Door Bumper Clear - 36 - The Double Header and Bananas

Episode Date: October 4, 2016

Brett, TJ, and KB discuss the double header weekend at Dover, CMS, and TJ’s love for a banana. 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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Door, bumper, clear is on. Hey everybody, I'm TG Majors. Spotter the 88 Cup car, the 7xfinity car, and the 29 latest feature winner truck. Yeah, how about that? Yeah, I wasn't there, so of course they would. Brett Griffin's spotter for Elliott Sadler and Clint Boyer, and to TJ's point, I actually know how to feel unneeded as a spotter as well. I'm not present.

My guy wins. He's not present. His guy wins. Maybe we should skip the cup rates as we? Yeah, we skip the cup race. Next on stage. Hey guys, it's KB. I actually have a really good idea for Exaltah.

What? I think we should do body paint for Kristen for the show. Whole body? Whole body. Who's painting it? I can't. I get in trouble. I can paint like her shoulder.

I do the D.A. Are you down? Sure. I'm in. Exaltor, we are going to need body paint. Yes. Thanks for my man for bringing this podcast to you guys today, live from the Exaltta Studios. Yeah, and it should be a fun show today.

Yeah. Josh has worked hard on this script. Yeah, this is all Josh, too. He did this whole script by himself. You know how I knew this is going to be good? We got it last night. I was like, man, Josh is ready this one. About 9.45 last night.

Yeah, I'd just take it to Benadryl, so I apologize for whatever I did reply. Benadryl, are you sick? The Dover weather? Man, it just kicked my throat's ass. He just took it Benadry before you got in here. So if he falls over. Sleep. Anything?

To you and I against the world. Yeah. You might. Maybe this, you probably had some Benadry already today. I had it last night. Yeah. I take a lot of Benadryl. It makes me subdued.

We should just give it to you all the time. That's real nice. So how about Dover, other than you being sick? Well, I wasn't sick. Or getting sick. Until it wouldn't stop raining. I mean, Dover was okay for us. We took a shot at the end of the race to try to get a caution and get some track position with it.

We ended up not getting it, but we still finished 10th. I think we finished 10th. Oh, I thought you're talking about Justin. No, I was talking about the cup race. We, you know, just tried to, the only shot we had of getting up closer to the top five was getting some, that long runs at the end, hurt you if you're, you know, unless you start in the top four, you're pretty, you're in some trouble. But the Xfinery race was really good. Justin had a really good shot at winning.

The, you know, the 19 car was so fast at the end. He could run two-tenths fast for a lap. Justin did everything he could do. late race restart getting the lead from him I thought you had it when you got I mean I actually went down to I actually went down to TJ and I'm like man I think this caution helps you guys and then he took the lead and I'm like definitely helped us and then yeah 19 ran away with me and Justin have a really good

we work really good on the radio on restarts he understands my he understands my lingo like really good comer to the green so we can actually get a really good start without jumping it you know he he just we have a really good good connection like that and it worked out really good in the last restart but you know we just couldn't that 19 was so fast I kind of thought we could hold him off but uh you know once he once I saw the lap times he was running one he drove right up to us literally right up to us and drove right by us yeah so there wasn't anything Justin could do at that point but you know hope he made a big mistake hope you know the 19 made a big mistake and and that was it but a solid day there um I think we

finished third third yeah Yeah, we were... Oh, Ty had tires. Right. At the very end of that run, it was a decently long run there, so Ty, it kind of showed up a little bit at the end. But that's still a solid run, looking good for the next run of the chase. We go to Charlotte and run good, so...

Just need a decent finish, man. Yeah, you'll be fine. We just need to be quiet all day. Yeah. You know, win, it would be great, but, you know, just a quiet fifth place would be fine, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, and then, of course, a 29 truck wins in Vegas without me. Yeah.

So, man, I feel needed. Yeah. I walked up to Kevin Manoring at the Northeastern Supply Hospitality. Great people. And I said to Kevin, I said, man, you really know how to make me feel unneeded. You just go win Kentucky without me. Like, I need to skip a few more, maybe homestead, you know? So then I tweeted the same thing at TJ after the race.

Yeah, so they text me after the race, and it was the only good thing I can say about it is they text me after the race. You trained him well. Yeah. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, okay. See you guys. You're done with me. You're there and scared.

I guess you're done with me now. Yeah, it's pretty funny. So how many laps were you down? When? Sunday. Saturday. Actually, Sunday we had a double header. Yeah.

Which was kind of crazy. We tried, Elliot's side, we tried to stay out and catch some people 600 laps of Dover. Do you guys do anything different when you? Two, five hours instead of one. It was actually pretty, it was actually okay. I mean, we're already at the racetrack that early anyway. Neither race was crazy either. No, they were both pretty.

Pretty tame. Yeah, pretty tame. there wasn't any red flag delays. The only thing, it started off bad at the evening with that blown motor. I thought we were kind of in for a long race. Usually when they start off like that, they just drag out forever. You start and then caution on lap two. You know, I'm not sure what some of these tracks are thinking that don't have lights.

Even if you look at the cup race on Sunday, you know, it's scheduled to start at 220. Okay, it's going to end at 6.15. It gets dark at 7. It's not a big window. So one good rain shower, and you're completely done for. starting are you're definitely not going to finish so i think dover a night race at dover two tracks that i would love to night race at are martinsville and dover i just feel like with the exception of talladega because it's so massive the rest of these race tracks in the chase should be

required to have lights to almost guarantee a finish to the fans and us you know it's not fair for any of us to have to not stay a look i mean if it rains all day it's one thing but if it quit It's raining at 4 o'clock, and we can't race because the facility isn't up to date with lights. That's not, that's their fault, I think. The money it costs to stay over for race teams is, you know, if it rained Sunday and we had to run both on Monday. And the stress it puts on the teams. Yeah, like, you guys had to, you guys had to drive a little bit of a hike for your hotel

on Saturday night. Yeah. We went to Wilmington, so that was an hour away. Yeah. I felt really bad you and Josh had to stay Saturday night. No, you didn't. No. Hey, can we say Jackie

This we can't say this whole Yeah. Okay. Good. I got to make a note of that. I didn't mind, actually. Our hotels are pretty nice, and Will.

It's just the drive there. He'll gave me his room, so I got my own room. Yeah, I heard. I helped you with that because I let him sleep with me. He said he was going to stay with you. I didn't know if you had like an extra room or an extra. No, I just don't see. Did you go across that really tall bridge?

Not the Delaware Memorial, but there is another one. As long as our feet don't touch. Like, if my feet. touch another guy's feet. Is it gross you out? Do you not like feet in general? I don't like, I don't like guys' feet. You don't mind my women's feet?

I don't think at any point two dudes' feet should be touching. Two guys' feet should not be touching at any point, especially when you're laying down. Like if they touch my feet, it's one thing. They touch my knee like I'm coming for you. You're getting. You're in trouble. So what you guys do Saturday in Dober while you were waiting out there, rain? Watch football.

Yeah, we did. Did they give you a sweet again? They don't. If they gave us one or if we took them. Took one. I don't know if they really give it from them. Hostel takeover. You know, we've actually, as long as we're good and we pick up after ourselves and you can't tell we were there afterwards.

And I will say this. I don't know the woman's name, but there was a sweet next door that nobody showed up to. All the people, nobody showed up. And they had order food and everything. And they were getting ready to throw it all out. So she come over and offered it to all of us before they took it away. That was nice. And we were all hungry.

Yeah. You packed snacks. I mean, you packed snacks, but you're missing meals when you're up there from 8 in the morning until. I thought I was going to be done and go. Yeah. Yeah. She was awesome. Yeah, it was awesome.

But it's, you know, it's nice when we've been very fortunate the last, you know, a month or so with people helping us out with stuff like that. Yeah. Our instructions from NASCAR are relatively rude in terms of our ability to make ourselves at home when we're weather delayed. It's basically you're screwed, you know. So when you have a nice lady like that, and I'm fortunate to have some friends in the industry, as is TJ, I've been doing a 70.

18 years, you know, so the hospitality side of the business, Josh's sister will text us and say, you know, hey, come to our sweet and eat our shrimp cocktails and hang out. But for some guys, they literally don't have anywhere to go, and NASCAR's telling you, hey, it's raining and touch. So, yeah, there's literally, there's literally times when we've had to stay in the stairwells. That's what I'm saying. Do you have to stay up there? I feel like a prison.

Where are you going to go? If you don't have a car there, you don't have any transportation, it's that you walked over to the spotter stand and you're going to walk back in a rainstorm or, you know, there's literally sometimes when they say get off the roof there's lightning it's basically get off the roof good luck yeah get off the roof and good luck yeah get off the roof go find a hole yeah get off the roof go stand in the parking lot and hold the metal pole let us know what it is yes but you know here recently it's been pretty good you know we went to bristol they had the whole suite where they let us hang out in whenever we weren't on the track or rained yeah um which is

really nice and you know but a lot of these times when you go to like josh's sister sweet and stuff and there's some Josh's sister sweet. Yeah, I agree. She is sweet. And, uh, sweet on me. Um, anyway. Good one.

Good one. Speaking of rain. Hurricane Matthew has he kind of. Right. So who wants more rain at the race track? He's in route. I think Friday looks okay. I don't know about the rest of the weekend.

You know, it's still. I've been watching it and it will, Charlotte's basically right on the edge of where it's going to end, like where it could possibly hit. So, yeah. I mean, tomorrow it could be further out into the ocean. We don't have to worry about anything. I applaud NASCAR for this year's weather forecasting models and what they've done in advance to not make us all look crazy.

They've called it early at some points and made it way easier on the teams. The fans, too. The media, everybody can make plans when they're known in advance like they've been doing. Darling is a great example. Prime example. Yeah. Yes. All of them really.

I mean, they call Bristol at a decent time. Yeah. I mean, it's been good this year. They've been, you know, it sucks. We've got a state. but they've been good on. I think the dumbest one we've ever done in my career was last year, Daytona, NBC's first race back, and we went green at like 1 a.m.

That was the dumbest one I remember. Is that the one we won? But they have light spread. That's where Austin wrecked. Austin wrecked. Yeah, we won that race. At about five in the morning he wrecked. Yeah.

No wrecked too. I think I was wrecking going to the airport. Five in the morning. Denny started that. Yeah. Your buddy. But your buddy. We always win the late races.

Because you can't celebrate. It sucks. Yeah. We always win the ones that end in the middle of the night. I'm pretty sure you and Dale Jr. are both experienced to staying up all night. So I don't want to hear that. We can't celebrate.

We don't have time. But you can't celebrate with all your guys. Whatever, me, you're all like. By the time when we get home, the sun's coming up. Yeah. You're all good at that too. Yeah. All right.

Next subject. Here we go. There are you. Spot on, spot off. Spot off. Brett. Truex Jr. Dominates Dover. led 187 out of 400 laps.

This is spot on because Jimmy Johnson crapped in his bed and had a pit road issue again. This time it wasn't him speeding. He sped him four of the last nine cup races. This time his Jack guy jumped over the wall too soon and got him another penalty. He drove from a lap down like 14th. Caught the leader was getting ready to get his lap back on his own. But, man, spot on for Truex, right place, right time.

Yeah, I'm going to You know, I'm going to say, I don't know, I like Truex. He's one of my buddies, and I love seeing him have success now. But, you know, I really, I feel like there's still a lot of stuff happening that we... To find stuff. I feel like there's a lot of things going on that we were putting an end to, that we were putting it into. Yeah. That then it was like, oh, wait a minute, now it's okay again.

And I feel like we're right back into the same ballpark, and I feel like everyone's still doing that stuff. I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, he's using air quotes now. So we... The gray area? I don't think any of the... The gray area, yes.

So we go in and we're going to start teching all these cars. He won Chicago, right? Pre... He won Chicago. Pre-rolls or post-rolls, you know. So, you know, we go in there and we're like, you guys, we can't do this, this, and this. and we run the race and then it's like, hey, you know, we still did it.

Then it's like, whoa, okay, fine. Everybody's right back into the same ballpark. I kind of liked to the direction we were heading before. But, you know, congrats to Martin for handing everybody a whipping again. I mean, that was, I literally watched him drive around, and I'm not sure he was driving even with two hands. I'm pretty sure he was, like, one hand in it, like, yeah, like ice tea or whatever, rolling down the street.

Yeah. So spot on, spot off. NASCAR expands penalties that can lead to, quote, unquote, encumbered finishes. Incumbered. Cucumbered finishes. That's what I'm going to say. Who comes up with these words? We got one a year.

What was the word last year with Matt? Bicent, some, something. Centus quintetian, yeah. Quincentennial? Quintentennial. He can't speak this language. But you're saying quintessential. Why is the hell, spot off?

Why in the hell do we keep using words that we have to Google to know what it even means? I am not Nate Ryan. Okay, my vocabulary and IQ score. I'm obviously not smart enough to know what our words mean around here, so I'm spot off. I'd like the encumbered salad with extra ranch. Yeah, well, you know, I'll take the Italian this time. Maybe it's some balsamic. Yeah, I don't.

I don't. What does encumbered even mean? I don't even know. Does it mean like? late blade or something can you give me the dumb ass term for people in here college graduates and we don't even know what it means boy are we did encumbered i'm going to go back to college it means you're being restrained or something right restrict or burden restricted in such a way that free action or movement is difficult how do you look at a glaze look at it i'm pretty sure a race car

isn't restricted is the bened drill kicking in yes i'm lost next question spot on spot off Are you wearing your encumbered underwear today, Brett? That would make more sense than an restricted finish. Check out these new, I got these underarmor encumbered boxer briefs on today. Man panties. Something like that. Put encumbered across my fiss and I make it printed underwear. Door bumper encumbered.

Is that while you're touching other D's feet? I'm getting me a wheel-matching pair. Oh, man. Spot on, spot off. Austin Dillon advances to the round of 12. Hey, spot on, man. I didn't really see, you know, that's one of the, I didn't think he would make it to the top 12.

And that's a big step from that team, from last year to this year. That's a big step there, obviously heading in the right direction. And, you know, spot on to him. Yeah, spot on for sure. Big fan of Slugger Labby. The three has had some speed this year.

You never worked for him. That's why you're a fan of him. The three has an awesome. awesome legacy in this sport. It's good to see, obviously, that continue. Jamie McMurray probably opened the door for this, for him and Jimmy to be able to go forward with Jamie blew a motor early, a guy who probably would have ran top 10, top 12. But big spot on to these guys at RCR. Yeah, that's a big spot on. Hey, real quick, I have a friend who has two little boys and their names

are Austin and Dylan. They're from Texas. No. No, it just ran. Yeah, spelled differently. So the race is on TV and they must have been talking about Austin. And Madeline, she comes up to mine. She's like, Mom, they keep talking about Austin and Dylan, but I don't see them on TV. I see the race cars. That's funny. She thought they were talking about our friends.

She had no idea. That's awesome. Well, she knows him as the cowboy hat guy. Right. The cowboy. Yeah, oh, mommy, look at the cowboy. Spot on, spot off. A spotter adjusts himself on live television,

and someone captures a photo. Yeah, that's creepy. Who's, like, looking that close at the... I know they pan the spotter stand all the time, I'll text either of you and be like, hey, creeps. You never text me. Oh, I texted, because they didn't show you. I'm sorry.

They showed me and the guy adjusting himself. I think it's funny when people say texted. Like, I say, I say text and the ED is there. I just don't know if you can hear it. But texted sounds like. Is that really a word? It sounds quintessential. Say a sentence with texted in it.

I don't think texted is a word. You don't say the ED. Where's the ED? I'm saying it. It's fast. Silent? Text. It's pageland.

Teard it. Text. Texted. Texted. Are you sure it's not like text isn't like a one word that has like past present? Yeah. Like, yeah, like. Geese and geese. Yeah. Teeth or teeth? Teeth. Are we stupid? All right. Sputter just himself on TV. Hey, he didn't know he was on TV. Give a guy a guy a guy. No, it's spot off for the guy who is watching television and sees it. Was it a guy? I think it was a girl that tweeted me. Was it? I don't know. I just feel about. for Derek. Oh, we weren't just going to call him out by name, were we? You called him out on Twitter.

T.J. called him out on Twitter. I did, yeah. I mean, I'm not, first of all, I was making sure people didn't think it was me because it was the, I mean. It was a short guy. It was a red shirt. So, like, oh, we were exalted shirt. I mean, we were nationwide, but still. Break time. Hey, if you got to adjust yourself, adjust yourself.

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I think we're in Fast Lane. You all ready? Yeah. Are you encumbered? TJ, I'm going to smack you. All right, you're going first. Dover eliminated four drivers from the Cup Chase. Who was the biggest upset that was eliminated and why? You know, I kind of feel like Tony. I feel like after Tony won Sonoma. Who are the four that were eliminated? Tony? Chris Busher.

Jamie, Busher, and Larson. Larson. Yeah. I mean, Larson, I mean, I feel like Tony after it's his final season, I thought he'd go into the chase with a little bit momentum, you know, from Sonoma. But Larson's right there with him. Larson's been running good. He won Michigan a month or so, a month and a half ago, He's had a lot of momentum.

Yeah, I did not foresee Larson not being in the second round of the chase. He has been, said this before, this show all year. Finally won a race. I felt like he had a ton of momentum. Very disappointed to see him not make the second round just from the competition standpoint. Man, you know, I might change my opinion. I'm really surprised Chris Buster to make the top 12. I'm really surprised because when he won Pocono, it changed everything about their season.

And, you know, congrats on 16th. This weekend, Charlotte. Sorry, I'm just kidding. There we go. This weekend, Charlotte Motor Speedway will host the first cutoff race for the Xfinity Chase. Who do you think the first four drivers to be eliminated will be? Brett. Oh, the Xfinity Chase, the first four drivers to be eliminated.

We have on the fence, Ty Dillon, Eric Jones, Ryan Seig, Brandon Jones. Brandon Jones is out. Ryan Sieg is out. Brennan Poole will be out. And Blake, Cock. We'll be out. All righty. You know, if the 11 car runs without a problem, he could make it in.

They've had a little bit of speed at a mile and a half. If we go into that race, I'm expecting the 20 car to win, so that's going to move everybody back. I hope not. I hope not, too. But, you know, I'm expecting him to win, so that'll knock everybody back. It's going to be Ryan Sieg, Brandon Jones, Brandon Pool. Stop talking. No. Blake.

Here's who I want to be kicked out. Ty Dillon, Eric Jones, Blake Cock, and Brennan Poole. But again, Eric Jones, he's going to have to have trouble. Ty Dillon is going to have to have trouble. Those guys can make up three and four points, respectively. It will not be encumbered on their behalf to do this. Yeah. Where early does NASCAR see a double-hutter like they did this past Sunday

with Xfinity and Cup racing on the same day? Do you think NASCAR should explore the possibility of doing this more? T.J? Yeah, I like it. I like it. Brett's turn. Doubleheaders are good. I mean, there wasn't a lot.

We had enough of a break between the races. If it rained, it had been a problem. But we had a little bit of a break, and I liked it. Somebody doing Morse code for my answer? Here's the thing, man. When we race at 7.30 and 8 o'clock at night on the cup side at some of these events, there is nothing to do all day. We 100% could run Xfinity races that morning.

morning at 11 o'clock, go from 11 to 1.30, clean the stands out, repack the coolers of beer, come back in for a cup night race. Yes, we can do double headers and make it work. Yeah, I like, I wasn't more tired than I normally was. That's what I was going to ask you guys with the amount of focus. It's not about us. TJ is not about us. Realize that. Yeah, we don't. No, it don't matter. Don't matter. You know, we're not, the only thing you need to do is we have an extra battery because you're normally only working one one long race that day. You need to make sure you have a What'd you doing between the races?

Went night lunch, came back up. Stayed up in that suite, or did you? Well, with this later start, we'd get an hour of football in, too, so I sit there and watch the Bills game. I was rooting for you, buddy. Everyone hates the Patriots. Everyone hates the Patriots. Not now.

Tom's back. He's hot. Ugh, no, he looks like he has the personality of, like, bread. You would love the Bill's Twitter handle. Yeah. Like, they are funny. They're smart asses to people. So all these people pick the Patriots to win, like, there's eight of them in a row.

like Merrill Hodge, all, like, good guys, you know. And they all picked the Patriots. And so then the bills screenshot that, and they tweeted after the game. And they're like, guys, I thought we talked about this. And it screenshotsed all the guys picked the Patriots. And I thought it was pretty funny. They're pretty good at poking jokes like that. That's pretty good.

Tony Stewart is known for questioning or calling out NASCAR about certain rules, calls, situations, et cetera. Will any drivers step up and take his place when he retires from NASCAR at the end of the year? And if so, who do you think it'll be? Brett? Tony, you know, has certainly been very vocal. When I got here, Dale Earnhardt was kind of running things, and kind of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, took it over.

I don't know if we'll have another guy that's that focal because you can't only be vocal to make it work. You also have to be a badass. Like you have to be a champion. You have to be a guy winning races. And if you're not doing those two things, what you say really doesn't matter. I mean, if Cole Witt wants to be this guy, nobody's going to care. You could be it, right?

Uh, yeah, I got to agree a little bit with that he said, we don't, there, when Tony's a unique personality, when he goes, we're going to, that's a little bit of fire leaving, you know, we had, he makes it interesting at times. And, and, uh, that's what people love about him. So it's going to be, you know, I think we definitely have a handful of drivers that are going to, you know, have opinions on it, but they need to win a lot more still to have the respect that Tony had. I think the only guy who truly has the composure and, the credentials to come in and be this guy is Brad Kasselowski. The question is, will his peers respect him the way that's Tony been respected within the garage? And as of right now, I don't think Brad has that respect. But as these older guys go away, maybe Brad can get the respect from the younger guys coming in. But we still need a voice.

We still need somebody to go on TV and somebody to walk into the NASCAR trailer to make things happen. So I don't know who it is, but hopefully it's somebody. I think he's got the respect to a lot of the younger guys. but when you have these, like we talked about, we got a whole group of guys that are, you know, closing in. So, and we're going to have to fill these, and he's going to be the veteran. And, I mean, there's really, you know,

and he's always voiced his opinions. Did he get a second 30 seconds? Apparently. I mean, but. Tony can still use his, like, other platforms to get his opinion out. You know, he can just go off on Twitter. Well, you know, one thing you never really see them do is fine owners. You see them fine drivers.

You know, Tony now will be shifting into the owner role. True. The question is, is he the owner that we saw at the beginning of the season who was at the track all the time? You know, when Tony wasn't racing, he was on the roof with us at the spotters in Atlanta. I mean, here's a guy that was coming to the track and being very active. And then when he comes back as a driver, it's like you see him in the garage less when he's behind the wheel than you, you know, did from an owner perspective. So I hope for our sports sake, he stays around because we need. Yeah, I do, too. He's a good presence to have around.

Awesome dude, too. Good dude. Off the wall topic. Saturday night live began its 42nd season on Saturday. Who is your favorite SNL character or skit from the past? That's Michael Jackson ever been on. I'm sure at some point. Go ahead, TJ.

I got to go night at the Roxbury. Yeah. I mean, that was probably my favorite skit. Cue the music to that song. What was? Which one? It was a... I can't remember.

Saturday Night Live. I don't watch it. I apologize. Tina Faye saw at Disney World we sat beside each other parade. Are you serious?

Yeah, she winked out. She's so funny. I got to go with Justin Timberlake because he's super talented. Didn't he do Saturday Night Live? Yeah, what?

Dick in the Box? Yeah. I actually had a shirt and my sister bought me a shirt I don't get it. I don't get it. You have to watch the episode. YouTube it.

That's it. We could do a spotter skin. Anything that Chris Catan did was hilarious. Yes. They did that. I came in with the Hendrik Guys' Race Day, and we were watching it on the way into the track, and the one, it was Christmas time.

I don't know if you ever seen it, they were singing a song in Chris Catan. It's just, and Jimmy Fallon can never keep it together. Right. I don't know if it adds to the tracks to it. The Chris Farley and Patrick Swayze. Oh, Chippendales. What's your favorite, Josh?

I know you must watch it a lot since you put it into this show. What's your favorite one? Just said it. Oh. Chris Farley. I like the really old. stuff like with Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin, they're hilarious. Do you have any, that was actually my ringtone.

It was? Standard. Oh, geez. That one, T.J. That's the funny one. Do you have any other ringtones on your phone downloaded? No. You don't have any good ones?

Mine are all nerdy. You would have that on there. If you's a true player. Oh, man. There's someone upstairs that their ringtone is a duck quacking, and it is the most irritate. Afflack. Actually, I think that's Pemberton.

Yeah, we published it. What is Ron's? Ron's makes some sort of alien, like a UFO landing. Anyway, so we're going to go into hashtag ASDBC. Producer Josh pulled some questions out of the internet. At the worldwide. William. At SD Racing 417 asked, what is the biggest mistake you have ever made while spotting?

Ooh, that's a long list. last weekend or ever seen Elliot flip on TV yep I don't have nothing to do with those that was all him you know I don't know if I've ever made a huge mistake I'd say spot in the wrong car is pretty

damn huge bud yeah that's only if you're rack that's only a really big deal if you're rack like in that happened I mean I have Tony Raines at Fontana that was not good and it's easy to do like if you have different paint schemes and stuff and you get to like you know when you get to Fontana you always have that

haze and if you look away for a second and look back it's real easy to find out i think i'm going to own this one and gain respect as if i needed it anymore michael waltrop bus series race very young in my career of spotting i was probably 25 or 26 um michael was a little bit older than that he was three wide going into turn one in the band-aid car and i didn't tell him and he was on top and he kind of pitched the guy in the middle, and he proceeded to tear the rear clip, slam off the race car. And after the race, he called me and said, did you know I was three wide?

And I said, not really. You lied? I didn't know because the guy jammed it in there. T.J. I'll tell you, he jammed it in there late on the bottom. Yeah. And, you know, the guy in the second lane may or may not have known it. My guy up top 100% didn't know it because I didn't tell him. And three wide up top is dangerous at some of these short tracks.

I said, I'm going to have to see a replay, man. And so I learned from that day. Michael had me back to next week. We're still good friends. But I'd have to say that's probably my biggest mistake. I'm not afraid to own my mistakes. I got a big shoulder. You learn from them.

And that's just one of many, by the way. I mean, when we ran the Xfinity race this year at Richmond, when I told Joe Jr., there was a car outside, he was already against the fence, and I'd seen him swerve low. I mean, that was pretty fun, actually. But you screw up. I mean, it's just you're saying things as quick. quickly as you can, and it's easy to do.

Sometimes, I say, I feel like I could have said things differently, but I think when wrecks happen in front of these guys, a lot of times, they make their minds of whether, when wrecks happen from, they just pick the first thing they see. Sometimes if there's time, they can listen to us, but other times, and if you tell them where the wreck is, or, you know, there's a wreck in front of you're like, go, go, go, go, and they don't have a chance, and you hit it, you still feel like you're at fault a little bit for it.

Yeah. But, you know, the hardest thing to do for a spotter, honestly, is, anticipate the run back outside of another guy. So if your guy goes to the bottom and he clears the guy on top, when you say clear, he should start to blend up, right? Well, sometimes he can't, depending on how his car's pointed, how hard he is in the gas.

He can't just turn right. You can't just turn right. So when you say clear high, a lot of times that guy on the top, now he'll start coming back. I wrecked Elliott to Bristol last year or Brendan Gaw on the Teletubby. The no driving son of a borg made me mad

because he should have lifted and let us in because we cleared him by five car lengths. When you get to a guy and you race a guy two by two, and you do that for four or five laps, T.J will tell you, eventually somebody has to have common sense and let the better driver and faster carper belt. Brendan gone will not do that. So he hangs out on our right rear. He wrecks this.

It's 100% my fault. Dover a few years prior, I did the same thing with Clinton, Kyle Bush. Like, I'm an aggressive guy. I'll clear him quick, you know, and sometimes they're not clear, they're near. You're aggressive? I had no idea. Again, I'm not afraid to own where I've screen. screwed up. But at the same time, the driver can see out his front windshield. He should know

that guy's had position. That guy's coming up. We do have etiquette in the sport, right, T.J. Yeah, I mean, you expect when you run a guy down from a ways back and you're passing him, and there's that tense moment off the corner. Most 95% of the guys give you that spot. Because you've earned it basically at that point, and you know, you've ran them down, but there's always them, there's always a few that think it's fun to quarter pan laying and and they want to be that guy. It's not fun. The old quarter panel, hang.

But I'll tell you this, man. I mean, maybe T.J. feels this way. When our guy comes off the corner and he's really clear, and I'm still saying outside because I'm being careful, pisses myself off. I'm like, you idiot, he's clear. Why don't you have the balls to say it? Yeah, you got, it's real.

To take a little bit of the weight out of the spotter, what I do is count them down. You know, when we go to the bottom, it'll be outside, clear by one, clear by three. cleared by two Make it more like a dance move Yeah I mean I'm giving him a play by play So he knows if he's gonna have time

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You're upside down You are on fire Hold the brakes At Velocity 88X asks Which current driver spotter combo Would perform the best in a race if they swapped roles Man, so here's the former drivers Have you ever driven?

Not professionally You have former drivers, Rick Corelli, Tim Fidoa, Tony Raines, Stevie Reeves That have run in the top three series Am I missing anybody? Kevin Hamlin, he was on our show The old hamster. Hamster.

I just made that up. Yeah, that might be it. Did you ever run a truck race? Never ran truck. Yeah, you can't be in that category then. He did Alex this weekend, right? Yeah. So, I mean, it basically comes down to which one of those five guys

do you think could swap with their spotters. I would still put myself up against any of there. Oh. I would. Well, number one, Rick's got Kurt in his ear. That's not going to work. You know, Kurt has great hair now.

Have you seen him lately? So does Rick. Kurt and Rick have the best driver spotter hair combo going. That is the truth there. I saw Kurt cooking out. We need a picture. I saw him cooking out after the rain delay Saturday. He's out there on his little grill.

I'm like, man, he's got great hair. Anyway. Carrying on. Driver Spotter kind of. I'm going to let T.J. answer this because I don't know. I don't know, man. That's tough. Would they ever do this where they actually do this and swap it?

put you guys in the car and have just as like some sort of promotional marketing stunt. I'm 100% all for it. That'd be kind of expensive, but I'm down. But like put you in like it in like it's just a bunch of rental cars. We do that every week anyway. We all do that leaving the race truck. You won't you ride with a spotter after the race? You'll see.

Great food for thought. But man, that's hard to answer this question. Yeah. At Sir Sam's 51 asked who is or was the most feared driver in the garage area. Oh, no doubt about this one. Here we go again. It's the aliens. They're trying to make contact.

I mean, this is pretty obvious who this one would be. Yes, Dale Earnhardt. Yeah, absolutely. Yes, Dale Earnhardt. You did not want to mess with him. No. So, and, yeah, that's, I mean, everyone knew it. Yeah.

How about today? Who's the most feared in the garage today? Yeah. Like, driving-wise or fighting-wise? Fighting-wise. I think fear. I think fear means everything. You think?

I think it encompasses everything. Nothing is to be encumbered by the word fear. For God's sakes. Did I use it correctly? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what it means. Spelling B.

Who's the most feared driver today? Who do you got? Who do you think? I mean, you're part of this. I'm going to tell you who ain't going to take no shit. It's Tony Stewart. Yeah. Tony Stewart's not taking a crap.

But he's a very nice person. He's still on the racetracking and in the garage. He's not taking any shit with anybody. Yeah, on the racetrack, you hit him, you're getting it back, you punch them, you walk up to him in the garage and punch me, he's probably going to punch back. Next second to Dale Earnhardt, in my opinion, of all time, Ricky Rudd. Really? Won't some come get some?

Kale Yarborough, won't some come get some. Yeah, Ricky was always ready to fight. Yeah. I mean, I love them guys, man. This is my people. Especially short-tracking. Yeah. What about the Rocket Man, Ryan Newman?

Shrek. That's not really true. Shrek's got a neck. Hey, Ryan might be able to whip your ass. He might be able to wop your ass. He can't whip up in your ass. We got to stick together in this deal now. He's solid, dude. We're both into the Shrek deal together.

Yeah, Ryan's a solid dude. Ryan's a solid dude, but yeah. I don't know, man. At J.B. Valley Springs asks, why do the picker guys burn and scrape the tires after coming off of the cars? I mean, just to get the depth and the tread depths, so they know how much war off the tire. Yeah, here's what people don't realize.

When these tires come up the temperature, they get extremely hot. So while they're out there racing, they're working very well because the tire is meeting the racetrack with nothing in the way to mess up the friction. The minute that car stops going so fast, the tire begins to cool. And when you get on the apron and when you get on pit road and you do some of these things, you pick up all the crap, all the rocks, all the sand, all the cigarette butts. Literally anything that tire comes in contact with, it glues to it. So when you get in there and you get the four tires off, these guys are having to do this technique to be able to get the tire wear. All they're doing is removing all the crap to figure out what part of the tire is wearing the most. Is it the outside shoulder?

Is it the inside shoulder? That dictates tight loose and a lot of different things depending on what tire it is. Yeah, we actually pitted Sunday one time after five laps because Jeff said there was an advantage to not having the same tires on the car because it picks up some of stuff when you ride around. He won a sticker tires that weren't hot that had anything on them. The crap, man. And that, you know, we see swerving nowadays because of what these teams are trying to do with the rear ends. But you also see swerving before the race starts and before restarts because of T.J's point, they're cleaning up their tires. They're getting all that crap off.

So when they go back green, they don't slide around. If they don't get them cleaned up, potentially wreck, if at worst. You're going to shoot up the racetrack in the marbles and you're done. You're losing grip when you don't clean your tires off. Yeah. At Jen Ulk asks, which spotter stand is the most difficult to spot from and why? I mean, Pocono is a hard one. Indy, by far, is probably the top because you've got to bring a second person,

and that's terrible already. So, Indy and Pocono are probably the two hardest, worst. I got Andy Pocono Phoenix for me. Yeah, Phoenix is hard because we only do it, but we've been there enough times that we know the angles, we know the depth perceptions and stuff there, So it's not like it's a new thing, but it's definitely a different angle than what we are used to. But, yeah, Indy and Pocono you can't see in a turn.

Pocono would be great if you can see turn one better. All you got to do in Pocono is build us to stand in the tunnel turn. It'd be phenomenal. I don't know if I'd want to stand there because something's going to come up over there eventually. I mean, they have the grandstands on the longest straightaway in NASCAR. If they put it on that tunnel turn, you could see more. Yeah, I almost feel like if they had a tier. if they had a tiered spotter stand, too, where we could put a few guys on the bottom.

That would be a key, poking up. You could actually, yeah, because right now, if you try to look out at your car going into one, I'll just see his elbows and people's heads. I mean, I honestly just quit looking half the time. Hold your line. That's where TJ got in trouble with Del Jr. Hey, TJ, was he inside? He goes, was there a car down there?

Well, you want me to lie? I don't know, you're a mile away. That's exactly what I told him. I don't know, man, you're a mile away. So about the whole question earlier. Yeah. first time you're screwed up. I don't think that was the worst.

Look, I told him there was a disclaimer before the race. It said at the end of the Pitwall Turn 1, you're on your own. Yeah, good luck. And that was in his area. Yeah. So the next four drivers out of the Sprint Cup chase, who do you guys got? Oh, next four drivers out. I will say this, Jimmy Johnson, I had him going out in the first round when we did our show a few weeks ago.

He was stomping it. And he made it. I think I had Austin Dillon not going. I'm not real sure. But next four out. Kristen, you and Josh have to weigh in on this as well. And we got Charlotte, Kansas, and Teledega, right? Ooh, good ones.

So, two mile and a halfs and a wild card. What's the star? It just means they have a win. Yeah, I don't mean anything now. Oh, reset. Reset. Yep. Josh, you want to go first?

I'm going to say that one. I'm going to say Edwards. That's who I was going to say. I'm going to say Dylan gonna say these guys are all really fast like I'm not looking at anybody and thinking man you suck

so the four that I think are out I got Edwards Dylan Lugano and Matt I think the 48 brings that though a car from last week to Charlotte I think they turn it around and they probably have a really good chance of running well

you know we all know the 78's going to run well um Josh you got one left. Who you picking? D.H. Denny Hamlin. I got Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Austin Dillon,

Joy Laganah. Not going on. I've got Kurt, Denny, even though I think I've picked. Yeah, you picked him to win it all. You picked Danny to win it all. You can't pick him to go out. Sure I can.

You're not going to win both ways. Well, he has basically been non-existent and and struggling. And the 19's the same way. That watched 19 supposed to dominate Dover. He's one of the guys two beat there, and I don't even think I saw him on Sunday.

Concrete Carl, ever saw him. So that's not good. I thought it was Cousin Carl. It's Concrete Cousin Carl. Yeah. Cousin, Concrete Carl. Austin, Carl, Denny, and Kurt. The other guys, like, I watch Brad runs, you know,

fourth to seventh three. He usually finds his way of the top three most time. So he's going to be okay. Lugano runs, he runs fourth to fifth pretty consistently easily. Chase has speed. Chase is probably going to win a race. Chase is a sleeper to win this whole thing. And like you said, Jimmy's had a lot of speed here the last couple weeks,

minus the mistakes. That guy should have been a victory lane once, possibly twice already. So he actually had Dover won. I still got Truex winning the whole thing. That's who I picked. He's going to be tough to be because we're going back to his playground again right now, where we dominated the last time. All right, you guys need to do Charlotte predictions.

Charlotte predictions. T.J. goes first because I won yet again. I'll take the 78. I win one more, and I can't lose. He picked the 78. The 78 led 380-some laps out of 400 last time we were there. Sure. So he clearly has a ferry.

You've already picked him, too, so I'm going to go ahead and use them. Solid pick. Martin True X. Jr. You can't beat that. You might as well go ahead and knock out like a easy-top. I also go ahead and take like Brian Scott or something here. Save yourself a good guy for the end. I'm not saving myself.

I've never taken that approach. I'm not sure now. I'm going with, uh, uh, be aggressive. Brett. Moffat. I'm going with Carl Edwards. Cousin Concrete Carl Edwards. Didn't you just pick him to be out?

Yep. Of the chase. It's a mixed message. I got to put up a gun against a gun. gun, man. I can't bring a knife to a good fight. This one counts. The other thing that we just did doesn't count.

That's like going against yourself. You just picked him to get knocked out. If he wins this race, he's not knocked out. It's called hedging your bet. I don't know if you know a lot about betting. I don't. I don't either, but I'm hedging my bet right here. For those of you who know a lot about gambling,

you're probably going to think I do. I think you should have to pick up. Do you guys want to change your cup winner for the chase? No, they can't. We already picked it. Why can't we do that? No. Because we are.

He picked it. I want to change mine. We all picked it. Because as they fall out, then... We all picked it before the chase started for a reason. Yeah, I got a dud. You've got Keslowski. You got a dud.

He's got Denny. I've got True X. And I got Harvitt. You got Harvick. Yep. I got a dud. You better undud it. I can't.

And whoever wins... Has to buy everybody else. Chick-fil-A. Is that what that is? I'm already like... Dinner? Better than Chick-fil-A. I'm four times in front of everybody on that.

Fine. Dinner. Something. Other than Chick-filet. BJ's already buying Chick-fil-A. I already bought Chick-Fle like five times. My dinner's already paid for. You're a sweetheart.

I am. You got your fruit cup. Y'all have anything you want to rant about today? Oh, wait, I do have someone to say. I'm so happy. If you guys don't have anything to do this Friday before the race, the Whiskey River inside Charlotte Motor Speedway, we're having a junior motorsports party. All you need is a ticket to get in. Where's it at?

Are you inviting us or everyone else? Anyone. Is J.R. going to be there? He will not. He will not. He has a big exalted dinner. Oh. Oh, wait, J.R.

Yes, not Dale. Yeah, JR will be there with Bells on. John Rhodes, not. John Rhodes will be there. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Do you know he knows Jonathan, what's his face, the lead singer of corn? They're hanging out today? Who does?

JR. Jayr, who's telling me yesterday? Like, his dad taught him how to play the drums or something? Okay, so let's understand why he knows a lot of people. J.R. was Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s PR guy forever. Yeah. I don't know if he knows, but Dale Earnhardt was a pretty big deal. He was.

So when Alabama came to the racetrack, who do you think they were? wanted to meet. Dale Senior. Yeah. So JR, fortunately for him, who is an outgoing, awesome guy, has a lot of relationships. He has a lot of people. We've talked about this on the show before. Very fortunate to meet people that we meet.

So good for him, man. Yeah, but he's going to the concert. I said, do you know any songs? He said, no, but I'm going to be backstage. He said, I don't need to. Rock out. Yeah. That was pretty cool.

Yeah, JR's like, J.R. Roads is like the Dalton Roads. Yeah. He knows everyone. And he took over, like, the whole, Whiskey River scene when Del Jr. first started it and has run it. And, but he's, he ran Hammerhead Productions too for a long time. It still does.

It still falls under him. Yeah. He's a director of entertainment or something like that. He is, that is his title. But Whiskey River's been his baby. Hammerhead was his baby. It's the number one airport bar in the country. Saw that.

Yeah. There's two more coming. Fort Lauderdale. Mm-hmm. Ralee. I think. And Atlanta will come after that, I bet you. Atlanta will kill it with Whiskey River.

And he's killing it with the one in. Charlotte does really well. Yeah. I actually go there and hang out if I have to fly commercial. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know you flew commercial.

I thought you had up your own plane. I do. Yeah, you don't? I lease Elliot's. Oh, yeah? How much is that an hour? Good God, a lot of money. Well, since you get paid a millions for the show.

That's cost, Josh. We lease it for much more than that. Yeah. Good guess, though. All right. Just like buying a house. If you buy a house, you don't rent it for more. You have to rent for more in your payment.

You got to make money. Yeah. Profit. Profiteering. Oh. You guys got anything else? You good? No.

I got to go home and paint some more Harry Potter pumpkins, I guess. Yes, we paint one for me. I want a Harry Potter pumpkin. I didn't see it. Did you paint one already? Oh, Madeline and my wife made a bunch. Oh. They made a whole fan.

Would Maddie? Paint me a Harry Potter pumpkin? I guarantee it. You know they're coming out of movies. If you don't bring Kristen out, she's got a Harry Potter tattoo for crying out loud. You got to bring her a pumpkin. Oh my gosh, they're so cute. Oh, I love them.

Oh, my God. Are you guys dressed enough for Halloween, by the way? We're off Halloween, are we? Oh, we are. It's cycled again. Is it a Monday? It's cycled, finally. Monday, right?

Yeah. My kids are out of school for Halloween. How awesome is that? Are they going to go trick-or-treating? I'm pretty sure mine's going to be in Disney. I think I'm going to. You are? After Teledy.

I think I've got a Halloween's cool in Disney. Yeah, they've been going the last couple years. They love it. So last year they went, and it was Martinsville weekend, and they left me, I was at home, and she didn't leave me with any candy or anything. So I get home from the racetrack, and I'm like, oh, man, I drive back Saturday night, and I get home, and I'm like, I have no candy. You start knocking on other people's doors?

So I turned all my lights off, and I'm like, I can't. Oh, to hand out. Yes, I had no candy. You were that guy. So my buddy calls me, who works on the 48 car, and he's like, hey, where are you at? You're not home. Like, yeah, I'm home. He's like, well, my kids are coming in.

I'm like, dude, I ain't got any candy. So they beat on the door. And he was like, well, you got money. I'm like, oh, that's fine. We'll play that way. So I let his kids in, and I went out in my garage. And I, for some reason, had a whole case of stink bombs. What's wrong with you?

For some reason, I have no idea how they got them. I don't have any idea how I got those. I purchased them. So I started, he comes in. He's like, what do you? He's like, no, no, come on kids, we're going. And they all went back out. I mean, it was interesting.

It could be worse. Like, give them cans of soup. Bananas. Yeah. Yeah. Just start handing out. Like, everything within your pantry. T.J.

has a banana fetish. No, I just have a... Apparently, a lot of people have banana fetishes. I just have... Yeah, I only know one. I have a full photo of other people loving bananas. Potassium, I guess. If you started eating a banana right now, he would secretively take a picture of you eating it.

I would just be like, Kristen. I put them, I break them in like half and we'll eat them. Oh, you're smart. Yeah, you don't need that. So I have a video of Kevin Hamlin from like five, six years ago when he was at front row. And he has... Doing what? So we're sitting next to each other.

We're sitting next to each other. It's not a banana fetish. Let's dive deeper into this. So Kevin's sitting next to me and he's like, we're spotting away. He's out there making a practice run. And he's eating this banana. I mean, he's not really eating it. So he looks over and he's like...

Then he calls me an expert. I feel dumber for having this conversation. Oh, no, no, no, no. I don't want to see the video. You are going to have to see it. Anyway. Hurricane Matthew, you guys stay safe out there. Stay safe, my friends.

We love you. Hurricane party, if you're... Hurricane stay away. It goes stock up now. Please stay away from the racetrack this week. Please don't destroy Mertile Beach. Please don't. Please don't destroy Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Where's mine? It's upstairs. I'll get it for you. I love you mean it. Murtle Beach. Dirty Murtle. You get a free trip. Well, you got a free trip.

team player you weren't even there i'm on the team the guy that did the race should get it on the he did sheriff took like garbage if you take that yeah he won't on up to that either and i grabbed one for brett so everyone who every crew guy that was in victory lane y'all are all welcome to stay in my room of myrtle beach we'll treat it like high school we'll make pj in the bathtub we'll uh throw up off balconies i cannot believe you get a free trip to myrtle beach go outside and out like we don't have any money I love Brett so much, and so I snagged him one, too, because he is the team, even if he wasn't there. That is ridiculous. No, that is awesome.

They apparently succeed when he's not there. That's quintessential. When he is there, too. Quintestrian account management. You're going. Not encumbered account management. I mean, should I go home and give my dog a treat for being bad when I'm gone? Okay.

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