Door Bumper Clear - 195 - Spotting in the Rain

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

A wet and wild weekend at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL left plenty for Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft to cover as the NASCAR Playoffs roll on. The Cup Series raced on a wet surface for the first time since the 1950s and they react to unique challenge drivers faced. A hard-fought battle ended in playoff elimination for Clint Bowyer. His spotter Brett walks us through the ups-and-downs of the day and Bowyer racing with no power steering. Kyle Busch also saw his championship hopes fade away on Sunday. The guys, along with co-host Hannah Newhouse and producer Jason Schultz, explain how his season went wrong. The Xfinity Series raced in torrential downpours on Saturday and race winning spotter Freddie shares his experience spotting in the rain. Hear what his driver A.J. Allmendinger said about the conditions. Noah Gragson was upset with Riley Herbst after an accident racing for the lead. The crew responds to the choice words Gragson used towards Herbst. Silly season news broke everywhere last week. Our trio of spotters discusses the news of Clint Bowyer retiring, Alex Bowman going to the No. 48 car, Matt DiBenedetto getting another year in the No. 21 and Daniel Suarez joining Justin Marks’ new team. Plus, Brett shares what his future looks like after Bowyer’s announcement, After Brett blocked Twitter accounts live on the show last week, hear the boys read more mean tweets after Sunday’s race. In Ask DBC, Parker Kligerman makes an appearance and Championship 4 picks are made heading to Kansas Speedway to begin the Round of 8. 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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I'm on an episode of Door Bumper Clear. I'm T.J. Majors. This is Fred Griffin. Hey, me too now. This is Freddie Cratt. Get ready. Be ready. Be ready. Be ready. New leader. I'll watch out for this guy. White flag.

Recognize. Hello. Clear. Bring home. Free lights. Coming to the line. Door bumper. Clear.

Jason, turn my shit up. Test. Test. Test. Test, test, test, test. Check, check. Yeah. You hear you. One, two, one, two, three, four. Did you give me a test real quick?

Hello? Count to six. Count to nine, actually. Yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Almost there. I refuse to go to the next one. You're glowing, Freddie. Duh, duh.

There we go. That's getting better. That's the best looking for. Freddie I've ever seen. Can you guys see that by shorts? Oh my gosh. Cam Rayne graded a shorts. A lot of a good.

Just in case? Yeah. Freddy, kick your leg over a little further. And I'm free, free ball in. That was beautiful harmony. I knew what was happening there. This is going to be fun. What am I listening to right now?

It sounds like Jason put some work in this week. That was. I played all those instruments. You're that kid in his apartment. That was definitely a little work. Donor made one like that a few months ago for the Dell Junior deal. That one time of band camp, Jason? Yep.

Big band guy. How's your flute? There's no way Jason knows what we're talking about. No, you made me watch that movie. All right, you do know what we're talking about. Oh, it's like it's hot in here already. I'm sweating. You're in the freaking rain jacket.

You want to button the top two buttons up? Rain and out. You're wearing a life vest. What's you? Hannah McFly? Good Lord. It's supposed to be the session where we cut down this. You're starting it up.

Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors, and it was raining out earlier or supposed to or something. And, you know, full house today. Brett Griffin, and I've never heard anyone be a cute. accused of wearing a life fest. That's a first. Now you have. What's up? Freddie Craftspotted for Bubba Wallace and A.J. Almandinger. He had a pretty good day, although that was not a fun race to spot by any means. I thought it was nighttime. Well, that was both. It was only like a six-hour extended race. But we also have our lovely

fill-in co-host here today. And I'm Hannah Newhouse again filling in for Casey Boat. And for some reason, I keep coming back after all the harassment. It's lovely. You look like you came off a boat. It looks like you just got off a boat. I mean, is there water around here? There was plenty here this weekend. Jason, Jason, do you have a button for waves? That was like a soda.

That's a beer. Speaking of beer, we went to have a beer with Hannah last night, and she left after the first half of the beer, Freddie. She didn't stick around. We ordered a bucket, and I don't think she got a beer in. Well, you had to go get your dog who was witnessing a crime. Your dog. You're not.

What's your dog? name? Janet. Janet, not Susan's eye. So Janet, so we talked about last week, Doug got a German Shepherd, and he named her Sadie. So Janet and Sadie used to be my homeboys lady. She used to be my home boy's lady.

So Sadie is on camera. So we're sitting in Big Owls in Moorsville, and Hannah whips out this camera. And I guess Hannah just carries this damn thing around with her, where she leaves her dog, she leaves a monitor. They told me she's psychotic, so I brought it over from the years. You're going to be a psychotic mom when you have a kid.

if you're carrying a camera around. I think this is just for entertainment purposes. Yeah, because it was entertaining. Is it still there, the camera? Why are we not watching it? So she whips this camera around, TJ, and this German Shepherd that I'm going to say weighs about 65, 70 pounds right now is standing on his back legs, back legs tearing the blinds off the front window and is literally eating them and scratching the window.

And I was like, oh, this is going to be big. So Hannah got back and I guess there was complete chaos. Yeah, Janet just sat in the living room and watched this, Sherman Shepherd completely tear apart of the house and was scared. She was going to get in trouble. She took down the front room blinds, ate them, tore down the landing up the stairs, tore those ones down, shredded those, busted into Joey's room, tore all those blinds down to, had blankets, flung her soft food all over the house, and then it didn't help Doug's brother.

Joey let the dogs out. As soon as he got home, it flooded yesterday and let them in as soon as they were done, like running around. So then there's mud all over the couches, up the chairs, across the thing. So I literally like showed up, got Janet and left. I was like, I'm out. So who's in more trouble? The dog or Joe or what?

I think Doug was about ready to have a connoisse. I told Doug it was a bad idea to get a dog. Doug doesn't do well with when things don't go exactly how they're plans. I don't think Doug realizes what it takes to be a dog owner and with his lifestyle and with his girlfriend's lifestyle. I don't think they realize this isn't a good idea. No. Well, apparently they realize that.

that on the camera. Doug, he said, at least I'm remodeling my house right now. He's got, well, he's got no choice. Doug usually stays with us till we don't, we don't make it a habit of leaving before last call. Yes. And Doug usually stays with us and he was in quite the hurry to get out of there last night. He was in a hurry.

So what, you know, anyone heard from Doug today or? If he still has a dog? Yeah. He still got, though. So Doug spots for the 21 for all you people listening. Who does Joey spot for? 77 I think usually Typically the 77

But he'll switch drivers Like one race it's Seven it could be He never know Yeah Yeah Depends on who's driving what Yeah so

Two spotters One dog and a house that is Completely destroyed The better part of the story is That Doug is getting his cabinets Redone So you don't have any doors on this cabinets And this dog

TJ just proceeded to rip everything In the kitchen Out of the cabinets Hots pans I don't understand How do you leave a dog. That dog is that big already? She's two. Yeah, she is. Oh, wow. Okay. So this dog's full grown. Yeah, it's a rescue.

So how do you leave a dog like that in your house? No, like, and not like just for, you need to start off in like 10 minutes, you know, going for 10 minutes, come back, see everything's wrong, come out, you know, go for 30 minutes, come back an hour, you know, just intervals. Doug went like for the grand slam here and said, oh, that dog will be okay for a few hours. I'm hoping we get some pictures. I just wish. Like, people don't understand how freaked out Doug gets if something like this happens. And just the look on his face. Oh, he was great. Where was Joe?

He was, I don't know where Joe was. He was out somewhere else. He was probably still trying to finish the robo. Holy cow. Well, that being said. Speaking of robo, you think Ryan Newman had fun yesterday? I think he didn't ride up until that last lap where he sprang him. 17 times.

He spun around more times. That track than I did, and that teacups at Disney, man. There was one lap. He spun out three separate times. I just kept tapping. I think the car was, like, broke after something was broken. I hope. What I'd be saying?

I watched him the one time. So he spun out like, was it the chican? It was the front trash chican. First tris chican. Turn one. Then he goes in to turn one. So I'm slapping bread. I'm like, look, he spun out again.

He chopped somebody into one there. Yeah, it's like the 27. Yeah. And then he's in the backstretched chican, back and over the signs they had. I've seen it. I look back and I'm like, oh,

it's all the same lap. Yeah. This is all the same lap, by the way. Yeah. And you couldn't, you want to watch your car, but you're also like, you got to watch this guy at the same time.

I mean, I'm like, when I saw the car spinning, I'm like, there's no way that's the six again. Like, there's no way. I just looked up. He was already backwards

and then he just backed into like, you know, those stand-up signs I had in the middle of the skin. He was just backing over there, blowing him all over to place. That was entertaining. Yeah, he definitely had enough. Hamill had a rough day too.

Oh, Denny? Yeah, he was in the grass about every fifth lab. Yeah, he didn't, he was locked in, he was fine. Again, whatever he did yesterday, I thought he did a great job with that. That's probably Denny's weak spot, honestly, his road course is now, right? I would say so probably. I mean, them Gibbs cars are fast, so it makes up for a little bit, but, again, whatever he did yesterday was great and perfect. I think Freddie's clearly not signed his deal yet.

I think he's awesome. Clearly. What was your Denny shirt? I got to wait. your new jumpman shirt. Frey, did you drive home naked on Saturday? I did not drive home naked. Did you threaten to do that on the radio?

I might have threatened to do that, but I wasn't quite as wet as I thought I was when I started pulling layers off. I didn't ruin the seats in my truck. But I thought I was going to have to do because I was drenched. Like that's, I just stood in the pouring, you ever just stand in the pouring rain for four and a half hours for fun? No, not really. I usually try to prepare. I hate rain. I mean, I was prepared.

I had a raincoat on and like, but. I love rain, but I hate being out in the ring. On Saturday, Dylan worked the Xfinity race, and then turned right over and worked the EMSA race. So he had to get in his five, that fire suit that they wear with his wet-ass clothes. He was not a fun person. So what people don't realize for Freddie and all the other brave men and women who were out in the elements, I was not.

I was nice and safe and warm watching the race. But our radios and our headsets don't like water. Now, I did about, I probably did, I'd say, $3 to $400 worth of damage. I push at talk went bad, two cables went bad, my binoculars are full of water. That'd be fun. You're not owning an umbrella or something?

I went to pick him up. What the hell is an umbrella going to do? Well, stops rain, first of all. Okay, well, I promise you it wasn't just coming from the top. I was in my face. Tyler Green told me yesterday, the umbrella was pointless because it was coming from the side. It was like Forrest Gump.

It was raining sideways, upside. with big drops, little drops. Sounds like you need a raincoat with a really big hood to put over the headset. I did, but it didn't matter. I had a hood over my headset. Have you seen those things that people get for soccer games? Herm has one of them. I should have took a picture of it.

Crazy's got one too. Yeah, they put it on your shoulders. No, no, Crazy had the full soccer mom. That you like sit in with your lawn chair. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Herm had like, I don't even know how he straps it on, but it's like it sits on his shoulders. And it goes up and over the top.

A hood goes over his head. Typical Herm. That would be Herm. But, yeah. I'd just stand next to Herman. Net block most of the rain. My favorite part was like Chris Rice is like, Freddie, you're kind of quiet. I'm like, yeah, it's probably because there's four fucking gallons of water in my microphone right now.

I just might have something to do with it. You know, I don't know. Poor AJ's in there freaking out. He can't see anything. It was exciting. I'm sure we'll talk about it. It was exciting to watch. But, man, I was glad I wasn't there.

I was glad I wasn't there, too. I wish I wasn't there. Even winning the race, I was like, this still sucks. I was listening to NASCAR from my couch, and I didn't want to listen to anybody of a NASCAR because it was like every 15 seconds. It's one off in four. I got one off in five. He's rolling. This one's roll.

I got one off in the backstretched chicane. It's like one after another. About around my phone battery, did listen to NASCAR. Got to give them props. I kept Jason entertained all night, I think. I was listening to Freddy's radio. I don't usually do that.

My friend Tyler had the radio up, and so I was like, Clay, do you not have the app that you can listen to all of us because you could probably get a lot more content for the show. Well, I have thought the idea. I'm like, we need this all the week, every week, tweet and this stuff.

But that's funny. The show must go on has never been more prevalent than on Saturday. No kidding. Long day. That was fun. That might, that's maybe a close second to,

all right, we're going to have another caution and 10 more laps, change tires again. Oh, Andy. That was because of Dale Jr. I was ready to flip out. I will say, though,

that that was an entertaining race. I'm glad, you know, I don't know how it was out in the conditions, but man, it was exciting. I thought it was. It honestly was not

that difficult to spot aside from having problems. Like, once you were soaked and it was raining, Like it didn't get any worse. You were just soaked and you just continue to get soaked. So I could see everything fine. At night it was impossible.

You couldn't see anything. I was spotting off the red lights they got in the rear windows because you could not see the cars in the infield at all. So they put more lights up at the track too for Sunday. Yeah. So Brett, last week you read some really funny tweets that you block people of. So Freddie and I thought it would be a good idea to capture some more tweets to get you guys to read them in a new segment. I think we're in call it reaction Twitter.

My favorite one that I saw this week, and I am so glad that you captured it because this one is from leather meat. What? Leather meat, leather meat, leather meat. I think leather meat's funnier. You should install and turn on track sprinklers. These no talent clowns are putting on a horrible show. This was to NASCAR, and I personally think, I actually think putting all the sprinklers was

awesome idea. We should really do that. Yeah, I'm not a good. What was that, Bull Durham, where they rained a game out because they turned the sprinkles on? Yeah. I used to go to a go-car track at Myrtle Beach, and they would put baby powder down in a course. Yeah, it was like one of the sandblasted tracks. Yes, and that made it so fun to drive those freaking go-cars.

Like, I'm all down for that. Yeah. I didn't have to block a lot of people, man. You know, when Clint said he was retiring that day, what day was that? that Wednesday? No, it's Thursday because I was leaving baseball practice. I had to block some idiots that day because people are like, you should be retiring, you suck, you know. What else you got over there?

So Kenneth Warren, who his name is Next Rad F5 on the old Twitter, he's replied to NASCAR Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon, and he said that, Kyle Busch would have been crying if that were done to him. What an ass. Keep him rolling The last one is Michael Volk He is Michael 26 Volk On the Twitter

He's got a picture of Tony Stewart's car In his avatar So I don't know if that's a good sign of Knox Tony hadn't raced in a while There's a good chance He's just bitter because of that He said finally after all these years

Are pulling off some And those fraud championships Kyle is out finally A lot of Kyle Bush hate this Sweet. Did you see his post-race media? You think the way do you get to my tweets? He sees me.

All right, TJ, how about you read some of yours real quick? Aaron, Sight Singer. Going to come down to Harvick, Hamlin, and Keselowski, unless Logano is Lugano and wrecked someone to get in. I mean, we didn't wreck anybody to get in in 18. We may have moved somebody and raced across the line, but... So if we wrecked him... T.J. still sense...

He won a championship and he still sensitive. If we wrecked him and we race side by side across line, but... what did Denny do to chase? He just bumped him. Yeah, that's the bump and run. Just nudged him. Freddie, what do you think he did? I just nudged him.

I think whatever Danny did that, he was great. I think exactly what he should have done. That's exactly what he needed to do. All right. Anthony 619-49-55552. You might need to shorten it up, Anthony. That's what she said.

Holy cow. I bet Joe Ligano would get into in a conflict with another driver most likely happening in Martinsville. If it is similar to 2018, I am all for it. Rob, HMS guy. This ought to be a great. I wonder what he thinks.

I wonder what he thinks already. Why the H.E. double hockey sticks. Can you never get the lineups correct? The 22 started a whole row up, restarted where the nine was supposed to, yet NASCAR doesn't give a F and allows. people to get effed over. Was this the time when the nine just blended off pit road in fourth place and tried to stay there? Yeah, I saw that too, and he tried to stay right up there.

And then fell back. I mean, I... They're going to let him stay. Let me tell you, I don't know, you guys might have saw it or not, but the three pulled off. I don't know what the 77... It was a 53. Yeah. Just moved down to lane.

He moved down. He was supposed to be in the outside lane. He moved down in front of us, and that whole lane moved up. or move dust back a lane. I was right behind you. So this, in a later restart, something else got messed up. And I'm like, I'm telling Joey, I'm like, okay, well, you're supposed to be on the bottom. Well, Chase goes to the bottom.

Where are we supposed to go? We're just supposed to follow Chase. So we go to the outside. Like, you can't sit there and wait. A guy's going to pull up next to you. You're going to lose two lanes at that point. So we pull up to the outside of Chase. And I knew the whole, the entire time because I was counting the car.

I'm like, hey, you're ninth place. You're going to be the ninth current line. You're inside lane. Left side. Well, Chase goes down there and covers it, and I'm like, okay, well, I guess Chase just wants the bottom. And if he wants to start there, he's going to. So we moved up Elaine and it ended up being we restarted 8th and he restarted 9th, but that's not our fault. He lined up first.

And I counted the car, so I knew where my guy was. But I'm sorry that you didn't like the lineup. I actually thoroughly enjoyed that restart because we gained a bunch of spots. Jags. Jags the Super Bowl. Wow, that's something you're probably not going to hear for a long time. There could be a 20-car pile up, and they wouldn't throw a caution if Chase is leading. I mean, it's really hard for me to argue this.

I love to argue. But, you know what, the only caution that I had a problem with yesterday was... Dale Jr. were sitting in the Lucky Dog spot they throw us. That's a different story. We used to pit based off of that. Is Junior the Lucky Dog, would you better stay out because they're getting ready to throw a yellow? I don't understand why we threw the caution for the 77, who literally was just getting his front tires up under the asphalt. To take off, put it out.

Okay, you just swap the whole field again. Yeah. So I can't wait for Freddy's. Thanks for those. Okay. Those are actually mild. Let's see. Luckily, Bubba didn't do nothing stupid yesterday, so this should be pretty tame.

What race did you watch? All right, Chris Ramsey. You should be apologizing to the 14 and Clint Boyer. He was the one whose playoff shot you screwed with that bonehead move. You had no chance of making that turn. I agree. Next. What's that guy?

I want to follow that guy. What's his name? Chris Ramsey, 002 Chris R. I mean, he's not really wrong. But anyway. You have the data for that, by the way?

Yeah. Bubba sent it on the radio. I hope it makes radioactive. He said, he said, tell the 47, I'm really sorry about that. Unless Lugano's data

shows it wasn't my fault. Hey, did Bubba tell you, did Bubba tell you I sent him a happy birthday match? Said, hey, happy birthday man, data guy. Oh, Al Jordan. Might be a cousin my new boss. At least you admit your dumbness.

Respect, because that move was dumb as fuck. You are a weapon, but it's cool. Good race. That's the most contradicting tweet. You're dumbass, but respect. Your weapon, but great race. That's like a half block. We'll just let him hang out for a little bit.

This is your reply to Bubba. Ron, I think he sees her all across the Bubba. Ron Rodema, you're always screwing. up. I mean, not always, but pretty often. Richard Bousserry Jr. Bubba Wallace sucks at driving. Always has, always well.

This publicity stunt they set up for next year is a f*** joke. We're ruining the sport. That's a solid take. Damn publicity stunts. He's not a fan. You sure? I don't think so. I wish to send him some merch.

show. Hey, did you see Bubba retweeted that girl and he's sending her a bunch of stuff today. There was some girl tweeted last night that her dad burned her Bubba Wallace flag. So she had this Bubba Wallace flag and I'm not lying to y'all. It's as big as a hood of a race car. It's huge. And it was hanging in her bedroom. She had pictures of it.

And she said her dad ripped it off the wall and said it on fire. Bubba said he's going to send her some new stuff and her dad's late to the party. But when he gets there, he's still welcome. Oh, last one. I'd like to congratulate Bubba Wallace on another sub-20 finish today. I mean, we finished 21st. Take it easy. Well, now we've just encouraged everyone to send

tweets for this weekend. Well, that's because you're running top 10 all day at Daytona, of course, and then you got shipped back. Oh, boy. All right, that's reaction Twitter. Good old Twitter. I'll keep finding some more funny tweets next week. We could probably make a whole show out of that.

You can usually just look at people replying to me. Oh, yeah. I have some real high IQ individuals that tweeted me. It's amazing. I wish you guys could see it. I couldn't believe. I figured when you put that poll up the other day about who the, what candidate were you going to have on the show. I figured it was going to be 100% Donald Trump because I figured you had everybody else blocked.

Like I didn't think any. I was imagining all the Biden supporters would not be on there. If we could keep Biden awake, I'd want him. He'd be my guy. I'd rather have him in here. But I love doing polls, man. Like, I really love to. on polls and I really take that in

consideration when I, yeah, I love it, man. Polling data. That's probably my favorite thing to do. My favorite poll I've ever put up, though, was do you like polls? People let it know. I'm like, why did you vote?

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Spot on you like it Spot off you don't like it And you say why either way All right time for spot on Spot off Lots of topics Apparently to talk about Apparently there are

Yeah So first one Cup series races on a wet surface For the first time Since the 50s TJ Spot on It was exciting

You know A moist track surface Makes for an entertaining race Moist I just realized There's a hair dryer next to me. Who's...

I was wondering that. Did we still... Just in case you're not dried yet from Saturday. We brought that in. I appreciate it because I don't... I need it. Oh, that's great humor. So, Jason, whose hairdryer is that?

It's my friend. I actually didn't know. Oh, I was going to say. Yeah, who's your friend? I asked if I could borrow it for a funny stunt on the show. I think what the racing sold me on Saturday and obviously the start of the race on Sunday. Was that you weren't there? Is that when we go to Martin's...

Virginia, there is no reason why we can't put rain tires on these damn cars and go race. The speeds are down. Let's go. Hey, we're going to race in the rain, man. Let's race in the freaking rain. We saw these guys going around the oval and turn one and turn two. No, you couldn't see them. On TV, we can see them, Freddie.

I wasn't there. We saw these guys going around the oval, man. They were ripping. They were driving in the rain. So now we know that we could race in the rain on ovals. I am down with this, man. Let's do it. He's lost his mind.

We cannot run an oval in the rain. Martins was a great short track. We do not need to ruin it. Please cut Brett out of this segment. Well, I mean, we'll hold it. We'll cover Bristol and dirt. We'll cover Martinsville and water. Let's go.

Let's have at it. Let's go. Let's freeze one of these places next. We'll run on ice. Hey, now you're talking. Put some chains under tires. Yeah, let's do it. Post to 43.

Chain came off his tire. Hey, your chain's going to rip your fender off, Freddy. I mean, spot off. The Cump guys didn't race in the rain. I mean, the track was wet for five laps. It was wet. Yeah. What I will say, though, was great call by, who was it, Ty Dillon?

Ty Dillon looked like Lewis Hamilton when we started to race. That one by me took the whole left side door off my car. Who's the wet weather guy, Michael Schumacher or something? Who is that? Ty Dillon drove by. Santa. Santa used to kill it. I thought he was driving that car.

Ty Dillon was digging. I'm like 13's coming. Just let him go. If it rained every week, he'd be a three-time champion. So him and who, I think the 21 also did it, right? They put on the slicks. No, Todd Dillon did it when he dropped the green. No, he drove from.

Yeah, but I'm saying, I was also saying when they were smart enough to put the slicks on the competition. He started last. Clint did too. They dropped the green. Clint, I'm like, 14's coming. He's 10 back. Next corner. He's four back.

Let him go. I'm like, wait. When the track was wet, we were a second and a half faster than the. the field. Like it was insane. The first time in my life, I'd wish it'd ever just stayed wet, kept raining. I'm all for this racing in the rain stuff, man. Let's do it. Oh, Louis Hamilton. Ty Hamilton. Ty Hamilton. So next spot on, spot off topic here. Brett will start this one off. Clinton Boyer eliminated from the playoffs after the day when he led before receiving damage on restart. That picture of him, he was wiped out. It's painful. You know, obviously we went up there and took the lead.

We had a very fast car. I felt like it was us in the nine to beat. And, man, we just can't figure out a way to catch these cautions at the right time. So spot off for what happened. We ended up back there in the back, ended up getting damage, and that sucked. But spot on for Clint Boyer driving for 40 plus laps at a road course with no power steering. He came over and he said, how many laps were left? And I said, 30.

And that's after he'd been running for a while. And he said, this is unbelievable. Like when the car bounces, my arms feel like they're falling off. And I was like, okay, 30 laps left. We're running a minute 28. He's got to do this for 45 more minutes. So what you saw the look on his face when you get out of a race car and these guys aren't athletes, right?

Yeah. That's not fun, man. So, I mean, what you see is a Clint Boyer, an athlete sitting there after literally 45 minutes of grueling pain. Yeah, like you said, he couldn't catch a break yesterday. You know, he needed to go out, and it was almost a must win, but he could have still made his way in if he could have, you know, two good stages and then a little bit of trouble for some couple guys.

He's going to get it, and he's out there. He's going to get eight or nine points in the first stage. They catch a caution right before the end of the stage. He's got a pit because he's a sitting duck if he don't. So that takes away stage points there. He's obviously fast in the rain. A track dries up. He got caught when we got in the back of the 47 there.

And wrecked them. So you did it. Oh, yeah, we wrecked the 47. I mean, nothing else you can say about it. I've been there. So that's what happened there, man. As we went into that wreck and we hit the car in front of us and it caved in the nose and it knocked the power steering pump off.

And we smoked for a hot minute, but once all that fluid was gone, it was over. I mean, look, spotting anywhere isn't a quote easy. But turn one is literally right under us. I was, you know, telling Dylan Welch last night this. I think Clinton, I saw it about the same time and it was just too freaking late. Because they're so close to you. You lose a lot of your peripheral vision of, if you're looking at your car here and they wreck over here, you're so close to it. You can't see it.

It's like Bristol. Yeah. Rec cabin is at Bristol. You're there in a few seconds. Yeah, we were three wide. Like, I mean, you're three wide, so you're having to watch your guy, but you're still scanning in front. And it's like, uh-oh. Yeah, all of a sudden you see everybody start checking up.

And bam. This is the bad part about stage racing kind of at road courses. I kind of wish they'd take the stages out at road courses because it really, it swaps the field every single time. And I know that's exciting, but you know, you don't really get a chance to compete against the same guys. Like, you don't get to have a good car and do anything to maintain the front because you've got to raise your stage points.

Well, guess what? 11 play on back is going to pit before the three lapses to go on the stage. And when the caution comes out, we're all going to pit and cycle behind them. They just get all that free track position for nothing, really. You know, you didn't really earn that. Then guess what? We got to drive all back through them guys. And there is no chance now with the stages.

I kind of like just kind of look, we've got to catch the caution, man. We got to watch for wrecks that might bring the caution out. You hit pit road. You got one or two guys that might catch the caution right and jump up to the front because they take that chance. Now it's like they know the caution is coming. So everybody pits and you're losing 15, you're losing any. anywhere from, I'd say 12 to 18 spots, roughly,

depending on how many cars pick. Because you know from 10th, 11th on back, is going to pit. So your cycle in the field, you've got no choice to be. You're in traffic then. And then you've got to try to get through them. Me and you race for the lead. We line up, we line up, you know, 15th, now it's a race between me and you and see you can get through the field faster.

Who can control the race at that point? So it's just, it's really, it makes it really tough. It just makes you decide. We talked about that last week. You know, it made like Kyle Busch, like, do you try to get your stage points or do you race to win the race? Your strategy is already made at a place like that. If you're having a bad day, you're doing the opposite no matter what. Yeah.

Like Blaney wrecks himself, pits for tires, comes back out, has another penalty, does a drive-thru, still comes out in front of the leader, and stays out the rest of the race when we all pit and he cycles into the top five. you know like I don't think you should be rewarded just all day like them guys that are running 15th they say that guy cycle's a fifth I also think it you know I don't mind it as much obviously obviously because probably because I get benefited from it some but you see guys end up front

you've seen Ryan Priest lead a bunch of laps yesterday because of the way you think cycled out you know he got to the lead and held on for a while so I don't I think it's I just think it brings strategy to it I prefer that over some of these races where there's no strategy you know there's We just run the stages out, and then we pit it, and then we run the next stage out, then we pit it, like, make these guys make a decision.

You got a choice. You want a race to win the race, or do you want to race for stage points? To me, there's too much of it, though, with two different stages, it cycles it twice. Yeah, I think we've always talked about maybe just one stage, you know, at some of these places, especially the short races. That would be a little bit easier.

I just prefer, to TJ's point, that we don't stop for stages at road courses and at plate races. I prefer we pay the points and we keep going. Just don't throw the caution or the green and white checker to end the stage. Just know that that's the stage payout on lap 30, and we keep freaking going because it does shake up things and put people up there. And look, I hate to say it this way, but it puts people up there that don't deserve to be there. I'm sorry. They didn't earn it.

No. So wait, I don't think it's anywhere farther. I want to continue off of that too. I saw your tweet. I think it was maybe your response to Caitlin. You're not blocked? Caitlin Vincy. Someone had tweeted, why?

don't we make road courses and or crown jewels double points? And you were like, that is a terrible idea. Dumb idea. Terrible. I mean, the races are almost double points now with these stages. Right. There's just too much math involved. Like, people are going to be crunching numbers doing math.

It's like, let him race. Poor Bob Bockris would have another freaking mess in his hands. It's already chaos already. You don't want to, you know, it's already chaos. And like he said, you put guys up there. I mean, we restarted behind the 53 car. because he cycled in front of us. He pitted, and we had no choice but to finish the stage out, get our stage points,

and then cycle behind him. Man, he really drove up there and did that, didn't he? I mean, it's hard for someone who grew up in and around racing because we were taught the checkered flag lap is the only lap that matters. And that's when you've got to be there. That's when you win the race. And we've changed that way of thinking entirely by putting these stages in place because now the checker flag is not the only thing that matters.

There's two other points in the race that matter. as well. So it changes the way you race. It's the race within the race. But the last thing we need to do is go pay double points somewhere. That's a terrible idea. Just get to get back to Clint here. What an idiot. Get back to Clint.

So we obviously have a text, me, Bubba, Clint, and Brett. And last night... Can you screenshot somebody? Bobba took a picture. Bubba must have screenshot that picture of Clint sitting down next to the car. He looked terrible. He said, hey, man, just really glad you're all right, you know. and I text Bubba, I'm like, I don't know that he's, that he's ready to talk to you yet.

Like, I don't, so then he responded. And the best part, he says, I'm, you know, I'm happy you're all right. And Clint said, where the hell are you in my bottle of water in reference of the Bowman deal from last year? And I was dying laughing. And I text Bob, I said, yeah, I don't think he knows it was you that caused that wreck yet. That's probably, probably valid. Does he know yet? I don't know.

I haven't talked to him. We're really good at picking people up when they're down. You know, it's amazing to have friends like this. I don't know how I get through life without them. Actually, my life will be a hell a lot better without them if I think of it. Friends like us, who needs enemies? Next one, Kyle Busch was eliminated from the playoffs in the earliest round since 2014. Bright, you actually start this one off as well.

You know what, man, I am spot on, not because it's Kyle Busch is out of the playoffs. I'm spot on, Hannah, because this tells us something. This is one of the best race car drivers to ever live. He's in some of the best cars in the field. And he didn't make it to the round of eight. He struggled at points to even make it into the playoff at all. He's coming off a championship last year. And this is the equivalent to winning a championship being LSU

and coming out the opening game of week one and getting blown out. It's a big deal that he missed this playoff. But what this tells people is how freaking hard it is to go out there and make this playoff. And I'm a believer that the way the cars drive right now, they benefit guys like Martin Truex, guys like Kevin Harvick, guys like Kyle Bush, because their true late model background applies to how these cup cars are driving right now. And I think it hurt a guy like a Kyle Larson, a guy like Christopher Bell, some of those guys that really used the throttle to drive their cars.

But regardless of where you live in that whole universe, this is a big statement that he didn't make it. Me? I'm spot on because Kyle's not big. I don't want to rate. Kyle is the guy that can go in two out of the next four races. And to have him out, now I don't. care if he goes and wins because it doesn't affect me. I want to win, but Kyle just, he could go on a hot streak. I mean, you know how them guys are. He'll, he's had winless streaks before,

nothing like this, but there is no doubt in my mind that Kyle, you look at his odds. His odds for Kansas are probably still really good. You know what I mean? He's just one of them guys that can go and knock off two, three wins out of four and like it's nothing. Yeah. If he hit on something, he could go and have a Tony Stewart run right. Yeah. He's one of them guys that can do that. So to have him out, I think, I think that's, that's a heavy hitter, man. Kyle Busch is a heavy hitter. And I have him out benefits everyone up there. Yeah, I think, I think that entire top eight that's made it is spot on for the fact that Kyle Busch is not in this playoff. You know, none of them guys wanted to see him in there. But on the same token, spot on, because

he hasn't been one of the best eight cars this year. For whatever reason, if you want to think it's, is it practice? Is the lack of practice really affecting Kyle Busch in this race team that much? I mean, that's the only thing that's changed this year, and this is the first time in, what, six years that he didn't make it this far into playoffs. So, I mean, I don't know if that's what it is or what, but he just didn't have it this year. They didn't have the speed. They had a lot of bad luck. And if you attribute it back to practice, maybe that's it. Maybe it's something else.

I don't know. But, you know, they just weren't one of the top eight cars, so they don't deserve to be there right now. I'm curious to see how this team performs over the next four races with no pressure on them because they've had a lot of pressure on them for the last several months. because you get to the point in the regular season where you look around the table and you go, uh-oh, if we don't really get going right here, we're going to miss this freaking playoff altogether. And they got in, right?

But now all the pressure's off, they can just go race. And I think maybe we see a better Kyle Busch. And it's, and it's, talk about the pressure. It starts probably, you know, a month or two in, people already saying, man, Kyle Busch ain't want to race yet. What's going on with Kyle Busch? This time, you know, by this time, last year he had three wins. You know, like instantly, if somebody like his caliber

coming off a championship doesn't win a race in the first month or two, the pressure's already building. Then you've got three more months. You've got to worry about I haven't won a race yet. You know, now I'm on the outskirts of the playoffs maybe. Like, you know, like you said, it just ramps up all year long. I'm just curious if this, if he doesn't win in the next four weeks, are there changes? I think they're going to fire him?

KFB. No, I'm just saying. I don't imagine this. Well, that's like post-race media. Someone asked him. They said, you know, is Stephen's going to be your crew chief next year? And he straight up goes... Well, him and Denny have both been through.

Whatever Denny does. He straight up goes, that's a stupid question. Why would you ask me that next? And I'm like... Yeah, I don't see them get... I don't see them split them guys. But man, you look at these organizations. And Denny's the only one winning over there.

Because he's great. Look at Stuart Haas. We need something to throw it in. Like, every time he says something. You look at Stuart Haas, Kevin is the only one winning over there. Like, it's kind of strange, you know? Standouts? Yeah.

I mean, it's, it's crazy. Because we know they're both great organizations with fast cars. But, I mean, Denny's the only one winning over there. Yeah. Next one here. Sounds like they use, you know, the Xfinity Series is pretty much a trial run for Sunday. So Xfinity Series race winner, AJ Almondinger said during the race, NASCAR is absolutely stupid for making us run in this.

They don't care about our safety as long as they get this race in. Freddie is your driver. He was not in a very good mood on Saturday. Chris Wrights had to talk him down off the cliff a couple times. And I don't really blame him. I mean, I'm all for racing in the rain. You know, I'm okay. We joked.

I did a race with Brett for Elliott at, what was that, Walkins Glen a couple years ago? Yeah, yeah. And it was raining, but it was not like, that was literally a hurricane on Saturday. It was a torrential downpour for, I would say, at least three of the four hours that we were out there racing. And it was standing water everywhere. It was at one, at some points in the race, when the. when the water, like when the rain was as heaviest, it was like dumb luck whether you wrecked or not.

Like there was no skill to it. It was like you go and turn one and just hydroplane. And you're just going to hold the wheel straight and hope to God you get a bite somewhere before you pound that wall. I mean, it was ridiculous. And I think that's what them guys are talking about. The wiper blades on the cars, they're not really meant to withstand a hurricane like that.

You know what I mean? Like they're meant to withstand our light rain. You know, we're going to, AJ's broke. I think all the call-aid cars broke. Risko's was broke. I don't know Cindrix might have been. You know, there was numerous cars that had no wiper blades now. So now these guys are out there driving around in the blind. Then it gets dark.

The TV's lighting up the racetrack. You're ever driven in the night when it's raining? How bad the glare is on the race, like just off the lights coming off all the cars. So they had a lot of stuff going against them. And AJ, he was not very happy about it. I don't really blame him because at some point you got to, you know, how much they cracked out on safety regulations. That was not very safe to be out there like that.

The only thing that I will give Freddie any sympathy on this for is the TV does lighten up the track a bunch. 100%. We ran a Martinsville race, and Jeff Gordon won it, and it was dark there. And I went back and looked it on TV, and I'm like, man, it's way brighter on TV. Even if you're a deer hunter or if you've ever been deer hunting, you sit in a stand, T.J. And you have a scope. I have a Zeiss scope on my rifle. And it does the same thing.

Like you can't see it all, and you put your scope up and you can see, like, that's what those TV cameras do. They just, every, they take a little slider bar or something in, oh, brightness in the sight. Well, the drivers can't do that. Other than that, I thought it was entertaining and great. So I think they should line them up and do it again. I can watch it next one, too. I had a nutrient act solutions in car camera with AJ, and I was going to, during the race, tag him because obviously share him some love. And I pulled him up on, I tried to pull them up on Twitter, and I couldn't find him.

So I went to the search thing and I typed in, AJ, I'm a Dinger. I clicked on it. Nothing. I clicked go-to AJ Dinger. And it said, you have been blocked. So at some point,

we've pissed Noah Gregson off on here. And now we've pissed fucking AJ. But see, Noah only unfollowed me. AJ said, he blocked me. So I can't even tweet this guy tell him thank you for carrying my anchor camera. Man,

I hope he didn't block me. Didn't you spot from last year at the Roble? I won the fucking Rojo with this guy. And he blocks me. We've got some exciting news coming for this guy This year in two weeks Three weeks He blocks me

I know what it was It was that segment on here When Ross's dumb ass wrecked him at Daytona Or Talladego wherever we were Daytona That's what happened I don't know It's probably

If I had a guess It's probably from back in Elliot Sattler days No man I'm not blocked I'm heck yeah that's awesome I'm not blocked Let me check Noah again It probably blocked

It probably blocked me after this Speaking of Noah, if we want to transition there. Nope, not blocked yet. I think I have Noah blocked. Oh, tell me why. Oh, yeah. No, that's like K&N days. No, that's Riley.

No, I don't have Riley blocked, I don't think. I don't think. Speaking to that. Yeah, so speaking to that, Riley Herps turned the leader, Noah. Gregson, said, I'm going to whip that MFers ass. I swear to God, F that. I want to put out a poll over under on how long in years. every time something happens to Riley Herpes on the racetrack, my phone blows up.

Like, anytime Riley's involved in anything on the race track. God bless your battery. I mean, between him and Ross, you probably get a lot of messes. That's going to be a lot. We've ran that joke so far into the dirt. I got a shovel. So, TJ, Noah Rex Riley at Vegas, right? I think it was Texas.

Texas. Regardless, he wrecked him somewhere. And now, right? he didn't mean to wreck him, but he wrecked him. I was also, how many people has Noah wrecked this? It was also a monsoon just for the record. I mean, listen, man, you

can't get mad at this because if you could change the car numbers, you would have done the same exact thing probably. And I would have thought his was on purpose. Yeah, and I would have thought he, I mean, look, man, I love watching Noah race. He's exciting. He drove,

he passed so many cars in that race. He went from the back to the front. destroyed his car, Dave fixes it, he comes back out, destroys it again, Dave fixes it again, drives back up there. Super exciting to watch, man. I'm not so sure if he didn't have a couple incidents there. He might have won the race.

I think that T.J. Majors could whip Noah Gragson's ass. I'm a little heavier, but... Here's where I'm at. And we say this on here all the time. If you talk about it, you're not going to do it. So here's your options. Either go there and handle it or shut. Cut the fuck up.

Like, don't run your mouth like you're some kind of badass, and then don't do nothing when you get out of the car. Over under on Freddie being blocked by tomorrow. That's fine. Look, I don't... It's not somebody I follow, so it's not a really big big concern to me. You can't drive aggressive, have contact with people and ruin their days, and then when someone else drives aggressive to you, whether you meant to do it or not,

and they make a mistake and you're on the other end of it, that's the price that you pay for that. Like, you're on the receiving end of it now. It's not, I mean, you can't drive like that and don't think it's not going to happen to you. That's right. And it was raining. I know. Look, man, Riley, there's a lot of talk about what Riley is going to do.

And I don't know if anybody, I don't know what Riley's going to do next year. So he's trying to win the race. Noah's trying to win the race. And I will give Noah credit. Noah said a few weeks ago that he was going to go back or a couple weeks ago that he was going to go back to being aggressive and driving like that and driving like he did. and he's been, I don't know what he does different, but he's way more competitive right now. The last two weeks he's been way more competitive.

But you can't drive like that and expect people not to drive you similarly sometimes. And sometimes you're going to be, sometimes you're the bug, sometimes you're the windshield. I had a meeting with Noah when Elliot decided he was retiring about spotting for Noah and sat down with a kid and a guy, I don't know how old he is. And I told him.

I said, man, I think you're going to like Xfinity racing a lot better than truck racing because you're more independent. You don't have to worry so much about using the draft as much, using the air as much. The Xfinity package is going to allow you to be able to manage the race yourself. And I think you're going to do well and go fast and win races. And that's what the guy's doing. It's just like Reddick was. It's similar to Reddick in my opinion.

I think though mentally, like he's got to get stronger, man. You can't be having these meltdowns on the radio because it's a distraction. It's a distraction for yourself. It's a distraction for your cruise. the crew chief is having to talk him off a ledge going, no, we're not, man, let's go try to win this race. It's hard to be as mentally tough as Jimmy Johnson. To me, he's one of the best. And I also watch guys like Casey Mears, who would mess up turn two at Charlotte and would go into turn three and Rick,

because he mentally got screwed up, right? Like, it's easy for us who watches every single lap of these races, not only for our driver, but other drivers that are out there around our driver to determine who's aggressive on restarts, who's not, who's mentally tough, who's not, who's going to dive bomb you, who's not? Like, we know who we're around and how they're going to race, and I think Noah has the racing aspect figured out in the Infinity Series, but mentally he's got some work to do. He's got some growth to have. I mean, we talked about this last year with Gillland on here.

Same thing. He wins a race and immediately takes it to a really negative place by MF and his car owner. Like, mentally, man, that's a big part of being able to drive race cars. Yeah, and I agree with TJ. You know, listen, and I don't fault, no has been aggressive. I don't fault him for being aggressive. I love watching him. But when you are going to race aggressively, you're going to piss people off.

And whether or not they decide to pay you back or race you back aggressively, you better be ready for it and better not complain if you, I mean, he wrecked this kid at early, like five, whatever it was, he ran up his ass, took all the air off a spoiler, and he pounded the fence off a turn four. Early in a race, absolutely no need for it. And his hometown. Yeah. So, I mean.

Oh, it wasn't his home. I think it was Texas. I don't remember. It might have been Vegas. These two are both from Vegas. Maybe we can... I suppose, I think they went to school together. A buddy or something.

I don't know. Yeah, they used to race legends together. They've grown up together. Him and her. What are we doing? Like a mid-December... Mud wrestling or something? Mid-December.

Mid-December. Mid-December. Uh-huh. Freddie with the Y. Last week, you said you went to Offerpad.com and got an offer on your home, right? That's right, Brett. I don't know who Freddy with the Y is, but I also did the same thing. I found out my home or mansion as I like to call.

call it is worth a number with a lot of zeros in it. I guess someone's bawling on a big budget over there. Now tell us about how you went about getting that offer on offerpad.com. First, I filled out the quick and easy five-minute form where I told offer pad about my house detailing things like, you know, square footage, how big the land was, how many rooms, how many bedrooms, how many bedrooms, I'm damn acres, how big my couch was, nine damn acres. But, you know, just really quick, really simple. It was point and click most of it. I think you had a type of and maybe a couple answers, but couldn't be easier. So you put that in, and then what happened?

About 24 hours later, I got an email from them and a call from one of the representatives asking to be if I wanted to accept their offer. Well, you're on Offerpad.com. Did you see the parts included when you sell your home to OfferPad? Like no showings, picking your own closing day, and a free local move, courtesy of Brett and Freddie with a Y. I did see all that, and I'm looking forward to having Brett and Freddie with a Y come over to move my big ass couch to my next mansion.

Did you do the most important thing when getting that offer on your home from offerpad.com, Freddie? You know I did, Brett. In the how did you hear about this question, I told OfferPad I heard about him from this podcast. Do what Freddie did. F-R-E-D-D-I-E. Go get your cash offer on your home today at Offerpad.com. It's been a week of silly season news.

We talked about it a little bit earlier. Boyer announced his retirement. Bowman announces going to the 48. from the 88. De Benedetto finally gets that contract renewal back in the 21 for next season. Suarez is now running for the new team of trackhouse, Justin Marks teams. What do you guys got to think about that, Brett? I'm a spot on for the Justin Mark's move. I have been worried for the last several years about the age of our ownership group because let's face it, man. You know, Roger Penske, Jack Rausch, Rick Hendrick, those guys are older guys and are big, a huge

parts of the sport, Joe Gibbs. And when you look at those guys, it's like, man, what do we do after them and who is going to come in and be leaders, right? And when you look at a team like Michael Waltz racing, really young ownership, you know, Michael was in his 50s, unfortunately, when that place shut down. And that's a problem for our sports. So to see two new teams coming in here that have got some young ownership, man, I'm excited about it.

I mean, and then you look at the Xfinity series with Matt Collick, another young guy that's building a big Xfinity series program that you have to wonder, are they going to want to go cup racing soon? And you have to hope the answer is yes, because, you know, this new Gen 7 car, everybody seems to be really getting geared up to go racing with that car. I knew that Justin Marks was making this move,

talked to Ty Norse a few months ago about it. They got a really interesting concept with how they're doing this thing. But anytime we have ownership that is coming into race, you're going to hear me be excited about it. I mean, we were talking last night, and I'll even ask this question to TJ, Spire Motorsports owns three charters. How many race cars are they on, T.J.

I don't know if they know in any. None. Yeah, I don't think they own any. So when we look at a guy like Justin Marks coming in here, obviously he's leasing a charter from Spire, but he's actually going to go out and race. He's going to be competitive. He's going to have a gigantic alliance with RCR.

Because he's on RCR's campus, right? he's probably going to take over the germane area he's going to be on the campus for sure i don't think he's going to take over that building but he's going to be on campus i know who's taking over that building that's why i can't tell you um but he's going to do something big here i justin marks is a smart guy he's a racer he's got a very successful business background he's a guy that can go out and a track sponsorship and i truly think him and tie are building something great and it reminds me a lot of the wood brothers model the way they're going to do these things do you know where track house comes from like the idea of the name anything like that because it's just different like

when he announced it super cool logo yeah clean looking but it was just like you know most people just like it took me a minute to figure the logo out but it is super cool once you see it tj wanted touch on any i mean i'm spot on for it man i think it's uh i've known justin for a long time as well he came on our podcast yeah and he i used to work for my go pro wait right yeah he on tj brought him in here Yeah. Yeah, he used to be a GoPro, or he still is. Yeah. Had a World of Outlaw team.

Did he? Yeah, with Larson. He been in Larson. Larson Marks. Oh, yeah. And he was part of the Kain-in team, I think, too. He is, yeah, he's... He's always doing business ventures and stuff like that, but I think I'm excited

for him, man. I think it's cool to, I think it's cool for him to be coming in there. And it's also good for us to be talking about a new team coming into the sport as well. obviously we got two decent size ones. I mean, we got Freddie's new team and... Almost. And now

we got Justin Marksfield and a team too. And I think the new car, I think the model is setting up a path for new teams to kind of form and be competitive fairly earlier. You know, obviously it's really hard to start a team and be competitive right out of the box, but

I think the new model is a lot of allowing it to be more achievable. And, you know, these guys wouldn't be doing it if they didn't think they could, they didn't think they could be successful. You're not going to start a team. Oh, man, I just want to run 30th every week. You know, these guys are starting these teams because they want to be, you know,

they want to be the next Roger Penske, Joe Gibbs, you know, Mr. H. They want to be them guys. So I think it's great for the sport. I think it's another good thing and excited for Justin and Ty. I think it's great. Yeah. I mean, like Brett said, I think this is going to be very similar to the Wood Brothers Penske Alliance, where this is going to be like a satellite RCR team.

And I think it's great because that'll be good stuff that Daniel can get in and Justin's team will take off pretty well. Some of the other things, Boyer retiring. That sucks, obviously. Clint's, you know, you ain't going to find anybody more fun than Clint Boyer. But I'm so excited for him to go to the booth. I'm so glad he's just not walking away. Here's the booth question, right? Here's the million-dollar booth question.

We all know Clint Boyer. Who is he paired with? Mike and Jeff, I think. Yeah, he is for sure. But we all know Clint Boyer. We all know how biggest personality is. I know how opinionated he is. A lot of those TV guys get in the booth and start drinking a Kool-Aid.

Yeah, they get a little neutral. Is he going to be a Kool-Aid guy or is he going to bring? I hope not. I hope they let him have loose me. Can you get fined as a commentator? No, but you'll get a phone call. But anyway, so that sucks for Clint. But it's great, I mean, it's great for the fans.

The fans are going to win here. because he's going to be on TV, and as long as I can't imagine him ever changing. So I'm sure there'll be no cookie cutter there. That kind of obviously opens a door for Briscoe. I think that's pretty much a foregone conclusion there. The one that kind of jumped out to me this week was the Benedetto, which, you know, people jumped on me last week because I guess I was too hard on Matt saying in an average year. And, yeah, I mean, this happens.

But, you know, the thing that jumped out of me is about this. This was you announced Matt de Benedetto's driving the 21 car next year. And at the same time, you announced Austin Sinjax driving the 21 car the year after. That's so weird. Now the guys, okay, congratulate, you got a job. But you're now racing for your life again. I don't know what to tell you about the year after that. So I didn't really understand that move on their side of it.

I mean, Roger Prenski is a hell of a lot smarter than I am, so I'm sure there's a reason. Are you sure? I would imagine so. I mean, just based off success. It's not really that rich. I just didn't understand. I mean, I don't know why you would do that. that. You know, obviously,

I'm, race fans are not going to lose. You know, it sucks Clint's, you know, not going to be on the track, but the next best thing is happening, and that's Clint on TV. Clint is really good, like Brett said. Man, he's just, he's a life of the party, man. He's going to be animated. He's going to, he's fresh out of the car.

He's going to have a very fresh perspective of what these guys are going through. And Clint's probably going to not hold back, and he's probably going to say some things that he probably shouldn't and that's going to make it great. I agree with that's, but see, that's what I'm saying. That's the guy. I want to see the Clint Boyer that I know and love on television. Don't want to hear those big ass spoilers. Yeah, I want to see him bring it, man.

Obviously, 21 car we talked about last week. There were two decision makers involved and they're both billionaires. And they made the decision to bring Matt back. I personally think it was the right decision for Austin Cendrick. and next year, how many races can Austin Cendrick win with no Chase Briscoe in the 98 car? It's going to be a lot. I think this is a great move for Austin has a chance to win the championship this year, and next year his momentum, his confidence is so high.

He's going to be, you can't enter the Cup Series in a better path than what he's got laid out for him right now. He's going to be, he's going to go run for a championship next year, possibly two back-to-backs. he's just going to be that's a perfect path he's got things laid out for him and these guys you know I get what Freddie's saying like okay Matt

you know it kind of sucks you know you got one more year but Matt now has a chance honestly I think Matt can have a really successful year next year and you don't know what doors are going to open if Matt goes and wins two three races and runs you know top ten

that's the team I would shake up though from a personnel perspective because to me that's that's the team that they got it I mean for Matt's sake and for the team's sake like build it build it and make it something really super special because because you know the future of it now here's where I'm so now okay so obviously the two cars going to be open again next year Brad signed a one year deal so a lot of people were connecting the dots there well maybe Matt moves over but what I was trying to get out last week and I'll back it up again this week if Matt has another season next year like he had this year there's no seat for him at Penske racing like there's there's there's not it's you have to go out there and win

races in that equipment. You can't just get by with, you know, I made the playoffs. I was out in the first round and, and, okay, let's go to the next year. Some guys do better with that pressure, though. Yeah. And I, like I said, Matt is an unbelievable guy. The kid loves racing. I mean, eats, sleeps racing. I think he's a hell of a race car driver, but he's got to step it up next year and perform or he's going to be left without a seat. Bombing to the 48. We said on this show months ago, there was a top secret meeting at Hendrick. Finally came out. And this is when all this right here started happening. It's not done yet.

So, so obviously, now we've got to have a driver for the 88. Who's that going to be? I mean, who's that going to be? Do you think,

let me ask you this, but you're on the marketing side of it. Do you think this was an ally play that they didn't want to sponsor the other guy that we all know

is getting in the car? I think Bowman, I mean, man, look at Alex Bowman. Like, he came in and took the place of the most popular driver potentially to ever live.

How cool in all that? And now he's taking the place of potentially the best driver to ever drive. And I think his image and his performance have gotten him that opportunity. And I think Ally being a fully funded deal and with Rick's business background, like I think it just made the most sense for the business side of what they're trying to do. And I think if your ally on the marketing side, I don't want an unknown. And I've got something in-house with Alex Bowman that is a known entity. he probably had been around these people a lot.

And obviously Rick speaks high of him. Like, I think it just made the most sense. And you think that it's just the 48 still because it's iconic. Because I would have thought, you know, we had heard around, we had heard pretty much a couple weeks ago that Ally was going with Bowman. And I was wondering if it was just going to be the ally 88 car. And then they were going to change the number for the other car for that dirt guy. But like, I'm assuming just on Ally, just brand recognition you want that 48 number?

I think so. Probably iconic. Does he still have stuff with Valvaline? too because Valvene's pretty like I know Valvine does all of Bowman's dirt stuff too and they just did a big rebrand. They were on his car this week I think. Yeah. So will he take that to the 48? He could. I mean, you know, they can work that out. You know, obviously Rick owning all those dealerships is a lot of service departments. They do a lot of old changes. I paint cars if Rick Hendrick wants to give me a call. When you have all these old changes in place, guess what you can go out and get an old deal?

I'll tell you another guy. How do you think, how do you think Penske has pins all? Same deal. Big play. I'll tell you another guy that I think's turned it up here and probably driven his way back into a seat where I thought two months ago there was no chance of this is probably Ryan Priest. I mean, he's had some really good runs the last month, three, three weeks month, good run at Daytona, really good run yesterday, leading laps at a road course short tracks. I think he had a top ten a couple weeks ago. So, you know, that was a guy that I thought might be on his way out and maybe not have any options to where now, I don't know if it's an option to stay in the 37 or get another ride,

but I think he's going to find some. That 37 deal is going to be a little sketchy. We heard they probably lost their charter to, one. one of them Spire deals. So I'm sure they can lease another charter. Rick Ware's got 35 of them if they need one. But I thought Ryan's really stepped. Like we talked about guys, if you want to get a seat, you've got to perform and Ryan's

really stepped it up to the last month. Has Eric Jones landed anywhere yet? No, no. Yeah. Eric Jones. A lot of talk about him being Bubba's replacement. You know, some talk about him being in the 37. I think Eric's challenge is he doesn't have a sponsor with him.

And when you get put out on the street and you don't have a sponsor this lawyer, to you. Because Toyota's pushed him up. Yes. And they're going to stay. It's hard to be able to open doors when you don't have money in your pocket. Yeah. Last one here on spot on, spot off.

The Super Bowl could get pushed to the same day, the same Sunday as the Daytona 500. Freddie. I thought there's a buy week they're going to cut. Well, there's a, well, the problem is NFL doesn't care about us. So they're going to run their schedule out. they want it and then it's up to us to adapt to them. And spot off because I have a hell of a Super Bowl party every year. And I would be very upset about having to cancel my Super Bowl party because I got to go

they don't know if I want it. But anyway, this is potentially huge for NASCAR, you know, and just for the fact of, like I talk about Super Bowl parties, you have a Super Bowl party. The party doesn't start when the kickoff. It's hours before usually. Nobody ever sees a kickoff. I was going to say, I don't know how many of us made it to have to. I haven't seen the Super Bowl in five years.

Last year, but so now you've got something you can put on at 1 o'clock or 2 o'clock, whatever it is. Schedule it out three or four hours before kickoff, and you've got an audience now that's dying. They're not going to want to watch this ridiculously long pregame. You've got a hell of a race that's going on, and maybe you draw a new audience. I think it's great because the Super Bowl is also in Tampa, right? Or where is it at? I think it's Tampa. Yeah, it's in Tampa.

And it's on NBC. So I think it's a, I'd start that Daytona 500 about noon 1 o'clock, run that thing. Give anybody the opportunity that wanted to go over the Super Bowl. You got time to get there still and make a, we talk about the greatest day in racing all year is usually the day we watch the Monaco, the Indy 500, and the Coke 600. and this could rival that. I mean, you've got, I know it's not a race, but man, how cool would it be? Daytona 500, followed by the Super Bowl.

You know, one season's kicking off, one season's starting her starting up, one season's ending, man. I think it's a great play, man. Look, I'm not scared of the NFL. I'm not scared of the Super Bowl, because I know that the people who are going to watch the Daytona 500, if you don't run at the same time as a Super Bowl

are still going to watch the Daytona 500. The fact that it's, I always wanted us to run the clash, the shootout, whatever its name these days. I always wanted us to run that on Super Bowl Sunday at 1 o'clock just to see the TJ's point how it would do because so many people that day have already blocked their whole day to day drink and watch sports. And what the heck would we know if we don't go and try it?

So if they move their season back a week because of the COVID issues they're having as a league. And, man, they're having a lot. I'm thankful that we've run and managed ours as well as we have when I see these teams and the sport having to make these shifts. I'm all for it, man. Run them both on the same day. We can make it work.

By the way, Brett, Super Bowl's on CBS this year. CBS? They switched the deals around the last couple years. NBC. Well, they switched it around originally because NBC didn't want it in the same year as the Olympics, but that will shift it around. So we're back to CBS next year. Gotcha, got you.

Time for the Xfinity Smoked y'all last week Fast Lane segment Yeah you did You did good last week Hang on I'm going to see how many stage points We got out real quick

I got to look up where I started Where we're going to take Hit the gas Take our Xfinity speed From the track to the studio We'll jump into our weekly Fast Lane segment Where like always

We ask these guys six questions More of them Has anyone gotten six right yet? No No way I don't think anybody's got three right You got four last week TJ?

Yeah So we're going to see again Who can answer the fastest how many they can get right. First one. How many playoff points does Joey Legano enter the round of eight with? Oh, shoot. 21.

Which playoff driver finished lowest on Sunday? Amarola. How many cautions did Exfinity Roval or series Roval race have? 11. What is the correct name for a virgin cow? Oh, God. Virgin? Freddie.

He's not a virgin. What is Mickey... I'm taking a guess, I mean. Freddy at 8. What is Mickey Mouse's dog's name? Pluto. How many squares are on a chest board? Chesty.

Chest board? Did you say chess? How about 90? All right, DJ got one out of the six. Lugano is 22 points going to the next round. You're one-off. I know your own car number. Kyle Bush finished 30th.

He was the lowest playoff guy on Sunday. The Xfinery was a first playoff guy on Sunday. X-Fexam race had 10 caution, so you're one-off. And the name for a virgin cow is a heifer. Oh, I actually knew that. And a chessboard at 64 squares. Damn, I said 60 in the beginning, didn't I? And then you said 90.

Yeah, that was like, wait a minute. There's that row, that row, that row. Either one of those are you wrong. I'm at a hotel, but not a holiday and express before we get into this. So there's no chance I'm going to do it. And there's no way you're smarter than a fifth grader. All right, Brett. How many laps did Clint Boyer lead on Sunday?

12 Who finished last on Sunday Damn Last I don't know Who started on the pool in the Xfinity series race Briscoe

Who is Scooby-Doo's best friend Shaggy Like how they both get the children's cartoons I watched that growing up Duh What has a head and a tail But doesn't have a body A head and a tail

Oh hell A snake. How many years can a snail sleep for? Seven. Clint led nine laps on Sunday. Timmy Hill finished last. Oh, Timmy Hill. That's the perfect question for you.

Dang, Timmy, you don't suck like that. He literally hasn't spelled out for you to. Timmy Hill. I saw him up here on a stage. He got a stage boy. It's like a bunch of stage points. Hang it, Timmy. What happened?

Noah sat in the poll on Saturday's race. A coin has a head. a tail does not have a body. That's clever. And a snail can sleep for three years. Oh, hey, you're like four off. All right, Freddie, you only have to answer two right to win. Why are snails so lucky, man?

That sounds easier do you think. Snails can sleep for three years, man. Imagine me like, hey, all right, guys. I'm going to take a nap. I'll see you in 23. Yeah. See y'all. Sounds like my brother.

Yeah. Okay, Freddie. Where did Bubba Wallace start on Sunday? 26th. Which playoff, non-playoff driver finished highest on Sunday? Eric Jones. So we just like... I mean, that's simple.

How many laps did AJ Almendinger lead on Saturday? Nine. What year was Michael Jordan drafted in the NBA? 84. What color is octopus blood? Black. How many... How many sizes the trapezoid have?

Six. All right, Freddie, you win with your free rights. Omdinger led 12 laps I was impressed you knew the Jordan stat You got to prepare for your next down That was a guess by the way He was just guessing around the air It was either 84 85 I could be

Either 82 or 84 I don't know what I said Octopus blood is blue And a trapezoid has four sides Trap Yeah Trapping four sides I should have known that

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AskDBC. Time for AskDBC. Okay. Parker Clickerman joined the Asked BBC gang, apparently. He said, how did you keep your radios dry on Saturday? Did you need to go to backups? And what are you going to bring in the future for rain race spotting? Look at Parker coming to the party.

Parker, my radios were in my garage and my backpack Saturday. So they were perfectly fine. They were dry. So I didn't really, honestly, the way I do it is I'll put my radios on and then put my raincoat over the radio. So my radios were bone dry. the rate at the end of the race yeah it looks like a car cover um but the the challenging the most challenging part is the headset because you don't really know i mean i had my hood up but it still got soaking wet because the rain was coming at my face so that was all and like i said i had a push at

talk go bad because that's kind of out in the elements i try to keep it in my pocket but it couldn't just keep my hands in my pocket the whole time um so that went bad i had a cable i think went bad um i went to pick my binoculars up. They were full of water. So I don't know. I would probably, I guess the only thing I could do differently would be just not even take my binoculars out, but then they'd just be in my bag that's soaking wet. So that wouldn't going to help anything. I think that Parker's bringing up a point that I'm going to do to support you guys in your future as spotters. The facilities that we go to are badass most of the time, especially now that we're not going

to Kentucky. The rest of them are great facilities. But we have a new track being built at Fontana. This is an opportunity to go and build a facility for the spotters that is covered. In enclosure. In the event that it's 150 degrees or if it's raining, which obviously in Southern California, it's not supposed to be raining. But this is an opportunity. Parker is pointing out the fact that we are denied the ability to get out of the elements of the weather when they're bad.

And we can fix that. And that could be fixed. Rain, like, there's no way to protect your microphone. You can cover all your stuff up for the most part, but there is no way you can cover your microphone up. Unless you're not in a downpour like that. You've got to be careful because some guys, I mean, there's guys that do different things.

And Mike Herman had, he had Ziploc bags over his radios. Well, then when we got that red flag in the Xfinity race, we went down and Herm's got four inches of water in his Ziploc bag. So now he's just been soaking a radio in water. Yeah. So you can try to prepare the best you can. Like, I'm telling you, that was the most ridiculous thing I've ever been a part of, just the amount of rain and just standing there. Like, I literally just stripped off all my clothes in my garage and left them there.

And I look today, my shoes are still sopping wet. Like I said, my radios are fine under my rain jacket. They're fine, but the headset kind of took a beating. I bet that was a sight when you walked in. I had, I packed saran wrap yesterday, and I was going to saran wrap my headset in the event that we race because I was like, I mean, I knew Freddie had his hood up. I would have loved to see him saran wrapping itself. I knew Freddy's, I wrap it up, dog. I knew that, you know, Freddie had his hood up.

And like when I was texting TJ the night before and the day of, he was like, I'm going to put my hood up. I'm like, man, that ain't enough. Freddie had freaking major problems. So I was just going to cover everything up, but I didn't have to because some was out. I was going to try to hold an umbrella. And I wasn't able to use binoculars at that time,

but I was willing to sacrifice the binoculars for saving, you know, equipment. Yeah. My spotting bag actually came with a rain cover. So worst case scenario, I would have thrown that bag on my cover on, put on my backpack. We have on about $8,000 worth of equipment. Is that something that, like, your bag, like, manufactured? Like, who do you get your, is, like, the spotting bag? Is it OGO?

No, I found a company a long time ago, and it was just a camera bag. Oh. But it was, the camera bags are best for spotters. Racing electronics actually makes a really good bag similar to that. That's made of weatherproof material. But I don't think it can. I don't think even the waterproof, like Freddie said, even a rain jacket, when it's downpouring, water is going to find its way in.

So, yeah. Oh, yeah, I was, so my rain jacket was zipped up to my chin, you know, and that break I took out, I started taking stuff all. We went under the grandstands and took everything off, and I was soaked. My shirt was soaked. Like, I was like, how is it getting? We can spot in the rain, but when it's a downpour like that, and honestly, I did, I've done a rain race, the last 24-hour race, Daytona, I did, was.

a lot in the rain. Was it last one or the one before? It was last year. Yeah. It rained a lot, but they had us inside. And I, like, you can't, like, if you're out there for hours, man, it's going to eventually get wet. So water and electronic stuff does not mix.

The weird thing is, like, when it's sleeting in our face at Bristol, which, what was that, T.J, two years ago? T. T.J. and I were standing beside each other. Like, literally sleaked, hitting us in the face. Oh, that's so cold. When we're standing in Las Vegas and we're getting 60 mile by wind gusts, which,

which also is accompanied by sand. When those things are happening, it's raining at Charlotte. It's a little bit of a distraction, you know, because you get those bursts of weather and you're like, ooh. Yeah, that's sleep. I couldn't. That was one of the one times that I can specifically remember where I couldn't focus on my car because you were literally getting hit in the face with ice.

It was painful. Yeah, and you're just kind of trying to block it. And it just kept, you had to, it was enough that you had to pay attention. It wasn't like, you know, like a rain. It was like actually ice. hitting you in the face and you just couldn't really focus that well. It's just a little bit of distraction. You've got to overcome, right?

You can't be distracted. Final question here that was submitted from AskDBC. Die 9. Do it yourself 9. That's a D.I.9. That's D.I.9. That's D.I.9. It's Chase Elliott.

That's his thing. Who are your championship four picks? Freddie, you want to start? Sure. Danny Hamlin. Oh, wow. Why'd you pick him? So, Denny, I would be one of my picks.

I'd say Denny, Harvick. We listen to TJ Brown knows his team for five years in this podcast, and now you're brown-nosed and Denny. It's getting ready. You're way, you've already caught up. I need a couple more weeks, maybe. So Harvick, Danny, probably Truex, I think. And then it's going to be a hell of a race.

Probably I'm going to go with. I hate to say this, Joey Legato. I got Chase Elliott in there somewhere. I know. I don't know whose place he just took. And I don't think it's Kevin Harvick or Danny Hamlins, but I got Chase Elliott in there somewhere. Would you put Chase there for Truex?

Truex has like five second place finishes at mile and a half for some crazy crap, right? Like he's been on fire there. So I think he's, look, the craziness of the schedule is over. We're now going to four tracks where we have a lot of experience racing, two mile and a halfs in a row. obviously everybody's been to Phoenix a zillion times martinsville is really the only quote wild card in here um i true x is too fast to me if those mile and a halfs not to make it obviously you're going to have

the four minus catastrophe is already going to be in phoenix denny it denny's uh the next step down and he's already he's there already with just three average runs from denny and we won't even get close to him. So the, we are all that fourth spot, our next, next couple spots are going to be up in the air, man. It's going to be tough. Chase is coming off a wind. Does he have momentum? Does he carry it over? Brad's one of them guys that can, that can go and knock off two wins quick, too. You put Brad in a situation and he can he can excel. Joey's, Joey's very mentally strong. This is the type of crunch times when you see Joey perform. form and you put pressure on Joey, he excels.

What I like most about Joy Legano as a race car driver, and this didn't come about until he came on our show, all he wants to do is win. He doesn't care about a point. He don't care about anything else. His mindset is win. Yeah, he knows what, like going in, he knows what our goal is the next three races. And if we can't win, he knows how to get the very best out of it. And that's what we're going to do.

And if we can't win, we're going to go. and Paul is a sneaky good crew chief if he can put Joey in positions to to excel and, you know, if something comes up and those guys are probably going to, you know, take advantage of it. So this is a good time of year for Joey and our team. So, but them last two spots are going to be, I really think it comes down to Truex, Chase, Brad, and us. So. I think that's everybody else. Well, you got, well, I mean, you got Bowman and.

Oh, you don't think Bowman's. going to make it. I just think, well, I mean, he could. He could go win. He could have to them off list. I mean, hey, everyone has an equal chance of making it. It does. It says, well, that's not really, that's not true because of points. Playoff points suck, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, you could go and win. That's, everyone has an equal shot of winning, so. I think you put Joey Legano in the, in the final four because he has that killer instinct. And I think that, you know, that edges them, I don't, I mean, I'm obviously not trying to call Brad out, but if I think that Joey would put more on the line to make it versus Brad. You know what I mean? Like I don't see Brad having that killer instinct.

I don't give a shit about nobody attitude like Joey Laganow has proven many times that he has. And that's to his benefit. That's what you need to do. For sure. So on this segment, we also have an offer pad question of the week each week. This one, we'll ask me we talked about where we would live in the Charlotte area or suggestions. This one is describe what your dream home would look like. three-car garage, pool, and a room

with a padlock on it that only one person could get in. Brett's is a double-wide on the beach in Myrtle Beach. He doesn't really even need a house. With no underpinning.

I'm thinking Brett would be really nice. Brett pull up to the beach in a pickup truck with one of them camper shells on top of the bed, you know? Roll out and his jorts. And high American flag socks. Howdy neighbors? Cousin Eddie.

I want nine damn acres somewhere in the middle of the country, and I want to be able to not have a neighbor, and I want to have a one-story house, and I don't want any walls in it. I just want a big old open house with a fireplace and a big-ass permanent cooler, a kegator, a bar. You don't want 10 acres. You want 9. I want 9-dam acres.

Okay, just check. So anybody looking for land, you got 10, you're out. You know, Brett doesn't want anything to do it. Eight, you're done, too. Just got to be nine. Oh, boy. We'll tell you all the inside joke about the nine-down acres. Put a note in the show, Jason, for Homestead or not Homestead.

That's next year. I probably won't even be here next year. Phoenix, and I'll tell you the nine-down-acre story. I don't know. I just move into Brett's nine-dam acres. I was going to say, build me a house on that acreage. What do you think Doug's singing right now? This would be a great question for Doug.

He needs nine-down-makers for that German Shepherd. He's got running around. I'm so glad Joe let that thing in muddy. Thanks, Joe. Boy. I got a rant today. Do it. Is it about rain?

Where's my shirt? Yeah. What shirt? You wearing my shirt over there? Well, I didn't go back by my hotel. Can I tell you all it sucks living in a hotel? You're almost done that, right? Yeah, I hope so.

I don't know. Until the next week. Yeah, until the next remodel. Until the way my life's going on. While we just bring Doug's dog over, it's like a free remodel. No. big dogs in my house, bro. They don't have. I got little dogs. You got like a max

weight of like, what, 12 pounds? 20. I think it's one pound. You know, they're all so little? You know who else had a dog like this? Del Jr. When he got killer, remember that? Oh, sounds like an aptly named dog. Well, yeah, so. What did you think was going to happen?

I forget, he took him to Daytona and I was staying on the bus that year. And I went somewhere, I went to an appearance with him or something. And we came back. Dude, he ate everything. His wallet was chewed up on the floor And, you know, those guys, when you get to that point, you never take your wallet anywhere. So he chewed up everything in Dale Jr.'s bus.

We got back in there, I was like, oh, my gosh. Destroyed it. To your rebuttal, Freddie, my Bernard Pollard, the Blackdale Jr. shirt that I have for you was in my hotel. Hannah, when my truck got broken into last week. They stole my checkbook. They stole my fucking Hannah Newhouse shirt.

It's only same they took. If I'll go downtown Charlotte and I see some random piece of shit walking around in a Hannah Newhouse shirt I'm going to get out of my truck and I'm going to beat the ever-living shit out of you.

They seriously stole your hand-in-houshirt. Stole my fucking Anna Newhouse shirt is gone. You're going to swear again? I'm heartbroken. Well, I never bought one but I got one on right now. Jason, my blood pressure just went up. I turned red and I'm mad. Somebody stole my freaking shirt. He turned red at the same time last night

when he ordered... I'll bring one next week. Fireball shots, one after another. What was that first when you ordered Starburst? I don't know. It was good. No, I ordered a nerd shot and she brought us a Starburst shot. You know, if you had out of Clemson, lights played on that thing,

and everybody got broken into. Probably true. They knew there would be anything in there but trash. So I got a lot of tweets last week from fans. And, dude, it was cool, man. So Clint announced this he's retiring, and to this point, I've made it nothing but all about Clint. But a lot of people sent me tweets about what am I going to do?

And this lady named Jesse Stein probably sent me the one that touched my heart, right? So it said, I want to know who you're spotting for next year. I got to pick a new driver, and I don't know who in the hell that will be. And I figure if I could at least follow my favorite spotter, it will be helpful for that transition. Congrats to Clint, but damn. So she and I started sending direct messages back and forth. Turns out Jesse's blind. And she sent me a DM at the end, and she said, if TJ or Freddie give you any shit,

you tell them both, I walk with a cane, and I'll smack the hell out of them. So once again, I've getting a lot of love. But next year, man, like, I don't know what happens yet. I'll be honest with you. I think I'll spot something, but I don't think it'll be full time. It'll have to be real special to be full time. So we'll see. Sounds like you're announcing in a couple days.

A couple days. Whatever you said a little bit ago when there was an announcement coming out. A couple weeks. That ain't mine. I'll wait until after Phoenix and decide what's going on for sure. But, like, it's, I've been doing this a long time. And I don't know, man. It's going to take a really special scenario.

And I think there's one out there, literally one. It'll take a really special scenario that I think I can go win a lot of races. I'll do it. But if not, I'm going to hang up a full-time hat. Did you see somebody tweeted at us this morning and asked if I was going to retire with Clinton if you were going to go with Bubba? Yeah, she was really on top of it. Yeah. I think her name was Megan, actually.

I don't know what her name was. I can't remember the name, but they probably blamed me for everything. I mean, when Elliot retired, I told Clinton. I said, man, I'm telling you right now, the only reason I am going to keep spotting anything is because I love you. You're a great friend of mine, and I'm going to finish your career with you. And I've done that. And he was like, oh, you need the money and you need this, you need that. And I was like, dude, I'm telling you, if it weren't for you, I would retire from full-time spotting right now.

And obviously, I didn't. I finished his career with him, which I would do all over again. If he'd have run another year, I'd have spotted another year. But, man, this takes a toll on you. And I've been doing it 20-something years traveling full-time. It really hit me hard when my mom broke her hip a couple months ago, a couple years ago, rather. And I had to leave her in the hospital, having surgery, going into surgery, and I had to go stand on a roof. And I was like, man, I don't know my priorities in the right place here.

And so from that point on, emotionally, like, it just has put me to where I'm at. So I think this morning I had a phone call that if I want to do the Daytona 500, I can do that one, which is the only one I really want to do anyway, if I'm not going to get that one particular scenario. I got bad news for you. You're doing at least six races this year. I'm just telling you that right now. I don't know how many you want to do,

but you're doing at least six. And look, I told Freddie this, you know, unless if I don't come back full time, I still want to spot. I still love to compete. I still love racing. I still love NASCAR. But I want to do it. I've always done it with my buddies.

Like I've never not spotted for a guy that I don't go have a beer with or have dinner with or that I have feelings. and emotions tied to right. So, like to show up and just spot for some random, dude, it'd be weird. It'd take you a little while to get going. So I told Freddie, who obviously I'm friends with Bubba, I was like, hey, if you need a second spotter next year, I might know one that's available. I just got to get that first spotter lock down, and then I'll let you know about the second one. So I'm going to be pro-team Denny here, too, potentially as this thing plays out.

Then I know he must pick and DBC picks then. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Freddie, dude, you're leading now. You're up 12. Congratulations. Well, you know.

The 11, 9 of a Brett and TJ. To ever lead this. So does, yeah, Brett gets to pick first? I do. I suck again. Yes. Man, I'm going to tell you what. God, you guys finish first and second.

That's impressive. I think I'd have been first, second, or third right there with you had I've been getting the opportunity to keep going. But obviously what it meant to be. Oh, let's see. I'll make this quick, True X. I'm going to roll with Eric Jones. Let's make it a Gibbs sweep.

I'll go Kyle Bush. Ooh. So you guys, do you guys think a non-playoff guy wins one of these last four? Obviously, eight guys are in a playoff. Yeah, I do. I do. I think so, too. I do. I think there's too many guys. You got Ryan Blaney. You got Kyle Busch. Oh, there's some heavy hitters back there, man. I mean, there's a bunch of guys that could win that aren't in these playoffs. I think, obviously, when you put Kyle and Blaney in there already,

Blaney was a surprise, you know, exit early there. And he had a lot of speed yesterday as well, really fast, super fast, just caught, you know, he had to do a little track position thing there at the end, had a little older tires, but if he had newer tires, I think he could have raised chase for the win. Right, right. So I can't pick Harvick here, because I don't think Harvick's going to, I think Harvick is going to be fast, but he's not going to. You got to say him for Phoenix if you can.

Yeah, well, I mean, I mean, yeah, he just. Exfantity series, man, Colleg Racing back-to-back wins. Obviously, Freddie was a part of the one on Saturday, man. Like, it's cool to see a new team come in like that. I mean, it reminds me of, you know, watching Furniture Row coming to the Cup Series and struggle until they got their feet under them. And then, boom, you know, once they got the right guy in the car, Martin Truex, man, they let the world on fire.

And, I mean, that's what Colleg's doing. So I like to see teams. I mean, we used to see it all the time, man. Look at Germain, you know, running the trucks. And then they grow their program and obviously end up in Cup on a lot. On the business side, the more owners that we have, and I mean by owners, the guys that are actually out there racing, the more healthy our sport is. Well, and it's cool to see a colleague, too, like, jump into it and instantaneously be, like, a professional, like, their sponsor activation. They've got new drag all over.

Like, I see it now, and I never used to see it before now when I'm just driving through the roads and that kind of stuff. But they're doing sponsor activations. Their drivers are, like, active on social media in good ways, doing sponsor activation. And I feel like a lot of the newer teams that come in, they don't get the hang of that for a little while. They're like, okay, we're going to do the finances, and the next year we'll tackle our social media presence, and then the next year we'll tackle sponsorship activation.

But, like, colleagues got it going on, man. And Chris Rice is, you know. I think, you know, Hannah, the good news is when you're Chris Rice, you're able to look at people like Kelly Earnhardt and see what she's built here. Yeah. And you know what that model is worth. And so I think if you're smart, you try to mirror that.

model. And so he has a marketing lady. He has a PR lady. He has a social media guy and he has a video guy. And that's all they do. And so that's literally four. Is LaJoy still doing their videos? Yeah. He's good too. Corey LaJoy's brother does their videos. But you have four guys, four positions there that do four different avenues of marketing. And to your point, like Chris ain't a dumbass. No, yeah. And he was smart to do it that way. But but again, it's modeling after successful companies like what junior motorsports has done in Xfinity series. I mean, four full time teams, obviously sponsored, attracting young, new guys. And Chris knows what he wants out of these guys.

It's for them to get the cup. He knows what his place is. Ross Chastain goes to cup. Guess what that makes Chris look like? Great, because he was able to put it in there. It's just like, you know, college football. I mean, you're graduating guys to the first round of, you know, now the same thing. These guys are going to want to go to college because they see Ross moving up.

Justin's ready to move up. I don't know if there's a seat for Justin right now, but he's ready to go, too, if there was one, you know, so if you can see your team promoting guys to the next level, people are going to want to get in your equipment. I think Haley's another guy, like Ascendrick. He's had his breakout year. He's won three races. He's in the playoff.

He's now in the top eight in the playoff. This is valuable experience. Man, when you get the cup, you get your butt kicked. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard. And I think it's good. Look, I don't know what Haley's going to do, but if he's smart, he'll come back and stay right where he's at. Hey, appreciate you guys listening.

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