NAS-Cast Podcast

Writing a Podcast Script

Nicholas Byerly

CM313: Tools for the Digital Age

Kaplan University

                Intro:

Hello everyone and welcome NAS-Cast, your weekly digital upload of all things NASCAR.

Intro Setup:

This week we are going to be talking about this weekend’s past race at Kentucky: My thoughts on the overall race, the repave and the ins and outs of fuel mile racing. Welcome I am your host Nick Byerly.  

Kentucky Speedway offered us 3 races this past weekend. To kick it off we saw young Willy Byron take home the truck victory Thursday night followed by Kyle Busch dominating another Xfinity Series race which in itself is a topic for another week. On Saturday night we saw Brad Keselowski stretch his fuel further than everyone else and just able to stay in front of Cal Edwards who was also wishing on a star his fuel could hold out for the final lap.

With that said Kentucky was what I thought it would be, another mile and halftrack with a fresh repave which just meant little passing and bottom feeder racing. Though the racing groove widen more then what I thought it would; the cars for the most part stayed glued to the bottom of the track. Tires had little influence which also contributed to the well “bad” racing. In my opinion and when a team can consistently put on 2 tires there is a problem or lack of a problem with the fall off of the tire.

We did see our far share of cautions throughout Saturday nights event, most of this was contributed by being on the outside lane during restarts. Kentucky did what they had to do with the repave and I believe in the long run the track itself is going to setup for great racing: a different layout in 1-2 and narrow corners are different than most mile and halftracks the circuit visits.

In closing this week we will be leaving for Loudon where Larry the Lobster is lurking to take on any and all comers.

Think Before you send.

I have used microblogs for personal and professional use; when using this type of communication you are very limited. Because for example Twitter: you are only given 140 characters. Now is this is great when you are trying to give a headline for a story or a summary. But often times I feel that the meat is never going to be included in a post; and with that said the post can be misconstrued. Personally Twitter is a opinion haven for people. This in my opinion has created a world of headlines without a story or support facts. I believe this is a great problem; people often times respond to things and never think of who's looking at it or the responses it may en tale.  Anytime you use a modern microblog the best advice is the type it up and sit the device down and read it out loud. "Think before you send"