Door Bumper Clear - 8 - High Dollar Spottin'

Episode Date: March 29, 2016

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Oh, yeah. Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major, Spotter, the 88 in the Cup series and the 7 in the Xfinity series. And joining me on today's special DBC Q&A show is... Hey, it's KB. KB. Who's that? Who did that start?

Everyone calls me up there, so hold on, I'll redo it. No, no, no, no, no. No redoes in this show. This is live. This is an edit-free version for Josh. It's my nickname. All right, sorry. It's Kristen from J-R-M marketing and sponsorship.

Thanks. And next to me. Yes, Brett's still here. I want to Kristen to go second because if I gave her too much notice, I knew she'd read her intro. So we're here in Exalted Studio. Thanks to One Main for bringing a special edition

of Door Bumper Clear, Q&A style. So who's moderating this thing? I am. You're still the moderator? I'm moderating. All right, KB. All right.

Let's go to our first caller. We can't just go to the first caller. Yeah. I want to talk about your Harry Potter tattoo. I love Harry Potter. She legit has a Harry Potter tattoo on her arm. So it's a triangle with a circle in the middle. It's the deathly hallows.

The who? The deathly hallows. Is that people or a place? It's like a, it's a, it's a, you know, It's a thing. It's a group of three things. So we need our own tattoo, us three. You guys want to get DBC tattoos?

I mean, you've got enough. Why don't you get one for all of us? I don't know. I mean, that's kind of like a cool tattoo. I like this. I want a tattoo. I thought it was cooler until you said Harry Potter. Not going to lie.

The funniest thing is, like I run into people, like, bartenders and strange people that look normal. You made them on Tinder. And they're like, oh my gosh, I love Harry'stend. Rotter and I'm like that's weird. That tattoo is in your Tinder profile, isn't it? It sure is. You're like, reflex tattoo.

I just want to make sure I weed out all the normal people and get the Harry Potter free. Josh, do you have tattoos? Zero. Zero tattoo. T.J., you got tattoos? No. How many drivers do you think have tattoos? Not many.

Oh. You think? I'm going to guess five. Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, that sounds legit. I know Casey Kaine's got one. I bet. Where's Casey's in the middle of his back? I bet Dan.

Patrick. Now, he's actually got his grandpa's initial on his arm, which is awesome. I feel confident Danica Patrick has one. Although she does all those naked pictures on Instagram, you'd probably be able to know it. I probably shouldn't have to guess that one. Not naked. I should say semi-naked. Yoga. Tony Stewart's got one, I bet. Like a tribal? Like a tribal art? Yeah, like barbed wire. Barbed wire on his bice. You imagine giving Tony a tattoo? So Elliot Sattler and I were talking the other day, and it's like, man, I want a tattoo. You know, I think I want one on my shoulder, but I don't want it to be played out.

And I'm like, you mean like a tramp stamp played out? And he's like, yeah, I mean, like tattoos get played out. And I was like, well, that's why you have to do something that's special to you and not like something that you see on MTV and you'll be fine. But I bet at least five of those people have tattoos. I mean, do you have? 13. Holy gal.

You got another one. Yeah. Half my back done. That's bad luck. 13's unlucky. No, it's not. Josh is getting ready to take his shirt off. Josh, what are you doing, man?

He's got UT tattooed on his booby. Look. Hey, he's turning around. Oh, he's got a butterfly in the lower part of his back. He's got a tramp stamp. It's a butterfly. I think we're ready now. Kristen's got the Megan Fox tattoo on the side, too, just so anybody was wondering.

Yeah. I cover them for work. They're real covered today. It's hot in the studio. What does the side one say? It's Greek. It says Colos Cayagophos. Who?

It means it's the singular between beauty and goodness in life. Is that a Harry Potter thing? Oh, God. All right. First question comes from at Don Blan 808. Don Lon. Don Juan. I feel like it sounds like we've been drinking for like three hours.

I want to drink. You all. Pick this one. She likes the name. Our next special edition show will be drinking door bumper clear. I think, what do you think Don Lom looks like? I bet he's got long hair. I got a cool mullet.

That's what I'm thinking. All right, what would y'all be doing in the real world if y'all weren't the eyes in the skies? How about the worst use of y'all? I want to hear T.J.'s answer to this because it's always good. I've heard this before. Oh, man. What would T.J. be doing if he weren't a spotter? I'd be driving.

That's a dumb question. Like a truck? Yeah, like maybe a truck series truck maybe or something. I'd be racing. I think I'd be a backup dancer for Janet Jackson. That was my life dream. That's in your Twitter bio. I know, that's what I want to be.

Like the Rhythm Nation Tour? Yeah, Rhythm Nation 1814. She killed it. You remember when she did the tour where she would get the fan out of the audience and put him up on the big wood panel and it would spin and she would basically do a burlesque show for that guy? No. Yeah, that was one of her show.

So Eddie Wood, the Owens Wood brothers, he went to the show, and he's like, man, you got to go to this Janet Jackson show. Eddie Wood's a trendy dude. And he's like, you got to go to this Janet Jackson tour. And I'm like, man, I don't know. I went to Rhythm Nation. Like she can't upstage yet. And he's like, yes, she can. Well, she did.

And I was like, so when they call that part of them they're like, hey, who wants to come up from all these? I'm like, me. Me? 100% me. Like, I don't know if that was before her boobie fell out or after her boobie fell out. That was like four if it was Rhythm Nation. No, no, no, this wasn't really when she got the guy on the stage and, like, completely assaulted him. Yeah.

So that's what we would have been, Don Lawn. There was a wardrobe malfunction. I think I would own a... If I owned a Chick-fil-A, I'd pay you good money to be that cow. Yeah. We could make some money. That's what I'm saying. We could sell the hell out of some nuggets.

Yeah, man. You ain't right. You could be the chick-a-mini and I could be the cow. Have you seen some of the videos where the cow dances like rap and stuff? stuff. Like, it's awesome, man. I'd pull in a Chick-fil-A if I saw him doing that. Yeah.

Yeah. That'd be fun. Doing the wobble while he's out there. Wobble, baby. Wobble, baby. That's right. What do you got next? At Matt underscore Toasty asks.

Spotter Brett, how hard is it to get on the spotter stand as a fan? Any tips to slip through security? Matt underscore Toasty, it's ironic you would ask because this week we actually got a group text message from David Hootts that warned us that fans are not allowed on the spotter. stand, although at certain tracks, they sell tickets to where you can come up to the spider stand. So it's a little bit confusing. I don't know. T.J. may remember some of the tracks better now do, but it's tough to get exactly where we're at, but there's a lot of tracks you can get close to where we're at.

Yeah, sure. There are a lot of tracks where you can get close. And honestly, I mean, we're not that much different than a lot of the tracks on the top of the bleachers, to be honest with you. So it's not, you're not, if you go to the top of the grandstands, you're almost, to where we are at. So I don't, I don't recommend trying to get up there

because you'll probably just get one of us in trouble. Yeah. Probably just get one of us in trouble. So, it's pretty hard, but it's not, I don't know, might not be that hard,

but they're usually pretty tight. Yeah, I mean, some of them are, again, you can get level to where we're at. I mean, the only difference is where the fans are at,

you know, it's pretty normal where we're at. We have a masseuse station set up and a shrimp cocktail buffet. Yeah. And it's pretty happy up there, Sometimes we bring that little Frappuccino making thing. Yeah.

I mean, we usually do it up. It takes our shoes off. Yeah. We go to Vegas. We go to Vegas. We got that pole that folds up and. Yeah. Look how tan mine and TJ's legs are.

Yeah. Look at our legs how tan they are. I mean, we can't wear shorts up there, which completely sucks. It's free jewelry season. It's 100 degrees. We got no tarp above us. We actually should get hazard pay for where we stand. You may now.

Hey, man. Hey, man. They got hot dogs up there? Hot tubs? Hot dogs. I've got the best wiener in town. On my hat, I have a wiener-snitzel sponsorship today only. I tweeted it.

Thank you. You should have saved it. Oh. Hey, by the way, Josh's mic doesn't work. So if you hear him chime in, it'll be really faint. So you don't have to cuss them. It's not his fault. It's not his fault.

And don't blame him for the butterfly. Don't blame him for the butterfly in his lower back. All right, at Chalktael Elvis 88 asks. Good Year has softened the tire compound this year. Will that try and continue? I hope so. I like having tire problems, to be honest. Not like blowing right fronts,

but I like people having to manage tires. I like tire management. I do too, man. And I love this guy's name. Chuketaw Elvis. Well, I level my heart in North Fort Virginia. That guy's got an awesome name. He's a Dale Jr.

What is Choketaw? What is that is? I don't know. Kristen probably has a tattoo, something like that. It's probably, where does that word derive from? Give me some definition. I don't know. The Chalktown Indians. So this guy is an Indian Elvis, Del Senior, now Del Jr. fan.

What a great guy this guy's. This guy has a lot of heritage in his name. There's a lot going on with him. A guy. People's Twitter name can tell you a lot about that person. We have winners today? Yeah, I think we should have a winner today. Yeah, I'm all for it.

Okay. Yeah. Spotter Brett tells us everything we need to know. about Brett Griffin? Yeah. It does. I sure does. That's all he is.

What else is there? All right. At Bradley, Menglin asks, what all goes into your bags on the road? How much gear do you pack? Man, I... Have you mastered packing? I carry two bags every week.

I carry my spotter bag because I don't trust it to be anywhere else. What's in it? Two radios. I'm sorry, four radios, two headsets, a bunch of snacks, and a bunch of waters,

and just stuff that we use on a roof. Sunscreen, Emodium, Tylenol. Vaseline. You have to cover your bases. You're up there for nine hours, right? So that's what I carry in my spotter bag. And then my luggage obviously has all my other stuff.

I'm a real neat frequent I pack. So I actually have these dividers in my bag that I bought. And I actually had the little board that folds my shirts and everything. Are you serious? Yeah. Wow. What's wrong with that? No, I wouldn't have guessed that with you.

I fold my shirts all up. and they all go in this thing and the two things fold up and it just sits in the top part and my pants. You bring like two pair of jeans. I bring a pair of shorts and two pair of black pants and just enough shirts for four days. So you wear a sponsor shirts when you're up there? I wear polos up until race day and then I wear the race day shirt with black pants. But yeah, I'm a real neat freak. I've got all my socks and everything separated out into a bag and they're all lined up and stuff.

My belts roll up nice and neat. I'm telling you, I'm a new freak. You're a fiscidious. Okay. I don't know what that means, but. What's in your spotter bag? My spotter bag. Brett's spotter bag is the most cluster thing.

He drives your OCD nuts. He has a backpack, and he just sets his radios in it and just drop. all the cores and sets his head set down on it and goes. I'm like radio off, wind the cord up, sit it one way, and then the other one goes the other way, so they fit nice and neat. I have actually like a camera bag that people would put lenses in and stuff, and I have dividers, and I have all my little extra batteries in one. My radio is fit.

You know, if you put them opposites, they fit nice and neat. You have massive OCD. No, I'm just neat. What's wrong with that? No, it's neat. It's OCD. So my theory is I don't want to have to look for stuff. No, that's true.

Being organized. Number two, when you put your cables away like that, you'll have cables go bad more often because you're just cramming your stuff in there. I used to do my stuff like that. But mine's really neat. And I have some Buffalo Bills duct tape in there that I mark my spots with most of the time. You're a Bills fan? Yeah, fortunately. I know.

Well, it could be worse. you're a Pittsburgh fan. I'm an Eagles fan. But you like the... I like the Pittsburgh Panthers. Yeah. So... They're equally as disappointing.

No, the Eagles... What are you bragging about? 31 years of disappointment. I'm used to it. But the bills, I think, are worse. The bill... In those 31 years, the bills went to the Super Bowl four straight times. I'm just saying.

And your quarterback actually was hung over in the Super Bowl one time, and he threw up. Donovan McNabb, yes. Yes. He claimed he was... Yeah, sick. nervous and sick. Yeah, whatever. I saw him in a club in Vegas later that after the Super Bowl that year,

and he was in a booth next to where I was. And he was throwing up, ironic. He was throwing up in the booth? Yeah. That's nice. I still have my McNabb jersey, but I used electrical tape and put it over his hand. He's not very well-liked either. He's one of the guys that said drivers weren't athletes.

Remember that? McNabb. I don't have very much respect for Don't know him. Clans was a bad idea. And Brett's back. Yeah, Brett's back. He was on a cleanse for three days trying to get all of the steak and line out of him. What would you say?

The reality of this show. And Brett just definitely. We're keeping it real. Yeah, it was real. When three people start on a podcast. You got toilet paper on your back of your source. I got it fixed. All right.

All right. At Travis C underscore 48. Ask what's your favorite track to spot at? I don't answer to 48 fans. I'm just kidding. This is Travis. Oh. Oh.

Hey, hey. It's Travis. Not that Travis. Oh, yeah. Pretty sure it is. No, he was Travis. Is it? You know.

I don't know. Did you pick this because of that? I didn't pick these. Josh picked. Oh, Josh says it is. I'm going with it is. So, Travis, my favorite track to spot it is probably a plate track or Martin's or Bristol, the biggest and the smallest.

Yeah, I'm with him. Daytona 500 is my favorite race. And Bristol is my favorite. track. We have to work more then, too. Not that we don't work at the other ones, but we have to work a lot more. There's always something going on at Bristol and Martinsville. And I promise you that the cameras do not sees you. If you ever get a chance to go to Bristol or Martinsville or something to see a good short track race, go. It's fun. You'll see a lot of stuff going on that you wouldn't normally see. On TV. They do, yeah, they do a good job of covering the race, but there's somebody hitting somebody

at some point that you're not seeing. They're frustrated with each other. It's fun. I mean, it's a great race. The reason I go, if you're a fan to any race, is you can watch your driver. I don't care which driver you like to see. When you go to the track, you can watch your driver. Man, I hate being, I mean, I hate on some truck races if I'm pulling for Cole Custer and they're not showing them. I'm like, how's he doing, man? You don't know.

That's true. Because TV gets hung up in certain things and they have a lot of political influences to which sponsors they have to show based on who's buying any car cameras and ad time. And, man, it gets convoluted. So I'm all for watching a race in person. Yeah, plus you can look up and see his cool individual named T.J. Yeah. At B underscore N underscore Pierce asks,

what track do you think should be added and what should be taken away? I wonder what this guy pierced. B.N. Pierce. What another name, a provocative name. What if it's like his last name? Pierce. Or his first name? That's a name, right?

I think he's just saying. Pierce Brosnan. Pearson's cool. What was this question? What track do you think should be added and what tracks should be taken away? I'm going with Rockingham to be added. Man, I don't know. There's so many good tracks that need to be added. Not necessarily at the Sprint Cup level, but when you look at Myrtle Beach and you look at South Boston, you look at history, Hickory, you look at Irwindale. I mean, there's so many great tracks. On the cup side, you definitely got to say Rockingham. Phenominal track that is literally just sitting there riding away.

tire wear there is awesome racing's awesome I'm not going to say anybody deserves to lose a race yeah I don't feel like you know a few years ago I would have said Fontana but that race has turned into a good race there's different lanes

if they repave it I won't want to go if they repave that place I will not want to go my ideal excuse me my ideal thing to the schedule would be this we shouldn't go anywhere other than Daytona and Charlotte more than once like I'm sorry Pocono

I'm sorry New Hampshire I'm sorry Texas I'm sorry, not Homestead Phoenix. I like Martinsville twice, so I think that's good. But build it somewhere else. We need new markets. We need constantly to have new markets.

And how do we do that? Well, we easily, we don't go to the same place twice. But our problem is, our challenge is we're owned by two major publicly traded entities. SMI and IAC own 90% of our tracks. Only two they don't own now are Dover and Pocono

on the Sprint Cup side because they bought Iowa on the Xfinity side. So when you look at the, and Indy, Indies is the third independent. So when you look at the schedule as a whole, I mean, those two companies on them all, so they control the destiny of the schedule and the dates. And for that to change, they're going to have to be willing to make more capital investment, build new properties. And I don't know if they'll do that.

We should take your money and build a track. Dude, you know how small it'd be? The paperclip would literally be the paperclip. We should take your money and build a Martinsville, a Knight Martinsville somewhere. Night Martinsville would be killer. Dude, I know. I love it, man. There's so many great markets left in America that we're not reaching, you know, Midwest, Northwest.

And I realize it rains a lot in the Northwest, but still, we could do something. Saturday night, Martinsville race somewhere. It can't go wrong. I don't care where it is. Colorado. That's fine. Well, I mean, Pike's Peak was out there in the Xfinity Series. Used to run there.

So, and that was good racing. We have something wrong with our model. All right. And here's the reality. When you take a rocking ham and it can't sustain a sprint cup date, okay, so be it. But then you take a guy. Andy Hillenberg goes in, buys Rockingham, fires it up, puts a truck race there. Why can it sustain being able to run there once a year?

Like, what is so wrong with our model? What is wrong with it from the standpoint of what are the sanctioning fees to actually hold an event? Because the only tracks that can now afford it are the tracks that have the Sprint Cup revenue to keep them open all weekend. It's not just the standalone Myrtle Beach, the standalone Rockingham. Like somewhere there's a bunch of cost built in, something that none of us understand. You know what I mean?

I mean, it's not the product. No. The product that Rockingham is good. I actually, the last truck race there was really good. The Larson win it? Yeah, Larson won it. Yeah. I'm pretty sure you want it because I went there from Texas and I spotted for Lugano in that race.

And we took, we had tires at the end and we almost got there and he won't, I mean, it's close race. It was good. It's the product's great. People are there to support it. You got a hammer on the driver. Save your tires. How much money did they?

How much money did they spend to put soft falls up there just for that race? I don't know. I wish we went there. But the track can't survive. And I don't know that the owners are trying to make money. Obviously, they can't lose money. But man, when you look at all these great lost speedways that some of us in the industry call them, man, it's a shame because there's so many great tracks that we're not going to. Rockingham in the chase.

Oh, it would be awesome. It'd be phenomenal. What do you got next, KB? What is your beverage choice after a race? asks at Jay Steen, 234. What's yours? What's your beverage choice on Wednesday nights? Wednesday night.

What's your beverage choice before you board concierge to come home? We're just chugging water. Chugging water. I'm a McLeodal. What's your choice on the weekends? I like wine. I like IPAs, too. IPAs and like really dry reds.

You know what we call red wine in South Carolina? What are we? Foreplay. Can we say that on the show? Why not? Sure. I'm not trying to get anybody in trouble. We're the best podcast.

We can say whenever we want. I would. As long as we're better than Mike Davis. I know that's all that really matters as long as we beat Mike Davis. Hashtag beat Mike Davis. Yes. I've already kind of started a little bit. I saw that.

Lattart actually got me drinking Stellas. Really? Yeah. And I like them. Yeah. And the bad part is, so I go out the junior's house and I bring my own beer out there because I know he's not going to have those. And I show up and I sit next to him at the bar and I open one up and he's like, we're sitting there for a while and he's like, man, man, you run over a skunk on the way here? He's like, those things smell like a skunk.

I'm like, you just deal with it, man. I am. You deal with it. At Trisha USA asks, what has been your most memorable race to date? go ahead bristol for you man for me uh 2001 the wood brothers have been in business for 50 plus years had never won bristol motor speedway and they'd won like 90 races at the time so elliott went out started 38th one bristol motor speedway beat john andreddie and second jeff gordon third that was my sixth race ever spotting so hands down for me bristol um my most memorable race i mean it's

got to be the 500 you can't you can't really you can't really compare that what i like i said before you i hope everybody gets a chance to win that just hopefully it's all when i quit um it's a it's just so man that's our super bowl you can't everything's so blown up we go through the whole off season everything is blown up about that race you know it's the Daytona 500 everybody's watching it all the new car sponsors are out there cars schemes people are there oh yeah i mean it's a great great great crowd last time. It's just huge, man, to win that race and to be able to go to that breakfast the next morning after about an hour of sleep.

Yeah. I don't know, man. It's just there's just something about that race. So definitely did tell him to 500. At Brett. Brett Edwards asked. What a great name this guy. How important or often, what?

How important often used are your binoculars? Is that English? What kind do you use? at which tracks. I don't use my binoculars a whole lot, maybe a little bit whenever we go to a Fontana or I'm a

Pocono, but I rarely use my binoculars unless we're at a plate track. I don't, unless we have damage I need to look at or something. I don't, I just don't like... Do you have contacts? No, I've been fortunate enough to have perfect vision, so I don't know.

I don't like using them except for Pocono and the big tracks, really. So the binoculars help us because they obviously get us closer to what we're looking at. We use a special pair of binoculars. They're called wide zoom. So even though we zoom in, we still have a pretty decent peripheral vision. The problem is if we put up a pair of binoculars and they wreck half a straight away ahead of us, we don't see it. And we're not able to give that notice.

When I first got to the spotter stand in 2000-ish, a lot of guys were using binoculars. And those same guys would drive their cars and their wrecks every single week. And I was probably, you know, I was 23, 24 years old, one of the youngest guys up there. And so I saw it change from the binocular age to the no binocular age. So literally the only tracks I use them at a lot are Daytona Talladega. Use them a little bit at Indy, use them a little bit at Sonoma, a little bit at Fontana, a little bit at Michigan, a little bit at Pocono. Yeah, I don't even put my wide angle ones in my bag until Daytona or Talladega.

I keep my other ones in there. The Swarski's or whatever they are, I keep them in there the rest of the time. The Swikorskis or whatever, they're. They're like $10,000 a pair. Pretty much something like that. Yeah. He's a high dollar spotting. I don't know.

I don't know. Hey, do you, one thing that you just brought up right there, I can't even imagine what it would be like to have him up there when he was young. Because I remember when I first started going to the roof in like 2002 or three, I was the young guy. Like, I was the young guy of the group. Every like year or so we had in a new guy. Yeah.

It's funny how it, now we're all the veterans and stuff. And now we got these young guys like, Daryl. Like Derek started a few years ago. Right. He's worked his way up, and we got a couple other guys that work on the way up. But it's just, I can't even imagine what Brett would look like coming up there. I mean, the hard part is there's only 40 of us in the world, you know, that do what we do on Sundays. Yeah, worldwide.

Worldwide. So, I mean, we're elite worldwide athletes. But, I mean, when you look at, it's really hard to break in. And you have to break in because somebody broke up. And by broke up, I mean, the driver-spotter relationship for whatever reason. halted and you get a chance. And it's very tough to do that. Even if you're a good spotter, it's tough.

I mean, we're in the relationship business as much as we are, the spotting business. And one of the names that TJ just brought up, the Derek, the guy that spots for Kyle Arson, they've gotten to be really good buddies. Derek stays on Kyle's Motor Home a lot. And that helps you become a better spotter because you're debriefing with them. You're spending time with them. You're finding out what they want when they're in the race car.

And even more importantly, you're finding out a lot about their personality. I mean, I know Clint and Elliot on very good levels, personal levels. TJ knows Dale Jr. on personal life. The guys who don't have that relationship with their drivers aren't as good as we are just because they don't have as close to a relationship as we have. It makes a big difference. It's a trust factor too, right? Yeah.

I would rather have one of my friends as good if he's especially good at it. I got, I first started going because Roman came on race day, and I was going to working on the car. And so I did all the practices and stuff. And then he missed. Practices. Practice. Practices.

We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. Well, Roman missed the race. Yeah. And they put me in. So that's, he missed the plane Sunday morning because normally Sunday is a real early flight. Yeah. For the race day guys.

And he missed the plane. And that got me my first race ever. So, and then I got to do all Boris's stuff when he came in and, and got a full-time deal after that. So are there guys who just spot once a weekend? No. They used to be. You know, it used to be spotting wasn't a full-time job. Spotting was a race day job, and it was literally four hours a weekend.

Well, we had an accident happen here in Charlotte. It was an ARCA accident where Deborah Renshaw came in contact with another car 13 seconds after that car had stopped wrecking. And they basically established that had a spotter been present during practice, it would have or could have or should have prevented that wreck. So at that moment in time, which would have been around 2002, Yeah, right around. 0-2, 2003.

NASCAR installed the rule of, implemented the rule of, if more than one car is occupying the racetrack at one time, we will have your spotter present or your car will not be allowed to go on the racetrack. So before practice, before qualifying, because now our qualifying is multi-car events before the race, we have to check in with a referee, which is called a NASCAR official for us, and you can't go out there without it. So the spotter, the spotter's role went from a four-hour deal to what is now a 30-hour deal a weekend.

If it's single car qualifying, do you have to be up there? No. No. We did for a little while, but not anymore. Thank goodness. And don't get me wrong. It's good to have us and it's good to have us up there before that because, number one, you want to keep that driver safe. I don't want to see, I don't want to see Dale Jr. go out there and crashing somebody.

And if I got to go stay on the route, to make sure he doesn't, you know, I'm all for that. And that's a difference to T. Jay's point, we're here for the teams to help them and to save them money, right? If they're tearing up race cars, they're spending money. But the reason TJ and I are in unique situations is we're invested in our guy. Like, you know, we're friends with them. We don't, you don't want to, the last thing you want to see is your friend get on a wreck in an interstate. Well, last thing we want to see is our friend getting a wreck at the racetrack.

So our drivers know that. They know that we care, right? Yeah, I mean, you care about Dale Jr.? You love him? Like a brother. Yeah. Yeah. It just makes it better.

It makes it better when you have. It's fun too because you get to go to work with somebody you know really well. And it's like going to school, man. Think about when school was back in the day. This is our Barbara Walters moment in the show. We're opening up to you guys. Do you guys need tissue? Yeah, I do.

At B underscore Verba asks, when are you all going to have a spotter charity race? We basically do every year. At the GoPro, we have that. We have a go-kart race. It's fun. We have a good time. I'm disappointed in the last year's result. I remember when me and you started on the front row?

Yeah, my car wouldn't go. I know. I saw you for like two seconds. I'm losing weight, though. I'm going to be back. Last year I had a good car to finish seventh. They made me start in the back. They should have.

They should have. I qualified on the pole. You inverted something. No, I missed the heat race because let me tell you why. You remember why? Your PR person wasn't there to pull you to do it? No. So I'm good friends with Brad.

Everybody knows that. And he was, his daughter was born that day. So I left after qualifying to go to the hospital for the birth of his daughter, which I made. And then I came back. And they made me start in the back. You got to get, you got to get an excuse like Harvard got for the media center deal. If you can't get a written excuse, you're done. That's fine.

Wait until they asked me to be here this year. Well, wait, we'll still go on without you. They will. I'll see if five people will be there. Oh, yeah, because you're the big draw. By the way Somebody asked me on Twitter Is T.J. is big of a condescending, arrogant assholes

He appears on the show? I'm like, yeah, pretty much. I'm from New York. I'm from New York. What do you want to be? By the way, I'll tell you one quick thing. Everybody from Long Island, New York's really nice. Yeah, my stepdad's from Long Island.

They're nice from Buffalo. Buffalo. Oh. You might as well be in Canada. A. A. A. A.

Kristen Mingo, A. One quick thing about that is how ironic is that Brad would have his little girl. Mine and his have the same birthday. Did he name her TJ? Huh? Did he name her TJ?

I don't know. TJ Keslowski has a good ring to it. Isn't that funny, though? Tiffany. Tiffany was your girl name last show, right? It was. Tiffany. Tiffany Kozlowski.

What was yours? Axel. Okay. I feel like you have to change yours because of the Harry Potter tattoo. You need like a... Harry? You need like a fantastic.

That does not have a good ring to it. Please don't ever. Not very bad visualized. We're going to stick with Michael. Eddie, remember Eddie? Eddie the stoner. I don't do drugs. At Babbs 2121 asks, have you ever watched your driver do something on track and think,

how am I going to sell this? What does that mean? I don't know. You mean, it probably means how are you going to explain this? Or how are you going to, like, explain this to people like? Yeah. I have witnessed, I don't know, man. Have you witnessed, I mean, I'm sure Clint's dumb.

Dunson's dumb. My guys are perfect. I don't know what these guys are even talking about. Yeah, let's cut this question. No, it's a great question. It's a great question, but my guys are non-edited version. My guys are perfect. Yeah, okay, I got one.

We were qualifying at, we were practicing at Darlington. It was a nighttime Xfinity practice for no reason. We were racing in the day the next day. But it was when Brad was driving the Junior Motors Sports Affinity car, we went out, we were making a qualifying run. We were the only car making a qualifying run that night. And it was strictly to go to the top of the board to look fast. PR lap, what we call it.

And Pops is crew chiefing, and we roll out there. And Darlington's weird because in the Xfinity cars, you come off on the backstress, and you kind of have to go around slow a lap, and then you take off into three and come around and take the three. and come around and take the green because you can't get up to speed fast enough when you come through 3 and 4 to run a good lap. Without wasting your tires. Yeah. So we come out of 4 and here comes Curtis Davis into turn 1 blending up right in front of us.

And he was in the racing for Jesus car and he was normally pretty far off the pace. He pulls up right in front of us. What do you do? You pray. I was praying. and about 20 seconds later when our lap got messed up, me and the driver were both called the two dumbest SOBs that that guy had ever met.

So we felt really low for a minute. And yeah, Pops basically called me and Brad the two dumbest son of a guns he'd ever met because we got pulled out in front of on a qualified lap. So I'll give this to Curtis Davis for getting me the dumbest son of a gun award. Yeah, my guys are always. perfect so I don't know what this is talking about well Brett's guy hit a hit something when he was in

the bathroom one time this is no joke no I wasn't on my watch yeah it was you want to get on me for going to go on to the race a lot to sell that to Ellie so we're in Martinsville and unfortunately for the majority of the time we don't have the ability to go to the restroom on the roof we have to I feel like we talk about going in the bathroom a lot on that's because it's the most common question for the drivers and spotter yeah what do you have to go you just go so I leave the roof and I I tell Elliot 99% of the time or Clint, I'm going to the bathroom. Well, this time I don't tell them. So I just think I'm going to sneak down to the bathroom.

I'm in the bathroom, can't see anything on the racetrack, and Elliot starts screaming at me. Are you spotting the day? What the hell are you doing? I'm thinking, man, we just went back green, and I've missed it, and I'm fired. So I come flying out of the bathroom. We're under caution. Spraying everywhere. And I'm like, man, I'm like, man, what do you mean?

Am I spotting today? Well, I just hit Jeremy Mayfield under caution. And I'm like, wow, are you playing with a radio or the air conditioner? Like, what are you doing in there running 35 miles an hour? You can race at 180 and not touch anything, but at 35, God forbid, I expect you not to hit anybody. So that way, yeah, I kind of had to sell that to him of, hey, man, that's only you. That's like worst. That's like worst. That's like worst fear, too, is when you're sitting there going to the bath, you're like, please, please be quiet, please be quiet, please be quiet.

Because you can't. You look at me, we're listening, but you can't see. Yeah. You don't want to, you can't key up because you don't want them to hear. The coolest part, Phoenix, they call us rednecks in South Carolina, but Phoenix takes porta potties by a crane and drops them on the roof. And bolts them and straps them to the ground. Because it's windy in Phoenix for nobody that's ever been.

I mean, that desert produces some high wind. So we have porta potties on the roof. It's phenomenal. Yeah, it works great. It's the only place we can use a bathroom quick. I mean, what do you want when you get to work every day? You want a place to park? Yep.

That's difficult at a racetrack. You want a place to be able to get in the gate. Well, I don't know if you've met some of our security guards. We need guest services and not security guards. That's another topic. And then you want to be able to get to work, which includes getting to the roof, not always easy. And then you want to be able to take a break. So those four things.

I feel like most time when they look through your bag stuff, they look for something wrapped up as is Acmeon or something. They don't know what they look. You know what I mean? That's a whole not other subject. All right. What do you got next? KB. At Cornelius V-Star asked which young gun gets a cup win first.

Dylan, Blaney, Chase, or Larson? Cornelius V-Star. I'm going to go with Chase. Chase Elliott is certainly on fire. And in order, it's really hard to just show up and all of a sudden win. Like you typically see a guy start running in the top 10, right? That means he's getting better. Then you see him start running in the top five, him or her.

That means they're getting in position. to win. And when you can run fifth, you can win the race. You're only one good pit stop or one good adjustment away from winning the race. One couple guys get to each other, bam. Boom, you're winning the race. So when you look at this guy, Chase Elliott, he's already running top 10. He's already running around fifth.

He's poised to win a race soon. It's hard to tell Jeff Gordon got out of that car. Hell, he's running better Jeff Gordon ran this point in the season. But Chase is consistently in. I mean, Chase, I don't know he's been a wreck or so. I mean, he's killing it. I will say I'm impressed with all. Larson's, there seemed to be awful a little bit this year.

I thought they would be better. But between Blaney's, he's fast. He's going to be here for a long time. He's fast. Austin Dillon's coming around finally. He's starting to turn the corner. A lot of confidence. Yeah.

A lot of confidence in that. Man, I'm excited about these four guys on our sport down the road. I mean, we can talk about all four of them. Slugger Labby is like he lit a fire under Austin Dillon's ass. Yeah. Slugger, do you know my theory on Slugger, right? He's going to be the best spotter. there ever is because he sees more oil on top of that pit box than any of us see from the roof.

Some crew chiefs wear us out. Slugger's one of the ones that has oil and turn three. Yeah, okay, buddy. The three says there's oil. Yeah, no, there's not. I mean, you look at these three guys and you literally can rank them, you know, Chase number one, Dillon number two, Blaney number three, Larson, number four. And unfortunately for Larson, man, that gap's gotten bigger than it should be.

I would have easily said he would have won a race. He's not a lack of talent. No, not a bit. These four guys right here all. They can get it. Yep. I'd have had Larson won in a race, maybe three races by now. I thought he was going to win last year, to be honest, or the year before.

This is his third year. Yeah. Yeah, I actually thought he was going to win in his rookie year. Yeah. So he's got, he had Kyle Busch at Vegas his rookie year. He should have dumped him. Nah, should have. I would have.

Kyle would have. Kyle would have. So great question, Cornelius V-Star. Yeah. That's something almost sounds like a stage name. Yukon Cornelian. This is an interesting name. At Monty's Amendment asks, who's the Redneck King of NASCAR, Dale or Clint Boyer?

Redneck King. I mean, I've seen some of the stuff Dale Jr. eats, and I think it would probably be him. Corn dogs? I mean, I'm talking like pickled eggs and weird southern things. I have to say the Redneck King is not on here. I think it's Sterling, Marlin. Oh, Sterling. I mean, if Sterling's a choice, yes.

I have working with Sterling and getting a gnome, he's a great dude, man, I could not understand half the stuff. He said I radio. I told him one time. He was like, Coors Light Dodge. I told him one time he was coming around behind the wall to get a tire sheet. And I was like, Sterling, take a look to your right. And he looked, and there was a female walking there. And he didn't say anything for like 15 seconds.

And I'm like, all right, well, he goes, oh, damn, she'd make a bulldog bust a log chain. It took me like 10 minutes to figure it out To Sterling was To this guy's question Dale Jr. is a bigger redneck Because he's from North Carolina That's from Kansas man They aren't cool enough to be rednecks out there

But the biggest redneck had to be In my career was Sterling Marlin What a great dude I miss that guy He called me I stayed in, Sterling was really really cool Man I stayed in touch with him And he'd be like What do you do?

And he's like, oh, just got off this back knacko knocking down some trees. I mean, like typical Sterling stuff. After every single race back in the day, T.J. helicoptered out with El Jr. A lot. A helicoptered out with Ellie a lot. And no matter where you were,

you would see Sterling at the helipad with two Coors lights. Everywhere. It didn't matter how hard he worked that day or where he finished. He had a Coorslight in each hand at the helipad. What a great guy. That's awesome. He was, I really liked working with him when I could hear him.

Yeah. And understand him. Basically. Coors light. Let me score that. I love Stirling. I love Sterling. At Improv Q asks, you swap T.J. Major's driving, Dale spotting, Brett driving, Clint

spotting. You're at Daytona, who wins. Clint has a worst case of ADD of any human being. So without a doubt, my radio off. Without a doubt, my spotter wouldn't be much help. It'd be, it'd just be up to me. I would turn my radio off. I don't think I'd want. So I ran a late model of Myrtle Beach one time,

and Dale Jr., you guys were in Darlington, and Dale Jr. came down there. It was the worst thing ever to have him on there, man. He wasn't even spotting. He tried to drive that thing from the top of the trailer in the infield. Oh, Robert Powell around there. Go across that mom's over there. You want to just drive?

I mean... That's probably what they feel like with us. Yeah. Shut up. Shut up. We've been told to shut up. We've all been told to shut up at some point. Yeah, but Jeter's really nice about it now.

When he gets, when he's like, I just news a piece of quiet. Okay. All right, old. All right, old man. So, I mean, you have to understand, I mean, we're a backseat driver, you know, and we certainly have great intentions. And you can play Dr. Phil. You know, you can play cheerleader and you can play spotter. But at the end of the day, sometimes they just want you shut up. They do. Or just play some classical music for them in the background. I guys have never been rude to me about shutting up either.

Your dude's fuse is like, they'll usually fire off on the crew chief. Like, I don't need lap times, which means I don't need anything, which means, Brett's not talking about. Did you get yelled at that for lap times this year at all yet? Uh-oh. See, I normally would give junior lap times when he moves around and stuff. And in Atlanta, it took me a couple of times to realize that he's got him on the dash right there. Because I don't do lap times at Daytona.

It's pointless. Yeah, for sure. So we go to Atlanta where I'm like, all right, that's a, you know, whatever, 35. I got around my dash. Well, excuse me. Excuse me, buddy. Yeah. Hey, your blinkers on.

This next question. This next question must be for Kristen because it wouldn't make sense. NASCAR Jason asked. Kristen KB. Christianmingle.com. If you were racing, would you rather have bread or T.J. is your spotter.

Oh, yeah. That's a tough one. Call us out. We don't care. You like to have fun or you like to win. Call us out. So I've spent the majority of this year listening to you and Elliot. Yeah.

You like me, don't you? I do. I like when you say yellow, yellow, yellow. I like where you're going. Green, green, get the F out of here. It's funny. I like where you're going with this. You like saying get out of the way, too.

This is getting awful sweet in here. Cozy. You know what? I would just be so honored to have either of you spotting for me. You got to pick. Such a pick. Such a sycophon you are. You got to pick.

Hala. Yeah. That's fine. Hey. How about? I'll take Brett for Xfinity and you for Spring Cup. Yeah. That'll work.

Wow. Whatever. I'll float your boat. Yeah. My street Saturdays is better right now. Anyway, hey, before we close this thing out. What do you mean? Your streaks better on that.

You ran fifth. I kick your ass every week. on Saturday. Not every week. Every week but one. How many of we run six? The Daytona don't count. Oh, no, it don't count.

It's only the biggest race of the year. James Busher won it from the backstretching one from 15th. We've outrun you every week but one. Five out of six, four out of five. What's it on my? I mean, we've run five, so we've outrun you four out of five. Minus Daytona. So we three out of four, seventy-five percent or eighty percent.

Wish you want me to bat. I'll take either. Let's just wait. Let's let the season roll on. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. We'll check back in on this mid part of the season. We'll see where it's at.

So before we roll into closing this thing up, T.J. and I have a little bit of a sentimental thing that's happening for us this week. We have a friend named Chris Osborne that spots for Matt Kenseth that's coming back. Chris and his family, we call him crazy, Chris. Chris and his family were involved in a head-on collision with a drunken driver in December, and his wife spent a couple months in the hospital. Chris spent a good solid three weeks in the hospital. His son suffered a very bad concussion, and Chris has been without, hasn't been on the spotter stand,

basically for this entire season. He's had subs, which we've talked about a little bit on this show. So Martinsville will be Chris's first race back, so we've missed him and wish nothing but his family well. We're a community up there, you know. I'll tell you what, a few years ago when I went to the hospital, when you have to miss races, you don't understand what it's like until you actually have to miss it.

It's not easy to miss races and see your car that you should be working with going around the racetrack without you working with it. It's not an easy thing to do. So I went and saw crazy when he was in the hospital, and that dude, he was in a lot of pain to go through what they went through. And it looks like they're all going to come out of it. And obviously it's always going to be a part of our lives now because you don't have a bad accident like that and not affect you down the road. But they're all going to, they're all safe still together and stuff. So it's really looking forward to having him back. and he's become one of my better friends on the roof.

Me and him still in each other a lot. So me and him become really good friends. So I'm looking really forward to having my buddy back up there, and he hates snakes, and I normally bring one for him. I normally bring one and mess with him, and he normally cuts into a thousand pieces. But now it'll be, I'm sure he's looking, he's going to be, it's going to be,

the healing will get easier for him when he gets back to work with all of us and gets back. and get to be able to do what he loves to do and what he's good at. He and his family are literally lucky to be alive, and we're very fortunate that he can come back to work. He's very fortunate that he can come back to work. So Martinville is going to be fun to have him back.

He's a great dude too, man. He's a straight up guy. He's honest and just a pleasure to work with and a great friend. Yeah. So just to remind everybody, who you got this week to win? Kevin Harvick. I got the four. And I got the 48.

No, you got the 11th. No, I didn't. I picked the 48. T.J. can't even remember who I picked. No. Lord. I picked the 48, man. Wow, that's good.

They're going to be good. Yeah. You think? Yeah. It's not like we're picking guys that are worried about here. Who you want to list? Let's pick between those four rookies, too. I'll let you go first.

They're not rookies, but the four guys that this Cornelius Fee star thinks is going to win soon. I will take. You got Dylan, Blaney, Chase, or Larson. Yeah, I'll take Chase all day there. Yeah, I'm going to take Dylan. Because Martinsville is a really hard track for the first time. I remember Dale Jr. I remember Dale Jr.

He is. I said, man, I hit everything to David the pace car the first time he went. Elliot literally, I think, hit the pace car the first time he went. He's true. Martin's though is not kind of rookies. But I think Chase has a lot of recent short track super late model experience and stuff. So I don't think it's going to be as new to him. And he's going to get into a car that won the last race.

resources there. He's got the car that won the last race there. So he's going to go in there to a decent car. He's going to have speed to start. He's just going to have to get used to getting the car up the temperature and what it feels like to do that. The big heavy stock cars compared to a super lay model. But I think he's got the talent to do it.

So I'll take Chase this week. I got Dillon. So we got two bets, Josh. $100 a piece. I'm just kidding. How about a six-pack of Thales pale ale? How about a six-pack of Stella? That stuff stinks.

Skunky beer. How about a good IPA? I'll do it. What are you drink? Kristen, do you have any? We didn't ask Josh. We didn't ask Josh anything. What do you drink?

Wine coolers. Zima. He drinks Zima. Zima. Do they still make that? Zima. No, they do not make that anymore. Because he's tried to buy it.

Zima with a Jolly Rancher. Nice. Oh, it's high school. Jolly Rancher in a shower head will get somebody good. Really? What? Oh, dude. It'll make you sticky for a,

week. Seriously? I'm going to do that to my kids, paying them back. Oh, well. Well, then I'd probably to wash it off of them. That's probably bad idea.

You'll be like, you'll get out and, you're like, oh. So put a jolly rancher in the shed. Take the shower head off. Put a jolly rancher in there. Put a bunch of jolly ranchers? One.

Just one. What is wrong with you? And then screw the shower head back on. Who does this to people? Listen, we got in a really bad prank war before. I mean, this is coming. I mean, literally, me and my, Tofer shows up in my house.

One of my buddies that works here at Junum Mara sports, and we had tried to, I didn't get it, but Tofer got it. I didn't open my door, but they broke into his house and they antiqued him. So I'm talking water and flour in his bed. We go to work the next morning. His mattress is on the front porch drying off. Like, they got him good.

How do they break into his house? You could get in with a credit card. I can't wait to ask him about that. You can see me the lock. It's where Roman lives now, so if you want to get in. Roman's taking a beating on the show from T. He is. So Tofor shows up.

He knocks on my door. He was like, did they try to get you? And I was like, yeah. He's like, let's go. Take this. He hands me in this can. He's like, we're going back to Josh's house that works at Tom Johnson, Josh Snyder. Oh, yeah.

And he's like, let's go, take this. We're going to turn these loose in Josh's house. So he's like, you go to the bedroom. I go to the bedroom. He's like, just start dumping them. So I'm like, and we turned crickets. Oh. We turned 200 crickets loose in Josh's house.

Yeah. So. You guys are a treat. Yeah, that was. I never heard the Jolly Rancher in the shower head. Yeah. It's good. That is good.

Jolly Ranchern and the showerhead. And I'll tell you what else works good. If you got some time at a racetrack and you want to get a crew guy back, you take the windshield wiper fluid deal, you go to the BSR truck, get some drink tube hose, and you run it, you made that tube longer. You pull it off the motor and make it longer and run it up through the firewall, tape it to the bottom of the steering column and just pour like some Pepsi on their windshield or something. So they try to wash it off.

It sprays them right in the junk. Yeah. So it's a great story, TJ I haven't done that one I promise Yeah, I don't Real good Who has that kind of time?

Me? Yes The kind of is our mom All right It's been real I want to know if you've ever done a practical joke Yeah but it's like stupid stuff Like what?

You know like cellophane over a toilet seat Oh In the middle of the night So when someone gets up to pee It's just everywhere I don't talk of peeing on this show That's what I said it. Well, Josh?

The only one I can think of is taking black electrical tape and wrap it around the water spicket at your sink and pointing it straight towards you. Oh, yeah. So when you turn it on. Well, you don't have to use electrical tape. I use usually a hair tie. Hair tie has worked too. I'm just saying if it's black, then you can do it. Get a black. I've done that to my wife. We need to get people to start playing practical jokes on each other. Yeah, video and sent them to us. Peanut Butter on their d'clock.

door handle or something of a car. No, nothing that causes people harm, first of all. But, I mean, if you turn 200 crickets. Ocicc. Yeah, if you turn 200 crickets loose in your friend's house, go ahead and video it. Yeah. All right. We're wrapping this thing up.

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