Door Bumper Clear - 80 - Cheating in History Class

Episode Date: October 9, 2017

Krista Voda joins DBC to discuss rain at Charlotte, the grippy stuff, finding sponsors, broadcasting, Brett’s GPA and redneck engineering before sharing a poem with the gang. 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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Hey, everybody. I'm T.J. Major. Spotter the 88 Cup car, the 7xfinity car, the 29 truck, and a full house. Brett Griffin, Spotter for Clint Boyer, Elliott Sadler this weekend at Talladega. I got Mayette Snyder. Hey, guys, it's KB, and we have a very special guest. Actually, three special guests, but just one of them is miced. We have the lovely Krista Voda in here, bringing some class to the joy. Hi, guys.

One of our special guests is. Hot. P.K. is in the house. I know. We brought the good-looking member, the family, and the boss. Favorite NASCAR camera guy. Okay, you say that, but he's truly your favorite? Well, I say you're my favorite female reporter. And I always tell you, and I say, no, you say that to everybody. No, I don't.

Consumant politician. I know. It's okay. I know he says that to everybody. I kiss everybody's ass. I like. No exclusivity. So what you've been doing? I was hanging out at Charlotte Motor Speedway for most of the weekend with you guys. That was fun. Saturday was a long day. And, you know, it's long for us, but put it in perspective, we're filling time or we're doing, but you guys, you know what I mean?

You're just, in race fans, you're just kind of stuck. Stuck. Waiting. Which I've got to ask you this, and I want to hear everybody in here's perspective on this, don't you think, from an industry standpoint, I get paid to be there. So I kind of get it. But from the fan standpoint, our corporate guest standpoint, the media standpoint, the competitor's standpoint, I mean, don't you feel like the communication could be better as the day goes on?

Because we're making stuff up at this point. It's like, well, the concert's more important. It's going to, we're going to cancel the race to do the concert. Like, can't they do something to tell us we're going to try to get this in? Or we're going to update you every hour. Like, we all just sit around going, hey, what's next? Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

Because we, and it's, I think everyone gets their information from different places. You know, you have sources at the track. They're telling you things or me. But it doesn't mean any of us have. the right information. You know, we're all kind of just going off. It's just all speculating on weather. We're looking.

And I know that they're, you know, as we've seen in the past, you know, whatever the weather forecast is for the coming days is going to dictate. I mean, they're going to try like heck to get that racing no matter what. If there's rain coming the next day, okay, now we're going to try even harder because we don't have a window. I mean, we didn't hear anything until seven. Right. And they said, hey, driver intro is 745.

I just hate it for sitting around for six hours in the rain eating everything on the hauler. Yeah. Yeah. But if I'm a fan, I want to know. For us, we had a lot of one main people there. 60 people. We don't know what to tell.

Like NASCAR has got, NASCAR listens to this because everything we've suggested this year, they've pretty much done it. So is the, this is the number one podcast that NASCAR listens to. This is the number one NASCAR shows. Period. This is actually the number one podcast in America.

As it should be. Honestly. Look at this. Look at all these people here today. I know. He got a shirt. I don't have a shirt. It would be, it's even, it's got to be

cooler than Dale Jr. is too, because that's got to be, I mean, you know, he needs to be. I can't look at TJ and take him serious with this thing on his mouth today. I'm sorry. You're going to have to like it. All right, Brett, here comes the play. Do you see it? That's what it looks like. Yeah.

TJ's headsets a lot different today. It is. I took, we got to take a picture of it. Normally on my cords like this and I have to sit this close to Brett. So that's why I chose this one. But you also make, well, because I'm, you guys sacrificed. I appreciate you didn't give you the one. I'm sacrificing this gigantic thing.

Thank you. John Madden. Yeah, yeah. It's what I feel like. I feel like a coordinator here. I bet TJ watched 10 movies during that rain delay. Well, they play three on the big screen. Top Gun.

Yeah, we saw Top Gun. The Alas movie, the racing movie. Yeah. Cars. They played cars. We watched a ton of college football. Didn't they play cars twice during that rain delay or was it only once? Were you hallucinating?

Maybe I was hallucinating. I think it might have been twice, actually. I think it played twice in a row. So it's crazy as everyone that was there, you know, from you guys, wherever you're at and all of us and the race fans, we're all watching a movie together at a racetrack where there's no racing. I agree with Brett a little bit on it, though,

that if you're going to try to get it in, at least just tell the people so you can plan for it. Like the tailgator, so they complain, you know, and the fans and people that are there, guests that are there. It'd be nice to know that, like, look, we got about four hours before the, you know, this is supposed to end if you want to, you know,

just hang out, whatever, and just as plan. They've been, I think we've been spoiled the last couple years because they've been really good about calling rain delays and just give us an update give us something they've called rain outs real early here recently in the last year or two they've been real real quick to call it and it's been right almost all the time but um how about no rain on sunday after all that speculation that it ms sunday monday jose are going to be a washout yeah everyone's like we're racing charlotte after talladega it was so great we went on air two hours we were about two hours and 20 minutes before

green flag we went so we went out at 11 a.m. Bless your heart. Because, you know, we're all kind of doing this. Everything was moved up. But it was funny because you go on that early and there is nothing going on. I mean, it was like, hey, it's a big, it's playoffs. And there's like no buzz around. And then how did you fill all of Saturday with media?

Were you just trying to fill time? Well, and what you guys were talking about, you know, I know that obviously we're there as media to give fans or viewers, you know, updates of what's going on. So that's the irony is a lot of times we don't know either. You know, we're just, I'm basing it off what the pictures I see. You know, hey, it's overcast, you know, weather's in the, area where, you know, it's... Yeah. Welcome to the no-s-home.

Yeah. It's like Bob Hawker's tweets. And so I don't want people to think we're not lying to you. It's just we don't know either. You know, and I know there's decisions being made, but... They started the Air Titans at one point. I swear, because TV started, they put the Air Titans out there because it was pouring and they put them out there.

I'm like, uh, this doesn't seem to make much sense right now. And it's right, it was right at the hour, I think, when TV was supposed to start. But what do you think about the start time? I could have went from it. another hour. Like, we could have moved it up another hour. I know. We said that, you know, it's what, I don't know what lap you guys were on. Maybe I think we're through stage two and you look at your, and you're like, it's 3.30, four o'clock. This race is going to be done. Yeah. You know, that was nice. That was nice. It was really nice. I know, I don't, I know they're

competing against the NFL, you know, for the one o'clock deal, but I would, I saw somebody tweet something and, you know, why not start an hour earlier? Because that's when people mostly tune in for the race. He's putting you on the spot because you're a TV person. Well, and I don't have any, obviously, Anything to do with the decisions? We've talked about this before. It's hard coming at me with a hard hitting eyes. I feel like these like dagger eyes coming out. You'll have that in here.

We've talked about 12 o'clock starts before with, you know, just a good time for people to get there. But I saw someone tweet something that says, capture the audience before they go to something, start with something else. And then, you know. Locally, they only had one NFL game yesterday, too. At one o'clock.

I love when they move up, driver introductions in the Exfinity series, 10 minutes. Great. What does that do? Well, I guess they've got now a contract in place that they can move an event up an hour, and an hour is it.

They have to do it 24 hours beforehand. And I always wonder, too, and this would be, you know, for the fans, they get their information. I mean, obviously at the track, you know, you're following the track's Twitter account and Facebook and all of that. But, you know, if you're someone at home that's not paying attention on Saturday, you have a ticket on Sunday, you know, how would you know? I'll tell you who I felt bad

for was Elliot, because they were eight kids 11-100 in his bus. Really? We have like the whole baseball team or something. And Bodie, my youngest son, managed to kick a 32-ounce margarita straight up in the air. In his bus? It exploded. Yeah.

I was like, well, I just got fired over a margarita. Yeah. The bigger question is, would that be the first time you were ever fired over? I get fired once a month. It's usually not over a margarita. What was that? What was that? What was that?

What was he going to clean that? Well, he went all over, Claudie's face. So he said he felt orange for her. He had so much energy pre-race. He was running around the car. Somebody call wheel. Call wheel. Do we last?

Call wheel. Tell him to clean this up. By the way, I saw Landon, the Elliott impersonator. Or Jackman? He's so, he's good at it. We've got to get him to come on. We're going to tell everyone. Elliot's coming.

Our gas man does this incredible Elliot. He does his accent. So he impersonates him all the time. And last week, Elliot found out about it. How's this doing, Brett? You lose current? Current. It's pretty good.

Most and a house. Yeah, at least had a lot of kids. He had a lot of kids. He had a lot of kids. He always has a lot there too. Yeah. Yeah. You're going to make way for the whole family.

It was the party bus. But you literally said, I'm on police guard. Stop raining so these kids get outside. So these kids can, yeah. All right. Are you guys ready to go in to spot on, spot off? No. Let's kick it.

Kick it. Krista, we'll go with you first. Spot on or spot off. Now I haven't been here in a while. Oh, that's right. That's right. Okay. This is where spot on as you agree with it.

Spot off, you disagree or you don't like it. why. Okay. You ready? Yep. Kyle Bush, sick post race after inhaling CO2 fumes. Spot on or spot off? A spot off.

I mean, it wasn't just Kyle. I think you could tell, we did, you know, we listened and hear of interviews from all the playoff drivers in our post race show. And we did an hour and a half post race show, actually. Wow. So, which was on NBC, which is big, because obviously more eyes, exposure, different audience. And you could hear it in the driver's voices. Like, Denny Hamlin's interview.

Yeah. You could hear that they were, it wasn't just Kyle. I mean, Martin Truex talked about how he felt. and just not being able to catch his breath. And it wasn't like that was a hot race. And you guys know, but it was humid. Yeah. And, you know, I don't know how those cars are.

Yeah, obviously the cars are sealed off differently, but it was very scary. I think it's scary when you see every driver, you know, feeling the effects of that. Yeah. I definitely spot off. I mean, unfortunately for the drivers, these cars are made to keep air out. You know, there's not an opportunity for these guys to get air inside of the car. And that air would be fresh air. Yes, they run a duck to their helmet.

But you're talking minimal opportunity to get oxygen. When a lot of these guys, when they leave the race car, they go straight to their bus and they breathe oxygen for 15 minutes. And supposedly that cleans all the CO2 out. That's one of the big things they do after the race. But when you look at Kyle, who probably had crushed panels knocked out of his car, now he's getting even more carbon monoxide in the car the normal. I mean, when we look at guys like Richard Petty, Rick Mast and some of the older guys, they have literally sickness today from how much they inhaled back then. So I think the new guys are learning from that. but I think NASCAR and these teams have to look at this and go,

hey, is it worth it? What can we do to help keep these guys a little bit more? Why was it such an issue here in Charlotte? You know, I don't know the answer to that question. You know, obviously it was humid. The air that's coming in there is probably even less fresh than normal because the density of it. I'm not a scientist, but I'll play one on this podcast.

So moist. Yeah, so moist air. I think there were a lot of handling issues yesterday. Like, how often do we see cars wrecked by themselves getting into the corner? Right. And we were seeing that a lot. lot yesterday. All weekend, really, cars were wrecking by themselves. We went Dover. Nobody even wrecked by themselves. Like, I mean, we didn't have it. Dover

is, to me, is a more challenging track than Charlotte. And we had cars spinning out. Which means they're working hard. And you can see it. If you went into the corner and you, like, Danny found a lane up against the wall on three and four. He went in because he got loose and it slid up there and he ended up, he stood in the gas pedal and it gained a little time off the corner so he started running that line. Anytime you see a guy like Kyle crash into the corner, you know, there's, you know, Kyle's one of the best ones out there, obviously. Yeah.

And you hate guys spinning out. You mentioned Rick Mass, too. I know, you know, we did a story with him after he, you know, all of the effects and everything. But if you notice, he's pretty, um, he's fun. He's pretty vocal on Twitter these days. Yeah, he's on there a lot. He followed me and it was the highlight of my day one time.

He's so funny. He is funny on there. He is. Yeah. Yeah. We should get him on. Spot on, spot off. You think he knows what a podcast is?

I don't think he cares. but I think it'd be funny. He probably lives in Virginia, right? He did. I mean, gosh, that was 10 years ago. We talked to him. Yeah. Pack it up.

We're going to him. We're going to him. Mobile podcast unit. It's about a six beer ride. Oh, good Lord. Spot on, spot off. Robert Yates' pre-race tribute, Brett. Having worked for Robert Yates, having known and knowing Del Jarrett, man, it gave me chills to see that car sitting out there.

I mean, Robert was a great guy, engine builder, turned race team owner, bought his team from the Laniers, you know, the famous 28 Hardy's car that Kell Yarbrough drove. So, I mean, just seeing that all go down. I had an opportunity to see Robert at Sunup Cafe down here a couple months ago. And, you know, he looked frail, but he still was sporting a smile. I mean, a guy that fought literally to the end. But I think any time that NASCAR can take and give back to those guys, man, it means a lot. Spot on.

I was spot on to see it sitting there. It was exciting to see that car sitting on Pit Road. and I was kind of hoping he stayed out there like Richard did at Darlington a little bit, maybe take the green. He can probably still diced up with them guys. Probably could have. It might have handled better than them cars we got. Might have.

Definitely spot on. And I do the pre-race show with Dale. And the first thing he did, we walked down to the set. And again, it's early. It's 10.30 in the morning. Right. And that car was sitting right by our stage. And he went right to the car.

You know, he walks right over. He said it was, I think what he said, chassis number 26. He knew it right away. Of course he did. He knew which car it was, where it had race. And we talked to him about it on the show and how special that was going to be for him. And he said, you know, I'm representing all the drivers, you know, who drove for Robert, who Robert gave an opportunity to the Yates family.

And I think he took that to heart. But he said, he said, that was one of my best friends. He talked about that. I mean, when drivers talk about those cars, like, they're living things, you do kind of get chills. But he was so, he's like, I'm going to get reunited with my best friend in a couple minutes. And that was really cool. Didn't he like the nicest guy? So I tell him that all the time.

I go, why are you so nice? Like, you know, you're a Hall of Fame or Cup champion. But he's so nice. Yeah, so we're in Vegas. This is years ago. We used to go out there for the Super Bowl every year. And we're in Vegas and, you know, Derek Jeter's there and all these big names are there. And DJ's just tongues hanging out looking at him.

Like, oh, my God, you believe that? I was like, DJ, you've won Daytona 500s, brickyard 400s, the Winston Cup championship. Like, you're just the big deal as they are. He's like, no, I'm not. Like, he's just so humble. Such a good dude. We have a good time. He is a very nice guy.

Yeah. He gave Newman a ride to Michigan one time when we left him. It was nice of him. Newman? Yeah, they left Newman at the airport. Why? No, no, no. First of all, there's no we in this. Ryan Newman texted L. Jr. early in the week said, hey, can we get a right? Can I get with you? Sure. He doesn't tell anybody. So we get on the airplane. We take off. Oh, Dale didn't tell anyone? He didn't tell anybody. Like maybe the pilot should have known there?

Yeah, maybe somebody. And we took off and we're 10 minutes in the air and he takes headphones off, looks at me and he goes, we forgot Newman. I'm like, oh, what's this, we stuff? You forgot Newman, not me. And luckily, Ryan found a rye with, with Del Jerry. Newman wrecked us yesterday. Yeah, well, was the, can we, oh, wait, should we wait? Is it on here? I don't know. No, it shouldn't be.

No, it ain't on here. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's not. It's lap 12 or whatever it is. Yeah, it's early.

We're coming off of two, and Newman puts us in the fence. So that was the end of that day for Newman. That's the end of the story. How, do you guys? A lot. Yeah. I knocked our whole left front off. How'd you finish?

Awful. 25th, three laps down. Why didn't he lift? I don't know. It's lap 12. So for 330 laps, I stood up there like this. I didn't do anything. Clint called me after race.

He said, man, I was so bored. I was having a hard time paying attention. I was like, I wasn't talking to you. I was still pissed. He always has a hard time paying it. Well, that's why I have to talk so much. But yeah. But I feel like maybe it was Newman still harboring bad feelings for being left by Dale Jr.

At the airport. Possibly. And maybe that was what happened. Could have been. Yeah. Could have been. Yeah. Spot on, spot off.

Denny Hamlin's comments on driver salaries, Chris. I don't really have. I mean, he said, the context was he said NASCAR drivers, based on their schedule, based on just everything about the sport, the drivers should be making NBA money. So it's spot off because none of us have a perspective. You know what I mean? That perspective is so unique to what they're going. through and I don't want to diss what they go through because I don't have that perspective. But when you say something like that, think of your audience. You know, and I mean, all the folks here who are

watching, you know, it's perhaps I say watching a podcast. It's kind of funny. But you're listening. You're live. You know, I mean, it's, that's hard. The people who, you know, are coming to a race to be entertained and, you know, save up their money to, to do a weekend with, you know, three nights at a hotel is not cheap. And so, and I'm sure I would hope when Denny said it, it was out of, you don't know what that context was, but he probably should have said, I probably shouldn't have said that that way. Maybe he should have just played basketball. Well, I mean, he just. He's white and five-teen.

I always forget Josh here. All of a sudden, like this voice. This voice comes from the corner. No offense to Denny, but, I mean, he just built the largest house on Lake Norman because he wanted the largest house. Yeah, how big it is? Yeah, it's 34,000 square feet. Yeah. It's got like 14.

Do you know how many people live in there? Yeah, three. Well, three. Well, I guess three and a half. I don't think he even knows. I actually live in there, and he doesn't know what I was saying. It's got like 14 air conditioning units on the outside. I think what he's probably...

You can't say that when you just built this massive. I think what he's probably looking at is the amount of revenue that comes into the sport. And when you read ISC and SMI and you know these TV contracts, how large they are, how much NBC and Fox pay to be here, you look at it and you go, the drivers, the athletes should get more money. The reality is that's not the way the economics work in the sport. to get more money, the sponsor is going to have to pay more money. So if he wants another $10 million a year, guess who's going to have to pay for it? FedEx, because we all know NASCAR doesn't distribute that TV money to the drivers.

They distribute a small percentage of it to all of the teams, which ends up being not really enough to do a whole lot. I mean, I'm spot on for the guy I want to make more money, but I'm spot off on how he thinks it's going to happen because it's not going to happen that way. I don't let I agree with you on the spot. If you want to make more money, fine. But this isn't the NBA. This is a totally different, like, and it's not even comparable to it. Like, there's just no way we can, what that one guy signed a $240 million contract for five years or something? I mean, there's no way we can do it.

Well, the owners in the NBA get all of their merchandising. They get all of their ticket sales. They get all of their TV money. Yeah, well, that's a different story. We don't get any of that because we don't own the tracks. If Denny Hamlin owned a track, he could make $30, $40 million. What did you guys? When qualifying went to like group qualifying and you guys had to start spotting qualifying, what did you guys get?

A race. No, but I mean like it's not like you're getting. We didn't get a, we didn't get NBA money. That's what I mean. It's probably not proportionate to the amount of more work you have to do. I got the average American race saying, hey, I'm going to be working 60 more hours a year. I need 60 more hours a pay. I just, it's just not, I don't think you can compare it to NBA money.

I don't think you can do that. It's not divided right. Like it's not the same type of, it's not, like you said, the TV money doesn't go to all. all the teams. Yeah. It's different. Yeah. Spot on, spot off.

Alex Bowman wins first career Xfinity race. Brett. I'll be honest with you. When they tabbed Alex Bowman to drive this car, I wasn't sold on it because I was like the guy's never, ever won a NASCAR race, period. He's run competitively, in my opinion, in one race, which was Phoenix, T.J. Spotted it. I was like, man, you're gambling on this kid, big gamble.

And obviously Rick Hendrick is an extremely intelligent billionaire, right? So he knows more than I do anyway. But I was looking at this with not a lot of confidence. So I have to say, you know, spot on for not only him winning his first race, but for Rick obviously seeing something in this kid. And knowing that this guy needed some experience. You can't, I don't know that we've ever seen a situation where someone sat out a full year and got into such a prominent ride

like he's getting into and feeling, oh, by the way, the biggest shoes in our sport right now. So big, I think that's a pretty big deal for Alex to carry that confidence into the Hendricks table. Yeah, I'll go spot on. He's earned it. He ran better than all them cup races. Obviously, he should have won Phoenix, in my opinion.

He should have won that race. Spotter. He, uh, yeah, not the ADA spotter, though. You know, he was running third or fourth at Michigan when we had a motor problem. He was running, we ran, we were somewhere else running good and we had another issue. So he's ran, he was running fourth or fifth at Talladego. You know, then obviously he got losing the dog leg, but he's ran really competitive. Like, he ran good.

And, like, you know, it'd be hard to, I think he's ready. I do. I mean, I just think he's ready. I think he's going to spot for him. I don't know. Oh, he won't tell anybody what he's doing. And you keep needling him. Well, because I know what he's doing, but he won't tell him.

But I'm trying to give him the opportunity to tell you all what he's doing. Did you say you were going to break that on this podcast this week? He's not retiring. I'm retiring. No, he's not. I'm going to tell all these people what you're doing on this. Spot on. I think not just for him, for his confidence, but it's good for the sport.

You know, he's going to take over, like you said, the biggest shoes, the microscope, the fishbowl that he's about to enter. And he knows it a little bit from subbing for Dale, but is huge. And for him to come in with some momentum, some confidence. Anytime the Alex Bowman, Chase Elliott's Darrell Wallace's win, it's good for the sport. But I'm happy for Alex. So am I. I know Alex really well.

And we saw him go through a lot last year emotionally when he, ran for us. So that win for him. I even said it on Twitter. If it wasn't one of our guys winning, I was so thrilled that he could be in victory lane on Saturday. Yeah. That was really great.

Spot on, spot off. Matt Tiff to RCR Xfinity team in 2018. T.J. You know, spot on for RCR to get, you know, obviously Matt brings some money to the table. That'll keep their operation. The Xfinity deal probably rolling. But, you know, as far as Matt's decision,

you're leaving the best cars. You're leaving, you're leaving the cars that are, they dominate the Xenia series almost every week, and you're leaving there now. So, you know, I got to go spot off for the, you know, in that decision there. Well, he was asked to leave. Well, I'm just saying. So Brandon Jones is apparently, he and Brandon Jones are effectively swapping organizations. Brandon Jones is going to get that car. Matt Tift is going to RCR.

And if you're Matt Tift and you can't run top 10 at JGR, what are you going to do when you get to RCR? Like that's what I'm saying He's going to struggle I mean he had an opportunity to get it done this year And he didn't get it done So they've obviously They're going to opt to bring in a guy they think can get it done with Brandon Jones And you know it's great for RCR because they're sitting on five

Xfinity teams right now And last we heard they were going to be down to two Well this puts them at three because they're going to run him Rick They're going to run the all-star car with the Dillon boys And now this puts them at three So from an industry perspective We need those guys just to be able to compete and to be able to keep everything going.

So hopefully they continue to get even more sponsorship. I've heard a couple of other names over there, even a really hot female. So you never know what they may end up with. Is it Krista? I didn't know you raised Kristen. Oh, good, thanks. The vote of confidence today. Krista.

Spout on, spot off. I'd say spot off. I'm going to take a life approach to it. Here's a kid who's, you know, to even be back in a car, to even kind of, you know, his dream is to race cars and he had a brain tumor a little over a year ago and didn't know if he would live, let alone get to race. So I think just the fact that he's out there gets to live his dream, you know, maybe this is a, you know, like you said, Joe Gibbs racing is so successful, especially in the Xfinity series. You know, he was not, you know, he was kind of the low man on the totem pole.

Maybe over at RCR he'll have a little bit more say in what goes on or, but I think the bigger picture is just that he gets to race. The mom approach. The mom approach to our podcast. Yes. You bring so much. She brings wisdom. Now you're making me feel bad. No, no, don't feel bad. I got to change my opinion.

Don't know. I'll make you a peanut butter and jelly sandwich it'll all be okay. Just delete everything I said. Yeah. Poor guy. All right, we're going to take a quick break. One main financial is the largest consumer finance company in the United States.

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And the first, I mean, we can do it differently because it's really. Basically whatever TJ says, we just tell them he's wrong. We tell the opposite. The opposite. I'm on board at that. Try me. Try me. Charlotte again applied the sticky stuff to the surface this weekend. What's up with SMI using the PJ1?

Brett? Man, I think this is just bad. Thank goodness they left it alone after the Xfinity race because T.J. and I got to witness the groove go from the bottom to the top. And by the end of the race yesterday, to his point about Denny, they were running everywhere. But they have to stop. Put the pressure on Goodyear to build a better tire

and stop applying this grippy stuff because when we got there, cars were wrecking. We're losing money because it was so slick and had no grip. Krista. Oh. I didn't know that happens. Yes. Sometimes it works. So my ear's my question.

If it makes racing better, and I know they've tried at different tracks, you know, Bristol, all the SMI tracks, right? It's in Kentucky. It makes racing better. But that was our big question is watching that practice. Okay, if the grippy stuff, traction compound. It's supposed to, and everyone's sliding all over, then what's different? It didn't do that at Kentucky. It didn't do that at Bristol.

You know, and I get every track's different. Charlotte's so temperature sensitive. But if it's not making racing better, then it's just adding complications. It's just adding complications. Yeah. So I'm, oh, I'm done. He's a dick like that. I think the traction stuff is great and really just kidding.

It's the worst thing ever. We don't need to use it. The tracks were fine. To Brett's point, we need tires that wear out. When the tires wear out, the drivers are going to move around. That's what we need. If you build a hard tire and you just run the bottom every single lap, it's boring. So we need tires that wear out, you know, guys that can save them a little bit and make a charge at the end,

You know, we don't need the grippy stuff. Where's the ding? All right. Now, is this universal for you guys? Like, as spotters and, you know, that's a universal feeling. It is. It pretty much is, yes. Yeah.

It's interesting. Honestly, it's not much fun going there and trying to figure out where they put the grippy stuff because that's where you're going to have running. Like, we ended up on our left side right on it there for a while. And, like, it costs us a race car on Friday as well. We got our right sides in it on. It's a normal line where you come up off the. the corner and it just took off and it cost us a race car because the nozzle or whatever was

like that are they going to that the nozzle story was BS what happened was they put the PJ down and they never went and ran the tire dragon to rubber it up so when we were the first cars on track you were the tire dragon we were the rubber yeah so after everybody wrecks all day on Friday guess what they did Friday night they ran the tire dragon all night so it added the grip which made Saturday's race a lot better than what we thought it was going to be because on Friday to DJ's point, if you got in it, you were wrecking. And then Don Hall comes out with this BS, that PR play. Oh, we've got to put it down again.

Oh, that's going to help. What was the tire dragon's driver's name? Was it Joe? Joe. I wonder if it's the same one. Joe travels with the tire dragon. Yeah. Joe Dragon.

Joe. He's a professional tire guy. He is. What do you do? I'm a tire dragon driver. That sounds really tough. It does. Like, it's not tough, but it sounds tough.

You think a CB handle is something to do with it? Joe the Dragon. Joe the tire dragon. NASCAR is reportedly helping find sponsorship for Bubba Wallace and Danica Patrick for next season. Is it okay for NASCAR to help find funding for some drivers but not all? TJ.

I really wasn't aware of NASCAR helping finding sponsorship but, you know, I don't know. To me, I don't know. I really can't wait just to hear Brett's opinion on this. This is my main thing. So Patrick Rogers used to work for me. He did Aaron

job and Patrick Rogers now heads up industry marketing. He reports to Jill Gregory, which is the first female executive in NASCAR history. And that's what they created this department to do. When we did some stuff with Johanna Long, I went to that department and said, hey, I need some help. And they gave us some leads. And they opened some doors. And they conducted a photo shoot on their dime. So NASCAR is a resource for all of us in this situation. However, I'm going to tell you this, they're competing for marketing and sponsorship dollars too. So while you use that department and they're a great resource, you have to also tread lightly with their sales department because if their sales department gets a hold of anything

you got going on, they'll vacuum it right out from under you. I mean, just look at the monster deal. It's sitting on a team and now it's in the industry deal. So I think it's great that they help us. That was interesting. I miss Johan along too. I do too. She was a sweetheart.

She is. She just had a baby. Did she really? Yeah, she lives in Morseville. Oh, wow. We've totally taken us another direction. That's okay. We do that.

Have you known Johan alone? Mm-hmm. What's that? He's so dumb. You're so dumb. What a dad joke. BK. Every time, every time.

BK. What's the question? Oh, so sponsorship. I think it's just the way the sport works. I mean, it's probably on paper, not right or fair, but it's a business. And like we were saying, it's different than the NBA. You can't compare salaries. You can't compare the way you find sponsorship because it is different.

And the whole point is to get people interested and to watch and to follow it. And for little five-year-old boys and girls to become race fans so that when they're 25-year-old boys and girls, they're watching and showing their kids. So, you know, you have to make it relatable. You know, if a little five-year-old boy out there looks like Bubba or a little five-year-old girl looks like Danica and can't find a driver to relate to, then they might not watch. And if that's a way to hook them. So is it right? Yeah, on paper it's probably not. But I think it's just the way it has to work.

I mean, Chris is making a valid point. It literally from NASCAR head perspective, it's a marketing tool. And so if it's a marketing tool that they're going to get return on and they're going to get a bigger TV contract out of and they're going to sell more mobile marketing spots because those guys are there, then there's an investment there that they're probably going to get a return on. I think you're making a better point than TJ and I could make on our own freaking show. Get out of here. That also makes the pie bigger, too.

You know what I mean? Like the more that come in, it makes it bigger. Speaking of Danico, what do you know? know about Danica? I don't know anything. You didn't know. I just heard something. Who you spotting for next year, teach you?

Yeah, once you spill, you spill the beans on that, I'll spill the beans on that. Danica are going to go into a car, maybe that ends in a seven? Are you going to spot for? Could it? Maybe. So you both have information. Neither one of you are giving it out. T.J.

Brett has information. He has information right now. I don't have anything valid. Well, you said you heard something. What did you hear? I said heard. It's not valid enough for me to present it to the public. I can't present it to the masses yet.

You know, I get the female question a lot going back to kind of with Danica. And my answer is always, you know, was I given an opportunity because I'm a female to do a job possibly? You know, I mean, I'm sure. Right. But my job is to be as prepared as I can so that if a door was opened for me because I'm a female. Yeah. Then my job is now to keep that door open. You know, don't let it slam shut.

Right. Which usually means I might have to work even harder. Yes. Because of perceptions or, so it's, it is a double-edged sword, but I think you just take, you work as hard as you can. And you're going to get opportunities. I know you're working. longer during the broadcast now, but I have to ask you this. Do you work harder now to get ready for a race than you did when you were doing truck series stuff and magazine shows? Probably not harder.

I think it's challenging to find new ways to present the same stories. You know, right, right. I've been in the sport long enough now that 20 years? How long? 17. 17. 15. Yeah. 15. Yeah. So it's, you know, every story we've kind of, you know, whatever story is, is, okay, the PJ1's new, but it's still talking about, you know, before it might have been tires or it might have been, you Shaker screens at Darlington or, you know, whatever the story was. So it's finding new ways to tell stories and make them interesting and appealing. So that I go, if I go back to a Bristol race 10 years ago and I'm using the same lines or the same, then I'm not doing my job. You know, it's kind of making it fresh.

Do you feel like NBC makes it more about people than Fox does? Because I feel like Fox makes it a lot about racing. I feel like you guys really try to bring the people element out. I think honestly both try to and I think we both did. because yeah, I have the unique perspective of working for both. I think it's just when you get, you don't know when you get a group of people together what that chemistry is going to be. So even if on paper you say, okay, Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon are going to talk about these three things.

And if you say Rick Allen, Steve LaTart and Jeff Burton are going to talk about these three things, they might be the same on paper, but the way they talk about them will be totally different based on their experiences. So I think it's just the chemistry. It boils down to, you know, the spotter crew chief driver. We're the same way. It's the chemistry that you bring. Yeah. I love one-liners and smart Alec things.

No. Yes. And so the first NBC meeting I sat in on, I can't remember who ran it. Would it have been a guy named Sam? Yeah. So he's like, the power of the peacock. And I was like, I like this. Power of the peacock.

You know, because they got the peacock thing. Yeah. And they had the old peacock up on the thing. Josh. So it's a guy wearing a Gamecox t-shirt. I like the power of the cocks, too. Look at that. The Lord.

All righty, Brett. The first year of stage racing is nearly complete. How has stage racing changed your job, Brett? Honestly, it becomes a mini race within a race. I mean, yesterday we had a competition caution in 35 laps. So I'm counting down as if there's only 35 laps to go in the race. And then there's only, you know, the next stage was 90. So you're counting down, 60 to go on the stage, 30 to go on the stage.

If you're on the cusp of being able to get points, that guy's going to race harder. We're going to spot harder. If you're on the cusp of, you know, not getting points, then you're really going to start thinking about strategy and presentation for your next stage. So from our standpoint, it became a race within the race. Ding, Josh. Did you just Google the next one?

Oh, yeah, I did. You're such a cheater. I don't have to answer the question. I don't know. Anyway, like Brett said, you got more racing. You're willing to give up less than a long run. You don't want to, you won't let cars. go as easily, especially if you're in a point-paying position, you're not going to, you're going to

race that guy harder than you would if you know you're going to make a long green flag run and a stop, you know, under green. So these guys are forced to race a little bit harder. Like Martinsville, Ricky Stenhouse, moved Kyle Bush in the last corner to get on the lead lap, which essentially saved his race. Yeah, maybe a season. Maybe a season. How do you cover it differently?

So for us, and I've got two examples. So yesterday pre-race show, you know, we're talking about reasons to watch. that's what you're doing, is telling people reasons to watch. Yeah. And DJ is talking about, okay, these guys have a 90-lap stage. You know they're going to have to make a, you know, a fuel stop. So look for some different things to happen, especially if you are Ricky Stenhouse. It's a specific reason to watch, to watch a driver or a situation.

So I think we can tell stories differently. And the other thing is, like you were saying, you know, if you have a long green-flide run, you know you don't have to race this guy hard. It's all of us in college. You have a paper due. If that paper's due tomorrow, you have to go. You have to go write it right away. If it's not due for two weeks, who's going to sit there on the first night and write it?

You're not. You're going to stay up till midnight 3 a.m. The night before. That's what's happening. You know, it's, you have that paper and that paper's due. That's interesting. I never wrote a paper. I always stayed up the late before.

Absolutely. Do you know how easy these kids have it now with Google and writing papers? We hadn't had that. I know. I had to write the paper. You had to go to the library. You had to go to the library. I had to dip my pen and ink and write it.

Like, that's how old I am. A little feather. Yeah, a little feather. Yeah. I think it's like. That's easy, though, to plagiarize now because teachers can use, and there's software that they can put papers through. They can. They can catch you cheating?

Don't cheat. How about Derek Rose, the NBA player? He gets in the NBA, and he's like, yeah, I didn't take my SAT. I've been a kid with my driver's license. How does that happen? So in college, one of my roommates dated one of the football players, and she used to write all of his papers. All over. I think you can actually buy them online, too.

Yeah. Not that I let me know. People write a paper and sell it. Yeah. I'm definitely not getting into that business. Crystal, you could. Yeah, I could. Yeah, I could do that.

You could just have space to write it. Yeah. That might be, yeah, I might do that. I might write papers for college kids. Just imagine. You got Uber to go to bars and you hire people to write papers. I'm going back to school. This sounds fun.

You don't have to do anything. No. It's great. Just party. Take my driver's license. I got a lot. I can hire some good paper writers. Take my license.

Brett, go take this test for me. And that works out. Brett, were you a good student? I either made A's or F's. If I was interested, I'm like, my transcript says A-A-A-D-D-F-F-F-F-A-A-A. Like it's A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-L. But I was great. So the thing with Brett is, he's super articulate.

You're very articulate. I was a fun student. Yeah, I can imagine. Class of 12. I see that. This seems very similar. Yeah. I mean, I was all in or I was like, I don't like this professor.

I ain't coming back. But you couldn't quit because you had to be full-time to keep Mama's insurance. I don't know how it is now. I'm sure everybody gets free insurance. Don't matter if you go to school or not. Okay. Until you're 35 years old. Well, we are going down that dirt path.

But back then, if you were a full-time student over the age of 18. So that was your incentive or your catalyst. Yes, because I like the snow skiing ride motorcycle. So if I got hurt, I had to have insurance. You like to run from cops on your motorcycle? So my first semester, I made a 3.7. Then I made a 3.4. Then I made a 0.9.

Oh, what happened? To my house that said, I didn't go to class. They said, if you. what happened. If you do this again, you're kicked out for a year. And no matter where you go to college, your classes won't transfer back in. So I was like, damn it, I got to go to class. So I went back to like a three.

I had to make like a three-o to even stay in. They basically said. So you were like the Van Wilder of. I made one A. I made like one A, a D and two F's that semester. That's terrible. But I also realized I didn't want to do computer science because I couldn't party and do computer science.

It required too much studying. So you needed to find a major. So what did you do? I switched over to business, which I had. Oh, anybody can do that. Van Griffin, Pageland, South Carolina. That was a great movie.

Yeah, it was good. We are going to go into hashtag as TVC. No, we're not. We got one more thing. You just Googled the answer. You just Googled the answer. You're out. She's running this show. You're the Christavota of this show.

I'm not anywhere near. No, you're doing a great job. And you're screwing it up. You have a format. There's a tight format. Like, this is amazing. There's a guy. We have a guy that does it.

He's a fan. Does he work for J.R. Like in that capacity? He's just a guy. guy? He's a guy. I think he's getting maybe some college credit or something. He's an intern.

His first show seat sucks. Josh used to do this and then they were, and Josh would wait. He had a good time. Five minutes before the show. Josh's give a damn was this much. Josh had a point. Maybe not even that much. He was like a 0.09 or whatever.

He was a 0.09. Yeah. 0.9. Yeah. All right. The off-the-wall topic, today is Columbus Day. Krista goes first. When did Christopher Columbus arrive in the America's month,

month, day and year? Well, October. right? It's October. Right. 1492. Yeah. That's how dumb this question is.

What's supposed to answer it? That's how dumb. No, that's good. I'm glad T.J. answered it. I knew October. I just remember the song. That's how dumbest question is. I had no idea.

It was October. I just knew 1496. Well, it is October. Why would you celebrate Columbus Day? I was going to just July. In June, if they needed both of us to answer that question. Exactly. What an idiot.

Anybody knows a month. What an idiot. I mean, do people get all over? 17. What did we do in 1776? The Declaration of Independence. Oh, my God.

That's kind of important. No wonder you got F's in college. That's important. I think I cheated in history class. What month was that in? I cheated in history class. I would take, so we'd have to write these essays, and I would take a sheet of paper. All you people out there.

You know, our kids listening? This is terrible. I would take a sheet of paper this big. Yep. And have all the interest. Because they would give us, these are your potential for essays. You're going to have to do one, and they wouldn't tell you which one. So I would take this sheet of paper, and I would literally do the outline for each essay.

and I would have it in my, and I would literally hold it under my hand like that, and I would write my essay. Because I would do my outline on the sheet of paper, then I would write my essay. I would eat the sheet of paper so I could get caught cheating. And out I went, A, didn't learn a thing. So it works smarter, not harder?

Wow. So all you kids listening. Do you remember those TI-89 graphic calculators? Oh, yeah, those are great. You could, I. Yeah, you can store stuff. I got someone smarter than me to teach me how to put, like, the equations in a different thing.

So I was terrible. I had Mario on that thing. So we had Mario during, So we didn't have that calculator, but our calculators had a case. You would slide the calculator up, flip it over, slide it out. Yeah. So when you would slide the calculator up, behind there would be your sheet of paper with your formulas in it. Boy, that's risky.

That is risky. No, no, no, no. That's risky. They start coming. You just eat it. Stop eating paper. The Ti-82's had that case that slid off like that. You flipped it over.

No, we've never eaten paper. Well, you never had to get an A and something you didn't know anything about. I studied. This is very educational in all the wrong ways. Yeah. Just trying to help all these kids are out there listening. If you don't need to make an A, just text me. Do the opposite of what Brett and T.J. say to do.

I would just sneak your iPhone in there or something. I don't put your earphones in. Now I think, yeah, they have wrong. So every now and then I'll go back to South Carolina and speak to their sports marketing people. And they all just sit in there on their iPads and play. They aren't listening to a damn thing. That's disrespectful. Does anyone, see, walk out of there and does anyone ask you questions?

Like, oh, I really like to. Yeah, they're listening. Some of them actually heard of me before. What's kind of paper you do. You're related to you. Well, I'm from page one. So, you know, I mean, when you go in there, somebody's going to be like, man, I went to Chorall High School. Brett, you're coming to Thanksgiving?

Yeah. All right. We're going into hashtag AskDBC. These are questions off Twitter and Facebook. So any fan can just do that hashtag and we'll pick him on a Sunday night. At 88, Texas car asked, how come Kyle Bush gets yellow flag for spinning and Michael Annette didn't? Bush didn't hit anything on second spin. Wish I knew the answer to this one.

Brett. What's disturbing for us as spotters is we try to train our guys that when we say spin in front of you, the first thing that goes through their mind is to slow down and hit the brake pedal and get off the gas. When you see these arcorex, the guy will spin and 15 seconds later, our car will come flying in there and hit them. Like, I literally will tell the driver, if you do that again, you're making me look like an idiot and you look like an idiot. So what concerns me about this, and we have a spotter meeting this week in Talladega, and I honestly think this will come up. What concerns me about this is everybody behind that wreck is giving up their opportunity to compete and they're opting for safety. And they're doing it for the people wrecking and for themselves.

And what we're doing after a wreck this large without throwing the yellow is we're abandoning that concept. And that makes me mad as a spotter because yesterday when Kurt Bush wrecked off a two, I got mad during that wreck. He spun off a two. We don't know if they're going to throw the yellow. So we're encouraging our guys to stay high and keep running wide open through the wreck. And then finally they throw the yellow. So the things that we've kind of made our minds come accustomed to being yellows.

After something like that, you're like, man, I don't know. Because I saw William Byron leading the race. And I said to Elliot, spin behind you, we're going to get a yellow. And then I'm like, uh, we're not. No, yellow, yeah. Meantime, I think William Biden rolls out of throttle. We drive back by him. Like, I mean, it affects a lot of people when they throw a caution for something as lame as Derek

Cope hitting the wall with two to go at Richmond way out of the groove versus Michael Annette's hood was over his win. windshield. I was annoyed by that, by the way. No, it wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't. Yeah, it was. No, it wasn't. He just spun out and kept going. Oh, I thought somebody's hood was up. No. Somebody was on the apron going on like two miles an hour. But you guys make a good point. The way you do your job, you know, you're... So I saw Kurt Spinn yesterday, and here I'm thinking like, okay, if this thing hooks back right, we are all gonna, we're all wrecking hard. Yeah. So I have Del Jr. start slowing down. I'm like, all, I want spinning in front of you, just stay high and slow down here. Because if he comes up, we're going low. Yeah. And here comes the 77 up against the wall.

Still on the throttle passes about six of us. And I was like, that made me, I thought it was Stephen Wallace in the five-hour car. Yeah. So, you know, he would have wrecked long before that point. Yeah, because I was with like two to go. But like you said, do you stay in it or do you stop? Because you don't want to give up a spot. You know, I kind of don't blame him because he's a younger, you know, he's going to do that stuff.

These older, the older guys are going to be like, you know. But the older guys are trained. Yeah, like there's a wreck. We're going to, it's kind of like a gentleman's agreement. But when you see a wreck and smoke, you just kind of slow down, then the caution comes out. But when you don't throw it the night before. Now, we don't know what they're not doing. And all of us, and all of us spotters that do all the series, we are trained into a certain way.

You know, when there's a car sliding there's smoke, you should get a caution. You know, unless it's off, turn to a Daytona, and there's nobody around the guy or something like that. And he just spins out and keeps going. If you're coming back to the checker, it's a little bit different. But, I mean, that was a really, it puts us all in a bad, future situation. He was in a pack. There was a pack of cars.

On a restart. And Michael Ness spun out in a pack of cars. There should have been a caution because we can't be having, he's sliding sideways. A guy could drive into his door. What's Pemby doing? Pemby is lurking outside. Showing right and poured up people. So Saturday, every time Pemby would go talk to Wayne, we would try and read their

mouths to figure out if we were going green or not. Are you good? Like lip reader? No, we're terrible. It was futile. Pemberton got his briefcase. out his 1987 briefcase.

It's his European man purse. Yeah, and he, like, decided he was going to leave. He was like, they're going to call it.

And he was ready. And I was like, dude, nobody's called anything. All 60 of us are still here. Well, Shana, Shana would text,

that's SLA's PR girl. They're getting ready to call it. Next text. They're going to keep us here to 8 o'clock. I'm like, you just text me. They're getting ready to call it.

And it's four. It goes back to the fact. We're just, everyone's utilizing the sources they have, but really nobody knows. She was just grinning when she sent you the one that they were going to call it, she's like, watch this.

She said they're going to write this text. Joe Mattis said they're going to call it. The concert's more important. No, no, he was texting me saying, I'm not here anymore. Text me if I need to come back. He left. We had a couple guys. We did hear from Wayne Alton.

We heard that they were going to keep us there until 10. But you know who they should have told? Everyone. Everybody. We had a couple guys up in the booth. We have some research guys. And they kept talking about the concert. And I'm like, what is this concert?

Why does this have anything to do with what's going on here? I will say this. Maybe I shouldn't say this. But when I came, when I left and went back to the parking lot, all the security had left the track. To go to the concert. I parked wherever I wanted. I literally parked right under the elevator. I was hands down the first person off property because I get back over there.

And, you know, there's security guards. They'll lock you up over a parking pass. Like they will literally total your car in front of you if you try to park. There wasn't nobody there. Park wherever I want to. They told us. Good job. Charlotte Motor Speedway.

We were hanging out up there, and it was a couple of others. I said, man, we can only be here. We're only going to be here until a certain time. We've got to go work to concert, too. Yeah. Nice. That's the longest day of my life. Oh, God, it was terrible.

Kick it. I have Fisherman 480. Ask why no penalty for Jimmy Johnson pitting the car out of the box. Krista, I want to hear what you say and what they said because I just saw pictures. So this one's interesting, and this is what we were talking about. During the race when it happened, I was a Kyle Petty and I were watching the race together. Normally DJ would be two, but he was up. but he was up in the booth.

By the way, DJ did every job this weekend at the racetrack. We told him after the post-race show he needed to sweep up the confetti to victory lane because that was all that was left for him. But then he came down and the three of us did the post-race show. And I think the verbiage from NASCAR, and this came from Nate Ryan or Dustin Long with NBC, was it was not a penalty because what the front changer was doing was not considered servicing the car. I don't know how that can be the case. You have a jackman, a gas, man, a change, or a carrier.

everything they do on that car to me is servicing the car. Yeah. So I guess that was the line, and I haven't seen that in print, but it was just what was deciphered to us during the post ratio. What we do know, TJ and I both, is they're never going to admit that they're wrong. Yeah. I mean, Kyle Busch won a million dollars at Charlotte earlier this year with missing lugnots on the car. Million dollars.

Million dollars won the All-Star race. That's NBA money. Missing lug nuts. Yeah. So whatever. think it is controversial. I think it will continue to be controversial because if that's the verbiage, they weren't servicing the car. Then what's the precedent? What's the precedent that's being set now for? What were they doing if they're not servicing? Just looking at it? Just,

just cleaning it. I don't know. Is that an L or an whatever? Libris 213? Libres. You got to say ambulance right here like Elliot would. First, an ambulance on the track now stairs. What the heck is next? So did you guys see this? That was amazing. So Harry Jones is out there driving. your show car, which Jeff Burton, I think, has manages it, right? So he hits a staircase at Star Finish Line. I guess security was gone then, too. Yeah. How do you leave a staircase on the racetrack?

How do you miss that? I don't know. That's not Eric Jones's fault. No, and they, you know, they do, they, I'm really surprised this, because they check that track thoroughly before anybody goes out there and does anything on the racetrack. And I'm really surprised that this didn't get picked up or that we have a, a, safety chase vehicle they call it. It goes out there and makes laps around the track a lot during

the day. And I'm really surprised it just didn't get picked up, you know? You know what the craziest part was of that whole thing is they didn't have like a backup set of stairs. They taped it back together. Did that really? And it got shown on TV with duct tape on. That is redneck engineering at its finest. This is why we love NASCAR. Yeah. If you can't duck it. Yeah. I think the question too, and I don't have further information. I don't know if you do. Oh, PK's nod in his head. You guys should have him on instead of me. He's got more insider than I do.

Who pays for that? You know, it's an NBC car. Yeah. It's like, so does NASCAR pay for it. So the TV run was moved. It was supposed to be run like 1 o'clock, but then they moved the cup practice up to 1 o'clock. So they move the TV exhibition run because I don't know about TJ, but when I get to the track and I'm walking to the roof and I hear a race car out there, I'm like, oh, I just got fired. They're practicing and I'm not up there.

But it was a TV running, and that's when he hit it. So I heard that car running, and it didn't sound. The TV car, you can kind of tell because it's just a little bit slower, you know. He must have been running some laps that were like cup speed last because they were, like, that car, I thought cup cars were on the track. I was like, holy cow, what's out there? And I knew it wasn't Jeff Burton. But then that during the race, that metal box that. Oh, yeah.

Is that not crazy? I know. Yeah. So we hear the official in the flag stand scream, oh, there's the three understar finish. And we look at it and we're all like, what is that a radiator? Because we're no, we're 400 yards from this thing. It's not like we're on top of it. I'm like, who's radiators laying out there?

And then they picked it up. And I was like, well, that's laying a radiators, that'd be hot. Like what were y'all? What was TV saying? What is that? Yeah. I think they knew. I think it was...

He's not saying the thing. It calls out the penalties, right? It just... Yeah. Charlemur's Speedway is mean. Because remember that cable broke? They hit Ambrose's car. Yeah, that was terrible.

That was the Coke 600, wasn't it? Yeah, the cable snaps and hits Ambrose's car and it whips it and it destroys it. I will see it. It's something to Kyle Bush, too, I think. It did. The camera angles... The camera angles this week were, I thought they were really cool. Yeah, I won on the backstress.

The back camera. Yeah, it was actually really awesome. These visor cams, you guys are doing are awesome. I think, you know, hopefully the things like that draw people into, you know, you know, some people are like shiny things. It's a shiny thing that's out there that if you're watching, hopefully draws you in. Kurt Indy was definitely entertaining. Oh, I know. Of all people to have it.

That wreck was, oh, that was hard to watch still. Yeah, I was in that. Yeah. Speaking of crazy things that happened at the racetrack, remember Pocono when one of the truck series haulers? This was maybe five years ago or something. Hit the flag stand and destroy the flag stand. Yeah. That's awesome.

We have so many stories. We hit a battery on Saturday. A battery. A battery. Like a full size, not like a... That's what ruined your day. Yeah, you did. Yeah, we hit the battery out of it.

Whose battery was it? The Coke girl, who's silently sliding in here under her. She gets married and we don't know who it is. So, Krista Voda gets married and keeps her name. Yeah. Krista Voda for her stage name. Angela Koch gets married and she don't want everybody know who she is. So she changes her name to Angela Roosh.

Roos. She cannot drive. Oh, my gosh. The fact that she was next. to our pit stall too. Like Kevin purposely picks that pitstall, 41, and basically behind the Hendrick Fab Shop, and then she's next to us.

They should never let her on the track. She was too slow. And just not ready for that. Like, not, needs to go back to the trucks or, you know, something, even short track racing, because you're just not ready for what you're trying to do. No, she doesn't need to be. I don't know how she gets approved to do that.

Bless her heart. You know, maybe she can go back and run. And maybe she can go back and get some experience in the trucks and learn these tracks before you even get into an Xfinity car. She might want to go RC racing. That probably be better. She could have single-handedly taken out Justin Allgaier from making it to the round of eight. That's the thing. We're out there with a lot on the line.

Right. And she just... Well, owners points. Yeah, I know you did. But we're still locked in for the round of eight. But that could have been catastrophic. Justin comes on the radio and says, we make it through the wreck. And he's like, yeah, I think I hit a battery.

I'm like, what battery? Like, how does this... How does she even wreck going that slug? Whoa. How does a battery come out? They're in a box. The difference between the 78 and a cup. So her box broke.

And next. At 231, Matthew, ask, if you guys ever decide to leave NASCAR and do something else with your life, what job would you do and why? Oh, no,

I want to hear the guys. Hang on again. Oh, I can't believe we didn't play off of what I just said. I'm still stuck on. We all did. We just moved on. We just moved on.

For the best. If you ever decide to leave NASCAR, do something else with you. Yeah, it's a broke box. Oh, I would do, I'm going to write papers. I'm going to write papers. She needs duct tape. Yeah.

Why is your face to red? You're such a chest. That was funny. Because he's so entertained by himself. God, I love my sister's humor. They should duct tape her box. Back shut so the battery stays in it. We know how to fix a broke box.

I thought Chris to being on the show would just elevate this a level. Oh, no. She's dirty as, she's dirtier than we are. Just took it right down. You think when it rained, it got more. What was this next question? What would you do if you weren't a spotter? I wanted to be a backup dance for Janet Jackson.

I feel like you could have been. I know, but that didn't never really get a chance. But why does it have have to have? Then I see this white rapper name M&M, and I could have definitely been that guy. So why could you not? I mean, it's not like all your eligibility. Well, I'm fat. I'm 40 pounds of 20 years removed from that lifestyle.

From being Janet Jackson's to get backup dancing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there's some bigger rappers. There's big rappers. The big pun. I missed my opportunity. TJ, what would you do?

You know? Be a gamer. Yeah, I would... Professional gamer. Nerd. That would be awesome. Doork. You know, I'd probably be working on cars somewhere.

I'd probably be doing something with cars. That's not what he usually says. Or I'd be either doing that or computer networking stuff. One of the other. That's not what he usually says either. Are you qualified to do IT work? When we did all those Q&As with Sprint, they would say if you weren't... Oh, if I wasn't...

If I wasn't spotting it, be driving the 88. Yeah. Yeah. He thinks he's Dale Jr. now. I am. I've washed him enough. I can do what he does.

I've got enough experience. Krista, what would you be doing? I'd be writing term papers. And selling them. I would love to know what you would be doing. Christuspapers.com. That might happen. I would love to know what KB.

would be doing. She'd be buying ghetto shoes for people. What? Why don't you wear your ghetto shoes today? They're my track shoes. Do you like John Travolta? I'm just curious. What?

What's so random. It is, man. I like grace. I like maybe grace. So, Krista, this is where we go into a rant. This is where Brett normally just goes off for about five minutes about NASCAR. I think I did that about the communication. Do you want me to take his two of his five minutes?

So I do have one. And this is more personal. But coming off of the race, I did the Victory Lane interview with Martin Truex. And obviously Martin Trux is very emotional and everyone knows his story off the track. But I didn't realize when I asked him. him that social media like lit up with that I went in for I trying to make him cry and I went in for the emotion and you shouldn't have done that which is fine if people think that people are entitled to their opinions but because I'm friends with Martin and Sherry it kind of hurt of

you know this they have a story to tell and every time they tell it and I there is a fine line of we all know you know Sherry's battling yeah but this race was on NBC meaning it's a whole different audience meaning people are watching who may never have watched racing mainstream yeah so my job as a reporter is to tell stories that are out there and to get people to fall in love with the sport and these drivers. We want people to love Martin Truex Jr., Dale Jr., Elliot, Clint. And so it's, you could, he already had the emotion there. So it was, it's kind of one of those, you say, why are you so emotional? And he starts talking about it. So I was just kind of, it's kind of interesting. I talked to Sherry last night and said, hey, what can I do to like, it's your story. It's your, I have a microphone. Someone's crazy enough to give me a microphone. Let's use it to tell your story. And she said, no, you didn't go. It's like, it is our story. It is our story. That's part of it. And I wasn't at the track because I had chemo four days ago or five days ago and was too sick to come. But I'm doing okay and I'm doing great.

And we don't give up. And so anyway, my thing would be if anyone out there thinks that Sherry or Martin want that kind of that they're wanting, they're not. They're just, they want to tell their story, but it's not in a manipulative way. It's people. Yeah. If someone out there's battling something and they hear this race car driver is battling it too and now you are connected to that race car driver. That's the whole point is to draw connections and make connections with people. You were genuine with your intent.

All those people send and mean stuff can kiss my eyes. Yeah. Well, no, no, no. It's okay that they, I just, I feel like my job is to protect Martin and Sherry too. I went to nine rounds one time. It's not about protecting me. It's about protecting Martin and Sherry. I don't think that anyone knows you, thinks you're exploiting that story either.

But that was so that was, yeah. I wanted to talk to Sherry and she said, no, you're good. And it's, yeah, but they're crazy enough to give me a microphone. So, yeah. I saw her picture she tweeted pointing at the TV. Yeah. That's sweet. And Sherry and Martin have done more with that, with what they, you know, that catwalk deal.

That event is really taken off. They've done so much. And, you know, if there's going to be a, Martin deserves all the success he's having right now as well. So I've known Martin since he started driving for Delo Jr. And he started coming down and hanging out. And he deserves everything. And he's the quietest guy, you know, to be the successful. and he never, never ruffles the feathers, never, you know, he's been wrecked by the best.

He's got, you know, Jeff Gordon at Sonoma cleaning out. Martin's never, never paid him back, nothing. You know, so it's, his dad is a pile of fun. Martin Sr. Oh, his name should be big fun. He's about five foot tall. He's fun. He never been around him?

I've never heard someone say a pile of fun. We don't remember. blocking all that out. I heard your HR department didn't like me telling all them stories about y'all on fire night. You don't really have one? We started this show with HR department

and we're kind of ending the show with HR department. It's a good show. You know those meetings you come over before? You got one after the show. Yeah, I called in a meeting. A person's only going to come up here. Yeah, you got a meeting right after the show. Do y'all have HR department?

I think we just hired someone, right? We didn't have one for this show. Because of this show in my stories. Yeah. Brett and TJ. No, no, no, no, no, no. Don't throw me an egg. We.

Listen, you left Ryan Newman at the airport. It's a we. No, no, no, there's a we in this one. We. We. It's Brett. Brett, do you have anything? I just want to say, you know, coming off the hills of all the Vegas stuff that

happen. I'm serious. Coming off the hills of all the Vegas stuff that happen, you know, I think the doctors and nurses that took care of all those people were kind of left out of the storyline. I know first responders are a big deal. But, man, I think a lot of lives were probably saved at those hospitals, the four hospitals those people are taken to. I know it's still a tragedy, but I just feel like somebody,

needs to say thank you to all of them so it may as well be me since my motherly figure is in here making a softer after our story of being mean about Matt Tift earlier thank you nurses and doctors absolutely I've read uh thank you I did see USA Today um did a published they went and looked up all the victims and they did a story they did a little paragraph about all of them and it was uh I thought that was really nice to do yeah um they said a lot of good things about all them people and I thought that was really nice there's still more love in this world than they're is hate. I agree with that.

And that was displayed that day by everybody that did good things versus one idiot that did a bad thing. Yeah, I agree. This is the point in the show, Crystal, where we talk about how good I am at picking race car drivers and TJ's not so good. So we have hashtag DBC picks and currently Brett is besting TJ by four races. And we've only got how many races left, six or seven? Six.

Six. I've closed the gap. Is it six? So you guys need to pick for Halliday. Again. We reset. We reset for the playoff. So you can just try to pick the winner of the race.

You want me to pick the win? Yes. T.J. has to pick first because he lost. Okay. So he's going to pick first. This is coming off a four-game win streak here. I know what I'm going with. He's going on.

We roll with the 88, man. False man. If he's going with his guy, I'm going with my guy. So I'll take. You're going with Clint at Paladaga. I'll take Clint over Dale Jr. at Deladega. You don't have a guy. Is it unethical for you to pick one?

No, I'll go, it's not, no, I don't think so because it doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about at all. If so, she would be in Vegas. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Denny Hamlin. That's a big one. All right. I think the two obvious choices, honestly, looking back at the last few years, I think the two and 22 are the best two at it right now. I don't know what they've got figured out, but they're fast. Obviously, Doug Gates is building their engines, and he's a big plate guy.

I mean, he gets into it. But I think the two and 22 are going to be the two that we're, the two that we're, ultimately all have to be. I think it's great that it's not an elimination race. You know, Tall, why did y'all not like that? I just feel like it's too much. It's just too much. I mean, Talladega already kind of stands on its own.

To put it as an elimination, it just feels like it's too much. Yeah. Where now Kansas has something, you know, and I'm not saying that, but speaking up, so here's my thing. Kansas, you got, Kansas qualifying, how important is Kansas qualifying? Right. Because it sets, right? It sets pits for Martinsville. Yeah.

That's huge. Yeah. That's, to me, that's like the story for me, for Kansas. Yeah. I agree. And Martinsville, Pit Road's huge.

Yeah. So you win the poll at Kansas. Yeah, you have the poll at Kansas, but you just gave yourself, in essence, Martinsville. Which I don't like. I don't like that either.

That's BS. Sorry. It is. It's big, though. When you see that guy come off, you see him come in fourth or fifth and leave of the league as a qualifying last week.

Yep. How about we talk about what we did this week? They used to do that. IRP. They would do that. Similar to that. But that shouldn't do that. Legano almost won the race at Dover solely in the Xfinity series, solely because of how the car qualified the week before.

He wasn't even driving the car. He kept coming on pit road fourth and fifth and coming off first because Dover's one of those tight pit roads. And I'm sitting there going, this is not right. Yeah. I created a whole new ramp without even meaning. I think it was darling to. This just means it's going to get fixed. Oh, that's right.

This is going to get fixed. Yeah. This is going to get fixed now. Yeah. We better start getting text messages when it's raining. 15 minutes knowing what y'all are doing. Not an email. I don't want no lightning email.

That's my rant. We get emails and text from NASCAR five minutes after everyone else knows. What is the point? Just stop texting me. I got an email last night there was lightning in Richmond. Did you get that? So David Hoots, who runs the operations for the race, as we all know. He thinks it's a good idea for spotters to get lightning alerts.

Okay. So we get lightning alerts at every racetrack all around the country now. Like, it's not. So we can leave the roof when they say spotters leave the roof. We don't need an alert. So our email is just full of lightning alerts. But you're getting them for all of them. I spammed it.

I muted it. I blocked it. It still comes in. So we were doing the post-ray show last night and we toss up to the boot. Rick, Jeff, and Steve are doing a hit from the booth. Yeah. So as we toss up to them, this is maybe 530. I don't know what time.

But you see the big Jumbotron behind them that says, weather in the area, please, or, you know, whatever it is. Yeah. But we're all on TV with giant metal poles everywhere. So I got to ask you before we go and end this thing. you guys are one-uping Fox right now. Why? You're getting Dale Jr.

I know. That is. What in the world are you going to do with this guy? Well, first of all, you should hire. You should probably hire a spotter too. So what are you going to do? Like, seriously. Like, I'm not asking you to give away any top secret stuff, but I'm actually asking you to give it away.

Similar to weather at a racetrack, I do not have insider information. So I don't know. She's going to be doing the weather for. Lightning is going to strike in here. Lightning's getting ready to strike in this room. Send the email. Look out. When T.J.

tells me who he's spotting for and you tell me who Danica is driving for, I'll tell you what we're going to do with Dale Jr. Well, you start, right? No, that's going to be cool. I'm excited because I just didn't want to see him. Obviously, he has this platform in Junior Motorsports. There's a massive platform. I mean, just look at this podcast. I know.

But I didn't want to see him disappear. I didn't want to see him be a Mark Martin, you know. So I'm glad that he's got a life after that. I can still get a ride home, second half of the year. There you know. That's what it all boils down to. Have you seen those road signs out there that say one way? They name those after TJ.

I do think what Dale Jr. He may not realize this. We do a lot of meetings. Like he's going to be, I don't know how he's going to handle meetings. He's probably just going to send Tyler. That's a good idea. That's true. That's a great idea.

He's just going to send Tyler. Tyler, go to this meeting and tell me what they do. Yep. Smart man. He should put it in his contract. I only do so many meetings. It's just big that you're, you know, the typical Dale Jr. is T-shirt Dale. Yeah, nice.

Makeup Dale is coming out. Yeah, I mean, this is going to be big, this guy's going to be dressing up every week. Makeup, everything. Yeah. He's going to be out there and it's going to be out there and it's going to be like, oh, go to the bathroom real quick, fix it. We did a photo shoot a couple years ago and we gave him this polo to put on. He's like, I don't wear collars. This is going to be a big deal if I put this polo on.

And I was like, man, I hope it's a big deal today. He put it on, but he didn't like it. Next year we had a t-shirt made for him. T-shirt, Dale. He conveniently has, like, we get, we get a racing t-shirts. Like, we get some Hendry T-shirts. He gets his with all the logos on. Like, his T-shirt.

Yeah, I'm like, why can't we get that? He looks like Lance Armstrong when he puts on his t-shirt. He, I wonder. Does he, though? Hey, you should. We should sponsor his bike. Yeah, because he needs money. We should get them that.

I've been asking for bike kits. We should get a door bumper clear logo on the back of his. I can't even get a door bumper clear T-shirt. We've been doing this show. Three years, and he won't even give us a t-shirt. I told you he's one way. Yeah, we need to do something door bumper clear. Yeah, they are for sale at my name.com.

Okay. What's my name.com? T.J. Oneway.com is probably where they're for sale a lot. It's going to be door bumper clear soon. Yeah, there's a shirt. Who's the likeness? Can you believe he put his face?

He's like Papa Johns. He puts his own face on his stuff. So it's, that's T.J. Yeah, that's me. So you can just get left out? He won't give it to us for a player. Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to start my mom. on door bumper clear. I just say bumper clear. I'm not going to put my face on it though. You should just say like half back, quarterback, one back. There's not enough t-shirt for your face. F-bom. F-bom. Just a lot of, you have like a number sign, just the F and then a lot of. Just put F-bomb on it. Well, this was fun. Krista. Thank you so much for making some time for us. Coming to the dirty Mo. I love coming in. Do you guys still use the intro? We did last year. Yeah. Yeah, you want to do a new one? Do you have a line in your mind? No, I just don't remember what the old one sounded like.

So it was used to said how great we were. You said something along the lines of, you may not be able to repeat this to your kids, but you will be entertained. That's pretty accurate. Doorful, clear is on. That's pretty accurate. You dropped it. Now we got Dale Jr. doing something. Yeah, well, listen.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I know how to control what goes. He talks about his appreciation tour. Tur. Tur. Have you heard? Hey, Elliot.

Tur. Have you heard it? Have you heard it? Do you ever listen to our podcast, DJ? Them guys. If he's not on it, he won't support it socially. Sponsors. Oh, wait, I do have an event.

We have an appreciation tour party. Saturday, Xfinity Day at Texas. For $39 bucks, you can get a ticket. I think it's a garage pass. You're making T.J. and I come to that. Yes, so we have Q&As for all of our drivers. Plus, T.J. and Brett will also be doing a Q&A. Yeah.

Food, Bev. What's my own TJ's rake on this? You get nothing. You get nothing. We get a beer after? Listen, Tiff approved it for you. I approved it on behalf of you. Do you have a company credit card?

I do not, but we can expense things. Oh, perfect. Am I supposed to be doing something? I just bought you buy me a beer if I got to do this appearance. Anyway, so you can go on to Texas Motor Speedway.com and buy your tickets and come see us. It's at the race date. Race day, U-Tent that is on Sunday. All right.

Thanks to everyone. Thanks to one main. Thanks to Exalta. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. This should be good.

I know. Well, I was working on it while you were talking about the kind of. Okay. You think. One says holla and likes to dance. The other's given Dale Jr. a chance. T.J. and Brett have been known to crack a beer.

They're the eyes. You've got your ears on door bumper clear. There you go. See, you write it. That was rough around the edge of it. I'll wrap it. And we can be. I know.

That's what we're going to do. Turnpapers and be a rapper. Yeah. I'll write some rap lyrics. Also, so all the listeners know, Krista was just raising the roof. I was. That's it.

The roof is the ceiling. The roof is the ceiling. If it's never been more obvious that I am not a rapper, it's when I do that. That's pretty Iowa. What about some like hallmark cards or something? That might be good. Yeah. Maybe some kids books.

Some Hallmark cards. T.J.'s looking for a way out of this deal because he can't find a spotting job. So maybe not hell of you. All right. So do analysts need assistance? Like personal assistance? That's what P.K. does during the week. K.

He gave a source. Turned assistant. I've taught you after the show. He's all the info. Yeah. Tyler, you're gone. Thank you all for coming. Thank you guys.

We know y'all have a hectic schedule. We didn't get the tractors on. What race are you most looking forward to in these last six? Obviously, Homestead's Homestead. Yeah. They all. I mean, the playoffs are so, I mean, I'm not, like, it's not just a line. The playoffs are so cool because every race has something.

Yeah. Would you like to see us not end in Homestead every year? No, I like Homestead. I haven't really put much thought into if it should rotate or not or something like that. I'm this week is the stressful week for a lot oh yeah so Tennessee's playing the Cox shots you want a little friendly wager I'm going bad I know what do you want on the game what you want to do he asked you wanted to bet Tennessee is not good this year no Tennessee is not good this is going to record right here your favorite to win by three you're at home what do you want for a wager this is your opportunity hot vodka shots on Monday during door before you want no what do you want I don't know I don't know you got a public audience listening to you get the name of the wager and you're not going to take anything I don't know Let Joshi think about it. He'll come back and put it on Twitter.

Yeah, I'll put it on Twitter. Well, next time we'll have to talk about. We didn't even talk about the red-blooded binder. I know. Championship Tractor. Tractor. National champion. The red what?

Red-blooded binder. That's the name of it. Why? So the tractor pull that I went to in Ohio. Did you go to Bowling Green? Is the coolest thing ever. Yeah, he won it. And P.K. won it this year.

Last year. Yeah. I went three years ago. And it used to be Michigan weekend. We could go down. And they screwed the schedule up. But that was one of the schedule up. But that was one of the schedule up.

the coolest events, cheese curds, cold beer, and tractor pulling. I'm in. Yeah, 40,000 people. I'd have thought more than that. Like, it was packed. Yeah, it was fun. So you're the champion.

We're going to have to create a picture of that tractor, too. We're going to have to send a picture of it. It's international. Yep. Yeah. So when we're not at the racetrack, we're at the county fairs. That's awesome. But a different type of race track, kind of.

Don't forget your duct tape. Don't break your box. We're out. See, Paula. You've been listening to. Door bumper clear, brought to you by One Main. For updates on Elliot Sadler and the number one junior motorsports team, go to OneMainRacing.com. Thanks for listening to DirtyMoe Radio.