Door Bumper Clear - 20 - Michigan Rules Package, Lake of the Ozarks, and #AskDBC

Episode Date: June 14, 2016

The boys and KB discuss this past weekend in Michigan, Brett’s volleyball injury, and victory memories from the past. 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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Do you want inside information? You will not be able to repeat it to your kids, but you will learn and you will laugh. Door, bumper, clear is on. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major, Spotter of the 88 in the Cup series, the 7 and X-Fadine series and the 29 of the truck series. Joining me as usual. Brett Griffin, Spotter 4, Clint Boyer and Elliot Sadler, and our lovely co-host.

Hey, guys, it's KB. And before we start today, we, everyone here at Door Bumper Clear and Dirty Mo Radio, we just want to say that our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by the tragedy in Orlando over the weekend. We like to have a lot of fun on this show, but we also respect all religions, races, and ethnic groups, and we're going to take a moment of silence and hope you'll join us for the victims,

their families, their friends, and, you know, all-Americans. TJ, what happened yesterday, man? We got butchered. You got what? We got butchered. We got butchered. Bouchard?

Bouchard. How'd he said. We had, we got clobbered in the left rear tire, and we took A.J. with us, which was, I felt bad. about that because he was just kind of doing his own thing up there. Yeah, AJ's never.

You never like to take somebody out, though. I'm not saying we took him out, but we definitely, you know, my problem with it is you're running, we were slowly working our way up. Yeah, here's your problem. You're racing Chris Boucher and AJ Armandinger. But we got caught from that caution with Brad staying out about running out of fuel. So then we had to take the wave around. So we kind of got, we kind of got stuck.

back there a little bit. And you're right. I mean, we were slowly, we were making progress. It was a weird race. You couldn't just drive past cars. It was hard to pass, really hard. And you couldn't just drive up to somebody and pass them. It was like a work in progress every time you had to pass somebody.

I like the rules package, though. Yeah, I mean, I don't. I don't think it's perfect, but. I liked how the cars looked a little bit, how they could kind of drive in there and still turn down a little bit, but it was still, I think we're just going to going too fast there still. I watched Greg Biffle a dozen times have to save it because he'd go in and get loose and shoot up the track and he was one of several. I mean, restarts were fun and even when those guys were single-file and racing, like you'd see their cars just take off up the track.

I mean, for the first time, I think from the roof, I was like, they've got their hands full. They're earning their money today. They're not out there chilling. True X and you trying to pass even. Oh yeah, True X, Rex trying to ultimately lap me, which he ended up not being able to do. And Clint was like, man, what was a? that. I left him a lane and, you know, Truex's story was a little bit different. He's like, oh, you made me wrecked. So, I mean, but we would need these cars to

be hard to drive. Where did you finish? I have no idea. 20-something. We ran around 20th all day and just got to lose. Clint's brakes once again, went out. We have break issues every week. It's frustrating. I was shocked, man. 215 miles an hour.

Yeah. That's crazy. Stop using them. Yeah. It's Michigan, Maine. It didn't be on that. He's rottled out. Yeah, back them off, Clint. Saturday's race was fun. Yeah, Saturday's race was fun. I actually thought you were going to win.

We took the lead with 20 to go. And, you know, we passed Kyle Busch, and I look over at Tyler Green, and we were both like, it's over. It's over because all day, whoever got the lead pretty much was gone. We get the lead, and then Elliot goes into one wide open, he said, trying to get away from the 18, who obviously is Kyle Bush. And he got loose and about wreck. Next thing, you know, second and third, yon-yo! They got by us. I'm like, well, I'm like, well, they qualified really well, first, third, and fourth.

Yeah, qualifying was good for JR. Man, I'm telling you. Yeah, they're chipping away at it. It's us and Gibbs right now in terms of bringing dominant efforts and winning race cars to the track, period. Yeah, I mean, they're, you know, all the crew chiefs and engineers and the company as a whole is working hard and chipping away at it. So it's good.

It's exciting to see, you know, and the chase is coming down the road here, so it's a good time to be fine in speed and getting better. T.J. and I talked about going out of the way. on the Michigan infield Saturday night. Yeah, he didn't want to roll. Then I was going to watch the indie race, and then it got delayed. So I jumped on a golf cart and went cruised out there for a minute. And I realized that everybody...

Why didn't you tell me? I realized that, well, I just ran out there and ran back. I didn't go hang out. But I got out there and I was like, you know what I'm realizing about this infield? It's really all about kids. You're either there to get away from your kids. You're there to take your kids or you're there to practice making kids. It's a big show.

crazy. What's wrong with your cord? Did you see any kid making? No, no, but they did the guy singing in the middle of the infield, the concert guy, he said, ladies, if you want to take your clothes off, find a tent. Don't do it here at our show. What's wrong with that guy?

Who was that? Why is he there? Why is he there? Get him out. Escort him out. You can't have a guy with morals playing in the Michigan infield? Yeah, I mean, it was hot, man. It was hot. It was hot. Oh, it's so hot. This is brutal. Really?

It was brutal. I changed my shirt four times, three times on Saturday. Coming from the shade seekers down here. Yeah. I looked a couple of times. You know where they are? Back under the pit box there. With a fan blowing on.

It's so hot. Yeah. Y'all want to know hot. Come out there where we're at. Stand there. Take cover. Preserve the face. We have this awesome stuff we stand on that reflects 100% of the sunlight.

So you get burnt on the way down. and then again on the way up. So it's like standing on the surface of the sun. Yeah, basically you get the inside of your nose burnt and stuff. Yeah. I feel like Daytona's like a mirror. You guys look at like you don't look at all. I bet my neck's red.

I got a red net. You got a tiny bit of redneck. I mean, you have two watches on without wearing watches. That's sun tan. Can't had a red neck. Yeah. So. Spot on, spot off.

Are you country now? Yeah. That was crazy. You might have just, you might have just attracted a whole new. level of guy right there. Rico versus Byron at Texas for the truck race. Spot on, spot off, Tej.

Ah, spot on. I liked it. Two young kids up there. Passed a couple veterans to get there. Spot on, two young guys racing for the win. Winning an age limit on the truck series or something. Spot off for Rico, man. The guy is going to have his best race ever. He's challenging for the win.

He's running the high side. The minute he gets there, the guy moves up. Byron makes the move. He's got to make to win the race. And Rico has two options. Don't drive in as hard or go to the bottom, and he didn't do either one. He drove in like the guy wasn't there, and he knocked the wall down,

and he ended up finishing ninth or tenth, and it's unfortunate for him. He's got to learn, but you can learn watching film. You can learn talking other drivers, too. He should know that. He's pretty good buddies with Kyle Larson. He's seen Larson do it a bunch.

So I feel like his bread and butter was three and four, where he was getting that big run for the front stretch, and he wasn't going to gain anything in one and two. He just needed to maintain to take where he was gained, He just kind of, he made a pretty big mistake, and it cost him to win. It would have been a big deal if he'd won.

Yeah. You get it? Yeah, it would have been a very big deal. I think he will win. I think he will win in the truck series. Josh got it. I got it. That's terrible.

No, it's not. It's awesome. The Michigan Rules package. Spot on, spot off, Brett. Spot on, man. We're going in the right direction with this thing. You know, we went from a nine-inch polar to a two-inch polar. It's insane that you can go 215 miles an hour down straightaway

and still be able to get in the corner or not wreck. There is a lot of uncertainty going into the weekend as to how the racing was going to be. We still need to go some more in that direction, get the air back under the cars a little bit. We're still too sealed off. Still got way too much side force, but we're going in the right direction. I like it. I say spot off to start with because we're going too fast. We should not be running 215 miles an hour into the corner.

That's too fast. If we wreck at the end of the front stretch, we're going to be in a lot of trouble still. Yeah. We are in a lot of trouble if we get three wide at 2.15. And if somebody hits, it's going to be bad. We need to slow down still. It's the right way with downforce,

but we're taking downforce way and we're going faster. Yeah. So I don't know. I think they need to slow these cars down more. Spot on, spot off. Dale Jr. in the booth for the Xfinity race. I really have no idea because I was actually working that race, as was Brett. I am spot on for the fact that A, they led him, and B, he was willing to do it.

And he was in a sport coat. I mean, when you look at, I'm interested to see the ratings on the channel versus any other race where he was not in the booth to see if he drove the ratings up. Because you got your most popular guy, and it has to bring eyeballs. And, oh, by the way, he's extremely talented. And Dale Jr. is a very methodical thinker. So, no, I haven't seen the broadcast yet. But if he took his methodical thinking into the broadcast, I know it was a home run.

Yeah, I'm all, I'm all, I like Jeff and Dale Jr. And them guys going up there. It's a fresh perspective. You know, I know, obviously, Dale Jr. has cars, but he knows what it's like. He just won three weeks ago in Richmond. He's not, he's not biased like that. Of course he wants to see his cars do good. but he's the first to credit individuals when they do good on Twitter,

even when they drive for other companies stuff. He's always congratulating people. Did you see what Daniel Suarez said yesterday? Daniel Suarez sent Del Jr. a tweet and basically said, I just rewatched the race. Doe Jr., thank you so much for all the kind words. So Keselowski thinks that because you want a car, it's a conflict of interest to be in the booth.

Here is a driver that drives for another team to saying, hey, Del Jr., thank you. Yeah, I kind of feel like when you're, When you own cars, of course, you're going to be biased a little bit. It should be. Yeah, but, you know, I think Brad was just mad at the time, and, you know, they had gotten in trouble or something. It doesn't matter if you own a car or not.

You're going to have biased broadcasting in our sport because we all travel together. You know, whether Jeff Gordon owns part of Jimmy Johnson's team or not, it doesn't matter. And here's why it doesn't matter. He's still friends with Jimmy Johnson. He's still friends with Casey Kane. He's still friends with whoever, and he's going to be biased to that friendship. When we and Martin Truex, when we wrecked in Michigan together,

man, I'm a Martin Truex fan. Like, I like Martin a lot. As a spotter, I'm like, shit, why don't we have to wreck that guy? Like, wreck dingling, you know, wreck somebody I don't like. Don't wreck the guy I do like, you know. I mean, they give each other rise and stuff. These drivers, they're not, they're friends with everybody. Yeah.

Like, you know, people think, oh, you know, Dutcher's actually friends with Kyle Busch, too. You know, we've had runners in the past, but it doesn't mean they're not friends, you know. And it's a big family, and there's always going to be a little bit of biased. Brett, you had some nice comments on during the Xfinity race when that number 74 was just right around in the middle. Dude, Mike Harmon almost wrecked us twice. T.J. even come down and said, hey, quit pinching to 74. You need to give us some more room.

I like, that fat ass, he needs to get out of the way. I went to found his spotter. And I was like, who was it? Tony, the ballhead guy. And I said, are you telling that fat asshole any information at all? And he's like, yeah, man, I'm doing the best I can. Well, you and him both need to do better. Because one of y'all or both of y'all really suck.

He was very bad. Did you dodge and park it in the garage? I said either move up and give everybody the bottom or use some break and just stay on the bottom. He'd go in in the bottom, he'd drift to the middle. Then he'd end up on the top. It's a pain, man. So apparently he had a, he had a calm, somebody said something to him. My blood pressure just went up.

He said any of the spotters. Is that your rant, like Harmon? He said any spotters that wanted to talk to him or whatever, he'd be at his house Monday if they wanted to come by. I'd be happy to go. Yeah. Well, we talked about. over after this. He better bring two friends. We talked about just getting everybody getting in a van.

We'll roll up there and just get out in his front yard. NASCAR said over the radio, NASCAR said over their broadcast to all spotters and their own officials, tell the driver of the 74 to pick a lane. They were splitting him off the corner. He would go in on the bottom and he would drift up to the second and third groove, and they would split him on the exit. That's not good. Is he aware of how bad he is?

Give me his number. I'll tell him. God. That's why you should not eat and drive. No. Yeah. What's wrong with a 74? Well, Tower, he dropped a turkey leg in his lap.

God. Oh, that was funny. Well, stop pinching him, and he won't have a problem here. You quit taking the air off his door into their corner. Yeah. Spot on, spot off. 2017. Cup will race on Father's Day.

Uh, me, I'm spot off on that. You know, is it traveling every weekend type. We, it's fun to be home, some of them holidays and where you can celebrate with your family. And if you have kids, it means twice as much too. So I would, it would be awesome to spend Father's Day and actually wake up and get a car from my little girl in the morning. Yeah, spot off on this, man. We used to not race on Mother's Day weekend at all. And then we started racing on Mother's Day weekend on Saturday in Darlington.

So we were still all. I kind of liked that One thing I liked about that real quick is they brought the mothers down They included them And I thought that was kind of cool So we're still all relatively close to our moms If our moms obviously live in the Charlotte area

So we're able to go see our mom the next day Well then they move that race to Kansas We still do it on Saturday So you still have Mother's Day off essentially Father's Day hey We're all guys in this sport We're all fathers It's been awesome the last few years

To have Father's Day weekend off Because we didn't used to We used to be in Michigan And so now they're taking that away from us. And yes, we're losing an off weekend, and that sucks. But it sucks even worse that I'm on the road on Father's Day. It's almost like they give you something and you learn to really appreciate it. And they say, oh, sorry, we're screwing you over and we're taking it back.

That sucks. Spot off on this. But happy Father's Day to everybody listening this week. Yeah, happy Father's Day. We'll take a quick break. Thanks to One Main for bringing this show. We'll be right back. So we are here in the Exalta Studios.

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We need a cool fast lane sound effect. Yeah. Go ahead and Fast Lane. Like a dirt bite taken off? Formula One car. Formula one car taken off. That sounded like a circus. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

TJ, you're up first. Okay. You ready? Yeah, you got that cable. What is that? We have plenty of sound. Hey, play some more. Let's hear some more.

We can... Oh. That's Josh walking. That's a guy. Paham. Chickens, go Cox. Go to do that one again. Do the chicken again.

I want to hear it. Oh, God, that's awesome. Josh, which one is it? This one that says cheers. Loser. Oh, Lord. I can't find it. There's like one million sounds on here.

Yeah, we need the full metal jacket soundboard. Oh, easy. Josh, I don't know where it is. Boy, this is professionals doing work. You played a rooster. He loved it. What was that movie where the guy, was it naked gun, where that guy was so good at sound effects?

No, that was, um... Police Academy. Police Academy. Yeah, dude. Dude, that guy was awesome. It was awesome. He could do choppers and everything. Yeah, he could make gun sounds.

All right. TJ, you're up first. All right. Chase Elliott had an outstanding race at Michigan, but he couldn't secure the win. kept Chase from claiming victory at Michigan International Speedway. You know, I was, I'm not sure. I was following on Twitter from about 40,000 feet.

Thanks to Chris Busher, I got to get home a little early. So I'm not really sure. I'll have to rewatch that and go back and get back with you. I don't know why these drivers think it's a good idea to get to the restart zone and stop. When they stop, they give everybody an opportunity to crowd them and get all over them. Chase had run top four all day, hit this particular point, He had the lead. He's going to win the race if he does the right things.

He gets to the restar zone. He doesn't go. And when he does it go, they nail him in the ass and he almost rests. He goes from first to fourth. Thank you, T.J., for playing the snake. Yeah, back to my original statement. I don't need 30 seconds to tell you that I was about 40,000 feet. Daniel Suarez became the first Mexican to win in a NASCAR National Series race.

Furthermore, he won by overtaking one of the sports best, Kyle Bush, on the final lap. Why did it take so long? Great use of Fothermore. Why did this take so long? To win a race. To win a race. Daniel Suarez has had speed all year. It's great for the sport that Daniel won.

I'm a big fan of diversity in the sport, and I think this is a huge step for NASCAR, not only to have a Mexican here competing, but to have a Mexican win. It's a big deal. Yeah, now that Daniels got that first win out of the way, and the first ones always seems the hardest, to get, now they've got that first win out of the way.

Now it's time to see what he can do and see if he can back it up to prove he belongs in the sport to me. I mean, he needs to keep winning now. This needs to keep happening. NASCAR has a lot of marketing executives making a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of money. It's time for them to do their part and go after the Hispanic fan base and leverage, you know, Daniel's win. Because nobody's going to pull for a guy that gets here from, from, from,

any race and that doesn't do well. This guy's doing well. He's winning. Now they've got to do their job and go to track that fan base. Eric Jones's father passed away last week. Should Eric have taken the week off from competition, you think? No, I do not think Eric should take the weekend off. He did what he was comfortable with.

And you kind of, when you put that helmet on and you start the race, you kind of get into a different zone. And I think it was best for him. It's a traveling family. When he got to the racetrack, he was surrounded by people. that, you know, people that do care about them and any, you know, can just be comfortable and just not have to not think about personal things then. So I think it was the best in the do to get right back in the seat. I think this is one of the first times in my 17 years of being here that I see the driver has a choice because NASCAR now has a waiver. So if he had gone to NASCAR

and said, hey, my dad just died, I can't race. I need a week off. Can I still be championship eligible with my two wins. This is awesome that he has the ability to do that. You know, I applaud him for coming in, doing his job, being a professional. You know, this kid's obviously very talented, very mature. So I'm glad he raced, but I'm more glad that it was his decision. Yeah, I just, I'm glad he made the decision, you know, and just kind of took what he thought he did.

But I really think he was the most comfortable getting back to the track and just kind of, you know, it just makes it easier to get by when you have people there to support you and you're not just in a dark room. So I'm glad he came back and did it. Are spotters more important in NASCAR or an Indy car, Brett? This is easy. We're absolutely 100% more important in NASCAR than they are in Indy car. The main reason for that is we run side by side way more often than they do.

We tend to pass each other way more than they do. So the Spotter plays a lot bigger role in our series and in our sport versus the IndyCar deal. Yeah, absolutely. We were way closer for a longer period of time. There's some tracks where they are. Like, Texas would be a pretty important track for a spot or an Indy car, but then we go back and they run road courses and stuff. I don't think they're nearly as important at road courses.

They could almost probably do without them at road courses, in my opinion. But, you know, we race so close and five wide in a turn one of Michigan, you need spot. And that's not just Michigan. It was a week prior to Pocono, too. So we're almost just give you the opportunity to be side-by-side a lot more. Here's the other big difference. Our guys don't have the visibility and the peripheral vision those guys have.

You know, they're sitting in their car. They can look left. They can look right. They have a left side mirror. They have a right side mirror. You know, our guy is sitting in there, and he has a spoiler behind him that's preventing him from seeing backwards. He has a right side seat preventing him from seeing the right side of the car at all. And then obviously, he's running a really tiny left side mirror.

So their peripheral vision, the IndyCar drivers, is a lot better than our drivers, which makes us the spotter even more important. The Seattle Mariners drafted Trey Griffey's son of Ken Griffey Jr. as a center fielder, sorry. Trey is a football player for the University of Arizona and hasn't played baseball since he was a kid. Good PR move, but should the Mariners have drafted someone who actually worked to get there? T.J. I don't know.

He's an athlete. Baseball is a much safer sport than football, so I'd probably be kind of happy if I were him. But Ken Griffey was a heck of an athlete. I don't, I mean, if he can take him. making his father's footsteps, I think it might be a good move either way. You know, publicity-wise, he was a great role model, too. He was a good dude. I think it's a good move.

I feel like the Major League Baseball draft is just weird. They draft so many players or so many. Does it go on in the middle of the season two or something? They did it this weekend in the middle of the College World Series, which is even dumber. So a kid can be playing right now in the College World Series, get drafted, and just quit and go to the Major Leaks. So I don't know.

I'm not a big MLB draft fan, but I'm a huge Ken Griffey fan. Pretty a swing in all the baseball. Great PR move. You know, probably got the fans a little excited, so I think it's cool. Yeah, I had his Nintendo game, so I think it's a great move. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so we're into the hashtag AskDBC, where we've chosen.

We need a hashtag Ask Kristen. Oh, boy. Great. It'd be filled up. It basically is. 90% of the questions are about Christian. Hashtag ask Kristen mingle. Too many letters.

I thought that died. Ask KB. Ask Kristen is really hard for me to say. Say that five times. Ask Kristen. Say that five times. I can't say it either. I keep saying ask and ask Kristen.

It just sounds like Ask Kristen. Sorry, do you have to beep that up. Ask Kristen. So Josh, producer Josh. Josh. I'm a little, I'm a little. Hong over. Hong over.

Headache. She got drunk yesterday if you guys wanted. I went to a concert last night and had a little fun. What concert? Thrice. It's a rock band. They've been around forever. Sing a song.

It's some shouting. Sing it. I'm not singing. I have a terrible voice. No, you don't. You have a great voice. Sing. Yes.

You sound like a mix between Jesus and Vergi. Stop turning around and sing. Sing it. It's a lot of fun. I'm not singing. Sing a verse. One verse. You need, it's like shouting.

It's like almost. It's fine. Shout. I said a P. You want to get with me. That's crap. Okay, your turn. Come on.

So producer Josh has chosen questions from Twitter and Facebook. Are you all ready? For your singing. You guys got to pick a winner and they get an Elliott-Sedler autograph hat. At Captain Bert asks, saw lots of passing mid-packed by how do we get more passing for the lead? Less down for us? I saw a lot of wrecking in mid-pack. Man, that's a great question.

You know, when you have restarts, whoever gets out front first is at a big advantage because they aren't being held down by traffic. So they're able to go out and literally run qualifying laps because nobody is in their way. Nobody is slowing them down. They're not worried about what's going on behind them, right? So they get singled out. They go so fast.

So actually the long green flag runs is actually when we can see a lot more passes for the lead. When we ran that long race at Charlotte the other night, the 600-mile, we were getting ready to see a pass and a race for the lead at like 1,400. 50 and we've been green forever and NASCAR threw a debris caution but man you just need to race

you just got to let him go. Yeah it's the reason that guy can do what he wants up front because he has anywhere he drives he has air hitting that nose when you get fourth or fifth wherever you go there's probably already a car there taking that air so you're kind of uh it's just

hard back there um I don't know I'm not sure I just I think we need to slow him down give have tire wear there was We need fast straightaway speeds, slow corner speeds. The more that gap... Any slower straightaway speeds than we got now, though.

The more that gap is there, the better it's going to be. The more they have to... The reason the straightaway speeds are so high is because they're not slowing down to make the corner. The more they have to slow down to make the corner, the slower the speeds overall are going to be. And the slower the speed is through the corner, the more passing opportunities we have.

I just think we need... We shouldn't be 215. We should be 200 tops. That should be the high speed. Yes, dangerous. And tire wear would be fun. Yeah. A little bit of tire wear.

Well, that's the thing about the tire, man. We were all so happy about how well the tire was doing. And the last two races, Pocono and Michigan, yes, we have tire fall off. Like, we lose a second over the run. But the problem is we stop. Like, if we start off running 38 flats, and by the end of the run, we're running 3870s. Well, we run 3870s for 30 laps. It does hold on.

Yeah, it just holds. It's too much. Hold on. You can't take, you can't stay. You're going to stay out if you could. You're not going to come to the front with tires from 10th. It's not happening. And it needs to be different than that.

It's got to keep falling off through the run. Not just fall off, keep falling off. And that'll put rubber on the track too, which will help move around and stuff. So we can't blow tires at 215 miles an hour. No, hell no. So, no. At Hayden's Dad-O-3 asks, what was going through your head spotting your first win? Where was it and who was it with?

Go ahead. I got to think about mine. My first win was my sixth race ever spotting. Oh, wow. Bristol Motor Speedway, a cup race. Not too shabby. Never spotted Xfinity race. Never spotted a truck race.

Cup race 2001 with the Wood Brothers, Elliot Sadler Drive, and we started 38th. No one had ever won from that far back. No one had ever won pitting on the back stretch. And we won that day from 38. Finished first beat John Andretti second in the 43 car, which was awesome because Elliot was in the 21 and Jeff Gordon was third. Sixth race. I thought I was like, man, this is easy.

It's going to be. I got this deal. I think mine was probably here. Charlotte. With Junior Motorsports. With Junior. Yeah. Who was driving?

I can't remember if it was Brad or I don't know if I did, I didn't do Dale Jr. and stuff until after Brad was already here, and I think we had already won with Brad. Yeah. So I think it might be with Brad here. Yeah. Yeah, that's. How many guys have you won with? Oh, man.

I don't know. I've won with Elliot, Michael Waltrip, Casey, K. Kane, Greg Biffle, Jeff Burton, Clint Boyer. Get you some of that. Jeez. They've fired a lot. I won't have fired once. That was a political move.

Brad, Dale Jr., Tyler Reddick, who else? Jimmy Johnson at Talladega. We were tan and racing. I was actually doing that. Regan. Go look at some banners here. It's fun to win a bunch of different guys. It is.

We've probably all. I mean, I've spotted for Matt. I've spotted a race for Matt Kansas. Did a race for Truex, did a, just Boris, all that stuff. I finished second with Kyle Busch. That's a fail. Six with Harvick in a truck. Especially if it was in a truck or something.

Yeah, but I've done a bunch of guys, too. I mean, Tony Range and guys that, you know, didn't win. Better now spotters. Better not spotters. Yeah. From our Facebook page, Jonathan Krause asks, What would you rather see more? A Cup race at El Dora or returning to Rockingham?

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. I don't want to, I mean, I would love to watch a cup race at Eldora because I think it would be hilarious. But I really want to race Rockingham on the schedule every year. Yeah, man, first of all, I love El Dora. I've been to El Dora three times. I've seen the cup drivers race at El Dora in super late models,

and they put on a hell of a show. I think Bill Elliott actually flipped that night. One of those nights. Him or somebody done the front stretch. I think he flipped. The prelude? Yeah. Prelude to the dream.

So, man, I grew up going to Rockingham as a kid. I would much rather see Cup return to Rockingham and us go look gimmicky on dirt and cup cars. If we're going to dirt, let's run dirt cars. Rockingham never disappoints. It's got tire fall off and multiple grooves, and it's not huge. I mean, it's awesome.

I will say that truck race at Eldora is entertaining. It is entertaining. It is interesting. It's good racing. Like I said, I would love to watch the Cup guys go getting cup cars there and try to run there because I think they would not drive anything like dirt late models either. No. It'd be almost comical.

Yeah, that's, yeah. Our cars don't really belong on dirt. Put it that way. I mean, they're just not built for that. At Digger 2 asks, which non-N NASCAR athlete do you admire? Man, that's a great question. Josh, you out did yourself this week. Yeah, why'd you pull all the good ones out in one week?

He screwed himself for next week. We apologize in advance for next week's questions. Who's your athlete, Josh? Who do you admire? Peyton Manning. Oh, Tennessee Vols, yeah. Kristen? Some European cycler?

Yeah, well, he's an American cyclist, Taylor Finney. Oh, yeah. Old man Finney's more. Oh, Taylor. Yeah. Taylor. Which non-Nascar athlete do you admire? T.J., who you got?

I don't know, man. There's a handful of them, man. I mean, I do like Peyton Manning. I think he's been a stand-up guy's whole career. Are you, uh, Muhammad Ali? I do admire Muhammad Ali, but he's not my guy. Man, I don't know. It's hard to not say Michael Jordan.

That guy's, he's a real deal. He, oh, by the way, makes over $100 million a year, so he's obviously successful. Still? Yeah. Well, come on, man. Piss him on the Hornets. The Jordan brand alone. He still flies on a G5.

Look at you all laid back and... My flag hurts. I killed my hamstring at the leg of the Ozarks playing beach volleyball. Sober. Oh. Not sober. It makes me sad, though, because you're running has come so far and you're getting so much more distance. Here's why I heard it, because for a solid hour, I made fun of how unathletic Clint was.

Whichever team I was on was winning, whichever team he was on was losing, and I would not let it die. because I was sober. And I blew my hamstring out, and I'm like, the karma apple. The karma apple just got me. I just ate the karma apple, so I just went to a boat and laid down. With a beer. Yeah. With a beer.

I didn't stop drinking. Nah. Where did y'all play volleyball out there? Coconuts. It's my favorite bar on that lake. Did y'all drive the boat there? I don't know how we got there. Because you were sober.

Yes. We had a driver that drove the boat there. Yeah. I'll tell you, man, you go to the lake of the Ozarks of Clint. You're going to have a good time. It's fun. I threw up over the balcony of a house there. Might have been his.

I remember. Yeah. I've never seen a place where everybody gets hammered and just parties. Yeah. You know? Clint's basement's pretty good for that there. It's just everywhere you go, everybody's just party. And I'm like, man, I got to get the hell out of here.

You ever been there, Josh? It's a toxic environment for somebody like me. I don't do well there. Huge river, but it looks like a lake because it's so big. I'm going to tell you what, it was rough. We rode Jetsky's out in the middle, and it felt like I got in a fight with Tyson. It was rough, but it's a really fun place to go. We had a really good time.

I left Lake of the Ozarks and went to the University of Michigan to a physical therapist, and I was like, help. I can't walk, help. That dude did a miracle on my leg. Really? Yeah, but I'm out of commission for a few weeks. You can ride the recumbent bicycle, just move your arms. I'll tell you all, that lake is go.

If you live anywhere near there, go. If you don't, still go. Yeah, it's pretty fun. There's no way Lake Havasu's any better. It's hot there, too. Yeah, it's hot. Really hot. I don't think Lake Havasu could be any more fun because there's just so many bars and restaurants

and parties. They had something called a white party, so you go and everybody wears all white. Oh, my God. Death trap. me. You're a little dirty by the end of the night? I can't be put in a position where I can make a bad decision because I make a bad decision every time.

Most good stories start with bad decisions. You're a true role model. I know. I'm proud of you're my role model. Oh, God. All right. Amy Howell 0207 asked how the hell do your wives put up with you? Dude, Amy.

What do you mean? Really? I've got a steal. Claudia and Tamila. I'm a 5-8 overweight balding guy with a gap between me. my teeth. Like, what's there not to love in this package right here? Yeah, I'm like 5-7-180 pounds with

Twisted Steel Sex Appeal. I don't know. More neck hair than Chebacca. Yeah. She likes that. And she likes that. I don't know. Amy, we were friends right up until that point. We're now unbenefited. I'll bet Amy can't cook. Yeah. She probably can't cook or something. Jeez, Amy. Who's the

winner? Not Amy. Not Amy, you suck. Yeah, you're not getting no hat. You ain't good. You get no hat. You're crazy. I'll go with the, I mean, I like the... He's going to pick this one.

Let me look at one more time. He's going to pick this right here. Unless he changes it. That's because he loves talking about that so dang much. Hurry up, T.J. It's just a hat, bro. It's lunchtime. I'm hungry.

Dude, I'm going to get me an omelet. I'll go with Eldor and Rockingham. We called it. I said that was a good one. I know, but I was already pointing out. Yeah, that's when I, you know I liked that one. I knew you did. Not going on a limb there.

All right, Jonathan Krauss, you get a hat. Hey, so outside of Harmon, do you have anything to ran about and outside your leg? I picked Josh. Can Josh win the hat? Because he picks him good questions. Get Josh an autograph hat. Elliot Sadler's hat since he never sees Elliot. I'm all right.

Josh wins the hat. Josh is also Elliot's PR guy. Josh, what's your favorite Elliott Sadler story so far this year? Yeah, Josh. Making a nice one, Earl. Yeah, no, don't make it a nice one. Tell us just your best Elliott story. He's only been doing it for five months and he's got 100 stories already.

It could be good or bad. I'm not going to into the bad one. Bad's more entertaining. Yeah, it is. The Talladega win was awesome. Yeah. I mean, that was definitely the win that, we all wanted and needed.

The victory lane was fun, Josh, wasn't it? Yes, yes, it was. I won't go into any more detail about victory lane. What happened in Victory Lane? We're not talking about it. We are talking about it.

We are. Let's just say that Josh had never been to Victory Lane before. Did you make a big mistake? No, I did not make it. It's just a learning curve. We've been in positions where we have to learn. I was doing my job on the other side of Victory Lane,

so I wasn't there to help him. I started in the sport with Elliot Sadler and Michael Walter P. I was the PR guy for Elliot and Cup and the PR guy for Michael in the Bush series then. And those are the two hardest guys in the sport to work for. You throw Victory Lane, which is complete chaos if you're in marketing or PR with the logistics of getting media. Sponsors. Because you're not there. Everything.

Hats. Terrible. Tragling. Gatorade. Terrible problem. Terrible problem. Smile. Beer.

Bus. Will. go get beer yes so josh what'd you do all right time to wrap it up they're gonna want to know we're gonna have to tell them we can't we can't we can't wrap it up it's in the fault oh wow that's no fun all right so next week predictions oh wait we got it oh wait because we're going i want let's yeah let's talk about predictions so tj had i thought for a hundred laps a sleeper pick that was going to kick my ass. Another one. He had Biffel. I had Matt Kenseth. And so at zero to 100, Matt was not running good. Biffle kills him. Matt's wreck in every corner. Biffle's running around 10th.

Matt's running around 20th. Me, we race Matt Kenseth a lot of the day. And then around Lapp 100, Matt got better. And Biffle kind of got worse. And then at the end, with like five to go, Matt hits and gives Biffle the position. And I'm like, well, that just sucks. Matt drives around them on the outside with like five to go, four to go, and I win the bet. So, yeah. Bam. Man. Another one of them.

We don't have to pick this week. Nope. We're off. We'll pick next week. Yeah. I think we should do a special show next week. Can we figure out how to do that with call-ins? Yeah, we'll figure it out.

Josh has a week to figure it out. Yeah. A week and a day. So follow Brett and T. And I on Twitter and we'll give you the logistics and details of how to call in. We're going to pick three or four of you fans. And if you're boring, don't even try to come on the show. Yeah.

You need to be entertaining like the guy in Texas. Dato, he's entertaining. You got to be, you got to have a big personality. You can't cuss a lot. You can cuss a little bit. Yep, right? Because we don't need to be by some of that. But, but like, we want you to come on here and be fun.

Like, you know, you can't come on here. Man, I love you, T.J. You're down to your Spiter. Woo! Well, you can, but that's, you know. I don't want to. You got to come on here with some real content. If you can't do that, don't give us your phone number.

But if you can. Because I'm going to give it out to everyone. We're going to hook you up. Yeah, if you come on the show and you suck, I'm going to tweet your phone number. Don't be lame. We will tweet your phone number. That's right. What are you looking at?

I'm looking from. Madeline, are you here? The speaker ain't all. Is it off? T.J. brings his daughter to the shop and forces her to run the cash register. Is it going to be like funny, funny or like T.J. funny, which isn't funny. I'm glad somebody said it. I'm glad somebody said it.

And it wasn't me. Maddie, you want to help us out? You want to thank One Main Racing for us? Say thank you to One Main. Say thanks, One Main. Thanks, One Main. And Exalta. And Azalta.

Nice work. All right, we're good. Thanks to One Main for sponsoring this and to Exalta Studios. We're out. We're heading out. Thanks for coming. We'll have a special show next week. Leave Josh some good material.

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