Zak Brown

Particularly on YouTube, we have just a fanatical audience for auto racing.

Anything F1, people go absolutely crazy.

But I have to admit, I'm the global editorial director, which is a fancy way of saying I'm the editor-in-chief.

I'm not an expert in everything that we do here at Wired, and cars and driving is not my strong suit.

I do not have a driver's license, but I do know that F1 has been breaking through in the U.S.

in a significant way.

We're going to get into the specifics of it all.

You're going to teach me more about auto racing.

You're going to talk to me about cars.

I want to learn.

I want to understand this world.

I think our listeners do, too.

But first, I want to actually start with your personal story because it's a fascinating one in terms of how you got to where you are now.

And I understand that it started with watches and it started with Wheel of Fortune.

So take us back many, many years to the origin story of Zach Brown.

I don't think any of us can be experts at everything.

I'm certainly not an expert at all things McLaren racing.

I just always laugh when I'm talking about cars because I literally cannot drive one.

Yeah.

OK.