Door Bumper Clear - 66 - TJ & Brett Takeover

Episode Date: July 5, 2017

TJ and Brett takeover DBC for the day and record from a mobile podcast unit at TJ’s house. They talk Daytona, this weekend’s race in Kentucky, and their upcoming video commercial debut that they forgot to dress up for and try passing the blame! Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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You're going to win it. Right with you, you're clear. Check the flag. You're in. Hey, everybody, it's TJ Majors. Spotter the 88 cup car, the 7xfinity car, and the 29 truck, and solo with me today. Brett Griffin, Spotter, Clint Boyer, off a second place. Elliot Sadler off a second place. And I got Mayette Snyder this weekend. I was off the hook all weekend. You were off the hook. I was off the hook. Dang it. What happened with Algar, man?

Uh, just pushing too hard at the end. Everybody knows it. tail and we were behind the 33 trying to give him a push and he was not going very straight. And it's hard to push when they're not going very straight. And I think when Justin got there, the 33 was trying to push the other guy turning a little bit and it just doesn't line up very well. Yeah. What happened to L. Jr., man? You guys had a try a night. We had a lot of stuff going on.

We got hit in a turn one by Brad. We were up against the wall. That's what happened? No, that was actually fine. and Brad came up there and we kind of, we hit doors, and I thought we were wrecking. This is racing for the lead, and I saw the flames come out of Brad's pipe, so I know he lifted. Yeah. So I know it kind of scared him for a second, and everything was fine from that.

And then later on, a little bit later, we were up against the wall coming out of turn four, and I think we were four wide, and it was real tight, and Brad was inside of us, and somebody was inside him, And he kind of had that deal going on where he was, I think it was just the air moving to the car too. Yeah. He had that deal where he was moving a couple feet to the left, a couple feet to the right, and got us in the quarter panel a little bit in it. We were already basically against the wall. And that little bit of a nudge hit us into the wall a little bit.

And I think that's what caught our tire. We ended up cutting it right front a little bit later. How many laps you lose, two? We lost two on pit road under green. It blew into turn one, limped around, pitted. Yeah. Fixed everything. Came back out, two laps down.

Got a lucky dog and then got another lucky dog when the stage ended, I believe. So we come back from that, got back up to sixth, I believe we were running, and the four car cut that left rear tire, I believe. Yeah, I think Blaney got into him, man. You know, some of those young kids, I respect them a lot. I think they're doing a lot of great things, but their side drafting is out of control. I mean, they literally think they got to do it both ends every lap. And then, like, as tight is, like, I understand last run of the race, you know, last

40 laps the race. You got out position. If you're not pitting again, you've got out position. But right now, that race was fairly aggressive, I thought. There was no. The door slammed us. Then he door slammed the four. Four cut of tire down.

I went down to Josh. I was like, look, man, calm the kid down. You can't side draft every single lap. I will say that's pointless. That's one, Ryan Blaney's going to be in the sport for a long time. And obviously he knows how to win races already. But he's, he's. I still think he drives a little bit too hard and that that hurts him sometimes.

Some situations you don't need to. It's easier, like I've always said, this is easier to slow him down than it is to speed him up. I agree. This is not, you know, it sucks for other people and Ryan at times right now, but it's, he will learn from that. Yeah, that's when the spotters can make a difference too, though. I agree. You've got to be able to have the balls to key up the mic and say, hey, Ryan, you're being a little bit too, aggressive weight a little bit.

Yeah, and that goes not just with plate racing. That goes with everywhere. That goes with anywhere that, you know, they can, you know, that's why I like the, a driver needs to have a spotter that they can respect. Yeah. That's the only way it's really going to work. That spotter has to be able to key up at any point in time and say, look, you're, you need to quit that.

You're being, you know, you need to listen. Yeah. And without screaming at him, the driver needs to understand and listen, this guy's telling you this for a reason. He's not telling it to you. because he wants to lose, he's telling you because it's the right thing to do. So that's a one important. It's not often I go to guys out of just friendship, but I went to Josh,

and I was like, your guy's out of control. You need to calm him down. I don't know if you tried or not. Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure. I think Josh is a good fit with Ryan. They're close to get along, but sometimes I think you can be almost too close to the same age. And maybe, you know, I'm not sure Josh has enough experience. He's been doing spotting for a while, but does he have enough experience where Ryan's going to, you know, is he going to be able to tell Ryan what to do?

But they'll build that over time as well. But we're kind of off the wall this week with, we're actually recording from my house. Newhouse, brand new house. J.R.M, everyone's basically taking a couple days off here. They just quit. They left. William Byronerman is two in a row. They get a couple days off.

Yeah, he almost won three in a row. Yeah. It should have been three in a row, honestly. Should have been. Yeah. So, you know, maybe if he wins again, they'll get three days off and let the record again somewhere. Kristen had sick last week. Not only knows where she's at today.

Yeah. Well, she did notify us a little bit ago that she was able to record, but it was a little past to... Yeah, the cutoff. The cutoff. What do you think Josh is at? Face down on the roof of a Vegas hotel. Wearing a speedo. Wearing a speedo, probably.

I hope he saves his back, because he looks like he'd be a hairy-ass dude. Yeah, he does. And plus it'd show off his rainbow tattoo on the lower back. He's 6'5 with a tramp stamp. And a bum leg right now. With that big-ass boot on his leg. Yeah, with a boot on his leg. God.

So we're really not going to do any of the normal stuff here. We're just going to wing it. We're just going to wing it here. And I think one of the things we were going to go over is, you know, the Iowa stuff. We kind of hit the Iowa last week a little bit. but something happened after Iowa that is kind of embarrassing to us. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah. We have a, we have a, when you do the non-companion races,

there's a lot of spotters that fill in and you don't, you know, a lot of them, it's a good opportunity for them to go and make a name for themselves. But it's also, this is the bad part of it. I think we could probably key it up, couldn't we? Yeah, he can keep up some of it. Let me find it real quick here. So this kid named Ford Martin filled in for Earl Barbin. And Earl's been around a long time.

Big shoes to fill. Earl was in the Marines. He came into the sport, Jackman for Rusty Wallace, mechanic for Rusty Wallace. Currently a spotter for Chase Elliott. I'm sorry, Jimmy Johnson, drives Chase Elliott's Motor Home. the spots for William Byron. I mean, Earl's done a lot in the sport. Big, big shoes to fill. And this kid, Ford Martin, comes in. He comes from a racing background. Gilmartin's his dad. But he comes in, and fortunately for him, wins a race. It's great. Junior Motorsports, big deal.

But then he gives this interview where he comes off as this arrogant and I think TJ's going to play a clip. Yeah, so he calls into this radio show that Dave Moody has. Calls in now. That's a big part of it. He wasn't. They had William on the show. Yeah. And then he called in after saying that he was spotting for, you know, William Bauer in that race. And he goes on about a 10-minute interview of how great he is. And this is just a little clip right here.

All right, here goes. You play that spotter coverage on Fox Sports? You on Fox Sports, huh? Of course. I mean, I would have a spot for it. Were you the one saying, go high, go high. No, wait, I meant low. Oh, sorry, dude.

Was that you? It was more like winter, winter chicken dinner. Yeah. So. A little stuck on himself. He couldn't even say Fox Sports. I didn't even. He told me through you, Sparder.

I don't even know what they play on there. But apparently he is all into it. Yeah. So that's, he said William Byron could not have won that race without him. Oh, he did. Yeah. Oh, in that same interview. It's an eight-minute interview.

Kevin Hamlin sent me the entire interview. How is it not? how was it and how could he have not won that race like don't get me wrong william earned michigan yes earned you know earned detona yeah i mean we'll talk about that in a minute but he was the right place right time he put himself in that position yeah but iowa things the seas parted for him there worked out perfectly he didn't he had to race ryan seek he had to race jeremy clements ross shastain he wasn't raced in the best of the field he was not racing people that that Honestly, it was fairly easy for him.

He pretty much... At that point, yeah. At that point, yeah. And where the cautions fell, he never even... He was not going to win that race until that caution fell at the right time. Yeah. But that's part of it. It is.

And he was at the right spot at the right time then and kind of wanted. But it wasn't because of Ford Martin. No, Ford Martin did not create the caution that gave him that big of a lead. Ford Martin called... Ford Martin basically cleared him into turn one and that was it on the final restart. Yeah. After that, it was done. Before that yellow, Ford Martin was...

going to run fifth to tenth or wherever he was running with him. I forget where exactly he was running, but he wasn't leading the race. No. But yeah. So anyway, moving on from that. Be a little more humble guy. Let me give you some advice. And here's the other thing.

We are 40 people. There's only 40 of us in the world on a Sunday. And for this guy to get this opportunity to be one of 40 on a Saturday is a big deal. It really is. It's a good opportunity. But don't come off the hills of such a great moment and be a complete ass. Yeah. Because you're now a peer of ours, and I don't know how other than to say this,

other than just say this, you just lost the respect of all 40 of us that do this on Sunday. You agree with that? Yeah, I mean, nobody up there is going to high-five him when he comes to the roof again. They're all going to be. We're laughing at him. Yeah, it's not. We are. We're basically laughing at him, yeah.

Yeah. And it makes us look bad too. Like, you know, go in, win a plate race where you actually had to fend off, you know, a handful of cup guys or something. Yeah, you know, and then brag about a little bit, but, you know, not off an Xfinity win at Iowa like that. But Williams on fire, though. Totally. And good for him. And obviously it was victorious again in Daytona.

And I didn't see him winning that race until late in the race there. I mean, I didn't think, I didn't really, he wasn't really a factor until it kind of cycled there again. Dave Ellins is making some great calls. He is. He's making some. He always has. He's putting, uh, he's putting William in spots where, and it works both ways.

I mean, the crew chief helps the driver out and the driver goes and does his job. They win the race. Yeah. You know, Dave puts the strategy out there and William, uh, adheres to it and, you know, does his end and they win the race. So, William, Williams has been holding up his end. Big, big bonus points too, man. He's got 10 bonus points out of wins.

Yeah, he's got to be, he's only guy with two wins, right? Yeah. So he's top of the board. Yeah. Yeah, he's done. Yeah, wouldn't that be something for him to win a championship? Any second in points. So if you win regular season, that's another.

If he finish his second regular season, that's another 10 points. Yeah. So he's carrying a lot of bonus points in this playoff. Yeah, the regular season is by far going to be won by one of our three cars. Yeah, you know, so. No doubt. Yeah. But, you know, the ending to the Daytona race was a little questionable to me.

Yeah. Just because of I saw the wreck and I saw where the leaders were and they weren't across that line. They were nowhere near the line. They were nowhere near the line. Did you see the picture of it? No. I'll show you a picture. I saw them wrecked.

You know, we're coming off two. We're on the flat. We start, they start wrecking. And I'm sitting there watching it. I mean, that's the wreck. That's pretty bad to me. Yeah. Yeah.

That guy is no. A quarter mile from it. That's too far to me. Yeah. We, we, this goes back to, there's so much judgment call on this stuff. Like, why, we could have race three quarters of a lap at Talladega. Right. Whenever we lost to Joey Lugano there a couple years ago, we could have ran another

couple corner, another corner or so. And then you let this roll out and there's a wreck back here and you let it go a little bit further. Yeah. I don't know. I just wish. This overtime line thing is out of control period. It is. I mean, it just, when you look at this race, it's a 100 lap race.

and it literally came down to half a lap. Maybe we don't do a green white checker, but if you take the white flag at a plate track, it's over. The white flag is the key. We got to cross a line. When we're under green, we race until the white, and then the white is official. If we finish the lap, great.

If we don't, the race is official. We need to make that the rule that when you take the white flag, no matter what scenario, that's when the race is official. This overtime line is stupid. I mean, I'm looking at a car perpendicular to the wall, and the leaders are still a quarter mile yeah they're just off a two

and yeah and uh they're I mean that that that to me should be I mean we shouldn't have probably finished right there as soon as I call the wreck the next thing I did was looked to see where the overtime line was yeah and I see we're not there oh I saw the wreck and then you count you know 1,0004

and then 1,004 we're by the line and then they throw the caution it's like hey man race is over I saw the wreck and I looked up and literally watched it wait to throw the caution Like it wasn't like put it out. There's a wreck over there. It was like, oh, there's a wreck, but wait, wait, wait, okay, put it out. Right.

So I don't like that. But anyway, what else you got? I just say the overtime line, do away with it. You have to get to the white flag for the race to be a racial. If you take the white of the plate track, the race is over. Yeah. At the other place. Because here's the other thing, man.

I can manipulate that, right, as a driver. Yeah. If I'm sitting there and I'm running 8th and we cross the overtime line, I can create a wreck if you're leading and I won't. my teammate to be locked into the playoff. I mean, that's true. And I mean, look, a lot of things have happened. I remember as a kid, you know, Dale Earnhardt's about to get a lap,

Dave Marcus Rex, every single time. Yeah. Like, it's going on forever, but you don't need to create scenarios where it's in my control. And that's what that overtime line does. No, yeah. Because we're not even up to speed there. I mean, you know, Laning Castle is having a great race leading the cup race. who's his teammate there?

David Reagan, having a bad time, having a bad night. Right. You know, who's to say that going into three, they're saying, hey, Landon's leading, need a yellow. Yeah. Coming to the white flag. Right. We're not even up to speed at a place like Daytona.

I mean, that gets that guy in the chase. Oh, yeah. And that's not really, it could turn down to something like that. I saw, I didn't listen to the audio clip, but I did see where Steve O'Donnell issued a statement saying they're going to revisit it for 2018. Here's how you revisit it, Steve. You do away with it.

Yeah. I like the three attempts at a green-white checker. We rarely get to three of them. I don't think we've ever done three. I don't think we've ever done three. I remember trucks, they did like five. Yeah. But here's the thing, man.

You pay to see a race. You ought to get to see it in. I agree. I don't agree with it. You know, you need to see, you know, if you take the white flag at a cup race, it should be over. We can't keep. No. We can't keep doing it there.

That's too. that's too risky there. It's expensive. But, I mean, I'm not going to lie at short tracks. That could be pretty exciting. Yeah. And some people are going to leave pretty mad, but I guarantee them fans are going to be happy when they leave. Yeah.

They're going to see a good show. But race in general, man, I thought the Xfinity race is usually the better package for entertainment. And I think the Xfinity race, man, it was hard to pass. It was tough. That Xfinity race was pretty good. It was hard to pass. I thought the Cup race was actually very competitive. Yeah.

Very, very competitive. You could kind of, you didn't want to get caught on the bottom. But I watched some tape for last year, and people, you wanted to use the bottom a lot more. Yeah. It was weird how it was working out. I thought the cup race was good. You saw a lot of guys. I saw the 95 up there.

I saw Landing Castle up there. I saw the 38 up there. I saw all these guys that I had to look twice with their cars and be like, who's that? That car is really up here? Right. And they were legit running in the top five or six at points. Right. And I think that's good.

I thought Larson was driving over his head. When he decided to go there, there for a while, he definitely, he laid back there and didn't really, it wasn't. But when he decided to go, he knifed up through there pretty good. But he was another one. That's two weeks in a row where I've seen him, I've seen him kind of drive harder than what I thought he should have needed to drive at that point. You brought this up a week or two ago.

Here's the thing about Larson. here's the thing about Blaney. They're locked into this playoff. That's a big deal at this point in their careers. But here's where they're screwing up. They're pissing people off. You don't want to go into this playoff and have drivers mad at you because they're going to race you hard.

They may wreck you. Yeah. And that's what Larson's doing. Yeah, I agree. That's what Blaney's doing. Don't be stupid. I think that you're not going to want to make these veterans mad because these guys can make it very hard for you in the chase.

Very hard. And when I say very hard, you're going to have a real difficult time getting past them. You're going to sit there and wonder why. And it's because you race them like a tool after you already had a win in the season. You race this guy real hard. He's not going to appreciate it. And guys like Matt Kenseth, Ryan Newman, these guys know how to make it damn near impossible to get around them. How weird is it that we're interviewing the winner by himself at start finish?

And they were turning around and interviewing him again. I don't know. I was already gone by that point since I was on the hook, so I never really got to see it play out. You're leaving early a lot this year. We've got to fix that. That too, yeah. I don't know.

It seems weird to do two interviews there. It seems weird to do an interview on the track, which I think it's a great idea to do it right there with the driver. Yeah. I think it's weird to do an interview there, then go in there and do almost the same interview. Well, that's my thing. Like, I feel like we're going after this horse racing.

thing, you know, where you've just won the race. And they're rolling up next to you. And they're on a horse and they interview you. Like I kind of get that, holy cow, look how fast we can get to this winter. Let's see his raw motion. I respect that part of it. But to do it again, I have two issues with it. Number one, this isn't a driver sport.

It's a team sport. This isn't golf. This isn't horse racing. This is a team sport. There's 20 guys that create the opportunity to race. on that particular day. They're fixing your car, they're pitting your car,

they're spotting your car, they're marketing and PR supporting your car. Probably more than 20. Probably, well, definitely hundreds when you look at the shop aspect. Yeah, even to go on the racetrack,

I mean, we probably have a little over 20 that be including pit crew guys already. Yeah, and I mean, obviously the driver is in the limelight as he should be. But nonetheless,

these guys deserve to be on TV too. They deserve to be in the background. I mean, they're sacrificing a lot. So I have the struggle is, okay, well, you're kind of making this an individual sport when in reality it's not. And then the second part of it is you're going to turn around and do a different interview in Victory Lane? I don't think so. I think I brought this up before.

I love the way Formula One does it. They part the top three with each other. Which is awesome. Which is awesome. And then they bring the drivers up to this podium deal, the top three. And then all the crews are like right. below them and, you know, beside them or we're down there on the side. And behind that, it's all race fans. Yeah. Like, let these people come up, celebrate with them. Yeah, I mean,

go up there and, and even let the drivers pick their favorite song for the current time, you know, what song do you want to play? And I don't know if we need, we don't need the anthem playing every single time at flags or state flags and stuff or whatever. Because we're all American except for one. Yeah. So let's put them up on a podium. Let's make it interesting. Bring the fans down there. I think that'd be awesome for the fans. Yeah. When you do some sort of podium deal where the fans can be involved,

because when they open them deals with the Formula One race, those fans are running to it. And I think, plus I think that would be, you know, a good opportunity. What kid's not going to love to sit down there and watch his idol up there? I think it's awesome, too, because they're either happy at how they've raised each other or they're mad at how they race each other, or maybe they're even pouting because they're a sore loser. Could you imagine Kyle Busch having to stand second place on these podiums?

You imagine like some of these places when he's mad? What about after Richmond when Carl moved him? Yeah. Like he'd have to go up there and stand second to Carl. That would be awesome entertainment. I think it'd be awesome. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty cool. You never know when somebody might just get bitch slapped standing on that podium.

He would be so mad. It would be awesome. But I think it'd be good. I mean, you get all your interviews. You get three drivers right there. Yeah. You see him celebrate with the crew. Three monster girls, three hot chicks standing there.

Maybe even mol. Maybe more. Yeah, maybe more. More's better. We might need more after this. But, I mean, I think we need a podium. And I think we need to bring the fans there, let the crew guys celebrate there. I mean, finishing top three.

We think about some of these drivers, wives, and girlfriends getting upset about how hot these girls are and how they're being too ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous that they even care. This is the way of the world, like, this isn't new. They used to do this in the 70s. They kissed each other. the mouth back then go watch a tim richmond victory lane yeah go watch one of them he would kiss all of richard petty david they're all kissing these trophies in these girls nothing like that is happening these are just just girls there to celebrate with a great pair of shoes yeah nice shoes that you can see

almost all their shoes lovely hair too great hair what's the big deal they're not here here's my favorite part your driver's not leaving with them your husband's not leaving with them it's the show yeah You're watching the show. Right. I honestly could really care less about most of the drivers. My favorite part is these girls that are complaining don't even work. Yeah. Well, yeah.

Your husband or boyfriend is making all this money. He's got a private jet. He's got a private motor home. He's got three or four assistants when you throw in pilots and business managers. Yeah. Travel girl, travel people. If some girl is standing there beside him grinning and her boobs are showing, so be it. He's not relaxed.

I mean, I happen, look at motorcross. If nothing happens there, that's just part of the show. He's not going to the club with her. Now, if you get someone like Blaney or up there, he might be interested. But that, hey, he can. He's single. He should be interested. He should be.

I actually saw him out Thursday night for a little bit. Because people don't realize, man, when you go to plate track and you're running a cup race, and that's all you're doing, you work on Thursday for an hour. On Friday, not even an hour. On Friday, you run. one lap, which your grandmother could run. And on Saturday, you race. So you kind of got a day off on that Friday.

So it was good to see him out, man. Because I remember when I got here, you know, Elliot Sadler, Dale Jarrett, Sterling Marlin, Kyle Petty, Michael Waltrip, those guys went out and got amongst the people. And we need that. We need our drivers amongst the people on Thursday nights, Friday nights. I really, you know, I know they're quite a bit younger than me

and like Dale Jr. and them, but seeing Chase and Blaney them come up through and... Yeah. Those guys go on. Those guys are doing it right. They remind me of how we were. They're going on vacations and stuff. They're going...

You know, they went to Costa Rica. They're, you know, they're traveling together, checking out the world and stuff. And that's cool, man. That is cool. Yeah, I'm happy for them guys, man, to be living it up and doing it right. Yeah, and have a good time.

Young, good-looking, rich. I think one of my favorite quotes of this, season is when they asked Blaney how he prepared for the 600 just drank less beer that week. I mean, that's classic, man. Do you see him jump in the pool? So NBC took him out on the infield at Daytona. Rutledge did. And they did this little feature.

And I didn't have volume where I was watching that. But he literally took his shirt off. You know how they set those temporary pools up at these camp spots? He takes his shirt off and goes and dives into this person's pool. Like, that's cool, man. That's what makes fans excited. Because if you're watching on TV, if you're on that infield or if it's your camp spot, he's amongst the people. Yeah, and he's one of them.

We need drivers amongst the people. I agree, man. I think Chase is a lot of the same way. He's a little bit more reserved. But, you know, it's good to, these guys are living a good life there and having fun. I mean, you look at their two dads. I mean, Blaney was an awesome sprint car driver. Yeah, his dad was great.

Got the cup. Certainly made some. money but never really hit it big should have won Atlanta that one time should have want to land a couple times that amico car you know with Bill Davis saw the tires fall off flat tire yeah yeah uh Bill Elliott the exact opposite I mean here's a champion who has made one everything the Winston million for crying out loud like I mean he he won everything went two hundred 12 miles an hour yeah at Talladegh I mean big big name so those guys know what their futures look like because they've got their dad sitting there going hey look at me

Like I'm the guy that was a cup driver and you see what I've got. So it's not about, I mean, you look at Dale Jr's legacy. It's not about, you know, your dad or beating your dad necessarily his records. It's about having that path to life. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I mean, a little bit different, but Dave was really well respected in the sprint cars. Big time.

And still is in the NASCAR industry, too. For sure. Yeah. So, yeah. But the exact opposite PR-wise, though. Dave Blaney. Yeah. You never saw the guy.

Now, quiet. Bristol at Bristol before qualifying, sitting on pit, before qualifying, sitting on pit wall by himself, just watching. Yeah, just nothing going on. And Ryan Blaney's becoming a socialite. I mean, he's doing a lot of things.

Patrick Rogers actually used to. Dave probably wouldn't have jumped in a pool. No. Dave would have never jumped in a pool. But I'm talking to Patrick Rogers at NASCAR. I mean, Ryan Blaney will do anything to ask him to do. Yeah. And that's good.

Yeah, he does. He does a lot. Yeah. Ryan does a lot of stuff. That's a good thing. Yeah. No, I'm telling you, I'm looking forward to this youth movement that's going to be coming about it.

It's going to be a lot. There's going to be a lot of youth in the next five years. If you had to pick one of these kids to spot for, Eric Jones, Daniel Suarez, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, Ty Dillon, Christopher Bell, William Byron. Best Case scenario, they're all in cup. Which one you pick in the spot for? I really like the, I like the, I like the, I like the, I like the, manner and the tone that, um, uh, uh, Byron carries. I think he's very well,

handles himself very well. So mature. Um, I like, uh, I like what Eric Jones does on the racetrack, but I'm not sold off the track quite yet. I've seen him act a lot like Kyle. And I didn't like what I saw then. Um, but, you know, I don't, um, I would probably pick one of those too because I think you can fix the you can kind of cure some of the off the track stuff but I really like how Eric Jones drives yeah Williams really good too but I just like how he he's the complete package he reminds me of Jimmy he's like a mix of Jimmy and Dale Jr. yeah um to me but you and I have both been fortunate in the sense of we're very selective in who we work with we haven't gotten in a position yet in our careers where we're having to do starting parks or we're having to do

drivers that we know aren't going to be competitive. So I hope that trend continues. But my whole thing is about being selective is I want to do someone that I think I can help. Yeah. I don't want to just be a body up there. Yeah, you want to definitely, you definitely want, but they got to be able to interpret what you're saying to. You got to have, I would like somebody that wants you to work with them too.

I'm not going to call this guy's name, but I work with a kid. He just got here in Xfinity. and I was suggesting a few things he should try differently, and he never tried him, and I didn't work with that kid anymore. Because we kept running the same lap time the whole day. Yeah. Because he wouldn't change his arc,

and he wouldn't change his lifting points, and he was driving in too deep. You know, like, it just, that drives me nuts. I don't like working with kids that think they know it already. I will tell you somebody I enjoy working with it. Briscoe, he listens. I could tell him, you know, go down there, and whatever you tell him,

to do he tries and he's usually very good at it too he he uh he's gonna be good i think as well right i've seen a lot out of him the last few weeks um is he part of the briscoe family like the famous briscoes or no um i'm not even 100% sure i know his dad is a pretty well established um open wheel guy okay and uh well known open wheel guy as well yeah so i know chase has been out there doing um it's like sprint week or something out there in a mid mid mid midget week or or something. He's out there. He owns a couple cars or a car or something.

He's out there. Some other guys driving it and he's out there helping out with it and stuff, which I think is cool to do as well. You look at what Toyota does with our driver development. It's pretty phenomenal. I mean, they do a good job. They lost William Byron because Hendrick is Hendrik.

That's how you go get somebody away of Toyota. But they have a plan. They have a path. They do a great job. It shows all the way down through. You look at these guys midgets says they're all over it. Yeah. And they show they're going to support this guy to the top.

You look at Chevrolet. You know, you look at Chevrolet, you look at the top tier team, which is Hendrick. You know, he takes it upon himself to develop new talent when he needs to. He developed Chase Elliott. He's developing William Byron. But you look at Chevrolet as a whole, Ford as a whole, I feel like they probably could be doing a better job with this young talent. Yeah, I think they don't really have a lot of young.

I feel like they kind of use Brad's truck team, but they don't. They leave it on the, they still leave it on. They leave it on him. Yeah, well, they leave it on him. find it and then they take it. I think it could be a little more successful if they would go hand-pick these guys and put them in there. Yeah. And work that way.

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back this week i love sandwich ask i see uh that lady never tweeting me about don't think she liked me calling her out. L. Shabs here asks, how do you fix the Camping World Truck Series from your point of view? Run short tracks. Yeah. We got to run short tracks. Halfway break. Take the pick crews out of it. Nothing against them on it, but take them out of it, have a halfway break, let these short track guys come out. That's where our sport was built from, was these guys running short tracks, them moving up. They won championships at short tracks. We got a lot of guys work with us on the roof that started in that type of series, and they came from short tracks.

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Right. And that was that's pretty It's big That's big Yeah But these guys You know That's where you go back to

That's where you find It makes the economics of it easier It's cheaper It's way cheaper Less arrow Less engine That stuff matters But not as much

But and also It's going to bring out A new city Smaller There'll be another small crop of drivers That'll creep up through here That Like the short track guys

It'll come out The local short track guys Right All right Let's see here. What's the next question going to be? Do you see any good ones? No, I'm looking at my picks for later.

We're going to Kentucky. Kentucky will be a good one. Dude, if you're at Kentucky, if you're the general manager of this place, and you're in the bluegrass state, what would you do to the grass? I would paint it blue. Yeah.

And then I would put coolers and roof and easy ups on the spotter sand. Yeah. That's what I would do. Yeah. What'd you say? about that guy, the chubby guy. Oh, the dude that gets here like, he's probably there today, setting his stuff up. Got his camera up in the shade.

Yeah, and his lawn chair, and he sleeps. Yeah. Like, get out of the shade, dude. Go into the bathroom and sleep. Yeah. God. Kentucky speaking. What's your favorite part about Kentucky?

Leaving. Getting on that, getting in the car, not even getting in the car, not even getting in the airplane and leaving, because it's a drive to the airport as well. It's such a great state with such a great people. Yeah. Yeah, friends in a little town called Anchorage. Yeah. And I think that's where the Papa John's guy lives, too. Really?

There's a little town there, yeah. Great bourbons. Yeah, I went on a bourbon tour. I need to do that. It is actually really good. It smelled really good in there. Yeah. And then you do the tasting.

They did give you some chocolate when you taste it. I drank some bookers yesterday. I had some buddies over. I'm not a bourbon drinker. I love it. Yeah, I wasn't. And then Aaron Sagester, who is the best employee ever. She listened to this podcast.

That's why I said that. She's a big bourbon person. She got me turned on to it. She looks like a bourbon person. What does a bourbon person look like? Her? Yeah, she doesn't look like a, like a white wine type. No, she's rough.

Yeah, like give me some bourbon. Give me some bourbon. Damn it. Or a logger or something. Yeah. Her dad, Scott's all into it. He needs to give me a good bottle. Yeah, I mean, I'll take some, too.

I went to Lake the Ozarks and ran into Jimmy John. John's, the dude that is Jimmy John. Does his name really Jimmy John? Yeah. Jimmy John what? Jimmy John. Jimmy John? His name is Jimmy Johns.

That's his last name is Johns. Yeah. That's awesome. And he's got good bourbons. He's got good subs, too. He's rich. I'm sure. He's richer than we are.

Yeah, he's definitely a lot of richer. Yeah, he's a lot richer than we are. How do you think he got rich? Making subs. There was some meat on, slinging meat on some bread. He got rich slinging meat. meat. Yep, he is. We're doing this wrong. We are.

We need to start slinging meat. Slinging meat. Think anybody to eat it? Yeah. Sure. You got any more questions before we wrap this up? Pick a driver. Yeah, let's see.

How big a role to spotters playing getting a pack together during practice at a plate track by JR Money 28? I mean, you're always, when you're rolling out, most of time there's one drafting pack in the beginning and then it's a pack. kind of tough after that, but you're constantly going back and forth because everybody's playing changes throughout the practice. So it just changes. You're constantly going up down there.

Hey, you can draft. You want draft. You want draft. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Yeah, sure. All right. Meet us out there. But other than that, there's really, you're just at the mercy of what the crew chiefs

deciding down there anyway. Yeah. So, um, let's see. We play bigger roles with drafting in terms of restarts. We play bigger roles in terms of, you know how to push you know when you see a guy getting on your left rear you got you got to go have a conversation with them and explain to them hey here's what you need to tell your driver i mean we we certainly our biggest role within the sport is is played out at plate tracks that's where

we're spotters are the most important there definitely out of anywhere and it trust me it's a lot easier to the spot a fast car than it is a slow car no matter if you're at a plate track or a small track where you're going what you're in racing go cars is easy to spot easier to spot. Yeah. It's easy. Yeah. I promise you that two car and that 88 car and anybody else that's able to go up there and get

the lead and keep it. Do they have a good spotter? Yes. But they also have a fast race car. Yeah. It goes hand in hand. You have to have a fast car, a driver that excels at plate tracks if you're running there. Yeah.

And, you know, obviously giving them the info they need. I will say this, though. It's fun as hell to spot a driver at a plighter. at a plate track that's good at plate racing. Oh, I think that's pretty fun. Yeah, I mean, obviously working with Dell Jr., he does, I can see the info that when I give him the info, I can see him take it and process it

and move the car where he knows he needs to go. You think he belongs in a Hall of Fame when he hangs up the hat? I mean, I don't know how you become the most popular driver for that many years and not be in the Hall of Fame. Seeing these Hall of Fame classes, I think, in the way he handles the, The way he handles everybody, and I've never seen him turn down an autograph. You leave in the airport.

I ask him every single time. Look, you want to stop? He says yes, every single time. I've never, but I always check with him just to make sure. Right. Every single time, he says yes. And I think that's more than what a handful of them do. I think this stat alone should put him in the Hall of Fame.

He's won 17 times at Daytona. Yeah. Yeah, he's a... What else do you need to know? the fact that you've won 17 times at arguably the best racetrack in the world should make you Hall of Fame material one of the toughest too though because not only does it take a car that can be subpar that guy actually has a shot at them places yeah it opens the you know everyone knows when you go to Daytona Taladega it's it's a wild card race because

anybody can win there to be that successful at a place like that and if you had Teledeggan there I'm sure it's even a ton more right so because he's had a lot of success there too. And you look at Daytona, I mean, it's hard for me not to say that it's got to be bittersweet for Earnhardt's. I mean, he lost his everything. He's dad at that track and still came back and won a lot of races after that. Yeah. And not that is that is one place where and that's that's part of the reason why it's probably so popular too. That's one place where you can make the fans go crazy. Yeah. Like you can win a mile and a half and yeah, it's great and all. but you can literally hear the crowd at plate tracks when and get up there.

Yeah, I mean, you can hear it everywhere. When he got his lap back, dude, when he got back on the lead lap, they went bananas. Yeah. But you still look, I have to look at it as a track that took so much from him, has still given him so much. And just the fact that he's won 17 races along at that track, that's Hall of Fame. I think what he's done, what he's done with the sport and, you know, the most popular driver, what he's done for the sport,

I think that. I think he's, to me, he's hall of fame worthy. Yeah. In my eyes, he is. I agree. What else you got? I think we should answer Corne Witt's question there. Which team finishes with, finishes the year with more total wins, JGR or CGR?

Holy cow, do just imagine if we're in Daytona to start the season, and I look at you, and I said, I'll bet you $100 bucks that Ricky Stenhouse has two wins by July 4th, and Kyle Bush has none. I would say. Kevin Harvick has won. I would say, if you would. have told me that J.J.R. would have no wins before July 10, I would have told you you were probably crazy. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't, I don't know. The bad part about this, this is a tough question because.

What's this question again? Who's has more Ganesi or Gibbs? To finish the season? No, yeah, two total wins. Yeah. But see, J.G.R. could go on. They've got. They've got four, got three guys. They've got, they've got way more opportunity to win races because they got more cars.

Yeah. And they have grade A drivers across the board. And honestly, I mean, you can kind of count the 78 car as one of them. Yeah. So I have to go with the JGR still on that. It's hard. They win. They win Denny Hammond wins the race.

Matt Kiss with wins a race. They're already tied. Yeah. So then Kyle wins. There's three. So I got to go with JGR still. I agree. Let's do one more good question.

All right. Do our picks, and I'm ready to go celebrate July 4th. America. Shoot some fireworks. Yeah. Well, this guy, I don't think this is a very good question. Mike Kuluski wants to know why the 24 did not stick with his teammate on the first lap because it is a race, and he wanted to lead the race.

Yeah. It's not a marriage, buddy. Yeah, I wouldn't expect it to. When we drop the green flag, it's a race. You want to lead to race and control it. That's how you get in, I mean, that's our plan. Yeah. What if he, you know, what if we passed him back?

It's the same thing. Still a race. Yeah, I don't. That's the thing people don't realize, man. Like, it's easy to be teammates. It's easy to stay aligned and in line. But you still can't put yourself in a bad position trying to be loyal to a guy. No, and that's, we've done that before.

It's not good. We've tried to stay lined up at times when we put ourselves in a spot that put us in a worse spot and then you lose it's not good so um let's find one good one ended on a good one somebody noticed that your uh your driver pushed paul minard to the front late in the race to beat my guy which my pick which was casey came paul minard digging he did he ended up good um he had a little bit of damage but he was really good to us yeah kind of with 20 to go so it's nice to be able to repay favors i mean yeah i look at brinan pool in the infinity race he and elliott had a conversation before he wrecks before he wrecks they had a conversation about some things that hopefully would help brinan

have a good day tyler green and i worked together a lot standing beside each other he spots for brinan so i mean it's good to see people you work with pay you back yeah i agree yeah what uh this is a good one here um they want to know why uh l shabbs here again wants to know they thought we you weren't supposed to jump on the roof it's ten house got on the roof dude you should be able to get on the roof i don't care personally i don't care either i don't care about if they want to if they want to tell them that the roof's too low because the driver's set on celebrating a big win i don't care about that that's a big win you now you come at me and tell me your your uh splitters angle differently and all this other stuff's going on skew doesn't match then i got a problem with it but you know

if i got a problem if he gets out starts kicking his quarter panels in like they were when they're flared out or something you know what i mean or something um but man that's raw motion that's excitement Here's the thing about that particular track. These guys have had excessive amounts of tech. They've gone through tech three times to get on the racetrack. So if that car is produced as legal onto the grid, there's not a lot of things that, and if things are going. Those cars were tore up too.

Dude, a lot of things happened during races. This is why we have post-race tech, because crews can manipulate, drivers can manipulate a lot of things on the car. at a place like Daytona Talladega, man, they're so thorough with that tech process. If you jump on that roof, I really don't have an issue with it. One example is we,

back in the day, they used to build the bumpers real soft, or the back end of the car real soft. And under the parade last for the race, we were running up there behind. If you get to a teammate, you would run up there behind them and hit him in the bumper real hard

and it would not have to spoil the lower. Right. Because the car was folding down. Right. We're not doing stuff like that anymore. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, And I look, man, Stenhouse earned it.

And at plate tracks, these guys are on the, you are, I don't even know how to describe it. You are so focused and so on edge for three hours or whatever right there on the edge of your seat the entire time, tensed up. Right. And when you win that, you finally, it's not like a, you know, a mile and a half you get spread out, you're running 11th. You're two seconds behind 10th and your three seconds in front of 12th. Yeah. Last lap of the race. you come around, whatever.

You know, when you finish, you know, it's just different racing, man. It's tense the whole time. That's why people love it, too. Right. So, but anyway, I guess I got to pick first, huh? Yeah, Kentucky. Who you got? Well, let me see here.

I've got, what's the score's got to be getting big. It's something bad. I do have the only true win, though. Yeah, you do. That's got to be like 10 bonus points. That's got to be worth something. I'm running out of drivers. We both are.

How many races we got left until the chase starts? Like nine or ten? Yeah, this is going to be bad. I don't see nine or ten guys that I want to pick. I'm going to go big this week, I think. I'm going to go big, too. I'm going to Kyle Busch. Damn.

I can't go that big. I don't have me pay that big left. Holy shit. I know who I think you're going to pick. Oh, you just changed my mind, though. I don't want to go to that. That's huge. I haven't used him yet.

I need a win, so. You should go Corrie of the Joy. Man, holy cow. Greg Gauding. I tell you what, I don't really have an option. There's nowhere else I'm going to pick this guy. I'm going to go with a Trevor Bain train. Yeah, that's good.

Trevor Bain, that's my guy. Go ahead and mark this score off, Cornwit. Go ahead and mark this one down as a W for me. If Kyle doesn't trip over a fort lift, a forklift. And act like it never happened. then I've got no chance of winning. And basically, whoever loses before Walkins Glen's going to get Almadinger. Yeah.

So I might throw that race. Just throw it. Just throw it to push. I'm just going to throw it on purpose. Hey, it's America's birthday this week. It is. What are you doing to celebrate? You're just going to get settled in this new house or are you doing anything fun? Just get settled, man.

I think I'm going to go. They got a good fireworks show out there at the lake. Oh, do they? Yeah, real good. At the point? I think I'm going to fly my dr. drone up there and see if I can get close to it and video it video it maybe that's that the one of the point yeah they do one out there is there a different one uh that's one that's where you go we go out

there towards brad's house and watch yeah so um if you go to brad's house hit me up we're going to that driving range to watch where's the drive is that right by the it's right by the the point golf course okay yeah brad's right there yeah right by them tennis course yeah yeah yeah yeah that's where we'll be I'll probably have a cooler. All right. I'll be full of water. Yeah. I mean, a lot of people probably will.

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