Door Bumper Clear - 150 - Philosophical and Hungover

Episode Date: September 10, 2019

Brett and Freddie are celebrating after Indy as Clint Bowyer made the playoffs and Bubba Wallace finished third. They talk their days, Jimmie Johnson missing the playoffs, Mike Harmon vs Michael Annett, Elliott Sadler’s last ride and $250 jorts. 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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app or go to anchor.fm to get started. That's A-N-C-H-O-R.fm to get started. This is Doorby. bumper clear and on jason shultz indianapolis is in the books and it's on to the playoffs brett and freddie are in to you today to discuss clint boyer and ryan newman's hearing final

playoff spots bubble wallace's impressive third place finish mike harmon versus michael annette and theny more ready set go i'm p j majors this is friend ripam be ready be ready be ready bye New leader Welcome down for this guy White flag

Reckon Casey that was your opportunity to be better than T.J., which isn't that hard to do and you just royally It was going to be you. You're looking at me like about to talk. I'm looking at you like go. No, you're looking at me like you're about to. You were about to open your mouth.

I'm Brett Griffin, spotted for Clint Boyer. I got my man Elliot Sadler coming back this weekend. I got the hostess with the mostest back in the damn studio. Welcome back, Casey Boat from Midget Racing. Thank you. And NASCAR racing. Oh, yeah? You had to work your real job, your real day job.

Yeah. I basically lived at the track. For indie? Yes, I had to work the indie race. And then before that, Chad's race. Yeah. So TJ decided his perfect attendance would come to an end for $20. I think it's the first time.

But don't worry because Freddie is here, fresh off a hangover and allergies and anything else you have going on with you right now. I promise you I sound just as good as I feel right now. You sound like... Are you saying I'm not... I wasn't the hostess with the mostus last week? No. Is that? I mean, you cannot insult the host from last week while I'm here.

I don't think that's nice. I forgot about that. Casey is the hostess with the mostus. She gets that title. On top of me, feeling not very good today, if anybody could see what Brett is well. wearing to the podcast today. You know, we're going to send some videos out. You have the most ridiculous pair of shorts I've ever seen on a man in my life on right now.

You didn't see these shorts? No. What are you wearing? Oh, my God. Just consider yourself lucky. I'm wearing that side of table. I'm wearing a $250 pair of blue jeans. They went out of f***le. So I cut them off and made a shorts.

Do they have the jewels in them or something? They, I bought them in Vegas like 15 years ago. They're not worth $250. The amount of material he cut off, I think they're only worth $3. $37 now. But I don't, I don't, it's ridiculous. Well, we'll need to take a picture of this. Don't too worried.

I don't think anybody wants to see that. I'm sure what, it's the only thing I had clean, man. I've been out of town a lot. All right, I'm down to Tommy Hill Figure underwear that I wore in college. This is a true story. I'll show you my underwear too if you want to see them. I can almost see him now. And I'm down to a freaking pair of shorts that I had to cut off.

And, I mean, it's hard times around the Griffin House this week. And I leave tomorrow for Las Vegas. So I'm like literally in laundry overload. I'm stressed out. There's a lot going on with work, a lot going on with personal life, a lot going on with apparel. So this is what I got. Sounds like you need a therapy session.

You can keep going? This is what the podcast is for. And he made the playoffs. And I made the playoffs. Yeah, you should be so happy. He made the playoffs. Well, like people say that. And I'm really, really, really happy for our guys because they've worked endless hours to make

race cars go fast. And we have fast cars. We should have never been in the position we were in. It's a little discouraging to go into anything. As hard as a NASCAR playoff, though, was zero wins and zero playoff points, right? We're starting from the bottom. Now we're here, is what Drake said. But we've got our work cut out for us.

We're certainly up for the challenge. But at the end of the day, we can't do what we've been doing. The past three weeks, we can do what we've been doing. Before that, the last five or six weeks before that, we literally shit to bed and had to lay in it. So we got to get our stuff, keep our stuff on track like we've been with the last three races, get stage points, finish, single-digit finishes and advance. I feel like this first round is pretty hard because it's a lot of guys. If you screw up, man, you can get yourself in real big trouble early.

And Vegas is a hard racetrack. You know, it's not getting into turn three can be tough. And it's going to be, you know, hotter than hell out there. It's going to be like 100 degrees. That's why I wore these shorts, man. I'm practicing being hot. So I figured I'd just do it that way. But yeah, I mean, definitely awesome for Clint,

awesome for Boog of the Crew Chief and all the guys. I mean, again, they put in all the hard work. I mean, I stand on a roof 40 weekends a year, but I don't have to endure what those guys endure with all the long hours at the shop. So Brett was fine. Like I hung out with Brett every night. We were there all day, Sunday morning,

hanging out, talking a little bit. And Brett was fine the whole time. No show of nerves, really. I didn't sense any, like, extra pressure on Brett, till about 10 to go and Bubba was running third and I think Clint was like sixth right behind us and he's like, hey man, don't let him do anything stupid get us all wrecked right here.

Well, what I actually personally, now this was a personal comment, right? I said, Freddie, I would love for you to win this race and make the playoff and me to get enough points and make the playoff and us literally be the last two guys in. I would love for that to be. I mean, we're great friends. I'd love to see us both have that chance.

But I also have seen Bubba with your help do some really dumb stuff when he's having a good run, don't let this be a day where he screws up a really good run. I wasn't going down there entirely for myself. I was also going there. 97% Brett.

Sure as hell, we're coming to the checker flag and I look up in turn three and here Bubba has Ryan Blaney just literally in the grass. He's running him so low because Bubba doesn't want to relinquish the top three finish

and he's racing Blaney. Just something terrible. Blaney ends up going from racing for third, end up finishing seven. So I ended up getting a spot out of it, which was great, got me in top five. But I was literally watching this play out coming to the white. And I was like, he didn't listen. He didn't get above my message.

Oh, I did. And I said, looking inside, inside, still there. Stop! Clear, I guess. Clear by five to the 24 now. At 12's gone. There are always times where we have the old pucker up moments. I mean, I certainly had one with Bowman Reck.

yesterday and goes flying across the racetrack. He wrecked going toward the wall. And all of a sudden, when that car hooked, man, he shot down right back across, literally aimed for us. And all I could say was, spinning in front of you, he's up high. He's coming down. He's coming. Like Freddie said, you know, your voice pitch changes. And I'm watching it. And I'm like, we're getting ready to get hit. This is going to be it. But we didn't. We kept going. So it was awesome. Hey, Andy was great weather. Best weather we've ever had. You know what I mean? It was in the 70s every day. the weather at night was good drinking weather. Yeah.

Probably a bad thing. We went to St. Elmo's. Oh, me too. Yeah, we had some collic folks with us, obviously doing some work dinners out there in Indy. And yeah, Freddie had a – Freddie and I both – I've been trying not to eat a lot of red meat, you know. And they come across with this opportunity for me to have some kind of special rib-eye they've got. And I'm like, oh. Was it the cowboy?

I can't turn this thing. I got the cowboy. It was a special cut ribby, he told us. And he told us all this, he sold me on it. And I was like, I'll take one of those medium rare. This thing was huge, and they didn't even cook it. When you got to the middle of that thing, it was pretty bad. Like, it was, it was, like, just below medium rare.

Like, on the outside, when you got to the middle of it, it was over. Like, you could have gotten up and watch. It was just a hook of meat. It was mooing. It was moving. And it had barely, they literally knocked the horns off his ass and put it on my plate. Now, they did hit a little sear on it, but trust me, it was rare. Nonetheless, it was a phenomenal meal.

San Al-Mos shrimp cocktail is still one of the most iconic things that we do on tour. Yeah, I feel like that's probably the restaurant that the industry goes to the most, I would say, right? I mean, Ronan and Daytona is the number one. When I start hearing the word Indy Casey, I go on my phone and make reservation. Because it's if you don't do that, you can't get in there. It was basically the garage when you walked in there on Friday. Like the NBC was there, all the industry. We had Richard Childress behind us.

We have Bubba Suh. beside of us and obviously his uh his family the sugs family who else was around us freddie we saw boomin in there and boman's in there matt tiff was in there matt what's his name tiff no the other one tippinadda i get it right that three weeks can't say it still it was a little bit better i mean it's close deep in and deddo no no nope d bedadetto change his name matt d from now on guido his name's We do. Matt D. So anyway, Indy was awesome.

It was fun. Nice. It was fun. Where you been? Casey? What you've been doing? Oh, you know, just working. I honestly, I could have done the show last week.

So y'all gave me crap, but I could have done it if y'all hadn't changed it a million times. Okay, wait. Wait. Who changes it? Maybe Dillner. Maybe you. Casey, really? Who do we always change this show for?

Dillner. Dillner? No. I need to stop talking before I get my question. You're lying. Who do we always, who always in our group chat determines what time we record? TJ? TJ.

Yes, he is the neediest little podcast guy I've ever been around. So needy. He is babysitting all the time. It's awful. I can't do two to three and I can't do three 30 to four, 45. I can do like nine to nine 15. It's like, all right, dude, that's awesome. Great window.

Great window. Appreciate you. He missed all the Chick-Flay though. Oh, I honestly, I might be eating the entire show. So I might gain like five pounds. just within this hour of recording. If Freddy gets me sick with all the sneezing he's doing, I'm not going to get you sick.

I'm not contagious. I'm glad you got, like, whoever Jason, you like put me super far on the side of the table today. So thank you. Damn, I can't stop sneezing. You know what makes them sneeze is lights. This is a good day for me.

That's the brightest light I've ever seen in my life. He looks like he just took... I can't even read this sheet anymore. I'm crying. All right. Let's go. Let's go. Let's talk about something else.

Well, what about some pristine auction? items. Yeah, so. Do we win? No, last week I did not get the bids in time to win the two items. You suck. Jason, what the? I know.

We had two bids. I know. I was in class. I was trying to do it and then never got a chance. The hell would class. You got to drop out of school. I would like to at this point. One semester left, just want to get done.

Here's one cool item. Did you have a 4.0 right now? Probably 38. Oh, you suck. What the hell is wrong with you? I'm sorry. Am I fired? I made a 0.8 one time.

I did make a 0.4 all I'll, I'll, Is that your blood alcohol level? That's what they graded. That's how they grade. Yeah, Camcox School was a party school. Blood alcohol was way higher than it. I should have went somewhere like Harvard. Hi, I'm Brett Griffin.

I'll be an attorney. That would have been interesting. Party school thing was too much. It screwed my life up. Did you imagine showing up to court and Brett Griffin's your attorney? You're like, I'm going to jail. The good news is my lawyer's coming with me. Valid point.

That was funny. That was true. Tushay. All right. So a couple items we can bid on today. There's a couple of signed Richard Petty photos, which are pretty cool. There's also this Dale Earnhardt, number eight, 1964, Sevel Clear Window, diecast for $50. Oh.

Do you think that's cool? We're not going to get that. No. So there's a Caliarborough sign number 21. Anytime you try to bid on an autograph that you'll never, ever be able to get again, you're usually not going to get it. I have been fortunate enough. to have two Michael Jackson autographs. And I paid through the absolute roof for both of them.

So let's focus on the king, especially since Freddie didn't suck yesterday. Hey. And that actually, Dale and Hart one's not signed. Oh. But it's just his old number eight documents. You got it together. Hey. He's a little busy, okay.

He's got nuggets in there. Yeah, I had to get all the trick-flay for you all. There's so much Earnhardt stuff on this table. We need to go for something with the king. Signed Richard Petty photo. Putting the bid in right now. Deal. Sweet. Good work.

Spot on. Spot on, spot off. He's spot off. You like it. Spot off. You don't like it. You say why either way. First topic. Clint Boyer and Ryan Newman earned playoff spots in the final regular season race. What you got, Brett? Spot on for the entire just drama that built up to literally the last lap of the race. I mean, there were numerous times when various guys could have been in, right? Jimmy looked extremely fast, obviously got into a wreck there and wanted to, which ruined his day, took him completely out of the equation.

You know, Ryan and Daniel were certainly battling right up until the end. We were fast enough to give me confidence that we would make it, but we just kept getting in scenarios where every single wreck that happened happened in front of us, no matter if it was Larson at the end, if it was Bowman, if it was Eric Jones, whenever he had his incident with a two car. Like, we were certainly having to overcome a lot of adversity in Miss Rex, but fortunately I felt like we had the speed. But nonetheless, you're still talking about a single-digit margin coming down to the last lap.

So I think just kudos to the drama that built up from really, you know, after we left Darlington until the end of the race yesterday. Yeah, I mean, spot on for them guys making it. Obviously, I think Clint was probably in the driver's seat going in. And then I kind of had a feeling. Yeah, I mean, he was. You kind of had the feeling going in that Daniel was probably going to push a little too hard

I feel like he's been making mistakes like overdriving a little bit and you see that right away bouncing off the fence yesterday then I think he got into the Tiff kid late in the race and wrecked him so he's just kind of been a little over his head here lately put himself in bad spots

maybe not great pick calls that put him behind a little bit but you know spot on for them guys I was gonna come down there was a restart we were third there at the end and I'm like I was gonna go down to see if Brett was I'm like am I allowed to be a lot to win this race. Are you still going to talk to me tomorrow if I win this race? Because there was one time the last restart, we pushed Joey good enough into one where they ran side by side to the three.

And I'm like, oh God, if Bubba can get to this 22's bumper, this is going to be ugly. I wish you would have. Because he needs to do that. Yeah. I mean, we couldn't get to. We tried, but they got singled out right before we get to them. But yeah, spot off for them guys for sure. I think one of the coolest parts of it is, and this is what people have to realize, we had 26 weeks to make the chase, right? We had a lot of opportunity. We run second a lot this year, third a lot this year. So we had 26 weeks to do it,

and it just comes down literally to the last lap of the last race. And I think any time you have a sport that can provide that moment for fans, it's exciting, right? So realizing it was the last race, there was a lot online for you specifically and your team, did you guys have a different strategy? Did you do anything different going into indie? that kind of helped ensure or hope that you would make it playoffs.

The goal was to score as many points as we could possibly score. We weren't so much worried about, obviously, if you get a chance to win the race, you're going to win the race, right? But we were more worried about beating the three guys that we needed to beat. And obviously, if we beat two of the three, we're guaranteed in. I was never really worried about Jimmy. I think the other two guys needed to be because if he got stage points, which he did yesterday, he could make up a lot of ground on the points as far as those guys go.

but he was 26 points behind me. It's hard to make up 26 points in one race, as long as you're running well, which we were. So it just came down to stage one. We didn't get any points. Some of that can be attributed to us pitting when a yellow came out and allowing guys like Newman and Jimmy to drive up there and get those points.

And on the restart, we were coming around Kyle there on turn three, and I don't know what happened, but we lost a ton of ground and ended up finishing that stage like 14th. Second stage we did and executed like we were supposed to came out of there with some stage points. obviously finish the race with a top five. And you're going into, this is a really weird round, right? We got a mile and a half in Vegas, which is a very unique racetrack.

We've got Richmond coming up, a short track, and then we've got the crazy, wacky roval to end the first playoff run. So, man, it's really easy to not be good at all three of those because they're such different racetracks. You know, the guys that are going to be able to put together some really good runs are going to say, hey, we're here to compete for this championship. And that's, the guys that are winning races are realistically the guys that you have to say are in contention. You know, Harvick, two months ago, you probably weren't going to say his name, but he's won three races in the last six weeks. So boom, here he comes as a guy, right? He knows when to turn it on. We've got to win races in this playoff or we're not going to have a chance to win it all.

Fair. Next topic, Jimmy Johnson crashes out Sunday and we'll miss the playoffs for the first time ever. Spot on, spot off, ready. Spot off, obviously. You never want to see somebody crash. You want to see him race it out. And it kind of sucks for Jimmy just for the fact that, you know, he's been such an ambassador for our sport forever that he's not going to be part of the

playoff. But I guess this is kind of what they say. You know, he's shown speed lately, but at the beginning of year they were off a little bit. And hopefully, you know, he gets a turned around and makes it again next year. You see, like I've seen this morning, he tweeted out, like, amazing. The sun still came up today. Like, we got 10 more races to go get one. So it's obviously not the end of the world for him, but it sucks that he won't be part of the chase.

Jimmy started in the Cup series at 25 years old. And in today's world, that almost sounds old when you look at Lugano and some of those guys that came in so young, right? Started at 25 years old, has won 83 races and seven championships. Is, in my mind, the greatest stock car driver to ever live. And I realize you're putting it up against Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty. But to have won championships in literally every format that NASCAR has ever had a championship is freaking amazing. He's won it in every – they've changed. their freaking playoff system more than Fred is probably changed his underwear in the last seven,

eight years. And this guy's won under every single scenario. So like it's pretty, it's pretty cool that he's done that. Obviously when you see a guy, I mean, I think Ryan Newman and Jimmy Johnson came in together as rookies. And you look at it, you know, here are two rookies that were phenomenal race car drivers, one, a lot of races, a lot of big races together, a lot of poles. And here they are, they can't make the playoff. They're struggling to make the playoff. They're the last guy in the playoff and the second guy out of the playoff. Like, that just shows you how hard this sport is right now because if it were easy, Jimmy Johnson would certainly have been in this playoff easily.

And the reality is, I'll go back to just what we just said. He had 26 races to make it. And he was hanging on by a nail trying to make it yesterday and he wasn't able to pull it off. Bubba Wallace finishes P3 and comes closest among drivers in a must-win scenario. What you got, Freddie? Spot off. Spot off that he did. Spot off, he sucks.

Now, obviously spot on. It was, you know, obviously the best run probably we've ever had in the Cup series. Probably the best run, the best race he's ever driven. Actually had a lot of early pit stop. We got damage. He's kind of pissed off. Thanks at the end of our day, we come out, we restart three quarters of track behind the field. He goes up, drives back up to 20th from there, and I'm like, holy, we are flying.

I'm like, if we can get some track position, we might be in good shape here. And, you know, we did. eventually got up there and raced our way, took advantage of a couple guys racing each other, got up there to top five, had a couple good restarts, and I was hoping them guys got together on the last lap and gave us a shot at them, but they didn't. But, I mean, by far our best run that we've ever had. I don't think anybody was being Kevin Harvick yesterday. It was amazing how fast he was.

But at the same time, we also saw Lugano stay out to end stage two. And Harvick's on four fresh tires, and Ligano was on old tires, and he couldn't pass him. We saw Blaney get the lead, couldn't pass him. Like, whoever got the lead was going to win the race. I was pulling for Bubba to get a really good restart, have the right push down to backstretch, have a chance to take the lead and win this race. Because, man, it would be awesome for NASCAR if he could do that. I actually text him and Freddie after the race, and I was like, hey, man, congratulations.

I saw some to see you guys relevant, literally during a whole day. And I said multiple times over my radio, hey, this 43's fast. Because you get around guys that you haven't seen all year and you get a little spooked. You know what I mean? And you're like, well, man, you know, I don't know about this 36 car. I don't know if that's this 43 car, but I literally, one thing you don't want to have Clint worried about is him hesitating because he doesn't know if Bubba's fast. I'm like, hey, he's fast, push him. If you get around him, like he's going to go.

And Bubba is, and always has been, Freddie can attest to this, he's aggressive on restarts. He will flat out get after it on restarts. That makes it fun to spot for a guy like that. But my favorite thing was, I sent him a text said, hey, let's go throw some dice this weekend in Vegas to celebrate. And Bubba immediately replied, yeah, let's do it. So that's probably my favorite part of this. I mean, and we talk about on this deal like money by speed and stuff like that. We, you know, we were hurt in the beginning of year, didn't have, didn't have the funds we really needed to compete the way we should and got that big sponsorship from Victory Junction.

And this was actually the first brand new car that we've gotten since that sponsorship. We ran it at Michigan, had a couple bugs to work out. And this was the second race we brought it to. And it was right off the trailer. We were top five first practice, top 10 second practice. So, I mean, hopefully, you know, if we can find a little bit more money, we can get some. more new cars and really showcase what Bubba can do. Here's the coolest thing about that too is, you know,

Bubba is always having to go to Austin Dillon and having to go in Daniel Hemrick's trailer and try to figure out what are you guys doing to get speed. When Bubba's going to show up like that, have speed, come off a single-digit run like that, run good all day. Now they're going to be going in his truck, right? So you actually can get a better flowing of information than what you have because, man, I've been on teams where you're fast

and you see the slower teammate walk in and you're like, oh, I've got to help this guy again. And it's a lot different when you can actually help them. You tend to get a lot more information. So it'd be interesting to see how RCR plays off of that big finish because they're obviously a big alliance partner for you guys and it's cool to see that working. Spot on, spot off the celebration, Freddie.

Spot off, Jesus. Good thing you guys didn't win. My Jackman, there was 10 of us at the bar. I think he bought 38 shots. I don't know why. I think he miscounted slightly. It's a even number. But, yeah.

Who's trying to get to 43? So then, of course, like, I'm not. smart enough to like, all right, we're done. Everybody's going home. I'm going to go home and just keep drinking. Why wouldn't you? So, yeah, it was spot off this morning. I mean, spot on last night, spot off today. That's what? We tried to get Bubba to come on. What he had going on? He's got to go to the debrief. He said he could come on if we were doing it earlier, but I didn't check. We were doing it earlier. I couldn't check TJ's schedule. We'll get them all. Yeah, he'll be on eventually. Next, this one's my favorite. Spot on, spot off. Mike Harmon's tweet to Michael Annette.

Jason, you want to read it? tweeted on Friday, I apologized as a team, but you took it to a whole new level when a camera's in your face. Come bring your punk ass down to Applebee's on Crawford Road and call me an idiot to my face at Michael Annette. Spot on, spot off. Brett, you have to see this one first. I mean, here's the thing, right? This guy, first of all, I was almost in this wreck. I was spotting for Austin Dillon.

We're catching Mike Harmon, who is always slow. But this particular time, he was slow. and out of the groove on the high side as we were entering four. I'm like, slow up top, 74. He's coming down, he's coming down. He's in the middle. He's on the bottom. Check up, check out, check out, chock, pop.

Boom, they hit, right? And I'm like, what the a fuck is this guy doing? Does he not have a spotter? Is he not listening to the spotter? Does he not have a mirror? Does he not have a brain? That's literally what's going through my head. And Austin's like, what the, what was that?

That's what harm in had to say, right? So anyway, it's like, what the heck is going on here, man? But then, you know, Michael Nett's going to be upset, right? I mean, he's trying to win a race. He's got a fast car. He's in this playoff thing that's coming up, and he gets wrecked. You know, it wasn't his fault. So he's upset.

He calls Harmon an idiot. Idiot. Okay, well, then Harmon goes on Twitter and calls him a puck-ass. Isn't that the same thing as him going on TV and calling him an idiot? What I was most afraid for for Michael Annette is that Mike Harmon was going to actually eat him. Oh, my God. So spot on. Maybe that's what he wanted him to come to Applebees for, his dessert.

Oh, my. I mean, spot off, shut up. I mean, what the hell are you talking about? You are the biggest idiot on the racetrack nine times out ten. Let me ask you this question. Who do you know that runs that speed that gets more penalties on pit road than the 74? Oh, body. Every race, it's like three.

Too fast entering. He's going faster on pit road than he goes on the racetrack most of the time. I don't get it. Like, just, I mean, you do enough dumb stuff on the racetrack that you probably just need to shut your mouth and take it when somebody calls you. Let me ask you this, Freddie. How big do you think the driver's meeting room was for Indianapolis? Like, if you really want to call this guy a punk ass and really want to eat him or beat him or whatever you want to do, he's pretty darn close to you in that room, right? I would think so.

Oh, I was there. Oh, is it uncomfortable? I actually, like, forgot, honestly. I should have looked to see where they were sitting. Man, I don't know. Don't threaten me a good time. You couldn't miss Harmon, so you just couldn't see it, I guess, probably. It was a big room.

Like, everybody sat in the back of the room. There were, like, five rows in the front row. He's had his five minutes of fame for the season, and here we go. I think Applebee should be paying for sponsorship, though, at this point. Well, they probably need to recoup some of the money. They had to shell out for whatever he ate on Friday night. Idiot. All right.

on spot off. Elliot Sadler returning to the track in the Exfinity Series race at Las Vegas. What do you think, Freddie? I let Brett go first on this one, I think. Man, it's a lot less tugging on my heart than last year at Homestead. Elliot just tweeted it's his last race ever. We've got a big announcement coming out today, which is going to come out right before you guys are listening to this show that Elliot's running a very special paint scheme. He's literally going to run the paint scheme from his 1993 to 1995 late model car.

It was the slip-in yellow car, and it is a pretty race car. Nutrienex Solutions really came to the table and ultimately made this happen for Elliot. He really, really, really, really wanted to run this paint scheme last year at Homestead. And the sponsor back then, despite having been with Elliot for eight years, said, no, we can't afford to give up our colors and our brand awareness for that race. We need to keep it intact. and he was really upset because Elliot's not a guy that asked for a lot from sponsors. And so he didn't realize that I went to the sponsor this time and said, hey, Nicole, we need

your help. We want to run this paint scheme. And she's like, hmm, let me think about it. She takes it to her boss, Brent. Brent looks at it and goes, man, if this is going to be great for Elliot, it's great for us. He's the reason we came into NASCAR. Let's give back to him. Let's give him this paint scheme.

And I've got the video that Elliot where he saw it. but I'm sure it'll get tweeted out at some point. And he watched the clip of the other video, and the first thing he said was, hey, I need a minute, I want to watch it again. And he's like, it looks just like my late model car. Like, you can tell he's excited. I sent it, he hates surprises.

Listen to me, he hates surprises more than any human being I know, which was the best part of it for me because it was like, hey, I got you. And I tugged it your heart a little bit. He's like, he texted me. He's like, you're trying to make me cry. I was like, no, man, you deserve this. Like, if you're going to go out after a 24-year career in NASCAR's top series,

you deserve to go out with the damn paint scheme that you want. boom, this is it. This is a really cool going away present for him. Yeah, it's awesome for L.A. and I remember last year talking about it with you about him wanting to run that at Homestead. So it's just, it's great for him. And even Chris Rice, who I think worked on that late model. It is the crew chief.

The crew chief on the, he's not the crew chief anymore in the 10 car, is he? He actually is, yeah. So he'll be crew chief. He was crew chief back in the late model days, and he's his crew chief for his last race. So that's awesome for them guys to be able to do this one more time. Yeah. Let's take a break and see what's coming up with this. week on the Dale Jr. Download.

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Let's go into Fast Lane. Three racing questions. One off-the-wall question. 30 seconds to respond to each. Only 30 seconds. How are you going to start with some talking? Good luck. Fast lane.

First question. The Cup Series qualified and raced on the same day Sunday at Indy as a part of a two-day weekend. Is Sunday qualifying a good idea or a bad idea? Brett. It's a terrible idea when a spotter's got to go stand up there for no reason for an hour. We had to be up there because they were two. two cars on the track at once, and we literally didn't do anything, but just stand there and watch. Leave it to Brett to complain about something.

Well, hey, I could have slept. I could have ran that morning. I could have slept 30 more minutes. I could have had breakfast. I had the best grits I've ever had my life in Indianapolis. Could have stayed out later. This place called the something egg. They had jalapeno grits.

Anyway, back to your question. Man, I think it's cool for the fans, right? Because it gives them an opportunity to watch qualifying and the race in the same day. I think it's challenging for the teams, though, in the event. that something happens. If you had a problem in qualifying, that's a really, really, really small window to get your backup car out and be ready to roll.

Yeah, I mean, we talked about it Sunday walking in, though. Like, you think it's a cool idea for the fans, but there really wasn't anybody around that at the morning, you know, in the morning to watch the cars, you know, roll out, get ready for qualifying. I mean, it's obviously you'd think, you know, one-day ticket for see both events was probably better. But, yeah, I mean, we had to turn in early.

If you ever go out with Brett at night, You can immediately watch the clock start turning backwards in his head to figure out. If he doesn't get eight hours of sleep, you can't deal with him the next day. It's intolerable, like it's terrible. So all of a sudden, you'll see him start counting with his fingers. And that means how many hours of sleep he's going to get. And then three seconds later he says, I've got to go to the bathroom. And you never see him again.

I have to sleep eight hours. It's my rule. I really like to have nine, but I got to sleep eight. If qualifying on the same day and racing on the same day was fantastic, I think we'd have saw more people there. We'd have sold more tickets. And I still look at Indy. and I say from an optic standpoint, we need to race in markets and at racetracks where people support us and for whatever town, for whatever reason that town doesn't seem to support us at that particular track anymore.

And it pisses me off. So in your ideal world, would you have qualifying on Saturday or Friday? I love this Vegas schedule, okay, because we go in on Friday and we do all of our practice sessions for the Xfinity series and the Cubs series. And then on Saturday, those guys go in, and they're going to qualify both series and race the Xfinity series. Then on Sunday, we're going to run the cup race. If we're going to have a three-day cup show, I think that's the ideal schedule. Darlington, it was fabulous. It was hot there.

Guess what? It's hot all summer everywhere we go. Darlington is fabulous. For the fans, it's better. I'm a big fan of that schedule. For a two-day show, I don't have an issue with qualifying being on the same day as the race. I just don't like to pick picks like we did, because we pick based on only. points and we saw a gigantic wreck yesterday on pit road. I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not,

but nonetheless, I think your pit selection should come from qualifying, and that didn't happen yesterday. Big race on the line for us to change the way we do a really big procedure for our weekend. But I'd like to have a little bit more of a gap in between the qualifying session and the actual race. All right, well, hopefully they're listening. After Brad Kislauski's hard hit into a tire barrier protecting an awkward wall angle on the bat stretch, he called for another safety revolution in the fix issues like that. What track safety features still need to be improved?

Fred. Well, I mean, obviously, you cannot, I didn't see it, but as soon as it was happening, Bubba starts screaming, check on Brad, check on Brad, so I still haven't even seen a replay of it. But from what I gather, he hit that brunt end of the wall, which I think there was a tire barrier there. Those things kind of launch you in different directions

than what you should be going anyway. But I mean, I feel like didn't Jeff Gordon hit the back there or just missed back there a couple years ago, like one of his last race is there. I just feel like there's no way that there should be a blunt wall anywhere. Anywhere in our sport. I have to go with a selfish improvement that I would like to see made, which would be a shade over the spotter stand.

It's going to be 100 degrees. My real white skin turns real red and it burns. And I think that's unsafe. I think it would be a lot safer if I had a shade and if I had a Cleopatra-looking girl with a big fan and some grapes and a cooler. Okay, well, if any sponsors want to sponsor that, you let me know. Everybody else at the racetrack has shade as an option. There's not one person there that can't get out of the sun except us. A Cleopatra-looking girl?

Is that he said? Well, that's just a bonus. No, that's safety. In a baiting suit, preferably? Yeah. In case Harmon gets mad and put her between me and him. You think he'd be full by the time he got to you? Is that what you say?

How far you think he could run? Like really run? Really run? Yeah. Nowhere. Come on, man. He can run somewhere. From seven steps, I give him.

Maybe. This is not a fast lane question, guys. Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. Back to the show. Oh, gosh. Last year's... That's going to become a mainstay on the show now.

That's your deal. Last year's Las Vegas playoff, included five cautions involving playoff contenders and seven finished worse than 20th. Will this scenario repeat itself this Sunday? Brett? It could if we have a restart incident. Otherwise, these cars just don't wreck like the other cars did. You know, these cars are a lot more in the racetrack. I mean, when you look at Indianapolis, they're out there qualifying full throttle, that's insane, right? How much downforce these cars are making, how much grip the tire is producing. Could we see a wreck like that?

Absolutely, we can see some bigger wrecks. But if that's going to be the case, it's going to be on these restarts. Yeah, absolutely right. Cars are just too hard to wreck nowadays. You don't see anybody just spin out anymore, except for maybe some of the back markers. But, yeah, I don't see any of the chase guys just going out there and wrecking, maybe get in the fence or something trying to push a little too hard, but I don't see any huge wrecks like that. What's interesting to me is having been around the sport for a while and seeing this playoff thing develop,

you're going to have 16 guys that are bringing their A-game. You know what I mean? And I'm not saying that Bubba Wallace isn't going to try his hardest or Ricky Stenhouse isn't going to try his hardest or Paul Menard isn't going to try his hardest. But the reality is if they aren't close to the front, they're going to be pretty content where they're at. They're not going to go for it.

They're not going to be all in. To go out there and run 15th versus 14th, they don't have a lot to gain. These 16 guys, though, they have a lot to gain for that one position. So it should be really fun to watch these guys, hard these last 10 weeks. I would love for us to have a week off before the playoff starts because I feel like from a media perspective, the fans deserve almost a playoff championship style media week. You know, I know we'll do some stuff this week. The guys

go to Vegas early for some media availability, but this could really be a fun week to send these guys to 16 different markets really make a lot of noise about our sport. I feel like the sponsorship that they used to be so huge with Winston and Sprint and a lot of of the different sponsors, Xfinity this out there. They do an amazing job of taking our sport to the marketplace, and this could be a week where NASCAR goes all in and takes our drivers to the marketplace from a media perspective and really makes a loud splash.

This should be just a loud a week as it is for when we start the Daytona 500 in terms of what the drivers and the sport are doing to go out and promote it, because we're starting our freaking championship run. These are our 16 guys, and it's not just about a photo of those 16 guys standing there after the race at Indy. It's about, man, these guys are, they got to go out there and do a job and do a job for their teams, their fans and their sponsors. And I'd love to hear their story all week.

You know what I mean? Now that this makes a difference, but Sunday night football had like two or three ads for the playoffs, which was pretty cool last night. That's awesome. In between the Patriots scoring a billion touchdowns and winning. Antonio Brown's coming on next week, just heads up. Oh, yeah, I bet. I can't wait. Off the wall question.

Scientists in California conducted a study that revealed a possibility. to reverse the process of aging. Wow, what a dream. If you could go back to a younger age, would you and which age? Brett. Oh, man. College? Oh, no. I'd never live through that again. Almost died. I would go back to 30. And I would go back to 30 because I feel like at 30 is when I finally realized what I had accomplished and was accomplishing in life. And my fun switch went from high to higher. So I probably need to turn my fun switch back down. But 30 years old from then on, like, man, people don't realize, and this is life in

general, right? When you're young, you think you've got something hard to deal with. And then the older you get, you're like, oh, man, that wasn't hard. This is really hard. And it just keeps getting harder. For whatever reason, around 30 years old, I finally felt established for the first time ever. And I didn't feel like everything had to be stressful in a panic. And some of the things that you think are going to be really big deal is you're like, hey, let's take a step back for a hot minute.

And you realize, oh, this is going to be fine eventually. You know, it may not be fine right this minute, but it's going to be fine. There are very few things that don't work themselves out, right? I'd go back to whatever age I was at about 9 o'clock yesterday. I could have made some different life decisions, I think. He looks like he's staring into space right now. No, I mean, I don't even think. I mean, it'd be fun to go back maybe and live the early 20s over and remake all those bad decisions.

But I think I'm pretty content where I'm at right now. Good for you. I'm happy for you. Yeah, well, I have quite a bit younger than you are. Other than the fact that you got mucus rolling out of your nose. K.T.Y.G. You want to go back too. Yeah, Case. I would probably go back to, like, right when I graduated college, like, 24.

And the exact same reason, Brett that you said, where I was so. so worried about finding a job and working every day. And like I lived in Chicago, which was a really cool city yet I never enjoyed it because I was working nonstop, like traveled every weekend. And although that's fun, like I didn't embrace it. And I stressed way too much, which I still do that now. But I think I'd probably go back just so that I can kind of make the most of that time frame now. And when you look at life, you look at health concerns, that's a real concern. You look at losing a family or friend.

That's a real concern. Outside of everything else in life, we can pretty much manage to come back from just about anything. But it's so easy to fill all those stressful times and to really depress yourself. And I'm not trying to give this big philosophical conversation right now. But I'm telling you guys, like, it's going to be all right. There's only a couple things that are really, really, really not overcomable, if that's a word. Exactly.

And I think, yeah, I mean, look at Freddie. He overcame. He woke up today. Yeah. I hope I'm as wise as you are when I get your age in 10 years. He'll be your therapist. 10 years from now when I hit Brett's age. So Stuart Haas Racing, a guy on Stuart House Racing last week at the truck, he was like,

hey, Brett, let me introduce you to this lady. She's a sports psychiatrist. I said, oh, honey, I'll send you back to school. You don't want to talk to me. I will make you think you're a degree and worth anything, and you need about two more years of school. You don't want to have this conversation. She just started laughing, and she didn't talk to me.

Jason, what age did you? He's 20. I know. I'm like trying to think of where would you go. I got to tell you y'all something about Jason. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. So I pull up Jason's email today because I'm going to send him a photo of Elliot's car that were running in Vegas.

And I'm like, do, do, do, do, do, do, guess what number Casey is in his email? 18. When I play baseball when I was younger. So that's why you're called. It's number 18. So that's why Kyle's your favorite driver because your baseball number? No, that's why his baseball number is 18 for Kyle. I actually made a new email in the last month, so I wouldn't have to send that one anymore.

So I'll get you my new one. It's Hey, Jason Schultz. KB. Schultz. Nah. Hey, Jason Schultz. Like my Twitter, like my website, like my Instagram. Now everybody's got your email address. You can get an email all the time.

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Yeah, I think so. I think we kind of touched on this earlier. He's kind of been over his head a little bit this year, and you don't know if it's desperation because he's maybe hears them Cole Custer footsteps comment or, you know, where he's at contractually with them. But yeah, he's definitely done some questionable stuff, had a couple different incidents on pit road with different drivers. So you can tell it seems like the pressure's really on them.

Sparky 2S. I want you to go back to sixth grade and learn what to run on sentence is dog. Casey could barely get that out of her mouth. No, it's a lot of words. It's my fault. I can't tell. That's a lot of words without some sort of punctuation. Man, look, Daniel Suarez is doing all that he can.

He probably has a lot more pressure on him than you and I could imagine. I mean, he was in Joe Gibbs racing cars where they won races and he unfortunately didn't win. He was in Stuart Haas cars all year and obviously won a lot of races there last year and he's not winning. So it's really, really hard to explain to you guys how much pressure these drivers feel when their teammates. are outperforming them. So when you look at all three of his teammates made the playoff, obviously one of the teammates is winning races currently. All three of them have won at Stuart Haas Racing.

It is extremely hard to be in his shoes where you come into a one-year deal and you have to perform and he did, as he said yesterday, everything that he possibly could to make it. It doesn't have anything to do with Cole Custer in my mind. It's got to do with yourself, right? You've got to go out and perform. And if you don't perform in this sport,

You don't stick around. This next one is from at Staffordy. Jimmy didn't make the playoffs, but William Byron did. Who's better, Johnson or Chad Canals? And what does this mean for Jimmy's future? Freddie. Who's better? Like, is he asking if Jimmy or Chad is better?

Yeah. Meaning, like, I'm pretty sure because... Who's more important? Yeah, they've been a team for so long. I mean, I don't think either one of them is more important. I think that they were a great combination for a lot of years. I think Chad's a great crew chief. Jimmy's a great driver, and you take a great crew chief and put him anywhere.

He's going to exceed with any driver. So maybe, I mean, like Brett said, Jimmy Johnson is one of the best that's ever done in our sport. Chad's obviously one of the best. They're both going to be future Hall of Famers. So I don't think you're splitting hairs when you talk about who's better between the two of them. The team dynamic is why they split up. You know, I mean, you can't have a situation where, in my opinion, a crew chief is speaking to a driver, the way Chad was speaking to Jimmy over the radio.

I mean, he is talking to a seven-time championship driver in a very demeaning manner with some of the radioactive clips that I saw last year. And I don't watch that show every week. I don't listen to it every week. I'll listen to it if it ends up on my Twitter timeline. But I think that when you see the dynamic between the driver and the crew chief not working and making everybody else on the team uncomfortable,

because I can tell you, man, when those guys start going at it, as a team member on that radio, you literally are like, okay, that just changed everything for today. Now they're fighting, now they're sensitive, now they're defending themselves. Like, it's not how the sport is supposed to be when everything's clicking on all cylinders. But what I think it means for Jimmy's future? Absolutely nothing. Jimmy Johnson's a seven-time champion.

I think he'll retire when he's ready to retire, and I think he'll tell us when that is, and I don't think it's any time soon. I don't think Cameron Harvick are going anywhere. Next one. From Dubbs 1023, will Daytona as the regular season cutoff be more or less intense than Indy was. Brett. Doe Daytona?

Will do Daytona? You know what, man. We talked about this a little bit last week on the show. Jason Mustnaughta went through his notes, or he didn't listen because he wasn't here. But we basically said if Clint Boyer were in that situation and it were Daytona, he would be a nervous wreck. If Jimmy Johnson were in that situation, he wouldn't be.

He's got seven freaking trophies. So Daytona is going to be an all-out war for that last deal. I would not. As a fan and as someone who would already be locked in the playoff, I can't wait for Daytona. As a person who could potentially be in the same position I was in yesterday, no, thank you. I mean, you're talking about one thing going wrong,

and it literally changing everything, and you have zero control. Yeah, you have so many different factors in that race next year. Like, you're the big one, obviously. So do you ride? Do you race in the pack? Stage points? So now you can't really ride if you need stage points, because you've got to get there in the top 10.

And if you're sitting 16th, there's a good chance you could see a first-time winner and knock you out of the damn playoffs right there. You know what I mean? So, like, there's just going to be so many different things going on that are like yesterday, the chances of a first-time winner weren't great. I mean, obviously, we almost got up there and did it, and we've seen it happen before. But next year, it's a crapshoot. It's 50-50.

Somebody could just pull off their first win. Not only do you have a chance for a first-time winner. You have a lot of drivers that have a chance to be a first-time winner. Yesterday, Bubba was the only guy that raised his hand and said, hey, I want to make this playoff, I want to win this race, I want to be in contention. Man, you take us to Daytona, it's everybody from David Reagan, you know, who obviously won't be here next year, but I mean, you're talking everybody from, I mean, look who just won the damn Daytona race the last time we were there.

Justin Haley, in a car that can't run on the lead lap to save its life at any other tracks. So it is certainly the biggest wild card elimination scenario that we could ever, ever ask for in the sport. Last one from Rucker Fire. Today I'm at the hellfire of the indie yellow shirts. What's everyone's top track security running? Freddie. Well, the yellow shirts, I didn't think they're too bad this weekend.

I don't know. I don't know. I want to know which retirement home they all go to after the race is over. Because I feel like you would walk into literally just a royal rumble with them beating hell out each other with their walkers and their canes and put their dent. Ventures flying across the room. I do believe the average age of the yellow shirts there was at least 97 years old. But, I mean, I don't think I had any really good security run-ins. Not even that indie.

Not really. I mean, we do have to, like, you show your pass as 75 different people on the way up to the roof. But other than that, you do have to give away. So I did have to sell my first born child, my social security number, and some other stuff to get a pass just to get on the pagoda yesterday. But other than that, it was pretty good. I have had several incidents. I'll tell you one. No,

I'll tell you one of them. I'm not going to tell you. I don't even know if I should tell this one, but I'm going to tell you it anyway. I don't care. So we were at Michigan. All right, I'm staying on Elliott's Motor Home,

and this particular Michigan weekend could go any sorts of ways because there's been a lot of trouble that I've got in at Michigan. This particular time, though, I'm hanging out at Elliott's bus. Me and Hermie are playing Tiger Woods golf. Elliot's already asleep in the back.

Um, Herman and I slept in the front. It's not as weird as it sounds. Elliot slept in the back. Hermie and I slept in the front. So we get a knock on the door. We open the door and it's Gillian Zucker, who is the president for Fontana's racetrack. She's like, hey, guys, want to go right around on the infield? And I was like, yeah, I mean, fuck it.

Why not? I'm bored. So me and Hermie pile into her car and she proceeds to go toward the turn two crossover gate. I was like, hey, what are you doing? Oh, let's go right around the track. It'll be fun. I was like, no, it's not going to be fun. We're going to get trouble.

Been there, done this. This ain't going to be good. What does she do? She pulls her right out on the track. We go about the length of the back straight away. Here come five or six security guards. Lights flashing. Our horns blowing.

Pull us over. I'm like, man, I should have never gotten a car with this chick. So they come rolling up to her car. Probably not the first time you said that too. And she's like, very true. Once again, we're going back to 30, not 20. And she's like, they come rolling up to the car. And they are, I mean, dude, these rental cops.

You know, these guys think they got the authority of the president of the United States. These guys are, they're going for blood with this lady. And she rolls her window down and she's like, I'm Gillian Zucker. I'm the president of Fontana Speedway, California Auto Club Speedway. And I know Roger Curtis, the president here. This dude ain't having it. They come over to my side. I won't roll my window down.

I was like, I ain't talking these people. I ain't get myself into this mess. She got me in his mess. Guys, roll your one down. I roll a window. You got a hard card. Nope. What's your name?

Larry Bird. Like Larry Bird? I was like, yep, that Larry Bird. Obviously, ain't that Larry Bird. It's shorter. I was like, I ain't telling this guy anything. I rolled a window back up. I was like, she got me in his mess.

She can get me out of it. Finally, they get Roger Curtis on the phone, and we drove back to the infill. Now's it. Rule number one, don't ever drive on a freaking racetrack. Ever. Duh. Ever, ever, ever, ever, don't you ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, drive on a racetrack. Janet Jackson.

Oh, you're like, Freddy. Jackson. Don't you ever, ever come by here. Don't call me. I call you. That's what in a movie Friday. Damn it, Jason.

Have you seen that movie? No, I'll watch it. That's your next one. That's your movie. You're doing a review next week, and your review better be a hell a lot better than it's been, because that's the best comedy

ever written. That is the best. Casey, any security run-ins? Oh my gosh. I have a lot. I once was carrying the trophy stand and the car topper.

By myself, the thing is bigger than me, like twice my size, I could literally fit in it. And they wouldn't let me in. It sounds like you've tried that before. I have not tried it before. They wouldn't let me in victory lane. Would it let you in Victor-Lay with the trophy?

What did you get mad? Did you hit them with the car topper? It's like they find 100 dumbest people that can find within 100 miles of a racetrack. You go, hey, you want to be a security guard this week? Some of them could be so nice, though. Like, some of them are very helpful. They didn't even offer to help me. They were just like, no.

I promise I'm not doing this for fun, okay? Like, I'm not carrying this around the track for fun. But I did finally get in, and no, it's not maybe a little bit. Can't help it, man. Like, our thing is, you know, we can all get in trouble for being disrespectful to security guards. But what happens first is they're disrespectful to us, and they don't understand the passes that we had and where our passes allow us to go. Did you see, I think it was this weekend?

Was it Justin? Ashley Agar. she had a hard card and the lady said let me see your hot pass she said this is this is my hard card she said yeah but you need a hot pass to go up at road she said no i have a hard card she says no you need a hot pass this is the what they don't i mean this is the track's fault okay the track has a has a job to do and it is to inform their freaking security people especially on the infield what all the different areas are and what passes access those areas and it is it is very discouraging and upsetting and My blood pressure will literally boil when I get to somewhere.

And they're like, you can't go through here. And I'm like, been going through here. 20 years with the same past, dude. He's like, I don't let you through today. I'm like, yeah, they are. So you have to stand there and you have to figure it out and you have to negotiate. And then they won't touch your hard car. And it's like, hey, dude.

I've seen people, I've seen drivers and fire suits not be able to get through. Oh, Casey, yeah. Oh, Casey, yeah. My favorite is when they, like, we have like a rolling Zuka bag, it's called. And it's just a square frame. And it's just, we have, it's. cloth and it's full of radios. All it's in there is headsets, radios, cables, wires,

all this stuff. So they'll stop us, hey, we need to check your bags, which they're not really supposed to do when we have a hard card, but whatever. So every once in a while, if you don't feel like fighting with them, it's all right, no problem. I unsit my bag. It could not look any more like a bomb if I tried to make it look like a bomb. And they just peek in there. Yeah, you're good. Go ahead. And I'm like, there's 97 batteries,

two big headsets. 14 radios. Because I mean, we can't. So people don't realize, we can't use the same radios for everything we do. We're not allowed to, so we can use our NASCAR radios for our top three series. We can't use our NASCAR radios for K&N or ARCA or anything else. They won't let us. We could, but they won't let us have all those freebies.

When was the last time you spotted for a – let's start with truck series. Well, truck series race, K&N, ARCA, modified anything. He's too high class for this. You just feel bad for me? I don't think I've been at the track when they're running, so if I was there, I would have gone. Well, I will say, though, some of them can be very nice, but then there are some of them that we struggle. There's room for improvement at a lot of racetracks. India is one of them. Here's my problem with this whole scenario that we're talking about, and this isn't, this doesn't apply everywhere. It doesn't apply to every security guard. But my problem is, if you're treating me like you don't want me to be there, then I probably don't want to come back. And I'm getting paid to be there. Right. So if I'm a fan, I've always said, we need to go out and hire. Everybody that's working at Disney World, go hire. and let them be security at the racetrack

because they're all smiling, they're all friendly, and they all want to help you. That's the kind of people we need on the ground. I used to sneak on to pit road and... You're the problem. Jason, you're the reason. I raced when I was like 16 with like,

just a ticket. I just sneak my way through. You're the problem. You're the reason that they have to be... Congratulations. I evaded them. They didn't stop me. All right, who wins a T-shirt?

Best question. Wait a second. I don't even have a T-shirt. I was going to bring them today. Will you do me a favor next week and text me? an hour before the show starts. Fine.

I'm not bringing T.J. one because he never gave me one. Can I get two mediums? Yeah. To sew together so you can wear them? Yeah. Ain't a way. You fit in an extra large. Not a chance. Why did you bring me a double

extra large t-shirt from the Bahamas? I didn't. Oh yeah, that shirt's a double X. I ain't that fat, Freddie. I'm an XL. Maybe I gave you the wrong one. I got you an XL T-shirt. I got this shirt, man. Can you just say thank you for this shirt?

No, he's offended me. He thinks I'm a double X. No. He gives me this shirt. Is it the one? What is it say on it? Something by getting screwed. That should have been an Excel.

No, it's double X-El. We'll blame Megan on that one. So I text Megan. I'm like, Freddy lost his phone last week. And I text Megan. I'm like, hey, Till, thanks for my T-shirt. And I think Megan, because I know that she did the right thing. But I know Freddy's being an . . .

I buy me a double X. I had nothing to do it. The worst part about losing my phone, I told you before. I really want to say thank you to everybody that called and text me yesterday to congratulate me, but I have no idea who you are. So if you could just call me. again and let me know who you are, that'd be great. Text me your name. Yeah. Text me with a name, day of birth.

And what you're wearing. Social security number. If you're, never mind. I'd love to do that in text threads, right? So if I'm going to text thread with like seven people and there's one or two people that are like serious people and they don't know me that well, I'll just text back and be like, what are you wearing? And one of them, there's this awkward silence and then somehow I'll be like, wrong thread. And I'll be like, oh, sorry.

I would just tell you what I'm wearing. Who's won the shirt? Oh, the shirt. The offer pad, door bumper clear, a shirt. What do you think the best question was, Casey? I liked the Dubs 1023 and Record Fire. A winner. Freddy's got a winner, too.

Do you have it on this phone, Freddy, or was it on your phone? I think Jason's got it. Okay, good. So which ones won the shirt? I think Dubs. Dubs. Dubs. Got it.

And then we had a review from at SCA, or this is not at. This is on iTunes. Skaggs 14 said, I make my doctor's office play this podcast on a weekly basis while I have radiation treatments. Not sure the medical staff appreciates the amount of laughs I get from it. They keep having to tell me to calm my heart rate down from laughing. Thanks, everyone on DBC. It goes further than you can imagine as far as making people's day.

Skaggs. And we'll get you a shirt. You've got to reach out. That was on iTunes review so you can tweet me at Hey, Jason Schultz or at 3DMO Media and just let us know and we'll get you a t-shirt. I had a guy come up to me a couple weeks ago and he had had eye surgery. and he couldn't open his eyes for days. I mean, this was a serious deal, right? And he had to lay on his stomach because the pressure on his back was going to be like,

be too much. He listened from episode one all the way through. Like when this guy told me this, I thought I was going to start crying. He's like, man, you guys got me through it. And I was like, man, I don't like to have these kind of conversations. I like fun conversations. I don't like all these serious conversations. But I was, man, that was cool for him to say that we literally got him through that hard time in his life.

So for all you people that are out there that are struggling with depression, just listen to Door Bumper Clear. We got you. I will say that when I'm having a bad day, I look at the reviews because they're, you guys are so nice. I really appreciate it. So sweet. It's because of me. No, no, that is not it. That is.

Not at all. This whole facial disposition just changed when I said that. That's ugly. A double X and now you're being rude. I swear to God that's an XL. Are you sure? I'm going to find it. He brought me a rooster and a double extra.

Large shirt. I brought you a Dominican rooster, Dominican Gamecock, and something else. All right, DBC picks. Did T.J. ever respond? Yes. He is picking,

so the resets for the playoffs. Brett is winning 15 to 10, so T.J. can have to make up like six different spots. To be honest, that's why we ran so good yesterday. I was on the show last week, and I heard Brett picked us

so I called the engineering department. I said, hey, we got a little extra effort in this week. My boy, Brett's got us versus Ryan Priest. That's what happened. Big victory. So it's 15 to 10.

TJ, everything resets, TJ's picking Kevin Harvick. Should I take five weeks off just to give him a chance? I mean, he's never won. I ever many years we've done this show, he's never won, and I have a five-point lead with 10 races remaining. Just pick me again this week. Yeah. He's got no chance.

I mean, this guy literally has no chance. He's picking Kevin Harvick, which is a very good pick. I'll pick Kyle Busch. Another good one. Big dogs going heads up. Well, he needs it. All right. Well, thank you everyone for listening.

and keep sending those reviews. I think they make our day. And thank you for the Chick-fil-A. Should we send that guy a shirt too? Yes. Absolutely. A thousand percent in that guy's shirt. So they sent me a DM and their Twitter and handle is David T-14.

So their name must be Paul, I guess, I would assume. David, you are the best. You just... Thank you. Dude, I had 80 nuggets. David, I really appreciate the fact that I started a diet today and you sent in Chick-fil-A. He sent a fruit cup. He said he said it in so I could soak up all the alcohol.

So at least he was thinking of me. And someone brought cookies, too. So we love to get her name. Leavon knows the cookie lady and indie. I mean, honestly, today was a dream. I'm not going to lie. Chick-fil-A and cookies. I do want to thank all the people that reached out on Twitter

offering me a ride to DBC this morning. Where are you staying in Vegas? I think I'm going to stay at the Cosmo. We see our friend KJ. I don't know about you. Where do you stay? Kay J's got me hooked up at the Cosmo, too. I think she got me at the penthouse with a balcony.

That's how we're rolling. Where are you staying at? Bally's? Isn't that a fitness place? What is that on the strip? I clearly need to go there. Is that in Reno? It is on the strip.

I think it's by Paris. Is that in Reno? Is there a... I know it's close to the mall, which might be one of my favorite place. The Fashion Square Mall? Or is that at Phoenix? No. What's it called?

I think it's called Fashion Square. There's some really cool outlets down there between the strip and the racetrack on the right, right off the interstate. There are really good outlets. That's actually where I bought these jeans have. Oh, I've been there before. Of course it is. Those outlets are great. What are you going out so early for?

I'm going out Tuesday, man. My favorite cousin in the world is out there now, Sarah, and she sent me. What about the rest of your cousin? I'm sorry. Where's Melissa at? I mean, she like, want to be? Melissa's a very close second cousin. No, actually, she's a close second to being my favorite cousin.

She's not my second cousin. So listen to me. Sarah is me with a wig on. She is the most fun human being you've ever been around in your life. She got a beard? So she texts me yesterday, and it was a picture of her boyfriend naked, standing on the balcony at the Cosmo, thanking me for helping her get a room. And I was like, Sarah, I really didn't want to see a picture of your naked boyfriend. But Blake's playing a big show Wednesday night.

What the heck? Thank you for inviting us. It's not a public show. It's a private show. Okay. So I'm going to go to that Wednesday night. So Tuesday night hang out with Sarah, Wednesday night, hang out with Blake. Thursday and Friday, we got OfferPad, Nutriac Solutions, people coming in.

Casey's kind enough to help me with some sweet tickets. Thank you. I love you. Does she know this? Because she looked rather confused there. Yeah, she's hooking me up with sweet tickets for my peeps. You can think Exfinity hooked you up with sweet tickets. Xfinity.

Thank you, Exfinity, for being such great partners. But I honestly, man, I love Vegas. There's so much to do, so many good places to eat, so many great shows to see. Oh, is probably the best show I've ever seen out there. So many concerts, right? I mean, you can find somebody playing everywhere, every night. Last time you're out there, you're on Gwen Stefani's Instagram story. Last time we were Gwen Stefani's deal, the night before the race.

That was a good idea. Jesus. You were famous. When I'm hungover, I have flashbacks of other hangover. When it just gets worse. You bring something up. I'm like, nah, I don't want to talk about that. So anyway, man, Vegas is fun.

Nellis Air Force Base is right there. You get to watch the air show all weekend, which is phenomenal. They got all these foreign planes. flying in and out of there. And I can't wait to get my tan back because... Trant, what? It's going to be like 101. That's a dry heat, though, so it's fine.

Don't you think we need a policy that when it's over 90, we can wear shorts? Yeah, I'm going to do it. You just kind of go... No, you're not. Yes, I am. I did it in Darlington. He's going to renegade on him. Yeah, I'm going to go renegade to see if he yells at me.

You're going to get yelled at. I know. You're going to get told to put pants on. Probably. But that's the worst that's going to happen. At least you have cool legs till then. Yeah. Sunburn.

Sunburn. Like you, where was that at when you burned a hell out of your legs? That's Sonoma? Yeah, Sonoma. I burn them up. At the top of his legs, I go, he's sitting down the whole time, and I go over and his legs look like that chicken pit sign him. They were as red as you could get them.

I burn easily. I try to tell you people that. Fair skin. My complexion is not conducive to the sun. Anyway, Vegas is fun. Vegas is awesome. It's going to be a crazy race. Lots on the line.

Find out who's fast in the playoffs. Because here's the thing, man. People will get fast and win races, and then they'll go start trying stuff. You've got four wins. You can start trying things. You know what I mean? And so now you get back to who's really going to bring the heat, who's really going

to bring the speed. Obviously, Kevin Harvick's already been bringing it. But you'll see Gibbs ramp it up. Penske's been missing for a while. I feel like they haven't been relevant. You'll see those guys ramp it back up for these playoffs. So I would have to say that Stuart Haas, Penske, and Gibbs are the three organizations to beat, wouldn't you?

Yeah. I think who you'd pick it for a champion? I mean, can you pick because you've got your own guy in there? I don't know you're going to go T. You're going to go T. You just pick Clint? I, man, you know, it's, it's, if you made me pick today and you said, all right, it can't be biased, right? Because if I'm going to be biased, I'm going to pick one of our three guys.

But if you made me make an unbiased pick, I feel like Kyle Busch is the worst race car driver to only have one champion. I'm sorry, let me re-say that. I feel like Kyle Busch is the best race car driver to only have one championship. So you're taking Kyle Busch. I don't know why. I feel like, I think I'm going Denny Hamlin this year. I just feel like he's peaking right now. He's the top two guy to not have a championship.

Yeah. So I think the 11 teams hitting on all Hall 8 right now. But hopefully it's a Chevy. We'll see. Casey, thanks for being back. Thanks for keeping me here. You did a way better job than whoever that he did. No, Freddie did a pretty good job last week.

Well, thanks for the pretty good, Jason. I mean, pretty good. Today where you're steering at the wall hungover. I can't even form sentences. There's no way he could have done. this today, Casey. No, he could have done your job today. No, not a chance.

I hope that we put us the video of him just staring off in his space. Dillner made him do the intro read last week, like 27 times. Can you say retire differently? I'm like, Jesus Christ, Dillner. I'm not reading again. I don't care. Actually, I have to go to a meeting, so you are going to do the interview. No, I'm not.

There's no chance. No. All right. I cannot read right now. That's not happening. We've had fun. Freddie, we'll have you back on for sure. before the end of the year.

And obviously the Homestead show, if any of us are still alive by then, it would be amazing. But Casey, thanks to come back. Jason, man, as always, thanks for putting together this show sheet. We don't give you enough credit for what you do.

If Casey loved you when she starts these shows, she would say, and we have, you know, producer Jason in the house. She just acts like you're not even here. So I'm going to give you a shout out right now. Thank you. And she just took my six sweet tickets back away. I haven't given to them.

Give them to you guys. Are you serious? You're going to blame me right now? You were being so nice for like 10 minutes of the show. My mom taught me early in life. Never blame yourself. I always blame somebody else. It's never my mom's fault and it's never my fault.

She taught me well. We're out. It's been real. Have a great week, guys. Thanks for listening. See you. Hala. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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