Roostertail Talk
A show dedicated for preserving the history, breaking down the racing and looking to the future of the incredible sport of Unlimited Hydroplane racing. My name is David Newton, and I will be bringing you a weekly show in which we will discuss the boats, drivers, owners, crew members, legends, fans and anything that is involved with the sport that I love; hydroplane racing.
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Roostertail Talk
Episode 161: Brandon Kennedy, Part 2
Brandon Kennedy returns for part 2 of his interview with Roostertail Talk. He will share news on the future of the Madison Racing Program as well as other fun stories along the way. He also talks more about his own weekly podcast called Chasin' Tails.
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Ruchetel Talk, the podcast dedicated to everything about the sport that we all love hydroplane racing. I am your host, david newton, and it's time once again, so sit back, relax and welcome. Rooster tail talk, we'll talk. Hello race fans, and welcome back to the podcast. Today is September 9th 2025, and this is episode 161.
Speaker 1:This week's episode is part two of my interview with Brandon Kennedy. If you didn't get a chance to listen to part one, please go back and listen to episode 160, as he went into more of his background in racing and a little bit more about talking about his career, especially with inboard racing and Grand Prixs, and this week we're going to talk more about his future, specifically future with H1. And we got off on some other tangents about some other fun stuff, but there's no need for me to drone on about what's in this episode. Let's just jump in. Listen to part two and the conclusion of my interview with Brandon Kennedy. Well, they made an announcement next year, the Madison course will be back to its original layout. It'll be underneath the Madison-Milton Bridge. What are your thoughts about that? Are you excited for that? Yeah, I mean going under the bridge?
Speaker 2:not really, I don't think so. Going under the bridge is iconic. I feel like that's why it didn't work out. I think too many fans enjoy that like seeing them go under the bridge work out. I think too many fans enjoy that like seeing them go under the bridge. Um, obviously me, coming from the hrl. We've seen that going to smaller courses usually does create better racing um, big first turn, small second turn, like our detroit course with the grand prix was almost perfect for deck-to-deck racing. So I get where they were trying to try it and I just feel like people had their minds made up before it happened. Um, going to a smaller course and the water not dispersed, and everyone had that in their mind going out there. So I think that kind of hindered some of the what it could have been show wise and I just don't think the the weekend materialized to to give it a fair shot. But I think the fans spoke and they almost have to listen yeah, well, it's, uh, it is iconic for madison.
Speaker 1:Uh, so many pictures over the years. The boat's going underneath the bridge and I've also heard it was a little bit rougher in that first turn this year than years prior, moving the course down a little bit, did you? Did you notice than yours prior moving the course down a little bit, did you? Did you notice that in the grand prix at all? Um, talk to anyone else about that?
Speaker 2:nah, I don't. I don't think it was any rougher in the grand prix. Um, the turn area, yeah, and the first turn in madison I didn't, I it's. It's hard to tell, because when you're behind as a trailer you're in rough water anyway, but you're also not in between boats. So I can't go out there and say, oh, the first turn was no problem. Well, I wasn't in a pressure situation like Corey was in in the final, where you have to turn it, so it's a little bit different. I can't really give an opinion without getting bashed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anything you say, but yeah, you'll get bashed by someone, that's for sure. We talked about your regimen, like your workout. What do you normally do to prepare for racing that way? I don't hear drivers talk about that, but I've seen a lot of social media on F1. Drivers do different reaction tests and different workouts. What's your go-to for your regime?
Speaker 2:Mainly upper body and cardio. I've kind of lost it over the years of since having kids. It's been harder to fit it in, but here recently, the past couple years I've, especially at grand prix, I feel like it takes a toll on you. I I always say I hold my breath for two minutes while we're racing and I think that's a problem, but you, you just. It's the only way to explain driving a boat and I'm sure the unlimited is going to be the same way is just go out and do the hardest workout you can like, raise your heart rate as hard as you can to 200 for three minutes, and that's what it's like and it's.
Speaker 2:It's weird because it doesn't look that hard, but that's just what your body goes through. It's just so a lot of upper body stuff. The GPs were hard to drive when I first got into it, so they would pull coming off a corner. So just trying to work on all that to at least not be the reason the boat isn't performing. I still don't do it as well as I should with the workouts, but I think this winter will improve upon it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you notice yourself not breathing when you're out there A lot of times? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I seem to hold my breath or I don't know. I always tell my mom that she's on my radios and she's like why, I don't know, you get in this like just vision and focus, that you just don't do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I've heard interviews before from other athletes. Uh, sean alexander um, he was a running back for seattle seahawks. Uh, he noticed that he didn't. He held his breath on long, long runs and I remember him coming out and talking about how he worked on that and he was very mindful of that and he actually noticed improvements in his, in his average yards and his endurance throughout the day.
Speaker 2:So I want to keep that in mind, Definitely. Yeah, it's a lot of mental work for sure and I know for me I I've had sinus surgery, so in the past couple of years I've been starting to use like nasal strips while I race and I'm like that's definitely a big, big help.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting, Okay Well that sounds like a good uh um sponsorship there for you to get some. Oh, interesting. Okay, that sounds like a good sponsorship there for you to get some of those things.
Speaker 1:Yep. Breathe Right opens your nose for nasal congestion relief. You can feel right away helping you breathe better, day or night, here or there. Breathe Right Script on what about next year? This is going to air in September. Like I said, I'm not going to surprise you, but can you release anything now? Plans for next year is this is going to air in september. Like I said, I'm not going to surprise you, but can you really say anything now? Plans for next year?
Speaker 2:you got something big for the fans um, I'd say september, should I don't have no clearance, but I'll tell you to edit it out, if we have to yeah, um, we will be back.
Speaker 2:We will be in the same boat. Um, we're gonna have by september the boat will be being gone through um, um, front to back. It's going to be flipped over, get all redone on the bottom. Trey Holt's going to lead that up with the whole crew. Um, we have a really big, really good crew coming back. It was really cool having, uh, bill and Bob Katapovic there just helping us to just having that senior lead for me never doing it Don't know a thing about a turbine like to be able to lean on them for some of the questions, especially starting it. That was my biggest fear of not being able to start one. So it's been cool to have that. And yeah, I think we're going to definitely have speed next year. We're making a few changes and I think we shocked ourselves in Madison with the speed we had. I know the qualifying got thrown out from the end too, but if we have the right gearbox, I think we'd still go that same speed. So it's really exciting. That's definitely.
Speaker 1:I don't know if we're going to compete with the strong and the the bwr, but we're definitely going to throw our hat in the ring for sure well, I mean, it's great to hear that you're going to add to the program and you're going to build on it and I think, as you go, go on, continue to do that. I think one thing it's unfortunate it's such a short season that you can't get out there more and get more comfortable with the boat and continue to add to that, because when I think back to like the 90s, when they had 10, 11, 12 races and the money to do that, that it just helped out so much. With the racing in general oh for sure, for sure. Well, with the racing in general oh for sure, for sure. Well, I'm glad to hear for next year A lot of things to look forward to. That's fun. Oh yeah, definitely it's going to be an exciting year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I know you've raced on a lot of different courses on HRL and I'm curious you don't have enough experience, I think, in H1 to know a favorite course. I think you say madison, right now for h1 right but what's? What's your favorite course to race on with hrl, with grand prixs?
Speaker 2:um, it's, it's got to be valley field. It has the. It's kind of like a bristol where you have fans on each side. Um, it's to me the mecca of boat racing and limited inboard hydroplane racing and the. The course is set up to be a driver's course. It actually is a disadvantage to get lane one for a final, which is where we were sitting this year and really wish that final got off. But tight turn two. It's really hard to flat foot it through there, but it's a driver's course for sure. And that's what I like, when you actually have to do your job as a driver and not just rely on horsepower or what the boat setup is yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:That's fun for a fan as well to see that, because you get more, more competition out there and it's, it's impressive and I've heard nothing but great stuff from valley field from every perspective and really hoping to make it out there next year for the first time uh, yeah, yeah, yeah it'll.
Speaker 2:It'll be a big one. They haven't had a final in two years because of weather and other issues, and I'm sure it's gonna be. Everyone's gonna be antsy if we ever get to a final again. So it'll be a good show to watch then, right, oh, yeah, for sure, then that's. I keep trying to tell them in hrl. I'm like re-rack the final we had from this year in Grand Prix and let's just run it Friday morning, because that was the best front line I've ever seen with all five fast boots and it would have been a show. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, too bad. Hopefully next year we'll get the whole thing through. Well, you've won a lot of races, like you said 10 at Valleyfield, but you've won at other places as well 10 at Valleyfield, but you went to other places as well. Do you have a favorite win that you've had so far? Is there one that you'd think back on? Maybe it gives you goosebumps still to this day to think on that.
Speaker 2:What's your favorite? It'd be a tie between two. My first Nationals win in T-Boot was my third weekend of driving. It just kind of came as a shock. I hit a real good start, was on the outside and got around them for the lead and it was. It was just really cool to win it that soon and to see, like I think, the shock in my dad's face to like, okay, my kid might have something here, um, it was really cool there. And then, moment I still got the picture of me and little tyke there, um, and actually put it next to a picture. Same trophy from 20 years ago when I was a kid, next to my dad's trophy. Same place at hampton it. There were identical trophies so they never changed anything that long, but it was really cool to see um and just be a part of that.
Speaker 2:And then the other one would have to be 2013 in Valley Field. Um, I was dating my now wife and I knew going into that week and I had a good shot to win 350 um in Valley Field and so I'd, if I won, I was going to propose to her and I was able to win and propose to her in front of the 20 30,000 fans there. So that was a super cool moment. And then I had to rush out of that because I was driving the GP in the next heat and I started in lane four and was running down the leader and he broke and was able to win my first valley field win and grand prix. And then it was again one of those like you're not the favorite but you get it done and it was just an incredible weekend. It's hard to top that one.
Speaker 1:That's like a storybook race right there. I mean win a race propose hop another boat, win again in Valleyfield. That's probably the most prestigious race in Isherrell, right, valleyfield, yes, yeah, for sure. So I mean, could you write that any better no most prestigious race in israel right valley field.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yeah. So I mean, yeah, I mean, could you write that any better? No, no, I couldn't. I would, I would have waited to propose till the grand prix I thought I had a shot, but yeah it was.
Speaker 2:It was really cool, man. Yeah. So that's one that definitely I've won there since in grand prix, but it's not really the same as that one. That one meant a lot to us as a family. We didn't really have a big budget in Grand Prix then we were kind of shoestringing things together. We just had the change of motor right before that final. So it was really cool that just all the hard work finally paid off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow, yeah. Well, I'm just spitting fire questions at you now at this point, but just things I love to know about different drivers. But do you have any superstitions or rituals that you have race weekend?
Speaker 2:Not so much race weekend. The only thing? Because I've been asked this question a few times. The only thing I know I do is I always enter the boat from the right side. I never get in from the left side. And I couldn't even say I have to do it, it's just something I do, yeah yeah, so watermelons in your pits are fine then?
Speaker 1:Yeah, anything and everything, all right, it don't matter. Have you heard about watermelons with hydroplane Unlimiteds? No, no, I have not. There's some teams out there that they will. If you come close to it with their pit with the watermelon, they'll kick you out of the pits.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's many stories of someone bringing watermelons to the crew for lunch and then the boat flips. So there's some people have a superstition about that, yeah.
Speaker 2:I could see that there was one in the dirt track race and when my grandpa was involved in that was peanuts and I was young and I brought peanuts over. But could see that there was one in the dirt track race and when my grandpa was involved in that it was peanuts and I was young and I brought peanuts over, but then they won, so peanuts were allowed, then All right.
Speaker 1:But next year, if you go to Unlimited Race and someone offers you peanut or watermelon from a different camp, they're not being nice, I'm just letting you know that right now, yeah, now and now. I know some other drivers, like Jim Kropfeld, always had a chew ice before the race. Chip had to be away from people in his camper and kind of just mentally focus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just try to stick to a normal routine. I'm always around my family, my, my kids, and just stick to normal. There's there's very rare times that I have to get focused, and that's. It would be a time like that where the steering broke and I had to get into another boat or I flipped, and you know I need that time, that space, but other than that, I just try to make it like any ordinary day. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, being so involved with HRL, being on the other side of the other coast of US, you know a lot of great names that are racing right now, and I didn't prep you for this question, but, being out on the West Coast, we are so divided and separated from a lot of the racing. Fortunately now we're seeing a lot of HRL racing through streaming, but not everyone that listens to this podcast might not know the big names out there. Who are some drivers that we should look out for to either rise the ranks to Grand Prix or even go on to Unlimiteds that you're taking note of right now? What are some names that we should be paying attention to right now?
Speaker 2:I would say well, I got to keep it with the family first, my cousins Kyle and Austin Hayes. They didn't race when they first turned 14, like us.
Speaker 2:And they were 20-something, they just started racing three years ago and I mean they've impressed me. We built a new boat last year and they've learned how to set up a new boat and that's. That's a lot of this game is knowing what a boat feels and what it needs. And their driving is really good and getting better. Next year they're they're gonna move up to the formula 2500 class, so they're gonna get a rude awakening that lanes are a lot tighter and everything's a little bit more aggressive. But I'm sure they'll do fine and hopefully I hope they have a long career and go up through the ranks and we'll see where they wind up.
Speaker 2:But other than that, um, we got eddie camphush. He's a really good driver, comes from a father that has major success in the sport. Uh, grant letty code, same thing. His dad was in unlimited. Um he's he's turned into a really good driver. I mean was good right out of the box. Um, we'll see what he continues to do on 350 next year. I feel like 350 is one of those proven ground classes that as long as you have the right engine, you can prove something as a driver.
Speaker 2:And again, back to setting up a boat. Um, a lot of that comes, your boat setup is what's going to win races up there. And then let's see Well, bobby King's already been in it, so he's out. There's some Canadians, I think, that are doing good. That'll make it to Grand Prix at least. I feel like the H1 stuff. It's really hard to get us East Coast guys in there. But Mark Lalonde, he's doing real good Older guy, not older, he's probably 40, something like that. Paul Barber he's a good driver. And then back to a young one, tommy Shannon he's really aggressive, finally getting a good shot and a good boat. So, yeah, that's about the six or seven of them there, all right, yeah, that's about the six or seven of them there, all right, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's interesting to hear because, like I said, we're so separated from that and you can go back throughout the years and there's so many great drivers that, unfortunately, the fans of H1 don't know and appreciate because they didn't get a shot in H1. But they, I'm sure, deserved it more than some of the people that had a chance in h1 some great talent out there and that that's kind of one thing.
Speaker 2:I think the new regime of h1 and hrl they're they're working together, like I've seen our live stream from hrl on h1s and vice versa, and that's that's what the sport needs is just a unison. Someone told me once they're like we only have 150 boats across all of North America. We can't go against each other, we have to work together, and I think that's something the sport's needed and it's finally getting, and I believe if they could ever get to a road day H1 like they do with IndyCar, it'd be great. Follow the guys, see their progression, even if they never make it. Obviously, like you said earlier, there's not that many rides out there. At least you kind of followed their journey to wherever they wound up.
Speaker 1:oh, yeah, definitely yeah, and, and not have races on the same weekend as well, right, yeah?
Speaker 2:exactly, there's no need to be fighting over a weekend race no, because I mean it hurts everyone, even if, like, the same boats aren't racing at each race. A lot of times it's the drivers, like if they're saying detroit's coming back and brockville's that same weekend. Well, that splits me up, because the gp was probably going to go to brockville and now we? Now what do we do? Does the gp go to brockville or does it come to detroit? And obviously I'll have to be in detroit, so it just, it just makes a mess, and I mean that's not how we can market a sport, the. The sport needs to be marketed with the drivers first, that these are our drivers. They come to each race and you expect to see them, get to know them on. I feel like a lot of the drivers are getting better about social media.
Speaker 2:Even Andrew Tate's coming out of his shell a little bit, although he won't come on my podcast.
Speaker 1:He's scared. Maybe someday Well, maybe after hearing this he might change his mind, I don't know. Yeah, well, that's great. Yeah, humanizing the sport, I think, is key. I mean fans need to get to know the drivers better, because when they're out there on the water, I mean you see the boats but you can't really see the driver out there. So there's a disconnect. And getting to know the drivers, uh, I think would be huge for the sport yeah, it was cool we did in madison this year.
Speaker 2:I don't golf and they had to put that embarrassing video of me on h1's page but it was really cool just to go golf and with some guys from madison and we just told stories and BS the whole time and that's all that stuff. We have a ton of content coming out this winter from that, just enjoying the moment with some people. And same thing when Madison had their win delay on Sunday and obviously the unlimited was already done but we were supposed to run a GP final and I just went up and was like hey, put me in the dunk tank, like sell some, get some money in this thing. They were doing it for a fundraiser. So Jeff Ehlers and Hounson, I had everybody try to come dunk me, even Tanner Faust, he missed though he's not a baseball player.
Speaker 1:All right, throw some shade to Tanner there. I like that.
Speaker 2:I was heckling everybody.
Speaker 1:I was having a good time. Well, I did a dunk tank earlier this year after the school year got out. I wasn't so lucky. The kids I was teaching they're pretty good at throwing the ball.
Speaker 2:We had some kids that they hit it like 10 in a row. I was like, all right, I'm drowning here, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, I love hearing some of those names, though, from HRL and some people to look out for, yeah definitely, and I'm sorry if I missed you.
Speaker 2:It's hard to do that stuff on the spot. The roster is so big up there with 24, 350s and 20-some two-and-a-half stocks. There's a lot of people and I mean that's the good thing about social media. Is any of your viewers go watch hrl races on youtube? Their live streams pretty dang good this year. Um a lot of content, and I think that's another thing. That's cool is our sports intermingling.
Speaker 2:We have brian montgomery from montwork working with almost every series now, so you're getting that same quality content come out from every division and hasn't that been huge in the last few years?
Speaker 1:um, it's probably even more than that. He's been doing it now, but that drone footage at the races, I mean just got some incredible shots.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's. It just gives you that uniqueness that you can't get from a shoreline camera and people see like how the boats turn and go in the y'all and all that stuff. It's really cool. He definitely he's gonna lose one here shortly because he keeps getting closer and closer but that'll just make good content, right? Yeah, exactly exactly as long as that footage uploads, we're good yeah just don't, just don't go through the air scoop. I think any other part of the boat's fine at that point, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, we touched on your podcast. We talked about it early when we got on here, but chase and tails, and I believe is it a year now it's been out. How long has it been out?
Speaker 2:yeah a little yeah, we're a little over a year we're on. Uh, I think next week will be episode 60 for us. It's just been fun. I think it was kyle and austin's idea wanting to give back to the sport. Yeah and um, bobby and I joined in and was like we had a couple episodes.
Speaker 2:Our first episode was just us testing systems and it was kind of a lot of fun, just bs and about boobers and we have a ton of stories to bring to the table and then a lot of the people we have on have a lot of stories too and I think us being racers get them out of their shell a little more. Or we know a lot of the inside stories to kind of sneak out of them that are not always pr friendly. But that's kind of what it is. It's loose, have fun and it's been really cool. It's been eye-opening for me as a driver and I've always marketed and got sponsors and all that. But to see the other side of it learn more about event management, about all that kind of stuff, has been really cool yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's been fun to see that grow. And how did how did it start, though? You said you had a couple friends that were curious about it, but you wanted to give back to the sport that you, that you love. Yeah, asking for some yeah.
Speaker 2:So my cousins kyle and austin, they kind of came up with the idea one day in a group text and I was like, hey, let's do this and we're like might be a lot of work and like a lot of time. So we we started, we decided to get all the equipment and start it, and then we're trying to do the videos and do it in four different locations. So trying to jump those hurdles was a little hard. And then the time management for us, like editing the videos and stuff like that, but got too much time. So now we went live Tuesday night. There is no filters. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes that's a bad thing, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Well, I like that it's live, though, because, like you said, it's what you're. Well, I like that it's live, though, because you, like you said, it's uh what you're gonna get. It's what you're gonna get, because I've had some interviews where I had to go back and, uh, the person said, you know, I probably shouldn't have said that, let's go back and delete, you know, 10 minutes out of the interview. So that's that's fun, that you can have that live and and get the the first reaction out of your interviews yeah and it helps.
Speaker 2:I mean, people get on there and they comment if we're talking. We really try to utilize the platform right now as trying to build up the sport. Um, we've learned a lot about what an event needs, especially limited high board and inboard events, that they can't just be a boat race. It has to be more of a festival. We have a lot of ideals, um coming out over just just chatting. Um, we've talked more as a family than we ever have. Um, and we all some good ideals, some bad. I think next year we're gonna try to put on a boat race ourselves out of chasing tails. Um, if everything comes to fruition. It's one of them put our thoughts where our mouths are, kind of deal and maybe make something unique a little out of the box and see how it goes.
Speaker 1:That's fun. That's fun. Well, I know you've had quite a guest list so far. Who's been a favorite interviewer that you've had or interview that you've had so far?
Speaker 2:there's been some good ones.
Speaker 2:But I'd have to say steve david, just his perspective over the course of the years and obviously knowing him as a, a friend, my dad actually bought his first t-boat off steve david, so okay, and then then the story of that my dad got mad and punched a hole through the deck and so steve david told that on the, the podcast, and just just as insight from the t-boats all the way to unlimited and where the failures have been and where you can make things better, and how, how the sport kind of just keeps going in a circle, that if we can break free of that it can do some good things, and um, yeah, it's just, it's really to me insightful.
Speaker 2:And then us as a group trying to take that and expand upon it and actually put some things in place is what we're trying to. Like I said, give back to the sport. We've been in it for so long that a lot of people always look at us and they're like, well, you've been given a ride, you shouldn't have an opinion because you've never put money into a boat, and it's like we've put our life into this and we're going to try to make it better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I think anyone who's involved in the sport, whether it's a crew member, driver, owner I mean everyone's doing what they can to help the sport. Yeah, so everyone's got and everyone's got their own stories right. And I think you've seen on my show that similarly, I've had people from every corner of the sport come on to share their stories and it's fun getting those different perspectives out there for the fans.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what would be your favorite, my favorite. Well, this interview is not done so I can't. I can't say you your name. Uh, steve David was a great one. Um, I really was kind of wowed by Dave Vilwock, actually when I had him on. Um, he had some really insightful stories that he didn't hold back on. I always enjoy the people who don't have those filters on and will just kind of tell them their perspective on it, so that was pretty insightful. When he came on, I was impressed with some of the stories he shared. But also Chip was probably one of my favorites as well. He invited myself to his house and was on Lake Washington there and got a lot of time. We chatted about his career. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, yeah, and also the people that are very open with it. It's not like pulling teeth to get an answer right, exactly the people that actually want to talk.
Speaker 2:They're not just there to be there, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, I love that your podcast is supporting the sport. I mean, I started my podcast to do the same. Give back where I can, because it's a long off-season for each one and it's a long off-season for HRL as well and just any content that we can get out there I think is beneficial for the fans and beneficial for the sport yeah, it's definitely incredible.
Speaker 2:It's been a a fun journey and, like I said, I thank people like you. That kind of started we have bj midori did one out here on the east coast as well and just it's kind of showed us that we can and just be natural a lot of times. Some you could try to do these things and they feel forced, but you guys make it seem so natural, like we're buddies hanging out at the boat race, drinking a beer, and that's kind of what makes the sport what it is.
Speaker 2:And now we're getting to share it on these platforms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like having a natural feel as well. It just makes it more fun for the listener. But that's a time commitment, isn't it? It takes, it takes up a good chunk of time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it definitely is, and that's that's why I said, like our group, we had to decide to go live because the the time consuming trying to edit the videos and get whoever was speaking to be up first Like we really wanted to do the video. That was like our we're. We're not doing it. If it's not video, we just wanted our faces out there. I don't know, maybe we wanted to be popular or something, but but yeah, just, it's definitely time consuming. It's like, especially when we do race recaps, it's like are we really getting on this tuesday or should we wait till next tuesday? Right, if we don't get on, there's a lot of people messaging like hey, what's going on? Are you guys? Okay, we're just taking a break, yeah, yeah but it's worth it.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's definitely worth it. Yeah, yeah, and I figured out. It's, I think, for every minute of content I have, it's like eight or ten minutes of my time, uh, so that time racks up pretty quickly and I'm not even doing video and that if you do video on top of that, that's just widen the doors right open. So, yeah, appreciate everything that you guys are doing over there and if you ever need me on as a as a guest, I'm happy to come on and give a perspective from the other side of the us.
Speaker 2:But yeah, definitely, yeah, we'll definitely have to sort that out. I will say you are way more prepared for these things than we are. We just wing it half the time well, I'm also a school teacher.
Speaker 1:So I think that's my, that's my persona coming out for that makes sense it makes sense checks out.
Speaker 2:We're just racers, core and core, and we just we started out with all the like all right, we're gonna do this agenda and then bobby would be like I'm bored, so we just roll with it well, you get a different flavor.
Speaker 1:That way too right.
Speaker 2:Exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, I wish you good luck the rest of the HRL season. I wish you could be there for San Diego, but hopefully next year it'll be on a full circuit for both series. Hopefully you can get time off from your day job from that as well. But do all that.
Speaker 2:Luckily I work for my dad, so it comes natural if he leaves, I leave there you go, perfect.
Speaker 1:Well, appreciate the having you on and good luck the rest of the year. Thank you, I appreciate it. Well. Knuckleheads once again. That's all the time we have for this week. I hope you enjoyed my interview with brandon kennedy, as you got to know a little bit more about his background and his passion for racing. We We'll be back next week. I have some more interviews on the way, as well as some other fun surprises along the way before we wrap things up for the season, big weekend coming up Boats are back on the water in Mission Bay.
Speaker 1:H1 Unlimited returns with other classes of inboard racing on Mission Bay. I'm excited. I'm going to be back there this year. I believe this will be the first time since I've been down in Mission Bay since COVID. Really excited to get away for the weekend, and what's a better way than spending it at a race? If you're down there in the area, please say hello. I love talking with other fans of the sport and collaborate and talk about what we love hydroplanes. Don't forget we're on social media Facebook, instagram. We're online roosterteltalkcom, and until next time, I hope to see you at the races.