Door Bumper Clear - 19 - Surprises at Pocono, Garage Fights, and Mr. Michigan

Episode Date: June 7, 2016

Brett, TJ, and KB discuss the weekend in Pocono, giving drivers nicknames, and Michigan predictions. 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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Hey, everybody. I am T.J. Majors, Spotter the 88 Cup car, 7XFinity, and the 2.0 29 truck and joining me today. Spotter Brett. This podcast is brought to you by one main. I spot for Elliot Sadler and Clint Boyer and our lovely co-host. Hey guys, it's KB. What's up, KB? We are here in the Exalta Studios.

Ketka. We, Exalta has given their website, Exaltor Racing.com, a fresh coat of paint, if you will. Oh, nice. To get all the latest news, photos, and the schedule for Dale's Exaltah 88, head over to exaltor racing.com. There's photo galleries, schedules for all the races, and race reports with all the info that you want. They almost paid out $88,000 yesterday.

That was close. We almost spent a lot of Exaltors money yesterday. So, yeah, Monday. We got to blame somebody. Man, who do we blame for somebody not winning? Do we blame you? I think we just blame Josh. We do have that hashtag blame producer, gosh.

I should as well. I don't know. blame Chase Elliott? Just blame Mike Davis. We gotta blame somebody. Some fan was going to win $88,000. Yeah. I mean, it was pretty good a chance

they were going to get $88,000. So I don't know. We should blame TJ. He's a spotter. You can blame me. I don't care. So those spotters are. They're also...

Skate goats. Yeah. You know. Like last polka, oh, Chris, why did you stop spotting for him? I mean, it's in his front windshield, buddy. You can go around.

Last I checked, they were clear. You can see through them. Yeah. So that happened with Sam Hornish. It was a cool promotion. Good for Exaltza. Hate that TJ screwed it up for a fan. I completely bone.

Whoever's name was getting pulled out of that hat. I am sorry. My favorite thing about TJ's point is, like a spotter can say 99 sentences that are positive and perfect through a race. And the broadcast will never play any of them. And the one time that the spotter gets jumped on or screamed at, TV is like, oh, let's throw this guy under the bus and make him look like a... And, you know, some of them clips they do when they ask, like on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, they don't do the whole deal. No. They make it how they want to sound.

They'll even move it around a little bit to a better part. That's the weird thing is they don't overlap the audio and the video at all times. If it's delayed or if it's in a different part, it makes us look like idiots. Yeah, and it's not real fair. Which I don't care what I look like. So I'm good at it. I'm good at it. I'm game.

It's just not real fair to, you know, people doing their job for you to. cut a clip at one point and you use it at another point just to make it interesting for your Steve for your show. It's the media. This is not condescending, I promise, but this will be one of my favorite spotter clips ever was last year at Pocono when T.L. Jr. said, T.J. was that guy inside? T.J. says, hell, I don't know. That's like a mile away from me. Yeah, that happened.

I mean, but how hard is it a spot at Pocono, man? You tell them before every race, look, when you get past you into Pitt Road, we can't tell depth perception. You can't tell. And you really cannot tell. It's harder there than it is, Talladega and stuff. It's way harder. It's our hardest track.

It is. Into turn one. And I tell him for every race. And apparently there was a car there. And he comes down there and is like, oh, was there a car down there? I'm like, I don't know. You're a mile away. I told Clint yesterday before the race, I said, hey, man, just a general reminder,

I'm not much helping turn one. He said, oh, so that's your way of saying whatever happens down there is not your fault. I said for the next 400 miles, absolutely. Yep. I told Del Jr., I'm like, from this point right here, and it was almost into pit road, until right when they turn off the wall, when you can tell where they're at.

I'm like, from there to right about here, I'm pretty much useless. Twice yesterday, I couldn't find my car, literally, because they go off in a one, four, and five wide, and I'm like, okay, they're turning left, and I'm like, still can't find him. When it's sunny out, too, as you see a lot of glare off the back windshields,

and that pretty much erases any of the colors. and stuff around it, so you can't even tell, which, and most of them, a lot of them have the same colored back bumper, so you can't even tell where your car's at half the time. And I mean, to continue this, the tunnel turn is awesome the way we have, we have a great angle on it, but it's a mile away from you too. And they got that big American flag block and half of the long pond straightaway. Turn three is not an easy corner to clear them off of either. Like, it is a tough place to do our job. It is tough. Would it help you guys to have, you know, how they have two spotters and indie for them to. I would rather.

erect another spotter stand? Yeah, yeah, it's, it's, if. Or just rely more on the car and crew chiefs. If you had a former spotter that understood exactly what his responsibility was and could fill that void for that four seconds that we need help, it would be okay. But the odds of that happening or you'd have some clown on the radio talking when you didn't need to be. You would have to put, if you, the ideal place would be on the back stretch right outside the tunnel turn. Yeah.

And then he could spot on across at us in a turn, you know, out of turn. three and in a one yeah yeah so that'd be the ideal but it's still a long ways away yeah and you'd have to put them up i've always said if i own polka no raceway i would tear the grandstands down put them in the tunnel turn move start finished to right smack dab in the middle of the tunnel turn because the fans are located where there's other than restarts not a lot going on you know if you look at the tunnel turn they go through their two and three wide the fans are a mile and a half away from there i put the fans right on top of the tunnel turn yeah we don't have many accidents on the front straight away either. No. Never really. Turn one in the tunnel turn, really. The corners. And they can't see either

one of those. Great. I'm really surprised there's not a small grandstand outside of three or outside of one. Yeah. Something, even small one. They do have the prettiest tunnel entrance in NASCAR though. They do. Oh, it did you leave through the tunnel? Or did you go out to the tunnel? Yeah, don't go on the backstretch. Bad. Yeah, you go out of the backstretch. They tell all the crew people and all that to go out on the racetrack and we cut off this wall on the back stretch. Yeah. You make a right and go right back towards the tunnel. They held us for probably 20 minutes before.

They let tunnel empty out. Yeah, I went out through the tunnel. Man, it was bad. It's like, oh, here you guys, we're going to cut your break and get you out here right here. And then we're going to hold you right here. Yeah, thanks for coming. Yeah. Now we're going to wiggle and stay a little longer.

There was a traffic, a police officer out there that he was being very forceful. Yeah. Like guys that swap lanes coming out of the tunnel. Slang word for asshole. Basically. They'd be in the right lane and have to turn left. And they would cut, or the left lane half turn right, and they'd try to cut through the cones. He actually made a team van that cut through it, come back out and go left and set it right.

I love policemen. I know they'd keep us safe. But when it comes to traffic, they can screw up a two-car funeral. Those guys, like, get back in your car, eat a donut, drink some coffee. We got this out here, right? We don't need to help. Sometimes I think it would flow better with just letting it go. Yeah, just let it go.

Let it go. Let it go. All right. So, that's not a beautiful. Sheber song. No, that's Elsa. That is Elsa. You like Elsa?

Elsa's hot. Yeah. Do you like Elsa or Anna better? Blonde. I don't know. I feel like Elsa. I feel like Elsa's a little on age. You guys don't like redheads?

I mean, I'd probably take Anna. Okay. Elsa's just, she's... Double-dain. She just looks like she's a handful. Maine. I'm mad at you. You're froze.

She looks mean. She does look a little mean. She's hot. Yeah. Anna's like, chill, relax. Like, probably have a good time. Brett likes to be bossed around. Yeah

Yeah, that's my personality Just do whatever you tell me Do you have any idea What we're talking about? Yeah, present Okay Well, I mean, me, we know we got kids, so Yeah

I have nine nieces and nephews Spot on, spot off Kurt Busch wins on fuel mileage TJ Spot on me Pocono's a fuel mileage race Anywhere where you can pit Anywhere where you can pit

And now lose a lap Can be a fuel mileage race So, I mean, he did what he had to do. His wins definitely spot on. You know, I'm not so sure this was a real fuel mileage race, though. I perceive a fuel mileage race to be when the leaders start running out of gas and you truly get that drama of who's going to be the next one that can make it. I think we had a couple guys run out, but I'm not sure this was a full-bomb fuel mileage race.

I think Pocono put on one of the better shows I've ever seen for a cup race. And the Xfinity race, we had a lot of drama, too, because it was rain shortened. So hats off to Pocono for a good weekend. I'm sure it was, did you watch on TV the ending? Yeah, we watched the last 30 races. It was probably pretty dramatic. It was. We were all.

We were short to begin with. And they kept redoing the math. And finally, with them cautious, we were right at it. I mean, we were right at it. And the 41 was two lap short. Yeah. And they're telling him to lift early on the straightaways and all this stuff. And he's trying to win the race still.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was a field mileage race to me because everybody, he was supposed to run out. We were trying to pressure him. There was a lot going on those last. That last run was all, the whole, the whole, was like that the whole time. Spot on, spot off. Tony Stewart's luck in 2016.

Man, spot off. His luck has been crap. I feel like he's had faster cars, but I just, man, I wonder about his confidence, you know. I mean, everybody says this isn't the same Tony because the old Tony was the best guy to ever sit in a race car,

in my opinion, in terms of all of racing, not just NASCAR. This guy's a wheelman, so to see him struggle like this is bad. You have to wonder if he's, wanting to hit the fast forward button and be retired or if he's truly trying to reestablish himself and gain some energy to make this chase yeah it's it's spot out he's got terrible luck although i do think as soon as he breaks through tony's one of them guys as soon as he breaks through

he got hot man yeah like he won that championship he got real hot so and he said before that championship run i don't deserve to be in the chase and then he wouldn't won the championship he won half the races yeah in the chase but he didn't do that man i mean he come in in 99 when he got here, like he'd get hot in the summer and he'd go win four or five races. You know, it'd get hot, slick, and he'd wear your ass out. So we may see that guy again. He could easily win next week and win the next three out of five races. Yeah. You never know with him. But he's got the ability and talent to do it. He's got to get his mojo back. Yeah. Spot on, spot off. Chase Elliott leads 51 laps at Pocono. Spot on. I mean, that's a rookie

leading laps. He's won there before, though, in an arc of car. So he knows his way around that place. But, I mean, Chase and Blaney are the real deal. They're going to be here for a long time, and you need to get used to seeing them because they're going to be around. For sure, spot on. I think we haven't seen a rookie come in and do this well at Poconos since Denny Hamlin did it. Or in general, in a season. In its season. And, I mean, Chase Elliott is running better than Jeff Gordon ran last year in his car with his crew and his crew chief every single week. So for me to say, and some sort of an analogy here that Chase Elliott is better than Jeff Gordon.

That's a big statement. Yeah. And come in, what I like about Chase is he's just decently fast in practice. You know, he's not top of the charts. He's not the greatest. He doesn't seem to qualify the best yet. But man, halfway through that race, here he comes. He just slowly works his way up.

And at TJ's point, a lot of what struggles are as a rookie, it's not that you aren't a good driver. It's not that you can't go fast. It's you don't know what feel to look for during practice on Saturday to make it translate to speed on Sunday. Whatever Chase Elliott and Allen are doing, they're figuring that out and figuring it out everywhere we go. And he was really aggressive yesterday, especially with Kyle Bush.

He's definitely very aggressive. Kyle's saying, you know, I'll remember that. Like, come on. Did he wreck Kyle? He didn't know. Did you see what happened? I was watching it when that happened. I saw somebody wrecked Kyle.

Somebody made it three wide around now. No, this was a-oh. Okay. Kyle actually ran Chase down for the lead. Okay. And Kyle got to him entering turn three, and instead of just going in on the bottom, Chase went in under the second groove, and Kyle drove underneath him. He left it open. Yep.

Purposely. Yep. And when he got to the middle, Chase is back in the gas coming down the racetrack, pinching him down there so he can get a better run off. Yeah. Kyle's down there, and I guess just assumed that he was just going to give up the position. Yeah. And Chase passed him back for the lead. And Kyle got out of shape and got past by the 20, and Chase kept the lead for a while.

Yeah. So, and I don't think Kyle liked that, but I don't know. Kyle is just a big cry. baby anyways. Well, here's the thing. We struggle. We said this a couple weeks ago. Quit being buddies in the motorhome lot and race. That's racing. Yeah. Even like we talked about earlier before the show, like racing for the win at the end of the race. Chase tried to get us up out of the track in the tunnel turn. I mean, I don't blame him for trying. He's trying to win the race. Yeah. And, you know,

and it eventually cost us both a spot because the 41 got around him and then got a run on us and was able to get around us. But he thought that was his chance to win the race. Yeah. And he didn't wreck us. He did with us. He did with us. he had to do. He's aggressive. I mean, I like it, but you just got to be careful with that, because there's a, there is a fine line, there's an edge where you don't want to cross, and you don't want to become, you don't want to become a, you don't want all them veterans looking at you like, whoa, this kid needs to calm down. Yeah. But I mean, he's not, because then they'll calm him down. Yeah, they will, but he's not wrecking people.

He's racing hard. I like watching him. He's a blast to watch them. I agree. Spot on, spot off. Kyle Larson wins inaugural, uh, Xfinity race at Pocono on the rainout. man Kyle Larson's had one coming whether it was going to be an Xfinity or a cup he's had a win coming so I'm going to say spot on

and I'm going to say spot on for this reason it wasn't a Toyota because they were dominant they were dominant on Thursday in testing they were dominant in qualifying they were stupid faster in the race so I honestly felt like to some degree

it was going to be a Toyota day and I think Kyle Larson rained on their parade and he did it by having the right strategy and being in the right place with the right time. Yeah, I mean, spot on, you take them, you don't ever, if you get the win, it doesn't matter how you get it. Now, they're not, these races are not easy to win. So spot on, I mean, if you won about fuel mileage, rain, however you win it, you're in the right spot when that checker flag flies.

We were talking about something, me and some buddies this weekend. You're Kyle Larson, you're at Dover, you have a chance to win your first cup race, you choose not to rough mat up. to win. You know, do you rough Matt up if he already has a win and he's locked in the chase? Or do you not rough Matt Matt Lugano thing and you don't want him to turn your head on on the wall next week? Like, you know, like you've seen this guy almost have a chance to win to go in the media center and really just kind of be like, well, I want to win my first one clean and I don't really want to be a rivalry. We need you to win and we need a rivalry. So like step up and do something. There's a way to do it as well. There's a way to,

to rough somebody up without destroying their race. If you move the guy off the track a little bit to pass them. Yeah, you can do the bump and run like the Lerunhart did to tear Le Bonney at Bristol. Yeah. Just a real nice, easy way. We don't need a guy to ride second because he wants to win his first race clean. We need a guy. I'm not saying going there and head out on the guy on the wall,

but you need to go in there win. Try to win. You're paid to win races, you know? Take a quick break of one main. We'll be right back. This is Elliot Sattler, driving one main Chevrolet for J.R. photosports. My number one Chevy is heading all over the country this year, hosting events at different one main branches throughout the season. There's food, giveaways, and lots of photo

opportunities. Hey, did I mention food? Head on over to one main racing.com for all the upcoming shows, dates, and info from the event. All right, guys, we're heading into Fast Lane. And if you've never listened before, brief rundown of what it is, I'm going to give TJ and Brett a topic to debate. And I'm going to alternate who responds first. Each gets 30 seconds to voice their opinion. This should be fun. And then the person who responded first gets a 30 second rebuttal. So let's go. Bright, you're up first. Okay. The number two team was penalized yesterday for unapproved changes to the body. Jackman put his body weight into the side of the car. And it led to comments from Jeff Gordon in the booth and Brad Kay after the race. Do you think this was on purpose to create

more down force or just a mistake? No, it's a strategy. Teams have been doing this for a while. NASCAR started cracking down on it. You know, the Jackman will literally slam the side of the car. to the point that they can alarm the driver in the car if the driver's not ready for it, because it's a loud boom, and it takes and it flares out the fender, which creates more side force, creates more downforce, it gives them more grip, it gives them the ability to have more to lean on. The two car was cheating intentionally yesterday and got caught. Yeah, like he said, it's not the first time.

It happens every race at some point. I mean, whether they hit it, and he just happened to catch the eye of NASCAR when he hit it. I mean, I saw the replay, and he did hit it really hard. He door slam it? He did it. He did hit it pretty hard. So I don't, and this happened earlier at Kansas with McMurray. Yep.

McMurray actually came down pit road. Charlotte. The side window out. No, it was Kansas. Yeah. They took the side window out and had to fix it. Yeah. And they lost two or three lapses, basically ruined their race.

So NASCAR, it's good to see them police stuff like this and hopefully they continue. Jeff Gordon made the analogy of he did the same thing at Vegas and got a penalty. Jeff Gordon was wrong in his comment there. But Brad Casalowski's. team did do this in Vegas and he did win the race. Did this help him win the race? Absolutely. They weren't cracking down on it now. Now they are. And then Brad made some comments. Jeff doesn't need to be on TV because he owns part of the 48. Yeah, Jeff needs to be on TV. He's won multiple championships, Daytona 500s, Brickyard 400s. We don't need your buddy Parker

Klingerman in the booth. No, I like Jeff in there. Even if he is a little bit biased or whatever, he's a fresh perspective of what's out of the car. Yes, agree. There was a lot of talk on the broadcast about teams being short on fuel towards the end of the cup race. Only one car, KC. Mears, ran out. How easy or hard is it to still be competitive, but also save fuel, save fuel aggressively? It's hard, especially when you're in the top three and racing for a win. You're trying to push, if you're second like us, you're trying to run the other guy out,

but you're also trying not to run yourself out. So some drivers are better at it, and I don't know exactly what we ended the race with in our tank, but I know the 41 was a lot shorter than we were, and he ended up making it as well. but there's a thing these guys can do. And, you know, apparently everyone did it good yesterday. Yeah, I mean, when you look at saving fuel, you can lift a lot earlier, you know, getting in the corner. You can gradually get back to the gas.

You can turn your car off when you're on the straightaway, literally in coast. And before you get to the corner, fire it back up. What? Yep. So these guys have a lot of different ways to save fuel. If you're going to try in advance, you can't save a lot of fuel. It's just the way it is. You know, so when you look at those guys passing each other, they're not.

not saving a lot of fuel. The guys being past R. Yeah, I don't, there's just... Did you do the truck race at Charlotte? No. No, you didn't do it at Charlotte. So we finished fourth in this truck race at Charlotte. We weren't even close to running top five.

Right. And we took an 18th place truck at that point. We run fourth with it. Yeah. And all we did was ride around half throttle, and we almost got laughed. And the 88 crafton actually had to pit. Yeah. As soon as he pitted, we backed it up even more.

We literally rode around half throttle and made it and finished fourth. Yeah. It can work. Yeah. This is one of my favorites because we were there for it. Ryan Seek and Ryan Reed and their teams fought in the garage after a wreck involving the two of Pocono. Seek commented everywhere he goes, it seems like he is always in a wreck. Money can't buy skill.

Our fights good for the sport. That was class. It was great. Hell yes, fights are good for the sport. It's the only reason people even watch hockey. So yes, they're good. Did you see the Ancar camera of Ryan Seek coming in and swinging at Ryan. at Ryan Reed.

First of all, what a wussy swing that was. Second of all, if he missed, Ryan Reed should have knocked him out. So the fight could have been a little bit better, but this started back in Charlotte when Ryan Reed raced Ryan Seag a little too hard.

And, you know, so this rivalry's building, two Ryans. Ding, ding, ding. I don't know what that noise was. Good job, Kristen. Yeah, so these, they should just let these two dudes go for a few minutes. Yeah.

I mean, they're not like ones outrously. It's not, you know, not a heavyweight versus lightway here. Yeah. Give them 30 seconds. See what happens. 30 seconds. A long time to fight, man.

Did you hear about the two crews? Uh-uh. Somebody, a reporter asked like, hey, where were all your guys at? And Ryan's like, or Sieg's like, those are all my guys, all five of them. I guess there's like 20 Rauch guys there. Man, I love to see a good fight. NASCAR has come in now, though, and said, hey, driver against driver, we're okay. Crew guys, you better not touch a driver.

Matter of fact, don't even wink at a driver or we'll kick your ass out of here. So we as crew guys have to be very careful not to let those emotions overcome us and make stupid mistakes. Which is fair. Which is semi-fair. You shouldn't have a jack-man hitting anybody. You know, you shouldn't have a jack-man coming in there and hit. So we got a pair of the jack-man against the jack-man. Yeah, or a pit-crew versus pit-crew.

Yeah. You know, that's what we did at Phoenix. That's what we did at Phoenix. It was the 15 team against Jeff Gordon's team. And quite frankly, Gordon's team, well, like I'm a bunch of it. bunch of wimps. Like our guys were destroying them dudes. RPR rep on the 88. And that's the difference in a bunch of country guys fighting a bunch of muscle milk

drinkers because the country guys were kicking their ass. Yeah, I'll take redneck over gym any day. I'm talking about Jim, GY, I'm not J-I-M. RPR girl on the 88 texted all of us and she said he needs to fight like a man and take it to the middle of the garage. We can all watch. Yeah. It was such a wood.

So did y'all actually get to see some of this? Kelsey did. Kelsey did. Did you see any of this? I didn't. No. She was giving us play-by-play in our group text. Why does she not video?

That's a good question. She had Bowman, so she was trying to keep him. There's some gas man and Jackman in this garage that are 6-8, 320-d-downs. They're huge. Nah, I don't want them dudes hitting me ever. That's what I'm saying. Ever. It needs to be pit-crew, pit-crew, driver.

Driver. The henture boys who pit our cars landed. He's like, he's got to be like 6-7. He's massive. I feel safe all the time, but he's huge. There's some big dudes. All right. There are 12 races left before the chase begins,

and nine drivers have locked themselves into it so far. Who do you think will be the next to be locked in with a win? T.J. Oh, boy. I don't know. I feel like the 88's making ground here lately, and I feel like we're going to some of our, one of our better tracks,

so I feel like we could be on edge here. Kurt ran, Kurt won Michigan last time. We finished second to them. We should have won that one as well, but we might have got arguably the best restart of our life, that race. I'll go 88

We had our best being Clint had his best car this weekend We were going to run top 15 We hit the drain missing a wreck I turn one And we literally hit the drain And we jump like a dune buggy And it destroys the car

We still finish 17th with it We've had a lot of break issues If they can get our break issues Figured out Clint is extremely talented And a very good driver at Sonoma So I'm going to take my guy Sonoma

Side Eye Did you drink this morning Because we want to Aquafina. I'm going to drink a lot later today. Do you want to put money on this? What kind of money? Last time we bet money, I won.

On this deal, who's going to make the chase next? No, not that. Not that part. Because if we get to a point situation, I'm screwed. We're coming off a second, which is that's next in line. You're coming off of 17. I realize that.

Okay. Making sure. Over the weekend, the world lost, Muhammad Ali, in your opinion, was Ali the best boxer to ever live? Brett, here we go. Muhammad Ali was the best talker to ever live. He and Rick Flair are the two best at running their mouth. He was certainly a great boxer, but I can't ignore the fact that this guy is a draft

dodging American. So he couldn't box for three and a half years because he dodged the draft. That's why he didn't get the box in the prime of his career because he, quote, didn't want to fight a war. Dude, you're fighting a war every time you step in a ring. If that isn't double standard, I don't know what is. You know, I don't know if he's the best boxer of all time, but he definitely has a lot of,

there's a lot of good clips of him in boxing matches, minus the draft stuff. He was a very entertaining boxer for sure. So, although, I don't know. Can I go with that big dude and Mike Tyson's punchout? You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, that real big dude, yeah. James Buster Douglas? No, man.

No, it's a video game. Yeah, remember Mike Tyson's punchout? Yeah. I think Muhammad Ali did a lot of great things. for his race and he was a big advocate for, hey, look at me, I can be a superstar athlete and I can survive and pioneer a lot of those things. This guy said he got punched in the head 29,000 times. He made over $57 million.

And most importantly, he said he saved half of it. Smart dude. Yeah, that's impressive. That's rare in pro sports. Yeah, it is. So, I mean, I don't just come in here talking. And this topic, this is Josh's best off-the-wall topic yet because it's not about a movie that I've never seen.

Like, we're talking about sports. Yeah, it's got to be sports. Because I know you two guys, we can't do anything else. Sports and music, Josh, are all I know. Except the Grammys. Sports and Justin Bieber is all you know. Listen, I really thought this was going to be about the USA or whatever. I would have been about that.

I wouldn't know what to do. Was she hot? Did she? She was Miss D.C. and she's in the Army Reserves? Yeah. Miss D.C. That's not even a state. It's a district. Of Columbia.

I thought you had to be from a state. D.C. is in there? Is Puerto Rico in there? She's damn right. Puerto Rico's in there. Right. It's a state. No, it ain't a state.

Pennsylvania's a common wealth. Puerto Rico should be a state. It's the state capital. No, it's the... We're looking very intelligent right now. Puerto Rico in there? Is it a state? Someone pull up a Wikipedia page, quick.

Yeah. All right, we're moving into hashtag ASDBC. We have five questions that we pulled off Twitter and Facebook. Four off Twitter, one on Facebook. So the winner as T.J. and Brett choose will receive an Elliott Sadler autographed hat. Hensley underscore Daniel asks, why does NASCAR only use rain tires on road courses? Hensley, Daniel. Let me explain something to you. Our speeds at a place like Michigan, when it's dry, are 205 miles an hour.

When it's wet, we could still probably run about 150 to 160 down the straightaway. I heard they tested at 212. Wow. So 212. So when we get to the corner on a rain tire with a wet track, it's still not going to hold the car. We're still going to hit the wall. We're still going to crash.

Road courses are completely different animals because they're flat. We can run out of the groove. We can do some things to keep these guys safe. We can't run that fast on a wet track with no kind of tire. Yeah, that's just not going to work with it. Plus the rooster tail. Could you imagine the size of the rooster tail? 39 cars doing a rooster tail?

You wouldn't be able to see anything. Yeah. It'd be terrible. on our Facebook page CJ Dodd asks As we know The summer is heating up So what things do you do as spotters

To keep yourselves cool and hydrated Josh Really Sorry you guys Is not winning that Well Brett has like a woman up on top Fanning him with fig leaves Yeah and feed me grapes

And TJ has an ice vest on Yeah we A bunch of guys have started wearing these golf sleeves Have you seen those? I wear those Yeah, so the golf sleeves is something people are doing. Our buddy Billy O wears a great big hat. Yeah, I don't either.

Our buddy Billy O wears a great big hat to keep the sun off of him. This is the one thing I would change about our position. We need a canopy or a shade. It would make our lives so much easier during the summer because I'm going to be honest with you. It's 100 degrees and we're baking in the sun. And the only thing NASCAR tells us is tough shit. You can't go anywhere that the fans are at.

You have to go on the roof or you. You have to go down to the concourse. This is a serious question, but would you ever, like, carry an umbrella up there? People do. Some guys do. Actually, some, it depends on the track you're at. If you can get near a corner, you can take one of them. You can take an umbrella, and you can actually bring some, I don't know how they have some

rope or something, and they tie it around there. Zip ties or something. Yeah, something, and they sit under it. But he's right, though, it'd be nice for when they do these renovations to the tracks. It doesn't have to be extravagant. Just a small roof, you know, a small, anything, there's a covered deal in Phoenix in turn one that would be perfect. Step one to be let us wear shorts, which they want. You know, when you look at IndyCar,

everybody in IndyCar is wearing black nice shorts, you know, to their knees. And I know we can't wear jorts up there, but it would be nice to certainly put on a nice pair of shorts like T.J. What's the rationale behind that? Because they don't want us to be on TV wearing shorts. Why? Then I got it. I'll make a deal with you. Don't put us on TV and let me wear shorts. Yeah. The shorts would be awesome. There's a, the, the, the problem is, a couple guys would, there's a few people up there that would break it. You know, if you could wear a short. We could self-police it, I think.

Yeah, to an extent. I mean, I don't, we should be allowed to wear shorts. If you're on the roof all day and it's 90 degrees outside, you should be able to wear shorts. It sucks. I mean, they let you wear shorts in the garage now. Well, not, not crew guys, though. That's the motor. That's the motorhome drivers.

Like, that's not, that's the fans. That's not the, the hard car crew guys are not supposed to wear shorts. Not, that's per NASCAR, right? But I understand the people that are working on the car and stuff and being in the garage. There's a difference when you're in the garage. I wouldn't probably wear shorts if I was working on the car. When we get to Kentucky, we get to Indy, it is hot. I'm going to go ahead and tell you, I might, we should just take up.

We should just take up. Why don't we just all pitch in and buy like two or three small easy-ups? A bunch of easy-up tents. And put them up. Yeah. Why don't we do that? I mean, it costs us what? I'd pitch in 20.

If every little pitch in 20 bucks would have five. We'll just line up to easy-ups. Why don't you just take the Jay-ups? RM ones from out back. Well, we'll just leave them there on the roof. Yeah. We'll take them there and just leave them up there. Just leave them.

Because they're in Kentucky, there is absolutely no shade. There's one little deal that's a bathroom there, and there's like 30 of us trying to get into the shade of it. I just go sit in the bathroom on the floor. Warner who was in there. Just lay down. You get high, usually on the floor naked and be like, man, this was good. On the bathroom in Kentucky.

There's some bathroom floors that I would lay on, but that is not one of them. It's very Kentucky. I want them. And the escalator always breaks. So, hey, if Kentucky's listening, go ahead and work on that now. It's like the race sneaks up on whoever runs Kentucky. Oh, we need an elevator to work? A scoreboard?

Oh, an escalator. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and turn it on and looob it up now. Yeah, a loob. A lot of loob. I think sticks and stops and it sucks. I'll get the elevator people over there, too, because that thing breaks as well. It breaks if it rains.

What's that comedian? He died, but he said... John Candy? Escalator's broken. Sorry for the convenience. It's now stairs. Yeah. And in Kentucky, that is like 10 flights, and I literally feel bad for some of the elderly folks that are in there because it's hot.

There's no air and they're stuck. And let me tell you, this escalator is not just going up one flight of stairs here. It's like four or five stories. Yeah, at least. At least. You're going from way down in the ground back up out of the racetrack on the grandstand side. It's not just like, it's like how many five, four or five, it's like five flights of escalators. I started running December 5th to be right.

ready for Kentucky, literally. That was one of my motivating factors. Some people leave the night before the practice just to get up there in time. Dumb. Grey Goose F-150

asks, ooh, Greygoose F-150 so vodka and... Ford trucks. With the amount of cameras NASCAR's put on pit road, why do teams still try to alter the car illegally? Just looking for an advantage, man. Any advantage they can get. Yeah, it's big.

Like, if you can do it and get away with it, Like, we all, all of our Jackman hit the doors. We are not, so, you know, and you're, obviously there's, you got to be careful with it because it's a discretion call. But yeah, if you can flare that out a little bit, you got, I mean, it's a huge downforce deal. It's huge. It's like putting a wing on the side of the car. Yeah. So, we're racing numbers, you know, I mean, by that, we're racing how much horsepower can we produce?

You know, is it 70030 or is it 780? Well, more is better. We're racing numbers and downforce counts. and if these guys are doing this, this has been tested in the wind tunnel. They know they're getting 30, 40 more counts of down force. That is a big deal in terms of grip. So you give any of the good guys that much more? They're gone.

Yeah, I mean, sign me up. Yeah. I mean, geez. Yeah. At Davy Center asks, is Pocono Raceway the most difficult oval and or, quote, unquote, roval to spot due to its size, length, and trickiness? I see what you did there, sir. It's true to rock around two, round two, round, that's right. I think we touched on this earlier.

Yeah. You guys answered it already. It's one of the hardest tracks to spot at. Yeah. There in Phoenix are my two most challenging tracks. And I don't know that there's a lot of they can do at Pocono to fix it unless they put us in the tunnel. The Brickguard is not terribly challenging the spot at. You can't see it.

You can't see it. But the half that you can see is usually, it's not terrible. When you go to Pocono, you literally cannot tell the depth perceptions. And that's the same thing with Phoenix. It's real hard to tell. Phoenix, we're kind of lucky it's a short track because it's not. not that far away from you. You can kind of tell a little bit.

Yeah. Pocono is tough. Pocono, Andy Phoenix, three toughest. At Collins, 80, Mark Us, which is better, vinegar-based eastern North Carolina barbecue or ketchup-based western North Carolina barbecue. It's a good one here. Man, I... Oh, so much a tie.

But I like them both a lot. What do you like? I'll go ketchup all the way. Yeah. Yeah, that vinegar stuff's for... I got some good vinegar stuff you need to try. It's called Georgia's. Do you like it a little bit spicy?

Not really. Oh, you wimp. See, I'll put ketchup on ketchup. So I'll eat. You just drink ketchup. I'll put ketchup on mashed potatoes. I'll put ketchup on everything. Yeah, I'll be sure.

I like, I do like butter. Mashed potatoes. Yeah, why not? You put gravy on it. I'm a ketchup person. You can't give me enough ketchup. I like honey mustard barbecue sauce. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, who won? Who gets a hat? DJ pick What's Josh have you ever picked Have you ever picked?

Yeah let Josh pick You pick the question Yeah so let him pick Yeah that's what I'm saying You've never picked Let's go ahead and pick Come on man There's only one that can win

The other ones are Yeah Josh Hey Josh there's only one winner Well then what is the winner? You got to pick The barbecue You're the barbecue The barbecue one

Fine Collins 80 Mark you winner. And in one week, Collins 80 Mark yell it, Josh, because he'll forget to send your hat out. So I saw something this week to bother me a little bit, man. Oh, good. It's rant time. Mark Martin recently elected into the Hall of Fame, right? Good for him. You know, a guy's a very accomplished racer.

But they interviewed him, and he said, you know, I haven't been back to the racetrack but one time since I retired. And I came to the racetrack to help Danica. and I left before qualifying even started because I felt so out of place. I felt like I didn't have anywhere to go. I felt like I didn't have a use. I felt like I was there for really no reason. And I start thinking back, man, at all these guys that have gone away in my career, which has been a lot of great guys who did a lot for the sport.

And you see a guy like Rusty Wallace, Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon, you know, transfer into TV and broadcasting. And you see guys, you know, like Starry. Early Marlin and, you know, like Mark Martin that just Ricky Rudd that are great names that just completely go away. And I almost feel like, hey, NASCAR, this is an alarm going off saying, we need to do something here. Like, we need a hospitality area.

We need a function. We need a reason to invite these guys to come, be the Grand Marshal's, just for the fans, if for no other reason. So, man, I was kind of heartbroken for that guy reading that. Yeah, I like having Mark Martin around. He's so entertaining on Twitter and stuff, too. and he's always been a he's always been a fixture from when I from what I was worked started working in the sport yeah I first started he was winning all those

exfini races and stuff in that 60 car he was winning everything yeah and uh he's definitely a guy you'd definitely want to have around the racetrack for sure so yeah I kind of he thinks he he should I didn't maybe should have came to the roof and hung out a little bit yeah come bring a cooler beard and hang out of us or something man I don't know but I mean the tracks or somebody has to read that and go hey we're we have a void here in our sport and we can do something about it. Your tracks are constantly looking for other ways to bring fans in and provide experiences that you can't get anywhere else.

I'm not 100% sure that I'm not 100% sure though that those guys would come out just to come to a track event though. You know what I mean? Indy car did something I really like this year. They got Sarah Fisher to drive the pace car and over half the races. And look, I'm a big Brett Bodine fan. I think he's done a great job at his job because he does other things just and drive the pace car.

He helps keeps costs down for the teams. He has a lot of other things he does at the R&D Center. But man, let's bring in Ricky Rudd and let him drive the pace car 15 times. You know, let's bring, you know what I'm saying? There's something we can do for these guys. Yeah, I agree. Something, yeah. We need them engaged.

Even in the tower or something. You know, we get some of these guys like Mark Martin would probably call a heck of a race too. Yeah. Imagine him learning how to do some of that, you know. Yeah. I mean, I'm all for it. Yeah. My other thing I'm frustrated with as a sports fan is I'm watching crew chiefs get suspended for a missing lug nut on a tire.

If I'm a head football coach for South Carolina Gamecocks and a sneaker falls off of one of my players, or even if the helmet falls off of one of my players, nothing happens to me. You can't put that accountability on that position. I don't know, man. We went from one extreme of, we don't care if you have lug nuts on your tire or not, to we're suspending the crew chief if you don't. Like, it's almost, it's a slap in the face on the heels of the Tony Stewart comment,

the fine, and then they make this big of a change. Man, this is out of control. Yeah, I'm not really sure the crew chief is to blame for that, you know, but another thing is we all have video of our pit stops. You know, that tire changer knows if that lug nut's not on. and if he messes up, he needs to come and tell that crew chief, look, we need to come back down. I don't care if we're first, second, third, or fourth, or 20th, I miss that lugnut. We need to come back down.

There is no reason why you should finish the race missing a lugnut, to me, in my opinion. Yeah. I mean, that guy, to me, if they finish a race like that, they know, and they're just, I mean, or they don't, or the guy never told on them. Yeah. You know, if the tire changer doesn't tell, how is the crew chief supposed to be at fault for that, you know? If the tire guy doesn't get the air pressure perfect,

he doesn't get the crew chief suspended. If we, as spotters, there's nothing we can do from the roof to get the crew chief suspended that I know of anyway. Yeah. Like, there's nothing the interior guy can do with the hose to the helmet

that gives the driver more air. Like, you can't take a guy's job and make it get another guy completely suspended. Not when it's something that this is this insignificant. Yeah. I don't think there's any reason they should finish race with missing Lutniks, but I don't think the crew chief... How does he supposed to know half the time?

The guy never tells him. He doesn't know. That's my point. It's out of control. Do you think the crew chiefs really get mad at that? They get a week off. And paid. With pay.

Yeah. I mean, 15 minutes before the race, hey, I'm ready to FaceTime. You know, okay. Yeah. All right. All right. All right, my favorite one is when the crew chief is suspended. and you see him on the airplane or you see him at the airport

or you see him get in a rental car and it's like, oh, well, he's suspended, but he's somewhere around here. Oh, I mean, oh, he's conveniently staying in the casino at Dover. Wow. Oh, he's got a room with a view of the track. Wow. Wow, that's amazing how that works. What a great vacation for that guy.

Even when they suspend the crew chiefs, all the access they have, they're still involved. There's no way unless you have an official sitting on that pit box monitoring what they're even then. I mean, who you type into over there, Felicia? Talking to Felicia over here. Yeah. Yeah. My wife. You know?

Yeah, I don't know. They shouldn't, I don't know if they should be suspended for that. But there was a way to get them suspended from the roof. I'm pretty sure you could probably find it. Yeah. I think you would. Michigan predictions. Boy, I got beat last week.

You've been beat pretty bad. here recently. He put me in that pickle with that Kyle Larson pick, and I was watching it. So there was a point in the race where Ricky and Kyle were side by side. And I go down there, I go, TJ, look where the 42 and 17 are. Right at halfway. And he's like, man, this is awesome, but I still got a better car. Well, then I'm watching at the end of the race and I see the 42, and I look at everybody in front of him, and they're all studs. And I was like, for me to have beaten him this week, like I was going to have to stud up and I wasn't willing to do it. But this week, but this week, you would. This week, I'm going to stud up.

If he's going to beat me this week, he's going to get his cowboy boots and his spurs and his saddle and his hat, and he's going to have to go big right here. Swing for the fence right here, buddy. Matt Kenseth. Oh, that's fine. That's who I got. Mr. Michigan. Matt Kenseth, ladies and gentlemen.

You know, I will, uh, I'm probably just going to have to let you go and hope for some bad luck because you're going to use all your good ones up. You're not getting anything left in the chase. Let me go. Let's see here. Josh Wise. I mean, I'm not throwing out David Reagan or Josh Wise here at you, but... How many races are left in the season? Completely.

22? Okay. Josh, you're the producer. Yeah, I know. You're supposed to be omniscient. Blame producer, Josh. TJ's got a Wikipedia over here trying to figure out what you're going to get. Do you need me to read that to you?

Are you good? Eric Camarola. Eric Camarola's been running good. You've got a belt on without pants. I'm not a belt. belt on without pants. It's a dress. With a belt.

Thanks. So, let's go. Do you want to talk about your vacation plans while he takes freaking forever? 22 races. God, what did I say? How many races did I say? 22, just like last week, Kristen. Let's go Greg Biffle.

Biffle. He's good there. Yeah, he is good there. They've had some speed. We'll go Biffle. His suspended crew chief Brian Patty may or may not be there. Yeah, well, it'll be connected at some point. He's tuned in.

So we got Matt Kenseth against Greg Biffle. Yeah, I'm going to let you go ahead. I mean, I'm saving. We've already used up some hitters from the chase. We've had some heavy hits. Roush, and the one reason I use Matt Kinseth is because T.J.'s already used him. You know, I got this, I got a strategy. Yeah.

When I started in this deal, when you went to Michigan, Roush was dominant. Oh, yeah. Jeff Burton, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch. I mean, it was the Roush show. It was a rous show. So it may be a good pick. The problem is my driver is a former Rouse driver that made them look good all those years. So I'm all right.

I feel good about the speed. Yeah, I mean, your car is going to have speed. I'm just going to hope for some bad luck. I'm going to hope for some bad luck. There's a strategy. Yeah. I mean, I can't go. I'm not throwing out a heavy hitter again yet.

Not happening. Because the 20 is literally he's Mr. Michigan. This guy's good there. He's good. He fails to win a lot there, but he's good. Who calls him Mr. Michigan? Me. I just named him that.

I don't call him Mr. Michigan, but. We're going to give everybody nickname. I'm just saying you love the nickname. What are we going to nickname Kyle Larson? Showtime, the show? Upside down horseshoe. I don't know. I don't know.

We'll just start nicknaming everybody on here. All the dirt track racers where I grew up at had nicknames. He's got a nickname, I thought. Like, who does? Kyle Larson. What is it? Man, what did I hear? Somebody called him out.

Who's that? They're like Kyle Larson. When they come out of outlaws and sprint cars and dirt track stuff, like you have a nickname. You're, you know, the real deal, Dono. O'Neill, you know, like that guy. Well, to start nicknaming all these guys. Or you go to Charlotte.

I always hear that whenever there's a quiet in the stands, all you hear is a bad, Brad. You can always hear that. Ryan Newman was Rocket Man for a while. He was Rocking Man. And I guess he's lost that name. I mean, I guess that's a bad thing about good nicknames is when you start sucking, you don't get to keep it.

He still has it. He is beginning to be known by the nickname of Young Money. Yeah, that's what it was. That's Young Money. Kyle, Young Money, Lars. You like that name, too. Young Money. You like that.

That sounds like a good rap song. It does. Yeah, I get into that. Young Money. Young money. So that's pretty good for him. All right. We'll go with that.

I can't wait until we have to give somebody else a nickname. Like, what do you call Chase? What's Chase? Chase Elliott? Yeah. I don't know, man. I got it. He's so like, he's very quiet and stuff.

And, you know, he's just not, I don't know. Be interested. Little Ryan Blaney, what do you call him? His dad's the Buckeye Bullet. That's my point. All these great nicknames, we need nicknames for these guys. Steve Kinzer's the king. Yeah.

Yeah, now you're feeling me, dude. You're getting into this. I like it. Did Tony ever have on Smoke, I guess? Smoke, yeah. But that came after, right? Right. Yeah.

I wonder what... Nataly's getting ready to kiss you on the cheat. Holy cow. Was she standing straight up? Oh, she was. I don't know. Is that a short joke? Yes.

You're short. Really? You're just tall. You're the only seven foot three women I know. Anyway, what'd you do Sunday? Cleaned? T.J.'s got a picture of you talking to a crew guy. Yes.

And he's been very inquisitive. He's asked it a lot of people what's going on here. Do you have a response to this? Yes, I do. It's my ex-boyfriend Robb's, one of his best friends. Oh, this is getting weird. They own a motorcycle car. company together.

And he never travels. So his name's Zach. Okay. And we hadn't seen each other in a while and he just had a baby. And so we were talking about his newborn. Y'all had a baby? He had a baby with his wife. Oh, okay.

He and I, we've just known each other for years. Okay. Started off weird. He sends me a picture, like a creeper. Oh. What? I went by her. I told you.

I went by her. I turned around and took a picture. I was like, hey, what's going on here? He sent me the creepiest text I've ever received my entire life. And that's saying something. That's not really true. There's no way. It was so, who was he?

And I said, who was who? He sends me the picture with this weird meme and the eye emoji. And I said, I called him a creepy mofo. Yeah. Watch it. Anyway. Thanks to One Man for bringing this to you guys. Hope you enjoyed it.

Leave us a review and some feedback anywhere. We'd love to hear it. A lot of good questions this week, Josh. So save them for when you don't get good ones. Yeah. All right. David Hoot. All right.

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