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The Couches That Made Us

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 15

Couches, guest rooms, dream chasers and the people who tie them all together. The stories of racers chasing their dreams by staying wherever they can, with whoever they can and growing as people while they do.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 12 | Tony Stewart

Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • Duration 01:48:24

Would you believe that one of the world's most successful race car drivers to ever live needed to couch surf back in his early days? Tony Stewart is proof that from humble beginnings can incredible things. Stewart kicked back - way back - on The Couch at Charlotte Motor Speedway's ZMax Dragway to reminisce on when he was living his "best life" as he puts it.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 11 | Kyle Larson

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 • Duration 01:40:16

If you know Kyle Larson then you know that the NASCAR superstar calls the dirt his true home. It was Kyle's early days in dirt racing that saw him bouncing from house to house in order to go where he needed to so that he could race whatever and wherever he could.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 10 | Rico Abreu

Sunday, July 5, 2026 • Duration 01:41:29

"Rico".... It's one word that everyone in the sport of open wheel dirt track racing knows. Rico Abreu has led the way on track, in social media impact, shirt sales, and practically every other metric in sprint car racing. But he didn't get to where he is today without the help and guidance of some very special people.

From karts in California, to fireworks wars in the Southern Indiana, Rico has smiled his way from one couch, to the next.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 9 | Justin Grant - PART 2

Friday, June 26, 2026 • Duration 02:05:42

In Part 2 of Justin Grant on The Couch, Justin explains some of the life lessons he picked up from fellow racers, car owners and his future father in law while carving out his own path in the sport he loves.

Justin goes down memory lane and shares some of his best times living and racing with the people who helped him become who he is. Part 2 of Justin Grant on The Couch is one of the shining examples of what makes The Couches That Made Us what it is.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 9 | Justin Grant - PART 1

Thursday, June 18, 2026 • Duration 02:33:44

Justin Grant has stayed with lots of people, in lots of different places in order to race lots of different cars. From Ione (eye-own) to Indianapolis, Grant has lived the classic life of a big time dirt tracker's life if only it were 60 years earlier. Starting as a pre-teen, Grant began riding couches and guest beds to get to outlaw kart races. Today he's a long way from the guest rooms, and shop mezzanines he grew up in, but he is still the same hard nosed racer with the energy of a first time competitor.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 8 | Clinton Boyles

Thursday, June 11, 2026 • Duration 02:16:51

Clinton Boyles is in a truly great place both professionally and personally today. But he will be the first to tell you that he took the hard way to get there. Boyles has been a star of the Flo Racing broadcasts of the Tulsa Shootout and the Chili Bowl Nationals every winter for the last several years. He has raced, and worked on almost everything in dirt track open wheel racing that there is. And he has stayed with, and worked for some of the best in the sport. Boyles sits on the couch - the low point of his birthday, no doubt - to tell the stories of where he stayed and what he learned... but opens up his vest completely and like no other guest on the couch, to explain what he did to lose some of the best opportunities in his career.

This and all episodes of The Couches That Made Us are also available on Youtube and Apple podcasts.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 7 | Dillon Welch

Thursday, June 4, 2026 • Duration 01:45:35

Racer turned broadcaster Dillon Welch left home in the Hoosier state to chase opportunity in the Tarheel state. Welch sits on the couch on a FREEZING day in December to tell the stories of the people and places that got him on to some of racing's biggest broadcasts in the last 10 years.

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Be sure to follow along on Facebook (The Couches That Made Us), X (@CouchesMadeUs) Instagram: (@CouchesThatMadeUs).

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 6 | Chris Wheeler

Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Duration 01:36:21

From The Couches That Made him... to HIS couch and guest room that helped make TLP.

Chris Wheeler is a mover and a shaker in the world of big time IndyCar, dirt track and grass roots racing. He has been a crew guy, a spotter, an announcer, a promoter, a driver agent, and a whole lot more. By his own admission, Chris is an Indycar lifer who has not always taken the easiest route to get to a variety of high level opportunities in big time motorsport.

He's learned many things from many people on his journey, and he's passed some of it down to the young racers - and even one not so young looking announcer - who he has put up on their own journeys.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 5 | Conor Daly

Thursday, May 21, 2026 • Duration 01:33:27

Conor Daly is one of the most popular names and faces in Indycar, and American motorsport today. He has been a true journeyman in a world where that isn't the norm it used to be. Simply put, Conor goes anywhere and everywhere to drive race cars. Today that means bouncing from team to team, but not so long ago, it meant surfing couches and guest rooms of friends and even competitors.

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The Couches That Made Us | Ep. 4 | Artie Carpenter

Thursday, May 14, 2026 • Duration 02:06:03

Artie Carpenter grew up racing go karts in the Pacific Northwest. But before he would graduate high school, the happy go lucky racer would suffer loss and heart break. Much more than a couch was afforded to the kid who just wanted to make things go fast and have fun with his friends, and he ended up becoming a member of a family that didn't share his last name. In this conversation Artie and host Tony LaPorta dive deep on the ties that bind them both together, and they celebrate the fact that they are both at the top of their games thanks to a family who invited them both out to come work at a go kart track hidden in the trees.

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