Daniel Ricciardo Returns

[0] Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.

[1] I'm Dax Randall Shepard.

[2] I'm joined by Monica Lily Padman.

[3] Hi there.

[4] Hello there.

[5] Today we have Daniel William Ricardo.

[6] Is that his middle name?

[7] I don't know.

[8] Okay.

[9] Well, first of all, I like that.

[10] It has a nice ring to it, right?

[11] It does Daniel William Ricardo.

[12] He's Italian and Australian.

[13] So I imagine it's like Daniel Julio Ricardo.

[14] You are close.

[15] I'm close?

[16] First letter, same.

[17] No way.

[18] What is it?

[19] Joseph.

[20] Daniel Joseph.

[21] Daniel Joseph, Rickiardo.

[22] Rickiardo.

[23] Listen, you know who Daniel Ricardo is?

[24] He's our favorite fucking driver.

[25] We love him.

[26] We love him so much.

[27] And more than we love his drug, well, not more than we love his dress.

[28] But equal to our love is his clothes.

[29] We wear his clothes nonstop.

[30] You're wearing that right now.

[31] I'm literally in the shirt right now, unironically.

[32] His sexy clothes are sold at Rick 3.

[33] dot com, R -I -C -3 .com, upper -class elegance from a lower -class bandit.

[34] I love it.

[35] I do, too.

[36] I do think I need to put a little asterix on this, which is we talked to him when he was in America.

[37] And so now there's all kinds of media hoopla, which I didn't address because the media hoopla is just a week old.

[38] Regardless, it's a beautiful interview with our good friend Daniel, who, of course, you'll love even more.

[39] Please enjoy Danny Rik, Danny Javier Ricciardo.

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[43] He's an armchair exeter.

[44] He's an upchair next car.

[45] Oh, just like in case I'm cold.

[46] I'm going to send you guys some stuff of the new one.

[47] It's nearly done.

[48] I was going to wear you today.

[49] Mine was all dirty.

[50] We love it.

[51] Well, I genuinely just wear it all the room.

[52] What's this?

[53] Oh, yeah.

[54] This is so cool.

[55] Isn't it great?

[56] It's a clubhouse.

[57] Look at Baby Monica.

[58] Is that the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?

[59] It's an oil painting where I've had commissioned.

[60] From a photo of Baby Monica.

[61] That's amazing.

[62] It's actually really good.

[63] I know.

[64] Isn't it gorgeous?

[65] I'm not familiar with these headphones, by the way, but it sounds amazing.

[66] Am I like loud or is this alright?

[67] You're fucking perfect.

[68] You guys look great.

[69] You look so great.

[70] too.

[71] We're mirroring each other, which I like.

[72] Do you ever notice that that humans mirror each other?

[73] Like if you're at a booth at a restaurant, I start leaning on my hand like, yeah, so I went over and got a couple of grapes.

[74] You'll start doing that, not even know it.

[75] Someone pointed it out to me years ago and I started noticing it.

[76] So right now we're like, really?

[77] Not me. I know, but you're a disruptor.

[78] But do you think it's because like when I saw you do that, my immediate thing was, oh, maybe that's comfortable, so I want to try it.

[79] Just for the listener, I leaned my.

[80] chin on my fist.

[81] I actually want to try this, but I'm not sure I'm flexible.

[82] You're in a great attire for it.

[83] Yeah, if anyone could pull it off right now, but you give it a shot.

[84] Let's just crisscross apples.

[85] I don't want to put my feet on the couch.

[86] Oh, please.

[87] Worst things have happened on that couch.

[88] Way.

[89] Trust us.

[90] Oh, wow.

[91] What if this ruined your whole career?

[92] What if he snapped his hamstring?

[93] Yeah.

[94] Oh, this is great.

[95] Do you like it?

[96] It's not shoe -friendly, though.

[97] I need to take shoes off.

[98] That's true.

[99] My shoes are off.

[100] You look really cute.

[101] Is it comfortable, though?

[102] So, this is kind of like when I find my position in bed at night to, like, sleep.

[103] I'm not sure because at first, it's comfortable, but I'm like, is it going to be comfortable in two minutes?

[104] Does it have legs?

[105] I'm not sure if it's got legs yet.

[106] That's fine.

[107] Take all the time you need.

[108] Also, a pun, you don't know if it has legs yet, because your legs are involved.

[109] Oh my God.

[110] Okay.

[111] Okay.

[112] Wait, I want to talk about my idea.

[113] I'm so sorry.

[114] Okay.

[115] Would you guys buy this?

[116] Okay.

[117] Yes.

[118] Are you selling it?

[119] I'd buy all of them.

[120] I'd have to start.

[121] I want you to be a success.

[122] No, I've been thinking about white t -shirts, but classic white t -shirts or classic black t -shirts or classic gray t -shirts, those three only.

[123] It's very hard to find one that fits perfectly, right?

[124] It's like a real struggle.

[125] It's real.

[126] And I want to create a company where you can take a little quiz online of your measurements and then you get a customized.

[127] Fuck, yes.

[128] Right?

[129] I would love that because I have so many t -shirts.

[130] I order online.

[131] They look really cool.

[132] They get there.

[133] They're a box.

[134] Yeah.

[135] And that will look good on someone.

[136] That's the thing.

[137] Someone shaped like a box.

[138] It's going to look gray on.

[139] But then I think I either got to hire someone to come in and alter this, which sounds so exorbitant.

[140] Daniel, your thoughts.

[141] It's not competing with ears because you don't have any plain colors.

[142] Oh, no, that's right.

[143] I mean, done, sold.

[144] So you would measure your...

[145] I think that's too much work for people.

[146] I think it would say, are shirts generally this on you?

[147] Exactly.

[148] You answer some questions, but you don't have to do full measurements.

[149] Okay, that's good.

[150] Because I think as soon as people stop, oh, I have to measure, they've lost interest.

[151] Absolutely.

[152] I'm out the door if I think there's going to be measuring.

[153] Yeah, no. I like this idea quite a bit.

[154] That's cool.

[155] Do you need some seed money?

[156] Is that why you're?

[157] I wouldn't mind.

[158] Should we get in on the ground floor?

[159] So I think that's two yeses.

[160] I would march forward.

[161] Okay.

[162] Daniel, let's catch people up on our friendship.

[163] So much has changed.

[164] Yeah, so from the first interview.

[165] I want to say it's a love triangle at this stage.

[166] Oh, absolutely.

[167] I mean, our three -way friendship here, and we'll include Ms. Bell.

[168] There's a four -way.

[169] Yeah.

[170] Yeah.

[171] And then we include Blakey.

[172] That's five.

[173] And I don't know if we include publicly someone else, but that's a six.

[174] A circle jerk.

[175] Yeah.

[176] It's a game of Oreo now.

[177] But we interviewed you, and then you and I swapped numbers, and I just want to walk through the timeline.

[178] So step one was, because I had to chart it up today, I'm sure it's fresh in your memory, too.

[179] Christmas time 2020, height of the global pandemic.

[180] At great risk, we had a dinner.

[181] We did.

[182] There was certainly some COVID tests that took place prior to the dinner.

[183] Safety first.

[184] Always.

[185] Safety third.

[186] Safety is always third for me. Is that a baseball reference?

[187] No. On sets, the stunt community will say like, don't forget safety third as a joke.

[188] Oh, I like that.

[189] Who gives the fuck, let's go for it.

[190] That could be your next shirt, by the way.

[191] Yeah.

[192] Oh my God.

[193] So many ideas.

[194] If the blank teas start getting a little bit of, wait, why don't we call the safety third.

[195] That's the name of the brand.

[196] Three is my favorite number.

[197] Oh my God.

[198] The synchronicity right now.

[199] Actually, it won't ever get more successful than this moment.

[200] Let's chalk it off as it was a success.

[201] Okay, but I haven't made any money yet on it.

[202] Okay.

[203] You can keep the seed money we gave you.

[204] Okay, great.

[205] Okay, so you and Blakey came over and we had a really, really fun dinner behind the scene stuff that one might not think about you, but I want to brag for you.

[206] The most thoughtful guy in the world.

[207] You came over with presents.

[208] You came over with food.

[209] Not just presents, dip teak candles.

[210] Very, very classy, very good present.

[211] And some merch.

[212] And the way you addressed Kristen, like you said, this is the matriarch.

[213] And you really put on a great show for mom.

[214] And she literally was just like, Daniel's manners are just, they're world class.

[215] Which begs the question, where did you acquire these manners?

[216] Well, I definitely owe that to Mama and Papa the way they brought us up.

[217] There was a lot of, I would say like the right level of discipline and respect and understanding, but then I don't see myself as self -conscious, but I'm sure there's an element of me that is self -conscious because I want to be nice also that that person is like, oh, that was a nice person.

[218] I guess I'm self -conscious not to come across as a dick to someone.

[219] Okay, so great.

[220] Were you that way pre -famous or once you became famous, you're like, I got to go extra far to make sure people don't think I'm arrogant and follow myself.

[221] Honestly, think I've always been like that.

[222] Okay.

[223] But you've always kind of been famous, haven't you?

[224] No, I mean sincere.

[225] No, no, not at all.

[226] Well, you've been in a world where people are staring at you all the time.

[227] Well, I'm going to go further than that.

[228] I had this great run, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.

[229] I was virtually the Brad Pitt of my junior high school.

[230] I was so popular, and it felt so good.

[231] And it was kind of like being famous.

[232] And then I had some dark period, right?

[233] Like a good 20 years of darkness, no attention.

[234] But then when it came back, I thought, this kind of feels familiar.

[235] Feels like my apex in junior high school.

[236] So what I'm saying is I think you really already had that.

[237] smile and shit in high school, and you probably already had some flare.

[238] That's hard to admit, but that's my guess for you.

[239] How did I have to answer?

[240] I know, it's impossible.

[241] Were you popular?

[242] I wasn't, I wouldn't say like I was in the middle.

[243] I had like enough confidence.

[244] I enjoyed the circle of friends I had at school and we were confident enough not to get that underwear pulled over our face.

[245] Sure, put in lockers.

[246] But no, like I wasn't the cool kid or the coolest kid.

[247] I felt I was cool in my own ways, but whatever, everyone did.

[248] But I always had the smile and the like bubbly, kind of happiness or energy.

[249] And confidence.

[250] I think the confidence definitely grew over time.

[251] Mm -hmm.

[252] And that's through just now being like a worldly individual, you know, traveling and living away from home and kind of having to earn your confidence and be in rooms with, it's probably not the right word, but like bigger people.

[253] Yeah.

[254] I just grew up a little quicker and through that, I guess, got more confidence in myself.

[255] Well, there's also an element to F1, which is like, certainly you're finding yourselves in rooms with, like, famous people, which is one dynamic.

[256] but then also many, many titans of industry.

[257] So there's like tons of CEOs you have to meet and greet, right?

[258] There's owners of huge multinational companies that sponsor things.

[259] Influential people.

[260] I don't think necessarily most artists have to find themselves chatting with the president of Oracle or something.

[261] And they're excited to see you.

[262] That's what's twisted.

[263] Well, I've never been asked about it where I've needed to think about it like this, but you're right.

[264] Well, I think what happens is like the first couple times they bring you into a room, you're on a team now and they go, this is Joe Schmo, he's a cotrillionaire, talk to him.

[265] And it goes well.

[266] You're like, okay.

[267] Initially you're like, I got no business talking to this guy.

[268] And then you leave and you go, well, fuck, that guy liked me, right?

[269] So the next time you walk into him, you're like, it went okay last time.

[270] And so just over time, now I'm sure they would usher in like Elon Musk.

[271] And you're like, oh, shit, that's Elon Musk.

[272] But I bet I can pull this off.

[273] That's like just confidence that would build over time.

[274] Exactly.

[275] As you say, it builds.

[276] And I think one thing I have always been conscious of, and especially now that I I'm at a point where, yes, I am very confident walking into a room is that I don't want that confidence to come across as an arrogance.

[277] And if there's a room of six people, but there's only like one celebrity or there's like the one CEO in the room, I still want to give awareness and time yet to everyone.

[278] Because I've seen it before where people will maybe race towards me and I've got three people standing next to me and they're like literally invisible to them.

[279] And I'm like, fuck, I just feel really awkward right now and it's rude.

[280] So I am conscious to give people the attention and time.

[281] That's another thing that I've observed now multiple times where I was really, really impressed.

[282] We talked about it when you're not around.

[283] It even happened.

[284] We were in England.

[285] I'm going to fast forward to date number 20.

[286] We had just interviewed Ed Sharon.

[287] I said, we're going to have lunch with him.

[288] Do you want to come?

[289] You came.

[290] I was trying to tell you a story immediately when you walked in.

[291] You're like, mate, get the fuck out of my way.

[292] And you walk directly to Monica and you're like, I brought this for you.

[293] You prioritize Monica over everyone.

[294] I was like, that's so classy.

[295] I like that so much.

[296] And Monica was like, that was so nice.

[297] He's so Nice.

[298] Yeah.

[299] So I observed it in real time.

[300] I've also observed it on other occasions where you do that.

[301] And it's really beautiful.

[302] It's nice.

[303] Because you have a character you play when you're interviewed.

[304] You are on Drive to Survive and it's cocky.

[305] So I'm just here to tell people that the off camera Daniels actually like the sweetest dude in the world.

[306] Do you think he comes off cocky on that?

[307] No, it's his routine.

[308] He'll brag about how good looking he is and stuff.

[309] I'll say stupid shit.

[310] I'm being cocky, but not coming from a cocky place.

[311] If that makes it's fake cocky.

[312] It feels self -deprecating or something.

[313] It's inevitable at some point.

[314] It's inevitable at some point during this conversation, I'm going to say I'm ridiculously good looking.

[315] You are.

[316] But do I truly mean it?

[317] No, I enjoy being like an idiot, I guess.

[318] I have a breakdown of this.

[319] So here's what I think happened.

[320] And you can tell me how off base I am.

[321] So you're up and you're like, man, this nose.

[322] I don't know about this nose.

[323] I don't know if I can pull this nose off.

[324] And then when you start getting an interview, you're like, all they're looking at is this nose.

[325] So I'm going to make a joke.

[326] I'm so hot.

[327] I'm the best thing ever.

[328] And then lo and behold, people thought that.

[329] And now you're like, oh, crap.

[330] I'm kind of stuck in this thing.

[331] I was trying to be self -deprecated.

[332] and people think I'm hot as hell, which they do, and people love the nose.

[333] Oh, my God.

[334] That's another connection.

[335] But Monica and I hate our noses.

[336] Yeah, distinguished noses.

[337] But when you first said on Drive's Drive, I'm fucking beautiful.

[338] I think, do you think, oh, they'll be in on this joke.

[339] They'll realize I'm making a joke.

[340] But then, lo and behold, everyone does think you're beautiful.

[341] And you're like, oh, shit, it's not a joke to them.

[342] Oh, I'm well aware that, yeah, no, everyone will get it.

[343] Because you are, you're fucking gorgeous.

[344] But I don't think you thought you were gorgeous when you made that joke.

[345] That's my point.

[346] Gorgeous is a big word.

[347] It's a great word.

[348] I'll say, I don't think I'm ugly.

[349] Right.

[350] Between zero and a ten, what do you think you are?

[351] 10 .5?

[352] Yeah.

[353] That's right.

[354] That's the right answer.

[355] So that is the right answer.

[356] Brad Pitt can't say 10 .5.

[357] He can't make that joke.

[358] He can't make that joke.

[359] Yeah, I got you.

[360] You see what I'm saying?

[361] That's true.

[362] That makes a lot of sense.

[363] You can only be so good looking and make that joke in it to be likable.

[364] But then the joke was on you because most people do think you're as attractive.

[365] Brad Pitt, that's where I'm going with.

[366] I fucked up.

[367] Because the personality is so dynamic and the smile.

[368] Normally, let's see, we break this down.

[369] We would, like, give you an eye score.

[370] We give you a skin tone score.

[371] We give you a smile score.

[372] And on the smile score, it'd only be worth 10 points.

[373] But somehow, your smiles, 15 points.

[374] And eyes, too.

[375] You love Danny's eyes.

[376] Oh, they're so beautiful.

[377] You guys have matching eyes, as I've told you.

[378] Yeah, he says we have matching eyes.

[379] I think that was one of the first things you mentioned.

[380] Before I'd met Monica, you said we have like the same eyes.

[381] Yeah.

[382] Of course.

[383] Of course that was the intro in.

[384] Trusted, too.

[385] And great eye contact, as Monica gives.

[386] I wish everyone could experience it in the audio version.

[387] Just because we talked about Brad Pitt, I'm going to pivot us, okay?

[388] On my walk here, I had a thought, and I want to share it.

[389] Well, it's actually a question.

[390] Do you think it's unethical for Kate Blanchett to have sex with Benjamin Button when he's a baby?

[391] Because actually he's old, but he looks like a baby.

[392] I'll let Daniel go first.

[393] What do you think?

[394] I've got an answer.

[395] I have an answer, too.

[396] I think my answer is going to make you both laugh.

[397] You can probably predict what it is.

[398] I've never seen the curious case of Benjamin Button.

[399] Oh, gosh.

[400] I thought you liked Brad Pitt.

[401] I mean, I do.

[402] It's one that got away from me. It's life in reverse, right?

[403] He's born and old man, and then as he dies, he's a little tiny baby.

[404] I got you.

[405] So his body is a fully grown man, but he's like five years old.

[406] Is that what you're saying?

[407] He's like, Google Gaga.

[408] So actually, yeah, the ethics on both sides, but I'm saying is it unethical for him when he's...

[409] 80 years old chronologically.

[410] yet visually he's three years old.

[411] Is she ethically fine having sex with that?

[412] With a baby.

[413] Oh, no. Oh, I'm a yes.

[414] I'm a yes.

[415] Yeah, I'm a big time, yes.

[416] He can actually consent.

[417] He's mentally 80.

[418] He's still horny and he loves her.

[419] Oh, but wait, are we talking about him or her here?

[420] Like, is she attracted to?

[421] We're saying, is it ethically responsible of her to fuck the baby, but knowing the baby's 80 years old.

[422] In his head.

[423] I know, right?

[424] That's easy for me. That's tough for you?

[425] It's too early in the day for this.

[426] Okay.

[427] It's tough imagining a grown woman having sex with a baby.

[428] Like, that is bad.

[429] It's a disturbing visual.

[430] Exactly.

[431] Now, it would be unethical for us to watch, for sure.

[432] What if they wanted to do a sex tape and they put it out?

[433] I would watch it.

[434] But the point is it would come at some price to my moral spreadsheet.

[435] It would be a loss.

[436] When you said you were going to segue into Brad Pitt, I did not expect this to go down there.

[437] You know what you forget?

[438] sometimes when you're talking to Danny is like, he's a sponsored individual.

[439] Like you and I, we have no risk.

[440] Like, we could lose a toilet paper company ad.

[441] You know, that would suck.

[442] But we'd go on.

[443] I sometimes have to remember, like, you speak for quite a few industries.

[444] Do you feel confined by the fact that you couldn't maybe say exactly what you wanted?

[445] Because at the end of the day, you do represent a team.

[446] You represent sponsors, all these things.

[447] I think I've got used to it, obviously, being in the sport now for so long that what I am or what I'm saying, I guess, at least feels natural to me. So sitting here now, I feel like I'm being me, Daniel, not me, the driver.

[448] You're authentically you all the time.

[449] That's one of the appeals of you.

[450] But there seems to be in the sport.

[451] They're always trying to get you guys to talk shit about one another or about your team or about another team.

[452] And you guys are really fucking good at not doing it.

[453] And so I'm wondering, is there like an unwritten code?

[454] How's that work?

[455] When you start getting into it, obviously you have like the PR team or the press team and they'll guide you on, okay, potentially you might get asked this, this or this.

[456] So they'll teach you how to deflect a question or answer a question without answering a question.

[457] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[458] I feel me eight years ago probably would have said more.

[459] I think I'm at a point now where competitively, I guess, I'm a little more mature or respectful.

[460] So it's not like I have an amazing relationship with every driver, but I'm at a point now where I'll probably just not say it rather than be like, oh yeah, that guy sucks for that reason.

[461] He does him and I'll do me. Okay, drive to survive.

[462] And I love all the people I'm about to talk about.

[463] Just know that.

[464] But the fact that Toto Wolf never talks about Christian Horner and all Christian Horner talks about his Toto is the gangster move for Toto.

[465] Yeah.

[466] Even when Christian has said something shitty about Toto and they'll repeat it to Toto and he's just like, eh, whatever.

[467] That's what the fucking champ says.

[468] The GM doesn't give a fuck who's talking about him.

[469] I know what you mean.

[470] There's two different ways to attack something, if you will.

[471] There was one, I'll just say a driver because I don't want to say the name and I'm wrong.

[472] But in the past, there were two teammates who were fighting for the championship and one of them would never.

[473] acknowledge the other.

[474] So a little bit like you're mentioning, maybe with the Toto thing, is like, you've never mentioned his teammate's name.

[475] In interviews, press, like, he might say, oh, yeah, he did a good race.

[476] Like, never mentioned him by his name.

[477] And I think maybe then the other driver retired and said, like, yeah, it used to bug me. You know, he would never acknowledge, like, my existence.

[478] Yeah.

[479] But it was his way of just messing with him.

[480] It was a power play, for sure.

[481] Yeah.

[482] Interesting.

[483] It's kind of gangster.

[484] Yeah.

[485] It probably messed with them more.

[486] Yeah.

[487] Yeah.

[488] Because being invisible is the worst thing that can happen anyone.

[489] Especially if you're doing good at something, right?

[490] Yes.

[491] Not acknowledged.

[492] Yeah, it kind of just says like, oh, that person's not even worth me commenting on because they're not even in my view.

[493] Like, who cares?

[494] I mean, it's definitely one way to, I guess, try to get under someone's skin.

[495] Now, it's just a viewer and a consumer of the sport.

[496] I love it when people talk shit.

[497] It's just more amusing.

[498] And that's one of the reasons I love Max.

[499] It's just like, you know, who knows what's going to come out?

[500] It's thrilling.

[501] There's a danger to it.

[502] As you say, like, if I am being a character, maybe like if you strip me down to the absolute core, I would also love to talk a bit more sure.

[503] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[504] Of course.

[505] I love like the mind games and the fun and I love watching other sports.

[506] And if there's a little bit of chirping going on and that, I just...

[507] The way Jordan would like start wars just to...

[508] It's cool.

[509] Yeah.

[510] All sports ultimately are entertainment.

[511] I can only imagine the Max Lewis thing last year.

[512] It was just great for the sport at the end of the day.

[513] If nothing else, having that kind of feud and it being heated, it's great.

[514] That's also part of competition.

[515] Like you want to feel something like, like that.

[516] You don't have to make it all personal, but if you do have a rivalry, it's tough because then you get older and you also try to separate your ego.

[517] I think it's also careful to make sure that you're coming from a place of like, call it determination and desire as opposed to a place from ego.

[518] Promise me this.

[519] In your last year, whatever year that is, we go ape shit.

[520] We hear everything you say, because it's your last year.

[521] Can we make that commitment now?

[522] And the last year we Talk so much shit.

[523] We hear it all.

[524] You give your commentary on every performance of all 20 drivers.

[525] I feel like listeners are going to be like, he's really holding a lot in.

[526] I will say, again, within the bandwidth, if we call it, I feel I'm definitely as authentic or as genuine as I can be.

[527] And I'll try to speak my mind on things if I feel.

[528] But in the past, at least, there's been some robotic characters.

[529] Yeah, yeah.

[530] Just tow the line and that's it.

[531] So, yeah, I don't think I would have too much more to say.

[532] but if it makes you feel good, I'll be like, yeah, all right.

[533] It's just for the entertainment sake.

[534] You maybe don't even feel the way you're saying.

[535] That's what I'm going to say.

[536] It also just is your personality, as you said at the beginning.

[537] Like, you're just nice as a person.

[538] So you're not like, ah, there's so much I want to say and I can't say it.

[539] Like, you already are like, eh, over it as a human.

[540] So that goes into radio chatter.

[541] I'm curious, like, first of all, you also have really, really nice etiquette on the radio, which is sometimes you get some shit news.

[542] And I'm like, oh, boy.

[543] Oh, I know.

[544] How's he going to respond to this?

[545] There has to be a voice in your head.

[546] It's like everyone might hear this response.

[547] And tell people about the radio because it sounds like you're talking about a radio interview.

[548] Well, Daniel, you tell us about the radio instead of me. All right.

[549] He just about the radio.

[550] In F1, we have earpieces with radios inside.

[551] That's the right word.

[552] Communication basically from our engineer to us.

[553] So we're constantly in communication through the race, through a practice session qualifying.

[554] So qualifying, for example, when we cross the line to complete our lap, we don't know at the time.

[555] Like, okay, I'm my fifth, I'm my tenth.

[556] So he'll then come on the radio and say, all right, mate.

[557] sorry.

[558] Your P -16.

[559] P -16.

[560] Yeah.

[561] Well, really quick.

[562] How often does it match what you think?

[563] It's pretty accurate.

[564] I definitely know if I've done a shit lap.

[565] Yeah.

[566] But I also know when I've done like a really good lap and I'm like, okay, that's going to be top five.

[567] So you're not shocked often when you hear the results.

[568] Not shocked often, but you can still be.

[569] The shocking part probably can be like someone else all of a sudden is hot that day.

[570] Yeah.

[571] And they slid you down.

[572] Yeah.

[573] Okay.

[574] Yeah.

[575] So you can get a surprise from someone else, I guess.

[576] So say like the moment I would receive, call it bad news.

[577] Which just quickly, generally, so people know, like, in F1, it's 10 teams and each team has two cars.

[578] So you have a teammate in quotes, because most teammates are their only competitors, actually.

[579] But sometimes your pace is slower than your teammates.

[580] They're behind you, and you'll get a call that basically says let your teammate buy, which is you're going to be giving up a spot, which no human who entered racing ever wants to do in their life.

[581] Ugh, yeah.

[582] That's typically the bad news, right?

[583] Yeah, but even like a bad qualifying, I don't know how I'm going to.

[584] to react.

[585] The moment I get the bad news, I can either like flip or I just bottle it up and I'm just like, okay.

[586] Like sometimes I won't even say anything because I know it's best not to like spray on the radio and let out some immature anger.

[587] You're a bottler if I have.

[588] You're so mature.

[589] Yeah, I mean, I've definitely had some rants in the past and I think I learned as well.

[590] Like I remember specifically it was career in 2013 and I had a few failures that season.

[591] So like I pulled off the track and I got on the radio and I was just blasting the team.

[592] I was like 23 or something.

[593] I was quite young and I just basically shat on everyone and it was a moment of like rage and frustration and of course not everyone I shat on deserved it.

[594] Yeah.

[595] And I could tell there was a bit of a weird feeling that night because everyone's upset.

[596] Like no one wants us to fail.

[597] Everyone's trying like working their butt off.

[598] So I think I also like made mistakes over time and then that made me be a little more level headed.

[599] Yeah.

[600] You feel like shit afterwards.

[601] Yeah.

[602] Because we're all in it together.

[603] ultimately.

[604] You're in the same team.

[605] You're in it together.

[606] So it was a selfish way of looking at it where it's like all about me. Although I am the driver, I am controlling the vehicle.

[607] It's a team sport.

[608] And for people that don't know, there's literally seven, 800 people per team.

[609] Or Mercedes has like 500 employees or 2 ,000 or something bonkers.

[610] But your ego is so healthy.

[611] Because most people in sports, like I think about basketball players, right?

[612] And like something goes wrong and they explode.

[613] And it's like, yeah, like everyone's understanding.

[614] that that's going to happen when your adrenaline is at a hundred and it is all eyes on you.

[615] Sure.

[616] But you expect anyone who's been in a sport.

[617] Stay champion, two times.

[618] Let's talk about that off to this.

[619] We'll come back around.

[620] You understand what it feels like to put everything in and then when something goes wrong to, of course, have a big reaction.

[621] That's kind of a byproduct of caring.

[622] Yeah, exactly.

[623] I think it happens in a lot of industries or pursuits.

[624] So it happens in acting all the time.

[625] you'll do the very best thing or you'll have improv this line and everything was perfect.

[626] And then they all cut in there like, oh, someone's wrong with the camera.

[627] You're like, ah, fuck, I did my best thing.

[628] And it wasn't captured.

[629] And it's just a heartbreaking moment.

[630] And then, of course, how you navigate out of that, how you deal with that.

[631] Again, similarly for me, it's gotten easier and easier.

[632] Like, no camera operator wants to not hit record on the day.

[633] But, man, it takes a minute.

[634] When you finally shined and then the other elements weren't in order, it's rough.

[635] It is.

[636] And there's no denying it.

[637] like a lot's gone into it and you've sacrificed a lot and when something happens out of your control it's going to eat you up and unfortunately with this sport and as you say with other industries it happens sometimes a little too often yeah at some point you do just want to snap and let it out one thing which some people are probably still to this day surprised about is my ability to get angry because i am the smiley nice happy guy they struggled to like think that I have the ability to be a competitor and to have that kind of hunger.

[638] We called it last time going silverback.

[639] I want to keep that phrase.

[640] I liked it.

[641] Last time we interviewed you, you were saying basically, you got to be silver back for a minute and a half.

[642] Oh, yes, the start of the race.

[643] Yeah, yeah.

[644] That's right.

[645] First lap, you have to go, I don't really care if I die in the next minute and a half.

[646] And then you can get a bit more tactical.

[647] Safety third.

[648] Safety third.

[649] I love that.

[650] You can transition lap two, safety second.

[651] And then by lap 15, you've got to be safety first.

[652] Yeah.

[653] You can't get to where you're at.

[654] without being a fucking a maniac.

[655] Yeah.

[656] Back to the timeline.

[657] So there was a dinner.

[658] Oh, yeah.

[659] It was a major success.

[660] Kristen found in love with you.

[661] She mostly fell in love with Blake, your best friend.

[662] Where is Blake, by the way?

[663] So speaking of best friend, he's in New York with his best friend at the moment.

[664] So he has two best friends.

[665] Yeah.

[666] I got a few too.

[667] And actually, he told me that you were one of his best friends.

[668] Oh, actually, then it's great.

[669] Then I feel good about it again.

[670] And I think Kristen has him somehow in her phone as Blake's best friend.

[671] or something just to threaten you as well.

[672] Because his last name is a friend.

[673] Yes.

[674] His last name is friend, which is so great.

[675] All right, we're going to get a Blake in a second.

[676] So, at this dinner, which was a huge success, you said, could we ride 110s somewhere?

[677] And I said, well, not only can we ride 110s, I have a buddy, Clay Cullen, he's got this awesome piece of property, motocross tracks, the whole thing.

[678] And he's got about 100 110s in his pole barn.

[679] 110s are like small dirt bikes for anyone wondering.

[680] They're like, for children.

[681] They're basically kids' bikes.

[682] Adults ride them too.

[683] Well, at least I do.

[684] They're fun because people underestimate them.

[685] They're like, oh, I'm on a little motorcycle.

[686] I've seen more people get fucked up on the little motorcycle than any big motorcycle.

[687] I'm very confident.

[688] Absolutely.

[689] Driving at 190%.

[690] So it came up that this might be able to happen before you went to start officially at McLaren your first year.

[691] You had to go to England and start testing.

[692] So we set up this thing.

[693] We go out, you, Blake, my best friend, Aaron Weekly, and we all get on 1 -10s, and we're riding.

[694] And I have this slight little thought in my head because you're competitive.

[695] that's who you are right so there's a hill climb who can do the hill climb oh okay now you and i are doing the hill climb you're probably not competing with me but i'm competing with you because i'm so old everyone's competing with dany i was trying to be nice but i was definitely competing yes well let's just start at the top clay's a fucking beast there's like five or six guys out there that are hardcore motocross stars a hundred times better than us than us so first we start like we're just hoping we can do what they can do and then maybe once that's smoke settled.

[696] I'm just making sure I can do everything you can do.

[697] There's no way I'm leaving there 15 years older than you and I didn't do everything you did, right?

[698] But there's an added element, which is fun.

[699] You have Blake under your care and I have Aaron under my care.

[700] Okay, and Aaron hasn't done race to 270 yet.

[701] Aaron is like 310 at this moment on a 110 motorcycle.

[702] So he is handicapped big time.

[703] The power to weight ratio is not in his favor.

[704] Okay, so you're kind of looking after Blake and Blake's like, I don't want to do this.

[705] Blake's the best.

[706] He'll do him.

[707] He'll do anything, but it's not that he wanted to.

[708] You're not in his life.

[709] He's never finding himself on a dirt bike.

[710] Really?

[711] Peer pressure is his absolute weakness.

[712] Oh my God, he's the opposite of me. But I love him for it because he tries everything, but he crashes most things.

[713] No, I'm not giving you enough credit.

[714] He's pretty good.

[715] He did a great job.

[716] But again, you were kind of watching out for Blake, and I'm kind of watching out for Aaron.

[717] So, you're bailing Blake out every now and then, because then we start trail riding.

[718] We're going through rivers and up these really steep trails.

[719] And I'm off the motorcycle like every five minutes.

[720] I don't think Aaron will mind me saying this.

[721] And I'm like lifting his bike up with him.

[722] And, you know, it's a whole thing.

[723] We get to this point, which is the ultimate hill climb of the whole day.

[724] And I basically go, if I go up this, Aaron's coming.

[725] His pride will never let me go up that and him not try it.

[726] I remember I was very worried for him going up.

[727] Like, this was legit.

[728] Like, I was worried for us.

[729] Yeah.

[730] So not to be rude, but let alone Aaron and Blake.

[731] I was like, fuck these guys.

[732] Yeah.

[733] They're in deep.

[734] That's scary.

[735] I could have only made this decision at 45 or 46 because four years earlier, I just would have had to to show you.

[736] But I had been up that hill before.

[737] So I'm like, if I go up, Aaron's going up, my whole day is going to be trying to get Aaron off that hill.

[738] I'm going to stay down here and watch.

[739] I'm proud of you for that.

[740] Thank you.

[741] And surprised.

[742] And proud.

[743] Thank you so much.

[744] I remember at the time thinking, I was like, I'm a dick.

[745] Because I've gone up.

[746] Yeah.

[747] And I was like, I don't care about everyone.

[748] That's when I felt like the kind of.

[749] arrogant competitor came out in me. I was like, ah.

[750] No, it's because De Castro and Clay had gone up.

[751] You just had to.

[752] I can't help myself.

[753] Exactly.

[754] There's so much going on.

[755] People don't even know.

[756] You just look at like 10 guys riding motorcycles in the amount of ego negotiation that's going on.

[757] And I can't put too fine of a point on.

[758] This is like a thousand foot straight up, shitty underpowered motorcycle.

[759] You got to go all in.

[760] With like road rocks as well.

[761] Huge rocks.

[762] It's a mess.

[763] I stay at the bottom with Aaron.

[764] and I had a slight concern.

[765] I knew that you were flying to start testing, like, in a day.

[766] And I was like, huh, am I potentially fucking up this dude's whole life?

[767] I have to look out for him.

[768] He's 30.

[769] I know what I was like when I was 30.

[770] I got to be an older brother here.

[771] Now I've got him in this situation.

[772] There's great writers out here.

[773] Of course, he's going to the top.

[774] So you, Steve, and was it Blake up there with you?

[775] Blake followed.

[776] Yeah.

[777] He did?

[778] Yeah.

[779] I've got a very good visual memory.

[780] every sentence you say I'm like reliving it all I remember watching Blake come up I've got like the image of me staring at his front tire coming up and I was laughing not because he was nearly at the top I was like this is the easy part I feel you need a bit more technique going down especially when it's steep and technical and I was like he's done this is Blake's last day because in his head he's like oh getting up is probably the hard part so he's like celebrating kind of thing I'm like fuck this is making me so anxious oh it gets worse again just to remind people who Steve Bacester is he's my stunt coordinator on chips on hit and run he's a maniac he's a stunt man and of course now he's probably trying to impress you you're trying to break there's a big cycle of impressing going on and so you guys are the peak of this hill and instead of going down the path Steve's like we're going to traverse the side of this motherfucker and now when I start seeing people come down now I'm like there's a 150 million dollar team yeah I've compared it to watching people move a Picasso down the side of a mountain like all you're representing to me at this moment is the amount of money McLaren is spending on this season.

[781] And I'm watching it come down a craggily, boulders, brush, loose sand.

[782] People start cartwheeling.

[783] No. People are falling.

[784] Blake's all assholes and elbows.

[785] I'm like, Blake's dead.

[786] That's a loss.

[787] He's getting airlifted out of here.

[788] Is Ricardo going to make it?

[789] And how responsible am I when this news cycle breaks?

[790] So what people don't know is I'm actually really good.

[791] on a bike.

[792] But, I mean, yeah, it's cool.

[793] McLaren, if you are listening to this, Dax is exaggerating.

[794] It's totally fun.

[795] Please let me ride again, because I love it too much.

[796] But Blake was okay.

[797] He fell once coming down because then it went, what do you call it?

[798] A ravine?

[799] It's a dip.

[800] Yeah, like a very steep dip.

[801] So that was the next challenge.

[802] It's like a video game kind of, right?

[803] I literally remember Blake's voice.

[804] It was literally trembling.

[805] But there was so much fear in his voice as if, like, he was tapping out.

[806] Like, it was like, I'm done.

[807] Like, I don't want to do this anymore.

[808] Yeah.

[809] Yeah.

[810] I'm in too deep.

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[830] Oh my God.

[831] Okay, so this is sort of like another date of hours.

[832] We went tubing.

[833] What a day.

[834] What a day.

[835] Oh, so beautiful.

[836] So let's just fast forward.

[837] I don't think Dan even knows, but things got hairy for me at one point.

[838] Yeah.

[839] We'll talk about it.

[840] Okay, great.

[841] That's earmarked.

[842] So we come down the hill.

[843] Everyone makes it alive.

[844] That's the important thing.

[845] Right?

[846] We'd agree.

[847] Everyone was safe.

[848] Oh, yeah.

[849] Everyone was sweet.

[850] Aaron was sore as a motherfucker.

[851] If I had to give like Trooper of the Day award to anyone, what Aaron did is actually more impressive than what Danny did.

[852] 100%.

[853] Because he was twice Danny at that moment.

[854] Yeah.

[855] And on the same power to motorcycle.

[856] Was he grateful that you guys didn't go up?

[857] So you said something really nice to me because the day was over.

[858] We all made it back to the trucks.

[859] We're loading up.

[860] And you pulled me aside and you said, you're a better friend than I am.

[861] I remember.

[862] I remember this.

[863] And I was like, you know, at 45, that's like the best compliment I could ever get.

[864] He's like, you're a really good friend.

[865] 100 % true because the hill, for example, I remember it.

[866] I selfishly was like, well, I want to do this.

[867] And I was like, if Blake's going to do it, then he'll figure it out kind of thing.

[868] But I was in that moment, like way more selfish than Dax.

[869] Dax was all about helping Aaron.

[870] Well, I really wanted to impress you.

[871] I am impressed and surprise.

[872] It was Sophie's choice.

[873] It hurt me not to go up that hill.

[874] There was other moments where he'd got bogged or whatever.

[875] You went to help him, and I was like, oh, do you need a hand?

[876] But I was kind of hoping, you know, when it's like, you kind of know the person's like, oh, I'll be fine.

[877] I'm like, yes, that's the answer.

[878] I was looking for.

[879] But also, you're there to do these things.

[880] You're there to have fun.

[881] You came to conquer.

[882] We all came to conquer.

[883] Also, Blake could have been like, yeah, maybe not for me. It's not your fault.

[884] That's what I tell myself.

[885] I would go like, well, it's on him.

[886] I didn't ask anyone to follow me. Could you have just told Aaron, like, I'm going to do this, but can you not?

[887] I wanted to give him the out of like, wow, Dax isn't even going to.

[888] to do it.

[889] I don't feel bad that I'm not doing it.

[890] Yeah.

[891] You kind of just made me realize something, Monica, when you said that, like I was there to ride.

[892] I think that's where the less good a friend came out in me, or the selfish version of me, because I love bikes.

[893] Yeah.

[894] And I do it maybe twice a year just because of my schedule.

[895] And so when I do get the opportunity, 100 % I want to like use every minute of that day to enjoy the ride.

[896] I'll tell you now, the next time I rode was August.

[897] So that was in January.

[898] Okay, so you go off and then your season virtually starts.

[899] So then we don't see each other again until England.

[900] Kristen's shooting there.

[901] I come with the kids.

[902] Oh, it's when we interviewed Ed Sharon.

[903] We hung out.

[904] Blake and I had breakfast with Kristen.

[905] Yes.

[906] You have your own relationship now with Kristen.

[907] Let's give her a shout out.

[908] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[909] She's part of this.

[910] Yeah.

[911] This has happened to me twice, by the way, which is I got interviewed by Howard Stern.

[912] We got along.

[913] I got to hang out with him.

[914] He invited us to his house in Long Island.

[915] She meets him.

[916] Of course, they fall deeply in love.

[917] She loves him.

[918] We have a second trip plan.

[919] And I can't because my dad's sick with cancer.

[920] And I go, honey, we can't go.

[921] I got to be in Michigan that weekend.

[922] And she goes, okay, I'm still going to go.

[923] So she had a second trip to his house for a week without me. God bless her.

[924] And this happened again with you.

[925] So now you're basically her friend.

[926] And I'm just like, sometimes I'm in the mix.

[927] It also happened with Aquafina.

[928] Yeah.

[929] We interviewed Aquafina.

[930] It seemed like we might all have a friendship.

[931] And the next thing we know, she's hanging out with Kristen watching squid games.

[932] Oh, it's squid game.

[933] It's not plural.

[934] Oh.

[935] Thank you.

[936] Oh, my God, I did a plural.

[937] Squid game.

[938] Real time fact check.

[939] Okay.

[940] So London.

[941] Yes, London.

[942] We hold hands.

[943] Great.

[944] One of my favorite Instagram photos of my career on Instagram.

[945] Just beautiful, right?

[946] That blew up.

[947] Yeah.

[948] That's a feather in my cap.

[949] I think it's more flattering for me to be holding your hand in a photo at this late stage of my life than vice versa.

[950] Because you're kind of with an older dude.

[951] Yeah.

[952] You're like a sugar daddy.

[953] Exactly.

[954] No one thinks you're in it for the love.

[955] Of course, I'm like smitten and in love.

[956] Yeah.

[957] I'm stupid.

[958] I've ignored the fact that it's because I'm a sugar daddy.

[959] Yeah.

[960] Now, the coolest thing that happened to me is you invited me to McLaren, which was insane.

[961] When I pulled up, I was like, this is the Hall of Justice, like the Justice League or the Avengers.

[962] It's like in an Avengers compound.

[963] There's a lake and there's a silo for the water to cool the fucking fans of the air tunnel.

[964] And they're making the race cars there and they're making the road cars there.

[965] And then the boulevard.

[966] Is that what it's called?

[967] The boulevard?

[968] And it's like all these cars driven by all these famous drivers.

[969] Some of them are so dangerous looking.

[970] There were these early cars where the fucking wing was right at neck level.

[971] Like the front wing to keep the front end down was a piece of sheet metal at your neck level.

[972] A guillotine.

[973] Oh, I mean, they weren't that much slower than the cars today.

[974] Like in terms of like straight line speed, like they were fast.

[975] It's not like that were only going 100 mile and hour.

[976] No, they're going 200 miles an hour in those things.

[977] It was ridiculous.

[978] And they can't absorb any energy.

[979] The whole thing is just built of chrome molly.

[980] If you fucking hit something, the car's stopping in one second and nothing's giving but your body.

[981] Brutal.

[982] Nali.

[983] But you're right.

[984] The facility's insane.

[985] And even for me, that's been in it and it's been my life to be around race shops and all that, I walked in there the first day and I was like, wow.

[986] Like, this is phenomenal.

[987] There's probably not a team in operation currently.

[988] Other than Ferrari, but if you go to Ferrari, it's probably a similar thing with the history and what's on display.

[989] But other than Ferrari, I mean, McLaren's the longest in the game and still thriving.

[990] Yeah.

[991] It's incredible.

[992] Okay, now here's where I want to give you more applause.

[993] I got to go in and watch you in the simulation, which is really cool.

[994] And then you handed me the steering wheel.

[995] I've never had the illusion I could have driven F1.

[996] I couldn't do it.

[997] But it was compounded by seeing the steering wheel.

[998] I got so much anxiety the second I held the steering wheel because I wasn't great at playing video games once it went past Nintendo.

[999] Two buttons in an up and down left, right, I can handle it.

[1000] When it went to like seven buttons, I was out, never played video games again.

[1001] Your steering wheel has about 600 things on it.

[1002] Tell me some of the things on it, because I don't think I remember all of them.

[1003] For me, the craziest thing about it is I'm, I mean, maybe like every male in the world, terrible at multitasking.

[1004] Right.

[1005] Like, if I'm on my phone and you're telling me something, you could say, oh, this place is on fire right now.

[1006] I'm going to stay sitting here and finishing my text.

[1007] Yeah.

[1008] But I guess it's because it's in my element when I'm in the race car and I'm driving at the speeds and get information from the engineer and do the steering wheel.

[1009] It's like totally okay.

[1010] Like I can do it.

[1011] But I think it's because it's yeah my passion and in that moment 100 % of my attention and energy is on that one thing.

[1012] So I'm able to make those decisions and do that multitasking.

[1013] Well we've had a couple experts on explain how your subconscious takes over menial tasks.

[1014] So once you learn a task like riding a bicycle at first you're thinking about it quite a bit to make everything work.

[1015] And then it just gets filed into your subconscious.

[1016] And And then it just operates your body.

[1017] And you're not aware of it.

[1018] You're not aware of riding a bike when you're riding a bike.

[1019] You're not aware of driving a car down the road and adjusting to all the different things that are happening.

[1020] Is it gotten to that level where it's like when you're driving all those buttons like, you're just performing the thing without actually having to think about it?

[1021] Yeah.

[1022] So some of the stuff on the steering wheel is things that we will as a driver want to adjust to change the balance or the feeling of the car.

[1023] So a differential switch, which I'm not going to go in to explain what that does.

[1024] But like it can just change the way the car turns.

[1025] the braking, all this sort of stuff.

[1026] So we can think on the fly and be like, okay, that's what I need for this corner.

[1027] But the engineer will then say, okay, we need a fuel setting change.

[1028] So he'll say, oh, fuel three, position two.

[1029] That sort of stuff, like if I'm just hearing the communication, it's like bang, bang, bang, done.

[1030] So that stuff we can do without really even thinking about it.

[1031] We're constantly problem solving because the car is always changing.

[1032] The tires are getting older.

[1033] The track conditions, your fuel's coming down.

[1034] So there's always a moving target.

[1035] And you're trying to stay as close to it as possible by adjusting things, changing your driving.

[1036] People are like, oh, like, do you change things like every five laps?

[1037] Like, no, no, you will change things sometimes every third corner of every lap.

[1038] It's nuts.

[1039] That's what I walked away going, I had no fucking clue that on a standard lap, you might use three different differential settings.

[1040] Yeah.

[1041] So there's break balance.

[1042] Yeah.

[1043] Which is how much is in the front and how much is in the back?

[1044] Exactly.

[1045] So you'll change it for maybe like a really tight hairpin.

[1046] You might want a little bit more to the front, for example, if like the rear is on the edge of locking.

[1047] But then for another corny, might want a bit more rearwards.

[1048] So okay, so you got brake balance, but then you've also got brake shape.

[1049] Oh my God.

[1050] It then goes like maybe when you hit the pedal, you've got a certain amount at the front.

[1051] But then as you bleed off the brake, it starts shifting to the rear.

[1052] Oh my God.

[1053] It's so mathematical.

[1054] I just do it and I guess I know what it does, but I can't even explain it because it is very full on and technical.

[1055] I love the they're thinking, I knew I couldn't do it, but times 10, I couldn't do that.

[1056] There's like a technist to it that I wouldn't have guessed.

[1057] No one knows that when they're watching Drive to Survive, they just think, like, it's just driving fast.

[1058] Hit the skinny pedal and fucking go.

[1059] Like, no one knows about that.

[1060] I didn't know.

[1061] Yeah.

[1062] Having Drive to Survivor's been cool because it's shown a little more about the sport.

[1063] And I think it's shown that it is a sport as opposed to just, oh, these guys, like, just have no fear and drive these cars fast.

[1064] No, it's like, it's physical and probably more so, like, mental.

[1065] or in terms of like the drain.

[1066] And as I said, if you're changing all these things, every lap for 50, 60 laps, and there's obviously battles.

[1067] So that's one factor, and there's five, 10 factors that you're trying to control.

[1068] And like, after a race, you're drained.

[1069] Like, physically, yes, but mentally as well, like you're fried.

[1070] Let's talk about quality in Miami, which was the last race, if I can remember it correctly.

[1071] So the way qualifying works is all 20 people get on the track.

[1072] They drive for 15 minutes.

[1073] And the slowest five, don't make it to Quali 2.

[1074] quality two now there's 15 drivers around for 15 minutes and then they get rid of five and then the last section is going to be the top 10 drivers the following day that'll be the order they start the race 10 cars 10 different drivers 10 different teams each team has a thousand people so you have 10 000 people and all those variables that's incalculable the amount of variables and then you have 10 individual drivers and at the end of that session in 15 minutes the difference between pole position which this weekend was Leclerc.

[1075] Then I think it went signs.

[1076] Max was third.

[1077] The difference was a few hundreds of a second for the top three.

[1078] And then the field in total was within tenths of a second.

[1079] Oh my God.

[1080] Or eight -tenths, nine -tenths, perhaps.

[1081] A tenths of a second with ten different humans operating the cars, ten different teams, thousands of employees, totally different designs.

[1082] It's impossible.

[1083] Like when you just think of the numbers, it's got to be the thinnest margin in any sport that's why i think the fucking sport is more mental than any other sport because that's the difference between being a hero in fucking average is 0 .04 seconds sucks because when you're on the other end of that so i won monza so qualifying i was about that like 0 .004 off my teammate and then 0 .029 off like max in third or something so i was so close to qualifying top three which was so much better than I'd done all season.

[1084] And because I'd missed out by so little, I was so angry, but that fueled me for the rest of the weekend.

[1085] So that set up, ultimately, the win for me. We have to set the table for this.

[1086] Most drivers of those 20 never ever finished first.

[1087] It's very rare to finish first in Formula One.

[1088] There's many drivers that have been driving for 10 years, and they're good drivers, and they don't ever finish first.

[1089] Some never even got the podium.

[1090] And they're like good drivers.

[1091] They could be mid -level drivers.

[1092] They could be the best driver on their team, and they don't even get on the podium.

[1093] So to win a race is a very, very select few of the people who've done it over the last 10 years.

[1094] So that's first and foremost.

[1095] It's already a very, very select few because there's 20 of us in the world.

[1096] Yes.

[1097] Again, impossible.

[1098] It's the fewest of fewer few.

[1099] So your season last year started terrible because you were in a brand new car.

[1100] You'd never driven the McLaren.

[1101] Where are you at mentally during that?

[1102] Because you're used to being on a team and being the fastest driver.

[1103] It's all relative to your expectation of yourself, right?

[1104] And so, yeah, it'd always been a very, very competitive driver.

[1105] So coming into a new team, I was, yeah, like, full of confidence.

[1106] And I was like, I'll be great and this would be awesome.

[1107] And it just wasn't clicking and it took a lot longer than I thought.

[1108] So then you're like, okay, what's going on?

[1109] It's kind of foreign territory.

[1110] And I'll just say the timeline is basically like, you can do not great in about three races.

[1111] And on the fourth race, now the media starts talking about you.

[1112] That's the moment I'm most interested in.

[1113] It's like all of a sudden people start looking at it.

[1114] your career now 10 years back.

[1115] It's not just that you've had four bad races.

[1116] It's now it's like, wait, well, who is Daniel in totality?

[1117] It's intense.

[1118] It's brutal.

[1119] Obviously, it's frustrating because I know what I've got and I know what I'm capable of.

[1120] Exactly.

[1121] But there is an element as well, which I do enjoy about that because it's like only the strong survives, so to speak.

[1122] So I'm like, I don't mind a bit of adversity.

[1123] Like, the more people that talk shit, the more people I get to prove wrong.

[1124] Yeah.

[1125] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1126] So like, that's also kind of fuel.

[1127] as well.

[1128] But there is a danger you could start believing it.

[1129] For sure.

[1130] I'm pretty good with not reading too much or anything.

[1131] I kind of know what's what for me, and I have a good crew around me to hold me accountable for things.

[1132] No one's going to be as bad of a critic of you as you.

[1133] Exactly.

[1134] You're more mad at yourself after a shitty race than any human on planet Earth.

[1135] 100%.

[1136] So, like, yeah, the team is upset, but no one's more upset than maybe.

[1137] You want to die.

[1138] Dark.

[1139] I'm filthy, whatever.

[1140] Yeah.

[1141] But it's also, you know, as you say, like after three races or something, then the narrative.

[1142] and it's like, oh, yeah, he just doesn't have it anymore.

[1143] It was that motorcycle ride he took with Dax Shepherd.

[1144] He's never been the same.

[1145] I enjoyed it so much.

[1146] My mind was elsewhere.

[1147] You know what I want to do now.

[1148] It's funny because 2020 was one of my best seasons.

[1149] At Renault.

[1150] Yeah.

[1151] I got the team back on the podium in insane season.

[1152] So the narrative was Daniel's proven once again.

[1153] He's one of the best drivers in the world.

[1154] And then literally like three, four months later, it's like, yeah, he doesn't have it anymore or whatever.

[1155] us so it's funny can i just tell you my thoughts about you at that moment hit me here was my concern i don't give a fuck if you ever went a race personally like at this point i just like you right so i think in those moments my main concern about you was i wanted to just always be reaching out to you going i'm as interested in you i like you as much your success on a track is no factor in me loving you and i was only afraid for you that you were having that kind of identity crisis of like wow okay if i don't have this who am i fashion designer well well Well, we're going to get into that.

[1156] So it's fine.

[1157] Does that stuff go on at all?

[1158] Because you have given your life to this for the last 15 years.

[1159] It's not like you have a house you spend eight months a year in dropping kids off at school.

[1160] It's a good understanding of the situation because I think what I found myself caught up in is, I guess, an element of that where the racing was dictating my overall happiness.

[1161] Yeah.

[1162] As a person.

[1163] Yeah, you're dependent on that.

[1164] Yeah, it's like, okay, you have a bad race.

[1165] and then, oh, okay, I'm now just a shitty person to be around.

[1166] You have to kind of separate that from life itself because you don't win often, if ever.

[1167] Most people don't.

[1168] And, like, you can still celebrate a fifth place or something.

[1169] Yeah.

[1170] Because you kind of know what's relative to the car and whatever, but it's not a sport where you have constant success and constant highs.

[1171] Last year, I was going through that.

[1172] And yes, I was letting it kind of control me as a person too much.

[1173] But again, it's like anything in life.

[1174] You live and you learn.

[1175] I learned through that that there is more than just me, the F1 driver, and as you kindly touched on, you like me for me. And it doesn't matter if I win or come 20th, you're still going to appreciate me. I even remember when you started the season, I sent you a text that said, I hope you have the funest season ever.

[1176] Not I hope you win.

[1177] I want you to have fun this season.

[1178] And I'll say this to even like younger kids that are trying to come up if I'm ever to try to share some advice or guidance.

[1179] So I'm like, just fucking have fun.

[1180] That is the first and foremost.

[1181] why I got into racing.

[1182] It's because it was fun.

[1183] Like, I didn't do it to be on TV or to make money.

[1184] Originally, the pure passion was to have fun.

[1185] I want to be faster than the person next to me. Exactly.

[1186] I'll die if they get past me. I'd rather be dead.

[1187] Maybe don't think I'd rather be dead, but yeah.

[1188] I'd rather be dead.

[1189] It has to remain that, right?

[1190] And it can get plowed with, yes, there's so much more now at F1.

[1191] You know, it's not just you and your dad going to the track and gone around laps, but still, when you get behind the wheel, you put the helmet on.

[1192] there still has to be a very, very big percentage of that being just fun.

[1193] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[1194] And hopefully, enjoying all the places you stop down and trying to make a life the three days before the race and actually recognizing that's worth enjoying your life.

[1195] Yeah, like enjoying the process, not just letting that seven days be only about one hour on Sunday, because what a fucking waste of seven days.

[1196] That was another thing I kind of realized after a few years of being an F1, I was just there for the race.

[1197] I was kind of a robot, and it was like airplane, hotel, track, hotel.

[1198] I'd literally travel the whole world, but I'd seen nothing.

[1199] So I kind of like had a realization, whatever.

[1200] I was like, okay, if this ended today, how would I feel about it?

[1201] Other than me saying, yeah, I raced around many tracks.

[1202] I've got nothing else to show.

[1203] I hadn't really like experienced much.

[1204] You don't have memories from any of those places other than the track.

[1205] Exactly.

[1206] I was like, oh, that's kind of sad.

[1207] Blake must help in that too, right?

[1208] To be experiencing it with someone you're friends with.

[1209] Yeah, Michael, my performance coach now, he's a friend.

[1210] Yes.

[1211] He's so nice.

[1212] He was at Austin.

[1213] Yeah, I was waiting for nice and beautiful.

[1214] He is beautiful, yeah, but he's very nice.

[1215] All my friends, if I may say, they're attractive males.

[1216] We got a good thing going.

[1217] You really do.

[1218] That tube trip.

[1219] Yeah, the tubes.

[1220] That was a fuck show.

[1221] I wish I was a single straight woman on the bank of that river.

[1222] Well, I was, and then it went badly.

[1223] Oh, yeah, so I want to get to this.

[1224] But yeah, so surrounding myself with friends and people that we can go and enjoy things with, and it's part of it.

[1225] And you're always going to get like the old school hard asses that are like, oh, yeah, but you need to be serious and this and that.

[1226] And like, don't get me wrong, I'm still as focused and as serious as I've always been.

[1227] But I just, over time, like, I'll just do things a little differently now.

[1228] And I've done it one way for a long time.

[1229] And I exhausted that way of doing it.

[1230] Now I want to try and explore doing it a different way.

[1231] And I think having the weekend be fun and enjoyable makes me get into the car, like a little more chill and a little more bubbly.

[1232] And I'm like, yeah, just go and enjoy it.

[1233] I think you just learn how you perform best.

[1234] If you are singularly focused and the only thing that matters is that thing, now the stakes of you fucking up can take on a pressure that otherwise you wouldn't have.

[1235] You've got to learn how your brain works, I think.

[1236] Could I just say, like, this is so warm and like it helps obviously I know you now.

[1237] But I think even for someone coming in, if they're like a little intimidated or whatever, it's an amazing setting.

[1238] It's a disarming spot, isn't it?

[1239] I love it.

[1240] We do too.

[1241] There's talk of it going over to the new barn that's getting built.

[1242] But more and more we're afraid to do that because of juju.

[1243] Yeah.

[1244] Okay, but I just want to set up Italy.

[1245] So now we're there.

[1246] Really, really rough start, brutal mentally, I'm sure.

[1247] Last year when he won.

[1248] I think these sprints favor you.

[1249] You keep doing so good in these sprints.

[1250] So sometimes on weekends, there's qualifying, as we mentioned.

[1251] And then there's another form of qualifying where there's a race to decide the starting order.

[1252] And so far, every sprint I've seen you in, you always crush.

[1253] You always make up spots.

[1254] That's what happened in Italy, right?

[1255] That was a sprint weekend.

[1256] And this motherfucker found himself at the front of the pack, and he stayed there.

[1257] The sprints rock.

[1258] As the consumer, as the viewer, there's nothing better.

[1259] You get two races in a weekend.

[1260] It's so fucking great.

[1261] And I know they pitched more.

[1262] And then people collectively were like, well, with the new budget constraints, that's impractical.

[1263] What do they want eight or something like that?

[1264] There's three this year.

[1265] I think they were probably pushing for something like six or eight.

[1266] Teams hate it, right?

[1267] The team itself hates a sprint.

[1268] As a driver, I, again, I like it because the longer I do the sport, the more that practice becomes less exciting and the more I'm like jeed up for race day.

[1269] I just want to race.

[1270] Well, would you be offended by me saying I think you're a better racer than a qualifier?

[1271] I'm not offended.

[1272] No. In a way, it's probably a compliment because I felt my reputation initially when I started was that I was really fast.

[1273] I could qualify, but I wasn't like tough enough to race.

[1274] Oh, I didn't know.

[1275] I missed that part of your career.

[1276] Yeah, because then I just turned into a straight badass.

[1277] Yeah, sure.

[1278] You just got the good bits.

[1279] That's right.

[1280] Silverback gangster motherfucker.

[1281] Yeah, so anyways, I just hope there's way more sprints.

[1282] I love when there's a sprint weekend.

[1283] I get so excited for you because you just generally make up so many spaces every time.

[1284] Last thing, messaging me always appreciated.

[1285] Oh, okay.

[1286] Don't ever be shy.

[1287] Unless you're going to be like, dude, you should have break 10 meters later.

[1288] And you're like, if you're trying to give me advice.

[1289] Do people do that?

[1290] Fuck you.

[1291] I bet people do that.

[1292] Is it doing that cocky in your life that they give you like tips on how you could have done better?

[1293] No, it's okay.

[1294] I sent you a thing.

[1295] It was almost like the scene in swingers.

[1296] Do you ever see swingers?

[1297] No. Oh, John Favreau meets a girl.

[1298] He gets her number at a bar.

[1299] He goes home that night and he leaves her message like, it's so great meeting you, blah, blah, blah.

[1300] And then it gets cut off.

[1301] So then he calls me like, oh, hey, I didn't finish my message and blah, blah, blah.

[1302] So now he's left her two messages.

[1303] Now he gets self -conscious about it.

[1304] So he calls her a three.

[1305] This plays out over like 12 minutes is the funniest scene in the world.

[1306] By the end of it, he breaks up with her on this message.

[1307] Like, this isn't, I don't think this is working.

[1308] So this was my moment with you.

[1309] It's like, I sent you some text.

[1310] And then like an hour later, I was like, fuck, when I have movies come out and they shit the bed and people know it, I want to pretend they didn't even notice that I had a rough thing.

[1311] That's probably best.

[1312] So then I send you a long voice memo.

[1313] It's like, listen, I don't know if you'd rather me. just fuck off when this is happening.

[1314] I just want to be as supportive as I can.

[1315] And I'm sorry if I hit you up on a weekend.

[1316] You're already fucking thinking about this too much.

[1317] And it was like a long one of me. And then your response was so beautiful.

[1318] It's just you laughing.

[1319] Aw.

[1320] I felt so bad that you were thinking that it was.

[1321] I was like, dude, like no, like it's actually very sweet.

[1322] And anyway, so no, don't ever feel bad.

[1323] Okay, so Austin.

[1324] Okay, so we went to F1.

[1325] Austin last year.

[1326] So fun.

[1327] As a weekend, like I already adore Austin.

[1328] That weekend was nuts.

[1329] You nailed it.

[1330] And the weather, you really picked a good one to come to.

[1331] It was so fun.

[1332] We had such a good time.

[1333] You were already at an 11.

[1334] You're in cowboy gear every day.

[1335] I'm trying to talk like a real Texan y 'all.

[1336] The hell.

[1337] Oh, my God.

[1338] Yeah.

[1339] So then we go to the race and we're there for an extra day.

[1340] So you invite us, I think.

[1341] Not really the case.

[1342] Okay.

[1343] You can correct me. I said, I'm going to go tubing.

[1344] And you were like, what's tubing?

[1345] Oh, we're talking about Monday, not...

[1346] Monday.

[1347] Okay, sorry.

[1348] Oh, why?

[1349] What day were you talking about?

[1350] When you said invited, I thought you meant I didn't invite you for the race.

[1351] Oh, no. Oh, no, you got us on the grid.

[1352] It was fucking awesome.

[1353] We will get the tubing.

[1354] You making out with Aaron on the grid?

[1355] Oh, sure, to help the team.

[1356] Help get the team some press.

[1357] Good or bad, ultimately.

[1358] Were you really making out?

[1359] No, we just kissed for a photo.

[1360] We were on the grid.

[1361] We were so excited.

[1362] That's fine.

[1363] I had just taken, like, a funny picture with Kristen kissing.

[1364] her.

[1365] And then so Aaron and I kiss, but of course, Kristen and I kissing went nowhere.

[1366] But Aaron and I kissing was more of the headline.

[1367] But anyways, you were like, oh, what are you going to do in Austin?

[1368] I go, I'm going to try to go tubing.

[1369] You're like, what's tubing?

[1370] I'm like, you just float down the fucking San Marcos River.

[1371] You drink beer.

[1372] You jump off bridges.

[1373] It's a blast.

[1374] And then you were into it.

[1375] So then you did book that trip, ultimately.

[1376] You're right.

[1377] I asked you about the tubing.

[1378] And then I was like, I got to get it booked.

[1379] Yes.

[1380] But it was your idea, your initiative, you take it.

[1381] No, but then your generosity.

[1382] You booked it all.

[1383] There was party buses.

[1384] Yeah, it was incredible.

[1385] A bus picked us up.

[1386] We got driven there.

[1387] Anyway, so we get on these tubes.

[1388] You and your 300 friends.

[1389] Brothel.

[1390] Your haremes.

[1391] Stable.

[1392] Yeah.

[1393] Stable of studs.

[1394] It is crazy.

[1395] It was a unique.

[1396] Count me like 15 guys.

[1397] Everyone's body percentage fat, well below 6%.

[1398] Everyone looks so stunning.

[1399] You guys were all tied together and then we're floating.

[1400] It's fun.

[1401] It's leisurely.

[1402] Everyone's enjoying themselves until we get to a horrible portion.

[1403] Do you want to talk about it?

[1404] Well, also, I don't know if Danny knows this.

[1405] Just months before we talked on the podcast for several different episodes, Monica was starting to question whether or not she could swim anymore.

[1406] She realized, like, I haven't swam in a decade, and I'm starting to wonder if I even know how.

[1407] This was like a debate.

[1408] So you got to know when we're tubing.

[1409] I'm like, girl, you're good.

[1410] You're in a tube.

[1411] Everything's kosher.

[1412] I'm there.

[1413] If you start drowning, I'll get you.

[1414] But of course, I'm trying to impress you, so I'm jumping off bridges, not looking at certain points.

[1415] Still scasmie.

[1416] The previous time I had tubed down that San Marcos River was when I shot Idiocracy.

[1417] It was like 2003 and the river was different.

[1418] That thing we ended up going over used to be this dam.

[1419] It was a cement dam that had a really gentle transition on the other side.

[1420] So you would just go over this thing and it was so gentle and it would step you down into the lower river.

[1421] That's how it used to be.

[1422] That had been torn out since I was there.

[1423] So then, you know, we're going and it looks like a drop off.

[1424] The girls were like, ah, we don't want to do that.

[1425] And Doc's like, no, no, no, it's really gentle.

[1426] It's fine.

[1427] Don't worry.

[1428] But we like, we can't see what it looks like.

[1429] So we just take his word for it.

[1430] And he's a bit ahead of us with Delta.

[1431] Who's six at the time.

[1432] Which is nollie.

[1433] Yeah.

[1434] They're pretty far ahead and they go over this thing.

[1435] And all of us that were like, Delta's screaming.

[1436] This thing that had been this gentle roller, they took it all out.

[1437] There's boulders in there.

[1438] So then Delta and I are first.

[1439] through we go down this shoot of a rapid we hit the lip of the wave we go upside down delta's down the water i swim to her i get her out i'm holding her above the water and just my legs are giddy i just bash them on every fucking rock like it just gets opened up everywhere i get her safely to the rock everything's good and my first thought is oh shit monica's coming through and she already didn't want to do this i really didn't want to do it in the first place and also i'm like do i know how to swim probably not.

[1440] And then we're getting closer and I was like, oh my God, I definitely can't do this.

[1441] So I'm like trying so hard to get past, but I'm small.

[1442] And you can't swim.

[1443] And I can't swim.

[1444] So I just get sucked down into that rapid immediately off the tube, just like, ah, like drowning.

[1445] And then I hit a rock where I can kind of sit up.

[1446] And then my bathing suit was off.

[1447] You missed that.

[1448] Or did you?

[1449] I missed all of this.

[1450] Yeah, but it was okay.

[1451] Yeah, it was okay.

[1452] It turned out to be okay.

[1453] But I was so embarrassed because I was like, oh, these hot guys, there's so many hot guys who just saw this incredibly embarrassing drowning.

[1454] And then my top is off.

[1455] It's just so.

[1456] And then I immediately said, I didn't like that.

[1457] Yeah.

[1458] I don't like it.

[1459] And then I felt horrible.

[1460] Me and Molly were like on the rock, like talking you through it.

[1461] I'm like, no one fucking saw everything.

[1462] I was so embarrassing.

[1463] And then you were next, and you too had a little rocky ride, right?

[1464] I had a rocky ride.

[1465] It was rough.

[1466] So I had one of the guys' phones, fortunately waterproof.

[1467] Yeah.

[1468] Because I was like, oh, I'll film this because I was at the back of like the tube train.

[1469] I was like, this will be fun.

[1470] Yeah, no. I'm upside down before you know it.

[1471] And the video is just underwater for freaking feels like a minute.

[1472] Yeah.

[1473] So I love adrenaline, all that sort of stuff.

[1474] But where I'm least equipped is water.

[1475] I feel I can swim, but I'm not great.

[1476] So I'm like, I'm just a little step above Monica, but I'm, can I tell you, you actually pulled her out of it?

[1477] That was her nightmare.

[1478] Monica hates being embarrassed, especially in front of cute boys.

[1479] She walked into a window one time.

[1480] You don't know that story, but she'll, like, cry over it.

[1481] So I immediately was like, oh, my God, I just feel terrible for Monica.

[1482] I'm so worried about Monica.

[1483] She was having a real rough time.

[1484] But when she heard you say, yeah, you said something like, oh, that was bad.

[1485] That was dodgy or that was a little much.

[1486] She went, okay, like you softened the whole thing.

[1487] She came out of it solely because you two expressed some concern about it.

[1488] Even Danny had a hard time doing that.

[1489] So, you know, I'm in good company.

[1490] That wasn't a sympathy chat.

[1491] It was legit.

[1492] It was genuine.

[1493] Like, all the boys in that kept going again.

[1494] I know.

[1495] And I didn't.

[1496] Lincoln wanted to go.

[1497] I took Lincoln down.

[1498] We did a few rounds of it.

[1499] Lincoln is, she's so adept.

[1500] Yeah.

[1501] She's a gangsterer.

[1502] Yeah.

[1503] She's hard.

[1504] But I had the second moment.

[1505] So first, me and Delta, shit.

[1506] Okay.

[1507] I have my little girl with me. I get her on the rock.

[1508] Okay.

[1509] Next thing was like, Monica, third thought was, here we go again.

[1510] I know.

[1511] It's just like the motorcycle on top of the cliff.

[1512] Like, every time I hang out with this guy, I put him in a situation where his career might be.

[1513] I know.

[1514] I need to start being more aware of this.

[1515] But I'm drawn to you because of your seek for adventure.

[1516] Yeah.

[1517] It's a good pairing.

[1518] I forgot English.

[1519] I've traveled so many years now.

[1520] I don't even know if I know English anymore.

[1521] But yeah, your desire to have fun, I admire that about you.

[1522] Because, you know what it's like?

[1523] Like, you hit your 30s like, oh.

[1524] I'm getting old.

[1525] And then I'm like, I look at you and I'm like, I can still do this.

[1526] You're an inspiration.

[1527] Thank you.

[1528] Thank you.

[1529] You know, my biggest fear in life is that I'm going to like be in a car and I'm going to lay rubber and I'm going to go, oh, that's not fun anymore.

[1530] Like, that's my biggest fear in life is that I don't enjoy getting sideways in turns because I don't know why I'll be alive anymore.

[1531] But it's still thriving.

[1532] I'm still as into doing donuts as I've ever been.

[1533] That's good.

[1534] So I hope that is encouraging to you.

[1535] And you and I, we can announce it here.

[1536] We do have planned dual retirement goal as a pact.

[1537] We're planning on combining forces so that we can have the perfect retirement compound with all dangerous activities.

[1538] I just got to give a shout out to Salt Lake, because then we went directly from tubing to the Salt Lake.

[1539] That's right.

[1540] What a place for barbecue, huh?

[1541] So good.

[1542] And just when you think you've had enough barbecue in the last seven days, you think that you might be done and it's hard to get excited about more brisket.

[1543] Boy, oh, boy.

[1544] Yep.

[1545] Emotional.

[1546] I think they pulled out a special brisket for you, to be honest, because it was much better than the brisket we had had two nights before.

[1547] I think there was a special Ricardo brisket that they pulled.

[1548] Like, it had been smoking for a year or something.

[1549] It couldn't have been more tendered.

[1550] It was virtually a jello.

[1551] It was insane.

[1552] I've vocally declared my love for Austin for pretty much 10 years now since we've been going there.

[1553] And each year, there's like more and more local love.

[1554] And I'm like, all right, this is cool.

[1555] We got served well.

[1556] It was delicious.

[1557] Okay.

[1558] Stay tuned for more armchair expert.

[1559] you dare.

[1560] Okay, so when we came back from that trip, I was asking you with great interest what you want to do after you're done driving.

[1561] And I have a lot of aspirations for you that maybe you don't have for yourself.

[1562] But basically, you're the most charismatic guy.

[1563] I know.

[1564] One of the things you do really well is your clothing.

[1565] Yeah.

[1566] When you find out your buddy's got a clothing thing, you're like, oh, yeah, send me some stuff.

[1567] And you're nervous because you're like, I'm going to have to wear it when he comes over.

[1568] It's going to be terrible.

[1569] You're our favorite clothing.

[1570] Yeah, every time a box comes with apparel, I'm so excited.

[1571] And I don't know if you noticed, but when I saw you at the Hilton party, I had worn your shoes for you.

[1572] Oh, wait, I don't know if I'd seen them, the vans.

[1573] Thank you.

[1574] They're gorgeous, and they're awesome.

[1575] And you get me into colors.

[1576] I would never find myself in without you.

[1577] That's where we've had a lot of compliments.

[1578] The fun part has been like playing around with the colors.

[1579] And I love it.

[1580] I love the green.

[1581] It's been a lot of fun.

[1582] So firstly, thank you.

[1583] I will definitely keep sending you.

[1584] stuff.

[1585] Well, I even ordered shit one time.

[1586] I'm just buying it on my own.

[1587] And then they didn't have my size.

[1588] And I was like, I don't care if it's not my size.

[1589] I'm still getting it.

[1590] Yeah.

[1591] That's how much I like it.

[1592] I was like, I'll just wear it tight.

[1593] I appreciate it.

[1594] And talking about other things other than racing and whether it's now or like post racing, I mean, it's like anyone.

[1595] Like, I think you need to have other interests, hobbies, things that keep you going, things that keep you stimulated other than your real work, I guess, because I've never been one to want to go to sleep at night just with race cars in my head.

[1596] I need to kind of go to bed with clear thoughts or other things that are going to get me excited.

[1597] So the clothing's been one.

[1598] Yes, it's doing great, but it's honestly just fun.

[1599] Like, I'm on calls every Tuesday.

[1600] We're going through new designs.

[1601] I don't know.

[1602] It's just been really enjoyable, but more so like seeing people wear it and being stoked.

[1603] Yeah, how cool is that?

[1604] It's like a warm, fuzzy feeling.

[1605] So thanks.

[1606] It is cool.

[1607] Did you hear that Dax farted in it on the airplane?

[1608] and it was a nice, thick, perfect pant.

[1609] It might drive sales.

[1610] We were flying home from London last week, and I just had tremendous gas.

[1611] It's an airplane thing, right?

[1612] It makes it worse.

[1613] It compounds it, for sure.

[1614] But also, I had woken up early to go on the airplane.

[1615] You know, that's never a great scenario because I can't relax.

[1616] So what I did is I took that comforter they give you, and I laid that completely flat on my seat, which I wondered if other people were like, that's a weird move.

[1617] But I put that down first as some padding.

[1618] Then I had your mustard -colored sweat -suit.

[1619] and between that padding and the sweats, I was able to fart the entire flight and never was there a smell, not a micron.

[1620] So I hope that drives up sales.

[1621] You could write that on the description for the pants.

[1622] It's a great fart filter.

[1623] Not only eco -friendly, but also odorless.

[1624] Odorless and a fart filter.

[1625] That's beautiful.

[1626] They were really good, man. It's because it's a good material.

[1627] It's thick.

[1628] It's thick.

[1629] Really high end.

[1630] Thanks.

[1631] And this is serious because I make products.

[1632] I make diaper stuff with my wife.

[1633] fellow bellow let's go hello bellow hello bellow that reminds you of your friend yes yes let's go barbecue oh yeah he needs to do like an audio for hello bello yeah let's go hello bell oh balo he'd kill it so proprietary to him the way he does it he can land any let's go oatmeal yeah the sweats you're regularly presented with things that would be much cheaper to make but you yourself wouldn't wear it.

[1634] And you've chosen, I know, to spend a lot making them.

[1635] Like, they're fucking really good clothes.

[1636] Yeah, I mean, you pretty much said, like, I don't want to promote something that I wouldn't feel comfortable in myself.

[1637] And it might be what I touched on, like, at the very beginning, like, I kind of want to leave a good impression on people.

[1638] Yes.

[1639] You're codependent by nature.

[1640] Yeah.

[1641] So it's probably like reflects on the experience that I guess they're going to have when they receive the clothes when they wear them.

[1642] So it's definitely a lot that goes into it.

[1643] Well, it's super successful, I have to imagine, right?

[1644] Because every time I go to order something, you're sold out of everything, which is hot.

[1645] It's done better than we thought, because I've never done it really.

[1646] Like, you don't really know where to, like, set the expectation.

[1647] But it's been cool.

[1648] And also, if you do something good, then most likely people want to come back.

[1649] What's the website to order it on?

[1650] So it's rick3 .com.

[1651] Rick3 .com.

[1652] So Ricardo and then my number's three.

[1653] So we've called it Rick3.

[1654] R -I -C, the number three .com.

[1655] Not spelled.

[1656] Yeah, thanks.

[1657] Don't make that mistake.

[1658] That'll take you to a porn actor with a three -inch penis.

[1659] Oh, okay.

[1660] Oh, okay.

[1661] Don't do that.

[1662] Yeah, he's famous for this three -inch penis.

[1663] Yeah, Rick, three -inch penis, so.

[1664] Maybe I do care too much what people think.

[1665] I don't know.

[1666] The last thing I want is we'll be like, oh, so he's just come on today to, like, promote his clothing.

[1667] No. You came to bro out.

[1668] We promote your clothing every day.

[1669] I am wearing it right now, though.

[1670] Half the photos of us and guests were wearing the shit.

[1671] We wear your stuff all the time.

[1672] Mostly, I'd be more worried someone be frustrated with, like, hey, thanks for telling us how great the shit is, and I have no fucking clue how to go get it.

[1673] Right.

[1674] That's more of a concern I would have.

[1675] Thanks, buddy.

[1676] How does Ashante fit into the Rick III world?

[1677] Is it its own thing?

[1678] I enjoy talking about this because it's funny.

[1679] So enchanté is...

[1680] What does it mean?

[1681] Oh, fuck.

[1682] Yeah.

[1683] It's a French word.

[1684] Yeah, so I think it's in the context of like, you can say it like enchanté when you meet someone.

[1685] So I think it's like a pleasure to meet you.

[1686] I think it means enchanted.

[1687] Yeah.

[1688] We love enchanted.

[1689] That's our thing.

[1690] It's like a very beautiful way of saying it nice to meet you to someone, I guess.

[1691] Ah, chante.

[1692] But I've lived in the south of France for nearly 10 years, and I know very, very few French words, enchanté being one of them.

[1693] But for me, it's like the most sexy, beautiful French word, and it makes you sound like you know what you're talking about.

[1694] So classy.

[1695] Yeah, it's classy.

[1696] It's something you'd say wearing a tuxedo, you know?

[1697] Yes.

[1698] Or maybe, like, your review of some caviar you just had.

[1699] Mm. Ashante.

[1700] Yeah.

[1701] Or if you start up a Ferrari and you start up a Ferrari You've got it Yeah Because that's the whole context around Or our version of it So I got to give a shout out To my friend Owen So we would go out And have a drink and stuff And you know When we would cheers Instead of saying cheers We'd be like Hmm enchanté Would have a sip of a cocktail And be like This is delicious And we would say Well enchanté So enchanté Was like our word of approval It just meant We're just having a good time So I did like Anchante collection A tip of the hat to like the south of France.

[1702] But the tagline is the best, which I always fuck up.

[1703] So what is it?

[1704] Oh, yeah.

[1705] So the tagline, that came in over a core.

[1706] Like, so we were talking about enchantal, like, so what's this collection about, like, how can you describe it to people?

[1707] And just kind of off top of my head, I said, well, it's upper class elegance from lower class bandits.

[1708] Yeah, I love it.

[1709] I love it because I have a big class warfare thing.

[1710] So I love Ashante, but then I would be like, that's not for me. I'm not fancy enough.

[1711] But then the fact that it's by low class bandits, I'm like, well, now we're talking.

[1712] That's me. Yeah, exactly.

[1713] high and low high and low so we're trying to also just have a bit of fun with it four weeks ago monica said just out of nowhere on the show she goes it is shocking to me you like formula one because it's like the richest of the rich like knowing you i'm surprised you even like it i said well that's a good riddle because i don't like polo i'm like what everyone's wearing business casual during their sport you're triggered by a little bit sure even tennis so my ultimate thing I settled on it was like, yeah, it is a very elite thing.

[1714] And most kids that got into it had some money.

[1715] I said, but the guys are just fucking shitheads.

[1716] I mean, no matter what, like ultimately at the day, yeah, $500 million is going into whatever.

[1717] But then you have some shithead behind the wheel.

[1718] It's kind of a nutcase.

[1719] Yeah.

[1720] That's what gets me through is that most of you guys are fucking idiots.

[1721] And you'd crash a rental car and you'd fucking turn a golf cart over on the, you know, likely.

[1722] There's some banditness to it.

[1723] Oh, yeah, for sure.

[1724] Like we're all motorheads.

[1725] That's the funny thing.

[1726] Why do we do it?

[1727] And it's going back to, like, when we started, we just want to drive fast.

[1728] Yeah.

[1729] That sounds like something from Talladega Nights.

[1730] It's true, like, we just want to drive fast.

[1731] It's also, like, a little bit rebellious.

[1732] Yeah.

[1733] It's dangerous.

[1734] It's rebellious.

[1735] I love it.

[1736] This is the last thing I'm going to compliment you on, and then we're going to wrap this up so you can go ride your 110 north of Santa Barbara.

[1737] Are you going now to...

[1738] Yeah, I'm so excited.

[1739] As hard out is to go ride.

[1740] I get that.

[1741] Great.

[1742] Yeah.

[1743] I'm so tall because I'm so excited to ride.

[1744] But I love talking to you beautiful people.

[1745] We love you.

[1746] Thank you.

[1747] How long are you here?

[1748] I leave Sunday.

[1749] I know.

[1750] I told him Lincoln and I are going to the motocross track on Monday morning and he's going to miss it.

[1751] That could have been great.

[1752] We got assured a broken bone at the track.

[1753] That would be almost a given.

[1754] If Lincoln hit a double that you didn't, you'd have to.

[1755] That's where 100 % ego would come into play.

[1756] Oh, me too.

[1757] I'm going to kill myself as she gets good.

[1758] That's a certainty.

[1759] I will say there's something about having guys.

[1760] gotten to know you, and I can't remember what race it was.

[1761] Maybe it was a couple races ago during the sprint where I was like, now that I know you as a human, I can't believe you can do that thing.

[1762] I got so giddy thinking like, God, he can really fucking do that thing.

[1763] Nobody can do that thing.

[1764] It's so next level.

[1765] And now that I know you, it's even crazier.

[1766] I'm like, oh, yeah, we're normal humans in real life.

[1767] We're going to eat food.

[1768] But then there's going to be a moment where Danny can do this thing that's absolutely mind -blowing.

[1769] It's really mind -blowing.

[1770] I got so excited.

[1771] Thank you.

[1772] It is surreal, even for me, because, yeah, I dreamed of this as a kid, and I never thought I would be where I am today.

[1773] What you just said also makes me think about, you know, you touched on, like, eventually when I'll stop racing and retire and do something else.

[1774] I want to make sure that I do it at the right time because it's such a unique thing that, as you say, like, I'm able to do, and there's so few of us.

[1775] And look at Alonzo this year.

[1776] Like, Alonzo's having this fucking incredible season.

[1777] He's 40.

[1778] He's going to turn 41 this season.

[1779] He's still killing it.

[1780] He's a gangster.

[1781] You don't want to be trying to pass Alonzo at 40 right now.

[1782] It's not going to be fun.

[1783] He's an OG for sure.

[1784] Lonzo's a rare case and Rikinen.

[1785] They're also world champions.

[1786] So maybe they have that pass to come back.

[1787] I don't want to forget how like special and awesome it is.

[1788] And for sure, like it's inevitable that the day I do leave it.

[1789] There'll be times where I'll miss it.

[1790] So I want to make sure that I've exhausted it and done everything I can in it.

[1791] I guess I don't want to take it for granted.

[1792] people have this weird obsession with legacy and i'm someone who thinks legacy's a joke like you're not going to be alive to see your legacy who gives a fuck i don't care what people say when i'm dead so i would never do anything motivated out of legacy valentino rossi people were just up in arms that he didn't retire earlier when he was number one and my thought was like if i could ride in moto gp and be 19th i would do it there's only 18 guys that are better than that in the world literally if you can ride me Midpack and MotoGP, why wouldn't you do that?

[1793] Who gives a fuck if you're not number one?

[1794] Like, I can't do that.

[1795] No one can do that.

[1796] I can't imagine being able to still be able to do it and not do it.

[1797] Yeah, that's tough.

[1798] It's tricky, though.

[1799] When I hear you say that, I'm like, no, fuck that.

[1800] If I was winning at one point and now I'm not, then I don't think I would have that same level of enjoyment.

[1801] But even if you're better than five other guys.

[1802] It's not enough.

[1803] I know.

[1804] It's not enough for you, but it should be.

[1805] Yeah, you're right.

[1806] You know what I'm saying?

[1807] If I could be within a second of pull, I'd be fucking.

[1808] doing backflips.

[1809] It's just hard when you know what it feels like to win.

[1810] It's true.

[1811] It is ego, though.

[1812] It is.

[1813] It's fully ego, yeah.

[1814] Anyone that could drive Formula One should.

[1815] Same with MotoGP.

[1816] If you can finish 12th of MotoGP, you're a god.

[1817] Yeah.

[1818] Yeah, you just have to feel totally done.

[1819] And then we'll just go on an American road trip.

[1820] The compound.

[1821] I'll hug you even harder if you finish 20th.

[1822] I'll be fucking cheering with champagne.

[1823] I feel I would get more love from you after a shit race than like winning for sure.

[1824] I'm not worried about you when you win.

[1825] Exactly.

[1826] You're good.

[1827] You don't need me when you win.

[1828] You don't need anybody.

[1829] Fuck everyone.

[1830] Yeah.

[1831] Wait, can we give one little tip of it?

[1832] Because when I do tell people this, they're always excited that you never drive.

[1833] You don't drive in life very often.

[1834] Not much.

[1835] Yeah.

[1836] On a race weekend, yeah, if I've got Blake or Michael or anyone else around, yeah, I'm like, I'm a passenger.

[1837] Yeah.

[1838] I'm just controlling the music.

[1839] I like that.

[1840] I'm totally good with that.

[1841] Today I'm going to drive, but I'm happy to.

[1842] I don't mind like a little road trip kind of thing.

[1843] Were you scared when you were a passenger in my car?

[1844] Ah, ooh.

[1845] Because if I were you, I would have thought, oh, fuck, he's going to try to impress me. Well, I do sometimes have those thoughts.

[1846] Yeah.

[1847] But I was actually driving at like 30 % of how I drive.

[1848] Because I'm like, I don't want him to think I'm trying to impress him.

[1849] Yeah.

[1850] I did one burnout on the highway, but that was just because we were next to another charger.

[1851] Yeah.

[1852] That would have been crazy if I hadn't done that.

[1853] I loved you for that.

[1854] Okay.

[1855] Yeah, it would have been disrespectful to that guy and to dodge everyone.

[1856] Oh.

[1857] I love you.

[1858] Good luck with everything.

[1859] Can't wait to watch the rest of the season.

[1860] I hope I get to bump into you at a few more races.

[1861] Yeah.

[1862] That'll be wonderful.

[1863] Coming out with us more.

[1864] That is one thing I look forward to when I do stop is more friend time.

[1865] Hanks, yeah.

[1866] More Hanks.

[1867] You're the pride of Australia, but you're very American too.

[1868] There's some American DNA in me. I'm quite sure of it.

[1869] You've got a high level of obnoxious like we have.

[1870] So you've been right in here, yeah.

[1871] Big love.

[1872] Love you.

[1873] And now my favorite part of the show, the fact check with my soulmate Monica Padman.

[1874] from your picture board no this one wasn't on my board this one's impromptu oh wow improvised it's great you know it's funny as i was uh in the shower today and i've been ordering a lot of slacks you've seen me in them there's new slacks yeah drawstring a little baggear trousers trousers pantalunis multiple colors all this is say i get them i like them i put them on my closet and then they're gone forever you forget about them well i wear the same two that are in front of me and i actually was thinking the shower like i need to do what Monica does or just another thought I had is like lay out seven outfits and that's what I'm going to wear that week over the week have you ever tried that technique yeah that's a common technique it's very common okay so I didn't discover anything no you did you're on the brink you're on the precipice you should because it's healthy to buy clothes and not wear them and then I think I don't have any because I wear the same two pants that I like yeah and then I get more and then as I'm putting those away They're next to brand new other pants I bought that I like.

[1875] And that's a guy thing because I have the same way with my pants.

[1876] Oh, you are?

[1877] I don't think it's a one thing.

[1878] I think it's an everyone thing like people have their go -to jeans and their go -to.

[1879] You forget when you buy new stuff to mix it up unless you commit yourself like I have to fashion.

[1880] Did you see my closet video?

[1881] This could be, no. Oh, my gosh, I posted a closet video.

[1882] Oh, and does it include your photographs?

[1883] Yeah.

[1884] Oh, wow.

[1885] It's a bit regretful because it was also impromptu.

[1886] to improvise, very random, Jess came over.

[1887] Okay.

[1888] And I was telling him about my fashion endeavors.

[1889] And then I was like, oh, I should show you my closet.

[1890] So then I was doing that, and then he was filming.

[1891] So you didn't even realize it was something that you might post, but then you saw and you're like, I'm going to post it.

[1892] Yeah, I was like, oh, it's funny.

[1893] But it is funny.

[1894] Uh -oh.

[1895] It's not.

[1896] Aspirational?

[1897] Yeah.

[1898] I know.

[1899] I know.

[1900] It's sad.

[1901] Well, you got to stay a little relatable.

[1902] That's true.

[1903] You know?

[1904] I am relatable because right now my clothes smell bad.

[1905] This outfit smells bad.

[1906] Oh, God.

[1907] What kind of stink?

[1908] I don't know if it's from the dry cleaning.

[1909] Oh, oh.

[1910] I did walk, so the sweat probably made it worse.

[1911] Oh, it sounds like sweat.

[1912] Well, no. Pheromones?

[1913] It doesn't.

[1914] It smells like a weird smell, and the sweat, I think, exacerbated it.

[1915] Okay.

[1916] If you had to compare the smell to something, could you?

[1917] Well, then I wondered, like, is it moth smell?

[1918] Hmm.

[1919] But then I don't know what moth smell is.

[1920] Do they smell?

[1921] No, are you thinking of moth balls?

[1922] Yeah.

[1923] Yeah, moths don't smell.

[1924] Mothballs smell to repel moths.

[1925] Oh.

[1926] Yeah.

[1927] That's the thing I always curious about.

[1928] There's always kids in school whose mothers just chalk their closets full of moth balls.

[1929] Okay.

[1930] And then they reek like moth balls because it's human repellent as well.

[1931] That's not, because it's nasty.

[1932] Okay, well, that makes me feel good.

[1933] It's not moths.

[1934] I thought moth balls were made from moths.

[1935] Oh, okay.

[1936] I thought they like were.

[1937] Sure, left behind the little.

[1938] Spiders, you know, like they leave wet.

[1939] The little eggs.

[1940] Anyway, so it's not that, so it's the dry cleaner.

[1941] Oh, fuck.

[1942] Well, okay.

[1943] It definitely is I've noticed it on a lot of my clothes lately.

[1944] This makes me think of something that I don't think I should share, but I'm going to.

[1945] So I was in my Miami trip, and I have a system when I travel.

[1946] I throw all my dirty clothes in the corner of whatever room I'm inhabiting.

[1947] Uh -huh.

[1948] And at the end of the trip, I have two sides of my suitcase.

[1949] I keep all the fresh ones on one side, and I put all the dirties in a ball in the other side.

[1950] Then when I get home, I just take that ball.

[1951] I put it in the hamper, and then I put away my fresh clothes.

[1952] So I had showered.

[1953] I did very minimal things, and I went to work out, and then I, you know, I pee next to the garage.

[1954] Today?

[1955] No, no, this is maybe a week and a half ago.

[1956] It was after Miami.

[1957] Okay.

[1958] This resulted from Miami.

[1959] Okay.

[1960] I think I know.

[1961] You do.

[1962] I think I can continue.

[1963] Well, take a guess.

[1964] That could be fun.

[1965] Okay.

[1966] So you peed by the garage.

[1967] And when you peed by the garage, you took your underwear down.

[1968] And when you looked at the underwear, it was definitely dirty.

[1969] Because one of the dirty clumps moved into the clean clump.

[1970] Okay.

[1971] It was poop stays.

[1972] No, okay.

[1973] Okay, so I guess it's not that bad.

[1974] I don't in general have shit streaks.

[1975] I wouldn't guess that about you.

[1976] You're pretty clean.

[1977] I'm pretty meticulous.

[1978] Well, just specifically, I don't even think I'm that clean.

[1979] My anus is an obsession of mine.

[1980] You know, I have the, I have the brondel, and I squirt water in there, and I'm just, yeah.

[1981] And you put your fingers.

[1982] I do rub my finger on that.

[1983] People don't like that, but I do.

[1984] You know, fuck it.

[1985] I put my finger on it in the shower.

[1986] I clean it, and then I use toilet paper to dry off.

[1987] And then I wash my hands.

[1988] Yeah.

[1989] Okay.

[1990] So, okay.

[1991] So I peed next to the garage, and then I went in, and then I sniff my fingers, as you do.

[1992] Yeah.

[1993] I thought, oh, my God, there's a little bit of, like, ball smell.

[1994] Like, I would, which, again, I also don't really.

[1995] ever get stinky balls.

[1996] I have to not showered for a few days to get that.

[1997] Okay.

[1998] But I just showered that morning.

[1999] I was like, what the fuck?

[2000] How could I already have stinky undercarriage when I just showered?

[2001] It was driving me bonkers, right?

[2002] And then I peed another time.

[2003] And I'm like, God damn it, it's there.

[2004] Maybe it's even worse.

[2005] Now I'm consumed with it.

[2006] So when I finish my work, I'm like, I'm going to have to shower.

[2007] Well, actually, I didn't think I'm going to have to shower again.

[2008] I thought I'm going to have to wash my testicles and penis in the sink.

[2009] which I sometimes do.

[2010] Okay.

[2011] And so I went upstairs and I was about to do that.

[2012] And all of a sudden I just thought, oh my God, I'm going to smell my underwear.

[2013] I took off my underwear's, Lordy Lord.

[2014] What's obvious is they were not clean.

[2015] Yeah.

[2016] So although I was very clean, I put on my undies and it contaminated my testicles of my penis.

[2017] So it was half right.

[2018] Dirty one made its way into the clean section.

[2019] Okay.

[2020] And I'll add, I can't remember having pantaloonies undercarriage men's unmentionables that even smelled that bad.

[2021] Right.

[2022] Why would it smell that bad?

[2023] Well, Miami, okay.

[2024] Sweat.

[2025] Very hot, very humid.

[2026] Sure.

[2027] Then take them off and they're, God, knows, you know, and they're just not getting any better smelling.

[2028] And then they're in the...

[2029] Oh, God.

[2030] Anyways, what a humiliation.

[2031] Well, you were by yourself at least.

[2032] Yeah, that's true.

[2033] That's true.

[2034] I'm like you.

[2035] I go to the worst place.

[2036] Like, I have a headache.

[2037] Okay, I got a tumor.

[2038] So I'm like, oh, my God.

[2039] Now I'm someone who's ball stink three hours after a shower.

[2040] That's scary.

[2041] What's happening with me, hormonally.

[2042] You know, I'm going to all these crazy explanations, never even thinking, maybe my panties smell.

[2043] And they did.

[2044] Wow.

[2045] Well, that's an easy fix.

[2046] So best case.

[2047] Yeah.

[2048] I haven't experienced it since.

[2049] But now I'm a little shook about that pair of panties.

[2050] And I love that pair of panties.

[2051] They're dark black with very colorful hearts on them.

[2052] So I wore them the other day and I sniff, sniff, sniff.

[2053] Because I was like, were they clean and they're permanently something's wrong with them?

[2054] But then I sniff, sniff, sniff, clean.

[2055] as a cucumber, but I had some anxiety all day.

[2056] I was like, every time I peed, I was like, you thought maybe it was going to get released.

[2057] Yes, I just, because I had had that traumatic experience.

[2058] Yeah.

[2059] Well, you know, I mean, there's reason to fear because sometimes when pheromones get crossed, weird stuff can happen.

[2060] I think you're referencing when you borrow a girlfriend's shirt.

[2061] That's right.

[2062] And the girlfriend doesn't have B .O. Zero.

[2063] And you don't have B .O. I hope I don't.

[2064] You don't.

[2065] I've known you for quite a while.

[2066] Never smelt B .O. on you.

[2067] And then.

[2068] But when I. I wear the shirt, I do have, it smells crazy, but it's the mixture of the pheromones.

[2069] Yeah, and you know which friend you can't share tops with.

[2070] Callie's one of them, right?

[2071] Is she one of them?

[2072] No, she's not.

[2073] It's not gross because neither of you have been.

[2074] I know, but it's not her.

[2075] Ding, ding, ding, Dallie.

[2076] This is relevant.

[2077] So I had dinner with her and she just got out of COVID.

[2078] And during COVID, she got really into Drive to Survive.

[2079] She did not.

[2080] Oh, her M -Max?

[2081] Yeah, they've been watching it.

[2082] And so she was, you know, cross -referencing with me a lot.

[2083] Like, okay, do you like this person?

[2084] Do you like this person?

[2085] Who do you like?

[2086] You know, that type of thing.

[2087] And then she had probably a whole new jealousy that you're friends with Daniel Ricardo.

[2088] Okay, this is what I'm getting at.

[2089] Oh, my gosh.

[2090] No, you're not going to like it.

[2091] Okay.

[2092] Okay, so she said, because she said, what teams, and I said, I just like, whatever Danny's on.

[2093] He's my favorite.

[2094] And she was like, really?

[2095] And I was like, yeah, what do you mean?

[2096] I was like, I love Danny.

[2097] He's the best one.

[2098] And she was like, oh, he seems a little full of himself.

[2099] And then I said, oh, my God, that's the thing Dax was talking about on the show where some people think he's.

[2100] Sincere about that.

[2101] I guess or something.

[2102] And I was like, oh, that's that thing.

[2103] But then I told her that he's perfect and lovely and very nice.

[2104] And she said, oh, I was wrong.

[2105] Yeah, nicest manners in the world, gentle boy.

[2106] Not arrogant at all.

[2107] No. That's his character.

[2108] I had to correct that.

[2109] I had to write that wrong.

[2110] She was receptive to it.

[2111] Oh, good.

[2112] I'm glad she was flexible in her judgment.

[2113] Who does she love?

[2114] She likes Sains.

[2115] Okay, sure.

[2116] When you look at Sains, you go, this guy is dirty.

[2117] I do think that when I see him, but I think the same thing about LeClerc.

[2118] Like, they all stink bad.

[2119] No, not stink.

[2120] No, no, no. Stop saying that.

[2121] You're perpetuating a false.

[2122] rumor.

[2123] I'm saying nasty.

[2124] Like, get in the bedroom.

[2125] He's throwing you all around, moving your body, doing all kinds of advanced Spanish lovemaking techniques.

[2126] That's what I think.

[2127] Okay.

[2128] I think she's responding to his carnal sex appeal.

[2129] Okay, maybe.

[2130] Like, Leclerc is much better looking than the signs.

[2131] Well, that's all in the eye of the beholder.

[2132] To me, I'm only speaking for myself.

[2133] Okay.

[2134] I think Leclerc is much cuter than signs.

[2135] But if I had to guess there were 10 volunteers who slept with both of them, my guess would be Signs comes out as the better lover.

[2136] That is my spidey sense intuition.

[2137] Okay.

[2138] You're worried about me perpetuating rumors?

[2139] That he's a good lover?

[2140] Well, that also that LeClerc is not.

[2141] Didn't say that.

[2142] No, basically.

[2143] Did not say that's what he's going to hear.

[2144] No, he's not.

[2145] What he's going to hear is I think he's better looking, and then I think that Signs is a little bit better of a lover, Although Leclerc is a very generous lover.

[2146] Although, no, last time I was talking about Leclerc, I was hypothesizing that he was a two -pump chump.

[2147] Exactly.

[2148] For fun.

[2149] You've really made it clear you think he's bad.

[2150] No, I love Leclerc.

[2151] Anyway.

[2152] He's in my top three drivers.

[2153] What if I said?

[2154] You know, Dax is obviously better looking, but I would much rather have sex with...

[2155] Oh, yeah.

[2156] Well, that's true.

[2157] You'd hate that.

[2158] Well, hold on, though.

[2159] That was really good.

[2160] It was kind of a cheap shot.

[2161] But also Bradley Cooper would be mad that I said the other part.

[2162] Well, so what you would need to say, though, it's got to be identical, you'd say.

[2163] You're much better looking than Bradley, but I think if you and Bradley had sex with 10 women, the women would prefer having sex with Bradley.

[2164] Okay.

[2165] And that's still rough.

[2166] That's rough.

[2167] But not as bad as what you just said before.

[2168] Well, I say.

[2169] She's way better than you.

[2170] Yeah, that's what you're saying.

[2171] I didn't say that.

[2172] Stop putting words in my mouth.

[2173] I said that signs is preferred, not way better.

[2174] You are splitting hairs.

[2175] Uh -huh, I am.

[2176] That's what we do here, nuance.

[2177] Okay.

[2178] Non -binary.

[2179] Preferred.

[2180] I'll change my verbiage to prefer.

[2181] Okay, okay.

[2182] Ten girls would prefer sleeping with Bradley over you.

[2183] They preferred the experience.

[2184] Preferred the experience.

[2185] They had sex with both of you and they prefer the experience.

[2186] You'd hate it, of course.

[2187] Well, of course I'd hate it.

[2188] You know what a good question is?

[2189] We're getting somewhere good.

[2190] We're actually, we're approaching something good.

[2191] Okay.

[2192] So here's an option.

[2193] You only get one of these, too.

[2194] Great looking or great in bed?

[2195] What would you rather be known for?

[2196] Oh, known for.

[2197] I know for me what it is.

[2198] Well, I know for you what it is.

[2199] What is it?

[2200] Good in bed.

[2201] Oh, yeah, of course.

[2202] Because that's where the rubber meets the road.

[2203] I think everyone would rather be good in bed.

[2204] I don't know.

[2205] I think some people who don't really give a fuck about sex.

[2206] They're not super sexual.

[2207] They'd rather just walk through the world being super attractive and people smiling at them and buying them drinks and whatnot.

[2208] And they're like, I don't care if I'm good in bed.

[2209] I'm good enough.

[2210] Now, what would you rather be, Robbie?

[2211] Good in bed.

[2212] Yeah.

[2213] Good, three for three.

[2214] The hard thing is if you're not good looking, it's hard to prove you're good in bed.

[2215] This is the conundrum.

[2216] Right.

[2217] Anyway.

[2218] So does she want to start watching, is she going to start watching races and shit, Kali?

[2219] She wants to, I think.

[2220] Now she's in, she loves it.

[2221] Great.

[2222] I might have to have them over for a race day.

[2223] Oh, they would love that.

[2224] Max asked if I liked Pierre Gasly.

[2225] That's my brother's favorite.

[2226] Really?

[2227] Yeah, he loves them.

[2228] I said he looked greasy.

[2229] But then Max said no, it's just the sweat from driving.

[2230] They're playing a sport, basically.

[2231] Like, you would never call a basketball player sweaty.

[2232] No, I didn't call him sweaty.

[2233] greasy.

[2234] Oh, greasy.

[2235] That's a different one.

[2236] That's got a little bit of potentially a racist connotation.

[2237] Why?

[2238] He's white.

[2239] I know, but there are certain populations of white people that have a reputation of being greasy.

[2240] Who?

[2241] I'll tell you off the air, but I'm not going to do it here.

[2242] Tell me. No. Anyway, okay, so Max likes Pierre.

[2243] Does anyone like Max?

[2244] No. Oh.

[2245] That's pretty universal.

[2246] Yeah.

[2247] Wow.

[2248] He's so arrogant, Dax.

[2249] He's not even arrogant.

[2250] That is not the word I would use to describe him.

[2251] Okay.

[2252] Like, he never says he's great.

[2253] That's not for me required.

[2254] First of all, he's the best driver in Formula One.

[2255] I don't disagree.

[2256] Yeah, and he doesn't even really say that.

[2257] I don't love a fuck -off attitude in general in life.

[2258] I'm not attracted to anyone who's like that.

[2259] Right.

[2260] He carries himself like that, so he's not for me. I know, but you love Michael Jordan.

[2261] Like, Michael Jordan was punching his teammates in practice.

[2262] But Michael Jordan does not have a fucking.

[2263] off attitude.

[2264] He's not like, go ahead.

[2265] If someone who doesn't know as much as him tells him what to do, he has a very fuck off attitude.

[2266] And that's what you see with Max quite often.

[2267] But he would, but even just the way he talks to like interviewers, he refuses to play the game even a little bit.

[2268] And I don't like that.

[2269] I'm like, these are fans.

[2270] These are people who are paying a lot of money to see you.

[2271] Can you cut him a little bit of a cultural break that he's Dutch?

[2272] They don't do the pleasantry thing.

[2273] Everyone in the Netherlands, In the north, they don't believe in the little small talk, the pleasantries.

[2274] They get right to it.

[2275] I don't believe in small talk either.

[2276] I hate it.

[2277] But you are a popular sports figure making a ton of money, doing exactly what you love.

[2278] You have a great life.

[2279] Just be a little nicer.

[2280] Okay.

[2281] I'm just going to make an argument for him.

[2282] Okay.

[2283] Which is he's not paid to do any of that stuff.

[2284] He is paid to win races for Red Bull.

[2285] Hold on.

[2286] You said your piece.

[2287] Okay, go on.

[2288] He has one job, win races.

[2289] That is his job.

[2290] And that's why he gets paid more money.

[2291] If you wanted a PR guy, you should have hired a PR guy.

[2292] If you want a guy that thinks about nothing but winning races is a psychopath about winning races, then hire me and I'll go win races.

[2293] But if you need a guy to go sell Red Bull as a beverage or sell Formula One as a sport, I'm not the dude.

[2294] I care about a single thing, winning races.

[2295] I respect that.

[2296] Mm -hmm.

[2297] Okay, that was my piece.

[2298] I get it.

[2299] I hear what you're saying.

[2300] It's not attractive to watch someone be rude or...

[2301] Short with everyone.

[2302] Could care less when people are excited.

[2303] Like, it's, to me, very off -putting.

[2304] Even when he wins, though, do you ever listen on the radio when he wins?

[2305] Like, when he comes across the finish line, and they'll go, like, that was P1, Max.

[2306] And I'll go, oh, all right.

[2307] Ooh, that was a good race.

[2308] That's it.

[2309] the other people are like doing backflips in the car and screaming and stuff, he's just a very, you know, robotic.

[2310] Yeah.

[2311] I'm not trying to convince you to not like him, you know?

[2312] I don't think you are.

[2313] Love him.

[2314] You can keep loving him.

[2315] But it's not my preferred personality.

[2316] Yeah.

[2317] Right.

[2318] I like Danny, who's nice and kind and always looking out for the little guy and who's conscientious.

[2319] I like that personality.

[2320] That's what I'm drawn to.

[2321] One of the questions lobbed my way was what do you think of Will, blank, I forget his last name, the journalist on Drive to Survive.

[2322] Back up.

[2323] What, what now?

[2324] That was a question.

[2325] From Cali to me. You know, like, what do you think of this person?

[2326] What do you think of this person?

[2327] What do you think of Will Buxton, the journalist?

[2328] That's great.

[2329] He's handsome.

[2330] The English dude, right?

[2331] Yeah, he's very handsome.

[2332] He kind of looks like a driver a little bit.

[2333] She's deep if she wants to know That's right What you think of will?

[2334] Okay, what does Ashante mean?

[2335] Ashante means Nice to meet you.

[2336] Nice to meet you.

[2337] I can't really say it to you because I met you a long time ago.

[2338] I know.

[2339] It also does, it does say enchanted.

[2340] Oh, good.

[2341] Maybe we get enchanted from that?

[2342] It's a very elegant word.

[2343] It is.

[2344] It's greasy.

[2345] Um, Farts on an airplane.

[2346] Like snakes on a plane?

[2347] Farts on a plane?

[2348] Mm -hmm.

[2349] Why you fart so much on planes.

[2350] Is that how I was going to say, why you fart?

[2351] Not why do you?

[2352] Yeah.

[2353] Oh, it's why you fart.

[2354] Yeah, it's an answer.

[2355] Not a question.

[2356] Yeah.

[2357] This says, as it turns out, there's a scientific reason people often fart more while traveling on planes or climbing high mountains.

[2358] And it's even got a name, high altitude, flattice expulsion.

[2359] Oh, flatest expulsion.

[2360] The gastrointestinal syndrome was described in a 1981 study as characterized by an increase in both the volume and the frequency of the passage of flattis, which spontaneously occurs while climbing to altitudes of 11 ,000 feet or greater.

[2361] I've never heard flatulence just shortened to flattice.

[2362] Oh my God, excuse my flattice.

[2363] Ashante.

[2364] That study found that as air pressure decreases at higher altitudes, gases inside your body expand and need to be.

[2365] let out.

[2366] Although it was based more on being up in the mountains than inside a pressurized plane.

[2367] But additionally, a 2013 study that our participants record how often they farted while driving up an Australian mountain hypothesized that quickly moving from a low altitude to a higher one draws more carbon dioxide into your gut.

[2368] Isn't that great?

[2369] It is.

[2370] You know, and if you think about it, it's the reverse of the bends.

[2371] Yeah.

[2372] So you have less pressure on you so the gas comes out.

[2373] But when you have extra pressure, it condenses it so much and get in your bloodstream.

[2374] Less pressure in your asshole, more pressure in your bloodstream.

[2375] Keep it in your asshole, folks.

[2376] Oh, man. Oh, Jesus.

[2377] Okay, this is the trans -ish.

[2378] Okay, so backstory.

[2379] Almost the second after I said that the bends is on the opposite scale.

[2380] We stopped down, as we say in the biz.

[2381] What do we call it?

[2382] Stop down.

[2383] Oh, I didn't know that.

[2384] Oh, wow.

[2385] Okay, I tell you something.

[2386] Cool.

[2387] Stop down.

[2388] and we did a really cool interview.

[2389] Uh -huh.

[2390] And then things got cray.

[2391] Then we stopped up and all of some of the kids were home from school.

[2392] Yes.

[2393] So this next section of the fact check includes some guests.

[2394] It's chaos.

[2395] Please enjoy the chaos.

[2396] We had just finished farts on an airplane.

[2397] You sit over here, love.

[2398] So someone ripped in class and you were trying to figure out who it was.

[2399] Yeah.

[2400] This is a ding, ding, ding to our fart story.

[2401] is what happened today?

[2402] But I was just sitting there and everything was normal.

[2403] We were redoing a multiplication unit and then I just smelled something in the air.

[2404] And I was like, oh, it's just a small one.

[2405] And then it came at me. It came at me so hard.

[2406] Oh, no, it grew and grew.

[2407] Yeah, I had to stand up and pretend to stretch.

[2408] Oh, really?

[2409] Yes.

[2410] Did you look around the classroom to make eye contact with other people?

[2411] Like, are you smelling this too?

[2412] I have farted in weird places.

[2413] So I know what position I love to sit in when I fart.

[2414] So it just is silent.

[2415] I saw the people sitting next to me, and I looked at Harper, and she was sitting on her knees, and I said, that's not a good place to fart.

[2416] It would have, like, skinned against your feet, so it would have made a loud sound.

[2417] Oh, right.

[2418] Really good sleut thing.

[2419] And then I looked at Trayven, and she was sitting in the crisscross apple sauce, and I was like, No way.

[2420] No, you're just sitting on her.

[2421] too much weight.

[2422] So then - That'd be thunderous.

[2423] If you farted during criss -cress applesauce, it would be like a trumpet in your pants.

[2424] And then I looked at Dylan, and he was sitting, like, he was hugging his knees tactically, I was like, that's not a good place to fart.

[2425] Also a blast, that'd be a trumpet.

[2426] Unless you rolled up a little bit.

[2427] You're right, you know?

[2428] No, imagine pulling your knees tight to your chest.

[2429] It would be like, like, yeah, it would fucking.

[2430] Yeah, it would fucking.

[2431] What you're trying to get is like your buns is pushed together as possible, no pressure anywhere in your body so you can let it leak out.

[2432] Exactly.

[2433] You don't, you want it to leak out.

[2434] Wait, you guys, I have a much, this is fascinating.

[2435] I have a much different tactic for a silent fart.

[2436] Yes, I want the butt cheeks to be spread.

[2437] Splayed open?

[2438] Yeah.

[2439] Oh, so you'll what, do the splits?

[2440] No, I mean, I guess I don't really.

[2441] really far in public anymore.

[2442] Have you bent over and spread your butt cheeks and then it smelled a minute later, you might as well have just made a noise.

[2443] Okay, normally I do this if I'm in like a public bathroom.

[2444] Oh, okay.

[2445] So I can use my hands.

[2446] And you spread your butt cheeks apart physically?

[2447] Oh my God, that's great.

[2448] Oh, wow.

[2449] That's wonderful.

[2450] Was anyone doing that, Lincoln?

[2451] Not that I saw.

[2452] And then I didn't know for the conference.

[2453] Okay, and what was it, a male or a female?

[2454] It was a female?

[2455] Okay, and how - Good for her, I will say.

[2456] Me too.

[2457] Yeah.

[2458] I was afraid you were only going to blame it on a dude because we're gross.

[2459] But.

[2460] You are.

[2461] Yeah.

[2462] That's right.

[2463] I'm the worst.

[2464] What kind of position was she in?

[2465] I'm just slowly lifting up my butt.

[2466] Oh.

[2467] Her pup was like high.

[2468] Oh, wow.

[2469] Okay.

[2470] Wow.

[2471] I'm impressed.

[2472] You figured it out.

[2473] And then does she ask to go to the bathroom like five minutes after that?

[2474] No. But then I actually had to.

[2475] during that time.

[2476] So maybe I thought, oh no, did somebody think it was.

[2477] Were you scared?

[2478] Yeah, I was like, I would have thought that.

[2479] I actually had to go to the bathroom before the fart came.

[2480] Sure.

[2481] And he just said, I can't go right now.

[2482] So like two minutes.

[2483] Oh, boy.

[2484] And then the person started just letting it air out.

[2485] It was like load and load and load.

[2486] There was this one time where I thought I was gone.

[2487] And I was like, fresh hair.

[2488] And then.

[2489] New round.

[2490] Second wave.

[2491] And it was even worse.

[2492] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

[2493] And I feel like it was another person.

[2494] This was also a female.

[2495] She always points out far as when somebody's hurt, and she did not point at that.

[2496] Oh, never smelt it, doubt it.

[2497] Oh, no, that's the opposite.

[2498] But she was sitting in crisscross applesau.

[2499] So maybe she lifted up her butt.

[2500] She might have a different technique like Monica, but I have to say that's a really good proof if she's always busting people about farting and it stunk in there like a dead raccoon and she was quiet, that's very incriminating.

[2501] Unless the teacher pulled her aside at one point and said, please don't do that anymore.

[2502] It's embarrassing for the students.

[2503] And I wish the teacher would do that because that's me. Well, you should be embarrassed for farting and stinking up the classroom.

[2504] Sure, but we must agree some things are embarrassing in society because this is what I think I feel bad for you kids is like you're in your home.

[2505] You've been farting since you were born We don't care at all We think it's funny And then we send you to this Box that you sit in with other kids And we haven't even told you It's not cool to fart in public And you've got to learn the hard way, right?

[2506] Mm -hmm Like did you ever get embarrassed at any point Like did you rip one at any point That someone busted you?

[2507] No, nobody caught me You just knew somehow to keep them on the down low No, he got me Unless I accidentally didn't know what was coming Yeah, sure Surprise fart That was a good part noise That was good I'm proud of that I'm impressed I do think maybe it's evolutionary That we know not to do that In front of strangers We'll get removed from the group Yeah you'll be exiled Because of stinkiness Yeah It's a good reason You look like zazzy today Zizzy Oh thank you Okay Last question How frequently do you smell Farts in the classroom Is it every day There's only been, I don't know, three or four, five farts this month.

[2508] That's not bad at all.

[2509] So people have been holding them in or just haven't had to bark.

[2510] Okay.

[2511] Do you think it correlates to the school lunch?

[2512] Great theory.

[2513] Like whatever hot lunch is, like cabbage, kimchi.

[2514] The weird thing is.

[2515] Cool.

[2516] That's interesting.

[2517] Breakfast farts?

[2518] Well, maybe they didn't evacuate in the morning.

[2519] Oh, they're not on a good sketch.

[2520] Who's there?

[2521] Delta.

[2522] I, D. Money.

[2523] Oh, my gosh.

[2524] Oh, my gosh.

[2525] Purple hair?

[2526] Yeah.

[2527] We did this order.

[2528] That is beautiful purple hair.

[2529] Purple hair.

[2530] Oh, and it matches your sweater.

[2531] You look like a little rock star.

[2532] You look like a little rat.

[2533] Delta, did you smell any farts in your class today?

[2534] Yeah, that's a Starbucks teddy bear, but it has to stay in here because David brought it for.

[2535] the attic.

[2536] You can come up here and play with it.

[2537] That's fine.

[2538] She doesn't have every single stuffy.

[2539] She does.

[2540] That's from New Zealand, my love.

[2541] That's from a faraway country, like 17 hours in an airplane away.

[2542] But you can come up here and play with it.

[2543] It'll give you something to look forward to when you come up here.

[2544] But did anyone fart in your class today, Delta?

[2545] Oh, crime.

[2546] Now you got chocolates.

[2547] Yes, those come from New Zealand as well.

[2548] They're not that good at all.

[2549] They're terrible.

[2550] Don't tell David.

[2551] It's like a skittal chocolate Skiddle.

[2552] Those are so bad.

[2553] Mikey likes it?

[2554] You want to take it?

[2555] Oh, boy.

[2556] When's the last time you smelled a bad fart?

[2557] A Friday.

[2558] Friday.

[2559] And what happened?

[2560] I just smelled a toot.

[2561] Oh, you did?

[2562] When you smell a toot in class, do you say, ooh, somebody farted, or do you just keep it to yourself?

[2563] I just keep it to myself.

[2564] That's nice.

[2565] Because that's nicest.

[2566] Yes, exactly.

[2567] How often do you fart in class?

[2568] 20 times a day.

[2569] 20 times a day.

[2570] So it does smell like farts in the classroom, just your farts.

[2571] Yeah, pretty much.

[2572] Yeah.

[2573] Well, you're making a real name for yourself because you've got purple hair and your fart in 20 times a day.

[2574] I think the sky's the limit for you.

[2575] Wait, what is this?

[2576] Why are we on?

[2577] We're on television right now.

[2578] They can see us.

[2579] I'm on television!

[2580] We're doing a podcast, and then Lincoln was up here, so we invited her to chit -chat.

[2581] You know, after the interview is a fact check.

[2582] So just Monica and I talk.

[2583] And Monica busts me on what facts I got wrong.

[2584] A fart check.

[2585] This has become a FARC check, yeah.

[2586] But why did it end?

[2587] Oh, I do have like one.

[2588] Yeah, well, listen, why don't you guys shut up and listen to Monica and you guys will learn.

[2589] Oh, wow.

[2590] So now you're shutting me up.

[2591] You know, this is what boys do, I think, because I was explaining a math problem today.

[2592] And Draven didn't get it.

[2593] And then Dylan said, don't worry, I'll explain it.

[2594] And I said, excuse me, this is my problem.

[2595] I can explain it.

[2596] Oh, there you go.

[2597] I'm proud of you for doing that.

[2598] You can explain it.

[2599] You're capable.

[2600] Boys are the worst.

[2601] That's why you guys don't want...

[2602] No one wants to sleep with Dad.

[2603] Yes, no one wants to snuggle Daddy.

[2604] No one absolutely wants to sleep with Dad.

[2605] Because of the farts?

[2606] No. Those are bad also.

[2607] But I feel so bad for Dad.

[2608] He has to sleep with the snow.

[2609] That's what they...

[2610] No one wants to sleep with me. At night, they're fight to sleep with Mom.

[2611] And I said, you guys, how do you think I feel?

[2612] I always have to sleep with daddy.

[2613] Let's just be practical about it.

[2614] What about sleeping with mommy is better?

[2615] Mommy, I don't know.

[2616] She's just not daddy, which is enough.

[2617] Lincoln, you were so little.

[2618] Three, maybe, or four.

[2619] And I was carrying you, and you said that...

[2620] Can I poop my pants?

[2621] No, well, sure.

[2622] I cleaned up lots of your poop.

[2623] But I was carrying you, and you said something like, I can't hold you like a mom hold.

[2624] you and I was so sad, but it was also the truth.

[2625] I know.

[2626] These kids are heartbreakers.

[2627] This is very recent.

[2628] This was when we were in the old house, and I was in the bathtub.

[2629] I didn't know why, but this fart just came up and said, hello.

[2630] And I turned around to grab the shampoo, and I found that I pooped in the bathtub.

[2631] Yeah, that happened.

[2632] These things happened from time to time.

[2633] Linka, did you name you poop?

[2634] You had a baby.

[2635] A poop baby.

[2636] We have a pee baby, Monica.

[2637] I have a pee baby, so why not have a poop baby?

[2638] Yeah, that's right.

[2639] A peevee baby is I peed in a toilet, and there's no flush, and then daddy had to pee, so he peed, so then our peas were in the same toilet and never flushed, so they turned into a baby.

[2640] We said it turned into a pee baby.

[2641] He lives at my house.

[2642] It's still there.

[2643] Just getting out of kindergarten at this point, I think.

[2644] Can I tell the one story about you, Delta?

[2645] Yeah.

[2646] I ready?

[2647] I love this story.

[2648] I was putting you guys to bed.

[2649] Delta, you were probably three, and you said, oh, I got a poop.

[2650] I said, okay, you went in and you took a poop, and it was the size of a moose's poop.

[2651] Like, I thought a moose had pooped in the toilet.

[2652] And I said, oh, my God, honey, when's the last time you pooped?

[2653] And you're like, I don't remember.

[2654] That was the biggest poop you had ever taken.

[2655] So then I put you in your diaper.

[2656] and then I put you in bed and I put Lincoln in bed and we read a book and we snuggle and then I go outside I shut the door and I just turned on the TV and all of a sudden I heard Daddy I farted is diarrhea and then I went in there I thought how could you have possibly just had diarrhea?

[2657] You just had an entire Evac.

[2658] I went in there I picked you up your diaper was completely ruined.

[2659] I took you into the bathroom, if you remember, and you had poop on your back and your butt crack.

[2660] Full blowout.

[2661] And I was like, where did all this come from?

[2662] Daddy, I parted.

[2663] Okay, last thing I'm, this is the last time you're going to get to talk, Delta.

[2664] Will you do your song?

[2665] Okay.

[2666] Okay.

[2667] Didle da -da -da -de -do -do -de -da -da -da -de -da -de -da -de -do.

[2668] He just learned this.

[2669] Do you want to do one more time?

[2670] That's my favorite new.

[2671] She did that 1 ,100 times this morning before school.

[2672] Wait, where'd you learn that?

[2673] That's what, Mommy does that.

[2674] Oh, wow.

[2675] Oh, I love you.

[2676] Thanks, DeMoney.

[2677] All right, now you guys have to be quiet so we can do our business.

[2678] We got a great fart story and we got a great D -D -D -D -D -D -D -D -O.

[2679] Yeah, oh, that was great.

[2680] Yeah, let's hear the fact.

[2681] They got to see how the sausage is made.

[2682] Okay, we have one fact left.

[2683] The fact is, oh, and actually, this is relevant.

[2684] Lincoln loves F1.

[2685] Excuse me, everybody?

[2686] I'm on Monica.

[2687] Okay, the fact is about how many employees work on the Mercedes team.

[2688] Oh, good.

[2689] Okay.

[2690] More than 950 employees, an F1 team, but this isn't specific to Mercedes, but an F1 team directly involves between 300 and 1, people, depending on whether it's at the front or back of the grid, and how much in -house manufacturing it does, and whether it produces an engine or buys one in.

[2691] Yeah.

[2692] And then how many people work at Mercedes?

[2693] More than 700 employees work 24 hours a day.

[2694] Oh, wow.

[2695] That's confusing, because that would have to be 1 ,400 employees, 12 hours shifts.

[2696] It makes me wonder if they're talking about, even though the thing is how many...

[2697] No, Mercedes has a million employees.

[2698] Right.

[2699] Okay.

[2700] Then, yeah, it is saying that.

[2701] And then the other one said 950.

[2702] More than 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Brackley site.

[2703] Oh, dear -d -d -d -d -d -d -d -d -d -do is better than Mommy's Dee -Daddy -D -D -Doto?

[2704] Oh, boy, this is the tough question.

[2705] Mommies is technically better because she's got control of her instrument.

[2706] Yours is 20 times more entertaining, so how do we know?

[2707] How would I decide?

[2708] Wait, what do you mean?

[2709] Like, Mommy sounds identical to the actual jib -jabs.

[2710] song right because she's a mimic and yours is so cute is yours and it's incredible so i'm i would say i would rather hear yours than mommies and i got a hunch i'm gonna tonight can i do it one more time for a goodbye for a goodbye yes is there anything you want to say before we go farting in public should be weird okay great good to end on and then we're going to go out with a song this is not an original.

[2711] This is a cover song from the artist, formerly known as Delta.

[2712] Beautiful.

[2713] Beautiful.

[2714] You look like a chipmunk when you do it.

[2715] All right, I love you guys.

[2716] I love you.

[2717] Love you.

[2718] Love you, love you, love you.

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