Door Bumper Clear - 110 - The Big Three

Episode Date: August 6, 2018

Bubba Wallace’s spotter Freddie Kraft joins Brett, Casey and Jason after a wild Watkins Glen to discuss Chase Elliott’s win, racing in the rain, Bill Elliott’s comeback, drunk antics at the Chili Bowl, bad dog names, Chinese freeze tag, plus more.  Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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I got four guys now that I'm spotting for. Thanks for listening to Door Bumper Clear. This is our show presented by OneMay Financial. TJ is not here again. He gave us all a 15 minutes notice that he wasn't going to make it this morning. He has to take his mom to the airport. Why are you telling them all his personal business? Because did he not know this before 15 minutes ago?

Is that how we roll? You're being a little dramatic. He told this like maybe an hour and a half ago. Oh, well, I only saw it 15 minutes ago. He could have put his mom in an Uber made to the show. He could have put his mom on an Uber. Oh, I wouldn't do that. He could have had his father-in-law take his mom.

Or maybe that might get awkward. It might be an awkward car ride. They can't lay her Stella down for a nap, but, you know, hopefully, I don't No, whatever. Hey, Casey. What a weirdo. What up? Hi, guys.

Well, in replacement of TJ, we've got, you know, our good friend, Freddie. Freddie is in the house. Major upgrade. Freddie, you aren't supposed to be an analyst today. You were supposed to be a guest. I know. I didn't study enough for this, I don't think. Well, even better.

The answer should be great. So Casey just got home. I did. Where'd you go? I went to the middle. of nowhere, Pennsylvania. Yeah? Midget racing.

Did you win? I can't say I won because I didn't really race, but Chad won. Chad won. Chad one. We are partial car owner. I guess January 26th for car runners, but. Yeah. I seen you took care of your number one job and finally got Susan to Victory Lane, so that was good job.

The first time, like, I've only been to two of his race, two wins, because I can never usually go. And right when I got to Victory Lane, the first time, he said, wait, why are you here and not Susan? I said, are you serious? That is the first thing you're going to say to me. Susan is the dog, right? No, that's his other girlfriend.

They get together. Damn, he gets to have a girlfriend and a fiance. Yeah, you know, open relationship. Is that what they mean when they say open relationship? It means you get to just kind of do whatever. I don't really have the experience on that. So who is Susan? Susan is our dog.

I don't know. We've talked about this. Who names are dogs? Oh my gosh, it's so cute. But we brought her the victory lane. And we brought her the victory lane and she would not stop barking. Like all the photos, like when they were taking photos and during Chad's interviews, like during while we're smiling to take photos, we're like, shut up, Susan.

Shut up. So I don't know if she'll be back. We'll should probably be back. But whatever. So Freddy's in the house. Spots for Bubba Wallace. Freddy's from Long Island, New York. Man, I got to ask you.

all you Long Islanders end up down here? I'd say about half the price of living in Long Island is probably the major reason. I mean, basically, you know this already. We're all just northern hillbillies. So, I mean, especially as far out and you get on the island. So that's why we get along. It's so good with you. Yeah.

What are you trying to say? I'm not a hillbilly. What? We don't have hills in Pageland. I'd seen something on the news when I got back last night. It was some kind of fight at a party, a house party or something. And it said every person at the party was from Pageland, South Carolina. I said, they said, somebody got arrested.

He said he was from Pagel, and we believe everybody at the party was from Pagel in South Carolina. They must be your friends. And Paisal's crazy. Paisal's crazy place. So Bubba Wallace, you've been spotted for him for how long? Since 2010, so eight years coming up on nine years. How did you guys meet? They had actually called Mike Herman, a buddy of ours, that spots for Ricky Stenhouse. At the time, he was doing Canaan modified work, same as me.

and he had actually gotten hooked up with Ty Dillon was going to do Ty Dillon that year in K&N series. Okay. So when they called Herm to spot for Bubba, he said obviously he tied him with Ty already, but I got a guy Freddie who's kind of looking to make a move in the sport a little further up. And you were living in New York at the time?

I was living in New York at the time, yeah. So I did the fur we went down. I spotted Greenville Pickens, the first race of the year, K&N, we won. No way. Yeah. What happened? We got lucky.

He was really funny, though. I'm saying what happened after that. So it's funny, though, the first race, like, being from Long Island, you know me, like, maybe away from the racetrack, I get a little excitable sometimes. Excitable? The first time. That's what you call that. The first race we went to, like, Bubba took the lead. Like, I think when we're going down to the spot.

He's a 16-year-old kid at the time. I've never met him. I'm thinking, I hope we go down there. Maybe run top ten, something like that. Yeah. We passed the guy for the lead with three to go, and I'm like, holy, like, yeah, you're doing it. I'm screaming. He's like, dog, I don't know what you're saying.

Calm down. I can't hear. I was like. All right, man, I'm sorry. But ever since then, obviously, we've been together. So in Freddie spots, he talks really fast. So he filled in for me last year at two races or sub with me or whatever you call it when you have more than one spotter at Indy and the Glen. And then this weekend, he just helped me again at the Glen.

He was in the bus stop. And so Freddie talks like normal people. But when the race starts, he sounds like him and him. We should play a recording of this. And you're like, what the fuck did he just say? How does Bubba understand you? I don't know. Eight years of listening.

Yeah, just used to it. He just, like translation. Yeah. Yeah, but it's kind of, it was funny because Freddie gets going. I'm like, who is that guy? Who's on radio? But anyway, man, that's cool. Bubba's obviously had a lot of ups and downs, as has everybody in the sport.

Seems like you guys are on the ups now, though. I mean, you obviously landed a full-time ride, second Daytona 500, gaining a lot of experience in a lot of these tracks, going back to them for a second time now. I mean, how much fun are you guys? having. Yeah, I mean, that's the main thing we always concern ourselves with and focus on. It just having fun. Like, and it gets, you know, leading up to this week, you know, it's obviously this week a whole new world for him. It's only a second road course in the cup car.

But, you know, leading up to it, we kind of had some mediocre runs. We run 25th all race. And the main thing is just focus on, hey, man, it's the same team we finished second with the Daytona 500. This is the same team we run up front with it, Texas. Like, one team, we're all going to stay together, no matter how frustrating it gets. And, you know, just keep focusing. on that and build it on that. He just renewed for another two years. So, you know, we're going to be with these guys for a long time. And hopefully we can just turn it around and keep gaining on it. You're with two Hall of Famers. You got the king, Richard Petty. There's only two kings in the world. There's the king Elvis Presley. And then there's the king, Richard Pitt.

Sure. Period. There's only two kings in the whole world. Right. So, Del Inman, obviously, another Hall of Famer. Like, how is it to work with those guys and be around those guys? It's really incredible. Like one of my favorite things do on a Sunday morning, you know, we go in a little early and stuff and sit around the garage for a couple hours. And, like, one of the best things to do is just go in the hauler and just listen to Dale tell stories. Because he might not know what happened this week at Watkins Glen, but he can tell you every lap of what happened in 1965 at Pocono and how Richard ran. I mean, it's incredible the amount of knowledge these guys have about what they did 30, 40 years ago. It's probably the most fun I have with Eminem is when he makes fun of Richard Petty.

I mean, he can make fun of a guy, this one, seven championships, 200 races. He's the king and this guy who appears to be Richard's best friend. Oh, yeah. Still to this day, we'll make fun of him with Richard standing there about how bad he was and how dumb he was and how he did pay attention. And Emman's one of those guys, even at, what is Emma now? 70s? No, I think he's a low 80s.

He's one of those guys that when he walks up to you, he grabs one of your pressure points and takes you to your knees. So he grabs you that spot on your neck or the spot on your finger or the spot on your forearm and you literally just go limp. And you're like, when is he going to get too old to stop doing this to people? But he's good, dude. I mean, they load up, these two loaded up and drove to Daytona. They did?

I mean, the two of them in the car, Richard's got this badass Cadillac that he's got out. And the two of them just drove it to Daytona by themselves, got the car, drove home. Yeah. Conversations. I mean, it's incredible, like, the stuff they still do. Like, they drive all the time. They're both in their 80s. Well, they go snowmobiling, too.

Like, they'll leave a race, you know, in the spring, and they'll just fly to Montana Richard's got a house there. They'll jump on snowmobiles and go to run 200 miles an hour across the snow. But they're like grumpy old men, you know, the show is pretty funny. Oh, man, we got a lot going on. We're getting ready to jump into this show. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, honestly, I think my favorite part, I'm pretty excited.

It's any stories you have about Brett? We're not talking about that. Oh, no. But I think we might have some from Freddy. I got to ask y'all this. So I met Casey. I knew who Casey was and knew who Chad Boat was and Billy Boat and all those guys. But the first time I really hung out with y'all was because I was with Freddie at Chili Bowl.

So how did you two meet? Chili Bowl? Just Chili Bowl to Chad? I love. I mean, I spotted for Chad for a while. And then I'm not talking at Casey. Yeah. Yeah, I think you spotted for him.

And then I like met you. We got closer at Chili Bowl. I don't know if you remember that part. I don't remember any of that. I think there might be some pictures floating around. I'm the only guy that went to Chili Bowl for five days instead of six. And I took my day off in the middle. My favorite Freddy story of Chili Bowl is.

We're going to start telling stories because I got stories. Yes, this is what I want. So girls don't know this happens. So I'm going to tell the story so that every lady that's listening today can be like. So when guys have been drinking and they go to the bathroom, when they have a buddy that's using the bathroom, a guy, you know, the standing up and using the bathroom, their buddy will push them in their back. And it can sometimes make them urinate erratically. Okay. So we're standing there and Ricky Stenhouse is in the restroom.

and I'm in the restroom and some other people that we all know are in the restroom and Freddie is not only pushing his buddies in the back he's pushing people that he doesn't know in the back

and this one guy who was about your size Casey he was about 5 foot too weighed about 85 pounds he turned around through a 69 ounce beer all over Freddie and I'm like

oh no and Freddie is like just having this good old time Freddy's like a big old teddy bear right Freddie always wants to have fun but he pushes this random dude in the back.

This dude's piss goes flat up in the air. But when he recovers, he turns around and he sings his whole beer right on Freddie. And I was like, oh, I don't know for about to fight. I don't know for a bit about to fight. So I look at Freddie, and Freddie is dumbfounded. He can't believe that this guy attacked him after he made him piss everywhere. So after this happens, I look at Freddie and I'm like, hey, man, you don't move. I'll be right back.

So I said, you take your shirt off because he is soaking wet. You take your shirt off. I'm going to go to Chad's trailer. I'm going to find you a shirt. So I came back with like a medium. And I gave Freddie this shirt. I look good, though. And he has to wear this cutoff shirt and rest of the day.

I look good. I remember this. Oh, you set up shop in the center of our pit. Like you, I think we put the, you know, those loungers that we have. We put them out there. It was like, I mean, people were coming and taking photos of you because you were passed out. Hey, I'm all for Chad.

I was trying to draw awareness to Chad boat racing. So this is, this is how Freddie's progression goes that week, right? So I guess Chad raced the first night and I wasn't there yet. It was brought. Oh, you ran a race champion. Okay. So when I get there, we act like idiots all week at your trailer. So the day of the chili bowl,

Fredison's out this group text going, hey, we can't go to Chad's trailer and be acting like a bunch of idiots all week. He's got a race today. I'm like, he's raced all week. I'm never going back while they have a night off the boats. Because that year was like, I forget. I think Kobe was driving one. Kobe was driving one car.

And Chad was driving the other one. And they had like Wednesday night off or Thursday night. But now you have to come back next to your coach. or this year because, well, Chad's locked in because he won the race of champions. So it'll be a little bit less crazy. I'm never going back to that thing. I almost died.

Who did almost die? Oh, stop. I thought Brett killed somebody. Freddie almost died, too. We won't tell that story. Now you have to do it. If you're a race fan, which I see everybody that's listening is a race fan, go to the Chili Bowl one time.

It's got to be a bucket list. It's so fun. Stay at the casino. That's where all the racers stay. It's a complete shisho. It is crazy. So listen to this. Last week I was pulling some data with Mike about our podcast.

Guess what the number one state to listen to our podcast is. What? Yes. California. Yes. South Carolina. South Carolina, baby. California's third.

Really? So to all you weirdos that are listening, thank y'all. They enjoy when you make fun of them. Yeah. Who is second? Texas. Illinois. Illinois.

I know two people in Illinois that listened, so I've got that demographic covered. No wonder they're fourth. Thanks to you two. Tell them, thanks. And then we've got North Carolina coming in fifth. Really? Yeah. Because they're all.

I was really surprised South Carolina was first, just because there's not a lot of people that live there. Compared to California and Texas. Mike, so what do you think the number one state is? I said, Texas. Well, South Carolina is like, say like NASCAR. It's the best. I went there this weekend.

It is the best. Where'd you go? Where'd you go? Polly's Island. Yep. I saw your picture. Love it down there. Yeah.

When I win the lottery, that's where I'm going. Never coming back. I don't want to say never. If I won the lottery, so we were driving a racetrack yesterday, and I got Joel with me, who spots for Amarola. And Joel is a... He's as happy as it gets. He's a cynical, miserable guy, right? Who sees joy in nothing, literally.

Who loses a spot for it. He hates people. He hates race. He's the guy that can win the power ball complain about the taxes. Yes, he is that guy. He's that guy. And he's like, I told 200 million last night. If I don't want, I'm damn sure I wouldn't be on the way of this racetrack.

And I'm thinking, man, if I want 200 million, I'd be on the way here, but I'd be hammered. And I'd be apologizing going, hey, if you guys don't want me to spot today, I totally get it. But I would still go. I would for sure finish the year if I want 200 million. He's drunk. Would you finish the year? Well, that'd be their problem. I mean, yeah, I'd finish the year.

I'd keep spotting. probably. Yeah. Like you said, I would be there on Sunday only. I would not spot practice ever again. You would never see Brett Griffin on the spotter stand for practice. No. And I would build a f***ing shade over every spotter stand.

Since now we're spotting in the rain too. Oh, yeah, there's going to be two spotters that are in the shade, me and Freddie. Everybody else. That is how you'll spend your money. We won't take, that's not much money. A couple grand. Whatever. We'd be like, oh, there comes Brett and Freddie in their helicopter.

We're going to build our own damn track. 200 million. Yeah. Dome. We could build a dome. Yeah. A dome track. I don't know about that.

That Chili Bowl, I was sick for two months. I thought I had pneumonia. That's the worst after Chili Bowl. And my wedding is the week after Chili Bowl. You're going to all have to be sick. That's a good plan. I'm going to wear a mask the entire. Your hair.

I would be given two weeks. That's all I got. That's what I gave Megan. The entire year. So. At least he loves you. He does love me. And Susan.

I think he loves Susan more at this point. And he Susan. I'm waiting on this 50-something-year-old woman to walk down. Like, can you, Zoot? Well, the worst part is when somebody comes up and, like, pets our dog and her name is Susan, that happens a lot. And it's like, one woman got mad and she just walked away. Who named this dog, Susan?

Chad! It was a running joke for a while before we had a dog. And then once we got her, Chad's like, you know we have to keep Susan. We were talking about our next dog, and he wants to name it Claudia. That's my wife's name. Who names their dog, Claudia? I never heard these names before for dogs. They might be the only dogs in the country named after 50-year-old women.

I said George for a boy. George. We don't want a boy dog. That's a great dog name. I mean, y'all are terrible dog namers. Here's what not to name your dog. This is coming from a guy who's dog's name is cocky, by the way. Yeah.

I'm just saying. Yeah. Cocky. And cocky's a girl. Oh, pot. She's in the way better. She's spunky. It just fits her.

She's so cute. Let's get this show going. All right. Spot on, spot off. Bill and Chase Elliott become seventh father and son combo to win in the Cup series. Brett. I think that's huge. I mean, there's nobody in America that could spot off this.

I mean, here's Bill Elliott, the most popular driver prior to the Dell Jr. era. I mean, this guy was racing against Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, a lot of big-name guys. He was winning most popular driver. His son is now we're about to see going to be crowned the most popular driver. we need, I said on this show, it would be insane for our most popular driver to not have a single win at the Cup Series level. So he fixed that problem. So it's great for our sport. I think it says a lot about the family traditions that have been here with the petties and the Allison's.

And I think it's just a great thing to carry on. You know, Ryan Blaney's won. Obviously his dad had raced here in Hatton, so this kind of gives you your own little niche, your own little edge. And I think it's great for Chase. Yeah, obviously spot on. Like you said, it's hard to go spot off about it. you know, Chase probably had a lot of spotlight coming on, you know, a lot of late-mile success when he was, what, 14, 15 years old.

So just big for him to get over that hump. I mean, he's been second, what, eight times or something like that. So it's just a big deal for him to get over that hump and finally finished the deal. I thought he gave it away in turn one. He tried. I said, he's coming to the checker, and we had got out of the way. You know, I knew kind of public was going to pull over it so you didn't get away there. And so I'm kind of watching them guys.

There's nothing around us. And I'm like, oh, he's probably good here. He's clear by five going by us. And I look over there, and he's over to curb and one. And I'm like, oh, God, here we go. I guess it didn't matter because True X run out there. The only thing that could have made this race more exciting is if when he did that, if Martin would have actually been able to pass him,

Martin was too far back. He got close to him, but too far back. The only thing it would have made it better is if he'd have been able to pass him, been able to clear him, and then going down the backstretch, Martin would have ran out of gas because he was going to run out of gas anyway. Martin Truex Jr. was not going to win that race, you know, unless he had a big lead, which wasn't going to happen with Chase out there leading. So kudos to all the nine guys.

I mean, Hendrick Motorsports, big win for them. Number 250 saw that. That's awesome. Chevrolet needed a win. They still haven't won on a, realistically, on a track that's not a wild card because plate races are wild card. Road courses are wild card. I didn't have Chase Elliott's first win coming at Watkins Glen.

Never. But it's weird. I think I've seen somewhere where Bill's first win was in a road course also. And it was 30, oh gosh, I can't remember the number of, but it was like, completely, it was like 30. Yeah, I've seen where it was like it's 99th star and just crazy. crazy the way the numbers lined up. He was 0 for 98. He wins 99. He's the youngest driver to ever win at Watkins Glenn, gets his first win at Watkins Glen. And having been a part of Elliot's first cup win at Bristol

2001, it's just so fun. And I don't mean the partying aspect of it, just the relief. And Robert Yates said to Elliot at the airport the week after we won, we all get to the airport. Robert Yates walks up to him, congratulates him and says, you're going to find us much easier to win after you get the first one out of the way. So I really feel like with Chase the speed that they have, the resources that he has, that it's really going to come. I mean, like Freddie said, he's got a bunch of seconds. All those seconds could easily be wins. So I think we'll see this guy win a lot more races.

Do you all see the video when he went home and everybody greeted him from the airport? I was so cool. Yeah. That's awesome. Chase still lives there. You know, a lot of people don't realize that. And I think it's hard, especially when you're early in your career, it's hard not to live around your guys and your guys. in your race shop because you want them to know how invested you are in your career.

You want to be meeting with your crew chief and you want to be very engaged. I mean, I think it's important for that to happen. So for Chase not to live here and win, I think it's kind of a big deal too. I mean, in my career, the only guy that was overly successful that didn't live in Charlotte was Mark Martin. And he had a freaking hanger right there at Jack's shop that had a bedroom in it. And he would fly in and spend time during the week there. And I think you have to be invested.

and I'm sure Chase does the same thing. He's got his pilot's license. Well, that's how Carl Edwards was. He flew in. Well, he lived here for a while. Yeah. And that's what all of them do. I mean, you got to live here for.

I'm not saying he'll live here forever. But when you start, like, I mean, Elliot's first job at 97, he worked in the shop every day. You know, and I mean, there are a lot of guys now that still work on their own stuff. So I think it's important for them to have that work ethic. But that was really small town, cool feel. They're ringing the siren and he wins, man. That's awesome. Good looking, dude.

How old is Chase? He's a little younger than above I think so. He's 22. I think 22. Good looking dude. Huge career ahead of him. I mean, he's a guy that could drive for 20 more years.

So great for our sport. I mean, he's our new Tiger Woods. You know, he's our new Michael Jordan. And I think the best part about that win, I can't wait to see the ratings on TV, is it was on NBC. Yeah. It was on the right channel for a change.

It's where they all need to be. It's true. I don't need to be on those damn cable channels. I love NBC Sports Network, but we don't need to be racing. We need to be qualifying on there, not racing. Anyway, go ahead. You sure?

Positive now. Kyle Bush says he put on a clinic Sunday despite finishing third. I'm going to go spot on, even though I know it's probably not popular for the guy that I'm filling in for. I think it's pretty impressive. You know, we see these road course races run backwards all the time where you basically just pit and do everything you can to get as much track position as possible. So he came in. I'm not sure what penalty he got, or didn't get a fueled up or something. He only got eight gallons of fuel in that.

Yeah, so he had to come back in pit. So he started back there, whatever it was, probably 25th, 26th with... 30 second. Was it 32nd? Yeah. Wow, that's pretty good. So that he drove up there in what? I don't even know, 30 laps or something like that.

Yeah. So, I mean, that's pretty impressive to just pick your way through the field there and get back up to a third place finish. Spot off for saying this. Like spot on for what Freddie just said. But guess what? Let the other people tell your story. Let other people say how great you are.

spot off for the fact that he said he put on a clinic and didn't even win the race. Like if I put on a clinic, I kicked your ass. I kicked everybody's ass. And I think in this situation, he didn't kick anybody's ass. Chase Elliott put on the clinic on the race that I watched. He went out and led a lot of laps. He went out past Kyle Busch, Undergreen, and drove away from him. So I don't know, maybe he has his own little clinic going on that he invited anybody else to watch.

But I didn't see the clinic that he's talking about. He passed a lot of cars. He had a fast car. How about the clinic of the guys that put you in the fastest car in the field, which he had all weekend? You know, like, if I'm going to compliment, I don't know, man, I would just rather hear other people say that Cowboys put on a clinic and fail to win. You know what I mean? Spot off for saying it. Spot on for.

He was the only guy that we saw pass a lot of cars. And I don't know why, man. And I'll say this about Watkins Glen. I've always said, turn one at Watkins Glen is the hardest corner in NASCAR. It's where I see more guys wreck by themselves than anywhere else we go. It's the most treacherous corner. It's downhill braking. Your wheel hopping.

And for whatever reason this weekend, during practice, during the race, we didn't see anybody doing that. So either these cars have gotten way too easy to drive or the tire was way too reliable. But turn one that I always watch guys go down in there and you grab the spotter beside of you go, watch this. Oh, no, they're going to wreck. They never did that.

They were in there three wide, four wide. You must have been running too far up the front. Did you wreck back there? No, I will have a couple times. I seen Reagan go in there and clean out Stanhouse one time. So you must have been running too far up front. Maybe I was. You know, we ran around 10th, but I'm used to seeing guys literally wrecked by themselves there,

and we didn't see a lot of that this weekend for some reason. You think it could be tire, maybe? I think it's tired, down force, easier to do something. Yeah. You know, I'm not obviously in the cockpit of these cars, but. Interesting. More Elliott family news. Bill Elliott.

Oh, sorry. Oh, my gosh. I was so excited about this one. It was my favorite. You work in the Xfinity series some. You should be able not to skip the Xfinity Series. Well, I liked the Bill Elliott in the Xfinity Series. Oh, oh.

Well, you might as well go ahead with a Bill Elliott one. Then we'll come back to that. Okay. Bill Elliott to come out of retirement to race the number 23 GMS Xfinity Series car at Road America. I am spot off for this only because his son needs to be in the race with him. What the heck? He's off. He just won a race.

He's off-road America weekend. They need both Elliott's in this race. We need Bill Elliott. and Chase Elliott, somebody has a spare car, put these guys in the same race. How awesome. GMS has a spare car? Would that be to have Bill Elliott and Chase Elliott in the same freaking race? You tell them. I'm telling them.

Preach. GMS, put him in the car. So I'm spot on, obviously, whatever Bill did here, lit a fire under Chase. I think Chase was worried about losing his ride to Bill now. So obviously, he's seen him come out of retirement period. He better step his game up. Something I heard pretty funny about Bill was, you know, he said, hoping to have a good run. He said, really all he's concerned about is winning in his age bracket.

So it's him versus Morgan. And I got a good feeling of Bill should outrun Morgan. I believe so. I think it's really funny. Did you hear that because he's never run at Rhode America, he has to go to the rookie meeting? I wonder if he gets the extra set of tires for the rookies. And does he have a bumper on it? I'm sure. He'll have a yellow striped. He'll have a yellow strike, probably. Yeah. Bill Elliott is a legend in a Hall of Famer. Great guy. He comes to the spotter stand at places like Watkins Glen. I saw him on TV yesterday.

On the back straight side, at Indy, he'll be up there with us. He actually stands right behind me on the spotter stand. And just a really quiet, chill, humble dude, you know. And I think you see a lot of that same personality. And I never saw Bill Elliott run from the back to the front and get out and say he put on a clinic. You know what I mean? Like a pretty chill reserve dude. Yeah.

Yeah. But I think this is awesome for Rhode America. I've been to Road America. Last year I went and helped spot, and what a beautiful racetrack and a beautiful part of the country. And, man, they just party. That's Wisconsin. That's all they know is cheese and beer.

That's it. That's all I got. I'm moving to Wisconsin. Spotted cow is so good. Maybe I need a spare bedroom up there. That's the new Glaris beer, right? Spotted Cow, I think. And they have a bunch of, it's a brewery up there.

Yeah. And they have a couple different ones. And one of them's called Totally Naked. and one of them is called two women. Right up your alley. So the way you properly ordered is you need two women totally naked. Yeah. Right up your alley.

I mean, that is the proper way to order a beer up there. I like this. See why Freddie and I are friends? It's a coincidence. Yeah. Well. Digress. Back to your topic you skipped.

Sorry. We're having to tell her I'll do her job today. What's wrong with you? I think I'm... You just got home at 6 a year. Yeah, that might be it. Why are... Okay, never mind.

Exfitting series practice and research. is partially in the rain, spot on, spot off, Brett. Man, I was blown away. First of all, the Xfinity Series practice, the only guys who really went out there and ran were the rookies who have to make a lap. You can't put these guys on the racetrack in a race condition without them making a lap first.

So NASCAR requires the rookies to go out and make a time lap. So those guys went out and did that. You know, Elliot, Larsson, all the guys that have been there before didn't run at all in the rain. But when the race started, we had this little rain cell popping up. behind turn one that kept getting closer and closer. And when it got there, soaked the racetrack.

And it was a hard rain. And when those guys came back out there on those rain tires, I was completely blown away at how you couldn't see anything. They came down the front stretch and you see the first guy, the second guy, third guy. And then you just see this big cloud of mist and rooster tails. And you're like, how are they driving in this? And then they all go down to turn one. They're in the Xfinity series.

You think there's some guys out there that are probably getting ready to bust their butts. no, they go to turn one, it's all perfectly fine. They're four wide in the rain, and they drive off. I was entertained beyond belief. I even tweeted after that, like, we should run short tracks like Margeville, like Richmond, on rain tires, because, man, how exciting was that? It was, I mean, obviously, get back to the question, spot on for infinity practice in the rain because we didn't have to do anything.

We just sat there in the bus talking. I played PubG the whole time. I was spot off. I was definitely spot off on K&N and practicing in the rain because that was miserable. But yeah, the race, like you said, we have to talk about on Channel 2, like, you know, how these guys, some of them didn't put wipers on. We're like, how the hell they're going to see anything on the, you know? Well, then they, like you said, they come off the S's, and that's the first time I got to see

him for the bus stop. And I'm like, oh, there are you. We're eighth in line. Then they get straight, they're coming straight at you. And it's just a cloud of mist. And you're like, oh, I got nothing. I can't see anything. I'm like, like, I'm looking through my binoculars.

Like, that's going to help me anything. I'm like, I got, uh, yeah, okay, there you are cleared. Like, like, nothing. I got no clue where he's at in the middle of that deal. But yeah, it was awesome just to watch them guys And the difference in some of the guys that were able to You know hustle it like you could tell AJ was if thank God it stopped raining Because you would never seen AJ again

But yeah it was definitely spot on for it I watched them going to turn one and we know that they have to do two things when it's wet They have to stay out of the groove because all of that that rubber and that oil that's in the groove is really really slick once it rains But you have to stay off the curbs because curbs will make your egg But I'll watch AJ going to turn one way on the left side of turn one and he rim rides it it's almost like there's a cushion out there, which there's obviously not, but you're like, man, he, he's really good at this.

And then he proceeds to drive off, but then you see a guy in the number 90 who I don't even know who's driving that car. Here he comes by me. Like, he passes Ellie, and I'm like, the 90. Who's in the 90? So I don't know if that guy was a road racer or a dirt track guy or what, but I was, man, there goes the number 90.

He gone. I don't know what I was. Hey, man, that other, what was that? The 36? Yeah, that's how he, you know, he got a friend. The Labby guy. He hauled ass by us in the rain, too. I'm like,

God, where's he going? But it was really cool to see those guys be able to do that, man, because, and I don't know. I'm telling you right now, I don't know how they can see anything. Yeah, even with the wiper. There's no way they could see it. You could have spotted that, Casey.

Oh, my God, you're so wet out here. Keep going. Just like me. My hair. It wasn't happened. I wouldn't be out there. It was funny. It wasn't bad to bust up.

I had an umbrella. Yeah. And I went to put on the rain gear, and it was so hot. I thought I was going to have a heat stroke. So I was like, it's better just to get wet. At least I'm not hot. Are you ever in good conditions while spotting? I mean, you're either so hot or so cold or I need the shade.

I'm going to tell you a fact. The reality is, whatever the conditions are on the ground, they're magnified on the roof. Oh, I agree. So if it's hot, and I'm not saying this because we're closer to the sun. But if it's hot on the ground, it's hotter on the roof because we're typically standing on aluminum, which gives it a reflection effect, and it just burns you. If it's cold, it's colder. If it's windy, it's windier.

So the perfect spotting conditions for me are 45 degrees sunny or 70 degrees and cloudy. Ideal. Or shade. Or let me wear shorts and give me some shade. Or a sweet. That would be sweet. You can use our sweet. We've never been in one of those.

No. Oh, really? They gave us a sweet somewhere. Where were we? Chicago. Chicago. It was 111 degrees. 116 degrees.

And yeah, it was hot. And we don't like, if you're outside and you're moving and you're doing so, you're standing there baking. You can smell your skin burning. It's nice. I mean, you know, Jason and I are very fair-skinned. We turn really red. Really quick.

Really quick. You are very red right now. I'd say, you're red right now. I'm a bright light you got on me. Anyway. All right. Let's take a quick break. TJ, one of my financials back.

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Yeah, a lot of swag. I got some new swag today. Mike Davis gave me a dirty-mo shirt. I see that. Did you get one? Finally. Can you take my shirt, Casey, and make it to wear those little things look like tassels in the back? You know how girls do that?

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In the Xfinity series, a full three-wide move put Joey Logano in the lead and then victory lane on Saturday. Sunday, a sell-out crowd at the Glen witnessed a wild race and a popular win. Chase Elliott and his 99th Cup start held off defending series champion Martin Trix Jr. to score his first series win. For the second week in a row, the J.R.M. late model program brought home at Checkered Flag. In a throwback scheme honoring L.W. Miller's family-owned modified Josh Barry took the win in the throwback 276 Cars Tour event. J.R.M. driver Sam Mayer had an impressive drive from 24th to finish 7th. This Saturday, NASCAR is a split double-header on schedule as the trucks do battle at Michigan International Speedway at 1 p.m. Eastern,

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I really don't think I need to explain this to where. You have to explain to Freddie. You have to explain to everybody. I'm sorry. Okay, so I will give. Why wouldn't you explain it? Because we say it every week. We might have a new list.

Listener. Okay. I'm really sorry, guys. I'm sorry, Freddie. Go cops. Fast Lane is where I will give you both 30 seconds to answer these questions. And if you don't answer it in 30 seconds, the dinger will go off. You get shot.

You got a shot your dog. Tazered. So be quick. I think I want to get tasered. I think we got to do that. Yeah, that'd be fun. Watch you get tasered. It's fine.

But I got cholesterol problems. Am I going to have a hard time? I'm being serious. You can have an ambulance on site just the case. Yeah. We'll be prepared. We'll do it the care center. I don't want to know when you're going to do it.

You know, I'll pick a good time. I don't think I could take that pressure of knowing, okay, we're going to tase you in three. He just took off running. Oh, but guess what? We got a taser. Now we really have to do this. Okay, first one. When you have to use additional spotters at road courses, how do you deal with relying on others to do your job?

It's hard. I'm not going to lie to you. You know, having Freddie at the bus stop and on the front stretch at Indy for me with Elliot is a big relief because you know you have a guy with a lot of experience. You know, and having, I have Will is my second spotter. Weill. So Wheel stands in the S's for the Xfinity race and then for the cup race, he spots the bus stop for Clint. And Will does a great job, but he doesn't do it every week. He doesn't talk at the times that we talk. He says some things that Freddie and I don't say.

So when you hear those words, you're like, oh, what does that mean? Please, dear God, let us come through here without ragging. It's hard to give up the control. And it's even harder for us not to be able to see anything. It always made me nervous. I'll finish this thought. And then I'll give it with Freddie. It always made me nervous with Elliot back in the day when we didn't have spot

qualifying because you would spot all weekend and then you would come down on pit road and watch qualifying. Well, I couldn't see the car. He'd go off and turn one and you're like, oh, I hope he comes back. Like, it's just weird when you can't see. Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm lucky enough at RPM now to have Shannon McClamory is a former spoter. He works in the shop.

So he comes and does the bus stop. And Philippe Lopez is one of our GMs there. He did the other spot. But same thing. Like I've had guys in the past where they're running side by side through there and you're like, where's this guy? Where's he at? Did he fall off the building over there?

Like, you don't know what they're doing over there. It's just, you know, like he said, you'd prefer to be completely and control yourself. But unfortunately, we can't be. So it's tough to give it up. but, you know, it's part of the job. So we talk to the driver on turn one. We talk to each other on turn one. Maybe I got home at 6 a.m.

We talked to the driver on Channel 1 on our radios. On Channel 2, we can talk to each other, and the driver not hear it. So we get a restart. Green flag, 2 by 2, clear left, all clear, all clear. All clear. Coming to you, Will. Will start spotting. He's doing the best job you've ever heard of a spotter. Guess what channel he's spotting on?

Channel, f***ing 2. So when he unkeys the mic, I key up on channel 2. Will, you're on the wrong fucking channel. So yesterday, Freddie came by the bus, and Will had cooked some deer meat, and we're hanging out, and Will brings out, hey, man, sorry about spotting on the wrong channel yesterday. I'm like, what an idiot.

Get on the right channel. I think next time we do that together, we're getting, like, Indy, we need a channel three. Like, I don't know who's on that channel too, but there was some shit I wanted to say that I didn't think I could get away with. And we leave it at that, I guess. But yeah, we need channel three. Kevin Meandering, who's Elliot's Crucchief, he, rare.

talks ever. Like, I almost think he doesn't like to talk. And so you don't have to really worry about Kevin getting on channel too, you know. But here's Will, man. He's just doing the best job he's ever done. It's the best spotting he's ever done. And the driver didn't even hear it. He's on the wrong channel.

Poor guy. Poor wheel. Now Chase Elliott, Austin, Dillon, and Eric Jones have all won races in 2018. Before the season, would you have expected them to win before Kislauski, Johnson, Hamlin, and Larson? Freddie? I don't think anybody would expect. Maybe Chase, I would have maybe expected to win before a couple of them guys. But, you know, the Chevy's had struggled this year.

I don't think anybody, obviously, Austin Dillon was a plate race. But, yeah, them guys have definitely, I would have, for sure, Larson and Hamlin would have had a win by now. Brad probably, you would have a thing, pull off plate race at least. But, yeah, definitely surprised to see them three win before them of all the four guys. But, yeah, that's all I got, I guess. Where's the dinger? Wow. Yeah.

There's no way I pick any of these guys. to win before Jimmy Johnson, before Kyle Larson, before Keselowski, before Hamlin. Just because, face it, they never really won. You know, Austin won a, a freaking fuel mileage race, you know, years ago, whatever it was he did. But I knew they could win, but I just didn't think they would do. I didn't think we'd be this deep in the season without those four names not winning. That's kind of insane.

Yeah. Let's just go to show you how dominant them other three have been. Yeah. The big three. The big three. How about when somebody else gets hot? Is it now the big three and a half? Because Chase got hot?

3.1. Yeah. I mean, it's just like version of the big 3.1. Who named this deal the big 3? I don't know. I mean, because I see it everywhere now. Why did you come up with that voice to say it? I don't know.

Some of this stuff, some of these stuff that we grab up to the big three. Well, all it takes the one person to say. And then, like, where to start. I guess basketball started, right? With, like, the Celtics back in the day. And then anything that you get where there's three talented people, it's the big three. Everything is the big three. I want two races.

Maybe I'm the three and a half. Maybe. I don't know. It's funny. And a half. Three point one. 3.2. 0.5.

What would you have named it? I don't know. I don't know. Those three guys? Yeah. Those three guys. Those three men. Them.

Those guys. The good three. The good three. All right. With four races left in the regular season, which driver outside the top 16 has the best chance to win and secure a playoff at Michigan. You've got Stenhouse, Menard, Swares, Newman, Byron, McMurray, and Bubba.

T.J.'s not here. T.J. has to send in his pick because he has to pick first again because he lost again. If he doesn't pick Suarez, he's a maniac because of these guys, I truly believe, with the races that are left, Suarez has the best chance to win. However, Ricky Stenhouse, his best track is Bristol. Bristol is two weeks from now. He's got a lot of seconds there, but guess what he's never done? He's never let a lap there. In order to win a race, you've got to lead a lap.

But I think Suarez has the most speed consistently of the guys on this list. Well, in true T.J. fashion, I have to pick Bubba to win the next race, right? I mean, that's obvious. We've shown so much speed lately that, I mean, we're going to drive up there and probably win this week, I think. Yeah. But, no, I mean, obviously you've got to agree that Suarez has been the fastest of this group. Menards definitely showed good speed, you know, here and there. The Ford's kind of, oh, that's the fords, but the Penske deals kind of fell off a little bit.

But definitely Swarres had the most speed. Byron, Chase has had a lot of speed the last three or four weeks, and, you know, Byron's starting to kind of echo that a little bit. So he's got a shot, but I think I agree with you. Probably Suarez is probably your best shot at a win there. Are you saying that T.J. in the past three years on this podcast has been biased with every comment that he makes toward the team that he's working with? No, I'm sure. I'm sure he's made one comment.

Maybe that hasn't been biased. Me and Jason Jarrett make fun of it. Well, I think this weekend, 38, and that's the 22. You sound just like them. So loyal. Yeah, loyal to a fault. Such a pansy. I'm just kidding.

Maybe not. Off the wall topic. Oh, these are usually wild, Freddie. Yeah, this is a good one. This is a pretty good one for us. Drunk Americans. That's it. You can stop right there.

And we're done. So yesterday during the race, I'm standing a. Brandon on one side who spots for Busher and I've got Who's on my left? I don't know. Where'd you stand? Oh, Derek maybe?

Derek was on the other side of Brandon who was, here to hear my song. On my left was... Carely? No, Carrelly was two down. I don't know who that. I mean... Carely was two down for me on my left.

Somebody stood right beside me all weekend. Moniz. How did you forget Moniz? Moniz. But in the middle of the race that this song got in my head. Don. Don, don't, don't know, don't know.

I wonder why that song got did. I was going to do my job. I don't know why that song got my end in the middle of race. I feel like I've heard that recently somewhere. But I just started singing it. Oh, I know where I heard it was on that freaking. So, yeah. So this song is stuck in my head.

I just start, you know, our car goes by. And it's a minute before it comes back. So I just start yelling this song. So before the race is over, everybody on spotter standing is singing the song. I'm glad I was a little further away from you this. I wish this was recorded. You should just sing it to Clint in the car. I get bored.

I hate to confess to this, but I think there was a lap yesterday where Clint came out of turn 10 and went into turn 1 and I never saw him because I forgot he was coming. Like, I get, I get, like, during a race, I'm really focused and I'm on my deal. But when I have time for my brain to drift, like, I'm out. Don't give us time to think.

Don't give me time for my. brain to drift. They need to cut all these trees down in these places so I can be the only spotter. I don't do well with too much time to think. Oh, gosh. It's not going to get any better. No. It's just the way it is. I don't really know how you fix that. Anyways, drunk Americans spend a total of $30 billion online each year. Have you ever bought anything online while intoxicated? Freddie? I've definitely purchased a lot of stuff I don't need while I'm intoxicated, but I don't think I've ever done it online. Usually it's like the next seven rounds of shots or something like that. But, you know, we, we spend a ton of money intoxicated, but I don't

think I do any of it online. Freddie and I have this disease where when we're drinking, we're rich. And I don't know that there's a name for it. Maybe it should be called Dritch. But when we're drunk, we're rich. I've never been broke when I have a bus. Like, I'm the richest guy in the bar, and I will buy everything that everybody wants. And then the next day, I'm like, what did I? I do. Why can't we go drinking together? What an idiot I was. Yeah.

And then you get the credit card statement and you just, you're like, oh, I forgot I was an idiot that night. And then you were an idiot for the third time. So I've never, I don't shop online. I really don't. Honestly, I call home and I say, order me this. I don't want my credit card online because I'm scared somebody's going to steal my credit card number. And that happens. I've had it happen at Chick-fil-A.

Yeah. I went to Chick-fil-A and bought some nuggets. And then the next day, credit card got stolen. And the last purchase that was real was Chick-fil-A. After that, it was all people shopping at Lowe's buying like $9,000 worth of lumber, all this weird stuff that I wouldn't do. But I've never gotten drunk and shopped online.

Casey, have you? Well, I like to save a lot of money when I'm sober. When I'm been drinking, I know exactly what I want, and I will go online and buy all of it. Well, subliminally, the next time you're drunk, I want you to go to that Lulu Lemon store. We're in a right now. I love that store. That is one of the stores, but I just think that.

Where is that store at? Because I'm actually just going to go walk around in that store. Burkdale. Is it near the juice store? Because that's another great spot. Clean juice? Yeah. No opposite.

If you're a guy and you're listening to this show and you're single, like Jason. Correct. Are you single? Correct. Go to the clean juice store and just sit there. Yeah. They all come in them, them, Lulu Lemon pants. They get their juice.

After they left the gym and they get their juice. They're just so soft. I know. I love it. Lulu lemon. Well, that is one of the worst. So what else do you buy when you're drinking? It's always close.

I think everything looks great on me when I'm drunk. I'm like, oh, this dress would look amazing. And I buy it. Chad, now you have this habit. Are you going to combine checking accounts? I don't know. Don't. Did you guys?

Yes. Yeah. That was before we were married. When I moved down here, she makes more money, Freddie. And she works at the bank, too, so I really didn't have much of an option. Do not do it. Don't do it? Well, he noticed, like, today we got back, and there is a box or two outside of the porch.

And he just doesn't ask questions anymore. Yeah, but that's kind of changed when you get married. No, it's not. I have a job. How I spend my money is how I'm going to want to spend money. The number one thing that married people fight about is money. I know. And dinner.

That's what you fight about dinner. Where do you want to eat? Okay. Well, there's a difference. Wait a- Megan has a baby. You've been going to the same restaurant for 20 years. She's been ordering the same thing every time she walks in there.

I want a number three with a sweet tea. You have a baby. You walk in there and she goes, I don't know what I want. What do you mean? I don't know what you want. I don't know what I want to eat here. It's wrong with you. So Brett's one piece of advice when I was getting married was be careful.

When you get married, your wife's going to cut her hair short and gain weight. I said, what? Shut up. You're an idiot. But I was used to him being an idiot. Please don't say that. We are two weeks into being married.

Megan's baking the biggest batch of cookies I ever seen in my life and tells me she's going to get a haircut. I called him. I said, are you going to be? I said, I don't know what to do. I said, I told you, she's going to cut her hair and gain 15 pounds. It's what every other woman in America does. I do, and now I will gain 15 pounds and cut my hair. That's what y'all need to say after I do.

I do and I will. Will. I might actually Let's take chat out Talk to him No But there's a difference Between him saying

Do you really need that dress And me saying Do you really need that engine? Yeah Because those are two conversations We'll end up having That dress is not your business That engine is his livelihood

Okay we can just end the conversation now On that one You're not gonna win this one Does he have a lot more money than you Or just a little bit more money than you We're pretty equal I mean, he... If he has a lot, combined, for sure.

No. But if it's kind of even, just stay the course. Stay the course. And then when you do cut your hair and gave 15 pounds and get pregnant, then combine for sure. Combine, yeah. Because you're not going to want to work anymore. True. True.

Win the lottery. That's not what. If you need, when you need advice, you just call me. He'll give you all the advice. Yeah. So then you do the exact opposite like I did. And it's perfect. Actually, I do new your advice on Bachelor at Friday, so we could talk later.

Okay. But Ask TVC. Let's do it. And just so you know, Freddie, this is because I have to explain it now, this is where fans submit questions using AskedTVC. And this is my favorite part, honestly, of this whole show that we do. Like, for me, this is a fan saying, hey, I listen to your show, I have a question, I want your insight, I want to know what you think. And it's very nonscripted, and the fans are cool enough to send in their questions. Thanks for that.

We didn't include the girl. She didn't have any good questions. We'll just ask a real question. Jason. Find one. She said 9,000. One of them had to be good. Cassie. Bless your heart.

Okay, go. Cassie sounds like Casey. Bless your heart too. Hamby 22 asks. Freddie, first thoughts on when Bubba hit the wall at Pocono. So, Brett probably knows the story. I think I've told him a couple times. but unfortunately back when I was doing modified stuff and growing up I watched a pretty bad wreck or a buddy of mine passed away.

So like honest, like leading up to it, I was just, it made me sick to my stomach to watch it, to be honest with you. You know what's going to happen here. He talked a lot before about not having brakes and obviously darts to the left and it's like slow motion, the longest 100 yards I've ever seen a car driving my life at 180 mile an hour. And it just like instantly when he hit that wall, it took me right back to that moment where I'm waiting for my buddy to get out of his car. and he doesn't. And, like, keyed up immediately as soon as the car come to a stop and said, you know, are you all right? And he kind of half-ass answered me because it knocked the wind out of him. But, like, that was the longest one second of my life that it took him to answer me.

And it just really took all the wind out of me, like, innocently got on the phone with his girlfriend and his parents and let them know he was okay talking. But, like, it was the sickest feeling I've had in 12 years ago. And it took me right back to that moment 12 years ago. and I was just so relieved to hear him talking back to me. And I know it took him forever to drop the window net, but he was talking the whole time, so he was fine. I can't believe he could talk that quick. Honestly.

When I first, I mean, I asked him as soon as the car stopped, and I said, you're okay? And he's, yeah. And you could tell, like, he had knocked the wind out himself. And he was, so I waited like another 30 second. I said, are you okay? And he said, I'm okay. And then that's what he started getting out and stuff.

So many times the helmet comes unplugged from the radio. The radio is flying out of the car. I mean, we see all kind of crazy stuff. But, man, I'm, I mean, we all walk down there to you. Obviously, going to see, all right. And Freddie was shaking and texting and had this look on his face. Like, holy cow. And, man, I mean, at that point, we're all one big family, you know, just hoping he gets out of the car.

Like, I think you talked about last week on here, like, not that we care less about certain drivers or not. But, like, I've known him since he's 15, 16 years old. Like, I've kind of watched him grow up now 10 years. Like, so not that it means more than anybody else, but it's like you're kind of, emotionally invested in it. Yeah. And, yeah, so it was tough. But, you know, he was all right, luckily.

What do you think? What do you think he learned from that? I mean, do you think he is more, he looks at it now and goes, holy cow, I'm completely invincible? Well, that's what I kind of told him on the way to the airport. I said, I've got good news for you. I said, out of all this that you're okay. I said, I don't know how the hell you're ever going to hit a wall harder than that.

Like, you've got to do something real spectacular next time. Like, so maybe you got your hardest one out of the way and you're okay, you got lucky, but yeah, he, I mean, it broke, he broke the gas pedal with his left foot. Like, his left foot must have been down on the brake, I assume, holding it, and that was what was bothering him after the most part. Right. And he had swung it over and broke the, snap the gas pedal on half with his foot. It's amazing they didn't break his leg.

Yeah, I don't know. He's lucky he probably hit with his foot, not his ankle or something like that. But, yeah, they said that, you know, there was some kind of ruined the foam inside of his helmet, you know, so, like, you could tell his head moved around in there, but everything did what what's supposed to do and he's hanging out complaining as always. There's a few seats that these guys run. What seat does he run? I don't, I think it's either an ISP.

I know he used to run ISP. I want to say he might have switched to Butler, but I'm not 100% sure. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure it's an ISP seat. And I mean, that's one thing that fans need to understand. The seat is the driver's preference. And the seat, literally the driver owns it. So when he leaves Richard Petty Motorsports or if he gets an opportunity to go drive

an infinity car or drive a truck while he's still at Richard Petty Motors, he's going to take one of the seats that he owns out of that shop and take it to that car. So that's a thing where the helmet that they wear and the seat that they sit in is up to them. Yeah. The uniform and the shoes and all that stuff typically is not. It's typically up to the team in terms of how they sell that deal in broker that deal out. But the seat and the helmet is solely up to the driver. Some guys wear bell helmets.

Some guys wear the stilo helmets, Simpson helmets, impacts. There's all these different things. So, man, thank goodness, like you said, everything. work like it was supposed to. Yeah. Yeah. Rick Bishop 88 wants to know, concerning ability to watch practice has fallen to a new low, now on the NBC app.

Bad enough, we have every cable alternative channel. Now can't get it on TV. What are your thoughts? Rich, Rick, I think what you're trying to say here is you couldn't watch TV, you couldn't watch practice on TV. And I'm going to tell you something. I think that's a good thing. You know, I don't know that it.

needs to be that way all the time. But I feel like we've oversaturated a lot of this stuff. And let's be honest, man, this is all eventually going to be streamed anyway. You know, I mean the cable networks and the TV networks, the fact that young people like you two, Casey and Jason don't even have cable, don't have satellite. I think what is saying here, Rick, is there's ways to consume it and you may as well get used to the digital aspect of it. I don't think it's a bad thing, though.

You know, I feel like we need to be a big deal when we're on TV. I can't watch the Gamecox practice on TV. I can't watch the Dallas Cowboys practice on TV. That's two things that I enjoy doing. So I think to some degree, the practice aspect of it, well, maybe we're over covering it a little bit. I know TV goes out and spends a lot of money to have the rights to do it. But, I mean, on average, I would guess a few hundred thousand people are watching. Let's let these people starve for content.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I would say maybe split it. You know what I mean? Have happy hour on television. You don't need the other two practices. half the time we're out there making queue runs. How boring could that possibly be to just watch three cars on the track at one time? But like you said, I think I know more people now that strictly stream everything

than I know that people have cable or satellite. So everything's obviously trending in that direction, and we kind of need to be in front of that deal where we can stream some of our stuff to and you have an outlet to where people can go watch it. But, you know, I'd be in favor of splitting it probably, you know, have some kind of practice on there, maybe the last half hour, happy hour, just something a little bit, you know, have some kind of content where you can, some of your drivers can get on TV.

I would actually be more into a show that runs 30 minutes after practice. Like a recap. If we're done practicing at one, I would love to see a show that comes on at one. And 1 to 1.30, it's, hey, guys, this is who is fast. Because what can you really talk about that much during our practices? You know, this guy's fast. This guy isn't. I would rather see the recap.

Make the drivers stay in the garage for 30 minutes. Guess what? your new contract says you're going to be available for 30 minutes after practice, and that gives TV an opportunity to go around. Talk to the fast guy, talk to the slow guy. That's another thing, Mike Herman and I talked about a few weeks ago. Like, I feel like our media center thing is saturated the same way. Like, I watch the poll sitter go in there.

And then I watch the chase contender go in there. Guess what? That was a poll sitter. Then I watched the guy who finishes top three go in there. Guess what? That was the same guy who sat on the poll and the same guy that was a chase contender. The same guy going in the media center three times. can't have that much to say that's going to be that much content.

When I watch a guy like Eric Amarola at Chicago, win first stage, win second stage, finish 21st because of pit road incidents, that's the guy I want to see in the media center because he hasn't been in there all weekend and he's got a story to tell. They used to do that. They used to do the winner and their crew chief and then somebody else and then a random story. They picked like a top story just to. Well, it was a rookie of the race a lot of time. It was a top three and rookie of the race.

I guess. In Exfinity, they tried to, but I don't know. It is a very, very good point. I mean, I think the fact that we also have more, like they're emphasizing more on the digital side is a good thing. But it also, to his point, it takes away from being able to watch it on TV. I also see media people saying that they don't have as much access to the drivers as they used to. And I'm not real sure why that is. I would love to have a media person tell me why that is.

because when I did PR in 1999 and 2000, the media person sent in a request and said, hey, I want to talk to Elliot. And you pretty much made it happen. And especially if you'd 100% made it happen if it was a beat reporter that was on the road with you every week. If it was some newspaper you'd never heard of from Pageland, South Carolina, no, it didn't get a lot of priority.

But when you had a media person that was, you know, a bigger name or was covering our sport on a weekly basis, you made time for them. But I feel like just the, that guy that's in the media center four times, I mean, what would you have to say? Yeah, like what, like... It's the same thing over and over. Yeah.

It's the same thing over and over. I was fast. I'm in the playoff. I sat on the poll. I won the race. I'm out. Y'all already heard from me three times this weekend. Yeah.

I wonder if there's a way, like, media members can submit, like, their one driver that they would want to see, like, beforehand. I mean, obviously, it has to be pretty short notice. It shouldn't be that micromanage. If they want somebody, they should be able to get them. Yeah, but I'm in the media center. Yeah. But I don't know. Yeah, vote on it.

Yeah. This is the guy that we want to talk to that's not in the top three. Yeah. Yeah, the media people should have that right with 10 to go. And then that person should, their PR person should be notified. Hey, Eric Amarola, you're coming to the media center. Because guess what? You just finished 50th in the Daytona 500, but you were leading coming to the checker.

You're the guy. The reporters shouldn't necessarily have to be able to go chase him and chase this. Like, it's hard for them to do multiple things. Anyway, that was my ran, I guess. Yeah. I mean, I agree. All right. Nike asks what sports would be funniest if the athletes had to be drunk while playing?

I think every sport. Yeah, I think you got to go hockey. I mean, what could be better than seeing drunk people on ice? I mean, I got to go one up yet and say figure skating. Oh, good luck with that triple toe loop after that shot of fireball. How about pairs figure skating? Can we do pairs figure skating? Oh, God.

Somebody slice a throat. For sure. That would be a good one. Pairs figure skating. Done. After eight shots of fireball and two shotgun and beers. So now when you guys go to the bar and I just go out to the ice game. I mean, I think we might have done that a couple times like in the winter.

You know what Freddie and I could do drunk after drinking on the ice? We could play Chinese freeze tag. You ever play Chinese freeze tag? So if you get touched, you're frozen. And the only way to get unfrozen is somebody has to run between your legs. When an ice, we could just slide between our legs. You know how many people we'd wipe out? Y'all don't know what Chinese freeze tag is?

I've heard of the game, but I don't think I've heard of that name of it. There's no chance I've ever heard of Chinese free stuff. You've not heard of it either. Maybe it was only big in the South and China. You make up a lot of shit. You make up a lot of stuff in Pageland that I don't think anybody else has ever heard about it. Yeah, it must have been Pageland. Well, it must be our China roots in Pageland.

Got so many people from China that are there. Brett's got it. I'm not going to get it. Oh, no. No, no, it's not that good. Any stories for Brett? I mean, I feel like we told some good ones about you. Freddie's nickname is F and Freddie.

Why? It's fun. Fun Freddy. Fun Freddy. F and Freddie. So he's got to be fun. You've got to live up to F and Freddie. It might have been...

Dillner actually was one of the ones that coined F and Freddie. It's because every other word on my mouth is usually something that starts with an F. So it was the full term at one point. And when I had to be a little more professional, we shortened it down to just F and... It's pretty well. Yeah. Yeah. eventually.

But yeah, so, no, I'm going to plead the fifth on Brett stories for now. I'll wait until he's not here. Oh, come on. Well, and Freddie's probably going to fill in for me the week after Bristol. Yes. And so he can tell all the stories. Anything that he tells, you make sure you edit it out. No way.

No way. Everybody save your questions for that week. I will hide my camera somewhere in this room and make sure it gets out. We give Jason crap on his show, and he only lets about half of it make the show. Oh. He edits the other half out. This is all good stuff. Phil Staten.

Did TJ ever send in his pick? Nope. But you told me a week ago he was going to pick Soros from Michigan, so he can just go with that if he wants. If he doesn't pick Soros, he's crazy. So who would you pick, Freddie? Looking at our sheet right here. How do I tell us the sheet right here?

This is who we have available. So he's going to pick Soros. So basically if they're grayed out. Gray's used. Gray's used. Yeah. And then the full, what is that called when it's grayed out? There's a word for that.

to know it when I made tables on like redacted? Sell spreadsheets. I don't know. You should know you're in college. What do you go back to college? Two weeks? Yeah, two weeks.

I'm going to go to William Byron. I mean, the obvious, obviously you picked Bubba Wallace. Clearly. I'm saving Bubba. Oh, oh. For what? I didn't want to burn him. You already used them.

Yeah, I picked him for a plate race and you wrecked. Well, you probably. You wrecked three times. You probably backed into me. No, you wrecked me in that race I picked you. Nice. Appreciate that. I agree, though.

Byron's probably your best available. Yeah. Besides Swar. I would say Suarez is the last chance TJ's going to win before this playoff starts. He's going to win, potentially win this week, and he's going to lose the next year. Does it reset after the playoffs?

Resets for the playoffs. So yeah, I would say Suarez. Freddie, who you got? You can pick anybody. I could pick anybody this week. Give him some fantasy advice. The big three. I mean, obviously we could take the big three.

I think Toyota's been really, really strong. lately for some reason like I don't know if it's just for the fact that it's been Pocono and Watkins Glen kind of not real similar but you know you're shifting and stuff but they've been showing a lot of speed lately so you know Kyle Eric Jones home track for him could be a sleeper in there but you know obviously it's a big three the Stuart House cars it's going to be the same guys in the top 10 so you didn't really pick one I think I mean if you want a dark horse I'll take Eric Jones I think that to close this show right now we should all

take one turn to say the big three in our best voice. Jason, you go first. No, I won't go last. No, you go first. You're the youngest. Oh, fine. The big three. Those three guys, because I don't really think.

You've got to say the big three. The big three. Is that better? The big three. The big three. We're out. Thanks for listening. Thank you, Exaltzal, One Main.

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