Door Bumper Clear - 48 - Tales from Hotlanta

Episode Date: March 6, 2017

TJ, Brett, and KB go over their disappointing finishes from the weekend, the repaving at Atlanta debate, and heading to viva Las Vegas. 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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app or go to anchor.fm to get started. That's A-N-C-H-O-R.fm to get started. This is Dale Jr. and you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Outside, door, bumper, clear of the 18th. Best car I had here in a long time. You're going to do it.

You're going to win it. Right with you. You're clear. Check the flag. You're win. Oh, yeah! Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major, spot of the 88 cup car, the 7X50.

XFitty? Did you hear that? 50 cent? That was awesome. I didn't even mean to do it. Did you go to work for 50 cent? No, but I'm spotted of the 7XPD car. and the 29 truck.

And obviously here. Brett Griffin, my theme song all week was Let me clear my throat. You dang, right? Thanks to Kevin. Thanks to Kevin Amlin. Spotter-Climboyer, Elliot Sadler, and we had a couple good cars.

Kristen Bauer, how are you? I'm great. Back from Atlanta. How are you guys? Gluten free. I like the denim blue jean shirt you got going on. Thank you. It's hot.

Thanks. You're welcome. Hey, Natalie. We need to mute the volume. Natalie, you look so tall today. Holy cow. Natalie, are you wearing kiss shoes? If I had flats on, would we be the same height?

Are those bell bottoms? Are those stilts? Look at her. Look how long your legs look. You are obnoxiously taller than what you normally are. Natalie, the new host of J.R. 360 in the house. Give us a 360 view of what you got going on. Yeah.

Give us a spin. Yeah, lean with it, rock with it. Hostess with the mostus? Yeah. Anyway, okay. So Atlanta pretty much was terrible. For me, all weekend. I wanted to leave, and I don't like Atlanta right now.

Xfinity and Cup. And trucks, everything. Oh. Why don't you like Atlanta? I didn't finish on the lead lap or near the lead lap in any of the races. So what's the common denominator? Definitely me. It was, or the tires.

That's not fun. Yeah, we cut a tire on the truck. We got in the wall. Got in the wall in the Xfinity car. Early, like early. Early. Yeah, he tapped the break a little bit when Ty Dillon decided he was going to swap in and turn one in the first lap.

Yeah. And it just got a little loose on him, and he needed a little bit more racetrack than what he had. We were on the outside, and he got a little loose and hit the fence, and it bent the upper A arm. So that was a long day. And what happened yesterday? What didn't happen to you yesterday? I heard the 88 card called out like 10 times for penalties and all kinds of right. Yeah, so one funny part about it was when they called us out for the penalty,

We only had it on one stop, but they gave us the, it was one of those 88 too fast, section 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. It was like, I had time, people were actually looking at me like, like, dang, I mean, did work right there. Yeah. So we adjusted our pit road speed after that, but we definitely sped the whole pit road basically one time because we were in, we were real early, like in one of the first, you know, few stalls. So we basically sped in every segment up until there. But something was weird about the timing lines anyway because there was a lot of people speeding. Sped?

11 total penalties. Blue attire? We actually did shred one. It came apart, chunked on us. Loose wheel. We had loose wheels on both sides. We had an air gun go bad, we think. So it wasn't getting the wheels tight.

You boys aren't living right. We're not doing something right. I don't know what it is. Take me to church. Y'all got to go to church. You know more Jesus. Maybe we've been to church. What's the, what up?

Didn't you need to go to Shusha? Go complete opposite of whatever you're doing. Whatever you're doing, do the opposite. Because it ain't working. It's not working. No. Right. Your weekend.

My weekend was chill, man. I love Atlanta. I think it's like a rocking ham on steroids. It's really fast, really slick. The end of the first run in the cup race, it looked like those guys were running 50 miles an hour through one and two. They were just so scared. it on slick tires.

If they repave that place, whoever's decision this is, man, don't repave Atlanta. That'd be the dumbest thing you could do. I think their biggest issue is when it rains, it's so old, it's hard to dry because of the weepers,

but man, what are the odds that it rains? I don't care. I'd rather stay there two more days and run a lot. I would do. A racetrack. Then to watch guys run around

there wide open. I mean, it just produces such good racing for me. As a race fan, you know, it's awesome. I don't care if it rains like that. If we got to take an extra day to drive, I'd rather have a good race.

We had a top five car with Elliot, finished top five. Had a top five car with Clint, finished 11th after getting wrecked. But life goes on. I'll take 11th with a wrecked race car. Could be worse. Obviously. Could be a lot worse. We never wrecked.

Oh, yeah. Tough, man. Tough. Kristen, what did you do all weekend? I was race day only. So I got up at 5 a.m. and got on the race day plane. Got down to Atlanta. What happens at 5 a.m.?

In Vegas? Lots of stuff happens in Vegas at 5 a.m. You get up at 5.m. You get up at 5. You take off at what time? 7. 7. Land at 8. Get to the track at 9.

And we land right next to the track. You could walk into the track. Yeah. The FBO is literally. Oh, I know exactly. Terra Field. Point one mile from the track. Good for you.

We landed at the big airport. Yeah. Yeah. But whatever. Beat driving. It was good. It was a good weekend. It does beat driving there.

It was weird seeing our car with a different paint scheme on it. It was tough finding Elliot who said he looked like Elvis in his new fire suit. Yeah, I was extremely impressed in the Xfinity race with William Byron. Yeah, he did good. I mean, it's the kid's first real race. You know, obviously Daytona is, it's on animal, but it's a downforce track. He ran top seven the majority of the race. I saw his pit crew make a couple blunders that looked like on the last two stops.

It cost him some spots. But legitimately a top five guy, having never been in that style of car, or that horsepower or that down force. Not to mention his radio stopped working. So he could hear Dave, his crew chief, Dave Ellens and the spotter Earl, but he could not communicate back. So Earl devised a situation where they would ask him, yes or no questions, and he would either stay straight or he would swerve.

Yeah. And Dave, Dave's like that, that was actually really good. That's better than some other drivers he's worked with on communication. Man, he, again, he did a phenomenal job. I think I think he'd expect a lot of things out of this kid, then he's going to, you know, there are some people questioning whether or not he should have stayed the Toyota route or go the Chevrolet route and based on what I saw already. He's showing that he can be great.

Yeah, yeah, he's good. So, good times. Spot on, spot off folks. Brett, you're starting. Okay. Spot on, spot off. Atlanta snooze fest. Just comment is spot off.

I thought Atlanta was great. Yeah. I thought that the racing was good. Guys could pass. Tire fall off was huge. I mean, we're talking four seconds of tire fall off. all off. That's a racer's dream. Handling was a premium.

Definitely spot off on this comment. Yeah, I think there wasn't a ton of excitement in the truck race or wrecks. I thought. Are you still sick? Are we blaming this on your? I wasn't sick before. Oh, allergies. He needs a mute button. Somebody tweeted me and said, bless his heart, the poor fellow's

got a frog in his throat. That thing lives there. He needs to move out. He needs to move. Pay some rent or something. Okay, sorry. But anyway, I thought the race is, the truck race, I don't think, was really exciting. The Xenity race was kind of the same way. But the drivers have their hands full.

You can see it, which I like. I think people thought there'd be more wrecks than what there were. But there was plenty of opportunity. But, you know, it never really panned out. I thought the racing was good. Racing was great. I want to go back and watch this race. And I'll be honest, I don't do that a lot.

The cup race? Yeah. I really want to see the in-car cameras, the difference between. And there's a lot of things interesting within car cameras. You know, the size of the driver steering wheel, how close they sit to the steering wheel. And then ultimately, how frequently and viciously or violently they're moving their hands. Because that tells us how hard they're working. If they're barely moving their hands, they've got a cakewalk.

If they're driving the pit side of it, you can see that. So I would like to on this slick racetrack look at Harvick, who clearly was the dominant guy, you know, really in both races, and just overlay it and then look at other guys and analyze what they were doing. Spot on, spot off. Las Vegas Motor Speedway. There is a rumor for a second date. Spot on, spot off on that. Depends on the track they take it from.

I'm kind of, I like going to Las Vegas and racing, but I'm spot off if they take a race from a good racetrack, like Loudon or something like that. I like going to Loudon. It's a true racers weekend. You can go there and see three, four races. It's kind of a large short track, and there's good races there,

and I feel like we would hurt taking one from there. We were Las Vegas. We're going to Vegas twice. Here's why. NBC went to NASCAR and said, we do not want to end the season every single year at the same damn track. We don't want homestead, homestead, homestead. We want three or four really good, nice markets,

and we want to rotate every three or four years which ones we're going to. So it's Vegas, it's Phoenix, it's Homestead, and probably Texas. So this is, by this coming out, it tells you that's going to happen. I think that do you think it's going to happen. I do think it's going to happen. And it's going to happen because of what I just told you. So the weird thing about us is we don't add dates. And so for you to get a date, you have to get a date from another track to T.J.'s point.

So I think two New Hampshire will go to one New Hampshire. Or they'll buy a Dover date. Dover's a publicly traded company that loses money that could get hundreds of millions of dollars just for the date and still keep their facility, still keep their racetracks, still have one race for revenue stream. I think one of those two tracks lose a date. I think we lose in general with that, though. We lose a good race track. At some point, we add another mile and a half,

and we take one away from something that's not. And we kind of, in my opinion, we need to be doing the opposite. It's about more than just a race. It's about the finale. And where else would you want to end than Las Vegas? Martinsville. We for Las Vegas. Martin Zora Bristol would be pretty good for a finale.

The racing would be great. The venue and the weather in the end of November would blow goats. You didn't say anything about the weather. You said race. I think I said something of the weather earlier. Well. Spot on, spot off. Tech at Atlanta, both Xfinity and Cup.

What the hell is going on? Stop cheating. What was going on? The same thing last year. Our cars were in the garage until 1130. on Friday night. We had this same issue at Atlanta last year. Yeah.

Well, this is because... The garage closed at 9. This is the first race from after Daytona. This is where everyone brings the... This is really like starting the season again. Yeah. Because we're bringing a totally different type of car. It's the first mile and a half with new bodies and stuff.

So it's going to be like that. Guys, people are pushing the envelope. And NASCAR is going to be there to say no. It'll get better as we go on here now. People will know what they're going to put up with what they're not going to put up with. Couldn't NASCAR foresee that and extend the garage hours or something? Kristen.

Yes. Maybe they thought we weren't going to cheat anybody. So here's the issue for me. You just said they know a problem is probably coming. Yet we did nothing schedule-wise to prevent it or be ready for it. So who suffers in this situation? Is it the teams a little bit? Is it the drivers a little bit?

Is it the sponsor? Yeah. Is it the fan who is a fan of that driver's sponsor? Yeah. So you're penalizing. you're penalizing your audience, your NASCAR fan base, you're penalizing them, right? The teams are already locked in the show. Clint Boyer comes out with two minutes left in qualifying, had a chance to go out,

ran 24th, ended up getting bumped to 25th. He still started his race, but the drivers that didn't come out, you're penalizing their fan base. You got a pound of prevention is worth a ton of cure, you know, like, just fix it. The Xfinity schedule, Thursday, they had that stupid 3 to 5 p.m. garage time, why not extend that? Right. Through practice that day. I don't think Xfinity qualifying had a big issue.

Did they? They were already, I thought. No. Their garage hours were more screwed up. Oh, I guess. It was insane. Yeah, it was bad. Our guy's got four hours of sleep on Friday.

I don't really, I don't really have much sympathy for the ones that don't get out there. I mean, you know the limits. We all have templates. We all know what they're going to put up with. We're all pushing the envelope. If you push too far, you pay the price. Spot on, spot off. takes first two races at 2017.

Spot on for Ford, man. Wasn't the four car? I think the four car was a Hendrick chassis still. I don't know, but it's still a Ford car. Body. It's a Ford body and a Ford engine. So it's considered a Ford. I know.

But they're still, since they were behind, I think, in building cars, I think they still had a Hendrik. I think it said or something about our TV. Our chassis are all the same anyway. I mean, I don't know about that. Everyone builds their, everyone has. their own unique ways of wanting to build it. Otherwise, we'll just buy it from stock car steel and be done with it.

Yeah, but that's not a, the chassis is not what makes it the manufacturer. It's the engine. No, but chassis matters quite a bit on where you get your lead and stuff like that. It does. I think that, you know, for taking the first two races is spot on for a lot because this is two different rules package. It's last year's, you know, low down force package at Atlanta. Obviously, Daytona's own animal.

I mean, they dominated. Atlanta, Kislauski, Harvick. Well, I mean, Brad didn't dominate. Brad was in the right spot at the right time. With the exception of Larson and Chase Elliott, this was the Ford show. Toyotas were completely absent, irrelevant, right off the bat. Matt Kenseth was the only guy with any speed, so. Yeah, they definitely, the Toyotas don't have nearly as much mile and a half speed as they had before.

Daniel Suarez. Swerves. That was a little rough. Well, we talked about this, though. Last year when we ran this package testing it, they didn't put any time and effort in it. And they ran bad at those places. We ran it at Michigan and Kentucky, right? Yeah.

And they didn't try because they were like, this isn't going to help us win this year's championship. I think it put them behind. Yeah, might have. I don't know. With exception of Matt, man, they were bad. Kyle Busch was running 20th right off the bat. And that's one of Carl's tracks, too, to be good at. You know, we all know Kevin's going to be good there.

We know when we go to Atlanta, Phoenix, Kevin's going to be really, really good. Is Larson always that strong in Atlanta? Yeah. So they put more work into this year's. They were fast last year when we ran this package. Him and McMurray were both fast. And a place like Michigan, he ran really good. So I expect him to, I expect Larson and McMurray and him to be,

same cars will probably be very fast. The Ford won't be nearly as dominant as he was this last weekend. But when you look at places where the groove widens out to the wall, it's Atlanta, Michigan, those style of race. tracks. The same guys typically run well. It's Martin Truex. It's Dale Jr. It's Kyle Larson. It's guys who aren't afraid to get up there and run up against the wall. A lot of guys are like, I don't want to be that close. I might hit it. And those guys usually hit it. But Atlanta's, I mean, it fits their style. Kevin runs Atlanta completely different than any other driver.

He runs the very bottom, both ends, saves his tires, and wears you out. That's what he did yesterday. It just fits his driving technique and style. Yeah. So, yeah. Spot on, spot off. Three loose lug nuts on the 47. What is, is this encumbered? I don't know, but that's a vacation. Yeah. Crew Chief's gone, right? Yeah.

For almost a month, that's three weeks or something, right? Wow. That's the penalty? Three weeks. I don't know. I think so. Three weeks, points, fines. Yeah, that's like 60 or 30 something points maybe and like 60,000, something like that.

So excessive in my opinion. Well, you don't even have those points. So they're now in the point. And the worst part about it is this guy has nothing to do with how that lugnut goes on there. No, zero. That's sad. I mean, that's really bad. We felt that pain last year.

It sounds like a gun broke or something. I mean, it's really hard to suck at your job to the point that you... I will say this, and there was no... That 47 was in the back. Like, he wasn't even trying to race somebody. Like, he must have had a problem or something. So, like, it's not even like he got missing blood and I was trying to get a good pissed off for eighth or something, you know, or get up there and race. He was in the back, not racing anybody.

So you brought chicken minis. He did. Gluten girl can't have any. No. He forgot my fruit. I forgot your fruit. Josh, you want chicken minnie? I already had some, but thank you.

But I did tell you, Kristen, if she was a fruit, should be a fine apple. He also said, let's EpiPen you now and then eat the chicken mini. It was an idea. I want to feed her. These are good. So while Brett's eating us chicken mini, we're going to take a break. At one main financial, we believe in the importance of community. That means partnering with our neighbors to reach common goals, lending a hand when it matters most,

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For licensing information, visit our website or call us. All right, we're going into Fast Lane. I'm going to give TJ and Brett. Ew, stop doing that. A topic to debate. Alternating who responds first. Each of the guys is going to get 30 seconds to voice their opinion, and whoever went first is going to get a 30-second.

Rebuttal. Ready? Ready? You're up. TJ, I'm going to slap the microphone out of your face. It's not me. I can hear you. I'm not smacking. There's so many noises.

Like if anyone has that like 4S thing where they can't stand the sound of like two. This is why you leave the TV on or the music playing in the background. Kyle Bush won the Xfinity race at Atlanta but did not pass tech. Most likely a fine loss in points and it affects the playoff eligible owner's points. More or less on punishment. Brett? Man. we're still letting these guys win and keep the win.

I think the driver has to be disqualified, our place last car lead lap. You know, we're going to find him so he's not really keeping the money. We're going to do stuff to points. He's not really keeping the points. We're not letting him be in the playoffs, but we're still letting him keep the win in the record book in the trophy. I'm not down with this.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, you're not legal. How do you win the race? You are not legal. Why do you take a trophy home? Why do you celebrate? Why are you not? It's not right.

You shouldn't win. I think Brett, we should field a car at Talladega. We'll put a V-12 in it and I'll drive it. We'll lap the field, man. We'll celebrate and get busted and we'll go home. We'll go home. Get drunk too Sunday night. I mean, you look up here and the 47 car has three loose lug nuts

and probably finished 20th or worse, and he's going to get hammered in fines and penalties. this guy won the race and he's going to get up on the wrist. Crew Chief will still be there next week. Driver will still be there next week. He still has a trophy, still has a win in the record books. Sponsors happy. This isn't about Kyle Busch.

It isn't about any particular driver. It's about if you're illegal, you shouldn't win, period. Second place should be in the damn playoff. Atlanta is a historic track on the NASCAR circuit and has shown us plenty of great races over the years. Something Atlanta should be removed from the schedule. What are your thoughts of spotters? T.J. I don't think it should be removed from the schedule.

It's too good of a racetrack. There's grooves to move to. Anytime you have multiple grooves that should stay. So I'm all for it. Whoever thinks this needs to go watch figure skating or soccer or curling or Formula One. This is a great racetrack. Go in person. It's awesome.

I love Atlanta. Good talk, TJ. I don't have. I mean, there's not much more to say. Leave it on there. It's a good racetrack. The worst words in golf. It's still your turn.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway is this weekend. What is your favorite part about this one and a half mile oval in the desert Brett? The strip. Yep. Landing. I've got to say that the Thunderbirds are housed there. It's an air show during the entire weekend. So not only do you get to go to the racetrack, you get a free air show as courtesy of the United States badass Air Force.

And what about that plan that takes off and no windows at 9 o'clock every morning? Yeah. And lands around 5. Where does it go all day? Area 51. Yeah. To visit the aliens.

Something like that. But yeah, it's, uh, um, my favorite part is probably the, the sandstorm that we got last year. God, that helicopter. Gosh, man. Yeah. Um, I don't know. I like Vegas.

It's a great racetrack. Multiple grooves. Um, lots of scenery. Um, I don't know. Vegas was the first place to nail the fans on. They were the first place to say you don't have to have a garage pass or a pit pass to be really close to the action. You can pay $90.

We'll get a ban. We'll provide entertainment. We'll tons of food, tons of booze. And you can see in the garages. You can see the drivers. You can be up close. You can't get to them, but you can see them. So the fan experience at Vegas is phenomenal.

It'll be a big crowd this weekend, which is why we're going there twice. Neon Garage. Hey, real quick, how do you think that deal went? Speaking of Victory Land is. getting the fans close how do you think that went in Atlanta what happened well they did the front they did victor elana at the start finish line they brought that deal out there real quick oh that's and did you see like the the pitcher everybody was tweeting about bratt with brad in it and i had some guy on an m&m's hat in the background right behind him and it was a guy that was just had a hot pass

and he got it yeah i love it everyone's like you know this guy who's the creeper back here we've talked about that the fans need to be able to enjoy the celebration i agree this is like formula one man when those guys go to the podium the fans run out to that deal just to go see their drivers. Steve O'Donnell comes up with all these great ideas on his own. All he has to do is listen to our podcast. He can completely fix the sport. We'll give him all the ideas.

We don't even want any credit. I want top three on the front stretch on a podium deal every week. Me too, absolutely. On the front stretch right there. Celebrating. Yeah. With the fans right there. Yeah, I agree.

I'm down with that. Yeah. Christopher Bell sweeps all three stages of the truck race on Saturday night. Did he really? Did you think a truck series driver would be the first to accomplish this feat? Who's first? Me? Yep. You know, any, I was it, yeah, I guess you could because as soon as Matt Crafton or Johnny Sauter and one of them gets up front in one of these races, they're going to be really tough to get around. But Christopher Bell had an extremely fast truck, so it's not, seeing him in practice, it didn't shock me that that happened.

I'm surprised. I mean, Elliot had the first opportunity to do it at Daytona. He swept the first two stages. Obviously didn't win the third. for a guy like Christopher Bell who's in great equipment not totally surprised but for it to happen in the truck series yeah I mean looking at Harvick Harvick would have been the second to ever do it in NASCAR history behind Christopher Bell so hats off to those guys yeah I feel like it'd be easier to do in the truck series for one of them guys like a crafterer or a solder I feel like it'd be easier for them guys

there's not not quite the competition level but when you go to a place like that and have such a dominant truck like he had it's not I mean you probably could have swept all the stages in that race Brett I got my broom out. The off-to-wall topic. The Battle for Tobacco Road was Saturday night. The Real Carolina defeated Duke in the Dean Dome.

Who wrote this shit? Elliot? The real Carolina? Yep. You both live in North Carolina now, and if you had to choose one shade of blue to root for, who would it be? I hate both of the. The real Carolina?

They can't beat us in anything except basketball. Man, I actually respect both these teams a lot. You know, North Carolina is a very liberal college. Duke is a very liberal college. expensive college. I think Coach K does a lot with a lot less talent. God, I don't know who I'm pulling for. That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Who you

pulling for? Coach K. does a lot. He puts players in the NBA after one year. He does a lot more with a lot less talent than North Carolina. Duke has more one and duns than anybody. No, they don't. Kentucky does. Right with them. Right with him. He's got a bunch of white guys that can't jump that win ball games. Well, don't stop recruiting them. That's

No. He does a lot more. That might, you've said some, I've heard you say some questionable things before, but that might be one of the dump. We're going to, when this shows over, we're going to pull up Rivals.com and we're going to see the more highest rated recruiter. This is, the rivalry is great. It is.

To have two schools play and to see the scores between those. Like, it's almost 50-50 every time. No matter where you go to watch them to play, you don't know who's going to win. And it's always the separations like, I forget what the score. It's like almost even. Yeah. So it's going to be. like a one point.

It was even going into this game, right? That's ridiculous, man. To have that many games and have them kind of stats. That's awesome. That's probably the greatest rivalry in sport, I'd say. Yeah. So which one? What was a question?

I'll go for. I pull for Carolina. Are you rooting for? Syracuse is blue. Or royal blue? Syracuse is orange. So you're Duke? You're Duke?

No, if I pull for anybody, it's Carolina. Yeah, I'm Go heels. I can't afford to go to Duke. He's 50 grand a year. Well, the only reason that I lean towards Carolina is because where I was born in Pennsylvania, the next town over actually had a guy, a 10 Carolina. He was a short white guy that could shoot threes back in the. I think his name was Dante Calabria.

I don't know if you remember him. Yeah, he was from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, which is the next town over from where my parents live. So I've always been a UNC fan. Josh, you're an ass-a-h-h-h- in real Carolina. Truth hurts. Truth hurts. All right, we're going into hashtag AskDBC.

Producer Amish Josh has chosen a few questions off Twitter. So here we go. Ready? Appy Bowlin, a bunch of numbers asks, what do you find more challenging? Spotting a driver in the hunt for the lead or one that just got wrecked? I find that name more challenging than anything in the question. It's 07331514.

Is that their phone number? Ooh, let's call it right now. What do I find more challenging? Spotting a driver for lead or one that just got wrecked? Getting wrecked and riding around sucks. You're moving out of the way. You're always telling where people are coming. When you're racing people, it's way better.

Leading at Daytona and Talladega is a much different task. That's a lot of work. But when you're leading a mile and a half, the only thing you're watching is the second place, third place guy. Maybe somebody, you know, if anybody's moving around, finding a lot of speed. Other than that, you've got the fastest car you're leading the race. It's easier to spot a fast race car than a.

slow race car, period. Yes, I did that three times this last weekend. I did it all year last year on Sunday. Wow. Well, your driver was sleeping half the time. No, he wasn't sleeping. Oh, he was sleeping. At Stu Crew 14 asks, why is it so hard to ditch the splitter?

What are your thoughts on it? The fans hate them. This guy's speaking for all fans. He is. He is. And what he's saying is the valence was better than the splitter. And where we all tend to agree is two things. The splitter creates a lot more downforce.

so it makes the arrow push a lot more prevalent. And then the other thing is when you spin out with a splitter on the car and you hit grass, it'll tear the whole front clip off the car. It'll kill it. When you would spin out with a valence, it would bounce like your street car and not tear the car up. So a lot of advantages to the valence. I've always been team valence. Unfortunately, when they put the splitter on the trucks, it was an R&D deal,

and then they migrated it to all the series. I'm a huge fan of the valance over the splitter. When you did wreck and you folded it up on her, you could jack the car up a little bit, get under with a hammer and beat it back out, and it would almost be normal again. Now you rip the radiators out of the car. And you also, it's just, I don't know, man,

it just destroys the whole car. It'll destroy it. Like rips it to pieces, and it flings dirt up all on the track and stuff. It hooks it. And I don't know. I've always enjoyed the vows. and stuff.

At Roe-Boykin asks. Are the additional timing lines to blame for the number of speeding penalties? I mean, obviously they would have to be to blame some of it. Or, you know, something was weird there because there was a lot of speeding penalties, not just a couple, but there were a lot of speeding penalties. Something had to be, we didn't get something measured right or something, you know, I don't know. There's one thing to blame, and it's the driver's right foot. The old gas pedal got them.

pushed it too hard. End of story. Yep. Well, we normally have these calculated out to where you can run. I mean, they give us already a buffer of five miles an hour, and we're trying to take more than that. But, you know, we don't have to push you envelope that far, but there's no way you can't afford not to.

You lose time when you don't max out this opportunity. Yeah. And you can be so aggressive that it costs you. And Jimmy Johnson twice yesterday, Dale Jr. And it can ruin your day. You know, you look at when Kevin Harvey, did it it ruined his day killed him if he does that lap 10 he's fine he comes back and wins but can't do it at the end at Andrew Brazziakie asks what is the best place to have a beer with

NASCAR spotters in Vegas where you're buying at yeah I want to try that place out called gillies it's a country bar in Treasure Island I think we should go there Thursday night get our boot scoot and buggy on my schedule's really easy Friday I hope Saturday and Sunday sucks there'll be no beers. No beers. Friday night, Saturday night. Thursday night. Gilly.

I'm not leaving my room. What if you... I'm locked in my room. What if you end up in my room? Wheel. Wheel. Wheel. Wheel.

Yeah. T.J. lock himself in his room and play PlayStation all weekend. I play wheel. I play Xbox. I don't play the PlayStation. But yeah, that's what I'll be doing. Well, that's because y'all are staying in B-F-E.

Hey, did you, uh... Did you see where the hotels at? No, where they're there? They're hotels 30 minutes from the Stronation. drip. I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to talk about it. It's 30 minutes. So he has no choice but to stay in his hotel room. Let's see. So I tweeted out this morning that, you know, if anybody, any questions, and Kyle Larson. I'm going to go back to one thing.

We just talked about you need to live your life the opposite of how you've been living it. I'm not living like that. All right, where are we going? So Larson, Kyle Larson wants to know what's the craziest thing we've ever seen Spotter Derek, who spots for him, due on the Spotter stand. and it's one of two things, but they're both at Michigan. One time Derek smashed his binoculars, spiked them like a gronk football spike, and the other time Derek was during practice, and I look over there, and me and Derek stand next to each other there, I think.

So I look over, and Derek is straight up, what do you call that? I don't know. I don't know what you call that. He's kind of grinding something in video. visible on the rail here. And you've got a video of it. I do have a video. Are you going to share it?

I think I will. When the podcast comes out and they listen, I think it's been a long time. And I think it needs to come out for Derek. So T.J. has a fetish with guys doing things. Like when a guy eats a banana, T.J. takes a picture of it. Well, first of all, I only take a picture of it. It's because T.J. has the mentality of a 12-year-old. And now he's called this guy.

I only take a picture of it if you eat the banana like you shouldn't eat the banana. And now he's called this guy. having a relationship with an invisible human. Or maybe it wasn't a human. I don't know what he was. Who knows what it was. But nonetheless, there's some awkward motions. Definitely awkward.

Rocking back and forth. And T.J. Rusting. For some reason, T.J. felt the need to capture this. He videotaped it. But for why don't you? What was you do with that? Like, what was your thought process?

I was saving it for this moment. This is the moment that I saved it for. Like, I don't know if he goes home and watches bananas and these videos. Yeah, YouTube, banana eating. Maybe he was just like flexing his hips or stretching. He was definitely flexing his hips. Hey, am I late on this or was this Chris Knight tweet?

You're late. Marcus said that AMS may reconsider repaving. Did you guys see that? I actually heard that and read that they're actually reconsidering it because so many people are putting up, but they listen to this show, it won't get repaved. The whole industry is saying don't repave it. Yeah.

The whole industry. Even if it rains. I don't care if it takes an extra day to dry. The racing's too good. If we go there on a paved track, we're going to run right around the bottom. It's going to be dirty up top. Nobody's going to go up there, and it's going to be terrible. Yeah.

I wish that, you know, it's such a weird deal because Daytona's such a big race. You know, big wins for all three series, big winners. And then you leave there and you go to Atlanta, and you're just kind of like, I'm not ready to go anywhere else yet. Like, let's put those three winners on national media tours. Let's take a week off after Daytona to let everybody, because there's so much hype and pressure and and then it's almost like Atlanta's a little bit of a buzzkill it's almost like it's in a date and at a point on the schedule to where it can't be as successful as it should be we showed

up there Friday it was 60 degrees and we froze our asses off it was windy too coldest 60 degrees I've ever been in my life and then yesterday 60 degrees was freaking gorgeous but I don't know how we fix it but I really think we should look at run Daytona take a week off celebrate that Daytona 500 champion in the other winners, and then let's kick off our regular season. Because that's a champion. It's the Daytona 500 champion. You don't have the Super Bowl champion in the game the next week. That's why they quit doing the Pro Bowl after the Super Bowl,

because people are, they need some time to get away from it. Like I don't know, I don't know the right schedule for that. But Atlanta's awesome. Jim Utter just, he tweeted last night that a second Las Vegas state in 2018 appears all but certain. It's coming. I'm telling them. So we are right.

But we're telling people why it's coming. It's not that Bruton Smith has this big sponsor for $2.5 million for the race. He does have that. But the reason that he does is because he's going to be able to tag it on to the end of the schedule eventually. The four dealers pay big money to have championship weekend and Homestead. I have a question. It's a spot-on, spot-off kind of for you guys. So Jeff Gluck said trophies for stage wins.

And then Regan said, this needs to stop, just like the Happy Hour trophy. that was awarded last year participation trophies next, which I thought was funny. Yeah. Everyone needs a participation ribbon. Yeah, I don't. You can give me on trophies for that. Why they, I don't understand.

I honestly, it'd be cool to win his stage, but, you know, you don't celebrate after that. You don't go to Victory Lane after that. You don't, you know, that doesn't. There was an Atlanta Falcons player, Grady, who said, was he there? Yeah, I won't put it as eloquently as he did, but he just said, it's great to win a stage.

But like that's in football when you're leading at the half, you still have two quarters to handle. Yeah. When you look at the stage win, I would be interested at the end of the year to go back and see who won a stage that did not make the playoff. Because the big relevance in the stage win is that playoff bonus point that you get. And if you win enough stages, you're going to automatically transfer to the second round of the playoff without even really racing that heart. Because you're going to have enough points. that's where the big win is. You don't need a trophy.

If you win enough stages, you're going to win races. I like a lot of stuff that Jeff Gluck says, but that one's dumb. Yeah. Yeah, you don't need trophies for all that. Was that your rant? No, I think I got it better. I got a good one. You got a good one?

You got a good one, too. Well, my rant is, I want to know if anybody cussed at Harvick. Who? Who would possibly do that? I think the pit crew. Why? I mean, it's okay for him whenever they have a bad day or mess up, you know? I'm just wondering.

Did they get fired if that? happens? If they cuss him? Yeah. I mean, what if the, what if one of them tire carriers just keys up and is like, you know, you beep, beep, beep, beep, you know, blah, blah, blah, you know, and what happens? Yeah, but the monster energy marketing, head marketing dudes said he wants all of the drivers to get out of the car and back to the cursing each other and showing their real colors.

Yeah, I'm just, I'm just saying, I mean, is it okay? because he would cuss them if they mess that last stop up, he cusses them and chews them out. Yeah. So I'm going to lean on Amish Josh for this part of the show. Oh, you're screwed. Josh, did you watch the cup race yesterday? How many beers did you have by the time it was over?

Like six or seven. Oh, that's not enough. Okay, so we can ask you this question. If you had like 12, I don't know if you can answer it. So what was Harvick's post-race interview like? Honestly, I was at a bar and they didn't have the sound playing, so I didn't get to hear it. Did you? But he did not look happy.

But his nickname's happy. Well, that's a crappy nickname. Happy Harvitt. Isn't it an ironic nickname, right? Yeah, I think so. I think the biggest question is, calling you smalls. I don't know how you handle that. I mean, that's a big burden to carry knowing you had the dominant car.

Let all those laps and pissed it away, you know. Mm-hmm. That's hard to swallow. So no one in here heard the... But, I mean, if... Put it on yourself. Like, if you were going to win a race and Kristen screwed it up, you'd be mad at Kristen.

If you were going to win a race and you screwed it up, I don't know how mad you can get it yourself. Yeah, I don't think he's very mad. I think he's... You're just saying that other people are... They're allowed to be mad as hell of him based on... I think they should be as vocal as he is. But then they get fired.

If you're going to dish it, you need to take it. It's my theory on it. What you think, Kristen? Yeah. Why aren't you talking right? It might toughen him up a little bit. Do you have a crush on Kevin Harvey? Ooh.

Oh, no. Are you sure? He's not a very nice person, and he was not very nice to some of my friends in this building. So. Hmm. Huh. But it's happy. He's quite happy.

Because I'm happy. I'm a long. How about, how about you, Josh? What's new with you lately? Any good dates or anything? Nope. Nothing to report on that front. What large are you going to do to watch the race?

Do you need some? To Davidson Beverage Company. Where's that out? In Davidson. It's on Main Street in Davidson. Okay. Had some Oscar brews. Do you need some dates?

Oscar Blues. Exfitting. You need some dates? No, not from you. We can line this up. So I got an idea. Okay. Y'all ready for it?

I don't have a rant this week. You all ready for it? Because I'm so happy in my life. I've not been home in 18 days. But I have an idea. But it's your own fault. And I want you all serious feedback. Now, this is a serious idea.

This is no bullshit. This is real. Sure. Okay. So we do preseason media every year. Yep. It's the same 40 guys of each series saying the same story. I want to win.

I want to make the playoff. I want to win a championship. We do that during Lowe's Motor Speedway Media Tour week. Lowe's Motor Speedway? Wow. Charlotte. God. Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Sorry. I was going vintage. Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour. We hear that for four days. That's boring. Then the next one, week or two weeks later we go to Daytona and we hear the same thing it's the same media day over and over again i have an idea people probably don't realize that drivers have to weigh in at Daytona

before they are allowed to get in their race car so when they weigh in that then determines how much lead tungsten they get to put in their car which is an advantage the more weight you can put in the better because you can put it where you want it you want left side weight right center gravity. So what I think we need to do is I think we need to take the UFC way ends and we need to do driver way ins in their boxers and have like this awesome show around it explaining like how much lead they're going to get and what they're going to do and what their target weight is and like this could be fun. What do you think, Chris? I like that idea. Yeah. I like it. Josh. Sure. T.J. I don't. I'm sitting here pitching your buddy Harmon.

getting weighed in, but holla. Yeah. All that hair and tidy witties. I don't know. He looked like a gorilla. If this weighing thing is really a good idea. They let you keep your clothes on.

So I definitely think we could do something a little bit differently, more fun. I liked the old days when they did that deal where all the drivers came and signed autographs and they did a little media. You know what I'm talking about? That was the preview. Yes, I liked the preview. It interacted more. with the fans and had a little stuff like that.

The old Winston Cup preview at Lawrence Joel Veterans. Let's talk about that a second. Who paid for that? RJ Reynolds. Correct. So somebody has to pay for that. You're asking now, you know, NASCAR or Monster or that's the only two people that are going to pay for it. They would rent the Lawrence Joel Coliseum or whatever that place is called.

LJB. But imagine renting that place and then having these guys come in one at the time with their target weight, They're hype. They're what they gain if they weigh 200 versus 220 versus 180. And then a big-ass monitor that has like how much they weigh. Robbie Gordon made a really big deal out of something similar to this in IndyCar over Danica Patrick because he said she's so light. She has a big advantage in these indie cars.

And the truth can still be said in our cars because the lighter you are, the more weight you get to add where you want to add it. So I just think it would be something different. the fans don't necessarily, they aren't exposed to that side of the sport. And I don't know, I just think it'd be cool. And you'd find out who has six-pack and who's fat-ass. Yeah. I just want to do the preview.

I don't care. You know, if you want to away them. We could be like spotters could be like trainers behind them, man, like really hyping them up. Yeah. Sodgeing them out. Holding the buckets and stuff. Yeah, hold them a bucket. You got it, man, spit.

Yeah. He puts a Vaseline on your. High-biles. Yeah. They're vassing their eyeballs and stuff. Kick them between the legs for how they talk this over radio. Some of them need that. I think it would be fun.

The biggest loser meets UFC meets Mike Harmon. And then way him at the end of the year. Poor Mike Harmon. That's what I'm saying, dude. Just think about that guy last week in Atlanta. He goes out there in the Xfinity car and he catches fire. He burns his car. Yeah, we almost had a bunch of free bacon.

up. Then he gets in his truck and he wrecks leaving pit road. Do you know how hard that is? God bless this guy, man. I just wanted to send him a hug, you know? Like not actually hug him, send him a hug. You can send him the virtual hug emoji thing. Yeah, we can put our arms together and hug him.

I mean, guys. He gets so crap down on this podcast. It's funny. Oh, God. All right. So Brett won. this weekend. That means T.J. and Brett are tied at one and one.

T.J., did you put any thought into this before you entered this? T.J. picked Tide Dillow against Casey K. What an idiot. Well, Casey was my pick, and I didn't want to use someone else good up yet. And it's now tied up. I wasn't about to burn another good one yet. You guys are tied one to one. I will, uh, I'm wondering why Michael Annette's on this list.

But anyway, is he running a cup car this weekend? He may. You never know. Josh is prepared. I don't do this list. Josh, what do you actually do? I do everything, Brett. Everything.

That doesn't. You're the producer of this show. You get credit for everything that's good and bad, and you just said, I don't know, I don't have nothing to do with this. This is our Twitter followers. This is Cornelius B-star. He sent me the tweet last night.

So, I think this week, you know, since you stole my pick last week, I'm going to roll with, you know, my first pick, if I wanted to just go to of the board I would want with Carl probably someone like or Biffle if he was running Biffle's really good at Vegas neither one of those guys are picking people that are not so I'm going to go maybe out on a limb a little bit but I liked what I saw last week and I'm going to go Matt Kenson that's a big big big pick I like that who won the race

last time we were in Phoenix anybody not Harvard you mean Vegas Vegas oh we're on a Vegas well man that just screwed up my whole plan I'm going to go with a guy is solid at mile and a half. Okay. Do you want to guess who it is? Just guess. Dale Jr.? Dude, I've seen y'all work together

over the first two weeks of the year, so I'm going to give y'all some of the time. Well, Daytona's two and a half. I'm going to get y'all. I'll give y'all some time to get re-acclimated. Chase Elliott is my guy. That's who I'm going with. That's a big pick, too.

We're on 20. Four ball. That's who I got. Does he have a nickname? Chase Elliott. Race and Chase. Racing Chase. You can make that up?

place. You never heard that? Big Bill from Dawsonville. Yeah, race and chase from the same place. Million dollar bill was his first nickname because he was the first guy to ever win in a Winston million. We went over this last season.

Don't you remember some nicknames for the guys? Kyle Yarson's Young Money? Kyle Yarson? Why can't anyone speak on this podcast today? Kyle Larson. He's young money. You got Race and Chase. Kyle Yarson in the X-Fitty series.

So what's Elie? nickname. Ellen. Ellen. Ellen. Ellen. Ellen. Ellen.

Chase needs a nickname. Chase needs a nickname. It's awesome. It's awesome. I didn't make that up. The same place. Racing. It's the one that I heard.

Racing Chase. Awesome Chase from the same place. I didn't hear the awesome. Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. Josh, I understand the humor behind it. I'm not looking at you. My look is that's not very good. We need a better one.

Well, I don't have it. I don't have one on top of my head. I usually can't right now. What's your nickname other than BG? G spot. Because I'm a spotter. BG spot then. Oh, my gosh.

Okay. Oh, with that, we'd like to thank our sponsors. Siri nicknamed me that. Let me see your phone. I'll fix that. Right up. I'll fix that. That was professional.

That wasn't. Right. No. I wasn't implying anything weird right there. Well, this podcast is just weird. So that's where we go. You need to change your Twitter handle. What I need to change?

Spotter G-Spot. That doesn't even make sense. Something like that. Spot or G-spot? Oh, ew. Okay. I didn't say spot her. I said spotter.

See, I was being professional. No, you weren't. There is nothing professional about. And T.J. is not being professional. That giggle and laugh told me otherwise. I look giggling. That was Kristen giggling. You guys are a bit.

We'd like to thank Exalta for sponsoring this podcast. Exaltor doesn't sponsor this podcast. Right. One main. Financial. Yes. Lending Maine. Personal.

Who is our primary sponsor on the one this week? One main. Yes, we're back to one main in Vegas. Who's on seven? Brandt. Who's on the five? Pilot, Flying J. Who's on William Byron?

Liberty University. I saw an awesome announcement where Exalt is picking up races with that kid. They are picking up the rest of the races. for the number nine. That's great. William Byron. That's great, man. For two years.

It's a good deal. I agree. I still feel like, I don't know we're in this show, but I still feel like we're the best organization in the Xfinity series right now. Straight up. Straight up.

Like, get you some. You know, I mean, I know we're not going to win every race, but I really feel like we're going to contend to win every. I mean, we're one and two in the points already. Yep.

I feel like we have the best fleet. We got a veteran. We've got, You know, Justin's kind of a veteran. He knows what he's doing. Very experienced guy. But you got Elliot, it's kind of the veteran leader guy. Then you got Justin, who's also very good and can be a leader as well.

Then you get very seasoned. You got two young guys. Like, I feel like Michael Annette's getting a chance to, you know, reenter the sport in a different way. Not to mention we have the support of Hendrick. Hendrick Engines. We have the HMS pit crews. And then just in this house alone, we have total information share over all of our crew chiefs, Our teams, it's one team.

People don't realize, you know, Pinsky is Pinsky. Gibbs is Gibbs. Like those Xfinity teams are literally in the same building as the Cup teams. This is a standalone Xfinity team with Cup support to the point that you mentioned. You know, you have some engineering support. You have engines, obviously, this is a big deal. The PICCru is a big deal. But, I mean, these guys are doing it themselves.

We hang our own bodies in here. Yep. You know, I mean, it's a big deal. I truly believe we put all four cars in the playoff. Don't you? Yeah. And we're expanding our shop. It's under construction right now for more room because we don't have enough room for all the chassis and the bodies.

Trucks. And trucks. And trucks. Justin needs a good run this weekend, though. Yeah, we need to, and we can do it. We just, we haven't had any luck, man. He needs a mistake-free, three good stages, top eights to get him back where he needs to be. Because, you know, you can dig the hole too deep at some point to where now you start putting a lot of pressure on your side.

And if he has one or two more bad weeks, man, I mean, mentally it's a hard place to be. Yeah, it is. I really hope he and T.J. get their heads out of their asses this week and get good finishes. Come on, man. We're all doing our part, T.J. Get with it. I brought Chick-fil-A. You did. It was good, too.

I brought my sparkling personality. Yes, you did. You always do. Brett brought the G-Spot. Thanks to one made in Exilta. We'll see you next week after Las Vegas. Bye. Bye.

Hey, Mike, so as we're sitting here in the newly renovated Exalta Studio, let's talk Exaltta. First of all, this studio is awesome. Is it not? Oh, my gosh. It's huge. I love it. It's amazing. Yeah, we are very appreciative of that.

But Exaltes is everywhere. I mean, we just left Daytona. Thousands of people went into their seats through the Exaltza Injector. I myself, I'm going to brag a little bit here, but I actually watch the duels from the Exaltza suite. It was fabulous. You know, Exaltza is a co-primary on Dale Jr.'s car. That car, you will never miss it. It is so bright, colorful.

It's amazing. And it's going to run at Phoenix. But yeah, Exalta is everywhere. They are really big supporters of our digital platform and our race teams. We didn't even mention the fact that Exaltza is going to be sponsoring William Byron. That announcement came out this week. And they have a brand new building that they just built right next to Hendrick Motorsports. I've had the privilege to see the outside.

Now I'm really excited to go and take a tour of the inside. It's absolutely incredible just what they've been doing. Totally. So we appreciate Exaltza. How can we follow them on social? You can follow them at Exaltor Racing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. You've been listening to Door Bumper Clear, brought to you by One Main.

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