MANAGE DIABETES

“Started losing a ton of weight. Was just drinking waters, like, I was siphoning water into my body however I could. And my family didn't really know what it was like, but I I I guess I'm I'm lucky that I have kind of this mental attitude where I was like, alright. Well, I guess I have to do this now. When can we race again? And so I I was in a race car, like, a week later, but it's just been something that I've I've been dealing with. And and it's it's never stopped me from doing anything, you know, monitor it all the time, pretty aggressively.”

“So our cars don't have power steering rate, and there's no, you know, air conditioning, no sea warmers, no no anything like that. So we're, you know, we're under a lot of heat stress if it's warm out for the most part. You're you can lose up to, like, 10 pounds in the race. Like, I've definitely lost that before depending on on the temperature outside. And, you know, it could be a 5,000 calorie day. Like, I I got we wear these Whoop wristbands, obviously, and those are it's amazing what technology has done to actually track that stuff now.”

“So I started wandering aimlessly to the bar, and then Connor calls me over. He's like, hey, man. How's it going? My name is Connor. I'm an AWL. I was like, nice to meet you. He's like, yeah. I'm an IndyCar driver too. And so we start to talk. And then he's like, you wanna just, like, have dinner with us? Absolutely.”

“But in order to ride when he was a kid, you have to be 16 to ride. He lied about his age. So the official date, right, it it says 60, but he's actually 59, and he'll turn 60 later this year. And, obviously, the difference between 59 and 60 is not much. He's still an old guy. He'll be the oldest guy ever to ride in the Kentucky Derby at age 59.”

“There's not many guys that can run a five eight forty. But, they'd you know, they can keep up with my with my five eight. But, yeah, that's that's been a hallmark. A hallmark of my career here at NBC is, is using that five eight speed to escape the irate bettors that have picked that bet some of my picks that didn't pan out so well.”

“If if you break for the number one post position, there is a higher percentage chance that you can encounter traffic and that will affect your horse negatively. Okay? And that's what people focus on. They see horses that break from the number one post that occasionally, you know, get wiped out when all the horses on the outside drop over on top of them. And they think, oh my god. This is terrible. The one horse the one hole is horrible. But there's also the fact that there's geometry involved. You're closer to the rail. You're running a shorter distance than the other horses. And if you think that doesn't matter, just look at Calvin Burrell's three Kentucky Derby wins when he never got he when he was on top of the rail so close that his his black boot had white paint on it from scraping up against the rail.”