Jarett Andretti
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Jarett: [00:00:00] I do, 

Vince: I do have one, one topic. So this goes back a couple years, I think we were doing a tour of Mm-Hmm. Thetic facility. Yep. And, uh, I had the girls with me, and I don't recall how this came up somehow in conversation between you and them. Uh, it was chicken tenders, or sorry, chicken attendees or chicken nuggets.

Vince: And they got in this, this debate of 

Jarett: which, which was better. Which was better. Yeah. Yeah. It's funny, actually, I had this picture, hang on. Last night I wore, I have this shirt. Um. I had the shirt that I wear and, uh, a buddy of my, my cod driver's wife got it for me actually for Christmas last year. And that was me at the having dinner last night.

Jarett: There you go. Nice. And, uh, so I, uh, that's a, so tenders, so chicken, send these tenders or tenders is what you're after. So, so what happened is, with that, there's always a story for everything and it gets, but I was, I have a. My engineer, when I started riding to McLaren every night we'd go out to dinner. I'd always get, I always got chicken.

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. Chicken tenders, basically everywhere we went, and I [00:01:00] didn't even notice it, it was just, when you're ice on the weekends, it's, you want something you can eat, you want, it's you, you, it's, you go to all these odd places, you can't mess up chicken, chicken tenders. It's like you just, you cut 'em, you put 'em in the fry, you make sure they're done.

Jarett: You bring 'em out to me. It's not like getting a steak where you can get 'em. All kinds of different, it's it's simple. Yeah, it's easy. And so he used to make fun of me for chicken tenders and he would be, you know, they would take our lunch order. They didn't even ask me, they just bring me chicken tenders.

Jarett: So, so he, so it was making me, and he called him Tendy. So he, I'd be lunch and he goes, it's Tendy time for you Jar. And he'd here they go. So, and you low maintenance's, there's nothing wrong with 

Vince: that? No. Uh, there's actually a guy, one of our vendors, um, has a sales rep. Just like that. I mean, you could go to St.

Vince: Elbows, he will try to figure out how to get chicken tenders. I'm like, dude, just order a steak. He said, no, I just want chicken 

Jarett: tenders. So, uh, uh, the funny thing, and I'll tell you that, um, that burger study right around the corner, Mm-Hmm. And that used, you know, it was owned by elbows and all those guys.

Jarett: Yep. Unfortunately stopped. But they had the best chicken tenders I've ever had. Okay. Believe it or not. So if you go to Izzy's at the airport, they serve them. Okay? So if you ever go [00:02:00] there with the girls or whatever, go there a little early, right? Stop, get some chicken tenders there. They're amazing. Get the hot and mustard with them.

Jarett: They're, they're primo. So you heard 

it 

Vince: here first guys chicken tenders at Harry and Izzy's at the Indianapolis 

Jarett: International Airport. That's right. That's right. You can't start a, you can't start a trip or end a trip better sometimes I just stop there on the way. You know, I'm land and I'm like, all right, I gotta get some food.

Jarett: Sit here and have a salad in the tenders. And. Move on, be on your way. Yeah, it's perfect. You, you said you got salad with it, so I mean, you're good. Yeah. That's why it life's about balance. Yeah. 

Vince: Nice. Um, before we started recording, we were talking a little bit about, um, and I don't wanna proceed or, um, you know, jump in too far, but we were talking about different car manufacturers and, and the, the series, A series that you're running now.

Vince: Um. If you had, of the different manufacturers that are running that. So I, you heard I'd heard, uh, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, 

Jarett: McLaren. Um, there's McLaren's, there's um, BMWs. Okay. There's, um, I think there's nine. There's Lexus. [00:03:00] Um, okay. Who, who el what other car manufacturers? There's Ford, there's Chevy, the Ford Mustang, and then the Corvette.

Jarett: Okay. Um. And there's a couple other ones that I don't, I don't know who else I'm missing, but they're Aston Martin. Okay. Um, so there's like, yeah. Nine or 10 manufacturers that have, I mean, if you look, it's funny, you look at like the Ford Mustang and the thing looks like you could take it into war. It's like a tank.

Jarett: It's this huge big diffuser. Big splitter, massive. And you look at the Ferrari and it looks like it, you know, you're looking at the, you could be, you're probably looking at the blue oval. Yeah. When you're sitting in the car and the, it's probably is where your rear view mirror comes out, is probably where the blue oval is on their car.

Jarett: Okay. Oh, wow. And so it's like so different the way that you look at Yeah. And they all have to race against each other Right. Under the same guidelines and rules and Yeah. So fairly even, 

Vince: or like I said, just differs on 

Jarett: the year. Yeah. It, it, it, it, it differs on the year and it differs on like every year somebody comes out, usually with an EVO kid or a new car, and that's always difficult.

Jarett: So it, the series does [00:04:00] as good. I mean, I don't envy them, I'm gonna be honest with you. I mean, I, it's easy to complain, but I don't envy them to getting that All right. Yeah. You know, because there's so much data to go through every car. Yeah. You have four drivers in each of these cars. I mean, you have, you know, in some of these GT stuff, you have a hundred, you got a hundred drivers in our class alone for Daytona, and then you have nine manufacturers with different tires, fuel level, all kinds of stuff.

Jarett: It's like. It's really hard to get right. When you did, did 

Vince: Daytona, was it two drivers or three? It's four. Four, yeah. Okay. 24 hour. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And then. Typically, I, I guess it probably varies depend how people are feeling. What's the rotation? 

Jarett: Yeah. It, it, it does vary how people are feeling. Like, and like, we had a guy get a blister this year.

Jarett: We had a guy hurt his ribs. So one guy that drove like a ton of the race, you know, he just, the way it worked out for him, he drove a ton of the race that he wasn't otherwise slated to drive, so. Okay. Um, it just works out differently. The other races are a lot more structured. Um, but yeah, Daytona, it's kind of.

Jarett: How, how [00:05:00] a guy's feeling, how a guy's running, things like that. You know, you have a set plan, but that plan is like, I mean, it's depends on how things are going. I mean, it's mean, it's a plan, but it's like not really a plan. It's loose. Yeah. Yeah. It's very e evolves because you, you run the race, like it's gonna be green the whole time and it never runs green the whole time.

Jarett: Okay. So you end up cutting stents off. So what ends up is you're like, you're gonna be 27 stents, but you end up being like 22. Okay. You know, because of the yellows. So then you end up with like, so then you cut like the last five stints off and then you end up with, okay, who's, where you're gonna be with, who's gonna be finishing the race for you?

Jarett: Who's doing this, who's doing that? You know, so it's, and then there's rain sometimes, and then there's guys that have experience in the rain and you're like, okay, them to running the rain and you this or that, you know? So, yeah. Okay. Of the different 

Vince: manufacturers and models that are in your class, if you look at the.

Vince: Street version, the consumer version of that vehicle. 

Jarett: Yeah. [00:06:00] 

Vince: Forgetting any contracts in place. Yeah. Which one you 

Jarett: personally would you want to go with? Oh, like in the street? Yeah. I mean, like I told you before, like I've always had that tie to Ferrari, my dad and everything. You know, we watch Formula One Ferrari, but my dad.

Jarett: You know, it's easy to say now you're driving a Porsche, but it's like he, he won Daytona in 9 62. He drove for them in the IndyCar stuff. Like you can't beat a GT three R, you know, on the street. So like, I like the Ferrari for that tie, you know, because it's just, that's the romantic brand. Right. You know, you, you can't beat a red Ferrari, in my opinion.

Jarett: Yeah. But like for utility as far as a sports car and having something that will run forever, you know, because Ferrari's are notoriously. Iffy. Yeah. You know, and but the, the GT three R you just, you can drive it every day. Yeah. You know, and it's not like a Lamborghini or McLaren or any of these other things where it's, you know, it's, it's built to last.

Jarett: That's right. Okay. 

Vince: All right. Duly noted. 

Jarett: Yeah. Yeah. I'll just put in my order now, but I think you have to wait three years or something to get [00:07:00] one. And they're, they're cheaper. The, the, oh yeah. Porsches are cheaper, relatively speaking. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're, yeah. I mean, I didn't say they're cheap, they're cheaper.

Jarett: I mean, I got built one recently and it was like. 300 something grand. But I was like, and that's obviously a ton of cash, but I was looking at, and you're like, you look at the Ferrari and like the base model is, this was like souped up. This was like all the cool stuff. All the, all the kit, everything. Yeah.

Jarett: 3, 3 50 and then like you get like a, and, but the nice thing about the Porsches is not to put the sales pitch. Same thing Ferrari. But if you buy a G GT three R, you can sell it the next year or a year and a half. And make money on it and just buy another one. Mm-Hmm. So it, it's like that whole racket where you can, you know Right.

Jarett: But if you get the right Ferrari, you buy it for half a million and it's worth a million instantly. And so, but to get an allocation, you have to spend 5 million with them. Right. To get to that point, you know, but it's, it's not money that I have nor will probably ever have, so I'm not gonna worry about it.

Jarett: Yeah. I hear you. Yeah. 

Vince: Well, maybe we, we all pull and running together, then we will. [00:08:00] Yeah, yeah. Right. It should be close 

Jarett: enough. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Fine. All right, let's get rolling.

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Jarett: Um, 

Vince: today, if you haven't figured it out by now, we are joined by Mr. Jarrett Andre Jarrett, welcome 

Jarett: to the Summits podcast. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. You're welcome. 

Vince: Um, why don't we get into, we were talking about racing a little bit there, but let's go back to the.

Vince: Where, where it all started. Give 

Jarett: us a little background intro on yourself. Yeah, [00:09:00] so, um, so I was born here in Indy, um, and then I moved to Charlotte and uh, moved to Charlotte 'cause my dad was racing cup cars down there. So I grew up in Charlotte and went to school there. Went to NC State and then moved back to Indy to, to continue racing in 20, probably 20 14, 20 15.

Jarett: And then I've kind of been here ever since. But I do like to travel quite a bit and, uh. I grew up in the south, and so these winters are not, um, these last couple days would've been whatever, you know, sixties. That's kind of like the kind of winner that I'm accustomed to. And if it gets below freezing in Charlotte, it's kind of, you know, it's.

Jarett: It's mayhem. Yeah. Shuts down. And so here it's like, you know when you get in and it's minus three or something like that, or feels like minus 10, it's um, it's time for me to head south. Yeah. So I 

Vince: actually had to go to Chicago a month or so ago. I mean, it was cold here. It's only three hours away, but I roll in and there's one of those billboards that shows, you know, the time, temperature, whatever.

Vince: And it was minus nine. Yeah. And so I got to our office, I got outta the car and I was like, hold, like, I know I'm getting older, but like yeah, that 

Jarett: was [00:10:00] freaking cold. Cold. There is something about like that. Um. That Chicago, and I know they call it the windy city, but then, and then they have the lake in Cleveland.

Jarett: Yeah. And then you in like Wisconsin, like that extra hour north to Milwaukee or that Cleveland. Mm-Hmm. Like I've been in there and been to those places in the winter. And I'm like, it, it feels totally d it feels like it goes through you. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, I 

Vince: was just gonna say, you already had the air temperature of minus nine.

Vince: It was, you know, naturally breezy up there. Yeah. And to your point, like you felt like just that breeze coming through, it was going right through your coat, like your Yeah. It was awful. Yeah. But anyway, I digress. Uh, NC State, what was, 

Jarett: what was your major in college? Uh, business administration. Um, at that 

Vince: point in time you had, you were probably go-karting and doing some other racing, I 

Jarett: assume.

Jarett: Yeah, I was racing sprint cars here, so I was actually, uh, I was actually driving, me and my dad I drive from, um, so we, my dad and my mom, uh, lived in Charlotte with my sisters. So I drive the two and a half hours to Raleigh. I would do, uh, classes Monday through Wednesday. I drive back to Charlotte on Wednesday, we'd drive overnight [00:11:00] to Indy me and my dad, and then we would race.

Jarett: Um, you know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then drive back and go to school. So there was a lot of times I was rolling into class on Monday, having raced on Sunday night, and then I would just, just go right into class. Like I would just park and go straight to class. And it was like, you know, like I was racing dirt sprint cars at the time, so you're still like, you know, I'm like totally cooked.

Jarett: I'm a, you know, half asleep or fully asleep and trying to like, you know, you know, it's attendance so you have to be there. Mm-Hmm. And so, yeah, so that was, that was a fun. That was a fun couple years. I, I did have a blast. It was a good time. Me and my dad spent a lot of windshield time together. I'm sure, you know, with what transpired the next couple years, obviously that, that time even means even more now.

Jarett: For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

Vince: At that point in time, so you're, you know, 18 to 22 

Jarett: ish, um, did 

Vince: you think that this was going to be your career path or you, you wanted it to be? Um, certainly I would, I would, I would assume, um, at what point. Did you kinda make a decision, Hey, [00:12:00] yeah, I, I want to get into racing like 

Jarett: legitimately.

Jarett: Yeah. I think, I think what we started, I did kinda did a couple go-kart things when I was in high school with my dad. He came off the road and then it was kind of like, we kinda got our sprint car built and then we started to race that in Indiana and it was kind of like, all right, we're gonna do this.

Jarett: And then you kind of just build your life around that as wanting to race. And you know, you don't really think about when you're 18, 19, you don't really think about. Too far ahead of your, you know, it's kind of like, let's just, I just wanna go racing. Mm-Hmm. So let's just race as much as we can. And we ran sprint cars and so I, I built my whole life around that.

Jarett: And I graduated early from school so I could, I could move to Indy. So I moved, I, I zipped up a, I had a bag that I lived out of since the moment I left home at 18 and I zipped it back up and went. Moved in with family down here after I graduated in December, after the new year, and took care of the sprint car program and um, built cars and stuff like that.

Jarett: And then I never, I never unpacked that bag for like 10 years until I finally bought my house here. So [00:13:00] I remember when I unpacked that bag for the first, you know, that, that time I was, oh, wow. This is where everything finally gets to stay, you know? Yeah. And so, um, so that was, you know, that's. I'm not gonna say it was like, oh yeah, we're definitely gonna, but it was just like, let's just race as much as we can.

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. And let's just keep racing and keep talking to people and keep getting sponsors and keep everybody happy and let's just see where it takes us. Yeah. Yeah. Your dad 

Vince: did a variety of racing from IndyCar to nascar, um, and probably a whole lot of other things that I'm not, I'm not even aware of. But was there any.

Vince: That probably shaped maybe your interest, I would think. But like was there any particular path that you wanted to go down? Or was it just like, Hey, I, I'll 

Jarett: race whatever? Yeah, I mean, I think that there wasn't really anything and I got into racing pretty late. Uh, I mean I was 17, almost 18 at that point.

Jarett: Okay. And so there's a lot of kids that were, I mean, you see guys now they're driving IndyCar or Formula. I mean Vertin was 1617 driving Formula One car. So it's like, you know, it was really not like a [00:14:00] structured. Anything. It, it's been totally unstructured. That's how his career was. Yeah. He just kind of drove whatever he could, whenever he got a chance.

Jarett: And then that's kind of how my, my career's taken me. It's kind of gone different places, different areas, different cars, lots of different people. Mm-Hmm. And so it, it's never been like, I've never had the luxury of saying, I wanna do this and I'm going to do this. Right. It was always just been like, oh yeah, that sounds fun.

Jarett: Let's do that. Yeah. You know? And that makes sense. So then, based 

Vince: on the mix of experience so far, what has been your favorite. Thing to drive and maybe your least 

Jarett: favorite thing to drive. Yeah. I, I think, um, I, I really enjoyed the sprint cars just racing as much as we did here in India. I mean, you race 60 times a year, you would race, you'd go time.

Jarett: Yeah. It was a lot of time. And you would go, I mean, it was fun years when me and my dad, when we would just race however we wanted, we'd race two or three nights a week and then we would just say, okay. We'd always have like a guy with us and we'd be like, all right, Friday night it looks like rain. We're gonna race up north, but.

Jarett: There's no rain down south, we'll just turn the trailer down south [00:15:00] and go racing, you know? Yeah. Or there's some times where we race six, seven times in a row, six, seven nights in a row, and we would look at each other and like, we were like getting ready to leave for like night six, and we, he would look at me and I'd look at him and we'd just close the door and go get something to eat.

Jarett: We were just like, you know what, we don't, you know, we are just beat, you know, this is not, so it was, it was fun to kind of. To kind of do that, you know, I mean we could and, but we raced a ton and, um, there's very, more often than not, we went to races where maybe we shouldn't have. 'cause of it was like, it looks like rain.

Jarett: Well we, we think we can make it. And we'd go there and, you know, it'd rain out. Okay, nevermind. We should stay home. But, um, the sprint car was so fun just because of all that stuff and with the family and racing as much as we did. And, um, the stuff least, least favorite. Um, man, it's hard. I mean, I really enjoy, I enjoy it all, but like the, the go-kart stuff, when we got into it was, it's so different.

Jarett: It's fun because it's just like grassroots racing, but the go-kart stuff is, those guys were so good and [00:16:00] they were so, it's so finicky how they have to drive the carts that I never really got a. Good grasp on that because I was in, I was kind of like there for like a minute and then was doing sprint car stuff, so.

Jarett: Right. Um, so it's, you know, that's probably my, that's probably my least favorite of, of everything, but there's still a lot of fun and it's still a blast. So, yeah, it's like, you know, the delta between cars is very small. Okay. Of of how much I like and how much I dislike. You know, it's all fun. Yeah. Yeah. So the, the base, you know, if you draw a median and it's fun, they're all above it.

Jarett: Right. So it's, you know. That's fair. Yeah. Um, 

Vince: I know you've done a little open wheel, uh, racing. What's, what, what is your, um, I guess view of that versus the IMSA 

Jarett: stuff? Yeah, I think the open wheel stuff, the open wheel cars are very, um, everything just takes a different driving style. And the open wheel cars, the.

Jarett: That's, you know, you're racing against cars that are just all in your class, right? Yeah. So it's all like Indy cars. It's all, um, Indy cars or, um, [00:17:00] uh, just Indy Lights cars or US F two, whatever it is. But in, like in IMSA, there's four different classes. Yep. And so you're racing consistently wherever you're at in the traffic.

Jarett: You know, you might. Some guy, you know, we've been in the middle and we've also been the slowest car, you know, as far as like classes. Sure. So then you're always looking at, sometimes you're looking before in front of you and behind you, and then sometimes you're looking just behind you. Right. And so it's very interesting how you have to play that traffic, play that strategy.

Jarett: So it, that's been really. That's enjoyable. So yeah, I would, I mean, I 

Vince: have no experience with it, but I would think what you just described, I mean, your head's pretty much on a swivel. 'cause on one hand you're focused on trying to pass whoever's in front of you. But then if there are other classes that are much more, uh, more powerful, you're like, okay, I also need to watch for guys coming up behind me so I don't box them or take myself out.

Vince: Right. Get 

Jarett: in their way or whatever. And also you want to use them. To help you get around the guy in front of you. Oh yeah. So you have to, it's like, okay, so you're like, you want them to pass you strategically where you lose as little time as possible, but you want him to put the next guy in a bad [00:18:00] situation, right?

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. You know, you never want anybody get crashed, but you want somebody to be like, okay, if I let him go here, can I draft behind him somehow or something? Yeah. And sometimes you's like, okay, you get to a corner and you just, you let, you're able to let him go. And you wanna let him go because he would cost you more time with the next corner hoping that he gets to the next guy and cost him twice as much time as he's cost to you.

Jarett: So there's a, there's a strategy with everything, with all that stuff. Um, and then sometimes you have, you don't, you sometimes you're like, no, you just have to block and say, okay, this would cost me more time. Yep. And he just needs to be patient, you know? Yeah. So, so you, it's a give and take and you, you try to, you know, in those situations you wanna.

Jarett: You want, you take at the end of the race, you don't, you don't take early in the race. Right. So degree. How many cars are on the track in, in that street? Usually 60 plus. 60 plus. Yeah. Wow. That's crazy. That's wild. Yeah. Yeah. So there's a lot of cars. There's a lot of traffic. Lot of, it's very, very different than what, and the, the nice thing about M said is like at IndyCar Cup Cars, any single [00:19:00] make series, there's, there's races throughout the field.

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. But there's only one race for the lead. And if somebody's running away with it. That's kinda the end of the race, right? Yeah. And in IMSA there's four classes. So it's like, oh, the, the cla, the race in GTP is no good. Let's look at P two or let's look at GTD Pro or GTD and let's look at, you know, so you're gonna find a race for the lead.

Jarett: Usually in traffic somewhere in the thing. So you're gonna look at some finish, it's gonna be like neck and deck. Yeah. And I mean the finishes this year were all neck and neck I think in every, almost every class. Oh, that's cool. Wow. And it, so it's like there's action everywhere. It's not like one of those things where you know, you're like.

Jarett: Guys leading by four seconds in a cup race and you're like, this is, nothing's gonna happen. So over, because even in the IMSA stuff, guy could be leading, you catch traffic wrong two or three times you catch traffic at the bus stop as a GTP car, you catch it into turn one or something like that, you can lose two or three seconds like that.

Jarett: Right. And the guy's right back on you. So it's really, that's interesting. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, the racing is so good. Yeah. 

Vince: Into now [00:20:00] races regularly at. IMS? 

Jarett: Correct? Yeah. They've start, they've added the schedule. It starts, uh, started last year and goes this year as well. Okay. When is that? This year, do you know?

Jarett: So it's September 20th through the 22nd. Okay. Um, it's a six hour endurance race, which is really cool. Oh, okay. And the, the big thing they're pushing now is, um, you can park and camp in the infield. So you don't oftentimes get to do that, I guess. And um, so that's really cool. So yeah, what a better place to, to wake up and watch, see the pagoda and Right.

Jarett: And be woken up by race cars. Yeah. Yeah. 

Vince: Well, I have to go out and take a look at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Try that out. Pretty cool. Are you guys planning on being in that, I assume? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. That'll be fun. Well, Jared, we've talked, I know you and I chatted before, um, about this and you, you alluded to your experiences with your dad at growing up.

Vince: Mm-Hmm. And doing all the races and, and to your point. Those experiences are huge and stuff that, uh, certainly even have more money today. Um, what is, what is your guys' 

Jarett: cancer story? Yeah, I mean, uh, and I think that's kind of all here what Right. Unites us. And unfortunately, more often than not, you're gonna find somebody that's got a [00:21:00] story.

Jarett: You could probably go to anybody on the street and say, Hey, what, what have you, what have you dealt with with this? And, um, and they're gonna have a story. So, you know, unfortunately, you know. Every, you know, mine hits close to home, obviously with my father. You know, he got, you know, diagnosed with colorectal cancer at 2017.

Jarett: He's 53 years old. Didn't get a colonoscopy early enough, you know, his primary care doctor was not, um, told him, oh yeah, you're fine. You're fine and you're healthy. Right. You're fine. And you know, they call it the silent killer for a reason. Yeah. And, um, unfortunately, they didn't get one. Um, and, uh, at 53 got diagnosed and, you know, he fought it tooth and nail for three years.

Jarett: And, and he, you know, he did, it went very quickly from stage two, stage three, stage four, which, you know, metastasized from the colon to the liver and to, you know, other places. And, um. So when, you know, when that happens, you know, he's, you know, you're fighting with [00:22:00] chemo and you have the chemo and the surgeries and all the other stuff that goes along with it.

Jarett: Right. I think he did over 30 rounds of chemo. He did multiple surgeries. You know, I can't even, I, I lost count honestly. He did clinical trials, all kinds of stuff. So, I mean, he fought to the, to the very end, which is what you'd expect from, from a race car driver, right? Sure. Yeah. You know, it was, it was, you know, you never, he's like, I only, he, he always tell me, he's like, I only need them to find the cure the day before I die.

Jarett: He's like, so if I can get one more day out of it, one more day. Yeah. And I was like, you know, it's, I like, that's a good mentality. I like that. Mm-Hmm. Um, and, and you know, with the clinical trial, he said, you know, if he would always like, I, I wanna be part of a, if I can help be part of a solution, then that's, you know, that that gives.

Jarett: That gives it more, you know, more meaning, right? Mm-Hmm. You know, he wanted to maybe if it wasn't going to help him directly, if it could help somebody else. That was, and I think that's the whole genesis and basis of the foundation. Right. You know, it's, it's like unfortunately [00:23:00] he's gone and from our lives, but we can use the foundation, the respect that he had in the community, the name and the goodwill that he's built up.

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. To. Not only drive awareness, but also donate colonoscopies and all, you know, actually not just awareness campaigns, we, but be boots on the ground and actually, yeah, donating and delivering colonoscopies, um, and paving the way for people that otherwise. Wouldn't get one. Right. You know, they want one need one, but can't get one.

Jarett: Sure. Um, I had the 

Vince: pleasure of meeting your dad. Um, I don't remember what year it was. He was definitely in the midst of his battle. Uh, this kind tells you about what kind of a guy, uh, John Andrei was. So we just, there was a bunch of people around, so it was kind of small talk, but, um, it was, he, he went directly wanted to go into what we were doing relative to the pediatric side, what we were doing for kids.

Vince: Yeah. Um, who were in the hospital with cancer, despite everything that he was going through. Yeah. And how you could tell he was not [00:24:00] feeling the greatest, um, but was more interested in, in what, you know, what we're doing for, to help other people. That's, that's 

Jarett: pretty telling. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was him.

Jarett: Yeah, that was him. And, um, and that's why he was, he was obviously very big support. He's a big supporter Riley, um, over the years. And, um, and so that, that's been, you know, that was his way of giving back to the community. Yeah. And, um, yeah, he wanted to, he always wanted to help and I think that's, he was very private and, but he was like, you know, keeping this to myself is not, doesn't really do anybody any good other than me.

Jarett: Right. Because I don't want to have, I don't wanna have the conversation everywhere I go. But it got to a point where it was, you know, he realized how much good he was making, you know, was doing Mm-Hmm. Right. We'd be at a, at a race, and I was telling the story a couple days ago, you know, you'd be at a race sprint car race caught Kokomo, and somebody from the stands would go, Hey, John just got my colonoscopy.

Jarett: You know, and you're, it's just funny where it's like 10 years ago, nobody would've ever said that. Right, right. Yeah. You know what I mean? But it was like, you know, it might be some [00:25:00] big guy with a beard, with a big beard in his hand and you know, Hey, I just got my colonoscopy, you know, so it's breaking down the stigmatism of that, right?

Jarett: Mm-Hmm. Um. 'cause it's something everybody needs to get done. You know, it's 45 now and if you have family history or you have other problems, it needs to be sooner. It needs to be on everybody's health check 'cause you, it's preventable, right? So, mm-hmm. But, so those things were good. And then he would, you know, we would chuckle, right?

Jarett: We would laugh because, you know, people would just in, in everyday area, it might be at Applebee's or something like that, eating dinner, and someone would say, Hey, John just got my colon. Well that's great. Maybe you don't wanna hear about it right now. But, you know, that was, I, I appreciate, hey, maybe I just went and got screened, you know?

Jarett: Yeah. You know? Yeah. But it was funny how people would be so excited to, to tell him, you know? Oh, that's good. I mean, 

Vince: to your point that it's, 

Jarett: that's progress for sure. Yeah. It, it is, it is. So, and um, yeah, so. F for me, it's been normal. I've never had, there's been no stigma around it for me. Right. Obviously I've gotten one and I need to get one this year as a matter of fact.

Jarett: And, um, yeah. So. You know, we talk about it all the time, [00:26:00] and I know probably way more about prep kids and fit tests and, and all that stuff than I ever thought I'd ever know. But you know, that's, that's, you know, life takes you, right? Yeah, it does. 

Vince: Yeah. Right. Yeah. Um, so let's shift into what you guys are doing.

Vince: Um, you know, we talked to a lot of people about who, who take the emotion of a situation and turn it into action. What are you guys doing? 

Jarett: Yeah, so we had a, uh. You know, we had a individual and we had been kicking around the idea of the foundation. Um, and, um, we had a individual, um, who donates every year.

Jarett: Really, really nice guy. He has a company in, uh, in Pennsylvania, and he called me after, um, my dad's, um, service in Indianapolis. And I remember it was a, it was a, it was a day like yesterday where it was like rainy and kind of crappy. Mm-Hmm. And I was driving back from the gym and, um, he was like, Hey, Jarret, um, whatcha gonna do?

Jarett: For the foundation. I said, well, it's really an awareness campaign. Me and dad and mom never really discussed exactly like what steps or anything like that. 'cause my dad didn't say, Hey, you gotta do this or anything like that. He [00:27:00] was kind of like, you know, it's awareness campaign, you know, that's cool.

Jarett: Mm-hmm. And um, he was like, no, you don't understand. I have a check, I need you to do something with it. And I said, um, understood. So I, I got it, message received, I'll go talk to my mom. And so I came home and talked to my mom. She was at my house with all the girls. And, um, I said, Hey, this guy said, and she goes, I've been thinking we need to do something with that.

Jarett: So, um, so at, you know, obviously that was early 2020. That was probably February. Okay. So it's like. We had a lot of time to work on it. Yeah. Because we all, about a month later, we were all sitting back at home and, um, my aunt Carolyn, who's my dad's older sister, she's an attorney, she did the 5 0 1 C3 application, um, and we got it in November.

Jarett: Luckily for us, with her. She was an attorney, very diligent, did it, no mistakes, no problems. Went right through. So we were like, you know, you, you have these little times where it's like you feel like you got a little help, [00:28:00] right? Mm-Hmm. Because everybody was starting stuff at that point, right? Because they didn't have anything else to do.

Jarett: Hey, you know, I wanna start this project. I'm at home. I'm working from home, right? Yeah. Not a lot busy. And it just went straight through. So in November we got our designation, which would've been November of 2020. We spent, um, spent a year trying to figure out, okay, how do we, so now we have. You know our number mm-Hmm.

Jarett: We've got no dollars, no money, and we've got, um, no way of getting colonoscopies to people. So you're, you gotta start our business basically, and you're like, okay, how do we raise funds? We had a lot of people chip in. Um, and we have, um, our Roundup campaign going with our carting centers. So you go to the carting centers.

Jarett: Okay. So we have six Andre Indoor carting and games. Um, two in Atlanta, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Orlando. They do a roundup campaign. We're opening up one in Arizona actually next week. Yeah. Cool. And, um, they've been a steady flow of, you know, of help. We've, we've built the endowment, we've done all that kind of stuff.

Jarett: [00:29:00] Um, but you know how we're getting the colonoscopies of people. 'cause you know, we. It's, it's harder to give away stuff than you actually, than you expect, believe it or not. And I'm sure you found that out, you know, in, you're trying to give stuff to people, um, and you have to go through the right channels.

Jarett: So we found a doctor, um, and now we have multiple doctors that, mm-hmm. Bought onto the mission, actually Dr. Patel, who did my colonoscopy in Northeast Digestive. And then we have Dr. Ty, um, in Rowan County now, but we have, um. And, um, so those, Dr. Patel was the first one in. He donated 10 free of charge. We paid for anything else remainder, and he gave us a set price and we just, and so we tied it into the free and charitable clinic in that area.

Jarett: And they have people that, anybody that comes in, there's 300% below the poverty line. So they come in, go to the direct primary care, they think, oh, we might need a colonoscopy. They do a fit test, do the fit test. If it comes back positive for sure, you have to go do that. But if it doesn't. Um, if you [00:30:00] still think you need one, still goes over there.

Jarett: So the foundation has no, we just pay Mm-Hmm. We have, I'm not a doctor obviously, and I don't want to tell who, who doesn't, I just wanna raise money Right. And try to get colonoscopies to people. So we're very lucky now because, um, in addition to that, we've got a fit test partner called Poly Meco that donates fit tests, and then we have a prep partner called Ella Pharmaceuticals.

Jarett: So we have these people that are also helping us, so we can go to any. You know, anybody's watching this has a free and charitable clinic and a GI doctor. We have, you know, a way to help, we have a way to help. We have fit tests, we have prep kits, and we have, you know, a way to try to try to help with colonoscopies, um, with financial support.

Jarett: So we have that and we've done over 50 so far. Nice. And we're working on, I can see the momentum growing and building. It's just like we're very close on getting, and I think we're gonna start taking big. Big chunks. Mm-Hmm. Outta that. So, um, at least that's what I hope. I hope I don't come back in a year and go, well, I've done, you know, I hope I get a couple of those over the [00:31:00] line.

Jarett: Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's awesome. 

Vince: Um, 

Jarett: how do people find out more about that? Just go check it friend ready work. Okay. And you can learn about my dad's story, can learn about our partners. You can learn about all that stuff. Um, so is it the number four or FORF number four. Number four. Yep. So that's, that's how we do, um.

Jarett: That's the best place to go. The Twitter account and Instagram account. The, sorry. The Instagram account's very active, so if you want to go there. Okay. That, that does a great job. Yeah. Much more active than like mine and, you know, some of the other stuff. So they, they do a good job. Um, and my mom's in charge of it, you know, I have to give her all the credit.

Jarett: I mean, I don't, she's very much Batman and I'm very much Robin and I try to just help and do whatever she doesn't wanna do. Mm-Hmm. And, um, and so she's. She's the lead on that. So she's done a great job, got the website up and running and so it's been, it's been really cool. It's been, it started from literally just like this, us sitting around and going, I think we should do this.

Jarett: Right. You know? So that's cool. And it's amazing when you start to do [00:32:00] something, you start to pull on the rope. How many people start to join you and you look around and they got 40 people pulling on the rope with you going, oh man, this is really right. This is really, and we have more than that. Anybody that's donated via the karting centers.

Jarett: They're on the, they're on that side of the rope with us, so, right. 

Vince: Yeah. It, uh, it takes a village, 

Jarett: as they say. Yeah. 

Vince: Definitely does. Well, mama, ready? Good job. Good for you on that. Again, they got, guys, let's check it for the number four ready.org. Take a look, uh, the website, join, uh, or follow 'em on Instagram.

Vince: Uh, they would appreciate that very much, and so would we. Um, all right, so we've, we've covered chicken tenders, attendees. M ssa. Yeah. And the different manufacturers, uh, within that, obviously, uh, your cancer story and what you guys are doing there. Mm-Hmm. Really missed. 

Jarett: What's, uh, what's, what does the future look like for you after MSA or what's the, is there a next series you're interested in or, I don't think so.

Jarett: I think MTAs really, [00:33:00] it's growing immensely year after year. I mean, year over year we're getting 25% bumps. In attendance. I mean, this was the highest attended Rolex 24 ever. So, um, so I, I think EMSA is a great place to be. Um, the schedule's great. It's 10 races. You do some testing, um, you know, with everything else that's going on, doing.

Jarett: More is probably difficult for me, you know? Yeah. 'cause I, I, you know, you do want to de dedicate time to the foundation and things like that. So, um, I really like mun and I really like the racing here and racing in the states and racing close to home, so it's nice to, there's three or four races that I can just drive to.

Jarett: Yeah. So that's, that, that helps a lot. So, yeah. What, 

Vince: uh, you said the attendance at Daytona was the highest they've had. Mm-Hmm. Either forever or in a while. What, what did they 

Jarett: attribute that to? Honestly, I think it's because, um, a lot of people have sports, car racing. It's been getting more and more popular, but, Mm-Hmm.

Jarett: Um, where I think sports car racing reaches [00:34:00] a better demographic is the accessibility for fans. Mm-Hmm. So, like, there's so many dads with their daughter, son kids in strollers, and they're coming and they're looking and. Those are the cars that they see in, you know, whatever it is, need for speed or grant charisma or whatever it is, right?

Jarett: They're all the, and they get to go see a Lamborghini up close and they get to see, and you go, there's a grid walk, so free grid walk. So you go to the grid walk, they can ski up close and personal. All the cars, they come in the garage, get up close and personal with all the cars and teams. The access is unprecedented for what?

Jarett: It's like drag racing, you know, it's that sports cars and drag racing. You get that much, that much access. And MSO has done a great job of reaching the younger demographic, which. You know, it is Vince, if it's, if you can take and you say, Hey Cindy, we wanna do this, but we, and we can take the kids, right? Or, Hey, it's gotta be just us two.

Jarett: It's a whole, you're 50% or less likely to do the one that's just you guys Correct. Than everything else. Right. Because you wanna, you get your, your free time's valuable and you wanna spend it with [00:35:00] your, your dogs. That's just the way it goes. Yep, yep. And you can go to the races inexpensively, your whole family and say, this is what we're gonna do.

Jarett: And. The cool thing is, is you see a lot of, you know, there might be people that they get a hotel in Daytona and the wife might stay back with the daughter, but then the dad and the son come back at two in the morning. Okay. You know, or three in the morning, or four in the morning and they get to spend some time together.

Jarett: It might be the daughter, you know? Yeah. And so it's really, that's what's really cool is to see the fans just, they kind of grow up in the sport and then they don't leave because they get all these different cars and Mm-Hmm. Whatever, you know, they have different prototypes and different GT cars and all kinds of cool stuff and Right.

Jarett: So I got two 

Vince: questions. One is, as a driver with the fan accessibility, do you like it? I mean, I guess I could see where maybe it, it has, might have some issues, but is that something that energized you guys or excites you 

Jarett: guys at all or it, it, it's really cool. So when I first started doing MSA, it was at the beginning of 2021 and I raced all 2020 [00:36:00] with no fans obviously.

Jarett: Yeah. And, um. So beginning 20 and then I went to, we did like two races I think, and then we went to the Glen and that was the first time that they really opened it up. Okay. Ironically, it was in New York, which, um, I dunno how they got that done, but props to IMSA and, um, but went there and they had the fan walk and that was the fir and I was like, oh my, look at all these people, you know?

Jarett: And then it was so cool because you used to just, you know, you hear the national anthem and you look around and there's, there's nobody there. Mm-Hmm. You know, or whatever, and you're like, oh no, this is like a, yeah, this is a. Y when the people are there, it, it does add to it. Yeah. And you see all the fans and you see, and sometimes you see people.

Jarett: Now we start to see people year after year at the same places. And they're, I'm like, I remember you. And they're like, oh yeah, I come to this race every year. So it's kind of funny to see that. Sure. And um, so it is awesome to have the fans that the fans there and you don't really app, you didn't really get to appreciate it until they weren't there.

Jarett: Yeah. Yeah. And then you say, then you come back and you're like, oh, this is really [00:37:00] cool. Right. Certainly there's times when you're like trying to go to the bathroom and there's a hoard of people and you can't get to the bathroom. There's certainly, there's certainly some frustrations at some points, but it's like, yeah, that's pretty minor in the grand scheme of how, right.

Jarett: How cool it is to have all the people there and you see 'em too. Two years ago, Daytona was like freezing. I mean, it was. Literally like 32 at night. And you look up and people are in blankets, they have fires, they, they pick fire pits. And I'm like, you guys are nuts. Like, but that's so cool to have that and, you know, see that.

Jarett: So yeah. Yeah. That's cool. I've 

Vince: not. I don't think I've ever been to an SA race. I need to go for sure. Go to the one in September. Yeah. At, at IMS. But, um, I'm wondering if, if the attraction now is that you, obviously the cars you're racing are not street cars clearly, but the identity with the manufacturers are cars that people somewhat regularly see to, so, so to speak.

Vince: Mm-Hmm. Versus in any, I mean, you're not gonna see in any car on Meridian Street out here. Um, does that maybe draw some people in 

Daniel: too? Yes. [00:38:00] Because there's. 

Jarett: Some level of familiarity maybe. Yeah. There it a hundred percent does. And also there's a lot of car clubs. Like you have the Porsche Car Club, the Corvette Corral, the this, and it's everybody.

Jarett: They come in and they connect with other like-minded people that own cars like theirs. Mm-Hmm. And they have certain areas where they can park. Okay, the Porsche Club can park here, here's all the spots. You come in, you watch the Porsches run, you cheer for them. Yeah. Same with Corvettes and BMWs and all the other stuff.

Jarett: So yeah. So it's, it's kinda one of those things where you. They come in and they are cheering for the car that they have in their garage. Yeah. And it's different too, because it's like an indie car or nascar. Usually guys get tied to a driver. Mm-Hmm. Right. You know? Mm-Hmm. Where these guys get tied to a car, a branded manufacturer.

Jarett: Yeah. Which is, which is cool. Which is great, you know, it's fantastic. It's like, you know, I want, I just wanna see a Porsche, A BMW, whatever, win. And, um, so yeah, it's definitely that tie. Yeah. And you can, I mean, the cars that, that we race, you can, I mean, as a, if you have obviously enough. Cash. You can buy one and you can go out and [00:39:00] take it as a track day car, you know, so you can, they, they can sell you those types of things.

Jarett: Yeah. It's not a street car and it's an expensive track day car, but if you, if you want to do that, you can do that and you can actually say, oh, I have one of these at whatever, motor club, Monticello, thermal, whatever, and I get to test it and I know what it's like to drive this car. Yeah. Which you're never gonna see a fan typically that says, Hey, I drove an indie car at.

Jarett: You know what I mean? Yeah. Or a cup car. Right. So, so sometimes it's, you know. It, you have that additional interaction as well. Right. That's understand. 

Vince: Yeah. So you're saying there's a chance, there's a, there's, there's definitely a chance. There's a small chance, but there's chance. Very slim. Very 

Jarett: slim. But you know, you just need, you just need hit the lottery the day before they stop selling.

Jarett: Exactly. It's just like my dad. Yeah, exactly. Final the day before. 

Vince: Well played, and then that's what it's gonna take too. All right. Cool. Well, Jarret, thank you for taking the time out. Thank you. And joining us. Thanks you for sharing your story. We appreciate, we're very happy with what you guys are doing.

Vince: Keep it up. Mm-Hmm. Um, if there's any way we can assist and, and help push that, uh, that message [00:40:00] out, we're happy to do so. 

Jarett: Thank you. I appreciate it. Appreciate you guys having me on and, um. Yeah. Thank you. We'll see you in September. Perfect. Awesome. 

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