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00:00and i want to talk all about your race coming up but since we're on this topic your
00:03your life your schedule is so crazy you travel so much do you foresee yourself continuing to do
00:13this are you an energizer bunny are you good are you getting tired i mean i won't deny the fact
00:20that yes i'm tired but like i feel like i've operated for the past you know i want to say
00:26my whole life you know like in that state of just always having somewhere to be and something to do
00:31so when i think about it i go oh it'd be so nice to just do nothing for a while
00:35i don't know how to do that even when i'm home for those three or four days and say i
00:40do accomplish
00:40everything early and i have a day where i can kind of do whatever i kind of find myself going
00:44like
00:45all right well what do you do like what do i do so i like being busy i like you
00:51know i also understand
00:53like the older i've gotten that when you have opportunity in front of you especially when it's
00:57something that you love and that you really want to do you've got to take advantage of that and you've
01:01got to you know give 100 of yourself to it because i don't want to look back and go darn
01:08like i had it
01:09right in front of me and i i didn't i didn't do all that i could to to take it
01:14in and to do the best
01:15job i could and uh you know i'm turning 41 next month so in the in the racing world i'm
01:22not old
01:23but i'm i'm one of the older guys out there you know what i mean so it's not that i've
01:27got like
01:27unlimited years to do it so i'm i'm enjoying it i love it and i'm trying to accomplish all that
01:33i can
01:33in this in this racing world and and yeah the schedule is crazy you know mix that with being a
01:38father mix that with you know the malcolm reboot came out this year we had all the press and you
01:43know
01:43i'm doing all that stuff and and then i also have maybe a little bit of i don't want to
01:48call it a
01:49problem but when i have availability like if say there's a weekend open if i get asked to do
01:54something else i'm like yeah i'm available and i just so even when the racing season ends you know
01:59this weekend um really until new year's i'm non-stop and then we're basically talking about starting
02:05next race season starts in february you know so so but i think i i think i'm just born to
02:10to work that
02:11way like to be busy and um i don't know i i don't know i don't know what i would
02:17do if i if i had
02:18time i really don't i don't know what i don't know what people do like what do you do like
02:21well i don't
02:22have time so i don't know like you know what if you like i don't know i think i'm i'm
02:27living the
02:28most fulfilled life and i think that that's uh that's what i want to look back at and and feel
02:33that
02:34like i didn't waste any time i got to accomplish all the things i wanted to and and that's meant
02:39me
02:39jumping around from a lot of different kind of careers and different things and um but i just i
02:44want to like i said feel like i'm giving it my all and yeah you you are you are truly
02:49living life to
02:50its fullest you say yes to all the opportunities i like that's such a cool positive way to go through
02:56life it's hard and it's exhausting but it's so fulfilling too a huge reason why i went back racing
03:02because i raced from 2004 to 2009 yeah i didn't race anything again until 2022 my son was born in
03:082021 and the reason i went back racing i was holding him in the hospital bed literally first
03:15day he was alive and i was looking at him i had this really weird feeling of like who is
03:20he going
03:20to grow up thinking that i am right because like sure i can say i used to be an actor
03:24i used to do this
03:25or i used to do that and and i wanted him to grow up watching me work really really hard
03:31for
03:31something trying really really hard for something and almost inspire him but also the ups and downs
03:37of it right like it is a roller coaster of emotions the highs are super high the lows are low
03:42but i
03:42wanted him to see me just working for it and and finding success which i've been able to do over
03:49the
03:49last couple years a little bit and that's been really rewarding for me so um he was an inspiration
03:55for me going back into the racing world and and so i hope to bring him joy in me doing
03:59it at the same
04:00time it's tough because it pulls me away from him right i'm on the road over 200 days a year
04:05and uh
04:07it's not ideal uh but he was just last week at talladega or two weeks ago at talladega and we
04:14had
04:14a blast and and he watches all the races and you know when i'm home i'm i try to be
04:18the best dad i can
04:19be and and be there but as he's getting older it's getting easier and easier to bring him you know
04:24what i mean because you know so uh hopefully we'll continue that more and more you have mentioned
04:30that racing specifically is a very it's a roller coaster it's very up and down the highs are highs
04:35and the lows are lows how do you personally like navigate those like tougher moments i mean it's it's
04:42it is tough because unlike you know as an actor i could work really really hard on a role and
04:49really
04:50dive into a character and do what i think is an amazing performance and i could be happy with my
04:56performance but in the end it's subjective right whether the viewer likes it or the you know or
05:03how the editing works you know you don't really have full control of it yeah and in racing it is
05:09a team
05:09sport but it's me out there controlling making the decisions in that moment and it's not subjective
05:15right you're either the winner or you're not or you're last place and you can kind of see where
05:20you stand all the time there are a lot of things that are out of your control like you get
05:24taken out
05:25of a race by someone else's mistake that has nothing to do with you and and or a mechanical failure
05:30or
05:30something like that and in the beginning it was really tough because i would i couldn't get over
05:37thinking of what went wrong or what i could have done differently and i would say i've gotten a lot
05:44better at that the last maybe two seasons you know because unfortunately i race every weekend
05:49you know what i mean so like i know that sure that sucked but i get another shot next week
05:54and let's
05:55focus on that where so i don't let it weigh on me um nearly as much but even the good
06:00like even when i
06:02won my first pro races this year at road america and then won the championship like obviously that's an
06:08incredible feeling and that's like what i've been striving for for 20 plus years as a race car driver
06:14but then you get it and you go like awesome all right now i gotta focus on next week now
06:19i'm back
06:20in the nascar like let's you know what what can i do to be better and improve for my team
06:24and help my
06:25team and you know so you know thanks to ford and all my sponsors and and uh so you're always
06:33kind of just
06:35striving for the the the next that moment right you can't you can't live in the past and i think
06:41some
06:42people who do you get in your head and it's such a mental game yeah racing is so mental you
06:47don't
06:48understand that like it's like any sport right if you're a basketball player you think that you're
06:51gonna miss you're gonna miss right you don't have confidence shooting the ball you're gonna miss yeah
06:56if you show up thinking like i'm gonna be slow or i'm gonna we're gonna lose you're gonna lose
06:59you know you've got to go out there and feel like you belong and that you you uh can can
07:04win
07:04i really commend you i don't know how this is possible but you are a child star who has
07:10continued on a trajectory that sadly so many others like were not able to and i'm not yeah it's truly
07:19amazing what you've been able to accomplish and and how you have not gone down this heartbreaking path
07:26that so many of even your peers and and i just what what do you attribute that to i mean
07:32i don't know
07:32exactly right um i don't know if it's one specific thing i think for me unlike i think a lot
07:40of people
07:40who get into the business or find popularity or fame or whatever it may be or success at a young
07:46age
07:47you you expect it to continue you expect it to always be there and as that starts to go away
07:55right as the phone rings less and less um i feel like that shocking like that rejection or the feeling
08:01of rejection is shocking for a lot of people to take and maybe they go they look for something else
08:08to fill that void or to fill that that feeling that they they of being wanted or needed um or
08:16admired
08:17uh i never necessarily cared about it if that makes sense like i never cared about the fame i don't
08:24care
08:25if people like me i'm just me and i'm doing what i want to do i just so happen to
08:32go from being an actor
08:33on a tv show to racing cars or i was in a band and i also owned an olive oil
08:39company which you know
08:40you have so many lives i don't i don't choose those things because like they're in the spotlight
08:45right they just happen to be and uh you know but in in that in that same sense like it's
08:53almost puts
08:54more pressure because it's not me just going off you know i'm when my debut race in the nascar world
09:02at arca was at daytona international speedway with you know millions of people watching on tv and all the
09:08press and you know we're normally most people's first race isn't really thought of you know what i mean
09:14but uh i had a lot of eyes on me but it puts pressure that i actually use as motivation
09:19to
09:20to prove because i want to prove it to myself i want to prove it to others you know because
09:23a lot of people i think um a lot of people think that someone can only do one thing right
09:31or they
09:32can we're an actor you can't you can't be in a bit you can't be a race car driver you
09:35can't do these
09:36things so like i've been trying to prove that you can right i've got i've got to do it right
09:43i've got
09:44i've got to have success there and and uh i've had some success in the racing world this year we
09:50won the gt4 uh america championship which was amazing and i won a bunch of races and in the
09:54nascar world it's kind of been a little bit of a roller coaster of some success some bad weekends but
09:59i i i love it you know and i i want to keep going and prove even more i've got
10:06more to prove
10:06i'm unfinished business for sure what would be something people would be surprised to know
10:10about brian cranston specifically oh man uh i think most people know that that have worked with
10:18him but i always admired him and looked up to him as a role model because of the way he
10:25dedicated himself to a hundred percent of whatever he was doing on set right even just
10:32like being a human just talking to the crew and just being a nice guy and getting to know
10:36everybody and know about their families and and but i just remember like when you're on a tv show
10:41if i'm being honest and i i see a lot of actors do it now and i want to talk
10:46to them i want to be
10:46like you don't understand how good you have it but like you see these actors like oh i don't want
10:51to do
10:52my show anymore i want to do movies and i want to do different i'm like yo shut up you
10:57don't you won
10:58the lottery and like you know you're the show is gonna end eventually um where what i was getting
11:04at is like there's times i remember even me like just being like oh man we gotta do another take
11:09or
11:10i you know i really want to make the clippers game you know what i mean yeah but but but
11:14brian
11:15was always like as dedicated as you could be whether you were on he was on camera or not and
11:22no matter
11:22what the scene was he gave it a hundred percent so i've always looked at that and i said that's
11:26how i
11:26want to be i want people to think the same thing of me when they work with me and just
11:30be the nice
11:31personal personal guy that um that is very uh just excited for the opportunity and and and gives it my
11:41all and and uh is a nice guy and i don't know so i've always looked up to him but
11:46yeah he's a
11:47awesome amazing amazing guy for sure yeah and i hear brian might be making an appearance at this race
11:54is that for sure yeah which is is pretty cool i mean he hasn't been out to a uh a
11:59race yet i mean
12:00here's the this is a story i don't think anyone knows he's actually the reason why i started racing
12:05as crazy as that sounds wait do tell i would love to hear this no so there's a pro celebrity
12:11race that
12:12they used to do it at the long beach grand prix for years they did it for 40 years and
12:16in 2003
12:17he he did it and um he i remember he and chris masterson who played francis on malcolm they did
12:25it and he came back and he goes if you ever get the opportunity you because he knew how like
12:31into
12:31cars i was and all that you have to do this race so the next year they asked me and
12:38and i did it and
12:40i ended up winning and then that's how my racing career started because like i got signed by a pro
12:45team after that and then here i am 22 years later still going but um but he's always been so
12:50supportive like even all this season he texts me after the races so he watches and he's like oh i
12:55saw
12:55oh you were doing so good in the crash or this or and so it's pretty cool that with his
13:00busy schedule
13:01that he still reaches out and uh you know but he's been that way with everything i've done when i
13:05was in a band he supported the band when i sold olive oil and owned an olive oil company he
13:10bought
13:11the olive oil like he's just been like a father figure in real life to me and that's pretty pretty
13:15cool but yeah so the fact that he's going to be here pretty cool um i'm excited to see him
13:19and have
13:19him at the race and uh i think it's gonna be it's gonna be fun event for sure do you
13:23know he's the
13:23voice of ford like in the commercials did you know that wait no i didn't know i didn't know
13:32that's right you know so a lot of people don't know that but yeah so it's kind of weird that
13:38like
13:38he's the voice and i'm the driver but yeah worlds colliding that's so special it sounds
13:44like you have such and you know i was asking you earlier about your trajectory you know not going
13:50down the stereotypical child star path like it's still time i'm kidding you know stop i just think
13:57that's so cool that you had such an incredible father figure in your life from when you were a
14:02young age and i i would like to think that that helped you know what i mean yeah no seeing
14:08seeing
14:09that like seeing how he was right and then especially post malcolm to like watch the success that he had
14:14right because he'd become hollywood gop right like he's as high up as you can get as an actor now
14:19and
14:19and and then working with him again last year on the reboot like he hasn't changed at all right so
14:25but i think a lot of that success comes from the fact that the reputation he has as being a
14:31you know a great guy and and i think that that's i think that's the most important thing like i've
14:35worked with a lot of people who suck and i'm being honest you know what i mean and you see
14:40them kind
14:40of disappear because people realize they go we don't have to work with people who suck you know
14:45what i mean um so i don't know i think i think it's i think i i don't know we
14:51have an amazing
14:51opportunity i think a lot of actors get to a level where they just accept or not accept it have
15:01expectations just you just say words like we're actually just the jesters we're like the lowest of
15:07low and the totem that's not true at all that's not we're just there to entertain and make people
15:12laugh no it's like we're not the kings and queens you know we're the i wanted to say like i
15:19genuinely
15:20feel your zest for life and this was a very inspiring interview for me because i like i'm just always
15:26tired and i have one job so you are a parent you have multiple careers that you are genuinely
15:33passionate about you're excited about all of them like i i will take that away with me from this
15:39interview i think everyone should you said you have a you have a two and a half year old and
15:43i'm
15:43pregnant oh wow okay so i'll say this so for me i used to think i was tired before having
15:49a child
15:50right but then you get used to operating and that's in that that world of just being exhausted all the
15:56time where like i don't there's no such thing as jet lag for me there's no such thing as like
16:01i can
16:01operate on one hour of sleep or five hours of sleep or ten hours of sleep and uh give it
16:07the
16:07same energy but i think a lot of that comes from what you that that first year of having a
16:12child
16:12right i'm just just being truly exhausted you don't you thought you were tired before right yes
16:18no it's so true like i think about my stress before yeah yeah yeah exactly so uh i don't know
16:28i
16:28yeah i just just go i'm i'm ready i want to keep going
16:32you
16:33you