Door Bumper Clear - 201 – Some Things Never Change

Episode Date: February 8, 2021

Door Bumper Clear returns for its sixth season and has some big news. The gang catches you up on their off-seasons as T.J. Majors became a day trader, Freddie Kraft now has meetings, Brett Griffin’s rocking a part-time schedule, and new momma Casey Boat is back. Plus, hear about the return of one of the most popular segments in Dirty Mo Media history.Ahead of the start of the NASCAR season, the crew discusses what’s new for the sport in 2021. Freddie lays out Bubba Wallace’s goals with newly formed 23XI Racing and debates goals vs. expectations.Concerns are raised looking ahead to the Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race in March and the unknowns leading into the first Cup Series race on dirt since the 1970s. The spotters share their thoughts on the drama involving who will spot for Kyle Larson. Tony Stewart asked NASCAR to run the season opening Busch Clash but didn’t get a call back. The guys discuss how Stewart’s new Superstar Racing Experience is impacting his relationship with the sanctioning body.Leading into the DAYTONA 500, Brad Keselowski is concerned about tearing up a bunch of race cars and the gang reacts to his comments. Find out how the spotters foresee the week of superspeedway racing playing out. 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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All right, Brett Griffin, talk for me, please. I get a lot of joy out of blocking people on Twitter. Cool. Good to see you're still doing that. Okay, T.J. Majors, say something. Data does not lie. Starting with that already this year. Great.

Okay, Freddie Craft. What up? Your turn, and if you say something about Danny. Whatever Danny does is great. Oh, boy. So glad to have new mama, Casey Boatback. to keep you all in line. Give me a test, please.

All I want is Papa John's Wendy's and Girl Scout 50s. I guess some things never change. All right, are we ready? No. Nobody's listening, but I don't care. I'm on an episode of Door Bumper Clear. Hey, everybody.

I am T.J. Majors, and welcome to the first episode of Door Bumper Clear for the 2021. One, full house, including long-time absentee. Okay, not my fault, guys. I didn't say it was your fault. Welcome back to the studio, everyone. You're welcome back. I know.

We've been here. I almost got lost getting over here. It looks a little bit different these days. Between pandemic and pregnant, midger races. It has been, it has been a 20-20. It's been a long time. What's your name? Oh, hey, guys, I'm Casey Boat.

As you can see, it's been a lot. She's rusty. Brett Griffin, former spotter for a bunch of retired guys. Don't give me that. You can't say that. Elliot Sadler. No.

Brett ran a bunch of people writing a retirement. Jeff Burton, he going. What is this for? If you're a former retired spotter, why are you in the spotter meeting? I'm a part-time spotter now, TJ. That doesn't count. Former full-time spotter. Let's put it that way.

I'm so bored. I'm scrolling through that. Brett Griffin is in here. So we had a spotter's meeting this morning and 9 o'clock. And Freddie, almost forgot it. I almost did. Thank God you tweeted because it's like 830 and I'm scrolling through Twitter and Brett's like, here's my day plan.

Oh wait, I forgot there's a spotter meeting. I'm like, well, I'm glad you tweeted that because I also forgot that there was a spotter meeting this morning. He had a day plan. Not me. I didn't have a day plan. My day plan was 9 o'clock spotter meeting, 1130 podcast, back to sleep. No, no, no, no. This whole episode

is already supposed to be recorded, but Freddie's plan has meetings and stuff involved in it. I do have a meeting yesterday. I was supposed to be. and Freddie had to screw it up. Freddy's got a branding meeting for his upcoming logos. Chad called me and he's like, is there any way you can move the podcast to Thursday so Casey can't come to Ocala?

And I was like, I can do everything I can. Honestly, I believe it. I believe it these days. She wasn't on the group deck, so it was all right. Jason's going to kill me. Who are you? Who am I? I'm still Freddie Craft.

I'm still spotting for Bubba Wallace. Denny's still great. Denny's still great because I think there's an out clause on my contract at the end of every year. So I have to make sure I agree. that wheel. But yeah, so spotter for Bubba Wallace this year. Spotter for for Jeb Burton, except for this week. Some guy wants to fill in for a couple of weeks. I got a lot to rust off, man. So I'm a spot for Jeff Burton on the non-plate races, and we got a plan for some other stuff there. And then I'll do Derek Crafts and Trucks again

this year. So busy, busy season. I think I'll get on that Denny train this year, too, man. Yeah. Denny's great. It's a good deal. I think Denny's great, too. Yeah, I think y'all find out tonight why I think that, but yeah, I think Denny's great. Oh, I think I know now. Yeah. Who are you? I'm Jason. I'm the producer of this show. I'm in charge. Don't look at me like that, TJ. All right. So how are y'all's off-season? I want to let Jason know. There's still a bunch of DMs in my box with resume is wanting to take over the show from when we put that out there at one point last year. So boss. I'm still here. He's still here. What off season? I feel like it's been forever. I didn't quit race until like the middle of January. You're an idiot for that.

You are an idiot for that. Freddie, you go get a beer? No, I'm in at the turkey derby. Freddie, you don't get a beer. No, I'm at Snowball Derby. Freddie, Freddie, I don't want him to fuck you. You want to get a beer? No, I got COVID. No, I'm at the snowflake. No, I'm in the snowball. No, I'm at somewhere. So we redid the studio. T.J. and I used to sit beside each other, because obviously we're the long time guys here. We've been here for every show. We've been here the longest. So Freddie is now wedged in between us because he's immune to COVID, because he's already had it. Somehow I got through the snowball without COVID,

which was the most ridiculous event in history of sports, got through everything, and then just, I guess, I don't know, it must be my trip to QS, maybe, or something I came home and got COVID,

which is the craziest thing ever. Yeah, this is the weird thing, though. Freddie gets COVID, and Freddie's wife doesn't get it, Megan, Freddie's brother doesn't get it,

John, who lives with him, who's on the best deal ever, and 10 relatives came down for Christmas, and they all quarantined together, thinking that, hey, we all stay together,

will be fine. Well, the whole time, Freddie had COVID, didn't know it. They all go home and none of them got it. I literally test, the day they were there for five days. I cooked every meal, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, like for 12 people at my house, there was more there for Christmas Day. Megan, some of Megan's family was there. And cook, it's all Christmas day. And the day after they all left, which was like the Sunday after Christmas, Monday morning I woke up, no taste, no smell. And I was like, oh, shit. Like, I've got COVID. So I called Megan right away. I'm like, go home. Right now. You got to come home because I've got COVID. and then I freaked out because my dad is like the poster boy for underlying conditions. My grandmother's 90.

And I was like, oh, God, I'm going to, I've killed them all. And then I, like, I was like, oh, my, I don't know what to do. Like, I was scared to death. And luckily they all went and got tested, all negative. So 12 people, I'm the only one lucky enough to get COVID. And other people go and you walk by a person 10 feet away and they get it. Yeah, it's, I don't understand. I mean, like, Megan and John really are ones that trip me out because like when I

quarantine for two weeks, Megan had to come home for work, so she worked from home for two weeks. My brother's there all the time, so they were with me nonstop. He's literally there all the time. I feel so sorry for Megan. Oh, my God. Did she leave after? Like, I need to, I need to break.

She's ready for me to go racing. I can promise you that much. I wouldn't doubt it. I need to retire at 30, well, it'll be 31. I need to retire. You're 31 already? Holy. I was going to say.

Okay. You're going to look like me next week. It's called postpartum. Oh. Hair loss. It is? That's what's happened to Brits. That's what I happened to me.

I just didn't give birth. We finally figured it out. You're almost like to the Cougar territory. Okay. When you, when you tweeted at Hannah about being 30, I was like, I wanted to respond. Like, seriously? Like, what is wrong with that? It's old.

It's only because I really thought Hannah was younger than she is. I thought she was like 22, but she's, I guess, 24 maybe. But yeah, happy 30th birthday to Hannah. I thought she was 30. You said she was 30? You don't think? I was wondering if you saw my tweet. I was like, there's a good chance he never even saw my tweet

and just thinking the same thing I did. Geez. Well, happy 30th birthday to Hannah Newhouse. So TJ in his offseason, everybody has become the day trader. No, that just started a few weeks ago. I don't know why. I don't know why either. What happened?

Would you just rolling a bunch of money? No, I just, uh... First contract bonus kicked out. No, I just started looking at it. And I've always kind of wanted... Actually, I bought a couple of stocks a few years ago. and I bought him at like $40 and they're at 90 something now. So I'm like, why don't I do this more?

You know, like, what else are you doing? Babysitting. Other than, you know, I'm sitting there babysitting. We need to resurface that conversation. Now we don't. It's babysitting. No, I think I changed my answer. Thank you.

Keep going. It's babysitting. No. Thank you, Casey. No. Welcome to Team Smart Guy. No. The sad thing is that I couldn't remember how I responded originally so I had to listen

to the episodes because I honestly couldn't remember again mom brain I take it back babysitting not no no no parenting way different way different I actually I actually might have Chad relisten to that episode too because when he says oh I can help you it's your child too like your child that you're not helping me like your job so yeah yep I'm still rolling babysitting take you back that's because you're a guy Yeah, but I was not because he's a guy I know, I took care My kid, when Malone was born

I was in my wife Went back to work, it was me and her From like three months in That was one of the scariest days in my life When she left the door to go to work that day And I said there, I'm like Okay, what do I do now? Like, it was game on from that point

But you know, you get used to it And next thing you know, we're going to loads So is this your last year spotting full-time cup Now that you're day trading? Well, I haven't, I mean, no I'm not near. really good enough because everything I buy seems to still go down. I got this hot tip, man.

I mean, total insider trading deal. Obviously, I'm lying. He's going to jail. It's like, man, we got to get on board with this stock. And I'm like, all right, what is it? So they like, it's a medical company. And I'm like, all right, man, I'm in. What's going on?

Why are we in on this? They got this new estrogen thing coming out that's going to make women, you know, be able to handle certain situations. This is not going to go well. I don't know. So I'm like, hell yeah, man, I'm all about science. Let's get in. So I buy $5,000 worth of this stuff.

Oh, that's big jump. And I'm like, man, let's go. Dude, my $5,000 turned into like $200. The company like essentially went to be a penny stock. So that's when I was like, you know what? There's a reason I have people that do this for me. And I don't do this, I'm out. There's a reason why I won't put that much in it.

It's probably a good idea. Yeah, there's no way. Oh, I have bought a few things. like, you know, like $3 stocks that go to $4 or $5 and stuff, which is a pretty big jump. Yeah. So it's kind of fun. I like messing around with that stuff. I don't have like any Tesla or Amazon stock.

You don't want to mess with penny stocks? Penny stocks are not my thing. They look attractive because they look affordable. You get a lot of, you get like a million shares for a dollar. I know, it's awesome. I picture you guys. I'm a stockholder. How many you got?

Like a million shares? Oh. On the Wolf of Wall Street, like I see that being you guys. I can see us being the people from Wolf of Wall Street. I can't see us being the traders on level of law. Yeah, I don't know if we fit into that. Well, I know. Some of them deals when he's like trying to get the guy to buy, he's got all the people.

You remember that? That's a good movie. I could see us trying to con some people into some stuff. Yeah, like that guy that caught bread into buying up and shares. Man, I'm telling you, I was all, I was like, man, this is awesome. I'm going to get rich right here. Yeah, I'm 30 grand profit here. I'm going to buy five grand.

I'm going to retire two weeks. And it didn't work that way. Speaking of getting rich, that's a nice shirt you guys. Thanks. I got our friend Mike, his at on Twitter is Ketch 22 M-O-E. He sent me this. And he was like, you got to wear this. Just drive it.

All right. So here we are with our Air Freddy unveil. Are you trying to sell it for a profit? I mean, look, we have the best fans in NASCAR. There's no doubt because they send us tons of booze, which we drink it. They send us T-shirts. I'll wear it. I think we should start a new deal.

Just send me a T-shirt every week and I'll wear it on the show. I don't care what it says. The fan who sent me blankets for Chloe, thank you. I haven't been in the studio in like six months, but they're here still. I'm taking it home. Our fans are so sweet. They are the best. Yeah, we do have a lot of good listeners.

The people who sent me Papa John's when I was pregnant, thank you. It's amazing how just great they are. Yes. People sent you Papa John's while you were pregnant? They did. And you know what's really sad? Like pizza or gift cards? No, actual, like, having it deliver that lunch.

It was great. Jeez, it's nice. A friend of mine who follows the show. he actually sent me a message on Instagram, and he's like, man, I boatie's a huge baseball player. I want to send him his first wooden bat. So he sent me an old hickory bat, wooden bat, and it's freaking game cock colors with Bodie's name on it.

Like, it's bad. Anyway, we're glad y'all are still listening. The millions of y'all that are out there worldwide. Millions and, yeah, worldwide. I saw a guy this morning from the Hannah birthday tweet, said, you know, happy birthday Hannah from all your DBC fans in Australia. So we've got international DBCers. I think I would go.

to Australia. I know T.J.'s been. Oh, I would. I would definitely go. I'd go back. I've never flown across water like that. Let's do a show from Australia. New Zealand. I'm going to go and tell you, you better download like seven movies to watch because it's a long time

to get there. You've got to break it up. You've got to go like 10 hours to Hawaii. They got a lot of Australia. I mean, I would stop in Hawaii. It's 20 hours for real. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I can't do that. You need a lot of vodka.

You got to break it up. Zanax vodka. If you go 10 to Hawaii and then stay of the night, and then get up and go to the next day. It's so weird. You're so, like, your body clock is so messed up when you get there. And by the time you get home, like the best that Casey Kane told me, because he had been over there a bunch for sprint car stuff.

He said, when you come home, don't sleep the first night and just go to bed the normal time the next day and you'll be back on schedule. So it was. That's insane. Yeah, it's like you're flying into the future when you go there. When you fly back, it's like, you almost, it's just weird. I don't know, when you call somebody here on the phone, it's like lunchtime.

You'll be like, oh, yeah, I'm drunk, you know. Like, okay. Yeah. Well, I guess we're here to preview 2021. Is that what we're doing today? We are. But, hey, first, I hear you have some great news to share. Great News, DBC fans.

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No. You didn't listen to it? I mean, I listen to one part of it, I think. Oh, it's so good. Oh, data? Oh, yeah. But have there been things that they've asked you to do that you haven't done before? And had it been...

I wouldn't say, I opinion. There's just more things to... He wants to sell T-shirts, doesn't he? He wants data T-shirts. He wants data from time commitments and just being... Thanks for getting on board, Bubba. I've got my own login now to SMT, so the next time Joey runs through the back of us, we can have competing data.

Yeah, you can look at the same stuff. Some things haven't changed. Ever will. All right, spot on spot off. First topic, Bubba Wallace sets goal at two wins for the new team at 2311 racing. Spot on, spot off, Freddie. Well, why not? Freddy said six.

Yeah, why stop it too? You know, a lot of people I think that was kind of eye-opening to them to him to say that. And I think the biggest thing is there's a big difference between goals. and expectations. Obviously, you aim high. You set the bar high for your goals because you don't want to easily achieve your goal. If he says, I want to have five top fives.

I'm sure goals, aren't goals and expectations? No. Pretty much the same thing? I wouldn't say so. I think your goal is to do this, but you expect to, you know, I think if you ask me what our goal is, my goal would be to win a race this year.

What I expect? I expect to run better this year and hope to contend to for a playoffs. My goal isn't to get a playoff spot because I think we can obtain that. I want to set my goals as high as I can to hope that I, you know, in my opinion, you always set your goals higher than what you can obtain because you always want to be chasing something. You know, if we say we want five top fives this year and then we go the first five races to get five top fives, what are we striving for after that?

I'm spot on if it's to win two races at Daytona to start with. Look, man, this isn't as easy as everybody thinks. And I say that. This is a brand new race team. And I was here when Red Bull came in, and their budget was absolutely ridiculous. I mean, it was one of the biggest budgets in the garage. They missed a ton of races. They didn't contend to win anything.

They struggled to run, honestly, top 15. So I think that we've got to be patient with this team. I do think the resources are there. Obviously strong ownership, obviously a strong manufacturer. Bubba's hungry, which is a good thing. He's got the opportunity of a lifetime. And in my opinion, he's got 18 months to get it done. and I think he probably knows that without anybody telling him.

I think they contend to win more than two races. I mean, Bubba showed a lot of promise at plate races. He showed a lot of promise at places like Martinsville. I think Toyota puts him a little bit better than what he was at some other places where he didn't show a lot of promise. I don't know if he'll win two races, but he better contend to win two races. CJ? I don't know if we've ever seen a new team come out and win race as their first year, have we?

Has anyone ever done that? Hendrick 1984 somebody did it and then Spire Motorsports essentially did it with Justin Haley But that was a rain shortened That wasn't honestly that

It's not But that wasn't a performance win Like dominated all day That was a stay out It might rain I get it still counts You're right But that's not the way you want your

That's not the way you're expecting To get your wins You know what I mean You're expecting to be competitive And be racing up in the top group In the top tier So I think I don't know, I think it's going to be really hard to come out and get two wins the first year.

But with this package, everything, I mean, it's with the resources they should have, Denny Denny doesn't really know how to do things 150%. I mean, he's got a race car in his living room. Denny goes all out when he does stuff. And he's got the right, they've obviously got a lot of backing, a lot of great partners and stuff that they're bringing in. so I think this is a very well this thing has a very good chance of taking off and doing good

now it might take them another year or two to add some more people good people weed some things out and do things like that but I think two wins is going to be very tough but I definitely think Bubba should expect to be competitive maybe he's going to go to some of his better tracks and I think what are some of those better tracks? Martinsville Dover Yeah, he should go to these places

And he's probably going to look really forward To get into these places And confidence goes a long way too And he's going to have a lot of confidence to start the year If he can come out of Daytona Without Freddie wrecking him His confidence will be high And it'll be a lot better

Hands down, hands down biggest challenges team faces As do a lot of teams But this team in particular Brand new crew chief driver combo Brand new team No notes essentially Right, that's why they're running

Ty Dillon at the Bush clash I would assume so they can get notes for when Bubba goes back two weeks later to run that road course. The biggest challenge they've got is no practice at the majority of the places we go, other than eight tracks. And you're asking a guy to buckle into a race car. He's never been in, work with a crew chief he's never worked with, and being in a situation he's never been in.

And the good news is Bubba's cocky. So I think he mentally can be prepared to do that. But at the end of the day, when you get in that car and you're three-tenths off to start the race, you're in trouble because you didn't have the ability to practice to get ready. So I think that's going to be as challenges, mentally, mentally for Bubba being patient with that process and not panicking on lap 10, knowing that there's 300 more laps to get it right, and knowing that you're coming back there in the fall. You need the notes. You can't crash the car because you're not running as fast as you want to be running. I think that's going to be the challenge for that race team.

Mile and a halfs, I think, are going to be really challenging for him because that's a track that you either go trimmed out or you're down for us. And you can go both ways, and Bubba's going to define what he wants again now. I've seen you go both ways before. Like some of those places you'd qualify bad, you'd run good, you know, race well. Yeah, we've been on opposite end of the spectrum. Yeah, I just, you know, obviously, in my opinion, our goal would be to get better every week. What do you love? You weren't listening, but it's fine.

I heard you. I know what you said. I was going to move past it. I was not going to go T.J. on you right there. But anyway, our goal, I think, is just to get better throughout the season. Like you said, you're starting off, Britt, the reason why we're running the class next week, I'm in a spot. Mike Wheeler's going to crew chief, we're going to make sure, you know, one, the first time we turn the radios on isn't a duel, you know, or the practice. Yeah.

You know, so we're going to get that lingo down. Know who I'm talking to on the box, whether it's Mike or JR, our engineer. You know, so that's reps for me, wheels, and our engineer crew to have, even if Bubba's not there. And I hate to say this, but I think that's a good wake-up call right off the bat for Bubba, because Bubba's probably walking around with his chest out, can't wait to get in this car. I mean, it's his quote, his car in the very first race out of the box, he's not driving it. I can see that bothering a guy because I've worked with drivers that I truly would have bothered. So for them to come to him and say, Bubba, you're not racing because it's going to make us a better team and him having to accept that,

I think that gets his thought process out of the box in the right spot because he's got to be, it's not about Bubba anymore. And he's made it about Bubba a lot of times in his career. Now it's about this race team, this manufacturer, this ownership group, and him. And all the pieces are in place. You just got to put the puzzle together. Yeah. I mean, and I think, you know, people go back to this two-win thing. If you go to Bubb, and we make the – say we make – you know, have a good year and make the playoffs

and we don't win any races. And you go to Bob and go, well, what about that two wins? He's not going to be – oh, this year's a disappointment by any means because I didn't win those two races. That's a goal. You know, if you can manage your expectations and know what you're working with and continue to progress, continue to get better, and put yourself in the right spot. I don't see any reason why we can't contend for a playoff this year. I agree, man, and I want to see that happen.

I want to see Bubba win a race. I want to see you guys make the playoff. And look, in the first half of the year, there's places I think you can win. Next topic. Richard Petty says that from a logical perspective running the Bristol Dirt Race is going backwards. Spot on, spot off, Brett. I don't know that it's going backwards. I think it's just stupid because there's so many dirt tracks in America that are amazing that are ready for us to show up and race.

And Bristol is that's not the case. We're going to show up and transform, which they've already started the process, transform a concrete track into a dirt track for several days of racing, two different series, a lot of different practice laps, qualifying heat races, the actual race. That's a big unknown for me. and when you take the Cup Series product, this is the premier racing series in the United States of America, above F1, above IndyCar,

above anything else that's out there from a viewership perspective, and we're rolling the dice. And I'm all about taking chances in sports. I think it's fun to do different things. You know, taking this series somewhere to an awesome dirt track in America, I'm going to sign up and I'm going to go buy a ticket and I'm going to go watch it. I'm scared of what may happen here. I truly am because I watch the Chili Bowl

and the racing seems to get worse all week. And it starts off awesome in a lot of ways, and then it gets worse because A, the team's figured out, right? And B, the track goes crazy. And so what's going to happen? I'm not a dirt track guru, Freddie. What do you think happens here? So, you know, I agree 100% what you talked about.

For one, you're going to a place that is one of our best short tracks. We have two great short tracks, and now you've taken a date away from one of our best short tracks when the fans are crying for more short tracks to make this into a dirt race when you have place. when you have places like Knoxville, Eldora, you know, these, you know, crown jewel dirt tracks, we can have it at.

But, you know, I haven't seen exactly what the format's going to be. I've heard heat races, and I've heard rumors that the race, the main, A-main, whatever you want to call it, is going to be 250 laps. Do you know what a racetrack's going to look like after 250 laps? It's going to look like it did when we ran there in August. And how long it's going to take to get that with all the cautions. It's going to be, yeah, the race is going to be four hours long.

Yeah. depending on what the field looks like. But the track is going to completely rubber up, and it's going to, by halfway probably, by 100 laps in, it's going to be an asphalt race. I mean, Eldora was like that, too. I talked to Bubba. We actually had a meeting yesterday, TJ, a laugh at that.

But we were talking about that yesterday, and Bubba's like, when I ran Eldora, you're turning just like, you know, you're turning more to the left than you are the right, which is a complete opposite of probably 90% of the dirt races in the country. You know, and they were talking about even like, you know, maybe they're going to run the super dirt late models at Bristol. before we go.

And they're talking about getting a ride, you know, and he's like, it's pointless. He's like, if you can find a street stock with a bunch of motor, go run that or something. But he's like, you can get more out of the Sims, the ir racing, you know, the manufacturer's sim, then you're going to be able to, like, if you go run a Superdard Late Model, none of that that you learn is going to convert to what we're going to race on. So, you know. Is 40 cars too many, T.J? I've never seen a dirt race start 40 cars. 40 cars would not be so bad if there wasn't such a disparity from 25th to first.

You know, the drop off. I'm okay with the car count. I just don't, like he said, there's other facilities that are already, that's what they do. Aldora has been pretty much prepping for a cup race for years now. That's just my opinion of it. I think they've been doing this stuff showing, hey, we can put on a good show here. and I would have went to somewhere like El Dorah and just ran a 100-lap race or something.

The product that El Dora put on the racetrack from the first year to the last year was way better. You know, like the first couple of years, it was single lane, run around the top, and then we all fought for the top, we all ran on the wall the whole race. And then as we went back and Tony and his crew there figured out how to make the track racy

for our types of vehicles, and the truck races got better. And I think, like you said, I think they were preparing. That was their work. up until maybe getting a cup date. Now, when they get to the cup date, you know, they've got the formula to make the track great. But I don't think there's a dirt track in a country that you can make great for 250 laps. I don't care where it is. That's a lot of laps, a lot of cars. And I don't know,

like, my biggest thing is you're taking away Bristol. I mean, Bristol's, uh, it's one of the tracks that you see in the schedule, like, oh, Bristol, you know, it's real fast, high bank, short track. This could work. This could be special. It could be. But we're doing it in an environment that we've never been in and tried to do it. And Eldora was a science project gone wonderful, wonderful. And it turned out wonderful. And we've taken all of what we knew there and applying none of it to Bristol. Yeah, I think El Dora should have been where the next project takes place.

Absolutely. If you put the Cup Series there, it could be the next big thing. It could be every year thing. This is another. But we're going into something with a lot of unknowns. And, man, I pray it doesn't end up being a shit show. spot on spot off chris monez let go as kyle larson spotter five days after being named spotter how about tj that's just a really touchy subject but yeah listen you got to be careful

with what you put out there i don't really want to get into it too much but um you know everyone it's just a a different world we live in now and you know with with kyle I'll be under the spotlight. The last thing he needs is any more attention to anything. I think we have to give a little backstory just in case people don't know. I don't really want it involved in this one. Don't know what happened. You know, Monez got the deal.

Great deal for Monez was going to be a great opportunity for him. Coming away from Ty Dillon. Coming from Ty Dillon, who's went out of business. Or Jermaine that went out of business. Ty Dillon's out of business, too. You're spot for him. Sunday. I got a spot for him Sunday.

so or Tuesday, whatever day it is. We're going to win that one, by the way. Anyway, so Monez got a great opportunity and announced it on his Twitter with a picture. And, you know, I'm going to spot for Kyle Larson. And the people at Twitter do it with the people at Twitter didn't. They dug into his background and found some questionable tweets from his past or questionable tweets that he liked. And called him out on it. And the powers that be at either Hendrick or Chevrolet decided that.

that maybe that wasn't the greatest fit. And I hate it for Monez. I hate it for anybody in that position. But for one, you know, if you're going to make that announcement from your 90% of the race fans, the guys that Monez spotted for, I would say 90% of the people that, you know, race fan-wise, and they didn't know who Chris Monez was or knew Chris Monez's Twitter handle. But when you tweet from that account and it starts getting action from, you know, the NASCAR media, people are going to dive in.

And I think when you do that, you better have your eyes dotted and your T's crossed or this is the stuff that's going to happen to. And I hate it for them, but, you know, it is what it is. Good break for a guy like Tyler Mon who got the Kyle Larson deal. Tyler's another young kid. He's been working his way up through the ranks of Rick Ware racing. He's going from Rick Ware to Rick Hendrick.

That's never happened before. No, that's, that's, that's unprecedented. at Larson is in, like T.J. said, a sensitive situation. And Hendrick and Larson hired Chris Monez. Okay. So then Chris Monez says, hey, man, congratulations to me. Look at me. I'm Kyle Larson Spotter. And let's just say 10 people on Twitter got mad about it. And they dug into it. And they made a big deal out of tweets that he had liked. And they made a big deal out of his social media. Okay. So who at Twitter, I'm sorry, who at Hendrick Motorsports, who at Kyle Larson's management group, who didn't do their job before this happened? That's my number one question because Chris Monez wasn't hiding behind the person that he is.

He wasn't hiding behind. He didn't go through his social media and clean all the stuff out and then this come out that he's going to spot. And then somebody go, oh, well, he used to have this tweet that he liked and he deleted it. Like, that's not how this thing happened. Everything was already in front of you. And so there was a big error made on somebody's part. Okay. And that's unfortunate that Chris Monez is the fall guy for this because he went through the interview process.

he had the opportunity of a lifetime to spot for a highly sought after driver and Kyle Larson, one of the best to hold a steering wheel in the world right now. And he lost that because it hurt 10 people's feelings that he clicked a tweet that either A Donald Trump sent out or some political group sent out or he said, whatever he said. I think this is a big message to people. Be careful because cancel culture will come after you. And when it does, it can be bad.

It can be career ending. For Monez, thankfully, I think he's got something in the works that's going to allow him to stay in the sport. Thank God, because he didn't deserve to lose everything he's got and lose his career over liking a tweet that wasn't, I mean, that was politically motivated, but certainly doesn't make him a bad person. You know what I mean? Let me ask you this, Brett. Do you think that Chris Monez would have lost his job if his tweet said, I am so happy to announce I'm spotting for Ty Dillon again this year? Absolutely not. He was already spotting for Ty Dillon when he did those things on Twitter and social media, and he was able to retain his job.

I think it goes back to what you said, which was nobody for the most. part knew who he was. I mean, look, there's a handful of high profile in a really small world, right? I mean, my followers on Twitter are less than 50,000. So in the reality, that's not that many. You know what I mean? It's not like we're rocking millions of followers. But within the NASCAR world, there are people who know who we are. I mean, we've obviously got a freaking podcast, so yeah, they're going to know who we are. Number one podcast in America, by the way. The world. But it's just, the disappointing part for me is that some girl with purple hair sitting in her mama's basement that, you know, decided this hurt her feelings and she's going to go make a big deal

out of it. And it changes this whole guy's life because he liked to tweet that Donald Trump sent out. You better block her while we're sitting here. I mean, I don't know who it is, but tell me her name and I'll block her. Here's the reality, man. Again, Monez, I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess too. Monez didn't. And look, maybe he should have combed through his social media, you know. And maybe he didn't. He didn't think it was that bad. But this is an unfortunate set of circumstances that have sent Monez and his career spiraling downhill. But for everybody to get screwed, somebody else gets a shot and in walks Tyler Monn, who, once again, nobody probably ever heard of him as a spotter. And, man, big opportunity for him. I think this is a limited deal.

I think there's a bigger play for Larson long term from a spotting perspective, which we'll see how that plays out throughout 2020, 2020. Not 2021. That's not right. But at the end of the day, when you're a guy like Tyler Mon, you're walking into an opportunity to win a pile of races. Fast cars, motivated driver. Honestly, Tyler, my advice to you is don't fuck it up because you got the driver to make it all happen. You can stand up there and watch. I think this is going to, this package is different than what Kyle.

When he got out, to me, this is a little bit, racing's changed a little bit since he's been gone. in my, just from my side of things. The Kyle Larson that excelled big time in me was the Kyle Larson that could move around and find that speed, you know, getting up by the wall. That's a special ability to be able to get up there and make time doing that, and he has it. There's not, we don't quite have that as much anymore.

It's all kind of down. It's all kind of down to the car. It's really it's down to the car and the spotter, depending on if you're offensive or defensive, of like we play defense a lot. We got out front, we had to play defense. Partbett gets out front, he drives away. So it's going to be, they're going to have to find that niche on how that's going to work.

So, you know, I think it's still going to be a learning curve for Kyle, but he's obviously got tons of talent and adjust well to everything he gets in and he's fast and everything. I mean, he hasn't been gone for 10 years. He ran this package last year. Yeah, but I think it's just different now than like Hendricks come a long way and they're package stuff too. That's all change as well. So he'll adapt to it, but it's just going to be a little bit of... Chase's package was special at a lot of places.

Real special. Next topic. NASCAR didn't answer Tony Stewart when he asked to run the clash and didn't tell him about the Bristol dirt race. Spot on, spot off, Freddie. I mean, what a coincidence. This guy starts a racing series and his

relationship with NASCAR isn't that great. I don't understand it. I mean, I feel like, yeah, and Ray are going to start this series, but it doesn't seem to me like it's any kind of threat to NASCAR. Now, maybe their long-term goals are different, but they're running 10, 12 cars, whatever it is, at short track six times a year. If I'm NASCAR and Tony Stewart wants to run in any race that I have, I'm going to answer the phone and try to do everything I can to get that guy on the track because he's probably the best natural talent race car driver I've ever seen.

Aside from that, you know, like we talked about, Odora. This is kind of a shot to Tony where, you know, Tony's been running this program forever at Adora with the truck race, trying to get everything right and hoping to one day get an ex finny or a cup date, and they go and, all right, we're not going to Aldora next year. And which Tony said was their decision. I'll get, you know, credit to him. But it's probably his decision because of what he knew was coming down to Ryan with this, you know, when he sees, oh, Bristol's getting a dirt race and I'm not, well, then hell with you, I'm not, you're not getting a truck race back or whatever. But, you know, it's just an interesting coincidence that this relationship. taking a turn for worse once Tony started his own series.

But here's the thing. George Pine is also behind this Tony Stewart thing. Guess who George's roommate was in college and best friend? Brian France. Like, it's almost like there may be some underlying things here that we aren't privy to, right? But, I mean, you're 100% right. We said on this show last year, NASCAR was done at Eldora. When Eldora stopped following all the NASCAR entities, we knew what that meant.

And, I mean, that was last summer, I think, Jason, when we said that on the show, Hey, something's up here, right? So it is unfortunate because Tony's still a team owner here in NASCAR, one of the best, two-time champion. I mean, look, not many guys can show up these days, you know, overweight and win races. And Tony Stewart can do that. I mean, these guys are animals now. They're all athletes.

I mean, I remember Ricky Carmichael coming in the Supercross and changing motocross, changing the whole game. Jimmy Johnson came in from an athletic perspective, training perspective, did the same thing here. Guess what? Tony Stewart still show up eating double cheeseburgs from McDonald's to go out there and wear a He just did it last week, I think, two weeks ago, won a sprint car race. I didn't know you were a private investigator.

I was going to say, how do you know, like, roommate? Yeah, I mean, you know his favorite foods. You didn't know, Brett was in the CIA? Gee, I got ESPN. It stands for something different when the CIA. Yeah, who knows how this all went down to? Who knows? Maybe it was Bristel's idea, too.

I don't know. I really don't know. Maybe they wanted to try something different, but. It sounded like Fox encouraged the idea. I read about that last. I'm heavily encouraged. Well, that's... I'm sure Fox and Bristol didn't tell NASCAR not to call him back when he asked about to clash.

I just hate that a guy that put so much into it trying to make the dirt stuff work and combine the two worlds just kind of got shut out a little bit on it. But hopefully the... I mean, for our sake, hopefully Bristol goes really good. Brad Keselowski's comments about racing in the Daytona 500. I'm about as excited as I can be knowing we're going to go out there and destroy a bunch of race cars. spot on, spot off. Brett.

Cry me a river. Jason, do you have some kind of crying baby sound? Sounds like Chloe. I mean, Brad Keselowski, poor guy. I mean, probably barely making minimum wage out there. Cup Series champion. Very talented race car driver. You know, I hate to see these guys.

And look, I've been privy to some conversations in private about cup racing and plate racing with drivers. that would not ever be made public. I mean, I had one of the guys come to me and say, man, we're the best at it, but it doesn't mean I like it. You know, it's dreaded by a lot of guys. But this is the Daytona 500,

and this is the biggest race of the year. It's a huge opportunity for everybody to go out and showcase how hard they worked all winter. And, I mean, this is the reason I came back to spot this year. You know what I mean? When I was trying to figure out if I'm coming back, are not coming back. I only came back for a chance to run this race.

And I'm not guaranteed to be in this race with a situation I'm in with Casgrawling Colleg Racing. This excites me. This is why I'm coming back and spotting 20 races this year is to have a chance to participate in this one. It's special. If you can't understand that, go home. I mean, I don't...

Listen, if you don't want to race, right around in the back for 200 laps, and we'll see you at the road course. If you don't want to get in there and mix it, This is part of the game, you know, and hopefully for Brad's sake this year, his teammate, TJ, doesn't drive a car through the back of him. Why am I'm out of the Daytona 500? I mean, I'm just hopeful for that. I think, I don't think you're, I think what Brad means is that, like Brett says, you go there and showcase all your hard work. Really now, these Daytona 500 cars aren't as much as fine-tuned as what they used to be, you know, we used to go down there and you could tell the guys that, you know, there was just, you know, there was just,

just more to it then. Now with the rolls package that we got, there's 25, 30 cars that could get up there and lead the pack. And, you know, a handful of years ago, it was kind of narrowed down. You could tell the guys that have stronger cars. They could kind of manipulate the draft more, control more things. And you give a guy like Brad or Joey or even Dell Jr.

When I was working on him, give him a fast car, it's going to, you just you can you can work you can do more with it but I think uh I think you know like last we got taken out of the Daytona 500 because Ross Chassain with a big run tried to go to the bottom or him and priest got into it for really I mean I've never seen you be your fault never that wasn't our fault at all we had we were just riding the high line uh we actually got hit by danny hasn't even started yet maybe 2020 I just think there's not never seen tj calls anything to go wrong no we don't we don't ever. Not at Daytona, especially.

The road course or the Oval. Speaking of Daytona, what's the next topic? Well, one thing, someone else is being called a crybaby. Joey Gase is doing a media availability, apparently, and he's calling drivers that complain about him and the backmarker's cry babies. Well, I'd have to be called a crybaby myself then, because I wish he would get the fuck out of the way.

You say he said drivers. I know, but if I were, I don't care what he said. He just wants to insert himself in everything. I don't care what he said. Get the fuck out of the way. Like, If I'm Joey Gase, I am going to keep my mouth shut because I don't want anybody to know who I am. Why aren't we even talking about Joey Gage right now?

Because he's got this comment just came out. My Twitter just blew up because of it. But, like, just be quiet. The best thing you could do if you're driving a Rick Ware car is nobody has any idea who the hell you are. So when you walk into Applebee's and the server says, hey, how are you guys doing? What are you all in town for? And you go, oh, we work in NASCAR, we're a spotter. Who do you spot for?

Oh, Joey Gates, you want her to say, well, who's that? Yes. If I'm Joey Gates, that's exactly what I want. Because the only way, if you're Joey Gates, you're making news, is if you're saying something stupid on some kind of interview, or if you wipe out a lead lap car. That's the only way nobody's going to know who you are. Anybody's going to know who you are.

So if the best case scenario is BBJ McLeod, nobody knows your name doesn't come out in the middle of a race or that you wiped out the leaders. Ugh, God. I mean, some guys, look, Joey chooses the race that way. We all know when we catch him. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to happen. He's just one of them guys.

I mean, you choose to be like that or not? I mean, it stinks to be that way. Here comes Joey Gase. Good luck. Yeah, I mean. If you say here comes Joey Gase ever in your career, just get out of the roof. Quit right now. No, I mean, like, here you're catching.

Oh, you're catching him. Here he comes. Because if he's catching you, it's over. I don't mean like here he comes. You talk about managing expectation of two wins. If I have to tell Bubba, Joey Gase is coming, we both quit tomorrow. I told me a little at one time, we were racing, and we were in the 21 car, and Hutt Strickland was in the 90 car. Joey Gates wasn't born yet.

I was like, clear behind the 90. After race, he said, I swear to God, if you ever say that to me again, I'm going to kill you. Yeah. I think we've all had moments like that when some guy passes you that you don't really expect her. do is kind of like Clint probably had a moment last year when I said clear behind the 43. Just follow us to the front. It'll be fine. Oh, God. All right. Dale Jr. says on the NBC preview show that Joey Lugano and T.J. haven't

gotten these Daytona 500 results that he expected since they paired up. T.J., what do you think? I mean, if we could stop getting wrecked before the end of the race, I think we'd have an okay shot at it. ready space right i mean we if we finish a race our average so whose fault is it that you're recking it's not yours no we have not we have not caused a wreck that's taking ourselves out in the 500 like this is uh what is this freddie this is tj's plate races since he joined legano so in 2020 and i'll give you that it was 2020 a screwed up year 26 17 27 26 i bet joey gase beat you at one of them races

Quinn Huff, for sure, beat us in some of them. Remember Quinn Huff and the Daytona 500 last year? Remember when he blocked us like three times going into turn one? Turn him head on in the backstretch. When we finish a race, our average is like 2.3 or something like that. But that's the, this is the thing, though. Like this is everybody two out of the last eight you finished. Yeah, that's pretty solid.

That's pretty solid math. Hey, you did win some duels. We'll give you that. We've won a duel almost every year. We've won. They don't count. I won some of them. They don't count.

I wish they did count. If we can get to the front and not get wrecked, we're competitive with it. But it's all just about luck. What about your buddy Dale Jr. calling you out right here? What do you got to say to him? I'm not really worried. Then he said he felt like it was our time to, he felt like we were going to be up there racing for the wind. Did he not?

Jason leaves that part of that. And then he leaves it with us being his pick. All right. So you MFG and then he kissed your ass. Yeah, I'll let him. I know where he lives. Yeah, but it's just got to survive, man I mean, look at the end of these plate races

Look at Ryan Newman This guy was not up front at all last year And he was in the best position anybody on that last restart And that was because he was smart enough not to get wrecked, T.J 100% or in the right spot when it happened I mean, John Hunter Neimanchuk almost won Talladega too He was going to win Talladega and told Blaney hung her right But hey, he did what he had to do

But there's This is why I say on Keslausky, you don't come crying to me about this. This is the most exciting weekend of the year from Thursday to Sunday. My friend, our friend, K.J. Herrett, the Cosmopolitan, she was texting me two weeks ago. She said, hey, I'm coming to the Rolex. I can't wait. I've never been to Daytona. And I said, why are you wasting that trip on the Rolex? Well, I just don't think I want to do Daytona this year. Everything's not open. I said, listen to me. From Thursday at noon until Sunday night at midnight, that is my four favorite days in all of NASCAR, because we have five races. And let's

be honest, that truck race is freaking insane. It's insane. The Xfinity race, if it's not 100 degrees outside, is going to put on the best show of the year because their rules package is phenomenal. Minus the tandem. Minus the being of a lock bumper. And then we got the Daytona 500, by the way, on the last day. Like, you have to, you have to experience this. And she texted me last night. And she said, I've thought about what you said, and I'm coming to the Daytona 500. And I'm bringing my niece with me. And I say, KJ, this is, and look, I love crowds. I want to be 150,000 people. there cooking bacon drinking beer right i really do but this is kind of a cool experience because you can come experience the best four days of the year and not be in huge crowds you can go to restaurants

you can get hotel rooms i know i wish we were sold out but we're not thanks to this stupid kovic china crowd but this is this is there's no better four days of racing in the world it's a good speed weeks is always fun you in an evening there's even more racing if you want to go watch short track racing you lead the big track you go a little track um it's always speed weeks has always been some of my favorite time they're probably i mean you go all winter you're ready to go racing and you go to dayton and you go down there and there's just so much racing going on it's honestly they already started with speed weeks be going on for two weeks basically and uh it's probably my two favorite weeks of the year getting started going and stuff but yeah i mean the Rolex is fun by the way

it's a good event if we could take if you're not fun to spot no i'm saying if you could take a camper and just go and chill out for three four days i mean it that's a fun event But it's not normal next year, I am doing that. It is nothing like the Daytona 500 weekend. Nothing like it. The Ferris wheel in the middle of the infield, the fireworks, the parties. You will fall off to Ferris wheel. I did 3 a.m. to 8 a.m.

And that Ferris wheel, I said, I got caught. I'm like, look at that. The year I did the Rolex, I lost my car, no less than 10 times in that graveyard shift. Because there's so much stuff going on the infield, you're like, where the hell is my car? There's 80 of them out there. It is ridiculous. Have you ever spotted that right?

The whole time I was up there, yeah, I've spotted. The whole time I was up there, I was like, man, I've got to hurry up. Hooter's last calls coming up. Wow, they got to let me go. I had, me and, me and, uh, Tony Hirschman were on the same car, so we, uh, we guys are teammates? Oh, yeah, you guys who love to tell the whole roof on how to spot, y'all, what'd y'all do you? Talk, tell each other.

Tell each other how to do it. Well, so we're, no, listen to this. We're in practice. And I'm spotting our car, this, this, this Lexus, and this guy, this one of the, and it's the, and it's the, some cars are better on the banking, some cars are better in the infield, just different speed variations. Well, this guy is just being a complete tool to race around. And he just keeps hanging out like on the company.

Just go back off or go. You pick, you know. And I'm like, Hirst, look at this guy. And he goes, hook him. I'm like, well, last time I did that, you yelled at me. We had a lot of, we had a lot of, it was Hersch. Yeah.

We've had a lot of funny moments like that. But it was a good time. The two most omniscient spotters on the roof on the same team. You can't spell that. There ain't no chance. O M, N-I-S-C-I-E. E-N-T. Did you look that up? I doubt it. No, there's no way. I didn't touch my phone. Just because you said it confidently does not mean that you know that was correct spelling.

I feel good about that you said it the right way. Yeah, I feel good about all three of those. There's some ancillary meeting. Do you all know Hugh? You know my friend Hugh? Hugh can all kiss my ass. We got something very exciting coming into door bumper clear in 2021. Mike Davis called me, I think about a week ago. And he said, I want to, I want to do something new with door bumper clear. I want to take out a segment that you guys have had in for a while and produce it with a segment or replace it with a segment that is hands down going to be the best thing to ever happen to door bumper clear. And I was like, Mike, well, tell me what that means. And he says, well, we're bringing back

one of the most popular things to ever happen with Dirty Mo Media, which started on the Dell Jr. download, even with Dell Jr. wasn't on it. And it's called Reaction Theater. TJ knows a hell of a lot about reaction theater. Oh, yeah. Because he used to be a part of the show back in the day when he just drop in and be a part of the podcast. But you fans, you're going to be able to get involved in Doorbubber Clear in a way that

has never been offered until now. Yeah, originally the Dell Jr. download listeners loved this. And, man, there were some great reactions to, and you can. You can, the best part about it is you can actually get a sense on how people really feel because you can hear them. So it's a great segment looking really forward to here and Brett and Freddie get blasted on this. Because I'm sure it's probably going to happen. There is no chance. I get blasted more than you get blasted more.

Can we make this a competition? You'll get blasted more. Well, you don't have a full schedule. So I got a more opportunity. It doesn't matter. They never blasted his spotting. You went from the most love spotter on the roof to the most hated. That's okay.

If you guys need some things to blast Brett about, I got you. Don't worry. So we should make this competition who gets blasted the most. Here's the deal. You leave us an audio message and we'll play the best runs reacting to whatever happened in NASCAR that weekend. You can do whatever you like. Most of you cuss Brett on a regular basis.

He can't see it because he has you blocked. You can commend me from me and Bubba win our two races this year. And you could talk to TJ about how many times he's wrecked Bubba or anybody else. else when he denies it. You can ask his questions, but just either way, leave us your unfiltered reactions. I just hope that there's this one belligerent fan that stands out the most and makes every freaking show. That's what I hope.

I hope there's, you'll have those. We used to get songs written and people would sing into them and stuff. Like, I don't know if Jason had heard any of it. We've got a little clip here in a little bit. I just want to know if they're going to be able to recognize our voices when me and you do they call in. Big out. They're going to hear the way.

waitress of big owls like you guys want to the bucket screw you brett dude they if they call if they call right when something happens or you know right and they're still fired up it is the best so here's a deal to leave an audio message this is what you got to do you go to anchor dot fm backslash door bumper clear and click the message icon we'll play the best ones each and every week on the show and we're going to make sure we tweet facebook and instagram out this link too so make it easy on you but again it is anchor.fm backslash door bumper clear oh i can't wait and now i had the privilege of going back through four years worth of these calls and listening to some really good ones so here is a preview what's coming this year to tvc did that ring a bell i don't remember

names budd i bet you'll know it all right here we go time now for reaction theater it is back this by far was the most popular portion of the Dale Jr. download. It is returning. It is time now once again for Reaction Theater. You know, Mike Davis, you want to keep my message free and to the point? Oh, fuck that, man. I am so pissed off right now. Who gives a blind who won?

I really don't give a damn that Denny Hammond won. He's a fucking rat state. Hey, can't say that about Denny. He can't say that about Denny. Give you one, oh my God, give you one. Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Hallelujah! Praise and love for Jeep Christ! Bull, f*** shit, race.

NASCAR f*** up the end. They should have never fucking pull up the yellow flight. Five years. I don't know about you, but I boo the 22. Oh, by the Lugano fans, bust out their clown shoes. If the yellow didn't fly, wouldn't be a win for you. but everything will be all right when it comes chase time and you

lose Jimmy Johnson screw you too I looked around in the stands and find a Paul Menard fan I can shout out but hell I couldn't find any trying to find a unicorn ranch wearing by Lippocon I can't find any of them hell down

And they think's the PJ you stupid ass Get you some damn sense We can't be a losing position Colby, you got a pee-pee. Are you ready, kids? Aye, aye, captain. I can't hear you. I-I-I, captain.

About them and can't hold his pee. TJ Major. But for a while with the track is he. T.J. Major. The beer drinking buddy is something you wish. T.J. Major. All you will hear is a flush and a switch. T.J.

Major. T.J. Major. T.J. Major. T. J. Major. I don't know if TJ's E. T.J. Majors. T.J. Majors. I don't know if T.J.'s ego is going to be able to handle this. It may deflate him down to nothing.

Oh, boy. Do you remember those? Yeah. Oh, yeah. There's so many other songs that that Dato guy is hilarious. I can't believe that one guy talked about Denny. I wanted to find him. I thought it was you, honestly, at first. No, no, not a chance. Denny's the greatest.

Denny is the greatest. I agree. I can't wait to see him. Denny Duell this year. Yeah, I bet. All right, time for the offer pad question of the week. What's your favorite room in your house and why? Freddie?

I don't know. I just took out my dining room table and I've converted. I was going to convert it into like a pub and the kids got involved and now it's being converted into what's called the RPG room and Bodie named it that and I don't know why. Role-playing game room. But nonetheless, is that what it is? Roll playing game, yeah. Yeah.

So it's the RPG room, which I'm worried about for my daughters now that you've told me what it stands for. I know. I was just about to say you're allowing this. Well, it's either that or a rocket propelled grenade, which I don't think is that. I don't think that's good for the house either. So we've got this couch I bought that reclines on both ends. This is a very bad idea, Brett. There's nothing good about it.

I might like it where this story's going. No, me neither. Stop. But I got these cool shelves ordered. This is a bad idea, too. To put some of my bourbons on that are really. hard to get. Somebody sent me an E.H. Taylor Rye last year.

There's the camera going. And I'm going to put that E.H. Taylor Rye up there with it. But it's becoming my favorite room in the house. And I used to never go in my dining room. And now I'm in this role-playing game. I don't think I've ever been in your dining room. Where is your dining room? Oh, I know.

You're going to find it now because you and are going to be drinking bourbon perched up on this couch. Yeah. We're going to be sitting there. We're going to sit there holding court making sure nobody comes in there with no role play. You and Brett and Freddie on, Brett's casting couch. now?

Your pork is. Oh, wow. Thanks off for Pat for letting me decide that my soon-to-be favorite room in my house is now getting torn down. I guess my favorite room would be my kitchen just for the fact that I'm always in there cooking something. You look like it. Oh, walked right into that one. It better be your office now that you got access to all that data. I just knew for sure, Freddie, like I knew just, I just knew that you were going to lose weight having COVID.

Like, I just mean, you couldn't taste nothing, so there's no need to eat. I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't breathe. It was kind of tough to do anything. Listen, if I get it, I'm going to eat a lot of broccoli and asparagus and stuff like that. I wish that my loss of taste only lasted. I wish it would have lasted like two months because I didn't want to eat nothing while I was, because there was no point. Megan's like, she's like, oh, I didn't get the everything bagels.

I got the plain bagels. I'm like, guess what? They're all plain at this point. Like, it doesn't really matter. You know? But like two days later, I had everything back. And I was like, well, great. Now I'm going to eat all the time and just sit here, do nothing for two weeks.

I'll take the atomic ones this week. Gluck gave me a great idea because he texts me right after I said it on Twitter that I had it. And he's like, you really need to do like just sit down and eat the most ridiculous stuff you can find and like film it and put it out for content. Oh, that's what I was saying. I was going to do it. Take a bite out of an onion. But then literally like before I could even do it, I have my taste back. I was like, well, I'm not doing that now.

The hell of that. But yeah, but that would have been fun for sure. and I wish I had it longer, so I could have lost some damn weight, but I didn't. I just knew you were going to come out of that deal skinny. Yeah, I just knew you're in a . Jeez. Oh, all right. TJ, what's your favorite room?

Man, it's probably in my office right now. That's where I do on my day trading. Pay them day trading. T.J. No, I will say this. It wasn't, it didn't used to be my living room, but it probably is now because my wife bought us a new couch, and it's from a crate and barrel maybe something like that that's some expensive couch yeah oh it's that day trading she bought it not me um yeah she uh bought this new couch and i would never i barely

even sat on my couch before and since we got this new one i'll watch all the bills games in there like i can it's super comfortable so that's probably my favorite room now didn't used to be what's your favorite room your nursery no she doesn't sleep in there yet we're working towards it probably the living room floor. What does she sleep? In our room. What? You're supposed to do that until six months.

You're crazy. Six months? Six minutes. No. Six minutes. Now she's gotten used to your smell and you're screwed. Yeah, you're done. You need to move her on out.

We were able to use that, you know that wedge sand they used to use them anymore? We always just wrapped her up and set her in that wedge thing and she didn't move all night. But now I guess they can twist and stuff and it's dangerous. There's all these rules that you have to fall out. That's terrible. Yeah, because they had them back with Indians and stuff too. All right. Well, thanks, Offerpad for ruining my day.

I love you guys. The good news is, Offerpad, we've done such a great job. They came back this year. They did. They love us. We love them. We love them a ton. We're going to love them even more tonight.

We love them even more tonight. Yes. Is there something? What? Wow. Keep the show on time. Hour in, you're starting to catch on. All right.

Let's jump in the Fast Lean, where we put the guys against each in a speed trivia competition. Let's see who can answer these racing, middle school, and other random trivia questions correctly. Why do you got to throw the middle school in there? Just so keep on big.

I hope they ask me how many stage points I got last weekend. Where'd you start Sunday? I got it. At big owls. TJ, you're at first. Oh, awesome. Joey Logano has finished in the same position in two of the last three Daytona 500s.

Which position is it? 17. I've just told him that. Still missed it. It wasn't. It was on there. How many Daytona Xfinity series season openers has Junior Mother Sports won in the last seven years? Three. What direction does the Nile River flip?

North. What is another name for an Academy Award? An Emmy. What number doesn't have its own Roman numeral? Seven? All right. We got one out of six. What was the Roman numeral question?

Zero. Oh. I didn't hear the question. What number doesn't have its own Roman numerals? Oh, okay, because I like Roman numerals. So Joey's finished fourth and two of the last three, five hundredths. J.R.M. won five in the last seven Xfinity openers. Oh, wow.

I like Roman numerals. And an Oscars in the name for Academy Award. Oh, it's close. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. I couldn't have differentiated. It was either one or the other. All right.

Brett's turn. Brett, you better know this first question. So Jeff Burton just sent me a video, and they're sticking needles in it. leg. Is that him yelling? I hope so. I hope it's him. Is he yelling?

This is why we can't finish on time. Brett. Do you pick her? I don't think that's the, I think that's a wrong video. Yeah, well, wrong video, Brett. I'm not really sure what was playing there. That's it. I'm not telling me he just made DBC.

Is he on your couch? Get out of. Shut up. All right, moving on. No. Hurry up. We got nine minutes. I got to get my daughter.

We got to babysit. Let's go. I do. Oh, sorry. I got to get it together over here. Okay. Better get this one first one. This first one right.

Ready? They're that hard? Ready? Go. Danny Hamlin has won two of the last three Daytona 500s. Where did he finish the year he didn't in? Well, that's cool crap. Oh, I know it.

Second. Close. How many consecutive Daytona Xfinity Series races has Chevy. Say that again? How many races have you one in a row at Daytona? In a row three. Name an ocean that is not the Atlantic or the Pacific. The balsamic sea.

I think that's how you say it. Okay. In the process of mummifying someone, what organ is left inside the body? Where are they cute? Don't say it. I don't think I can say it. Something else. Wrong.

I don't think I should say this. They're hard. I'll get it to you fine. That's right. How many moon phases does the moon have? Good luck. Moon phases? Four.

Damn, I felt confident about that. You also got one out of six. Denny finished third the year he didn't. He wrecked that. He and him and Bubba wrecked each other. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember that now. Oh, yeah.

You guys got to fight. Seven. I didn't get a second day. X-Fune series races at Daytona. Seven. You could have said the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, not the balsamic ocean. That's a lot of balsamic. That's a lot of integrate.

And the moon has eight phases. Oh, dang, I should have doubled it. Freddie, I can tell you're going to get all of these wrong. Thanks. If you get two, you win. I love the face. There's no chance. Answer those questions, there's no chance.

Hurry up, Freddy, I got to go. Go. I'm ready. Where did Bubba Wallace finish last year's Daytona 500? 15th. How many times did DLG win the season opening a spinning series race? Twice. What country invented T?

England. Name one secondary color. Green. Yeah. That's a complete guess. What numerical value results from two to the fourth power? Eight. Sixteen, I think.

Yeah, I was going to say 16. congratulations you won. As usual. That first question, where did you... That first question is complete bad ass. That is garbage. Just keep kissing his ass, Jason. I gave him harder ones.

The rest of that. You didn't? Just keep... DBC Picks. Kiss. Kiss. I know. Those were way easier than what me and Brett had.

DBC Pigs is back for a sixth season. This is the dumbest thing we've ever done. This thing I did. New defending champion. Whoop, whoop. I mean, kicked your ass in this stuff last year, too. Everybody I picked Rex. Who is where?

What? Who's this where guy? Cody. Cody, bro. Rick's kid. Yeah. Rick's boy. Oh, okay. Who's going first?

He's taking him? T.J. He should be sorry. He got for Daytona. Why is Alfredo noodle guy on here? Is he driving something? Yeah. Where have you been?

Full time. What's he driving? 38 full time. How the hell do you get that? Oh my gosh. Where have you been? I didn't know that. You tweet all the time.

I don't watch. I mean, honestly, like you are on Twitter. It is the off season. Fans know your life. That means don't follow NASCAR for me. So I did not know that goes. No. No.

He's on a select road courses. Well, he's on the list. That's another story we should have got to. So Alfredo is full time. Okay. All right. There's a guy running the 500 is not on there. Who?

Your boy. Oh. You got your spot. Casvrella. I'll take Ryan Newman. I will take Austin Dillon. Dang, y'all coming out with the big guns. I'm going to go with a guy that has no chance of winning.

I'm just kidding. Actually, he doesn't have a chance. Casaralla. Joey Case. Anthony Alfredo. What? You just found out he has a cop-dye. I think he just wanted to say his name again.

He just found out three seconds ago he's driving. All right. This is the guy I'm going with. Thank you to our incredible presenting sponsor, Offer Pat. And as always, thank you, everyone for listening. If you enjoyed the show, don't forget to tweet. Tell us, share, comment, leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. And don't forget to tell your friends.

We'll see you in Daytona. We won't be hard to find. No. We're in the same spot always. Apparently. Apparently you're going to see Freddie first. Yeah, I can't miss him. He's the only guy that gains weight during Corona.

Love you guys. We're out. Have you great week. Thanks for the first show. We'll see you more this year. Hopefully they'll love us back. Executive producer Mike Davis. This podcast is directed and produced by Jason Schult.

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