Door Bumper Clear - 11 - WHERE IS KB? The Show Must Go On.

Episode Date: April 19, 2016

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You're win. Hey, everybody. It's T.J. Major spotter for the 88 in the Cup series and the 7 and Exfinity series. And I got to ask why I don't add my truck in there. I had it. I do a 29 truck. We fixed that. Yeah, there you go.

Now you know. Don't hate me. There you go. Sitting with me today, as you heard. Brett Griffin, Spotter for Clint Boyer and Elliot Sadler and our trusty, beautiful co-host, Kristen. Yeah, Kristen has a, she looks different today. You look, her, she got facial hair and a deeper voice. Yeah.

How are you, Kristen? Doing well. Doing well. So producer Josh is going to be bipolar today. He's going to be Kristen and producer Josh. Kristen has something come up and couldn't make the recording. of this awesome podcast. So Josh is going to fill in

Butterfly at all. I hope she's not out because we went to Hooters and she got sick or something. That would be unfortunate. How, like, when you're a girl and you agree to go to Hooters, how many cool points do you, like, go up? Like, if you're a 7,

do you become an 8 or you become a 9 because you're cool with hanging out of Hooters? Well, she likes wings. Well, she likes wings. She still got to go to Hooters. She didn't get wings. Everyone goes to Hooters for the wings. Right.

And the socks. and the socks and the nylons. We had a door bumper clear meeting, man, and we forgot to tell you we were having it. No. Me, Josh, and Kristen went to hooters, yeah. Wow. Did you eat some wings?

I ate ten naked hot wings. Will Elliot's bus driver had wings wrapped in bacon. Have you ever heard of such? No, but it sounds good. They were good. Old bacon car had a rough day, though. What'd you get, Josh? Other than that shot of a tequila.

It was kind of post-Josh's birthday, so we had to get him with tequila shot. Right. I got wings. I got 15 boneless wings. Yeah. You don't like the bone-in wings? I do. I don't like them at Hooters, though.

Hooters aren't my favorite wings. No. You don't want to get messy in front of the girls. I don't go to Hooters for Wings. Yeah. So really changing gears, happy for one main presenting this show to you guys today. We're in the Exaltta Studio. The Exalt of Studio.

has helped us out a bunch. We love it. Speaking of Exalta. Speaking of Exalta. So they're doing this special thing, and they're trying to get 20,000 followers on Twitter. They've already got 15. Yeah, so they're getting there. But the cool part about it is,

is we have until May 13th. They're going to partner with the Pocono race and give away $88,000 if Dale Jr. wins the race, which is sponsored by Exaltza, too. at Pocono. Wow. And that's on June 5th. So follow Exaltar racing to become part of this and possibly win.

We've swept there before. So, I mean, why not take some free money if they're, I mean, it's follow button. What's the hurt? This podcast alone can get them over 20,000 followers. I know. Follow Exalta. I mean, you block more people than that. I block two idiots on the way here today.

See? Two clowns. I mean, why? That happens when you get a red light? Why are you going to be a troll on Twitter? Like, I can't understand why people want to do that. That's because they don't have to answer anybody. You can say what you want and then delete the tweet and basically feel better about yourself,

which is a complete opposite because they probably wouldn't say it in person. And you click on their picture, and it's either a picture of their dog, a picture of a race car, a picture of somebody. It's not even them. It's like, grow up. Stop in. Get out of your mom's basement. This is my 14-year-old dog, Roxy. Roxy.

Yeah. Whimp's. Anyway, so what about Bristol? Man. That's a career finish for you so far. Yeah, we finished top ten. We ran well after about lap 200. It takes us half the race to figure out what to do.

Well, that race was weird. If you played your pit strategy, you're right, then you could get some. And a bunch of guys did. You guys did. The 38 did. The 14 did. Yeah. I hated to see land and not get a better opportunity.

to finish where he ran all day. I mean, the guy ran top 10 all day. And honestly, to get there, they stayed out that one caution. They did. But didn't fall back to my third on the restart. No, they were doing good. He was so hard to pass. Lennon's a good short track driver.

He's a really good short track driver. And it shows when he was in that 40 car, he was always competitive that short track is what they had. And this Bristol, all you have to do is have a semi- a decent car and a great A car can't pass you. Right. It's really, really hard. It takes 10, 15 laps sometimes for the guy to get the right run to get around you.

So if you have a, if you know what you're doing and you don't make any mistakes, you can run good. I want to say this, though. I watch Dale Jr. Go two laps down immediately, obviously. Oh, I watch it too. But then you watched him for the next 500 laps that he made because he got back on Lee lap. So he still made 500 laps around Bristol. All right.

He raced that track like it was the old Bristol. What I mean by that is I saw him put McMurray in the wall. I saw him put Tideylin in the wall. Like I saw him moving and rooting guys out of the way. And you know what? Maybe it's in the driver's hands as to what this show actually ends up being at Bristol. And it's not the track's fault. Because Dale Jr. raced like it was old Bristol.

He didn't take it for anybody. He definitely raced like we were already. He came out at Guns Blazing, man. I mean, that's – and, you know, I love spot when he drives like that. And I know – well, you have to drive like that to a certain point. When you're two laps down, if you lose one more, you're done, for sure. So with two laps down, a wave around, and if you have a quick car, you could get a lucky dog and stuff. So that's what we did.

But he was. I mean, he didn't go into the corner. And when he was pass up and drive to the bottom, he went into the corner of a car length lower than them and just was coming up until they lifted. Here's my thing about the people complaining about Bristol. If you're a Dale Jr. fan, you probably left there happy. If you're a Carl Edwards fan, you probably left there happy. Clint Boyer fan, you left there. If you're a Matt Kenseth, Kyle Bush,

Chase Elliott, some of those guys that didn't finish as well as they should have, then you probably are pissed off, but you can't blame all that on the track. So just because your guy has a bad day, you can't be so biased against everything else. Because I think we have a lot of fans that do that. They get some of my nerves.

Yeah, it's its own monster right now. Bristol is Bristol. It's not the old Bristol that we see all the highlights from. No. You know, when they show Bristol highlights, when they try to, you know, pump the race up. Everything is from, you know, guys rooting each other off the bottom and stuff. And this is a different type.

It's on the top now. Yeah. And one good thing about this is it gives people like landing them guys a better chance because you can't get around them. If it's a bottom track, we're just going to go in there and knock them up the racetrack. And those guys aren't going to see the bottom again until the whole field goes by. And then it's going to start again. Right.

And it's just not going to separate it out more. I like Bristol both ways. I was fine when it was a bottom feeder track too. But, you know, I thought it was a good race. Yeah, it was good. We're going to fire into spot-on, spot off. Josh is going to take, again, Kristen's place and read off some topics, and TJ and I are going to give our thoughts on each one of these things.

Well, first of all, can you talk like a girl? No, I can't. Sorry. Great spotting by you two on Sunday. Yeah. Yeah. I actually spotted really well on Saturday, too. didn't get a good finish.

It's fighting on Saturday. I thought we were going to get wrecked on the initial start. Were you behind me? You were behind me? Hell yeah, I was behind you screaming. Check up, check up, check up, check up. Yeah, that was a... I thought we were getting wrecked right there.

It's a miracle you didn't because literally there were five cars, nose to tell behind you radiator deep. Yeah, that was scary. All right, go ahead. All right, so in the spot on, spot off, Xfinity heat races. Were they worth the hype or were they a little lame? Who's first?

I'll go. I see what they're trying to do here, but they're not accomplishing it, because we're qualifying first, and that's three full rounds. Then we're doing heat races. Everybody's scared to death to wreck. The heat races don't mean enough. And then we go into the race. And at the end of the day, you have to, if you have a full-time sponsor,

you have to be able to start the race. You can't be aggressive in the heat races because of that. So if we're going to do heat races, do them the day before the main race so that you can pull out your backup if you need it and make it set the field. Like right now, qualify and says the field. will qualify. Do these mains, B main, C main, whatever, and let them set the fill for the main. Yeah, I was just thinking that

what about a word of outlaws type format? Yep. You go in and let's just draw. Yeah, draw a pill. Draw pill. And if you're the 13 car, you know you're out of the pace and you don't want to start on a pole, you've got the option to drop to the back. Right. But let's draw pills. Heck with it. Let's see where you end up.

And if you, you know, obviously we don't have enough, we probably wouldn't have enough cars for a C main and stuff, but let's draw pills. Let's practice. Draw pill. You know, draw your pill, see where your heat race is. Line them up. Three, four heat races. You think about what works well at short tracks.

It's hot laps. And they go out there, they don't get the run long. Then they draw the pill. Then they run heat races. Like, we're practicing four hours. Then we're qualifying for an hour. They were heat racing for an hour. Then we're going to do our main race for two hours.

Like, we've taken the whole concept of making the event more concise and we've actually stretched it out more. Maybe we can do a four wide salute coming, you know? That'd be cool. Parade that four wide deal. Holy cow. I think it's a good concept. I think it needs a lot of freaking work, though.

We're a long ways away from what we did on Saturday being more entertaining. Yeah, I'll go spot off on that as well. I like the idea of heat races, but the format's not right yet. All right, moving on to Kyle Busch finally loses a race after four consecutive wins. He hits a fan in the infield. Do we have our old Kyle back? And just so everyone knows, you do sign a waiver when you go into the infield at Bristol. And most all tracks.

I'm spot off, man. There's, you know, there's plenty of room when you crash to get your car stopped down there. There's no reason to be flying in there like that. If you're going behind the wall at Bristol, you're going to lose a bunch of laps anyway. You're not just losing one lap or two laps. You sit in your pit stall to do that stuff. So there's no, at some point, you've got to draw the line and realize, look, okay, these fans have access, and we don't need to put that in jeopardy by it because you're mad.

and you're flying down there. Have a little, you know, be courteous, man. I know you're angry and it's not your day, but you've had a pretty dang good month, man. Chill out. And, you know, he'll probably win next week. Who knows? You know, there's another race next week.

Don't ruin six months of this person's life. Yeah. For rolling an ankle, rolling your car with her ankle or something, just slow down down there. T.J. is spot on. T. TJ's definitely spot on. He's coming in. He hits a girl, but he almost hits two or three more.

people. Thank God they were paying attention. When I'm backstage at a concert, I don't expect a drummer to come up and hit me in the back of the head because he had a bad set. You know, like, yes, these fans have access. Yes, they're in a hot area. Yes, they have to be well aware of what's going on. But, you know, he's coming

in at a pace that was obviously dangerous to the people around him. He's got to use his head. For no reason. For no reason. You're getting ready to put it on jackstands right there. Yeah. Is that person's, is tearing that person's angle wall. He'd wrecked three times, right?

At least three. Yeah, so he'd wrecked three times. You've destroyed, you've hit the wall hard, and the last time, obviously, he'd c-oed it. Like, there's no reason that coming in there to be in such a rush that you're putting anybody's safety in jeopardy, because at the end of the day, the fans lose if he hurts this lady. And what I mean by that is the fans start losing access, and our sponsors pay too much money

to put guests in the infield and in the pit and garage area for somebody to lose their cool and screw it up for everybody. And that waiver is not, you know, obviously it's stuff like that too, but it's for, you know, other crazy stuff happened and a lug nut flying off and hitting you somewhere or something, you know, like just like that. If he could have prevented that, he's an asshole. That's a preventable. At the end of the day, if he could have stopped or he could have turned a little left and prevented that, he's an asshole. If that had been my wife, I'd have probably been the first one to the one in that. Yeah.

You? Yeah, I mean, I would have, I can't even imagine being a thing. family member of mine, I'd have been mad. You know, I'm picturing my little girl walking around down there. You know, she don't know any better. No. He's going behind the wall. Is it really worth that?

No. All right, what you got next? Well, speaking of blowing right front tires, JGR as a whole, except for Carl Edwards. Oh, blowing them out. You're blowing. Blowing them out. You said blowing. I didn't know what you meant.

Okay. Anyway. Valling them out. What did Carl do different? Carl, he won the race. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, I saw Carl's tires a couple times on the big screen, and it looked like he had some pretty excessive right front wear as well.

It's obvious that JGR, and I couldn't get any of my friends that have, that know people that know people to tell me if it was a Canber issue or not, but they were clearly doing something for Denny Hamlin to blow right front, Kyle Busch to blow several right fronts. Matt's leading the race. His car looked really dominant early, which was my pick-to-win Bristol, obviously that didn't work. He blows a tire.

You know, he COs it. So clearly, it seemed like we raced 40 to 60 laps every segment. And obviously we never got in the window where Carl was going to get himself in trouble. Yeah, actually talked to Greg. I called it one time. I said, I told Greg, I don't know to him like, hey, Greg, we're getting close to one of our right front tire going, aren't we? And literally like three laps later, it was boom. It was, yep, again, the 20 car.

Yeah. So they were definitely doing something. I mean, look, it's something they tried. It didn't work out. I mean, obviously it worked, but it didn't work. Yeah. So I don't know if Carl knew of the tire problems. Maybe he was going a little bit easier when he could.

Obviously, that happens when you have teammates that have problems. You know, when your teammate blows up something, you're always asking, like, well, you know, anything we can do differently or, or, but it's just, that shows you that they're all running about the same stuff, though, too. So, I don't know. I don't know anything either about it. I'm assuming it was a Canberra issue or something. I think it's, yeah, our first assumption for sure.

And if we would have had another long green flag run, I'm not so sure Carl wouldn't have had a problem. So we never got to that point, though, so. No green flag pit stops. We were all under yellow. Probably eight or nine pit stops under yellow. Yeah. Well, all day. All day.

All right. So Eric Jones essentially steals a win at Bristol in the Xfinity series. Spot on. I mean, he got after it, man. Spot off for what made him have that opportunity, though. Well, yeah, that's not his fault. No. Spot on for him for getting after it and blasting around there, man.

He made it happen. Kyle Larson made a huge mistake leaving the outside lane open. But if we back up with 12 laps to go, two cars that are multiple laps down, barely touch each other on the backstretch. It was a number 90. I have no idea who drives that. And Ryan Reed, Ryan had had trouble early, so he was multiple laps down. He and the 90 touch.

We throw a yellow and stop one of the best Exfinity races I've ever seen in my life. Kyle Larson and Kyle Busch were putting on a show. Didn't they keep rolling too? Yes, we didn't. There was no wreck. There was no reason for the yellow, really. No wreck.

Sometimes I feel like they throw the caution too quick, and sometimes I feel like they don't throw it at all early enough. It's almost the opposite. Like sometimes I feel like a guy outside sideways and he'll save it. Oh, caution's out, caution's out. Next time, you know, we'll have a guy. K-O-it and right around the apron and be like, oh, track's good. Track's good.

Where's the balance? You'll have Kyle Blow right front at California and go three quarters away around the track without throwing anything out. Well, that's what I'm saying. Okay, I was fine with that race finishing too. Why not? This one didn't need to slow down for that. No.

You know, and those guys were. What happened on the backstretch should not have brought a yellow out. We should have watched Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch, finish racing each other and duke it out. Yeah, man. My favorite Exfinity race was Brian Vickers and Shane Mill at IRP years and years ago. Yeah, side by side. This one was going to rival that, and they completely screwed it up.

And then after they screwed it up, they screwed the lineup up. Then they're calling like, we're coming to the green. Oh, we're not coming to the green. It's one to go again. And they start trying to move cars around at the last minute. That's really hard to do. At the end of the day, the fans paid money to be there. The fans are investing their time watching on TV.

If you get a caution with less than 20 laps, just red flag the damn thing so we can stop and get the field back sorted. If you can't sort the field out quickly, stop it, get it sorted out so they can get what they pay for, which is a finish. With 12 to go, we shouldn't have had the caution. Okay, we have the caution. We certainly should have more than a two-lap shootout

at the end of that. Yeah, and we did one time we doubled up into turn three. Did you notice that? Yeah. And everybody got lined up. There's not enough time at Bristol and Martinsville to send the wave rounds and double up and get your lineup right. We always have to hold the one to go.

In 45 seconds. I asked a couple of years. years ago or last year in a spotters meeting, I asked why we don't, we used to do it. Yeah. And I didn't really get a good answer, but it gives the tower, it gives the guys there more time to get the lineup right, you know, but. Well, at the end of the day, we get, Elliot got black flagged for his lineup, but Jeff Burton was right behind us and followed us up through everybody that waved over and he didn't

get black flagged. So I think when you look at it, where, where's the consistency in the thought process? When you're in the game, it's very frustrating. You know, when you're in the tower, you're in the stands, or you're a sponsor, yes, you're invested. But when, when TJ and I are in that moment, man, that pisses us off when we feel like we're not getting cheated. I had that happen to me in a truck race earlier this year, too, and I actually told the official on the roof that we were being, we were coming to one to go, or we got the one to go, and we were getting waved by by trucks. And I told the official, I'm like, you watch. These guys right here are all waving us by, just so you see it, you see it right now.

Yeah. And we got, they, we lined up, everybody's ready to go. Then they held the one to go because somebody was. wasn't lined up right. Yeah. So I told the official, I'm like, you watch, we are getting ready to get in trouble because they're going to look at these cars that wait us by.

They're already doubled up. They're going to think we pass them all illegally or fairly. That's what happened us this weekend. That's what I told him. And he's like, oh, I got, all right. And sure enough, they, you know, get the 29. These guys all just waited us by and then doubled up after we went by. Right.

And we got in trouble for it. And I sat there and told the official, but it's just something, you know, I know they're trying working hard with it and stuff. And that official on the roof needs to have a bigger voice than he has. For everybody listening, we have a NASCAR official, sometimes two officials that are on the roof with us. And that's who we go to when we have an issue or when we need help. But a lot of times that guy doesn't communicate anything to the tower. And when he does, he doesn't have enough cooth.

Yeah. You know what I also think they should get away? If you're going to report something on the track, I don't know if the crew chief should ever be able to report oil on the track. Yeah. Because that guy is sitting on a pit box. Right. How does he know if there's oil on the bottom in turn three? Right.

That should come from up top where the NASCAR official can see it, or, you know, he can watch that corner and tell you some cars are sliding around. Yes. Like I went down there and was screaming at Charlotte, hey, there's oil in the high group. We found it. Yeah. And so there are about four other guys. Right.

So, you know, it's – I don't know, ma'am. It's just – like you said, maybe they should have a little more say, and there's certain things that should only be called in at a certain times. Eric Jones has been stupid fast all year. We've seen him go multiple laps down and come back and run top five. He's smart, too. A kid can drive. Good for him.

Yeah. I just hope he gets a better attitude when he doesn't do. You don't want to have the wrong mentor there. I mean, when you have a guy like Matt Kenseth in your organization, and you have a guy like Kyle Bliss in your organization, you need to pick which guy you're ultimately going to grow up to be like, you know. Yeah. Got to be careful. Well, we've talked about this last subject.

a little bit, but Bristol attendance for the spring down again. Isn't an issue of racing or are people just not spending like they used to? Yeah, well, we can't bring people in from, you can't take your family from out of town. If you live two hours away and you want to come down for the weekend, you can't do it without getting a four-night minimum of a hotel room or bringing a tent. You know, I'd like to wake up and shower in the morning and stuff, and you just can't do it. So that's not the only thing that's, you know, stopping the attendance. But, you know, that's a big part of it.

It's just so expensive for one weekend. It is. And I think the media bring a lot of attention to the fact that there's empty seats. I think the fans bring attention to it. But if we took all of our media members and we said, hey, you have to pick one race this year. You have to work every race, but you have to pick one race that you've got to pay for the travel yourself. This would be the last one they'd pick because Bristol is the most expensive. It's $3 to $400 a night for hotel rooms.

They make you do three and four night minimums. It's $3,000 or $4,000 to take your child to this race. So at the end of the day, man, Bristol attendance is down. I think the racetrack is awesome because we do put on a good show, but it's freaking expensive to come. Yeah, it's a, you know, most of these races are good. Yeah, they're good in their own way, but it's just so you can't go and spend $1,200 on hotels for three, four nights or whatever.

And then buy food at the track, gosh, man. that's I yeah it's almost a vacation like a like a seven day or in December you could go to Disney World for four days

for which you can come to Bristol for two yeah yeah definitely definitely spot on on what's wrong maybe they'll listen

I doubt it yeah all right well we're going to move into fast lane and normally this is where Kristen would read really really

this rebuttal rebuttal does everybody know now do we even need to read Fast plane is TJ and I debate

for 30 seconds. There you go. We've kind of already been debating a little bit, but let's keep going. I think we've been agreeing a lot today.

Yeah. You must have took your meds this morning. I don't know, man. Maybe. You sure didn't run this morning. I didn't run. Maybe he

sat in that traffic getting here and just calm down. I did. Maybe so. That traffic on 150. I hate it. Yeah. I don't have that problem.

Hmm. All right. Well, Bristol was kind to some drivers. who are not as well known for finishing to the top 10. Trevor Bain finished fifth. Matt, Dibbendette.

Why, I always screw his last name up. Dibandetto. Dibandetto. D. Benedetto. Finish six. Boyer eighth. Good spotting by Brett. Hall.

Good spotting by T.J. Bristle is usually a tough place to race. You know, why do you think these drivers ran so well on Sunday? Ah, man. Let's track, man. The track, it's hard to pass. It's not a typical mile and a half. You don't have to have the, you know, if you have just a little bit of speed.

And most of these guys come from a background of short track racing and stuff and can make it real hard to pass. So, you know, these guys, Trevor Bain, that's a great win. That's huge for him, man. Huge. That's, you know, that's a big confidence builder. And even deep mat, you know, that's awesome. And, you know, even Clint struggling through it, man, coming out of there.

Hopefully that gives him a good shot in the arm. Yeah, I mean, when you do a little break your head, it down, you know, track position is a big deal, and restarting in the top lane is a very big deal. We were able to restart the last two restarts on the top lane and come from probably 14th or 16th, up to 8, just because we could take advantage of that. Trevor's been faster. He's got a new crew chief this year, a new spotter. Matt Dibendetto, a big win for him, and I saw everybody saying how gracious he was after

the race. So really happy for everybody that ran well of Bristol. Yeah, Matt, I mean, just seeing, that's what kind of. of what a, you know, we need, I like to see in our sport, you know, like even with Kyle and that woman after the race, Matt finished his sixth year, you know, I'm sure he didn't wake up that morning saying, man, I'm going to finish top 10 today, you know, for him to come out of there and to see that reaction on the internet of his people that live around him, man, and how, you know, how much it means to that. That's awesome, man. Yeah.

All right, at short tracks, there are just some drivers who are true pains in the ass. what drivers seem to be consistent pain in what way how much harder is it to stay out of the way at short tracks man when i first started in this sport there's a guy named robbie gordon who was a pain in the ass and then ryan newman was a huge pain in the ass and he's not no more though he's not anymore i give him that he's not anymore um man this year i think i think the driver that's consistently a pain in the ass is maybe Danica. She's been hanging on our right rear bunch when we try to get off the corner.

That's a pain in the ass. You know, I used to get mad at people when they race more than I thought they should, but realistically, though, a place like Bristol, though, if you hold three or four guys off for a 40-50 lap, that's a pretty big gain. And then you get an outside road restart,

you shoot back up two or three more spots. So I don't know. This year, I don't know if we've consistently had a problem with anybody in particular. I think, I don't know. We've been getting by people pretty good, and we've passed a lot of cars this year. I think we might lead to series in quality passes. Wow. I know.

I think. Could be wrong. I don't have an answer. At the end of the day, the people who are the pain in the, the ass to create some racing and they actually can't create some wrecks. So it's not a bad thing from an entertainment standpoint. They're paid to race. So you cannot get mad at somebody for racing, whether it makes them lose more time on the track

or not, you can't get mad at people for racing. From our standpoint, it's frustrating. But at the end of the day, we're all entitled to our real estate out there. So keep being pains in the ass. We love you guys, too. Did you see Jimmy and AJ going at it there for a while? Oh, that was awesome. It was awesome.

Dude, they were beating and banging. in and you like you wish jimmy wasn't such a nice guy because a j was totally taking advantage of he almost wrecked himself yeah trying to pass him a couple times yes yeah you almost wish that had jimmy been tony stewart tony stewart would have sailed that guy into the third row of the stands yeah way before yeah harvick like harvick would have been like uh yeah dude i'm done with you i think we would even have moved him by that point jimmy was jimmy's just such people don't realize how nice of a guy he is yeah dingling was definitely Definitely take advantage of how nice.

But he ran. I mean, AJ was doing what he had to do. AJ wasn't doing anything wrong. Jimmy was just faster and couldn't get by. Yeah. And was very nice about it. Yeah. So.

AJ was being a pain in the ass. You're right rear corner. All right. Dale Jr. has a battery issue on the first lap at Bristol and is forced to go to pit road to get it fixed. Junior rebounded from this issue and finished the race second.

What all is said between between a driver and his spotter when mishaps like this occur. How do you, T.J, convince Dale that his day wasn't over? Well, I think he kind of set the tone for that once we came off pit road. And the way he started passing people, he set the tone for that already. Tell us what happened. We come out of four. He goes to take off, there's no power.

It just shuts off. What had happened was, what I was told was he engaged the system that if you hit the brakes, too hard, it shuts the motor off. There was something happened with that. When he was warming his brakes up and, you know, doing all that stuff, he apparently hit it too hard at one point, and there was some sort of malfunctioner. Something happened. We went to take back off.

There was no power. So, you know, I was just trying to get everybody by him first before I could get them down because we were on the backside of pit road. And the only thing I could think of was to get him to pit road at that point because you sit on the racetrack, you're going to lose three, four laps before they throw the cost. You know, you're going to lose three or four by getting a push back. a towback. So, you know, we got in there and he got power. We rolled off and he set the tone for

how the rest of the day was going to be by the very, by the first few cars that he caught, by just basically getting there saying, hey, I'm not racing you. I'm taking this position and I'm going on. So I kind of left that up to him and he made it pretty obvious. Man, I was behind, starting behind El Jr. So we all start screaming green flag and everybody's instinct is to haul ass. And then I see the 88 to literally not moving. So I still, I still start screaming. Check up, check up. They're stopped up top. You know, get down, blah, blah, blah. And we do. And then I see Dale Jr., you know, a couple of laps later pop out off pit road.

And I'm like, man, whatever was going on wasn't terminal, which is good. Man, he's got a long day ahead. And holy cow that he'd come back and make the most out of it. And at the end of the day, the spotter plays a role in that happening at a place like Bristol. Yeah, they, uh, we, you know, Greg did a great job picking when we took a wave around. And we had enough speed to get the lucky dog when we got an opportunity to. So we got cautions when we needed it. You know, it was just a good team effort, but, you know, Dell Jr., definitely, he drove his ass off to get back to keep us in contention to do that stuff.

All right. What's one thing NASCAR can do to help them keep gaining support of the fans, sponsors, and drivers, Brett? I don't need 30 seconds. I need one word, consistency. Yeah, I think being consistent and giving the same ruling on things, like, you know, they yelled at the things. the 19 car for jacking everybody up on a restart because he wasn't keeping his speed up. Well, if he didn't keep his speed up, black flag him.

If that's your deal, you know, the next guy comes along to us saying that you black flag him, that's not fair. If the guy drug his feet, changes pace speed to up or down before he took off, black flagged the guy. Be consistent with it. All we ask for is fairness and consistency. You know, you got to throw the yellow at the same time every time. You got to not throw the yellow at the same time every time.

You've got to black flag the guy if he's cheating a restart. You can't pick and choose these things to where it looks like it becomes at their discretion. They've got to be consistent with all of these calls. I realize it's very difficult. But at the end of the day, when a refs he's holding on a football game, he throws his flag. He doesn't walk over to the player and go, hey, man, don't hold on the next player. I'm going to throw the flag. That's kind of what happened with that restart with Carl.

The restart's under review. And then 15 seconds later, they come back and say, okay, the restart's clear. It's all good. And then the next three start, they say, hey, and make sure the 19 keeps his speed up. Well, did he not keep his speed up as if he didn't black flag him? So it changes the whole outcome. He's saying, just be consistent. All right, the first off-the-wall topic goes to T.J.

This better to be good. ACDC released a statement saying that Axel Rose, that was Kristen's name, by the way. The Axel Rose? Yeah, the Axel Rose. I thought. From Guns and Roses. Will now be their lead singer after Brian Johnson announced he suffers from hearing loss. How do you feel about a lead singer from a big-time band like G&R switching teams?

I thought Guns and Roses just got back together. Yeah. Or maybe they're just doing one tour together. I didn't even know they're still sang with each other. Guns and Roses hates each other, but they got back together to do like one tour. And I think they're doing it now. Slash and Axel hate each other. Yeah, he left, and then he was supposed to come back.

Now Axel's leaving to go to ACDC. Like effective immediately or they're doing their tour? I didn't see if it was 15 minutes. Well, if you're going to research it, Josh, you got to research it. TJ, go, sorry. Dude, I don't even know they were still all together like that. That was like early 90s stuff, man. It's 2016.

We talk about Justin Bieber on here and stuff. How are you going to bring ACDC into this? Hey, man, it's something you should know about. Dude, I was 11. I love ACDC. I do, too, but I mean, back in black. I think it's somewhat of a travesty that Axel Rose is leaving G&R the best rock and roll band ever to go to ACDC,

which is another phenomenal legendary rock and roll band. But, man, ACDC, like those guys must not a manager of money well. You look like that type of guy. Like a hellbanger? No, you look more like the Guns and Roses and stuff. Yeah. I mean, that's not really a hellbane. You had the hair, I'll bet, too.

Oh, I had long hair. See, that's why. Right there. But ACDC's a great band. Like, obviously those musicians didn't do well with their money or they'd all retire. Yeah, that's why they go on tour again. That's the only way they make money.

Yeah, yeah. So, cool. All right, cool, next. The second off-the-wall topic goes to Brett. Bruton Smith is considering a bid to purchase Carolina Panthers. Jerry Richardson was reported saying the team would be sold within two years of his death. Do you think this is a good business venture for the Smith family, or should they stick with racetracks and car dealerships?

So, Bruton, does Bruton have to outlive Jerry Richardson for? this to happen. I don't know the ages of those two guys, but I think Bruton's 84. Yeah. I don't know, man. I want to own a football team. Bruton Smith's a billionaire, like, a couple times over. I mean, he's rich. But Bruton's got Marcus also in the... Josh, this is my 30 seconds. This is where we miss Kristen.

Chris. T.J. Are you a Panthers fan? Yeah, sort of. He is. My answer is, if I could buy an NFL team, I would. Yeah, I would buy an NFL team in a heartbeat, man. They're awesome. That would be awesome knowing that stuff. Who are you going to draft and stuff?

I'd make all them decisions. Bruton's had some funny marketing ideas, too, in racing, so God only knows how he would do an NFL. Let's hope it happens. Let's hope it happens. Let's hope it happens. Yeah. He has Z-Max girls down there doing the coin toss.

Yeah. That'd be hot. Yeah. And leather. Ride that cowboy to drive her intro. in leather football shoulder pad suits. Brut's a marketing genius. He is.

He knows how to get it done. He's made some... Billions. He's made some skeptical decisions, but he's made it work, man. And he's gone all the way from the bottom, all the way back up to the top. Started from the bottom.

T.J. and I know some really rich dudes. We hang out with some really rich dudes. But I don't hang out with anybody that's a billionaire. No. I don't... I've asked you to numerous sizes by the bill. but he won't do it. Yeah, I don't.

Why won't he buy the bills? I don't know. He probably buy the Redskins first. I mean, Billions is a different ballgame. I know some billionaires. Rob Kaufman's a billionaire. A friend of mine, but again, I've never, like, ran hard with a billionaire. I wonder how they do it.

Probably not as fun as we do it. No, I think your mentality would have to change a little bit. Yeah, I think you just become so caught up in the business side of it. When you get there, there's always something, not that there's not something going on normally, but there's just so much you got at one point. I don't know if I'd want that problem. Elliot's dad's very wealthy guy, and he told me when I was in my low 20s, 23-ish, he said if you ever meet a billionaire, that's a guy who stepped on a lot of people to get it.

They're hungry. You didn't make everyone happy on your way there. They'll screw you over for a dollar in a heartbeat. I don't want to be that guy. Do you guys want to know the difference between a million and a billion? It's just a good way to look at it. You give your wife a million dollars until her spend $100 grand a day. She'll be back in 10 days.

Makes sense. You give your wife a billion dollars until it to spend $100 grand a day. She'll be back in 26 years. There's the difference between a million and a billion. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want her back after 26 years. I gave her $10. She's back in a minute. All right.

We're going to move into hashtag AskDBC. Yeah. That'll work. The best tweets and funniest ones we receive. Yeah, the top five, and at the end we'll choose one. Josh picks these out. So if you're a girl and you send these in, you should really include a selfie because Josh is single and ready to mingle. So market yourself by putting hot pictures of yourself with these tweets, and Josh will get you on this show.

Yeah, Josh is he would love some selfies. He's got a selfie stick. That's a good plug there. Thanks. All right, we've seen some great runs from underdogs this year at short tracks. Why do you think they've been more successful this year at B.B. Be Biger. I think T.J. hit it on earlier. I mean, you know, short tracks create parity. When we go to these mile and a halfs in these two-mile tracks, the bodies on these cars are so tricked out. You know, clearly they're legal or they wouldn't be getting through tech. But these smaller teams have a lot harder time in the fabrication department of making these bodies.

maximizing downforce, maximizing low drag numbers, and that's where these super teams will just kick your bud. They've all got alliances. They've all got good motor programs now, but at the end of the day, man, the short track, you don't rely on the body as much. I think that's why they shine there. Yeah, you go to a place like Martin Zohr, Bristol,

where you know, you don't have to have the fastest car, and you can be competitive still. Bristol was a prime example of that you give a good driver a decent car, and it's hard to pass, he can make some stuff happen. So I don't think it's any different really than this year. I just think, you know, cautions, everything's falling right. Cautions came right, you know, so things just kind of worked in place for him. All right, from our friend Cornelius V-Star,

are you familiar with the cone rule used at some short tracks? Would you support this use in NASCAR? No, because that would mean that we, like, restart? You think that's what he's talking about? That would be single-file restarts more than likely, and I don't think that's a fair. I would hate to do that. No single-file restarts.

The only thing I think that would be cool maybe is if we put the leader, maybe the leader should get the front row by himself. You know, I've seen some short tracks to do that. If you're leading the race, you get the front road by yourself. You let everyone else double up. Yeah, I love our restart. I like them. I like the resource.

I like double-file resource. I think our shootout style, what are they called? What are they called? Yeah, double-file shootout. I think it's great. I wouldn't change them. Our restarts are awesome. The cone rule wouldn't help some of the things that.

Hey, we're doing better things to put a better product in front of the fans. They've policed the restarts enough now that we can't really get it. You know, you can't really screw a guy over too bad there. So the leader has the advantage now, which there for a while he didn't. But they've done a good job of yelling at the spotters when we're coming to the line. Get that guy even. I'm warning you right now, blah, blah, blah, you know. So they've done a good job with that.

Yeah, our restarts are good. Yeah. All right, this is from Bradley 88 Billy. The Colossus. So is he Bradley or is he Billy? Maybe he's both. Bradley 88 Billy. It wasn't as big a deal today or I guess two days ago.

Josh, read the question. It's supposed to be authentic. Clause's wasn't a big deal today, but what you think is going to be at night. Damn, I'm exhausted, dude. What was the question? Was Colossus great during the day and will it be a distraction tonight? No, I mean, Colossus is great. You know, I'm not a big fan of the TV hype.

Fans, I think fans are staying home some because they do get a great experience watching on TV. But if they're at a live event, they're not going to come to the live event to watch it on your TV. I went to the Cowboys Super Bowl whenever they just built that new TV when the Green Bay Packers played the Pittsburgh Steelers. And like the TV was almost a distraction. It was hard to not watch the TV and actually watch the game. So I wouldn't get too caught up in all this TV crap. But no, for us, man, it won't be a distraction. You know, for the football game there, it might be pretty good at Bristol.

Yeah. Football game, but our race, you can see everything that's going on. We don't need, I'm just not really a big fan of these huge TVs. You don't go there to watch a TV. You go there to watch a race. Yeah, it's great for replays and stuff. But, I mean, we've got fan visions with replays on them. And not to mention, everybody basically has a smartphone or a tablet. And if you have

that there, you can basically still bring up, you can still watch it on social media, whatever has happened pretty quick right after it happens. The best thing about a race is you can see more in person than you can on TV. You can watch what race within the race you want to watch. You can see the whole track if you sit and one and two at Bristol. When you watch on your TV, you're watching whatever they want you to watch. You don't get to watch. You don't get to watch us coming from 40th or whatever, whatever we were on lap two. You're You know, you're not watching that. You're watching the two leaders.

You're watching Matt and Carl Duke get out up there. Right. You're not watching, Dale. You're going to slide job by all these guys and make it happen. So often in racing, the best race is, you know, around 10th or 15th, and so often TV doesn't show them. Yeah. When you're in purchasing, watch whatever you want.

Yeah, go to the race, man. You'll see so much more stuff. Yep. I will be at that football game, by the way. It's going to be awesome. You're a ball fan, right? Go balls. So what do you think about Peyton being there?

I met him. I was extremely. happy that Peyton was there. I was extremely sad that I was not. He did our team meeting, a little pep talk at the end of it. What did he say? You can't tell you. Yeah, you can.

What do you say? He just gave us all, you know. It was pretty good. Communication, he said, that's huge. Obviously, you knew that would be one of his sayings. He says, no. Did you holler Omaha? I was going to.

But told us, focus on, you know, get better what you're not good at. Focus on what you're not good at and get better at. And you get better at that. Everyone, everyone's always, what you're good at, everyone already knows. So get better at what you're not good at. I've been screwing that up for years. I know, I haven't figured out yet. I've always focused on what I'm good at and outsource what I'm not.

I got the wrong plan. Well, he's a Super Bowl chance. You think? So maybe listen to him. You should have, when Dale Jr. stopped at the beginning of the race, you should have yelled, Omaha. I started yelling Omaha. Omaha, oh, oh, my. Here we come, Greg, Omaha.

Here we come. So, yeah, it is cool meeting him. Very humble guy. He's tall. He is tall. But he's not as stalky as what I thought. I mean, I can take him down, I believe. Yeah.

He came up to his waist. Go for the knees, man. Go for the knees. All right. At J. Steen, 234. Wants to know which NASCAR stop has the best food. That's a good one. Well, I don't know.

I like Texas. Texas is pretty good. Sorry. I'd claim a brother. I'm trying to think of where else. has, Indies usually pretty good. It's got a couple good restaurants. San Elmo's.

Yeah. Yeah. I think Texas, India pretty good. Vegas has great food. Obviously, the Hooters in Tennessee, Bristol's pretty good. San Johnson City, baby. Johnson City Hooters. If you want to see NASCAR drivers, go to St. Elmo's, Thursday night, Friday night.

Do you want to see spotters, PR guys, and everybody else, go to Hooters in Bristol, Johnson City? Go to steak and shake. Did they outsource any talent for the weekend or was it? They were all locals. My favorite food stop is Miami. We go to Homestead, man. I go up to South Beach, and they got so many good restaurants there. One of my favorite Joe Stone Crab.

I'm not a seafood eater, so I avoid all that. I like seafood, just not crab. Yeah. Joe Stone Crabb's phenomenal. That's good question, Jay Steen. Phoenix is a good stop, too, though. Scottsville. Well, yeah, all that stuff.

That whole area by the stadium. Glendale. Is nice. Yeah, but Scott Stells way better. It is, but it's a little hike. Yeah, but it's worth it. I work too much to head all the way over there. You usually get off where I do.

Yeah. What's you got? Our last question comes from Travis C. underscore 48. Should NASCAR go back to mandating that there must be five lug nuts on each wheel? I thought they did mandate that. I thought it was three. It's four.

It's four. Okay. Well, we just split the middle. I don't know. So you only have to have four lug nuts on your tire? I'm not a picker guy, so it's not my responsibility. That's why I don't know. I don't know why they change it, to be honest.

I guess what he's asking is the biggest issue, or not the biggest issue, but one of the issues was a loose fourth lug nut. Here's my thing on this whole lug nut thing. Why do you care if you're a NASCAR? If my job is to put the tire on and I screw it up and I don't put it on, we're going to have a caution. Cautions are good for the sport. Cautions make it entertaining, cautions, breed cautions.

Why should I tell the team, hey, you have a loose wheel, you have to come back down here. That should be up to the driver and up to the tire changer and up to the crew chief as to whether or not they're at a deficiency to the point they need to pit, lose multiple laps fixing the problem. If the driver doesn't have a vibration, he's going to say, I'm good. If he does, he's going to say, I'm pitting. So put that responsibility on the teams, Nass car shouldn't be involved in that.

Yeah, I don't know why they would. I understand they don't want guys right front falling off and stuff, but either mandate five or mandate nothing. They used to be, you know, the tires could be a potential danger for the fans. Well, now we've got tethers and we've got things that prevent that from happening. So, man, should Nasscar be mandating any lugnuts? I don't know. I don't care.

What if a tire did come off? Well, it's not as tethered now. The tire's not. If you leave all load nuts off, that things coming off. You're not going to ever leave. If you leave all lugnots off, if you won't make it off pit road. We saw the Woodbrothers do that in the 70s or 80s. Yeah, I'm just saying, I mean, what if you have, what if, I don't know, man.

These guns are so fast. In theory, Josh, what we're told is if they hit three lug nuts tight, the wheel's tight enough for them to race. So the fourth one doesn't even have to be tight in theory. Now, that's because that's theory, obviously. So that can be wrong or right, but I don't know. What's you got for Richmond? I don't know.

Do you have any rants? I think we've already went on all of rants. Let's pick a winner first. Oh, let's pick the winner for the signed Elliot Sadler. Is that the Travis C that has a crush on Kristen? Has he won anything yet? I'd have to go back and lie. I don't think so.

It's just the date with Kristen. Since Kristen's not here today, I think Travis C should win. What do you think? Yeah, if Travis, he hasn't won yet, he should win. But I also like the food one. I mean, that's cool somebody's thinking about that. Maybe they want to go. Maybe they're planning on their next trip.

Yeah. Jastine, if you plan your next trip around food, I'll let you take me to dinner. I want to go. All right, well, you can take all of us at dinner. Yeah, I'll go. If it's on Thursday night, it'll be more expensive. If it's in Indy, Texas, Phoenix, or heck, I'll even go to Glenn. I'm from my parents, so.

Yeah. Glenn, where do you eat at Wachers, Glenn? We just walk out of the hotel, walk down that little street in Corning or whatever. Oh, you're in Corning. I'm in Ithaca. Oh, good. That's a pack of lunch to get there. Yeah.

Hooters, man. Everything about Hooters. Why don't we got to single out one thing? They've got everything going for them. Oh, man. I think we went on pretty rants already. Hey, we sucked last week with our predictions. I didn't.

Who did I pick? Keslowski? He finished like 15th. Yeah. Still beat you. You did last week because my guy. I'll tell you was fast in the middle. I need to talk to the tire guy on Matt's team.

The 22 was fast in the middle of point in that race. When he was coming back up through there, I was, I kind of thought he was going to chase too. Chase Elliott, man. Holy. He had a chance to win. He was in a good chance. Hey, my ran will be real quick. It'll be these rookies, man.

They're real deals, man. Like, we've never had, we ever had a rookie class like this in a long. long time. Very long time. And Blaney, he's impressing the heck out of me. Even Chase, man, that dude was coming. Yeah. He got the bottom on that last restart, but dude was second there at one point in Carl's tracks, man.

And Chris Busher is not in the equipment that's capable of running like those guys, but he's certainly, he's running well, he's racing smart, he's standing out of the way. This is a phenomenal rookie class. Richmond predictions, and I get to go first. Yeah, go ahead. That's not normal. I'm going to go Harvick just because he's so freaking good at Richmond. Yeah, he's struggled a little bit lately. He has been struggling.

He's running third the whole race. He's struggling. Yeah, yeah. Huh, man. He got. Well, Sam Hornish isn't around anymore, so I can't. I'll go the two again. They're fast there.

Yeah. So we got Keselowski against Harvard. Man, I really want to pick Denny. well it's his home track so he's good there he's definitely good there i'm gonna go against my dude danny's done until the chase just get that out yeah he's done dude if i want the daytonal 500 i would be too i'm not blaming him yeah i think he's still on the party bus for it i would be yeah i'd still be partying yeah billionaire style yeah all right thanks to one main and exalted for having us what are we looking at i don't know wasn't bad tj's talent scouting from dirty moor

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