So former Mercedes owner, I don't know if this is the right term, but sweet family therapist.

And regular at Saeed's.

Back in the day, back in the day.

Kyle Larson, if you can describe this lunch we just had in one word, what would it be?

Nope.

And now for dinner with racers, presented by Continental Tire.

With your host, Ryan Eversley and Sean Heckman.

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What do you think I should go ahead?

Angel, no, no, no, no, you know. I'm Sean Heckman. And I am Ryan Eversley. And we are sitting in Johnny Rockets in Hollywood, California. That's right. Wrapping up 10 years, Ryan. Yes.

10 years of this podcast, we've been doing it. And I don't know if I'd call this a celebratory lunch, but it's a convenient lunch because we're in between projects right now. Correct. And so we're wrapping up all, looking back at all seasons worth of a long-form podcast that we've done. A lot of cool ones we got to do, but this one was definitely high on the list of cool episodes we were part of. Yeah, and it's actually a second time that this young man has been on our show, but we had lunch with Kyle Larson. Kyle Larson. Now, you mentioned the second one because he was, in fact, on our episode back in like 2016, nine years ago with Ricky Stenhouse Jr. That's right. But he was more, it was a Ricky episode and he just happened to be there joining us for a few minutes. Yeah. This was about Kyle. And a lot's happened in nine years. Yeah, he's had a lot of things going on. But we were able to sit down with him. And if you don't know anything about Kyle Larson, then you shouldn't be listening to this show. Yeah, I don't. But he is a extremely celebrated NASCAR driver. He is one of the best dirt racers, probably of all time. He will be in the Hall of Fame of NASCAR. He will be in the Hall of Fame of Dirt Racing. And he's even made a couple starts now in the Indy 500. He's the Indianapolis 500 rookie of the year, Ryan. Suck it Rasmussen. That's right, Rasmussen. Check his episode out too.

But we met up with him at 44 Mills in Concord, North Carolina, where we actually did an episode before with Corey LaJoy and sat down with Kyle. And honestly, I didn't know what we were getting. You know, when you get these high profile guys like that, especially on the NASCAR side, they can be very buttoned up. But Kyle was pretty open with us. He was pretty honest, and we learned a lot. And honestly, part of that is having a group like Hendrick Motorsports being so willing to just let him tell his story fairly unsupervised. Huge shout out to Colby at Hendrik Motorsports, who completely gets what we do. absolutely. And it was very supportive and just let Kyle do his thing without feeling the need to sort of leer over it.

So that kind of stuff goes a long, long way. Yeah, some of the things you're going to hear about in the Kyle Larson episode include dinners with the Sweet Family. How many people have to look at his schedule? And yes, he talks about the incident. Now, like I said, we went down to 44 Mills, which we've been to before, and I did not have the shit nuggets. You did not. Which you're going to bleep. But I, Ryan, had the chicken sandwich. If you're new to the Dinner with Racers podcast, we also have a Patreon account, which is patreon.com forward slash DWR show, where we're doing behind the scenes content. We're adding a little bit more from some of these episodes that could make the final edit, as well as giving you some of the inside jokes that we've had going for about 10 years. And basically, we're just having a lot of fun with it. We're doing our own personal race previews and reviews. And also a monthly catch-up where we just kind of, you know, talk trash and talk about racing and it's been a lot of fun. Exactly. So if you go to patreon.com forward slash DWR show, you'll see there's a couple different tiers, but Dinner Club is the membership that'll get you all the behind the scenes, even lets you ask questions of guests like Kyle Larson. And while the Patreon is nice, being a member is nice. Honestly, I kind of like that we can provide this show for free, Ryan.

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