Door Bumper Clear - 92 - This Is For Eazy

Episode Date: March 19, 2018

Brett hasn’t taken down his Christmas lights yet, TJ ordered a Coke at Hooters and that’s just the start. Matthew Dillner fills in after TJ leaves to cover the weekend rule change, JRM’s points dominance, Lowe’s leaving, beet juice, hot dogs and more. 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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You're win. Oh, yeah. Hey, what's up guys? Brett Griffin here, Spotter for Clint Boyer, Elliott Sadler, Mayett Snyder, fresh off of a West Coast hustle. Got my boy, TJ Majors on the phone this week instead of live in studio. TJ, what are you doing, man?

What's wrong? What's going on? I have an event to do today. Oh, I thought you were going to say you were babysitting. An event that just popped up last night at 950 when you texted us all that you weren't coming? It was close. It was close. Events are usually planned out in advance.

Well, yeah. So anyway, hey, I'm T.J. What kind of event are you doing? Hey, easy. 21 questions, here? Yeah, I mean, he's missing the show. I want to know where the hell he's at and what he's doing. The Boston?

I'm just babysitting. I mean, that's a good excuse. Yeah, his own baby. We've already been through this. It counts. Hey, it's still watching a baby. True. But I'm calling in today.

I've only got a few minutes here. So Brett's going to handle, Brett and Casey are going to keep the entertainment level high. I hope. Casey, are you ready for that? Yeah, we'll have Brett deal a little dance or something in the studio. look up for it. Hey, I watch Michael Jackson documentary the whole way home last night, so I'm fired up. I'm ready.

Where did this come from? I love Michael Jackson. Yeah, Brett will do some Michael Jackson dancing now. All right, well, we need to make this happen. Thanks to one-amay Financial for bringing this podcast to you guys today. TJ coming fresh off a win Saturday. Yeah, congrats. Yeah, we got the first Xenity win for me.

So it was pretty cool. So, you know, those guys obviously came really prepared. And, you know, we made it. It got interesting there one time. You know, you don't like, you never like going by pit road and seeing every car in your mirror turn off. Because you never really, you never really know how, you know, that's probably not fun in a place like Fontana. But, you know, it ended up working out. Our car was really good.

And ended up working out for us. So it was a lot of fun. I saw T.J. post race celebrating at Hooters, drinking a cup. Coke. He's the only human being I've ever seen walk into a Hooters sit at a bar and order a Coke. Going hard. I was like, I go.

I was there for the wings. Yeah. We all were. Right. And the Coke. I've never seen that many Hooters waitresses that were not attractive in my life. Fontana, California. Don't go to Hooters if you're wanting to see.

I don't know that Chase Elliott would be super glad that you're talking about this. That's his sponsor. I love Hooters. I go there all the time. time, but that particular shift. I was like, who's the higher manager in here? We need to have a discussion. I wouldn't be surprised if we did that.

I didn't notice, though. Good for you, unlike Brett. What? I didn't know. You can't go to Hooters and drink a Coke. Who does that? T.J. That's not normal.

It's the wise thing to do. It ain't wise. Okay. Whatever you say. Spot and ain't that hard. I was there for the meal, the fine quality chicken. Good chicken. I thought you were saying

you were going to get a top five. Man, I felt like we were. I mean, our whole weekend it goes playing. I mean, you look at, you unload, we were second quick in the first practice. Obviously, didn't make qualifying, didn't make it through inspection, so you lose your pit stall selection, you use the last

15 minutes of practice. Had a fast car. Every time we'd pit, man, we'd just give up a few spots. And at the end of the race, we literally had a right rear come completely apart. So we were three seconds off the pace. We weren't making minimum speed the last two laps to finish the race. so ended up running single digits most of the day and ended up 11th so that is probably not a place you want to have a tire

no start coming apart could you imagine looking up at turn 1 and seeing 207 and then you feel brrrr and you're like yeah i don't i don't know if i'd really like that i actually i thought that was the most speed as a company that i've seen them you know stewer hoss guys have yet as a whole because they were uh the 10 that's the most speed i've seen the 10 have you yet and you know it was there was as a whole it was a they had a lot of speed yeah i think our cars are good i mean you know how this this is cyclical i mean we saw toyota struggle the beginning of last year they did it again this year then all of a sudden they hit that we're going to set you on fire button which they did yesterday and it was tough to keep up with that 18 and 78 you guys ran top

five most of the day right yeah we ran red around you know anywhere depending on our pit crew our pit crew is awesome so we would we would come in and maybe gain a spot or two every time on pit road. They got us the lead one time. And we were able to hold on to it for a few last, but the 78 could just run the bottom of three and four. So good. You know, he could, he could get to the bottom and get on the apron and still get back in the throttle and get up off the corner and make up ground still. He was really, really good down there. I don't know if anybody was going to hold him off. He, you know, and I have people tried. We tried to hold him off. Kyle tried to hold him off. And he just, he could, the track's so big. And, and, you know, once he, he's, you know, once he's,

to your quarter panel or something, he could pretty much do what he wanted. So, you know, congrats to those guys for building that race car and dominating that race and getting a win. He looked like the 78 from last year. You know, I mean, he's already got the most stage points of anybody at what I believe was 60 points I read. So to have the most stage points, to already have the win, there's no denying that Martin Truex is going to contend for the championship. I mean, he's already in the playoffs. So, you know. Yeah.

Yeah, this is, he's definitely showing signs of the, I feel like there for a little bit. They, even towards the end of last year, they just weren't quite as dominant as what they had been. And then they started this year, and I just didn't quite see it. But they showed it yesterday. Yeah, they were strong. I was impressed with how many celebrities they were at the tracks. Did you guys meet anybody? No, I wanted to meet Ice Cube.

I saw he was there. But I didn't know he was there until I was already up top, you know what I mean? Like I wasn't on top of it. I also heard that Caitlin Jenner was there. Yes. Bruce Jenner, formerly Bruce Jenner. I met the Super Troopers. Oh, they look like fun.

Super troopers? Remember the movie? Yeah, they were in the Pace Car, right? I didn't see that movie. Yeah, they were, I met them right before I went to the roof. But like Brett said, we get, we go, by the time we go to the roof, we don't learn about these people being there until we're already basically heading up to where we got to go. I just want to ask Ice Cube was Easy E cool, cool as he kind of, easy E was my favorite rapper voice. You don't know who Easy E is, do you?

Casey. Are you kidding me? No. No. Oh my gosh. These kids these days. Kids. Boys in the hood. NWA. Ice Cube.

Dr. Dre. Oh, I mean, kind of. Easy E. I mean, I know. It was like the beginning. Yeah. They started gangster rap. I know from a movie, but like I wasn't.

Easy. He was a man. Yeah, he was like the original guy. Yeah. Yeah. He was like the front guy. He fronted all the money to put the deal together. Nice.

And then he died of 80. at like 16. Well, maybe he'll come to another race. Easy E! I'm pretty sure he can't come in nowhere. We can pour a little bit out for him next time we go to Hooters. That was the wrong time. We pour some of TJ's Coke house.

Hey, this is for Easy. Right here. Oh, fail. Easy E. You know what I meant. Shout out. Hooters. You should have asked Kim.

Kim Coon met him, I think. Or Monica. One of the person, one of them met him. Yeah. I don't know. Ice Cube, man. He's a big deal. I mean, this guy goes from gangster rapper.

of making kids movies, you know? He's pretty good to make him kids movies, too. He does. He's got some of the funniest movies still. Mary Beat Up Debo and Friday? Oh, Fridays are... Jason, have you seen Friday? No.

Jason, man, I'm Jason. You need to write all this stuff down instead of doing whatever you do with that computer. We already have a list of, like, country songs. Yeah, you got to text yourself right now, watch the movie Friday. Friday. And next Friday, isn't there another one? Next Friday, but Friday is there.

Friday after next. Oh, yeah, there's three. My favorite line on Fridays is you got to be a stupid bitch going to get fired on your day off. Yeah, that's, uh. The whole movie's classic. I watch it all the time. I watch it last night on a plane, second half of it. Along with Michael.

Craig and. Yes. So he has no idea who Craig and Day Day are. No, he ain't got no idea. No. Bye Felicia. Oh, my gosh. That's where Bye Felicia came from.

Oh, really? Is that movie? I've just known that from Social. That's, we're giving you the. That's where it started, man. Education lessons. Yeah, bye Felicia. Craig, why you got a lie, Craig?

I love that movie. What about the rent? What's the rent lady's name? Miss Purley? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, boy. Jason.

This is Friday, right? Yeah. And Friday was filmed in Ranch Cucamonga, California, where we were. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, there's not much else there. No.

No, there's not much else there. Although they build it up some. Yeah. There's an outdoor mall thing. I like that mall. You're a chick. All chicks like malls. It was like an outlet mall.

So it was just like... I hate malls. We know. We establish this. I don't mind buying. I just hate shopping. So are you more of an online shopper? I don't know.

I'm not putting my credit card online. It ain't happening. So what do you do if you don't shop? I mean, I buy. I just go somewhere and buy something. I don't go around. No. People go shopping. They walk around. They look at stuff. They look at the price. And they look at the color. And they go try it. If you go to a store, you're shopping. I go in and buy it. I don't shop. I bet your wife orders off Amazon. Oh, every day. Boxes just stay and show up. She fussed at me the other day. And I realized this almost April. But she was like, you know, you got to get the Christmas sites off the bushes in the front. And I was like, damn, I forgot they were still out there. She said, yeah, you would. You know, you got to go get them off. I was like, well, look, I'm not. I'm not. one against Amazon packages every single day to the front door and sees the front bushes.

I never see the front bushes. I just let out of mine. Just leave them up for next year now. So I went out there and stay. Yeah, you might as well keep them up for now. I just throw them all trash. You would have the one paying for them. Yeah.

Thank you, T.J. Send her that text. We know that. Oh, gosh. All right. Well, I know you're short on time. So let's head into Spot on, Spot Off. This one, I woke up to so many text messages from you guys on this new rule.

and I quote, NASCAR will allow teams that qualify today to practice on their qualifying tires on Saturday and start the race Sunday on a set of sticker tires. I guess that was on Friday, I'm assuming? Spot on, spot off. Yeah, it was late Friday. Brett, what do you think? I want to know what T.J. thinks first. Oh, gosh.

So am I going first? Yeah. Okay. I'm spot on for this at the time being because you can't, if you start the race, race without them guys qualifying and they're on stick or tires, they are going to be top five leading the race, you know, by lap 10. And there should never be a, there should never be an advantage to not qualifying. So I'm not, you know, I don't like making big changes during the weekend or even during the year. But when something like that, there's a big, you know, otherwise we're not,

no one's going to qualify anymore. You know, they had to do something to not give those, those cars a huge advantage. You know, Bubba Wallace qualified 19. By the end of lap one, he was going to be 35th because he qualified. You know, that's not fair. I think he still ended up 35th-ish, 25th-ish. Well, I mean, he shouldn't be penalized for making an attempt. Yeah, I'm spot off on this whole rule thing coming out a third of the way through our weekend. You know, I mean, we break the weekend down based on Friday, we determine our starting position, Saturday we get ready to race, Sunday we race. So a third of the way, through the event, we have a pretty significant rule change.

You know, none of us, at least nobody that I know went into the weekend going, hey, let's fail inspection and let's not qualify, and let's potentially lose our car chief, and let's lose 15 minutes of practice, and let's forfeit our pit stall selection, and let's not start up front. I don't think that was necessarily anybody's intention. I do think, however, we saw people like Jimmy Johnson last year, like, you know, Martin Truex at Atlanta. Oh, by the way, is he going to give all those points back that he got when he got to

start on brand new tires and everybody else had old tires at the Lannon. He drove from last to second. Probably not, you know, but just at the 11th hour, as a sports fan, I don't want to see a rule change because I think we look at the race and we say, let's preserve the integrity of the race.

And this ain't a 30-second part. And when you look at the integrity of the race, changing rules in the middle of the event, I have a hard time dealing with. Now, on Monday morning, if they come out and say, we're going to hold a press conference and we're going to talk about this. I'm going to tell you guys why we're doing it.

And then they come out with a rule change. Okay, what do they do the next morning? Saturday morning, they come out with another rule change with Exfinity that says, if you guys don't pass tech, you got to do a pass-through. So now you're going to lose a lap in addition to not being able to qualify and start. So, man, I'm okay. I'm not okay with rule changes in general, but I'm okay with it if you can sell me on it. You can't sell me on it a third of the way.

Let's play one-third of a hockey game and then change the rules. or a third of a basketball game of change rules. And I know we're not sticking ball, but it's just, it's hard to swallow that when we constantly throw curveballs at ourselves. If it's not in regards to safety, like we've seen at Talladega, Daytona, where they come in and go, hey, these speeds are too high. They're over 200 miles an hour. The cars are too fast.

We're going to add more restrictor play. We're going to bring these speeds down. If it's safety related, I can somewhat get it. If it's not, just wait until Monday, fix it. So the only, so my thing on that is, number one, you know, this was brought up by the teams, basically. And it did start last year when Jimmy, you know, started in the back and basically drove to the front. And it didn't have, you know, it didn't have an issue driving all the way to the front, you know, on old tires.

And what happens here is nobody really, the pit stalls at Fontana are real big. The pit roads pretty wide. So losing, you know, your pit stall selection isn't a huge deal there. You know, and also nobody is really worried about losing a crew member because nobody goes through more than twice. You know, only like two or three guys tried to go through twice. We ran out of time. We ran out of time. Well, there's just not enough time for people to go through, you know, that many times.

And, you know, and there's nothing stopping the guys from, if you wanted to qualify, in my opinion, your car would have been right the first time through. But all these teams are pushing the envelope, and it's not, it's everybody. It's not just these guys that even qualified. It's everybody. You know, we all want to get as much as we can as we can, and you try to push the envelope a little bit.

So to me, this was brought up on by the teams. So, and there's a big advantage to not, not qualifying. So, you know, I'm kind of props and ask for, for stepping in there and saying, no, You guys aren't going to, you guys aren't getting this advantage here. It's not going to work like that. You know, because we're all racing for stage points. So we've been watching this go on for a year.

And all of a sudden, let's be reactive to it versus proactive to it. I'm not a big fan of, I'm not a big fan of this qualifying. I really do miss the single car, let a guy go out there and see what kind of of life he can run one time. You know, I kind of like that. And maybe, maybe this is something we need to do. You know, maybe we need to tech after qualifying. you know well i mean that's the man clint talked about this Friday night at dinner it's like okay

i'm a jimmy johnson fan i bought a ticket i came to watch jimmy johns qualify when you come to a race you get entertained by the whole race but when you go to watch your guy qualify you go to watch your guy qualify and when he doesn't come out on pit road if i'm a 10 12 year old boy i'm going where's my driver where's his car you don't necessarily understand why they're not making it out well you know what there's two rounds three rounds maybe next round we'll see him now you You're not going to see him at all because he can't pass tech. If he ain't right one, he ain't going to be around dude. No, so it's, man, again, just reactive versus proactive and I don't know.

But people, one thing I got to say about is people can't get mad at NASCAR for it. You know what I mean? People often blame NASCAR for their guy not making it out to qualify. In my opinion, that's not NASCAR's fault. You know, NASCAR gives everyone the same chance to get their car through tech to qualify. So they can't really, they shouldn't be mad at NASCAR for their guy not making it out there to qualify. Casey, we were having a similar discussion on the show one year ago today. Really about the same stuff.

So a year later, in the middle of a weekend, after somebody sent out a tweet, we realized, hey, let's change the rule. So you'd be okay with the rule change if it happened at a different time. Be methodical. Do it during the week. Give teams an opportunity to understand the ramification because here's the thing, whether you agree with T.J. or you agree with me. We all showed up to the racetrack. We all knew the process and the procedure.

We all knew the rules, and then we went through that segment of our weekend, and those rules all got thrown out. So regardless of whether a driver said something, a owner said something, a tweet or whoever, we went into the game understanding these are the parameters, and then they changed. Yeah. Well, the only one thing that makes me okay with it as well is that everyone started

the race equal still. You know, if you qualified, you got your spot, and then you knew the guy behind you wasn't just going to totally destroy you going to start because he didn't qualify. I mean, it's easy to say, well, these people are going to drive to the front? Were they going to have an advantage? Absolutely. Were they going to cause a wreck?

Possibly. Were they going to be faster than the guys in old tires? Yeah. Is that exciting and entertaining? Yeah. Like, there's a lot of things. You can't just say, all those guys and old tires are going to be running top ten. No, you don't know that.

I mean, we saw two of the best drivers in our sport right now make contact yesterday and wreck each other. So when you see those things play out, there's too many variables in racing. It's like all these conspiracy theory idiots. that say, oh, NASCAR, let this happen. It's WWE. These are people in machines going 200 miles an hour. NASCAR doesn't have the opportunity to say, let's give somebody an advantage.

You know, there's a difference in making a call, which they do during a race, versus making a rule change right in the middle of the weekend. That's where my struggle was. All right. We can probably talk about this all day. Probably. New one.

Truex back to his dominant ways. Spot on, spot off. Every time I saw that guy a winner. He was having a cocktail and had a smile on his face. And I feel like that's probably where he's back at today, you know, because he knows he's got an opportunity to go out and win another championship. He's won an Xfinity Series championship. He's now won a Cup Series championship.

He's got an opportunity to win two Cup Series championships. We all know where their speeds at. I mean, spot on to what they've been able to do. I still say the most impressive thing for me as it pertains to this race team is they're in Denver, Colorado. They're back to being a single car team. they're taking Joe Gibbs parts and pieces and kicking Joe Gibbs's ass with it. That's impressive.

Yeah, I'm, I think that's a neat part of it to take an organization like that and to beat them with their own stuff or improve it yourself and make it better. Being that small team in, you know, not even, not even local is pretty impressive. But, you know, good for, good for Martin to get his, you know, it's good to see Mark. Martin kind of get his rhythm back there, but I'm ready to, you know, knock them off and I'm ready for someone else to be that. Yeah. I mean, Joe Gibbs Racing has a lot of talent and they're stable. And Martin Trex is certainly a talented guy, but when you go out and look and see that he's

beating Denny Hamlin, beating Kyle Busch, you know, every single week, like, that's a pretty, pretty tall order to take. Yeah. Jason, I'm going to have to go. All right, see you. All right. See it. All right, so TJ had to go.

He had to go babysit his kid, his own kid, which we've all learned to love. Never going to live that one down. Well, Casey, you were on his side with the whole thing. I still'm on his side. It's the same thing. It's babysitting. 90% of Americans that were polled disagreed with you. And this isn't a CNN poll.

This isn't a fake news CNN poll. This is a real poll. You probably said, make sure you all vote on my end. Yeah, I text all 4,000 people that voted. So we got Matthew Dillner filling in, a longtime friend of mine. And it's not. babysitting. No.

Whatever. It's completely different. No. No. It's not, man. As your parent, you realize there's a difference, man. When I babysat, it was like, hey, let me watch your kid. Let me make sure he doesn't, like, fall on his head.

Feed him ice cream. I don't care. Let them be sugar high, whatever. And then when the time's up, bye-bye. Parenting doesn't stop. Babysitting does. You're going to find out one day. Hey, hire a babysitter that's going to be there at three in the morning when the baby wakes up.

Yeah. My kids are bouncing. I bet this morning at 6.30. I was like, I don't think I feel asleep yet. Anyway, we're going on. We're finishing spot on, spot off, and Matthew's going to fill in the rest of the show. Perfect.

Very knowledgeable. A larger version of T.J. Very knowledgeable. I mean, you know that ends and out of everything. Everything. Trust you. I don't know about that. Pressure.

Prove it. All right. Spot on, spot off. J.R.M. has led Xfinity points for 37 consecutive races. You got to go first. Oh, man. I'm going first. J.R.M's got it, man, right now.

If you, of course, we're in the shop, basically, on the side of the shop right here. And if you go through that shop all week, you know, all the crew chiefs and car chiefs and everybody in there and Donnie and all the boys back there at Tarantino, they're putting in overtime. You know, I'll leave here late. And there's still guys digging in the shop. And there's a reason for that performance. It's not just the drivers. You know, it's not just the guys with headsets up top tower like these guys. Although that's a big part on it.

course. I mean, it's, it's, it's, you got to put in the work, man. You got to put in the hustle. If you don't put in the hustle, nothing else matters. Yeah, you know, for me, one of the cool things I like about the show is sometimes we'll say stuff that is worthy of news beyond our little podcast. I'm sorry, our big podcast, right? This is media worthy. Like, they should be talking about this going into the next Xfinity race at Texas, because when you look at who we're competing against, you know, with guys like Joe Gibbs racing and whatnot. For us to have led the points this many races, and obviously Elliot Sadler's been the biggest part of that streak.

So that's, man, that's spot on for everybody here in their effort. When you look at what Matthew was saying, we have four full-time cars here. We have a cup affiliation, but we don't have a cup affiliation like Penske does and Gibbs does. We're not in the same shop. We don't have all the exact resources. We're doing our own bodies here, you know,

with Big Mike and his guys in a body shop. So when I look at what Pemberton has been able to lead and what the crew chiefs have been able to do, and obviously the driver is able to execute, because they're the guys who have to execute. If they don't execute, none of the rest of this stuff matters. We can give you fast cars, but if you don't do what you're supposed to do with them, then that's where you get in trouble. So obviously, you know, JRM is the number one Xfinity Series team right now from a full-time competition standpoint. And, you know, I don't see anybody knocking these guys off yet.

You know, and we see things come and go. But when you look at the driver lineup this year, Tyler Reddick, I've been blown away with how much speed that kid has. You know, I watched him when to race last year at Gannasi. He was in the same car that Kyle Larson was in. We knew it was fast. But for him to come in here, we already knew Justin and Elliot were going to be contenders. So, man, it's a pretty elevated platform for this series right now and what this shop's doing.

You're going to see a lot out of Tyler Redick. I think people have just scratched the surface to what that kid can do. He can handle a loose race car like a veteran. Yeah. Yeah, I've been nothing but blown away. All right. This was huge news last week. Low's not returning to the 48 in 2019.

I think this may be the biggest news of the year. I mean, unless we see it, I mean, I think the biggest news last year was Dale Jr. said he's retiring. And I think this may be the biggest news we see this year. I'm spot off for it. Obviously, I was part of the Sitgo Racing program when they were the longest tenure sponsoring Cup. And that was, you know, I got here in the mid-late 90s,

and obviously they ended their sponsorship at Rouse with Jeff Burton. So to see Lowe's who I know has been here since 1997 with Mike Skinner carried over to Robbie Gordon. You know, obviously went to Jimmy Johnson back in 2001, I believe it was for his rookie year, and to see a company that is based in North Carolina. You know, they were in North Wilkesboro headquartered. Now they're in Mooresville, five miles from where we're sitting right now. So they see a company that's based in North Carolina that has grown their business and leveraged our sports so much, man, it's a shocker.

And it's a shocker for me, not because they're leaving the sport. It's because they've done everything with Jimmy Johnson. They've been there for every cup win, every cup poll, every top 10, every top five, every championship. And to leave when he's probably realistically only got about a couple years left anyway, I think it kind of sucks for them because here's Jimmy Johnson who demands a lot of respect and a lot of integrity, but it also is a large investment for a new company to have to come in and make and make it for only a couple, three years. So you really got to have your plan B behind Jimmy Johnson already in place. I mean, when we look at, we're just talking about Tyler Redick. Like, is he the next Jimmy Johnson?

Because Hendrick has to be able to sell Jimmy for two years and then something longer because very few sponsors come in our sport. Thank goodness and say, I want to be here two years and I want to go home. They have a much longer plan. And when you start strategizing, you know, five, seven, ten years, Jimmy Johnson's not going to be a part of that conversation. His legacy, however, will attract you in and make you want to be a part of it. But the expense side of it, it's a challenge. This isn't going to be easy. And we certainly, I mean, when you look at big companies that are carrying the whole car,

it was Lowe's, it was M&Ms. FedEx is up there? It's FedEx. Joe Gibbs Racing has a lot of those sponsors that carry the whole season, but there just aren't a lot of them out there. So we may have to see him get four or five sponsors and piece together those four or five million dollars deals to make it happen. I say spot off. I'd love to say spot on because I'm so thankful.

We all are for sponsors to have that longevity, like an SDP did interstate batteries. But you look at Lowe's right now. I'm going to say spot off for this reason. They're missing out on a huge opportunity here. They've got seven titles with Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson could go out. Listen, this year if he doesn't get eighth, maybe Joe's hard. hardware stores on that thing next year, and he goes out there whoops their butt and gets number

eight, how's Lowe's going to look then? Okay, they're missing out on an opportunity to be part of the legacy of one of the greatest athletes in the history of NASCAR. And to me, knowing he has two, three years left, how do you not stay involved in that? How do you not finish what you started? Have that eight title that holding up the trophy with a Lowe's uniform on, this is a spot off for Lowe's. Yeah, it's bad for our sport. And everybody's focusing on. that. Let's focus on the legacy of Jimmy Johnson, and that really hurts. I think from the sponsor side, because I'm in marketing, it is so tough. I mean, I was with Miller Quartz for a very long time, and you saw they are no longer a huge part of the sport that they

were. It's not all because, you know, they just didn't see value in it. I think, like, for Lowe's, they were here and in the sport for so long, and they saw so much value. It's like sprint when they walked away. You can only get to a certain point sometimes. And I get it. But this is a different legacy. We're talking about being on the top of the pinnacle, being the guy that's on Mount Rushmore and NASCAR, possibly, you know, with an eighth title. And it's not out of the question. It's not like he's DW running in the back of the back. I'm confident that their Hendrik already has a sponsor or somebody that they're talking to because he's not a tough sponsor or tough driver to sell. He's a great. So I think they'll be perfectly fine. I think, you know, to your point, it's tough for Lowe's. I can't imagine it was an easy decision. I don't think it's something they wanted to do. but I think it's what they had to do for the business. They do focus a lot on grassroots now, which I don't know if you guys know this. They do a lot on, like, helping those who...

Well, then they should go sponsor a dirt car or something somewhere, a World of Allows car. Here's the thing. Bologna. Give me a break. They're grassroots. I'm worried about my sport. Yeah.

Okay? And if they're going to go grassroots, we'll then get out a cup and go sponsor a dirt car. I think we'll be perfectly fine. I think there's the thing. I mean, to certainly not disagree completely with what you're saying, but to disagree completely what you're saying. Of course.

You don't go from 100% of a sponsorship to zero. Like when your stock's at $82 a share or whatever they're trading at today and you're making billions of dollars, sponsors come into this thing for three reasons, brand awareness, which we do well, social and digital platforms and footprints, which we do well,

return on business, which we still do pretty well depending on how you're looking at it. And then a lot of them don't realize the fourth aspect of that employee morale piece is fans are looking at your car, cheering on your driver, with your name on the car.

Your employees are literally cheering for their own company. At no point during their eight-hour work data, they get that excited about anything than they do is see their race car out there running well and winning. So for Lowe's to not finish what they started with Jimmy Johnson, like if this were still Mike Skinner and he couldn't run top 10 to save his life, I get it. But that's not the case. You know, it's just, I mean, to Matthew's point,

it's hard for us to swallow the fact that you're bailing on something that has been so special. I think it's just a missed opportunity for them. To the history. Yeah. I mean, what are we talking, another 40, 50 million? And people go, oh, my gosh, that is so much money. There are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in this thing. Finish what you started.

Well, either way, I think he'll be fine and we will miss them. We are going to miss them. I mean, we're all going to miss seeing the Lowe's car. But, man, North Wilkesboro, like this small company builds a hardware store. It's a great American dream kind of story there. It is. think about it, but, you know, I think they're just bound out at the wrong time. And like you said, if they came scale back to 30, 40 percent, they would have that opportunity come homestead this

year, next year, the year after. If Jimmy's in that final four to be on that car and to put a bookend to that legacy. And I think it's a shame for Jimmy Johnson. It's a shame for our sport. And nobody's talking about this, but I think the biggest shame is Lowe's is potentially missing out on something giant that has forever impact. Yeah. All right. Let's take a break. This is the Exaltor Race Center update. I'm Natalie Saither. Both Cup and Xfinity competed at Auto Club Speedway over the weekend. Martin Truix Jr. won his first race of the season in the Auto Club 400, ending Kevin Harvick's winning streak.

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each three topics pertaining to racing and one. 30 topics. Three? I said three. 30 topics, it would be a lot. We can probably go all day. It took us like an hour for one of them. Not with our two mouths.

Forget about it. I'm going to need something to eat before going for 30 topics. She didn't bring in donuts today. First time she was. you didn't bring in donuts today, and I skip breakfast. I need to eat healthier. What are you going to bring me next week? Egg McMuffins. Green smoothie. Oh, Chick-fil-A, chicken biscuits. Tick-fil-A, chicken. That is not healthy. That's not my diet. We're trying to go healthy. I know. We are. Fruit. Maybe fruit. Bring me a fresh squeeze beet juice. Ew. What?

Yeah. Who are you? And where is Brett Griffin? It's good for you. It gets oxygen going to your brain. Well, yeah, you need that sometimes. I do. You should probably have more of it. That's what Jamie McMurray drinks all the time. Fresh squeezed beet juice with a little bit of apple juice with a squeeze of lemon and ginger. So maybe I'll bring like. What would kale say to that? And the first thing.

What would kale say? The first thing Jamie warned me about. He said, don't freak out when you pee. It does change the color of your urine. It's like a visual asparagus. If he hadn't warned me, I would have hit 911 because it's, it's alarm. What is it? It's a lot.

It's beet juice. It's the same. What we got? That's what it is. What does it look like? It looks. Okay. Red.

Yeah. Like your hat. Yeah. You're like, wow. Yeah. I'm not drinking anything that makes my pee red. Is that blood? Uh-huh.

And you're like, no, Jamie told me it's normal. It looks like you got to go to the doctor. Yeah. Well, this was off to a great start. But we're getting healthy. Yeah. You, I'm not drinking that. Why?

I'm not going to drink that either. No. I'll bring, like, I'll bring like, smoothies or something. You're getting married. I am. We went from chickful. You're a lay to, like, beat juice. Give me a break.

On that note, I have a PSA, like, I need your help. I need Bachelorette. Oh, maybe not yours. Nashville. Bachelorette party location. Nashville. Yes. So that's my top choice right now.

Yes. Austin, Texas. That was another option. Is it a flying deal or driving? We can fly. You can fly. That's my top big this ring is. They got their own plane.

See, you're ladies. I wish. You're ladies, okay. Ladies, Nashville. I'm hoping you can have a private jet ready for us. For ladies, I would say Nashville. Asheville, and what was the third one you said? Austin Texas.

For a guy, completely different. Myrtle Beach. So Chad's going to can't eat. Murdle Beach. Yeah. Las Vegas. Okay, big old man here is going to say, believe it or not, you're going to be surprised. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Oh, I go there all the time. I was thinking Nashville. That's what I was thinking. But we need, like, a reason. So I'm trying to figure out, like, if there's a concert or something. There's music every bar. The Ryman has a lot of music every day. Yeah.

And the Ryman's to most. Mother Church. You've got to go. All right. We'll have to talk. And then you walk around the turn from the Mother Church and there's like 20 darn bars to drink and listen to music. Well, I'm just hoping like Garth Brooks would come up with a concert and then I'll just go to that. But look, don't ever say that again.

When are you getting married? Do we know that yet? Our goal is, I have two-week window after Chili Bowling before Daytona. So next year? Yes. Next February. January. Next January.

26 is our hope. Where are you getting married at? Here. Here. In the studio? It's not big enough. So the Bachelorette party Yeah

Potentially will take place After the season is over No, so Chad's will take place in December He has to, but I don't really I mean, I'll do it on the off weekend I'll do mine probably I'd rather go somewhere before it gets cold So like if we do Nashville

Like September Yeah I'm thinking Man that's not close enough to the wedding The whole part of a bachelor party Or Bachelorette party It should be a yeah it should be that like Last hurrah.

You're got too much time in between. Hey, I'm getting married. I'm going to cut my hair and gain 15 pounds. Let's celebrate it. I would, except Chili Bull is right before the wedding, so I can't really, unless I plan to have my back to wait ready at a chili bowl. Go up for the Tulsa shootout. Stay at the hard rock and get after it.

People are going to comment on your Twitter and tell you what to do. My advice to you is go to Nashville. Rent a Airbnb, a big house near Broadway. Blow it out. No hotels. No hotels. No, we wouldn't do a hotel. I want like a place of the pool so you can just chill there.

Get you a badass house in Nashville. A place where you can cook some hangover means. I know some people there. Oh, okay. Well, then we'll talk. Blake's place will be open by then. All red. Old red will be open by then.

Okay, well, anybody else? Sounds pretty good. Just go with him. And you hookups for private jets, you know. I know how to have fun. You just trust me, Nashville. That's your play. Okay.

All right, we got way off topic. First one. Um, Harvick crashed after contact with Larson on lap 22 on Sunday. Who was at fault? Matthew. Uh, Kevin Harvick was. He, uh, admitted it. Uh, which, you know, for the love of God, you know, Kevin Harvick's a hard-known his racer.

He's awesome, but that might be the first time I've ever heard him come out and like admit causing something. Let's just say that. I'm not trying to hate on Kevin Harvick, but I was impressed that he came out and admitted it. He went down there, tried to side draft. It failed. He was a man. He's been stepping up lately from the short track thing and putting his neck out there, then putting his money where his mouth was going to Kern County to calls in Iraq and saying,

hey, it was me. That's awesome. I think it's great. I see Kyle Larson race a lot of people hard. Kevin Harvick's one of them. He tried to pack air in his left rear and wanted to and get him loose. Kevin knew that based on looking in his left side mirror. It was kind of like Kyle was flipping Kevin off.

This was Kevin's way of flipping him back off. However, it did backfire. It was Kevin's fault. When they hit, it turned right. Larson's car to the right, and it shot Harvick hard into the wall. It ended his chance to win four in a row. So obviously, Kevin manned up and said, I screwed up. But I think Kevin was just trying to give him a little dose of his own medicine and it backfired.

Who is the biggest surprise after five races, Brett? Man, I actually have two guys. Oh, geez. And I'm only going to stick with one, and it's going to be Amarola. I mean, he finished 13th into 500. He finished 13th the next week. He backed it up with two top tens. He finished 11th yesterday.

This guy couldn't finish on the lead lap at Pettys. Fast cars go fast. He's got in this 10 car at the right time. This 10 car group of guys, they've not ever went fast. So they're in heaven right now. Hands down, the biggest surprise is Amarola. Runners up, Monard. Hands down, Amarola.

There's no way you can argue that. Danica Patrick had five top 15 finishes. The whole entire season last year, he already has five top 15 finishes. He almost one day, Tony, finished seventh at Phoenix. Amarola is definitely by far the biggest surprise this year. Having been in this stable, the coolest part about it is last year we were a three-car team, you know, with a fourth car being active but not necessarily being able to pull out of information from it.

Now you got four guys. So your resources, your information, your data points, everything is increased. So it helps the whole organization, you know, basically raise the bar for their game. So it's a good thing to see being a part of it. And Emerald's got a lot of good tracks coming up. Martinsville, he's good there. Richmond, really good there. Three of the next four races will take place at short tracks.

In your opinion, has Martinsville, Bristol, or Richmond produced better racing in recent years? Which one of them has produced better racing? Yeah. Oh, out of the three, hands down, Martinsville. Martinsville's created more wow moments than all three of them combined. Richmond for some reason has just been kind of blah for it. It's so fast now. Yeah, and Bristol, to me, I like this version of Bristol.

I'm the minority here that actually loves this Bristol. But pound for pound, Martinsville gives you that physicality that you just don't see in any other NASCAR short track on this circuit. I think Bristol puts on the best race of these three because it's three grooves at a really. really small bullring where 40 cars are out there. And I think for me that's really exciting. But looking at what fans want to see, which is the old Bristol, well, that's done at Martinsville. There's one lane, one way around, people knock each other out of the way. They fight, they throw helmets. And that's ultimately what fans think is supposed to happen in short track racing, and it will at Martinsville. Off the wall topic. A blimp towed a water skier 6.9 miles in California to set a new

world record. Do you think you could stay up that long? I don't even, where do you come up with these? Wait, wait, wait. How did you finish that question? What was the last question? Do you think you could stay up for that long? For 6.9 miles. So a blimp.

By the way, how, how, how. 6.9 minutes will be a record. I was going to say how long does 6.9 miles take? Ask your wife. That. Jason. Who came up with a, who came up with this? up the way this.

Did you come up for this in Myrtle Beach? Yeah, I found it. No, no, no, who came up with a way this? I found it. Who came up with this? I was like, oh, this is going to be taken so bad. Who came up with the way this question is frayed? Just talking about a guy like being towed.

Could you stay up, hold on to the water ski? Yeah, exactly. That's all I'm talking about. That's exactly what it does not say. Is this in California? Does this not surprise you? Does everything stupid happen in the state of California? Or is it just me?

I just, man. Like, all the world records, why are you going to? Oh, I hung on for 6.9 miles. I've only water skied one time and I didn't like it. Can you say water? Water. What's wrong with the way I say water? He does say it funny.

Water. I'll kiss my ass. I say water normal. Where are you? Wait a minute. South Carolina was probably a colony before wherever y'all came from. I don't have an accent. We were in the original 13 colonies.

He even said an accent with an accent. Y'all are terrible. This question is horrible, Jason. You can't ask me a personal question at the end of it. All the all off the wall ones. Off the wall. Yeah, I can't say that. No accent or with an accent.

But dude, really? Water ski. So I think they establish that they cannot stay. No water skiing. So the one week I come on the show, I got a damn question about somebody towing somebody on a water ski. How do they tow them? Like on a boat? On a blimp.

Wait a minute. I miss that. So you're towing them on a blimp. Does that work? Let me reread the question for you. It was crazy. Do you think you could stay up for that long? That was the question.

The statement was a blimp total water skier 6.9 miles. I'll sure as hell try. In the land of the weird, California. I'll sure as hell try. All right. Well, let's skip that one. It had to be a big ass blimp to pull you, Matthew. Oh, hell yeah.

We're talking about the mothership of good year blimps. I'm not talking about that little thing. And you might see it go down like the Hindenburg telling my blimbs. One. reach key. All right. Let's end up to ask TVC. My favorite part.

Yes. All right. Producer Jason, I really hope you came up with some good. Hey, I thought these are pretty good. At Meg Nilsen asks, who is the UMBC,

which is the number 16 seed that upset number one, Virginia? I love that, by the way. Of NASCAR. UVA went down to some team that nobody had ever heard of. After being number one in the country. The retrievers? Like the golden retrievers?

Yes. My bracket is completely scary. Number one in the country loses to that team. That's phenomenal. Their Twitter account. Yes. They had a great Twitter account too. It was hilarious.

They were like roasting the other teams and stuff and roasting each other. They posted a video of them like the students partying on campus and the account said, shouldn't all be studying? It was like Friday night. It was pretty good. They almost play Kansas State tight yesterday. Yeah, it was really close. Yeah.

I've got an answer to this though. And it's not this year. But last year, to me, the Cinderella moment of last year was Jeremy Clements in the NASCAR Xenny series going out there and slaying the dragon man, David versus Goliath and just like killing it. Like, I mean, he had to get up on the wheel and do it too. Here's a little team from South Carolina when you go up to that garage. His dad is underneath the hood working on that car. And it's a bunch of volunteers.

They come in a Toby Heinholler with a toter home, not some big stacker rig. That is like one of the coolest stories in NASCAR over the past two years that wasn't talked about enough. Yeah, I agree. And you're 100% spot on for that one. And the hardest thing about it is when you say, this moment we're trying to describe is you're not supposed to be able to do this. Oh, he but somehow. But somehow you make it happen. And that's exactly what Jeremy did.

South Carolina boy, man. We're strong. That was awesome. You're going to make fun of his accent, too? No. Jeremy is actually very nice. He's got a good accent. Now you're insulting me on top of a bag of a lot.

But you don't really have an accent like normally, but when you say water, it kind of sounds funny. At least he doesn't say like a Long Islander, you know. Water. Wada. That's more than New England. All right. Velocity 88X asks, would you be opposed to a wild card spot on the schedule where they go to a different track every year on that weekend? Man, I would love this.

I would love this. You know, one thing about it. our schedule that I'm not a big fan of is how consistent it stays. And I feel like we could shake it up, go to different tracks. These chase tracks do not need to be the same and in the same order every year. I would be a huge fan of this. I think there's a lot of short tracks. However, it's a little bit difficult because the facilities have to meet NASCAR's expectations.

And a lot of these smaller tracks just don't have the resources to be able to go in and pull that off. But it sounds fun and I'd be game for that. I know Matthew would. Yeah, you know I'll be game for that. I mean, there's places like Kern County that are ready right now. Irwindale Speedway, those are two tracks out west that are ready for it right now. I just went to a modified race Saturday at Myrtle Beach Speedway.

There's no reason, well, especially if it was trucks, there's no reason we shouldn't be racing there. It's a crime to the fan that we're not taking our product to some more of those short tracks. And I think this question right here would lend to people. Most people would say, yeah, I want to go to a short track. not going to say, yeah, I'm going to pick Chicago this year. Right. If you're going to build a track, if you're going to build a track right now, ground up, I don't care what kind of track it is.

We all know it would be a short one because that's what I want to say. But where would you put it in the country? Well, right now there's a huge need for a track in the upper northwest, and I'm not, I've never even been there. And it's foreign for me. So I think that's the number one need demographically for NASCAR. But there's such a huge, huge fall in of this sport. up in the upper Midwest, you know, from, you know, that Kansas area, of course, but Wisconsin,

you know, you go to a race, any race that they had at the Milwaukee Mile or at Road America. Yeah. And they come in and droves and pack it. So I say we go to where the fans are. The upper northwest is starved for it, give it to them, if not, place like Wisconsin. That's probably what still amazes me the most about our race fans is we'll go to a place like Indianapolis that's a good market, a good city. and we don't bring a lot of people out to the racetrack.

That's because we're at it. But then we'll go out in the middle of nowhere, like Watkins Glen, New York, and we'll bring in 200,000 campers and just stay party and race all weekend. So, I mean, even Charlotte. I mean, we're, you know, our track's 15 miles from downtown, and we certainly have a good crowd here, but we don't, like, Road America. Oh, America's amazing. It's the middle of nowhere and all those people come out for, Michigan.

I mean, when we first started going to Michigan, I was like, holy cow, we're 90 miles from anywhere. And sure's the world, they come out about hundreds of thousands. It's the number one infill we go to all year. That's still the thing that amazes me is, like, I want to look at the market and go, where are the fun markets, where are the good markets. But some of our biggest attended races are just right smack dab and BFE. Yeah, you know. It's a good one.

Jared Lee 264 asks, do you all think it's time to shake up the Fox announcer booth? If you want to draw a younger audience, it ain't going to happen with what you got. like this charity it ain't going to happen speaking my language matthew you're your tv oh man you're going to put me on the spot on this one man i'll make you go first um i say it's time but um out of respected darrell waltrip uh who if you don't respect darrell waltrip uh for what he's done in this sport uh both in the race car and on the microphone um you're you don't really care about our sport um i think dw is going to bow out and i think it's going to happen sooner rather than later um he's a hall of famer and he deserves the chance

to be where he's at, and I respect that. I don't think we need to be putting youngins all up there. I think having relevant people up there is great, but I think we also need color, and I think that's what we lack up in the TV booth sometimes. You know, I think it's going to be great putting Dale Jr. up there for the NBC deal, you know, and especially if he stays being Dale Jr., you know,

that really speaks to the people. You know, I miss the days when you had Benny up there and Buddy Baker. I mean, you're not going to get any more, buddy, more colorful and real. they don't try to be a broadcaster. They go up there and he was Buddy Baker. And Darrell Walchert, for all his faults and people like and people don't, he's Darrell Waltrip. And that's what I think was attractive and is attractive about his tenure.

But yeah, I think DW would be bowing out at some point soon. Well, and I agree with what you're saying. I really felt like Fox missed a big opportunity when Dale Jr. was on the table and they didn't go get him. I'm shocked. Ideally, you know, who's more connected to the current race fan than Dale Jr.? probably nobody. The young and the old.

The young and the old. And DW is sitting there extremely disconnected from really anybody under 40 years old. So if you say we want to attract a younger audience, you're not going to do it with DW screaming boogety, boogity, booggyty, which worked for a long time. But he's kind of so far removed from the seat of the car. He's not in the garage a lot. You know, I look at Larry McReynolds, who's an older guy. He's still in the garage.

He's still doing the hustle. I mean, we talked about the hustle a little bit ago. He's still doing the hustle to do his good. a job as he can. But when I look at this Fox thing, I say, who you're going to get? It's not Regan Smith. He's not the guy that's going to help you bring a younger audience and people to connect. I mean, when these guys take their helmets off, they're not as big of a deal.

You know, Chase Elliott was number one in Daytona and souvenir sales. Dale Jr. wasn't. You know why? Because he took his helmet off. And when you take the helmet off, you change your game. But if you can get that guy that's accomplished as much as somebody like Del Jr. has, when they get out of the race car and be able to morph him. You know, my struggle for the Fox thing when I watch it is,

It's like DW and Jeff just sit there and argue. You know, their perspectives are completely different, and that's because DW is so far removed from the car. You know, Jeff's only a year removed, even though he's going to the Hall of Fame and he's supposed to be three years removed. I think, to your point there, though, I think Regan Smith works on Pitt Road.

Right. Because he does. He's got that good relationship and perspective for the drivers and whatnot. Colorful-wise, I think we really need to find the next person. I'm not allowed to you. If it were me, I'd call Carl Edwards and say, hey, man, what are you doing? I was just about to ask you a kid.

You're 37, you're 38 years old. You still got it. I even want more colorful than that. But you've got to have somebody. Man, I don't know right now. I have a current crop of drivers. I mean, you got to get somebody that's recent. Yeah, you got somebody that's recent.

You know, and I mean, let's face it, Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, they're not hanging their helmet up and go to TV for the next 15 years. So your ideal situation is a guy. who's around 40 years old, who has remained relevant in the car, who has contended to win races and championships and whatever series that may be, and you've got to put them in there and they tell a good story. That's a storyteller. I mean, that's all that guy is.

And it's not an easy job. That's why I like Larry Mack up there, though. People had opinions left and right on that one, too, but, you know, colorful, different. He's colorful, and he knows what he's talking about. And he does his homework. When I work with him, I get an email at 1 o'clock in the morning. But what the heck is he doing out there at 1 o'clock in the morning doing all this notes and studying?

I just don't want a guy that talks about me and I and what I've done. We know what you've done. And if we don't know, we don't know, we don't care. You know what I mean? You don't have to tell me how many times you won, Martinsville. We know it was eight. And if we don't know it was eight, we don't care because we either A didn't like you or B don't know who you are anyway.

I'm serious. I don't want to brag her on TV. It ain't the place for that. Fair. These are some good questions. I'm actually impressed. Thank you. A lot better than that off the wall question with the blimp.

I made up for it. He definitely made up for it. Anything you guys want to rant about? I'm pretty happy this week. Well, you ranted about everything else, like all of our questions. Did we get all the rants out? I'm exhausted. Hey, Ryan McGee made a good point this week.

What do you say? So he sent out a tweet. Then it basically said, my struggle with all the rule changes they made during the weekend. Is it the rule change? It's the message. You know, we're watching March Madness. And it's about upsets. and who scored and who played defense.

And the whole noise around our sport on social media is a rule change. So I thought he made a really good point. I think we need to somehow or another let that sink in to whoever's making these decisions to is we're sending out messages. And whatever message we send out, it's not, it's either going to be A qualifying or it's going to be B, a rule change. And we chose a rule change over qualifying and all the crap that could have been, you know, heightened around it. So I thought Ryan McGee made, and I'm huge Ryan McGee fan.

I thought he made a really good point of. That's our message on social media Friday was not who had the poll. It was not who did any. It was rule change, rule change, rule change. And if they had made that decision on a Tuesday, it would be talked about on NASCAR America and all that stuff. And it wouldn't have interfered. With the weekend.

With the weekend. Imped it would be. I'm going to text TJ. I want to know what you want to rat. No, I think. What are you ranting about? I think we should, no, no, we shouldn't text TJ about his DBC picks. We should have Dillner pick because he,

because he takes forever. Oh, yeah. Let me be, sorry, you're not here. He tends us back like two hours later. I'm going to be Pontiac, T.J. Let me tell you. Let me tell you how this works, though.

If you pick and you lose, he's going to forfeit. He's going to say, I, that way that cat. Attendance. He had to babysit his kid. So what? So what? Bring the kid here. Yeah.

We were to rocked her. It's a newborn, man. I'll give him credit. A guy names his kid, Stella, after a beer and won't drink a beer at Hooters. We got a question. We got a question. We got, I mean, yeah. Oh, well, I can't.

He needs an intervention. I'll go get a root beer. He needs an intervention. Intervention? Why? Because he's not drinking? He's sending me a pick. Anyway, I got to go first.

All right. Come on, you go. Man, I'm going to go with Amarola. Wow. That's a good one. Eric Amarola? Eric Amarola at Martyrville. That's who I'm picking.

If he gets me a good top five, top seven, he'll be a good day. And I don't have to burn anybody crazy. He's going to take Clint Boyer. Oh, really? I was going to pick AJ Amendinger for him because I think that's a this no no no no hold on I got to wait him for the road course I'm going to give him a victory and we'll see whose pick is better TJ's are mine I'm going to say you got to go with Jimmy Johnson because of the fact that did he pick Jimmy Johnson yet no no Jimmy Johnson because he needs something right now he does and you know the stars you know shine when it's their time to shine yeah and the pressure's on and that dude's always been good with the pressure on And no team needs a win more right now than that 48 team.

And who's the man at Martinsville? It was him. Jimmy John. Hey, he could still hold that wheel at Martinsville. Absolutely. So, you know, you look at him and Denny Hamlin as two of the guys on the top of the heap at Martinsville. And I'll just say, I think Jimmy Johnson wants it. Don't you hold the hot dog record up there?

Oh, my. Man, I was hoping this wouldn't come out. Like, don't you own, like, the whole sport record, like, 22 in one day? I don't know, because there's been unofficial documentation. but we used to have a Jesse Jones hot dog invitational contest in our little media room in the infield there. And heck, that year, the year I won, I was sponsored. Really? My stomach was sponsored by advanced auto parts and rigs racing.

So when I do interviews, I would say the advanced auto parts, Riggs racing, stomach is handling really well today. So what I did is I put out a huge number the first day, right, to scare everybody off. And Ray Dunlops on the front stretch the second day, he had had like six the first day. and he thought he was going to puke. Right. I went out there and just put out a number of like 18 the first day, scared everybody off. So it was a weekend competition.

Three-day competition, 52 hot dogs, one more than my dad's race start number. Oh, my God. And I'll never do it again. I didn't blow a motor. Dude. I didn't push water. I survived. I had a little bit of fuzziness in my face, maybe from the nitrates.

That whole beet juice thing sounds way better than 52 hot dogs. You need to put an IV of beet juice in me to get the head. health, you know, get the healthiness flushed out. But we're back to Jesse Jones, dude. I know. You spent a hundred and four. You spent $104 on hot dogs. No, well, I was sponsored.

So the sponsor took care of all of my costs for the hot dogs. And then I felt bad because it was a sin. It was gluttonousness. So I donated, matched the amount, and gave it to motor racing outreach. Yeah. That's good. That's a nice guy. Not, not really.

Don't do it again. Nice guys, don't eat that many hot dogs. Yeah, you're too old for that now. Oh, gosh. I wouldn't make it, man. I'd be going back on a rollback. Yeah. Well, thanks you guys for listening.

One main financial Exhaught the Studios. Another show is in the books. T.J. has missed his second show of the year. Two out of five? He's turning to last year's Kristen. Two out of five. I know. He's like Gluten Girl all over again.

Does she have a nickname? Casey? Casey have a nickname yet? Not yet. So Gluton Girl. She's looking at me like, don't you start one? Well, after last week's little segment, it could have been Yo Shorty. It'll be organic.

Yeah, I saw you put the, video of her. You guys are begging on her for being on a toilet and not being able to touch the floor. I mean, I am really sure. I'm not going to lie. It hurts trying to sit like this. I'm the opposite of you.

Just lay down. Yeah. We should just pull this up and let you like put your feet on it. That's what I'm thinking. I think we just need a legrest. Yeah. We got foot massager we hire once a month to come in here. Shelts will do that.

As long as you like Juergens lotion. I don't like the way of the lotion smell. It's got to be Juergens. Really? I like the baby, the Johnson and Johnson. Oh, God. This show's going on.

Oh, yeah. We are just, thank you guys. Talk to you all next week. It's been fun. Peace out. You've been listening to Door Bumper Clear, brought to you by One Main. For updates on Elliott Sadler

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