texting. They were actually spending more time looking at the phone than they were when they picked their head up to see where they were going.

That's that's crazy. If anything happened in front of them and me. How many times have we seen and the stories about euros. These two people texting that as I was reading a story about us, a girl, her sister died texting when they were talking about your putting makeup on what she's driving down the road and she's halfway through text, head up and she's on the wrong side got hit head-on. That was it. Yes. Second, I mean, it said motor vehicle crashes are the leading calls of death for US teens. That was and that was Department of Public Safety and that's why when my daughter Breanna rolled out of the driveway the first time when she had her license. My heart was in my throat you know that whole day and she's just driving you know to 3 miles to two Union Grove Christian school and back to the house when she left the drive ON my God I'm not ready for this.

This is because of those those kind of stats it's scary out there for you and send in a text or reading a text, take your eyes off the road for five seconds at 55 miles an hour, you know much ground you cover so I'm not gonna like this number is said to be the length of a football field and so that would be like. Just shut your eyes close your eyes.

Good length of a football in your three-car your three-car life behind somebody and you and you just cost yourself 100 yards. That's that's big that that's big yeah didn't wrap it up I will just get down to couple of things I wanted to make sure see reading the right increased risk. 10 times down the phone to distract you and increases your likelihood of an accident by just dialing the phone number by 12×1 of four drivers use a cell phone right before they were involved in a crash. I don't doubt that at all.

You see those numbers manually used to be you. You know, you and I, growing up, I mean I thought it was bad when they stuck a pager on me and I was on this electronic leash, but when I was driving to a race. Let's say to Atlanta. You don't got in my truck in Raleigh and just are rolling down the highway.

Only time I use a phone at my get a page but I'm three or four hours down the road. I'm listen to some music listening to know something on the radio and listen nothing. All the windows down, just enjoying life nowadays you have a cell phone yet have your emails come in in your looking at the Internet's crazy Anna back after the break against call Michelle 866-34-TRUTH 784 to get into little bit of the Martingale Road and I got a story to tell. I was listening to Robbie is a little short little little vignettes you ration about things and but wanted both the throttle stick and what to do. I have a story on that one that I mean okay as soon as I heard that one on the Truth Network. There they were like holy smokes when instant memory came back about the day that they asked me to test drive a car and working on the garage. I just got done working the carburetor back in the hall don't know, don't need to step down and talking on a wait that long or short of it. The test drive did not. The spring fell off the test drive went wrong for going talk about status want to mention these couple take this to here is mostly involving teens texting while driving increased risk of depression 23 times. Think of death that asked how much it increases Texas increases your chance of rearing is somebody by a multiple of seven each day 11 teens dying crashes caused by texting and driving so we don't read about that, why why are we more up in arms about that, why why are we at your ear 21 years of age or under you step in a car that should become some kind of electronics that shut your phone down right either, you get a call through the you know the electronics in the car, but you can't dial a call and you can't text me, we have the technology. Let's stop this. Yeah to that point. He says you know that even using hand hands-free devices. Steel increases the risk of an accident by 4% boarding four times increase in war times and you think you know what I thought will. How is that any different. Somebody just sit there and at the passenger. I don't know how I guess is just the way you brought me you know you have meet you. Going down the road. Your Bluetooth is on and you're looking at the road and all that but the fact is your brains doing two things at the same time you're driving and you may be talking to the Bluetooth so again you're not 100% game that can be good, right, absolutely. Now with the phones or phones are using for it. You don't have to do the Internet and texting all I going down the road we really don't even think the phones out of it. They were talking about how driving behind the wheel crying or angry, or some kind of emotional thing, but that'll do it increases it by like 7% right, you know, that kind of you know is just that when you're behind the wheel of vehicle that is a huge responsibility and it needs are 100% counseling or driving a weapon your ear.your driving.

Basically a loaded gun and you don't want to have the trigger go off when you don't know the bullets fly out of there when you don't want it to me that's that's absent year, the cars, what 1500 1800 5006 down seventh out all these different vehicles, how much they weigh and and what that impact is at just 35 miles an hour, let alone when you're running 65 or 75 I think those numbers with four people as well go like you hate. You drive a 7000 pound vehicle you crashes 75 miles an hour head on into a tree or wall. You've just been in a plane crash. Now that's the kind impact the urine absolutely don't go head back up your story. Look at what was I so Robbie was talking about. Hate what happens when you know the throttle sticks right don't turn off key, yet your breaks and your breaks will handle it right but don't have to use your loser power steering you lose your power brakes, and so on so forth.

Well hello garage had mechanic in there and back. Once upon a time helping run the garage. My parents had a grocery store across the street.

We need the parking lot for the store more parking and gas station, went with it. So I was stuck in here. I am 15 years old 16 years old try run gas station knowing nothing about mechanics so higher know God have a lot of experience from Michael Pollan and Dolly had an old Chrysler Newport custom. I mean these things were so big you could fill up the back seat with water put a diving board in your family of four could could swim while he went down the road and had these monster motors and of course Chrysler's were known for just touch the brakes and I mean they just grabbed them and they would stay in the car right up on and so they fixed carburetor place and take it up the street me a punch. It is make sure there's no wagon. It and I drive around the block and back and so head up the street side. I mashed the gas and it just goes right to the floor. I mean, just like it one. I heard some wiggle lying you know it.

Apparently couple springs came up to carburetor to just come while hung wide open and so it's flying down this hill and I'm on 5060 7080 90 and like oh my gosh oh my gosh, writers, heavy traffic coming.

I'm on like holy smokes.

I don't to do so I just sat there and I just delete things got brakes outside jump on the brakes as hard as I could in this vehicle probably wait a good 6000 pounds in practically good nose stand where the back tires nearly come off the ground.

What what it did.

There was so much back pressure the motor stop in the car.

It blew the whole exhaust system out from underneath the stakes of the thing hops in the air goes up in the air. When I slammed the brakes on and I hear people's explosion underneath my feet about lands it bounces. I bounced down the road about 25 yards and look at the mirror and I mean muffler tailpipes everything laying all over the ground. I will like it, but I got the thing stopped. You know, so it turned the key off. I don't how to blow the engines probably run like 15,000 RPMs at that particular point right when I had a completely at a stop, but I also had put complete exhaust system on it and that 25 to 50 yards completely tore the brakes off it just trying to stop the rights of brake pads, rotors that you're the whole 9 yards so that was my lesson.

What hat when the throttle hangs itself. So now you know I race drivers NASCAR people are not don't know that they're on their throttle foot they built into the petal little hook above their foot so that if the throttle hangs. They can put pick their foot up in the catch is that that little that little your piece of steel that they got across it and it pulls throttle up now so when he goes the force on the happens late. That's how they used to take care of now electronic technicians. They probably have kill switches and things like that but to Once upon a time, that's how they did it NASCAR you know that you still has story. My question is, when you went back to town. There was a problem with the call yeah you know it is a hard time explaining to you know my aunt and uncle Nate.

Thank goodness they were. I was kind of their favorite and nephew is hard to explain to them like I know you know we were supposed just to carburetor free behold but now we have put complete exhaust system for a new brakes all the way around it and fixed carburetor again so that was that was interesting to try to expertly explained that what happened but I'll never forget the fear in you know it if I hadn't finally said you know something were to stop this.

You and I can return the kiosk and which would've been probably better than the end. It would definitely let crash.

So again probably would need we did that deal brought back in his without once again I race a lot of what I would have been more concerned here with me this morning and will be back shortly. I'm Jerry Matt Ray's body shop and wrecker service. This is a Christian Car Guy radio Robbie Gilmore here and you know I've developed a real soft spot for my pillow. You been waiting for the lowest price ever offered on my pillow. It's arrived with their patented interlock fuel system American-made guaranteed not to go flat. And believe me I've had mine for over five years now and it hasn't fully machine washable six day moneyback guarantee and a simple four question filling process right now get a two pack of my pillow premiums for only $69.99. That's right, only 3499 per pillow which is the lowest price ever offered on radio or TV now 1-800-942-9613. Use the promo code get truth@mypillow.com you to have a soft spot for my pillow. It only $34.99 a pillow 6998 for to call 800-942-9613 or go to my pillow.com and don't forget use that promo code get truth, he is on starter take the engine in an engine.

I think that's a follow-up from Marx to ally the site is more got #0 PRN in the studio with me. Got a question for you Mark and I have heard some of this before, but just want the main you were born in the South you you got chance planted down here in big part in our PSA rally there that try to forgive you for that and I know that I my more. I am more now from the South. When I go back home up north and because the people I been around down here, the people I like, you know I get I get offended because you know, apparently with comedians if you're southern and you're white and you're Christian, you're always fair game. You know, and they always betray southern peoples not being very smart and things like that and I try tell people go look some of the smartest people I ever met in my life are wearing overalls and workboots down south and I said and I promise you that you never want to get the card game with a game of poker something they'll take everything you got.

That's a day out there. They are super smart and you know and in there with my Christian faith you up north and you know I'm I'm from Vermont. You know they have abortion laws there now that up to nine months the baby can be born taken out of the woman placed on the side and then the mom and the doctor apparently to have some kind of conversation whether or not Haiti we know what we do here and I just think to myself, my goodness, you know that state used to be like a independent conservative state and now some of the stuff that we do that happens there makes San Francisco look conservative or or moderate and so you I'm I'm of square peg in a round hole when I go home now. A lot of times people hate to see me, because I tell us I'm too old to just walk away from the debate you know so they you know my my conversations with my mom about abortion. She finally switched affiliations and started voting for Republicans and conservatives just over that one issue because I'm I'm a one issue guy when it comes to politics and give me 7000 ads are you for life. Are you against life. You know, and if your for life. I'm I'm with you if you're against it, then, that I'm not. So I always tell my daughters I can throw you 7000 TV ads at me 5 million radio ads at me during a political campaign as I make up my mind. Five seconds and there's no change in it. You know that particular point so you know so that you not yeah I come from here. But you know it's it's funny, I was around racing my whole life. You're my dad when I was one year old was a professional prizefighter.

He barks all Marine Corps champion in the box all over the world during the Korean War for the Marines out there.

How do I think you got little box and you're not yeah yeah and then in so he said he's he's he's a professional prizefighter is cutting meat for living in, and a guy came from local racetrack and asked my dad for binge interested in flagging my dad's when it came racing as he looked at as a dog chasing its tail.

It just had no interest in it. The guy's how much you make a week euros $40 and can imagine you're working 40 some hours week for $40 and so is all pay $75 a night, so I did as a sign me up, so he ended up in the flagman and now the only ruler toes like anybody that disagreed with disqualification or or got mad at the only racetrack start shoving around his neck and while my dad was still prizefighter Mansour hidden peoples is think so yelling so that's how rough-and-tumble it used to be in the racing world and so I've been around it since I was one-year-old mother my mom for extra money. She starts going races so they would just put me in a truck in the pit area during the races and the closest one to the scoring stand and if I said had got hungry. The you know I had an accident. My diaper they would they would take care of that. However, if their car was going out yell for heat race or feature they would hand me off to the next truck you know and so some nights I'd be in that same truck at the end of the night and that some nights my mom suggested they find me halfway across the pit area.

They just can't pass me off pass me up, asked me which aces you know what the racing family was all about. Always has been and be we live in a much different world today than then what was going on back then and then, fast-forward, you know, so I go I start in DW about 14 or 15 years old.

Somebody came to town and when we moved to Vermont challenging you know, our town would start a boxing team in making that you're making. This guy was a coach is making selected some some big hot shot or whatever, you know, and so I volunteer my dad be a boxing coach. It had read about in the paper the next day as absolute truth.

And then I told him I want to do it.

You know, and so my dad had a theory we only had a small place to train. They gave us to train and so if you shut up.

Hey I want to box for three nights. He put you in with somebody at least twice your size and they would beat you have to death concussed. You literally walk away with a concussion.

If you came back.

The fourth night he call off the dogs and go I guy you're tough enough you can take a punch in any start teaching and so I like to call it. Not 1/2 a lifetime ago.

I like to call it 1/2 a body ago you I was a seven-time, a boxing champ state Vermont New England Champion fought the nationals with Ray Leonard before he was Sugar Ray Leonard Leon Spinks and all those kind guys trying to make the Olympics in 1976 so came close and get didn't get all the way there but came pretty close and so was an interesting experience and that that experience right there know when I was in college, my college teacher just hated you know boxing called me a Neanderthal of knuckled, she literally in class would call me knuckle dragger, and in all these kind of things and the funny part was I get little notes from the president of the college like a man.

Thanks for mentioning your student at Castleton State College and you know you appreciate you know, you know, flying the banner force a little bit even though it's not an official school sport and all that kind of stuff and then then the teachers don't just call me everything but you know if doing everybody cuss me out and in the class and that she doesn't like you. How many brain cells you lose this with you every time you get ahead you hit the head. You 750,000 million brain cells that I would sit there, go like well I don't know how many I lost. I said but I know the other guy lost more because I want you know how I knocked about IDR that kind of thing, but that that experience right there, actually probably serve me better in life than just about anything because when you get the ring. They do the introductions and everybody gets out of the ring and the lights go down, got one light over the top that double Dean at that point, there is no more lonely feeling in the whole wide world because that man means to hurt you, and you got it you got hurt and back are hurting first or her of the worst and so the fact is teaches your survival and teaches you. Sometimes you're on your own and you really you don't you don't have a backup plan. There's only one way forward. And so it served me well in life just that. Just that that teaching you sometimes like man you've all you've got. And you gotta find a way to survive go then from there. What got you to send David out of college was told to get involved in the Nelson well I got yeah I got a call that I was halfway through college and I never heard of the thing call motor racing network had never heard of it right broadcasting races on radio and all I kind of stuff I guide walked in local dirt track & I need an announcer and I go like, I'll do it and goes. Do you know anything about erasable I grew up around my whole life. But the last three years was going call 10 been to a single race. My dad wasn't flagging anymore. My mom was working the racetrack anymore and I said but I know all about it and I need the money so I start Devils bowl Speedway fairy Vermont dirt track plowed out of a cow field and at the time that we let cows graze off the back church owes nothing for God lose control and wind up crashing into account me literally PA system was put together hooked up my 212 V batteries every week you charge them all week and then you come and you put the clamps on the Neo then power up your system and anyways along the shore that I was doing that and then a professor I read this thing about motor racing network. So one of my student advisors took me home for lunch in Castle Vermont little town Castle psychologist in and we wrote a letter to motor racing network and they wrote back a do an audition tape so I bought like a eight dollar recorder at RadioShack with one of those little plastic mics that they had that was like a doll or something like that and went up in the grandstands.

This dirt track and had somebody do the rate. One of these races while I was doing that and I sent the tape off to motor racing network and they sent me back the letter that I thought was a form letter. Hey, you got a lot of promise, live talent, but you need to refine it. You need to polish it, you know, blah, blah, blah. So I thought it was a kind letter that they sent everybody and a few weeks later they had of the biggest racetrack in New England had their announcer after 35 years right middle season get so sick he had to retire and so they decide to hold auditions well Daytona motor racing network sent my name up there to look you give this kid a try. And so, long story short I won the audition. The guy that hired me at Stafford for two years then went to Daytona hired me to go to Daytona and so three to half years after I started Devils bowl Speedway. I'm in a tower in turn three Daytona by 80 feet in the air and afraid of heights. I was like petrified doing the Daytona 500, and you know talk about re-here comes Richard Petty and Cale Yarbrough just blew my mind. So how did a redneck from Vermont get a chance to do this.

I look at that.

You know how God felt no gangs things around know that our daughter had God had had a hand in it.

The whole time, even when I was in the Christiana handed full-time comeback of the more marking to us one on the NASCAR day so will see if I could just a moment.

Mr. Christian Car Guy radio Christian Car Guy radio Jerry Mathis and Mark Garo before asked Mark a question own home where he thinks NASCAR is going to give you second think about that. I want to like to always admit to some scripture in Stefan and this number is read up couple passages that is familiar to all of us but I have to what after coming off of a mission trip. It always makes me think about how much I really understand this command that Jesus Christ gave us right there is in Matthew 28 and it says therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age unity.

Think about really what that that messages in a week, we read that sometimes I think it was talking the disciples are you talking to the preachers are the missionaries right you know he's talking to me he's talking to Marcus talking all of us. Then a companion piece of Scripture alike. With that is, acts 18 but you will receive the power the Holy Spirit comes to you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem us. Jordan Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. All the sudden you know what it is necessarily about where matter where I think I need to go is where God has placed me right now right so you know what oh S. Main St. race body shop at Palmdale Christian church in the priority at this radio station that that that's my that's my Jerusalem that's that's that's where God placed me Mark when you're that you note God placed you in places that I'll never be able to go.

I mean, you say that because you know I've talked to assistant pastor John White now is pastor church up in King things first Baptist and nice to go to him like man I just wish I had the courage and conviction be a missionary. I feel bad that I don't you know I fight I just don't just wish I had that kind of courage and conviction, and one times it will be everything to God put you where you are and impact people maybe give you to earn more money to give young to help keep these people on the mission field.

Maybe that's your job be but I've always had that conversation with myself like Andy need to get out there more.

He got stretch out there and and you know again ends of the earth. You know there's not a place that the word God can't be used, and there's probably not a place to matter where were at that. There's always some of you hasn't heard the name Jesus absolutely said in one of the ways that were able to do it on the this radio show it to Christian Car Guy radio is Jesus labor of love on a few familiar with that morbid is the know. It is this give and bring in Jesus Christ tête-à-tête to mothers and in single women and and people that are in crisis through the use of a vehicle in my right repairing a vehicle given him a vehicle and that's one of my truck took just a moment to say you know where we are given away these neat T-shirts that say Christian Car Guy the front Jesus labor level in the back with any donation to Jesus labor of love's you go home. Christian Car Guy website. Our pull of Jesus labor of love, you'll save the donate button and you receive one of these cool T-shirts I encourage you to do that because every bit of the money that comes into that ministry is used, to provide service for people with applicants and stuff so is just a way to help encourage you that another things coming up is upon the Christian church were having a veterans dental clinic weekend was next weekend. As you go online, pull it up on website leave it better West Asylum or ponder Christian church and call and get signed up. If you're a veteran on Saturday and Sunday some evidence for free dental clinic, but now back to NASCAR okay I want to, just because I don't get out here without, what is the one trend or that the change in the last couple years. You see, the NASCAR is a lot of talk about you know that popularity the ratings and we got problems. There's no doubt that NASCAR is not at the height that it was back in the late 90s, early to thousands and I think a lot of it can be traced back to you. Everything in life is about momentum. You know churches are going there because they have momentum and they can take advantage of that momentum.

They take the next step up and that builds a little more momentum and then if you lose it you know whether your church or racing team or NASCAR. The same thing applies only it's flying it's going back the other way you lose momentum and then that causes you to slow everything slows down and that causes you again more loss of momentum and then then then it starts that snowball rolling downhill kind of thing. I think it all began with us in NASCAR with the death of Dale Earnhardt. That was the first little snowball that started rolling down the hill and I think you know the car tomorrow in a wing on the back was a terrible mistake.

It was just a square box and you just put your you know for an emblem or your Chevy emblem or Toyota emblem on it.

They look like nothing that people could drive around on the road go by. At the dealership, which is what NASCAR was founded on grandson on a Sunday when with it on Sunday and go buy it on Monday. They got away from that number of star started retiring here towards the end Jeff Gordon's gone and Tony Stewart is gone and Carl Edwards is gone and you know so a lot of very talented people have walked away Dale Earnhardt Junior although they but he's gone to the broadcast booth. I think you be more popular down the road than he ever was because he such a great broadcaster and you know the other part of this thing sort of subtly behind-the-scenes over the years, these hotels and hate Jesus were great but they just raped us on the rates and so you go to a hotel that was $50, $75 a night racing would commence 275 375 475 and so you know dad with mom and two kids. All the sudden you're there going the north and three nights minimum yells.

All of a sudden, 12, $1300 for the hotel room and you know we could give Junior you know a $10 ticket looked at tickets hundred 50 bucks for dads hundred 50 bucks for little Johnny and so a generation of kids got dropped off word that's look he's been asleep have to race a megabyte hundred $50 ticket form and so were his great granddad brought granddad. Granddad bought dad also. Dad was a brilliant son and then the likeness of the hotel rooms.

I'm in Bristol now and mean that you look what happened up there. It's all because of the hotels and the funny part is they're all empty now, and they're still trying to charge $350 a night and nobody's there to what the deal with it so there's a lot of different things that went into it. NASCAR has new leadership now and I think they've they've turned things back in the right direction. Now it's you know when the snowball rolls down the hills a whole lot easier going down now when you have to push that rock up the hill. It takes more time.

It's piece by piece.

So I think NASCAR has done some really good stuff lately. The racing is better. It's more competitive. The drivers that use just, walk away and not deal with fans and sign autographs and things like that there back to what they used to do and they hang out late sign autographs and they do special shows at the racetrack and they do radio shows and special TV shows they're doing all they can to help rebuild the sport and so I think were heading now in a better direction will we get back to the you know the heyday of know the 1990s when the Jeff Gordon Dale Earnhardt rivalry just filled everything up every time we went to racetrack. I'm not sure. I hope so. You, my career is sorta coming to an end and it you not been some of the other days of how long you been doing a nice of all just tell you this much I was on the air when Richard Petty one is 200 that was 1984, so I been doing it while some swords ordered at the tail end of my career, but I'm hoping that you know we get things turned around so somebody who is 20 something like I was in thinking like I want to I want to go do this.

They have a chance to go do it.

Yes, I want to try to hopefully leave in a better position then then then I left.

It started with pants. I hope that's what happens because of lot of Lotta great young kids out there want to try to get into my position. So as I hang it up right off into the sunset. I hope they get some great opportunities Martha K. I am so I'm so glad I got to the studio.

They look at what is on my bucket list unity.

I'm telling you, I wanted to do. The car got shut. Listen you guys forever. It knows I wanted to do the show. This is been awesome and I just thank you for being here and as we talked about a more your mission field is where how never go.

Just remember that insensitive, but after listening where you're at. God is going to use you. Just be willing to be an instrument that he can use. We would know each other less.

God put us together. He put us together very strange way. We did not.

Our friendship did not start conventionally, that's for sure. Asked for sure just grape. I'm grateful to call you friend Smothering sizing and I enjoy every moment of it. Thank you and