Door Bumper Clear - 71 - A Crazy Few Days In NASCAR

Episode Date: August 7, 2017

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Right with you, you're clear. Check the flag. You're in. Oh, yeah! Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major, Spiret of the 88 Cup car, the 7xfinity car, the 29 truck. It's solo today. Brett Griffin's Spotter for Clint Boyer, Elliot Sadler. And I don't think I've got a truck at Michigan. I've got to maybe send some text out. Find out. You might want to know.

My hat usually runs those big tracks, but I don't think he's running this one. That would be a big one. It is a big one. It is a big one. It's a big one. Yeah. So we were supposed to have Kristen today, but she evidently ate something with gluten or something in it. She lost her perfect attendance award for the year on week two.

Yeah, on week two, definitely. She sucks at showing up. I don't know what they're paying her, but, you know. They're not. Well, it looks like it. Yeah, it looks like it. I mean, it looks like it. Kristen, what's the deal?

When you pay peanuts, you get a bunch of monkeys that work for you. Dude, that's ridiculous. Look at us. How does she not know what she can't eat by now? I don't know. I mean, dang. They're going to run out of epinephrine at this rate. Yeah, I'm on a whole country.

No wonder the price of it's going up. No wonder it's $400 a shot. She is flooding the EpiPen market. God. What do you think she's spent an Epipen so far this year? A couple million? Oh. I mean, I don't know.

I don't know. I'm surely she has some great insurance. Yeah. She definitely meets a deductible. Anyway, so. Crazy freaking week in NASCAR. Man, last 10 days have been nuts. It's been a pretty, pretty a very eventful, a couple weeks for sure.

I mean, Harry Scott passes away 51 for a NASCAR owner. I didn't know him that well. Really jovial guy. I mean, you know, a kind of guy that would walk up to you and ask you how your kids are, even though he hadn't met him and always smiling. I mean, I just remember. Yeah, I've seen him, but just never really got to know him. All the talks I had with him was an infectious smile.

I mean, here's a guy that came in and fell in love with motorsports. spent a lot of money to play in this world and, you know, ultimately, obviously left after 2016. But he was a well-like guy? Hate to see that happen. Came in and had some success, too. Yeah. I definitely gave a lot of young guys some opportunities to get into the racing world.

And being good stuff. Yeah, you're right, good stuff. So, you know, everyone that I've heard talk about, I really enjoyed him, really thought he was a nice guy and he was a pleasure to be around so you know definitely a definitely a tough loss for a lot of people for such a well-liked guy in the garage yeah walkins glen man know the two-day schedule when's you fly up but it's my call it's like a day and a half schedule for me yeah as quick as i get home how about the new baby uh yeah sleeping great like four days old five days Literally,

literally cannot believe that our first one, Madeline was a little, you know how kids are, they cry. Yeah. This one, nothing. Wakes up, eats, doesn't even cry when they wake up. The only time she cries is when you change her diaper. That'll make you want to have a third one. No, that's okay.

The second one's that good? You might as well go for three. Yeah, no, that's probably not going to happen. So I got to ask you this. You named her Stella. Yeah. My favorite beer. Dale Jr. says that beer stinks.

and you named Restell. It's kind of to say, Hey, Dale Jr., I don't care about you stinking my beer stinks. Wait until he has a kid. We'll see what he names his. I mean...

What do you think he'd name his kid? Oh, man. You know, Ralph. Ralph. We talked about it, and he actually has a... They have a few names

picked out that they like, and they were actually really cool. Let's go ahead and reserve those on Twitter so we can sell them back to him. Oh, that's a good idea. We can make some money here. Yeah. Yeah.

It's a real good idea. Go lock up a couple domains. Yeah. Can you still buy those for like Maddie Manson or something? Probably so. Like GoDaddy or whatever. I mean, if you don't do that, it ends up being some porn site in Asia. That's what Elliott Sadler.com was when I started working for Elliot.

So I'm typing in Elliott Sadler.com and I'm like, oh, I hope the FBI is not watching me right now. So we ended up going through this big battle and buying it from some dude who was obviously a twisted individual. So. I know what Timmyhill.com is. Like midget porn? Is it? I don't know. You can't be racing.

That guy can't race. That's true. So did you spend more time on Ellis website before or after? Before. Before or after the redoing of it. Maybe half and a half. It must have been good. Maybe you should have to keep it.

But anyway, to Glenn, man, it was a crazy weekend. Best weather we've had all year. say wouldn't you it's cold Saturday but I'll take it was actually a pretty breezy up there when when the clouds would go you know would come in and it's nice so it was nice to actually have to look for a jacket a little bit instead of shade yeah um you know it was breezy but it wasn't like it wasn't like man I can't wait like martinsville you are frozen to the bone can't wait to get out of there it's going to take you a day to warm up cold do you have any hometown buddies around yeah I did have some buddies that from high school that they camped out there

They come every year And I go out there And see them on Saturday For a little bit Um Did you drink some stella's? No, I don't, I don't dare drink

Dude, it is wild When you go off the Out of the tunnel Behind like the back side of the track there And the further you drive away The wilder it gets I'm talking like Couch is burning

Recliners on fire It is like a free-for-all And it's actually You know, the Glenn does a great job There was a lot of concerts and stuff they do do a good job and they give people something to do and probably 40 50,000 people on that infield just there to party at least probably I mean and then like there's a lot that camp and it's it's a good time man where was woodstock at was that in new york state yeah yeah it was woodstock New York

yeah oh that would make sense they call it woodstock yeah it's more central New York you know stock is yeah it's actually more on central the eastern side of the state I believe um yeah it's it's uh But that, that, I love going to the glen. And you, where do you land? I land in Elmira. Yeah, it's just a, when you look around when you're landing there, you can see the Finger Lakes and stuff. And it's just a pretty area, man.

Really nice. You grew up how far from there? About an hour. Oh, hey, bad. No, not very far at all. So, um, really like going there. Didn't have, uh, had a pretty fun day on Saturday with Justin. He was fast.

Yeah, he didn't, he didn't, we didn't have the speed to win the race, but. No, but you had third, fourth best car. We probably had, I mean, probably fifth. six really but you know just in our and drove a great race no mistakes all race and so many guys make mistakes that's all you got to do is not make a mistake so if you once once jason made the pick call there we were going to finish six probably yeah jason made that pit call at the end to get tires and we weren't the buffer car we were actually the car with first with tires right and it mattered more than the infinity car than it did the cup side sure so justin was able to get a couple of them on

the restart and uh come out of over the fourth place finish which i think is a is a good you know that's a solid day yeah i had harrison burton in the can in race finished third with him finished crappy with elli because we had a right front lug loose yeah you guys struggle we were going run top seven for sure and that that was bad you know yeah it costs us 10 spots which could have been worse could have cost us more yeah i mean it's hard you actually lost a lap that one time yeah and uh i think you got the lucky dog right got a lucky dog it's honest it's still hard to ridiculous how much faster Kyle Busch was than Oh yeah, even the top three.

Like even Kyle was in a league of his own. Yeah. And then you add in the 12 and the 22 who were ridiculously fast as well. They could break. He could outbreak everybody. Yeah, you know, that's one thing. One thing I don't think Kyle realizes he has is he doesn't understand what he's really driving. You know, I wish he could go back and run a race in his own Xfinity car one time

just to see what it was really like with these other guys. are driving compared to what he's driving. He definitely knows he has a humble attitude, though. But what? He wears it very well. Yeah, very, very well. I've yet to see him appear arrogant or self-centered or... Nope, never.

I just see him being this really giving humble guy. Yeah, like, man, I'm so blessed to be driving these cars. I'm so lucky, you know. But, you know, there's no, obviously there's no lack of talent with Kyle. He's got, though. He's got... It's like after every interview, we're just going to blow out birthday candles. It's such a great atmosphere.

No sarcasm whatsoever. I think. Did you see his tweets yesterday? Oh, my gosh. I have a newborn that doesn't cry that much. His tweets yesterday were funny. They were. Honestly, I do enjoy that part of Kyle, but I don't, could you imagine?

Do you think he's in character or do you think that's really him? Oh, I think that's really him. You do? Absolutely. I mean, you know, we all know stories. I don't know We know stories about Kyle, but we know stories within the industry of Kyle

that lead me to believe just how, what things, you know. I mean, my fun days with Kyle were when he, he used to live off Perth Road. Yeah.

We go out there and play poker on Monday nights, have a pool party. Yeah. I mean, that's the last time I hung out with Kyle. It's been 10 years ago. I don't know personal Kyle now since wife kids. Yeah,

or 120 down that side, down Perth Road. No, he was going 156. Okay, that's school zone. Well, Well, why would you?

What would happen? Regardless of whether it was the school zone or not. What would happen if that was you? I would still be behind bars. You'd be under the jail. You wouldn't be in jail. You'd be under the jail. Oh, my gosh.

But, you know, I think I'm not sure he really understands the kind of movement. Have you ever been 156 on a road? Not a side road. No, I've never been 150. I'm not even sure what. I don't even know if I don't own a car that would do that, let alone I'm not. I'm not even sure.

They're like 156 is moving. Getting it. Yeah. Mike Harmon has never been 156 in a race car. That's true. It would be hard, though. If you put a couple double cheeseburgers, I bet you go that fast. I was going to say the last time, he did probably do about 156 when Golden Corral

opened for the first time. All you eat, $5.99. It'd be hard, though. I mean, if you're in the Lexus LFA and you just want to get it. What do you think? He got it. Yeah, he did. get it.

What kind of burnout do you think Mike Harmon would do if he ever won a race? Jesus Christ. Do you realize how hypothetical that question was? What kind of race is he going to win? What if he did go to Concord and a late model, win a big race? T.J. Do you realize what you're asking? What if?

Hell, I don't know what if. Could you imagine him getting out of the finish line and doing that interview? How long is it going to take him to get out? I don't know, but I almost want him to win. Have you seen him lately? No. Have you been over there to play poker or something? Dude, he's huge.

He is, I mean, he's never been small. Has he ever been small? Ever. I don't know. Ever. Ever. I don't know. I don't know either.

He's big. His head's like big as, I don't even know. He's big. Oh, anyway. So, yeah, Washington's Glenn, Mike Harmon Donuts, literally on the racetrack, not ones you eat. How about, uh, How about Kyle Larson got in trouble for somebody got in trouble last week for doing donuts that didn't even win and they penalized them and made them sit in practice or something?

Oh, is that why I had a 30-minute penalty. Yeah, 30-minute penalty. He didn't even win. Like, what is he trying to trick us out on there? Like, what's that deal? I mean, they tell us not to swerve and donuts are going to be okay. Remember that time Robbie Gordon did donuts and he didn't win the race in Montreal? Yes.

There were two cars doing burnout. Yeah. What an idiot. Yeah, that was. Robbie Gordon. Only Robbie Gordon, you're right. I mean, Robbie was, I honestly liked having Robbie, because he always made it interesting when he was involved in something. He was always an interesting time with him. He's a daredevil. He's a clown. He's a daredevil. And he's also, minus all the stories. And he's a good dude, too. Away from the track, Robbie's a good dude. Probably stories are that he wasn't the best to work for in the shop and stuff like that. But away from the track, Robbie was a fun dude. and really talented great father too really talented probably never really committed though

yeah he honestly Robbie probably could have won 15 more races if he got in really good stuff and stayed with it he could probably he probably would have been a multiple time cup winner not just at road courses either because that guy he was good when he didn't knock defenders off it he was pretty damn good

he was a pain in the ass to race he was he was like passing gas it was worse than that I think yeah let's kick this saying off, Josh. All right, let's get into spot on, spot off. Obviously, big news today, KK out of the number five next year. Yeah, and I think Indy just bandated this for a couple weeks.

Yeah. You know, just kind of prolonged it a little bit. This was a speculation for a long time. But, you know, Casey's a really talented race car driver, and honestly, I feel like he needs a chance at some new scenery. That is. That's Joey Meyer's best friend. Oh, yeah.

Joey the pilot, Joey Meyer. Best pilot, they are. That is like those two together, like Maverick and Goose. You ought to see them at the airport together. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we'll have to get to that. Anyway, Casey Kane.

I got a question for you. How many races has the 88 won in the last six years? It's eight. How many races you think the 24 is won in the last six years? Answer is still eight. How many races is Casey Kane won in the last six years? Six. Six.

Okay. Very comparable. And he's won a Coke 600. He's won a Brickyard 400. He's playoff eligible this year, and he just got fired. Okay. Look at Jimmy Johnson. How many races he won in six years?

28. So when you look at this Hendrick dominance that everybody talks about, it's kind of one way. Jimmy Johnson has won more races than the other three teams have put together. Yet Casey Cain. just got fired. Yeah, I think there's, well, obviously the wins looks a little, very comparable. But when you start knocking, when you start looking at, I've seen some stats of the top fives and stuff, or top tens, and they're just not there.

Casey's the type, Casey, this is probably the biggest thing with Casey's career. He's two up and down. He can never really have that consistency where he's top five, six, you know, fourth, fifth, six, seventh, or just inside the top ten every week. He's been really hot or really cold. And the brickyard, obviously, a win's a win, but he doesn't win that race if the caution doesn't come out when he's on pit road. I'm spot on for Casey Kane being out of the five car

because it gives him an opportunity to look ahead. For 18 months, he's been looking over his shoulder because the rumors about him being let go out of the five car. I'm spot off on the fact that Dale Jr. made comments this week about some of these veterans being replaced by young guys and how it's so great for the sport. It may be great for the economics of these race teams to be able to put in Alex Bowman.

And when he said making a tenth of what he makes, Del Jr. makes more money in the sport than anybody. So it's kind of hypocritical for him to say, I'm glad to see the owners putting in guys that don't make any money. I was really blown away by that. But my struggle isn't about the money. My struggle is how many tickets is Alex Bowman going to sell to the Daytona 500 next year?

How many people are going to watch the Daytona 500 because Alex Bowman is in it? Dale Jr. is missing the point that these older guys are who the fans gravitate to until the younger guys get in and make a name for themselves. So I don't think we need to be lobbying for Casey Kane to be replaced by a guy that we've never heard of or hasn't. It isn't a well-accomlished guy. That's my struggle. I don't know if he's actually lobbying for that. It's just the way it's going.

He said it's a good thing. Well, it's a... I think it's a bad thing. I mean, I kind of agree with him. I know what you're saying, but we have to find the next generation. I mean, if Matt Kenseth wants $6 million a year, guess what? He warrants it. He's a Daytona 500 champion.

He's a cup champion. These guys aren't warranting, asking for big money because they don't warrant it. These young guys don't deserve big money. No, they don't deserve big money. But the problem is we have too many guys within five years of each other all the same age. You know who's sitting there licking their chops at this kind of this new era of bringing these young guys? No, no, it's Joy Lagano. It's Brad Caslowski.

It's guys that are in their mid-20s to mid-30s that are going, ha-ha, I'm getting rid of all these guys like Matt Kenseth can win. If you get rid of Matt Kenseth and you get rid of Jimmy Johnson, Kyle Larson's going to win the next 10 races at Dover. Can't anybody run in there? Like, you're taking these, if I'm Joey Legato, I'm sitting there laughing. Even if I'm Danny Hamlin, who just signed a big five-year deal, I'm going, ha-ha, all you're doing is getting rid of guys that I don't have to race anymore.

What I would say, too, to them guys is, look, like, when Denny's, he better this five-year, he better save. because after this five year, it might not go to that again. Yeah, I mean, it comes down to two things. Economics is important, which Dale Jr. alluded to. The other thing is sponsorship. Let's face it, Casey Kane did not have any sponsors returning to the five car. When farmers insurance.

If you've got a sponsor that wants you, you're perfectly fine. When Farmers is out and when Great Clips is out, now they've got no money. So it's like, well, we got to start over. Do we start over with Casey or do we start over with a new guy? Obviously, they're picking a new guy. Yeah. And I'm not sure. I think the best thing for this is Casey, where he gets a fresh start somewhere.

It gets, like you said, he's not worrying about, well, the pressure just got relieved. Yeah, yeah. He's going to find something. And if not, Casey knows. Casey's a racer. Yeah. Like, Casey gets a chance. He goes and runs a sprint car.

And I think that's really cool. He does that stuff. Here's the thing that fans don't get it. Maybe they don't give a shit. But here's the things they don't get. Casey Kane has a spotter that's tied to him. He has a manager this tied to him. He has a bookkeeper this tied to him.

He has a shop over here right up the road where he houses everything at. He's got a trainer full-time. He's got pilots on staff. When you read something about this, people are like, oh, this is good. This guy's getting let go. You know what, man, this affects a lot more lives than what you know. It does. There are guys on this five car right now that know they're probably going to have to look for a job.

And I'm not talking about the ones tied personally to Casey that I just referenced. I'm talking, you know, guys that have been with him. him all the way back to his Evanham days, they're at Hendrick, but they're not necessarily Hendrick guys. Yeah. It's just, and that's the way the sport is. It's always been that way. That's the part of the sport where you don't really, sometimes the sport quits you before

you're ready to quit the sport. We talk about all the time. Yep. It's been news. Yeah. Kind of what you sign up for, though, when you get into it, that's part of the risk you take. Yeah. By the way, we can talk all the crap we want about Del Jr. here because I listen to his podcast

last week. Oh, he does it all time. Him and Tyler said they never listened to our podcast. I'm not worried about it anyway I'm out. What we can. All right, spot on, spot off. Cup drivers limited to seven Xfinity races next year. Man, I don't think this

I know people are up and a lot of it. I don't think it came down from 10 to 7. I was really surprised they let them run five truck races because the truck owners are jumping up and down screaming get Kyle Busch out of my series. I can't go with a track sponsorship when my guy can't have a chance to win because of that one person.

So when I look at it, I go, man, they're only letting these guys run seven. But then I look at Gibbs and I go, okay, if you have an all-star car, you can still run a cup guy in almost every race because you can run Suarez in a lot. You can run a lot. You can run a lot. Yeah, Matt will run a few. Or not Matt. The 20 Jones.

Yeah, they can all run some. And they do. So it's not going to change that much, really. No. I think it does come down to the model of the series. changing a little bit. I mean, when you look at Junior Motorsports, we're sitting pretty at this point for next year in terms of driver lineup, sponsor lineup. You know, when you look at Gibbs, you got to go, oh, man, this may be big for Gibbs because they've got a guy, and I think Ryan Priest,

he was on our show last week. I think he changed the model a little bit because he definitely moved the needle a little bit. I've watched him walk in to a team with money and say, hey, I got a half million dollars. Can I run two races? You know when that's happening? in the past, those guys don't win. Look at Matt Tiff. He's spending a lot of money to be in that same equipment. This kid can't run 10th to save his life. So Ryan Priest went in there and said, hey, I'm a kid with money and I can win.

Well, now he's got another race at it. He's running Kentucky. Very likely he's going to run Homestead. He's not having to pay for those races like he did these first two. Yeah, he earned him. He bet on himself and he won. But when you look at, man, how many rich kids are you really willing to chase versus kids that can drive race cars? Because this may make the model go back to,

We need kids that can drive race cars to sell sponsorship. See, there's another kid coming up, just like Ryan Priest. That Ty Majeski kids the same way. He's under Roush now, but to me, I wish he could have kept running that late model, winning 25 races a year and saved up a little bit of money and came to somebody and said, hey, I want to run both Iowa's and Richmond or something. Right. And went out there.

He'd have probably been very competitive. If Majeski was in one of them cars, he probably would have been very competitive as well. Eye racing sponsors him a little bit. Isn't he like the number one guy or one of the top guys? He was number one overall. I think he is. I was at one point, too. Yeah.

Got any sponsors? Let's go run. Let's go race. Yeah, so I mean, Ryan. Josh Maston Motorsports, here we come. Let's go. Yeah, I'm glad for Ryan, though. He's definitely moved the needle back instead of just a whole money deal.

He's actually moved it a little bit to the, hey, I've got talent and money, you know, and they got more races out of it, which doesn't happen. Here's the thing, man. Dale Jr. could go run. as many as he wants next year because he's not a full-time cup guy he could he could have a blast too he needs the money yeah i mean he's going to do to pay me i'm not have to live off a part-time experience schedule i don't know how he's going to make it yeah i'm not i'm definitely worried about him we're going to play basketball in the gym the night of his house so what are you going to do

you just i mean you just brought it up what are you going to do next year you're going to do a i'm going to try to uh take tyler overstreet's job and just go with him when he does all these home remodels and stuff. When is your big press conference announcement day? I don't know. No, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to wait for the silly season to really kick off here. There's basically, there's going to be a lot of...

Do you at least tell us what manufacturer is going to be? Will you tell us something? I don't know anything. Huh? There's going to be a lot of movement spotter-wise. Anybody got a lot of detector machine. Anyone? There is going to be a lot of movement.

There's going to be a lot of movement on the spotter stand this year. Big cars. When you read Dell Jr. retires, when you read the... Casey Kane's moving, Matt Kinsis moving, Eric Jones is moving. They have their guys. And if their guys don't get picked by the new guy, that creates movement. There's only 40 of us, and there's only about 20 of us that are worth the .

Your number's higher than last time, because you said it was like five or ten before, didn't you? Yeah, that's because I fell out of the top ten. I feel like I'll extend the number a little further. Yeah, he's right, though, you know, but you got these new guys coming in. If they have somebody else they like, you, you know, maybe Alex doesn't like me. I don't know. Maybe I don't like Alex. I don't like Alex. I know.

That's why I said that. I'm just kidding. He was a few months ago, and I got under my skin. Yeah. See, Alex is young. Coming from Brett, who's just an angel on Twitter all the time. I am an angel. Okay.

Spot-on, spot off. Composite bodies coming to the Inixfinity Series at R-I-R. There's three races we're running this year. Richmond, Dover, and what else? Uh, there's another one. Phoenix. Yeah. Richmond Dover Phoenix.

The Xfinity Series is going to run these composite bodies. Supposedly, teams are going to save a lot of money. But everybody that I've talked to says that's a lie. We have to build nine freaking cars by Richmond in order to do this composite thing. Because we have four teams, and I think Dale Jr. is running Richmond, right? There he is. and Xfinity. So we have to build nine cars to be able to show up at the racetrack.

And we just got the bodies like last week. Well, guys will be busy. So what they say about these composite bodies is it's you're buying them, you know, self-contained, right? So you're getting this body. You can make changes to it. That tells me that the best teams are still going to be the best teams. Because if you can deviate the body, you can't, you can't change it much.

But if you can deviate at a 16th here and a 16th there and an 8th there, like I'm telling you, these top teams, it'll show up immediately, and it'll be a big deal. It's going to be as big a deal as we're going to a mile and a half or something like that. But it's going to matter a little bit. To me, it's a step in the right direction. The only way that this is really going to be successful is if we go to short tracks. Yeah. If we go to South Boston, if we go to South Boston and we know there's a late model guy that can get a composite body

and put a car together. Right. He's going to be there. Yeah. And, you know, if we take away a little bit of the pit crew expense for them races, too, and they don't have to get this high dollar pit crew, they don't have to have 25 grand for a pit crew. I don't even know what it costs around a pit crew for a race.

A good one. I would say you're looking at, I mean, they're paying those guys, say, 10 grand total. So they're probably, Hendricks probably charging you, you know, or Gannasi or whoever's 20 grand, I bet, to do it. I mean, but the late model guy doesn't have that to spend on a pit crew. No. You know? but if he can get an old chassis there and he's got

you can get a composite body and put it on that car and go run. Right. You know, that's a step in the right direction for short tracks to me. This is what I was told about the bodies. They have no flex, no bin, so much thicker material made out of carbon. Richmond Dover Phoenix is where we're running it. And next year the plan is to run it everywhere except plate tracks for the Xfinity series. Yeah.

To me, it's not really going to be all the way of successful until we, can go to these short tracks. I mean, we need to have... So let me ask you this. If I tear my right rear up, do I have to go buy a whole new body? No. No, you can...

You can get a part to put on it. You can get the right rear. Have you... I mean, basically it's fiberglass. So, you ever smelled resin? Yeah. Oh, that's good stuff. Yeah.

You're going to snort resin after the show. Wow, the first race car I had was a fiberglass body, and I would tear it up a little bit. We'd have to fix it, man. It was like a nostalgic smell to you. It was good, man. I'll tell you what, if you and Josh, if he starts talking about Peyton Manning

with you with this look on your face about resin, I'm leaving the room. It's getting weird. It does get weird. Paid Manning. Omaha. Omaha. All right, spot on, spot off.

Martin Trucks Jr. Fuel strategy pays off. I wasn't there. I was on the plane, so. Spot on, man. Four wins. Four wins, right. How much did he actually,

when we were reading, trying to keep up with it on Twitter, So if we heard that he was at least a lap short. We were two laps short, and we finished the race. Obviously, I can't tell you how much fuel in the tank because I'd be in trouble. But if he was a lap short, man, he went really, really hard. He went hard longer than we did. At 18 to go, we started saving.

And he kept going. And then when he slowed down, he had such a big lead. He slowed down two and a half seconds. We slowed down about a second. Yeah. And then Matt run him down. And obviously, they finished it out. But, man, it was an entertaining race.

The shortest race. The shortest race since the 70s when Cup had been in the Hickory. I fully expected to get home and sit on the couch and watch the green-white checker. And I didn't make it. I didn't even get close. I mean, we were still in the air. Eight minutes shorter than the Xfinity race, which had eight laps less than it. People want shorter races.

You know what? You just got it. And I mean, obviously, in order for that to happen at Oval's, we got to knock a lapse off the race. But in terms of, I would be willing to, interested to know, people want a shorter races. Well, you just got it. What do you think? I don't give a shit to say about the entertainment factor. How good was a race?

How good was a broadcast? I'm talking about the time that you spent to consume our media. What did you think about it? I mean, and how are they going to keep paying you a full-time pay when you only work part-time on Sundays? I don't know. How many laps do you run yesterday? How many laps have you run all year?

Half of them? It's not been a lot. What are y'all doing? Getting home early. Did you blow up? We had a valve. So we had a problem with the valve train or something. You know, we probably maybe could have fixed it,

but then they wouldn't have been able to find the problem. Right. You know, we could have fixed it probably and went out, but not doing that, I believe. I'm not sure. Well, they can now they can go find what's happening and take a look at it and narrow it down. Right.

If we go out there and run it and hurt it some more, we're not going to. I would be afraid to fly on an airplane with you too right now. Y'all's luck is so bad. Yeah, I'm waiting for it to end. It can end any time, and that would be great. He's good at Michigan. Are you any good at Michigan?

I mean, I've been to Victory Lane three or four times there. Yeah, so you're all right. Maybe two in the cup, one in Xfinity. Let's make sure it's not you because something's going on. It might be me. Maybe I need to take a weekend off. I don't know. I can't believe you had a baby and didn't take this weekend off.

Yeah, I mean, it was tough leaving. I had my first one between the Charlotte Week, so I got to go home every night. and that was i didn't realize what it was going to be like leaving so um come in there's iran sagster and her brother pace yeah pace just left the washington capitals and has moved back to north carolina and is now the capitals suck anyway and now he's they got a bunch of people i can't pronounce their names they got one guy that's really good it's like a bunch of russians and he he he's like never going to win a stanley cup either now i would like this do we have any

Chinese hockey players pace? No? Yao Ming. Yal Ming can't play hockey. He's too tall. We have no Chinese hockey players in the league. I think Chinese people will be cool hockey players. Why?

I don't know. You wouldn't be able to tell if you hit him in eyes. They're already squinting. Gosh. Oh, man. That's true. You ever fight an Asian guy? You're going to get Roundhouse with a skate.

My favorite part of being the Asian whole process is when I grew up, like you would watch. an Asian movie and they would be speaking on Elliot's first website they would be speaking like this this Asian language like Chinese yeah like Chinese or Japanese or Honduras or something and then uh Honduras that's that's Asian isn't it no and then and then like they would play this thing in in English so you would say like you want to fight fight me like that was my favorite part of Asian that was blood sport yeah great movie though by the way

Bloodsport. Bloodsport. It was a good movie. We got completely sidetracked. Yeah, we did. Yeah. Last spot-on, spot off. Overtime line is now start-finish.

That means the overtime line is dead. Yes. Thank God. Can we have a celebratory toast to that? Yes. Did you bring your wine or your maker's mark? Maker's mark. Aaron gave me a bottle of Maker's Mark.

Yeah, you bottle your own, right? Yeah. Is that like, I'm slightly worried if that's, are you like an alcoholic or just a fan? She can't even drink you. Her brother says, yes. She can't drink gluten. Oh, you're gluten girl, too. I mean, she can't eat gluten either.

Yeah, but she's not dumb like Kristen. Like, I've never known her and not show up for work because she's ate gluten. Yeah, oh, there's a bottle of gluten. Let me just pound it. Yeah. I mean. Give myself a shot. Oh, I've got to go to work for three days.

I can go cycling, but I'm not going to work. I got high. I just ran 30 miles. Overtime line is dead. Thank God. It was dumb anyway. I'm going to go back to TJ's thing that he said before is. We ought to finish these races.

Undergreen. Arka does it. Surely the best drivers in the world can do it. Got to finish it. Except for plate tracks. I'm okay not doing it there. Me too, a plate tracks. Otherwise, we got to come to the checker.

Why not? Somebody's going to get mad at some point, but that's going to be exciting. Let's get everybody their money's worth. Yeah. Yeah. Taking a break. We'll be right back. When Elliott wins, you could too.

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It brings you Insiders' info all weekend long on the 88 team. at Exaltza Racing, a must follow for any Dale Jr. fan. So we're back. Sorry that break took a little longer unusual. T.J. did an interview with Pace Sagaster. He's trying to get his whole job up at the Washington Capitals. Yeah, apparently the Washington Capitals are short of a PR person. I like hockey. I like Washington, I think. Just think if we could put earpieces in the skaters and spot for them. Oh, y'all. Got one come on that?

That'd be fun. Hit him. Left hook. Just turn around a swing. Yeah. Hit him with your stick. Oh, yeah. Anyway, here we are.

Let's kick it. Here we are. All right, we're going into Fast Lane. A quick overview of what Fast Lane is. I'll give Brett and TJ a topic to discuss. Whoever goes first will go last. Whoever, yeah, I screwed that up. But all right, if you haven't, if you don't know.

We know what we're doing. Yes. Then you haven't listened to the show enough. Okay, go. All right. During the Xfinity Series race, there was a caution on a lap 17 and NASCAR did not open pit road and ended the stage under yellow. A stalled card ended up being a six-lap caution. What are your thoughts on this, T.J.

The ending the stage is correct. You can't open pit road and get all your sequence done in that amount of time. They've boned that so many times. If you're within three laps at the end of the stage, you have to end the stage basically to me. You know, as far as getting the car off the racetrack that's uh I don't feel like it should have been that long I don't know what the problem was with the car but I don't know how that that's a lot of time that's probably what three minutes or two three minutes a lot probably I lost I lost my mind on this deal because the yellow come out at lap 17 pit road could have been opened at lap 18 or 19 and lap 20 we could have awarded the top 10 the top 10

if you decide to pit and forfeit top 10 that's your decision if you If you inherit a top 10 as a result of guys pitting, that's your benefit. Like, they completely managed this whole process. It wasn't they couldn't move the car for six laps. It was we ended the stage for three laps. Then you had to interview the guy who won the stage for a lap. You had to pit for a lap. That's what took so damn long.

Just do what you normally do and the stage ends based on who's running top 10 and who isn't. Yeah, I still don't. It hurts the guys that. Well, it's not there. It's not fair to penalize. them and they don't have to pit but you're gonna with the stage racing when you award something at the end of it you can't you can't tell them guys you got it and it's my 30 seconds you can't talk uh just explain the rules i forgot basically at martinsville it happened and it happened somewhere else too

you can't open pit road let everybody pit from 10th on back close pit road give the stage points then open it again when you know everybody has to pit you only open at once this is the last thing i'll say is you jipped the competitors and the fans out of three green flag laps because of the way this was handled. That's okay. It's a long race. A co-owner of RPM said that NASCAR teams need a spending cap. Do you agree with this statement, Brett? No, I don't agree with it. I think that if you look at it as a business owner, yes, you want a spending cap.

And this guy is a business owner. He's not a racer. When you look at it as a racer, you want to go as fast as you can possibly. go. And in order to go as fast as you can go, you have to spend money. How do you get money? You sell sponsorship. That's what our model's been based on. Sell sponsorship, spend the sponsorship money to go fast. If you can't sell enough sponsorship, get a new driver. Sorry. You know, I've thought about this before, and part of it makes sense to me, but I don't want to go into, you know, if this happens, you're talking about limiting any position. You're talking about,

okay, well, this position is only worth so much. We should only pay these guys that. I don't think we need to get into that type of deal. Or, you know, I don't know, man. If you want a higher two and two years, you should be able to hire two and two guys. You shouldn't be capped by that. You know, I think there's ways that we can regulate the spending in certain areas,

like testing they've taken care of. But the money just gets spent somewhere else. This comes down to going fast. And to go fast, you've got to spend money. And when I look at it, and if you said, all right, we're going to have a cap. How are you possibly going to police the books and audit the books of all these owners? And, oh, by the way, after they put out this cap, these guys are going to go buy a new G5 airplanes and new citation tens.

These owners are, I mean, I know an owner right now who just bought a freaking big-ass new airplane. Oh, nice. This is the same guy as. Who is it? The need a spotter. I mean, I don't know. The need a spotter. Real quick before we go to the next one.

So I got a question. So Tom Brady. Yeah. takes way less pay. Who's to say, because the NFL has a salary cap. So who's to say that they don't pay Tom Brady, you know, that low end, but who's to say they don't walk up to his house a couple times here with a briefcase and drop it off?

Or say, hey, Tom, you want to borrow my airplane at any point you want, you can borrow my airplane? By the way, look in the back in the top drawer. Or there's a sack of money. Or here's an endorsement for $1 million. Yeah, for 25 minutes. From tj majors.com to do a 10 minute autograph session. Yeah. There are so many ways around this BS.

For this guy to say this, I get what he's looking at, which is we suck right now. How do I stop sucking? But that's not the answer. Yeah, I agree. NASCAR may push cup qualifying to Saturdays more in 2018. Is that a good idea, in your opinion, TJ? It was Sunday. Yesterday.

You mean Saturdays or Sundays? It was Sunday. You mean race day? Same day as a race? It was Sunday at Pocono. Okay. Honestly, I like it. Normally we qualify on Fridays, so.

I like the same. Yeah, but we've been going on Sundays. Yeah. This question sucks. I like the deal where we go on race day, actually. It's way less turnaround and work for the guys in the cars. They don't have to do, they prep the car one time basically instead of twice. When you prep it for qualifying, you're basically prepping it for the race because that thing is impounded.

Yeah. But you guys went to the back. If you have a serious problem, you can still go work on it. But look, you're going to sacrifice your starting spot. It's not tuned to the day. You can still fix your stuff. And you might see guys do that still. Like, if you're so far off.

I was going to say, how long does he get? Well, this question sucks. So we get a minute. Well, you talk to like 15 seconds of his. The good news is when you have the qualifying on race day, it means the cup guys got an extra day off. Good for them. However, the downside is what TJ just said.

When you have a problem, you really don't have a lot of time to fix it. If we had blown a motor, if we had wrecked a car, the backup car doesn't have a motor in it. The brakes, we had to bleed the brakes. Trevor Bain decided not to do his. He didn't even get to start to freaking race. It's a very narrow window. Teams are going to have to learn not to gamble and qualify and if we're going to do it on the same day as race day.

Don't forget the Xfinity car has been doing this for a while, and none of them had any problems. So there's no way that these cup guys shouldn't figure this out. Like, to me, there should have been no excuse for break problems. Like, I know whoever had them, whatever. There should have been no excuse for that. The Xfinity car has been doing this for a long time, and they never have a problem. Once in a while, you'll see a guy. But it's always a back marker.

Right. You know, so they'll figure it out. Yeah. All right, so we talked about this a little bit earlier, but when your driver receives news that he will not be driving the car next year, how do you, as a spotter-slash-friend, keep his head in the game, and what does that mean for you as a spotter? Well, I mean, I think you've got to look at us.

How does he keep his head in the game? he gets paid to do a job. And when you show up to your job, whether you're being laid off or you're being fired or you're leaving on your own terms, you still have to come into work to do your job. What does it mean for us as the spotter? It means that we have to rely on our relationship with them to figure out if there's an opportunity for us to go and stay with them, which is what I would want to do with both the guys that I spot for on a full-time basis.

And if that's not an option, you've got to start knocking on doors. Yeah, like I'm, there's a lot of, similar, I'm in a similar situation. You know, Dell Jr. is obviously retiring. So now you, do you wait, you got a replacement coming in? I was fortunate to build a work with him already, so it's not

brand new. But like he said, you got to, you got to kind of be active and hopefully, you know, your stock's high enough that when people find out, your phone rings. Yeah. You know, and hopefully you're, there's not a lot of times in this sport where you have a chance to

pick your outcome. Yeah. So you got to take advantage of that when you have it. Yeah. I mean, if I'm Casey Kane right now, I hope in the next 48 hours my phone rings with some interest. And if it doesn't, I have to go knock on doors. We're the same way. You know, when I left the 31 car, my phone started ringing. And it was really good guys.

And I had three or four options within three or four days. I ended up picking Clint because we were really good friends. And so at the end of the day, man, we're in the relationship business and the performance business. Yeah. All right. The off-the-wall topic, according to the NFL network, Jay Cutler is coming out of retirement and signing a one-year deal with the Miami Dolphins. Do you think this is a smart move by the Dolphins management?

T.J. Looking at their roster, I don't, if they want to spend the $10 million in cap, they're paying him. I don't know. You know, that sounds like a great idea because he is miles better than their next guy they have in line, which I think is Matt Moore. and Matt Moore is not a starting NFL quarterback. Great for a guy to come in and take over half a game if he's got to manage it a little bit, but is not a starting quarterback.

This is good news for the other teams because Jay Cutler sucks. I know. He came out of Vanderbilt. He had the strongest arm in the league. I got one story to tell about Jay Cutler and then I'm done. We were in a bar in Nashville, Tennessee. Jay Cutler was in there. Elliot Sadler said to Jay Cutler,

Hey man, I was going to buy you a drink, but I was afraid the waitress would intercept it. That's how bad he is. He throws too many interceptions. So I've seen some stats on Jay Culler, and his stats, obviously people remember interceptions more than anything. For sure. And he had some really good years in Chicago as well. I mean, he threw a lot of touchdown passes Alshan Jeffrey and them guys. Alshan is the man.

And Martellus Bennett. He had some pretty good weapons at the time. So Jay Collar can, you give him the right weapons. He's obviously a guy, but he's careless. He's reckless with the ball, and he'll throw some interceptions. People seem to remember interceptions more than I remember the good time. So for every interception, you better throw 10 touchdowns. I got a picture to show you at Jay Cutler.

It may take me a while. I got one. When I find it, I'll show it too. What do you think about, Josh? You're a big football guy. I don't know. I mean, it's – I get what they're trying to do. What are they trying to do?

They're trying to put in a quarterback they think is... I thought he just signed a TV deal. He did. So that had an out that if he gets a job, he can get out of TV. Why would you hire Jay Cutler to do TV? Fresh perspective. Dude, that'd be like hiring... Who's it like hiring that's a cup driver?

They never won. Trevor Bain announcing a race, maybe? He's won a Daytona 500. Jay Cutler hadn't won anything close equivalent to a Daytona 500. So it's got to be somebody that hasn't won. David Reagan? He's won Talladega. Right.

He's won a race. This guy's won a football game. He's won some big games. He's won some games. Not a Super Bowl. But not a big game. He's never had a great season. He had a good season.

So David Reagan? I don't know. Parker Klingerman? I've never. Parker Klingerman. Hell, we already got a guy doing it. Yeah. I'm not a huge fan.

Every time. So I watched a broadcast yesterday a little bit of it. And when he talks, it's like your 30 seconds. It's actually a minute and a half. What does he talk about? He just, it's run-on sentences. What does he say? How great he was.

No. I'm just kidding. That wouldn't take a minute and a half. Oh, man. All right, we're going to move into hashtag SDBC. Look, check out this girl's name right here. I was at Bristol, Tennessee, ironically. That's coming up in a few weeks.

It is. It is. But look at this girl's name was on her desk in a one-main financial office. her name is now yeah read it Anita

Anita what I need a hooker her name is Anita hooker I'm going to tweet this out after the show comes out

and I said ma'am with all due respect I said with all due respect I I got to ask you to take a picture with your name plate she's like I can't believe I married a guy

with the last name hooker I said that's not the bad part. Your first name is Anita. Anita Hooker. Lady, change your name. Just make it Nita. Neatahooker's just as bad, ain't it? That's like Eileen, Mary, and Ben Dover? Eileen Dover. Okay. I'm going to tweet this picture out so you people believe me. Here I got to save it. That's like something you make up in a joke. Save photo. I'm looking through my Facebook pictures for Jay Cutler. Anyway, go ahead. What were you?

talking about. We're moving on to hashtag S-EBC. Hala. Look at this girl's tattoo on her lip. It's on her lip. Oh, my gosh. Says, please.

Can we say bich on here, Josh? We can say, it's a female dog. Don't beat that. If you're getting trouble, I'll take the blame. Yeah, Josh, don't be a, nobody listens to the show anyway.

It works here. It works here. That owns it. Anyway. Carry on. At J. Steen, 234 asked. Do you see Casey Kane and NASCAR or running sprint cars next year? Both.

Yeah, both. Both. Kids going to land somewhere, man. I mean, there's too many opportunities out there. We don't know what's going on with the 78. We've heard it's going to go away in five hours moving. You mean 77. 77.

We've heard that five hours moving to the 78 car and the 77 may be shutting down. But when a guy like Casey Kane becomes available, Toyota could say, hey, we'll fund him. Yeah, I mean, it's not that hard. I don't say it's not that hard for somebody like Toyota. That's got to be an important car to Toyota. I mean, look at the 95. Who would you rather have in the 95? Yeah, I mean, that 95 actually runs very competitive.

It's the fastest RCR car every week. Yeah, that's crazy. It outruns the three. The three has a win. What's he got? Two top tens, maybe? Yeah. The 31's got a win.

What's he got five top tens? Like, these guys aren't fast. RCR is not fast right now. The 95 is the fastest RCR car every week. With Michael McDowell, so what does it do with Casey Canaan? It gets faster, right? Questions. Don't you think?

I would assume it gets faster. Yeah, me too. At Susie Q088, ask, is it common for crew chief driver and spotter to communicate in code language? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. LA's got all kind of code words. We used to use code words more, but they were mainly between me and Dell Jr.,

what the Redskins score was. He gave out a code word at Talladega, and I thought it meant something else after the race. He's like, what did you think about that code word I used? I said, I thought it was awesome. I went down to Freddie and told him to take the top. He said, that ain't what it meant. I was like, well, shit, I had my code words mixed up.

Well, yeah, you did that talk. What was the code? Your playbook. It was my daughter's name, Jovi. So I thought my Jovi, Jovi's the oldest child in my family, so I thought it was the top. So I was like, I got to tell this guy to take the top because we're going to help him.

I won't what he meant. I can't tell you what it really means because when he says it again, then somebody's going to figure it out. Well, then no, it's not take the top. So let me write that down here. And that's fine. But sometimes code words are confusing.

Maybe you need to study your playbook. We call out all kind of code words on the Xfinity team, and I'm like, I don't know what we're doing. Clear. Yeah, we don't use any code words. You're all right in there. Records coming. Yeah, we don't use code words.

That's just making. it makes it a lot more confusing at times. Yeah. If you're going to, I mean, sometimes it gets a little carried away. Yeah. And R.L. Plepler. Ask how many, well, whatever.

Not Plepler, Pepler. Yeah, you're really good. If you have three, okay, sorry, how many spotters did you guys have at Watkins Glen? And can it get a bit confusing if you have three or four spotters at a time? Oh, I had two.

That was the minimum that you can really use at Watkins Glen and I wish I had I wish I had three or four but we didn't have the people there for it. Can't afford it. It's a low budget deal over there on that little 80 car. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Del Jr.'s making so much money they can't afford another spotter. Well, I had another guy, but he bailed

on me to go for the five. Oh, Ford Martin? No. But I think Brad Little was supposed to help Casey and then Brad bailed out. Why? I don't know. I got scared. He said. Oh, what it was. Said he got nervous or something.

So I lost my third guy. I had four. Yeah. Front stretch, S's bus stop, and turn 10, which looks back to the exit of the carousel. Well, we saw horrific accident with Sam Hornish Jr. and Jeff Gordon years ago. But, I mean, that's a blind spot if you don't have a guy in 10. So I really only had to spot one corner. It was awesome.

There's really not. Full pay for a part-time job. It's not very confusing because you can only see so much. Only speak if you can see. Yeah, for sure. And you can only see so much. So by the time they get to the bottom of the ass, you're handing them off because you can't see anyway,

so it doesn't really, it's not really that confusing. Here's this picture. Look at this guy. This is the next dolphin quarterback. I'm not going to tweet that picture. That's pretty nice. Yeah. He's got a shirt on button all the way, too.

It's a big dude. He's 6-6. Look at his, look at his eyes. I think he'd had a few steles? I think he, I think someone roofied his drink. Yeah. What'd you do to his drink? That's pretty good.

We were in... That's kind of creepy. We were backstage at some concert. I think I was in Kansas City or something with him. Sounds like you hang out with Jay a lot. I tell you what I did. You and Jay Buds? I brought up the fact that he was friends with Kyle Bush, and he got pissed.

I was like, well, y'all text all the time. Oh, wow. He's all fired up. He's mad. He's just Kyle a Chicago fan? No, Kyle's a part of. Broncos fan. Oh, remember?

Yeah, he used to be there. Yeah, he did not like me accusing him of being a Kyle Busch fan because Blake was there. Well, and you know, Blake's like, what? You know, Blake's a Clinton Elliott fan. He likes Dale Jr. He's like, can't be a Cowbush fan. So he started arguing. It was awesome.

Good, instigate some stuff there. Jay probably through interception. I don't mind instigate something. He'll probably be listening to this podcast. Jay definitely is a listener. I guarantee Jay Cutler sitting there waiting for his phone to take off. Well, probably not yet because he knows you're probably doing it. It's going to be tonight.

Yeah, we're recording that too. This thing will be out by Thursday. Yeah, this is the afternoon, so hopefully it gets out there before we fly out. You don't need to edit it. We're doing greatness in here. There's no editing. Sure. It's greatness.

At Beagle Mom X4 asks, how difficult is it to spot a young rookie driver? Do you think she has four Beagle Mom times four? That's a lot of beagles. That's a lot of beagles, man. Biggles have stinking ass ears. They do. Their ears smell terrible. They do.

They have big ears. They can smell good, though. They like that resin smell of yours. They would smell the hell of that resin. What was our question? How difficult is a spot for a young, rookie driver? It's not that bad. I mean, you just got to be more vocal, and sometimes you've got to tell these guys what to do.

You either do with your cup guys sometimes. Sometimes if you're a good spotter and you know what you're doing, and you need to be confident. And no matter who the guy is in the car, you need to be able to tell him sometimes, look, run the top down here. I don't care what you're doing. You need to run the top down here. And the guy needs to be able to listen.

So these rookies, a lot of times I'm going through that with Chase Briscoe, he listens very well. I've done truck races for years now in Xfinity races. I've done the full schedule on all the series for a long time. So, you know, you see a lot of things, and I'm not going to tell him something that I think is going to hurt him or jeopardize our chances to win the race. We're going to miss you next year.

So. I'm going to miss you up in Washington. Yeah, I'm going to be doing some PR reports. I like it. I'm very selective on rookies that I'm willing to work with. Trevor Bain was one of the few guys that I worked with. Had some success, had a lot of fun. Mike Snyder this year, Todd Gilland. It really just comes down to not assuming that they know anything.

You can't take for granted that they know. certain rules because a lot of times they don't. They don't understand all the intricacies of restarts and pit road and all the penalties and speeds. And so it really just comes down to paying attention to detail a lot more than we're used to on Saturday and Sunday. I've enjoyed working with both those guys. When you work with a rookie, and I think T.J.L. backed me up on this. When you work with a rookie and you give him advice and you see him take the advice and he goes faster, it makes you feel good. Yeah.

And you want to work with a guy not listening to it. because then you know he trusts you and you feel like you're actually an asset. Yeah. So I like it. You've got a great ass. It's. I need a hooker. I'm going to send this picture out so you people don't think I'm lying.

You got to wait. You got anything you want to rant about? You got to wait until after the show, though. I don't know this is a rant, but I'm going to just say a few things here. Okay. I saw a lot of tweets on Saturday this week. from Hickory Motor Speedway, from Canadaigua, from wherever Carson Ellage was racing.

And it seemed like huge Saturday night short track crowds. And I think that tells us that Saturday night racing is still alive and well. And if it's still alive and well, our sport is still alive and well, it's kicking. That's the backbone. But what I need the brass to do is stop chasing a demographic that isn't there. Look at who our fans are. cater to our fans, stop alienating our fans, and just cater to our fan base that we currently have. We may not need to get any bigger.

Maybe we're big enough. Yeah. They had good crowds. Hickery was... Mark it to this guy standing in our gift shop with this Valvaline hat on with a Woodbrother's Motorcraft hat on. This guy likes Valvene and he likes Motorcraft. That's two different things. Motorcraft makes their own oil.

Vivalene makes it on oil. He likes both. What if she likes oil? As long as she doesn't need a hooker? Who cares? What old do you like? She's not going to tell us. His oil.

She likes his, she pointed to him. They're going to the bathroom. They're leaving. They're putting everything down. They're going to buy and leaving. Thank God we have the ability to edit this, Josh. I take back what I said. I don't know.

Just let it go. I don't have anything. Anyway. Hey, you want to come in and propose? Oh, Elliotessaller.com. We'll pull it up. Yeah. Oh, man.

Well, you got, T.J. Anything to fuss about? I got to start looking ahead here to my pick. Yeah, I'm more concerned about the picks. Yeah. So that was a good battle last week, though. It appears. That was.

I tried the same thing at Sonoma. Boy, dingeling sure wasn't relevant, was he? Not as relevant as I thought he would be. I'm tired. Don't tell me next year about how he's the greatest road course race ever when he's won two road course races in 10 years. Like, this is why you hire. A.J. Amadinger. He has one job to go be good at road courses.

And he didn't do it. And either one. Yeah. There you go. Casey Kane, another spot. Another opportunity. We are struggling. We're struggling. Right over here. We've hit the bottom, but I'm going to the top of my list.

I know where you're going. As far as guys on the bottom, driver of the number 77 Toyota. I knew that's where you were going. I'm going with a heavy hitting top 10 wrecking machine. He wrecked about nine times the last time we were at Michigan. Hopefully he got them all out of the way. Eric Jones. So basically, this is, we each have one A guy left.

Yeah. You have. You got Blaney. Yes, I got Blaney and you got Eric Jones. Yep, yeah. And that's a pretty good matchup. It's a hell of a matchup. So I got to go Blaney because I can't lose.

I was hoping you were going to take DJ Kennington. Yeah, you know. Who the fuck is DJ Kennington? How do he get on his shit? Where do he run? Do we even know? He's Canadian. Is he real?

Is he real? Is he like a real person? No, no, he's real. He's definitely real. He's definitely a Canadian. Oh. Where do we go next week after this? Bristol.

We're going to have a battle there. Bristol. We've got a Bristol week off. Myrtle Beach. Richmond, Darlington. Right? No, Darlington, Richmond. Oh, we got to have to finish football draft coming up.

Darlington has kickoff for a weekend for college football, too. And we're going to fantasy football draft that day, probably too. Some idiot scheduled a race at the same time as a Gamecox game. Who does that? Kerry Tharp runs Darlington Raceway. He's the president. He's the commander. And he's a Gamecock guy.

And we're running the race at the same time as the Gamecox. Who's Tennessee open with? Georgia Tech. That'd be a good one. We're playing NC State. I'm kind of worried. We got them in the new Mercedes dome. Have you ever been to NC State?

In Atlanta? Mm-hmm. Have you ever been to NC State? Yeah. To a football game? Mm-hmm. Their fans are... Well, yeah.

Have you... I mean, did you feel that when you were there? Yeah. Yeah. He's an NC State fan. This guy's an asshole. He wants to have his oil check later. She wants a ring.

But he's got great oil taste. Vowalene. He probably got on Quaker State underwear. It'd be the first proposal ever on the podcast, just so you know. You don't want a proposal on here? Get married? If you propose, we'll have you on the show. We probably just cause a hell of a flight in the car on the way home.

All right. Picks her in. Hala. Picks her in? Yeah. We're off to Michigan. By the way, thanks, one main. Man, where I stay in Michigan sucks.

Ann Arbor? No. We got at 8.30 Prattison. I stay in Ann Arbor. You're going to leave it four. Yeah. I stay in Jackson. Oof.

And I'm going to tell you something. There ain't nothing. do there. Nope. Anita. Like Jackson, Michigan, the people call Detroit the armpit of America, they've not been to Jackson. It's special. It's terrible. Oh, Jesus. All right. Well, thanks to Exalted. Thanks to one main financial. Appreciate all this port. Exalted Studios. We got to that Whiskey River deal. We're getting ready to announce winners. 10 winters, five winners will get. Oh, you get to find out who I get it right along to. Yeah, it's going to be good. We're out of here. We hope you get well and stay off the gluten girl.

Hopefully you stay off that gluten. She's got to quit. Maybe we need to get like a patch she can wear. Build her tolerance up to it. Because obviously she can't cut it out. Yeah. I mean, a patch might be good for. Don't you know what gluten's in like before you consume it?

She don't. All right. See you. See y'all. You've been listening to Door Bumper Clear, brought to you by One Main. For updates on Elliott Sadler and the number of one junior motorsports team. Go to Onemainracing.com.

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