We started our podcast, The Car Debate, in August of 2014.

In the past 11 years, we've done 99 episodes helping listeners find the perfect car.

Along the way, we've led road trips, adventures, and built a

community beyond anything we imagine. So for our 1,000th episode, we wanted to do something special,

something big. One of our patrons suggested driving cars owned by our audience, and we took

that idea and made it into a 5,000 mile two-week

road trip of driving, filming, and celebrating. In the middle of it all, we hosted a

two-day track day at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, which leads us 22

stories above the track to the first ever podcast from the tower

at Cota, our 1000th podcast.

I'm going to stand here for a second because holy crap, we are 22 stories up on the top of

the Cota Tower. We have had an amazing track day. And just to make it extra spicy

before we did this 1000th podcast live from here, all of the tech decided to not work. So we had to

redo all the steps. I'm sorry about being late, but we're here. I'm coming down from that

stress ball. But we had an unbelievable track day here. Carting's still going on. That's cool.. I'm coming down from that stress ball, but we had an unbelievable track day here.

Carding's still going on. That's cool. An unbelievable track day here. We had no incidents.

Cota loved having us. You and I are at the top of Cota Tower with people paying attention,

which is even weirder. That is weird. People are still coming off of the elevator, and we have set the

record for the amount of chairs, Cota tells us, in the top of the Cota Tower. So I think we're

at 39, close to 40 chairs. Something like that. There's also been a concert up here, but we are

proud owners of being the first podcast, live stream from the top of the Cota Tower.

We're very proud of that.

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