Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in IndyCar listener Q&A show coming to you on a late Thursday afternoon.

Why am I so many days behind?

Well, I'll get to that in just a sec.

Thanks as always to all of you for sending in so, so many questions after a, wow, that double

header at Texas sure wasn't all that exciting to watch, but man, do we have a lot of questions,

well-deserved questions that have come in after this doubleheader at Texas Motor Speedway.

So I'm going to get through as many as I can.

Know that there's definitely going to be a little bit of overtime involved here, but I'm going to get to all that we can.

Say thank you, as always, to Cooper Tires and the Justice Brothers for supporting everything that we do here.

Also, the amazing folks at the Justice Brothers, automotive chemicals and lubricants.

And then finally, Toronto Motorsports.com.

Oh, our people are people north of the good old border here,

who make so many fun things for us t-shirts and stickers and you name it

all kinds of cool memorabilia there as well why are we recording this on a thursday afternoon

uh well i genuinely don't want to get into the details we'll'll just say that we normally record a late Monday

afternoon, early Monday evening and try and file it that night or Tuesday morning at the latest.

I had a little bit of something on the home front that took our attention all Monday afternoon into late Monday evening.

And by the time we got home, let's see, I think my wife and I looked at each other

and laughed a little bit because it was 11 p.m.

And we were taking our first bites of dinner.

And actually some of the first things that either of us had eaten all day long.

So everything's fine.

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