Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX - Emotions Flow As NASCAR Community Unites To Honor Kyle Busch & Suárez Dedicates Win To 'Rowdy'

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith tell their favorite stories about NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, who tragically passed away last week. The crew discuss Daniel Suárez winning the Cup Series race at Charlotte and dedicating his win to Busch, as well as NASCAR and the drivers honoring Busch’s life before and during the race. To wrap up the show, the trio react to Mamba’s Social Sips, with a full focus on the best Kyle Busch moments. 0:00 - Intro :15 - Kyle Busch Tribute 22:42 - Charlotte Weekend Recap 27:38 - Nashville Preview 30:34 - Mamba’s Social Sips 34:42 - Kevin Harvick Elected To 2027 NASCAR Hall Of Fame Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. Welcome to Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour, presented by NASCAR. are on Fox. I'm Kevin Harvick in Indianapolis and Caitlin Vinci and Mama Smith are in the studio this week. How are you guys? Well, we're doing good. We miss you, of course, Kevin. And we is a relative term, but yes, we. He does too. Guys, it's a it's a somber Monday here because on Happy Hour, we do want to reflect on the life and legacy of Kyle Busch, one of the greatest wheelmen in the history of motor sports gone too soon. The community found out last week that we had lost him to

a severe case of pneumonia. So it has been a really, really tough week for a lot of us in the sports community as a whole. So Kevin, we saw over the weekend, Samantha, Brexton, Lennox, Kyle's parents, his brother Kurt, Samantha's family came to the racetrack out at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the 600. So many beautiful tributes for Kyle throughout the course of the last several days. I imagine, Imagine it had to have been a healing moment for the family to be there at the racetrack with the supportive community of the motorsports family. Well, it's a tough situation as to what the right or wrong thing is to do. And I think in that instance, you obviously want to lean on the family to do what they want to do. And, you know, I think seeing Brexton and Lennox and Samantha and Kyle's parents and his brother Kurt at the racetrack.

And, you know, I think everybody there wants to help them, whether it's wives, husbands, kids, team owners, everybody wants to help their family get through this as good as they can. There's no easy way to get through it. And I think that when you look back and you see that support standing behind you as they gathered around Kyle's number with Steve O'Donnell addressing, you know, the fans and the family and seeing Richard Childress stand there, you know, it's not easy. It is not an easy situation to have to go through. I've unfortunately been through this, you know, a couple times now, and you look back at everything that happened with Dale and, you know, everything that RCR had to deal with and their

family and, you know, just eerily different, but similar in the way that we have to deal with it. And I think that if you look at Kyle and what he would want is probably very similar to what Dale would have wanted. He would have wanted those cars on the racetrack and, you know, the healing to come from the race cars on the track and the fans and families and people and teams being able to work their way back to normal. But it's going to take a while. It certainly is. It was a beautiful display and tribute to Kyle Busch. I know you were out at the racetrack. And just what did you kind of observe from?

your time at Charlotte over the weekend. Yeah, I mean, it was really somber, right? It was very, there was a lot of Kyle Busch merchandise that was out, and that was really cool to see. And it was really cool to see. And then also at the same time, every time you saw someone wearing something different, it was like, it just like was a gut punch, you know, over and over. And it's going to be like that for a while.

And I think about watching Brexton console his mind. 11 year old boy, I feel like became a man in a moment. And now he's consoling his mom. And like he's the man of the house. And I think that's just incredibly difficult. And I, you know, for them to even show up, I was shocked. Just because I don't know how I would be in that situation if I would want to be at the racetrack. But that is where the family's at.

That is where our family is. That's our home. That's where we all do stuff. together. So, you know, obviously you think about them. And then there's a generation of millennials, Kevin, like myself, that we remember Dale and what happened, but we were all very young, too. And so to see this kind of happen again in a similar manner is very eerie to me. And I want to ask you about R.C. Richard Childress, like, I don't, I can't imagine what they're feeling like either, feeling like they're going through the same thing again with another titan of the sport.

Yeah, and, you know, I think there's, you know, Richard, Richard was really close to Dale, obviously with the things that we've seen and know and hear and watch, you know, from, from their relationship. And, you know, I think when you see how hard that that hit, not only Richard, but everybody at RCR because it was such a backbone of what they did. I think that when you see that eight painted in the infield and they talk about Kyle helping design the number and Richard hiring Kyle and then winning a few races together to start this season, Richard and Kyle are very similar.

Like they're both really, really competitive people that just want to win and want to succeed. But, you know, I think for Richard, you know, it's just he's got to feel like, man, this is happening to us all over again, trying to get our company back on track and do the things that it takes. And now we have to go and do this all over again. And, you know, but Richard's a man. You see him, you see him standing next to Samantha and Baxter supporting them. And as bad as he hurts, he's going to put, he'll put them.

first and that's you know what who and what Richard Childress is. He's the guy that's going to make sure that everybody else is taken care of before he is and sometimes you know that that that is not the right thing to do but that's the way he's going to do it. And there's not a not a better person out there than Richard Childress and unfortunately he's having to deal with this all again. Sunday was definitely a very moving display of strength from the family from the teams from everyone involved in the situation. So as I mentioned, today we want to honor Kyle's legacy, the competitor that he was. We all know what a fierce competitor that he was.

And Kevin, you and him had a friendly and sometimes not so friendly rivalry over the years. You raced each other 933 times in the top series. So what did you enjoy about racing against Kyle Bush and how did you guys kind of make each other better? Yeah, it was definitely a, it was a, it was an up. and down relationship. I think, you know, for me, the thing that I enjoyed the most was beating Kyle and the thing that I know that he enjoyed the most was beating me. And it was, it was a cat and mouse game for a long time because there was, there were truck teams and businesses and things involved, you know, that there was, it was more than just the driving part. And, you know,

I think when you look back, that rivalry really fired off back in 2005 at Dover and in a Bush series race when Kyle was just getting started. But the thing about Kyle is Kyle was so good and so fast, you could never let him think that he had the upper hand from a mental standpoint. And it was, it was a war, literally a war as we went through the years. And that carried over to, you know, to Hornaday or whoever was driving Kyle's trucks. And that carried to Joe Gibbs Racing and RCR. and on to Stuart Haas racing. And so, you know, I think that, but that intensity is what drives you. And when you have somebody that is that good and just as intense as you and not going to back down,

you have to, you have to fight that fight. And that's what we did for a long, long time. And probably the best thing that happened in my career was I had a competitor that would, wouldn't back down like Kyle did and it made me a better driver, made me a better owner, teammate, all the things that comes with it from that competition, it made you better in every level. But there wasn't anything more intense than that rivalry. That wasn't fake.

There was nothing fake about it. Now you might have tried to exaggerate it and make it into something bigger than what it was. But in time, that got better. And I think that as I grew up, Kyle was much younger than me, but even as I grew up as an adult and was able to, I had Keelan and was able to become a parent and see things a little bit differently, you became very guarded as to, okay,

I need to be nicer to this guy, but I also don't want him to beat me. And I don't want him to think that I'm being too nice to him. So, but that changed with time and we had great conversations about our kids and race teams and all the different things that we were, we had in common as far as things that we did in the racing world. So, and in the end, you know, all we talked about was Keelner-Brexton and what we were going to do and how that, how they were going to go forward, what he was doing, what I was

doing. And so Kyle always had a lot of questions and we always, we had, we had, we had, you know, We had good conversations. And even when we were at war, he would refer to me as dick, and I would refer to him as dick. And that was how we engaged with each other because it was just like one of those things like, hey, we're not really going to talk about what happened last week. If I have to, I'm going to knock you out of the way. And if you have to, you're going to knock me out of the way.

So we'll just talk about something else. And so we never even really engaged in the competitive subjects of things that happen. Listening to a lot of the drivers speaking throughout the course of the weekend, a lot of people saying that Kyle just kind of challenge them to be better. And I will say from my own perspective on the media side, when I would see his name on my list as one of my assignments for the weekend, you just knew, okay, you better be on your A game. You better be buttoned up. Do not ask a single quote unquote softball or stupid question. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Because I felt like over the years, I did a lot of big interviews with him after he won his championship in 2019. I did a lot of things with Samantha and Kyle together in their home. You know, I saw a lot of different sides, but I always felt like I was in the presence of greatness when I went to interview him. And so I wanted to really rise to the occasion in those moments when I was interviewing him, because similar to Kevin, there's certain people

that just make you elevate your game. You know, I think Kevin and Kyle are very similar in that sense. And so that was just sort of his aura that he had, for me as a media professional of really, not that I don't do that with every driver interview, but when it came to Kyle, like I just had this sense of it. I didn't want to let him down.

Yeah. If that makes sense. Yeah. I mean, he, and Kyle is so, he's so funny. He is pretty funny. People don't realize that.

He's intense, but he's super smart. And so, like, that just made you have to be on your toes. And on your toes, too, you know. And I think, Kevin, one of the things that really resonated with me over the past,

past couple days is when KBM was going on and when Kevin Harvick Incorporated was going on. Like at first, KHI was the place as a young driver you wanted to go race for. You wanted to race for Kevin Harvick and Delana Harvick because they had great equipment and they were winning a winning environment. And then KBM came along. And then they started doing the same thing. So now as a young racer, you had two teams that you looked at. But you were picking one because one was Team Chevy and one was a Toyota team and one was Kevin

Harvick and one was Kyle Busch. You couldn't you couldn't be on both teams, right? That was not something that was going to happen. And watching you guys like you build your empires from the ownership side and it carry over to the driver, but really from the ownership side, you

mentioned on a tweet that Kyle called you about that about building the team. We've never talked about that before. I would love to hear kind of a little bit about what that conversation was like. And was that pre- Kyle reckoned you at Dover or after, you know what I mean?

Because that might have changed how you directed him. Just, you know, want to make sure we know the timeline. Yeah. Well, 2005 in Dover, Kyle was barely old enough to think. He wasn't ready to spend all his money yet on a race team. And, you know, I think, so, you know, Kyle was driving for Richie Waters. And I believe that's who the group was that he drove. Yeah, Billy Blue.

Before, yeah, Billy Blue, before he owned his own trucks. And it finally had gotten to a point where it just wasn't at the expectations that Kyle wanted it to be week in and week out. And he was obviously going to do the Toyota route. We had the Chevrolet route, and Toyota had come in to fund the teams to go out and race on the racetrack on a week-to-week basis with development program, KBM, Kyle, all those things. So he called me and said, hey, can you tell me how you run your team? And so I brought him to my shop one day, and I'm like, I mean, and this is right in the middle of the heavy war. And I'm like, you know what? You know, I'm going to bridge the guy a gap right here.

I'm going to let him come to my race shop, and I'm going to give him everything that I have. And because that's how I approached it on my cars, too. Like, if they want your setup, you just give him the whole setup because they won't believe you anyway. So I walked him through the whole shop and showed him everything. gave him all of our budgets, gave him everything. And he went back and started KBM and then turned around and tried to, and hired some of my people. He must have been interviewing him while he was going through the shop that day. In secret.

I think it's, you're exactly right. And I think that at that time, you had to pick a path. You were either going KBM and Toyota or you were going KHI and Chevrolet. there was no yeah we'll do some here we'll do some there you you are on you were on one side of the other and that's that's how it was in the grandstands too you know like you didn't you didn't sit on my side and root for Kyle Busch and you didn't sit on Kyle Busch's side and root for Kevin Harvick that's just not how it worked and you know but that that is what made it great and that's what makes NASCAR racing great and that's what makes sports great when you have two sides

and you know we sat on we sat on those two sides and competed but you know, off the racetrack, we also had, we had fun and we had a good time and we had good conversations and, you know, it took a long time to get to the point of actually being somewhat cordial or the fact that you would even talk, but it definitely got to that point by the end. You referenced a few of the battles you guys had. Are there any more very memorable on-track moments over the years between you and Kyle that come to mind, Kevin?

You know, I think that New Hampshire was fun for me in 2000, I believe it was 2018, where we raced and raced and raced, and I moved him out of the way at the end and won the race. We had a great race at Bristol. I don't remember what year it was. It might have been 20. But we raced the whole last run as hard as we could go to get ourselves in Victory Lane and race side by side, up the racetrack, bottom of the racetrack, all over the place. But there were, if I really went back and figured it out, there were a lot of times that we

raced against each other. Some of the more memorable moments, I used to love when Hornarday would beat Kyle because it would drive him absolutely mad, you know, because he just, he didn't like getting beat by me, but it drove him absolutely insane when Hornaday would beat him on the racetrack. And it actually drove him so crazy that he wrecked him. Hornarday that year at Texas. But that's how it was, right? When Kyle would start to get the upper hand and get comfortable, I'd get back in the truck and start racing, or we'd put more emphasis on what we needed to do to try to catch up to the KBM trucks and Kyle and put our

trucks to be better. And then Hornaday would start beating him. And then Kyle would develop something new and then they'd start beating us. And so it was always this back and forth with the truck stuff that really bled over into the, you know, the Bush series races and O'Reilly races on Saturday and all the way, all the way into the end of the Cup series on Sunday. So a lot of hard battles and, you know, a few exceptional ones. Great battles for the fans to see over the years. I've been watching, obviously, the posts you've been putting on Twitter, Kevin, some of the reflections on Kyle Bush. One was a Bush trip in Las Vegas. Well, you guys were all there. What happened in Lawsby, can you just explain the backstory to this?

Well, I could explain to this. Kyle was a lightweight. Let's just put it like that. He liked to have fun, but he was a lightweight. Kyle loved to have fun, and he was, he's a, he's a very lighthearted, enjoyable person, and after two beers, Kyle is not, Kyle's really having fun. And he, he, he had maybe, he had more than two. that night. And the next day, he had a rough time. And it was Media Day the next day when we were in Vegas that year for, I think it was for the championship or playoffs. I don't remember what, I think it was

for the championship. But anyway, he had to do media and he was right behind me in the rotation. So every room that I went to, Kyle had to come into into the room next. And eventually we got him a pillow and he would just lay on the floor until I was done. And at one point was under the table. But yeah, he was definitely a lightweight. And, you know, he was always the entertainment of the party when that happened. I don't know if you guys saw it, but Daniel Suarez, after he won, had told a story about Kyle being family, right? And Kyle, like, extending an olive branch to help Daniel get to the Cup series because Daniel was in a weird spot. Like, he was kind of outside looking in being a young guy and not being a young guy.

done and then he drove for KBM and like it kind of refired it. Well, he told his story about when Kyle got in some trouble in Cancun. Yes, we know this notorious story. If you don't know the story, you can go look it up, but he got some trouble in Cancun. Well, who would you call if you were in Cancun's in trouble? Someone who may be in trouble. Someone who might be from that area. Daniel Swarres got the phone call from Samantha and had to get his buddy out. And I just, just think about that and like, so and like I think Kyle Bush is Kevin. I think Kyle Busch is going to be hands down one of the most misunderstood athletes, drivers, whatever you may be of all time because there was a guy that the fans saw with the helmet on. That leaned into the villain.

That leaned into the villain was rowdy from Days of Thunder. That was no, that was the guy. He was that. But with the helmet off, he was a family guy. He was a friend. He was like we were all just talking about how much fun he was. And I think this time, Kev, I think it's really important for everybody to get those memories and to understand that it wasn't just competition. It was friends and family at the same time, too. Yeah, I think that I was just laying there on the couch the other night. I'm like, I saw a fan question about Kyle, and I'm like, you know what? I think it would be healthy for these people to hear some of these stories and have some of

these things out there because Will Buxton and I were doing our speed broadcast here in Indy earlier. and you know he we were talking about Scott Dixon getting into the the Hall of Fame while he's still driving which I still don't agree with but I think it's it's very interesting for him to talk about why and that is because you get to know them and you get to hear these stories and you get to hear who that person is not who that competitor is and I'm with you guys I knew the competitor really well and for a long time didn't really want to get to know the person, but as time grew, you got to know the person and you got more comfortable with that person to understand who they were and what they did and actually enjoy it. And then you started to get a lot more in common as we got older. And I think it's like you said, being able to hear these stories outside of the race car where all the guy wanted to do was win and didn't care. As Joe Gibbs said, he was a locomotive coming down the hill. And if you were in the way, he was going to run you over and if you weren't on the train he didn't care so it was and that's that's how you have to be

and there isn't anybody that anybody else that I raced against aside from you know maybe Tony Stewart but Tony was always a guy you could talk to off the racetrack and and figured out Kyle was just somebody that you know you didn't he didn't want to figure it out and he just we'd keep wrecking or we'd go race hard or he just beat you or whatever they the case was and he's just he's just one of those those guys that that always pushed it because he was he was willing to do whatever it took to win and and that was what was that was what made it fun to race against him we were all very fortunate to watch kyle bush showcase his talents he will forever be known as one of the greatest race car drivers in the history of sports

kyle bush gone too soon but his legacy will certainly live on he'll be greatly missed So, Kevin, the race on Sunday, the Coca-Cola 600, this was quite an eventful weekend, battling the weather all weekend for the other series. But somehow for a cup, the sun came out, shine down. They were able to get most the race, obviously. Daniel Suarez ended up being victorious. This is a great story as someone that Kyle Bush actually did help his career over the years and helped him get to where he is today.

They had to overcome quite a bit of adversity, though, to make his. his third career win happened. What did you see out of that team with the not giving up throughout the course of Sunday? Well, I definitely didn't have that on my bingo card as far as being the race winner. But it was a gutsy call at the end. I think when you look at the call and then you have the couple restarts there at the end of the race, Daniel did a great job. And up on top of that pit box is, you know, where that opportunity started. And then, you know, the rain coming in to, to end this race. And what looked like, I kept thinking it was going to blow right through and maybe not hit them. And then it started to rain a little bit. And then that, that cell kind of grew

and went over the top of the racetrack. But what a year for Daniel Suarez. And, you know, I think that, like I said earlier, he did a great job to win that race and keep that track position, himself as the leader until the end of the race and and you know I think for all of us at the beginning of the year we had a lot of questions about going from track house to spire thinking that it was at best a lateral move well we were all wrong that at best was way better than than what we thought it was going to be with spire getting better and just the chemistry and everything that that goes with that the seven car and Daniel and his crew chief and you know the whole organ is

working together better. It's just been a way better situation for Daniel to fit into, and he succeeded, and now here they are in Victory Lane. Seems like definitely the right move for Daniel was making that switch to Spire. But we heard Daniel talking about, you know, every win is special, but this one obviously will probably hold a special place in his career and his heart forever. Yeah, I know. He talked about, obviously, you know, all this stuff with Kyle. And Daniel Swares, I don't know, man. Kevin, I feel like when his back is against the wall, when he really needs it,

like if he's in the spot to win a race, which isn't a ton, right? Not in the last, closing last, but it seems like when he is, he is right there if he doesn't pull it off. Like we've seen it at Atlanta, and we've seen it at some other tracks. Against Kyle Bush.

Yeah, against Kyle Bush, right? Like, he's able to get it done. And, you know, I texted him. I texted Ryan Sparks as crew chief, like, bro, just remember, everyone counted y'all out. And so keep whatever you guys are doing, whatever Magic Spire has right now, they just need to keep it, keep it going. And I think it does start with, honestly, we've talked about on the show a little bit. I think it starts with Michael McDowell being a good cornerstone piece, someone you can rely on.

And then obviously Carson Holsavar, just being the raw talent and speed that he is. And then now Daniel's starting to find his role in there and being really consistent. So I interviewed Joey Lagano, who is a Coca-Cola racing driver. and so is Daniel Suarez. And Jari was talking to me this weekend about how it's a really big deal for someone from the Koch family to win the Coca-Cola 600. Like it's circled on the calendar. If you're in the family. One of us has to win this race.

In a weird way, they're like teammates in that area, but only in that one area. And Daniel Suarez was able to do that. So it was a huge win for multiple reasons. And he talked about his family. Yes, it's not normally here. This is not normally here. This is the only race of the year that he has his entire family at. His mom, his sisters, everybody gets to be there.

And so for him to be able to win, his last win, right, was at Mexico in the O'Reilly series with everybody. And now he gets to win with his family here in the States. Super cool. I saw him hitting the Taco Penaata to celebrate. I love that, of course. Other solid finishers of the group, Kevin, Joe Gibbs racing with Christopher Bell, Denny Hamlin, and Ty Gibbs, all finishing in the top six. They have to be feeling very confident, leaving one of the toughest and longest races.

of the year. Yeah, the toy owners had them covered and you know, Kyle Larson kind of ran in the middle of him when he'd beat him out on a pit stop or get a better restart. But, you know, you look at the four Joe Gibbs cars and Tyler Reddick and they, they were pretty much the class of the field, but it's not always about having the fastest car. Sometimes it's about being in the right place at the right time. But yeah, I agree with you guys on a mile and a half or really anywhere, you know, at this point. But on the mile and a half, for sure, if you're, You're driving a Toyota, you're feeling pretty good about it. Certainly, they'll be feeling good about it heading into Nashville this weekend.

That's where we're headed next. If you can believe it, we're already headed off to Tennessee. So who's experiencing the most pressure as we go to Music City USA this weekend, Kevin? Well, I think that the 19 car of Chase Briscoe is probably, you know, he made another mistake this weekend, got himself wrecked. You know, I think that, you know, he and Ross Chastain and Joey Lugano, all those. guys that are, you know, we're clipping them off. One race at a time right here. You're running out of races to get yourself in a position that is a good spot to win the championship. Luckily, he scored more stage points than most yesterday and kind of protected himself from that wreck at the end.

But, you know, those guys, those three guys got to get going or they're going to be in big trouble. Yeah, the points, you and I were looking at it just a bit ago before we came on air. And it's getting interesting. Who are you watching? I don't think, like, this driver and this team is in a good spot and points. They were pretty consistent again this weekend, but the 12 of Ryan Blaney, like they're not under pressure, but they need to keep capitalizing on it. And that's the hard part. Is they're capitalizing on what they're doing? They don't have the total raw speed. So they need to find a little bit of raw speed as we enter the dog days of summer. And I think that they will. They've just been there and been able to do it. But I mean,

honestly, Chase Briscoe, they are fast, like Kevin just said. And obviously, I picked him to win. this race and they had a great shot at winning. They can't, they have no more Mullergens, I don't think, to do this thing. I need to stop picking Ryan Blaney. I think I'm cursing him. Yeah. I think that when you talk about Ryan Blaney, they might have a week where they get it all together, but unless they fix their pick crew, they're a big trouble. Yes, we did see that rear his head once again on Sunday at Charlotte. Okay, so how tough is Nashville? What are some of the things we got to watch as it pertains to that racetrack, Kevin. Yeah, very similar to Dover.

They're going to put the resin all over the racetrack, I would assume, to make the groove do what it did in Nashville, or in Dover in Nashville, so that it takes rubber and does all those things. Very finicky racetrack, though. You're going to see that track rubber up, very rough in turns three and four down there when you start running the top of the racetrack. So you've got to be somewhat aware of where your bump stops

are set and how and where the car is pointed at that part of the corner. But can't overdrive it. You got to be good on the exit of the corner. You can't charge the corners extra hard because you've got to be able to be in the throttle from the center of the corner out. So fun racetrack. Glad we're back in Nashville and that concrete service creates quite the challenge as you go throughout the weekend. Sunday night race. So keep an eye on that. Okay, time now for the Sips. I know you have a lot of special ones on tap today, Mamba. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We're going to put my KB hat on here. We're going to do these. We're going to honor Kyle Bush with these sips today because we know that he liked to get in on the tequila. So we're going to start with this one. One of my favorite moments is where did KFB come from? Let's hear this clip. Not even close.

Long ways to go. I can't believe you could still drive. How did you drive that after hitting the grass like that and been in that splitter? KFB. It was so quick. It was like, how do you do that? KFB, man.

I'm just the guy. I'm just two. Three simple letters. KF. You know. Yeah. There you go. Okay.

I love that. I love that one. One of the other ones that I also really enjoyed was Daytona. Kevin, I think you're actually in the middle of this one. And I think this is where like wild thing and D.W really locked that in. He gets turned right here. And that should have been, Kevin, that should have been a massive pile up for everybody involved, and somehow it was not. Yeah, that was one of the best saves I've ever seen right there.

But, yeah, he just, everybody thought he had spun out and wrecked. I am in that race, and I thought he was going to wreck as well. But he never did, and we never had a caution. And then we kept rolling. One of my other favorite clips is Kyle, I think he was leaving the racetrack. This is legendary. Yeah, there's a fan that noticed him. He noticed a fan, honestly.

I think we had the clip right here. Hey, what's up? Thank you. Good to see you guys. There's a dog barking in the back grab and screaming. So amazing, right? But that speaks to his character, who he was. Someone noticed that Kyle Busch fan.

He's like, hey, watch this. Yeah, I think that was super cool. And then I made one, I made a video over the, weekend right just to because we did driver intros when I had to drive intro is a lot of moments of Kyle and so we have one of those too which is pretty cool yeah we're looking pretty good in the handshake you guys have like ooh oh what did I just yeah that's that's the you know that's the rowdy bush I like this quote which you said those who want to lead the orchestra must be

willing to turn their back on the crowd what do you mean about that. You have to be okay with being misunderstood. You have to be okay with being rejected. You have to be okay with not thinking like the 99%. If you want to lead, you have to lead from a place of confidence. And the worst thing you want to be is be a follower that follows followers. It's the worst thing that you can be. A sheep that follows sheep. I've watched that clip or that video so many times. And like the whole, the premise of it is Kyle didn't want to do. the our hand check you didn't want to do it like so the fans could see it because a lot of them were brewing him all the time anyway so they're already salty so it was me dropping yeah it was dropping

the saw in the nearest throwing the salt over his shoulder so that's cool now that we know the backstory on what the whole movement was yeah yeah so uh mob and social sips dedicated to a one kfb Kyle rowdy bush very nice I like that okay guys time now for our last call and we would be remiss, Kevin, if we didn't officially congratulate you on being elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame for the class of 2027. It was announced, obviously, last Tuesday, Kevin, Jeff Burton, and Larry Phillips will be in the class. Congratulations. You are so very deserving. Well, thank you. It's quite an honor to officially be elected into the Hall of Fame. And, you know, I think when you walk around, as I did last week and just look at everything,

everything and see the history and everything that goes with it. It's kind of like the, it's kind of like the icing on the cake. All right, you did pretty good. So you need to enjoy this as you go through this process. So pretty cool moment. Well, I look forward to hearing all the stories from the course of your career. We'll be doing that for our Thursday episode, a special on Kevin Harvick himself. Very quickly, before we finish the points, guys, we're going to make some selections for Nashville. Kevin, would you do the honors of starting first, who you believes could be victorious? yeah well i'm gonna stick with my horse and that's the 11

i don't know honestly though i had to laugh because i was like this man has like psychic abilities because every week he's been he didn't win this week though he didn't but he did pick up points so did i you did not well that's because my guy threw it all away like when we're going uh huh look don't show it go ahead don't show it pick loser all right i'm going i'm going hey hey hey i'm going with I need to see Bell. We're going with one Christopher Bell this week. Okay. I'm staying in the Toyota family.

I'm going to Tyler Reddick. Gets it done out there in Nashville Music City. Is Michael Joyne going to be there? I would imagine so. If he's not there, he probably won't win. He only went over Michael's there. You guys, you guys know what the best part about this is. Like, I can see everything from the screen now.

And when Mamba picks up his cup and I'm looking right at the screen, it's amazing. Is it? Yeah, it's his favorite. Yeah, because it's just, it's. Yeah. That's my favorite right there. If you're only listening, my cup is Kevin Harvick's face. I love it.

Tough one. There you go. Well, we appreciate all the closers joining us on this Monday edition. Make sure you subscribe on our YouTube channel. Follow us at Harvick HappyPod. Kevin, the safest of travels back from Indianapolis. We look forward to having you back in studio. We will see all of the closers after a Sunday race in Nashville.

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