Door Bumper Clear - 17 - #askDBC Live from JRM Fan Day

Episode Date: May 27, 2016

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Do you want inside information? You will not be able to repeat it to your kids, but you will learn and you will laugh. Door, bumper, clear is on. Hey, everybody. I am T.J. Majors. I am Spotter the 88, the 7 and the 20. truck and joining to me as usual today is Brett Griffin spotter for Elliot Sadler and Clint Boyer and our lovely co-host.

Hey guys, it's KB. KB again. Brett, you're in Cammo again. I am. I'm in gray cammo and my jorts. And Jorts. And converse. Those are tight.

Yeah. Like not like tight. You want to touch them? I did already. Your arms are significantly tanner than your white ass legs. That's why it's called a farmer's tan. People actually who work have this kind of a tan. Oh, yeah.

I got one. No, those are tattoos. You actually have a burn. It's a bruise. I got a tetanus shot. You have more bruises than anyone I know. I bruise easily. It's a tetanus shot.

No, no, no, no, no. What's the deal? Why? You step on a nail? They asked me with the last time I got a tetanish shot, and I said, I don't know. When I got, like, the measles and rubella one when I was, like, six. That's why most people get it when they actually need it. I was like, I don't work around, like, rusty nails.

Well, you kind of do. T. You kind of on your left. Yeah, you've got a lot of rusty nails around you. But anyway, I might need my sunglasses if you're going to keep them shorts that high. I'm definitely keeping them. There's a pair of sunglasses on the table. I don't know who they are.

They're mine. They're KBs. We'll get a B's. So this is a special edition. We're doing question and answers today. Elliot's joining us a little bit later. I don't know if y'all want to dive into this or what y'all want to do. We're live, too.

Yeah, so we have a special show today because it's J.R.M. Fan Day. And we picked out a bunch of good hashtag SDBC questions from Twitter. And our Facebook or just Twitter? Just Twitter. And we're going to answer them. Who is we? you two and then Elliot when you

said we picked out some questions I think it was just I'm not taking I'm not taking that I'm not I don't want any ownership and what we're about to read for questions yeah you know what that means when Josh picks out the questions yeah you know what that means are you all ready

you used to see his face right now and he has no mic doesn't even matter at Ken Thorne asks would love to hear how TJ I don't think you'd like she'd appreciate I don't have my glasses on Don Phonics.

Works for me. Elliot's here too. What's up, Elliot? Thanks for letting me eat, guys. I was starving. And just polished off half a pizza. I am, man. That Hunt Brothers pizza was good.

It is good. Okay, as you were. All right. At Carrie Thorne, asked, would love to hear how TJ celebrated, how BG is taking the loss and behind the scenes of it all. I'm assuming that's about the Little 200.

Yeah. I mean, it was fun. I had my little girl there. My wife was there. I called Madeline out there. And they gave us a pretty cool trophy. It's a set of, it's a big plastic.

set of binoculars that, you know, like a spotter would have. And I brought my little girl out there and we took pictures. And she held it up to her face and trying to look through it and took pictures with it and stuff. So, I mean, it was fun. There was a lot of people there. There was a lot of family members there. And it was fun. You know, I didn't see a lot of Brett.

So I imagine he probably went home and drank. He didn't see me the first three sessions because I was in front of him. The last one, he probably saw me upside down after I got wrecked. Yeah. Who wrecked you? Oh, are you saying you were going to win? No, I'm not saying I was going to win. but I was going to run top five.

Oh, yeah. I'm not going to lie. How did you finish? I ended up eighth after flipping. Did you really flip? No. No. But I tried to flip the guy to hit me.

I will give him credit. He did run better than I thought he was going to run. They all, they waited us up to 220. Like I had two big things that led underneath my, like sitting on him in my seat. And it made it, the racing was pretty good. We had our heat race. I followed Brett for a little while. I was a little faster, but he was actually, we were.

all competitive. I mean, it could have been, we swapped the lead like four times in the last lap in our heat race, which was pretty fun. But I don't know, it was a pretty fun event. I like to see all the fan turnout and stuff there. So here's how I took the loss. I got hit on the first lap and wrecked after being top five in practice qualifying in the heat race. So I'm feeling

pretty good about the chances of being top five. Get wrecked. I turn around backwards on the course and I go find a little cut-through and I found a cut-through to get back in front of the leaders. So now I'm actually leading the race, based on the route I've got. So I'll wait on them to come by. You're cheating? Well, I'm not trying to cheat or win.

I'm trying to wreck the guy that it wrecked me. Oh, right. I finally found him, and I caught him, and I wrecked him so that he couldn't race for the win. So that's how I kind of played. Okay, what, I mean, instead of all the suspense, who wrecked you? A dude named Ford Martin, he's named him in a spotter. This shouldn't have been in the spotter race. Oh, the little bitty guy.

Yeah. Yeah. He does, like, he does the non-company stuff when some of us can't go, and he'll do, like, some road course stuff. But, I mean, that 20 I gave him, evidently, was worth it. Sounds like a hit job. Yeah. It's a hitman job.

That $20 bill, he took it good. At Barretta 3,000S, after TJ won the GoPro 600, does the studio have to be enlarged to fit his ego? I think y'all all know the answer to that question. I can't believe Josh picked two questions about the same thing to go back to back to start. Josh clearly loves T.J. more than he loves the rest of us. He loves T.J.'s ego. He's catering to it.

I'll give you 20. I'll give you 20 as well. Dave has found your mom. also. Yeah. Where's your aunt? Elliot's mom and dad are here running around, getting tours of the shop. With Mike Davis, which is dangerous.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's nice. He's probably turning them against me right now as we speak. He's actually, he wanted them to come here to prank you on JRM 360. Perfect. It's a conspiracy. Great.

Now they're in the middle of it. They are. Elliot is so scared he's going to get punked around here. I don't want to get pumped. It's what you guys do. He's looking around right now for cameras in here. Let's do that right now. So paranoid.

You're always hunking somebody. He's looking in the corners. It happens, everybody. I don't see where this is funny. I don't see where this is funny. Your nerves make it funny. Oh, it's awesome. All right, what was the question?

How bad T.J. Outran Brett at the race. Okay. Yeah. Good job, T. At Amy Pick 88 asks, who are you hired by the team HMS, J.R. or the driver?

There needs more commas on there. No? There's a slash. Okay. he's asking who were the spotters. Yeah, who were employed by, basically. Most of us are employed by the company that the driver drives for. That usually, there's usually a spotter is a mandatory position,

so it's basically you're a crew guy, so the team has to supply a spotter. So you're basically employed by the company the driver drives for. There's not a lot of say a driver has in team personnel. He has a lot of say or she has a lot of say. And Elliot can allude to this too and who actually spots for them, you know, right? 100%. I mean, the driver always gets with the teams. And it's usually the driver's preference on if they found somebody they like.

So if they have to make a change or say if they're running a one-off race in the Xfinity or truck series as compared to Cup, then they have the opportunity to bring that spotter. Then they'll do that. And then the spotter will get with the team and make negotiations from there. But usually the driver has their first influence on who, their spotter is and then the team takes over after that. Yeah, team pays us, driver picks us, pretty much. There you go.

At Travis C. underscore 48, who is actually here today? He is here today. Aw, that's cute. What's the weirdest, funniest direct message you've been sent so far, T.J. Oh, yeah, thanks. So last week's show, Elliot. I want to swear. Last week's show, T.

TJ has turned on his direct messages on Twitter so that anybody can tweet him. So he has 50,000 followers. So I made it known publicly that he has his direct message inbox. It had started before. I get messages on what they need to do to the race car. They need to change the rear springs. I mean, I'm getting all sorts of stuff. Good place.

I get, yeah, there's even crazier stuff. I have to let you read some of them. Some of them are completely ridiculous. So you and read them all? I do scan them. And then he goes and decides, you know, to tell everybody. Now I'm getting them, hey, I heard you needed more directs messages. So now I got some of them in there.

Well, I think he's helping you, TJ. If you want to open your direct messages up for people and fans to direct message you, then you just need a little support team to make sure fans know where to find you. I think that's working together as teammates. I think I'm going to borrow your phone and I'm going to unblock all the people you've blocked. That's thousands, dude. I've blocked more people than most people have for followers. The funniest direct message I have, I can't really say what it was,

but it was very comical. somebody tried to sell me something that was ridiculous. It was a Twitter name. You can say that much. Yeah, it was a website. A website. Somebody tried to sell me a website and thought it would be a great gift for somebody. And it's ridiculous.

Is it go, Daddy? Sim, no. No. Somebody's basically going, like Donald Trump's deal. Remember when somebody he bought that website of the other politician or whatever? Jack Bush. Yeah, it's similar to that, and it's completely ridiculous. Was it Brett Griffin?

dot com. I already own that one. I bought that one. Oh, okay. All right. Go ahead, mess with me. Yeah. All right.

At Matt Night 29 asked, does the transition from daytime to nighttime during the 600 effect the spotters at all? I mean, it's nicer when the sun goes down. Yesterday was hot. Like yesterday, Thursday on the track was really, it was like 88 degrees yesterday or something. It was hot. Yeah.

And you didn't have, you didn't, you were up there the whole time. Unfortunately. Yeah, you were up there the whole time, and it was a pretty long day up there. Can I ask y'all some? What? Who decides these questions that y'all read? Josh. That dude.

Producer Josh. He picks them out. All right, just checking. Go ahead. So Ben from the Wisconsin Badgers is in here with us today. Ben Brust. Ben Brust is in the house. So he actually was on the roof for a little bit, and he's like, man, it's hot up here.

And then he went to a sweet. Yeah. And then he had a beer. And then he left. And then he ate cheese. And then he left. Hey, you and him. So you and him would be a heck of a rome.

on irasing just you know he's been turning laps in my house okay i think you and him in a match race would be pretty good yeah i mean it yeah he's pretty good and you didn't get any help because i turned on i went and ran a fast lap and you can turn on a ghost car of that fast lap oh cool so he actually knew where i was running on lines and stuff and that helped him my my money's on him so far yeah how do you have time to iris so i went to tj's house because he was going to show me iracing and let me do it and i ran like two laps and he's like all right man give it back to me i'm like why did i drive an hour over here for this Oh, let me show you how to do it.

I'm like, I didn't drive over if you just show me how to do it. Yeah. It was a competition, man. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's going to, yeah. Last time he was at my house, he stayed up. I went to Ben, he was up to like three or four in the morning playing. Yeah.

I never play. We have an adage in here that they make road signs after T.J. They all have one way on them. It's a one-way street with this dude. I think an easy thing to do between T.J. and being was the one competition of our racing and then a one-on-one basketball. Yeah. I don't mind being 2-0.

Can I get in on that? Yeah. Yeah, that should be a close match. Do you, Iris? No. Have you ever tried it? No. No.

I do things outside. I play real sports. What about real stuff? Real stuff. Then they have a basketball gym that usually have a roof on it. The YMCA. The YMCA. We play pickup ball.

C. What's that other game you play the... Pickleball. Pickleball. You got to play pickleball. I had no idea what that was until he told me about it. That's definitely a Virginia thing. It was on TV the other night.

Pickleball? Yes. What is pickleball? Google it, brother. Google it. It's coming. I'm not sure. You ever played Ben?

If I Google... Seen it? Yeah, I've only heard about it from Ellie. I don't think I have to do it yet. If I Google, if I go to images, I'm afraid of what's going to come up. I'm afraid. Yeah. All right.

Nice question. We've gotten off base a little bit. We have. We do that. That pickleball will do that to you. If you could drive any spring cup ride, which would you pick? I'm taking the 48. I think L.A. should answer this one first right now, because you know maybe what the best

Sprint Cup ride would be. Why would you take the 48? Because Chad, Chad's a tough customer. He's tough ball. I don't know if I'd take the 48 right now. Chad's tough right now. That's a really good question, and I could give all kinds of buy-out. answers right now, but I look at it a different way. If I could drive a Sprint Cup car right now,

I would pick the furthest opportunity really away from what I'd actually logistically could get in. In other words, like a Gibbs car or something right now because I know that's something way different and, man, I might learn something that I can bring back home to what we're doing just to make a case. So I would say a Gibbs car right now. Just to be something different. I would pick if I were a driver probably the four just because I think Rodney Childers and his guys, I know he's engineered Dax. I think they're certainly not being outworked by anybody right now. They got their stuff together.

I'd try them out. I'd probably take the 88. So he has to say that. I just had a conversation on the way here. They were like, hey, you know, TJ won't ever say anything but Chevrolet. He won't ever say anything but Hendry. Like, he makes a show boring. And I was like, wow.

Sorry. And they're like, why? And I'm like, he's just being loyal. I know the guys, and I know that team that Stevie started with and Greg's attitude. I know them guys, and they're, like, family to me, and I would want to work with them. I mean, I know a lot of other people, too, but I know how hard they're working to get our, you know, make our cars fast and stuff, and I would want to work with them. Hendrik's got, what, 550 employees? Yeah.

Don't get me wrong. They've done a, like, our team, man, Del Jr. and Greg have done a great job of keeping us at a close group of guys, man. Yeah. Del Jr. is very involved with our guys. Is that the same team that Steve LaTart had, basically? Yeah, other than a couple guys. Yeah.

But it's, we're all very tight with each other. And we get along. We have, we have a little group we chat in and stuff. And it's all the time. We're just close, you know, and it's fun. And I like working with them. And it's just, I don't know, like family. Hey, I saw a tweet come out yesterday from Tom Jensen.

I think he writes for Fox Sports, right? He does. He sent out a tweet that said, a cup crew over the wall guys are making 140 to 160,000 a year. He's actually a little low. That's what I was thinking. That is low. Yeah, it is low.

But, I mean, man, that's a pretty good job. If this whole spotting thing doesn't work out, maybe we can go change tires. You got to get that mile up. Can you carry? Yeah, I can carry. Can you hang it? You're going to play Wheel of Fortune Army?

I'll be able to hang it by now. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'll hit four. It's got to stop sometime. That's right. I'll hit the nuts, man. Ain't no problem.

Okay. That's the next question. He does that on the roof all the time too. Would you rather win a championship once? or Daytona 500 back to back? That's a good question. Go ahead. He won one.

Would you trade it for a championship? I would, I don't know. I've never won a championship, so I'm not sure what it's like. I don't know. You about killed yourself after the 500. I don't know if you can do a championship. Yeah, I don't know. The 500 is so awesome to win.

You know, even just being a spotter, I can't even imagine what it would be like being the driver and having to go on that media tour and stuff with it. But as far as a team, you work all offseason for that race. I mean, that's the Super Bowl, man. We work all offseason for that race, and that's the, everyone's got their new cars, paint schemes, the new crews, uniforms, and, you know, it's the big stadium we race in now.

I would almost take Daytona 500s over a championship. Yeah, I mean, Elliot and I together finished second in the 500, third in the 500, fifth in the 500. So you get so close, and look, at the end of the day, that Daytona 500 is a championship. So I would take a Daytona 500 tomorrow over a championship. I know that sounds crazy. Yeah, I would back to back even imagine that.

Yeah. Yeah, I'd take Daytona 500. I would take the championship. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I would. I've just, where I've been in the sport the last couple years, I just, I would take a championship right now over Daytona 500. Yeah.

And I think that's the difference, too, mentality-wise, between a driver and a spotter, because the driver realizes that championship is a culmination of an entire year. That's right. And a spotter takes it as, this is our most important race. We spot all year. Yeah, that Miami race would be important. it will be important when we're running for it this year with Elliot. But at that given moment, that Daytona 500 is bigger to a spotter than the driver. That's the most competitive event that you start off with.

And for us, it's, you know, all year you could have, you know, multiple things can take out of a championship. You know, you might have a championship team, but you might finish fifth into points. Yeah. You know, and I feel like at Daytona, pretty much everybody, you got your best of your best there, man. Everything's brand new and you're ready to go. and the ceremonies afterwards, too, are just, you know, it's just crazy. I mean, it's fun. I hope everyone gets to do it.

Was that atollipops? Is that what the ceremonies were? We got kids here. It's a kid store. Mollipops. He's still candy. See, Dells Jr. has a habit of winning races that are rain delayed and then real late. And that day, Tom, because he just wakes up.

Well, that's his, that's his, like, lunchtime, man. He's ready to go, you know? So he always wins the late races. It's like, this is, I told Jason Jarrett on the roof when the race got delayed at Phoenix last year, I said, you watch, we're going to win this race. And I never make, you never say, you know, that you're going to do that. You feel like you jinx yourself when you do half the time. So I looked at it. I'm like, you watch, man, this is right in our time area.

This is our time zone right here. We're going to win this race. And I know it got short in my rain, but we still won the race. And the 500 was the same way. It ended real late because of that rain. And I slept for an hour before we had to be at Daytona, USA. So, Kristen, this is a late. we've ever recorded a show.

Why is there not beer in here? I know. It's fired. It's outside. It's outside. Because you drink one and T.J. drinks zero. I got a phone. Sorry, I'm by the book here.

I heard they made some guy cry earlier with something in here. What? Someone cried? You wearing a hat today. What happened? Because I was outside and I don't. I got it. She sweats a lot.

I noticed. Well, Travis is here. I don't want to get like skin cancer. Her wrinkles. We don't want you to get that either. No. All right. We also don't want to get you a tan.

I know. I do need a tan. Since it's fan day, I want to know the craziest stuff. Elliot Sadler has signed. You need a top ten list. I'll go to the second craziest stuff I've signed. Animals. Did you just laugh in my mic?

Animals. Holy cow, that's a horse laugh. Yes, animal. People have brought dogs and shaved the side of them, and I've signed them. Yes, animals. A goat? Signed a goat before and a couple dogs. Does a Sharpie hurt a dog, really?

Did you just ask me that? Does the Sharpie hurt you? Does your tattoos hurt? I told Mike Davis the story while you were signing autographs. I'm sorry, I told Tony the story about the girl in Vegas. Yeah, we can't tell that story. No, you can't tell that. But I told him about that story.

And he was like, you've got to be kidding me. I'm like, no, I'm not kidding. Can you just hit the high points? Not really. She had to go to the lingerie section before Elliot could sign it. But listen, I do have one rule. I will not sign skin. Unless you're going to get a tattoo.

Unless you're going to get a tattoo. And I've done that before, but no skin will not do it. That wouldn't be my rule if I was a driver. I'd sign anything. Yeah. You would. Next question. At T.L. Star 2014, asks, what's your favorite NASCAR feud or fight?

Mine's Kelly Arborer and Bobby Allison. Because that put the sport on the map. And I was actually there as a kid in the stands at Daytona for that year. So that's my favorite. I didn't understand it because I was pulling for Cal Yalber at the time, the 11 car. Yeah. And I didn't understand why they were parked on the backstretch

and everybody else was on pit road. Yeah. So I learned years later why. Yeah. So why, what was the crowd like when that was going on? I mean, they were kind of yelling, but it was, you know, everybody was kind of understanding what was going on around the start finish line too. Oh, because they're coming back to the win.

Right. And they're over there getting ready to fight. Right. And you couldn't really tell. I mean, it's a long way. Oh, it is. Yeah. So a lot of fans in IRA, it's not like they were all,

yes, it wasn't a big screen back then and go, yeah, it's fighting. Yeah. Wasn't that the first one live, the Daytona fighters? 79, right? You couldn't write a better script. Man, what a great way to. So that's my favorite one. Man, I was a big fan of Montoya and Harvick and Montoya and Newman just hating each other. So like there was a common denominator since I've been in the sport, like Montoya just, he hated Ryan Newman.

I mean, we were to help I had once in Michigan, and he was, he walked over to Roger, and he was like, I'm going to kick his ass. And it was like, man, this is awesome. Why? Because he wrecked him. And I don't know, I think fudes and those rivalries are obviously what this spilt in sports belt on is cool. Yeah, I think, I don't know, I like just working with Pops. He never had anyone picked out in the beginning of the year, but we always had one fight every year working with Pops. Tony, you're senior.

And he would always find somebody, and we'd get one fight a year. You know that one year it was Danny at Charlotte. He wanted to fight him pretty bad. He was in the window net getting ready to yank him out too. And you didn't want to fight pops. No. I think the Matt Legano thing still lingers. You know, they had the incident a couple weeks ago at Talladega.

I mean, it's still lingering. And that kind of stuff, it's good for the media. Give us something to talk about. How about the Danica Landon Castle one? Is that still going strong? That one's real relevant. Yeah. Are you?

I mean, what about you and Regan? You all still fighting? No, we settled our differences. That was my favorite one. I couldn't get to him. Your truck driver is pretty big guy. He's pretty big boy, which I'm glad. Now he's here, yeah.

We're on the same team now. He and I, we've hugged and made up since then. But when I was trying to get to Regan that time, he kind of stepped in the way. Yeah, Matt's a big dude. Yeah, damn, dude, you're a pretty big boy. I ain't as mad as I thought I was. Yeah. You just cost me $100,000, but you know what?

I'm not really mad anymore. This guy right here. We're a pretty big guy. Oh, man. At Courtney M underscore asked. Have you ever had to spot while hungover? Do you have any miracle hangover tricks to get you through the day? I know your answer.

I'm not going to be a wuss here. I'm going to tell you. Yes, I've had to spot while hung over, but it was at a test. It was in Las Vegas. Imagine me being hung over in Las Vegas. They make us go to test. We don't serve a purpose. We literally just have to be present.

So I suffer through it. There is a miracle hangover trick, and it's called Motive Pure. And you put it in water and everything. It rehydrates you quit. So, yep. I actually took that after the All-Star race last week. Everybody's writing it down right now on the newspaper.

Motive pure. It's expensive, though. It's like five bucks a bottle. Where do you buy it? Amazon.com. I don't know where else. It's just where I get it. Everything's on Amazon, too.

Yeah. Get everything on there. I've never been hung over for a race. How about Jorts? Can we get those on Amazon? Yeah, absolutely. I'll give you these. Did you just make them?

No, these are my. They're fresh this morning. Those are that's straight off the rack in Pageland. They're three weeks old. Sally, I got to ask you something, man. The Hall of Fame class was announced this week. Yep. You had an opportunity to race and know a lot of those guys.

Mark Martin, what's your favorite Mark Martin story? I actually got a story about pretty much everybody that's in the Hall of Fame class. My Mark Martin's stories are when I came along in 1996 and I was a rookie in the Xfinity series, I probably spent more time in his trailer than I did my own. He was very good and very open about helping kids that are coming into the sport. So I learned a lot from him as far as that's concerned at a lot of different places. So I've always had a really good relationship with Mark. I remember sitting on the pole in Texas in 1997, and we held it wide open to go around.

And many people didn't do that back then. I remember getting at my car on Pitt Road, and the first person I'll see his Mark, and he said, it must be nice to be young and dumb in a race car. You've got to do what you got to do, you know. So I was really happy to see Mark do. And of course, Rick Hendrick. Rick is from the same part of Virginia. I'm from.

He's from South here, Virginia. We're from Emporia. So he and my dad kind of knew each other growing up. And Rick was the one that really helped my mom beat breast cancer. My mom was struggling a little bit with her doctor in Richmond, and we didn't know what to do, and things are slipping away from her. And I call Rick Hendrick, who has a lot of connections in this area. And he introduced us to Dr. Limitani, who honestly saved my mom's life,

who's here walking around with us today. So that's our connection with Rick Hendricks. So it's cool that we're actually racing together now. And Benny Parsons actually played Pictionary at his house when I was 12 years old. Wow. His son, Keith and my brother Hermie were roommates at North Carolina as freshman. Yeah. And that year for Thanksgiving, we went to their house. And I got to play Pictionary with Benny Parsons at 12 years old.

That's a big deal. That is freaking awesome. Yeah. When I was 12 years old. Always remember that too. Yeah. So that's, we really like that. Benny a lot and we had a special connection with him and his family and actually his son Keith

gave me my first opportunity in racing. Steve Grissom wasn't going to drive the Diamond Ridge car anymore and he put my name in the hat and got me to come to Hickory and drive my first race with them. Right. So it all worked out for that. For them. For them. My first race was at South Boston and my stuff.

Good old days. Good old days, man. Good racing back then. I wish we still ran there. So I had a good special connection with a lot of people in the class. That's cool. A lot of big names in a class for a lot of different reasons. Yeah.

But at the end of the day, is what Brett would say. They all had a positive influence on a sport, which is great. It's a drinking word. We don't have a beer. Kristen. So you got to run like Myrtle Beach, Hickory, and South Boston and all them. Yeah. Those are good times back in.

I had the track record in Myrtle Beach, which still stands. Because they don't race there anymore. So it's staying forever. We talk about Myrtle Beach a lot on this show. We do. Look, we used to love racing at Myrtle Beach, and actually Dale Jr. and I have a story from Myrtle Beach racing.

Can you tell that? No, I cannot. 20 years ago. It was fun times, man. Some of the good old days. Did you race late models there or just the Bush? I race late models there twice for the, they used to have a big race there in November.

Yeah, I went down to race against. 400. Yeah. Myrtle Beach 400. So I used to go down there and do that. So you've been in the chase format before on the Cupside, made the chase. when you look at it now on the Xfinity side,

you're locked in this early. And I know you still want to win races, but what's your mentality from now until it starts? Well, it's a lot different than when I made the chasing cup because you won't locked in then. You had to battle all the way to Richmond and then you would in the top 10 back then to make it. Now that we're locked in, yes, we can take chances.

My crew chief, Kevin, and I talk about that all the time. Let's try some different on fuel strategy. You know, let's not pit for two when we should have got forward. Let's just kind of throw caution to the win. If we're going to try some different setup stuff on some mile and a halfs coming up, we can do that because it's a lot of mile and a halfs in our chase. But to be locked in this early in the season, it feels good as a race team to be able to go there and kind of the pressures off.

Yeah. It's another good thing about winning the 500. You're already locked in, man, the first race. Yeah. So what's it like working with Kevin? He's the first time crew chief. I'm saying, that dude is smart, man. He is smart.

He is the real deal. And I remember when Dale came to me last fall, and we were talking about putting all this together. and he's like, I got you a crew chief. Yeah. And, you know, Kevin has really helped me in my career and kind of re-energize me. And I have more wins with him here recently than anybody else. You know, this guy deserves a chance to be a crew chief.

And I was like, man, you know, I don't know this guy. I've never met him. He's never been a crew chief before. Man, you know, how's this going to work? You know, so we kind of met each other the first day. And he is so even keel. Yeah. And he doesn't get excited.

He doesn't get down. He's got Paul Bernard face a lot. All the time. So the first time I met, you know, the first time I met him. met him. I was asking questions and I get like one word answers. I was like, damn, he don't like me or he just don't talk a lot. I don't know what's going on. That's how he is. Yeah, but I'm going to tell you.

He came from the 88 last year. He was our lead engineer. And I know him pretty well. And he's a, he's a super smart. Yeah. And that's what Dale told me. He said, trust me. He is going to do wonders for, for you and your racing career. And, man, he is, I've been very tickled to say the least that the things that he can bring to the racetrack. And he's just starting, too. He's learning about, you know, he's only worked on Cup cars the last how many years. So his first year working on Xfinity cars, first year being a crew chief, first year on kind of on that side of the fence doing things. He brought Tyler over

here with him who hadn't worked on an Xfinity car before. Also a new engineer that came over from Henders. So a lot of things we're learning as a group. So to run this good, this early in the season, man, job well done. He has been a blast. The whole team has. It's been a lot of fun to Yeah, that's pretty cool they put them guys together. It's pretty cool that they get opportunities to move up and come over here and do things. Yeah, he's not going to stay here long. No, he'll be moving up. Yeah, I don't see him.

He'll be moving up. He is way too smart to not move back up. Two or three years, and I don't think I've heard him say one thing on the radio. Like, I don't think he's talked one time on our radio, and I couldn't. I don't know how he was going to do. He doesn't talk on him now. He don't say much. I tell you what I like about him is, you know, you guys spotters.

you know how drivers can go through a realm of excitement in a race from good to bad. And no matter what I say, he just kind of even tone just, yep, okay. He doesn't get worked up. He doesn't get worked up and all. And as a driver, he's like, damn, man, that sounds, okay, that sounds good. Now, I believe he's going to fix it. Yeah, he's really going to fix it. Yeah, he's got a solution.

Yeah, he's got a plan. One thing he is good at, I'll say this, he can make a lot of changes during a practice session. He can throw a lot of things of that car. And the guys are good enough to get the car back out there. I mean, we know we learn a lot every practice because of how good they are. Yeah, yeah, that's good to see him. That's a good question, T.J., he's a good guy. Yeah.

He's great for this company. I think a big reason why this company is running good across the board, all three cars, is he and Jason and Dave have come in, been on the same page. He's brought a lot of good ideas from Hendrick, and it's working out good for our cars. And I think as the season goes on, we're actually going to get stronger as we implement a lot of the new stuff to our cars when you go through rotation and the body. shop and a suspension shop and things like that. How do you, we've talked about this a lot on the show this year. How do you fix this restart cluster that we're all living in?

Hell, I don't know. I've been black flag like two of the last four races. I have no idea. I mean, what do you do to fix it? And I'll give you, so I sent a written letter to NASCAR after Dover, which I think cost me $100,000 in a chance to win the race. Yeah. And said, give me your options or give me my options.

look at all your in-car video from the 19 because he had an in-car camera look at all of your video from the track that day put it all together so the 19 goes first and then the three literally pushes me from the restart I mean from this restart zone all the way to the start finish line so I beat him by 12 inches give me a solution you give me an option of what I'm supposed to do at that moment because I know I can't switch lanes that's an automatic black flag so tell me when I'm supposed to do. I know I can't slam on brakes. I'll wreck. Because the 48 car did it the day before.

I mean, the next day, not because he slammed on brakes, but he didn't get going and caused a heck of a wreck. Yeah. So give me some options. You just can't say, well, you can't beat them back to the line. Well, say the other guy misses a shift. Yeah. Yeah. Which he did spin his tire. I feel the 19 spun his tire because I'm washing the cars behind the 19, and they all check up. Big time. So what is everyone supposed to do? It's not your fault he didn't get the throttle down right. Exactly. So give me, you know, give me some options. If you're not, if you're not going to fix it. If I'm restarting third in the chase or restarting fourth,

I mean for the race, I'm pushing the guy out to the lead to get Black Flag if I'm racing him for points. Or if you're the pulse sitter, drag your feel a little bit, get the other guy, Black Flag. And what I didn't like about it was you didn't even get the lead from it. No, I let him, yeah, I let him go. So, okay, you beat him to the line by a foot

and you gave him the lead back to make sure he was the leader. Everything was fine. And then we go to a restart later in the race and the three hops out there and pat and jumps to start and nothing. It starts. legal. So my question is, whatever restart idea they come up with, then give the driver some options. Yeah. And because I'm not the only one that's frustrated. My phone lit up that night from 20 different

drivers in the Cup Series going, dude, this is wrong. Yeah. Woman isn't wrong. You didn't do anything wrong. We're confused for you. Yeah. We have no idea what you should have could have done. So it's definitely frustrating. I just wish they had a line when you get to a line. Everybody go. Go and throw the green and less race. Yeah. I even thought in the unlimited deal there before the officer of the showdown or whatever it was, showdown, I actually thought Blaney should have been okay. You know how hard it is to get going to them doggly sometimes? It also takes it a little bit of a wiggle and the guy's going to get a nose on you.

I don't, I think it's, there's just no consistency with it. I don't know if you're going to get black flight or not. There's no, will you beat in the line? Because that's not true either, because I've seen guards beat the guy the guy to the line and I get black flag. So I don't know. As far as the spotter, we want to see, we want to know what's legal as well. Like, do we need to tell our guy to lift? Do we need to tell the guy to.

Yeah, you got to know. Because, I mean, as a driver, I can't hear what NASCAR is saying. Only you, the spotters do. Right. So I want to know from you guys. What are they saying? What do we do wrong? And how the hell do we fix it?

Right. You know, they don't really, they don't tell us anything. They just say it starts under review. Yeah. It's all we hear. I don't know, you can't make it black and white to say as well, the leader, you cannot beat the leader to the line. Okay, that's good well. But if he misses a shift or spins the tires

or somebody's pushing you like at Talladega or Daytona, especially when you get to pushing, give us some options. Yeah. I mean, if it's a good restart and you see a guy spend the tires a little bit or a guy gets a push or something, you know, what about coming on there and be like, hey, all right, well, you've got to push the lead.

That's not, you know, if you don't give it back, you're going to get black flag, you know, or something. I don't know. They're just, I don't know if there's any real right answer to it. But anyway, I got a question. What is the craziest person? prank you've ever been involved in. Man, that's a good question.

And give me time to think about it. We'll revisit that later in the show. Yeah, I see you. I see you. I see what you doing. I'm just trying to scare you. I got a question for Kristen. Kristen, you're the single hot female in the room.

Or Josh is here. Around five good looking guys today. Are you okay? Oh, I'm good. You're in Charlotte. You're a girl for race week. Like, where do you go? What's hot tonight in Charlotte?

What's fun? Yeah, where are you going out tonight? I'll actually be a sponsors at Iron Thunder and Concord. So Oscar Blues is my sponsor. Iron Thunder. Okay, what about after? At least it's been Iron Thunder. So they're actually not going until after the dirt track race.

The world about long. That'll be 2 o'clock in the morning. I know. It'll be over by like 10, right? It starts at 6. Nah. You'd be 12, 30, 1 o'clock going. So they hit it hard.

They're super fun sponsors, and they got in and they did Carolina Alehouse, and then they did Iron Thunder last night. and then Iron Thunder tonight. So as a girl, do you enjoy the race weeks here? Do you go out and do anything? I'm so busy that I don't have time. Oh, my God. What?

I know it would ever. Have some fun. I have six sponsors, so I have to give love to all of them. Dinners, all that stuff. That's an amazing t-shirt. Well, what's that? Josh, do you got anything fun you're doing this week? Hey, TJ, check out this guy's shirt behind you through the window.

Trump 26. No, I don't read it. I wouldn't read it about it. I can read it. It says Trump, 2016, there will be hell, and then the word, toupee like a hair wig. That's awesome. I love people who aren't afraid to wear stuff to get in a fight. That's good.

I like you, man. You from South Carolina? Oh, there's a chance. That dude's like seven foot tall. You see that guy? No. We got a bunch of fans here, one and around. That's Kristen's date to prom.

Well, Kristen likes taller guys. Well, I don't want to be... Kristen Mingle.com. I don't want to be taller than the guy. No. They need to be able to protect me. Can I ask you a question? Do y'all play Love Connection every week on his show?

Every other week. It depends on how her, you know, she comes in and we quiz her on how her love life's going. I almost feel bad for Josh. And then they rate my outfits. It's like love line in here. You're kind of boring today. One day she wore pajamas, man. It was a jumper.

A jumper. And then we had to figure out how you went to the bathroom. That's what I said. It would look like. It didn't look like that. Does it have like a parachute strap thing to the back? only thing it was missing, but the pants were like MC Hammerish. It's like a onesie

kind of thing. It's a onesy. It's like a baby wear us. Yes, but it's bagging. There's no sleeves. It's a summer jumper. It was like if you were flying falling on a plane, it would look perfect. I mean, it was, whatever. Listen, it's stylish, so I'm sorry. Okay. I didn't say it wasn't stylish.

Have we reached our time limit yet? I don't know. Producer Josh. I'd go out on Lake. Can I come? Are you going to the lake today? Yeah. Ben's going Monday. Monday will be fun. Are you going out Monday? Yeah. Y'all will be racing Monday.

He's looking hard to go. I mean, he's digging. My boat's kind of boring now, though, man. I'm 41. Back when I was 30, we... I'll bring the fun. You'll bring the fun. All right.

Yeah, we used to have fun on this lake, didn't we, Elliot? Back in the day. He sure did. A long time ago. Elliot had a fountain boat, and it would run 95 miles an hour, and I said, I swear to God, I'm jumping off. It'll be safer than me being on this boat running this fast. I was scared of death.

That was the stupidest thing I ever bought. Yeah, that's not. Yeah, that's the stupidest thing. And I tell you, for a couple of reasons. One, it ran too fast. Yeah. Two, it did use of a lot of gas. Okay, the third thing was, we all, one thing you do on Lake Norman, it doesn't matter

how you get there, but you just go park. Yeah. You know, at the sandbar. At the sandbar, you go park at the sandbar. Elliot didn't understand that at first, so I bought this cool. I'm going to have a bad boat, and I'm going to be bad to the bone and all that crap. We park at the sandbar the first day. Mine's the only boat there with no tent over it.

Because, you know, all the pontoon boats got a cannon vent. Yeah. You can't walk on my boat. Nobody's too hot. I got this bad boat. Nobody will come on it because it's 400 degrees on it. It's way too hot. It's so bad.

Sandbar. Water's warmer there. Sir, I like to trade this 38-foot found boat in on a 19-foot pontoon boat leaves. Please, please. Right, ma'am. Keep the difference. Bikinis and beer. Yeah.

Sandbar used to be a lot of fun back in the dove, too. Did they still go to the sandbar? Yeah. It still happens. Do you have to be a certain age still, like the 23 to 23 to? 26. When was it? Who's asking?

Are you asking for a friend? Just asking? I need to make plans for Monday. Oh, Monday. Oh, here we go. One of the funnest times ever had on the sandbar was after an all-star race one night, Dale Jr. and all his buddies had an idea that we're going to get to the sandbar.

We're going tonight. Oh, yeah. We're going to be the first one's there. We're going to go tonight. It's going to be fun. Wake up and we're there and all that. So we had fun all night long. Back time the next morning came.

We were all. tired. We woke up. Everybody was like already parked around us. Yeah. You know, where did you all come from? Yeah. There's 20 boats each way, man.

Yeah, we were all tied up. Yeah, we wanted to sleep, man. We did that a couple other times, too. We'd come back from the West Coast trips, and we would just go get on the boat and go out there and wake up at 10 o'clock in the morning, and there'd be 15 boats that way, and you just started going. That was fun. It's fun.

That was one of the fun things. I don't know if I could do that now. I don't know if I could, my body would do it. You did it this year, or is that last year? Key West when you called me and text me. Oh, was I texting you too? Yeah, I did that. Maybe. Yeah.

Maybe. Is there a drunk text app yet? We need it. I need that last week. I thought there is one. Aren't they supposed to make one where you can't, like, it just locks your phone? Yeah. I need my fingerprint to, like, be swaying or something. Yeah, let me my phone too much.

Yeah. Not good. Anyway, so you all want to pull some guests in here? I think we're on our time limit. What's our time limit, Josh? 3 o'clock. Oh, we got someone else coming in? Yeah, they're doing podcasts all day. Who's after us?

I don't know. I don't know. I think we should get Travis in here for a minute. Yeah, we've got to bring Travis in here. Yeah, come on in, Travis. So the story with Travis here is, is he asked Kristen to go to prom. Yeah, it's real sensitive. Don't talk.

Yeah. I really So Travis here asked Ask Kristen to go to a prom Did you already have the prom? No Oh June 2nd

There's still time Pocono It's close In the same state Yeah So is your prom Friday or Saturday night? I have no clue Oh see

He hasn't even thought about it He doesn't want to go Because you won't go Yes You got a date Yes There's no one else at your high school you'd rather take?

No. I mean, listen, this is like... He's looking for a cougar. Yeah, you want to make... I'm not a cougar, you have only 31. He's 17, you're a cougar to him. Yeah, you're definitely a cougar to me. A cougar to me would be like 60 because I'm 40.

Yeah. Yeah. So... Yeah, and you... Yeah, we didn't realize what this would do for him. You would make him the man. Travis, we're trying to help you here and you're not saying shit, man. Give us something.

So you don't have a date? Do you have a date? No. You got a ring? Get on one knee or something? Yeah. You have flowers in the car or anything? Carcise.

You ever wear a cassage? Probably in high school. Yeah. So we're racing Pocono, and he has this problem that weekend. That means you're within driving distance of getting there. Yeah, like six hours? No. No, I'm in Philly.

I'm not in Pittsburgh. He's not far. It's getting better. I thought you were in Pittsburgh. T.J. will drive you. Oh, boy. Yeah, after they stay a race, we'll get in the car. I'll show her for you guys around.

All right. So, yeah. I mean, this is like. We got a yeah, out of it. This is like the weird... Can she show her for tattoos or is that going to freak your friends out? I feel like this is like the life version of weird science. Yeah.

Remember that movie? Yeah. Like, we're creating Kristen and he's going to make him the man. We show up in a Porsche. She's being poured it. Kristen's shaking. She's twitching. I'll have to wear that shirt that I made that shirt.

Do you have it with you? Yeah. Why, you should have wore that today. Don't even wear a shirt, dude. That's even cooler. Yeah. What I would probably do is go get some of the spray-painted abs. and get them.

Or the t-shirts with the abs on them. Or a door bumper clear a t-shirt. Actually, I bought one today. Even better. Wear that. Wear that. So, well, we're about out of time here, so we better get out of the Exalted studio,

and they got another podcast coming in here. Travis, thanks for coming on. Yeah, we've got to go work out some logistics for the prom. Elliot, thanks for coming in. Yeah, Elliot, that's awesome. And Josh, you're off of quiet today. Yeah, great questions, Josh Yeah, great question

We got And Ben over there Witnessing the show Come by from the great state of Wisconsin I'd like to thank one main Chicago, I'm sorry Illinois Ben we'll get together on Monday Get a plan

Yeah I'm winging it I was supposed to go home Monday Yeah Look Ben Ben's looking for a date on Monday If anybody's around Dates Dates, yes

That's plural That is definitely plural Yeah So And Kelly Earnhardt just like the tweet About the picture of you and your Jorts So you got a fan Great.

Yeah. She's the boss. She's like it. She's like it. I'm good. I'm not out of balance. You look like Stone Cold Steve Austin. Is your pocket supposed to hang out of the hole?

Yes. Okay. I didn't know. I'm not a tort's expert. I don't touch it. Yeah. Is it born or what? Check it out.

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