Door Bumper Clear - 229 – Richmond II: Fueled by Fireball

Episode Date: September 13, 2021

Richmond Raceway hosted Week 2 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs over the weekend and Brett Griffin, T.J. Majors and Freddie Kraft return to cover all that went down on the short track.The gang starts by discussing the special patriotic tributes performed by the track as Saturday’s races fell on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Then they debate the quality of the race, as Brett challenges producer Jason Schultz’s tweet from Saturday night. Plus, hear what the spotters thought when Kurt Busch’s early race wreck resembled Jerry Nadeau’s from the early 2000s at Richmond.Before spot on, spot off begins – the spotters open the liquid courage that presenting sponsor Offerpad delivered for the show. And the ensuing conversations do not disappoint.Dale Earnhardt Jr. returned behind the wheel in the Xfinity Series race at Richmond and T.J. paired up with his former driver once again. Hear what T.J. thought when Dale yelled at him for providing lap times and how he responded to the advice T.J. shared leading into the race.Martin Truex Jr.’s race started rough as he was penalized for beating pole sitter Denny Hamlin to the line. Post-race, Truex questioned what his response should have been to avoid the penalty. The spotters weigh in on what needs to happen in that situation for drivers to not have to give up position.Joe Gibbs Racing has started the playoffs strong with two consecutive victories. The crew analyzes why they were so good on Saturday night and their outlook heading into the remaining post-season races. Will they present a challenge to Hendrick Motorsports moving forward? The crew debates.After this weekend’s race at Bristol Motor Speedway, four drivers will be eliminated from championship contention. Who’s in trouble? What needs to happen for teams to advance through the first elimination race? Who will make it? The spotters share their opinions.With the 2022 NASCAR schedule expected to be released this week, the guys share rumors they’re hearing. Plus, they discuss whether any track on the schedule deserves more than one date.In Reaction Theatre, hear T.J. respond to getting called out by Dale Jr., what fans thought about the quality of Saturday night’s race, and more. 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.

This is Freddie Craft, and you're listening to Doorbumper Clear, presented by Fireball. And Offerpad. They actually Offerpad presented the Fireball. That's what happened. We're back from Richmond with a lot to talk about. We'll cover Dale Jr. Yellen to TJ, Martin Cho-X Jr. going from a lap one penalty to Victory Lane, close playoff cut line points heading into Bristol, and much more.

Kick it. Close enough. Nobody's listening, but I don't care. I'm on an episode. of door bumper clear. Hey everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. It's part of the two cup car.

I had eight Xfinity for my... Look at Shugo. Once a year, man. Once a year. But yeah, full house again. What's up by by Brett Griffin in the house? I was off this past weekend. I am headed to Bristol though and ready for a fun and wild weekend up there in the old

rolling hills of Tennessee. Yeah, what's up? Freddie Crafts, bought her for Bubba Wallace, Jeb Burton this weekend. You know, normal race for us in Richmond. What's up, Casey? Hey, guys. I would also like to nominate Freddie already for One Idiot this week for being late. I was three minutes late.

I really apologize. Why were you late? I was looking for my phone. I lost my phone for literally 15 minutes. You were just tweeting 20 minutes ago. You look like you're half asleep. I am probably half asleep. I am probably more than half of sleep, to be honestly.

It's hot in here today. It's usually cold. It is hot. I think Leah found a thermal. I think it feels normal. I'll tell you what we can cool down with. There's a frozen bottle of fireball sitting over there. Isn't that?

It's a frozen bottle of fireball. Should we open that up now for you guys? I friend Kyle Rush with Offpad drop by, and he dropped the bottle of fireball in the parking lot. I'm like, I'm going to be glad that thing's plastic. I witnessed it as well. That's plastic. That's plastic. That's not plastic.

I felt like he was mad. Is it plastic? Oh, it's definitely plastic. It hit asphalt. It's plastic. It hit hard. It did not hit as hard as hard as bubble. Wallace hit the other night.

Jesus. Hi, Jason. Hey, what's up? Jason. Brett. How was your weekend? It was good. Were you off this weekend, or did you stay home or what? Oh, yeah. Just watch some football. Football's back. Very exciting. Really? I didn't know. Yeah. Jason was one of the people on Twitter about how bad the race of Richmond was. Which it was. And I had to have an intervention with him and basically outline all of the things that were making this race.

Amazing. Good. And the best race ever. The purest, the purest out there, people like me that are just angels and purists. Pure. They were loving. People that have his point of view. Jason should never be allowed to give his opinion on races because he has zero idea on what things used to be like and what they are now. Richmond.

Am I not wrong? Richmond is no idea. Honestly, though, I think Jason has more knowledge than you realize. Thank you, Casey. I thought you were about to say more knowledge than you looking at TJ. I was like, oh, this is going to get fun. No, then you realize. This dude was wearing Kyle Busch pajamas three years ago.

And you're going to tell me he has a lot of knowledge? Yes. Have you seen some of his tweets? Have you seen the show sheets? Yeah, exactly, the show sheets. Oh, so you watch the race. He's complaining. He's also complaining this week on Twitter about, I don't have anything to put in the show sheet.

So I had to go on Twitter and help him there too. So, Jason. Oh, you want to backtrack your statements here, okay? I had to dig deep this week. All the excitement from the races. I'd also like to give you a shout out for your TV setup because that will never happen in our house, so good job. Does you have multiple TVs, Jason? Three football, three games, going at once.

I think we had two yesterday that were, it's kind of fuzzy. Why was it fuzzy? Because Brett came over. What was so important that you needed to watch three games at once, Jason? No, just watch them all. It just feels good to watch football again. There's more than three games going on. I know, but like, what's, what do you have going on with, Jason?

that you need to watch more than one or two at a time. A lot of fancy football players. He was watching his survivor pick. Yeah. 49ers almost lose it. Brett had your survivor pick go this week? I had the Lions yesterday, plus 9. What an idiot.

I won. All the Lions that won. I won. Lions plus 9. They came back. Oh, plus not. Oh, well, that's not. I'm talking about Survivor.

I just know he just handed me another $100. I handed you $100 because I was dumb enough to pick Green Bay. I was like, neutral sight. You know, the Saints have a quarterback hadn't played two years. They're kind of all. that Drew Breeze hangover. He looked good in preseason, though, man. And wow.

That preseason don't mean nothing. I mean, typically. TJ, who'd you pick? I picked the Carolina Panthers. Did Alex survive? Alex you survived yesterday? Who'd you have, Alex? That's who I had.

They tried to give that game away the Niners. Yeah. I'm trying to, because there's a system the same way where if you use worst teams to win throughout the year, it pays off better at the end? So, yeah, essentially. But we put stuff in for the end to try not to get it to a tiebreaker are like picking against the spread and stuff. Yeah.

But it's still... But the same thing, yeah. The tiebreaker is... So if you leave good teams for the end and win with worse teams, it pays off near the end of the season. Or you just lose with teams and keep paying $100 like I'm doing.

That's my strategy. My favorite part of the end of the year, so the tiebreaker was, though, you got to use basically... If you have the best teams left, you win, right? So all these guys with like three weeks to go last year, like, hey, we're gonna...

I got to figure out that I got to use a good team. You know, I can't use a good team. So they all used teams, and then they all lost the last week. one guy's won. I picked the Texans. The Texans were actually pretty good. They weren't pretty good, but like, I thought they were going to win. They screwed me. So this week on NFL today. This is super interesting, guys. I'll BS's side, though, man. It was obviously a very surreal weekend. Having 9-11 happened 20-year anniversary, seeing us as a sport do a lot of patriotic things. We are

hands down the most patriotic sport in the world. I mean, I don't think any other fan. loves their country more than, more than NASCAR fans, loves America. So hard to watch, hard to swallow, hard to relive a lot of those moments. But also a lot of gratitude for those men and women who were first responders. I watched an episode last night with the FDNY special and their families. You know, their kids that were eight and nine years old at the time are now firefighters in those same units. And, man, it's just, it's humbling. A lot of gratitude, though, for what those guys and gals do.

some of those documentaries like are I don't know how to describe it man like you get like they're in depth man like it really makes you think about it and put you in the in the situation and you had so many waves of people affected obviously you had the first responders that they affected but then you had the first responders for weeks to come affected because of the health things that they had to endure and what they were breathing is they were in there doing their jobs and I mean a couple three thousand people died because of that. And then obviously you had men and women, you know, fighting the war overseas. You had several thousand people die there. So it, the ripple effect of 20 years ago was, again, special weekend. Love, love seeing what our tracks and our drivers and our sponsors. I mean, how many sponsors gave up significant inventory on their car, even Dell Jr. sponsor, who only does that one race a year with him in order just to honor those men and women. So hats off to all those entities that was really something. and special to watch.

Pre-race was incredible to watch. Totally. So, hats off to those guys. Well, Richmond, Saturday Night Race. Jason loved it. Yeah, Jason was thrilled. Jason, do you want to give us a rundown while you're on it? What happened?

Nothing. Tell us what you really feel. Jason, tell us what was wrong with Richmond, please. I can't wait to go. Compared to Darlington, the attrition at Darlington, I thought was way more intriguing throughout the race, a lot of playoff drama, a lot of storylines. I just like when races have things happen throughout that make for some dramatic moments. Okay, so you don't think Kurt Busch exiting the race very early.

Was playoff trauma? It was promising then nothing else happened. I tell you what, man, I watched that crash. I don't know if you guys were looking at it, but it literally looked like the same spot and the same hit as Jerry No. Didn't they do back in, I don't know, man, 2003 or something. And the rumor was back then that Nehdu hit so far. flush that his seat gave into the window net and that his head essentially made contact with

the concrete barrier. And that was what, you know, made him be in the mental state he was in from that point on. So when I watched that play out, my heart sunk and I was like, oh, no, this is the same flush hit in the same freaking spot as they do. And the next thing you know, Kurt comes popping out, gives this interview. You can tell all those marbles are intact. And it's just like, praise Lord. But, man, that was.

Did you guys see it? Yeah, I watched it, and it was it loud? I didn't really hear that one, but I thought the same exact thing whenever it happened. When I saw that, I was like, oh, I hate when guys spin out and go driver's side, because it just seems to spin around, and it goes the same way every time. It spins around and it's like driver's side first, right, like square to the wall. The coolest thing, T.J., and I hate to say cool, but there's a camera that was in turn two. and where that camera was at, TJ?

When he hit, you literally saw the wall, like, do a wave all the way to that camera. So you could see all of that energy moving versus Kurt Busch's head and body taking the brunt of that hit, man. So next year, we're in a new car. We're at Richmond. We're going to have 650 horsepower. We're going to have a wider tire. How's that thing? How's it going to race?

What do you think? For Jason's sake, hopefully better. I don't know how you know. You know, I have no idea. Yeah, I don't really know how you know. You know, it's 100 less horsepower than we had last night. Wider tire. Wider tire.

And we've seen speed. Like I told you, we saw that Bristol test, the Daytona test. The cars are seconds slower than they have been in the past. I don't even think it's about speed. And listen, if they're at Daytona and they're two seconds slower, we talked about it, it's hard to see it. If you're at Richmond and you're two seconds slower, you're going to see it. The average race fan is going to. to see that they're noticeably slower.

I don't necessarily think it's all about the speed. It's just about how stuck that thing is to the racetrack. Like, you watch the Xfinney race, so I'm sure we'll cover more of the Xfinney race in a little bit. But before the race, you know, I know those cars are more of a handful to drive. And so I'm texting with my Xfinity driver, you know. Ricky. Before the race, I'm like, look, low out of four. do not chase it to the wall with done do not chase right rear to the wall like a rookie you know like

and what do you say back to that he's no he's like 10 4 good info good info and i'm like all right you know just look don't overdrive it and i swear to gosh every time in middle of three and four we are in the throttle a car length early and we are driving it out to the wall and i'm like so i told them once I'm like hey you know just easier on the throw out of four nice and low and straight drive out and start finish line when you know as you get there and Taylor comes on and is like yeah the the data confirms what you're telling him like they can see it on SMT and stuff so I'm like okay I'm telling them once I'm not telling him again I'm not telling him again that's how you get a butt chewing yeah which I think you got anyway it was yeah don't worry we'll cover it

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Yeah, I'm going to send this over to the professionals here. I may go ahead and tell you, it is nice and cold. Good. I don't like hot fireball. It's good because it's hot in here. Yeah. It is hot in here. Can you please turn the air down? I think it feels normal.

You guys all complained about how cold it was and now we're getting screwed. I think it's normal. Jason, you want a shot? No, thank you. Are you really hot? Jason, don't be a wuss. I forgot to point out with my race analysis. I was drunk too, so that could have been influenced.

Also, now the truth's coming out of a Richmond analysis. And you're going to take that out of the show too, right? No. I'll leave. At three white claws before the cup race first. Yeah. That's what's funny. It was like yesterday, Freddie made some barbecue on its brand new pit boss grill.

And we had some... You put it together? Yep. We had some saw. And we had some barbecue sauce. And it was an amazing sandwich, and I tweeted a picture of it. And all these people started making fun of my Miklova Ultra that I'm drinking. They don't realize that we've had Fireball and Don Julio and Patron and everything else to go with it.

Half these clowns that are tweeting to me would be puking before halftime if they try to hang out with us. But whatever. Cheers. Ew. V vomit. Good old day. All right. Well, let's, do you want to have like two more to make spot-on-spot-off even more?

Last time I drank that stuff, I entered up on stage at Dell Jr's birthday party downtown. You haven't drank it from that long? I don't think I've had fireball since then. It's probably a good thing. TJ, go for it. No, I'm good. I had four fireball shots, three or four. It was Regan Smith's fault completely.

100% Regan Smith's fault. Oh, all right. Spot on, spot off. First topic, TJ. Oh, ironic. Get ready for it. Deal Jr. says, I don't know what a good lap time is, so what the fucking kind of information is that?

To TJ during the Xfinity Series race at Richmond. You were just bragging about the information you were giving a pre-race. Maybe you should have done it during the race, T.J. Yeah, well, it's what happens when you try. Spot off. What an idiot. You know, you know what, Richmond, it doesn't really matter what everyone else is running at that point in time. You're just trying to take care of your stuff.

And when you get singled out, you're not really near anybody. You just, like, every driver that I've worked with since then, likes lap times to kind of judge race against themselves in the track a little bit. We get singled out, and I give him his lap time because I was going to like, okay, he's going to just be consistent with this right here. You know, this is something to kind of aim for. No, right? I mean, it was immediately when I let off the button, it was, yeah, didn't want that.

Then five laps later, he was like, well, you could tell me it was a good lap or not. Okay. Yeah. So I said, that was a good lap because it actually wasn't a, a good lap. He slows down half a tenth of the next lap. And I'm like, that was an okay lap. And then he fell off like two tenths the next lap.

And I didn't even say anything. I told Taylor on too. I'm like, you can tell him that lap if you want. He's like, nope, I'm not telling him. Not telling him at all. You should have told him it was terrible. I almost did. You should have told him not to speed on pit road.

Well, then there's that too. It's funny because we did our pit road run and everything and whatever. Everything was good. And then we speed on pit road. And then all of a sudden, these lights are all over the place. in here. Now they're all over the place. This was vintage Dale Jr. He was in. He was the same position we were in. He was prime position. He had tires.

We were going to run top five probably. Yeah, there's only five or six guys that had stickers to put on. Yeah. And we were one of them. Dale was one of them. And we both went to the back. Dale spent up at road and we had uncontrolled tire. It happened some of the time, all the time. That's one of his quotes from back in the day. Okay. Yeah. What do you mean? Brett, what do you think? I was spot on. You know, obviously it's great to see TJ and Dale Jr. get to work together again. I know that TJ probably doesn't realize it at the moment, but one of these days, man, you're going to have your last race together. So take it all in. I miss

Elliot every single week at the racetrack and miss working with him, you know, on the radio. What a great guy. And so I'm just spot on for the fact that... Yeah, but Elliot doesn't cuss. No, not at all. I'm just spot on for the fact that Dale Jr. came back and gave you grief within the first 100 laps or whatever it was. Even before the race, it sounds like. No, he was actually really receptive. this stuff before the race, like a couple of notes here and there and put that helmet on. What was the deal with Josh Williams? Yeah, I saw, I didn't see any of it during the race, but I saw a bunch of tweets after the race. He is racing the heck out of us, which I mean, whatever,

fine. I mean, we run him down. No one's really nearest, and he's racing that's super hard. Well, he doesn't get him one time out of two. I think I poured you more than I poured myself. Then he hits him a second time, and he jacks him up pretty good. And he's like, hey, go tell him, sorry, I don't know where the corners of this car are yet. So go tell Reed Sorensen that, you know, hey, I think Josh Williams is a little mad at the time, but he was actually out on pit road waiting for Dell Jr. to finish his interviews. Jason, he brought me a water. But, yeah, he got into him a couple times.

And then we got... Josh Williams is a good little racer. I think he's got potential, you know. Obviously, you're only going to go as fast as your car will go. He does a good job of getting most out of it. Did you spot for him when he was one of those Arka races? Well, we... The plate races?

We won that one. They took it from us and they gave him to Brennan Pool. Remember that race? I don't remember. We were leading, yeah. I used spot for Josh in the Arka car. But the best part was people probably didn't see it is we're in the back there, obviously Spab.

We're coming off four. We're outside the 47. I mean, we're four wide on top of like four wide. In this point, I know he's having fun too. but he's driving around everybody. Well, Kyle Weatherman comes up, like, we're not even out there off of four and just puts him in the wall. Like, fences is pretty hard. Yellow comes out.

He hits Kyle Weatherman off a turn two, square in the back. I saw that. Like, hard. And after the race, I guess Kyle came up to him and was like, hey, I got to fix that. He said, well, don't put me in the wall. Get out of here and go fix your stuff. How about the, while we're on the weatherman topic, he was in a, he was in a, 47, right? Yeah, he was. Who was in the 74

that tried to pit from, you know, I don't know, Washington? I don't know who was driving a 74 car, but did you see him? He pit from the fifth lane. Yeah, he had a problem off of two, and you could tell he was trying to get a hole. At that point, you just honestly, you just stay high

until the yellow comes out. And we saw this last week with, I think it was Tommy Joe, where he broke down the backstretch, and just listen, if you're broke, hold your lane. Like, do not start moving when the pack's coming because who was it? I think it was Riley that wiped him out. Oh, Riley. He's centered on me. Because Tommy Joe started moving down and guys were scattering around them. But I mean, if you're broke like that, just until you have a hole, stay up or

stay down, wherever it's at, like, you know, just get off. I mean, if I ever run a race and I get a flat tire or something's wrong, I'm going to run about five-mile hour in the far outside groove until they throw the yellow and then I'm going to speed up a little bit. C.J. McLaugh and it was in the 74. That makes sense. That car had a problem before the green too, didn't it? It was stopped. One of them was blown. I think that was Weatherman. One of them stopped in the middle of the backstretch before we went green. I think Weatherman had to go to the garage before the race ever started. It was smoking.

Got to fix that too. Spot on, spot off. Martin Trex Jr. says, what am I supposed to do? Slam on the brakes and crash the field behind me? It's ridiculous. After being penalized for beating polls there, Denny Hamlin to the line at the start of Saturday night. You can't go by one way. What you're supposed to do is not beat the fucking leader to the line. Like, I think the locking the brakes up is a little dramatic.

You know if you've got to run on the guy. Our restart rules have lightened up a little bit. The only time you can't beat him to the line is the initial start. So if you know that if you've got to run, you obviously see he's right next to you. You know he needs to beat you to the line. If you've got to run and you've got the momentum, you've got to give it back a little bit. You don't have to stop. You just got to make sure he beat you to the line.

He's been, Brett's been involved. There's been, Brett was involved in Indy situation like this. I was a lot of Dover as well. Yeah, Dover as well. At Dover with Elliot Sadler, Ty Dillon was behind us. And Elliot saw what was going down. I was telling him what was going down. But Ty Dillon was locked on our bumper and he pushed us by the leader.

And we got black flagged. And literally there was nothing else, nothing more we could do. I love Martin Truex. I love Drew Herring. I think this provided, I'm spot on for this because it provided great drama to start the race. Jason clearly needed. Jason, you clearly missed the drama, the race winner. Got black flagged on the first f***ing lap and you think this race is boring.

Congratulations. So, the spotter's job coming to the green is to tell his driver, coming to the green, you cannot beat the 11 to the line. It's his job every single time. Just like stay in line, toll start finish line. Just like on the following restart, your job, if you're on the front row, is to say, coming to the green, he has to beat you to the throttle. You can beat him to start, finish.

Now, if the spotter did that, that makes it even more of a Martin Truex problem. And then it becomes an awareness thing, like Freddie said, and it becomes a spotter driver communication thing. You are phenomenal, Martin Truex. You are a future Hall of Famer. You look like a rookie. I'm sorry. Am I wrong, Fred?

Tell me I'm wrong, Freddie. The penalty really seemed to ruin his day. It killed him. I mean, I mean, he got, I think he got back up in top ten for stage points in the first stage. But, I mean, like you said, there was no pass in Jason. Jason's going to do. Zero pass in this show. Oh, man.

What an idiot. I don't, you know, like I said, I don't know, what an idiot. I've got a stat. Go ahead. What's our stat? No multi-car accident in the last 1,200 laps at Richmond, according to Jeff Glock. Okay. Well, that's not really like a short track.

That's not true because the last race there, I don't remember. I can't think about Saturday night, but I remember the last race there, somebody wiped out Newman. Was it Cindrick? Like Cindric on a pit stop came out of the pits and got on a splitter, like in the middle of the pit cycle. Yeah, turn three. And drove it like, so that's a multi-car. I mean, maybe only Newman might have been the only one to wreck, but that's still a multi-car accident.

That's a flawed stat, Jason. I'm already slurring. This is going to be a bad show. Keep going. Your blood alcohol content is high. Yeah, you got to. TJ, spot on, spot off. I mean, spot off, man.

You got to know all the starts of the initial race. You watch. The second place guy gets destroyed every time because he knows if he passes that guy and it's not worth that, it's not worth having to pass the entire field again. So that's the advantage that the poll setter gets. So, yeah, I mean, when I saw him take off, I was like, does he know something I don't? Like, but this is, I don't know. spot off you just got to know

like can't do it yeah that's the only time you can't do it is that one start the initial start yes the rest of them you can the rest of like every honestly we were we were 20 we started 27 so I didn't see how much

he beat him to the line by or anything that was quite a bit was it I mean but I'm just saying like any other restart would have been a penalty he beat him to the line by three quarters of a car length yeah he was clear before one it wasn't even close yeah he was clear and I was like well they're going to black flag this guy I don't think they would have black flagged him normally I was a

upset at one thing in the race. And I hate to call these guys out, but I'm going to call them out. Schedule our meeting. No, this is actually TV. This isn't going to upset Jay Fabian today. Although, before the race, when they sent Kyle Larson to the back and he drove to the fourth in the first stage, I was like, well, that's why we got in trouble last time.

I'm not going to tweet anything about it. I can't help it. TJ, I think Kyle Larson figured his package out. He just drove him last to fourth. Anyway, TV, Kurt Busch is the leader. He has no letters on his left rear tire coming to the green. TV doesn't mention it.

And then he ends up blowing the left rear tire, obviously wrecking. Major drama, Jason. This guy's a playoff guy. He wrecked. One piece of drama. But TV didn't touch on it until after the caution

and after they went back and looked at it and people pointed it out. Like, I still want to know why his left rear tire after a pit stop had zero letters on it and nobody ever said anything. I thought that I saw, I could be wrong.

I was a little hungover this morning. but I was going back and trying to find some stuff out. I thought I saw a tweet from Bob that had a quote from a call that they found a hole in the tire like he ran something over. Yeah, but the whole, there's no letters in the left here from the word joke.

Because I went back and tried to see it. I'm like, somebody got into him. I thought, nobody touched him. I couldn't. Yeah, and I, well, first thought I thought, not on the video I saw. I thought Blaney hit him. Then I realized Blaney didn't do it.

And then I went back and looked more and I'm like, I went all the way back to when they were rolling to the green. It was like that before they went green. Yes, sir. And I'm upset TV didn't call that out because somebody somewhere

should have said, oh, look, y'all, because I'm watching on TV, I almost tweeted, but I was like, N. Dale needs to give us better info. I'm surprised

whoever started third didn't realize it. What kind of info is that, Dale? Like, you got to call them out, T.J. I mean, they have just a few things going on, Brett. So you can go over the race next time.

Who was behind him on the restart? Most of the time, those drivers, they see that stuff and they'll go tell you. There's something, you know. They normally say that, hey, go tell the one his left rear is going down. Yeah, because they want him to pull down and get the lead.

Well, that, too, but, like, he goes into that corner spins out in front of you. He goes. You know, I don't know. Spot on, spot off. Eric Omerolla's team says Hendrick cars. Hangrick. Hendrick. I said Hendrick.

I think she said it right. Yeah, exactly. This side of the table is going to be off today. Just letting you know that. I mean, clearly. It wasn't clear, but it was. It could have went either way. I am sweating.

I don't know if it's the fire. If it's the heat in here, the lights. You are drinking fireball, so I am sweating to death. I don't think the thermostat has changed. It's a light. I'm telling you right now it's hot. You guys are making it very difficult. I'm taking my clothes off.

I'm taking my clothes off right now. Please do not do that. Turn the thermostat up. We will not be able to show any videos today. If we both take our shirts off, we got to switch sides of the table. If I had shaved my chest this morning, I would do it, but I didn't. I like John Rolto. We are, we would not be allowed to show any videos on this.

Why don't you and Freddie take both your shirts off and hug, see if you stick together? It's like a Velcro. See if you and Freddie can velcro each other. This show is going well. I know. Spot on, spot off. Eric Omerolla's team says Hendrik Cars got a 10th on the field again. So weird during the race.

Brett and Freddie, topless race. Okay, well, I can easily until you guys keep bringing it up. Brett, spot on, spot off. Spot off. They misspelled Joe Gibbs racing. I'm not real sure who said this on the red. I'm not real sure what race they were watching, but the Joe Gibbs racing cars, their statistics that at Richmond International Raceway are unfreeking unbelievable.

They dominate, they win. What if they won, like eight of the last 12 races or something there? You know, Martin Truex obviously has been really good there. Kyle Busch gave the race away by himself. I wonder if he MFs himself as much as the MFs his team when he doesn't like what the team does. But no, Joe Gibbs racing there is phenomenal. You know, obviously, Larson had some speed early. never saw William Byron all night.

What a big fail for him and him and Alex Bowman. They had an opportunity to really capitalize on guys' mistakes like Kurt Busch, and they flat out didn't do it. Yeah, I mean, like we said, Gibbs cars were obviously the class of the field I felt like all night. The thing that I come back to, and this is obviously off of this topic, but it brings something else up, was I felt like Chase was really the only one out of that camp. I mean, Larson was pretty good, but Chase was up there contending for the lead in that second stage, before the green flag pit stops,

and then they have another pit road mistake. This is two weeks in a road now for Chase. Last week, I don't know what happened. We got caught in that one caution, like, in the middle of the pit cycle. So half the field was kind of taken a wave or back into the lead lap. And Chase just drove by pit road when they were telling him to pit. Now, I don't know if he didn't hear him, if two people were talking, what it was, but he drives by pit road.

This is after he missed the pit road, trying to make a green flag stop at Darlington. but he misses pit road so now what that does he's a lead lap car he's running seventh or eighth but instead of being able to line up seventh or eighth when you pit at a cycle you have to pit you have to restart wherever you blend in with the other cars so now he restarted

in the mid-20s and got wrecked you know and it was probably our fault but we kind of squeezed the two of the guys in the wall but you know now but you put yourself but you put yourself back there in the 20s and that's the stuff they can happen to you Jason's not even listening you know but you know that's

If you put yourself back in the pack and pit wrote, so then this race, he's contending for the lead and slid into his box. I think he thought he slid through it. I don't think, I'm not 100% sure he slid all the way through, but he backed up and now he had a closed pit stop. And he went from racing for the lead to getting lapped in that one little 30 lap span there. So, I mean, you've got to, I mean, if you're going to contend for a championship again, you've got to clean up those mistakes for sure.

Sweet, just made some money. TJ? Something went straight up. That's when you sell. TJ, you're literally just sold. You're supposed to be the one that helps me keep the show on the trash. You're sober.

When something spikes you can make three, four hundred bucks. T.J. selling stock. You can make three, four hundred bucks. Freddie and I are drinking fireball. TJ. What? Oh my God.

I'm leaving. I'm going home. Spot on, spot off. I mean, spot off because they didn't win the race. I mean, if you say this, they got to win. They weren't. I mean, who? They're saying the Hendry.

cars they didn't like they weren't a factor all right let's let's let's let's stop here for a second because i'm going to put jason's back on the here we go back on the burner okay jason sent out a tweet after the xfinity series race how cool is it that the nine and eleven on nine 11 finished first and second and then fast forward we were in stage one and guess what the nine was leading the 11 was running second stage two i think nine 11 once again jason did you do you do you do come up with that on your own or do you steal that and somebody? You want another real answer? No, we want the fake one.

My friend Evan had said it during the race and he's like, I won't, no one will see if I tweet it. You should tweet it. So I tweeted it. I did not see it myself. I think that was the best tweet you've ever sent. It's a damn shame. It wasn't your idea. What did you say again, Jason? What do you say? It's friend David. It was nine and the 11 finished one two in the Xfinity race.

Oh, 9-11. Yeah, that's awesome. I thought that was incredible. I did too. I did too. It kind of gave me chills. Somebody said that on the spotter stand right out of the Xfinity race. And I was like, oh, that's because Jason tweeted it. Yeah. So Jason actually should have went viral, but it wasn't his idea to go viral. And then Jeff Gluck brought it up again in the cup race, you know.

And I was like, man, how crazy? Because Austin Dillon won the race that year, you know, on whatever anniversary of three. Like, it's just, it's weird how the number games works sometime. But no, I thought that was really cool. Fought on spot off. Jogob's racing teams are now the championship favorites after two victories at the 750 horsepower tracks to begin the playoffs. TJ, since you're clearly always paying attention, spot on, spot off. Man, they're tough right now.

I think they've shown a lot of speed here in the last few weeks, and it's probably not going to slow down anytime soon. Yeah, you know, I'm spot on. I hope that's the case, obviously being part of the team Toyota there. It's not. They're not the favorites. No, like, Joe gives. Whoever thinks they're the favorites.

If Jason made this up, he doesn't watch the race. It's a debatable topic to debate. I mean, look at the next one. I saw the next one. But Joe Gibbs Racing has always, always been very good three places, Richmond, Martinsville, Bristol, those short tracks, which obviously lends itself to the 750 package. But, you know, I've never really seen that translate,

like Phoenix its own animal. Like, you know, it's, it's complete. I've never seen that dump, that short track. track dominance translate over to Phoenix as far as them guys running well. The thing I wanted to talk about was, like, no matter who goes to Joe Gibbs racing, like they become a short track ace. You know what I mean? Like, we saw, like Denny was always the short track guy.

You know, I remember him dominating. Guess what he's done, Freddie? He's made a lot of guys better. But then he made Kyle Busch better. Then Martin Truex goes over there. Martin Truex wins every damn Richmond, every Martinsville race when he gets there. Guess why? Well, they named the track after him.

He was supposed to win there. Denny Hamlin. Yeah, I mean, Danny Hamlin made them guys better. I have to set my boss, so I have to, you know, I got my dad. But let's talk about the real thing. Jason said that they're the favorites. Guess where you got to qualify for the final round? You got to go to Texas.

You got to go to Kansas. Then you got to go to a short track, Martinsville. If you're not good on mile and a halfs, you're not going to make the final four. Yeah, which, I mean, obviously they're good pretty much everywhere. But the hindric cars have been the class of the field on the 550 mile and a half package. So it'll be interesting to see. You never know what's going to happen, though. Yeah, and we talk about this all year long.

The guys that are dominating in the middle of the summer aren't always the one. Everybody's kind of holding something back for the playoffs. We went to Homestead in 18, and we weren't supposed to be a factor. Yeah. So, you weren't even a part of the storyline. It was the big three. The big three were not a total of the storyline.

Earlier last year, we were talking about how Hendrick is not doing anything, and now look at them. I think that something else that you think about, like, I feel like the last two or three years, you get towards the end of the year and you're like, this is Danny Hamlin's year. You know, like he's coming into playoffs with all this momentum, you know, has he, and he kind of faded throughout the playoffs

and where he hasn't won a championship, obviously. I felt like this year, he almost kind of limped into the playoffs and, you know, gave up this regular season championship to Daniel, to Kyle. I wouldn't say limped. He was pretty strong coming out.

I'm just saying, but I'm saying he wasn't nowhere near. Compared to last year. Yeah. I've got a tweet. We're pulling up tweets today. Brett tweeted during the race. Richmond isn't Phoenix,

but it could be forced. shouting for who will be fast there. So do you not agree with that anymore? I do. I do. Freddie said he didn't agree with it. I do agree with it. I think that it tells you a lot. I also think that it just right now, man, you hate to say this because obviously T.J. has a seat at the table with Ford and Penske. But man, it sure seems like the Hendrick JGR show in terms of who's going to be able to win this championship. Yeah, they're going to be tough. I can tell you one thing. When we get to Phoenix, whoever the top four in points are, they will be the four fastest cars, believe it or not.

I feel like that's the way it's... That is the truth. I can't remember. You guys are telling me. I will say drivers... Even Ryan Newman that year. But people didn't race them, guys. I will say in the championship race,

you get raced the least amount of any race all year if you're in the child. They say in the driver's meeting to be cautious. Since we went to this, has the champion not won the race? He's won the race every year? Every year, right? Yeah.

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You know, 34 just probably doesn't have the spree. 34 screwed. So we talked about this before. Each of you guys, I want you to tell me who you think will be eliminated. So 3424 is probably my bet. But, I mean, we're going to Bristol. happens at Bristol. And it's stuff that's not of your making.

You know, like from, you're looking at the standings, from Ryan Blaney back to Kurt Bush, if anybody in that group wrecks from fifth to 12th, they're going to be out, you know, especially if it's early in the race and they don't have stage points. And this is stuff that happens that's not of your making. I remember that one year, remember Blaney's checked out leading the race and two guys just wreck in front of him and they slide up in front of him and he's out of the race, you know, knocks the nose off his stuff. Kurt's really good at Bristol.

I think he'll be able to defend that 12 spot or move up. And then I think somebody in the top that 5 through 12 range is going to wreck or get caught up in a wreck or have an issue and they're going to fall out and open the door for a Byron or a Reddick to get in there. Reddick's probably got some work to do. I mean, not Byron. Bowman and Reddick's got some work to do. Bowman's right there. But I think if like I said, I think somebody's going to have an issue in that 5 to 12 range and fall out. Brett, spot on, swallow.

I disagree with Freddie. You know, Ryan Blaney could not even start this race and probably still make it because there's too many people. between him and 13th for him to lose all those spots. I mean, we watched Kurt Busch fall out of the race on lap, what felt like lap one, it wasn't. But he literally finished dead last, and yet he's still in the playoffs because not enough people are able to make up that much ground.

William Byron will have to have two very successful stages in order to be able to make it onto the next round. Michael McDowell, sorry that race where you had problems puts you pretty much out. Here's the thing, though, man. You look at ninth, Brad Keselowski, who I said was, in trouble of not making the final, the next round of playoffs. He is really good at Bristol. Kyle Busch, he should have won the race last week.

He gave it away with a speeding penalty, really good at Bristol. Eric Amarola, good short track racer. Kurt Busch, really good at Bristol. Like that should be the storyline to me going to the weekend is, how good are these guys at Bristol? What I'm more worried about is a guy like Christopher Bell, who is 17 up. He's had some really good races, and when he has a bad race, they're really, really bad.

So if you see some of these guys, Alex Bowman just needs a couple really good stages, and then he's in, as can be said the same for Tyler Redick. So I think that pretty much the bottom four, as they're stated right now today, I think they stay the same. I see an Eric Amarola or Christopher Bell falling out. Interesting.

TJ, spot on, spot off. I mean, I hit to spot off it. Someone's got to go. I mean, it's a cut off. You don't want to, you hate to see it. but I do think William and Michael are in trouble. William, if William has a couple really good stages, but he doesn't have the best starting spot,

he's going to have to make up some ground. He's going to be a rocket. He's going to get up there near the top five for the first stage and probably top five second stage to get himself into this thing and then, you know, finish it off. But Blaney with 28 points over the cutoff and then, I mean, Bowman, that's to Bowman in Redick's five months. more than 18 he's got that's a big enough buffer i mean we we did not see two hundred cars being

eliminated in the first round yeah i didn't i wouldn't have thought that but i mean that's just how it goes man you never know do these guys race like pansies this weekend this saturday you think do you think we see you know these guys that are top 12 13 do you think we see them race super careful because they know they can't i'm telling you right now i think they're going and points eighth and points to 14th and points cannot afford a problem they're done i think think you just go and run your normal race. You drive a like you normally. Because if you go, if one of these guys goes in there, it's just bulldozing every way out of the way, you got this isn't a last race of the season. You know, you've got more coming. And look, you just go in there

and run the best race you can. Doesn't mean you change and, you know, you want to be aggressive, but you got to be, I want to say cautiously aggressive at the same time. But, you know, you got. One of these teams will overthink this weekend. Yeah, I mean. Between the crew chief, the engineers, and the driver, one of these teams, between 8th and 14th and points we'll overthink this weekend. I tell you who it won't be. It won't be Tyler Reddick. He's going to put his driver's suit on.

He's going to zip it nice and tight, and he's going to go after it. Now, if you are Hendrik, where you have two cars in potentially not making it to the next round, do you have team orders to ask your drivers who are pretty much locked in to help? You can't really help at Bristol. Like, that's the only thing. You can give them a break on a restart, meaning you can let them up or let them down, depending on what the lanes are doing. Even that's hard.

You can let them up 12 laps into a run if you see that the bottom lane's getting freight trained. But this is a really difficult place to help a teammate in general. You know what I mean? Because things are happening so fast. It's still a 15 second lap time. You're three seconds away from all hell breaking loose. You're in turn one and you hear wrecking on the backstretch. Guess what?

You're there in two and a half seconds. If you watch the race this weekend, it typically seems the first car that has, a problem and has to gather himself up the fifth six car in line are the ones that get turned around and the bad thing about Bristol is it's banked so when you get turned around you're going to hit the outside wall and then you're going to shoot to the bottom and either somebody's going to hit you or you're going to hit the inside wall this is not a place where you can wreck and typically not hit something very few people do that this is what makes Bristol an ideal cutoff rates because there's nowhere to hide we talk about we talk about these guys can they play it safe I mean you can

try to play it safe, but usually when you do that, you probably find yourself in more trouble. Like, you know, there's just nowhere to hide here. There's, and a lot of it, like we talked about, is not of your doing. Like Brett said, you know, somebody stacks up, you know, gets loose in front, he stacks up three cars ahead of you. Now you've got a chain reaction deal and you just knock the nose off your car and it has nothing to do with you except for the fact that you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So great, you know, great decision by NASCAR to make this a cutoff race and we'll see, you know, how it plays out. I'm guessing Jason is spot on times a million for this Brett said come up with creative topic.

So I came up with a creative topic. This is creative. Spot on, spot off. Richmond should only have one cup race a year. Jason? Spot on. Jason, she just took a spot at you. She basically said that wasn't creative.

I mean, no, this was just telling how he actually feels. Speaking of shots, Freddie is now grabbing the fireball. Casey, this is spot on. There's only two tracks on the entire circuit that deserve two races a year. Look at his hand. The first track that deserves two races a year is Daytona. The second track is Charlotte. Outside of that, we should not go to any race track.

As much as I love Darlington, South Carolina. As much as I want to go five times a year, every race track should only be once a year. Spot on. Give us Iowa. Give us Hickory. Give us whatever, TJ. What do you think? St. Louis.

Oh, St. Louis is coming no matter what. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I don't. I like. Richmond a lot. I like Richmond, but I'm also, I do like, like, I'd love to go to Gateway as well. I think it'd be, we're going. We're going to. I think it'd be phenomenal to go there. That schedule, has a schedule come out yet? No. What's the date? No one knows. Are we in September now? We are in September. Football's playing. Of course we're in September. Are we in the playoffs? We are in the playoffs. I'm wondering what we're waiting on a schedule.

This week. Here's what we're hearing about schedule. There is potentially only one-off. weekend from the time the schedule starts until the championship race. We're going to California three times, you know, which I think is a good thing, but a lot of people disagree. Just put the schedule out. What can't they wait? What could they possibly be waiting on? I mean, you tell us.

There's probably a lot of factors they have to consider it over COVID for one of them because, I mean, California, we didn't even go last year because of it. California's open. They plan football. Well, you don't know how bad things can get in the future. They're probably planning ahead. And there's probably a lot of other factors such as... Then you change it. We'll put it out.

Not wanting to get overshadowed by the playoffs, things like that. Just trying to, you know, play devil's advocate here. So, I mean... No. Listen, if we're starting to take races away, let's start with Pocono. That's a good one to take away. Go to Richmond. Go to Richmond.

I like Richmond. I think, listen, if you didn't think that was a good race Saturday night, then... You were drunk You know Yeah, you must have been You must have been drinking too many white Are you other idiots on Twitter? There's a lot of stuff

And maybe you just I understand what you're looking for Maybe in a race But this race had a lot of stuff going on You had different strategies Guys kind of short-pitting Trying to jump positions And then guys going long

And trying to get a tire advantage At the end of a run Listen, we're not Brett tweeted this I think I didn't read the tweet But I know we had to be genius You know we're not going to have A barn burner every week

You know We're not going to have you know, guys running into the wall on purpose coming to the checker flag every week. I mean, you watch baseball games. You watch football games. There's blowouts. You know, every once in a while there's a blowout. But I can tell you what's not going to happen.

Packers? Fireball is going to make a blowout later. What's not going to happen in a baseball game is you can't hit a 10-run home run. Casey just spit her drink out. Casey did a shot? What? You, you know, no matter how bad the baseball game is, you're not going to hit a 10-run home run. You're not going to score a 30-point touchdown.

down. There's no such thing. But at any point in our race, the reason why you watch a race is because at any point, the entire script can get flipped. And it takes one caution during the middle of a pit cycle. It takes a penalty for the guy leading the race. You know, a caution

with five to go there on night, and that's probably the greatest race in the history of Richmond. You know, like, that's the big, the difference about our sport versus other sports, you know, at any moment in our races, the entire race can get changed and turned on its head. So, I mean, I understand sometimes they're not the most exciting races to watch but you know i don't know what you can't have it every week you know well i was

going to be part of the best richmond race ever one time then cow bush said nope he wrecked you he wrecked you club boy or won i know is that why you don't like cow bus t jay no i didn't say i didn't like cow bush what people were tweeting this week as you don't like cow bush why because he said you don't like cow bush he doesn't like denny hamlin he doesn't like denny hamilton he doesn't like denny hamlin uh text me about you. What'd he say? He's 40 years old. Why are we talking

about the Hall of Fame right now? Because he's already in. Apparently. Apparently. Denny texts me. Reddit put out what you said about Danny Hamlin is not a Hall of Fame guy. And Denny took a screenshot of it

and he texted to me. And he said, yeah, and it's going to take Larson a long time to figure this package out. Freddie could figure this package out in that car. Even after that fireball he just had. I showed Freddy the screenshot. Am I lying? No, you are not.

He's got my number if he wants, you know. Geez, I didn't come here. He should be a guest in the show now. Listen, if he didn't sign checks for y'all sometimes, then I don't know what you're talking about. I think he's great. The guy's amazing. I got to tell you this story.

So yesterday, me and Bodie are going to baseball field. We're going to watch our buddy Ryle and play, and I put on a t-shirt. Well, I would hope so. Good start. Good start. No, but this is this guy funny. So thank you for that. Were you considering not?

Nike puts out all these hype shoes now, right? And these kids go crazy over them. My buddy Jake, man, he can get his hands on. Anyway, I've actually got on a pair of hype shoes today. But anyway, Bode comes up to me and he goes, Dad, how did you get Michael Jordan to sign your T-shirt? And I said, Bodie, Freddie and I were in the middle of nowhere in Texas. It rained for a solid week.

I ran out of clothes. I went to the Nike outlet and had to literally, remember those pair of underwear I bought? They were way too little. You go up to these underwear bin and it's like extra large. Why would he remember them? Did you hear this? Why would he remember them? Oh, yeah, he showed him.

Put the underwear bin and says it's extra large. Yeah, I came out with them on. I was purple. My belly button to the top of my head was purple. All right. I look like Barney. I literally go into this underwear bin and I'm like, man, I need three pair of underwear. We get back and I sh-it y'all not.

One pair is an extra small. Like, they wouldn't fit Casey. He sends me a picture. He's like, son of a fuck. Look at this pair underwear I just bought. I was like, oh. So I get to the ball game, and I had two different kids coming up to me asking me the same thing. How'd you get him to sign your shirt?

I'm like, these poor kids. Our future is doomed. Oh, my gosh. I would just like to say I actually want a pair of his. I still got the underwear. I'm going to bring him to Casey. Please don't. Oh, my gosh.

They're unused. Please, no, I don't care. I don't want to see them. Just please don't. I'm sure you will look better in the picture than he did. Denny's kids. have the nicest pair of Nike's, I mean, ever. I need a pair.

Like, I want one so bad. So, Denny, if you're going to sweet bread, text bread. I know. You got weird looking shoes already. You got the mother goose. Yeah, what's the hell that I'm doing? Mother goose. What is it called?

Mother goose. Well, I want some Nike's so. Golden goose. Golden goose. Is that really a shoe? I want, I want something like that. But I want the high top versions. I'm not worried about rolling ankles these days.

I am. All right. Sorry, we got off track. Jason, I apologize. Spot on, spot off. The NASCAR industry's use of social media to gauge fan opinions. Hamlin's crew chief, Chris Kavehart tweets, convenient metrics aren't always good ones.

Spot on, spot off, Brett, since you know all about this. I started this tweet. I actually sent out that we need to stop listening to these d'Iss on Twitter that find something, Jason, I may have actually been top of mind. Were you talking about Jason? You might have been top of mind. Rent free and Brett Gert can say. Listen to me.

These people tweet, we want more short tracks, we want more short tracks, we want to run a short track, and these people are nonstop about the fact that we're at a short track. They don't even know what they want. So I think that Chris Gay Party is on to something.

Chris is a good dude. I'd love to actually have him on the show because he's a lot smarter than all of us in this room put together. But no, I mean, the thing is, as Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, or MySpace and all these other things that are more and more people start listening to them

these people don't even have jobs so they damn sure don't know what companies need to be doing with their futures you can't take feedback on the internet when obviously I mean obviously I have seen my fair share of hate working with Bubba the last fight you know what it's ridiculous

and every one of them is a dog profile picture or a cartoon profile picture nobody ever wants to put their name to it a blue egg and and And people are only just, they're just antagonists. They're just trying to, you know, trolls, whatever you want to call them.

They're just trying to take the other side to get a reaction out of you or whoever, you know. And like, if you're factoring that into your, how you're running your business and any business, you know, that's insane in my opinion. You know, I don't know how you do it. You know, no matter what it is, like you talked about, you know, short, like the modified tour is a perfect example. We've been talking forever. The whole modified tour has been, you know, the guys on the Whalen modified tour up north. like how great would it be to run New Smyrna the first race of the season during speed weeks? You know, that would be awesome because the modifies run there all week.

Well, guess what they announced this week? We're going to run our first race in the season is going to be, you know, the week before the 500 at New Smyrna. Well, down, now the team's got to travel all the way down to Florida. Like, you son's been asking for this for 10 years. They get it. Now you're complaining about it. Like, you know, no matter what, you're never going to make everybody happy on, especially on social media. It's just you cannot.

that thing, we should be on our fourth jar by now. No one pays up. So, you know, social media is what it is. It's really a toxic kind of cessable of a place, but it could also be used for good, too. So it's just hard. You've got to weed through the. We talked about it on here a year, a year and a half ago that these people, these stupid people, would tweet stupid things to people like Steve, to Steve O'Donnell.

And Steve O'Donnell will start arguing with these fans. look, Freddie and myself, we can afford to argue with fans because we're just trying to live the good life down here. We can't have NASCAR executives arguing with fans on Twitter. And Steve O'Donnell, I don't know if he listened to it or Mike Ford listened to it or whoever listened to it, but somebody, he quit arguing with fans on Twitter. Thank you. Like, we don't need to look like these people. It's not worth your time.

No. He also deleted his Twitter account recently or deactivated. Deactivated, yeah. That was a trend that a lot of people were deactivating Twitter that week. honestly is like Chris Gabart's right like you like it's so biased on what you know whether it's a good race and Jeff Gluck's polls really showed me a lot of this matter whoever won the race made it a good race if the popular guy won it was good they didn't you know work like with Joey Joey could if Joey won I voted no well there you go you know what I mean though like he can and Jeff and Jeff said that

Jeff said he was going to stop doing the poll because it was so biased to the 750 package. You know, no matter what package it was, it would go but one way or the other. I think it goes to the driver as well, too.

I mean, people don't like, people didn't like when Joey won. I thought, and I'm probably, I thought Joey did a great job of the dirt race and did what he had to do,

not made it, didn't make any mistakes, and, you know, I don't know if that was a really liked race or not, but if that would have been, probably not if Joey won. Well, if it would have been

someone else, if, you know, popular driver, Chase wins that race, we should run seven dirt tracks that year, you know, so. That's a horrible idea.

Well, but that's just, and that's why, like, honestly, that's probably why I'm not on Twitter very much, just because there's so much negativity just because of, you know, just bias on what they want. They don't think about things the logical way, really. They're just kind of biased one way, and that's it. I heard, you know, speaking of crazy stuff on the Internet, I heard a crazy rumor from a reliable source. Brett. From a reliable source that said potentially the gate. race is going to be a dirt race.

I mean, I can't believe that to be true, but I hope not. I mean, that'd be a dumbest thing we've ever done. Yeah, that would be a shock to me. Yeah. Holy cow. I think on the other side of it, though, you have to think of, I mean, the positives are there are such loyal fans who are going to tweet their opinions because they care, and they might not be right, but it's better than having nothing to talk about. And I think NASCAR has also done a great job of-

I love loyal fans with high IQs. I think NASCAR has also done a great job. of trying to incorporate the fans, such as, like, the fan vote that they do. That's awesome. I mean, I think that there's a, like, if you look at what it used to be a few years ago, completely different. Sponsors, when you're trying to sell sponsors, NASCAR has the most loyal, brand loyal fans.

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Yeah, what are they talking about? If everybody wants to give TJ a hard time, his first. job as a spotter was at Dover for Matt Kenseth. Matt Spotter had an illness or a family issue and had to go home and right in the last minute they're looking for somebody and I don't know how we did it but I convinced them to let TJ do the spotting and so maybe possibly T.J. had spotted for me at some of the road courses as our second or third spotter at Andy or something like that and so he had some experience but and so Matt Kenseth's going to be you know get spotting from tj in the infinity race and so tj is on the radio they're coming around turn

four getting ready to start the race and so t j's like all right get ready get ready get ready get ready and when the flagman weighs the green t j's like green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green green That's half. I can just see Matt, too. That is half the track, because he's calling it out of coming out of four, right? Y'all can, I was there listening. You wish there was an in-car on Matt? Well, I'll never let him forget it.

That was the last time he spotted for Matt, too. He didn't even tell the story right. Like, he's, he screwed the story up because all as it was. Robbie did or Dale Jr. did? Dale Jr. did. He screwed the story up because, and it wasn't green. We were coming out of turn four. And I'm interviewing for Matt Kenseth in this race for Kalinoff because Kalinoff was leaving.

So they remember when you weren't there yet? So they're swapping some, doing some young spotters. And I'm spotting for Matt this race. And we're coming out of four and Pacecar is in. And you know where the Pace Car kind of pulls in at Dover? It's a little, it's a little earlier like than normal. So we come out for it. right when we get to the restart zone, I'm like, all right, ready, ready.

And I said ready about six, seven times. Because they waited until late to go. It was, I said ready about seven times, not green. So if you're going to tell the story, you got to get it right first. And we ended up wrecked. Yeah, I mean, but that little bad info again. It's not going to matter, though, because his reach, they're going to believe that part of it. But if there was recording from that then, you're losing that battle every time.

Yeah, so it's not even worth fighting. But it wasn't green. and we also wrecked like three laps later. So the funny part about that, I would have been in trouble because the way I do it is so that I don't actually come off the button, I'll just drag out my ready. So it's like ready green green.

That's basically what I did. And then, but it's, if that was good, but sometimes you're like, ready. Yeah. I was like that, but I was like, all right, ready, ready, like waiting for it to go. And they like went really late. And so it was a ready part, not the green part.

So, yeah. So when I do it to start the race, I do it differently in the race, but at the initial start. I'm sure you've had this is where they went late and you're like, oh, ready. The initial start of the race, I go off the flagman. You know how he pumps it? You go off the flagman touching the. But you know how he pumps it? Like he's like, ready, ready.

Every time he puts his hand forward, I say ready. And then when he throws it, I say green. But now that they got the restart zones and all the other rules that we need, Jason to make this race this weekend came out like super early. For you young people is I just count down on the zone and I say green when they go. Yeah. You can cheat now to start because we got all these

what do you call them? Like Grand Marshals that throw the flag. So the flagger has to tell him when to throw the flag so the way he does it is if you watch he taps the guy on the back. So once you see the guy tap the guy on the back, you're going to green, green, green, that's what happened to Martin. That's what happened in that's what happened to Martin. That's what happened

to Martin. Oh my idiot. Goodness. So yeah, who is this guy is whatever you i'm not allowed to say your name or whatever right robbie i mean you can say robbie yeah robbie the guy that told the story had the story wrong but i'm not going to win that battle so yeah hey guys i want to give a quick shout out to i sc for the past two race weekends i spent 96 dollars for my tickets darling and got two great races spent her in 20 bucks richmond and got two even more great races and so i go get my tickets for bristol this week and i look at the expinity tickets and there's 75 damn dollars that's more and i paid last time i went there

before the pandemic. And on top of that, where I usually park, they're charging the park there now. This must be how they're going to pay for all that damn dirt. What the hell, S.M.

And Freddie, I want you to look at the bright side. Even though Bubba hit the wall, he was still faster and damn Rick Ware cars Saturday night. They'll take care. Keep doing a good job. Unfortunately.

I bet you $100 that guy's from Tennessee because the way he said, Knight. They say their eyes more differently than any other state. Night. Yeah. Tight.

I'm glad. I hate to say it, but he's wrong. Damn Garrett run us down to pass us the other night. He was destroyed. Garrett Smithley, T.D. was destroyed. Dude, how about Tommy Joe in that? His senior race?

Dan Mere winning the stage. Well, if he didn't run in the back of a lap car, he might have won him on the stage. Yeah. David Stark threw the old block on it. Got him. While we're on this SMI topic, though, I did see. Now he knows what it's late. I'm sure it's directly related to this show.

That's exactly what I tweeted. In the middle of the freaking thing. A lap car blocked a typical. lap car and screwed him. Now you know what it's like when you're that guy. Oh, gosh. SMI reversed their cooler stands this week. I think it's because you're ready.

I don't know about the ticket prices, but at least you can bring your cooler back in. Yeah. I'd rather have expensive tickets and bring my own beer than have cheap tickets and buy $12 beers. And there's a redneck somewhere out there listening to this show that agrees with me. There's a thousand rednecks listening to the show. There's a million. There's a million.

We've been having millions for years, Freddie. Millions. We have millions, but now we probably got like 1.5 now that you're here. Richmond is by far the most boring short track we go to. It doesn't matter who wins. It doesn't matter where anyone finishes. It is endless green flag runs. No bumps.

No bumps and runs. Nothing. I don't know if it's. Arrow, I don't know if it's the track. I don't know if it's good here with their cards. These races are boring as... I can hear Jason in the background of that one.

Say this. Say this. I'd like to vote that we quit Colleen Richmond a short track. Yeah, it races like a stupid slow super speedway. It's terrible to watch. I mean, the most exciting thing was, oh, he pitted five laps later than the other people, So in about 40 laps, he may pass a car.

I mean, not a bad race, but completely boring. I don't know what to do here. Something's got to change. Richmond's been boring for years. I'm tired of it. That is the good part of the race is the different strategies. I don't understand how people don't. I get it.

I guess you want to see cars on fire or something. And upside down. Was it upside down, flipped over, spun out, turned over, racing stories? There you got it. Like, but, you know, it's, we're not going to have that every week. I'm sorry. Here comes Martin Truex Jr. Out of turn four.

So win at Richmond. An advance to round two. Wow, what a fantastic race. One of the best races I've seen in a long time. Front to finish. Pack with action. Nine cars on the lead lap. Oh, wait.

No, that race fucking sucked. Go. yourself, Brett Griffin, with this great race bullshit. Richmond has been one of the most overrated tracks on the entire schedule for about 15 years now. Which caller numbers is this guy? This is Bend Over, I think. Ben, I'm going to bend your ass over. I think, come running that track.

I think this is all of Jason's friends that were at his house. That was Andrew. The other one was Evan. Of the 10 people that called it. They got married Eileen. Jason literally made a reaction theater to prove me wrong. That's what he went after. He did.

I can't help it. That's all the people that called in. Yeah. Brett, I saw your tweet today about how we need to stop letting fans make stupid that are stupid, make decisions in our sport and how they say, oh, we need more short track racing, but yet that was boring. I mean, last night was pretty, dang, pretty good. I mean, I liked it.

It's a typical short track race. It's what you would see when you go on full of racing or speed 51 and you watch short track racing around America. That's what you're going to get. A lot of good battles between the 9 and 11. Yeah, that was a pretty good typical race, and yet we also have fans that complain about it, and that's why we also have eight road courses on our schedule as of today. Brett, I totally agree.

We need more short tracks. Last night's race was pretty dang good. Welcome to team. You know what you're talking about. This is the same thing. So I played baseball my whole life. Whole life? Well, first half of my life.

I ain't seen you run or catching years. I was playing out there. I don't know. last year we were running around. Cornhole don't count. So, like, everybody has to say, they say baseball's boring. And I'm like, it is boring.

If you don't know what you're, like, looking at, like how, you know, pitchers working the counts or batters working the counts. Like, if you don't know what you're watching, you don't understand how, you know, how exciting it is, what's going on in the game or something like that. But same thing with our races. Like, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on during that race.

Just because it maybe didn't play out where cars were flipping over. I apologize. All right. Well, to leave an audio message 24-7, go to anchor.fm.fm.fm.com and click the message icon. And if you don't want to do that, just tweet Jason a middle finger this week. And we will show the best one. Let's start a trend. Let's just everybody flip Jason off on Twitter this week.

We can't even get FF take. I still see one now. I see some every now then. And if you know. But look, T.J. Sucks is now fading. That's going on. I was walking in the tunnel on Saturday between the two. races and I hear Freddy I said yeah DJ sucks I said

I said of course he does I was at the Darryo Moresville and had two guys come up to me and said they love the show and they said T.J. I think that instead of flipping Jason off everybody should just flip bread off I'll tell you what just flip off people love me flip here's your Twitter land here's your goal for the week just

flip off whoever you like the least on this show done sorry Tj just tweet Freddie FF we'll do a poll This is a poll. We're going to see who gets the most middle fingers over the news. I hate to say this, and she's going to get mad about it. Oh, Jesus.

But Casey's going to get the most middle fans. Why? No, she's not. My fans are loyal. Oh, my God. I don't know if you like one finger or two, but you probably get. Well, I'm sorry, but. Two is the peace sign.

One is the flip sign. I think you're going to get one finger more than two. You only. Alex, what do you think? The problem is that nobody will be able to flip you off because you blocked all the people that you don't like. Alex is a friend. afraid to comment right now. He's afraid

HR's involved. Here's the deal. It's two fingers for peace, one finger for up your ass. No, they can't flip you off because you blocked everybody. I got so many tweets the other night. She's so mad right now. Listen to her voice. I got people tweeting me yesterday because I made the mistake of retweeting you. Casey. And everybody's like, I can't read what Brett says.

Casey just stop. I can't help their idiots. I can't help their idiots. Okay, here's the deal. If Brett has blocked you, you can. Fred, if you pull me in another shot, I'm going to punch you to throw. You can tweet Casey and tag bread in it. So that I will share it with bread. T.J.

You finish it. Because you're disgusting. Oh my gosh. Why don't you finish it? Opera pad. Question of the week. If you had your own home without a wife or kids, what would be the biggest difference from your current home?

I'm not going to respond to this one. Strip or Paul. Why not? I was distracted. T.J. Freddie would 100% have a striper. pole in his apartment. I didn't hear the question.

Now I don't know what the hell's going on. Did he have one already? I mean, not downstairs. They've got a swing downstairs. Upstairs is a stripper pole. A swing. Sorry, Megan. The question is, if you had your own home without a

wife or kids, what would be the biggest difference from your current home to your bachelor homes? I mean, probably child locks on the cabinets. Here's the biggest difference. If I didn't have a wife or kids, the biggest difference is Brett would probably be living with me because he probably wouldn't have life for kids either and it would be a disaster.

What are you doing next week? I would have two homes. That would be my biggest difference. I would have a home here in the greater Charlotte area because I truly love living here. Like it is a phenomenal place to live, but I would also either have a home at Myrtle Beach. Myrtle Beach.

All right, I would have a ski home, but I can't afford either one of those because I have kids. I'd just say you would have, honestly, would you rather have a house of the beach your house on a mountain somewhere. Because I think you'd go skiing more than you go to the beach. I love snow skiing. I hate it.

Yeah, but that's like the only thing you like about snow, though, is snow skiing. I love snow. I love everything about snow. TJ Toddlocks? That and it would probably just be neat all the time. So I'm going to be the exact opposite. I'm a neat. I'm a neat freak.

And it's amazing. It takes me an hour to clean up what can be done in like five minutes. So like if you came over, it'd take me all damn night to get my house back normal. Dude. Casey, we love you. I'm just going to say, I'm fine with all the tweets I get from Chucky Cheese and from South Dakota.

We're going to be recording an episode of Chucky Cheese for Casey here pretty soon. I'm done for it. Their pizza is solid. Be on stage. Yeah. It's not on the ground. Go get a cash offer on your home today with our presenting sponsor, Offerpad.com. Time to get into our.

Expinity X-Fi more than fast moments. You need more than just speed to compete in NASCAR. Where did we see teams need to be more than fast this week? Right. Man, my more than fast moment is actually going to go to a guy that I saw running down the sidewalk this morning on my drive over here. His name's Ty Dillon and he was running super fast on his run and he had his little, you know, Apple phone on his farm and everything. I think he's got big news coming. I think he's got a cup deal on the horizon. I think that's going to be the more than fast moment for me. Because I've never seen Ty Dillon run that fast.

Yeah, what cup team? You're not a lot of drink anymore. Yeah, for a pop team. Freddie. I swear, I see him and Jamie McMurray running like all the time. That doesn't even mean sense what you just said. Why don't you join them? It's my moment.

You want to pick my moment for? Brett taking the long way around to announce Ty Dillon's cup deal for next year. Yeah. But, um... What team? I don't know. I couldn't tell you. Oh, you can.

Hasn't been in my. I'm just not telling you. Who drives there currently? Gee, I don't know. Nobody. Nobody. I mean, who drives their equipment now? If you pay attention to some of the stuff we say, you'll figure it out.

They have. Honestly, nobody, basically nobody tell Brett. Their other driver is going to RCR. Yeah. For an ex-finity deal. Okay. I think. Is he next champ?

Ish? What are we talking about? Right. Now I'm lost. More than fast trading. More than fast is Brett. It's not true thought process right now. I'll tell you that.

My more than fast moment was actually Noah Gregson in the Xfinity race. I was surprised that the cold tires that them guys put on were that they could win the race over the guys that put the stickers on there. So my more than fast moment went to Noah Gregson. T.J. Two weeks in a row for him. My more than fast moment's going to go to Kyle Busch. Piracy is more than fast. On the pit road.

Well played, well played. I told you you didn't like Kyle Busch. I don't. I don't. Allegedly. I don't. He said I don't. Cut it there.

Yeah, let's just stop there for us. Because I'll talk myself into it. Here on Doorbumer Clear, being more than fast is a way of life. Thankfully, there's plenty of weekly action for our Xfinity X-Fi more than fast moments. You know what else is more than fast? TJ, it's Xfinity X-X-Fi. With the speed for all your door. devices, you also get reliable performance that you can depend on to keep your crew connected.

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Well, for multiple things he said on the show this week. Or Kyle Rush, you're bringing the fire. Kyle, Kyle, come on. I'm texting him right now as a matter of thing. I literally can't get through this show. Brett, who do you really have? My one-an- idiot is going to be something that you guys aren't going to want to hear about.

So mask in schools, right? I was anti-mask when COVID started because kids weren't getting it and it was obvious. But the way our school policy has been written is if two, Two people are both wearing a mask and one test positive. The people around them don't have to quarantine. So they've changed that in the sense of everybody could wear a mask or not wear a mask. Now mask are mandatory. So when I tweeted last night that I appreciate the policy that our school system has put in place,

it didn't have anything to do with whether or not your kid wears a mask. It solely is around the fact of the policy of the mask. And some of you people can't read. So all you people that tweeted back at me with your political BS, what are. They're probably blocked. They were. They were tweeting to him. now they're not.

Good, T.J. I got a long one, so you can. Some good ones. My, uh, what an idiot is going to be... Kyle Busch. Josh. I'm going to go with, uh, Mike's viny and driver. Just as I can for the week.

Dale Jr.? Yeah, he's just an idiot this week. And everybody needs to listen to the Dale Jr. download this week to see what Dale says after. TJ has officially grown a set of balls and called. out Doe Jr. on the door bumper clear podcast. This is an epic moment, Freddie. So it is epic. I'm proud of them, finally, after all these years.

We need to have Dale on the show. I'm going to say the same about you and Danny down the road here, I'm sure. My one idiot, of course, you know, I'm kind of the short track guy on here. My one idiot goes to a guy named Andy Kusack, who is the owner of Beach Ridge Speedway up in Maine, who, they had their final point. race or whatever this weekend. And right before, as they're on the racetrack, giving out the trophies to the champions. And right when before they do that, he announces, oh, by the way, I've sold the racetrack,

and this is our last race here. Wow. So, I mean, no warning, no nothing. The only race track, our only NASCAR track in Maine is now disappeared because this guy sold with the developers to build God knows what. But he does it as he's handing the trophy. So now you just kick. all these champions straight into ding-ding,

and they... Do fine. You know, like, how are you supposed to enjoy a championship now? Not let alone that. I mean, this was a benchmark racetrack. Like, this is one of the greatest short tracks in the country, and this guy just... Oh, hey, by the way, thanks for coming tonight, guys.

This is the last race you're ever going to come to here. That sucks. I mean, so my one idiot goes to Andy Cusack. That was, you know, I hate to see any short track lows, especially one as prestigious as Beechridge. But, you know, it's the, not so much, listen, it's your deal. If it's your racetrack, you want to sell it, sell it, but surely you could have found a better way to tell the people at your racetrack. Like, maybe there's someone in the area that would have bought it and would have kept it open rather than develop the land.

Yeah, it's just, and that's what happened, you know, we'll talk about something else for later. But, you know, it's, you know, that's just, it was, it's a terrible, a terrible look. The show's almost over. We don't have a lot later. Yeah, what you want to talk about? Working myself up. up to it. I'm sure you know what that. I'm going to go. Hey, heading to Bristol. I got to give a sky shout out. Michael Waltrip. He opened a brewery in Bristol. He obviously already had one in

Arizona. His beer's good. I've had a couple of his beers. So when you're going to Bristol this weekend, stop in, help a guy out. Agreed. Time for DBC picks. Freddie, congratulations. Freddie. F. hashtag FF. I was going to win this race. It was going to be 10 to 13 going into a nice little run and Kyle Bush absolutely screwed me completely over. Tell us how you really feel. He was going to have a three-second lead to win the race. You realize this happened to me last week, right? Yes. I was leading the race and then we're a lot, we're lying. We've already come off pair road and post the 19. Are you kidding me? I think they saw my picks. They clearly did it for you. They saw the picks and they were like,

I am so mad that I didn't even look at this week to prep for who I think I want, but because I've got to throw a hell Mary now because Kyle Bush can't not speed. Tony Hirschman, you can't talk him into not speeding. I'm going to go with a guy who is hands down the best race car driver in the field at Dover. And a lot translates over to this, Kyle Larson. This guy said, we're not going at Dover. TJ, since you're in second, who you got? I'm going to take Kyle Busch since I hate him.

Oh, you son of a. Yeah. I will take... this point the worst thing that can happen for me is t j to win yeah because it should be 13 to 10 and if t j wins it just gives me one less week to have an opportunity to close that gap so a couple more weeks of me not closing the gap and i'm done and i felt awesome going into last week me too and that's why i won um your guy got caught speeding on the first lap or not speeding or whatever he got black flag for i will take joie lagano he's sleepy good at richmond i'll give that guy that

I don't know about Bristol. I don't know about Bristol. We're not going to Richmond. I don't know about Bristol. Well, before we close up the show, I want to do. Do you and Ligano ever win at? Sorry, Casey. Do you and Lugano win at Bristol? You want to talk about that?

Yeah. They should have won. Yeah, we were going to win before the nine. Chase Elliott loves you. Yeah. Until that, but you're still mad at Chase Sellet about that or not? I'm more mad of Jason than anybody else. That was a dramatic moment.

That race was great, had some action, some storylines. What a damn Twitter. What a great race that was. What you got, Casey. Casey, go ahead. I'm just going to give up posting the show today because... Well, this is a bad show. I'm sorry.

It's almost over. It's going to be bad with a Kyle Rush's ball. Walk in with a frozen bottle of fireball. I mean, did you even... No comment. Are you not excited? Hey, before we cut this thing out, I've got something for you. I've got a driver of yours that is wanting to run the chili bowl who texts me about some sponsorship stuff.

So if you're on Twitter and you're interested in going to the chili bowl and being a sponsor of a guy that has made the A main in the past, and it can be good, and drive Chad boat cars. I want you to send me a DM because I can cut you a deal. Or you can send me a DM. You can't close. I'm going to the chili bowl as long as it doesn't coincide with a test or something. So if you go to the chili bowl, you can see you there. Well, on that note, I just have to give a shout out to my husband because, you know, we won Friday night with Brent, Cruz,

and Saturday night with Chris Windham and Sunday night with Chris Windham. Shout out to Dirt Vision, man. This was my first weekend really tuning in a Dirt Vision. that's an awesome product. Thank you to Brian for setting us up with some log-ins. And I just have to say congratulations to Chris Wyndham and Brent Cruz because that was a solid weekend for CB Industries. Wyndham should have run three in a row if he just wasn't an idiot.

Should have run or one? Run one. I'm drunk. I don't know what to tell you. No, but Chris did a great job last night. He did run three in a row. He did run three in a row. He did not win three in a row.

He did not win three in a row. One, run, same. But he did a great job last night. But yeah, big money. It was like 20 grand to win. That's probably the biggest. That's probably the biggest midget. I cut my teeth in dirt racing and it's just so cool to be able to watch all that dirt racing on that vision.

It's awesome. Yeah. Their coverage of power racing is incredible. Well, before we leave, two things I have quick. One, today is my mom's birthday. I know she listens. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to my mom, Kathy.

I don't know how to thank you or be mad. Two, on a more somber note, obviously lost somebody very important. to me this week. Eddie Partridge was Ryan Prese's car owner, was the first guy to ever hire me to spot anything. I spotted for buddies in my local track, but he was the first one to ever give me a job spotting

and it just opened the door to where I'm at today, honestly. A lot of modified guys filled out of it. I mean, there's, Doug Kobe had a great tweet and he said, you know, from a modified standpoint, Eddie Partridge has a guy that's driven his car in the Cup Series, driving, Ryan Priest, a guy that's crew chief his car

in the modified series, a Cup crew chief, Mike Wheeler, and myself as a cup spotter, just a testament to what Eddie built as a program and just, I mean, unbelievable guy. They won the race on Friday night, and unfortunately he had a heart attack shortly after the race ended. Just, you know, probably one of the best, most fun people. I mean, he gave me and Jimmy Blewett, Car Blanche to do whatever we wanted, and there's no point in my life where I ever had more fun racing than then.

Just unfortunate. thinking about his wife Connie, his family, Tom Gats. He bought our home racetrack. I was talking about this with the Oxford thing. The people that owned our racetrack back home, development money was way more lucrative if they would have sold it to a developer. And Eddie wanted to make sure it stayed a racetrack.

So he bought the racetrack to make sure it stayed open. Riverhead Raceway. Yeah, my home track. So hopefully that continues in his honor. But just unbelievable guy and going to miss him a lot. I think the coolest thing about stories you and priests were telling yesterday is how much he wanted to help people, how much he loved racing, and how brave he was as an entrepreneur. So, man, I hate to see him go, but look at what he's left behind. A lot of love for racing.

A lot of love for racing. A lot of love for racing. A lot of love for racing, Casey, speaking of racing, going to Bristol. I hope a lot of you guys are coming to Bristol, because I think this weekend is going to be jam-packed with action. We got two races on Thursday, ARCA and truck racing. Like Sunday, Friday and Cup Saturday. And there is just nothing like a night race at Bristol. Nothing better than Bristol, period.

People ask me all the time, what's your favorite racetrack? I'm like, my favorite race is the Daytona 500. My favorite place to go is Las Vegas. My favorite racetrack, hands down, is Bristol. I don't care if it's old Bristol, new Bristol. That is the environment that I love. We talked about it a little bit. What can fans expect as they watch this weekend?

I mean, you're great racing. The same thing as Brett just said. You know, if anybody ever asks me, where do I, you know, I want to go to a cup race, where should I go? That's the first place I pick. Go to the Bristol Night Race. I mean, it's just action-packed. There's stuff going on. No matter what, if it's for the lead or for 20, if there's hard racing every lap.

And like we talked about, stuff happens fast. There's big wrecks, you know. Some people, that's what they're there for. So, but hands down, this is the place. If anybody ever asks me where to go, this is the place I tell them. The Exfindley race is my favorite because there's that disparity of fast cars and slow cars, you know what I mean? And so it makes it wild. It makes it wild to spot. T.J. You're not spot in Xfinity again this year, right? It's it, it truly is my favorite race to spot all year outside

of Daytona when it comes to the Xfinity series because it's just nuts. You'll catch slow cars that are two and three wide and you're seven, eight miles an hour faster than them and you're trying to navigate it and you're flipping spotters off and you're screaming on the radio. Like, it's exciting, man. And if you go as a fan, if you don't have, listen, call in. sick to work Thursday and Friday, leave Wednesday night, go to Bristol, stay in a tent because God of mighty, you can't afford a freaking hotel room around there. Not near the river. No, no, no, don't stay near the river in case it rains. But man, it's just a great racetrack. And we don't have to cover it in dirt. We can actually enjoy it the way Bristol is supposed

to be enjoyed. Yeah, it's a good race weekend as well, just lots of racing. All right, well, as always, thank you so much to everyone for listening. Be sure to send an Uber for Brett and Freddie so they can actually leave this place. Hope you all have a great week. We're going to breed a loco. Have a great week. Word. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.

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