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The Teardown

Social Spotlight with Matt DiBenedetto

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports, News, Sports News

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Each week, I’m asking someone from the racing industry about their social media use in a feature called the Social Spotlight. Up next: Matt DiBenedetto from GoFas Racing, who is in the midst of a campaign to get voted into Saturday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race. Ever since you’ve opened up your Snapchat account to the … Continue reading "Social Spotlight with Matt DiBenedetto"

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0:00.0

and that's right everybody welcome back to another edition of the Untouched Jeff Buck podcast.

0:24.4

Once again, I'm your host Jeff Luck, and it's a social spotlight edition of the podcast today

0:29.3

with the man they call D. Burrito.

0:32.8

At least if you're on Reddit, that's his nickname for Matt de Benedetto, who is trying to get into the

0:38.5

All-Star race this weekend via the fan vote.

0:42.3

He almost got in last year.

0:45.5

And if a couple people had raced their way in, I think namely Chase Elliott, it turns out

0:52.1

Matt to Benedetto would have been in the all-star race like Josh Wise got in

0:55.4

that one year based on the internet community's support for him. He's trying to do it this year.

1:03.4

So that's why it's a good week to talk to him about all things, social media, his love for any

1:09.1

platform that can help him communicate with fans and grow his

1:13.1

fan base and support for what is a small underdog team. All right, so I'm here with Matt de Benedetto,

1:20.4

and man, ever since you opened your Snapchat account, it's been kind of, I'm seeing a whole new

1:27.0

side of you here. What kind of reaction

1:28.3

have you gotten so far since you opened that? I didn't expect it to be, uh, to blow up quite as

1:34.1

much as it has every race so far after I have opened my Snapchat account to being public. I've

1:39.9

gotten tons of people that are like, oh my gosh, your wife's going to kill you one day.

1:45.2

And like, that stuff is hilarious. So it's been cool. It's getting like thousands of views.

1:51.1

No kidding. Wow. That's crazy. I've been on mine's been open for quite a long time and I don't have any sort of any,

1:56.5

anything close to those numbers. So why did you decide to open it after being private for a while?

2:02.1

Because so many of my friends, I was already like famous amongst my friends for my

2:07.9

Snapchats and, you know, pranking people and torturing my wife and all the all the crazy nonsense

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