Jonathan Moffett (00:00.12) Can we ask you some fun questions? Like some of the mythology and superstition in sports is always really fascinating to us. You never have to pee while you're driving. You never like, I need to fit stuff. What do I have a story for you? was just gonna ask because I was like, how much is sweat loss and how much is urine loss? Welcome Mythfits.

Jonathan Moffett (00:42.126) everyone, welcome to another Myth Fits. I'm Kari Byron. And I am Tory Bellacchi. Thank you guys so much for coming back. Well, yesterday, you know that I'm teaching Stella to drive. We went on the freeway for the very first time. I like how you use the word teaching Stella to drive.

Yeah, I mean, it's been a learning process for both of us because being in the passenger seat, I feel like we're always going to side swipe the cars over here because she's still trying to figure out like the spatial balance of where the car should be in the road. I didn't, she wants to drive everywhere we go so she can learn. So we were on our way down to the store and I didn't really think about the fact that we were going to be on the 280 for a while.

that like that's going to be the transition. So we're going to be on a highway and then the freeway. I'm like, okay, well, we got to jump in sometime, you know, push you in the pool, learn to swim. So we started to get towards the entrance and she's like, what, what, what, we're getting on the freeway. I'm like, we're doing this. You got this. I'm going to talk you through it. It's fine if you go, you know, we've got this. it was, I'm

I'm learning to, that if I make a hand movement or try to grab a handle or there's so many things that trigger her that she can tell I'm scared and that freaks her out. So I've learned I have to do something with my hands. So I have to, I have a a liquid death water that I'm drinking so that I have something to do and you know, like I'm stress eating licorice or something. So it looks like I'm just casually hanging out. I'm not terrified for my life.

but we made it through, like we had a nice long driving session and like kind of in the chill place where we're almost on the way back home, she's like, yeah, you know, I've seen people drive with their knees and stuff. Like I can't let go of the wheel. I'm like, okay, that's a good idea. She's like, I mean, holding onto the wheel, do your palms ever get sweaty? I'm like, well, they're sweaty right now. They don't get sweaty when you're driving. You're making me sweat kid.

Jonathan Moffett (02:49.198) we did it. We did it. feel like that was a that was a big moment for us. Like we got we got through freeway. We did it. We're on our way. That's awesome. God, that's so different from my experience growing up. My dad hates this story because I love your dad's stories. Go on. He still feels horrible about this. And I'm just going to right now, Dad, I forgive you. It's it's a funny story now. So.

I inherited my grandfather's truck. So he bought a new truck. So I got this truck and it was like a 1972 Ford Courier and it had a choke. So you had to pull the choke out. This is how old it was. You had to pull the choke out. You'd start the engine. Once the engine was running, you'd push the choke back in. So I was learning in this stick shift. And so my dad is taking me around. And so we come to the stop and I'm trying to find the gear and there's cars coming. My dad's like,

You're stopping too long. You have to go. You have to go. And I'm like, there's two cars. I just like slammed on the gas, screeched out into the street. We almost got hit by two of these cars. And he's all, pull over, pull over. And I'm just like, freaked out that we almost got in this car wreck. And now I'm freaked out because my dad's yelling at me. And he's like, need to learn how to drive better.

And I'm just, I was like shaking and I'm like almost peed my pants. I'm like, okay. So then after that experience, I was like, there's no way I'm ever going for a ride with him again. Like he can't, he, don't think he's the one that should be teaching me. So what I would do is when they would go to work and I'd get home from school, I would sneak this truck out and go drive around, pick up my cousins or whatever. Yeah. And that's how I learned how to drive by just basically sneaking out. But you know what? It's funny because all this talk about cars.

Right now it's car week here in Monterey. And so I'm like super pumped. I'm like just running around like a kid in a candy store, taking photos, just looking, just insane cars, old classics. But on Saturdays there's a race, the Laguna Seca Classics. And so we're gonna go out to that. But the reason I talk about racing, our guest today is somebody who we met when we did the Indy myths way back in like 2011.

Jonathan Moffett (05:10.306) This kind of funny because when we met Connor Daly, the race car driver, he was not a race car driver. He was out. What was he? He was like a teenager. He was a car. He was a kart racer. So he was racing and he was like, you know, like he apparently was a really good kart racer. But he his dream was to be an Indy car driver. Man, I remember him. He was cute. He was cute. He was was so young. I can't believe he's like.

grown now that just shows how long ago the show was that he's a real life professional race car driver and has been for a long time. Yeah, it's weird because we went out to Indy to test all these racing myths specifically for Indianapolis. And he was just this kid kind of tagging along, watching us film. And now to see the progression in his career, I the dude is a

an incredible driver and he's a beast. And I'm just so excited that we have him on the podcast. Let's see, we were testing whether over a short distance, an Indy car or somebody who could run really, really fast would be faster because the myth was like over, what was it, 10 meters or 30 meters? It was, yeah, I forget how long it was, but basically that a person could outrun an Indy in that initial startup.

And we had Ryan Briscoe as the driver and Wallace Spearman was our runner. There was like some conspiracies going on about that experiment because they, the people at Indy didn't want this guy to outrun the car. And so they were like tuning the car so it had like softer tires, giving the car a better advantage of getting off the line quicker than a normal Indy race. They were gaming the system for this?

This is what I heard, like they were changing out the tires, they adjusted the maybe the height of the car. I forget what it was. Yeah, they were tweaking the car so that it had a faster off the line performance. Okay, Wallace Spearman, I remember seeing him, he really wanted to win. He really wanted to prove that he was faster in a car, because that would have been so good for his reputation. They didn't need to game that car because...

Jonathan Moffett (07:29.582) That car goes really fast and Brian is a professional driver. And I mean, I feel like maybe over like the shorter distance, I think Wallace might've been able to take it. He was so fast off the line, just not fast enough to get maybe 30 meters. He also had been on MythBusters before when he was trying to run on water. Do you remember that myth? Like you could run so fast you'd run on water. So we already had a relationship with him and.

I mean, overall, he's just like he was a super nice guy. So he was great on camera and hilarious. Like, I mean, the guy was a stud. Some of the other myths we tested were can any car there's so much suction as it drives over a manhole that it would actually suck it out of the street. We tested that one. That one, I believe, was busted. That was that was busted. It didn't get high enough off the ground like that. The Bernoulli effect would create a low pressure system that would suck up the manhole. Yeah. I mean, that's why they they

They all, mean, they already just out of precaution go and weld them all down before they race on the street, right? The one that was like slightly embarrassing, I have to say, was when they had us test if you can lose 10 pounds in an Indy car race. And for that, they're like, you're going to go to the spa and be in bathing suits. I forgot about that. They wanted to like see how much we could lose in perspiration just by being in a sauna. I'm like,

Right. is awkward. Like, okay, first of all, glad we're using bathing suits because I'm not going in there and just tell. But I pulled out this like weird gothy Halloween bathing suit because I'm like, I'm not wearing a bikini on this show. You don't you don't pay me enough for that. Kind of wish I did. Back then was I look good back then. I don't know why I didn't do that anyway. So I'm wearing this like skeleton bathing suits.

And they've got just all these awkward shots of us just like sweating and laying around. It's like so gross. You were like in a towel, just like lounging up next to the hot tub and it is so awkward. If you ever have Tinder, I hope that would be like your opening picture. You said grinder in the text. Isn't that funny how you changed it to Tinder? I did text you that and say grinder.

Jonathan Moffett (09:46.284) Yeah, just assumed you'd rather I say Tinder. Back then there wasn't online dating anyway, so you wouldn't have been on either. My favorite part of that whole show was when we got to go and race. then once we had to ramp it up to the Indy cars, they were like, so Tori, you're going to have to drive this Indy car 60 laps around the oval. And I was like, this is the best day of my life. It was like, it was.

I've never been happier. had grin, a permagrim the entire time. And it was just so surreal watching the tires and just like on that historic track. was one of those like once in a lifetime experiences. Dream come true. mean, we've got to do a lot of cool things on the show and a lot of doors have opened and we've got that one. I'm going to admit, I was glad you got that one.

I was terrified just being on the Thunder Hill track riding around in Miata's and we weren't really going that fast, but I just kept skidding off the track. I was, I'm so glad that it was your dream and I was glad it was you. It is scary out there. I have so much respect for them because I don't know how they do it. I found it terrifying. And Carrie is teaching her daughter how to drive. Yeah, but clearly not on a track going.

Top speed pedal to the metal. just going on the freeway. I think after the break we bring on Connor. I'm so fired up to talk to him. But I don't want to give it away. You want to surprise him with your hat? All right, guys. Stand by, because here comes Connor Daly.

Jonathan Moffett (11:37.358) Welcome back Mythfits. Now, Kerry, we have a guest that we have known for a very long time. We actually met him at the Indy 500 when we were testing Indy Myths. And at the time, he was a kid. don't know, he was like, I don't even, 17 or 18, but he hadn't started racing in the Indy yet, but that was his dream. And he is our guest today, Indy Racer.

Connor Daily. Connor, what is up, dude? What a treat. Great to be here with you folks. And that was a long time ago. actually, I think that was like my first era of iPhone as well. So I could scroll all the way back into my iCloud of photos. And I think some of my very first photos are of you guys with that Indy car on the back straight of the road course. So pretty funny to look back on. And then we became very good friends after that tour.

We've hung out a lot more after that and in many different states of mind. By the way, I got a rep. What's that? What a hat. Connor, do you remember meeting us for the first time when Mythbusters came to Indianapolis? I do because when I heard about it, I was a TV guy, right? I'm watching TV before school. On school nights, you're catching some TV shows.

I feel like if you didn't know what Mythbusters was, you were living under a rock. it was, it was, I feel like it was just, it was one of the coolest things at the time. And, when I heard that you guys were at the racetrack, I immediately wanted to come out. I even got like a, think I might even still have the credential that I got for being at the track. It might be up in my room. I kid you not, I'll try to find it after this, but yeah, I mean,

Just to see the fact that you were out there and that IndyCar was involved, I was like, this is so cool. This is our sport. This is what I know. It was awesome. And then to then get to obviously put face to names and characters on television to reality is awesome for myself. in my life, I've been very lucky to get to meet so many people from different

Jonathan Moffett (14:04.768) areas of work, right? In different areas of professions. And I have so much respect for folks that, you know, have dedicated their lives to creating cool stuff for people or do it like being athletes, whatever it is. And you guys did that. So it was, it was really cool to get to meet and you know, I wasn't, I wasn't a driver yet. So I was like just on the up. So I didn't really have any like anything to add to the situation, but I just, I wanted to be there and

And that was a very, very meaningful experience for me personally. Well, it's crazy because I remember Scott Jasek, he was the one that was helping us with the two seater cars and doing all the myths. And he was one that introduced us. I just remember, like I felt like you were a little kid. was. I mean, in my mind, I remember you as a 12-year-old. But obviously, you were probably like 17 or 18. But I'm so proud of you.

how far you have come from that first initial meeting where yours is this little kid who's like, yeah, someday I wanna be an Indy driver. And everyone was like, oh, he's really good at cart racing. He's got a really good chance. And to see you now, it's just, I'm just so, I don't know, I just feel honored to know you and to see how well you've done. How long you been racing now?

So I started when I was 10 in go-karts, and I'm 33 now. I feel like I've definitely, I'm an experienced veteran now, but my first Indy 500 was 2013. I was 21 years old. So my career has been very weird, and it's been involuntarily weird. And up and down, I've been into the sport, out of the sport. But I've done over 120 Indy car races now, which I'm obviously really happy about and have had some good success.

some rough moments as well. But yeah, it's been a long career. I've raced all over. I tried to pursue Formula 1 as well when I was younger, lived in Europe for four years. Did the whole F1 ladder system, the whole NASCAR ladder system, all the IndyCar ladder system as well. I've been very lucky to kind of do a lot in this sport. Troy, you and I went out to Thunder Hill and we were trying to find out if you lose 10 pounds in a race because all of the

Jonathan Moffett (16:24.93) the stress and then the sweating and whatever. And we went around the track for like three hours in the heat. We lost about five pounds, which I thought was insane. But just in our silly cars going the speeds that we were going, I could barely keep that thing on the track. Every time I hit turn 11, I just ended up in the dirt, just skidding off. mean, Tori, you were clearly a better driver than me, but it's such an incredible.

I don't understand how you do that. It's actually really cool that you say that and that you guys did try to do that because it's. It's something that people say is that like, we lose a lot of weight, but that's true. Like I wore a sweat sensor for one of the races. One of those like things you can get aware on your arm during the race and it can measure basically all the sodium you lose and. I'm an Irish ginger fella, so I sweat standing up like I'm it's that's just what's happening. It's always.

going to be that way. But do you know how high your heart rate was while you were driving those cars as well? was there a heart rate monitor on you guys? When we tested with the Miata's, we didn't have heart rates. think when I went, because after we did that race, that was really a test to see who was going to be able to stay on track, because we were going to Indiana. And they were like, we're not going to let these guys drive this car if they're going to wipe them out.

hit the wall, so it turned out I was the one who could stay on the track. Nice. Well, so in that car, right? That's all right. That's OK. We can make progress. But like in that car, you got power steering. that helps you guys turn. did not. You didn't have power steering? that's good. That's more like us. was part of it. We wanted to have no power steering. stopped at the pit stops to take our vitals just to make sure that we weren't freaking out because it

We wanted to also drive where it was 90 degrees, because when you guys let us use the track, it was winter, and we knew it wouldn't be as hot. And how much weight do you say that you lose? I mean, it is without a doubt 8 to 10 pounds, for sure. 10 on the high end. I I measured it even very recently this year. We don't have scales that we can get in right after, because your body is almost so past the limit of exhaustion that you can't.

Jonathan Moffett (18:43.694) Like you just got to get watered. You can't like wait and like really true. Like it's, it's so hot in our cars now because they're kind of, we've got like a fighter jet canopy on the front of our Indy cars now. So there's essentially zero air movement now it's for safety, but there's a hole on the top where we can get in and out. But the way aerodynamics works is that the air doesn't go in that hole. The air is designed to go over that hole. So there's really no airflow in towards us.

And we have no power steering. Our heart rates are probably averaging about 155 for two and a half hours, if not more. So you're burning so much. And it is different depending on who the driver is. But some of the statistics of the sodium loss, I could find them in my phone somewhere. But it's something like 7,000 milligrams of sodium that I burned in one race. And it's like, that's a lot of salt.

coming out of me. You see it in my race suit, though, too. Like, if I have a black race suit on, when I'm done with the race, it's literally caked in salt. And that's just the sodium loss. Yeah, I'm crystallized, essentially. You never have to pee while you're driving. You never like, I need a pit stop. Boy, do I have a story for you. I was just going to ask because I was like, how much is sweat loss and how much is urine loss? I didn't think it was possible.

Honestly, thought I was like, there's no way I sweat so much that I've never had to pee in the car, never. But this year, not three months ago at the Indy 500, it's a little chillier than normal. It's a nice day, about 66 degrees. You're not really sweating as much in the pre-race. And it starts to sprinkle rain. And we can't race in the rain at Indy, at the Indy 500. So they make us get in the car, like tradition and all this stuff.

And then they just make us wait because it's still a little bit of sprinkling. And when you hydrate for the Indy 500, that's the longest, right? That's three and a half hours. You know, it's, it's a long battle. And so you're, you're drinking a lot before then, and it's not that hot in the pre-race ceremony. So you're not maybe sweating as much as normal. We're about 20 minutes into this delay and we're still sitting there. They don't let us get out because they're just hoping that the rain stops and we can just get, you know, this is a

Jonathan Moffett (21:00.622) This is the biggest event in the world, single largest sporting event in the world. Eight million people watching on TV. We're not letting these guys get out and delay it. We got to keep everyone in. And for the first time in my life, I had to pee myself. I let it go right there. We hadn't even left the grid yet. Hadn't even left the grid and I am urinating in the vehicle. And I couldn't believe it. We were sat there for 35, almost 40 minutes.

And, and I legitimately, uh, had to pee. then after that race, we got a sponsorship with depend. And so, uh, yeah, oddly enough, I told the story. I told the story at the victory banquet and I said, guys, I'm not going to lie to you. There's no way in my life that I ever thought this was going to happen. And I raced in my own pee. So it is possible. But other than that, like if the race starts on time to answer your question properly, I've never experienced it, like because you're sweating so much, even the race, like last weekend.

You know, you go to the bathroom before the race. I'm not peeing until seven hours later. Like it's a long period of rehydration, but yeah, I can't claim to have never peed in my car. So the answer is, do you ever have to pee? It depends. It depends. Yeah. No, we're not starting with funds. Nailed it. There were some other myths that we had tested on MythBusters, like could an Indy car pull a manhole out of the

ground, you know, yes. And we, we busted it with the Indy cars, but with F1, is that different? You know, it could like, that's literally from a scene in the movie Driven, I think, which is a whole, it was a great, great film. Sylvester Stallone, you know, back in the day, they had a drain covers, I think coming up off the ground and you see that in different films, but I bel, like I think it's possible.

Because we race on the street courses. like Long Beach is a street course. St. Petersburg is a street course. And we do go over drain covers. And there have been sessions stopped because the drain cover has been removed. Not necessarily all the way removed. Like not flying away. But they had to go and weld it down. So I believe that's for sure possible. And Formula One cars definitely create a little bit more downforce than us from the floor.

Jonathan Moffett (23:26.638) So if you got someone willing to let you potentially damage the floor of a Formula One car and run one over at 200 miles an hour, it feels like it would do that. If they ever let us do a revisit with Formula One, we could try it. mean, the whole idea that the Bernoulli effect creates such a low pressure zone underneath that car that it is the downforce that pushes the car down, but it's also the same force that sucks up the manhole.

I mean, Jamie and Adam built a really good test. I mean, they built something that is as heavy as a manhole cover, but they really couldn't get it to get enough lift. It was just like a tiny bit of lift. I feel like if we had Mythbusters again, we would have to get a Formula One race car. Because they just had the Formula One races in Vegas, and I think somebody did, like one of the cars did actually pull up a manhole. Really? Yeah. No, the very first year of the race, I was actually commentating on it.

Carlos Sainz's car. basically the Ferrari went over it and it had either already been displaced or something had happened and it basically ripped the bottom of the car out of the thing. so I don't think you can pull up the main cover to where it will like fly up because the ride height's too low. And if you hit, like if you, the car is long enough probably to where when you immediately get that suction, I don't know if the car is high enough to actually let it come out of the ground. You know what I mean?

But for sure, it will move. And it has moved. Like, we've seen that before. Why didn't they go weld all the manhole covers down? I thought that that was standard. It was a first year event. Yeah, first year event. I also did, I asked the same question, but they didn't have that problem year two, thankfully. Dang! I didn't realize that. That's crazy. I think it's definitely possible. there's a lot of wild science stuff.

Did you guys do the whole drive the car upside down as well with the aerodynamics yet? No, we didn't do that yet. Who's going to give us a million dollar car and say, go drive this upside down, let's hope it works and doesn't crash? We need to some investors because that would be awesome. When you start to think of it too, the engine's not made to be run upside down. So wouldn't oil drip and gas drip in ways that might stall the car out and then you're going to

Jonathan Moffett (25:50.414) crash the car upside down. I feel like we would definitely have ruined the car if we tried that one. I mean, we could build the track, we could find a tunnel, we could figure that out, maybe go for just like a second, but for like a prolonged amount of time, I just feel like gravity would work against us. I don't know, what do you think? Feeling how much our wings do, it's pretty impressive how much downforce we can create and

I don't know, if there's somehow a Hot Wheels like track to where you can slowly invert the vehicle and then have it only go for a certain amount and there's enough fuel in the tank to make sure that it doesn't get out of the fuel pump. I think it's possible, but it's definitely something in my lifetime I hope to live to see, because I think that would be wild. Can we ask you some fun questions? Like some of the mythology and superstition in sports is always really fascinating to us. For example,

Why do drivers kiss the bricks at Indy? Like around the track, there's that one area of bricks that I guess is from the old original track. Why do y'all kiss the bricks? 1909, yeah, those bricks have been there for over 100 years. It's really just tradition. it's something that, it's just all that I've known my entire life. Like that's what you got to do. You got to smooch those bricks. Like that's just the thing.

And it is the most prestigious, I mean, it is the biggest race in the sport of motor racing. So to get a chance to do that, to be honest, my racing history, I don't know exactly who the first was to kiss the bricks. I do not know that. But it's been going on a long time. And all I want to do in my life is make out with those bricks. And I never thought I would say that I wanted to make out with an inanimate object or a surface. But that's it.

I did it. I did it when I was there doing the White Rabbit episode. They let me free to just walk around the track. it was, I don't know, just, you could feel some history to it. was so cool. And so I'm like, I'm doing it. I left some lipstick on it. I love that. That's passion right there. What about drinking milk after the race? Again, another historical thing that I don't know why it happened, but.

Jonathan Moffett (28:04.91) Apparently one driver way like a long time ago, his first request after he won the race was for a cold glass of milk and the media and I guess the photographs were cold milk with this guy in victory lane and that was the tradition. There was one driver who apparently had a deal with like some Florida orange company or something like that.

And in 91, I think it was, or 92, is Emerson Fittipaldi actually drank orange juice instead in victory lane. A lot of people hated that. They were like, oh, breaking the tradition. You sell out. Just for money. Yeah, it's a sell out. So that was very highly frowned upon. But yeah, the tradition of cold milk. I don't even, I don't really drink milk, be honest. I'm a type 1 diabetic.

Milk really isn't high on my list. know, it's in case of emergency type thing, but I'm not consuming it on a regular basis. But boy, if I win that race, I will be chugging milk until I throw up. Because I guess if you chug a gallon, you throw up. I'm in. OK, so what are some of the bigger superstitions? Because we know in baseball, we've heard a lot about like silk underwear, that kind of thing. What are some big superstitions in racing? You know, one superstition that I don't know why, and it would really disagree with my entire life, but

Green is apparently a car color that you cannot have in racing. Apparently, if your car is green, that's bad luck. My car is green currently. Well, it has been green at some point this year. My helmet is black and green. So I guess I've had a lot of bad luck at random points in my life. So maybe that does apply in some cases. But there's some sort of weird superstition about green race cars that some race team owners have. But if it's a green sponsor or if anyone

wants to be on our car and they have green company colors, guess what? They're going on there. So I think we're going to root that one out. avoided? Do the racers just try to avoid your green car to not get in the bad mojo? Is there anybody like that? I don't know. I'm not entirely sure. But it's just something that I always thought was weird. And I've had it mentioned to me a couple of times because obviously I have a black and green helmet. But other than that, superstitions, I think it's just different for different drivers. I I've always seen.

Jonathan Moffett (30:18.862) Alexander Rossi is a good friend of mine. He always does this one thing before he gets in the race car, like always. And he's like, he like taps his knees. I think it's like a reaction thing or like a get your body moving or something like that. But he always does the same thing before he gets in the car. Ever since I've known him since a kid. I always like to put my left shoe on first. I don't know why. I always left shoe. I'm a left shoe only guy. I always only get in the race car from the left too. I can't get in from the right. I don't know why, but it's impossible. I literally look like I've

Like I forgot all the puzzle pieces when I get in from the right and I don't even try. So only can get in from the left. but yeah, other than that, I'm not sure unless you guys have more that you know of. Can you define what a waffle belly or a pit lizard is? wow. Well, that's, I don't know how much I can say nowadays. We don't want to, we don't want to make anyone upset, but it's, that's when people hang on the fence and they're watching the race. Right. This is back in the day. People were.

You know, you're shirtless at the Indy 500. You got your belly up against the fence. And that's what a waffle belly is. at least that's what I was told. So those are the big fans? The super fans are called waffle bellies? Could be some big fans. Could be some real, real big fans. Actionate fans. Are those the groupies? There could be those two, hand up. I don't know. I don't know. But there could be those two.

Our fans are called Myth Fits now because we're all myth fits. So you're a myth fit now too. I love it. Honestly, it's an honor.

Jonathan Moffett (32:01.166) Do you have any Mario and Dredi stories? Because that guy is such a character. I love him. He's like one of my favorite people. But I just want to hear if you have some crazy Mario stories. I love Mario and Dredi. I think as a human being, that guy is just like one of the true living gangsters, feel like still. Like he should be in the movie Goodfellas or something like that. He's an Italian-American guy. He's got great hair. still, you he was driving two-seater Indy cars until he was like 85 years old. Something crazy. Yep.

know, Formula One World Champion, Indy 500 champion, know, Michael Andretti, Marco Andretti, great son, great grandson, know, just incredible family. And I've been very lucky, like Marco became a very good friend of mine. And I obviously drove for Michael Andretti as well at the Indy 500. And that was, you know, still one of the most incredible experiences that I've had as a driver to be a part of that organization.

But Marco, you know, they live out in Pennsylvania, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, both Marco and Mario. And, know, they, they have like a little lake house out there too. So kind of not too far from the Nazareth P area, PA area. And Mario's got a lot of toys out there. He's, know, four wheelers, dirt bikes, and an ultralight as well. Like, he's just like an ultralight guy. So an ultralight is basically like a, it's like a lawnmower in the sky. It's got two giant wings.

one seat and like a propeller just basically behind a go-kart seat. And you can fly these things, you know, like over cornfields so you don't die very easily. But it's basically just one engine, one propeller and two giant wings. And he's in his eighties flying this thing. yeah. And I'll never forget, we're out in the lake riding jet skis or doing whatever. I was fishing, I think at one point and

Mario all of a sudden just appears about 50 feet off the ground in this ultralight shirtless and just flying by us on the lake. And I'm like, man, this guy is so cool. Like I don't even know if there are seat belts on this thing, but Mario Andretti's ultralight and banked in and we're like, well, that guy's awesome. And it was just one of the coolest things that I feel like I've ever seen. then like that night.

Jonathan Moffett (34:19.692) We're smoking cigars and drinking wine in his like wine room in his basement of his house. And I'm like, I'm gonna frame this moment in my mind as like the coolest time ever because I'm a race fan, right? I was a race fan first. And my dad got to race against like Mario way back in the day in Formula One. And I just thought like, there's not many people who probably get a chance to do this. So I'm gonna hang this on my mental wall of fame for sure. It was just an amazing time.

Connor, it is so good to see you. Thank you so much for coming on the show, dude. It's like, I just, miss hanging out. It's so good to catch up. Good to see you. I wish I was seeing you this Saturday, brother. We appreciate you guys as well. Thanks for having me on. Thanks, Connor. We really appreciate that. All the Mythfits out there probably have a million questions for you. So if they wanted to follow you on social media or ask questions themselves or, you know, even check out your race schedule, where can we find you? Yeah, for sure. I'm at

Connor Daily 22 on everything and it's C-O-N-O-R-D-A-L-Y. Sometimes Connor's easy to misspell. That's cool. But Connor Daily 22 on everything and then my podcast is called the Speed Street Podcast as well. You can find it on any of the places we find podcasts and then on YouTube as well as the video version under my YouTube channel, which is Connor Daily 22. So yeah, I appreciate the MifFit blessing and.

Yeah, it's been awesome to talk to you guys, honestly. I knew it would be a very fun conversation. Everybody go listen to his podcast. Thank you, Connor. Thank you. I love Connor, man. It was so good to talk to him. He has done so well. It's awesome. He is so cool. I love the whole hometown story. He is the movie right there, you know, from kart racing to becoming a driver and going from the kid that looked up to all the professional drivers to

being one himself. It's just, I'm just so proud of him. He's just, he's awesome. All right. Is it time to look at fan questions? Yep. The end of the show, we always like to look at our social medias or YouTube. We look at all the comments on Instagram and we find MythFit questions. So all you MythFits out there, please keep asking questions, keep liking, subscribing, tell all your friends so that Tori and I can keep doing this. Cause I really enjoy it. I think this is fun. All right. Let's see. We've

Jonathan Moffett (36:40.546) Got one here from Emma Dolson. Tori, sounds like your kiddo may be a little young, but Carrie, did your daughter ever watch the show? And what about other family members and friends? Tori, your family definitely watched the show. I know your parents watch it every week, right? Yeah, yes, they did. It's weird that now my nephews are getting old enough and they're watching, they're not watching MythBusters so much, they're watching stuff that I've done online. And I remember the one time we first showed

my nephew, he was little. It was like some YouTube explosion show that I did. And he was watching it and he's like, how are you there and here at the same time? That's so cute. Well, because he thinks that everybody in the TV is just living inside there like little, that's so cute. I mean, my parents were always so proud. I'm like, my dad wore a MythBusters shirt until there were.

holes in it. He would bring it up at meetings. Like I bet people were sick of hearing about what I was doing. Like so much pride. My daughter was, I mean, you remember I used to bring her on the show and sometimes she would like, I have this awesome video where she's playing with the cameraman with balloons and she had a little tiny Mythbusters t-shirt. You know, she watched cartoons sitting under my desk, but she doesn't remember watching the show because when it was on, she was so tiny.

And she didn't really have a long-term memory at that point. So as she got older and her friends' parents or her friends kinda kept sending her clips or whatever, she doesn't think it sounds like me. She's like, that's your TV voice. It's really creepy. It's weird watching you. I think maybe someday she'll appreciate it, but at this point she's like, no, I don't wanna watch you there. That's like a different person.

Totally. I remember one time watching the episode, it was like Thanksgiving and my brother and I were watching it and it was like the early days where I was like so nervous and like I was at the blueprint and I said something and he looked over and he's like, huh, it looks like you. Doesn't sound like you. I was like, dude, I'm so nervous all the time on the show. Yeah, I mean, every time we would try to talk normal on the show, they're like more energy.

Jonathan Moffett (39:04.246) Or crack, would say. Okay. I drink a lot of caffeine to try to keep up how on you had to be all the time when the camera was on. mean, all day long, they're like, okay, get excited. it doesn't, it's us, but it's not us. I found that it, when I started dating again, I found that there were men showing up that were expecting that version of me. That would be hilarious.

Hi, I'm Kerry, nice to meet you. So we're gonna go to dinner tonight and then you're gonna treat me. The second I found out that they were really, really huge MythBuster fans, I just kind of lost interest. I'm like, I can't keep up with that. I can't keep up with the image that you think that I am. I even had some guys show up that were clearly just looking for a good story that they could tell rather than like they wanted to be interested in me. And it was so disheartening. like, you want a selfie?

What? You're sending a selfie to your kid right now? Like, hi, I'm a real person. It was so odd. I guess the answer to that question is Tori's daughter's too little. My daughter doesn't really want to watch me. But our families always did. Well, thank you so much for sending in your questions. We love these. But if you want, send in a video question and maybe you'll end up on the show.

Yeah, I think on Instagram you can leave a video or an audio message for us and we'd be happy to answer your questions. That's awesome. Thank you guys for being there. Thanks for listening. Thanks for letting us talk to Connor Daly on the show today, because it was so much fun. And with that, stay weird. Stay weird MythBits. MythBits out.

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