Door Bumper Clear - 119 - G’day, Mate!

Episode Date: October 22, 2018

Brett, TJ and Jason relive Kansas and cover making the Round of 8, an eventful Xfinity Series race, the unfair playoff points advantage, potential for NASCAR in Australia, World Series predictions and Martinsville’s Dutch Inn. 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'm on a streak. Two leader. I'll watch out for this guy. White flag. Red flag. Hello. Clear. Bring home.

Three light. Coming to the line. Door. Bumper. Clear. Woo! So I'm on a streak. Two in a row.

Yeah. That's a big streak. Do you think in your, in the intro, when you say watch out for this guy? Yeah. Who are you watching out for? Probably. Timmy Hill. Timmy Hill.

Oh, I got on my Timmy Hill T-shirt today. Showed off to the camera. It's the first thing that I saw. I went and purchased after he announced publicly that I have an infatuation with him. I felt this obligatory need to support him. And I don't know if he gets royalties off this shirt, but if he did not get 12 cents, I think they get like 12 cent of T-shirt. I don't know if he's getting royalties off that. You don't think so?

I don't think so. He's got his name on it. Surely he owns his name. I don't know if he owns that. I couldn't find a Timmy Hill t-shirt. You found one? Josh Williams, a good friend of mine, and T.J's, obviously, T.J.'s teammate who spots for Ryan Blaney. His dad, Chris Williams, has been in the souvenir business the whole 20 years that I've been here.

Yeah, I mean. He's like the souvenir legend. Probably more than that. So I sent Josh a text, and I'm like, is there any way I can get my hands on a Timmy Hill t-shirt? You know what he sent back? Nope. Probably not. I was like, it doesn't exist.

Well, damn it. So then I go to Timmy Hill T-Hill t-shirt. website, which is a favorite on my website thing, so it didn't take me long to get there. So I click my favorites, click Timmy Hill.com or whatever his racing site is. It says souvenirs. I click on that. It says, we don't have any either. So then I Google it.

And the first thing that came up was this shirt that says, if you can't be yourself, be Timmy Hill. So I'm that guy today. I'm Timmy Hill. Do you know who made that shirt or is it just? I don't know. My sister ordered a form of a shop in line. Did you try eBay?

Did you try eBay? I'm not sure that me. I don't shop online, man, ever. Well, I use Amazon. So I tell my sister, who, by the way, turned 60 yesterday. Happy birthday. I can't believe you're 60. Late birthday.

My God, that's old. Wow. 60. She was the first? See, she was the first. Okay. I was an old bitch, baby. It's one of them deals where you look at each other and go, you're pregnant.

You're what? I'm pregnant. Yes. Yeah. Okay, you're graduating high school and you're pregnant. Yeah, basically. Close, right? Close.

I mean I don't even know if they went to high school back then Maybe not that's true You know? Yeah like Rick Corelli I'm not sure there was any schooling No, his social security number's three If that

It's not No hyphens Carved in a rock too Yeah Yeah So anyway Timahill man I got my shirt I was telling

I was telling Brett That I pulled up to a gas station Sunday morning I'm wearing the track And I'm leaving And I see this guy I get out of this car And start pumping gas

And I look back And it's Timmy hill. So I'm driving by and I can't not roll the window down and say something. Yeah. So I roll the window and I'm like, hey, he looks at me and he goes, I'm like, you're lucky Brett's not here. And then he started laughing. It was pretty funny. But anyway, Kansas. Kansas. Cold, windy, man. Is it always windy out there? Yeah. Is it ever not windy? Every time we go there, the drivers are a lot. There's always a tailwind in the three, and nobody can really,

I mean, in effect, that's probably the biggest place, the track where I see the wind effect the car is the most, into three. It's always windy. There's a huge flag in the middle one and two, and that thing is always straight out down the backstretch. Yeah. Yeah.

It's, the wind's usually an issue there. Pretty uneventful weekend, I guess, for me, other than, you know, we got the pole and just kind of had a quiet, quiet race, which is kind of what we wanted. Yeah, you needed a quiet, uneventful. Quiet, uneventful race, and we kind of locked ourselves in right around the I'll tell you what I got to do, man. I got to fly up on Friday morning, and that makes our job just feel refreshing, you know?

Went up Friday morning instead of Thursday. Been a long time since I've been up on a cup race on a Friday morning. You know, we used to do it with L.A. lot when he had his own plane and was running a cup, but now that he's uh he's only in and out usually in on friday and out on saturday it can't do that anymore you know you lost your ride that'd be nice you'd fly with pinsky now yeah most of time yeah we go we went thursday it was a lot of race teams went Friday yeah um a lot of them went early friday morning but i mean it's another night at home we left 730 yeah i was happy about it that's easily that's nothing man that's pretty easy to do it must like a normal person yeah well it's just nice to

have that extra night you kind of it kind of makes you feel like you're home for the week you're home for a, you get a little time at home. When you're home, like, we got home late last night. You get home, 10-ish. Yeah. Then you get ready. Basically, you watch a little bit of football and you go to bed. Yeah.

It's exactly where you do it. Monday is kind of like a catch-up day. You got to do it. You got to catch up everything. And then Tuesday, you got to start thinking about, you know, getting your laundry started on Wednesday. You know, you're probably leaving the next day. So it's kind of rushed a lot of times.

Sometimes it's a short week. It is. This weekend's a two-day show for the cup cars as well. Yeah, I got to go up Friday morning for a truck. I know you do. Yep. So I got to tell you this, Tony Raines rode with me when we landed on Friday, and he always rides with Tim Fedua.

So him and Timmy kind of hang out and do their thing together. I think they room together. I don't know what all else they do in there together. I don't want to know what else they're doing there. Tony's needy, man. He's like, Brett, can I have a ride? I'm like, yeah, can I have a ride? That was on text, okay?

Get on the plane. Brett, can I have a ride? Hey, Tony, I text you back on Tuesday and said, yeah. So yeah, you can still have a ride. Hey, when we get there, you think we stop and get something to eat? I'm like, well, Tony, I already ate breakfast, but sure, man, I'll stop and get you something to eat. Where are you going to go?

I don't know yet. So we get there, we land. Hey, Brett, you want to go to that Waffle House? I'm like, sure, Tony, Waffle House sounds great. He gets this bowl of like 4,000 calories. It's sausage and bacon and grits. I didn't know. They made that.

I've never seen anything like this. And I was like, okay. Hey, Brett, hey, man, there's the RC track around here. He races those toy cars. He's like, there's a remote control track around here. You mind dropping me off with my buddy Herms over there. Herm spots for Ricky. Man, we're going to run a race tomorrow.

You might drop me by there. I'm like, Tony, you are one needy. Do you realize that? Yeah. He's needy. He is pretty needy. He's six foot three, 240 pounds, and needy. So I tested Texas with him over this year, and he texted me over, hey, have you left for the track yet?

Hey, can I ride around with you? Then we got up there. Hey, are you hot? Hey, is it cold? It's not just me. No, I'll tell you who else is kind of like that. It's Stevie Reeves. Really?

Yeah. Stevie's needy? Steve's a little needy. Yeah. He's got his... We're getting the van, me, him and Josh in the morning and, and, uh, the car and, and Steve's like, hey, what's up with that gas station? Hey, you guys hungry?

You want to go here? Hey, you want to go to that subway? I want to go... It's one thing after another. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure.

Okay. So here's my idea. Stevie, get your own car and you can go wherever you want. We don't mind, but it's just funny how some people are set in certain ways. Like, he likes to go and, and get a drink in the morning. And I'm, I don't like to stop. I don't either.

I want to sleep as late as I can sleep. Get up as late as I can get up and go straight to the track. Yeah. So, um, here's the thing, though, Joel was riding with me. And Joel is, he's probably flipping out.

The show is the most cynical evil guy. I bet when Tony got out, I'll bet Joel went off. He cussed him. He called custom for 25 minutes. The whole way of the track, it was awesome. Yeah,

I can see that. So that's what a spotter life consists of on a Friday morning. catering to Tony Raines. Catering the Tony. From 7.30 a.m. until I finally got him to that RC toy truck. We should have had him. We should just, we should randomly call him.

Be like, Tony, what are you doing? You a waffle house? Need a ride. You need a ride. Need something? Can I help you or anything? We should do that still. Call random.

Call randomly. Yeah. You know, somebody that had a bad race or had an exciting race. We'll call them randomly in the morning. Hopefully we're waking them up. Yeah. You know, I'm just like, hey, you're on. So.

Sweet. How, did you, so the Xfinity race, that was exciting. That was real, I was watching, I mean, I was just getting ready to climb up and watch and I looked down there, I'm like, holy cow! Yeah. I'm going to get back down because it's going to be a little while. Yeah. That was pretty big.

Real big. That really reshaped the championship. If you tuned into that race, you were like, well, that didn't take long to start exciting. Now. Now, and it looked, I mean, it was just a normal, You know, that could happen any time. It wasn't like somebody just went down there and crashed somebody. I mean, I think Justin got loose, right?

Yeah. Yeah, so Justin got loose and collected the 20, which collected about, what, about eight others, six others? A lot. Yeah. So. Didn't get me. Yeah. You had a shot to win there near the end or you'd be, you know.

We did, man. I actually hung on pretty good for, well, you had two tires, right? We took a two tire deal and, you know, we knew clean air would be big. We kind of ran third or fourth all day, so it was a chance to get the lead. And, man, I don't know what Nemech did on that last stop. But he was a freaking rocket. Himrick got biased on four tires, but we were actually chipping away at him at the end and catching him despite the fact that he was cheating with his left front,

which was found too low after the race. He finished second, we finished third. Neemichick just flat out, wore us out. And here's the weird thing about Neimancheck. Coming to the green, he had to compete because he had loose lug nuts on the left side. or he was missing lug nuts. So he comes in, he gets those lug nuts. He leaves pit road and tower, the tower says 42 has to line up where he comes off a pit road

because he's, because he has pitted multiple times. Well, by the time everybody took the wave around and by the time all the slow cars laid over, he was like sixth. Just to just literally. So it worked out perfect. The heavens parted, gave him the top. He's on four tires. And he was flat, flat, which is good for him, man.

good for that kid. He probably feeling a little bit of pressure, given how fast Ross Chastain's been in that car. Obviously, Kyle Larson's been fast in that car. So do you think it's worth running another lap at that point to make sure the lineups right? Oh, yeah. It's always worth running an extra lap.

I mean, I think it involves, when it involves 15, you know, anything of the top 15, 20, I mean, sometimes they get mixed up in the back a little bit. Yeah. But to me, you know, you got to get the positions right. in the cup race, I couldn't, I couldn't hear NASCAR when they said the rundown

the first time. So that's when I, I think I asked you, right? I made you of the 22 in there? I heard us up high, I thought. And we were up there, and we were back like four spots

from that. That had been huge. Right. We would have, we would have finished a lot worse than where we did. So the line of being wrong can be catastrophic.

I mean, you look at the first wreck in the Xfinity race, you know, that's lap one, so yeah, we know where to line up. But if that's lap 25, and sometimes,

man, we do get crossed up back there. If you got crossed up and you were eighth, then you should have been seventh. Guess what? Your day's over. Well, you know what restart that was? That put us on the bottom on the restart where the 17th stayed out at the top.

Right. So it was worth getting where we got on that. So. Yeah. But other than that, pretty an eventful race, honestly. Casey's not here. T.J's here. Brett's here.

Jason's going to be Casey. Jason's going to be Casey. Fitting. How many shows we all left here? Four or five? Yeah, five. I think. Five shows.

I think we should do a Christmas special, too. Well, we normally did one in the off season. We sang a Christmas song one time. Yeah, I remember that. We did, yeah. You need to find that. And bring you back. Just play it.

Yeah. Play it as he is, because we did a hell of a job. Wasn't that the... Twelve days of Christmas? Yeah, 12 days of Christmas. NASCAR style. Yeah. I remember you took like 30 tries, though.

Well, that's because we're not pros. We didn't have as good a producer. Oh, true. Our producer was terrible. I watched a Whitney Houston documentary last night. Really? Man. Man. So the Amy Whitehouse. She can sing. She's the best singer ever for a female.

That national anthem she did at the football, the Super Bowl that one year? One of my favorites. 89, 91, I think it was. So anyway. Yeah, the bills were in it. So I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary, and I wasn't a big fan of hers. Obviously, you know, no her music, blown away by how well they did the documentary. So I see this thing promoted on iTunes that said, Whitney Houston documentary by the same people. And I was like, I'm watching that. Man, it's good. If you got two hours killing on an airplane, Well, two weeks. Two weeks will have it.

She was such a singer. Oh. She was bad, crazy at one point. She's sitting at a table on this video. Whitney? Whitney, and her dad called her Nippy. So she's sitting there,

she's sitting there at the table talking to herself, going back and forth. Whitney, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Okay, Nippy. She's talking back and forth to herself. Like me and myself and Irene? Yeah, like two different people.

And I was like, yeah, she's gone. She's crazy. That's interesting. She has split personality then, huh? Yeah. Yeah. It's still, though. I mean, having, I mean, I was probably, you know, eight or nine years old when she hit the scene.

And then by the time I'm in middle school and high school, she has blown completely up. The bodyguards out. You know, she was a global star after that. Is that a chick flick? Yeah, but it's worth watching if you're a dude. So it's like the notebook? Yeah. I mean, you almost have to watch the notebook, too.

Yeah. Yeah, she was good, man. That girl can blow. Anyway, let's kick it, Jason. All right. Spot on, spot off. Blaney, Kislauski, Larson, and Bowman eliminated from the playoffs after Kansas, T.J. I mean, those are some pretty heavy hitters.

You know, spot off for those guys, because those are championship contenders, really. They could get hot. Like you saw Brad. Brad won three in a row. You got somebody like that, and Blaney's been pretty good here lately as well. So, you know, eliminating those guys. and Larson, you know, Brett's reference this before. If he gets to Homestead, look out.

If he can ever make it to Homestead, we're all in trouble. But he seems to have trouble getting to that point where he, you know, he just seems to have trouble in the first third of the chase, really. Honestly, it just seems a struggle. So, yeah. Strong all year. Then the chase starts and it's kind of like, okay, it takes a little bit to get rolling. But when he figures that out, he's going to be really tough to beat.

This really shouldn't have been that hard of a round to advance. I mean, you know, you look at Clint Boyer and we DNFed at Dover. We did not finish the race. Came back, had a great weekend at Talladega, which put us in position to do what we did yesterday. Thanks to a lot of stage points across those three races, Clint's in. And a little bit of luck. You look at Blaney and Keselowski. I mean, they stepped on their foot big time at Talladega.

Keselowski especially had the tire issue, had the fuel issue. Blaney had the fuel issue. Blaney yesterday contending to win the race, pushing the envelope, hits the wall, running second, proceeds to lose some spots. If he doesn't hit the wall, man, I don't know what may or may not happen there. But regardless, here's my only, here's my, man, I love the playoff. I like the fact that we're making teams relevant. Here's my two downsides with it.

Number one, if you're not in a playoff, it's really, really hard to get coverage. And that's important to sponsors. But number two, I spoke to multiple fans last night, and they said to me, point blank, I was in the stands. I couldn't keep up with who was in and who was out. Mathematically, I couldn't figure it out. And I said, well, we actually have a tool called a fan vision that helps us do that. And the fans that I spoke to, multiple people, said, well, we don't have fan visions.

And we didn't know what was going on. We didn't know who was in, who was out. We're listening to MRN. We're listening to the team radios. Some people like, you know, me, I was talking about it. Clint, hey, you're in by five. You're in by three, you know, whatever. but I think that's a real challenge to our sport because if our fans that have paid $125-ish

dollars to sit there don't know what the score of the game is and who's in and who's out man that's that's a struggle so I don't know how we graphically display that during these chase races but we got to solve that problem I honestly think it's too complex there's two it's too complex right now to figure out you know it's I I don't know if maybe we're going to simplify it a little bit where you don't get, you know, as many stage points or something. Just something simpler to figure out. It used to be, you know, 180 points for a win or something like that, right? Yeah.

And five points for a leading lap, five points for leading the most laps, something like that. And it was pretty easy to figure out. Yeah. But even I have to ask, like, I wasn't sure either. You know, I have to ask somebody, because the last thing I need to be on the roof is sitting there figuring out, you know. Of course. have time for that. Yeah, it's better to, you know, I was asking too, and they were updating me on what was going on, because I wasn't really concerned about myself at that point, but I wanted to know who was racing. I didn't know how hard guys were going to race each other because they needed extra point, and that's where potentially something could happen. Yeah. So you want to be aware of that. DeKalb was on Clint's car yesterday, and one of the ladies that I spoke with last night, Nicole, a big, big part of the reason why that DeKal was on that car. Farmers are obviously a big supporter of DeKalb. So a lot of those folks who are sponsoring Clint were like, is he in, is he out?

Is he in? Is he out? So for me, if our sponsors are there, if our fans are there, if TJ and I are having to ask, like there has to be a way to if we can't choose to simplify it on the track, we need a graphic that stays up on a big screen that throughout the whole race shows the playoff score so that there's no way they don't not know. They got to know. You know, sometimes I almost feel like it.

It needs to come down to a, you know, if you win, you're in, but, you know, beat these other guys. You're the last one out. You're out. Yeah. You know, maybe a little bonus, maybe five, ten points for the pole, something like that. Winning the race, you get a little bit of a bonus, but maybe something like, you know, if you're out, you're out. So. That's for these guys, man.

Spot on for them. You know, I know it sucks that they're out, but they made the playoff. They made it through the first round. You know, you look at Bowman. Bowman may be a little bit of a surprise here in terms of how far he made it, man. I mean, he did better than Jimmy Johnson. Yeah, Bowman's had a successful season. Bowman's had a great season.

And honestly, he was probably the best running car until Chase got his win. Chase got hot. Chase got hot. Great pick called Dover to get him up front. He held on there just for, you know, he didn't have to do, you know, he didn't have to do it for, you know, 50 laps or whatever. But, you put him, you know, he got a track position and, and. made it work so and things kind of went his this way once again once again the four took care took care himself again and kind of crazy man you know what i heard it i didn't even i wasn't even shocked when i heard

it when i heard them call him um and i'm instantly looking like okay he could have had a 10-win season probably yeah gave away dover dover gave away this week this week and there's been there's been a handful more and that's the thing you know chase elliott's won three races in the last 11 weeks good for him, man. Dover didn't see him all day. You know, top six, top seven guy. That's luck when you win with a seventh fastest car. Yesterday, he had a fast enough car. He drove. He was in contentional win, but without Harvick's problem, probably doesn't win. But he's back fast. I mean, we said on the show, you weren't here. He might have been on a race before at that point. I'm not sure. It may have been. They said, can Chase Elliott win a championship? And I agree. No,

not yet. He ain't fast enough. Well, yesterday he was fast enough. He's getting to be fast enough right now. And we said early, we said on the show. I don't remember if I said it or you said it. Once he wins a race, he's going to win a bunch of races. Yeah. And that's what's happened. You know, it doesn't, sometimes you rather be lucky than good because sometimes they fall and, you know, things happen. And, uh, it's like when you inherit the lead, you don't have as much pressure as you do to go up there and take the lead. Yeah.

So, yeah. Spot on, spot off. One Chevy in the series round of eight, Brett. Man. Surprised. You know, I think they're like five Ford's, two Toyotas and, uh, and, and, and one Chevy. That Chevy being Chase Elliott, who I would have said a few weeks ago isn't a contender. So spot on for the way.

If we wanted a Chevy in there, it's got to be Chase Elliott because he's a guy that we're considered, could have considered to be the heir to the throne of the most popular driver. So if he's our new version of, you know, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, then he's, he's the Chevy we want in there. And he's hot right now, too. He is hot. He's real hot. I got to say spot on to, um, for Ford. How tall is he?

Who? Never mind. I got to say spot on for Ford because, you know, that's not with the way the body's wearing stuff. They, you know, I didn't, I think it's great to get five cars in there. Five of the top eight is pretty, pretty successful. Especially with a new car coming next year as well. This is a strong way to end, you know, this car. I don't think I want a new car.

I think I'm good with this one. Well, I mean, I, you know, spot on for them. But, you know, I got to give a shout out to Doug Yates, too. I mean, obviously our horsepower is second to none. Yeah, those guys, that is a first class organization and how they do things and how it's ran. I've got to see a little bit of it just, you know, how they run things. And it is so neat and so organized. It's very impressive.

Like, Doug Yates, his, oh, my gosh, the place is awesome. Have you been in the shop? Yeah, it's so awesome. Man, it is so neat. Yeah. And you can literally lick the floor and not get one grid of sand on your tongue. I'm a very neat and organized person. Like, if you open up a drawer in my house, if there's like, if all the pens are over here and there's one over here, I'm freaking out.

Like, it's got to go back over here. OCD is what that's called. Yeah. So that's the way that place is, though. It is. It's organized. Everything's tore down. This cart here is getting, for this motor, you're ready to be put together.

Everything's laid out right. I could, we could probably do. do it. I could. I can watch you do it. So they could probably show us this is what we want to do. You only do that part. You don't do this other part.

You only assemble this part right here, this little section right here. Then you send it on to the next guy. The next guy has got his little cart laid out of all his stuff he's putting on there. And then it goes to the next guy. And it's really neat how they do it. He's done a great job with that place. And when they dinole, man, it's so cool. You got this engine sitting in the middle of a room.

And it's the room about the size of this one. You know, it's not a big room. It's like a 15 by 15. room and they throttle that thing up like it's i mean they've got a throttle right there with a computer yeah and you just watch the header and everything just start glowing you know 1200 degrees i think yeah you'd be um pretty surprised it's you know what it's it's it's it's it's a race man like they got the ability to simulate banking and and you know shaking the motor like it it is unbelievable they yeah they they've came a long way it's awesome yeah spot on spot off seven car triggers the

major pile up among championship contenders on lap one of the X-frey race tj well spot on because i wouldn't cause it and i wasn't in it but you know kind of spot off though i want to see a good race with a um with all the guys out there it was going to be a great race with chris for bell running the top probably some guys work in the bottom or middle um is that the race where he did the slide job on eric jones oh back in yeah back in the spring yeah that was awesome they don't they don't run there in the spring. Or maybe it was last fall. It might have been last.

No, the name cup drivers couldn't run. Last fall they could. This is the first year where they can't do it. I was kind of building up for another finish like that

and I thought, I think it would have been a great finish. There's a lot of strong cars in that wreck. So you kind of weeded out half the front of the, you know, the half of the top 10

right there in that wreck. I was excited to see guys try to pass guys. It was a tough place to pass. You had to work to pass somebody. So I was looking forward of that, and that kind of eliminated a lot of that.

We saw John Hunter and Daniel Hemrick race each other clean and really hard. That was a great race. I wanted to see more of that, and it kind of took that away, but it's part of it. Elliot Sadler came into this race, first guy out, fifth in points. And we may have the points lead by the time they get done, fining Daniel Hemrick for cheating. So for me, I'm spot on because Justin Algeyer and Christopher Bell almost had a buy. to get to the next round. Christopher Bell was in this wreck. He didn't make a single lap, and he's still fourth in points and still in the Homestead Final Four as of today.

That's how big their cushion was. And Justin Alguire, by getting loose, going up the hill, wrecking a lot of fast cars, including Austin Cendrick, who was extremely fast in practice. Not saying he was going to be faster in the race, but that kid probably was going to have the best day of his career, given how fast he was in practice. The chance was there. When Justin Augar makes this mistake for whatever reason, whether he got loose or the 20 side drafted him got him loose, I haven't seen a replay. But when all that happened, it just helped Elliot Sadler. So I'm selfish. I'm going to say spot on.

How about how many cars came flying into that wreck late? Did you see that? It's like you guys, there's smoke up there. Lift. Don't look for a car to hit him. It sucks, man. When you're a spotter and you say spin in front of you and then you start navigating, helping them navigate through the wreck. Time speeding up is an option.

And you look back and you're like, this dumbass isn't listening. Yeah, that's exactly it. He's coming through here wide. Good luck, bud. I hope you had something. Congratulations. But like an Elliott situation, I said, spin in front of you, they're all washing up, get to the bottom and hurry.

Because you don't know if they're going to bounce back down and have that ricochet factor. And Elliot actually came out of the radio and said, man, I got so low. I think I might have hit my splitter on the apron, yada, yada, yada. But for me, that was a wreck where I am saying, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. When it's right in front of you. But I'm not going toward the wreck. When it's right in front of you, that's your escape route. You kind of stay in it until you clear it.

But when they start coming back down, there was cars getting hit off of turn two still. And that wreck started in the middle one, too. But the problem is, TJ, you know this and I know this. There are spotters up there in that series that have, like, these teams want to pay, you know, peanuts. And when you play peanuts, you usually get monkeys working for you. And some of the spotters in that race aren't a high caliber of spotter.

Like, I mean, TJ and I have spotted thousands of races. Some of these guys are up there without a push to talk. Again, it's lap one. So all these guys that are starting parking, they have spotters that have never even spotted. I mean, Jason, it would literally be like me handing you a radio and say, hey, Jason, hey, you're going to spot for Jeff Green today. Have fun. All right.

And you say, where do I go? That's what kind of person is up there in these situations, right? It's true, yeah. I mean, it's, and that's why they run in there. You know, nothing against that. That guy shouldn't be up there. You know, he shouldn't be there. It's not fair to say he's not good.

He shouldn't, it's somebody that they said, he's probably nervous. Probably, you know, he's nervous. He's not planning on having to navigate through a wreck. Not a 15-car pile-up and turn two on the first lap. You know, and I get it, you know, once you get singled out, majority of the time it is fairly safe. But look at that. Did you watch your Raker race?

No. So the leader is leading the race. Sheldon Creed, he's leading the race, running the high side. He comes off turn four. The guy coming up off the bottom has, like, no clue. he's coming and he hits him in the door like hard it spins him out it hits him so hard it spins the guy out on the inside it hits him so hard rips a big hole in his door it's like this racetrack is plenty wide enough for two cars to come off the corner especially when one's 20 mile an hour

off the pace and the guy's running the wall I mean it's pretty obvious he needs uh you know eight 10 feet by the wall and that's all he needs you can let him go yeah but when you come up there and do that um like it it's just shouldn't happen you know and spotting is a good game of information. But hey, man, these team owners, just think of all the money they save by putting that free spotter up there, that spotter they paid a hundred bucks to. Look at all that money they saved for that car they tore up. Congratulations. Great business move. Spot on, spot off. Adam Stern reports that NASCAR's considering hosting a race in Australia, Brett. Oh, hi, matey. You can't spot off this. Australia. You can't spot off this. Australian,

they like beer. I go to Australia. Yeah. I don't like leaving America, though. I'm not going to lie to y'all. I don't have any plans leaving America on my time. But if we're going to Australia, when is summertime down there? What month is that for us? It's opposite of us. So in the winter, it's a summer. Yeah, we would need to be going over there like right now.

Okay. All right. How hot is it down there? Yeah. Well, it's turning into summer, so I'm out of his paradise. I don't think it's really hot. I think it's just right. I mean, all these are fun people.

I've partied with some and ask them one time. I've been there where they run this race. You have been there. I've been to surface paradise. Yeah. It's a street course, which, and so I was a little bit, I was watching the V8 Jr. went, right? Yeah, we went over there.

And I was watching V8 Supercar qualifying, and they have a chican section where it's like two chicanes in a row. It's like a left or right, a left and a right. So it's like, and they hop the curbs too. And they have a system. They do a top 10 shootout for qualifying, kind of like we do. Yeah. And it pops up on the screen.

It says curb, curb penalty, your lap doesn't count. You come right in. You only can't finish your lap. And it says right on there. None of them, like, oh, the driver's like, I'm sorry, guys. You know, if they jump the curb too much and try to cut the course, it gives them a penalty. Right. And if they do it during the race, it's like a time penalty.

Like 30 seconds or something. Yeah, I don't think it's that severe. It's like 10 or something like that. But not that you don't want to do it. Right. But those guys, and you don't ever hear anybody, they're not, every radio they played, as soon as they went to the end car. and talk to the guy.

The guy's like, I'm sorry, guys. I just met, you know, I did it, blah, blah, blah. There's no, you know, they don't kind of argue against the system. Right. You know, they just know it's right. You know, you got the penalty. But as far as, like, the cup cars, they, did you see the cup car run around the track? No.

So, Scott McLaughlin, a Penske driver over there, they took a couple-year-old cup car, and they did a showcase for it. They did a few laps earlier. You didn't see that? No, uh-uh. Yeah, he drove it around that track, a couple of times. couple times over the weekend, just did like a little five-lap deal for the fans there. Yeah.

And it was pretty neat. So for us, man, like, I mean, that's a matter of putting cars in containers and pit boxes in containers and putting all that stuff on a great big ship. So, I mean, this is something that teams would have to set up the car and have multiple things. There's going to be some pretty big expenses, but there may be some big opportunity for sponsorship. But, I mean, we're talking, we'd have to have our stuff two months in advance. But, I mean, if you knew it was in the end, near the end of the season, the last quarter of the season, I think it could be done.

And it's a great area, too, man. Here's my only thing, T.J. If we're going to go over there, if we're going to take the time and take the energy and take the big expense, because it's going to be expensive. I want it to be a points race. I want it to be a race that matters. I don't want to go over there and do an exhibition race like what they did in Japan. Yeah, no, I just go and race. If we're going, let's make it matter.

Serious. Yeah, I'm serious. So that race they ran, they ran two races, one on Saturday, one on Saturday. I'm fine even doing that. Yeah, double-headed. Hell far going that far. Let's do it. Let's do it.

So it started downpouring into second race. And I mean, downpouring. Like going down to 77, people stop downpouring. And they called the race and just didn't count it because it was unsafe conditions, not fair. I mean, they just canceled the race. Right. And there was a couple people that were upset by it. but I mean, that was kind of, to me, we would never do that.

Hey, we're always talking about on this show how Homestead does not need to be the final race every year. That it gives guys like Truex, like Larson, like Harvick, a pretty damn good advantage. Yeah. Let's go somewhere like this nobody's ever been. It's a new challenge. It's unique. These are the 40 best race car drivers in the world. Yeah.

We say, let's find out. Let's go there and do the championship. Yeah, I'm fine with that. People in America would fly there to do that. Yeah. Our hardcore fans, they got a big fan base there. Like, let's do something. Let's get some momentum back.

There's enough tracks in America and around the world that, you know, we could do something like that almost every year. Yeah. You know, I want to run homestead, but it doesn't need to be the final race every year. You know, it definitely caters to a certain group of drivers. You know, I keep hearing in 2020, and I don't know why it's 2020, maybe that's when the agreements are up with some of these tracks and stuff, but I keep hearing there's an opportunity for a lot of good changes for us on the schedule.

And man, let's do it. Why are we waiting two years? Let's go. Evergreen, Nashville, Surfers Paradise, Circuit of Americas. Let's go. Got to be a Canada, too. Go to Canada. Let's go to that new one they got.

They runs that big late mall races. Yeah. They're paying a million dollars to win a late mall race in a couple years. You know that? Oh, that's great. I think, right? You know what I'm talking about? The Jukasa place, that new racetrack?

Canada. In Kansas? Yeah, it's like in Ontario. It's not far from Buffalo, really. Interesting. Yeah. It's like they had a big, late amount race this year. Next year it's like going up even more than in two years.

It's going to be like a million dollars. You have many late models you're going to get for a million dollars? I might go. Yeah. Spill one. Yeah, let's go. Podcast sponsor the car. Yeah.

Let's go. Jason's in it. I'll drive. The mini Cooper to get there. All right. Let's take a break. This is your Exalta Race Center update. I'm Matthew Dillner.

A first lap crash took out many playoff contenders in Saturday's Xfinity series race. That's set up a. duel between young guns Daniel Hemrick and John Hunter Nemechek. Nemechek grabbed the top spot from Hemrick on a late race restart and went on to score his first career Xfinity Series win. Elliot Sattler was Junior Motorsports top finisher with a third place effort. It was elimination Sunday at Kansas for the Cup Boys. Four drivers, Ryan Blaney, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, and Alex Bowman were axed from the

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Let's go into Fast Lane where I'm going to give. We have three topics pertaining to racing, and one that's off the wall. Brett and TJ will each have 30 seconds to respond. Okay, go. First one up. Jimmy Johnson and Denny Hamlin have both won a race in every year of their Cup careers,

but are in jeopardy of losing that streak in 2018. We'll either win one of the final four races, Brett. Man, it's going to be really hard, you know, and I say that because these eight guys that are in this playoff are really going to turn up, and they're going to be hard to beat. You know, there's certainly, drivers are capable of winning, but I don't see them winning.

I don't see them either one of those guys having enough speed to go out and win the race. And, I mean, I guess Ricky Rudd still owns the streak for the longest career of a win every year. I don't know. Jimmy's been doing this a long time, so he may be getting close. But that's a big feather in your cap to say you've won a cup race every year of your career. Yeah, that's pretty big. My answer is no, because you're both working for, You both drive for teams that have cars still on the chase.

The focus has now, majority of the focus now switches to the car is racing for the championship. So, you know, not saying they can't. Things could go right. They're both fully capable of winning. But the guys that we have left in this championship are, I feel like we're going to, the top eight are going to dominate the next four weeks. It's all, T.J. made a great point here. It's all hands on deck for those teams. You know, for Stuart Haas, we have multiple teams in it.

So there's not a lot of things that we'll do differently for. from what we've been doing all season. But when you look at Penske and when you look at Gibbs, they're going to put their best crew guys, their best pit crew guys on that pit crew. They're going to put all their time and effort that shop into that car. It's going to get fluffed and buffed.

If you've got wind tunnel time, guess which car's going? That car, not your car. So it is literally, from a manufacturer standpoint and the team perspective, T.J's right. The 18 is going to get more love than the 11 and the 9 is going to get more love than the 48.

Do you think about Hertz, S.HR. If they have those four cars, I'll put in all their efforts into those four. while Gibbs has one car to, you know, I know. Has I heard them all year. No. I know that one particular team has a homestead car, and I'm not going to say which

organization it's with, but they have a homestead car that they've been really massaging on and running through this Hawkeye system and going to the wind tunnel. And it's because they're confident they're going to make it to homestead, obviously. So when you look at Kyle Busch and when you look at Kevin Harvick, just from a mathematical standpoint, it's very likely they're going to homestead. So we are worried about Martinsville, Texas, and Phoenix. Not that they're not, but they're able to say, we're kind of one up on everybody else. We can really already start working on that homestead car a little more than everybody else.

So it definitely changes the game, man, but it is what it is, right? Yeah, I mean, it's going to be tough to get there, but it's, yeah, that's going to be tough. Yeah. The points have reset for the third round before the championship fours decided. Do the top three deserve this big of a cushion into this round? Kyle Busch is up 40, Harvick's up 39, and Truex is up 23. TJ? My opinion, no.

This is what I was talking about earlier when maybe we need to simplify the system a little bit. These guys have basically built a one-race cushion. You know, they can basically take a race off almost. and, you know, 39, 40's not quite a race off. You wouldn't want to do that, but it's comfortable. We went into this last race, 39 ahead, and after halfway, we were pretty much locked in. So I don't, I watched Truex really didn't even match the button until, you know, Blaney was looking pretty strong there near the end. And then, you know, he's like, okay, well, it's closer than I want to be.

I'm going to go now because he didn't ride around the top. T.J.'s right. Their answer is hell no. You know, if the Red Sox go out in game one of the World Series and score 10 runs and only need four, they don't get to carry six runs over to the next game. There's not ever been a sport that allows you to take advantage of something that happened months and months ago. Those guys deserve the cushion and the points that they carry into that round one of the playoffs. They've accumulated that all season.

But when we get into round two and round three, there's no reason these guys should have this big of lead. Even the next Finley series, Christopher Bell wrecked on lap one of the race, Matt Tiff ran top five, and Matt Tift is still out of the points. There's no way Christopher Bell deserves to be locked into the final four at Homestead as of the day. No way these guys deserve this big of a kitchen. Our point system is not right for this part of the playoffs. It's not pressure enough. Those guys aren't going to be digging that hard.

They're going to be comfortable. Oh, you got me, go ahead. I'm not going to be, I'm holding him off. I need these points. Like, that's what we need. That's what we want. That's what this system is supposed to bring. Not the, I'm good, go ahead.

I'm good, go ahead. These top two are obviously fast. If they don't have a major screw-up, like what Al-Geyer did on Saturday in Kansas, they're almost mathematically guaranteed a spot unless T.J. wins. I win, and a third winner kicks that one guy out. These top two are sitting pretty. I want to see Kyle Busch, Harvick, and Truex race their tail. I want to see what them got.

I want to see them race. We're not really going to see them. They don't have to press. No, we're not going to see them. We're not going to see these guys run at 10 out of 10. We're going to see these guys cruise around at 7, 8 out of 10 and push a little bit harder when they have to. Chase Elliott accumulated 10 bonus points in this round alone.

He won over. That's five. He won Kansas. That's five. He should get to take those 10 points into the next round. But we shouldn't have guys from the regular season still carrying these points. I mean, Truex barely made it into this round. And now he's sitting here third with a huge.

cushion. In what other sport does that happen? Yeah, it's too much. In two of the last three fall, Martinsville races, the eventual championship four has finished as the top four finishing playoff contenders. Which four drivers could finish highest Sunday and advance to Homestead? Brett? Man, I mean, this is obviously a track where Clint has to go do well. You know, when we look at the spring race, Clint and Kyle Busch were the class of the field. We got the track position. We saved our right rear tire. And, you know, we went and held them off. I think your highest four finishers this week are going to be Kyle.

It's going to be Clint. Lugano's going to be fast. And we all know Kurt Busch is good there. He's won races there. Kyle, I was reading some numbers this morning. Kyle has a very good finish there. Very good finishing average. Harvick Truex does not.

Elmerola does not. Kurt doesn't have a great record there. But Chase has been pretty fast here lately, and Joey's really good at Martin'sville as well. So, you know, I've got to go, Kyle, Harvick, Ligano. You know, it's hard to, and it's toss up to me between Elliott, Ligano and Boyer for that fourth spot. I'm good.

All right. Off the while topic, the Red Sox will play the Dodgers in the World Series beginning Tuesday. Who wins this series, if you say anyway about the Red Sox, I'm going to beep you out. Why? The Red Sox are the best. I'm tired of Boston sports teams winning everything

You're a bandwagoner No I always like Boston Oh you lived up there It's like title town You were born up there I was born well my grandparents were from Boston And then raised as Boston Yeah yeah

I have a friend who likes New England Oh I'm pulling for them now I'm tired of Boston area teams Since 2000-ish They have dominated a lot of sports Hockey really good.

Football, everything. Even the Celtics have been really strong. So I want anyone to win but the Red Sox. So I am a

big time Gamecock. I know that's a surprise. This has nothing to do with the Red Sox. One of our greatest baseball players in our history.

He won back-to-back college world series along with the help of my buddy, Michael Roth, who was a pitcher. Jackie Bradley, Jr.,

playing center field for the Red Sox. Let's go Red Tox. Ooh. I love that guy. I tweeted a picture of me at J.B.J. The other day. Yeah.

That was awesome. Yeah. I didn't know he was South Carolina. Go Cox. Let's go text. Let's go Dodgers. My mom broke her hip, right? And, you know, she's 77 years old.

Had a lot of health issues, you know, in her life. She's 17 when your sister was born in. She was. Hala, what was you doing? You were 17. Oh, okay. So anyway, she, you know, my. My dad passed away when I was really young and she remarried.

And this guy's name's Roy, he's awesome. Takes great care of her. And I'm like, Roy, I want to know everything going on. You give me awesome updates. Like, don't sugarcoat nothing. Tell me what's going on. So my text this morning. Glady had a good day yesterday.

Three good meals. She did some breathing treatments. She had a great bowel movement this morning with the help of us apostory. Like he is, I've told him to tell me everything. And this guy literally tells me everything. But Roy, thanks for that day. Mom, I'm sorry. I just told everybody you had a great bowel movement.

But nonetheless, I'm just glad she's still here kicking it, man. She's a fighter. Yeah. Love her to death. Getting healthy and back in action. She's a big listener, too. That's good. Yeah, she's a listener.

Yeah, she might kill me. Yeah, that's, thanks. Thanks, Roy. Good job, Roy. Roy is doing a great job. All right. That's funny. Producer Jason shows a few hashtag SDBC questions to ask you guys here today.

Just reference yourself? Yeah, I love doing that. I talk him third person all the time. Just say I. Yeah. It's more fun to be like third person. You don't want credit for it? I did it.

It was me. These are my questions. I don't like Jason White. Who's that? Never mind. First one. X. At X Sailor Dan 86 asks,

not thrilled with Kansas having a playoff race, much less a cutoff race. What track would you insert in? the playoffs, what tracks would be best for cutoff races. Man, from an excitement standpoint, it's those damn wild card races. It's the roval. You know, it's Talladega. You know, those are the ones. We don't have a wild card in this round either.

This race was actually exciting for a few people, but like the point difference, the point buffers that some had made this race the way it was. Yeah. So I talked to somebody else last night and they said on television, the race was boring. The race was boring. but if you were into the championship battle, there was enough playing out there to keep your mind occupied and your intensity up.

So I think Sailor Dan, his probably his guy, didn't make it to this round. You know, he's probably a little bit biased here. But Kansas is a great racetrack. You know, again, I would never have the chase be the same 10 tracks in the same order ever if I were running this series. I think since I've been working in racing,

the last four races have been Texas, or last three have been Texas Phoenix Homesden. And that's been 14 years now, maybe. It's been 14 years almost. Long time. Yeah. Ford keeps stepping up to sponsor Champions Week at Homestead. And that kind of has, I guess, concreted them in to that particular weekend. But you know what, man, go sponsor Ford Champions Week somewhere else.

There's got to be an opportunity for us to not. This 10 race schedule is pretty stagnant. Yeah. Move them around. Jeff Gluck mentioned that the first round of the playoffs was three new tracks this year, three different ones in this round was pretty much the same thing. So it kind of felt a little stale compared to that first round. Yeah, we started in Vegas, which is cool.

We used to start in Chicago. Used to start in New Hampshire before that. But nonetheless, man, next year. Those were exciting, though, the beginning of it, wasn't it? Shake them all up. Just shake them up every year. Yeah. Who cares if it's cold somewhere?

People in Green Bay go sit in the stands with it snowing to watch their sports people. It's cold this weekend. People who want to go watch sports. are going to go watch sports. Except last fall in Martin's so it was really cold. Guess what? People still went and watched. I was there.

My buddies were camping out. They were freaking building fires. They were drinking moonshine. Was that not a good race? It was exciting at the end. Exactly. The first half I was like, think about how cold it was.

It's 500 laps, man. Well, if you work, then you won't be cold. Sports fans are still going to come out. It's easier to go when it's cold than it is when it's 120 degrees in Chicago. Yeah. Yeah. True.

At Kathy underscore Oaks asks. Last week, Brett, said he didn't think Chase was championship ready. Do you think he could be finding momentum at the right time? I mean, I already addressed that. I think he's had speed, but it's been top 10 speed. And in order to be championship ready, you've got to have top five speed. And yesterday, he had top five speed. So I think that he won over out of right place, right time. He wasn't in the top four at any point that day that I really remember when we were out there running our butts off for 400 laps, you know. And so when you look at his win yesterday, he inherited. He inherited.

to delete because of a penalty and did a phenomenal job. So, yeah, I mean, he's definitely finding it at the right time. The question is, can he pull it together in these next three tracks? Because he's barely in with this new points thing, even though he's the hottest guy right now, and he deserves the most bonus points going into this particular round. He doesn't have that luxury. He's barely in. He's three points ahead of Clint Boyer, who's going to run well at Margeville and who's going to run well at Phoenix.

So the pressure's on those guys to step it up. Yeah, I don't Yeah, I mean, getting hot It's never a bad thing No But it only takes It only takes one mistake One one accident to happen

To really knock all the wind out of your sails too So, you know Chase is riding, you know, doing good right now But you know, you never know This round, you can't afford a mechanical failure You can't afford a loose wheel You can't afford a crash Because you're not racing enough people

to be able to make up that point differential. The four people that have smooth races are going to launch. If you have a bad one, it's, hey, you're at the bottom and you're in a must-win situation like Blaney found himself in yesterday, and like Larson did. At P. Schmitz, 1988-esque, with SHR having all four cars in the round of eight, is this as impressive or more than Rouch having all five cars in the 2005, Chase? I don't remember how all those five cars got there.

it just there's there's a lot of luck involved in this as well like we went to the roval there was at points where you weren't in after the roval during that race there was a couple points there where you weren't in yeah you were on the line um you know we had the big wreck at dover you know eric the 40 run runs out of gas uh at talladega and the 10 wins that's a big wild card right there um i personally like to see that him get in there because I feel like we're better than him. So that's, you know what I mean? I feel like we can beat him more consistent. But there was a lot of luck.

There was, I have to go back and look at the 2005 chase, but getting five cars in a chase is pretty good. I'll have to say this. I believe 2005 is when we still only let 10 teams in. And let me tell you something, man. It was hard to be in those top 10. So for Rauch back then to have five, cars in the chase that was only 10 teams is a big deal.

And here's the other thing. They didn't win and get in back then either. They had to legitimately earn enough points to get in. So I would say it's more impressive as to what Roush did with five cars in 2005 than what we've been able to do. Because to T.J's point, you know, if Eric doesn't win Talladega, is he in or out right now? We don't know the answer to that question. It doesn't matter because he's in.

But there's a lot of variables that can kind of give you the, hey, congratulations, you're in thing. I mean, we watch Chris Buster get in. and on a win, you know, two years ago on fuel mileage of Pocono. We watched Austin Dillon lead half a lap, maybe all year, and he's in. So I think there are a little bit more luck comes into play now to make the chase because winning you're in. And also, we take 16 teams. Yeah, we take 16 now.

And also, the points of them back then, you had to run consistent every week. You couldn't win two stages, then run like, you know, finish 15th at the end. You got them stage points, so you're still up there. You couldn't do that then. So I think getting five of the 10 cars in back then is pretty impressive. You mean they have stages in 2005? Negative. They've always had stages.

Were you born? No. 2006. Man, I like the stages. I think that we've sensed, as race teams, we've learned how to manage these stages and how to really strategize for the stages. So I think we're seeing maybe a little less intensity at the end of them because we're all racing smarter to play up to that stage.

I mean, we're treating it like three races yesterday. an 80-lap race, another 75-lap race, and then 102 laps to finish until the end. So, I mean, teams are getting smarter, drivers are getting smarter, all that matters. Got anything to rant about? I got something, I won't say real quick. Last week, Talladega, we know the Ford's dominated. We know that Stuart Haas dominated even among the fords. But to have fans tweet me, and maybe some of them tweeted T.J.

Saying that we rigged the race, they're not watching anymore because they can't believe what what happened. Let me explain something to y'all. Number one, it was amazing what happened. You may not ever see it again. Number two, if your team didn't contend to win, send them a tweet and tell them they need to get faster and be able to come up there and run on the right side of my car. Don't tell me what we did ruins racing because it doesn't. That was something really, really special where you see a manufacturer that's really good and then within that manufacturer, one organization that's even better. And that is because of hard work. That wasn't the four greatest drivers up there in Talladega. doing their thing and being great.

That was guys that built the engines, built the cars. You tell your teams to work harder if they want to run beside a Stuart Hoss racing, because that's what it really comes down to. Don't be coming at me with a whole, who are you guys messing up to a plate racing? I'm never going back to Lega. Whatever. All right.

All right. So we had a lot of people send in some reviews. Yeah, I saw them. So I picked the three that I thought were pretty interesting. But there was a lot of people that left reviews, but didn't tweet them to me. So they didn't really enter into the hat thing. But these three were... Yeah, these are pretty good.

They did? Only, like, six of them said Brett sucks, but... I don't care. Six people? I'll buy a t-shirt with their name on it. I'm surprised you don't... Do you know Justin Cooper, Brett? Because he says he didn't want to punch you in the face.

No, I don't know him. He's nice to you. No. Jason probably picked, like, politically correct responses. Well... The good ones weren't... They didn't tweet them to me. They just left them on iTunes, but didn't send it...

Just send all three of these people a hat. All right. There we go. Sounds good. The winners are Richard Zane Allison Jr. the third. Holy, Richard Zane. His name is Dick Zane Allison Jr. to third. Dickie.

Dickie. Is Dick or Dickie short for Richard? Dick. Dick. Oh, congratulations, Dick. Justin Cooper. He's a winner. Caleb Boatwright.

Three winners. Three hats. Boat Rint. Shana's sending them out. Shana is going to have to be prompted to get us three hats, and then Casey Hames and Xfinity can pay for the postage because Joe Mattis is too tight around here to pay for $2 in ship. And me and Freddie, actually, did swing by and meet a couple podcast fans.

Y'all did. I saw that thing, and I missed it. I had to go eat me a salad, man. How was that? Was that cool? It's cool. Yeah. There's a few people in there.

Oh, gosh. Donors coming back. The guy that won't say no. We don't have DBC. I know. Because it's over. T.J. lost again. Third consecutive year.

Congratulations. You also picked Larsson this week, even though you picked him. That's because no one gave me the sheet. Oh, it's somebody else's fault. You were here, and it was on the show sheet. 10 points. The other piece wasn't there then. It totally was.

It didn't matter. I doubt it. It's been fun. I'll tell you what. We'll give you fantasy. We'll give you fantasy advice this week. Okay. Instead of DBC picks since I worry won.

It's all luck, man. If you want to gamble a little bit, you can go with AJ Ammendinger, because this is his last chance maybe in his career. No, screw that. I'm looking at my deal here. That's what started my slides. That guy right there. AJ Omaninger.

His fault. 38th at Sonoma. AJ, 38th at Sonoma. That started the downhill. What are you looking at? Chope City. Dillner? The guy that won't say Notre Dale Jr.

Excuses. What do they say about excuses? I would say a sleeper. Who would you say a sleeper is? I'd say AJ. He's not going to win. AJ is actually very good here. He can score you some points.

Yeah. I would say AJ and I'm not. Really, you know, I don't think this is one of Bowman's strongest tracks, but he's good at hanging around. Possibly Stenhouse, too. Possibly Stenhouse, possibly Bisher. Those are some sleeper picks for you guys. You know, Stenhouse showed that he's not afraid to move the leader for the stage. Yeah.

I'm not going to lap down. I saved majority of his race right there. Absolutely. So I like that. So you got to pick two non-playoff guys and two playoff guys in fantasy. You do? Yeah, that's that work. Well, two non-guies would be A.J.

It could be any of the guys that are eliminated to you at this point. AJ runs good there. He'll be eighth to 12. And then if a handful of guys get into it up front, he's going to be near the top five. He race is smart. Hands down my non-playoff guy, first on my list is Jimmy Johnson. This is one of his places where he's fast.

Yeah, he's fast. My playoff guy is going to be Kyle Busch. My second playoff guy is going to be Clint Boyer. My second non-playoff guy would be A.J. Ammeneer. Yeah. I'm going to put these down if I'm wrong. I'm coming after you next week. Just put me in, put it on my tab.

All right. You've never seen $10,000. So I don't know how much you're wagering on this fantasy, but it's got to be big. Chick-fil-A. Yeah, where's my deal at? What deal? My card. Well, there was a card here on the table.

I gave it to my daughter. You owe me Chick-fil-A. She loves Chick-fil-A. You weren't here. Snooze you lose. Well, if Dillard didn't... Did you get Chick-flay out of it? I ate some...

He ate 97 chicken minis. You owe me Chick-fil-A. Because if you didn't change the time, I would have been here. I try. If you had said, No-Dell, Jr., the most popular podcast records at 9, you can move yours. Key West can wait. Your little airplane can wait. Yeah.

You can just take us to Key West to make up for it. Live from Key West. Yeah. Oh, that would be big. Teaching and I be laying in the bushes. Oh, normal one's on. Record it. We'll start at 10.

o'clock from, you know, we'll, uh, what's that one on the corner down there, the bar at the big one. Sloppy Joe. Oh, yeah. We're recording live from Sloppy Joe's at 10 o'clock at night. That'd be fun. Yeah, especially with Jason there. I can't get into a bar until February. Oh.

Yeah, you can. What's your birthday, February? Fake ID. Oh, that's right around the 500. Yeah, day before. Should be good. February 16th. 21 years old.

Are you going to be in Daytona? Or do you have a conference plan? for your birthday. I threw up on my 21st birthday. Imagine that. You threw up after Martinsville. And after Michigan. Yeah, and after Michigan.

I mean, I don't throw up anymore. Uber. You probably threw up during the roll-ville because you're so nervous. Oh, I drove the porcelain bus on my first birthday. I think everyone pretty much does. We went to a damn strip club, a shoe show. And it was one of those where you could bring your own booze. And my best friend, Sean,

Biggins? Took in a fifth of slow gin, which I don't even know that I've seen it since I was 21. And we proceeded to drink the whole bottle, and I don't even know if I saw a shoe, much less a show. But I was sick, man. I mean, like, real sick. What's slow gin?

It's red. Why do they call it slow? It's red both times. Does it creep up on you? I don't know, man, but there's nothing worse than throwing up After drinking. It's so bad. That night, I quit drinking for the rest of my life.

It's so bad. I worked that well for you. I did. I was like, I'm 21. It was so good when people stopped mixing Red Bowl stuff. Like, remember there for a while? That was bad. But for some reason, when you turn 21 in the state of South Carolina, it's like a tradition that you have to vomit.

I mean, state law. It is. It's like when you're born, they go, hey, congratulations. It's your birthday. 21 years from today, you're vomiting. There's a lot of things. It is. South Carolina.

I agree. I mean, your sister just turned 60. 60. Yeah. My mom's 77. Exactly. So the math on that was pretty easy. Yeah.

My mom had a great bowel movement today. Yeah. Watermelon Festival. All sorts of stuff. More Beach. Go Cox. Yeah. That just sounds weird.

There's so many things that are just spread out about South Carolina. Yeah. It's a special place. It is special. We're rambling. sorry. Thanks to one of my financial Exalt Studios.

We'll be in Martinsville. Thanks for Casey. Sweet, TJ. We'll come see you guys. I'll be Martin's welcome. Are you? Thanks Casey for skipping us to go watch the fiance.

She had a midgette. Yeah. Whatever. She likes those midgets. She's more. Everyone, so they make Christopher Bell so mad he went one Saturday night in a midget.

Wow. Yeah. Don't drop your phone in between the wall this time, Jason. I'm not going to chance it. Yeah. We'll see. So you said you're going to Martinsville? Yeah.

Perfect. You're driving up Sunday only? Yeah. You're saying with the Dutch. What? The Dutch Inn, man, when I first got to be racing in 1999, the Dutch Inn was as fun as any place we went on tour. And I'm talking out of everywhere that we went. You rolled in the Dutch Inn on Thursday night, and it was karaoke night, and there were pit lizards and waffle bellies galore.

It was awesome. I got in there. It was cigarette smoke. because it was legal back then. You'd leave with lung cancer. I think my first year there was probably 2004, maybe. Three or four. Stirling Marlin in there?

Oh, yeah. That was like the prime. Like, it was in its prime back then. Like, it was, that's, everybody went there. That's where you went. And it was, had everything. Like he said, it had a mixture of, and it might still, it's been years since I've been there. Yeah, I don't, I don't go to those.

I don't frequent those places anymore. I don't frequent them places much. at all. I actually go back and forth in Martin'sville every day. So me and me and the most recent feature winner and Joey Meyer, we split. We each take a day. Yeah. So we're going to drive up back every day. Awesome. You all have a great week. Thanks for listening. Thanks for leaving reviews. Three hat winners. Casey can pay for it. All right. Yeah. Your own, Casey. See you. See it. You've been listening to Door Bumper Clear, brought to you by one main. For updates on Elliot Sadler and the number one junior motorsports team.

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