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I am your host, James Coker, along with the incredibly intelligent, talented, and wonderful

Ash, thank you so much for joining me.

One more time.

You got to stop introducing me like that.

You just said the bar so high.

We are going to be talking about a few headlines happening in the world of Formula One.

And then we are going to move to some other motorsport series during the course of this podcast episode.

But before we do, Ash, how we doing?

We're doing okay.

We're doing okay.

I told James right before we started that there was an incident at my mom's Starbucks that she works at that a teenager drove

through the front door, hitting the gas twice and all this stuff. And long story short,

we also know that anytime you drive somewhere it's like the worst place to

drive people complain about new york people i complain a lot about the city of phoenix i have a

personal beef with that city we'll we'll get into it one day um and you know people in south

florida can drive people in central florida can drive people in charlotte north carolina can

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