Door Bumper Clear - Kansas with Austin Dillon: Is Larson’s Biggest Threat Himself?

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

This week Austin Dillon joins Freddie Kraft, Tommy Baldwin, and Karsyn Elledge on DBC to recap everything from Kansas. From flipping birds to rotating Championship tracks, the group had a lot of ground to cover. In Spot On/Spot Off, the group debates Carson Hocevar's middle finger gesture in the Truck race, NASCAR electing not to throw a late race debris yellow, who is Kyle Larson's biggest championship threat, and NASCAR announcing a rotation of Championship tracks. Plus, they give their mid-season superlatives in #AskDBC, listen to entertaining calls from the fans in Reaction Theatre, and share their nominees for Shit Show Hall of Fame.Timestamps25:30 Spot On/Spot Off45:58 Reaction Theatre52:07 #AskDBC1:11:37 Shit Show Hall Of Fame Catch all the grassroots racing action live with FloRacing. Learn more or sign up at flosports.link/dbc1Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call [phone] for 24/7 support in Massachusetts, or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York. Want more DBC? Check out and subscribe to the new DBC YouTube channel! 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.

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Should we just go back to being assholes? Yeah, that's what we are, right? Let's continue being an asshole. I am probably closer to Tommy than anybody else in this board. What the fuck are you talking about? I think the two of you definitely have being assholes covered. Who can really be a bitch when they want to be a bitch?

That's the first person to come to mind. I try to stay calm. Here's what pisses me off about that. What is that supposed to be? Exactly what I said. Who are you? Who are you? Well, fuck it.

I guess we'll just go back to being ourselves. Yeah, we'll buckle up because you might get you feeling so. What's up, everybody? Welcome the door bumper clear. I'm Freddie Craftspotter for Bubba Wallace and just Bubba Wallace this week. I don't know it was a light week. No Xfinity racing. Tommy, how are you today?

I've been better. You've been better? I feel like your blood pressure might have been a little high on Saturday night. Has it calmed down a lot? Yeah, it's not bad. Did he just admit it wasn't $127? Was it? Did it get one?

No, it was still there, but the anxiety was a little nervous of a day. It was probably the most nervous of being a dad I had all my whole life, to be honest with you. But, yeah, we got through it. It was a little rough for Luke during the race, but he learned a little bit. Not as much as I wanted him to for the, you know, to run the whole race. But got himself a little jam off of two, and that was it. Yeah.

Carson, how are you today? I'm good. Had a nice relaxing weekend with my mother, spent celebrated Mother's Day. Cars tour was off. We're just gearing up for North Wilkesboro this week. Big week this week. Shout out to all the moms. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms.

And joining us today, a buddy of mine, Austin Dillon. What's up, man? Welcome to Door bumper clear. Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to the show. Yeah, it's like RCR month over here. And I think Kyle's doing Denny's show today too. So like RCR takeover of Dirty Mo Media.

But we got, you know, Kyle's here a couple weeks ago, Austin today. Derek Nealyn's going to be here next week. Kyle was great, by the way. Kyle's all your real. and your clips of Kyle. You never know what you're going to get. Yeah, Kyle, like I tell, like, you know, we've always been a little critical of Kyle on here,

and it's never really racing-wise. It's always kind of radio stuff most of the time. And I can tell, like, walking in, I'm like, I don't think he really wants to be here. But then about five minutes, then he kind of loosened up and was what he's been lately, which I think is his new social media personality.

Oh, man. It's like a 180 from where it used to be. Yeah. What do you think fixed that? I don't know. I think he's enjoyed being at RCR. obviously he wants to run better than what he is right now and can get frustrated time. But I think kids helps a lot and just where he's at in his career.

I think more people like him in a Chevrolet, truthfully. Yeah, I would agree. That video him this week with the makeup all over his face. When I first saw it, when I first saw it, I thought he got in a fight because it looked like the eye makeup or whatever. My mom and I were like, did he get beat up? No. I was a little worried about him. He came back from Cabo.

He went to Cavo for a trip, and then he posts that, and I'm like, wow, I don't know if I could do that with my daughter. And if I did, I would definitely, no cameras would be allowed. I'd lock all doors. Yeah, it was more power to him. So talk about your season. Here we are. We're at the All-Star break. We're 12 weeks in, now 12 races in.

Kind of up and down. I know you guys, you know, had a slow start, reeled off some top tens. Obviously got caught up on a wreck yesterday. But just talk about how your season and where you're saying at right now. Yeah, you know, I was really excited after Vegas. We went to Vegas and we had a car. It's probably the most cars I've passed in a mile and a half in the next 10 car. And we got in a wreck, but I was like, oh, this is great.

Bodes well for the season. We didn't even qualify great, but we kept driving to the front and then got in a wreck. But I was really excited. So we've started to come into some of these mile and a halfs. And I still feel like we have the speed, but we really haven't hit the balance where we needed to be. We've been over the, you know, scratch out some finishes. Those three top tens obviously put us back in a pretty good. good place. Yesterday I was really hoping that we could get our fourth straight, which would have

been nice, but we just kind of been loose the last two weeks and haven't been able to get the car where we need it. And we were able to do it at Texas by the end of the race. We were actually pretty good. But yesterday, I just kind of fought the car all day. But I'm really excited about our team. Richard Boswell is awesome to work with. He's a very good guy. He built a great team. We've got some new pieces of the team that's done well. And I've had my spotter for a long time, you know Brandon. So yeah, I feel like we're in a decent spot looking forward to North Wilkesboro this weekend. We were really fast there last year, qualified, I think on like a provisional pole and it rained with like one car left. And yeah, so it got taken away. But yeah, it would be

kind of a full circle if we could somehow win the All-Star race after all the crap that happened at Richmond. That would be awesome. Good way to get a million dollars back. No doubt. And like you touched on a little bit, but you guys made some big changes towards the end of last year in the off season this year. Do you feel like you guys are starting to see the benefits of of those changes now or you still win a working process? Well, I think so. KB was, he actually rated his car at Texas number one. So he felt like he could have won the race with the car he had at Texas, which is good. So I think overall, we have more speed in our cars this year, which is good. We just got to continue to work on the balance. And it's a knife edge, man. Like you, you touch one

thing the wrong way or you really have to like set the cars up for. a certain portion of the race and you're hoping it's the end of the race because at one point in the race you're going to be bad. I feel like everybody has that run in them and you've got to manage that. So yeah, well, I think we're working toward good things and I really like the hires that we had in the off season. We're good. For sure. And right now you're sitting, I think, 30, 31 points out of the playoffs. It's 22nd spot, but you're right there. And, you know, the biggest thing for me looking through your season this morning, you know, stage points is just a killer. It's a killer in this sport. I don't, I didn't see any for you this year. I think maybe some at Daytona in the

class. That was it. Oh, yeah. But, you know, so, I mean, how much of that is qualifying better? And, you know, where does that start for you? And how much of an emphasis do you guys put on that on a weekly basis? We're definitely putting an emphasis on qualifying. And like this weekend, the last couple weeks, we've been able to go out later, which is a big, you'd think is a big gain. And I used to qualify on the poll all the time in the Xfinity series. And even in the Cup series, I had a couple polls there for a while, but we're trying in the simulator to do a better job of modeling what we think qualifying is going to be like, getting more aggressive on it. But it's just so tight, man. You slip here or there and it's behind. So I've done my studying, but I think

less studying sometimes is better because you start thinking about every piece of the lap. And if you just go out there and drive it, it will probably, you get more returned on your investment sometimes. But I'm looking forward to Charlotte, getting to those places. And, Charlotte's always been a great track for me, and we need to qualify better for stage points. But we also, like, even if you qualify good, you see guys that qualify good. Michael McDowell is an excellent qualifier in this car. But they kind of sometimes back up and then maintain. So if we hit the balance, we can get stage points.

Like this weekend, that was one of the most frustrating things, is we put two tires on, that first caution, drove to like 15th. And I'm like, I see everybody I need to get stage points. But like our balance isn't good enough to make another couple passes. So I was telling Boswell on the way here, he was like, hey, you got a little frustrated. I said, dude, that wasn't frustrated me. Like, I just, when you're running better, it's worse. Like, if I was running at 25th, it'd be like, yeah, there's no shot at these stage points. But they were like right there.

So I was kind of complaining about what we had going on. But it was just because I could see points and I know how important those stage points are. Yeah, for sure. You know, we've come up last year, rumor-wise, you know, swirled a little bit about you, maybe getting out of the car eventually and going to the office. the front office side of things and kind of running RCR. Is that the plan at the end of the day whenever that day comes? And maybe what does that timeline look like for you?

How long do you want to continue driving? Yeah, you know, I've got another year of my contract right now. And truthfully, it's the trajectory of where we're at as a company. I feel like and where I'm at, I feel like I can still get it done and do a good job in the car and bring something to the organization. When I feel like I can't bring something as a driver to the organization, then, yeah, I'd love to help in any other. capacity because I feel like I know how to put good teams together and work together with

others. The stuff I've done, I've really enjoyed the Carolina Cowboys, the PBR side. So my grandfather's pretty much let me run that, which is nice, because he's the type of guy that he's going to have his hands on everything. And a little bit here and there. And he's really kind of giving me the reins on that. He still questions me on things. Like he look at his emails from the night after an event. Like, so hey, how's, uh, how's, uh, how's, uh, such and such. He didn't ride last night. Like, yeah, you know, he got a rank bull. It's, it's tough to ride them all. But it's cool to be a part of that. And then I had to do the contracts for the riders for the first time. So writing up those contracts and working with those guys, working

with agents, which my grandfather hates. He'll be really candid about that. And I've started to realize that myself. They're not fun to work with sometimes. But you know, you got to do all that and then provide, from a business standpoint, a good point. place where people can be partners with you, you know, from sponsorship and all that. And yeah, I think one day I'd love to continue the legacy that we have at RCR in any way possible. But, you know, he's still running strong, my grandfather, you know, he's got a lot of fire in that belly of his and he stays after it. So, but I mean, I think our whole family right now is closer than we've ever been at trying

to help him as much as we can. He's getting older. He knows it. So we're all kind of in that transition of what we can do to, to, to, to, keep RCR where it's at. We were in, I think, where we were Vegas, I think last year, and I sat down at Austin, and I was like, I just, it wasn't a mistake because I'm really into, like, the general manager side of things, too, like, every sport, you know, whether it's baseball, hockey, and we sat there for probably two hours, and he was breaking down the draft and

trading for picks, and it's, it's really cool to see how invested you are into it. And I think Hudson, did you, do you guys going fishing or something? Like, is that another deal? Going fishing, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. I was like, yeah, we go fishing. Yeah, I bought a charter or like it's like a charter system pretty much, a franchise. It's called the South Carolina Outcast. So it's a deep sea fishing league. It's called Sports Fishing Championship. And we won the first event, which was awesome.

But I partnered with a guy out of South Carolina that I hunt and fish with. It's named Charles. And he's got a really nice boat. And it worked out. So we put a team together. He's in charge of the crew and taking them out there. But our first event was in Fort Lauderdale. And we won one big check, 60 grand.

So that's cool. We caught 18 sailfish to win it, a three-day tournament. So those guys are rocking and rolling. And there's eight boats aside, I think. So 16 total, the top eight from each division. So four and four go to a big one in Cabo. So, yeah. Awesome.

Yeah, my wife's really excited about it. I was going to say I bet Whitney's excited about that. She's really into that combo. Well, we were looking at it, like, from an investor, It's the first time I've like spent my money on something. And it's like I was showing her and I was like, yeah, we got this opportunity to the sport fishing thing and these are where we go. I was like, she's like, yeah, I think it's great.

You should do it. And I'm like, that was quick. I'm in. If your wife says to do something, you better do it because happy wife, happy life. It's a whole new world, but I mean, it's just like I said. It's a whole other world. Yeah, it's a whole other world. We live in a little.

Yeah, we're in our bubble. Oh, yeah. Austin's out fishing and bull riding. Yeah. Yeah, but talk about your race yesterday. I mean, I know you got, ended up, I don't even know we ended up about 20th or so probably. Yeah, I think we finished 22nd wrecked. Yeah, so, yeah, we just fought the car most of the day, got a lap back on a lucky dog there staying out.

And I was like, all right, we're back in it. And then I think the 7 and the 67 hit the 7, and I was already committed the top. When you're like full commit on these restarts, there's not much you can do to miss a wreck. So we were three or four wide top and just kind of got through that, got a little damage. And the last race, that was the last run of the race was 40 laps straight on the damage. So we were just free. Yeah. And like you said there, you know, Bubba, you know, you're just in the hammer.

It's hard to turn back down the hill right here where you're behind him. They just barely clip us. The 67, the first couple laps struggled off of two. Every restart. He was really good, too, once he got going. Like, he was one of the better cars. I was racing around him earlier. I couldn't believe how fast that 67 was.

He was good, but he would struggle off a two for some reason. Get tight. Yeah. It's just, and it's a, you know, that's a tricky arrow spot where, you know, some of, I think the 42 wedges in there, bottom of four. Now you're, you know, he's on your left rear, and then you're on somebody else's left rear, and it's just. You get really tight when they bring that left side door down to you with these cars.

Like, it just pulls you tight. So he's getting used to that. Yeah. And everything's different. Like truck series, I remember when I first started truck series, like if somebody got on your left side door, you were just wrecked. Yeah. Like instantly.

And now it seems like they can run a little closer together. And these cars are a little different. Like the aero effects are like tighter in weird places. They get you get you tight. But that's about it. Yeah. It's interesting to what, you know,

when you see a guy coming in traffic. And if somebody just kind of drives up to your left rear, it's like they just like an air bubble just pushes you up the racetrack. We had that a couple times yesterday. Yeah. I don't know if you saw us and the two going out. And I figured you were getting a good chuckle out of that. But for our race,

you know, that was the same thing. I mean, we got caught in that same wreck. That was the end of our day. unfortunately, but we just got, we were running really well. Bubba was really aggressive on restart. Got good track position. And then we got to. Laugh one restart. Yeah, buddy, we got to go. He was ripped and we got up to like sixth. And then we green flag pit stop. We came in and

had an uncontrolled the tire. It's the damn, you know, it's unfortunate. I don't know how they call the rule, but, you know, the tire, we rolled the tire. You know, the right front changer takes tire off, just rolls it. Well, it rolled into the other team's box. But, you know, now he's coming in for a stop. So unfortunately, his guys were there and it was equipment interference. I don't know if he's not there. The 21 wasn't there. If that's even a penalty. It's not. So it's just unfortunate timing under Green Flag stops at the 21 ended up hitting the same

time as us. Was he one stall in front of him? Right in front of us. So it was like, we're coming out of pit road. That's a poor communication problem from the crew chiefs. That's like the one thing you try and stay away from is pitting on Green Flag with the guys around you in your pit box? That's like, that's one of the things where you're trying to...

Your pick crew's really mad too. Yeah. And you're trying to, what's happening is you're trying to gain an advantage of the guys that you're racing because there's a group of cars right in front of us that now we're trying to jump, you know, with the pit stop. So you're trying to call the stop as late as possible. But now what you do is open yourself up to the 21. Now we don't, we called it into three.

So, you know, so we call in the three, I get Bubba on Pitt Road. And now the 21, he probably has no idea that we're coming. They've already made the decision to pit. So, you know, it just got. I'm sure Tommy being on the box in his lifetime, he never really got mad at somebody for doing that. Never, never, never, no. Tommy doesn't get mad about anything. Yeah, so that just put us a down-a-lap, and then we just stayed a lap down until that restart,

where we finally got back up in there. That's exactly right. The problem is now, and you know the pit stops are everything, right? And understanding the time lost, time gain, and what happens? I mean, you look at the 11 car yesterday, again, they had clutch problems. They were really bad on pit road, I think for that reason. Yeah, because I looked at one time, I was like, man, that's not like them. But the one green flag stopped, they stayed out.

And it's like, all right, I'm going to really watch this run. What happened? So he stayed out probably eight laps longer than the leader than most of them. And he went from 11th to 27th, about three quarters of a straightway behind the five. And he drove all the way back up to 10th or 9th and got stage points. Wow. And just. Yeah, I feel like I remember that because I think I passed him in the like wherever.

we were running and then he came back by me rolling yeah i mean it was like i just wanted to see what he was doing and how he was setting up the cars and how he was passing everybody and it was it was it was he did it twice he had to do it before he uh finally had the clutch issue for good he did it that run as well and it's just his it would have been uh he would have gave the five car run for his money i believe yeah and that five car but larson obviously dominates the race led like 200-some laps wins. But it wasn't great on super long runs. It seemed like he would wear the tires out pretty good.

I don't know if he was just taking it easy at the end. I don't know. I was being a pain in the butt to him there at the end of stage one. I saw the stage, yeah. I was doing every day I could. But you have to. Thanks. But you have to.

Make your race. If you could make that lap back. And then we got tight the next run and then I couldn't defend him when he got back to me the second stage. So being loose was actually a little better than being tight. the end of a run. But, yeah. Tire management was pretty important yesterday.

I mean, there were a lot of guys that just go and then fall back. And you could see the nine car. I mean, obviously he was really patient in the middle of the race there. That was weird at the end of the race. You know, he was so good at one point. I mean, he took the lead, right? And then they had a bad pit stop. And he couldn't go anywhere.

Talk about that. I want to get back to tires in a minute. But we try to explain it on here, but like maybe you can do a better job from the seat. just how much tighter your car gets in like further back and traffic like if you're up front or leading like it's I feel like it's just a completely different race car once you get back you know four or five cars in front of you your car changes completely well you need your car balance it's like different throughout the field the further back you get the more sideways you need to be to be able to compete and then when you get to the front you're like all right we can start tightening this car up so I can make more pace at the at the short run or you know in cleaner air

so it's very tough you got to you got to you got to have to predict where you're starting. If we're starting, if we don't qualify good, we start freeing up our balance, you know, that night. We're like, all right, we got to be freer than we want to be. But you have to be because the air just pushes you around and keeps you tight. And you're constantly just looking for air. I mean, that's the race on entry is who can put themselves in the right position to not be in dirty air, leaving the corner. And you've got guys that are excellent at driving out the back mirror. Like, I went back and watched Ross. at Texas because I ran him down.

I'm like, what is his spotter telling him? And then I listen to Brandon and Branden's like saying nothing. Brandon's asleep up there. Yeah, he's like, he waits until like you're there. He's like inside, outside. And I'm like, dang, Ross is spotting himself right there though out the back to block. But, you know, it's a tool now more than ever to hold track position and just make you really frustrated because it's that tight.

I mean, you just, you gain more steering angle when you're behind somebody. Yeah, you'll have to, you'll have to apologize. Kyle for us because we held him up pretty bad. But we were the lucky dog and Jonesy was behind him and we just couldn't get behind Kyle and then get tighter. We had clean air in front of us. We're just

fast enough to hold Kyle up and I'm sure he was losing his mind on Derek. Because Derek came down one time and just like, he's like, I was like, sorry buddy, I'm not, I can't move right now. We're racing for the dog. You know it's so funny to me like you tell your spot, hey, go talk to this time. I bet you guys are up there like hey, this guy's going off.

Everybody's got their own story. Yeah, it's funny because, you know, yeah, like a lot of times, like, Bubba's really never, I mean, like something happens, he'll just be like, go down there and tell him, don't, don't forget that happened or something. Like, I'm not going to forget, you don't forget, or something like, yeah, I got it. Yeah, no problem. You probably did make a 360 and won't right back to your spot. Yeah, I don't even make a 360. I don't even leave the room. But then there's other guys that come down screaming and yelling and you're like, go away.

You're like, I'm not driving the fucking things. Leave me alone. But there, it's funny. But, yeah, no, that's definitely. Brandon, he's not one. He can get fired up. I don't. He can definitely get a little fired up up there, but he's...

I think he's a little... Because of Ross, he's... I'm talking about... Oh, Austin's... But, you know, Big Reynolds. Mick Reynolds is not going to... He was actually really fired up in the elevator yesterday for some reason. I don't know what had him all worked up, but he was getting...

I was like, I'm not around Ross and start this race. Brandon's on the chip already. But, yeah, Ross usually don't need any help. No. But, you know, talking about, you know, going back to the race, tire issues, how much, obviously, air pressure, rear cam, a little bit, you know, how much that played an issue, obviously. Because the guys at Blue Tires were also the guys that happened to be really fast.

Yeah, I mean, it all multiplies into an issue, you know, between that and running the car so low on the stops in the shocks. You know, you add all those three things up and you're going to have an issue. And I think probably seven or eight of us had issues in practice. Yeah. At first session, it was like, bang, bang, bang, oh, no. And then you just start hearing the chatter on the radio. I was like, all right, what do we got to do? Do we need to come up, raise the car up, put more air in the tire?

Instantly, that stuff's going on for your second group. Right. So you see less of it because the field is making adjustments to it. How, Austin, how aggressive do you want your guys to be? I mean, you know, like if you're, if you know, if I take, you know, there's a I want them to be perfect. Perfect would be great. But I mean, like, do you, do you want to be on the cautious side of it to, you know, not have an issue?

Or do you want to just, like, the six look to me like he just went right. the six was fucking hauling ass in practice. I looked down and we were in our first group and I like, all right, we're pretty good. I'm looking at our little group there. And I'm like, we run a 90. We're the best in this group here. And I looked down. He was like a 68.

And I was like, oh shit. I'm like, he's three tenths better than us. I was like, and he's pretty tense better than everybody. And then like two laps later he blew that tire. And I was like, okay, that makes sense. And then it looked like he went right back to that because he was hauling ass running the leader down right before the tire blew again. So I mean, it's like they, like you want the way.

You need to win a race, but what's the cost? Well, I mean, in a situation he's in from a point standpoint, I think he was making the right call probably. The only setback at these cars, it seems like, when you get a good car, you don't want to lose it to a wreck. Like if that car is destroyed, which I don't think it was bad. Yeah, I mean, it's, it got the wall. Yeah. You know, it's tough. If that's like his best car, it's a setback to the guys back at the shop for a couple weeks.

But you got to, like, that's probably a clip there. Yeah. He hammered it. yeah so you've got a good car you don't want to lose it completely but they're they're racing for a win you know i i don't if they knew that that tire wasn't was going to blow out they probably would do something different but you know it's tough uh they obviously figured something out so they'll probably be able to use that somewhere yeah and and not blow a tire i don't know how low on the air they were or if they were on the stop just too hard like tommy was talking about that blows pretty early before

any kind of bump there. And usually the damage happens at the beginning of the run. So like, we were kind of chatting about, we were chatting about in practice the first two laps. The guys like, hey, we want you to run low the first two laps because it's going to be easier on the tire from a load perspective. So I ran the first two laps, even though I wanted to be on the top to start run in practice, we just ran the bottom to kind of let the air build and not be as hard on the tire. With that being said, that was the first time he had to run hard right from the get-go on the restart because he was up front there. There you go.

So, I mean, maybe he crossed that bump hard, that first lap or two, and it might have broke a belt loose or I don't know. And it's interesting. It was the, you know, he. And Kyle blistered a tire there. And that was a right rear, right? So, I mean, you saw the guys with left rears be able to kind of get back somewhat to pit road and manage the right rear is today, ender. Yeah.

Yeah, and that's interesting because he, interesting, because he blew a left rear in practice and now, you know, right rear in the way. And Tommy, how hard is it for you on the box? How much of an adjustment are you making? I mean, you're talking tenths of a pound, I mean, like. Yeah, I mean, you're a 16th around in the left rear will change the load, you know, throughout the whole lap of the, around a lot. So you.

Around is a ton. Yeah, I mean, and then you're like, well, now how off is my sim, right? is to sim off and it's more load. So then you start thinking all of these things, right? So, you know, it was really interesting because these tires, the same tires that we ran at Vegas, same tires ran at Texas. And like the load from those tracks, like Texas has got a lot of load. And we didn't really have tire issues.

And so. But, but this is the smoothest track. So we ran, well, all of us showed up really low, really aggressive before that reason. So this was a pretty good test of. And supposedly this was a new, like, batch of tires too possibly so then you got that factor and in there like is this a

good year thing or I don't know it's always always something a little different it is a good year thing we just torture them yeah hey it's Dale Jr. did you know that we've got brand new merch from our star stripes and beers collection available now we've got tanks teas

beach towels and more just in time for summer check it all out at shop.dirtymomedia.com all right we're ready for a little spot-on, spot-off? Sure. Spot-on. Spot-on. Did you want to go first on this one?

I think he's a whiny bit. That's what I think. Send it. Why me? All right. Hosevar flips Lane Riggs off as he crosses the finish line after a battle for the win on the last lap.

Spot-on, spot off. Tommy, I'm going to let you go first. I know you're a huge host-of-ar fan. Basically the president of his fan club. No, I mean, look, the kid drives the wheels off it. And you watched it yesterday. Literally sometimes. Yeah.

And you watched even yesterday driving the wheels off it and wearing it out and going right, you know, falling back. But I don't know what he would be mad at because he would probably do the same thing and more. Yeah. And you know what? Knowing him and his mentality, he probably stuck that hand out with the finger having fun. Like, you didn't get me, you know. it's just you never know what's in his mind um but uh i don't know i don't know car man you got i don't know i don't know i don't know that he has a great personality and the sport needs personality

but i just i don't know it's child yeah i yeah it's you cross a line when you're just trying too hard to to be a personality you know like that's a great way to put it you know like yeah that's where i i mean look he he don't care he will he he will he he Oh, he cares. He cares. He cares. He walks through to pit area. He cares so much about what everyone in the I garage area thinks.

Yes, he does. He did that to make other people care. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just for me, it's like a maturity thing of, you know, you got sponsors on the side of your truck. You take, it's one thing. I'm sure Austin's probably done it. I think every driver's done it. Like in the heat of the moment, it was, it was a badass save, finish the race.

Like, all that's cool. Take that. Yeah. The fingers won. and you're like mad. Yeah. Yeah. Like,

you just won the race, bro. Well, you guys got a little, you and Blaney and Bubba, they have a little game that they play. Yeah, I mean, every time they pass each other that comes out. There's an arm out the window

every time they pass each other. I don't know what fingers are up or not, but they're doing it. But yeah, for me, it's just, you know, I mean, you've got a sponsor on the side of your truck. You just ruined your victory lane, your check the flag shot

because you got your middle finger hanging out the window. Then he not only does it on the middle, like taking the checker, but he does it basically the whole cool down lap as well. So it's just for me, I mean, and, you know, Austin, talk about this. You know, Lane being aggressive there, but how hard is it? You just ran this guy down from God knows how many seconds back, taking the white flag, you know, like, I can't really fault Lane for taking that shot.

Maybe you should have waited until three and four because I thought that's where he was a little bit better than Carson. But, I mean, how hard is it to get there and just not take a shot at it? I mean, you know what I'll do for a shot at it. I thought he was in the right, plenty, you know. Shit, he was like four or five lanes, four or five cars closer than you normally. Yeah. That's where you would have went right there. I don't know what he was doing right there. He still had him. He had a shot. Yeah, so I don't know. I mean, look, Carson actually reached out to me because we've raced

each other a couple times this year at Martinsville at the end of the race. And I was actually proud that he reached out and had a good conversation with me because I really didn't understand him for a while. but you know he's the moment you know it's probably at the time he's thinking that was the one of the coolest finishes he's probably been a part of wins the race good job doing it holding on to it but it just didn't turn out the way you wanted to when you when you stick the finger out the window i mean i've stuck the finger out the window a lot not not crossing the start finish line for a win but uh it's just it's timing's everything right like understanding that and

he's going to look at it like damn that was stupid not yet yeah yeah about to 10, 15 years. Yeah. It'll be a while. Hopefully he has kids and he's going to go. And, you know, I saw a lot of people, you know, Carson's damn, you know, that he would done the same thing, like you live too. Listen, you know what you're getting with Carson.

I don't think he, I don't know. You know, he's just super aggressive and he's going to take every hole you give him, every opportunity. And as long as you expect it, you know, you got to see it coming. If you're not, if you're not anticipating it that you're in equal opportunity asshole. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody kind of knows where you stand.

Bubba said, Bubba said, I don't have a problem. with him because, you know, he doesn't really run me dirty by any means. He's aggressive. He goes, and I just give it back to him. And then, you know, that's it. I just race him, how he races me. If he don't like it, that's his problem. It's probably just worse because he's a goof, goof, troop. Yeah, he's in the goof troop. So it's worse when they do that to you. Goof Troop. I love it. All right, NASCAR elects not to throw the caution with four laps to go after Hosevar's tire comes undone. Spot on, spot off, Freddie. I'm spot on. I don't think it, I thought, I was in the car at this point in that

We're running for Joey to get down there after the race is over. But, you know, I talked to Tyler this morning, green, his spotter, and he said that they just wore the tire out. It didn't really explode. He didn't. They felt like they really threw any debris out there. And we've kind of seen this trend with NASCAR, I feel like we saw it last week with the 17. The 17 cut his tire. He made a whole lap, and they weren't going to throw the yellow until the entire carcass came out and ended up on the racetrack.

So it's like we always talked about as long as they're consistent with that. And, you know, if you're waiting for either the carcass or a bigger piece of debris to be out there to warrant the caution, I'm good with staying green, especially in that scenario where you got four to go because you throw that checker. You throw the yellow flag there, and we might still be there trying to fucking make restart. So, you know, I don't have a problem with it here. And I don't, I obviously wasn't on the roof. Yeah, I mean, he was struggling for three or four laps, you know, before that hard. You said he drives the wheels off. Yeah, yeah.

He drove the tires off it for that run, that's for sure. but yeah, it was a good call. I mean, they actually said 77, get them down, get them on pit road. So they were watching them. I mean, I'm assuming you agree, like you don't want just cautions for the sake of cautions. No, no. You mean, you want it to play out, you know, most of the time unless it benefits you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They never feel like they benefit you either. Like, no matter what happens, you feel like you got the wrong end of it. Yeah. Last week when Jesse spun, I was like, yeah, thanks, pal. Good job. mate. Did you call that one in? Yeah.

He said, thanks, buddy. He got a bonus. That's a good round. That's how he got this race this week. They're like, oh, you know what you did this is? We'll get a champion. Just in case Austin needs a deli. All right.

After dominating multiple races this season, Kyle Larson's biggest championship threat is internal mistakes. Spot on, spot off. Tommy. Hit it. Is he the number one leader for the championship? Everything? Yeah.

Yes. But I still think there's some guys out there that are capable of doing it. If they put everything together. Look, the five car is constantly every week putting their stuff together. And a bad week is third or fourth, right? So, you know, I think there's some guys that will come into their own when it's time because they're always... Who are you talking about?

I think the Penske car is a really... Oh, is it really good? I think the Penske guys are really, really good at working. towards the last... Showing their cards when it matters. Yes, and I think they do a really good job. And I think they, every now and in, they'll see what they got. And then all of a sudden, you'll see them back off a little bit

and work on some more things, different things. And Blaney was good yesterday. Yeah, he's, I mean, obviously he's going to be a... They definitely know when to take their shots it feels like, right? Yes. They really just, you know, picking and choosing, but, you know, maybe they just have certain tracks that they're very good at. Yeah, and I just think they work if they're in the championship.

now they're working for the playoffs. And that's what they do. And I think the 11 car, obviously, if they put everything together, they have a really good shot. But, you know, Kyle, I mean, if they hit on it, you know what he's going to do. I mean, it all starts for qualifying, right? It starts the week before, right?

For sure. Where you go out, right? And then your pit selection. And then sometimes you can't even think about strategy because of the pit stall you're in. Right? And so it's all that pit stall. location is, you know, where it'll be even more important is Charlotte.

Charlotte's the worst pit road we got. And if you don't get a good pit stall there, you literally can ruin people's races. Right. It's crazy. Right. So, I mean, it's just the whole thing starts. And I think what you're going to see what happens is these guys got a plan, right? And they're going to start planning two, three weeks before the playoffs to get themselves

in that position for all these things to happen. Right. And I think, again, the playoffs show the strengths of the strong teams. And I think, yeah, all right, let the five. car go do what he's going to do, you know. Let him think what they got, you know, and then all of a sudden you're going to go, oh, here's some other guys coming along here. For sure.

There's always some suspects that show up late. I mean, if you get hot now with the playoffs, it's hard to give a favorite, really. I mean, I think Kyle is the favorite every week right now. But like toward the end, the playoffs, people get hot at the right time, and that's all you need. I don't think it's about getting hot. I think it's properly planning. Yeah. That, you know, it's strategized.

I just think that these guys are really good. I mean, it's just, you know, it's proper planning to see the picture of where they need to be at what time and go with it. The problem with that scenario, I don't disagree with any of you, because I think that we've seen that the last couple of years with the Penske cars, they just got to find their way to Phoenix. And then once they get the Phoenix, they wear everybody out. But the problem with that is Larson is racking up playoff points right now. He's on a mission that's going to surpass his. his 2021 season. He's already got 23

playoff points and we got what 14 races left before the playoffs He's already bought himself a race. He ended that 21 season with 30 playoff points so I mean that's a win

in two more stages and he's right there already so he's going to have himself I mean that's not even counting what he's going to get for probably winning or being in the top two or three of the regular season that's another 15, 10 points probably

so I mean he's going to be basically I mean he's going to have to really struggle in a couple rounds to miss the final four or a rain delay at Indy Yeah. I wonder how that's going to go because I thought they were talking about Andy. Then they said there's no more like waivers.

Yeah, there's no more waivers. So I'm assuming. So I'm guessing there's a backup driver in Indy. Yeah, Kanaan is going to run. I think Indy. Okay. But he's talking about this week coming back from the All Star if he was going to miss the fast six qualifying or something to get to the All Star race. We'll see how that works.

But yeah, I mean, this guy is just on a mission right now. He's got three wins already, eight stage wins. So he's just racking up the points and he's going to find himself. If it keeps up, basically a buy to Phoenix. So, you know, it'll be interesting to see there, but once he gets there, he's still got to beat those guys. Again, they have their plan, and some other guys are sitting back, have their plan.

It's going to be interesting how it all shapes up. Yeah, for sure. Well, speaking of the championship race, as of 2026, the championship race will rotate to different tracks for the finale. Spot on, spot off, Austin. I think that's great. I like that. I mean, personally, I love Homestead as the final race here.

It's such a cool place. like the weather's nice it's just cool to be down there at that time of the year and that race track is like a racer's track like you can just find speed all over that track and it's just come into its own is one of the best tracks that we go to and it's a fun track to race on from a driver's standpoint I think it's good to move the championship around I'll be interested if it's just like west coast races because of you know the time frame like would you run a cold track Like, is Charlotte too cold at that time frame at the end of the year? Or, you know, will SMI get one of those races as the championship race? Or will it be, you know, NASCAR only ISC? Is Vegas a shot at a championship race? I think Vegas seems like to be a place that championships are fun to celebrate in. Yeah.

So, and then, you know, if we're going to move them around, why can't they have, like, the banquet right after those races? Like in Miami or in Vegas, just the next couple of them. day. It's all you used to do for affinity and trucks. It was so much fun. Like, blows Miami, it was good times. I think that, I think that would be the plan. The rumor is, we're going to Vegas after Homestead if they get that deal done. I think the plan would probably be that, you know, Sunday, or Monday, Tuesday, whatever, were maybe later that week. Yeah. Maybe a snow race in New Hampshire out there. There you go. And I think the plan, like the, the rumor, if it goes to Vegas, the plan would be SMI and ISC make a swap where they get the chance.

Campitjip race and maybe IAC gets the all-star race for that season. Okay. So that would make a lot of sense, especially in 27 where we would maybe, maybe move the clash somewhere internationally and you move the all-star race to Bowman Gray, which would be really, I mean, that would imagine a million dollars on the line at Bowman Gray. Let's go to Bono and Gray. 100%. So that would be, that's the way that might play out.

I'm just interested to see how many tracks. I think everybody, I think everybody was happy to hear Homestead. I think everybody was happy to hear it's going to be a rotation. I think everybody, or on the racing side anyway, was happy to hear Ben say that the drafting plate style tracks are not in the equation to be the championship race right now. So that was a bit of a relief. Road courses too. No, road courses? Thank God for that.

Yeah, we don't need that in our life. But yeah, it's interesting. And, you know, I just hope it's. SVG would be getting paid if that was the case. Yeah. But it's, you know, it's, you know, I don't know. There's places like, you know, And it's funny because I think Kansas is one of our best racetracks.

And the crowd was not there yesterday. So are they going to support a race in November? Probably so because if it's a championship race, but you're playing with fire there because, I mean, everybody's, we mentioned it here a couple weeks ago when we were talking about this. And they were like, well, it was 55 or 60 degrees here this year at November 2nd. And I was like, okay, but I imagine it's pretty easy to be five inches of snow at sometime too. So, you know, you're playing with fire with stuff like that. Charlotte, I think would be a great race for it. again weather concerns there maybe but I just want to see it I don't want it to be I'm afraid that

it might just be like a three race you know they might just be a homestead of Vegas at Phoenix and then you repeat which is still better than what we have right now but I want to see it kind of expand up to more racetracks if they're if if it's available to us I would love for them to find somewhere where we haven't raced yeah right so it's even playing field for everybody like all year you're talking about oh yeah for like like hey man we come out with this cool idea of Obama and Grey in North Wilkesboro. Let's go find somewhere else. Yeah.

Well, I think what phrase I'd second ago, like the crowd at Kansas was probably a little down. Yeah. And they're suffering from the two races probably. You know, anywhere that gets two races, there's certain places that can definitely hold two races and it's great. But I like the one race strategy. You see it work at these other places and people just pack out these tracks. So I'm for one race at about everywhere. Yeah.

Like there's only certain places that we should be able to go to twice and maintain the crowd. Like if you go below a certain number on the crowd, we're going somewhere else. And you see it like, was it, Pocono, Dover, I think are great examples of, you know, Texas. Texas. Yeah. Texas. That crowd was great. Yeah.

And I think that there's something to that of, even if it's not a new track, just somewhere that we don't, you know, we run two races of Phoenix now. You know, so let's go somewhere where you don't go earlier in the year and be able to build a base lineup. up or something that you're going to, you know, you have to, you know, plan for just that one event, you know, I think there's something to do that. Let's go to Cletus's place. Freedom Factory. Oh, boy. No pit stops.

No pit stops. No pit stops. 300 laps straight. And then we'll have a break then you've got to do opposite. Sound like Tony now. Carson, anything got you fired up this week? I actually am thinking I'm going to have to either burn my house down or move. I was moving rugs yesterday from my front patio to my back.

Lifted up the back patio rug. There's a fucking snake. A snake. And I'm by myself. I don't have a boyfriend. Nothing. My dad's not. No, here we go.

Nobody to come pick the snake up. And so I called Caitlin, my friend Caitlin's husband, Brandon. I'm like, hey, there's a snake under my back. Like, I dropped that rug. I was like, I'm out of here. Called him to come pick it up. He gets there, lifts the rug up. It slithers between.

there's like a hole in the corner corner of my concrete where my door is. Freaking thing goes down underneath the concrete. Gone. Gone. A two foot long copperhead gone underneath the concrete of my back patio. You don't know where it is. I don't know where it's at. I don't know where it's at.

I don't know where it's at. I don't know where it's at a shitload of them. No, it was my wife. She said if another snake. This is bad though. Like you at least were outside, correct? Yeah. Okay.

But now I'm scared. Like it went underneath. I'm like, what's next? Is it going to come out of my vent? Like it went under my house. I had to get, I had two snakes in our bathroom. And then one slithered through like across the man-takes. These are different times, I assume.

Yes, three different times. And I killed all three. I got two of the three. I think I killed all three, actually. Got all three. And like, I kept telling Whitney, it's like, yeah, it just happens. And she was like, no. And she even went to like, I lived in my parents' house for X amount of years and never had a snake in the house.

And I'm like, I had to call her dad for help on that one. Like, hey, man, can you help me out? I need a little assistance. Tell her it's like, it happens. And he's like, no, it doesn't. I'm like, oh, okay. Well, so, like, I was calling everybody I knew to figure out, like, we had three different pest controls. I mean, I've fired more pest control people than you can imagine.

And we finally, I think, sealed everything off. But they were getting in the crawl space or something. And yeah, it was bad. But we've fortunately not had, I love the house. I didn't want to sell it. I like where I'm at. You got 60 acres. It was nice.

It was going to be me or the house. And I was like, golly, I got to fix this steak problem. Well, I'm going to need you to send me whatever you did because I'm scared now. I am scared. We'll call Ward. Get Ward over there. He'll fix it up for you. I don't know if I should just like put concrete, like just quick creed in that hole and just trap it down there or.

They don't stay in the house. You want them to go back out? That'll dig in. Like poison it. Is there like poison I can dump down there that'll just kill it? I don't know. We used to know. Megan, so I'm on the road one week, and Meg's at home, and she's like, I want to replace, we moved in the house. They did the landscaping. We built the house and they did the landscaping for you to start with. And so they put all like pine straw down, pine needles. And I was like, Meg's like, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like, take it out, I guess. I don't know. So she's like, I'm going to just put mulch down this weekend if you're going to care. I'm like, no, I don't care. You do whatever you want. So next day, she calls me. She's like, nope, we're moving. I was like, why? She's like, I was digging through the pine straw, picked up a snake. Oh, God.

She dropped it. He's like, I went back in a household John. John, you got to get rid of the fish. There's a snake out there. You got to get rid of it. No way. Yeah, and I didn't have like a shovel or anything. Like when I would have saw it the first time, I probably would have just like killed it myself.

But I didn't have anything to do that. I used a two iron. It's about a, all the iron is good for. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. And I would be less scared if it was like a garden snake or something, but it's a copperhead. And I don't want Wilson to get bit. Oh, is a copperhead?

Yeah, it was a baby. Well, baby, two feet long. You don't know where to mom. No, I didn't know what it was. Brandon said it was when he came over and looked at it. Mine were like king snakes, like little king snakes. And they look kind of funky-looking, but they're not brown. Like a copperhead's kind of brown.

Got that diamond-shaped head. And, you know, the whole rumor forever, everybody's always like, you know, black snakes are good. They'll kill copperheads or whatever, too. Or like they are king snake or black snakes are fine. They'll kill copperheads. I had a picture from my property in West Virginia or a copperhead and a black snake were under a rock to together. It's like that whole They're hanging out. The black snake

wouldn't kill back out. We got everybody a fool, don't we? They're making some kind of new snake. That's what's got me fired up. If you see my house go on the market soon, that's why. All right, let's get into reaction theater. Enough about the snakes. Fans can call in and voice their opinions

from this weekend's race. Let's hear from you guys. How many calls do we have today? Andrew, did it get any better? I know we were worried last night. We got about 20 more calls. after I texted. We were a little light in terms of people calling in this week. So, so, like, when you guys tweeted us about how bad reaction theater is, that's your fault. Yeah.

We're not calling ourselves over here, folks. So, you know, if you want the better calls, give us some. We would have, we would love to play them. And I will say it might be therapeutic to leave a four-minute voice message, but I won't be listening to all that. You're not going to listen to the five minutes. 10 to 15 seconds is the sweet spot. All right. Well, better call. We'll see how these calls are. And if not they suck again. It's going to be your fault. You guys got to do better next week. All right, here we go. D-Me's great.

At D&F. That's the sweet spot for Andrew 10 seconds. That's an awesome Dylan fan right there. That was it, right? You're right, there wasn't enough calls. Oh, is he on here live? No. No, no.

All right. I got a question for all the chase sexuals. Who are y'all going to beg to get fired this week? you wanted Alan Guston to get fired last week you want Hendren Motors to fire to fucking pick through this week what you're going to cry about this week I was thinking about that yesterday because we just talked about it we had Rodney here last week and we were talking about it

when he was coming on everybody was lighting my DMs up about tell Rodney to take off the nine deal and I'm like that was pretty fucking good I don't know if you really want to best with it and sure enough he's chases up there leading the race checking out and then I looked at and he was whatever 15th or something at pit stop. I was like, oh, man, they're going to be lit up now.

They want the whole thing crew fired. Oh, yeah. Get rid of them all. They're the old chase sexuals. We haven't heard from them in a while. Oh, they called in. Oh, good. That's the theme this week. Man, they got to get old Clint Boyer out of this booth.

It's not because he can't announce. It's because every time he starts talking about somebody, they hit the damn wall. That's the announcer's curse. I see. Did he get KB last week? That was Harvick, though. Harvick did.

Yeah. got KB the week before. As he was like, as he was talking about him. Yeah, he was like, he's hungry right now. He's going for it. But bam. Oh, no. I've seen Dirty Mo tweeted yesterday.

Clint, who, the butcher called Kyle Arson, Kyle Butch or something like that? Yeah. I think Dalton tweeted that. That's good job, Clint. Typical Clint. Clint, we could have a what a shit show or just for Clint every week. I imagine. But, yeah, good old Clint.

What a mess that guy is. I love him. What a mess. This next one. Freddie, a fan met you this weekend. Oh, boy. Probably at Hooters. Hey, this is James.

I'm down here on Pit Road, Kansas Speedway after the race. Ran into Freddie Craft in the elevator, and I got to say, these fans are way too hard on him. He's not that fat. Thanks. Somebody tweeted that me last week. That was a nice thing to say. I took a picture with some guys from the dirt track a couple weeks ago,

and I actually didn't look super fat for some reason. And some guys are like, what do you want, OZempic? I said, well, if I am, it's a nice thing. not working. Oh my God. Not the Ozympic allegations. I feel like Ozympics have to garage right now. It seems like it.

It's running through it. You can see. It's an epidemic. You start losing your butt when you use Ozimic. You start seeing these people with no butts. You're taking acetyl. That's how you spot them? That's how you spot them.

That's how you can spot them. For all those at home, they want to keep track of their friends. Your ass suddenly disappears. It's Ozimic. This next one, I will give a crisp $100 to anyone. who can tell me what he's saying. We need subtitles. God damn freaking Nate.

Catch the dang break freaking Kurt, right? One turn. What's the him? I got the end. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know who he was talking about. He said Kurt. I thought he said Kurt too. Maybe it was Kurt. Kurt Bush? He might have been racing somewhere. Tommy tried to pick him in the picks a couple weeks ago. Yeah, he did.

Yeah, he did. He's like, I'll take Kurt Bush. I said, I don't think he's got it. He got it. With the first draft for pick and the NFL draft, Tommy chooses Troy Aikman. I should have picked them last week, how my pick was this week. Yeah, we all sucked this week. Was that it or we got more?

We have one more. This is from a fan apologizing to Austin Dillon. Oh. Austin Dillon, back in 2019 at a golf outing in Delaware before the Dover race, I met you in a bathroom at the golf outing. And I said, holy shit, it's Austin Dillon. and you are so kind for a guy trying to talk to you with the you-know-what in his hand. I don't want to apologize for that for six years.

Yeah, those bathroom meetings are always great. Yeah, a little awkward. I was at a pilot flying J, and the guy, I'm peeing, and he's looking at me, and he's going, Are you, uh? I'm like, yeah. And, like, I'll wash my hands, I'll take a picture with you. It's always the ones that reach right before you even get to wash your hands. I was like, all right, man.

You're a true fan, brother. I actually did that yesterday. I went in the bathroom and our old Jackman is on 35 now, I think, and he was walking towards the he just finished. I'm like, what's up, George? Oh, actually, no, let's not do that. The heat of the battle. Yeah, just lose your mind a little bit.

Did you guys, I think you sent a picture of it in the group chat, the guy that made own toaster bath shirt. Oh, that was great. He said he made it on chat GPT. Yeah, the Blaney fans, they have, the Blaney fans call in every week and talk about when he wrecks or something. They'd be like, yeah, I'm getting in my bathtub with the toaster. So somebody made a t-shirt. It was like, live, laugh, and toaster bath or something like that. Oh, yeah. That was funny. Yeah. All right. Well, that wasn't bad. To leave an audio message 24-7, you can call our number at 704, 802, 9572, and we'll play the best ones each week on the show. It's time for AskDBC. and you can send in your questions on X every week using hashtag AskDBC.

We're going to do a little twist today. Some mid-season superlatives. Biggest surprise. Freddie, who do you think has been like the biggest surprise so far? For me, I think it's got to be Stenhouse. Just the fact that they're right now, they're still above the cut line. Again, yesterday, I feel like he didn't have a lot of speed. And he ends up like 19th.

Magic Mike. Magnificent Mike finds a way to get another. I don't know what they do. I have no idea. Next thing you know. What do you finish? I think he's like 19th. I think he's like...

I mean, the guy was like... In all defense, I passed him with the wrecked race car there and then like I had no grip on exit, but he still was able to get 19th. I mean, we were 22nd completely wrecked. But he fights. He's a fighter. That's what I love about, Ricky. You can't take that away from me.

He's going to fight all day long. Even when you're about to win a race at Richmond and he's two laps down. You're going to wreck somebody. So thanks for that one, Ricky. I won't let you live that one down. You got to surprise anybody besides Ricky that's a surprise for you, you think? I think Ryan Priest. I think Ryan Priest. I think Ryan Priest and that team is doing a really good job. I mean, I would put him with the last one, the biggest playoff, Dark Horse, as well.

I think they're a solid group. I think they're executing every week now. I think he's the most consistent speed-wise of the RFK cars right now. You know, Brad's, obviously, he was fast yesterday until the tire blew out. He's leading into it. That's probably going to be my biggest letdown of the season because I think Brad's down still 33rd in points right now. They just, they just can't buy a break. I mean, they find a wreck on a weekly bet. It's TJ's fault, I would assume.

100%. 100%. But, you know, for me, that's got to be the biggest letdown. Austin, I'm sure, I don't know if you had any surprises besides those guys. I know you mentioned Priz. Yeah. KV sometimes. The biggest surprise is for a fucking second last week.

Ratty Nation, did you hear that? Oh, man, I was pumped for him at Texas, dude. I was like, I watched him drive by everybody. I'm like, dang, Kyle Bush is doing Kyle Busch things today. And after I was like, dude, man, that was so close. You were really good. Pumped about it. He was like, I know.

He was bummed, but no, he, give it about a week or two, and that guy's going to, he's going to show up and I feel like do what he does. Like, it's coming. KB is right around the corner from a win, in my opinion. That was my biggest letdown of the season for sure was him at Texas because I picked him that week. And I was really just. It was a big letdown for me and Tommy. We were up on the roof. We were already out of the race.

And I look at Tommy and you got the second. And I was like, man, we just talked about this guy winning. All the fans were calling in talking about they haven't gotten any from their wife because Cal hasn't won't. And they were like, my mom, my wife won't give me any until you win. And I was like, you didn't realize what's on the line for this next win, Kyle. Like, you know, it's serious. It's going to be a rowdy nation's going to be going nuts, literally. That's interesting, man.

The, yeah, I don't. You got any lead downs this season, Tommy, biggest leaddown? I mean. Luke at Kansas? Yes. Jesus, Christmas. Yeah, that was, I hated it for him because I wanted him to run the whole race to get a lot of, learn a lot, but obviously, yeah.

That was a legend. Shit happens. Shit happens. All right. Hot a seat. Wait, did you have, did you say letdown? Did you have one? Yeah, Brad for me was probably it.

But look, my biggest letdown is the amount of porta potties on pit road in Kansas. Not enough or too many? There's not enough. There's not enough. There's like one every 200 yards maybe. And like, you need a lot. Yeah. There's a lot of shit on pit road.

So true. I think what they need to do is, you know, Blaney, old man Blaney, he builds those portable bathrooms. They need to have one all built up for your drivers. All the drivers after the driver is. Yeah. Most places I have like secret bathrooms. I've had this conversation before, but Kansas is a tough, tough one to find. Yeah, Kansas doesn't have one.

Texas has one in the middle of three and four, but it's a hike from pit road. I think I know that one, Tom. You got to, you got to. And you can't share. No. No, you can't, even in the short tracks, you got to know where you have to, toilet paper is a must in a trailer, and you got to know where you have to go, all these racetracks.

All right, how to seat? Sounds like Alan. If I had to guess. Poor Alan. He doesn't deserve that. Like Rodney said last week, that's the worst job in sports. It was like being Dale's crew chief back in the day. Like, no matter what, everybody wanted your head because you didn't win a race or whatnot.

Are like any rumors? Any tea you guys have heard of lately? You know, I think the biggest thing out there, there's really, you know, I was talking with this with Jordan, Bianchi. I don't know how much he's talked about on his show. I haven't gotten to listen in the last couple weeks. But, you know, I don't think it's going to be a lot of shows. shit going on this silly season. Everybody's wanting silly season rumors.

The people upstairs here, like, we need more silly season. I'm like, well, we can't just make them up. I love much... The best silly season stuff is the case, the lawsuit, right? December. I don't want to talk about that. I know. I think the two main things, I think, the dominoes are you're going to fall. One is Kyle.

And I don't see him leaving. I mean, and you can talk about like how much, unless you want to just start breaking some news here today. I don't want him to leave. I like working with him. Yeah, and how much is he, I mean, how much does he help the organization? I mean, anytime you have a guy that's a two-time champion, first ballot Hall of Famer in your organization, people listen and hear what he's trying to say and make it

better. So, you know, he's always a threat. It doesn't matter what style of racing. He's always a threat. And that's hard to find. So, you know, I enjoy working with him. I think it's truly up to him, like, what he wants to do and where he's at in his career. So, yeah, I'm excited to see.

I'd like to continue being his teammate, so we'll see. Yeah, and I think that, you know, and for you... And I haven't really been in, truthfully, I haven't been in none of that conversation at all. Now, getting Kyle here, I was a big part of that, so... But I haven't been any of the getting back together thing. Yeah, and for you, that's... I mean, I feel like that's something that helps you yourself

just because you know, you know, what the cars are capable of. You know, you can, like, if you, you know, I'd hate to throw hemrick under the bus, but, you know, if you're both struggling, is it the car? Is it us? You know, what is it now? If you get Kyle Bush in there and Kyle Bush is struggling, okay, well, it's the car. We've got to fix the car because Kyle Bush is still one of the top five talents in our sport, you know. So it just helps, you know, get your baseline for what you need to be.

Like I say, every team needs that a driver to go, okay, well, we know if we're struggling, it's because of the car. It's not, you know, it's not the drivers with doing it. But for me, I think the two biggest things are what happens with your lawsuit, whether or not the, you know, the charter goes to legacy or not next year. year. And then the track house is the other question mark, which, you know, a lot of people coming to the year saying, you know, Suarez has to perform or he's out. Zillich is sitting there ready to come up. Is Zillich ready by next year? Who knows? But listen, I don't know that it's a

foregone conclusion that if Zillich is ready, the Suarez is out. Because, you know, SVG, while he gives you a chance to win these road course races, he's really, really struggled on the mile. and, you know, the ovals altogether, really. So I don't know, you know, if Suarez has some money and SVG doesn't, and Zillich can give you the same results on a road course, which we saw how fast he was at Cota this year, I don't know that it's a foregone conclusion that if Zillich is ready, Suarez would be the one that was out.

So I think that's the stuff you've got to look for, you know, that's just throughout the year, whether Zill is going to be ready or not. What happens with Kyle? I think he's going to end up back at RCR just because not, I'm not, this is not a knock on RCR, there's just no better options. You know, there's just, there's nowhere else to go, you know, like 2311's locked up, Hendricks locked up, you know, every, every Gibbs is locked up. I mean, I'm assuming Chase Briscoe got a two-year deal. He'd be the only one that may be even consideration of leaving. But, you know, everywhere else is pretty much locked up where I don't think we're going to have a super busy silly season issue. I don't know if you've heard anything different around the garage. I know you try to keep your ear to the ground. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I think you hit it right on the head. I don't see much going on. I, I don't. I do see a little trend of trading starting to happen in our sport. I like that.

I love it. Yeah. I don't, I think we're getting to this point in our sport that that's starting to happen. I think you've seen a little bit with some crew members and some spotters trying to make it happen a couple, you know, a month ago. But I think that might have sparked the front office to go, hmm, man, we might have something. Every other sport does it. Yeah. Does it?

I mean, I'm very familiar with it with the PBR. You know, I love making those trades and trying to change culture by doing that. You know, certain people fit in certain organizations, and that gives you the ability. I think your contracts that you have have to start putting language in that. Yeah. About trading. Well, I don't think it matters, I think. Yeah.

I mean, at the end of the day. I could definitely see it being a thing, you know, spot, the last trade that was on the table that we've heard rumors about was technically, you know, spotters for crew guys, like you said. I could definitely see it being a thing with pit crew guys for sure. You know, like you get a guy, you know, especially if you got a guy, if you've got, you know, like 23 or 11, if they've got, you know, X amount of good change, you got a really good change. You got a really good Jackman on your reserve team.

You know, if we got three cars and you got four or five really good Jackmen and you got these guys under contract, you know, maybe you can trade them off for, you know, a mechanic or a car chief or whatever it is, you know, so I would love to see it. But I think that language has to be in the contract because the guy could deny it, right? Like he could say, I'm not up for the trade. Yeah, but I think it's a part of the business that we're missing. Yeah, it is. That's your silly season.

Yeah, it's a conversation topic that we don't have in every sport does but us. You know, we don't have draft day. We don't have anything with that. And we have a lot of people on a sport that more people than just the basketball team or the football team. You know, we have different parts. We have drivers, pick crews, road crew. I mean, a lot of things can happen. All right.

Who do you think is most likely to win their first race this season? First career race, I assume. Tommy's favorite guy. Yeah, I think he's got the most speed. I think him or Ty Gibbs maybe, Ty's finally found a little more consistency. All that trade they made. You got cheddar. That was maybe it.

But the I would say Priests has a good show Yeah Yeah New Hampshire I think they get everything right I think you'll see something there And Richmond places like that

Yeah Host of R for me I thought about it yesterday Watching after we fell out I watched a restart And he's just The cars are got so much speed We see it in qualifying

You talk about McDowell You know if they can get a little more longevity out of their speed Just and qualified good this weekend too All three of them qualified good You know If they can get a little more longevity out of it, the longer run.

Like we saw, you know, like you said, he drove the tires off yesterday. You know, they got to hang on a little bit longer. But if you get some of these places, I mean, if he stays in the hunt and then you have a late restart where he's, you know, one of the first two or three rows at a mile and a half, he's going to be the guy that can come popping through a hole that you don't expect. No, he'll pop through a hole. Don't you worry.

So that would be the guy that I would pick. But I like, obviously, Pris is a good buddy of ours. So I'd like to see him get one this year as well. All right. You know, your brother's been running well this year. Ty has, in general, I think our partnership with colleague, other than the ECR comments yesterday from AJ. It was a little harsh, which I mean, you're in the moment, I guess.

Kind of like the finger? Yeah. But different? That was a lot. I mean, I still talk really good about AJ. He's been fun. He's going to buy lunch today, I bet. Yeah.

He better. R.C. was upset either way. Oh, yeah. We can't have that from a company standpoint. Like, we got to do better because that's number two for the. those guys and it doesn't make sense because we've had you know other no other failures from the rCR side and i say that we just got to keep it together but um yeah so i mean that that sucks for for them but overall like our partnership from collig and rcr the four Kyle myself a j and

tie are working really well together uh during the weekend trying to bounce ideas and our car setups off of each other and i feel like that has been a positive like the whole group shifted, I feel like, every weekend. We have one car, at least. It's a threat, and the other ones are a little closer. But Ty's been, yeah, he's been solid. That restart he had last week at Texas, I don't know if you saw it off his Instagram, but it was pretty awesome. He went four wide to the top, went from 18th to 12th on that last restart, and you don't do that. Usually at Texas right now, the way the track is. He tried doing that yesterday, but the bottom and took us out. I was going to say, I'm surprised you're talking so nicely about him. No, I mean, truthfully.

He came over to radio and apologize. I mean, like, I slap took. took Cody out. I'm sorry, but I just, you know, he's been running well. He's, you know, he's more focused than I feel like he's ever been, he's fighting hard, and he's bringing good things to the group. Last year, he really did a lot in the simulator for all of us, but

yeah, no, it was another one of those cautions that I needed, thanks, Ty. Everybody half the field needed it. We all waving that one. Half of you guys did the wave around. Yeah, yeah. I wasn't mad at him. And I, yeah, I spotted for Ty last year in the truck, and, you know, got to know him a little bit better.

I knew him obviously before that. So you kind of keep an eye on him. And he's had races where, I mean, he should have damn near one Phoenix. You know, like with, you know, if he doesn't speed on pit road, he's in position. Oh, yeah, because he had the tire left. And, you know, the red tires left. And I'm like, I'm like, he's going to win that pit road. He might win this race.

And he spent. I was like, oh, no. But. And Andrew, a good group together. I feel like they're both fighting for the right things. And there's a lot to be said. I mean, for where he's been and where he's heading, like this, he's got to make this work. You know what I mean?

like this could be his last chance at staying in the Cup series, and it seems to me like he's making the most of it at this point. Seriously, he'd be even further up in points. They've had two fuel issues. They didn't get it full at Bristol, and they didn't get it full at Talladega. Yeah, they ran out of Talladega. They ran out. So they ran out two races that kind of killed the momentum he's had.

And, yeah, something happened on Pitt Road, I think, yesterday, too. I haven't got to talk to him. He ran, he tried going along that one room. Yeah, they lost two laps instead of the one that they were shooting for. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He just got really bad. Right at the end of the run, because, yeah, I was racing Larson. And he was there and was like, whoa, move.

All right, last one. Biggest playoff, Dark Horse. Well, I mean, the guys that are in around Stanhouse is still. It's close, though, man. That's what I said. Austin's 22nd or 23rd? Dude, that fight is ridiculous close. It's going to come down.

Stage points, I think. Yeah, stage points. And surely there's going to be some more winners this year. Yeah, you would think that you're going to have to be. win-ins are going to start to pile up. Yeah, but in that group, see, what's going to happen is Brad's going to, you know, hopefully, right? Hopefully.

Hopefully. For our group, right? We don't care about your group. You know, you want to see him win a race, but that's going to chunk somebody out, right? And then you're going to. Well, then you got KB. Yeah. You know, he's on the edge right there, but I feel like he's going to win.

Yeah, I mean, Kyle could easily win, priest can win, Carson could win. McDowell. I mean, he almost won last week. I was up there cheering for, I've never cheered for Lugano harder in my life. I was like, please get this guy. I just know every year we come down to like 13th, 14th, the points we get knocked out.

SVG might. Yeah, he could get a road course win. There's a lot of things going to lose. I mean, there's anybody. Right now I feel like. Oh, yeah, AJ in a road course too. Yeah. And AJ's been good all year and even Oval.

I think you're going to have to be top 12 in points or better maybe even to point your way in. But at this, the fight... It's just shaping up. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even... Yeah. It's crazy. But yeah, for me, like, I think Tommy touched on a priest and the way he's the speedies. I don't know if much of a dark horse he is, but those are the guys that, you know, SVGs can sneak a win on any of these damn road courses,

especially Chicago, which we're heading to, you know, you just got random people in there that can win certain tracks that are, you know, just pop up like, oh, this guy's good at that track. And if that all comes together, like you said, Ty Gibbs is another one sitting there. He lets me down. Do he hit the wall or do you have a flat? He hit the wall early.

Well, he had to start last. He had to start in the back to the front in like 10 laps. I was like, holy cow. Yeah, I know I asked Hirsch and he said they got in the fence early and they lost some speed. And then I think he got the wall again a little bit later in the race. So she needs to clean it up a little bit. But they've had more speed the last really, really since Cheddar got there, honestly. It's weird how that works.

So they've just got to clean some stuff up and they'll be there, I'm sure. Well, fans, you can let us know what you think on these superlatives on Twitter. Make sure to tag DBCSsocial, or DBC Dirty Moe socials. I want to know what you guys think. And then we have one more question for Austin. With the new crew chief on the box this year and the speed you guys have had at some of the intermediates this year, how do you feel about the 600 coming up here in a couple weeks? Yeah, it's my favorite.

You know, I love Richmond. I love Homestead. But 600 is probably my favorite race. I usually consistently scored a ton of points at that race. Last year we had a jacked-up setup. We tried and screwed around while the president came to our car before the race. He was like shaking his hand. He was like, you know, Austin, I was at the F1 race the other week.

And I think it was Lando or whatever. He won the race. So, you know, I'm like, well, Mr. President, today's probably not going to be our day. Thanks. Appreciate it. But this time around, I feel really good about the 600. I mean, like I said, I feel really good at Charlotte every time I get there. I'm going to run the Xfinity race, which is going to be fun leading up to that,

just more laps on the track. And I've swept that race in Xfinity feels like forever ago. So I'd like to go have a good Xfinity race and then have a good 600, and that could really put us in a good place. Do you win the 600 or the fall race? The 600, yeah. I finished, I should have won it twice. Got four tires that end the race.

race and went like three wide and it was me Kyle oh I remember that yeah it was an epic move until it wasn't like it was gonna hurt in three and four and we kind of slid up and then we all wrecked right there I think Denny was on the bottom I was in the middle I had four fresh tires though I just I picked up and tried to get too much in the same corner if I would have just been side by side with the five going into one I had the tire advantage that's one I kicked myself for a long time but sounds like you're not bitter at all about it I didn't sleep good over that one still I like to to think that I'm a good closer if I get the opportunity. But that one probably stepped on it a little bit.

All right. Shit Show Hall of Fame time. I'm going to give you guys one crazy guess at who won last week. Last week. Who do you think won our shit show Hall of Fame last week? Surely wasn't the guy that we're going to have to name the award after. Oh, poor Chris Wright. Oh, Chris Wright won our shit show last week.

You guys got any nominees this week? you want me to be the one to say it? Can we know? He was so worried last night that he was going to be a shit show nominee. I'm like, I got nothing to do with it. He, and Moli gave it to him because it's not, what happened on the racetrack is racing. You know, I really, I saw, it wasn't on TV. I wasn't at the track.

And I just, I know I got the fans. I don't know. I'm sure he just got in a kind of tricky hero spot and I got up there. But then came down pit road, sped coming? No, well, he was wrecked after hit the wall and he went through two. many pit stalls. Yeah. And then he,

then he, then he, he sped while serving the penalty for that. Then he sped, he left pit road too fast. So, yeah,

then he blew a tire. It was just the chain of events that was a shit show. Not Luke himself. It was just the chain of events. We spent some time yesterday on pit road going over a bunch of stuff. We walked pit road,

just going over spots and lines and where you come in and what you're doing. Because, you know, truth to me, I'm like, you know, I blame me. part of it on myself because, you know, he was doing it some of it, most of it during the modified pit stops as well in the beginning of year doing the same thing. And I'm like,

surely he's not, you know, he's just doing it. But, you know, I said, look, you know, I started off yesterday's, look, I'm blaming some of myself by not going over these things with you. So let's walk down pit road. Let's look at the timing line. So every track you go to now, you start studying them and you look and see what's happening. So pit road's the most difficult job of the whole, of the weekend. Yeah. Well, especially never doing it. before. Yeah. Right?

He's never, never come down on a mile and a half. Yeah. He's stalling. I blame myself. I'm going to do half the shit show. I'm going to be a half the shit show for you, half for Luke. Yeah. And, uh, it's a good dad. Hopefully you can't live. I'm just going to be a full-on race fan on Saturday. Yeah. I'm excited. I'm going to be a grandstands. Watch Luke. how can you not be? It's so much fun going up there.

It's so fun. I don't know if I'm more excited about the fact that I can drive the track or... Yeah. That's awesome. Exactly. Yeah. It's right up the road for me, so it's nice. Did we say we're nominating Clint for...

Yeah, you can nominate Clint for... Calling the wrong name. Just being Clint. Just put Clint. Clint's the most entertaining in the box, though. Yeah. Probably have to add AJ because... Oh, yeah.

Jesus. I mean, what do you... That's old AJ. I'll tell you how bad it was. Bubba texts me the clip of it, knowing like, like, just something you can't do. For me, like, you know, listen, maybe that wasn't a good piece, but you're going to need about 24 more of them to the rest of the year.

I think Hosevar is the top nominee, though. For the flip them off. Yeah, I mean, just. I thought the same thing. I was right for you guys to say it. Yeah, no. We kind of trying to spread him around. He's like the bad move of the race.

Yeah. Like you said, I think it's like in the moment, I don't know if he was mad or just thinking it was funny, but like, ha, watch this. And then you go back and look at it. You just see that clip of you taking the checker flag with your finger out the window. and you're like, well, what? I mean, I'm, I go back and cringe now.

I'll see. If Tony Stewart did that, we'll be thinking differently. I don't think so. No. No. I just, I don't know because I just think it looks stupid.

You won. I go back, I'll cringe. I'll get a picture, you know, like a Facebook memory or something pop up and it's me with my buddies when we're like 16, 17 years old. We're flipping the camera off and I'm like, what the fuck was I doing? You know?

I was like, why did I do that? That looks like so stupid. But, uh, and I try not to do it anymore. Like, there's only like Bubba and Chris Lambert. there are only two people that I flip off on a regular basis anymore. But it's just like, it's just like, because I know that anytime I do it, it's going to end up in a picture and I'm going to hear about it. I don't even know.

The way the truck said, I don't even know if I can get my full finger out the window. It'd be like a nub. We give redick shit about that all the time. I'm like, he can't flip you off. I said it was like a restart somewhere like we were right behind him. And I'm like, he would give you a hand signal, but I don't think he'd get his arm out the window.

Put out the roof. All right. Well, remember to go vote on our show. Shit Show Hall of Fame Twitter poll on who you want to see inducted this week. So I'm sure Chris Wright's happy not to be there. All right. Let's go to DBC picks. Rodney, who picked Christopher Bell, whooped everyone's ass.

We all did horrible. The guests are ahead. Yeah. What are we going to do with the evening if like the guest is the winner? The good news is the guests are burning up a lot of good picks. That's true. So you'll pick last, I guess, but you just can't pick any of the guys that are like grayed out right there. who I

we all finished Are we doing the All Star Race? Yeah Oh so the All Star Race is wide open You can pick anybody you want Oh really? Yeah I know who I'm picking

I'm picking me at the All Star Race Yeah Well you can't yet Yeah we're all ahead of you Oh now One of us might pick you It's funny you say that I might pick them just in spite

I was thinking about it I was thinking about it Who goes first me? You yeah Yeah you suck I'll take Bubba Fuck what Why not

I'm gonna take awesome I'm sorry. Are you? You are in the All-Star? Yeah, that's good. I wouldn't sure they didn't take that from me. That was the only did it didn't take for that way. I'm going to go with Kyle Larson.

Ryan Blaney. Blaney. Oh, Blaney. You're going AD here? Yeah. I'm taking Spades. So All-Star, obviously, you're in the All-Star, so what are you looking forward to this weekend?

I mean, I know the pit stop is, you know, the qualifying deal is interesting. Yeah, I mean, I just short track. I'm excited about short track racing. If you had to pick, is that your favorite? Man, a long time ago, I would have said mile and a halfs. I rocked mile and a halfs everywhere we went back in the day. But I've morphed myself, I feel like, into a really good short track racer. You know, we go to Martinsville, Richmond, and those places.

I feel like I always have a threat to run well. So North Wilkesboro last year, we were the fastest car until the rain came in qualifying, and it was like the last car got affected by the rain, and they took our pole position away. Roman, right? Yeah. It was like drizzling. And they said, no, it's too much. Like, dang. So, and he got his lap in, too. That was really frustrating. That was weird. So I'm excited to go there again, because I think our car was pretty good. And we never put our reds on in the race, in the heat race. We kept our yellows on. And we drove up to, like, fifth, but everybody had reds on. I was the only one that, like, passed cars on yellows that had reds. So I look forward to putting on the reds this year.

See what it's like. Well, now everybody has reds. So what's the big deal? So just being on the Reds, but yeah, no, I'm excited about the short track stuff. How do you feel about the whatever the hell they're calling it? The promoters caution. Promoters caution? It is what it is.

Did they find a fan? I don't know. I said they got to have a drunk. We're like, we've got to have a drunk fan. I heard that. Let him throw it when he wants. Yeah. Or chug a beer and when he falls down.

That's when the yellow comes out. That's when the yellow comes out. Yeah, we got to get in. I assume I don't see us win in the fan vote. Who else is in the fan vote? Noah, maybe. Anybody? I would assume.

I would assume Noah. I think Noah won it. Bubba's won it the last seven years. He won it when he was in the truck. They put him in the all-star race. Who won the fan vote last year? I think Noah. I would imagine that's who it would be again this year.

Because he was doing like campaigning and stuff. Yeah, he campaigned. I haven't even seen any of those campaigns. like Hosevar even had a pretty good one last year. He was in here doing it, wasn't he? Like he was, he had a pretty good. I haven't seen any of those campaigns. Yeah, that sucker got me on it.

Did he? Oh, with a, like a cameo. Cameo shit. Yeah, I still owe him for that. He got me. That was well played. If he makes a race this week, you can ship him and just tell him that's what you're, yeah. And then stick your finger out the window.

Yeah, and then flip him off. As he's wrecked. Yeah, last year, that was when everybody met big Justin White for the first time. Our gas man on the eight. Oh, yeah. the strongest guy on pit road he's a big boy that guy can take a full gas can one arm

pick it up and just move it where he wants there's no one else on pit road can do that no it's crazy monster yeah nicest guy you meet too that's even that's even scary yeah I think we covered everything I don't know I had notes he had a good run yesterday best 2311 car obviously caused the wreck to knock us out

so we'll have to give him shit about that but I thought he's a really good job especially long runs he would run us down. He went by us. I think he went by Redick at one point. Long runs. Yeah. Barry.

The front row guys had, I think they're all finishing the top 15. Yeah, they were pretty quick. They, they say, they probably the last 15 laps all of a sudden they like,

took off. Barry, I thought Barry was really impressive yesterday. Coming from the back multiple times. They're a mile and a half. Some of the 21s have been good. Yeah. And it's good.

It's just, I'm tired of it already, but it's good to see that 21 car running good, you know, as being as fast as it's tired of it. How could you be tired of it? How could you be, tired of the Wood Brothers running well.

Because I don't want to have to race them. That's the problem. Like, don't be tired of the wood. I would never be tired of the Wood Brothers running well. I text John after they won. I said, man, you guys have been awesome lately, and I wish you'd knock it the fuck off. They clean up some stuff. They're going to be tough.

For sure. But anyway, again, thanks for listening. I'll give one plug. September 12th through the 14th, the Bristol Race Weekend. I think we're going to do like a dual ticket for our. Carolina Cowboys Days in Greensboro. So, like, I'll go practice, qualify, and come back, watch Saturday night in Greensboro than go back to the race.

But it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday. If you've never been to a PBR team's event, come check it out. September 12th to the 14th. My wife is dying to go, so I'm going to have to call you. Me too. I haven't been to one yet, and it's on my lips. Maybe I'll just send you and Meg. Okay.

Whatever next. Whatever Austin's got an event coming up, we'll just send the two of you and you can Is that the only one local here? Yeah, that's the one that we have. It's our home event, so we put a lot into it. Where does everybody go for the schedule? So, like, each team gets a home event, and then there's two, like, neutral site events, and then we go to Vegas. So 13 total events.

So where they go? There's 10 teams in league. The website, shoot, you got me there. I think that would be... If you just... Yeah, at pbrr.com, you can go to the website, and then you click on the link there. And I think I have it on Carolina Cowboys, our Instagram. We're doing pretty good.

We've got some followers there. So Carolina Cowboys on Instagram. It's pretty good. I've got a really good social media guys doing some sick videos of the bulls and stuff. It's cool. That's cool. And then we've got to cheer for the fishing team so you get to go to Cobbo. Yeah.

You'll be, wouldn't it be punt about Cobbo? We're going either way if we don't make it. She's moving out, by the way. The snakes. Yeah, I'll let you guys know how it's summertime is when that snake problem happened. So I'm hoping this summer's a little better. to ramp up. Eddie DeHun has scorpion problems.

Yeah, he's living in Phoenix now. Because they're digging, building all around them. So the scorpion's like... I don't think... We went somewhere. Buddy of mine had a Rob Chibuzio owns a bar down in Georgia. And he's like, look at this vodka I got. And I'm like, what's it called?

Oh, Scorpio. I look, and there's a fucking scorpion in the bottom of the bottle. It's like that tequila is a worm. I'm like, who, what? Like, who's doing? Aren't they poisonous? Like, I don't understand. But, yeah, so anyway, Austin, thanks for dropping by, man.

This is a pleasure. Yeah, thanks for having me. We're going to have to drag you back in here at some point because there's only so many weeks and so many drivers that are willing to come on. Yeah, you might have ruined. I'm really figuring out you have ruined a lot of relationships. Yeah, I don't think it was necessarily me, but it's possible. But anyway, we'll be happy to see everybody this week at Wilkesboro. Again, Austin, thank you.

But thanks for listening. We'll be back next week. Thanks. See you. Peace. Check out Dirty Movers. media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.