Door Bumper Clear - 26 - Short Tracks and Mustache’s

Episode Date: July 26, 2016

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This is Dale Jr. And you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Outside, door, bumper, clear of the 18th. Best car I had here in a long time. You're going to do it. You're going to win it. Right with you. You're clear.

Check the flag. You win. Do you want inside information? You will not be able to repeat it to your kids, but you will learn and you will laugh. Door, bumper, clear is on. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major, Spotter the 88 cup of car. 7XFinity car and the 29 truck.

Joining me today is Brent Griffin, Spotter for Clint Boyer and Elliot Sadler, and I think we have a full studio again. Full studio. The gluten girl is here. Fluent girl is here. We also have a special guest. Yeah, my little girl, Joey's with us.

Yeah. She doesn't have a microphone. No. Say hey. Hi. So we do have a full studio today. Yeah. Yeah, and we are here in the Exaltes Studios.

And speaking of Exalta, don't forget to head over to the revamp. W.W.w.exaltar racing.com to get all of the latest news, photos, and schedule for Dale's number 88 Exalta Chevrolet. Yeah, thanks to one man for bringing this to you guys. Indianapolis. T.J., what you got, man? Dried out yet? Still moist. I am glad to be out of there. You know, it was a... It was a... Damped to quite damp. It was a high pressure weekend kind of for the 88 guys, bringing Jeff in like that, and, you know, being Jeff Gordon at a track like that, indie where he's, you know,

kind of paved his way at them in that part. Been pretty good there. Yeah, even an ORP back in the day when he was driving them midgets and stuff. I mean, that's like Jeff Gordon territory, him and Tony like that's their area. Yeah. So bringing him back and he was great the whole weekend. He was really good with all the team and really, really good. Do you think that puts more pressure on the crew chief just because Alex Bowman,

yeah, he's raced some cup cars, never done much versus a Jeff Gordon walking into sub? Yeah, I think it puts more. pressure on everybody because you go in there and not, not only are you trying to, Alex Bowman probably got in the car and probably wasn't all, like a hundred and ten percent comfortable, not that he was uncomfortable, but he probably had a couple things where he didn't want it. Jeff's going to get in there and be like, I need this here, this here, and this here because he's been doing it.

I mean, you're talking about a Hall of Famer guy here, so he's going to have everything set where he's been used to it for years and years. And Alex is just going to get in the car because he's happy. he's excited to be running it, so he's just going to get in and say, I'm going to drive it no matter what. I might be four inches away from the steering wheel than I want to be, but I'm still driving it.

I think it puts more pressure on everybody that just as a whole in general, I think just bringing a guy like Jeff in there, and I think Jeff helped diffuse the weekend too. He was really good with all of us. Like he was up close, like personal with all of us and having fun laughing. I think when you see the driver laughing him,

and keeping his cool the whole, time. I think it relieves the, it just kind of diffuses the situation a little bit and just kind of makes everybody go and just about the normal deal. Yeah, he's a big deal, man. I mean, he is the guy who took this sport mainstream. When you look at the mid-90s, you know, late 90s, we were in the Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Dale Jarrett era, where those guys were blue-collar, badasses that came along and pioneered the sport in the south. But Jeff Gordon got here and it's like, hey, I'm going to take you guys to Hollywood. I'm going to take you guys to New York, and that's what he did. You know, so he was a big marketing thing, and I think the track realized that when they sold an extra 12,000 tickets after he said he was running, which was, you know, obviously a big deal, too.

When he came into the sport, he won all the big races and he was winning everything. And he was young, like, I mean, what year did you start? 93, 93, 94. So I was about. I think his rookie year was 93, 94, he won the Brookyard. I think I was 14. Yeah. And, I mean, I was 14.

I was a Jeff Gordon fan when I was 14. Right. So, I mean. It looked like you'd wear rainbow colors back then. Yeah. I probably, I might have had a Jeff Gordon T-shirt or two. Yeah, yeah. I know I had a couple posters up.

Did you have your hair fix like you? He always had great hair. No, I didn't have that good of hair. How about a mustache? Did you have a mustache? Stash. No, I didn't, but that's, you know, that'd been a really big ticket then, I think. I think you should grow one now to just tribute the fact that he's in the car.

Oh, kind of like, like, I can actually grow one if I want to. You need to do it. I'm not like Kyle Larson. Like, remember when he grew up? Yeah. It wasn't like, I could literally grow a big. I think you need to grow one. Do you all think you need to grow one?

I do. I do. I would love to see you in a mustache. I love a man in a mustache. The last time I did that was on New Year's a couple years ago, and I did it just to make my wife really mad. I hadn't shade for a while. And when I did, I did everything, but my mustache and I walked out, she's like, no. You go upstairs.

People are coming over. You take it off now. Do you know how cute you would look on your t-shirt with your mustache? With a mustache? Yeah. I mean, I guess that'd be a whole other line. Yeah. It'd be a whole other line.

Which ones you get? Did you get the mustache one? Yeah. It's a new skew, man. Yeah. But I basically had two posters on my wall back in the day. Jeff Gordon and my mom worked for Kodak in Rochester. Yeah.

So I had either Ernie Irvin or Sterling-Marlin. Yeah. And I actually started with Rick Wilson. Yeah. Yeah. Going way back. Yeah. Started one of Daytona 500 and the 4 Kodak car, man.

And, I mean, never did I think I'd work with him. And then Jeff Gordon back in, you know, back then. That was back with Winston, all the Winston guys had mustache. My dad had a mustache. Earnhardt shaved his off. Dale Earnhardt shaved his off one time. That'd be weird. While I was in the sport with him, he went scuba diving with Michael Waltrop,

and they basically said, hey, man, your stash and this scuba gear doesn't jive. If you want to go scuba diving, you're going to have to shave it off. This guy shaved it off. Just to go scuba diving? That's Dale Earnhardt. He wanted to scuba dive. So guess what he did? He went scuba diving.

You're not going to stop this guy from doing what he wants to do. He's even a badass when he shaves, you know? Like, that's him. That's his person. I was, when my dad, I grew up, he always had a mustache. And one year, he shaved it off. You freaked out. I freaked out.

Yeah. I hated it. Oh, I hated it. Yeah. I shaved my head bald like a year ago. And my little girl started bawling. Yeah. So he was physically crying because I shaved my head.

Oh, God. What did you do? You had pain. I'm like, no. I'm good. I found something out today that. Brett cuts his kid's hair. Yeah, I'm talented.

They ask for it. Yeah, I charge him 20 bucks. I didn't know they made Flobies that pulled that long a hair in it. Yeah, I can do it, man. I can rock it. I don't recommend you ever doing that again. Look how pretty your hair is, man. I know, your hair is nice and long.

I mean, you're like Rapunzelish here. You don't need to let him screwing this up. Yeah, we're not going to. So Jeff Gordon pulled a cool deed. Oh, here's a picture. Josh. Josh's a picture of a Josh's dad. Look at that. Look at that stash.

Holy cow. Where'd you get your height from? This guy's like 5'9. I know, man. I got it from my mom's side. Yeah. Well, she like 6'4. So that's what Josh's face.

That's what Josh's face would look like if you scrunch it down a little bit. He's definitely a little taller. Josh, do you always have a beard? Have you ever shaved your beard? Yeah. I mean, I've shaved it. I just haven't shaved in probably over here. When you scuba?

When you scuba? Yeah, when I get scuba diving. You should have shaved it for Indie, man. You've been a little bit cooler sitting on that plenty. I don't think so. I really don't think so. I don't think so either. That's when you need to get one of them little portable fans.

They sell it like Disney or something. With the mist. Yes, you just set it on your tray table right there, just lay back. I got to say the coolest part of the weekend. Well, for me, was kind of pre-raced. Jeff Gordon got up at the driver's meeting and spoke to Tony Stewart, the accolades, the guy, the character, everything he's done for the sport. And then after the fact, those guys riding around together,

both from Indianapolis, Indiana, both open wheel guys, both champions, hugging after the race. That's pretty cool, man. Yeah, it was actually, you know, Kyle might have ruined the weekend, but that was a good part of it. Kyle who?

Yeah. That was actually a good part of it. And Jeff was a lot of fun to work with, too. And when Bob came over Tony Spotter and was like, hey, Tony wants Jeff to take a lap with him after the race. Yeah. My first impression was wondering how I'm going to get called to the holler if they don't come down pit road and get their load nuts checked.

So I'm like, But, you know, they're going to come down. I made sure Jeff did. But, you know, I was like, man, that'd be pretty cool to go around here and have them guys. It's just unplanned. It was cool because it was unplanned, like, before that day. Yeah. It wasn't something that was already laid out and staged.

It was something like, hey, you guys are here. Thanks for coming out. Yeah. I didn't realize that Tony asked him to do it. Yeah, he came over and asked and was like, hey, and then, you know, they were going. Jeff's like, where's going to go? We were in turn three on the cool down lap. People don't realize all the things that Tony does to make little things in the sports special for himself and others.

His rookie year, he traded his helmet with every driver in the field. Literally every single week, he would go up to you, Kristen, and he would say, Kristen, after the race today, I'm going to give you my helmet. Will you give me yours? So Elliot was a rookie the same time Tony was. So Elliot has Tony Stewart's one of his rookie helmets. Tony had a helmet made for every single race. and after the race, he went to Jeff Gordon, he went to Del Earnhardt, he went to Sterly Marlin,

he went to all those Mark Martin, those guys, and said, hey, man, today can we trade helmets? Well, guess what? Tony Stewart, when he got here, it wasn't a rookie. He was a two-time RL champion. He was an Indy 500 winner. You know, this guy was already a champion. He won the Triple Crown.

So those guys were fans of Tony Stewart because we all used to watch them during the week on what was that show on Tuesday night, Tuesday Night Thunder? No, it was RPM Tonight. RPM tonight and all those. Back then we covered racing out of the time. outside of NASCAR, you know, and so all those guys respected him. So when he walked up to Del Earnhardt and said, I want to swap helmets.

Most rookies, Del Earnhardt would have been like, nah, this deal, they all did it because Tony was that well respected. So, I mean, he's just always done things to make it special, just like this Jeff Gordon Lap. I mean, that's something that's, he did it for him and Jeff, but it's certainly great for the fans, you know, to see that stuff. Tony's done a lot more personal things for people that you will never ever hear about. You will never hear about. He, when I was at home, I think I told you before, when I was at home, when I went to the hospital and I was at home and I was doing like my own IVs and stuff. Yeah. You were doing your own IVs and yeah, I had to do my own medication and stuff like in homepatient stuff.

It was really scary. But anyway, well, Tony called me and he was asking me, you know, he was asking me some questions about sim racing and stuff. And I told him I was at home doing his life. He was, man, he's like, what are you doing? You need some lunch something? I'll run out and go. I mean, I'm all swing by any time. I mean, he's like going away of his way to offer, like just anything.

Big heart. And he's like that to a lot of people, man. Big heart. Yeah. So, really good guy. Yeah. Cool. Hey, before we go in all this rest of the show,

you have to be a little bit more excited about Pocono with Jeff Gordon versus Indy because you'll be the one spotting. You can actually see the whole track. You're going to truly get to work with him now. Yeah, you know, there's a couple times, and Indie's tough on second spotters because there's not, there's barely a handful of really good ones now yeah and when you everyone has to bring a second one to indie you really you got you got to find somebody that can do it and it's the the the

expectations are going higher and higher for what we do and that you don't realize that until you don't have it so i brought um i brought a good a friend of mine that used to spot from mark martin and uh well-qualified guy yeah bric house with kurt yeah yeah and he uh he did a good job he was a you know, I don't think he was quite ready for the restarts. I probably maybe should have been bad there for the restarts because turn one isn't really a bad. Turn one's not really a bad spot. Everyone just kind of goes in there.

Yeah, usually. Yeah, unless you're McMurray. But, um, yeah. Newman, McMurray, there's several of them. Most of them go in there, you just kind of, you know, two by two. And then off a two is where the runs happen in your mirror. That's where the guys get runs behind you, and then you end up three wide.

Trevor Bane. Yes. And, uh, so, there's a, you, there's a, lot of happening off of turn two on the first lap. So I, you know, I kind of felt like, I kind of felt bad that I put, I didn't realize I was going to put Brickhouse in that bad of a spot. He didn't, you know, he didn't get really yelled at or anything, but it was just, I could tell he was struggling with it. It's hard for us to give over because we're control freaks and you're giving over half the race. I only give up turn one because of

where I stand. I can see turn two, three and four. But it's still hard. You hear that other guy on the radio, you're like, hurry up and say it, damn it. You know, like, it's hard. It's a struggle for us, but to my point, Pocono, it's all you, man. You and Jeff Gordon. Yeah. Jeff's usually pretty good there, and I feel like we had a really good shot of winning that last race, so hopefully. You're going to get it to sign your poster that you have? If I could find it, I would. That thing was probably worth some money right now. Probably. Yeah. So that's actually one of the spot-on, spot off, is spotting from the pagoda. I have a question. Spot off.

One million times in a row. During the Xfinity race. Yeah. So Will, Elliot's bus driver was the other spotter. And Elliot at one point at the very end of the race, he asked if you guys could switch spots. What was that about? So where Will was standing, he called the green flag. Where Will was sitting. Elliot's used to.

Will was sitting. Yeah, he actually wasn't on the stand. He was at a little perch. So he couldn't stand where he was at. He was in a physically awkward position. You would have to be up there to see the spots where we try to get to, just to say you can see something. So Elliot is used to me calling the restarts.

So Will was keying up going green, green, green. or the way I spot, I count Elliot down to the restart zone. So he gets three, two, one. And it's just like a dance. It's a rhythm, right? So after the one, he knows they're in the restart zone. Any split second now, I'm going to hear green, green, green. He knows I'm not calling it off the flag.

I'm calling it off the first car in our row. So I repositioned myself to be able to do that. The challenge was for the restarts, once you say green, green, green, I couldn't see them. I could see the leaders take off. But if they check up or have a problem, I can't see it until they get off of. off of one. So that's why he asked for that, but I was able to accommodate him.

And it didn't work out great for us, but we certainly did okay. That's one of the reasons why I choose the front stretches so I can do pit stops and the restarts. Yeah. So that's a spot off. No, we're not there yet. That is a spot off.

I don't care if we're there yet or not. The spot off from the pagoda, honestly, for me, is spot on because here's the thing about that facility. Where else are we going to be this better? Are you drunk? where are we going to go this better? Man, I don't know.

The only thing they could have done better. The only thing they could have done this better is to move the pagoda outside of the racetrack at start finish and then we would be able to stand on top of it and see the whole thing, but we can't do that. Our other options are to get in turn one in the stands or turn three in the stands and still have to have two spotters. So for me, I can see 80% of the track. And I don't know how at Indy you're going to make it any better.

I was actually considering straight across in the pagoda there's actually right at almost at the start finish line there's a really high row of seats I don't know how well they're almost across from us so I'm almost thinking that you could look across there and still see your car good you think we could get a ticket though that's going to be hard I mean I would like to see the view from there

because if we could get over there in the top row I would almost rather be there And just align the pagoda in front of you to where you just have a small blind spot. Yeah, I mean, you'll know the run right off the corner the guy's got in your, the guys got coming in your mirror. So you almost might put somebody up there on the backside just in case. If they wreck. Yeah, so, but you would knock all the corners out then.

Let's try it next time. If you put like a, if you got all the way on the top of the pagoda, could you, with that help at all? That's essentially where we're at. We're about one story. So we stand on what would be equivalent to the. the 14th floor because if you've ever been to a hotel there's no such thing as a 13th floor so we're on the 14th floor and they let us go to the bathroom on the second floor yeah you do the math on that one during the weekend that's ridiculous anyway josh we're pretty much on top there's one small

level above where we're at i've never been up there because my my during the race they actually put snipers up there so we're not allowed to stand up there during the race so i don't waste my time during practice going up there and getting acclimated to that view because it's not going to do me any once we go green i get in my little corner and i pretty much stand there for the whole weekend but if we got up there i don't know have you been up there i never went up there yeah we yeah i'm not the big time guys go up there during practice you know i'm not a big time guy yeah i'm okay not going up there what i mean but another thing too is even if you were on top of that deal you'd have to go from front to back to side you can't just stand in one spot excuse me the guy with a third caliber rifle

i'm gonna scoot by here oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't know i don't know you sir I don't think there were enough people there to warrant any snipers. You know, it's weird because they act like, they act like there's something on the roof that is highly valuable to get during the race. Yeah, what's that Fort Knox deal? The gold. We literally had to sign up with, I mean, Social Security numbers.

I didn't still use mine. Everything. I didn't know. I used Josh's. We had to, and they check your pass. Like, so we get off on the ninth floor on the elevator. You get off there. There's a guy there you sign in.

You get on into the stairwell. There's a guy that you go up one floor. Literally nowhere else to access the stairwell. And there's another guy right there checking your pass. Guess what every guy has in common. They're all assholes. Are they all in yellow shirts too? No.

They're in black and yellow in their buttholes. So they all, they are. It's like, so during the racers, people that come up there, just like groups of people. And I'm sitting here like with a, we're all team stuff on. These people are up here. I'm like street clothes, walk, and I'm like, they almost wouldn't let some of us up there,

and yet these people are walking around up there. It's just, they overdo it, like, big time. It's like they take that. What do they think you're going to do? I have no idea. Or what is in there. I don't know, but it's like they take this stuck-up IndyCar mentality that IndyCar has a reputation for having his fans and treat us that way.

It's like, man, we're here because we have to be here for work. We didn't call this place to go, man, you mind if we come this weekend, hang out? I don't know. I don't get it. But anyway. Spot on, spot off. Kyle Bush, as the first driver in NASCAR to sweet poles and wins. T.J. loves Kyle Bush.

So much. Romance. Yeah, whatever. Hashtag. Hugs. Spot off. You know, I want to say spot on. No, you don't.

I do because it's impressive that somebody... You don't want to be a sore loser? It's impressive that somebody can do this, but I feel like, you know, it's not. not as big of a task in what he's driving right now. It's not like he's just straight up. It's not like he's out driving 30 other guys. He is lifting at the flag stand. That means your car is really, really good.

He's running half throttle on an exfini race, basically, leading the thing, driving away. So it's not like he, do you not think, I mean, do you know what happened if we would lift at the flag stand? We would get passed by four cars before the corner. So, you know, I don't think he is, you know, we're all racing pretty hard. They've got stuff figured out there,

and he's taking advantage of it. But spot off still. It's Kyle spot off. I want to align with what TJ's saying, but you've got to say spot on. I mean, you don't have to. Here's the bigger problem.

This guy won his championship last year. He's just racing now. He is the new Jimmy Johnson. He's in a super fast car, which Jimmy had for years. He's got the confidence of Hercules. We're in trouble. There's an asterisk on that one, too, though.

He only ran half the races. All right. I can't find another champion that's only ran half the races, but whatever. Part of life, man. Spot off. Here's the thing. Brett just changes the answer. No, no, no, no.

Here's the thing. It could be you this year. You could be the one with a second asterisk because your driver's on the sidelines. And when he comes back and he comes back and he wins and he qualifies at Richmond. And then you're going to be like, well. Yeah, love his format, man. This is awesome. When that happens, we'll talk.

He knows. I'm right. We'll speak about it then. Yeah. Oh, this next one's good. Spot on, spot off. Brett and TJ take pace car rides at IMS. What the heck was on your heads and why did they not give you a bigger helmet? You two looked like you totally

We did not have any much to pick from here. They basically got us in line. Did your wife see that picture? No. Oh yeah, probably. Actually, yeah, she saw it because Dale Jr. got a hold of it and posted at all her friends. So, yeah, she saw it. But yeah, we didn't have a choice. We basically got put in this line. And we got a helmet stuffed on us and Ponce device puts on, whatever they are, put on us.

And we got in. It was, if you dropped your phone or anything, you were not picking it up because you could not move your head. But I understand the safety part of it because you are going fairly fast. Right. So we drove into turn three. Yeah. And you couldn't probably see the guy. No, I couldn't see him, but I can feel it.

I'm in the front seat and I see the guy drives in pretty hard. And I'm like, I've driven a race car, a big track's force. So I'm, the front, the front tire is like pushing. Like, we're not making the bottom. And he starts to, he starts to panic a little bit with his other leg. He starts moving his leg up. Like, that's what you, like, you know, when you're driving, it's something, somebody slams in her brakes, you pull your leg a little bit.

You know, you're like, he was like, well, like, it was like about to get away from. How many laps did you guys take? Just one. But, uh, yeah. You know, a two-seater? Yeah. Yeah. A car.

We're in a car. Yeah. We're on motorcycle. Motorcycle. Side car. Yeah. I'm in a. A two-seat.

Yeah, John. We rode a motorcycle. Brett sat in front of me facing me. All right, Jack has. Spot off for me because I've had two of the most popular people on Twitter. Dale Jr. and NASCAR and Blake Shelton and country music make fun of my pretty smile. So both those guys can kiss my ass.

And next time I think I want to make a hit on social media, I'll do it with my mouth closed. I was actually back in the truck when I was scrolling through Twitter. And I actually saw that when Dale, Jr. tweeted that, and I about fell on the floor laughing. So Clint, comedy guy, he texts Dell Jr. a picture of the tweet and text me. So we're all in this text thread. And Clint's like, this is a total dick move, man, this ain't good. You must be feeling better.

Are you hanging out at your pool? You know, so anyway, we ended up having a conversation. But, hey, I dish out a lot of crap. Yeah, you guys know me. I mean, it was funny. It was hilarious. I'm a mouth of the guy. I can take it back.

I got big shoulders. I thought it was funny, too. It was pretty funny. And then Junior's like, well, man, if it just happened, I'm sorry, but I thought you'd always had that kind of going on. I'm like, you're not making this feel any better right now. It was pretty funny. I did laugh.

Blake called you out too because he wants to be on the podcast. I know, man. How about that? Well, if he didn't get in his little fancy helicopter and leave Texas, he could have been. Well, Natalie, who, you know, is our motor mouth and associate and podcast boss, you know, she's not going to take credit for screwing that up, but I'll give her credit for screwing of that. We could have had him.

So now we've got to go back and try to win him back over. So maybe we just take this show to the voice and do a live show from the voice. Done. And we can get him on and maybe. Gwen. Are you going to do the worm? What's that wrecking ball song you sang the other? I don't know.

It was glorious. I'll do the worm. If you're going to do the worm in some tight outfit. Yeah. I'll skin tight it. I mean spandex type. Yoga pants or something. Yeah.

Spot on, spot off. Kid Rock plays Pat Concert and IMS in Field Saturday night. Spot off, man, every kid rock concert's awesome. Spot off. You're fussing about the crowd on Sunday, and yet you give 30,000 people a reason to come on Saturday. Do it on Sunday. You're trying to get people to your facility.

Pre-race, post-race, whatever. You can't not have Kid Rock there on the big day. Sunday's the big day. Whose idea was this? Somebody doesn't know what they're doing. Call me, text me, tweet me. I'll help you. Josh did it.

Josh did it standard. And did they allow people in that didn't have tickets? You bought a ticket to the race and the show, or you could just buy a concert ticket. Those VIP concert tickets were like $250. But Will, L.A.'s bus driver, sub-spotter, was at the concert because Elliot left after the Xfinity race, so Will stayed on Elliott's bus. He sent me pictures, man. It was a sea of people.

25,000 people at least. And so again, I'm sitting here going, why are you doing this on Saturday night? You know, they had actually going into the weekend. Nobody publicizes this stuff. They had sold more tickets to Saturday's race than Sunday's race. Now, after Jeff Gordon got added, Sunday's race barely beat it. But the reason they'd sold more tickets was because of this concert. Yeah, and Kid Rock.

The reason, too, is Kid Rock is an awesome concert. Yeah, I already put on a great show. He always puts on a great show. I was at Fogo to Chow, eating four pounds of meat, which I went to Kevin Hamlin, And I said, hey, you and TJ and Eddie want to go eat with us next week? And he's like, I don't know, man. He probably never even invited y'all, did he? No, never said anything to us.

Man, I'm telling you. I don't know about these guys. Christian and I were in a microwave. Yeah. Concier microwave. Yeah, but you were cooled off for Sunday, though, right? I went to play golf, so no. Oh, yeah, I feel real bad.

This idiot, bitching about how hot he was on Saturday. It goes and stands out in the sun for five hours playing golf. Yeah, drinking beer. Yeah, wait a second of all. You complain about all this stuff, and then you'd go and drink gluten and beer and miss the show. Epi-pinner. Yeah.

Geez. I'm here. I wish they could make... If they had an epipen emoji, I'd use that all the time with you. Kristen has a gluten allergy. Joey has a peanut allergy. J.J.'s little girl has a peanut allergy. Yeah.

And Kristen makes bad life choices all the time. This is Brett talking to us all the dog. And so she has to epipen herself all the time. See, it's not a bad thing. She's still kicking it. It'd be like you saying, hey, look at those peanuts. Yeah. Oh, I'm getting, I'm swelling up. That's why she's not a role model in your life, though.

Because we try to, look at me. I mean, look at me. I'm a great role model. All right, we're taking a break. We'll be back. This Wednesday on Fastlane family, I sit down with Fox reporter Shannon Spake. Tune in as we discuss her recent move to Fox, her diversity with reporting for many different sports, juggling motherhood, and how hard work and dedication pay off. That's this Wednesday right here on Dirty. Let himo radio. All right, let's head into Fastlane.

I'm going to give TJ and Brett a topic to debate and alternate who responds first, and each of them will get 30 seconds to give me their opinion, and then whoever responded first will get a 30 second rebuttal. Four topics are racing, and one is off the wall none. You all ready? Who, I go first. Brett's first. The final Xfinity Dash for Cash Race was this past weekend at Indy.

What are your thoughts on the format of heat races and should they stay? Great question, Josh. These things were an epic failure. We had eight total heat races. We only had one caution in eight heat races. We only had two passes for the lead in eight heat races. Both of those came at Dover. This was an epic fail on the design of how these things were laid out.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to think those were great races. The format, the heat races could work, but I think they need to be done in a little bit different fashion, and maybe like a random draw or something for a heat race, something where there's some action, man. You know, where, you know, somebody might be on the pole and get out front and be able to run away a little bit, but it'd be exciting because then you have separation.

You know, you have faster cars coming from the back and stuff. We're in an air of conciseness. Everybody wants less is more right now. And we just took a two-hour Xfinity race and we spread it out over three hours and made the first hour and a half of it pretty boring. Because these guys can't pull up their backup cars if they wrecked. They don't really have anything on the line in the heat race.

All they're thinking is, I need to preserve, I need to survive. That's not racing. The Indianapolis 500 saw 350,000 people at IMS for the 100th running. Reports say that there could have been less than 50,000 for the brickyard 400. What can be done from a racing perspective to get butts back in the seats, TJ. We can do a song to that, butts back in the seats, butts back in the seats. You know, I don't, I think there needs to be more incentive, kind of like what we talked about earlier, the concert, maybe do some things together to get people there.

And, you know, we obviously have to make the product better to track like that, too. The race is actually, you know, it can be, it's been a good race in the past, but we've seen the guy, it just seems to kind of get spread out a little bit too much now. I don't know the answer to this. Kid rock concert on Sunday. I mean, kid rock concert halfway through the race. I mean, I'm a marketing guy. I love promotions.

and I honestly don't know how you get more people to the track. So 140 degrees heat index. It's a parade of a race. We don't see a lot of passing. I don't know the answer to this. The good news is the ratings were way up, so people from home were watching. Yeah, I don't think, you know,

you can't compare those two events anyway, really, though. You'd have to compare that to Daytona 500 or something like that more than, because the Indy 500 is such a huge deal. It builds up for a month there. They build up to it for a month, and that's indie cars home. So I don't, you know, it's hard to compare those to. We definitely need to, you know, we need to keep doing something to try to keep people attracted.

El Dora had an estimated 18 to 20,000 people in attendance for the truck race last Wednesday. Do you think NASCAR should look at expanding the truck series to other dirt tracks or should they just stick with one? Man, I really like the eliteness of one. I feel like it almost gives that race the look and feel for the series of our Daytona 500. You know, I know the trucks go to Daytona and race, Xfinity goes to Dayton races, but I feel like this separates the series by only having the one race and making it really cool to win it if you can win it. Yeah, I think I would be okay with having it too, kind of like road courses.

They don't really do much road course in the truck series, and they used to do a couple, two to three. So I'd be okay if they put a Knoxville on there. Something, excuse me, it'd have to be another track that has some prestige to it, like the Knoxville Nationals. Stick with one. That's what I got for that one. Stuart Haas Racing announced yesterday that they will field a full-time Exfinity Series single card. Single tar. Do you think they will be a serious contender in their first year to win the championship?

T.J. Yeah, I don't see how they wouldn't be. They've got fast cup cars. I don't see how they wouldn't start the Accinity program off right. Tony normally, I think he knows what he's doing, running a company. He's got a lot of good people there, so I don't, I see it being successful. I agree with T.J. It will be successful. The question is, will they be able to win the championship? I say no, and I say no because of this. They have a tall order on the cup side.

They got to get bodies, engines, things ready on the cup side. That's their bread and butter. This Xfinity series is certainly going to be a big priority, but it's also going to be a tall task to bring a rookie in with brand new startup stuff and win this championship. ship. Yeah, it all matters on who drives the car as well. I mean, if it's legitimately going to be... It's Cole. Oh, I mean, I mean, Cole will be... Cole's a wheelman, dude. He gets it. He's a good driver, man. So I think they will be very competitive. Cole's a man. Off the wall topic. Oh, God. Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Ken Griffey Jr. is the highest draft pick to be inducted first. And Piazza is the lowest draft pick to ever be inducted.

1,390. Who's Mike Pizza? Yeah, MLB drafts weird. They do it for like a year. Oh, it's weird. It is weird. So who is your favorite player growing up, Brett? My favorite player growing up during my early years was George Brett because he had the

name Brett. He was in Kansas City, which was nowhere near Pagelon, South Carolina. A lot of, you know, Atlanta Braves guys were around us, you know, the Chipper Joneses. But my favorite player, when I actually understood the game, Older in life, Ken Griffey Jr. Pretty is swing in baseball. Purdy. Pretty.

Yeah, I was a big Ken Griffey Jr. fan as well because he had a Nintendo game. You're so bizarre. I played it all the time. I would say my favorite player was growing up. I spent a lot of time my grandparents' house in Pennsylvania during the summers when we lived in western New York. And I would watch pirate games all the time. So I was a big Bobby Bonilla and Barry Bonds fan back in the day. I met Pete Rose after a race.

We got on a helicopter with him in Vegas. And he was a pretty brass guy. Like, I mean, I was, he could have been a little friendlier because I grew up watching him too. And I mean, I like to gamble, you know, not necessarily on my sport like like. But, I mean, that's a guy that I always liked. And it's hard because I met Kenny Chesney at Dale Jr's bus at the Legacy concert. He was a bit of an ass. Like, it's hard sometimes when you meet these guys that you look up to as a kid and you're like,

man, I don't like this guy. anymore. Yeah, when I hear Kenny Chesney's song now, for the most part, I usually turn the channel because I'm like, this guy's going to figure out where you saw Pete Rose be nice. Almost every video clip of Pete Rose, he's yelling and fighting. But so is Tony Stewart. Tony Stewart has that passion of the game, but he's not that guy out of the car. I don't know, man.

I envision meeting Pete Rose and him being nice and mean. He was not nice. But anyway. I grew up a Cal Ripkin Jr. fan. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was there for that game when he broke the streak. Really?

Because I grew up 45 minutes from Baltimore. Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. I like that guy a lot, too. I'll admit, I don't watch a lot of baseball now, you know. I've watched more than that I do now for sure. Yeah, me too.

And I'm a Jackie Bradley Jr. fan right now. He's a game cock up in Boston, and he's slaying them. I mean, he's killing it. Went like three for three in an all-star game. I mean, this dude's a stud. I met him, and he was super nice guy. I don't know.

We all are lucky. We get to meet a lot of these high-profile people. And there's nothing worse than thinking you like somebody And then you meet them, you're like, yeah, I don't like this guy. Yeah. Our girl. I met a few girls. I met a girl from Lancaster, South Carolina.

Her name was Julie Roberts. Does that sound right? It wasn't Paige Duke. I met Paige Duke, too. Wasn't Julia Roberts? She sings that song, I sure hate to break down here. You know that song? How's it go?

I was like, hey, I'm from Paysa, South Carolina. She looked at me like I had eight heads, and I'm like, it's 20 miles from you. Don't act like you're better than me, lady. And you've only had one hit. Who do you think you are? I hope you said that to her. That'd be great. No, but every driver that came up to him, she was a helmet licker, boy.

She's all about that deal. Pit lizard. No doubt. Waffle belly. She got all the turns. I was like, I don't even like you anymore. I hope you break down here, you asshole. Hacer chaser.

Holy gal. Okay, awkward turtle. What was awful? She did. Hashtag AskDBC. So Josh has chosen the questions today. Joshua. At Haleard asked, do you think the tire debacle brickyard?

What is this? The tired debacle. English is hard. Do you think the tired debacle brickyard really is a major reason for losing 200,000 people in attendance? I'm assuming that's what this is. I think I'm. You know when we ran into brickyard and they couldn't run more than 14 laps? She don't remember.

Yeah, we had a caution. We had a caution like every 10 laps because we were blowing tires. Right. What year was that? What was it? O five? No, before then. No, it was after that.

05, 06. It couldn't have been later in 06. 05.06. Anyway, T.J. Thoughts. Did that, is that why 200,000 people weren't there? No. Because it was 200,000 degrees.

I tell you what. Here's the thing about that 10-lap deal. We couldn't run more than 10 laps than somebody would blow a tire. So literally NASCAR intervened and said every 10 laps, we're going to throw a caution. It created a lot of aggressive restarts. it created a lot of strategy racing in terms of, oh my God, I'm scared to run 100%. Dale Jr. was one of the guys who had a ton of tire problems, which may or may not have led to them intervening as quickly as they did. But to my point, the next year, we came back and the crowd

was half. Along those same times, F1 had a tire problem and made Indie kind of lose its luster. The Indy 500 wasn't sold out for a year, so I don't know that it didn't like hit their brand a little bit. And that's not their fault. Goodyear makes the tires. What do you got? Yeah, I think I was spotting that race for Dale Jr. Was he in the bud? I don't think he was in the bud car. He was in...

He was a DEI then? No, I think he was in a Hendrick car. He was? Because I think I was spotting that race. Okay. I know, Elliot was in the M&M's car, and we were stupid fast. I think it was 07. I think it was 06.

But anyway, it don't matter about the year. Yeah, I don't know, man. It was, I just don't think the racing there is built very good for our car. You know, it's great for indie cars. Yeah. They got a three-wide star. They're there for, their build-up. Yeah.

You know, that you can't. 2008. Yeah. So their build-up is just huge. That whole month, man, there's festivities going on. We show up and run on one weekend. Yep. And it's just, I don't know, I think we need to stick the other two series at the other track.

Here's the thing. We've signed a five-year deal last year with this racetrack. So people are like, NASCAR won't come back. Oh, yeah, they're coming back for at least four more years. they're not going to abandon this stage this large. I almost look at it now. I mean, we've been running there for 20 years. I mean, I think the first one was 94, the inaugural brickyard.

And I'm like, man, this track just doesn't work with our package. Take the sideskirts off, try some stuff. And to T.J.'s point, move the Xfinity Series back to the best asphalt track in America. And the trucks, man. I mean, that's the best asphalt track in America. When it was indie weekend, the awesome part of it was the racing started on Thursday or so with the trucks. you had trucks and Exfinity and then the big race on Sunday but it was that's a good race they ran sprint cars Thursday night

yeah trucks Friday night use that cars or Silver Crown or something Bush cars Saturday night back then and they renamed the track about eight times RP ORP Lucas Hall Raceway I don't know what they always call what you call we need to race there it's I mean the Arca guys put on a heck of a show there Friday night yeah Mike Snyder ran third I'm spot for him this weekend and Pocono there's always good race in there man doing it tracking so you're not coming to Iowa no no sure

Sheriff. I love some sheriff. At SVT, Cobra John Us, we know attendance is down, have the constant format changes hurt or helped over the last 10 plus years. That doesn't help.

They've hurt, man. Yeah. It's confusing. It confuses fans. They've hurt. And I hate to say this, but you know, you introduced the chase,

which I am a gigantic fan of the chase, and it was 10 drivers, and then it was 12 drivers, then it was 12 drivers, and then it was a win to advance, and then it was a win in your end, and then it was a win at the end, and then it was,

there's four guys at the end, whoever finishes higher. It can be difficult as a sports fan if you're not a hardcore fan and you're just an avid fan to keep up. Like the casual fan who just went, yeah. Imagine the touchdown being worse, six points one year, four and a half the next, seven the next, eight the next, and then they're changing an extra point to two. And then five years later, you're kind of coming back into the sport,

and you're like, well, he just scored and I don't know how many points he got. Like, as a true, and I'm a sports fan. I grew up playing sports. Like all that change, we've alienated some of our older hardcore fans. throughout the process. I would think, TJ. Yeah, absolutely. It just, I don't know. Do you think they do a good enough job explaining it on TV during the broadcast of the changes? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.

I would think so. I would think so, but again, I don't think that matters. That's a minute and a half explanation. What if you're not watching that minute and a half? What if you're falling race on Twitter or something? I mean, I think all of the rules changes we make to the cars, the fans don't necessarily have to care because they're not building the car. All they want to see is a good competitive race. Yeah, we have a few hardcore car guys that are going to care, but the majority of our audience

doesn't want to hear about track bar and wedge and air pressure and camber and A-arms. They don't know what that shit is. Let's stick to what we need, which is a good show and a consistent platform. They want to see a guy up front. Tony holding off tires at Sonoma. They want to see stuff like that.

You know, we need to be. We need, I don't know, it's too separated out now. I want to defend our current format in the Cup series because when they first kicked off the chase, when you got to the 10th final race of the chase, the leader had such a large advantage. He had already pretty much locked into the championship. Most of the time, yeah.

Well, that was why we went to a chase was because by the time we got to the last race of the year, the majority of years, the leader had already locked in the points-wise who was going to win. So now we're at this format, which was highly influenced by television of make it to where these three or four guys are racing against each other who ever finished this highest wins. When I first heard about it, I was like, I don't like it.

Then I started really thinking about it. And I was like, we just made this more exciting because we went from one, maybe two guys being mathematically in the conversation to four. So now I have the ability to attract all of those fans of those four drivers, create that game seven moment. I like it. but we got to leave it alone. It's a Super Bowl with four teams.

Yeah. You've got four teams in the Super Bowl, and NM can win right there. That's great. But we got to leave it alone. Yeah. We can't put guys in, and you've got to leave it alone.

I wish we could find a decent package, rolls package with the cars that are equal, more equal throughout. You have glitter on your face. I didn't get it all off. Sorry. Sorry. Did you go to a shoe show

before you came in here? So who's next? Travis E underscore 40 asked If any of you four were to win the $422 million power ball, would you quit spotting or marketing? What would you do? I thought I said quit smoking.

I probably wouldn't quit spotting yet. I would probably not spot practice as frequently as I do. I would probably fly in on my own plane on Sunday morning. And I love racing. love a competition. I got to have something to do, right?

But it's not standing in Indianapolis on the pagoda for 27 hours. It's to go there and do the race and then go back down. Yeah. I think I could get a really good sub-spotter. Maybe my motor coach driver could do it. I would still spot. I would. I would still spot.

We have an awesome job. You have to understand. I love my job. Only 40 people in the world do what T&A and I do on Sunday. TNA. TNA. TNA. Shoe show. Shoe show.

TN. But y'all got me all messed up. I'm throwing my glitter on people's faces down. Okay. Bidonna T-61S. Is it harder using more than one spotter for your drivers when they are not used to them and your communication? Yeah.

You kind of touched on that. It's always harder doing that. It's always harder adding someone else from the equation and you lose some of the control that you normally have. Yeah, the key is don't get a second spotter better than you are because you don't want to get fired after a race. And be like, man, I like that guy better than you. It's will better.

No, that's playing strategy, man. You got to coach them up, you know. something happened with Will the other something everything happened with Will so you guys were trying to get in line

and they were telling you to get behind another car and I'm like I asked Will I'm like hey are you behind this guy or whatever he's like I don't have nothing to do with that car

and the NASCAR sitting there saying like get the one bray I'm like he wasn't listening to NASCAR though he had a channel one okay and a channel two but not a NASCAR

yeah so I'm sitting there listening to NASCAR and like hey what are you doing with that guy? I mean, the escar's sitting there telling you where to go or whatever. He was not some of a nard. He's like, I don't have anything to do with that two car. Also a man with a lovely mustache.

Yeah, Will has a stash going on. You know, Will makes dreams come true. And a free candy van. He'll drive you anywhere. What? A candy van. Will's a cooking machine. He is.

He is actually. Will's a good, he's funny. He's funny. He's funny. Yeah, I like Will. He's been with Elliot since 2000. So he's been Elliot's, bus driver for 16 years.

That's actually pretty impressive. Yeah. Because, I mean, bus drivers, most of them, once they find it good when they stick with them for a while, but that's a lot. That's a pretty long streak. Yeah, we're a family, man. He's a good guy, too. Like, he'll pick us up in the golf cart and take us places if it's super hot or to get

out of the, um, where we in New Hampshire. Yeah. We had to park outside and he said get in the back of the truck. Yeah. Where he also has a big cooler. A cooler, and he hands me a bottle of vodka. And he's like, keep it down when you see an official. I'm like, all.

So I started working with Elliott 99. Will started in 2000. So, I mean, I've been with Elliot since this rookie year. So the three of us have literally gone through it all together. That's one of my favorite pictures of you guys in Talladega and Victory Lane, the three of you. Those are always my favorite. Those are good pictures. That I have a pretty smile into.

Yeah, it's glorious. It's beautiful. Hashtag T. You should have taken that helmet off, man. Should have left it on. I know. I'm going to wear it in Victory Lane next time. I'm going to put Elliott's helmet on.

Oh, my gosh. At Mason Feldman 51 asked, do you believe that Indiecar's double header format with two races in back-to-back days for one series could work in NASCAR? Mason Feldman. Do you believe that Indycar's double-heder format with two races back to make? Yeah, I mean, if it's a good track we rate, if it's a good racing track, like a Loudon or something. I mean, I almost say if you're going to, if we're going to do a double header, this guy obviously doesn't work in racing. Yeah.

Let's do it on the same day and make the, make the races half the distance because we get. give the drivers a sense of urgency when they tend to put on a better show. Let's give them the ability to pull out a backup for the second race. If not, run your same car. Like, I like this, but dude, I don't want to stay at the track another day. Four days is already enough. Your idea on that side of thing sucks, but the two-race thing, man, I could acclimate myself. You know, the more I think about it here, the more I don't like it.

Because our racing is all about building up to the big show. Yeah. The big show. The big show. So we practice Friday. practice a little bit Saturday, qualify, whatever, and we build up to Sunday.

Sunday. So I feel like spreading it out might not be the best thing. I think feeling, when you go to Louddon, I don't know how the crowd looked at Loudon, but you go to Loudon, that's a good racing weekend.

You have racing every single day. They need to fill the weekend with other racing series, too. Like, keep it full, man. Yeah. Bring people, give them a reason to come to the track and watch four races. You know?

Yeah. But I don't like the idea. but I'm not saying it wouldn't work. So predictions for Pocono. You want to talk about you? T.J. Last week, T.J. smoked you.

Pulled the A-side of the hole. Or A-side of the Hatter. Where's my broom? Where's my broom? Right. I mean, he picked the winner. When you pick the winner, you can't lose. Not only did I pick the winner, but he.

And I haven't put zero thought on this, but I got to say, I just saw the word Pocono. Pocono has come so far with Brandon, the current track president. Yeah. This guy has made the tunnel, the prettiest tunnel in all of NASCAR. He's got a waterfall. They have done a tremendous job of changing the culture of what used to be considered a boring racetrack. And I think from a racing standpoint, it can be similar to Indy in a lot of ways. But it's three different corners.

We certainly can pass there easier than we can at Indy. But the similarity is we're really spread out at both tracks because they're both two and a half miles. Who thinks it's a good idea to put Indy and Pocono back-to-back weekends? NASCAR, obviously. I don't know. Why? I don't know. Pocono is going to have great weather.

It's going to be 80 degrees. Come out to the racetrack. But if we go up there a month later, it's still going to have great weather. Like, stick somebody in here that breaks up the monotony of the two and a half mile track deal, you know? I mean, we have a lot of tracks we could do the inserts on here. Pocono doesn't bother me. I know people say Indian Pocon are similar, but Pocono doesn't bother me. Pocono usually turns into a fuel mileage race.

you know at some point so there's there's off strategy there's drama yeah at polka for sure we didn't have like any drama sunday at all really it was it was one car and uh parking pass is drama did you speaking of that there was a few funny tweets there was well Clint on Sunday tweeted that it was a special day getting him he gets to drive across the crossed the bricks. Instead of kissed the bricks, he said he's driving across him all day. And then obviously Dale Jr.'s Jimmy, they had his name wrong on the wall. That was hysterical. How do you get that wrong? Because you should be fired?

How do you screw that up? In the Xfinity series, we had Alex Bowman in the 88. Yeah. So over Alex's, the 88 garage, everyone had their name. It said Alex Bowman. So Josh and I, Josh is standing on tires and I'm handing him duct tape. And it's Kevin Harvick. And it's Kevin Harvick. Well, did you see Jeff Gordon's fire suit? Yeah.

They had the years wrong on his championships. Yeah. He won four consecutive cup championships. That weekend is a shit show. It's completely. It was plain. And then, so Derek, did you see what Derek tweeted? Uh-uh.

Derek said, you know. Derek spots for Larson. Yeah, Derek just tweeted. Derek went with us to Fogo. He didn't big time it's like you guys did. If I didn't know, my secretary didn't tell me. Um, Derek, uh, let me bring it up. He was pretty excited.

They ran good. Kyle, he ran good all day. Carl runs good there. Runs good there, period. And it was, you know, it's good to see, good to see him run good. He was coming off a big weekend at El Dora as well. So Derek says, uh, I love it when I look at my tweets and the Prez likes my tweets. I know it's because of the do work hashtag, right?

Steve Luleta. Loa letta. No quit. And then so McMurray sees that. And there might have been some parking pass stuff going on. McMurray sees that. And he says, I think he just likes your cool paper credential. Hashtag Unlimited Parking Pass.

Yeah. Yeah. So we're not going to tell you what. Yeah, we don't need to tell you. But Derek got in a little bit of trouble. And he has to sign in for a couple of weeks. And he has to sign in and get a paper pass for a few weeks. He doesn't have a hard guard right now.

So these guys, okay, his crew guys are assholes. Here's what they did. They went on to Jay. And they took the Jayski web page and they pulled out a news item and they wrote their own press release about Derek and why he lost his privilege and why he's got to have a paper pass. So they write this whole news article and then they put it back up into a graphic and they send it to Derek and they're like, oh my God, Chip Gannasi, Steve Lohetta are freaking out. You've created negative publicity for this company. so Derek's like going on Jaiski and he's like, well, it's not on there now. They're like, no, Chip Gannasi call the guy that runs Jaiski and ask him to take it down.

Man, you're in trouble. So Derek is freaked out. So the inner joke here from the Gannasi guys isn't that Derek got in a little bit of trouble. It's that they totally freaked him out by making him think that this one on the internet. Dude, that would like cause you to have an aneurysm or something. That's amazing. Like T.J. is a practical joker. It's going to be hard to beat that one.

I wouldn't I don't think I would go that mean I mean man he's already in trouble like well now you've given him a heart attack because he thinks it's been publicized and Chip Ganassi is mad and in the meantime they're all in on this joke they're all laughing about it they're all texting them about it I don't know when they finally told him it wasn't true I hadn't asked it's pretty fun when you can get a lot of people like that involved in it though it's pretty fun yeah so Pocono predictions man I losers first first and I have not

prepared for this. I haven't actually put a lot of thought. Neither have I. You haven't had to you. It was waiting for me to pick. Where's my list that? Where's our list that our cover John, buddy sends in? That's exactly what I needed to happen. This is who we have picked. This is who we haven't picked. I am in red Brett's driver list. Definitely not going with Dell Jr. Chase Selleck, didn't he run good there the last time? Didn't he have a strong little show in there in the old Hendrick ship? He, who's designing this guy's paint schemes? The 24 last year and for several years had some of the prettiest cars. And now it looks like I've got to do better.

I know T.J. can't comment on it. Y'all probably can't comment on it. But whoever's designing these things, do they work here? No. But, I mean, you take those paint schemes of the 24 that's historically gorgeous. They put Photoshop on Josh's computer. Here you go, Josh, you handle this. Well, I definitely don't want Brian Vickers or Michael Waltrip.

Who's giving us this list? I hadn't picked McMurray yet. Hey, was there something an anomaly about Indy where I saw so many spotters down in the garage this weekend when I never see you guys? Just because we, that's where we would, it's just closest right there. We're close and we have breaks. Kurt Busch. Kurt Busch. Oh, wow.

41 car. Wow. Get you some. Babe Ruthen right now. Point. Kurt Busch is going to run top five in this race. You think? So TJ's got to either take.

He won the last race. He's got to hit a big one. He's got to either take. hit a big one. He's got to either take Jeff Gordon or just give it up. I got to keep the pressure on this guy, man. Look how hard he's thinking. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. The squirrels inside of his brain are really... The glitter is shiny. You take forever... I really want to save... I really want to save Kurt for our chase, man. Save him. So I'll roll with...

That should be good. I'll roll with Tony. Tony Stewart. Hey, Tony's hot in the summer. The media will tell you how. good as he is during summer he's i mean i'll take tony he's tony's got his head right yeah he's it's it's fun to see him do good it is awesome to see him do good it's great for our support uh i don't everything it ran we've ran it about every topic we had we already we kind of ran it as we went

yeah christin you got anything yeah what do you want to ran about josh i got nothing i'm pretty how was your golf game sunday was it good oh it was awful kind of like your saturday evening concierre Yeah, that was bad. Standing out in the sun for 14 hours, driving to the airport, sitting on a hot plane for two and a half. Yeah. And then that's not even the flight, which was another hour and a half of hotness.

Yeah. I really don't have a rant, but I would like to thank Exaltor for having the 10th 4th suite in Indiana, the pagoda. That made it a lot easier for me. Oh, that was 10? Yeah. That was why nobody could go in there, except you? Uh-huh. You're an asshole.

It's nice with you. It's nice when you have a result of you. Let's talk about TJ's character for a moment. Do any of y'all have a door bumper clear t-shirt? No, and I have asked for it. We're on the show. We're on the show, door bumper clear. What's the deal?

Second of all, this guy is going into an air-condition suite. Two stories under me. That has a bathroom, and I'm not invited. Listen, man. That's just rude. Sorry. Look at you. Just looking out for number one all the time.

One-way streets all the time. Sorry. One way. Thank you, Zalta, for letting me in there. Josh's I blame Josh's sister was the one Let me in there

So Okay Well it has nothing to do With me So Kind of does Blame Josh Yeah

Hashtagee producer Josh Blame Josh Yeah Thanks Tara for letting me in there And it was actually good The exalted people Are food too

Yeah But I was Food They got everything They're uh They're really It's a really fun Company

The president suite The track I got everything But not Brett They don't have Brett. They didn't need it. They had me. They probably had some cold beer, too.

Yeah. Exalted, my number is 8675309. Text me. Text me next time and I'll come to your suite. They, uh, they're, the exalted people are really, really love racing, too. They love being a part of it and stuff. And they, uh, it's just fun to go see them people there too. So thanks for letting me cut in there and not Brett or anyone else.

Hashtag get well, Dale. Still pulling for our boss man here. Boss man. He's doing all right. He's doing good. I saw him yesterday. So he's doing his stuff like he's supposed to be doing and on the right track. All right.

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