Door Bumper Clear - 205 - Trail of Money

Episode Date: March 8, 2021

After a thrilling race weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, T.J. Majors, Freddie Kraft and Brett Griffin cover all the drama from Sin City.Before diving into the events of all three races, Freddie details the struggles Bubba Wallace faced and why the team saw something that provided encouragement moving forward. While usually a lock for success at Las Vegas, Joey Logano struggled and T.J. discusses what happened. Brett is checking in from Myrtle Beach and has plenty of opinions after seeing everything go down on TV.Kyle Busch’s questionable spin from Friday’s Truck Series raised some eyebrows. Hear what the gang has to say about Busch’s response, how NASCAR handles intentional spins and why it brought out a caution.Mike Joy made headlines with a tweet essentially calling out Noah Gragson and all drivers who race with “daddy’s money.” The guys respond to Joy and explain why his comment targeting the JR Motorsports driver are unfair given the financial state of the sport.Kyle Larson returned to Victory Lane on Sunday. T.J. reveals if this victory surprised him or not, and everyone chimes in about how Larson has progressed since climbing back behind the wheel of a Cup car. Plus, is Hendrick Motorsports back? Freddie and Brett share insight into what may have contributed to the recent uptick in performance out of the HMS stable.The batteries dying on the radio is a spotter’s worse nightmare. Hear what the panel has to say in response to Ty Dillon’s Xfinity Series spotter saying his batteries died as the No. 54 car wrecked in Saturday’s Xfinity Series race.In Reaction Theatre, all three spotters hear it from the fans as they react to the weekend’s events. Plus, the guys give it back to some fans who think they know better than those in the industry.Find out what the crew did for their first jobs in Fast Lane and why Freddie’s surprised everyone. Later, Freddie gives his “What an Idiot” award to nearly every Cup team owner. 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.

Hey, what's up, guys. Freddie Crafts here. And today on Door Bumper Clear, we talk all things Las Vegas. Kyle Bush's questionable truck spin. Kyle Larson winning, a spotter changing batteries while his car crashed, reaction theater plus much more. Let's go. Nobody's listening, but I don't care. I'm on an episode of Door Bumper Clear. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors, Spotted to the 22 Cup car, the one, truck and almost a full house. We just can't seem to get it together. What's up everybody?

Brett Griffin, I'm here in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, coming to you from the Dirtle, spotter for Colleg Racing when they run the cup car. And Freddie, man, I was pulling for you yesterday. What happened? Pulling for me. That wasn't long. It's just, it didn't last, the cheering for me did not last very long yesterday. First two laps?

No, I think we got, we got past the comp caution. and then, I don't know, an O-ring pump out of the power steering pump blew out or something, and that was the end of our day. We were five laps down. We made up. What? We made up. No power steering.

He said it locked up. They said it on the broadcast and oil leaks. That never stopped kale. He basically, he went in the corner. They sent, like, we came down pit road, and he worked on it. I can't imagine going to the corner with no power sitting and be like. And then he came back out and he was running like probably, three-quarter throttle maybe and drove in a turn one and went straight up the racetrack and

I was like, oh boy, we're not going to be able to make many laps like this. And luckily the caution came out and we got to work on it and fix it. Yeah. So we only lost about five laps. So we made up 10 spots, which is kind of a big deal, you know, in that position. But yeah, just kind of bum luck for yesterday. But the car was fast. Speeding doesn't help. No, yeah. Well, that was him, of course, pushing his limits on the first that comp caution. But the car was fast once we got out there and everything fixed up. So it's encouraging. Hopefully we'll move forward and keep getting better.

I'm disappointed in Brett that he's in Myrtle Beach and did not use this opportunity to sing one of his favorite songs to recognize. There's too much cussing in that song. He never misses a chance to rap about Myrtle Beach and he just did. So that's disappointing. You should contribute to the swear jar for that. You can still call in. You can't beat a good Sunny Lefford song, man.

No, people that weren't around here in the early 2000s and stuff are never going to understand what that means. You remember the last time we saw Sunny Leifford in concert? Barely. Denny Hamlin won the Cup race. Elliot won the Exfinity race in Talladega. And so Freddie and I went to celebrate me and Elliot winning, and then Denny shows up celebrating the fact that he won.

and I think I've never seen so many fireball shots in my life that day. Where was that at? The rudder. Oh, yeah. Which is now the masculine hello sailor. That's the new name of the rusty rudder.

And that was also back when you could race on Sunday and get home in time for dinner and then go out. Yeah, I think this was a Monday or this was like, I know, was it Cinco de Mayo? Was this where the Cinco de Mayo? Cinco de Mayo started. We did used to race.

I actually got lost on a freaking boat that night. So I left. My buddy Travis picked me up and I said, hey, I'll be home around 8 o'clock. All right. So it's like 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I was like, I'll be home by 8. Travis is picking me up by boat. So Travis comes to pick me up and we end up staying way too late at the rudder. So we go to get on the boat and he puts the key in the ignition and he turns the key and it breaks. And he looks at me and I said, well, the good news is the boat's running. And he's like, well, that's true. I said, so all we got to do now is just get home. He's like, all right. So long story short, Travis didn't know the lake that well at night. Well, I didn't know that.

So when we left, I thought he knew where he was going after about a 30 minute boat ride. I said, hey, Travis, where are we at? He turned and looked at me. And I don't know if you've ever been on a lake at night, but it's a hard place to navigate if you're not familiar with it. He said, I don't know. And I said, well, when you came out, did we go right? Did we go straight or did we go left? He said, yeah, I don't know. And I was like, okay, well, we're screwed. So I just went late and down, went to sleep. Long story short, woke up when we hit his boat dock in the middle of the night, went and got in bed. I got home

to the next morning, that went over real well. I called Brett the next day, because it's normal to call and be like, oh, man, I'm hung over and I call him at like 8 o'clock, and he's like, I'm not to call you back, I'm almost home. I was like, what do you mean you're almost home? He said, yeah, I'm just getting home now. I said, oh, okay.

Long story, I'll talk to you later. That's not good. Your poor wife. Nothing like a good Cinco de Mayo party. All right, well, now that we, got that done. We still have to finish introductions. Hey, I'm Casey Boat, and I'm only here because Brett decided not to come. And we can't forget our lovely producer, Jason. Hey, what's up? Whatever, next person. Casey's giving me dirty looks already this morning because I'm wearing the wrong midget team shirt. I know. What is wrong with you? I've started this new deal

where I'm going to start wearing short track shirts, and the first person to send me a shirt this year was Tyler Corny. Well, I liked your shirt last week. Last week was good, Wachopedia. That's kind of what got me the ball rolling because I've seen some people like positive like oh it's cool for wakipedia so I was like you know what maybe I can turn this into something like bring attention to certain people so Tyler's the first one I know um Wyndham needs to send you a shirt windom will send me a shirt I told Wyndham that I don't want a shirt I want the big daddy like you know I'm talking about if you don't know this YouTube Chris Windham big daddy and it's a red skin tight suit that he's running around and calling himself Big Daddy and that's how

he got the nickname Big Daddy but yeah so sunshine was first he sent me a shirt I got to give a shout out to Rizzi, his former crew chief. He says he's a big fan of the show. He says the only two podcasts he listened to are Dober Clear and Call Our Daddy. So obviously he has his priorities in the line there with us. Clearly. Yeah, but every week, I see some over here on the couch already. So we're going to wear some shirts for some short track guys.

What's the other podcasts? Caller Daddy from Barstool. I've never heard of it. That's a good one. You've never heard of that podcast? You've talked about it. I figured you'd listen to it every week. No.

This is right up your alley. This is a disaster. It makes us look very tame. Oh. Take a listen then. But yeah, send them shirts in short trackers and if I like it, I'll wear it. If it fits, I'll wear it. Get him a.

That sometimes hard to do. Yeah. He's a medium. Yeah. Casey was like, like, give me a dirty look. I'm like, well, I would wear a Chad boat shirt, but the last one I have is a medium and I got it six years ago. I'm sorry, you still have that.

I don't think I still have. Is there, like, vomit all over it? You know what I did? I cut, I was going to wear it. I cut the sleeves off it. I was going to wear it to Brett's for, when we were doing them the virtual races we were doing them live feeds

because I figured I'd look like a redneck if I cut the shirt off and wore a bunch of shorts You look like a redneck No matter what you go Yeah that doesn't really Probably But yeah

So that was fun But yeah Shout out to sunshine Rude Windham send Freddy a shirt So it looks like It's summertime The way Freddy's dressed

It looks like TJ's off To a blizzard Today what are you wearing a coat Dude it was 29 degrees out this morning I wore I got pants on TJ's got shorts So under the table, it's a different story.

I don't want to see that part. I'm good. And your is, T.J. is like a windbreaker. So he thinks that he's going in like a storm. I walked outside. We got off the plane last night and I was like, shorts were a bad idea on the way. Oh, it was cold. It was cold.

It was warm during the day. It was cold last night. And it was cold this morning, too. I got down here, I got down here and I spent like $7,000 at a grocery store to feed all these kids. And I got everything I'm packed. And the one thing I need to make eggs and grits and everything that I made for breakfast is butter. I had no butter. So I had to get up this morning and go back and get butter.

You say butter really weird. Butter. I never buttered my eggs. All right. Well, anyways, how was Vegas? Oof. Yeah. Not good for me.

We knew that one. It was okay. I mean, we didn't run very well. We didn't. No, you didn't. We didn't have. We probably were going to finish seventh to eighth on a, on the, best we could have done, and we ended up ninth, so that's about where,

average, where we ran most of the day. Just normal, we just weren't that good. So I think coming out of the top ten is decent. It could have been a lot worse. We didn't have any penalties to take ourselves out or anything. So we were able to get everything we thought we could out of the day, and Honda Phoenix. It could have been a lot worse. You could have been in a Stuart Huscar.

Yeah, they were – I was really surprised to see, you know, Kevin. Kevin being, you know, that bad. I'm not sure what he was fighting. I didn't listen or anything. So we were having a restart, obviously last every restart and then come back through there. And the 14 and the 41 were awful. Like, I felt like they were terrible. Kevin was in front of us one time and had some damage.

He had like a tire rub. And you never know if that maybe knocked the crush panel loose or something. That is, you know, the underbody of these cars is huge. 41 was okay. I mean, I mean, the 41 was awful. I mean, once we got rolling, we were single five. Wow, we were, it took us a little while to catch him, and that was, we were running ninth when that was. So, I mean.

You sure it's the 41? Yeah. The 41, I think was dead last all race. It was the 41 and then the 48. He was in the 20s every time I saw the ticker. I'm just saying once he got spread out, I don't know what happened to get him there, but once he got spread out, he seemed to have okay speed by himself. I Corrie Lejoy passed him at one point, so I don't know.

Yeah. I mean, he was, I know Andy Houston was standing next to me spotting for him, and he was just irate pretty much the whole race. But it's just shocking to see as good as the four has been. been all year last year. Even the 10 had a lot of speed last year a lot of times and they were just non-factors all day yesterday. Yeah, that's weird because that's one of the tracks

the four was known to be super fast at with his package. Yeah, I think he had a little bit of damage maybe on his right front, but the other three guys, based on what I could see on TV as they were just way off on speed. Obviously Eric ended up getting in a wreck. I think Chase Briscoe's realized that he's not

in the best car in the field anymore like used to be an Xfinity series that could go out there. wear everybody out. I mean, Kevin won, what, nine races last year. He was the only driver to win, though, you know, and that kind of says something to me. I mean, you look back a couple years ago, Eric was winning, Kurt Busch was winning, Clint was winning, Kevin was winning. So as an organization, Stuart Hawks looked extremely strong. Last year, Kevin just looked really strong. So I think you're just kind of seeing that keep playing out. And look, man, they're going to have to get to work and get to work fast. The good news is we don't have mile and a half for a little while, right? I mean,

you got Atlanta, but Atlanta's its own animal in terms of grip, mechanical grip. So I think they'll have to get to work on the arrow piece because, CJ, it looked like to me, you guys were hauling the mail through the corner yesterday. Yeah, we might not have been personally, but we, the fast cars were, I mean, we weren't, we weren't like terrible off. I mean, we weren't just where we should have been. But, yeah, those cars are, we were three wide for the lead there for three laps straight. I don't know if you saw that part. That was, that was, I didn't, that's impressive to see three cars, stay three wide for three lap. straight like that for the lead.

I saw four wide a ton. Hands down the best three races I've ever seen back to back to back among all three series at the same racetrack. Las Vegas, I mean, outside of Speed Weeks when I go to Daytona, you know you're going to see four amazing races, five amazing races from Thursday to Sunday. If you had told me Las Vegas is going to be just like Daytona, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I'd have never believed you. Holy cow, every single series put on a phenomenal show.

if you're a race fan in that market, you better get your freaking phone out and get tickets immediately for this fall because that was awesome. Yeah, restarts are nuts, all the series. But it was, you just got different, like the bottom, the bottom's good, but you got the bumps,

you got the, once the tires were out a little bit, and there was a little bit of where it seemed like. You could tell a difference in tires. For sure. I'd like to see a little bit more, but, you know, it's still good to see guys where, you know, able to use the fence still a little bit, and stuff like that, so that's always good.

And, I mean, I thought the stands were packed. I think you couldn't even get tickets, which is impressive. Well, they, how many did they sell, like $15,000? I think they just sold that grandstand that was in front of us. So they were, you know, they were kind of compact. But I think it was, yeah, somewhere between $15,000 and $20,000, I think. There were quite a few, like, industry members who reached out to me asking for tickets and couldn't get them. So, yeah.

Well, any stories from the strip? I know since Brett wasn't there, Freddie, you might have stayed out of trouble. Uh, nope, that's not true. Yeah. Um, it was tough. Like, so we, I only stayed on the strip Friday night. And, uh, like, people are now, everybody's back in Vegas, but all the restaurants and bars and stuff are like 25% percent capacity. So you can't get in anywhere unless you have, you know, unless you made reservations two days in advance.

So like the chandelier bar that we hang out a lot, couldn't get in reservations only. So we bounced around to a couple different bars, couldn't get in. And then, um, hung out in the sports book. met the Zane Smith family hung out with him for a while that was fun and just me, Doug Campbell just hung out, Tony Herschman

just kind of no real trouble not nothing on Brett's level when I'm normally a little bit I've never had trouble getting in anywhere you should have called me

yeah you might have actually had trouble unless we called in Thursday to get these reservations but even Saturday night

you try to go dinner somewhere you go we went at like 6 o'clock we went to go in a few places nope yeah What's your weight?

earliest now would be about 8.30. I'm like, okay. We tried to go to a place. Me and Tyler went to go to a place for lunch, and it was like outdoor on the trip, like outside on the trip. And it was over an hour and a half weight or something like that for lunch.

So I was like, well, okay. So boring. I was expecting some stories. There's nothing to do. How much weight do you lose, Freddie? I'm down 11 pounds, as a matter of fact. That's strong. How about you?

I'm probably up 11. Between the character. Carolina baseball game, snow skiing last week, and now I'm at the beach, man. You might be breaking even. Are you, like, officially retiring? Because you are doing everything possible. He was retired before this. I don't know what you think's changed, except for you don't got to go on Sunday.

Well, you are living your best life. Cool. Let's do it. Oh, look who it is. Hey, good morning, Shrek. Who is this stranger? As he, like, tries to snook in the house. Yeah.

Listen. Hey donkey. He's even wearing a green shirt. And Jason's face lights up. Jason's tails wagon. Get you a girl that looks a donor like Jason looks at him. All right. Casey Lynn.

I think we should move on. That might be the funniest thing you've ever said. He's going to. Or who said Jason's tails wagon? That was right. Oh, sorry. He's going to cut all of this out of the show. No, he needs to leave it in.

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paying attention? I'm not just reading my notes that I put up. So sorry. Uh-huh. Smart guy. I mean, why would you say anything but nope? I think we learned last year that if you hint that you might have done this on purpose, it cost you roughly $50,000, give or take. Was it last year or the year before?

It might have been a year before. Yeah. Yeah, because it was in the garage when there's people around. Listen, I don't have any issues with this. The guy's only there to win the race. He's got a flat tire. His only shot to now win the race is spin himself out.

And while the sanctioning body continues to show you that they're not going to do anything about this, there's no reason not to go and spin yourself out. So kudos to Kyle Bush. Gave himself a chance to win the race. I just thought he had a flat tire and lost it. Okay. Nope. Just like you're never blocking.

Brett. I'm talking about. Nope. My favorite part of this. whole situation was actually that Austin Dillon told the fan base the truth. He said, wow, it was amazing how much car control Kyle had running wide open up on the banking to not wrecked. And when he slowed down and got on the flat part of the apron, he proceeded to rent, which tells us it was intentional. Kyle Bush's comment, nope, I mean, spot on. He learned from Bubba. You don't

run your mouth to some $50,000 fine. But at what point are we going to let this continue? Freddie said he's only there to win the race. That's all the more reason to not pro the caution. All he did was went down to the bottom, did a donut. Stay under green. Don't stop the whole freaking race and the whole series for this one guy. It was frustrating as a fan to watch that play out because you knew, and Austin said on TV it was intentional. They got to do something for this.

They cannot let us keep happening with these guys. Then you saw Cendrick the next day had the exact same thing play out. He does the honorable thing, and he actually gets to the apron. And he catches a caution as a break, one of which he didn't create. So one guy did it right, one guy did it wrong. Mike Joy's tweet from last week Jason you want to read that? In the donkey's voice please

I don't even know how to do it Who's the actor? Practice it for next week Yeah yeah Mike Joy tweeted last week Our sport has always had funded drivers funded in quotes But it's high time

A few of these privileged kids Powered by Daddy's pile of cash Realize the whole sport doesn't exist just to make their dreams come true Take some time to learn from those Who've worked their way to the top Brett, spot on, spot off. And maybe give some background as to why he said this, his reasoning behind it.

I mean, look, it certainly seemed to me that this tweet was directed at Noah Gragson. And it seemed to me that Mike Joy was taking a shot, essentially saying Daddy's money paid for Noah Gragson to live out his dreams that Noah's never worked for anything or done anything. And Mike's certainly entitled to his opinion. and Mike's obviously been around the sport and seen a lot more that I've seen. But the reality is every single driver in this sport at the Cup series level has a trail of money behind them from somewhere. And the majority of those people started off racing on Daddy's money. It's just the way it is.

I mean, Clint's dad owned a record service, Elliot Sadler's dad on car dealerships. Dale Jr's dad is Dale Earnhardt. If you're trying to tell me that a lot of these Cup guys right now started out at the lower feeder series and found their own sponsors and worked their way up, hey, I'll buy it. I'll buy it, but I don't think that's the case at all. I look at NASCAR Cup Series racing in general, and here's the reality of it. I have a kid that's eight years old. I can afford to go buy a baseball, a baseball glove, and a pair of cleats, and we can go

play baseball. And he's a good little baseball player. I cannot afford to buy a go-car, tires, a trailer, a truck to pull the trailer, a mechanic to work on it, and do that every single week. for 40 weeks a year. That is very expensive. All of these guys have a trail of money behind him. Where I'm most disappointed in this tweet is, if you're going to sub-tweet somebody, just say their name. Like, I don't know what you mean by privileged kids, because privileged kids, what is Chase Elliott? What is Joy Lagano? What is Ryan Blaney? I can keep going down the top 20 in points

in the Cup series, and they all came from the exact same thing. So I'm spot off on the fact that he did this tweet and didn't say specifically Noah Graxson go work on a race car. You'll appreciate it more because that's what he was trying to say. TJ, what do you think? Man, it's, Brett's got a good point. There's even the, you know, coming up through, it takes money to race no matter what, whether it's a go-kart, whether it's a late model, street stock. It costs money to race.

And whether they start there, which most of them do start at the lower series, but they start off with a lot of great equipment. And that's not the way, like, when I started racing, I didn't, we worked on my car in my backyard, and we couldn't work on it if it was raining because we didn't have a garage. It was literally on four blocks in my backyard in the grass. Had one grain scale and three other blocks when we were going to scale it. It took us like three and a half hours to scale the car because we'd have to do the math every time we wait each corner. I don't think many have to do things like that, but it's, you know, not their fault that they're in that situation.

but, you know, I do appreciate the kids more that put more time in and appreciate it and don't just rip fenders off because they're mad at somebody or tear the car up because they're not the ones that have to go back and fix it. Whenever, you know, a lot of, when you short track racing, like the locals, they out, when they tear their stuff up, they got to fix it and it costs them money. And a lot of guys don't, they can't get that new fender every week. When I would rip the right front of the late model off or dent the right front fender, I had to go there and take the fender off, take it over the eight shop, and roll an English wheel because we weren't,

Del Jr., couldn't afford a new one. But it was good to learn lessons like that, and a lot of these kids don't have them, they don't, they just haven't had to do a lot of that stuff. So there's kind of, I see both sides of it, but I don't, I don't think it's their fault a lot of times that that's, you know, the situation they're in. Yeah, I mean, and like Brett said, everybody's got a trail, and everybody's, everybody's dad can carry them to X amount of level. You know, Bubba's dad funded his racing career up until we got to the K&N series. And then, you know, he had a, we got the diversity deal. But that was as far as Bubba's dad could take Bubba.

You know, somebody's dad might get him a super late model and that's it. Or somebody's dad could pay for an arc ride. Like, you know, who knows, but like Noah's dad can fund him pretty much anywhere he wanted to go or no his family anyway. So that's not Noah's fault. But like you said, you know, it's, we talked about it last week. Noah is very polarizing. And he makes himself easy for people to take shots at him like this because of his attitude sometimes and the way he treat it. And even like just going back at the end of the week and listening to him say, I would have done anything differently.

I mean, nothing. You wouldn't have done nothing differently? I think you would probably should have done something differently if you wanted to win the race. But, you know, it is what it is. And it's like you said, it's guys that, you know, yes, there's some guys that may put in more time. There's guys that might work harder. But, you know, they're all in the same boat. They've all come from some kind of privileged background.

And there's no... Mike gets paid, Freddie. Mike Joy gets paid to cover these drivers that he's insulting. Like if you and I got out a pen and a sheet of paper right now, we went down the list. The majority of guys in the Cup series have wealthy fathers. Oh, 100%. And there's nobody. And there's, I mean, if you, I'll, I mean, I'll put this across Cup and Xfinity.

Like, reach out to us. If you are the guy that bought your own mini stock and went racing on Saturday nights and worked your way up to Matt Ladder or street stocks and then local late models, whatever it is, and earned your own sponsors because I don't know of that guy in the sport. You know what I mean? I know guys have worked up them levels, but it's usually with some kind of family money, and then they either get a sponsor along the way or hit on something right. But there's, I mean, you know, people are going to bring up Kyle Larson.

Well, Kyle Larson was funded by a lot, you know, a lot of people behind him, you know, their A Brues, a lot of people help Kyle Larson along the way. Christopher Bell had help along the way. You know, these guys, there's nobody out there that doesn't have some kind of trail of money behind them. You know, you want to call them entitled, whatever it is, but it's, you know, they've earned it, or it's a family deal, but, you know,

I don't understand going after these guys when it's not like, no is not the only one by any means. It's not, it just might not be as broadcasted, but there are guys that have investors from when the time they were little that is just, they're just not promoted, or their names are not on the car. I could name quite a few. So I think he is just more vocal, and so it comes out in a different light, I would say.

Every driver has a trail a little bit of money behind him somewhere to start, to get to where they are today. Like there's something, like what Freddie said, though, some of them can only carry him so far. So along the way, you have to build them relationships and make, you know, impress people and do things like that. And that's kind of like what Ross has done, in my opinion. He didn't have the most money of all the kids coming up. He had a little bit, but he impressed the right people. I agree. Something to be said about that.

Kyle Larson wins in his fourth race back after being reinstated. Spot on, spot off, T.J. Spot off from my Twitter last night. But I don't think, honestly, I don't think this is really a surprise in anybody. Kyle Larson is obviously, one of the guys that we think that can go and get in any car, Formula One car, Sprint car, Indy car, and he's going to be fast. And I think we talked about it. I picked him to win Homestead, but he got in there and I knew he'd be fast. I mean, those cars are quick there and he was,

that car was so fast. He could run a 10th better than second whenever, almost whenever he wanted to. So you put a, you put a talent like Kyle in a car that like that, like that he's going to be. really hard to beat. So congrats to them guys and Tyler Mon. I don't know if that's in here. Getting his first win. Wasn't even really supposed to be in that job and here he gets his first cup win. That's always exciting.

You know, I don't, Freddie hasn't really experienced a point win yet, but you know, Brett has. And it's a big deal, man, to get your first win and be in that situation. So congrats to them, guys. I just think we're really in trouble when he figures his package out because as good as he's doing right now

learning it, I mean, we're going to be screwed when he figures it out. We're in trouble for the next handful of races. I'm telling you, that car yesterday was unbelievable. He could go anywhere he wanted. He could turn down, turn underneath somebody anytime he wanted, turn up, go around somebody anytime he wanted. It was, you could tell after a couple laps once I got singled out, he was. Could you tell that, Brett? He was the guy to beat. And I'll tell you what, it was really impressive to watch how dominant that car was. We saw the same thing the day before with AJ Almondinger on long runs again, a dominant car.

And he just was shredding the racetrack up, man. But the thing about Kyle, it kind of reminds me, man, of when Kevin Harvick left RCR for Stuart Haas Racing. And when he got to Stewart Haas Racing, he set the world on fire because he got out of fast cars and got into very fast cars. And I think Kyle Larson has just done the same thing. I think everybody's going to look back and say, wow, this kid's always been this good. He just didn't have the equipment to show it.

And now that he's got the equipment under him, looked at it. The other thing that I thought was kind of cool about this weekend is we're in a brand new season. And three of the four guys that have won already are in brand new relationships with their crew chief. It's a brand new driver crew chief pairing. When you look at Rudy and Byron, when you look at Larson, when you look at the, who was the other winner? McDowell. A bell. Bell.

Bell. No, Bell. Yeah, Bell and his crew chief, right? So, like, man, I don't ever recall a season where we had three weeks in a row where the winner, the winning driver had a a brand new crew chief that year. Like for that to kind of be playing out, I think it just says we may see a whole lot of winners this year. And those guys that are back there riding around wanting to be 14, 15, 16th,

and points, they're in trouble. If you recall this time, around this time last year, would you, I mean, people said he will never be back in NASCAR. I can't remember what you all thought, but do you think by this, like, right now where he already has a win? I think we all said it'd be back. Yeah, we knew. This year?

He's way too, too, yeah. We pretty much. We knew he wasn't to be back last year, but you knew he was, he's way too talented not to be there. And you knew somebody at some point was going to give him an opportunity, sponsorship or not, obviously. And I saw an interesting tweet from Lannie Castle where he was like, you know, there's some sponsors sitting on the fence all offseason. Like, you know, we want to jump on this guy, but, you know, maybe not. Now he's kind of forcing their hand. Third point's been fast every race, probably be higher in points if he didn't wreck late at the road course.

Yeah. He might even be leading him. Yeah, I think he's probably won the race. Yeah. He was probably going to win the race, yeah. So, you know, I mean, just an incredible start to the year, and this could potentially drive up sponsor dollars, which was the big concern about getting him back in the car.

But like you guys said, awesome for Tyler Mon, Cliff Daniels, his first win as a crew chief, I believe. So that's great for them guys. And, I mean, looking at it, by my math, we've got three out of the four winners. We're not in the playoffs last year. So you're going to see a shake-up to that final 16, I think, this year. one thing that you were talking about there that I don't think many people could notice is I saw the nine do it and I saw the five do it 24 as well

they could go into turn one in like two and a half three lanes up and turned down in the middle of the corner like wherever they wanted to did you know like we could not do that no like it was they were legit like like look like RC cars wherever they wanted to go in the corner we were like we were struggling middle of the corner like we were having some handling issues and those guys we couldn't hold a off. I mean, there's just, when you can go in up top and turn down before the middle of the corner and then just go wherever you want, that's tough to beat. So that five. Hendrick Motorsports is back, man. It's been a long time since Hendrit Motorsports has looked as good as they look these first few weeks. And we're off to Phoenix where literally Chase Elliott, I think, could have lapped the field at the last race of the year last year. So it'll be interesting to see what plays out there because the DJ's point, those cars are fast. They're turning. And I've got all for pad this week. We've got a big sweep,

man, I'm going out to Phoenix to host those guys Offerpad on Denny's car I'll be watching from right under you guys I'll come see you on a roof for a race start Bring you some ice cold beverages and cookies Before you get off of this topic Brett, when do you think At what point?

What was a turning point for the Hendricks speed here lately you think In the last, maybe the last five races last year In the first few this year? Hey man, I hate to say this, Freddie But I think it's ECR engines I think when you look at the swap that happened right there. And it really started around the playoffs when Hendr started tapping into that

ECR horsepower. I think those guys forming that alliance for this motor program puts them on the same field with the Roushates engines and the Toyota engines. And, man, Hendricks back. I mean, I think they realized they were at a deficiency on horsepower. And Mr. Hendricks, a smart guy. And when he has a problem, he's going to fix it. He fixed it.

I think what started this as well was the new nose. When they got that new nose beginning of last year, I think it was. I think they fine-tuned that throughout the year. That new nose was pretty big. It's got a lot more down force on it compared to their old one. Yeah, you've seen last year, I think, like Brett was talking about, we knew this kind of towards the end of last year. This was going on.

You know, the new nose obviously helped, but then they kind of lost a little bit of speed. I don't know if they took something away in the middle of the year. They didn't really have the same speed they started the year with. Yeah. But then towards the end of the year, playoffs, once we got to the mile, the first mile and a half in the playoffs, we had heard that maybe the nine and the 24,

the guys that were in the playoffs were running legit just straight up ECR motors for that race and they started taking off and at the same time Austin Dillon started taking off so you don't know if that was maybe some note sharing like you know all right you know we'll run your motors you give us some body you know body help here so it was you know it was a good collaboration from helping each other

because they both got faster at the end of the year there and they've both been carrying it on pretty well but them hend your cars this year are stout to say the least they've won three at the last five races no denying that They know how to, I mean, they know how to find straight-line speed is why they've been on a poll for the 500 for, what, three years now, right? Yeah.

Spot on, spot off. Eric Jones scores a top 10 in the 43 before Bubba Wallace does so in the 23. Ready? Spot off, man, the hell with them guys. I'm just kidding. That 43 was a missile yesterday, man. And we were pretty good there last year, but like drop of the rag, he started deep because they had a problem at Homestead. And he drove up to, I think he was in the top 15 before the end of the first stage there.

So kudos to them guys. I love J.B., Jerry Baxter. He's our adopted grandfather. So it was good for them. And we were solid there last year. We ended up getting a six-place finish, I think, with a little bit of strategy at the end. So the car is good there last year. You go back to your notebook and just run a little bit better.

Unfortunately, we didn't have the luck we needed yesterday. I think we probably potentially could have run in the top 10 if we didn't have any problems. But we'll never know. But good for them guys. I'm happy for Jerry. Happy the guys at 43. Pretty tight with all them guys still. So it was good to see them run good yesterday. T.J.

Spot on for them guys. Good run. I probably, I saw this going differently myself. But, you know, solid run. Like Freddie said, they were good there last year. And it was, it's good for them. Good for Eric and them to get a good race under their belt now to build off of and go to the next one. Yeah.

I mean, I think you got to look at the. Bubba Wallace piece here and spot off this statement, the fact that Eric Jones gets top 10 before Bubba does. And look, man, it takes time. I mean, we just talked about, you know, new driver, crew chief pairings going out and winning a race. Well, that's not what Bubba's in. Bubba's in a brand new race team and in a situation with a new driver crew chief pairing. So spot off for it being Bubba. Spot on, though, for the 43 car, big deal. All right. Spot on, spot off. Ty Dillon Spotter in the Xfinity Series race claims his battery died.

and was changing batteries when his driver crashed. TJ. I think Brett should go first on this one. Man, I got to tell you, when I first heard it, I thought there's no way this is possible because the radio that I used for 20 plus years warns you when it's about to die. And why would anybody else use anything other than the radios

that would warn you when they're about to die? Then when the second thing is, when your radio dies on Channel 1 without any warning, you hear it because we listen to our songs. I'm assuming that Drew Herring listens to himself. And essentially what that means is we have one radio we talk with and another radio gives us feedback. So when we push that little button and we don't hear anything, we instantly panic.

And if I had been doing this and it's easy for me to say this because I'm a veteran spotter, I would have taken my other radio, flipped it to Channel 1, and I would have used that button to continue spotting because the last thing that you can do on a restart is be absent. And if you're absent, you see what it happens. It cost a huge wreck. So I found out later from Freddie that Drew was using a different radio, which did not alert him that he was not able to continue to spot, which that's stupid. I wouldn't do that. But then he made a huge error when he didn't go use his second radio.

So I think this is a situation where Drew has a lot of inexperience on the roof. This is his first year up there. He didn't know what to do and he panicked. And I don't think those radios are easy to maneuver in terms of changing batteries anyway. and he obviously was a huge deficiency to his driver and he got him wrecked. But I bet you in the future if this happens, he'll do things a lot differently. I love Drew Harry. He's a great dude, obviously a racer, a very talented race car driver.

But man, you cannot put yourself in a position to do this because he just ruined the race for Ty Dillon and that race car and that race team. And man, you got to show up to work, ready to do your job. And if the battery wasn't all the way charged or if it was all the way charged, it does. It denied, and he didn't spot, and he wrecked his race car. TJ. I got to go spot off. This is just something that you can't have happen. Obviously, we ran the Daytona 500, and that was just the Xfini race.

And surely you would have had to change the battery in the Daytona 500 at some point. So, you know, he should have been aware of the situation, because I'm sure he's had to change the battery at some point this year. I would hope so. I mean, I would think anyway. I think, yeah, this is just stuff that. and this, like you said, an experience is a spotter kind of. You got to be aware of these things.

It always seems like the only time a radio battery ever goes dead is on a restart. Oh, 100%. And I swear there's something up there that just knows when you, I gring and green, beep, like, are you serious? You got to be kidding me. And so they never just decided to beep on a long run when everything's spread out and you can swap a battery on it straightaway really easily. No, it never works like that.

It's always on a restart. So I think the radio is fixed now. I think you can have them radio reprogram so they beep. So hopefully that's an expensive mistake. Yeah, I mean, just so the backstory is JGR as a company uses Kenwood radio. All of us, I think, or 95% of us, use the Motorola X-600. it. And like Brett said, it beeps. It gives you a warning when you're down to a bar or something. So, you know, even when it starts beeping, you've got a few laps to change it. But, you know, it's

just one of these deals where I looked at Drew's radio, or Stevie Reeves had been having the same issue leading up to this race. And they were trying to get it figured out where Stevie said, same thing in the middle of the run, you know, I forget, at Homestead, I guess. It was just, you know, my battery, like the radio just quit working. He said, and then there was no warning, no nothing. So then Stevie had them add the radio didn't even have a display for the battery like ours does. You know what I mean? We're like our our EX 600s have a little battery on there like your phone would where there's a couple bars that work its way down. And this thing didn't even have one of them. So you're in like no man's land and you got to realize that going into it. But, you know,

and I talked to Lambert a little bit about it. And he said the batteries, the output on the Kenwood's a lot higher. So the batteries don't last as long. He said it's probably a hundred laps less If you, you know, head to head, you know, with the EX-600 battery versus that one. So I can understand why it went dead. You know, and I think that, again, in an experience, Drew's thinking, yeah, I had to change it in the 500, but it's an Xfinity race. I should be able to get through the Xfinity race. And he got to the end. I think there was only 15, 20 to go when this happened, whatever it was.

But like Brett said, it's just an experience on his part. You know, obviously the easiest thing to do is I don't switch the channels. I just switch my ports on that right side because it's the same channel. So I just pop one port out, put the other one in, and now I'm back on. channel one. I still have my channel two to talk to the crew chief. But yeah, just, you know, I hate it for Drew. Like Brett said, he's a great guy, good buddy of mine, and just got caught up in the, in the no man's land and kind of panicked a little bit. And like Brett said, the R.EX-600, you can pop a battery in and out of that thing in three seconds. I haven't looked yet, but I heard

there's, you know, more intricate parts on that Kenwood where it's a little bit harder to get changed out. So just done. Here's the thing, man. So last year, Stuart Hoss came to me and they said, hey, we got this new high-tech radio we want you to use. And I put it on. And And the very first lap, we were at Daytona, we rolled out for practice. And I was like, I hate this radio because it had an echo in it, right? So you got to find what works and you got to stick with it. Drew manned up right here and he owned it, right? He has not tried to run from it.

He's told the truth about it. Hey, my radio died. I first didn't believe it, Freddie, because I would never, ever spot with a radio that's not going to warn me that it's dying. So when he said, my radio died, I was like, oh, that doesn't happen. How can that happen? Obviously, it did happen. So spot on to him for man and up. But Drew, man, you got a lot of peers up there.

You got questions. You need to ask the veterans how to handle those situations and problem solving because what you did didn't work. I got to give him credit. I don't know if you saw it yet, but did you see his retweet of your tweet yesterday? Yeah, I saw it. Brett said, who's our leader this week for one idiot? And Drew retweeted it with a guy raising his hand. Yeah.

He never, in Drew's defense, he never should have been given a radio. He shouldn't have been ever put in that situation. I think so what happened here was Clayton had all his own stuff. So everybody asked this question all the time. Who has the radio? Are they somebody else's radios? So I own all mine. I don't know about you.

But I guess Clayton had his stuff from Furniture Row. So he brought his stuff with him to do the 19 and then left and took his stuff with him. So they had to get all new stuff. And the new stuff they got is a little bit different than what they had gotten for Lambert and Hirsch and them guys. So now they're trying to work the bugs out, and unfortunately this is a costly mistake. It's a $150,000 a bug.

Yep. Spot on, spot off. NASCAR selected the best road course racers in Chase Elliott, Brad Kislauski, and Martin Trucks, Jr. for the tire test at Koda. Brett. Did Tyler not see Brad run Daytona, road course? I think, look, I know where Tyler is coming from. He wants to be the guy down there filling out the tire and getting first dibs on the racetrack.

And I think it's very unfortunate that some of those highly successful road racers got to do that. But if you're good year, you want feedback about the tire. Who's going to give you better feedback? Quinn Huff or Martin Truex Jr. Right. So I understand where Tyler's coming from. Unfortunately, we need good year to take the best tire option that we can have available. And I think those drivers probably give you that ability to do that.

Yeah, I mean, you can't, as a tire test, you can't just make it. Obviously the answer, everybody's going to say, oh, you should have just made it open test for everybody. But you can't do that because you don't know what tire you're running. Good Year's bringing different option tires to test out there. So you can't bring enough of every tire for the whole, you know, whoever wants to show up, one team per organization or something. And then package, too.

They were working on the package to see which package is better. So you need the guys that know what they're doing. You don't want to stick a guy that's already chasing his tail on a road course trying to figure out what package and what tire to run. So I agree that, you know, while it'd be nice, if we had a, you know, everybody got a chance to go test now, maybe not them guys go or something. But, yeah, with what you're trying to accomplish that? You need the best guys out there.

From my understanding, too, there wasn't any team data on the cars. Maybe there was. I don't, I don't think the teams were allowed to do stuff like that. It was strictly, you know, a test for the good year and them, and they weren't there that long either. I also think we have practice there. We do. Can I just say that there's a really easy solution here. We can take and make this a really fun event.

We can use retired drivers for this. So what they should have done is taking Jimmy Johnson, taking a guy from Fox, which is Clint Boyer. He just got out of these cars and go get freaking Jeff Burton, who is in the NBC booth, or go get Dale Jr. Take one guy from each network because they're going to be the ones commentating and speaking to these cars as we're watching these races. And take a guy like Jimmy Johnson that's a badass that just got out of the car. You don't have to give these guys an upper hand, which is what Tyler Redick has an issue with, and he's absolutely right about it. But we're trying to develop the tire.

Like Freddie said, we'll go to these places Casey and they'll say, hey, we're going to go out and run five laps on this set, three laps on this set, ten laps on this set. Let's qualify run on this set. Like, Goodyear tells you exactly what you're going to do, and they limit what changes you can make to the cars because they're trying not to give these teams and drivers an advantage. But at the end of the day, these drivers got reps on Coda before. else did and they are already at an advantage and we hadn't even got there yes to tj's point we have practice but while everybody else is out there getting acclimated to the track and their rhythm and their

memorization of where where the apexes are and all these corners these guys already know that and i do believe that reddick's right on that it is BS and there is a way to fix it and i just told you out to do it well brett is always right so there are a list of drivers though i mean David regan clint boyer jimmy all these guys are sitting there that could go and do it they'd probably It would do it. Good idea. First one ever. We interrupted this door bumper clear podcast to give you this great important message from filter time.

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that. Hold my case of. fucking beer. Can NASCAR fix this, please? This is stupid. I don't disagree. Next one. I know y'all kept getting confused, mainly Brett, but did Joey think we were in Phoenix as well? Because I don't remember him, like, being a factor at all in anything. I don't know. It's time you all clap back at the Dillner download. Y'all are taking easy on them.

Y'all need to bring the heat. I like it. Somebody asked me a spotter question, and I said something about Phoenix. And they were like, hey, we're in Vegas. I was like, dang, I don't even know what track we're going to this week. We did Lisa Laps. We just weren't up there for the win. That's all.

You guys sucked. That was my DBC pick. You suck. It happens. That's probably what. And that Dylner download sucks. What a terrible shit. Call number three.

I don't care what anybody says. I love watching Jason's Man Crush Cal Bougy racing this truck series. Watching him come from the back twice is pretty amazing. and this dude can really drive. And that's why NASCAR didn't do nothing about it because they want to show. Jason, was that your roommate? I think.

Honestly, that was Jason. I just think he had one of their voice disguises. Yeah, that voice disguiser thing. He just smoked a cigarette and made his voice for that nice and rasque. I like how you said Kyle Bougie, too. You really got creative. Good job, Jason. I don't get it.

Call number four. Hey, Freddy. If Denny can do no wrong, how come he can't get you guys an engine that doesn't blow up every fucking week? Maybe him or MJ should pony up some money and get you guys an engine like the rest of JGR. I'm really confused. We haven't had a motor problem yet that I'm aware of.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe he saw you at the bar in Vegas. Right before you blew yours. Oh. Maybe you were talking about the other kind of motor. Next one. Hey, T.J. You requested all the Joey Lugano fans.

So the Calvary has arrived, but Cody Ware is a g-a-a-a-a-a- idiot. I don't know how someone that terrible gets out onto the track. I mean, the guy couldn't even drive a damn go-cart. So those guys shouldn't be allowed on the track. Peace. That sounded like Calcane, Casey Cain's brother. A bit a little bit, yeah. So the backstory behind this, did you see it?

With a handful of laps to go in the race, right after the last pit stop, maybe what was that, 20, 30, 20, 30, 20 to the end? Yeah. We're Pat, we just catch Bowman, and we're just, we're racing, and we're trying to make a pass in three and four, and Cody wears on the bottom. Well, Bowman gets by him, and we're just getting on the outside of him, and he just starts coming up, like, we're not even there, and he about runs us right into the fence off of four.

And, like, I honestly thought we were wrecking. So that's where this comes from. They weren't. Minimum speed was questionable again yesterday. My question is, like, there's so many guys that go down to the corner and they just run that line where you don't know exactly where they're going to go. And we've had this happen before with obviously Kyle Bush into one. But, you know, like, why not just run the bottom and be out of the way? Because when you run up the racetrack, guys need the racetrack up off the corner with their momentum and stuff.

And when you're right in the way like that, that's when it becomes, that's when you're in the way. If you're just rolling around the bottom and everybody can kind of go around the top and do things like that, and it just makes it a lot easier. But this was a very, very close call. It looked like Cody had a handling issue there, and we almost paid a rest.

That analysis, TJ, when you're in the way like that, you're in the way, maybe the best analysis you've ever given. That was pretty solid. Well, I mean, you wasn't lying. You don't want to break your motor. These cars are momentum, man. When you have to lift, you're in trouble. And when you run up on a car,

Denny caught one when he was leading the race at one point off of turn four, I can't remember what corner was, but that's a bad spot, man, when you got to lift off the corner. It just gives the guy behind you a run that he didn't really do anything to get, you know? It takes a half a lap to get everybody to get the momentum back up. Most time a spot too. Yeah, for sure. Next one is from Jamie.

Well, T.J., I guess things are so much different now. The only thing different is that old Kyle Larson's in a Hendrick car, and he laid it to that. Bad ass. You suck. Again, hard to disagree with. It's not surprising. I mean, I will say that you put Kyle Larson in a car that's the fastest car in the field. He's going to win the race. I mean, he should win the race.

Do that guy say, you suck? Yep. He said you suck, yeah. I mean, I picked him to win Homestead. What do you have to say back to that guy? He said, you suck. Dude, he's... Never mind.

The jacket's coming off, blood pressure's getting hot. No. Listen, I've learned the tune, I've learned the tune guys like that out since... Since you changed teams? Yeah, since about 2018. Your, uh, Jamie, your comments falling on deaf ears here, so... I don't appreciate it. Yeah.

Yeah, I was engaged with a... position assistant at some point and this this guy tweeted and said you know brett you wish you made as much money as she does i was like man these people they're so knowledgeable like they have no idea what they don't know that's true that was funny jamie you don't know shaman that's what i'm trying to get you to say they don't know what they're talking about yeah jamie you're just you're just pointing out the obvious kind of like the guy says we blew motors every week yeah hey jamie why don't you call back and tell us who's going to win next week since you know everything I'll tell you what, with 10 to go, I knew Larson was going to win.

I think I knew it 200 to go. No, you get my reference. I know. First of all, I wouldn't be a true Canadian if I didn't apologize for my cussing of bratt-tout last week. I'm sorry, but you said no cussing. Well, I just felt like it. I think we need to get rid of this 550 horse package. We've got it.

I hate to give T.J. credit here because his ego is already big enough as it is. strip the damn spoilers off let's have 750 horsepower let's let her eat tater chip hollum is that the first Canadian holler in history

that might it would have been better if he did like a holla hey holly let her eat tater chip is that what the fuck he said yeah that's your boy

there's a swear jar here you might be virtual but just keep that in mind yeah all right I'll vimmo it to you my account please Thanks. I don't even have that. That guy's right, though.

That guy's right, man. The Canadian has a point. Let's knock the spoiler off and put the horsepower back in him. Well, these are always a classic. To leave an audio message 24-7, go to anchor.fm backslash door bumper clear and click the message icon. We'll play the best ones each week on the show. Offerpad. Question of the week.

What was the process like picking out your current? home. Did you look at a bunch of different ones before choosing this one? Did you build it? Tell us. Brett. Man, I was living in Denver, North Carolina and decided to move to Moresville because my kids were so busy and Moresville and Highway out there. And Highway 1-50 sucks in case any of y'all have never been to Moresville, do not ever get on River Highway because it is terrible. And I actually looked at about 60 houses before I settled on the one that I bought. And, you know, but I'm looking for a house with three kids and my sister lives with me.

She's in a wheelchair. So it's not easy to go out there and just find the right home. But we did. And we knocked a couple walls down, did some remodeling. And Freddie helped me move with my fish tank. And here we are. The hell with that fish tank. We did the same thing.

Me and Meg, we moved down here. We lived in an apartment in Concord, Canapolis area. And I don't know, two, three years ago, I decided I was going to buy a house. And we walked, we went around, looked at a bunch of houses and everything. was kind of, I don't know, 10 to 15 years old and it was in our price range. And I was actually, you know, just looking around and figured out that it was probably better off to, I didn't want to buy something. I didn't have to dump a bunch of money into it a few years down the road. So we ended up just building a house.

It was kind of the same price points. And now, look, and Megan got to pick all the stuff she wanted. So that was very important for her. Let's be honest here. John picked that. The coolest part is Freddie went on to Offerpad.com and listed his. house and put his information in and they made him an offer $30,000 more than what he paid for his home. So all of you people that are listening, that's where offer pack can be a huge tool and a

great valuation because OfferPack came in and said, hey, Freddie, you paid this for your house. We're going to give you 30,000 more. So it's a awesome way to cash out. Did you? Megan, surprise. Did you tell Megan? Yeah, but she's going to find out about five o'clock tonight, I guess. I would be more concerned about John because it sounds like John's been more time in that house than anybody. He does. He's going to be a professional

eye racer pretty soon. I don't know if that's. He's working to be professional something. Not really sure what yet. TJ, tell us yours. Oh, I knew. I was over. We looked at about when we found out we were going to

have Stella, we needed another bedroom. So we started looking really close to where we were. We walked in this house and my wife goes, this is my dream home. It was over from that point. You were done. It did not matter from that point.

About time you made her dreams come true. Yeah. Exactly. So that is a good point. Now I can only say that. Chad, if you are listening, take notes. Oh. No, Chad, if you were listening.

She got her dream guy and her dream house. Lucky her. Chad, put your damn foot down. Okay. Turn off the show, Chad. Don't listen to it. Hey, what's up, DBC fans? If you haven't heard about Anchor, it's the easiest way to make a podcast.

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That's A-N-C-H-O-R dot FM to get started. It's time for Fastlane, our weekly segment where we expose the intelligence levels of our panel of spotters by having them compete. in a speed trivia contest. Brett, you are up first. Which car scored the most points on Sunday? Jenny Hamlin. No.

Where was Kyle Larson's last cup win before Sunday? Texas. What did TJ do at his first job? Dig bitches. What does a dog... Give hand jobs. It might be applicable. What does a dog...

dog do that a man steps into? Who? What? One thousand times one thousand. One million. All right. Brad Kislovsky's played the most points on Sunday. Larson last one at Dover.

T.J's first jobs included bailing hay, mowing grass, shoveling snow. Maybe what you said too, but he can answer to that. And a dog, what does a dog do that a man steps into? Pants. I thought he might have worked in like one of those pedicure, manicure salons.

Jason, I didn't know. Yeah. I was trying to be honest with you guys. I certainly don't see him ever bailing hay and throwing 50 pound bales of hay onto a tractor and a trailer. That one definitely shocked me. Brett wants the arm wrestle at some point too, doesn't he? Clearly. This has happened before.

Freddie, you ready? Sure. How many points did Bubba Wallace score on Sunday? Nine. Who finished last on Sunday? Eric Amarola. What did Brett do at his first job? Textile plant.

Stripping? Stripper? Yes, how'd you know? I said it first, okay? What city was the first automobile race in America held in? Indianapolis. How many brains does an octopus have? One.

We've already done this one. No, you did. We've already been on the show. I think he did hearts before. Octopus has nine. And that's tentacles. Freddie goes. What is that with your octopus?

Freaking. It's a great animal. It's an obsession. Didn't we start talking about what the plural of octopus was? Yeah. And what? Yes. Well, we also.

What color is it? Jason added it every bit of that. I had the best show we've ever done. We had a huge debate. I knew how to say octopuses than he did. I'll leave it. it now because we know it's right. It was a big debate on the color.

I think we need to do. Can we do a segment where we just play clips from all the segments that were cut out of the show? No. The last show we could do that. I mean, honestly, we can probably create like that. There's a reason they're gut out. The last show. All right, Brett's first job was throwing watermelons. The first automobile race in America was held in Chicago.

And we said octopus has nine brains. Freddy's got two out six. TJ, you ready? How many laps did Joey Lugano lead on Sunday? Seven. Name the last year Joey Lugano didn't lead a lap in a race at Las Vegas. 2017. Ooh, I'm sad.

What store did Freddie work at his first job? Mechanic. What store? Oh, what store? Kmart. Name a planet without a moon. Mars. How many track events are in a Decapulon?

Six. Ten, nine. Yeah, one answer. All right. Freddie wins. He got two right. T. Daly only got one right. Ligonon last didn't lead a lap in a Vegas race in 2013.

Freddy's first job was at Toys R Us. Sounds about right. That is awesome. I rode Jeffrey around the park of mine. What did you do dress up as a Teddy Ruston Bear? I just can't picture you working at Toys R Us, man. I was young. I was like, I don't know, 14 maybe it was Christmas time.

So it was just one of them cleaned up after the disaster. You ain't never seen where the Toys R Us looks like a closing time on Christmas. I'll bet. How much did you make doing the watermelons? $4 an hour. It sucked. Were they in like truck loads and stuff or what? So you had a tractor and you had a trailer.

You had six roads on each side. And I drove a tractor when I was young. And all I wanted to do was get off the tractor and load watermelons. and then I figured out that it was a whole lot easier to drive the tracker, but you threw, I mean, like you would go. Some days you'd pick 12 to 15 pounds, 15 and up, just don't know what you were doing, but then you'd load them into freaking,

you'd go off the trailer, you'd go load them in the farmer's market in a containers, which is the back of a tractor trailer. Man, you ain't never been so hot in July. Shoot, man. You're getting them top of them barns when you're bailing hay and there's no air up there. It's pretty hot.

Time for what an idiot. What an idiot, man. why whoever threw the caution for Kyle Bush spinning out wins this week because I was sitting there watching this on TV and my blood pressure went through the roof because we let one guy be selfish change the entire outcome of the race and I'm sorry spinning out on purpose is no different no matter when it happens or how it happens it is one person changing the outcome of the race and NASCAR is going to have to look at this it's come time sorry what an idiot DJ Man, I'm going to roll with the guy that volunteered Drew. He wanted it, so I'll give it to him this week. Sorry, Drew. I got a lot of people on my would-a-idiet list. Damn, you had a fun race then.

Yeah, no, there's probably, I don't know, there's probably 20-ish on there. Probably like 10 legit ones. You're starting to sound like Doug. Now, it's every guy that's a team owner in the sport not named Rick Hendrick, because he was the only one smart enough to go hire Carl Larson. All right, time for DVC. Pick. Did I scare people there?

I mean, does that not agreeable? I mean, there's a lot of guys that had a chance to go get that guy and there was only one that did it. I agree. I'll give one idiot to all the rest of them. Well, and look, there were probably only two in a garage that really would have taken the chance and be able to afford it. Because as you see on that race car for the majority of the time, it is a Rick Hendrick-owned

company. And there's only two guys that really do that in our sport and do it well in terms of being able to go out there and compete to win a lot of. race as a championship. That's Rick Hendrick and Gene Haas. So, I mean, I think it came down to those two teams. I think Kyle Larson was going into 48 all along. I think you know, unfortunately what he did last year to get himself suspended,

just probably made him a stronger person, made him a better person. And look, all his mistakes, he came back from it. And, I mean, we told you guys last year there was a top secret meeting. Who do you think that was with? Like, if you listened to our podcast, middle of the last summer, I think he figured out by the end of the summer who the meeting was with. So, again, we said it last week on the show. Kyle Larson is probably the best driver in the world right now.

Time for DBC picks after Vegas. Brett, you finally won. Did I? That's awesome. We are now picking first. I got to pick last or I get to pick first. You get to pick last. You get to pick last.

I mean, we were neck and neck up there, like back and forth with this. Byron and Blaney were kind of back and forth around the top five. Freddie, who you got? Alex Bowman. That's who I was going to pick. Hometown. T.J. Let's see here.

I think I am going to go with... I'll take Danny Hamlin. What a great pick. Chase Elliott. I mean, we're all... Nobody picked Harvick. Did you see him this week? But it's Phoenix.

You see him in the last race there? Even the last race there. He wasn't that good. Okay. Well... I mean, racing. I mean,

racing is evolving. If Jay Sely, if I won't win this race, then I'm going to be pissed off because he was half a second passer with the field, and there's no chance that over three months

and without testing and without qualifying and practice, that he's going to go back and not be that good. If he does, then, man, his crew chiefs is genius? So if he doesn't win,

is he going to win the award with you? Wouldn't it yet? Probably. Well, anything else who want to rant about as we head into Phoenix? I'm just curious how this race plays out. I mean, I think we've seen some. I mean, man, I don't know that I've ever seen the racing be this good

across all three series as it's been this year. And here we go to the place where our championship race is going to be run. And as exciting as Homestead was, obviously Daytona is exciting. Obviously, the road course was great. But Vegas was a nice surprise for me on the excitement level. Like if we go to Phoenix and it's not as exciting, I think it puts NASCAR in a box and says, hey, you got to move that championship weekend in 2022 to somewhere else because this race, it has a lot to live up to right now. I mean, when we go back and we're going to grade it against the first four weeks of the year,

Phoenix had better step it up, man. I don't know if that's a rules package thing. If it's a tire thing, it's obvious the drivers are driving their guts out. We had 14 lead changes in the first stage yesterday. And those guys were three and four wide the minute they dropped the green. It looked like they were coming back to the checker every single lap that first stage. So I hope the Phoenix is not a single file track like we've seen it be in the past. I hope they've been out there and did some things to make it a better race.

But man, what a great start to the season for us as a sport and all these different winners. I think it's awesome. Could you imagine our last race is in Vegas? What a disaster that was turning into. Imagine a green white checker for the championship in Vegas. I'm not talking about anything on the racetrack. well as always thank you all for listening and thank you to our amazing presenting thank you for showing up i only showed up because i knew brett wasn't going to be here so brett i like

you better virtually love you you're great i'm ready i'll see you guys sunbathing the pictures later on our private chat i'm ready to see our off pad buddies let me know i'm ready to see our offpad buddies on the track this week. I know Brett's coming out there. They've got hospitality. We're going to go down and see some of them guys. So I'll drag TJ with me and come say hi. But yeah, just pumped to see Offpad on the track this week and hope they have a good run. They picked the hell of a guy to do it with. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We'll see.

That's why I picked him to win. I mean. The paint scheme looks awesome. Props. It is a beautiful race car. So thank you guys. We out. Hey, hey, thank you to everyone who commented on Chloe's video saying that it looked like Brett and Freddie after a long. name. Why don't you

call offer pad or go to their website and surprise, Chad, what your house is worth? I should. Tell Chad, this is what our house is worth. Look how much money we can make on it right now. I should. Go to offer pad. Just buy one. Yeah, and don't become, no,

don't be a cairn. Don't be a cairn. Like you, like he said you were being. I'm just kidding. What? You're probably in the show. He called in the show last week. Yeah, clearly. I'm just saying if you want to push the envelope here, show them. that you could make offer pads offering us this money here.

Look what we can make. I mean, don't tempt me because I will. I'm tempting you. I'm tempting you right now. I told him he can buy a house with a shop in the back if that's what he wants. You told him, huh? I did.

Doing work. Somebody put their foot down. Yes, I'm going to go on offer pad because I think that's a great idea. All right. For me, Freddy. I just think Chad has to realize he's more worried about where his race car sleep than he is his baby. And he needs to get his priorities together and get you a house. Chad's being a Chad, sorry.

Well, Chad's going to kill me for... Chad, quit being a Chad. Chad, the race cars pay for the house. You do whatever you need to do with the race cars. Casey, you can end the show and stop it. It's all to you. All right, have a great week. Thank you all for listening.

Chad, I really hope you did not listen to the show this week. Thank you. See ya. See y'all next week. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter. Facebook and Instagram. Dirty Moe.