You're listening to Life, Liberty, Happiness, and now we're joined by Tyler Panell. He is uh, in my view, a TikTok legend for me. I watch every week the paint Scheme breakdown. So, Tyler, tell us a little bit about you. Where you're from and where you grew up. Well, I'm originally from Upstate New York, little town by Syracuse, but when I graduated from high school, my family moved to Florida. So that's where I'm at now. Uh yeah, So have you always been a NASCAR fan or how did how did NASCAR kind of come about? It was since birth. My dad's a big fan. His dad was a big fan. I mean actually when I was in my mother's stomach. She actually they actually went to the uh the Daytona race, the first truck race at Daytona when Jeff Bodien went to the catch fence. Oh yeah, so so I guess that was my first array in the racing. Yeah, where I was even born. Tyler, this is a trend. I'll work with Brian here. The you mentioned upstate New York and your parents went down to Florida. Are so were you guys? Jeff Bodin fans. I wouldn't I wouldn't say that. I mean, I don't know. My dad's always kind of been the type just like me where I want to say I really have like a favorite. I have a couple of guys that, you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't mind if this guy wins. But it's more so like, you know, fuck this guy. I don't want him to win. Yeah, you know what's weird? Let me ask you this in that in that vein? Did you used to like? For me? I couldn't stand Kyle Busch. I hated him for twenty years, and now for some reason he switches cars and I kind of digg him. Now do you have anybody like that too? Well? Actually, same deal with that. I always wasn't much of a fan of Kyle Busch, but you know, he got screwed over by Gibbs. That was a fucked up deal. Yeah, you know, and he leaves Toyota, goes to a Chevy. All of a sudden, now everyone likes him. Yeah. So so how did the how did the TikTok stuff come along? How did you get into all of that? Well? It really started is Yeah, I just kind of noticed that, like NASCAR kind of doesn't do a great job of really posting a lot of the stuff that goes on. You end up missing a lot of interviews, a lot of onboards and whatnot that you know, you scroll through Twitter, they're all over the place, but a lot of the fan base isn't on Twitter. So it really started out as as just you know, oh, okay, this is a cool onboard, Like like, for example, the Corey la Joy on board. It took Fox. It took Fox, you know, ten minutes to even show a replay Corey Lajoy going sideways across the finish line. But Twitter has an on board cam of them in five minutes, you know, so it's like, you know, what are we doing? So it kind of started with that. And then I mean as far as like the paint scheme reviews go, I mean I had to give one credit to my girlfriend actually because she was never much of a race car fan, you know, but I mean, if you're with me, then you're gonna have to know a little something about it. And so I always kind of every week i'd say, hey, well, you know, let's look at the new paint schemes to see what you think. And she said, you know, you should really make this into a into a series, And I said, I don't know if people are gonna want to watch that, but I guess they do. Man every window, because like we pass them to each other, like we still know that we have the same algorithm, like he might see it before I do, so we in boxing to each other just as soon as we see one of them. They're hilarious. Yeah, you know, I try. I'm just being me. Hey, when when when did you realize people start watching it? I mean, how did you know it started kind of taking off? Well, so I did a couple of them last year. I kind of did them on and off, and you know, I wasn't like as animated as I am now, so they didn't really do much. And then this season, my buddy was actually, you know, a couple of days before the five hundred, he said, hey, man, when are you gonna do your paint Scheme review? I said, Man, nobody watches that shit. I said, I'm not. I'm not even gonna bother dude. That takes so much time, what's the point. But then that's Saturday when the Infinity Race was supposed to go and it got rained out. I was supposed to go that day and I wasn't doing nothing, so I said, you know what, whatever, I'll put one together. And it got like five hundred thousand views, so I said, well, I guess people want to see this. Oh man, I can't wait for it. Now. I must say that I have a favorite driver, and every week I'm always like, I hope he can get better scores. I have a driver that nobody likes, and that's Joey Logano. Dude, every day laugh when he does the laugh that is no God. You know, I don't know. I don't even really mind Joey that much, but it's just I can't stand when he does those Infinity races. Yeah, oh god. He just spends the whole coverage just laughing the whole time. It really just turns me off to the guy. I literally chuckle every week because I've watched enough of them to know that's why you do it. But now you don't even say that's why you do it. You just do it. And I just can't wait for twenty two to show up and you go yeah six, yeah, yeah shit, yeah five or six every week I know, and I'm just waiting for the chance that he gets a badass paint scheme where he can get over and he at least gets up to seven. Well maybe, well we'll see. How cool was it though, when you've done some of this and you see like you do the mister Busher thing and people on Twitter are making comments like that now, like you actually are having an influence on other people's tweets. Oh, I mean that's great. I mean I was freaking out with rfky. They liked my post, they commented, they followed, and then they're tweeting stuff out just like I don't even know like what to say. I mean, that's just crazy. I'm just an asshole making some video. Hey, what do you do for a living? What do you do in Florida? I'm actually a painter for the local school board here, so I just go around the schools painting walls, painting whatever needs to be painted, coming up with ideas for paint schemes. Yeah, no doubt that's awesome. Now, Brian probably doesn't know this, but I was going to ask you because one of the cool things I like about your tiktoks is you find clips like you mentioned le joy and up on the side, and like that would have been I mean it was almost the end of the race before Fox even noticed that he was up on the side, but you had the in car video of it. But on my way down here, I was listening to what you did with Eric Jones. Man, I crashed yesterday. Did you not have that eerie feeling? Yes? It was, I mean, and and and then they interview him and he acts like, no big deal, We'll just get it. Dude. You got to listen to the in car It was scary. Like Tyler posted that today and I was like, man, that is what you would have expected to hear. Where do you find that stuff? There's a guy on Twitter. I can't think of what his name is. I think it's Andrew Basso or Bosso or something, and he's I mean, all those in cars you can get right on the NASCAR. You just have to be watching them, or you can go back through and you know he clips them or whatever. But he clips them and puts them up, and I snagged him and put him on TikTok. I don't have to look for anybody. I just got to your handle was at NASCAR, Tyler. That's all I do now. Yeah, I just wait for you to post I'm glad. Well, I gotta know one thing, did you come up with the nickname fast Pasta? I did not come up with fast I laughed, A common thing. I mean, he actually had shirts and stuff to say fast Pasta on it. Yeah. I thought that was a like a known thing, but I guess not it is now now that you said yeah, yeah, I guess so, I guess I made it a thing the man last week one of the things that made me laugh out loud was when I guess Denny Hamlin didn't have a paint scheme and he wasn't on NASCAR site and you mentioned so I'm just gonna comment on his face, and you gave him a four. Yes, that's awesome. Oh and then he said, then he talked about Chase Briscoe, and he said, I really don't have anything to say about the car, but I heard his wife is pregnant, so congratulations on the sex. Yeah. Well, well, Bubba's gonna get that treatment this week because his wife's pregnant. Oh wow, to be ready for that. Yeah, Oh man, I get I get disappointed too, because I guess which one you're going to make the car of the week, and I never get it. Right. But the one last week that I thought should have been the car of the week, the paint scheme was the one that won Tyler Reddick's car. There's Michael Jordan cars. Yeah, those things look freaking awesome. Yeah, it's pretty good looking, look good winning, Yeah, man, that's true. All right. Well, we appreciate you taking time out of your busines schedule to talk with us today. One thing we always asked our guests is if you could pick anybody in history to hang out with for twenty four hours, who would it be and where would you hang out with them? Oh? Boy, loaded questions, man, putting me on the spot on that one. Oh yeah, oh boy, huh. Let me say a funny one. I'd like to hang out with Brian France and at a bar so he used to throw down. He'd throw down and then proceed to come up with some ASI nine idea to screw Nascar, I say, Brian France, Well, I appreciate it, Tyler, have a good weekend. We can't wait to hear your paint schemes this week.
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