Door Bumper Clear - 348 | Bristol: The Kyle Larson 500 and TJ’s Xfinity Misadventures with Dale

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

Bristol’s fall race delivered a drastically different product versus what we saw during the spring and the gang’s all here to recap it. Brett Griffin, Freddie Kraft, TJ Majors, and Karsyn Elledge break down the lack of tire falloff and how Kyle Larson managed to dominate at The Last Great Colosseum. Which driver moving onto the Round of 12 was the biggest surprise and how significant is Corey Lajoie and Justin Haley switching rides starting this weekend at Kansas? Plus, we stream another live edition of #AskDBC on our YouTube channel where we answer your questions on Bristol! 21+ and present in North Carolina. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling problem? Call 877-718-5543 or visit morethanagame.nc.gov. 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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Keep up in top here. You come and keep up. Bottle three. Model three, why? It's hard to get blocked. I mean, seriously. Might be the dumbest thing you've ever said. Your bumper,

clear. Still there, popper, popper, clear, clear. Hey, everybody. I'm TJ Major. is part of the 88 cup car this week. 42 truck, 60 cup car. You did the 88 cup car this week?

80 80. 80sini car. Did I? My back. He's back. He's back. 2012. He was somewhere that we weren't.

I was in another one. I have, at some points, I wish I was somewhere else during the weekend. But you must have been with Freddie all day yesterday. I should have been probably the way my weekend went. We're in the middle of the exfini race and I just see TJ is thrashing. He's there's,

there's, flying everywhere. That's a terrible feeling. It's not fun. It pisses me off because I'm like OCD and your whole bag gets rearranged when the shit happens. And it's not fun. It's even more frustrating when you know it's not you with the problem.

I know. I got we knew it wasn't me and then decided, oh, well, it is you. And I'm like, no, it's not. I'm listening to myself. I can hear myself. Fine. It's not me. Anyway,

Hey, welcome. Brett Griffin. I did not spot this past weekend. But I was in Bristol. And man, that place is still just as cool as it ever was. Yeah. You wake up, yeah, Freddie.

Freddy's rough for visual. You had a hell run Saturday. We did. We had a whole finish at least. Hi, Freddy Crafts, Spotted for Bubba Wallace, Kyle Seag and Ty Dillon this week. Yeah, we had a good finish of the race.

We were really good for two laps, not so good for about 100 laps, and then really, really good for the last 50 of the 160 lap run or whatever was. Which are pretty much completely irrelevant because you couldn't pass anyway. We were hauling ass at the end. Again, we passed that in the third. I don't even think.

I don't even think we saw it. Like, I don't think our cars even got any of the first time ever, maybe. Like 500 laps around a half mile. We had cars never. The only time we were going to hear him, T.J. Pitts under green. When do you ever pit under green and bristles? That's true. As soon as we catch him and all of a sudden, he's like, I'm like, you're pitting?

What do you mean? Yeah. But yeah, it was a wild race. Hi, Carson. Hello. Good morning. How are you today? Do you feel older this week?

A little bit. A little bit. Don't know what I'm so doing. Did you properly celebrate your birthday? week. I would say so. I ended up at the thirsty beaver at the end of the night on my birthday. So I think I did all right. For anybody it doesn't know, you have to Google the thirsty Beaver and just find a picture of it because the picture is amazing. I damn sure would not images. Yeah. Don't look further than the outside. Be careful. Maybe maybe Google thirsty be for

bar. Maybe we'll go there. Charlotte NC Bar. Get is specific. Where's that? Is it in Charlottetown? It's the one that the guy wouldn't sell the bar to build the condo. So it's just this mini bar and surrounded by apartments. It's like batteries not included. So we should cancel all podcasts after a Sunday off.

I'm just going to put that out there from next time next week. That's supposed to be a day of rest. That decision. Yeah. That's a day of rest and recovery frame. Yeah, that's what I did. I rested and did not recover at all. You got to celebrate your big finish.

Yeah, yeah, that's what it was. That's what we were doing. I saw that Bubba met Stephen A. Smith. I actually text with him a little bit about it because I'm a huge Stephen A fan. I don't always agree with what he says. And that's exactly what I told about. I'm totally shocked. That guy gives zero I want to meet him.

That was awesome. Yeah, I saw he was at airspeed over the weekend. Or actually, I don't forget when it was like the end of the last week probably. But, yeah. Bristol. Sorry, TJ. You're out. That's welcome to the out of the player.

Fast enough. You got to earn it and we didn't earn it. So I agree. It is what it is. How was the race on television? Because in person, it was rather boring. So I was obviously at the racetrack, but I was not there for Saturday night. I went home Saturday morning to watch Bodee play baseball.

It's bad. The guy led 467 laps. I mean. Or 62 laps. And I don't, listen, I think Bristol is probably one of those racetracks. that we all feel like we can showcase our sport and make people fall in love with NASCAR. I mean, A, it's a short track.

B, it's at night, obviously, racing under the lights. C, it's super high banked. Like, the optics of this place are like nowhere else on Earth, honestly. And so for us to go there with this amount of horsepower, which, by the way, I think some Ford Mustangs have more horsepower than what we're racing in race cars. And to go there with this tire that has no fall off, it was painful. I mean, Gluck's poll is, I think it was 73% of the people said it was a bad race.

And the 20 plus percent of people that said it was a good race are probably Kyle Larson fans. You think so? And if I were Kyle Larson, I would have had a great time driving my car too. It's a, it's, I don't know. Obviously, the race I didn't think was very good. But I don't know what more you could race kind of every lane. like it's just this I don't know if it's just the car but like you track's not the issue no that I mean we saw with the extenuity car too I mean you can be all over that racetrack yeah and it's listen that was as far as I know

that was the same tire that we had all the problems with in the fall or the spring okay well what variable changed a lot more races there's two more races there was there was no rain it was warmer I'm just telling you what the changes are. I don't have to, you don't have to buy it or not, but I'm just telling you what the differences were. We've seen rains at race,

the rain at race tracks before it doesn't. The only thing that, I mean, if the tire was legitimately the same, which I'm pretty sure it is, I've talked to some tire guys that said it felt a little bit different. Like it felt harder this time, maybe more cured than the spring.

But like, what did they do the track? Was the track different? Did they spray something different on the track? You know, like that's the only variable that we don't know for sure was different or not. But I know in the. spring we could run 30 laps and in the fall we ran 163 laps so it's hard for me to believe it's a

saint yeah something is different clearly i'm not a scientist but there has if if they were the same there's a variable that greatly improved the tires ability to last even the last in the spring there we ran a truck race and it was completely right on the bottom the entire time like practice and qualifying everything was right on the bottom and it never came off the bottom and uh i don't know no no i want you to finish your point because on thursday night i tweeted man this truck race groove sure moved up awful fast i'm concerned about the rest of the weekend yeah it's i mean there was just no it was clearly obvious in the truck truck truck race that you couldn't come off the bottom like we were all backing up road like i was moving forward um multiple rows at a time

to try to gain and you couldn't get back down we literally would jump three four rows moving to the outside with um at bailey curry and we would try to get back down and we couldn't we lost ended up losing ground um even after jumping up three rows on the outside so it was completely a different racetrack completely a different racetrack and my question would be that did that all the series go back with the same tire i'm assuming they probably did i mean you don't hear anything about it but to be the exact same tire there's something way on off here somewhere, whether, like you said, maybe the, the, how old the tire is, but I don't, I don't know how a, how many months ago was the spring race?

Oh, me, March, April. Well, not alone. So I have a hard time believing a tire goes from being 30 to 70 laps to, you know, not even have to change them. Probably change them twice a race, maybe. Danny said that the teams would get better and make them last longer. Maybe you think he meant another 130 laps. Oh, I don't, I don't, I don't, and honestly, it's probably more than 130 laps.

laps. Oh yeah, we could have ran for like whatever until we ran out, I guess. Exactly. The thing like in JR, I don't remember if JR tweeted this or text me of this, but the thing about the fall race, the spring race was like there was, we talked about fall off. There wasn't really fall off. You ran the same lap time for 30, 40 laps. And then the tire came apart. Like it wasn't like you ran and it started to slow down and where and then you, you know, you just ran as fast as you could and all of a sudden the tire came. When you used it up, it was gone. And it was on using it up was on. Yeah. The driver pace. basically too. Yeah. But yeah, it was it was it was it was frustrating because uh, you know, you would be we were we had a decent car. We probably I would say back half of the top 10 12thish car wise. And we could run there. We could run. But you, it was all heat related. So you would just run your ass off because we told Bubba and then I think Larsen talked about it like you're running 500 qualifying laps, which is not what we want like you don't want you should have to manage yourself a little bit more than that. But, you know, we would just run up on somebody, get our tires hot and have to sit there for a little while, let them cool down, and then just go back and charge again. Chase was doing

a really good job. Every stage, he would be a straight away behind us, then just run at the end of the stage passes. So it was really just clean air. And if at the end of the run, at the very end of a run, maybe you can make some moves. But other than that, it was just you were kind of locked in position again, which, you know, you don't want to see that at Bristol. Here's the thing that I used to love about Bristol when we went to this reconfiguration and the group was around the top, you at least raced. You didn't just run around out there wide open. I've not been able to pass. And I have never had as many people, and I've only been not spotting full time for three, four years, whatever the number is. I had an enormous amount of people texting me that are buddies of mine and

tweeting me that obviously where you interact on Twitter saying that this is awful. And the ones that were there in the stands tweeting, this is awful are the ones I feel the worst for because there thousands of dollars into that trip. Yeah, I don't, it wasn't the, I don't think it was the race that any of us were really expecting to have, but like, so now they, I mean, you got a baseline from what, whatever happened in the spring to whatever happened now. Now you have to find whatever the differences really were. Now you got to find the, the medium ground, I guess.

Hopefully we can or go back, you know, quality running. It's every race that we've ever ran with these cars where you run as hard as you can. the entire race does not it doesn't know a good race and i know we're going to talk a little bit about some comments later but there is nothing there is nothing fun about doing that you know what i mean like it's not there's nothing good about the racing whenever like just because you know a guy runs you know really hard and you know he's up front whatever you can't tell me that um you know the guy that won the race probably ran 100% every single lap i'm going to go and you didn't. Yeah. So, but we'll talk more about that later, but yeah, I don't know. I was really

hoping that you could damage the tires and hurt them, you know, like, hey, this guy went a little bit too hard. And I thought we had a good, I thought we had a really good point, uh, to go off of with the last race there, a little bit of tire rubber down on the track. People can make it work a little bit longer and I thought maybe the teams would get it to the you know 70 to 100 lap mark or something but now it didn't in now it's just as hard as you can go and uh no punishment for it Bristol is just one of those places and you could see this in the driver pre-race interviews that they the drivers absolutely love being there. It's cool. I mean it's a but you walk into that place it's like when you walk through the when you're walking out to a football field for the first time yeah you've seen

you know, Freddie's seen a million Giants games on TV but when you go to go to a game and you walk out that tunnel, you just see the field. It's always, there's always like that. You know, wow, this is cool. And that's Bristol. I mean, all the race tracks are, but Bristol, everything's right here. And to walk out there, even if you walk to the front of the grandstands, look down that banking, you're like, whoa, this is way more than what it looks like on TV.

I think the most entertaining race I watched all week was the first 50 laps of the Arka race, because you've got guys out there. One guy said his car was still set up for Michigan. About the same setup. I imagine Michigan and Bristol are about to say that guy got lapped before the leaders completed left too. Yeah, it was one and three quarter last because we had a little bit of bet going on. Did they let him stay out there?

Yeah. Yeah. He ran, I mean, he ran probably like the next two runs maybe. And then he get faster. Yeah, he went much. I think it's next. The second time it took him the second lap to get left. Yeah.

Well, then there was another car that was set up for Kansas and he lasts a little bit longer. It's like it's a, it's forward thing. I don't want to say it's a joke, but it's kind of a joke. Like you, you, the leaders aren't racing the first 50 laps. They're just dodging race cars. Like, like Zill, I think it was Zillich and Swalich were the two leaders at the time. And they're, they can't even race each other because they're just having to stay in line because they're going by these slow cars every two laps. Like they can't race each other until you got half a lap until you catch another way.

You got this corner only. And finally, I don't know, probably by halfway, maybe lap 50, whatever was. They finally either wrecked themselves or their shit falls apart. got a pit and then they don't they're gone then they can finally raise the second half but the first half of that race was still a lot in the second half there was they thank god a lot of them were gone but there were still some out there the ones you caught every four laps and then there was others that you caught every 10 and then you got others you got over 15 how many cars are there there was almost 40 there's a bunch okay why why are we letting them race I don't why are we letting

them race if they're that slow I want to do it's a question for me for you to run that race next you could have gone out there in your pickup truck and run faster than that guy was running in that 93 car like it's hard to get lapped in a lap shoot I saw it's I mean yeah it's yeah that's special I saw I saw I saw Doug who it on the banking faster than a couple of them that video oh he better say that to later I got to say I have to show you that yeah I didn't see that did he bust his ass no oh he no luckily he had 14 people holding him so he could and fall down. Boots off.

Sox. Had to take his cowboy. Everybody put your phones away. That was the point of the night when I had to leave. Dale's like, what we all got to do is go down here and walk up to banking. And I was like, see you.

I'm going out this other way. I'm not walking up there and bust my ass. Dugger didn't take that advice. He was going to fall down the banking, determined. He had grippy socks at least. What else happened out there? Truck race was pretty good.

Cut off race. No, not a cutoff race. No. Second race. It was a second race. Yeah. Who the hell won?

Oh, Riggs again. Oh, yeah. Killed him. He's going to win every playoff race, I guess. He rode, this is probably, this is probably the best race that I've seen Lane run yet. When he rode around the first half, didn't force anything. And then obviously worked on his truck and knew his truck was good enough that if he rode there and took care of his stuff, he'd get an opportunity to, you know, get up there and lead the race. And that's probably the best race that I've seen him run yet.

I'm not discounting what he did because I was. watched it and I thought he did a great job, but it's ironic and odd that all of a sudden they're stupid fast. When that happens, usually teams find something to make that happen. You're not saying I'm not insinuating. No, I'm just saying that, I mean, listen, man, it doesn't take a little bit. It goes a long ways with speed. And obviously they found something because they've been fast last five race. And it's, you know, the last race city one was Milwaukee, which is a completely different type of racetrack flat. I don't think they run a flat or track in Milwaukee. And then you go to this one, what's just arguably the

not flat. Yeah, it's the opposite of flat. So yeah, I mean, congrats to them guys on a big win and, and,

you know, if they, it's the right time of year to find something. I can't believe your driver, what, slipped up in the media this week

and said something about Hendrick signing Justin Haley. Why do you do that? I don't know what you're talking about. You can't have, you can't be starting those rumors, Brad. I don't know what you're talking about.

I didn't know what you're saying anything. Did he really say? I don't know what. He did say. He. He said that basically that somebody asked if he was upset about Justin leaving the RFK camp because obviously he's going from Rick Ware where they have in lines with RFK to aspire. And he said, well, we just couldn't compete with the basically the Hendrick offer. And that was, listen, you can give us all the world you want. We didn't start the real. We could hash us out again. But this is where that rumor came from. People knew Justin Haley was signing with Hendrick Motorsports. Really? So if that's the. case. Did you know that, Brett? If, if Justin Haley is signing at Hendrick Motorsports,

who are they going to replace? Well, pretty sure it's not going to be Kyle Larson, fairly confident it's not going to be Chase Elliott. I'm sure. I want. I'm not taking this conversation. No, you can sit out. It's not going to be William Byron. So the rumor has to be Alex Bowman. That's where the rumor comes from. That's we didn't start the rumor. That's where it came from. And that's why it came about because Justin Haley was signing with Rick Hendrick. luckily thankfully we Alex I think should be thanking us because as soon as we brought it up on here the bha been on a tear like nobody's business I think he's third and points at the end of the first round he scored more points he scored way more points than anybody in the first and I'm happy and I think

they announced or Rick said in a press conference somewhere that he's back in a car obviously so good I'm glad for that but that's where this rumor came from that the Hendrick motorsports was signing Justin Haley and where was he going to go and he's in the seven cars so congrats to him LaJoy's in the 51, which I thought was interesting. They would not commit past the end of the year. Really? Yeah, I think they asked Robbie about that. So I don't know where that leaves, Corey, I guess it's just, you know.

I'd say it's a contractual issue is why they probably can't go any further than the end of the year. That is just a guess on my part because there's some complications there. Yeah, I mean, switching rides in this point in the year is already. I don't remember the last time this happened. Dude, Elliot, Sadler, and somebody swapped. David Gilland, when Elliot left Eminem's car to go into the 19 Dodge card. This is smart. I mean, there's just a lot of things that have to line up.

The only thing that I'll say for Justin Haley that I think is not on the positive side, and I think there's a ton, tons of things that are is you're going to aspire without Rodney. and you're going to Spire without OEM support, which there is a rumor that Spire is in a lot of talks with Chevrolet to become a tier one team. Basically a mini Hendrick, which is a huge deal if Spire gets that and makes that happen. Obviously, it's not done, but you look back at front row a couple years ago where they didn't have tier one status,

now they do. Look how much better they run. It's nine-day difference. But regardless, I still think from a business perspective, it's brilliant to make the move. Why wouldn't you? Corey's going to be in that car. It sounds like next year.

Justin's obviously in the seven next year. Why wouldn't you give them a 10 race head start? Yeah, for sure. Neither one of them are in a playoff. Nothing to lose. Nothing to lose. I mean, nothing against either one of them, but, I mean, they both run outside the top 20, 25 for the most part in the last few weeks.

Corey's been actually pretty good lately. He had a hit top 10 run a couple weeks ago. And he was running at the glen. He was decent. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. It's funny how in the sport.

when you find out you're about to get fired, you either do one or two things. You roll over and suck or you haul ass. And I don't care who you are. It's always been this way ever since I've been here. You hear somebody, you want to make somebody go fast. You want to make NASCAR the best racing in the world.

Just tell everybody. Give everybody a one year deal and say you got one year and you got to meet these criteria. You got to win. You got to be top 12 points. You talk about fun. Then it's fun. I don't think that sounds like much fun, Brett.

I did it for eight years in a row with a driver. I don't think that sounds much fun. It was a much stressful. I've ever done in my life. I'm sitting here thinking about. It's not fun. But you know what they do? Oh,

they get up on a wheel. Anywho. So you want on the Arca race? I'm spotting Arka this week. Me too. Son of a good. At least there's room to suck there, though. Bristol, there's no room to stop.

Who do you got this? I was, I'm going to have Isabella Robespel. Oh, that's right. Love her. Talk about before. we move on, a spot on, spot on,

T. Jay, how did your race go on sound? I was hoping we skipped this one. Basically, if it could go wrong,

it went wrong. Yeah, it was, we had problems in practice with the radios, and I guess they thought they fixed it. But no,

they definitely didn't fix it. I've never, honestly, I didn't even know we were pitting the first time. It ended up being a harness, right? It ended up being

multiple things. It ended up being the, where it connects, in the helmet to the harness. There's, it sounded to be like Friday night when I was on pit road. They were blaming it on Zillich. Too much champagne got on.

Got an harness. So there is, there is that, but I mean, listen, that doesn't mess up his helmet. You know what I mean? Like,

uh, there was multiple things because he could hold the connector to the helmet or something at one point. He's like, oh, when I hold it right here to work. And so we swapped to the helmets, obviously.

and honestly to do everything we did not lose a lap. I thought the guys did a really good job of being prepared for all that. And, you know, but there was there was so many things that happened that race from, you know, swapping helmets, swapping harnesses, radios, push to talk buttons. And then I've never heard, do you want your glasses open or folded when we hand them back into you? I heard what's like, where my glasses? And then I got told, hey, don't talk. Try to talk loud.

I dropped the radio on the floorboard. It turned itself all the way up and it's real loud. So I'm like, you know, okay. Damn, acting like he's out of practice or something. And then I'm like, just pull the cable and, like, it's screwed in. Just pull the cable and pull the radio back. And then he's like, well, good news is the radio found us way to the water bottle holder. I don't know where the water bottle is.

So it was like just one thing after another. But I mean, there was 40 in-car cameras in that thing, which I'm not sure wasn't part of the issue with some of this stuff going on. because they're like, hey, you disappeared for four or five laps on restart. So I'm like, well, I'm not doing anything different. I'm sitting in the same spot and not doing anything different. So. Yeah. He said he felt like he was having like that moment where Dale Sr. was wiping his windshield at,

was that Richmond? Yeah. He said, that's how he felt. Like he had his helmet off. He's digging up in there trying to get his earbuds. He did a good job getting his everything hooked back up. And honestly, it made it. It wasn't fun to be involved in a time, but I'm sure it was entertaining as hell for

everyone that was watching and listening and stuff. I'm sure it was great entertainment, but I didn't hear, apparently he lost his cool there for a minute in the beginning. I didn't hear it because I was probably swapping cables or radios, but I guess right in the beginning when he couldn't hear, I guess he, you know, was like, what the, yeah, real bad. I don't know if you guys heard any of it or something, but I guess he was, but after that, I figured the whole time what you were thinking is, man,

I wish this would have happened to Denny Hamlin. That's what I thought you were thinking. No, I was thinking, you know more of like like god he's going to be really mad at some point but luckily the the best part of it was they had to put a new push to talk button in there and they had to put it on his belt right here so to talk he had to actually reach back and get it and he couldn't do that because he you know how he dries and so he didn't have to listen to him wine i don't have to hear he didn't have a lot of time to complain which was great yeah um yeah so that was that was the

plus side of it but honestly it was it was fun because we were still really competitive he was, I mean, like, I'm not so sure he wouldn't just pit to go to the back and pass everybody for fun anyway because knife him through the traffic like he was. I could tell like he was having fun doing it. And once we got the radio to where he could hear right, we were back just outside that. I mean, we were right around the top tenish at that point. And he was, I could tell like the tone of his voice changed. And then we had that restart. He's down there mixing it up with these guys and just, I mean, all but hitting him out when, you know, when they come up on the straightway and clear him.

himself. He's, I mean, he barely bumped. I mean, he's racing now and having fun. And he comes on radio and he's like, man, it's fun as hell. I'm like, well, okay. That's good. I was curious. And look, I mean, he's supposed to go out there and beat an SVG at a place like Bristol in my mind. But I was surprised he beat a lot of the other guys he beat. I mean, he's 50 years old. He hadn't run a race all year. Bristol's not an easy track to go get around. Like, I was, I was sitting there thinking, all right, if I'm Brandon Jones and I'm kicking my boss's ass, I'm finally feeling good about myself this year. Like, I'm having a great night. but if I'm some of those other guys,

I feel like I just got my ass kicked by it on, man. He's any, I think he probably should have ran top five. He kind of got boxed in behind Truex. And really seemed like he couldn't go to the bottom late. You know, like as soon as he moved down, like the top,

the top was the thing where you could get inside and all but clear him off of two. And then in three and four, the guy, three and four was just a better corner for the high side. So they get it all bad down there. And Ryan, dude,

Ryan did not make, he made a couple of small mistakes, but they weren't a big enough to, capitalize on. So Ryan, I mean, Ryan did a really good job. And then he let Brandon go to,

to go up there and race with Ryan and stuff. And he probably could have finished fourth or fifth. I mean, legit if we had been up there. Where did you finish seven? Seven. Yeah. I think we had a.

There were a couple times, too, the bottom on restarts just did not go. Yeah. And we were in that because he wanted to be on the bottom with it. Yeah. And I think he, I think you see how aggressive a few of the guys are on the resarts.

And he was just like, I'm just going to get on the bottom with them. If they hit. it. They're going to, when you hit on resource, where do the, they always go up first. So, but no, it was fun, man. He had a, he did a really good job. Andrew had a fast car. And, uh, after changing the entire car in the first couple stages there, it was actually pretty fun. Good. All right. We're going to take a break and we're going to return with spot on spot off. Hey, NFL fans. You can start the season with a big return on fan duel. America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of

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Spot off. It was super fun yesterday to ride around there. I am spot off. Damn. Where do you come from? All right, we're back. We're going to get into spot on, spot off. You all ready?

Nah. Well, not you. You haven't been ready since we got here. All right. After the race, Kyle Larson said, driver, I would rather run 100% all night long for 500 laps, then run 50% managing tireware. I don't think that's much of a race. I think that version of Bristol is way more exciting.

Spot on, spot off, Freddie. If I had just led 462 laps, I'd say, please don't change a thing. But that's just, you know, that's not what I think is ideal racing for us. Like, I think you want to have the driver's hands where they have to manage their car and can't just run 500 qualifying laps. Like that's just the way I feel. Like I feel like anytime, like you talked about earlier, anytime we have a race where we're just running wide open the whole time or

like not saving anything, the race kind of sucks. And that race last night or Saturday night kind of sucked. And it's because this guy led 460 laps of 500, which I think was the most since Kale Yarbril in 1977. So, you know, it's,

I don't know, I just come from a world of modified racing. and you got to manage your tires and take care of stuff. And that, we didn't, we didn't do any of that Saturday night. I'm spot off. I don't know how you put one of the fastest guys in the fastest car. Man, that sounds like a great race. Let's start them on the, let's start them up in the front too and see what happens.

Yeah, that got you to start on the poll. He would have to let all 500. Yeah. And he would have. So, I mean, like Freddie said, though, if you, obviously, if that's me, I don't want to change a thing either, but the driver, I'm not, you know, obviously Kyle Larson, is one of the, you know, most talented drivers in the world. And I don't, I want to see him manage the car.

Like, he didn't have to manage his car at all right there. He had the fastest car. What do you, like, you're not, you're not really, I mean, yeah, you're going to be fast. So I want to see, you know, the driver and not that it doesn't come into play there, but I think you could have put, there's 10, 15 other guys in the field that you probably could have put in that car and it had been probably really close to the same result. I want to see, you know, I think the last race area was a little too much of manager tire stuff. But, man, I want to see, you know, when he drives that sprint car, you don't, you're not full throttle all the time.

You know, you got to manage your car a little bit. You got to manage the, you know, when you run on the top of El Dorah, they're feathering on the cushion trying to get a run. Like, that's what I want to see here. I want to see these guys on edge a little bit, not stuck to the racetrack, running qualifying laps every single lap. there were how many wrecks at bristol not enough cars are too easy to drive why aren't they wrecking yeah i think the only wrecks were guys getting i think i think core got the back of joey when joey wrecked right that was yeah there was the josh barry and and cora the joy cori got cori got crossed up at the wrong and josh was all over and when it happened so how do you have that

many and listen i'm i don't go to the racetrack to watch wrecks but wrecks happen when guys run out of talent and wrecks happen when cars are out of control. And when you go to a place like that with that many vehicles on a track that small, you don't have wrecks, it's telling you something. All you got to do is look at it. The cars are too easy to drive. I'm sorry. No, you just sounded like you were being a fortune teller for a decision.

I am. I'm a force. Show me your palm. It's telling you something. Oh, let me read your life life. I did hear a, oh gosh. I did see some comments from Joey last week on it. I think he does an XM show.

And he said, like, too much tire. And he made them comments. It was just too much tire. Cut the tire and half, groove it, something. Like, it's just, they're just too much grit. I mean, they're literally. Make short track's great again. Stuck to the ground.

We can do it. I agree. We can do it. But here's my thing about what he's saying, Carson, is, and you're a race car driver, everything he's saying that he would want. he got and he led the race won the race. Everything he's saying he wouldn't want, which is tire wear, is literally what the car store is hanging its hat on.

Managing tire, taking care of your equipment. Like, you can have a front runner. That's what we just switched back to. You can have a front runner that's good on the front end of a run. You can have a last spurt that's good at the end of the race. I mean, you can go like, I remember Kyle Busch at Dover. He used to go like hell. And the first half of that run, he'd get a half a track.

And then the second half of the run, everybody'd run him down. And he'd end up third or fourth before we'd pit, right? man I'm all for making it harder. Just is a fan that looked too easy? He must have the old Atlanta. Oh, he must have. And obviously, these guys are selfish. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, he doesn't want to change anything. Like, we were, we did that. I don't blame him. I wouldn't either. We did that Martinsville test a couple months ago, or maybe a month ago, whatever it was. And Bubba was giving feedback about we were trying different tires, you know, different left sides, different right sides going back and forth.

And Bubba was like, this one had a lot more fall off. Yeah, this was better for the racing and overall. And booty's like, I don't. give a-h-h about the racing over. What's going to make us better? You know, like, which one of these tires are going to cater more to us? Like, what's going to help us more? All right.

Bristol saw eight lead changes, only four different leaders and just 10 drivers on the lead lap with a seven second margin of victory. NASCAR cannot settle for these results with the short track package. Spot on, spot off, TJ. Yeah, I mean. I didn't know. Where the hell were the eight lead changes? Who the hell else was leading? So in the beginning, was near the front?

Was it a pit stop or something? I think it, well, I mean, one of them, a couple of them might have been. But I think in the beginning there were a couple. So I mean, I don't remember. I know, I know Bob Hawkers tweeted that. No, no. It's true. It's definitely true.

I'm just saying I don't remember there being like I think Kyle got to the lead. He started third or fourth. He was up there. So then I remember him getting a lead. I don't remember. I mean, I know Redick stayed out the one stage. Redick stayed out. Yeah.

But the lead changes must have come under yellow because I don't remember anybody else leading It was probably two, two or three legit up front. Like once, you know, cars getting to where their natural position would be and that was it. Yeah. Like I hate the, yes, there's a problem. But I don't know what the, I don't know what the fix is. So, you know, like without just taking this car and start over. Well, we've already shown that with a with a different tire, it can be different.

Yeah. So there's like I was saying earlier, there's got to be a happy medium somewhere where you can find a where the guys where you want to have speed, but you also need to have brains with it. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. All I can say is I hope we don't sit back and do nothing because there's a lot of room for improvement. I mean, when you have what 10 cars in the lead lap at the end of the race? Yeah.

If you don't, what happens if you don't have stages? Oh, we'd be five cars if that only lap. Like we ran top seven most of the night. We were on the same straightaway as him. But other than that, like everybody else was way behind us. So I don't even know. Yeah. You couldn't even do anything strategy-wise.

You know, like, hey, there was no room for anything. There was no strategy to be played. There was nothing. You talk about not doing anything different by all accounts of what they're saying. They did nothing different from the spring. And this race was this race. Somebody did. They might not have told somebody, but they did.

This race was not the same as we saw then. So we got to get to the bottom of whatever changed because. something changed. I mean, if you're just going to blame on the weather, then that's, I'm not buying it. Did you see the campgrounds this time? Like,

100,000 people there's a lot of people. There's a lot of, it's a lot of, it's a great show. You can't put on a bad show. I think the spring race is why they were there. Promoted that because they wanted to come and see that. Yes.

Kyle Larson didn't want to see it. Complete opposite. It's terrible racing. I mean, I mean, it's great racing. Well, those people come back in the spring?

Like, why would you be back? Not if there's not a change. I mean, I'm not saying, don't come. please come to the race track. As far as a great racing weekend, that is you have four races. They packed the schedule with different, like, it's a great schedule.

Yes. Bristol did a great job. And the weather all weekend for like the first time in 300 years was awesome in Bristol. It was hot. Shout out to the Bristol Speedway track personnel for the multiple beer runs they made for us on Friday night. you get beer on the spotter stand now i'll make them uh no this is i'm also interested in joining the spotters unit you guys speak of this is on pin road and i think only one guy could probably make this happen so well one guy one guy asked another guy and the other guy made it happen yeah pretty much right

pretty much after the race after the race yes it's post race i thought you were drinking on spotter's i'm like well i wish i was drinking after two beers i can enjoy the hell out of some spot i had the middle of that race i was wishing i was drinking fair enough all right after the race didn't Hamlin's crew chief, Chris Gabe Hart said, I thought it was as racy as you can expect it to be at Bristol with this car. These are the best stock car teams in the world. They're all separated by nothing. If you don't give them enough ways to separate themselves, this is what you're going to see. Spot on, spot off. Brett. I'm spot off for Chris Gabehart saying what he said. He and I were texting after the race. And I mean, his words to me were they're all too similar for meaningful

disparity. And that sounds like Gabe Hartland. I know. I hope he doesn't. I mean, he doesn't. I mean, I hear the next thing that I'm about to say is I think at this point in our sports existence that Chris Gabehart is the absolute best at what he does inside of the garage. And I think he gets the most out of his driver. I think he gets the most out of his car and his team around him. And I think that when he hangs it up, he could be very valuable in a leadership role with NASCAR. Like he's the kind of guy that I hope that gets hired to help us because he's not drinking the Kool-Aid with what he's telling you. He's telling you that the cars are too similar and they're all going the same speed, which T.J has said on here multiple times they look like, quote, slot cars. Chris also made a

comment, I think I saw that you could run the bottom. You could run the middle. You could run the top and you ran the same lap time no matter where you ran. Right. So I'm spot on for what he's saying here. I think you need to, you know, if I'm NASCAR and I'm Elton Sawyer, and Brad Moran and whoever else, I'm going to sit down and say, with my top five crew chiefs, let's have a roundtable, leave your cell phones outside. Nobody can hear or see what we're about to talk about.

What do you guys think we can do to help make this better? Now, to Freddie's point earlier, selfishly, they're going to tell you things that are going to make them faster. But if you can take a conglomeration of it and make a collaborative effort to get to a point, we got to do something right here. The worst thing we can do is nothing. The, and I think Gabe Hart's been the one to talk about this or it might have been Danny before, but you made all the cars the same. And now you're giving all the drivers, everybody else's information. So the drivers are going to drive the same. What do you think? Where do you want the disparity to come in? Because the only way to pass is I got to be different than you. Like I have to be faster than you or I have to out drive you. Well, if we're all driving the same and the cars are all the same, like you're just based on setup, which setups are, you know, everybody.

everybody's going to know how to go fast. So like there's there's I don't know where you want the, the racing to come from when you when you make everything the same. It's just, I think they've, I think that's already been shown. I think you, you've, they've shown that there can be, you know, like the tires. If you bring a different tire and you have a different, you put the driver more into play. I mean, we saw tons of passes that person. You could drive to the front if you want to. But man, you better, you're going to, you better be ready to take care of, you know, pay the price for it. But like I said, before. I think that was a little too much, but the driver and how hard he drove that car mattered.

If he had speed, he had speed if he wanted it, but you had to manage it. And that's the most in the end of that race, who were the top three guys? The guys that had to do that many years ago when they had all that horsepower and you could spin the tire to the start finish line pretty much at every track that you went to. Well, there's a big difference in 900 horsepower on 650. Well, that and, you know, if you give them a tire like the size of that 65 inch TV behind you, I mean, that's, that's, you're saying that's big. It's not that big.

I don't think it's 65 inches. I think it's like 15. The tire. The TV's, but I think the TV's bigger than 65. I'm just saying, I mean, if you give,

you give these guys, the last thing these guys need is, is more grip, like straight up. I mean, that's the team's job to go get, go find that in, set up stuff.

The last thing these guys need. And guess what happens? If you're running 500 qualified laps, you got way too much grip. Yeah, 100%. 100%. We've set it on here

a thousand times and it'll never not be true. Off throttle time is what leads to good racing. The longer or off the throttle,

the better the racing is. Why are you off throttle? Because your car's not driving good or you're trying to manage your tire. We can see guys

run up on each other and move them in the spring because the guy in front of him was trying to take care of his stuff. Like this time, you can't even get to the guy in front of you

to move them if you want to because you can't catch them. It's just, it's just, you guys, to figure out a way to get these guys off the throttle. Off the throttle time is opportunity to pass. On throttle time is not.

Absolutely. And if, yeah, it's, I'm not a scientist. I don't understand physics like that's a game part. I don't understand. You have to be fooled this whole time. I know. I've been working hard at fool of you, which is that hard. But it's, it's so right there in front of you.

Get off the gas. And like, like, I like to see them guys have to manage the throttle. Like, I like to see them have, like, like, you can't get full throttle because you're going to spin out. I want to see the guys that are really good at doing that. And, you know, I think the guys that, you know, have experience with that or guys that come from, you know, maybe different backgrounds like Kyle Arson's obviously going to be really good at it because he's had to do that. That's what he grew up doing. But man, I want to see, I want to like if you can't get full throttle because you're going to get loose or wiggle, that opens up room for air, right?

Here's what I was waiting on in this race. A wreck with 15 to go. and we get more wrecks as a result. And then people are like, oh, my God, this was the greatest race ever. And then 75% of them are going to vote yes versus no. How many wins does Kyle Larson have without late cautions this year? Probably eight instead of five.

Like, there's so many times that fans get duped into, oh, this was a great race because we had a wreck at the end. And then we had a green white checkered and we had another wreck. And yeah. It's like, did you forget the other 460 laps? But I'm sitting there watching. I'm like, man, because I mean, maybe this, maybe that'll happen to save this race for the fans.

That's who I'm worried about. I'm not worried about me, but it didn't happen. Yeah, like that's your point. If we had a green white checker, and even if it wasn't excited, like, it was just a green white checker and they race their ass off, that, whatever it is, was it, 27%. Yeah. Easily goes to 40. Gets cute.

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Because I'm a Kyle Larson fan, and I don't care about what anybody else stands on if it was a boring race or if it was not a good race, and there was no passion enough. Kyle Larson had the best car. Cliff Daniel set up the best car for that team, and with the track the way that it was set up, with the PJ1 and doing everything they had to do.

They were still passing cars, lapping them down. He had the best car, and he was great, and he won. He kicked everyone's app, and I love it. And I'm only yelling this loud because I hope I'll make it to CBC. All right, love you all. Love you, too, President of Brett. I know that didn't feel good in your ears, Freddie. I think he was part of those 20% that voted, yes.

It was a press. Hey, listen, credit to that. I mean, Kyle did have the best car. he is probably the best arguably driver in the field. And credit to them guys. I saw him and Cliff out there signing autographs for a long time after the race was over. So credit to them guys. And then fans that line up, if you're ever been to Bristol, let that rail that leads into the tunnel.

Them fans are crazy. Yeah. They're insane. Oh, they are. I left the racetrack at 1 o'clock in the morning on Friday. And they were still lined up out there waiting. for Dale. You know,

like, and I know Dale probably stopped and signed for every one of them on the way. They were, actually. But I told them, I said, there's another guy in there. He might want his autographs too. Hey,

Brett, you big fat tub of fucking I hope you like to taste of God. You fucking idiot because Alex Bowman lost into the next round of the playoffs before Kyle Larson, who let God, 95% of race taste Elliot and William Fiborin. You're a big fat.

That's, fuck you. Don't ever say Alex Bowman's to be replaced. Don't even fucking in it. What did you say, Alex, what would you be replaced? I must have missed that part of the show. That's my favorite part of this. They're like, you guys all said he's out. I'm like, we never ever, ever said he was out.

We said he had to have a good playoffs. I said he better have a good playoff. Guess what he's done. He's had a good playoff. That guy sounded fatter than I do. He did sound a little. A fun fact about that fella, he's called in every week since that Bowman thing that you'll talk about on the show.

Yeah. And we know his name. We got his name. to his house. No. Let's call him back. He is very persistent. I've called him back.

I got some. Hey, bud. Let's put him on a Zoom. Yeah. That was the Kyle Larson 500 at Bristol. Might as well rename the damn race that. Sitting here in my campground,

just outside the track. Don't really know if I watch the race or just an old-fashioned ass whipping. Good year. NASCAR needs kicked in the nuts. Because that track, Nothing's wrong with that track. That track has been perfect for 50 years.

They f***ed up with this car. They f*** up with this tire. God. Hung money just teabagged the field. Which Frederick could have made it to the next round there, T.J. Getting next year. Well, I don't know what y'all call that. Where y'all are from, but where I'm from, we call that an ass.

I knew that's coming. Was that you? He spoke redneck. As soon as Kyle Larson wins, everybody in the comment section on social media, so crying about how boring the races. Oh, it's so boring. These cars, this track, NASCAR putting it in twice a year. When you're getting your ass look that bad, it's going to be boring.

I hope everybody keeps crying and Kyle Larson keeps winning. And, yeah, it should be a good rest of the playoffs. Yeah, that guy, one guy, was upset. T.J. you're thinking something. I just think how if all the races were, like that. I have a feeling this guy would probably still call in and say the racing is great and, you know, I think

if all the races were like that, you'd have to apply for a job at Geek Squad. Yeah. You'd have to be an IT guy. Be setting up your TV. TJB professional gamer. 100%. Oh, you think he's that good? I don't know what I would do. Probably, um, he better be that good as much as he. Just think if he had to fall back on something. I would fall back on.

I don't think about it because that means I got to fall back on something. Then I look over here at you and I'm like, I don't know what you're going to fall back on either. There I got. Don't want to me. I don't know either I'm going to go working spot on We were already giving Carson's shit before the show because I was like Carson have you ever had to have a resume

to get a job and she's like no I didn't say bullshit I said no She thinks about it She brings up this bed bath and beyond fulfillment job That required a fucking resume Are you kidding me to pack a box Air Friars shipped out one way or another And that was me

People think I've never had to just bum it a little I have okay I was in the back of that bed bath and beyond unpacking boxes. Is that why they're going out of business? I'm sending people air fry. Probably. How long did you work there?

I worked there for about a year when I was living in Indiana. Was it an emerald air fryer because I ordered one of those? You might have sent it to me. I thought it was very ironic that Bed Bath Beyond was on the forecar this week. Just a couple companies going out of business. That'll happen. Man, these freaking fans are just ridiculous. It reminds me of something.

Why I was in the Marine Corps, my staff starts. told us that he can get us hookers and cocaine and alcohol and we'd still be about it one of the best races of the season yes i know my driver won still but nonetheless on the best races of the season then the fans can these guys just need to grow up and watch a good race just ridiculous two of those three sound good i don't know which two of the three i would say it is this is the guy we need to go find go to his house no he needs to come to our house What is? I saw him yesterday.

First of all, thank you for your service. Second of all, you're hanging out with their own people that are complaining about that. Listen, man, I know you're probably a Larson fan. I get it. I would have checked yes, too. If Deller and Hart won in 1991, when I was a sophomore in high school,

I'd have voted, yeah, that was a good race. My man kicked your ass. All these people that say that have no context on why. Right. It was good. Yes, they do. Yes, they do.

Their context is, their driver won. Other than that, I want to know why was it a good race. If the bills win 70 to nothing next week. It's a great game, Brett. Exactly. Even though for everybody else, I watch, it was boring and awful. That's why, and that's okay. They'll never do that because they like to raise my blood pressure and they never do.

They play tonight, right? Yeah. Don't they play some shi-a-team? Yeah, they're one and two against some last three games. Who is it? The Jaguires. The what? What did he say?

What is a Jaguar? Jack-y-wire. Jaguar. Is that a car? it is it. Yeah, well, you get the point. Oh, that's Brett's favorite quarterback. Trevor Lawrence, he is one of the best

quarterbacks ever play college football, and I hate him. He's going. I was going. I was saying, man, he's like... I hate him. The guy wore orange. I thought I hated Deshawn Watson, and I hate Trevor Lawrence way more. It's okay, because I hate Connor Shaw, too. And he was part of the best quarterbacks of Carolina ever.

We never lost to Clemson with Conner's. Yeah, I wish he'd come back and play for us again. Is that the one? No, Garcia, is the guy that was. He's a partier. He started a podcast, by the way. Oh, really? I'd say the guy that we saw.

I actually liked him. He was my favorite gawtime game cop player because he was an idiot, not because he was a great quarterback. He was a great quarterback. He was a pizza, by the money. He was the one that got caught drinking beer. So they played Saturday on Sunday. He's 21, by the way. He just goes out in front of the dorms and just pulls out a bunch of chairs and the coolers of beer and they start drinking beer.

Cops roll up and they're like, hey man, you can't sit out here and drink beer. And he's like, why not? I'm 21. And they were like, well, you're on campus. So they give him a ticket. One of five tickets, I think you got. But Stephen Garcia, if you're a college football fan, that's bringing back. A pizza story about him.

I don't know. That was Andrew Clifford, everybody. Yeah. Might have had a couple cocktails at five points. I might have wrecked a scooter. And then they asked Steve Spurrier about it. Hey, your quarterback wrecked a scooter. He's like, yeah, you know, it's really hard to go pick up a pizza and drive that scooter home with a pizza in one hand and try and drive that scooter with the other, which I thought was very clever.

That was good answer. Yeah. Well, now that the fat lady is sung, die. and fell out the stage and we buried her. Man, that was a stressful ritual watch. I've watched a lot of races where Dale Jr. is

flying, doing all the good things, and then shit happens. When the first stage ended, I thought we were done. Well, obviously we weren't done. I finished an entire eight-pack watching this race of freaking Budweiser. As you can probably tell about how I'm talking right now.

Some will sponsor this guy for next year. Let's put a fan car together. That's, I think, the best idea I've had in at least a few minutes. Okay, Junior Nation, this is when we all have to assemble. Now, we all get dust off the walkers, get everyone moving around again. There's a few of us still left out here. We haven't died yet. Come on, let's do this.

Let's get junior ride for next year. Brett's probably going like, this guy is the biggest idiot in the history of mankind. But Brett says that a lot about, says that about a lot of people. So, I don't know. I'm too drunk. Anyway. Brett's not even. This sounds like.

I don't understand why Dale Jr. is already committed to not committing to running a car next year. I mean, I'm committing to not committing. But I might run one again in 26. Like, dude, it's one race. It ain't like you got to work hard to get ready for one race. You got to go get ready for TV. Well, you already did TV. You know how to do TV.

You don't have to practice that much, do you? Like, I think it's great. He comes back into Mayo Missile every year, even if he can't hear good in it. I think we stop calling it that. That's the worst. I think you got to come back. That's the worst name. I just don't know why he wouldn't come back and do that race again.

Like it was awesome. It was a big crowd. It's good for the sport. I mean, I don't know why you'd want to take a year off. TJ knows why. He ain't going to tell us, but that's all right.

Yeah, I probably don't even know. Why don't you enlighten us, TJ? I'm somebody I would be going to him right, like soon because right now he's probably pretty happy about it. Vulnerable. Yeah,

he's probably pretty excited about it and happy about it. So, you know, there's certain times to go and talk to him and he's in a much better mood. And now would be one of them times. Carson? I always check to see what kind of moodies in if I'm going to ask him something. I was just going to say, actually, I changed my stance on this. I don't want him to run any more Xfinity races.

I think that that should open him up for more cars tour races. And I honestly think that. Bring Helmonds to the cars tour. I think that might play a factor into why he doesn't want to run an exfinity race next year because he's having more fun running the car store races. I don't know. I mean, when he come on the radio and said, this is fun as hell. I think if he goes in the race. He was talking about not being able to hear you when he said.

He actually said when he couldn't hear me he said he actually missed me. He was lying. I'm going to have to fact check that. That was not what he said after the race. Call him right now. That was on the radio. So I think that being competitive makes a big difference.

He goes and he's competitive. If he goes and runs 25th legit, he's probably not going to want to come. By the way, we got to talk to Dale about something. Don't tell on yourself. Technically. Yeah.

It is illegal. It is illegal to run around there without a spot. and he goes out in tweets or it says something about I couldn't hear you the whole first stage and I'm like uh don't say that I was sitting there waiting for it the entire time well and the next time is like we come down pit road and I was like if casgrawler says that this week guess what they're going to bark him uh oh yeah but that's also this has also happened twice in the last couple years of somebody and they didn't get black flight either so t j was looking it up he's he was looking at president's well he wasn't working he's like he's like is anybody else not been black black

You're ready to put my stuff away here. He's looking at those fallback options. We also sped. We also sped on Pitt Road. I'm like, well, you sped the first time. He might as well as to speed this time too. So go ahead. And yeah, you're going to be at the tail end anyway.

All right. Next. All right. Reaction Peter on Piton Road. Freddie. You, Brett. All right. Yeah.

Down. Frikes in Bristol. It's like two hours after the race. We still drinking. Cheers. This was... That was all of us up in Robe. That was really just...

We were just fact-checking Jay. Make sure he listens all the calls. I said, if he doesn't find that one, we're going to know he didn't listen. I screen them all, man. I screen every single one. It takes me all afternoon, but I'd do it. Can't you get a volunteer to do that?

Make Evan do it. I mean, could. Or we could get us an intern. Get us a DBC intern. I have an intern. You can pay about an hour. How are you on salary? Oh, I'm salary.

Oh, you don't... Blake, nice. I was going to try to help you out. No, that's okay. I don't work Friday, so it's a train off. By the way, I couldn't understand a word anybody said in there. Hey, I just made a monumental discovery.

I think I figured out why T.J. smacks his lips so much. I was watching the post-race interview with Brad, and Brad's over here making all sorts of weird-ass faces, licking his lips and shit. I don't know what the hell he was doing. TJ must have picked that up off of him. If T.J. makes weird faces and shicks his lips,

that's where he got it from. I'm just taking a guess. Is he saying you kiss, Brad? I don't get it. I don't know what he means. You look at their mannerisms. Wait, you lick Brad's lips? That's weird.

That happens when you hang out with somebody for a while. You just start with their mannerisms. Oh. Oh. Oh. I thought you. No, not licking their lips. No.

Who the fuck have you been hanging out with? I got a lot of questions right now. No. No. No. I mean, like you put up on people's mannerism. Right. You should have started with that.

I did. No, you did not. You guys were just talking. So you didn't hear. That's not what I heard. All right. Whatever. Moving on.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Hamlin didn't think he was going to do it, but he did. That's how we do her. This is the third time I've gone and I'm going to, I forgot three times what I was going to say, but hell yeah, Denny Hamlin, let's go. Maybe you won't be such a bore on your podcast the next three weeks because you're behind. Let's go. I guess he's just talking about him transferring. Yeah. I'm just glad Denny's dog got a one week reprieve. He was getting ready to ship the dog on out of there. And listen, this eliminates all the talk about, uh,

wherever the hell it was, he ran around the back. Atlanta, it doesn't matter anymore. Now he's moving ahead. You know, I've heard you guys talk a lot about the What an Idiot of the Year, a door bumper clear. What an Idiot Hall of Fame? I think we could just go right ahead, name it the Martin Truex,

Jr., speeding on Tip Road on a cutoff race, eliminating himself. What an idiot of the Millennium Award. Just make that the name of the Hall of Fame for BBC or whatever. Make a plaque. Hang the Fri-Banner. Here's the good news for Martin. And I'm actually excited.

It's only seven more. Yeah, I'm actually excited. I'm excited for him for what I'm about to say. If you, and listen, I know he wanted this. I know his team wanted this. I know his fans wanted this. But if you retire after a year where you've made a playoff run, man, it's going to be a whirlwind and loaded with pressure.

Like right now, I mean, Bubba Wallace probably have more. fun at Bristol than he's had maybe all year because you didn't go into that race with all that pressure. You can play loose. You could have fun. And I'm glad for Martin's sake that he doesn't have all that pressure the rest of the year. Look, do I want to see him in the playoff 100%. I actually picked him in my DBC picks last week. He let me down. I'm not going to hold against him. But I'm glad. I'm sure he was really worried. I truly feel like he can enjoy riding off into the sunset by not having this playoff pressure hanging over him, especially with how poorly they've executed over the past couple months.

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We're going to try not to get you fellows canceled this week, if at all possible. You can sit in your questions on X each week using hashtag AskDBC and we will answer the best ones. We're going to get going. Rob Stack asks, the old lug nuts were small and ended up all over Pit Road, but this new center lug is big. How come it's not a penalty for equipment leaving the pit box when one gets away like the 14? in stage three. We're comparing nut sizes now. Keep it together.

Keep it together. Oh, I forgot we're live. Nuts jokes. I don't know. I'm so glad this is my last show. I don't know why it would be a penalty. It's not. It might be ours too.

Who has that idea was this? How do you control a nut getting away though? Seriously. Like, I mean, five lug nuts, bam, bam, bam, bam. And the driver takes off. They fly everywhere. If you hit one lug nut.

So I don't even know. Is it even called a lug nut? Yeah, I think so. There's only one. So single lug nut. Yeah, it's not nuts. It's one nut. Okay. But the, did this happen? I don't understand. Like, did the 14 lose a lug?

Because I feel like it's pretty important. I guess so. In the single lug era, I feel like the lug nuts pretty important. Like if it went away. The changer still carries an extra. So, yeah. Apparently it happened. I don't know. They wouldn't be a removing.

It didn't slow them down much. So the best removing equipment penalty of the week had to go to Justin Allgaier for dragging his saws all halfway around the race track. Yeah, and it stayed on the track. Bless his heart. What a... This guy can't catch a break. Wow.

I mean, he is flying. He clearly is the best car in the field, best driver in the field, and what a tough break. I saw I was walking in to the... I didn't know you could race with no TV panel. I guess it's short tracks. He came.

Oh. Yeah. I thought the same thing. I thought he was done. Like, unless they go in like Barry Boundle back on, I thought he was done. But short tracks... I told people with me he was done and then he wasn't done.

I was like an idiot. Well, I wasn't the first time. Don't be the less. Probably an accurate statement. What else you got? All right. Brendan asks, how concerning should it be

that Daniel said he was holding back Ty Gibbs? The air blocking is a thing even at short tracks. How can you make this car not have such tight margins and actually fall off? We've talked about it. I know.

I wish I had the answer to that. But yeah, Ty, so Ty, obviously, I think he sped early in the race. And the last run, I noticed him, I saw him coming. He was hauling ass the beginning of that last green,

flag run. But he must have either overheated his tires or just warm out because by the time he got to us, he couldn't really get around us. Then we cut through lap traffic and he couldn't, like he kind of got stuck and we put a straightaway or more on him at that point. So it was, once you overhear your tires, you're kind of stuck where you're at and so you try to cool him down and go again. But yeah, arrow blocking at a short track should not be a thing. But unfortunately it is. This next one's got a lot of numbers in it. It's a tad confusing. I can't read it. After you scarred me last week when I read a whole question and you didn't listen to a word I said. I'm sorry.

That's what men do to women. We don't listen. All right. Why was the 19 allowed to pass the 12 going to the pits after the caution came out towards the end of stage two? The 12 was well in front of him before the caution came out. Carson, there's four numbers in this question. See, exactly. What were you worried about?

What did you say? No, I'm just kidding. Can you read it again? I was actually read this question earlier, but I was not listening. I assume that the 12 was not well in front of him. And they told him, but they told 19 to pass him. That's the only thing that makes any sense.

I don't know. I didn't see this. But I sometimes it looks and it happens to us a lot. You think you're well ahead of somebody before the caution comes out and the lineup comes out and you are not. Well, you are ahead of them. But the scoring loop says different. Yeah. You go back to a different loop.

TJ used to make fun of me on here. And then when it happened to him, I still do. He'd come down here running. and me going, who was in front of you? I was like, oh, no, no, no. A couple weeks ago, you know, when that sign fell on the race track, he's like, I don't care. I don't care.

Them green, white checkers in Watkins Glenwood's yellow coming out late. Oh, he cared all of a sudden. Now he doesn't want any cautious at the end of the area. Only thing I cared about is fuel. Yeah. Who we got? We got any questions from the chat? How many people are here?

Two million. Two million. Is it $260? Is it $3 million? $260 million? That seems like a lot. That's almost all of America. That's almost.

Watch. We got international listeners. Yeah. So that's multi-country. All right. Most of Europe. Ben-Mariefield says, hey guys,

traveling to Denver from the UK later this week. Are there any good tracks races to check out over the next two weeks? Denver, North Carolina? Yeah. Denver, North Carolina.

So like in the next two weeks. Is he really coming to Denver, North Carolina? Wait, I don't know. I would assume so. I'm assuming it's, no, it's,

Colorado. Why Colorado? You're not going from the UK. Why would they be asking you guys where to go in Denver, Colorado? because we're experts at Denver, Colorado. There's no way this guy's going to Denver, North Carolina.

But if he is, if he is, you can go to Middlebury. There's some good race tracks. There's still that dirt track out there near Denver, North Carolina, too. The one of Ray Everingham bought it at one point. I don't remember the name of it. I think you made it up. No, I didn't. I'm going to look it up here in a second while y'all can talk about something else.

Denver, Colorado, I don't know a lot about the racing out there. I do drive from Denver to Lovell in Colorado, and I see a, paved weekly racing series on the right going north to Lovelland so you may want to check that out. Pike's Peak used to be out and see which Denver he's talking about. Pike's Peak used to be out there right because I think that's where like Corelli used

to race a little bit. Yeah. There's a lot of short tracks out there. I'm just not very familiar with them. I couldn't tell you. Where's he coming from? UK. See? International issues. I told you. I always say Denver is a I mean it's obviously go to Big Daddy's. Pretty area. Yeah.

East Link in Speedway. Go fuck yourself. I told you there was a racetrack out there. It might not matter because we still don't know what you're going to. We don't know what Denver he's going to. Either way, I hope he has fun.

Enjoy yourself. All right. West vintage, Josh, when spotting, do you ever get distracted by anything? And if so, what's the most common distraction?

TJ, I'm sorry, when Freddie had a prey of man that's crawled out of his shirt. That was, that was distracting. And it wasn't even me. When that happened.

Freddie was breakdancing and doing moves that I didn't think he could do. and then he started taking his shirt off and here I am trying to spot at Bristol and there's all these bugs running out. And I would say probably the biggest distraction. It's a pretty big distraction. It was.

Is that a F-Batchez. It might be. You can't cuss out of this one. You can't cuss out. The other. Beep that out. Are we? What do you mean?

We can't cussed? We're lost that F word a minute ago. Such a shit show. You can't say that either. The most, let me, let's get back to business here. the most distracted I've ever been during a race. That wasn't it? I think T.J was standing beside of me and it was sleeting in our face.

Oh, that was Bristol. And I was standing in the house to concentrate. Like, yeah. I mean, we were getting beat in the face with sleet. It's like you were on a motorcycle running 30 miles an hour and it was raining and you don't have sunglasses on. Like it was, it was tough. And we were hung over that day. Where are we?

That was 100% day. Oh, well. Yeah. I ain't going there. You know what? I think the biggest attractions used to be. You'll think about this when I tell you is we would run Daytona in July. And the whole night there's fireworks going off out on the beach like during the race, like at any point.

And it's like surrounding like all the way up the beach too. Clint was tweeting on Saturday night and people started tagging me going, do you think Clint's drinking? I'm like, 100% he's drinking. So Clint texts me yesterday, what makes you think I was drinking? I said, oh, A, you weren't working. B, it's a Saturday night. And C, I know how you tweet when you're, you're drinking. drinking versus when you don't.

And I think he admitted you had a couple. You should have seen your boy, Clint's boy, Rusty Rush Saturday, walking around in cowboy hat and shorts. I've never seen anybody in a cowboy hat in shorts before in my life. And that guy, that guy is a trip. We got another traveling question, but I don't dare say where I might think. This one's a little easier. All right, driving down from is I in Minnesota? Yes. Okay.

Before you guys. Is that Minnesota? Rusty rush. Just so I get that out of the way. All right, driving down from Minnesota to the race this weekend, it will be my 60-year-old son and myself. We're going to camp an tent for our first NASCAR Oval Race. What are some spots to check out?

That's awesome. That's going to be the most fun that kids ever had, man. I fell in love with racing at four and five years old doing exactly that. I go into the racetrack, camping in a tent. And there's a lot of fun people to meet around the racetrack. You know, I always said you can go camping at a racetrack and leave everything out that you own and count your beers before you go to bed. And the next day when you wake up, it's all still going to be there.

Honest, hardworking folks at the racetrack. But the good news for Kansas is there's a ton of stuff. There's a David Busters right there by the racetrack. They go play video games, let him get something to eat. Like, you're in a really fun area to take somebody to their first race. The biggest furniture store that you'll probably ever see your entire life is right there. Eddie DeHont's a big fan of that one. He bought a couple beds from there.

And I think he ended up on his 10th bed. It finally wasn't damaged. Honestly, I would just go to Hooters and wait for you two to show up. Maybe Jason Schultz or Tyler. Why not? Can't go to Hooters or a six-year-old? I'm saying not to hang out with you too. I meant to hang out with you.

We'll need him to drive us home. My nephew was probably about eight or nine years old, the first time I took him to Hooters. And we get there and we've ordered our food and we're hanging out. And this is Troy. Yeah. I look at him and I say, Troy, man, how you like this place?

And I'm thinking he's going to associate this place with what's going on in the environment. He goes, I don't know. I've got my food yet. Poor guy. I missed the whole point of going to Hooters. A perspective, a 10-year-old versus my... That makes sense for Troy. It does make sense.

I still like to punch him in the face. All right. Who is the biggest shock in making the round of 12 and who could make the round of 8, in your opinion? The biggest surprise for me is probably Svarez. Cendrick with the races that were there, which Suarez won Atlanta. But all the play races, Cindricks up front.

So it didn't surprise me that he banked a bunch of stage, points there and then ran well Walkins Glen I didn't think Swarro was going to get out of the first round and I said to Doug yesterday I was with Doug Campbell who spots for Cendrick and I said you got to be happy that the guys that got eliminated

you know you if you're picking who you want to race against you'd rather race against Daniel Suarez than two Gibbs cars a thousand percent so you know so that that was but I think Suarez transferring Swares and Cendrick are probably about Reisco for me. Really? Yeah because

I was going to say. Because the team's going out of business. I mean, essentially, I know the Haas factory team is going to stick around, but there's a lot up against that guy for him to come through in that round. Very impressive. He's at a lot of speed. He was flying yesterday. He was fast yesterday. Yeah.

All right. Is Bristol with one groove better than Bristol with multiple grooves? Old Bristol. Oh, Bristol. Oh, brisk. Get me locked on the bottom, knocking each other out of the way. But the problem is we can't do that right now. Like, locked on the bottom, we can't move the guy.

So, you know, if we can ever get back to just run in the bottom where we can rattle each other's cages a little bit, that would be my ideal scenario. But why can't you tear it up and make it like old Bristol? I mean, you could. I would imagine money would be a major factor. Plus, Dale drank about a beer on Friday night. So now they got to recoup from that loss. TJ, after the first stage of the Xfinity race, did you get a paycheck cut? the people are dying to know.

I've got a gift card yet. What kind of? What gift card? Did you get this? Yeah, I don't, we'll have to see. Yeah, we'll have to see on the payment methods here.

There's, um, there's ways to, to handle this from here on out. So, and I know where he lives, so we'll get paid one way or another. So I think they're thinking,

your pay should get cut because you didn't only spot it two stages. Well, I think he thinks I'm doing it for free anyway. So I can't cut something that you don't get. He'll double it. Yeah. No kidding. Somebody wants to know if I'm racing next year.

Not sure. Yeah, you're racing. If my dad gets... Have you started talking to your dad yet? I mean, after the last few hours ago. Yeah, we're good. We've brought it up every single week on here. He's got to get the point by now, right?

Well, I'm sure he probably doesn't listen. I'm sure he listens every week. I'm sure he's a diehard DBC fan. He probably loves listening to us. Elliot wanted to know, has there been any progress on the Goat on Fire album that Brett started working on a month ago? How's that going? Coats on Fire.

Also, your pink hat is very cute, according to the people in the chat. Thank you. Is it October not yet? How's that song go again? We can do, listen, we can have a heavy metal song, go on fire. Go on fire. We can have a country song and we can have a rap. And the four of us can make this album.

Has anybody ever seen Brett? How did I get roped out? Has anybody ever? You got a good voice. Can you sing? You just said she has a good voice and then you ask her to sing. Well, that don't mean you can sing. I have a great voice.

I can't sign. I want to you do the heavy metal part again real quick. I can't. It's too hot in here. I can't. I can't rage in here today, TJ. I'm telling you, I can't do it. I can't do it. Brett one day, I think we were in the Wild Beaver and Brett's on stage. It's karaoke bar and Brett is on stage. That place is fun.

Beat boxing. I'm like, I'm not sober. And I'm like, what the hell is going on up there? I grew up listening to Run DMC. You want to show us how you? you clog? I can't clog the day. There's too hot in here.

Moonwalk. Can I get a moonwalk at it? I can move on it sideways on this floor. I can't do it backwards. It's too grippy. Grippy. What else we got? Someone wants to know which F1 track would be the best for NASCAR to race on, not counting Koda.

Bristol. Monaco. Wait, say that again? The best F1 track. Well, you know how much stuff we would wreck at Monaco? Oh, I thought they said what F1 tracks. What NASCAR should F1 race on? What track should we race on?

I don't know. What country you want to go to? They go to some crazy countries. Yeah. Remember that one time they were racing somewhere and they were getting bombed? What? Yes. I don't remember where the hell that was, but I remember there was stuff going off in the background.

The country said, y'all are not leaving until you race. And it's like, I forget where the hell that was. It was like two years ago because I remember texting with Jenna Fryer about it. I was like, please tell me this isn't real. She's like, yeah, no, it's real. They're not letting them leave until they race. even though they're getting attacked. You can see, like, in the background of the race, there was stuff on fire.

I don't, everything I can not to curse on this deal. This is difficult. It's so difficult. It's like my first language. If you hear me say stuff, that is not what I want to say. Like, I don't think we want to go to Monaco. I think it's too expensive. I mean, just.

I was going to take your boat. We're going to ship my pocket. Park it. Park it next to those yards. I know who's boat we're not going to take. Yeah, my pontooner go great. I think any street course, really. I mean, I know, like, Dubai, there's another one that's a street course.

I can't think of the name of it, but it's got to have, you know, something with some walls, similar to Chicago, where there's some punishment, all the other tracks they go to, man, there's such big runoffs. And every time we have big runoffs, we don't. Formula One has, I don't want to say the word. Track limits. Yes. And we don't.

So we will just run wherever. No, we do sometimes. Well, sometimes. We just run wherever. there's asphalt or pavement. Where's Bahrain at? Is that in a cool country? By what?

Or is that the country? It's probably in Bahrain. It's all right. Yeah. It's not a town. Is it its own country? No, it's the country.

It's big. I mean, that sounds cool. So you guys wanted to shut me for some geography earlier. I mean, Bahrain sounds cool. Watch your language.

Your mom's going to get you. This is so back. The swear jar is getting filled up today. Have you met my grandmother? We don't have one of those. All right. We actually do have a kind of serious question. Oh,

after qualifying, the teams have to select a pit box, is there any certain time frame that they have to have their picks in by or how does that process work? So after quality, when they do the, there's this time on the schedule that they give and all the crucies have to go or somebody has to go for a pit selection when it comes to your time where the dedicated person there to pick your pit stall is, they, they check them off as they're getting picked and that's how you select them. And it's kind of like a draft. It's like a draft. Nice. But people want to know if your hat matches is your underwear today. What underwear?

Wow. That is disturbing. Wow. That's just what's going on. I mean, I've got a great I have a great Brett underwear story. Should we just show them? No, God, no. If we can't because we surely can't do that.

We were in, where the hell are we stuck? Texas for a week when you went and bought those underwear and they were. Texas. We had to go buy clothes. I ran out of droll. And we ran out of clean clothes. So Brett go, we were like the Nike outlet or something. And Brett goes and bought like socks and underwear and stuff.

And then like an hour later he sends me a picture. He bought like little boys up to wear. It was awful. And they were like 20 bucks. I just died. Were they on? Yeah. No, I could get it.

It was a selfie. He was like, you know, the pose. Look back at it. How did that go again? How did that go? Look back at it. Rob wants to know out of the three of you at the table who could drink the most beers in one night. Freddie.

What? wasn't right i mean i haven't 100% freddie he don't go to bed so i mean it yeah last night we were we went yesterday and we left we went and had brunch at like 11 o'clock and meg was grabbing a switcher and i'm like it's 90 degrees outside what are you doing with a sweatshirt and she's like it's like it's going to be like 70 at midnight and i'm like midnight i'm like i don't know if i got it in me you got lofty goals for this evening and i think we i think we made it i think we were out so I don't even know what the hell. I don't know what the hell the time I got home last night, but it was late.

When you get started with brunch and mimosas, you don't know what direction of the day is going to teach you. I'll tell you what I found. Meg was right there. I'll tell you what I found yesterday was high noon pineapple. Yeah. Highnoons are awesome. Meg likes those. That's where it's at.

Really? I almost got the beach. I'll tell you who you never. Let me tell you a story. Who you never ever want to drink mimosas with? Who? Brett Griffin. I'm bad.

I, I don't know. I don't know what happens to Brett Griffin when he drinks champagne, but it is not good. We had that episode earlier in the year. Remember, you drank the whole bottle of champagne. Evan cut together the mimosa video is one of our best videos of our best videos of the year. You went through like, I don't know. First of all, I'm a fast drinker.

Wait, y'all had mimoses on here? He was remote. He was at home, I think. Oh, that's right. You were in Myrtle Beach. You were in Myrtle Beach, weren't you? Yeah. And you were literally sipping it.

And you got so red face by the end of the show. We were in the head. No, we were Tybee Island. We were Tybee. Yeah. And we drank a lot of mimoses, really just a lot of champagne. I don't think we had any orange juice. Yeah.

And I don't know what happened to my friend, Brett, but it wasn't good. Like the best part is we get back. I tell you what I did when we came. First of all, I tell Freddie, I'm like, look, man, just put me on the golf cart. Just ride me around for like a minute. I said, ride me around for like an hour. Like I can't go home like this. And he's like, man, I aren't going to help you.

And I'm like, dude, I just need a minute. So he rides me around like seven minutes. Well, everybody goes home, but me and Freddie. So guess who they call? Freddie. Where are y'all at? Why ain't y'all come back? So now Freddy's roped into having to come back.

So I just get up and I go straight to the bathtub and I just lock the door and I just turn the water on. And I just laid in the bathtub like I was in a casket for hours. The funniest part was my brother was with us. And like our wives are upstairs and there's a group of people with us. And John was with us. So we get back. We dropped John off on the golf cart.

It's like, I can't go up there. I got to drive around. So we leave. And my brother just goes up and they're like, John, where are the other two? And he just walks through the kitchen, grab somebody,

he does not answer anybody. And he leaves. And they're like, John, we're, nope, he's just out. Like,

he's not telling anybody nothing. And we wrote around, but it was, and then it happened again with him. There's a stupid beach game you had. Batchie ball. Yeah. Yeah.

You can't say that. You can't say that. We're live. I'm sorry. but yeah Brett and Champagne not a good mix I think it happened in Myrtle Beach again too

some other time noted Tyler wants to know Should we expect the tire debate To carry over till next season Or does the off season Give good year enough time to resolve What's the debate?

Who are they debating against? I don't know Who are they debating with? I wish I knew the answer to that question Yeah I don't know They there's promising tires At that tire test we did

But I don't know They'll use them if they have time to produce them. Good Year has a monopoly on what they bring. I mean, they own the tire rights and we race what they bring. So I don't know who they would debate against. I'm sure they can take input from teams, NASCAR, maybe TV. Well, now that you've got the same track twice in a season and you've got two totally different outcomes with the same tire, I think now you can dissect it more and probably go in and collect a lot of data and see what you can do differently.

You sound really intelligent. I don't know what happened. I have someone asked you after the conversation you two are having on there. What movie was that? What movie was that when he's like, I just blacked out. What did I say? Is that like old school or something? That was you two for the last five minutes here.

Between draws and mimoses, I mean. Memosos. Do you drink mimoses while you watch the Jaguars? Jaguars. Jaguires. Jaguires play tonight. Mimos. Mimo.

Check fandal. Oh, goodness. All right, let's do a couple more, Carson. You got any? I'm still, I'm being fed. my information. Okay. Okay.

All right. Sweris and Keselowski had no speed Saturday night. Is this due to expecting a lot of tire wear and having the car set up for that? Absolutely. I think you go there expecting, you know, to wear the right fronts. If you're going back with the same tire, I definitely, I mean, I think it was a huge factor in it. I think people probably took a lot of camber and stuff out to try to save the wear on the right

front and I hurt. So I don't, I do think that probably played a big factor in it. All right, we got one more question here. One more. That's... Numaas, por favor. You know how many times I've said that in the Mexican restaurant? One another Corona Likes.

How do you say one more in my check in Spanish? I have no idea. Robert wants to know with the driver swap between Justin and Corey. How does it work with sponsors? Do they stay with the team or do they stay with the drivers? Stay with the team for this year, contractually. And, you know, I think that I don't want to dive into... I mean, there was a tweet put out that said,

there was a lawsuit filed against Rick Ware Racing and it was dropped. So I think that is tied to sponsorship scenarios. But the team's on the sponsorship rights at least for this year. And then next year, I wouldn't be surprised to see, you know, some adjustments go with him and vice versa for Cori. I agree. Again. All right.

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Were you ever a beauty pageant winner? No, I almost said. Before everybody leaves the chat. Say goodbye to Carson. We'll miss you forever. You're never coming back. This is Carson's last show with us for a while.

We will miss you. Maybe I can just talk Mike into giving me my own. Yeah. I lobbied for you. Yeah, thanks. Did you get enough? Did you get enough birthday wishes the other day?

I wanted to make sure. Oh, yeah, I did. I want to make sure you enjoyed your birthday. I was scrolling for days. I mean, we had Carson on here the first time, TJ, but she was a kid. I know. That was so long ago.

It was. Well, 10 years ago, eight years ago? I had to be right. You guys have been doing this as long? Yeah, so. We're old. Well, thank you for everything, Carson. Thanks for having.

You will be our super sub whenever we need you. Love it. Thanks for all the questions, fans. That was fun. Yeah. Let's keep it rolling. See you soon. See you.

What an idiot. My favorite part. Here we go. What an idiot. Who wants, who has, who's itching to talk about idiots. You might have vaulted close to the top of the list.

What does she do? Talk about licking each other. You're hanging out with somebody. You're hanging out with somebody. You start licking her lips. No. I got to go to more parties with you. I don't know what the fuck you've been up to you lately.

Do you have one idiot? I don't have one. Mine is one, two, three. I don't want to mix up your, what you got going here, Freddie,

keep going. I don't have an idiot. this week. I just have to give a shout out to the most miserable human being in the state of Tennessee on Saturday night. And that was easily Josh Bullocky. That poor guy, we pass him every three laps. Oh, my God. Yeah. Everybody was craving Arby's. What a marketing genius. They must have turned out to be like. I mean, absolutely the opposite of an idiot is Arby's because they got their screen time. I literally, I told Bob on the way home, I was like, I'm going to say, 66 on my sleep tonight because it felt like every three laps we were passing them.

Like it was like slow top, 66, slow tops. But to his credit, he never, he was never in the way for us anyway. I saw a couple guys get stacked up behind him one time. I think Jones and Suarez got into it kind of getting boxed in. But if you got boxed in behind him, it was your own fault because he didn't move. He was there in the same spot all night long. And to his credit, that that's what we want. That's what you expect as a spotter. Like if I don't care how slow you are, as long as you're in the same place and we know where to avoid you. you, that's all we can ask for it. But there's nobody in the world that could have been more miserable than that guy Saturday

night just out there in the way. That was, I didn't even think about that. That was my what an idiot is usually a joke. But this week it's not. Uh-oh. I literally mean this guy's an idiot. We played 12 view baseball yesterday. Colt McKinney, whose dad is Ryan McKinney.

Mom is Allison McKinney. They both work in the sport. And Colt McKinney at 12 years old hit his very first home run. Dead center field, 225 feet. absolute bomb. Two-run shot. Crosses first, cross the second,

cross his third, hits home plate, all the boys do a big celebration. And it's team to home run. And then out walks, some little short, fat coach from the other team, and he walks out there

complaining to the refs that he didn't step on third. Now, the umpire mind, you didn't see it. They don't know whether he did or not. But this dude come out here trying to ruin this 12-year-old's moment.

And it just so happened to be the organization, that Colt played on last year. Not the same team, but the same organization. And my idiot is not just because this guy is an idiot. It's adults control whether or not youth sports are great for the youth. And that was a poor decision, piss poor decision by that man. So he wins my, what an idiot.

I may tweet the video later. It's like 40 seconds. You guys are going to love watching it because there's so much joy. And then this one little short dude comes out here trying to ruin it. Like we beat the shit out of you anyway. This run wasn't going to matter or not matter, which they did call cold out, even though they didn't have evidence he didn't step on third. I don't think the umpire liked the celebration.

I'm sure my kid had something to do with the celebration. But nonetheless, he's my what an idiot. I don't know. It's hard not to give, I don't want to, I don't want, Dugger doesn't get him a lot of chances to win him. So she had won a Dugger for once. I should, I should tweet this video. I can't.

I want to see it when we're done. I just want to see it. I can show you. It's, it's special. It's definitely special. He's not going to be happy. If you try it. which means you should

The best smart is he's coming down the banking and he's like y'all put your f***ones away he knew better oh my gosh I've never seen somebody walk down the banking of Bristol and socks with two people on both sides

holding their arms allegedly allegedly allegedly oh DBC picks who won Casey?

Oh man Casey won and is Casey coming back next week remember her? Is that the plan? She is. Yep. Awesome.

Monday, I'm going to me that right when I got here this morning, Evan. It's great news. Carson,

we love you. We've enjoyed you being here. No, actually I'm going to like celebrate. I was just getting ready to I was just getting ready to give you a very nice compliment. Now you went. No,

in all seriousness, I've had a great time. Carson, you have done a fantastic job and we will miss you. I go first, Kyle Larson. A little bit.

Feeling's beautiful. Who are you going to celebrate with? A lip-licking. Whoever it is. I didn't say it, Carson, you said it. Freddy's laugh. I was having a whole different conversation in my head than you guys were. Right.

Anyway, let's see. Where are we going, Kansas? You pick second? I think so. Yeah. I was hoping you were like last. Who did you take Larson?

Yeah. We might be going heads up this week. Denny Hamlin. I knew that's who he was picking. It's one of the other. those two are bad is at this place Bubba Wallace

also a good record here A good record What'd you say? Record Oh Yeah I'm gonna Jagwire Jaguire I'm taking Bubba

What the pick Thanks a lot Yeah you'll be at the airport At least I'll get the car started I guess Who got Casey's pick She just sent it over Tyler Redick

Oh good A solid 45 car has won the I would The 45 car has won The fall race I think three years in a row We won with the 45

Tyler and Kurt the last other two. Yeah. I would have liked to take Tyler, but I already used him. And he brought me home a solid 27th. Appreciate it, Tyler. Thanks, buddy.

Oh, Tyler. I think he was an HRA yesterday. Where is that at? Charlotte. I think. I think, yeah. I know a lot of people win,

so I'm assuming it was a son. I didn't even know that that was this weekend until I just saw everybody's post and stories. Yeah. So Kansas. Are you coming? You're not coming this week, right? Are you smart?

No, I'm not coming to Talladega. Are you spotting? Yep. Who's driving? Who's driving Talladega? I can't tell you. It's me. Same company?

Not same company. Oh. Is that any driver? Oh, yeah. Currently. Yeah. I see, how about Ty Norse? That's kind of big news this week.

Ty Norse leaving track house going to colleague. I think that's more announced, right? I don't, did they announce he's going there yet? I think so. I think they did. did, right? I think I saw that else. I actually heard about it. Well, Freddie and I heard about it at about the same time. Last Monday. It was the same text. Tuesday? What day was it? Same group. Same group thread. What day was it? It was early last week, Monday or Tuesday. And so I started texting,

you know, some people at colleague that would know and they were like, yeah. I was like, wow, let's pick higher. You get a guy who's run DEI, who's built Michael Watchup Racing, who's helped build track house. And obviously, college. like it's still in its infancy. I think it's easy to think they've been around forever because they have as a team in Xfinity, but in Cup, they're still new. So pick,

pick, get. Time brings a lot to the table. What's this guy's name? Adam Stern just tweeted. The indie car series is going to charters. Effective immediately. So there's a,

I don't know, looks like standard. Except for the 500, though. No 500? Yeah, the 500, there's no guaranteed spots.

So that's the only wrinkle in that is that there's, there's charters but now whoever is directing that ship is doing a great job me you look at their tv package you look at the charter thing you obviously have the second biggest race the year some people's going to tell me it's the biggest i get it but they're doing a lot of great things over there so it's the second biggest behind daytton for me for you got you i saw logan sergeant's going over here doing any car test is he that's i figured that's the next step because he got he got kicked out of formula not kicked out but he got replaced the formula one right maybe that's where Ricardo comes over here too.

Is he done too? I saw an interview where he was crying or something. It sounds like it. That'd be good. Eyeballs on your product are a good thing. Speaking of eyeballs, CW. How'd that go? I saw a lot of mixed reviews.

I was at the racetrack for that one, but I did see a lot of mixed reviews on easy to find, hard to find, N. HD, you know, not an HD on the app, not on the app. Like I'm glad, and I say this in all seriousness, I'm really glad of two things. Number one, Dale Jr. was in the race because it gives people a higher appetite to want to watch it.

Number two, people are realizing what they need in order to be able to watch Daytona when we start the year. Because the last thing you want is ratings to tank the first race of the year, which I'm assuming CW paid a lot of money to do. So, you know, kudos to whoever figured out. Let's put the Xfinity Series playoff on CW to finish the year to build up for next year. Yeah. I saw, you know, you don't think about a lot of things sometimes. and, you know, cable, CW is like a basic package, right? You know, if you have cable, you have CW.

And I was like, oh, so everybody's got it. And then you see all of a sudden the race kicks off and the YouTube TV, people are like, we don't get it. You can't get it. And I'm like, oh, this is a different world now. Like you, a lot of people were just watching TV through an app or some streaming service. So hopefully you get that figured out.

I'm curious. I have, I do YouTube TV for live TV and then just like Netflix and stuff. otherwise I really don't watch a lot of TV. What do you do, TJ? Excuse me. We do YouTube TV. That motion when he said what you do and then you, that was, that was tough. I'm currently cable, but I spend a fortune.

Same. Like, I think it's like $400 a month or something. Yeah, mine's three something. Holy. Are you serious? What? I got like eight boxes and all the channels and, you should just go to streaming. Yeah.

TVs are all, you don't need boxes for any now because every TV is smart TV. Smart. after the internet, you don't need a box or cable anything. It's plugged a thing. Yeah. How much money am I going to save? A lot. A lot. I mean, I'm going to... About 400 a month.

Honest. Jesus. Really? What's YouTube TV? I think with it maxed out? Like 80. 80 something like. You're paying per box, aren't you? Uh-huh. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Each box is expensive. If you've got Spectrum, you should be able to have like a master box. Because we had this set up in my house a couple years ago. You have like a master box and then you can stream to your other TVs. You shouldn't have to have a box every TV. Do you have a TV? No, I used to.

Yeah, I don't. Spectrum is the best for where I live in terms of cable or satellite. Yeah. So I went cable. But I've been there probably seven years, so I'm sure I'm getting screwed. If you, you need to probably go to streaming and you won't. You spearhead that for me and I'll pay you? No.

I'll pay you $400. I'll do it. Just call them and tell them you're going to cancel. That's all you do. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to cancel and they'll be like, oh, here's a deal. 399 a month.

17 boxes. Just make sure you're, you know, internet's good. Make sure your X-Fi. internet is super fast like it will be. I have fast internet. So good router and your TV's all you'll, I mean, you, do you not have Sunday ticket? Dude, I wouldn't have I been home on Sunday. Yesterday.

I wasn't home yesterday. Oh, you're playing baseball. I was at the ball field. Well, you can still watch on your phone. I don't like watching anything on my phone. The YouTube TV 4 Box O for Sunday ticket is amazing. Dude. How much that costs?

399. And they had a promo running where it was like $100 off. $399? For the year. It's either $2.99. or $3.99, one or the other. It was like $350 for the year.

For Sunday ticket? I like football, but not that much. Thank God I don't know what's going on when I watch a football game. They also have the four box deal where it plays four games at one time, but there's like six different ones so you can, so you probably get all the games that you want or just the Red Zone. You can do that with Red Zone. I just watch Red Zone.

I think you need to realize that I'm a huge college football fan. Yeah, I know. And I'm not a huge NFL. So then get YouTube TV for the college football four box. I'm telling you just change the way I can watch. have YouTube TV, can you watch NASCAR? Yes. Yeah.

But you can't watch CW. Just not CW. You can watch CW. A lot of people, in my mentions, a lot of people were saying YouTube TV didn't have CW all weekend on YouTube TV. I didn't have any issues with it. But what's nice about YouTube TV is you've got unlimited DVR built in. So like I was at the Clemson game Saturday. But when I got back on Sunday, the race like I have in there, any NASCAR Cup series race will be DVR.

So I was able to watch it commercial free and just scrub through the commercial Sunday without a problem. Speaking of scrubs, your schedule scrubs. You don't play anybody. We play seven ranked and Clemson plays one, Georgia. At least you caught him by the real name, but you know what we call him something else. Clems sucks.

Taters. That's okay. Our offense is back. That's all I care about. Clay Culpick's going to get his ass kick. We're getting him. We're coming for him. I can't wait.

We're going to bet, Jay. I'm more scared than Tennessee defense. Start saving your money because we're betting a lot. And it'll be one of $20 Alex Tim's bets. Tampa Timms. I mean, this guy's laying out bets and I'm thinking he's, I mean, there's what it is.

no unit. You can't shame anybody's unit. Per John Kraft, no unit shaming is allowed. You're not permitted to shame a unit. But when I saw that they bet $20 and said, I was like, oh, man. Do we need to let him borrow some money so we can actually bet?

I don't know, maybe. I'll give him $500. I will not. No? Because he sucks? Yes. Okay. Never mind.

He did win. I think he won one this week. The college football bet I saw that they bet did not win. the I'll keep my I forget I think Bowman top 10 they had which obviously hit I can't remember what the other ones were

yeah so Kansas we'll see everybody out there looks a little rainy does it I didn't want to say it earlier You bad Hey there's right there You'll be fine

It's early I'll probably be a hooter Saturday night Not bad like 55 60 some days But This is gonna be a while round Kansas More wild than last Kansas yeah man

I mean you guys got two, once again, two kind of wildcard races out of three. Obviously, Kansas, a mile and a mile and a half. Talladega's in there. And then the good old roval. You're not worried. New roval too, right? New roval? Like, they reconfigured the roval, right? Yes, new, new configured roval. Yeah. I mean, I feel like once again, you know, you're in a round where if a guy like Austin Cendrick can bust off a top 12, top 15 this weekend, man, it sets him up to make the round of eight. So you think he's going to? I think he's going to. I think he's going to. I think he's could. I mean, I didn't have him Austin

Synerick. I didn't have him going far. And then when you look at what three tracks it was, it was like, man, a road course, a plate race. Here we are again. You know, road course, plate race, not play race, but super speedway race. Only one quote, real racetrack in terms of a mile and a half, you know, a typical NASCAR racetrack. So

it's, once again, you're going to see guys who are really good, potentially have a lot of bad luck. I'm just laughing at it. My buddy Tapley just tweeted something and said like quote unquote, the racing ain't like Bristol in the old days. It's the old days. It says 19, it looks like 1973. Maybe I don't even know what year it is. Caleb Lowe-Lead 500 laps. I don't think that's the old days, though. That's the

real old days. All right. We're, uh, we're wrapping up, man. We appreciate you guys. Love you. We'll see off to Kansas. We're out. Check out Dirty Moe Media, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.