friends welcome to the marshal prua podcast and someone who my wife refers to as gorilla panic

which is a nod to i think the movie ted and if you know the movie ted you'll know the

reference if not i'll leave it look at that you've

got me choked up already Alex Palo that's awesome that's a great start I love it you choked up the

field on Sunday sorry that really bad segue let's open talking about St. Pete want to talk about

career milestones Phoenix coming up here.

Let's start with this. I mentioned to you Friday morning as you were about to get into the car on

pit lane. It held a press conference that morning with your team owner Chip Canassi had mentioned

that this lawsuit that had been hanging over you for a while now, come to a settlement,

able to put that to bed, weren't getting into any of the details of it,

but did just mention to you that the timing felt right,

you seemed to be in a really good headspace.

And there were a lot of fans who commented like, well, if that's

no longer weighing on him, good Lord, watch out now. I didn't think you needed the lawsuit to go

away to be focused as you've shown. But did it? Did the ability to say that's been at least

settled? Did that change anything for you going into the rest of the weekend or

not so much?

Tough to say, right? Like you never know. But for sure, um, when, when that was still going on

and it was, uh, still in my head, obviously that takes time. That just takes, uh, confidence

away. That just takes time of

like preparation instead of just maybe focusing on the race and your driving and

your references you need to do a couple of calls that are not as racing oriented as

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