Door Bumper Clear - 199 - The Dog's Off the Leash

Episode Date: November 10, 2020

On the Season 5 finale, T.J. Majors, Brett Griffin and Freddie Kraft return from NASCAR Championship Weekend at Phoenix Raceway to react to the title battles in the desert. T.J. and Joey Logano fell short of a second Bill France Cup, hear how T.J. describes their race and what they missed on. Plus, Brett shares details of how Clint Bowyer closed his Cup Series career in his final start on Sunday. Freddie has some breaking news that required a shirt unveil. Find out what his future holds. Chase Elliott overcame a last-place starting spot to win his first Cup Series championship. The guys, along with co-host Hannah Newhouse and producer Jason Schultz, discuss the crazy fast car he had and how he beat his competition. Slow pit stops cost Brad Keselowski a shot at challenging the No. 9 car, leaving the gang to emphasize the team aspect of racing. In the Xfinity Series race, a spin by Chase Briscoe to bring out a late caution has the guys raising their eyebrows. Plus, they react to Justin Allgaier losing the lead on the final restart and the role his teammate Noah Gragson played in the finish of the race. It leads to a debate about the role of teammates for the championship contenders. Similarly in the Truck Series event, a late yellow flag set up a wild restart to decide the title. Hear why the crew thinks the caution should lead NASCAR to reevaluate its driver approval process. Plus, find out what they though about Sheldon Creed’s crazy drive to the front. The haters are back in Reaction Twitter and in #AskDBC, find out why ‘9 damn acres’ is so funny. As the 2020 season draws to a close, the gang reflects back on how NASCAR handled the adversity in one of the most challenging years ever. 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! door bumper clear is they're going to have a show. Those guys, their commitment. It's just kind of here and there, right? But anyways, whenever they return from sitting around, waiting on the race to happen, they will come back here and do a show.

They really have nothing else to do right now. They will complain about how miserable the life of a spotter is. If T.J. doesn't come back here and just say, how bored to death he was sitting there. That'll be the entire show this week about how the accommodations are either good or bad. I mean, that's basically the whole show. That will be, that's my prediction. I wonder who he's got babysitting right now.

Yeah. Because they're, you know, they're spotters. They're pampered. My gosh. Oh, tough. Shultz, you can get on them. They're spotters. They're pampered.

Door bumper clue. We let a comment yet? Literally, Dillner walks around in fields, looking at rabbit trails. Literally. And second of all, the guy in the beginning, I passed in the hallway of the hotel Saturday night and said he was bored of death going to go sit in his room. So, bad timing for that there. He doesn't sign any of my checks anymore. That's the first race he's been to, right?

No. They went to the last couple. Yeah, oh my gosh. But he didn't stay. He went home. He flew in on his private jet. And he flew out before the race, too. And we're pampered.

Yes. He was coming home. He left the Texas race to come home to record the podcast. Wish we could have done that. They probably could have taken us, right? Yeah. He talked about pampered. Totally could have brought us.

Talk about pampered. Geez. What about Mike Davis? How pampered is he? I don't think he comes out of it. his office anymore except for that that show and lunch just lives there i mean you never see him anymore he used to be all over the place all the time how many times do you stop in here this year for the show i haven't seen him this year who are we talking about david davis yeah exactly who's that

exactly yeah mike might he used to work here i don't know if he still does anymore i mean i go to the data room all the time when you see him yeah yeah hey i'm uh the pampered 22 spotter. What's up, Brett Griffin, spotter for Clint's final ride yesterday. That's fun. You're pampered. I will admit I'm spoiled. I'm not going to lie.

I mean, we're all spoiled. I will admit Brett spoiled, too. What's up, Freddie Craft spotter for Bubba Wallace in the 2311 number 23 Toyota. Is that official? That is official. That's an announcement you just made right? there breaking news. I even brought a shirt.

I got a new shirt for me. Wait, do you have to take one off to put one on? Please be the pregnant guy, Duncan. Oh, God, are you about taking a shirt off? Whoa. Chebacca. Yeah, literally just looked over at the wrong time and saw how much hair is on Freddy's back. Oh, he's got on this jump man shirt.

How did he get those dots on each side of you? Oh, never mind. Congratulations. Yeah, so that was a good news. That's a big move. Yeah, it'll be fun. I'm really disappointed that's not the shirt I was hoping. It'll be soon enough.

You know what? If we had a sharper, we could probably fix that shirt. Yeah, we could probably widen it out. The best part about the whole deal was, so this deal went down, finalized, I don't know, sometime mid last week. Like four months ago when we called it? So I text Bubba to be like, hey man, guess we're going to make it 11 years, you know, it's a done deal. And he replies with what? What the F is going on?

And I'm like, oh, God, maybe he didn't want me to come over here with. them. He read it wrong. He thought I said, I guess we're not going to make it 11 years. And he said he had a meltdown for a minute out. I hope he didn't send out no text message. Just nasty to anybody. But yeah, happy to get that done. Happy to stick with Bubba. Obviously, we've been together forever. So looking forward to next year. Got some other cool things on the line going for next year. We found out about this week. So like what? You got clearance on it. So apparently, a couple days after I got my deal done with Bubba, I was also told by Chris Rice that I'll be spotting full-time at Collie Racing next year also.

So them guys are great. Obviously, we had a good run with them there this year, and I hope, looking forward to continuing with them next year. It's a great place of work. Chris is one of the best guys in the business. So I just really looking forward to getting that deal. So Freddy's buying lunch. Are you going to announce your part-time deal yet?

No, not yet. I'm like two weeks out. Oh, so I can't. You don't want me to pry about that? I got to wait like two more weeks. The funny thing about Freddie's deal, though, is when we had Bubba on here. Remember we had Bubba on the Zoom? And we're obviously having fun with talking to him.

And I asked him had he talked to Michael Jordan. And at that time, it was not announced that Michael Jordan was coming. And I thought Freddie was going to fall out of his chair over here because Freddie knew. I was going to kill him. Freddie knew more than I knew, obviously. And despite what you think, we don't tell each other everything. and so when I said that, Freddie was about to have a heart attack because he then thought that Bubba thought I knew

because Freddie had told me the Michael Jordan thing. And obviously, we were the first ones to put out the play that Michael Jordan's coming to NASCAR. We sat in here the day before the announcement, maybe even the day of the announcement, with Ryan McGee. And I said, you think Michael Jordan's coming NASCAR? No, absolutely not.

Boom, they drop it, Michael Jordan. But anyway, that was the funny part. As we had Bubba on TV. And I go, hey Bubba, have you talked to Michael Jordan? and Bubba looks to the camera and Freddy's looking at me and I'm like, uh-oh, I don't think I was supposed to say that.

Literally, so we do the show Monday, obviously. The, like Tuesday or Wednesday, the week before, I met with Bubba to talk about some stuff and I said, where are we at? Because at that time, it looked like we were kind of going back to the 43. And he's like, I don't think that deal's going to work out.

I think I'm going to drive to 23. And I'm like, who the hell is the 23? Like, what are you, is that new team? I was like, is that Justin Mark's new number? And he's like, nah, nah, nah. He was a basketball player. I was like, oh, okay, that's cool. Literally, fast forward four days.

I had not said one word to Brett about this. Nothing about it. He's like, you talk to Michael Jordan? I'm like, are you shoohing me? Like, Bubba's looking at me. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm going to kill Brett. Literally, we never, I never said a word. Because if I would have said something to Brett about it,

he would not have done that. You know what I mean? I would have sold him out. But I was like, Oh, God. But, yeah, just really looking forward to it. Well, at least you get to leave the binoculars in your backpack for your schedule next year. The only two type of tracks you need a man, right?

Only two type of tracks, though. Only two. Ah, but we also have our host, host with the most, I don't know what you call, guest host. What are you going to be referred to now? Yeah, I don't even know. I'm Hannah Newhouse. Again, glad to wrap the season up with you guys. and old producer Jason sounds like he's got some more gifts for you here.

The gifts keep rolling in. Someone brings some stuff out of. We have no more room on this table for alcohol. Well, you took three bottles home. Yeah, duh. You took all that stuff home last week? Yeah, I ain't leaving in here with you idiots. I get missing.

Oh, he's bringing out boxes. We truly do have the best fans ever. And I know NASCAR fans in general. NASCAR fans in general are great. But, DBC fans are even greater than NASCAR fans. Fred, it looks like you got to. cart and eggs over there, buddy. Yeah. We're going to make breakfast.

Yeah. Oh, Titos. Oh, yeah. You all got an ice maker in here? Is that a note? Holy cow. Wrote you a book. To all the DBC gang. Why's my box so little? To all the DBC gang.

Size doesn't matter, Brad. You think I like small boxes? Including Hannah eating for two. Let's get. I'm just kidding. So funny. T.J. jokes. We need to get him a new joke. Eric Willardson.

I'll go get that for you, Brett. Was that a Clemson? car? No, it was a Hamlin car. People are stupid. No, I think it was a Clemson. You just got done saying they're the best fans in front. Now they're stupid.

Uh, yeah, Eric Willardson. Also at NASCAR guy, 1982 on Twitter. I don't do Clemson's s' people. I don't know how hard that is, I understand. You probably enjoyed the game Saturday. I did. Dude, that was such a great game.

Notre Dame beat them in overtime, triple overtime. We were over Clint. So Clint, I'm going to start drinking bourbon. Clint's like, hey, you know, come to Scottsdale Saturday when you're done working at the track. So me and Freddie get done working, and we Uber all the way to Scottsdale, which was probably 40 minutes. It's a haul.

It was a pretty good ride from Glendale. It is. Way further than what you think. And we get over there. Of nothingness. And Clint goes to bed. It's 9 o'clock. And I'm like, I just Uber 40 minutes.

Literally an 80-minute car ride. And he went to bed, 40 there, 40 back. And so he went to bed, and we watched the end of the Notre Dame Clemson game, and then Freddie and I Uber all the way back to where we came from. Literally, he went to bed. Yeah. So yesterday before the race started, I was like, man, you should feel great today. I've never seen a human go to bed that early, ever.

You got 12 hours of sleep, at least. At least. He was like, oh, man, I needed it. You know, I was like, well, I'm assuming you're going to make up for that tonight. So the last time I talked to him last night, he was certainly having fun. He deserves it. I can only imagine. Yeah, he invites me to stay over on Sunday night on Saturday night,

which is typical Clint. You should stay over tomorrow night, yeah, because it's real easy to get home from Phoenix. Like, just buy another one-way commercial ticket at the last minute, pay $700. No, he's a mess. Anyway, thanks for the gifts other than this Tiger Ball cart. Well, the name's not in the box, actually, so I'm not sure.

Someone sent you Tito's, but we don't have a lot of these. Whoever sent me Tito's, thank you. I think. This guy wants to know who he should root for now. Says his favorite track was Richmond. He went to a couple years ago. Been a fan since he was eight years old. Yeah.

So he's 19? I don't know. His Twitter deal is... He can't be 19. He bought a bottle bottle of liquor. No. He is 1982. So he's...

82. That's a good year. Mid-30s. he's 38 depending on what year he's one a new driver he wants someone to follow

for next year in many years to come T.J. why don't you lobby on why he should pull for Joy Lagano well you like to win don't you?

Not yesterday that's a good one Jason we all know who was going to win that race we just didn't want to say it I mean yeah listen it depends on if you like

comical guys there's guys that are like like Clint You know, those guys... You can't pull for him. I mean, yeah, but... You can pull for him in the booth. I hope Clint has a good day today.

Clint's going to be great in the booth either way. So, um, just what kind of personality you like? Do you like the hard racer that, um, isn't as, you know, doesn't have as many jokes, or do you like the guy that jokes a lot? And I don't know. It's up to you. I mean, you got to, you got to pull for, and this is to everybody. Like, you got to pick a guy that, that, that, that, that, you know, that, that, you're

represents what you like about life. I mean, that's the thing, man. Like, when you pick a driver, you got to pick a guy that represents what you like. Because if you do, and here's the coolest thing about our sport in terms of drivers. If you're a fan of a driver and you don't ever get to meet your favorite driver, it's probably because you financially couldn't afford to go meet them. Because our guys, pre-COVID, and once we get a vaccine post-COVID, are more available than any other talent in sports.

I mean, if you want to meet Kyle Larson, go to the Chili Bowl. Go to one of his appearances. If you want to meet, you know, Joy Lugano, go to Planet Fitness. A guy signed an autographs at Planet Fitness a few times a year. Obviously not right now, but once we get back normal,

like, you want to meet a Bubba Wallace? Go to McDonald's or go to wherever he's going to be, right? Like, it just, I think our drivers are more accessible than any other talent in sports. And to me, man, that's what makes it cool. You know what I mean? If you want, I mean, If you're a smart ass, you want to pull for somebody like Tony Stewart.

You know what I mean? If you are a quiet, you know, hardworking performer, you want a guy like Kyle Larson because that's kind of what his personality is. Like, I mean, something's got to draw you to them, in my opinion. Yeah, I agree. You got to have something in common with him, kind of. Aren't we talking about when we were talking about Briscoe the other day, about how someone we thought Bass Pro Shops decorated Tony's house?

Was that on here? I don't know. That was your other podcast. Yeah. But Tony Stewart did use the same people that built Bass Pro Shops to build his house. It literally looked like you were going to see the water. He has a scuba diver that has to come into his home to clean his aquarium every week. Which is insane.

The guy puts on scuba gear. This is no b-b-this guy has to put on a full-blown scuba gear outfit to get in Tony's aquarium. I'm going to clean it. Freddie's house has the same thing. Do you want me to... Have you ever seen Brett's fish tank? I've got to put scuba gear on to getting his... Have you seen...

Steve Reeves? Fish tank? Try carrying to some. It's like picking up one of them race cars and walking around with it. Yeah, it's heavy. Steve Rees has a shark. Steve's got to see the garage when you came because my floors were messed up. Yeah, it's a 220 gallon fish tank.

I was going to say when we were over there, I never thought of a fish tank. Tony's fish tank is the size of my house. Yeah. Is your salt water? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have the stuff run to your basement too? I don't have a basement.

Oh, geez. No, that's not hard to maintain. They're easy to maintain. Oh, boy. All right. We know, we know Brett and Furt and Flee. Freddie spent half the weekend in an Uber other than that. How was Phoenix?

I love Phoenix. I love the area of Phoenix. I can't breathe out there. Really? Oh, it's dry. So dirty and dry. Dusty. I can't breathe here.

DJ, do you see like the dust just? What night was that? The big dust cloud was coming. Was that Saturday? Saturday. Yeah, looking out toward turn two. Just, yeah, it was, what was it? It was windy on Saturday.

wasn't it? Saturday's one. Oh my gosh, it got windy. Was it raining right before the truck race? Yeah, it was sprinkling a little bit. They took a cam shot of like down below

and we were all sitting there watching. I'm like, it's raining in Phoenix right now. Like you could just see it starting to like drizzan. I'm like, there's no way that we get to the last race in Phoenix. Honestly, I think we had a few drops for Sunday.

Sunday because I was like, before the race. That just hit my hand. I look at my phone or my time of scoring up and I was like, it is. It's starting to sprinkle again. insane yeah

those dust clouds there though there and where was that place that it got that deal hit us Vegas like you could see it coming it was like is that gonna hit here like it was a wall of dust

yeah it's crazy so yeah Phoenix is fun though I do enjoy Phoenix the stadium area is really nice and a lot to do around there I love the area it's probably the most scenic spotter stand we have all year

and it is by far the worst spotter stand we have I hate spotting there. It's so tough with the angles and the death perception. It's great for three and four. Yeah. It used to be one and two. The thing is, and I don't know that I'll ever spot another race at Phoenix being honest with you, but if they would move us to where their grandstands are for the suites, the angles are completely perfect for the whole race track because you get around the corner enough to make the other corners not have the depth perception issue. Coming off a turn two at Phoenix is probably the hardest corner in that's guard spot.

If it's not, it's second to Pocono turn one. Bubba was driving me insane yesterday, and he knew it too because he apologized for it, because I was like he would run the grip in one and two, but at like the three quarter mark, he would just turn straight to the bottom. Well, now the guys that are behind us are staying in the grip. So now I've, like every lap I've got that half car length, one car length judgment call. Are there not? Yeah, you can't tell.

He's like, I'm like, they're really trying to poke the top off of two. He's like, I know, I know, I'm sorry, but I feel like if I get this rolling, it's going to be way better. right because by the end of the race we were really good off of turn two but it was driving me crazy for about 30 laps I was like half back clear-ish clear by three actually never mind you're good yeah no it's all right we had uh we had three drivers stopped by the suite on Saturday and they got to see the view and like when you go work with them after that you it's good for them because then they realize what we're working with i mean i yesterday never put my binoculars up once

because i never got really in a bind but that's a place that i would never use binoculars I don't use binoculars anywhere except plate tracks. I like my peripheral vision. Some people stare through binoculars. That's not me. But there, man, you almost have to freaking use them just to get them off corner. Yeah, you talk about drivers going up there. I brought Bubba up on the roof at Pocono for he was running at infinity of time.

He came up there for the cup race. And we all went green and he was standing right next to me on the rail. And we all looking, you know how it is. If you ever get a picture of us, it's like 40 guys hanging half over the rail. Some of them go high. Some of them go low. Some have stools. I don't know why because none of us can see anything to begin with.

And Bubba looks down there and we get off a turn one. He just looks at me and goes, you're lying. What are you talking about? You can't see that. I'm like, yeah, I know. He's like, I don't ever trust you again in this corner. Like, I don't care what you say. You can't see nothing.

I'm like, I'm aware of that. That first time I ran an ARCA race or a K&N race at Phoenix. And my spotter never spotted anything bigger than a half mile. and the first time we all went out in practice, and this is before they reconfigured it, and went out across the apron, he gets on the reading, he goes, cutting, cutting, cutting, they're cutting.

I'm like, what the hell is cutting? I had no idea where anyone was on the racetrack. He is panicked up in the grandstands, can't see coming off of at the time four. And I was like, dude, this is not good. So he went and found someone else's spot for me. I still, to this day, cannot tell you who was in my ear. I have no idea who was in my ear that race.

So Michael Altrip, funny story. I was spotting for Michael Altrop. He ran a part-time schedule for Band-Aid and errands back in the day. And I could not spot the night of the Saturday night Charlotte race the day before the Coke 600. Because Coca-Cola had a big event in town. I managed the Coca-Cola sponsorship for Elliott, the PSA, where we would go downtown Charlotte all the time. I was like, Michael, man, I hate to do this, but I cannot spot this race. I've got to go, you know, see the Coke guys and do this.

And he's like, man, no problem. get this guy to do it. I was like, okay, he's get somebody to do it. So I was like, all right, so I go get this guy that used to spot some was a dirt track racer. Who? He drove. I'm not going to call the guy out because he's too nice of a guy. So nonetheless, Michael is driving during the race, Hannah, and they have some issues.

Let's just say that. And under caution, Michael says to this guy, I don't know who asked you to do this or why they ask you to do it. but the next time they ask you to do it, tell them you have something else going on and make up a reason why you cannot spot for me. This is not working out. And Michael would chew your ass anyway. Like he literally goes off on the sky in the middle of race.

Because you imagine how bad that guy felt? I didn't ask that guy to do it again. No, he was probably done after that. Michael's tough, though. People don't realize that. But there's spotters that are like that, though. Yeah. We were talking to, I did a show yesterday.

We were talking to Coleman Presley, and he was talking about how his dad, in the late model race at Myrtle Beach, he got him and his dad got into an argument or something mid-race and his dad said all right have fun took his headset off went and stat in the grandstands with his mom for the last 40 laps of the race at myrtle Beach and Coleman won he's like I had no radio no nothing drove with my mirrors because my dad was like all right have at it have at it and took his headset off and walked to the grandstand I've had that that happened to me a bunch of times with Jimmy blew it like we'd have a blowout

have a fight he was roasting you on Twitter the other day he can dry all he wants but we still I'll be like, all right, I'm done. I'll stop talking. And I'll stop, talk for the whole parade lap. And then, like, we come in a green, he's like, are you there? Are you there? What are you doing? Let's go.

Let's stop messing around. I was like, all right. It's funny when they get like that. A little panicky. That was the same way Dale Jr. was when I quit spotting form of Michigan that one time. And then he's like, you're still up there. Like, he was like, well, you can't just quit spotting. Here's the thing.

Don't change your mind in the middle of the race. I won't quit spotting. Yeah, we've had a couple. We've had a... He was annoying sometimes. That's the headline. T.J. says Dale's annoying. Sometimes.

When he would get angry... No, you can't cut that. When he would get a... When it was like super loose and it was that COT car, oh my goodness. It's almost like I set it up or did something to it. Geez, I'm just telling you where the cars are, man. You're mad of me. Dale and Steve did say in the broadcast yesterday that T.J.

He's never wrong about anything at one point. That's a fact. That's the most, at least the truest thing they've ever said. Yeah. Brett, how was Clint's final ride? Oh, man, it was cool. You know, I mean, you look back and obviously it kind of started last week on the show and the fans calling in and Bodie, obviously, I was jumping on video.

And obviously, that caught me off guard. And, I mean, to me, that's when the switch flipped and said, hey, this is the last full-time season with Clint Boyer. Maybe my last full-time season ever in NASCAR. And I, ah, man, there's a lot of emotion, but, you know, I think it would have gone a lot better if our jack hadn't broke. We were going to finish top 10. We were going to run probably. I felt like we were a seventh place car yesterday.

Obviously, typical Phoenix, man, restarts were everything and extremely hard to pass unless you were driving the nine car. And so we kind of came out behind the gun there and ended up losing a lap very late to chase. And look, you want to see a guy go out on high note, but we certainly went out running better than we finished. and you know, Clint likes that racetrack. And I don't know, man, it, it, you hate to see it. I mean, you just hate to see a person. And everybody's like, oh, his personality is going to the booth. And that's great.

But when these guys hang up their helmets for whatever reason, they lose that star factor, man. You know, I mean, and I've seen it with a lot of guys that I've been around, they're great friends of mine that have retired. I mean, Jamie McMurray, Dale Jarrett, Casey Kane, Elliott Sadler, you know, and I just hope that the sport finds another personality. And the thing is, man, people are literally have said to me, there's no way Clint's like that all the time. No, that's Clint Boyer people. One hundred percent. The Clint Boyer you see in all those interviews is as authentic as a Clint Boyer, well, not as authentic as Clint Boyer went to bed Saturday night and nine o'clock. But outside of that, like, he's coming over here Tuesday night. We're supposed to all go to dinner. And he will be a complete show. And today he's hung over and he's going to be a complete show. And tomorrow, like Clint Boyer knows how to do two things really well. Have fun and work really hard. heart and there's not a lot of other things he does it's going to be interesting to see

how his life plays out because it's he's a full throttle guy he gets up in the morning and he is full freaking throttle like it's nothing to be at lake of the ozark stay out till three or four in the morning and at seven of the next morning him wake you up outside washing your windows at his house oh my god with a squeegee i mean like full-blown bucket squeegee mop and i'm like what is that freaking noise who is he hired to come to the house the only week that we're here and you open the blinds and it's him standing out there, just working as hard as he can work. And I'm like, go back to bed, you idiot. You just woke me up.

I'm just upset because we went, Brett said we went over there for dinner Saturday night, and I thought Clint had the best idea in the history of our sport for his last race, and he just did not follow up on it. He didn't do it. He said, well, for one thing, Clint does not forget anything. So he was saying, I think I'm just going to pull the pin tomorrow and just wreck everybody that I owe a wrecked. to and as I wreck him call it out.

Like, yeah, that was 08 Martinsville right there, bud, you're welcome. Yeah, that was 2012 Phoenix. Coming for you here. This one's that. Yep, 2015 Talladegan. What are they going to do? Wreck him back?

I said, that would have been the most epic thing in the history of the sport. If you just continue to wreck people and just call out years and tracks that they wrecked you at, it would have been the most epic thing ever. He could have made a pretty good list, probably. Oh, he was rattle them off that night, and Brett's like, some just don't forget nothing apparently like he he remembered every person that wrecked him it was

incredible yeah that's pretty good should have put a list on his dash the next day like a checklist check checklist yeah pick the top five ones that you remember what's the what's the biggest wreck you remember happening to you as a spotter to screwing you up and you're still mad about it um let me think about it for a minute man there's a lot of them because we get wrecked I mean we get wrecked. The one they, I mean, some wrecks, it has to be one that you can definitely blame a guy, right?

Well, I mean, not necessarily. I mean, like, you had a place like Dover, right? And you get that run on the bottom and you keep racing hard and you get clear and they stick it back in there. You get clear, you stick it back in there. And then the last minute they stick it back in there and wreck you. Like, they know they're going to wreck you. My biggest one just happened recently, Daytona.

We're passing for the damn. Not that. Not the road course. But we were passing Joey on the outside for the lead there, and then I thought we were going to be leading the race coming to one to go. You really? You're mad at Danny for that? Yeah, yeah. I'm good now, bro.

I sign my dealer. Actually, unfortunately. He said you've got to be still mad. I don't have a contract, so I don't have to kiss Danny's ass forever on the show. But yeah, I thought we had a good shot at maybe, you know, at least putting ourselves in position to win that race, and Joey kind of got turned. I still don't blame Denny as much as I blame the guy's,

behind Denny shoving the hell out of everybody there. And it just didn't work out right. And I don't really think it was anybody maliciously wrecking us. It was just a lot of guys pushing at the end. But that sucked for us. I thought we had a shot to win that race. Yeah, before we kick this thing off, we got to give a shout out to the best presenting podcast sponsor in NASCAR,

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Our buddy Kyle there, they kind of, so either blame them or thank them however you want to do it. But they're the sole reason I'm on this show. For some of the people like Freddie, TJ, and I still ain't figured out why. It's my charmingly good looks. Yeah, it's definitely your good looks. Definitely your good looks. But you look back at the year. Obviously, DirtyMone Media has a lot of people here that touch our show.

Hannah, thank you for coming on. and hosting. We obviously love Casey to death, miss her, glad she's home being a mom. You know, Jason has probably grown as much as any person I've been around in podcasting. Jason, by the way, you're the only person I've been around. You've grown a ton. I've grown a ton myself. And I've, look, there's a lot of times I've challenged. I've challenged Jason, and he stepped up to the plate. He's done a hell of a job with our videos and our content and our show sheets. And Leah, our social media director, she's phenomenal.

and then Matthew. I don't know where Matthew's at today. You know where he's at. When I asked people last week what their favorite part of the show was, hands down, the number two-rated answer was a spiking Matthew Dillner's coffee.

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idea and they've been a huge part of this show man for a while now spotters have a podcast is a big deal because you guys i don't know if i've ever said this out loud on the show but when i got here in 1999 um you know you're trying to assess what's going on and back then we only traveled about 10 guys and the guy who was a front-end mechanic was also the tire changer and the guy who was you know changing freaking truck arms was also the jackman like we didn't have a lot of depth and you know eddie would. I'll never forget this. He looks at me and he goes, we just picked the dumbest guy on a team and hand him a headset until I'm going up there and spot. And I'm like, well, dang, that's kind of harsh. Two years later, he handed me a headset. Is that what, isn't that what you did for Michael Walter?

And I was like, I was like, man, I don't know if I should be excited about this freaking headset offer or not because I remember what, I mean, literally it was ringing in my ears when he's like, Brett, you got a spot today. And I'm like, oh, no. I'm the dumbest guy on the team now. I'm the guy. I'm the guy. I mean, I mean, back. then those spotters weren't really required to do much of anything at all. It's so funny. I was telling somebody this weekend, they were asking me about spotting and all this stuff. And I was like, look, when I got here, I was the youngest guy on the roof at 25 years old. And it was a lot of pilots. It was a lot of motor coach drivers. It was a lot of truck drivers. It was a lot of people who

build shocks. Like, it wasn't, spotting wasn't its own niche yet. And I was fortunate to see and be a part of the movement where spotting became more and more important. I'm not afraid to tell you guys this. my first season spotting full-time 2001 what do you think it paid Hannah 36 point races plus a Daytona qualifying race plus an all-star weekend what do you think it paid 35,000 12,000 dollars I got like 400 bucks a week that was my first pace of from mbt motorsports not pay sub but end of the year deal you got in December I had a I think I still have it somewhere I said year to date it was like 12,400 or something I was like oh good year Elliot was paying me a base fee to be his manager.

And then on top of that, I was getting $12,000 to be a cup spotter. Now, CupSpotters. You make more than that now? Yeah. I just signed my deal for $13,000. I thought I did pretty good. $13,000 a week. Cup guys.

And I'm going to say this, and this is going to make some people mad, and I don't really get it. Oh, boy, I don't know. He's done spotty. You did. In 2021, a cup spotter. spotter will finally be paid what they're worth and this will be the first year because here's why these guys that are really really good at it make a really good living okay you foreshadowing freddie there's there's not there's not many of them that are really really good at it but the 15 or so that are really really good at it

make a really good living okay but the problem is before this year they had to leave their homes on thursday and they had to work on friday they had to work on saturday they had to work on sunday and then and they got home Sunday night at midnight. So they were gone from their families four days a week. The way this year worked out, if you're a full-time cup spotter and you don't do other series, you can still make a really good living and only have to worry about working the event. Now, you're still going to be gone two days and one night, but you should have been paid. Look, I obviously do a lot of stuff in the business world.

Business executives that travel as much as we make, much as we do, make a lot more money than we make, right? But when you look at people who show up and just do the game, like in other sports, they make bank for just doing the game. We don't do that. We make a good living to go be gone for four days. Finally in 2021, if you're just a cup spotter, and I'm going to be honest with you, the Xfinity Series, most teams don't pay well. You know, junior motorsports pays pretty good. Colleg Racing pays great. But when you see those guys back there running from 20th back, it's not worth the money.

I would not spot for one of those guys because, A, it makes you look bad as a sports. potter if something bad goes wrong and now you're tainted as oh what is spotter tell him what what happened it's not worth the money to go do that but next year if you do cup only like tj does i know he helps out and truck some unless he's on vacation withel junior then it and my point is i know i'm rambling next year is finally when the cup spotter's going to get paid what they're worth maybe i should be a cup spotter come on there might be an opening let me know you'd be good at it me yeah the last cup spotter we had up there that was a female. Her name is Donald LePage.

Love her to death. Google Kevin Lepage Rex of Talladega. Oh, yeah, I don't do that. That's why we have a blend roll. I spotted for my dad for a year. How did that guy? It was good, actually. We won a couple races.

He wouldn't let me, he wouldn't give me a... Push to talk? Push to talk. He made you do the headset thing all day? Dude, that man. I'd tell you what, I had to do that. My finger froze. It was like a September, late September race,

in Idaho. It's just annoying to do that. I had to do in Texas. Oh, hurt. I don't know what happened. I had a cable go bad or something in Texas, and I had a spot like the first half of the truck race from my headset. I was like, this is awful.

I remember having to do this at the short tracks. This is terrible. Talk about pampered and spoiled again. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, we're so spoiled. All right, now that we're an hour in, let's start the show. Yeah, that was the longest offer pad read ever before we get started. We're going to hear more about our presenting sponsor of Offerpad.

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He's spot off. Spot on you like it. Spot off, you don't like it, and you say my either way. All right. Right, spot on, spot off. Now that we've made it through championship weekend, we talked about it all year long, Phoenix being the first time.

Holding the championship, what did you guys think as Phoenix being the championship track? Freddy, you can start. I think it's great if we throw a comp caution with two to go in all the races. That would have been a great idea. Concur. Yeah, I don't know.

You know, I think Homestead was way racier. I was glad to see that we continued the trend where the top four in points just dominated, and stayed the top four all race long. I don't know if you want to call that a conspiracy theory or what, but they were obviously the fastest four cars there yesterday. The nine was stupid fast. I don't even know what else to say.

Like he said, he talked about driving the 10th from last in that first 30 laps. But, yeah, I mean, the racing wasn't bad. just you can't pass so it's all about restart so you need you know i don't know add cautions or something but it obviously had two great finishes on the night the friday and saturday because we had green white checker restarts and we would have had another one if we had a green white checker restart on uh sunday but you know chase was just dominant car and and you just don't see i feel like homesaid was way racier way more lines to use you know it just it just played off better as a race i'm saying way as freddie It was a great Friday night.

Green White Checker, guy coming on tires, ran so low that we couldn't even see him through one and two. Comes back up there, wins the race. Saturday, three wide off a turn four, coming to the white flag. You know, one guy just racing for the win. Really aggressive guy. And had he, you know, completed the deal in Texas,

he probably could have had a good shot of the championship right there with Noah. But, you know, three guys racing for the win off a time. turn four, coming to the white, and just an exciting race. And then, you know, we get to the cup race and it just gets, we have a green flag stop before the end, and after a green flag stop, things are usually pretty strong out. So it doesn't really, you know, we're all running the same line, basically. And the only way to really move around, get around somebody is, you know, it's hard to pass, really hard to pass.

We were able to hold the lead for a while in the beginning, but we had a, we had a, we had a tire we had a really bad vibration for three quarters of a run and it was really affecting joey under braking and it just ended up being a tire or something not a loose wheel but just something with a tire i guess brad had one too that's why he short pitted that one time but i just don't i miss homestead um i miss homestead multiple lanes you know the the the risk of running the wall to find that speed there was so much more um i don't know know can this guy do? We're watching every single corner when these guys are blasting a fence just waiting for that got to slip up four inches so we can hit the wall and make a mistake.

And this is where it separates the guys. The guys that can do it, you know, get after it up there. And it's just exciting, more exciting to me than that. But yeah, I agree. Spot on for Phoenix being the season finale in 2020. Spot off if it's still the season finale in 2022. Give me Bristol or give me death. Give me Martinsville or give me death. Like, do not leave this race as the race for the championship for multiple years. Like, let's move this thing around. Let's see if it produces different champions. Let's keep shaking this schedule up, man. We can still go to the majority of the same tracks and accomplish that. And I don't want it to get stale because it was fresh this year. It was cool, man. And tires mattered in the truck,

race didn't matter as much in the Xfinity race. Ross Chastain came out on tires and the 22, who also was in a different zip code on Saturday, he managed to keep the lead, right? But I thought the racetrack did as well as it could do, but I don't want to see it, I don't want to see us keep going there year after year after year. And I understand why we're going back there in 21, and I'm all for it, but after that, move it. Yeah, I don't want to see us go anywhere more than a year or two. You know, I think, like you said, I mean, if you get to the point where there's just guys that are really good at certain tracks. You know what I mean?

Obviously, the nine was dominant. So now you let him in there again next year. He just, you know, he says he wins if Martinsville gets in the final four. Is he going to just rack up championships because we keep running Phoenix? Or, you know, if we were staying at Homestead, Kyle Arson was eventually just going to rattle off. I mean, he was untouchable at Homestead. If he ever made it to the final four, he probably would have been worn people out. Yeah.

But it's a strong point for him. I think you just need to move it. Just like you said, keep it fresh, keep it different. Just try a bunch of different places. I think at least a track like Homestead, even on a short run, you can have, like, Kyle Larson, his strong point at Homestead was long runs. The last 25, 30 laps of a run, he's so fast. But you also have guys that are better on a short run. You know, it's just there's a good mix there, in my opinion.

If we were going to run somewhere consistently, I think Homestead was still the track to do that at. But there's a lot of edgy tracks. There's Bristol. There's Martinsville. There's Darlingville. There's a lot of places where we say the guy's up on the wheel. And Phoenix just one of those places. I don't think Darlington has the, in the cup cars is like that as much anymore, but definitely short tracks, Bristol.

And I'm not discounting that they're not always up on the wheel because they are. But we can see the edginess at the sum of those. I was going to say, I think, you know, especially right in front of us three and four, it's an edgy corner. And they're driving the shit out of it. But the problem is you can't pass. No. Like it's just one lane. Yeah.

Next one here for the Cup series, spot on, spot off. Chase Elliott goes from starting last to finishing first to win the championship. Brett. Spot on. I mean, it was obvious yesterday he had the fastest car, and so many times a fastest car doesn't win. He's obviously the most popular driver. I'm not surprised by this. I said it in last week's show, if he brings the speed and the ability underbreaking that he's had at road courses of Martinsville, look out.

And there it is. Yeah. I mean, I picked him last week when we were. when we went through our picks and, you know, just kind of goes back to our old buddy Cole Pern. You bring 10 illegal things to the track and hope that four or five of them get through. And sometimes you bring something really obvious so that they catch you in tech with that and they maybe don't look as closely as some other things you might have.

So I kind of knew when he got bounced in tech yesterday, it was like, oh, boy, they've come loaded for bear for this one. So like you said, fast car won the race. Spot off. I don't blame you. Spot off. I mean, I had the same feeling.

You look good to start the race, man. Like, you're up there, Dominion. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, because he started 40th. Yeah, we had a good. I mean, our car was good. Don't get me wrong. But it just wasn't nine good.

You know, we were better than the 11, better than two in a short run. Two is a little bit better than us in a long run, I think. Your pick crew was better than the twos. Yeah, that's next. Yeah, definitely. Our pick crew has been awesome. Who do you think should get the biggest bonus for this championship?

Biggest bonus? Speaking of Pickrees. Oh, what am I missed? Jackman? How about that dude that jump back on the wall and saved him from that penalty last week? Oh, I thought you were talking about Mike Harmon

falling over the wall. Oh, my God. Dude, that was awesome, by the way. Can you tweet that video out? I got to see if I got permission to tweet that out. It's on Twitter. Is it on Twitter? Yeah.

Oh, my God. Yes. Mike Harmon doesn't realize his own center of gravity is a little higher than average human. And he is trying to catch tires during the truck race. I'm sorry, during the Xfinity race.

He's catching the front tire when it comes back across. He's catching the front tire. Oh, too many men over the wall. Down goes Harmon. When they said too many men, they thought it was three different guys. But, hey, man, I give him credit for being in that. I mean, I will say that his cars have run, have been. Way better.

Yeah. Since he got out of him. Yeah. But, I mean, hey, he's out there trying. I'll catch tire, why not? He was trying. Yeah, man. But, you know, I think.

I think it's awesome. It was awesome that time. So Jason can tell you guys where to watch this video, but all I'm going to say is, if you could put the right music to this thing. I'll tweet it. It would truly be like being at a ballet. What is the right music for that?

I don't know, man. Something Mozart. Oh, I was thinking, you know, I was thinking like Humpty Dumpty. If you want to go see the video, it's at MHR Racing, tweeted it. Oh, they tweeted themselves. Yeah, because they said,

boss man. does whatever it takes or something like that. Oh, oh, oh, no, that was not graceful at all. Nah. It probably hurt, too. And then it looks like, it looks like the safety guy comes over and like, because instead of standing back up and just like stepping back over the wall, he kind of like throws a leg over and shimmies back over the wall. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry. We were talking about a pit cruise. Yeah, we'll just roll into the next spot-on, spot off for that because the next one is Brad Kislovsky says that it's a team effort after two slow pit stops on Sunday. I give Brad credit because this is a very good opportunity to just throw your guys under the bus.

And these are the same guys that got him to the championship for. I don't know what the deal was. Maybe they just had a bad day. I don't know what, but they won the championship the night before with the 22. So obviously they're not a bad pit crew. It's just maybe something was going on down there. But just credit to Brad because there's a lot of guys that would have been lined up take a cheap shot or kind of throw somebody under the bus and Brad realizes these are the same

guys that got them to this race and because they had a bad day isn't the time to take a shot at them. He's right, man. It's a group effort. It takes the driver gaining spots on resource, holding them off. It takes pit crew helping. I mean, we won Kansas because of our pit crew. You know, pit crew put us in position to capitalize on something like that, you know, and Joey was able to hold the, you know, hold the four off. but the pit crew did it and it got us that opportunity.

Yeah, pit crew guys make a lot of money. They have a very important job. And sometimes you can execute. And sometimes it's not up to you if you can. I mean, we had a jack break yesterday. We've seen gun problems before. There's a lot of things that can go down that that particular guy doesn't have control of. So I don't know the situation that happened.

But obviously a solid team, a solid organization, solid pit crew across the board. And I, too, agree with Freddie. Like he could have blasted him if it truly was an individual or multiple individuals that had problems and he took the high road. So kudos to him. Spot on to him for that. For the Xfinity race, Austin Cendrick asked, did Briscoe spin on purpose on the radio and the 98 spun to set up an overtime restart, T.J. I mean, I would probably have the same thing if I was going to win a championship and you had a guy that was struggling all day. Had a set of tires left.

Yeah, I had a set of tires left. You know, you're going to have the same thing. I mean, especially when they spin and they don't really hit much and damage their car, really. But, I don't know, whatever. I really, really want to give Chase Briscoe credit because I think he's really one of the good guys in the sport. But this is pretty suspicious. I mean, you want to. out that you pit under the last caution and didn't put your tires on, hoping to get a caution.

And then we get down to it there, and you're by yourself. Very few cars in the lead lap as well, I think, right? Oh, yeah. I think he restarted a top ten, I think. Yeah. And you spin out on entry into a corner with two to go, whatever it was. I mean, obviously, I don't know. I mean, I would really love to give him more credit.

I really hope he didn't do this because if he did, it's complete and it's just not the way you're supposed to do it. And if they, I mean, we have ways to find out. There's data. So you can see if he did something different. TJ's proud of me. You can see if he did something different in that lap than he's done the previous, you know, five or six laps.

And if he did, there should be some of the harshest penalties you've ever seen, similar to other guys that intentionally altered the outcome of races. Three and four has a lot of ground to use before you spin out. You know, like you can, you can kind of jump the cushion a little bit there. And, I mean, how many times do we see a 50-something car up there Sunday? Oh, yeah. Bubba did it. Bubba did it one time.

He tried to pass belly. I don't know where he was going. He was way up there. I saw it. But you know what I mean? You got, like, the grip. Then you got like another lane that you can use, but it's not quite as grippy. And then you got where it starts to get a little bit dirty.

But they don't, it's not like the old phoenix where you could. You guys are crazy. This guy tore his car up when he wrecked. If he was trying to bring out a caution to win the, race you don't wreck your race car he didn't not only spin out he wrecked he tore the rear bumper off the car his shot was done you see when he pulled the bumper up it's faster if i'm austin-centric i 1,000 percent ask this question but if i'm nascar i look at this and go this guy wrecked he didn't just spin out do you think he did not ever he wrecked i have no idea because i wasn't watching him

next i mean if i were watching him do this i would make a judgment call but i was standing in a suite and I don't know what I was looking at, but it wasn't him. It's probably me. I was probably watching the... It's probably my phone. You're probably looking at a lady working there as track record. Cut that out. Jesus.

Oh, my God. We had a suite attendant this weekend. She's had a rough road in life, people. I'll tell you. And I heard all about it. Freddie heard about her prison sentence, and he heard about her dating life. And Freddy's telling me all this,

and I'm not in the suite at the time. I'd gone back to pick up the VIPs. And as I'm driving back to the suite, He's telling me this, and I'm going, please, God, tell this lady. Don't tell these stories. I was like, I was listening. When I was in the suite, I was like, every conversation he was having, I was like monitoring. I'm like, what do I got to?

Listen to me. She didn't just get out of jail. She just got out of prison a week ago. A week ago. And this is my suite attendant for my 20 guests, and some of them are extremely important. And if she's telling Freddie her life story, what's she going to tell these people? Fred is freaking me the fuck out on the way back to the track. I wish I had to have a good time.

I was just making you aware of it because I was not going to be in there when everybody's shut out. Oh, by the way, there's also a refrigerator full of beer. And I'm like, is she going to start drinking that? Most good stories start with her decisions. Anyway, she was extremely polite. We tipped her well. We gave her a lot of great gifts. And I wish that lady the best because everybody deserves a second chance or a third or a fourth or fifth or sixth or seven or even in this case, an eighth chance.

Because that's what she's on. Prison time. Wow. It was special. So where were we there? When you find me, Freddie or T.J. out in public and you guys, hey, I've got to approach more this year than any year that I've ever been in the sport by people who love our show. Ask me about the suite attendant and I'll tell you the whole story. And it's worth it. It's still, even without fans being there as much, it's still crazy how many people come up to us and tell us. I had somebody, I could look up his name. He tweeted. I mean, afterwards, I was sitting at lunch at that Rudy's barbecue there right on a dice. and dude's like, hey man, love the show. And I was like, thanks.

Somebody else walked by and said something about the show. They should just sell a shirt that says, Love the show, because that's what you hear most time. Hey, love the show. Like, it is a show. All right. Next one for Xfinity. Justin Algar restarts first for overtime and finishes fifth.

As Cendrick restarted fourth and took the title. I mean, I'm spot on since Cendric 1. I'm not about you all, but Justin can't, Justin's done it both ways now, hasn't he? He didn't take, he, he said, Last year, didn't he end the race with a set of tires? I don't remember. Yeah, he had a set of tires left waiting for the caution.

Should have spun out. This year, he had to set. This year, he put him on, and the caution needed it last year comes out. Yeah. I mean, they hit a home run on the caution this time, but then they didn't need the second cost. Yeah, until the end. Yeah.

So here's where I'm at on this one. Two things really bothered me about the end of this race. One was we've talked about this on here before. If you want to win at all caught, you've got to have that killer instinct. And Justin drove into turn one on the 22's bumper and just let him drive away from them. And that's your opportunity. If you got that killer instinct, you're going to pack air, do everything you can to try to get this guy freed up to where, you know, give yourself a shot off a turn two and race him back to the line. The other thing that really drove me crazy here, and this is not going to be a popular opinion.

amongst our listeners, I'm sure. But the 7 car had a teammate right there that could have greatly affected the outcome of this championship. And instead of maybe trying to help hold off the 22 and let the 7 win the race, Noah decided to go for the win himself. Yeah, what was Noah doing? And I don't, I don't. What are you talking about? He's trying to win the race.

That's what he's paid to do. I'm not. Okay. This is what I've talked. Okay. Let me ask you this. We just talked about this last week. if you're leading the race

Sunday. And you're second? No, you're blocking for me. And Chase Elliott, his best car all day is third, and Ryan Blaney, who's not in the final four, has an equal, maybe, you know, equal tires. Are you expecting Ryan Blaney to go up there and pass you and carry the nine with him, or would you expect him to maybe try to learn a little interference on the nine?

I don't know if I'm expecting him to go for the win, but, I mean, I'm just saying from my standpoint, if I'm on the 7th team, I would have thought. I don't think Noah was on the bottom the entire time. What else is he supposed to do, really? He could have just stayed next to the damn 22. I mean, Austin just ran up anyway. He did through 3 and 4 coming to the way.

Yeah, but I'm just saying, like Noah opened the door off of 4 for the 22 to get in there underneath the 7. Well, that was because the 7 was way up the racetrack though, too. He didn't have, honestly, I thought Noah was going to come up thinking they were too wide. I don't know that they could have held the 22 off anyway, as good as the 22 was. But if I'm in the 7 car, I would hope for a little more help for my teammate rather than him just come up here and pass me. Yeah, I mean, I mean, that's just hard on a green, white checker. I think everything was happening so fast there. And I really thought they were going to wreck off a 4 coming to the white.

Because no one started creeping up. When they came off a 4, in my mind, if I mean, I don't know, obviously I've never driven a car at this level. But like they come off side. The 22 and the 9 are side by side through three and four. The seven's out front. I'm just going to pin the 22 behind the seven at that point. And then let them run through three and four. All you got to do is get through one more set of corners,

and you can kind of run up the hill. I don't think Noah could have ran up and stayed that because that middle area was kind of, that middle area was kind of no man's landing for grip. I think the 22 would have carried run off. He got the lead into three. Noah got out front and the 22 got 22 to go around. Yeah, but the Austin already had the seven beat.

I know that. But I'm saying the reason why Austin got around the seven is because Noah kind of took off and let this happen. Yeah. I mean, listen, and it's not going to be popular. Everybody's going to say Noah should go for the win, and that's fine. He should go for the win. In my opinion, nobody needs to get out front or get out of the way. Or he needs to get in the way.

It's not a matter that is making. I don't think you'll see many do that on a green-white checker. A long run. We got held up by some Chevys at the end of the race yesterday. Obviously, you were one of them. If I'm Dale Jr., if I'm killed. Kelly Earnhardt, I'm sitting these two guys down over the winter and I'm fixing this problem because this problem has been ongoing all year.

How many times have we talked about the nine and the seven, at least four or five? And they've all been very important situations. And look, it seems to me like Noah keeps coming out on the better end of the stick. And Justin is the veteran. No one is the, Noah, no one, I wonder who no one is. Noah is the young and hungry guy. But as an organization, I can't believe Mr. Organization himself sitting beside me doesn't see this, because if he were in this organization, he would have a completely different view than he has right now.

If this were two Penske guys and it were Joey Lugano and Brett Kesslowski. I thought the race ended up. And Brad Kesslowski was out of the freaking Final Four, and Joey was in the Final Four. T.J. would have a completely different view of this thing. I watched it go down live, and when Noah stuck his nose in there, I was like, wow, is he trying to win the race? Absolutely. Should he be trying to win the race? Yes. Should he try to help his teammate win a championship? Probably. Like it's a really tall order to manage all that. But as it went down, I literally saw it happen. I was like, whether you agree with who should do what,

the nine in that situation to me probably screwed up the seven's opportunity, which is why Hannah said what she said, what the hell was Noah doing. I said the same thing out loud. And the answer is he's trying to win the race. So I don't know if you fought him for that or not, but that's the way I saw it live. I just don't think you can manipulate it as much there as what we think with tires. Noah had tires, I believe.

And I think Freddie's got a lot of his opinion based on how Noah's raced all year. I don't think Freddy's just looking at this as a one-time scenario. I think Fred's- I don't know if Noah looked at him as a teammate at that point. You know. He is.

I know. I just can't follow the guy going for the win, man. You would totally, you would be wearing. He said that he would expect Blaney to help him. I would be wearing a long run. I mean, a green white checker with tires is up so hard to do. You would be wearing a completely different hat if this, if you were in this order. I just don't think you can do it on a green white checker with tires.

If you were spotting for the seven and Earl was spotting for the nine and you were still employed here, you would have a completely different outlook on this thing. I would have saved my tires. Oh my gosh. Okay. Moving on to the truck series now. Still on spot on spot off. Spencer Gallagher. what's he up to do nowadays?

Spencer Gallagher tweeted actual amateur hour horseshit in a championship race when the final caution came out in the truck series race. Dawson Cramm is an idiot. I mean, I don't know what else you can say about it.

The guy's multiple laps down and then he goes on Twitter and blames us all on his spotter. Spotter is probably one of the most decorated spotters in the sport. The guy that didn't win the Xenny race for Justin? I'm just kidding. So he throws him under the bus, but here's my question to him.

So he's multiple laps down, racing amongst lead lap trucks. Why are you even attempting to squeeze back up in line? I don't know. How about you just stay on the bottom, get the fuck out of the way with two to go, and run the end of the race out? Like this kid, it's got no awareness. He almost wrecked Krause at Texas. Did he lose money on this race? No, but it's just like, I mean, we're talking about approval process on here before.

the approval process needs to be seriously addressed for these championship races because this guy being a moron just decided your 2020 champion. Brett Moffitt's gone, nobody's going to touch him, and now with a late race caution, and now he loses the championship because of it. We saw Jesse Ougi out there in the race on Saturday. How does that happen? This guy was, I think he was running pit road speed all the way around race track.

Like we had drivers in the suite that were honestly saying, I don't know how you can physically go that slow on the race track. Drivers, not only drivers, drivers, who have won big races are saying that about it. I mean, how does that guy get, like, what if he, there was one time, I think it was coming to the end of the stage. Didn't they have to split him for the, like, for the stage? Yeah. Like, get, like, let's really rethink about who we're letting out there.

Is that down the back stretch? Like, no, in the three coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think it was Chase in Austin. But, I mean, let's really revisit this and think about who the hell we're, we're letting on the racetrack in the races that are going to if we're going to have a one race playoff to decide your champion we got to consider who else is on the damn race track with

we don't need clowns on the court that's what it comes down to and and look you know Spencer Gallagher's guy that's he's been in these he's been in his business in a lot of different ways and he called it like you see it man spot on for for somebody with the balls to do that yeah I uh I mean I kind of agree with him that was uh um yeah that's hard to argue that like moffat did everything he had to do to get out front uh should have won that race really and you know you have a call should come out and just yep you're not going to win i mean and and the the the funny thing is you know spencer's pissed off spencer's truck still won the championship one of his trucks but but you know but like he's right you know this the way it should have

played out was just you know moffat continuing on dominating to win but now you you got a guy that's multiple laps down somehow squeezes, trying to squeeze him in front of a lead lap truck who's racing for position. Spencer, fake pissed here or real pissed here? He's probably real pissed here. I don't think Spencer tweets fake mad. You don't think he's fake pissed? No.

I don't either. I think he's real pissed on this one. I think he was fake mad at Gateway that one time. Last one. Sheldon Creed goes from eighth to first and two laps to win the truck championship. What a move. Yeah, I mean, spot on. He's been the fastest truck all year, I think, most consistently, you know, the fastest

and super aggressive and that aggressive sometimes gets him in trouble and he costs him some races. But, I mean, what a move. What did he start, ninth on the last restart and just drove up in there? I mean, he can't fault the guy. We want tires to matter. They matter, spot on. Derek Nillen was one of the first guys yesterday to say, hey to me, kind of give me, you know, the high five on obviously my last,

what could be my last ever full-time season. And Derek is a big fanboy, right? I mean, he's a, and I like Derek. I love Derek of death. I mean, I'd have a beer with him, get in a heartbeat. But he fanboys out, and he's the guy in Victory Lane taking team selfies. Like, I'm just not that guy. Everybody's different.

But for him to get to win a championship, to win races, I know, you know, I watched Eddie DeHont yesterday. I was the first guy to Eddie DeHont to congratulate him on his championship. And as I walked off the roof, I turned around and Eddie was jumping up and down with his arms up in the air. And I know in Derek's heart, when this race ended, that his heart was jumping up and down with his arms up in the air. That's truly how happy he was. So, old Brett Griffin is, I like to see these guys be happy. and I know deep down

You're getting soft. Derek, I am getting soft. I know deep down that Derek was truly the happiest guy probably in the state of Arizona. He's probably happier than Sheldon, to be honest with you. Yeah. Yeah, Derek, super happy. Super.

He was banging on the railing. You're right with me. He was banging on the railing. I'm happy for him. Yeah. That was obviously a great restart by Sheldon. Honestly, I didn't, it doesn't surprise me that Sheldon,

and can get up through them guys like that. I mean, the left times were half a second off for a little bit more than half a second. So that's an incredible amount of grip in a corner and a short track, especially when we're all on old tires. You're trying to get to the top as quick as you came. Sheldon's rolling eight lanes below us on the apron. I think he was in the infield.

I think he almost hit a camper. He absolutely, I think he went through the infield care center down there in one and two and, you know, cleared about 12 cars down there and came back up. But, you know, a great, great. call to get the tires at that point, but I just hate to, I hate to see a race kind of play out like that, you know, a guy was driving away, you know, Moffitt, they kind of played it right, and I guess you should have pitted.

Can we, I know we're trying to get out of the segment, but I don't know if we can talk about an hour later. Did anyone watch Brett Moffat's post-race interview? He basically, you know, talked to. TV and said, you know, we lost a lot of races because apparently someone up on the box can't call a race and we lost another one tonight because the guy on the box, like, straight up bused through Chad Norris, like straight bus through him. Chad Norris used to be a rash.

Yeah. Yeah, that's him. He couldn't call races there either, could he. So we all knew that Moff wasn't coming back like well before this weekend. Oh, he's not coming back? No. They're moving. Hour motorsports?

Who? Hour? That O2 car? The Andy Sack. Andy Seis used to have. An Xfinity deal? Yeah, he runs good in that car. Yeah, it started off like as a 15th, 20th place car.

They're like top 10. He runs probably, I mean, 8th to 15th most of that. Listen, I don't know. Obviously, tires mattered a lot. I don't know how the hell they stayed out. But, who, guess what? If you feel, I mean, I love Brett. I think Brett's a hell of a race car driver.

What a name. And I feel for him on this deal. But if you feel this strongly about the fact that you need tires, guess what, bro? Hang a left. He'll put them on there for you. Yeah. You come down pit road, they're going to change your tires.

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And this is very important. When Offerpad asks you where do you heard about them, select the NASCAR. options so they know we sent you. Just put a shot in that glass. When he comes back. Yeah. Here. Yeah.

It's a penalty shot. Here, Jason. Jason, we got the teedos open. Oh. Do, do, do, do. Thanks for the fans for sending us vodka. Brett's going to consume it now. I can't wait to go to sleep.

I'm so tired. I hope that glass was clean. Why don't you take a hit off that, Jason? We're reading tweets. Easy. You almost spilled it. Yeah, take a drink. That's a penalty shop.

Yeah. Where's everybody else is at? We already took them. I don't believe that. Where'd that come from? A bottle? Could be water. Could be vodka.

You'll find out. I don't drink water. Go ahead and drink it. The seal is off this bottle. Yep. That's hot. You'd be hot. Although, that literally makes me good.

Lesson learned, do not leave the room. Yeah. Apparently. Now I'm scared to go pee. Yeah, you got to go. Here you go. Actually, we got to go to Kelly's office. Where's her office at? She said she'd drop off the vodka over there. Oh, yeah.

Hot vodka. We'll fill this up. Here you go, Kelly. What are we talking about? At least give me whiskey. It's time for reaction Twitter, which is apparently one of the new favorite segments where fans like to piss off the boys and it's super fun. From my perspective.

If so, that being said, Freddie, you were the first one up on reaction Twitter. All right. We got some good ones here. I like this guy's at. Well, this guy here just spelled my name wrong. But skim bebel at Arcafan 69. That's your first problem. It says, Freddie crapped.

I think he just, I think it auto corrected on the poor guy. He spelled my name wrong. Like C-R-A-P? K-R-A-P-T. Crap. Crap. He just, I don't, maybe he thought it was a P-H

and he forgot the H for the F. I'm not sure. I'll follow him and give him the correct spelling. At least me spell my name with I-E. I appreciate that. What's this one for here? Bubba talking about his own ride. So this is a reply to Bubba having a ride.

And Jay Lee at one daddy stove pipe. Yikes. That's what you're good. Now you have ruined one icon. I guess you get a chance to ruin another one. You're blocked. I think you're going to ruin Michael Jordan? Yeah.

Wow. So this next one, I tweeted some about Bubba on, I don't even know what night it was. Thursday, Friday night. I got a bunch of people that told me that they're glad I'm not going with Bubba, so I really ruined their fucking day to day. But this guy here took the cake. I hope they get Eric a new crew chief next year. Well, I don't even know where to start with this moron.

Like, unfortunately for you, maybe he don't like Baxter. Maybe I was looking too much into this, but Baxter will be Eric's crew chief next year. I won't be the Spotter. So were you ever the crew chief? I was never the crew chief. So I don't know if this guy's happy that I'm gone as a spot. He never addressed the Spotter situation, but he's going to have to deal with Baxter being the crew chief again next year. I'm sorry.

But, I mean, I don't know. Oh, his name was Magenta. at Mishon 1 dead 33 Oh boy What a moron Please sign in with your username Magenta

All right TJ My favorite My favorite people Like I don't know if you And look at your tweets Maybe right now But I'll tell you who hates me Is dogs and cats

Because every nasty tweet I get is from a picture of a dog or a cat I don't understand how that works but I'm really good to my dog. I love my dog, and the dog and the cats and the animals of the world all hate me. I hate cats, so that's fine if they come at me. I don't know why people have cats in our house. Just go fart in a box and walk all that, and then come eat and step on your dining room table. What the, why?

Who does that? Who's that? T.J. So, Don France, NC. Pulling for any driver not named Ligano. That's really hurting me. I'm going to follow that guy because I agree with him. This guy looks like he's a hobby stock racer or something.

He's on town council. Doesn't really affect, do better. Shane T. The S.J.T. 91. Hard pass. Rather watch paint dry than watches in-car camera. Well, I'm not sure there's many in-car cameras you want to watch at Phoenix. There, Shane.

Jasmine Howe I like Jasmine That's a nice name Jasmine Howard Desmond's his sister Yeah my Desmond Howard

My sister maybe I think I'd admit TG Majors was funny as Ship If he didn't spit for Joey Lugano

You're so I'm gonna Oh my I'm gonna guess We're going to get canceled. It's not only the last show of the year. It's the last show ever.

We probably shouldn't say that, Jason. Thank you guys for listening to follow us all this time. So, yeah, I'm going to guess you got auto corrected there, hopefully. But, um, listen. He's still laughing at his own show. All right, mine are pretty lame this week. Stuart House Racing, Stuart House Racing said, everybody loves me this week. Stewart House Racing said, so now a tweet said,

Oh, you know, it's nothing, just a little dust in our eyes. and it's a picture of Clint and Jimmy and their families. And then at Man of the 1990s tweeted, these two drivers combined for seven cup championships. Wow. I mean, that's just lame. Block. He's already blocked, actually.

I was, I was, I tweeted out. If I didn't have kids on a home, invest in my retirement, own a small business, work for small businesses, and pay attention to income tax rates, I could see myself vote. voting for biting.

Okay, that's what I said. This guy, Jacob, said, what you can't see, though, is a car to Clint's outside. Meanwhile, Jacob is probably a piece of shit. So, Jacob, while you've been doing whatever you've been doing the last 22 years, I don't even know how old you are. I've been having a lot of fun out here being a spotter, 40 of us in the world, and I got to be one. Let me know when you reach elite status in your life, no matter what it is. It does look like a little kid in this robot. If Jacob is able to put on socks, the fastest of anybody, if he's the fastest sock putter owner in America, then he's elite.

But until then, you're a piece of a little E fan. Next guy. We get it. We get it. You're an idiotic. ID I-O-T-I-C. This is from at 6-6 Alpine, which is one of those guys with no pictures. I may be idiotic, but I can't be un-idiotic.

You idiot. There you go. What idiot? The next one says, this is at MC 2931. This is one of my favorite ones on Twitter. And look, we all make spelling errors on Twitter sometimes. Obviously, spit and spotter. Talk to text.

I think he met spitter, DJ, personally. It says, your, Y-O-U-R, you're a dumbass. Well, in Those are my favorite ones In sixth grade English, Miss Perkins God bless her and her hairy legs. She did not shave her legs that drove me bananas. My sixth grade English teacher.

I did not want to hear that. She didn't shave her armpits either. This guy says, You're a dumbass. It's you're a dumbass or you are a dumbass. So therefore you are the dumbass. If it's you and then the word R-A-R-E, make it all one word.

Put the apostrophe in there and put the R-E after it. because you're already going to lose an argument because of your grammar. Yeah. What's funny, though, is these people are going on here to block them right now, this MC2931, and they don't even follow me. So, Jasmine. Why take the time to tweet me if you don't even follow me?

Jasmine, Jason, when you do this, I think you should take the person's profile and screenshot and put it on there as well so we can read this because Jasmine in her profiles clearly states that F what people say Do what makes you happy And it's spot for Joey Makes me happy, so I was really proud We've made the world a better place

This or last week on the show Because Oh God I mean I don't want to know Uh oh She's special We have made the world a better place

There's one last dumb ass With a shirtless Twitter profile This week Thanks to us on DBC So you're welcome world Yeah That wraps up reaction Twitter for last month or so. Freddie and I brainstormed this segment.

It's been very entertaining. It has been fun. I get a lot of tweets about it. I brought up to Jason, but it come from Brett just randomly one day reading tweets on the show. And I thought it was hysterical. And I was like, man, we've got to do that every week and just do it all three of us. So I'm glad everybody likes it. It's been a lot of fun.

There's been a couple shows that they make them read mean tweets and stuff. And they're pretty funny. Yeah. Time for Xfinity Fast Lane, where we're going to hit the gas, take our Xfinity speed from the track to the studio. Let me guess who ran the fastest lap. Let me guess. Well, let's wait to the reading. You get six questions.

Who answers the fastest, who gets it right? T.J. is up first. Right? Yep. Okay. First one. Winner, winner. Two weeks in a row, right?

Or two out of three. How many laps did Joey Lagono lead at Phoenix? I don't know. 58. Which non-playoff driver finished highest on Sunday? Oh, man. I can picture it. Jimmy?

Which Joe Gibbs racing car finished highest in the Xfinity Series race? Brandon Jones. What are baby goats called? Goats. What is the national sport of Japan? Water polo. Pink pong? It's a good guy.

How many legs do butterflies have? Two. What? Oh, no, man. All right, Ligon led 125 laps yesterday. They become butterflies. Baby goats are called kids. Sumo wrestling is a national sport of Japan.

I thought it was catching flies or chopsticks. Catching flies with chopsticks? Yeah. Mr. Miyagi. Mr. Miyagi. All right, Brett, you're up. Oh, great. Let's go.

Who finished directly behind Clint Boyer on Sunday? I don't know. I thought we were looking forward while we were racing right by high. behind me? What's that? Y'all hear that noise. It's a shot. What's a question?

Who finished directly behind Clint on Sunday? The guy that I passed. I don't know. I do. Who finished last on Sunday? I don't know. Oh, I think I know that one. No, I can't give it to him. Now I missed it. I don't know.

Quinn. Oh, poor guy. Which Xfinity Series Championship 4 Driver finished the lowest? The guy that wrecked, Brisco. What building is on the back of a $20 bill? Freddy's house. What is the state dance of South Carolina? Shag.

Do you know what Shaggin stands for in England? How many teaspoons are in five tablespoons? I mean, teaspoons are in five tablespoons, ten. So my mom was in England. We got family over there. And I don't know if you guys have ever. watch the Austin Powers movie where they talk about shagging yeah so my mom is sitting around a table full of 20 adults and they're like so glady what do you guys do back home for fun she's like oh

we go shagging mom's a freak and they're like oh no mom's like I say something wrong and they're like it's a dance like they didn't know what shagging was but I knew that one yeah I can shagg I can I know who finished directly behind your ass on Sunday. You? What does it look like? Shagging? I should be careful when I put that in on YouTube. I would not Google shagging.

Bless your young heart. So Quinn Hoff finished last. The White House is on the back of the $20 bill, and there are 15 teaspoons and five tablespoons spoons. Damn, I missed that one. I could have got that one right. Dance. All right, Freddy, you ready?

Sure. How many bread get? Two out of six. You're tied. All right. position to Bubba Wallace roll off on the grid on Sunday? Is it like, start? Yes. 23rd.

Which of your boy that these teammates finished the highest on Sunday? Who led the most laps in the Xfinity series race? Briscoe. What is the name of the vehicle Scooby-Doo and his French travel in? Mystery van. Marvel Mystery Van or something like that. Which language did the word ketchup come from? That's the likes.

German. And how many consecutive games did Michael Jordan score 10 points or more? I was going to say, everyone. 803. So a tiebreaker between T.J. and Brett, or Freddie. What's the name of the damn van? Mystery machine. Jesus Christ.

I didn't listen. You're talking about CBD? You think they shagging the mystery machine? It's got shagged carpet probably. So Turex is the highest finishing JGR teammate. Justin Allgaar. I love the most lapses in the next name. series race.

Chinese is the language where ketchup came from, and Jordan scored 10 more points in 787 consecutive games. I was like 12 off. Give me some credit. What's up with the Asian influence this week, Jason? Chinese, Japanese? Dirty knees? Tie breaker.

Like dirty knees. I don't get it. Tie breaker. How many feet are in a mile? Oh. T.J. Go. 5,200 I'll go first since he's adding it up.

Okay. You can do this? 1,200. Wrong. I think it's like 24, right? Brett is closest. It's 5,280, so he was in 80. So congratulations, Brett.

You won the final exfini fast lane of the year. Thank you. Congratulations. I'll take more bourbon gifts from you guys next year when we come back. Brett, there's no way you can move this fast. Have you ever seen Brett dance? No. It's incredible.

It's like the best party game ever I got video this idiot clogging He was teaching our buddy Kevin and his wife Had a clog and I've got like a step-by-step Instructional video of this Yes We're always thinking fast on door bumper clear

And so is our new champion Chase Elliott Because he was this week's fastest lap at Phoenix We ran that lap on 40 lap tires in traffic You know what you know something else is fast X-Finity X-5 Man, it's more than speed, too, TJ. It's reliable. It's secure because we want to keep you.

And Xfinity wants to keep you safe and connected throughout your entire 6,000 square foot mansion, TJ. That's Freddy's. He's got a 4,000 square foot couch. Speaking of Xfinity, follow at Xfinity on Twitter and stay connected with exclusive behind-the-scenes NASCAR content. Shout out to Xfinity, premier partner of NASCAR, and our amazing podcast with all of our amazing listeners. AskDBC. Send in your questions 24-7 on Twitter using the hashtag AskDBC. AskDBC, where we ask our listeners to send us questions prior to the show using the hashtag Ask DVC.

First one from at Tim Allen 19. Isn't that Tim the Toolman? He sends in questions a lot. He texts me, he listens. Restart to Phoenix seem to always be wild. how do spotters call restarts differently at Phoenix with the dog leg compared to other tracks and anything that you do differently to prepare for them, right? You can start. Yeah, man, I mean, the thing is it's when you see them get on your bumper coming to the restart zone,

you know once you get to start finished, they're going to go as far left as they can possibly go. And it's what makes Phoenix exciting. We're saying what we see, man, that the question becomes, do you want to block the run or do you want to let them have the inside and hope that it sets you up for a better exit of turn two. And it is hands down the shortest way through there. I mean, I saw Ross Chastain get clear getting into turn one on a restart. And I also saw him not move up. He left the 22 the top lane through the PJ1 stuff.

And, man, there come to 22 right back by him. But I think it's truly what makes Phoenix unique and exciting to watch. Yeah, I think the only thing we do differently there a little bit is, like, I don't know if you guys do this, but I'll have to call to Bubba, like, where they're at because the track is so wide there. It's like he might not know. I'm like I'll usually say something like, you know, three lanes down to the 14 or, you know,

whatever, five lanes down there, way down there or whatever. But just trying to just, the only thing that I would do differently would just try to help him manage that gap how far the next car is below him. Yeah, for sure. Me and Joey went over a bunch of restart stuff there because if it came down to it, man, you wanted to be right on the resarts at the end. You need to know exactly what you need to do and where you think that guy's going to go depending on what lane he's in.

definitely really needed to understand what was going to happen in the lane you were going to be in. So like Freddie said, though, you're definitely counting, depending on what lane we picked. You're counting off the right door, left door. And I made sure to go over that with Joe every time. Like that way he knew exactly how much he could cut because you don't want to give that guy a shorter advantage for too long. Otherwise, he's going to clear you. So you're definitely not really counting. how far they are back off of you, really?

You're counting out the left door and right door. The aerial shots of those restarts are phenomenal. It's so awesome that they have the rule in place where you have to wait to the start finish line because it's like you get to that start finish line. It's like hang a left and just drive as low as you can. Yeah, it's so, I mean, I don't know. It's such a slippery slope, though,

because at the beginning of the truck race, I swear you're supposed to stay in line with the guy in front of you until you get to the start, finish line. beginning of the truck race. Sheldon's already turning lower than the guy leading. Yeah, and I'm like, you know, I don't know. Drink. Next one.

From at Zoom Buck 80. So what is the theory behind this whole 9-dam acres that everyone on this show wants to live on? And do you have room for one Canadian? I'll bring stronger beer and maple syrup. Were you paying attention to the question? I heard the question. We still can't tell that story, I don't think.

Yeah. I accidentally found out about this story. You played a big part in this story because now we've got it on video. So a friend of ours was lobbying for a friend of his to get a job driving for a sponsor that I might be affiliated with. And the explanation of why the driver deserved the opportunity, he made the job. the comment that this guy is a big farmer and owns nine damn acres. Like nine damn acres is a lot of land. For a farmer.

And then Hannah, unbeknownst to her, tweeted a video out at a completely different time. And this same person who is a dear friend of mine, a dear friend of Hannah's, dear friend of Freddy's, he and T.J. don't like each other that much, even though they're teammates. this guy says in this video that this particular driver owns nine acres. And so Freddie sends me this video and I was like, you got to be kidding me. So it just kind of became a joke that Ryan Priest is a big farmer. He owns nine damn acres. That's what the joke is. I was so confused that night too because I was a video of Janet.

And she's like sleeping on the table. And I was like, oh, look at this cute video of my dog. and you can hear someone in the background talking and all of a sudden Brett and Freddie blow my phone up and they're like I cannot believe you got this on video and I'm like my dog's sleeping on the table

why are you guys like so they're like listen to the background I can hear it talking and I'm like it was like the same week we talked about it on here and you literally verbatim hear him go yeah and you know it's pretty crazy because I mean he's got like nine acres but this guy comes from an area where you don't have

I mean, my buddy Delbert is a great friend of mine. He owns 6,000 acres. Yeah. Elliot Sadler owns 5,000 acres. But Ryan Preece owns nine damn acres. That's half of Mooresville. That's the joke. It probably ain't that funny to all of y'all, but it's funny.

It was funny that night. Yikes. All right. Last one here on AskDBC. It's our offer pad, question of the week. Finally time for the off season. You get to go spend the whole off season in a new city where Offer. for pad has a market. Where are you living? And those markets are Birmingham, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Atlanta, Vegas, Raleigh, Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio.

Ooh, a lot of great places I know. I know. And then there's Birmingham. There are, I mean, the top ones obviously are going to be Phoenix, Vegas, Dallas. I've never been to San Antonio. I tell you where I would like to go. I've never been. Brett, you've probably been, is Austin. I have. I feel like that's probably a really fun city. I have, and y'all get to go next year. Austin is really fun. I personally am going to Jacksonville because you got the beach, you got good weather. That's the track.

You need binoculars. You can go a little north and be somewhere different. That's really cool like Savannah. You can go a little south and be somewhere cool, man. So Jacksonville would get my vote. Second would probably be Dallas because, man, I tell you. you what we used to go out there and and there wasn't anything out there you know west lake and where's that place you got lost at trophy club trophy club um some big houses in that area

big golf course there's a big golf course too and if you're cold you just try to break into country club because you're cold outside um but that area is really fun like i like downtown rowanoke texas i obviously love fort worth like dallas haven't spent a lot of time of dallas but those would be my number one and two picks that airport man you could live on the airport property I think I go to Orlando. I mean, if it's the off season, it's, well, it's warmer. I mean, if it's the off season, it's December, January, months mainly. So, yeah, and also, yeah, ship the kids over to Disney for a little while.

Ship them over. Yeah. After days of counting, Freddie Craft wins DVC picks in 2020, dethroning the four-time defending champion of Brett Griffin. I have to appeal this because I have to appeal this because I have. have a mail-in ballot that actually has me choosing William Byron. So this is going to the court of appeals. This is not official.

We have until December 31st to get a ruling. Freddie picked my guy. He picked Alex Bowman and that's who I was going to pick. So I kind of shook and I panicked and I was like, oh, what do I do here? Do I take Jones or do I take Byron? And then Jones, I didn't realize that he was going to be in the middle of a controversy leading into this race because when we recorded last Monday, Jones wasn't in the middle of a controversy. When we left the show, all of a sudden, it's, oh, did Eric Jones not pass Denny Hamlin?

So when we left here and this starts blowing up, I'm like, well, my guy is mentally screwed. I got no chance now. I should have picked Chad Knauss in his final race. Atop the pit box, I didn't. Congratulations to a head of Bowman. Congratulations, Freddie. I can be beat, apparently. I mean, I gave you a three race head start and still run you down.

I quit picking. TJ, uh, well, I did have the longest. I just say, TJ might have had his best run of the solid participant. I had a solid, I had like, what I went, four or five in a row one time or something. Yeah, yeah, a little red. Yeah, you were on a roll for a little bit. And then everyone I picked wrecked. I mean, literally, just wrecked.

Yep, for sure. For sure, for sure. Before we start to wrap this crazy season up on this podcast, got to give a shout out to all the NASCAR officials out there, man. You guys cannot imagine how hard they work. They're the first ones to the track. They're the last ones to leave. And then behind them, I got to say probably the warriors that don't get anywhere near the recognition they deserve is truck drivers. I mean, I know the college truck driver left the racetrack Saturday night and he parked this morning at 7 o'clock.

Like, once again, the first guy's to the track and the first guy. Literally, they get there a day and a half a lot of times before we get there. And they've had to at least two days before that to get to places like Phoenix. Obviously NASCAR fans, DBC listeners, love you guys. We drop a little bit of fun on you guys from time to time. Some of the stuff I get tweets about, people figure out. And some of the stuff weeks later, you know, stuff comes out and y'all figure it out. So I hope you enjoy how laid back and fun we like to be.

And you can't get away from this thing without thanking NASCAR for getting us through 2020. What a fucking mess this year could have easily been. And not only them, but our broadcast partners, Fox NBC, MRN, NPRN. And we all set at home for, what, eight, nine, ten weeks, not knowing what was going to happen. And we all, we had a lot of sponsors, stick it out, the majority of sponsors that I know stuck it out with us. And the teams did everything they could to keep the doors open. And this was a really difficult year for sports in general. And for us to pull it off, man, it takes everybody from NASCAR, the broadcast partners, obviously the teams.

But ultimately, the fans, without fans, none of this happens. Yeah, I mean, piggyback everything you said about the officials. Like, what a thankless job they have. It's, you know, business as usual, if everything goes right, everything goes wrong, they get all the blame. So, you know, them guys work hard. Their job is hard. We give them a lot of crap on here. But I would never in a million years would I ever want to change places with any of them?

No. When I saw David Green, the former Bush Series champion, leave spotting to go be one of the head safety officials, I literally said, Why? Like, but maybe it's because he honestly loves, obviously, the sport that much wants to be in the garage that much. But nobody works harder. Nobody works more hours than the freaking officials. Yeah.

Like you said, truck drivers, I mean, they're still driving home for Phoenix right now. Cowboy, our truck driver, cowboy and crops are driving the old 43 bus home. I love both those guys. So, you know, I'm going to miss them guys next year. You talk about messing with people on the show. Brett does this in real life. Like I talked about earlier, I've got. got a car they deal for next year.

These people won't tell me who the driver is. Like, I'm like, okay, they asked me Saturday afternoon in the suite, hey, would you be interested in spotting next year full time for us? I was like, yeah, sweet, who are we doing? Well, that's because we ain't told the driver yet. We've got to tell you here in a couple weeks. I'm like. They're going to announce it at Chris Rice's house.

I'm like, wait a minute. Like, now I've just agreed to do a car that I don't have any idea who the driver is. You might know the driver. You might know the driver, Fred. I am pretty sure you haven't. You're spotting for me, Freddie. You could probably. narrow this down. I mean, I would assume so, but why wouldn't they just tell me that? I know you can

narrow it down. Yeah, like, man, what a challenging year for everybody. And shoot, after we won Phoenix, then we didn't run again for a while. Like, that break, I wasn't sure we were going to go back racing, middle of that break. I wasn't sure either, man. And to get it all in, man, to complete the season, we're having this show wrapping up the year. And we ran races on days we never thought were possible. We ran tracks. We never knew we were going to run with zero practice. We did podcast about video games.

We did a lot of crazy things this year. And a year ago, you'd have been, there's no way NASCAR can never do that. Well, guess what? They did it, did it well. A way to adjust on, you know, way to adjust everything and make things happen. Like, I don't remember

anything not going flawlessly. It was smooth, man. We ran a road course that none of these guys have ever raced on. And it was fine. We had no issues at all. We went to tracks on days that we weren't ever expecting to run. We ran how many races and...

With tons of safety protocol to keep us as safe as we could be kept. We ran how many races in how many days there one time? Oh, that three and ten days. Yeah, it was a lot of races in a short period of time. But guess what? We finished it. We've crowned champions this weekend. And The only downside of this year, in my opinion, and it's not NASCAR's fault,

is all the guidelines, you know, is they really going to be able to celebrate like they should? I mean, celebrating is a lot of fun after you win races and championships. And I hope that at some point the guys that did, you know, all them team, all them crew guys, all the people at the shop that make it happen, even, you know, everyone in the front office and everything, get a chance to properly, you know, celebrate it safely and enjoy it because these are, man, it's super hard to win a championship. You don't even know if you're ever going to get a chance again. That's why you got to, I sat there in Phoenix, you know, I hope I get another chance at it,

but you just never know. You never know when your last win is going to be. You never know when your first win is going to be. But you get us got to, when it happens, man, you just got to soak it up and enjoy it. That was the hardest thing for me going into the, this year leaving Daytona, the 500 not winning it, was like, man, that was probably my final shot. And I don't think it is now. I think I'm going to do the 500 next year as I'm right now for somebody. But Jason, I got to ask you something. We got to get, we got to get Mike Davis to spend

some money. I have always wanted to go to the Indy 500. I think Dirty Mo Media should send me and you and Hannah to the Indy 500 to cover the event. We, we don't. We, we, We can go, do a double. Oh, it's the same weekend. I'm sure it's going to be the same day next year. Memorial Day. Have you ever been to the Indy 500? No, we've been working.

We've been a little busy. Yeah, we went a little busy for the last 17, 18, 20-something years. Incredible. That's what I wanted to do. I didn't think it was going to be as cool as everyone said it was because I was like, ah, I've been to the Daytona 500, whatever. I went last year for the first time. Like, the spectacle that is is incredible.

Like, I rolled in at 530 in the morning. morning when the cannon goes off at six and people are parked five miles down the racetrack dead stopped waiting to go in and everyone rushes into their parking spots people are shotgun and beers at 7 a.m. I mean, it is amazing. Oh, no, it's rough. You usually sober up by 11. You still walk into that place and look down the strato and just be like, I mean, it's incredible. That's what I want to go cover all week. Yeah, we should just, we should just hot mic us up and then Jason can follow us around with a camera. I think I want to do it. I'm going to drink too. I want to do it like from a freaking crazy experience.

Like I don't want to go sit in the media center with all the media people on their laptops. Yeah, we need to tailgate and snake pit. And I want to have access to talk to a driver or two if they would, right? I don't know if they would. I know Danielle Frye, J. Frye, obviously Roger Penske. I'll get his number from T.J. Walt Zarniaghan. Shotgun beers and Roger. But Jonathan Gibson, like I want to be able to have full access to cover.

this event and highlight how freaking cool it is because I've always wanted to go and people like I want you to go spot no I don't want to go spot the first time I go I'm not against spotting an Indy 500 but I want to go I want to go see what it's like first because then I have a better understanding of what it would mean because I grew up going to NASCAR races when I made it to be a spotter I knew how freaking special it was right I don't deserve to go spot at Indy 500 you know do my credentials say I do absolutely but my my experience and and my understanding of their culture, I don't deserve that.

I need to go see it and feel it and be a part of it. So Mike Davis, come up with enough money to send us to Indy. That's all I'm asking for for 2021. I spotted the virtual Indy 500. Does that count? No. If we won,

I mean, just spend a little bit extra and we'll get Dale's plane and me and TJ can go. I want to do the double. I want to do the double, man. How cool would that be? That would be cool.

As a spotter. That'd be like the, first time ever to do it, but I think it'd be cool to go and do the Indy 500 and make it back. We need a $25,000 budget. Wow. Because we'll get Offerpad or somebody, Xfinity. We'll get somebody to sponsor this event because I need a penthouse to stay in. I knew something with us.

I'm going to need a St. Elmo's allowance of $1,000 a day. Oh, that stuff is amazing. I'm going to need a limo to take me back and forth to the track, or worst case, a helicopter. I was a helicopter. I was probably better. Because I can't drive. I'm not going to be in any shape to be driving. So I think for 25 grand, Jason, we can get probably the best exposure of the Indy.

Do you realize how much bigger the Indy 500 would be if we went? Yeah, I'm sure you would change the whole outlook of it. By the looks of it, I'm going to get up. Well, you're doing that. I'm going to drive to the track, and I'm going to sit in my car and wait for the 600 to start. We're wrapping 2020. Thank you guys for hate investing in. You can do whatever you want to do with your time.

I appreciate you guys listening our crazy asses. We love you guys. Thank you for all. the gifts, all the liquor will be in rehab all winter because of it. Freddie and I are going to Lake Norman Tavern tonight. It's called Uncle Mills. And me. That's the nickname. Hanna, you're coming? Hannah, you're coming? You guys are the ones that invited me. TJ, you want to come?

You never said. I might now. I don't have to be a good boy for a while. We're going to Uncle Mills tonight. Listen, you take the dog off the leash. It gets crazy. When you referenced TJ being a dog taking off a leash, I think you're like an ankle bider. T.J. Canna, when you were, we're letting girls come to this thing? I didn't say that. You were probably getting, listen, you have no idea about, Brett knows a little bit about back in the day. I've heard stories, T.J.

You were in diapers still, I'm sure. It was before I was probably born, if we're being honest. What year were you born? 97? I was after that, because I came down here just after that. But I will tell you, the early 2000s. And real quick, I text, I did text. She's going to flip out.

I is, but I text. Jimmy Johnson before the weekend. I said, hey man, congratulations on a Hall of Fame career. Was happy to be a small part of it as a teammate and stuff and a friend dating all the way back to when you were neighbors with Jimmy Ellage. And Brett probably remembers what it was like when he was neighbors with Jimmy Ellage because those were some good times.

But, okay, end of the show. Ron Hornaday should write a book. I might write a book, but Dale Jr. is probably never going to talk to me again. Thank you guys for listening. Maybe they'll let us do a Christmas episode. I think that's a good idea. We'll try to get one here. I'll be around.

If not, if case he's not back by then. Happy all the holidays to you guys. Have a safe winter. Yeah, thanks for listening and have a great offseason. We're out. Word. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Dirty Mo.