Door Bumper Clear - 77 - Nail in the Knee Cap

Episode Date: September 18, 2017

Brett, TJ, Natalie, and Josh discuss tires, speeding, fish sandwiches, screen names, and complaining on social media after an eventful weekend at Chicagoland. 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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I think we should take a moment here to have a moment of silence for Ted Christopher, a Northeast racing legend. You know, big enemy on the racetrack for a lot of people, but from what I understand, what I know of him, he's, you know, one of the best guys away from the track. And he's honestly probably, I mean, a modified legend for sure, but Northeast, he would race anything anywhere, and he was always excited to watch.

And, you know, never a dull moment with him. So we'd like to take a moment of silence for him. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Majors. Spotter the 88 Cup car. The 7Xfinity car. Chief Instigator. Chief Instigator.

I can't wait for Halloween. Muggs flying. Brett Griffin Spotter for Clint Boyer, Elliot Sadler. Last weekend in two races, Mike Snyder. I've never spotted so much in my life. Yeah, welcome to the real world. What was it like on Thursday? Dude, I was sick of spotting.

Yeah. Did you go for the Arca race? Well, I did Thursday, Thursday night, Friday, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday. See, your, Maya ended up driving the car that I spot for. In Arca. When I got the call that said Maya was driving it, I could not have been happier because that moved my flight from Thursday morning to Friday morning. Yeah.

It's cool. I don't mind racing, man. I love racing, but all those practices. God. That's a long Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and it's a long time. That's a lot of spotting. It is. It is.

I have a sub-lovely co-host. Yeah. Hey, guys. I mean, geez. Instead of KV, NS. Yeah, I mean, N-S. Hey, guys.

You've reached 1-900. I mean, you said that kind of creepy. Hey. Good morning. You're going to get a lot of tweets. Again. Again. Oh, my gosh.

So, man, that was kind of a crazy weekend. Chicago. Yeah, Chicago is usually. A lot going on this week. Yeah. There is a lot going on. I mean, where do we start? I mean...

The king loses his bacon deal. He turns complete moron and talks crap about a company that's giving him $100 million. Yeah. That's probably smart. I mean, I think both sides couldn't handle that a little bit better, in my opinion. Your two professional places should not be in a war on social media. Our big boss, competition boss, Ryan Pemberton, staring at us like. He's getting ready to fire both of us.

What would we do now? We already do this for free. And that's going to get worse. We're going to lose our paying jobs. We're going to pay in. He usually looks at me like that and he shakes his head and walks away. Ryan, you got any good rumors? You want to come in and talk?

No. Oh, man. He loves us. So honestly, you think it's okay for the king to lash out of the company that's given him a six. a six-year relationship, and probably, being in all honesty, $75 or $80 million. I don't know the details of it. Neither do. Neither does anybody else.

That's my point. What I'm saying is if he did, if that's, I mean, he is, I don't believe Richard's going to make something up about that. You think Richard's ever screwed anybody out of money? I don't know. What I'm saying is. I know somebody he screwed out of money. You?

I know two people he screwed out of money. Well, what I'm saying is if there was something happened, and then somebody backed out, you know, I'm not saying that's right or wrong, but, you know, he's probably angry because there's a lot of people's jobs at stake at this. There's a lot of people's a lot of that on the line. And I can see where he would be angry. Now he might have to go back here. And ultimately, who knows if they're going to run.

They might have had something lined up, you know, rumor has it that Bubba was common. They, you know, I don't know what they're going to do for sponsor. But, you know, now he might have to go back there and be like, hey, now I got to lay, I got to lay 100 people off right here. We're only running or even everybody, you know. And I would be mad if I had a, deal and you told me, you gave me your word, you're with me. But you don't know that that happened. I don't. You don't know that that happened. But you don't know that it didn't either.

I know that that's not their version of the story. Well, I have heard a version of it and it got twisted up up at the top a little bit from what I was told. You and I both know that a deal is not done until ink is on a piece of paper. You know, I agree. I agree it's not done. But, you know, We also know that starting in the beginning of the year that Smithfield was talking to various teams and also NASCAR. So NASCAR was trying to be in play on the same big. This is a big freaking deal. Other than Menards, this was the second biggest play on the market for sponsorship. Yeah.

It's big for pay to have too. I mean. Here's the reality we talked about last week. They've been with Petty for a long time. They've spent a lot of money with Petty and they run like crap. And when you look at, we can even go back to Viya. Remember when Mike Bliss got Viagra and they came in and it was like, man, Viagra? This is a big money deal.

This is not a big money team. Literally. And then you sit around and watch this thing for a year and you're like, they're going to move. What do they do? They moved. You can't come in and spend a pie. You can't spend the A tier money and run with a C tier guys. Well, I thought it was because Mark was having problems.

Yeah. I don't think Mark's ever had problems. And he needed some help. He needed help. But you know what I'm saying. You can't have A money sponsorship and get C level performance and expect to keep it. I guess my problem with it is one of them either need to make it. They either, if you're leaving, just tell them you're leaving.

Then you don't have this gray area where, okay, do we have a deal? Okay, we have a deal. Not really. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of moving parts and pieces, man. Yeah, well, and the version I heard from a pretty reliable source was they got mixed up kind of near the top. You know, somebody wanted to do it and somebody else didn't want to do it. somebody else made a decision and didn't tell the other person maybe. I'm not sure.

Yeah. I really don't know. In my opinion, I don't care if his name's Richard Petty or Jesus. You don't come out and choose to blast a partner because here's the thing. If I dated a supermodel and I had pictures and I put those pictures all over the internet and then I want to date Natalie, the next supermodel, she's going to be like, no, you just put pictures of your next. You're just not going to get any pictures.

So the next supermodel is going to turn you down. He needs sponsorship. The last thing he needs to be doing is talking about the sponsor he just had forever. He was pretty damn patient with him. Let's be honest. I'm not saying, you know, I don't know the deal. If they had a handshake deal and they said they were going to come back, then went and signed something else, I'd be pissed too.

I'd be mad. If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass every time at jump. I'd be mad if you told me you were going to pick me up and then didn't show up and told me to get around with someone else. Absolutely. But you don't, but if I never told you I was going to pick you up. Well, what if you did? I didn't. What if they did?

How to lift your ass by the curve. I mean, your name's not Smithfield either, so I don't know. It's just not a good scenario. Either way you look at it, it's not. Yeah, it's not good. Companies are going to do what's best for their business, and race teams are going to have to figure it out. Man, it's always been.

I think it's a huge hit to Richard Petty Motorsports. Who, oh, by the way, he's already been out of business twice. This is his third time that he's in a debacle. And then you look at the Richard Childress piece. They're sitting there banking on, I mean, this building, that Richard Petty Motorsports sits on. We drive by it every day to come here. It's for lease.

It's been for a while, though. We knew they were leaving. We said months ago they were leaving that building to go to Richard Chilis Rasing's campus. Now RCR's probably sitting there going, well, what, well, we had a potential, this is a potential $6,7 million deal to RCR because they're going to buy motors from you. They're going to need cars. Like, that's another big hit. So, I mean, you're looking at a lot of people's jobs that are in jeopardy, and then we

certainly hope it all works out for them. If they can pull it off, I think it's a good move for them. Should have done it six years. go. I mean, yeah. I mean, it's a good move for them, I think. Like, like you said, I mean, if you're, I don't know why they didn't do what Furniture Road did and go to the highest team you can. Right. And pay them for their knowledge. Right. The 78 car is taking, they're paying for the knowledge and using it and destroying them, you know, destroying their, who they're paying to get it from. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know why they haven't done more of that. That's the first thing I would have done. Take the money and go by speed. I mean, that's what money is. I mean, that's what money is. I'm going to do. I mean, I'm going to do it. I mean, I'm money. I mean, But if you take the money and put half of it in your pocket and go race with a rest, you usually don't run well. I retire well, though. Well, that's what happens. That's exactly what happens.

All right, do you guys want to go into spot-off, spot-off? Do you? Spot-on, spot-off? Do you want to talk about like, you're dressed exceptionally a profession today. You are. Are you interviewing somewhere after this? Yeah. Are you leaving us?

I mean, pants, a jacket. I dress nice. Have you understood? Act like you see me in jeans and a t-shirt every time you see me. Have you ever seen her dress this nice, Josh? Yeah. You're way more business like today. No, you guys say that every time you see me dress up.

I don't know. I don't know how to say it nicely. Could those pants be any tighter? They're painted on her. Look at her knees. Look how tight they are her knees. Yeah, but they're like baggy in my waist, though. Uh-huh.

T.J., we need some of those to spot in. Tight jeans. Bagging in the waist. Yeah. We'd keep the mosquitoes and bugs from going up our legs. That's right. I definitely think you're very more business like today than normal. I think she's got an interview.

You do, don't you? Where are you going? I'm taking Carson to lunch at Pisces. Pisces. Pisces, all you can eat sushi for $10. Are you trying to work for the hurricanes? Love me some Pisces. If you come to Moorsville and you like sushi, you go to Pisces and you literally can eat yourself sick for $10.

They're so good. Literally. Yeah. Literally. They get all the fish straight from Lake Norman. That's Josh's go-to sound thing. It is. When things turn great.

You get the Lake Norman Seabass? I also like this one. Yeah. What sushi do you eat? What's your favorite? What's your go-to? I like the... Hey, there's a FedEx guy.

Should we get the FedEx guy in here and ask him who his favorite driver is? This interview. Now they go get him. Seriously? No. He's like, no. He's gone anyway. He's in a hurry.

He's got to get all his deliveries on time. So what's your go-to sushi? Leo roll at Picey. What's in that? I think it's tuna. I add jalapino and cream cheese, mango, and rice. I love spicy. I add jalapeno to every roll I order.

Those are like six things that I would never eat. Salmon. I'm having either. You know what? I would get a cucumber roll. That's not sushi. So boring. That's what I would get.

It orders that. I would. I don't eat seafood, so I would just get. get a cucumber roll or something. That's what 12-year-old girls get. I don't eat seafood, man. This doesn't work. Squid salad is the best thing ever.

And also I love spicy yellow-tail rolls. I tried calomari one time in Fontana, and it was chewy, and I hated it. Yeah, no. You're such a lus. I did not like it. The only fish I eat. Did you still cut the ends off your sandwiches, too? I would if I can.

The end's the best part. The crust? Yes. No way. Cut the ends off. His wife cuts a steak up for him, so he doesn't have to. Actually, I do that all of cutting the steak. sake.

Yeah, you can handle that. I cut my almonds all nice. That doesn't gross you out. No, that doesn't gross me out. You know what fish I eat? Fish sticks with ketchup. That's healthy. That's good fish.

That's not processed. I haven't had one of them and probably, you know, it's probably been 20 years. I had a fish sandwich from McDonald's last two weekends ago at like three in the morning. Dude, the fish sandwich is the best thing on their menu. It's the only thing I'll order for McDonald's. At three in the morning, it was amazing. Willie? That and the double cheeseburger.

That's the only thing Willie. Willie loved. When they brought that back, oh, my gosh. Willie will go. The filet-o fish. Oh, my gosh. Extra tartar. Yeah.

Willie had that mustache, and he would eat a fish sandwich, and I swear half the tartar sauce would be in his mustache still. I didn't even know they served fish. And then we rolled up in college, and my best friend was like, I don't know the fish sandwich. I was like, we're at Captain D's, dude. We're at McDonald's. But nonetheless, he got the fish sandwich. I tasted it.

And I was like, damn, this is good. It's not bad. So what it, like, do you have to put the tartar sauce on? on it, can you put ketchup on it? You can do anything you want. Because I'd probably put ketchup on that and eat it. What about Long John Silver? Is you like that?

I don't go there. I used to have a boss in college who would get a double cheeseburger and ask for lettuce and mac sauce on it, so he didn't have to pay for a Big Mac. Cheap. Completely cheap. That's actually a really good idea. I always get no pickles just so they have to make it fresh, because I don't want mine sitting in that window for like two, because, you know, it can sit there for two days

and still look the same. Like, I want my made fresh. I love pickles. So I'm like, no, just get extra pickles. That way you know yours is made fresh. TJ, we got a door bumper clear shirt out here. Hey, strong. Awesome.

The one and only door bumper clear shirt ever sold. Ever. The only one ever. Ever sold. It's good thing Kristen's not here. She should be pissed. She's still waiting on hers. I've never gotten mine either.

Well, I have never seen your order. Really? Really? All I do for you. What? All right. We want to think one main. I don't know if we did that earlier.

Where at Halloween Eve? And the Exaltis Studios. Natalie's the one who writes all of these things that we read. So if y'all don't... That's why when we say we're going into Fastly and it's like a 20-second sentence. Natalie's the boss of this show for all of y'all who didn't know. Yeah. She's dressed like the boss today.

Look at her. Like a boss. I'm a boss. It's a remix. I don't have nothing. Josh knows that song. Just another day. Josh goes in the bars and clubs.

I went to saw Luke Brian this weekend. He wears jeans like, you got on there. He does. I like it. He was shaking out of ass. What do you call those? He's in country girls shake it for me. Oh, my gosh.

He can shake it for me. He brings a lot of people out. He does. I've seen him once, just this summer in August. Yeah. He did good. I'm sure he brings a lot of people out. Brett Elry.

was from Chicago, I guess. He's my favorite in the whole world. And people were going crazy over him. I only saw the last few songs of his. Me and my sister got to meet him in the beginning of August, which we had no idea until about 10 minutes before it happened. And it was funny because me and my sister looked a lot of like, and he looked at both of us, and he goes,

you guys must be sisters. I'm like, oh, my God. That's creepy. What a great line. Oh, it's hilarious. He should have said, I'm Brett Eldridge and just shut up. Instead of trying to have a line like that. We're like, yeah?

Brett, Josh could give him some tips. I'm a boss. This is your line, ready? Oh, my God. Alrighty, spot on, spot off. The boss, spot on. Keselowski's comments about Toyota. You want me to start?

You go ahead, though. I go spot on, man. Somebody's got to say something. I mean, we've all thought it. We sit here and talked about it on the show. Every week, two dominant cars, 18 and 78. Toyotos have been dominating. They've been dominating.

And, yes, they haven't won the championship every year. But Carl Edwards had the championship won to a late race caution in Homestead. He was going to win that championship. They've dominated the Xfamity cars. He got so mad. He quit. He took his ball and a whole. What is he doing now?

Does anybody even hear from him? Farman. Farman. He's the boss of his farm. Got it. Yeah. So, but, you know, Brad's been known, come out and say things that people won't normally say. We've all thought, you know, and so I'm spot on for it.

You know, I think Keselowski handled this with a lot of class, the way he said it. He basically said, we haven't seen a manufacturer have an edge like this since the 70s. And he didn't say Joe Gibbs Racing. He didn't say one particular driver. He said a manufacturer has an advantage. And then I think this is kind of today's world version of let's get Steve O'Donald's attention. Let's get fans behind this campaign. Let's put some pressure because NASCAR caves to Twitter pressure.

We've seen that happen before. Let's get some pressure behind this to get NASCAR to help these other manufacturers. And then Kyle Bush sees it and retweets it with a crybaby emoji with a STFU behind it, which stands for shut the front door. Shut the front door. Up. Up. So, you know, I feel like Brad was just taking the technology and where will we live in today and try. Matt, Dale Earnhardt used to walk in the back of the NASCAR truck and tell Bill France, you got to do something.

Well, guess what? Bill France ain't there anymore. Yeah. That's basically what Brad did. Bill France isn't there anymore. And neither is any other France. So in order to get attention, you've got to have a plan. And your plan is to get social media behind you.

Brad, I think it was a methodical tweet. and then I think the Gibbs guys were like, hey, this is our version of flipping you back off, and the same platform that you tried to create this. So I think in this situation, the fans win, and I think that makes it spot on, because all this used to happen behind closed doors. And now it's happening right here in front of your very own eyes. Yeah, I mean, he's right, though. They got the fastest Xfinity cars.

They have the fastest cup cars. And it's been that way for two or three years now. Yeah. And the part that makes me mad is, I mean, I thought it was funny that the only people were responding were like Kyle and a lot of the JGR people were responding, you know, and honestly, they weren't even responding with very good answers. Like, the way Brad were it, it was highly more educated than what any of them said. Yeah.

You know, Brad says, manufacturer, Kyle is using STFU. We got, the part that I don't agree with is higher-ups over there coming out and saying, well, we work harder. you don't work harder. You mean to tell me you're working harder than your guys, Stuart Haas, or Clint's guys, Dale Jr.'s you're not working harder. That's the part that makes me mad is when you come out and say, well, we just worked harder. That's not true.

I disagree with that completely. You may have, you know, you came in. You struggled when you first got into the sport, and then to pick, you've got some help. And now you're running with it. You've done the work to make it your advantage now, but it's a huge advantage. Like you get to the corner, you watch those cars turn. Yeah. We all have a lot of the same stuff underneath the car.

The suspension stuff, we're all doing a lot of the same stuff. It's not right. It's not, we're not very different in that area. So, but that car that you sat down on top of that deal is big. And, you know, I just don't like when they come out and say, well, we're just working harder because that's not true. No. Truex rebounds from penalty to win playoff opener.

Yeah, I mean I don't mean look The fastest car right now is the 78 He's just working harder And and let's I mean He's driving harder than those Driving harder than the rest of Martin Truex is is a

Former Bush Series champion He's a great race car driver He is but let me tell you something He ain't this great everywhere we go Like love a guy of death Love Sherry to death But this is the fastest car And I've always said fast cars go fast

he here's the thing they're like when you screw up it's easy to screw up again and again again we saw it yesterday with Kyle Busch we saw it yesterday with Kurt Busch these are exceptional race car drivers maybe industry-wise perceived to be better than Martin Truex but when Martin Truex screwed up he didn't compound it with another screw-up he got his head on straight and you're watching this race and you're watching Harvick battle for the lead and you're watching Chase Elliott battle for the lead because Kyle is already bad martin's bad but you're watching Martin come right back on marching up through there and you're like, Rett Row.

He's three-tenths faster than the fastest car after him. He's a half-second fast for me and T.J. All day. He wears us out. Just wearing a sudden. I mean, you got to say spot on for those guys. Yeah, you know, Martin is somebody that you see this fast and you know it's aggravating that they're that fast, but Martin has his attitude towards it.

He's never cocky, never rubs it in your face, never does any of that. that stuff. He's the most down-earth guy, normal guy. Great dude. Yeah, and, you know, I hate that somebody's that fast, but I don't, if somebody's going to be that fast, I'm glad it's somebody like Martin that doesn't, like, if Kyle was as fast, it'd be just, I mean, we would all want to fight him. It'd be a W-W-E episode.

What did you think about the green slime in Victory Lane? I didn't see it. I did. Nickelodeon, you know, the how they used to double-gium slime? Dude, Nickelodeon. Okay. All right. They come in here and they do this sponsor.

which I'm a fan of them. Ninja Turtles are walking around the track, man, I think that's awesome. Yeah. They're on Jennifer Joe Cobb's truck. Are you kidding me? I was wondering that as well. They were on Boba Wallace's. Yeah. It's like NASCAR got all this money to do this sponsorship. Well, let me rephrase that.

ISC Chicago Land got all this money. And as part of the pitch, they were like, we're going to give you a couple cars. And it's going to be these two. And I've been like, no, just give them back. We don't even want those. Yeah, I mean, you know. What's the point? I thought the slime thing was kind of cool.

And, you know, right back to Martin, this is, I'm kind of glad, you know, Martin's getting a chance. Because when you get to know Martin, he's pretty funny, dude. Like, and this is giving Martin a chance to show him a little bit, kind of like Do you're doing the podcast now. People are seeing another side of him that they normally wouldn't see. So, you know, but yeah, the, uh, Nicola, that's awesome. They come on there and did that, though. It's cool to see the Ninja Turtle's walking around, and I miss Splinter. Yeah.

Shoulder brought the right. Matt. Yeah. What turtle would you be? Michael Angelo? Is that his name? Yeah. That's me.

Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo. Leonardo. Raphael. Raphael is a cool name. Yeah. I was a Raphael as a kid. If I was going to be... He was a badass.

If I was going to be an international guy, I'd be a Raphael. What was the bad guy's name? Shredder. You should look like Shredder, Josh. Already. Danica out at Stuart Haas Racing. Wow, what a shocker. No one saw that coming.

Yeah. You know, I'm almost 50-50 on this spot off because Danica has been an influence and she's been a positive for the sport. You know, granted her track record, she doesn't win every race, but that's not. She doesn't win a race, T.J. Well, you don't have to be successful on the track to have. have a positive influence on the sport. And she's opened doors. Agree.

She's opened doors that we normally wouldn't have had opened. And honestly, her attitude, feciness and stuff has come in and been fun to watch. I'm glad. I mean, she's been a great personality in the sport. And when you talk to her, she's actually a very cool person as well. Like you might see the Mad Danica after you interview her after she was in a wreck and think she's mean and, you know, whatever. But she's not.

I mean, she's a cool person too. so. But this reminds me a lot of what we just talked about with Smithfield. She's had six years-ish to prove herself and to prove she belongs in this top-tier equipment. And she's reached a point where she's still in, you know, B-plus, A-minus level equipment. And she's not an A-minus or B-plus driver. And we also reached a point where the sponsorship dollars weren't flowing to her like they were. So the fact that she's out, I think, is just part of this business.

what I hope doesn't happen is that she's out of the sport because we don't need to lose Danica Patrick. We need her presence here. You know, here we're looking at regardless of what you think about talent, the two most marketable drivers in this sport right now are Dale Earnhardt Jr. And Danica Patrick, period. And I'm sitting here looking at this sport going, uh-oh, we may be losing both of them in the same year.

Thankfully, Dale Jr. is going to stay around in some capacity. We don't know about Danica yet. We need her here. Yeah, you know, honestly it might be kind of cool to hear her call a race and be involved in a little bit of that. I don't know. I'd love to see her stay in a race car, man. You know, I love to see, you know, Petty or Childress or somebody

be able to put something together to keep her in good stuff. I think she's run, you know, well this year at times. I mean, look at Richmond, she's the fastest car on the stopwatch late in a run. Honestly, she was not bad this last weekend either. She was not bad at all. Struggle on some restarts, you know, but she was a top 15 car. And she can run top 15 every week.

She would still be here. We wouldn't be having this conversation. I hate to even say it, but, I mean, she has had a lot of bad luck. Terrible luck. Which, you know, somebody in racing once told me you should have never allowed yourself to be in that position or, you know, you make your own luck type of things. But really honestly, though, she's had some really terrible luck. That Ligano thing, when his brakes exploded and he'd wrecked her head on and Eric broke his back.

I mean, every time she has a fast car, it's like the Black Cloud just hones. in on an F-16 just bombs our car. Austin spins her out. Yeah. Alrighty. So the 18 and 19 switch pick crews for the playoffs. 18. Over the wall too soon.

You know, that's, I'm pretty sure the 19 crew, which is now on 18, is most of the old 88 guys. What we had, and then they left to go over there, they got. Let's just be honest here. Gibbs pays. Yep. A lot of money. to get the best pit crew guys. There's no other way around it.

They're just going to say it here. If Gibbs wants somebody, they'll write them a check and they'll get them. Now, that's buying time on the racetrack. It's working for them. That's why they're so freaking fast every week. It's why Furniture Rose Pit crews are so good. They're Gibbs guys. But if you're a great pit crew, if you're an elite pit crew member, guess what?

Gibbs is going to call you this offseason, and they're going to offer you a bunch of money, right? I mean, odds are looking good. That's what happened. They don't do that to spotters. Damn it. No. Why do they switch him, though? Like, what's the...

Because 18 had been struggling. We're going to need you guys take a pay cut. We got this new tire changer. Yeah, they'd been struggling a little bit, and they felt like the 19 was a better pit crew. So they make... I mean, we see this all the time for the playoffs. You know, you try to give everybody the benefit of the doubt

and let them get as good as they're going to be. When the playoffs start, man, you don't have time for this. Unfortunately, this pit crew penalty wasn't what killed Kyle Bush, though. What killed him was, he sped when he came back down pit road. That exit... That section 14... It's a short section. At the end of pit road, I don't understand how everybody can speed in the same section,

but they did yesterday. Yeah, it's a real short segment, and we actually lowered our speed for that last little bit. It's actually, that's where guys, if you know, you're trying to get the right lane and you try to beat a guy, if you speed up the tiniest bit, you're just doing nothing but hurting yourself. And it's a short segment, so you don't have time to give it back. Yeah. So a tough little area there. So Tyler Reddick joins J.R.M. in 2018.

Man, this is awesome. You know, I think being here at J.R.M. When you saw the William Byron News break, the first thing you think about is, man, this is awesome. We've got another guy we've elevated to the Cup Series. And then your second thing is, uh-oh, we've got a whole team of guys and a whole great car that we got to do something with. What are we going to happen? We heard a lot of really good names that certainly wanted to come in and be a part of it. I think TJ knows better than I do Tyler Redick, but I saw a lot of good things out of him.

in the truck series that I hope he's ready to get here and get his game together and get going. Yeah, Tyler is a, he's a really, really good kid. And, you know, I started off with Tyler in the trucks, and he started off really, really good. We won Daytona, one Dover. He can be successful. You know, he's just young, really young, needs good influence, needs good leaders around him. He's got that here. He'll have that here with Justin and Elliot.

He's going to have plenty of people to lean on. And I feel like this is a really good home for Tyler As far as who he's going to be surrounded with I feel like, you know, when he left Brad's truck deal I kind of thought he was going to, I didn't feel like it was the right decision for him to go where he was going to run part-time. You don't, you need to be in full-time.

Also, when you go and run with Kyle Arson, Kyle Arson's on top of his game right now. Yeah. Like when he gets in, no matter what Kyle gets in, he's fast. He's running 200 races a year too. And you, so you put Kyle in there and then, you know, you got that team, And they say, oh, well, Tyler's running this weekend.

You know, they know you're going to lose a little bit of the, you want your guys for the whole year. You want a group of guys to get behind you and become a team for a year. You don't want to swap back and forth and do that stuff. And I thought that was going to hurt him a little bit. And then obviously he gets run over by his teammate a couple times as well as the rest of the series. The thing I admire about the guy is he comes on the roof. He does. He's studying the game, even when he's not in the race car.

And you can come on the roof and you can just kind of be present. you can actually come on the roof and study. And you can tell by the interaction that he has that he's studying the game. In order to do well, you obviously have to be able to drive a race car, but you also need a high racing IQ. You have to understand all the things that it takes to be successful. When pit road opens to the time it opens, till it closed. Like you can't take any time off in that race car. You literally physically and mentally, you got to stay.

I mean, Natalie, you know, you race. You got to stay in the game. And I think he's got up there and figured all those little things out. And what's he running this year? Like 15 races maybe? Yeah. And then like you said, Kyle's around 200. Yeah.

You know, I mean, 15 to 200. I mean, that's not even a comparison. No. So I feel like getting, you know, getting in somewhere where you know you're going to be in for the full year. You get a group of guys behind you. You go and start off. You run good at Daytona. You come out of the top five.

You go to Atlanta run good. You're all, your top. Yeah. Your top five in the points. Things are going well. You don't want to try to dig out of a hole like we did with Justin, where you go to Daytona and get wrecked. You go to Atlanta and you have a wheel problem. The other thing you don't know when you're in his situation at Gannasi, and obviously, I'm not trying to say I know, but you don't know what cars Tyler is getting in.

You know, when he gets here, he's going to know, all right, these are my five cars. I've driven all five. These are now my favorite ones. And you start taking his favorite cars and making the other ones like that. When you're running a limited schedule and Kyle Larson's getting in the car, guess what Gannasi's going to do? They're going to take the best damn race car they got because they know they got a chance to win. When they look at Tyler Redick, they probably say, okay, we got a chance to run top 10. Do we really want to take our best car to do that, or do we want to maybe save it and maybe take a different car? So I think just getting here and being here full time, getting to know your guys, getting to know your equipment, makes a huge difference. Look at what.

That would never happen. He came from dirt, which I think helps because look at Kyle Larson, Tony Stewart, Clint Boyer. I mean, these guys, that dirt keeps you sharp. You would be very impressed with if you've talked to Tyler. He's very well spoken for how young he is. he is. We did a 360 with him. We threw him to the wolves, Brenda, right away. That was funny. He's very well spoken, very polite. I've gotten to know him and his family with the last few years as well. Great people, too. Like, really fun. Like, it's going to be great.

He seemed like a fun guy to be able to put up with Brenda right away. T. T.J., why don't you put your face on the back of your t-shirt? Because I'm sexy and I know it? No, it's actually on the front and the back. That's the, like, you're more arrogant than the Papa John's guy who puts himself in every commercial. You like it. No. Why do you put your face on there? You screw up the whole t-shirt.

Not that you have a bad face. But it looks great. Double threat guy. You like the face? No, we don't like the face. Look at his face when you're asking that question. We've got to go to break. I like the face.

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We're moving into Fast Lane. We each get 30 seconds, and then there's a 30-second rebuttal. That was the best explanation we've ever seen. Good Lord. Good job, TJ. NASCAR took inspected tires from the 18 and 78 during Sunday's race. Is this something new or normal procedure, TJ? I think if there's, I've seen it done before, so it's not something new.

Obviously there was something tipped off, though, because it's not something I don't, I don't think they'd do this every week, in my opinion, that I know of. But, you know, they were fast. I don't know. Dang. Here's what I know about it. It's new to me. I've certainly never heard of it.

But NASCAR says they've been doing it all year. They've done it five times. I'm not real sure why it would be, quote, a secret. What we do know is years ago, Ryan Newman got busted for poking a hole in his tire, which was making your air pressure not build up, which was making your car turn better. And he wasn't the only guy doing it that year. He was just the guy that kind of went down for the whole thing. So I'm glad they're policing it.

We certainly don't need that to be an advantage, especially with a championship on the line. Yeah, I remember Richmond a few years ago when Jamie McMurray went from 25th to like fourth in one run. And then he leveled out. I mean, you don't just do that. Like, come on, man. It's pretty obvious. Yeah, you're right, though. I mean.

And what they're looking for here is they're looking for you to let air slowly out of your tire. So the air pressure doesn't build up. It doesn't balloon. It keeps you at maximum grip throughout the run. So, I mean, just we want the audience to understand what the advantage is. You used to run bleeder valves. Same thing. Just let the air out real slow.

Huge advantage. You can drill a tiny pinhole is what they're doing. They're putting pinholes in these tires. And all it does is, They won't leak air normally when you're sitting there. You know, I mean, it will slowly, but, you know, when those tires get hot, you don't want these tires to build tire pressure as much. When they build tire pressure, they get hotter and they slow down.

You would see those, you know, you would see that last pit stop occur, and then you would see a big crash, and then you would see a red flag, and then you would see guys literally sitting there with flat tires. And it's like, hey, here's your sign that those are the guys that are taking advantage the situation. They let it go on for a long, long time. And now they've come back and said, okay, we're not going to let this go down again.

What if they were doing only like, what if the guys are like doing into the rear tires only or something like that? You know what I mean? That right front is a big one. Maybe that's why they blow the tires after the race or something. Yeah. I mean, that right front and right rears,

you're two big ones. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, even if any of them down, I mean, if you can keep that left rear or the right rear from blowing up real big and getting real slick, Yeah, I mean, that'd be huge. Yeah, huge.

I apologize to the listeners of DBC, the Dinger is not working. Your dingers broke? It's terrible news, Josh. No throw-ups, or no throat sounds and explosions. How do you break that? That worked earlier. I understand that, but it's not working now. You apparently don't understand how they work. I got to go to nine rounds.

Keep this show moving. Ding, ding. There was an abundance of pit road penalties among play-up teams on Sunday. Is this due to the added pressure? I don't think it's due to the added pressure. I think there was something on all with that Section 14 on the pit road. I mean, everybody they called out for speeding was Section 14. So I don't know if guys were maybe thralling up a little bit right there in that deal,

but I don't think it was playoff related. I don't think it's a tiny bit maybe because people are trying to get everything you can get. Right now, you need every point. Ryan Newman needs every position he can get. Eric Jones needs every position he can get. Eric Jones isn't in a playoff. Well, you know, any of them guys like that. sorry. Ryan Newman, whoever

he was racing for it. He was. But anybody in that position, you're trying to get everything you can get. And let's not forget, we all are given a five mile per hour buffer as well. Yeah. You know, you look at the penalty and it sucks, but then you

look at guys who made mental errors on top of the penalties, and it kills their opportunity to get a lead lap finished. That's what we saw with the 41. It's what we saw with the 18. And I mean, there were a lot of guys yesterday. Stenhouse choked right off the bat yesterday. Went and got a penalty.

Went and hit the wall. I mean, like, he basically, he's not fast enough to screw up that bad, the first race, and be able to overcome it. He's not going to win New Hampshire. He's not going to win whatever's after New Hampshire. Yeah, he's got a chance to win Talladega, but guess what? He'll be out by then. He had all the, he had six months to prepare for this one race mentally, and he gets into

this position and completely takes his team out of the chance within the first 20 minutes of the race. Really, all he needed to do with survive. yesterday and come out of there with a top 15 top 15 and and landon castle who i think the world of he ran 20th rickie stinhouse couldn't run 20th and actually was going to run higher than that but he chose the strategy of staying out and hoping for a caution then he had to pit he was on a 14th yeah lead lap 14th and and you know here's stinhouse who has it all on the line two wins and man he took a be hit yesterday yeah agree so only the cup series playoff started at shuffer

Cagoland. Should all three series begin the playoffs at the same weekend? What are your opinions, T.J? I think it should. To me, this is weird that you start them at different times. To me, the playoffs, you don't, if, like to me, they should all start at the same time. The pressure needs to build up. I don't, I didn't like the fact that we started one before, one this week, or two this week, one last week. I think it should all start at the same time. I think when you have the Cup series and it start theirs, it takes over everything else. And so I think, I think when you look at Justin Algar winning the race, which congratulations

on that, by the way, and you're welcome. Justin Algar wins the race. I think that storyline maybe gets lost a little bit if Elliot's not winning the regular season that same day. You know, because you don't have the Cup to overshadow with the Xfinity series. I think it helps a little bit. Now, should Exfinity maybe

do it before Cup? Probably. But that's not the way to do. But I kind of like what they're trying to do. I think it helps each series have their own identity a little bit. I would rather go to Richmond and race on a Thursday night with the trucks, Friday night with Xfinity cars, and Saturday night with the Cup cars, and do it.

It's their, you know, kick off the championship night. I would rather do it them nights in a row and start it. All righty, silly season has heated up again this week. And now Kenseth, Amarillo, and Kane remain without rides for 2018. Where do you think they will end up? Did you say Amarillo? Amarillo. She did.

Armadillo. I can't say. Almorillo. Elmolrorororolet. Everything. Elmarola. Elmoreola, Amarillo. Bacon.

You got nine rounds at 11.30. I know. I got to go. So we got K.C., Matt Kenseth, Thanakpatrick, Kirkbush, Eric Amarola, Eric Jones. All these people are swapping rides. And arguably, the most talented race car driver out of all of them, Matt Kenseth, is the one that doesn't have anything. Yeah. These other people have a little something going on.

He's also the most expensive. He's also the most expensive. But he's also the most talented. Yeah, he is. So it's hard to believe. that we're looking at a silly season where the best guy that's the free agent may not get signed. So basically, you know, who know, the rumors right now are Casey's got a ride. Probably going to be announced here real soon.

Tell them where they're going. You know more than I do. Tell them where he's going. Almerola has a ride. Amarola has a ride supposedly hasn't lined up. Now it's going to come down to Matt Kenseth and Kurt Bush on which one's. going to drive for less, basically, in my opinion. A big deal, man.

I just think it's hard to believe that you got your best free agent doesn't get signed. And that's the way it's headed as of right now. Yeah. And I mean, look, Matt Kens is 44 years old. He's very rich, you know, he'll be fine. You know what I mean? It's not about that. It's just about looking at it from a sports perspective.

If I want talent, I want the best talent I can get. And then it's like, but we got to be able to. afford them and we can't and that's where the model is changing the sport the owners used to say all right i got all the sponsorship i need which driver do i want and now that's not the case the driver has to bring money and he gets to pick kind of where he goes it's a completely different economic model and it's why you know it also is going to be why somebody like the 95 car gets a chance to get a guy like casey kane or like mac kent it's flip-flopping kind of yeah you know 15 years ago there was there was 20 fully funded cars and they picked drivers yeah yeah you

You know, now it's kind of... Yeah. I mean, they're going to shut the 77 down. They've already sold the charter. That was on line this week, I think, right? Because they couldn't get enough. They got... I mean, that's a fast race car.

And they can't keep it open. That's a... Man, that's scary. That's really scary. All righty. The off-the-wall topic, Apple unveiled their new iPhones... Because they unveiled more than one last week. Yeah.

Are you willing to pay $1,000 for a phone, T.J. I'll have to see after Brett gets it what the face recognition stuff is like. T.J's got a new shirt coming out with two faces on it, too. He's going to show the front of his head and the bag of his head, and he'll be able to afford this 1,000 iPhone. Man, I love my iPhone. I do, too. I keep dropping it and getting water on it.

So I don't know if I need a thousand bucks. So they say the new ones are all glass, too. Wow, these are glass too. It still cracks like glass. It shatters. It does. So, I don't know. It'll be interesting to see.

I'm sure I know somebody that'll have it when it comes out. Let's call Apple and get a sponsorship deal with this show and get them for free. Why do you think they don't sponsor more than what they do? Because they don't have to. Yeah, they don't need to. I mean, you would think. They have some, like, ungodly amount of money in cash. No way.

No, like, no, I'm saying, like, most companies have money somewhere, but they've got like $700 million in cash. Yeah. Was it them that paid cash for their new business? building? I don't doubt it. Of like $3 billion or something crazy like that. Somebody did.

I forget what that was. Three billion cash? How would you like to count that? Man, when Apple first came out, it was a Macintosh computer. Yeah, yeah, we had one. I had one. Remember when they were colored? Floppy disks.

They freaking suck. Oh, they were awful. I mean, like, a PC was light years ahead of where this thing was. But then, man, when they rebranded and they got their crap together, you know, I think where it started, you know, where it started was those, remember when they came out, they was those colors? colored ones, those... That's what I just said.

So we're talking about the color apples. Oh, I thought you meant that you'd talk about the all in one unit. But it was... No, no, no. Like the big computers. I'm talking about the all big color unit. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah.

Their big play was always graphics. You know, they were for graphic designers more so that normal users like us, but normal users like us wanted to have them and then they sucked. Because they were cool. Yeah. And then it's like, man, this thing sucks. I want my gateway back. I do remember gateway.

They had like the cow. Yeah, the cow print. I worked for gateway for a while. Really? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Selling computers. I was in college.

I had a gateway. Gateway, actually, for a while there, when you got that box in the mail when it came in, you had that big old... You got mail. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that was... That was good old age. Did you pick up the phone? Yeah, there's something.

Oh, my... I'm downloading something. Damn it. Just kick me off as to Messenger. ASL. Good I am. Yeah, A-I-M. ASL.

Age, sex location. Age sex location. Yeah. People were so mean to me on. Send pics. Send picks. So mean. Jesus.

Please keep this show going, Allie. Please. It's getting ready to hang a left and we don't need it to. Not today. We're in such a good point where it could go left right now. Go faster and left. Oh, man. What was your screen name on AOL?

Cock fan. I don't know if I could. I don't know. I don't know. You do know what it was. I don't know. I'm telling you. I'm trying to think.

I guarantee you had something with game cocks in it. Probably. For sure. Yeah. What was yours? Short stroke. I ain't telling them. I don't know what Brett tells is.

Was it really that bad? I wasn't bad. Did you guys ever make fake ones? Absolutely. Catfish? That's so stupid. If you're online and you're catfish and you're a loser, You should actually have been in prison.

Catfishing started. I don't think catfishing existed then. If you have to be that fake. I had somebody, I was in fifth grade and these loser boys created a fake account. We're so mean to me. You were chatting online with them? Shit, I'm not online. Yeah, what were you doing online that young?

That's what I'm saying. Everybody was. My 10-year-old. Every kid has a phone in my dance class but me. And I was saying, there's a reason. And you're not ever getting a phone. Yeah. Yeah.

It's awful nowadays. My gosh. It's even worse. I'm not stupid, Josh. Hey. She's smart though. She'll probably end up at Clemson. She may end up at Clemson, but she won't have a damn phone when she gets there.

Clems sucks. Oh, boy. All righty, let's go into AskDBC. Producer Jason Schultz has chosen a few hashtag AskDBC questions. All right. You notice what they did on this. They're totally, because we used to get on about the questions and stuff. Now that it's totally blamed one.

guy that's not them. Yeah. That's what they do. Yeah, it used to be you. That's fine. That's fine. Now it's just like producer Jason. This first one's for you.

You know he makes these sheets. Just saying. He makes the sheets. Continue there. So he put, it used to be producer Josh, but now it's producer Jason. This was for you, TJ. Amish. Amish Josh.

Amish Josh. All righty-at-Eight asks. Last week on Dale's podcast, Dale Jr. implied he would help his teammates in the playoffs. Does this include giving up a win? Oh my gosh. Absolutely not. Yeah, I was going to say.

We will never give up a win. What he says when he, like when you're going to help your teammates in the playoffs, what do you mean is when they catch you, you just don't hold them up? You know, if you're pitting at the same time, you might give them a little more leeway on pit road, something like that. You know, if it's coming out in another race, this doesn't even really happen until late in the race. There's two things that could happen. Number one, you don't have to race your teammates hard.

Number two, you can race the other guys in the playoffs a little bit harder. So whereas you can let your guy go. And I'm not talking about Dale Jr. I'm talking about everybody else. You can let your guy go, but then the next guy that gets there, you're going to race them a little harder. And as we see guys getting eliminated, you know, we're going to see the same thing. If the 41 were to get eliminated, then Stuart Haas is, of course, going to want him to race Martin Truex a little harder, you know, and race Kyle Busch a little harder because any advantage you can get from a track position standpoint can come from those kinds of things.

So when Del says he's going to be a good teammate, that's what he's implying. He's not getting up a win people. Come on. No way. Hell no. Already. At Garrett BWBWW. What asks, do you all think spotting in NASCAR or IndyCar is more challenging?

I've never done IndyCar. Never done it. I've never been asked to do it. Would you do it? I would do it. What I don't like about IndyCar, especially at Oval's, is there's very, very, very little passing. Obviously, when you look at Indianapolis, the 500 completely different ballgame. But when I see those guys go to Richmond, a short track, they ride around single file all night, and it's boring as crap.

So I don't think the skill set that IndyCar spotters need is as high as a skill set is what we need. However, whatever happens over there happens a whole hell of a lot faster. So when it hits the fan, like the fan's blowing off the ceiling kind of thing. Yeah, it's a different type of racing too. you know, we do have more passing and stuff. There's is way more strategy. When are you stopping? What lap are you stopping on?

We have that too, but they're, like, it's like Formula One. They don't get out there and race side by side. It's strategy versus strategy, which guy plays it right. But I don't think, I think going to do an Indy-500 would be pretty cool, but somewhere I wouldn't even want to do a Texas or something like that, where they run side by side and take every run they got. I mean, that, to me, almost would be more stressful than like a Talladeger or Daytona because their runs happen so fast.

And they're not allowed to block. Yeah. It's a penalty, you know, and that's what we help. I mean, let's be honest, that's what TJ and I at Talladega in a few weeks, we're helping our driver block to get momentum to go forward. So, again, the mindset is completely different. I admire those guys. I think they have a hard job.

But I think the skill sets are just different. Yeah. All righty. At Travis C. underscore 48 asks, best trash talker of all time in NASCAR and in the, world. Man.

That's a lot of people. I got to say in NASCAR's Darrell Walter back in the day. I mean, in the 80s. They called him Jaws because he always ran his mouth through his jaws. In the world, there is no better than nature boy Rick Flair.

Woo! He's the best! I mean, here lately, I probably got to give it to Connor McGregor. I mean, he was pretty good at it against Floyd. Rick Flair's got him. I mean, maybe then

in its prime. No, not right now. Isn't that the Rick Flair? Is that right? Easy. I mean, I don't know where the B. I don't know where the B. came from.

Yeah. I thought I ever heard that. Isn't that from something? Or did I just make that out? Dude, you just go YouTube with your little young, cute ass, Rick Flair, videos, promos, and you'll see.

This guy out here knows. No, you're thinking of Rick James. You know. Jesus, Natalie. You couldn't have been further off. Dave Chappellepard. Hell versus Rick Flair? Come on.

Oops. Oh, my gosh. This is not even close. We're turning that left again. We got to get back on. I'm going to track. Okay. Next.

At Fisherman 480 asks, what's your most painful injury ever to date? Might be three hours with Kristen's list. Chris is not here. Thank God. We would just, this would need this on our show. I tore my Achilles in football in eighth grade.

That hurt like a son. God. I broke my leg in three places. Where? Right here. For fun? Did that hurt? No, racing sprint cars.

That hurt? Like hell. The bones came out of the skin. Shut up, I'll throw up. Yeah, I had a rod from here. Three screws. Big scar, scar, scar, scar, scar, scar, go. That sprint car stuff, y'all do.

Seven surgeries. Y'all are crazy. No, thanks. I would probably say shaving T. T.J.'s necks. Yeah, it's pretty painful. Kidney stones are no fun. Is that really kind of as an injury, though?

Yeah. Anything that's got to come out of that thing is an injury. Just to paint this picture when I was real little. I don't want to hear it. I was real little. I went down in this, I was playing out in this field, and I was kept, and I went to kneel onto the ground, and there was a nail sticking up.

Ooh, that would hurt. And it went straight into my knee. And I stood up, and there was a nail sticking out of my kneecap. Like, how far end did it go? Oh, the nail was about that long, and I'm about halfway. A tip. Oh, no, it was in there. That's badass.

It was in all the way. It hurt. Really bad ass. Yeah. Oof-da. Just a tip. Just a tip. Just for a second.

Just to see how it feels. It hurt, according to T.J. And the whole thing ended up in there. That's not good. Nope. Just go for it. All right. Do we have a rant?

I don't know that I have a rant, but I, you know, I end up on a lot of threads with T. And sometimes a thread with Dell Jr. and all you Dale Jr. fans out there, y'all need to shut up about fussing and b-h about how slow the 88 is. Like, let's look at Dale Jr.'s career. He's a two-time champion. He's the 14, 15, 100-time most popular driver. He's won a pile of races.

He's in his last nine races of his full-time career. And you idiots that are choosing to attack him at TJ and other people on the 88 on social media, you're not trolls, you're idiots. You are scum. You are the bottom of the world. You should be celebrating these last nine races, cheering him on, supporting him, stop coming at him, people. He's driving his ass off.

You're lucky he even came back and got in this race car. He didn't have to. He's finishing his contract. He's being a man of his word. He's going to go and he's still going to have a chance to win a couple races here. Shut up. You're driving me nuts when I see those people. Somebody tweeted me last night with T.J.

You are so slow. was pathetic. You weren't that slow. You were on different strategies. You're trying different things. You're not in this playoff race. So you're able to try to create different scenarios. You people need to leave these other people that are working their asses off alone. Rest in peace, Brett. Thank you. I don't care. They can come at me. Hell, I'll get my address. This ain't come to the house. But these people are idiots. Yeah. I mean, I'm not talking about Aldell Jr. fans. I'm not talking about All-JrNation. I'm not talking about All-June nation. I'm not talking about people that supports your

mushroom sports. I'm talking about you one-way shallow fools that are constantly tweeting this guy and T.J. and everybody else on this 88 team attacking them. Shut up. Leave him alone. I will say the only thing that makes me mad is whenever I see somebody say

that we're not putting him in the best stuff. That's not true. And first of all, honestly, we don't really deserve the fastest race cars right now of the shop. We're not running for the championship. We don't deserve that car that Jimmy and Casey and them have earned. They've earned the right. That's big for TJ majors to say that. Yeah, that's a really good point.

You make a guy. I will say that our cars are the exact same right as the other guys, but we don't like, I wouldn't. I mean, if we were running for the championship, I would say, you know, and they weren't, we deserved the best cars in. But, you know, they've earned the right. I grew up a Dallas Cowboys fan my whole life. That sucks. I watched Tony Romo suck for. 10 years. I never once thought, you know what, I'm going to tweet this guy and tell him how bad he sucks. It's the power of social media. That's because Twitter didn't exist back then. Well, but even now, I can tweet him now and go, man, those last, those every year you are the Cowboys, you suck. Like, what is the point? I mean, I mean, people are, they've lost their minds.

People are mean. Well, it's just an outlet. That's, that's, that's the reality. It's like all the people that, um, that I saw on Twitter this past Saturday who were calling for to fire Butch Jones because he lost to Florida. Right. Like, get over yourself. Yeah. Go f*** off. Yeah.

I mean, I sit here and I watch our sport play out. You know, I mean, Dale Jr., who I knew better in his early career that I know now, like, was this awesome fun dude. And then he went through a lot of years where I'm telling you, if I didn't see him in the garage, I didn't see him anywhere. It's almost like he turned into a hermit. And now he's married. He's on social media.

He's giving you podcasts. He's giving you the biggest look inside of the most famous person in that. NASCAR's life, and y'all are still finding something to fuss about. Please, shut up. Or I'll tell you what, just go pull for another driver for the next nine weeks. He won't care. You know, it's crazy. I think what the problem is is people are frustrated because, you know, in 2014, 15,

we have pretty successful years. Yeah. You know, we won a handful of races in 14 and 15 combined together. And, you know, it's hard to be that successful and then it fall off. But we don't, you don't really control that. You never know when you're going to go win three in a row. You never know when you're going to go two years without winning. But here's the thing.

He's announced his retirement. He has nine races left. You have to, as his spotter, go out there and literally try to do this too. You've got to let this sink in. Man, these are the last nine races you're probably going to ever spot for this guy, at least on a full-time basis. Like, everybody needs to enjoy these last nine races. Yeah.

And honestly, this is similar to people. I used to hate Tom Brady. I hate it because I'm a Bill's fan, so I hate Tom. on Brady. But here lately, the last probably year or two, I'm just enjoying watching them play because we're probably not going to see many people come along like him again. Same thing for Jimmy Johnson.

If my two guys, Stuart Haas, can't win his championship, I hope Jimmy does because I want to witness something. I want a witness to done. You know, it's just, it's crazy. Anyway, that's, I'll shut up. Well, I like how Dale posted the picture on his Instagram yesterday with, I think it was his right rear, like all banged up, and it's just said simple, trying hard.

Yeah, another driver adjustment in the car there. It's tight. Now it's loose. Well, you were the last one to adjust it again. Oh, man. Well, go ahead. You're up. All righty.

We'd like to thank one main again for this podcast. We got to do our picks. Oh, shoot. Natalie. Sorry, sorry, sorry. What's your language? I've not done any research. Where are we racing?

New Hampshire. New Hampshire. Give me two seconds. Wow, you swung. You took a big one there, too. I mean, Kyle Bush was the first. fastest car. Until Martin went full of throttle.

He managed to screw up. Yeah, but he still runs second or third. Hey, it's part of the game, man. We're going to New Hampshire. A lot of fast guys there. I'm going to take Denny Hamlin. That's cool. I'll take Kyle then.

I think you'll win. But you need to win because you're still behind. Denny's fast there, though. Yeah. And you know what's odd is the Pansy cars used to be really fast there. and now they're not as good as what they used to be there. They're in Kentucky. They used to be the dominant ones.

Kentucky and Loudon, where you were going to run second or third or fourth, whatever to them guys. Yeah. We'll see. All right. Well, thanks for joining us. Alrighty, now can I say it before? You can say whatever you want to say.

What was your screen name back then? Go Kart. Go Karty 94. Still my thoughts. And you were chatting with guys? In fifth grade. Yeah. Were you born in 94?

They used to call me like. Were you born in 194? Ninety-five. Oh, I was about to say. I'm old. No, that was my number. Racing was 94. It was my favorite radio station.

Thanks to One May Financial for bringing this podcast. And to Exaltza for this amazing studio. And to Natalie for dressing for success today. Josh, as always, you contributed nothing. Josh had a good F-bomb in there. He did. He was mad about that, Bush George. I think he just wanted to beep himself out for once.

Tennessee. He doesn't do it. Jason's got to beep it. Yeah. But Josh misses beats. He puts the mark on the timeline now. One time, what did you miss the whole like ending to the show?

Yeah. One time. I called my go, hey, you completely forgot the ending to the show. Oh, sorry. I'm like,

God. All right, I got to go work out. See y'all. See ya. You've been listening to door bumper clear. Brought to you by One Main. For updates on Elliott Sadler and the number one junior motorsports team,

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