Door Bumper Clear - 197 - 72 Hour Lead

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

Rain may have delayed the Texas Motor Speedway Cup Series race by three days but it didn’t stop this week’s episode. T.J. Majors, Brett Griffin and Freddie Kraft made it out of the mist and cover all that went down in the Lone Star State, along with producer Jason Schultz. The guys tell their tales of survival waiting out the rain delay and what they had to go buy. Kyle Busch won his first Cup Series race of the season on Wednesday. After the race, he expressed remorse for topping his teammate who needed a win to make the Championship 4. The guys react. In the Xfinity Series race, Harrison Burton ran down Noah Gragson in the final two laps to win. How did he do that and what went wrong for Gragson? Our spotting trio discusses. Justin Allgaier had some choice words for Ross Chastain. Were the comments justified? Plus, why is Chastain being so hard on himself? Griffin explains why it gives the driver of the No. 10 a bad look. A drama-filled Truck Series race led to numerous fights, wrecks and choice words. Majors explains what went down while spotting for Ben Rhodes and what he thought when Rhodes turned Christian Eckes into the wall. Which driver popped another post-race? You’ll find that out along with so much more. Big silly season news dropped including Kyle Larson signing with Hendrick Motorsports, Chase Briscoe getting in the No. 14 car and Erik Jones going to Richard Petty Motorsports. The boys analyze the news and predict how each will perform in their new rides. There’s plenty of more hate in this week’s installment of Reaction Twitter and an Xfinity Fast Lane question helps the guys create a new nickname for a male witch. With one race to go before championship weekend, the guys make Martinsville predictions and gear up for a short track showdown.  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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Woo! Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. Spotter of the 22 cup car, the 99 truck. And we don't have any special intro. Jason was rushed for time this week. Truck the rain, by the way. The rain truck does.

Totally trucked us. Brett Griffin, spotter for Clint Boyer in the Cup series. I have pretty much retired from a truck at Xfinity Days. So, Freddie Craft, spotter for Bubba Wallace for both laps. We got to run yesterday after the rain delay. I felt bad for you for a minute. That was unbelievable. I led for 72 hours and you were like out there for 72 seconds.

I know. That might be the longest somebody's ever led a race. Yeah. I think so. And then lost. Yeah. Yeah. We don't have a pretty co-host this week.

Just Jason in there. Where is Hannah? Hannah is, she's off today, I guess. I guess, you know. According to some pictures that are floating around, she might have been up a little later than she intended to be. She got what we like to call the lollipop flu. Let's see if we can go on Twitter and get hung over Hannah trending.

Hung over Hanna. Hung over Hanna. When this starts. We're just going to take a picture of the empty headset. It must have been a Halloween party, too, because she was dressed up and stuff. Oh, yeah, we were actually invited. Well, you had plenty of time to go. Yeah, I should have made it.

If Bob would have had his own plane, we could have been fine. But, yeah, so it was a white trash Halloween bash, I believe is what it was called. And maybe it contributed a little bit to the fact that Hannah's not feeling well this morning. Yeah. I wonder if hung up. overhand and we'll work. Oh, we're going to get it right now. We need to try it. But, you know, we're also, normally we have Matthew Dillner sitting over here, but he's out of, he had all week to plan accordingly too. It's a Thursday. People have other things to do. Apparently he's in a

field somewhere looking at a deer track thinking it's a front stretch. Oh, look a weed. This is where the flag stand used to be. The flagman was right here, I think, according to the pictures that I saw on the internet. Now that's turn three. That's probably what he's doing. An ant-hill. And then he's going to go pick out the vest he's going to wear, the flannel vest he's going to wear for the show. I just miss Dillner's old green puffy jacket. He used to have this big puffy green jacket. He looks like a puffy jacket. And then he was like the cameraman on Pitt Road for like NASCAR.com.

So every fight that happened on Pitt Road, it'd be like these two guys fighting in his big son of a big green puffy jacket. He was pretty good at finding them times. He was pretty good at it. But yeah, he might need that puffy jacket today if he's somewhere where this rain. hitting so my damn tweet won't go through why'd you bring the rain this isn't I would have rather had this no shame I would have rather had this because then we wouldn't have sat around and messed with it for a long you know this is the sideways rain so this is uh this is way better than the misting and thinking it all is the

misted was think every give everybody thought that we had a chance because it would quit for 10 minutes something be like oh yeah we're going to drive the front trash in 39 degree weather there'd be no there'd be nothing on the radar like you be like, oh, that's, radar's clear. My favorite part was, yeah, we got a window coming. How do you even see the window when you can't even see this stuff? But, yeah, look, they probably, I didn't look at the show sheet, Jason, but sitting around, I mean, I know it sucked, but was probably better than going back today, and then jumbling

a lot of things up with the schedule, you know, moving races around. And, you know, we got the race in pretty much as early as we could. So maybe they could have ran the truck race afterwards. That would have been ideal because then I would have just had pepper cover my truck. We talk about this a lot on here, start times. And the fact of the matter is, if we would have started at 1 o'clock Eastern like we normally do, we would have been done or at least by halfway and we'd been in the hell out of it. You always give yourself a better percentage chance to finish the race when you start earlier.

I mean, it's always a higher percentage. You have more daylight. I don't understand the reasoning why there wasn't a truck Xfinity, doubleheader Saturday and the cup race start at noon on Sunday and we're home instead of being there for five days. Well, we can probably arrange a meeting with some TV people if you want to get your answer. It is what it is, but you know, we got the race in. Brett got to lead some laps. We'll talk about his 13 lane block down the back stretching a little bit. So let's talk about Clint. So Clint is I bet he was exciting.

Clint is at the racetrack in his motorhome, and he texts me, where are you at? How's the track look? I'm like, Clint, I'm in my hotel room. I'm not at the track. And my hotel was right across the street, so I was able to tell. Dang, that's pretty cool.

So I'm like, I'm not there. 15 minutes later, hey, how's it look, man? Is it any better over there? I'm like. You got the same view he does. He's at a better view. You're at the track, and you're asking me what the track looks like. You should be asking him.

Yeah. You should be asking him. peek your head out of your motor home and tell me what turn three looks like or turn four because he tweeted a couple of pictures hey it's still shiny over there well why couldn't you do that so then even back up a day so it's monday right and and we kind of think we got a chance you know like you said it'll missed it'll stop missing yeah so i looked at freddie and i'm like dude it stopped missing i'm like well there's a chance we're going to run this race and it's freezing cold the wind chill was below 32 and i was like i don't have enough clothes.

I, because, but when I looked at my weather app, which clearly sucks, the weather.com weather app, by the way, it said 75 and sunny for race day. It didn't mention a hint of a cloud. It didn't mention a hint of being cold. It didn't mention a hint of being wet. So I'm like, Freddie, I got problems. Like, I got, first of all, I'm out of clothes anyway, but I was like, I don't have anything warm.

So we go to Cabellas, and we literally walk in Cabellas, T.J. And it had been stopped misting for 10 seconds. and my crew chief, I'm sorry, my lead engineer, Cook, he texts me, tracks half dry. I'm like, there's no freaking way. So Freddie and I hurry through Cabellas. I grab gloves. I grab the Long John stuff. And I get back to the track, dude, there ain't even a half a lane around this place dry.

And I'm like, Cook, what are you looking at? Well, I never left the lounge. I just heard it was half dry. Who told him that? I don't know. These people in their stores. My long johns, though, so I was. walk in and I'm like, man, I feel like I'm an X-L.

So I grab extra-large pants and then I grab extra-large shirt. My extra-large pants, I'm not lying to you. They would have fit Dielner. Yeah. My extra large shirt, way too little. I bought large as, and man, you'd have thought I was, you know, Jason's height. It was like, damn, man. And they weren't even that tight on me either.

My shirt was so tight. I felt like I had on a wetsuit. I couldn't breathe. How about that when you put them small draws on where they had that feel? So, man, I walk into the freaking Nike store after another rainout day. I'm like, I'm out of underwear. So I go over to where the underwear at, and they're hanging up. They're not like folded.

So, of course, the pit crew guys are over there, and they're all six foot nine, 400 pounds. I can't even get in there, right? And I'm like, hey, give me an extra large. So the guy looks, gives me an extra large. Grabbs another one, extra large. I look at the pair that doesn't have the tag on it that says extra large. the hangar tack. So I'm like, this one's an extra large.

This hanger says extra large. I told him I wanted extra large. He looked at them. We're good. I get back to my hotel. TJ, I got a pair of underwear that wouldn't fit boatie. If they would fit a 50-pound person, I would be surprised.

So I ended up with, I ran scuffs. Oh, no. Stickers on Tuesday. Did you try them on? I couldn't. Try him on. He did try him on to find out. Hey, my name is.

Brett, I'll be spotting today. Oh, my goodness. What a week. You know what? We always get the text. It must be something that's programmed into there, knowing that it's pouring or it did pour and it's still not even close. Hey, what's the track look like?

At some point, I hope they think that I have enough common sense to not go up there yet. Yeah. You know, it's not like it. Oh, it quit. I go right to the roof. It's 39 degrees out. I'm not going to the roof until I know it's... You know, we get messages from, we get, you know, if we're not already up on the roof when it starts raining,

we normally don't go until we know the track is, you know, on the way to being dry. It doesn't make any sense to do that. And the engines are fired. And NASCAR is pretty good about giving you a time. Like, we had plenty of time when they told us what time they were aiming for. And they hit it on the head with the time. Yeah. We had three hours to go up there and get ready.

But, you know, obviously, if you're already up there and it starts raining and you don't. You don't really, it's a quick shower. You don't venture too far. But, yeah, other than that, we're not going to be up there until it's almost, you know, an hour before the race getting ready. There's no reason to be. I think my guys know that I don't get that ticks. I don't know if you guys saw this over the weekend, but our producer, Jason Schultz, is now a marketing social media genius. I am.

Did you see his critique of the truck series? No. I'm just going to read a tweet. It says, the emotion of these NASCAR trucks drivers is unreal today. It shows how much it means to them. That's how the series should be promoted. Hard racing and hot tempers. Would love to see NASCAR take the marketing of this series in that direction.

The NASCAR Trucks account should push all this angry radio content. Couple that with videos of these incidents. Set up the drama and let the viewers roll in. Is that what that sound like? I don't know if Jason should write for Panhex. You should record for Penthouse. I'm not sure which one this is. Jason is, he's coming into his own.

He wants identity in our space. I'm proud of him, Jason. I think these things, I just don't tweet them. What's that? I wasn't going to watch the truck race at all because What's that chick drink, you drink, Jason? None. This is his last tweet on this thread.

What's that beer he drinks? White Claw. Yeah, did you smash a white claw on your head after you wrote that? Exactly. Here's his last tweet on this thread. This series consistently puts on an entertaining show, but it lacks the compelling young personalities it had in years past.

Time to pivot the series image and place it emphasis on drama it delivers. Oh, and bring it on Martinsville. This guy is bringing it on social media people. I might not even go. I don't know about you guys. This is all thanks to TJ though because he really made it. Are you not entertained? We're going to talk about that a little bit though. Where's that gladiator? So Jason goes from intern Jason to producer Jason. to has his own podcast, Jason, and now he's a social media mogul. Mike David. He wants me your job, your job, Mike Davis.

There's no chance we can afford this guy next year. We can't keep him. He's too talented. It's too big for us. Can't afford Freddie next year either. The red-headed, the redhead podcast or whatever it is. Did your tweet go through? Mine won't go through.

You about Hannah being hung over? Yeah. Oh, yeah, well, I went. I got nothing working over here. Yeah, you're on the Internet? I'm on. I'm on the Wi-Fi? I'm not on the Wi-Fi.

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First spot on, spot off. Kyle Bush says, I feel like crap for winning and denying teammate Martin Shrekz Jr. A championship four spot. Spot on, spot off, Brett. Spot off. I cannot. Who is that guy? I cannot understand for the life of me how you're on a winless streak and you have some of the biggest sponsorship dollars in the entire sport on your car and you, quote, feel like crap.

I mean, I get that, you know, you denied your teammate a chance to move to the championship four. But, man, it's hard to win these races. And if you get a chance to win them, you better win at all costs where I'm from. First of all, this is complete bull. Like, this guy doesn't feel bad about winning this race. Let's be real. this is Kyle Bush. Second of all, if Kyle Bush lets Martin Truex win the race,

all he does at that point is put Danny Hamill in jeopardy of missing the chase. So, I mean, you're, it's 6 of 1. So there was sarcasm in this? No, I don't think he's being sarcastic. I think he's, I don't, you know, I don't think he's being sarcastic. I think he's saying that, but I don't really think he means that. But, yeah, like, I don't know. You have this long, long win-less or win streak of consecutive seasons with wins.

you want to keep up. There's no way where I'm watching the last 15 laps of this race, and I'm like, they're talking about, you know, the potential of letting a 19 win. And I'm like, there's no way, there's no way Kyle Bush is letting anybody else win a race. It's not going to happen in a million years. Nobody should ever let anybody win a race.

If you can win, we all want to win. First of all, it's illegal. Yeah, it's 100% rule, right? Yeah. And, you know, Kyle got off front and earned it, man. I know when you look at it later, um you know sure you can go back and feel bad about but dude you just want a race at texas man i'd love to win a race at texas so you know uh yeah in and of itself forget when in the race

it's hard to survive the rickware of 500 out there i mean that in and of itself's a challenge yeah not only did he survive the rickware 500 he won the he won the race yeah me and bubba got on the plane after we wrecked there and we're sitting there and watching the it on the phone and they're following the leaders and I think you were leading at the time and the caution comes out and Bub was like I say it's the I forget who he picked and I'm like it's a 50 it's a 50 something I was a 50 so I said I'll take 53 and I think it ended up being a 51 or something like that but it's like Willie B had enough of that D-Main so the 49 was right around on the bottom who was in that car uh Chad Finchum okay well he didn't flinch he just stayed on the

bottom. Finch, not the flinch. And then the seven and the 77 and the 53 and the 51 and the whatever the other numbers are. They're all riding around the top. Well, when they catch each other, there's nowhere to go. Literally. So we caught them getting into three one time, and I bet you we had to slow down 40 miles an hour to make the corner. It's crazy. But Texas, man, I look, you know, these cars are running around there wide open. Clint keyed up. I'm sure people heard it. He keyed up when he was leading and said, listen to this. and he was wide open the whole way around the racetrack. Restarts were crazy.

The PJ1 came in. Once it came in, it made it essentially impossible to pass. I wouldn't air for any of that. Oh, Freddie, you missed it? Yeah. The only time you could pass was when somebody got too close to somebody in front of them and had to lift because they got tight and washed up the racetrack,

or you caught a 50-something, and they decided to go three wide in front of you, and it was tough. Yeah. So second topic. Noah Gregson loses the Xfinity Series race and guaranteed championship four spot when Harrison Burton runs him down to win in the final two laps. Freddie, spot on, spot off. I mean, spot off. We were watching this from a watch party with Nutri and Ag.

And wow. I mean, he literally made up seven tenths of a second, almost seven tenths of a second on the last lap. And you know what? You know, maybe I don't fault. Noah really. I didn't see really anything. Noah went and did wrong. I'd have to go back and look at SMT maybe to see if he tried to rush back to the throttle or something. Something happened off before. But, you know, he, credit to, credit to Harrison. I mean, and this could potentially help Harrison a lot moving forward because he had to drive the ever-living, you know what, out of that car for the last

two or three laps. And now he knows kind of his limits. And he knows now going forward that he can push himself that hard. And I give more credit to. and Harrison, then I do put any kind of blame on Noah. Yeah, Harrison has made pretty good. He's been progressing, I think, this year as a driver in the Xfinney series. He's had his ups and downs. Got knocked down once. But, you know, he's learning and he's growing.

I see what you did there. Yeah. But he's growing, man. He's learning. These are all learning, these are all growing, you know, help growing as a character, growing as a driver. and he's winning races. And, you know, something happened with Noah, Noah made a mistake or something off of four

because there's just, there's no way, Harris, the 7-10 faster, you know, that much. He made up 10 car lanes. He made up, he made, if you watch the tracker on the top of the screen, and I don't know how exactly accurate that is. Something happened to Noah, because you don't pass out of four like that.

He gave up almost, he gave up three quarters of that gap off of two. Yeah. And then so he gave, he almost gave up like a half a second through, or four tens. And there was a lap car on the bottom in three and four, too. He was going in the three.

I'm like, oh, he can't do anything because there's a lap car down there. I don't know if Noah either underdrove it. It looked like Noah had to lift. You're missing a really big part of what was great here. And that is the fact that he could catch him and he could pass him. When we watched you in the Harvick last week, you couldn't pass. When you watched me and Truex yesterday battling for lead in stage one, you couldn't pass. But it wasn't a pass like that, though.

This guy came back. Listen, if these are the cup cars that, doesn't happen. Noah doesn't lose a second on one lap. You can't make a big enough error in air by yourself to lose one lap. These cars in this package put on an incredible race from start to finish. We were across the street. We were watching on television. And man, this is an exciting race. This package is the best package in our sport right now on Downforce tracks. I agree with the package and the way they drive, but there was a pretty big mistake on Noah's part right there for him to run him down and pass them but the rest of the you can still use your car and the tools of the car like the air

to make passes in that in that series you can get up under a guy's spoiler and he gets loose you get on his door he gets super loose we don't have that ability in our series no we don't have that you can't get beside them to do it you can drive down to the corner attached to the guy's bumper pretty much and he does not lose to bill you know you do you lose the nose and that's why you know you push somebody down into one you're in a restart and the second place guys to back off because he can't make the corner. And the first place, guys, just hammered down. But it's definitely a better package for that type. You know, it's definitely, something still happened to know it, a lift that big and just, I mean, Harrison drove right by him like he, you know, was in a fifth year. So I didn't look at SMT on it. We,

we were just landing whenever the race was ending. So. Next topic, Justin Allgaier says Ross Chastain wrecked the whole field and says Ross is two-faced. And then Ross says, I don't deserve to drive this race car. TJ, spot on, spot off. I mean, he did hang a left on a backstretch from what I could tell. But I don't know about the two-faced stuff. I think Ross is a little hard on himself right there. I think, I do think he had a moment where he just was angry that he got washed up

the racetrack. He was in position to possibly win another race and, you know, something, you know, kind of happened again. He was on more of the receiving end of it. this time than the giving end, but, you know, definitely didn't need to happen down the backstretch. I know he was frustrated, and you can see the cargo left. I mean, I think he still wins the race. If that doesn't happen, he's, he's been, for the last half of the race, he's been the best car on the racetrack. He's got fresher rubber than most

of the guys around him. You know, he's got equal or fresher rubber than everybody. I just think, you know, it's just a mistake that kind of continues to happen with him where, You know, he, yeah, obviously, Justin pushed the limits a little bit in one and two, got loose, ran him up the hill. But you recover, you're still in the top five or six, I would say. And you know you're bet. The only guy you've been racing for the last 50 laps is Justin. He's behind you. So, I mean, I just, I don't get it with, and to get out and play the victim really, really kind of annoyed me there.

Like, yeah, you just wiped out half the field. Nobody wants to hear the pity party for you. Yeah, a little hard on himself for it. because, I mean, he's got enough speed to drive a competitive car. He's good enough. He's talented enough, but how about just get out and say you messed up? So we watched the seven knock the 10 up the racetrack early in the race. And then later in the race, we saw the 10, knocked the 7 up the track.

Now, in this restart, we see the 7 wash both of them up the racetrack, and clearly going down the back, Ross put the fender to Justin's right front on purpose. Did he mean to cause that wreck? I have no idea you have to ask him. But you don't ever get out of a car and say you don't deserve to be here when companies are spending millions of dollars to put you in that car. Chevrolet, Matt Colleague, Colleg Racing, Nutrient Ag Solutions, some of his other partners that he has have dumped millions of dollars into his season. And he's going to get out with two races to go and say he doesn't deserve to be there. Wow.

Well, and we've talked about this with Ross. If you, through the year, I mean, Ross is a championship. I don't know, you call him a favorite, but tender. Contender for sure. You kind of, I would, he would have been one of my four to pencil into the final. And he just continues to make mistakes in this playoff that have now put him behind the eight ball again. You know, he goes, on first round, he goes to Vegas, the first race and is running second, I think, in the first stage, before the first stage even ends and puts a thing in the fence. And now he's behind for that whole round, and he transfers, but he put himself behind the eight ball.

then, you know, the last week I still think that was on Alfredo way more than was Ross. We went back and watched it this week, and there was way more room between them. Ross wasn't on his door by any mean and got wrecked. But, you know, so that puts you behind the eight ball a little bit, and then you go this weekend and wreck yourself, really, and put yourself even farther behind the eight ball.

I don't know. You're probably in a must win now because the amount, you know, you're only 20 points out, but I think it's behind two different guys. So, you know, now you're back in a must win situation because mistakes have been made. So, you know, it just, this is something that he's got to clean up, especially if he's going to go to the next level. I mean, he's sitting in a top five car every week

and makes mistakes trying to win with it. What are you going to do when you get in a top 15 car, top 20 car? You're not, you know, you're not going to be in position to win every week, so you've got to take what comes to you and keep your race car clean. Ben Rhodes, right rear's Christian Eckus, into the wall, says on radio these KBM-E need to get their asses whoop. then Christian Eck has tweeted at Matt Kenseth

you got any pointers TJ it's your driver spot on spot off I don't know what you're talking about oh you weren't spotting I mean not then I was getting drink yeah I don't

you know there's a lot that you don't people you don't see what leads up to certain things you don't see what Brett wasn't there I'm not sure Brett probably didn't see what Freddie I don't know if you were keeping an eye things too but you know certain so we're going to justify a sucker punch right now so what you're

sucker punching if you right rear guy on purpose that's sucker punch no everybody handles their own stuff differently is all i'm saying but you know you can't you can't push a guy but so far before he has enough and whatever he decides to do from that whether he meets after the race or he you know has had enough on the racetrack everybody i'm not saying i would handle it that way but that's the way he chose to handle and he's, you know, Ben's the one that's going to have to, you know, deal with it. He's going to have to deal with people going after him, you know, people, you know, wanting to race him really hard on the track, or, but, you know, everybody, you know, there was a zero attempt to make a pass twice within probably 50 laps, just going to the

corner coming up like the guy's not there, knocking him into the black, like knocking them up into the slick stuff. And I just don't think that's, there was zero issues before that. and the guy, you know, Christian tried to make a pass twice. Not really, he didn't try to make a pass. He forced a pass. Did you see any of it? Yeah, he just knocked us up into the slick stuff twice in a row.

And that, I mean, that's just the way, that's just how he decided to handle it. Here's my problem. What do you think my problem's going to be here? T.J. No, that's not T. They deserve to get their asses whipped. Well, go whip their ass then. Don't tweet about it.

You know what? Take a page out of Stuart Free. Freezen's book. Stuart Freeson handled his business this week. He had a problem and he handled it. Don't tweet about it. Don't do not like stop. Who's he punch in the face? Maybe that guy that wrecked him. Yeah. They might have a scuffle a little bit. I heard there's a little scuffle down there. I heard I heard that the driver that I heard Johnny was attempting to apologize and I don't think Stuart wanted to hear it.

But you know, this stuff and and I, you know, I fully agree with Brett. I don't care what the guy does. You don't right rear a guy at a mile and a half especially. You know, this guy pounds the fence now, and let alone pounds the fence. Here comes the rest of the field running 180 miles an hour also. So, you know, there's no way you can ever support a guy right rear and a guy. I don't care what he did. You know, if he runs you up the hill, okay, whatever, you know, wait, we're going to Martinsville this week. You could ruin his day all over again this week without damn near putting the guy's life at danger.

So, you know, I'll just, I understand, I understand the frustration. That truck series is full of guys that try to push the envelope, try to take every inch because they can and they have to, the way the way that trucks drive. But there's no way I'll ever support right-hooking a guy at a mile and a half track. This chicken, period. And then to Christian Eckers's tweet about Matt Kenseth, I'm opening the betting window now.

Being that you tweeted that, I'll take all bets that you're not going to do a damn thing this week to the 99. I'll take any bet you want. I don't understand Matt Kenseth got any pointers. He referencing when he wrecked Lugana? Yes. Yeah. And they're going to Martinsville? Yes.

Well, guess what? I got Matt suspended for two races. I know. That's exactly. Way to call attention to yourself. This is... You're not Babe Ruth. Don't call your shot, bud.

That's about the worst thing you can do is talk about it. Yeah. The best thing you can do is not say anything about it and handle it. That's from what I understand it. So I didn't hear it, but somebody told me that Stuart Freeson's interview was, you know, obviously angry. I mean, he got flat. And, I mean, Stooey hasn't had a lot of speed this year, and he was really good.

He was really good this week, and Johnny just went in there and cleaned him out. I mean, Johnny's own crew was kind of getting on Johnny about how stupid it was. And all Stewie said after the race was, yeah, this race ain't over yet. Meaning, there's going to be a little more fireworks when this happens. And I'll give him credit because these other kids are just talking, I'm going to whoop his ass, I'm going to do this. No, you're not. So there's another part to this, too, is you remember in Michigan when you were leaking oil the entire race in the truck race.

And you're right in your... I don't know. I don't recall that. Yeah. Yeah, that's why you run against a fence the whole head under caution. So nobody can see it. You know, we're coming off for.

The 51 just comes up on us and rips our whole nose off the truck. I mean, destroys our truck. Destroyes it. And whatever, you're racing hard. I get it, man. But then, you know, he goes down and there and nobody knows this

because the camera goes there too late. But the 51 drives down in a turn one. and just turns us. And he takes another innocent guy with him. He takes the Baliki truck with us because he's spinning us. And I have a problem with that because if you're going to do it, you can't take other people with you. You can't ruin other people's races.

And then the spotter of that truck doesn't say anything about us getting hit. He just says something about us wrecking them. Well, we were wrecking. Like, I'm like, did you not see that truck hit us? It's like, no, you just wrecked us. I'm like, oh, my goodness. This might be the only time I defend T.J. Because he did get wrecked from behind and then push into the double CRO.

But the guy gets out on pit road and goes, that's for wrecking my teammate. Like, what is going on here? Like when you, like that's what he gets. Who was driving a 51 Chandler? Yeah. He gets out on pit road and says, that's for wrecking my teammate. Like, what is going on with that? I mean, can he not handle his own business?

And I don't think that's a good look for anybody, especially for guys like that. that I don't know their situations, but I know they probably bring money to the truck to drive it. I'll truck it. We got an update from Hannah Newhouse. Here's her text back to me. Not one, not two, but three middle fingers. She just flipped.

Wow. Hannah. Uh-huh. That's rude. She saw the tweet where we basically said she decided not to come to work today. She's lucky my tweet won't go through. And she flipped me off. That's pretty rude.

I know what that's like. at least one of the truck series anyway I only got two middle fingers to my truck dough on the front stretch The most entertaining part of this whole truck fiasco was Herschman Herschman versus T.J.

Because in the history of the world neither one of them have ever been wrong. So to watch them, it's like it was them two talking and 38 other spotters in a circle watching. I don't know how many times I can look at Herschman said I'm not driving the truck.

I don't agree with what just happened but I'm not driving it. What do you want me to do? What was Hirsch saying to you? He's down out. Well, you could have hurt him. He could have broke his bad, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, Hirsch.

TJ, you sound just like him. Do that again. Oh, no. You can't sound like Hirsch. You got to see Hersh get mad. Number one, he gets out of his chair. You sounded just like it. If he gets out of his chair, that's going somewhere because he doesn't really get up

too much. I don't know how that guy stays so skinny. He never moves. I know, he does. He eats like 18,000 of food a day. He comes down there, hollering to me. And I'm like, I told me Hirschman and Preschman was money right there.

You sounded just like, what, you are part, Yankee, anyway. A little bit, yeah. We're not too far apart, but he comes down there holler, and I'm like, I'm not driving the truck. I don't agree with that, but everybody handles it differently. Maybe your guy should not have run somebody up twice, and maybe something wouldn't have, like, you keep pushing somebody, something happens. I'm not saying that was the correct move, but you can't keep pushing somebody before

something happens. You guys have your headsets on or off at this point. I don't, yeah, they still, I didn't want to hear him any more. more. Let's just go back down. Then he gets, well, why are you in our door? I'm like, Herschman, we're running the edge of the grip. Where do you want me to be? If you go any higher, that's not, if you come up, we're in your door because you have

three lanes, two and a half lanes down there. My guy's left side tires are on the edge of the grip, and his guy just kept coming up like, and he did it on, I mean, did it on purpose. And he's like, well, you're in our door. I'm like, okay, this is not going to be, just go. Then we watch football after that for a while. Yeah. See, all this drama is great.

The truck series needs to promote it more. Are you the new truck series promoter or something? Jason, series director. I just want the truck series to be more exciting, and that was plenty of exciting. So we'll see Evans this weekend. Silly season news. That dirt guy is announced to the five car. He was sitting in Freddie seat a couple days ago.

Also, Briscoe to the 14, and Eric Jones said 43. Freddy, spot off. I thought I felt a little fast. I was sitting in his seat. I put it on the cushion. I mean, it was really no secret. I don't think it's been much of a secret pretty much all year that Larson was getting in that five. I'm really shocked.

I mean, calling me surprise here. I think he was always Rick's number one guy to get in there and Jimmy left. And I think even afterwards, you know, everything he's been through. I mean, he went, they, he's been through the ringer to get reinstated here. And sounds like he's going to continue to do stuff to work on that. So that's awesome for him. Cool to see the five come back.

That's the obviously, the original HMS number there. So that's cool on that part. I don't know. You want to take these one at a time? You want me just run through all these guys? Yeah, just run through all. All right. Briscoe, man, this is one that I'm still perplexed about this one.

Obviously, he's ready to go cup racing, but I don't think that's the question. I think I still don't understand putting a guy in a car that's going away in a year. I think the Cynchrech plan is a lot better. I think you have Cynchric with ultra confidence the rest of this year, ultra confidence all year next year knowing that he's getting in a cup card, no matter what he does next year. You know, it kind of takes a lot of pressure. off of him. He knows what's, you know, what lays ahead. You had the perfect opportunity

if Clint want to do this to, you know, put Clint Boyer back in this. The same way they did Tony and Clint, you know, Chase Briscoe is driving this car in 2022. Clint Boyer's going to have a farewell season. He's going to retire at the end of 21 and go to the TV booth. I thought that would have been a great story. As far as Eric Jones, I think that's a good pick for the 43. I don't think there's a driver available that could that could fully fund that car. So you've got to go out there and get the most decorated guy. and he's the only, to my knowledge, the only race winner that's available. So this is a guy you've got to now market and try to sell to some sponsors.

So I think that's a good move on their part. It'll be interesting to see what he does, being for the fact that, I mean, this guy's driven the best, of the best equipment every step of the way. And now he's going to take a step back on equipment. Hopefully, he performs for them guys. I love them RPM guys. And then, you know, some other little things falling, but that's cup-wise. That's all I got.

Go ahead. You know more than I do. I think two of these three guys get a new beginning. Obviously, a huge second chance for Kyle Larson and deservingly so. Obviously, a huge opportunity for Chase Briscoe to get into the 14 car with Stewart House Racing. I think Eric Jones gets a big reality check. I mean, here's a guy that's driven the best of the best. His entire career has certainly won some races and Cup hasn't won enough races to keep that high of a caliber of ride. and now he's off to Richard Petty Motorsports.

In my mind, you know, who wins? The 43 are Eric Jones in this scenario. To me, it's the 43 because you're taking a proven winner, and this is now going to give you a chance. Nothing against Bubba, but it's going to give you a chance to calibrate how good your cars are. And if they go out there and run the same way that Bubba ran or worse, then it's your cars.

Like, they've got to go out there and do what Bubba did when Bubba got in there with Amarola, which has run better than Amarola. Marola was running. And if he can't do that, to me, Eric Jones will, I don't know, it'll be a tough situation for him. Kyle Larson, do you guys that listen every week? We referenced the top secret meeting months ago.

Freddie asked me on this show that I think Kyle Larson was getting in the 14 car. And I said, I don't think so. I think Jeff Gordon had a huge hand in making this happen. I think Rick Hendrick is a genius. And, you know, we just read on Twitter that he doesn't have sponsorship in place yet. He's coming back humble and he's coming back. as an animal, I think. And I think everybody on that 48 car that was fortunate enough to work with Jimmy Johnson for the last few years is going to be very rejuvenated when they get to Daytona, you know, and get out of Daytona, go to Homestead.

Like, I mean, this guy, he sets the world on fire, in my opinion. We'll see. Yeah, I think, you know, I think to start with Larson there, he's going into a good opportunity. he's upgrading upgrading equipment as well I think he went out and now he's stepping back into an upgrade went and won a ton of races

but I think he's also done I think he's done a lot of work behind the scenes that we don't know about as well he's done a lot to improve his character and stuff otherwise these guys wouldn't have looked at him so I think he's done I think he's done a lot

and I do think he's going to come back and be a force I think he'll be I think he'll be right up there with the other Hendrick guys. You know, he'll be up there with Chase and stuff like that, contending for wins, you know, at times. So, yeah, I really thought maybe Briscoe would run another year of Xfinity as well. I think two years of competitive Xfinity is about the best experience that you can get.

And with a new car coming after next year, I think that would be the right time to put Chase in there because right when he's probably going to start getting used to this one, we're going to go to all, you know, something else. I would probably just stay competitive winning races. I mean, he could probably win eight, ten races next year in the Xenia series as well. I mean, I just want to elaborate on that for a minute.

If all things were created equal and we still had testing and we still had practice, I might totally agree with you. But like, I think Chase Briscoe's ready to go cup racing. Freddie said it. I think the challenge is a guy's going cup racing with no practice, no testing. He's going to get in that car for the first time at Homestead. and he's going to fire off on a restart, and these guys are going to go four and five wide, and that's the first time he's going to ever experience this competitive of an environment.

With a new spotter, too. This particular car, and with whatever, a new spot or whatever he's got going on. He's had Timmy Feetow, obviously, an Xfinity series, right? So it's going to be interesting. It's going to be challenging. It is. But I taught to Tony Stewart about this, and, you know, Tony knows that he's the long-term play, and Tony wanted this to be, you know, what they did next year.

and maybe it makes him better for the new car. I don't know. I mean, everybody's calling this new car a kit car because, you know, we're going out there and buying all these things from third parties and these teams are essentially putting it together. Tony Stewart's, I mean, look at Rick Hendrick. When he tabbed Alex Bowman, he tabed William Byron, like you sit there and you watched his program, lose winning drivers, Jeff Gordon, lose winning driver, Casey Kane,

lose winning driver, Dale Jr. And you sit here and went, what's this guy doing? And now his average age is 26 years old of his cup driver. and every single one of them have a cup win. Some of them, most of them, multiple cup wins. All of them but William. So, like, you look at these team owners sometimes and you second guess what they're doing,

and all of a sudden, it's like, hey, they had a plan, and it obviously worked out. I mean, and you talk about the Xfinity series next year. I mean, Chase Briscoe, he's at nine wins right now? Yeah. That's nine available. I mean, Cindrick is obviously going to be tough to beat. We saw some Xfinity Domino's fall this week.

Josh Barry, that's a cool deal with Josh Barry getting an eight car for, I don't know what it was, 12 races maybe. That's a guy that bust his ass over Sam afterwards. I think they're holding that for Sam. Yeah. But back to the list, TJ, what do you think about Eric Jones of the 43? I think Eric Jones, you know, like I said, nothing against Bubba, but he's coming from a,

he's coming from a really good car. He's going to know some things they've done. He's going to know some tricks and stuff. He's going to help those guys out some. He's probably not allowed in the meetings anymore and stuff like that. But he's going to bring, he's going to bring some knowledge. and but he's going to have to learn he's going to have to learn

to probably race a little bit differently where he's going to be at more you know what it's like there and he's had a faster car a lot of times he can drive through that stuff and continue on there's a lot of times when you know it don't take much to be off a little bit and when you're off a little bit in that area

man you crack a thought of one time it's three spots you know guys get runs and it's tough back there it's really tough so I think it's going to be he's in for a little bit of a learning experience but I think he can help make the team a little bit better as well performance wise

you know car wise all right last topic here there is a comic made featuring DJ majors and Joey Logano so if you go to the fourth page you'll get to see it I saw it on it was awesome this guy's the best so from I don't know how pronounced the name I'm going to try my best

Bonico's do Bruno that's probably pretty bad yep so the comic is you can find out on Reddit NASCAR and Reddit's page if you want to go check it out. It's T.J. telling Joey to go left. Now T.J. saying go right. And then T.J. saying left again.

Stay there, block. And then T.J. is saying, block, block, block. And Joey and T.J. are staying from a port potty. And a guy is in there saying the air is getting dirty in here because Joey is blocking the door. It's Harvick. Oh, it's Harvick. It's got J.J. on the mask. I never knew that.

You got to pay attention to this guy. He gets slipped some details. Did you see the bottom on my shirt? Yeah. Now, I was going to say T.J. sure. It's DBC's logo, but it says Monday excuses with T. majors. My favorite part about the comic is the fact that he put so much detail, like not actual logos, but like Ford logos like a little horse and stuff. And he's got the DBC logos taped

over the other. I mean, it's pretty good, man. T.J. Tech System, man, I've got a big kickout out of it. Oh, it's hilarious, man. I'm in a cartoon. How about that? I got one. I don't even know when it was. I was getting eaten by a shark or something in that, after the rain delay with AJ. Well, you got all them logos out of you now, the chubby. guy dunkin. Oh yeah, they're coming out of everywhere. I don't have to make my own anymore. TJ, I got some good news for you, play. What could it be? Well, you told us last week that your wife is wanting her dream home, so we're here to help turn her wish into a reality. It was her dream home. You buying me a new home? Well, not exactly, but we're going to tell you exactly how to do that

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ever make by working with offerpad dot com to sell his house i can't believe i'm about to say this but Be smart like TJ and go to Offerpad.com to learn more about the best way to buy or sell a home. Listen to your wife. Use Offerpad. I think it's time for reaction Twitter. TJ, you're going to start this week, followed by Brett and then Freddie. I didn't do anything this week to make anybody be mean to me. That's wrong. That was nice.

All right, TJ, first up, remember say block or follow after you read the tweet. All right. Gary, Kid 67Y. I actually remember that guy. I was a Big Dell Jr. fan. think. Is it a coincidence that all drivers, TJ spots for that other drivers want to beat their asses? Follow. Yeah, I can't really. Walk him. Hey, we race hard. So, yeah, I don't really that's. That's no coincidence that T.J.'s involved. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I drive the car. Do you not guys not know that? Actually, he's got a remote controller. I know. You haven't seen that yet.

I'm the only guy out there with a fan vision still out because it's got joystick on it. NASCAR chasm That ought to be going That kind of mood That kind of move that'll make Legano suit you for copyright infringement I follow that And that's when Clint Brock

tricks So that That was impressive Because that wasn't just one lane That's one two Three four five six It's about seven lanes It was like the slowest block

In the history of blocks They just kept moving down It did take forever as well But I mean, hey, he forced Martin had to lift, and then Martin missed the corner behind him with the lap car on the outside. He was angry. All right, let's see what, Sloppy Chad, Tucker Boo, 843. That's probably the name his girlfriend gave him. Not only as TJ blocked me, after he said he doesn't block anyone or have the time for all that,

he personally sent me a DM to defend his case right before he blocked me, a little kitty cat. So F. F.J. So let me, uh, oh man, wish that. I did block this guy because he was, he was a complete, let me look it up here. Oh, yeah, he was, I forget what he said about, uh, I went and looked at this guy's timeline and he is, he is sloppy, just like he says. I can't see his tweets But he is just one of them guys

That has to tweet about Every little thing that happens And have an opinion on it Like he's worse than you, Brett I can't see this guy's tweets So I can see the tweet That you sent to him After you blocked him

So you sent him a DM and you said Yeah, it was the 88 that ran us down You said in the grass staying off the 88 The 88 told Joy after the race He was never told we were there So now you're playing another spotter Thanks for the unfollow. I guess that means you blocked him.

No, that's what Bowman told Joey after the race. So you said thanks for the unfollow, and you blocked him. Yeah, I had or not. Go look at his tweets. Bring his account up and look at him. He just tweets about every, he's one of them. T.J.'s trying to red again. No, he's worse than bread about, like, getting mad.

No, he's worse than another guy on the roof that gets mad at everything. You know who I'm talking about. He's worse than that. All right, I guess it's my turn. I got this guy named Jason. His name is Mustang. underscore fanatic recently discovered door bumper clear from listening to dell junior's podcast jason that's awesome why is it called door bumper clear not brett griffin podcast um jason once again

that's awesome dude talks non-stop jason i get paid to talk when you get your own podcast you can do whatever the f you want to let the other guys talk okay thanks for your opinion guess he doesn't get to talk enough when clint rides in the back see that's what gets you blocked dumb ass and you said recently discovered door bumper clear i'm sitting here looking at my screen and this clown follows me i tweet about door bumper clear 10 times a week can i talk yet get off my page yeah yeah breck you're the next one can we say something god lord he gone next one so that explains why he wears hats all the time this is in reference to freddie tweeting my picture with no hat on and where everybody said i look like arn anderson which i took as a compliment just kidding just kidding don't block me now and and that was michael hill and i

actually think that's a funny tweet. Then some clown named Brandon Sherro tweeted, don't worry, he's too short to see the block button. Well, I'm blocking this idiot because he looks like some, if you go look at this guy's profile, he clearly lives in his mama's basement, so he's gone. See you later, bro. Block.

And Brett's actually going on his phone right now and blocking these people. Oh, yeah, live blocking. Clint Boyer, that's a tough time for us in reference to the restarts that we tend to struggle with the choose cone. I get bored under caution, and my spotter is taking a squirt. One to go. Oh, I actually screwed up the first restart this week. And Clint called it karma because I made fun of him on this show this week.

I cannot block Clint Boyer at this point. I have two races left and then we'll revisit that way. Clint, we're in the suite waiting out the rain delay. And Clint calls Brett to talk to me because he said, I want a Freddie to know you screwed this up. That's pretty funny. Oh, is it making my turn now? Freddy's turn.

All right. Jeffrey Doebler. Jeffrey underscore Doebler. Another tough break. It looked as though Bubba had a solid top 30 run going. Well, we were running about 15th, so that isn't the top 30. I appreciate that. What a shot.

This one, I saw this all day yesterday, and you couldn't be any dumber to have this opinion. What a shock. Denny Hamlin wrecked someone. So people were blaming Denny for the wreck that we were in. When the 42 got loose and stopped in front of them, I don't know exactly what Danny was supposed to do. I mean, everything Danny does is obviously. perfect for now. But no matter what my

opinion is of Danny, what the hell was he supposed to do here? He got the back of the 42 and then we had nowhere to go, but the wreck was by no means, I mean, Kansas tweet text Bubba after the race to apologize for it. So obviously he knows it was his fault or, you know,

I don't think there's anything Matt could have done either. Just got loose and had to check up and just a chain reaction deal, but to blame Danny for it was ridiculous. So Dustin, you're getting blocked because you're an idiot. Here's another one of my favorite accounts. That last one was Dustin Roberts, the Saint actual.

I won't see him anymore because he'll be blocked. Scott Rosie at Scott 96896-9-6-935. You won't win a race in NASCAR. Don't think you'll have the guts. I hope you do win, but you act like, but you don't act like a winner, only a whiner. I have really bad news for Scott.

Bubba's got six wins in NASCAR already. if you want to count just NASCAR. And I think he's wrong. I think we're going to win eventually again anyway. So block him too. And that's two out of three for the blocking this week. You're going to really good at this blocking thing. Yeah, I'm learning from the other two.

All right, that's reaction Twitter this week. Keep sending me any tweets if you see those guys get roasted on social media. You know the fact what I like about that is, oh, Tucker Boo, actually screenshoted that and saved it. I forgot it. He still, I forgot about him. He's still talking about it. He's still mad.

He's glad you're still talking about it. I wasn't talking about it. He's living rent free in your mind right now. He's blocked. He's gone. I saw so many people so mad this week about that Bubba ad, which I thought was great for that root insurance deal. Yeah. And my goodness, that did not make people happy.

But I'm like, he's just living, like you said, he's living rent-free in so many people's heads. I told, you know, I love, first of all, I love the, the, the, creativity behind the ad. The ad was super dark, which was part of their message, man. I get that. It's always a positive when new sponsors come in here and invest in the sport like that. Like, if it makes you mad and you're a fan, then you don't understand how the economics of the sport works. It's time to hit a gas and take our Xfinity speed from the track to the studio. Let's jump into our weekly Fastlane segment where I'll ask the guys six questions and time each person to see who can answer the fastest and how many they can get right. Are you guys ready

to go Xfinity fast? We'll start with Freddie this week. Can you do that in Hannah's voice? Hungover handed voice or normal Hannah voice? Yeah, I bet it's scratchy today. We should FaceTime her. She won't answer. All right, Freddie.

She might. Go ahead. You're ready. I'm ready. How many laps did Bubblewalls complete at Texas? Ooh, uh, 504? Which driver scored their best career cup finish at Texas? Christopher Bell. Which X-Finity Series playoff driver finished lowest on Saturday?

Brandon Jones. What is the most points Michael Jordan ever scored in a game? Oh, uh... Damn it. You're really bad on this. Mike Jordan. It's got to be 70-something. I think it's 80-something.

I think it's 83. In which country did Halloween originate? You like candy? Come on, man. Melvin. How many total toes does a gorilla have? Yeah, in a bad week. What in the hell?

I'll go with eight. All right, good job. You got one right. They did? You got the Christopher Bell one right. So Bubba completed 59 laps yesterday at Texas. Ryan Sieg was the lowest finishing playoff driver in the experience series race. Michael Jordan's highest point total on game, 69.

Oh, what a great. What a bum. What a great effort. 69. Good effort. A Halloween originated in Ireland, and a gorilla has 10 toes. This is kind of a trick question. I was going to say that, but I thought it was, I thought it was a trick question, so good job.

All right. TJ, you're up next. All right, go. How many stage points did Joe Laganon earn at Texas? Six. Which position did the highest finishing forward finish at Texas? Third. How many cautions did the X-Fee Series race have?

Eight. What pop group sang Staying Alive? Staying alive, staying alive. I don't know, the Bee Gees? Good job, buddy. You wouldn't have got it without my singing. No, I would have got it. I knew this song.

What is a male witch called? Oh, I know this. Mitch. Mitch. I don't know. How many planets are between Earth and the Sun? Three. All right, you also got one right, congratulations.

Ligano earned three stage points at Texas. Blaney was the highest finishing forward and fourth. The Xenem series race had ten cautions. A warlock is called, is it what is a male witch called? They'll call it Mitch too.

A Mitch. And there are two. That crazy Mitch. Being a Mitch. I'm going to call my wife a Mitch later. Take that out. And there are two planets between Earth and the Sun.

So close. Third rock from the sun is like a show. I know. All right, Brett, you just got to get two rocks. Oh, good luck. How many laps did Clint Boyle lead at Texas? 69.

How do you spell the Benedetto? Oh, no way. D-I-B-E-N-E-D-E-T-O. Wow. Get you some. I can spell it. I can't say it. Which X-FINN-Series driver plays second in both stages on Saturday? Second in both stages. Cendrick.

Where does Spuny. Bob Squarepants work? No idea. It's illegal to dress like a nun or priest for Halloween in which U.S. state? South Carolina. What year was Michael Jackson born? Man, that's a trick question. 64.

All right, you all got one right, congratulations. What year was he born? 58. Oh, you're way off. Damn. So Boyer let 89 laps on Sunday or on Thursday or Wednesday. I knew it ended up in a 9. Just an Allgaier finished second in both stages on Saturday.

SpongeBob works at the Krusty Crab. You're going to get a lot. I hate-tweet for that one. And in Alabama, it's illegal to dress like a nun or priest for Halloween. I have dressed like a pregnant nun on multiple occasions for Halloween. Because then you're in Alabama. Wait a see my costume issue. I just got it yesterday.

I got to figure mine out today. How did you get it yesterday? Yeah, you actually had a day off. It got delivered to the house. All right, we got a tiebreaker here. Are you going to be Dr. Koworkian? Maybe. Kevorkian?

I'm definitely going to be a doctor of some sort. I'm going to be a warlock. I'm going to be a Mitch. All right, tiebreaker, each person's going to guess a number. Whoever gets closest wins. That's a good one. How many zeros are in the number 80 decillion? Freddie, you guess first.

10,000. Okay. TJ. Damn, that's a lot of zero. Jesus, Freddy. I don't know. I was going to say 20. Okay.

One. TJ is closest. It's 34. Yeah. 34. So Freddie was way off. So congratulations, TJ. I'm not sure when you last won this, but you won today.

It's been three weeks, four weeks now, three? Congratulations. We're always sneaking fast on door bumper clear, and so was Christopher Bell, because he had this week's Xfinity fastest lap of Texas. You know something else is fast? XFinity X-5. It's more than speed, too, TJ. It's reliable.

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and our podcast. Ask DBC. Send in your questions 24-7 on Twitter using the hashtag AskDBC. First one from West. 22 underscore 4. Why has Texas produced less than stellar racing the past five years? Also, why in the heck are we having the all-star race there? Brett. It's a combination of repaves, combination of tire, it's a combination of package, you know, low-horsepower, high-down force. Why are we having the all-star race there? Because Texas sent their other date to Cota and Charlotte traded the all-star race to Texas. Look, man, I, I, I love going to Texas.

I love that area. I love the people. They're so nice down there. There's lots of great food, lots of great barbecue. I just would love to see the Cup series look more like the Xfinity series. I mean, you just said we had 10 cautions in a 300 lap race, and that tells you that the cars are hard to drive, and we saw a last lap pass with a win. I don't know, man.

T.J. Texas is awesome. It's just, it is what it is right now. Yeah, I think when we first hit the track after the repave, we knew right away that it was going to be hard to be more than one lane. Yeah. Yeah, and like the old Texas was phenomenal to how it was. It was just like Atlanta. We used every single lane that racetrack had.

You tried to run the bottom, couldn't run the bottom. Guess what? You blast around the fence. If you blasts around the fence now, first of all, it's going to take you about 18 seconds longer a lap. and there is zero grip about four, three in the lanes off the bottom,

there is zero grip and that's only because it's only three lanes because they put the traction compound down and even the other half of the traction compound we don't even use it we just use the edge of it.

We never really get it up we don't even really ever use all of it so I don't know it's hard to I know there's a drinking game every time I say I don't know but I don't know I don't know

everybody in the club get tips. I just, it's hard, man. Like, they repaved it and it just hasn't been the same. So, in my opinion, they had to repave it because if you remember back a few years ago, if it rained, we might as well pack up and go home. Like, it, the place would not dry to save its life. But, you know, to change a configuration. I'm willing to take that. I'm willing to take that drying process and take it. If we got to say a day, we got to say a day. I'd rather have a great race on a clear day than repave a track for years. years and sacrificed the racing. I just didn't agree with the configuration change to, you know,

where you made. You remember when we went out there in first, that first practice we went out there. Oh, McMurray. McMurray was the first one in the one and missed the corner. Missed the corner wreck. Denny did it, I think. This is before he was great. But this was, you know, you should have seen these guys driving into one. I couldn't even explain to Bubba how shallow they were getting into one. It's like they get to the start, finish line, just hang the left, and drive straight in on the bottom. Like there was, if you arched at one half a car length,

you were done. So, you know, obviously, hopefully it gets better, but I just don't see us being able to run much higher without the traction compound. And you hate to see that.

Like, the tracks should lend to its, lend itself to great racing. You don't need to make a lane out of it. And even now, if you get above that, the bottom, the very bottom lane of the traction compound,

you might as well just pack it in because it's over. Oh, it's slick. Oh, I know. We found that out in truck racing. You know, it is what it is. It's nothing, I don't think, I mean, obviously the package probably doesn't help because the

Xfinity package is a little bit better. But the track and the repave and the reconfiguration is kind of what's lended itself to that the last few years. Looking forward to a thrilling All-Star race next July. And as far as the All-Star race, the only, my only issue with the All-Star race there is, you know, what are these, about these teams that are, so the rule about the All-Star race is if you own a charter, it's mandatory to run the All-Star race. You have to go.

So now you've got these teams, the 50-somethings, the Rick Ware guy, you know, they have to tow all the way out to Texas to run a 20-lap All-Star Open and then turn around and go home and fly all your people out there. And, man, that's tough. I mean, they might not fly. I mean, to me, the All-Star Race needs to be an experiment with something if you're going to run there because it's going to be, I just don't see how it's going to be too exciting. I don't see how it's going to be an all-star race of you're going to get in line and you're going to, you know,

I hope there's an experiment with something. I know we're going to a new car, but do something to slow these guys down some and punch a huge hole in the air where they can get runs or something. Or, play with tires. Not the spoiler, obviously, so they got to drive it sideways and the other guy can turn behind them.

You know, I don't know. Something, do something. Next one from Bushwhacker underscore 248. Do you think one of the big two will miss the final four this year? And if so, who is it? Freddie isn't allowed to be biased. I don't, well, Kevin's not going to miss it. I mean, he's 45 to the good.

He has to have. I mean, he could if he wrecks. He's got to crank his car. But he can't miss it. I mean, he can miss it. Nah. There's no way. You can make up 60 points.

There's no way all them guys jump in, though. They'd all have to make them. I'm just saying. I mean, he could go into turn one and somebody 50-something. I don't know if he watched. A 50-something car could miss the corner. It'd still be extremely hard for me. He pounded the fence pretty good on Sunday

But Kevin's not going to miss it no matter what And then Danny the only way Danny and Brad miss or Danny's going to miss it Him and Brad are pretty tight I think I think there's only a couple points Between him It says to one of the big two Yeah, so they're asking if just Danny So obviously somebody's going to have to win And it's very possible that Martin could win there or chase

But the only way Danny misses it if somebody else wins Yeah, Freddy's probably right about that We kind of threw a monkey wrench into that plan in Kansas. Thanks a lot. With Martinsville's tough, though, man. Brad has had a lot of speed there. He's had a lot of speed there, and he's had more than Denny here lately. And if one of them guys also, I think Chase is going to be really good,

I do think Bowman, I think them guys are going to be tough. I mean, if Truex won the last race there. And Truex could very well get up there, She if they... One of the last two races there. Well, if he brushes the fence and they cut the right front fender off it again, and probably win again. If you don't wreck him, he won like the last three there, I wouldn't call that wrecking.

Look, man, I don't think either one of these two miss it. Denny's too good there. Harvick's too good, period. He's got too big of a lead. I think the question becomes, you know, the TJ's point, how hard does Keselowski race? Is he going to go out there, balls to the wall and try to win the race, which you know his personality.

better than me, but he's plus 25, which essentially means go get some stage points in both stages. You're probably safe. Yeah. I think it depends on how well the 19 runs and how well the 19, 9 and 88, I think it matters on how, if one of them guys is up front, how many times you think the 19 fails inspection this week? I mean, how many times, what is the record for failing and expect? Like, he has started last every week.

Is he trying to win like the Most Improved Positions Award or something for a year? What did Cole Perrin say on the show? Bring 10 illegal things to the track and hope you get through with three of them? Exactly. So it's not, and they have zero issues getting back to where they need to in the front. Like drove back to the front. And honestly, probably would have maintained the lead, but I think he ran out of gas and had to flip the switch or whatever, and Kyle was able to jump him or something on the cycle.

So I expect that to be really tough, but the intensity is going to pick up. If one of them guys is leading, Brad almost has to. has to race decently hard to maintain track position because, you know, and Brad racing hard, he could probably ride around fourth or fifth pretty easily now. But if, say, the 9 gets up front starts walking away or the 19 gets up there, it's going to come down to Denny and Brad. And they got two points right now, so Brad finishes in front of Denny the first stage, and then it's one point or maybe less.

So this could come down to a... That's the cool part. Like Denny and Brad both do not want to see a new winner. So I think, I don't know, man, it's crazy. This is what we want. Drama, short track, this is what the system's invented for. This is what the system brings to us. Our offer pad question in the week,

what is something in your current home that you would like to change or be different if you bought a new home? Freddie, you start. I'd like to make my living room bigger so I can get a bigger couch. I don't know. I'd probably like to finish one of my rooms and make it some kind of a bar, sports room or something. Go ahead, Brett. You just got back in. I'd like it for mine to stop.

blooding so I can actually stay out there. I got a 220-gallon salt water tank in my garage for the last 13 months. That's been a hell of a lot of fun. I'm going to tell you so. That thing's heavy. To keep up. Yeah, Freddie Hillbill moving out. You know, things I'd want to do different to my home, hands down.

I'd like to have about $100,000 to spend on a really nice outdoor area and make it pimp where you can be outside year-round. You know what I mean? So obviously, I'm talking about a pool and some really cool outdoor stuff. And I've got grills and patios and all that. But, like, it ain't pimp. It's just chill. I've been wearing Megan out to get a pool.

And ever since I told Megan about it, and we know the pool industry is blowing up around here because our buddy Sean. So high. But, like, my whole neighborhood's putting in a pool. And I told Megan, like, six months ago, I'm like, I'd like to put a pool in. And obviously, I'm not going to you right now. But there's been five in my neighborhood in the last. And my neighborhood's pretty small. Yeah.

Start now that way. It's ready for spring. Yeah. Just go use Denny's. Yeah. I can probably get in there without him knowing it. I would probably change my garage. I only have one garage door, and I need two.

It's not very fun. My wife has a really hard time parking in the garage, and we might need to cut this out. Has she hit stuff? Well, she cut the corner. In my old house, we had two garage doors, and it was her side, my side. It was fine.

Never any issues on my side, but she turned in too sharp one time and ripped the right side of her car off. A little shallow entry. A little shallow, yeah. Did you coach her through that, a little more arc, a little turning a little later? And then she backed into the garage door one time before it was all the way up. That's solid.

That's solid. That's just bad timing. You coach her on that, too? There was actually three instances. I can't remember. A third one might have been about the same thing with the garage door, but it's never good when you're at the racetrack. And you get a text saying, I hit the garage door. I mean, that's not...

What an idiot. I saw last year I bought... I don't even know when hell I bought that truck off of Brit, but it had been sitting in my drive... I guess what I need to do is widen my driveway because my truck was sitting in the driveway and Megan's Jeep has every bell and whistle and backup alert, and she just backed into the truck.

Oh, nice. She called me, she said, I just backed into the expedition. I'm like, it's an expedition. Like, how did you not see it, let alone... What are learning here is women can't drive. my sister, we were talking about her before the show started, has hit everything on I-77. She's ripped my mailbox down.

She slams into curbs. Her van looks like it's been in the demolition derby. So what we're learning here is that females can't drive. Oh, God. I can't wait for next week's Twitter reaction. I didn't say that. I just want my own garage door. I just want my own garage door.

So when she backs into her, as mine still works. If you're a female, go to Waze, download my ways. I'll be your spotter. I'll help guide you safely without hitting parked things that are garage doors. You got to be pretty damn bad to hit a garage door. Yeah. So there's really home renovation, places that want to help me build a little addition to the garage out there.

I'd love to video it and I'll even help build it. All right, anything to rant about today? I don't have a rant, but I did want to commend those poor souls that had to drive those jet dryers and air tightens around at 10 miles an hour for four days. Yeah. I mean, what a monotonous. job that must have been and them guys

work their ass off. I don't know if they get to take breaks if they get to swap out with another driver but I mean they were out there for hours every day. They dried a lot. Yeah. I mean they literally dried for like the one day they started like 8, 9 in the morning and dried till 5 at night. How much money you think they spent? I told you

somebody, a friend of mine from back on Long Island said that her brother was driving one of the jet dryers and one day that jet dryer went through 300 gallons of fuel. Just that one jet and we looked it up and it was like almost $6 a gallon for a gallon of jet fuel. So that's just one.

Did you have to put gas in the rental car? No, we just made it. We did too. We parted it. It was low fuel. Yeah, that was funny. Which we didn't spend quite as much time in a rental car as everybody else did. I did send Kip a message.

I said, Kip, if y'all need help drive on the track, man, there's about 20 cars out here that we could probably line up. But that is a very bad idea. I wouldn't have went out there if I wouldn't drive. Kudos to all them guys because it could have been really easy to throw the towel in and Berman and Kip and that whole department there. Phillips, I'm sure, was involved. Like, that was some long days. That was a hell of a job. Some long days.

Before we dive into DBC Picks, a good friend of ours on the roof, spotter, David Keith lost his life last week. Always smiling, always fun to be around a group of us, the majority of us, will be wearing something to commemorate his life this weekend. We'll be sharing it on social media. so keep your eyes out for that. But I just want to give a shout out to his family and friends. And D.K. was a good dude. Arka race winner, spotted most recently for the 37 car, Freddie? Yeah, Busher.

Busher before he moved over to Roush. So, T.J., just always smiling guy. Yeah, he was a funny guy. Talladega. Teledega. Arca race winner. I don't remember what year it was, but I've been on the roof for a long time. Worked with Menard for a long time.

He's been doing stuff for Gill and D. DGR stuff for, you know, probably four or five things a year for them, odd stuff. But, yeah, funny guy, and you hate to hear that, man. We got that message. It was, you know, it doesn't, it's just bad. It's sad. The old boy, he called everybody old boy on the roof. Hey, old boy.

That was his common, you know, common phrase when you walked up on him. He was one of the first guys when I got up there to introduce himself to me. We spent a lot of time together over at Mike Herman's house, racing. He's good or RC cars. He was the creator of the Mill Hill Stadium, basically. He kind of laid the track out for the first time for Herm. So, you know, we spent a lot of time with him there, a lot of time on the road and stuff. Like you said, just a great guy, always happy, always smiling, always willing to tell a funny joke or talk a little bit of trash.

So I'm going to miss him. I was kind of heartbreaking to not be able to come back for the service. But we got to watch it on Facebook live, thankfully. And Keith Barnwell did a great job. He got up and spoke on behalf of all the spotters that couldn't be there. So I just want to thank him for that. Like Brett said, we're going to do something pretty cool on Sunday for him. So keep your eyes, ears tuned there.

We'll hopefully have some good social media, good pictures, good video of that. So just miss the buddy. But, you know, be thinking about him. His family, Breezy, his fiancé, Christina, his sister, his parents, I don't really know well. But just think about all them guys. Got speed, D.K. DBC picks. Congratulations, Brett.

You won, and you close in on Freddie. TJ should have won this, by the way. Freddy's up 13. I need a T.J. to win, it would a lot clinched for me. But T.J., you are officially eliminated for the 30th straight year, so good job there. Real nice. TJ, I need either a win out of me or you. We can't.

No, if he wins, you're done. No, I can tie you. You can tie me. Yeah, I win a tiebreaker somehow. Boy, oh, boy. We got the same amount of wins. I've got more second place finishes. You lose a tiebreaker.

Man, I got a... I'm going to go TrueX. Good pick, TJ. Solid. Solid. Solid. Solid sleeper. All right, Freddy, you're next.

I don't know who the hell I want. Hold on. I don't think I got anybody left. It's one of Bubba's better places. I, so I picked in one with the last time I was there. I am going to take. Oh. I'm pitching between two guys here.

Have you used Elliot? Yeah. Oh, you used all the good Martinsville guys up, man. It's all right. I got one good Martinsville. I got one guy that's really good at Martinsville. and there's another guy. There's two of them that are really good ones,

but I don't know who I want to pick. Well, it's either going to be Boyer or you don't have that many good guys to pick. There's one guy in the other column that's not for him. Yeah, you're talking about Johnson? Yeah. Yeah, good luck. It worked out well for me last week. Clint Boyer.

I know. You can't go, John. He's... Can't trust him. There's a groundhog is going to run across the track and he's going to hit it. Brad Kiselowski. We'll see if we have a competitive Phoenix if you win again, Brett. Going to try, brother.

Bringing the heat. Thank you for Offerpad for sponsoring the show. Thank you guys for finally coming back from Texas. And thanks everybody for listening. Martinsville's going to be a while one, ladies and gentlemen. You got guys like Jimmy and Clint that have never retired before. So they're trying to win before they retire. You got guys that have got to win.

You got guys like Truex that have been dime. I'm in it there. I'm excited, man. It's Halloween weekend. I'm excited to see what Truex does here, because he's not very often in a must-win scenario in this race. It's a 215 start. Man, I don't know, man.

This is, there couldn't be a better elimination racetrack than this. No. It's going to be good. Because you can get to the guy in front of you. I like the mile and a half. You can't get to the guy to make stuff happen. Here, you can get to him. Super Speedways or Martinsville are the places you want.

to close out stages or regular seasons or the season, whatever you want to do. Heck yeah. Let's go, holla. Can't wait until tomorrow when we go there. Well, we'll go. He won't go until Sunday. Sunday only. We out.

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