Door Bumper Clear - 87 - Here We Go Again!

Episode Date: February 5, 2018

TJ and Brett return for season three as they initiate new producer Jason and recap their off-seasons before discussing Danica, roster changes, Kyle Busch’s comments, the Clash, peacocks, and make their Daytona 500 picks. 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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This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Outside, door, bumper, clear of the 18th. Best car I had here in a long time. You're going to do it. You're going to win it. Right with you. You're clear. Check the flag.

You're win. Oh, yeah! Hey, everybody. It's T.J. Major. Spotter of the 22 Cup car. The 22 Xfinity car and the 25 truck. You're in your 20s. I'm all my 20s.

Obviously, long time. member of Door Bumper Clear host with me, Brett Griffin. Yeah, Brett Griffin, Spotter for Clint Boyer, Elliot Sadler, Miat Snyder, and thanks to One Main Financial for bringing this podcast to you guys again this year. We've got a new look in the studio. It's been rearranged, and we've got one face missing and one new face present, T.J. Yeah, so it's going to be me and Spotter Brett today,

and along with a new producer, how about his hair? It's nice. Jason Schultz. Thank you. I like your shirt, too. Those are almost like Gankock Reds. Yeah. They're Patriots colors, but...

Is that what it is? I was going to wear this regardless today. Are you a Patriots fan? I am. I'm sorry about that. I'm from upstate New York, though, so... Me too. Another Yankee.

Yeah, that's a problem because upstate New York is normally Buffalo territory. I'm closer to Massachusetts. Maybe that's a little. Well, maybe. What about the Jets? My family's from New England, so it's kind of born into it. What about another? Can you get a higher button?

Just wondering. Hi. Oh, yeah, next time I'll get one up here. You gotta be so hot in here. He's buttoned to the bottom of the... He needs one of those bow ties on every week. He does. All right.

I'll work on that. He needs a bowtie right now. It'd be perfect. But anyway. Jason's going to be our new producer. Yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. We met with him last week for lunch. TJ, you've since shaved.

I did. I got some meetings this week. And I heard there might be some cameras in here now and I was going to... You had a full beard. Yeah, it's off season. And I was like, You want me? Who is this guy?

And I had actually, I shaved probably three times in the offseason. It was awesome. I love not shaving. I know. It's the nice. Shaving, yeah. It's the way to go. Man, busy winter.

What'd you do? Actually, I was just starting to get used to having a few weekends off at home. It was kind of quiet the last few weeks. Real busy in the beginning of the offseason there. Obviously with the young one at the house. make fun um i went to my parents house in pennsylvania it was single digits the whole time we were there nice nice and cold a lot of snow yeah um it did uh had out of the retirement party i believe was in the offseason wasn't it yeah yeah that you were you were not very partying that night though you

well that's because i had a kid the next morning yeah i had your spouse was partying harder than you were yeah i had to pull the reins on that because i knew i had to take care of the kid the next day My favorite part of the Dell Jr. party was Kid Rock. Oh, yeah. He 100% said, I am not going on stage. And Clint Boyer was not hearing it. Clint physically carried Kid Rock and made him go out and sing a song. And he sang that Sweet Home Alabama song for 27 straight minutes.

He did it. Good. He put on a hell of a show. He did. And he obviously, the band was enjoying it. You could tell. Who was it? Could you imagine being a band?

Who was it? I'm not hating on, you know, Cole Swindale by Amy because I'm a fan of his. But could you imagine being in Cole Swindell's van and all of a sudden, here comes Kid Rock. And you get to play with Kid Rock for 27 straight minutes. Yeah, he nailed it too. Billy Currington struggled to sing Garth Brooks. I felt like I could have done that better. Did y'all hear?

Well, y'all were there for that. I'm pretty sure Billy Currington didn't think he was going on stage. He didn't look like he knew he was going on stage. No, and that's pretty much I think how Billy Currington normally looks. Is it? I think so. That's his look. I mean, just, yeah, I think.

Also when Dale killed it, though. He looks like he's walked straight off the beach. Yeah. Every time I've ever seen him, like straight off the beach with a shirt button with only three buttons or two buttons and like flip flops. And like he's just ready to sit down and continue to get. My second favorite part of the night is Dale Jr.'s first speech was very professional. And then his second speech had a lot of F bombs in it. I was like, yeah, this is a guy we want to hear to talk.

Well, that was probably, uh, that was the post-coctail. Yeah, that was a few. That was a fun party. It was a fun party. It was like another reunion. I saw a lot of people there that I haven't seen it in a long time. So it was pretty cool to see that many people come out. And, you know, all the people that had a hand in putting out together did an awesome job.

It was really cool. We had on those watches that were like bumping to the music. So, yeah, we had these wristbands on that they lit up to the color of the music. And the only problem with them is they were gigantic. They were gigantic. And I felt like you're under a house arrest or something. If you walked outside, you were getting zapped or something. Yeah.

But it was an awesome party, and I'm sure JR had a lot to do with that. And any of the planning stuff, Amy probably had a lot to do with it as well. I know she put a lot into it. So it was awesome. Great job to them. Yeah, that was fun. I actually went deer hunting a couple times, skiing a couple times, and then you turn around, and it's like we're off to Daytona.

It goes faster than you think. Could you kill a deer? I killed a monster. Did they tie it? I showed it to Nali. Did you delge your hunt? Were they tie it to the tree and you climb up in the tree? and you climb up into the tree and shoot down at it?

Well, I shot it from 330 yards for whatever that's worth. Then I ran towards you. I'm not a very good shooter, but nonetheless, I shot that one. That's a big deer. Yeah, that's a big deer. It's a pretty big deer. Yeah, he scored like 165, eight-pointer, huge. Yeah, South Texas.

Yeah, yeah. Apparently, you never watched Bambi. Man, I ate Bambi. Yeah, that's a good deer. That's, where was it at? South Texas. Oh, yeah. On a 10,000 acre ranch.

Midwest has some, well, it's in Texas where they're breeding them deer where they've got like these enormous, like they do. But this guy doesn't believe in that genetic manipulation. Yeah, that's what they're doing. His is all natural. Yeah. So he's got 10,000 acres of natural stuff. But yeah, I mean, you'll fly over some high fence stuff where they're doing some of that. Nice.

Well, not a fan of that either. I mean, it's cool to look at, but yeah, that is like a little bit crazy. Yeah. And you go to Aspen? I did. Clint had never been. been to Aspen, he wanted to go. It's one of my favorite towns. The snow was not very good, but the skiing was amazing. What about the drinking? That's why you go to Aspen.

You don't go for the skiing? No, it's fun, man. It's a party. It's a party. Saw Jimmy. You know, Jimmy's got a place out there. Jimmy goes to. Well, he lives there half a year. He lives there a lot of times. So we went to a bar that I went to in college in the late 90s, which was called the Red Onion. Jimmy showed up. He taught me something. Instead of drinking your tequila with a lemon or lime drinking with an orange. Got to try that. Orange tequila?

No, it's tequila. Chase it with an orange. You know, lick it, slam it, suck it? Next. That's what the saying is for tequila shots. You lick the salt, you slam the shot, you suck the lemon. Well, instead of sucking lemon, suck orange. Okay.

Yeah, we can move into some hot topics now. That pretty much is a hot topic. Oh, man. Man, so we have some racing coming up. It's finally time. You did the 24, right? I didn't this year. Oh, you didn't do it?

No, so Robbie Betten, the guy that me and Kevin Hamlin normally worked for the 24-hour, he shot his team now and went to Penske. Yeah, I know he went to work for him. And he's been an awesome help there. Everyone there has been great, but Robbie came in there. He's a team manager. Kind of works under Travis Geisler. He's been, I mean, anything you need, he's good at handling stuff.

Yeah, I'll say this about Penske, and obviously you know more than I do, looking at Mike Nelson, looking at Travis Geis or looking at guys like Robbie Benton, their leadership are guys that I've known have been around for a long time, but their guys are younger. You know, when you look at some of these other shops and other race teams, a lot of their upper management, if you will, or older guys. So I almost think that when you look at, from a culture standpoint, we all know that Penske is a much more of a corporate culture than, say, a Hendrick

or say an MWR where I've worked, say, Stuart Hobbes. you know where I work now but I think from a leadership standpoint they do a really good job of being able to bridge the gap because let's face it you know Rogers knocking 80 years old but when you have young people like that in leadership they can relate more to people that are their age yeah and they're really good too they've been a lot of fun to work with very corporate very nice really good looking really forward to getting you know started down right and so do you have to wear either a your uniform shirt on the weekend or be the white top black pants like every other Penske guy.

I think I'm going to go with the team uniform stuff. And I guess this year, I don't know if we have a letter or a number or an armband. Are we supposed to have that still? So, man, I got to tell you this. So NASCAR said at Media Tour, we don't have any major changes to announce. And I'm thinking, you've already made major changes. You've cut out a pit crew guy that's going over the wall. That's pretty big.

You've said we've got roster limitations, which are huge, especially to Xfinity Series. Everyone's had to make it. So what are you talking about? We don't have any major announcements. So to your point, I went and got all my apparel, and I put my apparel on, you know, I'm checking it out, making sure it's not too tight. Did you take a picture? Making sure my man boobs aren't blowing out of the shirt. You got a picture, don't you?

You selfie? And I don't see a patch for my shoulder thing. So I don't know what they, I don't know what that means. I don't know. I mean, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know. Yeah. I think the pit crew thing, is that in this show anywhere?

Yeah, it's in our hot topic, so we can each other now. the roster thing in here? Yeah, it's the pit crew changes in general. So I'll go back. So I know we're going to get into that a little bit in the show, but you know for NASCAR to say there's no big changes. Hey man, a lot of people lost their jobs over your changes. Yeah, we cut out a, we cut an expensive position. Yeah. I mean, it's a pretty high dollar position. A change or, uh, it's a changer, right? Most people are going to leave a tire carrier. Okay. So, yeah, okay, so it's carrier, but still, I mean, that's. So what they're doing is a lot of race teams are saying, okay, you're a carrier, we're going to train you to be a carrier and a jackman or a carrier and a gas man.

So it's almost like they eliminated a backup position. They let that starter keep his job and they're trying to figure out how to manage it. Yeah. For some reason, I think it was a change. It's not a changer. I don't know why. I mean, having one less tire carrier isn't a huge, huge adjustment in my opinion. But the, I will say probably the biggest thing here is maybe the pit guns.

Yeah. Pit guns are a lot different. Pick guns are bought... Piquons are rented from a company that NASCAR has selected. So we had teams going out and spending millions of dollars on developing high-speed pick guns. But let's be honest with each other. Millions of dollars.

Let's be honest with each other. Those expenses had already been made. People had already developed them. We were using the pit guns. Well, then NASCAR came and said, we're going to save you guys money. No, you're not. We've already spent the money to develop these guns. Now we've wasted the money.

money. We're going to rent these crappy guns, which are supposed to slow pit stops down. And they are going to, and they don't have. So they're regulating the pressure. Yeah. They can run through the gun, too. They run them guns before it. I mean, it's a, I mean, you. Here's my question. It's just like if you and I go race go carts at GoPro, and I get on a faster go cart. Like, are those guns going to be calibrated the exact same speed? How do we know? I don't know. Like, it's kind of crazy how that is coming down. So they're regulating them. I guess, and I don't know if all this is fact or not,

but I guess they're going to be able to tell there's going to be some sort of data deal on each hose that tells the pressure that went through that hose and everything. Any data they can get from that goes back to a charter or whatever so they can see who makes sure everyone's getting the same stuff. Right. You know, you're not getting the same pressure as me because it's more, I mean, they were running these guns that's high pressure where they just hit that luck. All they're doing is this.

They're hitting. it. Yeah. Now they're going to have to stay on it a little bit longer and, you know, make sure it gets tight. Try it in the stud. I'm kind of wondering if it's going to create some loose wheels this year in the beginning. Is there going to be a bunch of loose wheels?

Yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting. Yeah. A lot of picker change stuff. I guess me and Brett will see if we get our patches or whatever we're getting. Man, you know, I'm kind of like, what the, is this patch deal? Like, I'm on the roof. I mean, if I'm, in order for our cars to go on the racetrack, people, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm

We have to check in. When we check in, they release our car to go compete. The official's not going to look for a patch. No. And half the time, I mean, when it's 45 degrees in Martin's Voto, I got to wear this patch outside my fourth layer. Yeah. I mean, what's the deal here?

I mean, this is kind of ridiculous. If you're going to single people out, make specific shirts like, okay, put the name on the bag of shirt underneath it right. Right. You know, put, you know, if you get front end mechanic, whatever, right, his last name, than, you know, mechanic. Yeah. You want to advertise.

You want to help these people like that. But, oh, get a patch. Get a patch. What else we got in hot topics? We go with schedule changes for this season. I don't know how this is going to be until we actually do it. Vegas over Wilden is going to be a little different. Yeah, I mean, I don't really get caught up in that schedule changes stuff.

You know, I mean, for me, as a guy working in the sport, on the management side with Elliott and with one main in the marketing. stuff. I work a month ahead, right? So when I'm, you know, at home, this time of year, we're working on those first four or five races. Once I get to the racetrack on Thursday night, man, I just focus solely on what I have to do that weekend. So it doesn't really matter to me where you carry me and when you carry me. I do think from a schedule change perspective, the one track that needed schedule help was Atlanta, because that's a phenomenal racetrack, a phenomenal track,

a phenomenal track surface, and we go there and it's typically freezing cold. So if They were going to make a schedule change. Atlanta should have been a priority. You know, and Atlanta said they're not going to repave. Let's give them a hot race to make that thing really fun. You know what I mean? Let's give them a nice hot race where them tires wear out. And we'll get the, you know, Kyle Arsenal probably wear the quarter panel off his car running against the fence.

You know, let's make it hot. Let's make these guys race there. That's where the skill of these guys comes into. When these racetracks wear out, you see them guys driving the car like that, that's fun to me. Yeah. You know, when it's 45 degrees and they hold it wide open for a. a handful of laps. Like going to a truck race there,

I mean, it's, they don't even have to go all the way off the corner off of two. They don't even need the racetrack to do it. To me,

that's not, not fun, but, um, Vegas over, um, Loudon, that's not going to make any difference to me.

I mean, really, Indy, I wish it said, I, or ORP, IRP, whatever it said,

that would be a, you want a good, uh, you want a good, uh, that'd be a good one. A big one. Yeah.

So, what about the Charlotte, Roval. Awesome. Can't wait to run it. I mean, it's good. That race is going to be more exciting, in my opinion, than the other one that they're getting ready to do there. What other one?

If we weren't to run the Oval, we're just running a big track. Yeah. I mean, to me, the roval, did you do any tests in there? No. Okay, I went there for a truck test. It's pretty interesting. They cut out some of them real, real slow sections. They cut out the snaky stuff at the end.

Yeah, which they probably needed to because our cars don't need to be doing that. But the course that I saw and the onboard that I saw, Those guys are going to be wheeling it in a few corners, and it's nice. They did a really good job making it really nice. So I'm looking forward to it, and I think it's cool. Charlotte's stepping out right here and taking a chance. They're like, you know what, these races need a little. They're selling a lot of tickets for that roble.

I mean, I would go go watch it. Why not? Yeah, I'd give it a shot. If you want a spot-in-nair race, would you not go sit in the stands with a cooler? Yeah, I'd go sit in any stands with a cooler in any race. I mean, it'd be awesome. So I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, I think it'll be cool.

All right, Danica's Daytona ride. Boy, it's green. Very green. I mean, she announces she's going to run a double. And let's say this about Danica Patrick before we even talk about this. From the minute, she said she was done racing. Boy, she put herself in the publicity circle of everything. Who she was breaking up with, who she was dating, her book.

I mean, she has had more publicity. Working out. than any race car driver has had all winner. Danica Patrick, who isn't even racing anymore, had more publicity than any of them. Aaron Rogers. So her PR team, man, hats off to, hats off to them. I don't know if they asked for that.

She's done what she wanted to do to sell books. I got a couple friends that have a book that say it's amazing. Good workouts, good recipes. Yeah, she doesn't do anything. One thing about Danica, when she gets into something or she sets her mind, She does it right and finishes it, you know, so I'm looking forward to seeing her. And honestly, I'm looking forward to seeing her and Tony Jr. work together again. I think I'm interested in seeing how it turns out because she might, let's take all the pressure off, Danick and out.

She's going just to have fun now. Yeah. You know, so I'm interested in seeing, was there a lot of pressure before? Maybe now if you take the pressure off, she just naturally, you know, sometimes it's like that. You take a little bit of the pressure off. people perform a little bit better. And once they, you know, there's a, um, she's been under the spotlight quite a bit. So I think what she announced that she was going to run the double, she thought she would

attract Chip Gnassies, the Roger Penske's. Yeah. And obviously she didn't. And whether that be from a capital standpoint or marketing standpoint, it didn't happen. And then this RCR spinoff deal ended up being what was going to make the most sense for her here. Obviously, we'll wait on what happens on the indie side. You know, I feel, I feel like she'll show up with a car that's good enough to compete. Yeah.

She's good enough in the draft to compete. Yeah. So it'll be interesting. Well, now she has backing. She has backing behind her now. Yeah. And I'm not sure she had that rate when she announced her deal. I don't know if that was finalized before that.

Yeah. I think we all knew she was going to have to have it or she wasn't going to have a ride. Yeah, but now that people know she's got it, if people would have known going into the offseason that, hey, she's got a go daddy behind her again. Maybe we, you know, it might have been easier to put something together. So I'm confident now with some backing here. She'll probably find something decent for the Indy 500 as well. Yeah. And we all watch it for her.

Yeah. And we're all going to watch her in it. Yeah, I mean, you know, she's always been a big draw. She's never been, you know, a perfect performer by any means. She's not been one to go out and consistently. Here's the problem I've had with Anna Capuch. She came here and gotten great cars and didn't contend to win. She went to Stuart Hauss and gotten really good cars.

And she's racing Michael McDowell and Landing Castle and Casey Mears every week. So in the quality of car that she was in, she should have been racing Joy Lugano some week. weeks, which I know she was at time that he wrecked her. Too bad you wasn't spotting four men. Hey, Charlotte. Was it Charlotte? Kansas. Yeah.

Turn one. Oh, when something broke. Yeah. Yeah. Well, my point is not that wreck, obviously, but she should have been racing those quality of guys on a more consistent basis. And, you know, it just, she always lost laps early. Thank God for lucky dogs every now and then she'd pull out of top 10.

But for the most part, man, you know, her career has been built around marketing and branding versus success on a racetrack. All right, we're going to take a break. At one main financial, we believe in the importance of community. That means partnering with our neighbors to reach common goals, lending a hand when it matters most, and commitment to our neighborhoods. Community isn't just where you are. It's where you make a difference.

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and one of the topics will be what we consider off-the-wall non-racing topic. All right, TJ, you'll be first up for this one. Monsters entering its second year as the entitlement sponsor, but has yet to announce any plans beyond 2018. Do you think they will sign on for additional seasons? Um, I'm not sure. You know, this is probably more marketing side, would be more Brett here. But I think, I don't know.

I really don't know. What do you think? Man, I mean, when I look at what they're doing across sports in general, it makes sense for them to have a large footprint in NASCAR. You know, the question becomes, how well is NASCAR servicing monster? And I don't think that's something that any of us are privy to. We don't know all the assets they've been offered. We don't know how well that's all being. executed and carried out.

So I think time will tell. But at the end of the day, it is someone who sits here in sponsorship, it's a big challenge to not know if you have a title sponsor for next year already. Because if you're working on it, you're working on it. If you're not working on it, then like you, we, we all as a sport need to know. Do we want and need our third title sponsor in the last three years? That's certainly never seen that happen. I think with the changes they're making, it might start catering a little bit to more

what they like as well. NASCAR's kind of mixing it up a little bit, kind of getting out of the traditional, getting further away from the traditional stuff that we're all used to, but it might be time for some more of that stuff. So maybe, uh, you know, we don't know, maybe in two weeks they announce a three-year deal with them.

You know, you never know, so. Well, I guess we'll find out. Kyle Bush called NASCAR's marketing of young driver stupid. Do you agree or disagree with his statement? Ooh. Brett. He'll get in trouble. man i i don't think it's stupid i think it's just different and i think the veteran guys are saying

why are you abandoning and ignoring us and choosing guys who haven't won races and promoting them on national levels you know when we came in you know young guys didn't get a lot of love and now all of a sudden you're taking guys who've never won a race with the exception of ryan blaney and you're marketing them they cut a commercial with martin true x daniel sweres chase Elliot, Ryan Blaney. You got a champion, you got Ryan Blaney's won one race. Those other two guys wouldn't have been in there 10 years ago. So it's just a change of their thought process. You know, I don't necessarily, I think it's, we got to market the young guys. We got to get people interested. They're the guys that are going to be the

foundation of the sport for a while. Kyle, in my opinion, makes his presence known many times. I mean, he is a, he's involved in every race. You know, he is a, he's a factor in every race. So, you know, and Kyle gets, he's had a lot of FaceTime. He's had a lot of coverage. He's won a lot of races. I think he, I know he wants more. Everyone wants more.

But these people want to see Blaney. They want to see these young guys. You know, they want to see them guys coming up. And they're, and these guys are doing things that these other drivers didn't do. You know, Ryan Blaney goes and he's lunch in the stands with fans during a test. Well, when has that been done? When is that somebody ever done that? That's something, that's old school stuff.

That's like, it's like something back in the day. You know, when the guys took a bright, they'd go sit with some fans, like sitting at the back of the holler and somebody walking up. Yeah. These guys don't sit out back anymore like they used to. Marketing young drivers is certainly not stupid. However, the majority of the fan base is going to engage and be attracted by our older guys. You know, the Kevin Harvicks, the Jimmy Johnsons, the Kyle Busch's, the Kurt Busch.

Those guys are selling tickets. Those guys are getting eyeballs to TV. So you can't ignore those guys when you're building these marketing campaigns and putting them in front of people that may or may not know a lot about NASCAR. Spot on, spot off. Not having Dale Jr. on track in 2018 will impact the sport. You know, can you really spot on or spot off that? Yeah.

You know, spot on because it was the right time for him. And he's still very relevant in the sport. He's going, I mean, he's still promoting our sport. He's still involved highly in the second half of the year. You're probably going to see more Delsior than what you want to see. So I think he's going to be, people are going to end up seeing Dutjner more than what they probably would have before. You know what I mean? He's not going to be on the track racing, but you're still going to hear his opinions, his views, his insights and things and stuff.

So I think that's going to be, I think that's going to have a big impact. Yeah, spot on. It's definitely going to impact the sport. But let me tell you something as a sports fan. I love football, especially college football. The best thing about college football is I get to see a lot of different broadcasters and a lot of different analysts throughout the year. Unfortunately, our network spent a lot of money on a small pool of talent.

So when you watch NBC, it's the same people all the time. You watch Fox. It's the same people all the time. We're now going to have a chance to add a guy of Dale Jr.'s caliber. And when I say his caliber, I mean, his insight is going to be well beyond what most people think it's going to be. he's going to give you some great feedback but where i have the most interest of him not being on the track is the fact that we get a new face in the booth we get a fresh perspective this guy just got out of the race car and we get to daytona we get some of these places where he had so much success

we're going to get more information than what we've gotten as fans and for me as a fan that's a big thing yeah i will also say that he's gotten involved more and more of the sport as well now he's gotten to know more people on the other side as well um i think he's going to be going to continue to grow them relationships with different spotters, people that he, you know, that he's going to talk about during the broadcast, with producers, people like that. He's going to build more relationships and affect more people that way as well. So he's got to go to Korea. I know, but man, that's what do they speak over there? Korean? Yeah. So do you think he comes back and he's like dropping Korean on the Daytona 500? I don't, I don't think he's going to drop any Korean. I think he's

going after Daytona, too. Yeah. But I mean, dude, that's a life experience, though. He's getting to do fun stuff he had a great way going to korea this guy i mean they asked you to and they were paying you i ain't going to korea bro yeah you know they're going to i do not leave north america for any reason ever i love canada i love america and i like mexico ever i'm not leaving north america never no okay what's i'm just saying no we have the internet if we want to see a picture of something really pretty in north korea guess what i can do i can google it i can youtube it and i can feel like i'm there i don't have to leave we also have the internet and you still go to shoe shows well that's good you can't you can't still google what you want to see

can't replace wait a minute do they have shoe shows in north korea absolutely i don't know maybe i'm going what's there's any of delger you got room on this plane you went from not going to you want to go now now it'll be a partner sorry we're going to embarrass jason don't a shoe show yet? No, I'm 19, so I got... Oh, that got under 21 ones. Yeah, what about?

Don't they? Scores. I got a fake ID. Can you go, my stash? Yeah, you got to gain like 80 pounds and I can get you in. I'll work on it by the summer. You've never been to a shoe show. Never.

Oh, my God, this kid's going to be ruined in this. He's going to be ruined by us. I've been listening for two years. I've got already slightly ruined. So do you know what happens in these establishments? I've got a good idea. There wearing nothing but shoes. That's the first thing.

And you look at your shoes. Well, sometimes you get launched with a view. They have a really good prime rib. Somebody told me scores has the best wings in Morseville. I don't know. Have you all had that? It's South Korea. What I say?

Korea. North Korea? Oh, that guy's deadly. Yeah, it's not North Korea. Well, I mean, we know that. They wouldn't have the Olympics up there. I never assumed that Brett met North Korea. No.

It's only like 60 miles from the North Korea border, though. The skiing. It's like North Dakota, South Dakota, where. Madeline's from. I would be going over there. Rocket man gets anxious. Rocket man. How about his nickname or Rocket Man?

How about his haircut? Oh, God. You got hit the bottom. I got it. Can you imagine having a haircut that bad? And being that rich, this guy built his own ski resort. And then you look at his hair and you're like, I can't take him serious.

You know where it's better probably is? Like the two worst haircuts in the world right now have to be their president and our president. That's a good point. I mean, I'm up there. And this rocket man's. I will say. Is that his name? Kim Jong-un.

See, I speak Korean. I just call him Rock a man. You know where his bedroom is, right? He probably has a bedroom. No, I don't know what he's bedroom is. In the shoe show. He probably has a shoe show in his bedroom. Probably.

Still want to go? Uh-uh. I'm not, I'm telling you, dude. I'm not leaving North America. It's just not me. Oh, man. You know, some people want to travel the world. I got a cousin.

She travels the world. I'm like, for what? Does scores have an age line? limit we're going to find out i know the manager was get him second yeah i mean we just want 21 can't drink when i was in college you could go into strip clubs if you were under 21 that's not the case anymore not even in myrtle beach where there's no morals in that town we're going to get you in a strip club jason all right by the end of the season i'll take the money because i know you probably don't have any money either i got there yep yeah you got to buy those

really cute shirts and you got to unbutton that top button yeah because i don't Actually leave that button. Yeah, they'd ruin that shirt. You like glitter? Sequence. So here's the only bad part about it. I got to say this. They smoke a lot in there.

Oh, yeah. And for some reason, these girls think that if they just put like three gallons of perfume on, you'll never smell it. So you almost have to hold your breath the whole time you're in there. Yeah. But we'll get him just wallard on. We'll put him on stage. You know how they put some guys on stage in their boxers

and make them sit there and dance all the time? I'll pay enough for that, Dav. All right, the clash at Daytona is now scheduled as a daytime event. Spot on, spot off. Should it be a daytime or night race? Spot on, man. We know that Daytona puts on a better race during the day.

It always has. It always will. The Daytona 500 is a great race. And as that track cools off, we see the pack kind of pack back up. But I'm a big fan of seeing this. race run and most races run to be quite honest with you during the day like i mean you know some of these short tracks we can pull off a night race but these temperature sensitive places we don't need to be racing at night what was that this app keeps bringing up these random sounds when i click that hit that again

it was like a commercial for like a trucking company or something dude so far you know producer josh who we're going to miss he's gotten busy he's gotten reassigned but so far you're all about tip for tat i'm being able to run that sound board over there he wasn't very good at it so far you're not very good at it. I'll figure it out. And the only button he would hit was a throw-up button. I haven't found that one yet. And he laughed just as hard the last time he hit that throw-up button as the first time he ever hit that throw-up button. Because that's normally what he did every Sunday night. It was a recording of him. So I don't know what he advice he gave you about this sound room, but you're following it. Forget everything he told you. Yeah, do the opposite from now on.

But what breath said, night time. I like some, I like short track night time racing. I like mile and a half stuff. They're just too fast, too stuck to these racetracks to run, to put on a good race sometimes to these tracks. Now, you want to run a Bristol, Martinsville, Myrtle Beach, South Boston, let's go all day under the lights. But these mile and a halfs, they're just so fast. And when that sun goes down, they do nothing but get faster

and stick to that racetrack more. So I like daytime racing. I think Daytona's got new rules. I mean, we've got new roles of Daytona, too, so these cars might be a handful. And this clash is going to be a good way to find out. Spot on, spot off. There will be a first-time poll winner at Daytona.

Spot off here. I think it'll be a repeat. Actually, nope, changing my mind. Spot on, first-time poll winner Daytona. 22 car. Joey Ligano. Yeah, I mean, dang. I think, you know, here's the reality of this thing.

We're going to go down there on Friday. We're going to practice on Saturday, and on Sunday they're going to qualify, and all these people are going to put in all this work and all these hours to fill two positions into the Daytona 500. So spot on for whoever wins the poll, you know, but there's a lot of hype around it. They didn't always real. And then that guy can go out and wrecking the duels or the twins or whatever.

We're calling them this year, and he's still out to start in the back. Like, man, I almost want to see this qualifying go back to just normal qualifying, or just we draw a pill and go run those races. It seems like a lot of work to lock in two. spots in today's world. I mean, at least, yeah. I mean, they only a lot, I don't know, it is a lot of work to lock into.

Maybe you raise it a little bit. I mean, but to me it's kind of tradition. You know, if you pull it out here, you're going to be on the front row. That takes a lot of stress off you. I've been fortunate enough to be on that front row two or three times. Takes a lot of stress off you for them duels. You know, you try to win the duel. But also, if something does happen and starts to get dicey a little bit,

you've got the option of like, okay, look here. I know what I got here. I'm not going to risk anymore. It's kind of nice to have that. But I kind of like the reward for it. I kind of like how it is. Elliot and I won this race a couple of times together. One time, I know he qualified on the front row because he qualified second,

Billful qualified first, and we won that duel. The other time we won it with Tommy Ball and I can't remember where we qualified. But for me, man, I got to disagree with you. And that race starts, no matter where I've qualified. The reality is you and I are both locked into this race with this new charter system. So we don't have that pressure of going home. But for me, man, when that place race starts, no matter what it's for, it's intense. You know, you can say, well, I got the pressure.

I'm on the front row. But, man, it's, it's, I'm practicing for the Daytona 500 in that particular race. I'm not so much worried about anymore where I'm going to start because we all know at some point we're going to the front, some point we're going to the middle, some point we're going to get off on pit strategy and go to the back. So for me, man, like putting in all this work for, I mean, we're talking about three days of work to lock in two cars. It just seems a little bit in today's world a little bit crazy. We've raced it.

We've raced it hard as well. And let's be honest, just confusing. We've won that. It's confusing. A little bit. We've raced the duel as well. And one of, we've won it probably three times or something. And you do race it just like always.

Yeah. But you are racing. That's the race experience that you're going to get for the Daytona 500. That is the test session for it. I will say that one thing, why I'm okay with it is because they cut out that three-day test that we used to have in January. Thank God. They got rid of that three-day test. That was a lot of waste of money, in my opinion.

It was a lot of waste of time of money. So, yeah, here's the thing. Like, we come forward and we go, hey, we're going to save you guys money. We're going to cut the pit crew down a guy. And you're like, okay, well, that could save us $150,000. Yeah. Then they come out and say, hey, we've got this new laser inspection system. And for you guys to go out and buy it, it's going to cost you about $400,000.

It's like, yeah, man, I sure am glad we save that $150 on that person. And you're going to get these pit guns from us. Yeah, we're going to save you tons here. I think the cost side, man, you know, it's something that we have to manage as an industry. And you say, there was a guy named Jim Noble that one time tweeted, fans don't need to worry about how much shows or how much it cost us to come out and race. Yeah, they do. Because when the costs get astronomical, we start cutting corners and start,

it's not going to be as competitive as it could be. It absolutely gets less and less competitive because right now I have to think from a revenue standpoint, Joe Gibbs Racing has the most revenue coming in than any other cup team. Now, it doesn't mean that Rick Kendrick can't funnel some of his money in or Stuart Gene Haas can't funnel some of his money in. But to compete, we all have to kind of be around that same area because people say, well, money buys speed. It really doesn't. It buys resources and people. And those resources and people make your cars go faster. I got a question for you.

So you say Joe Gibbs has the most money. Now, if you go owner to owner, to me, like, does Rick Hendrick and them, do they have to go find as much money? Yeah. What I'm saying is, but, you know, Rick has a lot of other side businesses, like, a lot of other. To me, I don't see, to me, Joe Gibbs doesn't compete on that level. Now, can they take, you know, they're profiting off all that, too? Do they mind using some of that and go for less sponsorship money? you know, can they ask for less because they know they're going to pull some from there?

I think Roger Penske has, of the wealthy owners in the sport, he has the best model. He's got a great model, yeah. His idea of marketing is I'm going to take businesses that I do business with, and I'm going to take some of their dollars they give to me, and I'm going to turn that into a marketing channel and put them in motorsports and make their deal works. So he's doing what you're insinuating Rick may have to do. When you look at the Valvillian sponsorship, Rick owns hundreds of dealerships. It's easy for him to go out and get an oil deal.

When you look at the oil deal that you guys have with Pinsall, it's easy for Roger to attract that because he's the major fleet owner of trucks in the country. He manages the freaking FedEx trucks, the UPS trucks, and sentos uniform trucks. So he's able to go out and pull money from those programs where he's got revenue coming in and channel it to his race team. As you said, Joe Gibbs is completely different. He's going out and signing sponsorship.

Yeah. But guess what? That M&M's deal, 20 million plus. FedEx deal, 20 million plus. Aris deal, 20 million plus. Eric Jones's car, probably 15 million plus. So when you look at as a team, how much sponsorship are they attracting, they're attracting the most.

Well, it's going to make wealthy guys like Gene Hoss, like Rick Hendrick, like Roger Penske, leverage some of their other businesses because, to your point, yeah, if Gibbs is going to spend 20 million more, they're going to be the team to beat. But those guys, those egos and their other businesses, they're not going to let that happen. No, you know, I wouldn't. You? No, you can't. Then it becomes a monopoly. Yeah, we've seen dynasties.

Rick Hendrick and Herrick Motorsports had a dynasty. But you can't look at them today and say they have one right now because they've got one guy that's won a lot of races. Yeah. The other three? Not yet. They haven't won any. Yeah.

Big difference. Yeah, none. None. William Byron, zero wins. Alex Bowman, zero wins. Who's the other guy? Chase Elliott. A lot of seconds.

Zero wins. All right. Off the wall topic. Spot on, spot off. A woman was prevented from bringing an emotional support peacock on an airplane. What an idiot. Who does that? Was it, uh, didn't Tony go with Del Jr.?

Was it Tony's? Tony has monkeys. No, Tony upstairs. Mayoff. Oh. He went to Minneapolis with Del Jr., so it might have been his. Might have been his peacock. emotional peacock.

My sister likes peacocks. Maybe. Spot off. This is a redact. ridiculous. You know, what's sad is there are a lot of people, say, with PTSD, and they have an animal that travels with them, and they've served our great country, and they just need a little bit of comfort. They need a little dog to just hug. And this idiot that brought this peacock on this plane is now saying, no more emotional support dogs across the board, because one idiot thought a peacock needed to be on an airplane. I don't want to sit beside a peacock. Yeah, I don't know. I mean. do you

where do you draw you know what peacock is where do you yeah but where do you draw the line here and does it get drawn at cats and dogs I mean it should be drawn I don't sit outside a cat either yeah but it could be a house cats are pretty cats are horrible but they're

they get in a pan and then they get out of the pan and then they walk on your dining room table with left over on their feet cats are horrible they should not be in anybody's house there's a lot of cat people

in the world, though. Well, they need to get rid of them. I'm just saying, there's cat people. It's more, do you draw the line? Like, if you, in a cat and dog or, I mean, I mean, where's the line drawn? Just dogs, cats? I mean.

It's dogs. It's dogs. That's the only pet that people need to have. The cat people might. They walk around with and that they let in their house is dogs. Like, Tyler Redick's a cat person. He might want to check. I mean, he might want to go in and stand in that litter box.

Which, oh, by the way, if you're pregnant, you can't change this litter box because it may harm your unborn baby. So how healthy is it to you when you don't have a baby? I don't think he's getting pregnant. Well, he's probably trying to get somebody pregnant. I think we should go to AskDBC now. So over the weekend, I chose a few hashtag Asked BBC questions to ask guys here today. First runs from AAR Sox 13. which are the spotters will get their first win of the group in 2018 between you guys?

Matt, I'll be honest with you. Not that I'm ever dishonest, but I really like Ford's chances at plate tracks. I mean, we know Penske's had a lot of success. We know Stuart Haas has success. I think all of our drivers are really, really good in the draft. So I think TJ and I both have a chance to win multiple races in Daytona. You know, obviously him won more than me, I'm not in the clash, but I think the only real people that can compete with us, the Ford's in general,

at Daytona, will be those Toyotas of Gibbs. Yeah, definitely with the nose and stuff. I think Ford's have a good advantage at plate tracks. You know, it's definitely going to hurt a mile to a half a little bit more like it did last year. But I think Ford's scheduled to get a new nose next year. Ford's getting a new nose on their other cars next year, yes. Yep. So, but I like that.

like you know I really like our chances going to Daytona I really do you know I like working I'm looking forward to working Joey he's very aggressive he is we've watched a lot of video in the last couple weeks we've we spent hours watching video like what would you say here what do you just and what I did I just pretended I was spotting yeah he's like what would you say here and I'm just and we were watching you know the 88 and I'm like this is what I'd be saying he'd like oh that's that's good I didn't and it's just getting to know each other and yeah so I'm looking real forward to it And it takes a little bit. I mean, to throw two guys into an intense scenario like that who are both competent guys.

TJ's a very accomplished spotter at play tracks. Joey's obviously a very accomplished driver. But the timing and the jargon and all those things, what they're doing now is great, but it's going to be a little bit different. And they're going to have to debrief after practices and debrief after these races to really fine-tune it to try to get it right for Sunday. Now, I'll say this, man, Tony Raines goes out with his first race with Kurt Busch. Kurt Bush loses his rearview mirror. Tony Raines and Kurt had never worked together,

and they won the dates on the 500. So obviously you guys can do it, but it does take a little bit of time. A lot of things went right. A lot of things. I mean, a lot of people ran out of gas is exactly the right time. But Kurt knows what he's doing.

There's a handful of these guys that could probably lose their radio mirrors and probably... Not in the draft, but I agree with you. Not the draft, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I've been with drivers that I thought that, that they lose it in the draft that went to the back.

You know, and luckily, it didn't get too bottled up two by two real hard behind them there. Had there been a handful more laps, it might have. But it worked out great for Tony and Kurt at the end of that race. But, you know, it's going to be a question. Is Joey going to turn the wheel when I tell him? You know, when I tell him that runs comes, is he going to turn the wheel? Is he going to trust me?

Is he going to wait? It's going to take some of that. We're going to have to, you know, learn that over again and see how it goes. The timing of the block is essential to success at Daytona, because that timing launches you forward and it gives you the ability to make passes. I don't think anyone has ever been more aggressive going forward when they get that push that Dell Jr. was.

So it'll be curious to see if Joy has that same aggressive mentality. You know, Clint, we've had to change the way it was because the last few years, it was like, okay, you get to the middle, to the bottom. That's kind of where you want to be. Now, if you let somebody do your right rear, then we probably shouldn't say this on the show if other spotters are listening. But as a spotter, if you let a car get a run on your right rear to plate track, he's probably going to pass you nowadays.

If you don't finish that bog, and that's the weirdest. place for them to block is that right rear yeah i don't uh i don't prefer i don't like the bottom at all no i don't like the bottom i'd rather be i'd rather be in the middle and high side the bottom you're just you're stuck on the line and people can work your quarter panel on doors as hard as they want and you can't do nothing about it yeah you're trapped what are you going to pull the air off the line down there you're done so you're trapped you're stuck but here's thing as fans going into this race this is our last show before the daytona 500 these guys run a left side mirror they can see their left rear very, very well.

Their right rear, they can't see as well. That's where they have to trust us and trust that timing and make that block. If they're going to maintain that league. They don't do it. They'll lose the league. You got to stay in front of the momentum. Yeah. All right.

At barbecue dock 024 asks, who had more fun during the offseason from the DBC crew? Well, if you like. Well, there's only two of us left. I know. There's only two here. Brett went to Aspen and got hammered. I changed diapers and got spit up on. Yeah.

I'm actually more. fun than T.J. is anyway. So I would have to say that I probably had more fun than you did. In my prime, I was pretty fun. Before kids, I was pretty fun. You didn't even have fun at Dell Jr.'s party. That's because I had a kid the next day.

That's because it is 40th party and I'm not. At his 40th birthday party, I took them shots. Me and Regan had like three or four fireball shots in a row and ended up on stage. You puked. Yeah, probably. But I ended up on stage and that's not how I wanted it in that night. So everybody else got on stage.

Dude, I lay it on a piano. It's not good. Man, what was up with to go back in time? What was up with your birthday, man? And everybody's sending out all those drunk pictures of you. Oh, it's like, hey, I'm on that's a, see, there is a fun menu. See? You weren't in waking any of them.

That's because it was like four in the morning and most of them. The good one where I mean, this guy calls these people his friends. It's Kevin Hamlin. It's Dale Jr. Joey Meyer, me. Yeah. They're sending out pictures of T-Jers. It's all hammered.

It is. It's good, man. I mean, at least I'm a fun drunk. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't drink, but I mean. When you do. All right.

At D. Flint 14 asks, how do you think the new inspection system will affect your job as a spotter, if at all? D. Have you ever watched a race? Have you ever seen a spot? Inspection? Inspection has zero to do with our jobs. It has a lot to do with the guys on the ground. But as spotters, all we want to see.

is our car come out on the pit road and be clear to race. That doesn't change. Unless you don't make it out for qualifying. It doesn't change how we do our job. I think that's the question, man. The inspection question should be what happens. And here's the reality. None of us know because here's what teams are doing right now.

They're taking their cars. They're building their cars. They're going through their own Hawkeye systems. Then they're taking their car untouched to NASCAR. And they're seeing where the discrepancies of differences are. The reality is if they're not calibrated, exact same. You're not going to get the same result when you come and you get to the racetrack. So the question becomes, and this was a big argument last year with a claw system is,

you know, we'll go through your system and there's a tolerance and then we're illegal. We don't change anything and we come back through and we are legal. So the question is, man, how close can these teams calibrate their system to the system that ultimately matters the one that's going to be at the racetrack? Because I wanted the RD Center, it doesn't matter either. Once they move it, if it changes something here or there. Oh, I mean, we're talking thousands of. an inch like if it i mean that's it be like me or you walk into and kicking it yeah you know um yeah

yeah that it doesn't change us but it really affects the teams big time and i don't i don't know if there's we're our own we create like not we personally but the teams we've created a lot of this stuff um we've made them have to inspect this stuff and and put us in this tighter box because we we always venture outside of it yeah so um it's uh kind of our own fault, but it's something they have to do. It's our own fault, and because of our own fault, I think this is known pretty much. Composite bodies are coming to the Cup Series next year.

We're running them at Xfinity last year, part-time, full-time this year. That's to get the system right. Except play tracks, I think, right? Next year, these composite bodies will be in the Cup series, and it's to stop some of the manipulation. The good thing is the composite bodies are more durable because they're made of a hard material. When we run by, like these bodies we run this weekend in Daytona,

bodies we run Atlanta, man, those things, are twisting and moving so much, the teams have to go back and put new bodies on them. So the composite body will change that aspect of it. But man, the tech process, I don't want us to be embarrassed like we were last year when cars like half the field didn't make it out for qualifying. Dell Jr., Clint Boyer, when guys like that don't get out for qualifying, that's embarrassing. As a sport, you know what I mean? And it's not actually, it's not like completely tech's fault either.

No, it's on the. team and the body. We're trying to get everything we can get. Yeah. But, uh, all right, what you got? All right. At Travis C underscore 48 asks, should the Monday after the Super Bowl be a national holiday? I was talking with someone about this last night. Um, I don't know why we don't, I know it's Super Bowl Sunday, but why not have Super Bowl Saturday? And play it on Saturday night. That way, I mean, that way everyone can have you. It's a, it's a known party. I mean, you wanted to get together with your friends and they start just saying so late and it's so long.

I think we should do it on Saturday. I wonder if your idea, and by the way, I think your idea is great, but I wonder if your idea is bad because they're worried about people in their 20s going out and party and not watching the game, and it hurting their ratings. Because we know we race on Sunday afternoons because that's when you have a captive audience. And I like your idea because I don't have anything to do on Saturday nights anymore. But I'm just wondering if that's maybe why not. But should it be a national holiday?

Now, get your ass up going to work. It should be a national holiday, but it needs to either be played earlier or, I mean, to me, Saturday night, Super Bowl Saturday night. That might give them a reason to party. I mean, the game was over at 10 o'clock. It was probably 10.30, wasn't it? Yeah, between the two, I think. 1030. Yeah.

So, I mean, come on, man. If you can't party until 1030 and then get up and go work next day, you should suck. I just think it would be a lot of fun on a Saturday night, made my opinion. I don't disagree with you. All right. You want to introduce the. fan call. The fan call.

Each week when we tweet you to submit your AskDBC questions, let us know if you would like us to call you by saying something like hashtag, call me. To be able to personally ask us your question, producer Jason will randomly select one fan and DM him on Twitter to set up a call. Are you sliding to the DM? He's playing a number. What did you just say? What was that?

They're going to hashtag some, you know, call me, like, and Jason's going to DM them. So we're going to call fans. Yeah, he's going to get it all lined up. And then we are going to call a fan. They're going to DM you. When they tweet, they're going to know. So Jason Schultz is already trying to get girls' phone numbers off the Twitter. Yep, yeah, exactly.

That's, you, y'all created this part of the show. To market himself to girls. Yeah, it could be anyone. Jason Mingle. two girls right preferably whoa whoa

I'm just asking damn younging I'm gonna tell you I can edit this out I went oh no no no no no I went to Aspen I went to Aspen and it was gay ski week in Aspen Colorado

and it's the largest gay ski week in the world true story so I get there and man I'm down with skiing and I'm down with party but I'm going to tell y'all what. These are the partying as suss I've ever seen in my life.

Like, they start partying at 8 in the morning, and they partied all night. I couldn't hang with them. So many poles. It was, dude, they were naked on the bar at 12 o'clock. I'm talking about naked, full-boned naked. And you? I was a naked. I was cold.

I was actually cold, man. Like, I had on my whole ski gear, and I'm looking at the bar, and I'm like, all right, dude, just got on a rainbow bikini. That's cool. Then he takes it off, and I'm like, all right, that's not cool. And my wife's going, oh, my God. Your wife's going, that's cool. And I'm like, honey, that's not real. Just quit looking.

We got to go back to the ski lodge, to the gondola or something. I'm going to tell you what, man. That's a fun community. They party their balls off, literally. Okay. Love it. Yeah. So anyway, we are going to try to do some more fan interaction with some phone calls.

So when they tweet, they're asked DBC questions. If you want to be called, you can call me in, and then I'll DM for, DM them for the number. Make sure that we, uh, who's screening these things? I'll pick the question. I'll pick the, he'll pick the tag. Yeah. He's going to the best question and probably get it if they want to be called. Make sure you don't pick any of these clowns I've blocked.

All right. I'll confirm thousands of them. I'll send to you before I prefer the one of the clowns that, if Brett's blocked you, please call. Yeah, that's fine. I don't care. I think Mike Harbin will call. Beg to be unblocked. All right, you want to make your 500 picks

since we won't do a show next week? So we, I mean, yeah, we could. Driver picks. So we're going to do the same deal where we pick for 26 weeks. I guess we got to ask that guy if he's going to do it again. Then we reset. If not, Jason might have to do something. Wasn't it Cornwick? Cornelius J. Whit.

V. Whit. Yeah. He did a great job. He did an awesome job. It was an awesome sheet, too, that he made. There's no way Josh could ever done that. T.J., you go first, man. I won again.

I'll give you the privilege. I mean, I'm going with the 22 car. All right. Oh, wait, wait, we only get to pick these once, right? Once until the chase starts. Playouts. Ah, yeah, playoffs. Same thing.

There's 40 plus drivers. Just pick one. Yep, I'll go with the 22. I'm going to start off with a win, get up on you. 22, I'll go with Danica Patrick. The girl. So you don't want to race this time? I got Danic Patrick.

It's the only time I can pick her all year. I don't have to waste anybody good. I'm still, I'm very careful. I'm a pick. I am perfectly happy with you doing that. All right. That's the fastest you've ever picked, by the way. I've had a long time to think about it.

A couple months. Three months. It finally hit you. So that'll wrap it up for the first show. I'm going to be dancing with Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse. I don't know what Brett's planning on doing. Same. All you going on there?

Yep. Need a ride Sunday? Yeah. I fly down Friday. morning. Same for you. Flat down Friday morning. Rec, wreck, Rick, race Friday, Saturday night and oyster pub. Race Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I don't have anything to do. I literally do two practices and they're not that hard because we're not going to draft. So when you go on Orlando? Going to Orlando Sunday morning. Families flying in doing Disney all week. Are you not in the clash?

Oh, you're not in that. That's right. Okay. I'm calling after. Poll winners and chase drivers. I am going after the clash. So yeah. Be over there until early Thursday morning, come back. Yeah, I'm going to come back Wednesday night. Just because that Thursday is a long day. It is a long day. But family stand down, so they'll have fun. Kids love Disney.

So we'll have a lot to talk about when we get back. Yep. And I'm sure Jason will. Jason work on a fake ID thing. Yeah, I will. Fake ID. Keep you up-dated. You know.

Make sure you screen these calls properly. Yeah, screen it properly. Yeah. Make sure we're not calling anybody, you know, crazy. Crazy. There's some crazy people on Twitter for. to make sure they're good. Yeah, maybe go through their history maybe a little bit.

But, uh, all right, I guess we'll talk to you after the 500. And as always, thanks to One Mae Financial for bringing this podcast to you guys live and direct from the Exalted Studios. We out. See ya. Oh, blah. You've been listening to Door Bumper Clear, brought to you by One Main. For updates on Elliott Sadler and the number one junior motorsports team, go to OnemainRacing.com. Thanks for listening to Dirtymo Radio.

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