Episode Transcript: #1065 - Danica Patrick
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Yes, and we're live. Hello, Danica Patrick.
Hi. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for doing this. I appreciate it.
I'm excited to be here. You're an intense lady. You've got a lot of intensity. When I met you, like right away, I'm like, whoa, gotta take this one in.
Well, you know, it's the handshake and then it's the, you know, when someone actually looks you in the eye.
Well, you have to be intense. I mean, what you do for a living is probably one of the craziest things a human being can do.
Do you think so? It's up there for a job. How fast do you go?
Uh, 200. Plus, I mean, like, you know, NASCAR's top speed is probably 215. Indy cars, maybe more like 240.
And I'm going to do the Daytona 500 next month and then the Indy 500 in May. So those are going to be my last few races.
So. The last ones ever? Yeah. Really? Yeah. It's, uh, this is my Danica Double goodbye tour.
Why are you doing that? How come you're doing a Danica Double goodbye? Is it enough is enough?
I'm ready. Um, I mean, I love racing, but I love other things too. So, um, you know, I'm okay with transitioning out.
And there was a lot of things that were kind of just pointing me in this direction. Yeah. Um, in 2017, stuff that has never happened to me before,
um, to kind of, yeah, head towards the exit a little bit, but I'm good with that. I'm a very decisive person.
So, um, this is probably one of them that I thought about a little bit, um, as far as like how to be done or, or if to be done, I guess.
But, um, the how was the hardest part. My agent kept calling and saying, what about this? And what if you did that?
And I'm like, no, no, no, you all need to get ready for me to be done. Please. Wow.
And, uh, so then he came up with the, he's like, what if you finish up at the Daytona for the 500?
And I was like, what about the Indy 500? And he goes, and I was really only referring to the Indy 500.
And he was like, well, I'd, I'd love you to do both. And I was like, oh, well, that's a good idea.
So, um, there's this thing in racing called the double, which is doing the Indy 500, um, on Memorial Day weekend on Sunday,