This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I heard a comment that resonated while watching my favorite Sunday Morning news program. It was from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich who was talking about the labor unrest in Hollywood. He said we’re all in the U.S. economy together. And he implied…
IndyCar Mid-Ohio Winner Alex Palou came into The Freak Nation minutes after his win Sunday. Palou has won three of the last four IndyCar races and leads the series by 110 points after nine of 17 races. Palou’s future is brighter than ever. Some have him going to F1 next year. He won’t talk about…
Lucas Oil Trans-Am Driver Tomy Drissi came into The Freak Nation Sunday night to celebrate the Fourth of July Holiday and the rainy weekend in Chicago whee NASCAR raced on a street course. Drissi races a Ford Mustang for Lucas Oil in the TransAm series. He’s third in the season standings, 105 points out of…
Legendary Drivers Richard Petty & Don Garlits talked with the Freaks many years ago. Petty talked about NASCAR’s future and the possibility of racing in Big Cities. We pulled that from our Freakin’ Flashback Files. And on Petty’s 86th birthday Sunday, we remembered Legendary Drag Racer Don Garlits telling us about how he considered Petty’s…
There were many stories written this week making Chicago the first NASCAR street ever. But Kenny Sargent covered one way back in September of 1999 in Los Angeles around the Los Angeles Coliseum parking lot. Some major names were in the NASCAR Southwest Tour race including Cup stars Kenny Irwin (pictured) and Ken Schrader. Listen…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. I’m often critical of NASCAR but this Chicago street race thing was positively inspired. Overlook the weather. It rains in the Midwest in the summertime. The layout of the track, though, was excellent. It inspired racing bumper to bumper. Even the drivers had…
On The Freaks 23rd Anniversary broadcast we look into the vault of incredible interviews including this one from 2002 with Legendary Stunt Man Evel Knievel. Knievel was one of The Freaks favorite guests through the years. His stories are as big as his legendary status. We cut 17 minutes into a little more than six…
20-Time World of Outlaws Champion Steve Kinser came into The Freak Nation in 2005. It was a blistering hot summer afternoon in Sedalia, Missouri but we were able to get Kinser out of his motorhome where he was trying to fix a broken air conditioner. One we got him down in front of the camera…
NASCAR Personality Kenny Wallace has been in The Freak Nation several times. This was from 2006 when Wallace relaxed enough to take on a fellow driver on the track: NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kurt Busch. He also had some opinions on Don The Snake Prudhomme and the women who roam the pits “for no apparent…
This is the Statt Mann Baby. Time to Scatt a little bit. Three weeks ago, I offered the idea that NASCAR could attract new private equity money if it would put a cap on spending and allow teams to make a profit. I said it would take five years. Well, it didn’t take five weeks.…
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