WEBVTT 00:00:08.730 --> 00:00:12.070 Hello and welcome to good news York a very special 00:00:12.070 --> 00:00:16.170 episode Matt's not with me. He is out He's trying 00:00:16.170 --> 00:00:18.469 out all the porta potties in Syracuse to find 00:00:18.469 --> 00:00:20.449 the best one and we'll get back to you on that 00:00:20.449 --> 00:00:23.149 But it's me Mike Brindisi with you find me on 00:00:23.149 --> 00:00:26.070 all socials at Mike B TV. This is a very special 00:00:26.070 --> 00:00:29.190 episode I'm very excited. I would say that the 00:00:29.190 --> 00:00:32.189 child in me is excited, but that's bullshit because 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:35.539 it's the adult in me is excited as well I grew 00:00:35.539 --> 00:00:39.579 up with this. I went and took my son last year. 00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:44.179 From Monster Jam, the one and only Bryce Kelly 00:00:44.179 --> 00:00:47.240 is here, remote. Bryce, welcome to the show. 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:51.009 Hey, thanks, you. You got me on two things. Number 00:00:51.009 --> 00:00:53.509 one, I didn't know that I'm second to port -a 00:00:53.509 --> 00:00:56.909 -potty research with Matt. Listen. And second, 00:00:57.070 --> 00:00:59.929 my last name is Kenny, Mike. That's what I said. 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:02.549 Not Kelly. But guess what? I have been called 00:01:02.549 --> 00:01:05.390 a lot worse in my life, so I'll just forgive 00:01:05.390 --> 00:01:08.329 you and Matt for both of those. No, I said Kenny. 00:01:08.430 --> 00:01:11.129 Didn't I say Kenny? No, but it's fine. I promise 00:01:11.129 --> 00:01:15.549 I forgive you. I'm pretty sure I did, but okay, 00:01:15.969 --> 00:01:20.040 Bryce Kenny. Yeah, I promise I said Bryce Kenny. 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.180 All right, what do I what do I get if you said 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:24.879 Kelly? Cuz I know I wish I wish we had the tech 00:01:24.879 --> 00:01:28.500 to roll back the tape real quick. I'm I am 90 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:31.120 % sure I said Kenny, but either way, I'm so excited. 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.400 You're here man. So much to talk about. You know, 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.019 I grew up we called it monster trucks back then. 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:39.239 I don't know. Is that still a thing? Is it is 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.400 it monster jam or did they get away from the 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.219 monster truck thing? Well, it's Monster Jam truck. 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.920 And it's for a reason because anyone can put 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.099 big tires on a truck somewhere and call it a 00:01:49.099 --> 00:01:53.019 monster truck, but only a Monster Jam truck is 00:01:53.019 --> 00:01:56.819 a 12 ,000 pound machine built in -house at Monster 00:01:56.819 --> 00:02:00.120 Jam shop out of Florida. And we've got, I don't 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.219 know, maybe 60 of them in the fleet. And it's 00:02:02.219 --> 00:02:04.260 the largest motorsports fleet in the world too. 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:06.739 So that's why you're right. You know, anyone 00:02:06.739 --> 00:02:08.919 can use that term, but we call them Monster Jam 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.580 trucks. Yeah, because I noticed the name change. 00:02:11.949 --> 00:02:16.689 I took my son, I think last year, and the sport 00:02:16.689 --> 00:02:19.870 has evolved so much. You know, I remember being 00:02:19.870 --> 00:02:23.650 a kid, and the first thing I think of when I 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:27.349 think of Monster Jam trucks is the line of cars, 00:02:27.810 --> 00:02:30.550 and you ramp them and you try to jump the cars, 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:32.789 and if you're short, you smash them. But there 00:02:32.789 --> 00:02:36.370 are so many different events that go on now. 00:02:36.430 --> 00:02:38.990 It seems like the sport has evolved so much. 00:02:39.090 --> 00:02:41.870 Do you? Want to speak on that a little bit? Tell 00:02:41.870 --> 00:02:44.560 us kind of what's changed over the years. Well, 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:46.699 the, you're right. The evolution and the innovation 00:02:46.699 --> 00:02:49.639 of the sport has kept pace as much as possible 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:52.400 with the actual innovation on the trucks themselves. 00:02:52.819 --> 00:02:55.159 The fact that we jumped these trucks 50 feet 00:02:55.159 --> 00:02:57.800 in the air and they come down and land and they 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:00.259 weigh 12 ,000 pounds. These are the tires weight 00:03:00.259 --> 00:03:03.180 600 pounds. I mean, the fact that we're able 00:03:03.180 --> 00:03:05.639 to land these out of the, out of that kind of 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:08.280 distance from the, and height is incredible. 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.550 Um, I heard a rumor at one point that the Air 00:03:11.550 --> 00:03:14.349 Force contacted us because they could not figure 00:03:14.349 --> 00:03:17.469 out how we weren't blowing apart the chassis 00:03:17.469 --> 00:03:19.949 every time we landed because of what they go 00:03:19.949 --> 00:03:22.490 through with landing planes on aircraft carriers. 00:03:22.490 --> 00:03:24.490 Oh, right. So that tells you, I mean, the stuff 00:03:24.490 --> 00:03:27.189 that we're pulling off, everything from back 00:03:27.189 --> 00:03:30.090 flips to, like I said, huge air to just all these 00:03:30.090 --> 00:03:32.370 crazy technical moves that we've come up with. 00:03:32.870 --> 00:03:36.129 It's astounding to me and not just what we do, 00:03:36.229 --> 00:03:38.780 but where we do it. I mean, this past week, we 00:03:38.780 --> 00:03:41.400 were in Arlington, Texas, and at the same time, 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.560 we had an event going on in Australia and Mexico 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:48.060 City. And this is our off season. I mean, the 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:51.099 fact that what we're doing is so globalized is 00:03:51.099 --> 00:03:53.759 incredible, and I'm just so pickled that I get 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:56.300 to be a part of it. Dude, that's, you know, listen, 00:03:57.020 --> 00:03:59.319 you know you're doing something spectacular when 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:04.020 the Air Force is contacting you for advice. Speaking 00:04:04.020 --> 00:04:07.080 of which, so it sounds like... You know, obviously 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.379 there's an athleticism to it. I know you played 00:04:09.379 --> 00:04:11.740 soccer, Division 1 soccer at Campbell University. 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:15.180 I don't know if that translates to racing, but 00:04:15.180 --> 00:04:19.540 I know the sport as a whole, there's athleticism 00:04:19.540 --> 00:04:23.139 involved in, I'm sure, inside the cockpit and 00:04:23.139 --> 00:04:25.300 everything else, but also it sounds like there's 00:04:25.300 --> 00:04:29.660 a lot of science involved. Are there rehearsals 00:04:29.660 --> 00:04:33.199 that go on during the week, or is it kind of, 00:04:33.300 --> 00:04:36.939 how does that work? Man, it's totally unscripted. 00:04:37.019 --> 00:04:40.220 and everything that we do, we don't really practice 00:04:40.220 --> 00:04:43.079 during the week. We have a quick practice on 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.779 Friday, the day after we arrive. We usually get 00:04:45.779 --> 00:04:47.639 in on Thursday. If we've got a Saturday event, 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.720 we get on on Thursday, we do media and a quick 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.600 race pass on Friday. But instead of practice, 00:04:53.620 --> 00:04:55.980 we really kind of tend to call it a shakedown 00:04:55.980 --> 00:04:59.459 pass because we probably had damage from the 00:04:59.459 --> 00:05:01.819 weekend before the prior event that the guys 00:05:01.819 --> 00:05:04.040 had to fix and make the truck get it back to 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.519 100%. And so Friday, we just want to do a quick 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:09.279 to make sure everything's working the right way. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.339 And then Saturday, it's game on. It's totally 00:05:12.339 --> 00:05:15.100 up to the driver and that team to come out and 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:17.899 put on the best performance as well. And so, 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 yeah, if we ever go and practice anywhere, we 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.040 do have a test field up in Illinois. I've been 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.160 one time in the last six or seven years. So that 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:30.980 means when I want to try something new, I usually 00:05:30.980 --> 00:05:33.439 try it in front of 50 ,000 people. And you're 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:36.740 either... A hero or a zero. Yeah, man. Plenty 00:05:36.740 --> 00:05:39.399 of hero moments and plenty of zero moments too 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:41.120 in my career. I'm so glad you said that because 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:42.980 that's part of the reason I asked because it's 00:05:42.980 --> 00:05:45.839 almost like trying to think like like tattooing. 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.459 I always think of like, man, at some point, a 00:05:48.459 --> 00:05:50.779 tattoo artist had to do this for the first time. 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:52.720 You know, there's always that first time or a 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.040 gymnast who does a triple flip you had. So a 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:57.800 lot of this stuff you're saying you're doing 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:03.980 there live. That is. insane to me. Do you find 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:06.879 yourself kind of coming up with different ideas 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.199 for new tricks you can do on the regular? No, 00:06:10.339 --> 00:06:13.720 I'm bad about new tricks. I've realized that. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.120 Know thyself. I think someone said that's important 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:19.480 to do. And so I'm not the creative guy. But one 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.819 thing that I pride myself in is I'm the one that 00:06:22.819 --> 00:06:26.389 wants to roll the dice in the moment. my big 00:06:26.389 --> 00:06:28.949 highlights have come from not trying to plan 00:06:28.949 --> 00:06:31.529 something new because we've got some phenomenal 00:06:31.529 --> 00:06:34.189 drivers. They live on simulators, I feel like, 00:06:34.329 --> 00:06:36.389 too, at their house and they practice that way. 00:06:36.790 --> 00:06:39.110 I guess I'm past the simulator age. I don't know. 00:06:39.689 --> 00:06:41.970 But everything I do is like trying to just be 00:06:41.970 --> 00:06:44.470 prepared in the moment to react to what the truck 00:06:44.470 --> 00:06:47.290 does and what the track is giving me. And that's 00:06:47.290 --> 00:06:49.610 where my best highlights of my career have come 00:06:49.610 --> 00:06:52.970 from. And I always say You know, in Monster Jam, 00:06:53.089 --> 00:06:55.310 sometimes you're lucky as a driver, sometimes 00:06:55.310 --> 00:06:57.889 you're good, but the best Monster Jam moments 00:06:57.889 --> 00:06:59.689 are when you're both. I love that. And I've had 00:06:59.689 --> 00:07:05.009 plenty of those too. Yeah, I see, you know, with 00:07:05.009 --> 00:07:08.949 NASCAR, IndyCar, I know you did drag racing for 00:07:08.949 --> 00:07:11.110 a while. You know, they're going around to different 00:07:11.110 --> 00:07:13.069 tracks and you guys are traveling to different 00:07:13.069 --> 00:07:16.329 venues. But I feel like for the most part, it's 00:07:16.329 --> 00:07:19.660 the same setup for the most part. Do you find 00:07:19.660 --> 00:07:22.139 there's any sort of differences between venue 00:07:22.139 --> 00:07:24.800 to venue that you make adjustments for, or is 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:26.959 it kind of like everything's the same? Well, 00:07:27.100 --> 00:07:29.819 so the dirt is different in every city. And so 00:07:29.819 --> 00:07:32.480 the one thing people don't think about is maybe 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:34.779 or maybe they assume is that we take the dirt 00:07:34.779 --> 00:07:38.560 from one city to the next, but there's 300 truckloads 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:40.759 of dirt that are going to be right there in Syracuse 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:43.540 this weekend. And all of that dirt comes from 00:07:43.540 --> 00:07:46.139 Syracuse, which also means that when we're not 00:07:46.139 --> 00:07:49.240 in Syracuse and they dig all that dirt and bring 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.879 it out back out of the stadium, that dirt lives 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:54.899 in Syracuse all year long until Monster Jam comes 00:07:54.899 --> 00:07:57.660 back. So I don't know how much dirt Monster Jam 00:07:57.660 --> 00:08:00.959 owns across the globe, but I can assure you it's 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:04.100 a lot. But the dirt changes, right? So Syracuse 00:08:04.100 --> 00:08:07.379 dirt, if I remember it right, it's pretty loose 00:08:07.379 --> 00:08:10.360 in a good way. Then you go down to Georgia and 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.800 it's that Georgia clay, which actually is really 00:08:13.800 --> 00:08:16.980 tacky. And so when you're trying to drift a 12 00:08:16.980 --> 00:08:19.860 ,000 pound truck around a corner, you got to 00:08:19.860 --> 00:08:22.079 almost be a little bit careful so you don't hike 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:25.339 the truck up and roll it over accidentally. But 00:08:25.339 --> 00:08:28.279 I remember Syracuse being kind of just a good 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:31.339 mix of both. It's not too loose where it's sandy, 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.240 but it's not too grippy to where it's tacky going 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.600 around corners. So I hope I'm right. If you see 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.259 me this weekend, roll over in the corner accidentally, 00:08:40.419 --> 00:08:41.559 then you know I was wrong. Then I'm going to 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:43.940 blame the Syracuse dirt. You know, that's pretty 00:08:43.940 --> 00:08:46.399 cool because I'm assuming the company pays for 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.710 the dirt. So you're actually injecting... money 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:51.889 into the local economy wherever you go, which 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:53.990 is, that's fantastic, man. That's a good way 00:08:53.990 --> 00:08:55.909 to look at it. And think about all the dump trucks, 00:08:56.090 --> 00:08:58.309 too. I mean, like I said, 300 truckloads of dirt. 00:08:58.389 --> 00:09:00.909 So it's all those drivers, all the guys locally, 00:09:01.090 --> 00:09:04.490 they help us out and pull it off. Now, how are 00:09:04.490 --> 00:09:07.789 you transporting these trucks? Inside other trucks, 00:09:07.850 --> 00:09:11.049 on flatbeds? I wish you guys just drove them 00:09:11.049 --> 00:09:13.029 across. I think that would be the greatest thing 00:09:13.029 --> 00:09:17.629 ever if you're just driving the tech deck, what 00:09:17.629 --> 00:09:20.049 is it? deck, rep deck? Did I say that? You got 00:09:20.049 --> 00:09:22.450 it, man. We'll talk about that in a second. If 00:09:22.450 --> 00:09:24.190 I was on the thruway and I looked over and saw 00:09:24.190 --> 00:09:25.289 it, I mean, that would be the way to go. But 00:09:25.289 --> 00:09:28.629 how do you get these insane machines across country? 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.019 Yeah, each of those trucks, like I said before, 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:34.679 they weigh 600 pounds, but they're about 60 inches 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.659 tall. So they're about five and a half feet tall. 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.960 We have to take each of those off of our Monster 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:44.379 Jam trucks and we put kind of smaller loader 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:46.720 tires, we call them like tractor tires. It's 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:48.700 always funny to me, anytime I see a Monster Jam 00:09:48.700 --> 00:09:51.629 truck on the smaller... travel tires is probably 00:09:51.629 --> 00:09:54.269 the better word to use it. It looks like a muscly 00:09:54.269 --> 00:09:57.429 guy that skipped leg day or something like that. 00:09:57.789 --> 00:10:00.889 So what we shove them in the back of our race 00:10:00.889 --> 00:10:04.169 rigs, and we usually get two trucks in each of 00:10:04.169 --> 00:10:06.649 our trailers. And then the huge tires that I 00:10:06.649 --> 00:10:09.029 just talked about, we put all eight of those 00:10:09.029 --> 00:10:11.370 because we have two trucks per trailer in the 00:10:11.370 --> 00:10:15.960 very front of that rig. So Monster Jam owns Usually 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:17.940 on tour, I think this weekend out of 12 trucks, 00:10:18.139 --> 00:10:21.059 there's six Monster Jam trucks. The other six 00:10:21.059 --> 00:10:23.559 trucks are independently owned. But that means 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:25.340 out of the six trucks, we usually have three 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:28.200 race rigs that take the trucks from one city 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.159 to the next. We usually have an additional parts 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:32.440 trailer. So there's usually about five or six 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:35.639 rigs just for our company trucks to get them 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.460 from one city to the next. That's amazing. And 00:10:38.460 --> 00:10:41.500 I assume, I mean, these with what you guys do, 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:43.159 I mean, first of all, the size of the trucks, 00:10:43.539 --> 00:10:45.360 the wear and tear you're putting them on at each 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.000 event, but it sounds like you don't really have 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:49.659 a home base because you're traveling so much. 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:54.600 Where do you guys work on these trucks and where 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:57.450 do you find the time for that? Man, it's incredible 00:10:57.450 --> 00:10:59.429 what our technicians are able to pull off of. 00:10:59.509 --> 00:11:02.809 Our shop is out of Sarasota, or I guess technically 00:11:02.809 --> 00:11:06.129 Palmetto, Florida, so just south of Tampa. I 00:11:06.129 --> 00:11:09.049 believe right now it was the second largest building 00:11:09.049 --> 00:11:11.049 in the whole state of Florida. I think I heard 00:11:11.049 --> 00:11:13.789 recently maybe it's third, but the point is it's 00:11:13.789 --> 00:11:17.730 huge. Monster Jam is owned by a parent company 00:11:17.730 --> 00:11:21.370 called Feld Entertainment, F -E -L -D. They own 00:11:21.370 --> 00:11:24.190 the Ringling Brothers Circus, Disney on Ice. 00:11:24.269 --> 00:11:26.750 I mean, they are the pro... They own super cross. 00:11:27.129 --> 00:11:29.929 They are the pros when it comes to touring So 00:11:29.929 --> 00:11:33.049 everything is housed and based out of Florida 00:11:33.049 --> 00:11:35.590 and then goes out from there We do have a kind 00:11:35.590 --> 00:11:38.450 of a second shop where a test facility is out 00:11:38.450 --> 00:11:41.330 of Illinois But primarily everything's run out 00:11:41.330 --> 00:11:44.940 of Florida and it is a huge operation. The stuff 00:11:44.940 --> 00:11:48.360 that happens out of there is really incredible 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:50.639 what Feld Entertainment has done over, you know, 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.100 100 years, let alone just having Monster Jam 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:55.299 for the last 20 or 25 years. I mean, they've 00:11:55.299 --> 00:11:57.620 taken it to a global scale that I don't think 00:11:57.620 --> 00:12:01.039 any of us could have imagined. Man, Bryce Kenney, 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:04.159 Monster Jam truck driver. He drives the tech 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.460 deck, wreck deck. We're going to talk about that. 00:12:06.860 --> 00:12:10.000 You started off, you played division one soccer. 00:12:10.250 --> 00:12:13.090 That career cut short because of injury. And 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:15.750 then you got into drag racing, and then you made 00:12:15.750 --> 00:12:18.590 your way into the Monster Jam truck. Can we just 00:12:18.590 --> 00:12:20.850 talk about that? Tell us a little bit about the 00:12:20.850 --> 00:12:23.750 drag racing, how that started, and then how you 00:12:23.750 --> 00:12:27.250 got involved in the Monster Jam truck series. 00:12:27.830 --> 00:12:30.330 And I'm always wondering is there, if you do 00:12:30.330 --> 00:12:33.019 one, does it translate to the other? It's funny 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:35.299 because in professional drag racing, right? I 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:37.440 was driving a top -field dragster. So I was going 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:40.259 300 miles an hour in four seconds. If anyone 00:12:40.259 --> 00:12:42.100 out there has seen those long skinny cars that 00:12:42.100 --> 00:12:44.639 do that, that's what I was driving. But I grew 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:48.179 up kind of going to just a small local drag strip. 00:12:48.460 --> 00:12:51.220 My grandfather owned it. So at eight years old, 00:12:51.220 --> 00:12:53.299 I was driving a little junior dragster thinking 00:12:53.299 --> 00:12:56.539 I was going a thousand miles an hour. And then 00:12:56.539 --> 00:12:58.679 all week long, I'm weed eating the fence line 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.379 to like get ready for the upcoming race. So that's 00:13:01.379 --> 00:13:03.990 how I... really grew up with that, that blood 00:13:03.990 --> 00:13:07.009 flowing through my veins for motor sports. And 00:13:07.009 --> 00:13:09.230 that was the goal was to do that professionally. 00:13:09.889 --> 00:13:13.070 And before I got to, to, uh, to, to race our 00:13:13.070 --> 00:13:16.090 top fuel car professionally, I was in college 00:13:16.090 --> 00:13:18.309 playing soccer and got hurt at the end of my 00:13:18.309 --> 00:13:20.490 sophomore season. And I kind of talked to my 00:13:20.490 --> 00:13:22.870 team and my grandfather who owned the team. And 00:13:22.870 --> 00:13:24.889 I said, well, why don't we give this a shot with 00:13:24.889 --> 00:13:27.250 me driving it. It was the last big recession 00:13:27.250 --> 00:13:31.490 2008, 2009. So it really became difficult. I 00:13:31.490 --> 00:13:34.289 had three years of running that top fuel car. 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:36.909 I had seven streams of income trying to make 00:13:36.909 --> 00:13:39.830 that dream happen. And I don't regret that effort. 00:13:40.389 --> 00:13:43.690 All seven were legal, by the way. Good. I was 00:13:43.690 --> 00:13:46.450 going to check that out. Yeah, you can fact check 00:13:46.450 --> 00:13:48.990 me. I'm going to fact check that. But it was 00:13:48.990 --> 00:13:52.450 fun just being able to pour your heart and soul 00:13:52.450 --> 00:13:55.240 into a dream like that. But it didn't work. And 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:57.720 so I felt like I was a huge failure. And you'll 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.899 love the next step was after we sold off everything 00:14:00.899 --> 00:14:04.100 in drag racing in 2010, I actually became an 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:07.519 executive recruiter. So I spent all day placing 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.000 CEOs and CFOs into private equity backed portfolio 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.000 companies. So I know that's exactly what you 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:17.440 were guessing. Something told me private equity 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.629 is where you were at. I knew it. But it was cool. 00:14:20.629 --> 00:14:22.789 I loved it. I felt like I got an MBA while I 00:14:22.789 --> 00:14:25.850 was working there. And about four years into 00:14:25.850 --> 00:14:29.889 that, Monster Jam called me. And they said, hey, 00:14:29.990 --> 00:14:31.649 look, you know, we've actually had your information 00:14:31.649 --> 00:14:34.649 for four years. Timing is really good for us. 00:14:35.230 --> 00:14:38.070 Would you want to go to Monster Jam University 00:14:38.070 --> 00:14:40.549 and learn how to drive a Monster Jam truck? And 00:14:40.549 --> 00:14:42.049 I went, well, first of all, there's no way that's 00:14:42.049 --> 00:14:44.470 a real place. Monster Jam University. And then 00:14:44.470 --> 00:14:46.490 my second question was, how much is this going 00:14:46.490 --> 00:14:48.809 to cost me? because I had just come out of my 00:14:48.809 --> 00:14:51.129 dream pursuing professional drag racing. And 00:14:51.129 --> 00:14:54.169 I mean, it costs a lot to be able to do that. 00:14:54.169 --> 00:14:56.750 And I failed. So I'm like, I don't know. My wife 00:14:56.750 --> 00:14:59.110 and I just got married. We bought a house, started 00:14:59.110 --> 00:15:01.350 a family. I mean, life was good. I was making 00:15:01.350 --> 00:15:04.230 really good money doing private equity recruiting 00:15:04.230 --> 00:15:06.730 and just enjoying it. And they said, well, no, 00:15:07.009 --> 00:15:10.480 we've got everything that you need. And so my 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.019 response then was, so just a flight and a hotel? 00:15:13.659 --> 00:15:16.279 In my mind, I'm going for a thousand bucks. I 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:19.500 might do something like this just for 10 years 00:15:19.500 --> 00:15:21.980 to go by and be in a Buffalo Wild Wings somewhere 00:15:21.980 --> 00:15:24.620 and get to nudge a buddy and go, dude, I drove 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:26.500 one of those Monster Jam trucks 10 years ago. 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.960 That's how far I thought it would go. And Monster 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.399 Jam said, no, we'll buy you a flight and a hotel. 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:36.000 Can you just be off work for a couple of days 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.399 in April to come up and test one of these? And 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.330 I went. Well, of course I can. Who would say 00:15:40.330 --> 00:15:43.470 no to that opportunity? Right. So again, I didn't 00:15:43.470 --> 00:15:46.149 expect it to become a career. I didn't expect 00:15:46.149 --> 00:15:48.250 it to be something I would leave corporate America 00:15:48.250 --> 00:15:51.370 to go and do, but that was 10 years ago. I've 00:15:51.370 --> 00:15:54.269 been full time now, did decide to leave my corporate 00:15:54.269 --> 00:15:57.470 job for Monster Jam, been doing this for 10 years. 00:15:57.509 --> 00:15:59.570 And I think this is a good time for everybody 00:15:59.570 --> 00:16:02.769 listening to go write a strongly worded email 00:16:02.769 --> 00:16:05.389 to their high school guidance counselor. as I 00:16:05.389 --> 00:16:08.210 did, who did not tell me that Monster Jam was 00:16:08.210 --> 00:16:10.990 a viable career opportunity. You know what, man? 00:16:11.450 --> 00:16:14.370 I love that because first of all, you're proving 00:16:14.370 --> 00:16:17.269 a point that I always like to tell my own kids, 00:16:17.309 --> 00:16:20.370 which is when you want something, go get it. 00:16:20.409 --> 00:16:23.309 But when you kind of get it to a place in life 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:25.429 where you're in between and you're a little unsure 00:16:25.429 --> 00:16:27.289 or maybe you're comfortable doing something, 00:16:27.529 --> 00:16:29.570 it's not your passion, but hey, it's paying the 00:16:29.570 --> 00:16:32.889 bills. That's usually when opportunities will 00:16:32.889 --> 00:16:35.970 just come. When you least expect it and yeah, 00:16:36.129 --> 00:16:39.110 that is a perfect example Speaking on that. This 00:16:39.110 --> 00:16:42.409 is so interesting Because I'm one of my questions 00:16:42.409 --> 00:16:46.330 was How does one get in to monster? You know, 00:16:46.330 --> 00:16:50.070 this is a pretty exclusive niche thing I'm starting 00:16:50.070 --> 00:16:52.809 to get the feeling that maybe do they do they 00:16:52.809 --> 00:16:57.090 somewhat scout? In other racing leagues because 00:16:57.090 --> 00:16:59.669 you were in drag racing. How do you get on their 00:16:59.669 --> 00:17:02.210 radar? Man, that's a great question. And I think 00:17:02.210 --> 00:17:04.470 everyone's path into Monster Jam as a driver 00:17:04.470 --> 00:17:08.269 is very different. I like to joke that we're, 00:17:08.329 --> 00:17:11.069 as drivers, we're the land of misfit toys. Like 00:17:11.069 --> 00:17:13.150 we all kind of have different backgrounds. This 00:17:13.150 --> 00:17:16.130 guy over here came from ATV. This girl over here, 00:17:16.210 --> 00:17:17.630 she's gonna be in Syracuse. Her name's Kayla 00:17:17.630 --> 00:17:21.170 Blood, driving Sparkle Smash. Hugely popular 00:17:21.170 --> 00:17:24.109 truck. It's been insane what's going on with 00:17:24.109 --> 00:17:26.230 that truck. It's a giant unicorn truck. It's 00:17:26.230 --> 00:17:27.950 amazing. Oh, that's awesome. But her background 00:17:27.950 --> 00:17:30.740 is in MMA. Right? So it's like, that's not motor 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:33.200 sports, but she has some ATV riding background 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.279 too. I'm coming out of drag racing. Another competitor 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.619 this weekend is still kind of pursuing NASCAR 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:42.839 stuff at while he's just absolutely crushed it. 00:17:43.140 --> 00:17:45.839 No pun intended in monster jam, Camden Murphy. 00:17:46.019 --> 00:17:47.859 He's going to be in classroom crusher. So, I 00:17:47.859 --> 00:17:50.000 mean, there's just so many of us. But then you've 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.240 got Tyler Meninga, who's driving Gravedigger. 00:17:52.819 --> 00:17:57.039 Yes. And Tyler came from, I mean, we'll call 00:17:57.039 --> 00:17:59.839 it rock crawling, but I think he's got the most 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:04.140 relevant experience in his childhood for Monster 00:18:04.140 --> 00:18:05.980 Jam trucks. Like that's the closest you're going 00:18:05.980 --> 00:18:08.339 to get because you can't really drive Monster 00:18:08.339 --> 00:18:11.059 Jam trucks when you're 10, obviously. So, I mean, 00:18:11.059 --> 00:18:14.819 he does have the closest and most applicable 00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:17.619 experience where I came from. you know, going 00:18:17.619 --> 00:18:20.539 300 miles an hour on concrete, he actually has 00:18:20.539 --> 00:18:23.180 an understanding of how these trucks can operate 00:18:23.180 --> 00:18:24.980 and feel. And I think that's why he's one of 00:18:24.980 --> 00:18:26.519 the best in the sport as well. So we all have 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.700 different backgrounds and I think we apply it 00:18:28.700 --> 00:18:31.599 differently. You can see our backgrounds play 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:34.740 out as well, successfully and sometimes unsuccessfully 00:18:34.740 --> 00:18:37.140 out there on that Monster Jam track. When we 00:18:37.140 --> 00:18:39.799 hit a jump or do a backflip or keep pushing the 00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:41.180 limits, we all kind of approach things a little 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:43.619 differently. See, I love this because I don't 00:18:43.619 --> 00:18:47.099 know how old you are. I'm in my forties. So I 00:18:47.099 --> 00:18:51.440 remember when MMA came out, it was, or UFC, I 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:53.160 think it was called Ultimate Fighting back then. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.759 And one of the great things about it was you 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.720 would see, back then they would do a karate specialist 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:03.099 versus a wrestler, or a, you know, and then this 00:19:03.099 --> 00:19:04.920 sport has kind of evolved to where everybody's 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:07.099 a hybrid of all sorts of different fighting styles. 00:19:07.180 --> 00:19:09.740 And I feel like what you're saying is within 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:12.640 the drivers, the roster of drivers, Everybody 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.599 has kind of their own style and their own background 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.920 and and it's is that fair to say very much So, 00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:22.859 I mean came to Murphy the NASCAR guy. I'll call 00:19:22.859 --> 00:19:27.670 him He is so fast in racing. I mean, he was a 00:19:27.670 --> 00:19:29.890 half a second faster than all of us last weekend 00:19:29.890 --> 00:19:32.210 in Arlington at the Cowboys Stadium, even though 00:19:32.210 --> 00:19:33.369 we're not going to let that happen this weekend. 00:19:33.630 --> 00:19:35.789 We're going to kick Camden's butt, but he just 00:19:35.789 --> 00:19:39.109 has that feel about him when he's racing. I'm 00:19:39.109 --> 00:19:41.069 the big air guy. I don't know how that translates 00:19:41.069 --> 00:19:43.630 to drag racing because if I was ever in the air 00:19:43.630 --> 00:19:46.509 in drag racing, that was a really bad day. Yeah, 00:19:46.549 --> 00:19:48.349 at work. But at Monster Jam, that's just another 00:19:48.349 --> 00:19:50.490 day in the office now. But that's just kind of 00:19:50.490 --> 00:19:52.269 what, and I think it comes from rolling the dice. 00:19:52.410 --> 00:19:55.329 I'm comfortable at high speeds because I've been 00:19:55.329 --> 00:19:58.049 300 miles an hour before. So I understand how 00:19:58.049 --> 00:20:01.430 that works and feels. And I don't get intimidated 00:20:01.430 --> 00:20:04.769 by having to hit these jumps. at 60 miles an 00:20:04.769 --> 00:20:06.829 hour to get it 50 feet in the air either. So 00:20:06.829 --> 00:20:08.509 I think that plays out. But yes, I mean, each 00:20:08.509 --> 00:20:11.829 of our styles, our experiences, you can see how 00:20:11.829 --> 00:20:13.809 we approach things a little bit differently. 00:20:13.990 --> 00:20:16.210 And then you got Tyler Meninga, who is just a 00:20:16.210 --> 00:20:18.710 wild man. I've called him the cheat code to monster 00:20:18.710 --> 00:20:20.829 jam. If he was a, if it was a video game, he 00:20:20.829 --> 00:20:22.470 would be the cheat code. I feel like, cause he's 00:20:22.470 --> 00:20:25.170 so technical, but he just gets stuff out of the 00:20:25.170 --> 00:20:27.970 truck. that could only come from being so comfortable 00:20:27.970 --> 00:20:29.890 in it because he grew up around some of this 00:20:29.890 --> 00:20:31.970 stuff. So yeah, you see the styles play out. 00:20:32.089 --> 00:20:34.170 And that's a lot of fun for the fans because 00:20:34.170 --> 00:20:36.769 it's not cookie cutter. Nothing's rehearsed. 00:20:36.910 --> 00:20:39.630 Nothing is scripted. Monster Jam is as big as 00:20:39.630 --> 00:20:41.930 it gets. And it starts right there with every 00:20:41.930 --> 00:20:45.230 time a driver hits that throttle pedal a little 00:20:45.230 --> 00:20:48.390 different way. You know, as you're explaining 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:50.900 all that, I'm sitting here thinking. you know, 00:20:51.180 --> 00:20:54.519 what would be the most important skill to possess 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.400 as a monster jam driver? Because, you know, obviously 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:00.519 speed is, you know, speed's important for you 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:02.500 to get enough speed to make these jumps, but 00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:07.940 it's not really a race at all times. Okay, maybe 00:21:07.940 --> 00:21:10.660 you need to know how to get air, but I know that 00:21:10.660 --> 00:21:12.240 there has to be something that's more, is it 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.500 more about control? What is the number one thing 00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:16.779 when driving these things? What's the number 00:21:16.779 --> 00:21:19.400 one skill to have? Well, I think that's a great 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:21.680 way to ask that question. I think one of the 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:23.819 things, it's not that you have to have an understanding 00:21:23.819 --> 00:21:26.980 of physics, but the physics behind these trucks 00:21:26.980 --> 00:21:30.839 are incredible. When we do a backflip and obviously 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.460 the truck is upside down, 20 feet off the ground, 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:36.680 you're wanting that truck to rotate a certain 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:40.000 way. And if you hit that container wrong, incorrectly, 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:42.880 too fast, too slow, if you're too much on the 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:45.400 throttle, if you hit the brakes too soon, Right? 00:21:45.420 --> 00:21:47.940 You can under -rotate the truck. If you hit it 00:21:47.940 --> 00:21:50.019 too fast and give it too much throttle, you can 00:21:50.019 --> 00:21:52.599 over -rotate the truck. And I promise you, unless 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.619 you land on the tires, it can hurt. Yeah, sure. 00:21:55.619 --> 00:21:57.940 If you land on anything else. So the physics 00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:00.380 behind this stuff is incredible. But here's what 00:22:00.380 --> 00:22:02.599 I've learned. To answer your question specifically, 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:05.299 I believe, and I'm trying to think about this 00:22:05.299 --> 00:22:08.420 like if my son was saying, dad, teach me how 00:22:08.420 --> 00:22:09.799 to drive this thing. And I'd say, okay, this 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:11.700 is what you got to do. You've got to learn how 00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:14.420 to turn your mind off. And you have to trust 00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:18.119 your muscle memory and almost your subconscious 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:20.220 to go out there and do what you're capable of 00:22:20.220 --> 00:22:22.700 doing. To get to that point, it does require 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:27.299 a lot of seat time and experience, but at some 00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:30.079 point in your career, you have to almost stop 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:32.539 thinking. I can tell when a driver's out there 00:22:32.539 --> 00:22:34.839 in a two -minute freestyle and they're thinking 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:38.019 too much. You almost just have to flow with the 00:22:38.019 --> 00:22:41.059 truck and let the run come to you. because we 00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:42.819 do have different competitions. We do have our 00:22:42.819 --> 00:22:44.460 racing competition. We're going to do all three 00:22:44.460 --> 00:22:46.759 of these in Syracuse. Racing competition, we've 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:48.539 got our skills competition, which is a technical 00:22:48.539 --> 00:22:51.059 move. We balance the truck on the front tires 00:22:51.059 --> 00:22:54.279 and the fans, everybody in the stands, they judge 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:56.019 off of their phone, the one that they like the 00:22:56.019 --> 00:22:58.539 most on a scale of one to 10. That's the winner. 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:00.400 And then freestyle is the two minutes where we 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:03.019 just get to go out there and create control chaos 00:23:03.019 --> 00:23:04.960 as much as we can. That's where the back flips 00:23:04.960 --> 00:23:07.339 happen. Usually a lot of the crashes happen there. 00:23:07.619 --> 00:23:10.670 Not that we plan them, but... They happen and 00:23:10.670 --> 00:23:12.509 but yeah, I mean for us to be able to shut our 00:23:12.509 --> 00:23:15.809 minds off trust the equipment Trust ourselves 00:23:15.809 --> 00:23:18.509 to be able to react in that moment You almost 00:23:18.509 --> 00:23:20.549 have to turn that that your mind off a little 00:23:20.549 --> 00:23:23.130 bit and just go out there and let muscle memory 00:23:23.130 --> 00:23:26.529 take over I do think that's the number one Skill 00:23:26.529 --> 00:23:30.009 that the greatest drivers in the sport are able 00:23:30.009 --> 00:23:33.609 to do what a great answer Yeah, Bryce Kenny Monster 00:23:33.609 --> 00:23:36.349 Jam coming this weekend to Syracuse this Saturday. 00:23:36.670 --> 00:23:39.819 We're gonna talk about that On the trucks, I 00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:43.200 have so many questions. I'm sorry. It's a fascinating 00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:45.680 sport, man. You're asking great ones for the 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:51.039 record. Thanks, man. I don't think your co -host 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:53.900 would have asked this good. I agree. Especially 00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:57.200 if he's prioritizing port -a -potties. Exactly. 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:01.640 So, you know, one thing I've noticed is that 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:05.289 the trucks change a lot. Um, there's some mainstays 00:24:05.289 --> 00:24:08.009 like everybody knows Grave Digger and Bigfoot 00:24:08.009 --> 00:24:10.690 since I was a kid in the eighties. Um, but you 00:24:10.690 --> 00:24:13.049 do see different drivers and different trucks. 00:24:13.490 --> 00:24:16.809 How often is the league rotating drivers and 00:24:16.809 --> 00:24:22.029 or trucks? I would say it depends. So for instance, 00:24:22.029 --> 00:24:23.849 you talk about a staple of the sport Grave Digger. 00:24:24.150 --> 00:24:26.710 Tyler Meninga has been in Grave Digger, I want 00:24:26.710 --> 00:24:29.029 to say eight years. I might be off on that. So 00:24:29.029 --> 00:24:31.470 he has been in Grave Digger and only Grave Digger, 00:24:31.569 --> 00:24:34.240 but he's one of the best in the sport. Um, Kayla 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.279 blood has been in a couple, several different 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:39.420 ones. Camden has, I have now, uh, I was in a 00:24:39.420 --> 00:24:41.420 truck called Mohawk warrior for eight years. 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:44.819 And, uh, just this past season, our sponsor rolled 00:24:44.819 --> 00:24:47.640 off of that. And, uh, I was in monster mutt for 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:50.420 just this past season, the 2025 season, because 00:24:50.420 --> 00:24:52.160 we were trying to get to this point of coming 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.319 out with the tech deck wreck deck truck. Uh, 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.700 but I think that drivers, it all depends on what 00:24:57.700 --> 00:25:00.019 the company as a whole is trying to accomplish. 00:25:00.959 --> 00:25:05.039 and how drivers fit that IP. You know, we've 00:25:05.039 --> 00:25:08.400 got Megalodon, that's a hugely popular truck 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:10.759 with the kids and with families and stuff like 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:12.720 that. And I've seen a lot of different drivers 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.700 go through that, but the staple is that Megalodon 00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:17.420 is gonna be on that tour, except for, I guess, 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:20.440 this fall tour. We don't have one here, but they'll 00:25:20.440 --> 00:25:22.740 have a Megalodon, I wanna say on... probably 00:25:22.740 --> 00:25:25.420 every tour, uh, when we kick off the season again 00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:27.859 in January. So they do, they roll off drivers 00:25:27.859 --> 00:25:30.119 and different trucks, depending on the fit and 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:31.740 what they're trying to accomplish. We might have 00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:34.140 some different sponsors that come in and get 00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:37.099 involved. Uh, but you know, the ideal for any 00:25:37.099 --> 00:25:40.220 driver is to stay with one IP and one brand ourselves. 00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:42.259 That's kind of what we love to do, because then 00:25:42.259 --> 00:25:44.740 you become known and associated with that. Just 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:46.799 like with Mohawk warrior, you know, I had a Mohawk 00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:50.279 for the last nine or 10 years of my life. I've 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:53.000 been getting the flow hot going. I like it. It's 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:54.900 not flowing today. No, I like it. That's just 00:25:54.900 --> 00:25:57.640 part of the identity and we want to kind of attach 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:00.240 that to so the fans associate us with that brand 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:05.259 as well. That's amazing. I always wondered. If 00:26:05.259 --> 00:26:06.880 you can peel the curtain back a little bit, you 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.059 know, obviously it's pretty widely known in like 00:26:10.059 --> 00:26:12.279 football, hockey, you know, the four major sports. 00:26:12.559 --> 00:26:15.839 People talk about contracts and, you know, trades 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.039 and things of that nature. In your sport, are 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:21.099 you contracted to a certain truck? Do they give 00:26:21.099 --> 00:26:22.799 you a certain amount of years in the league? 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.779 Because I feel like once they have you, why would 00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:27.700 they want to let you go? How does that work? 00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:31.000 How does the turnover work? I'll say Feld Entertainment 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:33.039 as a whole and Monster Jam. I think they hold 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.869 everything I think they hold their cards pretty 00:26:35.869 --> 00:26:37.750 close to their chest, as I would if I was an 00:26:37.750 --> 00:26:41.549 organization that large. And so every driver 00:26:41.549 --> 00:26:45.190 has a different setup. They operate a lot more 00:26:45.190 --> 00:26:47.210 like a corporation than they do a league, in 00:26:47.210 --> 00:26:49.690 my opinion, and that's okay. I mean, when you've 00:26:49.690 --> 00:26:52.009 got a family of a wife and three kids, I mean, 00:26:52.490 --> 00:26:55.329 I love that I can kind of operate a little bit 00:26:55.329 --> 00:26:59.150 from a corporate standpoint. But they also love 00:26:59.150 --> 00:27:03.859 the opportunity to be able to change as the market 00:27:03.859 --> 00:27:06.720 changes as well. So every driver operates a little 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:09.299 bit differently. Some drivers are on a full -time 00:27:09.299 --> 00:27:12.240 deal. Some are just on a kind of a weekly pay 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:14.339 set up. And a lot of times it has to do with 00:27:14.339 --> 00:27:16.319 yes, what's the company trying to accomplish? 00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:18.660 And then other times it's what does that driver 00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:21.059 want? You know, some drivers are just think of 00:27:21.059 --> 00:27:24.019 it more as a part -time thing and not necessarily 00:27:24.019 --> 00:27:26.940 a full -time setup and that's okay too. So yeah, 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:29.019 everyone's on different setups. That's awesome. 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.519 And you guys, who comes up with the names for 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.299 the trucks? Cause that's got to be, I want that 00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:38.660 job. I want to be like bone crusher, metal eater, 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.480 you know, like who wants to do that? I want to 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:43.559 say I don't know if Bone Crusher is a truck, 00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:46.079 but Metal Eater would be a good location. Metal 00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.119 Eater, yeah. We're going to hire you. Let's go! 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:49.940 I don't know if you're for hire, but there you 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:52.299 go. But Feld Entertainment does. So Monster Jam, 00:27:52.500 --> 00:27:54.079 of course, like we said earlier, owned by Feld 00:27:54.079 --> 00:27:56.500 Entertainment. It's remarkable what they come 00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:59.579 up with. Take, for instance, the Sparkle Smash 00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:03.180 truck, this unicorn truck. It started off as 00:28:03.180 --> 00:28:06.859 just a toy. So they have toys and names and brands 00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:09.329 that are just, they just start off as toys. they 00:28:09.329 --> 00:28:12.250 sold so many Sparkle Smash trucks. They all looked 00:28:12.250 --> 00:28:13.829 at each other like, I think we got to make this 00:28:13.829 --> 00:28:16.190 a real thing. That's amazing. And they did. And 00:28:16.190 --> 00:28:20.650 they're celebrating. I should say we are celebrating, 00:28:20.730 --> 00:28:23.029 but I'm like, it's a cool truck, but I'm not 00:28:23.029 --> 00:28:24.990 celebrating it because I have to kick her butt 00:28:24.990 --> 00:28:28.170 this weekend. But the company is celebrating 00:28:28.170 --> 00:28:31.970 its one year birthday from realization kind of 00:28:31.970 --> 00:28:34.170 turning into a real truck this fall. So here 00:28:34.170 --> 00:28:37.490 in Syracuse, it is the Sparkle Smash Bash. It 00:28:37.490 --> 00:28:41.349 is a Unicorn Monster Jam truck birthday party. 00:28:41.470 --> 00:28:43.930 That's kind of how they have set this up, approaching 00:28:43.930 --> 00:28:46.569 it this weekend. But it's because of how wildly 00:28:46.569 --> 00:28:49.509 popular it's been globally, and it all started 00:28:49.509 --> 00:28:52.069 with it becoming a toy. So Monster Jam, in my 00:28:52.069 --> 00:28:54.410 opinion, I think that's why they're so much better 00:28:54.410 --> 00:28:56.509 than any other motorsport. And I'll say that 00:28:56.509 --> 00:28:59.650 confidently, because they understand not just 00:28:59.650 --> 00:29:02.569 how to connect a fan with the experience, even 00:29:02.569 --> 00:29:03.950 though I think they're the best in the world 00:29:03.950 --> 00:29:07.660 doing that. They also understand how to connect 00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:11.680 a personality both in the driver and the trucks 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:14.980 themselves with that fan. See, I love that. And 00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:17.019 that's a remarkable connection. And then that 00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:20.680 fan wants to go and buy the toy version of that 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:22.759 experience and of that truck and of that driver, 00:29:23.220 --> 00:29:26.180 buy the toy off of a Walmart or a Target shelf. 00:29:26.460 --> 00:29:29.059 I mean, it's just one of those life cycles that... 00:29:28.750 --> 00:29:31.589 They have in my, they've not perfected it. Nobody 00:29:31.589 --> 00:29:34.509 has a perfect business, but I'm very thankful 00:29:34.509 --> 00:29:36.630 they operate the way they do because like I said, 00:29:36.710 --> 00:29:39.789 it's a, it's on a global scale. They're a profitable 00:29:39.789 --> 00:29:41.809 organization. And that means that they're going 00:29:41.809 --> 00:29:43.950 to be here for years to come. That also means 00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:46.289 I get to go out and run my tech deck, wreck deck 00:29:46.289 --> 00:29:50.109 truck as hard as I can and get less pushback 00:29:50.109 --> 00:29:52.130 when I have a little too much damage. That's 00:29:52.130 --> 00:29:55.910 right. We pay for it. I'll tell you what I, uh, 00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:58.279 Every question seems to come back to Feld Entertainment. 00:29:58.380 --> 00:30:00.000 They sound like they're killing it. And what 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.500 a brilliant move. You sell it as a toy. It's 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.460 almost like a built -in focus group. You sell 00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:07.140 it as a toy, and then the toy sells so well, 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:09.160 you go, well, guess we got to make it a truck. 00:30:09.259 --> 00:30:12.940 I mean, I think that's just absolutely brilliant. 00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:16.500 Bryce Kenny, this weekend, this Saturday, it 00:30:16.500 --> 00:30:20.299 is Monster Truck Jam. Monster. Did I say that 00:30:20.299 --> 00:30:22.400 right? Monster truck? Almost. Monster Jam truck. 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:25.460 But that's good. You are riding in the tech deck. 00:30:25.529 --> 00:30:29.549 Wreck Deck. That is a mouthful. This is a brand 00:30:29.549 --> 00:30:33.910 new truck. I know you drove the Mohawk Warrior. 00:30:35.569 --> 00:30:38.829 I think you drove another truck after that. Monster 00:30:38.829 --> 00:30:42.089 Mud, big dog truck. Yep. So you've got a brand 00:30:42.089 --> 00:30:45.130 new truck. Tell us about this weekend. What can 00:30:45.130 --> 00:30:49.829 we expect? Give us all the info. Well, it's going 00:30:49.829 --> 00:30:51.769 to be a blast because Tech Deck, if you remember, 00:30:51.950 --> 00:30:55.319 about 25 years ago, The finger skateboards were 00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:56.960 really huge. I mean, they just popped. They came 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.220 out of nowhere. And really, the last several 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:03.380 years, they've had this massive resurgence in 00:31:03.380 --> 00:31:06.019 the brand. Well, our largest partner, I want 00:31:06.019 --> 00:31:08.299 to say, is a company called Spin Master. So they 00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:10.680 own Paw Patrol. They own some really huge brands. 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:13.119 They also own Tech Deck. They make all of our 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:15.140 diecast trucks. They manufacture them and all 00:31:15.140 --> 00:31:17.369 that stuff. So it's a great partnership. And 00:31:17.369 --> 00:31:19.269 Spin Master came to Monster Jam and said, Hey, 00:31:19.509 --> 00:31:22.470 we want to create a tech deck truck, but it has 00:31:22.470 --> 00:31:25.329 to look like a skateboard. And so Monster Jam 00:31:25.329 --> 00:31:27.950 worked on designing this. And they, they, I remember 00:31:27.950 --> 00:31:29.890 having the first conversations with them, thinking 00:31:29.890 --> 00:31:31.609 and saying to them, guys, how in the world is 00:31:31.609 --> 00:31:33.049 that going to look cool? Well, they pulled it 00:31:33.049 --> 00:31:36.279 off. It looks awesome. It's kind of an old school 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:39.539 style skateboard deck with the back lip only. 00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:42.259 And man, it's just so cool because you're going 00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:44.599 out there and you're doing these moves in a 12 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:46.359 ,000 pound monster jam truck. It looks like a 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:49.059 skateboard. And now it's not a corkscrew or a 00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:52.119 twist move. It's a kick flip. It's not a nose 00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:54.240 wheelie. It's a nollie. And when I go out there 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:56.440 and pull that stuff off, it's no longer a nose 00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:58.859 wheelie. It's a nollie. So we're kind of able 00:31:58.859 --> 00:32:02.849 to have these two worlds of skateboarding. and 00:32:02.849 --> 00:32:06.069 Monster Jam and this big extreme sports world 00:32:06.069 --> 00:32:09.029 collide into this one truck. And the fans have 00:32:09.029 --> 00:32:12.210 absolutely loved this truck and the skin underneath. 00:32:12.329 --> 00:32:14.750 I mean, we've got so many ways to partner together 00:32:14.750 --> 00:32:18.009 doing that, but it's exciting to get to Syracuse. 00:32:18.109 --> 00:32:21.230 It's going to be only the third competition weekend. 00:32:21.450 --> 00:32:23.750 that we've had with the tech deck rec deck truck. 00:32:24.109 --> 00:32:26.430 And we want to make sure that we come out there 00:32:26.430 --> 00:32:29.630 and earn everybody's respect. That's our tagline 00:32:29.630 --> 00:32:31.410 and our theme song, by the way, it's respect 00:32:31.410 --> 00:32:33.769 the deck. Yes. And I'm like, all right, well, 00:32:33.809 --> 00:32:36.049 respect is earned. So we got to come out there 00:32:36.049 --> 00:32:38.589 and earn it for everybody in Syracuse. But it's 00:32:38.589 --> 00:32:40.369 going to be fun. We got a pit party. I believe 00:32:40.369 --> 00:32:43.009 it starts at 1030. And we love that. I mean, 00:32:43.009 --> 00:32:45.309 we just love the chance to meet everybody and 00:32:45.309 --> 00:32:47.690 autograph stuff for fans and give people high 00:32:47.690 --> 00:32:50.190 fives and let the fans see the trucks up close. 00:32:50.730 --> 00:32:53.650 I believe the doors open at two o 'clock for 00:32:53.650 --> 00:32:56.589 trackside and three o 'clock is when the actual 00:32:56.589 --> 00:32:58.549 event starts. So it's a little bit earlier this 00:32:58.549 --> 00:33:01.589 year on Saturday, starting at 3 p .m. But come 00:33:01.589 --> 00:33:04.549 on, we've got DJ Molsky gonna be throwing a huge. 00:33:05.129 --> 00:33:07.829 party going on throughout the whole event, but 00:33:07.829 --> 00:33:10.230 specifically at halftime. Sparkle Smash is going 00:33:10.230 --> 00:33:12.529 to come out there and smash something. The first 00:33:12.529 --> 00:33:14.329 weekend, it was a motor home. Last weekend, it 00:33:14.329 --> 00:33:16.970 was a little two seater airplane that she came 00:33:16.970 --> 00:33:18.890 through and destroyed. I don't even know what 00:33:18.890 --> 00:33:20.690 they've got planned for this weekend, but it's 00:33:20.690 --> 00:33:22.970 going to be an exciting time and make sure you 00:33:22.970 --> 00:33:25.170 get there because Tech Deck, Rec Deck. We're 00:33:25.170 --> 00:33:27.769 coming for you, Syracuse. I love the fans of 00:33:27.769 --> 00:33:30.130 Syracuse, and always got to hit some barbecue 00:33:30.130 --> 00:33:33.529 while I'm in town, too. Man, we love you. I should 00:33:33.529 --> 00:33:35.450 end it there, but this is too exciting. I got 00:33:35.450 --> 00:33:37.470 a couple more questions. Actually, one I just 00:33:37.470 --> 00:33:40.670 thought of. When the Sparkle unicorn truck, when 00:33:40.670 --> 00:33:43.009 it smashes stuff, do you have it set so that 00:33:43.009 --> 00:33:46.190 glitter bursts out everywhere? Man, I'm telling 00:33:46.190 --> 00:33:49.029 you, you're about to be hired, okay? I'll let 00:33:49.029 --> 00:33:51.779 him know. I'll let Matt know. So I think that 00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:53.500 would be the the shit, you know if this thing 00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:56.859 comes down glitter goes So instead of glitter 00:33:56.859 --> 00:34:01.240 it is a confetti. Oh Yeah, there's a horn on 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:04.759 the truck and she hits a button and confetti 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:07.279 comes shooting out of a cannon inside that horn 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:10.380 So yes, you're all over it. You're all over it, 00:34:10.380 --> 00:34:13.449 dude. You're all over it One thing that caught 00:34:13.449 --> 00:34:15.090 my eye, I have to ask this before we go. I know 00:34:15.090 --> 00:34:17.170 I want to be respectful of your time, but we 00:34:17.170 --> 00:34:19.650 talked about how you get started in racing. Something 00:34:19.650 --> 00:34:22.329 I read in your bio that was interesting is you 00:34:22.329 --> 00:34:24.030 said if you were giving advice to people who 00:34:24.030 --> 00:34:27.369 wanted to go down this path and possibly drive 00:34:27.369 --> 00:34:31.530 in a Monster Jam truck, you said they should 00:34:31.530 --> 00:34:34.329 possibly look for a degree in, was it business 00:34:34.329 --> 00:34:35.989 management? Can you talk about that a little 00:34:35.989 --> 00:34:38.070 bit? I thought that was really interesting. We've 00:34:38.070 --> 00:34:40.329 got an amazing partnership with University of 00:34:40.329 --> 00:34:45.309 Northwestern, Ohio, and they have a motorsports 00:34:45.309 --> 00:34:48.309 marketing program, like a business degree in 00:34:48.309 --> 00:34:52.070 motorsports. I think that's the best pathway 00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:55.090 for anyone to go down that wants to get in motorsports 00:34:55.090 --> 00:34:57.690 and specifically go to UNOH. It's an amazing 00:34:57.690 --> 00:35:01.710 program. I might feel that way because I wrote 00:35:01.710 --> 00:35:03.530 a book that got published, Geared for Life, that's 00:35:03.530 --> 00:35:05.269 part of their curriculum. That was my next question. 00:35:07.579 --> 00:35:09.820 If we go down that pathway, great. But if not, 00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:11.960 that's okay. But University of Northwestern Ohio 00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:14.400 does an amazing job at this. The business side 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.119 of motorsports is so difficult. That's why I 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.039 go back to, I think Monster Jam is kind of a 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.719 unicorn in and of itself, but it's specific. 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:27.099 It's not by chance. I mean, they are very strategic 00:35:27.099 --> 00:35:31.239 and they understand how to make a profit in motorsports. 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:34.019 I don't see NASCAR doing that. I don't see F1 00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:36.039 doing that, NHRA doing that. I don't see that. 00:35:36.219 --> 00:35:37.659 I mean, they might have a resurgence. I mean, 00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:40.019 the F1, you know, they had a great, that great 00:35:40.019 --> 00:35:41.900 documentary series that came out on Netflix. 00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:44.780 They needed that badly because they were losing 00:35:44.780 --> 00:35:47.260 the fan experience. I feel like all other motorsports 00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:50.199 are losing touch with the fan that's sitting 00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.989 in the seats. But I think Monster Jam does such 00:35:52.989 --> 00:35:56.349 a remarkable job at pulling that together while 00:35:56.349 --> 00:35:59.590 still getting that return on investment for sponsors, 00:35:59.829 --> 00:36:02.070 but then getting creative through things like 00:36:02.070 --> 00:36:04.349 licensing deals and all the stuff that Monster 00:36:04.349 --> 00:36:06.869 Jam is the best in the world at doing. And so 00:36:06.869 --> 00:36:08.650 that's why I tell people, if you're gonna get 00:36:08.650 --> 00:36:11.369 into motorsports, yes, you can and should learn 00:36:11.369 --> 00:36:14.730 how to turn wrenches, fix trucks, fix cars, whatever, 00:36:14.789 --> 00:36:17.329 and go fast. But if you can understand and wrap 00:36:17.329 --> 00:36:21.719 your mind around, how to make a dollar in motorsports? 00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:23.820 Because like I said, I had seven different jobs 00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:25.920 trying to make my last dream work and I couldn't 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:29.519 make it work. So how do I create enough value 00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:34.139 today in 2025? and to make it something that 00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:37.039 attracts people, not just fans, but also sponsors. 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:39.559 That's why I think a business degree specifically 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:42.420 related to motorsports would be such a great 00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:44.960 pathway for people. Such great advice. Bryce 00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:49.280 Kenney, you're the man. Last question. You said 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:51.619 you do some keynote speaking. I didn't want to 00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:53.119 leave the interview without talking about this 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:55.099 because I think this is fantastic. You're a keynote 00:36:55.099 --> 00:36:58.500 speaker and you're also the author of a book. 00:36:58.619 --> 00:37:00.679 Why don't we talk about that a little bit? Yeah. 00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:02.159 It's why I never thought I would have written 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:04.480 a book by the way, let alone have anybody actually 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.179 pick it up and read it. So that was not a bucket 00:37:07.179 --> 00:37:09.860 list item. Um, I did always love doing keynote 00:37:09.860 --> 00:37:11.400 speaking though. Like that's just something I've 00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:13.480 had fun doing. I think motor sports has such 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.840 a fun platform as well that creates that. And 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:19.179 so now it's, it's really cool. I get to travel 00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:21.840 all over the, all over the country and a keynote 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.760 speak for some really large conferences, pretty 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.980 much everyone from about 500 people up to maybe 00:37:26.980 --> 00:37:29.639 5 ,000 people. Um, so it's just really fun to 00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:33.170 watch. that platform continue to grow. And then 00:37:33.170 --> 00:37:35.889 the opportunity to hear people talk about geared 00:37:35.889 --> 00:37:37.329 for life. You know, the whole idea of the book 00:37:37.329 --> 00:37:40.489 is there's no formula to life. The people that 00:37:40.489 --> 00:37:43.570 are most successful, in my opinion, the people 00:37:43.570 --> 00:37:47.090 that make it are the ones who spend more time 00:37:47.090 --> 00:37:50.289 outside of their comfort zones than everybody 00:37:50.289 --> 00:37:53.510 else. I really think that's it. And so the way 00:37:53.510 --> 00:37:55.530 to do that is I believe that there are gears 00:37:55.530 --> 00:37:58.739 in life that we have to find. And it's about 00:37:58.739 --> 00:38:00.679 finding a lot of times about finding just our 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:03.219 next gear. So it's about trying to say, look, 00:38:03.300 --> 00:38:05.159 here's where I'm at. Maybe you've been stuck 00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.219 for six or seven years. Maybe you've been a neutral 00:38:07.219 --> 00:38:09.219 doing nothing, but maybe you've been trying to 00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:11.079 make first gear work for too long. We got to 00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:13.260 help you find second and then third and then 00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:15.900 fourth. So it's one gear at a time. But the whole 00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:18.739 idea is not to give you the answers to life. 00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:20.940 It's to say, how can I just get outside of that 00:38:20.940 --> 00:38:23.739 comfort zone longer than the one I'm the person 00:38:23.739 --> 00:38:27.320 I'm competing with? And if you do that, you end 00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:29.119 up making it. And everybody that I've watched 00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.719 make it in life in their specific jobs or careers 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:35.539 or even as like a dad or a mom. They are the 00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:38.059 ones that are somehow they spend the most time 00:38:38.059 --> 00:38:39.440 outside their comfort zones. And that's what 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:41.980 I want to be. I want to live outside of my comfort 00:38:41.980 --> 00:38:43.480 zones because that means I'm always pressing 00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.840 forward and creating and doing. And that's something 00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:49.380 I think that I can stand on. Man, Bryce, you 00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:52.820 are inspiring, man, and much respect to you. 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.860 We're going to get to the plugs. But I do want, 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:58.539 what was the name of the book? Geared for Life. 00:38:58.619 --> 00:39:01.960 Geared for Life, okay. One of the last things 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.059 I want to do before the plugs is, I know you 00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:10.280 love nachos. Yes. Okay, so I, Danny or Amanda, 00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:13.099 do you have any suggestions for nachos in Syracuse? 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:17.679 I don't live in Syracuse, I live close, I commute 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:19.800 every day. I could tell you Ithaca, but you're 00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:21.699 not gonna be there. Off the top of your head, 00:39:21.719 --> 00:39:25.119 do we have any suggestions for nachos? If not, 00:39:25.780 --> 00:39:29.780 in the comments below, folks, give Bryce Kenney 00:39:29.780 --> 00:39:32.940 your recommendations for the best nachos in Syracuse. 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:36.860 This man loves nachos, and that's... Oh, what 00:39:36.860 --> 00:39:40.840 is it? Guadalajara, okay? Okay. Not the country, 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:43.260 right? The restaurant? Yeah. Okay, okay. Yeah, 00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:47.260 we're not gonna send you there. Copper Top is 00:39:47.260 --> 00:39:53.380 another one. Okay. They're different than normal 00:39:53.380 --> 00:39:55.239 nachos. That's what I think he's looking for. 00:39:55.300 --> 00:39:59.300 Yeah, he's different than most Drivers listen 00:39:59.300 --> 00:40:01.840 it has been an absolute pleasure talking you 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:04.480 I could ask you a hundred more questions But 00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.320 I wish you the best of luck Bryce Kenny He drives 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:12.500 the tech deck wreck deck at the JMA wireless 00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:17.510 dome this Saturday for Monster Jam truck series, 00:40:17.690 --> 00:40:19.469 or what's the actual name of the event so I plug 00:40:19.469 --> 00:40:23.070 it properly? Just Monster Jam. At the JMA Wireless 00:40:23.070 --> 00:40:25.909 Dome this Saturday, starts at 3 p .m. The VIP 00:40:25.909 --> 00:40:27.730 meet -and -greet and all that stuff is in the 00:40:27.730 --> 00:40:31.090 morning, so get your tickets for that. Any other 00:40:31.090 --> 00:40:34.360 plugs, websites, social media handles? No, you 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:37.340 guys are great, man. I always try to hit dinosaur 00:40:37.340 --> 00:40:38.840 barbecue when I come home town. Oh, hell yeah. 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.719 I always try to do that. So the nacho recommendations 00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:44.059 are perfect. Appreciate that. I'll have to try. 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:45.820 I think you said Coppertown, right? Is that what 00:40:45.820 --> 00:40:48.739 I heard? Coppertop. Coppertop. All right. They're 00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:51.280 an Italian nacho. So that's something different. 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:53.139 All right. That's what I'm after. You got it? 00:40:53.139 --> 00:40:54.900 You know what? You're going to be outside of 00:40:54.900 --> 00:40:57.159 your comfort zone, Bryce. That's right. That's 00:40:57.159 --> 00:40:58.920 what you want. And that's why I'm going to make 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:03.679 it. Dude, I'm a fan now for life. And I have 00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:06.079 to work this weekend. We have an event. Otherwise, 00:41:06.139 --> 00:41:08.420 I would be there. But I will be at the next one. 00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:10.920 We are so thankful you came on. Bryce Kenny, 00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:13.860 you can see him at the JMA Wireless Dome this 00:41:13.860 --> 00:41:17.340 Saturday, 3 PM for Monster Jam. Bryce, thank 00:41:17.340 --> 00:41:19.239 you so much for your time, man. And good luck. 00:41:19.469 --> 00:41:21.389 Hey, I appreciate that. Thank you, guys. And 00:41:21.389 --> 00:41:23.429 we'll catch you at the next one. And I hope the 00:41:23.429 --> 00:41:27.750 Porta Potty surveillance went well. And I just 00:41:27.750 --> 00:41:29.610 hope everyone in Syracuse comes out to Monster 00:41:29.610 --> 00:41:31.989 Jam. We love the fans there. They always pack 00:41:31.989 --> 00:41:33.570 it out, and they're loud. So we're going to come 00:41:33.570 --> 00:41:35.349 out there. We're going to earn some respect in 00:41:35.349 --> 00:41:37.050 the Tech Deck, Rec Deck truck. And we're going 00:41:37.050 --> 00:41:38.449 to have a blast. But I appreciate you guys having 00:41:38.449 --> 00:41:40.929 me on. Bryce, we love you, man. Thank you. And 00:41:40.929 --> 00:41:43.570 with that, that is another episode of Good News 00:41:43.570 --> 00:41:47.110 York. We will see you tomorrow. Actually, I think 00:41:47.110 --> 00:41:50.000 we have another guest today. We've got Kam's 00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:52.360 Pizza coming, so we have a double bill today. 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:54.820 So either we'll see you tomorrow or we'll be 00:41:54.820 --> 00:41:57.519 back on Good News York, sponsored by ads on the 00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:04.199 go, getadsonthego .com. Listen, I honestly just 00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:05.019 had a blast, man.