Door Bumper Clear - 140 - The Ross Chastain Way

Episode Date: June 25, 2019

Ross Chastain joins the show after his Truck Series win at Gateway. He and the gang cover his Iowa disqualification, Sonoma’s carousel, no natural cautions on Sunday, Johnny Sauter’s suspension, how to prove yourself in racing and throwing birds.  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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NASCAR's busiest driver and most recent truck series winner, Ross Chastain joins us to discuss his big season to date. We'll also cover Sonoma's Carousel, No Natural Cautions on Sunday, DWU finishing his broadcasting career, Johnny Sauter suspension, watermelons, and much more. Let's roll. DJ majors. Be ready, be ready.

Be ready. Be working out here. New leader. Out for this guy. White flag. Hello. Clear. Bring home.

Three light. Coming to the line. George Bumper. Clear. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. Spotted of the 22 Cup car,

and I had the 99, or no, the 19 K&N car this last weekend. Numbers are hard. It was hard. Congratulations. Yeah, thanks. That was Haley Degan,

right? It was. Yeah. Did you ask her about coming on our show? No, because she already got, we already got, you know, ninja out of that.

Yeah. Thanks Dale Jr. for that. Brett Griffin spotted for Clint Boyer last weekend at Sonoma this weekend. I got Ross Chastain not only in the studio, but back in the number 10 car with Neutranach Solutions. You run in Chicago? All three. Oh, wow. Trip duty.

You better drink some water. Keep drinking. Water. I actually have an exfini race this weekend as well in Chicago. Oh, we're both doing it. Yeah. It's going to be weird. What's the last time we both spot on a spinny race now? It's probably Daytona.

Did you do Daytona? No. No. Who are you spotting for? Joey. He'll be in the 12. So, yeah, it should be a busy week. I have the 99 on Friday night and Joey Saturday and Joey Sunday.

Triple duty. Hannah's here too. Hi, Hannah. Hey, Hannah. Back again. You guys keep inviting me back. I'm not really sure why. Why are you wearing Daisy Dukes and a bandana on your head today?

Well, you see originally when we were going to record this, I was just going to get up and get ready. and then it got moved because, you know, talent over here had other priorities. So we got scooted, so I went to the gym. And this is what I had in my car. So you changed in your car? Huh? No, I changed at the gym. So you're not, you don't take this professionally.

We're going to get into what everyone's wearing here? Well, thanks for coming back. Yeah, of course. Anyways, how was Sonoma? I didn't go, but. Sonoma was good. Weather was good. Pretty quiet.

The track was good? You know what? I can't believe. I can't believe that you won their truck race and still came to Sonoma. That's dedication. Yeah. Yeah. Having not ever raced there.

Right. Never been on, never seen the place. You probably landed at what time? Three. Three in the morning. It looked like that a couple times. Three in the morning. It looked like that a couple times.

I went off one time. One time. Well, here's the thing about where you went off. So you go off and turn four. Yeah. For me and TJ, like you just went off on a never, never land. We never saw you again. We didn't even know where you went.

I couldn't see either. I saw, I think I, did you spin out down towards five or whatever? I looked out and I, oh, you just kept going. I just kept going, yeah, I never turned. I just couldn't stop. I just ran straight into the dirt. Yeah, okay. And then you slowly turn to the right and got back on.

I got back on easily. I looked over there and saw you and I'm like, oh, look at Ross. He's off track. I hit a huge dirt pile though. You did? Yeah, it just covered the windshield. And an all black car just like came back tan. Oh, yeah.

Man, that's better than, I mean, some people didn't finish the race. No. I mean... They got hot. Yeah. It got real hot, I guess. Yeah.

But, uh, so why'd you go to Sonoma if you've never seen the place? I want to get laps. So it's, um, it's hard to test these days and you can only do so much in a simulator. You foreshadding? Well, last year I went to Gateway, um, and start and parked a truck for Mark Beaver and J. Robinson. And I probably came back overconfident this year in practice. So I'm glad we got, we got a one hour session with all the rain in St. Louis, but it was just

good to get lap. and you have a year to think about it as a race car driver, you know, once you run a track, I mean, these guys don't know, but they're not race car drivers. They spot for a reason. We watch race car drivers. Yeah.

Sometimes. But once you run a track, then you have time to think about it and you come back, you're more confident, even if it's just like getting onto the track on the access roads and garages and pit road and stuff. Familiar. Yeah.

Yeah. So, man, I feel like there's an easy way. There's a hard way. And then there's the Ross-Jastain way. Nothing in your life, dude. comes easy. You had a hellacious winter with what a roller coaster ride that was, right? So you

decide to switch points, which a lot of people were probably like, why is he doing that? Why did you do that? I mean, my hand got forced a little bit on some business stuff, but then this opportunity was there. And I could see the growth of the truck team

with these motorsports throughout from Bristol last fall to Texas and Homestead last year and then bringing in Phil Gould, Lonnie Rush, and just the uptick and performance and how we weren't handling great, but we still had speed and knew that if we put them together and go run these triple truck challenge races that, you know, I mean, I mean, I'm no offense to any of us guys, but like Kyle Busch isn't going to be any more races and we have a better chance to win. I mean, he's just, he's incredible,

so he's the best guy of my generation. I mean, he's older than me, but. Yeah. Well, we talked about it, too. Like, if you, even if you make the chase in the Xfinity car, I mean, the odds. of being very competitive after what like taladega or detona what does exfini run the plate race what do they have left Daytona just Daytona so say you're going to win Daytona from there on out it's going to be hard from hard to be really competitive you know the competition but in the trucks you've got a legitimate shot so um i think it makes sense um because i mean honestly with like you said without Kyle and and um the way you're running i mean i don't i mean i mean I don't I mean I

That's what I think it's a smart decision. It was tough for the four card and Johnny Davis and Gary Keller because last year, like, we outperformed and then Spencer had his issues and we made it to 12th in points legitimately, but we would have been 13th. And we were going to be 13th again this year. And well, we were expected to make the playoffs again, and we have, we had a smaller budget this year. Even when we got into the playoffs last year, we did not pick up any additional sponsorship that was worth anything. I mean, small dollars compared to what we were up against and what Johnny. was actually spending. So went way in the whole last year and was trying to just gain some of that back this year.

And we were still going to run 13th in points. So the difference in 13th and driver points to 10th is about $15,000. So what incentive does the team have to get me there? It's really. There's no, like I used to, I think Cup had big bonuses for making the playoffs in the purse from NASCAR. That's not the case in Xfinity. People don't realize that. The numbers are that low.

So you declare you're in a must-win situation. You go win the freaking race. I'm celebrating for you. You're celebrating. I'm at Dollywood on a freaking lazy river raft, right? And I leave my phone. Tweeting like crazy. I leave my phone and I come back and I'm like, oh, God, my phone's blown up.

Everybody's still happy and I open it up and everybody's sad because Ross got declared. So I heard I got a message during tack and I didn't want to burst your bubble before you knew it. So you're welcome for letting you celebrate for a little longer because he's in our group here. You know, hey, yeah, I can't. We should have had him on this week, and I didn't want to say, like, I'm going to wait a minute on this. I'm just going to wait. He's over there celebrating, but come back strong. Literally, it reminds me of willpower.

The guy that in Indycard, it gets out and flips off the tower. Obviously, Ross didn't do that. But you had to feel somewhat of that kind of a motion, right? Yeah, for sure. I mean, it just... What if you did that? Well, his victory lane celebration, the first thing he did was grab the camera guy and walk him down to the front suspension and was like, it's good, we're good.

It doesn't matter. So he did about, he didn't flip them off, but. I mean, it's not like you, it's not like you go to the racetrack and run the race and you plan for, you don't intentionally run the truck low. But, you know, sometimes things happen, parts fail, things give up as the race goes on, damage even something. And, you know, that can happen. But to come back and back it up, though, to me is the ultimate, you know, rebound.

I mean, that's the best. thing you could have done is come back and do it again and then pass tech and move on. Now it's kind of, you know, under the rug and you moved on from it. The biggest thing, we just didn't feel like the punishment fit the crime, but they've set out a new precedent, a new, I'm trying

to think of the big word, Steve O'Donnell uses, but it's, they use a bunch of big words. We went through that whole appeal process. The appeal process, I hope I never like, if I have to go through that again one day, it'll be too soon. Like, that's, I'll never sign up for that again. That makes you realize how small you really

are. I was surprised that they appealed. Well, it was more like a, it's more like we're going to fight it. And we just didn't feel like the punishment fit the crime, but that's their new thing. Like they made it very, very clear in there. Like, there are no, there's no wiggle room for anything. I mean, that's what we've been kind of been calling for is these people. We've been waiting on Tuesday to find out who wins races half the time. And now we know quick, you know.

But that's when you have a spoiler that you move on purpose after tech. That's when you have, you have cheated up truck. You have your body. You've built it way out of tolerance. You have a frame rail and your, and your halo bars and your truck are built inches too low, which is happening still. And they're letting those guys race and not busting them. But we come in and at static tech height that does not have any effect on the racing,

we're low. And we were. We're not backing down. Like, we were low. But everybody races on the ground. Like, you go around the racetrack, slammed on the ground dynamically. And so it's just like, we just, that's the reason we fought it. and they didn't budge, and they're not going to budge on anybody else for anything.

Yeah, which I think it's good for down the road, because now you know if you don't pass, you don't win. But of course it's Ross Chastain that gets busted. Yeah, the irony. I mean, he goes out, leads the most laps, wins the race. If we could have picked somebody, it would have happened to. I mean, that's a max points day. You won every stage, you won the race, and that's just, that's Ross's way, man. So what, having gone through all the shit that you've gone through, like, how do you just keep fighting back?

You're like the comeback kid that won't give up. like the little ankle-biting dog that just keeps gnawing on you. That a compliment? Ankle-biting dog. Leave me out of this one. I don't know. No, it's just get up and fight. You know it.

You guys, all you all know it, we've all been through stuff. And really, the stuff that I'm going through is small compared to, like, what people in the real world, like, I feel like I live in this kind of fantasy land of NASCAR and I get to do what I love. You get to drive all three series. Yeah. I mean, that's still pretty. If I could drive two race cars in Xfinity, I would.

And like that's where a lot of the terminal has come from. So yeah, just like I still have, all my problems are really good problems. He's been, so Ross, a little backstory. Ross has been doing this since. When did you drive Bobby Daughter's truck? What year was that? I remember my first race was with Stacy Compton in 2011 and then Bobby's in 12. So you were driving Bobby Daughter stuff and he was doing the same thing in Bobby Daughter stuff

that he's been doing for a long time. He was outperforming the equipment. and we were probably finishing maybe 12th to 16th a lot in them trucks, but, you know, and I was spotting for Brad's trucks then, and I noticed it, and you were, who, you had Rocky spotting for you, right? So I go up to Rocky and I ask Rocky, I'm like, man, Ross Run's really good in them trucks for what they, you know, what they have. And I'm like, what's his plans, you know, would he like to, is he going to try to move up?

And that's whenever, you know, we put the stuff together to go drive Brad's stuff. I remember, I remember texting you, he sent me your number, and I texting you, like, hey, would you be interested in doing this? And I remember, you and Dad had to come over that one time? Yeah, we, yeah, we. I had, like, three phone calls in it. Yeah, and then me and Brad went and met with him, and it was pretty smooth. So you're trying to take credit for discovering Ross Chastain.

I don't think I discovered him, I mean, but he was going to, he was going to break through no matter what. I don't know. It sounds like to me, you played a big part of it. Was that the first one that messaged you about it? About Brad's deal? Just about moving up, like, hey, you're doing really good. I mean, yeah, about that deal, yeah. I mean, there's, when you get in the first getting in trucks, you get a call from

everybody and your sponsors get calls from NASCAR in the tracks. So, it was a really good fit, though. It was a good fit for, I mean, you went. I was there a year too early for me personally and the team. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, things. What you mean by that? I wasn't ready.

No way. No, I didn't know. I mean, I thought. You had to coach me through every restart and tell me when to fire and when to do whatever. But by the end of it, you were getting polls. You were running second to Kyle's trucks most of the time. I mean, you were right there a lot. There was opportunity to win two or three races right there a few times.

But you plug me back in there now, and Eric Jones doesn't win Phoenix. And James Bisher, Dengcher doesn't win Iowa. Because we either crash or I don't lay down. Like, I just, he saved a set of tires and he was faster, but there's no way. I agree. I mean, but it was a, to go in there and run like you did, I thought was really good. If you could have ran another year in that truck, I think you would have been competing for the championship. And probably, I mean, you might have got.

Yeah, but didn't you help Tyler get in there too? I didn't help Tyler get in there. No, that wasn't my deal. Do you know for him when he got there? But that wasn't, um, did you hear that? I thought so, yeah. I always said it helped him get in. No.

Y'all were hugging it out now. You're about to fight it out. Yeah. Got a little aggressive there. Do you know how big of an overachiever you are when you get in the car or truck? Like when you were finished in 12th or 13th and bobbyed out ourselves, weren't you not like, man, this is like. No, because we wanted a tent. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, I mean, that's true. I mean, look at it. Never satisfied. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Well, there's no way that you, I've only been around Ross for six months or whatever it's been, and I could tell you, I've worked with a lot of drivers who play the pity party game

and who find themselves a victim. And Ross is the exact freaking opposite of the way a lot of those guys approach their day and approach their life. I mean, he gets in a car that's probably capable of running 20th at Richmond, and he runs top 10. And that's what I see with Ross Chastain as an overachiever. But this weekend, you've got to change. obviously to run really well in the truck,

a really good Xfinity debut, realistically, with Colleg, right? I mean, you run some plate races with them, but this is the first downforce car you've been in. What do you do to get ready for that and to make sure you're bringing everything that you can to the table in the driver seat? Yeah, I mean, they got some time, so it was in there this morning watching Tyler

and just trying to, I mean, he's obviously elevated that program, I would say, and the way he drives is not how... Yeah, you're welcome. Not how I... Do you swap for him last year? No, just sit, uh, just in the trucks. Okay. Yeah, so just trying to like, trying to drive like he does and because that's kind of

with the package we're going with. Do you have a similar style in him? Nope. Okay. So it's, what is, what's the difference between you and him? He's on the gas. Okay. A lot.

So he's a. On it, hard. What do you? Are you more of a roll the center, smooth finesse? I guess. That's what the little squiggly lines tell me. The graphs. I know what the smart guys say.

I do. I'm like, I don't know. I just lift and then I hit the gas. Yeah. It's trying to, like, everybody's got to have their own package and how they drive, but just plugging into a program that's, you know, the 10 car being a part-time deal and trying to, it's on campus at RCR, so trying to just get up the speed as quick as we can with Justin and him and see if we can, if I can get close to what Tyler's doing, obviously he's had a really good season. Yeah.

Do you think that's Tyler's dirt background, being aggressive on the throttle like that? probably because he comes from dirt racing right i think dirt racing you're i think that you're more like that in dirt racing yeah you're more likely to hit it early when you run asphalt like you ran some short track stuff in florida right it's more of a finesse thing right you're not like you know yeah you're getting back in the gas but you're not like manhandling it yeah torsum bars that they do and they they drive their rear ends up into the car like super's right they're back in the throttle like super early because they have to be otherwise that's how the car turns yeah it won't turn so it has to be more fun

to drive an Xfinity car right now than a cup car, right? It is. Yeah. Oh, tenfold. Yeah. And why is that? Especially at Sonoma? Because they're real race cars, yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, definitely. Everything's just, you're going too fast for the tires and you don't have enough grip for the cup cars. You're going

too slow on entry and you have too much grip through the center, but that's why our corner speeds are up so high. But yeah, it's cup cars. Cup cars aren't fun anymore. We've alluded to that all year, so you're not going to us to look really smart. They're fun on eye racing. Yeah, you just wide open, like three or four wide the whole race. It's pretty fun, actually.

But that's, well, but in real life, you just get tight. So that's the thing, though. I think that's what people want more of. You know what I mean? That's what we're trying to get to where people, we can draft up and get the runs and make an attempt to pass. But you can't close with this package. You're super tight behind somebody still in the corners.

Like, to me, we still have to get them off the ground a little bit more or something. They're just too sealed off. There's no air. I agree, but that is never going to happen. Oh, I know. They'll never raise them up. So we put them on the ground and we raise the rear spoiler.

You give them more spoiler, which is like, isn't that like the opposite of, kind of? Yeah. Well, they said it would let us draft up and get big runs, but it's not the case. Then you get to the corner. Yeah. Then the corners happen. You've got no error. Yeah, so I think Chicago would be an okay race just because there's some.

many different lanes there. But when you get through... Dude, this is going to be 90 degrees. I don't want to talk about that. Watch this package when it's 90 degrees. I'm interested in seeing how it rhymes. I want, Jason, play that sound bite back next week where he said this is going to be...

This is going to be... I just like the fact that you're going to be able to move. You know, you're not handicapped to, like, Michigan. You were fairly handicapped to where you ran, right? You either ran on a line or a lane up, pretty much. And at least in Chicago, I feel like it'll widen out. You feel like it'll widen out? Oh, yeah, for sure.

sure, but I mean, I'm glass-half-empty when it comes to this stuff because my cup car isn't capable. We're not going to go run top five, and we know that. But we have a plan, and we have our goals and what's a victory? I feel like better finishes are harder to come by right now because there's more cars finishing on an lead lap, and you don't lap as many cars as we used to. When you do, though, it's big. Oh, when you do, it's big. Especially when they run side-by-side. Yes. We talked about it on the show a couple weeks ago. Yeah, with your substitute. They'll run single file for 12. I'm not so, man, it's for the lucky dog.

You got to do it. Can you do it 20 laps earlier? Yeah, I don't know, but he decided to do it. You got to, I don't lay over for nobody. I did yesterday, but that was because I wasn't racing anybody. Like, my pace was by myself. I was faster than the guys behind me and slower than in front. So how much?

Does anybody ever flip you off because you race them so hard? Used to. Eric Jones used to. Yeah. And now we do it as a friendly gesture. Really? Yeah. I mean, it's really weird, but we're actually friends.

Yeah. That's something. I never thought what happened. But he used to get so mad at me. Play bread off a lot. Yeah. There's a couple of us that just throw birds all day long at each other. Yeah, that's awesome.

Hannah, let's get this thing rolling. We've got to get Ross out of here. He's probably got something to do because he's so busy. Yeah, man in demand. Yes. I'll have those three podcasts today, too. Huh? Probably a three podcast today too.

Yeah, probably. All right, pristine auction item bid. You guys got some stuff going on there. Pretty cool. We introduced them last week, right? Or two weeks ago? Two weeks ago. Two weeks ago.

Yes. And pretty interesting. Pretty interesting. So I've been following them on Twitter and stuff and seeing some of the items that are coming up for auction. And so we got our first item. Now we're going to bid on this awesome item that I don't know if I'm going to be able to get from Brett.

But it's a mini Jim Kelly signed Buffalo Bill's helmet. I was a big Jim Kelly fan. I still have a big Jim Kelly fan. Number 12. Yeah, very good. I'm surprised you knew that. I would say it's the 90s version of the helmet as well. You know what's ironic is this morning Mike Davis kept FaceTime in me and I was in the shower.

And I finally, all right. That's normal. No, I finally was like, man, this must be really urgent. So I've answered the FaceTime and of course I'm. Why is your phone in the shower? Well, I got my Apple Watch on. In the shower? Yeah.

It's waterproof. If you answered, can you answer a FaceTime call on your watch? I don't know. So it just keeps going on. So I think something's urgent because we have a friend of ours Kyle Rush just meeting this in the studio. So I'm like, maybe something's going on with this deal. But then I'm like, why is he FaceTiming me? Why doesn't he just call me?

So I answered, and I'm naked. I mean, I just got a shower. You know, obviously. This is where I did the waste up. So I'm like, Mike, what's up? He's like, it'll go south about four more times before it's over. Luckily it didn't go south. Literally.

Better not go south. He's like, are you in the shower? I'm like, yeah, man, the shower, man. What's up? And he's like, is this awkward for you? And I was like, well, no, and I don't guess so. And he said, I don't think it's awkward for me either. But he wanted to tell me about this pristine auction thing that we had going on.

That's where I was going with that. It's awkward for all of us right now that you tell us this. Well, I bet he screenshotsed it. Oh, gosh. So the minimum bid on the Bill's helmet right now, the Jim Kelly signed helmet, it's 2756. So I'm going to put a bid on it and then we'll watch it throughout the show. 50 bucks, Jason, right now.

If we have to up our bid, we got some more money. It's going to end tonight at 8. clock so I'll keep an eye on the whole day and then I'll don't even think about bidding on this thing Ross you're never coming back if you do oh that's all I got to do yes you if you win this helmet I'm driving to your house and I know where you live I think still it's close okay still on the property right still on Dale Jr's property is close yeah yeah yeah across the street now yeah yeah all right the bids in I'll teach you all in a little bit sounds good Spot on, you like it.

Spot off, you don't like it, and you say why either way. Spot on, spot off. Brett in the shower with Mike Davis FaceTiming. Spot off. All right, first topic. We talked about it a little bit earlier, obviously. Ross Justane's comeback performance to win Gateway after the Iowa DQ. We'll start with Brett.

Spot on, man, that was awesome. I actually almost got kicked out of a bar. I told Ross's story. Freddie and I were together in, San Rafael, and when they threw the caution with eight to go, I slammed the table, went flying everywhere, I started cursing at the TV. Got thrown out. And granted, we're in a weird part of California in terms of race fans, so nobody really

understood what was going on. Everybody else was watching soccer, and they probably thought I had lost my mind. But I'm really glad, Ross, that caution did cost you the win, because I was scared. Yeah, I was too. He was scared on the radio. I was scanning his channel because I had to do Victory Lane. And he's like, well, if we don't get this done, guys, I'm sorry. It was awesome.

Thanks for doing this. And I was like, well, he doesn't have very much confidence right now. And don't you hate that? Like, as a spotter, I hate when the driver does that. It's like, well, man, come on. Like, we're supposed to be on the up and up right here, and you're on the down and down. Just going to let him go. I think I got a, I knew you were wrecking or winning.

You weren't going to let that guy pass you. Well, I had to get my, like, I had to talk myself down like that on the radio because I had to get my heart rate down because I was amped before that. wig it out like when we were leading they were running us down i was i looked back at everything and it was getting higher and higher so are you spot on or spot off spot off i'm spot off i'm tired of the cup guys winning truck race and stuff no i'm just kidding you know it i like to see a good comeback story and um you know to come back and basically say i look i earned it and i'm gonna win more um congratulations i'm you know it's a good win good race exciting to watch at the end did it on older tires and everything too. So it was going to get interesting. I think there before the caution came out as well.

Oh, they were going to get to there. I was watching lap times. He was about two, three-tenths faster a lap. But catching and passing two different things, you know, but I was afraid that he was going to do what it took to win his first truck race. I hope so. Yeah. Well, I mean, and that was probably going to cost you, you know, a little bit. But it all worked out and it was an exciting finish. So you physically looked at your heart rate? Not during, but I can, you just, like, no. And I was, I knew I was way, like, way too excited, and I needed to calm down. So you start talking.

Yeah, because my group's pretty quiet. Phil done, yeah, Phil's really quiet. Yeah, yeah. Hey, we don't even, like, we never talk about restart, like, lane choice or nothing. It's just, like, they just, nothing ever has said. Lonnie had dug a pace lap on the top of the box from doing circles. Lonnie was my old crew chief. Okay.

I work with Lonnie all in Canaan West, and he was doing circles on the pit box. I can I already, what are you, where are you going with this? I was going to ask if your heart rate was up like the first time you met Hannah. Oh, Lord. He's been holding on to that one. He has. He's been waiting. When he said heart rate, I was like, oh, my heart rate was up.

Oh, like when you met Hannah for the first time? Okay. Anyways. He's been waiting two weeks for that. He has. He has. He's been waiting. I forgot she was going to be on until I saw her, until she texted and said, oh, I'm going to be late.

And then she didn't want to get here on time, you know, pay a dollar 10 or whatever it was going to be. There was no traffic on 77. I didn't come down 77. I said I just came up, there was no traffic. Yeah, no, I didn't come up 77. She's like for excuses. Anyway.

I about just didn't show up. But yeah, so I did. I had to get, you just know when you're too jacked up, and I knew if I was going to execute, I needed to get it down. Yeah, for sure. Never did I think I'd have to avoid watermelon chunks in Victory Lane, but I was standing behind Hermie because I did the radio, and he hucked that watermelon, and it just went everywhere.

I was covered in it, walking back to the, So when I met Hermie Sadler, he was your size. And when you two guys were standing there on TV together, I thought the same thing. I was like, damn, Herminator has been chowing down on some. Oh, my God. I'm going to have to text him. I thought he was working out. So this is Hermie's go-to saying he will literally order a 16-ounce-balling ribeye, a loaded baked potato, mac and cheese.

And then he'll have all this food sitting in front of him, and he'll literally be eating it. And he'll be like, I don't know why I can't lose no weight. Probably because you got 2,700 calories. He's in front of you. A 16-ounce steak, too? Hermie has got to get back in shape. You've got to get him on this heart rate thing you're doing. I thought he's in a wrestling, so I thought he was just beefing up for the wrestling.

Are you still riding bikes? Yeah, unfortunately. Hermie would need like two seats if he was going to ride a bike right now. I did think the same thing when I saw Herman. I was like, is that Hermie? I'm like, wow, okay. They needed to shoot him a little tighter. I like that whenever I stood up on the door and I was like, everybody was, like, everybody

was standing there, like you said, so there's, normally there's more room to throw a watermelon and it's going to fly. Gateway's victory lane is so little. Yeah, can we do it on the front stretch? Like, that's, that little thing is pretty ridiculous. I think they should do all victory lands in the front stretch. And this one isn't far, but it's just a concrete pad and it's like, it felt like I was going to fall off the whole time. But I was like, look to Herman, I was like, where do you want me to throw it?

And he's like, right here, baby. He just like, I was like, okay. I ducked behind him. I was like, I probably wanted some. Oh, boy. I'm sorry, Hermie. I love Hermie. Yeah, he's hilarious.

We're going to give him some weight loss tips. You guys are so mean. I'm not really good at that because I'm 2.20. I said I thought he was working out. For wrestling, yes, because he's big in the wrestling. Oh, my. Hermie, I'm sorry about Brett. I know.

I'm apologizing too. You're agreeing. What are you talking about? You're sorry. I'm sorry you're saying this much stuff about him. Hermie will think it's funny. Wow. Okay, moving on.

Sonoma marks the second race of the season with no natural cautions. I'm spot off. I was, we needed some excitement in the middle there. And I thought we would get it at some point, but I don't know. I don't, you've never ran there before. So I kind of liked the old configuration better. I thought it set up for more questionable moves in the seven, I guess, than what the carousel did.

You know, seven was pretty hairy before on restarts. stuff. Now, I honestly don't even know if maybe one or two cars spent out there all a weekend, really. Ross tried to cause a caution. Yeah. He did. One time. I went off one time. There were several times where we honestly had an opportunity for NASCAR at their discretion to throw the caution with some spins in 11, and we had one guy that kind of choked down and had a hard time getting back going. But man, the reality is... Even 10, the 34 is sitting in 10. I thought that was going to... I was worried there for a second. Yeah, well, he was sitting there broadside. broadside.

I was scared. And then he kind of started creeping forward when cars were coming. I mean, in that situation, I'm almost surprised they didn't throw it. But, I mean, it's almost like they're invested in this whole stage as our brakes, and we're just going to let these guys race. You know, the problem is, and the reason you don't have cautions is they're not using the brake pedal as much. And you used to have to really use it in four, really use it in seven, really use it in

11. And an oval and a road course are the same in the sense of if the driver is having to use the brake, it creates an opportunity for the guy behind him to pass. And the way that these cars are driving now with the on throttle time, even at a road course, they were in a throttle more yesterday than we've been in my career at Sonoma. And because we're in the throttle, you don't have opportunities to pass. And if you don't have opportunities to pass, you don't have opportunities to wreck. That's why the only real spins we saw were in the one breaking zone that we had, which is turn 11.

Yeah. And we used to have four. Four was kind of a breaking zone, but there wasn't as much passing in that four as the old four, I guess, right? And you could race out of four at the old track. and if two guys are racing in front of it, you got to run. Then you're three wide into seven, which made it exciting. And somebody kind of had to give them. When somebody didn't give, turn four was too narrow it looked like from where we stood.

Too sharp. I don't know what it looked like for you. It was really narrow for him. On that one corner. And then turn seven, it looked like the way the apex worked. Even if you'd kind of get your nose in on their right rear, the apex the way the corner was set up, you couldn't do anything about it. Couldn't hang there. Yeah, and then they'd drive off from you, and you'd have to wait a whole other lap and a half to make a move.

I missed the photos from the old turn four. Because that's the corner they would all... Yeah. Too tired. Yeah, they're all... The right sides are like this, you know? NASCAR would post about them, wheel hopping and post a picture with the right sides in there. Yeah, yeah.

Wheel hopping with the right size in there. Yeah. Yeah. How many spotters did you end up using? Six. No. Two. I had three.

Had a guy on the drag strip like normal. And then we put a guy on the banking in 8A, whatever that was over there, just to look back. Because we couldn't see the back stretch, I'll call it that, from basically the carousel up that hill we couldn't see it. Which, honestly, you really didn't need to, but in case a lot of runoff. We made a lot of passes. We were actually really good underbreaking. We made a lot of passes, but, yeah, I mean, you can't see that at all.

They're out of your sight completely until they make the right-hander in five, I guess, right? Yeah, seven. Just put the track back like it was. I agree. Did you see the video of Clint and Kyle's interview after practice? I did. That was funny. That was funny.

Yeah. Did Kyle call all? He goes, so there's 40 idiots that can't seem to stay off the dirt. And then Clint turns around and goes, did he just interview? And they're like, yeah, are you going to play his first? Yeah. Hey, how many times you hit the dirt? He wrecked twice.

Yeah. But he obviously came back to run second. Yeah, Kyle forgot where four, what turn four he was supposed to be using there a little bit. And then they would make you go all the way down there for a while. They made you come back head on into like traffic. That's the same thing for the race, they said. Yeah, like, so you turn around and come back. All these guys are coming.

coming at you downhill, getting ready to make a right. And if they missed a corner, you're going to hit. Yeah. Like, oof. Yeah. Speaking of which, third place, Ryan Blaney finishes 32 seconds behind the winner, MTJ. We'll start with Ross for spot-on, spot off for this. I didn't know that.

That's crazy. So that whole last run, how many laps was that last run with one green flag stop, right? Almost 50. That was 45. Yeah, 45 after the stage rate. So, I mean, that's insane. I mean, that's getting close to the same laugh. I mean, yeah, it's with our bad math.

No, that's spot off. That's, I don't know. It's not good. We needed it. I wish it was a caution probably four or five laps into a run because that, you know, some of the leaders might have stayed out that many laps. But you know from like eighth to tenth on backs coming in. And that's when guys are going to start making progress, you know.

But if you have it, if you have a 15 laps into the stage, everyone's going to pit. but if you have a quick caution or something, that's going to separate the field a little bit. But yeah, I'm spot off. We needed, I feel like we needed the old trackback. I feel like Sonoma was a really slow, technical racetrack for a road course, and I feel like they changed the whole dynamic of it, and that's why you saw this big of a lead because no cautions because nobody was passing. I mean, the carousel wasn't exciting, as I thought.

No. Well, it's downhill, off camber. Everybody was plowing tight and jumping sideways. You can't. Yeah. And then there was dirt on the track all day. Everybody was dropping tires. Yeah.

Yeah. Had to. That's what Eric Amarola said. I talked to him on the plane last night. He said he came over to the hill and just dirt everywhere. And off the course he went. Like, see you. And that's one of those things too.

If NASCAR's watching that close, they could throw a caution and kind of prevent that. Yeah. All right. Another one here. Darrell Waltrip finishes his broadcasting career at Sonoma this past weekend. We can start with Brett. I'm going to really miss the energy that this guy brought to the broadcast. You know, when I look at Jeff Gordon,

obviously a very knowledgeable champion, but he doesn't have the energy DW has, and as a fan who likes to watch TV, I want my people to be excited, you know what I mean? And so I think our fans kind of got fed up with DW on some certain things, which I can understand and relate to, but I'm going to really miss the energy that he brought to the booth. So spot on to him, man, I mean, what a great NASCAR career

to have accomplished what he did as a driver, 80-plus wins, three championships, and then go into TV. I mean, look, he's been the Fox icon in that booth since they signed that TV contract. So happy to have been here as kind of part of that, you know. Yeah, I'm spot on. I still don't think we've talked about it before that I don't think people realize what he's accomplished in our sport and what he was like in his early days.

He was basically the Kyle Bush back then. But mouthier. Yeah, I mean, yeah, but he made it exciting. Like you wanted to see his interview. You wanted to be around him. You wanted to see what he was going to do next. I mean, he spiked a helmet in Victory Lane one time. You did you shuffle.

Yeah. I mean, when's the last time you've seen somebody do that? He spiked a watermelon. DW spiked a helmet. But, you know, he's always very energetic. And, you know, I think we're going to miss him in certain ways. Ross. Yeah, I agree.

I think people don't realize what they're going to miss out on now. I mean, a big Jeff Gordon fan growing up, he was winning races for as long as I can remember. but like he said, he just talks about the real world of what's going on with the cars and what he sees in his opinion. But, I mean, nobody can replicate what Darrell brought. I mean, I don't know him. I mean, I've just in passing, he's waived and said hi, so I don't know him personally. And I think that's where some of the disconnect came from as he's gotten older,

is he didn't stay entrenched in the sport in the garage. You can't blame him, though. You're running all three series. If anybody should have saw him, it should have been you. You know, if he's going to be in any garage, you're going to be. going to see him walking around. But at the same time, you know, as I get closer to retirement at some point, like, you probably are a little less engaged, you know what I mean? Yeah, but his energy never changed, though. Not in the booth. He was enthusiastic every race.

When the tensions got high, he was. I really wish he were going to call the Daytona 500 next year and then be done, but obviously he went out on his own term, so good for that guy. Yeah. Well, that's interesting, too. I don't know. I mean, it hasn't been confirmed, but I heard they're just going to keep a two-person booth next year. They're not going to bring anyone else in so it'll just be Gordon and Joy up there they're not going to do three people so they keep saying yeah that'll be interesting if they just have the two with the loss of dW now i really hope they reconsider some of that i think there's going to be a dynamic up there that's missing with dw being gone and i think you know jamie mcmurray has won dota 500 he's won the brickyard you know he's

very energetic i would love to see them at least put him up there for some of the races where it's not is technical, you know, a place like Daytona, Talladega, et cetera, right? Martinsville, where we know Jamie's, you know, run good, Sonoma, Jamie was really good. I mean, personality-wise, I think Fox has a pretty deep, you know, portfolio. We got Hermie. We can bring Hermie on and put him in the booth. But I really think, honestly, I just don't want it to be, I don't want, I think Mike Joy is phenomenal. One of the best, one of the best color guys ever, but I just don't want it to be boring, you know? Yeah, that's what I like about seeing, like, like, Regan Smith. I think he's awesome on pit road, because he's just got the person.

and dynamic and like what cligerman does he brings that insight too so i know they have that with jeff being up there but it'll be like you said there's no no energy jeff's a chill dude yeah he's just chill like no matter what yeah sometimes he gets tense whenever he gets tense a few times every now and then when he sees situations happen and um he's going to have to step his game up he's got a lot of time it'll be interesting to see how it starts off next year just how things kick off if they keep that two person he might be able to though he's going to have to i mean he and dW didn't always see i die which was cool, right? Yeah.

And they would fight against who was right, which was, you know, kind of cool for a conversation. But you got to be entertaining. I wonder if he was a little more reserve at times because DW was so energetic and, you know, talking about situations and stuff. I wonder if he let him kind of do that side of it. I'm interested in seeing how it goes. Yeah. We'll see. All right.

Last one here. Charlotte Motor Speedway announces the redesigned backstretched chicane for the roval. Ross, tell us what this means. I don't even know what I'm looking at. This is the one that they destroy the. like five cars at last year, right? Like Bubba Wallace took out that entire tire barrier. Poor Bubba. The guy left pit road for practice on Friday. Are you serious? You beat me by one spot. I saw this on Twitter. Bubba left pit road, Ross, and immediately wrecked. And he was like,

oh, I forgot we were in a 750 horsepower package. Wait a about. He usually was like eight seconds or something and he wrecked. He literally left Pitt Road. He went into four and wrecked. Freddy's like, well, I've already wrecked because we can't see where he wrecked. I was like, you wrecked? He said, oh yeah, I'm spun out over there. Jesus, ma'am. So what does it? So what is? So what is. I'm already wrecked? So what this mean? What are we looking at? Oh, so this is, we're looking, the infields on the top. They've literally named them, they call them the turtles. Oh, wait, is this the front stretch? Back stretch. I'm so confused at what I'm looking at right now. That's the tunnel. You see the tunnel over there? Oh, yeah, yeah. Wait, this is, yeah. So it's a sharp turn. It's going to be a passing zone.

You're going to break. Yeah, I mean, you're breaking hard right there. But I don't know if this accomplishes anything because of the corner that you're coming out of. Yeah. Like, I don't know if. It's too quick of a right. Like this works at Watkins Glens because you've got to go up through the asses. You've got to left or right and guys get free and tight and you've got to lift. I mean, you've driven Watkins Glen. The essence can be a handful sometimes. Yeah, you're really loose in the rights.

So when you roll out of the last corner, which I don't even, what is it, seven here or two maybe? I don't remember. When you roll into turn one of the banking. Turn two off the banking. Yes, but when you roll out there, what are you fighting? There's no issues. That's what I'm saying. When you go off there, you're basically hammered out and going.

So I don't know if this is going. create the on restarts it'll be exciting i'm sure but after that it's not it's going to be hard to stay with a guy out of that corner yeah they're building so they're actually building a new wall like outward yeah i you know i applaud them for gotcha trying here now i see what i'm looking at i mean i'm glad they're trying to slow it down because last it wasn't even really as it came before um now with this being such a slow corner it might create some some of some of guys disagree with you that's true you know you know this is still probably going to set up a pretty good little run to the last chican.

So, I don't know, we'll see. It's not fun to go through, I'll tell you that. It's kind of pointing and hoping. Hoping you stick. You flinch every lap. But this will be, I mean, yeah, you'll have a little more decel into that first right, like left and then right, but you're going to be blasting across those turtles. And, like, I mean, I know I'm biased, but, like, for God.

It's kind of a weird exit. I'm not allowed to hit them. Like, we're not allowed to use them. even when you know you're not supposed you don't want to hit them all the time but you can use them to help turn the car and i was told that's not part of your program yeah just told not to yeah just make the car last yeah yeah yeah well you're running the roevolence finity you locked in on that yet no no you got to fix that yeah work on that yeah well let's take a break and see what's coming up this week on the dale junior download the dale jrard down listen up when you're done listening to door bumper clear go listen and subscribe to my podcast the Dale Jr. Download. This week, a guest that means the world to me. My sister, Kelly Earnhardt Miller. Plus, catch us on TV Tuesday, 5 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. The Dale Jr. download, available on major podcast platforms. The Dell Jr. Down. Dirty boat.

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Good luck. Fastly. All right. First question here. Sonoma used the carousel for the first time since 1997 on Sunday. It's the year I was born. It's your I graduated college. Yeah.

Do you prefer this layout or the previous one, Brett? I prefer the old layout. I don't need 30 seconds. There you go. I liked it as a driver, but it was really hard to pass. So that's the age old gripe. the driver. I prefer the old layout as well.

I think the challenge is it was cool to watch guys try to learn a new track for a little bit, but it didn't open up the passing zones and stuff that I thought that I wanted it to. I thought the old Sonoma was great. Passing, breaking, carnage.

I mean, it was, restarts on the old Sonoma were pretty good. So I like the old layout. Are you answering a FaceTime call over there? No, I'm looking for Jeff Gluck's pole. You know how he does that poll? It is not good. It says, was Sonoma a good race?

And it's 60-40, no. No is winning it. How many votes is there? There's 8,800 votes as I right now. Oh. And 60% are saying it was not a good vote. You have voted 7,000 times. I can't vote but once.

I'm kidding. I like Key Wade does those polls, though. I do too. And it annoyed Steve O'Donnell, which I think is funny. Steve O'Donnell tweeted about it one time. Who is this? So I will say off topic, real quick, these polls are highly influenced by who we win.

as well. Yeah, I would agree with that. But I mean, judging by the racing, the old snow in my opinion was better. Yeah. All right, next one. Johnny Sauter was suspended from the truck series for one race after wrecking Austin Hill under caution at Iowa. Do you agree with the penalty? T.J. starts. I do not agree with the penalty.

I did nothing for Johnny got a free weekend to go run his late and I don't have fun. How do he do? He might have a second. Yeah, he got second. Majesky one, right? Jesse one, he finished second. But Johnny got to go back to his old stomping grounds area, have fun. This did not hurt him in any sense of money.

They didn't give him a point penalty today. No. I mean, it did nothing but give Johnny Sauter an off weekend. He might do it three more times now. I don't know. But you know what I mean. I want Ross to go before me. No, I'm biased, but no, I don't agree with it.

The crime and the punishment, right? So it goes back to our tech violation for being, you know, an inch too low for static tech height and we we lose everything for that weekend and he just gets to take a weekend off and nope that's that was part of our argument in the appeals process and it was quickly denied I'm uh I'm not a fan of suspended drivers you know and I'm I'm definitely not a fan of wrecking guys under yellow I'm not a fan of wrecking guys after the race I think if you're going to take it out on take them out while the track screen but he should not have been suspended I mean And this is, just think about this.

If this had been the Cup series, right, and Ross Chastain wins the race gets found illegal, these two guys are wrecking each other under caution. Like, the storylines here would have been gigantic. Obviously, this is in one of our feeder series, not in the Cup series. But this race couldn't have been any better from an excitement level. You had Ross in a must-win situation. He wins. Then he gets kicked out.

Wow, drama. Then you got this going on, drama. And what do they do? They suspend the guy. We need this. We don't need to not have this. Everyone forgot there was an Xfinity race on Sunday because of the truck race. 100%.

Am I allowed to put an opinion on this really quick? Did you guys hear Moffat's interview on Sirius XM where they asked him about the suspension and his opinion? He got on there and pretty much vouched for you in the sense of the penalty versus the incident. And he's like, they're going to suspend him for wrecking someone under caution, which at Iowa it's different. So it's okay to go out and junk someone under green at 180 miles an hour. And you're not going to do anything about that, but we're going half the speed and we're

going to get in trouble and suspended for that. So he pretty much vouched and saying NASCAR needs to find consistency in like penalties versus. And obviously I'm not a driver and I'm not going to one hitting the wall. But I mean, he didn't really put a hill in any danger. You know what I mean? It's not like he was trying to physically hurt him. You cannot wreck people under caution. I mean, I just, you can't let your, you generally get that high. You go up and you punch them after the race. You fight? I mean, I fought. I got my butt kicked. You ever done that? I got my butt kicked. Who did you punch? Jeremy Clemens? I've got my butt kicked a couple times. I don't talk about it.

I don't think... Okay, I can get targeted on this show, but we can't ask Ross about who he's punched. Well, I think... If you know everybody that I've gotten an altercation with? No. Have you hit him? No.

No, no, no. I'm just kidding. I think it's good for the sport. I agree, though. Never wrecking by under caution. Never wrecking by after the race. Under caution is not acceptable, but, you know, I understand what Brett's saying,

but that's kind of like the... Take away two playoff points. Take away, like you said, I mean, he literally got a weekend off. When two guys are mad at each other, you either fight after the race or you handle it on the track. Yeah. You know, that's just how it is? I mean, how do you make a guy not messing it anymore? You either punch him out of the race or you handle it on the track, right?

100%. And, you know, I don't agree with going out there just blasting each other at 190. I don't think that's right. But, I mean, I guess everyone handles situations differently. I mean, you get mad. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

You're in there by yourself. Yeah. I wait until I get out, though. Your blood pressure's through the roof, right? I bet your heart rate was up. I didn't have a fancy watch back then. You should have started talking to yourself. I didn't know that I needed to get it down.

Yeah. It helps. Chicago Land is one of the most unique 1.5 mile tracks on the schedule. What does it rank among your favorite mile and a halfers to compete at? Ross, your first. It's awesome, yeah. You got the big bump down in 3 and 4. Track has some age on it.

Cup car there last year was insane. won't be this year but it's um yeah i mean i get to run all three so um try to rip the fence and the xfinity in the truck the truck won't be right on the wall be a groove off or something but yeah it's it's one of the good ones yeah i think um i think chicago opens up the lanes i think friday's i think friday's race will be pretty good um i think xfinny race will be pretty good as well and you know the cup race is still a question mark to me here i want to see how it i think it's i think it's going to be okay it's going to be hard to get a good handle.

We'll see. I mean, my favorite mile and a half is homestead to go spot at because it gives you a lot of opportunities to have different grooves, different runs. It really keeps you on your toes as a spotter. Chicago, for me, I mean, it's not any better or any different than any of the other ones. Like, it doesn't rank high enough for me to be crazy excited about going. But it's cool because it's got that rounded off backstretch. I guess that's what they say makes it unique.

But it's cool, man, because you're 45 minutes from downtown Chicago, which is a ton of fun. I also have a lot of time to go check out the city, it sounds like. Was it Chicago or Kansas that was spewing out water? That was Kansas, right? No, it might have been Chicago. Remember when they drilled the hole in the track and it started shooting out? They're a geyser.

Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. It was Chicago or Kansas. Yeah. They built them at the same time, you know, those two tracks. So they're a lot of like in terms of the layout of the facility and the way everything is set up in there. Super nice.

For a mile and a half, I like these tracks. I mean, I think they're fun. Spiderstands nice. Well, they're just, they're aged. They've got different grooves. It's not, if they repave them, it'll be, if they ever repave it, it'll be bad. Yeah. But.

Now, Jason, do you actually have the answer to this next one? I do. I'm already. All right. Guess how much, here's the off-the-wall question. Guess how much the Guinness World Record setting watermelon weighs Bray your first? Dang, 112 pounds. I got no idea.

Oh, man. Come on. You have to take a lot. Like, you know more about watermelons than I guarantee you anyone at this table. We have to take a guess. 301 pounds. I was going to go 249. All right, it's 350.5 pounds.

That's pretty big watermelon. Does it have like a, does it say the parameters of it? Like how big it actually is? They nickname my Hermie. I could resist. I had to go back to it. Right here, baby? I knew he was going to do that.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Oh, I don't know why. You know, next week we're going to have to, we're going to have to print off a head of Hermie and put a watermelon on the table and tape it to it. You need to get him on the show. Hermes me is going to have room. Oh my gosh.

So Ross's PR people sent out a tweet the other night after he won, and it said, we've given away some cool autograph stuff. What do you guys want to win autograph next? And a bunch of people said watermelon. So I think this weekend, we got to find a golf cart, and we got to get you a watermelon and sign it, and let's take it around and give it to a camper. I think they should tweet you and be like, hey, this is my campsite. Bring me a watermelon.

Where did you take watermelon up to the booth? that? You know about, like recently? Darlington. Your brother. Yeah. Chad, Chad's a hustler. Chad is a hustler. Yeah.

I think it'd be cool if you took, like, a bunch of watermelons or had some of the grocery when you're there and take them out of the campground at night or something. Do you ever do that? Not, like, to give to campers, no. Oh, you should. Man, it's hot out these races. They're all camping. You should take some watermelons.

Do you put salt on your watermelon? No. Is that weird? Do you put salt on your watermelon? No, South Carolina, that's the thing. Okay. When we grow a lot of watermelon is not like Ross, but I've watermelon farmed when I was younger. And yeah, we would bust them up in the field, a little salt.

Put salt on it, right. Me too, okay. You know, Brett's from the wrongly appointed watermelon capital. That's self-proclaimed water. Watermelon capital of the world, Pagelin, South Carolina. It's not true. It's a thing, dude. We got a festival.

Oh, you got a festival. I was going to say, isn't there a watermelon field off the backstretched accordial speedway? Yeah. We got a festival coming up. Well, it's not a watermelon capital of the world festival. It's in a couple weeks. So if we weren't racing, we would go. If Dillner plants a field of dandelions over here.

We have a seed spitting contest. We have a seed spitting contest. Have you ever done that? We also have a watermelon mile where you get 10 people or 9 or whatever the math comes out to. And everybody runs a block. And you have to keep handing off this watermelon. It's a 15-pound watermelon. For a mile.

And then you hand it off. Watermelon relay races. The rest of the world just has like the sack races and stuff. Watermelon eating contest. Have you ever seen those? We should have done that today on this. That doesn't surprise me, though. Martinsville used to have a hot dog eating contest.

Didn't Noah Gregson or someone participate in that recently? Does he farm it after every race? Dude, he totally does. No, it was Taco Bell. The Taco Bell late model race up there, they would always have a, they would have a taco eating contest. That would not end well for anyone involved. I saw a video him of Sonoma vomiting again.

Okay, so that's a thing. That's like, that's a thing. Does he need like OTC or whatever that stuff's called? He won the back-to-back Miller Motorsports Park races in K&N for the road course, and then he won at Watkins Glen, I want to say, or New Jersey in the East, threw up after all three of those. And then you guys remember Kyle Bush helping him at Martinsville? He was hurling into the safer barriers.

Heart rates up. And then he hurled at Sonoma. Heart rates up. Oh, yeah, exactly. He did a watermelon eating contest with us one time. Is that what it was? He cheated. Wasn't he spitting it out?

Yeah. How do you cheat in a watermelon eating contest on a stage? Yeah. It's probably better because he would have thrown up. He would have thrown up if he didn't. Where was that at? Dover. I don't know.

Does he have like acid reflux or something? Protect your melon campaign. That was actually pretty cool. That campaign thing that you guys have? Buckle your seatbelt. They put beer goggles on you and then they put you on big, like the big wheel tricycles and you have to go through an obstacle course. You know what you need?

Doesn't end well. It's actually use your melon. You know what you need? A watermelon. Huh? In the fall. Do you use your melon? Do you do two campaigns up there?

Watermelon facts. Do you have a little like baseball size watermelon's stress ball thing? because that'd be kind of cool. You could smash them a little bit and let them go back out, smash you have anger issues. Is that what you do on the spot? Yeah, I was gonna say,

you should keep one on the truck, you know, when you get angry, just... When you were trying to pass Paul at the end of the race at Sonoma? Are you... No, I was... I was...

Y'all had a heck of a race at the end. We had a fun race. No, coming down to the end. We caught him like six seconds in like five, six laps, and... Didn't pass him.

No, it was a good race. We did everything but wrecked with each other. Yeah. So it was exciting. You did all. 10 or what 10 the right-hander had a tire go down right at the end yeah oh yeah that made it uninteresting but 11 was going to be fun how far behind it you weren't that far behind it

no i let y'all go with like two or three to go yes he witnessed it all yeah just got to watch the show you see all the parts coming off through the yeses yeah well yeah it was fun good race all right moving on to AskDBC. Remember, submit your questions each week on Twitter using the hashtag AskDBC. You remember that, guys. All right. First question here. At racer-chason asks, they added the carousel to Sonoma.

Do you think they should add the boot to Watkins Glen? You definitely answered this earlier on. What do you think, Brett? Yeah. Don't add anything. Leave these tracks alone. The road courses are fine. They've been some of the best products for the last decade.

Really, honestly, Bristol-Martinsville Roadcourses. and you go messing with them. Leave them alone. We don't need to be running extra miles for no reason. If they're not passing zones, we don't need to be even considering it. Sonoma's been a good race. It's been a great race. It's one of the best.

Walkins Glend's the same way. Wagon's Glenn's a little bit different. It's faster. singing and then we go and change the freaking course. You know, that never would have happened. Whose idea was at? Fire him. That never would have happened had both of them had little stress watermelons in their cars. Or if they'd have talked to themselves like Ross got. Yeah, like the heart rate's got up. Next thing you know, one's on the tires. I mean, someone's on the tires in 11. That's about the time when road courses got exciting. Yeah, I mean, Sonoma's been great. Yeah.

And I, you know, I was excited to try the, try to the carousel, but miss the old It's hard to get a word in edgewise with those two, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not even going to try. It's hard to get through four or two, isn't it? Oh, Edgar Wood. I'm so glad you went off there. Edgar Wood asks, is the ride height rule necessary to keep costs down? That was a Twitter debate last night.

That's a good question for Ross, yeah. Yeah, I'm biased. Yeah, I don't know if this is a good time to ask Ross. My biggest issue with everything is, and you have to be careful. right, you can't just call NASCAR out. But my honest opinion is that there's flaws in how all this is written, because the rule in the Trux series and the Rule in the Xfinity series is the same rule for right heights.

Xfinity cars unhooked their shocks after the race, roll up, you're allowed to push down and pull up. And that's everything with ride height for tech height. There's no rule that says they're allowed to do that, but Wayne Otten, I mean, I might get in trouble, but he was smart enough to realize last year they were rolling all this out and these new rules it's going to be big penalties after the race.

And he tested everything with all the cars. He pulled random cars at a couple races and pulled at one time, I think New Hampshire he pulled like 12 or 13, maybe 15 cars through the random and tried everything to see how these cars would come up. There's no rule that says he has to or doesn't have to, but that's his rule for his series. And we don't have that. It was very clearly told to me, though,

that that's the Xfinity series and this is the truck series. So, yeah, I don't know about the cost savings. Nothing. Every rule costs money. Every rule change costs money too. So I was told by our friend Chris Rice that this would be a six-figure rule change if they did away with ride heights after the Xfinity races because of what you got to do with the front clips and their shocks and all that stuff.

But they have right-hight rules, but they're allowed to manipulate them by unhooking the shocks and pull the car up. Right, right. But he did say there was a considerable cost if Xfinity went to no right-hite rules. But see, me as a D'RF, that's what we call dumb-ass race fans. I'm so glad you know that terminology because I'm so. I got introduced a couple weeks ago to me. So me playing DARF for a moment.

I'm like, okay, you pass tech before the race. They said thumbs up, you're good. You went out and ran the race. You came in and your truck basically was sitting in Victory Lane like you raced it. It didn't come back up. So what do I care if it comes up after the race? As a fan, I don't. But then...

It did come up. It came up several inches. It just didn't come up five and a half inches. Five and a half inches. Yeah, but for me, I really don't care if it comes up at all because you're racing them slammed to the ground. What's the point of making them come back up? it's going to cost money either way everybody's spending too much

the only at the end of the day my thing with this is if you're going to bust one from now on that's setting the tone forward yeah so I mean if you're low you're low you don't win you know that clear yeah you are coming in to bring that briefcase we could have set that right here and bid on it that's fake money anyway that's fine we don't tell them I know I was all excited was it really yeah it looks real I know they opened it up in Victory Lane and I was like looking over and I was like man those are some they were like clean crisp but I was it's not even real did you notice I took it this time and handed it to the guys yeah you like walked out of the TV interview and handed it to someone should have put it the

truck sitting inside the seat last week at Iowa like I didn't even take it on the TV interview I didn't know you're supposed like receive it it's like their gift and you knew you were low no I just he's like just hold on to that guys yeah I was like no big deal okay and then this week I was like I'm taking it yeah we're taking this you ain't getting it back And it was paper. Not even real paper. Oh, P. Schmidt's 1988 asks, Ross, you've been a journeyman through the recent years.

You've now had the taste of victory in trucks and Xfinity. What's the main goal for you going forward? Keep being successful and keep winning. I mean, that's all that a race car driver wants. So just take that step of trying to be the best race car driver I can be. And that's where laps at Sonoma running 33rd is valuable to me because it's going to make me better. So putting in whatever work necessary Every day, there's no days off for me right now

It's just all focused on being the best race car driver It can be and the main goal is just to win People don't realize either Ross does a lot when he's not in the car He and I are both going to Denver tomorrow for Nutriac Solutions Lovelin products out in Colorado But Ross spent three days in New York Doing promotional stuff for sponsors

It's not only what you have to do in the car Which he's doing, which is winning But you have to do a lot of things outside of the car to attract new sponsors, spend time with them, and then ultimately just grow that relationship. You know, people don't always understand the amount of manpower and hours that takes for that to happen. It's not as easy as it looks on TV. Does your success in the Neast Truck now change, I mean, obviously, I don't know if you came into this year thinking you guys were going to be as good as you were. Does that change your outlook towards the future with them and what you might try to look forward to do next year, you know?

Do you come back next year and just focus on trying to win the change? championship with that truck and then do other stuff on the side, you know? I mean, that's what we're trying to do right now. So that's why we made the switch. We saw the opportunity this year, but next year is way too far out. There's, I have no idea what's going on. I mean, I honestly didn't think you would be as competitive as you are right now with that truck. I mean, I knew you'd be competitive, but not leading races and winning, you know,

I mean, it's two in a row kind of in a way, but. It is. No, kind of about it. Ross won the race. We saw it on TV live. But, yeah, you know, I mean, I didn't. I didn't necessarily think it was going to get to that. And even winning in a mile and a half is big.

You know, that's almost more impressive to me than, you know, than the other ones kind of. I mean, that's pretty big. Who do you think your biggest competition is for this championship? I mean, definitely the KBM trucks. And, I mean, for sure. Old solder's going to be tough. Well, here's the thing about the KBM trucks.

You just kicked Harrison Burton out, right? Because he was eighth in points. So you'll bump him. And I don't think Gillilands even in the top eight, is he? Yeah, but they're going to win. Like, those trucks are too fast. They're going to put it together. And then our in-house GMS, I mean, that's, we're all of our biggest competition.

And it's tough to balance it because they've never, in my sense, we've been at Nice, that Nice has never challenged them like this. And it's a lot like the Ferns-Roe-Roe-Gives deal. Like, it's tough sledding right now with all of us, but we know we're all fast. And we're actually all kind of on two different islands as far as, like, the two shops are side by side. And like, that's kind of how our setups are. We're pretty different in a lot of ways.

Your shops next to, by G. Yeah, we get our chassis and some body stuff from them and a lot of the infrastructure and stuff they all have in Nice Motorsports. We don't have that. Right. So, yeah, it's tough to balance that. Honestly, I mean, it's something that Cody Efall and I know Al and beaming those guys over there, it's tough to balance it.

Then you get egos involved and you get, you know, we're running one, two, and all these, in a lot of these races and racing each other really hard. I don't back down from anybody. I mean, me and Kraftin almost crashed on the straightaway. Dude, that was a bad block. That was a bad block on my part. I didn't know he was coming that fast. And when I faded the block, I was like,

oh, I just see a little yellow roof coming. I'll just, he'll lift. And he was going way faster than I thought. Yeah. I thought you were going head on to the outside wall. Yeah. I really did. I'm like, oh, well, that's not going to be good.

Yeah. Clean air is so important there. You cannot, like, you have to do it. And everybody does the same thing to me. I don't, I don't, I don't, get upset. I just, I know that we're not going to crash. I thought I was going to crash right there. I saw more slide jobs at Gateway of that race than I've ever seen there before. People were diving off into one and they were just coming up and the smart people will lift early and cross them

for the runoff of two. But yeah, it was exciting. Kway, I have a question, and this kind of relates back to stuff we talked to earlier. These kids that are getting sponsorship and money are holding out like their sponsorship to do three races in a KBM truck or two races in a GMS Xfinity car where you've taken, you know, sponsorship dollars, spread them out and ran full seasons for Johnny Davis or ran full seasons for whoever in lesser equipment. Is there, I mean, if you had an opinion, what would you choose to do for that kind of stuff? Do you know what I mean? Like, what's the pro con in that? Because we debated it and there was very split opinions on to take sponsorship and run three good races or run a full season. Yeah, it's tough. I mean, I remember that

race with Casey because I raced with him most of the race. And, the forecar. And there was just things that, how we restart and how things, how you can manipulate the starts and the first lap, we could all take advantage of Casey. But after three laps here, he'd come back. So if he would have had more starts, I mean, he's ran Xfinity races before. But it'd been a while. So it'd be the same thing.

If I went and ran a super or a crate car against him, he would kick my butt because he knows how to manipulate the car and get it through that first lap is really important. But I wouldn't trade how I did it. I also wouldn't wish it on anybody because it's tough. I mean, you know, you think about the first couple years I was in the sport. I mean, it's the ugly truth, but every driver that comes in NASCAR self-funds their way in. Like, that's, I don't care. That's the way it is.

So, you're self-funding to run 15th in Xfinity car, you know, or really, not even that. That was a sponsorship deal, but the truck stuff, you know, self-funding to run 15th in trucks at the beginning. And, you know, got into Brad's and still self-funding most of it. And that's tough. to win. You're expected to win now. You're in Brad Kislauski. Just won the Cup Championship. Ryan Blaney won a race. He won a race a year before at Iowa, and then he won Pocono when I was there. That's when it's tough. That was the most stressed I've ever been, and people that were friends with me before, during, and after that period, they'd tell me how much of a I was.

Because I was so stressed. I was just, I felt like the world was against me, and nobody was my friend, and why is the world against me? So glad you said that. I thought the same thing. No, I was. And I mean, no, you put a lot of pressure on me and Blaney's out there, you know, running better. And by the second half of the year, like you said earlier, we were, we caught up to him. But no, I guess back to your question, there's no right or wrong way. But I wasn't ready even when I got in Brad's truck, let alone. And I needed three years in the Xfinity car at Johnny's to get better. I think everybody. I think no matter what you do, I wish you could take what you know now and wish you knew now, you know what you knew, you know then what you know now. But these guys can. They can. There's opportunities with John. Davis, there's opportunities with the Seigs, different cars, there's opportunities to get lapsed. It's just everybody, I hear them say, well, I can't do that because it hurt my reputation. It's like, nobody cares. Nobody in Cup is watching, unless you win the race, nobody, they don't know, Exfinity or

truck, Mr. Hendrick, Joe Gibbs, I mean, all those guys, Chip Canassie, he could, he did not know me until I got in his car. You won and never met him. So let me ask you this. So we'll take a guy, Bubba Pollard. has enough money Redneck Jesus Has enough money

to run a full season with Johnny Davis or has enough money to run five races with KBM What do you think What do you think he should do? Just go run all those races at Johnny's Really? Hands down

See and I think Bubba's Well-rounded enough And like a good enough driver That I think he could go and perform Really well in those KBM deals But could he probably win? No, maybe not But like a lot of these young kids

that are jumping in and doing like straight to Xenity and straight to, you know, KBM, I'm like, no, those 14, 15, 16 year old kids need to be turned and laps. I think he's going to make more of a name for himself running the KBM stuff. Agreed. I do think he'll get used on restarts a little bit until he gets a hang of it. But, you know, hopefully by, if he has five races, hopefully by the third or fourth race, he's got a better idea of it. You know, I think he's going to go to a mile and a half and be out to lunch for a little while. But I think you have a better chance of making your name known by running those five.

races and running good and one or two of them possibly winning one going win England Iowa or something like that and then getting more races from that than you do um you know i think it i think i think it's hard to do what you did i don't think many people could go through and do it i don't think what does getting what do you say getting your making your name known by running a kbian truck what does that get you i mean if you're if you run good people like when you run good people like winners that doesn't that's you're not going to get a sponsor if you go win a kvian it in a KVM truck in a truck race, you're not going to get any more sponsors. Yeah, I mean, if you have, but if you had enough money to run five race KBM,

I mean, we're not talking like the next year, what do you go and do? I'm going to go run five races and be competitive until I mess up. You won't, you won't be able to execute. Well, I'm going to mess up for sure, but I mean, I'm going to be running against you. I'm going to be running against other guys. You're going to beat me on resarts and stuff, but if it's a long run, my truck's probably going to be pretty good. And I might, a guy like Bubba is pretty good at a long run,

late model stuff, I think he would pick his, he knows what to do to set up a pass on a guy at a short track like that. A mile and a half is a different story. He's going to be out to lunch. But if he were to pick the, if he were to pick out the short tracks to start with and then maybe add in a mile and a half, to me, to me personally, it would be more beneficial and more fun to go and do something like that than it would be. Definitely be more fun.

But, I mean, as far as getting track time, if you're setting yourself up from down the road, I mean, maybe if you have a three-year deal, something like that, then maybe. Maybe that's a better path. But if he has to go and prove himself, people don't get enough time to prove themselves right now. Well, that's like if you bring up, we talk about Haley Deegan all the time. You got to come in and win now. I think the smartest thing she did, she had every opportunity to move up to ARCA or run a partial truck, partial K&N, whatever schedule. But last year at the end of year, they said, no, we're going to go back.

We're going to run a K&N West series again and then dabble in some ARCA. But they're just doing that to build that mile, build that mile and a half exposure. but she is getting those laps and getting those seat time because she has the money and she has the backing to go run five, six KBM truck races right now. But I think they're being smart and getting her the laps, getting her the seat time so that she can commit as she goes up instead of having the four races, the five races and setting herself up for failure. If I knew I had four or five years, three, three, four years of like, you know, if you knew you had that in the bank to go and run and get that track experience and then get into a good, you know, car, truck, whatever,

I think that's the path to take. But if you've got to perform now, everything's performed now. Like, you've got to win. The window. You've got to win. You've got to perform now. They don't want to wait at a year and a half. They don't want to wait two years and then move, you know what I mean?

I disagree. Well, we're going to move to a lighter-hearted subject here. What is your favorite mixed drink with watermelon? What's the at Twitter handle for that? At KJ. Fly. Fly. KJ Fly. KJ. Fly. KJ. Fly.

You like that name. I've never had a mixed drink. Don't you not drink or on race weeks? Three days. Did they make four on track? Mixed drinks of watermelon? I think there's a vodka that's like a... Did I see somebody cut out like the middle of a watermelon or something and like mixed...

And put a vodka bottle. Yeah, they mix it in there. That might be good. It's called a spike melon. Literally. Yeah. I thought that's what happened Saturday night. It is.

That's what happened. And then, too. They got watermelon beer now. Yeah. The loggers. They're really good. They are good. Aren't they called like, it's called double D? Isn't it? Watermelon? Yes, it is. Double D. Super good. How good was it or bad was it? It was good, honestly. Yeah, it was good beer. Is that local? I don't know. It was in food line right here. So it was local to me.

I think it is a local because I think. Double D melon beer. Sounds phenomenal. Brilliant marketing. All right. Is that your rant? Have you ever seen double D watermelon? beer? I have not. Not the beer.

We get off on tangent sometimes on this show. You knew watermelon is going to come in to play at some point. Well, yeah, but... We're spiking them. I mean...

Double Dying them. Holla. All right, DBCC picks for Chicago. T.J. One damn spot. T.J. lost again. It's 9 to 6. He's fading quickly.

This is bad, man. Yep, he's done. T.J. needs some good picks. He's going to lose this week, too. Where are we going? Chicago. Yeah, I know what you're going to pick already, so. This is such a bad list.

I've never been to Chicago. I'm excited to go. Ross already took himself out for me. Geez. Man, you're going to... This sucks. This is really bad. You know what?

I'm going to go out on a limb, and I'm going to go with Jimmy Johnson. Awesome. That's a good one. That's who I won with last week. I'm going to go with Kyle Larson. My man likes to rent. Rim riding. This is a rim riding racetrack. Yeah. If he stays off the wall, he's going to be dangerous.

So is Homestead. Dangerous. You got a rant? No, I'm good, man. I'm in a great mood today. Are we moving on to the movie review? Fifty-first dates. Did you like it? It was good. That is one of my favorite movies. Did you cry? Did you cry? That was the question coming.

Did you cry? I think it was really smart how at first he would go on dates with vacation girls. And they just come out for like a week and then you go out with the them for a week. I think that's super smart. Yeah. I would consider that. And then the girl beats up his friend to just show off or whatever. And then at the end when she's like, oh yeah, you are dating him. He's like, oh, sorry, I'm not better looking. So it was funny. I like Adam Sandler. He was funny. Him and her recently in a movie too. Isn't it called like a... It's on Netflix. It's like, is it mixed or something like that where they go on vacation and their

families are... Or am I thinking of Jennifer Anniston in that movie? Jennifer Aniston. Do you know what I'm talking about that? There's only one movie that people need to remember Jennifer Anson from the breakup. Who else is in that? It's Jennifer Aniston, isn't it?

Yeah, who's the guy though? You just said this is the one movie you got to remember her in? Well, I mean, she looked at me like, that didn't happen. Well, no, I'm picturing like the movie cover. Oh, yeah, I'm picturing the movie cover with the bed and the line split down the middle, right? Yeah, she has her own bedroom, but that one scene.

I'm talking about the movie like cover. Like the graphic? Yeah, I think so. And it's got them laying in bed and there's like a line down the middle of it, right? Well, this is great content y'all are providing right now. Okay, next homework assignment. Ross, you want to pick a movie for him? He hasn't seen nothing.

I'm not a big movie guy. I've seen something for me. I got a rant. Oh, everybody, hold on. Back her down. So our host, Casey, that's not here ever anymore. Oh, she's boned us. She.

Four seasons, I mean. But listen to this. So she got married. How long ago? December or January. How long does a woman think it's okay to put wedding pictures on your social media? I am so tired of seeing her in her wedding gown. I didn't think about it.

I didn't think about it to know. You got married. So does every other American at some point. At what point do you stop putting these wedding pictures all over your social media? I think you only put them up now. After you get married, it's like after like the first few weeks or whatever, like after the first initial. after the first initial, hey, we're married, here's some pictures, then you're done. Do you follow her on social media?

Yeah. Do you see all this? I didn't think about it until now. I have seen it. And I think the only acceptable time now is anniversaries. Anniversary. It's out of control. It's every week I see I get more wedding pictures.

Like I feel like I was at the wedding. I feel like it goes like wedding pictures and then it should be like your honeymoon. And then always you get like the wedding video now. That's a thing I guess. Oh yeah. Like, you know, a couple weeks and behind. And then that comes out. And then it's anniversaries.

other than that. So you're telling me we got the video is still coming. I don't know. I think they put it up. No, I'm stalking her social right now.

She did post a wedding video a couple weeks ago or a couple months ago. No, it wasn't a couple months. She's posting stuff more than that. May 31st, she posted a wedding video. Then two weeks,

or a week ago, she posted some wedding photos. At what point do we, can we stop reliving this wedding is what I'm worried about? I can't really. Maybe she'll have kids and then there's be kids.

Mad, I don't know much so they'll see kids. Well, we'll just have to ask you again next week if she's pregnant again. We ask her every week, so I mean... You ask her every week if she's pregnant? Pretty much, yeah. Y'all are...

Why? It's just asking. Just asking, hey, are you... Time yet, maybe? I'm probably gonna ask Hermie next. He's six months. Twins. He's showing.

Ross, thanks for going on, dude. We'll have you back on again after you win again. You win, you come on here. You know, before, like, the last... The last nine months, the last nine months I'd like never won. So it's just been. Yeah. It just, it was meant to be.

So people have babies in nine months. I just went all my races. Before that it was bad. Ross wins, baby boom. Boom. One last update on our Bill's helmet, our $31 bids holding strong. So we'll update y'all next week if we win it. The Jim Kelly signed Bill's helmet off pristineauction.com.

Thanks, Jason. Thanks, pristine auction again. Looking forward. We'll have another item next week, too. Maybe it'll be Ross Chastain something. Yeah, maybe raw. A watermelon with Hermey's face on it. Yeah.

That game talk truck. Yeah, that'd be awesome. Maybe you can paint Hermie like one of your French girls. Sometimes we can sell it. Will you FaceTime in the shower? Huh? Mike, FaceTime me. I didn't FaceTime him.

You answered it. You answered it in the shower. I thought it was important. I can't help, but I was naked. How long does it take you to shower? You can't call back three minutes later? I'm a long shower guy. I'm not a fast shower guy.

Like if I'm a fast shower guy, like I'm in a hurry. I like to get in there and... That's what happens. Lather up. Oh, my show. Yeah, we're going. Yeah, we've had way too many conversations that involved Brett naked so far on this show. This show is going to end with Brett lathering up.

Oh, hey, I do answer your question. How's... That reminds you? Oh, yeah. How's my ass? Yeah. So I went and got an X-ray, as you guys know. It gave me a steroid, which did help with some...

of the pain inflammation or whatever you want to call it. And so last, so I flew commercial out. Hey, wait, did you know what happened? Yeah. Okay. You know he jumped off into the water. That's his story. Yeah.

Yeah. So I flew commercial out, thank goodness, because that was a quicker flight and, you know, the seats were more comfortable. But it was nonetheless not comfortable. And I had to go to a meeting when I landed, so I didn't want to be, like, hammered on pain pills. But last night, our doctor travels with us. His name is Dr. Bill.

And he prescribed me some pain pills. So I literally last night before I got on a plane, I was like, this is going to be seven hours of hell. So I took a pain pill. What was the diagnosis, though? Like, do you have a broken ass? Yes, I have a broken ass. You want to see it? No.

The x-ray, not my ass. Yeah, you said you were going to bring it. I did. I tweeted it. Oh, you did? Yeah. Maybe we can sell that. Yeah, I sign it.

Sign an ass shot. Yeah. There's a picture of my ass. That'll be good. So what's the healing time here? I mean, you're not on a pillow now, so you're good. Look, there's where my ass is broke. So see that?

See that line in my ass? That's not my crack. That's actually the crack in the bone. Ouch. Well, how long is it going to take to heal? I don't know, man. Is it going to heal? Yeah, I hope so.

Can't cast that. If it doesn't heal, you're just going to have a bone. But see how all the other bones look good? And that bone right there has got that line in it. It's great podcast content. Yeah. Anyway, well, all these people have seen my picture. Yeah.

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