Door Bumper Clear - 134 - This Car Don’t Turnt!

Episode Date: May 8, 2019

The gang returns from rainy Dover to cover the Cup cars being too easy to drive, aero package criticism, the return of single car qualifying, Kevin Harvick’s millennial car, best post-race parties and be pranked by JRM360.  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 want a dog now. Oh, boy. You have a dog. You want me to bring Stella next week? She'll be like, oh, she's so cute. I want a baby. She's going to get around. I'm going to bring Kyle in next week, Jason, so he can eat you.

I have an extra thing. That sounds like a personal problem. Play it, Jason. This is Doorbumpur clear, and I'm Casey Boat. Raine at Dover pushed the race until Monday, but the gang is back and ready to discuss. We'll cover the return of single car qualifying. Kyle Busch's Aero. package comments, Kevin Harvick's

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Hello. Hello. Clear. Bring all. Three light. Door bumper clear. Well, hello, everyone. Also, now you start the show and not TJ?

This is TJ's show. You guys going to say. Sorry, I'll stop talking. She's out like, hey, everybody. Welcome the door bumper clear. I am T.J. Majors. You're always on your phone. You were just on your phone when the show started.

I was doing my makeup. Like you. Checking my hair. I was not doing my makeup. filming the dog, okay? Right. You got up early today. You had time to get an eat in cup.

I had to work before this. Oh, okay. Wow. Sorry. Carry on. Brett Griffin, Spotter, Clint Boyer. That's all I do now. Everybody else fired me.

That's all I got. I just show up and work 50 minutes on Friday. Work about an hour on Saturday. I mean, I still have Ben Rhodes in the truck. So I got a couple of Sydney races. this year still. I've got Austin Dillon at Charlotte in Xfinity. That should be fun.

Yeah. That would be interesting. Yeah, be fun. Hmm. So he's going to be in... Yeah, he ran, you know, the tin car, he ran for Collegg in Vegas, finished fourth with it, which was one of their few top five. Okay, so it's not an RCR car.

No. Okay. It's Colleg Racing's car. And so he'll run that. I don't think I could tell everywhere he's running, but he's definitely running Charlotte. I don't know if that's been announced if it hadn't. I guess I just announced it.

I have not. heard it, but... I have not heard of him. I'd be asking... So that's a... I can't break my own news, can't I? That's an association. Do we need to cut the show and restart? Do they get showed us cars?

Yeah. They do not. They don't. They have an alliance. You know what I mean? So, yeah, they've got access to engineering. I mean, it's basically like the J.R. M. Hendrick thing. I'd go in there and be like, I want where Redick runs. Every week. Every week.

Yeah. Hey, we said early in the year, that kid can wheel it, too. Yeah. I mean, I'm working with him before it, he's improved a lot. Like he's actually It sounds like we're in the shop today. It does. Yeah.

Oh, they change the tires like, oh, they're right here behind us. Tell that guy we're trying to do a podcast. Is that Dustin? He's not even doing anything right there. Hey! They can't hear us, TJ. Yeah, there's a friend. No, I mean, there's Coles in the glass right here.

He's got earphones in, too. You guys are so easily. He's not even doing anything. What do you think he's listening to? He's not even doing anything. What do you think he's listening to? He looks important. He's making a hell of a lot of racket.

That's not him. It's not him. I mean, it'd be great if you went up and tapped the wall and said Dustin. What's T.J. Bang on the window, T.J. Try to stare at him. Oh, you chicken. Now he's leaving.

He's going. T.J.'s present scared him away. What an idiot. He sounds like a guy in pit road before a race down there. Yeah, waa! Look at me. I got an air going, wow! They're warming up guys, okay?

They warm up for like three hours. That's what I told people when they're on pit road. Yeah, they're just warming up. I mean, yeah, I get it. You got to get under and get in your rhythm. But when they're like clearing the Lions House, they're like, my favorite part about pit crew guys in today's world is, let me go back.

When I got here, the guys who traveled to work on the cars, they were also the pit crew guys. So when this transition occurred to where these new guys are now, the B team. So now the road crew calls them the athletes. Here come the athletes. Like they're kind of jealous of them. You know what I mean?

I love it when I'm getting a pit and garage store because I'm like, you never know, guys. They can be retired NFL football players and they all get excited. So I think it's a great thing to talk about. What's your favorite part about pit crew guys? Here's that guy back again. This is some of a gun right here. My thing is like do something, guy.

Can you turn the camera to this guy please? Can we get him? He's doing something. Look, he is. anything. He's playing with his thing. Look at him. Oh, it's out of air. Thank God. No, it's back in air. He's complaining that he's working right now. T.J. is complaining that the guy's doing his job. He's not working on anything. He is. He's wasting nitrogen.

Brett, you look super preppy today. Thanks. He laid it down. Go get it, donor. Take that thing. Go take it off there. I'm going to go look at boats when we leave here. Holy cow. So I don't want to look like some broke guy buying a boat. You just got, you're fired from the truck, fire from Xfinity all the time. Now you're going to go buy a boat. I know, but I just bought me a truck. I'm on a boat. I bought me a boat. Now I got to buy a truck to pull it, but I bought the truck first. What are you going to name it? My boat? Yeah. I think I want to name an aquagasm. What do you think about that? Does that sound like a fun boat name? My boat's going to be fun, first of all.

Can we have a recording on the boat? Is that a, yeah. Is that a fun boat name or is that too far? Man, that's... I mean... Just knowing what Lake Norman is like. Explaining it to your kids would probably be the hardest part. I mean, but they're his kids. You probably already know what that is. Your kids are old enough.

They're going to want to go with... They're going to be like, hey, dad, can I bring some friends? They're going to be like, hey, what's your boat name? I'll see Aquasms. Well, then I'll just cover up the gazm part and it'll just be aqua. That's a lot of work. Is it too much? It's probably too much.

For Lake Norman, maybe. What do y'all think of good a boat name is? Dirty Moe Retired spotter I'm not retired yet Yeah Doorbber Clear

Eyes on the lake What was that Just take What's your spot What's your Boater Brett Motor Boater Casey motorboater

Oh my gosh That's what we'll name I think There's a lot of different avenues To take with this So Anyway So yeah we race

At Dover it was pretty uneventful. Dover? Man. Yeah, Dover was, it was not as bad. It was worse than, I thought Richmond was kind of bad with the air, but at least it was short track so you could move around a little bit and get runs off the corner.

And a couple lanes, you know, kind of for him. Dover was super hard. Like, it was like Richmond magnified to me. Like, you couldn't, you couldn't, um, I've never been more surprised in my life at a racetrack that we, we did that, honestly. Have you? Here's the thing, though. I caught a very slow car in practice, and it was a car in its 30s.

You became a slow car. And I became a slow car. Yeah. I literally, I lost six-tenths as soon as I caught this guy and I couldn't move around and I couldn't pass him. And I was like, well, what are we, what are we going to do Sunday if there's going to be 40 of? us out here doing this. So I think that for me, that kind of was foreshadowing for what the race was going to be like, almost terrifying. And what it produced was ultimately a caution-free race.

And it goes back to what we've been saying. These cars are too easy to drive. When you can run 400 laps at Dover and your only two cautions are because guys are having right front issues, both those guys hit something to cause right-front issues. It's not like it was a tire issue. No, it was when you have a, another thing for people that might not understand is when you have a green racetrack like Dover, it is for the first 150, 200 laps, you do not move up until you see numerous cars move up because you're all going to, a green racetrack will. It's harder on the right front. It's harder on the right front. It's fast when you move up. It's really fast.

Because it's green. Because it's just your tires grabbing. that green asper or green concrete there and it's just grippy you know that's why you're able to see guys move up we've we've done it i've done it with dale junior we've moved up we're three-tenths faster than the field guess what we did blew it right front hey jell mender everybody moves up too early but still even after it rubber you know even after it laid a little bit of rubber it wasn't you couldn't you could move up there but it wasn't um there wasn't fall off like it there needed to be still we would move up for with clint for a few laps and

we'd be really fast but after a few lapsed It had just blown the tires off of it, and then we'd lose that time and have to go back to the bottom. Yeah, you had to run the bottom until you timed your run on the guy in front of you that got caught up in a little bit of dirty air, and you needed to have a run at that point. Here's what I don't understand, T.J. And maybe you don't want to talk about it, but I want to talk about it. I'm probably not going to talk about it. Everybody's blowing up Kyle Bush. Everybody's blowing up the 95 car owner. Everybody's blowing up anybody that says anything.

Why isn't anybody actually blowing up good year? Why is that tire that damn good? I mean, Goodyear builds a phenomenal tire. But is it Goody or is it NASCAR mandating it? NASCAR's not mandating the tires. No, but allowing it to them to run it. Somebody at NASCAR needs to go knock on the Goodyear door and say, hey, bro, we need a better tire. I'm asking the question, meaning I don't know.

I think with less testing in packs and groups, like now we have, we have tire tests now, but there's three cars there. So we really don't get a good indication on what, you know, you're going to have, like, I think with this new package and stuff, And we've had this, it's been a pretty common theme that the tires have been really hard. But we're going, Goodyers, you know, I understand their side of things. They're nervous because they don't want to have, they're going so fast. They don't want to put us in a boat where we have to manage the right front tire. Yeah. Because if we're managing the right front tire, people are popping tires.

And if they're popping tires, they're hitting the walls. And hitting walls hard too. So I think there's a- Honestly, though, T. T.J., with a speech that we saw on Friday. In order for Sunday to be a great race, we need to see two seconds, two and a half seconds of fall off on lap times in order to produce a good race. And we did not see that on Sunday and you saw the product of the race. It was a glorified parade.

The thing I didn't like was I think there obviously needs to be tire fall off. Our best race has come with tire fall off. We look like an indie car race for the first time ever. That looked like a slot car race to me. It looked like some kid in the stands pulling trigger. What Clint Boyer has been saying these cars drive like since day one with his package. My issue... They drive like a slot car.

My issue with this is we drove down into the corner. Is it that guy again? Yeah. Now he has a hammer. Look at his shoes. What shop guy works in shoes like that? That is true. This has to be a vendor.

Dengen is about to have hard attack. I mean, he just went and got a hammer and a piece of steel and is beating it on the other side of the glass right here. Honestly, this would be a great... Are you prank for Dillner if we did this one? He's literally not accomplishing anything. I was waiting for... We could do during the download, like set it all up. Oh, wait.

That's actually Micah. This is a prank. Oh. Oh. They're messing with you. Because Brett saw the shit. Did you know about it? Dillner know about it.

That was Micah. Because the shoes gives it away. That's what I said. I was like, I've never seen this guy in a shirt. Yeah. Y'all did good. Y'all got us. We got punked.

Yeah. Who is that guy? Micah, he's the studio manager. Danny Jr. was in on it, too. Everybody's serious. We're going to go and we arrange Micah's office after this show. I'll show you where it is. Universal middle fingers for everybody in on that.

So that's why nobody would go tell him to shut off either. Jason, were you in on that? No, I had no idea. That's awesome. Dillner was in on it, 100% in it on. Dillner, right there. Yeah, T.J's the worst at pranks. Y'all have just pranked the wrong guy.

Yeah, where's his office is it upstairs? Oh, sweet. Oh, sweet. Oh, sweet, great. What's he drive? Casey's crying. What does he drive? A car.

What's his license plate? Yeah. We're going to need a valve stem tool. Tell him all his vowsons are going to be in the grass. You know this was Dillner's idea, though. It probably was because he went out there. It was Dillner's or Mike Davis. So my issue, can I talk about my issue yet?

You have a lot of them. We've had several issues. We've had a guy with a fake air gun. We've had a guy with a fake hammer beating on with... We've had a guy with office shoes on in the shop. So this is all going to be on J.R. M36. This will make a great episode. Yeah, and when we get Micah back when his vows stem was his vows...

golf course are in the grass at lunchtime and he's looking for them that'll be on 360 as well. You know what that means right is we're going to have to figure out a prank for that whole group Dillner involved so. Yeah, yeah. Can't talk about it here though. Listen. Yeah, that's fine afterwards. Anyway, so at Dover, you couldn't follow a guy into a corner and get him off the bottom.

You could follow somebody as close as possible and it did not affect him one day. His rear didn't move. Which I don't like. And it used to. It used to be, it used to be the point where a guy worked real hard to get him to that point and then you kind of had him. Now there is none of that. It took away an offensive maneuver to create stuff.

And I don't, that's something that I don't, I don't know if it's because, you was harder than ever to get to his bumper. And when you did finally get to his bumper, it didn't move it. His car didn't wiggle a quarter of an inch. Yeah, the only passing was when they would get, people in front of you would get jammed up and you'd have a run. So. I really thought seeing the speeds that we saw on Friday, we had the potential for a hell

of a race. But then when I saw in Saturday that I got behind a very slow car and then it made me a very slow car, I was like, well, we're in trouble. And the tire was just too good. It was, I mean, just not enough fall off. We pitted and took two and came out 10th. We got a few of them on a restart. We ended up to 6, but we were stuck with two tires and 6th, like not moving. And listen to me, I was 3.5 tenths faster than you catching you. Oh, yeah. And when I caught you, I was stuck. Oh, I saw. And the guy behind me, he would. catch both of us and then he was stuck. And so Brad got in trouble one time with a lap car. And we were four-tenths faster than him. We caught him. We couldn't do anything with him. He got stuck,

screwed up with a lap car. So we got him. We drove off by a straight-away in three to four laps. Like that's how much faster we were. And when your car is that much faster, you're supposed to be able to pass. And Dover's always been, quote, hard to pass. But it's never been this hard to pass. If these guys were cars running closer together instead of passing each other, the philosophy. The philosophy is wrong. The philosophy has to be that we can still pass. I don't give a crap how close we run together. That's what IndyCar does.

They have 300,000 people watching their races. We got to be able to run side by side. We got to be able to pass. Yeah. Period. Let's go, Casey. I'm already red-faced. I can't tell.

We got tires growing on. We can't pass. All right. Let's head on, spot off. Spot off the tool bag over here. That was so funny. Were you in on this, Casey? No, I had no idea.

I'll murder you. I swear. I can't give a secret. I'm like the worst. Spot on, spot off. It's spot off. You spot off. That's not long you like it.

Spot off. You don't like it. And you say one either way. You're pregnant? No. We just need to add a segment on the show where they asked me that question. And you're like no. How far long are you?

Do I look like I'm pregnant? Is it a boy or girl? Slightly. You'll be retaining water, T.J. It may not be that she's pregnant. You nauseous? They're doctors. Trying to diagnose you.

I don't think that's a... You don't prenatal vitamins right now. No. Drink this tequila. That's the ultimate sense. If they don't drink the tequila, it's like, oh, they're pregnant. She didn't drink on the first episode. If I was pregnant, then, I would be real fat now.

Easy. I wouldn't use that one. Heavier. Geez. Well, I'm saying about myself. I'm not saying about something else. It's a boy or girl. I am not pregnant.

Twins. Chad would be, oh my gosh. Let's not talk about it. Daddies would it be. Is Chad listen to this show? I don't know. I can talk a lot of crap about him and he would have no idea probably. First topic, single car qualifying returns.

Spot on, spot off. TJ, you just clearly have a lot to say. I have a lot to say of that guy in the shop. And everyone else that was involved in this. But spot off. It was cool. but I liked the, and when we qualified good still, we qualified fourth. I just, I liked the, I liked the tension buildup to the one run, five minutes.

Let's go, see who's going to go, who's not going to go. Dover would have been a little bit different than that. Dover was going to be a mess like Richmond, but I mean, I like it. Here's the thing. One mile and under tracks, we could go group qualifying and nobody be at a disadvantage. One mile and over tracks, we saw what was going. on with the gimmicks. But when group qualifying was first introduced, I was like, man, you know what, this could be really cool. And I think with the package that we had in cup, it worked really,

really well. Unfortunately, as time went on, we saw the fastest car and the fastest driver get screwed. You know, Chase Elliott sat on the pole. He got disqualified for not making it back to the line in time. Ryan Blaney, I think, set a track record, and he didn't even sit on the pole that day because there was a whole other round of qualifying. So congratulations to the fastest car and the fastest driver at Dover for sitting on the pole. Therefore, single car qualifying is working. Spot on. I like the case.

Awesome. I felt like it gave us an advantage, so I like it. Interesting. All right. Drex fails, pre-raced tech, and wins after starting from the rear. Brett. Man, this almost seems like the days of old for Cole Pern. You know, the guy's failed tech a lot and then come on to win the race.

So you can't, I mean, spot on to Martin for. for driving a flawless race. I think he got up to probably 11th or 12th that first stage. He was the only guy that I really saw that could pass cars. His speed through the center of the corner was unbelievable. And he looked a lot freer than most of the rest of the field. So obviously they figured something out. But it's still kind of weird that a guy can fail and still win, you know.

So, man, I don't know. Spot on for what they pulled off. But, you know, when that guy fell to the Kentucky Derby Test, there you go yeah i think uh i'm i'm a spot on for driving a great race things obviously fell in in place for him he had to get the right row on the restarts otherwise he never would have got that track position because he's not going to pass 10 cars from 11th of them top 10 you're not going to pass him straight up you have to get some help on restarts you have to get some help on that stuff he might have got half of them um but yeah i mean you got you get him on pit road

you're on the outside land on a restart like i said we we we came down pit road and 14th or 15th took two tires came out 10th we ended up 6th and then we stayed out a little bit longer in a green flag cycle and lost one spot and up 7th came out two ties well actually did you stay out or come out with two tires when you won that stage two tires oh no no no no we stayed out yeah stayed out um it hurt us a little bit because I think we're we normally can drive back through okay you know but man we were stuck you there was a point where I thought you may get a lap down you know when the leader was really coming and he got some traffic slowed him down but we could run competitive speeds, but you're just stuck.

Stuck. So the only other car that I saw that I thought could have competed with the 19 at time was the 88. 88 came from the back, but he was one of them guys that had sling it off in there and drive all the way to the high side. He would. All the way to the wall almost. I mean, that's what, he had that stage, but he overdrove turn one.

He had that stage one, but he was one of the guys that can make up time. Back to back runner up finishes for Alex Bowman. Yeah. God who needed it. Yeah. Good for them guys. Yeah, good for them guys for sure. Kyle Bush's comments on the Arrow package.

Jason, on you play it? I will play it. Thanks to my friend Davy Segal for sending the audio to me. He was at the race. Here it is. Oh, the package sucks. No question about it. It's terrible.

But all I can do is about it and fall on deaf ears and we'll come back here with the same thing in the fall. Anytime you get a chance to drop an F-bomb, just do it. Brett does. Oh, man. You know, I guess there was no fine for the... Right. Was this on radio or TV? This was to a print guy.

Okay. It wasn't national radio. Okay. I mean, I got no problem with a guy being disappointed with it. Kyle's one of the guys that's used to... He normally has the best car almost every week. He's one of the guys that can drive from the back to the front. And, you know, he wasn't able to do it for one, so he's frustrated.

Jason, how did you feel about it? this. I mean, this is your guy. Oh, this is this guy. I'm just glad he's voicing his opinion and saying something controversial like no one else will do. TJ, you spot on or spot off for him saying it? So, I'm, uh, you know, I'm spot on for Kyle speaking. What do you think? Uh, surprised he didn't get fined? Slightly, because there's some pretty strong language in there. No matter who you're talking to, there's some pretty strong language. I know people have been fine for saying a lot

less. I know, granted it was on TV, but you don't know who's listening right there. Um, But still, spot on for Kyle, speaking his mind. We need the personalities, man. That's him. Be yourself. But I don't know. I mean, anytime Kyle doesn't run top five or win a race, he's mad. I disagree with you because when he won the first race of Bristol in the car tomorrow,

he beat Jeff Burton and he was in victory lane. He said this car drives like, these cars suck. And we, over the course of the car tomorrow, managed to lose a lot of momentum that we had with TV audiences and live audiences. So for a guy of Kyle's talent to get out and make this comment, I don't think it's the first time he said it. I think this is the first time he said it where he knew the whole world was going to listen to what he was saying,

and that's why he did it this way. I'm probably spot off for the fact that he said it in public, but I think I'm spot on for the fact that he'd probably been saying it privately and it wasn't getting any attention, and he did feel like it was falling on deaf ears, and he knew if he did this, it would change. and it would get back and then maybe they would see some kind of reaction. Like I'm telling you right now, every driver that I talk to in the Cup series says,

these cars are too easy to drive. And when I talk to guys who run Xfinity series versus the Cup series, they say, man, it's a lot harder to drive the Xfinity car. They're harder to get in the corner. You're out of the gas. They're sliding around. You get into the cup car. They've got so much downforce.

They're just planted. They're, a, quote, slot car. So Kyle Bush is one of the more talented guys in the field, and he's pissed. And so those media people saying, well, this is just Kyle Wine. No, it's not. Go back to that car tomorrow race. He won the race and he got out. This is no different.

I think it's a little of both. I think Kyle's frustrated. How many races he won this year? Three. Yeah, he's won three. Yeah, he's real frustrated. Well, he's frustrated every time he doesn't win, though. But, I mean, he has points on both sides.

So, yeah. 95 team owner Bob Levine's tweets. The first one he sent after Kyle Bush made his comments, he said, let me second at Kyle Busch's his statement, this package sucks, has nothing to do with where he finished. And then a couple days, I guess, yesterday. And Bob tweeted, I have no issue with your statement, Vince Welch, except that neither Kyle nor myself criticized NASCAR or any of their officials.

It was simply a rules package that was in question. If they can't handle those comments, we have bigger issues. Thank you. Mike drop. And he's been tweeting like crazy for days now. Yeah. Spot on, spot off Brett. I'm surprised.

You know, I don't think I've ever seen an owner go on Twitter to basically, you know, magnify what a driver that's not even on his team said. So he is endorsing Kyle's tweet from an ownership perspective. And I'm surprised because this whole rules package that we came up with and said a lot of the rules that we've made is to make underfunded teams more relative. You know, it was let's don't bring as many crew guys. Let's make these guys wear patches. let's do X, Y, and Z to cut cost. And then this package was, let's make it to where we can all, quote, run in a pack, run closer together, have more relevance to these teams.

You know, this 95 team, this is the first year they've been even remotely relevant. Yeah, they're definitely more relevant. So for him to be against it is a big statement about how he feels about this package. So for an owner to come out and say this, look, it's happened in other sports. You know, ownership has come out and spoke out against things. He said he didn't speak out against the sectioning body. He spoke out against the rules package. Well, guess who came up with the Luce package?

I think the sanctioning body. I was just, I'm not spot on or spot off for the fact that this guy had the balls to tweet this. I'm just really, really surprised. I will say this, though, like a Vince Welch coming out and saying, you know, he kind of went against Bob saying, man, I wouldn't have done that. And he obviously did what he wanted to do, but he may have done that and he may get fined. Vince Welch gets paid by TV. TV pays NASCAR. So there again, like we talked about earlier this year, you know, some of these people are salesmen.

and they have to be, you know, right? If I worked for MRN that's on by ISC, I can't say anything negative about this package, anything negative about, you know, the racetracks that ISC owns, Dayton, the Talladega, the list goes on and on and on. So everybody's got their own agenda.

You know, I probably need to do a better job of sticking to my agenda versus being so just unbiased with some of these comments. Yeah, I don't know if I'm necessarily spot on for that. I think that's something, you can be disappointed with it

and just make a comment like, you know, hey, this roll package needs adjusting still, but you're relevant now. Like the 95 is one, you know, one superstar like Kurt Bush or something from going over there to being very relevant. In my opinion, it's a, it's a 78 car in the making. Like that car, it's getting better and better. So, you know, that's a big statement. Yeah, that's a big, man.

I mean, when they first started. With Kenny Wallace and Regan Smith and, you know, good drivers, but not great drivers. But every time they do something, they kept getting. better. TJ just made a great point. So they're obviously on the right path, you know, and, you know, I look at, there's some, there's some accounts on Instagram and Twitter that posts some old races and stuff. And some of them when they come up, there's not, those races were good races, but they were few and far between.

And we've had some good races here. We've had some pretty good races in the last few years. You know, our racing's not terrible. You know, obviously NASCAR is working on it all the time. It's a work in progress. and it's not just a package. There's things that can make this package better, like the tires. There's things that...

That's my biggest complaint, what you just said, the tires. Well, that and, you know, there's things that maybe we can't adjust. Maybe we knock some of that rear spoiler off the thing, something. I don't know. Like, let some of that air get down behind the car. Let the other guy use it on his nose, you know, get there or something. I don't know the answer to it, but, you know, it's a work in progress. And we've had some good races.

People just need to, you know, understand. that just like this this our sport's different than than like basketball you're that those roles are set in place they don't our sport is we're evolving all the time you know basketball players get better they don't have to adjust the shot clock because a guy is stronger faster we have to do things in our sport because we've got a lot more moving pieces to our sport than almost any other sport so I mean I want to hear what you're thinking about this our guys are used to be being able to pass cars when they're faster than the other car and they're not right now and that That's why I think, look, you know, last year it was Stuart Haas, JGR in the 78 car.

Those were the top three. Right now it's just JGR and Penske. So if you're part of those two organizations, you're probably a pretty big fan of this. I think JGRs won one seven races. You guys have won like four races or whatever those numbers are. But for me, man, as a driver and knowing the guys that I know, they want to have the opportunity to pass when they catch a car and they don't have that, and that's why they're frustrated.

I'm all four still making them, I mean, we got stuck. we were stuck Sunday and I know we were better than the next seven, eight cars in front of us, too. We were stuck. I think, yeah, I think it's still, you know, people, they just need to keep working on it, you know. I think that's, you know, it's always going to be work in progress, but you do want to be able to at least move around and work on a guy or see a guy, oh, that guy's using the stuff up. I'm just going to ride here for a few laps, let him burn his stuff up and then I'll drive by him. Something.

Thoughts on Kevin Harvick's Millennial Car for the All-Star Race, which is right here. Spot on, spot off. Whoever wants to go. You all both want to talk clearly. Oh, have you not looked at it? Is pink and teal? You need to look at the pictures. Do you see what it's written on it?

Oh my gosh, man. Look at this. What's the intention of the millennial paint scheme? A.F. Bush, A.F. Yes. That's awesome. Yes.

Look at the side. Tert left. Tert left. See the emojis they put on there? A little frog with a cup. Dude, this is. awesome. It is good, man. That is freaking awesome. Bush's Bay.

Bushes Bay before anything else. Yeat. Yeat. What is Yeat? I don't know, Jason. What is it? Actually, my friend used it all the time, but I don't really know it. I've never even heard of it. Is that me old? What does that mean? It's just like an exclamation. Is that like in my fields?

We need Carson on this show. Carson is in the book. Hey, that's awesome. It is awesome. I spot on. Spot on all those slogans and graphics. They said they were going to run it last year if something I forget what I was. It was like a bet. After they claimed that Harvard could win the championship

because old guy's rule and then Bush said if he didn't win, they would run him, Lenny O'Connor in the All-Star Race. So he didn't win the championship and here we go. I got to know what Yeet means, though. Skeet? Do you want to look it up, Brett? I'm looking it up, but...

Who is the rapper? Ski-Skeet, ski, ski, mother. From the window. Is it a little, John. Yeah, little John. Oh, yeah. I knew that one. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Spot on for, hey, that's a big marketing step for those guys. This is huge for them. I think it's cool because it's kind of grassroots where it's more of just conversation. Yeah. I think they're just owning it. Hey, we'll run it. Why not, man?

But that's like, this is going to sell to them. Last time I drank a bush beer was when we won Martinsville. I will drink a bush beer this week because of that car. That's cool. Yeah, I think it's cool. They're running with it. And I can't wait to see what Harvard, you know, when he does some media about it and stuff, what his comments are going to be.

You know, Delana is a very fun, like, R&B hip-hop lady. Like, you know, she gets it. Kevin, man, I mean, he's from California, but he's not, like, super fun. He's not an A-F. He's not an A-F guy. You know what I mean? Like, he's not the guy that you want to. No.

He's not going to make the top ten guys of who I want to go party with in the Cups here. Not tomorrow. You know what I mean? He doesn't say. He's a very serious guy, very business guy. And obviously, I have one hell of a race. car driver, right? But he's not the guy that you would pick to run this paint scheme, which makes it even funnier. He probably doesn't use emojis either. Now, Rodney, this car don't turn.

Don't turn. Turned? Apparently, Yeat was a popular dance on Vine in 2014, and that's where the saying came from. I don't know why people use it. You know how to eat? No. What is yeat? You need to do a glass on this? A. F. Yee A. I text A. F all the time. You would. I think it's funny. They put it on. there, man. I do too. So, yeah, that's awesome. Hopefully the crew guys have matching uniforms.

Yeah, hopefully the crew guys, uniforms are. I'm excited for All-Star because I like how they made it. Same deal with Rodney Chilers. Like, he's not the guy that would be this millennial carrier. Like, that makes it even better and even funnier. Like, that is, they used to be fun. Now they're opening themselves up to another group. Yeah.

Like, we're not just after this crowd anymore. We're going after this crowd. I hope they do more with it, like, at the track or, Own up to it. Like Alan Mincy's on this team. Dax is on this team. Cheddar's on this team. Those three guys are fun guys.

Like I can see them being in their 40s and carrying this, this banner that ultimately they're carrying. But the crew chief and driver, hell no, that makes this awesome. Didn't Gibbs run a... Oh, Kyle ran a pony, sparkle. Figurehead, no. I just remember. Oh, yeah.

It didn't have like a cat. It had a cat on it or something. Yeah, I forget why they did it, but that was a bunch of years ago. Do you still have your shirt? Shut up. I saw him yesterday. I thought about getting something signed for you. I was like,

no, someone tweeted you were in that video with him. Yeah. And someone was fond, I was like, yeah, thanks a lot. Hey,

Kyle. Do not like Kyle Bush. Please stop spreading the river. You're so full of it, man. I don't. You get Eminem's all the time. You want to know who my favorite driver was? Ryan Newman.

That was my favorite guy growing up. Yeah. Wow. Now I love Clint Boyer and Joy Lagano. Oh. Okay. Wow. Sucking up there.

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The Dell Junior Down, Dirty Vote. All right, before we get back started here, the Charlotte Community Network. has endured a tragic week. My school, UNC Charlotte, still mourning following last Tuesday's shooting in the Moorsville Police Department lost an officer in the line of duty. We want to take a moment of silence for the lives lost this past week. Riley Howell, Reed Parlier, and Officer Jordan Sheldon. All right, we are back. It was a tough week to be a charlatian. Yeah. Jason, obviously, you were on, not necessarily on campus when it happened, but obviously a current student, man. How's the vibe over there? Somber still, trying to get used to it. Class is

canceled, finals canceled, so a weird way to end the semester. Completely canceled? Pretty much. They were pretty much optional, so I didn't take any because I didn't have to, but it's hard going back in the classroom after that. Man, I hate to hear that. I got a really good friend that was friends with the girl who was ultimately killed by that Uber driver, the fake Uber driver in Aunt Columbia.

And, man, people just, all we can say is stop doing stupid stuff. Don't ruin other people's lives because you're not happy. The only, you know, make a change in your life. Don't, you know, ruin someone else's, you're not just hurting them. You're hurting a whole line of people, friends and family and stuff. Communities. And the community, man. That police officer is there to protect you.

You know, he's there to protect you and your family, if anything does go wrong. So, you know, these people are not the enemy. Yeah. Bad deal. 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. Adam Stern reported that teams are asking NASCAR and the tracks to help pay the major expense of the Gen 7 car. Should the teams be provided financial assistance for this change? Brett. This Adam Stern guy gets a lot of news. Yeah. We should have them on. I mean, he really does.

I don't know how he does it, though. He gets a lot of news. He doesn't get the little stuff. He just goes for the sponsor, like, huge sponsor topics. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, man, shout out to this guy. I think he makes some people mad, other reporters mad, because obviously his editor will let him pretty much go with it once he has it half-ass confirmed

versus a Jennifer Fryer or Bob Hawkers who's got to wait for their editor to give it a thumbs up. So shout out to this guy. It's understandable, though. He's really kind of the new Jayski, man, in terms of breaking things. And good for him on that. But I mean, to this question, you know, what people don't realize is we're a science project for NASCAR on a lot of times. When you hear that we're going tire testing, are you here that we're doing X, Y, and Z? we're doing that on our own dime.

NASCAR's not paying for that. Good Year's not paying for that. Even though we're helping Goodyear, do you think the NFL calls on the New England Patriots to develop new cleats? Try this play. Try this play and see how it works. Let's put your wide receiver at risk. Like, no.

So for me, man, I almost look at this and go, hey, NASCAR is making a lot of money. The TV package is making TV or NASCAR and these tracks. I'll pile of money. The tracks are really raking it in. So if the teams are asking, and NASCAR and the tracks to carve out a little bit of money to help them cover the cost of the Gen 7 car, then so be it, man.

You guys can't imagine what we all just spend as race teams on the engine deal, you know, to have two engines, a 750 and a 550 and it's expensive. Yeah, I think switching to a new car is going to be a big deal. I don't think it's out of the question for that to happen, you know, like in football, this is kind of what I touched on earlier. our project's always developing. You know, and we, there's a lot more moving pieces. Yeah, someone might come out on the new shoulder pad,

but it's not going to make a difference in the gameplay of a guy. It might be more comfortable with some guy, something like that, but it's not going to make this guy faster than that guy. You know what I mean? Like, our sport's a little bit different than others, so I don't think it's a bad thing to be more united in this. And if we're going to run your cars, help us. Yeah.

I mean, teams aren't paying, you know, know, Hans, for Hans to make a safer device. Hans is, you know, basically taking the R&D costs, right? So the R&D costs for this Gen 7 car, it's big, man. Is it going to be more economical down the road? Every race team certainly hopes so, but up front, it's a huge, huge cost challenge. So if we don't have cars to put on the tracks, nobody's going to go to the track, nobody's going to watch. So the tracks maybe do need to reinvest on the backside of this thing. After the controversial ruling in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, what has been the most controversial ruling NASCAR has ever made in a race?

TJ. I know one thing. Me and Jellar aren't going to win any horse races. Yeah, I don't. I think the most controversial ruling that has ever been made in a race is one that probably wasn't made. A guy wins the race and isn't legal and so it keeps the win. I think there's more of that, which, you know, No, obviously, I think NASCAR's been great this year with, we don't have any Tuesday decisions.

We don't have anything like that. You're the winner or you're not. And guess what? Now we don't talk about it anymore. You won the race. You passed tech right then. Now we don't have to complain about it anymore. Well, this guy wasn't legal.

Well, he was. He passed tech before the race, and after race, he's done. Nobody, you know, it just erases all that. That's my favorite part about single car qualifying is we're not talking about it all freaking weekend leading up to the race. We're actually talking about the race on Sunday morning. Man, Elliot lost a Daytona 500 that was a discretion of NASCAR. or whether or not it was raining too hard. He lost a race at Indy where he took the lead because the leader spun his tires,

and they declared that he beat the leader to the line, which he did, but it was because the leader spun his tires. That's for me personally, the two that I can remember being a part of. You know, Justin Haley obviously had his win taken away at Daytona. So for fans that are saying, man, we've never seen NASCAR do this. Yeah, we have. They took his win away on site at Daytona for breaking a rule. This horse apparently broke a rule.

Yeah, the conditions were really, really bad. I was super duper surprised. from a PR standpoint. The Kentucky Derby came back out and said, you're not the winner. Like Clint and I were at dinner, and we were talking about it, and I was like,

this is awesome. I was like, this is awesome because they're keeping the conversation going about the race after the race, but there's no way they overturn this win. And they overturned it, and I was like, well, I'm an idiot. They're wrong.

Yeah. So I think going back to this, the most controversial role in that I can remember is probably Regan Smith and Tony Stewart at Tel Avago. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But, you know, a quick touch on the qualifying. One thing that I noticed, they talked about every driver.

Every car got on TV. When the TV took a break. When they took a TV break, no car rode on the racetrack, which I thought was awesome. A lot of guys made a living in this sport based on personality. You know, Michael Walter was, what, 0 for 400 until he went on a winning spree and won two Daytona 500. But he's funny as hell. But had he been a part of the sport right now, a group qualifying, and a guy who's running 30th every week, You wouldn't know his personality was there.

Kenny Wallace, same thing. I stuck around for a very long time because of personality. So I think this gives Corey LaJoy, Ross Chastain, Bubba Wallace, you know, younger guys who aren't developed yet to really show on camera who they are during that time. Did they talk to these people leading up to when they were getting in the car that they have cameras on? They're going to have to at times. Well, I'm saying now when you're walking down that qualify line, you got a camera that goes down it and talks to every driver. I think the thing, too, is even on track, they showed. every sponsor.

Yeah. Honestly, it's cool. Like he said, though, you show the car, but before the cars roll out, you get a quick interview with the guys getting ready to go out, six spots from now, and maybe he says something funny. Some kids watching, man, that guy's cool. I'm going to watch him. Now, the audience is tuned in more rather than sitting there with a drink in their

hand, waiting for that five minutes, which, I mean, I still like the group deal, but I think this is better across the board for all people. I'm excited for what TV can do. I mean, I remember as a kid, you know, 15 minutes before Dale Earnhardt was going to go out to qualify, you knew he was. was going to pop out of his bus and there was going to be a camera following him and he was going to knock somebody off pit wall and he was going to make fun of a reporter he was going to do something again his personality the intimidator was shown even in qualifying so this is this is a good thing tj's bringing

up a really really really good point about single car qualified you are just you just love tj today i'm going to hug him out they're going to i will say it's cool though because like like biggie used to walk out of the on the pit wall and drivers are sitting there waiting for their laps and russie's sitting there he'll walk him up and put them in a headlock and they'll joke a little bit, but that's what people need to see from these guys, and you don't get to see it. This is maybe the best thing we'll say on the show today,

is what we just said. I love it. I give the announcers props because imagine how many interviews you have to do, how many questions you have to think about. It works out really well, and it's great for TV. They don't want to say, okay, qualifying has started. Okay, there's nothing to talk about because nobody's going. I mean, like I said, I personally like the group deal

because I felt like it was exciting for a few minutes, you know, but I won't what's best for the sport. But I feel like long-term, this gives people a chance to sit out and enjoy qualifying. Like it's going to get, you know, at times this next week is going to be a single car. We're going to know who's going to get the pole in practice, probably. We're going to know who's going to have the fast car. But that guy might not race the best. Vegas, we won the race.

We didn't qualify very good at all. But we went for handling. So, you know, it's going to be, I'm just glad they're going to be able to fill this time with, you know, hey, on this week, the 32 car has got, you know, this company come on board this week. Yeah, I mean, Cori Lajoy's face on the hood at Daytona. What a story that was. Yeah. I had an opportunity to tell that story.

They would not have talked about him if that didn't get on his car. If you think about it, though, because of all of the network shows that are all of the shows that are going on right now, there isn't really an opportunity to the show what we know about the sport. And, like, I learned this this weekend because, so Xfinity did a really cool watch, just watch NASCAR program where, like, people could watch, like, Jamie Little and Jeff Gordon and everybody watching the Xfinity race. and they would share things that, like, content and things about drivers that nobody else knew because we don't, like, with the programming, it's all competition right now, except for, you know, NASCAR America. When they calling us to do that. Yeah.

I mean, I'm pretty available during Xfinny races, so. They aren't smart enough to do that. They think we're not a big enough name. I know. They don't understand the entertainment value of us calling a race. Do they not understand the knowledge level we have of all these guys that are driving out there? I mean, you all are pretty knowledgeable, so. In case to get on that.

Expinity. I'm not politically correct enough for that thing. But I just thought it was really cool because I learned things about drivers that I didn't know. And that just means that fans who don't go to the track every weekend don't know it either. All right. Next topic. Kansas is the first 1.5 mile. Is this a joke?

I'm not even turning around anymore. That's legit. All that racket. Kansas is the first 1.5 mile night race this season with the new Aero Package. How will this package perform under the lights? Brett. We don't know. But in Vegas, when we tested the cooler the track, the better the product was.

And as this freaking package faces warmer conditions, the racing goes completely to crap. So I really, really hope that cooler conditions is the answer. And if it is, guess what we got to do? We got to run at night everywhere we go. Because the warmer track right now is not putting on the package that we've been looking for. You clearly are not a fan. I think the colder, I think Vegas is different than, you know, this. Vegas has handling issues because of the bumps.

Vegas track has characteristics that are just, you know, you got a fighting handling. This track, as far as I know, doesn't have any issues at all. Maybe wind into three sometimes. But I think as it gets colder, you're going to see more of the slot car effect, in my opinion. I think it's going to be faster. The faster we go with these cars, the bigger the hole we punch in the air, because of that spoiler because there's zero air getting our cars are lower than this piece of paper to the ground you know how does any air get in there for the next guy behind you the faster we go

the more the higher the air is going to go behind you the less air that guy's going to have so i think when you have a a hot slick race track um when you have a hot slick racetrack guys are sliding guys are sliding more guys are fighting for grit more um going slower because they're fighting for grip therefore a smaller hole in the air you've been in one of the fastest cars all year for what they were looking for for what they were ultimately trying to you know when we watched the all-star open last year it was at night it was a hell of a race we saw guys battling it out that's what they were hoping for with this package if we don't see that at kansas at night or in the all-star race at night we're not going to see

it all year well the open that's my opinion because when this thing warms though when i see this track warm up, I see the race product completely changed to what we're fighting at Dover where you can't pass. Well, the open was running with it was daylight still. Yeah, but it was cool. It wasn't like it was 80, 90 degrees. It was still sunny. But I just think the faster we go, I think the faster we go, the harder it's going to be with no handling issues. Like, I'll tell you this, to me, Charlotte's a tighter corner than Kansas. I think it is anyway. I mean, that's the way it looks to me it is. but I think this is going to be more like a vagus on steroids kind of with just going to be hard, man. Anytime you introduce a new package to the teams, the first race is awesome.

Like even go back to this, look at the roval. When we went and tested the roval, it was exciting as crap. Guys were wrecking like crazy. Then we got there for practice. Guys were wrecking like crazy. By the time the race came around, the drivers had it figured out. And when you look at new packages, you give us a few races. The engineers have it figured out.

What may look great to start with is going to change drastically when these guys have a chance to really get their hands on it. And the drivers get their hands on it. It's always going to be that way. I would love to show up and not even practice. That Roval – imagine showing up to that Roval race with no practice. All right, you go test. There's your one-day test. Now there's no practice.

Just go race. It would have been a complete shishot, right? Which I love, man. We need these guys to wreck. They ran 400 miles at Dover, and nobody was out of control. The cars are just – they're too implanted in the track. We're like into car. One car was.

But, yeah. All right. Well, off the wall question. With Mother's Day on Sunday, what are your plans to make the day special for your wives and moms? How about T.J.? Well, I don't know if I should say this or not on here, but I'm alone. She's insane. My wife's leaving to go on a cruise because she does some travel agency stuff on the side.

She does a lot of Disney vacation. stuff. She does a lot of people in the industry's Disney vacations and a handful of drivers and stuff. Use her. Should we give a website right now for people who want to go? I don't, she doesn't really have a website. Should we give her, should we give her phone number out? Yeah, we need a talk actually. It's, um, no, she does. She has an Instagram account she used and stuff, but she does a lot of stuff with that. So she's going on some of truth. I'm trying to help you. I don't know what it is. It's, it's a Tamla, MMMMT, something, marvelous mouse, travels or something.

This is marketing fail right here. It is. Well, I didn't come on here planning to do that. But she's leaving tonight or today. I actually going to take her the airport a little bit. Just tweet, TJ, if you were interested. So I've got the kids for, I've got the kids until I leave. And then when I come home Saturday night, I will have the kids early morning when I wake up Sunday.

And we are going to, we're going to raise. We're going to clean the house. We're going to vacuum. Wow. My attempt to make TJ's family more money just failed miserably. My whole family will be at the beach. They have a, their girls have a big dance competition down there called showstoppers and they'll be dancing all weekend. I'm actually taking my mom to lunch and Matthew's very excited.

How is your mom? She's doing, she's doing all right, man. She's hanging in there. Broke her hip about six months ago. Really had us worried there for a while. But she's doing, she's doing great, man. She's still her fiery little self, love her to death and can't wait to see her and buy her lunch on Sunday. Tamila MMT. There we go, people.

Sign up. Sign up right now. Yeah. Casey, you got Mother's Day plans? I have to fly to Philly. So, no. What's Susan going to do? Susan is staying with Chad.

How is she going to celebrate? How does she celebrate? Does she celebrate? I'll get you a card. I mean, this would probably be your last year, not being a mom. So, I mean, I hate to say this, but I don't really get into like these kind of things. Yeah. I'll go.

I try to make every day be Mother's Day. I'll have Madden. I want to sell a maker a card or something. Yeah, I have a gift. Like, my mom, I'm shipping her a gift, so she'll have something. You ship your gift? Oh, I have to. Do you ship your pants?

You ship your pants. I ship my pants. I ship my bed. That commercial's hilarious, by that. That's great marketing, too. Well, I have a gift for her. And Chad's mom. Say I ship my pants.

What? No. You've never seen that commercial? We've talked about this. Oh, my gosh. We've talked about it, but I don't think I ever saw it. Oh, my gosh. I ship my chair.

I don't think I saw it. I'll have to look it up. Have you ordered pants? What? Have you ever ordered pants like off the internet? Yeah. See you. You ship them.

Your pants. Yes. I don't know. I have to look at it. She's not buying into it. Yes. In going to Brentwood Chad's mom. That's awesome.

And church. Yeah. Where are you going? I think, I don't know. North Harbor's my favorite here. Sit outside. I've actually only been there once. I've been the yachts.

What? What? yacht club, Peninsula yacht club. Oh, you're high. She's high for a lot. Oh, my gosh. No wonder she married into this boat deal.

No, kidding. No, maybe it's not that. You drive your yacht over there? It's off Catabo. What's that other one called? Do you drive your yacht to the boat club? No, I don't have a yacht.

You want some chicken nuggets? I'll take it. I need a new car first. Where are you going at? Downtown. Lazzarotti. Lexus. Yeah.

You can't afford the car right now. Excuse me. Don't go to Lodon. We weren't in NASCAR. Okay. I don't know what the place is called, but it's like one of those clubs, like North Harbor or something like that. If you're coming to Charlotte for the race and you want to sit outside and have a beer, North Harbor at Exit 30 is phenomenal. Correct food, best place to eat on the lake.

Now, if you want to go where I go, the low-class people go, go to the Blue Parrot. Oh, yeah, that place is good. Blue Parry. There's another one. Isn't that like a Freddie, not Freddy's a, like a Mexican restaurant or something that just opened? On the lake? Yeah, there's another one off exit. 33? I don't know. I'm really bad. There's, there's Eddie's right there that used to be old Vinny's. That's not Mexican.

No, there's a Mexican place next to it. You're talking. Dude, that's place has been there for 20 years. I can't believe you said Eddie's is Mexican. No, there's a place next to it. Oh my, I cannot talk. His name's Eddie Garcia. Oh my gosh. There's a place next to it. That's Mexican. It's called a prickly pear and it's been there for 20 years. You said it just opened. Hey guys, you want a good Mexican go to Eddie's. I don't get out much, clearly. Cinco de Mayo. Maybe his last name's Garcia. I don't know.

I've never, I've only been there like twice. It'd be like Eduardo's or something. Eduardo's. Okay, I'm never giving recommendations ever again. Free Margaritas. Well, half your recommendations, people can't even get to. You need a gate code to get to. That's such a lie.

It's still. Next show. Next show is going to be sponsored by Eddie's tacos. Whatever. Y'all suck. Ask D.C. Pockrasses tacos. I still get for that.

That's funny. Oh, first question. DSM Raker 26. Would Dover... Oh, this is Devin Smrecker or something. He's wrote in a lot. We've done his questions before. Would Dover race any better with an asphalt surface again?

Could the track maybe use variable banking? Thoughts, T.J. That track's greatly shaped. It's narrow. It's tough to get a handle on. We just need the driver. Should slide around a little bit on it. so I don't think it's the track that really needs to change.

I'm not against an asphalt. If we pave that place, they are going to be right around the bottom. I mean, it's going to be, I don't know. It's going to be hard. We need the tires to fall off after 15, 20 laps to make guys think about, okay, I'm 25 laps into a run. Man, I really want to pit, but I don't want to pit. We want the guy from 10th on back to be like, you know what, I'm coming.

We want the guy 9th to say, I'm staying out for track tradition. And then we have cars going. this way and cars going this way that can actually move and pass. There's nothing wrong with Dover. There's nothing wrong with the surface. We saw TJ stay out and win the stage. That's what's wrong. That's a tire problem.

Updates Fanatic asks, who has been the biggest overachiever in their equipment so far in 2019 in any series? Tyler Reddick. I know he's the last champion, but looking back at them cars, he has taken that program from a B to an A. plus right now. He's almost the guy to beat every week. Watching how he drove Talladega, he's come out of the box here and said, I'm the champion and I'm going to show it.

I'm biased for this guy, but I'm going to say Ross Chastain in the truck series. Been very pleased with what he's been able to do in equipment that I didn't see being capable of winning races, and I truly believe at short tracks and some of those, you know, mile and unders he's really doing big things for that program. Nees Motorsports. I mean, Nice Motorsports last year. I didn't know who they were. I definitely think Ross has been a he's been an over. Ross is always an overachiever and everything he gets him. He is.

But people don't notice it because it's not, it's not in the A or B's. It's the C and D's. He's taking a D and finishing in the C's and people overlooked that a lot. Yeah. I mean, he ran 11th, 10th or 11th at Richmond and his Johnny Davis car. How he raced Kyle for the lead at Martinsville? I mean, he has, he drives to a lot of the races. He drives his own motorhome. Yeah, he is on it.

Let's get him on the show the week of Chicago land. if he's here. Like yesterday, he drove from Dover. When the race was over Monday, he drove from Dover to Charlotte, left his motor home in Charlotte, jumped on an airplane, flew to his farm to do stuff with his farm in Florida. Like, that's a blue collar badass. That's what the sport's missing. It's what the sport was built on. He's not a rich kid. Is he come from money? Yes, but his money isn't paying for his rides. His mom and dad are putting him in great rides. He's earning his own way. He's a guy we need on the show. Money doesn't take you in a D car and make you finish B minus.

It doesn't drive you to a B. No. You know, talent takes you from the D to the B or even C. I mean, that's talent. That's not money. I mean, the D.C. Solar obviously didn't work out,

but look how he got there. He's not even paying. No. So he's taking equipment that people are asking him the drive and running better with him. And this is what I saw when he drove Bobby Daughter stuff before I was sitting there and I'm watching, you know, my trucks running 10 through 11.

And I look back here and like four spots behind me. is Ross Chastain. I'm like, son of my God, what's this kid doing here? And he was doing it consistently. And he's still doing it. And he's made a career out of this quietly. And people aren't going to look back and say Ross Chastain was a great driver, but they should.

Because he is... He's still young enough to get a chance to be considered a great driver. I'm really excited about him in this college car. That's why I'm saying let's get him on at Chicago. It's because this is the first time this year that he's going to get in a good intermediate car. and if he can go out there and run top seven in that car, because Justin Haley's been running 10th to 12th at all these intermediates,

if he comes out and runs top 6-7, he's taking a B-minus program and making it a B-plus program, which is a bigger jump in people think. Ross could make that program better. Absolutely right now. So, yeah. Yeah, awesome. Two good picks.

Mike Barbone, 191 submitted this question. Which winless driver do you think will throw the biggest party after his first career win? and what has been the best post-race party you've ever attended or been a part of. And winless right now, Bowman, Byron, Souris, Priest, and Bubba. We can't talk about that on here. I guess we really can, so please share. I came in still drinking from one of my biggest parties,

so I think Martinsville that sure was a top one for me. He had to Uber to the projects. T.J., which guy you got throwing a biggest party? Bowman back in the day, but new Bowman, I don't think so. Yeah, he lost a couple tents. Maybe in a lap. Careful. careful. We're almost family right here.

I know. That's why I'm not. I know. We're almost family. Or it is fan. No, I'm not married yet. We can't talk about it because Casey will make the whole show get edited. So don't do that to Jason. Oh, my gosh. Alex, he was, when Alex subbed Fredel Jr., that... He was a good time.

Yeah, man. He was digging. Like, he was qualifying, trim every lap. He was running better then, too. Yeah, and then he settled down and lost a couple tents. Yeah. I've got... I don't know, man. Same deal with Ryan,

Preas. Like he just, he just got married, moved down here, bought a house, got a horse farm, got this whole thing going on. Right. Brian Priest before that was fun too. I kind of feel like Bubba. William Byron. William Byron is too sweet to be to party and guys. Blaney was pretty good after his Pocono win. That was pretty fun. Yeah. Anytime the driver wins a big, wins a race and says, team, come back to my house and we're going to have a good time because these races are hard to win.

and I think sometimes people take for granted how cool it is to win these races and how hard it is to win these races. So when you win, I think it's really cool when the driver's like, hey, guys, we're going to go to the shop behind my house or we're going to go here. Even a local bar, I don't care. You know, I won with Regan and an Xfinity car, and we go to a local place here and have a good time. I know which Spotter would throw the biggest party if his driver won.

Bubba Wallace, Freddie Kraft will throw a hell of a party. Freddie would throw a big party. These other spotters, Stevie Reeves. and Tony Raines and Mr. Boyd and Kevin Hamlin, they don't know how I throw a party like Freddie does. Now, most of them watch like the Walton's and, you know, like murderish wrote and go to bed. Yeah.

TJ was the best post-race Dale win party. We didn't have to win, bud. I mean, I... Top 40, we're celebrating. Man, the Charlotte Weeks were so much fun, man. Painful. Oh, gosh, it was so much fun. You know, after. the all-star race.

We would leave, and I'm going to make it sound more famous and rich than the two of us are, but we would all leave after the all-star race on helicopters, and we would land at this church right here in Cornelius, and we would all go get on boats, and then we would not go to bed. Yeah, we've, I mean, just Charlotte Weeks in general, there's so many people in town, the community has got a buzz to it, there's things going on downtown. What happened to those days? I don't know, man. I mean, it was, uh, it was fun.

man we had a it was a lot of fun there's a I think um just the all-star race parties they after them and you know like Casey Kane won Casey Kane come back the Dell Junior's house and part you know what I mean and we just have a good time we were living it up back then yeah I guess we're not living it up anymore no no boring we used to fly back from the west coast we'd have a night race out there and we would fly back on Saturday night like Phoenix or California or something would fly back and we would land And like Brett said, we would land, we would drive home, change clothes, and get right back in a car. We would shower, change clothes, get back in the car, and go to the boat, and would drive the boat to where we were going to be on the lake, park it, go to sleep for a couple hours.

And you would get up, walk out to the deck and look out there, and it would be 20 boats on each side of you, radio is blasting, people swimming. Cocktail Cove was real. Sandbar was real. So bring it back. We partied so hard that they made laws that we couldn't tie that many boats up. in a row. We have changed the laws in a lot of local places back in the day. Tell them about the wheelchair races at Dell Juniors. I don't know what wheelchair races.

Yeah, when they used to run them wheelchairs down in hills by the campground back there. I didn't do any of that. I know what you're talking about. We got at the same party. No, I'm not doing any of that. I know what you're talking about. Them guys are crazy. As I got older, I got smarter and realized some of the things that were going on,

I probably didn't need to be a part of. But, you know, it's, we've had a lot of fun. Yeah. So bring it back. We're too old. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not, but they all are. Your win was just last year.

You came to. I'm still in that mode. I'm team fun, remember? I'm not getting off that bus. Driving it. I just know that I have to babysit. Babysitting. That's to take place.

All right. So what else we're ranting about? Should we bring up qualifying again? No, we're good. I don't, I mean, I want to ran about, we could ran about Micah over here. I don't even know Micah. He's new. I don't think he likes you very much.

Micah is getting ready. Listen, Micah. If you're listening. Micah, if you're listening, I've witnessed a lot. That's, what you just did is nothing compared to what I've witnessed. So, you know, where. Catch it this week. Yeah.

I mean, 360. I'm talking Jolly Ranchers and shower heads. I'm talking the time in. me and, me and, uh, Tau for one of our buddies, went to the,

uh, the pet store and left with 200 crickets. They got let loose in a guy's house and I witnessed it. That was Josh's house, wasn't it? That was Josh Snyder's house. Yeah. It was,

it went from like, oh, this is going to be cool to like, they start spreading out and you're like, Josh Snyder was a fun guy to party. Holy cow. Yeah, that,

that all started because they got, um, they were happy one night and decided to fill buckets of water up with flower and try to get in all our houses. So what you're saying is there'll be some retaliation now. Yeah, there's so many things to do, Micah. I don't really know that you understand. I think Dillner is trying to play innocent, but I really think that we'd include him.

As mad as he was acting, he was involved in it. Because if he wanted to find that guy the first time he went out there, he would have found him. So Dillner, you're screwed. Catch it this week, J.R. 360. Shout out to Jim France, who I think is changing the culture of NASCAR. and I think his at-track presence is a big deal. Can't tell you how many times that we didn't see the main guy in our sport completely absent, completely hands-off to see Jim hands-on and to see like things happen this week.

And the storyline for us going into this weekend is that the Cowbush got fine and the owner of the 95 got fine. It's really that Jim France is doing the right thing. Listen, NASCAR are really big, big ship and big ships don't turn on a dime. I think he's got us going in the right direction. with all these moves back to single car qualifying tj just sang the praises of why we needed to do that like there's so many good things going on if we can get good year to make the right tire at some of these places we're hitting grand slams everywhere we go yeah i i think there's a lot of good things going on about our sport and here recently this year we're not talking about we're not talking about well this

you know qualifying sulk this week this there just something every week was negative now people are having to dig for something negative and now we got we got better things going yeah was it the race. No, it wasn't the best race you ever saw, but you're not going to get that every week, man. Guess what? A guy still went out there, laid it all in a line for 400 laps and won a race. It was not easy to win still. Martin Truex drove his tail off that race still. He didn't go out there and ride around and just win. He drove his tail off. And that's what people respected back in the day, and they still need to respect that now. You're not going to get a side-by-side photo finish every week. Do we have capability of having them? We do. But, you know, these guys are

still driving their guts out every week. We ran a one-lap run to end the stage, like, because NASCAR did the right thing. Got the track cleaned up, got pit cycle done. You know what? They could have held it. I didn't want to do it, but no, I didn't want to do it either. I didn't want to do it either. I want to take my top 10 and get on out of that stage, but for the fan, they did the right thing, because if I'm sitting in the stands, I'm going, man, you're manipulating this whole stage in. You're letting it just finish. Instead of cleaning up the track, pit windows open, one to go, go green. They did it with one lap.

The old regime, they would have rode that out, man. Let me ask you this. What if no stage ends under yellow? Oh. Kind of like the all-star race. No stage can end under yellow. Me and you won't like that idea,

but fans would. I'm just saying, I mean, hey, I'm with you, bro. Every stage of green, white checker. It's like one of them, Risk at all memes or you see that guy over there with his wife at the bar and he's watching all these guys.

But that's ultimately, without going to that. extreme. That's what NASCAR did. Man, that's awesome. That's what the fans deserve. It's not what I wanted. It's not what TJ wanted. If it's a point paying finish at some point, there's stuff on the line. Maybe we need to treat every

stage end like it's a, you know, this is the first tenth at the stage end. Maybe Jeff Gluck will do a poll. Maybe. Another one. Well, how about some DVC picks, Kansas? Thoughts? Did I win or lose? All tied up. It's tied.

Ace Elliott beat Brad Keselowski. Damn, man. Buy a lot. Yep. Seven positions. Well, that means I go first, right? I'm almost out of drivers. I know, me too.

Almost halfway in the regular season. We're only halfway? Almost. Dude, we are going to be. What does Red mean? I haven't picked them? Does this reset it halfway? No. Reds, you can pick them.

Yeah, blues I can pick. So, I mean, going to Kansas, big wide open mile and a half track. You're going to need a lot of speed. it's going to be really hard for me not to go with the 22 22 is your pick

this is where he and Matt Kenseth few did a couple years ago Lugano went on to win that race and I want a Gibbs car Do I have any Gibbs cars left? Jones Does I have any other Gibbs cars car?

You got a I've already used Martin I'm sorry, yeah I've already used Martin I've already used Kyle You can use Chris I'll take Christopher Bell in the 95. Who's the other Gibbs guy that I'm missing?

True X. Hamlin. Oh, yeah. He's getting, he had a rough week. You've already picked Hamill. I already picked him. Son of them.

You're out, dude. Why don't you pick Ross Chastain just submit this week? So now I'm looking at Penske. And all I've got left there is Blaney and Ligano. No, I've already picked Ligano. Yeah.

Damn. Man, I'm going to go. go with the guy south of the border who's going to give T.J. a run for his money. Coming off of Cinco de Mayo, give me a modello, Daniel Suarez. He's still at Eddie's right now eating tacos.

I meet you at Eddie's, bro. Extra cilantro for me. I was talking about two different places. Authentic tacos at Eddie's. We're never filming this early ever again. Your Eddie's again. Got tequila? That was fun calling that guy.

I'm out for my driver. I almost picked him. Best driver at this track for Fantasy. Oh man, this is another wild card. I just don't think we know now. I don't think we do either, but I will tell you who has been quietly good as Chris Busher. But to win?

I mean, you want a wild card, right? Yeah. You want me to pick a guy that has wins, you know what I mean? I don't think it'd be crazy to look at Ty Dillon. he's been picking up some speed lately and having a little momentum. If they can put a race together and not have any issues, he could get some track position in Di Benadetto. I think Alex Bowman has been on the roll.

I feel like he can make something happen. Is that really a wild card though? He's making fun of you right now. I wasn't saying that it was a wild card. I was just saying like if you had to place a bet today in Vegas, who would you place it on? I'd put my money on Kyle Busch. I'd actually put it on Joey.

Look on him. Yeah. Those guys, they're both on fire. We'll see. Surprise Driver. I guess that kind of is the same thing. We just did it. All right, movie review.

All right, watch Field of Dreams. Hey, whoa, wait a minute here. Okay. Just tell us if you like the damn movie or not. I don't need to know the producer and all this. Just tell us if you like the movie. I didn't put any of that in here. I'm just saying, I feel the dreams was, I like it.

If you say producer, I'm going to yell at you. I'm not going to. Okay. It was about baseball. I like baseball. It's cool. Diamond. It was funny when Ray was telling the other farmers, they was hearing voices, and they're all freaking out about, oh my God, he's hearing voices. And then he had convinced Terrence they needed to take him to a baseball game, but wasn't actually kidnapping him. And it's cool, see Fennolly Park. Go Red Sox. Yeah, but I thought it was good. But the ghost character thing kind of threw me off. A, B, C, D, what do you rate it?

B. B, solid. I like the other ones we've watched so far better, but it wasn't terrible. Have you seen wedding crashes? Nah. That's what you're watching this week. All right. If you're going to watch a baseball, That's where what an idiot came from. Okay. I can't believe you have to see Wedding Crashers. Will Ferrell? What an idiot. Hey, my, the meatloaf. We want it now.

I thought it was an original, wasn't an idiot. Nope. No, man, that's Will Ferrell. All right, deal. Now you're crashing funerals? He is. That movie, man.

That's probably my favorite movie. Something about Mary and Wedding Crashers. Something about Mary. Road trip. Step brothers? Yes. Those are probably my favorite. Yeah, I've seen that one.

Wedding Crashers is pretty good, man. Have you seen something about Mary? Okay, next week. Meet the Fockers is there right there with it. You got to spike those Focker. Your name is Gay Focker? Look at that little. Look at that little.

Have you seen the movie? Yes. You're looking at me like, remember that kid? Usually that's why I look at you like anyways. I love those movies. I like funny movies. I know. You must have seen them like 10 times each because you can literally say the whole.

Wedding Crashers. Can't watch it. Yeah. I've seen that movie a lot. is winning. Kings of Comedy is the only movie that I watch more than once and that's a documentary filmed here in Charlotte

with Bernie Mac and all those comedians. Steve Harvey, like that's the only thing I can keep watching over and over. The rest of that, after I watch it one time, I'm bored. Dude, Steve Harvey, there's the YouTube clips of him and, what's that, is it Family Feud?

That's him, right? Yeah. For pork. Dude, name something that comes at, Jason. Oh, God. Name something that comes after the word, pork to make a, you know, to make a ding. Yeah.

Not a m'er. I have no idea. This guy said, Coupine. They go down on the list. This guy, name something that goes with the word pork. He goes, Cupine. That's funny. It's pretty good.

He's hilarious. I love my sense of humor. Is a wedding crash where he gets shot in the behind with a shotgun? No. No, spoilers. No. Yeah, did? Oh, that's the other one.

That was funny. I mean, it's still going to be funny. No. No. There's a thousand parts in that movie that are hilarious, so you're fine. All right, excited. All right. Well, we will talk to you after Kansas.

Yeah. Be sure to check out Jaram 360. Eat some barbecue if you're going to Kansas, man. Best barbecue ever. All right. Thank you all for listening. Be sure the, why are you throwing on the meat? Hey, I have a question.

Ship your sheet. I have a question for we in. Yes. We have a buddy that's really into barbecue and stuff. Yeah. And he's from Kansas, right? Yeah. Is he coming this weekend?

Trager Scott? Yes. I'm sure we'll see Trigger Scott. So maybe we can get him to like, maybe we can get him to give Doorma Clear a smoker or something. And we can do like a recipe section where we talk about what we smoked or something. Yeah, we should do. Yeah, maybe. Cooking show.

Yeah. Yeah, we do like a giveaway at the end of the year. Something, man. Something. Like we talk about the best recipes that you can cook on that. We'll sample some. We'll try them out this summer. I bought my Trigger from Trigger Scott.

That's what I did too. I love it, man. I love it. You guys sound like a commercial for it. But it's so good. I'm cooking bone-in pork chops tonight. They're currently soaking in a brine on my Trager pellet grill, and they'll be off the chain good.

So makes them for us. That's what I'm, but this is the thing. You need chicken wings? Yeah. I'll bring you chicken wings. There's two things work here. Will you get them for breakfast? Yes.

Smokers go great with NASCAR fans that are going to camp. And they're great with beer two. Perfect for our show. So. We just light one up in here to smoke it up. That's what I'm going to put Mike on it and smoke it. You should do a setup at the Charlotte race and just grill out. That's what I'm saying.

So, Scott, we need to do something where a couple fans get to go to the track and we smoke some stuff. Charlotte. You've got to be careful. We get drug testing around here. Geez, oh, man. Okay. See you. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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