Door Bumper Clear - 54 - Last Off Weekend for Awhile

Episode Date: April 18, 2017

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You're win. Oh, yeah! Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. Sparta of the 88 Cup car, the 7X Fidity and the 29 truck. Are you a rapper? I've been saying it for like a month now. I'm not going to quit.

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He's going to be a big deal. I can't tell you. No, it's not donut boy. That's Kevin's guy. That's Hamlin's guy. Thanks to one man for bringing us to you guys and our lovely co-host. Hey, guys, it's KB, and we're here in the Exalta Studios. Exaltah.

We're kicking it. Yep. kicking it. We're coming off an off weekend. What did you guys do? Slept? I went to a wedding, obviously. I saw you there.

We were at a wedding, not to each other. My roommate. It was good. It was awesome, actually. It was the guy that I room with for like four years now, so he's kind of like my roommate, I guess, in a sense. So I spend more weekends with him than I do anyone else throughout the year. He's Dale's and Terriers guy.

Yeah. Adam Jordan. Yeah, he's awesome. Really good dude. A wedding was really nice. He was excited. She was excited, and everything went great. I hope they're excited.

They're not excited now this way, so she cuts her hair and gangstress 15. pounds. They'll both be really excited. They do CrossFit, so I don't think that's going to happen. She did eat the cake. That's where it starts. She looked absolutely beautiful. Yeah, it was great. Weddings. By you, Josh. He fell a little nugget. Yeah, you saw the little girl, a little boy, right? Little girl. Where were you at in Denver? Near Westport. Your folks live over there? No, my cousins do. Oh, that's cool. You went all the way to Denver? Not Colorado. North Carolina.

North Kakalaki. I went on Lake Saturday. It was gorgeous. You must have used suntan lotion because you don't look red. I sat under the canopy thing. I thought you were going to say you sat next to Mike Harmon. No, no. We rode to the what's that place, Port City.

A really good lunch. Oh, yeah, right on exit 28. Came home. I could fajitas and then we went and played golf at 10 o'clock at night. Low ball. Yeah, where do you play golf? Golden Tee? We played 18 holes.

We started at 10 and we finished around one in the morning. Do you have a headlough? No, it was dark. How don't you find the ball? Were they not glow balls? I don't even think we took our clubs. Oh, I got you. Me, my nephew, Troy, he came from Greenville, one of my best friends, Sean.

We had a little golf cart midnight run. It was fun. At least that has a lights, right? Yeah. You didn't, like, run over. Golf carts late at night. Golf cart has suspension issues now. And I'm sure you were sober.

Took completely. Thank God for cart paths. Oh, gosh. You know? I had those little beach pill thing. It's destroyed. I kept slinging it off a golf cart. It's killed.

Isn't there a noise ordinance where you live? No, not at midnight. You remember that time, Jimmy? Remember that time Jimmy Johnson wrote the top of a golf cart? Yeah, he didn't do too well. He broke his arm. Yeah, broke something. The good old days.

Good old days. I had to cook for 20 people yesterday, and I felt great. What did you cook? Did you eat? I did a burger bar. Burger bar. Yeah. You fancy.

We did like pimento cheeses, and we did like banana peppers and mushrooms. rooms and just like all these cran raisins yeah pretty much build your own only thing i didn't do was fried eggs that i would have preferred but it was too many people a fried egg on a burger is actually really good i love it yeah i agree but i couldn't do it it was just too many people i should just don't offer me you're quite the host i love yeah so you basically cooked bad daddies in your kitchen i did i was just going to say that it's like to build your own burger yeah pretty much yeah i can actually eat the food there yeah it was one of the only places you can ever go it was good real good so We're headed into Bristol.

Yeah. We leave Friday morning. We're flying this year. Really? Yeah. What is it? A 15 minute flight? 12 minute flight to Bristol.

It is. It's like almost 20 minutes at most, but it's, um, my day, I don't think it's that long. Yeah. But, uh, and then the schedule's a little weird. It starts late this weekend. Normally we're on the roof at early Friday morning. We're not up there that early. I think, I think flying to the day race is kind of crazy just because it's such an easy drive.

I think the good news for that for you guys, though, is they're calling for rain. So if it does rain. and we're there half the night, you won't care because it'll be a quick fly home. Yep. You know. We're already making those rain contingency plans. Yeah. It's Monday.

Yes, I'm calming down. Okay. Calm the hell down. Calm down. Yeah, calm yourself. But it's fun, man. Yeah. I love Bristol.

That's our last off weekend. We get one more between now and Thanksgiving. Yeah. That's it. You know what I don't understand about this whole off weekend thing? Pretty much we're a bunch of guys, right? I mean, I realize there are a few months. males in our sport, but I'd say we're 90% male.

Fair? Fair. Okay. So we travel a lot, right? Okay. So let's do zero off weekends when our kids are out of school. What idiot plan that? Someone without kids? I mean, how can you go no off weekends during summer vacation?

How long is summer vacation? Ten weeks? Nine weeks? Yeah. Couldn't we a schedule on the end? Middle of summer. I mean, I had spring break, luckily. We start our next off weekend's August, and our kids will be back in school for two weeks.

So I'm sure TJs will too. Yeah. I mean, luckily, we got a little bit of the spring break deal there. So we either get the front of her to the back of it, which is okay. But it was nice to have the last week with Madeline. It was nice to have her at home. But like you said, middle of summer when you want to do something with them? Nope.

Sorry guys. Will you go on any like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday vacations? Yeah, we'll have to. Only, yeah, most of the time when you do that, you take the family or something and you go early to a race. I used to go early to Daytona. Yeah. I used to leave.

Actually, we used to race Kentucky before Daytona. Yeah. I would race Kentucky Saturday night. They would drive down to Daytona on Friday night. It would go halfway, stop halfway, and then get there Saturday. I would get there Sunday commercially. I would fly down Sunday on a commercial flight and be there until we had to be at the race track on Thursday or Friday.

So you got to plan those things, man. So this is the most rested. I'm going to see you guys until the next off weekend. Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. Good chance. Special edition show. Special edition show.

We're going to do things a little bit differently since we just came off the off weekend. We're going to start with some AskDBC, and we are going to do Fastlane, and then we're going to go into some more Asked B. Did you have a K on that, or was that just a? What, would I say? Asked TBC. Asked. Ass DBC. Soundly you said, Ask, DBC.

I was slurring my words. All right. Speaking of kids, TJ. Yeah, you know, yours is right here next to us. So we may as well, most people know, but we are. Probably not. The millions you're getting ready to tell. The millions.

Well, a lot of the close friends know in early. August we shall be expecting. Woo-hoo! So it's hockey season at TJ Pool the goalie. Yeah, we were down a goal, and I had to get up. You know, I had to catch up. So we shall have a... He scored.

Yep. Needless to say, that did the trick. Yeah. And so in early August, we shall be expecting another female presence in the house. That's so good. So much estrogen. The estrogen levels are 10 years now. I'm the guy that everyone said he shouldn't have a kid.

Now I'm going to have two. So that's going to be a handful. Yeah, but if she's anything like Mad's... Madeline's awesome. So her thing now is making her bed before she even comes out of her room every night, every morning. She gets up and makes her bed every day. And like I'm... Chevy, do you do that?

No. No, Chevy didn't do that. I mean, she tucks it in the sides too. Oh, wow. Yeah. So if anything, Madeline's very polite, very, uh, very well-mannered. It's a great, big sister.

Yeah, and luckily there's going to be about a seven-year gap. So I'm talking her into the diaper-changing stuff slowly, but surely. Speaking from personal kind of experience with my older sister and older brother, you know, the second kid is a helion. So good luck. Because you're more, I mean, with the first kid, like, they're sleeping and you go in there at night, and you're like, oh, this little thing ain't breathing. And you touch it.

It's like, damn, I just woke this kid up. Second kid, like its heads hanging out of the car seat, it's flound around. You're like, oh, it's fine. It's just keep going, honey. We're fine. The first one, you're nervous. You're nervous about everything. You don't know.

Scared to death. Yeah. Second one, you're just like, I don't know that. It'll be fine. Get up, brush it off. Rub some dirt on it. All I'm going to tell you is, the only advice I'm going to tell you is your second kid, you can still play man-to-man defense.

When you have that third kid, you got to start running zone. It's really complicated. So, that's the biggest thing. And the breakfast table only holds four people. It's that fifth person. Bam. New furniture. So, be careful.

We're going to, I'm going to make sure that. She's extremely fertile right after birth. Nope, that's not happening. So we are going to go ahead. Yeah, we're going to weld the goalie in the net. The goalie's never leaving the net from here on out. That's probably playoff hockey. Yeah.

We're going to be doing playoff doubles volleyball from nothing. So anyway, that's exciting. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. Congratulations. Due in August? August. Early August.

August 25th, Jovey's birthday. So maybe. I think, uh. That's my mama's birthday. Is it? Wow. Oh, that's Keely's birthday. November 18th.

I have their, on my, on my, on November 30th. I'm not sure they consulted your tattoo before you spoke. So you know, didn't, didn't Caitlin Vincy just announce

hers as early August as well? Yeah. So yeah. That had been rumored around the garage a little bit. We were all kind of curious, but it's glad, happy for her. She looks great.

She's feeling good. I've known for a little bit. for a little bit, but yeah, they're so happy and she's so excited and Fox is happy for her too. That's awesome. Yeah. Very cool. Be good. Let's kick this.

At Greg Goose F-150s, what's the one track you would like to bring back from the past? Nice name. I feel like we do this one a lot, because you guys love talking about. Yeah, Wilkesboro. Yeah, Rockingham and Wilkesboro are probably the two highest bidders right there. Yeah, I love Myrtle Beach, man. That's such a great market. I mean, if we could include them short, short tracks like, Wilkesboro is a short track,

but let's get Myrtle Beach and South Boston are real short tracks. Doesn't Myrtle Beach still do the school bus racing or whatever? Probably. I actually have my name on the side of one of those one time at Charlotte. They just ran a big late model race down there, a big modified race. They still race just for some reason. And we've talked about this before. The tracks can't afford the sanctioning fees to put these guys here.

They asked the trucks, not trucks, where are we at a few weeks ago? And they said, hey, I'm Martinville. They said to the president of the racetrack, why does Exfinity not run here? And he said, well, the trucks and the Xfinity, you know, rights are so much more expensive for Xfinity. I'm going to get about the same crowd for trucks as I am Xfinity. It's not worth it. So, I mean, I think it just goes back to it.

So it's a real shame that these small trucks got run out of business. Do they not realize that people like that type of racing? Love that type of racing. Like that's where it started. Yeah. So, and I mean, you could tell me we're going to run eight short tracks next year. You know what I would do? High five everybody.

Everybody. I would be so happy. It would be awesome. Not that I don't like mile and a half. We cram them all together. You know, we just ran Martin's full. We're getting ready to run Bristol or getting ready to run Richmond. Like we cram them together, and I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing.

I think it's cool from a promotional standpoint, but as to TJ's point, they're so much more exciting. Always. When you go back to that run a mile and a half, I mean, like after three of them, you're like, you know what's exciting about them is guys like the short track guys like Rick Carelli, Jack Sprague, Dennis Setser. those guys would come out, they could take a truck that was a B or C truck and make it a top truck there. Yeah. And you take out pit crews and stuff

and have a halfway break maybe or something and have a race, man. Yeah. 150 last little break on another 150. Yeah. Do it. At A.K. Easter asks, I would love for T.J. to share some stories

about old Sterling Marlin. Were you around when he pulled the fender out at the 2002 Daytona 500? I wasn't spotting yet I was racing then still, but yeah, Sterling was a really fun guy to work with. He's the most hard-to-understand guy that I've ever heard on the radio. Hey, TJ, what are you doing? It was way worse than that.

So I told him one time, one time we were at Loudoun, and we went behind the wall to get a tire sheet, and I had my binoculars. I was like, hey, Sterling, well, check that out on your right when you're going by there. And there was an attractive-looking female or whatever, and he went by it. Like, I didn't know if he heard me or not, Because about 20 seconds went by, and I'm like, I didn't hear it.

He goes, he goes, oh, yeah, she'll make a Bulldog bus log chain. That's not even mean. I mean, she's strong. Yeah. I mean, there was, Sterling was really, really fun. Super nice guy. Coolest part about that guy. We all back then, we were spoiled, we helicoptered.

After every race, he was on the back of a golf cart with two Coors Lights. Yeah, every race. Coos Latt Dodge. Yeah, everywhere. Every single race he, he was. He drank two cores lights and a way to help out. He still races, yeah. Yeah.

He still runs late models locally at Nashville Fairgrounds there, but he's a super good guy. If you ever get a chance to meet him, go and meet him. Yeah. I think that's the coolest part about our sport. I'm literally yesterday watching sports. I'm like, you can't go meet these guys. And then you all of a sudden you see all of these people on Twitter, a lot of their profile pictures, the ones that don't have eggs, they actually have their picture is with a race car

driver, you know. And I think that's the coolest part is how excessive. accessible our guys are because that makes our sports special. Yeah, long story short, when I lived in New York, my mom worked at Kodak. And Sterling drove for Kodak then right before he started before I moved down in North Carolina. And I had a few Sterling-Marlin posters on the wall. What did I know I'd be working with eventually? That's cool.

Hey, what do you think? Twitter should make their egg something way more, way worse than that. It should be like. Right, so they have to pick. Yeah, like, man, I don't want that. Yeah, like the do-do symbol or something. Yeah. Something.

Something, like a unicorn maybe? I don't know. That way you have to change it. At Zoom underscore Buck underscore 80, should NASCAR consider running more weekday races and more serious to have the possibility of more off weekends? I don't know. I don't know what a race during the weeknight would be like, honestly. I don't know.

I think looking at other sports, Monday night football, huge. Monday night national championship games. You're talking NCAA basketball and football, huge. Thursday night. NFL and college, huge. I think there is definitely a need for it. I just don't think we figured out logistically how to pull it off. You know, clearly when you look at the West Coast,

I would not do the West Coast for three weeks. I would do the West Coast, you know, run Saturday night, run Wednesday night, run Sunday. Like 10 days, three races, special tickets, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. We could pull it off. And give us another off weekend to this guy's point. So I think it's something to look at. I think that when you look at captive audiences on a one, Wednesday night, people are either a church or their home.

And at our crowd, I think they tune in for a 730 race on Wednesday night. I think, uh... He can't run it until midnight. You know, it needs to be a 300-mile or, but I think... I'm all four. You know, maybe doing like a Bristol, a Bristol on a Monday night or something, you know, the battle of Bristol on Monday night. Or they, or they all...

Maybe the All-Star Race weekend. Let's run around a Monday night, see what it goes like. You know? My favorite truck race is Eldora, and it's not because... It's not because it's that dirt track. It's because it's because it's that dirt track. It's because it's because it's... It's Wednesday.

I have nothing to do Thursday. Sorry about it. I don't say that. But literally, you can plan your whole year and say, Wednesday night, I know I'm watching the truck race leading into Indies. Well, you fire up your grill, and you get a couple of your friends over, and you have a reason to hang out on Wednesday night. Yep.

I mean, that's the way I look at. Every time I'm not there spotting it, I'm at home watching it. I love it. Yeah. At T. Bay Finn asked for something different at the All-Star Race. Let's run the race with no spotters, gentlemen, in your opinion? T-Bay Finn, you suck.

Yeah. What are you trying to, like, we'd be obsolete this podcast. Oh, T-Bay. I would rather do something different than that. It's also illegal. I did read someone's opinion that said the also race should just be an open race. Take the, get rid of the templates, get rid of the inspection. Yeah, I think that'd be cool.

Run what you're doing. Holy shit. I don't imagine that. Here's the thing that they don't realize. I mean, here's the thing that this guy right here, a girl, I don't know if it's a girl, but Charlotte is actually the reason. the reason we have spotters required for all practices and qualifying. We didn't use to. There was an incident involving an ARCA driver where an ARCA car spun, and I'm not going to name names, but 17 seconds later, another ARCA driver drove into the driver's side of that car, and the initial car that spun,

the driver was killed. He was killed because the other driver did not have a spotter, present on the top of the roof where you could see everything. And if that had been the case, there's no way that person loses their life. So people have to realize, you know, we're there for safety. We're there to keep these guys safe and knock on wood. I think we do a pretty darn good job of it. So just from a safety standpoint, taking spotters away, and stock cars is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

How do you think that would go now with their such reliance on you guys up there? You know what I mean? They rely on you for every practice. Honestly, you're not really going to change the racing a whole lot. Those guys, they're going to have a few more rubbing, you know, a little, a few more of that. Guys are going to feel it out more than just come up and stuff. But honestly, though, the few seconds, it's what Brett's talking about,

the few seconds that we can tell them about something earlier saves a life. And to me, if it saves one life, it's worth it. T.J. tweeted a video a few months ago about a spotter driver combo that completely looked like an idiot during a wreck, and it looked like the guy didn't have a spotter or that he was a driver not used to working with a spotter. And when you see those kinds of things happen, people can get hurt. I think to your question, guys like Kyle Larson, you know, grew up without spotters. I think they adapt quicker, but at the end of the day, T.J.'s point just said it.

If we can give them two seconds notice on a wreck and an incident and either save their equipment or save them from injury, we've paid our due. Yeah. Say Brett's going to run that all-star race with no spotters. He wrecks off a turn four. No, you know, I'm going into turn three or whatever, down the backstretch. I have no idea. Still coming.

Still going. No idea. I get off of turn four and I'm full throttle. when he's sitting in the race track. I already got his belts undone, getting ready to get out and I blast him. Yeah, it's over. And to TJ's point of that story,

NASCAR has multiple spotters around the track. So they have one on the roof with us. They have one and turn one, one and turn two, one down the back stretch, blah, blah, blah. They don't always see the wrecks as quick as we do. So you would say,

oh, and to TJ's argue his point, well, NASCAR is going to throw the yellow, you'll know in time. There are some times where it's seven, eight seconds after the caution, and you'll hear us say on the radio, spin behind you and know, yellow yet. NASCAR hasn't seen it.

We'll run for five or six more second. And a lot of times they're on top of it, but to TJ's point, we help these guys stay safe. So this is just... NASCAR helps us, and we help NASCAR, because they monitor us, and they hear one of us say, spin in turn three. Yeah. They know to look that way real quick if they're monitoring us as well, and we hear NASCAR.

Turn four, so we all look. We look. Yeah. An accident happened at Bristol a handful of years ago with Kevin. If you look away, you can... As soon as you look away from a corner, a guy can wrecked there. And if you look back four seconds later, you got to remember that guy that was on the front stretch is now coming off turn two almost. Yeah. So it's that fast.

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Very good at that. All right. All right. TJ, you're going first. Okay. Ready? Last week, NASCAR announced the new All-Star format. This includes the optional use of softer tires.

How do you think teams will use this tire and will some teams opt to not use it? I don't think you will not use a softer tire. I think if it's softer, it's faster, you're going to use it. I, you know, hey, it's something different. Let's try it. See if it works. It's better than not changing anything. You know, let's keep trying different stuff.

I want to make an all-star race. I'll tell you in a minute. Teams are going to use this tire. It's going to be faster. It's going to be a lot faster on the early side of the run. Here's my thing. Why can't we make all tires soft and make them all last forever? I don't want to see a hard tire anywhere that we go.

So I'm a big fan of hopefully this softer tire experiment. Goodyear gets more confidence in their ability to make this tire and make it last. They don't want to put a product on the racetrack that's blowing tires, but we want to see a race. Yeah, I want to see, I want a softer tire. want a shorter segment at the end there where does the leader stay out does the leader pit? I want him to think about man, should we pit here? Should we try to win this race? Oh man.

10th on back pit it. We're done. And did you see what they're doing? So the open is a 50 lap race. Three drivers transfer in. Seems a little bit much. Yeah. It's supposed to be just a winner.

Yeah. Should be just the winner. Well, now it's three winners. It's three segment winners plus I guess a fan vote. Oh. So everybody's in the big race. Pretty much. So boom, we get in the big race.

Now this race is 70 laps. 40, 60, 10, 10 lap, 10 lap at the end. If you come in and get softer tires, you have to start behind everybody that doesn't get softer tires. So if you come in with your pit stop and you come out fourth and the two guys behind you have put on hard tires, you now have to start seventh because those two guys get the pass. You are six.

Yeah. That's interesting. It's, thank God Brad Keslowski didn't come up with the rules because we all saw how that happened last year. But I think they're trying an experiment with tires that hopefully we see good results. Well, I think whatever they do, they need to sit down and think about how guys are going to play this. Like, now the big thing is playing the last year they rode around. If you won, you rode around half throttle.

Save your tires. Now with these stages, basically if you're leading the second stage and the kosher comes out with 10 last of four at the end of the stage, you are, you're in trouble. Yeah. Because everyone behind you from about fifth on back is going to pit. Not a fan of this elimination crap that we're doing. We're only going to let 10 guys run that final segment. Seems crazy. Yeah.

I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Whatever. How long is the final segment? 10 laps. 10 laps would be fine. But the bigger, the field, the better, though. I like the fact that the guys, you know, if two guys are racing for the elimination spot,

they're going to be gouging a little bit, which I like. I like putting the pressure on the drivers. I got it to. Three-time F-1 world champion, Louis Hamilton, said that he wants to race in the Daytona 500. If this happens, do you think he would be competitive? T.J. Brett's turn. Brett's turn.

Negative. Here's the thing about this question. Would he be competitive in the Daytona 500? If he's in a B-level car or better, absolutely. There's not an easier race to run from a parity standpoint in terms of after qualifying, your car is able to keep up. So I definitely think he would be competitive. I'm a fan of his.

I would love to see him come in and try to run this race. And I know that all the drivers would embrace this if something like this happens. I, on the other hand, think Lewis, Hamilton is a badass in Formula One, but I do not think he would be competitive. I've seen many guys that have raised cup cars for numerous years lose it off corners there, and I don't think he's prepared for that. Chase Elliott's first time at Daytona 500. Some phenomenal talent.

What's he do? Rex by himself out of term four. Lewis Hamilton is not ready. Talladega would be a better place for him to start, in my opinion. We were in Nashville a few years ago. They did Sound and Speed a big charity event there, and Lewis Hamilton was here testing the Austin track. We were all in Nashville. Had no idea. We're in a place called the stage. Clint Boyer, Casey Kane, a lot of cup drivers are in there. Lewis Hamilton walks in looking for these guys.

Wanted to say hello. I wanted to talk with them. Mike Helton was in there. I've never seen drivers more star-struck when I got another person walked in. Oh my God, they were in heaven. So I think it would be, again, a big, big deal if a guy like, I mean, we've seen Motoya come out of F1 and get here and struggle. I mean, he ran good at plate tracks. Road course is indie, but to TJ's point, yes, it's hard, but I still think he can run the Dayton. I watched Kimmy Rikin and come over here and run a Kyle Busch truck who's usually fairly competitive. Great truck. And looked like he looked terrible at Charlotte.

That's different than Daytona. Way harder. Yeah, but still, I mean, the same concept, to me, if you can, you're either a road racer. That's way different type road racing to me. But those guys are ridiculously good too at that stuff. What is your favorite thing, least favorite thing about stage racing so far in 2017, TJ? The fact that if you're leading near the front and the second stage, you're pretty much a sitting duck for the third stage.

You know, I don't like, I don't know, it's going to be hard to ever fix, but I don't know. I don't like the fact that Ryan Blaney had dominated that race, won the second stage and got put 20 something after that. My favorite thing is more cars on the lead lap. I think if you're trying to sell sponsorship, you can't do that if you're not able to finish on the lead lap. So that's definitely my favorite thing in terms of competition.

least favorite thing is guys like Ryan Blaney not getting a chance in younger series and the other series to be able to pack the practice hot green flag stops that hurt him in the race he had a bad pit stop after the fact so these guys that don't have experience by the time they get to the cup level their first time pit in our green is going to be in a cup race they're going to get their ass kicked all right now I go to my favorite thing which is exactly what happened at martinsville you got a guy that saved his race because he moved the leader up the track to get a lap back basically any finished top what he finished top six for seven or something, he came back with the top 10 in that race.

Probably because he made that move on Kyle Busch. Yeah, it caused Kyle Busch segment, but that's the type of stuff that this day of racing it brings upon us. Yeah. Kyle Busch moved Ricky Stenhouse, and Ricky Stenhouse ran him back down and moved him and made Kyle not win the second segment. But Ricky was also not going to get the Lucky Dog either because Austin Dillon was getting ready to be it. Right.

So Ricky saved himself. Yes. Possibly his race. Absolutely saved it. Did you guys forget the format of this part of the show? show? No. Were you adding four other rebuttals?

What's a special show? The off-the-wall topic. WrestleMania recently occurred in Orlando, Florida. Who is your favorite wrestler of all time? Brett Ski. Woo! The nature boy. There is only one wrestler that can be called a nature boy.

He came out at $10,000 robes. Holy shit. What? He has the best one-liners ever. Yeah. Ever. Space Mountain. Oldest ride in the park, but I still got the longest line.

Be the man, you got to beat the man. I was more of a fan of, there was a tandem duo. I was never a big wrestling fan, but I liked the Bushwhackers back in the day. You remember them too, guys? I liked the Bushwhackers, and then, of course, I liked the Rock. Who was that guy that used to kiss his muscles and say, like, pop-a-lump or whatever? Big pop-a-pump is your hook-up.

Hala, if you hear me. What was some other? There was macho man, Randy said. Was there a midget? I don't call a big midget. I was a big Ricky Steamboat fan, Rick Flair, Road Warriors. Yeah. You guys like the Hulk Hogan.

Totally Blanchard. Well, see, Hulk Hogan was WWF. We didn't watch that down here. We watched NWA. So we didn't start watching that until, God, we were probably in high school. I did love the Rock, though, man. Andre the Giant. Like, that was on WWF.

Yeah. What was the, there was a little kid something. The 1, 2, 3 kid? Maybe. Xbox. Yeah, I can't remember. The Rock always had a lot of good one-liners, too. He was awesome.

Can you smell? La La La La La Roque. It's cooking. Know your damn roll, Grobony. Yeah. Stone Cold, he's awesome too. Oh, yeah, that was, he'd always break the beer. Goldbird.

There's so many good ones, but my, my youth was Rick Flair, man. The four horseman. God. That one dude killed himself, Chris Benoit. Yeah, Chris Benoit's right. Those guys, man. The amount of damage to their body and their brain. And they're constantly, so they don't regulate steroid use, right?

I think they do now. They do, honestly, even though it's not a real. I'll tell you what they don't regulate. I haven't known some of them guys, and I mean, I hate Seth, but they don't regulate pain pills. And they have to have them because their bodies are beat to crap. And, you know, I mean, God, just taking them beating day in and day out.

Insane. Mad props. We're going to go into some more Asked BBC for the guys here. You ready? Brett at Copeland, Zach asked. Thoughts on the sticky stuff used on the track at Bristol? Should more places try things like it? You know, I see the sticky stuff, and I see it all on the bottom groove.

And I guess the weird thing is we've seen the groove at Bristol go to the top. So these guys unload, they're going to all run the bottom, and then they're going to all run the middle, and then they're going to all run the top after they get it blown off. Okay. So by the time you get to run the top, guess what's going to happen that sticky stuff on the bottom? It's going to already be worn out. It's almost like they should have put it.

a little bit in the middle and a little bit more on the bottom and maybe even do it right before the race starts. I don't know, but I don't think it's going to fix what this. Nothing is going to bring back the old Bristol. Not unless we run the bottom. We run the bottom. We don't have a problem. So, I don't know.

Fastest ways around the top. You're going to go around the top. Yeah. I do, some of the old, like, if you watch a, I've watched a couple, I've seen a couple Twitter highlights of old races there. Man, there were some good ones. I watched Jeff move Rusty Walls one time. for the wind. You see Biggie try to wreck the five. He did wreck them. Terry. Yeah.

I remember that car driving in a victory lane with a water spraying out of it still. That's pretty awesome. They were booing. They were booing. They were pissed. People were mad. They were mad. We didn't used to have the tunnel that you guys have to be able to leave. Oh, really? So for whatever reason, we had already been wrecked that day, and I was just hanging out on the infield in the trailer. And when it happened, yeah, we were stuck there. I mean, there, Marksville, when you got there, you were done. You weren't leaving. It's like a local short track. You get to the field you're there until that race is over yeah yeah there's no worst place right anyway it was i love old bump and runs yeah at cornwood asked which age brackets get more total ones in 2017

drivers in their 20s or their 40s yeah we're skipping 30s huh we don't matter i mean it's going to be hard not to say the 40s still how old's kezlowski no he's 30s 33 so legano's 20s yeah he's the late 20s so you he's not late i bet he's like 26 no way ain't old. I think he's older than that. I bet he's 26. I'm going 27 or 8ish. I got to say guys in the 40s.

I mean, you still got Harvick, you still got Jimmy, you still got Matt. You got a bunch of badasses. That's, you know, again, this youth movement. 27. The youth movement, they try to force it down your throats. But guys in the 40s are still selling tickets and putting eyeballs on TV sets. Those are the class. You know, those are like all those guys are just mentioned wrestlers, man.

Those are our top guys. And you can't ever count out Jimmy Johnson and Harvick. Harvard's been fast. You got a lot of guys in that group still that know how to get it done. Yeah. At Sminer 15 asks,

which driver currently racing do you think would make the best spotter and which do you think would make the worst? Oh. Clint. ADD. He wouldn't even watch. He going.

Yeah. Hey, guys. Look lightning. Oh. Are you okay? Look over there. Yeah, I got to say Clint would make a good one. I agree with that.

If he pays attention. Yeah. I'm going with Clint's not going to pay a 10th. Them mile and a half is going to get strung out. What's Clint going to do? He needs one of them things that you're spinning your hands to keep your occupied or something, like a counter or something.

He can keep counting. He would need therapy. I think... They're still racing right here. You'd have to tap on his shoulder. Still racing. Still racing. I think you need a handler.

Any of those guys we just mentioned, once they got into the flow of it, though, they might not be the best right away, but once you get somebody like... Once you get somebody like Jimmy or even Jr. or Matt, once that know where the fastways are on, Harvard could probably be a great spotter if he wasn't screaming.

You know, those guys that know where the speed is and can actually, but they got to figure out what it looks like instead of being inside the car. We know what it looks like. They know what it's the drive it like, so they're going to have to figure that out. Here's the thing. Any former driver that is on the roof

spotting, either A, wasn't a good driver, or B, didn't make enough money. These guys that we're talking about, they're never going to spot. They're not going to have to do that. They're not going to have to. No. If you've seen Denny Hamlin's new house?

Holy crap. It's 30,000 square foot. It's huge. He could spot and not afford to pay his power bill of that place. So, yeah, I think there are tax brackets a little bit different than the spotter piece. I think they'll be fine. And he put his Daytona 500 car in his living room. Yeah.

Because he can. Who wouldn't? Trampoline room. I mean. Full court indoor basketball. Why didn't I get rich parents? Well, Brett's going to buy it. and Denny sells it.

Yeah. At Robert underscore Jones underscore 28 asks, what do you think it says about the state of F1 with Alonzo making an Indy 500 run instead of Monaco? I don't know. I mean, these are, Monaco is a prestigious race, but maybe Alonzo didn't feel like he had as good of a shot to win Monaco.

And this is like, when you come to run, the Indy 500 is huge, man. Yeah. So in Daytona 500, those are huge races, like Super Bowls. So if you've got a chance to run them in a competitive car, you probably want to do it. I think on an international front, Monaco is obviously bigger, but in terms of the way we appreciate motorsports here in America, I think the Daytona 500 is number one, Indy 500 is second. It's a distant second, but I think the guy's brilliant for doing it, man.

Why not be diverse? I think it might open the door for more to try it too. If he comes over here and has a successful run, and don't get me wrong, he's going to transfer to that way easier than, then Lewis Hamelin is going to transfer to a cup car of the Daytona 500. This guy's going to pick this stuff up. He's going to figure it out. He's going to go through all. They practiced for like a month before they race, too.

Here's the thing. You could take our top 10 guys and you could go put them in their cars, and they would still be really good drivers. And it would bring their top 10 guys. I mean, Kurt Busch had never driven an Indy car. He ran sixth into Indy 500. If you took all those top 10 indie car guys with zero experience, they put them in a stock car,

Indy? They wouldn't run 30th. Like extreme, extreme difficulties in terms of what those cars are at capable of. We've seen that numerous times. We've seen guys go over there. Now, if we go to Long Beach or something like that with a guy, Kurt, he probably wouldn't run six. Right. But if you go to an oval, it just translates.

The ovals translate much easier from Cup to Indy than it does from Indy to Cup. Yep. Great. At Donald Mosley 88 asks, is it easier to have the Dayglow decals on the roof for Super Speedway events to spot better? T.J's car so freaking bright. He don't even need a decal. That exalted car is gorgeous.

So bright. They could honestly just get rid of roof numbers because I don't think I can remember the last time I looked at one. If you've got a dull paint scheme, it does help. I mean, honest to God, like if you've got a, we used to run one with M&Ms, it was a gray and white car. And, man, until they put that orange day glow on top, I could not find the car in the corners. It was bad. We didn't use binoculars as much as we do now either, but I still think those numbers look cool. You know, they might, you need, and the thing is even people at home, you need something that pops to make your eye go, I know whose car that is.

So I still think they're cool. I like reflective numbers, too. Like, they used to be able to run back in the day. Short tracks can run them locally most of the time, but used to be able to run some really cool reflective numbers. But maybe it's for TV more. I don't know. Maybe you see them on TV more than anything. But most time, when you see them on TV, you'd recognize the car before the number.

Some paint schemes are hard to pick up. Some are easy. I mean, we've ran so many of them. The Exalted car is exceptional, though. It's awesome. It's crazy because used to you were the same sponsor all year. So you knew your eye got trained to that car. Now we all switch paint schemes.

So frequently, you literally are like... Right, you're switching this weekend from one way into armor. Armour. Yeah, armor car. That's a bright gold-flect car, though. Yeah, yeah. But you look at Kurt's 41 Hosscar and then Clint's 14 Hosscar. and then the next week,

if Clint's running a different one of Kurt still running, you look out there and you're like, oh, shit. Am I haas? Or, uh-oh, like, you can create a sense of panic for a few seconds until you figure it all out. Sometimes when you go to do an arc or race something,

you have two team cars. They paint them just liking each other and just change the number on them. Like one will be 65, the other one is 66, and you're like, guys, did you not think about this? Like, when you're racing, like if you run a Dayton or something, you might want to have a little bit different.

Make one yellow and one orange, something. Yeah. We got eight minutes. minutes to finish the show so Kristen can go to work. I have a conference call. I have a conference call at 2.30. Oh, got a hustle. You guys got a rant?

I got something I want to, TJ's opinion on. Okay. So we look at Hendrick last week. No. Hendrick and Gibbs had not won a race going into last week. Jimmy fixed that. Surprise, Jimmy Johnson, right? Gibbs is struggling, and I think, I'm curious as to why TJ thinks are struggling.

I look back at, you know, when we ran this rules package at Kentucky, we ran it at Michigan, they didn't put any effort into it, and all of a sudden they got a new nose. I don't think furniture rose behind because Eric Jones is top 10 every week. Martin Truex is leading laps, but Joe Gibbs Racing is certainly not what they were last year. Yeah, I don't, I think with Jimmy running for the championship, a lot more focus went to that right then too is because he was obviously won the championship, as it got closer, more focus went into it. But I don't, I feel like we've been competitive as far as, like, I think the 88 has a top seven car every week. week, but we just haven't had much of a chance to show it.

As far as Casey's still quietly, he's had a mechanical problem last week. We're talking about Gibbs. Oh, I thought you said Hendrick. Kristen, help me. Sorry. I can't. I thought you said Hendricks. I said, what do you think is wrong with Gibbs?

Why are they so off? I think it's pretty much like you said. I feel like they put a lot of focus in the last year, and they thought they were that much better that they would get to this year and translate better. Now they're struggling. Yeah. So. I don't know if they're exactly.

struggling as much as people. I mean, they're still fast. Match wrecking a lot. Suarez can't finish on the lead lap. Well, Kyle has contended to win a race or two. Suarez is going to have them ups and downs like that. Haven't seen the Denny Hamlin of old yet. No.

They're per car, the 18 is... Denny's been bad. The 18 is close. Everybody else is not even in the... You think it's the new format? Does that have anything to do with it? No, they just don't... They're not running where they normally are running.

Yeah. You look at the top 10, there's like one Gibbs car there now, not it's not like it's not second fourth and eighth it's now it's like seventh you got to question how long will they keep this alliance with furniture row maybe it's forever but the two furniture row cars are constantly kicking their tails it's hard to believe that i can give you the ammunition to fight me with and you're going to beat me how much longer am i going to keep giving you that ammo yeah and especially well number one they're probably going to keep it up until they make a make a spot for their driver over there, Eric Jones, because they're going to want him to keep running good.

You know, after Eric, I can maybe see something changing there, but until a seat opens up for Eric, which I don't know, there's a Gibson out this week, right? Is there? Yeah, I thought there was a JGR announcement this week. Maybe there's not. I haven't seen it, but if it is, it'll come out tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

I don't know. But, you know, I think, and I don't know when exactly a seat's going to open up for that, does Carl come back before Eric gets his seat? Yeah. I don't know. But that'll be in our silliest season talk. curious, which will start a couple months. Gosh.

It fires off around Charlotte, so we're only a month away. I cannot believe it's almost May. All right, Brett is kicking TJ's ass in the DBC picks. Five to two. You know what sucks? You know what sucks? What sucks is I lead, like, majority of it. And then at the end, I'm like, son of a gun.

I'm a closer. I'm like four positions behind him. Closer. It's ridiculous. All right. We play hockey. I play baseball. I'm still playing hockey, I guess.

T.J. You have two minutes to make. make a pick because I got to go upstairs. I'm going to use one minute, 59 seconds. Hope you know you want. I do. I'm not a buffalo on your shirt. I'm probably going to make a mistake here, but I'm going to do it anyway.

You go first, though. Well, you never know what's going to happen here. This is where someone like Lending Castle with a lucky dog and a caution at the right time. Can finish eight. Can finish top 10. Yeah. So. Get the top on a couple restarts.

Exactly. Yeah. So this is why I'm going to go to Stanhouse. Stenhouse. He is top five for that place recently and he's going to continue it. I think Ricky's a good pick. I'm going to go with a guy that can't stop finish in second, except for that time he won.

And I think this is his best track. Who? Kyle Larson. Oh, yeah. I like Kyle on the fence this weekend. That's a good pick. Solid. Really, that's a good pick.

He's only finished second. How do you say it's not a good pick? That's a good pick. He finished a second every week. It's a brilliant pick. She likes my picks. That's fine. I'm going to save Larson for later on when I need that extra bonus there.

Hey, Bristol, this is where we went to the Hooters last year. Yeah, and we met all. all of your cousins slash friends for the wings. For the wings. My marine buddies came by. And I must have had eight gluten-free beers. And I got so sick the next day, not from the alcohol, but there was so much sugar in it that it made my stomach so sick.

Yeah. I don't know how you survive. There's too much sugar and stuff. We were there for like four hours. Yeah. A couple shit changes. Yeah. Good old hooters.

And it's going to rain this time. Well, it's right next to our hotel. That's a lot of wings. You got to stay at the red roof in again? No. Last year. I got bedbugs in that place. No, you did.

Remember, I came in here and I was ate up. Dave Allen's sheets had blood on them. Oh, there was a murder. There was a murder there. Our crew chief. Oh, no. Are you sure? There was like dirt and blood on the ironing board.

That's who irons in a hotel anyway. We do, because I wear like a polo. Can you iron for me if I ever need something? Yeah. I'll iron for you. Because when I iron one side, it looks real good. And when I turn over, it looks like Tim. Yeah.

That's when I learned that Will, Elliot's bus, was very valuable because he, like, brought all the alcohol. Yeah. And maybe you should just pack wrinkle or at least, but you're probably allergic to it. Bring your rain boots. Bring your rain boots. Bristol, here we come.

And your chicken wings. All right, everyone. Leave us a review. Yeah, check it out. We'll see you after Bristol. It's free to review us as well on iTunes. If you send proof of a review, we should give somebody something.

I will send you Brett's socks. My socks are awesome. America. Got them from Cloud Ribs. Yeah. Josh is going to take care of any. that sends a review in that they've done. Josh is going to send them a signed picture of himself.

Yeah. We can make, Josh, keep the goalies in play for you. All of them. We don't need any rumors. Look at the time. I'm going to go jump on a call.

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