In this episode, I sit down with Danica Patrick to talk about her career in IndyCar and NASCAR, her retirement from the sport, and her plans for the future. We talk about how she decided to leave the sport and what she's looking forward to in the next chapter of her life after racing full time in NASCAR. We also talk a little bit about astrology and what it means to be in alignment with the moon and the stars, and how it can affect your day to day life in general. I hope you enjoy this episode and that you have a great rest of your week! Danica is an amazing human being and I know you'll enjoy listening to her speak about her life and her career. I hope that you enjoy it and that it makes you think about how amazing it is to be a human being. I know that it's a privilege to be able to listen to someone like Danica, and I can't wait to have her on the show again. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast, Danica! I appreciate you! XOXO, Ryan & Jack xx - The Wanger Show is a podcast where we talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and success in the world. - Ryan and Jack xoxo - The Crewhouse Podcast Music: "Good Morning America" by The Good Morning America (feat. John Rocha) and "Goodbye" by Suneaters (featuring DanicaPatrick & The Good Life Crew Thanks for listening to this episode of the Wangercast. & "Good Luck" by the Good Morning Crew Crews Thank You for coming to the podcast! - Thank you for listening and Good Luck! - The Good Luck Crew! - Thank You, Jack Good Luck & Good Luck!! by The Bad Luck Crew. (The Good Life Team -- The Good Effort Crew & Thank You To You, Good Luck Good Luck, Thank You For Coming Out, Love & Keep On Keep On Trucking, - by Danica . , The Bad Morning Crews & The Bad News Crew? "Bye Bye, My Dear Danica? - Jack & Jack | @ , xo - Danica and Jack - Good Luck - Cheers, &
00:00:34.000I 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.
00:00:44.000So those are going to be my last few races.
00:01:01.000I mean, I love racing, but I love other things, too.
00:01:03.000So, you know, I'm okay with transitioning out.
00:01:08.000And there was a lot of things that were kind of just pointing me in this direction in 2017. Stuff that has never happened to me before to kind of...
00:01:58.000So there's this thing in racing called the Double, which is doing the Indy 500 on Memorial Day weekend on Sunday and then flying straight to Charlotte to do the Coke 600 afterwards, and that's kind of known as the Double.
00:02:10.000But this is what we're calling the Danica Double, and it has to do with just having spent a chunk of my career in IndyCar and a chunk of my career in NASCAR, and it just kind of feels like the right way to go out.
00:03:19.000I'm trying to understand how it really matters, but I don't know.
00:03:25.000There's definitely some things, at least with the moon, that goes on.
00:03:28.000I mean, the water changes with the moon, so doesn't that mean that other things should too, whether it be energetically or something like that?
00:03:35.000I think the water and the moon thing kind of makes sense a little bit.
00:03:53.000There's something someone sent me about the Army using crystals, and I was like, this has got to be like an Onion article, that the Army was using crystals for, like, medics.
00:04:23.000Don't you think there's a plant that cures everything out there?
00:04:26.000There probably is something like that in the Amazon that maybe not cures everything, but there's probably a lot of stuff that we don't know about.
00:04:32.000That's where essential oils come from, right?
00:04:46.000So your sponsor leaving you, you were like, that's it?
00:04:48.000It's just never happened to me before.
00:04:50.000I've always been someone that's been really well funded and always had a sponsor...
00:04:55.000Always had a sponsor and never a problem.
00:04:57.000And so, yeah, it was just things like that were happening.
00:05:00.000I got in a few big wrecks in a row, like probably three and six weeks that were, you know, like I was bawling in the medical center after the third one going, I mean, I was running like top 10 and a car blew a rotor and clipped me and put me in the wall.
00:05:20.000And I'm like, what is what is the message?
00:05:23.000What is someone trying to tell me right now?
00:05:24.000And so, you know, after I collected my shit and got my face looking like halfway decent to go talk to the media out there, I finally got out.
00:05:31.000But yeah, just stuff like that was happening.
00:05:33.000And I was I was in a very go with the flow mood in 2017. I wasn't pushing for anything because I wasn't really sure what I wanted.
00:05:41.000So I just let the universe take care of it.
00:05:43.000You've got a very interesting way of looking at things.
00:05:46.000When things go wrong, you're like, what is the universe trying to tell me?
00:05:50.000You're not like, well, I drive really fucking fast for a living, and sometimes shit goes wrong.
00:06:07.000And metal and rubber and things just...
00:06:10.000Well, you got to trust in something when you're out there because you're doing, like you said, 200 plus miles an hour with people that aren't your friends around you with walls around you as well.
00:06:22.000So you kind of got to put your trust in something else.
00:06:25.000Yeah, that's why I was getting at that.
00:06:27.000Because I think the way you think is a lot...
00:06:30.000It's very similar to the way fighter pilots think.
00:06:32.000Fighter pilots have a lot of weird superstitions and a lot of pilots do.
00:06:37.000A lot of people that are involved in intense things.
00:06:59.000I got that when I was 19. It's like an American flag that fades to a checkered flag, and then there's...
00:07:05.000I got that when I was 19. When I was about 27, I went and got the rest, which was angel wings and some stars.
00:07:11.000And, you know, it's not the most beautiful piece of art, but it means something to me.
00:07:17.000It won't be really beautiful in 30 years, I'm sure.
00:07:19.00040. But yeah, my point is that I would definitely pray that I was taken care of and you've got to hand that off and just go do your damn job and not be afraid and just trust in the fate of everything.
00:07:33.000And yeah, so that's kind of where the angel wings come in.
00:07:35.000Well, I think that people that do inherently risky things oftentimes look for signs or look for some sort of, you know, some direction, some message from the universe.
00:07:49.000Well, I mean, I feel like as a race car driver, I've thought about this a lot lately, and I wonder how much of our job is a little less even just feeling what's happening and how much is actually maybe more intuitive.
00:08:03.000Maybe we're having more intuitive understanding of what's going on and what's coming than we realize.
00:08:08.000We just are so—everything's happening so fast that you just think, oh, I have a really good feel, you know?
00:08:17.000I mean, I'm sure there's some of that, too.
00:08:20.000So I think that maybe athletes or people at an elite level are more in touch with that intuitive side, that finite, like, last thread of feel— Maybe it's beyond feel.
00:09:42.000Well, I would imagine like you kind of melt away and you're just completely involved in the task.
00:09:47.000When I think about what I have to do, like let's say as an example, coming in for a pit stop and you've got your throttle, brake, clutch, gears, all the different things that you have to do.
00:09:57.000To think about it logically, what you have to do is so much more confusing than just going on instinct of like, just do it.
00:10:05.000Because you only have two feet, but you have three pedals, and you have to use all three pedals at some point in time, but you want to be ready for everything, and you're coming in with the clutch in, on the brake, but then you have to get to the throttle just in time, but you have to have the clutch in,
00:10:21.000and you have to hold the brake so you make sure you don't roll.
00:10:23.000There's all kinds of things you have to do using all three pedals, but you have two feet, and so when you have to think about what you have to do, it's a little more overwhelming than just doing it.
00:12:30.000I think it's entirely possible that memory gets transferred through DNA. And that there are certain people that have a long line of adventurous people in their family, and that gets transferred to the DNA of the children.
00:13:35.000I have children, and one of the things that's really fascinating about watching a child develop from a baby to a kid and see their personality is you realize there's a lot of stuff that's just what they come with.
00:16:47.000The only thing I study up, well, study.
00:16:51.000If I'm doing a speech or if I'm doing something for a company, for a sponsor, and I need to make sure that I have my talking points ready, I mean, I spend 15 minutes or 30 minutes or 5 minutes making sure that I'm organized in my head about what it is that I need to get out there so that I can do my job and deliver.
00:17:10.000But other than that, I never studied in school.
00:18:29.000I can't remember, but when I was talking about signing my contract when Mercury was in retrograde, I talked to an astrologer and she said, just don't sign any contracts.
00:18:41.000I mean, I was kind of learning about some of this stuff because it was quite a few years ago now, but I remember the next, it was a year and a half later or so, and, you know, shit hit the fan, and I was like, that damn astrologer was right!
00:18:55.000Now, okay, Mercury in retrograde is pretty standard information if you're into astrology at all, but yeah.
00:19:02.000She said, I saw a psychic in Sedona a few years ago, and she said that professionally over the next four years, your life's going to go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:19:10.000And I thought, man, I'm going to win a bunch of races.
00:20:45.000I think those people are just nuts and there's a lot of people that want to think they're special and they want to think they have special gifts.
00:21:12.000He does a show in Vegas and he freaks people out.
00:21:14.000But he'll tell you right away, I am not a psychic.
00:21:17.000He's like, there's techniques to this and it's something I've been doing my whole life and you just get really good at it and he knows how to do it.
00:23:07.000I think some of the connections and the intuition and some superstitions and ideas that we have are probably based in this limited understanding that we have in the connection that we have to events and humans and life.
00:23:21.000But I think there's also bullshit involved too.
00:23:28.000But I think it's entirely possible that intuition is a developing sense That we don't totally have yet.
00:23:37.000I think if you think about all the things that people can do, hearing and seeing and touching and smelling and all the different senses that we have, we assume that that covers the full gamut of possibilities, but I don't think that's true.
00:25:54.000Yeah, that really is the main question I can't answer because I'm not them, and I know that from enough experience now, because I used to not really look into it much, and in the IndyCar days, you couldn't hit each other, you know, you really, I mean,
00:26:09.000it was, you know, you could block and things like that, so there were some guys out there that were assholes, and I didn't like them, but, you know.
00:26:16.000Every driver has some other drivers that they don't really get along with.
00:26:20.000But in NASCAR, you can hit each other, and you have bumpers, which is really cool, but it also isn't cool because if somebody wants to do it, they can.
00:26:59.000But if it's a guy that passes you, it's just a race.
00:27:01.000But then there are other cars that are not good that I'm like, you know, come on the radio and I'll be like, yeah, I just want you to see what car passed me and how bad my car is right now.
00:27:10.000So it happens with guys too, but, you know.
00:27:13.000It's just a cultural norm that girls aren't very good and that they somewhat don't belong.
00:27:23.000I get the little bit of animosity at first, but I would have thought that people would have got used to it a little bit more than they did.
00:27:31.000But you have that cultural animosity, you were saying.
00:29:43.000And if your car doesn't handle very well, you can't get close enough to them.
00:29:47.000If you could, you would just move the air, which is almost like hitting them, and get them out of the way.
00:29:52.000But sometimes the car doesn't handle well enough.
00:29:54.000So you'd have to just bomb in there, and God willing, you hit them to get you to slow down, and then they go sailing, and you keep going, but it's risk.
00:30:33.000And it was during the chase, which is the last 10 races of the season.
00:30:37.000And they were in the chase, Matt and Joey and...
00:30:41.000Joey had made it so that Matt couldn't get in because he took him out a week earlier, a week or two earlier, and then they got to Martinsville, and it's a very, very small short track.
00:30:48.000It's just a half a mile, and so it's easy to kind of be able to attack if you want to, and so he just straight took him out, and there was a whole big hoopla about it.
00:32:05.000You're the one that's screwed because if you're racing, if someone takes you out and then you're still racing for position, now you're going to have to be potentially, you know, putting yourself in another position to get taken out when they started it.
00:32:16.000It's a no win for the person that's being aggressed by the aggressor.
00:32:22.000Was it always legal to bump into each other?
00:32:25.000It's gone kind of through waves of different rules, but yeah, I mean it is legal.
00:32:30.000But whenever a big accident happens and there's a tragedy, I would assume that that's when they tighten down the rules.
00:34:55.000But I went to hit the brake, it wasn't there, so instead of just spinning out or continuing to turn, I just went straight, and I was headed for a trailer.
00:35:04.000Kind of a higher elevated trailer, which would have resulted in decapitation.
00:35:09.000And I swerved at the last second and hit a concrete wall.
00:35:34.000I always felt like in IndyCar, to some degree I wasn't brave because people were willing to do things that were perceivably more brave, but I did describe them as dumb.
00:38:20.000So you're just like ready to sort of fall over that annoying and to get out of my space kind of attitude because you're already annoyed with them anyway.
00:38:32.000Yeah, there's probably something that's already rubbing you the wrong way and you're tolerating each other instead of enjoying each other.
00:38:38.000Yeah, I mean, I would imagine a person like you, a very intense person, you probably have a difficult time finding, you know, like, if you get a square peg and a square hole, and everything slides in together perfect, and everything's amazing personality-wise, you know,
00:38:54.000behavior-wise, I would imagine with someone like you, like, it's very particular.
00:38:58.000You have to find someone who appreciates your intensity.
00:40:17.000So the problem is, like, you look at a guy and say, you know, you really like this guy, and you're like, this fucking dude's some crazy mystery.
00:40:24.000Like, what's going on in your head, man?
00:41:03.000And girls like to hear nice things too.
00:41:06.000Girls like to hear, you know, girls like to be, you know, girls like, you know.
00:41:10.000To be appreciated, just like a guy does.
00:41:13.000I mean, I think that's my advice most of the time in relationships.
00:41:16.000I'm like, sympathy goes a really long way because I know it goes a long way with me no matter what facet of my life it is.
00:41:22.000But, you know, sympathy goes a long way.
00:41:24.000So, you know, if your husband's in a bad mood, then why don't you just actually start off with, instead of feeling like you're underappreciated, going...
00:41:30.000Hey, baby, you look like you've had a really long day, and I'm sure you've been working your butt off.
00:43:39.000And then when I was sick, I was thinking, man, I don't appreciate how good I feel when I'm healthy.
00:43:45.000Because here I am lying here all aching, watching Netflix, feeling like shit, going, wow, when I'm healthy and I'm working out and I'm running and doing jujitsu and all the activities and I got all this energy and I feel great.
00:45:51.000It's the people, like everybody's worn out and you have to be really careful about the people that are around you because they've got to be in a good mood because it's easy to spiral out of control because you see each other three, four days a week every week for 40 weeks a year.
00:46:07.000So you've got to be in a good space with people.
00:46:10.000But it still doesn't alienate you completely, even if you're in a good space with people, the ones next to you, because you got a car next to you on both sides in the garage and haulers next to each other and buses right next to each other and you see a bunch of other people.
00:46:22.000So, you know, it's just, I don't know, there's a lot of negativity to some degree, a lot of grind.
00:46:28.000It just kind of feels like the grind a little bit.
00:46:31.000And so I just kind of felt like it wasn't a space that I wanted to be in as much anymore.
00:46:38.000I want to be in a happy space where I'm just doing things that bring me joy.
00:46:43.000I wasn't doing that as much, or I was noticing I was missing that, or wanting it more.
00:46:50.000I think that's really what it comes from, is growing as a person and realizing that I think everybody's afraid to take chances and do something new in their life because they're identified a certain way or they'll be judged if they don't do it or judged if they do something different and who are they now and are they crazy and what are they thinking and,
00:48:37.000It came from in 2006 I went to Napa Valley on a trip and was on this beautiful property and was like looking at the fog in the valley and it was wonderful quiches and fruits for breakfast and this amazing white wine and I was like man it would be so cool if I could have something like this someday but I don't have 50 million dollars,
00:49:50.000I was looking at some language translations trying to come up with, I was probably trying to come up with some sort of an LLC or something like that to cover the property up, and I was like, oh no, this is way too cool.
00:50:00.000This is what the wine should be called.
00:53:30.000There's a certain grades that are not so if it's over 20 degrees grade then you have to have special approvals but under you can plant so I literally planted six acres ish of max it's the max that I could plant on my 24 acres that I have that was below 20 degree grade.
00:53:48.000And so you have to go through erosion control permitting because it's, you know, the slopes.
00:53:54.000And if you're going to dig up the ground, you don't want it to slide down the mountain if it rains.
00:53:58.000So we had to kind of get creative with some of the infrastructure to dissipate the water.
00:54:05.000And so it didn't create just rivers and rushing of, you know, new dirt sliding down the hill.
00:54:10.000So because it's at elevation a little bit.
00:54:14.000And then you hire your farmers, and then the winemaker helps pick out the rootstock and the clones, and then they plant it.
00:54:23.000You wait a couple years for it to be ready, and then you start making wine.
00:56:24.000Wine, you know, the connection that you create, you know, sitting down together and sharing it, the stories of the vineyard, the story of how it came along.
00:56:33.000I mean, I have, the good thing is, is people were like, well, you gotta have a story.
01:00:08.000It's supposedly all haunted, and it's very bizarre.
01:00:13.000I mean, the last I knew, it was a very long time ago that I was there, but he has a cool cellar door, and there's some restaurants and whatnot, and it's on top of a mountain.
01:00:30.000Balancing out the rock star life versus, like, that's one of the things that I think was attractive to him about creating a wine and being in a small area.
01:00:38.000Well, I'd say that's really important.
01:00:39.000I mean, I think I feel like I've figured out in my life how much grounding I need to balance me out, and it's not just like everybody needs 50-50, you know?
01:01:07.000Do you feel like you need decompression time just from the whole celebrity thing, just being interviewed and media and people paying attention to you, want to take pictures with you, just the constant assault I don't feel...
01:01:25.000It's exhausting because I'm listening and I'm paying attention.
01:01:27.000I'm answering your questions honestly where I think most people can just go into sort of like autopilot mode.
01:01:33.000And it's probably not as mentally exhausting for them.
01:01:40.000Like you just have to be on all the time, you know?
01:01:43.000So the being on part is nice to get away from.
01:01:49.000So it's kind of answering the questions, but it's really just a matter of navigating life and people staring at you or wanting something from you or thinking they want something from you just because you're trained, because too many people have wanted something from you, to just the demands of the things that you're doing and running around.
01:02:07.000I mean, I'm on an airplane twice a week doing stuff, so you just get exhausted from that.
01:02:14.000Yeah, that's not healthy either, right?
01:02:18.000Do you feel like you're going to step away from public life when you stop racing?
01:02:23.000Are you going to fade into the normalcy?
01:03:32.000Versus stock cars, which are NASCAR. So, open wheel, wheels open.
01:03:37.000So there was no wings on the cars that I was driving over there at that point in time, so it was just, you know, no wing, open-wheel cars.
01:03:43.000So I was just, you know, starting my career, really, because from go-karts, I didn't want to be a professional go-kart driver, so I was like, I'll just get into cars as soon as I can.
01:03:55.000Well, I was 14, and I was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and I went into a suite, and there was some British dude in there, and so I started asking about cars, and again, we're at the racetrack, and this family that he works for has a team,
01:04:10.000has a race team, and so I guess I asked all the right questions, and...
01:04:16.000Two years later, when I was 16, they asked me and my dad to come back to Indy and meet with them and talk about going over to England to race.
01:04:22.000And they said I could learn more in one year in England than five years in America.
01:04:26.000And it was not true at all, but I did it anyway.
01:05:03.000Yeah, I have friends that moved to California from England and they're like, the people over here are so much more optimistic about the future.
01:06:42.000I mean, the first quick couple of things that you can do to identify what it is that you're interested in and, you know, something that's true to you is, you know, just what do you do for your hobbies?
01:07:07.000And then also, this is like an odd one, but look at the pictures on your phone or look at the pictures that you post on social media maybe or something like that.
01:07:17.000But whatever you take pictures is also kind of pretty insightful for what you're interested in.
01:09:31.000Because you have to keep going to the next level, right?
01:09:33.000You have to keep, you're like, oh, I wore this super cute leggings and a sports bra, and now I've got to wear a bodysuit, and now I'm wearing a thong, and holy crap, you know, like, look at me now, I'm...
01:11:04.000I mean, if that's your driving force is just your looks and, you know, but there are some that have some content, but, you know, and they can use it to drive a message.
01:11:14.000I mean, there's some that I've noticed like that that really do have really positive messages, spreading positivity, spreading good things, but promoting good things.
01:11:23.000But for those who aren't, then I just think it's a level of immaturity.
01:11:28.000And it's going to come to, I think it will come to bite them eventually because it's, Where does the road lead to?
01:11:50.000Well, it kind of leads me to a little bit of one similar, like the...
01:11:54.000I'm not going to get it right exactly, but it's the ego is impatient because it knows its time is limited, where the soul is patient because it knows it has forever.
01:12:17.000Soul decisions are perhaps unrealized for an amount of time, but the truth will always come through.
01:12:24.000If you're not living it, you're going to have a transition.
01:12:28.000Now, when you make, like, if you put, like, an Instagram post up of workouts and stuff like that, do you do that specifically because you're trying to motivate people?
01:12:47.000I think, I mean, people, especially people in my line of work, comedians, love to mock things along those lines, but I take inspiration off of a lot of people online.
01:12:57.000And I, you know, my overall, like overall what I hope for people too is that with the book I wrote, I just, I really want people to find confidence in themselves and develop a healthier relationship with food and exercise.
01:13:12.000And I think most people think of food as a punishment, right?
01:13:15.000They're like, oh my God, I'll just eat this terrible vegetable.
01:13:26.000Food will make you not only feel good, but be good and look better.
01:13:31.000So, you know, I really hope that in all of my motivation, it drives people into a direction where they feel good about it all and there's more positivity around it.
01:13:43.000Don't you feel like there's so much negativity around eating healthy and working out?
01:13:47.000There's so many people that just hate it.
01:13:49.000There's quite a bit of that, but I think there's a lot of positivity around it, too.
01:13:52.000I think that people are recognizing more and more today the benefits of eating healthy in terms of psychological benefits.
01:14:02.000Your mind works better, physical benefits.
01:14:19.000I mean, I remember when I cut out dairy and gluten years ago, and my energy level finally was up and consistent, where before it'd be like the random day where you're like, man, why am I so exhausted today?
01:16:02.000And then a couple of years ago, I did an IVF treatment to freeze my eggs because I'm getting older and I drive race cars and I can't do any of that stuff.
01:16:14.000So I was like, look, I'm going for the insurance policy here.
01:17:27.000I come from a long line of girls, so I'm pretty sure they're all girls.
01:17:32.000So I did that, and you do this trigger drug thing, and then, you know, 36 hours on the minute you go in and you retrieve it, and what they do is you get wheeled in.
01:17:42.000The room is super, like, humid and warm.
01:18:53.000We just got way off track here, but this is part of the story as to why I decided to change my diet and my workout and why I ended up writing a book was because I gained like four pounds.
01:19:04.000I know there's people who are like, well, who cares four pounds?
01:19:07.000On my frame, five foot, who I'm small, little, and for any girl out there, you know your jeans only fit when you're exactly the size that you are, and then you gain a couple pounds and they don't anymore.
01:19:30.000Sympathy for people out there with, whether it's dudes and testosterone or women with pregnancy or, you know, menopause or whatever it is that changes their hormones.
01:20:01.000And then I also started doing two-a-day workouts because I wanted to change it up and sort of kick things up a notch.
01:20:08.000But I also realized that I was out taking my dogs for walks and I was like, well, if I'm walking them, I might as well run and do a workout too.
01:20:14.000So, you know, instead of a mile and a half of walking around the property, I would go for three.
01:20:20.000So when you say you do two-a-days, like how do you break it up?
01:20:24.000They're usually a little shorter, like I would say somewhere between 20 to 40 minutes each.
01:20:30.000And one of them will be, I do upper body, lower body, and an ab day.
01:20:35.000And I just rotate through those, really.
01:20:38.000I keep rotating through those because, look, if I do it right, I'm so sore I can't do upper body again for a few days.
01:20:45.000So I just rotate through those and then I supplement in if I have time.
01:22:42.000Well, it's just creepy people with money that don't want to lose money to CBD oil because it's so much better for you and healthy and natural and does the exact same thing.
01:22:50.000Imagine how much the drug companies would lose.
01:25:15.000When it's processed by your liver, it produces 11-hydroxy metabolite, which is four to five times more psychoactive than THC. It's way more potent.
01:26:16.000You know, like the worst, the longest it's going to take is like 15 or 20 minutes.
01:26:20.000But there's some places that are doing it now where they're doing it intravenously.
01:26:25.000So those trips are apparently, that was how they did it in, there's a book called DMT the Spirit Molecule by this guy, Dr. Rick Strassman, who did all these studies out of the University of New Mexico.
01:26:37.000And they were the first FDA approved clinical studies.
01:27:13.000It's produced by your liver, your lungs, and now they know it's also produced at least in rats by your pineal gland, which is literally your third eye.
01:29:03.000He also loved to point out how there'd be something crazy, and he'd be like, let me point out, this is in the science section of the newspaper, like, as if, like, how did this make it to the science section?
01:32:43.000Well, I think maybe that, but I also think there's a real problem with the possibility of artificial intelligence.
01:32:48.000I think human beings are about to create life.
01:32:52.000Whether we recognize it as life or not, what artificial life is going to be is life.
01:32:57.000Artificial intelligence is going to have the ability to change itself, multiply what Human beings have been able to do in terms of technological innovation by a rate of something insane like in two years they'll be able to do 10,000 years of innovation in terms of like what we're capable of doing.
01:33:19.000So I think that what we're looking at now is the last days of biological life.
01:33:25.000I think 100 years from now, 500 years from now, whatever it is, there won't be biological humans anymore.
01:33:32.000I think this will be an archaic, outdated...
01:33:47.000The world will end as we know it, right?
01:33:49.000But I think the apocalypse, like the stuff in the Bible, that's all local.
01:33:52.000Like, if you lived where Hurricane Katrina hit, you would think the apocalypse was there, right?
01:33:57.000If you were in, you know, anywhere where something really fucking crazy happened and you didn't have any contact with the outside world, no cell phones, no radio, no TV, it didn't exist, right?
01:34:10.000Yeah, I think that's what all of our notions of the apocalypse are.
01:34:13.000They're periodic natural disasters that are unbelievably devastating.
01:34:17.000Like, they've proven that the entire human race was down to a few thousand people because of a supervolcano around 70,000 years ago.
01:34:28.000So, I think there's been a series of those events throughout history where the human race is brought down to an almost unmanageable level and then we repopulated.
01:34:38.000And I think that that's probably the origins of the apocalypse.
01:34:42.000Or asteroid impacts, which are very common.
01:34:45.000They've happened all throughout history.
01:34:46.000Do you think that AI is gonna just eliminate biological humans?
01:34:50.000I think it's entirely possible that we're going to give into it, too.
01:34:53.000That we're going to take it, we're going to, first of all, become symbiotic.
01:34:56.000We're going to take something and put it inside of us.
01:34:59.000It's going to enhance us, whether it's our ability to communicate, whether it's our ability to see.
01:35:04.000We're going to start implanting chips into ourselves.
01:35:08.000And then they're going to have improved body parts.
01:35:10.000Like, say if you break your arm and they're like, look, Danica, we can fix your arm.
01:35:52.000Yeah, and she was talking about how as a human race we have to be careful we don't alter ourselves too much because then we won't exist as a human race because we won't be able to procreate.
01:36:03.000And that is what keeps our race alive.
01:37:47.000Because that's, I mean, I really find enjoyment out of that.
01:37:50.000I mean, I find enjoyment out of the intensity level of things and the confidence that I get or the, you know, being able to shift my mindset to this sort of like all-go, all-in mindset.
01:38:55.000If you look at what a monkey is, and then if we were at some point in time, like some ancient hominid, like Australopithecus or whatever, Cro-Magnon man, and then we moved on to become Homo sapien...
01:39:08.000If we keep going in that direction, this is what we're going to look like.
01:39:11.000We're going to look like little skinny things with big heads.
01:39:50.000Nah, you're not out of the car that long.
01:39:52.000It might hurt a little bit when I get back in an IndyCar again, because the G-forces are higher, but you also lean your head against the headrest.
01:39:59.000Usually the only thing that would make my neck hurt a little bit is road courses at the beginning of IndyCar season.
01:42:10.000You're gone for 40 weeks a year on the road in these really luxurious places of the world, on the BBQ World Tour, like grilling out of your bus and living out of a bus for most of your life, and on the road, in and out of airplanes.
01:42:25.000Hours of nothing to do on the weekends while you're, you know, sitting there.
01:42:36.000I mean, even like you were talking about interviews and stuff, like, yeah, I enjoy doing interviews that aren't based around, how's your car this weekend?
01:43:09.000I was watching the old South Park episode.
01:43:13.000They had a bunch of NASCAR drivers on South Park, and it was when Cartman was trying to be poor and stupid so he could race NASCAR. And he was sponsored by Vagisil.
01:43:28.000He ate a ton of Vagisil to make him as stupid as he could, and he realized that the more stupid he got, the more money he spent, the more in debt he got, and that's how you got poor.
01:43:37.000So he just bought, like, jet skis and just...
01:43:42.000I think he says at one point in time, Danica, you're not half as poor and stupid as I am.
01:44:41.000Like if you're like, oh, I just drive a Tesla.
01:44:43.000The other day I was throwing some things into the recycling bin and I'm like, I'm just trying to do my part because let's face it, I burn fuel for a living.
01:50:00.000If people ask me what is it about you that people would be surprised and I tell them I'm much more girly away from the track than you'd think because I'm really aggressive at the track and I don't look very happy and away from the track I try and be funny and I smile more and I'm much more relaxed.
01:50:16.000Are you surprised that with all your success and all the attention that you've gotten from your success as...
01:50:24.000The only woman on your level in professional racing.
01:50:28.000Are you surprised that more women aren't entering in that you haven't like sort of opened the door or do you think that it's such a specialized and unique thing to do that it's just not something that a lot of women gravitate towards?
01:50:41.000I used to say that for 100 men that came through, if it takes 100 to find a good one, that comes pretty quickly.
01:50:48.000But to go through 100 women takes a lot longer because there are so few of them.
01:50:53.000There are more coming through, but I just think that over time it just takes a lot longer to find good ones.
01:51:02.000I think back to, this is my ego talking, I think back to a long time ago when Paul Newman was still alive and we were on a late night show together, probably Letterman, and he was asked before I went on, he was the first guest, if there was going to be another driver,
01:51:19.000another girl that comes through that compares to me and he said he didn't think so.
01:51:33.000But I meet a lot of women like you because of MMA. Oh.
01:51:37.000Those savages that enter into MMA, the women that wind up fighting in MMA, there's a lot of them.
01:51:45.000And I'm kind of stunned at how many of them there are.
01:51:48.000But when I say they're like you, I mean they're bold, powerful, unique people that just take wild chances.
01:51:57.000I mean the type of person that is like a Holly Holm or someone like that.
01:52:00.000So I think the big difference lies in there are a lot of people that are strong, aggressive, confident, assertive, bold, but to then be able to keep it together and up above their shoulders, that's the difference.
01:52:17.000Keep it together in the pressure of a race.
01:54:39.000Do you think that when you stop and you look back in your career, you'll take into account and maybe have a more objective sense of what an impact you've had?
01:55:05.000To be able to identify the things that you've done, the influence you've had over people with the conversations you've had, with the things in business you've done, it's hard to see when you're in the middle of it.
01:56:26.000I think still in my adult life, it's like...
01:56:28.000Well, if they had the courage to let you go to England by yourself when you were 16, and race over there on another continent, all the way across an ocean, so that if you did get hurt, to get to you would take forever.
01:56:52.000Kind of paralleled getting in a go-kart for the first time, having a big crash.
01:56:54.000But yeah, it was Homestead, Miami, and there was a big accident, and I was running low, and someone was sliding down the track that had damage, and they clipped my right rear and shot me up into the wall headfirst, and...
01:57:09.000Slid down the track and I don't remember that part.
01:57:13.000I don't remember walking to the ambulance, but there's footage of all of it.
01:57:16.000And I walked the wrong way away from the ambulance.
01:57:19.000I was walking the opposite direction and then I was kind of like stumbling around and then I got back to the medical truck and then I got in and apparently I was very repetitive on the way to the hospital and I kept asking them.
01:58:09.000Are they doing studies in UFC like they did in the NFL with doing tests after they've passed away to know if they had CTE? There was a study that came out last year.
01:58:22.000It was almost all but one out of a hundred and some had CTE. Yeah, it was, I forget the numbers, but yeah, there was only like one or two people that didn't have it.
01:58:34.000The UFC hasn't been around as long as the NFL, obviously, so we're not dealing with the same data pool, but I'm sure when people do pass away, we're going to find it.
01:59:15.000Did you see the video that just came out from a couple of days ago from the guy that hit the off-ramp and went flying through the air and landed in a house?
01:59:23.000In the second floor of a house, his car's poking out the side?
01:59:27.000No, but he couldn't do it again if he had to, I'm sure.
02:03:58.000But I would feel like for someone like you, once you transition away from racing, then it's going to be more important to you because you're going to miss the capabilities of those things.
02:11:52.000Well, they probably would pull you over anyway.
02:11:54.000Actually, I got a funny story about when I got pulled over when I was 16 with my Mustang Cobra.
02:11:58.000I was picking my girlfriend up and pulling off of her street onto the main street and it was wet out.
02:12:04.000And so I kind of got it going and kicked it sideways a little bit and looked in my rearview mirror at the stoplight and there's a cop sitting there.