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Dale Hellas
You're listening to the HMS Podcast, brought to you by mmpguns.com your most trusted online marketplace for firearms, ammunition and accessories. You've been deceived by an agent of Satan himself.
Ron Capps
He's evil sitting right here.
Dale Hellas
Come on. No, no, he's not. He's not evil. He's just a bit rude. All right, it's stained right there. It's 9:40 in the morning now. Settle down. Dale Hella strays here for his segment brought to you by Prestige Billiards Az for now, keep it up. And he has a guest for his own segment, world champion, three time world champion, Ron Caps. Do you follow the NCAA tournament? Do you do brackets?
Ron Capps
I did a bracket this morning.
Dale Hellas
You did a bracket.
Ron Capps
But I don't follow it enough. But I did one.
Dale Hellas
Yeah, no one follows it. Dale does a sports show on the Internet.
Ron Capps
You, you follow it pretty closely.
Dale Hellas
No. And then he has to talk about it with knowledge. But who's your champion? You picked a one seed. Who was it?
Unknown Speaker 1
I think I picked Houston.
Dale Hellas
You picked Houston. Do you remember who you picked?
Ron Capps
On one of my brackets, it's Houston and the other one's Duke.
Dale Hellas
Oh, you doubled up.
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
Okay. I have Auburn. Yeah, yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
That'll be gone in the first round.
Dale Hellas
No, they won't. Why is that? What's, what's the knowledge you have?
Unknown Speaker 1
Their best player got hurt.
Dale Hellas
So what? No, you know what I had this year, first year I ever did it, I let the computer choose it. Said, you can do it yourself. And I'm like, I don't have time for. And I picked it. It picked all the top seeds to go all the way and get Auburn. The championship.
Ron Capps
Final four was at Houston.
Dale Hellas
Houston, Duke, Auburn and whoever the other one is. St. John's St. John's okay, so those are the four and they're all in the final four for mine and I looked and I'm like, the computer just basically went right down the line of favorites. And I'm like, did it do any.
Unknown Speaker 2
4 12s or 5 12?
Dale Hellas
It can't be any worse than I always do.
Ron Capps
Okay, this question. Listen, what was your tiebreaker score? Oh, did it ask you, like, your overall? I had to look it up. I'm like, what's the score?
Dale Hellas
I did 174.
Ron Capps
Oh, wow. I picked 162.
Dale Hellas
That's pretty good.
Ron Capps
Google told me that.
Unknown Speaker 1
Dale, 158.
Dale Hellas
That's too low.
Ron Capps
That's a defense.
Unknown Speaker 1
Defense gets you to the championship.
Dale Hellas
There's not going to be any of that. Oh, there's none of that. Yeah, but I just. I just let the computer choose. It's the best thing AI's ever done is let the computer choose it.
Unknown Speaker 2
I went 412 on the tiebreaker.
Dale Hellas
Yeah, that's a little heavy, but I'd like to see that game. I'm not going to lie. I think you've. I think you've created an awesome game in your head. And if that does.
Unknown Speaker 2
Nobody's going to touch my.
Dale Hellas
If it starts pushing 380, I'm going to. I'm going. I'm gonna root for you. You go fast for a living. Ron Capps, did you see the rockets the other day going up into the space to pick up the astronauts?
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
I didn't realize that at one point, in order to get that thing back, when they have to get up to like 18,000 miles an hour. Yeah, it's unimaginable.
Ron Capps
Can you guys see when. Start when they shoot him off of Vandenberg. Do you see that? Where. So we. The first time. Do you remember the first time they did it? Like, people were crashing in la, on the highway, and in our house in San Diego, it looks like it's going the way it looks. It's going sideways.
Dale Hellas
It looks like a missile.
Ron Capps
Yeah, Missile going sideways. And it was like the world was coming apart and everybody freaked out until you realized what it was. But, yeah, it's.
Dale Hellas
There was one just the other night a couple weeks ago, and my friend Mark called and he goes, go outside. He lives down the road. He goes, go outside and look west. And I looked and I recognized it in the past. We were playing basketball in the 90s at some park in Tempe, and we all just froze because the sky lit up in this weird bow and it started to go across. And no phones at the time. And we're like, the Russians. Like, that's how we decided, this is it. We're not the Russians. And then I immediately started digging a hole. I was hiding. I'm not gonna fight. I was. I actually started looking to Communism. Like, if they win, what do I have to do? I'm not. I'm not.
Unknown Speaker 2
You guys all ran into the church and ducked and covered.
Dale Hellas
Yeah, that's right. And we waited our turn.
Unknown Speaker 1
I saw Father Dale.
Dale Hellas
I would have done anything to Father Dale at that point to get that up. Yeah. But it's horrifying.
Ron Capps
It looks so fake. It doesn't look. Yeah, it doesn't look real.
Dale Hellas
And then the thing, like, I started to think the conspiracy theorists because when the. When the pod landed in the Gulf of America, the. The bad part was it's like, oh, that's really neat. And then AI took over and dolphins start swimming around it. And I'm like, this isn't real. They're doing it on purpose. They just passive aggressively invited a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Dolphins aren't going to like just show up and hang out like on cue. It was produced and directed. So then I'm like, is it all real? Because they're throwing numbers out.
Ron Capps
They're robot. Elon made them. Yeah.
Dale Hellas
Robot dolphins that came from space, which is a great movie. The.
Unknown Speaker 2
This new company.
Dale Hellas
340 miles an hour is your speed. And that blows my mind. 18,000 miles an hour.
Ron Capps
I can't believe they went up and docked and then pulled two people out and brought them back.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. That is in a day and a half. And we don't marvel at anything anymore.
Ron Capps
No.
Dale Hellas
I mean, nothing. Nothing's fun.
Ron Capps
Not even a headline.
Unknown Speaker 1
No.
Ron Capps
And it's like two commercials in and then they show that you're like, what is going on with the world?
Dale Hellas
I went to a place yesterday.
Unknown Speaker 2
I just like the side effects. They put like. Like the pharmaceutical warnings. Being up in space for eyeballs flat now.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. You get all sorts of weird stuff. Start floating. I was amazed yesterday because I went to get a glass of water out of a new machine and it just said, hover your finger above this spot. And then you put your finger over another one and it controls the temperature. You just put your glass down and just kind of like. It's like you're pantomiming. What? It was amazing. And I stood there.
Ron Capps
It's like finger Thursday.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. A lot of fingering going on.
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
Just hover your finger over this. Don't touch me. And I was like, I've been on this date. And then. But water shot out. That's never happened before and I was blown away. And I stood there and played with this stupid water machine for a minute and I'm like, we just don't marvel at any technology anymore. I plugged my new phone in the other day and I'm like, how does this charge? How does this stupid singular cord make this stupid thing hot enough or what does it just. I don't know how anything works.
Unknown Speaker 1
Well, what I don't understand is you have the battery signal on your phone, so you know when it's going down.
Dale Hellas
Right.
Unknown Speaker 1
Why can't they put that on a.
Dale Hellas
Car when the battery's dying?
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah, when the batteries you've got.
Dale Hellas
I think it's because it's. You have a car guy, maybe he'll know.
Unknown Speaker 1
You got about three starts left in this thing. Instead of I'm out in the middle of the desert and that's when it dies.
Dale Hellas
But it's because it's not lithium, right? Lithium has a gauge. Yeah, but I don't even know what that means. I don't know what I'm saying. Those are words I'm saying. It was really sounds because I'm great at BSing my way through anything, but I don't know what anything.
Ron Capps
Wireless phone charging. That's a.
Dale Hellas
When you just put it down on.
Ron Capps
A thing, on a thing in your car and it charges.
Dale Hellas
I don't understand how anything works through a case. Yeah.
Ron Capps
Hear the words you say sometimes. I mean, who talks like that?
Unknown Speaker 1
Holmberg's morning sickness.
Dale Hellas
And you know, I talked to somebody Yesterday and Neil DeGrasse Tyson does a podcast and he was saying that he said the reason that all this stuff happens, they did the. We were talking about yesterday, the podcast said if you went away in 1995 and just disappeared or died, and then they brought you back to life in 2025, the argument was, could you immediately be okay or would you be so blown away? Think about it. No email, no Internet.
Unknown Speaker 2
That guy that just got out of prison during that.
Dale Hellas
Right? But at least he had the ability to read a book and have knowledge of everything. You just come back and go, here's how the world works now. And you and phones, Internet, how televisions are totally different and could you do it? And one guy said, absolutely, you'd be fine. And you know why? The Jetsons, they showed us all this stuff, Star Trek. We knew it was possible that they had some of these, that all these ideas were real, but I don't know how anything works.
Unknown Speaker 1
I seen the other way around to where I seen like 12 year old kids, they put a rotary phone down in front of them.
Dale Hellas
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
I say make a phone call. Could you do it?
Dale Hellas
Yeah. Well, I was alive. No, I know, but I mean, could you still figure out the phone or the numbers? Too many. Like you just call the operator, Johnny.
Unknown Speaker 1
All the way around.
Dale Hellas
Johnny 0. This one gets me where I need to go. Yeah. But I was thinking that kind of stuff's amazing because what you're doing is so technologically superior and advanced. Now, eventually that's going to be electric cars.
Ron Capps
Probably.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. I mean, eventually that's going to be faster than battery race.
Ron Capps
They have exhibitions and it's weird because all you hear is the tire screeching for like six seconds because they're going.
Dale Hellas
To get to 400 miles an hour in those.
Ron Capps
Because those things just on or off.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. They just go.
Ron Capps
You know, it's funny you say that when I. One of the awards ceremonies, like in nine, like I might have been my rookie year. They did a. ESPN at the time did a kickoff to the show and they predicted the future. And in it, my son had just been born. I said, it's Caden Capps. And they made up a name of force as like grandkid.
Dale Hellas
Yeah.
Ron Capps
And I said, and the light turns green and they show the cars and they're going like two funny car looking things and then they do a loop. Like a Hot Wheels loop.
Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah.
Ron Capps
Shoot in the air. And it's so funny. I'd love to find that footage because it's like they're thinking of the future. Like, how are we gonna make this?
Dale Hellas
What's it gonna do? What is the future? What do you think?
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
Like 25 years from now. What is. What does any of this look like in nhra?
Ron Capps
Well, now that he's president, maybe a few more. You know, I thought electrical drag racing, electric cars were going to be like.
Dale Hellas
Yeah.
Ron Capps
Less than five years.
Dale Hellas
Oh, really? You. That was really close.
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
I figured it would just be a. A category.
Ron Capps
Yeah, I figured you still is now.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. They run it, but it's almost like novelty, right? Yeah, yeah. It's not. It's like when they used to run those jets.
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
It was just like one run and it was all over and never really.
Ron Capps
They might do it Saturday that sometimes they'll bring them out and do exhibition runs and the fans are like, what is this? No sound. And the sound is quiet. Yeah.
Dale Hellas
So it's quiet. Have you driven one of those?
Ron Capps
No.
Dale Hellas
You haven't done one yet.
Ron Capps
I got a buddy. It's got the plaid Tesla. He's always wants to take me for a ride. And I'm like, that's. I hate when people try to scare me because I'm a race car driver. And, like, in a boat, they're like, come give me. I'll give you a ride in my boat. It goes 100. And I'm like, no.
Dale Hellas
Yeah.
Ron Capps
But this guy has the plaid, and supposedly it's 0 to 60, whatever. That is pretty.2 seconds. Is that what it is? Yeah, a little.
Dale Hellas
A little under two seconds. Yeah, I got two of them. Yeah, I wrecked the first one, actually. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 2
Outside of Carlsbad.
Dale Hellas
It's crazy.
Ron Capps
Yeah. I do remember you selling.
Dale Hellas
It's flat crazy. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 1
So I do got a question for you. So you practice, do you two A day?
Ron Capps
We can't. It cost about between 10 and 13,000 to make one run if it doesn't blow up. So you can't. It's.
Dale Hellas
So wait, a clean run is 13 grand?
Ron Capps
If nothing breaks? Yeah, if nothing blows up. It doesn't hurt a piston, best case scenario. Yeah. Yeah. Which is very rare. With that being said, we sort of have drivers. We have to wait until the team wants to test something with the car, and then it allows us we can kind of practice.
Dale Hellas
Right.
Ron Capps
Otherwise, I have a simulator at home that I raced NASCAR and other stuff on, but you can't simulate the G forces, the sound, the smell, and all that because it's just. It's like 3.8 seconds of the world flying apart. It's crazy.
Unknown Speaker 2
So then, Ron, if the engine block goes out, then what goes 13 grand.
Ron Capps
To what it could be like? I blew up last year in Seattle, and it probably cost 100 and something. Thousand. Just that one run.
Dale Hellas
Just once.
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
So every time you're sitting in the pits and people are walking by and you guys are gassing out in the engine. Thousands of dollars going out the door every time they hit the pedal.
Ron Capps
That's probably five or six, 7,000 just testing it.
Dale Hellas
Jesus, what a sport. Dale, you're thinking to yourself, how did all these hillbillies from Tennessee get this much money to do this?
Ron Capps
It's a bad business plan.
Dale Hellas
Yeah. Now, I asked. I asked. I asked you what the future for NHRA is. Now. Look at Dale and tell me, is there a future for Dale? This is it.
Ron Capps
He's on radio, right?
Dale Hellas
Yeah. Well, there's no future in that. Not just for you, Dale, but all things collapse.
Unknown Speaker 1
I come over here once a week to help your show.
Dale Hellas
Yeah, you do pretty good.
Ron Capps
He flew in from Hawaii. It can't be that Bad.
Dale Hellas
He's doing pretty good, right? Yeah, we pay him well.
Unknown Speaker 1
37Th anniversary, John.
Ron Capps
Wow.
Dale Hellas
Of Hawaii. I think it's been around longer than that.
Unknown Speaker 1
37 year wedding anniversary.
Dale Hellas
You had that. Did she go?
Unknown Speaker 1
Yeah, she came.
Dale Hellas
Good for you. Yeah. She finally came is what I said. Well, there. Well, happy anniversary.
Unknown Speaker 1
Well, thank you.
Dale Hellas
Just a Hawaii trip.
Unknown Speaker 1
Just Hawaii? Well, I mean, come on, John.
Dale Hellas
Pretty basic.
Unknown Speaker 1
We did helicopter ride.
Dale Hellas
That's fun.
Unknown Speaker 1
Dinner cruise, saw some whales, golf.
Dale Hellas
Did she golf with you?
Unknown Speaker 1
Nope.
Dale Hellas
There you go.
Unknown Speaker 1
That's how you make it. 37.
Dale Hellas
Exactly right. You keep her off the course. How long you been married?
Ron Capps
32 years.
Dale Hellas
My God. Well, where's your last anniversary? Something better in Hawaii, right?
Ron Capps
Yeah, we went to Cabo.
Dale Hellas
Cabo.
Ron Capps
That's nice. A bunch of couples.
Dale Hellas
Yeah, a whole bunch. Yeah. Where's the most exotic place you've ever traveled?
Ron Capps
I do a fan cruise every year. I've been doing it for like God, 18 years.
Dale Hellas
No kidding.
Ron Capps
And it goes out of different ports. Seven days and either west coast.
Dale Hellas
Be honest. Really annoying at a certain point. Day four.
Ron Capps
It's not bad. We only have like 40, 50 people and they're.
Dale Hellas
Oh, that's not bad.
Ron Capps
They. They all. They're. They're great because they don't just take pictures and video all the time. So we have fun and we. Yeah, a lot of stuff.
Unknown Speaker 2
Probably a lot of them come back too.
Ron Capps
Yeah, they do. And so I would easily get in probably trouble. Social media if the fans that go on my cruise were not as good as they are. But they're very cool and we just have a blast and so it kind of makes it fun. And we go on the big ships like, oh, that's Carnival and Norwegian and all that. All right, so we're going to get to question. We've been all over.
Dale Hellas
You go all over. Not just Hawaii where everybody's been. Rudimentary early vacation. All right, gonna take another break. We'll take a break through the entertainment drill. Dale Hellas trace here. Ron Capps is here. And Ron's going to win another championship starting this. This week. It starts. Yeah. Tomorrow. You got. We've already run once, right?
Ron Capps
Yeah.
Dale Hellas
This year. So you know. Yeah. Okay. So you're going to do another one. Get that thing going. We'll take a break. We'll be back with Ron Capps and Dale Hell astray next. It's 98.
Dick Toledo
It's not weird.
Unknown Speaker 1
It's pretty cool, actually.
Dale Hellas
No membership fee. I have heard enough.
Unknown Speaker 1
What you pj.
Holmberg's Morning Sickness - Arizona Episode Summary: 03-20-25 - 3 Time NHRA Funny Car Champ Ron Capps And Dale Hellestrae - In Studio - PART TWO
Release Date: March 20, 2025
In this engaging episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness on 98 KUPD, host John Holmberg, alongside co-hosts Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, and Dick Toledo, welcomes three-time NHRA Funny Car Champion, Ron Capps, for an in-depth conversation. The episode delves into a variety of topics ranging from sports brackets and space technology to personal anecdotes and the future of drag racing.
The episode kicks off with a lively discussion about the NCAA tournament brackets. Ron Capps shares his strategy, highlighting his picks and the challenges associated with following the tournament closely.
Bracket Selection Insights
Champion Predictions
Tiebreaker Scores
This segment underscores the camaraderie among the hosts and guests, blending sports enthusiasm with personal anecdotes.
Transitioning from sports, the conversation shifts to recent rocket launches and advancements in space technology, sparking reflections on past experiences and modern innovations.
Reflecting on Rocket Launches
Modern Technological Advancements
This segment emphasizes the rapid technological advancements and the hosts' awe at modern conveniences, juxtaposed with nostalgic memories of earlier technological limitations.
A significant portion of the discussion centers on the future of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) and the integration of electric vehicles into drag racing.
Electric Drag Racing Prospects
Challenges and Costs
Simulators vs. Real-World Experience
This discussion sheds light on the financial and technical challenges facing NHRA, while also exploring the potential shifts towards electric drag racing in the future.
The hosts and Ron share personal stories, celebrating milestones and recounting memorable travels, adding a personal touch to the episode.
Wedding Anniversaries and Celebrations
Travel Experiences
These personal stories foster a sense of camaraderie and showcase the hosts' and guests' lives beyond their professional endeavors.
As the episode nears its end, the focus returns to professional pursuits and upcoming events.
Championship Preparations
Final Banter
The episode wraps up with anticipation for Ron's upcoming championship battle, leaving listeners eager for future episodes.
Dale Hellas on Technology:
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Dale Hellas on Modern Conveniences:
This episode of Holmberg's Morning Sickness offers a blend of humor, insightful discussions, and personal stories, anchored by Ron Capps' expertise in drag racing. From dissecting NCAA brackets to marveling at space technology and debating the future of NHRA, the hosts provide a comprehensive and entertaining dialogue. Personal anecdotes about anniversaries and travels add warmth, making this episode both informative and relatable for listeners.
For those who missed the live broadcast, this summary captures the essence of the conversation, highlighting key moments and memorable exchanges that define the dynamic spirit of Arizona's #1 Morning Radio Show.