Door Bumper Clear - 126 - The Truffle Shuffle

Episode Date: March 5, 2019

Race winning spotter TJ details Joey Logano’s victory before the gang discusses the new aero package, group qualifying, Brett and Freddie’s date night with Gwen Stefani plus more. Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Hey, everybody. I am T.J. Major, Spire of the 22 Cup car. Whoa. Wow. Great job, Jason. You thought that up. Yeah.

99 truck. Joining me today is not Gwen Stefani's new boyfriend. As Freddie gets all right. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody, Freddy Crafts, spotter for Bubba Wallace. No, no, no horns sirens for me, Jason. I mean, I don't like my chances of hearing horns anytime soon.

Bubba Wallace and Cup, Garrett Smithley, Exfinity, and Spencer Boyd in the truck. Spencer Boyd. Spencer Boyd. Hello, guys. Yeah, hey. Case. Oh, I'm sorry. It's our newly married co-host, Casey.

I feel like, am I still newly married? Does that? Yeah. People are like, who's Casey Boat? It's just Casey Hames with... Yeah, I'm in an identity crisis right now because everything still says Hames, but, like, people still call me Boat.

Do you have all your stuff changed over? I just did. No. I just called you Hames. I called you Hames yesterday, actually. Yeah, I did, just a little bit ago. My email still says Hames. What about all your, like, your credit cards and everything?

Well, so I changed my social security card. That was a big one. You'd read us your Social Security number? No. You can't read your social security number. I can not. I don't see that. Yeah.

Can you read it? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was asking. What? What's your social security number? Just let us know. Uh, no. I've watched too many crime episodes.

Oh, really? No, and then I can't change anything else because I'm flying so much over the next few weeks where if I change my, like, license but not my credit cards. And then my credit cards won't my license. And I can't do without precheck and they can't change my precheck. So it's a whole ordeal. No precheck. So we, um,

We actually did accomplish something before the show. We came up with a great name for your first born. Thank you, Joey. Well, I mean... I like Joey's better than anybody else's. What was Joey's? I think that was my. That was mine.

No, you know, what was it? Joey said tugboat or what do you say? Steamboat. Oh, yeah, I didn't like that one. Steamboat? I came up with Amana. Oh, I thought Joey said that. Yeah, I like that one.

Joey's not that witty. I was impressed. I'm not going to let. He's not that weak. No way. Well, I do like I'm on a. Down the road, Chad, if you have a daughter, it's going to be Amana. Will not be.

Is it going to be Amana motorboat? If I had a dollar for every time somebody, like, tweeted that to me or somebody texted me it that listens to the show. And I was like, no, that is not our child's name. No, I'm not pregnant. And no, that was like, no, none of that. Oh, boy. So glad. Thank you guys for starting that trend. You're welcome. We're here to help.

You're welcome. Anyways, how was your win? I feel like you had a pretty solid weekend. Yeah, it was exciting. It was nerve-wracking racing like that with somebody. It's always, it was back and forth for a little while, you know, especially a teammate, racing Brad. Brad is one of my good friends. So it was fun to race him.

Fun to beat him. So I enjoyed that. We've had two close races here in the last couple weeks. I kind of wish we didn't have the, have to pit last week in Atlanta a couple times at the end there. That one looked like it could have got pretty fun too. But, you know, it was a hard race. I don't know what Freddie thought about it.

But it was a lot of, there was a lot more work I felt like normally just positioning your car on the track where you needed to put it to defend or set up for a pass. We did a lot more than that than what I've ever had to do in the past. Yeah, we were okay in the middle, beginning of the race, and we kind of faded towards the end.

And back there where we were, it wasn't as easy to move around as you guys were. Like, we were kind of locked into one lane, and everybody around us was kind of locked into the same lane. So once the restarts were a little hectic, you know, they were, I called four wide at least three or four times yesterday. Wasn't expecting that of Vegas.

But, you know, like I said, the restarts got hectic. got singled out about three or four laps later, and then wherever you kind of, in our case anyway, wherever you kind of ended up in line as kind of where you ran until the pit stops and then they jumbled up a little bit. Yeah, so did you see the picture somebody made

of the restarts or the video? Yeah, the video, yeah. Like, it's ridiculous. Yeah. Like, we are still, like, we're lining up for the green. Yeah. Still, like, and we're already racing. So, I mean, I thought the racing was pretty tough.

It was, you know, it wasn't, everybody thought we were going to be slingshot in each other every straightaway. Which we can't really race like that anyway, I don't think. No, it wouldn't be safe, really. I mean, we'd just be tearing stuff up. And that's kind of what I feel like people really want is the slingshot every straightaway. Somebody making a move every straightaway.

And when it's not, you know, people need to look at how hard these guys are driving, how hard it was to get a run on Brad or how hard it was for Brad to catch us and make a move like that. Like, these guys are driving their guts out. Yeah. Just because there's no passing and no racing. I think, like, I normally didn't not to agree with this guy, but Kyle, after the race was over, was like, just the amount of load on the drivers now because they're not, they're the same speed to the middle of the corner as they are on the straightaway.

So just the load on the driver and being right on, you know, you have to have your car set up on the looser side to make it go fast to create speed. If you get too tight, you just get bound up and go slow. So, like, you have to be kind of on the edge every lap for whatever it was yesterday, three hours or something like that. Yeah, I mean, you're on the edge. One thing I think he was a little wrong about is he just, you know, said you couldn't do anything. I watched him drive from the back to the front, basically, on the one run.

He passed a lot of cars, so I know he could pass, and he was pretty quick at the end, too. He just had that penalty that set him back. And if he didn't have that penalty, I feel like he would have been a factor in the race up front somehow. But, you know, it's still, I saw a lot of guys racing hard. I mean, I did. I saw you racing priests hard. Yeah, yeah. What happened there?

But that's kind of what I was getting at. He was way faster than we were, but he couldn't get around us for like 20 laps. You know what I mean? He just, like, all we had to do was kind of just go wherever he was and take his lane away and he couldn't do anything with us. And then when he got around us finally, I mean, it was for position. I don't know, it was 24, 25th, something like that. But when he finally got around us, I mean, he drove away by a straightaway.

You just have to be that much better than the guy in front of you, I feel like to get around. I think drivers need to really, they're going to have to really be good at, using other lanes but not overdoing it. Like, it's not, you have to be really strategic when you do it. You can't, you got to get half a car length at a time. You can't run in there and get this big run and gain six car lengths on a guy. You got to take the half car length, half car length, then go for the big move when you're already there.

You're right almost there. I felt like a lot of the feedback, at least on Twitter last night, too, was they weren't expecting there to be, like, a point where the cars were so spaced out, which it's a long race. I feel like if you were pack racing the entire time, I mean... We can't pack race the entire time. I mean, it just wouldn't... Yeah, I'm not sure what everyone was expecting.

So like Daytona, Talladega, we get packed up because everybody is wide open all the time. At these races, I think it's going to be... I don't know how long you were wide open. We could not run wide open. So that's going to obviously create a much bigger disparity in speed to where the guys that can run wide open for 40 laps versus the guys that can do it for 10 are obviously going to get away from each other and create a bigger gap. But it also matters how you manage traffic.

Like you've got to be able to manage traffic good. You got to be able to, you got, there's a lot of pieces that you can't afford a mistake. Yeah. Like you can't afford a mistake. But we can't, we can't run, you know, Talladega and Daytona every week at a mile and a half. It can't be like that. We got to make it so we have to lift. Yeah.

I think we need to lift because that's how you get the racing. That's how you guys, you get guys setting their car up. That's where this stuff comes into play. So people, I don't think we're, it's going to be so hard to please everybody with this. Like I said, most people want the, they want Talladega at Vegas now. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, we run them tracks four times a year and we put on the show there.

These other tracks, we need to lift. We need to have that. We need to see. And we, I didn't think we would get all the way to the wall in three and four. Yeah, it surprised me in three and four. So, I mean, we're still using all the racetrack a lot. So, I mean, I don't know how you can really get, I mean, I don't know how you get a race. I guess it was record amount of lead changes.

Was it? What was it? Yeah. That's the first spot on, spot off topic. Okay, I won't ruin it. I won't ruin it. But, I mean, I saw guys, you just had to work, you had to work hard. You had to have your car good.

But the, I don't know. I mean, I'd run it again. Well, I mean, you won't. I'm biased. Yeah, I was just saying, I'd imagine you were not going to like it. I just, I, like you said, our car got to where it was too locked down in one lane and when that happens, you really can't do anything. Like you have to, with this package, you have to be able to move around because you have to find clean air. So that's a thing.

So in practice, who was the fastest two cars? Oh, the three and the eight. Okay. Do you see where we were on the practice sheet? Yeah. We weren't even near the top. Yeah. Even qualifying.

Because you got, you have to handle. I knew like that we like, so they're part of our deal, you know, the 43's kind of part of RCR and they were like, my crew, She's like, yeah, so the eight and three are really fast, but they're basically speedway cars. They're completely trimmed out as fast as they can go. And I'm like, well, that'll be interesting. Tomorrow we practice, and I noticed in the first practice

on, or the only practice on Saturday, the eight got in the middle of the pack and was awful. And I think they talked about, you know, but they just try, in their mind, they thought that they can get their cars super trimmed out. It works great for qualifying. And get up front and stay up front all day long. And it just doesn't work that way.

We know our races are too long. So I know the loads are up. but I don't know how we, I wish we could just have a more tire fall off. Yeah. I wish we could make the cars still have tire fall off somehow, where, um, just where there was difference in speed,

you know, like at the end of a run, you're a second and a half slower. So that's the only thing I wish we could have right now. All right. Well, I, I need to know about, uh,

yours and Brett's date with Gwen Stefani the other night. This is a hot date. I look good. Um, no, so we went, so Brett, called me last week and he had text Blake and

Blake said, yeah, I'll get you guys a couple of texts to go see you win, so you want to go. Yeah, sure, why not? Nothing better to do. So we did that, and then one of her reps came and got us and said, you guys want to go backstage after the show, so absolutely. Why wouldn't we? So then we get back there and we're hanging out and she's awesome, you know, super hot, super, super hot. Don't tell Blake that. Don't tell Blake.

Nobody tell Blake. I didn't realize how old she was. She said she's going to be 50 this year. Oh, wow. I didn't realize. If I look that good when I'm 50, I mean, doing something right. Good look for Chad. But so anyway, so we're back there and we're kind of just BS and around.

And she's like, hey, where's Blake's friends at? So then Brett walked over and introduced himself and we're talking. So then in this process, we hang out for a little while. And she actually FaceTime's Blake. And Blake's like, hey, what's going on, guys? So then the last thing he says, hey, before I go, you don't let Brett leave before he starts moonwalking. and Brett's like, oh God. And she's like, no, I'm not doing that.

And Blake's, no, screw that, you're doing it. Don't let him leave, Gwen. So that's how we ended up. So Brett did his little, of course, before we even got on the old Instagram kick, he does his whole kick and Moon walks across the room. And Gwen's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, we got to do this again. So then she fires their phone up. But I didn't even know.

I thought she was just taking a video to send a Blake. And then like the next morning I get up, I'm like, oh, wow, we're on Instagram. The first video, when I, you know, you're going to, you. It's like a whole series. And the first one, like, she shows you. And you guys looked like you were a star-struck. And I was like, seriously, guys? Come on.

No, we weren't. I mean, it was fun. She was cool as hell. We were just hanging her. I'm not even going to tell you what you look like right now. You probably don't know what I'm talking about. No. Remember that movie, Weird Science?

I remember the movie, yeah. Remember when they make, they create that woman? Yeah. You guys look like the, remember when they were standing there in the shower? That's what you guys look like. You look like you said, she was hot. You don't know what I'm talking about, do you? And I know that 13-year-old in the booth over here doesn't...

But, yeah, so then I got up. I text Brett. I'm like, oh, God. I said there's eight and a half million people have seen you moonwalk now. I'm just glad you were sober enough, A, to send us a little bit of the first song. I can't imagine after that what happened. And B, that you were sober enough to keep it classy and be composed when you talk to her. That's us.

We're classy dudes. And she just retweeted that video from our dirty, Of course she did. Oh, wow. You're going to be viral soon. Or Brett's dancing. Millions of, I hope the show hashtag is included in it. So we get more listeners.

Yeah. Somehow Del General will steal it, though, some probably. Freddie, you need a signature move now, so if this happened again, it could be like. I don't know if you've gotten a good look at me lately, Casey. I know what it's going to be. I know it. What is it? The truffle shuffle.

The truffle shuffle. I can probably pull that one off. Do you know what I'm talking about? Do you know what the trouble trouble is? Oh my gosh. Come on. Now I need to look at out. I'm not doing it.

I can promise it. Hey, wait a minute. What if we do this and we get like a thousand retweets? It's got to be more than a thousand. How many? I don't know. A thousand? That is a lot.

That is a lot. I'm not doing it. Okay. 1500. No. I mean, I'll come up with something. Fifteen hundred retweets or likes and you'll do the truffle. You should do it.

On the show next time. John, you do the shuffle shuffle. $1,500 retweets? $1,500 retweets. All right. Deal. I'm writing it down. Gwen.

Gwen Stephanie, we need you help. Blake. Yeah, Blake and Gwen. We got it. Oh, damn it. I forgot about it. Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. No, no, no.

It's done. No. Son of a. We'll have Brett do it with you. Freddie will truffle shuffle. So. For 1,500 retweets. Do you even know what a truffle shuffle is?

I'm going to, I'm showing her right now. Yeah, I need to see. Yeah. You ever seen Goonie? You've seen Goody's and you know the triple shuffle. Oh, wait, the kid, yes, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, done, done. Yeah, they won't let him in the gate.

They won't let him in the gate. Do it. That's what we're going to do to do to Freddy. Do it. He's going to be like, come on. We're going to reenact this scene. This is not going to be fair. Look at him.

Once you do you. Yes. Okay, done. We need to make this happen. Come on, do it. Fine. Look at him. He stands on the stump.

This is going to be so good. Oh, my God. Then we'll have Brett do the moonwalk and he's like Michael Johnson. Can I be the kid in the door saying, do it with my arms crossed? I'm going to stand in the door right over here. So I'm just saying, I won't be back until 2020. What are you doing it then? I got to take the rest of the year off.

Oh my God. You just messed up. You know, I didn't factor in junior retweet it. Oh, my gosh. I should have went for like 5,000. After he made the deal, so I'm going to say Dale's name afterwards because I probably forgot about that one. Yeah. So, I mean, this can be done.

Whatever. It's going to happen. I have to work on my six-pack ads, I guess. Can we like, can I put a sponsor logo on your stomach before we do it? $200. I don't know, yeah. How much is it? We should look at sponsorship opportunities.

I want around the belly button. The whole way. Is that like, do you? Should I write your name? Just around my belly button? How much for the B-post? Tug life? All right, be on the lookout for a tweet from Dirtymoe Media.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's coming on. A sponsorship. Seeking sponsorship. When we figure this out and we send it out, we will retweet it. We will retweet it and know, you'll know when Freddie's going to truffle shuffle. Exactly.

Yeah. Great. Awesome. Yeah, you messed up. All right. Spot on, spot off, shall we? Spot on to Freddy. Sure.

Spot on, spot off. Spot on. Spot off. You say spot off on a punch. He's spot on that. Spot on and spot off. I'm going spot on. So spot on, you like it.

Spot off. you don't like it and you say why either way? Well, first one. New Arrow package produces most ever passes at Vegas. 3,345 Green Flag passes and 47 for the league. Pick me, pick me. Fine. Spot on.

Next. Loved it. Loved it. I mean, I think it's a step in the right direction. I think we got more work to do with it. but hey, it's what we're building towards. So it's hard to, you can't come out and hit a grand slam right out of the box. It takes time.

The teams are, honestly, the teams are going to start learning this. We're going to start making the cars better. And I think this will evolve a little bit more. So, I mean, let's keep working on it. So I'm spot off on the fact that the numbers are pretty skewed because of the fact that we had like three or four cycles of green flag. pit stops and those passes are all counted. So, you know, you go back, I mean, we didn't have 47 lead changes.

There wasn't 47. You know what I mean? Like, so, you know, that number is just from the fact of guys pit, new leader, new leader, you know, new leader. So those numbers are skewed to where it looks a little bit better than it was, I think. With that said, I'm still spot on for the package as of right now because it helps my team be more competitive. You know, we were able to drive up to the top 20 yesterday for a little bit and then we got

a little off in the end of the race and fell back. But a good restart. and a good handling car and you could have been top 15. Yeah, easily. I mean, all you have to do is have your stuff pretty good, getting the right lane on a restart. And then, like I said, especially back towards where we were at the 15 to 25th range. Yeah.

Like, once you got singled out, it's a battle. You really, it was almost impossible to pass each other. So like he said, if I got a good restart and I end up 15th, I was going to run 15th for that whole run until maybe one guy gets by me or something like that. But like I said, the numbers here are a little skewed because of the green flag pit stops. but at that said, I'm still kind of spot on for the package right now. The only thing I can say is I don't remember the last time at Vegas where we had a back-and-forth battle where they were... Did you watch a race?

Yeah. Did you watch a race in there? Correct. So was it exciting from your point of view whenever we were passing each other for the lead? Yes. I mean, it had to be like, I didn't even think about it because I was involved in it. All I want to do is get back by him. Especially at the end too.

Yeah. I mean, we were... Well, he was like slowly catching us and then we got held up. Yeah, there were points like mid-stages. where you're just like, I don't really know how I feel about this, but it always ended the right way. Somebody could always make it interesting at the end of every stage.

Like somehow the guy in second would get up there and make a run at it and racing with Brad, we were back and forth. And it was close too. Like, I don't know if you were watching, but some of the clears we were having. Some of the clears we were having were like the toughest clears that I've had to make.

Like, yeah, you're close. And you can't, it's the time in the race where you make them. because if you don't, it could be the losing move if you don't take that lane. The one big thing with this package that I noticed even at the test, and then even Atlanta last week, you cannot lift. If you lift, it's going to take you an entire lap to get your momentum back up. So, like, you know, a lot of times a guy will try a move and it'll be close whether he's clear or not because the guy's got momentum coming from the top.

And you have to make the right call because if you don't and your guy has to check up and not get all the way to the wall, it's going to kill him for another lap. This is the first time I noticed that I looked at lap times more than ever. Really? Because you, I mean, especially between Brad and Joey, you would, every lap, I would look to see how much closer he was getting. I mean, that's how, it was exciting. Like Freddie said, you can't afford, this is going to, this is going to separate the drivers that you can't afford the big lift.

So you can't afford to ride in running there behind a guy and push way up and lose all your momentum. You have to, drivers have got to manage that. They've got to learn how to stay in the wake, lose a little bit of ground, but not take that big push or get loose and go up the race. If you do that, it's bad. Yeah. It's real bad. I feel like, you know, you've seen after the race a lot of drivers were kind of, I don't want to call it,

complaining, but they were, you know, down on the package a little bit. And I think it just goes to show their competitiveness to where they feel like they have, they're less involved in what's going on. Like they're more car dependent than they are driver dependent right now. And I kind of agree with them on that. Like I heard a couple, you know, Matt De Benedetto was on my plane. and Bubb obviously Correa Joy. And they just said, like, at times, they used to be able to feel like they could take a 30th place car and make it a 25th place car.

And now you've got to where if you shake out in 30th, you're going to have to run 30th until something happens or you get a pit stop. So I think there's, like we said, there has to be some tweaks made to it, I think to make it a little more racy in traffic. But, you know, I still think a driver can make a difference. I watched last week, and I know it wasn't the same package. It was similar, similar, but didn't have the dog. in it but we you know we started 27th got blocked in three started 20 second got blocked in again restarted 18th drove all the way back up in a single digits every time so it can be done you just got up you gotta have a really fast race car but you got to go for

we didn't go for speed though yeah no I'm not saying for handling you know and everybody gets everybody looks at these speed charts oh we need more speed oh we need more speed well might want to pump the brakes on the speed factor first race without an on-track incident since Talladega in 2002. Spot on, spot off, Freddie. Spot off. We needed more restarts, but that was the exciting part. I couldn't believe it. We were talking, we went at the dinner with Brett and Clint, and I was talking about it, and we were fully expecting a bit of a shish show, like, on restarts. You know, we've seen a lot of times in that Saturday practice, there was a lot of guys

that came off a turn four completely sideways or through the middle of three and four that just one time I seen Corey LaJoy in front of the whole. field almost lose it. We almost lost it in front of a bunch of cars one time. So I was kind of expecting that on a restart somebody just to get super free and wipe out a bunch of cars, but it just never happened. Yeah, but there was opportunity for it to happen. Oh yeah. Especially in qualifying, but, you know, there was, there was opportunity, you know, one, one mistake could have taken out 15 cars. Yeah, we had, we had one scare. We were, we, the initial start, I think it was, us and Kurt, we got in the middle lane and we were hauling ass and there was nobody in front of us.

And we were going to like, I think we ended up like 17th or 18th, but we were getting ready to go to the top 10 because we just had a head of steam. And then all of a sudden, all by himself in the middle of three and four, middle of three wide, Kurt just dead sideways right in front of us. And I'm like, oh God, here we go. Yeah. Yeah. I'm spot on for it because what I saw in this race was I saw a lot of different strategies play out. I saw a guy run all the way to the end of a stage to about five to go on the stage, pit and do fuel only.

Yeah. And make it kind of work, I guess. You know, I'd still like to see more tire wear. I won't fall off on the tires. But it was kind of cool to let it run like that. I mean, obviously restarts are exciting and stuff. But it's kind of cool to, I like a race that plays out naturally. I mean, you can't force racks.

Yeah. So, and wrecks are going to happen, cars are going to break. I mean, things are going to happen. But the guys, the guys in our sport are so good nowadays, and everybody builds these cars so good. They don't break much. They don't break, and these guys are, like, they're still some of the best drivers in the world driving these cars.

So, and sticking them to the racetrack more isn't going to make them wreck more. Yeah. So, you know, like you said, we just need, we definitely need, tire fall off. I mean, you've seen yesterday the one stays out on 20 lap tires and now is still... Yeah, I'll race side by side on for about three, four laps, where he cleared us. So, yeah. And I give props to NASCAR too, where

O'Donnell made a comment, like, you know, this is the first time really running this. Like, they still have a ton of improvements and they realize it. So it's almost like you look forward to what else they have planned because I think it could get even better. Yeah. First, three finishes of 2019, all under 0.24 seconds. Spot-on, spot-off, TJ?

Spot-on, I guess. Well, since you came out on the right side of that. Yeah, but I was on the wrong side of it last week. So, yeah, I mean, great finish. It's good to have somebody not walking away. And even as the leader, you couldn't drive away. The only time someone drove away was the four got out there a little bit in the beginning and took off. But other than that, you couldn't get away.

The guy in second always seemed to chip away at it. when you're like, oh, we got to leave, let's drive away now. And it's like, oh, he's a 10th faster. Oh, he's a 10th faster. Oh, here he comes. So, you know, we'll see it. It should set up for some more good finishes. Yeah.

Spot on, obviously. Everybody wants to see a close finish at the end of the race. You know, there's races last year. You go back, and I think it's Jeff Luck that does his, you know, good race, bad race, poll every week. And there can be some races that are horrendous, like boring as hell during the middle, and they have a good finish like a green white checker. And everybody says, that's a great race.

And I'm like, I was not a good race. but it was a good finish. So everybody's after good finishes, so spot on for that. And it's like TJ said, we've seen it the test. We've seen it yesterday. You know, the leader just can't get away. You know, it's just the product of this package. And I don't know if just because you're able to get a little pull back up to them or not.

But you just can't get away from them. Well, there's a lot of it now. I mean, there's at the end of a run, you're still fighting handling. So that and the draft and I don't know, it's interesting how it's taken off. Larson's comments about Hendrick. And Jason, do you want to read that quote? Yep. Larson said, I feel like Hendrick plays games with NASCAR.

I feel like they always start the year off kind of bad to, like, show NASCAR that they're being nice and cooperating and following the rules and stuff. And then it gets a couple months in and they start cheating and finding some speed. Spot on, spot off. Oh, Freddie. Go for it. Spot off for the fact that they build your motors. I mean, you know, I mean, I don't know exactly where this came from and if it may be taken out of context somehow, but I don't see this being a very wise decision. Like, you know, when your Canassie contracts up, you're going to, I don't think Mr. H will be calling, looking to hire his car right away.

He probably still will, but I'm sure. You know, I'm spot off because I don't think you need to make comments like that. but I don't I mean they said on the front row the Daytona 500 yeah it's not like they have you know slow cars those guys they're working on it they know what they're doing and it's not like you hold something back you want to winning in the beginning of the year is a lot easier and what you want to do rather than wait until oh okay I'm going to win I'm going to win the middle of the year guys I'm going to sneak up on them here no yeah they're not holding back you don't hold back in this sport when you you you go I mean, you don't just, okay, guys, let's just be easy this week, next week, we're going to do a little bit more. We're going to really get after it. It's not what you do. So I don't even know. I'd be interested in knowing where that would, you know, what has happened and lead him to believe that.

But I don't know. I mean, I'm probably let everybody on a huge secret here, but everybody cheats. Like everybody. You go in the garage, I mean. That's kind of the nature of the beast. That's what you want to do. You know, you've got to, you know, and it's not cheating. You know, like some of the times it's just you find something that they haven't made a rule up for you.

You know what I mean? Like last year of Vegas when a window brace breaks. Yeah. Balls off. That's funny. That's a good one. Yeah. But, yeah.

So, I mean, I just, I don't, it's not a very intelligent comment, I think. No. And honestly, just put your head down and beat them, you know. Don't. Why even worry about it? They're faster than they are right now. I feel like of all drivers right now, him and Kyle Bush are the two that they're just, they'll just speak their minds, you know, like, which the media, well, the media, well, the media,

well, the media loves it. I mean, that's NASCAR, I would say, likes it because it's giving people something to talk about even more right now. But I almost think that sometimes, I know the media doesn't on purpose. They get to Kyle as soon as they can because he's going to say something. And Kyle is, when Kyle wins, it doesn't matter what the package is. Kyle loves it. Like anybody, I mean, if you win, you like it. But he doesn't have a very, he doesn't win. He does not like it at all.

I think somebody, you can hear somebody. I don't know if, I think it was Claire B because it was a female voice. I think it was. They're like, do you hear it? She's like, I know in an hour you're going to feel differently, but I want to get your answer right now. Yeah. Yeah, I want you to say something stupid for me, please. Yeah, I mean, Kyle was still able to do Kyle things.

Yeah. If he didn't speed on pit road, he's a fact. after it's in of that race. Yeah, like I said the last time I was on, like I feel like he was going to be one of the best at this deal because it is pretty similar to a truck race and you have to be smarter than the guy in front of you to get around him, like, you know,

and know where to go, where to put yourself to use your momentum to get a run on the guy. And he does that better anyway in a truck, obviously. And he was, like you said, one of the fastest cars yesterday, able to go from the back to the front. So, you know, it is what it is. So new this season, we are going to start playing the best of DVC moments

during our break. This one is from episode 90, still a classic. The Great Babysitting Debates. My mind hasn't changed. Not mine either. I posted a poll last week, and I didn't say which side I was on. I just said, when you take care of your own kids, I still disagree with it.

Babysitting. It is babysitting. 90% of the people said it's called parenting, not babysitting. It's the same thing. Still watching a kid. I'm just telling y'all 90% of the people agreed with me that you don't babysit your own kids. So you're home with your kids. Somebody's like, hey, let's go over here. What do you? Like, man, I'm babysitting. I'm babysitting. I'm babysitting.

I'm babysitting. What's the difference? What's the difference? You don't call it babysitting. That's the difference. 90% of the people. When you're carrying for your own kids, are you babysitting them? Question mark. 1158 votes. 89% said enough. So like, I'm sitting at home on my couch. I got Stella. Yeah. So Junior calls. Hey, let's go. Let's go over here. Man, I'm babysitting. He's going to understand that much more than he's going to say, Hey, man. I've got Stella with me.

What's the difference? You're not babysitting her. You can't babysitting your own kid. You're totally babysitting. What is the difference between babysitting? 89% of people think y'all are crazy. Well. What's there between babysitting and watching your own kid?

What's the difference? There is not. If I get a babysitter, that babysitter requires a fee, an hourly fee, a daily fee. when I I quote babysit my own kid Am I getting paid? No.

I mean I get that it's parenting But it's the same thing Like if you are a parent It's your babysitting your child It's a reference Sometimes you have family members A babysit for free That's actually happening right now

Right now that is happening What do you do differently What do you do different Than what a parent would you? I think it's the term you get hung up on I think you can I think you watch I think 89% of them people

don't know what they're talking about. I think 89% of the people are drunk as Brett most of the time. But you do the same thing so it can be called either or, if you ask me. I think babysitting is a paid gig, and watching your kids is a parenting thing. Still babysitting. Yeah, but my father-in-law is watching the kids. He's not parenting them right now. He's watching her.

Okay. Literally, she's a baby, and he's watching her, so he's babysitting. Baby watching. I kind of wish we did this one, Brett was here so that he can continue. We'll resurface this one. Yeah. This is still a classic. While door bumper clear takes a break,

be sure to go listen and subscribe to my podcast, the Dale Jr. Download. This week, we have Jeffrey Earnhardt on the show. It's a damn good one. Plus, catch us on TV Tuesday, 5 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. The Dale Jr. download, available on major podcast platforms.

Dirty Mo. And we are back. We'll head in the fast lane. I'll give these guys three topics pertaining to racing. and one that is off the wall, they'll have 30 seconds to respond to each. First question. After the first group qualifying session under the new Arrow package rules in Vegas, should qualifying be about entertainment like NASCAR has said or about seeing which cars are fastest?

T.J. I've always enjoyed which cars can go the fastest, but with this package, it's kind of pointless. I mean, to me, it's not, whether you go the fastest, on Friday now doesn't really matter because it's not going to be the same for the race. Before when somebody went the fastest on Friday you were like, man, that guy's going to be tough on Sunday. Now you're like, oh, good luck

on Sunday. Good luck handle on that thing. Yeah. So it's just, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't as hectic as I think we thought it was going to be with a big pack. It was kind of all, like we said, it was going to be like truck racing used to be back in the day. The eight car was the first one on pit road, and I think he thought I'm going to be so fast that I can run by myself.

And he took off, and the first group he was good. the second group, the guys that drafted beat him. He was like 10th or 11th. So then he realized I can't lead him off. I've got to wait. So then we all sat there and waited to the last minute. And it was 17 wide getting off pit road. Yeah, it was awesome.

It should be about, I mean, keep it entertaining, but we don't need to crash cars and qualifying. So we need to do the pit road speed. Like, we're supposed to be pit road speed anyway. And now we have guys coming from 10 back with a big run. And we're four wide on the apron trying to get settled in. I mean, it was pretty chaotic. Yeah.

If NASCAR asked you to create an arrow package that would produce the most entertaining racing, how would you design that package? Freddie. Big motor, no down force, tires that wear out. Make them as hard as possible to drive. It'll be the most entertaining thing you've ever seen. I think you have, I like the horsepower, the speed aspect of it. I think they're into the ground too much now. These cars are sealed off.

I don't think we take them off the racetrack a little bit. But I also like, I don't mind soft tires because I want the guys to have the option, okay, man, I ran seven laps, should I pit or not? And you're going to split the field a little bit there. Then you're going to have guys going backwards and you're going to have guys going forward more. So to me, get them off the racetrack, have a little tire fall off so you have guys coming and going. Absolutely. Agreed.

I'm short. Sunday will mark the second cup race on. Phoenix's new layout. What did you think of the layout change in November and did it impact racing at all? T.J. I really don't think it impacted the racing at all. It's still the same track. You're going around just messed us up because I called turn three, turn one a lot and you know that aspect of it. But it's a, the facility is super nice. I got to walk down through it. Really great upgrades so far. I mean, I can't wait to go back and check it out again here. But the racing racing I didn't I mean the racing stayed the same yeah I didn't think same thing I

the only issue I had with the whole place was the same thing was calling the corners the wrong way for pretty much the entire race but other than that yeah I mean the place is nice obviously it's one of the tougher spotter stands that we go to because just because you're in the middle of a corner and they're kind of driving away from you getting in the turn one now and driving kind of straight at you getting in the next corner so it's a little tough to clear people there and It's one of the tougher spotter stands, but it's a beautiful facility, beautiful scenery, one of the nicest places we go. Yeah, definitely, like the spotter stand there, it's a nice spotter stand. Don't get me wrong.

It's a top first class spotter stand for us, but the word, the location of it is not the best. So maybe we've talked about doing things different there, but I think we're all kind of used to it where it's at now. How is it? What's the challenge there? they're when they're in one and two now they're way down there directly you're looking directly across the racetrack from turn three and four and one and two's down there and they when they run the bottom which i think they fixed that a little bit there's no campers there's campers aren't as close to the wall now right yeah so you can see a little bit better when i can't tell what lane

they're in i can't tell you if this guy is looking inside of us the only time i can tell that is when the bumper's overlap oh he's inside there he is so and it's tricky down there because guys will get somebody like Ricky or somebody will get the top working and then off of off of turn two now is hard to tell yeah if you're clear or not it's super tough to tell like when a car when two cars are coming straight at you and one of them is here you can't tell if he's yeah he's out of line and he's half the car link back if he's at a line and he's inside your quarter like it's super tough to tell that we've seen that a couple yeah the depth so we've seen it a couple years ago who was it uh matt on the last i remember it was like the last phoenix race

of two years ago when he got wrecked. Yeah, I was spot for Bowman. I was spot for Bowman, yeah. I remember that one well. I mean, that's just kind of a product of that corner and trying to get all you can get and not really being able to go. Ask DBC.

Off the wall topic. Oh, shoot. Oh, way to go. First show, it's okay. Ruined. It's technically my second. Third, what? Continue.

Two people were arrested at an Alabama buffet when a fight broke out over crab legs, name one food you would buy over if there was only one serving left, Freddie. Why's Freddy guy? Why do I got to go? I don't know they wrote Freddy first. This whole show is about me being fat, I think. Truffle shuffle.

I don't know. What? I mean, in a buffet? Anything. Or just anything. Anything? Like if there's only one item left of something and you had to. Probably a taco.

I love tacos. Man, I don't know. Like. I'm not sure what I would have to, I guess if it was just like a, if it was a nice fillet or something, it was the last one. And I might throw it down for that. I don't think I'm getting any fight to the buffet anytime soon. Yeah.

It seems a little ridiculous. I mean, so I might get into a fight at the bar if there's only like one shot left. I could see me in Redfinn't fight over that. But that's, yeah, I don't know. The buffet, I don't, I think I could pass. I think I could survive without it. Jason, what about you? I was thinking the Texas Roadhouse rolls.

I would fight over those. Those are so good. I also feel like they should sponsor us. The one that, the cinnamon butter? Yeah, the cinnamon butter. Yeah. Okay, that's a good one. I would fight over those.

What about you, Casey? Oh, man. I would have to say anything at Cracker Barrel. Their breakfast is, like, amazing. I would like to see you and Jason fight. I think I know who would win. I do, too. Good job, Case.

Yeah. Especially now that'll hop along. I'm going to take my crutch and throw it through the window. Hop a long, can't get anywhere, so you can just whack there. Oh, that's right. He heard his foot trying to dunk or something. How did you hurt yourself? Oh, you didn't hear this?

He was sitting down. Oh, yeah. Wait a minute, what? He was playing basketball, but it wasn't during the game. This is awesome. After I was playing basketball, I went to sit down afterwards and sat on my leg and awkward, my knee kind of popped. So now I found out I have a torn meniscus and need surgery to fix it.

Are you serious? By sitting down? Yeah. We probably shouldn't laugh at it. When are you getting surgery? This is why you play video games, okay? He can't do that either. You sit down playing video games.

Were you sober? I mean, yeah. Well, that bottle of tequila. It's a tequila, yeah, all the tequila's called. Not good I need to play with basketball and tequila. There are two great basketball games that you can get. So, I mean, and they are perfectly fine. This is the third time in life I've injured myself.

Some of them involving basketball, so I think I'm retiring. I don't know what part of, this one didn't seem like it involved basketball. You just say. I shouldn't say it from now on. I got just a serious question. What make, like, what, how do you think you should play back? Like, why do you even try to play basketball? I'm good at it.

He's, all you are? I'm pretty good. I scored, like, half my team's points in that game. Would you have four? Six. Who's a two-nothing threshing? So when you get, when you get your knee healed up, I mean, do you think you're okay at basketball? Yeah.

So you'll play me one-on-one? Yeah. Oh, good. Yeah, for sure. Okay. I got this. How much? We have to remember this.

$100. Oh, boy. He's a college student. Yeah. Give me a discount. But I think I would win anyway. So that's what I'm saying. If he can do this, that's what I'm saying.

All right. That's it for Jason. He's out for the year. Torbeniscus. Just don't sit down. You should be fine. I got this. Yeah, no sitting down, Jason.

We'll have somebody come out and squirt gator in your mouth. You just don't sit down. I don't think this is a young person's injury. Oh, I know. You're so. Ask DBC. First one, Copeland Zach asks, What are y'all's thoughts on the East Sports League for NASCAR?

Is it something you'd be watching with interest or is it a novelty? I'm watching it with interest because I've done a lot of sim racing in my past. And it's interesting. I think it's cool that they're getting these kids. I mean, if you were 12 or 13, I mean, and this was coming around, wouldn't it interest you? Yeah. I mean, how many, did you play racing games whenever you young?

I mean, this is cool. They're involving. I think it's cool they're branching out and involving, you know, these kids and stuff and not even kids. There's guys, there's older men and it's to whip. I mean, everything. It's awesome that, I mean, obviously there's grassroots racing and it kind of has that NASCAR tie, but this is something that you don't have to have money to have a race. Not everybody can afford to race.

Yeah. So this opens the door for a lot of people to get involved in their own way. And e-sports is huge right now. So having a gas car. Do I think some kid from the Xbox is going to go hop in a cup car and win the Daytona 500? Probably not. No, but they're getting policing at me. He's doing everything he can do to fill his dream out.

You know what I mean? Obviously, he has racing dreams. It gives him an opportunity to be something in racing. So I think that part's awesome. Yeah, I think one of our things we have to do nowadays is generate a younger fan base to, you know, continue to grow. This involves them. And this is one way to do it where you got, you know, kids, I don't know how old have. if there's an age limit or whatnot.

But, you know, this is a great way to do it, get kids involved in racing at a young age. They get the, you know, the urge to compete. And, you know, then they maybe they take, you know, if they have some money, they can go get a legend car and go race somewhere when they get old enough or something like that. But, yeah, for sure, like when I was growing up, you know, you played all the racing games. It's really cool how people like Dale and other drivers are getting behind it too and teams. Yeah. Yeah.

So, like, they have, I really haven't followed it much, but I've seen a couple tweets where, like, guys have teams that they draft drivers to. Yeah, so every, all the cup teams will have an e-sports team. Yeah, some expedited. So it's cool because now you've got some kids out saying, oh, hey, I drive for junior motor sports. Hey, I drive for Hendrik's the esports team. I mean, that's kind of cool.

Yeah, that's badass. I know. I mean, how cool would it be back then if they, hey, Freddie, we'd have signed you at Roush. You know, you're going to be a rouse. I mean, it would be awesome, though. Yeah. That's how cool that would feel.

Yeah, especially for a young kid. I know. Think about how awesome I mean. I was involved. in one of the pitch meetings, and it was really cool to hear how they're trying to use those drivers, even when it comes to, like, appearances. And, like, they're getting real-life experience. Yeah, I think it's awesome.

I think they were at Homestead. I think the kid that won was that Homestead got true. Yeah, so the iriscing kid, they always, they always, I think both of them might have done it. I think, no, it was just out. They had it there. Yeah, they, so that, that guy's won it four years in a row, or he's won four championships. All right, so he's got to get out. Let's do some of it.

So, yeah, but I think it's cool that this is happening. Yeah, for sure. Polins J asks, what legendary driver would you like to spot for if you could? T.J. Man, man, there's two of them probably. I think it'd be cool to spot for Big E. That'd be awesome because the way he didn't take any from anybody, and I think that would be awesome.

but for some reason after following Rick Mast on Twitter, I think I'd like to spot for him. I'm not going to lie. Especially after his tweet, I think it was Saturday. It might have been Sunday morning. His tweet, did you see it? Yeah, about the spotters? Yeah, I'm a gigantic Rick Mast fan.

I might be the president of the Rick Mast fan club now. He said Spotters should get paid more, right? Yes, he said spotters need to get paid more. So we are all on board with the Rick Fast. If he starts a fan club, we're going to be the board of director. He actually has a podcast, too. He does. It's awesome.

It's called the Masked cast. So it's after following him for a couple years now, and some of his tweets, they're hilarious. He definitely is someone that you'd want to go hang out with. I mean, he sounds like a fun guy, so I think it'd be pretty cool to work with a guy like that. For sure. I'd have to go with either, I've got to go with the king.

I mean, gosh, the guy signs my paychecks nowadays, and he won 200 times, so that'd be fun to just go to Victory Lane every week. Other than that, maybe somebody like Dick Trickle, you know, Dick, a badass short track guy seemed like, Kind of my personality smoked all day long, which I don't smoke. Hey, Dick, your car smoking, bud. That's me. I don't think he was afraid to have a beer or 20.

So I think we probably would have got along okay. But yeah, either one of them guys, just something, you know, I mean, there's so many legends you could pick from that would have been badass to work with. Yeah. Go Ducks 42 underscore Mick. His question was, in the Army, we haze new guys by having them jump up and down on a tank to test the shocks or have them checked for soft spots in the armor.

Is there any hazing to new guys on the spotter stands or on the race team? Not really on a spotter stand. Anytime there's a new guy, we're all kind of like, who's that guy? What's he doing up here? We just don't talk to him for like three months. Yeah, who's that guy? It's kind of, yeah. I mean, that's kind of hazing.

Like, yep, leave him alone, guys, just leave him alone. Maybe he'll be gone. We should probably come up with some stuff to haze. Yeah, I know like... Or maybe try being nice and talk to them? No. Crew guys will do stuff like, you know, the long wait. Yeah, go over there outside a shop, asking for a long wait.

Then they'll send you somewhere else looking for the long wait. There's no such thing as a long wait. There's things like that. Yeah. Left-handed hammer. Yeah, there's... That's the other good one. I forgot what it is.

It's pretty good, though. But anytime you get a rookie kid, in there and this i've learned all this the hard way as well so um yeah we should definitely come up with something this is completely off topic but it reminded me of this did you guys used to have like when you travel and people ask what you do for a living does you used to have like some sort of a fake job yeah bowling team always i think we still have fake jobs somebody asks anytime anybody what do you usually use anything you can think of at the moment yeah rodeo clowns a pretty popular one.

Yeah. I heard that I'm only bringing this up because I think it's still hilarious. What? I heard that one of the teams I'm not going to say who because they make fun of the guy still

but used to say that he They were They worked for SeaWorld and they were Shammuz handlers. Have you heard that? No. I don't want to say the name because I worked obviously with them

but yeah I just think that's like the best excuse ever. So I had a buddy that he... I wouldn't use that. He is a junkyard mechanic, basically. He works on diesel trucks, diesel machinery. So we go out to a bar one night and he meets this hot chick. And I hear him and he's like, yes, I'm a doctor.

And I'm like, what in the world is he talking about? So it goes on and on and on. Yeah, doctor this, surgeon, I'm going to do this. You know, bye, drink, whatever. So it goes on and on all night long. leave. I don't think she went home with him, but they exchanged numbers. They're, you know, might have hooked up a little bit. So the next day, he gets all dressed up to go to work, head to toe, coveralls, dirty, greasy, hat, you know, dirty, greasy, goes to 7-Eleven

and get him a coffee and guess who's in there? She's like, uh, what, what are you doing? He's like, are you going to do, search around this truck. Yeah, I'm going to, uh, I got to go. Oh, that's not good. There has to be more, like, there has to be some sort of a story. or cover that people use. That's my favorite, is hearing what people say. We just say anything that, the most ridiculous thing that comes to mind at the time. And then you just roll with it too. I mean, you got to be witty, but you can do it.

Usually it's like somebody will say something like it happens a lot with Brett. Like he'll pawn it off on me. Like, yeah, he's whatever. Yeah, seven-time ping pong champion. Yeah. So then I get stuck talking to this person about something that I have no idea what I'm talking about. Because they're like, make it up more and more. I was so interested.

I was like, yeah, that's great. That's awesome. All right, anything we want to rant about? I don't think so. I think we'll have to do this for Brett because he message us saying that we need to rant about Ricky Craven's comments. Ricky Craven tweeted, connected with Keselowski Saturday morning,

he shared that one of the hidden values of winning last week was, in quotes, validating to his team the decision to change spotters during the offseason. the critical element toward making a driver comfortable and confident thumbs up at Coleman Presley who's Brad's new spotter this season So what he said

Like Brett took this one way And I don't know that it was Brett kind of took it as he was bashing Joey More so than he was praising Coleman Which I think is what it was designed for So I think I think that Ricky You know Ricky probably raised with Robert for a while

So he probably got some kind of relationship with Coleman. And he just wanted to point out the fact that Coleman did a good job. And it was probably tough for Brad to sell to people that he wanted to change spotters when he's had all this success with Joey for years and years and years. So, you know, I just, Brett kind of got aggravated with it because it could come off as taking a shot of Joey. And Joey is still pretty involved with Brad, you know, flying his plane sometimes now. So, you know, I think that it could have went either way. Brett chose to see it one way.

Everybody else kind of chose to see another way. But, you know, it could have either way. Yeah, I don't, you know, you don't just replace a Joey Meyer on the roof. He's one of the top guys. And obviously, he's won a lot of races with Brad. I don't think, you know, look, Brad just obviously wanted to make a change. So, you know, I know a lot of people, you know, gave him trouble for it or whatever. but at the end of the day, it's Brad's decision.

You know, Joey's a great spotter, and, you know, Coleman coming in there, getting a great opportunity, and obviously they're meshing really well. Had a terrible speed week, but that's just Daytona. You know, you can have that happen. But I think, you know, Brad had another solid run again, so it looks like, you know, it's got to be comforting for Brad to know that, you know, he was probably nervous about making the change. you know, because he's been with Joey for so long, but it looks like, I don't know, I think it's,

I think it's good. You know, I think Coleman's doing a good job, obviously. And speaking to Joey Meyer, he seems to be comfortable what he's doing now. I'm spotting for Paul. So it looks like, you know, everybody's happy and moving on. Yeah, I don't want to say this the wrong way. Like, Brad is one of the best race car drivers we have. He doesn't need, you know what I mean? Like, there's There's not much difference, I don't think, you might agree or disagree with me, in maybe the top 25 spotters up there. You know what I mean? I think they all do a pretty good job to where Brad, you know, Coleman and Brad now obviously

align themselves and are doing a great job. Joey obviously did a great job with Brad. So like he doesn't need somebody to tell him what to do. You know what I mean? He kind of already has an idea and he just needs that a little bit of feedback on, you know, maybe where to place himself a little bit better. but, you know, like, it's not, I'm saying this the wrong way right now, but it's not hard really to spot for a really fast race car

when, you know, you have a really good driver. I mean, there's guys we've known for years that really don't need a spotter at all. Yeah, I mean, so I'm probably a little more on the other side of it. I think it's working with Dale Jr. was challenging at times, but working with Joey is actually, more challenging for me because I'm actually working a lot more. And, you know, I had to learn some things that Joey wanted that I never had to do before. And it was, it was challenging.

I think you'd be surprised at how much, you know, how much goes into working with one of them guys. I think you'd be, like, just some of them guys are big studiers, and they're looking at all sorts of things. I was kind of shocked by it, but I think you'd be surprised by it. Anything else for ranting about today? It wasn't really ranting, but... Yeah, no. True.

No rant. I don't think. You want to rant about the guy that wants to see your credential when you walk right by him every time? Oh, my God. So I come down the stairs. I know I go up the stairs.

Jesus. How about he had Phillips jacked up for, like, a whole practice? Because Phillips is like, I don't know, his hard car was in the office or something. But anyway, so I go, here's this guy. We come off the elevator.

There's a guy standing at the bottom of stairs like Sergeant Slaughter. There's a guy at the bottom elevator, I got the top of the elevator, and then a guy at the bottom of the stairs the spotter stand. Just in case somebody sneaks on in the tree. Just in case.

We go up to stairs. You know, I take my bag up to the roof. Hey, you got your hard car. I always have my hard car like tucked inside my shirt or whatever. So I take it out. Yeah, here you go. Go back up to stairs. Put my bag down.

I'm like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. Down the stairs, walk right by the same guy that just checked my ID. Look, you know, go in the bathroom. That's like 100 feet to the left. Come out of the bathroom and walk back to the stairs. You got your pass? I'm like, are you being? Like, we just did this literally four minutes ago.

Like, what do you mean? Yep. Hey, it hasn't changed either. Same picture, matter of fact. So it was weird, though, because it was only the last Saturday and Sunday. On Thursday, we had truck practice. Zero issues with anybody. Nobody there.

Friday. Nobody there, no issues at all. Then Saturday was like, excuse me, hard card. Excuse me, hard card. I mean, literally, you could just step off the stairs, step down to turn around. trying to get back on me, you had every hard card. So Mike Phillips, which I should say was on show. Well, they said one of us complained.

Yeah? About the lack of security? About somebody not being at the bottom of the mysterious, which there is absolutely no way that's possible. First of all, we don't let people on the roof. And NASCAR official won't let anybody up there that's not supposed to be there. So we don't have an issue with that at all. Right.

So Phillips was telling me, though, he said, you know, so he'd come off the elevator and Mike Phillips is a NASCAR official. He runs like the clean up truck. So he said, they stopped him and they're like, where's your pass,

this, that, the other thing. And while they're detaining him, talking to him, he said, three fans come up to stairs, T-shirt, shorts, like some kind of Hawaiian shirt, beers, walk right by the guy

because he's talking to Phillips. He's like, if you ever want to have no trouble, just bring a beer. Nobody ever stops you if he's carrying a beer around. So, I mean, I might try that one. I thought that was funny that, you know, all of a sudden, hey, I just saw you go up there.

I know you got your heart cup, but I'm just see it. again. Yeah, I'm going to have to actually one more time. You just saw it. Unbelievable. Yeah. All right.

DBC picks. Why don't you give me a little insider info? I can't. Top secret information. I mean, I feel like he's already, he's already told me who you're going to pick and who he wants to. Just so you know. I know who he's going to pick, I think. And it's probably somebody I've already picked.

Nope. Okay. Well, if that's the case, and he's so sure of it, I am going to go with, He knows who I'm going to pick. It's obvious who you pick here. Yeah. I go with Harvick. Hey, what do you know?

That's who Brett said you pick. Brett is taking PJ Majors and Joey Logano this week. Wow. That would be pretty good. Dang. All right. Give someone, I guess Harvick would be the top performer that people should use for fantasy, but is there anyone else that you should not leave off your lineup because they're the best there is at ISM raceway.

Just for the record, when I was on here last time, we did this about Atlanta. and I said to pick Chris Boucher, and I believe he finished in the top 10. Just to just to say. I picked Ryan Priest to be the sleeper last week. He was sleeping. He's probably so mad at me today because we ran the hell out of him yesterday. Oh, I was watching because we were right. We got to you guys just as that was fizzling out, and I'm like, oh, no, please let this end soon.

So I may have witnessed one of you guys driving down on the corner. trying to get to the other one. Yeah. So that was interesting. Any sleepers, too? Oh, man. Is AJ? It's so hard.

It's so hard. It's so hard to pick right now because we don't really know. You don't really know yet. I'm going to be interested to see this week, too, because I've heard some guys from the test talking about we're going way faster this year than we were last year at this race. I don't know, man. It's so hard to tell. We haven't had a short track with.

this package yet at all, so we don't really, I mean, the sleeper to me, maybe, I don't know, I mean, I almost feel like Ryan Priest again, short track guy, this is a big short track. Can move around a little bit in three and four, maybe find some speed there, but honestly, I really don't know what to expect. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to say with this package. I mean, the last race, last year there, we ran seventh, eighth, all day. I think we finished ninth. So, I mean, we could be a sleeper, but like I said, I have no idea going into it what this package is going to do, what how our car will be.

So it's just tough to tell us by us. I mean, Bubba, obviously. Ryan's probably a good pick. Busher, again, is a good pick. Yeah. Basically just standing the field at this. Yeah, I mean, to Benedetto. I mean, you could be anybody.

It could be right now. You don't know. I mean, I would go, I would not be afraid of Elmerol. Yeah. Would not be afraid of Elmerol. He's out of his sleeper rolling when he's got in the 10 car. Yeah, I guess. I mean, just looking down the list, Eric Jones, obviously, I think he'll have a strong run.

Is that house maybe? No, he's just, he struggles this place a little bit. Okay, so my sleeper here would be Newman. Okay. He won two years ago. Yeah, Newman seems to find a way there. He'll hang around. He's not going to be very fast, but he's going to slowly chip away at it.

And usually by the end of the race, he's around the top 10. So that'd be my mind. Would you qualify Bowman as a sleeper? I mean, he's pretty good here. They've had speed there. I don't really know if that's a sleeper. Nine's a good there, so. Yeah.

There's a lot. Movie review? Yes, I watched six-pack over the weekend. Oh, finally. Pretty funny with the kids being the crew and working on the engine and stuff and going off, driving their truck into the water, and then the guy saving them and then becoming the crew. And it was pretty funny. I didn't like as much as Strug Race, but it was a good.

Yeah, you're a millennial, though, so. That ain't no love. He doesn't appreciate the Stroker race movie anyway. I mean... I liked it. Oh, I like that. Stoker is good. He doesn't appreciate six-pack.

Yeah, no. What do you watch? Six-pack? He watched six-pack this week. Yeah, he's not going to appreciate that because he's never been to a local track with somebody like that. So he doesn't know what it's all about. What's his next one? I mean, are we branching out now?

Yes. No racing. What's that movie with a truffle shuffle? Should I watch that? The Goody. No, no, no, no. You haven't seen the goodies? Man.

That should be done all. Already. So there's more that. I feel like we need to... Porkies? Yeah, but either that or like 16 candles or something. Oh, I love that movie.

It's a good one. I guarantee you've never seen it. What'd you say? 16 candles? Yeah. You never seen 16 candles? I've seen it. I don't know why we're making

anybody else watching. Look who. Look who it is. It's got the little Asian guy. I love that movie. Big Lake. 16 candles is a classic. Dirty Dancing.

That could be another one. There's long duck dongs in that movie. lonely he is what about a porkies why we remember out of porkies is he old enough what is it name why is it TVMA

I mean if you got Porkies is good but about like airplane that's another one man you gotta just watch Porkies and if you get into it watch the set dude number one

you know and if you get into it just go ahead and watch two and three or whatever there I think deal I mean we got a lot to hit still we got all year

revenge of the nerds and stuff like that. So much, though. Yeah. Straight out of the 80s. Meatballs. Caddyshack. Holy cow.

Yeah. Fun to have. Wow, we're going to make you cool, Jason. Thank you. We're trying. Maybe next time he won't stay and break his leg. I'll be even cooler when I beat TJ playing when I wanted basketball. That's not going to happen.

That's not going to happen. You hurt yourself sitting down. I don't understand how that's possible. He can't even argue that. I'm an old man. I'm sorry. You're 21. You just turned to.

He's the only guy I know they put in a wheelchair and that was more dangerous than walking. Jason, you cannot sit down. I think we just closed the show out now. No. You have like 19 years on me, so should you spot me some points? He's got 19 years and 8 inches.

Wait, he can't just give you points. We'll see how they're like half time. I mean, he's so good. This will be a dirty milk feature film. I go for any, I go for any advantage that I can at this because I'm liable to tear an ACL. This is true.

This kid over here. Well, he is too, obviously. He's not liable to tear one on the court. Yes. So, I mean, we'll probably end up playing horse or something. No running. Wheelchair basketball. Jason, I'm tired.

Let's just play horse. Fine, deal, get the wheelchair. Yes. All right. All right. Well, thanks everyone for listening. Be sure the share, like, retweet, all that. Don't know, but you don't have to retweet this week.

Yes. Retweet this video. Whatever we need. We got to tell Dylaner in it. So we have a. that we have a challenge coming up. We cut the show. It's up.

Caught it. Freddie said if we get 1,500 retweets about him doing the truffle shuffle, he will do it on the show and we'll record it. They said I have to have a signature move because Brett moonwalks. We basically said, we needed something. Because with Gwen's video now. Sure. Yeah, absolutely.

I showed him a video. He's going to do it. I already called sponsorship. I'll run his belly bun. We are looking for sponsorship opportunities. So belly button, clear. I'll sponsor the trail. He's going to shave it as an arrow.

Yeah. Hey me down. Okay, that's inappropriate. I actually have a friend that has done that, by the way. His name's T.J. No. It's not me. Wait a minute.

X-ray vision. Yeah. So, all right, well, that was interesting. Thanks, Freddie, for joining. Yeah, we'll be, we're definitely going to be in touch about that. Yeah, so I'm not going to be back until the year 20. 2025 now, so I appreciate everybody listening. I hope to be back soon.

I cannot wait for this. All right. Thanks, guys. Yeah, thanks for having us, and we'll talk to you next week. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Dirty Mo.