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Chute The Sh*t
by Will Weiner
inspired by the 100th year of Buggy, we set out to interview characters and collect some of the best stories from the sport's 100 years. Created and hosted by Will Weiner, we speak to a range of alumni from all sorts of teams, staff, BAA and more.This podcast is produced by Rachael Schmitt, and brought to you by the Buggy Alumni Association.The intro music is used from the Free Music Archive and is the song Hotshot by Scott Holmes
Episodes
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Will Weiner's World: Behind the Broadcast
You've seen him on the Buggy Broadcast. You've heard him on Chute the Sh!t. Now, for our final episode, the voice of Raceday himself, Will Weiner, takes the hot seat! With over a decade of experience calling the action, Will shares behind-the-scenes stories, insights into his play-by-play…
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Crowned by Speed: Hill One Pusher Royalty of 2024
On Raceday, the fastest Hill One time in each division earns a special crown. In this episode, we’re shining the spotlight on the reigning royalty of speed—Hill One’s 2024 King, Queen, and Monarch! Ryan Nagle, Erin Magid, and Brendan Clark join us to share their secrets to ‘locking in,’ reflect…
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Where you Lead, I will Follow: Inside the Trucks
In this episode, we dive into the essential role of Lead and Follow trucks on Raceday! Our guests—John Hannon, Holly Hippensteel, Joanna Dickert, and Bryan Koval—not only serve the CMU community in their day jobs but also take on the critical responsibility of piloting and co-piloting the trucks...
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Fringe Finishes First: The triple victory of 2001
Step back to 2001 with the champions of Fringe as they relive their historic first victor(ies) in Buggy. Join the team as they dive into how they built a winning team culture, overcame challenges, experienced mishaps, and reflect on their experiences with the gift of time. Featuring James Wade…
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A Family Racing Legacy: Four Teams, Two Generations, One Passion
Season 6 kicks off strong with an incredible web of buggy connections and stories spanning generations! Peter, Elena, and Carter Harlee join us, along with another family duo, Rick and Michael Crotty. Back in the ’90s, Peter and Rick led Pioneers together, and now Elena and Carter—siblings at...
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Trophies As Tall As Us: The 2023 Winning Drivers
Last year, for the first time ever, Buggy had 3 divisions and 3 winning drivers from separate teams! Julia "Juju" Nieto, Cynthia Xu, and Lead Restad all won a first place trophy for PiKA, Spirit, and Apex. In the final episode of the season, we go back to Raceday 2023 and hear directly from the...
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90's Trends: Stories from SigNu and Spirit
For the first time on the podcast, two competing teams - both a Greek and an Independent - come together to chat about Buggy 'back in the day'. Ian McCullough, Raj Virani, Carl Nott, and Abby Sullivan take a fun trip down memory lane and tell us about their respective teams, college schenanigans,...
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Bathtub Buggy's Singular Roll: Fun and Friendship in 1971
This episode is dedicated to Paul Spudich, the driver of LSH's 'Bathtub Buggy' who passed away in 2019. Paul is mentioned often in this episode, and we wanted to take a moment to honor his memory. Every buggy lover has probably seen pictures of the bathtub buggy. Ron Benton, Paul Wittman, and…
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Sweepstake's New Advisor: A Conversation With Stacie
Stacie Gardner is the Assistant Director of SLICE. She is also the Sweepstakes Advisor, the role formerly occupied by Kaycee Palko. Stacie joins us on this episode to introduce herself to the Buggy Community, share what it was like to tag-team Raceday advising last year, and how she's brought her...
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Broadcast Beginnings: The rise of CMUTV on the buggy course
On this episode, we learn about the first live Raceday broadcasts, the early 2000s technology, and how it grew to be the professional level coverage we enjoy each April. Charlie Butcosk, Matt Theisz, Greg Battaglia, and Fred Hopke were integrat to the founding of CMUTV and the inital Buggy...
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SDC's DQ: The Inside Story
Hear the leaders of SDC Buggy walk us through everything that happened in 2023 leading up to their controversial Raceday DQ, the changes they've made since, and where SDC stands today. Thanks to Lewis Rockwell, Matthew Garcia, and Paul Gonzalez for taking us inside the SDC story!
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Safety in Buggy: A discussion
It's time to talk about safety! Linna Grifin, Fritz Langford, Tom Wood, and Rachael Schmitt join to dig into the nuances of safety in our unique sport and share behind the scenes of the Safety Chair position. The crash testing report mentioned can be read here: shorturl.at/xIOY4 and the video can...
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CIA Chairs Chat: Competition, Culture, & Covid
The CIA Officers for Raceday 2023 join the pod this week! Nate Klein, Olivia Ehrman, Leo Nicolussi, and Elliot Frankel share recent stories from the garage and the course. You'll see them giving it their all this coming Raceday.
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Kappa Delta Rho: On participation, hitting the gym, and bringing KDR back to campus
We're joined by Adam McCue, Nik Bonaddio, and Mike Berendt to discuss the past of KDR buggy, getting the most from college, and their hot takes for the future
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How to Build a Book About Building a Buggy: The Buggy Build Book
The trilogy ends with the introduction of the Buggy Build Book! Available now at https://cmubuggy.org/reference/how-to-build-a-buggy/ Diya Nuxoll, Ethan Gladding, Connor Hayes join the podcast this week (via time travel from 2021). The Buggy Build Book, in collaboration with the BAA, is aimed to...
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Open Door Policy: The Complete Story of Apex Buggy
Apex Buggy is about to roll on their 12th Raceday in 2023! Connor Hayes, Jasio Santillan, Andre Marty, Sydney Baker, and Isabel Vala take Will through the entire history of Apex - from founding and growing pains to mishaps, a pandemic, and a few trophies. Learn how Apex went from "those freshman...
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Why Did Pioneers Die?: Inside the wild final days of Pioneer Buggy
What happens when an entire buggy team is handed to a former CIA chair before being sent to a farm upstate? Pioneers brought chaos to rolls, had the most fun on the course, and contributed to a new birth. We hope you enjoy the first episode of the new season! We're joined by Ethan Gladding, V…
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The Most Brazen Team: DG Joins the Course
SEASON 3 FINALE! Tune in for this exclusive interview with the newest members on the course. Recorded between truck weekend and Carnival 2022, this is a unique snapshot of a team days before their very first Raceday. Guests are Sophie Battaglia, Lindsay Lamberti, and Katy Zapanta. Come watch…
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Gone Fishing: PiKA's Bait-and-Switch
Tuna in to this episode and sea what the Pike brothers did to prevent their team from floundering in a difficult year. You'll be hooked on this story that sent PiKA Racing reeling before they grouped together to build a pearl in the oyster. Join David Power, Gabe Renna, Charlie Aguilar, and Willy...
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Design Showcase: Behind the Scenes of Raceday Weekend's Kickoff Event
Melissa (Lee) Bruner, Emily Ostrin, and Dave Singh have been showcase/design comp chairs spanning over a decade! They're here to shed some light on what goes into the first Buggy event of Carnival weekend. Join us as they discuss how it complements Raceday, rule changes, and the ins and outs of...
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AEPi Through the Ages: Buggy, Booth, and Bromance
This week we're joined by a trio of AEPi Buggy Chairs: Jay Kirschenbaum, Josh Schmieder, and Brian Humbarger as they discuss the ups and downs of AEPi's buggy legacy and the differences in the team and on the course between 1988, 2005, and 2013.
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A Bunch of Car Guys: The 50th anniversary of PhiKap's championship run
This week we are joined by members of the Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity to talk about their surprising rise to success in the early 70s to break up the PiKA / Beta Dynasties that had lasted a decade prior. What put their buggy Streak above the rest, how buggy has changed since that time, memories…
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The greatest, wildest, jazziest, most blood curdling podcast ever: History of Buggy 100
Bryan Arsham and Jeremy Tuttle join to talk about the monumental research project they undertook to put together the History of Buggy for Buggy 100. Beyond sharing some of the most fascinating stories in the sport's history, they discuss how they managed to learn what happened in races in the...
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EMS: Standing By for Safety
We sit down with 3 CMU EMS Alumni to talk about their role in buggy, how they keep competitors safe, and end up having a fascinating, wide ranging chat covering all kinds of topics related to EMS and look at some of the parallels of their organization and Sweepstakes. Trigger warnings: Brief...
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Legacy of Love: Couples of CIA
This week love is in the air, as we talk with 3 couples who all met as teammates in CIA and ended up getting married! We talk about their stories, the dangers of love and buggy, and ultimately get into talking about CIA's resurgence in the late Aughts, as it turns out the best way to bring two...
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Radioclub: Buggy's Safety Net
This week we talk with Katherine Crawford and Benjamin Wasserman from Radio Club, about their integral role in making rolls and raceday happen, explain what a radio safety net is, how ham radio works, how you recruit for radio club, and share some wacky stories they've managed to collect from…
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The Lost Art of Flagging
This week we're joined by 3 former flaggers (in 3 countries!) as they talk about the lost art of flagging (ok maybe that is an exaggeration). We dive in to what made them love this task that seemingly is tossed to random pledges, but is so integral to a successful race, why its one of the best...
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Keep On Rollin': How the 20-21 Chairs Made Rolls Happen
Current Sweepstakes chair Tishya Girdhar and safety chair Bethany Bauer join to discuss what it has been like leading through this prolonged pandemic and the monumental effort to get rolls approved. What hurdles they had to go through to get buggy off the ground amidst state and school…
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Firsts and Forever's: Talking Legacy with 4 Legendary Women of Buggy
Will is joined by 4 women from with legendary buggy legacies from across the decades, having accomplished many "first ever"s, records, wins, and more. We get into those legacies, what it has meant to be a woman in Buggy, how that and the sport has evolved over time, reflections on lessons…
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The Best Seats on the Course: Tales from the lead and follow truck cameramen Matt Adler and Chris Stengle
Not too long ago the only official footage of a given raceday was recorded on two handheld cameras, one in the lead truck and one in the follow truck. Will sits down with the two men who did all that filming, Matt Adler and Chris Stengle, as they they share some wild stories of the chaos of…
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Robobuggy: Buggy's Wholesome Meme
When you show someone buggy for the first time, one of the standard responses is, "Is there really a person inside that?" Usually there is, unless they're looking at something from Robobuggy, a team who is working to build an autonomous self driving buggy. We hear about the history of their...
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SDC - Empire of Malice
Over the past decade no team has dominated the Buggy scene like SDC, winning a record 8 years in a row on the men's side and 10 of the last 13 on the women's. Many see them as the "New York Yankees" of buggy, but it wasn't so long ago they were the underdogs fighting to take down a PiKA dynasty.…
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Family Tradition
This week we sit down with two multi-generational buggy families, the Clay's and the the Zapanta's. We talk about what it's like growing up in a buggy household, seeing your kid take up the sport you loved, how sharing that experience can strengthen family ties, as well as the heartbreaking sense...
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A Quantum Leap - The Birth of Spirit Buggy
We're joined by 4 of the original members of the Spirit Buggy team, who share the incredible underdog story of how they went from a brand new buggy team, to four years later setting a course record that shocked campus and would last 20 years. They share the challenges of starting from nothing,...
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From a Prank to Platform - The story behind the BAA
We sit down with current and past members of the BAA to hear how it evolved from a prank trying to poke at PiKA's proclivity to prevent photography, to a key platform documenting the history of the sport, to actively bringing us raceday enhancements like Jumbotrons, as well as current initiatives...
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We're all in this together- 2020 Senior Buggy Chairs
The 5 Senior Buggy Chairs* joined us to reflect on the most unusual raceday 2020: they share stories of their preparations for the year, their reactions to the news of the cancellation and reflections on their time as a part of this sport. Oh and of course some fun arguments over still sore spots...
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Witchner, Lang and Palko, Buggy Advisors: The things they've seen behind the scenes
This episode features 3 of the most recent Buggy Advisors, Rowshan Lang, Kaycee Palko and Lifetime Spirit of Buggy recipient Anne Witchner, as we get the staff perspective on what it is like working with generations of buggy obsessed students to help make raceday happen. They share plenty of...
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Bordick and Estes: Unfiltered
This week we're joined by Mark Estes and Andy Bordick, two of the most outspoken characters in the buggy world. They have been bringing their hot takes to the yearly buggy broadcast for about 15 years and now have an unfiltered platform to share from their trove of buggy knowledge and opinions…
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Tom Wood: A Buggy Life
In our premier episode Will sits down with Tom Wood, the Buggy Historian. Tom has been involved with the sport for over 50 years and played a major hand in its history. Tom shared stories from how he got his start in buggy all the way up til now as well as reflections on what it means for the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
inspired by the 100th year of Buggy, we set out to interview characters and collect some of the best stories from the sport's 100 years. Created and hosted by Will Weiner, we speak to a range of alumni from all sorts of teams, staff, BAA and more.This podcast is produced by Rachael Schmitt, and brought to you by the Buggy Alumni Association.The intro music is used from the Free Music Archive and is the song Hotshot by Scott Holmes
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inspired by the 100th year of Buggy, we set out to interview characters and collect some of the best stories from the sport's 100 years. Created and hosted by Will Weiner, we speak to a range of alumni from all sorts of teams, staff, BAA and more.This podcast is produced by Rachael Schmitt, and...
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