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Lapped Traffic w/ Marlee: IndyCar and John Green; Musical Motorsports Cross-Over; Crafty Content Queen

April 23, 2025 • Laps Down Podcast

Welcome to another episode of Lapped Traffic, a fun bonus episode with some of MJ and Andrea’s closest motorsports friends. Our inner circle, or inner oval if you prefer, of motorsports creatives and buddies we meet at the track. The star of this episode is the bubbly Marlee (@motorsportsmarlee), a sports journalism graduate student in Indy who loves cars that go fast and a good craft. In this episode we kick off the Month of May hype with the biggest IndyCar fan and one of our closest friends of the pod!

0:00 Intro

1:51 Falling in Love With Motorsports Through John Green

5:48 Living in Indy as an IndyCar/Sports Fan

7:52 Women’s Basketball Growth Providing Lessons Learned for Motorsports?

14:41 Being a Journalist Now VS a Fan Experiencing the News

22:00 Marlee’s Pitch to Make You An IndyCar Fan

25:00 Crafty Content Queen

33:54 Rolex 24 at Daytona Mini-Series and Manifest Time

39:10 Musical Theater Motorsports Casting

45:28 My Son

47:40 Outro

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