Door Bumper Clear - 117 - My Best Friend Tito

Episode Date: October 8, 2018

Brett, Casey, Jason and Freddie Kraft cover Clint Bowyer’s problems at Dover, the 2019 rules package, flipping race car drivers off, Chase Elliott’s chances to reach Homestead, singing for 36 hours, pressure at Talladega and 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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Slightly drunk I'm not drunk I'm slightly hung over I had a really shi-week, and it was topped off with a really finish yesterday.

So when I got home, I found my best friend Tito. He's a good guy. We went to my buddy Dave's house, me and Tito, and I left Tito there because he was empty.

I came back by myself. Tito was out. I came back home around 2 o'clock. He built on you. Had to walk home. FaceTime me about 1 o'clock. FaceTime Freddy at 1. That was exciting.

Freddy's here. I don't know why. TJ's even on that intro. Yeah, we should just record new one on Freddy at this point. Can we redo the intro, Dillner? And maybe incorporate Freddie into that. Since TJ's no longer part of the show. Yeah.

So. You have to be careful with how many times you curse today because just so you know that we're in the store. I don't give a fuck. Well, there you go. I was going to tell you, the last 12 hours of me, I'm not a very good mood. Listen to what happened to Freddy, y'all. Freddie is a travel master. Master.

So we land and we fly on these airplanes and usually when we land, there's 50 to 60 of us that get off in the pitch black dark. And all of our suitcases are all black. Everybody's looks relatively the same. And Freddie gets home last night and he doesn't have his bag. For the second time this year, somebody has taken my bag and left me theirs. But like this dumb ass like has a bandana tied to the handle of his. bag. I get it. I see it's the same bag as

mine. I'm like, how do you screw that up? Like, you're all in my habit because of what he found in your bag. I wish. Can he tweet this out, please? I damn. Then I wake up this morning, my whole apartment's underwater. That was exciting.

That just topped off. So now I want to... How does your apartment get underwater? Was Will there? We got, Will! Did I ever tell you that story about Will flooding the whole condominium in what Daytona? Yes. Did I tell it on here? I think so.

Did he? Yeah, he said you have Will tell the rest. Yeah. So your place is flooded. Yeah. It's a couple laundry room, the dining room. So there's one room in my entire apartment that is locked that I don't have a key to. It's like where the HVAC unit is.

And this is the second time that water just pours out of there. And I can't do nothing about it except watch it run out because I don't have a key to this damn door. So luckily, my wife is there. Where's water coming from? It's coming. I think the HVAC dealer or something. I don't know. It's just a second.

The whole building was flooded. So whatever. I don't know. Then I'm driving here. I get stuck behind the damn tour de Moorsville with 47 guys in spandex riding up and down the road. It's just been a tour to Morseville. I wanted to kill somebody. But I refrained from playing bowling with the bikers this morning.

I'm really glad you made that choice. Now I can't enjoy the Chick-fil-A. Oh, yeah. So my boy, C.E. I appreciate you guys gave him a shout-out last week, Big Martinsville winner. I think now all you have the same favorite late mile driver in the country because he brought us a big bag of Chick-fil-A. And Freddie's on a low-carb diet, so he won't eat nothing but the nuggets. We'll just eat all of those days.

It's hard, man. It takes willpower not to eat a chicken mini. Yeah, I did my best. You know, it's hard. I really appreciate the fact that you put him right in front of me. Yeah. So we'll just keep it right there for you, the whole show. Hey, I didn't know that.

I'd never met C.E. You know, he rolled up in this Virginia plate with C.E. on it. He walked in, handed me a gift card. I was like, I don't know you, but I like you. He should have stayed and came on the show. Yeah, I didn't know you guys. I figured you guys were talking because I was a little late. He should come on next week.

You guys all knew and talked about it. I'd seen him. I just told him I was hung over. He said, I'm C.E. And I was like, I'm hung over. That's kind of how that went. I don't know. It was him until he left.

Y'all were out there hugging. And I guess he saw your luggage. And maybe he took your luggage home. And I was like, I think Freddie knows that guy. And then I started putting it together, and I was like, damn, I see fault. So, props for the chicken mix for breakfast, homie. It's great. Casey's stressing because the hurricane's coming again.

She's got a bridal shower. I don't live in Florida anymore for that reason. She's got her 17th wedding activity going up. When is this wedding? January, the week after Chili Bowl. Oh, yeah, we've talked. Live DBC. Everybody will be sick.

Yeah, live DBC. January. Great wedding. I got married in January. January. Good luck. I don't like you very much right. It's only going to get worse, I promise. Yeah, I don't know why you guys want to mess up a good thing and get married.

I mean, we have a house, we have a dog, what else is going to change? A lot. Susan's going to be in the wedding? Let me tell you. She's not going to be in the wedding. A lot's going to change. I won't be cutting my hair, don't worry. And gained 15 pounds.

I met Susan recently. She likes to bark a little bit. I've seen her at the shop. She likes the break time at the shop. So there's an archa team that's in Chad Shop too. And there's a brake truck that comes around at 10 a.m. every morning. And it just honks like once. And I guess Susan got used to the honk.

So every time like honks, she'll come. Say that word funny. Honk. Honk. Say it again? Honk. She got used to the brake truck noise because all the, Arka guys feed her honey buns all day.

So she gained about 10 pounds in the last few weeks. Susan did? Yeah. How tall is Susan? Short. She's not very big. So you can't get fat when you're short. No.

She's like cocky sounds pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, I'm short. You can't, it's easy to look fat when you're short. When you're tall, you can kind of spread it out. I know. Every pound shows on you. I know.

Yeah. Struggle. Struggle. So what's your bridal shower? What does that mean? Mimosa's. And girl talk. We've had them before.

Like you go to the shower, right? When you get in certain establishments, they turn a shower on. Some people start dancing. Is that the same thing? Or is that a difference? Yeah, it's where we. Oh, yeah. I think Tyler Green had one of them at his bridal shower.

Yeah, and it's boxers. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that's the same one. That's not the same thing? I hope not. Is it come of a free buffet? It does.

It does. And the mimosa bar, you are accurate on that. Yeah. So. A lot of shoe shows have. free buffets after midnight. My wedding, actually. That's happening, so I can't wait.

How much are you spent on your wedding? Two million? My poor dad. I don't know. My girls are, I don't know what they're going to do. A looping? No, I ain't paying for that. Just tell them not to get married.

Yeah. See, you girls screw that whole process up because y'all are born wanting to get married and wanting to have a house and want to have a fence, I won't have a dog, and won't have a baby. See, guys aren't born like that. Guys are born going, we don't want none of that. And then y'all wear the hell out of us until we do that. What do you want?

Does beer? No, we just want to have fun, man. Tito. Just do our thing. I feel like we like to have fun, too. Girls, y'all do till you get married. Then you cut your hair short and gain 15 pounds. I'm spending on that big fun.

Y'all are killing this wedding thing for me. Oh, you just wait. I try to tell Freddie. I'm happily married. I don't know what you're talking about. I try to tell Freddie. He didn't listen. Now he's building a house.

See, he's doing it all. He's doing exactly what you damn women want. I bet you Megan did not like that comment. Megan knows me. She'll get over it. Let's do this show because you have a meeting or something. I do. In real life.

Real life, growing up stuff. Spot on, spot off. First one. All marilla in position to win and advance before a caution and late crash. Oh, what a heartbreaker. Oh, me. You want me to go first? Oh, yeah, because you were just staring in his face at that moment.

She's like a teacher that calls him. I hate that teacher. I do. So, spot off, obviously. I just, I don't understand what Clint has against Eric, but this is the second time this year, right, that he had a race pretty much well in hand. And you guys, not to Clint did anything wrong, just something broke. And he hit a wall.

But what, yeah, so spot off on that, obviously, stinks for him. It could have a big deal for him to lock in the next round. because I think maybe he's one of the ones that could struggle to be on the verge of that cutoff line as we go further here. But yeah, spot off for that, tough break for him. It looked like he had it well in hand, and unfortunately something out of his control. We were racing for the lead and the win for a lot of the day,

and then Ryan Newman decided to be Ryan Newman and got us loose. And we washed up into him, and after that, man, we were just really, really tight. And then after that, we got a loose wheel. We pitted for the loose wheel. and then we went back out there and we broke a ball joint in the left front, which caused us to hit the wall really, really hard. And Jimmy Johnson actually broke a ball joint before the start of the race started. So it's ironic because that's not a part that you hear of failing a lot.

But we both broke ball joints. So when we hit the wall, obviously, we brought the caution out with Eric leading. And before that, I was sitting there watching Eric lead. And I was like, yep, once again, T. T.J. is wrong. Eric's going to win. And we hit the wall. And literally almost the first thing out of Clint's mouth after he said he was okay,

I guess I just screwed the 10. And it's like, well, hopefully not, you know. I mean, obviously you got a round of pit stops coming. Like the last time that you screwed the 10 and the round of pit stops didn't go to the 10's way. He came out 6th on the restart, drove into the fence, bounced off fence, hit the 2, caused a really big wreck. But here's my thing about this 10 team. Rookie crew chief, Johnny Klossmeyer, great guy.

I mean, I saw him at the airport. Kids smiling. You know, like that speaks volumes. I was fortunate enough a lot of my career to be around Del Jarrett, and he had a lot of bad days. And we flew home a lot together on the same airplane. And 99% of the time, he was still smiling. So it's good to be around those kind of people because they're positive uplifting people.

Eric, obviously, is a lot better driver than people are giving them credit for. He's continuing to win races, leading laps. That's a big deal. Winning stages. His wins are going to come. I did hate to see him get robbed, though, yesterday, spot off. Do you think they think they should have stayed out? Yeah, I think so.

But the thing is, man, you know this. You know, you're leading the race and you say I'm going to pit, and what you do, everybody else has to do the opposite to give them a chance to win because if they all do what you do and everybody has a 14-second pit stop, the same guy still has a chance to win. But by him, you know, saying he's pitting, it gave everybody else a chance to do the opposite. Yeah, I just felt like, I just felt like a nut, like if you're going to, you know, there's eight, nine to go, whatever you crash.

We're going to run three or four. It can be many. You know, caution laps. So there's going to be four or five to go. you start on the pole and all you really need is really a good restart one row buffer you know what I mean like if you get three guys to stay out with you out of the 16 17 that on the lead lap you the race is yours and chase showed that you know even danny started next to him on two tires and chase just get a good restart and you get it's so hard to pass there that I just they had your car the four steward house cars were missiles yesterday I mean in one time they come by Bubba made a comment or Drew made a comment like I said all right here comes the leader to four all right here comes second 14 here comes third to 10. Here comes fourth to 41. I'm like, I believe they've got something figured out here, guys.

Like, you know, so just as you've got the fastest cars all day long. I just, I hate to see him put them in traffic. And they put all of them in traffic. You know, I think the 10, the 41, and the four all pit. Like, especially if I was the four, like, I definitely would have stayed out because he was hands down the class of the field all day. Yeah. And he always has a ton of points.

Yeah. And, but, you know, this is what it is Monday morning quarterback. It's a, it was a four dominated race. Yeah. And then Chevrolete snuck the win out. out there at the end. I'll say this about that race. I was very disappointed in the lines not ever coming in.

Like the bottom stayed, the preferred line throughout the race. And then typically there, we see the middle and the top really come in, which gives us the opportunity to pass. It doesn't come in early in the run. It comes in, you know, lap 30 to lap. We run about 95 laps there on fuel. But that lap 30 to lap 90, man, that's when you start seeing some passing. And for whatever reason, man, that tire yesterday,

it just never let the top come in. And I was sitting up there, you know, watching the first stages play out and obviously collecting a lot of points and being thankful for starting up front and running up front. But I was like, man, this kind of sucks. It was weird. Like I noticed, like you said, about midway through that first tire run, you know, guys started getting up there.

Like, I looked and Ricky was really fast. And Ricky was, you know, as we rubbered up the middle, Ricky moved up above the rubber. And it would, you know, he took off for a couple laps. Then that lane started rubbering up because other guys seen him do it. So then I think it was Newman moved up. It was still like, you know, a five-foot patch of, you know, concrete between, you know, where the rubber was at. And he moved up there. He started hauling ass.

Then it went away. It went away. It was over. It lost speed. And he had to go back to the, you know, it didn't lose speed. It was the same speed. But, you know, you might as well just run the bottom, it's the shortest way around. Yeah.

So, you know, I just felt like as it took rubber, the lanes were slowing down. And you just had to go back to the bottom. That was a really great racetrack. A lot of banking, you know, a lot of passing opportunities in terms of surface. but I don't know, man. I hope they revisit that tire. Yeah. Yeah.

Next one. This is going to be a fun one to talk about. Probably the rest of the show. 2019 rolls package. Dillners want more Chick-fil-A. Freddie fingered one of those. I don't think there's anything in there. But you know how people lick their finger and stick it in,

stick it in stuff right before you eat it? Yeah. I did that one of them. I mean, here's the thing about the 2019 rule package. We can't really spot on or spot off it. Right. Because we don't know. We've not run this package.

we've never in our lives race this particular package. So the jury is out. Now, I think by the middle of the summer next year, we'll be able to give it a true evaluation because we'll have run enough. Freddie actually, who sent me the list of where we're going to run it. I'll say this about the list. Really, really disappointed that we're running this at Darlington,

really disappointed that we're running this at Fontana. I feel like those two racetracks have put on wonderful shows and high horsepower creates a lot of great racing there. So I'm kind of bummed that those two are. own the plate package or spacer package or whatever the hell we want to call this. Here's what we do know about this package. The significance of the spotter is probably going to increase. We're probably talking about drafting more than we ever have.

We're talking about higher corner speeds, which makes it very difficult for good year because heavy cars going faster in the center of the corner is a challenge for the tire maker. It's going to be a higher level of grip because we're running slower speeds. I think you're going to see bigger crashes because when guys are running closer and they wreck, you're going to see more cars get in this thing. I don't know, man. It just seems like to me a really big attempt

to make slower cars relevant in the race. And I don't know what the long-term vision is when you start going down this path because obviously they haven't shared it with us. We start hearing about Gen 7. We start hearing about, you know, more manufacturers want to come in. And so there was a lot of messages in this in this package, right?

So like, you know, are you teasing me with saying there's more manufacturers? Are you saying that to kind of take away the, I don't know, man. There's a lot going on right here for people like me and Freddie and a lot of people in this industry that make a live and doing this. This is a huge shift in direction. And it's a shift into the unknown. And I don't know if it's going to be good or bad. to be honest with you. Yeah.

I mean, like you said, the jury's still out. Like, we can't really comment with any kind of certainty about it. But, you know, I just, like you said, there's going to be so much stuff, and we're going to probably have to play a bigger part next year. I've seen a picture that Denny or somebody had posted of the car at Phoenix where they just tested them. And the, like, we're going to have, there's not going to be able to see anything out of the back of these race cars. The spoiler is so tall that we're going to have to do way more spotting out the back, which is no fun, really, you know.

But, like, packing up and we'll see if it has a desire to affect. or not. Like you said, like we definitely didn't need to take a places where we have a great race already where the tire wears out and, you know, like California, Atlanta, Darlington, like places where the guys become driver, you know, the guys that are really good drivers,

you know, show up, yeah. You know, but, you know, so I don't know, I just, I can't get 100% behind something that when you have all the racers, you know, the crew chiefs, the drivers are wanting to go in one direction and we take a 180 and go the completely opposite

direction. Yeah. So, you know, I'm holding out hope that it has a desired effect and kind of, you know, changes the landscape of where we're going right now. I'm slightly pessimistic about it, but I'm willing to keep an open mind. Yeah. Is it a lot of people are saying that it might make Exfinity Series look a little bit better? You know, I think the Xfinity series is the best series right now in terms of some of the

products that we're putting out there. but what makes it so exciting to work, I don't know about to watch because I'm working. But when I'm working it, what makes it so freaking exciting is the dumbasses that are out there with their cars hung in third gear that are 40 miles an hour off the pace

because you're constantly navigating traffic. It's creating passing. You're able to kind of plan ahead and see where that lap car is running and set a pick. You know, if you watch basketball, you set a pick to get open when racing. You'll set a pick and pin that guy

that you're trying to pass behind that slow car. I mean, we saw Ross Chastain and Kevin Harvick wrecked one another at Darlington because Harvick tried to set a pick on a lap car in the Xfinity race. So I think the Xfinity race is exciting a lot because of those slow cars. But it sure as hell looks like the Cup Series package is going toward what the Xfinity series has been doing for the last few years with these taper spacers, high corner speeds. The faster you go in the center of the corner, the harder it is to pass. Yep.

That's just a reality. If you have to slow down to make the corner, the guy who slows down the least is the fastest, and he has an opportunity to pass. If everybody's going crazy fast through the center of corner, nobody's having to slow down to make the corner, and it makes it very difficult to pass. But again, you know, we've not run this package. I think all the drivers are very happy to see us come up from 400 horsepower at the All-Star race to 550. And I wouldn't be surprised if we don't keep tweaking on this, you know,

throughout the summer. You can't mess with it when the playoffs start, but whoever is making this decision, and I don't know who that is, but whoever is making this decision and his committee, I don't think this is the last change. But Freddie just made a really valid point. Elliot's big on this when we run some of these packages with a rear spuller. They can't see the car in front of the car that they're behind. So if you're running fourth, you can see third, but you can't see second because that spoiler is completely blocking your ability to look through that guy's cockpit and see out in front of him. So, you know, these guys are looking through their windshield,

then the back windshield of another car, and then the front windshield of that car, that's how they see. And that big spoiler takes away their ability to see a lot of that. So now you're spotting out the back of the car and the front of the car. Yeah, they can't see either way. And it's exhausting. It's also how we're going to get a million dollars a year next year to spot.

I can't wait. I'm moving. I don't know where to. Myrtle Beach. I'm on my own helicopter. Oh, Jeffrey Earnhardt says he's tired of being bullied on the track. What is he talking about? Daniel Hamer wrecked him and he's tired of being bullied.

Hey, here's an idea. Get out of the way. Or it kind of sounds like it's what people are saying. That they're using him as like a crutch when they have a bad day. Yeah. Well, I mean, you can't wreck on the last lap or be the last caution of every race. You just can't do that. when you do that, you're going to create conversation around you.

And he's been the last caution in a lot of races. I mean, he was called meaningless. I didn't call him meaningless, but he was called meaningless. But yesterday was hands down the worst he's ever been in the way for me personally. If you hang on somebody's right rear on the exit and then they're considerably faster than you, you're being a nuisance. And when you're 10 laps down and you're doing it, like it's just, we have racing etiquette and it's unspoken, but we know what it is.

And I don't know who was spotting for him yesterday or what, but he's, was hands. I tell Clint, point blank, Harvick is catching you. He's three back. When he gets there, get out of the way. You're going to slow both of us down and let him go and then see if you can follow him. Maybe we can pass some of these guys navigate through track. I tell my guy, get out of the way. Some of these guys, I guess they're scared to do that because he was in the way for the whole time I was out there. It's like he said, though. Dover is one of the worst places to like just not lift at the three-quarter mark and let the guy have the exit. You know what I mean? And we just the same thing. Like I tell Bubba, you know, the guy's one back, give him the bottom.

You know, we'll get in the bottom. And then Bubba knows how hard it is. Like when you're passing somebody to, you need that, you need, especially at Dover, you need to use the whole racetrack on exit. So if somebody wants to just keep their nose barely on your quarter, like, it's going to, it'll kill your lap time by a half a second at least. You know what I mean? Because you've got a lift, roll out of throttle, stay down how best you can. So like, you see most most of the guys have a little bit of courtesy for each other there. As far as the quote goes, I really don't know what he's talking about. You kind of draw attention to yourself by doing dumb shit for a month.

And then... Freddy and out of the king are doing dumb shit. We might have to invite him to the club. Yeah, welcome to the dumb shit club. The dumb shit club. She, she. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm spot off on him claiming to be bullied.

Like, just run your race and do your thing and stay out of the way. And nobody will even know you're out there. There's a guy like Landon Castle, you don't know he's out there. Don't wreck with 10 to go. Here's an idea. But, you know, there's some guys just get it and they just know, all right, I'm just out here to run 30th today. I want to keep my race car clean. My owner can't afford to fix this thing every week.

You know, I'm just going to stay out of the way. And you don't even know they're out there. And then there's other guys, you just try to get around. And they, not that they race the hell out of you, but they just aren't courteous enough to get out of the way. Yeah. Jimmy Johnson buys the 78 Kids bikes as an apology after the roble incident Spot on, spot off, Brett.

Man, I woke up to this and saw it on the Twitter. I thought it was kind of funny, you know, but I bet he won't ever buy bikes again because when you do something and you tend to have bad luck, you tend to analyze what you did. And he didn't even take the green yet. yesterday. So I bet he never buys another kid's bike in his life ever again.

Spot on for the gesture, man. Obviously, it was intended to be funny. I mean, those guys were asking for roughly $20,000 in mountain bikes. Oh, well, forgive me, buy us all on new mountain bikes. And he gave them all little girls' bikes. Well. Yeah. Yeah.

That was funny. Definitely spot on. It was funny. Did you see the placard that they put out with the bikes this morning? They said, tend to wheel hop. You know what I mean? But it was cool. I was down in the garage.

I seen a bunch of fans walking around. They was giving them out to fans. It was cool, like little kids carrying bikes around and riding them in the pit area. So it's just a cool gesture. Like you said, bad karma. He probably ain't going to do that ever again. The funniest thing of the whole process was he got all those bikes and what looked like the back of an SUV. That was pretty funny.

Jimmy's a great guy, man. He's one of those people that's very private. And you wish his personality was better known. He reminds me of Mark Martin. You're like, Mark Martin was driving at Raus and was kind of a suppressed brand. I mean, yeah, he was Mark Martin and won a lot of races and had a lot of fun. But you never really got to know Mark Martin. And then when he left Raus, just like he came out of his shell a little bit.

Jimmy kind of reminds me of that because he's a great guy, does a lot of great things, goes out and has a lot of fun. And people call him, you know, vanilla personality or manila or whatever the hell that word is they used to describe that. And he's really not. Like, he's a fun dude. He's a California guy. California guys are, well. I thought some of them are really weird. But Jimmy's not one of the weird ones.

He's fun. We got Monez. I mean, he's pretty normal. Monez spots for the 72. And he did a great job yesterday to stand out of the way. It sucks to spot a slow car. I've been there. Absolutely.

It's miserable. It's so fun to spot a fast car. And it sucks so bad a spot as low. So yesterday, paint scheme-wise, 72 and 23 looked a lot of like black cars, white numbers, you know. So the 23, come out on tires or something. He's slow as shit.

But, like, he's racing the hell out of us because he's got tires. And Bubba is getting irate. And he, like, he's not saying anything, but I can just tell the way he's driving. Like, he is getting ready to lose his mind. Well, like, two laps later, the guy's tires wear away.

We drive away. So then fast forward. I don't know how far into the race it was next, but we catch the 72 car, which is Corey LaJoy, good friend of Bubba's. I guess, jokingly, Corey flips Bubba off going down the front stretch.

Well, Bubba thinks, it's 23. And he said, I tried to drive in there and wrecked that son of so. And she goes, then I, he comes off the corner. I said, oh, God, that's Corey. He says, I thought he was flipping me off. He goes, I was going to wreck the hell out of him.

He said, but he said, but it was Corey. So I'm all right. He said, I had to tell myself for two laps. Okay, calm down. That's funny. Yeah, they used to all flip each other off, give each other signs. Because they were all like, Elliot and Dale Jr. and I love, they do it. They did the, I guess I'll just tell you all this.

They did the shocker back in the day. that hanging out the window. I haven't heard that word in a really long time. And so that was kind of all those guys that were buddies when they were racing around each other and they would pass one another. They'd throw you the old hand sign, which meant see you later, buddy. I'm faster than you today. So it's kind of funny when you do it.

But yesterday, Chase Elliott flipped Clint off and Clint went bananas. You tell him after the race, I'm going to stick that finger up his ass. Like he went nuts. So like when they're in there and their body's temperatures are high and their heart rate's high. And, you know, it's 160 degrees in those damn cars. And they're hot and they lose their mind. It's funny. Like, Clint's flipping the hell out and I'm just steady laughing.

His dad once said to me, Brett, if you would key up when he goes on these rants, you know, it would break up the message. Because when two people key up, it sounds like Charlie Brown schoolteacher. And I was like, if I key up, I'm not going to hear what he says. I think it's entertaining when Clint loses his mind. Hirschman's really good at that move. He's got that move down, Pat Keying up when Kyle starts. That's because Hirschman's a puss. Yeah.

He's a damn psychology major, but he is. I want to hear what they say. That's what it makes sense. I'm up there bored to death, and they lose their mind. I'm like, yeah, we're, we're back. I'm going to keep listening to your radio more than anybody else now. All right, let's take a break. This is your Exalt to Race Center update.

I'm Matthew Dillner. The monster reached out and bit many on NASCAR weekend. On Sunday, Chase Elliott survived Dover International Speedway and an overtime finish to score his second Cup series win. The W punches the Dawsonville, Georgia driver's ticket into the next round of the playoffs. On Saturday, Christopher Bell rang the final bell of the opening round of the Xfinity Series playoffs with a sixth win of the season. He bested Cole Custer and Junior Motorsports top finisher Justin Algeyer. Those three drivers, plus Daniel Hemrick, Elliot Sather, Tyler, Tyler, Reddick, and Austin Sindrick will all move on to the round of eight, which begins in two weeks at Kansas Speedway.

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I'm, you know, I saw where he's the fourth youngest guy in NASCAR history to have two wins behind some really good guys, Ligano, Petty, et cetera. But, but that team is not fast enough. I mean, how many laps did they lead? When you get to Homestead, you're going to have to run top four all day. The top four contenders are going to be lights out. He definitely wasn't top four all day. They're going to show you they deserve it.

I forgot we even had a timer on that. I'm so sorry. Sorry. Yeah, I agree. They haven't shown the speed, I think. The only place where he has a shot, I would say, potentially, is Phoenix. You know, if he could stay close and he could run really well, the Phoenix he did last year.

Remember if he was chasing Danny after the Martinsville deal. So he was fast there. So, you know, he's got a, I'd call a 50-50 shot. They just haven't had the overall speed, like he said, to get up there and collect stage points and, you know, advance themselves in the next round. Like I said yesterday, he was seventh, eighth, seemed like all day long, and then the last pit stop he gets up there. You know, there was a wild card in round one with a roble.

There's a wild card in round two with Talladega. There's no wild cards in round three. You're going to have to go out and you're going to have to earn it. You're going to have to be fast. You're talking about Martinsville, Texas, Phoenix, three completely different styles of racetracks. If you don't have speed, you're not going to Homestead. I don't think they're fast enough.

2019 Super Speedway Rules Package won't include a restrictor plate for three of four races. Will the racing be any different without the plate? Freddie. Who asked this question? It wasn't your turn. Shut up, Brett. How a f*** do we know?

I mean, I think that it's going to have the same effect. We're going to run a tapered spacer there, and they're going to make sure that we have the same racing, I think. So just aside from the restrictor plate and their tapered spacer essentially do the same thing. So I think a racing will be pretty much the same. I don't think it'll change much. I think it's going to be completely different. You're such a liar.

Jason, what did you think before you wrote this question down? I was thinking that everyone's like they're not running a restrictor plate. They're freaking out on Twitter. And I was like, people probably don't understand that the restrictor plate in tapered spacer have similar effect. We're just trying to inform the fan. Okay, great job telling them. We're going to go to the next question.

On that note. Sorry, that's a f***ing question. I'm not to beep this whole show today. He's going to run out of paper. It was Tito's fault. Yeah, I didn't have anything to do with Tito. Tito's Spanish, right? Yeah, yeah.

Well, he was, is. He hung out on me all week. Yeah. He hung out on me all weekend. I want to school in Columbia. South Carolina. I think that's a little different. You said Colombian?

I'm Colombian. On to the next question. The Italica playoff race winner has advanced to the final four in each of the last two seasons. Now we got something. With Lugano in 16 and Kislauski in 17. Who has the best chance to make it to Miami this weekend, Brett? I think the Penske cars have been incredibly fast.

I'm stating the obvious at Talladega for several years. You know, we've all got, they've all the fords have, all the good fords. I say that word. All the fast fords have Rouse Yates Motors that Doug Gates built. Doug takes a ton of pride. and his plate motors. But the Penske camp has figured out a couple things that give him a little bit more speed. So I think you've got to look at a guy like Brad and you've got to say, okay,

he ran top six yesterday. He made some call guts. He calls at the end to put him in position. He was going to run top three. I think Brad's your guy. Yeah, I would agree that I would say Brad would be the number one candidate. It seems like when the Penske cars get out front, they can just control the race. They get lined up and they can control the whole race.

If you're going to throw somebody else in there, I'll take my boy Clint over air. He's got nothing to lose this week, kind of. He's got to dig himself out of a little hole. And he's been notoriously a great plate racer. So, you know, he was an amazing play racer. I started spotting for him. So I'll be pulling for old Brett and Clint this week. Hopefully they get themselves out of that hole. It, uh, I don't know, man. It's a wild card. You know, it's Talladega. You look at it and you just literally go, oh, no, it's Talladega. And all I'm telling you is a spotter when you get up there and you put your radios on and you look out across all.

all the campfires that are burning all night. And you look at all the babies being made in them tents. And you go, man, I just want to finish today. Like, that's the first thought you have as a spotter is, I just want to finish. Because you know, if you finish, you're going to get a top 12 and you're going to feel pretty good about it. But you just want to finish.

But we can't do that. Like we got to get stage points. Like Freddie just said, we've got to be balls to the wall. I'll be watching. Off the Wall topic. you watching at? Here? We're here?

Junior Motorsports. Dirty Mo Media. Going to Junior Mothersports to watch the race. I won't be in Talladega. I was in Dover. I'll be in Kansas. Yeah. You know, you could text us sometime

where your sweets are so we could come get some waters or something. I was going to ask you guys if you wanted to. Oh, I'm sure you were. I texted you when I was at the casino and you were at your hotel. Like, who does that on a Friday night? I had a bad week. I was stressed out. My mom fell and broke her hit.

Got it. That's fair. And Elliot ran like Fido's ass on Saturday. We finished 11th. Clint Rex. That's why I went Fountito last night. Well, I had a bad week, Casey. I'm glad you didn't call me to casino.

You would see my drunk ass wandering around. I feel like I might have saw you from a distance. Freddie? Was I standing up? You didn't even go say hello? That's real nice, Casey. I think I was leaving and I couldn't tell if it because I actually thought I saw you, which is when I texted you.

I was at dinner at a restaurant and there was another table and some guy was drinking a very large drink. And I was like, Brett? Have you ever noticed that women are more likely to use the word texted? Texted? Like a guy, like when I say I text you, like I'm in my mind, I'm saying ED. Like it's on the word. I'm just not able to, I don't say texted. Because we have better grammar.

But females will say, I texted. I texted. Because that's grammar. All I've got to. This conversation is she thought she saw you, she thought she saw me, and she text you, not me. She could have said hello to either one of us had it been us. She could have approached us and known that it wasn't me and that it was you. It's okay.

Well, my feeling, just making my day better. It's fine. Such a great, great friend. You know what else girls get is free drinks. They just roll into a place. Like I was thinking last night on the way home, I was like, you know, it'd be pretty damn nice to be a female because you look all fine and you roll in there and you roll up to the bar. and you probably buy your first drink. I doubt they even buy that one.

And then you don't buy another drink the rest of the night. Guys are just like, I'll get hers. Hey, here's a drink. Or are you rolling into a crack? Because, I mean, I'm from South Carolina, and it's literally, you know, you got to buy the girls food. I don't mean if you're on a date. Like, if me and you right now want to lunch,

I would buy your lunch because that's what guys from the South are supposed to do. You know what I mean? Yeah. But y'all got it pretty good on that front. Not bad. I mean, if we were at a bar, I'd buy you guys a drink, to be nice. But you save a lot of money.

This is also very true. How much money do you think you save a year by being a female? Well, if I was single, it would be different because Chad, like, pays for a lot of my stuff, but that's because he has to. So you're saving him more. He don't have to do shit. What do you mean he has to? How much money are you saving being a female? Millions.

I mean, maybe. 20,000? Of the wall topic. Parioki host in Washington is singing the same Garthbrook song for 36 consecutive hours to raise money for breast cancer awareness. If you had to sing the same song for 36 hours, what would it be? Jeez. My turn? Ah, hell, I don't know.

Probably something by Billy Joel, piano man. Something like that. Sing me a song, you're the piano man. You can't sing that for 36 hours. Sure you can. You barely pulled it off for 36 seconds. That wasn't even 3.6 seconds. 36 hours.

What song is it? I think he sang Friends in Low Places, right? Oh, no. It should have been like every Garthbrook song, so that way it was like a concert. What was he doing it for? I'll raise money. Yeah. Oh, just give him money.

Just give him money. Started to go fund me, and that one lady started to go fund me. She'd make it out of right. And she made a lot of money. For what? The damn. I don't know where name is. I probably can't talk about that.

I don't remember her name. All right. What's your song? My song? Yeah. I know it. You sang it for 36 hours when we were in Nashville. To buy me a boat song?

I was just wanted to ask if that was it. He's saying that it was two days straight of hearing that stupid song. I almost cursed, but I did. Jay, poor jasons. He's already has a list of seconds so he has to cut out. Yeah. My false set of voices messed up today, but I think I would do the, I'm going to make a change.

For once in my life Man in the mirror, baby Michael Jackson He's my guy Michael, he's your hero. He's still my guy. Rest in peace, Mike. I miss you, buddy.

Got nothing. We're done. All right. What? Ask DBC. I do like that song. That's my favorite song. I like it.

Of all the songs. Of all the songs. Which one? Man to mirror. I listen to it on every plane ride. I like it. Makes me feel good. Makes me feel good.

I don't really follow the philosophy of that song. a lot. It's usually because you're drunk on every plane running. I don't know. I hadn't drank on a plane all year this year. I don't think. I think that's probably. What about when you guys won? I think that's a lie. We won. We drove, didn't we? Martinville.

Martinville. Clint drove. I didn't drive because I drank beer the whole time. Well, Ask TVC. First one. P. Schmitt 1998, maybe? 1988. 88. Wow. As a spotter, what do you look for when a driver is reporting a tire issue. What info do you like to give the crew chief and team?

We just look for the only thing we can ever see, if he says something about a loose wheel, that's 100% on the driver. We just tell the picker to be ready and tell the driver they're ready if you need to come. And he makes that determination because there's nothing we can tell. I mean, unless it's like falling off, we can see that. Like Clint, I mean, Clint yesterday. Yeah, like there's nothing you can see for a loose wheel. But like if we hit the wall or something, we can look for tire rubs and stuff like that. But there's, There's nothing for loose wheel unless you do something completely different than what I do. I just pray you don't read.

Oh, loose will. It's like, perfect. This is awesome. We're going to lose two laps and not be relevant the rest of the day. This is awesome news. That's what goes through your mind when you hear loose wheel. And then you hear the crew chief fill it out. See if you can manage it.

I mean, I guess if you got a pit, pit, pit. And you're thinking, well, now he feels like for pitting. Yeah. You know, like it sucks. It's not a good situation. And these guns are still an issue. People have kind of stopped talking about it. Maybe they told them to stop talking about it.

But those guns are still a little bit of an issue. Harpsie Harps asks, why? What do you people do for Twitter names? Like, let's make the hardest Twitter name ever to say, and let's name ourselves that. Harpsie harps. This person asks, why is Dover in the playoffs? Terrible race until the last 20 laps.

What other tracks should be in the playoffs in lieu of Dover? Michigan or Kentucky? Kentucky. I knew this is going to get. This is going to get exciting. This could get exciting. We should have zemed in on that. I don't know if harpsie harps is a male or a female.

But Kentucky? Kentucky instead of tover. Michigan's a horrible race also. Kentucky? Geez. Again, I'll say what I said earlier in the show. I was disappointed at the groove didn't widen out. I think that would have created a better race.

The guys were driving their tails off. I mean, I literally saw, you know, a bunch of people working hard in the race car. It just was extremely, extremely hard to pass yesterday. And I think, I'm glad Dover's in the playoffs, man. I think Dover is located in a great area around Philadelphia, around Baltimore. You know, it's a pretty state. I think that's a good track. It's got the casino right there.

You know, there's a lot of things that make me like Dover, and I just wish the tire had been different. So Harpsie Harps, I don't think Kentucky is the answer to any of your questions. And I think that we just need a different tire. Yeah, I mean, in the past, that race has been a great race. Guys moving around, you know, we had Larson and Kenseth a couple years ago, Kyle and Chase Elliott a couple years ago. I will 100% agree.

I was struggling to stay awake for about 300 labs yesterday. And then again, it got a little exciting with all the cautions. But, yeah, there's nothing wrong with Dover as far as a racetrack. We just missed on the tire or for whatever reason. The track just didn't widen out like it normally does. But, yeah, I wouldn't move Dover out of there at all. Kentucky is a great state. They have bluegrass.

They have bourbon. But we do not need that racetrack anywhere near a playoff. Tell us how you really feel. That's Brett's favorite track. Yeah. And I'm not in shape enough to go there twice a year. I walk up the damn stairs because the elevator, bro. I'm fat.

All right. I'm not as fat as I was, but I'm still fat. You're not fat. Thanks. Edgerwood. Your hair is great today, too. You're welcome. Edgerwood wants to know if Freddie can explain the picture that he tweeted from what looks

like a fight breaking out in Martinsville. Yeah. Most of the pictures I post I can't explain on public forms. But yeah, so Martinsville, it was the late model race. Bubba was running. This was seven, eight years ago, I think.

So it happened to be like the seventh anniversary that popped up on my Facebook memories or some shit. Sorry, Chase. So we were in the last chance race and ended up getting into a wreck. And I was talking about not being fat. I'm fat now. Wasn't as fat then.

You were fatter? Fat or fat. fat no i was skinnier then oh you were skinned i thought you were talking about like a month ago no no this is seven years ago you were skinnier yeah so i was probably like 30 pounds skinny or so the guy that wants to fight me is like six foot eight and about i don't know seven thousand pounds he wanted to fight yeah he wanted to fight me because it was the other guy spotter and i was being my typical like yankee self yeah kind of being yeah yeah so uh so we yelled back and forth a little bit and he come running over and that the picture is of the official splitting us up in the grand sense but

the funniest part about that picture that we laugh about today is that big son of a call me and goes, I ain't afraid of you, big boy. I said, you have a mirror at your house? Like, you are a foot tall and me and got 200 pounds on me. And you're calling me, big boy. Like, man, F you. Yeah. So, yeah, so that was, it just, we and Bubba had just actually talked about that

because the late model race was the week before. So he's like, you remember that time we went down there and you got into that fight fight with that big guy? He called you, big boy. And I'm like, yeah. So then that picture popped up. This is a good day to tweet this one out. So that was the explanation for that.

Edgar, Edger, depending on how you pronounce that, he's right. There was a fight breaking out. Oh, yeah, there was a fight. Yeah, we were getting ready to go at it. The best part was so B-Rat, so this guy kind of looks like me. So B-Rad, our buddy, one of the bus drivers, he tweets and goes, that guy looks like he's telling you to sit down, but he thought I was the other guy because the other guy was kind of bigger, you know, fatter than I was.

So he thought I was fat all the time. He didn't realize that at one point I was skinny and didn't look like this. Yeah. You're getting unfat. Now you're doing the keto thing. Yeah, keto up, man. No carbs. Trying.

It's hard when you go out with Brett, though, because he wants the old cheese curds. I can't help, but I love cheese curds, man. Cheese curds. They're the best. They are the best. They are the best. They be great right now. They are good.

For our rant, you guys are going to tell us what silly season rumors there are. Are we in silly season still? Yeah, I want to know what's going on. It's starting to clear up. And by that, I mean, I have to take a call, so Jason's going to take over. Well, have fun. See you. Thanks for coming.

Bye, Felicia. When your call's done, go to my house and help Megan clean the water out. Deal. She's going. She out. So, rant. Rant. I'm going to ask you a question.

Okay. Sports fans. Okay. Does it make sense to you that guys get to keep all these bonus points from the regular season into the second round of the playoffs? Man, I think we talked about this. a lot this week, me, you, and then everybody else that we run into, we brought it up to. And I think everybody's kind of of the same opinion where the playoff points should 100% be added to that first round total.

And then once we get to that second round, like, there's no way a guy like, we use Justin Allga as an example, who was, he's riding the cusp of missing the chase. Like, if he had a loose wheel at the wrong time on Saturday, he's done. He's out of the playoffs. Yeah. And he went from that to now, how big is this point leading the point? Yeah. He's back in front and leading to points.

And same thing with these other guys, like Kyle Busch and them. So, man, I don't know. I just feel like maybe they should be added to the first round and then drop from there. But you do earn them points. It's not like they're just given to you. So I can kind of see both sides of it. But just seems like if you have three bad races or two bad races and one decent race, squeak into the next round, you vault over eight guys.

It doesn't seem right. It's not right. We were in the same boat. You know, we were literally fighting for the last. last spot at the Roble. And we were, you know, a point in, a point out, two points in, two points out. We get to Dover and they go, we're lining up by points. You're fifth.

And I'm like, how am I fifth? Well, you got all your bonus points. I don't understand how those bonus points don't zero out after round one. And the only bonus points you carry into round two are bonus points that you accrue during round one. When you win a stage, when you win a race, those carry you over in a round two. it is almost assonine that we're taking guys like Martin Truex Kevin Harvick I mean even clip boyer the 14 15 points we had or whatever that number is like that shouldn't be like when

you look at the thing it's like man those guys are guaranteed an easy walk to homestead because they had a great 26 races yeah and I don't think that's deserving I don't I don't think in round two you should be reaping benefits of winning the Daytona 500 or winning a stage at Atlanta. Like, that was long gone. Yeah, because like you said, like them three guys, Harvick, Kyle, and Martin, like something drastic has to happen to them in that last, in that last, or even this round. You got to have three different winners that aren't them. Yeah. To kick them out. Yeah. So I don't know what the fix is, but the fix is you zero the points out. Yeah. You don't, I mean, like you just said with Algeier, I mean, here's this guy tied for,

you know, seventh, eighth, whatever it was, right on the customer. of not making it if he has a problem. And now he's the points leader again, just because he had a great regular season. Like at no point in any of the sport have I seen the regular season give you a chance to get to the Super Bowl. You know, it gives you home field advantage

and it gives you some things. But I think that's round one. And round one is three races. That's a lot of racing to have a big cushion. Yeah. It's like, you know, what are you going to do? You know, you've ever seen a baseball game where the home team starts with five runs

because, you know, they had a better record. They have home field advantage. That's it. You don't get a giant advantage over the next guy. Right. I just think it's crazy. And I guess last year I didn't really pay attention to it because I wasn't in the Cup playoff and the Xfinity playoff.

Elliot was that guy with all those points. And so you just kept looking at the points thinking, oh, we're good, we're good, we're good, we're good. Now I'm looking at it going, well, no wonder they're good. Yeah, yeah. Like they're good because of some crazy stuff. Yeah. Somebody needs to look at that and make some changes.

But here's what I went through my mind yesterday. I was looking at Amarola. He's leading the race. And I click on my little thing that says, points us up now, and I'm looking at it. He's the first guy out. He's ran well all day. He's leading the race,

and he's still the first guy out. And I'm thinking, if anybody deserves to be ranked as of right now high, it's the guy leading the freaking race. And as of this very moment, he is currently one point out of the playoff. How is that possible? Clearly, if he wins a race,

yes, he's locked himself in. But he couldn't have finished second. or third in that race at that moment in time, and it's still been the first guy out. And that's when I was looking at this going, this is wrong. Yes. We got to look at this and go, this isn't right. This scoring system is flawed. Yeah.

It's for sure, they've got to make some kind of adjustment, I think. Yeah. Maybe they will. First two years in the playoffs, it zeroed out after the first round. But then they changed that with the stage points. Well, what happened was Martin Chewex wrecked somewhere, Talladega, I think it was. And they were like, oh, man, he's had such a great year. He doesn't deserve to be kicked out because he wrecked Talladega.

And it was a cutoff race along, you know, bye-bye, Mark Truex. And then it's like, oh, I need to fix that. So it's like, well, let's ensure that the teams who performed all year reap those benefits. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not how sports works. Sports is in the moment. It's this game counts. You know, damn carrying all that stuff from 10, 20 races ago, man.

I don't know. I've not paid attention to it. This is the first time I've ever looked at it and went, what? What? Wait, what? So, I don't know. Maybe we'll make some adjustments. My damn. My rant is about caution flags.

And yesterday we had, you know, we needed a caution. And we hear this on the radio all race long. You see a guy that's right in front of the leader. All right. So 43 is calling in Debris and turn two. And it's usually bullshit. Like, it's not going to be there. But so yesterday we called in and it was a, actually, I never saw it.

Drew saw it from he was down in Pittsall 5 or something. So he's seen turn 1. There was something on the racetrack. So he calls it in. The corner worker goes, yeah, it's up there, but it's out of the groove. What's out of the groove? We race all over this place, and it's, who's to say, what's out of the groove, you know? So I'm like, well, that's ridiculous.

So then fast forward later in the race, the four has his issues. So he's racing back up trying to get the Lucky Dog. And three different cars call in debris on the backstretch. And the third one was the one who was, he needed a caution. He was getting ready to have to pit, so he needs a caution. So he calls in debris. Tower, they called into their spotter on the backstretch, backstretch, backstretch, spotter. Tracks clear, Tower.

All right. Track's clear, Jamie. So they must tell him, all right, they're not going to throw the caution. Go ahead and pit. Right about this time, the four car moves into the Lucky Dog spot. And the one comes barrel down pit road. Paul, put it out. Put it out.

Debris back straightaway. Poor Tyler's like, oh, caution's out for that debris that wasn't on the back straightaway two laps ago. So I just don't understand, like, you know, you want to, you don't want to think that they're trying to manipulate the race in any way. But I don't understand how you can have three different guys call out debris caution. And then they don't see it, don't see it, don't see it. And all of a sudden, oh, wait, you know what? There it is. Never mind.

At one point, there was a huge piece of debris on the front stretch and had the number 14 on it. I could tell you that one brought out of caution. Well, there was an axle back there. Did you see the door on the 22? Yeah. TJ will be able to talk to maybe next week. But he run an axle. Next year.

Or next month, whatever. But he ran over and tore his door all to hell because it was laying back. I think it was out of the 15 car. He lost an axle. It's funny to me, there's one spotter for every team. And we're in a great spot, obviously. But NASCAR has corner workers all the way around the racetrack. Sometimes you wonder what they're doing.

It's like, hey, stop looking at your phone. There's something laying out here. They might drop their phone in the safer barrier. Maybe that's what they're looking for. It's their phone. What an idiot. What an idiot. You deserve it.

of that. Thank you. Man, I guess are we taking? Did he send him his pick-in? Freddy sent me a text last night said Dimmendetto's getting somewhere. Yeah, I heard maybe

maybe soon or later he might end up in something like maybe that 95 car. Yeah. That was kind of a rumor floating around this week. So, you know, it'd be good for him.

That's a good fit there. It kind of leaves really only one more domino to fall, which is that 41 car, which you've got to think would be, it has to be Suarez at this point. Yeah.

Yeah, man, I had a pretty busy week last week that talked to a lot of people, but the Dimmdetto thing makes sense. I mean, we heard Joey Gase was coming over there and bringing a little money, and they were going to put him in that 32 car. And then Debadetto said he was kind of betting on himself, and the 95 is certainly a step up. But here's the thing, man, the 95 with this new package, that could be a top 15 race team. I mean, we know they're going to Toyota. We know they're forming an alliance with Gibbs. We also know that's probably a one-year deal because we're. know Christopher Bell has to have a home and it would make the most sense. Although Gibbs has

fired a lot of people lately. Gibbs fired Joy Legano. Gibbs fired Matt Kenseth. We still don't know if Carl Edwards quitter got fired, but something happened there. They're getting ready to fire Sores. Like, man, when you go to Gibbs, well, you better step it up. They will fire your ass. It's like being on the apprentice. You're fired. You go on. So, you know, when you look at C-bell, he's got to have a home. The kid's cup ready now. Yeah. Which I see. said that about William Byron and then this year he struggled in a cup series but I think I think see Bell's cup ready I think that I think that deal would be good like 95 deal like you want to get maybe get a year under your belt get the stuff you know the bugs worked out get yourself established

then you take your proven driver and stick him in there so maybe that's the thought process there let him have another year and expect to learn and then have that team ready to go compete when he when he's ready to come over there came through the ranks kind of at Gibbs yeah he did and and and had some success had some speed. Yeah. And so it'll be good for him to, you know, it's clearly a short-term move, but it could have some long-term growth for him. Yeah, for sure.

TJ incense pick-in, so I guess we'll have to tweet the picks again by the end of the week. Man, he's so efficient these days. I take him, Brad Caslowski. I feel like the two-car is fast. I feel like he and his spotter, Joy Meyer, work well together at play tracks, and that's a pretty big deal. I lost last week, didn't I? Yeah.

How does Kyle? I literally looked up. You won. I won last week? Yeah. With Kyle Larson? Larson sucked all day. 12.

2x 15. So I'm up by five. How many races are left? Six. So T.J. He's got to win them all. He's got no chance. So I got Keslowski.

I feel like that Brad's really good in the draft, and I feel like Joey's a good plate spotter. And they've been hot, man. Won a lot of races. What if T.J. wants Kislowski? Well, T.J should have sent in his pick. Give him time.

It's, um, at Talladega is a lot of pressure on Spotter. You know, you, you, uh, you don't really feel it until you're getting ready to take the green, and then you forget about it after you take the green, and then you get doing your thing, and then you get in a wreck, and then you feel it again. I don't know, man, it's crazy. Yeah. It's like you said before, like you start that race just hoping to not get caught up in somebody else's mess, and if your stuff is rolling at the end, you have a shot to win.

I'm telling you right now, when these stages are ending, guys like Amarola, guys like Clint, guys like Bowman, they have to be very, very aggressive and maximize stage points. Guys like Truex, guys like Harvick, they're on a little bit of a different agenda. There's going to be a lot of different agendas in this race. You guys like Jamie McMurray, who may be done racing full-time, that's a place he can win. You know, whoever in the sixth car, that's a place they can win. So, I don't, man, there's a lot of different agendas.

and a lot of people are mad at each other right now. Like, there's a lot going on within the industry that I think has the opportunity to come to light this weekend at the end of these stages, and obviously at the end of this race. Yeah, absolutely. The end of the stages are going to be a miss. I mean, you get greedy in these situations.

I mean, we saw what Kevin Harvick did to Trevor Bain years ago. That's nothing but greed. You know, that's saying, hey, in order for me to advance, I have to do this. I'm really, really probably not very sorry. Pow! And then you do it, And then you, I mean, so you get in those situations and you're aware of what has to happen to help your situation out.

And I mean, I'll say this for me. I'm only on my team. I'm not on anybody else's team. I'm against. I can't like you if I want to beat you at that very moment in life. I can like you when it's over. But if my job is to kick your ass, then I have to not like you during that time that I'm trying to kick your ass. Yeah.

Like you can get yourself, we've seen it in the past. Like, you can get yourself in trouble trying to help out a teammate. or stuff like, you know what I mean? Like, you know, you can get yourself run over or hurt your position on the track by, I'm going to try and push this guy up here. You know, we got a little bit of a run, but this lane's moving. I'll stay with him and you stay with him and go to the back. So, you know, especially in a position where you need stage points and you need to dig yourself out of a hole from Dover,

you're going to have to be all for yourself and do what you got to do to get up there and get them points. Guys that work well together, like Clint, man, he's like Hugh Heffner. He's just dancing with everybody. And I'm like, man, we're not making any friends during this race, but Clint's doing that thought process up. Oh, I got to do this. Now I'll go fast. Oh, I got to do this to move this lane.

I got to do this past this guy. So it's constantly changing. And it's hard to stay committed and loyal, like Freddie said. And sometimes you do get in a bad spot because you're trying to help and do those right things. Yeah. Yeah. You feel like Bubble will be good this weekend. Bubba's a great plate race.

Yeah, man, we've been pretty good. We're, you know, unfortunately at the end of the year, we've had all these damn wrecks. So we actually don't even have a backup car. I don't think, I mean, maybe they might have one, but it's not prepared. So we're like, we're not going to be able to practice at all. Bubba's going to be kind of starting to race cold, which, you know, as long as you go out there, your car's not dragging the ground, everything kind of works, motor runs. You kind of know what you got for the race.

But he's done a great job all year. We just got, you know, obviously finished second Daytona, got caught up in a couple other people's wrecks. You know, the second Daytona and Talladega, I think I spun somebody out. I don't remember who in that Daytona race. I think it might have been the 14 car. You wrecked me, dick. So you ran over me. Well, you're in the way.

We were trying to go. We were trying to make a move. There again, you know, we're catching our teammate. It was Harvey. And it's like, hey, if you try to push him right here, we're going to be screwed. Clint jumps out of line. Bubba jumps out, runs over us. I mean, it's a lot going on, man.

It happens fast. Yeah, but, you know, hopefully. Like you said, hopefully we survive. And if we survive, that's a good day. If you've never been to Talladega, you have got to go once. You've been? Yeah, 2016. Yeah, it's fun, man.

It's a good time. that infield's great. It's probably one of the bigger towns in Alabama, that particular racetrack on that weekend, man. Saturday night, you coming with me? I'm going to have a couple beers while for my buddy Chris Schrader playing the infield. He's opening for Chris Jansen Saturday night.

Buy me a boat, man. Right and front and center sting that's on. Heck yeah, man. You guys come find us. We'll have some beers somewhere. Maybe vodka. We can't really drink. I was hoping I was going to not have to worry about this race.

I was like, man, we're going to wind over and it's going to be good. I've got to worry about it. We'll see you guys. Thanks for listening. One main is a great sponsor of ours. Been a part of the show since we started it. I think we need a sponsor next year. So maybe we should tell people that, Dillner.

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