Door Bumper Clear - 34 - Words We Can't Say

Episode Date: September 20, 2016

The DBC gang welcomes Kasey Kahne’s spotter Kevin Hamlin. They discuss new names for the Sprint Cup Series, who they would never spot for and a lot of other nonsense. Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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You're in. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major Spiterter, the 88 cup car, 7X-Finity car, and 29 truck. And joining me. Brett Griffin, Spotter, 4, Clint Boyer, Elliot Sadler. Hey, guys, it's KB. And we have a special guest.

We do. You're a monkey. It's share. T.J. Inside joke continue. So we have special guests, Kevin Hamlin, who is a spotter, among other things. Representing hair club for men today. Kevin Harvick.

I'm Kevin Harvick. It's not the guest. Kevin Harvick is actually a little bit better than Kevin Hamlin. Kevin Hamlin is the American dream in NASCAR. Why did you guys, I mean, as long as we've known each other, Did you Google me before I came in? Number one, I've been in here two minutes and you're giving me a hard time about my gray hair. I was talking about the lack of hair.

Not the hair. Terrible for men, lack of hair or gray hair? Turn gray is better and turn it loose. I guess you got both problems. I mean, it happens. I got three kids, man. I can't help it. Yeah, threes.

Are you Mormon? Last time I check. Are they all yours? I think so. Don't Mormons have a lot of kids? What are you looking at me for? Josh, the Amish people have a lot of kids. Maybe you're a Mormon.

I'm a Jewish. Josh over here. Maybe you're Amish. I think religious people just procreate more. Jebediah. Right? Some religions won't let you take birth control. Catholics.

Well, they don't have a lot of kids, do they? Yes, they are. My dad's, like, one of seven. Baptists have a lot of kids. My stepdad. I thought Baptists are hypocrites, man. They drink, and then they go to church. We don't get into religion on this podcast.

Sorry I mentioned my kids. It's a right field. Derailed. Freedom of religion. So, Kevin. Yes. Why don't you give us a little background for anyone who doesn't know you and follow you on Twitter? Read your Wikipedia page out loud.

Are you the crew chief? I'm not the crew chief. I'm not related to Denny. Oh, I thought you guys were cousins or something. No, we're not. But seriously, Kevin Hamlin is the American Dream of NASCAR, and I want to tell you why, and then maybe he'll allude to what really got him here. So you take a guy that's a really good race car driver on the West Coast, right?

It's hard to get to Charlotte, North Carolina. He gets here. He gets signed by Chip Canassie. He goes out. he's a development driver, has some success with certain crew chiefs, gets in a couple situations that he stumped his toe. Driving career kind of starts subsiding, but he's smart enough to develop some niches and some other things that he can do with his career to stay in NASCAR because he loves it.

He's a spotter, does a lot of things for Casey Kane. So Hamlin, man, how does that happen? Well, when I was back home driving, you know, you want to be an actor, you go to Hollywood. You want to drive race cars you move out here. So we just, Mandy and I got married, and I said, hey, why don't we just, moved to Charlotte, see if we can't do this deal. And she was like, all right. So, and I thought I thought I was close to a truck deal when we moved. And I got to about Iowa when we were driving out, and the truck deal, like, went away, right? Yeah. And so we just, we came out here and we were here

a year. She was working. I wasn't. She was my sugar mama, so that was nice. She paid for everything. And so I was just pounding on the pavement trying to get deals, whatever. And in Brendan gone, and I kind of reconnected. We're buddies from the West Coast. And he did a lot to get me into an arka car with Kenny Schrader and that developed into the deal of Chip and drove there for a while and that was, you know, had its ups and downs, it's hard, man.

I mean, when I was back home, I developed, you know, I won't lie, I developed a bad attitude as far as I won two championships. I want to drive a truck. I want to do this. I want to do it full time. So we get out here and you kind of get into where it's hard, man. Like, it's a tough business.

And I start thinking, man, I just, I'd like to go back home and run my late model again. You know, it's funny how it changes. But so when I knew that my driving deal was stalled out and it wasn't, you know, going to be what I wanted it to be. I had done some spotting for some one-off deals over there at Chip Gannasi and Lauren, Lauren Reneer over there got me into doing that. And I figured, well, instead of doing a starting part as a driver, I'd rather spot and, like, help,

you know, trying to win races that way. So it just developed into starting parking and spotting, same races. I'll never forget Watkins Glen. Yeah. That experience. Wait, how do you do that? Well. Quick run up.

Of the spotter stand? So I was doing start in parks for front row motorsports and spotting for their cup car. So I just really wouldn't do practice on a cup and I would just run back and forth kind of. I'd never go up there in my uniform like crew guys do now. At least I change. But Watkins Glen, this is like one of my first experiences with Brett. I was still a new guy on the stand. So we did a start and park.

It was a short track car. So the gearing was all wrong in it. You know, like I was fourth gear at the top of the hill coming out of the ass. So anyway, I'd run like two laps. I quit. I changed. I ran all the way through the garage, up over the bridge, up to the spotter stand, and I start spot for Tony Raines.

This is like 15 laps into the race. Well, the whole field wrecks off a turn, too, and collects about everybody. And so we actually stayed out of it. We got in it, but we weren't out. I'd never talk to Brett, like, twice. He comes up and he goes, damn, helmet, you're going to be the first driver in history and NASCAR to DNF as a driver and a spotter in the same race. And he turns down, he walks off.

You're such an ass. I know, right? So I don't know if that record stands or not. So anyway. Did the wreck happen before or after you got up there? It was after. It was after. Yeah, he didn't have twice.

No, we kept going. We wrecked, but we kept going, so it doesn't count. The humor in it was awesome, though. It was. It was fun. So then it just developed in the spot for Clint Boyer for a couple years. And then when he went to MWR, I stayed at RCR. And Brett got me hooked up with Casey Kane.

I've been there for four and a half years now. But you do other stuff there, right? Yeah, I work a lot with a sprint car team and his foundation and all of his social stuff and just keeping sponsor asks together. So Lisa Backer is. So unlike TJ who just spots during the week does nothing, you spot and then you come and work in the office all week. Yeah. I will go ahead and tell you taking not two or three of, two of them it would be hard.

Three of them would be exceptionally hard. So I can't even imagine take care of three kids. but I know one's hard. And you got a good one. She's easy. She's like me. What do you expect? Hammond brings up a good point,

and we've never really talked about it on the show, but when drivers start looking for a new spotter, one of the things they'll lean on, and they have a lot of things they lean on, but they'll lean on other spotters that they know and trust to say, hey, who's available and who do I need to get? And I know T.J. and myself have both been in that situation. I'm sure Hamlin has now that he's been here a while.

After you're here a while, and you form these relationships, Casey Cain is looking for a spotter. He'll call you and say, hey, Brett, man, who's good? Who do I need to get? And I actually said you need to get Kevin Hamlin. So Hamlin signs up to do the deal on a part-time basis. So he does a few races. RCR says, hey, man, enough of that.

We need you to focus on Ty Dillon and the Xfinity series. Hamlin goes back to do that, and Casey goes, no, I need you over here full-time. So then Casey and Hendrick Pony up and go get a guy like Hamlin for a couple million a year. Yeah, matter of fact. Basically, it's exactly what happened. million. Yeah. Matter of fact, I got this match from Casey.

Who are some good spots? But anyway, I guess we should thank Exaltor for having the studio. Yeah, one main for bringing us this podcast, and Kristen's going to go through some script. It's about six miles. No, we want to thank Exalto for its continued support and urge you to head over to exaltor racing.com to check out photos and news on the Exalta 88. And if you haven't heard already, Jeff Gordon and Alex Bowman will be filling in for Dale

in the 88 for the 80 for the. the rest of the 2016 season as he recovers from concussion-like symptoms. Be sure to visit exaltar racing.com every week for all the news. That's why TJ doesn't say who he spots for at the beginning of the show. He just says 88 because of musical chairs just here. Yeah, I'm not sure who it's going to be, so. Just roll with it. Alex did pretty good this week.

Alex, listen, Alex has ran, I was thinking about the other night, and he has basically had three top tens. He was going to run top 10 at Loudon, and then Carl Bighton and we cut that tire. And then I feel pretty confident we could have read top 10 of Michigan. I was going to be a backup dancer for Janet Jackson, too. Yeah, but what happened? I didn't do it. Why not?

Don't tell me, don't threaten me with good time. Tell me what you can do. Sounds like you made a bad choice. God made a lot. Usually followed by a damn good time. Most good stories start with bad decisions. How is Chicago for you guys? Is that where we were?

Yeah, why you're ruining all the fun? We're talking about Janet Jackson. you got to come in and talk about Chicago. I want to talk about Chicago. Chicago was cool. We finished third with Elliot. I didn't do, I finished like 20 second with Clint,

which was one of our better cars of intermediate track. And Clint was in the 88 Xfinity car. Yeah. He was hilarious on the radio. How was that, Hamlin? You're back hooked up with Clint. It was fun. It was a good time.

What's a different spotting for Clint versus Casey? Because they all have their tendencies that we have to cater to. Casey's quiet. Clint not so much. No. And Casey's fairly quiet. And you just, especially for practice, you know, I just have to see what he's doing. If he's checking pit road or where our blend hole is leaving pit road, you just,

I just have to kind of figure it out and working with him, you tell. But Clint, if he's got something to say, he definitely will. He was hilarious. I was switching between you and him. Cheating on me again. I was cheating on you again. I figured. With Ham one.

He sounded like he was having fun, though. It was a good time. I mean, because, you know, you're talking about who you spot for. I can't do that on Exfinity side because it's like I spot for whoever needs me to fill in like a spot for like seven guys this year. Yeah. So it's fun spot for playing. I love that cup car was rough.

Geez. Yeah. Who you got down there? Who's in there this week? Most time it's the driver saying, hey, spotter, are you up there? Kevin's more like, hey, driver, you're in there? Hey, driver. Who's driving?

Yep. Yep. I thought we were going to win the Xfinity race for a... You had the race one until Kyle Busch wrecked on purpose. That too. Yeah. Don't you think he wrecked on purpose? Yeah, I know he did.

Because before that restart, Justin came on the race. He was like, hey, by the way, the 18, the right rear on the 18 car is bad. Moving. Like, it's going to break. Something's going to happen. So, you know, I was kind of waiting for it. And drivers know the severity of this stuff when they see it like that because they can see it close. And when Justin told me about it, he was pretty adamant that something was going to happen.

So, you know, it wasn't a surprise to me to see Kyle have that problem. And actually wasn't a surprise for me to see. Kyle knows what he's doing. He kept it off the wall. He actually kept it. He did a really good job not to wreck. Yeah. And then he did a really good job of wrecking.

Yeah, once he got on the straightaway. Yeah, he knew that once he got it off the wall, he could stand in a throttle and turn left, and it would spin out and NASCAR throw the caution. Yeah. So, you know, then it honestly didn't even matter to him, but he's still thinking that he can drive from the back to the front at that point. So he's going to do, you know, Kyle's going to Kyle.

Yeah, he's kiling. So. We haven't been words on here all the time. I was actually looking forward to having a really good race with Eric Jones between Justin and Eric, because we were getting ready to kind of duke it out a little bit. I'm not sure Eric could have got around us, but it was going to be a really fun and good race. So, you know, it's disappointing to see a guy that's not running for points in that series. Not, you know, he's basically just there to win.

You know, you were dealt some bad luck, or he actually brought that up on himself because he hit the wall himself. Right. So it's not like he had a loose tire or something like that. He actually hit the wall and brought that up on him. himself, but it was disappointing to see that. He still finished top five. Oh, how'd that work into points for him? Well, yeah.

Anyway, Cup race was fun. Alex did a great job. He did, uh, ran mostly top ten. We battle with Casey and Kevin most of the day there between seventh and tenth most of the time. We caught that caution right. Uh, had our pit stall there towards turn four and rolled across start finish line when the caution came back because everybody was slowing down. So we were able to get to start finish line and gain a ton of track position.

That's cool. Yeah, it was fun. How was your Chicago? It was hot up there. Sunday was hot. It was hot. Like, I got sweaty. Yeah.

I didn't sweat at all on Saturday. It was breezy. Shady. Shady. Nice down there, huh? I just hide under the pit box. Yeah. We don't hide.

Yeah. Let's kick it. Oh, right, that part. Okay, so spot on, spot off. Do you know what spot on, spot off is? Because we always confused, I guess. You pick one. Yeah.

Spot on, spot off. I listen, everyone. week, yes. All right, new lug nut rule, LAS penalties. Do you want me to go first? Yeah, I'm looking at you. I'm saying spot off. Well, we need to see what the outcome is today, kind of.

But spot off so far, because it's as far as I know, everybody's clear. I'm saying spot off too. And here's why I'm saying spot off. Kyle Busch failed post-race inspection in the truck series. They didn't announce it until the next day. We've had the whole week leading up to the change in penalties that you're referencing, yet we don't see the change in who won the race. When they knew, somebody knew he failed way before Saturday morning,

but none of us even heard about it until Saturday morning. Yeah, it was late. I was spot on with the opportunity here, but I'm certainly spot off with the outcome so far. Yeah. I think spot off too. It just seems like there's a lot of gray area. It just seems like there's not a role to follow.

Yeah. So, next. Daniel Hemrick to RCR in 2017 in the Xfinity series. Is this announced or is this breaking news again? They announced it. It's announced. Saturday they announced it. Spot on, man, that's cool. I think Hemrick's a good driver.

You know, he's certainly done some good things and some not-so-great equipment. So RCR's got fast cars, man. It'll be cool to see what he can do. I'm going to go spot off on that because I don't, watching him doing all the truck races and watching him drive all year, I feel like he could use one more good year of truck racing before, and especially if the sponsor is there behind him, he could use one more good year of truck racing

before he moves into the exfinity series. Because if you run fifth in a truck race, you're going to run 10th in a Xfinity race. And it's a big jump money-wise to go from a truck. I mean, you're talking double the money to go from a full-time truck ride to a full-time cup ride. And I also question that move. I kind of feel like when I kind of feel like,

tie leaves the Xfinity series, there's going to be less focused there. And the program might not get the amount of time and money and focus that it has gotten. So I don't know if that's going to. T.J's made two good points already, Hamlin. This is a big. This is a huge day. What you got? I say spot on, man.

He's a good driver. He's won in trucks. RCR is a really good team. I mean, I worked there for a couple years. They'll, you know, even if Tye's running cup, they still have a lot of people that are really hands-on with the Xfinity stuff. so I don't see any reason why he won't be faster. Yeah. I'd like to see him consistently in the top five.

He's had a pretty up and down summer. I'd like to see him consistently in the top five. Did he make the truck chase? Yeah. Yeah. That's big. It's a good experience for him. He made it by points, right?

Yeah, he had to because he's not one this year. Yeah, that's why. I mean, to me, you need to win a few races in the trucks before you're ready. Kind of like Jimmy John. Johnson did in Exfiny before he moved the cup. Yeah, the same thing, man, he dominated. Jesus. Guy couldn't stay on the lead lap in the Bush Series, and he gets the cup.

It's like, woo, watch this. He going. Alex Bowman's run at Chicago Land, J.G., watching from the Pitpucks. You can start this one, Kevin. I think it's spot on. You know, Alex has done a good job. I think it's cool that Jeff's there supporting him, and Alex, from what I understand,

asked a lot of questions and leans on those vets, and that's what he needs to do. I'm going spot on, and here's why Alex Bowman is not Dell Jr. Calibur, owner off the track. He's not Jeff Gordon caliber, owner off the track. I'm going spot on because Jeff Gordon or Dale Jr. needs to be there to support the team, support the sponsor, and help them get attention. Because let's face it, it's a premium dollar to sponsor the 88 car. Alex Bowman doesn't necessarily warrant that kind of investment. So when Hendrick is putting resources like Jeff Gordon and Dell Jr.

Still coming to the track, it helps. That's a big deal. Yeah, I'll go spot on. Who are you smirking at? Engineer on the 7 car. He smirked at me first. Oh, Alan? Our studio looks out into the shop.

Yeah, those of you are completely lost. Anyway, I'll go spot on because Jeff's been really hands-on with this since he's been involved in it. He's been a, you know, Del Jr. has been a great leader for our team. but Jeff's come in there and actually, because he's been racing, running and stuff, he's come in there and really helped guide the guys and stuff, you know, and, you know, it's great. I mean, Alex has Dale Jr. to lean on and Jeff Gordon.

It's kind of, that's a pretty good notebook to lean on. Spot on, yours, not done. No, that was me. Oh, that was you. He's had speed since he unloaded at Michigan and at the first loud. He's been fast from the get-go. And it did take him long either. Like, he hasn't taken him, and he hasn't made really...

I was worried at Michigan about him overdraving a corner, getting there too deep. So we followed Jimmy into the first corner. We come around, take the green, we go into turn one, we follow Jimmy. Jimmy misses the corner. Alex doesn't. So I'm sitting there like, you know, I haven't seen Alex make many mistakes at all. I'm not saying he's running the best, you know, perfect races, but he's run really, really good races.

Spot on, spot off. The Xfinity series is considering restrictor plates at Indy next year. Kevin. I go first again? Spot off. because the track they need to be running at across the street. Yeah. I agree with that 100% that we're at the wrong racetrack

or we should at least go back to Indy and run that racetrack. I'm going to say spot on just because this race can't get any more boring than what it already is. So if we put a restrictor plate on, hell, let's run V6s again. Let's do something to just try to make this. We sure as hell don't need to run heat races again at this 14-mile racetrack. So I'm going spot on. I'll go spot on for making an attempt for it to be better,

but I'm not really sure you can fix that race there as far as, it doesn't matter if you put, you know, restrictor plates on it, parachutes, wings, whatever. We need to be at the other place where it's not going to be that speed. We need to be able to be in each other's doors and bumpers and letting people, you know, beat. That's where our sports fun. Yeah. Guys are, when they can get to each other is when it gets interesting.

At Indy, we don't ever get to each other. It's single, you know, we get strong out, and that's about it. So we need to be racing. Has NASCAR talked about readjusting that whole heat race dash for cash situation? They have. Because it failed miserably at all four races. The biggest thing they're talking about is limiting the cup drivers in dash for cash races races in the last four races of the year.

Like participation in? Yes. So if you're a cup driver, a full-time cup driver or a cup driver with X amount of years of experience. You cannot run the Dash for Cash races. You cannot run, excuse me, the last four races of the year. So basically what they're saying is we don't want the cup guys to come in overshadow the promotion that's going on.

The promotion of Dash for Cash, because Cowbush wins a race, he's not eligible for Dash for Cash. They want that winner to correlate. Then you look at the championship rundown in the last four weeks. Again, they don't want these guys that are the stars of the series to be overshadowed. There's a lot of economic factors that can come into play there. Tracks are freaking out. because they're worried about selling tickets.

Owners are freaking out because Penske and Gibbs have already sold some of those races, but NASCAR is trying to align this to better help the series long term. And I think it will because it's going to reset some cost things. But, you know, when you have change, you have people that are upset. Junior Motorsports is in the driver's seat if they make this rule change. Because we have three full-time Xfinity Series drivers driving our cars next show. Competitive. Competitive.

Al-Gyre, Byron, Elliot Sadler. You're like, Tadda, watch this. For junior motorsports, I'm ticked about it. Sorry about that. We can't say... Yeah, we can. Hey, check this out. We can say ass and we can say hole.

But Natalie said... Are you just trying to irritate Natalie at this point? Natalie said we can't say... So now I've got to say ass. One main said we can't say either. I'm going to say ass and I'm going to be like, hold. Anyway. Say it like view as a butt.

Hey, one quick thing. If you want to talk about that, uh, think about the truck race. Think about the truck race. Friday night or whatever. You'd have had Cameron, Cameron Haley, Daniel Hemrick, Tyler Reddick, Cole Custer. Cole Custer, all up there racing for the... Transfer. Yeah, the transfer.

You know, then you'd take Kyle, who was just dominating the thing out of there. You know, that to me would be in an... That'd have been a good race. It's going to make the racing better. Yeah. We just have to deal with the transition of it from an economic standpoint. No better time than the present? Hey, I'm not being a butthole, but they weren't selling many tickets to that truck.

race anyway. They'd sell more if they were putting on a real race where it meant something. I would go, I would much rather go watch four guys, green, white checker, but I know all four want to win other than Kyle, because I know Kyle's got the experience. He's probably going to win. You know, I'm watching the second place guys anyway, so let's have good race. Let's put them up there. Yeah. We've got to take a break to promote the Dale Jr. download. I heard we're kicking their ass. Hey, it's Mike Davis. Join us each Monday on the Dale Jr. Download podcast as we recap the race with exclusive commentary from Junior himself, plus radio chat of replay and reaction theater. New episodes every Monday throughout the race season right here on Dirty Mo Radio.

So, Kevin, we're going to do the fast lane, but now you're inserted into it. I'm going to give everyone a topic, and we're going to alternate who responds first. You each get 30 seconds to voice your opinion for the topics. We'll be racing, and one will be non-racing. And I need the bell. Sorry. Dang. Dang.

Dong. All right, TJ, you're up first on this one, okay? Oh, I didn't read it yet. All right. Sprint is leaving NASCAR. That's breaking news. It is. No sponsor has been named yet to replace them.

What should they call the Cup series next year? The Door Bumper Clear Cup. I like that. Yeah, that's what we should call it. We're working on it right now. Josh call NASCAR. Yeah, sure. You should probably make a door bumper clear.

cup cup what's that ham like a cup like protect the unit yeah yeah like with his silhouette on it yeah it's just 30 seconds left yet yeah getting there

dang four three two one ham one just call it the NASCAR cup or he'd call it the Piston Cup I'm big fan of cars it's a good movie but if you don't have a sponsor I would just call it

or kids you don't understand that did you say pissed in cup Pist and Cubs. I know you have. Yes. Pist in Cup. What do you want to be? Pissed in garbage can?

Yeah. Side joke. I don't care who comes in and sponsors it. I'm tired of it changing names. I want it to be called the Bill France Cup. Sprint can still sponsor the series. Whoever can come in and sponsor the series, and it be called the Bill France Cup. Why?

Because I just think it should be. Bill France Senior started it. Bill France Jr. built it up. If Exxon Mobile comes in and sponsors this thing, it can be the Exxon Mobile Racing Series, and it still be the Bill France Cup, presented by Exxon. I kind of like that,

because you got hockey names their championship trophy. What's it called? Stanley. Yeah, but I mean, I thought there was a... The Stanley Cup. Yeah. Yeah. The Fence Lombardi Trophy.

Yeah. Right? And you could still say presented by a company, but I don't know. That's a good idea. I don't know if I ever say that to you again, but that's a good idea. I like yours a little better.

door bumper clear cup or a pissing cup Give me one cup driver that you would never spot for him why, Brett. Man, I've got like 10. This is going to be hard for me to narrow it down. I have 15. I think I think I got to go with you. Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon is not going to ever be a cup driver, we hope.

I got to go with AJ Amundinger. And it's just because he races people like, and those kind of guys really get on my nerve. So if I'm in his ear saying, hey, man, let this guy go. We're losing time. doesn't do it, I'd lose my mind. So that's who I'm going with. You see, I'm not really sure he gets that.

You know what I mean? You're not sure? I don't know if he, I've never listened to his radio, but he might not have, I don't know if Aedges ever had a connection with a spotter that the spotter could actually tell him what to do. Who is his spotter? Coleman Presley. Coleman's a good spotter, but in order to tell a driver what to do, you have to have a personal

connection with him and they have to trust you. You know, you tell a guy that doesn't know you from Paul in the parking lot, He's not going to listen. Ten years ago, mine would have been Robbie Gordon. Super talented guy, but he was always just a butthole. But anyway, who's your teacher? Mine would probably be... He's going to say it.

Who am I going to say it? I'm not going to say it, but I think I know what you're going to say. Oh, man. I would probably go with Casey Mears. Why? Just the same type of thing. I don't feel like you can't, I don't feel like I would be able to help him because I don't I think he would listen.

Hamlin, who you got, man? Skip. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'll go with, who would you not want to spot for? I'll tell you somebody he won't ever spot for. He won't tell you. You don't need to go. I mean, do it.

You guys are the stars of the show. I'm just going to sit here. Let's see. Yeah, who. If Great Gauding ever makes it to come. Hamlin will not be his spotter. Speaking of Greg. You want to tell us the story?

I mean, maybe you should. I don't know what story you're talking about. You know the one where you tweeted something? Next question. Brett, make an analogy of a team winning a race and ultimately not being legal in doing so. Oh, man. And I think that's kind of getting back to this week where, you know, True X has declared the winner on the heels of the thing of whether he shouldn't or not be.

Man, I tweeted it so I'm just going to stick with it. It'd be like winning a UFC fight wearing a pair of brass knuckles. It's just not right. Oh, man. There's, I saw somebody tweet something the other night, but I don't really. Was it Brett? Because he was tweeting a lot. No, it was a guy who had tweeted to somebody and was like,

so this lady was that kind of like cheating on my wife and not having it. It was bad. That's not a sport. Oh, we're supposed to use sports? No, any analogy. Oh, it's this? Oh, any analogy. So you're cheating on your wife or the girlfriend?

No, that's just what the guy said. I can't remember how it went, but it was really good. Yeah. Hamlin? I don't know, like winning a home run derby, hitting a golf ball. ball. Yeah. You know, something like that.

A corked bat. I just remember when I was a kid, I'd crank golf balls in the woods with a bat and they would go a country mile. I know what it's like. It's like being the Patriots playing with deflated balls. Cheaters. TJ. What? What do you guys have for an update on the silly season?

Give us something big, man. Give us something breaking. Oh, silly season. I mean, I think the next one is now that's going to be the 13. I do too. I agree with you. I mean, we seem to be a week ahead of things here, so, or two.

We're breaking news and don't even mean to be. So we may as well try to do it now. People are leaning on us. Yeah. Am I next? Yep. Yeah, I think Ty Dillon goes to the 13 car, the cup car. I think he also runs a half-season Xfinity.

And the other guys that we're still hearing in silly season conversations are Newman, Amarola, a couple other guys. So it would be interesting to see what happens. Kevin. I don't have any breaking news. You are lying. You know something.

I don't just think that Eric Jones spotting gig. A lot of guys are after, so I don't know who's a front runner for it. Who's Eric Jones spotter now? Who's after it? I don't know. How do you know? It's an open cup car and there's a lot of guys that are looking. There's going to be some movement up there.

There's six guys I know that interviewed for that job. You interview for a spotter job? No. They just call you and say, hey, you want your spotting this week. That's how it works. There are six guys I know that went after. then I think I know who the top two guys are. So to Kevin's point, yeah.

And that is our silly season. I mean, once the first domino falls for spotters, a bunch can fall. Last year we had like 11 guys swap drivers. Huge. Are you in 2017 going to continue doing the Xfinity series just all over the place? Well, yeah.

I mean, it depends on what Casey does. That's what makes it difficult for, you know, me to get a full deal is he'll run one or two, and I got to spot those. And then by then everything else is filled. and you want to get a full-time deal, and they're like, well, if you can't spot Daytona, we're just going to go with whoever.

Do you do Treks at all? Daytona's a big one. Daytona's the big one. If you can't, they like to, if you've got to tell a team, like, I can do the season for you, but I can't do Daytona. It makes it hard. That makes it, like, exceptionally hard for the rest of the year.

Rightfully so. Yeah. That's understandable. All right. Off the wall topic, Kevin, the Vikings took down the Packers on Sunday. Who is your early season pick to go to the Super Bowl? Man, the Seahawks.

Jaguars. Man, the way thing. look right now if you're just going to take the flyer um maybe Pittsburgh I don't sorry gross but I think they look pretty good and everybody else is just kind of up in the air so I'll go with that Patriots yeah that's what I was going to say how you're going to beat them that's it they're going to probably lose their next two games but after time Brady comes back they're going to be sitting pretty they got no grunt they got no Brady and they're still balling out well they're getting ready to lose garoppolo now too so what's wrong with him is he out he got hurt shoulder they got that guy from nc

state or whatever coming in the guy they just drafted. Dang. She'll let Ryan Mellett go. Yeah, so I'll go with, I was actually going to say the Patriots too, but I really hate the Patriots, but they're going to look really good when Tom Brady comes back, and they should just put that guy that wears that Tom Brady mask. Did you see that?

No. Some Patriots fan made it, did you see that? Made a Tom Brady mask, and it looks exactly. That's creepy. It looks exactly like him. Like, I thought it was him. And they, so they did it. Similar to the Dale Jr. wax figure that's right at the door.

That's also terrifying. Scared the hell out of me when I walked in this morning. You thought we sent Dale to greet you? That's weird. I mean, don't put it right next to the door. It's weird. When they first put that in here, people would actually talk to it. I'm not kidding.

When they first made that thing, they would talk to you over here. You got to put some kind of like voice box in it, you know? It's super life, like, to every detail of his body. It's pretty close. But, yeah, Tom Brady was even creeped out by that Tom Brady mask. back on there super oh we're done with

hamless i got to ask question man we had jason brown low on last week the nascar official who after leaving our show went back and they made a lot of rule changes i think tj and i beat him up pretty good but he said that you guys were on a flight together one time and an engine went out yeah like i forgot about this till he brought it up like christin where you're going that is really loud in our ears

yeah usually when you hit the microphone ourselves. It's loud. I was being choked. Oh, this is much better. Now I can lean back. Oh, my gosh.

Stop. She does these in your windows on purpose. I do not. I'm just speaking English, and you have the mentality of a 14-year-old. Oh, yeah. This is Hamlin's time.

You know what, really, you guys need to put a little, like, do like an ESPN radio thing where they televised it to. Yeah. Because you can just hear and all the giggles, but if you could see,

if you could see the whole dynamic in here. Yeah. She tried to register Kristen Mangle. I didn't try to register it. She booked it up to buy it. I was curious.

You're not curious if you don't want it. I don't want to, I'm not spending $9,000 for that thing. Hamlin. No, but if it was $25. Just go to the rudder on a Tuesday and boom. Not anymore. $45.

Dollar beers tonight at rest of your rudder. They're closing the rudder. I know. I heard dollar beers at rest of your rudder tonight. But let's get to it. Let's go. You don't go to the. Let's die.

I'm out. You don't go to. You don't go shopping for a car without intent to buy one. Yeah. Oh, good analogy, T.J. Yeah. Okay, before you had the whole headset debacle will go down. Hamlin, airplane, engine goes out.

Yeah, engine goes out. Yeah, it wasn't a big, it wasn't like we were buzzer. Well, maybe buzzers were going off because we were going to land in the engine went out. We were leaving a Daytona test and on one of old chips, planes, and one of the props quit spinning. Midair. Midair. We had to make an emergency landy and Tim Buck, two, Georgia, and drive home.

Dang. But I don't remember it, like, all of a sudden, a wing dip in and people flying around and snakes on a plane. Like, I don't remember that. I don't know why Brown was like, you got to ask about this story. Why would you not say that stuff?

That's what I would have been in here doing. Snakes on a plane? Dude, so when we lost a motor, I jumped up in the cockpit, man. I landed that thing. It was like landing the Hudson type stuff, man. I landed that thing. And George, I saw a runway down there,

and I put it down. So, we'll go with that. So, TJ tells prank stories all the time. Yeah. Do you have any good, um, Any pranks that you did or someone did to you? Okay, yeah, and this is, I'm still mad at her for it. So a couple years ago, I think you could still get on a computer and send a text.

Yeah. I don't know why I'm doing a fake typing. That's the whole camera saying we need you. So my wife got on a computer and went to send a text over like the web browser, and it would say like unregistered number. And I don't want to. This is mean already. Not to give her too much credit.

I mean, I think she Googled this, but it was. I was on April Fool's, and I didn't, obviously, that went right over my head. And it was cat facts, but, and she would just randomly send cat facts. Did you know all cats are left pod? And then it would have like, not the emoji, but like, you know, the little arrows to make like a cat, dude, I hate cats. So, and I think I was working at cases when she was doing it. And I was madder than hell because these text messages were coming in all day. It's kind of hilarious.

And so it says, it would say, you know, respond it with stop. So I was sending any stop messages. and then they kind of quit that day, and I'm like, good. So I get home. It was our old house and the kitchen, and then we had, like, a room behind the kitchen. It was the computer room, and she'd go in there, and my phone would start buzzing again.

And I'm raising hell. I'm just so mad. I'm like, I'm using words I shouldn't be using, and all of a sudden she starts cracking up laughing. I'm like, you've got to be kidding. So if she hadn't have started laughing, she could probably still be sending those messages, and I'd have no clue.

You know, that's actually very kind of her to do it that way. I was thinking more of like you're going to get a text from a number you don't know and say, hey, we're having twins or something. Yeah. I got to tell this story. So we're on the spotter stand. We're in Phoenix. Brad Little is spotting practice for Casey Kane, who drives his motor home, but he only did practice.

This is before Hamlin started spotting for Casey. TJ and I are over there on the spotter stand, and Brad leaves his phone laying down. Oh, that's. And unlocked. Did I do this? and proceeds to grab his phone, pulls up a text message to Casey Kane, and basically sends a message from Brad,

Casey's bus driver, to Casey announcing his love for him. I forgot about that. So Brad comes back. I am beat red. I am crying with tears. Because Brad is a really good friend of mine as is Casey. I'm like, this is the funny of shit I've ever seen with a phone. So I'm just watching.

Well, Brad does. doesn't know anything. And how he can't look at us and know something has happened. But Brad finally looks at it and he just gets mad. And he's looking at him. I thought he's going to kill one of us. And of course he thought it was me because I was the one that was TJ sitting over there with poker face. And I am still bawling.

I'm laughing so hard. He did that to me too. We were doing a test at not with the love thing, but we were doing a test at Phoenix. Yeah. It was when I was with RCR still. And I had the Twitter account up on my laptop and he gets on the RCR's account and starts tweeting stuff. I'm like trying to work and he's being teacher.

I forgot about that Brad Little Deal. That was funny. Dude, it was hilarious. Have you ever gotten just like the shit at you? It's coming one day. I'm too loving, man. I'm spreading love. Spread love, man.

I wish I could have seen Casey's face when he got out of the car after practicing. I read it. Brad's saying, Casey, man, I've never told you this, but I love you. And I'm not like a brother. Like I really. Love you. You know when you get imagined that. You know it's somebody, but it's funny to see the other guy read it.

Brad, you know when Brad saw that. Brad is the most shy guy, so that was awesome. Anyway, I know we got more a show to do. Yeah, let's go. All right, so producer Josh took some questions off the internet from on the line. The World Wide Web? The World Wide Web. Oh, awesome.

At Travis C. underscore 48 asks, which other spotter has the hardest accent to understand? Which is the first spotter? I think they're probably referencing you. You? My accent's great. I'm from South Carolina. We were a colony long before you other people were in states. I think as a spotter, you better have an accent you can't understand, right?

Yeah. I've had plenty of drivers I can't understand. It's thoroughly. That was a challenge. Well, I've always said, Xfinity, the road courses. I cannot understand you, Sheriff, what's his name, Big John? Big John. And Elliot?

Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot. It's kind of like four boomhowers. They can all understand each other, but no one else can understand. That's why they're all in the same car, because they all know what each other is saying. I'm just trying to think who up there has, like, a weird accent. Carl's got that northeastern accent. Yeah.

What's that? But he's still. Northeastern? I'm Northeastern. Yankee? Yankee? Same thing. Like, he's.

I'm a Yankee. You mean like overly done? Long Island? You know what I mean? Like, you can still understand him. Or like Boston. Eddie's got a good. He's got a Yankee accent.

Eddie might be the heart might be another. Yeah. Not hard to understand, but he's definitely. Yeah. I think honestly, most of us aren't, are pretty straight up. I don't think yours, but maybe Eddie or Carl probably. Plummer Daver won, asks, have you ever seen a fight on the spotter stand or been in one? This dude lays one.

Why are he smiling so big? One time. Kevin. Kevin. He's a pummer. He lays pipe. No, no, no, I did not punch anybody. You rib-shot at her.

I did not. It was a rib-shot. It was a-ironically, we're going back to New Hampshire this weekend. Yeah, it took place. You started a fight? No, I did not. The one I was thinking of is Callin-Off and Kitchens. Oh.

Yeah, I thought Kitchens was a lot of him too. Yeah. I thought Kitchens was going to fight Archie one time, too, way back when he was doing Pratch. I wouldn't fight Jimmy Kitchens for $2 million. No. Even if you gave me brass knuckles. I'd probably do it for $2 million, but I mean, it would be hard to hit Jimmy's up. Why did those fights start?

I hope you got a good wheel. It, uh, because you'll never see it. It started. The one I saw was at Talladega. It was whatever you waited in line for like 30 minutes in qualifying trim to make a qualifying run. You would always have the guys when they got down to the last 10, 12 minutes. Here comes somebody off out of the garage area and start down pit road, and they're grabbing gears. And you've been waiting for 30 minutes, and you're the next one to go.

Was it a wrong spot in that car? Probably. And they blow by you when you're rolling off and basically ruin your run. Or if you're out there and you're coming to the green and the guy sends his car out in front of you. It is. It makes you mad. Yeah, real mad. And it got one guy called another guy, an MFer, and the other guy.

and the other guy slapped his hand down and said, if you ever call me that again. He slapped him? He slapped his hand. He was like, if you ever call me that? And I was like, the other guy just turned around and looked down. I was like, oh, my gosh. I've never been involved in any physical altercations.

Just verbal. Just verbal. Except for that one time with Chicago. You are from South Carolina, right? Yeah, I'm from South Carolina. What happened was Chicago, a spotter that one time? He kept hitting my car, so I hit him. I'd had enough of that shit.

I mean, well, he's not driving. Tell your guy to stop. It's not that hard. When you can count the 10 and that car hits your car, it's enough. Was he just trying to get something off the grill? No. I got something off his grill.

At Zoom Buck, ADS, if a race was to be removed from the chase, what track would you want to see taken out? We always have this one in here, and we can't answer it. I'll just say this. Take out one of the mile and a half. And as the chase goes, let's stop doing the same races in the same order every time because this is about diversity, it's about entertainment,

let's go to some different tracks, let's bring some new tracks in, let's don't always end in Homestead, like let's shake it up some. I don't think Homestead, Homestead's a great racetrack for Lions and stuff, but it just doesn't have, you know, it doesn't have, imagine ending the season at Talladegger at Daytona. Imagine the last race being Daytona. Yeah.

That's kind of cool. I've always said to do that. My gosh, could you imagine the tension level at Daytona for the final race for the championship? Yeah. Yeah. I've always said do that, but as I've gotten older, I was like, maybe not. Because, again, typically speaking, the winner of the chase is going to win the race. It may not be the case of Daytona.

So it gets confusing. But it'd be interesting. For sure. Yeah. You got anything or you're just going to stay quiet? I mean, I see race and removed, and I just think Kentucky. and I kind of get lost after that. Does that mean we don't have to go this weekend?

I know, I'm not going to Kentucky. Absolutely not. Speaking of tracks, next time we go back to Chicago, there's somewhere around there, there was a nest full of flies. I don't think they were flies. They looked like fruit flies maybe. That was unbelievable. Dude, they would swarm like and be everywhere.

I got some of my throat, sorry. They would do that. I've never seen that many flies in one spot. I didn't get my waters. That's what's going on. Josh. Here we go. Damn it, man.

We're the waters. Beep, Josh has to put a mark on his cell frame. Is that why you write every now and in? Is you know where you got to edit Brad out? Hey, when you say, watch his hand. T.J. just screws with him. Poor Josh.

Josh has a long day ahead of him. He's over there scribbling tattoos that he's going to get and stuff. At Craig Shevlar asks, Spotter Brett with no fighting experience. How big does a guy have to be to take Ronda Arse in a fight? I think Ray Lewis could. That's what this guy says. Dude, let me tell you something.

A man should never hit a woman, period. Yeah. Ever. Entertainment purposes, I don't care. A man should never hit a woman. If he does, he should have his cahooners removed. All right, so, Ronda Rousey. He should become a woman.

If he wants to fight a woman, make him a woman. Rhonda Rousey has Kevin in the corner. She's whaling on him. What does he do? I stand there and take it. And like it. Yes, hit me again. At Improv QS, you are a wrap.

a bank and you need a never say die getaway driver who is your driver it's not tj jr drive you to the police station here you go get out there he is wow that's a good one question yeah who would i want to lead me in a in a police chase getting away from the crime scene well not kevin would wreck um surprised it took you this long yeah i would probably say uh man i don't know I mean, I go like Hornish or somebody. What? Yeah, I go like Hornish. Why?

You think Kevin Hamlin is going to reckon you're going to go with Sam Hornish? How about Stephen Wallace? Is he busy? He's driving a cop car. Then we got an easy getaway. Clint could get out of there then. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, man. Go. Kristen. It's not to me. It's to you three. Oh, I thought. I don't think we have an answer. Yeah, I don't know.

Hamlin, who you got? It's got to be a couple. Cup driver? No. Anybody, man. But that dude from Jason Statham. Statum. Yeah, that guy.

I don't know. He's bald. He's wheelman. Who's the Fast and Furious guy? Paul Walker? No. He's going. I know.

I know, but it's... The Rock? Who's the other guy? I don't want the Rock's not. He's a wrestler. No, he wasn't one. He can't move his arms well. He can be doing an eyebrow thing.

The big ball guy. Vin Diesel. Yeah, Vin Diesel. That are you talking about? Yeah, that's who I got. Guys that muscular, though, can't move well quickly. They're not agile. Right?

You just got to turn a wheel. Not really. What do you think when these drivers get on the corner? Like, you got to get on the wheel. Driving a bus? Yeah. School bus now? I mean, yeah.

Have you guys ever been school bus racing? No. They did that at Myrtle Beach, right? I watched it. My buddy, Hobes, drove one at Charlotte one time. And actually, did it really? Yeah, it was awesome. We had www.

T.J.major's.com on the side of it. It was awesome. Did you sell T-shirts there, too? I didn't have any for sale. He just put them on. It was when I was driving, Hey guys, buy my t-shirts. Oh, we're sold out.

Yeah, well, if you're not online. If man didn't buy them, I would have some left. So the hobas drove it, and it was when I was running a late miles. I thought it was pretty cool. That was a pretty good one. You were probably in that race. You were probably in that race. We need to have Hamlin in here.

Did Chip have you in that race, too? In that school bus race? Is that where you started? He might have farmed me out to another team and let me drive there, because he'd let me drive his own school bus. Yeah. We would do figure eight school bus races at Evergreen Speedway back home. Wow.

That mess? Yes. They take figure eight racing. So it's already iffy driving a car in a figure eight race. Imagine having a bus. That's crazy. Were they short buses? No, man.

They're full size. That'd be iffy there. You got any rants you want to go on? No. Come on, you got to pick some. It doesn't have to pertain to NASCAR or sports. What pisses you off? Sometimes it's just I-77?

I don't ever take it. Yeah. Thank God. I don't know. I have a mink on it. Food in Chicago. T.J. has a rant, so we're all. Yeah, let's hear yours.

Because yours will take 15 minutes. You know my rant. My rant is in the exfini race. We come off pit road. Clint beats Justin off pit road. And we come off turn two and they go 88, 7. Perfectly fine, whatever. We're 8th, Clint 7.

So we line up and there is no shuffling up there. The top 5, 6 rows are pretty straight up. You know where you're at. We're outside of row. We're P8. It's pretty easy to count 8. I don't need my toes out for that. Are you sure?

Yeah. So we line up and we're going on the backstress, and they're yelling at the 7 to switch with the 88 for just out of nowhere. Right. I remember that. Yeah, and I'm like, why? How is this? You've already called us in our position.

Why are you going to put us in a row that we don't want to be in, first of all? The best part of it is he's raising hell next to me. Yeah. Screaming at soccer. And I'm saying, you didn't beat us? No, he didn't. No, you didn't. And it's lap 95 of a 200 lap race, and you think we're coming to a green-white checkered.

And he is losing his mind. I wasn't losing my mind, but I was. I want an explanation for it. I've never seen a short guy run that faster when you came down there. You should pay attention to more. God. So I want an explanation for it.

Like, why are we... At least, if you want to give me a lineup off pit road, why are you putting him back in front of us? Or what happened? Nope, they just... Then they threatened a black flag you instead of saying, hey, they beat you off pit road. We went and looked again and they beat you.

Okay, fine. Instead of just... When TJ's flipping out what's soccer doing? Eating. Basically tell him to get away from him. Like, Sacco's a pretty cool official. And Saco, well, no, Sacco's actually, if you, Sacco is one of the officials that you can tell something and he takes it. You know, he'll check on it.

He's, you know, he's not just a space filler. You know, he actually does a good job. And if you tell Sacco, there's something on the track of that, he'll. He'll radio then. Yeah, he's a, you know, like using like some sense. Well, yeah, engine block in the track. Yeah, not like a Sonoma. I said there's an engine block in the racetrack, messing with the official and they actually called it in.

Yeah. Because the. What is wrong with him? It wasn't wrong with me. I thought it was funny. They took me seriously. Yeah. Yeah.

So I saw something happen during the cup race Sunday I've never seen happen. Menard was penalized a lap. Yeah, that was weird. And then NASCAR said, under the next caution, we're going to give you that lap back. Yeah. How is that okay? Because if you wait that long, a lot of different, he could have wrecked. And he wasn't even supposed to be on that lap and in that position anyway.

So if you're going to give him the lap back, why do you wait until the next caution? Why don't you stop the race and say, hey, we messed up. No lucky dogs, no nothing, because this was our screw-up. We're giving you your lap back now so we can put you where you're supposed to be. I've never seen them do what happened. Have you guys? I hadn't.

It was weird when I heard that. Actually, I've never seen it done like that before, but what I don't understand is let him keep going and put him right back in the place where he was racing already. You know what I mean? If he's running 15th on a track rate between the 40s, and the whatever car. Just slow him down and let him blend back in. Next time, Pitrow is close.

Send him down there. Put the transponder back out. Put him right back out in that spot and open it up. Wait, was it a transponder issue or was it a penalty issue? I think it was a penalty issue because they were posting the 27 and posting the seven. They said, never mind on the seven. So the seven stays out. Never mind on the 27.

He is entering pit road. It was too late. So that's when they said the next caution will give him his lap back. Well, he's not where he's supposed to be. Oh, I got you. Yeah. You have to throw the caution right then. You just can't blend it back out.

But we did. We blended back out. We waited until the next caution, which was like 80 laps later. And then, because, I mean, here's the, he could have gotten wrecked. I mean, all kind of things. He could have got lapped legit. All kind of things could have happened that he gets screwed. Yeah, that was weird.

So there's no real. I've just never seen them. I've seen them stop the race and get people their lap back before. I've never seen them just. There's no real easy fix to that when you do that. When you basically, he just got screwed. Yeah. It's like like the.

seven. You want a certain row on restarts. And if you get put another row and then later on like, oh, you were right. What can you do about it? Nothing. There's no easy fix to it. But what's your rant? You got to have a rant. I got nothing.

How? The Eagles won last night. I'm fine. You're here again. Chicago. You've been making a lot of good decisions lately. You're on a good streak. I am.

No highs over the weekend? Nothing. No. I'm all good. So predictions. And here's the thing about predictions. T.J. and I had to. Did he pick?

because he didn't tell me who it was. That means I got to look at the list again. Where's it at? TJ. 1 last week. Okay, so Hamlin, we have a deal going to where we have to pick a driver every week and whoever's driver finishes the highest they win. Well, we kind of, I need my list. Actually, I don't.

I know who I'm going to pick here. Oh, I don't got it. So we kind of saved up our big guns. So now we're in the chase. I've got a three-point lead. I need to win four of the next nine weeks, I think, to lock this thing down. So I'm going with, and now we're picking guys we think they're going to win the race. So who got big guns?

Champion, you get like a belt if you win? I got a question, though. What are we doing at Homestead? You know what I mean? We've been doing. You got one driver left. But what if you have none left and I have none left? What if it's crazy?

What if it's like Bush or, you know. That's what we got. I'm trying to win this thing before Homestead. Yeah, good luck. That's my goal. Good luck. Brad Casalowski in New Hampshire. What are we?

Oh. Let me see that. Let me see her list. I think that's one of the approved words. Let's see. Penises. He's going to say penis. Yeah.

Penises. So I, man, you just put me in a bind here. Shoot, man. One of our fans actually makes it for us every week. That's a playground for that team. Dang. Two cars fast. That's his.

And I've already used, I've already used the 21, haven't I? Yes. I've already picked him. I've already used Ligana. I've already used... Man, you're really trying to stick it to me here. So... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So let's... You know what? Let's just go with... He's got to go big. Or go home. He can't afford to lose another one. I can't. You know what?

I'll go with Jimmy. We changed the rules like six races in. That's big. I was kicking his ass hamlin, so we had to redo the rules to get him back in the game. I got you. No, I went on a hot streak, actually.

He did a few weeks ago. Jimmy Johnson against Brad Casillowski. I got the Polat, and you got the champ. Sixth time champion. Jimmy Jam. You pretty much. Checked out? Yeah.

I just want to make sure we pick Elliot up on time at the airport. She's over there on Tinder. We have Chase Media Day. She's on Tinder. So we're heading down to NASCAR. I saw you swipe and right and stuff. I don't use whatever that is. It's a Christian Mingle app.

Yeah, Kevin made it. Yeah. new one. Hey, how about Farmers Only.com? Is that part of the Farmers Insurance Deal? No, no. Absolutely not. No, nothing like. What about? I love. I love our commercials. Fall in love. Yeah. At Farmsonly.com. What about a cougar? Cougar mingle? I'm not a cougar. I'm 32. This has nothing to do with you. I'm saying in general. Jeez.

What about cougar mingle? Sensitive. Yeah, you are. So if I invented cougar mingle, would you be the role model for it? No. Roll model. Commercials. I'm not sure that would be called a role model. I want commercials and stuff. Do you guys have anything else before we go for the day? Who's your guest next week?

We don't really advertise that yet. We don't really do guess much. Yeah, you're lucky, man. You're one of three. You're like the third one. Thanks, T.J. Hey, well, tell us about your new love for the Jaguars. What?

He's actually becoming a Jacksonville Jaguars fan. He's a big Seattle. On purpose? Yeah. Well, no, by accident. I'm from Seattle. And why are you calling us out because of our nerd Madden League? Because you're a Jaguars fan.

You wanted to buy a flag for your front yard. I did as a joke to Mandy because, so T.J.'s got a Madden League. And there's 32 grown-ass men and we all playing it together. And so I got stuck with- We're five years in, legit, like five human years into this. So I get stuck with the Jaguars because everybody else is taken. So anyway, so now I kind of like Jaguars because it's my Madden team. Yeah. So anyway.

You manage these teams, so you get into it a little bit. You understand the depth chart. You start learning about the, and you want them to draft good because when the new game comes out, you want the new good players. Yeah. So anyway, so it makes Mandy mad, right? That it's like, I'm talking about the Jaguars. That you're invested in that. Yeah.

So I ordered, like, we got a little garden flag at Seahawks out in our yard. And so I ordered a Jaguars one. I was just going to put it out there and not say nothing to her. I bought it on eBay, and I didn't realize that the eBay, like, receipts go to her email. And I got a text message and she was pissed. You just waste the $10. This is not going up in front of our house, so it's hanging in my office now because she won't let me.

That's funny. Yeah. I like her loyalty. Yeah, yeah. Well, the bad league's fun, though. We have a good time. No, we don't. It sucks.

We do have a good time. We're getting ready to have our own broadcast channel so you can watch some of the games. I'm sure that'll be a highly rated. You're watching games? Yeah. Yeah. You'd be able to watch two people play the bad game. You'll be able to watch him play.

Hey, you know what I noticed? And I just happened to be looking. I wasn't playing. Like draft games? Yeah. You can draft Kings on e-sports now. On what? On video game.

Like, they broadcast TV dudes playing whatever. Oh, wow. And you can draft Kings. Inside of the video. Oh, yeah. It does have a link for it. I've seen that. That's cool.

Yeah, that's turning to a big deal, man. There's, like, huge online gaming tournament. I love video games until I had kids, and then I put the games aside. Yeah. You know what happens? They actually, I never thought this. Like, I used to play, like, RBI baseball with my dad and TechMobile back in the day. and I used to beat him up pretty good on it.

Now that's starting to turn. Now Madeline will be like, hey, let's play Mario Bros or Mario Kart. I'll be like, yeah, I got this. I'd bring it up and show you. Your cell service in here is phenomenal. Yeah, it is. Madeline will worry me out Mario Kart. All right.

It's been a great show. Hamlin, thanks for coming on, dude. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for coming. Thanks to One Main for bringing this to you guys. Yeah, thanks, everybody. Millions worldwide. Peace.

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