MP 1100: The Week In IndyCar, May 19, with Leigh Diffey

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Marshall Pruett

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's The Week In IndyCar guest show featuring NBC Sports' Leigh Diffey, using listener-driven comments and questions covering a variety of topics submitted by fans via Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. Of the many items explored, Diffey brings us inside the commentary booth with some of the practices and approaches used by the broadcast team, then shares insights on themes and drivers to follow leading into qualifying for the Indy 500, and his ongoing efforts to help fellow commentator Paul Tracy pronounce Romain Grosjean's name. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0	Hold on.
0:04.3	Is this the Lee Diffy on the other end of the line for the week and Indycar guest show?
0:10.7	This can't be.
0:12.8	It's a poor imitation with a similar voice.
0:16.1	Well, mate, guess what?
0:17.5	We are here at what our two-week Christmas. Used to be the month of May.
0:23.9	We still call it the month of May. It's the second half of May. Practice underway. Indianapolis,
0:29.6	500 brother, 105th running. Who is fast on Tuesday? Crazy. DJ Willie P.
0:40.4	Some fun storylines coming out of that first day.
0:41.9	Thought it'd be perfect.
0:43.5	Have you on as usual.
0:44.9	We love having you here, mate.
0:46.7	Talk about the 500.
0:50.1	Great questions as usual from our listeners.
0:52.5	Say a big thanks to Cooper Tires,
0:53.7	the Justice Brothers, and Toronto Motorsports.com.
0:55.8	What do you think? You want to just start ripping into questions?
0:58.9	Yeah, we can start ripping into questions, but just listening to you talk, Ben Marshall,
1:02.9	just saying that there were some great storylines, I think that's applicable to this season thus
1:08.0	far. I mean, for people like you and me, you write about it, I talk about it.
1:13.0	I mean, it's a feeding frenzy for guys like you and I, right? It's the stories in this,
1:18.4	this year's championship just keep on rolling out. And it's, you know, for the fan base and for
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