Door Bumper Clear - 171 – Didn’t See This One Coming

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

Discussions of returning to the race track are picking up and Door Bumper Clear is here to breakdown where and how that will happen. T.J. Majors, Brett Griffin, Freddie Kraft, Casey Boat, and Jason Schultz cover what changes will be visible during a race including pit stops, race lengths and where spotters are located. Where will the races take place? The gang discusses what tracks are in play and which races will be hosted. Chip Ganassi Racing announced Matt Kenseth will take over the No. 42 car and the guys react to that news. Clint Bowyer made it to the lead of the iRacing race at Talladega before he blew a virtual motor and we can’t believe it. Plus, Xfinity Fast Lane debates include if the yellow line rule is still necessary at plate tracks and which driver/crew chief combination would create the modern dream team. Brett learns what a babymoon is and Freddie recalls the time he cost his dad a lot of money. These stories and more on this all-new episode.  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 an C-H-O-R.fm. to get started. Welcome to Door bumper clear. I'm Jason Schultz, and today Brett, Freddie, and T.J. have a lot to discuss.

They'll cover Matt Kemp's return, what putting on a race will look like, and Clint Boyer blowing a virtual motor while leading. Door bumper clear begins right now. I'm T.J. Majors. This is Brett Rittman. Hey, me too now. This is Freddie Cratch. Get ready. Be ready. Be ready.

New leader. I'm watching out for this guy. White flag. Reconna. Hello. Clear. Bring all. Free light.

Coming to the line. Door. Bumper. Clear. Woo! Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. It's part of the virtual 22 cup car again.

And some more virtual indie car stuff this last week. Brett Griffin. I am under house arrest. I'm over this. I'm ready to go back to work. Freddie Kraft. Same. Freddie, you look like a prisoner.

I feel like a prisoner. Casey boat and completely 100% the same times a million. Hey, Casey, guess what? What? We're in the same boat. I feel like we've done so well not bringing up boat comments, like the last few shows and then you just... Is this boat got a motor? You're the one who started all the name recommendations because Mother Boat is the number one name recommended by every single person.

What? You can't say that. Casey, what is a hormonal pregnant lady do during a quarantine? I'm just curious. Eat. Eat. Yeah. Poor Chad, dude.

That has been happening a lot. I think we should take a moment for Chad right now. Are you serious? He goes to the shop every day. He's clearly sick of me. Can you blame him? Yeah. I think I'm great.

I cook for him. I do his laundry. So yeah, guys, let's take a moment for Chad. When he makes stupid comments, obviously I'm going to get pissed. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can tell.

Can we start a hashtag moment for Chad? No. He's doing fine. I promise. The positives here are I get an abundant amount of time. of my kids, which I love. The negative is I keep having these death threats on sticky notes around the house, and I'm not sure which one of the five people in this house is leaving them.

Honestly, I think Brett's wife is worse off than Chad, so maybe we need a moment for her. The negative is... Did he fall off the wagon yet? Nope, still on the damn wagon. I was planning on falling off yesterday, but I'm still on there. I don't know. I just didn't do nothing. I'll tell you, the negative of this whole thing is my paranoia.

Like, I was supposed to go to the baseball field. the other day and, you know, just mess around with Brett and Bodey. And I cut the grass day before, and I thought I had the coronavirus again. Like, I was dying. I'm sure it was, I feel fine now, so I'm assuming it was just allergies from the grass. Again, have you already had it once? Yeah, I remember last week I had it because I was smoked the smoker? So every week, I had some kind of paranoia about whether or not I got the coronavirus.

And I don't know how I'd possibly get it because I haven't left my house in five weeks. But I think everybody's done that. The first time you sneeze or something, you're like, oh, God, do I got it? Like, especially in the first week, there, you're like, oh, wait a minute, I can't. I cough. I cough. Have you, have you been anywhere at TJ or are you still staying in? Uh, I really, the only traveling that I've done is, um, or getting out is I have not been to a store, nothing like that. I did have a doctor's appointment to go to. But other than that, the only thing I've driven is to, um, out to the land and

stuff to go on walks and stuff with my kids. So if you wear a mask, when you put a mask on, I know NASCAR's talking about us wearing masks when we go back to the racetrack. You have no idea how much you touch your face. Like when you, once you put that mask on, you're in the, I'm in the grocery store and I'm like, man, my nose itches. Man, like you just are constantly. You're like, geez. So the awareness of that is insane. Yeah.

It's probably, uh, it's probably like, you know how we always check our microphones? Like you push the mic so it's right up against your mouth and you, if it's not there, you're like, oh, then you always kind of just check it to make sure it's close or whatever. because you know what it's like when the driver talks. Yeah. And the mic's just a little bit, it's a way quieter. And it makes a big, you see some guys, like, constantly move their mouse and it's almost like they're, like, they're trying to feel their microphone there, make sure it's still there or something. But, yeah, I can't imagine. I'm sure your nose is going to eat.

I wonder if, you know, if it's hot, they're going to get, you know, is your nose going to get sweaty? I think more people will shave their beards now to help with the mask. I don't know what's making it more uncomfortable. I'll bet you $100 when I go to the race check. I'll shave. Well, you have to. Pinsky won't let you have a beer. Pinsky will actually let you guys have a beer now.

They used to win, but it has to be nicely trimmed, right? Like, you can sport what you got going on today. Yeah, probably not. Nah. They definitely make you shave your neck. Let me see your neck. I bet you like Chabaca. Oh, that's bad.

It's pretty bad. I'm going to need a chainsaw. T.J. and Tony Stewart grow the most neck hair of anybody I know. Do you have to put your beard under? Do you have to put your beard under your mask? How does that work? I don't know how I'm going to do it. I have to quit spot him.

It's going to just keep coming out. Freddie, you're going to have to cut off the front of it. Just cut like a little square out. Like a notch. Yeah, a little notch or something. Won't you braid it? I was thinking about that. I could braid it. I was messing around.

I was going to show up on here the other day with a braided goatee. You don't have to quit. I think Bubba fired you on social media this week. He did. That's okay. I told him he'll never find somebody willing to put up with his ass. So I feel like I got good job security. I don't know, man. I know a lot of ninjas.

Brett's team fun won the poll of the best draft from last week. Congratulations, Brett. This tells you how unreliable Brett's followers are because the statement clearly said, which is the best team, not the most fun team. So I'm going to have to go through and add up the stats for who we've all picked.

And I guarantee Brett's stats. Freddy's is pretty good. You know, and Brett's team had three wins like in the last five years, but don't let that stop you. Three wins, but a lot of parties. The key to every good business model is a niche, and I found a niche, and my fans and followers agreed with my niche. That's why I won.

That just proved that you can say something. I want to see the final count because by my screen, we were tied. It was 35% each. I don't know how the, I got to see the final count. Yeah. I'm calling Florida. I'm calling Florida for a recount. How about Jason's showing that he voted for your team?

Yeah, seriously, Jason. What the heck? Smart guy. In the moment, I thought Freddy's team was the best, but then I thought about TJ's team and it was pretty competitive. But guess what? I can't pick TJ's team. Neither one of you picked y'all's two. My team won.

Team funds a winner. That just proves that you could say something so dumb and people will still agree with you. That's the smartest thing you've ever said, Casey? Like, honestly, I don't understand why people like you so much. They don't like me, trust me. If you can see the tweets I get, they don't like me. He's got everyone else blocked. Hey, yeah.

He's got everyone else blocked. There's probably enough people on Brett's blocked list that would win me and Freddie to vote. Yeah, that's all I needed was. I should have went to Brett's block list to just campaign against that people. I would have 10,000 more votes. I saw a tweet the other day. It came up on my timeline from somebody that I don't follow. and I clicked on it

and I just literally blocked everybody to click they liked that tweet just because I was like, I don't want to hear from these idiots. If they like this kind of tweet, at some point they're going to tweet me something stupid and I'm just going to block them all now and be done with it.

So he probably blocked it. He probably blocked everybody that voted for me and you, Freddie. Yeah. Yeah. Did you block Dale after he yelled at you for cursing of the elderly? No, that was funny.

Can you tell how many people you have blocked? Like, is there a number or just, You don't know how to track that. There's a list. You could probably... Twitter quit counting. Right out of characters.

Oh, boy. All right. Well, I would say the biggest rumor of the week has to be that we are potentially going back to racing mid-May. Is that still accurate from your guys' side? Man, it sounds like it. I mean, everything you're hearing. I know as much as you know. I know what Twitter says.

Do we think it's, I mean, I know there's probably a ton of people saying, you know, is it safe? Is it smart? Are we doing this too soon? Are we pulling a Georgia and opening up way too soon? What do you guys think? Georgia. I don't know. I think we're going to be one of the first sports to actually get back to it.

I don't know. I think I'm relying on NASCAR and the higher-ups to have a plan in place that would, you know, keep us. safe at the same time. I think just like everyone else, Brett and Freddie, we're all waiting to hear, but we're all depending on them to send us back when it is safe. And there is, I don't know,

proper testing, whatever they need to do to make sure we're all to go into a safe environment. I think one day shows a highly shortened schedule where I don't even know if we're going to practice. You're not practicing. Yeah, well, I mean, we're going to show up tech, qualifying race, I'm guessing. So, hey, if that's what it takes to get us back to it to start with, we're all in the same boat. We've all been to these tracks before.

It's nothing new. So I'm looking forward to it. I think there's a lot of smart things that the teams can do, Casey. For example, the road crew guys, do not let them go into the shop under any circumstance, right? You're going to have five or six guys that are going to be allowed to go to the racetrack, do what TJ said and those guys are going to push the cars through tech then they're going to push the car straight to the grid they're going to leave the car on the grid and the next thing that's going to happen is a driver will climb into the car he's going to go out and run and then those same guys will be able to change tires under pit stops

and whatnot don't let those guys go into the shop don't let the crew chiefs go into the shop literally have your shop guys and your road rack guys completely separated so that in the event somebody does get it you'll be able to keep it safer as far as that the racetrack goes I know they want us wearing mask I know they want to six feet apart. And for us and spotters, that's really easy. I think the biggest challenge for probably the teams is going to be the pit stops. They're talking about letting three guys go over the wall at one time. Those three guys are going to change the tires.

And then those three guys are going to come back over the wall. And then they're going to send a guy over to fuel the car. Once he's done fueling the car, he'll put the gas can down, then he can make adjustments to the car. So that's as close as I think you'll see anybody throughout the weekend is when they actually have to change tires under car. Yeah, I think, obviously for us, like somebody was talking to us about it, and it's easy for us. I mean, I don't plan on seeing anybody.

The only person I might see is if Brett, if I ride the track with them. You know what I mean? We go straight to the roof. We don't go through the garage normally. I don't know about TJ and Brett. I know, I don't, I mean, I'll go through there sometimes Sunday morning if I get there early. But, like, we won't see the guys on the team. I think you'll see a lot of, the teams won't be in the garages all over each other.

They'll either be working scattered out through. There's going to be plenty of room so you can scatter haulers out and work behind your hauler or work in every other garage stall so the teams won't be close to each other. I don't know. I'm not no doctor by any means, obviously, so I don't know the best method of testing to find out who's got it, who doesn't, when you get to the garage. But I think NASCAR's not going to do this half-assed, I would imagine. If they're going to do it half-ass, we've already been doing it.

So, you know, they're doing their due diligence and making sure that they got everything right and they're going to say, and I've also seen people like Brett's point about, you know, the crew guys going over the wall and changing the tires and fueling the car and guys are saying, oh my God, it's going to be, you know, drag the race out wherever. It's going to be 15 minutes. It's not going to be 15 minutes. It's not going to be five minutes. It's, you know, these guys do this every week in the garage during a practice run.

You know what I mean? They come in, change four tires, fuel the car up and you're back out there in three or four minutes if they need to without adjustment. So, you know, it's going to be different, you know, but it's the option of, do you want to do this now or do you want to wait three months for when we can have everybody in the racetrack? So, you know, obviously they're going to, hopefully they take their precautions they need to, but I think NASCAR is going to do it in the safest way possible. One, the industry can't wait. And two, I think there's one missing pieces.

It's what about the drivers, right? We got to keep the drivers safe too. And from what I'm hearing, it sounds like those guys are going to literally come through the tunnel, go to their motorhome, they'll get dressed, and they will not come out again until they go to the grid. And when they leave their motor home, it's straight to the race car, buckle. and go racing. I don't think we see a whole lot of pre-race. Let me rephrase that. I don't think we see any pre-race as far as those guys standing out and everybody's standing at attention. I don't think

I think that's part of, you know, one of the big changes that we're having to make and keep us safe. And to Freddie's point, we can't wait three months. Three more months, man, half our race team is going to be out of business. There's already teams that were lacking sponsorship, which means they don't have sponsorship revenue. We're not racing, which means we don't have any purse revenue. Those guys won't survive three more months. Their employees won't survive three more months. And I think we've reached a point to where we're waiting on the curve to flatten and then the curve to start going down at that point. That's when we'll go to the racetrack. And TJ, it's almost like we're going racing in a quarantine mode at the racetrack.

Yeah, very similar. It's going to be different for sure. We're going to look like we're tentatively going to the track that has the tightest spotter stand, which is going to be interesting. I mean, we are elbow to elbow at that place. Which brings up a really good point. We're clearly not going to stand on the spotter stand at Darlington. So now we're going to probably stand at the top of Tyler Tower grandstand at Darlington on the front stretch. Man, I'm not worried about Darlington so much, but when we go to Talladega, we'll be fine.

But we go to Daytona, we go to Michigan, we go to some of these other tracks. Man, if we get the top of the grandstands, it's going to drastically change our line of sight. Yeah, and Darlington is a tough one. Darlington is a tough one off of four now, you know, depending on where you're at on. spotter stand. So I mean, if you're lower and closer to the racetrack, it's going to be hard to to clear a guy off of four. Yeah, Darlington's, Darlington and Dover are some of the hardest places to clear your driver off of turn four. Turn three at Pocono can be challenging. You know, it's just hard when the angle closes up and they're coming at you. It just gets really hard.

Darlington is definitely one of the tough ones. If they bring us down lower, which they're going to have to, it's going to get even harder. Probably the best news of the week, I would say, is the return of Ryan Newman once racing resumes. What do you guys think about that one? It's just astonishing that this guy can get back in the car this soon after that wreck. I think all of us probably feared the worst at one point that night. And here we are. I mean, literally, he's only missed, what, two races, three races?

Obviously, he's got, you know, a month or two break. But, you know, to just miss a couple races after that wreck is ridiculous. it seems like it's been two years ago for some reason I guess because of this quarantine but I mean it honestly is a miracle he looks like he actually looks really good uh he looks like he's in good shape and obviously mentally he's he's fine if he wants to go racing but I feel like I was watching college football and Lee Corso came on and said not so fast because NASCAR was like ah he's not medically cleared yet so hopefully all that goes is planned and and and Ryan gets back in the car I've been hearing some rumors that it looked like this is what was going to go

down. So, I mean, just unbelievable, TJ, crazy. Yeah, I think so much has happened since Daytona. What a weird year right now to only be four races into the season and, you know, see Newman's wreck and he's really only going to miss three of them. So this is a huge break for Ryan Newman and his team to only miss that many races. And Brett Moffitt as well, who had a motorcycle accident there. He's, is he healed now? Does anybody know? Is he coming back? I've seen him running some IRAs and stuff, so I don't know if,

probably it must be working. But yeah, but great for Ryan Newman to be coming back. I think that's, you know, ever since his accident there, you know, we've continued some late that night. We got nothing but good rumors coming out of it. Everything just proved to be right. And I think it's a, I hope people look back at the end of this year and know that think about them thoughts we all had right after that wreck and what we got, what we're going to see the rest of the year with Ryan Newman. You know what I mean? We're all going to be glad he's here. And, you know, there's going to come a time that you're going to be racing Ryan Newman and he's going to be racing you really hard and he's going to make you mad. You're going to

sit back and be like, you know what? I'm okay with it right now just because we're all so glad that he's going to be back. And we all want that, man. Ryan's a hard racer. And, you know, Ryan, he makes you earn your spots on the track, you know, and he's known for that. And I don't have any problem with that. His disposition seemed a little different for me on TV yesterday. Like, Ryan is a, a smart ass, a condescending person. Like he just, and it's just his wit, right? And, and I, I think this probably changed him a little bit. It had to it, right? You would think. I mean, he almost died. Yeah, I mean, I don't know what it was like, you know, maybe, um, maybe after we get back to it and he can do some interviews, you know, and get out there and start talking about a little bit.

maybe we all get some, some, um, a clear picture of maybe what he was going through. But, um, I know from our point of view, it scared us all, it scared us. We all, we all thought the worst. So, um, you know, I think it'll be, I think it'll be interesting to hear Ryan's point of view when he comes back and does some interviews and stuff and we can read with his side. What, you know, does he, was he going to remember any of that or stuff like that? All right. Well, before we get started, let's hear more about our amazing presenting sponsor, Offer Pat. Last week I told you if I had to pack up and move anywhere in the world, it will be to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

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First topic, rumored schedule includes newly added races at Darlington on May 7, and Charlotte. Spot on, spot off, TJ. Spot on. It gets us started. As long as everything's safe and like Freddie mentioned earlier, they're not going to half it. We're going to do it right. So if that's what it takes to get us back and back in business here and racing, spot on. Yeah, I mean, spot on. You've got to do what you got to do. We've got to get back racing. We got to keep these teams in business. We've got to get paid. Yeah, I need to get paid. I need to get the hell out of my house.

Obviously, it's going to be a state-by-state basis, I think. And unfortunately, we're probably going to see some places lose races this year. Some of the, you know, maybe closer, you know, I don't really want to get into too much of that. But I think there's potentially, you know, four or five races that might disappear off the schedule. So now we've got to find places to make them up. And this is a good chance to, while we really can't, we're not camp, but shouldn't fly and get some of these races close to home where we can drive like a Darlington, a Charlotte, a, a Bristol, Bristol, you know, Martinsville and they opened in Virginia back up.

You know, just let's tack on as many races as we can and get back to work. We saw a schedule come out unofficially across some of our cell phones, and it had us going like Darlington, Charlotte, Bristol, Darlington, Charlotte, Bristol. And I think TV was like, whoa, this is spot off. If we're going to go somewhere, let's go sit somewhere for a few days. And let's run multiple races at those tracks for a few days. So I think what we may see happen is when we go to Darlington on May 17th, We may be going back to Darlington May 18th or May 19th.

We may not waste a whole lot of time in making up these dates. And like Freddie said, I mean, there are some tracks that in jeopardy. And it's not the track's fault. When you look at the state of California, we have no idea when they're going to open back up. When we look at the state of Virginia, they closed down during the entire month of May. So when we look at those tracks, we're going to miss those races, even if the lights were on, right, for the sport. So we're turning the lights back on on the sport. Some states have the lights off.

we don't want to have to travel. NASCAR doesn't want us to have to travel. They want us to be able to drive our own car, show up for work, stay pretty much isolated, race and come right back home. There's not a lot of places we can do that. But when we look at Bristol, Tennessee, that's three hours from here, totally doable.

Darlington's two hours from here. Obviously, Charlotte's in our backyard. Atlanta, you know what, it would suck, but we can do it. We can drive four and a half hours to Atlanta, race and turn around and come home. I think the question becomes, and I think NASCAR's getting in a window, T.J. to where they're going to have to tell us something.

I mean, we're talking about showing up at the racetrack in two and a half weeks from right now. They've not told us anything. They've not told our sponsors anything. They've not told our fans anything. I think scheduling-wise, they're going to have to come out this week with what their intentions are.

Yeah, definitely. I think we talked about it a couple episodes ago. They were told we needed 10 days to get stuff ready. So we're getting into that. We're getting close to that window. So we're getting close. We're getting closer to it every week. So hopefully everybody, you know,

we're staying safe, listening to what they're supposed to be doing. And the quicker everybody does that, the quicker we get back to it. Yeah, I know there's layers to this, man. Like, we've heard rumors that, you know, obviously a lot of stuff that goes on around here is based in North Carolina.

So we're all kind of under the same blanket there. Gibbs, the engines that Gibbs runs are built in California. And there's rumors that them guys can't get in that building right now to build these engines. So what happens when they're out of the supply they have now? Or, you know, we've heard rumors about maybe the good year tire plants aren't open right now. Guys can't get in there and make tires. So, I mean, there's a lot of layers of this.

And NASCAR has to cover. It's not as easy as though, hey, we're going back racing everybody, get ready. Yeah. And that's the big question is there's a lot of small parts that these race cars need that if we get into a situation comes July or August where we can't get them. Woo! We're going to have to get creative. We just think about the tires. Like Freddie said, we go to Darrington.

Deathplace eats up tires, man. So are we going to run shortened races? We'll have to run shortened races, I'm sure. I would think anyway. Who knows, though? I would hope with the pit stops being the way they are, obviously I touched on earlier, you're not going to take quite as long as everybody thinks. But, I mean, that Coke 600 and the Southern 500 are already close to four,

four plus hour races. And now you're going to throw a caution every, you know, whatever it is, 50 laps, you know, what a fuel window is and have a five-minute break. It's just going to add to that. So what a wonderful opportunity to have an excuse to try. try new things and see what actually works and what our fan base likes. I mean, Casey, you're on the marketing side. I'm on a marketing side.

Like for us to go out and now do potentially a two-hour cup race, for us to see what the ratings do and the sustainability within those, that two-hour gap. I mean, that's almost fun to challenge us with that. Yeah. And on top of that, I know, at least on our side, where are the thinking of ways to, you know, if our fans are not at the track, if our guests are not at the track,

how can we still provide a great experience for them? something, you know, whether it be virtual hospitality, things like that. So I think we'll see a lot more, especially from sponsors, with this new plan that will come into play. Next topic, NASCAR is likely to require all teams to wear masks at the track. Spot on, spot off, Freddie. I mean, spot off. How am I going to cover this beautiful beard with a mask?

I don't get it. No, spot on, obviously, it's going to be the safest thing to do. Whatever is the safest bet is what we got to do. The only question we have, I know Brett had his headset on the other day with a microphone. I mean, can the drivers hear us? Do we need to poke a hole on the side of our mask and slide our microphone through there? Like, those are the only questions I have about it, but spot on. You know, you got to do whatever you got to do that's safe.

I'm spot on for it for sure, is if we're in the garage. I think once I get in a grandstand and I'm 20 feet from any of the spotter and I'm not talking to anybody. I think that, you know, it'd be fine not to wear it. But, I mean, I'm going to do whatever they say. Do if they tell me to stand on my hands and clap with my feet, Hell, I'm going to try it. I'll just say you ain't doing it. You ain't going to be able to do that.

Yeah, I mean, spot on. We're all on the same boat. If it's what keeps everybody safe and keeps us going back every week to get races in, I'm wearing it. This one's for you, Brett, Clint Boyer leading the ira racing race when he blows a moor. Was he actually leading? Yeah, he was, Alex was on the tail end of the lead lap. Oh, I got. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, man. My guy finally was getting some TV time for the right reasons. He was leading the race. He was being aggressive. He was running up front. He wasn't being one of them pansies laying back in a video game scared. They're going to tear their virtual car up. Oh, my. I hate to see such a thing ever happened to anybody. And then he blew a motor. Spot off for blowing a motor. Spot on for Clinton, Jeff Gordon. Because if it wasn't for Clinton, Jeff Gordon, that broadcast would have been terrible. Those two guys, made it entertaining to watch. I think the eye racing thing has been awesome. I think it's provided us some entertainment,

but I think that it's lost its excitement in terms of being exciting racing. We've all realized now that it's a video game, and it's time to go back and do the real thing. Yeah, spot off. What an idiot. I mean, check your gauges. Damn it, Clint. But, yeah, just piggyback on Brett there about, you know, it's lost its...

I can't wait to see you do that. I'd love to see you piggyback on Brett. I'd like to see Brett's back when I'm done piggyback on him. But he, the I racing deal, I think, kind of missed a boat here. We just keep saying boat as much as you can this show, I think. But, you know, I see, I think it was Corey. A lot of these guys, like Bubba quit this week.

Bubba, he didn't want to do it this week. And his reasoning was, which I don't think, I don't, it didn't fit this week's narrative very good because you don't have to practice Talladega much. But, you know, just the amount of time, he didn't want to practice all the time for these other races. so he quit. And Corey the Joy kind of said something similar. Like he wasn't racing because he didn't want to practice all time.

And I like Corey's idea on his podcast that... Corey raced. Yeah, he raced this week, but he hasn't been racing. He said draw the track. I feel like following the schedule, hurt I raise. Hurt these broadcasts, hurt eye racing. There's so many, TJ knows this. There's so much cool stuff you can do in that game where, you know,

you can take certain cars. Like TJ's replacement series ran street stocks at Myrtle Beach a couple weeks ago. I feel like keep the cup drivers, just the cup drivers in there, but do different stuff, run different cars, run different tracks. And Corey had a good idea about just pulling a track out Sunday morning, you know, pull out of a hat so these guys can't practice all week. Now everybody's got the same, you know, three or four hours before the race to go practice.

So I feel like they kind of missed the boat a little bit following the cup schedule. I'm sure that was probably part NASCAR, part TV deal, want to do that. But, you know, I think it could have been more entertaining if they, if they would have bounced around different racetracks, different kind of cars. And it made it kind of a surprise where these guys can't practice all the time. Yeah, first of all, to go back to the original statement, your oil temp is the very top right number on your dash, and it flashes, it's white, when it gets a little if it goes yellow for a while, and then when it gets bad, it goes red. When it gets yellow for a little while, you might want to let off a little bit and just chill where you're at.

Evidently, Clint got to the red and decided to keep going to see what comes after the red. He found out. but you know it's easy to do and that's one thing that you can when you're making those setups you can decide how much tape you want on you can start and they're all driving the same thing but you know you can decide

sometimes you leave a little bit of tape on it because you don't want guys to go to push the entire time you want to have them lift and that creates runs from other guys when other guys lift and then there's passing so yeah I don't you know we got to watch your temps but kind of like what Freddie did you know that's what one thing that we were told that we could do with

our series, I asked him, like, so what do you want us to run? And we did Atlanta the first weekend because that's where we were supposed to go. And it's a slick racetrack and there's tire fall off, which we know we like tire fall off. But now he's like, okay, run whatever you want. So that's why Raymurtle beat streetstocks. We're running a, not tomorrow, but next Tuesday we're going to run the streetstock at 2008 Phoenix with the grass and the dog leg and stuff. And that'll be pretty wild to do that.

It's going to be fun. But you can, those cars are tanks. You can really beat and banging them and stuff, and it really kind of puts on a good race. But I do agree with Freddie that mixing it up for, you know, making it more fun probably would have been a good idea to just get away from some of these plays. We all knew we were going to Bristol that it was going to be a mess. I mean, let me ask you this. When you run your first race, people are always like, oh, man, yeah, I'll go to Bristol. It's kind of, they kind of made the path in the NASCAR to run short tracks first.

Well, let me tell you, Martinsville and Bristol are not easy. they're not easy for rookies and people to go to for the first time and run successfully. It's harder. The places are hard. So to put all these guys on a track like Bristol to start with is definitely going to be challenging for them. But, you know, mix it up a little bit, do something fun. Make it a, you know, they could make easy cars to drive. I will say that there's so much planning into this.

And with all the sponsors and stuff, though, Freddie, you need to have your car schemes all done and turned in by a certain time so they can get everything loaded up for your sponsors and partners and stuff to be represented. And if you start doing that, you're going to know what car they picked. You know, you might not know what track, but, um, yeah, I think the track would be the biggest thing. Yeah. I saw Ty Dillon after the thing. Um, he was riding his bicycle on a road and I was walking on the road yesterday. We were going to play, uh, what's that game playing?

Croquet or cricket, croquet or whatever the f*** it is. So anyway, I was like, dang, Ty, you almost had it. But it was amazing to me watching that broadcast, how he never blinked. I mean, he was riding around there and, look. literally not blinking. I was like, wow, that's crazy. Even Clint, like, there was a point in the broadcast where Clint, you know, he's always joking around and ADD, can't pay attention to nothing, but there was a time where he got hooked up with somebody on the outside and was trying to push them to the lead.

And no matter what they said, same thing, laser focused, like, like, no blink, just, you know, so it's amazing. Like, these guys can joke around about it, but when something comes down to the wire or, you know, it gets real serious. I ran a sprint car race last week, just hopped in a dirt race and it was it. Some track where you had to run right up against the fence, not old. Dora, but like Lima Land or something like that. And I ran the race. And when I let, when I finished the race, I ended up winning, but I let go with the wheel.

And I was like, oh, my God, my hands hurt. I was holding the wheel so tight. We have some breaking news to cover. Matt Kenseth has been announced as the driver of the Chip Ganassie Racing number 42 car for the remainder of the season. What do you think, Brett? Man, I didn't see this one coming. I think there were a lot of names on all of our radars. And Matt Kenseth probably wasn't one.

of them, I mean, they're getting a guy that's won, what, 18, 19 races in his 40s, a guy that's a champion, solid, solid, solid hire here. I mean, not only are you getting a proven race car driver. You're getting a guy that's just a good stand-up guy. So, I mean, I don't know that you could have gone out and got a better replacement. Now, is this the guy for long term? I don't know. But I could see Matt doing this two to three years if he's in a fun situation.

Yeah. I mean, you've been saying for, I don't know how, you know, two or three weeks or whatever it's been, they need to get a big name and you don't get a name bigger than Mackenzie that's available. Like you said, champion, a guy that can win races. You know, we talked last week about it, and I said that there wasn't a guy out there that, you know, would put them in a position to win a championship, and this guy might be a guy that could do that. You know, he's obviously a guy to get a waiver to be eligible because he hasn't run all the races, which he'll probably will.

And he can go out and win a race and get him into playoffs. and he's been missed their consistency over his career so he can get them in a place where they could compete and advance through the rounds. And another thing, he's been a teammate with Kurt before. You know, that might have played a little factor into it at Roush, you know, where these guys have a history of working together. So, I mean, this checks all the boxes for chips. Sponsors are going to be happy.

You went from a guy that, you know, obviously had some controversy while he lost his ride to a guy that's probably really not had any controversy except for Wreck and Joey Lagano one time at Martinsville. Yeah, I think this kind of surprised everybody. I think we talked about it, weren't sure which route they were going to take. I think we know that now. I think it also, I think the news was also

that he reached out to Carl Edwards as well. So obviously, Chip wanted a veteran driver in his car. He didn't want to go the younger route. He wanted somebody that's won races and, you know, won a lot of races. Matt's won a lot of races. Carl's won a lot of races. Both championship contenders,

majority of their career. So, yeah, I think Chip wanted to get some experience in that seat. And, you know, Matt and whoever he gets like that, that's going to be very, very sponsor-friendly as well. So it's going to be easy to sell. Like, hey, this guy won a championship. Definitely a power move by Chip kind of to be a competitor. Now, whether he gets the, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure this is going to qualify for a waiver or something like that. I'm not sure how that's going to work. I don't know. That's going to raise a lot of question if he gets a waiver for that. I don't know if you fire a guy, however many races in the year, do you get a waiver for signing a new guy? I don't know if it works like that. But regardless, I think Matt is going to help the organization.

It's not taking a step back when you sign a guy like Matt Kenseth. So definitely going to, you're hiring a veteran guy that knows how to get it done. Matt came back part-time for Roush, 2018, and he got in a car that wasn't a very competitive car when they had to hold Trevor Bain's situation going on. And he helped them turn that team around. I mean, let's all be honest, man, Roush is a lot better. They're a lot faster, more competitive than they were two years ago. He's going to help Chip Canassie Racing get back in a competitive situation.

is a guy that can put you in position to win races. And look, we're going to Darlington. He's pretty dang good at Darlington. Yeah, Matt, Matt's also very, you know, he's fast, but he's also very smooth. He's finesse, you know, and he's not, a lot of them, you know, nothing against Larson or whatever, but Larson would still make some mistakes every now and that. Matt doesn't make them mistakes. Matt finishes the deal.

He knows how to get it done. In 2018, like you said, he ran, he was in the Homestead Race, and we were on that last restart, and we were restarting third. I remember looking back there, and Matt Kenseth was in the sixth car, probably a row or two behind us, and we were starting third. So that's pretty impressive for them to be in that scenario, especially the point they were in that year. So he definitely helped that organization, and it might take a little bit of time for you to notice some results from Matt, but you're not going to wreck race cars. You're going to have fast race cars. Matt's going to be smart.

He's going to help you build on what you're working on, and just solid move, solid signing by Chip. Yeah, Matt is the model of consistency. Matt is the reason we have a chase because Matt went out and won a championship without winning a race. So, you know, he's just like you said, he's going to get the best available finish. He's not going to try and do too much with the race car. You know, it's like this is just a home run move for Chip to be able to get this. And then, you know, a lot of people, I think, thought instantly, all right, this is Ross's ride to lose. I mean, you know, this is instantly going to be on his plate.

And I just think that it goes to show you what sponsors are. mean today because Ross has a relationship with this sponsor and Brett could probably talk more to this that you know you don't want to burn a bridge you know he signed a deal with these guys and and he probably could have very easily had this ride maybe if he was willing to you know get out of that exfinity contract and burn a bridge with a sponsor but but you don't want you can't do that this day and age it's tough man I mean yeah he did sign up to run you know obviously for a championship in the Xfinity series and I would say that probably impacted I mean here's that if if you're chip gannasi and you're trying to decide whether or not you want to run for a championship well

Unfortunately, Freddie, every sponsor on that car signed up to run for a championship. Well, obviously, the driver that they signed up to run with, he's gone. To TJ's point, does NASCAR let Matt Kiddens get a pass and run for this championship? Like, you almost want to look at it from a sports perspective and say, I bet they won't. But if you look at it from NASCAR in an industry perspective, I don't know how they can't say no, because they need to clean this whole situation up. It's good for Chip if he can. It's good for their sponsors if he can.

and we need Chip Gannasty racing to stay around. Yeah, it's definitely going to be good if they can, but I understand it both ways. If, you know, that opens a big can of worms as somebody else, you know, I don't know, man, it's a big, I don't know how you handle all that. I think, I think, T.J, looking at it from, like, if we say NASCAR's perspective, the team didn't just fire the driver. And boom, we have this new scenario.

NASCAR had to indefinitely suspend the driver, which was one of the reasons that he ended up, getting fired anyway. He couldn't race. So, like, I think they're going to have to take this in a special account and make a special decision. And I hope for everybody's sake, they let the guy run for a championship. It's a good story. They needed a good story. Yeah. Also, Freddie, when he won that championship, he qualified, like, shoot, he qualified like 30th every week, too. So he didn't win that by just having a super fast car. I know he had good cars then, but he didn't win by having a dominant car every week. Matt Kenseth qualified consistently.

in the second half of the field and still won a championship that year. Here's the thing. If you go look at his stats, half of his starts result and top 10 finishes. So for Chip Ganassi racing right here, for the next 10 weeks, if they don't get five top tens out of that guy, they know they got to go work on their stuff because he is a top 10 driver literally everywhere he goes. Yeah.

I mean, it's a little bit different now. This day and age stuff is a little bit different. But Matt, he's still. I mean, he doesn't, he didn't do that by luck. A plus move. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, solid deal. What is Offerpad?

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First question, the Yellow Line Rule wasn't in place for Sunday's Eye Racing Race at Talladega. Do you think the Yellow Line Rule is still necessary for real, Super Speedway races. T.J. 100%. If you go down there, we need to have an out of balance. I know it's wild if you don't, but we're all too close together now. There's too many cars involved, and somebody, we will have really bad accidents if we open it up all the way down there.

Brett? It's intended to keep bad accidents from happening to T.J.'s point. But with one to go, all bets are off. No out of bounds. I'm sorry. I'm all for it until we throw the white flag. Once we throw the white flag, it's a race. Whoever can get back first wins, boys have at it. That was actually 15 seconds, Jason. I mean, I think it'd be exciting to do that, Brett, but I don't think it's plausible. I think the point is to not have the big reds. We used to not have the yellow line, Freddie. And he used to have gigantic wrecks on the last lap. The whole point is to not get anybody

killed. That's why you can do it in a video game and you can't do it in real life. Question number two. Once fans are allowed back at the track, do you think the threat of coronavirus will continue to impact attendance over the course of the next year? Freddie? Unfortunately, I don't think fans are going to be allowed back until there's some kind of cure or vaccine for it. T.J. It's 100% going to affect it. There's, you know, with all the stuff in place right now, and like Freddie said, we need to have a cure or a vaccine or something for it before we can get elbow to elbow in the stands and stuff. Yeah, it's going to impact for

two reasons. Number one, there's a lot of people out there right now without jobs. And if you don't have a job, you're not going to have the money to come to the track. Number two is consumer confidence. And it's going to take a little while for all of us Americans to have a confidence to travel and to go to events where a large amount of people are going. I mean, if I have free tickets to see Bon Jovi tomorrow night, I don't know if I'd go. Question number three, Rodney Childers tweeted that the number 14 was least ready for a season in 2014 when Kevin Harvick won the championship. Name a season your team outperformed your preseason expectations. Brett.

I've been on a team that underperformed preseason expectations. We went to Harry Scott Racing and we thought we were getting into a good situation where he was going to invest in cars. And man, we were on breaks that were 10 years old. We ran cars that sucked. The only thing good about that whole program was the motors. Other than that, that was the worst year of my life from a competition standpoint. Sorry, I flipped the anger.

but I don't really have a, I don't, like spotters, we don't know when teams are ready or not ready, because we're always ready. Of course you are. Freddie. Probably 2017, Xfinity Series season with Bubba. We were talking about shutting down before the year started. Then we started, ran, we were third in points when the team did shut down because we ran out of money. So we were outperforming our expectations right up until they closed the team down.

I don't remember the year that it was, but we, I think when we went to Hendrick, and we started off pretty successful with Tony Jr. And then we just got into a slide the next couple of years after that were pretty not nearly what we thought they would be. Which part of the NASCAR industry do you think will be impacted most by a busy schedule when racing returns? T.J. I mean, the hotels?

Hotel industry probably? Anything that we do with travel? I'm going to tell you what's going to be the most impacted when we go back racing and it's going to be our vehicles because we're going to have to drive to these races and turn around and drive back home the same day. They don't want us in hotels. They don't want us on airplanes. We don't know how long that's going to last. But for I would say, the foreseeable future, which is May and June, we're going to be racing right around Charlotte. See, he hears it and he still ignores it. Go ahead, Freddie.

You know, in our industry, I think the broadcast, you know, is the, them guys are going to be the most impacted because they are going to do some traveling. They're going to have to have to set stuff up quick. You know, they're only going to have maybe a couple days to get somewhere set up where they used to have a week. So, you know, they're probably up at top my list. Hey, question for you. Does this help drive hotel prices back down

once we get back into it and people can start traveling? I would hope so. It does right until we turn the lights back home. When we travel 3,000 people to one market, we go into Anniston, Alabama, and we're still going to have those same jacked up prices. but the question is, when does that happen? You know, if we try to get a room tonight at a Marriott on I-40 or I-20 or wherever,

I guarantee you it's $97. But when we go, it'll be $350 because our industry takes so many people. To your point, when we go to a place like Indy, though, T.J. That has all those hotel rooms, maybe not. Maybe they're not checked up like they used to be. July 4th weekend, I feel like it might still be. Question number five. If you had to pair one cup driver with a different cup cruxed,

Chief to create a modern dream team. Which driver and crew chief would you pair together to have the most success? Freddie. No matter what, my crew chief is Dale Inman. And if I'm talking old time, old school, I would put him with Tim Richmond. I felt like Dale's a take no shit kind of guy and he could get somebody. Well, he said modern dream team. And if not, then put Bubba Wallace with him.

Dale Inman will get the best at everybody because he don't take no shit. TJ. I felt like we were really, really strong the last couple of years with Joey and Todd. But this was a big surprise in the offseason to me when they switched. But I feel like Paul Wolf and Joey are a really good match. Are you sh-h-me? That's your cut. I said that.

You're picking your team. I did that for the response from you guys. Let's wait to see the reaction. Guess what? We got 25 more weeks or 30 more weeks to see if he's right. We have a 50% winning percentage right now. Just a modern dream team. Wow.

How do you not have Chad Canals as your crew chief and a modern dream team? And you have to pair him with a Kevin Harvick or Kyle Busch. Yeah, TJ, you don't want Chad Canouse and Joey together? That's a good one too. There's a lot of good crew chiefs that are that could just use a change of scenery that are super smart. And, you know, like Chad's obviously are super smart as well. There's a handful of guys out there that could probably use a change scenery. Off the wall question.

Single people are using Tinder to meet and Zoom and FaceTime to interact during quarantine. If you were young and single again and couldn't meet and take a girl on a date in person, which method of communication would you use? Brett. Why is Josh Williams not on the show answering this? Yeah. I mean, I don't know what it's like to be. 20 years old.

I don't know what it's like to have. You sure? Because you act like it. I don't know what it's like to have all these things. Like, I don't do Snapchat. I don't do Instagram. I don't do Tinder. I do FaceTime. Occasionally my mother.

I do text a lot. And I do limited calls. So I guess text. We're all creative. Freddie. It's got to be FaceTime. Because for one, you have to see what these people look like. And two, you got to make sure that.

You don't think their profile pictures are real? No, not a chance. You got to make sure they're not an idiot. They could actually hold a conversation. You guys would be the people that would put the face pictures up there. Hot chicks don't have to be able to talk, Freddie. My Tinder profile has Brett's picture on it. I think...

No one of your battery goes down on your phone all the time. I think it depends on, I mean, FaceTime kind of ruined catfishing, didn't it? Yeah. That poor guy lost his girlfriend. What was his name? Man Taita. Yeah, what a day. idiot. So I think it depends on what you're trying to do. FaceTime is easily the top,

just find out who you are. But I think, you know, I guess Tinder, I don't really think Tinder is made for dating. Can you imagine being the best football player on the Notre Dame football team and getting on national television and saying that your girlfriend died when A, she wasn't even real? And B, she was never your girlfriend if she was never real. And B, she was never real. I see, you ain't never seen this chick. How can you be that stupid? Take it easy. Maybe she was real until the power went out. The internet went out. I don't know.

Maybe he got catfish and just went with it. He did. That's what happened. He got catfish. And he had no idea. And then they told her, they told whoever was catfishing and told her, told him that she died. So then when she died, then everybody started looking into it. They're like, no, she's not real. He might have should have looked into that a little bit more. Poor kid.

She matched me in that. Stupid. Surely the guy that's running the damn football team could pick up women on campus. How do you have a girlfriend? That's my point. He's an idiot. He should have FaceTime. Should have?

Was FaceTime out yet? Yeah. Yeah, probably. How can you be that stupid? That's just stupid anyway. Sorry. Man, loved her. True love.

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Oh, I don't blame me. Not doing it. Ask DBC. Send in your questions 24-7 on Twitter using the hashtag AskDBC. First question is from Brannon 87. saw where Denny's daughter cut off his screen during the day go race. Have you or someone else's kid ever accidentally messed you up in a situation like that? I'm going to say you, Brett.

Man, I don't think so. I'm sitting here trying to think back of when a kid's mess me up with something that was serious. What about when you were a kid? You're playing excite bike or something and mom watched in front of the TV and you missed that jump. I don't know. something like that. Man, I don't know. I felt bad for Denny's daughter

because you could see the look on her face, which was, I did that. Like, she didn't want to say I did that, but she knew whatever she did, which obviously was press that button. When it went blank and he said something, you can see on her face, she was like, oh, that's 100% my fault.

I don't understand why he couldn't just turn the TV back on and get back going, though. Because he was already wrecked. He wrecked, like, as soon as it happened. Oh. You know, it's awesome. It's awesome if you're not rich and you don't use TVs for your monitors.

You just have a monitor. They don't come on remotes. So they thought Denny was trying to get a new computer set up, and they thought it was overheating. But I watched the video, and the two side screens are still on. So I know he's got, the computer's not overheating. But when that video came out, that look on her face where she turned around was pretty much priceless.

But I think, yeah, I've probably yelled at, my wife, my kids, you know, you're playing mad or something, they walk in front of the TV right at the right time, you throw the ball to the wrong receiver or something, and you just blame them, even though it was probably going to happen anyway. But, no, so we were passing, we were behind Denny when he started doing that, and when the modern went blank, he went up top, I think, hit the wall a bit, came back down all the way to the flat, went off turn four, hit the wall again,

and then went down like he was trying to get to pit road, and went out in the grass and spun out and everything. So pretty entertaining moment. Then they kicked him out of the server. So I obviously don't have any kids, so you can't have anything there. But when I was a kid, my dad was a figure 8 racer. And he was pretty good. And we didn't have a lot of money.

So we kind of depended on that. Like that was kind of a source of income for us. And they had some high paying races. We were living in Florida. And we were racing at High Leia Speedway. And they only came there once a month. It was like $1,500 to win, which is pretty big money for a figure eight division. So I used to play baseball all the time when I was a kid.

You know, that's all I did at home. So I had these, like, little rubber balls that I would throw up against the wall. And my dad's race car was out there on the trailer. And whatever, you know, I bounced off the wall. Well, one day I lost my ball. I didn't know where it went. And we're at the racetrack a couple days later. My dad's checked out leading.

Going to win. It's like two to go. And just comes off the last corner and spins out. Like all by himself, just wide open, spun out. I'm like, that was weird. What the, what happened there? Turns out the baseball went in the race car and got, I guess it was rolling around and by his feet the whole race and got wedged under the gas pedal coming to the white flag and spun out

and cost them $1,500. And I was, when I got to the pits, my dad was just tossing the ball up in the air, like catching it. He's like, what's up? I was like, oh, where'd that come from? I think I lost that last week. He's like, yeah, I found it. Thanks a lot. Costs him all kind of money. Good job. So, so dad was not happy with me that day. Who just turned on their Nintendo? These headphones I got on, you can't hear nothing. They completely kill all the noise. You can't hear nothing to begin with.

I don't know. If Brett opens, just for reference for fans and even you guys, if Brett, for some reason when Brett looks at his phone or if I guess maybe his iPad works the same way, his ears shut off. I don't know if you guys have known this, but like if Brett's looking at his phone or iPad or whatever, he has no sense of hearing whatsoever.

No, that has the same issue. I think it's a health problem. If I say something? That's selective hearing with you, Casey. Yeah, that is 100% selective hearing. What did you say, Casey? Fine. Next question is from Real J. Murphy.

If NASCAR went back racing tomorrow but was restricted to racing in only one state, which one would you pick? T.J. Were you talking? Okay, Chad. Any state, no rules. Which state has the best race tracks? to go racing at. Oh, man.

There's so many, so many tracks. I mean, there's only one, like, I don't know. Well, that's helpful. Probably North Carolina. Yeah, I mean, you got Rockingham, North Wilkesboro, even though we don't race there anymore. But Virginia's got a lot with South Boston, Martinsville. It's got a handful of tracks up there.

South Carolina's got Darlington of Merton, Moldo Beach. South Carolina, we're going to Myrtle Beach. Yes. Yeah. You finally said it. South Carolina is the answer. There's no other, there's not even a second place in this contest. Mertl Beach, South Carolina, the state of South Carolina takes it. Look at this Carolina freaking shirt on the wall behind me. We're going to South Carolina. I'm excited. I'm not going to South Carolina ever again. That's because you can't. You're prohibited.

It says no Freddie Kraft allowed in the state of South Carolina. How are you guys going to survive going to the track if there isn't a bar open to go to? we bring our own we're going to tailgate six feet apart after the race and somebody's got to come pick us up yeah I'm surprised

who there's won't open specifically for you guys since you all are probably like top customers so how many of them are getting a t-shirt all of them we should give them all all two of them

Freddie did you pick a state you worked on that segment kind of North Carolina I think North Carolina's got the best variety of tracks is ace speed way of North Carolina is it in Virginia. Ace is North Carolina. That's what I thought.

South Carolina needs a good road course. We got one in Kershaw, bro. Kershaw, South Carolina's got a phenomenal road course. Really? Something is so great. We've been there. How many times? Well, we can't go there to race, but we teams used to go there to test. It's an awesome road course. People used to go there

and, yeah. But they need a good, like, I don't know, like a limerock park type deal with some hills and stuff, but there's not a lot of hills in North Carolina, is there? I'll tell you what. No, there's not a lot of hills. And you get on the west side of the state.

But, man, talk about a pretty road course. VIR is as pretty a road course as you'll ever see. That is a beautiful place. I don't know if everybody listens has ever been there. But, man, if you get a chance to go to VIR, it is awesome. The track itself is a little sketchy, but a great area. Beautiful. So we've talked about this, and Sonoma is probably on the going to get cut list,

I would think just for the fact that, you know, California, Watkins Glen maybe also as far as New York. And that sucks for Watkins Glenn because where Watkins Glenn is at, I don't think is a hot spot, but because New York City is in New York State, if New York State isn't opening up these large venues of people, then a town like Watkins Glenn is going to suffer. I don't think that's right.

No, they talked about, there was a press conference that I heard where they said that parts of like upstate New York would open or, than the city. So I feel like they might make some... Concessions. Yeah, we'll see how it goes. But yes, that is a thought. So if we're going to replace these road courses,

do you think we do it with just, you know, whatever we can get overwise? Or do you think we go to a place like VIR or Mid-O-Hio or something that's not crazy out of the way driving to? But, you know, do you think we want to replace a road course with a road course? I ideally want to replace a road course with a road course. and we know that we can go to Road Atlanta, right? I mean, Georgia's going to be open.

We know that we can go to the one in Kershaw. We're not letting fans come anyway. I mean, the hard part for us is we don't have, if we're not practicing, how do we let cup guys go to a place? They've never been with no practice on a track they've never had practice on. So, man, I think that we're getting ready to see desperate times, call for desperate measures, and it's going to be we race wherever we can race to get in the number of events that we need to get in

to complete a full regular season, and then be ready for our championship run, you know, our playoff. And the reality is we either need a vaccination or B, we need a cure and we need those things to happen for everybody in this whole freaking world, not just our sport. But until then, man, I think we're right. Freddie, who knows?

I think they're going to drop back and punt and play it literally just almost week by week. I don't know. I think it's easier said than done, honestly, to go to a track that doesn't, isn't currently on the circuit, you know, when it comes to sponsors, when it comes to safety measures. I mean, there's probably a ton of planning that NASCAR has to put forth before they go to any track for the first time. So I don't know that I would see that happen, but, I mean, I think the thought of it would be cool.

I guess we'll find out soon. Well, let's see what's coming up this week on our second favorite podcast, The Dale Jr. Download. This week on the Dale Jr. Download. He was 20 years old when he won the championship as a crew chief with my dad. We have Doug Richard on to tell us about his crazy journey. The Dell Jr. download, available on major podcast platforms. Dirty Mo!

Well, what are we going to rant about? What Chad do wrong on this week? I got to rant. Go for it. TJ, how many of these replacement races are you going to give away before you win one? I mean, we're trying to get some notoriety around here, and you just keep giving away replacement wins. Well, yeah, I probably should have won Myrtlebee.

Beach. Second time I'll say it in the show. Probably should have won Myrtle Beach. Did you choke? Well, I worked out a plan with the guy in my mirror to get a push on a restart, and I didn't know how many cars were lined up behind him and how many were on the bottom, and I cleared both lanes on the restart, green-white checker. And I went down to the bottom, got a low push,

and I came back up to help him out and get a push from him, and he had zero cars behind him, and there were about five of them lined up on the bottom. So you pretty much know what's going to happen. there. So you did show. I went with the wrong lane. I can tell you it was his birthday, but Frank Denny was spot for me, so I'll blame him. No, I should have, we talked about work. We talked about under the yellow and we were going to work with each other and it didn't work out. We stayed too loyal to Dale Jr. is what happened. He could say. If I would have went,

if I had stayed on the bottom, it would have been really hard like usual to get around the 22. I'll make up for it at Phoenix coming up. We'll see. I probably choke there too. So what's the plan now? Are they planning on eye racing again this week or they haven't said yet? I don't know. We don't have a race in our deal until a week from tomorrow, which will be Phoenix.

And I think your boy is going to be with us. Maybe you want to go in any spot for him. Elliot's going to be joint. Elliot's going to be coming in there. Oh, you're letting them waste? I heard you shut them down the first couple of years. Well, yeah, let's be honest. Let's talk about that.

The first week that Elliott wanted to race with y'all, you said he couldn't. Yeah, well, we had some spots open up, and Elliot was on the list. We've had a long list of people wanting to join that league from the very beginning. I think it's funny. If I were the race promoter, I would want an Elliott Sadler over there instead of some dude I'd never heard of. Like, there are all these dudes in your thing I've never heard of. I'm like, nobody's going to watch this guy. that was running second.

I can't even remember his name. Like, nobody's even ever heard of this guy. Get your big names in there there, Mr. Race Promoter. Well, I mean, I know everyone in that league pretty much. Yeah, how can you not know most of those people? Most of those people have a pretty substantial background in sim racing or something or anywhere. I mean, we've got a, I think we have another guy that's going to be coming in there. I think Mike Clay, an NFL reporter, is going to be coming in there and running with us, too.

but you know I wanted to get Elliott in but it's hard to tell all them guys that have been committed to it and said hey yeah we'll run I want to keep running you know it's hard for me to go and say hey when Bubba when Bubba hung up at sim racing stuff for a little bit that opened up a spot so you know it's nice to it's nice you know we got a little room so I got Elliott in there and it should be pretty good man I'm looking forward to to here and how Elliott likes the street stock at Phoenix I want to get my Put me on the end of the list So by the time I get there I might be good enough to race Well don't your brother race or something Then you say Yeah I've been on there

I've been doing it Perfect I've been getting in there I like the street stocks There's just slow enough For me not to wreck every lap They're just fun You can beat and banging them a little bit more

And it's just a fun car to drive It doesn't have a ton of horsepower and stuff It's a little sketchy for a couple laps Because it's a little tire pressure But it puts on a good race Y'all got any big plans this week Anybody know anything fun I'm trying to get this

I got a travel agent working on getting me a trip but he is slacking badly I got a trip to where anywhere anywhere once you and your wife once you cut your wife

to call mine and she'll play on your trip to Disney when it opens up I don't know about Disney I'm just trying to go to a house that's near a beach or a pool and hang out with the only person

I've seen during quarantine and he is slacking I don't know I gotta find us somewhere we gotta get away yeah I'm gonna fire up my traeger later this week

maybe use it so I want to go on a trip so bad like we're supposed to do a baby moon I was supposed to do a trip for my 30th birthday so that's two trips that What is a baby moon? Are you serious? No it's a like a trip

that you go to with your significant other before the baby comes Honestly I would take any excuse to go on vacation That is the most millennial thing I may have ever heard And I don't care if it means that I get to go to a beach then I'm going to soak it up as much as I possibly can. Can you imagine what a baby moon would look like for me and you, Brett? Like our wives are divorced us because they can't drink and we can.

Forget about it. It's over. Oh my gosh. I just want to get a new. I did not know that exists. A baby moon? It is very popular. And I was supposed to do a trip for my 30th birthday and I didn't even get to do that. How many baby moons did you have before the baby already?

It sounds like plenty. No, dirt tracks do not count. I have not gone on a vacation with Chad. What about that four seasons you were at last year, a couple different times? That was Chad's family vacation. That was somebody else's idea. Oh, that was baby conceived date. Oh, my bad.

That wasn't the little cap. It was not. Baby moon is the lamest thing I have ever heard of it in my life. I don't even care. I don't care what you say. It just means that I get to go a vacation and I can't now. I'm going on a racing moon. I want to go on a racing moon.

That's a vacation before we got to go back racing. Yeah. Can we have another moment for Chad? Oh my gosh. You guys think he's horrible. He has an irasing simulator in our living room. I think he's doing just fine. Yeah.

Why don't you let him have a baby moon with that thing? He gets it every night. Oh, lucky him. There's the irasing simulator. Obviously he does. The irasing simulator. All right. It's been fun chatting with you guys.

Sounds like y'all all have an exciting week. Getting it every night. Chat's home. He's getting it. He's at the shop. Let me know on. All right, well, I'm over this. Thanks, guys.

I hope you all. Let's all take turns FaceTime and Casey later about 20 minutes apart. Makes him she's getting it. It's eye racing. That is what he's doing every night. Getting. Get it. And it's his birthday week, so it means he'll be racing even more.

Oh, my gosh. Okay, I need to stop talking. We've got to ask Chad some questions. I can ask him about his birthday, birthday week yeah birthday movie he's purposely

never coming on this show all right well thank you guys so much for listening hope you all are hanging she wants out of here yes I do

I keep saying dumb stuff because I haven't had coffee yet all right anyways good luck with your construction Brett

thanks Freddie good luck with your beard's got a damn club going on over there it sounds like yeah he's getting he's getting ready to play the edge box well the dogs are over here

fighting on the couch potty's playing X this is my office this is my office by the way. This is where I conduct business, and this is what I have going on right now. I mean, this is, I don't know. I got to start running a tighter ship around here. Yeah, right. Just try a better color for them walls.

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