Welcome to Kidding Curious. I'm Jonathan Venas and every week I sit down for a gorgeous

little 30 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

This week, what I'm really curious about is what it's like to be a woman in NASCAR,

which is why I spoke with professional stock racer Julie Landauer.

This is a really gorgeous topic. It's one that we've never covered before. I'm super

super curious about even the subject in general and then layering your gorgeous agenda over the top of it is even

more deep and interesting because like, oh my god. Okay, so welcoming this week's guest, the gorgeous,

the talent, the multi-faceted Julia Landauer. Thank you. I nail your last name on that. You nailed it.

And the first name. Oh my gosh. Triple South, triple South out of the way. It's all free skating from here.

Okay, so you are literally a race car driver. Like a professional race car driver.

Yeah, you're an athlete. Athlete. Yeah, I mean, I convinced me. Okay.

I'm ready for the challenge. This is no shade to like, because if someone came in here and was like,

convinced me why I should watch gymnastics, I would jump out of the chair and like be like,

you came in my house and told me what to know. But like, you know, because like my heterosexual

family members, you know, they watch racing growing up, I was like, I don't understand. I mean,

I guess the pit, the pit crew, especially in a pulse drag race is something that we love.

Right. You know, I love, you know, and it's cool like the quick movingness of it. But like,

what, how do I watch it? What is she? Like, tell me about it. Right. So I will say that getting

to a NASCAR race really is a game changer. It is so electric because you have so many cars that

are hundreds and hundreds of horsepower and they're going around in the ground vibrates and

there's so many people there. It's awesome people watching, I will say. And in terms of like being

an athlete and what's like for the drivers, like we're muscling around 3,400 pounds and it's really

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