Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and I even know what to call this.

Is it a catching up with new IndyCar champion Alex Palo?

Is it a week and IndyCar guest episode with Alex?

Not sure.

What it is though is two, three hours after he clinched the 2021 NTTT IndyCar series title, had whatever

amount of time that we wanted with the lad.

And so we went to the back of the media center and captured a celebratory podcast.

And then I didn't exactly remember to put it up the day or two after.

And so here I am looking through podcasts that I need to produce and post and see that,

hey, got this little, I don't know what it is, 10, 12, whatever minute gem with our man,

Alex Palo, a listener to the podcast for those who weren't aware

and someone who joined the listener group, the Prudey listener group. So how do you like that?

Your reigning IndyCar champ is also a member of the little listener group here. It's just silly,

but we love the guy and he's such a sweetheart.

So that's what this is.

Just a little catch-up.

Mention that with this week being both busier than expected and also trying to take

a little bit of a step back to recharge, wasn't going to do a regular full Week

and Indy Card guest episode.

So maybe this little visit with Alex from late September will suffice.

Also mentioned here, and I don't mind embarrassing him, just before we started recording,

um, he called my wife. I called her, but he grabbed the phone and had a great little

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