Door Bumper Clear - 21 - Inaugural #askDBC Call In Show
Episode Date: June 21, 2016Brett and TJ spend time answering #askDBC questions from fans, Iowa recap, and a solid ranting session. 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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Hey, everybody.
I'm T.J. Majors.
Spiter the 88 Cup car, 7 Xfinity and the 29 truck.
And joining me today.
Brett Griffin, spotter for Clint Boyer,
the Sprint Cup series, Elliot Sadler in the Xfinity series.
And our beautiful co-host today is going to be none other than producer Josh.
Josh.
Hey, guys.
So Kristen has not only forfeited her perfect attendance award by missing her second show.
Yeah.
She's forfeited her annual salary from the first.
the show. She won't get paid a dime from here on out. Yeah, I think we take it all from her.
She gets paid? Yeah, she gets paid like 500 bucks a show. What are they paying you?
Jack. Attention? Not even that. You're getting paid some attention? Uh, maybe. Yeah. Thanks to
Maine for bringing this to you guys today. T.J. Are you, uh, are you feeling good, man? You had an off weekend.
Yeah, I'm pretty good. I think we went to the same place different times. Yeah, yeah. Charleston.
Yeah, normally that's the first off weekend I've taken missing an Xfinity race and a truck race.
I normally go to all the non-companion.
So if that's the first weekend in I don't even know how many years that I've actually taken off and wanted a family vacation during the summer.
And we went to Charleston for the weekend and it was fun.
Had a good time.
Really nice place to go laid back.
Yeah.
I mean, your little girl's how old now, three?
Six.
Six.
Yeah.
So, man, you got to take some time.
There's so much fun to take at that age.
She took her to the beach on Friday and hung around Charleston, man.
She had a blast.
I mean, I've never.
It's really gratifying to take a six-year-old on vacation during the summer.
And all our friends at school were, the reason I did it is because all our friends at school,
when they did a, what are you doing this summer?
Everyone is going, I'm going to the beach.
We're going to the beach.
We're going to the beach.
I'm looking forward to going to the beach.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I have no plans to take my little girl to the beach.
So I'm like, I've got to do this.
I feel like a loser.
Yeah, all these kids are going to the beach, and I'm not taking.
her to the beach.
I haven't been to Charleston beaches in a while.
Yeah.
Do they have like those awesome shops down there, like wings and the Eagles?
Nothing like Marble Beach.
That's unfortunate.
Nothing like Myrtle Beach.
So Madeline didn't get a hermit crab.
No, no.
Two days later.
Yeah.
She did, I stayed at her friend's house that lived just outside of Charleston for two nights.
Then we stayed in Charleston on Saturday night.
And they have, there was more frogs.
There was probably 15 frogs on its front porch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was weird, man.
We stayed at the Isle of Palms and went over to Sullivan's Island.
Went to Charleston for a day, but I'll be honest with me, man.
Charleston is an adult playground.
It is not a great place for a kid when it's 145 degrees.
Good rooftop bars.
Yeah.
All that, yeah, I saw that bar.
Yeah.
I did see that bar.
There's tons of great bars there, great restaurants.
But it's not a kid's playground.
It's an adult playground.
It's okay at night walking around a little bit, but there's just not a lot of, like, you're right.
The work old town.
Yeah, yeah.
We took her on the carriage deal, and she loved all that and stuff.
So about an hour ride?
How long was carriage ride?
Yeah, it was like an hour.
Yeah.
Yeah, but Friday.
Did a horse stick of a shit while you were.
No.
Friday was brutally hot.
It was miserable.
It was hot.
Yeah.
We went to the beach that day.
But it was only 80 degrees on Friday on Thursday.
No, yeah, Saturday it was only like 80 degrees.
It was nice, man.
Guess what, guys, it was hot in Iowa as well.
Yeah, I feel bad for you.
Where are you going this weekend?
Yeah, where are you going this weekend?
again, Josh. I'm actually not going anywhere this weekend.
Sonoma probably nice and cold.
It's going to be a hundred out there. Oh, I'm sorry, you have to go out the wine country.
Yeah. Holy cow.
Twelve hours of flying. One hundred degree heat.
Yeah. But yes, we have two things going for us. We have the easiest schedule.
It is. Oh, we have four hours of practice Friday. We have an hour of work Saturday.
We have that much? So as spotters like, this is a dream schedule.
Yeah, I didn't realize we had that much Fridays on Friday. Now I'm dreading Friday.
But we don't start to 12.
So we can sleep in like 9, 30 or 10.
Yeah, that's pretty good.
I mean, it is an easy schedule.
Sonoma is just an easy.
It's not where we spot from is not really.
It's perfect, kind of.
And they've just kind of recently put up a little stand there and stuff.
Yeah.
We all just sit on the side of that hill.
The only thing bad about Sonoma is you wake up at 4 a.m. every day.
And you're like, it's 4 o'clock in the morning.
And you don't go back to sleep either.
No, you can't.
And at 7 o'clock at night when you're trying to eat.
dinner, whatever, your face is falling in your plate.
You're following your pie.
Duh. Yeah. So, but I like going out
there, though. It's not bad.
Now. So, uh, from the Exalted
studio, what do we have on tap today?
Well, we'll move into, uh, some
spot on, spot off. We didn't talk
about Iowa. Oh, yeah, BS
session. I thought Iowa.
I didn't get to watch the whole race. I watched a little
bit of it. I watched all of it.
Your, uh, your friend Justin Algeyer
definitely helped Sam Hornish
win the race.
Did he?
He hit him in the ass.
And when he hit him in the ass, he knocked his right rear quarter panel out.
And there's no telling how much down force he gave him.
So the right rear quarter panels knocked out, which looks like a pretty big air advantage.
And then the left side skirt of that 18 car, if you watch the race, it looked like to me,
it was flared out about two inches further than anybody else.
I did actually see that.
That's the first thing that caught my eye, common eye of turn four.
Yes.
I could see it sticking out.
Yeah.
They caught my eye.
I'm sitting here watching this race.
I'm like, this isn't even going to be fair for the rest of the race because the
18 has a gigantic arrow advantage.
And he dominated the race as a result.
Sam's a talented race car driver.
That's a fast car.
Don't get me wrong.
But those two arrow advantages, I was like, man, this isn't even going to be a level playing
Phil for the rest of the day.
And it wasn't.
Yeah.
He seemed to be pretty dominant.
Yeah.
So if you don't know what we're talking about and you're a hardcore fan, which we know
all you guys are, you tube the race, pause it when you see the 18 come out of four.
You'll see the left side skirt right in front of the left rear tire.
It's just flared out, and that gives these guys a lot of assistance through the corners, believe it or not.
It's down for us.
It keeps that corner planted wherever, you know, it's just air pushing down on the car, so it keeps the car into the track more.
You always hear these guys from practice say the car doesn't feel like it's in the racetrack.
That helps give that feeling.
Yeah, for sure.
You want any down force you can get.
And the difference is Justin hitting Sam on pit road was not a crew-assisted altered body change.
That was just a racing incident.
So NASCAR let him keep that at air.
advantage for the rest of the race.
And there's no way you could probably hit it again like that
and bend it the same way. No way. You probably
mess it up the opposite way. I'm surprised it didn't knock a hole
in Justin's nose because he hit him pretty hard.
If it flared the other. And there were times when
I mean that 18 car was four and five
seconds out in front of the field.
I mean it was just unfair.
I mean it was he had a huge advantage
and it showed up. So a good race though.
It was cool. Yeah. You know Sam's
actually, it's good to see Sam come back and do
that. You know Sam every
time we go out to eat around here you go to somewhere like uh what's that place duckworths or
whatever yeah he's always in there with his kids and stuff he's a he's a he's a good dude good great dude
i love yeah yeah we're doing something different today too we're doing uh some live call ins man
yeah this is going to be different i got to say this about live call ends i occasionally
listen to serious radio and they have some of the biggest morons call into their show
that makes it good though i've listened to it it makes it
It's funny for a while, but after about 15 minutes, I'm like, I can't take any more of the stupidness.
I got to turn the channel.
So I hope that Josh has selected three really good candidates for our call-ins today.
One can only hope.
So this is on Josh.
Everything's on me.
Blame producer Josh hashtag.
Jeff.
Hello.
Jeff.
Hello.
Are you, we wake you up?
No.
Are you sure?
Took you long time to answer.
You're brushing your teeth?
Hey, I'm at work.
Oh, you are?
Well, this is TJ and Brett.
And Josh.
We are doing our live...
What is doing?
We're doing our live calling for the podcast,
and you have been selected as a question,
which is what if NASCAR inverted pit selection
last qualified gets first pit selection?
What do you think, Brett?
Jeff, man, you just broke our caller virginity.
That's kind of a big deal for Doorbumper Clear.
Yeah, from work.
How's that feel for you?
Pretty awesome.
All right, man, so your question,
what if NASCAR had a pit selection
and the person who qualified last
got the first pit selection?
You got any kids, Jeff?
I do.
I got two kids.
All right, how old are they?
Four.
How old are you say?
What and four?
Eight and four.
Eight and four.
So let's fast forward and say they're 18 and 14
and they just took the SAT,
and their SAT score is high enough to get them in the Harvard.
but because of that, we're going to invert SAT scores
and we're going to put them into your local community college.
I don't think it's fair, man.
I think our pit selection should be given kind of the way it's given, man.
What do you think?
Well, I just always get kind of annoyed with a guy in the first selection,
you know, get that first pit stop or the first pit there,
and then they just like take off right away without,
having any competition trying to get past.
I just thought maybe this would even out a little bit.
So you get tired of the pole sitter kicking everybody's ass on pit road, basically.
That's kind of the why you want to get the pole.
That's why you try for it.
You get that little bit of advantage on race there.
I get it, but I'm just trying to, you know, if Junior keeps qualifying 25th,
I'm just trying to give him every little advantage.
So this is really about Dell Jr. sucking and qualifying.
Well, exactly.
I mean, aren't we here to talk about helping Del Jr. win all the time?
Listen, qualifying is great to be fast in, but it doesn't pay.
And you're right, every little bit helps on race day, but if you get in there and you get out and you have a fast car,
you're more likely going to be the car to beat still.
I get it.
But, yeah, I would hate to, I would hate for those guys.
On the pit crews, see if they can help their driver get up.
All right, so picture this.
We invert qualifying.
Mike Harmon picks stall number one.
That's going to be good.
and Dale Jr. has stall number two.
We're coming out of our stall, and he is going in.
How is that going to work out?
You're going to tell you the right front fender slam off the 88 car.
I mean, I would much rather...
I get it, but I'm just trying to even out the plane to feel a little bit.
I like where you're going with this, Jeff.
Here's the thing, man.
Back in the day, I don't know how long you've been a NASCAR fan,
but back in the day, the NASCAR Winston Cup champion got the first pit stall all year.
That was a gigantic advantage, and it was a gigantic advantage,
and it was something that you could kind of say they earned by winning the championship.
But I think NASCAR made a really good move by saying the guy who sits on the pole gets that first pit stall.
Because as TJ alluded to, I think it's like a $10,000 bonus to the race team and it's that first pit stall.
Otherwise, man, there's not a lot of incentive to qualify well other than track position in that first pit stall.
So I think it's a good little kicker.
Yeah, it's always good to have that first stahl.
I agree with you.
I just thought maybe it would just give just a little bit more wrinkle into how pit stops are handled.
and maybe the strategy of qualifying.
We got like five more minutes, man.
Is there any other rules you can come up with that could really help Del Jr.?
You know, and kind of screw everybody else over for the rest of the year?
Yeah, please.
Give him 50 more horsepower.
Yeah, okay, I'll take it.
We only let that happen at Daytona and Talladega.
So, man, just be patient.
We only got two weeks until we get back to Daytona.
I'll do my binoculars out.
What kind of job do you have, Jeff?
I work in the IT department at an insurance company in Des Moines.
Oh, nice.
Des Moines.
Dude, I love that town.
Did you go to the race?
Unfortunately, I can this weekend, but I will be going to the one in the end of July.
Nice.
Maybe you'll see Josh there.
You can find Josh down there.
He'll be the guy standing behind the one main box looking really tall and not doing anything.
So there's two places in Des Moines that I love.
One of them is some burger place.
It's got like a bunch of monsters in it.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Zombie burger?
Yeah, man, that's really cool.
My other place is it's a bar called the High Life.
What about El Bates shop?
Have you ever been in there?
No, I'll have to check that one out next time.
It's right next to highlight.
It has like 150 craft beers on tap.
Is that the one that has all the pictures of the old wrestlers, or is that a different one?
It might be.
I haven't been in there for a while.
Jeff, is that the one that is the 150 craft beers from Iowa?
Yes.
Well, there's that, and there's also the, I can't look at the name of it.
But, yeah, it's just El Bage Shepard.
I just had a lot of the
lot of beers on tap
and it's not necessarily from Iowa.
That's cool, man.
Yeah.
Well, I appreciate
the calling, man, and sticking
with us here and hopefully
you don't get any trouble
for calling from work or us calling
you to work. Yeah.
I'm just taking an early break.
Yeah, I was going to say, man, you could just screw up some
computers. You guys get to drink beer during your
break? Or you're a beer-free break zone?
How's that work?
Yeah.
That doesn't work too well.
All right, man.
Have a good day, Jeff.
Yeah, I appreciate you calling.
Thanks for doing this.
It's pretty awesome.
Heck yeah, Jeff.
See, you do.
See, man.
So our first guy to ever get on this show,
ironically, wants a rule change just for Dell Jr.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't even, I mean, we don't qualify last.
We're usually mid-pack.
But this guy's basically saying I'm a Dale Jr. fan.
Y'all don't qualify good enough to get a good pit stall.
Yeah.
So I want a rule change to help Dale Jr.
Are you okay with this biased stuff?
I don't want that rule to help.
I want something else.
I don't want that.
That's not enough to help us.
Oh, man.
All right, who we call on?
Andrew Garrett's.
Andrew Garrett's.
A lot of editing in this one.
Hello.
Andrew.
How you doing?
It's Brett and TJ, man.
What's up?
Not too much.
Nick meet you guys.
Hey, what's up, man?
Where are you at?
Where's 705 area code at?
It's Peterborough, Ontario, just northeast of Toronto.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, Canada?
Worldwide.
I am.
I've raced up there before.
We've said we're worldwide.
We're just proving it.
Yeah, we are international.
Yeah.
Where'd you race up here, T.J.?
Uh, Peterborough.
That was either Mossport or Cayuga or somewhere else right in that area.
So Mossport is just out here, road course, and oval.
Yeah, the Oval is down near Hamilton.
Yeah, the Oval.
The Oval's not really an oval, though.
It's partly square, if I remember right.
It was weird.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
The one corner is like a square.
So, yeah.
Well, that's how the Canadians.
Ashweacon.
Oshwegan.
Oshwegan is closer to Windsor or...
There's another track further north than that.
Then it was at a horse race track that I've been to up there.
Oh, Coorset down.
That's actually 10 minutes down the road from me.
That's where it was.
It's Coraa.
That's what it was.
Yeah.
Yeah, that one's definitely square.
The QEW highway is pretty scary when you're,
pulling a trailer.
That it is, yes.
It's pretty scary.
There's people doing about 95 or 100 on it.
You're pulling a trailer and they're blowing by you.
Canadians or get after it up there.
I love Canada.
Yeah.
There's a couple little places right by Mossport to visit that you would probably love, Brett.
Yeah, I like to go to Canada at a party more than I do.
Well, it's a good shoe show.
Good shoe show.
It's a shoe show, yeah.
The drug rates at Mossport's a couple years old, now Canadian tire or whatever it's called.
It was a blast.
a couple years ago.
Yeah, I've raced
Mossport before.
That was actually
where I ran my first race
ever.
That made me start
23rd because I had
never raced anything
before.
And I finished 8th.
It was a lot of fun.
So, but apparently
you want to know about
a flamethrower.
What do you got,
Andrew, for a question?
All right.
Well, I love following Clint
on Twitter lately,
and I want to know,
mainly for Brack,
I'm assuming you hang out with him.
Has Clint ever let you
play with the flame thrower
that he has?
Man, I'll be honest with you.
I'm a little bit more
afraid of fire than
the Clint is he has not
let me play with the flamethrower but I've seen
him build a lot of fires and
man I don't
there's no doubt this guy loves an explosion
and loves fire he's got like backhose
and stuff at his house just so that he
can build big fires with a bunch of trees
he knocks down man he's kind of crazy
Flamethrower sounds
like it's a lot of fun
I'm not sure what I would do with one but I want one
I don't know if I
I'm trying to convince my wife that she should get me one.
Oh, man.
She says I remind her a lot of Clint because I've got the same hyper fidgety,
can't stop doing stuff.
ADD?
But haven't contradicting yet.
So, man, I'd just do it and ask for forgiveness later.
Heck yeah.
I mean, just do it.
Are you working right now?
Yeah, I just snuck away from my desk.
Oh, perfect.
See, you're making money.
Go do it.
Go do it.
Buy her something nice.
Get her a spa day or something and buy a flame to her.
Are they
Are flamethrowers legal?
100%?
I don't know.
What do you buy them?
I've never even seen them in a store or anything.
Amazon?
I don't think you can buy them in like a gas store.
Yeah.
Where do you buy a flamethrower?
Careful Googling that.
Make sure you don't get yourself in trouble.
Have you looked them up?
No, I have not.
I see like where do you even go to buy one?
How do you drive out of the house?
They could be back in a little bit of go buy a flamethrower.
Yeah.
What do you go to Lowe's or something?
I mean,
yeah.
Now I'm going to have to tweet it, Clint.
Find out where you go.
I saw Clint blow up a ditch one time that was about a mile long.
And I mean, he's just an idiot when it comes to fire, man.
He's crazy.
Fire is a lot of fun if you're doing it right.
Yeah.
If you're doing it right.
If you're doing it right.
I mean, when I was like seven years old, I let my mom's curtains on fire.
I don't recommend doing that.
That's probably not going to end well.
No, man.
That did not end well.
That's not doing it right.
What were you thinking?
Fire.
What's Clint thinking when he's blowing up a ditch?
He's not thinking I'm going to burn my house down.
Well, I didn't know.
He bought the property, so he keeps a fire away from the house.
There's the key.
You see, maybe I just needed to have a flame thrower that I wouldn't have been in the house.
There's a good story with Elliot and Clint and Blake Shelton and a buddy of ours named Kevin Kennedy that manages Blake.
They were all turkey hunting out in Oklahoma.
And Clint proceeds to build a fire, and he just keeps building a fire.
Fire, fire, fire.
Next thing you know, it's time to go turkey hunting, and they're too sleepy, quote, sleepy to go turkey hunting.
So I think fire sometimes gets the best of them.
Fire is a lot of fun, man.
Me and my buddy used to light bottle rockets off in my bedroom.
In your bedroom?
Yeah, TJ, you got issues.
It was bad.
I know, man.
Does Madeline know about all this?
No, and she never will.
The fact that you were still alive today.
I know, man.
Listen, dude, we would light them off and just.
run and dive under cover or something to see where they ended up.
I hope she's listening out here.
I told you.
She's up there.
That's why I told you all he doesn't need to reproduce.
This is.
That was all in the past, man.
I wouldn't.
I'd probably still do it now.
It's pretty fun.
All right, Andrew.
Thanks for the question, man.
Appreciate you letting us give me a shout.
Nope.
Yeah.
If I ever,
Hey, TJ, before you go,
have the door bumper clear T-shirt's gone for sale or did I miss that?
Well, they're about 30 feet away from me in the June
Motor Resource Retail store here, but my website should be up in the next day or so.
Okay. All right. Cool.
All right, buddy.
Thank you, man.
Thanks a lot, guys.
That was a good call.
Canada. Canada.
I love Canada.
Yeah.
Anything goes up there.
I don't care.
No.
I like Canada, just not the French part of Canada.
Wow.
You don't speak French?
No.
Like Montreal?
You don't like Montreal?
They speak English, though.
They do.
They speak English until they find out you're American, and then they start speaking French.
I don't have an issue with that.
Why don't you just learn French?
Let's flip them off.
Why don't you learn French, man?
You'd be set then.
So we got one more called Billy Bradley.
Billy Bradley.
He tweets a lot.
He does.
He's with, uh, he has great tweets.
He is associated.
He's associated with, uh, what's, uh, sloppy yellow guy.
Slop of yellow.
Yeah.
So, uh, do you think this is a, do you think Mike Davis is a conspirator in this collar?
There is a chance Mike Davis has some work into this one.
one, so we probably need to be pretty careful.
Be on our toes.
Yeah.
Yeah, Billy might be interesting.
Billy Bradley.
That sounds like a good, like a horse jockey.
Billy Bradley?
Or maybe a baseball player.
Yeah.
I don't know.
He looks kind of big to be a horse jockey.
He looks like a bigger dude.
Could be a wrestler.
Well, if he isn't he like Dato, he's a little bit.
It's Dato's brother, I think, isn't it?
Oh, it is?
I think so, or something like that.
I mean, yeah, he's definitely too big.
276 area code, isn't that Tennessee?
Where's that at?
I don't know.
No?
Speaking of wrestling, though,
Jel C, LeBron get off the plane yesterday
wearing an Ultimate Warrior shirt.
I liked it.
No, I didn't see that.
Yeah, they wore an ultimate shirt.
So all those guys win the championship,
they go to Vegas.
They party.
I mean, they party, right?
Yeah.
But LeBron obviously wasn't in the club, right?
Yeah, I guarantee he did not go to the club.
I mean, he wasn't in the club.
If he's in the club,
somebody's going to have video of him in the club.
Unless he's like in a private area.
I don't know, man.
I've been in that club.
There's no super private area.
He had to be there or somewhere in the area.
I'm sure he was in a suite.
But I guess he was like, no, man, I'm not going to the club.
He might have been having a private party.
He might have, I mean.
I mean, they might have had people around there telling people not to video and stuff.
The only people that did video were the team guys that were allowed.
Because there is video of J.R. Smith.
Getting down.
Yeah.
When he poured that bottle of champagne on that waitress.
Oh, yeah.
That was awesome.
I think they had that planned because all the wait.
They 100% had it played.
Yeah, because all the waitress had on calves deal.
Yeah, and you see that they had a cake made like an NBA, the championship trophy.
Yeah.
They certainly didn't pull that off in two hours.
I mean, that's cool they did that, though.
I mean, why not?
That's brave.
Because in our sport, that would almost be superstitious for you're not going to win it.
Right.
To say, hey, if we win it, make the cake.
get the reservation, get the waitresses and hot.
Maybe it was done behind the scenes and they didn't tell any of the players.
They lined it up.
That would have been a pretty cool move.
Yeah.
Like don't tell anybody that's what the plan is.
Because you know if you win the championship out there and you're on the way home
you're going over Vegas.
Right.
Why not stop?
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
I mean, it was awesome.
I just wonder why LeBron.
I will say, though, I mean, even in our sport, like if you're in contention to win the championship
in Miami,
your folks are already planning something.
That's not exactly true.
If you're in the Cup Series deal and you're in contention to win,
the championship party location is predetermined regardless of who wins.
So it's not like Jimmy goes, okay, I want to go here.
And Dale Jr. goes, okay, I want to go there.
It is a predetermined party location.
Now, who you invite can be up to you.
NASCAR party is predetermined.
That is the championship party.
But the team party, like right after the race or whatever,
that just kind of goes.
kind of goes.
It's kind of by the flow because when we won the 500, we didn't.
No.
The only person they had an idea that when he had to be out by a certain time was,
was Dale Jr.
If that, you know, that's already, you know that if you win the 500,
you're out the next morning early.
You're going to, you're doing breakfast and you're going to New York.
The rest of us were scrambling.
I will say that Brad's championship party was not predetermined by NASCAR.
Right.
That was done by him.
Brian.
Middle light.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's cool they did.
I thought the game was great, by the way, too.
Awesome game.
I kind of wanted to keep going.
Game seven.
Can they keep playing?
Great series.
Back and forth.
I mean, LeBron, didn't he break a record for the first player to every lead every single category?
Like steals, blocks, rebounds, points, assist.
He let it all.
Yeah.
That's insane.
Everyone, people were mad that he's, you know, being a little selfish.
with it, but man, everywhere that guy goes,
he goes to the championship.
He goes to the finals, everywhere he goes.
And to come back to Cleveland
and take them to the finals, two years in a row
and win it the second year
against the Golden State team that honestly,
I didn't think the Cavaliers had a chance,
to be honest with you.
Well, when it was three to one, nobody did.
Yeah.
And to come back from that,
and he averaged like 40 points a game
almost per game.
Yeah.
I mean, that's unreal, man.
I told you, he's basketball, Jesus,
when you picked the Warriors to win it all.
I didn't think Steph Curry could miss.
Man, he sucked last game.
He was cold.
Yeah, that one shot, he just at the backboard.
Yeah.
But then he comes back and nails this one from four feet, five feet beyond the three-point line.
He does not even look into the basket before he shoots sometimes.
Yeah.
He just throwing it up.
Kyrie was on fire too.
Yeah, that was a great series, man.
Guy stepped up.
You know, that dunk I thought, I almost wanted LeBron to make that big dunk.
the end because that would have been like, yeah.
That was huge.
Yeah, that was awesome.
But it was a good series.
Let's call Billy and let T.J. give him some crap.
All right.
Are you calling 1-800match.com over there or what?
Kristen, Kristen Ming.
Oh.
And I'm sad to get it again.
This is perfect.
Hello.
Hey, hey, Billy, what's up?
It's T.J. and Brett.
Hey, what's going on, buddy?
Hey, nice ringtone, man.
Do you think we'd call back and just let it play for a little bit?
Who, what was that?
What was it?
I'm not sure which one was flying.
It's some country song.
It sounded redneck, whatever it was.
Yeah, that's probably the truth.
Are you calling from Texas or where are you at?
No, I'm from Bristol, Virginia.
I'm friends with Dan to...
Okay.
I thought you were his brother or something.
You're just claiming him as a friend?
We had the same IQ level, I would say.
But I would say if you ever
Cone to Bristol, you probably wouldn't want to come
eat with us either.
What do you have? I mean, you got squirrels and stuff
on the menu?
Yeah, squirrels, rabbits.
About anything we can bomb.
Wow. All right.
So, what's your first question there?
You wanted to know about
being up on the spotter stand.
Is there a role that you cannot
take any shading device?
And if not, why do we not have?
That was about, you know, I know a match car, like to make the rules,
but is that a rule that you can't take anything up there for it?
No, it's just very inconvenient.
A lot of the spotter stands aren't big enough to support something we could put up.
Some of us, I actually have a chair, and Kevin Hamlin actually has one too
that has a little roof that folds up over it.
So on the real hot days, but it has to be a track that has a big enough spotter stand
that you can actually put it up.
Because a lot of these places, like you go to Michigan,
it's a really good spotter stand
but it's just a fence with a rail
it has a place where you can
put your elbows and stuff and it's got
power outlets up there and stuff but there's nothing
behind you. You have about three foot behind you
and there's another fence so there's not
really room to put a chair and there's not really room
to put anything else up
you know and if we did put something up
which we have talked about a couple
times you know
we thought about a few was thought about getting together
and bringing it easy up to some of these places
like Kentucky or something we have to have some
where to strap it to, like a fence or something, to be sure that it doesn't fly off the roof,
because that would be bad.
You know, if we ever did anything, we would have to make sure it was strapped down good.
And it's hard to get it.
Safety concern on that.
Yeah, and it's hard for some of us.
We can't just, I can't just throw an easy up on my back every week when I walk to the roof.
You know, it's got to be something planned that two couple people go and grab it and bring it up,
and it's going to have to go in a hauler or somebody at a motorhome or something.
It's going to have to travel somewhere.
So, um, we have some eight to 12 hour days up there, man.
It, uh, it's brutal.
It is.
Yes, it does.
They've made a lot of major,
yeah, they made a lot of major improvements to these places, but they definitely
ain't given shade.
If it was just a rule that you wasn't allowed for a safety reason, you know, for the fans.
Um, I don't know if there's, I have never seen a rule about it where we can't do it,
but I just think we're just, we're at the mercy of the track.
Yeah, we're just kind of so usually.
to it now anyway. I mean, we probably,
you know, I think at Kentucky
or somewhere like that, we might, because there is
a fence right there, and we can bring a couple of ratchet
straps and strap it to the fence and be safe
with it and stuff. But you're right.
Some of these places, it does get brutally
hot, and you do look for any little
bit of shade. When we go to Kentucky, there is a
there is a
TV stand up there that a
guy stands on
for one of the TV cameras, and we all
try to fight for underneath it, but there's this
one guy that shows up
with this little bitty camera that
doesn't even, I don't think any of his stuff
is for any big time TV stuff either.
He's got one of his little camcorders.
And he posts up under the shade
and sits there in the shade all weekend
and basically takes a lot of that room up
because he doesn't want to be in the sun.
So I would love for them
to get rid of that underneath there.
Yeah.
What else you got?
You got another question for Brent?
My phone is cutting out or?
Well, you are in Bristol, Virginia.
Signals probably pretty low there.
And we do.
Well, you've got a question for Brett?
Yeah, I do.
Brett, you know, talk about, you know, you guys have one of the longest seasons as far as starts in February and goes all the way to November.
Would there be a track that you considered to drop to get it to a 30-rate schedule?
Billy, man, I'm glad I got you on this show because you make me sound less country right now.
man listen i told us you you spotted for elliott tj you spotted for sterling so i'm sure somewhere right in the middle there
yeah i can understand you better i can understand sterling already heck yeah man i'm just glad you're on here
you make me sound like a presidential candidate all of a sudden but to your point man we do have a long
schedule what could we do to make it a 30 race schedule here's the reality of that question is as long as
is willing to pay NASCAR a pile of money, and by pile, I mean hundreds of millions of dollars.
They're not going to shorten our race schedule.
But let's speak to your question just theoretically.
What would I do to get to a 30 race schedule?
Would I drop?
What track would I drop?
I wouldn't drop any, man.
I would go to some of these tracks once, though.
I really feel like our schedule should only go to Daytona and Charlotte twice.
I feel like everywhere else we need to go once, and we need to take those other dates,
additional dates and we need to build new facilities in new markets and give us an opportunity
to get in front of new fans.
I'm a huge believer that we have a lot of race fans in Canada.
We actually had a guy on earlier that spoke to that point and rattled off 20 tracks in his area.
Not many American fans can even do that.
So I'm a big fan believing we need to be in the Montreal market.
We need to be in Toronto.
You know, we need to be in British Columbia.
We need to be in what's that town on the west side over there near Whistler?
Vancouver.
You know, there's just a bunch of really cool
Canadian towns I think we could go to, and also
some here in America too.
Right. I totally
agree with you on the two tracks.
I mean, I live five miles
from Bristol, and it wouldn't hurt
me that they'd done away with the spring race.
Of course, you know,
I'm going to go to be there,
but it wouldn't hurt me to lose that race.
Yeah, I mean, I think from the local,
man, what's happened is
before the economy,
economy took a crap. People were traveling from all 50 states and tons of different countries
just to come to a race. Well, everybody kind of got tight with their dollar and they started
picking and choosing which races are going to come to, which put the tracks in a position to have
to market themselves to the local fan, which is about a 200-mile radius. A four-hour drive is
what people are going to be willing to come to. You take a place like Bristol, it is a tremendous
facility, but it's in a really rural part of America. You know, let's face it, if you start talking about
a three-hour drive, man, it's really hard to get from Charlotte to there,
Raleigh to there, you know, Nashville to there.
So you've really decreased the amount of local people that you're able to get.
So I think once a year also helps some of that attendance issue that some of these tracks are having
because so many of our tracks are in rural areas.
Yes, and the hotels, motels and all that situation, they put a strain on it too by a
limit and, you know.
Look at Darlington.
Three, four nights.
Yeah, look at Darlington, it sells out. Look at Watkins Glen, it sells out with a tremendous infill presence.
You know, you start looking at some of these tracks that only get one date, and they do really well from an attendance standpoint.
Yeah, man, that's why the attendance is so much more as a night race in Bristol.
Yeah, because that's the one the local crowd's going to pick.
If you had one race to pick, that's going to be it.
That's it, man. Well, we appreciate you letting us call you, man.
We hope all's good and give our buddy
sloppy yellow a hard time
Next time you talk to him
Hold things down there in Bristol
We'll have something deep
Yeah, some wild game probably
Cold beer and raccoon
Yeah
We'll get you some wine or something
Yeah
I'm about like a T-bone or something man
I'm not I'm not into that squirrel and stuff you guys
Get him a T-bonne and some Zima
I don't know what the fans there
My man talked to too many
I don't know any other race team
But does it
don't let Mike Davis hear that of
yeah we don't we don't you know
Mike's just a
you know he's like a fly in the wall in here
he's probably listening right now trying to
we we kind of thought this might be some sort of prank call
with uh being associated with dado or something there
you never really know what you're going to get with him
especially if Mike Davis gets involved so
but uh yeah man I appreciate to call in
on the plane and he told me
he asked you gonna call us
yeah I'll give it try
Yeah, heck, thanks for calling, man.
I appreciate it.
Maybe we'll catch up with you later this season.
All right, thank you, buddy.
See you, man.
Okay, Billy Bradley is certainly not a horse jockey.
No, man, Billy Bradley, I think he's about six, four.
He's wearing a tank top.
Yeah, it'd be.
Probably some jorts.
Yeah, probably some jorts.
Drinking a can beer right now.
There's a good chance.
A mullet.
He think he's got a mullet?
A can of PBR probably in his hand right now.
Maybe an MGD.
Yeah, it could be.
Yeah.
Maybe.
He may have those lines shaved in the side of his head and have them all.
Josh, you should do lines on the side of your head.
I don't think so.
Yeah, I can do it.
I actually can do it.
I can give a fade.
Yeah.
When's the last time you've fully shaved?
Over a year.
His beard?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
We're going to move into some spot-on, spot-off.
Let's see how good Josh does this.
Can you do it, Kristen's voice?
Yeah.
Rebottle and all that.
Okay, guys.
All right.
Spot-on, spot-off.
Xfinity racing on a Sunday slash Father's Day.
Go ahead.
I think Xfinity racing on a Sunday is awesome.
I don't have an issue with that.
I really feel like, though, it was Father's Day.
I'm a huge, obviously, lover of racing,
and I struggled to find the time to watch the race because of activities with the kids.
Now, I did block off 130 to 3.30 to make it happen.
But, man, it just goes back to, I saw a really slim audience there in Iowa,
and that's traditionally a place that sells a lot of tickets.
And I feel like because you're making someone pick between their family and a sport they love,
they almost on that particular day, the dads feel like they got to do the right thing
and pick their family.
So, you know, I, again, experience.
Finity racing on a Sunday, I'm all for it.
Any kind of racing on Father's Day, we don't race on Mother's Day.
So what's the difference?
Yeah, I'll go spot off.
I think they should have ran Saturday night and been home.
You know, those guys don't have quite the grueling schedule that the Cup Series have,
but, you know, they should have the opportunity to come home and spend the day with their dads and stuff like that.
You know, they're just as important as the mom.
So, you know, they talked a lot this past weekend about, you know,
the possibility of doing a double header on Saturday.
What are your guys' thoughts on doing a double header?
With trucks and Xfinney or a cup?
With trucks and Xfinity.
Personally, I would have just ran.
Normally in the past,
it was a K&N race Thursday night,
truck race Friday night,
and Exfini race Saturday night.
I think they should just stick with the Saturday night and stuff.
I mean, it's not a long, grueling race.
It's a short track race.
Get people out.
You're not there for six hours.
You go.
You drive out a few hours for the race.
Hang out a little bit.
Watch the race, you come home.
Atlanta did the truck and Xfinity doubleheader.
I really like that concept because I think it's a really fun day for race fans.
Almost if you're a college football fan, you can't wait until Saturday to pack all your racing in.
I think that's a tremendous idea.
The problem here is, though, the sport of NASCAR, in my opinion, in this particular instance,
isn't being led by NASCAR.
It's being led by Fox.
It's being led by TV.
It's being led by the opportunity to get ratings.
They're picking the best day.
and the best time to get those ratings because that allows them to sell ads.
Yeah.
And to go off on a complete tangent from spot on, spot off, every time in Iowa that these guys went to commercial.
The trucks wrecked, the Xfinity cars wrecked.
I don't think I saw one live wreck the entire day, the entire weekend.
Like, it's really weird because at no point, here's what's exciting about racing.
Restarts, the start, the finish, and the wrecks.
at no point during a football game do you miss a touchdown.
So how do we not miss Rex?
What do we do?
Because it's a problem.
Yeah, I think we would, you're just going to.
You got to ride it out.
You got to ride it out until the time comes, man.
And you never know, Rex, you can't tell when they're going to happen.
No.
You cannot tell the tires getting ready to blow or something.
So I think they need to be time better as well.
And people shouldn't be missing the action.
That's it.
You're missing the action.
You should not be missing the action.
You're not going to miss LeBron doing a two-handed dunk at any point during that basketball game.
I would have been disappointed to come back and they were already playing and there was a score change and a lead change or something.
I'd have been like, you know, what the heck, Randy?
Well, I mean, it's a little different too because most other sports are not all sports, but they have timeouts and we don't really have timeouts.
And we don't really have timeouts.
We're in a different, they have timeouts and they also have TV timeouts.
Right.
So we're in a different deal.
And, you know, when you.
MF the caution clock, which we all kind of do.
That's basically a TV timeout.
It's basically a TV timeout.
Now, 20 minutes isn't long enough for me because it eliminates the opportunity for a green flag
pit cycle.
So clearly that number isn't correct.
So it's almost like if we're going to have a TV time out, don't even tell us what the time is.
Just throw it in there and do it whenever and say, hey, guys, we're taking TV.
But my point is, missing Rex as a fan sucks because you're following on Twitter and you see
caution and you're like, oh, my God, was my guy in it?
And then you're relying on, you know, Josh to do his job on Twitter for one main racing to tell us because you get lost, man.
You're sitting home.
You don't know what's going on.
Yeah.
So do you like the split screen they do?
I do in Indy.
I love it.
Because, I mean, here's the thing, too.
If you do the split screen, they can come back quicker.
Right.
And then go back to the ads during the pit stop cycle.
So I don't know, man.
I know we went off on a tangent there.
But that got on my nerves this weekend.
All right.
Spot on, spot off.
Sam Hornish Jr.
leads 183 of 250 laps at Iowa and pulls off the wind.
Spot on, man.
Dude, did what he had to do.
You had the best car and showed it.
Yeah, definitely spot on for Sam.
You know, spot off for the entertainment factor.
Yeah.
You know, Elliot had a really fast car.
I think he peaked around third a couple of times.
Restarts where we're kicking his butt pretty good.
He'd end up fifth or six after, you know, some restart things.
You never know if they're on the splitter or loose or whatever.
But I think from second on back was a good race.
Spot on for Sam, man.
great racer, Indy 500 champion, IRL champion,
struggled a lot in stock cars, wrecked a lot in stock cars.
Cool to see a guy like that win.
Yeah.
All right, spot on, spot off.
JRM finishes 5, 6 and 7th.
Fifth, 6 and 7th.
5, 6 and 7th?
5, 6 and 7.
Don't even start with your camera.
Spot off, man.
I think that's probably one of our worst showings for the year.
And I think the good news is that's bothering us.
You know, I think a year ago, this organization would have been pretty happy with three cars in the top seven.
Now I think we've raised the bars of company.
Yeah, I feel like we've shown, they showed a little bit of speed and practice.
You know, I don't think I think we've gained in other areas this year, a mile and a half.
So I think we've gained.
A ton.
I think maybe we have kind of stayed the same at the short.
track still, maybe. We usually have a little bit more speed of the short tracks than that,
but that's still a solid showing to come out of their fifth, sixth, and seventh.
I don't think there's anything to be ashamed about, you know, especially Sam had such a
dominant car. You know, that's really, he just whipped everybody, so, yeah. I think that's a pretty
solid showing.
Who's, who's, who's ranting today?
Well, you're ranting. What's your rant? You're to Iowa. What's your rant? Something
had to make you mad.
Nothing really made me mad at Iowa. You have to get mad.
Why?
Do you never get mad at anything?
No, I get mad at stuff all the time.
Okay, what did you get mad at Iowa?
What's the last thing you got mad at?
Probably when you picked on him by his tattoo.
That was a while ago.
He had to be mad after that.
Yeah, I'm still mad about that.
You should be.
And you should be mad about five, six, and seventh.
I got a rant.
Oh, that's a good.
I got a real issue with some stuff going on in social media.
And I guess it's somewhat NASCAR
relevant. So Mike Wallace and his daughter are allegedly attacked at a concert, okay? And then they
take to social media to try to bring these guys to justice. Okay, first of all, I will say this.
There's three sides to the story. There's the Wallace side. There's the Lucas side. And then there's
the truth. Okay. We don't necessarily know the truth. And I'm not going to say that we know anywhere
near the truth. But the reality is Mike Wallace got the shit kicked out of him. And when you look at that,
You say, all right, guys are guys.
They're going to fight.
Whatever's going to happen.
There's going to happen.
Here's my issue that I have.
If a girl, truly, his daughter, laid on top of an unconscious man and these three guys continue to kick her, these guys need to go to prison.
Like, we as a society have become way too relaxed and letting males hit females.
And if you're a guy listening to this show and you want to hit a girl, please tweet me.
I will send you my cell phone number.
I will come and meet you and you can hit me instead.
And if you're a girl listening to this show and you're getting hit by a guy, leave him.
He's a piece of shit.
If he treats his mom poorly, his sister poorly, or he's hitting you, leave because he's never going to treat you the way you need to be treated.
So I sit there and watched all this play out on social media and I saw these fans completely attack this company.
That's not what my comments are about.
We should never be hitting a female as a society.
It's a shame.
Yeah, my, you know, whether who started, it doesn't even matter who started it.
There's a point when the fight's over.
The guy's laying down.
There's three of you, one of him, two of him, or whatever.
The dude's laying down.
You've proved you're bigger, stronger, whatever.
You're drunk.
Go home.
You don't need to continue to kick the guy in the face.
Look at it.
Look at him, man.
That's not just to win the fight and leave thing.
That's a beat down.
That's a crime, man.
That's a crime.
It's excessive.
He's defenseless at that point.
You need to realize that and go.
on from it and I don't know man they need to you know whether who's so or not that's that's too far
that's too far they need to be they need to be punished I'm from a small town people fight it is what it is
it's always going to be that way you know but can't can't hit girls can't guys should never be
hitting girls it's it's a shame did you get any fights growing up in pageland yes I probably lost way
more than I won but I did get in some in pagell and other town
too.
Ch y'all fight in New York?
My school was really small.
We didn't have very many at all, really.
75 people was my graduating class.
We were 140.
I was over 500.
Yeah, so we all basically knew each other.
Maybe one time a year would all there be a good one that you went down to the basketball court.
There must not have been enough girls there to cause a fight because that's usually in my school.
What started was a girl?
There is half and half, but like once a year we would have a good basketball court.
fight where two everybody
would hear about it throughout school and two guys
are good down there and meet the basketball court and
swing it a little bit and then everybody go home
but to the point
TJ made I mean it wasn't a five on one
a three on one I mean no it's like
I don't like you you don't like me you're not
gonna win three on one no I mean
it's that's just a show off thing
the when you win a three on one
that's just a that's just a show off
ridiculous thing it's not even a
honestly it's not even a fight
it's not fair no
especially
when the girls laying on her dad.
I mean, that's ridiculous, man.
Have a little bit of respect, okay?
You just beat him up.
Yeah.
So anyway,
Sonoma.
TJ, what was her last race that?
I don't remember where we were.
Michigan.
I had Matt.
He beat Biffle.
So I pulled out an A guy.
You've had a, you've had a lot of,
I had a couple weeks.
A lot of, like, less than 30 to go help.
Yeah.
I mean, Dover, there.
I mean, less than, I had you,
all the way till 30 to go.
No doubt.
So let's see here.
Sonoma.
I got to pull up who's even in this race,
because I feel like I don't know what you're going to do right here.
I already know what's going to happen.
What's going to happen?
One of us is going to have Almondinger for this race
and one of us is going to have an Almondinger for the Glenn.
Hala?
I mean, that's the only way to do it.
It's the only race you want to pick the guy.
I know.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean,
so I don't, I mean, it's the only,
Who do you pick against him, though?
I don't know.
That's what I'm saying.
There's not really a good.
AJ kind of stands out right now at the road courses.
I mean, I know these other guys are good, but AJ, we've kind of lost the ringer,
the road course guy in our field.
AJ's kind of the last one.
He's the only, this is, yeah, I mean, if Juan Pablo were still here, there's two races
you're going to pick Juan Pablo.
Marcus.
Marcus.
Marcus.
There's two races.
We're going to burn up AJ Amandinger right here on these races.
And the Glenn in here is going to be AJ.
It's going to be it.
So I'm going to wait until Waukins Glen, I think, to pick him.
But it might not be my pick then.
Yeah.
So I almost have to take him now.
It's hard to know when to play defense, you know.
And right now you're on offense because you're picking first.
So really, I just got to go AJ right here.
He's committed AJ Amadinger.
Well, it might not be my pick at the Glenn.
Then if you –
Hey, if I lose the week before, I'm taking him there.
I know, exactly.
Then he's not there for you to pick.
Exactly.
So I got to take him now.
I will give this to you, man.
Very smart play.
I hope that...
You're basically going to have to concede this and hope he has bad luck this weekend.
I hope his transmission guy and his gear guy and they all really do their job well, you know, for your sake.
Because for my sake, I'm going to go with a dark horse guy.
I'm going to go with Paul Menard Nation, the empire.
and just let that solid stone face intimidate AJ all weekend and basically beat him.
The only chance you have this happening is if AJ has bad luck and something breaks.
Like there is no way.
No.
Paul's going to outdrive.
There's no way.
But Paul's going to stay on the track.
He's going to finish on the lead lap.
Yeah.
He's a safe driver.
AJ is going to drive like a dingling at some point and miss a shift and blow up a motor.
Like I'm relying.
I don't know though.
He won the glint.
He did.
His last road course was victorious.
Yes.
So maybe he's learned.
He did.
I'm banking on that.
I just screwed up.
I should have took Jamie McMurray.
But I'm going to live with my pick.
And best of luck.
Hey, there's no doubt.
T.J. has an A-level guy here and I got a C-plus level guy.
We can't use the other A-level guys for this place.
Can't.
You can't do it.
No.
So, and these are.
Which is Kyle, Kurt, Jimmy, Harvick.
Those guys are fast.
But these are.
Typically Clint, you know, a little bit of unpredictability there.
I feel like I can gain on you.
now because the odds are in my favor this weekend.
And then when we go to the Glan,
you're going to obviously have A.J.,
because I won't be able to pick him.
Unless.
But you win a week before.
Yeah, but I still can't pick him.
Then you lose a week before, I'm sorry.
I still can't pick him.
Oh, no, because you're out of him.
Yes.
Yeah.
So you're going to have AJ at the Gland.
Maybe that's a push.
But these races are the only thing that we have against her is if the caution comes out.
Yeah.
And you've already passed our offensive.
finish line and my guy's on the back side of the track.
Yeah. I'm going to the front.
Yeah. It's cycling that way. That's how Kyle
wants Sonoma last year. He got two cautious.
These are two back-to-back wildcard
weekends for us. Not us as
in me and TJ. Us is in road course
and then a plate race. Road course
has produced great racing now. Oh, I love
them, man. These guys are good road course
racers too. And the fuel
strategy is fun. Yes. Oh,
is there a guy on the tires? Pit, pit, pit, pit, pit. I mean,
that's legitimately. Kyle Bush was not
going to win Sonoma. No. He was
running, you know, he was ways behind us, and we were actually pretty competitive.
Yeah.
But we were past start, finish line.
We were past pit road entry, and he wasn't.
There was a guy on the backside of the track that went off, put it.
Kyle hits pit road right before the car comes out, cycles him to the front.
And Kyle Busch is obviously no slouch.
You give Kyle Busch to lead.
Anywhere.
It's going to be hard to pass the guy.
Anywhere.
So, and we actually came back up through with some tires late in the race, and we're
pretty competitive.
It's just, we just had to use a little bit too much of them up.
I think we got to the top four or five-ish.
We were right there.
But it's good, man.
There's pit strategy.
Cars going off, and you really have to pay attention to the spot or where those cars go off.
If he stopped and if he's going to keep rolling.
Because you can make a huge impact on the rest of your race.
And they made it harder for us because it used to be when you ran off.
You buried your car in dirt.
We knew the caution was going to come out.
We could say pit.
Now you see the guy run off.
It's on asphalt.
You don't know if he's going to.
gonna get going.
Yeah, or, you know, a lot of times, if you see a guy hit the tires, those tires out there
just eat race cars.
So, yeah.
They're not dangerous.
No.
It's like a safer barrier, but they shreds them.
They shred the cars and they fling them around a little bit more.
Yeah.
With a safer barrier, they kind of hit and come to a stop.
With tires, it kind of rebounds them back out.
It can be a little bit, but there's no real tires that close.
I mean, we put Matt the tires there a couple years ago, and it was pretty big,
He didn't, it wasn't hurt at all, but it looked way worse than what it was.
Yeah.
So, but it's a, it's one of my favorite places to go.
I'm looking forward to going there.
Yeah, watch turn four, watch turn seven, watch turn 11.
That's where all the accidents happen.
This is one of Clint's better tracks.
He's won there, ran third there last year.
It's a big test for Harry Scott Motorsports to see how far they've come in a year to be able
to put a good car under him to find out if he's able to run.
Because if he's able to run top 10, top five, it says a lot for their company.
So you're predicting top 10?
Yeah, yeah, top 10.
I mean, to your point, you've got to have the right strategy.
Yeah, I mean, it could be, you could be a seven.
Clint's a top five driver at this racetrack.
You could be a seventh-place car and end up 20th if you're not on the right side of the strategy there.
Yeah, it's all matters when the yellows come out.
Clint's certainly a top five guy at this place.
Statistically, we'll back that up.
Being fast doesn't hurt, and that's always in the, like, AJ, that'll be one of AJ's advantages.
He'll be really fast.
Really fast.
But like before, if the top's eight, 10 cars are past pit road entry and the caution comes out, and it's close to a window, he's going to restart eighth or ninth or probably 10th, maybe.
You know, you never know where you're going to come out.
And then he's got a knife all the way back through them guys.
For sure.
He'll be fine, man.
I hope you guys tune in.
Yeah.
We'll have a lot to talk about next week.
So thanks for doing the live call-ins.
Maybe Kristen will join us next week.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe.
I think she's getting her nails done.
I think so.
That's what I heard.
You know, she's got a gluten allergy, though.
Maybe she was drinking beer for breakfast and something happened.
Yeah, maybe.
Who knows?
Get well, Kristen, hashtag.
Yeah, get well, Kristen.
We missed you today.
Thanks to One Maine for having us, Exhaught the studio.
Yeah, I appreciate you all.
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